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MAN-EATING LIONS. OBSTRUCT RAILROAD WORK CENTRAL AFRICA. IN Voracious Baaat Kilt Nearly On Hw drd Man and Injur Many Othr Thalr rrlghtfttt Havana Couiaalttad la Africa and India Obstructing tht building of a railroad la a rather unusual feat for llou. yet that la what two of them did some tltu ago In Central Africa, near Victoria Nyansa. Th matter waa referred to by Lord Salisbury In one of bla address e la the ltrittah House of Lord. These lloua went man-eater and for more than eight mouth they terror laed 0,000 laliorera engaged lu the work of construction. Score of these men they dragged off aud devoured. The greater part of the camp, having at length moved up the country beyoud the forging ground of the lions, several hundred wer left behind to build bridge. t'pon these the lions made a still more sanguluary descent Night after night they would carry away out and sometimes two men. They attack ed white engineers, doctors, soldier and military officers as well as laborer from India, coolies aud African ua tire. On almost any night, aud at any time of the night, the men were liable to be aroused by the shrieks of their abducted comrade, and to hear the cracking of their bones aud the tearing of their Umtw a rod or two away, while to lions growled and quarreled over their prey. ' Sick men In th hospital - died from sheer terror at the horrlbl ly recommended one, the construction of which would wilt out the Island of Pbllae, tht loveliest spot on the Ml, ther waa a universal howl of opposi tion. Tbla sot to such a height that Sir W. Uarstln and his engineer may bav felt a grim klud or roller wiivu they fouud that th French would al low them no money rrom th Calsse to realise their scheme for storing th blessed water, aud they bad for a time to abandon th whole affair. Ho when, one an morning. John Alrd. Sir HenJ. inlu linker aud their friend unexpoct- .llv im.II.vI at the utile of Work 111 Cairo aud offered to make any amouui of dam, canals and lock wherever they pleased, for no preseut casli pay tneut, In accepting their wonderful offer the government cut down the lev el of th great reservoir by nearly one. half. Wlllook wauled to stor up 120 feet of water. Sir Benjamin Maker was told to content himself with twen ty meter (about sixty ' feet) of Nil sicrsge. And so the artist and the tourists and the general opponents to th drowning of Tbllao wore appeased, or at least lhneed, and the greatest engi neering work that th world baa ever ecu waa quickly started and within a year 20,000 meu were employed at As souan aud at th supplemental dam at Asslout When th dam la completed and at Its high level Pbllae will hav Ita tempi pylons aud a few of th higher rulus standing out of the water Just to mark where Its ancient beautlea were, but all p. loveliness, Its verdure. Its palms, several of Ita temples. Ha storied wall and Ita Kilometer. Ita colonnade, It Itoman quay, will disappear beneath MAN EATING LION ATTACKS NATIVES IN CENTRAL AFRICA. sounds aud the horrible scene they suggested. The beasts were shot at lu th darkness, but seldom hit For fire arms, fire or torches they cared noth ing. One of them leaped upon an offi cer, tore his knapsack from bis back and then carried away aud a devoured a soldier near him. Many became so terror-stricken that they threw themselves on the rails In front of a coastward train aud Insisted on either being run over or carried off on the train. Those who stayed for sook the tents and buts aud camped out on top of the water tnuks, ou roofs and bridge girders or In beds lushed to the highest branches of the trees. One night one of these broke, letting Its lodgers fall within a few feet of the lions. But being already too occupied with d-vourlng a victim, the brutes gave no heed to this "windfall," but let the Intruders cscap until another meal Killed Nearly One Hundred Men. ' During the eight months that these Hon lived upon these railroad men they would be occasionally wounded by a shot and obliged to retire from active life, thus giving the camp Intervals of quiet But they killed and ate In all nearly thirty natives of India, twice as many African natives, besides Injuring many others of various nationalities. It was Impossible to poison them be cause they confined their diet entirely to human beings, to the neglect of every kind of game, with which the region abounds. The white men were not numerous enough to bunt them suc cessfully and the Sepoys were too un skilled with firearms. At length an en gineer of the line who spent months of his time pursuing them, worn out by losa of sleep, sitting up In the moon light and tracking them during the day, succeeded In shooting them both and putting an end to these mnn-eatera' reign of terror. Tbey were each over nine feet long. Both Africa and India are In many parts under the dominion of the lion and tiger. Against the lion of South Africa the native has to be constantly on his guard. The Arabs arrange their tents In a circle In the center of which the herds are penned, and outside the tents Is a rude hedge. When they hear the animal begin roaring, and he can be heard plainly at a distance of three miles, sometimes faintly nine miles off, they kindle the heaps of wood that have been piled up before each tent so that the occupant may hurl a lighted brand at him. But some of the brutes have become so wonted to the Are, the yelping of the dogs and the cries of the people that they pay no attention to them. He boldly leaps within the In cisure. He drives men, women and children Into their tents, silences the dogs and stampedes horses, sheep and dogs through the hedge and across the desert From th sheep, too, rrightened to flee, he selects bis supper and carries it away to the mountains. Or If the moods suit pursues the horses and cattle. Of these bo will sometimes kill three or four and suck their blood, leaving their carcasses where he over took them. The power of these black African lions Is enormous. The strong est of them can clear an eight-foot ln- rlosnre holdlntr In their mouths a 3- year-old horse. Olrard, the lion-killer, declares that he has seen one of them Jharge Into the midst of 300 Arab horse men on an open plain and drive thera back to their encampment the boldest of them with their horses remaining prostrate along his path. In India a man-eating tiger kills more than a hundred people a year; sometimes four or nve and even seven Dersons at once. In some districts 300 or 400 human beings are annually slain by tlgerc and In lower Bengal as many aa 700 are killed. One tigress has been known to close the public roads, cause the desertion of thirteen villages and put over 250 square miles of territory out of cultivation. They become bold enough now and then to penetrate a city and are accorded Its freedom until they are shot RE-FORMING THE RIVER NILE, Great Engineering Feat Detiigned to Equalize Ita Flow of Water. One of the most ancient Islands, aud one rich In historic associations, Is threatened with destruction, Yhen tho Nile reservoirs planned by the great Willcocks were first made known to the world, and It was round tlint he. although offering six or seven sites for Ilia cyclopean designs, really onlv high the water. Au Island will be lost, but a coatlueut will be saved. LCOK AT BOYS' HANDS. Kntntnjftr Mar Nw Teat for Yeoth ful Applicant The hoy lu search of Job turul up t supper time at his sister' bouse, looking rather dlsconsolat. "I didu't get uotbiug to do," b aald shortly. "I don't wonder If you used that hind of grammar," said bla sister. "That wnsu't It; I had my company grammar ou all right; 'twas something U and I'll tell Jim about It after upper. You'd spring th 'I told you so' gain ou me, and mnk me tired." Jim was th brother-Ill law, and nau been a Job-bunting boy himself not many years before. II was beckoned Into the slttUg room Immediately after rising from th table, and one tber the door was abut by his wife' youth ful brother, who turned aud said: "I went to fourteen places today.Jliu.and was turned dowu at every shot l'v read about. such things lu th Sunday school books and lu the funny papers, but 1 thought It wa all yah. Th guys I atmlled to didn't ask in If 1 lived with my mother; they didu't k w If I wrote a good baud; they didn't ask If 1 knew the city, and they didn't ask nothing at all that 1 expected thoiu to ask me. The first thing four of them ays was, 'Hold up your mltte," while the others say. Tloase let us look at your hands.' Tber was on look and four of them say 'Uir ana in rest says, polite-Ilk. 'W dou't think w re quire your service.' "What wa the watlerr aaej Uler's husband. ' Ths hot held uo th forefinger of his left haul, aloug th Inner aid or which a yellow stain showed aa rar as th ecoud kuuckl. That'' b Mid, simply. , "H'ui." said th brother-in-law, -in hois In our shop won't allow ctgarett moiling either, but I didu't know thing had gone as far as this. Why don't you quit?" "I have. 1 quit last night on or in guys that said 'tilt called me back Just I got to the elevator and say. 'What makes you sin ke cigarettes? 'I Uou't' ays. "There' some things worse than ci garette amok In," be says. "'I quit lust night.' I told him. Then he grinned a little and said that I might not be such a llur a he thought fter all. but It was a fuel that Chicago men had quit hiring cigarette kid and that this wa doing more to stop th habit than all tho autlelgarelt leagues In th city. Then he say. 'You're sure you quit Inst night, are you? Well. ou come back again Id a week aud how me your uilt." "The staln ll wear off by that time, Jim. and I kinder thluk that feller'U give uie a Job," Chicago Ckrouki. PREACHES BY TII0NE. UP.TO.DATI DIVICI OP AN IN OIANA CLERGYMAN. OOVfRNMtNT TELEGRAPHY. It Orsat Hucvea In Great Hrltal bar lag th 1'aat Thirty Vaara. W. I. Uarwood deicrlb In th Cen tury th successful working of th Uov rnuiut telegraph to Ureal Britain, glue th British Government, In th ytsr WTO, atsumd control of all Inland telegrams, th buslues of that depart ment of th general postoffc ha grown to enormous proportions. Th object of assuming this control was twofold; first, to rvdur th exorbitant telegraph toll of prlvat compaules lolls so high as virtually to be prohibit v for many kinds of buslues; and, secondly, to safeguard th public against any return to former charge. It matter not what on may thluk as through a stormy night to a dlstaut to th desirability of th Introduction' ball aud ther listen to th rapture lu Hd-iidfa Communicants Mot !' (.rived of We llacoaraEIctrUlty Mai pa ' ta Paator to Ipraad the OoapaL Bclenc long ago discovered a proo ss by mean of which a man might If wllllug to pay for It-loung about In slippers aud smoking Jscket aud enjoy a blgh-clss couceit lie need nut ar ray himself In full veulug drv.s, go Mammoth Docks, The marine docks at I'ortsmouth. England, are the vastest lu the world, covering more than 3K) acre, aud em ploying some 10,xm men. Two of the largest docks are 000 feet long aud M fee! broad. All are what Is known as stone graving dock. Tbey are dug out of a sutttcleut depth, length aud width to enable vessels of a certain slxe to be admitted. They are con structed of granite and fitted with heavy gates; the vessel Is floated Into the dock and properly shored up on the keel blocks the gates are closed the water then pumped out. Such docks, say a correspondent of the I'rovl dence Journal, are all Mow tho level of the dockyard. The walls are built with statrs like the seats In an ampul theater, so that workmen may go up and down; and great cranes lifting for ty tons are until In handling material When a vessel Is completed, all that Is necessary to launch her I to open the gates, fill the dock, and she floats out without risk or trouble. Tho advan take of a number of dock at a sta tlon is the readiness with which a small vessel may be put Into a small dock and a large vessel Into a large one at once, this being done with so much economy of time and labor. He Would l'ay Him. The cultivation of his vote by tho watchful and flattering ward politician sometimes arouses In the breast of the poor dweller In the slums an exagger ated notion of bis political Importance. At a recent banquet of the Franklin Typographical Society of Boston, a prominent printer told a story which Illustrate this fact amusingly. Not long ago a man came to this gen tleman and asked for work for his boy, The applicant himself was out of work, and bis family were lu want "If you can give work to the b'y," said he, "we'll git enough out of It to nny the rlut, and we won't be turned out on the street anyhow." The printer promised to do what h could. "An If ye do," the father went on, his eye lighting up with a generous gleam, "we'll put ye In McKlnley's placer Lung Names for Automobile. "What Is the longest word In the Ian gunge V" Is an inquiry that frequently rim up In an editor's mall. If some other languages were In question, he would dread to see It; the auswer would take too much apace. Thus In Berlin one tlcrr Thlen, who tins long been prominent In local trans portation Interests, has recently estab llsbcd a motor cab service, The pleas Ing German name for his vehicles Is "autonioblletexameterdroschken." It Is said that, despite the preposter ous title, the new cabs are remarkably handsome and graceful. But If there Is anything In a nnmo, the motor car rlaires Introduced Into some parts of Belgium should Instnntly become sway backed and top-heavy. The Flemish word for automobllo Is "snclpaarde looszoonderspoorwegpetroolrljulg." gome Works Required. It Is well not to overstep the line be vond which the exercise of faith be conies something like negligence. "I tell you, brudders," exclaimed young colored pastor, who was preach Ing a sermon on faith, "we haven't half enoueh of ltl De Lord will watch over our uprlsln' on our downsettln' ef w only got faith like a grain o' musta'd seed! He ain't gwlne to let no hubm come to us," be went on, fervently, "ef we Jls' exe'clse faith!" "All de same, Bruddub Flint," spok up the white-haired old patriarch upon lowJ of such a system Into tb United States, tli fact Is patent that In Great Brit ain It has proved a signal success, Th twofold object wa long slue attained, and ther I Ho likelihood that the sys tem will lie overthrown. Th report of th Postofne Depart ment for 1HU0 gives th latest available figures. Till report ihowa that th spiring sounds; b could remain at bom aud ludulg lu a smoke begrimed pip the wbll hi soul was soothed by things said to be equal to taming th savage breast Th phonograph did It for him. Spiritual consolation, however, ha until th last Sunday or them all never been administered at short range. peopl so rar appreciate and utilise th. Tru. th telepbon may aud doubtloa system that they sent In 1X00, up to the dat of th closing of th report, In ordluary telegrams, which are eiclu Ivtof pre telegrams, cable mmaagra, Government, franked and reduced-rat dUpatche, over three million mewagc more than during WW, In th year before the (lomninent assump tion, seven uilWwrTnwMfP. wr wntr lo IHOO, nearly ninety million i if ages, In IH'O th a!HK"i charg ' telegram wa a JIUl while th charge rWtue'tsni to-day, lnclu-tv or sddr, la aboui fifteen cent. In m tht were un der three hundred etui oyes, while there are at preseut over thre thou sand lu the Ixtndon offloe alon. ln year, after allowing for a deficit of at least a million dollars lu th depart ment devoted to the dally newspapera, th system cleared aliov all cosi oi maintenance over on hundred and six ty II v thousand pounds; In round num bers, right buudred aud fifty thousand dollar. A FAMOUS RABBI Her. Ic M. Wiw. Who Died la Cin cinnati Hwently, Ilev. Isaac M. Wise, who died In Ctn Innstl recently, was the most famous lender of Judaism In this country. 11 was a man of great culture aud power of mind. He wa born lu Btelngruli. Anuria. Aorll 3. IS1U. aud III 1H43 o-raduated from the I'nlventlty of Vten ua. The same year be was appointed rnhhl lu Itandlta. Bohemia, lu which position he remained until 1SW, when he formed the purpose or casting ni lot with his people In this country. Soon .ft,.r hi arrival lu New York be was out In charge of tho Beth Kl rongwga tlon at Albany. In which position he remained with credit to hlmseir and profit to his people until 1RN1. Then h resigned and In 1833 located lu Clncln- BltV. ISAAC M. W1S. nntl. where he had since been a power among the Jews. Twenty years ago tho leading Jewlaii eougregatlon or New York City chose Iir. Wise as Its rabbi at a salary or 110.000 uer annunm for life. Jue thought of severing all of his deep aud beautiful relations with the life of Clu clnimtl was not agreeable to Dr. Wise, and he decided to remain there. This was easier, since ho hud long cherished the thought or rounding a theological seminary ror Jewish student la tbnt ilty. Ills hones were realized when In 183 the Hebrew Union College wa estab lished. He had been president or this Institution since Its rounding and bad seen It grow lo a college or recognised learning, with tho ablest Semitic facui ty In the country and equal to any Europe. The college has a library of more tlinn 15,000 volumes, many of them of rare value. Although more than 80 years old Dr. Wise bad until this IlluoHS retatned all or hla mental activity or youth. Ho filled the chair of systematic theology In the college, and rarely missed the dully session of the classes. He was editor or me Ameri can iHraellte, the most noted Jewish weekly In the country. This position he filled ror more than forty years, writing from six to seven columns of editorials each week. Ho was the au thor of quite a number of book. r&? 1JL1 XL" ' i 1 J ' mi-T 2- -?V-scr car j , raiAcmaa Twaot-oH A tbahsmittkb. ha been used many times to call a clergyman to a bed of slcknes or to sum sorrow lug family needing auatcn anc nut of tb flesh. But few, If any, minister have preached to their dock by siM-aklug through au electrical transmitter. This wa what wa done Dr. K. II. ylerlao Church, preached In til pulpit and a bed -ridden parishioner lUtene.l to the word or hope without attending upon the shrine. Francis Hoover, a member of lr. (.Wynne's church. Is a martyr to rheu matism, yet be desire with a mighty desire to attend the services or hi church. But being unable to do this from physical luflrmlly local sciential applied the phonograph theory to an ordinary telephone. The transmitter was fitted out with a specially delicate diaphragm, which when the reverend orator stood a few feet away sent to the llsleulug ears the full text of hi discourse. Thus wss one anxious, troubled, suffering soul made glad. Opena Vp a New Klrld. The successful experiment open up new field for practical theology. U!n.f th. prvl.trow.ll nj. Thhl , FORCED INTO ARMY. Ing to th point of view. But th be- ginning made for a 'sick man might well sxpsnd Into a system for th wll which would do away with tb scrub, blng or tb boy Sunday morning that they might b presentable In church. DUTY OF A MILITARY ATTACH!, latalilganc Ualnad by Method Net Opau and AbevaboarO. MEN OF EUROPE COMPELLED TO E SOLDIERS. ' Frecloae Tsar el Ooldta Yoathtpeot la Military tervtc by 111 plea Mae- Wbat Coaacrlptloa Mean to tb Hreadwleeer Abroad. In Germany, Franc. Russia, Au- Th chief and acknowledged prop of (rlB ,ud lU, eVery able bodied man Msg Thunder siid Lighting. Th resson why ths mechanism for ....li. i it,. ....I.... il. lva realism to a play are never seen by h. audience recen.ly In R Ik hart. lnd. Dr. I. because th Illusion would l com-,Owyue, of he Hr. I'resl. pletely destroyed If II operations wer exposed to view, explain Franklin Fries lu tb ladles' Home Jourusu The noise of the wslter fslllng down stairs with a tray or dishes, for In- mtice. Is simulated by dropping,, as often as necessary, a basket filled with bits or broken chins; aud a cyllmler ot Ilk, turned with a crank, drawing the cloth over wooden flanges gives a per fect rain and wind storm. A lightning secoiiipanlment I made by touching aii ordinary file to a bit or cartion-botu on live wtre-and tb thunder by roll In ten nln ball In a loug, narrow, wooden trough. The rumble or tu wheel or a carriage Is Imitated with a vehicle like a miniature freight car on wooden track, aud the striking of wood or metal ou hard or soft surfaces serves to convince an audience or the approach or departure or a horse. When there Is war a single shot or two is ununlly the real thing, but a rifle vol ley effect Is obtained by rapidly beat ing a dried calfskin with rattans, while heavy strokes on the bass drum will convey the llea of csnnonauing. u this mechanism were seen lu operation by an audience It would make the whole performance seem ridiculous. . No Wonder It Waa Htal. la a Metropolitan court a woman vii sueti ror me vaiue or a certain quantity of bread supplied to her or tier, a'ul reiTlved dally. lu defense, she stated that the amount ' charged was exorbitant, as, owing to being stale, she was entitled to a reduction In price. Aftt'i ctiiillli tlng evidence, presuming the case would lie decided against her, the defendant placed her hand under her heavy shawl, and producing a louf, lie Shouted "Meelng's believing, your honor. That's a iwlmen stale enough for a menagerie, and hard as a brick!" With a smile, the Judge tried to press hi thumb Into the sutwtautlal evidence before him, but being bullied ou all sides, he exclaimed i "My good woman, I quite feel for you as well as the loaf. Judgment for the defendant!" It trntiNplrcd afterwards that the de fendant hnd saved the loaf In questlor for nine mouths. aur (Eugllsh) "intelligence" are tne military attache to our various minis tries abroad, says Ms J. Arthur Griffith, lu th Coruhlll. Theoretically they hav uo mean of acquiring knowledge other than th oltlclal; practically tbey are, of course, a Mod by their power of observation, the trnlued profeasloual skill which ran not at a glance thing most worth knowing, such a th band ling of artillery, tb speed aud weight of a cavalry charge, th probabl valu of some new "order of attack." The attache, lo be really useful, must also be a persona grata to the rorelgo officer or the country In which lie I serving, aud be often learns much rrom the camaraderie or th cloth and th free discussion or measures a; - moth ods, All this work I open and above board. We may not Inquire too closely whether or not Intelligence Is gained by other means, but It Is pretty certain that ther are plenty or secret agent In every capital eager to sell It at a price, aud often very pertinacious In their offer of souis particularly val uable bit of new. Tb game I seldom worth tb caodl, and It la exceedingly dangerous. Not many year back an attach of th English embassy to a great power I aid to have narrowly escaped arrest through Intrigue with one of these un avawoable persons. Possibly th ror elgn government would not hav pro- reeded to extremities with on or tb corps diplomatique, but the pressure must hav been very severe, ror th story ran that th attach round a pass port waiting ror hlui at bis chancery, and wa hurried across the frontier in rather undignified baste. The rumor said that military attaches or other na tloiialltlea were Involved In the scrape, and also bad lo flee tho country. Mcannre or Kansss 7. p yrs. Doubting persons lu the Kust some time are Inclined to give little cre dence I o the statement that there Is an Intimate relation lu Kansas between wind and whiskers. Not that tho ex iNlenec or iM'iirds Is doubted, but that the tuvexes are supposed to Ixt tied up Into cyclones and let out only once In a while. But the report or the Btate Agricultural College of Kansas shows that In February 7,140 miles of wind whistled through the whlskera of the meu folk of Kanshs. This means an average hourly velocity of over nine miles. This la In the aggregate 131 miles above the average ror Februarys. Each day that mouth Kansas got 233 IHvoroe I Not Too Kay. "Every once In a while we hav pee red hemorrhages or righteous Indlgna tlon upon the subject or divorce. writes ICdward Buk or 'The Kase With Which We Marry" In the Ladles' Horn Journal. "W ay dlvorc must stop, or that there must lie uo divorce. But wouldn't It be a bit better ir w let this subject alone for a while and concerned ourselves somewhat with the evil which leads to divorce! The fact or the matter Is that (her I a notion, which Is altogether wrong, that dlvorc Is easy In this country, Divorce Is not eay, 1 am rar rrom ssylng that our divorce laws are what they should be. But It Is a senseless thing to make those laws more stringent while we at low our marriage laws to bo as loose as they are. Irt those who cannot see any farther than tho revision or LISTENING TO A 8KUM0N BY TELEPHONE. whom rested the uuraun or . looKing after the temporal affairs or the church, "we're goln' to keep dls yer meetln' house Insured agin fire an' llghtnin'l" No Foreman Printer in Htrlpas. The prisoner printers ou the Btar of nope, published In Blng Sing prison, objected so strongly to having a pris oner for foreman of the office that he has been removed and another man not a prisoner put In his place. A Glgantlo Sun Dial. The largest sun dial in the world is Ilnyou Horoo, a large promontory, ex tending 8,000 feet above the Aegean Sett. Aa the sun swings round the xlindow of this mountain It touches, ono by one, a circle of Islands, which act as hour marks, - .; The Hero of Mafeklng. Of tho hero of Mafcklng's school days Dr. Halg Brown, the former head master of Charterhouse, has boon tell ing a correspondent: "I notice tbnt the name is Invariably mispronounced," said the doctor. "The 'n' In Baden I generally given the Bound 'ah,' but It should liuve the usual sound of 'a' as In 'bathing towel,' which was his nickname among the boys at school. The boy was essentially the father ot the man; he was very active, lively, full of fun and amusement, and ex ceedingly popular with his schoolfcl- An extremely clever boy In ev ery sort of way, his accomplish ments were numerous. He was fond or ath letics of all kinds, and In all he under took showed faculty of resource, cou pled with a keen sense of humor." Col, Baden-Powell, two days before he left Kngland for Bouth Africa, paid a visit to Dr. Ilolg Brown, and characterise tlcally remarked: "I hope they will give me a warm corner." lie wa given bis wish. Self-reliance means learning- early that ir you are In trouble, no one Is go ing to get up in the night to help you out. Blessed la the man who lives for the purposo of maklug life less a burden t other. which but for the temptation to sloth which might le covered thereunder np peals to the sympathetic mind. Dr. Uwyune's experiment was uiudo sole ly to help a sick man who asked for his ministrations." Mr. Hoover wished to hear the sermon of his pastor, but time lucked to glv It a second deliv ery. Also the other members or the church were entitled to hear him dis course upou the gospel. Bo the device was arranged tbnt those who cared to attend church at the regular hour should bear, aud also tho sick inun need not be denied, 'lhe device could be exteuded to embrace others who were unuble to go forth to tho sacred edifice. Few minister lack thoso of their flocks upou whom tho hand of provi dence has not been heavily laid. Most of the men or the cloth find It to bo ono or their saddest yet sweetest dutle to minister out or tho pulpit to those who otherwise would lack the cousolntlons or religion, ir need be with tho per fected telephone such might lie nbou miles or wind, most or which cam rrom the north 8be-AJjW-olvan4M the rains with a fall or nearly threo In -be and her mean temperature wi s to do-groc.-New York Hun. '- "C , tjnprofliall. A It has been settled to the satisfaction or the agricultural experts of tho gov ernment that spider do not produce silk of commercial value. Large silk spinning spiders are fouud In the palm trees or Venezuela. Home or the spi ders produce white silk and others yel low silk, and tbla silk has been made Into handkerchief, but silk produced In this way cannot be made valuable commercially, because or the trouble some necessity or keeping the spiders separated to prevent their devouring each other. Their rood being Insects, this also Involves considerable difficulty lu supplying them. Attempts to util ize the silk or a Madagascar spider or the same species some years ago result ed In the discovery that the product was more expensive than ordinary silk The IVIver Jordan. The River Jordan Is a very small stream, a mere creek flowing through the sand. Its width Is about 100 feet, Its depth five to twelve feet. Thickets of reeds cluster upon Its steep banks, making access dlttlcult. Its swift cur rent and a foot of tough mud beneath Its cold waters make bathing li the sacred river a risky experiment rather than a pleasure. When a woman announces that she Is coming on a visit It Is necessary ror one member of the family to stay at the depot to meet all trains for at least three days. The little boy from a neighbor's with a tin bucket and a nickel, can get cream of a woman, but the woman's husband can't. - . - - word. It might be that doxeus couia thus bo spiritually refreshed even with nesii t weak to withstand the fatlguea or tbe short Journey church ward. It would' be comparatively easy to establish a erkult by means or which a doxnu homes, widely scattered on earth, might yet be drawn ulgh to the throne by means or a party Hue. Those, Indued, uunble to lift themselves from a bed of puln and suffering, could re ceive the message from the lips or their pastor without exertion on their own part Ono mncblno Troutlng tho pulpit might thus be tho menus or glvlug sat isfaction to many a man who was seek ing light, but lacked tho strength to go where It was to be bad. With tho phonograph no church building need be constructed and main tained. A home for tho pastor, with an organ In one room, the room big enough to contain the quartette, choir, minister and bis family, with phono graphic connections with all tho mem bers or the church wuicn migni ue as sesstd ou the new pew rent basis- would be enough. The members could listen to tho s'.ngng, hear the seiuion and mall their contributions. Thus the expenses would be limited to the minister's salary, the parish-house and such contributions as the members d lied to make to church organizations In general. While It is too early to prognosticate the manner of receiving church con solations of tho future, It might not be amiss to suggest that some such plan will be ultimately adopted. It could h done without any great loss of piety -Indeed, maybe, with an access, for the bow part of religion would disap pear when closed In behind the cur- present divorce laws ask tbeinajdvee this question: Is It fair to allow tool lull, Inexperienced girls to be led ito what they believe to be a fairy-palace, and then, when they find It to be a prison-yes and worse, a positive sub urb to the Infernal regions to refuse to let them out If they can get out! Is that merciful T Is that Just? Would wo not come closer to the common sense of this whole question If, before wo go any further In this campaign agalust divorce, we turn back and tighten the door which lend to It? Di vorce Is not so easy but that we can af ford to leave It precisely where It Is for the time being. It tsu t a particle easier than It should he, so long as we allow marriage to be aa loose at it Is." must expect to glv from tweuty on to twenty ulu years or his lif to soldier lug, bis service comment-lug st ages rsnglng rrom 17 years In Germany to 81 years In Frsuc aud Italy. At the beginning or each year lists are prepared throughout Germany or all youths who have reached th pre scrllted sge, and during spring the lie crultlng Commission makes a visiting tour or all the headquarters or the vari ous districts, where th youth ar mustered ror Inspection. All who ar physlcslly unfit ror ser vice ar finally rejected, aud tho who ar still physically unrip ror It ar put back for a year. Men who, though strong and healthy, full to reach th requlslt standard are passed Into tb Ersats reserve, together with those who are son or widows or tb support of their rauillles, and rrom those who ar passed as fit ror service the re quired number Is selected by bellot or the recruits certain privileged wen or birth and education sre only called up on to serve one year In the regular army on condition that they pass cer tain examinations and pay the cost or their equipment while th remainder are expected to serve three year In the rank, followed by four year in too reserve. The next flv years tbey spend In the first levy or the Landwebr, and they are then passed Into the second levy until they reach tb ag of 89. In Frsnc military service begins st 21 and lasts for twenty-five years, with slmllsr exemptions rrom service snd limitations to on year In the ranks to those sanctioned lu the German army The French conscript must spend bis first three yesrs or service In the reg ular srmy, followed by seven yesrs In the army reserve. He Is then psssed Into the territorial army for sis yesrs, snd the remslnlug nine years sre spent In the reserve of the territorial army, which Is called out only In case or sbso- lute necessity A msu's service in the rank msy be reduced to one or two yesrs sccordlng to the number be drsw In the bsllot Army reserve men bsve only eight weeks or drill, while the territorial srmy Is only rslled on ror a period or fourteen days. In Itussla the conscription takes place every year In the mouths or No vember sud December, when the re quired recruits sre selected by lot Clerymen or all churches are exempt rrom service, while Mohammedans aud the Inhabitants or certain districts In Asia can sulmtltute payment ror ser vice; snd some or the higher classes may reduce their term of service in the rauka under certain conditions. Service begins lu the twenty-first year and lasts ror twenty-four years, of which five years are spent lu the ranks and thirteen lu the reserve. On finishing service In the reserve the sol dler Is passed Into the mllltla, where be spends the remainder of bis period of service. In Italy a youth Is liable ror service when ho reaches bis nineteenth birth day, and Is only exempt when he reach es hi fortieth birthday. None but those physically unfit for service are abso lutely exempt, but sons or widows snd sole supporters or families are passed Into the mllltla without being called on to serve In the army ranks. Army recruits are divided Into two classes, of which the first division spend from three to four years In the ranka; the next five years are apent on furlough, succeeded by four years ser vice In the mobile mllltla and seven years In the territorial mllltla. Member or the second class or re cruits must spend twelve years In the army, more than hair or which Is usu ally spent on ruriougn, ami the re mainder or their service Is spent In one branch or other or the mllltla until the limit or age Is reached. In Austria the only exemption Is In ravor or the physically unfit, and even they are required to pay a sum, propor tioned to their means, Into the army pension f nud. Service begins at 19 and lasts ror twenty-three years, or which three are spent In the line and seven In the reserve. Cincinnati Enquirer. horse which he though t b wanted1. Be located tb owner and asked the price. One fifty." wa th reply. After look ing tb animal over closely and trying her speed h concluded It was a good trade, and without tuor ado wrote a check ror tb amount Th next day be found that the tnsr wis as blind as a bst, but this did not binder ber speed nor detract from her general appear anc. H dror tb animal for several weeks and succeeded In sttrsctlng tb admiration of another lover of horse flesh, who msd a proposal to pur chase. "Well," ssld tb Memphlsn, "1 gsv one fifty for ber, but 1 will let you bsve ber ror one sixty-five." Tb prospective owner looked th an imal over and concluded be had a bar bsln. H psld over tb money and look tb msre. When tb snlmal wss unhitched th first thing sli did. wss to run against a post and then, by way or emphasising tb ract that b was blind, fell over a barrel. Tbe next flay tb buyer came back to the Memphlan with blood In bis eye. "Colonel, you know that mare yon sold me," be began. "Well, sue s sione blind." , "I know It replied the colonel, wltn an easy air. "You didn't ssy anything to me snout It," ssld tbe purchaser, hi fac red dening with soger. "Well, 111 tell you," replied the colo nel. "That rellow who sold her to me didn't tell me about It, and 1 Just con cluded that be didu't want It known." Tbe new owner took bis medicine nd Is now on tbe lookout ror a friend on whom be can even tblngs.-Mempb! Hclraetsr. ' -yNScience Itow He Won the Hpura. Sir Dlghton Probyn Is well known as comptroller and treasurer to tho Prince or Wale. Sir Dlghton Is now In bla sixty-seventh year, but Is still erect aud soldierly lu bis bearing. He was a major general when he entered the prince's service In 1872,, and had put behind him a great deal of very excel lent military service. During the In dlan mutiny alone he was seven time mentioned In dispatches, and won the Victoria cross, besides being thanked by the governor general. It was at Agra that he won hi V. C. He was separated from his men and beset by six of tho enemy, three of whom be cut down with his own sword. Then he saw u prominent standard, and sal lied out single handed, slew the bearer, and brought back the flag under a per fect hall of grapesbot and bulets. PORTABLE FALSE WORKS. Handy Piece of Mechanlam that Kxpe ditea Building ot Bridges. The false work shown In the accom ponying cut was used lu tho erection of all the girder bridge between For est Hllla and Boston on tbe New iork, New Haven and Hartford Ballroad. It was moved to the different locntlous of tho bridges on the temporary regular gauged trucks, being pushed ahead by an engine. Wheu In place and strad dllng the abutments Its running wheels" were removed and put on uprights at PORTABt.l FALflE WORE. American-Mado Shoes the Buter. It Is the uniform testimony of Amer icans wiien tbey return from an ex tended visit abroad that they can get neater, better and tnoro durable shoes here than they can In England and Germany, and ror less money. The dexterity or the American operatives and the perfection or the American mnchlucry are combining to bring to this country the shoe manufacturing business or a large part or the world.- Burllngton Hawkeyo. Latest Invention.' Every one who has ever ottempted to mitten a baby whose thumb invaria bly goes "wlgglewnggle," will rejoice lo know that at last a woman has de signed a thumbless mitten, simply shaped to tho little hand as It lies fiat, with the thumb against the fore finger, Every man ought to lay down the rule that he won't dig up his wife's flower beds till she lets him wear his spring overcoat. New York PreBS. The best diamond are of tbe first water-but it's different with milk. right angles to the tracks on which traveled. Balls were laid parallel to the faces of tbe abutments on which the raise work traveled, to pick up gird ers from tbe cars aud then to place them In the required location. By means of the drum of Its englue over head and a fixed cable the entire frame moved Itself on the rails at right angles to the main line tracks. As the cut shows, the frame Is on stilts, thus providing for the raising of tbe girder by means of a tackle, to a height sufficient to clear the temporary trestle and loaded car, and placing this girder on the opposite side of the tres tle. These trestles were shifted along tbe bridge seat of the abutments to give place to the permanent bridge work. The girders were delivered on fiat cars and unloaded by this deck system of false work, which permitted the loaded cars to pass under. It took about twenty minutes to pick up a girder and place If The girders were solid anr averaged three feet In height and fifty feet In length. RULES FOR HORS3 TRADERS. Meinphla Man Who Could Give David Harum Point on the Bualness. David llarum was a good horse trad er, but a recent transaction In horse flesh which was made by a well-known Memphlan shows that there "are oth ers wbo know how to get the long end of a horse trade. Several weeks ago this Memphis nan saw a One buggy Spectroscopic and other observations show tbe fixed stars to be self-luminous bodies suns to tbe other systems of planets. An analyst or their light Indi cates tbe presence or tbe same chemical elements that exist In our own sun and earth, together with others unknown In our solar system. Where Ice cannot be procured, water may be cooled by wrapping tbe pltcber containing It In a towel or loose texture which has been previously Impregnated with ammonium nitrate (and dried) and moistening this with water. The same towel may be used repeatedly, after be-, log dried each time. Tbe new rrom Lick Observatory that; the North star, 255,000,000 of mile away from us, has been found to be not one star, but three swinging around In great orbit like tbe moon, earth and sun is another remarkable result of tbe application or photo-spectroscopy to tbe telescopic study or the heavens. An American electric manufactur ing company has been awarded tbe en tire contract for the equipment of nu merous electrical plants which will be Installed along tbe line of the Eastern Chinese railroad. It will consist large ly or temporary lighting plants. It Is thought that ultimately $200,000 will be Involved In tbe contract Tbe first century began with the first day or tho year one and ended wUhjthe. last day of the year one hundred. It could not end with the last day of the year ninety-nine, for one hundred not lnety-nine years make a century. Tb nineteenth century, therefore, etlsat midnight on Dec. 31, 1000, and the twentieth century then begins. At a recent meeting of tbe Zoological Society In London a photograph was exhibited, showing a pair of remark ably urge tusks which bad belonged to an African elephant Measured along tbe outer curve, each tusk was ten reet and rour Inches long, but they differed a little In weight one weighing 225 and the other 233 pounds, or a total of 400 pounds, wich the elephant bad carried about without the least Inconvenience. One of the most Important American exhibitions at tbe Paris exposition will be a model, some twenty reet long, of the Chicago drainage cannl. In con nection with this will be shown models or all the great variety or excavating and conveying machinery which was used In this Important engineering work. The models will be shown In operation, and It Is believed that It will be one or the most Interesting of the engineerings exhibitions at the exposi tion. Considerable Importance ts attached to tbe distance-measuring field-glass Invented by Mr. Zeiss, or Jena. It Is simply an extension or the natural pow er or tbe eyes to estimate the distance of near-by objects. This power de pends upon the fact that the space be tween the eyes serves like a base-line In surveying, the line of sight con verging upou a selected object from the ends of the base. In the telemetet the effective distance between the eye ts Increased by means of prisms, and double images of the objects looked at are formed. The distance between tbe Images varies with the remoteness ot the objects, and a scale shows what the real distance Is. Up to about two miles tbe results are said to bo fairly ac curate. ... UesJukovsohUohlna. ' The State Besjukovschtschlna, In Itussla, Is probably the only place In the world that Is run entirely by worn- , en. This state Is made up of seven vil lages, each presided over by a Mayor ess, the whole under the superintend ence of a lady named Easchka, who aots as President There are women magistrates, women preachers, women policemen In fact, every capacity In the state Is filled by women. The roads are made by women, and women sell milk and deliver letters. If you want to bring au action against your neigh bor In this state you go to a woman lawyer; and If there Is anything In your house to be stolen, then a bur glar of the weaker sex steals , It No place of any Importance is filled by a man. . Lengthened Days. To-day tbe average man lives almost ten years longer than his grandfather lived. Indisputably, therefore, the year 1900 finds conditions more conducive to longevity than existed a century, ago. This Is true beyond a question for the masses, who feel Immediately the effects of plenty, hunger and cold the great physical dispensers of life aud death, .- Two Familiar in a Stranger. Trof. John Snelllng Popklu was pro fessor of Greek at Harvard some years ago and he was not without a nick name, which he accepted as a matter of course from the students, but hear ing It on one occasion from a man ot dapper, Jaunty, unacademlc aspect, Prof. Popkln exclaimed: "What right has that chap to call me 'Old Pop Y He Isn't a student of Harvard college." The lucky man In every communlt changes every six months, ... ,