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There will come a. day when the
people of the close of a century will
look back at the close of the 19th and
smile at the .unique absurdity of the
stovepipe hat; but make no mistake.
Man is wedded to his idols. That time
Is yet a long way off.
Honey bees give the best possible
exemplification of the results of in
dustry. Five thousand of them, as
they leave the hive, weigh one pound,
but when the insects return from their
visits to the flowers, freighted with
honey, they weigh nearly twice as
much.
In time Alaska may be counted in
the agricultural belt of the United
States. Her season is short, but the
soil in her valleys is rich beyond com
prehension, and the sun, during his
reign, is hot. All that is necessary
is to know how to utilize locations
and conditions.
Through the efforts of its state i
board of charities, Illinois has made
a beginning toward the establishment
of a suitable institution for its de
pendent epileptics. The institution
will be a genuine colony, planned on
the cottage system. There are 3000
dependent epileptics in the state.
Cold storage lia3 made Australia,
next to the United States, the largest !
source of dressed meats. Wheat-im- |
porting countries usually look to her |
to supply a part of their breads tufTs; I
and between the Transvaal war and
the vast development of gold mining j
in West Australia the southern conti- '
nent in 1899 led the world in produc 1
ing gold. Australia is a great country. I
even though two-tlilrds of it is desert, j
When all freight traffic has been !
banished to underground railways and j
the automobile lias displaced the j
horse for surface travel, nearly the en- |
tire street between the pavements can
be devoted to green turf muses j
the St. Louis Globe-Dispatch. Cities •
of the 20th and following centuries ,
may be free frcm dust and the vile 1
odors arising from animal traffic. The
automobile mowing machine may be
substituted for the sweeping machines,
to the great improvement of health
and increase of enjoyment of citizens.
—the St. Louis Globe-Dispatch.
A writer in the Yale Review esti
mates that the United States is in
debted to foreigners in the sum of
$3,330,000,000 and that foreigners owe
us $500,000,000. This writer is of the
opinion that this country began the
20th century owing not much over
$2,000,000,000, with a net annual inter
est of about $90,000,000, Americans
traveling in Europe spend $50,000,000
annually, and the loss by expatria
tion according to this writer, is
$10,000,000. But in a few years the
United States will have wiped out its
entire indebtedness, provided large ex
ports and small imports continue.
An article in Harper's Weekly con
tains some remarkable figures on the
fruit growing industry in America. In
ISM only one-half barrel of raisins
could be fount' in New York City to
make pudding to celebrate the peace
treaty. The previous year California
alone shipped over 100,000,000 pounds
of raisins. Only 20 years ago all the
strawberries eaten in New York City
wore grown in Long Island and New
Jersey. Now the strawberry country
Includes Florida, and the strawberry
season begins in November and ends
in August. A single Georgia peach
orchard numbers as high a3 120,000
trees. The government has never se
cured an adequate census of the entire
fruit trade of the United States. The
author of the article in question thinks
$1,000,000,000 a year a moderate esti
mat
TRANSFIGURATION.
"As one who looks out to the West
when shadow-time's begun.
And sees in splendor on the hills the
pageant of the sun,
So we will look at life, maybe, when
life is all but done:
"And find old aims, vain dreams, mad
hopes touched with a kindlier light.
Flash with a glory all unguessed upou
the straining sight
Aye, and lie glad to know there waits
the long reward of night!"
—Ainslee's Magazine.
—AN— |
| UNSUSPECTED CRIMINAL |
, By Lawrence L slie. <j>
Several years ago ttie county of
Rockingham, N. H., was the scene of
great excitement, caused by a most
atrocious murder, perpetrated by the
keeper of a public house, a wealthy
citizen being the victim.
A man named Walter Heywood. a
wealthy merchant from an adjoining
county, had occasion to visit Rock
ingham, and put up at a public house
called "The Adams," kept by Samuel
Tinley. At this house Mr. Heywood
met a couple of old friends, with whom
he took supper, and passed the great
er portion of the evening with them,
discussing the weather, business and
polities, and in the course of the con
versation Mr. Heywood made known
the fact that he then had on his per
son the sum of S3OOO in cash. The
evening passed pleasantly, and about
9 o'clock Mr. Heywood excused him
self and retired.
About half-past 10 his two friends
also retired, occupying a double
bedded room on the second floor.
Shortly after midnight one of them
was aroused by a quick, stifled cry,
which so alarmed him that he woke
his companion. They listened, and
could distinctly hear the moans of
some one evidently in great distress,
and quietly following in the direction
of the sound, they soon found the
room from which it proceeded, the
door of which was ajar, and on look
ing in they saw a person weltering in
his blood on the bed, and another man
standing over him with a dark lan
tern in one hand, and a knife, drip
ping with blood in the other. To their
great horror they recognized the mur
dered man as their companion of the
evening, while the man with the mur
derous weapon was their host.
They instantly seized and disarmed
him, and charged him with the crime.
He denied it stoutly, said that he too
had been aroused by the struggle and
the groans, and had entered the room
in order to afford his guest any aid
it might be in his power to extend.
On entering, he said he found the
bloody knife lying upon the threshold,
and had picked it up, as it lay directly
under his feet.
These assertions were of no avail,
and the man was handed over to the
authorities, and lodged in jail to
await trial. In due time his trial
came off, and on the presentation of
the above facts, he was convicted, and
in due time executed.
Mr. Tinley asserted his innocence
throughout, and reiterated it from the
gallows, in a speech to the multitude
gathered to witness his execution.
Notwithstanding this, he was gener
ally believed guilty, and his punish
ment regarded as just.
After his death a letter was found
In his cell, addressed to the attending
clergyman, which read as follows:
"Rev, Henry Lowry: Dear Sir—En
closed is a sealed envelop, which I de
sire you to take possession of, and not
break the seal until Charles Tinley,
my son by my first wife tand my only
surviving relative), who is now in
feeble health, is no more. Then open
the package, and let the contents ho
made public. It is my earnest wish
that you accept the trust, and see that
my object is attained. To provide for
the possibility of your death before
that of my son, I suggest that you
leave directions in your will to have
the package, in case of your death,
handed over to the judge of the coun
ty court, with instructions similar to
those given you.
"SAMUEL TINLEY."
When it became known that such a
paper had been left, everybody
thought it contained a confession of
guilt, and for a time there was the
keenest curiosity felt in its contents.
Of course, it was not gratified, and
in a few years the crime, the murder
er, and the mysterious document were
all forgotten.
Six years after his father's execu
tion, Charier, Tinley died, and the long
looked-for document was published in
the county paper. It is too long to
insert here, but it was to the effect
that of the actual murder of Mr. Hey
i wood ho was entirely innocent; he
I confessed, however, that he was ncver
' thcioss a murderer. Years before he
j had killed a traveler who hail stopped
i at his house, but whose death was
never suspected.
' On the night of Mr. Ileywood's
death ho had entered the room for
the purpose t.' robbery, and perhaps
murder, hut v. as not a little surprised
and shocked to find that ills intended
victim had already been killed, and
his pockets rifled. His statement made
at the trial he declared to he true in
every particular, of course with the
above qualification. He likewise de
i nied all knowledge, or even the
slightest suspicion, as to who the real
murderer was.
Ho stated, !n conclusion, that ho was
Impelled to this confession by a de
sire to liavo the real truth known, by
a sense of duty he owed to society,
which he had outraged, and to God,
whom he had so greatly offended, but
did not wish to make it public until
his only surviving relative should bo
beyond the reach of the shame of tho
exposure.
But the curious chapter in this
crime was not yet complete. A few
years after the publication of this
statement, a man known as Thomas
Chambers died in the Massachusetts
state prison. Before his death he
confessed to the chaplain that his real
name was George Martin, and that he
was the murderer of Mr. Heywood,
for which Mr. Tinley had suffered
death.
Ho stated that he had occupied a
room on the same floor as his victim,
and having heard him state to his
companions that he had a consider
able sum of money, he determined to
get possession of it.
He entered the room, and was
searching for the money when Mr.
Heywood partially woke. Frightened
at the danger of exposure, and in
censed at the prospect of losing the
coveted treasure, he sprang upon him,
stifled his outcry, and inflicted the
wounds from which he died. This
done, he secured the dying man's
pocketbook and hastily left the room,
having only just closed the door be
hind him a few moments before Mr.
Tinley entered and found the unhappy
man dying. The proof against Tinley
was so overwhelming that no one
ever thought of looking elsewhere for
the assassin, so the real criminal was
never suspected.—New York Weekly.
MR. KRUCER'S HANDS.
XVUat They Slcnlfy, Accor liiiß to a!■'.
moui Chiromancer or I'ariK.
Weary of cheering and snap-shot
ting him, the continental admirers of
Mr. Kruger have been examining his
hands with a view to obtaining fresh I
food for adoration. The Paris Vie 1
Illustree publishes a photograph of
Mr. Kruger's hands, as well as the j
professional opinion of a famous Pari
sian chiromancer thereon. The left
thumb is missing, a gun accident de
priving Oom Paul of that useful mem
ber early in life.
Mme. do Thebes, the chiromancer, :
after a lengthy examination of the i
photograph, sent in the following j
comments:
"These two hands resemble each
other very little, and prove that the 1
theories of the ancient peoples were 1
right when they said that tho left
hand was the hand of fate, the right I
the hand of will.
"Kruger's left hand is almost the '
hand of an animal. The nails are j
broad and indicate action and force. |
Tho forefinger is longer than the oth
ers, showing a terrible authority with- j
out reasoning, a desire for command, 1
everything by brute force, a primitive
hand if ever there was one.
"As to his intellectual culture, he
has turned toward the soil, for he is
a countryman before everything. He
loves the soil: he loves his country,
and understands nothing else. His na- j
turo, which has remaine%upright and
loyal—the primitive form of the left !
hands indicates that to us—only j
thinks of keeping its independence, '
and in defending his country he de- j
fends himself.
"Now look at his right hand. What
a change! How this man is well in- I
formed! How this square hand indi
cates reflection! The forefinger,
which represents intuition and inspir- 1
ation, is as long as the middle finger; I
intuition which exercises control,
which analyses before acting, which i
conceives clearly and justly, and
which goe3 forward with the fixity of
fate. Note these two fingers of equal |
length, which is very rare. It is pre
destination.
"And these two fingers are close to- I
gcther and indicate tho man with '
whom we have to deal. He goes ;
against fatality. He commands it, i
he resists it, he battles with it, and
he overcomes it. for the long thumb, j
which almost reaches the first pha- ,
lange of the forefinger, shows a will I
of iron. The left hand indicates that
he does not feel physical suiforing.
The right hand shows that moral suf
fering does not affect him.
"These fingers, which are longer
than the palm, are those of an ideal
ist, hence, his love for the Bible. This
man, who has little intellectual cul
ture, has found there an outlet for his
mysticism—it finds Its outlet in chant
ing and reading the Psalms. I have not
unfortunately the lines written in
these two hands, but 1 can affirm that
they are not of clay. I'hey are of
brass.
Tho Cznr's Tenor Voice.
It is not generally known that the
czar himself has a very excellent
tenor voice, which, although not par
ticularly strong, is very sweet and
clear. A short time ago, during a
small party, at which only members
of his own family and a few of the
highest court officials were present,
tho czar delighted all his guests by
singing Massenet's "Mignonne, voici
l'Avril," and another song, in such an
excellent manner that it called forth
genuine and rapturous applause. The
czar bowed his thanks in the approved
professional style, and then said
laughlingly: "My opponents, as a rule,
deny me the possession of those good
qualities which they believe they
themselves possess; but not one of
them can sing a romance as I can."—
Mainly About People.
IJiinil in Sweden.
The American quail imported into
Sweden some time ago seem to thrive
and increase in number. It remains to
be seen, however, whether the birdn
can stand the long winters there.
Numw IN HOSPITALS.
HARD TO CET IT DONE CAREFULLY
AND INTELLIGENTLY.
Tho Male Xurne liniuc Crowded Out l>y
Hie lemulo t o-npetltor The liitUeul
tfaa of Safely and Humanely < ai-liu for
tlie Insane Nuee Are I'oorly I'uul.
There is no reason why the pro
fession of trained nurse should be
limited to women, yet it is a fact that
all offorts to improve the sick-nurse
and develop thoroughly capable and
well-trained nurses have been for the
beneiit of women rather than men.
Many boolcs have been written as text
books for trained nurses, yet scarcely
any of them ever refer to male trained
nurses. The entire system, as it ex
ists in the different hospitals, is for
the benefit of women rather than men.
Twenty years ago there was little dif
ference between the men and women
who were employed as nurses for the
sick.
"The change came some years ago,' 1
explained a physician recently, "when
young women began to take up nurs
ing in a benevolent way as a chance to
exercise charity to the poor. Thou
sands of women have become trained
nurses who would not have taken up
the work for the money there is in it.
But the market value of a trained
nurse has risen, and nursing the sick
remains a business in spite of ideals of
philanthropy. A probationer or nurse
just starting on her work in a hospital
is apt to be tender-hearted, and to go
out of her way to soothe the fevered
brow. She pets the children and
makes herself agreeable to the pa
tients. But sooner or later she comes
to realize that she is in a profession
quite as technical as any other busi
ness, and she finds that it is better to
excel in the practical rather than the
sentimental parts of her duties.
"Male nurses are of a different sort
of timber. They have fewer sentimen
tal or philanthropic ideas, but are
doing the same kind of work. Few
hospitals have a training school for
their education, yet all hospitals are
obliged to employ them. As a rule,
the men have drifted into the work
by chance. Certainly no sentimental
considerations have actuated them, as
a rule. A large number have come into
relations with hospitals at some time
by being patients themselves. While
Convalescing from some sickness, and
'out of a job,' they have been employed
in some capacity around tho hospital,
and have gradually become nurses.
"There are two distinct classes of
male nurses. Some hospitals employ
men exclusively as nurses in the male
wards, ranking their services as highly
as the female trained nurse. But in
almost every hospital the women have
crowded the men out of these posi
tions, and men arc consequently only
employed as 'orderlies' or ward ser
vants to assist in a subordinate capac
ity the regular staff of female nurses.
A woman in a training school for nurses
averages two years in the hospital,
and then goes out to private work.
Male nurses are apt to stay indefinite
ly. They like the work and are con
tent with lower pay than they would
get outside. In some hospitals there
is a constant change in the force of
male nurses, but this is due to the
various methods peculiar to particu
lar institutions.
"Many nurses, especially in Europe,
have received their first training in
military hospitals. A hospital stew
ard in the army ranks as sergeant, and,
together with the entire hospital corps,
occupies a position satisfactory to him
self and invaluable in the hospital.
Where well-trained mule nurses are
needed, men trained in these" military
hospitals are invaluable. Their train
ing places them in the same class with
the best women nurses.
"The most important part of a
nurse's work lies in quieting or re
straining an excited patient. A good
nurse can save the doctor the frequent
use of quieting drugs or even a 'strait
jacket' by moral control. A rough
nurse can make the most powerful
anodynes useless.
"In the operating room there is al
ways occupation for one or more male
nurses. In hospitals the entire cars of
the instruments is under the charge of
a trained male nurse, who sterilizes
everything used in an operation and
prepares all the dressings. In most
hospitals, however, at the present day,
the female nurses have supplanted
the male nurses in this department.
"It is a great mistake to consider
that there is any radical difference be
tween nursing insane patients and
nursing the ordinary line of hospital
cases. Nurses always are partial to a
case with fever, or some acute surgical'
disease. They dislike the class of
| cases that are well enough to be out of
j bed and around the ward. The worse
l the case the more interest it possesses,
! even if it wildly delirious. Between a
I delirious patient and an insane patient
j the only difference may be that the
j former is sick enough to be in bed,
j while the latter is usually up and
I about. The less acute the mental dis
j order tho less interesting the case be
j comes to the nurse. Only a nurse
! especially interested in mental
diseases is apt to pay much attention
to the different mental conditions. For
all other nurses a rigid training is
necessary to teach the peculiar meth
ods essential for the care of the insane.
"In nursing the insane, common
sense Is often more valuable than spe
| cial skill. Where the chief treatment
of an insane patient is the feeding the
; most, successful nurse i 3 the one who
; possesses the most ingenuity in coax
| ing him to eat in spite of his aversion
!to food. As the insane patient is far
j more dirty in his habits than other pa
! tients, the successful nurse of mental
cases will of necessity be infinitely
more painstaking and conscientious iu
this part of his work to get satisfac
tory results. Iu a diseased mind the
emotions are as often affected as the
reasoning faculties. Hence to succeed
in this class of cases, it is quite as es
sential to avoid hurting the feelings
of a hyper-sensitive patient as to feed
or clean hlra. A little carelessness in
this point is often the cause of the
difficulties in managing insane pa
tients, and frequently is the provoking
cause of violent outbreaks or'injury
to both patient and nurse.
"The majority of the more intelli
gent lunatics will at one time or an
other either attempt suicide or attempt
to injure some one else. The chief re
sponsibility of the nurse is absolutely
to prevent this. The attempts come in
the most unexpected and sudden ways.
It is often unwise to keep a suspicious
patient tied or drugged. Hence the
necessity at rare intervals of using
what seems to be personal violence in
blocking any sudden attempt at sui
cide or murder. The injuries to pa
tient or nurse result usually in one
way only. The force of nurses is so
small that one or two nurses try to do
the work that four or five are barely
able to do safely. Four nurses can
hold securely and bind the most violent
patient without harm. If less attempt
it they may have to use violence that
approaches brutality."—New York
Post*
BUAINT AND CURIOUS.
In Turkey the disappearance of the
sun at night is accounted for by the
periodical retirement of that pious lu
minary for prayers and religious re
flection.
Miniature Bible 3 are worn as watch
charms in Russia. They are each one
inch long, three-fourths of an inch
wide, and three-eighths of an inch
thick, and contain the first five books
of the Old Testament. The text is in
Hebrew, and can be read with the aid
of a magnifying glass.
I.eft-handedness is said to be very
common in animals. Parrots seize ob
jects with the left claw by preference
or exclusively. The lion strikes with
the left paw, and Livingstone stated as
His opinion that all animals are left
handed. The parrot has been found to
make a readier use of the left claw for
climbing than the right.
Thick skin is not always a protec
tion against the stings of either out
rageous fortune or ...e attacks of in
sects. It has often been wondered why
elephants so constantly throw hay and
grass over their backs. This is ex
plained by the fact that they are thus
protecting themselves from all sorts
of insects. Notwithsanding his thick
skin the elephant suffers more from
insect bites than many thinner skinned
animals.
The sleeping of fishes, if they may
properly be said to have such a habit,
is as yet a puzzle. It is altogether prob
able that they do sleep, though they
never close their eyes, simply for the
reason that they have no eyelids. Prob
ably many fishes slumber while swim
ming in the water, reducing the exer
cise of their fins to an automatic mini
mum. But it would be a mistake to
suppose that a fish does its sleeping at
night necessarily. On the contrary,
many species are nocturnal in hahit,
feeding in the night time.
England as yet is without a qualified
woman lawyer. In the reign of Henry
VIII., however, a woman acted as
judge. She was one Lady Anne Berke
ley of Yato in Gloucestershire, who
had appealed to the king to punish a
party of rioters who had broken into
her park, killed the deer and fired the
forage. King Henry thereupon granted
to her and others a special commission
to try the offenders. Lady Anne, armed
wit*i this high authority, opened a
court and empanelled a jury. A ver
dict of guilty was entered, upon which
her ladyship pronounced sentence.
A Hoy's Iloulils Nature.
A boy Ts made up of mind and body.
These two elements, mysteriously
bound together, yet separated by the
widest gap in the universe, jog on side
by side, each dependent upon the
other, says Henry D. Sedgwick, in the
Atlantic. Education must take this
union into account; it must always
remember that the body is animal,
and that it has received two great
commandments: "Tliou shalt live"
and "Thou shalt multiply." The edu
cation of man must be shaped with
reference to these two fundamental
commands.
Our civilization has reckoned with
the first. The desire for life°has been
deepened, broadened, and transform
ed. . . . Under the control of edu
cation, the desire for life seeks satis
faction in ever greater knowledge,
ever greater dominion over nature.
College assumes that this desire is a
noble want of noble things, and teach
es it to be such.
But when wo consider the se'ond
imperious command, what do we find?
Civilization has established the insti
tution of marriage, it has decreed that
a man may lawfully have "one wife
only, but It has done little else. Civi
lization is a great brute force that
needs to be led. What does educa
tion? It halts timidly to see what civi
lization will do; and the desire to mul
tiply roams at will. Shall not educa
tion tame it, train it, and manage it?
Shall not that desire be deepened,
broadened, and transformed till It, too,
help make life far nobler than it is?
With this passion for a lever we might
uplift the world, but education In
afraid of it.
THE MEXICAN AND HIS HAT.
Why He Spends So Mticli I'pnn Hit
Cherished HeHduenr.
"While on a train in Mexico on my
last, trip to the country of the Aztecs
a young American lady, upon whose
astonished gaze was flashed for the
first time the fearfully and wonder
fully made sugar-loaf Mexican hat,
which Is the first out-of-thc-ordinary
object that greets the tourist's eye#
after he crosses the Rio Grande, asked
me why Mexican men of all classes
spent so much money upon the cover
ing for their heads and appeared to
take such evident pride in the groat,
wide-brimmed, high, conical-crowned
shelter from the tropical heat and
burning sun," said a New York hat
drummer to a Star reporter.
"When tho American soldiers de
parted from Cuba for Porto Rico chey
wore'the regulation army slouch hat,
with a deep crease in the centre.
When they returned, heroes and vet
erans, they wore the same regulation
hat, but with the peak of the crown
pulled up to a sharp point, pyramid
like, in a gallant, desperate attempt to
imitate the Spanish hat, which had
caught their fancy and had struck
them hard, and their wives, sweet
hearts and the public gazed awe
stricken and reverentially but help
lessly at the new style thus created
here.
"And then the hat makers took it up
for the ladies and this accounts for
the present rakish style of ladies' mili
tary gray hats with mannish crowns.
"The main reason why the Spaniard
and the Mexican devote so much at
tention, time and money to the ha: is
because it is to some extent made the
symbol of their standing in the com
munity, and because it was the gran
dees of Spain who of all others at
court possessed the privilege of sitting
or standing in the presence of their
sovereign with their hats on while tho
rest of the court uncovered.
"Naturally the hat became an object
of respect and veneration, and the
grandees vied with one another in the
size of their brain covering, the fine
ness and costliness of its texture and
tho rich gold and silver ornaments pro
fusely worked thereon. The populace,
according to their respective means
and position in life, emulated the
example of tho grandees, and thus, as
time advanced, the big hat became the
distinctive feature of the Ures3 of the
Spaniard, as the mantilla corresponded
on the head of the senorita and the
senora.
"The time was when a Mexican
placed his hat and his horse before all
his worldly possessions, spending as
much as SSOO to SIOOO for a gold
trimmed. embroidered hat and as
much more for his heavy saddle and
bridle, all trimmed with silver, and
this passion is strong today. The
higher classes of Mexicans have aban
doned the sugar-loaf hat for city wear
for the European style, as they have
adopted long ago our ideas on clothes,
though every Mexican gentlemen has
his native costume with its gaudily
embroidered short jacket and flaring
trousers and hat to match, to he worn
when the occasion demands.
"The other classes cling to the
sugar-loaf hat, made principally of a
straw of a fiber peculiar to the coun
try, or of felt, ornamented with gold
and silver cord, according to the
means of the wearer, or perfectly
plain and cheap. They look odd to
us, these Mexicans, in their white,
loose shirts and trousers, standing
idly about in their sunlit,, adobe cities,
as the train speeds on to the capital,
and a picturesque let thtv truly are."
—Washington Star.
Shot Demi lv it CorpHn,
A Boer commando retook those
lines where those who died for us
were lying, and as they marched
among our dead they saw a sergeant
lying at full length, shot through tho
brain, yet even in death the man
looked like some fighting machine
suddenly gone out of order. His rifle
was pressed against his shoulder, his
left hand grasped the barrel on the
under side, the forefingers of the right
hand pressed the trigger tightly, tho
barrel rested out upon a rock anil his
death-dulled eye still glared along the
sights, for dissolution hnd come to
him just as he bent his head to fire
at those who shot him, and now his
hands had stiffened in the unbcndable
stiffness of eternal sleep. A Boer sol
dier saw the sergeant as he lay. and
with rude hands grasped the rifle by
the barrel and tried to jerk it from
the dead man's grip, but as he puileil
he brought tho rifle in line with his
own breast, and the unyielding finger
on tho trigger did the rest, the rifle .
spoke from the dead man's hand, and
the bullet, passing through the Boer's
heart, laid him beside the Briton.
Sounds like a journalistic lie, does
it not? Read it in a novel, and you
would laugh, would you not? But it is
the eternal truth, all the same, for the
comrade of the Boer who died that
day, killed by a dead man, told me the
tale himself,anil he was one of those
who planted the dead Dutchman on
the slope of Spion Kop.—London
News.
Mr. Clinmberlniti'ii l'ersonnllty.
It must be admitted that Mr. Cham
berlain enjoys great power and engen
ders sympathy. He came to Italy when
all the Italian papers contained ar
ticles against him on the question of
the Italian language in Malta. Never
theless, he showed himself with the
greatest nonchalance In the streets of
Naples and Rome. He made known his
views on Italy and on her future, and
explained the Maltest language from
his point of view. And now he has
left the Italians with an entirely sym
pathetic remembrance of Ills visit.—
Rome II Pungolo Parlamontare.