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,v? . "*\ ? /? * i 'yj ' * ? ' ' % v ' f*f* | Mynhe i WW* I BY ST. QEOR I $?????? ?. Coryr.iGHTlKfi, P. >v, CHAPTER IV. r [Continued.] "15ut ycu will come with us now? that ie, If you feel able?" asks Sandy, who, having nobly given up all his chances of winning the prize?they Were about equal to one grain of sand in comparison with the seashore?dt-sires to briug the conquering hero to , . jbls fate. 4,I feel like a new man. That meal was the first decent one I've enjoyed for months. While the men lived on coarse food, Gordon would not allow the officers to feast. One thins, however, may prevent me from going with you."' "What's that:" asked both the others. "JJy clothes are in a dilapidated con uiuuu. eve, JIVIV ;i ^iim^uau vm. u piece out entirely; it would have taken toy leg. also, if better aiaied. I don't remember where they came from, so I must have received them during the engagement. A few trifling wounds under them have healed up. and I am feeling very well, thank you. In daytime I can draw money from the bank here in Cairo and buy what I need. Meantime, you will have to excuse mc to the young lady." "Hang me if I will! We'll find some other means of reaching the same result," cries Sandy, who is a great hand for surmounting obstacles. Mr. Grimes here put in his oar in the quiet way he has. Stepping up, he places himself alongside the intrepid explorer. "Just about one size, I believe," he remarks. "Yes, it is so," says Sandy, with a thuckle, for he has always had the reputation of being able to see through a grindstone with a hole in the centre. "Then consider the matter settled. The gentleman will accompany us to Shepherd's; he will go with me to ray room and selcc-t from several traveling feuits I keep on hand." "But this is too much?" "I never accept a refusal. Mynheer Joe; so look upon it as arranged," With a wave of the hand that a prince blight envy. The explorer looks at him curiously for a few scconds, and then gives in. "I thank you, sir. I will accept the loan until morning comes and the Dazaars open. "Good!" ejaculated the newspaper man. "And now let's be tramping back to the hotel. Left the beggar With the light on deck. Hope he hasn't been tossed into the Nile. Glad to see y6u meet Molly. Hanged if I wouldn't! Then I've got an hour's Work making up and sending my dis' patch. I fancy one man in Cairo will Want to cut his throat in the morning. 'Tisn't often the Herald gets left." He is all excitement, and there is bo need of further delay. Mynheer Joe turns to the reis. "Ben Hassan Effendi, I shall remember your kindness always," he says, taking the brown hand of the old cap; . tain. "I am already repaid. I hate El Mahdi. You were his enemy. It pleases me to help one who did him Injury. Kismet! It is fate," says the Arab. "On the morrow, if by chance you see my faithful Kassee come floating down the river on a raft, send him to Shepherd's Hotel. You will know him from his voice. It is like the whistle of a locomotive." "But you said be was drowned!" cries Sandy. "I have it down so in black and white." "I trust you may have to alter it. for somehow I can't force myself to believe him as one dead. Now I am ready, gentlemen." They pass out of the cabin and reach the deck of the dahabeah, where the link-boy is found in conversation with the crew, the members of which are naturally curious to discover all they can about the stranger they picked up in the river, who cried out that he was from Kliartoom before Ben Hassan could rescue him. They might as well question one of Cairo's four hundred mosques as this lad. He can and does tell them about the gallant light made by the two Franks when assailed by the mob of beggars in the street, but knows nothing of their relations to the guest of the reis. The flambeau-bearer soes ahead.and. one by one, The others wall: the narrow plank that stretches from the roof cf the cabin to ihe bank. When all are safely landed, they strike off through the same street where the previous engagement took place. Evidently these men are not made of material to shrink from any hidden danger. If the rascals who lay in wait for lliera before choose to try conclusions a second time, doubtless they will find means to accommodate them. They are not molested while en route. Once or twice they see shadowy figures glide from dark arches ahead and vanish in the gloom, who, In all probability, belcng to the same gang with which they had their former adventure; but the fellows have received too severe a lesson to think of enduring such a rough handling a second time. Presently, the lights of the grand square flame up beyond. Here, at least, darkness does not hold sway over the old city of Cairo. The various sounds that greet the ear in this quarter are, indeed, refreshing, after experiencing the dead hush that hangs over the ma!n city, although hitherto Sandy and the silver king have been rather inclined to consider all the claptrap a bore. Comparisons may be odious. but they open the eyes to a truu appreciation of things. Generally speaking, it is the trav H 1H( I1U51 Ul UUU liVW.1 l#l 111V the stay-at-home whose ideas art- as narrow as the little world hi* eyes daily rest upon. raising through the square, the lit Jle party, having dismissed their light | ~ h fe, . , er Joe?! QE pATHBORNE. otEKT Bosneu'h Sons. IHBM || Wl|, |~^f bearer, draw lip ;it Shepherd's Hoi el. Here, as usual, there are scenes of gayety; it is the central attraction of the whole plaza. Lights gleam, voices are heard, laughter and music float upon the balmy air. Men throng certain points, smoking. and chatting, while others engage iu dancing: for on this night in February the hotel has given a "hop." Sandy knows and appreciates the desire of his friend to be observed as little as possible, and he manages it so that they pass into the hotel without undergoing a critical survey. Indeed. the condition of Mynheer .Toe is hardly such as would warant him appearing in the presence of ladies. Naturally his figure is good, and he makes a fine appearance, but just now his clothing, as he has shown them, has been badly cut in the awful affair at Khartooru and from his frequent immersions in the river shrunk so that it clings to him like a friend :: d a brother. Yes, Mynheer Joe is hardly in a condition to meet the fair girl J whose face he has carried in his memory ever since saving her life at Maita. A man dislikes appearing as a scarecrow before one whose good opinion he values. No doubt there have been occasions when lovers have thus been forced into the presence of their sweethearts. , "Now, Mr. Grimes, bring him back to this spot as soon as you can/' says Sandy.scating himself at a desk where he may handle pen and paper. They leave him there, busily engaged in writing out in "long hand" the narrative of Khartoom's fall and the death of Gordon, which he took down in shorthand as the story fell from the lips of the one survivor of that terrible day. Mr. Grimes himself leads the way to his room, which is one of the hest Shepherd's affords. Here the traveler finds a hotel run much more on the American plan than most caravansaries in European or other foreign countries. Even in Alexandria the guest is charged for a candle, for a piece of soap, for the most trivial service in fact. It becomes an abominable nuisance. No wonder then that Shepherd's is always a favorite stopping place for all our citizens "doing" tne wonaeriui country ci mi' i>m-. Mr. Grimes fastens liis door, and then with true hospitality begins to spread the contents of his trunk before Mynheer Joe. "Choose anything you please, my friend. I am only too happy to be at your service," says the silver king, blandly, and the messenger from Kliartoom takes him at his word. He makes his ablutions, assumes a modest check suit that fits him remarkably well, combs his hair and beard, and in a brief space of time has effected a wonderful change in his appearance. Then it can be seen that this nomad, who lias wandered all over the earth with such men as Stanley, Schwatka and other adventurous spirits, is about as fine-looking a man as one would meet in a month in London or New York. He is as brown as a berry from exposure to the hot sun and peculiar winds of Egypt; out mat is ine common fate of ail who dwell beneath the sky of the tropics. Besides, most women admire a bronzed warrior, when compared with the pink-andwhite dandy. Strength and valor are qualities that appeal to their fancy. When Mynheer Joe announces his toilet as completed, Mr. Grimes, who has been glancing over a paper he picked up, looks at his guest. The expression on his face declares that he is pleased, and that there is no danger tliat the explorer may not be fit to meet the finest ladies in the land. Mr. Grimes seems to take a peculiar interest in this protege of his. lie watches him when one would not think he is looking, and there is a rlenm in his eves that micht mean a good many different things. "If you are ready, we will go down? he remarks, tossing his paper aside. The other assents, and together they descend to the parlors of the hotel. There Mr. Grimes leaves him iu a small room alone while he goes to hunt up Sandy. Mynheer Joe stands there; observing some attraction seen from the window. The rustle of a dress causes him to turn. A lady has glided into the room; her hand is outstretched, and, remembering the delicate feather fan he noticed upon the table, he noticed her motive iu thus entering the bijou parlor. As he thus turns, she unconsciously looks up at him; their eyes meet, and they are only some four feet apart. Mynheer Joe starts, and the young girl utters a low, sharp cry, while over her face there flashes a look of sudden pleasure. She comes even closer; the hand that was outstretched to pick up the fun now rests upon his arm, while her gray eyes hold his own spellbound. "At last,' pup nrcatnes, "wo moot. I have not forgotten you, sir. if you were ungallant enough to run away before I could thank you. Perhaps even now you think me rude?you do not remember me?" "You are Molly Tanner," bo says, , slowly, his eyes still upon her face. "Ah! You even know my name, and all ibis while I have had no chance i to thank you for saving my life." She brings a shade of reproach into i her voice; and he says quickly: i "If you know all. you would* not i blame me. I was compelled to hurry away. At the first opportunity 1 re turned, but only to learn that the > American traveler and his daughter had left Malta. Until to-night 1 uid not know your name." I '"If it is a year late you will shake ; bands with me? You will allow me to : thank you for your noble deed?" "The first, willingly," as ho takes her little hand in his anil smiles at . the contrast; "but I would prefer that ' - " " . - - > I you said nothing about the other. It was my duty to jump overboard; a man would bo a coward not to do it; and, besides, I am more than half amphibious, anyhow. The water has no terrors for mo." "Have you been here in Cairo long?" Mil' And a puzzled look crosses his face: for up till now lie lias supposed that Sandy sent her to him. "I only arrived to-night," he smiles. "Ah. I wondered how I could have missed seeing you. In Cairo Europeans are not so plentiful, but that their paths cross before long. Are you?English?" with a glance up at his bronzed face. "I was born in Philadelphia." "Indeed!" ".My family come of the old Pennsylvania Dutch stock, of which I am very proud." * "Any one from America, as they call the States abroad, should lie prond of his country. I am enthusiastic on the subject, and yet strange as it may seem, my heart is set upon travel? I long to see all parts of the world. If the poor old governor had his way he would bo back again in Chicago, managing his business, but I shall give him no rest until I have seen India lirst of all, then China and Japan, and at last Russia, if the dear man can hold out." 1. ? - */% li/ior #JUf mviv? j/tiawii \\j u\??i her talk, for as his own heart is set upon travel and discovery he feels as though this must ever lie a bond between them. At the same time in imagination he can see the dear little "governor" she speaks of, a mild body, living only to humor this one child of his old age, Joe has the old gentleman's picture down in his mind to a dot, and he is sure he can pick him out in a crowd. Before he can say what is on his mind their tete-a-tete is interrupted. Voices are heard just beyond the portiere at the door, and the man recognizes them. "I left him in here," says the silver king. The curtain moves, is tossed impatiently aside, and Sandy Barlow enters. "Ah, here he is! Couldn't find her anywhere. Great Caesar! Look her<\ Grimes, you see fate's stronger than you and I together!" The young girl laughs softly. "I have by accident run across tlve gentleman who so bravely saved my life at Malta. He has not seen fit to give me his name as yet. Perhaps you, as his friend, wouldn't mind informing nie," she says rapidlj*. "I know him as Mynheer .Tors" laughs Sandy, "the poor Dutchman rescued by your captain from the waters of the Nile." [To be Continued.] Dorr on english Iiigliwayg. Many dog owners seem to be unaware that they are responsible for the proper behavior of their pets in public places. It is of the commonest occurrence for some cur to dash into the roadway, to bark and snap at a passing tramp or cyclist, without any attempt being made by the animal's owner to call it to order. Only in very rare instances, either, does it receive punishment, even of the slightest kind when it returns from the foray. The natural result is, of course, that it feels encouraged to repeat its misconduct, and the evil habit becomes so ingrained as to be incurable. It is only charitable to assume that the complacency with which the owners regard these performances is the prod uct of ignorance. In their eyes, the outbreak is nothing worse than a lively demonstration of harmless playfulness. Ladies are especially apt to take that view; they cannot believe that the frolicsomeness of their canine companions may imperil human life. That is the ease, nevertheless; only a few days ago a farmer was killed near Bedford through the horse he was driving taking fright at an aggressive dog and upsetting the trap. Even pedestrians are sometimes assailed by objectionable curs; while many a cyclist has come to grief in his endeavor to keep clear of a boundiug, snapping dog. It is the owner who is mostly to blame: the propensity can easily be eradicated by swift and sharp chastisement at every repetition of the offense.?London Globe. TVelrd Work of the Typos. "The most appropriate error that I ever saw," said Will Ziegler a few days ago, "was one that came under my observation when I was out in Colorado. It happened at Colorado Springs when the mining excitement there was at its height. Every man, woman and child in the town owned stock in some mine, and only about one-half of one per cent, realized anything on their investments. One day the news was circulated about town that a man high up in mining circles? a stock manipulator and a mine owner ?had died suddenly of heart disease. A local paper held the press to fjet an ti/i/i/iiittf r\ f /IahIIi ntwl tlm liv:v.'wuiil wi UIV \IV UllJ. (lltu tuv, VUltUl wrote a double-column headline, which began, 'Death Loves a Shining Mark.' The paper came out in about half an hour, but the horror-stricken readers were treated to a headline like this, 'Death Loves a Mining Shark.' It was a simple case of transposition in the composing room of that paper, but it liked to wreck the plant. And it never was altogether clear that the compositor who set it up hadn't made the mistake on purpose. lie had been dabbling in mining stock a little himself."?Cincinnati Enquirer. A Substitute For tlio Hornptvliip. An Ohio inventor has devised ar. electrical substitute for the horsewhip. The "human persuader," as the device is called, consists of a small storage battery carried under the vehicle from which runs a c;?Mper wire connected with (lie driver's seat. The wire is eiirried aloiiir the horse's back and fastened to ilie saddle, and at the end of it is a sj>oiigo, which, when once dampened with salt water, is kept moist by the natural h?at of the horse. When the animal requires an impetus the driver touches the button and liis steed, startled by the new sensation, breaks into an instant trot. "Didn't the quiet in the country ne-, come monotonous to you?" "QuietV We had to turn out about seven times every night and chase cows oil the porch."?Chicago Record. ^ -V_ ! .. yt r y ; v! wt rv?' va ^"r v.' ^^<AJ:AJ.AxJj<AJcJUJUcWJL>a*JU:Xx^ I Vaccine Virus= | Preparati VARIOLA or smallpox is said to have found its way into Europe In the seventh century, and to liave been almost continuously present since. It was a permanent plague, against which no one was safe. The prevalence of the evil led English physicians to adopt the practice of inoculation with smallpox in 1721. hut it was soon recognized that, although the individual thus treated usually suffered only a mild illness and escaped another attack of smallpox, the practice not only failed to reduce, hut even multiplied the sources of contagion, and thus indirectly increased the number of deaths. About 17CR a woman said in the hearing of Edward Jenner: "I cannot take that disease, for I have had cow pox. it was a ueiiei wmcu. aitnougn . commou enough at the time, was hold by most medical inon to be based upon an imperfect induction from the facts. But .Tenner, being a man of discernment and reflection, began a series of observations, and at last of actual experiment. On May 14. 1700, he inoculated an eight-year-old boy with matter taken l'roin a vesicle in the hand of a dairymaid smitten with cowpox. So perfect was this vaccination that the boy was inoculated with smallpox on the first of the following July without taking the disease. Two years later (1708) Jenner published his famous work, "An Enquiry Into the Causes and Effects of Variola Vaccinae." In the following year vaccination -was introduced in Iho London Smallpox Hospital, and in 1800 The practice was begun in this country through the efforts of Dr. Benjamin TVaterhouse, of Cambridge. Mass. In the early part of the century vaccination was effected almost entirely from arm to arm?a method which is largely followed in London to this very day. But toward the middle of the century vaccine virus obtained diI /JKL-V 3RINDING AND EMULSIFYING THE TULP. rectly from an animal began to bo used in Italy. Although first regarded as the whim of an Italian physician, the custom of vaccinating with animal virus spread rapidly throughout Europe and the United States In most European and a few American cities there have now been installed la bora[ tories for the preparation and distribu Hon of bovine virus. .Many 01 uie American laboratories liave been patterned after the vaccine laboratories of -the Health Department of Now York. In order to show how vaccine is made it is our purpose to describe in the present article the methods which are followed at this admirably equipped New York laboratory. Until 1S7<; ann-to-arm vaccination was usually practiced in Now York, the lymph being taken only from a primary vaccination vesicle of a child a few months old and only on the eighth day. But hurrjan lymph has always been objectionable, in that it is a pos THE HOLDER AND ITS EXVELOPE. sible source of infection of a most serious blood disease. In lSTtJ the city Health Department started a vaccine farm, and out of this has grown the present vaccine laboratory. This laboratory at present occupies a throestory building of brick, the ground floor of which is divided into a stable, a receiving-room, an operating-room ! and a sterilizing-room. and the second floor of which contains, besides laboratories for general bacteriological work, two preparing-rooins into which m .? It ! llplfl PyPSf i COLLECTING TIIE I'll tin1 virus is received after it lias beeu I collected in llie operating-room. The stable contains fourteen calffilalls. having iron posts and side ' ' - *'. -vy ?rwr. >v -py\ : '7 ISBBBiK' =Its I ion aitd Its Use. I HiHw guards, revolving stanchions and removable flooring. The operating-room resembles a hospital operating-room; it has a cement floor, enameled brick walls, and contains merely the operating furniture, a special table, enameled stools, wash-basins and tables for instruments. The preparlngrooms arc provided with hydraulic pumps, each con "Cted with two metal pipes used respectively for suction and blast. The free ends of these plpos are distributed along narrow benches at which the virus is drawn into capiliary tubes, and the tubes hermetically scaled. A calf before it is admitted to the stable is weighed, and its skin carefully examined. The body is curried and brushed; the feet are washed and ' \ | ^ i gjfess- 1 SCARIFYING A SI scraped, and the hair is clipped from *iv~ .-%f +1*/* Inhni'ntftpv tho lilt? mil. IT llltu U C nav; hv.jv.uiv.j %?v calf is fed exclusively on milk. Its condition is noted each day on a card hung beside its stall. Placed beneath a window in the stable is a table of suitable form to which the calf *is securely strapped. The posterior abdomen and inside of the thighs are washed with hot water and shaved?the first step in the preparation of vaccine. From the stable the calf is led to the operating-room and strapped on the operating-table. The shaved abdomen and thighs are again washed and then scarified with superficial linear incisions made with a surgeon's knife?a process which is not painful and entails but slight disecm FILLING THE CAPILLARY TUBES. fort. The calf is now ready for inoculation. Into the bleeding incisions made by the knife vaeeine (cowpox) virus is carefully smeared with an ivory or metal instrument, after which the calf Is returned to the stable. In a few days the entire scarified vaccinated surface is covered with vesicles. and from those the virus is obtained. On 'lie sixth day the calf is led again to the operating-room and laid on the (able. The area is most carefully cleansed. With a curette, a scooplike instrument generally used by surgeons for digging out dead bono or morbid matter, the vesicles, technically called "pulp," are picked off, deposited in a small cup and weighed. In the operating-room, and removed but a few feet from the table, a pulpgriuder is seated, whose duty it is to emulsify the collected matter. Before him is a small mill comprising four glass rollers superposed in pairs, geared, together and turned by a j crank, and upon the rollers sixty per I cent, glycerine in water is allowed to SiSff; life lp with tiiio curette. :vwr drop from a burette such as every chciuist uses in volumetric analysis. As it is ground in the mill the pulp is emulsified in the glycerine. Tbe hard pulp collects on a scraper and Is returned by the grinder to the top rollers In order to be re-ground and further subjected to the action of the glycerine. The glycerinatod virus from each calf is clinically tested in three insertions on each of five or more previously unvaccinated children. As a general rule 100 per cent. Insertion success is secured. During the tests, which extend over many days, the glycerinated virus is stored in large, hermeticallysealed tubes, properly labeled to insure identification. If the results are favorable these tubes are taken to the nronnrimr-rnnm htm! onmtioil intn small conical cups. From these cups the virus is drawn up into small capillary glass tubes, each tube containing enough virus for one vaccination. The ends of the tubes are then hermetically sealed with a blow-pipe. From the preparing-room the filled and tested capillary tubes are taken to a packing-room, where each tube if inserted in one of the four grooves ol a wooden holder shown in one of tht illustrations. The other three grooves receive respectively a little rubbei IAVEN HEIFER. "'"^T nrwww tube, a needle and a small wooden spade resembling a toothpick. Thus charged, the wooden holder is slipped in an envelope on which directions for using the virus and the simple instruments by which it is accompanied are printed. According to these directions the surface of the skin is to be scarified with the needle, th'e ends of the capillary tube are to be broken off, the small rubber is to be slipped over one broken end, and the virus is to bo blown upon the wooden spade* and thoroughly rubbed Into the scarification. These printed envelopes and their wooden holders are distributed by the Health Department to its various supply stations throughout the city and sold for ten cents each.? Scientific American. Device For Destroying Flies. Below 'we show the invention of a Peruvian gentleman for destroying flies which infest a house. It is a rather novel departure from insect destroyers now on the market, and is Intended to entice the flies by a sweet or savory substance spread on the central rod, with a spring-actuated trap, which will catch the insects and permit of their being destroyed. The device con| sists of a central rod. with a sliding bell at one end and a fixed bell at the other. Above the fixed bell is an eyelet to bang tie trap from the ceiling, I and a spring wire is wound around the rod underneath the sliding bell. To set the trap the lower bell is drawn downward until it engages a spring lock, which holds it fast. The rod is then coated between the two bells with syrup or auy other liquid, which ! I I SOUTH AMERICAN FLT TRAP. I v.-!11 ntirnrt tlip insects. As SOOI1 as tllf latter have gathered In sufficient quan tities the sliding bell is released by a touch of the finger, Hying upward and caging the flies between the two bells after which it is an easy matter to destroy them with hot water. The trap has the advantage of being a perman cut affair, and can be cleaned and laic away every fall for future use. Lived Under Five Monarch?. Now many ladies In English society says the Onlooker, have lived unde) live ihonarchs it is difficult to say with out reference books. But old Ladj Carew, and Lady Spohia Cecil, the sur viving sister of Lady Louise Tighet have lived in the reigns of George III., George IV.. William IV., Victoria and Edward VII. Lady Sophia Cecil has certainly conversed with them all. She is now rather infirm for her daily drivt in a four-wheeler, but In her quiet j dignified manner she preserves xnuet I ti?, inonnur nf tho old school, and she recollects her old friends even iJ she lias not scon them for years. The Successful Hen. When a man wants the public tf know that ho has something to sell, o: services to render, systematic and persistent advertising in the newspapers will do more toward achieving hi: purpose than any other means of pub licity. In every community the mos' successful merchants are those wh< ^ 1 use tlie newspapers, vjircuiurs, uuus ers, programmes, bill boards and dl rectory scheme? are a waste of owrey i (_. - i :M TOLD BY THE EYE3ALL rhe Marking:* Said to Be Sure Mean! of Identification. It is strange that, among the various munnc nn remrtl fnr thp Irlpntifipntinn of prisoners and others, we do not find the vein markings of the human eyes 5 | IDENTIFICATION BT MEANS OF ETE-B/t,$ resorted to as a guide, says Theodore Brown, in the British Amateur Photog-* rapher. , | s Although under ordinary circum* stances few of the.se vein markings are visible, by removing the eyelids in the inonnor clintrn in tiMrnirn 1 wo fUcr'nv* er upon the sclerotica quite a cum bet of these blood veins. Some of them are very prominent, especially on the upper half of the eye;, that is. behind the top lid. Their course is generally zigzag, branching' off at sharp angles similar to the lines seen in pictures of lightning. No two" eyes are to be found in which the markings are identical; hence the ' means of distinguishing one person from another. After carefully registering the markings on certain eyes, some of which THE LINES ON TOE EYE-BALL. N/ are illustrated in Figure 2, we have found that such markings art not, as , v ,1 ^ migni nave uet'ii suppuoeu, euujcti iu any radical change. Now it is obvious that, by the aid ofij photography and various other means^j we may make such copies of a peis! son's eyes as would prove a certainjl and reliable guide to identification atjj any later date. /'/J THE SULU SULTAN'S FLAC. i J Carious Standard Fashioned of Blacty White and Red Calico. Says a Washington special in theij New York Tribune: Major 0. J. Sweety! of the Twenty-third Infantry, now sta?] tioned on the Island of Jolo, has sent] ^ ^ ^ ^ ^? ' ' " ' ' I FLAG OP THE SULTAN OF SULU. ) to Adjutant-General Corbin a curiosity in the shape of one of the flags of His Serene Highness the Sultan of Sulu, which are stiil allowed to fly in the Southern Philippines under the treaty negotiated by General Bates with that austere but impossible monarch. It is made of black, white and red calico, with a white ruffled border. It hangs over the back of a chair in General Corbin's office at the War Department. Its red ground is ornamented with two typical Moro weap-' , ons, a krcese and a spear, and a square black field, bearing live white stars. Major Sweet, in his letter accompanying the gift, describes it as tl)e flag of the Mahomnietans of the Sula Archipelago, and each feature of it is symbolical. The first star represents religious knowledge, the second star prayers, the third star indulgence money, the fourth start titles and the fifth star pilgrimage to Mecca. The centre star contains Arabic letters in black, announcing the fact that the banner is the flag of the Sultan of Sulu. The stars further represent! the Ave provinces of the Sultan, viz.: Basilan, Jolo. the Siassi group, the Tawi Tawl group, and Borneo and Palawan (Paragua). The red ground of the flag represents the subjects of the Sultan; the Moroweapons,strength and war. A Male Soprano. Mr. Thomas H. Coy is quite a nor* inal, every day-looking young man, just over twenty-five years of age, of whom Leamington Is very proud, for he possesses that very rare qualification in a man?a pure soprano voice, wiinn rtif> iisnnl itoriod came for the voii to change it was thought that the choir of St. Paul's Church. Leamington, would lose one of its best choristers. lint the years rolled by. and no change took place, his voice never showing the least sign of breaking, and to-day Mr. Coy stands practically, unrivaled in the musical world as a! male soprano, for he must not be eon-< founded with the many "falsetto altos'' that abound. - k.m\M Manners Heat Ability. j M. Deschanel's re-election to the Speakership reminds me of a saying of Lord I'almerston. It was that good manners were a greater factor in success than mental ability. The able man with good manners would, short of the worst luck, outstrip all rivals.^ | umavu jLTutu* # \C- - fr-i-L-.ti