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LeTear of Hard Work-Rigid Dls
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jortion-A Number la Branded on
Hi! Clothes-The Dally Routine.
Capt. Oberlln II. Carter, the United
Lte3 army officer recently convicted
k Immense frauds In connection with
the Improvement of Savannah harbor,
Georgia, a work of which he had
Lrge as the Government engineer,
ks sentenced to the Fort Leaven
worth (Kansas) penitentiary for five
Lrs' Imprisonment at hard labor,
L-ivatlon of his rank In the army,
Id dismissal, and $5,000 fine.
Jibe contrast between Carter's life
tor tbe next five years and his life for
(he preceding ones could not be more
dissimilar. Carter's rooms were al
ways models of luxury. No society
rirl, nurtured In the lap of wealth, ever
xcelled this luxury-loving officer in
the costly, artistic elegance of boudoir
tott
and bedroom. Priceless tapestries, rare
old furniture, toilet trappings in solid
I gold and silver, fine linens, dainty per
I fumes all these and a thousand other
elegancies are as much a part of Ober
illn M. Carter's life as the air he
beathes.
At t.e Fort Leavenworth peniten
tiary he must manage to survive for
five long years without his wine sup
pers, his rapid friends, and his per
fumed baths. Five changes of toilet a
day are not recognized as essential at
the Fort Leavenworth prison. One suit
is quite sufficient, according to the
prison code a stout suit of coarse gray,
with a big straw hat in summer and a
small blue denim cap in winter.
The man who has played the high
roller for years, who has been courted
by pleasure-loving' fashionables, ad
mired by women, and envied by men,
will for the next five years be kept
under lock and key as a mere thing,
duly ticketed and numbered. His num
ber will be marked In glaring red, sten-
CAHTBR IN CONVICT GARB.
tiled on his prison garments In four
Places-right across the broad of his
"ack, over the right thigh, and on the
f of each leg. A more degrading
tung this branding of the criminal
mre prominently than the government
""lie Is marked could not be devised.
rt Leavenworth is not a place
here the tastes nf ni-Iannrtin nro fnn-
tllted. Dlselnllno nf tho linndfiirt.
shotgun variety Is promptly applied as
'he occasion demands. The prison is
collection of old buildings, entered
UrOUCh ft Rnllvnnrf rfnor;lIU1 nlrrl.t and
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"ay by heavily armed men. Inside the
"yport a gloomy archway leads un
"er the offices of Hia wntvlnn iind his
"ubordlnates, the printing shop, and
Photograph gallery, to the prison bulld
ngs where tha nnnta
Ied. ami bathed.
A' Fort Len
Just what the term implies. Car-
l""t With hflTIla nnnoA1 -v IfiKn n
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wan uncorking champagne bottles and
growing away money, will find the
conditions far from enjoyable. He will
P In a regulation prison cell behind
steel-barred door, watched by a guard
brined with a shotgun. It Is needless
8ay that the rare carpets and prlce
rJ. u which have heretofore
"ntrlbuted to t.ls comfort will not
"Kure In his Fort Leavenworth cell.
outi i 1 of fnre ,9 I01 an nPPetlzIng
'ook fcr Carter, for' this luxurious
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has been quite good enough for the en
enrean captain. Think what Ave yea's I
nLn f f?venrth prison fare will '
mean to him-an eternity of gastro
nomic misery. gasuo-
The work which falls to the share off
nlTn lmw arrivals 13 wu the pick'
ZV ta-nar drill in the quarries two)
miles from the prison. Tim :
use n the construction of the new peal-,
tentlary. Carter comes In for this back-,
breaking, hand-blistering experience'
I-ort Leavenworth prison has a set of
very severe rules, all rigidly enforced
Should Cartcr grow disobedient his
prison allowance of tobacco will be,
shut off, he will be denled the prtv,j
lege of writing or receiving letters, his
diet may be restricted to bread and
water, and In the event of persistent
misconduct he would be handcuffed
day and night to the bars of his cell.
They stand no nonsense at Fort Leav
enworth. Still they work no cruelties
and the prisoner who behaves well,
takes his medicine, as it were, unflinch
ingly, Is treated as well as he could
rightly expect. lie can write to his
friends and receive their letters; he
may subscribe for any reputable news-
paper or magazine, and may have
books from the prison library.
Every Saturday afternoon Carter
will be compelled not only to give him
self a cold-water bath with common
brown soap accompaniment, but he
will be forced to wash and scrub his
cell, depressing work for the man who
for years has been living In perfumed
baths, and relying upon the services of
a skilled valet for the simplest tasks
of the toilet.
Attends the Quaker Weddinsr.
A recent Chicago visitor to the Easl
writes thus descriptively of a Quaker
nuptial ceremony he had the privilege
of attending:
"At a Quaker wedding last week,
where there were no display, decora
tions, maids or groomsmen, the all
seemed charged with joy. After a si
lence of several minutes the guests
arose and the bridegroom taking the
hand of the bride said: 'In the divine
presence and before this assembly I
take Tatlence B to be my wife,
promising to be to her a faithful and
affectionate husband until death shall
separate us.' The bride responded: 'I
take thee, John J , to be my hus
band, promising to be a faithful and
affectionate wife until death shall sep
arate us.' A prayer was made, the
bridegroom kissed the bride and after
congratulations had been said all re
paired to the dining-room, where the
breakfast was spread. The table was
set with the family silver and china,
which had come from England with
the great-grandfather of the bride, and
there was a single rose at each corner.
After the breakfast the entire party ac
companied the happy pair across the
meadow to their new home and were
shown the gifts of loving friends. One
of the guests was heard to say as she
started homeward: 'What Is the use
of all the fuss and worry attendant
upon a moderately elaborate wedding,
when one can have such a sweet time
as that was without them?' "
Water Ch-ap In Glasgow.
In Glasgow a 15 householder obtains
for 71d per annum a continuous, never
falling, unrestricted stream of the
purest water In the world, delivered
right Into his kitchen, washhouse and
bathroom. It Is calculated that 380
gallons of pure water are delivered to
the citizens of Glasgow for every pen
ny paid. And it is water of such pecu
liar softness that the householders of
Glasgow can pay their water rate out
of what they save on soap.
A Dlappearinjr River.
One of the strangest streams In the
world Is In East Africa. It flows In the
direction of the sea, but never reaches
It Just north of the equator, and when
only a few miles from the Indian
Ocean, It flows Into a desert, when It
suddenly and completely disappears.
' Sensible Legislation.
Western Australia has an act In force
prohibiting the landing of any one who
cannot write out a given passage In
English.
When you think a man Is talking
nonsense, possibly he Is talking sense,
and you ore unable to comprehend him.
HISTORIC OLD BARN.
Sere Quantrlll Got HI, Death Wonnd
In t-klrmlah with Home Gnard.
Here is a picture of the barn where
Quantrii; received his death wound. It
is situated on the farm of Mr. W. T..
Heady, about a mile west of Wakefield
Station. In Spencer County, Kentucky,
and Is an old-fashioned building, com
mon in Kentucky in ante-bellum days.
The Interior contains but one apart-
WHEHB QT7ANTRILL WAS KILLED.
ment, ordinarily known as "the cutting
room," from the fact that all the feed
for the stock was Chopped and pre
pared there. The room is about 00
feet square, with loft above it. The
barn was, in the palmy days, surround
ed on all sides by sheds 1G feet io
width. These sheds, at this time most
ly fallen away, were used for various
purposes. Quantrlll and his men were
occupying this barn when Terrlll'a
band of home guards surprised and at
tacked them. In the sharp skirmish
which followed Quantrlll received a
wound in the lungs, which prostrated
him.
WHITE A BRAVE OFFICER.
Commander at Lady smith Has a Most
Brilliant Military Kecord.
General Sir George Stewart White
is a holder of the Victoria cross, a
grand commander of the Indian em
pire, a grand commander of the Bath
and a grand commander of the Star of
India. He has been quartermaster
general to the British army since 1S98.
His career from the time when he en
tered the army until he started for
South Africa had been a most distin
guished' one.
An Irishman by birth, having been
born in the County Art rim in 1833,
White was educated at the Royal
Military Academy at Sandhurst and
GENERAL SIR QKOIIGE 8. WIIITL.
entered the army as a subaltern in
1853. He saw active service almost at
once. He served during the Indian
mutiny with his regiment, the Royal
Iuuiskilllng fusileers. obtaining a
medal and clasp for gallantry. Appoint
ed a captain In 1803 and a major ten
years later, he went through the Af
ghan war with the Gordon hlghland
ers and was present at the battle of
Charasia, the occupation of Kabul, the
expedition to Maidan, the capture of
Takti Shah and on the march from Ka
bul to Candahar.
Afterward Sir George was appointed
military secretary to the viceroy of In
dia, and in 1881 became lieutenant col
onel of the famous Gordon Highland
ers. Four years Inter be was colonel
of that regiment. He was sent with
the regiment to Egypt, where he and
his men distinguished themselves, and
In the Burmese war of 1885 he com
manded a brigade. For his services In
that campaign he was promoted to be a
major general and received, the spe
cial thanks of the government of India.
Afterward he conducted the successful
expedition. Into Seiiob and from 1893
until last year was commander In chief
of the British forces in India.
A Queer Thin.
Yon have probably noticed, If you are
a man, that when your tie gets loose
It Invariably slips round to the left.
This Is because you use your right side
during a day about five times as much
us your left. This movement rebuts
on your shirt-collar, causing It and
your tie to move in the opposite (direc
tion. The muscles on an average man'B
right Bide have more than double
strength of those on his left side; In
fact, so great Is the disproportion In
development, that by the time a man
or woman reaches 40 the right side Is,
even to the eye, more fully developed
than the left, and in many cases this
disproportionate growth is highly In
jurious to health, as it is liable to force
the Interior organs out of place.
Marvelona Luck.
Sir Robert Rawllnson, K. C. B., Is the
only man who was ever knocked out
of the saddle by a cannon ball without
being killed. N
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The atmospheric ocean surrounding
the earth is frequently disturbed by gi
gantic waves, which are invisible ex
cept when they carry parts of the air
charged with moisture up into a colder
atmospheric stratum, where sudden
condensation occurs. In this manner
long, parallel lines of clouds sometimes
make their appearance at a great
height, marking the crests of a ripple
of air waves, running miles above our
heads.
The superior flavor of Smyrna figs is
ascribed o certain Asiatic Insects,
which produce a more perfect fertiliza
tion of the flavors of the flg trees in
Asia Minor than is commonly effected
in other countries. The flavor appears
to depend upon the number of ripened
seeds In the fruit. During the past year
the Department of Agriculture has im
ported some of those Insects from Asia
Into California, and it is hoped that
they will multiply there and Improve
the flavor of American figs.
LiTi'd n'r t so cold thnt mercury im
mersed in It turns solid and can be em
ployed to hammer a nail. Yet, when a
glass tube containing liquid hydrogen is
immersed in liquid air, the hydrogen
gently boils, and gradually turns into
vapor, like water simmering over a
slow fire. The temperature of liquid
air is 312 degrees Fahrenheit below
zero; but that Is "hot" compared with
the temperature of liquid hydrogen,
which is about 420 degrees below zero.
Prof. Dewar finds it Impossible to pre
vent an open vessel containing liquid
hydrogen from having a whitish de
posit of solid air at the bottom, because
the moment the air comes In contact
with the liquefied hydrogen it Is frozen
hard and sinks through the hydrogen.
Geologists believe that the teritory
now known as Wyoming once had nu
merous fresh water lakes and a climate
approaching the semi-tropical. The an
imals whose bones are now coming to
light Inhabited these lakes and the ad
Joining swamps in myriads. They sank
Into the mud In dying and their bones
were covered with other deposits and
became petrified. The large beds are
ONE OF THE ENGLISH MINING
found at points suposad to have been
' the mouths of great rivers, the animals
I after death having floated down these
rivers to places where they were depos-
Ited In these estuaries, thus accounting
( for the vast deposits In certain places.
fVVlthln the next three years these cem
! jeterles will yield their dead, and the
I Jnuseums of our colleges will be filled
I wlth fossil bones prepared for restora
tion in tne skeleton structure.. '
One hundred and sixty-four years ago
French astronomers went to Peru to
(measure "an arc of meridian." The
purpose of such arcs, which have been
measured on various parts of the globe,
Is to furnish data for calculating the
size and shape of the earth. The arc
In Peru was about 220 miles In length,
and with the exception of a short arc In
South Africa, It Is the only one ever
measured In the southern hemisphere.
This year a commission, headed by
army officers, has been sent from
France to remeasure the old arc In
Peru. The remeasnrement Is regarded
as of great scientific Importance on ac
count of the advances that have been
made since the first measure was taken.
THE KIMBERLEY MINES.
Something of Their Character and the
Men ICmployed in Them.
In 18G7 a Kaffir boy playing with a
pebble attracted tbe attention of a pros
pector, who discovered that the pebble
was a diamond. That was the begin
ning of the Kimberley mines In South
Africa. Between 1807 and 18U0 the
value of the diamonds taken out was
$455,000,000. There were originally
four famous mines-the Bultfontein,
Du Toifs Pan, De Beers and Klmber
ley. In the natural order of events a
trust had to follow and so all were
merged Into the Kimberley, the richest
and largest. The trust occupies 200,000
acres of land, employs 13,000 natives
and 23,000 whites, consumes each
month in the "compounds" 23,000
pounds of mutton and 200,000 pounds
of beef, turns out 220,000 carats of dia
monds a month, uses 0,000 tons of coal
a day, has 2,000 horses and mules, 12
stallions of the best breed and 200 brood
mares.
The "compounds" are reminders of the
convict camps of the South. They are
three iu number, and each is a pen of
Iron and wire, surrounded by barbed
wire fences ten feet high to prevent es
cape. In the corrugated iron houses,
which form three sides of a square, and
whose doors open only toward the cen
ter of the square, 3,500 natives live dur
ing the time of their contract, lasting
six months. Each room holds twenty
people, who sleep on bunks. They are
Malays, Hottentots, Kaffirs, Flugoes
and Bechuanas. Some are clothed and
some are not. Some have their teeth
filed to resemble a saw. Others have
their heads shaved, leaving a fringe at
the back. Some are tattooed and near
ly all have holes in their ears to hold
anything that comes to hand. Spoons,
straws, feathers, stumps of cigars and
cigarettes are carried in this manner.
Within each compound Is a "commis
sary," where supplies are sold. . Ex
tending over the whole inclosure, which
covers several acres, is a wire netting
to prevent the throwing over of dia
monds Inclosed In tin cans, etc. This
was done once. The natives look like
crows In a cage. They are not allowed
to leave the compounds during the time
of their contract. The mine shaft is
reached by means of an underground
pasage, and each man is searched after
the day's work. No liquor is furnished.
The pay is from 24 to 70 cents a day.
These prisoners are kept in a detention
room one week before their contract
expires, where they wear gloves made
of two discs of leather chained to their
wrists. Their clothes are taken from
them and examined, and at the end of a
week they are turned loose, without
the possibility of carrying away a dia
mond. The Kimberley mine Is the crater of
an extinct volcano. The mouth of the
PROPERTIES IN TRANSVAAL.
crater Is 312 feet below tbe surface of
the prairie, and the shaft Is 300 feet be
low that, making a total depth of G12
feet Blue rock Is raised to the surface
by powerful machinery, where it la
spread out In a field of about 200 acres
and left to the mercy of the sun, rains
and winds for a year, when It decom
poses and falls apart. It Is then brushed
and washed twice or three times, and
finally passed over shaking tables cov
ered with a kind of grease which re
tains the diamonds while the refuse
passes off. The germs are then washed
In acid and taken to the valuator. Out
of 3,000,000 tons of blue rock about
1,500 pounds of diamonds are obtained.
A syndicate of diamond buyers takes
the product of the mines.
How to Abbreviate lOOO.
The Judicial department of the Ger
man empire has recently been called
upon to pass on the proper abbrevia
tion for 1900. The common abbrevia
tion for 1899 Is, of course, '90, but the
German Judges have decided that '00
would not do at all for the last year
of the present century. Accordingly the
year will have to be written out In,
full on all German documents.
When a woman says her husband Is
overworked, It Is a sign she loves him;
also, that he Is not overworked. No
body worries about the men who are
really overworked.
It's a man's wenkness that finally
overpowers his strength. -