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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Times, 1898-10-5, Page 3teeNiee,"^"."^"er•efeetreareesel:*.-/Neree",""ere^"^""1 TrIE CAS11NG AWAY MRS. LECKS AND°F MRS. ALESHINE k.."....",•-"•-",.",..."4"rs.",","„r; -Mrs. Aleshine," said I, looking at For the ilext two daAys all was bus- ter very steedfastly, "1 believe, after , the and work at the island. Mrs. Leeks .all, that you and iVLin. Leeks had your and Mrs, Aleshine would not consent own way in regard to hurrying up I to depart without leaving ' everything thie matter." i in the best possible order, so that the " Yes," said she, with happy oompla-1Dusantesmight not be dissatisfied with 1 cency, "1 ahouldn't wonder if we had. the condition of their house when they Stirrin' up the parson was our last returned. It was, in fact, the evident ,chance, and it wasn't much trouble to desire of the two womea to gratify do it." • I their pride in their housewifely abili- Mrs. Lecke, whesse m,anner towards ties by leaving everything better than .me for the last few deys had been char- they found it acterized by cold severity, now resum- Mr. Ennerton was much surprised at ed her former trieadly demeanor, al- these preparations for immediate de - though she was not willing to let the parture. He was very well satisfied affair pass over without some words with his life on the island, and had of reproach. ' , prepared his mind, for ' an indefinite " 1 niust say, Mr. Craig," she re- continuance of it, with the position of marked the next•morning, " that levee that annoying and obdurate Mrs, Lacks ,gettin' pretty well outdone with you. filled by a compliant and affectionate I was beginnin' to think that a young daughter. He had no reasonable cause man that couldn't see and wouldn't for complaint, for the whole subject see what was good for him, didn't 'de- of the exhaustion of our supply of pro - serve to have it; and if 1Vliss Ruth's visions and the necessity of an open - father had just oome down with a boat trip to an inhabited island had heavy foot and put an end to the whole been fully discussed before him. But business, I'm not sure I'd been sorry he was so entirely engrossed. in the for you. But it's all right at last, and consideration of his own well-being, .bygones is bygones, And now, what that thia discussion •of our plans had • we've got to do is to get ready for made no impression upon him. He now the weddin'." became convinced that a conspiracy had "Tho wedding!" I exclaimed. • been entered into against him, and fell Mrs. Lecks regarded me veith an ex- into an unpleasant b,umor. This, how - pression in which there was some- ever, produced very little effect upon thing of virtuous indignation and some- any of ua, for we were all too busy to thing of pity. "Mr. Craig," said she, notice his whims. But his sudden "if there ever was anybody that want- change of disposition made me under - •ed a guardeen. it's yoa. Now, just let stand how correct were the opinions me tell you this. That Mr. Enderton of Mrs. Leaks and Mrs. Aleshine con - ain't to be trusted no further than you corning him. If I had left that island can see him, and not so fur, neither, with my marriage with Ruth depend - if it can be helped. He's willin' for you ing upon. Mr. Enderton's co-operation, to have Miss Ruth now, because he's my prospects of future happiness would pretty much made up his mind that have been at the mercy of his caprices. we're going to stay here; and as he Very early on a beautiful morning tonsiders you the master of this is- . Ruth and I start= out on our wed - land of course hii thinks it'll be for ding journey in the long -boat. Mr, .his good for his daughter to be mis- tress of it. For one thing, he wouldn't .expect to pay no board then. But just let him get away from this island, and ,just let hikt set his eyes on some .smooth -faced young fellow that'll agree to take him into the concern and keep him for nuthin' on books and tea, • te'll just throw you over without wink - in'. And. Miss Ruth is not the girl to marry yine against his 'will, if he .opens the Bible and piles texts on her, which he is capable of doin'. If in any way you two should get separated when. you leave here, there's no know - in' when you'd ever see each other again, for where he'll take her nobody .can tell. He's more willin' to set down .and, stay where he finds himself com- fortable than anybody I've met yet." "Of course," I said, "I'm ready to .be married at any moment, but I don't believe Miss Ruth and her father will emneent to anything so speedy." " .Don't you get into the way," said, Mrs Leeks " of beforehand believins Enderton was made as comfortable as possible in the stern, with Ruth near him. leers. Leaks and Mrs. Aleshine sat facing each other, each with a brown paper package by her side, containing the life -preserver on which she had ar- rived. These were to be ever cherish- ed as memorials of a wonderful ex- perience. The three sailors and I took turns at the oars. The sea was smooth, and. there was every reason to believe that we should arrive at our destin- ation before the end. of the day. Mrs. Aleshine had supplied us with an abun- dance of provisions, and. with the ex- ception of Mr. Exiderton, who had not been permitted to take away any of the Dusante books, we were a content- ed party. "As long as the flour held out," re- marked Mrs. Aleslaine, "I'd never been willin' to leave that island. till. the Du- santes came back, and. we could have took Emily or Lucille, whichever itavas that kept house, and. showed her ev- erythine and told her just what we this or that. It don't pay. Just you go had done. -But when they do come terher father and. talk to him,. about back," she added, "and read that let - it; and if you and him agree, it'll be ter which Mr. Craig wrote and left for easy enough to make her see the sense them, and find. out all that happened in their country place while they was away, and how two of us was made hap- py for life: and how two more of us, ' .of it. You attend to them, and 1'11 see : that, everythin' is got ready. And you'd .beeter .fix the day for to -morrow, for we can't stay here much longer, and meanin' Mrs. Leeks and me, have give here's a lot of house-cleanin' and bak- up goin' to Japan, intendine, instid of in' and cookin' to be done before we that, writin' to my son to come home to America, and settle down in the I took this advice, and broached the eountry he ought to live in,—why, to &. Eaderton. then, if them Dusantes ain't satisfied subject Well, sir," said he layeng down his it's no use for anybody to ever try to book, "your proposition is decidedly satisfy 'ena." • .odd; I may 'say, very odd indeed. But "I should think not," said Mrs. it is perheps, after all, no odder than Leeks, "with the weddin' cards on the , _many things I have seen. Among the parlor table, not a speck of dust in e• various denominational sects I have no- any corner, and the board money in ticed occurrences quite as odd; quite the ginger -jar." .as odd sir. For my part, I have no , - The End, desire to object to an early celebra- tion: of the matrimonial rites. I may say, indeed, that I am of the opinion that a certain amount of celerity in this matter will conduce to the own - Solt of all concerned. It has been a very unsatisfactory thing to me to see .my daughter occupying a subordinate ,position in our little family, whereellae has not even the power to turn house- new municipal buildings, which rises hold affairs into the channels of my 600 feet in height, will hardly persist comfort. To -morrow, I think, will do very well indeed. Even if it should j m their enthusiastic admiration after . i rain, I see no reason why the ceremony 1 reading that et s surpassed in alm.ost should be postponed." • I every particular by many chimneys in The proposition or a wedding on tb,e Europe. morrow was not received by Ruth with I favor .She was unprepared for such • The honor of possessing the high - precipitancy. But she finally yielded est chimney in the world, says ' the . to arguments; not so much to mine. 1 Ludgate Monthly, belongs to Glasgow, , I fear, as to those offered by Mrs.Lecksj where there are two staeles of colossal and Mrs. Aleshine.• proportions. One of these—the Town - For the reSt of that day the three send shaft at Port Dundas—has a total mariners were kept very busy, bring-, height of 468 feet, with a diameter at log in green things to deck the par- i the base of 32 feet, and at the top of lor, and doing every imaginable kind , 13 feet, 4. inches. The structure weighs of work necessary to a wedding which about 8,000 tons. The other stack— Mrs. Aleshine was willing to give into, that at Si, Rollox, G-lasgow — has a, their hands. As for herself and her ; total height of 445 feet, 6 inches, with good friend, they put themselves upon a diameter at the base of 50 feet and their mettle as providers of festivals.1 at the top 13 feet 6 inches. It was • They made cakes, pies, and I never! founded in May 1857; coping laid Octo- I knew, half so well as the three sailors, ber 6th, 1859; bent by storm of Septem- how many other kinds of good things. ber 9th, 1859, restored to perpendicular Besides all this, they assisted Ruth to by sawing from. September 21st till fit herself out in some degree in a October 1st, 1859. Totai height, 468 manner becoming to a bride. Some light feet; from surface to top of cope, 454 and. pretty - adornments of dress were feet; outside diameter at foundation, borrowed from Emily or Lucille, they 50 feet; at surface, 32 feet; at top of knew not which, and, after having been cope, 12 feet, 8 inches; height of light - "dobe up" and fluted and crimped by /ling conduotor at top of chimney, 20 Mrs. Leeks were incorporated by 'Ruth feet. There is a chimney at Cologne into her oostume with so math taste which is 441 feet high, with a, diameter that on the wedding morning she ap- at the square base of 39 feet, and at, peered to me to be dressed more charm- the round top of 11 feet 6 inches, Its ingly than any bride I ever saw. weight is about 5,500. tons. Another The three sailors had done their own Lowering chimney on the continent is washing and ironing, aod 'appeared. in that of the Royal Smelting Works near cleanly garb, and with heir and beards Freiburg, in Saxony. It is built up to well wet and brushed. 1VIrs. Leeks and the top of a hill, where it stands iecl- Mra. Aleshine, put on their best bibs plod, and is 460 feet high. The most ' ana tuckers and Mr. Enderton assumed costly c.hininey in the world is in Brad - his most elerical air, as he stood be- ford,at the famoun lVfantunghein Mills hind a taint in the parlor and married The shaft is e remarkable structure, • Ruth and me. architeeturelly, and is . the most pro- "' This," said Mt. Eniclerton, as we nainent feature hi the landscape in were seated at the wedding feast, "is thet part of Yorkshire. It is 256 feet, a moat charitable display of attrac- 6 inches high, and 21 feet square. It tive viands; bat I may. say, my cleat contains 8,000 tons of material, and oost Ruth, that t think 1 perceived the in- rather more than £10,000. A peculiar - fluence of the happy event of to -day ity of this shaft ie that it is as broad seen before it took place. I have lately at the top as it is at the bottom, had a better appetite for ray food, and but the interior is wider at the sum - have experieaced a greater enjoytaent mit than at the base, the dimensions of my surroundings." being 13 feet arid 10 feet, eAspectively. "I should think so," iturniured Mrs, In addition to possessing the most ex- Aleshine in my ear, for we'd no soon- pensive chimney, Bradford hoe the er knowed that you two were to make gloomy distinetion of having experi- a match of it, than we ptit an extra enoed the most terrible ohimiley disa speonfel of tea into his pot, and stop- eeter on record—lhat of the Newlands pod sorubbin' the libery. MI ils. T 'EXETER TI MANI DEEp3 OF VALOUR. eer..1 BRILLIANT CHARGE OF THE LAN- CERS AT OlVIDURNAN. ITenutted Nest Continued. to Fight-liolue 1111(4.•0110 Rescues Of Injured L +.11Retn$•—• Xak11114 Wought illravelf to Me End, George Stevens, of the London Daily Mail writing more fully on the Brilliant achievement of the British at Omdurman, declares that the charge of the Lancers formed no part of the Sirdar's plan of battle, Ile did not give the word for it; neither did it have any direct bearing upon the su- preme. issue of the day. But it was, the writer says, a superb display of railagy valoeir, Out of a total strength of only 320 men with which the regiment went Into the fray, they lost no fewer than forty killed and wounded. ` Several horses were quick- ly hainstrung, and their riders were being out to pieces by the ferocious foe. The Lancers attacked the enemy when wheeling to the left, and thus they passed over ground which had not been examined by the scouts, wherein a deep khor was held by a couple of thousand of the enemy. These the Lan- cers saw for the first time when two hundred yards away, too late to change their minds; and though the dervish- es were placed tea or fifteen deep Oa° regiment dashed into them with a thwack. SOME VALOROUS ACTS TORONTO'S CITY HALL TOWER must Take Second Place In Comparison With Old laud Chimneys. The residents of Toronto who point with natural pride to the tower of the On getting through one subaltern oried to his dtroops to rally, but found only four men behind him. Lieutenant de Montmorency went back among the dervishes to fetch the body of the ser- geant of his troop and found Lieuten- ant Grenfell's body. He hoisted Gran - fell on to his horse, not knowing that he wa,s dead. The horse bolted and Ideutenant: de Montmorency was left alone before a crowd of the enemy, who were firing heavily fifty yards dista,nt. Captain P. A. Kenna and a corporal caught the horse, rode up, and brought Lieutenant de Montmor- ency off in safety. Lieut. Grenfell's body was also recovered. The Lancers who were killed in this charge had their heads, necks and limbs slashed to ribbons. With one exception, no man who was once actually unhorsed was again seen alive. The single ex- ception was Surgeon -Major Ginches. His horse was brought down to the ground, and the officer fell among the furious dervishes. Sergeant-Major Brennan, who was riding ahead, saw the major's peril, and gallantly re- turned to his assistance After a tough fight, in the course of which Brennan killed several dervishes, he succeeded in getting the officer on to his own horse and bank to the regi- ment. 'WOUNDED MEN FOUGHT ON Trooper Byrne, fighting with desper- ate valour, was badly wounded first by a dervish sword and then by arifie bailee. But the madness of beetle was upon him, and he contiuueu to fight His troop ofeicer told hien "Lo get out- side," He replied, "Do let me have one more go at them, sir." Sergta Major George VeyeeY got e slash from a dervish sword which severed his nose, and almost simultaneweely a spear was thrust into his chest, Blood, streamed from hie wounds, but he till rode firmly in his Kiddie and centime& to cheer on 1ns troop till the fight was over. Sergt. Freeman received a terrible vvound from a, sword in his face, but, like Veysey, he went on fighting, ancl only sought the aid of a surgeon after he had earried nis men thicugh the action. Before the Lancers could get at the dervishes they had to jump the water -course, and they did it in .splendid style. Lieut. Worineidt of the 7th Hussars, engaged an Emir single-handed, and nearly came to grief. Delivering a ter- rific blow at the mail-olad warrior, the lieutenant's sword, striking against the chain armour, bent double, as though it were lead; but before the Emir could get his own sword home Wormaid hit him woes the head with the beat sword and stunned him, and a Lancer opportunely coming along finished the chieftain. Another offi- cer, while parrying the thruet of a dervish spearm.an, lost Ms word, and his life was only saved by the prompt- ness of a, trooper behind him, who ran • his lance through the dervish. BRAVE EVilit YAKUB Comparing experiences, many of us have arrived at the conclusion that the finest display of individual heroism was made by the Khalifa's brother, the faraour Emir Yakib. Never did man show more supreme contempt of death. He rode at the head of a crowd of horsemen, and repeatedly tried to get to close quarters. Over and over again these horsemen gallopea right at our line, wheeled round, a,nd thundered along our face, raising dense clouds of dust as they went, and leaving a trail of dead and dying men. At one moment a merciless rifle fire poured into their flanks and. rear, but they stopped, and, scorning to get out of range, gathered. in kit dense mass round Yakub's standard, and proudly laced the ram of lead. A great body of white -clad footnaen screaming hoarsely the name of Allah and brandishing huge spears, ran at full speed across the open ground, for no other purpose apparently than to die with their lead- er. Rifle and Maxim fire and shell from field guns swept through the mass and mowed them down, and not one man out of ten reached Ya,kub's standard. Slatin Pasha, who had re- cognizedYakub's flag, rode out and found the Emir still alive. The dying chieftain recognized his old enemy and erstwhile prisoner, and died in his presence. As Yakub expired several of his body -guard, who lay near grievously wounded, managed to raise themselves up and fired their rifles at our men, whereupon they were promptly de- spatched by some Egyptian soldiers. The Khalifa had already fled, and Ya.kub's superb effort was the last organized attempt by the dervishes to retrieve the fortunes of the day. MARCHED INTO OMDURMAN The Sirdar' s entry into Omdurman had touches about it of barbaric tri- umph and impressiveness. Armed men cast their arms at the Sirdar's feet and cried. out for °leniency. The women pressed forward, seizing and kissing the hands of our officers. The Sirdar rode straight along the main street of the city to the square, where stood the now battered tomb a the lefaladi. All the prisoners were found un- harmed. The previous night 'thee had been led out in obelus, apparently for execeLion, bnt their jailers changed their minds. All the afternoon and evening our army marched steadily through the streets Of Omdurman to the river bank three miles beyond, where the Sirdeg had decided that the camp should be pitehed. Without waiting for food, the men, efter gnenohing their metal thirst, threw themselves on the bare ground utterly exhausted, and there and. then went to steel). For all of them there had been but little water or food for twelve or fourteen hours. Of the visit of the Sirdar to Khar- toum, Mr, Stevens says: To -day the Union Tack flies over the grave of General Gordon. Detachments or all the British and Egyptian regiments left Omdurman early in the morning by steamer for Khartoum.. Before ten o'clock the troops drew up opposite a dereliot stone building. Its regular rows of windows were once shaded by shutters; now they are loosely bricked up. Once it was a two - storeyed building; now it shows only a single storey, half concealed by silt- ed -up rubble. This forlorn ruin was formerly the seat of the Government of the Soudan, and tne scene of the death of Gordon. The troops were drawn up in firing lines around three side of a quadrangle opposite the front of the ruin; the Egyptian detach - meat on the right, the British on the. left, in the same order that they lead taken for Friday's battle. • From the battered tower rose two flagstaffs, with halyards ewhich were in charge of Lieutenant Stairley, R.N., Captain Watson, A.D.C. Major Milford, and the Sirdar's naive aide-de-camp. The Sider, who stood, with his staff in- side the quadrangle, suddenly raised his hand; the band of the Grenadiers played "God Save the Qineu" and the Khedive,' hymn, and at that mo- ment the British and Eyyptian ensigns were run up side by side. The Union Jack shook itself and streamed out strongly on the breeze. The guns of the Melik boomed a• salute of twenty- one guns. The rest of the ceremony had refer- ence to General Gordon's death. The British band. played. the "Dead March in Saul," and the Egyptian band the march from • Handel's "Scipio," in memory of their dead. The four °leap- lains — Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Anglican and, Methodist — advanced and faced the Sird,ar, and alternately read the burial service, the gunboat all the while pealing rainute guns. The service over, the pipers of the Cam- erons and Seaforths wailed element, and the band of the Egyptians follow- ed. The burial rites having been con- summated, the troops were dismissed. We wandered afterwards through Gordon's •garden. It is still green with palms, and acacia, orange, lemon, pomegranate and fig trees and sugar cane. It was a vivid and. refreshing scene after the arid, stinking condition of Omdurman. ITEMS OF INTEREST. A Few Paragraphs Which Will be itrontrid Worth Ileadinh, Over 600,000 persons are OMPloned ia Italy in rearing silkworms. The Japanese never sweet, Their lan- guage eontains no blappttemous words. It is Haid that the first weeping f wil- low in England was planted. by Al- exander Pope, the poet, Wiid oxen and swine are plentiful in the forests qe. the Lacirone The meat a the latter is said to be as toothsome as the best Westphalia hams. Two.towns in Kansas, Lost Springs, and Romana., have pot an idle man or boy, or an unoccupied house, or a dog. Each town has a population of about 200. Bismarok fought twenty-eight duels and in all these conflicts received but one wound, which was caused by the accidental breaking of Ids antagonist's sword. Last year the United States Govern- ment's profits on money orders am - :muted to $800,000. When the system firat went into force in 1865, the Goer- ernraent lost 4,7,000. Nine fatailies in Burton, Kansas, have their cooking done on the co-opera- tive plan, and thus ensure a greater variety of food at less cost, and avoid the worry of directing and paying ser- vant ghes. ' The system of vaccination is so per - In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme- excellence is simplicity.—Longfellow. Dere's always bound to be kickers, exclaimed Meandering Mike, "Did you ever know a time :when de people agreed unanimously dat deer had de right man in de right plane? Olney once, replied Plodding Pete. I was bein' put into jail on de occasion. THE DEATH OF GENE AL GORDON) KHARTOUM, AMUR-it 26, 1885, feot in the German army that small- pox has been reduced to six or seven cases annually: All recruits are re- vaccinated, and there must be at least ten punotures in each arm. Among the twenty-two competitors in a. sixty-four mile walking match in Bergin, eight of thena were vegetar- ians. The distance had to be covered in eighteen hours. Six' -of theul accom- plished the feat and they- were all veg- etarians. •• divided into three principal streams • A Mean rogue in Kentla.nd, Ind., 18 1 each 76 to 80 yards wide. Thee, as warned by a farmer, who has inserted this advertisement in the local paper, "1 am watching for the man that milks nay cow. If I catch him, I intend to Shut my eyes and shoot at the cow.— John Keefe." Five sons with their wives and six daughters with their husbands, attend- ed. the funeral of Peter Murray, at Wi- chita, Kansas. He was in his 84th year, and had 14 children, 60 grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren, and 2 great- grea t-grandth ildren. A., little surprise awaited tem women. who recently met in the office of a Chicago lawyer. They had never seen each other before, but ere they left the office the discovery was made that each had called to begin proceedings to ob- tain a divorce from the same man. To counteract the tendency of boys to resort to knives and pistols in Quar- rels, Captain Smith, of the Mitcham, England, School Board, proposed that two pairs of boxing -gloves be supplied to each boy's department, and that the lads be instructed in their scientific We. LAVA FLOWSIN TORRENT8 A GRANO BUT TERRIBLE SIGHT IS NOW WITNESSED. Eruption of Vesuvius Continues Threaten. • Mg Life and litropiretty-litue NOW Ern* 'WO APPeaf• A despatch fgom Naples. Italy, says: a-lerightful misery and immense dere- ago will be caused if the eruption of 3/fount Vesuvius oontinues on the al- arming sca,le it has reaohed the last few (Jaen. Nine new craters wore counted around the eentral crater, but even this extra, vene does nothing toe ward °necking the flow of lava, al- though there is a marked cessation iet the more violent belching of fire and. emobs. The meteorological observatory on the part of the volcano known as Mount Contaroni, is eeriously threat- ened by the subsiding of the ground on which it is built. One great lava, stream now coming down certeinly will overwhelm it unless it is diverted from its present course, . This observatory, situated 2,209 feet above the sea level, on the simile den of a hill Which divides the lava streams descending from the crater into great branches, was established many yeare ago for the purpose of putting a sci- entific watch upon the volcano end of giving warning to the surroanding country of impending dangerous erup- tions. Many lives have been saved by notthe from it to the inhaentante in time to flee. ' STREAMS 80 YARDS WIDE. It was here that in the fearful out- break of April 1872, • Director Hal- meri bravely faced almost certain death to take note of the awful phe- nomena when fiery streams threatened to engulf his station. The lava, torrent near the crater: which was a width of half a mile, is A.fter eating a most enjoyable dinner in the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, Mr. E. D. Rowland, of New York, gave the 'waiter a 8500 bill in payment. The waiter left the hotel to change the bill, and perheps has had to travel a long distance.' Mr. Rowland is now the waiter—waiting for his change. On a recent warm Sunday, there were only a few worshipers present in a little ohurch at Norristown, Pa.. As the clergyman -was about to begin his sermon, he said,: "Brethren, it's hot, and so...I say 'comfort before pride.'" Then he divested hiraselt of his coat, hung it over. the side of the pulpit, and preached his sermon in his shirt- sleeves. For fourteen years, a woman in Char- leston, W. Va., carried a potato in her pocket, as a preventive of rheuma- tism. At her death, a few days ago, the potato had become shriveled with age. After the funeral her clothes were hung out to air, and in the pock- et of one of the garments was the po- tato. A rain -storm drenched the cloth- ing, and it was found that the potato had put forth several green sprouts. A couple of mischievous boys in Brooklyn, N.Y., entered an unoccupied dwelling, the owners of which were at a summer resort. They left lighted candles burning in two of the front rooms, and then spread the report that burglars were inside. Four policemen, pistols in hand, cautiously crept ib in quest of the burglars, and examined every nook in the house, closets, cellar and coal -bins. The boys stood in the crowd outside, and greeted them with laughter as they came forth. The waiters, bell -boys, and other at- tendants at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, are inclinea to stumble over one an- other in their eagerness to serve Day - they pour down the mountain side, again sub -divide into smaller streams. They advance at the rate of forty yards an hour, submerging everything in their path, searing the vegetation in the vicinity as though fire has pass- ed over it. An ertorm.ons quantity of lava keeps pouring out of the crater. It has filled Vetrana valley, a deep ravine, and ashes lie several inches thick for a long distance down the sides of the mountain and on the ad- jacent villages, FARMERS IN DESPAIR. The slope of the mountain is one of the most thickly populated districts in the world. The fertility of the soil is celebrated, and in the best parts four crops a year are gardened. But one great aid to this fertility, the num- erous wells, are beginning to dry up, and the farmers are in despair. Travellers from all parts of Europe are flocking here to see Vesuvius in, eruption. The spectacle at night is one of indeecribable grandeur. The faint, palpitating glow that normally marks the great crater, is now ex- changed for a. vivid tongue of light, coloured at times almost like a rain- bow illuminatiag the heavens and re- flected with exquisite effect in the waters of the bay. • These manifesta- tions are accompanied. by deep rumb- lings and thunderous subterranean ex- plosions, followed by great outpourings of lava and ashes. id H. Moffatt, tbe Colorado millionaire, who is frequently a guest &ere. When he Tinge for a glass of ice -water, his tip to the bell -boy is usuelly a dollar ; evhen his dinner pleases hien his re- gular tip to the waitet is five dollars. His most generous tip was to Tom Gay, the head waiter, whom he recently took with him on a trip to Europe. HE SAW THE MONKEY. Sandy Macgregor, after five -and - twenty years' steady work, took a eortmght's holiday and went to Lon- don. At the foot of the stair where Swirly was lodging twe or thtte yoang fellows gathered every naoraiug round a barber's shop door, and. when Sandy passed, backwards and forwards from seeing the sights they began to no- tice him, and resolved. to have a lark otte of the auk'. Scot. One morning, on emerging from his lodgings, Sandy was accosted by the barber himsele with the words: ". 'Ere, old fellow, 'awe you seen a lorry passing this 'ere way loaded with monkeys frotn Bailey's shawl' "No, ma maunie," said Sandy, "I &dna,' see it; but, pair chisl, has ye fann aft?" EXPERT HORSEBACK RIDERS. A Milian Cavairyman Threads a Needle at IL COMP. Writing about the amazing deeds of expert horseback -riders, the New York Sun quotes a story related by a mili- tary gentleman of Los Angeles, Cali- fornia. He was talking about "a Rif- fian irregular cavalryman." "I have seen Cossacks snatch a baby from its mother's arms at fall gallop, toss it into the air, catch it, and. ;re- peat the performance," said Captain Rathbone. "I once saw an Indian rider in the fax West spring from( his pony's bare back while the animal was moving at full gallop, pick up an are - row, and remount instantly in a standing posture. I have seen other performances all over the world, but for a neat, clever, clean-out feat this Riffian exceeded them mile I think. eSevera..1 of us hadi been at Gibraltar and found ourselves at a town on the Reffian coast. We were entertained by the Spanieh commander, who did the honey. finely. One morning we rode outside the town and reached a level .stretch of sand, where there were a number of Reffian horsemen. 1 "They were fine-looking fellows, with gleaming faces of bronze, white teeth, and attired in snow-white burn - mints. They were mounted on small animals, slight but quiek and wiry, of the thoroughbred Arab bar type. "We were amuned some eine by their charges and evolutions. They would throw their swords and matchldoks into the air, catchiug them by the hilts and stocks infallibly. Finally it was announced that something of unusual interest would be aecompliela- ed. • "One of the men produced a needle ancl a piece of thread, possibly two or three feet in length. They evert) both handed around for inspection. I sup- pose the needle wan a oanabrio one, and the thread fifty or sixty fine. ;When we hach duly inspeeted, 'both, one ofathe men signified that he would thread the needle. "He galloped hie horse down the sand about four handred yards or 80. Ile finally wheeled his horse and re- mained stationary, faoing on, The one who held the needle and three() waved them in hie hand and xecle to- warci the other. When he had cover- ed about two-thircle of the, distaned, he halted and waved his hand to the far- ther one, Immediately the letLer epurred his bore into ra gallop, and cable toward us at fall speed. As he passed • the other he took the needie and thread from his isorepation, boat over for re Moment, and palled up when he re,aohed oue narty, holding, the threaded needle trintaphantly over his head.",