aS "They hoy ds ef the corps bs of the, police « ere then be : ' ws on aunt of iS iihas-the fearcof the. law} abe in the "remater bush 1th. Die hest trackers nyo er gut from the bu from t savage 'tribes on other Pai Py frontiers--arriviy yaning, fresh, eager, prond of the distimetion. A" reservation-bera black fellow. eof small account in! this: respect;and a servant of the tewns--a wretched hanger-on of | civtizat on--is of ho very consider- able aécount at ally It is a curious fact that a few years of tle prove. dor afd kicmees of the missions} (reservations) dull a black fellow's} simgular faculties beyoud effective | emp'oyment. Pereeptions™> so deli- | a epecdily fall in disis2 and are cosily mnigat again to t They demand cont! cpployment, they must be ed and exere'scd--like san: artistic t: panei fer wy bs - evea said that the ff a black fellow's cunn! ag by pr traated police station Efe. To be ke spt keen and fit he is hes: bush and fe te hed cit only when oc- easion requires his tery ices, _is Nottiog could mere 'significantly | indicate the sensative quahty of the tracker's gens. Rack of a capable black tracker's} ennning is a savage de light in the: man hunt--a_ bestial -tirelos«ness, | too, which must appall ee W 7 a fugitive who is awgre of i teful | manner of the pursuit. 4 'cker of the Kimberley, for examples, his troopers a remarkable chase af- ter .a herse stealer escapad from; jail in New South Wales to the, rorthwestern wilds. 'There was absolutely no real rest," trooper, "night or day." bad counlyy--che ranges neighborhe:d, a deal of wikl and stony grouid, which takes meager Imprevstcus of the passage of a tra- vellor, 'An | confusing rains fell. Rovally the tracker was almost! e heels of the fugitive. At) bailed he lagged a week or Fur days on end in! the Fanges the ground was so diffi-| enlt for che tracker that progress) was ad Cie rate of less than a mile awnohour, Whe Best the hack fellow ran the eoun try ike a blewdhound until he had icked them up. Ones the fitgitive dosperate straits the tracker mucke cut e wns jos and exhausted, that | ad stumbled) fallen, Rios! mead froma dried out 'seak" with wie. mself and cool tou of thirst WAS the 'tote rude dhe entre atinees" The the end of a w wich uu lepomt of the roner, the "aw had ' 'tracke d this man: every yard of the Way" he went. "For God's sake."' said the ex- hausted wretch, #'don't put more chains on me than you can help!' A hlack fellow will readily iden- tify the tracks of an acquaintance-- a slight acquaintance, it may be, white cr black, whom he has en- _ countered, perhaps no more than at eceasional intervals. It seems that his memory 1s as a matter of course accusiumed to catch and retain im- prermns of feutprints as well as of feature The imprint of a man's foot is as considerably a feature of his identity as the shape of his nose, Reasiing from a stranger's tracks, | a rarely clever black fellow will in} A surprising measure he able to des- erihe the S pagsical characteristies ¢ the man -weieht, height, peculiari ties af gait, deformities of the Vike bow-legs and kngck-knees. will know. perhaps/ his condition, Was he hungry thirst: ) Was he wpakening ! he golag strong And more than that, it may be that 'the tracker will! be able to imfer the moved of the| man whether downgast or blithe and whether his progress was con- fictente or furtive. And what is the character of the fagitive? Is he a determined fellaw?- Is he éow- ard'? Upon refieétfdn it wil! appear fhat all these details of physique, moed. character and physical con dititn, however slight the aucion- tions may be, do inevitably oom "municate themrelves to a man's footprints, and it is reasonably. con- eeivable that they will disclose themselves to a savage genius who has from Iris earliest years epecial- izcd in this subtle, learning of tige open. In the criminal courta of the back- blocks. « mabive witness's identifica- tion of the tracks of the accused; geuerally speaking, has much the sain? bhava as the evidence of an eyotr "Yon Sax vy + tiki fellow 1' 'I savvy this fallow, all right."' 'You Borst tracks make-up by ~ this fel tat aTTEa fugitive chase of 56 _cottsgquentes, 2 13} aie. ok i "| Ruyal * the! maintaines iL woth his tribe in the! ted! i says the! It was! and the ! tracks were, scra ped { . | 2, ssnOrEENR oat rete ALL esney 1s LY Ww hich A pilates y H ave "e shqnery: wh ane exciting even more Giiterest iny Landen society ty: day *than the tonite-or-t¥® war between the hotelssand th» supper cles. -- The® extent to whieh aviation has |e feanglit ore in rociely is ithitrated) kbs. the Fopart that a youthfik, land | hes resigned "hiss comimissrer methe Horse Guards to study the art. of ivi nee in Vrance. His' sister jis alse working hard for her pilot's | certificate, " | Ab HWéttbar Xerodrome, Mr. )Grahame-White recalled that Lord "i Carbe 'rry had a fine | fiivht from Paris Henden, ancl the to ithat other pilots who had graduated | of etizens wh, pursued them. The » standing by itself apart from other busi- j at his establishment included 'Lord | ~Vhien Bank Building, x " building of log conetruction, The U. ab on Bank Building at New Havelt: mn, B.C. up. by six men, four of whom e: caped with 81,100 jn cash. iwd bandits were shot and killed in a subsequent battle with a posses it New Hazelton, BC. ch was held Bae other wh! bank building, a substantial ; ly Edward Grosvenor, Sir Reginald} ness houses, had opened for business only a few hours before, Sine lair, "The aud Sir Bryan Leighton. well-known persons whe have flown with me could. be num- {hered by the score." said Mr. rae Paws White. 'Here are just 'a --The Duke of Suathorland, Prince Christopher of Greece, Lord } Curzon. of. Kedleston, who was one jof my first passengers ; Lord Drog- | | lheda, Lord Porta! ington, Lord Des-| borough, Admiral Sir Edward Sey- p moe, Sir Thomas Lipton, Sir Rich- | ard"Paget, Mr. Arthur Balfour, 'Mr. Reginald MeKenna and = Col. Seely "And the here are a few! iseleections freta the book :-- The | -- of Sutherland, Lady Pon-} sunby, Lady Drogheda, Lady Lim- | erick, Lady Diana Manners, | Portalington, the Honorable Mrs. I Assheton Harbord, the Honorable } Monica Grenfell, and Lady Tree. "The danger of flying has been } l greatly exaggerated; the statisties show that there has been only one } fatal] accident ta every 95,000 miles | >flown, whieh. for an industry in its infancy, is pretty good. ladies, 'And then the cost promises suon | , to be no greater than that of anto- mobiling, Our 'aerial -charabance 'travels at 50 miles an hour with five | sixpence passengers at a cast of per mile for every four people. . 'Aerial touring will soon be pepilar. as antomebiling ; as cowld be more delightful than ghid- | ing evel England in the summer time at the rate of 200 miles a day, | 'and parties of three or four could! easily be accommodated on one ma- l chine... Onee you are in 'the air the! ' feeling of security is extraordinary, "Not long ago I was at a party in a country house where every one of the 24 persons at dinner declared that nothing in the world would in- them to take a flight. The next day took each member of that parts for a trip amd they all confessed that. it was not half as j te rrible as it looked." a REMARKABLE TEETH. , duce I 'Exteaordinary Skeleton Found In; East Africa. De. Institute of Berlin University, has discovered at Oldoway. in the north of German East Africa, a human skeleton which, for the anthropolo- emt, seems to be of the first impor- "He brought the skull] home with him among his linen for greater safety, while the rest of the skele- ton and the animal remains found near it are still upon their way. The remains were found with mam- moth fossils, of which one is a tooth ten feet five inches long. At present all Dr. Reck can say is that the man is, roughly, 150,000 years old, and belongs to the dilu- 'vial period of Africa, which syn- chronizes with the ice period of 'horthero Europe. It is a wonderful skull and won- iderfully preserved. It is long and i narrow, with an unmistakably ne- gro' jaw, and the back of the head finely developed and deep. The ribs land breast are akin to those of an » but the skull is unmistably hu- | There are indications that the muscles of the neck were efiormous:- | ly strong, and that the man did not 'walk quite upright. His 32 teeth are complete and beautifully pre- served. There are marks upon them as if they had been led. The forma- tion of the eye sockets and the bridge of the nose is akin to that of the priniteive African Bushman. The man was found lying on his back with his head turned over to the right, his hands before his face, and his legs drawn up én a crouch- ing position, Dr. Reck ia almust certain that the position is not one of burial: On the spot where the man wax found there was ones_a lake, and it is conjectured that the man was drowned. The body wag gradually covered with deposits es sand and chalk, which, in the course of centuries, turned into the vol- canic tufa in whith the skeleton wae found mh ge : . ainiepincpalhieleg Masel cie on The Menu. "Did you "have a homily when your minister canie to dinner?" p "No, 'we had fried* chicken."' oe "las ont of the Laaly | nothing | Hans Reck of the Geological ; J dalks shop in der mens t' | KILLINGS THAT £RE AVENG ED Considered Bad 'Porm in Albania to | Murder Your Enemy's Guest. Before the Balkan war I crossed brough the centre of Albania, writes a correspondent of the Lon- don Times. From Dibra we plung:d lnorthward into the utterly wo- | known Mat country. Governnent {comes to an end at Dibra.' North | of that there is nothing; and for the {first time jn Turkey I found myself, 'free of the telegrajip avire, which | ihad never hops sd anywhere to ¢3- leaps.' The. first day's ride brought kaza of Debra to | Katehenik, in the country of the {Malesi tribe. There is little far? ag ti lin this direetion, and guides were} 'found with difficulty. T carried th: Austrian staff maps, but they have i been made by hearsay, and are full ie) inaccuracies. Metaaces are }vaguely guessed at by the number lof hours marched, as ad the reality lgenerally proved a very different {thing from optimistic, rumor. If ! Dibra people ever go north to Mat they go by way of Tiraaa, but their generous hospitality was not to be defeated, and eventually they found 'three guides for the two days' ride. One was a Mat man who had 'killed in his own country five years i before, and had fled from ven- | peance. We were all onder his pro 'tection, for outside the Dibra coua- 'try the others were strangers. The i blood feud rages among neighbors, i but when a clan gathers for railing jit harries outeide its own borders. At the end of two hours' em friend showed me the "spob- | six weeks before they had overtake n jthe flying men of Malesi, who had stolen horses in Dibra.' | The penalttes for kiing are not 'light; but in the case of a stranger Mike myself, enjoying protection, i they are ex{Ta special. For a stfan- ger itis only possible to pass undgr the protection of the men of the dis- trict, whe conduct him 'bo "blood | friends" but if he meet thet enomies of his friends he is himea|f | j counted an enemy, and to kill him | is to avenge an old imirder, On the lether hand. the murder of a stran ger puts the latter's protectors un- der obligation of kilkag, net ome but seven. of the murderer's fay mily. "Tf you are killed, I muet kill seven. lor you," said my sworn friend from Mat. Olearly- I was supposed deriveca certain comfort from this interesting fact. a PEARLS OF TRUTH. In taking revenge a man is but his enemy's equal, in passing it by he is his superior.-- Few are qualified to shine i in com- pany, but it is in most men's power. to be agreeable.--Swift. Call for the grandest of all earth- ly spectacles--what is that? It is, the sun gving to his rest.--De Quincey. j IT have found by experience es nothing is more useful to man tha a spirit of milkdness and accommo dation.--Terence. | Give not reins to your powearged yassions; take time and grant : little delay; impetuosity aie lafiairs badly.--Statius, ; And the Kingdom of Heaven -js of the child-like, of those who are easy to please. who love and who give pleasure.---R. L. Stevenson. Many in the world run after feli city like the absent-minded man |} hunting for his hat while all the! time it is on his head or in his hand.--Sydney Smith. : When one is tempted to write a! élever but harsh thing, though it | may he difficult to restrain it, it is! always posed i leave it in the ink étand.--Sm Wealth is honorable and may be used most. Wiles ly when men. re- gard themselves as being what in- deaf*they are--stewards of ity and not the owners.--Farrer. --_--__-_---*# 1 14 | Mr. Steinbach--Vas vou 'nagogue yesterday, ' ssenbaum---No. Mr, Steinbach-- Vell, der rabbi says if ve vant to pe out we haf to make some Sagri- ces. "Mx. Rosenbaum--Oh, I don't 'go to no synagogue vere~a -rabbi to der ?. Mr. .three years ago attempt was made ! wrongs of the Russian peasant, shot Loff duty. i hardships, WOMEN ASSASSINS ARE FEW. Russia _ Provides Most) of Them These Modern Diiys. In the history' of polities there is m parallel to the Paris tragedy which has resulted in the death of M. Calmette, who was shot by the wife of M. Catllaux,othe Finance, who sought to avenge liusband's honor. Women, happily, Vo figure Jittle in political murders, although about by a woman' of Los Angeles, Cali- foinia, to shoot a Congressman whom she considered had insulted her hutband, who wae ill, by mak- ing disparaging remarks about him in public. Fortunately the wound inflicted proved but a slight one, and the woman escaped with a thon) Were requested not to smoke for se- | jaqdey term of imprisonment. France, perhaps, has not been sv stirred since the Breton heroine, Charlotte Corday, stabbed that monster of the Revolution, Marat, in his bath. But the modern his- tery of Russian Recaloionscen provides some equally remarka stories of hervines of the people who have taken upon themselves the task of killing those whom they con- sidered the enemies of progress and!' liberty. The-musi recent case was that of Zinaida Konopliannikova. a Ruasian schoolmistress, who, on August 13, 1206, shot déad Major-General Min, commander of the farmous regiment of the Seménoff Guards at Peter- hoff railway. station. She was ar- rested on tl ospot,., aad ultimately hanging, 'this being 'the first death sentence passed on a woman since the exe- coe oF Sophie Perovskaya, who was practically the chief organizér of the Nihilist conspiracy: which- re- sultediin Czar Alexander IT. being blown into pieces on his way to the Military Reding. School in St. Pet- ersburg on March Ist, 1981. The female assassin wes only twenty-seven years of age at the tine of her execution, but even she was six years older than Marie Spiridonova, who, fired with the the brutal Governor Lujenovsky. Herrible tortures' were inftitted upon her in order to force her to confess the names.of -her' accom- plices, and ultimately she was tried by court-martial behind closed doors, and. sent to, Siberia a. phyei- eal wreck. It was also a female Nihtlist who in 1890 assassinated - Captain Bolo- touchine, chief of the M cret police, and who took her own life. se atterwards Paris Pelice Il-paid. Paris police, some of whose mem+ bers have fallen into disgrace, are poorly paid. The maximum salary 'attained by a "sergeant de ville" is $360 acyear. In view of the high cost.of living In Paris, this am a ,is inadequate to maintain a fa lin any degree of comfort, and rad married members of the force have frequently to supplement their in- come as they can. Some of them earn a few franes by working as market porters during their time Others do boot repairing, and there is one who does odd tai- luring jobs. Still, in spite of these there are always plenty of men eager to join the force, about tea candidates being avail- able for every vacancy that occurs. best Cocaine Fiend Aids Police. Known the New York under- world:and Chinatown as "Shim an emaciated, reformed dope fiend, graduate of a ego Englith uni- versity, and on of an ok) and highly eeuhected 'English family, is aiding the police in an attempt to bring to justice illicit vendors of cocaine and other habit-forming drugs. Although protested by de- tectives, it is feared that in some inguarded moment he will be shot down--a victim of the underworld. He first became addicted to the drug through the ues tof a so-called catarrhal "remedy." wdsonet ffleaions If marriage is a Ba lt explain why the law int that may res mM so 'cular power of a man Minister of | twenty-five per cent. her | concerned, | efficiency many cases: . |roaseco MAKES BRON LAG. | D Smoking. Cagises. a Decrease - fe ; Mental Efficiency. Smoking of tobacco reduces the mental éfiiciency of ihe smoker10.5 per cent, according to the results of investigations ahnounced in the "current number of the Medical. Journal. The inveatigator. Dr. Arthur Du- moire Rush? had been putting groups of medical students through variogs smoking experiments, and Sane by the drawing upon: 'the NONIGUS wee ody he finds, hut nicotine does not do it because he cannot find any in cigar and pipe smoké at all. Its grandfather, pyridine, does mischief, but. nicatine, although present in the leaf,.cannot be found in the smoke of ordinary leaf ex- cept in cigarettes, and then only in traces. Fifteen students. who had come from all classes and differed con- siderably in physical characteris- tics were chosen for the experi- ments. There was also an ae smoking machine employed. vapors were collected in receptacles < hag =! zed. . Rush accepts the conclisions Seine from experiments at Ya University 'that within one hour af- ter the emoking of a cigar the mus- has fallen He is chiefly however, with mental . a phase of the inv estiga- tion of the effects of tobacco which the physician says has never before been attempted. It is considered by many persons that tobacco makes for thinking. Some men believe that brains are all out of kilter unless there is a pipe stem between their lips. All the subjects who submitted to the |" tender mercies the professor | 1 a eral hours before the beginning of | the tests. The first was the "E" test, given| before and after smoking. i Twelve lines of capital letters, eloeely placed, were presented andl | the subjects were required to cross out all the "E's" in order. It isa test. for menial efficiency which has | been given by Professor M uenster- | berg and others. If other tests of this kind are us-| ed 'A' or some other letter is em- | ployed, so as to obviate any undue | advantage. which a come from | the use of the "°° Another test requires that the; subject shall say all the words which | flow into his mind after a word has | been spoken to him 'which suggests | a series of others. This is called| the chain association. For instance, 1 the words con- down or speak 2 ed wit such | as "Pipe, nect h, it, 'smoke, dope, fire, pu A series of 120 tests on each fif- teen men, it is reported by Dr. Rush, show that tobacco smoking produces 10.5 decrease--in efficiency of the brain. The greatest actual loss was that of imagery, twenty-two per cent.. so that the idea that smoke stimu- lates tthe fancy and that smoking up makes the mind alert is not sus- tained by the experimen The three greatest losses were re- po as being sustained in the fields of imagery. perception and association. The greatest was oe to result from the smoking of cig- arettes. --_----__-¥ JERUSALEM WALLS FOR SALE. Holy City to Have Tramways and Electric. Lights. Very shortly the sacred streets of Jerusalem will hum with the noise of the electric. tram cars its more important thoroughfares will be illuminated at night with the electric light. Its old picturesque walls and massive towers are to be pulled down and the city is to have an adequate water supply. The rapidity with which Jerusa- iem is extending, through the re- turn of the Jews in such large num- bers to the city of their forefathers, has rendercd these improvements necessary'. Indeed, to the north and west of the old city there have sprung up within the last decade large Jewish colonies, populous residential sections, as well as con- vents, hospices, institutions, schools and other buildings, with the result that to-day there is a greater Jeru- salem peer' Bose the walls than with- im. Four minarets tramway routes are to be laid down: They will all start tens the Jaffa Gate, the prin- cipal entrance into the city, and run outside ithe city walls through the newer parts of Jerusalem. work of laying the rails is to begin next April, and according to the terns of the concession the syndi-| + écate has power to extend the lines in any direction for a distance of same twenty-five miles. The city walls, which have a gir- cumference of about three nie and rise in plates to a. height of 38!5 feet are now being offered by the Government for sale as building material. It is expected, however, that efforts wil be made to save isolated sections, more particularly the massive towers 'Otcurrences is damage done=ts diane teikcest » eott, peas AND His veers , mee In 'the Land That Reigns Supreme in the Com: BS. Begs mercial Worti. ' Anthrax in # virulent form hae' gut in three <lifferent, spate: of Nocti" Shropshire. 3 An attempt. to set 'fire to Durham North Rodd Station is. believed te be the work of suffragists. The hour throughout the night o etal] 'maintained in Holborn, London. Mrs. Griffin, the oldest inhabitaat of Booth, Yorkshire, has just cede brated her 4iundredth birthday. As a result of the bg ol a boiler-tube on H.M.S. Albacore, at Chatham, three men were killed. Renewed endeavors are being made to establish the sugar beet industry in the Kidderminster dis- trict. Plans have been approved by the Elland Urban Council for a new woollen factory at Spa Well, Bt land, Lord Hurly has presented to each of the scholars at Watford (Rugby) School, over 60 in number, a pair of boots. South Shields Tramway Cusnanit- tee have proposed a scheme for the extension of the tramways to Sun- derlan Bexhill is shortly. to establish a local museum where the collection bg itese presented to the fawn will > housed, A lead*og stoker named Michael Rourke, fell down the stokeholkt of the cruiser _ Hawke at ; Chatham, and was killed. During the past eight years 8,167 public houses in the Londen area have been closed under the com- pensation ken. Mr. John Johnson, Jun., heensee 'af the Bricklayers' Arms at West near Dorking, was shot, dead while rabbit shooting. One of the best-known public men in Cheshire, Colonel Frances Hay- hurst. of Bost wk Hal!, Northwich, has died in his s3rd. year. Mr. Prince Taylor Coulson, omi- {ginater of the now famous Cane bridge sausages, has died aé. Gam- bridge at the age of seventy-seven, The medical officer lves (Hants) Rural Dictrect Counei) has reported that eight cottages are unfit-for human habitation. at Bury? Islington Guardians are appealing to the Local Government. Board tio" revise the workhouse code eo that church attendance will not be com- pulsory, )The Local Government Board haa declined to accede to the request of the Willesden Council that fish-fry- ing -- be scheduled as an offen- sive tra Two gigantic schemés for sealing with the question of transport between the-centre of Liverpool and | the suburbs, to cost $25,000,000, are under discussion.- Two nien visitors who were boat- ing at Horne Ray were blown out to rea by a strong wind: Two boat- men noticed them and took the men from the boat just as it sumk. Liewt. Bowhill, R.N.R., attached to the Eastchurch Flying School, hed a fall inté the sea whilet flying a seaplane m Grain to Felix- stone, and was rescued by a@ passing barge. About 160 mechanics and laborers have received notice of discharge at: Chatham yard, e reason given being that the new pro- gramme does not at present justify their retention. Lady Westbury's house, The Bun- galow, Chartfield Avenue, Putney Hill, was seriously 'damaged by fire, and the brigade was helpless on ac- count of insufficient supply of wa ter. Oo --_- kr MODERN PERATE IN RED SEA. Sell Captured Merchan- Offers to dise to Right: ol Owner, The old-fashioned pirate captain. with a brace of pistols tucked into his belt and a colored handkerchief tied around his head, who buried his treasure and made his captives walk the plank, must retifte into the background nowadays before. the modern pirate with modern ideas and an-aptitude for commercial enterprise. A rivate captain, flourishes at the present time in the Red Sea who "commamls a large dhow. He captures other dhows pew os. 3 merchandise, stores the red goods somewhere out «4 the éaths of Turkish sailors or sol- diers, and then enters into negotia- tions the merchants to whom the goods were consigned, offering to sell them their own goods at a very ced price. There is a 'pooh of humor in his management of this his latest cap- ture, for he knew that the mer- chants' dhow was carrying a large quantity of contraband tobacco, and that its captain would therefore be unable to lay a complaint be- fore the Turkish Government.-- London Sketch. wes .s old practice "of calli lite the = of Hes St.------ s