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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-6-8, Page 71 GEORGE AND MAY. inthuslastIc tlecopIloo Accorded the Happy Lows • Upon Their Hist Appearaoce IR PublIc CHARACTERISTIOS OF THE BillllE. AlerIneesses what canonic relight labatve Weak ded--lIonte-tlrowtt Queens That Sieve Reen—A Peep litto the Private Lite or the Teeits—Tilary Adelaide an ideal motherda-Law—mars• Future Social Precedence ---Where the Wedding Wlfl Tellico Piece and Whea—Illemse or the Toung, couple. re. HE Royal engage- ment is the ab. sorbing topic this week, • coupled ea with the opening of the Imperial ' Institute. The • latter function, In point of gran- deur, was about ass refined as the i very first of old. crusted monar- chies could be e , expected to turn out. There la no doubt siboat it, British Royal 't tpageants are the dhest in Europe. Every. 1 thing is so well done. There is no fuss or bobber in the arrangements, which work eta easily as if it were the 100th per- •sformance of the show instead of the first. It must have been a proud twoimile toddy° for Queen Victoria from Buckingham Palace to tee Institute, not sa much so On . account of the enormous crowd thab lined the roadvveye but the great *spontaneous cheer that welled up as a greeting to her and which heralded her corning ab hetet a , quarter of a mile in advance. Many sights • have been seen, but that of Queen Victoria's • triumphal progress upon this oecaSion will g0 down to Insbory as one of the remarkable • episodes of a still more remarkable reign. t George and his May, no doubt, ha.d some- thing to do with the great public outleurat of loyalty. The pent up speculation as to • whether the marriage testily would come off -or not has been agitating people's rninda for e o long that the opportunity of giving vent •to their feelinge was a natural one. The popularity of the union manifested itself not only in loyalty to tho Queen, the Royal- ties generally, but to George and May in "talebearer. SOME OF MAY'S CHARACTERISTICS. Princess May has one great tharra—a youthful charm—which ie to a woman in- valuable. She has a clear oomplexion, on which the pink bloom of girlhood, the de- • Mims peach -like tint evhich great painters . are always trying to immortalize, shows in • all its delioate beauty. Her eyes are soft, kind and tender, and the mouth, though far :from perfect, looks as though it were framed never to liner an unkind thought. She is tall, and bends slightly forward in ter walk, while her voice in speaking gives ine the notion that it is a contralto in • 'maws. It is soft and pleasant, but the tone low and penetrating. A BRIDE THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. It has taken Queen, Victoria a long time and many anxio as eonferences before settling on the union. There formerly existed in Her Majesty's mind a wish that one of the Princesses of Anhalt Deseauer shouldbe -selected. This as whab stood so long in the way of the Duke of Clarence and hie bride- selea. A fearful storm arose in Royal circles • when a paper, which had managed to get hold of the fact that anathema was contem- plated between the Deka aud the Primes •of Auhalt, in 1885, printed a full-page portrait of the Princess in a special issue. ..A. NEWSPAPER VEERS THE ARRANGEMENTS. The enterprising journal had ascertained 'that the dowry of the Young lady, assuming she married the Duke of Clarence, was to be five million dollars and this fact was duly announced, and a few other interesting sparbiculars in the same issue. It was pub- lished at the wrong moment. The late 'Duke was at the time being slowly recon - ailed to the prospect of the German marriage, in no way agreeable to him, when euddenty this announcement was brought to his notice, and the way in whittle he was vexed was remarkable. The obnoxious paper did worse than this—it acoentuated ,Its indiscretion by having, of the portrait ib •presented to its subscribers, indite paper paper pulls of the engraving blocks taken and framed, and then for- warded to Queeu Victories, • the • ttPrincess of Wales, and the Duke. This was too much. The Queen lead it sent beak, but the Princess of Wales, while keeping it, wrote to say that she had no knowledge of •the lady, and failed to vunderstand why the portrait should have .been sea her. No doubt the Duke thought -at the time that the publication of this ,Tortrait was authorized and was done to dome his hand. At any rate, from that moment he grew inenbordinate, nor could sanything reconcile him to the idea of merry - fug the Patens of Anhalt Dessauer. Then teittle by little Qaeen Victoria began to give sui way, and she eventually sanctioned the k marriage with the Princess May, especially sus the Prince of Wales was himself so much Mu fiver of it. wHy QUEEN vieTonta CAVED IN. As to the Duke of York's alliance with Triremes May, when it was first mooted to Her Majesty, some two months after the ;Duke of Clarence's decease, she looked 'somewhat coldly upon the alliance. Since then, increasing age and the Prince of • Wales' anxiety as to the sutheseion have had the natural result of reeking her wish to aee things' settled, and thus the emotion has been given. As tar beck as 1889, a uestion of Prince George's union with the rimless) Merits Louise of Parma, now the •Princeas of Bulgare,, was under serious • discussion, re the young lady's people were quite willing that she ehould renounce Romenlean to IJOSOIRO an Engligh Princess, •eoens ANTERIOR Barman roma ermine. It ie a rare as well as auspicious chance whieh gives the English people a future -Queen content who be English Imo. His- tory hes to travel baok some distance to, find the like recorded. The firsts wife of ' Klatt James II., the mother of two relguing ,queeni5-1141‘ry II. Mid Anne—died as Duchess of 5eork before her husbandhs accessiOn to the Throne; therefore Atom Hyde, daughter of the Earl of Clarendon, sienna coeht Very well as a Sovereigns consort, However, hommgrown ismeena luster thistle and fast as the line of Mere legend mule and that of Tudor Wenn The wiveti ef telwatd IV., Richard III.- and Henry VII. were Engliehniontet, and so Were four out of Henry VIIIM. half (keen ' Opuses. At all these Monatthe were of maesterful diepottition and ilourielaed at a tine When the divintty whioh hedged rowel • a King incladod his nest -mess lemily eon, HoctiOnS, a noblewomen promoted. to Omen - hip heel to be tetated with the seine lateen ••••• obsequiousnees as) isee voyal husband --that ie to eay, loug as hie favor lasted. may"s ANTECEDENTS. Princess Vietoria Mary Augusta Louie() Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes of Took really elongs to a niorganetio branch of the Royal House of Wertertherg ; but the fact of her heving been born in London has alwaye disposed the English people to credit her with her mothers nationality. Her edutheion was mainly conducted in Ger- many. As a little girl elle lofts England with her parents when the Duchess of Tech, on the scores:4 economy, found it necessary to live abroad for a. little while,and the re- turned all a " grown-up" Princess, to be presented et Court and brought out in English arniety. Tire blooming May pro- duced the greater eensation by appearing as • comparative titaanger, and she wee im- mediately marked down by the populace as a highly suitable peva for one of the Wake Princes. OLD ENOUGH TO HNOW HEE OW N MIND. At 26 years of age, the handsome and charming bride -elect may certainly bo con- sidered old enough to know her own mind on moot things), and with the prospect of future queenthip this ie an advantage. Years ago Queen Victoria believed in mar- rying off her Prinoesees in their teens, but circumstances have tended to alter Her Majeaty's views], 'ceding her to approve of • Efighneasee biding their own time and choosing for themeelvee. Compared with her mother as a bride, Princess May is quite the girl still. Mar- riage with a first cousin from one branch or another has long been gossipped about for the proepeotive George V., on the ground that he had ecaroolyther met any Primmest who were " avengers by blood, only those who were nearly related to him, and ib is the general conviction that he hap done wisely and well in choosing the one who is several removes from him in cousinship. UNASSUMING LIFE OP THE TEONS. Of the quiet, unassaming home life of the Teaks at their residence, the Whibe Lodge, near Richmond, no words can be used in higher praise. The Duke and Duchess and their family drive about in the vicinity in tire naost unrestrained manner, quite dis- palming with state of the ;smallest kind. The Duchess and •Princess May, only mompanied by a maid, frequently go down by an afternoon train after a morning spina in London, a tiresome, worrying train that dope at every station and takes a tedious time to reaeli Mortlake, whiele ie the nearest station to the White Lodge. At this funny old world •place, which preserves its quaint originality in the midst of all the alteratione and improvements which are being perpetrated in the neighborhood, the Mechem and her daugh- ter are familiar figures. At the station stands an old-fe.shionechlooking landau vribh a coaelianan and one footman, jusb as quiet and unpretentious -looking a turn -out atimay be seen coming out of the grounds of any well-to-do residence about. As you step out of the train you recognize the familiar vehicle standing in a casual way at the entrance of the station, but there is no one in attendance. You may go up and peep into the carriage without even the interven- tion of an officious policeman! ABSENCE OF ALL POMP AIM CEREMONY. Soon the solitary footman appears, bear- ing on his ann a bundle of wrape. The station -master comes out and stands by the carriage. Then the Duchess, her daughter and the maid walk quietly out. The coachman and footman uncover. A pleasant, kindly word to the Mortlake stationmaster, a bow and sweeb smile to perhaps a couple of bystandermand the carriage roils awaythrough the fragrant lanes, ricb with apple blossom and the haw- thorn, to the park at Richmond. The sim- plicity and absence of any affectation of pomp, which is one of the distinguishing characteristics of life at the White Lodge, will be invaluable memories bearing good fruit in the after years whioh are to see the • young Princess Queen of Great Britain and Empress of India. Sorrow has touched the young heart and bowed the fair head ; but hope and love aro to blossom forth anew, and the soul of the British nation is moved with a sympathy and interest which is almost a revelation to itself. AN IDEAL MOTHER-IN-LAW. The Duke of York will have an ideal mother-in-law in the popular Daphne of Teak. Had she become the second wife of King Victor Emmanuel, or had the hand- some Duke of Teck succeeded to the throne •of Wurtemberg, as he might have done if his mother had been a " horn " •princess instead of a countess, Princess) Mary Adel- aide of Cat:abridge would have made a caph tal queen. She IS outside the Saxe -Coburg and Gotha family order, and le afflicted with none of the Saxe-Coborg reserve and shyness, which were occasionally apparent In Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort, and which mainly caused them to dislike town life and those ceremonials which brought them much before the multitude. INCONVENIENCE OF ROYAL SHYNESS. The Duchess of Teak is at home with the British public and " represents " with ease as well as grace; and the future Duchess of York promises to tread worthily in her mother's footstepa. Royal shyness is a pain- ful thing, not only to the personage whom it & filets, but to the people also. It was a great trouble to the late Duke of Clarence and has kept the Duchesu of Fife in the backgroand. The newly betrothed pair seena to have more confidence in thetneelves and to be better fitted in every way to en- counter the "fierce light "that beats on the probable occupants of a throne and which may be regarded more as a compliment than otherwise by royalties who are suited to their position. PRECEDENCE OF THE BRIDE. During Queen Victoria's :lifetime the Dearth» of York will rank after Her Majesty's daughters and daughtermin-law, and before the Duchene of Fife, Primeness Viotoria,and Maud of Wake and tiae rest of the Queen's grandchildren. Should the Prime of Wales live to • meunt the throne, his only son will take his title and the Duchess of York will beeorne Peincess of Wake, ranking immediately atter the Queen and before all other Prinocesee, aunts included. Qaeon Victoria hat ordered the wedding. gown for Princees Victoria May, and the material is to be given to Her Royal High-, nen as a birthday Present on St, Augus- tine's Day, the 26th hast., when Primrose May will be. 26 yeare old. Perin FOR TIM WEDDING OBRE;u0N3c. A suitable false wherein to celebta,te the marriage teems not to be easily Obtainable. The private Chapel ab Buckingham Paleco is too Omen, Westminster Abbey is too kegs and St. George's Cimpel, Windeor, not to ber thought of, issamittich as (Merano id planted there end his spirit would doubt - lees haunt the proceediuge. Sb. Paoilta Cathedra eernaine, but Royaltiess heves never taken kindly to it for domestic funotions although it fe the natiortel edifice and the ptosser place foe such a funotion to be held. Quote Victories, ho rot must make up her mina pronaptly for the Wedding le booked for the tad of July or the fine week ie Augast. W.* It is isaid thee seemly 15,000 people die of tosteitnatrisithia Now Eagleed emery year, POWER AT SE, Immense reltleStio0uLlnkeon. ifhe Great THB wonx Don ifD TED 110 iihY IT COOTS, POWER, with its re- eultant speed, is what the world seeks with evereish pereildrence says the „Leisure Howe. The average peemenger • —particularly if AIDerk can—may loudly prairie the man wave, lout be Is never anxioue to remain on ib long. Every hour raved is a joy to him, To feed on a pivot and sleep on a ehelf, even tumid the most gorgeous upholstery, is an ex. perience appreciated by the multitude in inverse ratio to its deration. In the Royal Nevy the object ie to Savo coals; and " ordinasry sped" is but a fifth of the "highest punkin" In the passenger marine the object is to make a mord, for to the recordtbreaker the passengers crowd; and so great is then crowd and the consequent competition among its constituents that, in the hoiglat of the season, we hear of as meat as 4450 being paid kr the the of one cabin during one rooming of the Atlantic. Money may mean power, es:mealy ; but in the engineering world. power means money. The more power pub into a ship, the more she costs to build and to work, and the more money she balite in. And the race for power ia each, that we have now reached a stage in which shiee nominal horses are not only in esteem of her gross tonnage, but also of her displacement. Aa ships get larger they cost more; but it is not so much the hull that runs into capital aa Mae furnishings and fittings, and, above all, the engines, not- withetanding the economies) that result from triple and further expansion. For expansion means additional power, and every " horse" indicated can be taken as worth £13. wORTH A FORTUNE EACH. Our modern mail-boate ale worth a fortune apiece. Twelve years ago £150,000 would have been an outside Floe for the very besb of them. Six years ago the Admiralty agreed tro pay the White Star Company £130,000 each for the Britannic) and Ger- manic; but for the Cunard Aurania they were prepared to pay £230,000; for the Umbria, £301,000: for the Etruria, 2310,- 000. The New York, like her sister the Paris, now repreaenting the American line on the Southampton road, cost £320,000; the Teutonic, like her sister, the Majestic, cost £400,000. The new 'Cunarders are rumored to be worth %million for bhepar ;but this may be subject to the usual max& for advertising purposes. The cost of work- ing one of thee huge vessels is very great. Even the wages list of those employed on board them totals up to nearly £2,000 a month ; and every trip, out and home, of a twenty-knobter must • realize £18,000, or leave a balancse on the wrong side. With ships thus coding a pound a minute to work, it may well be asked how the money goes. But think of the work that has to be done I To begin with, they musts raise 120 tons of ethane an hour. • Every day the Majeetio evaporates 650,000 gallons of water ; in other words 250 Maieetios would require, for steaming purposes, just the same amount of water as is supplied to the whole population of the county of London. • COAL AND STEAM. To ease this water to the needful pressure of 180 lbs. or • more per square inch, the boiler furnaces have to be fed with over 300 tons of coal a day, so that, for her trip out and home, the ship has to consume the con- tents of half a dozen railway train% muster- ing some 200 hundred waggons amongst them. This is to get the water into steam; but after that the steam has to be condensed again into water, and to do this quite an ocean has to be pumped through twenty miles of condenser tubes, which it has to traverse three times before it has done its duty; and during the six days she is monism theAtlantic, half a million tens of this seater pass through the ship for condensing warpath alone ! ID may nem a simple matter to upin a threw round from seventy to a hundred times a minute, but when the screw has a mass of 15,000 tons in front of it, which it has to' drive through the sea at the rate of 35 feeb a second, forces and quantities have to come into operation of which even the sanguine "Screw Smith" never dreamt. And yet a firstoslass practical dreamer was Pettit Smith, the Columbus of the mew. • TRIPLE EXPANSION —the system by which steam at high pres. sure is admitted into a small cylinder, paned on when done with into a larger one, and thence into a much larger third one, where, when its push it almost spent, the vacuum due to the condenser comes in to help it by its pull—has not yet reacher:1 its majority. The Propontie, Dr. Kirk's first effort in tha direction, was dthigned in 1874, and for six years it was on Ma trial, until, in facb, boilers could be got to stand the needed steam. When it was achieved, in 1880, or thereabouts, •Thompoons, of Autstraliasa clipper fame—who has not heard • of the Thermopyheithe fastest clipper Meet ever was, or the Pe.triarch, which held the record on the • Sydney track 7 no- re - tasked to go into steam, and their first boat was the Aberdeen, in which triple expansion scored such a success as to ensure its general adoption. • When a saving of 25 per cent. MR be effected on the coal bill by delivering high-pressure steam and working ID expansively, one can hardly wonder at the high premium at which the eystem has been adopted, or that engines; are in the inarkeb at which the Stearn, is expanded fourthly and even fifthly, or, perhaps more correctly, quadruply and quintuply. By the addition of the email cylinder, throe vessels have been inoreased in horse -power from 4,000 to 6,000; one of the altered ones actually dewed 1,200 toles on one round voyage,and in thine cases the coal consump- tion has been reduced by as much as a third. That high pressure means heat to starb with is, 3 however obvious enough from the tem- perature of Mile end of the middle platform, from width we have been looking up and down and around us. • SOME LONG TRIPS. As 'ate move towards the lower prenure we reech Inver temporetures, and on the floor &dew° we are in an ordinary summer oilmate, and can leek down into the buoy mill without being Worried or discomforted, The naill work e as rogulerly as a evetelt. Sone of the toille—the lbeester ones that run the Western Othets—ont a red within a week, but those that put a girdle round the walla have a far loeger open between their examieatiou. The Moe, one of the New Zealand meat heat% Mace ran from Tenoteffe to Auckland, 12,059 knots% With - outs e, stop OV A ;slackening, of peed ; and Over the whole jennies, from London to Aticklamd a18 carried her 6,250 bona of eargo at a :speed el ten •knots tia an one/Altar° of • 1,237 tote of thee, or, in otrhosi worths, She used but half an ounce of feel to arry a tore of cargo a HAN This it) not tho lesagest tut by a gooa my, Pato Now Zama boats, anteenee art Dsteriehe se Dambarton, weeb all the Ivey, out thous that trip, from the Clyde to Dunedin, without a doppage ; and there have been ether long rano, running into millione of revolutione. Bail to spend enes life amid this untiring ncovement 1 There are men afloat who have journeyed a million miles and more aboet the world while work Ing in Ouch engine-rooma, taking as much pride in this intricate meohinery as a Ha- man does in hie rigging. And there are a few master mariners whe have even run over two million miles on the sea ; and eeme of them envy the engineer on hie platfeem as much ats he envies there on the bridge .4. LAZY DAN'S DEVICE. The Fish kings the Bell and the Angier Does the Best. "As hey as a fisherman" is a proverb of general acceptance, but it is a safe bet that there are fishermen along the Hudison River who can grand discount the men about whom the proverb was) first made. These Hudson River men have a oontrivauce by Which they ere spared the labor of hoisting the line me they sit on the river bank or ou the end of a dock and fish for the festive tomcod and the eueoulent eel. In fact, they needn't sib at all if they don't want to. They may lie down and go to sleep if they feel like it, and most of them do, And therein is their laziness superior to that of the anoient angler, who had to keep awake or lose his fish, Like inosithgreat inventions, this promoter of laziness is exceedingly simple. It coll- oids of a pointed stick, a pieceof whalebone and a bell. The bell is fastened to the whalebone, the whalebone is fastened to the each, the stick is stuck firmly in the earth or in a crevice of the dock, the line is fast- ened to the whalebone near the top of the stick, and Caere you are. The angler baits his hook and throwe over his line and then settles himself for a nap. The foolish fish comes along, takes the bait, ringe the boll and announces that he be caught and wants to be taken up. An angler new to this style of fiehing, who set his line and went to sleep beside it, thought when he gob a bite that it was the breakfast bell at home and growled as he rolled over that he'd be darned if he'd get up. In rolling over he knooked the stick out of the crevice, and the fish darted away with hie line. Ie awoke just enough to realize that his tackle was disappearing, and as ib Went over the end of the dock he went after it. It took four man to fish him out, but he had the line with him and the biggest eel that was caught) that day. TUE PEOPLE'S VOICE. How It Frightened the Bourgeoisie of Bel. glum. Lest month the refueal of the Belgian Parliament to entertain the franchise ques- tion led to uprisings all over the little king- dom, and so serious and bloody was the rioting that the Parliament suddenly took fright, and paused a measure giving the ballot to every male citizen above the age of 25, allowing two votes to heads of families and to members of certain other classes possessing specified qualifications. The measure added at once more than a million men to the roll of enfranchised. •The agita- tors at onoe consented to abandon violent proceedhigs and to await the action of the upper house, in whiola they hoped to secure amendments to the Bill doing away with plural voting and perhaps reducing the age limitation from 25 to 21 years. The ear. render of bhe Governmenb under what was plainly the physboal compubion of the mob con but pro um a profound effect through- out Europe, and must lend itself mosb for- cibly to the aid of movements in other countries for the abolition of ohms privileges and immunities.—Beview of Reviews. "Meeting "—A Prose Poem. • (Translated from the German.) A poor, feeble old man totters along the road. His back is deeply bent, as if he carried an invisible, heavy burden. His eyes are vacant and dead, life, pressed out of them, has retreated to its last haunt, where it timidly, tremblingly waits for death. And ib is spring. Fresh green clothes far around the earth; the air is full of sun- shine and the song of the lark ; along the road a pair of butterflies flit from flower to flower. And spring has pity for the poor, feeble old man. It sonde him greeting. A merry boy comes romping through the field and accompanies him. • Confidingly he takes hie hand and strolls beside him. He begins to talk childish chatter. • He tells him of his parent% his brothers and sisters, of his playthings, his lessons. Yes, he has been going to echool since Easter, and A B 0 he knows by heart. Obtuse antl without displaying any sym- pathy, the old man trudges along. Absorbed in the morose egotism of old age, he scarcely hears what his companion says. This world for him is too distant. The way thither is so far for his weary feet. "But don't you know me?" asks the boy. Suddenly and anxionely, enquiringly, he looks up to the old man. ' Don't you know me ?" The old man turas his lifeless eyea upon the boy, a long uneasy minute—sorrowfully he shakes his head. The boy stands) in the road and looks softly, sobbing, ab the old men, who slowly and again alone continues on his way. Poor old man I Spring seat you your youth—you did not know him. Where He Rad GOISO WO. "By the way, where is Jones, now ?" asked Briggs. "1 haven't heard of him for a long time." u'i'mHbovh. as gone to the spirit land," replied Q "What bill he dead ?" "1 didn't say ho was dead. He heartwood to Kentucky." The Servant Problem. "Do you have muoh trouble getting ser vents in the counbry, Watkins?' "No,indeed. We've haa eight woke, five watresses and three laundresses In two months. They're thicker than huckleberries in August." A country squire, when passing through his stables, found his coachmerna little boy busy playing with hie matte. "Pc you know who I am, my little friend ?" he asked the child, who appeared to take no notice of him. " Oh, yes ; you are the gen'lem what rides in pa's carriage." Steaming a Frain Cake. It is perhaps not generally known that a fruits cake is greatly improved by beittg 'Monied for two hours before baking, and will requite about) an hones lose time in baking. • Hyrioa—Do you think marriage iss a lot- '!Heopech—No, Melted. When you draw a bleak in a lottery that is the end of the matter. "Did yell Owl gold in quartz?" Ito sulked ef the Wealthy men who was relating bbs Western expeviehoo, "In (mace l' was the contemptuous lei:ander ; " nem, we fOlind it in !meek I" TEACHING THE 'HORSE. •A Famous Trainer Describes His Methods. BE TELLS HOW Titian AU TATIOECT. HORSE to be sump- tibto to training musb be ;minted, full of son - ability, quick to under - tee stand and to pub his conceptions into action, writes Prof. George Bartholomew in the New York Prem. It makes no difference as to the age or sex of the animal; of course young homes are preferred to old ones But old heroes have been trained as successfully as young one. For some time I don't requeet the horse to do anything, I purtme this course until the home feels at home with me and looks upon e as his friend. I do nob use force in train- ing—nothing bub kindness. Sometimes I give the new isomer a lump of sugar or a handful of grain. Then he will come to me of his own accord for these Mange. That is a point gained. I have taken the moot vicious horses, runawaye, "man-eater," and by my methods trained them SO that they could be driven with perfect-, Inlet/. Kinduesa and firmness will accomplish wondera in training horses. There be a great difference between firmness and cruelty. I do not believe in being cruel, but I do in being firm. STANDING ON A I'NDESTAL. To make a horse stand on a pedestal, first of all I teach the animal to stand sail in one place. Then I call him, alternately, to step backward, to step forward. I may lead him, but when I give him the word it must be obeyed at ORM NSA I bake hold of his foot, keeping it for a few moments in my hand. I continue that lesson until he begins to think that all I want to do is to hold hie foot in my hand. I practice that until he knows ib perfectly. Next I take a small box about a foot high and place it in front of hitn. I lead him up to ib. I take up his foob and try to place it on the box. He will pull it away. I take up his foot againnhold it a while, rubbing his leg gently with one hand. After a few lessons he will allow his foot to remain on the box. After he consents to pub one foot on the box I raise the other foot and hold it in my lab hand, so as to keep the other in position on the box. If he pulls down the foot on the box (which he is likely to do) Iplace the other one on the box. When I have trained him to bear his weight on the foob which is on the box I have made great progrese, for then he will allow the other one to be pub up. I keep both hands behind his legs. If he atbempts to take down either one I catch it and give it a light rap, at the same time plashing his head for- ward so that he rains it and allows his weighb to rest on •botb feet on the box. Being taught gradually, he finds experi- ment quite they. After a while he will ap- proach the box and pub up one foot. Then you tap him on the other foot, and in a few more lessons he will mama to get up on the box. You gradually raise the height of the box. In the same way you teach him to place his foot on an upright bit; placed on the COMIOr of the box. I caa take a new horse and in three days ao teaoh him that he will strike a position with his foob on a pedestal. Bab, of course, a novice in horse - training could not do that. A NEW SCHOLAR. Sometimes I have to add a stranger to the group. By talking and pantomime I give the othera to undersband that the newcomer is to be a member of the class. And In this, as in other respect% the horses behave a good deal like boys in school when a strange boy comes into the class. The horaes book critically at the visitor, and, as boys do, sometimes persecute him. They will bite him, and he, seeing that he is nob welcome'will make an attempt to leave. If he does I put him back in his position. I pat the others on the back and make them understand that they must allow the newcomer to remain. He will gradually become acquainted with the rest. And then, with the others, he, too, will "pick" at the nexb new horse. After the horses have been brained to perform various bricks they not only enjoy taking part in the exhibition, but some. times when a horse is negligent or reluctant in going through his act, those nexb to him will urge him, and, by biting or crowding, seek to punish him for not performing promptly or properly. TEACHING A HORSE TO FIRE A. PISTOL. To teach a horse to fire a pistol is a long and diffioult piece of work. First, I teach him to hold a small, flat piece of sofb pine wood, about half an inch thick, in his mouth, or, rather, between hie front teeth. At first he will spits ib outs. I pub it back amain carefully, wibhout hurting him, Finally he will relax his grip to allow the ;Mick to pass in easily isebween his teeth. After a while he will shut his teeth and hold on to it. Then I let go of its. If he drops it, I pick its up and gently replace it. When he has learned that yon wish him to hold the stick, and that it) doer nob hurt him, he is willing to do ID. The next step be to hold the stick down below his head; make him lower his head a litble and tben put the stick in his ;math. That dein is followed until the stick is placed on the ground and he con- sents to take hold of it and pick 'it up with his teeth. You case finally throw the stick on the grouucl, say Pick that up; give ib to me," and he will obey. I now take a Beret) of leather, and so arrange a pistol that it can be fired off by pulling the strap. The pistol ia nob loaded at first. He must bo taught that the strap is the object he is to take. Next you load the pistol with a blank cartridge from which two-thirds of tho powder has been extraotred, then let him pull the strap, The report of the pistol makes a slight noise and the horse will pmbably start bath. Without reloading the pastel lob hirn pull the strap a few times to convince him that he is not going to be hurt. Ai ter ea ia terval try auother cartridge. Gradually she w him that the cartridge will not hurt him any more than the strap, Re- duce or iricrease the eound according to the way he behaves, tone/ filially you can use a full cartridge. TIIE 0ST DIVVIOIILT LESSON. Probably the moat difffouth thing to teach a home is the meaning of words and Dip language. I am careful when I utter words to make a phyoieal movement to federate their meaning. Give the horse the word, arid ab the same tline in aortae way show him ehe movementh yea wieh him to make, You want to teaoh him to obey the command to turn to the right. Fetch time you give the order turn him to bhe right, pet him approvingly, go away, and again tell him to then to tbe right. Continue turning him to the right mail he know e the meaning of the otouniand. ti ie by this pro. cam that one horde will learn euothor horsete nevem In the preSence of the anit owl T cell smother home, whith retry he mainline mem irs a didritit, by name, mums to inv. The berme who is ithrelep, his UM° knowe iro ia Bet WM mine that is , o iled, Red that he is not called for, helve mo °manually call the other Imrs01 John and ice learns that "John" is the' other horee'e name. In this way my group of 24 horses have each learned to know the name of the other. PUNISHING e Hums. When I am training to hone for any parr tioular trick and he does not go through his work in a proper way, I tap him gently with the whip, but only enough to attracts his attention to the fab that I am nob exactly pleaeed with hie conduct, 1 nem kali them into submiesion," for I do nob believe in that theory of training. Buell eotiree only Made to scare the horse, If a horse has etwoessfully gone through a diftip- cult performance 1 pet him encouragingly etmonin'ruecahllarsigtoht7' gehr4sIrgh.°°a(Siteoaldhbe7ser; 3darsabwalike alonglinbcreaadth or and seantemr9inbEgt4 evvillaye • bWr (se al got through that without making A WIMP= Ith WEIPPED GULLS, Perhaps Mils Word or Arlene° Wil Work • Wonders. English ways are not Canadian ways, but our Canadian girls may nob be averse to Seeing what kind of advice au English - paper gives to newly -wedded girls. It is al follows: ID is a great mistake for a wife to be always full of tier own little concerns to the exoluelon of her hbsbandes ; to make It evident to him that the thinks her new bonnet) rauch more interesting than his now book; that she °area much more about Freddy's cold or Lily's chilblains than hie hoarseness or threatening of gout. To check the ;dream of his confidencee by a torrent of grumbling about imperbinent servants, bad coals, baby's teething, and, the hundred and one petty difficulties of domestic life, is injudicious as well as inconsiderate. Ib tends to make the bus - band weary of hie wife's companionship, and always willing to exchange an evening ab home for any reasonable alternative that may offer. Or it leads him to inter- fere in the household in a manner de- structive in the end to the vvifeti comfort and due authority, however she may ap- preciate it at the beginning. In either case ib is adding needlessly to the man's burden ; he ought to have as few home cares as possible. Of course, in emergen- cies, his masculine strength of will and presumably his superior judgment are always there for the wife to fall back upon, bob in the ordinary routine of daily life we strongly advise our married girls to seti themselves resolutely to manage their own difficulties. "TOILET CLUBS. How Shaving and Hair -Cutting is Cheap cued ha -London. "Anew scheme has ben darted by the London barbers," mid R. L. Atherton, se commercial trawellee, who is at the Lindell. They have induced their customers to or- ganize whab are known as " toileb clubs." The objects of these (Aube is the cheapening of shaving and hair -cutting. Each member of a club pays from $5 to $10 a year in advance. The price is regulated by the location of bhe shop, those in the West End being the moat popular. In return for this payment, the keeper of the shop agreest to provide the club member with it shave, hair -cut or shampoo whenever he may wish one. The time covered by the oontraot is one year. At least seven out of ten of the barber shops in London have such duke" - 81. Louis Post -Despatch. " Lord Eoseberrs Humor. At the recent Royal Academy banquet, he London, Lord Roeebery, who represented •the Glaistonie,n Cabinet, made a great hitt in a speech on "The Poetry of Office - Holding" This extract may convey it tolerable idea of the humor of his talk: My noble friend, the Secretary for the Colonies, he said, rules over an Empire on which the sun never sets, and it ie impossi- ble to say ab any given • raoment on what parbicular part of the globe hie mind may be reposing. (Laughter.) My noble friend Lord Klinberley'a mind reposes on "India's coral strand." (Laughter.' Hie talk is of Oriental splendor, his dream is of Oriental luxury, only marred by the awful spectre of the constantly: - depreciating rupee. (Laughter.) When we come to the next Searetary of State, Mr. Campbell-Bennermen, I do not doubt, 0 he be a man of the boundless and virile imagination I believe Mw to be sometimes, in dreams, he pia:tures to himself a British army taking the field in adequate numbera and with adequate equip- ment. (Laughter and cheers). But when I come to my own office I transcend them all. I have only to open a red box to be poessseed of that mama carpet which took its possessor wherever he would go. Per- haps ecenetbnes it carries me a little farbher than that. I open it and find myself st once in thaw regions where a travelled mows& and an intellectual minister are endeavoring to reconcile the realms of Xerxes and Darius with the needs of nine- teenth century civilization. (Laughter.) I smell the soent of the rosealand hear the song of the bulbul. I open another box which enables me to share the sports of the • fur seal—hie island loves, his boundless swims in the Pacific ; can even follow him to Paris and see Mm— the corpus delicti—laid on the table of the Court of Arbitration. (laughter.) Nob a monarch leaves his capttal on a journey hub I am on the platform in the ;spirit 0 not in the body. I am in spirit in the gallery of every Parliament. I am readyand anxious, but nob always successful, to be present at the signing of every treaty. (Laughter.) I think I have laid a suffieienb claim before you to insist that in future when you con- sider Her Majesty's Ministers you may not consider them merely as political creatures, but se persons who have alse their imagina- tive side, as official Ariela roaming through time and space, not on broomsticks, but on boxes. (Laughter.) vvvo Punctual Husbands. Wife No. 1—I must say that my husband Is se regular as a cloak.He comes home punatusely every night at 7 o'clock. Wife No, 2—My husband is also as regu- lar SS a clock. Punctually at 7 o'clock every night he goes to the oaken. scriptural. "Why is it that when a woman Ines liet• hneband she becomes so attractive to men 7" "It's the old, old story of the widow's might" An Iowa editor found hie girl cotnpoel. tors unable to "rash cropy " in tbe morning on account of sittirtg up too late in the evening etttertaitting young merit callers, and he issued an order for retiring et 9,30 o'clock °misty evening. A strike emoted, and now the editor is promising a wedding outfit for eaeh girl 0 they will go beck to their omen • Among the products erhieh thithee bios put to vstitteble aervice is the nettle, it weed Which itttioW being cultivated in demo p9Artz. Of nom? e its fibre peeing tisefal tor a variety ef textile fabrics. In Dreeden a thteitsi is or0140ed from it to One •thAM length of 60 toffee weights only two and at heif peniedh