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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.
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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,"
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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?
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SCIENCE JOTTINGS.
Tho yew tree lives 400 or 500 years,
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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,
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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.
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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. -
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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."
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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.