LAWS OF WAR.
i-
The Code That Governs Hostilities Be*
tween Civilized Nations.
The "laws of war" as at present for
mulated by the civilized nations forbid
the use of poison against the enemy;
murder by treachery, as, for example,
assuming the uniform or displaying
the flag of a foe; the murder of those
who have surrendered, whether upon
conditions or at discretion; declara
tions that no quarter will be given to
an enemy; the use of such arms or
projectiles as will cause unnecessary
pain or suffering to an enemy; the
abuse of a flag of truce to gain infor
mation concerning an enemy's posi
tions; all unnecessary destruction of
property, whether public or private.
They also declare that only fortified
places shall be besieged, open cities or
villages not to be subject to siege or
bombardment; that public buildings of
whatever character, whether belonging
to church or state, shall be spared;
that plundering by private roldiers or
their officers shall be considered inad
missible; that prisoners shall be treat
ed with common humanity; that the
personal effects and private property
of prisoners, excepting their arms and
ammunition, shall be respected; that
the population of an enemy's country
shall be considered exempt from par
ticipation in the war unless by hostile
acts they provoke the ill will of the
•enemy.
Personal and family honor and the
religious convictions of an invaded
people must be respected by the in
vaders and all pillage by regular troops
or their followers strictly forbidden.
GOT HIS OMELET.
Why One Man Ceased Trying to Be
Funny With Waiters.
"I've never tried to be funny with a
waiter," the traveler was saying,
"since the time when I had a little ex
perience with one in California. It was
several years ago, au2 I was rather
'fresh.' I stepped into a restaurant
one morning and ordered an omelet.
" 'What kind?' asked the waiter.
" 'Why, are there more kinds than
one?* I said. e
" 'Oh. yes, sir,' he answered me:
there are several.'
** 'Well, bring me an ostrich egg ome
let'
"'All right, sir,' he said, 'but you'll
hav£ to wait quite awhile. It takes a
long time to make an ostrich egg ome
let'
"I told him I had plenty of time. He
went away and was gone fully an
hour. Then life came back with a big
covered dish.
"There you are, sir,' he said, plac
ing it before me and uncovering it.
"Well, it was an omelet, all right,
and big enough for half a dozen men.
Whether there was an ostrich farm in
the neighborhood and he got a real
ostrich egg or whether he made it
from a couple of dozen hens' eggs I
don't know, but I distinctly remember
that it cost me ?2 —and I learned a
valuable lesson."—Youth's Companion.
An Old Joke.
My Lord Craven, in King James
First's Reign, was very desirous to
see Ben Jonson, which being told to
Ben, he went to my Lord's House; but,
being in a very tatter'd Condition, as
Poets sometimes are, the Porter re
fus'd him Admittance, with some
saucy Language, which the other did
not fail to return. My Lord, happen
ing to come out while they were wran
gling, asked the occasion of it. Ben,
who stood in need of no-body to speak
for him, said, he understood his Lord
ship desired to see him; you. Friend,
said my Lord, who are you? Ben Jon
son, reply'd the other. No, no, quoth
my Lord, you cannot be Ben Jonson
who wrote the Silent Woman, you look
as if you could not say Bo to a Goose.
80, cry'd Ben. Very well, said my Lord,
who was better pleas'd at the Joke
than offended at the Affront, I am now
convinced by your Wit you are Ben
Jonson.—"JOe Miller's Jest Book," 1739.
A Wide Distinction.
Barney Malloy and Mike Cairey were
shingling a roof. "Barney," Mike ask
ed, removing a bunch of shingle nails
from his mouth and settling back com
fortably, "what is the difference be
tween satisfied and content?"
"The difference? Sure, there's none,"
answered Barney. "If you're satisfied.'
your're content, and if j*ou're content
you're satisfied."
"That was .my opinion, too, Barney,
me boy, up to now, but it struck me
sudden-like as I put that last nhil in
that I am satisfied, all right, that Molly
Cairey is wife, but I am durned
sure I am not content!"
Seatless.
An English hostess was entertaining
about 300 people at a reception and
had provided only about seventy-five
seats. In despair she said to a com
patriot: "Oh. I am so distressed! Not
three-fourths of these people can sit
down!"
"Bless my soul, madam!" he ex
claimed. "What's the matter with
them?" »
The Martial Spirit.
"When you go into battle," said the
human analyst, "do you feel your heart
surge with hostility toward the foe or
anything like that?"
"Yes," answered the military ex
pert. "In time of war we feel even
more resentful toward the foe than
we feel toward our rival associates in
time of peace."— Washington Star.
A Study In Dimensions.
"Jimmy, how large a piece of cake
do you want?"
"I want a big piece, but don't gimme
so much that I'll have to divide it
with sister."
THE MAXIM GUN.
Curious Origin of This Torrible Engine
of Destruction.
The origin of the Maxim gun was
as me what curious. Mr. Maxim (Sir
Hiram) after the close of the great
civil wtfr in America was visiting one
of the southern battlefields. He picked
up a Springfield rifle and began firing
at a target He soon discovered, to his
amazement, that his shoulder was all
black and blue with the recoil. This
set him thinking, and he soon con-«
ceived the idea of utilizing this force
in a gun which would fire automatic
ally.
He went to of his idea
but no one would liken to him. In
Birmingham the chief man in a fac
tory refused to make a bolt gun.
In despair Mr. Maxim packed up his
trunks and went to Paris. In two
weeks the work was done. This gun
Mr. Maxim exhibited in London in
1885. He spoke of it then as the gun
of the future. It is now the gun of the
present. It is a wonderful gun and a
deadly one. By adjusting the indica
tor it will fire bullets at any rate from
one per minute to 600.
This terrible weapon is started by
the firing of the first shot. After that
It works itself and will keep going as
long as cartridges can be fed Into the
machine. When one belt of 333 is ex
hausted, all that is necessary is to
hook on another.
When the British government gave
an order for the gun they stipulated
that it should not weigh more than a
hundred pounds and should be capable
of firing .a thousand rounds in four
minutes. Mr. Maxim produced a gun
which weighed thirty-five pounds and
fired 2,000 rounds in three minutes.—
St Louis Post-Dispatch.
AN IRREGULAR VERB. •
One That Made a Frenchman Despair
of Learning English.
"What does 'Beat It!' mean?' asked
the man of an inquiring frame of mind
of his well informed friend.
"Why," was the reply, "that means
to go, depart, be off, take your leave,
and don't be slow about it. I don't
know what It came from unless it is a
bit of policeman's slang for 'Get off my
beat!' or 'Clear out unless you want
me to beat you!'
"I am reminded of a line in one of
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes' amusing
poems, scattered through the pages of
his delightful 'Autocrat of the Break
fast Table.' It runs:
"Depart! Bo off! Exceed!
Evade! Evampe!
But it takes a Latin scholar to dis
cover the derivations of all his verbs
of motion.
"There is a story of a Frenchman
who on his way to England was made
the victim of a practical joke in re
gard to the verb 'go,' whose 'went,'
'going,' 'gone,' are Irregular enough,
goodness knows. He was found to be
struggling with this variation: 'I go;
thou departest; he clears out; we cut
you make tracks; they aosquatu
late.' and as he read it he exclaimed:
"Mercy! What irregular verbs you
have in your English language!' "—New
York Tribune.
Getting His Own Back.
An ironworker, having had the worst
of an argument with a friend, decided
to get even with him.
Waiting, therefore, until his enemy
had retired to rest one night he ap
proached his street door and knocked
loudly in order to wake him.
Opening the bedroom window, the
other hurriedly inquired what the noise
was all about.
"Why," replied the outside one, "one
of your windows is wide open."
"Which one?" $
"Why. the one you have your head
through," cnuckled the other as he
went away satisfied with the success
of his plot—lllustrated Bits.
Must Charge to Get Crowd.
The ladies' guild of an uptown church
had planned an evening entertainment
and reception and asked the rector to
make announcement of it on the Sun
day preceding.
"This is all right," he said, "but you
must charge admission."
"Why, this is just a social evening,"
they protested. "We are inviting peo
ple."
"They won't come," said the rector,
"because they will think it is not worth
while. But charge a small admission
and you will have a good crowd." So
the women gave in, and subsequent
events proved the rector was right-
New York Tress.
They Made Her.
A grandmother was reproving her
little grandchildren for making so
much noise.
"Dear me, children, you are so noisy
today! Can't you be a little more
quiet?"
"Now, grandma, you mustn't scold
us. You see, if it wasn'tf for us, you
wouldn't be a grandma at all."—Har
per's Weekly.
One For Each Life.
"I want a good revolver," began the
determined looking man.
"Yes, sir," said the salesman. "Six
chambers?"
"Why—er—you'd better make it a
nine chamber. I want to use it on a
cat next door."—London Express.
A Poor Corner.
When a girl puts a man off by say
ing she will keep a little place in a
corner of her heart for him he may be
sure that it is a corner for which she
doesu't expect to have much use.—Chi
cago Record-Herald.
Youth holds no society with grief.—
Euripides.
The Rocky Mount Record, Thursday, February 13, 1908.
FINE PRINTS.
Car* With Which Thoy Are Treated
by Amateurs and Collectors.
How careful collectors and amateurs
of fine engravings are of their treas
ures is illustrated by a written agree
ment that a local firm of dealers in
such things had to sign recently when
they wanted to borrow several particu
larly rare engravings for an exhibition
they were to have in their galleries.
The owner of the prints insisted that
from the time the box in which the
prints were sent to the dealers was
opened in the shop no hands but those
of the junior partner of the firm were
to touch them. The owner stipulated
expressly that the member of the firm
was to take them out of the box, frame
them himself, hang them on the walls
and when the show was over follow
the prints back through these various
stages until a porter was ready to
screw the cover of the packing box on
again. The prints were so rare and
fine that the junior partner cheerfully
agreed to all of these conditions for
the sake of showing the engravings.
That the prints were extremely rare
may be appreciated from the fact that
before two of them in particular came
into the private collector's possession
he made a special journey to Stuttgart,
Germany, to see them, and when he
looked at them he left an open order to
a dealer in that city to buy them, no
matter what they cost. He got them,
but he paid the highest price ever
known for such engravings to bring.—
New York Press.
CRANKY METAL.
Moods and Mystery That Are Em
bodied In a Piece of Steel.
A cutlery company will make a hun
dred razors from the same piece of
steel by the same process, and part of
the razors will be good and part of
them bad. It may be fifty of one kind
or seventy-five or twenty-five—nobody
knows. The maker doesn't know; the
buyer doesn't know. Barbers say that
even the price doesn't seem to make
much difference. You may get a good
rar.or for a quarter or a bad one for $5.
And the same razor will get a contrary
edge today, so that you can hardly
shave with it, and tomorrow, without
additional sharpening, it will work like
a charm.
One tap will go on a bolt easily and
stay there. Another tap will hardly go
on at all. A third may be screwed on
tight and snug and yet keep coming
off in spite of all that can be done.
Sometimes men that work with ma
chines have a premonition of coming
disaster, as do the men that sail on the
seas or thread the winding paths of
the big woods. Nature as well as
pieces of mechanism seems able to com
municate to man why they are in a
calamitous and threatening mood.
Chicago Tribune.
, Madrid and Its Climate.
Along the Mediterranean shore Spain
presents a narrow ribbon of fertile,
delightful country. The region Is often
called "the garden of Spain."
It is a great contrast to pass from
these tropical shores to the wind swept
plains of interior Spain. The level
country inclosed by the Guadarrama
and the Cantabrian mountains forms
In the west an extensive wheat grow
ing region. Toward the east as the
rainfall decreases pasturage encroaches
upon arable culture. In New Castile,
on the south of the Guadarrama and in
about the center of Spain, the political
capital has been placed. The level coun
try in which it has been dropped, a3
If by accident, is for the most part a
waterless plain, swept in winter by the
piercing winds from the naked moun
tains of the north, sweltering in sum
mer under the effect of the sun's rays
on bare rock and soil.
The climate of Madrid has been
tersely described by its inhabitants as
"three months of winter and nine of
hades."
Honey Ants.
Certain Mexican ants are selected by
their kindred as storehouses of honey.
They are fed with honey until the ab
domen speedily becomes smooth and
round and so filled with honey that
the skin is transparent. These ants are
doomed to pass the remainder of their
lives as mere honey cells, from which
their kindred extract the honey when
It Is required. There are several speci-
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mens of these ante in the British mu
seum with the honey still within their
transparent bodies. The Mexicans raid
the nests of these ants for the sake of
the hooey that their bodies contain,
and the ants are eaten raw as sweet
meats.
The Full Particulars. #
The other day a lady who lives In
oar town entered a grocery store and
asked to be shown a good kind of
breakfast cereal.
The clerk took down a package and
said:
"Madam, this is a predlgested food."
"Oh, is that so?" she returned. "And
by whom?"— Woman's Home Compan
ion.
Good For an Appetite.
"You must have a good appetite," re
marked the thin man enviously.
"What do you take for it?"
"In all my experience," replied the
plump one, "I have found nothing more
Buitatole than food." Philadelphia
Press.
* Easily Settled.
Nurse—Doctor, a sponge is missing.
Possibly you sewed it up inside the
patfc-Bt Eminent Surgeon—Thank you.
Remind me to add $lO to the bill for
material.—Puck.
TaJX is cheap, but silence costs you
a great deal less.—St Louis Globe-
Democrat.
R THE DRAGON FLY.
6(ngularly Adapted to Its Life of
Aerial Piracy.
No one could fail to be struck with
the singularly perfect adaptation of the
dragon fly's structure to a life of aerial
piracy. The four wings are large and
in proportion to their weight enormous
ly strong. Each is supported by a won
derfully arranged network of slender
ribs, which give the necessary rigidity
to the thin, transpareht membrane
forming its basis. The muscles by
which the wings are moved are mass
ive and powerful and are so arranged
among themselves that the animal is
capaijle of steering its course with an
unerring accuracy which any bird
might envy. In this power it is largely
aided by a marvelous keenness of
sight for In addition to the two great
gorgeously colored compound eyes
which make up so much of the head
the insect possesses three smaller "sim
ple" eyes, making five eyes in all. The
prey when overtaken Is seized and de
voured by means of powerful, sharply
toothed jaws.
An animal which lives such an ac
tive life naturally requires a very per
fect breathing apparatus, and this is
amply provided by a system of holes
on the sides of the body which open
into an elaborate network of air tubes,
supplying every part of the system.
The air in these tubes is constantly
renewed by the regular compression
and dilatation of the body by special
mu* 'es.—Chambers' Journal.
HIBERNATION.
[ How and Why Some Animals Exist All
Winter Without Food.
The philosophy or nature of hiber
nation and why and how it is that the
hibernating creatures can go so long
without food are interesting studies.
In the first place, the creature in or
der to enable it to sustain life through
out the long winter during which It
hibernates is endowed with the capac
ity of accumulating within its body a
large quantity of fat This fat is to the
animal what a well stocked coal cellar
Is to a fire, and until the whole of it
has been consumed the tissue of the
body proper remains untouched. It
has been ascertained that animals can
endure the waste of ttesue until it
amounts to 40 per cent of their normal
weight Should the weight be reduced
beyond that point the result is death.
But nature comes to the rescue of the
hibernating creatures in another way.
When the hibernation begins, respira
tion and digestion almost cease (in
some cases they cease absolutely), and
the circulation is only just active
enough to sustain life. As a conse
quence of this the wear and tear is re
duced to the minimum, and the crea
ture Is enabled to pull through.—New
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THE NIGHT MAGNIFIES.
V
Bemething Worth Knowing For Those
Who Lie Awake and Worry.
"You have lain awake at night,"
Bald a physician, "and have heard a
mouse gnawing at the woodwork
somewhere down In a kitchen cup
board?"
The listener nodded.
"How loud did it sound to you—as
loud as a burglar splintering the door
jambs with a jimmy?"
Another nod.
"You have been awakened at 1:30
a. m. by the crying of a teething In
fant next door?"
A shudder.
"And it sounded like the hoarse mur
murs of mingled ululations of a fren
zied mob assembled demand
somebody's blood?"
Partial collapse.
"Along toward morning you have lis
tened to the thin, small voice of a mos
quito circulating above your head?"
An involuntary slap.
"Did it sound like the screech of a
planing mill turning out clapboards for
a barn?"
Two nods.
"Would you have minded any of
those souqds in the daytime?"
A shake of the head.
"Now, I have no doubt you think
that the seeming loudness of these
sounds was due to the contrasting si
lence of the night. But take another
test You have been in love?"
Um-um (without utterance).
"And do you remember how much
softer and warmer and more thrilling
was the touch of your best girl's hand
as you strolled with her on the way
home from singing school at the witch
ing hour of half past 9 p. m. than it
was when you called In the forenoon
to ask If you might escort her to the
aforesaid vocal exercises?'
An unspoken yum yum.
"Was it the night silence that added
the finishing touch?
"It was not," the physician replied
to his own question, noting his listen
er's look of uncertainty. "Take another
instance: You think you know how to
write—a little."
A smile of gratification.
"Well, you find yourself awake at
night and thinking. A gem of an idea
suddenly sparkles In the darkness.
You surround it with epigrams, and
while elaborating the setting you fall
asleep. What does this jewel amount
to in the morning?"
A sigh.
"There you are. You recall the idea
and some of the epigrams and a little
of the setting and all of it so common
place that you wouldn't think of try
ing to- make anything presentable out
of it.
"The fact is," the physician went
on, "the night magnifies. At night our
pleasures are more keen, our pains
more distressing, our small successes
are trifimplis, our little failures are
disasters, our faintly cherished hopes
appear before us as things realized,
our small worries as overwhelming
calamities- ,
"You find yourself awake lil the
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night and your thoughts wander back
to some time in your youth when in
the presence of those older and wiser
you—as you now see it—were guiltylof
some slight breach in deportment or of
some little offense to good taste to
speech, and you dwell upon the con
demnation that must have fallen upon
you. In the morning if what yon were
dwelling upon so seriously occurs to
your mind at all you smile and say to
yourself that if your fault was noticed
by anybody at the time it was too
trivial for any one but you to remenv
ber.
"The night magnifies!" the physician
repeated. "Such things as I have men
tioned prove it. It is partly due to the
silence, but more to ourselves. To ac
count for the latter would keep me
talking. *
"But take it for granted that what
ever your cause for worry at night It
will look smaller by daylight and re
fuse to dwell on it. If your anticipa
tions are pleasant, nurse them, and
you will fall asleep. In the morning
you will not be downcast because your
magnified hopes of the night seem un
likely to be realized" Washington
Post. A
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Pfize Money In 1762.
To the English victors of Havana
belonged the spoils, and very rich and
important these were.
Besides the nine Spanish men-of-war
found intact in the harbor, which
added to the three sunk at the en
trance and to one or two others cap
tured outside in the course of the op
erations formed about one-fifth of the
naval power of Spain and seriously
crippled her for the rest of the war,
no less an amount tha,n £3,000.000 was
realized in prize money by the cap
ture of this wealthy city. Of this
great sum we are told that Albemarle
and Pocock as commanding respective
ly the land and sea forces received nc
less than £122,697 each, while Commo
dore Keppel's share amounted to as
much as £24,539, and doubtless hi?
brother, Major General Keppel, receiv
ed an almost equal sum. Thus the
Keppel family benefited by this expe -
dition to the tune of considerably over
£150,000' and it is recorded that Gen
eral Eliott with his share of the prize
money purchased the estate of Heath
field, in Sussex, from which he after
ward took his title. Such were the
solid rewards obtainable in war in the
eighteenth century, when t ! je profes
sion of arms was for the successful
soldier considerably more lucrative
than it is today. t
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Marital Dialogue.
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