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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1898-1-20, Page 2PRECIOUS TER XXV. bz,ni uner beet hed passed, aro b.a4 bee e gathered le, the •it bat bee a placated faun the trees, the lovely eerte lay restieg i tee IS Wight ot etatunaae The sea evaa eif deep enelodiee. 'Elodie epeut wliole lies in lietening. to its music.. One hewevite. lying Tette va (shine. the waves. She was so ebaneed thee she looked like aaaotbet'- Elodle. The deepair and unrest had left bee; her face was value sweet and taut She was worn to a sluselew; but her, eyes were still bright. Her true aria faithful uurse--the one eineere friend to whom she owed everything ---,stood by her side, watching every lc en. ale. mother could hews been kincl- ee-no sister more tender. Saddenly the tiara eyes opened and looked at -"Atidreiy," she staid, "I should like to flee Ilan once more -just to tell him that 1 am Kegs, for the past. and hear him say teat he forgives me. 1Voula he come if rent meted him?" There was something. so wistful izi tbe pleading voice that Audrey's eyes filled -with tears. "I am sure he trill not refuse," she replied Lest there should be any error,. she . went herself at onee to the telegroph offire. and sent a telegram to him. It ran thus: "From Audrey Brooke, Rookdene, to Sir Roche Villiere, Rowan Abber, King's Wynnee-Come to me at one, without fail; you are particularly want- ed" She knew that be loved. her so well that A she had asked hen to got to the other end of the world for her he would ha.ve dime it. The moment Sir Roche react her sim. mons he started for Rookdene. He did not enow why Audrey wanted him; but he had some vague idea tied it was isi relation to unfortunate Elodie. No matter what it was, be must obey her. tele traveled Meessantly, yet it was event..., before he reached Medina Villas. He had never seen .Andrey since that terrible hour M winch she. had, parted from henwhen they had stood face to faze with the stoey of hie first marriage between the xte ailis heart beat, his eteong form trembled-, and hie face ialanehed as he stood in the. little, drew -1 ing-roora• waiting for her. She came in, tall, slender and greeeful, with the same pure face, the same sweet smile, and he coald have knelt and kissed the be= of her dress. When the clear light of her pure eyes aell him a great tearless sob rose to his lips, a, great saudder passed. over him. She held out her hand to hen in kindly greetteng. "You are very good to come so quiek- lee" she said; end then there was a few nainutes' embarrasaed. silence. Audrey with her quick women's teat was the teirat to break it. 1 'You jeeve gtiessea. perhaps why I sentto yea" she said; "Beanie iN -feet . -.gag and she wanted to sea you. once more." ••• •"'Are you. staying with her" he ask- ed. have been here since June," she sev-er e cl. "How good. you. are, Audrey -how noble, how uxiselfish I our father • wrote to me and told nee whither you were going, and with what, idea you hen begun anther enfe. - ;trete not talk about it," she said gently, eElodire was 'alone in the world, end quite for,gotten. I found her in despair; now she. ealm and tranquil and ready to die. That is bet- ter than to have worn my life away Lit useless lamentation or in sullen gloom;, there is something in it that fits my notion of justice. Roche, you will be very kind to her ? I have learn- ed to love her very dearly." • ale looked slightly embarrassed.. "I do not see wbat is to be gained by seeieg her, A.udrey," h ebegan, "un- less you really wish it." .1 do really wish it," she -said, firmly. "She will die happier for lia.ving seen you and heard you say that you for- give her." eI will do it," he replied, "no matter what it test me." He sat down and. Audrey told hina all about Medics's illness, and hew" the doc- tors said the was reelly dying of a broken heart, At first there was no definite malady -it was the fret and fever of the wahappy gout, the grief, the despier, the baffled love, aria paid°, the lost ambition, that wore the free- ile body away. Lately a nervous fev- er bee set ire and of that Elodie was dying. Sir Roche ws not. ashamed of tbe Mars tbet rattled down his faces of the sole that he coald not csonceae, when Audrey told him all the pathetic detatis of the lonely life, and how Elorlie bad been hoping always thot ha would forgive her, There was a light, not, all of earth on her face, her 'words Nvere eweet and wise. !When ale had fiadehed speaking the said to him; "It is too late for you to sea' tiers evening Rothe; come back in the morning, end I will take you to her." eVithoitt, ainotber word he took her baud, kissed. it, and left her The titin ahotie briglatly the next morning when Sir laetrile found him- selt in the little drawing -mein at No. 4 Meilen, 'Villas. He was startled when Audrey gene le to him. She had been bitting up all night; licr fate was pale, ber twee, had a worn look. She eeemed, weary, Yet --sig held mit her hand with a smile to Sir noche„.. "I am so glad you are cones," she said; "Motile ha.a been talking athettit you. fette ties ea teeny hours to live, (tome with me to see bet." They went tiettether2 Tighe, bad never seen tbe /legless lefty slues the eight a the ball at Quorn House. Ti emberelteerel hie last glimpse of her - ha woe her pale, shadowy dy- flare loot,: tee Notre rzf her diamonds; PE ARL the reeeert of her brilliant dx.ess. Now he sa wher again -a pale, shadowy dy- ing oreature, whom the weight of' her own sin bad (gushed ale was deeply tousted; inemory of Ris own wrong 'lied away. He went up to ber, and kneeling by he side, uttered her naMe softly. She was startled at first. She reds - ed her thin hands and tried to hide her face from. hien hut Audrey drew them away. "Be kind to ter, Riocilte," she welop- ered;• nese what she ha a suffered." -lee did as she wished. Ile stooped =era and kissed the thin, wasted, di "Mea," Le said, "I un. sorry to find you so ill." "My see has killed me, Roche," she anstvereet, eatow tgood you were to come to me I want to bear you see - time you forgive met" Her Moe fluehed as she ematinued "1 should • like to get up and kneel do-vea before you. to beg your par- geveness; but 1 eaexiot. Listen to me for a anometit. Roche, I never meant to do wrong -I had never even thought O. it. It was not deliberate or inten- tional -it was not, indeed, 1 was thoughtless, but I was not wieltedeand. I have repented. until my sin has killed tine. Say you forgive me, Rothe." He laid. his hands on, the golden head. T forgive you even as I pray Heaven to forgive you." 'Will you. calf me "wife' once more, Roche -once more, for I loved. you. very dearly?" He looked A.uclrey, and there was earemente silence. Then Audrey went up to hem with the eeme bright lfa ight on her ce. "Do wht sbe asks yea, Roche," she said gently. And he, bending aver the Nvhite face, said: "My dear wife t" The two that stood tiear her. will ,nev- er forget the flush of startled. joy DU her face. "Tbank you, Roche. May I die with my head upon your bre-ast?' Tben she took Audrey's hand and kissed it. "It is to you, ab, true and dear friend," she said, "that I owe all!" Two hours afterward the noon- day sun was pouring a flood of light into the room, and the musio. of the wa:ves was borne on the. wind. The end. was very' nea.r. The doetors had gone away: and Elodie lay dyiug. with the truest friends teornael. ever had near her. Once they had beet aver -hew think- ing ber eyes closed forever; bet a sun- beam fell across her face, and she open- ed thera. She was dyiing, as she had asked to die,, with her head on hart hus- band's breast, and Audrey by her side. Suedenly she looked up at him and ell -tiled and with that the spirit took its flight, Sir Rothe was not ashamed. to weep bitter tears over her -to (geese him- self of being hard and cold -to fold the tired hands over the quiet beert- while Audrey stood by weeping. Pre- sently he looked. at her. -"I should like to thmak you in her name, Audrey," he said. Bat she held. up her hand. "I will have no thanks," she return- ed, "I have sire.ply done my duty." She took her place by the.side a the dead. "Roche," she said, gently, "I want you to give me your heed." She took it in her own, and- Jaid it au the still breast, el want you." she added, "to promise taie two latogs." t a ate I promise you anything you ase," he replied. -Promise me first, that on her grave- stone you will place tlie name of your wife. Elodie "1 Promise," he ensnared,. "Secondly, here in her presence, pro- mise that you will send bath to that man his miserable numey; that you will tell him that the woman whose life he blighted is dead; and that, fearing his money might bring a curse with it, you,. have sent it bath, Will you do tea?' "Most assuredly I will," he replied. "You are right in this, Audrey, as you are in everythieg dee. I will do it at (-411;;:ea 'Audrey bent down and kissed ICJ dead face. "-My work here is: done," she said; I "I will go home. And yam, Roche, who have recognized her in death, you. will give her the. last honor you. ean pay her. Elodie," she cried laying her fresh sweet lips on the dead ones. "El - oche, 110W 1 shall not fear to meet you hereafter 1" She went bome--her work there was dont-and Sir Roche remained. He paid all honor! to Elodie. He did not take her back to the stately mausoleum where so many women of 'Ms rave slept. She was buried in the pretty churchyard by the sea at Rookdene, and on the striae merles montt- naent was inscribed the simple words: "In loving memory of ELO:DIF.,, LADY VILLIERS, - Aged 25." In (lath, though not in life, she found her lose name again. • A year passed, Audrey spent it at home, Sir Roche itt restlese wandering, vvondering always whether he should ever win for himself again that pre- dates pearl of womankind. Ile was efraiti to ask Audrey to return to him. During the year he had written to her but five or six tintee; tiocl they were merely friendly letters; t'et his whole 1, soul was longing for her-- he could find no rest, by night or by day fot , thinking of her. 'At last he summoned up courage, and went to Ilohneeclale The rector and his wife received him. kindly; but they looked armee when he asked to see t Audrey and td see her alorm. 1 She must have eepected him; for' she betrayed no eurprise-sbe offered ne cottiraent. She went to hire in the lierary, where so many yeare before she had read the werds of the mart ; liege service. She looked ep at bine n., }smile that seemed to ban MI- A UsUally sweet. ' bawd: tome for me, Roche" she eairt, "f am willing to go back with "Mamma," she said a few hours aft eerwarce "will yon glee me my wed- ' ding ring? 1 aball want it to -morrow I needling." .A.MI on the inorrovv they ttent, T B X T TI11 through the soiennrviee together again, Audrey wished that' the wbole story should reneau anzenealed, hat it did not On the contrary, it found, its -Ivey into the newspapers, and all England was teraebed by it, For the nett-spepers told it all -how elle had Aileen tip wealth, heel% love and luxury for conscience sake; how she had devoted heeself to one who was more utihappy than herself; hose she had nursed, the hapless lady through a, twig iline,ss, had soothed ber death, had reconciled her to Sir Roebe, and time had, bemanely, eaered her. They dined ber n earl among women they teethed that more were like her. Then she took her place again in the great world. Al gooti influence seem- ed to emanate from her -the spell of goedness and purity lingered rouncl her -only kind words and thougbt eould live in her sweet presence. 13efere her evil and wicloadnes,s seemed to fly. Bright haired children grew round her; but neither she nor Sir Roche ever forgot Elodie. They went every year to her grave, and the only time that Lady Villiers ever thought her huts - band harsh was one July morning when they stooct by Elodie's grave +a- gethe,r, Tbe men tvtio bad charge of it had planted white ascensiou lillies upon it. 'Take them away,", said Sir Roche "eon maY have roses, or passion flow- ers, or any other flowers that. bloom but not these." She looked up at him. "WIty do you. say that, Roche?" she asked. "They are out of place, for one thing, Audrey. Another reason, they are your favorite flowers, and I do not tike, to see them there." So the white Mlles were taken away But Audrey soon forgot that one in- stance of sternness. No husband was kinder, raore devoted, better than hers. They loved each other with a true and perfect love that no man could put asunder. (The Bede THEY CAN SING. Royal. Perronaties Who Have Melodious Voices. Few outside the intimate -court circle at Berlin are aware that the Kaiser has a very fine barytone voice,and that he is exceedingly fond of singing Germ,an and English ballads, Nt-hich he does with a good deal of expression and feeling.. His performances in this direction are restricted to the evening -Nvhich be spends with his family, none but the intimate friends and nearest relatives being admitted to -the imperial eirele. On such evenings as these the hours be- tween dinner aul bedtime are devoted to Mask, the Empress beiog• a remark- ably clever pianist, while whenever Prime Henry is present he produces his violin, on tveich he is a far more afaeomP)ished performer than even his Linde Alfred the second and sailor son of Queen Victoria.. The Emperor never sins unless either his wife or his blether consents to accompany him, for eingIng is 01.18 of the few things -perhaps the only one -in tallith he is not absolutely sure oi hi,s superiority, end it is propaley precisely on, that account -that is to say, in cousequence cif his diffidence -that he really alines in a very pleas- ing mcan4ier. 4 ts 1in Oscar, hoNt-ever, who pos- sesses the finest barytone voice in Eu- rope, and experts have declared that had he been forted to sing instead of to reign, for a living he would have surpaesedevery professional barytene now on. the stage. Queen Marghet itt. of Italy is passionately fend of sing- ing mut '4 music, but her husband, King Humbert, Like King Leopold, of Belgium, abominates the very sound of music, which grates upon, his nerves. None of Queen Victorie's fatality pro- fesses to have a suftletentiy good voice for singing to encourage him. to ter - form. solos. But they are all gladi to join in eingino, no matter when or where, and their °Neticite are esesily*dis- tineuishable 'above those of the remain- der of the people singing, I never have _been able quite ea make Get whether this is due to the peculiarity of their ateeet or if it is attributable to the filet that owing to their royal rank they have a right to pith their voices tegher awl louder than any one else. Queen Visitoriies third daughter, the Prierfess Chrietien et Schleswig-Hol- stein, belonge to there' societies in London. and Windsor white give public concerts, In these the Princess takes an active part. Nothing is more in- spiring than to, bear the Prince of Wales viewing on Sunday at church at the top of his yoke his favoriteahymn. Onward, Christian Soldiers," the roiling. "re" giving- it something es- me,ntia I I y znili tan t. and,raili tary. TEB Alt.lf feAN NATIVE AND THE 1,0001%10'1'f V F, tionee interesting remarks.by the Ma - fatale on the steam engine are record- ed le, Mr. 'franca It'oxt one of the re- cent visitors to flulifwao. Phe, locomo- tive was thus d.eseribed: "It is a huge animal leilonging to the white man. It has telly 0110 eye, t be head tamp, It feeds on fire ana hates Isork. When the -white nose peseta it to make it work it screams. It aonate troth some where, but, no OUP ithoWS from tvbenoe." Of a siasam traction engine, eeets when. the driver was oiling it, the Me- ta.bele Held that "it was a huge animal which baa the fever very Nulty, be- cause the white man poured in inerti- eine at so teeny parts elf its body,", BERLIN 'S leIREIVI EN In Berne the firemee wear water- jaelteLe wit,h a double Skin. Witich they ere able to fill with wafter from the hese. If the space between tile two layers becomes over -filled the water eteapes thaveugb a valve at the top of the helmet, and flowa down over the firentan, like a. cascade, protecting him &Ailey. The smoke helmets, largely • used in Germaty, Anstria, Holland and enahl,e the wearer to breathe and Pee nt his ease iri e smoke -leaden at- ateapherfe. n acme iristemeee the tip- pitratioN teetudee a, means af telephotic gentnetnieallen with fert street below, DRIWIEAN BATTLE PIADS. allied fctee, weal on Sept. 8 in tbe 1 following year, when( all hope of fur- ther resistance was aver, the Ras - aegis deoided te make a fearfitt seed, fice-to destroy the' tatty of wbich they ere so justly, proud, rather than, let it fall intd the betide of their enemy- SABASTOPOL IS TO -DAY A VERY •0011(MONPLACE TOWN,. Ga. the illoody Flew er lettermen -The Utley er Vtaiattieva and the Monona Charge- ofr les a Newsy and treaute Clay.. Shortly after dawn! wrt andiored in the harbor of Batoam, and soma I Was on Ilueetan soil, writes a c•or- respondent, The town of- Betoune with itsfour- keit thousand to fifteen thousaud in- habitants, is built an a projecting tohgue of land, some few miles north of the mouth of the .River Tchoru,k. Almost immediately labind. the teeii lies a large dreary -looking swamp, stretehing back tot the eills that, run alinest parallel with the aeastiores. This swainki is a veritable hotbed of man aria, and it is said that few Europeans visit Batouta tor the first time ts-ith- out being attacked by the intermit- tent fevers ox' agues that infest the dietrice Under Russian rule Bateum has rapidly developed, and were it not for the groups of Turks, Armenians, Ta- pes, Cisea,ssians, Georgians, Mongols, and 'Caxton& that tbrong the streets one could easily imagine one's self its a. European town. A broad the -wee°, that has only recently been coxistract- olu seu,,Ci10.0.r.eillSTuarloknigall tilho6uS4e7 hfautn.:Irille; alt been aupplanted by sub-stantlai stone buildings, while commodious quays and warehouses have sprueg up ori every By means of the Ba.ku-Batouin rail- way that coanects the Caspian witb the Black sea, Russia, is able to trans - fax' her vast reeourees from the in- terior to the shores of the Euxine. THE FREE. I'ORT OF 13A.TOIJM. being admirably suited for the concen- tration of her products. A subse- quently constructed railway, connect- ing Petrovsk with the more northerly Novorossisk, %tables Russia to dupli- cate the transference of her resources to these pa,rts i- And as the Petrovsk- Nervorossisk line is at the same time .contiected with needy the whole of the Russian railway 'system these ports an the eaztern shores of the Euxine occupy a most important pOSiti011, not only from a, commercial but from, a military point of view, for by a sim- ilar process troops; can be transferred tot and concentrated in the Black Sea region from almost every corner of tee Russian Empire. During theelast fifteen years or, so the petroletun trade at Batonrn and manganese are trade at Pod have in- creased by leaps and bounds; and to cope with this remarkable development of recent years, Russia has gone ,to considerable expenditure in rendering both Poti and Retoum safe ports of call. Wb.eti Batmen firet fell into Rus- sian banes; an ungainly Turkish I al- aar rau straight down to the sea- shore, passing throagh, a part of .the fortifications on net way. To remove this eyesore was one of the problems with which the Russian official mind had to grapple, for the feet of its being built upon rendered it illegal to confiscate the ground. One night a mysterious fire broke out, and--euri- e,us to say --no effort was MADE BY THE RIJSSIAN authorities to extinguish it until nearly the whele of the bazar was raz- ed to the ground. Rumor has it, that this fire was not; the result of acci- dent, and the rapidity with which the authorities set alto,ut constructing a street upon the cite of the destroyed bazaar tends eonsiderably M strength- en the probability of this rumor be- ing correct. stayed a few days et Batmen, and than changed into one. of the "bigne de Crimee-Caecase" boats bound for Novoroesisk, Yalta, and Sebasto pot. Owing to its eharming position on the rustily wooded, slopes o.0 a perfect crescent, of hi '-. where, amid luxx- ux•ia.nt foliage, , • ,tas, and man- sions, atand in quiet a eision. Yalta has deservedly become one of themost fashionable pleasure resorts in • the ;south ref Russia,. ' It was but a few houra after mid- night when we dropped our anchor in the hareor ef Sebastopol. The forts of Nieholas and Constantine stood on bath sides of tile entrance, while on a narrow tongue of land, formed bythe SE.`41, on one side and a little bey on the other, lay the hietorie -town it. self. Serowe the famous liornbardinent of °atelier 17, lfliale ithen the rota' of the deadly broadsides from the ships, and the deafening din of the hannoriade from thn lend was heard many leagues off, 88haSE01,01 was, a large and beau- tiful eity, thee rose elegantly from ttheLterheore in the form. of an To' -day it it is inehing more than a earamonplaise town. showing does of fleeted, on every, side, and remanding one; ot 'ITt It TERRIBLE, tr),RATTI BLOW that was struele by it hold and en- terprieing enemy fel Russia's greatest and strongest nava,' iosenal, In the early part of the eighteenth century Seinetopol as a pretty Ter - tar village called Aktitiar. In 1788 it fell into the hands of the itussiehe and under the aegis el the Empress Catherine it rapidly developed, until It attained to a position of great pol- itical importance. At the time of the Crimean war the town ,N'as strongly fortified on every side, Six polvVerful, batteries defended the Senitbern salet of its port, arid four its Northern mete; and eo etrorig svere the svelte that tor it long time tbe. heavy disebarge of cannon that battered agnieet, them almeot unthaeingly, morel y ma rked and dent- ed them without dieramitline a single leer nearly three hund red nd fifty days Set etstopol ' ^ et gee inat t he very preparatien was made for this terrible helmet -let of War, and very soon the work of destruetion commenc- ed. Magazine after; magazine was ex- ploded until the- whole town was en- veloped itt a, eee, of living fire, When, shortly, after, the English enteredit, they found nothing but it fear- fiti weeelt of masonry- the remains of the once so formideble forts end Itetverful defensive works of Seeasto- pol. My, first date after landing was to the -famous &Mlles 01 Malakeff and Little Reda a, which, (Wring the days of lithIeztLtEeprrii.bviiel'Isnee T11riwecroeR1)8Es of hundreds of slain and mangled Rus- siana. These two ditches lie immediate- ly behind the town ma the strip of land uated between the clookyaed creek and the harbor. It was here thee the Russians had their batteries. To the right of the Malekoff was the valley of the Tchernaya, River i and across the Nyatcr, on the apposite side of the har- bor, lay the 'Wee village 01 Inkierma.n, on rugged ground, intexsected by nu- merous ridges and, hollcrws, ao deep that during the fatemis battle of tlaat amine several encounters were going on simultaneously, while the several divi- sions of the troops were hidden from the view of each other. A grey granite obelisk, bearing the name and date of the battle and the -words, "Erected 'by tbe British army," in English, Rus- sian, Greek and Turkish, marks the very centre of the battlefield. I next clrovei to Caelicart's Hill, the burial place of Six' George Cathcart and a great number of the British soldiere who died in the Crimea. From the summit of tbe hill an excellent view is obtained of the spots where tee principal events of the bombard- ment of Sebastopol. and the battle of Tehernaya took place. Looking to tbe north one sees, the town of Sebastopol the Malakoff, the Maraelon, the Little Redan, the Valley a the Tcbernaya,, the village of Inkermate-and beyond -the barren, undulating steppes that extend over the ,,greater pdrt of south- ern Russia. TO the west are the spots where General Cenrobert and Lord Raglan had their headquarters. On the east we seethe Tehernaya winding • its serpentine course over the rugged country; while beyond the moun- tains, in the squth, lies , the valley of Balaklava, where that most bril- liant episode of the Crimean War -the p"Fahcaer.ge of the Light Brigade," -took Si hundred 13ritish light horse, their swords glittering in the morn- ing sun, rode recklessly into the raidst at the Russianswho were drawn' up in strong columne to receive them. 'At a distance of twelve bundred yards -Um heetry fire of their cannon- was open- ed upon them, ;enveloping all for a mo- ment in a, flood of smoke and flame. A shrill soiled of mingled shouts and death shrieks arose echoing and re- echoing in tile valley, and tbe smoke dispersing revealed the fearful gaps which the enerny'a bells had made as they swept through. the British ranks. With a ringing cheer, and without a, moment'e hesitation, they again plunged -but with greatly dim- inished numbers -into the smoke and fire of the Russian batteries, and em- erged, at the rear of the; enemy, reel- ing wounded in their saddles, but with the blood of the Russian gunners drip- ping from their; swords. But there was no time for hesitation, for they had to return and confront anew themur- derails fire of the batteries and the fearful valleys of the musketry. Wheel- ing rapidly round they again Dew into the smoke and fire of the guns, and af- ter a deadly straggle, during vrtioli General Besquet's Corps de Cbasseurs came to their aid, the gallant Light Brigade emerged, with two-thirds of their number left dead or dying on the field. I . From Sebastopol I steamed direet to Odessa, one of the gayest ansa mese cos- mopolitan of Russian dties. Ode,ssa is most picturesquely Situat- ed, and the view of the 'town from the sea is very striking. Laid nut in spaciens squares, boulevards, broad, handsome streets, beautitut parks and promenades, and possessing aiso num- erous elegant public buildings, several theatres, first-rate hotels and eleellent shops, Odessa presents an aspeet en- tirely Parisian. To the student' or antiquarian Odes- sa. times, perhaps, as a kind, of min - climax after a round in the. more reessizal towns of the Orient, but tbe oedinttry traveler, host/ever, will be able to spend a week very pleasantly in this gay and charming city. • WORKING AT NIGHT. its Effect Goon the Health or Women and It may imam incredible that there is a, large end. growing body .of women who work regularly all night. Be. is only necessary to reflect that all the department stores, railroad depots, office buildinge, and other Sky -scrapers in the large cities are scrubbed by WO - men at tight, to verify this etatement. The telephone girls in the offices of the great dailies work at Meet; and in one of the great electrical works, which employe more women than any other ramiufectuting leetablishment ea 1111 - nets, girls ace e.ngaged regularly from 0 et night lo 5 in the morning 1.8weeks of every year. The oiled, of this work upon the health is ruinous, for the gees do eat acquire the habit et regular and sufficient sleep by day,hut work, as the say, "On nerve," using stimulante for the peewee of keeping wake. A LA Mete' G DEGEN ERA CY IN ITALY Out of eveig 100 young men inscrib- ed for inilitary iseririt:e in 1898 in Italy scarcely 42 were found fit for service, 49 were either Iteleover till the fol - 1011,10g • are,ar or rejected altogether, while the remaining nine repreaen ed, the deserters. Italian sodologie to as- cribe the cauaea to the backwerd con- dition of hygiene ia /emote lecatitiee poor food, bad aehoolt; and the complete abseree of an organ i zed, system rtf nasties fn' for youth. It A N le RESIT LT& What's the matter I etwee t andeis wife? He's leen gawking tba higarri that She; ova him for Ch ris toms ill the house and the odor melee bet deathly stek, PURELY C1111111)1IN PIEW8 INTERM$TING EOEI11s AROUT, OUR OWN COUNTRY. Gathered train Various Pointe from the atlantic to the Pacific: The matibinery far the Cameron 113 - Landmine bas arrived in Rat Pottage. A. G. Irwin., asoiseent secretary of the Montreal Ilea,rd of Trade bas re- signed, Rossland'a latest voters' list shows 1,218 voters.' in the 41aetropo1l,9 of the Kootenay. Regina Board of Trade will help ma- vertiee the Priece Albert route to the Kiondece.. eixty-foar canneries were operated on the Fraser last season, and the ouce broke all previous record. Peewee:cm is rapidly filling up with `isrs, `wbo will sta,rti for the esteem as peon as amerig opens, James Paul, a. 17 -year-old Iloesland boy, shot himself becOuse his mother reproved bile. Ile will get better. .tas. McCreary bas resigned the prin- cipalship of the Woe Ward School, Peterboroe Re will travel a petrified man. Miss elfary Heywood of St. Thomas, liteeeme despondent on Sunday and took a dose of toothaehe medicine. She will recover. The Quebec Exposition Company has decided to buy Gowan's farm -and transform it into a permanent exhibi- tion ermines. W. j. MeLeod, werden's clerk at the Kingston pepitentiary, bas teen ap- pointed steward at the Dorchester penitentiary. Dan McNaughton, who was acci- dentally killed by d gensbot while hunting in British Columbia, was a native ot Lancaster, Ont. Rev J. W. Spirwell hate left Wood- stock, for New We,steninster, B. C., where he Neill be principal of the Co- lumbia Methedist College, A Canadian Pacific brakeman was blown off the top of a twee near Sebam last week. He lit in a snow eank and escaped uninjured. A deal for the sale of eighteen can- neries on the Fraser has fallen through as the English syndicate say the cc tal is drifting toward the Klondike. Jeanes Grant, of Stewart, is rejoicing becauee an unmarried brother has left en estate in Oregon valued at and he is one of the six who will di- vide. The Merchants Cot ton Co., of Mont- real, have decided, to place their goods with the wholesale trade and naanufac- turers direct through a special selling department. Alfred Robert .A.ngers, former clerk a the Court of Appeal at Quebec who laas,beee a novice at the monastery of La Trappe bas taken his final vows as a brother of the order. The Le Rol mine has nearly complet- eti its contract to supply 75,000 tons of ore to the Trail =clear. In future all ore will be chipped to the company's own• smelter at Northport. Quail are numerous in the neigh- beurhood of • Brantford, A railroad, train killed over a sonre last Wednes- day night. Butt then everyone who goes shooting quell can't carry a rail- way train with bina A stranger tried the tfiek of sub- stituting a- paste diamond for a real one in a St. Thomas' jegellery store, but the clerk discovered the fraud in time to make thea-steadier give up, though he escaped himself. • A Gore Bay come able has been carry- ing on an indiscriminate shooting of dogs. Christanas day be shot a vain - able canine belonging tu the mail dog train and now the municipality is the delleadaet in a suit fax damages. carload of live hogs from Listowel went through the Sarnia tunnel on T,hlureday, consIgned to the Chicago stock yards. It ra,s the first importa- tion of Canadian liege for slaughter known by the United States customs officers. • The latest; verdiet in the, celebrated 'Turner vs. St. Clair Tunnel Co., was given at Port Huron the other day, 11 was §2,200 for the plaintiff. Turner lost his hearing while working in com- pressed atr during- the constraction of the tunnel. SOlVIE FAMILIAR NAMES. Lake Mid:igen signifies in the na- tive tongue "a weir for fish." Java is a native leelay word signify- ",.'". of nutmegs." . en the. So menet, t "eh as, eignify*, ef the dlIwn," Connect icut in the Indian forte was Quineitukut, meaning "the country of the tette' river," Egypt expressos (bit Hebrew for "the land of oppression," ;eluding to the bondage of the iaraelites, Africa, trees; its origin to the Phoeni- cian afer a bleak man, atiri the Sanskrit act the earth, a country. Lake Eria is the lake or • the "wilct cat," the name. given to a fierce tribe of Indians exterminated by the (re- tied's. ' ele1PLA.INED, , Mrs. Hymen ---1 eite :Amid you, do not :think as much of me, Charles, as Y0]. 'eseci te1 care rethember when you declared 1 Wag Worth eny weight 111 gold. Mr, Ilymen-Thet'e what still say, but eoe mtist, lenge:thee: that yen have loft 01 leeet twee ty pounds the last year, A N A :P PET fT:1,1 DESTROy had no appetite ror tovalcsast; this morning, said the bookkeeper, as he eame in and took off his coitt. thst late last. istgete towriod tho sista ill. outnager. That wrestle. it, 1 fount my lioard ITt besidvt my plate. 4I t ' t e( lilli111121.4° s1t" Landpj 4.1se teeth in t11,E. civf,a%iy,o uriosityins 11, o dentists in Ina W i/frj".'-ou.Ydn t -t criticism by vigorou whatever is pieced before ddoerule esfnotasecv.en, hesitate at cholas, ing their bonee to powder with w "I bought tile- clog abroad," , Moesly remarks itt Tid-Bits, "for et stud fleet as, although old, be possesses many good points. Be had no teeth, hotweVer, and 1 foetid that we had to specially' prepare his food for elm, He , became very unfortunate in the keit- tele, -where the dogs Nvortild worry lane without his being- able to defeed him- self, caul treat him with the etmoret oontempt. So the, idea, ocourred to me that I might make bim o et of false teeth. It had never been done before to my knowledge, and there were great difficulties int the way, nue 1 save no reason why it Should not be done, re'ra'SGoveId ctlahleorfoefwormstamedi apdsenheletuaivaelnd laeIx. The puzzle, aftert the mouth was pre- pared, was hose to fit the, plate. Ev- erything bad to fie specially made, but at last succeeded in taking! model of the dog's, mouth, and the most dif- ficult part of the operation =sever, or so'.at least, I congratulated my- self. From the models metal dies were ee east, and natty little platinum plates te- struck to fit each jaw. These plates had to be made of double thickness in order to obtain sufficient strength, as Myn Duivel, having no fear of his den- tiesiasotk'slibllo,neiss. reckless in the way he 'It was a formidable task -the most 'difficult operation I have performed in a professional career of 'nearly 20 ht7ovauernrsiyi_nt Efoaerxhepottaffrittnlhageeimteeth oempied two anydouasertillial:muniNd'eerre- stand whet a dreary task it was. Forty-eight hours of grinding! And then each tooth haa to be ground to the exact size aria shape, and there was great risk of breakage. But it was done at' last and Myn Delvel was fittedegitil bis new set of artificial !Mete. He revolted furiously at first, and fought violently against the innova- tion, Itut at length he became recon- ciled, and he is now an extremely proud, not to sag a conceited, dog. His teeth are taken oat and cleaned each niglit with his Own tooth brush mad a spacial powder. "The outlay for materials used in experiments and failures," said Mr. 1Vfosely, was considerable. Me lead- ing mechanic was employed on the ea for over tett days, and 1 put in more hard work and took more skin off ray finger-tips in shaping those teeth than I have done irt a year of ordinary work, No, I shouldn't care to do another one for a patient, unle.ss I had carte blanehe in both money end time, and even then. I should think ` twice." U• NIFORM IN AFRICA, The Natives Show a Love of Soldiers' Cast- • en' Garments. • "1n the course of my travels in South A.friee. 1 bare been greatly etruelt by the fondness of the natives fox' gin:dye., apparel, particularly uniforms. These - are the esst-all uniforms of the vari- ous regiments time have been station- ed in the. country from time, teetime. Here at Durban one can see every daY scores of natives dressed in most ludicrous fashion, partially elothed in military apparel, the coats usually having all the Luttons, stripes, a,nd the • like complete. Yo -i4 will see a, rag- ged, unkempt Kaffir, leading a team a oxen, wearing a niuch stilled scarlet tonic, or a dark bine tunic with tat - eared yellow braid or gold lace, and woefully dirty; or, else, a stable jacket out at the elbows, with the. yellow braid Or gold 'wire "lines," probably rorand hM waist -no shoes, stockings or 11:abdzthr,e,s.and mere,le: a cloth, round bis loias or, at least a ragged pair "The coolies, who are employed. here so largely, are just as great offend- ers. All about the place one sees shops ip.slriatyhedlarfogre sagireatiittlesisofnoutnivIrray siodnisg- ago that tbe authoritiee at home woks up to the feet that it was derogatory to the dignity of the cloth; to allow Sandwich men and otbers to wear east - off uniforms, andthus degrade the soldiers' garb, it was bad enough in all conscience to etee the loaters in Eng- land wearing uniforms, but far worse is it to, see dirty niggers and loafing Indians strutting about the Streets partially dressed in our genteel, sol- diers' clothes. 11 18 an insult to the whole British Lent*, and a etrong re- presentation elsoeld be made to the eel- ony that the wearing of military limn torme by civiliate hiou1d lie discontent- ed, toad made a punishable offense, as ii Etigland."--Corresporenteee of the Landon Grapbes. PIGS AS 1,IFE-SAVElle. A (emoting steamer was tvreelosa near Sydney, The Captain tied life lines to some pigs whiih forme4 a part et the cargo. Thee, on being thrown o-verboard, quickly etvani ashore, tak- ing t he lime with them, Communi- cation heiag taus establislied every person on, hoard was rescued. Pl tJrlD THE 1311,1 Merchant, presenting itemized state- in(qii,--t,00k that over, erreitterel, mid Fend me a elleak at your Ideate ontld ulna' ytoliteeirtlitrit„ta, trflitti at4tn etitIriitisttulsrsottye that the lady is ono of the, most charmingaltie m'irri6civin" te.)131fey rililittest118.uitrieakt: mad 1. you a inob ;a me -emit wife. 1,1i Loral, r a min rig Si a -lemon t- 1 youSi roritesits thee ;Abe the hill.