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WILLING EXILES.
English »nd Americans Are Impor
t»nt Factors In Paris Life.
-‘On and after thia date,” wrote
Napoleon I to Fouche, “see that the
English arc expelled from Paris.
Much an edict would seem a very
urge order at the present day, but it
Lu by no means a small one in Napo-
En’s time. What would the Paris of
without its English colony?
IT " Sir Edmund Monson, our embas-
Lj o r to the pale boy who files the
Fuali’sh journals at Neal’s library in
lhe Rue Castiglione the English are
Lry important factors in Parisian life.
There has been an English colony in
the French capital for many centuries,
vet one might search in vain for a sim-
Har French colony in London. The
Leicester and Soho square districts, al
though owning to a large French popu
lation, possess hardly a trace of the
flavor’ or mien that distinguishes the
onarter the English frequent in Paris,
and it is not the size -
To speak broadly, Paris has within
its walled borders a little Landon of
many thousand persons—not squalid
but boasting splen
did mansions, fine shops, hotels,
churches, hospitals and libraries, and
all these to such an extent that it is
difficult to believe one is not in the
British capital itself.
The inhabitants of this colony might
roughly be catalogued as follows: Re
tired people and gentlefolk who have
Been better days, those who desire to
have their children educated in the lan
guage, business people, authors, artists,
-students, journalists and professional
men, those Who have the best of private
reasons for living out of England and
cranks, which term includes certain in
dividual® who for some cause or other
have developed a feeling of hatred for
the land of their birth. Nearly all are
exiles of their own accord.
On Sunday the elite of the English
colony turns out to the Church of the
Embassy in the Rue d’Aguesseau. .Here
for a number of years Dr. Nayes, who
was formerly a Leytonstone incumbent,
has preached, and here a collection bag
goes regularly round, and is as regular
ly returned in a condition of compara
tive emptiness. For your Englishman
of the English colony is either in a con
dition to help largely-supportthe church
and does or else gives nothing at all.
One thing must be said about the
English and Americans who go to Paris.
They support, the city. Without their
patronage there is scarcely a big shop
on the boulevards that would not close
its doors within a few months.—London
Mail.
SPAIN’S LOSING GAME.
Things Which Have Slipped From Hex
Gnuip In Three Hundred Year*.
Macaulay drew this picture of the
power of Spain 300 years ago:
The empire of Philip II was undoubt
edly one of the most powerful and
splendid.that ever existed in the world..
It is no exaggeration to say that during
several years his power over Europe
was greater than even that of Napoleon.
In America his dominions extended on
both sides of the equator into the tem
perate zone. There is reason to believe
that his annual revenues amounted, in
the season of his greatest power, to a
sum ten times as large as that which
England yielded to Elizabeth. He had a
standing army of 50,000 troops when
England did not have a single battalion
in constant pay. He held, what no oth
er prince in modern times has held, the
dominion both of the land and the sea.
During the greater part of his reign he
was supreme on both elements. His sol
diers marched up to the capital ol
France; his ships menaced the shores of
England. Spain had what Napoleon de
sired in vain—ships, colonies ahd com
merce.
She long monopolized the trade ol
America and of the Indian ocean. All
the gold of the west and all the spices
of the east were received and distribut
ed by her. Even after the defeat of the
armada English statesmen continued
to look with great dread on the mari
time power of Philip. * ♦ * Whoever
wishes to be well acquainted with the
morbid anatomy of governments, who
ever wishes to know how great states
may be made feeble and wretched,
should study the history of Spain.—Ex
change.
A Famous Apple Tree.
Ls The American Cultivator says that
the original greening apple* tree is still
standing on the farm of Solomon
. Drowne at Mount Hygeia in North
Foster, R. L The tree was a very old
one when the farm was sold in 1801.
The seller informed the purchaser that
it was a pity the old tree was going
into decay, as it produced the best fruit
of any tree in th© orchard. The pur
chaser determined to see how long he
could keep it alive, and it still survives,
after almost another century has been
ndded to its venerable years. But it
ihows signs of final decay, and the par
rot of all the famous Rhode Island
greenings, which has set its grafts on
the orchards of almost all the world,
: ■ Will soon be but a neighborhood memo-
It is doubtful if there is a more fa
®ous apple tree to be found in all Po
mona’s groves from end to end of the
earth.
Keeme** Quarter Cif«r.
„ Koene was a good story teller.
For ten years,” co went one of his
“des. “I bought all my theatrical cos
hmies from one dealer, and as during
■ touch of that time I was playing many
I a2L Parts iu the old CallfOTnia theater
K company of San Francisco my
■ a** 6 Was a mat ter of considerable im-
■ Ftttance. When I was about to leave
■ »« 8 ° pe and 601110 east. I went to make
■ ! ° rder and my costumer good-
■ J.‘ ‘l’m very sorry you’re going, ’he
■ qT' ‘Here, Jake!’ calling to a clerk.
■ a Qnt and g®t Mr. Keene a good
Q. o of a dollar cigar.’
9. Jake Started my costumer whis-
■ ter t his hand, ‘Two for a quar
■p Jake; two far a quarter.’ ”
BREATHE PURE AIR.
The XcMMlty For Filltag ;hc Lungs at
Each Inhalation.
Breathe Imre air always. In the lungs
a most important physiological process
.occurs. It is from hero that the blood
laden with oxygen is sent to all parts of
the body, giving off along its course its
oxygen and taking up carbonic acid gas,
which it brings at last to the lungs,
when it is cast out in expiration. More
oxygen is taken in by inspiration and
the same process is repeated.
So let your breathing be full and deep,
going to the very bottom of the lungs
in order that all of the blood in them
may receive its full amount of oxygen
before again starting upon its tour of
distribution through the body. Can one
use any more forcible argument in favor
of loose clothing than this? It is abso
lutely impossible to secure plenty of
oxygen if the clothing is worn at all
tight, and oxygen is a food which the
body must have always in abundance to
keep well.
The air leaving the lungs is laden with
that deadly poison carbonic acid gas,
which if given off in a close room when
no provision is made for its escape and
the entrance of pure air soon renders
the air utterly unfit to breathe. Perhaps
some night you will find yourself un
able to sleep and tumble restlessly about
in bed. When this occurs, go to an open
window and inhale the fresh air, breath
ing slowly and deeply. A few minutes
of this and you can return to bed and
probably will soon be sleeping quietly.
What has happened? By its restlessness
the body was asserting its need of more
oxygen. Now you have given it what
it so emphatically asked for, and it is
quiet. We get as much uneasiness and
disturbance from the want of this food
as when we do not eat enough, only the
symptoms ’are not so well understood
nor recognized so quickly. Always keep
yopr mouth closed and breathe through
your nose. _ Then the air is warmed,
slightly moistened and largely freed
from particles of dust, so that when it
enters the lungs it does not irritate
them.
A condition often met with by phy
sicians is anaemia. In this trouble the
patient is pale, lifeless looking, tired
and generally used up, often without
being able to tell distinctly how she
does feel. Sometimes these patients say
that they have not enough blood. It is
really only an element of the blood
which is wanting, but that is a very
important on© —namely, the red blood
corpuscle.
When you know that it is only those
corpuscles which have the power to take
up and carry oxygen, you see at once
how Important it is that the blood
should not be lacking in them. Good,
wholesome food, plenty of it and well
digested will give you the corpuscles.
Furnish them with the oxygen and the
body will have an important element
toward health.—What to Eat.
,TB£JSQUTHEBN,GEQSfix._..
Changing Position In the Heaven* of This
Celebrated Constellation.
If Job were to rise from the dead and
look upon the heavens, says Professor
T. J. J. See in The Atlantic, he would
see the constellations related to one an
other as of old, but he would find that
the pole had shifted its position among
the stars, and if an immortal could wit
ness. the grand phenomenon which the
precession of the equinoxes produces in
about 12,900 years he would find the
heavens so altered that the former as
pect could be recognized only by an un
derstanding of the changes which had
intervened.
As Humboldt justly remarks, the
beautiful and celebrated constellation
of the Southern Cross, never seen by
the present inhabitants of Europe and
visible in the United States only on our
southern coast, formerly shone on the
shores of the Baltic, and can again be
seen in that latitude in about 18,000
years. The cross will then be visible on
the shores of Hudson bay, but at pres
ent it is going rapidly southward, and
in a few thousand years will be invisi
ble even at the extreme point of Florida.
In like manner the brilliant star Ca
nopus in the constellation Argo, situat
ed some 37 degrees south of Sirius, is
now visible in the southern portion of
the United States. In about 12,000 years
it will cease to rise even in Central
America. From the same cause, if Ptol
emy were to again look upon the heav
ens at Alexandria, he would be unable
to recognize Alpha and Beta Centauri,
which he easily saw and catalogued in
the time of Hadrian. At present these
magnificent stars are just visible at the
pyramids, near Cairo, and in a few
more thousand years they can be seen
by dwellers on the Nile only in upper
Egypt.
H« Put His Foot In It.
A woman’s club that invested in a
clubhouse not long since was much
against its will obliged to employ men
laborers. The architect was a woman,
but it was found impossible to procure
women carpenters, masons and plaster
ers. One day shortly before the comple
tion of the structure a workman who
was employed upon the roof made a
misstep and thrust his foot through the
tfeautiful but not yet dried ceiling of
the auditorium. Just at this time, too,
a number of club members chanced to
be in the building, and their emotions
at the sight of‘the pedal extremity pend
ent from the ceiling may be better im
agined than described. The man was
eventually rescued and the hole mended,
but the patch still shows upon the ceil
ing, and as the first vice president puts
it, ‘‘Well, I knew that if a man had
anything to do with this club he would
be sure to put his foot in it” —Chicago
Tribune.
Taking Time by the Forelock.
‘‘Ma, can I go over to Sallie’s house
and play a little while?” asks 4-year-old
PbUy. , „
“Yes, dear. I don’t care if you do.
“Thank you, ma, ” was the demure
reply. “I’ve been. ’’—London Fun.
GUNBOAT IN 1,500 PIECES.
That’* the Way It I* to Be Shipped From
England to Lake NyasMU
English naval constructors are very
much interested in a gunboat which has
just been completed for service on Lake
Nyassa, in contra! Africa, and is to be
shipped to that point in pieces like a Chi
nese puzzle. The boat, the Guendolen, is
now split up into 1,500 packages for trans
portation, A reporter of the London Echo
describes the boat in his account of his In
terview with J. A. Rennie of the engineer
ing firm which built the Guendolen;
‘‘So there is going to be fighting on
Lake Nyassa?” I remarked tentatively.
‘‘l never said so,” he replied, with fit
ting diplomacy.
“Then that’s my mistake. I merely
judged so from the fact o’? your taking out
what on a lake would be considered a first
class battleship, for the Guendolen is heav
ily armed, is she not?”
‘ ‘ Yes, if you call six Maxims and four
Hotchkiss guns a big armament. She is
intended to replace tho three small gun
boats now on the lake, which are practical
ly obsolete, and is a vast improvement on
them in every way. Her length is 138
feet, beam 28 and tonnage 350, and with a
draft of 4 feet 6 inches is intended to steam
12 knots. ’ ’
‘ ‘I suppose Qie depth of the lake did not
necessitate a shallow draft vessel?”
“By no means, as there is plenty of wa
ter even close inshore. That enabled us to
have twin screws, for on shallow water
such as the Niger or the Khoja, by means
of which tho Russians in 1894 penetrated
far up toward Chitral, a stern wheel is ab
solutely necessary. She is quite a normal
type, except for the fact that she is fitted
with Fraser’s under fired boilers and will
burn wood fuel, of which there is an
abundance in and "around tho lake. Coal
is only brought up from the coast for tho
use of two or three forges at a cost of some
£lO per ton, such is the difficulty of trans
port.” ■ ■ ' V''’, .. '
“Ahd that difficulty will be increased in
the case of a gunboat, I should imagine.”
“Not so much as you think,” said Mr.
Rennie. “You sec, wo bolt, not
rivet, her together in tho yard here, so as
to insure the perfect fitting together of
eyery part. In this condition the Guen
dolen w&s inspected by Sir Edward Reed,
who expressed himself as thoroughly satis
fied with her. Then she was taken to
pieces, every piece being previously num
bered, and on a small model these num
bers are marked off, the internal fittings—
of course the model is only of the outside
of the hull—having their proper numbers
marked on scale drawings. Drawings and
model accompany the ship, which is split
up into 1,500 packages, that containing
the boiler of 2% tons being the heaviest, so
that on her arrival there need be no diffi
culty whatever in putting her together
again.”
Mr. Rennie added that if one of the
packages should be lost, it would be diffi
cult to replace it. The packages are to be
transported for miles over a rough country
by bullock wagons, and as extra weight is
an important consideration no spare parts
are carried. Commander Cullen, R. N.
R., the commander in chief en the lake,
has charge of the transportation, and he
will superintend the assembling of the
parts.
He WM Willing.
A distinguished musician was waited
upon one day in his study by a rather
seedy looking stranger, who said to him
with what seemed to bo genuine emotion:
“May a humble brother musician claim
your sympathy for one moment? I don’t
ask you to give me anything, but will you
lend me a dollar or two? You can com
mand 9 10 a lesson or as much more as you
choose to ask, while I think myself fortu
nate if I can get a pupil now and then at
a half dollar a sitting.”
“My friend,” said the other, touched by
this appeal, “perhaps I con help you better
than by lending you money. What is your
branch of music?”
“I give lessons on the violin.”
“Well, we will see what you can do.
Here is a violin. I will sit down to the
piano, and we will play a duet.”
He whipped a fine violin out of its case,
handed it to the stranger, seated himself
at the piano and placed a sheet of music
before him.
The caller rasped tho bow across the
strings, leaned forward, looked at £he com
position and shook his head.
“Sharps?” he said. “Sharps? I never
play in sharps!”
The distinguished musician took the
violin from him, replaced it in its case
and coldly remarked:
“My friend, what you need is a job as
night watchman in a soap factory.”
“Will you get it for me?” eagerly asked
the caller.—Exchange.
The Horrible Niger Company.
That afternoon we in a func
tion which is only too common in every
African trading station —a, funeral. A
young clerk had breathed his last a few
hours earlier, after four days’ suffering at
a temperature of 107 degrees, and now
they were laying him to rest. A deputa
tion from tho steamer attended, and the
scene was a striking one, impressive be
cause of the curious mingling of the pa
thetic and grotesque. Four naked Kroo
boys were busy baling the water out of a
three foot trench, while a white trader
stood above them munibling something
from the book held in a shaking hand, and
an alcohol soaked trader stumbling over
the solemn words of the last office is not a
seemly sight.
A rough deal box, such as “long Dane”
guns are shipped In, lay sinking in the
ooze, and a few dripping men stood bare
headed in the rain.' Then at a signal the
naked aliens tumbled the case into the
trench, and it refused to sink. Clods were
flung upon it, but the buoyant deal rose
stubbornly to the surface, until two Kroo
boys stood upon it to hold It down, and
the mold was shoveled about their knees.
Afterward a cottonwood log was laid upon
the whole, in case it might break through
yet, and as we hurried away a mate ex
pressed the feelings of the rest by saying,
“When my time comes, I’ll held on hard
until you can launch me from under ths
ensign into clean blue water.’’—Black
wood’s Magazine.
Bishop Thorold’g Crisp Note*.
Tho late Bishop Thorold’s crisp notes
were proverbial. At the time that the
bishop put forward his new church’s
scheme another scheme was broached by
one of the leading clergy in the diocese.
The bishop wrote:
Your scheme is excellent, but Jon’t publish
it now, or yours will cannon mine, and we
shall neither of us get into the pocket.
On another occasion a hardworking
south London parson wrote asking for
long leave to go to the Holy Land. His
answer was
Mr Dear , By all means. Go to
Jericho. Yours, ' ’ A. W. 14.
—London Figaro,
FIELD GUN’S IN WAR.
THEY ARE THE FAVORITE WEAPONS
AMONG MILITARY MEN.
These Long Range Death Dealers Cga Ba
Fired With Great Rapidity, Are as Ac
curate as Rides at Their Range and Ex
ert Tremendous Energy.
The betterment of tho modern field
gun is fully equal to the development
of other branches of.military armament.
It has been especially rapid within the
last dozen years. Tho work of special
ists and the results of extended tests
have ended in the production of a weap
on of great accuracy and of titanic
force. The field gun of today is the fa- ’
vorite weapon of the military man, and
he expects from it seme very remark
able demonstrations when opportunity
to use it occurs.
Napoleon is credited with the remark
that Providence is always on the side
of tho heavy artillery, but the artillery
which Napoleon knew was not worthy
to be mentioned on tho same day with
the light, graceful and deadly arm with
which the moderns are prepared to do
slaughter. The first great step forward
was taken when tho brecchloading ac
tion was invented. Well known scien
tific rules of boring and the improve
ment in projectiles and powders have
done the rest. The field gun now in use
by the power? is as accurate at its range
as a rifle and has tremendous energy.
The United States has no better field
guns than those with which the armies
of Germany and France are armed, but
they are every bit as good. Like our
other ordnance, they are all made on
this side of the water. The. American
manufacturer yields to no on© in ability
to make a perfect’weapon. Indeed many
of the chief improvements in field guns
and in the largdr sizes, sometimes called
“siege” guns, are the products of Amer
ican brains.
The field guns of the United States
army are made at Watervliet, N. Y.,
just as the large guns for the navy and
for coast defense are turned out at
Washington. They have a caliber of a
little more than three inches, are, of
course, breechloading, are rather
lengthy for their width and are lightly
but strongly mounted. They use a point
ed shell which explodes either on con
cussion or by time fuse, generally the
former, and are fired with great rapidity.
Each gun of a battery is in command
of a lieutenant, who, under the eye of
his superior, sights it and directs its
working. He has his elevation, depres
sion and wind gauge tormulae at his
fingexs’ ends, and with him good shoot
ing is mainly a question of care. The
pow'der used in these guns is of the
smaller grained brown hexagonal kind,
though the pheroidal is preferred for
some calibers.
The recoil of this gun on level ground
is 26 feet, with the wheels unlocked.
With the wheels locked it recoils five
feet, and is run forward and resighted
very swiftly.. Its point blank range is
2,200 yards. It can be made effective at
a much greater distance, of course, but
officers prefer that range for accurate
ffiiooting.
It fell to me some seven years ago to
report the first field trial given the
Watervliet guns. Three of them were
sent to Fort Sam Houston at San An
tonio, where Light Battery F, Third
artillery, was stationed under command
of Major James B. Burbank, a most ca
pable officer, now attached to the staff
of the governor of New Yorfc. Major
Burbank was instructed to try them out
thoroughly, and for this purpose select
ed an ideal range on Ganahl’s ranch|6o
miles north of San Antonio.
Tho guns were planted in line and
20 feet apart on the side of a green hill
and pointed across a shallow valley.
On the opposite hill, 2,20 b yards away,
a tent fly was put up as a target It
was 15 by 9 feet in dimension and was
stretched on two poles. At that distance
it looked like nothing in the world so
much as a man’s pocket handkerchief.
One shot was fired as a range finder,
and that shot proved the range was
found. Then the work began.
For half an hour these guns pitched
shells through or under or over the tar
get, according to the firing directions,
with as much accuracy as a man would
use a Winchester rifle at 100 yards.
The work was done with the precision
of a clock There was the rush of the
piece into its first position, the quick
command to load, the rapid aim and
discharge, the faint scream of»the shell,
the puff of smoke and dull report as it
struck and the dust rose up in a pillar.
When it was ended, we rode across
the valley and up the opposite slope to
the spot where the tent fly had stood.
Bits of it lay about here and there. One
of the poles was bitten short off. For
50 yards below the other pole, lor 80
yards on either side of it and for 100
yards above it the earth was not plowed
—it was harrowed. An ant could not
have lived on the ground.
It was not difficult to imagine what
would have become of an opposing force.
Men and horses would have been dead
and all guns dismounted in five minutes
after the firing began. There could have
been no better illustration of the abso
lutely fatal character of these pieces.
It was found that they did not become
unmanageable through heat, that the
breech mechanism displayed no sign of
strain, that the recoil was not greater
than was calculated and that accuracy
was as perfect with the last shell as
with the first These findings were re
ported to the Washington authorities,
and the manufacture of the guns went
on. The regular army is now thorough
ly supplied with them. —Chicago Times-
Herald. ' ,
Jtut What It Seem*.
“It seems like a dream, ” he said in
speaking of his courtship. ’
“My boy,” replied tho veteran,
“when you wake up after marriage you
will find that that is just exactly what
it is—nothing but a dream.” —Chicago
Post. >
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To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD ‘CASTORIA” ANDF* f
u PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE mark.
J, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, q/ Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “PITCHERS CASTORIA,” the same
that has borne and does now ° n every
bear the facsimile signature of wrapper.
This is the original * PITCHER’S CASTORIA,’’ which has been
used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty
years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the hind you have always bought A*"* on
and has the signature of wrap-
per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex
cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is
President.
ForeA 8,1897.
Do Not Be Deceived,
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
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, “The Kind You Have Always Bought”
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