The Patton courier. (Patton, Cambria Co., Pa.) 1893-1936, August 25, 1905, Image 7

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The New Doll.
*Merican doll-do!l, how you do?
@oldy-haired missy-doll, I love you.
‘Merican doll-doll, what oo say?
spittle Jap missy do love play?”
tty blue round eyes shiny shine,
Very 'Merican dolly mine !—From The St.
Nicholas.
Flower Oracles.
When you hold a daisy in your hand
and pulling its petals off recite: “He
loves me, he loves me not,’ you aii
not the only child who does just this
thing. In many countries and many
climes the children are consulting the
same oracles. The Italians say some-
thing which, translated, means: “This
year, another year, soon, never.” If
no daisies are to be had a branch of a
tree is taken, ome having alternative
leaves. These are detached one by one,
but the charm is valueless unless the
consuliter turns his head as the mystic
words are spoken.
The English girl says: “He loves for
me, longs for me, wishes me well, does
not care,” etc, which means the same
thing as that uttered by her Italian and
American cousins.
Ways of the Bluebird.
The sweet disposition and gentle-
loving ways of the bluebird, says a
writer in St. Nicholas, are evident,
even in captivity. In the summer of
1898 I had the pleasure of carefully
studying the habits of the old and
young in that condition. The old birds
were kept in a large bird room with
several other varieties of American
birds. The bluebirds were models of
good behavior, not only among their
own kind, but in their relations with
The young birds were
kept in cages, and with a moderate
amount of care and attention became
very tame. It was amusing to see
them, about the usual feeding time, ar-
range themselves on a particular perch.
Bach bird, in crder of precedence,
would take the food from a stick, and
if one was purposely omitted there
was no fluttering of wings or selfish
attempt to obtain the morsel as it was
offered to the next bird.
The Best Runner.
“1 can run faster than anybody,
said Jack.
“I can run faster than anybody,”
said Dorothy and Willie and Sarah.
Uncle Will held in his hand a prize
for the best runner. It was a box of
candy. He set the box on the post
beside the gate.
“I will count three,” he said, “and
then we'll see who is the best runner.”
“One—two"'—-began Uncle Will. But
just then mama called from the house:
“I want some one to come and amuse
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the baby. Who will it be?”
Four little heads dropped. Jack said
“Willie, you go: you can't get the
prize anyway.” Willie said, “You go,
Jack: vou're the biggest.” Sarah put
her finger in her mouth and said noth-
ing. Then Dorothy called out, “Ill
do it, mamma.”
Uncle Will counted again. Jack and
Sarah touched the gate at exactly the
same time. Over at the house the baby
was laughing and cooing as” Dorothy
ran up and down before the porch.
“Dorothy is the best runner of all,”
said Uncle Will. “Look! She is run-
ning very fast, not for a prize, but just
to please the baby and to help mam-
ma.”
“Oh!” said Jack, Sarah and Willie.
But the “best runner” was a very
generous one, so everybody had a, share
of the box of candy.—Adapted from
Sunbeam.
Under the Umbrella.
Three small boys were sitting under
the umbrella, which was small too.
The boys were rather ragged, and
go was the umbrella. Two long slits
let through a scattering downfall of
both sunshine and shower from a clear
blue April sky, and at the end of the
ribs the silk had broken loose, and was
on its way up to the top.
But the three chums crowded close
together and took turns sitting in the
middle, holding the umbrella. Each
was chewing one-third of a stick of
gum, and all were deliciously cosy and
happy.
“1f I had a dollar,” said Pinky, “I'd
buy us a great big umbrella that ud
cover us up jest as slick.”
“My! I wish ’t you did have a dol-
lar, Pinky,” said Dumpy.
“'N’ I wish so too,” said Popsy.
“If I had a dollar,” said Dumpy, “I'd
lay it out fer gum. You kin buy a
stick fer a penny, an’ they’s a whole
hundred pennies in a dollar-—so we'd
have a hundred sticks o’ gum. Think
of that!”
“My! I wish ’'t you did have a dol-
lar, Dumpy,” said Popsy.
“°N’ so do I too,” said Pinky.
“If I had a dollar,” said Popsy, “I'd
buy streaked i-scream with it, and we'd
get LFere all so snug and eat that i-
scream right straight up, every single
bit? There, sir!”
And Pinky and Dumpy cried out
with one voice then: —
“My! I wish 't you did have a dol-
lar, Popsy!”’—Carrie A. Parker, in Lit-
tle Folk.
Sense of Smell in Birds.
A study of the habits of flsh-eating
pirds shows that if they possess the
sense of smell at all it is not sufficient.
ly acute to enable them to use it in
finding food.
All observers are agreed that when
a careass is hidden, by never so slight
a screen, it is safe from the attacks of
vultures and other carrion seekers;
but the most remarkable proof of the
ineffectiveness of the sense (if it exist
at all) is afforded by experiences which
Dr, Guillemard was good enough to re:
late to me. Many times it has hap-
pened, he tells me, that, having shot a
wild beast or other game, which was
too heavy to carry home, he has dis
emboweled it and hidden the carcass
in the hole of an “ant bear.”
Ou returning with natives to carry it
to camp he has found a circle of vul-
tures standing round the spot where
the offal had been thrown, completely
unaware of the carcass within a few
yards of their beaks. Of observations
proving the possession of the sense |
know none, unless we are willing ta
accept as evidence the belief, which
is very gemeral among fanciers, thal
birds are attached to the smell ol
anise, and the similar belief of gamer
keepers in some parts of the countr)
that pigeons may be prevented from
deserting the dovecote by smearing
their boxes with oil of anise. Poacher:
are supposed to lure hen pheasants
from a wook by anointing gateposts
with tincture of valerian.—Nature.
The Diary of a Chicken.
First Day.
I'm in a shell. I don’t know how]
got in, but I think I'll pick my way
out.
Second Day.
I'm out. I picked. I don’t see how
that shell held me. I was too big fo
it.
Third Day.
I have 2 mother. She is named hen
[ thought at first it was feathers, bu!
it turned out to be mother. Wasn'
that queer?
Fourth Day.
This is the gréatest day of my life
[ found a worm. 1 found it all by my
self. Mother clucked and told me wher
to look, but I did my own scratching
Fifth Day.
It is fine to get up high and see the
world. I got on mother’s back, and )
could see everything. I suppose there
are not many chickens as smart as)
am.
Sixth Day.
[ don’t like that giant named “Little
Girl,” that brings our meal; the meal
is very nice, but a big giant like that
is in the way. She takes up too much
room.
Seventh Day.
I want to leave mother and go oul
into the world and be a big hen. 1]
know more than she does now, that is
in the daytime; but when night comes
and mother says “Cluck! Cluck” I fee]
just as though I would like better t¢
be under her warm wing. Peep! Peep!
—By Joshua F. Crowell, in Youths
Companion.
Neighbors.
Upon rows of dried brush the early
tender green pea-vines were scrambl
ing and clinging with their leaves and
tendrils to reach the topmost twig
blossoming now and then on their up
ward way.
They were delicate, graceful, white
winged flowers, nodding prettily te
their more gaudy neighbors, the scarlef
beens
They looked down upon the barg
brown earthy bed on the other side
wondering who those ugly-looking
neighbors were, with such stiff
straight stalks, growing up a few in
ches here and there, only to be cut
down by the gardener, who came daily
with his big knife and basket.
They whispered together in their
shy, tremulous way, “Why don’t they
grow and climb and blossom as we do?
r aren't they pretty and graceful or
ht and gay like the scarlet beans!
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to have and to see. Now no one wants
them, not even the gardener.”
Spring passed. The white pea blos-
soms had changed into green pods full
of peas. The gardener, with his basket
hered them daily as he had those
The pea vines were withering on the
dried brush, their tender beauty gone.
But the brown earthy bed near by
was hidden heneath a tiny forest of
loveliest green light and airy as feath:
ers in the breeze.
It was sought by children to deco-
rate their rooms. Later it was yet
more beautiful and gay with shining
scarlet berries, and was set off in
vases in many a village home.
The pea must have its early beauty
and later usefulness, and the asparagus
must have iis early usefulness and
later beauty; for such are the laws of
nature.—By M. E. M,, in Christian Re-
gister.
A Clean Face.
Tnecleanliness of the complexion is
often the cause of unsightly blemishes.
The pores become so clogged with
atmospheric dust that they become
irritated in their work of breaking
through the blockade, and eruptions
result. A good facial shampoo ig
made by melting pure castile soap and
to half a cupful of this liquid adding
one teaspoonful of alcohol. Apply to
the face, rubbing in thoroughly and
using hot water freely. Rug away
the suds with almond meal, then bathe
the face first in warm water and then
with cold. For ordinary everyday
cases of soiled countenance, the writ
er can highly recommend the correct
complexion brush, used with pure
soap and hot water, the surface be-
ing rinsed afterward. A good cream
will soften the skin so that the peres
can act more freely.
Caring for Plants.
Keep your plants out of drafts, give
them sunlight, keep the leaves clean,
if you use jardinieres do not let the
water stand in them, and, last and
most important learn to water
them according to their needs.
MUTINIES OF THE PAST.
PARALLELS FOR THE OUTBREAK
IN THE RUSSIAN NAVY.
Greatest Revolt of Men.of-War's Men
Took Place in 1797, When Many
British Crews Rebelled, Blockaded
the Mouth of the Thames and Had
London in a Panic—Mutiny of the
Channel Fleet Earlier in the Same
Year Almost as Bad.
Mutinies in a nation’s navy as se-
rious as that the Kniaz Potemkine Ta-
vritchesky are rare, and one must go
back a hundred years or more to find
a case so serious.
The Odessa affair has few parallels
in maritime history. In the days when
the Spanish Main was thoughtlessly
placing itself in the hands of future
orthodox dime novelists and the less
conservative sort who use boards for
their bindings, a fleet of pirate craft
would sail into the harbor of a city,
bombard its fortifications, likely as
not reduce them, and then land for
pillage, rapine, murder and other dime
rovelistic things.
Of these pirate fleets the buccaneer
Morgan had the largest and the most
feared. Mutiny was no uncommon
thing among these ships, and most of
the pirate leaders died at the hands
of their own men or else were mar-
ooned to die by lonely reflection.
Stern navy discipline has made mut-
iny hard to hatch and difficult of main-
tenance. France during the Napol-
eonic wars suffered from several abor-
tive attempts. It was during the same
period that English history was re-
cording the precedents for this mar-
velous outbreak in the Baltic fleet.
The English trouble was a gradual
growth, however, spreading over sev-
eral years. The Cullcden, Capt. Thos.
Trowbridge, in December, 1794, fur-
nished the first real outbreak against
authority.
English sailors were dissatisfied with
their pay, which had not been raised
since the days of Charles II, with the
unequal distribution of prize money,
and with what they characterized as
undue severity in the maintenance of
discipline.
When ordered to weigh anchor the
Culloden’s crew flatly refused to put
to sea. Trowbridge sent to shore for
help, and the ringleaders were thrown
into prison and five of them shortly
afterward were hanged from the Cul-
loden’s yardarm.
The mutiny on the Windsor Castle,
of the Mediterranean fleet, stationed at
San Fiorenzo, in the same year, was
a serious affair. Her captain was Wil-
liam Shields, but Vice Admiral Rob-
ert Linzee had raised his flag aboard
her. The crew did not like the rear-
admiral, the captain, the first lieuten-
ant or the boatswain and refused to
obey their orders. Vice-Adrmiral Hoth-
am, in charge of the fleet, for reasons
which never appeared in history,
changed the Windsor Castle's officers
and punished rone of her crew.
In April, 1797, an organized mutiny
broke out in the Channel fleet, under
Lord Bridport. The crews of the Royal
George, the Queen Charlotte, the Roy-
al Sovereign, the London, the Glory,
the Duke, the Mars, the Marlborough,
the Ramillies, the Robust, the Impetu-
ous, the Terrible, the Defense, the
Pompee, the Minotaur and the Defiance
mutinied and refused to weigh the an-
chors when Admiral Bridport signaled
to set sail.
The men were in earnest. They put
the least liked officers on-shore. and
delegates from the various crews met
and drew up a statement of their
grievances, which they dispatched to
Parliament. A committee from the
Board of Admiralty went down to
Portsmouth on April 18, but could do
nothing. On the 21st Vice-Admirals
Sir Alan Gardner and John Colpoys
visited Portsmouth and met the dele-
gates on the Royal George. The muti-
niers insisted on the pardon for all of
the ringleaders. Sir Alex Gardner lost
his temper at this demand and order-
ed that the ringleaders and every fifth
man should be hanged. The more
peaceful of the mutineers fought back
the others. Gardner was roughly
handled and barely escaped from the
ship with his life.
A red flag was hoisted on the Royal
George and the mutineers went into
conference in her cabin. Such officers
as remained on the fleet were confined,
and ropes were hung to the yard arms
as a warning as well as an indication
that the mutineers intended to pre-
serve order among themselves.
All of the guns were loaded
Bridport's flag was struck.
Parliament now sent word to the mu-
tineers that it would meet most of
their demands and would pardon the
ringleaders but the trouble was by no
means over. Most of the fieet had
dropped down to Spithead, where, on
May 7, Lord Bridport hoisted the sig
nal to set sail. The men refused to
obey, claiming that they had no in-
timation from King or Parliament that
their demands had been met. A con-
ference of delegates was called on
the London, but as the boats rowed
under the London Vice-Amiral Colp vs
appeared on deck and shouted that the
sailors could not come aboard. His
marines were drawn up along the rail.
The sailors persisted.
“If you try to get aboard,” the Ad-
miral shouted, “I will command the
marines to blow you out of the wat-
er!”
A sailor in one of the boats explod-
ed his gun and wounded a lieutenant
of marines. The marines replied with
a volley, killing five seamen, two of
whom were delegates. Then the mu-
tiny broke out under Colpoy’s nosc.
The London’s sailors mobbed the ma-
rines, who surrendered. A proposal 10
hang the commander of the marines
and
was defeated. This was the end of the
mutiny, for on May 14 werd came from
London that the sailors’ demands had
been fully met.
Serious as the outbreak inthe Chan:
nel fleet had been the mutiny which fol:
lowed a few weeks later in the flcet
at the Nore was worse. Vice-Admiral
Charles Buckner was in command and
to him a delegation of twenty sailors
went with a broadside of arrogant de-
mands for more pay, larger prize
money, extensive shore leave and lax
discipline. The admiral, of course,
refused and communicated with the
Board of Admiralty.
Richard Parker, a seamon, had been
chosen by the sailors as their leader.
Parker was an organizer and a first-
class sailor. He appointed committees
of twelve to take charge of each ves-
sel and to maintain a certain sort of
discipline. He, sailed into Sheerness
Harbor, fired a gun at the fort by way
of warning and cut out several small
gunboats stationed there. He sent ves-
sels up the coast to corrupt the outly-
ing ships of the fleet, but failed of re-
cruits in this venture. On May 23
Parker hauled down Vice-Admiral
Buckner's flag on the Sandwich,
hoisted the red flag of mutiny in its
place and took up his own headquar-
ters in the Admiral’s cabin. Most of
the officers were sent ashore, but sev-
eral were confined on shipboard.
On June 24 Parker, seeing the trend
of public opinion, which augured the
refusal of his demands, offered to ca-
pitulate on the condition that every
one should be pardoned. This offer
was refused. The sailors were in the
habit of landing at Sheerness and par-
ading through the town with bands
and with red flags flying. Admiral Lord
Keith and Gen. Sir Charles Grey arriv-
ed in Sheerness on the 27th and put
an end to this form of diversion.
Parker saw that his last chance lay
in showing his #eeth, so he stationed
the Standard, sixty-four guns, the Bril-
liant, twenty-eight guns, the Inspector,
sixteen guns, and a number of small
boats at the mouth of the Thomas,
blocking shipping and actually threat-
ening London with bombardment. He
had at his heels, as a reserve, twelve
ships of the line, two boats armed
with fifty guns each, six frigates and
six smaller men-of-war.
The Admiralty meantime had dis-
patched the Neptune, ninety-eight
guns, the Lancaster, sixty-four guns,
the Agincourt, sixty-four guns, and
several gunbe to attack the Parker
forces. Fortifications were also
thrown up on either side of the mouth
of the river, furnaces were erected for
the heating cof shot, and London be-
gan to emerge from the period of ter-
ror under which it had struggled for a
week.
Parker's position was clearly unten-
able. Apparently all that remained
for him and his men was flight, with
or without the ships. He seemed un-
certain what course to follow and dis-
organization ran rampant throughout
his fleet. A large party of the sailors
advocated unconditional surrender and
recriunits strengthened it day by day.
Finally Parker's own men on the
Sandwich mutinied again, this time
against their leader, and set sail and
dropped anchor under the guns of the
fort.
Parker and several of the ringlead-
ers were tried. Parker was hanged
from the yard arm of the Sandwich,
acknowledging the justice of his
death. Eight other men were put to
death shortly afterward.—New York
Sun.
TOO MUCH SYSTEM.
Educational Institutions Should Put
More Stress on Individual Teachers.
The prevalent tendency in educa
tion just now is to trust too much to
em. Ossian H, Lang, in the latest
of the Forum, declares, “The
only system worth having is one that
will concentrate directing forces
upon the fixing of minimum standards
of results, careinily graded, and upon
the selection and development of an
nt teaching force. The initial
issue
the
ex ations of teachers should de-
termine personal fitness and profes-
sional equipment. [he standard of
results should be based upon broadly
comprehensive research of a compara-
tive nature, Next, individual respon-
sibility should be fixed in a liberally
intelligent spirit, but with rational
firmness. This would assure to the
individual teacher a large measure of
absolutely necessary freedom of ac-
tion. Individua 3 might then
become a reality. As long as the
teacher's individuality is kept in ab-
ject bondage, the individualization of
instruction can only be an iridescent
dream. As long as there is no indi
vidualization there will be misfits. The
greater the number of misfi
more self-condemned is
Many of our Ar can students at-
tend German uni sities for the ex-
press purpose of studying under spe-
cially eminent professors and this was
the case with some of our American
universities when some of the famous
old teachers were alive. They were
the chief attractions that drew earn-
est and devoted students to the
schools where they taught. Few of
these great men are alive today, or
if they are, they are retired, and it is
seldom that the name of a university
professor gets before the public now.
A school is known for the greatness
of its pecuniary endowment rather
than anything else. The names of its
teachers are seldom known outside
its immediate circle, no matter how
deserving and able.—New Orleans
Picayune.
Immense Game Preserve.
Herman B. Duryea and Harry Payne
Whitney of New York and Hobart
Ames of Boston, own a 70,000-acre
game preserve 60 miles from Mem-
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Ammonia vapor has proven a pow
erful disinfectant, a room filled with
it being freed from cholera bacilli
pustule germs or diphtheria microbes
in two hours.
The Chicago and Alton road has
just demonstrated, for the first time
the entire practicability of telegraph:
ing to and from moving trains by
wireless telegraph.
The new glove for surgeons is an
imperceptible covering that does not
impair touch or the pliability of the
skin. It is applied by immersing the
hand in a weak solution of gutta
percha in benzine or acetone, and it
is as effective as an ordinary rubber
glove in closing any crevice in the
skin against pus or secretions and in
making the hand antiseptic for opera
tions.
New facts concerning the intel
ligent insects, the ants, are still com:
ing to light. They keep aphides as
we do cows, in order to milk them
and that they have slaves was discov:
ered long ago, but now we hear of a
South American variety making flow:
er gardens in the tops of trees. The
gardens or baskets contain certain
plants which are duly tended by the
ants, and the insects plant the minute
eds whence the plants spring.
Glass containing manganese is slow:
ly turned violently by sunlight, and
Sir William Crookes has found that
radium produces in a few days a col:
oration as intense as that caused by
the sun in years. F. Fischer has now
been studying the effects of ultra
violet rays and reports that the light
of a mercury arc lamp in a quartz
tube gave a slight color in 15 minutes
to four out of eight glasses, and an in-
tense violet hue in 12 hours. The col
or proved to be due to manganese
silicate.
Silicon, the most abundant metal in
the world, has been unknown on ac
count of the difficulty of separating it
from oxygen, but the electric furnace
has now made it obtainable in quan:
tities to meet any demand. It is ex
pected to have’ some importance in
iron alloys. It gives to steel valua-
ble electrical properties, it imparts
such hardness as to make some alloys
possibly useful as abrasives, and the
compound known as "'( alorite” serves
like the thermite for obtaining high
temperatures.
It has long been suspected that the
master makers of violin in Italy in the
17th and 18th centuries knew of some
remarkable gum which they employed
in making the varnish for their. in
struments. Mr. George Fry of the
Chemical society of London, who has
carefully investigated the subject,
concludes, after showing that the var-
nish exercises a decided influence ov:
er the tone of a violin, that Stradivar-
ius and other famous makers proba-
bly used only such familiar things as
turpentine, linseed-oil and resin rath-
or than some mystical gum. The
resin was oxidized with nitric acid. It
is doubted whether the popular idea
that age is advantageous rather than
detrimental to a violin is well found-
ed.
Mile. J. Wery, a Belgian naturalist,
has just announced the results of new
experiments on the nature of the at
traction of flowers for bees. She
finds that perfume, by itself, offers
little attraction. Artificial flowers are
as attractive as natural ones if both
are put under glass shades. Bril-
liantly colored flowers offer much
areater attraction when entire than
when the petals or other parts have
Honey has no attrac-
been cut away.
tive power. Both color and form,
apart from scent, are powerfull;
tractive. The three comi
sige a maximum of &ttra n, four-
fifths of which is due to form and col-
or. This fact indicates that bees are
guided more by sight than by smell
when they go after honey.
Dessicated Milk.
There is really nothing distinctive
ly new in the idea of dessicated milk,
but a new process is no being
brought out in London, by w! 1 much
more seems to be achieved than by
amy process previously invented. It
is known as the Just-Hatt Sys-
tem, and the following points are
claimed for it, and are said by inde-
pendent experts to have been amply
justified by experiments, That the
evaporation is so carried out as not
o eliminate, or produce any essential
change in any of the nutr
ments of the milk; that the solidified
matter, which is made in cakes or
bricks, can he restored to tts origin-
al form by the addition of water; that
the milk will then produce perfect
putter or cheese as may be required;
and that the intense heat employed
in the evaporating process complete-
ly destroys dangerous microbes, and
thus renders the milk safer for house-
hold purposes than the ordinary dairy
kind. Some cakes of the solidified
milk were despatched on a voyage
round the world recently, and were
found to be in perfectly sound con-
dition on being returned to ILondon.
{f, as the inventors state, the miik
will keep indefinitely in the hottest
climate, the process should prove use:
ful during the summer months.
Aged Man’s Long Walk.
Samuel Hardy, celebrating his 77th
birthday, walked .. ues the other
day from Matawan to Freehold, N. J,
to dine with Deputy Sheriff Charles
Close at the Belmont hotel. Mr. Har
ly is quick of foot and made the dis-
phis, said to be the finest in many re
spects, of any in America.
tance in five hours. He also re
rned home on foot.
FEATS OF WOMEN SPIES.
How Secrets of Nihilists Were Made
Known to Russian Secret Police.
Russian history during the last 20 ;
or 30 vears would not have beem
what it has been if there had been no 3
Vera Sassulitch, of whom nothing is
heard in these days. When the fa.
mous Gen. Trepoff was only at the
beginning of his career she was his
invaluable assistant.
Trepoff was the detested enemy of
the Nihilists, and he was very anxions
to obtain inside information as to
their doings and their plans. Sudden
ly, one day in 1878, he was fired at
while driving through the streets of
St. Petersburg by no other than Vera
Sassulitch. She was at once seized
by the soldiery and was charged with
the attempted murder of Trepoff, be-
ing tried in the ordinary manner, but
to the amazement of the public she
was acquitted.
On her release the Nihilists gath-
ered about her, desiring to admit such
a friend of the people to their ciosest
acquaintance. In this way she was °
admitted to all their private circles
and was made accuainted with their
secrets. These she at once commun-
jcated to the Russian government.
The truth was that the whole busi-
ness, including the attempt on his life,
was faked by Trepoff himself, and it
was simply a clever ruse to get frome
the Nihilists what could not be got
in any other way. Thereafter Vera
Sassulitch played the part of governs
ment spy on innumerable occasions.
There succeeded her as the Czar's
chief spy one Emma Bellomo, who
became the Countess della Torre. She
was a woman of great mental ability
and boundless ambition, and when
her husband died she offered her sers
vices as special secret agent to the
Czar, and soon became indispensable
to the Russian court. Whenever a
document had to be secured she se-
cured it, and she allowed nothing, not
even a lifefi to stand in her way. By
one remarkable and dramatic coup
early in her career she obtained the
unbounded confidence of the Czar.
Information had been received by the
Russian secret police that a plot
against the monarch was being hatched
conjointly in Rome and Paris. It was
suspected that the plot was to be car-
ried out through the instrumentality
of a high official of the Czar’s house-
hold, but all efforts to identify him
failed.
Thereupon this woman spy was put
>n the scent, and she at once went to
Rome, where she ingratiated herself
with the Nihilists, and at last found
out the name she wanted. She re-
turned in haste to St. Petersburg and
informed the Czar of what she bad
discovered, but he refused to believe
her, as the man named was one of his
closest attendants and most intimate
friends. “Then,” exclaimed the Coun-
tess, “I must prove to your Majesty
that what I tell you is true. In halt
an hour I must crave permission to
see you again.”
When she left the Czar she at once
sought out the officer in question and
handed over to him a package of pa-
pers, impressing upon him that on no
account must he allow them to leave
his person. “Keep them with you,”
she said. “On your noble person they
are safe; in my hiding place they may
be found.” Her fascinations were too
much for the officer and he agreed.
She then returned to the Czar and at
once said to him: “I beg that your
Majesty will now at once summon this
gentleman to your presence, and that
you observe closely the count’s de-
portment and features when he sees
me at your side.” A few minutes
later the officer entered the apartment
and when he saw the Countess with
the Czar he realized the state of af-
fairs and turned pale with terror.
“It is as I informed your Majesty,”
said the Countess. “If you will search
him you will find the proof.” It was
found in one of his riding boots. The
Czar ordered that he should be exiled
to Siberia for life, but there was a
general impression that he was mui=
dered in his cell. —Tit-Bits.
Fight Between Black Bass.
A crowd of people witnessed a fight
to death between two black bass in
an aquarium in the show window of
a store at Peru, Ind.
A male bass weighing two pounds
attacked another one that weighed
two and a half pounds and finally
killed it. The male bass made a nest ©
in the aquarium and when the other
fish came near the fight began. The
water fairly boiled, with the fish dart-
ing hither and thither, and inside of
10 minutes every fin and the tail of
the larger bass were torn off by the
smaller
After that the smaller fish frequents
ly caught the larger one in its mouth
and broke its bones. In a short time
the cripple turned over and died. This
is the third bass that has been killed
by the two pound fish.—Indianapolis
Star,
one.
The Japanese in Victory.
The attitude of the Japanese people
in the presence of this epoch-making
triumph is a sight for men and gods.
They have the grand manner of the
ancients, and their invariable attitude
throughout the war, whether in the
hour of victory or in that of disap-
pointment, has been worthy of a great
people. No noisy and vulgar clamor,
no self-laudation, no triumph over a
fallen enemy; but deep thankfulness,
calm satisfaction and once more re-
ference of the cause of victory to the
illustrious virtue of the Emperor of
Japan, If this be the Yellow Peril,
may the Fates grant that we catch the
infection of it by closer and more ef-
fective alliance with a people so wor
thy of our warm reward! —Lendon
Times Correspondence.