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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-7-27, Page 7138 °,11* oweew. The Lost Diamonds of the Orange River. .*‘,Zioeco Many are the stereo told at the met- sPao fires of the South African trans- port riders, some weird, some romantic) KUM a the aative wars, some of fierce encounters with the win( beasts of the land. Often an I travelled with ray CridadS up-eountry we eLopped to have ly drifted. farther down into the Col - pay, and thence into an elephant- hanterhi retinoe. The western Orange River and its mysteriee—fer it is a eaYsterious region—he knew, as I al- terwards diseovered, better than any Man in the• -world Well, *we trekked up to lifiatabelielande and after some trouble got permission to hunt there ; '.hat with theae rugged PeoPlei sled aod a fine time we had, ge,tting a quaatity of ivory, and magnent evert amoug lions, elephants? buffalo, rinnecieros, and all manner of smaller game. Klatia. W13,0 was sometimea a bit too venturesome, got caught one day in the open by a black rhinoceros, a say - age old bull. The old brute charged and slightly tossed him °rice, naakbag a nasty ease inis ehigb, but not fair- IY getting his horn under him; and was just turning to finish the poor lit- tle beggar, when I timidly 'nicked in, I had seen the bueiness, end. had had time to rush out. on. to the, Plain, and just as.Borele cbarged at poor Klaas, to finish hitn off as he lay, I got up BQnIe strange and interesting Inform- otion was obtained. io this way. The transport rider — the car- rier a A.rioa---with his stout wagon and span of oxen travels year after year over the rough roads of Cape Col- telY, and. far beyond, in all directions, and is oonstantly encounterine all sorte and conditions of men, while,. black, and off -colored; and in his wan- derings or over his evening crenp•fire pieles up great stores of legende and edventures from the passing hunters, sxplorers and traders. One night, after a day's journey 'hrough Lee Busla-veldt, we lay at a fizonhouse gear which was a public outspan. At this outspan two trans- within forty yards, let centre, and, as Port riders were sitting snugly over won would have it, dropped nira with their evetaIng meal. They seemed a a .500 express bullet behind the shout- eouple of cheery good fellows, one an English Afrioaucier, the other an Eng- lishman, an old University man, and welt readoas we afterwards discover- ed, and nothing woold suit th•em but that we should ,join them and take pot.. luck. Supper finished, some good old Can. - go, tne best home-manutaetured brandy; a the Cape, made In the Out- shoorn district, was produced, pipes "Steert you, said one day that you lighted, and then we began to "yarn." would like to know whether there are For an hour or more we talked upon a variety of topics—old days in Eng- , land, the voyage to the Cape, the Col- ony, its prospects, and its sport. "'Tis strange," said one of our num- ber, "how little is known of the Orange River—at all events west of der. • Even them -the fierce brute re- covered berasele, and tried to charge me in turn; but he was now disabled, and I soon. settled his game. After that episode, Maas proved himself about th,e oniy geateful. native I ever heard of, and seemed as if he couldn't do enough for me. Sometime after he had got over his evtoun.d, he came to me and, said: diamoods anywhere else, than at New Basin as Kimberley was then called. Well, sieur, I have been working at New Ruble, and I know what diamonds are like, end I can tell you where you oan find as many of them in a week's Searchas you may like to pick up. the Falls. I don't think I ever met a "What to you mean, Klaas?" said imam who had been down it. One would think the Colonists would know something of their northern bciund- (try ; as a matter of fact they don't." "Al l talking of the Orange River Loma and apparently truthful. reminds me," said the younger of the "ja, sieur, it is truth. If ye will transport riders, the ex -Oxonian and on trek with rae to the Groot, Orange, the more loquacious a the two, "of a Rivier, three or four days beyond. the ,most extraordinary yarn'I heard from Faits, t will show you a place where it man I fe1 in with, SWIM years back, there are hundreds and hundreds of stranded in the "thirst -land" north- diamonds, bit ones, too, ma.ny-nt them west of Shoshong. Poor chap I be was to, be found lying about in the gravel. in, a sorry plight. He was an English 1 have played with them and with gentleman, who for years had, from other mooi steins, too, often and often ,sheer love of sport wad a wild life, 1 as a boy, when I used to poke about been hunting big game in the interior. here and there up and down the Groot That season he had stayed too tette Itivier. Illy father and grandfatherliv- en [he obobe River near where it runs ed near the place I speak of; and I into the Zambesi, and with most °fits know the way to theovalley where these. people had got fever badly. They bed, diamonds are, well, though no one but had a disastrous trek out, losing most Imenell knows them; for I found them ,of their oxen 'and all their horses and be thence, and, elfish -like ; never told when I came across them they were Of me child's secret. I will take you stuck fast in the doorst land thirst- to the place if you like" •and, unable to move forward or back, "Are you really epeaking truth, For two and.a half days they had neea Klass ?" said I severery. . ie • without water; and from being in bad health to begin with, hadn't half re ohance ; and if 1 had not stumbled up - I, turning sharply round to see if the Bushman was joking. But, on the con- trary, Klaaa's little weazened monkey - face wore an expression perfectly ser - 3a, ja 1 eieur ; I am, I am 1" he par - neatly and vehemently reiterated. "Well, Maas," said Tat last, "Ma- nn them, they must all have been here you; and we'll trek down to the „dead within fifteen hours, I had Orange River, and see this wonderful tficitily some water in my vatjes, and diamond valley of yours." managed:to pull them round; and that night, leaving their wagon in the de- iiert, in hope of being saved subsennent- 13', and. taking as rauch of the ivory end valuables as we could manage, and ,Mowbray', the Englishman's guns end ammunition, we made a good trek, And reached. water on the afternoon of ,the next day. I never saw a man so erateful as Mowbray. During the ehort time I knew him I fouled him one (Continued.) COLONIAL EXPANSION. Nearly oneetair ihe Elmo Now nem as colonies or under Proteeioraus. A•ceording to figures poblished ttx England a few weeks ago, of 52,000,000 square miles of the world's surface, 22,288,1M, or nearly one-half, are now of the best fellows and most delightful sompamons I ever met. I dosed him held as colonies or under protectorates, with quinine. and pulled him together Lill we got to Shoshong; but before We had. got half -way down to Griquatand, Mowbray grew suddenly worse. and died one evening in my wagon just at etinset. We buried him under a kameel-doorn tree, covering • the grave with heavy stones, and fencing it Btr ongly with thorns, to keep away the jackals and. hyenas. England's colonies, exclusive of India, cover an area' of 7,20e,000 square miles, exclusive of protectorates and spheres of influence, and these colonial posses- sions, which are now computed on the authority of the Year Book to be 2,- 100,060, square miles in Africa and. 120,- 000 ha Asia, with 1,800,000 added for bring up the total area of the "Many and many a talk 1 had with British Empire, outside of the United hoot 'Mowbray before he died. One Kingdom; to 11,200;000 elquare miles. -evening in partieu.lar, as we sat before According to the Uaited States Treat - the camp -fire on the dewless ground, tiay "figures just issued, in the torm of whene I had. propped him up, andraadet 'a colonial bulletin, the total popula- him comfortable, he told. rae a meist lion of the Netherlands oolonieeis 33,- istranne story, a story so wonderful 911;CW, though the population of Hon tbat mast people would lookeupon it land is 4,450,000 only. By the game as wildly improbable. He began in bulletin the population of the colon- • this way; Felton, you have been a kind, friend to an—kind and tender•as any woman, eon I feel I owe yon more than I am eietlikely to repay. Yet, if you want wealth, I believe I can put it in your •way. — Do you know the northern bank of the Orange River between the Great Falls and the sea.? No, I don't suppose you do, for very few people have ever trekked, down it; still fewer have ever got down to the water from the great wails of desolate and. precipitous moan- tain that environ its course; and, ex - *apt myself and two others, neither of whom eat ever reveal its whereabouts, I believe no mortal soul upon this earth has ever set eyes upon the place I am • going to tell you about. Listen! In 1871, about the time the Diamond Fields wete discovered and people be - gen to flock to Griqualaed West, was Wither bitten with the manta and, for sorae months worked like a nigger afr the Fields. During that time I got to know a good deal about stones. soon tired of the life, however, and fin- ally sold ray claim and 'what diamonds I had acquired, fitted up a wagon, • gathered together some native serv- ants, and trekked again for those glore loos" hunting-geounds, of the interior, glad enough to resume my old and • ever -charming life. , Araongst my ser- vants was a little Bushman, Klaas by name, whom afterwards touted a per- fect treasure at epooring and hunt- • ing, Like all trae Bushmen, he was dauntless as a wounded lion and deter- mined as a rhinoceros, which is saying a good dela, I suppose Klaas had had more vatied experience of South Afri- can lite than any native I ever. net. O'riginally, he had came as a child front • the borders of the Orange River, where • he had been token prisoner in a Boer forey, 1 which nearly all his rela- tions were shot down. He had then been " tipprentieed" in the family of one of his captors, evhere he had /In- quired a certain lettoelledge of semi. civillsoci life. Peom the Boer family of ies of Gernnuey is put at 10,000,000 and, of the colonies of Frazee at 52,600,000, though the entire population of France by Ile last census was 38,000,000. The population of the Russian colonies is put et 5,600,000 and, of the Portuguese colonies at 9,200,000. though the popula- tion of Portugal is about the same as that . of Holland, 4,500,000. Spein is now, with the single exception of Den- mark, the last on the list of eouatries having foreign colonies. FAD IN RINGS. The jewelers' trays are filled with curious little rings, whicla, at first sight, seem to carry no meaning, but which, upon a second glance, are most suggestive ia their symbolism. These Inexpensive little fancies are tlae fad of the hour. For instance, here is e golf stick • twisted into a circle, the gold being corrugated to reproduce the heavy leather covered handl while a pearl ball ornamexins the tip. What more appropriate prize than this could be given the winner of a golf tourna- meat Then, for the rowing girl, we have a delicately fashioned loop, made of a thin, curved spoon oar of the racing abet!. And the hunting girIn heart is delighted with a horn twisted into a Unite with a fox's heah, for an orna- ment. In this oonnection there is Cs° elaovva a riding crop with u. horse's head, Of 0011t8i3+ the expenae attached to these rings remains a matter of choice with the purchaser. They can be per- fectly plaitt, or the devices with which they are orttaixiented, May be as ex- travagant. as • one's purse will allow Many ortneta are shown heavily in- cru.sied with gems, but for the pur- pose for whieh they were origitally designed they' are certainly • In bettez (este ter being simple and of good DOMINION PARLIAMT, What the Legislators of the Country are Doing at Ottawa. SENATE REFORivf. Following is the text of the resolu- tion of which the. Paiute Minister gives notice in commotion with the govern- me.inee eroposition for Senate re- form:— That a humble address be presented to Her lVfajeely the Queer, setting forth that the provisions of the British North America. act, 1867, respecting the powers of the Sennte of Canada in the making of laves are uusetisfactory and, should be brought more into har- mony with the principle of popular government, and praying that Her Majesty may be pleased: to recommend to the Imperial Parliament a meesare for the amend/atent of the said ad in such terms as wil1.. effectually make provision as follows:— If the House, of Conamon,s passes any bill which the Ssne.te rejects or tails to pass or enrollee in a way not arnepted by the House 00 Commons, then, if the Roue of Commons at the next follow- ing session. again passes such bill and the Ssnate again rejects or fails to pass or amencle the same in a way not ac- cepted by the $01.1§0 of Commons, the Governor-Geneeal may, by proelamee time, imovens one or more joint sittiage oe the members of the two houses for the further consideration of such bill or anaendments and a question whether such bill or amendments shalt pass lie all be decided by a majority of the members of the two houses prehent and voting, and the vote of any stioh joint sitting shall, as respects such bill or amendments, have the same force and effect as a vote of the Senate un- der the existing constitution. • TRIBUTE TO MR. IVES, Sir Charles Tupper referred to the sudden and sad demise of the Hon. W. B. Ives, in whom the Blouse had lost one of its ablest merabers, a. man who, as a lawyer, a beniness ream. a legislator and an administrator of a pu.blic de- partment had shown himself energetier and capable. (Ens loss would be great indeed to his party, and the event tended to inipress the lesson how trail and. slight is the tenure/ by which, we hold our position here. Be was aware that the government would have con- sented to an adjournment of the Roues to snark this deplorable event .had it not been for the position- of public businese and the time of thesesseon. Be was well aware that raerabers on, both sides would join in an expression of sympathy to the family of the late M. Ives, as well as. to ths amity of the tate Senator Sanford, The Prime Minister joined in Sir Charles's' eapre sien as to the loss which parliament had sustained bathe sudden deaths of the late Mr. Ives and of the late Senator Sanford, Mr. Ives was a gentleman with whom he had formed an acquaintance and friendship as a strug- gling young lawyer visiting the sante cireilits. He was a man who, from an intimate acquaintance with linemen business, agricuiture and mining, was able to speak on these matters with the authority of an expert. He willingly subscribed to this expression of sympa- thy. PRESERVATION OF EMPLOYEES' HEALTH. The Prime Minister proposed the sec- ond reading ofhis bill for the preserva- tion of the health of employees on pub- lic works. The raeasure was one which the government had largely been in- dueed to bring in through the revela- tions made by the recent commission into the state of health of men em- ployed on the construction of the Crow's Nest Pass Railway and would apply to all public works under the juxisdictiou of parliament. The bill had already been fully discussed in the Upper House. The dieoussion on the hill lasted into the evening sitting, and the measure finally received its third and final reading. LOBSTER FISHERIES, Dr. McLennan, Inverness, on motion to go into supply, complained of an injustice to his county in connection with the changes which the lobster commission lately recorareended in con- nection with the season. The Minister of Fisheries replied that a concession could not be made to In- verness in this matter without its be- ing extended to the adjacent counties of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Is- land. The Canadian lobster fisheries were worth safeguarding, and exper- ience showed that valuable fisheries elsewhere had been destroyed through lack of protection. RIDEAU HALL EXPENDITURE. In committee of supply, Mr. George Taylor attacked the government for purchasing without tenders glassware and crockery from a Montreal com- pany to the value of 01,$05. The question arose in the discussion whether it, would not be a cheaper and better investment to put up a new building than to be forever laying out money to maintain the present vicere- gal residence. TRIBUTE TO MR. GEOFFRION. • The Prime Minister rose to the mel- ancholy task of announeing the death of his esteereed friend and colleague, the Hon. C. A Geoffrion, For the sec- ond time within a very brief interval the angel of death had visited parlia- ment and removed one of its esteemed runt and removed one of its most es- teemed, most popular, and beloved Members. The Rouse, he felt, would hardly realize itt onus the magnitude of the loss sustained. Mr. Geoffrion had no taste for active politieal life, al- though throughout his lifetime, a etroag party man, and it had been only out of the abundance of his heart that he hacl eon,seoted to enter parlia- ment, Ile was a man of extraordinary intitience, of great taletite, of sound ladgment, of sterling. (Ammeter, of kind heart, of fair mind and of unique per- eonality ire the sphere in whieh be which it •will, be difficult to fit/. In hie profeseional career, exteeding over a period of thirty years, he hind been popular with the Peewit and bar alike. TO hie party his Ines was irreparable. As a personal friend of, the late Mr. Geoffriou for upwards of thirty years, he (wield say that lie had never heard him give utterance to an uukind word. He was an honorable man, and hie whole life was spent in doing good, ti 1 R CHARLES T le PPE, R. tSix Charles Tupper, thoagli be had wit enjoyed the same acqualotance with the late Mr. Geoferion as the leader of the House, had seen enough of illua to justify him in associating hitneelf with every word that had fall- en from the Prime 3/dieinter's Hen. Ile was known to be one of the Olean most influential and most impede/it members of parliamont. His death was more than a party loss; it was a Loss to the whole ,parliament which would be deplored by all. rN THE SENATE. The Hon. David Mille, moved the third reading of the Grand Trunk agreeraent bill, in connection with the textension of the Intercolonial Railway to Montreal, The motion was adopted, bot on the motion that the bill be nassed Senator Clemew rooved that the clause compelling the gavernatent to transfer to the Grand Trunk illailveay at Montreal, all un- oonsigned western-bouod traffic, be amended by adding thereto tbe words, "with approval of the shippers, con- signers ot owners of freight destined for western, potats,") His objeot in reeving this amendment was to give slOppere a right to prevent the trans- fer of their property without their oonetente He looked upon ihe bill as a combine of the worst ...kind. The amendment would not be onjertionable in any way, and would remove what he considered a hideous feature of the bargain. ' ,A. division took place and , the bill was passed, and. the amendment lost on a vole of thir- ty-ehree yeas to thirteen nays. The Secretary of Slate then moved the third reading of the Drummond County Railway hill. The Hon, David Mills moved to amend the bill by adding a clause pro- viding that the bill should not come into force until the act respecting the Grand Trunk Railway In the same connection is brought into force by proclamation of the Governor-General, 1 The amendment was adopted, and on ' the third reading Senator DeBoucher- 1 ville moved a six months' hoist, urg- ing that the government could, if it wished, take the Grand Trunk road via Richmond to get into Montreal. The House again divided., the amend - talent; for a hoist being lost on a vote of thirty-five nays to sixteen yeas. The Senate has shelved the Redistri- bution bill. Mr. Mills spoke in favor of the hill at some length. While speaking on the constitutionality of Hoe, bill, Pia. Mills was interrupted by Sir Mackenzie deovrell, who asked if. the Geyer:meant would refer tbe ques- tion• to the courts for determination. Hon. David Mills replied that, any- one could take it there. Sir Mackenzie Bowen—You would refuse a fiat. • Hon, David Mills—We never refuse a fiat whore it should be issued. Senator Lougheed — Tbe 1 Govern- ment can take the question to the courts, and no one else can. Sir Mackenzie Bowell—If the Minis- ter wants a courageous motion we can move a six months' hoist. Hon. David Mills—The bon. gentle- man ought to have moved a six ne:rath,s' hoist, Sir Mackenzie Bowell — I ought nt. . • Hon. David Mills insisted that the Government was pledged to the prin- of the people to introduce the mea - dine of .the bill., and had the mandate sure. The amendment was then de- clared carried, by a vote of 36 to 14. IRON AND STEEL BOUNTIES. The Minister of ilfinance secured the third reading of tis bill extending un- til 1907 and providing for the gradual extinction from 1904 onward of the governmeot bounties upon iron and steel made in Canada. Sir Charles Tupper repeated what he had said oat a former occasion in sup- port of the governraent policy in this matter. Ver. Plaggart, ex -Minister of Rail- ways; dissented frame the view of his chieftain, and thought no more foreign ore should be recognized by the bounty tban is actually necessary for mixing with our own Canadian ores. SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMA.TES. Tlaere is an appropriation of nearly a million dollars for :harbours and rivers. Montreal, under the heading of transportation facilities, gets 4750,- 000, for improvements to the harbour betow St, Mary s current, $500,000, and grain elevator and storage, k$250,000, Levis graving dock is voted e117,000, and a ship channel, River St. Law- rence, $7•O;e00. There ie an a,ppropria- teen of $2,000 for a judge for an ad- ditional provisional judiciiii district court of Ontario. iFollowingi are some interesting hppropriations:—For en- forcement a alien eabour law, $5,- 000; balance of legal fees and disburse- ments in •connection with Manitoba ballot frauds, $1,011; iexpenses of com- mission Redistribution Act, $.5,000 ; ex- penses printing voterslists, $34,000; Leather trunks for new members, $220; Paris Exhibetion, $175,000. Towards compiling historical data in regard to the Acadian families in Canada, $1.- 00; drill grotmd and site for an arm- oury at St. Thomas, 46,000; cartridge factory, required for shell boxes, $1,- 000; mottatnents for ereatle fields, 4.250; general service medals $10,000; arms, arainunition and defence for equipment $83,000 revote, $128,000; rifle ranges, 675,000; improvements to the Inter- coloniaL side tracks, roiling stock, etc., 609,7l8; R. Ryan, for clairae Sault Ste. Maxie, referred to arbitration, 0211,505; St. Andrew's •Rapicis, iRed River, $150,000; to I pay experts to gather uniforra code, of rules for rail- ways of Canada, $2,000; Port Colborne harbour improvements, $150,000. FA.CT fN PHYSIOLOGY. Whey say a man who turns pale when be gets mad is the raost dengerous, I guess that is SO. A Mani who is .scared nearly out of his boots will put up an awful fight, 1 - ----- A 'kiod heart is a fountain of glad - nese, makina everything in its Viejo - 0 y to freshen into stailes.—Waehing- ROMANCE OF THE WEST, weguitur>, ligerrupteci oy Arrival, or Ono Olney or olie eireiees fteleckel Loren Tbis story of bow a dead lever fore bade the benne, worthy as it is ot the inutgiaation of Poe, oomes frem the wild region of mountain and lake which forms the interior of British Columbia, and this story a Vancoarer destre.teh tells:— Maud Creston, whose horae was at Kooteney Lalee, had to ehoose between two wooers. Of these R. A. Carson,was rich and u,nrtelantie, wbile juries Car- ter was poor, but in all reepecte a stripliog to engage a maiden's faocy. There were other considerations, hew- n and. Nand Cranston obose the rich Suitor, " rJU shall not merry hum," void Car- ter to her, when he heard that the date was fixed. bloods came. The river broke from it bulk. The olergyraan WaR exiled on hie ranolo Simla of the wedding guests as had been able to reach ,the bride's borne lameuted with her over the disappeintntent. And ,Tames Cao - ter, who was just starting on alonelY trip down the river, greatly ohanged in a few weeks, said: "11 i un 111 omen. They vein never marry, Perhape it was because she heard of this gloomy prognosileation tnal. Miss Cranston deeided that she 'and her affianced would reitob the clergyman, since he eoutd not reach them. A day or two later they embarked, accordingly, on the steamer Kokanee, which would pass the minister's place on its way to Bonner's Ferry. He was sighted CLINGING TO TILE ROOF of bee home, which was subraerged to the eaves. A. boat from the steamer was rowed through the swirling water that covered his props, and he was revelled. Carson and Miss Cranston, appealed to nirn to marry theta at once, and he went to the cabin to put on a °lunge of clothing proffered him by Captain NaWMaa. While he was thus engaged the boat stopped at Rios Landing. Here coffin—a plain pine box—was carried on hoard. In it, said the gossips, was the body of a. young man who had been drown- ed, now sent wandering in search of Christian burial. Maud Cranaton was already in an overwrought state of raind from her raany adventures, and brooding- over the strange words of her rejeeted sweetheart. When the coffin was propped on deck—for there was no other place for it—she became more agitated than ever and more anxious to have the oeremcny performed at once. But when the minister re -appeared and saw the coffin he thought a wedding would be lent of place ire such close quarters with death. Only bemuse there were fears for 'Abe girl's self- coraraand did he prepare to fulfil his word. A look of relief crept into Maud Cranston's face as the ceremony went on. But before it had reached the de- cisive stage two dogs chained near the coffin, fell to fighting, and overturn- ed the two kegs on which it rested. As it tumbled to the deck the lid flew off and out rolled the body., alraoat at the feet of .the half -married pair. It was James Carter. his eyes wide open and his hair still damp upon his forehead. Only for one instant ilia the girl he had loved endure the agony of looking at Ids white face, for consciousness mercifully left her and she fell in a swoon by his side. WHITE SILK SKIRTS. Nothing is prettier or more distinct- ly fashionable than the exquisite white silk skirt so muoh to be desired for their exclusive elegance and. irre- proaohable good taste. The best ex- anaples of perfectiou in this line are elaborately trixame& with black lace. 'Phis is let into the flounces in strips of waved inserting or of out -out sec- tions of handsome net, and the edges are variously conapleted with rows of lace—with a further edging of beetle velvet or white or blank half-inch sat- in ribbon frills. These little rib-, ron frills have lost none of their pro- longed popularity, and have invaded the realms of underskirts with adde'd zeal. 'They outline the bands of laces insertings, finish frills and project up over the skirts in various scroll, plaid or serpentine lines of unique beauty. Ruching -a of fine gauze ribbon—the style having two little drawing cords make the prettiest—are a favored de- coration for very handsome silk un- derskirts, and may be of solid color or edged in white or black, with great riohness or exquisite delicaey. Lover's knots, butterflies, large sin- gle flowers, sprays or set geometrical designs in Irish point, vanise, or gui- pure 'ewe are let inttt the lillt or mus- lin flounces of some of the new skirts, and are especially favored for trous- seaux. Some of the prettiest new skirts, made to order, both of silk or cotton, are buttoned up one side, hav- ing no opening in the bias back, and semired by tiny pearl buttons beneath a fly, or they may have a close -set line of the regular placket snaps for greater security, for the skirts fit so smoothly that when fastened down the side they need strong olosings to keep them In good shape. Tb,e flounces for underskirts are al- most invariably out circular whee of silk, end very often so in cotton, ale though the latter are likely to stretch out of shape. • A CANDID POET. A candid author, who writes to us from the far Vieest, inclosing a few speclinene of his work, says of the latter : I'm not one at the born winters, I'm batcher by profession, and when I'm tot 1dtlin beef I'm writing poetry. And my friefads toll nee that my poetry ie as tough as the beef. It you agree with thein. Please don't tackle it. Ile i)111)1' .At another time, Dolly wool(' have enjoyed the rapid drive; but now lier ooly eeneation was oae of terror at the ordeal before her. At the end vf a two /more drive they began to appreach ,he city. Country seats changed into villa residences; these, again, gave place to terraces, which in their turn merged into streets. Al length they reached the heart of the oity, and put- ted op at the door of the court-bouse. Malting their way into the •close crowded court, IVIartin, after it good deal a argument with a policeman, mcceeded in sendia,g a message to the prieoner $ o1ioitor which brottebt that geoLleraari to them witlaut delete'. Atter a few baeriedquestions, be de- sired Dolly to foltew him; and int e few minutes she found. herself upon the witnees table, her limbs trembliug so that she could scarcely stand, judge, Are, and barristers being visible only through a mist. A. few skilful/3r put questions from the prieoners bouosel elicited the whole story. This comparatively easy bueness was, however, followed by a searebing croes-examinatioo frora tlae ciounsel for the Crown, who insisted on silting her =tires for tampering with the clock, and her reasons for cemoeal- ing th.e feet nun! now, The terrible truth concerning the °leek once known, however, she had nothing to hide, and so +lame ,soceessfully tlatongh the ordeal, the fact that she had never even seen the prisoner telling itt her favour as a disinterested witness When at length she was allowed to go down, her uncle, who was waiting for her, took her out of court; and Mrs. Lynch, whom nothing shori of the judge's presence could have restrained hitherto, began to give Dolly what she called a piece of ber mend. "Well, Dolly, I wouldn't have believ- ed in eueb wickedness even from you," "Don't scold her now, Mrs. Lyriohe" said. Martiu authoritatively. "She's very tired, and she has eaten nothing since morning. --Where are you g hug to dine, sine' turning to old Lynch "With the Missus s cousin, _Mrs. Burke—her that keeps a grocer's shop in the New Street." "Then you had better take Dolly there at once, sir. wait aryl bring you word. how ties trial ends—not that there's omen doubt ef it now." ed old woman, some what Maher in Mrs. Burke was a stout, kind -heart - the social scale than her count, the pilot a Wife. Knowing, nothing of Dol- ly s iniquities, and perceiving iWat site was tired. aad upset, she made a great fu s about her, a ad insisted on her rest- ing on the sofa in the parlour behind the shop. As Dolly lay there sipping tea, and watching the elaborate man.. ner in Which airs. Burke s servant. under the supervision of her mistress, was laying the cloth for dinner, a con- fuse& sound of oheering was heard in the street outside, and. old Lynch went Lo see what it was alma. "It's the foreign chap," he caid, com- ing back in a few minutes. They ve acquitted. him, and the people are fol- lowing him down the street. Im glad he's not to he hanged, anyway." Martin came in soon after, bringing particulars of the verdict. "The judge charged in his favour; he trail the jury that if they believed Dolly s evidence, they had no choice but to wagoni the man; and they brought in a verdict of "Not Guilty" without leaving the box.—He may thank Dolly for that.' "He may thank Dolly for being six weeks in jail. If she had not meddled with the clock that day, me and her uncle would have known that he didn't leave the bailie till after two, and we'd have said. so at the inquest ; and he'd have been let off then and there." "I hardly think he would. Mrs. Lynch. The coroner s jury would have sent him for trial all the same. "Anyhow, Dolly's had a lesson that she won't forget in a hurry," said her uncle, "She'll never tell a lie again." "I didn 1 tell a lie, uncle," exolaimed utpac°y•c*IY1ording to any reekoning." 13r. oauss, and that was just the same, made the clock tele one for you. Doily turned scarlet. "She didn't think of it in that light, sir," said Martin kindly. "No; I don't think she did. What-, ever her faults may be—and 1 m not denying that she his as many as other people—she always tells the truth.— What becarae of the poor foreign ehap, Marlin 1 Heel be dazed like., getting hie liberty all of a sudden. "He's all right, air; the Italian con- sul was in court, and he s looking after On the way home tint evening, Dolly inade aa effort to express her grati- tued to Martin for the kindness he bad shown her. "Don't think of it, Dolly," was the answer. "Any one w u'd have done the same under the circumstances; and you knew well that I'll do ten times as much any day only to give you a moment s pleasure." "I never knew 1.11.1 to -day laow good you were, t said Doily* and Martin went Imme that night (listing happier than he haa done for mordent. A fortnight later, Dolly came to her untie to tell him tbat she had Ivories - ed to marry Martin. "I'm right l, glad to hear it, my gia" . said Lynch; 'you couldan have o bo - ter or a kioder Iniebitid. Al Im afeard. of is, that yen don't right ty know how to value him," "I t hit* I douncle," anewered D! lly, The End. WOMAN BICYCLE CLEANER. To an English woman the credit is due for starting a new line of retnari- erative business, This is neither more nor less than the eleaping of tricycles. It is told that she "has her regular customers," to whose housea she goes for her work at regular and stated intervals. This she does for what amounts to 12 cents a visit, and her services Beene to be welcome, even by those who keep several eervents, for this new duty does tot belong to the housemaid, nor, In fate, to any of the other employes of the bousehigd. RAD A BETTER JOB, Employer, impulsively — Miss De. Pinkie, Clara, will You marry me? Pretty Type -writer -- What! And give up niy $20 a week salary? nlot inutile! ARISTROCEATS 3N TgADli" n+a+babeR'S at Teem Tore On 6711 k P.8 t Pritxy Ip leneting envoi nralluee. The Duke of Nerthumberland, the bele of all the Percys, with tdirect descent frona tine of Woillazn itt f ivor- lies, has a reptetaelon for exeeln•nt Bbi)Uri avt:tedlt •riassradiya. s g rTeiatetiedi testa, aanadd wiihncitin int aliz.1 dler3 of Mane' miles from Lyoa Rouse, • •The most noble the Marquie ol Ripon has a dairy at his seat, Studley Royal; and its procluots, yellow butter and delielous create, are sold to two claireyr 4tRipon,shoesoe lo Leeds and the om Another marquis still better known itt ihe werld of trade, is Lord Lond- onderry, whose coal is as unimpeach- able as his family escutebeion. Time was when the Earl of Hardwiolce, as Viscount Royston, was a cigar mer- chant. Ile has now transferred hi$ energies to Canal Court, and is half stock broker and • helf uewspapec owner. The Earl of Harrington supplements' his income from 13,000 acres by the pro- fits of a. green grooery shop at Charing Orals, to whieh the fruits and veget- ablegrow at his Derby seet, Elves - boa Castle, find their way. The Earl of Ranfurly loos for many fut fyiemaittsgbraeewne r a ant ,halcal dyne raa,nvd insiunei et r Ris farm there is the envy and pride of the fruit colony, and its eondition is due very largely to the Earl a own personal work on it. The seventeenth Earl ot Caithness has been literally nursed. as a farmer, and is prouder of his .A.merican ranoh, covering tom. twenty square mi.es, the fruit a his years of hard work, than of his Ear/ s cornet . The last Earl of Seafield was it bat- liff and small farmer itt New Zealanil and his susicessor, the young Earl ol to -day is also engaged in industrial purhsusat itraevi t Oacaturuni THampden, when he was released froin the exacting past of Speaker of the House of Commons, turned his attention to milk and but- ter, and his Glynde dairy was noted for its exeellence. Lord Rayleigh, the great scientist and brother-in-law of Mr. A. Je Bil- four, takes as much interest in milk ae in argon and the doings of the Royal Society. RUSSIA'S CALENDAR. At the gaginatag or the +Century It 'WM Make a Illaune. The Russian government, after a long fight with the Gregorian calendar,has decided to ground its adore. It is now officially stated that the czar leas determined, to abandon the old style of julian-Greek, calendar, which is 12 days behind the near uni- versal system of the Gregorian cycle, arid which ha e been a source of annoy- anc.e to Russians doing business with other countries, who were compelled to uee both dates, as well as to foreigners trading with Russia. The St. Peters- burg Astronomical Society has taken the matter. in hand, and with the co- operation of the ministers, will ap- point a commission to be coraposed of 16 persons, 9 of whom are to be mem- berg of the Astronomical Society, who will arrange all the details. It is the purpose for the new style calendar to go into effect in 1901. NOVEL COURTSHIP IN JAPAN. A Japanese girl who desires to get married does not hesitate to inform tie public of her desire. In a recent is- sue of the Japanese Journal, "Kana- zawa Shimbuta," one of these girls, who signs herself, "Hosuijoshi," la very outspoken on LIU point, as the following notice shows:—"I, the under, signed, anr a. pretty girl with abunds ant hair, flower like face, perfect eye. brows and a good figure. I have raoney enough to take life easy and te enable me to spend my years with some beloved man who will ever be my companion and who can admire the flowers with rae by day and the moon by night. If any clever, arnotnplished handsome and fastidious gentleman is disposed to accept this offer, I can as- sure /aim that I will be true to him for life, and that, after life is over, jwi1l be ready to be buried with him in one grave." It is not an unheard of thing for European or Amerioan girls to ad- vertise for husbands, but it is very doubtful if any European or Araerican toper has ever oontained such a poeti- cal matrimonial advertisement as this one. Moreover, it is very doubtful if any would ever think of offering to share the Same grave with the gentle- men, who might accept her offer of marriage. Verily, they do things din ferently in Japan. SURE SIGN OF SCORN. Sb—How that woman we just pas- sed does hate me. Ile—She looked pleasant eneugh. She—That e all d.orici for effect, but if you noticed, she never turned to take ia my new suit and hat. SSE RAD KNOWN - You have tower known the pangs of poverty I he exclaimed, bitterly. The heiress' eyes softened, though liquid to begin with. Ittdeed, I have, said she, wiirmly. 1 went to a bargain style where no one knew me, and foend I had Ieft me purse, at home. AS TO CYCLOPEDIAS. Bass --No I don't want ie. I have one encyclopedia already. Cauwasest —Rut 1 ais es au t hori y Bass—That'e just the troublett would coeliac/tot ray enoyolovadia, with which 1 am now content, so that shottid eare for it no longer. No, thanks. Where ignornace Is bliss toily to buy another book or.' reference. considered