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8NAP8 AT FLIGHT OF BIRDS. Professor Lankier Madeline Air Ship Kntlreiy on Live Flyers. Two tall towers, tifty feet high and about the same distance apart, have been new ly crwlcd In the zoological park In the outskirts of Washington, and visitors during the last few days have beta vainly speculating as to their significance. When Inquiry is made, the guards chake their heads and refuse informa tion; but observant persons have no ticed that oui'e in a while, when a buzzard flies overhead, two men sud denly appear, one on top of each tower, and snap guus at the bird, thereupon retiring with equal celerity from view. The weapons are cameras, with gun stocks anil triggers attached to tliein, to help in aiming, mid the marksmen are employed by Secretary I.nngley, of the Smithsonian Institution, to obtain in this way iustautam-oiis photographs of the birds in flight. There are two towers, in order that each snap shut may be taken from two points of view, the gun cameras being connected by an electric wire in order that, they may take the pictures simultaneously. Only one of the two men pulis the trigger, the other one merely aiming at the buzzard. Professor Langley is conducting these experiment for the piirmse of obtain ing hints that will help him in build ing his flying machine. The apparatus is still housed in the Smithsonian In stitution, says the Boston Herald, and nobody is allowed to see it; but some day, not very iong hence, it will be brought forth, and will exhibit to an astonished world the astounding spec tacle of a flyiug machine that will really fly not depending on a gasbag to uphold it. like the apparatus of Sun-txw-Dumont, but sustaining itself by artificial wings and propelled by a steam motor, light but powerful. Prom the beginning Professor Lang ley has taken for his model the soaring bird, which is nature's most perfect flying machine. The buzzard is an ex ample of this kind of flyer, ami hence the building of the two tall towers in the Zoo Park, in which neighborhood buzzards are plentiful. FOUR MONTHS OLD AND TALKED Strange, indeed, are the facts con nected with the short life of the infant ihild of Mr. and Mrs. Will Fechncr, of Houston. The child at birth displayed fxtraordinary traits. Jt never cried, nd exhibited an observation and men tal understanding and development that was almost terrifying in a babe. At 4 months this prodigy of intellect ;ould talk plainly and make its wants fully known. But its little frame be fall wasting away. The physician ir ho were called In shook their heads inrveiy and said to the parents, "You rill never raise the child. The mind la too powerful. The mental weight la sapping the physical strength." They proved to be true prophets. In a few lays' time the child was dead. Before its death, the news of lta wonderful precocity being noised about, many people came to see for themselves the talking baby, and went away tilled with awe and wonder. It was weird, llmost uncanny, this tiling of an in fant In swaddling clothes speaking plainly, and gazing upon the spectator irlth eyes wherein could be discerned 1 depth of intelligence beyond all or linary calculation. As the child's life was strange, so was its death peculiar. 3everal days ago a tierce electrical norm swept over Houston. Just as :ne roar of the storm came, at tnat rery Instant the child, without a mur uar, calmly and painlessly went forth into the great silence of eternity. Channlng (Texas) Courier. Constituents of Air. The first rude shock to the prevailing ideas concerning the atmosphere was given in 177-1. when Priestley discover ed In It the very active element, o.y en. Two years later he added to this :he passive element, nitrogen, and the two main constituents of the invisible llr became captives of science. To these new elements the old ideas clung for. a time.' Oxygen w as named by its llacovercr dephiogistlcated air. It lacked phlogiston, the fancied fire ele ment, and sought it with eager appe tite in whatever it touched. Nitrogen waa called phlogisticated air. It was believed to be saturated with phlogis ton and therefore fatal to flame. While xygen combined briskly with almost ill the elements, nitrogen refused to :omblue at all except under great prov catlon. Though intimately mingled In Jie atmosphere, these elements were as jttllke In character as two substances well could be. No long time passed before a third lubstance was found in the atmos phere, this time not a chemical element, aut the compound gns, carbonic acid. Wliile not great in quantity, it proved be Indispensable In quality, since UI the world of living things Is depend mt upon It for existence. Inimical aa 1 la, when In large quantity, to animal Ife, says Charles Morris In Llppln ott'i, without It there could be no life tt all and the earth would be a dead tad barren expanse. For tbe plant world gains from this gas Its founda Jott element of carbon, and Is thus en ibled to lay np those stores of food ipoa which tbe animal world depends. Hat Cbew Ossx Eata, says the Plttaburg Dispatch, ate eoatracted the gum -chewing hab c ( Betoken. Ratal t? tavt ftw modinl wale f 3 tte.tfeMSM III tha wttow- v en f nwTlear asm " cm ,oCa , . . .. .. - g$fivention The papyrus plant which furnished the paper of ancient manuscripts is now extinct In Kgypt and is found only in Sicily. Plants for the purilieatiou of water for municipal use by passing ozone throngh it are lu successful operation lu Germany. A Swede has made a keroseue lamp which will produce a light of Y.lo can dlepower at a cost of one cent for each seven hours. Though Vesuvius has been for cen turies discharging steam charged w ith hydrochloric acid, extensive Injury to vegetation in the surrounding region seems to hae been unknown until last yea r. Very light plates for electric primary cells are made by A. De Castro, of Merlin, by depositing metal on textile fabrics by electrolysis. Sail-cloth, for instance, may be impregnated with re duced copper for the negative ele ments, and with reduced zinc for the positive elements. Mr. Hughes, our consul general at Coburg, thinks there is the suggestion of a new industry for the pine lauds of the South and West of our country in the success with which the business of extracting and preparing pine-needle oil is pursued in the Thuringeu Mountains of southern Germany. This oil finds a sale all over the world, be ing used for pharmaceutical purposes, for medicating baths, and so on, while the dried fibers, perfumed with a little of the concentrated oil, are used for stuffing mattresses and pillows, being sent in packages to many markets. Tbe committee on coinage, weights and measures, in Its report to the House of Bepreseutatives favoring the adoption of t lie metric system by the United States government, says that estimates made by the Department of Education and others show that, in the life of every child at school, two thirds of a year would be saved by the adoption of the metric arithmetic. It U also averred, as a mutter of evi dence, that the metric system and its application to the solution of problems may be learned in one-tenth of the time required for gaining equal facility in the use of the English system of weights and measures. Poisoning by sheil-tish is not yet fully understood. Professor Theseu of Norway finds that it Is not due to the substance on which they growsuch as the copper sheathing of vessels but that it depends on Impure water. The poison, however, does not seem to be produced by bacteria. It Is con cluded that the impurities of the wa ter even such poisons as strychnine and curare are readily absorbed and stored away by the mollusks, but that the storing is only temporary, for mol luski in foul water are not at all times poisonous. Whether tbe poisons are made harmless or are returned to the water unchanged remains to be proven. An Interesting application of the freezing system in shaft-sink ing is ex hibited at the Washington colliery in England. When the shaft had been sunk a short distance, It was found that a layer of quicksand NO feet in depth must be penetrated. To prevent the wet sand from flowing into the shaft. It was frozen solid. A circular row of holes, forming a ring over 20 feet in diameter, was made round the shaft, and by means of metal pipes a freezing mixture or unite, oi cmoriue of sodium, was caused to circulate in the holes. This had the effect of freez ing the sand, in a elreular wall round the shaft, as hard as rock. On the re moval of the soft sand In the center, the frozen wall remained Intact, pro tecting the workmen from the quick sand behind It. v FIREMEN WHO DRIVE. Guiding the Big Vehicle in Crowd e Streets Hard on Nerves. "The man who drives any of the vehicles belonging to the fire depart ment," said an old fireman who Is con nected with a down-town station, "has no easy time of It. It Is one of the hardest and one of the most trying po sitions in the whole department. "Song writers may spin their little theories and arrauge their little ditties In an effort to show that 'a policeman's lot Is not a happy one,' but the lot of the average policeman, and I do not say It lu any disparaging sense, Is sim ply a summer dream when compared with that of the man who drives the hose carriage, the fire patrol, the book and ladder truck or any of the other vehicles used in fighting fires. "Humanity is curiously morbid when It comes to Ores. The mere fact that it requires a squad of police and a long string of rope to keep the people beyond the range of falling walls is sufficient proof of the fact. The peo ple are, after all, somewhat like tbe candle fly. Tbey will simply rush Into the flame without any apparent thought of Incineration and without taking any note of tbe fearful consequences which are at least possible In the case of large fires. It never occurs to tbe average man that tbe walls may fall when tbe floors give way and that wires may be broken and all tbat sort of thing. "But I was speaking about tbe man who does tbe driving. He la tbe fel low who wean the heaviest responsi bility after alL The sound of tbe Ore goag develops a rather strange passion la the average person. It la curiously rblt sad eoatroUlag a ad simply fonts., great may aenoaa eat tk street aad they sMaage te get gerously near tbe wheels of the engine or the truck, as the case may be. Tale keeps the driver under a fearful mta tal strain. He has to keep on tbe lookout for wagons, street cars, bad places In the street, curves and all that kind of thing, and, to add to the merriment of It all, men and women and boys crowd into the street and seem to make an effort to get right In front of the horses. "It is a passion," continued the fire man, according to the New Orleans Times Democrat. "I have had men tell me t hat often uuder the stress of ex citement they simply find like Jumping out into the middle of the street, so the tire engine could pass over them. I supiose it is very much like the im pulse a great many men have to leap from high buildings. Mut whatever the reason may be, it simply tends to increase the mental strain of the dri ver, and so I say his position is the most trying one in the whole department." EXCELS AS MICROBE ARTIST. Miss Katberine M. Montucue Lends Her Art to Science. Moth science and art claim Miss Kath eriue M. Montague, of Baltimore, who has taken up in Philadelphia her pecu liar profession. She Is a painter of microbes. Miss Montague possesses a wonderful talent for producing with the brush the minute organisms which are visible only under powerful miscroscopes and her work therefore Is of great value to investigators. It has won distinction among scientists, who declare that her equal does not exist. After working for three years with Dr. J. Whittredge Williams of Johns Hopkins University she engages In Philadelphia to assist Professor Simon It. Flexner, head of tbe pathological department of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania Medical School. Max Mroedel, the official il lustrator of the university, declares Miss Montague's work excels that of any other artist in the world. Why Cervera Nearly Kucapod. In the U. S. S. New York and Brook lyn and U. M. S. Blake and Blenheim a method of engine design is used by which the gain in economy is unques tionable. These are all large vessels with engines from 10,000 to 20,DO0 horse power, and they were designed with ewo complete triple-expansion engines on each shaft, the Idea being that at anything below half power only one set of engines on each shaft would be used, and this is actually the practice in or dinary cruising. Special objection to this type of en gine wag developed at the time of the naval battle of Santiago. On both the New York and the Brooklyn there was a comparatively simple coupling for connecting the two engine shafts, but it required about half an hour to per form the operation. During the block ade both the New York and the Brook lyn bad been kept under half power, using only the after engines. When Cervera's fleet came out so un expectedly, says W. M. McFarland in Engineering, It was not deemed wise to lose half an hour In coupling up, so that It was possible to work the engines up to half power only. The poor work of the Spanish engineers rendered this lack of efficiency less Important than It would have been had the enemy's fleet been possessed of skilled engi neers; but the lesson was learned, and this, added to the other objections al ready mentioned, renders It UJtllkely that this type of engine will again be used. Dressing Without a lMaitraw. Hear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, newly promoted to that grade, who was with Admiral Dewey at tbe battle of Manila, brought back to the United titates many stories of the far East. "I heard of one Incident," said he, "that Illustrates hew alert Japan has been to take on the ways of civiliza tion. "At an early day lu the career of new Japan some ladies of Tokyo de cided to adopt Anglo-Saxon dress, aud so they ordered elaborate wardrobes from Paris, sending explicit Instruc tions that tbe garments should be packed In cases in tbe order In which tbey were to be worn. "These order were carefully carried eut, lingerie going Into tbe boxes first, and so on, to the ultimate outer flounces and furMows. "But by some mischance," Admiral Coghlan added, "tbe caaea were labeled wrong aide up, and tbe guileless Jap anese ladlea proceeeded In doe time to array themselves In reverse order, with what results may be discreetly left to the imagination." Philadelphia PoaL la writing a Utter, the gnat genltu t th oae who rswexben what ihovld laftaat Ml iEii ft 1.5. v I KATHER1NE M. NOSTAULK. s .a. . s e a j TTTTTTTTTTf OLD- FAVORITES I -M- On the Pbores of Tennenaee. "More uiy armchair, faithful Ponjpey, In the sunshine, bright aud strong, For this world is fading, Pompry Majsa won't be with you long; And I fain would hear the south wiud Bring once more the sound to me Of the wavelets softly breaking Oa the shores of Tennessee. "Mournful though the ripplrs murmur As they still the story teil. How no vessels float the banner That I've loved so long and well; I shall listen to their music, Dreaming that again I see Stars and Stripes on sloop and shallop Sailing up the Tennessee. "Aud, Ptimpey, while old massa's waiting For Death's lust dispute!) to come. If that exiled starry banner Should come proudly sailing home, You shall greet it, slave u- longer; Voice and hand shall both be free That shout and point to Union colors Oa the waves of Tennessee." "Massa's berry kind to Ponipey, But ole darkey's happy here. Where lie's tended corn and cotton For dese many a long-gone year. Over yonder missis' sleeping No one tends her grave like me; Mebhe she would miss the flowers She used to love in Tennessee. " 'Pears like she was watching tuassa; If Pompey should beside him stay Mebhe she'd remember better How for him she used to pray Telling bim that 'way up yonder White as snow his soul would he ItaiLsozncd by the Lord of heaven, Out of life in Tennessee." Silently the tears were rolling Down the poor old dusky face, As he stepped behind his master. In his long-accustomed place. Then a silence fell around them As they gazed on rock and tree, Pictured in the placid waters Of the roiling Tennessee. Master dreaming of the battle. Where he fought by Marion's side. Where he bid the haughty Tarleton Stoop his lordly rreft of pride; Man remembering how yon sleeper Once he held u;on his knee, Ere she loved the gallant soldier, Italph Vervain, of Tennessee. Still the south wind fondly lingers 'Mid the veteran's silver hair; Still the bondman, close beside him, Stand behind the old armchair; With his dark-hued hand uplifted Shading eyes, he bends to see Where the woodland, boldly jutting Tunis aside the Tennessee. Thus he watches; cloud-born shadows Olide from tree to mountain crest; Softly creeping, aye and ever. To the river's yielding breast. Ha! above the foliage yonder Something flutters wild and freel "Massa! Massa! Hallelujah! The flag's come back to Tennessee!' "Pompey, hold me on your shoulder, Help me stand on foot once more. That I may salute the colors As they pass my cabin door; Here's the paper signed tbat frees you tiive a freeman's frhout with me! ';1 and Union" he our watchword Evermore in Tennessee!" Then the trembling voice grew fainter And tbe limbs refused to stand; One prayer to Jesus and the soldier Olided to tbat better land. When the flag went down the river Man and master both were fro?. While the ring-dove's note was mingled With the rippling Tennessee. Etheliuda E. Beers. All the News in the Head. "I suppose our western country has furnished more funny things in the epi taph line than all the rest of the world." remarked ex-Congressman Lafe Pence of Colorado at the I'.lggs House. "I remember one that adorned the cemetery at Ieadvllle lu tbe palmy days of that great mining camp. It seems that in the course of a bar room broil one Jim O'Brien, a well known character, had his existence ter minated prematurely. He was a good fellow lu the main and not without friends. One of the dead man asso ciates, In deep grief over bis demise, erected a wooden slab over his grave on which he bad written In large let ters: " 'Jim O'Brien departed for heaven at 8-50 a. m." "A local humorist happened along soon afterward and appended the fol lowing: " Heaven, 4:20 p. m., O'Brien not yet arrived. Intenso excitement. Tbe worst Is feared.' "Washington Post. Pet Words In IHers lure. There are pet words In literature words which become the fashion for a time and then take rank again In ob scurity, Thus In the eighteenth cen tury we find such words as "vastly," "hugely," "the quality," "genteel," etc. "Elegant" still lingers conspicuously In America and In England at tbe present time especial favor seems to be shown to "convincing," "weird" and "strenu ous." The Camera in Business. Tbe camera promises to become as In dispensable In business affairs a tbe typewriter. It la now being used In tbe reproduction of documents, statis tical tables and others pipers whose duplication by band would be laborious and expensive. it can usually be depended upon that a man who la tang oa hair la short a ... . - t f-r-J- C O O D Short gtoiie$j At a dinner recently. ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed gave this definition of fame: "It is largely a matter of acci dent. Being In the right place at the right time, and doing the right thing, or, better still, making people think you arc doing the right thing, is about all there is to fame." A committee once called on Wu Ting fang, the Chinese minister who has been ordered home, to request him to address a society connected with one of the fashionable churches of Washing ton. Casual mention was made of the fact thnt the youthful pastor of the church had recently resigned, to enter upou a new field of labor on tbe Pacific Coast. "Why did lie resign'" asked Mr. Vu. "Because he had received a call to another church," was the reply. "What salary did you pay him?" "Four thousand dollars." "What is his pres ent salary'" ' Eight thousand dollars." "Ah!" said the disciple of Confucius; "a very loud call!" An amusing story is told of a victim of the Johnstown flood of lS-SH, who, when he reached Paradise, ascended a cloud that served within the pearly gates as rostrum, and undertook to thrill bis new-made acquaintances among the shades with an account of the disaster through which be hud passed. He was Interrupted by a gray beared old man In the group. "A mere bucketful a mere bucketful!" the old fellow piped; "don't waste so much time talking of a small affair like that!" The Johnstown man resented this, aud bunted up St. Peter, of whom he asked: "Who Is that old codger who seems to think our flood such a trifling matter?" "That " said St. Peter; "why, that's Noah." M. A. Brlsson relates an anecdote in the Temps of a certain well-known Frenchman, an octogenarian, who spent most of his time in his younger days In Paris bunting up valuable books among the second-hand bookshops in the neighborhood of the Place St. Michel and the Place Dauphlne. He rarely came across a "find," but Ills fervor never abated. He was a bachelor, and for a housekeeper had an extremely plain woman, who, however, had caught from her master tbe tate for old books, and occasionally came home with an armful when she bad been marketing. One day the housekeeper appeared with n parcel of books wrapped in pa per and asked her master to look at them. Among the rubbish was a small volume bound in red morocco. "What have you paid for this?" the master gHsped after looking at the title page. "Thirty sous for the lot," the servant replied. "But, my good woman, this book alone Is worth 10,000 irancs!" tbe bibliomaniac went on, nud the moment ifter regretted the unwise speech. The woman pricked up her ears, .and In rain did the master try to recall his re mark. "I'll give you 100 francs for it," he said. "But monsieur said Just now It was worth 10,000." "I'll give you jOO." "No, no." "Seven hundred and fifty." But It was no use, and. to make 1 long story short, the master married the Uiune in order to obtain the first sdltlou of the "Heptamerou" (l,"wib. By this time, says M. Brlsson, the wife has rone to a better world, but the eomtcsse md the portrait of Marguerite lu the 'Ittle red morocco volume remain with aim. TALE OF A SEA TURTLE. Horjr Told by the Hurker at the Coney l.land Bwitchhack. "It was this way," said the man with Jje whiskers, pointing to an enormous wu turtle In the Coney Island switch back Inclosure. "I w as down at the old Iron Pier this morning, fishing for blackflsh when I got a terrible tug on my line. "I thought it was one of them dog fish sure, and I hauled my toe up in ny shoe, because dogfish have an un "hrlstian liking for big toes, 'specially Ihose you get at the pier. But, no, when I hauled a bit on the line, the tgly head of this critter looked out of ;he water at me, an' most scared me ter leflth. "Now, right alongside of me was Cole, of the Buffalo Aquarium. " 'Kay,' says he, 'haul the head of that Donster out of the water again till I get a look at him.' "I tugged a little on the line and the ld boy stuck his nose out once more. " 'Testudinata, by gum!' snys Cole, who's a scientific guy. " 'Wbat'r says I. " 'Cheloulan! says Ode. "Then be rushes down the pier and rets old man Mac and a lot of fellows with boat hooks and In the course of an iour tbey hauled this feller out. Think if It, catching this thing right here at Coney Island. Why, he weighs M.t ixjunds, and Cole says 1-c Is about 127 years old." This was at 10 o'clock on Saturday light aud a large crowd listened to the ipeech of the man with whiskers. Then with few exceptions the people bought i( kets for a ride on the switchback. Tbe man with tbe whiskers disnp eared behind the artificial waterfall, md didn't come out until the first rowd bad disappeared and another junch taken Its place. Then he told he story all over again with the same vaults. Tbe crowds swallowed the story Mgerly. There was the turtle, every lit of 581 pounds, and every bit of 127 rears old, to prove tbe truth of tbe 'are. There were barnacles oa hla MMfc to show a recent acquaintance rtth oees Ma water. Tbea la the back . . . Mill -fr ground stood tbe man who said he vjt Cole, of the Buffalo Aquarium, read to back up anything the man of whiskers said. Only the futile looked bored, and, goodness knows, he had good reason to do so. To be put to such base uses at his advanced age is even more than a turtle should be expected to stand. The truth of the whole matter Is tbat this turtle has been doing a press, agent's work for twenty years. He wast caught off the old Iron Pier at Coney Island on Saturday morning. Just as the man with whiskers said be was; but what the man neglected to slate was that, lsitiud in a dozen coils of stout rop", he was first sneaked out on the pier aud dropped overlmard. Then the man with the whiskers dropped an ordinary bass line with a small hook on It and baited with a luclous bug right down on his nose, uf course, the turtle took if, ami then he was hauled ashore by the rope, taken to the switchback enclosure, and bark ed about by the hour, to the great en richment of the switchbackniau's treas ury. This turtle is the first and only press agent of his kind tbat ever worked pro vincial New Yorkers at the seashore. When he finishes bis Coney Island sea son he will lie caught off the pier at At lantic City, and later on he wIU re uppear at a Florida n-sort coming to Uie surface on a bass hook, held once Mure by the steady hand of the eloquent rean of whiskers.-New York Sun. Htory of I'uiqoe Dormitory. Dean Hoffman was noted for uhar Itable impulses, which his large Iuvoiuq allowed him to Indulge In. Some years ago the dean Invested heavily lu bind In a small Southern town which waa then enjoying a "boom" period. Among the dean's other investments was a beaati f til little hotel, exquisitely uppohiled and perfect in every detail, says the New York Times. After a whik? the "boom" fell through and the little hotel became a losing Investment. At this time the chancellor of the Uni versity of the South, an old friend of Dean Hoffman, was on a hunting trip with him In the mountains of Nvrth Carolina. "We are badly lu need of u dormitory down at Suwaiiee," said the chanciUur. "Yes?" said Hoffman and sat think ing for a moment. "Well, you can have the hotel building down at li ," mim ing the town. "You can take It to pieces and move It to Suw aiiee; it oeght to make a pretty little dormlory." Tbe chancellor was greatly pUsukmI and made all the arrangements to stove the hotel, when, to bis astonlshmtat, the citizens obtained an lujuns-tion against its removal, on the grounds that the hotel, in a way, was public Biup crty, and that to remove It would luuvij the town without any hotel accommo dations. A legal fight followed, but tbe university won In the end. So the Uni versity of the South revels In the lux ury of the most unique dormitory le the world. His F pita ph. Mexicans are fond of epitaphs, they rejoice In eulogies, tbey like to honor their dead. Their attachment for rel atives Is great, and tiionumeirta aud flower-strewn graves show that the departed are not forgotten. The de ceased may have left a bud record, and his friends may be anxious that his conduct should I forgotten; still, this docs nut debar him from a neatly word ed eulogy. Just outside of the cemetery at Vera Cruz there stands a fine monument which murks the resting nlaee of a notorious outlaw, whose cruelty and Vnu-oce miuie hns name a constant menace to all jieaee and order. His wife, lu spite of harsh treatment, waa bis faithful servant to the lost, and after Ids death thought that site would show her resiM-ct for his memory. She could not smuk of his nobility and worth, and no, after much consid eration, she caused the following in scription to be engraved uixm the tomb: "Juan Fernandez bus pass ed to his reward; he was an unerring shot and kuew no fear; owing to cir cumstances over which he bad no control his talents were perverted from their proper course, - but tbe world should be grateful for his life, hm his example sbtnds as a timely warning to the rising generation. They Hurled Him on Musplclou. Tbe following Incident Is reunited to have occurred In a Midland division court: A certain person who figured on the register was objected to by one of the agents on the ground that be was dead. Tbe revising barrister de clined to accept the assurance, and de manded conclusive testimony on tbe point. i Thereupon the agent of the other side rose and gave corroborative evidence as to the decease of the gentleman In question. And pray, sir, how do you know the man's dead?" demanded the barrister. Well." wis tbe reply. "I don't know. It's very difficult to prove." 'As I suspected." returned th Imm barrister. "You don't know whether he s dead or not." The barrister glanced triumphantly round the court. Ills expression grad ually underwent a change a the wit ness coolly continued: "I was ssytng. sir, that I don't know whether be la dead or not, but I do know this: Tbey buried blm about a month ago on suspicion." London TH-Blts. Hsslstlaa Arree. "You say you fought at Ohlckamau gV" Interrogated tbe leaa-aoaed won an. "Sea, mntn," responded the ftaaty wayfarer., "Whowithr "De ibcrtfl .--OhKago Newt .