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Envoy of ttie Dalai Lama, the Ruler of Tibet, at tlije British Camp. THE >l? WE BREATHE. Marrams Illustrating the Necessity or Ventilation. la an article on "Wliy We Need Ven Illation." In the Western Architect. Morris Ebersole says: "In its nat iral state, whether from the equator tr the poles, the composition of air Is tluiOKt Invariable, with the exception M the amount of water vapor. Man was made to exist in this envelope of tlr surrounding tlie enrtli. and. there fore, bis anatomy is affected one way ?r tbe otber according to the (imposi tion of tbe air be breathes. Tbe life giving and vital principle of air Is ?xygeu. This element revives, resusci tates. sustains and feeds. and tbe breathing orpins are so minutely and beautifully proportioned that the least Change or diminution of this element In tbe air inhaled is immediately evi Cenced by a feeling of discomfort or nausea?and unmistakable sign that ?omething is wrong. In these days, when so much of our lives is spent Indoors, some provision must be made that tbe air we con stantly breathe Is not lacking In any ?f its healthful, natural qualities. Ex pired air differs from inspired air by just so much harmful ingredients as la the purpoKe of nature to eliminate from our systems. These eliminations fcud chemical changes in the compost lk>n of air in our lungs are constantly TmpteCHfST 10 ft. high by 6 fT- JQUARC WOULD Hov.0 ' THt QUANTITY OP AIR . You BRfATMtIN EVERY 24 hOUKS ONE DAY'S AIR SI'PPLY. going on. Nature lias provided that mail should eliminate such. tilings as tre harmful to liiin?when elimination i peases life ceases?and these waste j products are in themselves poisonous I and dangerous to health if we take > theui again Into our systems. I Iu expired ail* the nmount of carlton ! dioxide- an inert, suffocating gas?is j Increased, and the amount of oxytreii 1 is proportionately diminish)*!.' Man I cannot live in au atmosphere in which I the oxygen is too rare; or, in other' words, too highly diluted with nitro- | gen. Nitrogen is not poisonous, but It cannot sm tain life, ami it acts as a di luted! to the oxygen, which if present In the pure iu:dllut"d state would cause u more rapid ?'omhustlou than the del icate tissue* of our lungs could hear. Again. oth'T complex poisonous prod ucts are exhaled in the ' reatli. which of themselves would rapidly cause de cay and disease. For these reasons, ami living In con fined places as we do. most of our lives, in whi'-h space we breathe and have oi:v being. it Is only the pressure to the 1:: ?xorahle laws of na'ure which drives us to think of ventilation and to make provision for It. flood Outlook For Unlt?>il Stmtt>?. Admiral Howies, who retired from the Construction Department of the Navy to take general charge of the shipbuilding plant, near Quincy. Mass., and must he conceded to know some thing anout the business he has been In for twenly-tlve years, ut a nieetliiK of the Master Builders' and Traders' Association of Quincy, expressed his belief that the Hulled Stales will be building tiie t-liips of the world iu tlse near future. Jlli'p IH?llkc I'rpprritilnt. There are n.any objections to the tv * of poisonous articles to keep mice out of a house, and a hint may be use ful to thoM' who atv troubled With these little i ?-sts. Mice have a great antipathy to the sui'-ll of peppermint, and a little oil of peppermint placed around tlir'.r haunts and holes will successfully keep them away. WATER MICROPHONE. A microphone, as you perhaps kno?v, is a sort of telephone which greatly Increases the intensity of sounds so that the noise made by a fly In walking HOW THB MIC HOP IIONI LOOKS. over tlie apparatus can be beard uuy ffhw in n large room. The microphone, like the telephone, is an electrical instrument. but the word microphone uienlis merely an in strument wblcli enables one to hear feeble hounds, and so the simple ap paratus to be described may be called a microphone; though it has nothing to do with electricity. When water Is sues from a small orifice It forms a continuous, clear stream for a little distance and then breaks into drops which fall at pretty nearly e?|ual in tervals. But the Interval between the drops depends on what vibrating bod ies may be In the neighborhood, as may be sliown by the following pretty experiment: Connect one end of a rubber tube with the water faucet or with n vessel of water on a shelf and In the other end Insert a glass medicine dropper. Ilohl the glass tube, pointing down ward. over a vertical metal tube, the upper end of which is covered with sheet rubber tightly stretched. Hold the tube at such a height that the stream Just fails to break into sep i arate drops before it strikes the rub ber. Now if you hold a watch near the glass tube from which the stream Issues the sound made by the water in falling on the rubber will keep time with the ticking of the watch and so magnify it. The effect will be very much Increased if a paper or tin fun I nel Is connected with the metal tube, as shown in the illustration. HUMAN CANNON BALLS. Lover .1 of sensational experiences should tiinl their ambition* gratified to the utmost In the late invention of a genius who promises to literally Ore THK HUMAN AMMUNITION CANNON, tlit'iii tliKoiiuli th?* air from the muutli oT a cannon. 'Jin* contrivance Iii? has devised for this purpose is a mammoth metallic cannon of I? iu11 lioro, which lie plans to mount upon a high trestle. Within the cannon arc truck* upon which roll cars which arc to he occupied by passen gers. When these cars are loaded with their human freight they are to he violently propelled into midair, alight ing nt a dlstunee on track* on u Home what lower tre*tlc ami coatitiulnu their progress down an Incline to terra timid, which doubtless will he wel comed l?y the more timid adventurers The bodies of the cars are to he h> weighted that in their flight throimh the air they will maintain their upright position and the relative position of the cannon's mouth and the secondary track are to be such that there will be no danger of the cars missing connec tion. ADJUSTABLE BLACKBOAfl. Readily Made to Meet All Emergencies of the Schoolroom. An lugeutous German Inventor baa devised u blackboard that mechanical, ly Is perfectly adapted to all the emer gencles of schoolroom use resnltlnf from a great varlety:of work by Indi viduals of considerable difference. Id stature. The board can be adjusted aud tixed at any desired angle ftnd raised or lowered vertically In slotted arms, or secured so as to permit of horizontal use, or It may be reversed as the service may require. The chief merit of the combination, however, It that the lueclian.sm by which the num erous adjustments are made possible 1* simple enough to be comprehended by AWUHTABliC BT-ATKBOARD, the youngest scholars, several move* incuts being effected by means of a string, or cord, acting on two nrins resting iiKiilnst the wall from which the board is supported. Copper ?n<l "Copper." The people of Vienna noticed recent, ly tliat a uutn was prowling about the roof of a certain house. The energetic souls hurried off and summoned a po liceman. when it turned out thut the roof walker was engaged in stealing the telephone wires and lightning con* ductors for the sake of the copper. When the "copper" arrived he was conducted with lightning speed to the police stution. At'rlilrnln anal IHan'tfrW. The loss of life from accidents and disasters in the 1'nlted States last year was: Klyes. 1: drowning, 2471; explosions, TlWi: falling buildings, etc., 474: steam railways, electric rail* ways. r?7?: electricity, 1JWS: mines, 788; cyclones and storms, 4.H7; lightning. i::?. THE NSW REPUBLIC OF PANAMA. This Is the Hag of the new Republic of I'aniumi -bine and red stars on a white Held, and bine and red squares one more red, white, and bine ban ner. 1'ntil last November rannmn was one of the States forming the United States of Colombia. Becoming gravely dissatisfied with the way Colombia l acted in regard to the istlimlnn canal and the ('lilted States' pending treaty with Colombia over the matter, the people of Panama rose in revolt and THE FAMOUS SNOW-CLAD SACRED MOUN TAIN OF JAPAN. MT. FUJIYAMA FROM TAOANOIJUA. set up n republic of their own. It was a bloodies* revolution. Two dnys af tor the revolt our Uovernment ac knowledged the Independence of Pan iitun. All the lending European Gov ernments have done the same thing, and now It Is believed matters will be arranged so that work on the canal can l>e soon and resolutely pushed for ward. The population of the new re public Is only about as great as that of Itliode Island. The Isthmus has an average width of about forty miles and Is about 200 tulles long. It rains there almost In cessantly during July, August and Sep teinber. ttrave Deed of Aged Woman. A Ma sard is (Me.) woman, aged six ty-iive, saw a fire on the roof of the barn one day last week, where It came from a spark from tho kitchen chim ney. She got a ladder, crawled upon the barn roof, shinned along the pig back on the ridge pole with ? pall of water and quenched the <Lr* PLUCK, fOHAHCE AMD ^OVERTURE. FOUGHT IS. KILLING 12. HK imtMt personage la the anatli of fenciag, Jeau Louls, was tlia. hero of fights M wonderful, says a London review, tbat were they uot known to be autheutlc his torical facts the/ might be thought exaggerated, even If read in one of Dumas' famous novels. Tula remark able man was a mulatto. Boru in the eighties of the eigfiteenth century, he entered the French army at the age of eight as enfant de trope, and did not leave it till he was well over fifty. In 1814 the most astonishing combat of modern days took place. Jean-Louis waa then about iwenty-nlne years of age. He had taken part in more than thirty engagements in Egypt. Italy. Prussia and Russia, and at the time of which I write found himself in Spain. It was th ? year which proved so dis astrous to X*|M>leal>. Jean-I^ouls' reg imeut bad just arrived in Madrid, and was made up, llkf jB^ny others, of men of various nationalities. The first thing Napoleon did after a \ Ictory was to oblige his late enemv to serve uu der his flag. It thus happened that for Ave or si* years there were Ital ians. Dutch, Saxons, Bavarians and Poles, who all fought for the French Empire. As long as the conqueror was sue-1 cessful, the foreign legions accepted the servitude Napoleoh imposed upon them; but the day bis lucl' turned they were all possessed with one Idea, which was to throw off the yoke and rid themselves of this terrible tyrant. In 1813. after Ills Russian campaign. Napoleou's glorious prestige had be gun to be Impaired, and discontent was very apparent in the ranks. When the news of the disaster of 1812-13 reached Spain the foreign legions no longer concealed their hatred of their French> victors. What had Ions: been threatening hap pened. One night a quarrel sprang up between some Italian and French soldiers, -vhleli ended In each calling friends to their aid. with the result that In a short time there was a regu lar engagement of a hundred a side. Many men were wounded and the combatants were separated by means of a bayonet charge. The leaders of each sld-? were arrested. ..ml It was de cided, In order to make an example of them to the army, that each side should produce fifteen men, who should fight until tliey were put hors de combat. Jean-Louis. as the prjpoipal fencing master of his regiment, ?vas chosen to fiyrht Cllacomo Ferrari, a fencing mas ter of great renown in his own coun try. Ferrari was a most redoubtub'e adversary for any man to encounter. Six feet in height, possessed of great strength. he wis a man of Incontesta ble courage. The thirty men were to flglit In the presence ff NUMM) witnesses. To the sodtul of the roll of drums two meu march on to the lighting rround. which has been specially chosen on accouut of Its ellghr natural elevation. One of these men Is (tir.como Ferra ri. the other Is Jean-Louis. They are accom panied by two seconds. A deathlike silence lias succeeded to the murtnur of curiosity whi<^i greeted their ar rival. Tlien a voice Is heard ?o break the silence, the command "En garilc!" is given. The two masters Jol.i swords. In the first instant Ferrari attempts to rush Jean-Louis, but In vain. Every attack \* met with a parry. He retires a lit tle and tries what patience will do. He feints, makes a pretense to attack, re tires again while .lean-I/Otiis. very calm, remains on the defensive. Sud denly the Italian, with one of those savage yells common to fencers of his country, makes a little bound to one side, followed by an attack In the low er line delivered with lightning-like rapidity. This is a Florentine ruse which has often proved successful to him before, but at the same time a cry of rage rather than of pain is heard. Jean Louis. with Indescribable swiftness, has parried and riposted. His sword penetrates Ferrari's shoulder. "It is nothing," cries Farrari. "I am not hurt." They continue the fight and Jean-Louis In his turn attacks and al most Instantly pierces his opponent In the breast. Ferrari's sword drops from his hand. He drops heavily to the ground ond Is picked up dead. Jean-Louis wipes his blade and with the point on the ground waits. His task has only just begun. Four teen adversaries are there waiting eag erly for their opportunity to avenge their champion, whom they had until then thought Invincible. After two minutes' rest Jean-I.ouls Is ready. The second adversary stands before him. Their Awords join. Th?re Is a sinister clash of r e?'. Jenn-Louis lunges, a cry Is heard, then a sigh. Jeati-I^ouis has got back to a standing position and has another dead'body before him. The till"d adversary comes forward, and has to be held l?:?--k in order to pre. vent him from springing nt the French, man before he has ll'i.shed his short rest. The order to commence is given. The Italian l-as followed the mulatto's play attentively, and lie thinks he has grasped his felnis. surprises and modes of attack; but the result of his obser vation does not avail Mm much, as a ?er a few passes Jean-Louis' blade disappears Into his body and he Is car ried away dying. Ten more adversaries come forward one after the other, and the ten share the sa.ne fate r.s the tirst thi*ee. The thirteen adversary is carried away in sensible. and cheers in which sounds of something like terror can be heard rend the air. THE LION HUNT En. Apropos of the lev/ edition of Cor don ('mum logs' "Lion Hunter." his daughter, Eleauora O. C. Nakeskn. writes to the Saturday Review to point out that few of the readers of her father's adventures realize how young lie was at the tline of thoee early hunt. Ing exploits: He wus only,twenty-three years old when he started on his tl at expedition Into the Interior of I'outh Africa. And. rioted* U required enormous nerve and ?elf-reliance; It Mcdcd. Ii fact the ar dor of you ):, backed by bis Iroa eonr atltutiOD, to face the dangers and fa* tlfiiet of socb an undertaking. Wben be returned to England la tbe autumn o# 184C be brought with, him such a collection o* trophies as few believed could bare fallen to our man's rifle. He was then twenty-eight, and with his long, luxurlsnt hair, thick, tawny beard and magnificent athletic frame fully satisfied tbe popular conception of the "Lion Hunter.** His success Is. o. course. well known and recorded In the e%rly fifties. As the younger son (seco.im of a Scottish baronet, with sixteen children, his for* tune was slender. lie resigned his commlsiiion In the n<my so that for him everything had depended on the success of bla venture. Ills share of profits from his book alone reached in the first year $5000, and by the sale of Ivory. ostrich feath. ers. etc., and the exhibition of his trophies, he made largo sums of money. But the free, wild life of a hunter left its mark on bis whole after exis tence. and in Fort Augustus, where he finally settled down, with his museum I of South African trophies and various I collections and curios, he contluucd. as far as the Scottish cliuiate permitted, | to live as he hr.d lived in his wagon in Africa?a rude and comfortless life which it was my lot to share with him till the end. He continued to sleep on the same narrow camp ImmI he used it) his wanderings, and on it lie died in 18WJ. in the full prime of life. Ills splen did hair untouched by time and all his strong white teeth save one Intact', and that one was dislodged with dreadful difficulty. I think, some two or three years before he died. It was a some what extraordinary performance. Ha v. lug suffered excruciating torment rrc*u it. in.v father ordered the village sur ixeon to extract It. Dr. Tolmle. who then represented all the dental skill of the district, a young man of most un assuming proportions, shrank from the experimeut.^and. after being persuad ed. several times gave up the attempt as hopeless, but mv father sat patient ly urging and encouraging him to re newed efforts, and at last, after a tus sle lasting three hours, the refractory molar yielded. It was. as it appears, carefully preserved by him. for one Christmas I found it along with a cut* t.v pipe in my stocking as a charm tiarniust toothache from which I had suffered at the time. I was then very little, but It must have greatly Im pressed me since I remember it so well. SAVED P.Y A PATER RAT,. A common flour sack?a' paper ling? and the use o\ his wits saved Chris Hansen. a hunter. from drowning at < Suusalito. California. The Quiver telU the story. Hansen had been aecus touted to spend the early morn ill); hours shooting on the bay. One morn- ! Ing, while he was returning In a skill I from the hunting grounds, bin shotgun, which was lying in the bottom of the 1 boat, was accidentally discharged. Tho I full contents of the barrel passed through the bottom of the skilT and tore a liirge. jagged hole. In a few I minutes the boat began to settle, and ! the man's most desperate efforts could not stop the incoming water. He grasped the oars and. snatching a tough paper ling which he used for carrying liis game, began to tie them together as a'float to assist him to reach shore. When lie had finished his task he jumped into the wnter The bout sank h moment later. Han sen could not swliu well, and he found the oar# lint little support. He was beginning to lose courage when In* noticed that a portion of the sack used in tying tiie oars together had becoma tilled with air. He snatched it up. and held the open end toward thv breeze until it filled with wind. Han sen used this improvised life-preserver to assist in keeping him afloat and easily remained on the surface of the water. The tide ami the use of hi* legs gradually propelled him toward the shore, and the drifting uiun soon got a foothold. A MIOilTY IITXTER. It is said that Sir Mortimer Dnrand. the negotiator of the "I>urand Agree ilient" with the astute Ahdtir Rahman, Khan of Kabul, for six years British Minister lit the Court of the Shuli, for more than three years Ambassador at Madrid, and now the British Amhassti. dor to Washington, is prouder of hi* success as a sportsman than as a dip lomat. It is Intimated that he has tak en with him to Washington many of liis Indian shooting trophies. Chief among these are an enormous head and skin of a Bengal tiger, the story of whose death he often tells. As the Jungle was too thick for eh>p),anls to lie used. Sir Mortimer was armed with both an Empress rifle and an eight bore, The latter weapon he hail never used, ami when the tiger came on h>? expected to have dropped him dead by the steady aim he took with it. But the brute rushed on for thirty yards pt full gallop, and Sir Mortimer thought lie had missed aim. From his coign of vantage !.i the fork of u tree lie fired with the Empress rifle into the brute's back, nnd this time he fell. When the tiger was skinned. It w.ts found that the eight-bore bullet It.id raked it from the chest to the ?*hd of its body. It was evidei.tly well en dowed with the feline .capacity for surviving. WOLF ATTACKS KEEPER. In the presence of n big crowd of v I si tot* at the Zoological Park, Wash ington. I>. u prairie wolf and a '???cper fought a long and vicious battle. The beast lacerated tie* man's arms and lufnds In an effort to reach Ills throat, and was beaten off lint in time to save his victim's life. Women screamed and fainted, and the enraged wolf threw the keeper to III" annu l and stood over him. snarlinu and leav ing the man's flesh with Ills pointed fatiRS. The wolf has been known to the Zoo offlcliils for a lonst time as having all of the treachery and none of the cowardice of his tribe. The Nonconformists, who are re sisting the new educational laws, under which nil are taxed for schools controlled by the Established ChuivJt of England, are hi London a1 >??? 1 ? 0.12 Bpotlst*. Coiureg itloa.il i#t*. P/a.007 Wesleyans. and 'WKiri member* of the Sulvuliou Ai'Uij. News of Iftcnst AFRO-AMERICANS Whipping Post Rtviatd. At Lexington, Ky.. Police Judge John J. Riley revived the old whipping poet regime when he sentenced Simon Scearce, a fifteen year-old lad. to he whipped in the public square. Scesrce had struck a small boy. The court decided that the boy's moth er take him to the public square and give him twenty lsshes with a buggy whip. The mother. In the presence of a lsrge crowd, administered the pun ishment as directed. This 1s the first time such au Incident has been wit nessed iu Kentuckey since the war. ? ? ? ? Race Trouble in Ohio. A dispatch from Canton. Ohio, the late President McKiuley's home .own, says: Clifford Boylan. 24 years old, it belelved to be dying at the hospital, and Wtn H. Harrier and Daniel Fits- I gerald were shot and cut and braised as the result of a fight between Ne groes and white men after a ball game. Seventeen Negroes were arrested, their confinement being necessary, the authorities stated . for the suppres sion of possible violence by Boyian s friends, who were greatly Incensed over the iujurles. Policemen were In structed to arrest every Negro that appeared on the scene of the trouble. ? ? ? ? Forcing Negroes to Marry* The matrimonial crusade inaugu rated by Judge Jim Burch among the Negrbeg of Augusta. Ga.. Is about to be the cause of a grand Jury lnvestlga tlon, with the magistrate as the sub ject. , It Is alleged that Judge Burch had no authority to issue warrants for the arrests of the Negroes living together and not married, and that having issued the warrants lie had uo rlghf to dismiss the cases when the parties married. The matter will be brought to the attention of the next session of the grand Jury and the whole matter sifted. It Is claimed that this sort of work is a city court affair, and that the magistrate was encroaching on another's legal preserves. Whether Judge Burch had any legaf rights In the matter at all or not. there la no doubt about the fact that Negroe* are getting married as they nevei dlu before, and they are even sacrificing household goods to get the money that is necessary for the official costs in the matrimonial ceremony. A prominent pawnbroker says that the Negroes are | putting np clothes, furniture, tools and anything that they can get their hands j on to pay for the license and thj fes for tying the knot. ? ? ? ? Address by the President. In his Memorial Day address at Gettysburg, Pa.. President Rosseveit ?aid among other things: "The place where we now are has won a double distinction. Here was fought one ot the great battles of all times, and uere was spoken one of tlio few speeches which shall last through the ages. As long as this republic en dures or its history is known, so .011,5 shall the memory of the battle of Get tysburg likewise endure and be known: and as long as the Kngilsh tongue Is understood, so long shall Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg speech thrill the hearts of mankind. The civil war was. a great war for righteousness: a war waged for tbe noblest ideals, but waged also Id thoroughgoing, practical fashion. It was one of the few wars which mean I in their successful outcome, a lift to ward better things for the nations of mankind. Some wars have meant the triumph of order over anarchy aud licentiousness masquerading as l'ber ty; seme wars have meant the triumph of liberty over tyranny masquerading as order; but this victorious war of ours meant the triumph of both liberty and order, the triumph of orderly l.ber ty, tbe bestowal of civil rights upon the freed slaves and at the same time stern insistence 011 the supremacy of the national law throughout th?> l?ngth and breadth of the land. The war left to us all. as fellow-countryman, a.-i 1 broth**?, the right to rejoice that tue Union has been restored in indes?i*u.-t ible shape In a country where shivery no longer mocks the boast of free>lmii, and also the right to rejoice with ??xul tant pride In the courage, the ielf sac rifice. and the devotion, alike ol" :h** men who wore the blue uud the m il who wore the gray." ? ? ? ? ? Hannah Ellas Wins Court Ca3e. At New York, Hannah Klias, -? col ored wouian, was discharged In court on motion of Assistant Attorney Hmi I. acting for District Attorney Jeroiii ?. at the conclusion of the tes'i?uo i> <n John R. Piatt, the ag?-ii uJIIUu-iir . who caused her arrest for exio'-ifi Old man Piatt proved a d'??>iT)fioin!i,;; ttituuoS. To questions uiiuci./ ^ ?.,0 L1|ui4t;b, on wuicii 1 ue woman's arrest, haj beeu made, Ik- answered re poaledly: "i don't know." Ills helpless uud his apparently un reliable memory surprised those who attended his examination. He did uot r? in amber whether hu had given the woman large sums of mouey <J<iriiik tho past ten years, as charged, and did not remember signing certain of the papers In connection with his charge# against her. The ordeal was a trying one for the aged man and his replies bcuatue scarcely audible toward the last. As soon as he had left the wit ness chair. Assistant District Attorney Rand said: ? Your honor, I think the parties tc this miserable scatida! ought to ije al '->wej to ?t'*w lu tie Ir o\yn grease. Fhero U ti 1 evidence bi>f.>ro you ihii' vlli possibly servo to hold ibis woman '.:i a charge of ex'.oiHoti. I recjin mend that aho be discharged." The nrngl.vrate therur.j. >n dlschir* 0-1 '.h'*- w jinan. Several thousand persons, imotix (heui hundreds of colore.1 crigens, a' traded by the case, thronged Lb? building >M stood crowded la the itmta outsMc The old mam. In? bllai. uid iMMMtly dased wm m slsted out ud the crowd hooted ?od fclni Piatt la his testimony said ha first met Hsaaah Bth; about fifteen years ago. Some time lai. r he again met the woman at Third avenue mssnace estab lishment through an advert foetnenf and had kept up the scqualntance since. His relation with her had been of a tender character and he had bought for her a house snd had given ber large sums of money. The aged witness then sppearea io become very much confused and to several subsequent questions he re plied that he could not remember and referred the questioner to his ittor* ney. Piatt would not give s direct an swer to* a question as to whether he had paid the woman more than $600,* 000 since Jsnuary. 1996. but did re member that he gave her $7,500 laat month. This payment wss mad* be cause Hannsh Ellas told him she was being sued and would have to go to court and expose him unless the money was paid. ? ? ? ? Doubt oi Alexander's Guilt. An Atlanta dispatch says: applica tion will soon be made to President Roosevelt for a pardon for James H Alexander, the colored valet of Fay master P. C. Stevens, of the United States army, who In 1902 was sen tenced to three years on the charge of robbing Major S evens of $5,000 of government money. The petition will be prepared by S. C. Crane. Alexan der's attorney. The charge againet Alexander and evidence has been developed which shows considerable doubt of Alexan der's guilt. Half of the money was returned soon after It was missed, and there has been no definite evidence since to show where the rest went. The robbery occurred In 1901, and Alexander was sentenced on Mar'-h 17, 1902. to three years in the federal prison and a fine of $1,000. lie was not s?nt to the federal prison, how ever, until January. 1904. having spent the time between November. 1901, and January, 1904. in the Fulton county jail. Just before he wont to the federal prison Attorney Crane appealed to the circuit court of appeals to have the time spent by Alexander in the cointy jail credited to him on hi* three-year sentence. The appeal was to have been heard next fall. Lately an investigation of the?charge against Alexander led to a doubt of his guilt, and also to a friendly interest in assisting In getting his pardon. To get the pardon, nowevrr. it will first be necessary to have the appeal dismissed, and this will be done at once by Attorney Crane. The applica tion for a pardon, which is now being drawn up. will be forwarded at once to president Rossevelt. It is very like ly now that Alexander will be par doned. In addition to the fact that there is some doubt of Alexander's guilt, ha had practically served out his sen tence in the Fulton county Jail. Had his appeal been turned down, he would liave hat! to serve time In the federal prison until 1907. or altogether, some thing over five years. rt?3UFF WAS CUTTING ONE. Fitting Retort of "Mad Poet'' to at Ungentlemanly Remark. Many stories are told of McDonald Clarke, known lifty years ago in Nev York as the "mad poet." which show that lie bad a vein of great shrewd ness, such as is often possessed b? people who are counted insane. One day he was seated at a tablf in a New York hotel quietly eating Ills simple dinner when two young mer took their seats at the same table McDonald Clarke was a well known llgurc, and the young men at once recognized hi:n though he did no' know * hem. They were not gentlemen in thf best sense of tli" word, and it oc curred to them that they might havf some sport with the poor poet. Con sequentIv one of them said in an tin necessarily clear tone; "I have seen almost everything an# everybody in N"w York except Me Donald Clarke. I have a great admira lion for his poems and 1 would giv? a great deal to see the man." When he passed the mad poet lean ed forward and said with eviden' gratification: "Sir. 1 am McDonald Clarke, whon you say you wish to see." The young mnn stared at him with much rudeness for a moment, ano then drawing a quarter from hli pocket he laid It on the poet's plate saying, "That's for the sight!" Clarke looked at the coin for nn In stunt, and then placing It in his |H?ck et, he took out a "York,shilling," 12V4 cents. This ho handed to the yjuns man. saying gravely. "Children hal' pflce." NOBLEMAN LIVES IN CAVE. Wealthy Man Carries Love of Soli tude to Excess. On<? of the moat remarkable noble men in all Kurope Is |>n>lial>lv Conn' Kussell, wlios ? love of solitude '?"< Piir rled to such an extent that 1m* lives In a series of caves plu<*c*l lilnh up or the snowy Vlnnemalo In tPyrenees Tin? Count lias a house In I'an ??< Is a man of wealth a Frenchman o' Irish extraction. 11?? doe* not . ho* fvi-r. care for soeitil f'li ctions. ami s< ho conceived ih<- oiiuhal no1 Ion o renting from t/m Kr-ach povermnen the whole of the Vi'.,neiii:i!" ill nmt.ili from 8."no feet to Its suninii'. II.""' feet. For thin he pays the notnini' rent of of." franc ("<) ceit'*' a ? While C.e caves were already In "xist enr ?. the Count has onsld-Tnldy "a* sfH'?*d" fl:eni !?y ir.e'ii:* <>l Mlcknxe aed d\i:a*iil>e. carri"d up on mules The Count freqi,etti> sl 'ep,< in d"c? snowdriftwrapped in I;l? r dri-l' <* s?' ? ?piu-; ha;;, nnd fr rt n- t.ouoti' fh,t c)/|.>< h.jiM |jso il Spain II a' h!ti feet uii e|'|ji?r I.and. 'm ?? cavo ar-? ? f i*e.!. r* ihl"-' i r .i d -'d. bu I:ix ? of yt.r.i t;. ai:d !!; Coin fre'j'j -?*!' I % J. .-..jy tt,, jji n I.* wn? c >::: \ iiit him la I'au.