The age-herald., 1900-01-07

After breakfast a longing to see his old friend assailed him and he looked out of the window. The snow lay high in that spot, like | sepu.enre. Finally toward Il o'clock, seeing no chance for the storm to let up, and wanting his pipe, he put on overshoes. took a snow shovel and slowly but patiently dug down into the snow bank until he came to the pipe. There it was, damp but sweet
 The man who took time by the foreock and burnt up all his clay pipes lives in Phil adelphfa. The case is historic, as the facts leaked out to an unsympathetic world next morning. Several days before the new year came In he resolved to stop the practice of smoking. Nicotine was killing him. It gave him taste in the morning and took away hts appetite for dinner It blackened his teeth and made his breath smell bad. It was deadly poison. So. on this eventful evening, as his friends were gathered to- gether at an end-of-the-year reunion, he took his clay pipes and cast them into the grate.
 Carefully. one by one. they were placed upon the glowing coals while anthems mournful were sung, and dirges chanted. Soon they all lay stacked in the fiery fur mace, nine in all,
 Next morning. after breakfast, when the first morning desire assailed the man. he began to wonder if he had not overlooked a pipe. It would no do harm to take one puff. Anyway, New Year was the time to swear off. He would take one puff and be ready to swear off completely next day
 But no pipe could be found all had been offered up in the fiery furnace
 At last wanting a pipe. and wishing at least to gaze upon the remains. he stole into the library. And there, upon the snow white crumbdng coals. lay the pipes stack ed neatly. and as good as ever. Nine beau tiful white pipes, hard clean and beautiful lif,o- one The fire had restored the clay. It was an unexpected New Years present: and then and there the man vowed a vow that the fates were adverse to swearing off, and that he would smoke until the nine s - n -a in 1897, in both bravely fighting a lost cause.
 1he New World offers us condottieri of a new type, like Walker the fiibuster, who became dictator of Nicaragua, and might have ruled Honduras but for British man-of-war. General Caroll-T Teviss, who served in the Franco-Pruss.an war and a good many South American struggles. was Fenian hero. So Was Captain John Me Ahensy, who served in the Mexican war of 1S55, and was then an officer in the con tederate army. He was in all the Fenan plots of 1666-7, and was twice tried here for treason-felony. He was acquitted at one trial and amnestied after tae second, o iShAShCN ule repaid Dy TtHeNeu activity in the ranks of the Clan-na-Gae lie Was said to be the real .sNo r behind the Phoenix Park murders.
 Egypt has employed many aliens. Nun ginger Bey was a Swiss, who had been British consul at Massowan; Gessi Pasha an ltlanian, who. after serving as inter- preter to the English army in the Crlmea tecame Gordons lieutenant :n the Soudan, and smashed The slave hunters revolt in Darfur. Loring Pasha was an American soldier; Lupton Boy, governor Of the Banr- el-Gazal, who died in the Madhis dun geons, an Englishman. SlaItin and Emn were both Austrians.
 In more recent years We have had Gen. erdl hGhnes, an 'ex-major in the German anmy, who landed a cargo of Mannlicher rifles for the Chilean congressionalists, drilled their troops and defeated Balma- ceda. General Ronald McIver, q Scotsman, who has served under fourteen flags from the confederate to the Carst, is another reamfng Briton, like Kaid Macean an ex- lieutenant in our service, who is now commander of the army of the sultan of Morocco General DieI5y Willoughby who commanded Ql blue and silver) the Hova army, has since fought for the Chartered Company in 'Rhodesia, but has now turned to the arts of peace
 And that is the best thing MT Kruger's mercenaries can do.