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. '-
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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, ... ,