STORKS OF
yYheir Ioterestiog Ways,
i Maimed
"When I went to the East in 1838.
Commodore Porter wai our minister
resident at the sublime porte. He
was residing: at the time of my visit
at San Stefano. about 10 mile, west
of Constantlnoble, right on the shore
of the beautiful sea of Marmora. It
was a charming: place for a war-worn
veteran to enjoy the quiet evening: of
uf- in all that region north of the
sea of Marmora, extending: beyond the
Balkan mountains to the Danube, the
stork is a favorite bird. Along: the
north of Marmora, where there are
very few tall trees, the stork builds
Its nest on the tops of chimneys, which
in the East are always covered, the
smoke Issuing from aioe window, or
openings. The nests are very rude in
appearance, about as large as a two
bushel basket. Sticks as large as
your finger are skillfully woven Into
them. They are made soft and nice
with moss and cotton and wool, or
whatever the skillful ; bird thinks will
make her ipaxlor comfortable. The
stork has two long legs, but for some
reason or other generally stands upon
one, the other drawn up among his
r feathers. I think I have seeri as many
' - as $0 in a row cr a river bank, each
one" standing orr one leg. When thus
standing In repose it is about three
feet high, the chief part of the height
being leg and neck. It stalks oyer the
field with an awkward gait, its neck
alert, and its lightning stroke finishes
the race of any snake, lizard, toad,
bug, or any other ."vermin" on . the
ground, from kitchen refuge It se
lects what sut. Its taste, and is bold
in claiming It, It has no voice. The
strange clatter of Its broad, flat bill is
indescribable. It seems to play rough
tunes to its mate.
Commodore Porter had a stork's nest
on the chimney of his kitchen, a build
ing separate from the house and con
nected by a covered way. The chim
ney waa tall, round like a column, and
very picturesquely covered by this
rough nest. The commodore took
great delight In watching the - social
life of his storks, especially when they
came to teach? -the youngsters to fly.
The youngj awkward, long-legged
thing would stand on the rim of the
nest and flap its wings, but fear to
lauiK.-b away, while the old stork
could career around and clat'.er their
bills reprovingly and coaxingly but
vainly. At length, patience exhaust
ed, an old stork would give him a sud
den push and topple him off. lie
- would then use his wings to purpose
and the parent birds would be filled
with pride and exultation, , If the un
tried wings showed signs of failure In
returning to the jj nest one of the par
ent birds would f come beneath him
and lift him. with powerful wing to a
height that would make his return
sure and easy.
Unhappily, one of the commodore's
. dogs, who knew better seized one of
the storks by the wing, and injured
it jo that It-dragged, and. of course,
the bird could not fly. The commo
dore, finding that the wing was only
lacerated, but not broken, bound it up
in place, put thej stork in a large cage
In the night and had it out to feed
in the day time. ; Its companions
stayed by it in anxious sympathy all
the day, and only when It was housed
would they return to their nest. It
seemed so much Eke human sympathy
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t.
The ordinary tiieth nl of reckoning J
iim in .Manuiiiuicuun ruuiurr.-s is
from sunset to sunset Twelve o'clock
is at suns:, and this is the beginning
of the day. Two periods f twelve
hours then ias till Ihe not sinset,
whereupon everyb.'Kly sets his watch,
if he has cne, backward or forward
: according to the seeson. Of cours
accurate time is Impossible under
such a eystem. The railroads and tel
egraphs in Syria, for example, keep,
anything but exact time, though It
might be pn-curvd from the observa
tory at Beyreuth. which Issues Its
mean time. In Teheran, Persia, a
midday gun Is fired by the tline shown
on a dial, and this In spite of the fact
that the correct local time might be
hu tffUeranh office, which
U regulated daily ty a tlme signal j
from Greenwich, end if tne tune nun-
dard for all the telegraphic bwsl
ness. . Eut tire merchants and the
str-vt car company keep gun time, and j
the nllrcd trains do; not seem to re- r
quire a time tabl- at all, as they sol-
dem start until full or required to j
start by a government order. ,
There are out of the way parts of
the world' that keep very good tlm.
becuue their decks lire regulated by j
telegraph from Greenwich and then j
thj Greenwich mean "time is reduced
to local time, according to the long!-$
n.ni.i Hin-wmuM' Thus at txatfts ,
and the gold' coast. West Africa. ho
local time is checked daily by telV
ted to all telegraph oces in the eol-C
onie. Thi time at Accra is enly .
forty-six second -slower-than that at;
crr-arn Ttnm ilrff-r.WICn anil liun.il"-,
Greenwich, and Is the time used
throughout the Gold coast. ;
Almost any sort of trfme Is kept in
China. As a. rule, the Chines ue an t
apparent sun time, obtained from sun
dials. The foreigner at the rts on
the toast use an approximate locl
time, calculated from -the Shanghai
"time,- supplied by the ilsiHh: corn-.f
panics In the great city of Ti- (
Tsin, with a million In habitants; th i
time is determined by the municipal
chronometer, which Is the tftwn hall J
clock. It is supposed to be regulated
every Saturday, when tho community t
may set their watches, but it has been (
known to U in error at least three
'minutes. 1 ,' . j
"Last December was the time wnen
all the towns in Colombia were ex-
RECKONING
THE ORIENT,
and Their Care for a
Cororadc.
that Commodore Porter resolved that
If good feeding would save the wound
ed bird, he should be ready - for the
. flight southward when all the storks
would leave. The stork at length be-
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rise even six or eight feet, and noth
ing wonld tempt it to regain Its nest,
lit had lost courage and confidence, and
was satisfied with Its condition, and
; had evidently formed an attachment
j to the commodore.
I .But now the (case assumed another
aspect. A clattering and knocking and
' scraping was -- heard high up In the
heavens, and behold, thousands of
j storks were careering about, calling
jout all the storks from, river brook
land seashore, from tree-top and ctatm
I ney-top, to prepare for the southward
flight. A large body swept down low
: over San Stefano and a deputation of
four alighted to examine the disabled
i companion. After a time they rose
into high air, made their report and
tall the storks went home. Their re
I appearance for their final flight was
expected In about thee or four days,
wnen tney woumi gamer in ruu force,
and following one solitary leader, they
would take a lofty flight for tropic
fleldS. i;
Day after day, for two whole weeks,
the commodore watted for them, when,
at length, they . came In gathering
flocks, as far as the eye could reach,
probably from all Roumelia, Macedo
nia and it may be from the banks of
the Danube,
A large flock hovered low over the
wounded mate, with a tremendous
clattering of their big red bills. A
few alighted, and, after due examina
tion and consultation, all departed but
two stalwart fellows, who were com
missioned to remai n and share the
fate of the wonnded. They were the
"Christian commission" of the storks.
Then one stork led off In a lofty,
steady flight, wHh outstretched neck,
toward the south; two others followed,
and three, and fco on, until the base of
the triangle thus, formed was some
hundreds of feet. Then flock after
fleck fell in and the long column at
length disappeared.
Commodore Porter resolved to give
the three storks the best possible win
ter quarters. jit was not their pur
pose at all to Stay. It was already
very late for their migration. When
the wounded was again able to mount
to his native home, the chimney-top.
It was evident that hi two attendants
were preparing j for flight.
A great clatter of bills called out th
commodore, and the news ran through
the village that the birds were going
to take leave. Everyone turned out to
view the start, j Never were storks be
fore thus honored. They put oft in a
direct line, the wounded one second.
Me could: not quite maintain the level
of their flight. He would certainly
fall into the sea of Marmora. The
commodore followed ' them with his
glass, and saw the rear guard at length
come underneath the poor fellow, take
him on his back and bear him high.
Into the air for another flight. So
they disappeared.
"They wtll have about fifty miles to
fly on that lln before they can find
rest and fodderj" said the commodore,
"but those gallant fellows will do It.
, They will do It or all perish together."
Presbyterian Banner.
i
pec ted, thereafter, to use the time of
Bogota, the capital. With this re
sponsibility upon them, it is hoped
thu the pub.lo decks of that city
will Improve In their timekeeping, for
visiters at Bogota say it is nothing
unti&ual for the public clocks to disa
gree by fully a quarter of an hcur.
In India the standard time for the
whole of th perinsula is the nean
tim? of tha Madras Observatory, and
this time 4s based on through lins of
railroad, and in recording the time of
sending telegrams to foreign countries
Local time is however, used in most
tlm-s ftnd villages, and it is an
nounced by cLcks striking, gongs,
b4 ar.d guns, the signals being given
from churches, treasury buildings,
forts and telegraph orBe. The l-cal
clocks are set daily by tho time tele
graphed from Madras, and each tele
graph ofice has a cK-sely printed ta
ble. Oiling about fifty pages, givlag
the difference bet we-en Madras and lo
cal time for all the government tM
rtrraph oiflces in India.
Not a . few countries constantly u.e
two standards of time. This is not
troublesome at all when we consider
that, before the adoption of the hour
zones, the railrr.ads across our own
continent employed about seventy
standards of time in making their
time tables. i Railroads and tele
graphs throughout Spain use Madrid
tune, but for all other purpuses the lo
cal time is determined by the merid
ian e f each locality. Throughout Rus
sia St. Petersburg time As used for tel
cgrophlc purpuras, and each plsce has
its kal time besides. In Portugal
the country towns keep their local
lime very roughly, but Lisbon and the
raihoud and telegraph (Service havs
the tiT e of the Tapada Royal Observ-
. Th. ! fonsiderable confu-
uioi y - v
slon In the Xetherlands, and If ones
watch' dees net agree with ths town
t , h travels throush the land
it doesn't follow that he h-is a poor
timekcir. In ihe railroad Mations
telegrcph and post cfBt, the exact
time of the Grvcnwlch ebservatory
will be fcund. In many twni Am
.terdam time is In use, and it is about
twenty minutes faster than reliable
clocks in many iolhir towns that use
Greenwich time, ar.d still other towns
us their own fcwal time, so ,it the
NetheiUnds do not lack for a vartity
of time standards - 1
Every place ir. Newfoundland us-a
St. Johns time for all Ppo-. -r
cepUn Heart'. Content. watf"
special prtvlksrea a. a cable sUtlon.
For local purpose, thl. littte town
ploys local if me. Every day It re
ceive, a signai from r"lZi
Greenwich time, and as the differeace
iu time, between the two points U
three hours, ihlrty-three minute, and
thirty-three secends. it is only neces
sary to keep the local clock, that
much slow on Greenwich time to
have he exact local Ume " Hot in the
cable, office all foreign basinets Is
transmitted with Greenwich time.
In Great Britain Greenwich , mean
time is the standard, and i. used for
all purpose. nearly everywhere.
Arocng the few erct-i-tien. is the city
of Canterbury, which ue. ' a time
about four minute, fast cn Greenwich,
and clocks at the few railr;a4 sta
tions ara kept one cr two minute, f ist.
Ireland uses the lim of Dublin., anl
so all tb-i clocks in the island are
twenty-five minutes and twenty-twa
seconds slow en 3re-eiiv.ic-h time.
The cffiaV time throughout Argen
tina, is that of the city of Cordova,
which is telegraphed every day to con
trol the tlmepifces In the various dt
, It is nsd everywhere in the rail
road and telegraph offices, but many
citixoHS in the provinces prefer to use
local time of doubtful accuracy Thr
people of the Hawaiian Islands try to
keep their timepiece, ten hours anl
thirty minutes slower than thrse of
Greenwich, and call this standard
time. At Pelize, BriUnh Honduras,
the dock over the courthouss, which
furn'shes tha time for the town. Is us
ually regulated by the time kept by
the shlis in ihe harbor.
We have plenty of time variety in
our ow n coun try. Fcr exanrple, any
town that Jkapi-ens to be on the divid
ing line between two cf the hour time
zen- will have Its own time, and, in
addition, at the railroad station there
wll be two tirrva. differing by an hour
one for the west and the other for the
east-bound trains.
DON'T STRiVE FOR SLEEP.
Let any reader, when next they pas.
a sleepless night notice carefully what
happens. It will probably be some
h an follows: SuDDose. for In
stance, that they are in the habit of
being called at 7:w; tney wu unxi
the clock strike 4. 5, and 7, and then,
when the knock at the door comes,
they will drop asleep Immediately af
terwards, and in either case possibly
they will, to their intense disgust,
oversleep themselves. What is the
explanation of this? Simply that by
far the commonest cause of prolonged
sleeplessness Is the worrying about it,
the anxious effort to obtain sleep.
And so they He awake hour after hour
wearily striving for it, "until at last,
when 7 strikes, the effort is given up
as useless; at once the strain being
taken off, the worn-out brain takes
its rest the tleep which hs been so
longed for cpme. at last. A grfcat
physician has truly saldr "The body
will always rest If the mind will let
it." .
;Some years ago when bouse physi
cian at a London hospital X used to
experiment on this subject. On. my
midnight rounds I would frequently
receive complaint, of sleeplessness
from weary patient., often when there
was no pain or other definite reason
for it. I would say to them: "Oh,
it doesn't really matter, you are rest
ing ell Tight; It won't do you any
harm; Just lie awake and. think how
comfortable you are here." Or to the
weaker natures I would say: "Nurse
.hall bring you a poultice," or, 'I will
send you something when I have fin
ished my rounds." Almost Invariably
on my return, in twenty minutes'
time, they would be sleeping peace
fully; no further remedy was needed.
Every doctor will tell you how often
some simple sleeping draft is sent
and never taken never needed. The
mere fact of knowing it is there is suf
flclent; the anxious dread of another
sleepless night has been taken away,
the mind is at rest and sleep comes
in the natural way. And so it would
seem that by far the commonest cause
of sleeplessness is the anxious striving
to obtain sleep. It follows, therefore,
that all such devices for procuring it,
as counting an Imaginary flock of
sheep, fixing the attention on the cir-
calculatlon, making an effort to stop
thought, are wrong theoretically, as
well as being usually worse than use
less In practice. What, then, is the
real remedy? Why. simply to give
up the attempt to sleep if one's sleep
does not come as usuaL Give up try
ing. If a sleepless night Is to be one',
lot, one must accept it as philosophi
cally as one can, remembering' that
many and many a man has had to lose
a night's rest before, and has been lit
tle. If any,, worse for It. To the sleep
less one I would say: "Make up your
mind to stay awake for the night.
Nine times out of ten the blessing,
striven for in vain, will come un
sought, and that almost Immediately,
so that on looking back the next
morning the last thing you remember
will be your . determination to lie
awake.
- Directly, you cease to strive for
sleep, to wish ardently for it, the
strain will be taken off, the brain
the body will rest because the mind
Is no longer preventing it, and sleep
will be the happy result. And to make
the requisite . determination or, I
should say, renunciation this thought
nay be a help to you. It la th? anx
iety for sleep and the worrying about
Its absence, far more than the sleep
lessness Itself, that cause the feeling
of prostration which follow, a sleep
less night. The man whose duty or
occupation has forced him to give up
a night's rest is in a far better condi
tion the next day than .the man who
ha snent a restless nlaht' In the vain
and weary search for sleep.- London
Spectator.
PKCULIAF. AND PERTINENT.
A rertr Iscence of Aaron Burr was
outr up in a New T;rk street a few
days ago. It was a hoIlw cheat nut
log stlil In a good condition, ued s a
water ripe and laid under a ccntract
secured by Burr from the legislature.
Koihlchl Tanabe V Co. is the name
of a firm recently formed in Yokoba
ma. Japan, with a capital of f 73,6c. to
build an electric road In that city.
TLe "construction of a cigar. box may
aeoni to- be a rery sJmp matter ? to
the novice, but the box passes thrcugh
difterent I recess, before It is ready
to receive the cigars. ""i '
DOM PM Ml AT liO.VE
The Interesting President of the
Transvaal Republic
HI. P?rscnal Bravery and Religious
Fervor Hi. Story cf the Boers' De
velopment of the Trarsvxaj HI
Feeling Toward Cecil Rhode-The
Republic. Defences.
Stephnnns Johannes Paulus Krugr.
president cf the Transvaal, is an in
teresting public character. Upon be
ing introduced you first conclude thxt
he has been greatly overestimated. He
seem, nothing more than a shrewd
old hunter, who. by constant contact
with wild urimals and savage Kaffir,
has developed a wariness that makes
him suspicious of everything and ev
erybody. His legs are so short and slender
that ycu wonder how they bear the
weight of a heavy thick and solid biy.
His head is big and his neck is con
cealed by beard, hair .ni coatcollar,
so that you cannot determine whether
or not fce Indulges, irx neckwear. At
hoar) he is usually puffing a short bri
v pipe, and as he handle this you no
tice that the thumb of his left hand is
missing. There 1 a story connected
with this that Kruger will tell you be
tween puffs if he is in the mood. It
gives an idea of the grit which : I. a
characteristic cf th old Boers. '
When Krujper was a young man, he
was out hunting one day with a rifle
which Lad not been used for a long
time. While he was tinkering with a
charge the gun exploded, tearing his
left thumb to shreds. . Kruger's com
panion wanted to give up the hunt
and harry to the nearest surgeon, but
the Intrepid young Boer refuted. Tak
ing out hM hunting knife, he placed
the lacerated thumb on the stock of
the rile, and . amputated it himself.
By tying about the stump a rice of
rawhide he stopped the flow of blood,
and winding around it his red hand
kerchief he continued the sport.
Fhyrical robustness and courage
have contributed greatly tJ Kruger's
success as the leader of a nation. He
is absolutely f fur lees, though not reck
less, nnd since boyhood has known
how to act quickly in an emergency.
When only 14 years old. he and a lit
tle irtrter strayed away from the Jaag-
eir town in Care Cokny, where the el
der Kruger bad settled on emigrating
from Germany, arid while playing
were suddotly attacked by a leopard.
Young Kruger s only weapon was a
jackkinfe, but shielding his lister with
one arm, he met the Melons spring of
the leapord with the other, and after
a struggle succeeded In stabbing It to
decth.
One is hardly warranted either In
speaking slightingly of "Oora" Paul's
legs for they once ran a race that
made him famous all through .the na
tive tribes ir. South Africa. A Kaffir
chief had become celebrated for his
running ability, and had never be-n
beaten until challenged by a number
of ywufigBoera, who chose Kruger to
iepent them. It wu decided that
the two should run for twclv. hours,
and the man leading: at the end of
that timwas to have some, sort of &
prize. At the end of eleven hours
the Kafflr dropped In his tracks un
concious. while Kruger kept on to the
finish, and, according to one of his
compaj:'4W, was so fresh then that
he took part In a hunting trip.
It Is the appearance cf rough hardi
hood and the urkempt personal attire
that first Impresses one on meeting
Oora" Paul, but when ths man be
gin to talk you forget all else but
Krug.-r, : the d'plomat and careful
statesn.eni He gave the writer a
tbort Interview recently for publica
tion with; the undtanding that the
Boer side rhould be represented from
his owt vlew-pclnt, first inquiring If
1 were a spy from Cecil Rhodes. On
being cssured to tte tcntrary by a
number of Volksraad member, who
were present, he followed it up by an
other custoniary question, asking
What is your religion?
These two inquiries give an inslirht.
into Kruger's life. IJs first duty, hi
believes, is to God, and his second to
guard e gainst Rtudes. whom be de
tests like a poisonous reptile. But for
Rhodes. Mr. Kruger says, all would be
peace and quietness In the Transvaal.
So long as this man Is In 8uth Africa
there is no rest for the Boers, and
their secret siTVlce agent may be
found on every strte-t in Johannes
burg, cn the lookout for UiUander con
spiracies. From all outward appearances. Oom
Paul is intensely pious, and though
some iiifcist that It is all hyproc'sy.
there is no proof that Kruger does not
live In strict accordance to his preach
ing. He was confirmed in l?t2 by the
Rev. Daniel Lindlay, an American tnls
ekuiary. and from lhat day to this
has led a severely Christian life after
the precepts laid down by Jchn Calvin.
He run Quote nearly the whole Blbl,
and this has served him well In a sec
ular way, for. he has learned from it
to spefk in parables, terse epigrams
that are readily interpreted by hi fol
lowers, and have more force than the
noet brilliant rhet'lcHl flights.
Kruger, In addition to his other ac
complishments. Is by far the best
preacher In the Transvaal, and th
Dutch Reformed church boasts of
seme earable men there. He oecu
plea the pulpit in a modern brk k edi
fice ceros the street from his home
about once . month, and always a!ks
to standing room only. He uses no
note, but si eak. off-hand from a text,
and doe not h.-ttate to pr Inkle a lit
tle humor in the discourse. In . his
speeches before the Raad he quotes
Scripture generously, and even more
ho in.ecnversetiosv,-
As fcr his private life, that seems t
be exemplary. Aftei rising, he prays
for a k.ng time in Us room, and "talk,
over with the Lord the questions of
the day. When he derelope. a con
viction lit this way he proceed, to act
on It ' Krofertr piety cue nearly
cst him his life, according to a enr
rent story. A good many years ago
be suddenly ditapi-eared, and when be
failed to show up, j a searching party
wa. mad vp to hunt for him.- At
the end of three day they found the
future president, who wa. then a field
cornet, lying face cown on the open
teldt. He had heen praying thres
day and nights sta141y. without food
or water, and he was nearly dad.
When crrried back : and revived, he
explained that he had done It as a
chastisement for his sins.
Two stories the UJtlander. relate to
(ffset Kruger. reputation for piety.
One was tecently related In a Natal
paper. It accused Oom Paul of pun
ishing one jif the Kaffir bey. once by;
tying him und-f Lis wagon, spreading :
out his legs and arms a nnd making
them fast to the axles. The boy was
declared the writer. On another oc
casion Krt'ger, when he waa trekaing, ,
lost an ox and could not .ind another
to take it. place, so he hitched up a j
Kaffir in a team and completed the 1
Journey. Thl. KaTlr is still livimr
near Dei kopjes, in the Orange Free
State tt a ripe eld age,- so the expe
rience does net seem to ha e Injunvl
him. In fact, he ems rather proud
of tu distinction. .
The first question put to Gem Paul
was why he did not give the Uttland-c-rs
the right to vote, which tbe Eng
lish put forth as their chief cause for
cemjiaint. ' Kruger smttked hard for
a moment, then laid down hi pipe,
and i-laclng hi hands on his knees,
said;
"A man cannot erv two masters
Either te wlC tate the one and cling
to tli ether, or despise the one and
lov the other. Now. the Englishman
want, to do thia. He demands the
franchise from me. desires' to become
a burgher, and yet when it comes to
trouble, he would forsake us In a mo
ment and claim the i rolection of the
Queen. How can I give such men a
chance to vote? They do not take any
interest In our country. They hive
not come here to tettle. They wiih
us no,gcod. I want' to be fair with
every one who ccmej here to live, and
when he has preyed that he Is a good
citizen ond has cOme to help us. Z
want him to vote. But, we have a
law for bigamy in the Transvaal, and
it is necessary for a man to put off his
old love befr re taking on a new."
Kruger related graphically and
briefly the hUU-ry of the Iwers frotu
the time they settled In Cape Colony,
from which they were driven by the
Eng'ih, until they settled In th
TranrvaaL On this.; great trek they
killed 8, Oof lions, out of which number
Kruger himaelf killed 2?0. They f sught
their way step by step until they fin
ally reached the Icrg ridge known as
the Witswatertanl where they set
tled all unconscious of . the hidden
wealth.
"It seemed so poor. said Kruger.
that even the English did not be
grudge it. So we csiabHt-h'd a gov
ernment, developed a constitution, and
laid the foundation for a nation. We
bu?lt towns, cultivated the .-il, and
were making great proirrex. and liv
ing peacefully when gold was discov
ered. Then new and perplexing ques
tions arore, and England Immediately
became avaricious, bat we were not
willing to give up the country which
we had develojted by the sweat; of ou
brow, and so tfcere was Majuba Hill.
Tou know about that? Her Kru
gr Miuked slyly and a laugh went
around among the Boers. ao, now."'
continued Oom Paul taking up hi.
pipct and dropping into pa rubles, "the
gold fields are like a beautiful rich
young w tman. Everybody wants
hr, and when they cannot get her
they do not want any one elte to pos
sess her."
"Can the English starve you out?'
If the Lord wills it, yes. h.s re
plied. "If not, the Engiith can build
a wah around us as high a. Jericho
and we will live and proper.
Kruger h&s provided against a siege
by building storehouse and granaries,
where meat and grain are kept in
great Quantities. . The great draw
back to the Transvaal is that it lacks
a fe-e-iM-rt. The mot convenient cne
is Delagoa Bay, owned by the Portu
guese. As Portugal is mortgaged to
England, the latter country controls
it.
Towering ever Jchannesburg is a
big fort, end working In subterran
ean passages the Boers, It Is .aid.
have undermined the whole town, even
to Commissioner street, where the
pride of Johannesburg's buildings ar
Iccatc-d. The Boer, can muster 30,
0""0 men, all well armed and good
marksmen. They have warehouses
full of. ammunition,, and their present
defense ami Lower to wreck Johannes
burg and the mines are a suTlcelnt
menace to Great Britain to make her
hesitate. -
Kruger is now 76 year. old. and has
been tlected t the presidency four
times. His salary I. t35,MX, a yetr,
with H.hoe for cofee. His life hss
certainly been a remarkable one. and
at different stages hehns been a farm
er, herdsman. hunt-t, soldier, clergy
man, ambwsador. flr.ancler had
of the army. In m-ent years he has
bought and sold land a good deal, .tnd
H reputed to be very wealthy. HU
habits and method of living are o
tUm pic, however, thst he could lave
saved nearly all his salary In those
years, which would give him a tidy
fortune. '
As he clc:-c-d the interview Kmtr
went across the hai: into a low t-t 11
Inged, whitewashed rof.m and spok
to a inotherly little woman, who Me a
seated In a. rocking chair, darning
stcckir g. This was Mrs. Kruger.
f he got Mr. Kruger. hat es?crld hliii
to the door an. ihen went back to h-r
krv-tting. It was 'dbficult to think of
her as the first lady of the land. Vet
sh has b:-C3 Mr. Kruger's constant
helpmate through nil the years of hU
public life, and their i.ffilon for each
other eems to have grown with each
succeeding year, fhe Is Mr. Krurer's
hecotid wife, and was a Miss Du Pie
a, a name of i-roinlneoce In South
Africa. Kruger's Prst wife was an
aunt of Wit I'U Plex.ls, and bore him
cne s.n, who died. Sixteen children
were tbe fruit cf xhi. second marri ige,
sxl of th'jse seven . ae llvlruc The
Iris are comfottably married to burg
her, in ana about Pretoria, and the
boys take an active inUiett in the ar
my. One ; son-in-law, . CapL. Eloff.
hM made UmseU famous by building
the most expeuive mansion lb South
Africa, lie has made a fortune la
ral Ule opernlons. and is supposed
t - be worth One of Kru
ger's sor.s acts, as Ki secretary, an t
Another Is c&ptalr. cf an infantry
cominy. Mr. and Mrs. Krug r- llv
In a Mile twe?-rttory cdtttg. paintel
white and coVere-d in frxml with mo n
Ingiory vines, i Their mutual ambi
tion is to see ifcHir nation indnpendnt
of Great Britain.' and then spend their
lasf diys peacefully end quietly in this
httl j home. '
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THE GUNBOllT PflRflQUA
(IYom Dajly Sett. 16th.)
Guy.Osborn. one of the gunners on
the United State, gunbeat Parapua,
cor.iprisir.g a part of the squadron now
in the Pfcilipi ine vatcfj, has en
heard from by his parents, W. H. fend
Mrs. Osbcrn, cf this city. Guys boat
captured a Filipino schooner a few
days. ago at .Maltmao,- south of the Il-"
and cf Luxon, after a sharp engage
ment in which the Paraua wa. struck
many times by title thots.
'Extracts fr cm Guy's letter are t.
follows:
"July SI. ltP. I am now ou a sm?.ll
guntt at, called the Pavaqua. which
the Concord ha charge of. We ore
doing picket duty In LlnRayen gulf.
The Concord has thre small boats of
about 190 ton. displacement each. Wa
take turn-about steaming ?4 hours
each imtroling the gulf and .topping
canoes which are taking arms and
provisions to the inur gents, and we
have cttpttired quite a lot of them.
Some are loaded with cigars, rice,
dried -fish. hony, slteplng mala and
arms such as bolas (long knives),
Mauter ilfle, powder, etc
am having a fine time.
"There are cl- eight men on deck
an l fix In the nie-reotn; wc have one
efficer Ensign DavhHon who 1.
spUrieod rtan.
"When we are under wayv I tand
two hours out c-f eight at the wheel,
and the rest of the time 1 have to ;uy
self. In port we each stand one hcur
on watch at night; get up at o'clock
and wash down the decks. The rest
cf the time we have to ourselvesno
quarters, no lnivUion.
"I havs entire control of a five-barreled,
11-mllimeter. Ncrchin-Fc-ld. ma
chine gun and it works like a top.
The Concord Is at Manila, but she
Is due here wow a any tine.
"Yesterday Ensign Davidson let u.
go to a smell Uland tor a rantbl. Ws
took -our revolvers and we found all
kinds of fruit--banana s, pineapples,
breadfruit, prick'y pears, etc also
found a bee tree and some of the bee.
found yours. trul We shot two wild,
hogs, fo we have sittre-ribs for break
fast, we found a nice spring which. ws
enjoyed very much
The ship's company has a good
gramaphone with H selections cf mu
sic bede we have- several musical
Instruments so we have plenty of mu
sic. "We paJut shit; toda .
ANOTHER C.RN STORY.
- SSSBSSBSSS
Some time ago a farmer in- Kill,
..riv while t.lowlrr. loft a very val-
uabla diamond ring. The other day
h's hired roan, assisted by two knight.
f th raad. eut down a am stalk and
hauled It to the house for einner. A
yount; lady visitor, wn'ie grac-iuuy
nit.Minff a arrain of the c.rn which had
len terved e-n grain." a. the eura
wore too large to serve them "en ear,"
f It something Jar h-r ieariy teevn.
and dalnilly ralrfrg her silver com
f.rk to her ruby lips removed-tha
lost ring. The fanner, who had In
the mean time purchusd several more
dlamcnd rings, very gallantly present
ed the. young lady with her ilnd. Hay.
Republican.
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A PROGRESSIVE RAILROAD.
ti,. Tti Grands Western railway
otht-rwlse known as the "Great Salt
Lake Route," i. and ha. been, since
nn,nir.r tit tt Orden Gateway.
the iopular transcontinental route be
wn thi rarirle Northwest and tbs
East. To add to it. popularity, ar
rangement, have necn maoe to mww
t m tnin urvlm and enulnmcnt sureri-
n n in of its coinnetllors. Already,
the running time cf Its several express
trains has been cut down so tuat ine
assengtrs frort. Portland reacn cna
ago In less than four duys, and New.
York in less than five da vs. Effective
f v it a oerfeet dlnlnif car ServlcS
will b established. This will msks ths
trin via. P4.lt Lake Citv the Ideal one.
To further add to the comfort of its
natrons, handsome excursion tounst
cats are being built for the run be
tween Portland and Chicago. With ths
jiii. fr. fr aervtce established and tbs
new tourist cars running, there will be
little to be added to .make a pertect
t'ain. '
For Information as to rates, etc., sp
i.W to the nearest thket office of either
ths O. R. sc N. Co. or Southern Pacific
Jo. or address
J. D. MANSFII LD.
General agent, 142 Third Strset,
Portland. Oregon. v
It has been found that an apparatus
for, killing aNmals with chloroform In
England would not work In India. h
cause the high temperature jrevented
the concentration e-f the chl' roform
vspor. That thi was h case wa.
proved fcy the fact that by placing Ice
in the box the anlruuls wera readily
killed.
Germany maintains schools in for
eign countr le A fund Is yearly vot
ed by the reichstag for this purpoae
Thre It now an sgitation In f ivor cf
grantlpg the school the right to
award exemption from the lor.sr pe
riods of miUtary service; in other
words, to grant the one year-svrvice
diplomas.
An cjgh-.eer in Tuni. ha. Invented a
deep-sea diving apparatus which has
been tiled without accident at a depth
of 174 feet neer Cherbourg. Tbe in
vent! r declares M. purpose of search
ing for the hull of the Alabama, which
lies where she was sunk by thu ICear
sarge, oft Cherbourg harbor.
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