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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1904-4-28, Page 7••!te••....•••••••••....• o4korosie*** 103011eitiebeele CF1APTBP, X With reach, p and many a st portrait, Hector through the mon he read he could at tho Pars -1101 have him cw-th he himself could came to the glo saints" he sat d open in his hand mon to his min that had unrolle how many times Maddalena, the I ta, Caldera, a welcome; the ten the hour of hou that had been rainy night in to -day is come, •first year of the day, in tui hour is to be crowned inotto-yet the be reign will ring u to -night, to -night of Palms for ever, leaves , love and hind. • After the coron be a great ban and honors are t whom the Quee guish. Then c •the farewell tha away under smil have keen eyes a laces. And then the old life. Is The reverie drift• as comes to the bis hone is nigh. he are alone. spoken, the last ,clasps hand, an 'All is dark -all The little book and Deeds of ti Virtuous Knight assare de la Luz, the polished ilo but; does' not awa the sound seeing t All is dark still. and 'slowly, the- t to resolve : it tt blurred and faint nig, growing, gro • white sheet, a she • It is a pall -ah ! bien-a single -blo • it; a rose that 1 .against the splen foot of the bier gold, That is a high •altar of soxr An.d now.he sees t • .dles, the pale la lamp that burn pallor of• marble ,nnerich 'hues of prie ;7 dim figures gd to • tar comes the de • organ. He -st pierce the pall, to But it is gone. •stretches , out bi . that it is not yet wakes him, and ,Alasclair is lookin wonder and disma felt is gone," h as it wont that n "What's gone, lays a hand lightl 'Tor the second time !0 ! God, it dalena." "What's -the in -what's the mattm "The bier and t rose and the.cro ancein London, to -day-to-day, of cannot see who li rust' not be, it sh The quick eye o speck. of blood sh.oulder. He spe the fretful note of her child. "You're just Grant. Look at the napkin, and , 0. what would yo Sit still, raurua tongue !" With' fingers the. but Love for tach Win,. patting down that bandage axle. , nein New V Add Wile :not join ein joice at the aorein is .fneans at hand evvecome the feetiet fatigue,end Make renewieg health an giving way to weal eneY• Eve o de need tivii to enrich the 1 the eyefeein ,a1 Ler t ftict:i -of ertificial 01 lex pc, ri en cc has p 110 preparation text to Cheese 11110(78 as 'emit T1 is only le/Income food 11110, 4vilich 110 t0119 of thotleands (Io)), !tient, , 9)10'01d • pre$ci•Iption 01 ellliEllele4elelleliellefeeeiKeetettenettelireeneetzele/414641441.1140.411101W V )/Zr KOM*3011040103,3010.1.0*01,,E#*03041.W4*,9010/H0100110 TIL-(Continueci.) Sing op to fought tish. not on Augustin e distorted not but r3i and avn, amulet e's eye i itself ,--il•ee oprrfdi.,entt,htushe, ad , in vs; every his kugusi". he first century; or two, Queen lis that t his , he ; leaves he joy • Won met o be 1 desires imes• t must is, for id look -the that s into Higlalander Maddalena. Phe (iss is 1 he ; dark. The le Illustrious ; Senor drops er. :e from o be But lick es a at first, wing et of and ne-red ;mks Id white. rests i altar le lofty he glimmer bent , continually, columns, tly vestments and p murmur •reins see -to involnntatily s arm, whole. he is• e down V. - . cries, reef Teckie y on time must tter, le silver ,n. z sae all s below. ill not Alaudair in Hector's eke in a mother a bairn, your the blood u do r, and t had er, Alasdair this It again, , A: ,IIROTH up look tongue; help , see, peace the a before the , the life .. of ring happiness, leaves Maddalena, of there and bestowed the the for sea, posaible vision last taken; turns Life, sharply Hector his part now, shadow, core -into silver it rose like a creWii there, glow. fro. his forgetting aware on "gone, e ?" his , the not . Heckle I saw them days. be Gaelic, arm without. hold • never pad, - • ' ..... , ill - ' . • • • most sup- the purple sling. all is fin- "now The' little - of 1.3reve) it' 'e s time 1 What's of the per- • and he is and freckled his hand Highlanders of cloublee, ' • Hector— are cut open door, 1 rump' tssusceptible, 0 t e , Triana, op- comes the shoutingf . o ' impatience Her Majesty •• deep breath , , not in vii•gin. ' sun for bride -nay, na ,Y.' setting Out 'altar of her clear think, no gaze of love leer white moment to kiss cm her ce The car- and lonely ir ha, 'she is mount the is on on his left, move. On white and same; and thousand and cheering and flags colored re- present- frone lov- call - of Ma,ddal- the wide- where his a.coly- The heenn of ju- before - forms, and to stately and walks her a Queen I cat---• 1 so ' young, Not aformal buti bea.utifol, foot of theor tho Masse * * . of the flutes, •clarner of bourdon of of boys' • influences at his .ciream, a . • priests 1n- of their the jewelledo of • golden drowsy awe, the a elreaan. 1 dreain. . It Maddalena, of his said or every Cross, takes away from from him, and now is the last •251e5 -.. , tendril that binds them. is to be cut -and his hi is the hand that net . . , . in.. prose the knife dOwn. upon the livlug thing -and Maddalena, gees fromhim for ever, . For Palmetto would do hint high.. est honer; and it has been laiddeevie by the 'Master ' of the Ceretrifeliiese noes other than Don Augustin (ali ! the. wit° Old Stiegeen 1), that \vhe the Bishop asks the question, "Who.t, plgleil,Ve;:i3;1:7teittni°1ger '' i°19thC°Wltion' take'tlitoo tpMhreealdgadtaaell,ldensctly7d,L' ho, who has Won it for her -`1, for the free people of Palmetto." ' It Is the toneless voice ol the Bine hop ; ' , "Who givet.h. the Crown to. Ictaddea lena ?" • Hector makes a step forward, and with both hands lifts the • einePle gold circlet on its purple cushipm • ,- All f his Woundre-ripe/nee ein kneels. The eyes are blind, but the .are an handssteady,d the voice is more moving than all the =isle • that has now fellen, on silence l' : "I, for the free people of Pahnet- • to," . . •- Crowned I • And the opening thunders of the •Te Doom roll majestically, -Voicing the grave joy of. a free people, the (loath of two souls that L.ove nextdo live -to die., (To be Continued ) , ' . .-___.e. . le,A4,),(4.- can trouble.. greenhouse • free . white Ordinary meter laid ,. ' with from .er. in place, • e, s " ef - .. enerve whole 'hie The •supplied whole drain tile sand kept - bearing Written seeds getin the s°we should light oda sprouted. • men.ded simplest sand- dinner sand, boiled tliplate.Dram water end the the evaporation tester move sand more a' covered dishes water, laid' Placed cloth, ered er Will trernes- are placed varies seeds. ature accordingly si ow sprouting oats, kept 78 riatieg more flto°k of • the The on kept blettex degrec,, the of atmosPheee .. • an En . xPelloa seems p, roper degreneemoisture pare-tbs. 7Th The seed. prod ,' ,It en 'r -St! • The be ish. . whenever "Haste nowehere treatment led sider crossing ally .ably, exit he Wrong get as is in to which r cruge The case to (IllieltlY A patience - ions. the . der make be hen, i, the ered, The usually ter repidin delayed •••••------ .1 1.41*°*4.1*°• 7)114" 4"-W7**s' .'"eiVefer•fare • I FOR FARrivib s . r . . . , . . . . . . abliedthat eh? app. -10 seal): ,en. 4.14,0io. lib* Me , so serious in westein ew York in 1002 and t • bitter . o ip ,, .he . . rot, ch. , 1 t spread after the trine is cooled down , . . to 8e degrees in the storage room, while some of the xnolds which ea -use • ' g , ' , Y stPh.reeafdruiita tthoe rot, t. 44:2(Zersalt7r10, and It has lieen our •pbseivation that in a large majority' of cases, serious rotting of ,apploe, in,. old atoenoo oae, be attributed to the spread of the ldaiysesa se in the barrel during the de -- between the orchard- and 'the storage house. It is Probable ,aleo that the rotting in the storage house is most serioes within a short time after the fruit is stored nd before it - a ' . , " becomes thoroughly cooled. • Sort qv- ' ' er those f il • th t h 1 ex, , o ate, es a • eve ai, e abused within a month after 'their sir- rival at the storege, house in '-orcier to remove the decaYed epee:in-Lens and ' • prevent the -spread' from apple to an- pie, icif, diseases that may grow in the ..emperature. ' • • 4si f; sine . 1 one the rots the, scald . is the rnost serious' trouble that ap- - • • th pears in e storage house, Apple scald is probably caused by a fer, , . meat that exists in the cells of the , fruit, All varieties are not equally and the trouble appears • ' only when the fruit approaches • the , and • of its life history. The scald. • • likelyt 1 le f 't is mole o appear 1 the rui ripens quickly after it. Is picked and` before it is stored. In •-ti t' 1 t e prac lea e en. an ing of the, apple crop the sus- ceptibility to ,scald may be reduced to ' ' a minimum. • First b • I 0 • , a y Pc:1w ne the fruit to maturity and with good color. second instringit ' tl - , in the •their 'bl time f possi e a ter picking in a temperature' notabove• 31 t - '12 o .. - --- •• HOE. een• SolYmTamm. ,A.Jao OHS PAW ,,,,,..., • 1"11741-ssibritehrLPYrn741"141111$ri: ' tan • - s ' ' of the Solt. • s*,e,weeiwee....**04(reikee,300,404 . be tested in it with but little :It's ton.,g,so..di:loelai,It'NpuGloae.4acsrisentA:1301:inn4voSliba,cEelisn.cbihnixieeSsd' 4apeatoihaid4. Fine sand should be used iii tests. It should be •steril- cl•b f froin all foreiga matter. Th • • . • • • e glass sand gives best )esults. arain tile 6 inches in clia- should b •1 th ' • split• eng wise au cl ed •• • ' open e enp in a continuous hoe one end of the bench to the oth- , The rounded sides can be, set sand so that they will stay in - ' One line Of such open . tile . . . , . - . ,.. quid be laid Mr every foot in width the bench. Fill the tile with clean , c gravel, level full, and stand ' a pipe upright :at each end of the resting on the gravel. Cover moisturef - • ' „, or this bed is then by pouring water into the tile, whereupon it will quickly through the gravel in the open and be absorbed by the sand. The should not be saturated but t moist. The 'seed should be planted in rows, small label stake, with .rocorci in lead pendia The large should bo pushed in the sand, down, level with the• surface ' of 1 • sane . The small seeds can be d on the ' surface. Dry sand be sprinklea over the top in a layer, after the seeds are plant- . and tho seeds reneoved when • . SIMPLInee F ARM TESTERS. . Very simple' apparatus is recoin- . . ' for home testing of seeds. The and most satisfactory is the plate. Use an Ordinary china plate, filled with fine sifted free from impuriti es. , P our d • Weetee over the sand ,and shake sand down into an even bed in e o e exeess o off th f by tipping plate for a few sec- s, and . plant seed germ- down in sand. Turn a second Plate over first to •prevent the too rapid • - t .. of, moisture, Set this in a warm living room. and re- seeds as the snout. if the d die t b fy Id f t dries out belore the en 0 test water can be added. , - A second method for home testing is tin basin the bottom of 'which is - ' , with water. Pans, saucers or of saucer shape .are se in the t • and blotting - piper, or cloth on the saucers. • -The seede, are between the -folds- of paper or and the top of the basin coy-.... with a pane of glass. This test- is kept in a warm living roora and give ,satisfactory results if' exe of temperature sind, moisture &Voided. ' Record slips can be with each sample: • ... .. ew TEMPERATURE TO OBSERVE' The temperature . for germination with different varieties of Iactualpracticeth tem er- n d tt the p reconemen ed foreses s s enirie d as the seed are quick or sprouting seeds. For slow seeds, sucli as bluegrass, 'wheat, etc., the temperature is 19 d at 86 de rees f e hours an , de rees for 12 hours •An alter - n . • • - „ .• temperature seems to induce • • rapid and uniform results. For Sprouting • seeds a temperature 1:16 degrees is keptconstant during • course of the experiment. substratum or material in or which' the, seeds _rest, should be ' tWhen moist but not saturated. ••'storied • the roper s are moi , to p . pressure of the linger tip on ' e e will • reds out - thin film Pale . 1 P a . water about the nnger tip. The should be kept moist, but ., s f in 'stur is detrimentel ences o pi. e . ' ' * •• e t 1 will determi th n s a °n°. 1- • a° ---° vary with e vainety of t ' 'th th ' or scouring la methods f ' tho right _ .. .to th ' di 'cl. 1 , , with in vi ua ap- . • eg effect of light on germina lea As the seeds are usually e01:- during a test, light is exchided . e .• .' • xi cciinrnonly thought that in some . • - s reht retardsg • ination , .1- • , • 'elm • • --- ,•. .--- DRIVING A PIG. general impression. Seems to r' • • that the pig is a stubborn, mule beast and must be forced along he • .• - . shows any hesitation. ' makes • ," ' waste is a, saying more applicable than in the of pigs. If a pig is hand- quietly and . given Anne to con- the propriety cif entering,- or : some strange place, lie u.su- Makes up hie mind to go peace• whereas if the drover is inuiati- and attempts to force him along, is eonvineedthere is something in it, and his impulse is to .away as quickly as possible. Then soon as he starts. off on a run he no condition to pay attention anything • but his one. impulse, is to get away home-tho orily he knows -ass Soon as he can. same renimecs apply to the of other animals when the Point of exhaustion is. mord readied in the ease Of the pig. quiet, even ternper and pleritY of are necessare- on such ()Wass Th g , , e - realest aeeistance that --. a Inan e- -- eeee loud ,and bilieteioue man eau u,.. under such eircuinet pees is to • - a himself scarce. lio not try to Moro stubborn Mai the pig, Give plenty of Mine to Gen. dot the el • ion and ' '1 you vo•d• creating ;; , , i y a I • inipreesion that he is being corn- he will, decide to go yotir way. _....-• PI.INGCUS DISEASES. , spores of the apple rots aro on the ftutte when they ori- the storage house. They develop if the Storage of the fruit 18 after, It is picked. It it Probe -- ' 1)'3'.':criarj-tfhiednra.1Qof f $4 ' Illosc It was drewing re omn,intaer'ssuant..fa.aaly4,1,rgaell than. evee ,tve, se,.,e noutlognegwtrfelY 'no snow plains . to . the writes, a correSpomR newsx:7aper, ,e, . . 1he lard was eery neetls must be thlt - - , - - , sound-clrownieg snol great red SUn fell 1 snow and iurried it. thete began to 'peal ; times forty steeples churches, thousands of soft -toned 'bells. The Holer Church Czar'fi mime,- Was , cz ple to the weekle . . that 'should leave' tin Wally unstained for day, and it Might 1 ry, on the morrow's ' IN THE CA'I pg,i no f, „, 44,. 1.4 ----L'; -...-- - - till of carved and , pu . wandered down to 5 se ran of e . Saviour's streams of people, a • • mg in fast-ruenins el ing f or their ••',e'.. -- - - ‘ ec - weekly shriving The vast dim intei ' . ing was in utter da s the doubtful - flicker , ca.ndles placed round votees. A. black 111, women, officers', and pe.a.eants side by e, bowed heads before I . - Suddenly there bee ‘ . alit the aid of ; mu • sic a molt an.) 9.2 , , _ ..- • •• voices, fioa.tiirigl .1"rloni,h 0 e altar, 1u1]ed t ea of the church .sounded like some •hi many pipes had suck] t h tl t .o urnan n•oa s. • STATELY CE The singing of, ti and .a second- choir, organ -like in sound a up the. song. A prim in a voice so mighty the swellie music -o t h gt th goal o c an. e; pre For a \stale the c deeps •• calling to e, - dim. space- then the . the sanctuary, which f ,ivera fiun oheaven, priests 'passed withi. swung to, an sang of a blessing Li of God within the g In the ensuing slier great rustling as th •themselves .three tee selves the while, an • / to their knees, and . • folded on their bract and graceful move/ , e „ .,..„ , "°r. oi I'ne -1-oll-se al their foreheads. • AN ' UN'I'HINKH It was wonderful, • 1 almost forced one Se .a ' .. such a scene could or a people stirred by s • • - :- itual impulse, uplute ideal. • The strength of it, was so oyerwle But ' turning to se, ' the people, one was 1 There were stupid faces, weak faces an but not a face in wh • any trace of a cl There • were signs, ,sis outward and visible . , . strikine kind. But - - • - ' ' . ' ' see, and pee far as I inward end. spiritual - • ' ' • ' • ' It is not very much , , at for the Cereek CI ' . on the 'credulity .of • • - provides - pensuous p unthinking people. 1 think of a so-csilled izatio the board of il . , satin • g up in the Sy- ersburg, do not hit alleged miracles of tb ing kind? . • . EXPLOITING I Being rather presise funds some time ago, I' d th th 1- ( .iscove.re at ii. divine in the south of infallible ed healing - were 'unearthed, and was canonized. .And ikoes-alittle gauay i o e net ., . f th vsaint,St lo"n - 'I • t exp lei g pi giinue a a milliou • and a half . • , 000) lance been m saint's canonization. The priests.: too, v tions, show lel-thing ir makes towards inepiro ly, -example of the col England or the yin France is seldom. le 1 sia. ' There, the villu fiti rig by the unseen those who wield rune , to be found drinkieg, their parishoners in t1 shop; and oftentimes which they riot has 1 their unfortunate 1 ' threats of obsolete p, ' • •• ' - ..--_-_4.__ • CONNUBIAL , . , , lerother-' .t trust, II' -with ' py- your hu eb am _„._..„ _ .. mime On, ,, ese as elm expect ' to h i w 1 (.1 ' • .' ' 't." thlktr,c; of himself he. '' , -- • • - • • or ne., Nen; wne• the ( _, _ .... ' , . DIDN'T WANfl"Pl ,rfe bad rit .1aet sum nee to f fae - / e re " - nee, ' - •''Is' ') ''''' ‘ lon,fsillnerli, Hie 'heu 'demanded : -Are you • ' . .1 ' • polling a limey, eir ' • ., llottiv--niT1 '.:',1.1i.1,,, Pre 1.,($ :Id 0, is "410 ``V.08.; ''j'" 'r 'IcIL" , and clown,- at the his way and as . a shiver would patallel As he of the . little book tocon. sum- panoraina him ,pAaslistince_ cave of lines • and moment since yon And now day of the and to, Maddalena free - I'al- in leer for the Isle life be- is to reception, on to distin- farewell- be hidden people haPPY London, ? -such When • and Word is hand to -go. Death, and Don Bald- I an hears, 1 dream: I of it. ' I s15w1y begins -of light, ;joice, but grow- ' a great ling cloth. I covers a ' lies On a heart • At the ' of , the . cathedral. • of can- , of the I the 'moves and the as.' To his of an eyes • to see— he The pain that him in . just ,. ••Here Alasdair shoulder. second' be Mad- a nian; pall, the them again . And I But , it i" notes a. right • vinth chiding Hector out of comilag me ? your aught tends binding and set- ER'S. PROMISE . . . tiles, 00 as to give the port with the least irk, siuc a h ' th • 1 - S' S • at ina cgs the Now " no says when ;jelled to ' his satisfaction, , . 1you 11 do. Come on . mane (thus . e speake . I , h • • sent me- to look for you; :' • Act start---Tighearna , that.?" • - • He has waxed sight • - ' • trait of Don Baldassare, , staggered; • his rough ' ,k. s in turns ash -color, and I like an aspen. All 1..taage an inveterare bread xid--Ti li arna t -4 r ' I a ' g e . . . le e is, But the elucidating wards 1 for through the . csoimorets, the sudden • noise' , le. • . ' t ca mg in the gardens of posite the palace gates; • , ringof steel; c M. t1 . • crowds; ' cornes " le nee a cry of hi= Bravo 1 • "IT,asten haste waits 1" ' ce e • A seco nd's ,pauee a i and Hector. is ready.. Her Majesty waits -waits black t * ' white,. to -day, but in white, all white, a very nee -mime a Queen., a b 1 rather, a new Iphigenia, to lay her he.zart. on the couatry : calm and composed, of eye and Arm of step. But there is no time to time to, let the thirsfy take in the splendour of • te • ,.sinip icity. Just one ;put his lifetime into a •hand, and he leads het. ring°, in which, lovely crowned only with her ,pass through her people. Alaselair helps him to black Arab, her gift. Bravo his right hand, Ramiros the generals behind. A. -fanfare, and they• this side a long line of purple, and on that the behind these, Palmettos, on thousand," • cheering and cheering, Waving hats and handkerchiefs and shawls. Bells clash, trumpets rifles rattle to the and over all the clamor, throats ' the indomitable "Maddalena, Ma Maddalena, lona. I" It seems but a step to flung door of the Cathedral, the Bishop stands among tes with Cross 'and tensors. choir begins to chant a bilation. Maddalena bends the prelate. Then the . procession slowly up the have music of organ • and trumpet sweet voices. Maddalena- alone, a clear space 'before clear . space • behind -the Tears blind the eyes, something ches in th e throat -G od so beautiful, so lonely. heart in all the vast Cathedarl leaps to her, so young, so so lonely. . Nov. she kneels at the throne, and so remains through long magnificence of the * * * - . 0! it is all a. dream..! The searching sweetness music, the plainieg of violins, hautboys, the piercing clarions, the subdued the Organ, the silver shrill voices -all the poignant pluck with persistent fingers strung nerves. It is a dream. The low voices of the toning, the flash and glitter vestments, the gleam of Cross, the slow swing censurs, the mysterious, wisps of incense smoke, the hush -a dream, a dream, But no, no. .It is no ''t i she it is is she, i„ s , heart of his heart and blood blood. .And every word sung, every note of music, movement of censer and her farther and farther him; - slowly tears her fibre by clinging fibre, come the moment when ..................neent . PERSONAL POINTERS. . — Notes of •Interest About Some Prominent People. ,a, •quickest - ae Prince of st es enjoys one pri- W 1" vilege from which His Majesty isdegrees... now debarred.Sl o long as His Roy-. al Highness remains Prince of Wales he may take a seat in the gallery of the House of Corrnnons and hear the debates. The King is not supposed to do so. . • A privilege belongs to the Lady , Mayoress of York, England, by. ine- memorial custom. It is the right to have -the prefix "Lady" before her name for the rest of her life. A local rhyme runs:- . ,., s...the •the The mayor is a lord for a year and , a day, But his wife is a lady for ever and aye. - - Mr. John Morley neither rides, nor cycles, nor motors, nor fishes. His only pleasure is music,. Like the late Canon Liddon, and like Mr. Algernon Swinburne, he is very iond of cats, and can no more withstand the temp - ta.tion to stroke a stray cat than can some women pass a strange baby. • , • , Lord Ripon is a formidable rival to Lord Rayleigh • as .an aristocratic . dairyman. At Studley Royal hehas perhaps the best equipped dairy in England, to which many ef the neigh- boring farmers take their:Milk- to be converted into butter and cheese; and the produce of the dairy is conveyed by carts to his shops in Leedee . and Ripon. " ' • . - One of Queen Alexan.cira'' favorite • • e ., occupations when she is at*home at Sandringham or any other of the Royal palaces 's that of aresifigin e-- ef - 1 f -il ' • g- cut °wales in vases or ie tables of the efferent apartments. In .ths matter Her 'Majesty has, quite °seep-. tional skill and taste, and, in fact, hes received lessons in flower -dressing from a Japanese lady; the Tapanase, re ar this occupation''S who g d s a . a floeg art, being by far the most xlful. a.t skilful -lt• •is a good story of Herbert Spencer which is not generally known. When Mr. Spencer was housekeeping near R t' Par,London,li' . egen s e was in the habit of personally directing the domestic affairs of his establish-' , ment to a considerable extent. The . • - • poulterer had not been giving .setis-know faction so Mr. Spencer called his h ' . ' - ... a ouSekeeper and gave her directions to transfer his cleStona to another tradesman whose shop faced the. do- .., , • „ , , , „ . , nnquent s. And, Miss Smith, said f "S th t' • Philoso- the ' author o. ... yn • e.te .. hy " "be articular that the Btet P , P • poulterer sees you • giving your orders to the second poulterer!", . ' The general allusion tooth° ruler of Russia as the "Czar" les, strictly speaking,- • incorrect. 1 -lis .official title is "Emperor and Autocrat." "Czar" , is the old Russian word for "lord" or "prince," and was •abandoned by Peter the Glreat on his triumphal re- turn from Poltava, his crowning vice tory over Charles XII. of Sweden. Since then the Russian monarch has been officially entitled the Erni • • mica, and at the Conbress of Vienna in 1815 his right to the Imperial term • ., was admitted by the Powers with the , proviso that though. he was Emperor he had no precedence over the Kings of Western Europe. . There is living in New Yorli. at the present time a, man who .is said to have writtee 800 minds. As, howeve or, •these works are in, Yiddish the author is not widely known to Janie. He is a Russian -Jewish immigrant Saikewitche. Just now he has four navels running in as many pa- pore, and for all of these four he has not a line Prepared ahead. 1Te writes as he goes. • Every dsna he makes the rounds ef the papers and supplies them on the spot with an -instalment and yet all .of Saikewitch's tales are ' said to be complicated in plot andWorriedand crowded with characters, besides "covering an . aniaeing exterlt of ground.", -• • ,. e .. • The King of Wurteilibiirg, whosaille ness prevented him from attending • ” the wedding of his niece, Prineess Alice of Albarlye is the' Only hotel- rt — .i ' it' When Peter eepel , who .s ,e, neg. the Great was ti•aveIling incognito tl li E h • f d t-s'tuat irotig Europe e le .uee o stay aeywhere bet at an inn. To circum.- vent this whim. the then King of Wurteinlytirg put a, tavern sign out- one of the Royal palaces, and, dressed as an inkeener, himeelf Wel- corned the Czar. This Moaarch's dee seendants have been in "the trade" over since; and the present King °wile tWO large licitele, ftom which lie de- rives about $5.0f000 a year • I- :PROPERTIES of ASBESTOS. • The terrible disastee in the Iro- • h. quois Theatre at Chicago has at- tracted u ' - r a," • • n e niee s 1 attent10 to tho singular 'substance asbestes which -. ' - ' can be carded like wool and formed into fire -proof cloth or .paper. As- bestos belongs to. • the hornblende type of minerals, and in genie • re- spects forms a kind of linkbetween vegetable and animal kingdoms. rt 's s M • A le Collins,t s 1 A. P.. a once 1 ' aY ' . - fibrous and crystalline, plastie and brittle, heavy as rock in the crude state, yet light as thistle-cliiwn. when mechanically treated. . The beet asbestos fier the manufactuee of fire- ' • proof cloth comae from bower Can- ado.. It Je found in narrow seams, about and inch and a iiarter in thickness,t' 'cit'• 1. d .-. SOM. e Imes vet ica an sometimes ,horizontal in the contain- ing rock. As it comes from the rock it , • is worth. $200 a ton. but the long - ' . ' ' ' • fibres, stripped ready for spinnang andW500 a . weaving, are worth $1 . . . , • , to • , .. ,•were A.,.CunicaiS CUSTOM. A curious custom bas jest been cel- ebrated at Klin, near. Moscow.. .All the marriagabfe 'girls in the town nixed, up in the princiPal. street, decked out in their simple finery, . • ng i pi• many of them also having with the the 'stock of linen, household and lc o 1 io their personal h h f r 1 s part f dowry. . The young men contemplate ing matrimony then walk -ad . down the serried ranks of beauty as they moved towards • the church, and selr, ected• tbe girls cif their choice. A visit to the parentstoar- .‘ - • range details was then maech de in e• ' ' and a date fixed for the _Core- Case, • niony. . , JAPANESE SHIP NAMES. .. In view of the periodic discussion . about the appropriate naming' of . . our warships it is of t to .. interes lea.rn from 'Sir Edwin Arnold that -Japan has christened.her big battle, ships after great mountains and the . . . , „ smaller war -vessels from some well- natural features of the coun- li. ' - try. It may also be .mentioned that at the end of •the. ennne of every, Ja- . • . .. . panese ship. is either the lemma,- ten kan or mare They stand as 3 • • - ' it were, as equivalents for our own H.M.S. and S.S. Kan mea:ns war- , e e . -. , - ea_ • ......, eesse and is applied, or course, oilier - the • Emperor's fleet Mare • • ' ' which means round, is applied to Merchant -vessels -why, it is diffieult . to say. i CRIMINAL EDUCATION. U Sarno remarkable details have just come to light regarding a criminal education society in the Italian city of Foggie. This organization, call- ed the "Alalavita," aimed at cone- mitting all sorts of crime, 'from • highway robbery- to kidnapping. Two . s hoots existed, one to teach ' the c ' _ .. . wav to use the knife, and the other e e . . e - . . for pickpoceets. A Jew francs wore h reed for admission and pupils, c a - •' ' ' . -- • graduated encoring to the pieficiency they attained If any one . of the Inembers was.. arrested other .men1-' bers volunteered to give pernired testimony in his behalf, while a few more took charge of the witnesses for the prosecution, whom they scared by threats/. Into refusing to testify. - tn Igor dew it.a.se's :h. nature 1 of whereby gs of wing 1 vigor,' '01ess ; a Spring ilood 10 .dobilitatib; inter 'onen, Int; sa Dr, ble that s 'been of pi3Opin )0 nu 1 ortlinur.c." Overcome ie a T tie ire Fe . a ing 111 and •named •filled at irritability, energy, atn- apply orieie are emote cone .. 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SaviotiVe, ow. ••tr te sunset time terrioore mut the • and redder see ,Eriglann-wax vn towards th4 west of Moscow, at of an quiet, as a land is covered witl Lint, as -an elOw the sea o • all to ruddiness rola all the fortj of the town o upon thousand of llussie., in th Ilieg all its peo soul's cleansins in free and spiri the fleshly hall e drunIcen revel Sabbath. HieDRAL. re.mlin, the capi inted churches, . ho great Cathed to which lore alking, or driv eighs, were moV kly blessing an ior of the build rkness save fo of some 111Andrei the walls by de es of men an; sheepskin-coatei ide. stood witl he gilded altar. an to sing, with any instrumenta ing choir, whos • the rigbt sidi e enornmes spac with notes thal go organ whom enly been turne4 EMONY. e choir ceased human, thougl nd volume, tool t came out, and that it dwarfed the choirs, be see of the Czar, heirs sang like ch other across golden doors of typify the gates open, and the . The doors d a third choir one the 'Throne ates of heaven. LCC there was, a e people crossed es, bowing theme d then, dropping with their hands sts, with a slow ent touched the God lightly with G PEOPLE. ' was moving. lt the belief that ly be enacted by eino. strong spir- t by some .great f it, the beauty il ming. n the faces • of lled with doubt. aces and clever strong faces; eh there showed ean inward life. ns and wonders, Signs of ae very o far as I could could learn, no bile. to be wondered arch is founded ignorance, and aneants for an int is one to spiritual organ - rectors of which ad at St. Pet - ate to pront by a most astound - SAINT. 1 for additional it was suddenly ones of a dead Russia possess - power. They the dead • divine now, by selling olden pictures- Seraphini, and his shrine, over roables (11,150, - de out of the itli rare exactly. their lives that teen. The hoine•- ntry parsan in age priests of • found in Res - go priests, pro- ly example pt mite-, ore often and drunk with 10 village vodki- the money with een wrung from Unto flock by rditi on. .13L1SS. at you are hep• 1, elesel?" happy as one a man who is 1 the time and, thee half," r1 T\ILLV, mimed op voine 'hen, to hie as. :teeing, paren eaptible of cage ,Ot?" 101,i(P, • A