The Brussels Post, 1907-10-24, Page 3CURRENT TOPICS.
How much et the uncleeerved ei,nsure
and lumilleattig reeitike eitall the young
num entering itesincss he prepared lo
Like front men' who hold authmely
OVPV 111111? -Ties is a queslkm which the
young num starling out In the wer1,1
should deckle Mr himeelf us a vital pre.
limlnery to his experience, It will be
taheit for grunted that the type of young
Man intaing the qualities ot seecese
eine, lm pesreeed of Arnie rmilit and
have an appreeintion of his duly lo las
ewn eelf.respect. With this conseems.
nue cif lilmeelf it 'is a certainly the', In
almost any line of encleavor Elite ymeig
num will come fore to face With the
question, "Do I OWe It to myself to re-
sent this?" On lbe sene, Judicial an'
sever to thee questiou muy depend Us
greatest possibilities in that young
nian's future.
-
In this complieated lige of great busi-
nesses tin responsible heads for such
business 11111S1 leave much of the man-
agement M inferiors. These assist:me:
may number le»s or huodreds. It
'eight be Laken for granted In any great
businers \Otero managers and heads of
departments are many rifid where they
' are in elight personal touch with the
real heed of the concern, a. candid eon -
lessen', of that bead ot the house would
• .. tshow Aleut he would be open to appll-
..., ,....
ins replacing a co.neiderable pee-
edjaage ef these assistants if he could
0011p4er better men,
leale.."•'' --.--
Joe of the chief (muses for worry on
im.l. of sleet a business bead is the
' („•,'etion which develops among his en:-
d1oyes. One of the merited forms ef
p ieempetency in a large organization
Mot the mon invested with authority
. hinter other men cannel. "gel along" with
1 cht men under him. Wherever this_
trait, is shown in such a maneger, too,
Ills chancee for a short lived term in
Ithe position ere reduced to a certainty.
Ten, fifty, or a hundred mon trader
1 , Men may rot -el and break away to other
" Deices before the right man i$ ousted.
But Unit the trouble metier finally will
be unseated may be taken for greeted.
' 111 the creation of tete Mellon probably
nailing is more effective than the as-
sumption of autherity which the man
bt charge doe,: not have, Ile may be
of a bullying dispesilion, hard to plettee,
and radical in expressing les eispleasure
where he ands fault.
But the young num who is prompted
ty a proper ambition for his work can
feel that he is not working for the of-
fensive, bullying Jones. II he hos the
chance to observe probaby he will dis-
cover that :tones, in ate presence cf
Smith, is such a cringing, opologidlo
14,ure as to claim even Ills contemptu-
ous sympathy. The young man may
reason that in the last analysis he is'
not even working for Smith to tha ex-
tent that be Ls woreing,for 'Minuet and
111., OW11 MOM Ilo 11eedS the eSOOVI-
once. that he is getting if in the begin-
ning he has not mode a mistake in
. choosing Smith's establishment. When
he hos gained that experience he may
sny to Smith. that for certain reasons
wkich are good Ile proposes to metre
change.
13u1 untilthat time has arrived the
young man of earnest purposes can-
not afford to snertflec Ms chances which
have been well chosen merely because
elesome petty impositions which do net
erect, the great masa of his folio \v
workers in the establishment. lf he
shall bo in the position of hiking to
heed those things which his fellows
Pee laughing away among themselves,
he should bring himself up with a sharp
turn and discover' where he stands..
fie has eritered a business which Is ee-
Lublished on accepted lives. Ile is foo-
lish to imagine that he can reform II. In
4 day. 1111151 adapt himself to the
eenclittons 00 110 finds them, or lie must
get out. Getting out of the 006 place,
his chances may be that he will fall
into another quite as bad, or worse,
in Rs environment.
There are things that no respecting
yeting 111011 can stand end yet heel) Ms
self-respect. 13111 what tire they? In
making his tabulated list of what theee
things are the untried young men
oreele all the judgment ancl conserva-
tism which he can cot/inland. He is a
tcol if he allows an inferior creature
to ruin his prospects.
IN SPITE OP Tuft SPEECH.
A young berrislee wee conducting
his first ceso. lie lied evidently conned
lee tegument till he knee, 1 hy beetle
Ilefore he had proceeded len minutes
wiIli his oratorical effort ale jUdge hed
(leveled the ease in his Moor, and lunt
told him so, Despite this, the yomig
inevyer would not cease, 11 seemed that
he lied al 10(110(1 such a morneettiM (11)11
he could not atop,
leinnily. his lordehip Memel forwerd
nee. in the politest of le/nee, Said:-
"Nta: notwillistencling Veer 00.
gement, the Merl, hae cencluded to de -
tido This ense In your favor,"
\Viet, Men ettilleate the AR of taking
things Oa,
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AbOill the Foes°
44+4-4-44+++++ 4-4-4-0-e-He+ieet
API/le-MING INSIlleS,
impreve Your Apple Pafeesere little
molasses mixed watt effple Iniprove.e the
Meyer of apple ple.
Crusted Politem.s.--Cul, peltdoes
lingthwIse into fairly thlek slieve. Dip
well in beelen eggs, highly eeasonett ;
eoll in flour and fry 111 1101, spitlee.
Peach Nest, Salute -Pare and halve
Iwo ripe pewees, renown 010110, 1111d
1111 1101100/ with ceopped English wet -
mils. Serve with salad dressing on a
lettuce leaf.
To itaProve Mayonnalse.-To 0ne-1101f
cup mayounalso salad dressing add ono
heaping tenspoon peanu1. MAW, thee-
obethly mixed In, a small quantity at a
(101e. lt impoeves it,
Roast Durk wig, Onione.-Peccure 0.
pair of Mee ducks, clean them well, and
put fo a ehrillow baking pen. Season
with salt and pepper, heel, and a 111110
water. Surround the duces with onions
eta in helve.s and small slices of fresh
htim. Sel, in a Wer111 OVell.
SWUM Mutton and Bece-elave a loin
or multen boned and before rolling it up
e) mest spread on the ioside a stuffing
made of apples 1111d onicms chopped fine,
mkt a. few breadcrumbs. Butte in a hot
wain. Serve with red currant jelly or
01414) &Wee.
Creamed Potatoes. -Slice thinly six
boiled potatoes. Make a while sauce
NV/111 11 spoonful each of flour and chop-
ped parsley fried in butler. De, not. lel,
these get brown. M(1 a cup of water
and last the sliced potatoes. Season
with eel!, and pepper anti let boll slowly
for ten minutes, stirring often. Serve
hot.
• Oyster Soup. -Take a good piece ot
soup meal, and boil 11 In a quart of eva.
Ii, Season with salt enly. Make it
hush of green onions, parsley, and cher-
vil. 'fry this in hot butter; add flour for
ileceening, and 1)0110 1110 broth on the
whole. Add two dozen oysters and more
water if needed: Season with a branch
of thyme, two bay leaves and a piece et
strong pepper. Serve with Mast.
l'otnato -Pie.-A delicious ple for this
season reI the year and one farm -born
folks delight in is green tomato. Line a
deep pie 1)011 with crust; slice rather thin
green tomatoes and sprinkle wile 0, cup
of sugar and le:lee/tenthl of cinnamon,
and one of nutmeg; 1011 113 a tablespoon-
ful of butter; pour two tablespoonfuls of
vinegar ovee same, and before- adding a
thin upper crust sprinkle ou a little
1(010.
eeo Roil TlIce.-To a pound of rice use
there quarts of water, having WARS'
\veil salted and Wittig. Md rme that
has been washed thoroughly; let IL boll
hard, selering occasionally, for about
tstcuty minutes, or until lite kernels are
tender; then drain in a colander and
pour a Mlle cold water thrcugli. Turn
into a granite pan; cover, and let stand
111 00011 13ene minelos. Every kernel
will he 10110111 hke potatoes.
Make 'Your Own Corn leread.--For
each loaf of tweed allow onethalf 131111
scaielett milk, one -1101f teespoon salt,
oneemarter mike compressed yeast, and
one-half tablespoon lard or huller. Stir
in as intich flour as is needed to melte a
Min (lough and let rise over night, 111
the morning turn out on mixing board
anti cut with a knife fifty or seventy-five
deep gushes Mr each loaf, turning ahe
dough ag little as poseible. Mould, me)
lover:, let riee one lmur, and bake ono
hour.
Cocoanut Pie.-13ake under crust; pet
a pint of sweet milk in a. pan 1111d Sft 11
ill (I kettle of hal; water. When the inilk
bells add three tablespometes of sugar;
Ilion two tablespoonfuls of cernstereli
ellssolved in a little cold WIltee. COOk
until it tedelcene; then add one -halt box
01 cocoanut. '('(10)1 011 the stove end acid
white of the eggs, whipped to a stiff
froth. Turn the mixture Mtn the shell
end piece 11 in the oven to brown,
Rolled Stuffed Steak. --Take two
pounds of beefsteak, Ithy 11 on a chop-
ping hoard, beat it with a rolling pin
aboet ten minutes. Then place the fol-
lowing stuffing 00 the steak and tie it
up tightly. Put 11 111 the oven with but-
tered paper over IL Bake twenty min-
ttles. Serve with horseradish sauce, a
soap of horseradish on top, and setae
parsley. Pour the gray around which,
Comas from the steak. Stuffing for
abeve steal( ; Mix handful af bread -
crumbs, a tablespoonful of chopped
cherries, an ounce of butler, pepper and
salt, end mix with a well -beaten egg.
USEFUL HINTS.
Keep Milk Sweet. -Put into milk a
spoonful of grated hoteseradieh and it
will keep sweet, tor dey.s.
Use Old l'ooth 13rughes,-Seeld 0101
Moth brushes, cleanse Anther in am-
monia water; use to clean Miley handles
of sliver.
Stop Oil Stove's Smoking. -Keep yew'
MI stove wick well folmmed end it Wf1114,
smoke. Sear stroy ends of wick with a
red hot poker.
Keep Greuse Oft Floor. -Old 0100/0130-
13010 spread on the floor by Ihe stove
while frying Meal will keep your floors
free from grease spots.
Glue Up Ilole in Sille-Plare a piece of
silk under the rent with prepere(1 glue,
whIch con be purchased in drug &ere for
e) con ts,
melee Soap 00 Verther.-reit 1110
nieces and pet into a dry niece; it is
more economical to rise after 11. has 110-
00)110 hard and it does not waste 00
rencilly.
For the Muse Pail:Mr.-When melting
use of a bucket and Meech, to prevent
the brush Mom slippIng inte the paint
oe paste deavy a WIPP 11001 0/10 side of
the hendle mimes lo Ihe other end rest
the brugh on the wire and edge of pail.
Toe that Wriuger Early. -When the
rubber on the wringer brenlcs take a
piece of nutelin Ione inches Melo and
wind hack and forth teemed Ihr 0011011
11 win nol eell the elolhes end inny ho
used quite awhile; but better buy a new
Simile Trees Shouldn't Dia. -Those
\Venting to plant sluele trees will have
no 'fieullie having them live if when set-
ting Um 0111 thee will Place 11 follieinch
tele so the 1111011111 of the We will mei.
recielt lop of geound, or a little ahov11.
le this Way ore pail of wafer ti day will
keep the trees alive113 the dryest wea-
ther.
When New elhoes Pineheelf new shoes
ineeindeetable, put Mein 4(1), 11111. 11,1
MA nor button. Seoul. bearing the
,\,7111.11 ifiot,11
noir11,1,811,1410w,i1\1‘,1,11111,:
101(11 1001)1'
315 fyft SS 1'1111 lie borne. 1111d iet them dry
oe the feet. Title Plevirtht% 1/11. 011010
100111 1110 11isido, inld one 01. Iwo ripper:a-
tione win ;mime. It iff better to 111000
amid a little when the 811000 111'0 4,11'),
11114, AS IIIIS aids Me strelehing.
Te Peek Canned lerulteetiet a hoe
from yew' grecee if you iatlend to MO
conned treat on cars, Pad Me bottom
and 1411101 thlemy with eeriest:it' 00 news-
papers and et entigly 111 11 empty boxes,
Ilion weep each jue in ilewspaper until
it file tightly, Then turn down ale
reeves anti lay a Iblek pad over the
wbole, loehing 111 At 11017/PeS 11111.1 sidPs.
Nall on 11.10 11e0/11-18 with wire nano tag,
and mark, "Glass, hendle with /etre." If
any jar beelike you have net been 0000-
11111) fit tiOXPS 111 snugly,
Aloes a Mouse Trap. ---A novel and ill-
expensivn mouse trap is made by selliog
mem thr, floor a/ewell-filled water pit-
cher OP 1111011e1, 10111111g a piece of
putter, broken 111 the eentre, (111 1011.
(epee this sprinkle cheese. A bit of
plank is slanted from Me fleor la the
lop of 1110 pitcher -bee 11 gangplane-
and a trail of cheese leads the way to
the summit,. The nilee, allured to 1110101),
fail through Um frail paper and are
drowned. This is especially good where
there are small children.
GENERAL INFORMATION.
toteresting TibBits of Knowledge
About 'Most Everything.
A huge steel chimney, the largest
ever erected in one piece, has been put
op at Attercliffe, England. It is over
100 1501 (111311, 10 feet In diaineter at the
bottom, tied 7 feet al the top.
Sawdust is turned into transportable
fuel 111 Germany by a very simple pro-
cess. It is healed under high steam
pressure until the resinope ingredients
broom° stielcy, \when it is pressed into
bricks.
Anyone in Denmark who pays the
Slate 832.50 Mien Ile is twenty-one is
(minted to an annuity of $60 when Ile
becomes sixty-five. I3ut if Ile dies be -
fere that Wee the State gets all the
money,
In order not lo lose a legacy of $25,-
600 left to her by an eccentric nune
young lady was, in France, some little
lime age, married wearing a wedding
dress which, though of fashionable cut,
was made of sactrelotb.
As the result 01 111010 than 1,000,000
inquiries, it has been found that a
every hiendred married men in Ger-
many, Franco and England, ninety-
seven, eighty-three, and eixty-five per
respectively first meet, their future
wives at social dances.
The most remarkable method of de-
livering lettees doubtless is that Pm-
ployed by steamers ',using the islands
of the l'ongt1 group in the Prieffic. On
account eif niany reefs landing ig ex-
tremely dangerous, and the few tellers
to be delivered ere attached to large
sky-et/Mots, which are fired and reach
the shore in safely.
Austria provides an object -lesson M
dueling wale waste lends, retY.f.S Bee
Oen to farmers to encourage. them to
recever waete lands ane lay them down
as pasfueage, and also te erect shpt.
!ere or sInbles for cows 111 high alti-
tudes. The 11111)01'1(1nm of this may be
ze en from the statement that ene-quar-
ter of the total fodder required for eat -
Ile and horses in the empire is derived
teem Alpine districts.
Although there are only eighteen flags
used in the international Code of Sig-
nals, which is used by It:reships and
merchant seeps all over the world, they
cell be made to (0(11000111 110 fewer than
20,000 distinct signals, and by its use
something lthe 50,000 ships can be desig.
nated. There is one slgual which has
110111.' been made use of by a British
warship yet, and that is, "Have been
defeated." -
It Is generally believed that 11. 10 not
possible for a hen to lay more than one
egg a day. Professor Gowen, ot the
University of Maine, has been making
obseevatione on the settled.. Careful
uoiten was taken of several white Wy-
endottes, one of which esperially was
suspected of transgressing the average
tete of output. These suspicions were
verified. The special 10111.10 Wyandotte
actually told thirty-four eggs in thirty-
three days, and twice in two months
laid twe eggs in one dny, and seven
011111 \WA 11e101 10S exceeded the ueuel
output, hut not le the same extent.
A large Baptist chinc1t that stends In
Dm city of Santa Rose, Celifoltia, en,
jeys the distinction of fleeing been.con-
structed entirely hem n single tree. Of
course, that includes the woodwork of
the structure. 'fin tree from which the
timbers, lumber, and shingles were cut
wes 11 Went California redwood, A
considerable quantity of the lumber wits
left over aficeethe church building was
completed. Tho building has a spire
7,1 feet high; an auclienee-ream capenle
o seating 400, a parlor capable of seal-
ing eighty, 'a pestor's study 14 feet by
211 feet, a vestibule, and a toilet:moil'.
Cent tOUS WESTMORELAND CUSTOM.
A. strange rue:tom to obseeved yearly
In the small hamlet of Werecs, in 'West-
moreland, England, in c•eminemoralion
01 en incident Mud happened in the year
11-01.. Thal. year there wag a plague of
\Yeses end many persone throughout lite
counley sueeembed to the poisonous
sling. The 11I110 hamlet holds the record
r els oumber of victims, end in Immo
oey of lite occurrence a memorial 1111/101
11111, el'Ortt'll 0/1 the (1/001. theVe, New
each yene there Is 11 provession, meet
et Ihe 1111101111113110 1111'11 0111, envying 111-
41101 powder end other devices for 11111,,
1013 0/118118, rind mart to •the Ineinerhe
stem°, Where a Ahoy( service is held by
mintstcr of the parish. 'When the
service is over n general e)esade is
made 111 senrell of wasps' nests, wheel
ore immediately destroyed, Some carry
guns, some rags ,salurated in turpentine,
while others carry pereflin Whin is
13) 4100 11110 1110 0001 1.11u1 a match ap-
plied. The anniversary 18 ten/steered
the most, important event 0( 1111 e,ear,
fever ;
limed nue arrive1 in rieeordenee
When n even1511 doeen't lolow her with the Goverernele, plemiiee 111111 the
own mind 11 is time she eottgid all In- Midge over the Klionlast River would he
trodtlelleal, 00111pleted 011 a certain day. We knew place. --was buried alive,
FARMING IN EAST AFRICA
11,000 SETTLERS AT WORK IN GBP,
MAN TERRITORY.
This Although it Was Only Last Tear
Gemmel). Got Ready to Ad.
mit Colani,,Is.
It is about thirty yours since (ho
1111111S Required the vastregion now
101013.1 110 German East Africa, They,
Mal no idea limn that any part of the
eelona, which ie cote: a little eolith cif
the equator could ever the home
,ti white settlers, ltitilth to their surprise,
May have found that Mout a sixth of the
clot:Mee Is so reel tn soil unct steeds eci
high above the sea that while men may
engege in manual labor there the yeur
)llUUI)d.
The regiens IMO invite while retool-
zation are distributed in Mtge and small
areas among the lime:Mara. Mountains,
near the eve; on the wee, lege plains
south end west of Mount Kilimanjaro;
in the mountains and rich valleys ef
ithelat to the southwest; en the high
tablelands of Urundi and !Wanda near,
the Congo 'Free Stale anti in other elle.
Nets. Already about 2,0110 peesarits
from Germany and the Transvaal Wive
settled there, though 11 WAS only last
year that Germany got, ready to admit
colonists.
In some places there are only two or
three settlers, while in other regions
there are scores 01 151011(00, It is still
1111 untamed wilderness and Germany
holds oui no glitte1 . ig• inducements,
In the circular of the colonial geyern-
meld last year (Monists were told that
they would be aceepteel if they were
well, strong and temperate. 'fhey must
b., prepared to endure bravely •the pri-
vations inseparable from pioneer life.
Thai° was little prospect of acquiring
wealth, but the diligent, !nen mulct make
a home for himself and his family mid
BECOME INDEPENDENT,
Tho great regions of Urendi and
Ruanda, the most populous parts of
German East Africa, about 300 miles
from the Indlan Ocean, are not yet open
to settlement, as orderly relatio»,e, evith
the natives ere not yet fully utablisbed.
These are the only regions adapted for
white occupancy that are not yet times-
sible to colonists
The Government tvill ultimately sell
the land, but at present 11 18 leased to
settlers for a few cents an acre. As soon
tie the eettler has one-tenth of his hold -
Ing under cultivation or otherwise de-
voted to usefel purposes, he is entitled to
purchase twice as much land as he has
improved at about 10 or 20 cents an
acre.
The Oevernment requires all settlers
to bring at, least $500 into the country.
They must paddle their own canoe in a
financial way.
It ie a Mae different, however, with
th.:i German Poles, who are as yet Um
chief German immigrents. Fur each
family a little cabin and two outhouses
a'e constructed, a few cattle and some
farming implements are provided and
the Government ts reimbursed he small
regular payments.
All the settlers live in small cabins
built of weed, stone or tiles. Many of
them give met attention le the raising
of cattle, sheep and goats, and produce
only sufficient crops to feed their fam-
ilies,
l'he Germans have been greatly sur-
prised to find how largo a vadely of
European farm crops can be grown on
these widespreading lands from 4,000
to 7,000 feet above the sea. Scene set-
tlers are actually raising wheat as line
as any land produces,
Wheat is destined to be 0 great erre),
800 miles inland, in the region 01(105-
10o1 African lakes. The first crop sown
1 the second ploughing of the land
yielded about forty bushels to the acre,
1(113 111y trouble being that
IT RIPENED IN PATCHES,
so that a whole field could not be cut at
once.
European vegetables grow limey,
small fruits tlo well and cotton end to-
bacco are an assured succees. Millions
of coffee tree -s have been planted, M-
enem and sugar •cane thrive und sloe
hemp, intreduced from Yucatan on the
Government experimental farms several
years ago, is already tin important ex-
port.
The my -now Is that, Me dockage facili-
ties at Tanga, to which port most of the
exports are sent, must be enlarged et
once or shipments will be emblimasSed.
Already freight cars are likely to stand
unloaded for several days as storege
re.= is not adequate,
11 IS 0 stirprising foot that last year
the three German ports on this great in-
land Sea 011113Ped 4,513) tons .of the pro-
ducts of thal part of German Feist Africa
to Europe. The freight was cerried o11
lettleh lake steamers to the Uganda
111111'05d, On W111011 11 WAS 11/11.11011 to
Mombasa and loaded on Hamburg and
Bremen steamships. The hugest iletne
were pennute. &Mon, rice, rubber, wax,
coffee, building woods, 11I11e8 and elcins.
100. Siedentopf is the only colonist. who
has yet entered the country witb sum,
eked metal to begin work mi a large
scale. He picked out hie land, 011 of
which Ileg ithoul 7,1100 feet above 11111 51111,
and before he had been the colony
three mantle., he pule:hoed 2,000 head of
native cattle and intends to increase his
herd to 5,000.
Ilet Is developing a lirst-elegs ranch in
a region wbere there Is plenty 01 )1)11(11'
and greso
lite. all ig not gold thal glitters in ((er-
ten East Afelea. Severn1 hundred Deere,
fron the 'Transvaal took hp lands which
some 01! 111(1111 hare already aliaralontal,
tuovi»g to
0111111511 EASer AFRICA,
Mall' 11113' ene the intel allotments aro
linger mid thee, luive better 11'1111 111)1(111,
'rho great maniac in 111,1 theentin
lot) is Run railrond Imildeng has en
painfully slow and Mel the development
of the volutley is /Moguls' ahead of the
transportation Incentive.
All the settlers who Are des11110a for
the griming and farming lands of 111e
plultem linen to trump or
trek leo mike: frcm forminel
molten to their deetinneon. Hove Is the
leelitremy,glemn ly one or lhomi neer
fermers when he was bedridden with
emild reel gel our geode iteroee the
litill."e11111(eil;kje 111.1111Pirgetellre17(1 rckluji))1.'oinhe and
then sI ivied emr vegons. Wt. reneheel
tlie el \ er, one of the worst. freer-tweed-
spels in Africa, Here we were !rept
sixteen days because the bridge was 1)(4
reedy.
"ente whole tinnily, exeepling nno
daughter. have nearly tl(ed of hi\ ar. We
t011)' 11111(1 111111 0/1(11 Ilo l/1111114'SL
0000 us no [voice/M. Aly 10/0 SOOS
so, now Militing Mr the heisai who
legm, Lome, lust :hie: ten heed et out
cali'Alle'year !wren', We el11111.1 here the Gov-
ernment Promised that in te., 3e1(1i4 the
railroad frern Tanga evouel be Nun-
pleleil to Rifirnanj500. U'e knew 111111. 11
weuld he 11 yew' at least before we had
anything et sell, and 80 we vane, here
expeeting that, by the lime we bad skins,
hides, butler end far10 products te eine
lo the 1.01141 1110 Sh011ift IMP a railroad
ro. our (14,01',
"litil the roamed has not been built a
Not beyond Month°. We are ten days
by wagon from Meenbo anti we don't
leitow when We shall have this transpor-
10:10g141:011, water is plentifel, the reel is
'lees country is splendid. Tire gratis
rich, the climate is all we eine rislc; hut
eve do not think that the (Motion Gov-
ernment is duing what it 1eltonld 10 Slip-
tran.sportalion."
The while settlers ail over Germen
Enst. Africa are loudly prolesling against
ibe turtly development et the reilread
system, planned several years ago. Let-
ters from celonisLs en Vietorla lelyanzu
say 11 13 a de:grime to the German ling
that, they have to send their produce 10
the sea by the British steamers and
railroad.
These 1)rateSIS aro predueing some
effect and there ale siems that railroad
building soon be pushed with eorne
degree of 'Vigor.
COLOMBIA'S
EMERALD MMES.
Gems Worth a Million of Dollars 'Taken
Out Last Year.
The German Minieter 101 1301301i1,
Colombia, has 001)1. 10 his Gevernment a
detailed report on the emerald mines, of
Musa, in the Department, of Boyaca.
These 1111110S have undergone many
vicissitudes,
After the country broke away from
Spain they were at first held by Ropier,
and worked for its benefit in an indo-
lent sort. of Way. Then the national
Government laid claim to them arid they
Were SOinteSSly WOrked by various- con-
cession holders. Until the most. l'etellt
revolution nobody paid any attention to
the werIcings or the value of the stones
taken from Mem.
Now they have been leesed lo a Colom-
bian syndicate RA' 11\11 years and a rigid
Government supervision is exercised
over the output, 11. is the intention of
th Adminiemation when the lease ex.
pires to tithe up the \reeking of the
/eine on its own account.
From the. mining village a narrow
path lends to the mines about 350 feet
up the side of (1 steep mountain. The
open cu1 shows a groat variety of rocks
and minerals' slide, flint and quartz
being the mostprominent.
The emeriti& ere leamd in a reseal.
Serous limestone which shows in gray
streaks among the darker rocks. The
Spaniards used to get at the gems by
driving atthe into the hill followhig the
veins. Now the open cut has been
adopted and the rock is tierrneed from
above.
Iligh up on the mountain there are
cepiotie watercourses. Tbese are
dieected into artificial reservoirs and
Manes -one of them six miles long -
are carried dOW11. 10 the mine. Tile
quantity of eveter is so great that even
111 dry seasons there is eullicient to
carry on operations.
Ag the rocks ere pulverized the debret
ie converted ireo slime and carried by
Iho water down the mountein lo the
Rio mincro, Me below, \emelt eweeps it
along to the son. The gems are picked
from the waehing troughs by peens,
who keep breaking up the rock entailer
and emailer so that nothing is Inst.
Altogether »lore than 100 laborers ere
employed. They receive 25 pesos in
per, equivalent to 25 cents a day in our
money, besides food, shelter and free
medient attentlarice,
None of them can stand the work very
king. The intense heel, especially in the
bottom of the great pit 01 )111* mine, and
nu, working in water, bent< them down
repidly, dnd they full victims to Um local
reNTelt;:ty work under 'canvas awnings and
nx palm leaves over their heads M keep
off the glove of the sun, bet as the, day
wears on the atmosphere in 1.111 pit atm
riees to a tereperalere of 1 le lei 120 de-
grees, and it becomes as humid as that
of a turIcith bele through the 0010(10011.
1101) the washing pans and the
siin
AL every singe of the work the eynda
cello inspeceers watch tele peons scrupu-
Musty. EVey 01011e is 011'01' 1.0
them the instant it is towel. They clean
and report it to the Livvermilent 0111-
°111181.
(111 two or three Yen 00 51341 11. WSS
suppeemo thai the elueo mince were
preclically exhauttect, but this was only
becnuse of inefficient methods. Last
vti,Iciersconierelde to the yells, of not lees
lhan 61,000,0 d w
00 in golere taken out
dtd.
TO PREVENT PREMATURE 111:111A3.
It has been rented that In Europe oM
of every hundred eupposed &lithe one
person ie resuscitated, Although mem-
here of 1111, medical profession refuee 11)
lake any liderest in the mullet. 11101e is
eUll it herrible poesfbillty that 1111111),
pereone ere buried while in 11 elide et
suspended aniiiiation, 1111, cemetery
just outside the town of Weimar Moro
14 11 eferial provisien mode against the
danger of premitlitre burial Mom sus.
11)111011 antrualkm. No Isitlies 51,0
11110.1`11 111 the ground until they have
spent 11 conekternble lime in A M0011,-
1111; '1'111111. 111 the liegole 1,1 mrpse
tve placed 141i11134 which ecinimaroeio
With FM 111111.111, 111111 1110 11'uhl 04,Vemoil
Will 1411g El 1,111 111 1111 Iljj,0111111g el:em-
ber. where 11 guertlien ts etweys en tle,
weletiln eeeerert ineleneee, 13 thie
timely einem. preemie lieenelmely
hurled heve been Deemed. 'elle pleieh
store is believed, mese from Ilie 1(11-
110141.1 Mat <ow of the 001111.-0 of 511110
S‘01111110 -4111S being (Mee family butte
DO YOU KNOW ESPERANTO
HOW A UN/VEINAL LANGUAGE- WAH
INVENTED.
Life Work of Dr. Zamerarnf 6rent
Advantages Which Will be
Derived Erma) It.
T111' 0111110 f.1 Dr. Zoirtentmf. of Wor-
m:vvis libely to go down lo
115 elle et the Vrefitetit, er lIiO ,0111111:
Il.fiehletell,; for to him belongs the cry.
d t of inventing Esperanto. a language
h..: which men of all Liations can con-
vcrso together. "We wish to emote a
tionntion ground 011 %Odell 1/11. %11/e101/,
14(.00 4.1 montane can pracchilly and
1. tern:illy' 31,1(1)0111 111t11101111J5
clifferentes 111 any wity," the &P.
ICI re11100lied In his inaugural addreee
at the reeent conferenee of Esperam
lats. at Cambridge. Englund. Allit.
judging by tele entlitteinelle rieseruble1
al the conference, that weer is rapkite•
bc Ing realized.
Delegates from twenly-flte different
netions, representing half a million
Ilsperanlists, conversed with each other
111 the easiest and Freest manner, And
if further testimony be needed as to the
merits find uses a mi. iwcniy-yoar-oal
language, It con be found in the cod
that it has 1e011 11101111Pd in the 0111T1-
13131urn
ENGUSH ANI) FRENCH 51)110005.
Educationists. sientists, tourists, tom-
treric.ri}ltoiniet:01,. are rapidly recogniz-
ing the practical end valuable nature
(tiEsier
Yet it WAS riot eo leng ago that, Dr.
Zenierthof was regarded by meny pee-
flS a crank. Few took hen eerioue-
when. In 18e7, he published Ies bro-
chure, "An Irdernationel Langeuge. by
Br. Esperanto," and for .ten years he
labered herd to get the merits of his
lingutstic invention reeogeized. Then
the world euddenly rovolie le the know-
ledge of Zautertbors gentee. and corn-
meneed to learn Esperante with evidity.
curionely eneugh, 10 WAS mit Dr.
Zemenheit's intention, when he Mat con-
ceived the idea of inventing an auxil-
iary languageofor that is the eorrect
description of E.speranto, seeing that il
te an adaptafion Morn ail tanguagee and
e Mid fe nene-to invite universal use.
as the .story of its origin ehows.
As a boy Dr. 7.amenhof Heed m the
little tewn of Bieleetelc, on the fron-
tier of Rusela and ilormarly. The in-
babitants were of Pur different nation-
elitles-Ressianse Poles, Jews. and (ke-
n:ens-each group spealdng its 01111
language, and on bad terms with the
ether groups, When yeuner Zettneleilef
readied hie teens he grieved over th10.
and rightly cencluded that the main
ceuse wale the misunderstanding due to
DIVERSITY OF LANGUAGE,
and determinc.d 501110 daY to ievent
lenguage which they ceuld u11 enter -
stand.
With thle ehjeet in view he acquierel
a knowledge of Greer, Lalln, Fremel,
(1erman, English. Y)ddish, Iltiesittn,
and Polish, and thus equipped hewer
well for the task, Esperuuto the
retult, of twelve yeers' steely., and limy
be said to be built up from those \verde
width nee [Already eitown to the great -
:at number of persons of avenge eau.
enlion. Thus horn 1111 ordinary page
Esperanto text an Englishmen tc-
eegnizee 70 per vent, of the weeds, an
Italian 00 per cent., a Speniard 411 per
00111,, a Frenchman 80 per cent., 1111d 11
German 40 per cent.
As rue illustration of Ilm simplicity
of the 1101.1' language..1,1 might lie men-
tioned WM 0 booklet ;of twenty pWa
is sold al 2 cents tor the use of begin-
ners, entitled "Tho Whehe of Pespeean-
to," and whoever learns the centente of
this booklet will know the
GREATER pABT OF ESPIellANTO.
An example of the word -building
whee, limns the basis Of the new lan-
guage. will illustrate Its comprehensive-
nees. "Petro" is tether; "paten," frith-
erly op.pitternal; "palre," In a fatherly
manner; "patrino," neither. The '11011119
Cild ill "o," adjectivee 111 "a," adverbs
in "0." Every word of more then one
sythilthe to eveented on the last syllable
but one. Phonetically, gearnmaticaliy,
end strecturrtily Esperanto is thus ex-
teenely 111110/10.
Naturally Dr, Zamenhof is not a lit-
tle proud el his achievement, ancl gra-
tified 011 ncemint of the limner in
which Esperanto hes ut last been re-
ecgnized. At the same time he thinks
mere 01, the advantages which the
meted win derive ee11/1 his inventive/1
than of pergemel benefits, leer, in the
words at OOP Who 11110\10 hie), 1)1'. 7.1110-
01114.1 IS `11111111.11e, unassuming5e11te1,
find modeste-en itheent-minded moors.
ser of 'the ethi Gernum He is
none the less a genius for all thaL-
London T1l-131t5,
TREY WON'T MUT 0100115.
And They 111111 Ritle Backivard, Reports
It.aveller of Eitglislunen,
Travellers returning from England
1011 01 two halm:: )10,1p11' c13 11,111
,,,Intry 0. [aril impl,(.00,41 mom, one is
avernge Englishman's 1.1101-$10,11 tO
811111144I 1110 door bplood 111111,
"1 410111 1(11‘10/ 1100/ 11 Lo 1/1 llit, Eng -
nett hoteme," remerkeil (me oh.) return.
recently mom anrcam km I WAS 1101
in one of 1141111 Ind t in 11 hotel in
feeolon where there 131') 11 1.4001 numy
V11511811 people, iind dezen innee mole
1 111111 to gel ny, 11041 ehut a door to keep
lee draught away,
"11 didn't make any CIi1fornwhe-
ther it wit., a srrvant or a guest who
wild through, the (hair was left 011011.
'rids 41 10 111 the .spring of lhv year, too,
1111e11 1111, weather was ehttly. 1 ndieed
the same. thing 111 railway tee -lobes nee
heiele of remther keens,"
The oilier English peruliarily is n 130(11-
1 (51(1' (00 riding loci:want 011
'1110 n11.010111/11171 win Millie for the Peal
with it's 1111111 te the engine every lime.
plant himself flown in it with every col-
dence of comfort find look Wonderingly
et anylx.fly who, picks mit ft seat facing
the direetiOn the train 15 going.
?ECORDS IN MATRIMONY
t WOMAN W110 MAIIVAIED TOMTDEN
1 1CSBANDe-
Several Who Have Been 'Wooed and
Won Oight Times in Suc-
cession.
FeW W4,111011 in any part, of the civil.
eetel evorld mold probably be Mend tie
elevate the record of Mrs, Coto, 111 1141 110,
'Jenny lived al 5111110 130e1enn, reader.
She Milieu: to hove had mere 1101)'
1)011111) then tiny W01111111 1111511.
Mr,. IMO, up lir the time of going to
prose, line had flerteen husbands-, and
rts elle married theni between the ago#
or seveliteen end twenty, she changed
them on on average with each seaSero
1,111] lied one left over with which to
start the next. eler first venture was et
decidedly litivanlageou$ one from the
worldly point uf view, for ter husband
WAS a Buesien Count, who gave 110
wealth 11) -well SS tale. In a few week.
sbe tuts disillusioned, so she divorce '
Min to 1(35 11')' another titled man, Only,
1 r diseard him iii turn. In rapid succee-
eien she married a man vaguely de,
seethed as A business 11150, 11 410011).
breeder from Teets. a gentleman with
the unenvielde eel:Malice' of being one
ef tile hieiviesl gamblers in his own paw
Ocular 105111. it ranrhman, a jeweller, ft
.s.minereiul traveller, a barber, unit re.
1,n..1ente11ces of other different callings.,
Tim fa11 that wealth and comfort del
not alwaYs condhce to laIPPinesa 10 era-
pha.sized in the case of the lady's last
husband, for he was the poorest of them
alb yet she has adnifiled that she hos
been happier with him than with any 01
Ilic others, Most 0( 11)0 ex-husbands aro
Mite; in fact,
ONLY ONE OF THEM HAS 13IE13.
To lieve been wooed and won eighe
11//ie4 1/1 succession eurely entitles a
woman to a high place among what may,.
be termed the much -married people.
The( lady is Mrs. Waternan - Saunders.
Powers - Lindley. - Godfrey - Gay - Crow.
t1101' -Lepage, 05 with a plethora a hy.
pbens, sbe might describe herself, lain;
in turn the name of each of the hus-
bands whose society site hes enjoyed to
furnish ber with her present name, in,
stead of that of Mary Johoson, with
which she was born.
She was only fourteen when sho be.
gen her marrying career, so that silo
commeneed early. though, as she is 'now
thirtymine, ehe hes been a long thee,
inpared vi,tth Mrs. Coto, in making her
menet. Iler "Love's young theane was
ele,el-livell, for she ran ewny With a boy,
of seventeen. 111(1 she hull lived with htm
Mlle three days when her family 1nter-
V.c1104 lllld 1111.11 toe marriage annulled.
Two years lake she met Mr. Suonders,
eesurnereial Iravellete end after a
tourtship laeling only Iwo clays she mare'
roe eine lier ease elei 11e1 conow tee
proverbial one, with a leisurely repel/.
[tome Mleeving a tingly wedding. for she
1111(iil
lei.Y.wiStlitteintTastno
10r 111105
ihrteic%13;esaoll'a.s2
1
bh.. however, for not very long after she
neireitel n man employed on a reilway.
Lidortuttntely, he 0/1114 killed in an acci-
dent. 011 ehe bestowed her hand on a
:4:ii.c.111'cieree'ro them. Pie the marriage wile ells.
'he ist111 apparently did not satisfy,
eolved in the Divorce'. Court and she
MARRIED AN HOTEL-ICEEPER,
foon wheim she wit4 eNentuelly released
by the same (leans as she was front Ms
succe,ssor, who furnished her with her
sixth maleimmiiiti experience, leer
seventh husettnit she merried the day.
utter she obtaine01 hoe freedom, but he
too went wey of hie predecessors.
she, has just mimed liar latest hueband,
who may be regarded ttS on probation,
for her view is 111101 "itis impassible to
Mem a correct judgment ot any man un-
til a 0/001 511 hes 1,P111 01111'Lled 10 11110
frr l0/0 01' 111100 WedsS."
11'1' (111110sephy 1,1f We hes been stet.
med up in the characteristic phrase, 'To
forillitaM it11'011'e 10 lo encourage muiri.
mony," and She 1188 expreosed the opin-
ion, based on 111P rebuff of what every.
1111e 30111 11410111 IA 1.1 fairly wide, expert.
(ince. that "ft is a mistake for women to
wait for MOO to do all the wooing." It
woe through welling while she was
yeeng and inexperieneed that she fell
ink that error, and consequently had
so many disappointments; but when she
%VW/ thirty rho realized that women
ought to go ai least part 01 11111 way to
mete (twee pleasant advances,
Mrs. Lepage's record has been ,eq1.1%)ivrcletteleon.
red pioninrrIttti 1 years, eaerslit
e,11°B101gzzileIbl
married her eighth husband when site
was thir13', thus eqtadling the other re,
cord with nine years lo spare. iler first
matrimonial experience was made
A1'"11 lE AGE Ole FIFTEEN,
and, es she once neively expressed it,
"things were very pleasant tor a couplet
01 years except Mr an oceasional spat,
hich, I etippose, 13011105 into the life of
ilanriiiic‘c‘theoicliitplae.s"pat must. not ex.
reed may be judged from the fact that
ent night, during her husband's tem-
po -eery eb.senee, she went to a party with
his parents. Ineleed of ealuting her on
his return with a ides, he proceeded to
knock her down. She, therefere, re.
turned ft., her parents and applied for a
divorce, which she obtained -with a
Sedond husband in little Deere 111511 Iwo
yenre. Ilusbend manlier two went the
way of 111101 (111(1 member unt: Lifter two
years, and She teek 1111110'100 1111W, 11110
lift her in order lo intim anolher wo.
men, 10h011 5t111 111111 (1111010(1 lent.
Iler next experiences o ere 111.11 two
thishands whose (Ming,: 5110 01111 10111 11.
reporter "might 1101 1,11 ptst the litleg fee
a paper to mine" len she were tin 1111111
she Mel completed hrr tidal of right, Ms
1111118111.0 off n'tivihlort: theta!, ie11
,1 011i1
1n,1.,- 1 ,1 \1•1111(11, a
1,,,,ei
mires, Whether he win le. 'hi, last on
tlw fist if would be dfilleulf 1 eity, fee
al thirty a woman is sufficiently atirace
the M Imve mane 111011'.1113) lr(111,Iii51
eeperiencee If she does me leek (ippon,
Melly anti the hearing which the Divorce
04,01 never (elle to offer to ill-treated
WI:\;0.
1510te (Mee 11 lieppen, !Mitred the
01111oper, "11110 011 the improvement:1 ere
temig 111101e in this olie street(' "It
does reel happen at all, sit'," replied the
tl'‘k15111h'plat\i.vel.mrti‘a\j'nessIteal110;,v111"'illititisil 11!;31(IttItInt
Ogg I lice tn. 1001 chairman of tha.
Meal beard, $ir," .