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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1913-02-27, Page 6TrampThrough Wild Africa IAlid, te IlhodeeIan settler of 36, lias just completed a walk from Capetown to Cairo, uot fulfilment of a wager, or withoot motley, or to test a system of diet or trainieg, but simply from love of tulventure. He has been a eoldier and seout since he was 17, eervieg in the fiecono elata. bele campaign in 1893, the Ugoaula rebellion ot 1897.99 and the South African war. He started frona Capetowa and walked, all alone, right througb. the Cape Proviuce and the Transvaal to Rhodesia, Thence he continued on through the Congo State, the Sudae o,nd the Nubian Desert to Egypt, a distence of nearly 5,000 miles as the crow files, "My wish," he said In telliug the story of iLis great wala to a correspondent of the London Stan. dard, "was simply to be the first man. to aecomplish the feat, am proud. est of having walked across tae Nula ian. Desert. That was tae hardest tramp of all." Meal lie left Ielizabethville In the Belgian Congo he bad a comparative. le easy time, for he could obtain supplies, good food awl good water; but beyond that point he had a very trying time, He bact no porters, car- ryiug all his own impedimenta, weigh- ing 70 pounde. This alone is .no small task in a tropical and wild couutry. But ele could get no nat- ives to accompany him, owing to trib- al bostilities being in progress. During rnost of the time Mr. Lund was obliged to be a vegetarian, but he always had meat when Oe could get it. "Sometimes," he said, "I shot a buck, but I would only eat the liver, which I broiled in the asheaaeref my fire. Having no salt I cannot say that I enjoyed my food. In pasing through the great forests I camped on the ground, ligneing a fire to keep off the wild animals. I had .to be very careful to keep this going all through. the night, At early dawn I renewed my march, tramping contin- uously until about 11 o'clock, After that used to hunt around, collect wood and cook one daily meal, th.en I slept sundown. Lions and other carnivore do not usually attack in the heat of the, day—they are asleep— min it is oely when. night falls that they set out in search of prey." He met with a good many lions, but was never attacked 1)1 one. The idea that water will protect one from a lion, he says, Is erroneous, for lions are excellent awimmers. In the Kat- auga district lie was aitten by a Mark mamba snake and would peobablY have died but he reached a native kraal and was treated bY a woman who applied a decoction of herbs to the wound and cured him. She seed. fastly refused to say wbat herbs she used or how she prepared them. From Albertville the traveler made for Lake Albert, and b.ere he had ohe • of his most unpleasant experiences. He came across a powerful telbe, un. der the command of a very suspicious chief, who, before he would listen to him, put him through the "ordeal by dire," This consists ot eating a mouth- ful of dirt picited up from. the grciund. In the native mind this -constitutes a form of oath. and it is believed that ahyone who undergoes Ens ordeal and does not speake Ale truth be °outhunted to an eternal diet. of diet• The ordeal is called "nkola donga." One of the worst troubles with which Mr. Lund had to contend was the venomous flies and Insects • which swarm in tropical Africa. He was bitten. near the eye by a certain kind of malignant tick, and for a time was nearly bline. If he had rrot short ly afterward reached Fort Portal and obtained medical treatment he would probably have lost the sight of at least one eye, A little further in the course of his walk he feil in with the Baluba, and Valessl cannibals. When they have a cannibal feast the victim is usuallY a man accused of some crime. In such n, ease the man is offered a draught of poisonous decoction. If he 'take's a long drink the poison is inopaimr. ive, producing merely trausea. But If, from timidity ot Oiler he drinkti but a entail portion, the effect is almost ,iramediately fatal. Women are ex eluded from these feasts Making a wide detour of •Lake Al- bert, Mr. Lund eventually arrived on the Nile, which he followed to Abu Rimed and then struek aeross the Nubian Desert .and came to the Nile again at Wady Haifa. There are but two .wells on. the route citron the desert, and he had to 'carry with. him three days' food' and water supply. But ho safely crossed the desert and reached Khartoum, where he went - into the hospital to patch himself up for the last stage of his journey. whieh he completed without further mishap. SAVAGES' FINERY. .M4.11.111.1.••••••,. Ultimate Destinatfon of Much Stage Costuming. The operatic stage, both comie and otherwise, has developed a new and profitable industry. It has also be- come a real and much ehepreciated bleseing to maey savage tribes of the African wilderness and not a few dusky monarchs of the far Pacific isles. Io the neighborhood of Leic- ester Square, London, men. and women are usually engaged in sorting and ticketing fresh consignmehts of gaudy raiment and tinselled robes of every description that once lent glory to sOnle 1111111k rornanee of the stage, and shelves and counters are piled high with the castoff garments of queens and eolumbines, kings and Jesters, knights and mountebanks. Costumes of every con,ceivable de- sign and combination of color are to he found here, seye the London Even- ing Standard, all eecond hand and more or Iess worn, while sonee are of rather ancient vintage., They repre. sent the disearded wardrobes of de- filed theatrical companies and were purchased for a eong, eso to speak. The tostumee are not for tale in. London nor can one a them be rented. They Anne, destined for greater things, for they are to earry happinees and cheer to the kings of the jungle aid their ehoeolate soldiers and brides weary Of the eimple life. 'Our unique enterprise originated quite by aecident," explained the own. tr. 'A friend a tittle who had been teat away on a ettenibal island kept hirneelf out of the etieeerole pot till a rescuing ship Crane along. by btib. ing the chide with varioue artielee of pertous," attire, On his return to ton. don he told lac all about it old bug- getied that there WtV.4 a fortune in a cleanup of misfit emporiums and theatrical lumber Moms for elliatrierit tO Wee Peelath "I tiaW the Paint at (Mee and prompt- ly mole it knOWn hoth lone% and . Jospionlivis0040460.44.inoopo011iori„ T abrotel diet I would buy caetaf pan. tealliaaa and Masicel (Meetly cOfittleuee. Sitsce then I may say Oita I have cov- ered more here liMbe mid prevented more caeca of suitletre than all the costumiers of Lendon, "The population of one African. loge now strut ProadlY about le the. entire wardrobe of Isondon Kmiec. tion that passed away after a few utgats of agony, while a Congo belle has become the favorite wife of her °Wet througa, appearing in the span- gles and ribbone once worn bY a corY- phee Coveut Garden. In some Parts of central Africa too the natives have a passion for emits, svaistcoate and overcoats, "They have a keen. though primitive sense of color. The more vivid the tint the deeper the Joy. The wearer of a bandmaster's scarlet tunic would be the envy of his tribe, Psycholo. gists,. 1 understand,. have discovered teat savage soldiers fight better if dressed in brilliant clothieg, "Accordingly the dashing uniforms once wen). .by stalwart chorus men now decorate weight°, savages- Gold lace and brass buttons we have also tonne will make a wild man brave enough to seek his mother-in-law. So altogether, you see, we are doing some good in the world beside:4 malting a bit of real money," . 4.4-4. • MAXINE ELLIOTT'S SUCCESSOR Here is New York's newest beauty idol, hailed as successor to Maxine Elliott, who has long been touted as "the moet beautiful woman on the American stage." The new wonder is TERESA. MAXWELL CONOVER, who has a leading part in Belasco's latest play, "The Governmenor's Lady," She is 30 years old.. New York doesn't agree with Sarah Bernhardt, who says that a wornan's hour of beauty strikes at 103, nor with Paul Helleu, the French artist, who says it is 16. What no YOU think?.. DOSAHRA FAIR. In the autumn an important fait called the Dosahre, takes place at Sul - tamper, the capital of Kulu Valley, says a writer in the "Wide World." "It com- memorates the etruggle of Rama, aided by Hammen and hie monkeys, to erove er his bride Sita from Ceylon, whither the demon Raman bed carried her off. I secured a mask of Rowan. who at the conclusion of the drama, is drowned or burued in effigy, but that year his life, or at least his face, was saved. The fair laste /*ma a week, and is a great ocPasi011 for the sale of hill ponies, home- spun cloth, brass and. so forth. All the. worla and his wife, and the rest of the world and Ms girl. meet on this occa- sion, besides a number of visitors from Tibet or the Pan:jab, who ere engaged in trade between these parts. But not only men and women meet; all the gods, sodlinas end goddesses of the valley as- e semble. Great is the ceremony, elabor- ate The ritual, intrieate tile precedence that attends the arrival of these images of gold, silver And brass. The church in Kula is very. rieh, and is endowed by the etate, most of the temples enjoying revemte-free grants of land, an oblige - ,tion which, the British took over from the Sikhs. There ie much merry -making during the fair, tee mot spending all their spare time dewing, while the girle and women, too modes% to dance, sit by aed. wateh, To Ree one of thee eox- Poinhei, with the pheasant -crest ca.p hie head, Solo/311)y daneing„ to the ad- mirai ion of himself end a bevy of comely girls, reminde one irresietibly of a pea - cod: claming before his hone. The dance is performed. by a number of men who join hen& ill a eirele and slowly go romel to the world of some ballad pop- ular in the Wile; while from thee to time a man breake out of the ring awl onettee bis own aeeount, svialng he3 armee end perhaps a eearf, with the moet faOtastie greets, *.4.. • WHAT IS A MAN? It is not necO8SarY to be sbt feet tall, broadsslicendered, Sovian-browed, Apollo - Shaped and hensome Narcissuo, to be a Man, For some of the most seat Wen have been undeveleea, ill -featured or de- formed. Alexander the Gcrat won a email man from all ttecounts. So was Napoleon. Alexander Pope, who more than any other man save Shakespeare leas given Mellish thoughts ruts to run in, was so reissilopen that Dean Swift, when he fell out with bim, eompared Min to an inter- rogation point, alluding' to his inquisi- tively -es and hls shape at mine, and etilled lam "a little croolsed thing that aeked questione," Alexander Stevene,ariet-Preoldene of the Confederaey, ana one of the greatest mhele Anualea, (e'er Produced, wag so efilletal that they fettled him 'an ani - Meted ta"tul," es tap brain about lam URS About ail that wits left that was not im- potent. liebett Louis Stevenson and Mellen] ,Teievies, two of the most excelielte nuts - tors of ringliert literature, were both Ira lornnk Clear in \Vermin's Wein! for annuary. A kise through a. veil i4 like Kipping honey thrmigh blotting viper—they Any, —Maneliester TRY SOME OF 1 THESE DUMPLINGS Avviza DUMPLINGS. „Sift an eYen quart of flour twice With one and a half tea•speoetule of beking powder and half a teaspoonful of malt, Chop into thls a tablespoonful of fat and one of butter. Mix. into a soft dough with two cupfuls of milla ltoll out into a layer ebout lialf lech thick and cut into equares about five !lichee each way. Lay in the centre of each a large tart appla pared and cored. Pill the space left by coring' with outsets Void the corners together, coverleg the epple. Tie up in cheesecloth sauaree, clipped bite hot water and well floored on th elnside. Have a pot oC boiling water ready. Drop the dumplings hi and co* fast ter an bour. 121p each for a seecnal in eela 'water te loosen the cloth, turn out on a (1141 and serve with hot sauce. BAXED PTIMPLZIGIS. No. 1—Peel and core making apples, filling centres with sugar. Roll -out biscuit dough rather thin, and cut in seuerea large enough to cover aPPioa Place an apple in the centre of each square; brine up the corners of the dowels and lateen by alsiohlnen and twisting dough together, Place eloee• together in baking pan. When it is. tull pour over them. a syrup made With One pint of water anti one pound of sugar, letting this come halt way to the top of the dumplings. Place thein in rattier a Welt oven and bake alsoet forty minutes, If you like eprinkle cinnamon over the tops of the apples when they are cooked. No. 2, --Core and quarter applee, Place in earthen baking dish WItil equare of dough tuckea clown around eaca, but not under them; a little water and rsugar add- ed, and bake; individual baking dislaes may be used insteael of thebig pan if de- sired. 61,40•••••.••••• CUP DUMPLINGS. Line baking cups with/tan pastry. Pill them up with slices of apple and sugar. Place on each cup a cover of pastry and nut all in a largo baking pan, pOurl boiling water around the cups hall way up. Bake in hot oven. 1•1*.••••• maimeNCF "SLICES. Make a biscuit dough' anel roll out thin covering with a layer of finely apples. Roll it over as for roly nobr. Slice, set the pieces on end in a. buttered pan, and pour over them a syrup made of a cup of sugar and half a cup of water. Add a piece of butter for each dumpling. Bake half an hour or until the whole is eicely browned. BATTER PUDDING. Peel, core aria Alice thin viz tart ale - pies and place in a baking dish. Cream together one-fourth cup of butter and one cup of sugar. Add two eggs, one eup mint and two cups of flour, In wtich mita be sifted.two teaspoonfuls of balts ing eowder. Pour the mixture over the apples. Stearn an hour. Serve with cream or mice. ' 2 WITH PRICES HIGH. Use ingenuity and You'll Keep the Pot Bolling.. It is hard work in these clays of high pfriees.. Economy is et. necessity now, where it used to be looked upon with scorn by the thoughtleee. The ‘priees asked even for the coarser grades a meat are extortionate. This le a .good season of the, year to economize on the meat aueetien. Two-thirds the amount of Ilairiburg eteak that you. usually provide with a cupfal of breadcrumbe added will be a small eeonarny and quite as nourishing. There will be lese work for the kidner to do if the amotmt meat is eut. Eggs are wholesorae, and where will you find anything better.for a luncheon dieh or for a. light supper than a well - made omelet? To make a perfect one, put your fry- ing pan to heat at leaet five minutes before you are re,ady to cot& the omelet. Beat the white.s and yolks of, three eggs eeparately. Add a teasponeul of milk for each, egg to the beaten yolks. :It'ow lightly stir in the stiff yolks. Pour the mixture in to the pan after you have melted a pieee of butter the size of a hickory nut, in the pan and poured it arouna.so that every portion of the pan L9 lightly greased; not freasy. Now turn dawn the gas part way eo that the omelet cooks but does not s(c)Droehn.ot a/10,k° the pan. See how it puffs up; almost to the top of the pan. Take a bread. knife and. carefuliy turn one-half in a. fold, over the other. With a deft tarn of the wrist turn it out on a platter. Dial you ever eat anything more clelicis ous? • 1 s_ SCIENCE JOTTINGS. Tho yew tree lives 400 or 500 years, ....*•••••••••••... oentteee of beldame men:Mg intellectual men la only two for intlideal men and 10 for writerts and othere. The Meane prevailing at the preeent thee her the marking of elieep for the purpofes of ideetifleation is wasetiefac. tory, for the reasoo taat the coal tar or pitch eolution which is made 1180 of has a eenious effeet on the wool not only where. the mark has ,been seed() on. the heir, but all that whith la being put through the eleaeeing prooess at that time. Sueh wool brings a eleerefteed price. The National Society of Agrieulture of France bus been investigating the matter awl the .report of those appointed to do the work contains the f011owing: It has been pro. posed to use enalhet colors, but this is even woree, sinee the colors do not mere- ly soil the fleece, but actually dye a, Other mem are not lacking, notably that of tattooing the ear of the sheep, Ale° a small metallic plate co,n fastened in th,e ear, as is done with Afri- can slseep to prove that they have been "elavelized," 1,e., inoculated. with the special serum which combats their dan- gerous and contagious eruptive malady, rot or fiestb The Syndieal Chamber of Commerce and Industry Advises the em- ployment of a color composed of lineeed oil, esseace of turpentine and Pruesetan blue or similar color. It recommends marking on nose, forehead or nape of neck. The dialects of the world number 3,421 ana one-fourth of them are Asiatic, .....•••••••••••••••• The United States used one-fifth of all the sugar made In the world. More thao 900,000 per,sons receive-ald- age persions in England. Charlottenburg, Germany, has a four- story hotel for horees which win atecom. modate 2,000 anitnals. The appelation of "Reverend" is pusely born of courtesy. There le no legal warrant for its use. The publit atitomobiles of Anvers, Bel- gium, must be fitted with nuulguarde for the proteetion. of pedeetrians. The material excevated from the Pan- ama, Canal would build a Chineee wall from Son Franeisere to New York. One woman owne and operatee fern in Teems which le larger than the &ate of Rhode Island. The United Statee hats eighty-eight CS, tablishmeeito aroducitig gold stmi silver leaf, whieh give employment to 1,553 workers, Five hundred dollars was recently paid for the good -will of An Inetible coffee, etall le London. 1./.14.*1.1•••• In Frantic 21,24 per cent, of the poplin. tem le engaged in /terming, while in Beg. laud the pereentage is 5.58. Poteeh is exteleSively .itsed in the Unit- ed Staten in gold mining, giaestnakine. bitting, nhotographye dyeing, explosivee atel feetilitere, and most of the supply. ensile& from Gentiany. The fileololie coneumption per beful in thie eountry little lees than 23 gal. lone per year, of which 21 are eontaitied in boor. About 80,000 lotatere are Oaten daily during the OttaSon ifs Ungifted and they tome meetly from Nova Rotes and Ner. way. 10,44 or -4......11 Ackordicitg to the etatement of a pros feeler n Gamete neirrelity the per. DAINTY WORK FOR IDLE FINGERS The girl who has more spare time than money and is 'toed of fancy work should make slipper ornaments. One has only to price the hand made bows and res. ettes of satin, chiffon and tulle in the beat shops to realize the economy of utilizing odds and ende. of ribbon ond iaee for this purpose. These dainty trimmings are so small that the •amount of material is. easily found, or,, If bought, costs so little that it is ectey th see that it is for the workmanship that one.pays. In order to get juet the right Size of bow the home copyist should experiment with scraps of =aerial. A tiny three looped, bow, each look showing an edge of steel, gold or jet bead% is one of the favorite slipper trimmings, the crosspiece being eovered with several rows of the 'beads sewed on hi etraight lides up and down. The loops of the bows bay be either curved or square. but in either eaSie the bow ohould be set up a little on. the in- step and. curve out partly in contrast to the flatness a a proper how. An expensive pair of white satin slippers dieplayecl flue type of bow, the beading being done in jet and a single line of jet beads ontlining the entire slipper. Theft bows aee made of double pieees of Sa tin stitched and turned:and the beads are set in the extreme edge so that they etand out front the satin af- ter. the manner of a picot edged ribbon. The effect is best when. the beads are in direct contrast to the eolor of the satin. Steel of gold beads on a black oatin slipper are. always. good. and the revival of jet trimmins is notieeable in the liking for jet lmekles -and jetted bows on slippers, of white and pale col- ors. With sleek a bow it is a novelty of the moment to have the tongue of the slipper ornamented in corresponding fashion. The tongu.e- may be made of satin over a buckram foundation. A large cabochon. to match the satin h&eds makes a good "centre decoantion and the small beads may appear in lines radiating from the large eentre stone. A Parisian novelty in black and white satin could -easily be duplicated at home. The slipper of black satin, with a email over letekle covered. with black and white striped satin, had a Sharply up- turning tongue of the striped satin bound with, plain satin. The striped material was seamed in a, sharply point- ed bias in the centre of the tong;ue, the points Online np and accentuatieg the cauciness of °the somewhat daring ar- rangement. The foundations for the bnekle could be cut from buckram and the edge wired. to curve slightly. Another pretty slipper trimming dis- played. at a. high priced shop was a plaiting of picot edged ribbon surround - ins the oval buckle. The. same idea was alL'oe ca.rried put in half ineh lace, dose- ly 'plaited and. eet so as to project slightly beyond the buckle. Both of these slipper tritamincees are charming in black and white and are open to a wide range of color variations. A pale pink slipper with jet buckle and encir- cling plaiting of narrow black lace was one of the eOlor eombinatione displayed. Rhinestone% play an important part in slipper decorations, 1Vhere economy is to be practised the slipper pine are useful, ae in this way the rhinestone buckle or ornament ie ,quiekly trans- ferred from obe pair of :slippers, to an- other. Small rhinestones can be purchased at the ,notion counter of any of the large shops and make an effective and easily applied slipper decoration; They are as low priced as 20 cents' a &tut and give glitter and snap to an other- wise plain slipper. Ripper ornaments., either oval or ob- long, are easily =ad on. a foundation of black Bain or watered silk stiffened and wired with ribbon wire., Dot with rhinestonee and attach a. charply upturn- ing. elipper tongue of the same material with on arrow ehaped deteeration of the tiny beilliante, Snell oenament will work wonders in prolonging the life of a partly worn, pair of evening elite eters and is Appropriate whether the gip - per material is kid, leather, suede Or saption; the girl who prefers fluffy elipper trimmings there are dozeris of models to be topied, A rosette of tulle or Oaf.' fon 'cloth. with a main ribbon rood eta. bedded in the centre le a dainty slipper' trimming nod a, single ribbon rage with etem tshowinhe on one aide and a leaf on the Other le another model eleeoration Worth copying. - is - * Made a Difference. It was kit itispection and the differ- ent eOrtipaniee of the bettalion were deeding with their ltits on the ground lo front of them, 'The sergeant major Was making the examination, when hie eagle eye detected the absence ot soap in the kit of Private aline, arid he demanded what excuse the man had to give. "Plate, sor, it's all used," said Flinn. "Used" shouted the sergeant major. "Why, the first eake of soap I had Served me for rny kit lasted me three years, while you are not a year in the - ranks yet, How do you account for tit'tli?n"ries eye nett the faintest sus. pitithe of a Wale as he replied: . efeittee, sor, I wash every day." And the sergeant major walked on, While the whole eOrtipany grinned, Mrs, Ifinttlor--e‘When women. rule there'll be no more of -tide twine, women ittld Antic(' thing." Mr. Hastier-as:Nee" Mrs'. Iluetlersallo; it'll be 'mirth. men iociety Crooks Only a Atlyth Bertillon, the criael expert, evil() to head the school of deteetivee to 0 established by M. Leenne, Me pre - At of pollee, has written to Le Millie . say that, According to his eaperi. society holds no profeesioutel eats's, and that the etoriee by certain tench novelists about humane, gen. rens eriminfele of refined. beeeding d god birth are faltee la the very -ture 9f things. There undeuiably exists, lie says, zlOng the gentle dames the idea that they ehoee to turn thieves they would ecel hi that proXession; but let any ntlernan or lady under this delusion tik into a, ehop in the Rlle de le Pelee Oct $5,000 worth of jewelry, and try oatein it without payment, and they euld quickly discover their mistake, Bertillon. eeelaree that he is sur. rised that habitual international reb- us can pass for gentlemen, for they 'whys show palpable eigns of vulgar eigni. The beet of them are only emit the sodal rank 01 a groom of .ie of tale big hotels, and more ordin- sily they are on a„ level with steble ap, servants, chauffears,, or working •en, A (few minutes' convereation on fittla sets other than ruing and gaming le iffielent t9 betray the shallowness of tele pretended, ciequaintance with. sea ety. Dr, Bertillon deelaree his own de. etivef3 duty at the railway waiting toms, bank ete., generaller recog- ive any individual likely to be arrest- !. in the next half hour by some °T- ense against taste in drees or manner. It would be more interesting to learn ow Dr. Bertillon taught his agents, nee any expensively dressed glib- mgued. man especially if a foreigner, !ems capable of imposing indefinitely n even such presumed experts ne ho- e managers and servants. But hji atsider never deceives, • even for five. dilutes, any of his own countrymen, ad this is perha.ps the reason why he arolle himself as an "international." Mter dismissing contemptuously the dem of gentleman thieves, Dr. Beall - on remarks tlrat eacb' one has hie ipecialty. The worst jailbird will sue - teed in duping a jeweler svhere a gen- line aristocrat would fail, becanse formerly he was himself in the trade ind knows exectly how to deal with ,nen like his former masters, creating e momentary confidence and exciting eupidity by saying the right thing and evoiding saying the wroog one, The bank swindler who forges cheques and otherwise profits 'by a knowledge .banking ways is almost elways tomer bank. clerk, like Gallay, the Frenchman, who comes out oT prison this month. Another curious fact stated by Dr. Bertillon is that, how- ever earefully dressed eetternally inter- national thieves may he •it is usually teem' that they are far from irre- nroaeliallele as seem as thick clothes end booth are stripped as anybody in t he anthropornentrical serldee can tes- tify, Stunming up, Dr. Bertillon dclares chat the elegant dedoubtable thief of sorriance exists only in, the news- paperEi. Bands are generally recruited while undergoing punishment in prieon, tral more often manage to rub should- ers with the wealthy classes through the introduction of feminine 'aceomplices ra- ther than by any .personal talent or at- traetion, with whieli mew are ever en - lowed. It is generally through women That the police finally get on the track if criminals, although as long as they eelieve that a man is true to them these eromen can never be tempted by any sum !,;o, betray criminals. The inoral is that these gentry de- pend Tor success principally on- the tccident of being foreigners, and that they could never impoee on their own :ountrymen. If it .is true that it is best to set a thief to catch a thief, it is evident that it requires a gentleman to tell a gen- tleman at sight, end one of the most aetoaishing nistancee a these truisms occurred recently in Paris, when an ex - chief detective of New York allowed himself to be robbed in Paris of $5,000 by the "eonfidence trick" by two pte- tended. "gentlemen" in the most eonven- tional fashion.—New York Times. AUTHORS' BLUNDERS.! ••••••••••••••••••••Wari epied out of her bright eye the keeper approaehitet With bananas for breakfast, Tho greve lather of the baby monkey elsh watehed the bemire:le witb, much an- tnepation, hut in a seeond his attention wae celled to the upper corner of the eage, where hie mete wee engaged in slain etrife with the numkey people next door. Nimbly he leaped to help swell the fray, and, when he was firmly en. gaged in the etruggle, the mother mon. key 4ipped toward. the breakfast tabie and the bananas. The noise of the battle became huelied and the moter monkey leaped once more and the mother monkey leapea onee more way her mate, weo had 11, longieg eye fixed on the bat -meas. Her ehrill eleittee rallied. all the hostile forcee for a mo- ment, and with another sign for a break- fast poetpoued, her mate leaped to the resolle, entering into the battle so whole. hegrtedly that she owe more swung away, unnoticed, to the bananae, In a short time, the monkey mother bad withdrawn to the tile° of Ler wondering infant 11.1 eorner of the (ewe, Oen She Ming dreamily, demurely, while a weary monkey father hunted sadly among -the breakfast ruins for a skin yid& per. chance might eontain a banana, Very often, the cienaraon bear, lemon. selously amuses a large crowd by his thoroughly aanitary houseeleaning. The straw ef hie nest is pushed out into the open court, turned eest freely with an energetic paw and then carted back into the cave dwelling, Before pushing it ahead ef him into his houee, the bear ie careful to gather the straw into a com. pact masa brushing it up from tee court floor with =eh eare, After Le has the main batik in the cave he sallies forth to brush up the remaining straws, being a very particular bear, He is mast fussy about the Arrangement of his bed, hol- lowing it out expertly a,nd keeping the straw heaped up around him as he takes las nap. ----Buffalo Exprese. Some Mistakes Made by Great Writers. The mistakes of great writers are al- ways amusing and they console the weaker brethren, says the Journal des Debats. Alexander Dumas in. his "Chevalier d'Hormental" made the excellent Buyat declare in 1.718 that his pupil "paints like Gretize," wile was born seven years later. The same char. acter admires the galleries of the Palais Royal, which were not built till sixty-two years later. Balzac makes Cousin Pons buy e charming fan, "ft divine chef d'oeuvre, painted by Watteau and ordered by Mme. de Pompadour," who was borh in the very year that the artist died. Flaubert, in. "Madame Boyary," telle us that "old Routtult went to pay Charles for setting his broken legt tb.e bill was for 75 francs which he paid in 2 franc pieces." Farther oh he describes "a beautiful phrenolo- gical skull marked with numbers down to the gullet." he 'Botreard et Pe- euchet" he makes a priest celebrate the midnight mass "on the evening of DeceMbet 26." s Alphonse 'Daudet shoWs us in "Tar- tarin" ,4,000 Arabs "smiling like lune - tics, till 600,000 white teeth glistened in the sun," From COppee we get:—"Two twine, both of them eighteen years old." M. Jules Claretie instructs us "line Femme de Prole" that "she kick- ed her ball along with shoute Of latighe ter, and when she felt it at her feet plunged it int0 the eliampagne." *isers A WISE MOTHER. How Buffate Slower! foeled her matt. Tile ietelligence of park zoo animate is going into book of English manufac- tnro whirl) will endeavor to prove that Mane* of these treeturee net by reaeon as well as by inetinet, The book will be produeed frOM the experienee of the Jennison brothels, who have grown ep in the 7.1faneheeter zoo, :England, and from vari011s Other forams, to whleh 'George Jennieme one of the trio, has mint for ineidente, proving that all mi. trials are not mere ereatirree of healed, Each letter Is team/mania.' by a paper Teethed."' filled '..sith ineidents of animal heti-era' 'filled with ineidente of Animal hit elligenee. Barrel° wil lbs. represented in the book by the little, monkey mother At the eon, who meet enely oms day one 'THE SNOW MAN (Verse and Paper cutting illustra- tion. by a chile of 6. Your boy or girl can do .as wella Here stands a jolly sn.owman,, Grinning in the snow. Whee the sprieg pueseine comes He will surely gp. ."-•••416. AIVIERICAN ATTAR. U. S. Government Trying fdr Per- fume. Plant. Horticulturalists of the Bureau of Plant Industry hat Washington are conducting experiments with a view to growing a rose which thrives on Am- erican soil and from which attar .of roses can be distilled, - The world's supply of this perfume oil now comes largely from south- eastern Europe. Last year's importa. tion, about 10,000 ounces, sold at an avcerage price of $15 an ounce. The southern France and Bulgaria, product is often adulterated or is of low grade. The purest attar of roses prodnced is in Germany, but it is veey cestly and little is exported. The bureau has been carrying _on experiments with the roses for a year. One thousand varieties ;were imported from Europe and planted in a rose garden at Arliegtoe. fleet "b.ar. , vest" rqs getheree receetly. The resee were gathered early in the morning, with the dew still cm them, The petals were placed in a special etill and •clistillation made by applying a low pressure of steam. The product was found to be of much high. er quality than that sold by the peas. ants of southern Europe. The quart, tity was small, however, averaging less than an ounce to 400 pounds of rose petals. The European attar av- erages an tepee to ed0 pounde. The hoiticulturalists tiee encour- aged by the geality of the perfume they lia,ve produced. They believe that a somewhat higher averaee quan- tity would justify American manu- facturers placing an attar of domestic make in coMpetition with that of Europe. Some new method:, of dis- tillation will be tried' on. the "Ii.ar- yeet" next june.—Iticlianapere News. aese. PA'S RESOLUTION, Papa is the funniest man That I most ever saw; He came home just the other niglit And laughed and said to ma: "Well, I'vo quit smoking, yes, I have; I've chucked it up for good." An' ma, ehe hugged him, saying: "Well, I didn't think you could." All through supper time pa tented And preached to me and Bill About tobacco,. and yOU bet He knocked it fit to Itin. Ile told of awful things it does To livers, Marts and lights,. And 'hardly let up long enough To eat a dozen 'bites. "I've quit for good and all," says ne, "No nicotine for mine; I've shaken off thci cruel yoke, And, saY, /an feeling fine. The Janitor can have mY Plata Ian. done with it at teat; NO more the deadly weed for me, My emolting days are past." Pa sat around awhile and read And then he wanted around, And every little while he yawned, And then ngaln he frowned. lie left the room and stayed so tong We thought heal gone to bed, Mt, peeping in the hall, we saw Sothetbing roend and red. Ilte Sneaked in there right easy like, And we'd eot gone very far, 'Whoa found the little red thine was The light on pa's cigar, "RESTORING OLD MONUMENTS. The Italian ParliaMent has voted 1,3000. 1)00 lire ior the restoration of ancient mod- uments. Over 200,000 lire aro to be ex- pended UpOrl the &teal palace of ;Mufti, and 120,000 iire to go to the repair of the Cathedral at Coma. The little town of Aosta, so that tn entlquities, is to have 275,000 Ilre spent in removing tee triune- nital arch end the bridge raised bY Au- .Saistus. But the greater part of the grant Mo been reserved for OStlo, the rinelent hattitime town at the mouth of the Tibor, says an exellange. 01 veeent roans the ‘'irelitteological disenverles have boon SO greet that the government wish- es to newt -0 irirge portions of the mon- leiratlitieS to Potitinue the explorations end to drein the morelly part, rind MOS rid the plae0 MnItttin, MAW )0,060 lira are to be devoted to tlas pretest liow About aeries elaueaseelaneheetee MINER OF ISLAM Rev. Zweiner, Missionary Its Bitter Opponent. Seeer and unadorned simplicity marks . the character aria equipment of Islam's mese forinivable individual aaversarYi Rev. Samuel M. Zwelner, De writes William T. the January 'Cen- tury." He presents e contrasted pic- ture ot a lone Itnight errant who 11.1,0 be- come leader of a hope no longer forlorn. Twenty years ago he was only One more of "those missionaries," a hig*bOBOdx faOrtieWilat erilde Dutchman from the, wiles of alichigan, barking etraight frent Rope Cones() and Now Ilrunewle1C Sem- inaiy to Arabia, whre he opened the Arabian =salmi of the Duten ateforrned Church. The zest for flaring aard things meet have been in the blooa, for he was bora to the puritan:13ns of a Calvinistie clergyman's house, While yet 0, student he Joined issue with the commonlY ac- cepted idea, of tbo missionary folk that it Is in vain to attempt missions *merits the Mosierne of Arahla, The roMance Of the desert had cast its spell upon ilia imaginatioe. 'men was born in his heert that great pession to win 'slam for the cross, learned to khow Arabia at first Med, being etetioned at emsra, Behreira and elsevaiere, having grossed the Oman Peuinsula, and bavlag twice, penetrated Into the Telnen aria Into Rams% Rio Zeal was imparted to others, and the munlillQant tthbuet liporebseertinttenhaes taheea vgerrasr tyn of Michigan, In co-operation with the Vetch Retormed Church, is maintaioing °I: 11 Iiivesesne °ael s:t various points In Arabia, own brother was One of his recruits, end his life was saerificed to It has semetimes Seemed to persOnS wbo have heard Zwemer's terrifie indiet- rnents of Islam before great audiences of men that his militancy pertook somewhat of the nature of a personal vendetta. He has reason to hay() a bleed feud with the followers of the Prophet. I openly taxed him with this one day, but the Idea seemed new t.Q him, He mused over it OUizzleally for a minete. as if in intros- spection, oral then he slowly shook his head and said: "I don't think so, I Want to help the Moslems."' Certainly he has made sacrifices for them to a point that th world. would count quixotic. Although only forty-five years old, he has worked harder, traveled farther and drunk more deeply of life than most wigonto'irda eneitel:ens, He has looked death in the eyes without blinking, Ws courage is the courage of experience, and not of While still a private in the missiona.ry ranks, he organized the first conference of christian missionaries, among Moss lems, held at Cairo in Me He was the leader in the work of the Edinburgh. Missionary Conference upon the subject of Islam. He planned and led the third conference upon Moslem missions, held Lucknow a little less than two years ago. These conferences have been real councils of war and in recent years their influence bas tinged the boeks, newspaperS, sermons and conventions of all Christendom. Before this he bad spent a term In America as student vol- unteer secretary, and nearly all the in- stitutions of higher jearning in this country have heard his plea for the Mos- lem world. The militant note in las ad- dress touched a responsive chord Ita the hearts of younger men, and there are scores of workers in the foreign mission field who can say, "Zwemer sent me here."—Century Magazine for JanuarY. .......... ...Oh HOW ANIMALS TALK. After spending several years in the Sierra Nevada mountains, studying the habits of birds alai animals, Charles Kellogg, the well known Araerieen lla- turalist, has returned to civilization, claiming that he has mastered the hid- den languages by which the lower ani- mals column:Ideate with eaeh other; and at the present time his claims are being closely investigated by leading American scientists and professors. Mr. Kellogg contende that wherever animals associate freely they comnauni- cate with each other, though animals- of the same species have a more dear and perfect understanding than those of dif- ferent species,. and it is by years of con- stant observation of the sounds by which animals communicate -with One another that Mr. Kellogg Claims to have master- ed no fewer than 15 animal and bird languages, ranging from the language of a chicken to that of a bear oe a rattle- snake. In hie opinioa the most highly <levels oped language of ,any kind of anima, bird or insect, is that of the Ordinary hearth cricket, while he Ms reason to suspeet that nionkeye are ouperior, too, in this respect. Aecording to a diction- ary which he has compiled, there are 27 elementary words or settridS in the lang- uage of a monkey, while the number of words, or sounds in the language a other animals varies from 12 to 25. "Strangely enough," heesays, "the dog, which we are aecustorned to regard ae of a rather high order or irttelligeece, is nutrkedly deficient in the matter of language, bith the grizzly bear and the rattleenake beieg vastly his superior: In the vocabulary of the ordinary watch- dog there 'are seventeen sounds. I know one dog, an exceptionally intelligent -ea. lie, who regularly used 21 sonnds in or- dinary conversation, "Thie lack of linguletie development on the part of dogs proeeeds, I believe, not from any lack of intelligence, but rather from lack of Meats of expres- sion. To a far greater extent than any other animal of my acquaintance dogs depend upon their intuition, a f acuity which is developed in them to a remark- able degree. They seem almost to read each ' other's minds without any ex- ehange of signals whatever." *sea JUST LON ESOM E. A young man hag just resigned a good position in New York eity and gone to take one which is less re - numerative in a mailer town be- cause he couldn't get aqua/lite:1 with anybody and was ionesome. Just think of itl Elbowing tens Of thoueande every day in the most congested centre of population en this. continebt, with forty thoueand 'Wareing licensee where his ad- vent would be welcomed and his money good, and yet he ,failed to find. any- body in whom he could feel an interest. Poor fellow! *Mammals poor lonely Ihtwi Was nebosly quite, /dee enough for lum, or did he expect other people to make all the advaneesYt A young men of preposseesing ap. pearitnee, gentlemanly instinete, some edueation and ealary 'eaffieient for his neede ,who does not find people glad to meet him and well worth knew - IV wherever he goes must be ab- liormel hi his diffidence or lack of eta terprise, There ie a tale of a ship, in dietrese for met of water foul when the vessel ettractea by its sig- 6ailed paet iu distaeme the skipper (,Alioutesli "Dip it up; you are in the mouth of the Amazon!" .Ana so it may have been with this young 'man, thirsting; for friends and with heats; of pleasant people all arottud him, perhare it never oeeitrred to him to dip. Of eonese there is alOW Una then a hermit -crab 'nature whieli etudes thet it gregArioue and eravee eompenion. ship when it reelly prefore to be alone, The men who make !time; wherever they go ore thoee who really like people and to sebom eolitude intolemble. Man get u hat they are eapable of giving, and unieme they go through life 'Imaged with an air wbieh toile the world thAt they fire very exeltuave, peerillate aletreethil and difficult to eta they will pie); up friende enough along the road. The ue• tie' experience of young et t t ene Is. that lie pieke up too without eieeraninatiou, and his eitie bawd. volleetion iucludee a lot of pen-. Plc i$ not 'happier for bavieg known. However, fate neeme in a enyeterloos way and may be leading thie lenetiome young men m question back to the old home town or to eome other plat.° which ie his own heart's home, and where he will find that it Wilti not friends be wanted in the plural, but Immo one singule.r, :medal And surpaese ing being, born perhapti "elle whole wide world, apart," to whom he had been gravitating and never knew It. If tide proves to be the Otl6P arid ie the young emu, who mey be in Roeheeter now for all we know, will so Inform us or wird us, at night rates, wherever he has gone, and whenever Ile finde the object of his quest, eeme Bytripathetie xrdode may be relieved. Detroit Free Press. • 4 THE BEST WAY Handful of Suggestions for the Herhe Maker. To keels d'elnalingS nate end ligbt, keep them boiling steadily frern the time Yeti put th*em In the eettle, and do nee Wee the lid ote oftener than necessary. To proteet ebony backs of brushes when washing them, rub vaseline into the becits and soda, soap and aikaliea will not destroy them. When dry rob a little olive 011 into the beam and then wine them with a clean cloth, To add, flavor and sweettiess to a rOaSt leave the bone in. It hems to keep the Juiee in the meat. , To freslien bread or buns, wet thorough- ly all over and put in a covered roaster and bake until they they are thorouga- ly hot. To make paperhanger's paste, beat wheat flour, to whieli a little alum has been added, to a perfect smoothness with cold water in a metal pail, and then bring it to a boil over a fire, stirring constant- ly to prevent it ecorching. Add a little caraolic acid to it to keep it fresh and a little -cold water over the toe to prevent a crust forming. Thin with cold water whenever neeeesary. e_ - 4, Deer for British Columbia. After completing a hunting tour which occupied the greater part of two years and which has been conducted in the wilds of three continente, C. E. Lucas, an English hunter and naturalist who ift visiting Vancouver, will make arrange- mente before his departure -with the British Columbia, Governmeni and game wardezie of the province for the accom- modation Of several, hundred red, deer which will be brought from his father% eetate Warniatm Surrey England early in September next year. Theee animals have 'been given. to the Government of the province by C. 11. lane sen. the intention being to turn them awe° in the wilds. of the, Rockiee and allow them to increase until their munbees warrant the passing of a game ordinance allowing them to be Act in * ed numbers. ale. Lucas fetid that it wae originally intended to send the deer out this yea; but unhappily the outbreak of foot and mouth disease among Faiglish cattle had prevented the exportation of any live etock from the old country. Conse- quently the animale were retained. About fifteen years ago his father had made a feimilar gift to the Government - of New Zealand and since that time they had. multiplied so rctpidly that they were now shot every seaeon. During a recent visit to the island he ,had been, able to secure four magnificent specimens:a-Van- couver Sun. SOFT JOBS—HARD FINISHES. Two young mea were heard the other day discussing they affairs in a public plaea One of tbem was "down on his luck" because lie had a positioti from Which .., beer and skittles were whollY absent — who had to keep at it pretty constantly in Qraer to draw a salary which was bY no means impressive. The otner was inclined to be cheerful. He had, be said), "a soft job." ' 'Yes," said the other, "out the fellow With the soft yob, is pretty sure to haye- a hard finish.' We preoict that.. the youogarnati who Insisted upon keeping to his te,sk, eveh though it was a difficult one, and who foresaw the hard finish of the sott JOb. will travel a good seal further tnan his comPanion. There is one pretty certain rule in the world of "jobs." The man WhO beging ' at the bottom and has the backbone to stick, until thi3 inevite,ble rules of change award him something better," is almost certain to be identited in tee ena -with a "soft Job." That is to say, a position where experience and judgment and char - actor count for more. perhaps a great deal more, than the actual work which appears to be the best thing he has to pea. eiut the youth who is loolting for a "soft Job" to begin with, and who is un- fortunate -enough to find something to his liking, is courting a. destiny which was best described by the young man of the conversation we have quoted, who called it "a hard finish. —St. Louie Times. Weird Fight in the Air. Donald Murray, a boy, obtained a fine wild noose in a peculiar manner. Donald heard° a "honk, honk," overhead, and, looking lip, sae, a wild goose about two bearded feet in the air, struggling as if its wine were.partly bound or entan- kit ntin"Thentetiluatnegr. the bird took a dive for the earth and landed in a stubble falai about throe hundred feet from Svhere 'Murray stood. He raw to the spot and found the goose fighting with a. big bleck snake, which had entwined iteelf around the neck of the goose. The boy killed. the wake and eaught the goose. It is thought the snake wound Reek round the goose when it wae on the feeding gretmdsenorth of the city) where hundrede of geese, alight to rest and feed theie was noth, and the gootlo 1.1r. un- able to throw off its unwelcome tom- op0arnti...olttrilviiirtieunavitoutr Nkot‘..te..the air.---E1Wood *,.+.40.-imoranat t A New Knight of the Garter? Priece Albert. Second eon of King George V of England, will become a Xnight of the Garter it the Xing ear - Hee out his interaion tie instal a new knight previous tO the next serviee Of the Order of the Garter, to be held at Windsor Castle in %Tette, le13, The sponsor:3'mi the .cfccaelon of the knighting of Prince Albert, Moral to the Bystander, will be the Prince of Wales and ?Alio Arthur of Con naught. Prince Albert, who is about eighteen years old, is at present a cadet in the highest class at Dart- mouth College. As he is to follow a life at AO, he will probably be b, blids shipnian by the time he is knighted Prince Albert nala intends to study for period at Heidelberg, where - Xing PldWard VII spent some time. 44104****4 Wife (tearfully)—You have lerolsen the promiee eoit made tee.. Ilueletea (kieeing lier)---Never mind, my dear; don't ery. make you another. .Rtrpi7 Rories.