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HE FRENCH SOLDIER ME OF THE BRUTALITIESTO WHICH HE IS SUBJECTED. zings nml Other Punishments Fhlch Sometimes Knd In the Vic es'* Death- Tlint Are Winked at. If ct Ordered, hr the OfllccrB. oidlers In the French army are not ijected by law to corporal punish- nt any more than It has been a part the regulations governing the Mill- y academy at West I’oint that ca- :s should “braeo" or “qualify" on ►lasses and prunes. Nevertheless ► French soldier Is put through a sing process which Is most severe d several times hns caused death, e French soldier Is known as Rlctou Dutuanet. just as the English soldier known ns Tommy Atkins. Dumanet ds when he Joins the colors that life riot nil skittles for a soldier. The thing which distinguishes the sing in the French army from th; zing in American colleges and unl- lsltlcs is that It Is suggested and al- .st ordered by the commissioned offl- rs. An officer will say to a corporal a sergeant, "You have a mnn here jo has done so and so,” naming seme vial offense, mere than likely to be me neglect of the deference due tc- <■ officer. "It would do him good If ■ were icssert in a blanket." The officer turns on his heel and. niks away, while the unfortunate sol er Is placed in a blnnket.-wlth saber, ■urs. Jack boots, bayonets and such l osnnt bedfellows, and the comblna ui Is tossed until the hay.era are too red continue. This Is great sporl •r the man’s comrades, especially If :>.ey are half drunk, which they arc l.ely to be. This diversion has rotbei cno out of favor just now, beconsi (vot'd ‘■oidlers who have l>een tossed nil the bad taste to die after the dLsc! iRne. In some of the French barracks a avorlte method of punishment Is to ni:g the offending soldier up by his ieeln at’.d then to spank him with a word inyonet. In Algiers, whore the rim are far removed lu the outlying rarrlsons from Ihe central authority bid at t!ie mercy t.f their tormentors, hey •are subjected to many forms of lazing at the suggestion of the officers. At cue time the "vllo” was much t»i ’a vor among the liazors in the Algerian irmv of cccupat'cn. It consisted In I’ltittlng a man In a deep hole made In .he shape of a reversed funnel dug by the Arabs In the ground as a place fit* the storage of eoru. The unfortunate can was left there sometimes for days, with hardly anything to rot or drink and exposed all the time to the heat of the sun. while at night the place was cold. Many died from hunger, thirst or co.ld. while many others became In sane. The military authorities when they became aware of these tortures Issued no order prohibiting such a punish moot. but it Is still practiced in isolated; parts of Algiers v, here no eye can set- of which the officers cro afraid. Several years ago Prluee Plgnatelll d’Aragon, a young Simnisb noble, ran nwny from bis home and went to Al giers to Join the foreign legion, the refuge for men “with a past.” Ills friends announced to the French mill tary authorities that the prince had gone to join the legion, but the author! ties were able to get no word of bis arrival. At lost a soldier suggested that perhaps a stranger who wandered Into camp and had considerable diffi culty In speaking French might be the prince. The sergeant to whom the prince bad spoken was drunk at the time and became nnueyed at the Span iard’s broken French, so he ordered I that the stronger be placed In the “vllo" without more" ado. Here the miserable young man remained for two days without eating or drinking, and then a good natured sentry broke the rules and gave hint food. As scon as he was rescued from the “vllo” the young man started, for Spain, having most thoroughly reconsidered his de termination to enter the celebrated foreign teglon. Another form of punishment which nsod to be popular In Algiers was the “carcan.” A piece of wood, usually the trunk of a tree, was used. The man was laid on it. usually bouud so that the middle of his back would be resting on the wood, with his bead and feet hanging down to the ground. His feet were tied to an Iron bar and his hands to another, and, left lying face upward, he wus exiwscd for hours to the terrible heat of the sun. Some men have survived la hours of this torture. A form of punishment still populnr among the French colonial troops—that Is, popular with those who Inflict It and not with those who suffer It—Is the “crapadine." It consists of throwing the man face downward and tying his wrists and ankles behind his back so that his wrists and ankles are brought together.—New York Press. .—rr~TT’.; ,y-j-r-- ' A Wild Ride. “tYhen ! was younger than I will ever be again,” said the professor with a three story head and eyeglasses of the telescopic order, “I was the victim of such intense mental abstraction that 1 removed myself entirely from the world of practical affairs. I was In the boundless realms of thought and paid but fleeting attention to the active field of human action. It was neces sary to uotify mo when I should attend my classes,' eat my meals and even when I should retire. “I was at one time requested to lec ture In a. New England village and agreed to do so. The theme was one that had received my host thoughts, and the mere prospect of delivering It wns a physical pleasure. When 1 ar rived at the depot my thoughts were concentrated upon the prepared ad dress. 1 realized that my train was an hour late and that I must hurry, but beyond the mere fact of hurrying 1 did not grusp a detail. “ ‘Drive fast!’ I shouted to the drlvei of n dingy looking vehicle ns 1 sprang in and handed him a $,"> bill. ‘Spare neither horse nor whip.’ “Away we went with a plunge. Tin carriage rolled like a ship lu the trough of the sea. Street lights seemed a torchlight procession moving rapidly by the ether way. Constables shouted, dogs barked, small beys chased us and business ceased that people might stem on the sidewalks and gaze. Up on« street and down another we dashed madly. We took corners on two wheels, grazed telegraph poles nud knocked over such movables ns ash barrels and dry goods boxes. “After half an hour of this bewilder lng experience 1 stuck my bend out of the window and shouted, ‘Are we near ly there? “ ‘Where did yez want to go. sir?’ came the edifying answer.”—Washing ton Star. The Dude and (!ie Artist. Paris Is laughing over how an artist got even with a dude who, having sat for bis picture, wns so dissatisfied with the result that he refused to pay for It. The Couut <le X. rccoutly hud a eruyon picture of himself made, which lit afterward pretended to find fault with. "It does not bear the slightest resem blance to me,” he said, "and 1 will not take It" Tlx* artist protested, but all to no avail. "All right, monsieur.” hr remarked finally, “If It Is not ut all like you, of course I can’t reasonably ex pect to get paid for It.” After thi- count had gone the painter added to the portrait a mugniilceut pair of uss' ears and exhibited It to the gaze of the curious public. It bad not been long so exposed when the count broke Into the artist's studio In u towering rnge and, finding that threats avnlkd him nothing, nt last offered to buy it nt n considerable advance upon the original price. "It was no! strange that you failed to recognize your resemblance to the picture at first." said the painter, de termined to be revenged for the slight put upon his work. "Bur I knew you would notice the likeness os soon as 1 added those ears." He Was Sni>**mt5tion». He wns a big, hearty workingman, and when n spare, thin little mnn en tered the train ear, stumbled and sat upon blm he said In reply to the little man's topologies: ‘‘Don’t trouble, sir; It’s all right. There's no 'arm doue.” When we sow the big man a week Juier, we were shocked at the change In him. He fiddled to have shrunk to half his former bulk. “Why. whatever's the matter?” we exclaimed. "You remember that-little man wot sat ou me In the train Inst week, sir?” “Yes.” “Well. It's all through 'lm I’m wastln away like this!” "Preserve us!" we cried. “How? Why?” The shrunken giant wrung bis hands In despair. “I found out nest day,” he groaned, “that 'e wns the coroner. An 'e sat on me! I’m shuperstishus. an It's lcokld ahead 1 am. Oh. I.or’!”—London Malt How She fettled the Question. The question of precedence at dinner and at social functions at Washington Is a weighty one la official circles, but once upon a time there wns o western senator whose wife thought very light ly ou this subject. She was In Wash ington for u good time, and she re solved to bnve It without bothering about precedence. This fearless little woman gave a dinner on oue occasion, nud when It wns time to get her guests from the drawing room into the dining room she said: “There Is some precedence about, all this, but I don’t know what it Is. Just shoo out to dinner, evefy one of you, and sit down nuywbere you please.” This stroke of western diplomacy worked perfectly.—Exchange. Triumph of Thrift, ‘The old man seems mighty pleased with himself.” said Mr. Grlndner’s coachman. “Sure,” said the cook. “He’s been saving all his burned matches for six months, and this morning be found he had enough for me to start the kitchen fire with.”—Indianapolis Press. or ill* Abundance. “Your neighbor bus Just given me an old coat.'Vsaid the tramp. “Can you give something?” » "Yes," replied the clergyman. “I will go through the collection box and find some buttons to match the coat.”— Philadelphia. Record, The Sqnlw and the Summing TJp, At a lawyers' dinner lu Buffalo one of the best stories told was of Squire Murray, who weighed 300 pounds nud who was bom In Ireland, was tn the whisky business here and held his court on the Terrace. The courtroom was like a courtroom In Ireland. The bench wns five feet from the floor, with a chair whose back reached to the celling. Thu trimmings of the room were all green. Mr. Lockwood and Judge Beckwith wore trying out a cuso before the squire. There was no Jury. At the close the squire paused. “Do you wish to sura up?” he asked. "I leave It all with your honor,” said Mr. Lockwood, who advises young law yers with a ticklish cause nnd friendly face on the bench to do likewise. “I’ll sum up,” said Judge Beckwith. “Very well,” replied Squint Murray. "While you’re at It I'll slip down In Murray Bros.’ and have a drink with Lockwood. But I’ll be back before you finish.” The squire nnd Mr. Lockwood went out. The squire was In search of the spirit of the law at the root of the law. Mr. Lockwood thinks they had a drink. On the stairs, half way back to the courtroom, with the echo of Beckwith's voice sounding In their ears, the squire stopped. “Lockwood,” said ho, “you’ve won your case.” Then they went In nnd hoard Beck with finish summing up.—Buffalo Ex press. Methodical Punctuation, Speaking of W. H. (‘‘Coin") Harvey, a Chicago man said: “An amusing Incident took plnco while Harvey was editor of Coin, a pa per which he published- In Chicago. Harvey, In talklug to one of his part ners, took exception to the want of punctuation In the paper. There Isn't enough punctuation,’ he complained, ‘and Coin doesn't look right without It. There ought to be a comma once In so often, then so often a colon, and all the rest. Don't you think so?’ he wound up apponllngly. “ ’I da Indeed,’ heartily replied the partner, who was not wholly devoid of humor. ‘Tlmfs a gnat idea of yours. Harvey. If I were you.’ he suggested, ‘I’d draw up a rule to that effect.’ “Harvey thought It over, nnd the thought commended Itself. The next (lay, therefore, a rule rending some what ns follows was posted lu the of fice of Coin: ‘Hereafter It Is the rule of tills office that articles appearing In the columns of this paper must be punctu ated as follows: Every 12 words shall carry a comma: every three lines a semicolon; every four lines a colon; ev ery five lines a period; exclamation and question marks may be used as hereto fore. The employees cf this paper will please observe this order.’ “—New York Tribune. A Failure la Coopering. A certain man who wns once a piomlnent Kentucky politician was' more a demagogue than a statesman. He was, according to Short Stories, lu the habit of boasting that his father was a cooper In an obscure town In the state—that he wns “odc of the people” nud didn't belong to the "kid gloved aristocracy." The “general's" great falling being bis fondness for liquor. It will surprise no one to be told that the more he drank the more loudly he declaimed Ills political sentiments and the prouder of being the sou of a cooper he became. During u political campaign, where his opponent was the southern orator, Tom Marshall, he bad beeu unusually noisy and offensive In his boasting regarding his obscure origin. In replying, Mar shall sold, looking bard at the genefal: "Fellow citizens, my opponent's father may have beeu a very good cooper. 1 don't deny that: hut I do say, gentlemen, that he put a mighty poor head Into that whisky barrel.” Real Klee Uniting, It may be doubted If a tub bath lu Jamaica Is a luxury. Tho bathhouses make a brave show In a row of low brick buildings In tbe rear of the ho tels, each little bouse with a big stone tank for u bathtub, I' went out to see the baths on my first day In Kingston and wus surpris ed to see a sign nailed against the wall bearing tbe words: “Gentlemen Are Requested Not to Use Soap In the Baths.” “Why are gentlemen requested not to use soap In tbe baths’/” I asked the ho tel clerk, a dignified young woman of dark complexion. “Because It soils the water and makes It nnpleasaut for the next bather," she said. “But do your guests all bathe in the same water?” I asked. “Oh, yes," she replied. “You see, the tanks are so large and the pipes are small. It takes all night to fill the tanks, and the water has to last all day.” A Woman's !fo, “Learn to say ‘no,’ my daughter,” ad vised the wise mamma. “But why?” Inquired the coy debu tante. “Because It is more fun to beep the men guessing for awhile.” Thus we see that woman's “no” means “guess” in stead of “yes.” as the proverb would have us believe.— Baltimore American. Oan be properly run without being Advertised, And no advertising pays better than newspaper advertising. The news- paper goes into jbo homes of the people nud is read through. If bar gains are offered, they make a note of it. a drst-class advertising medium, As it is read by the people very generally in tliiH county nnd by many hi adjoining counties. AD. IN And work up your business to a/ payin point. Our book atid job office is busy turn- ihg ont first-class job work all the time, and we propose to give satis faction at reasonable prices. 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