The body was found about three hundred yards below the point where Wilson perished in 1883. It had remained in the sand bar until shifting sands, during the recent overflow, left it partly exposed.
Collar Buttoning Made Easy.
A clever little thing in the way of a collar button is the invention of Charles Formage, of New Rochelle, N. Y. The button is an ordinary stud of solid metal, but has a tiny screw hole in its center. Into this a tapering peg is screwed. This goes through the buttonhole of a collar without any difficulty or breaking of nails or swearing on the part of the owner. When the collar is on, the peg is unscrewed and the button remains.
Gets Big Award for Injuries.
For the loss of two fingers and a thumb, Michael Wizloski, an employee of the Eastern Steel Company, in Pottsville, Pa., was awarded $10,043.93 by a jury. This is one of the largest verdicts ever given for an injury not attended by fatal results.
The jury, in its verdict, censured the company for negligence in not properly protecting the machinery which caused Wizloski’s injury.
The Cossack a True Son of Mars.
Apprenticed to Mars at birth, as were the Spartans before them, the Cossacks, survivals from a young, non-industrial world, are the most picturesque fighters on Europe’s battlefields. A frontier’s folk like the people of our early West, a mixture of many adventurous elements, and constituting within their own country a class more distinctive than that of the American cowboy, they have finally been subdued to the needs of the great imperial government of Petrograd, taken over just as they were into its machinery, and preserved as a soldier caste. A wild, conquering, freebooting folk, the Cossacks have been brought within the fold of Russian civilization as soldiers, descendants of warriors and progenitors of generations of soldiers to meet the future needs of the Slav empire.
These Cossacks, in the leisure of national peace, conquered the vast empire of Siberia for Russia, and in each Russian war for the last hundred years have formed the czar’s irresistible first-line strength.
The Cossacks are a people of the limitless steppes, a[Pg 61] people of close corporation, situated in Russia as a race apart, a soldier caste, their state a military organization, their connection with the great empire maintained through the imperial war department, the administration of their internal affairs practically in their own hands, and their privileges as a caste almost as pronounced as were those of the Spartan soldier-citizen, or more comparable to the solider caste of the older Indian organization. The Cossacks came of the original Slav stock, but they were those Slavs who never bowed their heads beneath a yoke, foreign or domestic; who lived a free life on the borders of their race’s civilization, wandering, fighting, buccaneer Slav tribes, who penetrated deeply into Tartar and Georgian lands, who lived by the hunt and by plunder, and who maintained themselves on the borders of Asia and Europe free of all serfdom.