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His kindness and generosity soon won him the love of the inhabitants, and when he died ev»-y one of them attended the funeral, inarching ,wo by two. with heads uncov ered. When the last clod had been placed on the grave the mayor, national guard and workmen all joined in singing the famous patriotic song. It is sixty years since then, and the good folk of Chotsy have not forgotten the immortal Singer of the Revolution. Not content with the fine monument already raised to his mem ory. they are to further honor his name by erecting a tombstone at his last rest ing place. It consists of a stela three me tres high, whereon are a bronse medallion of De Lisle, the words "let repose Rouget de Lisle, auteur de la 'Marseillaise.' ” a lyre crossed with a sword, the refrain of the national hymn, and on the pedestal the dates 1760-183$. A fete Is being organ ised for the inauguration ceremony. BITS OF KNOWLEDGE. "Diere are now JOT newspapers in Japan. Thirty years ago there was only one. The sun’s flames spring at times to a dis tance of SSgOOe miles from its surface. Six thousand tons of obsolete shot and shell ■re being offered for sale by the British war office. Four narcissi blooming on one stem is a •oral freak now to be seen in an allotment garden at Wisbech. One most potent engine of civilisation tn Syria to the American printing office, which occupies a handsome new building at Beirut, and to the especial pride of the American colony. . Covington Star: Had Mr. Guerry been nomi nated and an effort made to force a state pro hibitory law upon the people, the prohibition people would have taken a great rtok of losing everything they have gained under local op tion. because It Is now plainly to be seen that the bill would have been defeated, and whether they would have lost the 11? dry counties where local option to now tn force or not. it would have arrayed the friends of both plans against each other In the bitter fight that would have «nsu« 1. and the temperance cause would have Jost ground by It any wav. Gen. Chas. P. Eagan, the Bonanza King HABLES P. EAGAN, one time commissary general of the United States army, has become General Charles Patrick Eagan, retired. Mexican coal mine owner and bo- c nanta king. It is unlikely that the matter of beef, embalmed or otherwise. will further worry him. It is certain that the loss of the comparatively small salary which was paid to him for active service before his enforced retirement no longer seemes important to him. Financially. General Eagan has arrived, and the story of how it happened to him Is like a set of chapters from a book of romance and adventure. General Eagan's army record, so far as fighting goes, was a good one. On the field he was never known to shirk dan ger or avoid work. In several engage ments in the civil war he showed himself to be an honorable and brave soldier, and he did some very creditable work with the Indians in the west in the interval that elapsed between the civil war and the Spanish-American struggle. But not withstanding that he left Washington a disheartened and disgruntled man. The effect of the beef scandals upon his club life there—and he was very fond of club life and the niceties of social distressing. He started out to find new fields for his energies and a new place for his home. He Is not an old man, and he Is and al ways has been a hard worker. For years he had contemplated a trip to Mexico, and he decided that this was the best time of all to take it. He was not a wealthy man then and the reduced pay which came with his retirement was a new distress. It was something over a year ago that General Eagan went through Arizona and down into the territory of our southern neighbor. He traveled rather extensively and made the journey from Tucson. Aris., to Guaymas. a port upon the Gulf of Cali fornia. He learned that not far from the railway lines wore coal deposits which were believed to be most valuable. Mexico Is not a progressive country and her natural resources have not been ex tensively developed. This is especially true of her mineral wealth, but for some reason General Eagan waa vastly inter ested In this coal bed. He looked It over. It was located not far from the coast of the Gulf of California and not much more than three hundred miles from the boundary line of New Mexico. He pon dered deeply on the matter and finally he came back to the statea and told some friends about it. These friends were mil lionaires and they had much confidence In Eagan’s judgment. He Is a man who throughout life has made strong enemies and stronger friends. The men he saw and told about the coal fields were Alvirsa Hayward and Charles D. Lane, both of San Francisco. As soon as they heard what he had found about the coal fields they decided to investigate the matter and to help him In the enter prise if things turned out to be as rosy as he thought they were. Science Showed a “Rich Strike.” . Shortly after his return to the states a number of experts were sent to Mexico to investigate his find. They looked the ground over with scientific eyes; they probed it with scientific rods; they weigh ed and studied it with scientific instru ments and they made up their minds that General Eagan, late of the United States army, had stumbled upon a great bonan za. The experts said that there was as much coal there as In the state of Penn sylvania; that it could be much more eas ily mined than most coal can; that trans portation facilities could be provided with out too great expense, and that, taking everything together, General Eagan had certainly “struck it rich.” General Eagan’s capitalistic friends told him to go back to Mexico and do those things which it was necessary for him to do In order to control that coal, with a feeling of absolute certainty that he would be financially backed to any extent that the enterprise demanded. At about the same time that General Eagan had this assurance and started back, William C. Greene, a one time Ari zona prospector, and now the operator of the copper field* at Canans, also heard about those coal fields down in Mexico, and started to get the right to work them. Mr. Greene is a man of great determina tion, and the fact that he Is known as the “Copper King of Arizona" shows that he is*also probably a man of enterprise and fertile resource. In speculation be is said to be one of the cleverest men that ever turnea a deal In mining stocks, ana he has a good reputation as a fighter. The fields were located in Conors, and General Eagan, on his return, and Mr. Greene reached there at about the same time. Here was trouble brewing. Each claimed priority of discovery and with every passing day the apparent richness of the fields increased, so that each was most eager to sustain his claim. General Eagan claimed right to the lands under a purchase from the county of Sonora. The price which he had paid was S4O 000. Greene based a claim upon the fact that he had bought the Interests of Carlo* Johnson, the actual owner of the land. Johnson waa the original own er of the soil under the Spanish grant. War for Possession Begun. Eagan rushed machinery down by car loads. So did Greene. In all, the holding includes something like 2,600,000 acres—a vast domain. General Eagan's ownership of this would make him one of the great est landed proprietors in the world. The territory which both men claimed so ea gerly embraces practically all the good coal land In the section, and so compro mise and division was quite Impossible. Greene and hts machinery got there first. When the ex-commlesary general arrived with his, he found the land pre-empted and operations under way. This was dis concerting. General Eagan carried the matter to the courts. The courts In the vicinity at once declared that Greene was a trespasser and ordered him off the land. Then Eagan took possession. By this time Greene had had some op portunity for lawyer's work, and just as Eagan was about to begin operations he was served with a notice to vacate and charged with being a trespasser. Greene had gone to another court Both sides then had machinery on the ground and had engaged laborers. The fight in the courts was in dead earnest, for both had spent large sums of money and were feeling more and more certain every day of the value of the land. Greene had spent $40,000 and had commenced to survey for a railroad to run from Naco, Artz., to La Cannes, and thence to San Marcial, where the land Is situated. He had also surveyed another line running to the Pacific coast, a distance of 300 miles. General Eagan then went to Guaymas and secured the backing of the local judge, the prefect of the district and the president of the town. Matters at once became serious for Greene. Two of his experts and all their employes were taken to court. General Eagan began to show his military training and his Irish blood. He armed his laborers, engaged a number of other Mexicans to patrol the property with rifles and took possession, beginning work again at once and very energetically. Shed Blood for the Mines. This by no means discouraged the oth er party, and at this point things as sumed a phase which was serious In oth er matters than financial. At some dis tance Greene gathered a crowd of cow boys and armed them. All night they rode desperately, reaching the scene of Eagan's operations at about dawn. There was a fierce contest for the land, with some bloodshed, but Greene's men tri umphed and drove Eagan's men away, in the meantime securing an order against Eagan as a trespasser. But Egan's experience In government matters stood him in good stead. He went to the City of Mexico and declared that the peace and good government of the province was disturbed and that riots were »•» ——ress. He called for the aid THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, JtINE 16. 1902. of the federal government and demanded the assistance of the rurales. The rurales are as picturesque as any body of mounted police In the world. In deed, they are better called soldiers than po-.ce. They are heavily armed and mag nificently mounted. They are trained in the maneuvres of bushwacking, and carry carbines, revolvers and sabres. They de scended on Greene and his cowboys and a battle ensued, in which there is be lieved to have been considerable loss of life. How many were actually kßled Is not known. Still Greene was not discouraged, or, at least, would not give in. His cowboys drew away, but did not entirely, leave, and for a month there were occasional skirmishes between them and the rurales. Not long after this, Eagan and his men were again ousted from the property. At about toe same time Eagan was assaulted b> Mexican bandits, but not seriously In jured. His side announced that the ban dits were backed by Greene's men; but this has not been proved. So bitter did the controversy become at about this time that Eagan was challenged to fight a duel by Colonel W. P. Horlow. of Nogalez. who Is one of Greene's attorneys. The duel has not yet been fought, but It may be before the bitterness engendered by the trouble dies out. Two of the Greene experts. Johnson and Fenner, have been arrested and locked up. They were captured by the rurales at a time when they were separated fronj their friends, or the attempt to arrest them would probably have meant another fight. This arrest was a surprise and a blow to Greene and his contingent, and after that they waited, without furtner hostilities, for the action of the court, which has just been rendered, leaving General Eagan In possession of a property rich enough to put him forever beyond the necessity of bothering with embalmed beef. We. the undersigned, believing Dr. SETH ARNOLD’S BALSAM to be a re liable Remedy for Bowel Complaints, hereby guarantee a twenty-five cent bot tle to give satisfaction or money refunded. Brannen & Anthony, Atlanta. *** NOT KILLED BY LIGHTNING. NENT the recent disturbances of Mont Pelee. In the Isle of Mar tinique. much conjecture • has been raised by the report of the press associations that 1,708 peo- A pie met their death by lightning In Fort de France and other adjoining towns to the ill-fated St. Pierre. In nearly every volcano eruption which has ever been observed vivid flashes of lightning have been noticed, coming rapidly and appear ing to drop from the clouds hanging over the crater of the flaming mountain. Many laymen have advanced reasons for this, but none have been satisfactory. Mr. J. B. Marbury, local forecast offi cer of the weather bureau here, has made the following explanation to a Journal re porter: "In the outset, I wish you would state that the Atlanta weather bureau entirely discredits the press dispatches that 1,700 people met death by lightning. Os course, the lightning flashes were observed, as always are, but I cannot credit the state ment that 1,700 persons were killed. "The cause of the lightning flashes ob served at volcanoes is easily explained. In the tropics there are always a large number of thunderstorms accompanied by lightning. The sun's rays are more direct and last longer, and the air is consequently much hotter. As is well known, hot air rises and the rapid rise of the hot air and the inrush of other air to take Its place produces the well known tropical thunderstorms and tornadoes. "When Mont Pelee began its eruption the air was greatly heated. Then when the heated lava and gases began rising from the mouth of the volcano the heated air began rising even faster than It ever did in the hotteet summer day. This con tinued for a short time, and then the clouds began to gather. The air was made still hotter by the awful flow of gases and lava from the burning moun tain, and the moist air In the vicinity was drawn into the vacuum caused by the heated air rising so rapidly. In this way thunder clouds were drawn into the vor tex, and the thunderstorm, greater than is ever seen save in the case of a vol cano like this, began. The lightning which always accompanies a thunder storm began to make itself seen, and the great storm caused the lightning to increase in rapidity until forked flames of Are seemed to literally fling them selves upon each other, so fast did they come. "The volcano had absolutely nothing to do with the lightning. The great thun der clouds drawn into the vorter came in contact with each other. Some were charged with positive and some with negative electricity, and the lightning was the result. As fast as one cloud was bereft of Its electricity it rose still higher and others were drawn in to take its place. I do not believe, however, that anything like 1,700 people were kill ed by the flashes." On “Loving a Lord.” London Spectator. Looking at the question as a whole, we can see only one answer, and that is that the majority of Englishmen—or, at all events, enough to make a proverb sufficiently true to be generally accepted —do undoubtedly "love,” that is, instinc tively, a title. If you try to see why that is, you must go back to the days when men got their names from what they could do; when, that is, a man was judged by and respected for his capacity for in flicting trenchant " wounds—when men were called Miller, or Taylor, or Hogg, or Pigg because they were renowned for milling (1. e.. fighting), or cutting with the sword, or hacking, or piking. After a while, the men who couldn’t fight best got further distinctions, the capacity for knocking down other men, in early stages of the history of a community, being, as it were, the yardstick by which each man was measured. Later, the necessities of the community enlarged, and men were able to gain distinction, and were ennobled for other services and capabilities than those of fighting, the names which were given them being the outward and per petual signs of their achievements. Today, however, a great deal of that has changed. When titles were first being given there were not very many of them altogether, and the distinction they car ried was proportionately greater. Today they are large in number. Indeed, and the meaning of many of them has been quite obscured. Still, the habit of respecting the possessor of a “name” has become so ingrained in succeeding generations that an Instinctive homage is paid by the aver age man to the holder of a title. It is an unreasoning homage, perhaps, but it is Instinctive, and the proberh that an "Eng lishman dearly loves a lord” would be just as true If Instead of the word "lord,” meaning lord of men, whether titled or not, there were substituted the word "title," which need not necessarily con note superiority In any attainment what soever. It would be true of Engllsmmen, but also of all nations in which has been established the principle of conferring hereditary distinctions. Woman in Aphorism. A red headed woman may have the sweetest temper in the world, but it 1s not always wise to rub her fur hte wrong way to see If she has Women would love each other devotedly If there were no men on earth. Women with pretty feet hate overshoes and love wet weather. Eve hadn’t been in the Garden of Eden fif teen minutes until she had discovered that the smooth surface of a pool was a mirror. The women capable of the great sacrifices are not the women who are suffering in mind because women haven’t equal rights with men. A good women is heaven’s best gift to man. as a bad woman is the worst. Bet your money on the pretty women In a short race, but the one that isn’t \so pretty will win in the long run. A woman who is not neat is a misfit. An idle woman is the devil's workshop. A roiling woiruti gathers no husband. The Spartan Wife of the Mine Worker. 'PON the women and children falls the greatest suffering that at taches to a strike. The men can take care of themselves, and the u women and children in Hazleton, TA llkes barre and all through the coal regions are crying for food. Want presses hard upon them, and already the cry has come to the ears of the leaders, and ‘ relief committees” are being formed to do what they can for the miner's family. Hungarians, Poles, Russians, Slavs, Ital ians and people from most all the Euro pean countries are the men who delve in the heart of Pennsylvania.for the hid den wealth of coal. They are suspicious of the intentions of Americans and deny admission to a stranger. Let him but set foot within their little settlement and the street becomes deserted. Children run before him, startled Into leaving their play by the warning voice of the watch ful mother, who peers out at the window, showing only her eyes. The Slavonic tribes and the Magyar Hungarians, as a general rule, live in the same settlement. The Italians live by themselves. All are In abject poverty, living in rude shanties which they have thrown together upon the company’s land. If there Is any difference in the degree of poverty, the condition of the Italian miner is the more pitable. He is to be found over toward Lattimer, near where the striking miners met the deputies four years ago and many of the miners were killed. The principal mine In that direction is the Pardee mine, owned by Calvin and Ariovlstus Pardee, of Philadelphia. The miners have made homes for themselves back of the mine. They built their wooden huts at the edge of the culm bank, of such timber as they could find, dis carded from tunnel shores or lying un claimed along the road. The streets are not streets, but little, narrow alleys. It would be Impossible to drive a horse and wagon through them. The houses are all one story high and of the most primitive construction. A re spectable farmer of Pennsylvania would hesitate before Intrusting his hogs to them. It Is the custom of the Italian, so It is said, to sleep on the floor of. a friend s house when he first comes over. His travelling paraphernalia consists of a new suit of clothes and a blanket. After he has been at work In the mines for a short time he begins to collect all the wood In the shape of boards that he can, until he has accumulated a considerable pile In front of his neighbor’s door. When the wood Is sufficient he selects the nearest unoccupied site and builds upon it a house with a single room and a dirt floor. Then he sends to Italy for his wife or his sweetheart, and the house shelters a new Italian family. As the family increases the house grows, too. A room is added at this end or at that, until it resembles a rambling shed. Most of them, however, have but two rooms. In nearly every one of the homes of the Italian miners there is a family of at least five children. That Is the average and many of these sheds shelter as many as twelve children. I spent a day with the miners In their homes. Owing to their extreme suspicion, I was compelled to enlist the services of a Magyar Hungarian, who enjoys their confidence and acted as interpreter. Starting from Hazleton, we drove over to a settlement called Scatnmel. It Is a Hungarian settlement, about a mile back of Audenreid. The road wound over the tops of desolate mountains, devoid of trees and bristling with broken rocks. The only signs of life to be seen In this "valley of silence” were the black “breaks,” the tall wooden buildings which dotted the surface of the mountain In that section like giant chess men at rest. We passed many mines, but they were completely idle; not • miner near them, not a sign of white Steam escaped from their exhausts. The village of Audenreid was crowded with Idle workmen, who smoked their pipes peacefully upon their doorsteps or lounged at the door of the country store and poetoffice. There are no roads leading to Scammel. It was necessary to tie up the team and walk along a dusty path, strewn with coal and slate. If Audenreid was full of men, Scammel was empty of them. But the women and children were there in plenty. While their lords and masters Idled the time away, talking over the success or failure of the strike, the women worked. Whether the mines were In operation or not made no difference as far as the women were concerned. Their work of keeping the mouths of the family full went on just the same. No Welcome for Intruders. The crowning glory of the Italian village was Its goats. At every turn In the street one met the Inevitable "nanny” goat. The milk makes one of the principal forms of diet for the children of the blue skies— that and mangoes. But the goat is regarded with dislike by Hungarians. They will not have the animal near them. On the other hand, they keep geese. Flocks of them were to be found In front of almost every house. They hissed angrily at the stranger, and, like the geese of ancient Rome, notified the inhabitants of the house they guarded of the approach of an enemy. We fought our way through them to the gate and were met In the yard by the woman of the house with a small child In her arms. She was a Hungarian woman of the better class. The guide said she was a Magyar woman and that there were only about six or seven suph families In the coal regions. The Magyar people, he said, were the original settlers of the heart of Hungary. They located in Budapest and along the Southern Danube and have still preserved their tribal traits and dialect. Being the oldest tribe In that country, they are looked upon with much respect by their Slavonic neighbors. And even In the coal district they preserve a certain amount of that hauteur which goes with blood. The woman was fine looking, healthy, strong and straight. On her head was the typical handkerchief of her race. It was a canary yellow piece of cloth, with a running border of red flowers around the edge. Around her shoulders was a yellow shawl, and the child was wrapped in it. so that nothing but its head and eyes appeared above the top; After a grunt of recognition and greet ing to the Hungarian guide and a glance at the stranger with him, the woman re sumed her work. She was baking bread in a primitive sort of an oven built in the yard, similar to the ovens that are in use among the Pennsylvania Dutch. Her fuel was wood gathered from the under brush nearby and spilt from cast off ties of the railroad. The noise of the geese had aroused the household and troops Os little children came timidly out of the house —one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. They stood with their fingers in their mouths or with their hands behind their backs and stared with very wide open eyes. After they were out there came another. He was only three years old and scarely able to navigate.* The family dog, a big black mongrel, was helping him, with his teeth in the little one's dress. They came out backward, the child screaming at the top of his voice. “Tell her we would like to spend the day with her,” I said. “You are welcome,” she replied when this was translated, "if Jonas, my hus band, finds no objection when he comes home.” She turned her head and left us to take care of ourselves. Behind the house was a struggling little garden. In it were planted potatoes, corn and beans, which found it difficult to grow in the rocky soil. The house v.—s like all of its neighbors, but a story high and built of boards discarded from the mine. The roof was of shingles, but they leaked badly in places, and were reinforced with strips of sheet iron, also from the mine. In front of the house was a dovecote, built on a tall post; the post and the dove house were the work of the miner father during his leisure hours on Sun day. It was a nicely built fc trd house. Painted yellow, red and blue, tne favorite colors of the race, it presented a marked contrast to the unpainted home of the human beings beneath It. Paint or even whitewash seems to be an unknown quan tity among the miners. Plain, Bare Home of Poverty. The woman, finding that her bread per mitted her to leave It unattended for a moment, ushered us Into the house. There was only one door to the house and that led to* the kitchen. A little shed roof over the doorway protected it from rain and permitted the family to keep it open for ventilation in all kinds of weather. There was no paper on the wall. The boards showed in all their nakedness. The pots and pans of the housewife hung from nails on all four sides, and that was the only decoration, if decoration it can be called. Against one wall and built Into It was the family dining Pack ing boxes with carpet tacked on one side served as chairs, and the only other furniture in the room was a small cook stove. Two doors opened into this room from different sides. One led into the family bedroom and the other Into the .miner’s tool house. The beds were simply mat tresses resting above the floor on home made wooden frames. The room was about ten feet square, and In it slept the husband and wife and their family of nine small children. In spite of the crowded condition of the room the housewife had found room in one corner for the family altar. It con sisted of a crucifix, on a table, surrounded by pictures of the Savior, the Madonna and Child, St. Peter and others of equally sacred significance. By the side of the cross were the candelabra, which were lighted on certain fast days. The pic tures were cheap chromos In imitation gilt frames, but they were held sacred by the mother of the house, and. morn ing and night she led her small offspring up to the home altar and taught them to pronounce an "Ave.” Most of the Hungarians and the Slavs belong to the Greek Catholic church; the Italians are Roman catholics. About the time our examination of the house was completed the father of the family came in. He was a tall, fair haired man, with a stern, strongly marked chin but a soft blue eye. His chest and shoulders were powerfully developed, and he walked with the unconscious grace of an athlete. With him was his eldest son, a repro duction in every way of his father. Both had worked side by side in the mine for years. Father and son were dressed in their best clothes. And there was a reason for that, which was soon learned. Dinner was put upon the table shortly after the lord bf the household entered. He drew up the largest packing box for himself and sat down. The children grouped around him and cried for their share of the food. The father paid no attention to them, but ate his fill and departed to a place outside in the sunshine, where he smoked his pipe in stolid silence. The woman then helped the children to what was left; they took the food with their little hands from hers as If they, too, were kings and queens by right and she was their humble slave whose only joy In life was to serve them. The meal consisted of a small piece of boiled pork, a few boiled potatoes satu rated with pork grease, and bread which was still hot from the oven. After the crying mouths of the children had been stopped with food, they, too. ran out of the house to finish the meal, and. perhaps, to share their bread crusts with the hissing geese. Then the woman ate. But she did not sit down. She ate the scraps from her lord and master’s plate, and sang a Hun garian melody as she washed the few dishes that were to be washed, and per haps she dreamed of her girlhood days beside the blue Danube. Then the eldest son, the image of his father, came from the bedroom with an Imitation black leather grip in his hand. The grip told the story. The boy was going away. Like thousands of other miners, he had found work at another trade In another section of the country. This was his first time to go out of the sight of his mother since he was born, nearly eighteen years ago. He had been talking about it for weeks, and now he was going. Without a word or a look at his mother, the youth dragged his heavy grip through the narrow door and joined his father. Without a word, both started down the path that led to the gate and the world beyond. But before they reached the gate tney were arrested by a wall or a shriek behind them, and the woman fairly flew down the pathway toward them. Her arms were extended, her eyes full of tears. She threw herself on the breast of the boy and lay sobbing In his arms. He dropped the satchel and stroked the long black hair softly with his rough hand, looking at his father In away that showed that he did not understand why his mother should cry. The father folded his arms across his breast and looked at the blue sky. Then the woman, drying her tears with the corner of her yellow shawl, kissed her boy first on one cheek and then on the other, and went back into the house and to her work. A half hour later we found her standing before her family altar, praying softly to herself that the strike might soon end and that her boy, her first born, might be kept from all i.arm in the great world. A miner's home would be a hovel Indeed but for the love of the woman. Painting and Architecture Contrasted. London Standard. At the eighteenth annual dinner of the Society of Architects Sir Wyke Bayliss, in proposing the toast of the evening, “The Society of Architects and Architecture,” said he counted It a happy thing for arohi tecture that the control of the profession should be no longer in the hands of the painter, but In the hands of the architect himself. Architecture as a fine art had al ways suffered when It had been controlled by painting. The Parthenon was not con ceived by the mind of a painter, nor was Westminster Abbey. The painter thought in planes in two dimensions of space, the architect thought in the round, that was in three dimensions of, space. The palette of the painter was set with colors of his own choosing, which were, or should be, at their best when he had finished his work. The palette of the architect was set by the chemistry of nature, which began when he left off. Chartres cathedral was more beautiful today than It had ever been before. Nature had been painting her for 600 years or more. This was not to say that one art was better than another. It was to say that the two arts were differ ent, and must be treated and judged dif ferently. The architect had something to say worth listening to. The architect had something more to do than to hop over a sheet of paper with a pair of compasses, like a creature on two sticks. He carried something more than a two-foot rule. So Michael Angelo built St. Peter’s at Rome with the measuring rod of the seventh angel who In Paradise measured the walls of the new City of God. Was the angel with the measuring rod seen by St. John really Michael Angelo, who, having serv ed his apprenticeship on earth, found em ployment In heaven, or was Michael Ange lo himself the angel, the messenger who built St. Peter’s? Summer sofa cushions are covered with white Swiss muslin. 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Experiments In Austria from 1596 to 1899 show that at 1,500 to 2,000 paces a line of 108 men In single rank loses In three min utes 50 per cent of Its effective, from a company firing five cartridges a man, and that sections of a company forming a line of skirmishers advancing over flat coun try can be completely annihilated tn three minutes by two sections of the enemy fir ing abf'Ut five cartridges a man; and yet the drill book, under the head of field maneuvers, allows single mounted men to approach to 600 yards of the firing line In the open and pack mules to 500 yards. If cavalry approach within 800 yards of infantry they will be held only to have suffered severely. Closed bodies of troops without cover, when opposed to well con ducted sendee rifle fire, can only get up to 800 yards. The experiments In Austria and the ex periences In South Africa both show that at least 800 yards should be added on to the distance given in our drill book. 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