. -lai
ALL FOR HIS COUNTRY'S SAKE
.a. a 1. 1. t t t..i.i.i,i
TtTTtTTTTTTT t
H DON'T like to shoot you, Franz,
Fil like to take you alive."
"Perhaps It would be better.
Wait a moment, Charley," replied tbe
man addressed, try lug to extricate his
leg from beneath his fallen horse.
Xt was a tragre half minute in t hi iife
of Franz Van Ithyit, and the fatal hour
of Col. Charles Cooper of the West Pro
vinee Moutiied rilles.
A bullet from the colonel' revolver
bad slain the steed from under his for
me, college chum, and the lattr lay
struggling with bin ritle to defend him
self from capture by the Friti-h. His
arm and leg were torturing: bim with
.pain, caused by splinters from an ar
tillery shell.
i "I'll n -ver be taken alive." said the
Afrikander to li.iiis.lt. "No amnesty
for me. if 1 a:y eapttired. All is fair in
love and " y
Kut he did not finish the thought.
Why waste the word, when he had liv
ed, moved and had his being In war,
war, war not love for a whole league
of months. HtK rifle was free by this
time and he 1 if t til It to bis shoulder
his left should' r, for he was born with
this peculiarity.
Col. Cooper saw the movement and
fired a sain, but the ball went wild. It
was a perilous moment for him, for
the Chambers of his revolver were now
empty, and be wheeled his horse about
In the direction of retreat.
"Don't go," yelled Van Khyn. "You
have had thn-e shots at me. Now give
me a chance."
No response !n words came back to
"SOW GIVE MB A CUASCE."
this bantering cry, but the clear air
bore to the Hoer marksman the sound
of a fallen body's Impact upon the
earth. The Afrikander had punctured
his challenge with a leaden exclama
tion point!
As Cooper fell another Englishman
galloped to the spot.
"Now, you Boer fool." he cried, "it
Is your turn." But the rifle of the crip
pled marksman answered him with a
grim laugh in its own peculiar accent
and another pool of Anglo-Saxon blood
bathed the head of Capt. Wilson in a
crevice of the donga. It was late in
the afternoon and the declining sun shot
long shadows across the veldt.
Col. Charles Cooper, the former col
lege mate and friend of Franz Van
Hhyn, was not dead. As the Boer mov
ed toward the bridle on Wilson's rid
erless horse, the English trooper lifted
himself, bleeding and fatigued, to level
8 freshly-loaded bullet. No one will
ever know what his thoughts were as
Jie looked, for the last time, upon the
enemy who had once been his special
protege in school, the former 14-year-old
boy whose quarrels with the bullies
of the Cape Town academy had always
been his quarrels, the subject of many
fist tight in which he had made good
his claim to the friendship of Fran
Van Khyn. Only the latter's thoughts
are left to speak for the tragedy of this
moment, when another Afrikander bul
let lore through the Englishman's
vitals and left him still as the breath
Of nature among the sand doons.
. "j cuM not have done it," murmured
the Boer as he led two English horse
to the rear of a mound; "but I would not
be taken alive. It wm either his life
or mine."
Behind the mound there lay in the
worst tortures of fever hia superior
officer. Commandant Albert Maritz,
holding up bis bead with difficulty to
Inquire after the Issue of the battle.
With tender care, even by the man who
was himself in pain, the ranking soldier
was assisted into the saddle of one
horse and Van Khyn climbed with the
Id of hia uninjured band Into the other.
Once again he was compelled to dis
mount and meet face to face an Eng
lish cavalryman who sought to capture
the refugees. Another bullet and an
other death In the British ranks. Franx
Van Bbyn and Albert MariU were now
Mfp on their way to Koegas, acroaa the
Border of the German province In West
Africa.
"I did It on your account aa much aa
mj own," said Van Bbyn, but hia com
panion waa too alck to aak aa explana
tion. It waa on June B, 1002, that the two
wretched troopers engaged In this floal
ha tt) of Garles aeveral day after
fence bad bee declared. It kf tme, hot
aaad necessary by the I asp state ami-fir
of the fmttrlvea toward the BrK
C j crown. Tote) la the explanation that
tot 'Ova hHBwtf baa Mate of Ma
-. E aa asaAe it with a na-
.S test a rata, whan hai ttoa-Btf
-;t,C.t32 erf Dei Oeese,
.?..LJ,J..I.JtJt4fX.l.iLtLA
a a W V
to the recollection of the cause for
which he fought, the principle of 1he
British and the overthrow of Kruger.
Franz Van Hhyn is an exile from his
native land and he has told his tale as
an explanation of his presence in the
r t'niled Ktati-s." Maritz Is dead, as he
could not long survive the" fever that
beset him, and his body now lies in
American soil.
"The poor fellow was regarded by the
Boer as their fourth commandant in
the scale of liujKirtance." said the sur
viving soldier as he finished the account
of the diath of Col. "Charley" Cooper.
"He and 1 together rais. d II.iniO men in
Cape Colony to tight for the African re
public. "After we had made ourselves safe
la (iernian territory we took a vch-1
and went to Maderia. Thence we ship
ped to Southampton, remaining there
several days in disguise. We called
ourselves the brothers Wilson, and
during our stay there uiy hand never
left the butt of my revolver. It would
have gone hard with the inau who tried
to take me. When the health of Com
nianitatit Maritz permitted we Railed
for America. Maritz died at Chicago.
Of the rest of the twenty-six mtn that
made the ride from I.ilyfontaine to the
Cerman liorder or were taken on the
field at Caries I know nothing."
The name of Van Hhyn was made fa
mous in Denver recently by the report
of his intention to start an ostrich
farm in Colorado. The Boer tighter
has determined to make this his home
until the English see tit to Issue him
a pardon. This lie does not expect, and
hence he will engage In the endeavor
with which he Is familiar and Import
osrricbs from his fatiier's farm to
fctart a flock of his own.
Van Hhyn is only 2'! years old, accord
ing to his own statement, but he tells
a remarkable story. One would be
prone to doubt it if he did not carry
papers that Beem to establish his iden
tity and lend credence to what he says.
He wears on his vest a medal of the
Matabele war in 1W3, when he says he
fought with the Charter company of
Cecil Rhodes; also a Mollobach medal
which he says was presented to him by
President Kruger.
TREE AS AN INQUISITOR-
Bears Fruit Which Malagasy Think
Poisonous, Fatal Only to Criminals.
There Is a peculiar tree indigenous
to Madagascar which Is believed by
the natives to possess the power of
divination. They are firmly of the
opinion that, while an ordinary person
may eat its fruit with impunity, a
criminal will die after partaking of
the smallest morsel of It. The tree
is known as the tangen. For centuries
it wag the custom to use the fruit of
the tangen for the purpose of ascer
taining whether criminals charged
with grave offenses were guilty or not.
In each case the prisoner was
brought Into court and the judge
thereupon solemnly banded him a fruit
from a tangen tree and told him that
if he ate It and it did him no harm he
would be considered innocent, but that
if it killed him he would be considered
guilty. As there Is a great deal of
poison in the fruit it can readily be
seen that very few, if indeed any, were
able to pass through this ordeal un
scathed. It is said that some criminals who
had great political influence or consid
erable wealth managed to escap
through the connivance of the Judges,
but, on the other hand, the criminal
records tell of many rases in which
prisoners died a horrible death very
soon after they had eaten the noxious
fruit.
More civilized methods of adjudica
tion now prevail in Madagascar, but
though this barbarous custom is obso
lete, the tangen tree Is regard?d with
almost as much aversion as it ever
was. A proof of this may be found
In the fact that a French naturalist
recently tried to obtain some branches
and fruit of the trees, but, though he
asked several natives to aid him in
the search he waa unable to obtain the
slightest assistance from any of them.
The Jewelry Peddler.
There ia apparently about as much
trust in the Jewelry business as there
Is between brokers on the stock ex
change. A large number of the big
manufacturing Jewelers permit tbs
curbstone brokers In Jewelry to have
large stocks of goods on memorandum,
and it la rare for one of these men
to defraud the Arm. They carry their
stocks to down town offices, where
Wall Street men congregate. It baa
been found that many men who would
never go to a Jewelry store are tempt
ed to bny articles which are displayed
to them by the Jewelry peddler. From
the standpoint of the wholesale dealer
this business Is conducted almost en
tirely on credit The curbstone broker
takes the article on memorandum and
pays only for the goods which be suc
ceeds in telling.
Jto Daab A boat Him.
. Jonee Hamilton la a pretty good ex
ample of what a business man ongbt
to be.
Brown la aome waya, yes, but then
be'a M terribly deliberate Why, I've
known him apend ten minutes over
hia noonday tench. Boaton Tran
script. Hera la a hdpfal hint to the girts:
The man who carrtee hip change In a
pocket hook stay ha rich aotne any,
hat U wd peaa arery Mm fchj wife
n'. J pr ft Can.
WINTER CAMPS IN THE LIMBER WOODS
ARE THE TRUE ESSENCE OF LIBERTY
THERE Is pleasure and Independence In the winter life In the lumber
woods that is more than recompense for Its many disagreeable con
ditions," said one who has had persoual experience 'bat life. "The
wholesome exercise, the pure, brisk, spicy air, the very Isolation of
the woods, where, for weeks none In the camp sees anything of the out
side world or even bears from It, conduce to good appetite and good diges
tion, hence to health and cheerfulness and content, so that even the tyro In
the camp can Join with a good heart lu this lusty song of the woodsmen,
with which generations of their robust forbears were wont to begin their
labor or round out the evenings in the fi relit cabin
"The music of our burnished ax
Shall make till woods resound
And runny a lofty, ancient pine
Shall tumble to the gronra.
At nigl.t, around our good rHmpfire,
We'll sing while rude winds blow;
Oh, He'll Hinge the wild wood over
As a-luinbering we go!
"The companionship of the lumber camp Is anything but !, ,.; '.!. The
food is by no means dainty. One docs ni t wrap the drapery of his couch
about him anil lie down to pleasant dreams on a i-pring mattress, for the
couch may be a straw-tick in a boarded hunk, on a pile of fragrant hem
lock or spruce boughs, on the cabin fi'or, ns he may chooso. When be turns
In for the night. If he were Wind his nose would tell him that felt boots
and woolen stockings, in use -ill day in the snow, were drying by the fire.
But freedom Is In the air. Sickness or poor appetite Is unknown. TIip
food, though coarse, Is well cooked. A bad cook in a lumber camp would be
run out of it without delay.
"A lumber camp is a true democracy. F.very man is a good as his
brother, but no better. A ijialcmtent Is shunned by his fell ivvs until he
either sees his folly and becomes congenial or the camp becomes unbearable
to him and lie leaves it.
"Nothing like a life in the woods gives such opportunity for the prac
tical study of animals in the winter. Then the prowling b:ir hides away
timler the ri.mts of some fallen tree, in the hollow log. or even beneath a
coverlet of snow.
"The cunning coon snuggles In some hollow tree or crevice In the rocks
and sleeps away the cold days and nights, ids family huddled about him.
The wooilchuck curls himself up In dry knolls far beneath the reach of
frost. The frisky squirrel tucks himself and his wife away in their leafy
nest In the crotch of some old oak or chestnut tree, and lives like a king
on the store of nuts he an I she have worked all through the fall to gather.
The hedgehog rolls himself up in some snug retreat and sleeps.
"And meantime those winged challengers of the cold, the hawks, the
owls, the woodpeckers, the little chickadees, and others that scorn to seek
the South Ix-cause old Boreas blows, screech and hoot and hammer and
twit, seeking food and pleasure.
"Whatever animal or bird does the woodsman knows It. He knows more
about them than l)oks or bookmakers. Uaily lie learns from the woods
something new nltout animal and plant mid tree, and knows well that
although he continues daily and nightly -of and among them, he has not
years enough to live even If his life be of the longest wherein to learn
it all." New York Sun.
METHODS OF THE SERVANTS IN MANILA
WOULD NOT SUIT THE AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE
FROM my friends here I learn that much of the patriarchal system of
living still prevails even In Manila," says an American woman in The
5utlook. "In some large houses there are from twenty to thirty depend
ents of all degrees, from poor relation to cooks and scullions. These
persons live alsjut the house, sleeping In corners, and aredothed and fed
by the mistress. They marry, have children, and raise them in a harum
scarum way that would drive au American woman to an insane asylum.
Again and again I have seen in one 'of the finest houses? here small naked
children asleep behind the parlor door, while large eyed, placid women nursed
babies, quite unabashed, as they crouched on the floor In the hallways.
These servants have their home, tbelr clothes, food and from three to live
pesos a mouth. In a way. I supiwse, they earn this money, as they non
chalantly jioiish the hardwood floors or carelessly flap dust from the center
of tables and chairs. They git on the floor In kitchens in front of a pan of
water and wash the dishes that are idled up around them, and stack them
edgeways along the wall to dry. Surely their ways are not ours, and It
Is a shock to the nerves to see a kitchen in the heat of preparation for a
banquet of which one Is to partake later. It requires some skill to pass
between the various dishes lieing prepared on the floor, where cats and
dogs and babies, meats and fruits and vegetables, seem hopelessly Jumbled
up. 1 always forget about It later, for a delicious dinner will almost always
come forth from the chaos. Many of these servants have lived all their lives
in one family. They feel themselves dependent on their masters, and the
idea of their going away or being dismissed never occurs to cither master or
servant. There Is consequently a family feeling between them, and a
fteedom of Intercourse that we, democrats though we are, would not tol
erate. A friend told me that his head servant always remonstrates with him
when he disapproves any course of action, mid sometimes I have witnessed
an altercation between a mistress and maid in which the maid prevailed. At
oue house, I remember, there was a difference of opinion at dinner as to the
kind of wine to be served, and the servant had his way; yet they are not
considered Impertinent by their masters."
CLAMS AS RAT-CATCHERS.
Carelesa Rodents Get Too Close to
Stock of Bivalves.
The clam In his time has played
many parts, ranging from a table deli
cacy to the symbol f contentment.
but the clam as a rat-trap, says the
New York Mail and Express, is the
brand-new role successfully essayed
by two large round bivalves recently
in the New York aquarium feed room,
formerly the magazine room when the
building was Fort Clinton.
A barrel or more of hard clams are
kept constantly In the feedroom, as
this is the chief food of a number of
varieties of the fishes and,the Inverte
brates In the collection.
On the occasion In question the keep
ers and attendants In the building
were startled by prolonged squeaks
and acaniperings, coming apparently
from among the clams. The surprise
was made complete when, on opening
the door, they found two rats held pris
oners, one-with a clam on his tail and
the other with a hind foot hard and
fast between the shell of another clam.
The one with his foot fast was un
able to move, but the other scampered
about, the clam bumping up and down
after the manner of the tin can tied to
the caudal appendage of a dog.
Bo ludicrous was the situation that
the keepers were unable to do any
thing but laugh. Examination showed
that the rodents, doubtless In search
of food, bad been reckless of the par
tially opened shells of the clams and
the latter had closed, entrapping the
animals. A clam will stay closed Just
as long as any movement near his shell
Is evident, and the frantic efforts of
tbe rsts to escape only served to make
the odd traps firmer.
Tbe rata were dispatched after ev
ery one within catl bad bad a look and
a laugh, '
GATE TO MATRIMONY.
Case im Demand fee Wnanea Meaasr
rapfcera Dm to Ceptd's i ompatltlaaj.
for worfcan In on oceuptlon the de
mand to MM to bt onf ailing. That la
MM ( bo heeaMi it at ti gate to mat
rimony, and the ranks are constantly
being depleted to recruit wedding pro-!
cessions. For this reason the demand
for women stenographers continues
despite the constant turning out of new
material from the business colh-ges.
From the colleges and schools of Chi
cago the stenographers come In the hun
dreds. They have little difficulty In en
tering the offices of business houses,
corporations, and firms. Their prede
cessors have left to marry the business
man. one of bis clerks, one of tbe cus
tomers with whom she has dealt, or
some one she has met by reason of be
ing In the office.
lu no other line of business, It Is said,
are the. matrimonial chances so good.
The stenographer has more opportunity
than any other of her sisters In other
work to come In contact with eligible
men.
Qualities which help to brighten an
pflice may do the same for a home, and
many men whose buslnes requires
their strictest application, not leaving
them the time for extendwl observai
tlon, discover that the young women
working In tbelr offices possess the at
tributes they would desire lu wives. I
The school teach. It Is argued, may
be Just as pretty and Just as sweets
tempered as the woman engaged In
any other work, but she devoted her
working hours to children whose affec
tion may lie pleasant to have, but not
effective so far as the future Js concern
ed. The stenographer, on the other,
hand, is likely to produce affection In
men who have the ability, If they have
the Inclination, to offer ber a borne.
Chicago Tribune.
Authority on Chinese.
The Jesuit Peter Zottoll, 76, who
died at Khanghal recently, was a lead
ing authority on the Cblnese language
and literature. For many years be
had been at work on a dictionary,,
which, completed, will comprise ten.
or twelve voluroea.
We wlah we lived under $ hadga,
and that some pretty girl would no'
wHd with delight Ct
OndlSf m In
Mooa aa aarly.
A new and revised edition of Ste
fdien Paget'g ' KxperlmenJs on Ani
mals," with an Introduction by Ird
Lister, Is published by the Messrs. Put
tiam. J. A. Hammerton, of London, is alout
to publish a volume of Stevniwmiana,
to consist of extracts from magazines
ml other periodicals relating to Ste
venson. It has become known that Andrew C
Wheeler (Nym Crinkle), who recently
died on hisi farm in Uockbuid County,
was the ".I. 1". M." whose striking es
ays and books have bad a large popu
larity In these later years.
Ralph Fl-1cher Seymour Is th pub
lisher of "Circs and I'crscpboiie." a
ihild play by Miss Maud Menefec. The
Itemcter myth Is retold for children in
simple lyrical dialogue and Mr. Lung's
tra.:"!.'it;on of the "i!"mi; to i?c:nctcr"
is appended..
or middle height, whlte-lcilred and
ruddy-f.-ici d. Jules Verne l .oks like a
sea captain w ho Is spi tiding the au
tumn of a we!l-liilcd life on shore. Al
though 74 years old. suffering from cat
aract and lame in one leg, the old gen
tleman Is hearty of manner and bright
ly Interested in all the world's doings.
Prof. John Ward Stimson's long ex
pected work on art and the pbilos phy
of beauty. "The Cato neautiful." is at
last iinmmiicid for early publication by
Albert Brandt, of Trenton. N". .1. It
will be a quarto of j'Jn pages mid Is to
contain several th ms.ind Illustrations
Mid two color charts, one being printed
in twenty four colors.
Paul Laurence Dunbar, a lit Ij-.r of
"Lyrics of Lowly Life," "Poems of
Cabin and Field." etc., has Just read
the proofs of a new volume of poems
which will be a companion to bis
"Lyrics of Lowly Life" and "Lyrics of
the Hoarthsidc." For the most part it
Is made up of dialect pieces and will
lxiir the title "Lyrics of I.ove and
Laughter."
It Is said that the novel by John D.
JJarry entitled "A 1 laughter of Tin s
pis," which L. C. Page A: Co. have In
press, is one of the few accurate stories
of American stage conditions that has
ever been written. Mr. Harry's stories
of theatrical life have already been
highly praised by the reviewers,
among others by William Archer, the
leading dramatic critic of England.
MIrh Mary Johnston's new romantic
love story. "Sir Mortimer." will follow
Mrs. Humphry Ward's "Lady Hose's
I laughter" In Harper's Magazine. The
Femes of the story are laid in Knghind
at the court of Queen Elizabeth and on
the sea. The heroine is a celebrated
beauty who is ladydii-waiting to Queen
Elizabeth, while the hero Is a gallant
officer In her Majesty's miniature navy.
'David Harum" has passed into its
ne hniiiirisl and llrst edition, which
Messrs. D. Apph tou & Co. Issued Im
mediately after the holidays. In the
matter of popularity expressed in num
bers it now takes llrst rank In Anierb
tm Hell hi, "Hen Hur" and "FticU
Tom's Cabin" being Its only rivals. Th
book's first century of editions wn
celebrated ill October last with llf
issue of pl.inxi copies, printed on a spe
clal paper in a fcpechll binding. It wai
entirely disposed of by Dec. 1, complet
ing a total sale of WiI.ium copies. The
new edition will appear In the family
yellow- cover, with full-page lllustra-
Jons by Cllnehurst.
He Needed Clothes.
A Western Senator brought to the
Capitol a good story about Mlulslet
Howen, which the minister himself re
cently told at a dinner.
'I was asked some days after I ar
rived here In Washington," said Mr.
Howen, "why I had stuck so closely to
my rooms at the hotel and not showed
myself around town.
"The only reply was a rather painful
one, but, nevertheless, fully truthful
It was because I hadn't the clothes."
Thereupon a.r. Howen told how he
had been com missioned to hasten
North suddenly and without opportuni
ty to provide himself with the heav
ler wearing apparel necessary for resi
dence In a cold climate. As soon a
he reached town he put a local tailor
to work upon an outfit.
, The hardship of the situation was
that Mr. Howen had ordered some rai
ment from Indon, and this was com
ing across the Atlantic in a British
bottom, which was one of the very
first ships to be held up by the block
ading fleet of the allies. There was
no help for It, and Mr. Ho wen's Lon
don clothes, such as are necessary foi
proper appearance In polite society.
sre still somewhere In South America.
He hud reason, therefore, for being
personally grateful when the blockade
Was raised and his clothes had an op
portunity to go forward to Caracas.
iV'oshlngton Post.
1ondon Hnnday Newspapers.
They have started a Hundar news-
fiaper In Ixndon. It Is of the strict It
religious order, however, and It offers
a bottle of water from the Hirer Jor
dan to every person who subscribes fop
tlx copies. The water Is guaranteed
(enulne, having been dipped out and
Kittled under tbe direct supervision of
be leading clrlsena of Jericho and
lethlebem.
Tba people do not give but man th
right to tray n eecood boree If be hu
roar tin wno are atUl walking.
Science
Carborundum melts only at a tem
perature far almve that ordinarily gen
erated for smelting ores and metals. It
Is therefore proposed as a coating for
lire bricks, to be applied as a pasto
with sodium silicate, and tests have
shown that a twelfth-inch coaling pro
tects the bricks 'from the greates theat
of ordinary work with metuls.
; The diving apparatus of Signor Pino,
an Italian engineer, consists of a kind
of globular boat provided with deli
cately jointed mechanical arms, uhtl
With this It is practicable to reach the
sea beil at a depth of UK) yards, and
to perform any kind of work. In a
test near Cenoa, the Inventor descend
ed to the bottom and returned with
the greatest ease.
Alloys are usually more fusible than
the least fusible metal contained, and
ihey are almost always heavier or
denser than the average of their tin
'combined constituents. A remarkable
exception to both rules Is an alloy of
IS. 87 per cent-of aluminum and M.13
per cent of antimony. I'.oth metal
melt at ab-.ut CiO di g. C, while tho
alloy requires a heat of lust) dog. C.,
and the speoiile gravity of the latter
Is only -4,'JIS Instead of .VJlio, which
1t would be If there were no cliango
of voluni". In other words. 7.0" cubic
Inches of aluminum and 12.07 of anti
mony produce 2.'l.71 cubic inches of al
loy, '
It is suggested ill the October, 11)02,
Iiillletin of the Trinidad Hotanical De
partment that pitcher plants, which
possess the property of capturing and
killing insects that venture Into their
Howers. could be profitably employed
ln preventing the ravages of cock
roaches among orchids. P.y Inter
spersing the pitcher plants among the
orchids It is believed that the orchids
would be, to a great degree, protected,
because the pitcher plants have an at
traction for such Injurious Insects as
cockroaches, and seldom let them get
nivay. The pitcher plant nourishes tin
ker conditions of bent and moisture
tUlte similar to those that are most
favorable to orchids,
j It ha been found that the bacterici
dal effect of the arc-light Is much su
perior to that of sunlight, because the
Very rapid ultraviolet radiation from
the sun Is absorbed by the atmosphere.
A rapid oscillation high-tension are,
particularly when formed between iron
points, gives off an abundance of ul
fro violet rays of extremely short-wavo
length. Quarts is transparent to this
light, of which It transmits OG per cent,
itit gelatine a'nd an oxide of iron, even
n thin film of It, are entirely opaque.
Ice Is as transparent as air to these
fays, but blood Is opaque, and accord
ingly, In applying tbe-m to the human
body, they are passed through ice
pressed upon the region affected so as
to make It bloodless. f
There Is a "platinum problem" as
well as a coal problem, and a writer in
Science says It has become a very
Serious one, because while the demand
jfor this metal has rapidly Increased
luring the past few years, the supply
fins been diminishing. Mines contained
u two small districts lu the I'ral
iilouutilns have long been the world's"
.hlef source of platinum. Two Hus
tdan families, the Demldoffj and thd
houvaloffs, are tho principal owner
of these mines, liecently a rich fludj
of platinum has been reported In the
jmore northerly of the two districts, at
floroblagodatsk, along the lilver les
and its tributaries. Formerly some of
Jhe sands produced as much as one
ounce of platinum to the ton, but lati.
)y this has been reduced to one or two
pennyweights. The new diggings are
said to rival the richness of the older
nands.
Cool and Impaaatve.
Judge Johnson was hearing a case In
criminal court. The prosecution was
being represented by the assistant dis
trict attorney, who thundered his arl
guments at the head of the prisoner!
and sent the circumambient air la
surging waves up against tho four walla
of the courtroom. At one of his most
startling stages of oratory he dis
charged a volley of accusations with
such force that the plastering feLJ
from one corner of the ceiling. Judge
Johnson remained cool and Impassive
hs be sent out for the Janitor to whom
jie pointed out the pile of debris.
"Mr. Janitor," he said, "please take
that court piaster over to the Jail hos
pital, where they may need It Now,
Mr. PrescotL"
Itatween lllclj asjd Poor.
In English law courts too much dis
tinction Is made between poor and
wealthy parties. This state of affairs
Is partly attributable to the want of
a code of criminal law and procedure.
The mysteries of the law of the En
glish Jurists of to-day are what tba
mysteries of tbeologlc dogma were for
priestcraft of mediaeval times. Die
Belt, Vienna.
A Butterfly Farm.
Near Scarborough, England, a farm
lists for rearing moths and butter
flies. Half an acre of land has been
planted with trees and shrubs for the
purpose. In their season the stock
of caterpillars Is twenty rbousaud.
From thirty to forty thousand pre
served Insects are kept lu reserve, se
that butterflies and moths can be sup
plied Irrespective of the time of year.
Mo many women are killing men of.
late that tbe newspspers must lie n
terestlng reading to tbe equal auffraa
sits.
Wt never wm a cent on a Up or a
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