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Au interesting picture of the stage if our forefathers was drawn by Sir Henry Irving during an address deliv ered in Bath, England, at the unveil .ng of a memorial tablet to James Quin. After his retirement in 1751. Quin lived in Bath for fifteen years. He had been au actor for more than thirty-five years. For more than half that period he had held his own against all competitors until the ad vent of David Garrick, who reformed Ihe stilted style of declamation then in vogue. “Theatrical audiences in those lays,’’ said Mr. Irving, “must have been rather ‘fearful wildfowl.’ and often exacting more when they were pleased than when they were angry. There was always a danger that they would tear up the benches, or that some cf them would rush upon the stage and deliver a general assault and battery. On one occasion, when Rich was attacked by a drunken noble man. Quin saved his life by some vig orous swordplay. “The actor’s vocation then was full of stirr'r.g variety. Quin was a man of the readiest wit, and he is sai4 to have employed it successfully in tell ing stories to an audience to keep them from rioting when the play was waiting for some royal persor.nge. who had forgotten the time. Horace Walpole tells us that Quin, when pressed to play the part of the Ghost in ‘Hamlet'—a part he considered be neath him—would make no answer but. T won't catch cold behind.’ ‘The Ghost,' says Walpole, 'is always ridicu lously dressed, with a morsel of armor before and only a “block'’ waistcoat and breech behind.’ “The story how Quin befriended James Thomson, whom he found in prison for a debt of £70, is a worthy illustration of the actor's character. He ordered supper and claret—a good deal of claret—and when the bottle was going round he said with grim ' humor. 'It is time we should balance I accounts. “The unfortunate poet, who was already alarmed at this burly visitor, took him for another creditor. “ ‘Mr. Thomson,’ said Quin, ‘the pleasure—I have had—in reading your —works—I cannot estimate—at less than £100—and I insist on now— acquitting the debt.’ And then he put down the money and walked out with out another word." Broke the Riding Record “You people who came here since the railroads were built have an idea that we used to have a had time cf it in getting about Washington terri tory," said the old-timer the other day. “That’s where you are wrong. Distances were no greater than they are now. True, we didn't always go so fast as you do now, but we made speed that would astonish you. "I remember one trip an old friend of mine made, a big cattleman from Kittitas county, afterward the owner of considerable property in Seattle. His divorced wife was living here, and she took it into her head to go after him through the courts for nonpayment of alimony. There were a number of reasons why he shouldn't pay, but he riidn t care to sjtay here and argue it cut with the courts, so getting a tip on what was doing he decided to go back to the C2ttle in Kittitas. “About tj o'clock one evening, ac ccmpanied by his horse wrangler, who happened to be here with him, he struck out horseback for Ellensburg. The two rode all night—it was in mid summer and at the fuil cf the moon— and the next morning they ate break fast in Ellensburg—lib miles away. And they didn’t think jt was much of a ride at that. “At that time nearly all the Indians on the reservation had a half-breed or at least one pretty gcod horse in his riding string. This particular young half-treed boy had an extra good one, and he was selected to carry the dis patches, being a reliable and faithful fellow. Well, he rode through to Wal la Walla in ten hours, a distance of 120 miles, and during the ride he nev ! er slowed down from a gallop. That was in midsummer, and if you ever 1 have been in that Snake river region at this season oi the year you can im agine that was some riding.”—Seattle Post-Intelligence. Captured School of Fish One day in November several years ago the good people living on the Mas sachusetts bay shore at the end of Cape Cod were w rought to the highest pitch of excitement by the arrival of an immense school of blaekfish which were on the flats chasing bait, as the small fish they feed on are called, and gradually working inshore. The news spread like wildfire; village stores were hastily closed, schoolboys desert ed school rooms, and even women flocked to the shore. The flats along the coast make out from half to a mile and a half practically level and almost dry at low tide, where at high tide is four to eight feet of water. No school of blaekfish so large as this had ever been heard of. And by good luck the tide was ebbing. Hastily the boats were launched, each taking a half a dozen men and boys, those not rowing being armed with sticks and pieces of board. In a quarter of an hour they were in position, in half circle and to leeward of the fish. “Close in cow.” came from the “commodore," “and make all the noise you can!” And they did. fairly churn ing the water with boards and sticks. The thousands of squid and herring on which the blackfish were feeding assisted in this movement by getting into shoal water as far as possible so that the blackfish could not follow them. The result was inevitable, the fast ebbing tide soon began to leave the big fish in such shoal water that it was difficult for the larger ones to swim. Gradually the circle of boats drew nearer and nearer, and in two hours 90 per cent of the entire school was stranded on the flats. For weeks after the villagers were engaged in tutting up and trying out the oil. The otal catch netted some $25,000, macy )f the fish weighing two tons apiece.— Outing. Whale Fought Ocean Liner Fne Pacific Mail Company's liner Acapulco, which arrived early yester day morning from Panama and way ports, had an exciting experience with a whale off San Bias. The leviathan, floating high out of the water, was enjoying a morning nap and giving its tough hide a sunbath, when the Acapulco came alone. • The lookout sighted the whale and called the attention of the man at the wheel to the slumbering mountain of flesh that floated directly in the liner's path. The quartermaster, who was steering, gave the spokes of the wheel a twist and the Acapulco’s head sheer ed eff a little. A collision was avoid ed, but the Acapulco's side grazed the starboard shoulder of the big fish and jarred the w’hale from shtmberland. The whale was fully awake before the liner had entirely passed. He awoke in a bad temper and made a furious rush at the Acapulco's stern. The whale found the disturber of his dreams a pretty solid sort of fish, but. undaunted by his failure to ram his head through the steel plates, gather ed himself for another charge. He struck the steamer under the stern, and as he bounced off. slashed at the retreating hull with his tail. Then one more rush. This time the whale found his match, for the rap idly revolving propeller landed a be wildering succession of uppercuts on his lower jaw. With a splash of de fiance, the leviathan dived and dis appeared and the people of the Aca pulco saw him no more. Chief Officer Bailey interviewed the quartermaster, who had avoided the whale by such I a narrow margin, and concluded a heart-to-heart sailor talk by advising the steersman in future to “let sleep ing whales lie ”—San Francisco Call. Address to Japanese Dead At a Shinto service recently per- . formed in honor cf the spirits of the dead who fell in the siege of Port Arthur the task of speaking the in vocation (saimon) was performed by Gen. Nogi. He read the following: ‘ This day, the 14th of the first month of the thirty-eighth year of Meiji, I, Nogi Kiten, commander of the third army, with these my comrades, ob serving due ceremory. offer reverence ] U you, spirits of officers anu soldiers of ihe thiid army who have died for your country. More than 210 days have passed since the army landed on the Kwantung peninsula, and throughout all that time you bravely and stoutly fought. You gave your li\es to the points of the enemy’s weapons. Many a one of you per isked amid raging waves and buffet ing storms. But your valiant deeds were not in vain. “If we have seen the enemy’s wir ships completely destroyed in the har bors of Port Arthur, if we have seen hia» fortresses fall, it lias been in truth through the might you left be hind you. We. your comrades, who should have shared your fate, are the recipients of a most gracious mes sage from his majesty the command cr-in-chief. “Here, entering Port Arthur, we stand on places overlooking the hiils. the rivers, the fortifications that your lcval blood has dyed. Noble spirits with due rites of purification and of fering we invoke your presence. Come among us. we pray you, and receive our reverence.” Landing of the Pilgrims The breaking waves dashed high Oil a stern and rook-bound coast. t nd the wood? against a stormy sky Their eiant branches tossed. And the heavy night hung dok The Hills ard waters o'er. When a baud of ixiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes. They the true-hocrtid tame: Not with the roll of the stir: Ing drums And the t*umpct that sings of fame; Nut as the flying came, in silence ard in fear They shook the depths of the desert gloom. Amidst the storm they sang. And the stars heard, and the sea; And th'» sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free; The ocean eagie soared hiom i is nest by the white wave's foam. And the rooking pines of the forest roared— This was their welcome home! What sought they thus a fa'-? Bright webs of tb * mine? The w^al'h of seas the snoils of war? The*, s'mght a faith's pure shrine' Aye. call it holy ground. The soil where first they trod! They have ieft unstained what there they found. t Freedom to worship ‘3od. —Mm. Hemari. I ■ ..... ... .. — j PUERTO PLATA, WHERE U. S. TOOK I CHARGE OF DOMINICAN CUSTOMS j PJaza. Jndependenzza. At Puerto Plata.^ ROMANCE IN CONNECTION WITH SWEDISH DYNASTY Although of peasant extraction Os car II. cf Sweden has for so man/ years been the most imposing and ma jestic looking figure among the sover eigns of the Old World that the news jf his having been forced by illness :r.d old age to surrender his scepter to Ms eldest son and to step down from the throne as incapable of ful filling any longer the onerous duties of rulership will be received with a feeling of regret even in this country, where popular sentiment is so averse to monarchical forms of government. Oscar was until a few months ago a superb specimen of manhood, tower ing head and shoulders over every other king and emperor in Europe with the exception of Leopold of Bel gium, while his wonderfully varied gifts and talents, his unusual culture .*nd his singularly sunny disposition mparted to his manner an extraordi nary charm and fascination that made themselves felt to all those who had the privilege of approaching him. Indeed, for those who believe in the advantages of blue blood and of an cient lineage it was difficult to realize that this grand-looking prince, so tru ly kingly in appearance and yet with 3l so simple and so democratic in his ways, was the grandson of a Pyre nean peasant and the great-grandson on the distaff side of a Marseilles shopkeeper. The Swedish Dynasty. There are lew stories more roman tic than that of the present Swedish dynasty. Gustavus IV.. the last mon arch but one of the House of Vasa, was brought to the throne at the early age of 14 by the assassination of his father in that very palace at Stockholm where Oscar a few days ago turned over the reins of govern ment to his eldest son. Gustavus IV. proved a most unsat isfactory ruler, and in 1809 was de posed by means of a military pronun ciamento, forced to sign his abdica tion after a most dramatic hand-to hand struggle with General Alder kreutz and the officers implicated in the conspiracy and was then ban ished, along with his consort and his children, his uncle taking his place on the throne as Charles XIII. The latter being childless and an admiter of France and of Napoleon, selected the French Field Marshal Bernadotte. who had been hern as a peasant near Pau and who had risen from the ranks, to become his heir, induced the national Diet at Stockholm to ratify his choice and established him in tne Swedish capital as Crown Prince. Bernadotte, who took the name of Charles John, soon made himself the real ruler of the kingdom, associat ing himself heartily with his adopted land, and in 1813, when Napoleon's star began to wane, joined the powers which were striving to crush the em peror. His services in bringing about the latter's overthrow caused the Congress of Vienna to leave him un disturbed in the place which he had attained at Stockholm, and in 1818, on the death of Charles XIII., the last of the Vasa line of kings, he ascended the throne under the title of Charles XIV., his wife, Desiree, daughter of the Marseilles stockbroker Clary and grand child of a Marseilles shopkeep er, becoming Queen of Sweden and Norway. Napoleon Jilted Her. Queen Desiree, it may be added, was at one time betrothed to the first Emperor Napoleon, who jilted her, Her grandson. King Oscar, is the au thority for this assertion, and if will be found likewise in the novel which he published some years ago under the pen name of “O. Frederick” and entitled “A Romance of the Times of Napoleon and of Bernadotte.” Desiree was, according to her grandson, King Oscar, almost heart broken when Napoleon abandoned her for Josephine de Beauhamais, and never forgave him. For, after indig nantly refusing Gen. Junot and Du phot, as well as several other suit i ors supported and sponsored by the emperor, she finally accepted Berna dotte. not because she loved him, but because in her eyes he was the only man capable of contending with Na polecn. The match, as might have been expected under the circum stances. did not turn out happily. Bernadotte. on becoming crown prince and subsequently king of Swe den. lost his head so completely that, forgetful of the fact that he himself was a peasant from the Pyrenees, he reproached his charming wife with the lowliness of her birth, declaring that he had been guilty of a terrible mesalliance and that if he had only waited he might have had any prin cess of the blood in Europe for the asking—this, too, in spite of the fact that he had stood as a soldier on duty on what is now the Place de la Con corde at Paris on the occasion of the execution of King Louis XVI and that he had taken part in thp shout of “Mort aux Tyrans” which greeted the exhibition of the severed head of their monarch to the multitude— words which, along with a Phrygian cap. were found tattooed on his right i arm after his death. Inherited Josephine’s Eyes. Queen Desiree, whose sister Julia ; married King Joseph Bonaparte of Spain and lived with him for a time i at Bordentown, N. J., survived her husband for many years and died < shortly before the Franco-German war. universally beloved In Sweden. 1 and. strangely enough, without ever ! having revisited her native land since the overthrow of the great Napoleon. It is by an irony of fate that Queen i Desiree’s only son. Oscar I, should have fallen in love with Josephine de | I.euchtenberg, daughter of Eugene de Beauharnais. who was the only son of the Empress Josephine, for whose :-ake she had been jilted by Napoleon. In spite of his mother's opposition Oscar I insisted ujion marrying Jo sephine of I.euchtenberg, and in this way the present king of Sweden, Os car II. finds himself a grandson of Desiree Clary and a great-grandson of Empress Josephine, whose singu larly beautiful and expressive eyes he alone of all her descendants is said to have inherited.—“Ex-Attache in Pittsburg Dispatch. Improving the Vernacular. It is hoped that one of the first things dor.e aboard the new battle- • ship South Carolina when it is com- , pleted will be to organize a class in , the pronunciation of its name. Let ] tLe crew, from the captain down, be , trained to "South Car-o-li-na. The j word “Carolina” is pleasing to the ear. ( and is. in its American application. ; of historic significance. The early col- ] ony was named from tfce Latin in hon- < or Charles II. who made the original , grant to the eight lords proprietors. , in 1663. It is. therefore, particularly : distasteful to South Carolinans to hear their state referred to as “South Ca -li I na” and themselves as ’’South Ca’Iee- ] nians.” Such corruptions of the two ] | words are totally inexcusable. Let the j J crew of the “South Car-o-li-na” be < trained in the proper pronunciation of ] - the name, and perhaps in time north- ] i erners who come in contact with the j men of the ship will catch the habit. , But, for heaven's sake, do not have a , “South Ca'lina” in the United States , navy.—Columbia. S. C.; State. I -—-j The Decline of Chivalry. * . Chivalry grew up in Europe as a peculiar institution after the fall of ( the Roman empire and it flourished ( through the middle ages. Its decay set in when Cervantes in his famous “Don Quixote” made it the object of his delicious and satirical ridicule. , Long after the institution of chivalry disappeared its spirit survived in re spect and courtesy to women, and this has been considered one of the highest manifestations of manhood. In the past few decades it has fallen more and more into disuse because the conventional social barriers be tween the sexes are being rapidly leveled and the women are claiming for their sex political, social and moral equality with men. and thus the old order changes and the new social relations are growing up between the sexes. Curious Receipt for Pew Rent. Mrs. Frank Bingham of Bristol, N. H., has a printed receipt, Oct. 20, 1827. for the sale of "One pew situat ed in the Congregational meeting house in said Bristol, on the floor of the same, and numbered 13. at |6, by two several notes of hand of even date herewith; one drawn payable to the town of Bristol for $4 on demand, with the interest annually; the other drawn payable to the treasurer of the First Congregational society .n Bris tol, or order, for $2, in four months, and interest." German Railroads. A report by the Prussian minister of railways states that the interest of the capital invested in railroads in Germany has increased from 4.9 to 7.3 per cent since 1890. The report also savs that the highest speed attained with new locomotives in 1904 was eighty-two miles an hour, but that this speed could not be kept up for any length of time. The minister further recommends that the speed on state lines should not exceed six ty-eight miles an hour. • Born to Die in Bed. An Italian of the name of Robarto was painting some of the iron work of the bridge that spans the great i gorge at Victoria falls, Africa, the other day. The plank on which he 1 was standing tilted and preciptated him down the side of the gorge. He struck the rock three times, turning a half somersault on each occasion, and i eventually landed among the founda tions a hundred feet below. Beyond < three scalp wounds and a severe shak ing and bruising he was none the j worse for his adventure. Hauled from Snowdrift by Engine. “Curly" Edwards, an Ontario & Western railroad fireman, who weighs 235 pounds, got stuck In a snowdrift while on his way to the roundhouse at Middletown. Several men were un able to extricate him from the snow. < As a last resort an engine was run to the scene. A large rope was at tached to “Curly.” A full head of steam was applied, and, with a I mighty effort the engine hauled him from the drift and over a 50-foot bank of snow.—New York World. THE HORRCRS OF WAR. Chicago Journal Calls Slaughter Blot on Civilization. History records no greater battle than that fought between Japan and Russia in and around Mukden. The estimates place the number oi dead at not less than a hundred thousand souls. The figure is so great tiat it beg gars the imagination.. Beet, sides have placed the very flowes of their peo ple in the field, men in the full prime of life. The proportion of officers, men on whom the state had expended its utmost resources to fit them for their trade of death, have died with those they led. And a .hundred thousand nave gone down, “in one red burial blent.” The figure represents the effective male population of a city of three quarters of a million pc-iple. Imagine the dismay that would burst from a norror-stricken world if within a few days that number were to die in such a city. In Chicago, ft* example, it would mean the total destruction of three out of the every eight men* of military age within its limits. Yet. since it is war, there are no expressions of horror and affright at such a loss. It is taken quite as a matter of course. Had a Russian or a Japanese city been so stricken in limes of peace, there would be great mass meetings everywhere to express sympathy with the afflicted and tens of thousands ot dollars in money and supplies would be raised by popular subscription in order to express the world’s practical sense of loss. Is the world no older and wiser for all its centuries of Christianity? [s there no sense of human interest ind proportion that can put an effect ive end to this infernal slaughter?— Chicago Journal. GOVERNOR TO BE SENATOR. James B. Frazier Chosen to Succeed the Late Gen. W. B. Bate. Gov. James B. Frazier was nomi lated by acclamation in joint demo cratic caucus for Democratic senator 'rom Tennessee to succeed the late Jen. W. B. Bate. Robert L. ’Taylor md Benton McMillan refused to go nto the caucus. The nomination is equivalent to an election. Mr. Frazier has served two months >f his second term as governor of rennessee. He was born in Tennes see forty-nine years ago and is a law er. His great-grandfather was a nernber of the first constitutional eon ention of Tennessee in 1796. His ather was appointed judge of the riminal court at Nashville by Andrew fohnson, and was impeached by the Brownlow legislature. He was, how ever. restored to his civil rights by he constitutional convention of 1870, ind elected to his old position. The Stomachless Man. The stomach proper has ceased to >e a serious problem to the surgeon, -le can invade and explore it with im mnity. He can even, if circumstances lemand. relieve the owner of it entire y, and so arrange the loose ends that he functions of nutrition are success- ! ully maintained. To be sure, the pa tent can never thereafter derive nuch pleasure from his meals; he nust restrict, himself to a rigid diet, Hit for all the other affairs of life he nay be as competent as before. There ire to-day several stomachless men vho are earning their daily predigest ■d ration in occupations varying from :lerk to expressman.—McClure's. Censure for Modern Critics. Literary criticism was a bugbear to 3rof. Fraser when he occupied a chair n Johns Hopkins university. He studiously avoided reading book re view’s and had no patience with the spirit in which many of them were vritten. “Modern criticism,'' said he, vhen asked to explain his aversion, ‘seems to me to consist largely in neasuring the wisdom and learning if others by the critic's own ignor ince. Why. one celebrated critic laid iown a rule that no author can suc ceed in describing what he has not ex perienced. He overlooks the fact that Dante had not been in heli nor Milton n paradise.” University Endowment. The Leland Stanford, Jr., university las the greatest en-low’inent of them ill. Its productive funds amount to 520.000. 000 par value. Girard college ?omes next with $17,715,000; then Harvard with $16,755,000, and Colum >ia with $15,847,000. All others are in seven figures instead of eight. And he Stanford endowment is the gift of i single individual or estate, instead )f an accumulation of gifts, as in the ?ases of the other colleges and uni versities. excepting only Girard.— Boston Herald. Millionaire Offers Large Gift. Sir William C. MacDonald, the mil ionaire tobacco manufacturer of Mon real, has offered the Protestant com nittee of the council of public instruc :ion of that city a proposition to en low an agricultural training college ind a college tor the ‘raining of school teachers in the sum of from 52.000. 600 to $4,000J)00. Sir William las selected Prof. Robertson, the man vho developed the Canadian dairy jusiness, as the director of th« scheme. THE MAN WHOSE SIGNATURE MAKES PAPER MONEY GOOD — ~ - : : < > • -» ♦ :: t < > 4 :: : i i t Charles H. Treat, the newly ap pointed treasurer of the United States is to take office at once, and there .... aittr his signature will appear every pieec oi paper money issued t the United States. The office of treasurer of the Ur. States is a most responsible ot * it is doubtful if cne man out of a ! : dred met on the streets conld t* 1 ,u. the name of the man who holds it The treasurer is accountable for ' custody of every dollar of the e v* menr's funds. Every bank note i~ has the guarantee of the governne behind it, as coin or bonds art d posited to secure it. Hence, In fer* .1 bank rote is legal it must bear signature of the treasurer. MIRACULOUS ESCAPES ON MANCHURIAN BATTLEFIELDS • The story of the soldier who, struck by a bullet yet escaped from death owing to the interposition of a prayer book in his breast pocket, is as old as the hills. The present gigantic strug gle in Manchuria yields several even stranger and better authenticated in cidents of escape from death by a nar row margin. The Odessa News reports the case of soldier at the battle of Taschis chao, whose life was saved through his comrade's practical joking “A hum orous sapper had smeared his shovel with tar, and was about to plaster the face of a manVamed Tsibuilin, who was dozing in tne trench, when a shell unexpectedly fell on the parapet and exploded. ‘ The sapper and every man with in ten yard's radius was killed by splinters. But Tsibuilin survived. His face was somewhat flattened and blackened by the shovel, the front of which was scratched and scored by splinters. Had it not been for the shovel his face would have been cut to pieces.” Another Russian escaped death through boastfully proving that he did not fear it. A Lithuanian was contin ually popping up his head and shoul ders, with the words, “I’m not afraid of bullets.” Tired of this, the soldier next him jeered. ‘ I'd like to see you showing your whole body.” The Li thuanian took the challenge, sprang on the edge of the trench and leaped about three feet in the air. Before he descended two bullets whizzed un derneath his feet, and lodged in the earth behind. Had he been in his j usual position they would have gone through his chest. A pewter spoon saved the life of Sergeant Pristavkin at the battle of the Shaho. Pristavkin was dining on buckwheat gruel, and had the spoon at his lips, when it was struck by a spent bullet, which glanced aside and went half way through the head of a man some way behind. Pristavkin was afterward nicknamed “Sergeant Lozh ka” or “Sergeant Spoon.” Foppishness was the cause of Artil leryman Zavodski's salvation. Zavod ski was the greatest fop in the bat tery. He trimmed his nails, waxed his moustache, and shaved himself under fire. While the other men were eating their dinner during the retreat from Liao Yang, Zavodski removed his big boots, and cleaned them carefully. While he was putting a finishing touch on the second of them, a ballet from a .Japanese sharpshooter pene trated the sole, tearing out the big nails, and fell harmlessly into the toe. Had it not been tor the boot the bullet would have gone straight through his heart. Gortseff. a discontented and nervous soldier, escaped death through his des perate attempt to commit suicide. While the enemy’s shells and bullets were falling like hail, he hopped about, exposing himself, and altogeth er behaving so queerly that his com rades thought him mad. Suddenly, amid a hail of bursting shells, he unscrewed his bayonet, put the muzzle of his rifle to his throat, and fired. The shot went harmlessly over his shoulder. When the rifle was examined, it appeared that he had had a double escape from death. The wood on one side of the stock was torn clean off by a shell fragment which was found at his feet. It was this which diverted the bullet he had in tended for his throat. A Japanese soldier escaped bayonet ting by his knowledge of Russian. During the assault on Nanshan hill he, with a dozen comrades, succeeded in reaching the Russian trenches. All the attackers were slaughtered save the Jap student. Two men. with ferocious cries of “Tchort!” (the d*vil), attacked him. He calmly par ried a thrust, and with a grim laugh repeated their own cry “Tchort!” ^.,.. The Russians were so much ax ished by hearing the familiar w. that they dropped their bayonet - at, took him prisoner instead of butcher ing him. An act of dishonesty was the ca of Sapper Rozanoff's narrow ex i On the morning of the battle rr ‘Kuropatkin's Eye.'* flat, half-pot;: tins of tobacco were given to ta non-commissioned officer for distr: tion among the men. But befor* was portioned out, one tin disaj peared. All the soldiers denied ha*, taken it. When night closed the fighting a sapper, named Rozanoff. hand* 1 r tin to the sergeant. In the top wa- a narrow slit, which i^mination prov. : to go through the tobacco, but r through the bottom. RozanoffV tin had a similar slit, just above the ii domen. He admitted having stol* r; the tobacco. He had hidden it i *• his shirt. In the hand-to-hand fig":r ng a Japanese soldier had driven at h. fiercely with the bayonet. The steel had gone clean thi the lid and tobacco, but the force * ployed was not sufficient to send :t through the bottom. Rozanoff s r >r. science was struck by his mirac escape, and he had decided to co. t the theft and make restitution. LONG TERMS OF SERVICE. Remarkable Faithfulness Shown b> Austrian Servant. In celebration of the emperor of Austria's birthday a short time a twenty purses, each containing fi. equivalent of $75, were offered f competition among domestic servan' in respectable situations. The q ; fications of the winners showed truly remarkable periods of ser* One of the winners—a valet—ha been in the service of one mar : - forty-seven years. A maid serva of nearly 80 years of age had -• v about thirty-nine years in an o-; : . age, where she was still in a - ■ employment when she received t award. Another woman, ag. i 74 years, had entered the service of family as scullery maid and was s with the same family, after for - three years’ service. All of th*- win ners had been in their situations n; • than thirty years. Husband Takes Wife's Name. Permission to take his wife> n.a • en name as part of his own has he. :t granted to ReV. George Frank .hr. H kins in the equity court. Was! < f The reason given is that his wif. wi was well known in various fie !- f work before her marriage. d»-~ r* - to continue the use of her ma;.,. name. She was Dr. Saler.i An strong, who achieved more or • celebrity in the missionary field i wrote a cumber of books. After h* r marriage to Dr. Hopkins she four:.* her work hampered by the nec >> • • of appearing under a new name Ac ccrdingly. she and her husband a: plied to the court for permiss n change their names to Armstrong Hopkins. Wireless Telegraphy in the Home. William J. Hammer, the electrui engineer, has found a novel* use for : * wireless telegraph. In his New Yorr. home he is employing it to call the servants. On his dining-room t&i v is a dainty transmitter and pole cot nected under the table. Down in kitchen is another pole, with t: *• mitter and receiver, connected w . an electric bell. The transmitters »•> no bigger than paper weights. W Mr. Hammer wants the maid he » a wireless current through the w t of the room. The electrical wav* s are caught by the pole in the ki'ctn • ard the bell rings. A system of « _ nals permits him to call for anyth he desires. Russell Sage's Joke. Maybe Russell Sage was not aware of it, but he made a funny remark the other day. ' He went into a barber shop and the boss, feeling honored at a visit from sue^ a noted man. opened a new and fine cake of soap. As be prepared to lather the millionaire's face he said “This is a very fine grade of soap, Mr. Sage, a mixture of cream and cocoa oil, with a dash of alcohol. Quoth the old gentleman: “Alcohol, eh? Well, remember I am a temperance man, so don't put too much of it in my mouth.” Left-Handed Compliment. A certain laborer once asked a coun try clergyman to write a letter for him to a duke, from whom he wished to obtain aid. “But you ought to go yourself and see his grace,” said the clergyman. “I would, sir,” was the nervous answer, “but, you see. I don’t like to speak to the duke. He may be tod proud to listen to the likes of me. I caa talk to you well enough, sir; there's nothing of the gentleman about you."—London Tidbits. Cheating the Government. People who are honorable In »h, private dealings with other in :v als sometimes fail to treat cor. tions or the government wt;h t same honesty. How many p< >. traveling from foreign countries - gle in goods on tahlch. under the i duty should be paid? Chea nv customs is not a serious sin : category of a large number of elers and merchants. Th- fa. ur* live up to the spirit of the law is parent in other countries as wt our own.—Boston Herald. ^ Collecting Monuments. Collecting monuments Is the que* * est hobby we have yet heard of is the specialty of a Penns vh millionaire Quaker. For forty > he has spent time and money h for tombstones, pedestals, hea broken columns, gravestones, an monuments erected to cummer, ra Biblical events and American t >• lie has them erected In a cerr« * plot reserved for the purp< >.• ar. : spends much of his leisure adnunag Ms collection.