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WENT BY WIRE, How Two Meu Mot Over tli« Great Snow Drift*. “It looks a little like snow.” said the weather roan the other day as he looked first out of the window and then let liis eye wander over the great glass map in the senate lobby. There was a fine beating snow outside just whitening the ground in places and piling up in drifts several inches deep against the terrace, says the Washing ton Star. Both west and south and east on the map were great white ar rows pointing toward Washington and two great “highs” were racing from different quarters for the capital. From Chicago was reported a record of 10 degrees below zero and from Colorado was reported snow deep enough to cover up small towns. Tho weather man was figuring on the depth of the snow at Como and Apex and calculat ing the velocity of the v/ind, and from this and the general atmospheric con ditions outside, concluded that Wash ington was threatened with snow. “It is no plaything,” the weather man said, ‘when they have snow like this in the Rockies. I had an experience in going from Helena, Mont., over the divide some years ago. It was a beau tiful day when my companion and my self left Helena. There was deep snow on the ground and in the mountains there were some immense drifts, But the snow was packed and the sun was bright. Before we got on the top of the divide it began to snow, and it is snowing now, fine drifting snow, and the wind got up to about fifty miles an hour. Within two hours there was no sign of the trail anywhere. We were in a beating blizzard and couldn’t tell which way we were going. We struggled along blindly until we got on top of the divide. All we could tell was that we were going down on the other side, and we had no idea where we would wind up. The horses were afraid and did not want to face the drifts, and we were half dead with cold. In floundering through one drift we got tangled in a wire, and that was our salvation. It was the sin gle wire on the government telegraph line. The drift wa3 clear up to the top of the telegraph pole at that point, but it was for the most part within three or four feet of the wire. We knew we must follow this line to find our way. We could not do so by sight. One of us had to hook his arm around the wire and hold on to it while the other took care of the horses. He would just slide the wire along In the bend of the elbow, letting go only to pass each pole, and in this way we got into Deer Lodge. It seems strange here to talk about walking on about the level of the tops of tele • graph poles, but that’s what we did from the top of the divide to Deer Lodge.” OASTORiA. ®eari tie —/9 "IhB Kintl You Haw A,ways Bo# **T<ZfytfM&U Nature the Embaluier In ralklnint*. A curious circumstance concern.ag the body of Admiral Spotts has been reported from the Falkland Islands, where he died seventeen years ago. The Falkland physician who attended him during his fatal illness was pres ent at the exhumanation of the body wher. the cruiser Badger was sent for It this year. The coffin had disap peared, but the corpse was absolutely unchanged, even the features having retained the exact appearance that they presented on the day of death. This wonderful preservation was due to the action of the peat water which saturst.3 the islands. It had em balmed the body completely. Man nt tli« Fish Market From Life: Man at the fish mar ket—The mackerel are running very small this season, ma’am. Young Housekeeper—1 suppose it’s on account of the dry weather. Visiting cards at The Frortier. Many women lose their girlish farms aftei they become mothers. This is due to neg lect. The figure can be preserved beyond question it tne ex pectant mother will constantly use flftotber’s 1 friend J during the whole period of pregnancy. The earlier its use is begun, the more per fectly will the shape be preserved. mother’s Triend i not only softens and relaxes the muscle: during the great strain before birth, but helps the skin to contract naturally afterward. Il keeps unsightly wrinkles away, and the muscles underneath retain their pliability. IttOtlWl Triend is that famous external liniment which banishes morning sickness and nervousness during pregnancy; shortens labor and makes it nearly painless; builds up the patient’s constitutional strength, so that she emerges from the ordial without danger. The little one, too, shows the effects of mother’ $ Triend by its robustness and vigor. Sold at drug stores for $1 a bottle. Send for our finely Illustrated book for ex pectant mothers. THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO. ATLANTA, QA. FITTED TO GOVERN. Kngllshmen In Colonial Offices Adnnwd by Merit Only. There Is a marked feature of the fine body of Englishmen and foreigners generally In the work In Egypt. And it is one of especial Interest to those who hope to see entrance to what, for want of a better name, may be called our colonial service based upon a sys tem of appointment and advancement by merit alone. One of the most fre quent arguments made by American advocates of partisan public service, when the benefits of the British civil service are adva ced, is that while the service may be admitted excellent, en trance to It Is by favor alone. There fore, they say, positions are monopo lized by the sons of the rich and great, by what the French call “sons of tam | ily.” Nowhere have Englishmen bet ter proved their fitness for governing than at Cairo, and nowhere have the sons of great men or the bearers of great names been so conspicuously ab sent. The majority of the men who have made the Egypt ot today have at the same time made themselves. By this it is not meant that they have risen from the lowest ranks of society, what are generally known as self-made men. It is the good fortune or rather the legitimate result cf the system and the rewards whicl\ it offers that the best class of Englishmen enter the government service. They must be men of good standing and good educa tion. The most fitting example is fur nished in Lord Cromer, whose very name is now synonymous with things Egyptian. It is equally difficult to write of Egypt without mentioning his name, and once it is mentioned, te withhold the fullest measure of ad miration and praise for the record he has made. He began life as a younger and by no means wealthy member of the financial house of Baring. Fam ily influence probably secured for him a nomination to be examined for the army, just as such nominations are given to young Americans. But It was his capability and excellent record which secured for Major Evelyn Bar ing, after t-he fall of Ismail Pasha, ap pointment as one of the members of the dual control established over Egypt by England and France. Ex cept for an absence of three years (18S0-1882) as financial member of the council of India, he has been in Cairo ever since. To write of what he has done is but to write a history of the occupation, for he has been its cor ner-stone. And today he is undoubt edly the greatest member of his fam ily, where twenty years ago he was probably the most obscure.—Harper's Magazine. (spirit in a strange land. i Satires Care for Grave of an English Officer Burled There. The British consul at Hiogo recently heard how the grave of a British naval officer on the island of Hiroshima, in the Inland sea of Japan, was carefully kept in order by the peasants. The consul got a history of the lonely grave. Here are some extracts: “In the first year of Meiji (A. D. 18SS) her Britannic majesty’s ship Sylvia was proceeding through the Inland sea when an officer named Lake fell ill. He was landed at Hiroshima, while the Sylvia proceeded and cast anchor at Enoura bay to await his recovery. However, he died, and Captain St. John buried his remains in the grounds of th# Temple of Ikwoji, above Enoura shrine, and set up a wooden cross. Years afterward, when this monument had almost decayed * * * the na tives said: ‘Truly, it would be l-jo sad if the grave of our solitary guest from afar, who has become a spirit in a strange land, were suffered to pa<< out of all knowledge.’ 3o Terawaki Kae mon, head of a village guild, set up a stone monument, the shore folk with one accord lending help. This was on the seventh day of the eleventh month of the fourth year of Mc-iji—that is 1871. Since then nearly thirty win ters have passed, during which time the islanders have not neglected to take good care of the tomb. From the tenth to the sixteenth day of the sev enth month. In particular, the natives clean and sweep the grave and offer up flowers and incense, mourning and consolation.”—London Star. The Oldest Sovereign In Earope. The Grand Duke of Luxemburg, the oldest of the reigning sovereigns of Europe, is 82 years of age. The event is one of some interest to the British royal family, as the grand duchess is a first cousin of the Princess of Wales. The Grand Duke Adolphus, who is one of the lichest royal personages in Europe, inherited the throne of Nas sau in 1839, on the death of his father, and in 1844 married the Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia, daughter of Grand Duke Michael Paulovitcb, and niece of Emperor Nicholas I., who brought him a very large fortune. The grand duchess died a year after her marriage, it the age of 19. The grand duke mar ried his present wife in 1851, and she is a daughter of the late Prime Fred erick of Anhalt-Dessau The grand duke lost his throne In 18G6, but re tained his vast estates and his im mense fortune. High Speed Trains. Records for high speed in express train service have been made on the French railroads lately, showing an average of 54.5 miles per hour, includ ing stops. Special compound loco motives of the four-cylinder type, de signed for this service, are employed exclusively in these trains.—Pittsburg Post. Crime and Population. An English statistician declares that ’rime, considered in decennial periods, bears a constant relation to popula tion. ihat evil Is half cured whose cause ire know.—Churchill. THE GUILTY MEN FLEE; WHEN NO PERSON PURSUETH THEM. A Mnu Guilty ot Smuggling Hua » Very Miserable Trl|i —! 1 nought Oe Wn * Helng Shadowed —The "Shadow" Was Also Alarmed from Same Oauee. O "I was never mixed up with a smug gling transaction but once In my life,” said a New Orleans business man, whose name may as well be left out, "and my experience was so painful that I swore off then and there. I had a deal in West Texas on hand at the time and had made a short trip over the Mexican frontier, during which I picked up a handful of very fine opals, j A wicked friend showed me how easy It was to carry them over the line with out paying tribute to Uncle Sam, and I was weak enough to yield Co the temptation. When I got on the cars at El Paso, however, to ccrne east to Dallas I was haunted by f. guilty con science and had a horrible premoni tion that some secret service officer was on my track. Presently my at tention became attracted by a man with a black beard, who kept looking at me furtively from a seat across the way. I tried to persu de myself that it was all imagination, '.tut a number of things occurred that ride that satisfied me I was really being watched. I went Into iss smoker, for instance, and before !o:.r; caught a glimpse of the black heated chap peer ing through the end of tile window j from the platform, it w:.s the same in the dining car, and. to make a long story short I reached Dallas thoroughly unstrung. That even'"" f began to think I had shaken the fellow off my track, when I happened to stroll out of the hotel, and there he was, stand ing behind a pillar. Needless to say, I didn't sleep a wink, and when I bumped Into the sleuth next morning and saw that he had shaved off his beard I gave myself up for lost. How ever, that was the last of him, and for the balance of my stay I was un molested and gradually regained my equanimity. That the man hnd been shadowing me was undeniable, but what his purpose could have been and why he dropped the game so abrupt ly were mysteries which I was forced to leave unsolved. It was two years before I found out. Then I ran across the man one day by accident in a St. Louis restaurant, and he owned up. It seems that he had been a public of ficial in a small Texas town, and got mixed up in his accounts. He swore to me that it was only bad bookkeep ing, but the grand jury indicted him for embezzlement, and he skipped un til things calmed down. I happened to coincide with a description he had of a detective, and all his strange moves were actuated by exactly the same mo tive that prompted me to run—name ly, to see whether he was being watch ed. We were both fooled by our fears. His affairs had since been settled up and we enjoyed a good laugh and a cold bottle together. But I am a re formed smuggler for life.” The Nightmare of microbes. A woman who had purchased a pair of gloves was giver, three one-dollar bills in change. “Do it up in paper, please,” she said to the salesgirl. The request was complied with, and the wrapped-up tail’s were put in a pocket book. “Some persons are microbe mad,” said a physician in explaining the incident. “Many have it so bad that they will not even pick up a pin, because it lias been said that all sorts of disease germs can be collected un der their heads. Dread of microbes is a common form of hypochondria. I can sympathize with a person who does not like to see a woman with a bundle of dirty clothes for washing get Into a public conveyance, but there Is no use in going to extremes. Ever since the researches of Koch and Pasteur have attracted attention the number of mi crobe maniacs has steadily increased.” Josephine and Napoleon’s Son. Apropos of the French Napoleonic drama now being played at the Nou veau theater, and entitled “Le Roi de Rome,” an interesting communication to the Gaulois states that Joseephine only once saw Napoleon’s boy. It had long been her ardent wish to set eyes on him, and at length Napoleon him self took the child, then two years old, to Malmaison. The little fellow took a great fancy to Josephine, and said: “I love you; you are good. You must come back to Paris with us,and live at the Tuileries.” The emperor is said to have been much moved by the in terview’, and hastily terminated it, say ing. “We must go, my boy; wish the lady good-bye."—London Chronicle. New Devices in Cameras. Films on rolls were Introduced Into photography to overcome the burden and trouble of carrying a lot of glass plates in plateholders. Films are not as capable of fine negatives as glass plates, however, and now the leading makers of photographic materials are offering cameras which carry a dozen plates, each of which can be moved after being exposed to the rear of the camera and out of harm's way by means of a flexible leather bag at tached to the side or top of the instru- 1 ment. True Charity. Mrs. Henpeque—“So you did an act of charity today to commemorate the tenth anniversary of our wedding?” Mr. Henpeque—“Yes. One of my clerks wanted a rise in salary so that he could get married, and I refused him." —Spare Moments. A cheap coat does not make a cheap man, but it makes him feel that way at times. BETTER EYES NOWADAYS, DmiiU* the Fact That spectacles Are * Far More Common. "Defective eyesight is certainly be coming more and more common, and ‘.he way the use of glasses has Increas ed would be extremely startling if we had not grown accustomed to them by degrees,” said one of a group of New Orleans business men. “When I was a boy it was very unusual to sec a young person wearing ‘specs;’ now we en counter them at every turn. Our grandfather! used to be proud of their splendid vision, and in many cases It was retained Into advanced old age, but at present a pair of perfectly sound eyes are the exception instead of the rule. I am willing to bet that you can go up and down Canal street, from one end of the retail district to the other, without finding half a dozen business men of over 45 who can get along with out artificial aid to the sight. I paid a visit to a young ladles' seminary not long ago, and out of one clas3 of 32 I counted IS wearing g’asses. That is a frightful percentage. If it doesn't indi cate that the human eye is playing out under the strain of modern conditions I would like to know what it does mean?” “I think I can reassure you," said a physician who hr. cl joined the party while the other was speaking. "The human eye is not playing out, but Is merely receiving better care. The statistics on the subject do not extend back more than SO or 40 years and are very imperfect, but they indicate that there is less defective vision now than there used to be, especially among school children. I know that is con trary to the general impression, but it is a fact, and is attributed to better lighted school rooms and better printed books. We have all read how some of our great statesmen studied their les sons by the light of the fireplace, and if they ever did such a thing, which I doubt, you may rest assured they paid for it with spectacles in after life. The reason why so many glasses are seen nowadays is that the slightest visual defect is at once corrected, while in former times it was either ignored or unnoticed, and, though there are prob ably more spectacles among very old people you will likewise find fewer very old people totally blind.” PHILIPPINE INSANITY, Th® United State* Government Inves tigating a Hyeterlone Disease, Much attention has been called to the number of men in the army serving in the Philippines who have gone in sane. The government has sent a special commission out there to inves tigate the matter, and there has been talk of a mysterious disease called the “Soudanese Fever.” It is believed by some that this disease is peculiar to East Indian and African tropics; that it was this which caused Dr. Peters to get into trouble for killing Africans and made the French officers in ilie in terior of Africa recently slay other of ficers sent to their relief. Everybody has heard of the Malay who runs amuck and, frenzied, kills right and left until he kimself is killed. The word “amuck” is a corruption of the Javanese word “amoak,” to kill. There seems to be no doubt that the Malay occasionally gees crazy through an overindulgence in opium or hasheesh | and, springing from his “shack,' r n3 I naked through the streets of the \ il S lage, killing all whom he may m.et. I When in a Malay village the cry “Amuck” is raised, it is like the cry of "Mad dog!” in an American village, and the populace turns out with long i bamboo spears and kills the man as i soon as they can. But the “Soudanese fever,” if it exists, is another thing apparently. It may be that the disease which has afflicted white men in the 1 Philippines and in equatorial Africa is only a variation of apoplexy brought on by indulgence in heating and stimu lating foods. The London Lancet re cently had something about the alleg ed disease. People who had 1. i af flicted with it and had recoveic.: said that they had a sudden sensation of a desire to kill, and that they “saw red.” A sudden afflux of blood to the head and the bursting of a blood vessej would produce insanity or coma. In northern climes it more usually re sults in coma; in the tropics it seems co result In insanity. All the soldiers of our army in the Philippines who have been sent back as insane have been violent. BlS “I” •“ English tVrllIns. Did it ever occu” to you that it might seem very egotistical for you to write of yourself with a capital “I” instead of using the small and less obtrusive one? The English use of the capital “I” is one of the oddest features of the language—to a for eigner. If a Frenchman writes refer ring to himself he makes “je” (the French equivalent of “I”) with a small “j." So with the German, who may use capitals to begin every noun; he always uses the small “i” in writ ing “ich.” The Spaniard avoids, as far as practicable, the use of the per-? sonal pronoun when writing in the first person, but he always writes it “yo,” taking pains, however, to begin the Spanish equivalent of cur “you” with a capital. In English it is sure ly big “I” and little “you.” as the old saying has it. Practice and Theory. Practice and theory must go togeth er. 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