5) he Wak csae > eet stew i abies: ice, Gee - : HER BANKS AND BRAES. "FROM BONAIE SCOTLAND [THE WORLD GOING MAD|TYPHOID TERROR OVER ot NOTES OF INTEREST FROM|pNGLIsH RACE DECADENT, SAYS LUNACY EXPERT. What is Geing On in the Highlands | More Insane Persons in the World and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. ' Thera are 70 elementary Bcard is in Glasgow. Prices were considerably up at : Hawick recent lamb sales. Hawick bakers have again raised he price of bread to 6 1-2d. Halfpenny tram fares are now on their second trial in Leith. The honey harvest in Scotland has yielded plentiful supplies. ' At Johnstone the price of gas is to be reduced 21-2d. per 1,000 feet. The Steel Company of Scotland has declared a dividend of six per cent, Drinking of methylated spirits is reported to be increasing in Glas- gow. o A hare helped an Alloa hen to hatch her nestful of eggs by taking | turns in sitting. The Scottish National Song So- ciety has now 140 members, and. over $200 of funds. It is rumored that the Montrose ship-building yard is likely to be closed again soon. The prison at Maxwellton is here- after to be called "The Prison of Dumfries." At Aberdeen a retriever dog vol- untarily rescued a little boy from drowning in the Dee. Fraserburgh Town Council have declined to recognize the two half- yearly fast days as holidays. At Peterhead recently, 110 ves- sels landed 1,000 cran of herring. A eran is about a barrel-full. Ayr Town Council has spent $2,- 500 in the making of the new walk along tue banks of the Ayr. Premier Asquith is to deliver his addresses as Lord Rector of Aber- » deen University on October 25th. Mr. Andrew Carnegie is to give $2,500 towards providing a new or- gan for Peterhead Parish Church. Yarrow & Co., Scotstoun, have In hand two destroyers for the Brit- ish Government of a special type. _ Mr. John Coats, of Ferguislie, is supplying the thirty thousand school children of Aberdeen with bags. Two Troon fishermen have had a lucky catch. 'they gathered in a derelict torpedo, and have got $25 as a reward. Johnstone Town Council have taken a bawbee off the rates of occupiers and put a penny on those of owners. _ An American firm proposes start- ing at Kinghorn, a factory for the making of sand-bricks, a new in- dustry in Scotland. Aberdeen Town Council will es- tablish on all the tramway routes half-penny fares for a maximum of 740 yards. A sharp outbreak of scarlet fever has occurred in Dumbarton. With- In a few days 17 cases were removed to hospital. The repair of Linlithgow Palace, which has been in progress for some months, has been finished, for a time at least. A stone coffin has been unearth- ed at Berwick which is supposed to have been that of Edward I. prior to the removal of his remains to estminster. The mansion house of Invery, si- tuated on the banks of the Feugh, wbout two miles from Banchory, is undergoing extensive alterations and additions. News has been received at Tar- bert, Lochfyne, of the death in Geelong, Australia, of Mr. Angus M'Phee, a native of Islay. He had reached the great age of 108 years. Edinburgh Journeymen Freemas- Ons the other day made their an- zoe! visit to the graves of deceased rethren--a custom observed for 146 years, A Caithness man, who effected a tire repair with a postage stamp ome time ago, says that the stamp as fallen off, after being over four months in use. For the first time in the history _ of the tational] Miners' Federation of Great Britain their annual con- ference is this year to be held in Edinburgh, An agreeable sensation was caus- vd in a Glasgow lodging house late one night by a stranger, who indis. criminately distributed $5 bank- _hotes among the inmates. The Brisbane Bridge, which was oe sobs destroyed by the flood in rgs recently, has almost. entirely tollapsed, there being nothing left but the outer walls. 'The death has taken place at Bhotts of Mary Ourree or MacIn- _ tyre, who was 103 years of age. She was born on the Island of Luga, Argyllshire, on Aug. 20th, 1807. Stonehouse, Lanarkshire, is pluming itself on the fact that it "ge agg not only the champion wling rink in Scotland, but the _ premier pipe band in the country Rs well, _ In Glasgow there are fifteen Cor- * Sita free libraries, including the Mitchell Library, which took its rise in 1874 from the bequest of rest $350,000 left for the purpose y Mr. Stephen Mitchell, a mem- - ber of the well-known tobacco man- ufacturing firm. Lord Tweeddale ranks among the hose members include Lord emyss and Lord Haddington), be- g well on the way to his 85th irthday. é Dalbeattie Town Council have de- ded on a water filtration scheme. da six-feet filters, capable of deal- & with 12,000 gallons an hour, are to be installed at a cost of $2,595. In. Kj an cemetery on Thurs- day last week, while a funeral was approaching, some earth fell into 'grave whieh had been prepared. John Evans, assistant gravedigger, went down to throw it out, and while there died suddenly. fro: old men of Haddingtonshire Than Sane in the Near Future. : _ According to Dr. Forbes Winslow, who acquired international cele- brity by his sedulous insistence on his theory that 'Jack the Ripper" was a homicidal maniac, the world is going mad Dr. Winslow considers that the rate of progress to that consumma- tion is shockingly rapid. In a book of reminiscences published recent- ly, this expert in criminal lunacy says: "By a simple arithmetical calcu- lation it can. be shown the exact year when there will be more in- sane persons in the world than sane. We in England are gradu- ally approaching, with the decad- ence of our youth, near proxim- ity to a nation of madmen. FIGURES SHOW CURSE,_ '"'By comparing the lunacy statis- tics of 1869 with those of 1909, four decades having intervened, my re- flections are sad indeed. A terrible but real curse is in store, and an insane werld looks forward to me with certainty in the not far dis- tant future. : "In 1869, out of a population of 22,223,299, there were 53,177 regis- tered lunatics in England and Wales, there being one lunatic in every 418 of total population, whereas in 1909, out of a popula- tion of 35,756,615, the number of registered lunatics was 128,787, making on an average one lunatic in every 278 of population. So that in forty years an enormous increase in lunacy is seen. Surely a dread- ful future for nations still unborn j to have to cope with. FACTS SAD, BUT TRUE. "These are the facts, and, sad to reflect upon. They must be ac- cepted. They cannot in any way be challenged." Dr. Winslow's. phraseology is sometimes unhappy, as when he writes, for instance: "T have breathed the atmosphere of lunacy for over sixty years, and the conclusions I arrive at are pes- simistic in the extreme." BUILDING THUNDERER. English Navy Yard, Where Dread- nought is in the Making. Long before one reaches the yard the dreafening and continual noise of hundreds of hammers at work on the huge steel plates directs the visitor to the "slips" on which the Thunderer, -the admiralty's new dreadnought, is in making at the Thames Iron Works and Shipbuild- ing Company's works at Tidal Ba- sin, says the London Daily News. Towering high above the sur- rounding buildings a huge forest of scaffolds, derricks and cranes, from the tallest of which floats the Union Jack, one may see the huge shape of the ship in construction. The scene is a busy and strange one to the visitor unaccustomed to the sight of the building of snips. He has to carefully pick his way over stacks of long iron girders, across wide spaces of sheets of steel await- ing the mechanics' attention, through a maze of wooden supports as thick as the trunk of an oak, past workshops and sheds, where the en- gines are at work cutting like so many straws the lengths of iron and steel to their required sizes and shapes. Then underneath the huge keel of the ship itself, and one comes out upon the little town of shipmakers busy with hammers and weird instruments putting together the parts whicu go to make the dreadnought, Each of the 2,000 men has his par- ticular part to play in the making of the huge vessel. For the twelve hours commencing at 7.30 0'clock each morning, the work goes on un- ceasingly. About the scaffolding and platforms surrounding the growing hulk men in blue overalls flit hither and thither. From the ground below they appear to be courting danger at every step. Down toward the stern, me- chanics have -put into place the spectacle frames for the screw pro- pellor shaftings, and 80 feet above the slips the boy's head towers. It appears incredible that. only three months ago the first keel plate was laid. The work has been proceed- ing at an astonishingly rapid rate since that time, and it is expected that the Thunderer will be launch- ed at the end of the present year. Then she goes down the river to her berth at Dagenham, but before this happens every watertight com- partment will be tested, filled with water to the depth of 40 feet. | Ab Dagenham the main machinery and boilers and the major portion of the armor will be fitted in. Huge cranes will lift the gun mountings, all complete, onto her decks, and by March, 1912, she will be ready. for commission. The transfer of this new dread- nought upon which nearly $10,000,- 000 will have been expended in its construction, is a very simple mat- ter. Two small pieces of paper, signed respectively by the Admiral- ty officials and the Thames Iron Works Company's representatives, will change hands, and another will be added to the list of Britain's dreadnoughts. aa AS REQUIRED. A medical officer recently receiv- ed the following note from a resi-. dent in his district: '"Dear Sir--I aged eight months, is suffering from measles as required by the rules of the Board of Health,"' beg to inform you that my child, | VACCINATION BY A SERUM KILLS THE GERMS. British Officer Discovers Serum Which Reduces Death Rate 90 Per Cent. The typhoid terror is a thing of the past. So declare the medical men of the American army, who have adopted vaccination to wi out that scourge of nations in peace and war. Inoculation for the dis- ease was first used by the British army, who fought the fierce rav- same principle. Its success in chol- era led Sir Almorth E. Wright to make a serum for typhoid which he tried on two men who after- wards proved immune. prove the death rate has been re- duced 90 per cent: FIGURES PROVE SUCCESS.: Then the American army took it up. In the last eighteen months twelve thousand men of Uncle Sam's army have been vaccinated for typhoid fever. Of these twelve thousand, only three men have since been attacked by the dreaded scourge, and these slightly. There has not been a death from the dis- ease in the whole number. In ev- ery other block of the army con- taining twelve thousand men there have been seventy-two cases of ty- phoid in the same time and seven deaths. In the fifty thousand un- vaccinated there have been three hundred cases and thirty deaths. SECRET OF VACCINATION. The secret of the vaccination busi- ness lies in capturing the germs of the disease, killing them to prevent overactivity, and then placing ea in the blood. This arouses the sys tem of the individual and it pro- duees an antitoxin for the disease in question--that is, it produces something to fight that disease. When one has smallpox or ty- phoid or any such disease, it rav- ages the system until that system develops the elements that will counteract it. When these ele- ments are developed the disease is met by an equal or conquering force and is able to make no further headway. The patient is then im- mune. Vaccination is only @ fire alarm to the system and starts it to developing the needed antitoxin in advance. PROCESS NOT DANGEROUS. This vaccination is not \> be com- pared in severity wit hthat for smallpox. The patient has entirely recovered within a day. There is some inflammation at the point of inoculation, and this is fully de- veloped within 12 hours. For a day the patient feels as though he were going to have the grippe or cold or some of those milder ailments. He may have a slight chill, head- ache or suffer slight nausea. This usually lasts only two or three hours and all symptoms disappear within a day. There are never any serious effects of the vaccination. The medical profession 4f the world has observed in all some eighty thousand vaccinations, in no one of these has there been any Imjury or fatality. There is nothing what- ever to fear in the process. DOCTORS' BRIGHT HOPES. The statement is for the first time issued on the authority of the me- dical corps of the United States army that if every individual in the nation would capture, kill, count and inject into his arm five million typhoid bacilli, there would next year be only one case of the disease where there are now ten. They are willing to stake their re- putations on its benefits. The gov- ernment has prepared vaccine in abundance and will freely furnish it to practitioners in whom it has confidence, men whom it believes will handle it properly and who will agree to report results. It is be- ing scattered broadcast in this way, and soon all the world may come under its beneficent effects. fe. SIMPLE TOYS FOR ROYALTY. Queen's Children Not Being Spoil- ed by Over Indulgence. Miss Grigsby, of New York, re- recently received an evidence of the length to which Queen Mary goes in a desire to imbue her children with simple tastes. Miss Grigsby is a favorite with the royal children, whom she knows through their Prince John was ill: a short time ago she begged to be allowed to send him a Teddy bear to replace a@ worn-out one he had been in the habit of taking to bed with him after the fashion of many children, royal and otherwise. The Queen consented that the Prince should accept the gift, and Miss Grigsby straightway purchased the largest, fattest and most ela- borate Teddy bear possible, which she despatched to the palace. Her surprise was great when the bear came back again to her with a lit- tle note from the Queen saying that she always liked the children to have only the most unpretentious toys, amd that as' Prince John's last Teddy bear was but a quarter of the size of the present one she considered it would be better to have the same kind. The American hurriedly exchanged the large, ro- bust and costly Teddy for a most modest specimen of the breed. The same treatment is accorded Princess Mary. Her dolls have al- ways been of a simple kind, and she is required to make their clothes herself, in the intervals of stitching flannel petticoats for the poor, with which task she occupies much of her time. ee ss ee 4 When a man is compelled to eat isfied, ages of cholera in India with the. Statistics | French governess, and when little- his words his appetite is quickly sat- MISS CLIVE BAYLEY IS DOING A NOBLE WORK. An Industry Which Gives Employ- ment to the Blind and Deaf and Dumb. In Shottery, scarce a mile from Stratford-on-Avon, a wise and cle- ver woman has made a corner of peace and'sunshine where some of the weak may slip out of the ranks that are marching too fast for their strength--a little space where the grind of competition does not enter, nor the jar and clang of the in- dustries of the great world; a space where the crippled and dumb and blind may develop their powers and quietly grow, sheltered from the op- pression of the struggle for bread between weak and strong, says the London Daily Mail. The old cottage, with its beams dating back to Saxon times, its smart new thatch and lavender bor- dered garden, is the studio where are shown the products of a factory none of whose workers is fully srerpet for life, yet their powers have been so drawn out and deyel- oped under the guidance of Miss Clive' Bayley, the foundress of the industry, that they not only pro- duce work of artistic value and lay the foundations of future financial independenve but may claim, through her instruction, to be pion- eers in the REVIVAL OF A BRITISH ART. For round the walls of the little cottage hang sumptuous hand wov- en tapestries; here a proud display of armorial bearings, there a sub- ject picture of great decorative value, and beyond a rug of Eastern design and coloring. On the floor he strips and fragments ef carpet, made after the manner of those which the girls of Tabiz and Kurdis- tan have knotted with patient fin- gers through centuries of labor to the accompaniment of monotonous chant and song; on the table lies a figure subject finely woven in silks, beautiful in texture and strange color, the work of the lame girl who met us at the door. In the neighboring cottage live the weaver girls of Shottery, and strange is the silence of the long room where they bend over their frames. No laughter, none of the light foolish chatter of girlhood ris- es above the sound of knots and strings. Before one large frame four girls are seated; one is blind, one deaf and dumb, another crip- pled, and the fourth can neither write nor spell, though she is of full age. Other girls work singly at smaller strips and panels and as we pass one looks up with unseeing eyes, one or two smile as they see us, but can make no reply to our greet- ing or questions. In an adjoining room a girl of 16, painfully stunted in growth, sits cheerfully drawing a design for the next large panel the school will undertake and we leave her intent over a branch of may, OUR QUEEN'S EMBLEM. And so they work in the sunshine with the wide green country about them, a fortunate few of the many infirm who pass perhaps their whole lives in State institutions, where necessarily but little chance exists of developing what powers they may possess. Here at Shottery under the care of the committee which re- ceives them from the State they spend three years learning to draw, to spin, to dve their wools and to weave, to study plant forms for new designs, and if at the end of' this time they have become efficient workers they are taken on as weav- ers for a regular wage. The lame girl, for instance, fornmrerly a suf- ferer from hip disease and infan- tile paralysis, has become a weaver of some note and is actually the most skilled worker in the school at present. She has just invested in Government stocks the second -- that her own labor has won er. ee mie Se Startling Encouragement. "Was Amelia's father encouraging when you went to him to ask him for her hand?" "Not very. He asked me to put the proposal in writing, so I couldn't back out, as a!] the otbers did." Musical Note. First Young Thing (during the so- nata--I just love Brabms, don't you? Second Young Thing--What are Brahms?--Musical Courier. A Boy's idea ot Paradise. When I go up to heaven An' join the angel bands, Gee, hope 'at no one there 'Ll say, "Go wash those hands." --Lippincott's. It Happens Easily. "That horrid cat!" "What's the matter, girl? "Oh, the cat went to sleep on my new hat, and I wore her downtown and back."--Washington Herald. Shame. We ought to be ashamed to whine When little troubles fret, When so much that is good and fine We almost daily get. Detroit Free Press. Cut Low In the Neck. Waiter--Did you order beef a 1a mode, sir? , Diner (impatiently)--1 did. What's the matter? Waiting for the styles to change?--Boston 'Transcript. His Day Off. _ W'en trouble come ter see him r Pay eee de ree ire oe tered fum de chimbly top: Go way!" I ain't at home!" Eee . Atlanta Constitution. Still a Chance. thing. the man who had jae HISTORIC LONDON STREET TO BE DEMOLISHED. ra E -- Greatness, - Though there are few folk living --except perhaps its actual deni- zens--who are not glad that Tabard street should be wiped off the face of the earth as a disgrace to modern eivilization, it has to be confersed that hardly a street in London is so famously connected with history, poetry and every circumstance of ego says the London Chroni- cle. : In the old, old days, before the new Dover road wheeled round from the borough into the Kentish highway, Tabard street was called Kent street and was the main ap- proach to London for every one who arrived from anywhere in Kent, from Canterbury, from the Cinque Ports, and so one might almest say from Europe. Up Tabard street nearly 600 years ago rode the Black Prince, con- queror at Troictiers, bringing with him in triumph the captive French King, a pageant compared. with which these twentieth century shows are but half hearted pieces of make believe. Up Tabard street swarmed the peasants of Kent un- der Wat Tyler and later on Jack Cade and his Kentish men, pour- 'ng in from the heart of England's industry, the "Lancashire lads" of that day. DOWN TABARD STREET some time before either of these events the Canterbury -- Pilgrims clattered over the stones on their way to Becket's shrine, laughing, jostling, jingling in the May morn- ing, a bevy of jollity and color. Yet even in those far off times Tabard street seemed to have made up its mind to prove unwor- thy of this honor of welcoming the coming and speeding the parting guest. As long ago as the thir- teenth century it was a haunt of depravity and poverty. In Shakes- peare's time it was shunned by all respectable folk. For centuries it was deplored that distinguished foreigners coming from the Contin- ent should get their first impres- sion of London from Tabard street, and sometimes they used to be hur- ried through by night so that they should see as little of it as possible. So on to our own times. - The recent resource.of changing its old name to something pretty and poe- tic has had absolutely no effect. Vice and dirt seem to be in its very air, and since the creation of Dover road turned the stream of traffic elsewhere it has just quietly degen- erated into A BACK SLUM; from the association of which one fancies the very earth will need to be cleansed. Yet with it all, the very dingiest --though not the worst--features of Tabard street still have a romance for us of to-day. For their last dis- tinction was that of being touched by the genius of Charles Dickens. Not a hundred yards from Tabard street Little Dorrit was born, At St. George's Church hard by she was married and there too is the vestry jorch where the kindly bea- dle laid her to sleep with the burial register for pillow. Even the old» Marshalsea, the debtors' prison, where Mr, Dorrit was so distinguished a resident, where Dickens's own father was not unknown and to which Dickens him- self paid many a visit as a boy--is still to be traced to a far greater extent than can be imagined. One has only to dive into Angel place --the little court on the left just before one comes to St. George's from London Bridge to find the grim old walls of the Marshalsea standing as they stood a century ago, with here and there an old grated window that still recalls THOSE TIMES OF TEARS. Following the old walls round by warehouses and offices flanked by grimy little paved alleys that are probably themselves Dickens survi- vals, one reaches the Southwark mortuary--a blithe resort by. com- parison, surrounded by a little gar- den of old-fashioned flowers. Close by is a battered old door--once an actual door of the old Marshalsea. If one peeps over the wall here from across the alley close by the entrance to the mortuary one may catch a glimpse of the old Marsh- alsea belfry, still practically just as it was when it rang out lock- ing up time for Little Dorrit and her old father. Coming round into St. George's churchyard one has completely encircled the famous old prison that was the world of Little Dorrit's girlhood. Hag 2k LIGHTNING EXPERIENCE. A farmer in Lincolnshire, Eng- land, who, some time ago, lost a hand, and now wears a steel hook on his arm in its place, was caught in one of the recent severe storms. A terrific flash of lightning render- ed him unconscious, and on coming to he felt severe pain in his maimed arm. Looking down, he saw that the hook had been straightened out and twisted, his coat sleeve and the leather sheath (which is fitted to the handless arm and to which the hook is fixed) were torn to ribbons, and the stump of the arm itself was se- verely damaged. He was otherwise uninjured, but the arm is complete- ly paralyzed. ae. Shortly after a woman marries her ideal she discovers that she didn't. : The man who expects to fall in an undertaking is seldom disap- pointed. LITTLE DORRIT'S LAND Tabard Street is Connected With. Every Circumstance of -- ~ | IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND NEWS ae occ ee JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. 4 -- 'Reigns Supreme in the Com- mercial Werld. The Blackburn fire brigade has been presented with a goat as a mascot. Sora ees t Mysterions farm fires, exciting suspicions of incendiarism, have oc- curred recently in East Essex. The death of Mr, Blackburn, for mIhahy years house-steward to King Edward VII., has occurred at Wim- bledon. Three men whose ages aggragate 244 years harvested together at Welby, South Lincolnshire. Their respective ages are 84, 82 and 78. Spotted fever has broken out in Essex, and there has been a recrud- escence of the disease in Notting- ham. For stealing three ducks eggs, valued at 9d., Elijah Bowman, a baker, and his son, were each fined age $6 costs at Reepham, Nor- OLK, A well known doctor has collected 70 cases of death during the last ten years of men running after a tram car and dropping dead in the street, It is announced that the First Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, has been ordered from Malta to Egypt. relieving the King's Own Scottish Borderers, Great interest has been created in East Kent by the discovery 'of a seam of coal 4 feet 6 inches thick in the boring near Adisham, sev.on miles south of Canterbury. Mrs. Ann Speed, of Heighington, Lincolnshire, who is 104, still at- tends market and performs house- hold duties. Two of her sons, both over 60, live in the same house. At an inquest in a ptomaine poi- soning case at Liverpool, it was stated that the deceased was seized with illness after eating a pie con- sisting of beef, potatoes and onions. The early start this year of the Yarmouth herring season has re- sulted in the landing already of over 20,000,000 herrings, which is double the catch made up to this time last year. The traffic by the Dover-Ostend route during last month beats all previous records, 55,000 passengers having been carried. Thirty-seven thousand passengers were carried by the Calais route. A young man named Edward Willing, who was accused at Totten- ham, of breaking a street lamp, said he did so in order that he might be arrested and obtain some food. He had eaten nothing for nine days. At an inquest in Sheffield on the body of a four-months-old child, the mother stated that she had nine children, all of whom were dead. All of them were prematurely born, and the eldest died at the age of 13 months. Preliminary work has been be- Light Railways Act of the old Pot- teries line, extending from Shrews- bury to Llanymyech in Shropshire, Montgomeryshire. A cripple named Wilshaw, arrest- ed for theft at Kidsgrove, Stafford- shire, and placed in a cell with a tramp who was drunk, was found ten minutes later hanging dead from a ventilator: with the tramp fast asleep beneath him, Before leaving Buckingham Pa- lace recently for a stay at Sandring- ham, Queen Alexandra personally thanked every officer and servant, from the Master of the Houschold to the seullery maids, for their ser vices to King Edward. et KING GEORGE'S MAIL. His Majesty Will Soon See Own Portrait on the Stamps. King George is receiving about one hundred more letters per day than the late King, and in the case of private letters he is even more particular than was his father in personally answering each missive on the day itis received. On an average King George receives six hundred letters a day. Many of them are from cranks, who write giving advice on affairs of state. A great number come from charity or- ganizations requesting subscriptions or patronage. Queen Mary receives about three hundred letters a day, and she, too, is very punctilious in the matter of replies. At the General Post Of- fice there are two sorting clerks always on duty attending only to Royal correspondence, and letters | to any member of the Royal Fam- are delivered by special messenger. King Edward, who wrote volum- inous letters to his many "cou- sins'? and nephews in Europe, car- ried on much of his correspondence from the writing room of the Marl- borough Clube When he was away abroad he wrote regularly to his grandson, now Prince of Wales, and the boy noplied onee a week. A tremendous stimulous has been given to stamp collecting. by King George, who has the finest collec. tion probably in the world. His latest acquisition yas one of the two-penny stamps lately prihted with King Edward's portrait upon them. The issue was destroyed the other day and only six stamps re- main. One of them was presented to the King, anofher to the Prince of Wales, and a third will be pre- served at the British Museum. Mys- tery surrounds the present resting place of the other three, but they are believed to be in th hands of Government officials. : The new stamps with King George's portrait will be ready in a few weeks hence, and are stated to be a distinct artistic improve- ment on the present ones, G4. aerences in the Land That gun for the re-opening under the | and the Dinas Mawdry Railway in | SOME "FAKED" 'MEN WHO HAVE PRETED _ DIE AND HAVE BEGUN The Archduke Johann of Austria ported Lost at Sea Is Believed t Still Alive -- General Hector fa donatd Is Said to Be In the Chi- nese Army--Oscar Wilde Is Declar- ed to Be Still Writing, When a man has made a "hash" of his life, one can easily understand how ardently he must long te be able to start afresh, away ie te sn One te temgtek te é caaulats on this of h ing t the ced that the Ralvaior of Anstria will be less authentic proof of his existence is forthcoming within six months. - Austrian archdukes seem born with a tendency to make a mess of things, did all that was humanly po bring about his own downfal. He quarrelled with his relatives the high officials about the court, b bli the army, of which he was an and, finally, he contracted a marriage with an actress. officer, that the archduke saw there was --Y for it but flight. is titles wife, renounced all the name ow cad digwitaoe: and assumed of 'Johann Orth." : : He bought a sailing ship, which he and in this way they sailed to Buenos Ayres. After a stay of some weeks they left in the Margarita for Vahk paraiso, via Cape Horn, and that is the last that was ever seen of them. The idea has sinee gained ground that the ap epee simply' "disappear" in order : makes a. fresh start, and that he 99 arranged things that it would appear he had gone down in the Margarita, Innumerable poayie have since de- clared that they have seen him. He has been positively recognized in the South Sea Islands, Australia, Japan, and New Zealand. : Nothing definite has ever been dis- covered, hewever, and now his heizs have decided to wind up his estate. s There are one or two other "dead people who are declared by rumor to be still alive. The most persistent of these rumors is, of course, connected with the name of General Sir Hector Macdonald, who has been declared most positively te be an officer in the Chinese army. Another group of people are equally emphatic in declaring that the gen- eral did not commit suicide in Paris as was reported, but these give Japan as the scene of his present labors. is really none other than General Kuroki. = Paris seems to be the centre for this sort of "'resurrection."" Mr. Oscar Wilde is another who is said to have started life afresh by '"'dying" there. Every now and then the rumer crops up that he did not die in Paris as was reported, but is still alive and is still writing. Yet another case from Paris is that of Col. Henry, who became notorious in connection with the Dreyfus case. Col. Henry had risen from the | ranks, and after a very creditable military career he was appointed chief of the French "espionnage" depart- ment. He first leaped into wide celebrity when, during the Zola tie. | he called Col. Piequart a lier. A due was fought between the two officers as a result of this episode, and Col. Henry was wonnded. Later he professed to have obtained from the servant of a high personage 'fragments of a Tetter that seemed to point to Dreyfus' guilt. After this document had been published with much joy by the anti-Dreyfus party, M. Cavaignac, the Minister for War, sent for Henry and cross-examined him. Henry became restless and em- barrassed, and finally, to the horror of the Minister, he admitted that he had forged the incriminating docu- ment. There was nothing for it but to arrest him, and almost immediately after he had been placed in the prisen the world--was startled to hear that he had committed suicide, Some little time ago, however, the curious rumor went round that the suicide had been "faked."' Another extraordinary case is that | of the Emperor Alexander I. of Rus+ | sia, who died very suddenly at Tagan- TOos.5 355 Various accounts of his death have been sent, and though it is now generally accepted that the symptoms of his last illness point to natural causes, rumor was long busy suggest- ing murder or suicide, A still more surprising story gained a certain amount of credence at the time. This was to the effect that the Emperor did not die at Taganrog, and that the coffin that was ceremoniously an to the imperial vaults con- tained nothing but stones. He had seen his country invaded said to have preyed 'on his mind dur- ing the latter part of his reign; in consequence of the many conspiracies and 'secret societies 'prevalent in Russia, the Emperor beeame "more Suspicious and unhappy. He decided, 80 the story goes, to free himself from the trammels. of state. He achieved this end by means of a mock death and funeral, and thenceforward be- came a wanderer Siberia. A Correction, The habit of contradicting some. tizges "o'erloaps itself" unwittingly, ~4've heerd it said," 'remarked a lounger at the crossroads store, "that John Henderson' over by 'Woodville was one of eighteen sons." "That's whar ye heerd wrong," con- tributed the chronic kicker, "Tt wasn't John Henderson at all. "was a. bros , a ae ther 0' jis'n' The Trouble. "Do you find any trouble writly stories, Dawdly?" ' "None whatever. But I'd pay a man well that could sell them for me-- Philadelphia Inquirer, A Winning Play. Old Friend--Your plan is a most ex Celent one. But do you think your wife will agree to it? Married Man-- Ob, yes. Iti tel her soxe one else sug- gested it, and I'll call it an idiot's idea, You can't order re t @ man's mind.--'Mackeray, affairs on hear- have dead and his property distributed un--- and certainly the Archduke -- When this last indiseretion was -dis--- covered, the old Emperor-was so an- es of Mont Valerien, Paris,--and, indeed, - by foreign foes, and the ghame of it is ~ e out of | ge books adversely cri ng thin F te Suatiod to Londen with his -- named the Margarita after his wife, -- They can go so far as to say that he | in the wilds ots. a