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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1897-2-4, Page 2THE EXETER TIMES LEGAL. 4 11.DIOESON,Dfirrister.,_Soll- • oftor of supreme °curt, Notavy Public, Coeveyencer. Commisitiouer, fo Money to tioant Oftleein etteon'sBlook, Exeter, H. 001.41,4INS, Wilder Solicitor/ Convey mice? to. EXETER, - ONT. Over O'Neirs Bank. ELLIOT & ELLIOT, Barristers, Salicitors, Notaries Pablic, Conveyancers 8m, &a. Ev-Money to Loan at Lowest Rates of Interest, OFFICE, - MAIN -STREET, laximp.. Raman every Thursday. B. V. IELIAOT, FREDVALICX RE,IXYg. imams MEDICAL W.BROWNING L D., M. 0 tr • P. S. Graduate Victoria 'Univers by e ke and residence. Dom :Woe Lebo a toy .Exe ter T)R. HINDMAN, coroner for Lie A.- °minty of Huron, omen oppaelte Carling Bros. store, F.teeter. ilas.ROLUNS ea AMOS. -.Separate Offices. Residence same as foveae ly, Andrew at. °dices: Spackman's building. Main at; Dr Rollitiff same as formerly, north door; Dr. Amos' same building, southdoor. J.A. ROLLINS. M. D.. T. A. A.MOS. 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Decisions Regarding Newspapers. 1—Any person who takes a paper regularly from the post office, whether directed. in his enerrie or another's, or whether he has sub- set ibed or not, is responsible for payment, 2-1f a person orders his paper dascontinued . he must pay all arrears or the publisher may continue to send. it until the payment is made, and thee collect the whole amount, whether the paper is taken from the office or not. 3—In suits for Subscriptions, the snit may be instituted in the place t. here the paper ispub- lislled, altlictureh the subscriber may reside • 1 1 f n'iilec away, 4—The courts have decided that refueing to take newspapers or periodicals fi on the post eflice, or removing and leaving them. uncalled I for, is prima Lecie evidence of intentional CHA.PTER, The morning dawned—a morning of brightness and beauty—and as yet net a shadow of conspiracy hovered upon the precincts et the Roman camp, On the contrary, all still wore the aspect of perfect security and. peace when the tents were struck, and. the soldiers had. resumed. their march; and the only war they anticipated, was against the ob- stacles of nature, where thickets were to be penetrated, and swamps bridged over or embanked in their victorious progress. A thick forest lay before them, the recesses of which must be opened; and the axe and saw, those in- struments of conquest, more effectual in the hands of Romans than even the sword and the spear, were brought into active operation; and the slow march and frequent halts of the legions were accompanied. with the incessant crash of lofty trees, that' fell in multitudes be- fore their progress. The hour of mid-day arrived, and yet scarcely half a league of forest had been won. The soldiers, exhausted with six hours of constant toil, were permitted to seat themselves upon the ground. for the purpose of enjoying a slight re- past. Scarcely, however, had the meal been ended, scarcely had it even begun, when suddenly every trumpet sounaed to arms with startling abruptness, and every troop hurried to its proper stand- ard; after which these was an awful stillness of suspense, while every soldier looked. at his fellow-, to ascertain the cause of this interruption. What dan- ger could be dreaded now? The tribes had. been everywhere submissive—no en- emy was visible, or could have mustered in the neighborhood! And yet some immediate danger there must be for Varus, with looks of alarm, and sur- rounded by his principal officers, was seen hurrying to and fro, at one time arranging the ranks, at another alter- ing his dispositions, and ever and anon surveying with looks of despair the ground which his army occupied. And alas for Rome if here her choicest army is to abide an encounter! In front was the forest which they had begun to pierce, but into the unknown recesses of which they could not safely venture; on either flank steep hills menaced and commanded them; while the rear was enclosed by formidable marshes, where even the solitary traveller could scarce- ly tread his way in safety. A few mo- ments only bad been granted for these observations, when the hills suddenly trembled. with the blowing of war -horns; and at the signal the ridges appeared overtopped by armed thousands, hurl- ing an exulting defiance upon the en- trapped Romans below, and leaping and brandishing their arms in all the con- fidence of victory. There was no far- ther room for doubt or enquiry among the invaders: they saw that their last march had been made. It was but an instant before this ominous alarm that a man exhausted, bleeding and writhing with anguish, had crawled forward to the advanced pioneers, in the wood, and requested them to carry him immediately to their commander, as he had important tidings to communicate. This was done, and in the wounded man Varus at once recognised Rudiger, the friend of Rome and Segest. The fainting German immediately revealed his fear- ful tale; but Varus, blind to the last, would not even yet be convinced. Her- mann had conducted the army thus far through the perilous ground, and at present occupied the swamps, with the rearguard composed of the auxiliary Germans; and yet—but there is no time for conjecture—the truth must be instantly ascertained I An officer was ordered to hurry to the rear, and sum- mon Hermann immediately into the presence of the commander; but the messenger soon returned at full gal- lop, and with tidings of dreadful im- port. The auxiliary bands had been withdrawn from the main body, and were so posted as to block up every path of retreat; end Hermann him- self had only answered the summons with fierce denunciations and. defiance. At this stunning blovv- the heart of Vanes sank in a moment into utter despair. By what sorcery had he been lulled into such incredible delusion? And above all, how shall he extricate his army from the effects of such an ill -placed confidence? But there was no time for despair, or even for consultation—the battle had already begun. From the hill -tops darts began to descend in volleys, and these ramparts of nature must be stormed. The Roman ranks advanced against the death -shower, and endea- voureci to ascend the steeps; but no sooner had they repelled the base of the hills, than huge fragments of loosened rock were sent rolling down, multitudes. Varus presented a front to the enemy in every direction; but it was an enemy whom he could not reach. Again and again he threat- for- ward strong masses of his troops sup- ported. by ambers and, stingers against the hills—if only one of these could be occupied, he felt that the barbarians might be dislodged from the rest, or at least the retreat of his army secured —but the missiles of the Germans de- scended, as thick as hail, and with a force derined from their descent which the Roman armour could not resist-. The morasses in the rear were then attempt- ed., but these were found, to be equally, well defended; and. while the disencumb- ered and. light-footed Germans raoaed securely among the intricacies of the ground, which were familiar only to themselves, the heavy -armed legionaries were either swallowed up among the seven:me, or securely- transfixed with darts, while they stood uncertain of their way. The whole army swayed and reeled to and fro in these successive at - teaks upon marsh anti mountain, while with every moment the carnage was deepening, and the ground becoming more thickly bestrewn with the dead and dying. To add to their miseries, a heavy shower of rain descended, by which every how -string was relaxed,and every arm bmitimbera the ground be- neath their feet became so miry that men and horses floundered in confusion; while the Germans, to whom all seasons were alike, seemed. only to be inspired with greater alacrity by the torrents that refreshed, while they drenched their naked bodies. Hour after hour the battle thus continued till night; and the Romans had prayed for its protecting covering long before it came. Upon the drenched. and. mira ground they laid. themselves down—"the weary to crushing and sweeping them away in sleeP, and the wounded to die." But alas! the sleep that was snatchea on this occasion was brief; or if protracted, it was .more painful than waking, from the frightful images with which it was haunted, in which fancy endeavour- ed to out -picture the most dismal re- alities. But who amid these warriorsbad greater cause to grieve, or grieved more deeply, than Varus? In the darkness no tent was pitched, no table was spread, no torch or watchfire was lighted and he set upon a little mound surrounded by his officers, while each could only recognise his fellows by the sound of their voices. All felt that their danger was indeed imminent, that perchance their ruin woe unavoidabie ; but although the folly or their cora- inaeder hail occasioned these distresses, not a word of murmur or reproach was uttered; they rather respected the depth of his anguish, and spoke the language of sympathyand hope. A deliberation was carried on in whis- pers upon the best metiamt of extri- cating the army on the following morieng. To advance into the forest was certain destruction; to effect a loagmeat upon the well -de -fended heights had already been found impracticable; and it was resolved that the ciny (hallo of steady lay in a desperate attack upon the Germans who blocked up their rear, by which a footing might be gained upon ground more favourable for an equal eneoun- ter. While this; mournful deliberation was held under the gloom of midnight. and amid groans and corpses, a far different spirit prevai:ed among the enemy. The tops of the hals blazed with a tbou.sand watch -fires round which the Germans spent the night in merriment and feasting, or in listen- ing to the song e of their bards. But one man there was among them whose cares seemed too weighty for song or festival, and who watched while Man ers reposed; and need we add that it was Hermann? At one time he de- liberated with the most experienced. of the chiefs, and at another be animated the warriors to prepare for the mor- row. He also glided from point to point over the extensive field, to ascertain that not an avenue of escape was left unguarded; listened Anxiously at times to the faintest sound among the Roman soldiery; and strained his eyes through the gloom, if haply he might detect the shadow of any movement. Victory in- deed was withixe his grasp; but still his enemies were Romans. The miserable Varus having ended his deliberations, dismissed the officers to their posts, after which he folded his mantle around him and stretched him- self upon the ground to enjoy a short repose before the toils of use morning commenced. But the hoarse murmur- ing or the midnight blastearabined with the loud outcries of revelry and triumph from the surrounding nig, kept sleep from his weary eyelias. At lengelehow- ever, he sank into unconscious lethargy in spite of the heartsinking uproar; and as he slept a fearful steno unfolded, it- self to Ms fevered imagination. A land rose before him, parented and black- ened beneath the rays of a withering sun, and stretching far away into vast solitudes; and along its ehaerless sur- face, and in full security, a mighty army swept &twig, which he knew from its ensigns to belong to his own coun- try. At the head of it also, and in- vested with the insignia of a consul,, marched an aged warrior, whose brow was wrinkled like that of a usurer, al- though his eye was bright with enter- prise and hope; and at his side was a smiling barbarian, who seemed to utter bland words in his eanand urge him thoughtlessly forward. And. who were they ? The dreamer shuddered in las sleep, for he knew that leader of evil omen without being left to conjecture. The scene shifted; and he behead these lege:its in fierce conflict with an enemy that made the whole field blaze with their steel panoply,. and reverberate to the, thunder of then. huge drums; and the air was darkened with oloude oil arrows diseharged by Barthian horse- men, who came and went like the whirl- wind. Again the scene shifted, for the battle was over, the ground was piled high with the corpses of the Roman army, and nothing. in the form of life or motion was there bat the dim out- line of a phantom that wandered over the scene of carnage, wringing his hands, and lamenting with shrill, feeble naurmunings. Varus looked narrow- ly, and recognized the pale face of the spectre, and the furrowed brow which he heti so lately seen; and as he con- tinued to gaze, the unearthly mourner ceased to weep, and sternly thus ad- dressed hien—"By what fatality, oh Quentilius Varus, bast thou spurned the lesson of my example.? But I reproach thee not, for Vale penalty of thy errors shall be exacted to the full. Behold! such as I am, to -morrow thou shalt be !" Varus started from his rude couch, and. Unconscious that all was but a dream, he exalaimed• "Stay. Crassus, and tell one if my followers shall be spared?" The attendants who watched, his slumbers shuddered at the portent, and began to deprecate it with hasty prayers. The unfortunate commander would tempt the agony of sleep no fur- ther; he set motionless, with folded hasads, and eyes directed to the east, Impatient for the coming of the dawn, that the worst might be ascertained and endured. At length, .whetti the test' gray light broke sadly through the clouds, so that the. outline of surrounding objects could be discerned, the Raman army was set in motion, and the general harangued the troops. He concealed as meet as possible the precariousness of their situa- tion and his own disquiet, and the be- sought them to make one noble effort for safety, for vietory, for venganoe. Then answered with shouts of reso- lution, and desired to be led to battle. Aceordieg to the agreement of the pre- vious night, an attempt was to be made to force the, passes in the rear, by which the whole army might defile, into more favorable ground; and the ,troops were therefore thrown farevard ita columns to the place of onset, preceded by active unarmed explorers, who generously de- votea therbeeltres to the missile cif. the enema for the purpose of aiscovering Ufa outlets. But Wherever the Ro- mans meved they were entountered and almost ,buried beneath the darts of the Germans; arid -whenever the ranks at- tempted to Win a stelake footing, they' were broken, by the obliquities of the paths. The battle waiened end deep- ened; mad stall whiu it raged in aroet the beatiy einewers et nitres cotninued to ply them upoe *aka' flank from the hilts without n tornatssion. At .leng th, after a desperate struggle of Nours, a small portion of the morass was won. Fict a cohort, diminished to one-half of itsmembers, established itself upon, a solid. liatkeals, and gallantly maintained it, although cmposect by thousands; aud from this landing-plaes of hope the suc- cessful legionaries shouted te their fel- tow-soldiers to hurry to the 'wine. And resuee soon arrived, in the forra of the. eighteenth legion, the soldiers of which, struggling through the mire by twos skid threes, proceeded to rally and form upon the recovered ground for an effort that might yet be successful. Here was the point or danger; and Hermann, at the head of his followers, threw laira- self across the patti to bar all farther I retreat, And now commenced the full I fury of the engagement upon a spot where the Romans could. avail them- selves of their superior arms and dis- cipline; and before their strong, simul- taneous onset tire barbarian troops were torn asunder, like the stubborn soil be- fore the ploughshare. But the Ger- mans, when baffled in front, closed up- on the flanks of their antagonists, as if they would have smothered them in their ranks; and when all would not avail, each selected. a foe, and grappled with him in a. death -struggle, where gigantic personal strength on one side was more than counterbaaanced by skill' and. weapons on the other. But such a. contest could not long endure; there was a change, an intermission; the Ger- mans at tient gave back, as if exhausted; and instead of returning to the charge, they etood at gaze before their terrible opponents: while ninny, staggering to the rear, alarmed their fellows with the sight of the deep gashes on their bodies and limbs inflicted by the Roman fal- ehion. The Ronaans pressed on. and the Germans retreated; the retreat became a flight, in which the contested ground was abandoned; and the leg- lenarie.s, with joyful outcries, proclaim- ed their success and sumxrionea the rest of the army to follow. Alas for Germany at this awful moment! The invaders are an the eve of winning a safe retreat, Una a victory, and they will return with a terrible retribution! (To Be Continued.) SHOE EYELETS. One of the compurativety Few Things That Aro Sold by he Million. There are many things that are sold by the gross, anti not a few that are sold by thie thousand, but there are not many that are sold by the million. Am- ong the things that are so sold, how- ever, are shoe eyelets. Shoe eyelets are made of brass, by machines whose operation is almost en- tirely automatic. Three or four ma- chines'are required to produce the eye- let in the for in whiele it is sold, the brass being fed, into the first machine in thin flat strips. As sold to the shoe manufacturer, the eyelet is turned down at one end only. The eyelets look as rauelt as anything like so many little hats With narrow brims and with- out any tops in the crowns. The , up- per end of the crown, which is like the end of alitile cylinder, is put through the eyelet hole in the shoe, the finish- ed brim or flange of the eyelet rest- ing against the leather upon the out- side. After alie eyelet has thus been put in place its inner 'end is turned down upon the leather by a machine made for that purpose. In the manu- facture of the eyelets a number of very slight vertical indentations are made at equal distances apart in the outside of the eyelet around the smooth, straight end, When the shoe machine smashes down the inner side of the eye- let the metal parts at these indenta- tions and is spread uniformly, thus giving it a secure hold., Eyelets are made of various sizes in diameter and of various lengths of shank or cylinder, according to the thickness of the material with which they are to be useal and after they come from the machines they are fin- ished in great variety. Some are fin- ished white—these are silver-plated; some are gat finished and some are cop - pared. Eyelets are japanned in black or in various shades of russet; they are, in fact, made in any size and of any dolor that may ,be desired. Sooner, or later the japanning wears off, exposing the brass. There are now made shoe eyelets that are covered with celluloid, which keep their color, but these are much more expensive than the kinds eomxaonly used. Shoe eyelets are packed in boxes con- taining one thousand, ten thousand, two hundred and fifty thousand, and five hundred thousand each. Eyelets of the kinds most commonly used are sold, according to sizes and styles, at prices ranging from $60 to $135 a million. Some of the celluloid -covered eyelets sell for as much as $509 a million. The sale of shoe eyelets depends, of course, somewhat upon the prevailing style of shoe. When button shoes are more generally worn not so many shoe eyelets are sold, but the number sold is always very large. Eyelets are made for a wide variety of uses, up to the great eyelets that are sewed. into the corners of sails, through which the sail is lashed to the end et the boom or yard. Taking them all together the number is enormous; of shoe, eyelets alone there are sold. some thousands of millions annually. WINE FOR SCIENCE ONLY. The flet Cellar in England Full of liar - Vintages That Win Never Slake a Dort . Vivant's T'airaL In England there is a cellar full of wines of the choicest vintage, Which bid fair to spoil for temperance' sake. Years ago, by the will of Sir Walter Trevelyan, of Northumberland. Eng- land, that knight's famous wine cellar became the property of Sir Benjamin Richardson, the head of the temperance Hospital, in London. But the will en- joined Sir Benjamin from fusing the wine for other than "scientific pur- poses." Convinced that, none of the wine in all the sixty dozen famous vin- tages in the cellar could be used for the purpose specified, Six Benjamin did not tixaw the cork of a single bottle, At his death recehtly, his widow be- came the possessor 'of the valuable cel- lar, butt she, too, is forbidden to use it except in the interest of science. She cannot, under the will, sell the now famous wines, even to,donate the pre - reeds ,to the cause of temperance. To store the many bottles .year after year is expensive, and yet there seems to be but one other course—to destroy ! The Prince of Wales,P1;rciet of the St, JohnAmbulanceAssociation, has sanctioned a grand ambulance fete anti demonstration to be held at the Crys- tal Palace in May or June next, in commemoration of the Queen's long reign, ABOUT TRE BIAGI DEATH EUROPE ALARMED BY THE SPREAD OF THE PLAQUE. A. Terrible Disease Which is Destroying Thousands Di China and India—its Terrible Dayages in Europe in the Fourteenth Century. The press of Paris has raised a note of alarm over the danger to Europe of the uneeetiked spread of the bubonic plague in India and China, and is call- ing upon Great Britain to take measures in its possessions to protect Europe from the spread of the terrible pest along the lilies of trade with the Orient. Me Monod, Director of Public Health in the French Department of the Interioneaa presses his conviction that Europe is in danger of an invasion of the plague, and. that department has, as a matter of fact, despatched Dr. Yersin to Chins to make experiments on the disease with a serum of the Pasteur Institute, These experiments have proved so far success- ful that M. Monod expresses the hive that, in case of an invasion of the Black Death, European countries will find themselves armed with an effective ag- ent to combat it, Readers of the daily telegraph re- ports are acquainted. with the virulence of the epidemic that is raging in Bom- bay, where hundreds are dying every wee kof bubonic plague. Hong Kong and other Chinese cities and. the lsla„nd of Formosa are also plague spots.. Time was when this appalling ailment was prevalent all over gamin just as lep- rosy, once well 'known la European countries, has now passed out of all knowledge of most of the people. It rarely makes its appearance in Europe in this generation, though Dublin suf- fered from an outbreak in 1866, and there was a destructive epidemic in Russia in 1878-9e The plague is often confounded, with Asiatic eholera,though erroneously, The HORRORS AND SUFFERINGS of the years 13i7 to 1350 are preserved in the minds of the humble people of Europe by never -dying traditions. This was the period of the so-called Great Mortality. Modern estimates, making due allowance for all the exaggeration of popular tradition, compute that this visitation must have carried. off 25,000,- 000 lives in Europe, exclusive of Bus - sic. As for Asia's teeming millions, no computation has ever been attempted. In this epidemic the victims were sud- denly seized with a violent pain in the chest, blood. was expectorated and the breath diffused a pestiferous odor. Great boils or buboes formed in the groin, or the arm pits. Black spots of a putrid decomposition broke out all over the body, giving it the name of the Black Deaths Death came in a few hours, or, at most, three days and there seemed absolutely no remedy for those once attacked. The virulence of the contagion was so great that all things were infected. Boccaccio relates that he saw two hogs on the rags of a person who had died of plague stagger about. for a time,and fall down dead as though they had tak- en poison. In England the cattle fell victims to a murrain and died by thous- ands, as did multitudes of other anim- als. The ground seemed poisoned, so that rats died in their holes. Through- out Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Nor- way, Sweden, Poland and later Russia, the ghastly disease spread death and destruction. Many were stricken and died as if by lightning. It was believ- ed that even the glance of the eye could carry the contagion. In the North Sea and the Mediterranean vessels were often found driving about and drifting aolniveshoit7thewtnith not a single man left It was the belief of the period that this most destructive of all epidemics owed its virulence in part to upheavals of nature within the earth and on the earth's surface. In Asia there had. been drouth and great famines succeeded by an- nals elaenrttotethat of rain. Chinese an - 4,000,000 PERSONS perished in the flood& Mountains fell in a.nd great lakes were formed. In Europe there had been winter thunder storms.' Great floods of the Rhine and in France had overflowed the country. Springs broke forth on the summits of mountains and dry tracts were inex- plicably inundated: An earthquake ov- erturned the Island. of Cyprus and the sea overflowed it. Just before, the wind had spread so poisonous a vapor over the island that many died in dreadful agony.: German accounts aver that a thick, stinking mist advanced from the east and spread itself over ltaly. Earthquakes were more general than ever before, and in thousands of places chasms were formed from which arose noxious vapors: Swarms of locusts,such as were never before known, darkened the air and then died, spreading foul odors of putrefaction.' Great arid ex- traordinary meteors were seen in many places.' Followed as these extraordin- ary convulsions were by the black death, it is not to be wondered at that the superstition of the time saw in them horrible portents and warnings, and even modern thinkers have argu- ed that the normal composition of things may have been so disturbed as to con- duce to the plague. The forms and. usages of society were overturned and almost ignored. The rich carried their treasures to monast- eries, where the monks shut the gates to keep their gold out—for it brought death with its Mee destroyed thera selves as if in a frehzys When the plague ceased, men thought they were •'Still wandering among the dead.. Many 'houses, , left without inhabitants; fell into rums. In many places plaguepa-, tionts were believed to be buried alive.' Funeral services were impracticalele. Parents deserted their Children and wives and huebands abandoned each oth- er to death, Figures convey little 'idea, but an infallible sign of the great tiavne wrought ,with the race was the' .reat aeetindity afterwards observed ie woe"- erg Marriages were nearly alwaye pro- 1mfic and ' DOUBLE AND ElprP BIRTHS were more frequent than formerly. During the continuance of the more tatity there spread over Europe the Bro- ther ood of Flagellants, bands of humble men, poorly clad, who wandered • as -he...dee:line. from town to town, scourging them- ' selyes with fanatical frenzy , and en- listing vast armiesof converts. 1.12q marched with leaders and singers, elan in somber. garments, bearing scourges in which points of iron were fixed. The wanderings of these fanatics helped to spread the plague./ 'They held them- selves independent of the Cthurch, and , became so numerous as at one time to ' threaten its than undisputed auprem- aey. Another feature of the great mort- 'Oily was the barbarous persecution of the Jews. They were suspected of oaus- • Mg the plague by poisoning the wells. In Germany, springs and wells were built over, and only river and rain wat- er used. All the Jews in Basle were I inclosed in a wooden building and burnt I without sentence or trial. The same ' thing occurred in numerous other places.. Everyeahere the Jews were pursued with fire and sword with mer- ciless cruelty: In many places they set fire to their own dwellings and burned themselves to death. As Boc- c,a,coio says, in describing the plague in Florence, "the influence and authority of every law, human and divine, van- ished." Boccaccio says further that many in Ii Florence shut themselves up in their 1 houses and spent the time in singing ' and. music and other pastimes, no in- ! telligence of death or sickness being permitted to recta, their ears. Others ate and. drank to excess, and gave in- dulgence to every gra:Lineation. "They wandered day and night front one tav- ern to another and feasted, without moderation or bounds.. In the end, so completely bad terror extinguished ev- ery kindlier feeling that the brother forsook the brother and sister the sist- er, e THE WIFE HER IIUSBAND, and at last even the parent his own offspring., Propriety and decorum were extinguished.t _Females of rank seemed to forget their metered baslifulnessand committed the care of their persons in- discriminately to men and women of the lower ranks Many ended their lives in the street by day and by night. The stench of putrefying corpses was often the first indication to neighbors ; that more deaths had. occurred: The survivors, to preserve themselves from I infection, generally had the bodies tak- en out of the houses and laid before the doors, where the early Morn found them in heaps, exposed. to the affright- ed gaze of the passing stranger. It was no longer possible to have a bier for every corpse. Three or four were generally laid together—husband and wife, father and mother, with two or three children,were frequently borne to the grave on the same bienand it often happened that two priests would accom- pany a coffin bearing a cross before it, and. be joined on the way be, several other funerals, so that instead of one there was five or six bodies for inter- ment." Such, were the scenes during the great mortality of 1347450. There has been other epidemics of the plagues in Eur- ope, the cholera scourge has raged oft- en with great fatality, but nothinglike that appalling visitation which poison- ed. the population of the whole world was over known before or since. Mod- ern civilization, soap and water, sew- erage, pure water supply and improved manner of living probably make it im- possible that the plague, cholera or any other malady should over again play such havoc with human life in any Eur- opean country, PREPARING FOR WAR. Germany is Staking, Preparations for the COMMIX The German Government is making renewed effort to insure the complete efficiency of its system of railway transportation in ease oil mobilization. The largest order ever yet given by it for rolling stook has just been placed with a German syndicate for 7,500 wagons with a weight -carrying capa- city of fifteen tons each, the delivery to take place between April 1 anal Sept. ao of the present year. The number of railway wagons actually in service and reserve at this moment on the German railways is over 37i0,000, so that the Government must be under the ap- prehension of a near requirement for so large a quantity of new rolling stock. With the orders already in hand, the German rolling stock con- struction companies have work to keep them fully occupied well into 1898. Large orders for locomotives have al - iso been placed with different engin- eering works. 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