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The Cerinaii wetionan hatt. alwayilbeen
Credited, with, a genius tar tragality.,
tut there are degrees- avert et gataies,
uudi giar tes4ing the recent batereiting
oat
ess
"' VANNING TUC *14 C."
•
Sk Wittlant inereeterit West Om
Trophy ha the OW War.
in hewn, •Of 1114
*MP to
exhale in the Raily TelegraPit oa very which,
"Price et Bread: pd ana might be dia, Among tim
tosed te think that the beight of it has
Vie. recent 1
founding et the V
161134 meny
wen that. taken et tour
berote exploits 'w: Itch
la that -at Eir Wil
the Nterman who Wasted that be lived Berstifilrit r4w4rio
teen reached derriestic ecorifanY
On two 'shillings: a vieek," says writo wOU tha treOhY 'to OW pertormed
'during lite "hunt War,
141w 1"4441. tr" 114PP** " 'tended. Welbealonlated ettOres
a,'Isaker-by addition tO being 4 Ken1As''''' '0,e 4t brOugnt„ the perening 'ttritialt
alutthisitationate choice' et it profeesion oaternw poora itititistith -A legit
,afeerna have enablod Ithu tu fo4lve Ile' late et over two thousand warriors pod,
Problem of che*P. Wog WO gogilagte flenkY pr g up, flantilitaille 11011teniell.
thaertnight 'OtherWlete IWO I1gelt the Tom too wtogo. ougo, whoa into, we;
ea4.;. °Trie breixel, which he ,got free, tiorde,ibul uoti fdding lbe Wass.'
was blip exultant -10 sealt hi= gray)" Areuk ,ougeot weft .eye,•catight the danger
Ow -Meat" 111 br oulithruer* !0 hist* ,and valce tan oukwithl'
' ,Thera a, Ole voltoY oe
1•1*.1"eildun. 3:144004 'net Parti'' 'Introit itti 'time/pater Ufa Zuies Pre;
baked: twat when that falt4, tolot
herring. which 'served um tor -both
breakfast tuld stiPliat Atter this WU,
astonlabing rinui that those Men Usw
ally COMO etiter ea b11$4,...ti Wee With
Vert a little
ZnItt belle% atitl: three.' Engliehmen
we% down. -Eerestord, Welting buck*
040 maie into etti.l1)044,4tilte,
WhO .woUld. e awe
(4,Money, vyhen." hasineest 'a Ict. 'hre7o and 'nroialptvgnicit
for thelneelves,° Ahnost, any todugte. 'to decade and, quiets, te act,
roont anon tliene, Inothili,.rus, ,a0tiler, Berestorit ineasuted, the
The Mlle. were perilously near the tale
taer.,fn MOO rat leteeftL Wage%)
coyerea tho boom 4rt ijyjog on distance' wit" his en, and thooghlt
the woinoted num dismounted and or
ness" on a QW11 liee011ev • der d hint 0 '0
Nobody, it.IS IQ lin //Often; Wilt bet unr t te a th°
The peer fe OW, 'dazed end hurt ` as
five noun% a year to„ Keel oo to boo. might lost Q' iL ealloped bac to
kind enough to suggelit that the 4i,e, wag. was not less full of the spirit
SoUreetul German baker who gm/Rives
- of sacrifice lie bade BereSford mount
t° 'ask° both °ads alest 434 t's" shiallga- and whY. ahOttid two. Aka Then
$setile is an
BereSiord, in his desperation, deelared
• "UNDESIRABLE ALIEN," tinst. he would punch the man's head tr
Ca the contrary, there Irlikat be a goad be did net tfet on and be saved!' The -
many poor toilers in, London, honest drall argument prevailed. The wOunded
and thrUty, who wouid chgerrully make soldier allowed binaselt to be Weaned cn
me acquaintance ig order to iind out the Ileree. his rescuer serambleel on in
hew iris dones BM the truth, a$' %MOO, trent, end set the good little beast going
' is that tha cue citee,,7ts a very eQieeption. at his best pace. .
al one, tuad CPA only be token as on, / AS 4 woe, the two would have been
extreme illustraticai of 'the German MI, aPenred had tlat Sergeant O'Toole turned
eat for tludit and self-denitil. On the back and with his rifle bald the close -
other hand, tt is interesting to be re- Pressing Zulus at bay,
mended once again Of the Undeniable When Sir William received the nod -
fact that this Lenders. Qt. OUrs shelters, ffeatien thet the Victoria cross had been
ut awarded' tit WM, he returned the an-
, year in, year Out, many thousands ewer that he.Voldit not receive any recog-
yrung Germans who flitelAt POSathle to-
\
eXist eoinfOrtably On aprecitibly lesa uilion Of„.service unless it Was shared
than •what barely suffices. tor the warate. kV Sergeant OTO010. Immediately an -
Other award was ntade. Both heroes
et ne ordinary Enstletunansot the serae
As. rt'lailled the badge of distinction that
Ing, self-reliant, deceR y clothed, and "canaPlelletle brgvery."
I know of severalkself, hard-werk- InarkS England's% highest approval of
aefficiently fed, who .23. not ortly ttrbe
satisfied with whet would be called it --,-,..,-*-..--.•
IN EU
TISK c*NTOR
TOM
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I hail 4 chat with one tit the OW tar .
buyere et NO Nertli ittintric*, eenUn*
relit Writes freak O. Cerpenter Irani
Etinionterl. te the Chleaste ieseertblieribi,
The MO* leeching tram here to.
the _Arethl Qr.41041 and teem Alaska to
Bar SuPply tho Mast and best:
lora at the workl, 'The. Dodson Gay
company .haa DOE, ehlaked In Ma boo,.
4004 fOr ,flOtt.yeers, and it bas sent 'out
Valenta Roo, ',41111Ians -t4 ekina the'
markets' ot 1,4eildell,'s had untii Iteit*
emotion ego manegely 0. the, trade,.
ita Charter* from King Chtnies • .1t,
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rmaori.t. masa I* LAMA*,
lifOot Wattla 17.04 Lettere Ash* Mil
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The*ith, mall et (lowland Abbey, in
*Mk Linceinshlre, Unto& 110
IniCklert. It vial he nocabeary. to under.
It ItArneatately it further dionlite tO
tankaos monastery 11,Ja ba Driven*
The bucklinij Was. caused br the
vt"Oehtmlnkt 9t the tehttaallons,, which
are lakt on, a bed at peat. Tke Perth,
window is 44 thintetteil Bud it,
will neve te be rebuilt,.
The teeNrk. the Bet, 11*. Lebeeff,
111,4log RFeel ter f Oda. tie Ales
luet oihee. tom, When be was appointed,
he ho Written 0,410 letters asking for
help, to resteris the abbeYe HIS tailors'
have broken. down Ma health, mr,
heel me his litadre ia te *-
sem 'the remilina et this *oft fitinettli
Mitred menestry, the htStoq of which
orned, ast P eit , geese ,
tenglit2 urittil It Wee the...Benedictine manks ist Crow.
horlh„ &merle* 4444 now tar trading hi whi4 founded. Cambridge. tinivetk."
Imo to all: $14'141/0 thei abbey had, the drat tutiabla
' This team, et Edmonton; widab 11:1 peal et belle in England.
NEW WAR. OFFICE -
°living wage," but are actually able to
earnings, in view of poSsible contlegen. 26,500,000 lerroolekmee4 Urtediuninz. New 600 -
ales. They coinplaln neither doee
their appearance or their merle cif
The new War Office' in Whitehall,.
\ suggest that their condition- eats in any
only., a few weeks London, England, which haa taken just
( way tor sympathy.
since I heard of a young,•German, a
native of Frankfort, who came to Lon-
don some nine years ago, and secured
(Junior clerkship in the city at sixteen
shillings a week. His wages inereased
by slow stages, but even so he has not
EIS yet reached the modest figure of one
pound ten shillings. Nevertheless, with-
out any assistance from home or outside
sources, he has managed In that period
to bank close on a hundred-- and twenty
pcunds, and ' had, es r was informed,
Just moved to better kriging, and "fur-
nished a- roorrqtquite nicely" out of •
SIX MONTHS' SAVINGS.
This, it . may be argued, is another
quite eacePtitinal case. But I have good
reason,go believe. that it is Waling a
tbe Indeed,,,it would proeably
b. found to be typical ol hundreds of
others. Perhaps, therwit' will be urged
that the young German whose poSition
1 have explained, and othere et his class,
must saeriliee-pragticithy.,emerything_tia t
makes life endurable ta his principles eit:
strict parsimony, and that such an, ex.
.Aetence must needs be one of constant
-iirudgery, hardship, monotony, and sor-
did joylessness. That depends, of tourse
on the point of view; but there is this
to be said, at all events -that wittiirt
the necessary limits the meagre remun-
erated German who lives laboriously
days in London office is to all seeming
RS contented with his lot as is the Eng-
lishman whose wages as a rule are
slightly higher. And certainly he is as
well garbed, and looks every whit as
well nouriehed. The German appetite,
indeed, is generally a hearty one, and
It would be nothing less than foolish to
suggest that the Fatherland's sons who
make a very slender income suflice for
their needs in London go short of food
order to effect petty economies.
W'hether his palate is as sensitive as
the F,nglIshmani's is another matter. ro
Bay truth. I have seen in the windows
end on the "spelsenkarte" of German
restaurants of the humbler class in
London dishes and "delikatessen" that
put something by out of their extgrou.s
Over AOU Alit* de.e. north' ot the Unit. ,,Apart front hillterie Interest, 603W-
,$letea houndarys,la 'the Centre Of' the land Ahhey atilt 4 44 ilia
new hir trade,. It ha* Willeir LIncolneltise feneN
bilY Skins* and 'their -porch? aggro..
gete hundreds al thousan4 o dollars 4
Yeer. One of OW irklOrtgint Of the
which haS recently ereeted a department LAWS MAINTAINED
traders la the thielsen, RV' CQMP1101"4 OLD
more here, and ha chiet camPetitor
Freree, tho gout' Patis WK.
era, who have, estahlisnmerds also in.
New -York and London, and who supply
skins and furs to eVerY Market Of the
World.
The ReVillorta ere fit ooniPelitoro of the
Dildson Bpy Company. They heve
been engaged in wholesale and retail
fur trading tor 175' years. and they are
now carrying on their buatheas with
ettettal Of X,000,000- !vanes, or about
S14,000,000, They have already estab-
lished poste ell over the Northwest, and
they are gradually building up a line
of stations throughout the lands which
the Hudsim Bay people have always con-
sidered their own.
BIG TRADE IN FURS.
They have a central station 'here et
Edmonton, another at Prince Albert
and a third. in Labrador, with two or
three hundred branch .posts its active
operation. They are buying tars all
along the Mackenzie River; up and
down the shores of the Arctic 'Ocean,
along Hudson Bay and in different -parts
of Labrador; and they are, I am told,
getting a fair share of the best skins
c' the continent.
In addition to this they have, with the
opening up of the wheat belt, establish-
ed a grealx wholesale and retail depart -
meat store here, and afe tieing business
with the new settlers. They are by
far the. largest wholesale dealers out-
side of Winnipeg.
la talking with Mr. Secord of the im-
Portant fUr.buying company of McDou-
11 4 Sword 1 Wag told that the fur
six years 1,o complete, is undoubtedly , .
one of the most wonderful and up-toi
li'siness is new ise. goad as lt has ever
date buildings in London. Magnincen bleep. and that. it will be a. long time be-
and'imposing as the exterior is, it gives fore, men, will freeze for lack of Mr
but a small idea of the vast undertaking coats and women become. pillars of Me
inVolved in its construction.
Here are some interesting details as because they have not fur sacques, The
skins may continue costly, bid there
te the actual quantity of materials used are plenty of aninsals left, and it will
in the building, which help to show the be long before the supply gives out.
gigantic nature of the task: These in Mr. Secord tells me Mist Mrs are large -
elude : ly affected by fashion, and also by the
Ordinary bricks+ - 'wordy - five nill- supply. In sonse years the Indians
lions. bring in many more of certain kinds of
Glazed bricks -One and a half milions. furs than in other years, and, strange
Portland stone-Twerityalx-thousand to say, --the suPPly •ei-aame-Pieee"ses Couldrey. It wtts exeTi alsed-tli the lat- of turquoise is not only accornpanie
tons. and falls- with the rabbit crop. Son
- 'e ter that the earl, being a generous man, with much hardship on account of the
Steel -Three thousand five hundred did not wish to push hts rights to their iocatton, but can only, .be performed
Iead-Sixteen hundred tons. vedettes of the fur -bearing animals live
tons (used for Boors, etc., the building idly that the minutia cannot keep "them
largely on rabbits, which breed so rap -
net Mr. Couldray to redeem the horse. blued with other stones as Wail as with
legal limits and-wauld, -therefore; per- -With great difficulty. The quantity coat -
not being of steel construction). down, At intervals of every four or The price of the redemption was subse- i -gold, and by itself, le.so extensive in the
Concreter-Thirty-five thousand cubic five years a disease breaks out which quently fixed at 115740 -about one-third cities of eastern Europe Bust more of It
yinds. kills the rabbits otf by the thousand, end of its real value -which shows that Earl is believed to be bought by gem rues -
The immehse size of the building is follosving 'such years come the lean fur Amherst is a much more liberal man chants in this way than is at present
indieated bk. the fact that. there are: years. than his feudal ancestors who were • secured from the principal mines.
Six ., hundred roqms. This town of Edmonton is at the wont to exact everything they could ThJs Is not strange, however, for not
T*0 and alharniirree of Whit:tors. -northwest 'corner of the wheat. belL 11 elaim from- their vassals. . . only turquoise but other precious stones.
Seventeen miles of cornices. promises, ttowever, to be the centre- ot Finding there was no other method are known to exist- in remarkably large
Nhse smiles, of chimney time. a •new wheat. and grain region which
by which, he could recover the horse, collections in Constantinople, as well
Seven. acres Of asphalt, shalt extend hundreds of miles to the
1Vir. Couldrey, bought- it back at the price as in the cities in Turkestan, Peiala
Fifty-four acres of pla,stere,rea work. meth and westward. This region
is stipulated. Then, in ordep- to call pub- and communities of southeastern
One hundred miles of pipmg-heat, known as the, Peace River Country. Civ.
lic attention to the case, he brought a Europe.
water, drains, covering for eleetric it engineers are now surveying it for
suit against the earl for the keep of the They are hidden away in ginger jars, -
wires. _ rafiroade, and settlements will soon be.
horse during the two weeks that the rugs, old boxes and 'other receptacles
Four aerie of mosaic paving in the springing up bere and theca in. it.
corridors. settlement of the matter was pending, of the household, where the owner be -
Seventeen hundred windows. for, in accordance with the absurd law, lieves there is little prospect of search
, IN PEACE RIVER REGION.
being made for them. Cern collectors
under which it had been seized, for theee
who have searched for stones in this
The aircumference of the building is The Peace River may some day he two weeks the horse was unquestionably
cencrete foundation to the top of the cne of the most important streams on the
our continent. It rises in the mountains this modern sort of procedure was not
property of Lord Amherst. But part of the world say that no one can
teli how many and what valuable sped -
1,500 feet, and the entire height tram the
mens are thus hidden away, only to be
timers is 156 feet. of British Columbia and flows into Slave at ail in accordance with feudal notions
brought to light when the owner is ab -
In order to ensure dryness, the entire River, just above where, ii. issues from
building is set in a concrete "dock" 24 and the Sevenoaks judge, before whom
the suit was tried, promptly gave his sci°101.1' forced to part with them
feet deep, the inner walls of which ere Athabasca Lake. It is a broan, deep
stream, cumparing fil size with the Mis- decision against . through dire necessity.
well removed from the walls of the sissippi, and a is navigable for several - Undoubtedly many a gem brought.
structure. This dock has a cubical con- hendred miles by boats drawing ten THE AUDACIOUS VASSAL. train the fatuous mines of mita, Egypt
and Persia in the pact has been thus F,0 -
float several warships. fret of water. There are now two steam -
beats upon it, and one of them is 120 ter, and It is probable that a bill will creted. Prof. Filndere Petrie Rays the
tents of 13600,000 gallons, and would Public opinion, however, Ls with the late
4.--- feet long and Is lighted by electricity. soon be introduced in Parliament to put Egyptian mines at Sinai, worked from
On the upper parts of this river there a slop to all "such revival of medieval the fIrst to the twentieth dynasty, may
HOW THE POOR LIVE. are practically no settlements except rights. • have yielded turquoise and copper.
.- those of 'the fur traders and missionari- Mr. Couldrey, it seems, last year
Grim rouges That Give a peep Behind es, „ At Vermillion about sixty farmers *.....-___-
bought near Sevenuaks, a property con -
the Scenes. ere raising wheat for a flour mill t es- sisting of 2% acres with a house and A MUSICAL SMUGGLER.
tablished there by the Hudson Bay Coin- stable, for $8,500. The property is what ---
Vagrancy in London, England, it is r.an _.
y They get $1.50 a bushel for their
wheat, and the wheat is said to be the manor of Ortford. And, according
is known as a "customary freehold" pf Did a Dig Business for Years in Cigars,
not surprising to teeth by the latest r Brandy and Laces.
°Metal report, is increasing. seme of- the best grown on the contin- to the customs of the manor, is entitled
In 1882 "casuals" were being relieved cnt. These farmers are chiefly half- Smuggler's wit has invented a new
to a "heriot" on every change In tbe
at the rate of 6,000 to 7.000 nightly; In breeds and traders. They have but strategem In fraud, says the London
ownership by alienation or succession.
1905 the number had increased to 11,812 small patches and till their land In a Globe.
As the heriot, the lord may legally sieze
to 13,516 every twenty-four hours. rude way. At Peace River Landing, On both tildes of the Franco-(lernian
the tenant's best live beast, but in the
Interesting figures concerning the which is probably 300- miles southwest border in the Alsace reglot i are
absence ot a beast to sieze, he has to be
method of living of the very poor and of Vermillion, there is another flour hundreds of 'lettere; employed In the
content, in lieu thereof, with a modest
the inmates of common lodging -houses I mill. which is grinding only for local metallurgical establishments, and as It
fine of three shillings and sixpence (87
are given. consumption. Vermillion is in about
cen s. e cus omai7 re o er, w o
I ) Til t f eh Id h May be accepted as a maxim that wher-
The cost of food, for instance, has been thc latitude of St. Petersburg. wild the property to Mr. Couldrey pee -
$ IN TRIO GASES 00 LOST MEMORY
MITA W44# notaisu Mgri WOO WON. MAR WOUTF,
• tiN OW VIE, FOR *MIS AND %FAR*
**A Awl comoNno of* Iv% %PRI
AO* tot lielkiw
"owes*
rfhosa who thought the deetruChOrt
Tbe MYsteriette Thini Tint Catt
*44 * IWO fe kis et
hfeneetrg.
It is not men,V menthe since IS Wall
'that eldtlese quer tcr of San Francisco woke nix tont snob: a Ana et oblivion
' was the (Me good leature of the terrible flint IllOwelf lhe Wilds, Ot Now
(disaster, gro dotniand, to disappoinlinenti Eutith Wales, in the tattered garb of a
',The netartatts resorts' will Penn flourish mEttittletWillee - OM with band* Nutilt
,4galle vitatelner,htUllti. PP the Otto With WIN Met Where. he Wat, lie had
Pon itt Vila Watt 'DO the remotest Idea. but 1m know that
• *The Male Who bellevea theee' dreellni he wanted to go to toe, Angeles; and
alieUt ChinalaWit being olitninated ,Attor loutik trooLlp tie
the now Son Frericisee., or shitted :eneetintered Man driving * htultecit.
some other site, to more opt:imbibe then team lie it/4MM tio Ned. "Los Ange,
the people et Nark Ftepoisco, tear' the- num in alleVeer tO ;
°Chinetown has a pull that 1,* htmutg rittos.ttutt. 01 den3 know nOthinia
enaugh le twist Market -Street into it thatp4Ut this trtleteit talto Yod
eitlik The Chinese nny. not vote, Glob" "Andk•whou UM xt„it,^ the'
but WO htortt'hlatte3to Widellsetentat Only. Wauderer asked, °Why, in New South
be used to' buy Who. hot, gittemohtles, %neat Of CeUrSessAhere else cauld it
houses on Van, Neatli.fekValll16 Old r4410* bet' '
049. Pttint00141, in all bum*, preba. deed. The Wandercrli ast recolitotion
betore, torn% an h way to Los -Anifelos ta
stables tar those 1St nOWer ltl San Fran. Hera wile anieleinif Statement In•
Why, will be rebuilt rIght where it *1141, NYAa of 4aairtt afrailway .ttr in Call,
"There's a rceso.n, tor thia PIM ensenll ',WI* kis 74 outt
who hasn't lived in San Francisco would Children, Mid illatend QI Waking up and
not guess. tthder eithletthytt wne 149 jeterney. be finds him.
a subway city WO bed it larger p.opu7 Self months tater tunny thousands st
lation than the rookerlea aboVe the'intrs' tiillea'nWay to an Utitrinititar dress and
nice, bri a totally Unknown e01,1111rY, How he
"These- tanneks, passages and halls got there, Itn4 what had been his ed -
still „exist. • Many ot them were Willed .iventures during lhatio months of mental
about by *be earthquake, nearly all ecunae he knew no mere than
were filled la at the entrances by the
burning debris Iron) aboVe and a, feW THE MAN IN THZ MOON.
have caved In completely. TheY Can be A Siratior expeetence was Ault at a
straightened out, hOWeVer, touch more prominent SWellelen trthleatteen WhO
easily Matt another undergroUnd ci appeared/ trout Ids home throe woeks be-
cOuld be constructed, Mire last Whitetintide Wed aompteteiy
WOMEN BUDNED IN DENS. Itsat lite identity until, seven months
later, he found himeelf Cheapside, the
"hi this village or troglodytes festered posseSsor of art unninither beard, and
the cancer spcit that the righteous ot totallf Ignorant ot that -had happened
San Francisco tried for years to abol- to him daring the t011,0 perk% ot his
ish. Here were the gambling dealt, the MYStetious absenee, His frienda had
gathering places of the tongs and the abandoned hopei of seeing him again,
cages in which were kept the little Chi- when a telegram acnitaInted his brother-
fleSe women, who were sold With. a ot his seal(' and on Christmas
regularity that spoke well for the in- morning he arrived at his home and re-
dustry and commercial instincts of our sinned the life he had so ineXplicably
Consuls in China. There were probably dropped,
hundreds of these little creatures burned When asked to describe his feelings
to death the (lay of the fire. Their bones when he "came to himself," Mr. Liewel.
will be dug out, however, the stone lyn said : "How can I describe them?
walls of tbe passages will be strength- The last words I remeraber saying were
ened, the walls will be shored up and 'My wife!' and the next, 'Where am I?'
the first section of the burned over part I had my beard shaved off, and then I
of the city to be occupied will be this wired to Neath. Even then tny mind
city of caves. was not clear, and I could only retnem-
"They will build the houses above ber the address of my brother-in-law in
ground as they are required, They will Neath-not his present address, but his
phy no attention to the demand tor the address of many years ago."
setting of Chnuttown without the city EVEN MORE REMARKABLE
wails and as long as San Francisco is
in the hands of the present political
mastens it can be counted upon as cer-
tain that the Chtnks will stay where they
have been for more years than the
1Frisco people like to recall."
ENGLAND DAS NUE ENTIRELY our.
OitOWN TIIE FEUDAL. DAYS.
EtorY of 110W Earl A..ntherst Obtained
florae Belonglng to Resident
of Ws Domain.
The need of some act which will make
clean sweep of the preposterous relics
Of the feudal system of land tenure
which Still survive in many peas ot
England, has been strikingly shown by
a case Which has just come to light neer
Sevenoales In Kent, writee a London
cOrrespotident. There resides Earl Ara-
herst, who, among his other hereditary
claim:a to distinction, beasts that of be-
ing lord of tile manor of Ortford.
Within the borders of the domain thus
designated, Herbert Couldrey took up
his abode some months ago, totally un-
aware that thereby he incurred any
Obligation as a vassal of the lord of the
manor. The other day, one of the earl's
deputy Stewards, called upon Mr. Coul-
drey and seeing a horse and trap stand-
ing outside the house, asked Mr. Coul-
dray it the horse was his. bn being
answered in the affirMatiVe, the deputy
steward cut some hairs from the horse's
mane and after depositing them in his
pocket, placed a hand on the home's
shouldere accompanying the acilion with
the words, "This horse is now the pro-
perty of Lord Amherst."
In the tWentleth century this appears
more like a bit of fooling from a comic
opera than a valid process, but thanks
to the medieval laws that still remain
=repealed, the deputy steward's
; FANTASTIC PERFORMANCE
actually made Earl Amherst the owner
of Mr. Couldrey's steed. However, the the world. The principal deposits so tar
deputy steward only took away the balm known are in the Persian desert and on
major portion of his lordship's newly the barren plateaus of New Mexico and
Arizona.
that he had cut from the mane; the
aPPropriated property, which required, Usually the best specimens are taken
stabling and feeding, being left with Mr.. from disintegrated rock, and the mining
PRECIOUS STONES IN HIDING.
Vow Gems of Great Value are Kept
Concealed In the Orient.
The turquoise, like the opal, is found
in the desolate and waterless parts of
Cloth* .weshett Soolieht
ere r.leener lad WNW' then if %oohed,
itt am ether way. 0'
sookeis soto, iney MOS*
dirt hot eiweys the &We.
Suoiight Sesp,wilt net ittiers
the- meet tieinty lege or *w-
hat* thet we it, bouts*: k•
ehooletsly,tazsogt 0111401
SOO lthcotga gwa.wp
be usdasdirood; No bet**
or herd robhit* otoroolf.
Suolisht Seep is hew theo
other *cep, bot is best ,
osecilo the Sunlight woe
Ego* good With herd or
soft Veaktret
$5,0oo an." **
terve Ptak leashabt. nog 40•01,*
tileset....ra""'"'• .1°1"
A WALES' SUPERSTITION
11011.0001,
ACCOUNTS P011 A DIG EPIDEMIC IN
WALES.
Belle! That Children Must Take Com-
plaints Leads to a Lack of
Precaution.
An epidemic of measles in Wales that
carried off 130 children has Caused Dr.
Alexander Gordon, the medical officer 1
health for Merthyr, to protest against
the practice of Allowing children to en-
ter infected households. Parents excuse
this practice on the theory that it is
better that. children should have the
measles and get over the ailment, a
theory that medical men regurd alS a
dangerous superstition.
A well-known specialist in children'e
diseases gave hki opinion on the subject
the other day.
"Sifperstition is even more rife in all
classes to -day than it was a hundred
years ago," he said. "In no case is it
was the disappearance a tew years ago
more prevalent and disastrous than in
-in 1898 -of a North London doctor.
the treatment of rneaales.
For over tour years na trace of him could
be found, and it was Concluded that he
was dead, when a man who had known
him intimately recOgirtzed In u waiter a
vain to stump out the old idea that
a Paris cafe the missing men. When
every child must have measles, and that
asked if he was not Dr. 13- he not
a. child, therefore, might us well be put
only denied the identity, but declared
into the same bed with a brother or
that he had never seen his questioner
sister who is suffering from tile corn -
before, and it was only when tits wife
1 1 t
A DANGEROUS PRACTICE.
"Tho medical profeSsion has tried in
TOMS OF DANISH KINGS
AND ALSO OF MEN OF LEARNING
AND EMINENCE.
Building Begun Nearly One Thouland
Years Ago - Builder Was
an Englishman.
Exactly nine hUndred and thirty-one
years ego the Cathedral of Roskilde
(sometimes and erroneously spelled
lloeskilsie) was built by Harold Plot -
and, but the present rather striking red
brick edifice dates froin 1047, nineteen
years prior to William the Conqueror's
episode at Hustings. The Minder of this
second lane was an Englishman, vague:
ly known as William, wbo accompani-
ed Canute to Denmark and broUght
with him the inadeginge civilizanon of
thi. time. The cathedral was const
crated In 10a1, and a certain portion of
the original red brick of that perlod
survives to this duy. It has been burn-
ee down on at least three °cessions -
in 1289, in 1443, and in 1554 -but the
outer walls are still untouched, and re-
tain not a Uttle of their otiginal gran.
deur and massiveness.
CANUTE'S GRANDFATHER.
The aforesaid Harald Blanton(' was
father of King Sven and grandfather of
ICing Canute, whose ineffectual tussle
ith the tides of Great Britain has re-
and daughter travelled to Paris to inter- „ ntalned a youthful lesson even unto our
view hint that the dorpaant mind began' 11, is a proceeding which ought to be time. The name Roskilde is popularly
d made punishable by law. Hundreds of derived from a certain 1(105 Hrol, and
k equivalent to the expression, Hrol's
Well. The !etymology, however, lee
more than doubtful. There certainly are
springs In the neighborhood, especial-
ly ono, the Maglekilde, which even to
this day is in active work, and yields
sumething like 500 gallons of medicinal
seater per minute. ---
The Dom, or Cathedral, of Roslcilde
has. been the immemorial burying place
o! Danish Kings, and also of those
men of learning and eminence who
to wake. A we lives are sacrifieed every year to it, and
London In full possession of Ws iden-
epidemics are spread from village to
tity, but the last thief; he remembered reason eif lite absurd notion."
before his recovery four years later was "klagmetdbical officer at health attati a aaaa
entering an omnibus on a journey to the
, which came eerier his notice a few
city. weeks ago. A boy of 14 developed
A very curious story of restoration to
years of obit- -measles, but had contracted the com-
memory niter- fing-three 11Tairri Very silt:1111y. The mother feel-
vlon is told of Mathias Steingruber, a Mg sure her other children would be in -
German, who enlisted in Payne's Coen-
FJected took no premutions. The couse-
Ey, a Pennsylvania troop, for the Mexii
, gnome Was that all her children were
NO UNINITIATED PEI1SON,
unless endowed with something more
llian ordinary courage, would willingly
attack. At such places a meal "Wilts-
lyIng" enough in one sense can be had
for a trifle of ninepence or so, and to
aspect quality as well as quantity in
the circumstances would hardly be rea-
sonable. But, as a matter of fact, the
majority of expatriated Germans of
strictly limited means who make Lon -
eon their home lose in time their taste
for foreign edibles, and ypu will find
them regularly frequentirfg the cheap-
er restaurants and "breadshops" to
which the ordinary Londoner, similarity
telltale& deny resorts. For that, matter.
Soho, which, so far as the West End
le concerned, is still the neighborhood
most largely frequented by foreigners
who dine In inexpensive restaurants,
Yankee hut Mlle provision for the Ger-
nian colony. raven ing the needs prin.
cipally of French and Italians, whose
gastronomic tastes differ widely from
those of the Teutonic immigrant.
To sayorecisely why the 'ordinary
German 111 the type referred to is able
to make a shilling go further than tfie
I.ondoner born and bred in a similar
si.here. would involve a compar)son ra-
ther more invidious, perhaps, than The
subje.ct juelifles. But for one thing, it
It certain that the average Teuton le by
nature. instinct, and trainina of a frugal
turn of mind. If of humble origin, he
Is brought up to dispense with luxuries,
and from earliest...boyhood he is taught
that the making of small economies ;8
indispensable to the (scheme of life as
the acquirement in yoUthful diva of the
rudiments ot reading, writing, and
arithmetic. It will be said that
THE GERMAN LOVES HIS BEER
coo War, In u c arg , steicicen with the disease. I he baby,
Resit= de Lapalma he was thrown
sis months old, died after two dos' te- have ;sided. In the upbunding cd Danish
from his horse, fell upon his head, and
ness, and a little girl of two yeurs has history. The bones of Many Of them are
loet consciousness. When he came to,
his Mind was completely, lost eight of both eyes. The 1 by a curious local custom, immured In
AN ABSOLUTE BLANK. Might attack in the case of lite eider the pillars of the centre aisle, Among ,
wbrioutihevriruitilefreictiesdep t itcl i ern eyaosul ensg. e r children these are King Harald (A. D. 085). Queen
Marennet Fredlculla (A. I), 1130), Svend
Fatridenn A, D. 1070), and Bisbee wii-
For flfty-three yeara he has lived near
Fostoria, having been taken there after helm (same (late). The cathedral, as a
OT1 IER SUPEBSTITIONS.
ents; but his mind was a blank from the The specialist spoke of other supersti- WIMP., Is not an imposing striteture: it
the war from PennsylVania by his par -
always insisted lions Mut still prevail low ignorant' has practically no architectural features,
day of his injury. Ile end Is a Make up-and-down building
of no artistic pretension whatever. How -
'ever, it answers its purpose. end as
it burial place of itings it probably has
not Ile like In all Europe.
reduced to a mintmurn. Here is the scsed no best beast. and so that taxa- ever there are Italians there also are
strolling accordion players, the presence
II is a question in the minds of many
sion, ar It Y of these narlohs excites no surprise i n
either side of the border It occurred
cents. Without any Idea that he Wa9 ' l
te an flatten with smuggling instincts
thereby jeopardizing his own best beast,
Mr. Couldrey recently gold a bait acre that In this faet la rich oesibilities.
He had 'an 'accoytellon sPpeciany con -
of his land for $900. Then Earl Am-
herst's emissary swooped down on him structed with chambers for carrying
cigars and brandy from ihe German
as already told and claimed hie' hertot. s.ide, and taking back expensive laces
Mr. Couldrey did not even know what nom the French side. Thr man is en
the word meant until he had consulted accomplished player, and on Sundays
a dictionary. If he had kept a motor he combined smuggling with amuse -
car instead of a horse, he evould have me-.
nts playing bewitching danee anis
been able to settle the earl's claim by over the border, to wheel rompanion
paying him 87 cents. aecomplices capered expressively.
Of course there are many manorial
lords, who never think of enforcing the On the French side there was a con-
federate innkeeper, through \Idiom win -
their north, although a branch road may antient feudal rights which have neyer
baffle had gone on a long time Uneu-
Unbend goods were exchanged. The
lie built through to the heed of naviga- been abrogated. But It Ls always pos-
spected. end might hove gone on tn-
non. Tles country is not far from the sible for such claims to be enforced
indefinitely had not Impunity at length
Rockies, and it is affected climatically vexatiously and oppressively. 1 t I S ac -
raised up a fatal preaumption
by the winds from the Pacific. which- tually on record, though it happened i
ere heated by the Black current of Jo- many years ago. that a lord of the On a recent Sundnv evening the <mug -
pan. For this reason .the Peace River manor seized as his belga,
eirmate Is said to be far better than that A TENANT'S RACEHORSE,
of Maditoba. Edmonton has a much
milder climate than Winnipeg. There worth between 810,000 and 815,000.
18 little snow here and no intense cold Earl Amherst is not at all the sort of
to speak of. The same is true of Cal- man one would imagine would prove a
pary and of most of this State of Al- stickler in such mattera. He has plenty
Leila. of money, and though he has just passed
In addltion to the farming possibilities his 70111 birthday, is still an active man
of the Peace River region, It Is said that and a keen sportsman. It is °nip Iwo
parts of it will support vast numbers years ago that he was credited with
brineing down the first slag of the sea-
aon in Scotland. Ile le one of Ihe fast
diminishing body of veterans of the
Crimean War, which he went through
as a captain of the Coldstream Guards,
and was severely wounded at Inker
twin. lie la, among other things. a Free
Meson of high distinction, and hem been
pro-greind master of England fen the 1091
eight years. The flret Lord Amherst
was comMandertn-chief of the British
army In North Arinerlea from 1758 to
1764. and was aubsoquently made com-
mander of the whole army. Earl Am-
herst has been twice married. hut ban
no children by either wife. His heir
presumptive is his brother. the Honor-
able and Reverend Percy Amherst, who
Mole ordera mare than 40 yore ats but
hos done no clerical work Once se has
held a ei 11 on the peerage.
.'s
daily menu of a dock laborer of fifty- %Oehler a great eity may not grow
one: 13realcfast. tea, eede sugnr, %de
toasted bread. 1(1.; ,no dinner; tea, five us In ihe Peace River country. At pre-
sh-it Edmonton would seen to be the
fresh herrings, 2d., potatoes. 2d., tea, best site for the trading Centre of The
potatoes, lde total cost, ed. Cost of ef reitroads to the north another centre
great Northwest, but with the pushing
Vie sugar, Md.; supper, fried fish, Id..
per day; 3e share of meat, 4d.. potatoes, may grow up at the head of navigation.
utilizing the vest Mackenzie system eg'
_bed. 4de total. ls. Another lived for 9d.
ld., pot herbs, 1(1., sugar aod tea. 1c1.. a means of distribution.
composed the dinner; a pennyworth of
tea and sugar and a pennyworth of DEVELOPING THE COUNTRY.
bread formed the tea. The women were The Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad,
the merit extravagant. the highest cost which is now being built west from Ed -
being ls. 4,eied., which Included steak monton, will strike across the southern
and onions. f.art of the Peace Inver country. it will
For clothes these poor orcupante paid not reacte the best lands, winch are far -
very little, ne the Naming will show :
Coal, 3d., troueers. ld.. waistcoat, nil,
shirt. 4d., hoots, nil. This is what. IS
celled a "snmplo suit": Coat. 80., trou-
sers. Ode shirt. M.. waistcoat, 2d., socks,
ld.. boots. 3d.. con. 2eed. A woman's
outfit tosts 3s. to 4s. 6c1.
and that it le essential to Ma Veer ex-
istence. The fact remains, ae I have
occaaion to know from personal obser-
vation, that a great many young Ger-
mans --and there is eio reason to sup-
pose them to he eirceptions-WhO have
IJ struggle for an existence in this court -
try are extraordinarily temperate in the
strictest sense of tlie word, and seldom
drink anything stronger' then coffee.
Not a feW of thern learn even to dis-
ense With the loys of tobacco until suc
ifie as they have suMcIently Improved
their positton ter indulge that mail lux-
ary, and certain It 19 that yotvfnay Ilve
long Ume In London before you behold
iuch a phenomenon at/the sight of a
rr tlerMart clerk Alishing out front
°tee where h•,, s employed in order
&garb. the tife of the olatest win -
9 ft it eaSy enough ta dig.
tar. Por
ornources
over your knuoitedo Of Ids language
fratbleS yOU Stray serails of
Irfrtnaft cenvettatlen In trains and
busm and ore. nut ttrint antitallicnIn
walled Certainly WOO' 6 good
I let7 In the rettrge 61 the year then
1.9 English ealripetitor. And in the
esW•ul eft of 061otgittg the life of an' Anohing among schoolboys, which han
heXtatISIve eata Ile le 1/1.0befbIS) With. fondly increased to an atarming ex -
Int It tiyal. couttattett, Vat tot.
Met* he 14 not without
4
"131.1SHIDO" AND BUSINESS..
By night or by day, whenever an or-
der is in course of execution Mr the
Japanese Govetrunent, there in the work-
shop is the representative Of Japan, su-
pervising, testing, rejecting all that is
ot above the slightest suSpicion of de-
ect Or flaw. When relieved by his, co - of live stock. The natural grass grows
leagues he does not rureh out llke ftom two to five feet in height. and the
schoolboy from ethool, as if relieved rattle and horse ranchere who are now
Morn an irlisoine task. The Wain ob- Wog crowded out of Alberta are plan.
serve together mail the newedomer has tung to send their herds to Grande Pratt-.
picked Op al0 threads end can apply ir ancl Peaee River. The cattle will be
himself as minutely ae his predecessor able to run out all winter and they can
to the details of the business, hider
a" feed out of doors all the year round. If
timbre and Incorruptible, working heart this is so, the region will be of great
and mind for the hohor of Japan, theze %aloe to the new Canada. The lower
wateh-degs of the Mikado have con- part of this State of Alberto and a part
telbuted, Unneen but effectively, to the af Saskatrhewan, 'which. owing to the
overwhelming triempli oe,,thelr country. slight rainfall, have been used for roneh-
P.usindo and bilshie.ss aptitude are tU3
g are now found to produce winter
unconquerable combination. wheat, and tho ranching buginess mny
to driven out by grain farming. There
are in Manitoba and Ilea Northwest al -
SWISS BOYS bAUsTN'T SMOKE. most a million cattle, a quarter of 5
The Municipal authorities of St. Gall, Wilton norcea and more than that num-
Switzerland, have paSeed bylaW ber ot eheep and hop. Th0 Peens My.
apiennst smoking by minors. The pen- er country. with Its grain and grass.
ally ta five francs for the stmok'ere and would ceem to be a good stock-ralging
for arty person ferrdshIng boys vAtfr mormaillon, and the Moe may come
totaeta Jri any form. Informers are also when the most ond beat cattle of thla
to reeelVe retverd of five franca,. The country will be rifted (bete.
OfejSet et the attlholitiee ie to sterile Oa AS far Alberto. it now going Into
people,
he was twenty-one years of age.
"The standard cure fur a cut finger is
His memory of facia before ills Injury
etill the dirty cobweb," he said. "Lives
hkasnewbeennothpienrgleceAbiiite‘ovf rie1v0ennitii,18 slanticoe thiee
traced lu thin unnanaary remeny.
are yearly sacrificed 10 septic poisoning
"I saw a child in a hospital last week
whose mother had attempted to cure a
broken leg by calling in three old wo-
men- ol tier native village. anti imploring
them tu perform certain mystic spells
beside the cradle. The child nearly lost.
Its leg In consequence of the neglect et
proper. advice."
was struck on the head by a piece of
wood thrown from a circular saw, and
when he recovered it was found that he
had regained the powers which had 1.0
long been absent, and he suddenly re-
alized what was going on nbout him.
Tho telephone, electric lights, motor-
cars, rind bicycles made his first visit
to town a trin to fairyland. The old
man is like one who has been asleep
these fifty-ihree years. He eays : "The
world has advanced so ter, I new 1 shall
not live long enough to catch up." -
London Ti tam,
trim, farming, and 1
will be kept on the
On great ranges. A
can le eventually
a instead i.f
,te number of
am, 11.110••••
e : "What can I do to prove my
rove for you. dearest?" She : "Well.
I don't know whether there la anything
In It or not, but have heard that ob.
Settee makes the heart grow fonder."
END OF THE WORLD.
Convention Held in London Fixes Alter-
native Dates.
WHERF. THE KINGS LIE.
The two spires are very prominent
features of the landscape for some nines
around, and the general impression is
one of simple dignity not without a
eeriain value of Ili own. The original
Luilding, no doubt, had rounded invitee;
but I hese, a (ter one of the many fires,
were replaced hy pointed arches, which
remain to this day. The spires wero
emceed by King Christian IV., and In a
mopient of mistaken zeal he added an
Elite ithan west door, which is singe.
tarty on. of harmony with the re.st of the
Terrible predictions cuncerning what (51t2r101.17ttlielninirnedo'nTunlyeehnotsB°rfatigeaxa°rennraorntewmonrttichuys.
ITALY'S QUEEN_IS FEARLESS.
will happen to the earth during the next nod on the north side of the chancel ta
Manifested 'burlap the Recent Volcanic 25 yeans wen. made at Exeter Hall, ihe perch of Oluff Mortenssen, dating
from the early fifteenth century, with a
vi rv richly ornamental front, and the
Image of Pope 1.1.1ellis, the patron Belot
et the chureh. painted. (and very badly
painted tool on ft copper plaque. The
sarcophagi of Frederick V. and tits
Queen. and all subsequent Kings and
Queens of Denmark, Including that of
Frederick VII. in polished onk, with a
wreath of oak -leaver; in gond gold, are .
decently arranged to eolemn rown, and
In the grey dusk of the cathedral inter -
Inv one anthem a very enherent idea of
Denninries ermines% and prosmerity.
noekilde Dom in not Westminster Ab -
hey, but is n very worthy and earn-
rularly reminiscent ptle of Denmark's
history.
Upheaval.
The QUeell of Italy, nho Irns just had
a narrow escape from being buried 'n
ahoners of burning ashee and cinders
London, Eligland, the other day. 1 he
prophets of the disaster, large num-
ber of whom were clergymen, were in
attendance ut a "prophetic and second
advent conference."
at Torre Annunziata, is one of the While they differed In the details, all
bravest of royal ladies, a quality which ngreed that the end of the world wax at
she inherits from her Montenegrin hand. They were not quite sure whe-
ancestore, and which, nithough useless ther the final catastrophe will come on
to most women, is an important one 1.0 May 2, 1929, or April 9, 1931, but were
those whom late has culled upon to be quite sure that one of these (lutes will
onielforf tmlieujeshsiayr.esrecoofoitnhesrosneasn.,1
There can be no doubt that the world
prove to be the 'gilt iJ ri
were manifested when sire ',misted on has nearly outlived Its usefIllness, the
accompanying her husband into the prophets declared. the wars and earth -
danger eone. In order to help the vie- quakes which have afflicted It recently
Urns of the N'esurian eruptions. While are proof positive, and all that is re-
possessing every womanly attribute of (mired to ful1111 the prophesies is the
beauty. charm and tenderness, Queen emning 01 antt.chmt.
Eima mu handle rod and rifle 'with the Ile will make Ills first penitent op -
WS, arid as an Alpinist has but few pesrance as King of Syna, but. in 1922,
rivals, ne befits the daughter of a (mom, he will attack and eonquer France; then
fain chieftain. Iler Mirjeety is looked n extend las rule oVer the other kIng-
upon as something of an Anglomaniac darns.
by the more idd.fashinned among her Ihere will be 10.000,100 Christiana in
huebandei subjects, especially where the Ilia. world at [Ms time, the prophetai de -
upbringing of her children le concerned, Hare. but evidently they will not t,e
The yoting Prince of Naples and his equally deserving of favot, tor in 1914
sister; have since their birth peen gide or 1r.r211, lit.flit0 of them will he trans -
jelled to the Stirne hygienic rules whedi lilted to Heaven, while the other 9.8:A.000
prevail In well.regulated tenant nor
series-- a regime which fltulA no fav or
with Italians of the old school. All
English peo le ot OtIV 80(1,11 standing
who go In otne rire afire of n gracious
Oen; actualty emptied their loaded sr- welcome from the Queen. who at the
cordion In sight of the ceetomere In the halls nnd receptions given 111 the Quir•
ear. and one of these. n retired French inn! itiove's freely about ambng her
customs officer promptly informed his guests with a kind rtm1 for nll. some -
colleagues. what to the astonishment of F.nglIsh
people aeu ustatned to ihe much morel
THE WORLD'S CABLES.
Addressing the Royal Military' Scheel
a' Shatham. Mr. Charles Bright gave
reeently some fuels not generally know
about submarine cables. There are ot
the present time about 225.090 miles of
electric cables lying on the bottom if
the sea. Each line hes colt On (he
average about 81.000 per mile to make
and lay. About 6.000.000 messagea are
transMitted by cabie every year. The
'Working speed averages up to 100 words
per minute. The average useful life if
it subeharine cable. under present con•
ditIons, may be anywhere from 30 to
40 years.
TALL ENGLISHWOMEN:.
After totting meneurements of the
height of women in France. England.
and AMPried. doctor tinnouncea that
the Engliennvoman to the tillieet rind the
American worlian cemes next. The ay.
erage height of the French vemian
five feet one inch. The American
man le nearly two Inchee taller, and
woinen of Great Rritnin one-bn't
ineh taller than the inner. Arnericeo
wrimen. linter -Nor. weigh atightn mew°
titan either of the inhere, their event g.
weight being about 117 InnnIlth
formal ettitude of royalty at home
BOARDED OLT LUNATICS.
System is (ironing In Favor In Eng.
land.
The treatment of insane pPrSOTra. al
rerta in Qa go.4 ,.I I heir nfliliction, by
hoarding them net with families has
been growing in favor during the last
five years. and the Britieh Medical lout -
nal believ ea (hut the London County
Council asylums reenmittee will ern•
time(' an early nprp,rtunity of again
seeldng a de,. ell, orient of thin solution
of Iona( y administration.
Adoritinn of tine system would retie% a
the rongested asylums mut finniell
healthy. natural orcurinhon arid a con.
sidernbly Inrrensed degree nf liberty iri
mans of the menne, %eh° are now. for
look of quell hoarding nut opportuntliee.
detained In te- 'loin Sueh fondly.
ite
colonle4 wo ' the establishment of
half IA ny /....i,s. between the asylum
and the home,
1
W eerily 91 ro515 ;0 mivh more tO
live now then it treed lo r' Cheerily
"et, It ought. II a w,,rth more 10 IlVta
now than it used to be."
w ill be transported to the desert, near
Mount Sinai. Mier° lbey will have to
wait three and a half years.
WEDIDINVAKE SIX FEET HIGH.
A Monster Confection Made for the
Princess Ena.
Princeso Ena'e wedding cake, which
was made in Londen, was completed the
other day and packed fur ahipment to
Madrid. It will be the first royal wed-
ding cake ever seen In Spain.
The English custom was introduced by
King Alfonso as a complimeta tu hie
bride. The cake is six feet high and
neighs more than 340 pounds. It ',Wide
upon a huge silver salver, on which the
bridele mother's wedding rake was
placed. The cake consists of three glee
tening eilver white tiers and is 46 inches
in diameter at the base,
The lowest tier is divided into eight
panels, separated by Corinthian col-
umns. and is sUrniOunled ( lipids
disguised as postmen and messenifV9-
The spaces between the column/1"hr°
filled with panels of sugar work repro,
senting Spanish vines. rhe panels are
feetooned with orange blessoins, %Otto
heather. myrtle, and white roses. The
flowers were chosen by Princess F.na.
Thera are four panels on the seeorid
tier. In the rentre of eaoh o a shield
with the monogram, "A. V.," surmoun-
ted bv the Spanish crown. Medalions,
sprays of myrthi.. and tiny white roses
embettiett the thins tier, an top of whiele
ie a beautiful green of children In white
Parian marble, hearing aloft a vase hold-
ing a boquel. Pour long floral festoons
reach from the fop to the bottom tier.
A gold knife With on ivory handle two
feet long riceornpanien the cake and will
he ueed to cut it for presentation to the
guests.
TO() MANY PHYSICIANS IN PARIS.
1 here lire too many doctors in Parts;
It 1.." Impossible fur every one to live.
'I heir grieNances have foUnd ex preseion
u curIOUS nosPI entitled "Pauvreu
I rocIeUrs. ant L
NaSe. The hero is a young medical
r,an named Cadour. who, though °lev-
et unit deveted, finds a almost impos-
eitile to get a living. Ile sets up Ma pro-
f: ssionai brass plate at Omelette, In the
working ride() district. An cad doctor
a owe to him and upbraids tern for his
temerity In imagining that he will 1
able In make hie way honestly In Parts.
eoneider those liguree, he nays, to'hia
young confrere "There are 2,700,000
in vie In Paris. From tees number
5,, seven hundred thousand who
are treated in hospitals and dispensarlee.
Tha t lea ves two million among the three
thousrand live hundred doetors. or one
ernentioner til aix hendred patients. If
aliewnnee be made for the (tarlatans,
(.111lites, nonelernies. etc.. the number
01 for treatment by the legiti-
mate moreseion is four hundred-- an
Impossible figure for the mon who wish-
er to live."
4
"Speaking of bail falls." remarked
lonee "I fen nut Af a window mire, ond
the eenention was terrible. During my
transit throurdi the etc. I really !relieve
I !Iloilo:tit of every mean net I herd ever
erimmittNI in my hie." "li'm." essavled
Thorny:on oo must have fallen an
an ful distance r
:1.17 G N MAN AS BA RBER.
For Me pagt SIX montto the Rev. An,
drew Ping, rector of Thorpe, near NeW•
arts. Eneiraid. hoe ailed ne berber to
(me of his parishioners. John Wadding-
ton, a Prelifirmed invalid. thee In a little.
kettle) Village. and leviee a week the
reetor Mee over and naves the bed-
r,ddert mon.
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