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Exeter Advocate, 1904-12-8, Page 7ha, ts' eh, rs of tif in of• tie le Dt of jil is in Is, ir- rta tfl- ect ng cle ,he DC- tre lip e he he ar, :he vae. 01,V 118 - gee. /0.4.01,00.fq OD 8 TERRIBLE SIIIENCE Saul Had- Forfeited His Right to an Ans. wer From His Divine Father "And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord answered him not, neither by Elreame, nes' by Urim, elor by Prophets,'P-I. Samuel, xxviii., 6. "Papa, where 'does God. live?" my little four-year-old „een ashed nee the ether day. "In heavexi, my boy," replied vaguely. "And where is hea- ven?" he continued, "Oh, Op in. the sky," I answered, rather haStily, I must admit, :Fle stepped to the win- CloW and looked. earnestly upwagd for a little- space; thea he bent liis head to one side and listened. At last „lie turned to me and said quite gravely, ari unwontelf note of aadaessir his childish voicet,-"I cfo hear aotl-lis footsteps." • The pet has sung of tlie longing to clasp the vanished hand -to 'leer the ereicie that has been stilled. , How* t`hften have we waited for the sound of the footsteps that will never cross t1e. threshihold of our hearts again! "I do not hear His footsteps".. -how sweet, how sad the pla-ase! After the teunult great is tlie rest of silence, the night's calm bension upon the 'busy day, "Be still" - and in that stillness-' know am God" was said of old. As with adversity, so also sweet Eire the uses of repose. "Peace, he. still" broitglit calmness to the raging sea. assur- ance to the frightened hearts. After the rending wind caine the earth- quake, after the heaving earthiqualee the fire, after tlie devastating flame the voice, and the voice was God's, still and small; and then A BLESSED SILENCE isi the prophet's heart. Aad yet silence! has its terrible aspect, its, ap- palling significance. Saul had sinned and played the fool exceeding. He had used his pove- er to further his ambitions rather than to help his people; lie liad put aside God's commands in the pur- Suit of his own selfish elide. Samuel was dead and the dreaded Philistines were upon him. 'What was lie to do in the emergency? How was he to meet this sudden 'danger? What 'did the future liold? Tlie affriglited king remembered the habits agf his youth. In his extremity he turned. to God. Nat in contrition, but in tile pride of Ms conceit. He was afraid, but not lieirabled; he was moved, but not to -ESUNDAY SCHOOL repentance or amendment. Itr seen a elate Of mind, in terror which de- graclech lithe still lower, lie turnK1 to God and besought Him, and Gad did net anewer. Neither by 1.1rim and Thummtia, neither by vision and dream, neither by priest and pro- phe tt ' Saul, guilty, unrepentant, yet 'afraid, called in vain. God did not , answer. He was 'silent. It is not seid that God, did not hear. He al- ways hears, but Ile did not reply. 1\r'hy not? 'Because Saul had for- feited his right to an answer from liis divine Father. Be had wilfully cut himselfoff from tae family, of God by his unrighteous conduct. Ile wanted knowledge without comply- ing with. God's conditions for elo- taining it. So hie appeal was met with that terrible silence. :And the end came at Mouat Gilboa, and Saul was a suicide. Of all his glory and his power there renaainecl but a handful of bones bleaching in the fierce • sunli ght ON THE WALLS OF BETH-SHAhT. "Pie thou anythingto me, 0 Gad, but silent," was Martin Luther's prayer. Let ifs not in. our hours of pleasantness so live as to cut our- selves off from God. Let us not by our indifference, by our acts of com- mission,. by 01.1r habits of omission, SO arrange our affairs that in the moment of peril whea the mind in- stinctively, turns to Iliina.-"Oh, my God!" is the conun.onest expression from human lips in anemergeucy- He will be silent to us! We can sur- vive the whirlwind, the earthquake, the fire, but not ubless we have the following Voice. Gad help us hi - deed if in our hour of fear, with our every sense at tensiori, 'dreading the future, we call and Ho does not re- ply! We stare up alto the sky and cannot hear His footstep. Yet 'God always hears. And what is ,more, He always heeds if we give to Him and to our fellowmen even half a heart. It is only ;the pure in heart who can demand. from Him, hear God. So it is only the pure in heartwho can demand from Him, through Jesus Christ, an answer to appeal. For the reply to prayer de- pends upon '• the spirit of him who prays. To hear God's voice, His footsteps, you must be in. harmony with Him indeed. INTERNATIONAL X,,ESSION, DEC. 11. Golden Text, "The Facie of the Mord. is against them That po _Evil," 1 Pet. 3, 12. fraerse 6. Hoshea. The last king of el. In verse 2 we are told that Piaci did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, but not as the kings of Israel that were before .15/herein he differed from them we are not told; but the whole nation was corrupt and the end .could not long b.e postponed. The king of Assyria, Sargon. Shal- arianeser IV had invaded'Israel, but during the progress of the siege of Samaria he had died and Laigon had .succeeded him. Took Samaria. There .are reasons to believe that Sargon had captureh Hoshea the king before the eapital city surrendered. Carried !Israel away into Assyria.. Sarg,on's record of this victory has been dis- -covered; he says that from Samaria he led forth twenty-seven thousand two, hundred. and ninety. captives. Placed them in Halah and in Haber by the rivee of Gozan ("on. the Ha - boa the river of Gozan"), and in the cities of the Xedes. The Habor (Khabour) is a branch of the Euph- a- • es which flows southweet through ti1s province of G-ozan (Gauzonitie). .,oth Gozan. and Halah lay in the Euphrates valley. The cities of the 'Modes were m.uch farther east. 7, 8. For so it was that ("And it was so because"). The national suf- lerings were a penalty .for the nation- al transgression. See Verse 18. The ehildren of Israel had sinned against the Lord ("Jehovah") the G-od. This as not a mere statement that the majority of the citizens were sin- ners, though probably this was true. But as a nation. Israel had sinned .against Jehovah in two ways: 1. In ' adulterating the worship of Jehovah, constructing a beautiful ritual (see verse 9) around metal images and mingling the holiest forins of wor- ship with corruptions of idolatry:. 2. In eurning directly against the God of their fathers a,nd worshiping Baal and other foul creations of the im- aginations, of their idolatrous neigh- bors. The consequences were such as might be expected. That self- indulgent vice prevailed to an ex- treme degree is evident from the books of Amos and Hosea; that the priesthood was }debased was a natur- al result of the action of the earlier Jeroboam itt lifting restrictions to eligibility to that office; that the 'sellers were characteristically bad is a matter oferecord, Of eighteeu of the nineteen kings it is recorded, "He did evil in the sight of the Lord," and the one of Whom that re- cord is not made 'reigned only a, month, Which had brought them up out of the land pi Egypt. The inci- cleats of the exodus were among the most conviecing evidences, and • de- cidedly the most spectacular, of a lona eeries of providential hedgings toad deliverances. Feared other gds, and walked in. the statutes of ti heathees They tuened from their awn high ideals to 1 ' Ate the evil practiees of theft, n nal neighbore, and, stectegest of all, those of the native Ohn aneites whom Jehovah had enabled them to overcome, Of the kings Of larael, Which they has. made, This "�f' refers to the word "statutes." The statutes of Oneri especially are al- luded to as infamous. 9. And the children of Israel did secretly. those (omit "those") things that , were not right against the Lord ("Jehovah") their God. The Hebrew word for "did secretlyh oc- curs nowhere else in the Bible:- Its derivation. suggests ,covering, and therefore, our translators have so rendered the passage as to show that the Israelites had sinned not only publicly but privately. Another mean- ing however, which may belong to this word is tliat of covering with decora- tion, and following this the Septua- gint tells us that they decked out those tnings that were not right against Jehovah that is, they made their vitiated ritual dignified„ beau- tiful, and impressive. They built them high places in all their cities. Sanctuaries erected on 1i:eights, in ac- cordance with an ancient Canaanite custom. From the tower of tlie watchman to the fenced ("fortified") city. This means everywhere. In lonely agricultural and pastoral re- giolas in Palestine towers were erec- ted for the watcli-care of the flocks awl gardens. 10. Inuteres and groves, ("Pillars and Asherim.") These were survivals respectively of stone woeship and tree worship. Reverence " for the simple foice of nature in very early ceaturies became elaborated. into idol- atrous systefts. e 11, 12. An. elaboration of tlie pre- ceding verses. Ye shall not do this thing.. Compare Exod, 20. 4,5; Deat. 12. 31: - 13. -Yet tlie Lord ("Jehovah") tei- tified against ("unto") Israel, and against ("unto") Judah, by all the prophets ("by every prophet''), and by all tlie seers ("every seer"). Com- pare 1 Sam, 9. 9. The rest of the verse contains the gist of the prophe- tic messages. Turn ye from your evil ways. See, for example, Jer. 7. 3; 18. 11; 25. 5; 26. 13; 35, 15. s 14. Ned s ( neck' '). The nation is considered as one body. Compare laod. 32, 9; 133. 3; Dent. 10. 16; Acts 7. 51. 15. Three phases of their disobedi- ence and rebellion are specified: The eternal laws of God, written on the human lieart, they had brokert-they rejected his statutes; the special com- pact made by their devout ancestor, particularly with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob -his covenant that he inade with their fatliers-they had broken; and the messages of the prophets - bis testimonies which lie teetifled against them -they had iignOredeTlie3r followed vanity, and became 'vain. They worslilppect nothing, and became nothings. Pelee gods are freqeently alluded to by the prophets as vehi- ties. 16. Left. "Forsook," The Lord. "Jeliovah." A grOVe ("an Asher - See note on verse 10, As a climax Of their vicious thinking and behavior they Worshipped all the lio:St, of heaven, and served Baal, Corapare Delia 4. 19; Jer. 8, 2; 19. 13; Zepli, 1. 5. 17, They caused their sons and their 'daugliters to pass through the fire. That this horrible practice of a vitiated religious impulse existed, even in Judah 10 evidelit from, 2 Things 16. 3 and 2 Chiron, 28. 3. That the children Were killed before tieing beetled May be implied by Ezek. 16, 21. Diviriat,ion. A practice of seek- ing supernatural direction by "chance'. or lot. ChnriPare Feeet, 21 21., Eachantanerite, Omens. Compare Gen. 44. 0. Sold therriseivas to de evil. Voluntarily became slavee of obi, 18, Therefore the Lora ("Jehovah") was very angry, Reeause of the per- sistent folly of the nation,. God can- not tolerate sin, and his "language is accommodated to liuman ideas." Removed them out of his sight, A most impressive figure of speech. There Was none left but the tribe of Juclali only. The "tribe" hero stands for the kingdom of Judah, and • it Wes "left" only a hundred and thirty or tliirty-five years longer. f THE DOGS OF LABRADOR RETRIEVE THE COD THEIR 111A.STERS HOOK. =Woman They Are Wolfish in Manner and Looks and Ira.rdly irs Dogs traiacl eted. oCatch fien are am:mg the features of every -day lite on the barren snores of that distant part of Labrador which belongs to Newfoundland. The cod fisheries along the 1,100 mile e of LEubrador's coast yield about one-fifth of Newfoundland's total catch and furnish employment annu- ally to thousands of fisher folk. They lisli witli lines from 10 to 200 fa- thoms long, two men to a boat, and each man using two headlines. The usual bait is capelin. When flsh are plentiful it takes a very short time to fill a boat with. cod. A number of the fishermen have trained. dogs to assist them itt catch- ing ilsh. The rapidity with. 'which the fislier- men haul up their long lines when they feel a bite robs the fieh almost entirely of life and breath by :the time it rea.clies the surface of the sea. It comes to the top as completely ex- hausted as a salmon that has been played by an angler until he can tail it with his hand and so avoid the necessity of gaffing. It is one thing, however, to bring a heavy cod to the surface of tie!) water and quite an- other to get it into the boat. Gaffe and landing nets are unknown to these toilers of the sea. If they can lift tlie fish into. the boat by the lino, all is well; but this is often where tliey fail. • If the fish is large and but slightly liooged, as is ofton the case, the lioolc breaks away from its mouth when the attempt is made to haul it froni tlie water. The fish!, still quite inanimate in manner and in appear- ance, floats away from tho. boat on the surface of the waves. This is only for a moment, however, The fisher's trained dog, often without waiting for a. signal from his master, leaps over the gunwale of the boat, plunges into the sea, swims after the floating iish and SEIZES IT IN HIS MOTJTH. Returning consciousness', hastened by the new sensation of being taken entirely from the N.:rat= and firmly. gripped between tile jaws of its cap- tor, often produces lively struggles, on tlie part of the fish:, which add considerably to the difficulty tlie dog has in swimming back with his bur- den to the boat. The dog rarely re- leases his hold upon his wriggling captive until safe with it within the boat. Sometimes tliese dogs have larger game tlian codfish: to struggle with in the water. They are trained to plunge into the ice-cold waves in the spring of the year and to act as re- trievers for their masters when seal are shot from the shore on the sur- face of the sea. The dogs exnployed by the fisher- men of Newfoundland and Labrador are by no means the specimens of canine intelligence usually known as Newfoigicl1an,c1 dogs. They more nearly resemble Esquimanx dogs than anything else, and are often ,quite Wolfish both in manner -and appear- ance. it is even believed by many 'persons that the. blood of the wild brutes of the forest flows in their veins. At a post near Hamilton 'Inlet not long ago, the door of a house in which tin infant was sleeping in a cradle had been left open for a short time during the temporary ablsence of the other members of the family. When the mother re-entered the house she found only the bones of lier dhild. The little one had been devoured by 'dogs. Tlie Labrador 'dogs are excessiv-ely quarrelsonae and, wolf -like, always attack the weaker. All seem anxi- ous to take part' in the fray', `and scarcely a season passes without the sealers losing two or three dogs durhag the summer, from. wounds re- ceived in onarrels. Peace is instant- ly restored, even if twenty or more are engaged in tlie affiray, by the sound, or even the siglia of the dreaded ESIqviznaux whip used by THE LABRADOR DRIVERS. h These people have seldom succeeded in raisin p; any other domestic animal on the coast; cote, COWS and pigs have all been destroyed by the dogs. If over a dog is brought up with the family, in the house, 1iis doom is sealed. At the first opportunity his jealous companions will pounce upon him in the absence of his master and worry him ..to death. This is the invariable fate of any privileged dog on the const that is permitted to enter his master's house and receive the careseee of the differ- ent members of the family. The pre- ference excites the jealousy of tlie other dogs, and they patiently wait for en opportunity to avenge them- Selvesi. In the winter theee aniMals will drag a commetique, or eleigh, fifty or sixty miles a day over the show, They hael wood froin' the interior, carry etipplies to the heaters itt the foreste far back from the roOky and desolate coasts; draw their matters from lionse to house, and with their wonderftil noeee pick Out the right meta, °yea in the uxost pitiless starrtahe traveller Will only trtist to fee partkles. 'the Sagaeity of an experienced lead- er, he may Wrap himself up in his War and sealskin robes, and, regard-, less of piercing winds end blinding snowdrifts, these sagacious add faith- ful animals will draw hire safely to his own door or the neerest post. The counnetique is about 80 inches broad and 10 or 12 feet long. runners aro shod with whalebone which by frietion over the emeW ectoia becomes beautifully polished and loalcs like ivory. The commetique is weillioored with the Skins of the hair, or Labrador, seal, wear which bear or more seal- akins are nailed all round, with an opening for the traveller to introduce eels body. The harness is roacle of sealskin. Tile foremost dog, called the guide or leader, is Plaeed about thirty feet in. advance. The others are ranged in pairs behind the guide. Sometimes three, or even four palm of dogs are thus attaehed to one eorarnetique, besides the guide. The Esquinneux dog of pure breed, with his strongly built frame, long white Inc, pointed ears and bushy tail, is capable of enduring hunger to a fax greater extent tlian tlie mixed brach. But the latter beats him in long journeys, even when fed only once a day. THE ESQUIMA.UX DOG will travel twc days Without food. One of the mixed leveed rnust be fed at the close of the first day, or he is goad for little the next. In winter their food often consists chiefly of dried capelia-tne small, smeltlike fish used by the cod fishermen for bait. An expeht 'driver can hit any part of the leading dog he ohooses with his formidable 'whip. It is used, however, as little as possible, for these dogs, although tractable, are ferocious, and will endare little cor- rection. When the whip is applied won one o them with severity, he falls upon and worries Ills neighbor, and the latter, in turn, attacks a third and there is a scene of universal confus- ion; or the dogs double from side to side to avoid the whip and tlie traces become entangled an.c1 the safety of the sledge endangered. The vehicle inust then be stopped, °eon: dog, put into his proper place, and the traces readjusted, This frequent- ly happens several times in the course of tlie day. The 'driver, therefore, depends prin- cipally upon the docility of the lead- er, who, with admirable precision, quickens or slackens h'is pace and starts oft or stops, or turns to the right or left, at the summons of his master. When they are journeying liome- ward, or travelling to some spot to which the leader lias been accustom- ed to go, he is generally suffered to pursue his own course; for although every trace of the road is lost in the drifting snow, he scents it out and follows it with undeviating accuracy. Even thca leader, however, is not always under tlie control of his mas- ter. If the journey lies liomewatd, he will go hie own pace, and that is iisa- ally at the top of his speed; Or, if any game starts, or he'scents it at a distance, no command of his driver will restrain him. Invaluable as these dogs are .to their owners, the treatment accorded them seems ill calculated to cause any strong or lasting attachment. During their period of labor the fish which form th:eir staple food is often quite putrid, and in summer they are turned loose for several months to shift for themselves until the re- turn of the -severe season renders it necessary to their master's interests thee they should. again be sought for and once more recheced to their state of toil and slavery. They have been known for several successive days to travel more than sixty miles a day. They seldom miss their road, although tliey may be driven over one untrodelon, snowy plain, where they are occasionally un- able to reach any place of shelter. When night comes they partake witli their master of the scanty fare which tlie sledge will -afford, and then, crowding, arounci, keep him warm and defend hire from dauger. If any of them fall victim to the hard- ships to which they are exPosed, their master or their companeoxis frequent- ly feed on their remains, and their skins are converted into warm and comfortable dresses. • TREES WITH INSTINCTS. An expert nurseryman says the hardiness or non -hardiness of trees depends largely upon where Ithe seeds from wbich the trees in question sprang came from. Satisfactory re- sults are seldom experienced ;by planting in a nodhern country a seed ntal obtaia from the sunny south. By planting seeds gradually farther nortii, however, trees may be at length hardened and accliniatisted, until a seed from such a tree neay be reasonably expected to thrive, and mature its fruits. Trees, like people, acquire their habits from the cli- mate in which they live. The norbli- ern tree knows instinctively when the time has come to ripen its fruits. The southern tree follows the same in- stinct, being in no hurry, as there is little likelihood of real cold. With tra.nsplanting farther north its lime bit changes. The great trouble with most people is that they want to jump a tree from south tonorth at one move, MILES OF CLOUD, A great, cumulous thundetheact cloud is often nigher than tlie highest Alps would be if they were piled on top of the Himalayas. It is not un- usual for these- clouds to measure five, six, and even eight miles from tlieir flat, dark base, hovering a mile or two above the oath, to their rounded, glistening summit, splendid in the sunlight. And in these eight miles the changes of temperature are as great as those ovee many thou- sands of mile§ of the earth's sur-, face. These clouds cohtain strata of tomperatetre, harrow beltof freezing cold alteraating witli large distanees of tairw mist and frozen snow arid Fashion + Hints. , wiaAr PARIS WEARS. Nett. to green for evening wear -and evening inclocles tlie fashionable af- ternooti funetione, In matters of dress -red enjoys high: favor with the elite. It is racist effeetive in the millinery creations, however, hats be- ing particularly smart. One of the prettiest models seen this season is a liat made of shirrea liberty sat,ila, the shirring being done in elar'k red tin -cads, lending a ahaded effect to the hate 'rife brim turns up sharply at the side, and is caught in place with a bunch: of tinted velvet ger- aniums. The crown is a conical af- fair, without trimming of any sort. A. charming branette with perfect cornplexiort appeared at an exclusive hotel a few evenings, ago dressed in red silk crepe de chine,. The skirt was full and trimmed with: plaitings or bouillonees of the same material. The silken. bodice mig)it also be called, a coat, as it was close fitting and ext.endecf below tlie belt line in ripples laced with very pale pink. satin. 'The alcoves deserve a paragraph by themselves, Tliey were formed of three puffs, but at each 'division of the puffs there was a turned baek cuff, making three distinct cuffs for each sleeve. These were finislied with a narrow puffing of red taffeta gath- ered in the centrewith red and cream lace. Finishing the sleeves were deep ruffles of lace arid cream aced red chiffon. Women who gasped at the extra- vgano anrceth, 4.oefe trimming a gown with two kinds of lace when the fashion was first introduced, will 'be inconsolable at the aanounoement that two or tliree more varieties are to be added as the season. advances, As to the kinds of lace it matters little, for if the grandmother's cliest boasts a bit of real point or old rose, it will hobnob with an imita- tion in the friendliest manner. Few conalainations are more effective tlism point duchessappliqued to a lace with a net background, such as Lisrre, for instance. A feature of the season's dresser frocks is the high -necked dinner gown. Its variety is infinite as re- gards both models and materials. On the whole, the soft silks ha,ve first place for sucii frocks, but it is Hard to tell where taffeta, mousseline fades into silk mousseline, or where they draw the dividing line between cliff - fon liberty or chiffon crepe and chif- fonel In many instances the silks are so light end sneer and soft that they seem to invade the territory of the mousseline, gauzeand other spider web fa,brice. The white taffeta, gown when well designeid and made lias great attrac- tions. A model which dees not neces- sitate too -great expense has a, round skirt; touehing the floor evenly. At the top it is smoelced te the deptli of a short yoke, the smocking, form- ing regular points all arounid. .Above a medium width at the bot- tom, two-inch wide liand-run tucks form a simple finish. _The yoke of Vie blouse is formed of smocking cor- responding with that of tlie skirt, and the sleeves are fulled in.to deep smocked cuffs. Around the collar and edge of the cuffs are narrow hand -embroidered bands of taffeta, the ernbroidery silk being rather coarse, and of a shade matching the gown. The fastenings at the back; are tiny buttons covered with the silk, leops being used in- stead of -buttonholes. FASRIONS FOR CHILDREN. The economical -minded mother will be glad to learn that there are no marked changes in the styles for chil- dren this season. The rule is strict Simplicity, and whether the material is the finest broadcloth or the most inexpensive serge, the model remains the same. For boys, she middy suits and tlie Russian blouse are the only two styles. Of the two the blouse suit oeems most attractive, the long, fuel "middy" trousers seeming rather outre on a small boy. The blouse has a broad collar and is worn with a leather belt and full knee trousers. Brown seems to replace tlie ever popular dark blue this, season. For best, these suits are made up in velvet, velveteen or broadcloth: for every -day use, serge and corduroy are liked, the latter having special wearing 'qualities. Khaki is used a good deal and is excellent for hard Wear. Little girls wear the blouse of the middy suit with gathered or pleated skirts. Tile latter remain absuedly short, being even above ,the knees. Tlie exaggerateilly long waist still obtains. A pretty 'dress for a Small girl has a medium low round neewith deep turnover frill or collar m,ade of sections' of the material pl.# together witli insertion and edged: with lace. This waist is gathered fall and sewed to the abeeviated skirt, which lias four' :small tucks as trimming. The full bishop sleeves are gathered to a plain wristband, and the dress is worn over a.guimpe, or the low neck is filled in with tucking finished with a bit of lace edge. Shepherd plaids and tartans in small designs are Much: liked for lit- tle girls' dre.eseS and for boys' hilts, A detachable and washable sailor toi- ler is a judicious adjunct for any small child's costume, as it aerie much to the style without match ex- pense or trouble. Vol' school girls there Is nothing much • prettier than the shirt waist suit, made up iu plain serge, small sliePlierd cheeks or Scotch plaide, Tis makes a very- 'suitable divas for the school rootu. A more elaborate mode is on the same lines, but lias O sicirt telinneitig of graduated lAnds, longer in front and shortening 'to ward the backa stitelied, and witil a button In the centre of each rounifed' end, These bands are cut to form a yoke at the waist line, The Sante style of trimming is duplicated on, the waist, the straps cut from a yoke and the yoke framing a painted' vest or cnemisette, while the Elaine idea is clapliceted in the cuffs, the straps extending up on the sleeves. Many skirts for childrezi of school size have ,box pleator side pleats stitehed for quite a distance believe tlie belt, and finishecl with ticake above the hem, Oee of the smartest models for chil- dren of 8 years and above has a 3roke and straight baud down the front of embroidery, with the ma- terial gathered under the yoke and drawn into the sides and back, gath- ered or shirred soft folds under the belt. The front to match, the waist. Sleeves are full at the wrist, where the Guff snows a 'touch of enebrold- Little girls' hats are very pictur- esque this year, being made of shir- red velvet, with inner facing of shirred tulle, in white, palest Pini! or blue. Close little henaets of felt bordered with fur have big rosettes on eaen ide, over the ears, of blacX Eiatine while the same rosettes in various rib(bons of delicate shade age seen on babies' caps. LAYS CLAIM TO CHICAGO. Mayor of English Town is Heir to Original Farm. Lands, Alderman Daniel H. Redhead, who has consented to act as Mayor of Peterborougli, IsIngla,nel, next year, claims to be the owner of the land on. which tlie city cif Chicago now stands. He is a well-known meat salesman at Smitheleld, and lias an extensive farming and butchery busi- ness at Peterborough, with branch establislinients in many otlier towns. A slihewd man of business, lie lias long been coemectedwith public life in the catliedral city, of which: his parents were natives, and lie- occupied the position of mayor in, 1893-4. The mayor -elect lias a most roman- tic and interesting story to tell of his early life. His mother's name was Searjeant, and a few years be- fore he was born a letter was receiv- ed from lier uncle, who lived in this State of Illinois, saying 'tifat if any Member of tlie Searjeant fatally cared to go to America, they could. stay with liizn, and he would, at his death leave them his property. The result was that Mr, Redliead's parents went to America in 1834 or 1835. The overland journey was made in bul- lock wagons, the country itt many places swarming witli the Red Indi- ans hostile to all white men. Fre- quently their lives were in danger, and when finally they readied their journey's end they found that old Searjeant liad died a few clays be- fore tlieir arrival and without liavinee made a will in their favor. They eadeaivorecf to assert their claim to the property, but without success. Tliey next went "to New Oeletins, where Mr. Redhead sat up in, business as a cabinet maker. About two years afterwards tlie mayor -elect if to -day was born. Ire had a narrow escape of having his career cut snort for his slave nurse -girl, in leaning over a verandah, dropped hisn on his need on the path below, and he bears the scar on Ms scalp to this day. A year after the alderman's birth Ilia father (lied of yellow fever, and his mother returned to Peteeborougli in 1838. Tlie present city of Chicago steaanr'scrsagoon, the very land his parents left Peterhoriouger to claim severity y "No," said Alderman Redhead, itt- reply to the interviewer, "I have never prosecuted my claim to it, for the letter my mother's uncle sent her, whica she often showed to me, could not be found after her cleatti." ARMY RATIONS AS MANURE. South African Stores That Were' Thrown Away. Some remarkable statements as to the enormous waste of South African army rations are reported in the Natal Acrvertiser, in connection withi the prosection of natives for steel- ing condemned stores which had been buried as manure. The evidence, given upon oath, of Mr. Robert Che-ves, manager for Messrs. R. Spence & Co., of the Re- union Sugar Estates, was that two years ago, wlien the military. cone (funned large quantities of army ra- tions, he got 250,000 cases from them for tlie purpose of manuring,hi cane crops. This etatement, says the Advertise or, discloses several hitherto unpub- lished facts. Upon the witlittrawal of the military forces from South Africa; it was found -Wet large quantities of military rations had accumulated itt various centres, and the local mar kets were overflowing with tinned footle. The stuff he.d to be got rid of somehow; and so, in some places, the rations were burnt. Other local consignments were thrown into the see. The last huge heap of rations nave now borne frith in muninceet sugar harvests. Por several months truek- load upon truck -load of eases of mil- itary rations were taken to Reunion and elsewhere. The cases eaeh con- tained six "dozen tins. , These tins Were buried all over the Cape fields. The Advertiser estimates the eost to tlia 13ritish taxpayer of this one Consignment alone at over a million and adds tliat if the amount of ernes/ rations that were cast into the sea end consigned to the sugar estate on tlici soitth and north coasts of Natal were also ,Valued at would be found that several million pOunde sterling were thus dispesed or. - FAI1M HANDS' DRESS. rarra hands in Yucatan Wear heoit garments of spotless wlljth, Vim; they become) e'en siljt1itiy aoited, these hasten to change them. Work is plentiful there, farm laborers are. Well paid, and ehey can arrotO I)* 061.