on the waters. Swiss hoes last Sees, was dra, the aspect of a my aie Every moment increased yer of seditionists. Jeru- was inundated with crowds bs pact of Nazareth. peared to be pouring | to detoeed ety, I had taken a maiden from among the who pretended to see into 'ity; she, weeping and throw- herself at my feet, said to me, yare, and touch not that man, he is holy. Last night I saw in @ vision. He was walking He was flying on the wings of the winds. He spoke | the tempest and to the fishes of the lake--all were obedient to him. hold the torrent of Mount Ked- ron flows with blood! The statues of Caesar are filled with the filth of Gemonide! The columns of the Tnterium have given way, and the sun is veiled in mourning, like a vestal of the tomb! O, Pilate! evil awaits thee, if thou wilt not listen _ to tho entreaties of thy wife. Dread the curse of a Roman Senate, dread the powers of Caesar." By this time the stairs groaned under the weight of the multitude. The Nazarene was brought back to _I proceeded to the Hall of Gis the people in a severe tone what they demanded. "The death of the Nazarene," was the reply. "For what crime?' "He has blas- hemed. He has prophesied the ruin of the temple. He calls him- self the Son of God, the Messiah, the King of the Jews." "Roman justice," said I, "punishes not such offenses with death.' "Crucify him, erucify him!" belehed - forth the relentless rabble. The vocifera- tions of the infuriated mob shook _ the palace to its foundations. There was but one that appeared to be ealm, in the midst of the vast mul- titude. It was the Nazarene. After many fruitless attempts to protect him from this fury of his therciless persecutors, I adopted a measure which, at the moment, ap- peared to me to be the only one that could save his life. I order- ed him to be ecourged ; then calling e approval of the decd. for an ewer, I washed my hands in the presence of the multitude, thereby signifying to them my dis- But in vain. It was his life that those wretches thirsted for. Often in our civil commotions have _ I] witnessed the furious animosity of the multitude, but nothing could be compared to what I witnessed in the present instance. It might have been truly said that on this occa- sion all the phantoms of the infer- nal regions had assembled at Jeru- lem. The crowd appeared not to walk; they were borne along, whirl- Ping and rolling like living waves, from the portals of the Pretorium, even unto Mount Zion, with hitiwel ings, sereams, shrieks and vocifer- a ~ which wards the gate of Golgotha. ations, such as were never heard in _ the seditions of the Panonia, or in the tumult of the Forum. ~~ By degrees the day darkened like "a winter's twilight, such as was witnessed at the death of the great Julins Caesar, which was Hike wise towards the Ides of March. 1, the continued governor of a -pebellious provincé, was leaning against a column of my palace con-| templating through the dreary gloom those fiends of torture drag- ging to execution the innocent Naz- arene. All around me was desert- ed. ORE bad yorgited forth her indwellérs through the funeral gate that leads to the Gemonica. An air of. desolation and sadneces enve! loped me. My guards had + joined the cavalry, and the centur- ion; to display a shadow of power, wes endeavoring to keep order. wus left alone, and my bréaking heart admonished me that what was passing at that moment appertained rather to the history of the gods than to that of a man. A loud cla- mor was heard from Golgotha, borne on the winds seemed fo announce an agony such as was never heard by mortal ears. clouds hovered over the pinnacle of the Temple, and, settling over the city, covered it as with a weil. So dreadful were the signs that were seen, both in the heavens and on the earth, that Dionysius and Are pawite is reported to have ps: Sa, ed. "Tither the author of nature is suffering, or the universe is falling apart." Towards the first .\hour of the night I threw my mantle around me aud went down into the city _to- The sacrifice was consummated. The crowd was returning home, still agi- - tated, itis true, ; durn and nie hy ; rad gloomy, taci- What they witnessed fad. stricken them 'with terror and reniorse. I als aw my little Roman cohort pass by 'mournfully, the standard- beg r having voiled his cagle in toké® of gricf, and I heard some of thégol- iers murmuring strangé \ words which I did not understand. Others were recounting prodigies, almost ilar to those w hich had ¢0 often té = Romans by the will of bui rand pensive. jy | etairs--the i| Dark | motionless, inex- witnessing some new odigy I returned to the Pretorium, sad a the stained with the blood of the Naz- arene--I perceived an old man in | a suppliant posture, and behind him several women in tears. He threw {himself at my feet and wept bitter- ly. It is painful to see an old man weep. "Pather," said I to him mildly, "who are you, and what ds your request?' "T am Joseph of Arimathea," plied he, "and am come to beg not you upon my knees, the permission bury Jesus of Nazareth."' 'Your prayer is granted, " said I to him, and at the same time or- dered Manlius to take some soldi- ets with him to superintend the in- terment, lest it should be interfer- ed with. A few days after the sepulchre was found empty. His disciples published all over the country that Jesus had risen from the dead, as he had foretold. A last duty remained to be per- formed, and that was to communi- cate to the Emperor these deplor- able events. I did so on the night that followed the fatal catastrophe, and had just finished the communi- cation when day began to dawn. At that moment the sound of- clarions, playing the air of Diana, struck my ear. Casting my eye towards the Caesarean gate, I beheld a troop of soldiers and heard at a distance other trumpets sounding Caesar's march. It was the reinforcement thet had been promised me--two thousand chosen ~troops who, to hasten their arrival, had marched all night. "It has been decreed by the fates," cried I, wringing my hands, '"'that the great iniquity should be accomplished, that for the purpose of averting the deed of yesterday, troops should arrive to- day! Cruel destiny, how thou sportest with the affairs of mor- tals!" It is but too true, what the Nazarene exclaimed. while writhing on the cross: "All is consummat- ed,'"' "The report that Jesus had risen from the dead created more excite- tment even than the crucifixion. As to its truth I cannot say for cer- tain, but I have made some inves- tigation of the matter; so you can examine for yourself, and see if I am in fault, as Herod represents. "Joseph buried Jesus in his own tomb. The day after he was buried, one of the priests came to the practorium and said they were apprehensive that the Disciples intended to steal the body of Jesus and hide it, and then make it appear that he had risen from the dead, as he had foretold, and of which they were perfectly convinced. I sent him to the cap- tain of the royal guard (Malcus) to tell him to take the Jewish soldiers, place as many around the sepulchre as were needed; then if anything should transpire they could. blame themselves, and not the Romans" "When the great excitement arose about the sepulchre being found empty, I felt a deeper soli- tude than ever. I sent for Malcus, who informed me he had placed his lieutenant, Ben Isham, with one hundred soldiers, ar ound the sepul- ,chre. He told me that Isham and | the soldiers were greatly alarmed at what had occurred there that morning. I sent for this man Ish- am, who related to me, as néar as I can recollect, the following cir- cumstances. He said that about the beginning of the fourth watch '| they saw a soft and beautiful light over the sepulchre. Heat first supposed the women had come to embalm the body of Jesus, as is their custom, but he could not un- derstand how they had gotten through the guard. While these thoughts were passing through his mind, behold, the whole place was illuminated, and there seemed to | be crowds of the dead in their i shrouds; all aeceeing and filled with ectasy, while all "around and above was heard the sweetest music. The whole air seemed full | of voices praising God, Then there seemed to be a reeling and swim- ming of the earth, that he be- i ate so sick and faint Ah} he could no longer stand on his ; feet. He said the earth seemed fo swim from under him, his senses left him, so he knew not mitt else did oecur. IT asked him in what condi- | tion he was when he came to him- self. ground with his face down. I sO to. the light. Was it not day proaching in the. East? | first he thought of that, but stone's cast it was dark; and* then he temérmbered was.too early for day. IT: ap at a awakened or from getting up too suddenly, as it. sometimes had that éflect.. He said he had not' slept at all, as the penalty for sleep on duty is death. He said he had al- lowed some of the soldiers to sleep at a time, Some were asleep then. I asked bay long the scene lasted. He saidvhe did "not know, 'but he thought: orl y an hour; it was hid by the Jight of approaching day. I sked him if he had gone to the -sepuichre ser ae coming to himself He said no, because he was afraid; that just as soon as relief came they all went to their quarters. I asked him if he had been questioned : by the priests. He said he had. wanted him to say it was an-earth- qitake, and that they were asleep, s ; a which were still. god th aght- Jesu ; that . was nok individual had been on earth before with Abraham and Lot, and at vari- ous times and places. eee "It seems to me that, if the Jew ish theory be true, ¢ these covclu- sions are correct, for they are in accord with this man's ifs as is shown and testified to by both friends and foes, for the elements were no more in his hands than clay in the hands of the potter. He eould convert water into wine; he could chan e death into lifé, disease into health; calm the sea; still the storm ; "call up a fish with a silver coin in its mouth. If he could do all these things, which he did, and many more, 4s the Jews all testi- fied, and it was doing these things that eréated enmity against him-- he was not charged with criminal offenses, nor was he charged with violating any law, nor of wronging any individual in person, and all these facts are known to thou- sands, as well by foes as by friends --I am almost ready to say, as did Manulas at the cross, 'Truly this | was the Son of God.' "Now, noble sovereign, this is as near the facts in the case as JI can arrive at, and I have taken pains to make the statement very full, so that you may judge of my conduct upon the whole, as I hear that An- of me in this matter. . With the promise of wishes to my noble sovereign, main, I re- "Vour obedient servant, "PONTIUS PILATE (The End.) ok +? WAKENING CHURCH NAPPERS Stroke of Wand on Nape of Neck-- Tickling Faces. One John Rudge is on record as having bequeathed to the parish of Trysull, in Shropshire, England, twenty shillings a year to be paid to "a poor man" employed to about church in summer to keep people awake At another English church, that of Acton in Cheshire, it was the practice during the middle last century for one of the church oO BY wand in his hand, wherewith, if any one of the congregation were ob- served to be asleep, he was instant- ly awakened by a tap on the head. In Warwickshire a similar custom prevailed. A warden bearing stout wand she bit like a hay at the end stepped stealti and down the nave and ti and whenever he saw an indi asleep he touched him effectivel y that the nap was broken--this be- ing sometimes accomplished be the application of the fork to the of the neck. Pa} tne 80 nape nape in another church. The beadle we about during service ngs long staff, to one end of wh attached a fox's brush a: nd to tl other a knob. With the former he gently tickled the faces of the wo- men sleepers, while with the knob he bestowed a sharp rap on the heads of male offenders. eo Sout Was Wise Business is based, not on but on honesty:--Dr. Shepherd. When a man prophecies 2 and it happe =e; one is always to believe he make it happ The churches we the restaurants the day if men were spiritual Halsey. Those who possessors of wea of means very a careless Tweedale. We ta up yings. money, Ambros that squand Thi ott procs TQ OF ke ¢a money ; our lay ] wisely that h in the best } rson, That women are discipline than 1 quence of man' man as A; Maurice He said he was lying on the | asked { | him if he could not be mistaken as | He said at! exceedingly | it | sked him | if his. dizziness was not fet being | They f A TEETOTAL START. "Why do you ae, to my mar- ying your daughter ?? 'Because you can't support her in the style she's been accustomed totes : "How do you ae Fean't? 4 can start her on bread and milk, cant aa you did. zu oF es rire ey same = tipater has said many haysh things | faithfulness and good | wardens to proceed through the!,. ~~ : : , : church during service with a huge alhin eee eo "The little man rules the wore When stories of valiant deeds and | armed couguests, the prime move- | possessed are rece ted, e¥ or reader logically y, oe such leaders were big men. lover of manly sports or of such ac- tivities as su jugating or ruling a racé or carrying civilization into heathen lands realizes his hero as @ giant; the concept of a little man eaforcing his demands or coercing a nation is scarcely admissible. Such a belief is in every way com- patible with the accomplishments for which the great man is given the credit in history. Great deeds, great men--preat men, great minds and bodies--the whole scheme na- turally resolves itself into such a combination, on the surface, Who thinks of the great Napoleon, the man who almost overturned the world, as aman of hitle stature? He was 5 feet i5{ inches tall. His instance is typical; the number of sa ail mén with great minds and eat tasks to their eredit is legion, pe fea through the history of man from éarly Greece, Holds Power. to-day it-is the little man who he balance of power, with of maintaining an even- overnment in the midst of blex and delicate interrela- ups that exist in the present world. Paradoxical as it s, the man below the average human stature to-day is the exe- e of the larger part of the rid's population and holds forth im such a capacity over more than half the earth's dry land, TH nine rulers of nine sin the world who prove by vals heights that the little man, or, in one case, the little woman, the powér ful hand. They are ing George ¥. of England; Nich- s II.; Czar of Russia; Armand Ieres, President of France; Yuan Shih Kai, President of China: Victor Immanuel IIT. King of ltaly ; i Mikado of Ja- Japan ; Wilhe! » Queen of the Nether! ands: Alfonso © XHI., King of Spain, and President Madero of Mexico. L of aye these rulers are below the height. President Fal- es, President Yuan and Queen Wilhelmina are short and somewhat are ¢ mparativ e- oh Ki ing | George is as his A more playful method obtained | These rulers bulk States, the and the altitudinous aes tallest mon- ed in the eer Not Small in Power. | as they are physically, re mendous in their pow- The puny autocrat of all the despotic sway over millions of people territory exceeding e miles, almost three "e8 of the United States laska and all of the ; * vast ag are his do- hey are sm mall Ww fecaen com- old shat over 160 ak a & umber nearly territory 0 ie square > than the Seata OL yet = 2 countries men and I nt 1,199.417,979 31,160,374 square miles The population of the entire. worldin 1912 is éstimated to be 1,522,700,000 and the area of the earth's dry land is $5,641,102 square miles. 80, it will be seen, these i small fry, as some large ude persons might feel dis- posed to call them, dominate four- fifths .of the world's people and control much more than half its hand area, Antients Were Short. One And here, to save ourselves some trouble, we refer the reador to De Quincey's writings, where convine- ing proof ean be found that the an-| ecient Greeks nations, middle if not races, No one can read the mass of preof collected by him-upon » the question, or listen to the various probabilities which he offers, with- out being convinced that the race of ancient . heroes, statesmen, ~ war- riors, orators and writers were men 'of moderate stature, and as a Trace would now be considered under- sized. ~The ancients, then living in the cities especially, were a short-leg- ged people. To proceed from the general *~ the Ee however, I assert that almost, not all, of the great mén of Bore aoe Gr reece, | of whose stature, Alexander, Cae- sar, Agesilatis,~ Solon, Socrates, aré but.a few of them. monts of man in conquering oe at he. 1 pa | diversity of languas Tot r| cating that Seat strength so y i aee of single com- ew Jals men ee 585,708 Purchased, a " Deerease: of 25 Per Cent, From 1910. : : The Forestry Branch of thes De- paftment of the Interior has lately finished the compilation of statistics dealing with the poles purchased in Canada during 1911. The total number of poles purchased was 585,708, a decrease of 25 per cent. from. 1810. The total value of these poles at point of purchase was $1,056,277, and the average price of poles was "$1, 80, greater by 47 cents than the price per pole in 1910. Steam railways, telephone and tel- egraph companies used almost nine- ty per cent, of these poles, the remaining ten per cent. being used by electric railway, power and light companies. Over ninety per cent. of the total consumption were ce- dar poles, which for their cost give better service than any other wood. At present practically none of these poles are treated or preserved by any method, in which respect Can- ada is far behind the . United States. The United States, using in 1910 3,870,694 poles, found that it paid them to use preservative meth- ods. During the last four years the treatment of poles has advanced rapidly; in 1910 over 21 per cent. of the total number were treated by the creosote or other methods. This is an increase of some forty- five per cent. over the number treated in 1909. At present the United States have a large number of timber-treating plants, while Canadian pole-users are only now beginning to treat their poles. It is to be hoped that this great in- equality will soon be done away with and that pole-users in Canada may take up this cheap and rational method of securing greater service from the poles used, and thus les- sening the drain on the forest. Se BIGGEST GUN FOR GERMANY. Fifteen-inch Ordnance Will Placed On New Ships, From an authoritative official quarter it is learned that the Ger- man navy has decided to surpass the fourteen-inch guns mounted on the latest type of United States superdreadnoughts of the Texas class and to install fifteen-inch wea- pons on its own latest superdread- noughts. The guns, which will be of 50 cali- bre length, will throw a projectile weighing 165 pounds and will be far and away the most powerful wea- pons ever placed on-a warship. The so-called kaiser class already carries fourteen-inch guns. Two of them, the Kaiser and the Friedrich de Grosse, are ready for service, and three others will be completed by April of 1913. The vessels which are to carry fifteen-inch guns are now on the stocks and are expected to be com- pleted by June of 1915. The tabulation not only discloses for the first time that Germany is arming its newest dreadnoughts with the biggest guns on record, but also shows that these weapons, which are, of course, manufactured by the Krupps, will be of vastly longer life , Vickers and Angland. > are cre Be Armstrong guns used s edited with a life of only sixty rounds, while the Ger- man fourteen and fifteen-inch guns, it is said, can 300 rounds. if these rez narkable figures are correct, they mean that after an ac tion the entire heavy battery of a British dreadnought will have to be replaced or. laid off to be retubed. None of these facts has been allow- 4N ire | ed thus far to become public in Ger- where the fiction is assidu- propagated that bat oe inch biggest that Germany many, ously guns are the is using. iM Me G EORGE'S LIBRARY. Embraces ioks on Fleets of Near- ly Every Country. King George one-of the finest col ohlets that have ever been got her, ae his library has been kept at York Cottage, but it is now being transferred to Wind- sor, where a specially fitted-up room has been provided for 'it. His collection is not confined to books dealing with the British Navy, but embraces the fleets of almost every country in' the world, and is in a KING possesses There is nothing affecting the sea and its command that cscapes his Majesty's notice, and a leading firin West End "booksellers has a standing order to forward copics of and Romans were, as ts makes its appearance, small-sized | exal mines any naval books that may be pub- lished: to wherever: the court hap- pens to be situated the moment it His Maje all, these. most carefally and decides whether they are worthy of heing added to. his collec. tion of not. 'The King has a great liking for making marginal notes in such books as he reads, and some of these would prove decidedly in- teresting if it weve. possible to in- spect them. : "as < The Trouble, A lot of men may know enough to keep still, but the trouble is they don't know. when to doit. = The trouble with a lot of would- be leaders is that they have to de- pend on somebody else to show Take @! them the, way. than the most powerful | Se of Shins That Have Won = : Fame. . to have selected the a Alexander, Culloden, Brunswick and ous for the tour deaceet ships to be laid down under. the pro- gramme for the current year, writes a London correspondent. The se- lection is in accordance with the original intention of the authorities. which was to name al! our ships of the Dreadnought type after ships which had played a prominent part in naval history. The extent to which this system has been carried is illustrated by the fact that nine | of our Dreadnoughts had name- sakes at Trafalgar. At the same 'time, a large number of names quite new to the Navy list have been introduced during the Dread- nought era, most of them being connected with members of the roy- al family. Among these are the King George V., Queen Mary, and Princess Roy- al, while Delhi, the name given to one of last year's battleships, was selected to commemorate the visit of the King to India. The only one of our Dreadnought names for which there is no historical justifi- cation whatever is Indomitable, which was chosen merely to com- plete alliteratively the Trio of Battle Cruisers of which the other two units are named Invincible and Inflexible. Of the new names, only one has previously been borne by an ar- mored ship, namely, Zealous. The first Zealous was a 74-gun ship, which, under the command of Cap- tain Samuel Hood, played such a prominent part in the battle of the Nile. The ironclad of the same name was laid down at Pembroke Dockyard as a three-decker, but while on the stocks she was cut in two and lengthened, and armored with 44% inch plates, supported by a backing of 30 inches of teak. She was launched in March, 1864. Our first Culloden was built in 1747. A 74-gun ship of the name was in Nelson's fleet at the Nile, her commander being Captain Tho- mas Troubridge. Unfortunately, however, the vessel went aground while making the entrance to the harbor, and took no part in the ac- tion; but Nelson insisted that Cap- tain Troubridge should be treated, so far as honors were concerned, on the same basis as those who had been able to be in at the destruc- tion of Bruey's fleet. Earlier in her eareer the Culloden had been more suecessful, for she fought under Lord Howe at the Glorious First of June and under Jervis at the battle of St. Vincent. Captain Troubridge was her commanding officer on the latter occasion. The greatest incident in the his- tory of the Brunswick occurred in the battle of June Ist, when that ship, commanded by Captain John Harvey. fought a long and sangui- nary but successful duel with the French 74, Vengeur du Peuple, in which Captain Harvey was mortally wounded. The selection of the name of Brunswick is interesting as giving us a ship with the same name as a German battleship--the Brauns- chweig. In this waegrnctie n it may also be noted that while Germany has for some years had a ship named Lothringen (as. well as an Elsass), France has given the name of Lorraine to one of the three bat- tleships she is laying down year. re RAZORS 1 FRO : n OR SESHGES, Chinese Mar urns Gace Make at Small The m Cost. are still Ro acces Ber ce Chinese manufacturers on a basis of th _most handicraft; would surely f a lifetime in Western tion of cutlery, f described by Consul benshue of Tientsin. An interesting feature industry is. the maki ing and fro The local blacksmit in the inter- iot cities and towns supply © the stands of. 'knives LAZOLS horseshues, ections of naval books and } great population of the em} ire with knives, razors and scis: of-an In- ferior quality at I} @ost. This. cutlery ¢ smal] shops, where only men are employed, usually pri tor and his'sons, and is ¢ from» old horseshoes, from England ard the. 6 A. discarded stee! sh. ESt ial for blacksmiths prefer the soft iron. that a i From two one or hi ontinen offers lades, the of Glascow maceyl but ct SPLOCS, land Hambutr One British firm Tieintsin brought Over 2 Carex ld horse shocs from: Australia ify, hud could: not: disposaof them, as ¢ native smiths fiat iron was hard. *They Ike bate tay hex 'AUSe if-enn be Hove. easily yaa ide- ed: by their primitive AO PAGO monk wsed poorer class, J af less than two inches, ty tung-tzus, about nine cents in American 'currency, Upon the strop the blade takes a fair cutting edge, but is too soft to hold it) Any number of stroppings are necessary before the act of shavink can be completed. After the blades are forged, they are simply case-hard- ened, and not subjected to the eare- ful tempering employed in the pro- duction of Western cutlery. at » OF « rece the too the mathads eam by the AVING : ting edge COSTS. TAVeN- "Quite Different. Office Boy--"Do you want to sce the editor on business, sir ?" - Stranger--"No, pleasure exclu- sively. I want to maul him." aes ' The 'British Fe is ae 'poLEs USED 1 IN IN CANADA eit. | stood Lvenybody Se of souval, at it is the pollen of certain y such as golden rod and seeds that detach themselves new mown grass which are liable to cause the uo "J pollen is supposed to irritate E mucous membrane of the nose, thu causing the catarrh and ee which are the symptoms of fever. Dr. Dekker's theory is that the blood is at fault and not the m cous membrane. It is only throug] the mucous membrane that the po. len most frequently effects its trance into the system, and it not because the pollen irritates th mucous membrane, but because the albumen contained in a pegs kind of pollen is inimica. a6 blood of certain persons. This wou explain why certain hay fever suf ferers are sensitive to pollen of cer tain flowers and non-sensitive to others. Some get hay fever from golden rod, some from clover, some from. grass, some from fertilize: Dr. Dekker points out that it is al--- ways some organic substance, that -- is, some substance containing albu-_ men. which is, responsible for the disease. Blood Is Changed. Why should certain kinds of albu- men affect some folks and nob- others? Let us see first of all what -- happens when a bit of albumen of -- any kind enters directly into the blood instead of being passed into -- the stomach through the mouth. It has been found that when albumen is introduced directly -into the blood, as in treating a patient with diphtheria serum obtained from _ some animal, and therefere contain- _ ing the albuminous substance of that particular kind of animal--the blood if examined almost imme- diately afterward, contains diges- tive ferments which it did not con- | tain before, and which are similar, if not identical, with the ferments which in the digestive organs attend | to the digestion of albumen. Thus the albumen injected into the blood splits up into extremely small par- ticles. In the digestive organs these infinitesimally small particles: are separated and sifted. The use- ful elements are taken up into the blood, the injurious ones are cary. ried out of the system. But, if di- rectly introduced into the blood, the injurious elements eannot be drained away. Injurious Elements. Along with the useful elements they are carried to the various tis- sues and cells and organs of the body, and are incorporated with them, interfering considerably with their normal chemical action. It takes eight to ten-days for the sys- tem to assimilate albumen injected into the blood, and after the first treatment apparently no bad effects are sustained ; but ifthe experiment is repeated after, say, ten days, the old poison now heaped up and dis- tributed throughout the body is transformed into a sort of explosive eg this | of Chinese } by combining with the new poison, ~ | interf ering materially with the res- organs, inflating the langs rd lowering the Bhiaciat rature. This called the anaphylactic experi- ment, According t who get hay pollen have a latent pojson On «x fresh renew ed. to Dr. Dekker,.persons fever ty mm golden rod certain sunt of old, stored up in their sys- ming in contact with the poison, the trouble is tem, Hew, Be 4 PUNISHED LEOPARD. Traveller Saw Remarkable tle Afriea, The leopard likes the meat of eer- tain monke but ihe indulgence of his taste sometimes tosts him dear, A remarkable le"between a leo- -- pard ar compaty of haboons, seen hy traveler in Af friga, ig' described in Das Buch fur Alle. ; 1 was sitting in thes} of a ra- vine, resting from the midday sun, when a company of baboons. came | clambering down the opposite wall oe toward the water that. trickled through the gully 1 sat still and> watched them. A big maleded and" after satisfying himselfthat all Was: safe, sathe ted. a few deép notes, ~~ Reassured by the call, the others quickly followed ; a mother, with an everswatchfnl exe en her rt two, ones, bre ught Up the rear. ldenly a ys ord sprang. 3 ay be ock, with paw, fell ed-the hh ast him. PR off. with bis prey, a cine bine The y.qhiekly that the wy eas | +2 y pany POUMHZed a Bat- Ys, id & a and attack. | vest aa come a of the COM ; what had hap- pened: mother's eryof rape, they allea nee turned and fell | up on the robbe r. Ina moment the leopard was sur- rounded and 'almost covered. with furious baboons. The battle waxed hot. Although numbers of. baboons went down before the pow erful paws of the eat, their places were imme- diately filled by othipe Tt was not long before the leopard began to tire ; he could make no noticeable impression upon his assailants. and. his strength was sapped 'by the sharp tecth) He struggled'h bravely, but im vain; slowly he sank out of sight beneath the fiercely. ing foe that he had ; the baby baboon was ay nae : : €.