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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. > , -t--- AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. 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