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In the Public Eye. M *** GENERAL OKU. CTfef* JflfBOUa Of^ctr Most Prominent ftn tb? Operations Around Port Arthur) srtiMamttS w Fiut ox. \J T 1 y ?evlcc flick Will Prevent Msnj Ele liHr Aecidest*. ? new life-saving device, designed to prevent serious Injury to one Un fortunate enough to fall down an ele vator sh4IC; hfs beea made by Joseph O. Branch, Inspector of Boilers and Elevators, and fa shown herewith. It consists of a woven wire net covering the full openlns of the well and sup ported just above the bottom by stout arms. Tha whole la supported in an outstretched position under normal clrcomstsaees by a pair of springs. When tbe fsMn?r body strikes the net the fall la broken by the combined action of it and the springs. It will give sad sag to a position Indicated, the arms themselves closing up scls sirs -like, as Is shown, and being re sisted la tbla movement by tbe com pression of springs. The pipes 'are MaklM ritach Kaoto. "I did not se* your daughter In the coaching parade, Mr. Gates." * "No. She has been captured bjMhe latest fad?making French knots. You TAMET SHMTMi M THE DIMM ROOM TABLE flguro 1 shows the tarftt catMtof dgar bos wood. . A circular plm la test cot. sboot oos lock la disaster, sad elsbt sbbsU vooad >lici? st ear* TAFL1 TAtOIT. board with the number* 1 to 8 oi them are mounted ou toothpick* and grouped around It at even distance*; the other end* of the toothpick* are then Inserted In the aide* of the cir cular piece of wood. The target Itself Is fastened to a stick of wood about eight Inches long, fastened to a stand, as shown in the picture. The gun consists of a paper tube, which Is made by winding cardboard well cov ered with glue, around the atem of a leadpendl. When It ia dry. a piece about Ave Inches long Is cut off. One and three-quarter Incbea from one end. we make an Incision about two Inches long, cutting down to about one-half HIGH-GRADE ANGUS STBER, SHOWING BUTCHER'S CUTS. SPRING tumiu TO FALL ON. free to biove endwise through proper openings made In the upper ends of the strut arms, permitting them to close In and break the force of the fall. During the laat tear 584 persona bit ten bj dogs having hydrophobia were treated by ti^e Pasteur Institute In In dia. There were only six failures to Immunise, the patients. Six other cases came after the disease had de veloped. f .Hamburg has a Madchenhetm, or re fuge for girls, at which last year 9818 young women were provided with sleeping accommodations at seven to ten cents a night The most expensive chair In the t-ofld belongs to the Pope. It Is Of ?olid silver and cost $90,000. Live weight, 15."*) lbs.; dressed weight, 10*0 lbs. Retail prices: (1) Neck, 40 lbs., worth 4c. per lb. (2) Chuck, 2 *?T lbs.. 7c. (3) Prime of rib. 117 lbs., 12Vic. (4) Porterhouse steuk. 103 llu?.. 18c. (5) Sirloin steak, 87 lbs., 15c. (G) Rump, 3tf lbs., 8c. (7) Round. 183 lbs., 10c. (8> Shank, 30 lb*.. 2c. (9) Flank 82 lbs., 4c. (10) Ribs, plate, 138 lbs., 5c. (11) Shin, 23 lbs., 3c. know, she was a pupil of Madame Buchanan, of the Champs Elysees. and Is quite proud of her needlework. Every young woman these days must have at least one hand-made dress, that Is, a dross made oy her own hand. Elolse spends four hours a day orna menting her latest creation with French knots. Last night she Informed me that she had made already over 1200, and expects to make 800 more. The knots look like little hnmmocks of thread, and are built right In the cloth." (Initials For Ntroe*. Brevity is said to be the soul of wit. so the mania in England for Initials as abbreviations of ihe names of per sons, societies and newspapers seems to be growing. The lively periodical. M. A. P., commonly understood to mean "Mostly About People," has al ready a secure standing, and the Ix>n don correspondent of the New York Times Saturday Review notes the starting of soveral other papers named on the same principle. Among these are P. O. P. and T. A. T.. and the lat est Is 3. M. fl., which Is devoted fo the banjo, maudolln and guitar. Several Mleslan vllljg i have been visited by a plague of adders. la Frendenthal alone 452 snakes have been* killed. THE MAN WHO WILL BUILD THE PANAMA CANAL. JOHN F. WALLACE, He hat been Appointed Chief Engineer of the Panama Cannl. Mr. Wallace bat been General Manager of tbe Illinois Central Railroad. of the thickness of the tube (sw Fig ure 2). Figure 2 shows bow a piece of whale bone about six Inches long Is Inserted, acting as the propelling power of the gun. You shoot with a wooden peg about one and a half Inches long, fitting loosely Into the barrel of the gun; to give It "more weight and strength, we Insert a carpet tack. To shoot, hold the gun with the right hand, pulling the whalebone back with the Index finger, and Inserting the peg; as soon as the Index fiuger releases the whalebone. It springs for ward and forces the peg out. To aim well, hold the tube In such a way that the whalebone spring points down ward. CUTS OUT TjIE PINEAPPLE EYE. The *;repair.tion of a ~>.r.tapple Is a long and tedious operation because of the size and shape of the fruit, and for the reason that the fruit is gather hard to cut. After It bar. been pared It must be carefully gone over and the eyes cut out. These tough portions being allowed to reniuln. Interfere largely- with 'he enjoyment of eating the fruit, whether it be In Its natural PINKAPPLR KTB CLIP. condition or cooked, and the economi cal and quick removal of the eyes with the ordinary means Is Impossible. A pistol-like device with which thin la nccouiplshed with celerity and dis patch Is shown In the accompanying cut. In use the pineapple is pared and the hand 01 the clip Is placed under the eye about one-half inch and then the trigger Is pulled, and lu Its descent it completely cuts out the eye. The trig ger, being released, throws out the l?l|e. In this manner the eye Is cut out with great economy of the fruit as compared with the usu:.: method of procedure. 1 Pool Without Hmok?. A French naval officer has made It possible, with certain changes in the ttreboxes, to burn a fuel in the form of petroleum briquettes, which gives off no smoke. The officer claims his invention will give fuel of which one pound Is equivalent to four pounds of cOnl. The briquettes are made by add ing to petroleum oil, for each liter. 1B0 grammes of ground soap. 150 grammes of resin, and 300 grammes of caustic soda lye. This mixture Is tlrst heat ed and stirred until near solidifica tion, when It Is poured Into molds, which in turn are then placed In an oven for ten or tlftoen minutes, and t!ir briquettes are .'"ady for use after cooling for a few hours. Greater so lidity may be obtained by the addi tion of a little quantity of sawdust and a little clay cr sand.?New York Times, There are 13.000 to 16.000 street casualties which call for the use of an ambulance In London every year. TAVSk, ****KC? ?m A?rctrruH?. GLAMIS CAIQA SIT! BE calibration of the gold. ? tNMlBg of the Karl Md dMBtMS Of StTHih IMN will ooee more ?zdt? ipffliHiiw ? tb the joomy mystery which has burdened his lordship's bowj for many genera tions. says the Laadon Chronicle. This hul secret, which Is tn some way asaasctad with Ola mis Csstle. the fam ily sest la Forfarshire. has never been Marsd by mors than three persous. It Is kaswa to the sari and the factor of the estate, and Is communicated to his hair-apparent when he has com pleted his twenty-flrst year. For this parpose the young man Is for the first time Introduced huto the bidden cham ber. the knowledge of which la part of the secret. No entreaties or Inducements hare ever persusdsd one of the trusted three to break the strange bond which seals Lis Hps. It Is related that one coantsss anxious to sase the mind of her lord by ahartag his sottow, liu piorsd the fsctor to-tei; her aii. He re plied. "My lady. If you could gueas even the nature of thla secret, you would go down aa your knees and thank God that yoa are Ignorant of It" Popular fancy has played with the mystery lp Its asasl wild and irra tional fashion. None of the suggested tolutlons of the problem are at once possible cud snffldsnt. Among the superstitious 8cotch countryfolk It Is actuslly believed that at one period "a human toad." whatever that may be. endowed with Immortality, waa born to tb' house of Strathmore, and that this unpleaaaat creature Is the denlsen of the hidden chamber. An other story has It that the secret room holds the bones of a band of prisoners, who. In 8cotiand'a stormy days, were Immured there and atarved to death. A very circumstantial atory would ap pear to indicate tha key of the mys tery would lie in visible msterial form in the hidden apartment. A work man, It is said, who waa engaged in repairing the roof of Glamls. sudden ly left his occupation and returned to earth with considerable rapidity. He requested to be allowed to see the earl, with whom he had a long inter view. From this be departed to his home, and after a few uaya. in which he had made preparations for his Jour ney without holding any unnecessary converse with any one, ho set out for the other side of the world with a comfortable annuity in hla pocket. It Is also told that on one occasion, when a Lord and Lady Strathmore were paying an afternoon vlsii. some guests who were staying at the castle re solved to probe the mystery to the i?ot tom. Making a tour of rooms, they hung a towel or handkerchief out of every window they could discover. They then walked around the castle, and lo! there waa one caaement from which no signal flew. Nor could the most careful search within the ramb ling building discover either where the window was or bow there could be any apartment to which It could afford light. IN OPEN BOAT. A Toledo man will undertake a trip of 7500 miles in an open boat. The man of this quite extraordinary un dertaking Is A. Stanley Parker, who has bad experience in the past with similar expeditions on a smaller scale. Parker will start from Toledo on a long and perilous Journey by water to Pauama. The trip Will be by the lake route to Chicago, thence through the Chicago drainage canal to the Illinois River, to the Mississippi, to the Gulf. Then the coast of the Gulf of Mexi co will be skirted to Panama. The trip will be made in an open boot rigged with a leg o' mutton sail. The craft Is a fifteen-footer. four feet beam, light but very staunch. "My object in taking so light a boat," said Mr. Parker, in speaking of his undertaking. "Is to hnve a craft that I can beach myself, as I will be alone. I expect to sleep ashore most of the time, and must have a boat that I can pull up on the beach without help. "I will take along a tarpaulian so constructed that I can convert it into s tent. This tent I will pitch any where on the beach or shore where ever I may be. I will take along a few clothes, cooking utensils and pro visions. "While In American territory I will not carry much provision, because I can stop in any city along the route and buy from ti:uo to time what I need. At Galveston, which will be the last American city of importance on my route. I expect to put in a supply of provisions that will last no until I get to Panama. "I won't need much, for along the Gulf coa6t I can sustain life largely upon fish and fruit, which are abund ant and cheap there. I expect it will tako m? at least a year, maybe longer. "My object?% to rcach Panama abont the tlrao operations begin 0:1 the inter oceanic canal. There is no telling ex actly when that will be. bnt I want to be on the ground at that time." Mr. Parker has soldiered In the Philippines, "roughed It" many times, and once made a trio in a small boat around tho peninsula of Florida.? ledo News-^ee. A BATTLEFIELD JOKB. To look at Gen. Jack Hayes It secris almost Incredible that he could have served for forty-elgjt years in the United 8tatcs Army, bccarse ho seems no older than that. In narrating rome ef his experiences recently, the general said: "I was In a hot flght wit!i tho In dians ont In Western Texas la 1859. in wjich Fitzhugh Lee roceived an ar row In his sldo from tho bow of n Comrjaccho chief. Not one of his men who crowded about him expected he w >nld live. His look was sa ghastly, his voice so faint, that wo expected every breath would bo his last. My heart was nearly broken, for I had tho saoo warn liking for him then I havo ever since cherished. "Whllo we stood In a mournful group arornd bin, one of the boys re marked. at the same lime exhibiting Lis hat, Tilth a bullet hole through the top: "They're got the lieutenant. aa| " the ballet that made thla had goo* two Inches lower, I'd been a dead man, too.* "At Jaat Ptt* Lee opened hla eyeo Joat n fraction, had M tbe gboot of a ?inlt* played around on hta pallid face, obierrtdr "Urn, yon needn't try to Impoae any anch yam aa that on aa. Yon got behind a tree and abot that boW 2a 7oar hat yonrtelf.' ?Then and there I knew that Pits Lee wasn't golug to die. A man who bad life enough left to Joke waa sure to get well."?Washington Poat. THREE ?AY8 IN A WOLF DEN. An Oklahoman nam.Kl Lawaou had an unpleaaant experience while vlalt ing hla brother-ln-law, Mllo Biodgett. who Uvea near Adobe Walla In the Texaa Panbaudle. Law son went wolf bahtlng. Next day bis Iiorse was found sad dled. but without a bridle. Biodgett summoned about thlrtj neighbors and began searching for Lawsou. who was located after nearly a day'a bunt. Hla feet were sticking from the top of a wolf deif and about three feet of dirt rested on hia body. Lawsou was so fastened tbat be could not extricate himself. H* bad dug down In the wolf den r.bout tlve feet on a slant in a manner something like the entrance to a dugout, then lay down In the trench to reach in after some-coyote pups. He caught one and threw It out. and It Is supposed that this fright, ened his horse, which was tied to a bunch of l>ear grass near the hole. The horse making a lunge caused the bank to cave, the dirt falling on the prostrate body of the man. covering hla body and head. The dirt caught him with his arms stretched out in front so he could not use them to much advantage, but be managed to work hla handa and shove the dirt down the hole until his head was uncovered and he could get air from the top. He lay In this positiou from f? o'clock Thurs day afternoon till 10 o'clock Sunday morning.?Kansas 'Jlty Journal. RESCUE OF A CHILD SLAVE. On one of her raids Miss Donaldlne Cameron, head of the Presbyterian Chinese mission ? iu San Pranclsto. whose adventures are told in Every body's Magazine, followed n tlve-year obl slave to u Chinese cauip in the foot hills of the Sierras. She drove ten miles by night with one Healey. a country constable. They hitched their horse outside the gambling-bouse where the girl was known to be and peeped through a hole lu the acreen which shielded the door. The child was sitting on a table, rolling cigarettes for six gamblers who were playing fan-tan. Overthrowing the 8<>reen and rushing on the little girl. Miss Cameron snatched her up and Healey held back the gamblers at the point of his revolver. As they backed through the door a Chinese seemed to rise out of the ground. He drew a revolver and fired point blauk at Miss Cameron. The Chinese slow ness with a gun, traditional in the West, saved her. for Healey had time to strike it up si that the bullet splin tered the ceiling. They drove ten miles to civilization, and all the way Healey kept his re volver In hand against pursuit and at tack. That was probably Miss Camer on's closest call. BAGGED BEAR. A bear hunt from a private car, a chase of three hours and the bringing down of a 300-pound silver tipped bear Is th-> record of a hunting party from Cleveland. Ohio, last Thursday. The party, consisting of W. H. Sll verthorne. Dr. A. C. Buell and Mr. and Mrs. J. Odell, reached here Thurs day morning at 7.30, were met by Steve Baxter, the bear guide, and bis bear dogs, and left for the mountains west of town within half an hour ufter they arrived. The bugle calling the dogs had hard ly finished sounding when the parly was seen coming buck with the pelt of the finest bear yet killed dangling 1 from Mr. Silvertbome's saddle. The bear had been caught between break- ! fast and lunch. Steve Baxter declares that bear are becoming more plentiful with each i year, and the record of this season has certainly proved It, for there have been nearly two dozen bears captured within twenty miles of Glenwood 1 Springs since they began crawling out ! of their winter holes a little over two i months ago.?Glenwood Springs Cor respondence Denver Post. ADVENTUROUS WOMAN. Among the passengers who left Liverpool recently for West Africa by the steamer Burutu was Mrs. French Sheldon, the well-known traveler and explorer. This lady has made a jour ney of over 2000 miles through Africa on foot, and the natives have every where received her with great cordial Ity. Her explorations have given much valuable information to the world on scientific and commercial matters. Her present mission Is undertaken at the request of Sir Alfred Jones, who bus Instructed her to report us to the development of the country in connec tion with minerals, vegetable life and other substances likely to be commer cially useful. Mrs. Sheldon, who fc reported to be a great hunter, said she was looking lorward to some good sport among the lions. After spend ing some time at Sierra Leone she will proceed to Congo, and report on the Belglau concessions there for the I Information of *he King of the Bel gians.?Pittsburg Press. WlH Man of th* Trolley. j "Yos," said the conductor, as he gave the motorman the double ring, "I can I tell what day of. the week It is by , the size of the money these young fel lows have. Now, there Is that kid in front Just gave me a five-dollar note and made me hustle for change. That's his salary. He'll be walking down 'town next Friday morning. That young woman there, who Just gave me a dollar bill, had to look through a pocketbook full of samples on Satur day morning to find a nickel." "But this Is Monday," remarked the observant patron, "and I saw a man give you five cents Just now. How do you account of that?" "Ob, that's easy," said the knight o^he cord; "he's married."?Baltimore Now* Newstf Interest AFRO-AMERICANS Colored Democratic League. In person and by proxy there was S representation of 550 In the conven tion of the Negro National Democratic League, which convened In St. Louis ?to* P**t week to elect officers, organ *e a campaign committee and prepare An address. Herbert A. Clark, of Mississippi, chairman of the campaign committee, presided. e ? ? ? Measure Would Be Unwise. The general agricultural committee has reported adversely upon the bill to cause all street car companies to provide separate cars foe white an J colored passengers?In other words. Jim Crow ears. The committee decld< ?A that the measure would be an un* wise one, and that the present arrange* merits are as good as any that could be adopted. The report of the com mittee Drartfcally means the defeat of I?u o..i.?Atlanta Constitution. ? ? ? ? Widow Asks Damages. A Columbus. Ga.. dispatch says: The widow of Bragg Smith, colored, who lost his life while attempting to save Superintendent of Public Works Johnson last September, over whose grave the city erected a monument, toas asked the city for damages. Her attorneys have addressed a com munication to the city council asking 'or a settlement without suit. The city's attorney and finance committee have the matter In hand. ? ? ? ? The Same Old Proposition. fhe proposition to limit the amount of money to be appropriated to the education of the colored people in Oer gia to the sum which they pay as taxes has again made Its appearance in the house of representatives. This ques tion has been taken up from year to year, and from time to time has been extensively discussed. This time the bill is Introduced by Grlco, of Pulaski, and proposes to amend the state constitution, para graph 1, section 1, article 8. by addins at the ciose of the puragraph in ques tion the following: "And the taxes paid by the colored race only shall be applied to the education of that race. * The measure was referred to the com ittee on education. ? ? ? Hot 8hot, This. . The few black folk in this town who have tried to butt Into the Hannah Ellas "mix-up," and the black lawyer who undertook to represent them and got snubbed by Hannah, have no sym pathy from their fellow citizens. Let Hannah Ellas fight her battle. Sho got her money out of white folks by slick practices and spent it on and with white people and Japs, and she can, therefore, very well be let alone on the moral and sympathetic side. She and her dupe, Piatt, are of a sort, and the law should deal no more se verely with her than the man. who by his own testimony has been a tough old "rounder" for more than twenty years. Hannas Ellas has a grown daughter living In Philadelphia who appears to be a chip of the old block. When this damsel was asked If sho was going to take a hand in her moth er's troubles she is alleged to have said, "Search me!" The whole dirty business has a moral which he who runs may read and proilt by, if ho will.?New York Age. ? ? ? ? A Race Poblem "Platform." The Atlanta Journal says: William De Witt Hyde, president of BowJoin College, writing in a recant number of "The Outlook," suggests that the time Is ripe for a "platform" concern ing the relations between the white man and the Negro, on which all men. both north and south, can unite. Mr. Hyde writes In a dispassionate spirit, and an understanding one, withal, which makos the text of the tentative platform which he suggests worthy of sincere consideration on all sides. And certainly the idea itself is worthy of that. "Such a platform," saya Mr. Hyde, "must Involve concessions on both sides. The South will never tol erato the platform laid down by the north during the dark days of recon struction. The norih will never ac cept complacently the more extreme positions to which reaction from that policy has led. Every man, north ern and southern, ought to frame for himself and for his country a plat for-d which will be fair io both sections. ? ? ? ? Hobsort Praises Booker Washington. Captain Richmond Pearson llobson of Merrlmac fame, was ono of the speakers at the reecnt democratic con vention in St. Louis. Iu tlie course of bis address he said: "Tell me what American stands for the fairness and acumeut of law. The the democratic American. Aye, at this juncture it is demonstrated %'iat the party In po wer Is playing politics with this vital question that affects our Internal happities.*. "Yes, l?K)k further. Not merely on the question of our economic policy they play politics and 'stand pat when opposition 13 coming over out people, and further, when In the na ture of providence tills nation Is call ed upon to take the great problem of how the white man and the black man can live together and work out their salvation with mutual helpful ness; when the lirst of all laws, is that Ignorance must not control lu government. (Cheers.) "In Alabama we have a groat Nogro that we are very proud of. Ho has been helping do the great work of up lifting, and yet, In bis last speech a few days since here In 8t. Louis. Booker T. Washington stood, ho said, for the whites and blacks together In the schools and the churches. I ask you to look at his earllost teachings; yon will find nothing of this kind. This great and good man ku boon useful because he recognised the fundament al principles and ,yet today under the lnfluencee of the party In power and their chieftains he Is led away, and If be does not turn his usefulness wllj come to an end. (Applause.) At a re cent convention In Chicago it was made an Issue and put Into the plat form of a party to oppress the south land. simply because It Is trying to work out how Intelligence can rule and how the men who csre for those who ere charged to them may work out their salvation the best. (Applause.) "8hall the skeleton of seditlonalism be ever raised in this reunited nation of ours? I ask of tLe generous north and the west, do they propose to op press and persecute the south? I ask if. while they will not allow any one else to oppress them, they will op press themselves ?" In his efforts to secure order at the conclusion of Captain Hobson's speech, Chairman Clark broke his gavel han dle. Now comes Booker T. Washington, who expresses surprise in an interview because he had been quoted by Cap tain Richmond P. Hobson. at the na tional democratic convention, as hav ing suggested in a recent address be fore the National Educational Associa tion. in St. Louis, that white people and colored people should atteud the same schools and churches in the south. Washington said that Captain Hobson must have made a mistake in reading his speech.or he had ben mis informed, as he had never made any such suggestion, and that the subject was not touched upon in the address mentioned. ? ? ? ? Colored Farmers Organize. A news item from Hawkinsville. Oa, says: The Negroes of the county have organized In a society for the improve ment of their conditions, and in a meeting held recently pledged their support to any movement that would result In better labor conditions In th<* county. A number of the most pro gressive Negro farmers of the county were present and expressed them selves as being in hearty accord with the white planters in their endeavors to secure more reliable labor for ti;e farms. Crabs That Eat Cocoanuts. Crabs which live upon cocoanuts which they pick for themselves are found iu the '"'oral islands. Nature has provided this crustacean with claws and ulppers of enormous strength, and It Is supposed that the cral> climbs the cocoa palms and do taches the nuts. It reaches th?> mat of the fruit by picking and rapping with its claws at the end of the nut where the three small holes are to be found till a slight breach is made Then the nippers are brought ir.io use for the rough fibers which surround the shell. These he shreds with his nippers and conveys to his burrows where they form a comfortable bed for the crab while he is changing bis coat. Some of these crabs attain a length of over two feet, and live in holes which they have made in the earth at the roots of tropical trees. Count sa a Beggar. A fatal cycling accident near Beell* has brought to light a strange typ* of Italian mendicant. The dead mar is Count Francesco Avogadro di Vag llano, a member of one of the oldes' and noblest families in Italy, and t public mendicant. He might, had h# chosen, linve drawn an annuity sulfl cfent for his frugal support, but frorr some perverse sentiment he preferred to beg In the streets, miserably clad He was a wufl-known figure at Beella The other day he was tramping in hir uative district of Vagliano. when h? was knocked down by a cyclist and killed. His family are now about to give him a funeral worthy of th ?\uk. Typewriters for the Blind. Many inventions have been made to bridge the distance between those who have their sight and thoso who have not. But none has been more practical ar.d successfjl than the pro ductlon of a typewriter which can be manipulated by the blind. 1 be let? ters on the keys are raised, and the sensitive touch of the blind man can tell the character on a key as soon as he touches it. The ringing of the bell when the margin is reached works af well for him as for the man with sight, and the sense of touch makes the manipulation of the various keys fur setting the paper a comparatively simple matter.?New York HeraU' To Grow a Miniature forest. It Is quite possible for any one tc own a forest of miniature oaks, which may be grown even without the aid of soil. It order to rear a miniature for est procure a shallow dish and cover the base of It with mosM an inch thick. Then ret a number of soot* acorns In rows About two Inches apart, and a perfect little lores' of oak trees can be raised. The mos? must always be kept very moist and the ncortis will begin to grow In tlio spring. By June or July they will hav pais ed themselves t>lx to e!:<ht Inches high, and will form a charming sight fur any lover of trees. Long Confined as Leper. A remarkable story which has lats !y attracted great sympathy In Cap* Colony, is that ofra man named A pros kle, who, after having beon confined on Robben Island for eight years a* a person suspected of having leprosy waB rocently allowed to return to bit family as non-afflicted, lie was for nierly a shipwrecked sailor who too* a farm at the Cape, mnrrled and pros pered exceedingly. Mosquito bite* were mistaken for leprosy by a field cornet, who sent hiin to Robber Island. He returned homo broken If spirit and financially ruined, his prop erty having been sold for tbo uykeej of his children Dolls of Olden Tlmee. A w.-dl-known woman of Benning ton, Vt? has iwo dolls, one of which was fotmerly her great grandmother's and In the family for 150 years. The other was formerly her grandmother's and Is 100 years old. Both are dressed In thf "ovtume Incident to thoso days, the oldest ore having on the samt nr.lt in which it was originally attired.