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would have no difficulty in journeying
through It.
AS 10 the Uganda province it is covered
with roads made long ago by the natives
and one can go over a great part of 1t on
| "A bicycle, Many of the English officials
| here own wheels and they are gradually
coming into use among the richest of the
natives.
tectorate is in the north. The country
! fades out into the desert not far from
Lake Rudolf. and the Nile province par
! takes somewhat of the nature of the
| is high and healthy. 1t is broken table
! land. great part OF it mile above the
| sea. rising in some places to high noun
/ tains. The country is we'll watered and
q large part Of it is covered with a tropi-
| cal forest filed with monkeys. The peo-
! pie are welldeveloped black negroes who
! devote themselves largely TO stock rails
| Ing. TheE have cattle with horns so large
that they seem to be leading the beasts.
| In this same region there are pygmies
| just like those which Stanley describes as
! living in the forests of the Congo.
! These western natives are not so adj
| vapced as those Of Uganda proper. Many
! of them go naked and others are clad
strings around their waists. These ma
| tives Ora ment their bodies with scars. 1
have seen som" who have their breasts
and stoma chs cut in such patterns that
| they somewhat resemble Persian shaWls
| Many of them file their teeth and alto
gether they are low in the scale Of Afri-
can civilization.
, l wish we could send Uncle Sam to
Entebbe ard show him how John Bull!
handles these millions of saNages. This
country has more than half as many peo
pie as the Philippines and some Of them
have for ages been noted. For their war
| like characters John Bull takes care Of
| them all with few score of officials and
about 800 soldiers. His soldiers are al
most all native blacks. and most OF them
have been recruited from the country it
| self There are few East Indian sikns.
but the army is mainly made up of what
! is known as the Kings African Rifles.
who are commanded by British generals.
colonies and captains. This force con-
sists of 1.5h0 blacks. and. in addition.
| there are 900 native constables. Ii seems
| small army to control 1000, 900 people
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water. and throughout the whole coun-
try are beautiful little lakes. ponds, rivers
and creeks
The general nature of the country IL
rolling Ii has many hills and bollows
and undulating plains. with swamps In the
valleys. The hills are covered with grass
and they roll over one another as far as
spotted with woods. and one IS never
gu, of sight of the papyrus. the tan tassei-
like grass of which the Egyptians maze
paper.
AS to the extent of the .protectorate, it
contains altogether more land than New
England added to New O. OK, Pennsyi,
vaaia NsW Jersey h,ssee n Malgao
than New England and bigger than that
of any state Of our Union. with the excep-
tioas CT New York pennsylvania. ONO
tween 1000 OCO and 3.OgD, 600. and Of these
considerably over 100000 are Christians.
These ara the semi-civilized Baganda, in
whose country ! now am.
Five Great Provinces.
The British have divided up this terrific
~ into five provinces. Originally they
made six but. hin the last year or so.
they have taken off the lands lying east of
the Lakeland given them TO British East
Africa. That province contains the naked
Kavirondo. OF whom have already writ
ten. 1t is tlaversed by tn ganda railway
which terminates on the lake at PORT
Florence. The five provinces of ganda
consist of the kingdom of Uganda, the
central province to the east Of it. the
western province lying between II and
Lakes Albert Edward and Albert. AID the
Rudolf and Nile provinces at the north
The central province. which il almost
directly north of Victoria Nyanza. is
fertile % az extreme. 1t borders on the
kavircndo country. and many Of its peo-
pie go naked. 1t is densely populated. and
its people raise cattle sheep and goats.
They also DO considerab bic farming. One
Of the most cilara ct .ristic eatures of this
province is Mount Elgon. which ranks as
one of the high mountains Of the CONT
nen. 1t is an enormous volcano. whose
lower slopes are covered with forests and
whose top are frecuent snowstorms.
although j. Is almost on the equator
Among the curious features of this
mountain its caves which have been
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quet every time they dine: if not done
too extensively. it's cheaper.
Suzanne scratched four such off man.
mas list:
They always send flowers. little mann
ma"
True cherie-coo otte said mamma.
two pals With single thought.
OF fourteen other dinner guests. six had
come down extensively at Christmas. No
great things could be hoped of them.
They'll bring big eggs. with candy in
side. mamma murmured.
.'Or nests. suggested Suzanne. hope
fully; nests with surprises
Wonderful Trinkets.
These surprise nests are the great
novelty in Paris Easter eggs
They can he very amusing at no great
cost. You go to the ARTICLE de Paris
counters of the smarter department
stores. You buy second-class morocco
miniature photograph cases: dozens of
nand-painted porcelain buttons: moderate
priced bibelots of all kinds tiny ffguTines.
fragile China boxes. silver bcnbon boxes
powder eases. foulard silk vanity bags.
silt bronze objects. tiny lace glove hand
kerchiefs. solidfied perfumes.
Then YOU buy Your nest of satin-cov
cred eggs. Ten eggs. ten objects. Or il
you put two in each egg. twenty objects.
Going higher into cost. one egg will
contain half a dozen teeny-tiny miniature
pa nied h:onZes for the mante'-pigs. cats.
rooste"s. pups. lions. tigers-and a little
child shall lead them. There are grown
women who have vast collections of them.
true art objects. almost miraculous little
castings. even carvings.
Then. another egg will have parasol
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ceding il Mime. Danval had an attack OF
typhoid fever. and in the same year had
also been attended by Dr. Dervillez for
gastro-enteralgia. This fact is of great
Importance. for Danval affirms that,
whereas he was in ignorance of II. the eX-
perts. who were in possession of Dr. Der
villeZs evidence. persistently ignored it.
\ month after her marriage Nine. Danval
was seized with vomiting, and DR.. Oza-
nam. who attended her. diagnosed choler-
Inc. The same symptoms REQUIRED at un-
equal intervals until April. 1877 In All
gust of that year the vomiting became
constant and was accompanied by inceS-
SAINT coughing and burning sensation in
the stomach. y fortnight before her
death. however. Nine. Danval was well
enough TO dine with her husband at the
house of some friends, and week before
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art or Dutch art things In copper. block
tim. silver. carved wood. There are eggs
as tiny as your finger nail. to hold an un-
set sapphire. diamond. ruby. OF cours,
You see the distinction \ lady may ac-
cept an unset stone-and have her nus
band pay for setting it. why naturally.
Easter eggs and Easter cgss' Every
one who gives gifts tUloe a year puts tire
spring gift into an Easter egg. have
not mentioned husbands. wives, parents.
uncles. aunts ard cousins. The Partisan
social fabric is knit close together. Eggs
by millions cross each >nthei in its Compll-
Gated patterns. Here the family is thu
family. No Partisan would N gleCt "A poor
relation.
There are silk and satin eggs that hold
ten pounds of candy. ,rreat confectioners
take twenty extra clerks Oh. push tho fac
tory to the limit, and cannot keep UP with
orders.
Yet the Parisians are not cxtrsvsgant.
They ara saving. self enync. They lot
themselves lbcse at Easter. 1T II the
spring" explain boulevard ossas lists. II
is fashion. il is habit. Still profounder.
it il bookkeeping for social debts and
family obligations.
Little mamma. | don't like men vino
just send flowers each time. "hscrV I'd
Suzanne .'cr those who bring me pres
ents helter-sketer
My chick. the flowers come in handy:
otherwise we'd have IN buy them; they
add up Il good sum in the yeaT--snd YOU.
YOU re always glad enough 10 get those
helter-skelte gifts
Yes. hut somehow they don't count"
argued Suzanne. I'D prefer TO have
them all in a big lump ut Easter.
Profound self-eNpreSSion Of Partisan
character. STERLING HELLO.
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Nevertheless. the country is kept in
perfect order and law courts have been
esta blished in all the provinces. There is
a supreme court to which appeals may be
made. The people pay their taxes. In
some Of the provinces they are establish
ing schools. and altogether they are far
better off than they have ever been be-
fore.
Entebbe the Capital.
This town Of Entebbe is the capital of
Uganda. 1t has the greater part of the
white population. which consists all told
OF Just 400 souls. embracing eighty-three
women. The men are chiefly British Of
ficials. They are we'll educated young
fellows. fond of sport and devoted to
tennis and golf which they play almost
every day. The women are. as rule.
fine looking English girls, the wives and
daughters of these officials. They dress
as we'll as our girls al home. and if one
could lift up this white colony and drop
it down in any city OF England or the
United States the people would not be
out OF place.
And how do these people live?
Well. here at the capital. they are bet
ter off than in many parts of the in
terror. They have houses Of sun-dred
brick. rooted with galvanized iron. Very
few of the houses are of more than one
story. but they have wide verandas and
the rooms are spread out over the ground
Many of them are surrounded by beau
tiful gardens. filled with all sorts of trop-
icaI plants and trees. The houses are
bull, far apart along wide roads of the
red dirt of Uganda. Some Of the roads
ara lined with Towering trees. the most
common being the Cape lily. which is
now bearing great mass of blue flowers
Indeed. there are SO many flowers and
plants that one seems to be going through
botanical garden as he walks along
the streets.
The business part Of the capital is
given up TO the East Indians. There are
half-dOZen or more galvanized iron
stores filled with goods to sell to the
natives. The brown-skinned merchants
wear little yellow skull caps. calico panta-
looms and. long coats. buttoned high up
faces dark eyes and curly black hair.
The government buildings are scattered
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count them 20 francs s. each. That
makes $40 for the Easter egg Tor eggs
and four-dollar Christmas gift for the
dear child Or vice versa. Or yet vice
versa-I mean the cheap gift for mamma
and the dear one 70: Suzanne. 1t is all
de icate. But make Choice-Or be pre-
pared 70. tea.
Do you know Partisan teas They are
not expensive functions. Just as the
gastronom!c triumphs, SO the teas are
simple.
They are days or afternoons. once
each week. or two times a month. when
madame puts on a smart afternoon frock,
gets in tiny iced cakes and candied fruits.
a big briocheioaf. tea and sweet wines
and waits for her friends TO show up.
They show up. Even Paris business
men go to these teas Men of the same
sets meet: wives. taking interest i'll their
husbands ventures. try for combina tons.
with ideas need capital. word Is dropped
and an appointment made.
A Few Gentle Hints.
Partisan teas are precious non-comm'f-
tai ground. yet often highly fruitful
Now you know.
Men who have other kinds OF interests
are there seeking governmental decora-
tons. army contracts, military dispense
tions, publishers. wives. academic hOnors.
or just new flirt. who knows? They fire.
quent teas 10 make connections.
Easter last. Monsieur Georges gave me
my bracelet-watch inside five splendid
eggs murmured Suzanne.
He ought TO do better. now that he has
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Uganda fs the cream or the African con-
tinent I have now been travelling some
weeks through it, and i believe they are
right. There is no other place where SO
many valuable crops can be grown. In
some of the provinces the natives raise
grain with practically no cultivation. in
others coffee grows wild. and every
where there are bananas and other tropi
cal fruits. In another letter | shall write
of the great possibilities in cotton which
is already being raised here and there:
and shall treat Of the stock growing
prospects which promise to make Uganda
the great meat basket of England
The land is one Of great forests as well
as of rich plains covered with grass. Ii
is land Of rubber. and it has vast re-
sources in fibers which may he used for
the making of paper. rope and cloth
lave already spoken OF the bark blankets
which are used by million or more of
the natives as dresses: but | have said
nothing of the raphia fiber which is
brought here to Ertebbe for shipment To
England where it brings as high as $50
ton. This country can raise hemD as
good as that produced in the Philippines.
and China grass and sisal are said to
thrive equally well.
The Uganda protectorate is rich in min
erals. Hematite ore is found almost every
where. copper has been discovered in the
central province and gold is said to exist
in some places. There are also deposits
OF white emma cray OF great Faiuo IN GER
tain loca iitieSs ana the natives themselves
make pottery from it.
But suppose we take a look at Uganda
as the sun sees it. The country lies on the
roof OF the African continent. " here il
borders Lake Victoria it is about as high
I'D in the air as the highest of the Alle
glenies. and the crater of Mount Elgon
which rises in the central province little
north Of that lake kisses the sky one
hundred feet higher than the top of Pixies
~ ak. Away off to the east are Mounts
kiliman jaro and kenia, and al the west
are the mighty highlands of Ruwenzori.
which vie with those Of I[il:manjaro itself
The country is almost surrounded by
water. On the south is Lake Victoria
Oh the west are Albert Edward and Al
bert NyanZa joined by the Semliki. and
further down is the Nile. On the east
is Lake Rudolf. an enormous body OF
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got Monsieur de Schneider interested IN
his cheap alcohol formula said mamma.
And Monsieur de Schneider sent you
your long chain in an enameled egg.
The two enlightened men were quickly
promoted from the tea-list to the dinner
list. where opportunities for pushing on
are greater far.
This year they must use yet more cash
and tact. Monsieur Georges will not quite
dare TO send valuable ring or bracelet
to the blooming mamma; while de
Schneider. being older. will do we'll to
send her some expensive hat-pins. O" a
feweled umbrella handle. or even a ring.
VS. on condition ii be very novel.
Novelty, surprise-''l thought madame
might not have seen twill make wear
objects like rings. pins. handles.
chains or opera glasses or gold purses or
enameled powder-ooxss With A place for
hair pins. kohl. rouge. etc, seem quite
correct Easter-egg slrts.
Safer. though. for young men who are
not paying court" are objects whose con-
sidera BILE price does not appear Al first
glance. Such are very expensive morocc co
articles gold or platnum-edgad card
cases. purses. bags; copenhagen ware.
ffgurines or Sevres ware. little vases. or
cute animals i'm gres-i,amme. or carved
haE-preCious stones, with jewele6 eyes.
the whole great line Of charms. for in
stance. Madame will guess at their value
at the third glance.
Always the Easter Egg.
Easter eggs. Easter eggs.
Tie boulevard Is full of them today.
Eggs as big as your head. with trays ana
compartments for silverware. fine china.
toilette elegances. or new art or English
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rail. set foot once more on his native soil
after twentyfour years of exile
Danval lost no time in petitioning for
the revision OF his sentence. But alas,
he was yet to learn what the fetish OF the
chose jugee" means to those who live
and move and have their being i'm the at
mosphere of the law. Weeks. months.
nay two years went by before the court
oficasSation dealt with the case Then at
length. on November 10 1874 the court
appointed the experts. Drs Brouardel
Moissan, and three others to examine the
medical reports and chemical ANALYSIS
which had been produced at the trial OF
Danval.
Accusation Unsupported.
DR.. Brouardel ard his fellow experts
were to say whether in view of subse-
quent scientific discoveries the conclusions
of the said reports should be regarded as
accurate or vitiated by errors and wheth-
err the presence Of the traces OF arsenic
discovered I'm Nine. Danvals body could
be explained normally or by any other
cause unknown at the time OF the trial
or rejected by scientific error. Without
attempting to summarize the answers ct
the experts. the writer simply quotes Prof.
V. Balthazard of the Paris faculty Of
medicine thereon:
If we place ourselves above considera.
tlon OF Judicial order and keep the tru. 4
soley in View. We can say that the ac-
cusation brought against Danval is ILL.,
founded and unsupported by any decisive
material proof 1t IS i'm this sense that tie
experts of the court OF cessation answer
ed the questions addressed to them: they
even laid stress on the fact that in 1878
number of causes of accidental pene,ra-
ton of arsenic were unknown. which have
been pointed out since. and that the very
symptoms of certain cases of spontaneous
castro enteritiS had not been described
with sufficient precision, thus putting into
the hands of the court u legal argument
to justify the quaShing of the sentence
But it is hard tp get the wheels of jus
tice to revolve backward. The official
legal mind moves In mysterious wa?.
Danval had been parooned because his
innocence had been established to the
satisfaction Of President Lcubet. these
with whom he took counsel and the PUB
lie generally. But the court of cessation
refused to confirm that pardon by auash-
ing his original sentence. In effect this
refusal left him still branded as a muir.
derer.
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ly- boarding school type with whom Paul
Bourget scared France some years ago.
Off With the Peasants.

Bourget scared France some years ago.
Off With the Peasants.
The girls. however. flourish in the hot
house luxury of mamma Last Easter
went to Asniers to sec boy and sitl who
will he worth a million each--a lot o.
money here.
They were two weeks with peasants-to
get hardy for the Paris season. Mamma
was charmed with her Fernand in shir; :
sleeves. blue canvas pants and wooden
shoes. but she wept over her poor baby
girl with toEsled hair tied in peasant
kerchef.
But her nose is getting fat. her skin
angel of cabba se, Wicked woman to
let her hair get in such y state, Jean. l
take her back strais htway.' she
moUrned. studying each square inch of
he rosy little beauty.
So the little girls grow w companions
of their mammaS. 1t dor make tHen
prigs. There is II" forcing. Mamma is no
pris. If she had the chance, she'd be
glad to hunt rabbits eggs in the cab
hayes. Instead. she coloTs hens eggs
with art dyes. etcheS them: Suzanne
etches with her: and they take them to
poor children at the municipal kindergar-
ten of their ward. Ii does not prevent
mamma and Suzanne estimating in al
to sc; in silk and satin eggs al Easter.
If YOU accept dinners at a Fdris house
you've got 10 pay.
You pay in two inst allinents-at Christ
mas and at Easter.
Some smart men. however, send Il hou-
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her death she was able to go with her
husband to ST. Maur and. on returning to
Paris walk from the Bastille station to
the Rue Mauberge. a distance of nearly
three miles. and. four days before her
death she was out marketing. On the
9Th of September Nine. DanVal took to
her bed; on the 7th DR.. Colvis diagnosed
giddiness. cephalia and high fever; the
same evening Dr. Renault found her de-
lirious. and on the morning of the 9th
she expired i'm fit of syncope.
These conflicting diagnoses show that
the doctors had never Srasped the true
nature of Nine. Danvars malady, and for
that very reason they were all the more
ready to accept the hypothesis of arsenic
poisoning when they learned afterward
that arsenic had been found in the Wis
Cera,
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house. His stock consisted of a horse
and sixteen head of cattle. Two hundred
fowls might be counted in the farmyard
and all round the building stretched some
twenty acres of fertile land, yielding
coffee tobacco and cereals and worked by
Journalist Kept His Word.
Jacques Dhur visited Danval in the
course OF his inquiry, and was profoundly
affected by the convict's history and the
palpable injustice of his sentence. He
promised to exert himself to bring about
the public recognition of Danvars inno-
cence. and he kept his word
In the summer of 1902 President IRubet
signed Louis Danvals pardon. and In
August of the same year the ex-convict,
having disposed of his concession at Bou-
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dured his hard fate without a murmur.
On his arrival he was placed in charge
of the dispensary attached to the hospital
of Bourail If IT had not been for his
moral sufferings his life might have been
endurable, for he enjoyed comparative
freedom He was at liberty to walk out
alone, and he had a library at his dis
posal. Five years later he was given
small concession OF lana in the neighbor-
hood of Bourail and became a rural pro-
prietor. as do all well-conducted convicts
undergoing a life sentence.
Here. i'm 1901. he was found by WELL
known French journalist. NJ. jacques Dhur
who was Investigating the conditions of
life i'm the French penal settlements.
Danval was then fifty-six years Of age
He had married again. was the father of
family and lived in d comfortable farm
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handle in carved rock crystal. blue jade
or amethyst. with gold or even stone rib
points to match. Another will surprise
you with god or silver buckle. half a
dozen miniature books. as big as your
thumb joint. a. gilt-and-enan,el honbon
box Il gold ball perfume sauirter the size
of marble.
There are men who~colect novelties for
surprise Easter-egg nests three months
g. first pleasure Of their own in buying.
Then they keep the things locked care
fully till Easter
Blue bird. there are eight men who
did not split themselves Christmas.
mamma unused. They ought to send
smart eggs.
They ought; or even little Suzanne will
not have the slightest pang to see her IA
vorites among them transferred from the
dinner--to the tea-liSt.
To the child it seems but just and hon
est.
Paying Bachelor Debts.
Suppose YOU eat six of their dinners in
a year You are bachelor. Do you want
TO ask them to smart restaurants SIX
times In return?
If you dine out with them YOU also
dine with others One dimes out or else
one doesn't. Lots of men delight in it, II
is a whole life. with a lot of sides. apa ri
from refined social relaxation. AS a
bachelor YOU can certainly make combi-
nations to clear up a lot of these debts at
smart restaurants. But there are sets
that will not mix. You'll find it much
more expensive than to send nice things
at Christmas or at Easter.
Six dinners given by SuZanne'S mamma