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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1904-5-19, Page 6Sem lageeteace ,i geteereepowegeoectelegiemeet- elegree!neteeneesatowee. rethe 1 1 ink 9 c 1 0 e S ricc 0 .1. OR, THE RESULT OF A FANCY DRESS BALL j, - 1EJrif,,,,,,,,,,,a,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,r4,,,,z,„„:„,,,,,,,,„„,„21,„,„,„„„,-,,,,„„15.--,,,tr.pp-wma ClirEel, I say, can't you hurry ep a bit, yOU etwo girls ?" -cries Mr, CliffUrd from the halt below. it a quarter to ten already, and there ore five Milea to drive." '"Coraing! Coining l" ealls "Mrs. Clifford in a Muffled tone from above, It is plain to her husband that site has „something in her mouth. Can it he hairpins ? :If tio, experience has Izientht, him that another good hair - will 10t FOO her downetairs. She haa &ceded to dem le. Hilary'e esiont 'tonight.. which •is large and Ioftn, so that he cannot be .eure 'of .ber progress toward perfection. As a.' rele he is a 1oegesufferieg man, but mgt. his fee -lines overeome hint. . ePrings up the stairs three steps at a time, and having beaten a livelst tat- too ea Hilary's door bursts it 'un- ceremoniously open. "If- you think," begins he, "that yon'll be there before 'God. Save the Queen; you----" -, • 0h, there yonio, Jin','' cries bit; wife thankfully, dropping pearls, like the angelic, girl of old, out of her mouth, in the shape of a little brooch. "Come here nod set- tlo this thing on my heed, afici this brooch in at the Ride.. Hilary is in et.cha. hurryf Her cap had to he dove all over again." She Pauses /0 give hini the brooeh, and then rays anxiously -How am I looning, "Right flown lovely !'' sars who is n (Wight fel husband: so de- lightful indeed that his wife has rover fully realieed how very Much more comfort ttble the might be n Prue idenoe. hud only given bine ct lit- tle mere money. "oh, neeeense!" /Stye hie wife, col- orin tkod. making a would-be hung - mute litfle giiinace at him. "Ain I paasablee-that's all I ask?" But, in. ertalt the ie looking all he had elearming Marie Antoine t keein a gown talacie 'by her own clever Sneers ont of some old -a-owns that had belonged to some of the dead and gone Clifford datuss when the fortune of their holm was at its height, Diana has the fingers of a, ready Worker, aticl has got herself up to pet fectiou, with 'Lary little elq-- itenee. re,°allay being imPos- t.lhie \tint her and her husband at nny time, she hatyet managed, so far. to keep hereell iri touch wall the teorld around her—on a very limited ineeme, 'A difficult matter ahVaYS hut nUi impessible, when -ono ie of acknowledged good birth in one's ewe eoniory. end baS colninon sense rei eh:vet-ems, Dilary- hag; helped her a. good deal, theugh net in eny pecuniary sense, hitting a bare pittance or her own— teeth-tont only to dress her, But hee given much time and love te -the three children. and has been 0 source of comfort in many ways. She bud come to the Cliffords on the death of ber mother—that had left her entirely orphaned—and had lived sole, happily with them, a calm, lute eveutful existence. until three months ago. when a strange chance fell into her life. An old aunt had died end had left her enormous fortune to be equally die hied between Hilaty and a nephew (a cousin unknown, to Hilary), on the eonditien that they should marry each other,. This odd will had lifted the girl suddenly to a high plane, in tente of the ineecurity of the whole thing, and- the hateful condi- 1 lore The "hateful condition" in all pro- bability will be at this ball toe night. It ig growing late. 'rho flowers are beginning to droop a little. The music is growing lower—more ten- der; the ball has come to that point where every r one can safely declare that the evening lute been, a great success. The stewards have been in- defatigable. Thoy had looked alter everybody. Even Miss Boring, that / old-establiehed wallflower, MIR had one quadrille. Somebody had biteely manoeuvre/1 Peter Kinsella into the position of her partner; much to the indignation Of his euut, old Miss - Kinsella, who, lite Satan, hag been going to and fro all the eereiting, • making herself most feareully un' - She hate made a, point of going into all the eittingeout planes - under preteace Of seeing that the lemp-sbades are not taking ,flecs—in realite- to turn them up,and Spell alt tho pretty flirtations. Mies sena is the Tillage Tyrant—thel-Tere ror of the country. Clotted dote% and barred windows do not keep ber out, and 'her tongtee is as a •altar') sword. Eihe has a fine, strong Irish brogue that "you could bang your het en," es 31111, octal EL moment of ex/taper-. a t one -and ono great affect on. Peter is the affection, and 1.0 secS ltiiii danehageWith Miss Boring; "that distleraeted ould 'maid," as I: regret to say .the Calls poor Mies. Boring, has filled her IN11110red breast with, ragti t-Peyther,''' Jigged Out in splendid equipmeets as a red-baiced Romeo, was surely worthy of te bet- ter fate 1 That he Red •precipitetteiy at the end of the quadrille gave , his aunt seine saran coneoletion. Supper is over. So are the .sup- per /lances. The usual programme has been agein restored to its piece. The fiddlers are in 'great form now, having bee h let loose one bY one, to go into a room behind them, where an ample supper has been arranged lety the committee' for.' theee most 'principal components of the evening's joys. One° more they are their places, prouder of mien when they lett, and eager' to begin, upon their instruments mice more. Sweeter, 'Wilder, 'shriller ring the notes. They seem to carry all be- fore_ them. The' daneieg,is indeed at its height when Dian a Clifford, en- tering the ball -room. with old Gene' eral Weekes, is accosted: at the door- way: by a small, very mneh bee paiuted and bedizened Ainazon, whose petticoats are as nearly up to her knees EIS the laws of the land permit. She is quite.. a young wo- man .au.d. Very pretty, :and smiles at Diana out of two handsome dancing eyes, t h eitly bin ekened abOlit the lids, and with two lips as red as steronlion eau make them. , She is followed by a bevy 'of young' men, cousphatous among Neiman is One, very tall and dark, who is looking rather . intently at it:qrs. Clifford . This young man is in plain clothes; "Haven't been able to get a word with you ell the evening," says Mrs. De -soil -Moore,. in her excited, iast way; and with 'a great deal of- .Etee there "Where have you 'been hiding yourself, and with whom ? Better not ask that, I suppose. I Want to introduce a Irked to you." She gives a rapid glance aver all her at- tendant swains, so rapid. that Diana fails to know which among ethe crowd is the particular friend in question. staying with me, you know. b0y$ he wants to meet yon. Mutual acquaintances, I sup- pose ?" Here sbe mutters harriedly, "Mr. (Diana does not hear the /lame - "Airs. Clifford," tuid storms away again, with her train no Whit -:(1e- creased, as (hiring her pause with Dianna she has managedto annex the olci general. This defection on the elderly war- rior's part. leaves Diana alone; gee- ing lAankly into the face of the tall , young Matt in plaia clothes. who is looking not a little amused. My mama is 'leer," says he .plette- antly, "Frederic Ker. We aro cone sins, I 'think." , Diana makes, a. little movement. The, belt has fallen then!. This is the unwelcome suitor. ,Thes is Iffileryte fate. . • - A second later ehe has sufficieetly recovered herself to . acknowledge If that, so far as appearance goes„ ; Hilary's fate is by no means to be despised., Frederic Ker, if not 0- 8 11 Adonis, IS Uncommonly eood-looking. He is a Mart, well - set -up young man, :of about twenty- eight, with dark gray eyes aria a very handsome bead, efit'4"*."')V...4**.lf******elKentili-Oirlots "I only arrived Ave minutes ago,". ed, bad wired to Mrs, 4 11 ),VS0- SO'S Ken, still looking rather meow,- FOR FAR.MERS "1 111,}oro to tell her not to trouble Ile about me, but Lo go on to her dtmee, and that, if 1 had the energy, g ,f/eateonatile and Proftteliie would fellow bee there. I knew '1 leinte far tho Busy ehould I have the energy. You will ef the Soii. it ttederstand why." ''You wetted to see my sister ?" 14.4144')****10*9•3ieb-14-e--Vieht3(.1.43 S113,8 Diana, regarding him closely. "Yes. Tim energy all lay in that. You Lean imagaine 1 had some c teri0e- Ity." Airs, Clifford would have answered this leading question naturally enough, but, that the light, almost quizzicel character 91 his torte an- noys her. "She reels curiosity too," says she a little coldly. "Ah ! Bat not so strong; as mine. I am hoei—looking for her. But "She certainly is not looking for you," says Mrs. Clifford, dropping gracefully- into the seal; behind her. "Doe't be angry with me," says Ker, taking ce modest corner of the heuege, and looking at her with be- mercial ancl ivofessional lines aro. eeeching eyee. "1 would, believe me echoing the sentiments of the drum- mer. As they sit at their rollatop desks in spacious offices or wend their way across the country in the Pull- mans the vision of future happiness 12 idly impreesed on the minds of nine out of len of these metropolitan thilers, resolvet itself into a pictere of a cozy rural domicile surrounded by waving fields of grain and verdant grassy slopes with sleek herds and flocks grazing thereon. For since the days of primitive man there has al- ways been inherent i11 the heart of Mankind a loVe of nature and the sights and scenes which make her lovable. And not only are they affected by a sentimental desire to live close to nature's bosom, but they see also the financial advantage of farming as a business, where by ekereising a rea- sonable degree of economy' and ener- THOUGHT IN FARMING, In a conversation with a commerci- al traveller the other day, he express - sed the belief that any young man displayed xvisclem who saved hie money and purchased a farm, "for, said the knight of the grip, "the tune always comes when it is necessary for, a Man to make a change, and some- times it is forced upon him unexpect- edly, and he is Wise who is prepared for steal an emergency, With a com- fortable little farm home for himself and family to fall back upon, he does not feel the dread of dismissal or res- ignation." Hu»d:reds of others engaged in Lima - I be wen out or all this." "You nman--?" Tbat,'' with extraordince-y 0qm-- ego, but the most perfect reir--an air to disarm any one—"it is detestable to me to seek marriage with.--" Tin hesitates. His eyes, however tire ,Perreetly frank. Diana is cone scions et the fact that she admires bine. There certainly: is something honest ebout lmn 'ff;lo on says she. "1 know. 'With a woman you do not love.' a woman -who does not love tee i" '1'.hat »lakes a stronger case," "I, don't know that. , But," says Diana anxiously, "if there is no love on. either side—for--any outsider—. any third pereon--" She breaks off and looks at him earnestly. You ore heart -whole ?" asks she. Kos laughs. His laughter, at all events, sounds heart -whole and very reassuringogy their labors.may result in a good rliere is nothieg--nothingl" says livelihood and an evenetual comPet- lm, witil a little suggestive move- ency. Experience has proven that the ment of his hand. "But your sis- man who owns a farm and sticks to ter—that is more important." it is "Olig no I The man is alw-tys ,hhe more. important. lf he love‘,--. SURE OP A CERTAIN PROFIT, "Well- ? It he does ?" Stick-to-it-lye/less and patience are He seems etleva;vs a little amused, two traits of character very essential as if the whole thing is of no •real to a sueceesful agricultural career. consetmence—trea.ting , it as a mere There are farmers and farmers. There entr'acte as it it ere. is no good farmer .anywhehe, who is :it wouldn't do," says Dianablessed with a reasonable Intelligence If• you had an affection elsewhere, and a robtist conetitution, who can - 2101.0 sill, bent on this marriage not make a very comfortable living with—my eister, you would always for himself and family. revenge the loss of your love on her The farmer has his 'trials and (115 - That sounds very tragical," sae's coura,gements, multitudes of them. So ker. "However, there will be no do men engaged in every- other trade revenie—because there is no ''prior ender the sun., froixt the round -should - attachment.' That's the right name ered pack -peddler with untrimmed for it isn't it ?" He Dicke up the fan that is lying- ihiiisrstlt‘t,es to the country par•son with ayward flock. It is too ,rue that the farmer ip . ' affected by elemental c,ontliti,ten_s more seriously than are his brethren in other pursuitsThe weather may make or ina1. his worldly wealth ,erhe "sophisticated" metropolitan dweller, who aspires to agricultural on her knees and opens it., "Your sinter is bore Coenight ?" "'Ye—es. Not exactly here, but,— eomewhere.'' She looks el erly round, as -if to see HilarY, and colors warmly. , "Of course, you would like to be introduced to hee. It is only iartteral. But---"' st Mile sitting in his fiftieth r "*Well, I Si10.1ad ." sa,vs the young conquest man frankly. "lint if you wouthink 'it storey office, mapping out his plan of better to wait; if it ld ann.oy campaign, oftentimes forms a very er- her------, -roneous conception of the duties that "You Seep you came so late, and (1712 0115 olee upon the financially successful WC shall be going directly, and---" tiller of the son. He labors under "If you would even point her out the impression that be can prepare to nie." . his ground, sow his crop, and then "I shall, of course, when I see her sit complacently in the shade of some says Diana,. "Bat evert if I don't giant oak or elm and smoke his pipe there is plenty of time before us, until the harvest. Have you an engagement for to -mor- To those of us who have sp'ent long row, or will you conic and lunch year e of unremitting toil in evolving with es?" ' and operating new schemes of suc- "Delighted," says Ker. "I don't cessful cultivation to conform to think Mrs. -Dyson-Moore has any- changed soil and clirnatie conditions thing on /or to -morrow." so as to insure a crop, and have toil - "Have you told her anything about' ed unceasingly and often unsuccessful - this extraordinary- will e" asks Mro.. iy for the eradicatiou of the insect Clifford anxiously. 1 -Te shakes his hea.d. pests which at certain seasons of the "I have. not spoken of it to any. year malie life miserable, such an idea one. Why should I? I expect it seems ridiculous. Yet observation will come to nothing—that your '318-i has shown that many persons, entire - ter will give me my wage without y enfamiliar with agriculture, have purchased farms anti moved upon delaya' rryo, arc eopieg for that e„ av them, without the slightest knowledge Mrs. Clifford sadly. . s a° of the work they were undertaking. am not indeed. A YOUNG TECHNICAL MAN But the whole thing is so absurd, so was preadly"telling to a few- friends (a- am not, I ,.. ' • • • • • ,. impossible.'' "aaal yet." regretfully: "it is such recently about a little farm he had purchaeed. t`1 want to get married," said he, and I decided the farm was the only place for married life, so I bonght forty acres. We are going to raise chickens and vegetables for the market. 1 ean get the ground „To see,,, wile e rather emended ready and plant the radishes. lettuce a great deal of money. It seems a pity to let it go. • "It, does a" • He seems made of rankness, _Mrs. Clifford tells herself.' looks 81 1111- "That's why I've wine Illmemonamoomerrestosomaxaextr Lasti re f Rohl g iles A Chronic; Case of Unusual SeveNty and Long Standing Cured by r. Chase's Ointment, Throughout Canada there tire hun- I ()roes, of ,ca.ses similar to tile, one de - Neighed below 311 which fir, Chttee'ti Ointment has proven. 11 positive told cure far the 11140.1, SeVere, larva of itching piles. Ara Alex, Marattighlin, for ;30 yeare resident of Ilea-tett/Sri Ile, Ont. 1 WriteS "POT ears 1 uffered., from atelting piles, rind only persr;eS who have been troublert with filet an- noying dieeitee ean imagine what I eeditral (luring that time. About meven ylatrs ago I 11"1O (1 111 l7," 24 he had atlything to aura me, ?To Setti that Dr, flbase's fiintraent wos rnont favorably Spoken of, end on hirirecoroilleedatioti I tool 0. laix. "After three applie(ttione I felt bet- ter, aud by the tinee 1 Clod rated one liox .1 Igoe on a fair Ivey Lb reco\-- eoese I continued tile treatment 1211- 1. t thoi 01t3.,bly cured, aed 1 hove Pot etuffered any rlitlee. AMOY can- _ \anted 1.1311 1, 1 he aia 101(411. 3138 (10 a perfect, cure, eonsider. "Dr, Che' a ()131tment e71 invaluable, treatment for piles. In nay eerie 1 think the cure wee re1. - marketble wheat ;you consider that tem gotLinfe up in veers, and 3131(1 been. e( 140 long a .t.;tifteret.' front 11135 disease." eMa', 37112.0 R. a eti t , orth 0 ran- Culnberland Co., :t•T,S., writes 'ea st spring 1 nbtniac(1front you a 1,,ox of Dralliaseae taintanent ad used it for itimal*C1. pilez. It geve nie nbreist in:data relief from the torthring, itching and Intening, and as the. trouble. has /weer 1.01, timed eoneider the cure rt permanent one. You may one this etetentent, for the Iseafit of othere." lea Cheer's ()thrown!, no cords o hog, at all ele(thea, Or aitinIztlettea. Hates a: Coo 1' Toronto, 'Po 121(2 7, tett tan" 3)(1)t 1(77)4 111411)or. 1,(1)1, atid 3 13.,03t1111.0 nI Pj A, Chnse, the anomi8 rreeipt bok Av -Cher are On 61'ery 1J021, glance, if you would like Hilary?" "That's a horrid way of putting it. To see if she would like' me. But now that 1 ha,ve see.n. you—" "Seen ?" "I fee) she will be too good for nee." He pcoeses. '`Is she—like you?' At this moment 11, oceers to Diana that her neW 6002.111 seemsdistinctly inelleed to enter into a mild flirta- tion' with her. 'Ellis annoys her the more, in that it denotes Ilia' litter abgenee of earneeteese about this affair with Hilary. rhere were never two sisters so ealike," says ahe coldly. "As you 27/111 e clot o tel ed ga when you see 1.1.,thiry. And D.OW if you. keine no- body here, ean't 1 got you a part- ner ? That ;votiug lady over there, the Swiss peasant, doeen't seem to be attached--" At tins inernett, the peasant under view comes epaickly up to Mra. Clifforere side, alai 'drops heavily on o tbo seet beside het.. 011, Mrs. Clifford, I feel so faint—, - ill " 5(1113 5110 and indeed the pal- lor of 1100 bps and eheeles speak for the trnth of bee aseertion. Diamt turns hurriedly to Ke2'11 11 . you run downstairs, and bring me a g•laete of water ? At once. !'' "In a, mconent 1" eons Ker. 'He gets quieltly tbroligh the, people who throng 1110 31003 Way, and so clown- etairs, (To he Continue(1.) 0 V1,1R tBritts. J214) I itale lioye gambling for mer- les itt -the goiter at Milan recently ante to 1)10215 rp111,1a wet a dee' ith anivee and one 01 the boys, god natee 'CMS mortally: wouri ded, and tomatoes, and while they are growing I cen devote e1137 time to InY tetlinical work, and I can harvest the stuff and sell it at a good profit in the city," That to insure a crop cultivation would be very necessary pever entered his mind. Experience Neill have a lot of fun teaehing that fellow, as she has hundred's like him. Every nuin should aspiza to great thlng'3 to stvinging his basiness to immense 'proportions; 'still it is not always veigest and best to plan too large. We Should 'merely make ai- lowance for Food, healthy-, eonserva- tire normal growth. We all find itaunpleasant ,to take -in sail and cut „corners, Retraction 'should be avoid- ed', expansion courted. Farming, isonot e•t, prolgesion, but an art. To be conducted successfully skilled labor is required. The idea which formerly did, and even does to- day, exist in the minds of a great many people, that anythieg under the Sun arrayed in bifurcated garments could run a' farm, is erroneous. It is a business which, if suecessful, re- quires the laVisliaterit of an Untold wealth of thoudet as well as mutele. How often, we see a farmer putting ih his twelve or fourteen hours of hard ade upon hien. What is the troll- laboo each day', end yet mtable to meet, the ordinary financial dernarale hie? He is Working big lingerie to the bone, but his broth is ratting 3m- a, htful labor hive:Hal; brings miceesd, Despite adverse ceitilitionS, farming' 34 a Safe budiness, There la gOod living in It, laid thotightfully. coriducted the thane.nei of failtire are b(LitetfewIL.5 study our bitSirtees. ua reed. Let as .think, Let tia 44,44,4rr, worla For the farmer who does the% thinge there, is a jature and a bright One. ESSENTIALS ron Q114,LITY. Upon what does the Ctlia,1113r of butter and cheeee depend? Primarily Upon tile degree of eleaelinees exereiee ed in the hendlings of tile milk iron tIle time it leaves the udder of the cow until it is 'Willed 'Mt° the finish- ed product. ll1e0aSo11 ter thie is that the gerMS wlireli Proclac.) the de- sirable flavor in butter and cheese thrive only in clean placeane in a pure atatosphere. The aumerous types of undesirable germs are associ- ated with filth, Every duet particle that drops into milk adds to it a number of bad, germs. The particles of dust in the barn and those adhering to the udder cted flanks of the cows coutrilante Ipso quota of the undesirable genes usu- ally found in milk. With a reason- able amount of care, contamination from these sources may be avoi-ded. In the first place cows should never be bedded or fed immecliatelv before should be thoroughly cleaned at least or doring milking; end the learn once daily, and this atter milking, Further, it is of the highest import- ance that the milkers be Provided with' moist clothe with which to do a,s little as possible while you are dampen the -udder and the flanks of the cows before milking to prevent dislodgement of dust. It is wrong to think; that, milk is clean from which the -visible filth (dust, hairs and straws) has been re- moved by straining, 'Ile mischief lies not So much,Le the straw as in the bad germs that reside epott it. The numerous germs that adhere to dust particles, hairs aad Straws, are not removed by the ordinary process of straining, and it, is these germs that are the source a an endless amount of trouble to the butter trati cheese - maker. "' Scraper/Ms cleanliness in dairy man- ufacture is of first importance. The dairy room should be well ventilated •and should receive a thorough daily cleaning with hot water and eoap. The utensils are preferably plenned in the follewing• manner: (1) Rinse with warra water; (2) wash in »macre:Icily hot water containing some allealit (3) rinse in hot water, and (4) etearn or scald with hot wa.ter a few minutes. MANAGIhT0- TURKEYS. An old turkey rhon is more apt to steal her nest than one a year old, and they are sometimes hard to lo- cate, writes Ella Catron. The best way I know of to find the nest iS to „fasten the hen up on the morning she is expected to lay, and keep her up until about 10 o'clock; then turn her ,out and follow her, and if it is her day to lay she will go direct to her nest, To keep crows from stealing the turkey eggs or any other kind they can get to, tie a string around the nest. If there are no bnelie/o to fasten it to, drive Jour stakes in the grOund and fasten tbe string to the top of them. A few strands acros,s the top will help. Have it so a crow cannot get to the nest without cross- ing a string, and he will never molest it, Bo not keep the young turkeys in close quarters, as they dannot stand confinement. If you have no lot that you can -fasteri them in, keep the 'hen in a large, roomy coop, on a dry place, with a hole for the young turks to go in and out at will. As soon as they' are strong enough to follow the heti, she can be turned out with them after tbe dew is off the grass. Care should be taken not to let them stay. out too long at first, as the hen is apt to trail too far and tire the little turks. —4. CAN YOla LISTEN? There is a grace of kind listening ELS well as a grace of kind speaking. Some men listen with an abstracted air which shows that their thoughts are elsewhere; or they seem to listen, but by wide answers and irrelm-ant questions show that tbey have been occupied with their' own thoughts as being more interesting—at least, in their own estimation—than what you have ',been SayingeSetne ihterrupt and -will not hear you to the end. Some hear you to the end, and forthwith begin to talk to you about a similar 71X3] 301100 which has befallen them- selves, making your case only an il- lustration of their own. Some, meaning to be kind, listen with such a determined, lively violent attention thet you are at once made uncom- fortable, and the charm of conversaa tion is 'at an end. Many persons' Whose mantels .wi4 stand the test' of speaking break down under the trial of listening. ' , • MUSIC AND RACING., A steepleclia,se mare named Fire 'eland, which won at Lingfield, Eng- land, would not take her food, and her owner, Mr. W. C. ClaKce Frost, *as thinking of turning her out of training, when it was discoVered that the animal bad wonderfualiking for music. A nmsical-bOx, playingabout, tWo dozen tunes, Was placed flea'her and this was wound up twice a day. The reeelt was magical, for within a few weeks the mare won two races. JAPS QUICK 'FI-IIATKERS. "A Japanese associates three ideas in. the time a Russian takes dearly to formulate One. I haVe sat in classrooms besid5 both," says a writer in the Fall Mall Gazette., and the greater length o/ the Russian thigh bone, the greater weight of the Russian niusculattire, go for just precisely nothing ctt all. Nowadays Erten battle not with brawn, but brath." OIL A. W. CHASE'SCATARRH' CURE . . IUU& C1 Ir tent dialer ta the Aileatied parit1bY the Improved Mosier. 'Nettie the titters, 'Cleat the sir paas6gel, itepa dropping* in the throat . and 'pertnitnently enree catarrh -4114 flsrFevr. Blerriet free, AU demos, Or Dr.' A. W, elute MedkIne Co,, Tomtit° aid Segel°. 441 sae** .rERSONAL Xete$ of Intereet About L''.04e7kee Pre' nrinent People, Queen Alexandra haa been eacturee thOl7San0 tilrleS, but 0110 Of tini Mest ietsresting nod least-lenowa presentments of her is to he seen car Lerida/ Driclge, 1.11, York, 1.01153811 IJ Her Majesty is ehown, sculptured id stMle, as an angel with flowing hair, earl bearing the Royal arms:, the Mon iste55 t t °unil s tQailiceaeb°1 eb.e in g 01 cver'Y ro- p Af Gertrude von Peteold, yoang lady of German parentage, NIS been chosen by the congregation 'as minister of the Unitaiiian Churcla AlarlbOr ()Ugh Road, Iailaeoe ter, England. She is an Edinburgh M.A. 1712 't von Petzold aleo Awned' philoeephy at the Universiay ef Der-, lio, where, however, women cue. not udmittecl to theological deereee, During the recent drnwing by lot; for service in the Freuch army, it' was found that the smallest con- enript in France hailed from tile die-: trait of Verpilliere. Bas name is, Jemmies Cbabaud, and he measures no more taan 23t. ilin., while 1413 wettest is only 11,e lb. In appear - -rata he is exactly like a ChIld of five; yeat's of age, although hie birth cer-. tilleate. proves that he was born on. jarmary 29th, 1t3Bri. Viscraint Oole, aeir to the earldom of Enniskillen, may confidently claim - to be the moot expert stoker in the British peerage. When Lord Cole Was returning. home in. the Oahir •sonie time ago, he undertook lor a small wager to piety the Part of a stoker between Adelaide and , Gibral- tar, and during the whole of this long voyage elle young aeiztocrot, not only tookhiwatch like hire feet, low -workmen, but plied his shovel • . as cheerfully and energeticallyeas the; beet of them all. Sir John 'I'enniel, who has just celebrated his eighty-fourth airtha day, is a capital swordsman, but few are aware how dearly the aettom- plishment cost him, Sir .10bn's father was a fencing master and dancing roaster in Kensington. Among' his pupils vere the late Mr. Horsley, RA., and Sir Percy Bysshe Shelley. And in teaching his sem to fence a misstroke deprived the younger Te.aniel of the sight of one eye. The distinguished di aughte- man has done his life's work at this disadvanta.ge. Father John of Cronstadt, who has prophesied that the war against Japan will eontinve for twenty-five years, is really the Rev. .robri Ser- gleff, one of the priests of St. 'An- drew's Cathedral 3m tbe famous for- tress city. After the Czar, he is and has been for years the greatest man in Ruseia, by -virtue of his' Piste, and reputed power of 119,11,111g. People of the highest rank, as well as the poovest peasants, go to him; for help. Ile '.vas summoned to the death -bed of the Emperor Alextencler, and wben the 'present Czar was stricken with tYphoid in Teta/tells, nubile opinion necessittetect that the Imperial doctors should be reinforced.' by Father John's healing touch. Sir John McIntyre, a former Minis- ter of Lands in the Victorian Legis- lature and several times Mayor of- Bendigu, who has just died in Ivrei-- bourne, was a Scotch lad whose ambition was fired by a bill display- ed by a .Glasgow shipping house de- scribing how a nugget of 42 lb. weight had been found at the Turn diggings. With four acquaintances as adventurous as himself, he sailed from the Clyde to the Antipodes in 1852. He had little money, and order to -yarn sufficient to take him' to Bendigo he took employment on landing as a storekeeper. Thep he, started on a three weeks' tramp to the gold -fields. He and Ids ;owe friends took up a, claim, and at' at depth. of 14 feet struck gold. At! the end of a• week they had made ai prifit of $500 each. This was the; ' beginning of Six John's successful career. RESULT 01' NILE DAM, Reservoir Has 'Proved Its reeful-' ness Already. Sir William- Willeocks, the femme engineer who designed the Thie 6aaa, states in a pamphlet just issoedbl - him that the first year's working of ' the Assouan reserYoir has glace.' great satisfaction. ' , When the Nile was at its lowest! last May tne teservoir added 200, cubic metres per second to the sup- • ply available for ieriga.tion, 8.1111 w,as finding one third pf the. water wine was being utilized in Ekypt. Sir William Willcocks states that, the total ix riga,tion area of Egypt Six and a quarter million acres, and. the land value is L270,000,000, It it, were possible to perennially irri- - gate the 2,000,000 acres which are noW without such irrigation, what now averages ,C,25 per acre would be , increased to 1;30 pee acre. Egypt has now the germ el all the water storage works sho• nixie*, but Sir William Willeocks invore the raising of the 'Assouan dein at a cost . of X.500,000, told the eomple- +ion of the Lake Motais project at e cost of d12,600,000, the plans and estimates for which were publifihedi by the Egyptian Governmene ' 1804. The two wokking iti cortjanc-; tion—the lake' giving 'the supply, 'o13.. the. eerly.. /Amman' tuld the 'Aesimato reservoir that of the late summer -- would easiay, provide the.whole of the water needed air Egypt. ctirr Oh' NA'JTIflAL 0 LASS . A cliff of natural glase can be seen hi Yellowstone Park, Wyoming. It is imlf a. mile long 'and from 15011. to "190fthigh, the materiel of Which it consists being as good gloss as that artificitally manufactured. The dense glass which forme the base 113 from. 75 feet, to 100 ft. thick, while the upper portion, having soffered Med survived many ogee of wind and rain, has naturally worn inuelt thin- ner. Of comae, the color of the cliff is not that, of natural siesta- tratisparent and white ---bot is most- ly bhlek, end some ptecee mottled and streaker) with brovatieb red and shades ef oilte green mid broWn.