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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1901-10-3, Page 3%.isAe.t,eef4etti,k4tb—ttsttttt--tt,+t**+-it.+At.t..t.ttAh ****, . A. 04 DUKE OF CORNWALL 1 4, 4 Admirable Traits 4 I 4 i AND YORK. 4 4 4 0: I Rov 1 !Holiness, r a fa Vqitelr+'Vto'rtn'ti,V4trnrevtir.+-+W.tilVt'ir.ee"eee-Seet4eht+''Vqeit+4tt'd#4 'By the accession of Edward VII to nal uricle the King of Greece at Atli - the Throne of his ancestors, a new ens.. anel the late Eleclive. Teweik at and deeper interest naturally attach -d Cairo—having experience of oxen and ed to His Majesty's second and only things wherever he went. After ao- sorviving sou, the Duke of York, other course of guunevy training at who, by the elevation of Ws father Portsmouth, to winch he ;volunteered to kingly rank, at once became heir he was next appointed to the Nerth- appaxent of the Crown, while also umberlan,d, lag -ship of the Chaanel succeeding to the title of Duke of Squadron. and during the naval man- 0orrevalt. But this was much more oeuvres of 1889 lie was placed in coin - than a title. It has often happened nand oi a torpedo boat—which, by that there has been a, duke without the way, oiso took part in the grand ducats, but the Cornwall title is one review at Spithead in honor of his not merely of a duitedom, which cousin might conceivably carry with it oei-I thee land, nor lucre, but of a duchy, I THE GERMAN E,MPEROR, With its solid mid "delectable" in -I As a result of his solid merits came of 460,000 a year— a sum 'prince George was soon thereafter which has fallen to the heir to the (May 1890) appointed to command Throee as part only of the income es- the genboat Thrush for service on eential to the keepitig op of his dig- the North American and West Indian lay; and in the case of our last Stations, a command which he held Prince of Wales this income amount- for thirteen months, and it, was (lur- ed to over gloo,oce, apart from hag* this period that he was deputed 410,000 allowed for the separate use ley the Queen to represent Her Ma- o! his Consort. Sinter thousand a jesty at the opening of the Indus - year alone from the Duchy of Corn- trial Exhibition in Jamaica. on wall is a. handsome enough revenue,. widen occasion he speciallec request - and it neaer trely be saki that it ed of the Admiral in change of the could not have devolved upon a more station that he might sieneler bo %undid OCOnondat than its Present treated as an orilinaryonoval officer. possessor, in, whorn them never was On returniug to England the Prince anything of the wild "Prince Rol," was promoted to the rank of come still leas of the Prodigal Sou. ;mender (of the second OnS$ cruiser WS CHARA.CTER iNeleanires) belog then only in his was formed in the two best schools twenty-seventh Year and the !our - o! our pational virtues—the family teenth of his naval service, but with eirele and the fleet. In his messages as good a record behind him as any to the navy and array On succeeding of his contemporary mates. This to the Throne, Edward VII, rightly was in August, 1891, and a few thought he was paying the former months later it seemed as if his car - the highest coiopliment in his power; eer were to be suddenly cut short by when, he reminded it that, as her de- a serious attack of enteric fever, ceased Majesty "hod made it tbe pro- which mused his mother to hurry 1ession of my late lamented brother,. home from Livadia, where, with. ner so I also abase it for the early edu-' daughters, she was on a visit to her cation of both my sons." I Imperial sister of Russia,. From this Alter two years' training on the, dangerow; attack the Prince reeov- Brittania, the Royal brothers were ered., but a, few weeks later his bra - transferred to the steam corvette" then the liulce of Clarence, succumb- Bacchantecommanded by Copt -Ida* ed at Sandringham to a eindiar veal - (now Admiral) Lord Charles Scott, ady. it Whig fated that One ShoUld MIKE OF CORNWALL AND YORK. .and as "middies" on, board this ves- sel they made a memorable voyage round the world, visiting among oth- er places, Halifax, N.S., the West In- dies, South America., the Cape, Aus- tralia, Fiji, Japan, China Singa- pore, Ceylon, Egypt, the Role/ Land and Greece; a voyage of which the Princes kept a careful diary -record, which was afterwards -publishecl as the "cruise of H.M.S. Bacchante," with adchtioes by Mr. Dalton, and was read ay the public with the deep- -est interest. On returning from the voyage round the world the two brothers went to Lausanne, in Switzerland, for six months to perfect themselves in French, and then their paths for the first time diverged, to their great sorrow—for they had ever been a de- voted pair—Prince "Eddy" coming ashore, so to speak, to acquire -those graces and accomplishments, mde- spensable to a prince standing in di- rect succession to the Throne, which were impossible of attainment on the ontecleck of a ship; and Prince George STICKING TO THE SEA as to a ecene of future honor and usefulness. As a midshipman on. the Canada he served with distinction on the North American and West Indien. Stations, which gave hixn an oppor- tunity of visiting the Dominion, then under the governorship of his uncle by marriage, the Marquis of Lorne. On his nineteenth birthday (June 3, 1884) he passed as sub -lieutenant, obtaining a "first-class" in seaman- ship; and in little more than a year thereafter, having 'spent the interval in hard study at the Naval College, Greenwich, o.nd H.M.S. Excellent at. Portsmouth—'a ship which is not a ship but an island-- he obtained his lieutenancy, after taking a "first- elass" in five of his subjects— sea- manship, navigation, torpedo, gun- nery and pilotage; and it is 'known that his severe examiners, were no re- , spectees of persons. After this his career was as rapid as it could be by dint of honest mer- it, and not of rank, which is not a, thing to conjecture with in the Brit- ish Navy In matters of promotion. First appointed to the Thunderer the Mediterranean Station, he was transferred to the Dreadnought, and to the Alexandra, of his • sail oranicle the Duke of 'Edinburgh, ender whomhe remained' foe three years, dining whieb time . he visited the Sulam) at Stamboul, his mater - be taken and the other left. And now the life of Prince George took a totally dilferent course. He had been looking forward to the further pursuit of his naval career,. but he was suddenly diverted from his path as a sailor to prepa,re himself for be- coming a sovereign. To begin with he was created Duke of York, a title which, created by Richard IL in 1885, had always been confined to THE ROYAL FAMILY. It heel generally been conferred on the Sovereign's second son; and in three chess at least they had suc- ceeded to the Throne—two of them, Henry VIII. and Charles 1., after the death, of their elder brothers. The last bearer of the title had been the soldier son of George III., who was our connnander-in-chief for many years. Having thus succeeded to his brother's position as heir apparent to the Throne, the new Duke of York after a decorous interval, also step- ped into his brother's shoes IfL re- spect ol his betrothed, Princess Vic- toria Mary of Teck,. whose formal engagement to, Prince "Eddy" had only been announced a fewweeksbe- fore he died. This matrimonial ar- rangement has its analogue in the case of the Czar Alexander III. of Russia, et'ho had similarly taken ov- er the matrimonial engagetrient of his elder brother, the Czarevitch de- ceased, to Princess Dagmar of Den- mark, sister of the Princess of 'Wales. It was said that 'Prince George had long been an admirer of Princess May, but had stood aside in favor of his elder brother, and had now ,sim- ply reverted to his old love. This was the first time since Jamee II., who had also been a Duke of York, that an heir to the Throne had chos- en an English bride, so the British public' were, all the more in favor of tge marriage, thotigh the • .blood of Prindess May was not exactly a fresh introduction into the Royal family, she and the Prince, among other con. - sanguineous ties, having had a cora:. mon ancestor in the person. of George 111. Never was a Royal marriage more popular, and its delebration on July 7th, 1803, will always .rank as one ofthe most splendid and me- morable pageants of the Victorian era. . Vie Duke bad once already, ar mor could be trusted, returned to his olcl love and now he was to go back to au older- one still—his AFFECTION FOR THE SEA. Before his marriage in 1893, he had been raised to the rank of cape teen in the Royal Navy, but it was not till 1898 that be was given his first commission. The interval had been sedulously devoted to the learn - Mg of all his new ceremordal duties as iieir APPorent—duties which in. eluded a, semi -state tour in, Ireland. in company with, his wife, whoa lie rendered a real service to the cease of IliberMart paeification, and InePere Ma unity. But the time had now come when, he thought he might safe- ly exchange, fora little while, his functioeg as Sovereign -in -waiting for those of an active Sailor On the Waves, and in the summer of 1898 he assumed command ofe the Crescent, This fine vessel he commended for three months, partly at the manoeu- vres, the rest of the time in various Channel ports, and in the solent his -vessel was visited by the Queen, who complimented bine on its very smart alMearance. As the Ducliess of York had snared her husband's society during a part of his the on the Crescent, so she is again his devoted companion on the Ophir for his se- cond voyage round the world, com- mencing with Austi•alio and ENDING 'WITH CANADA, That the Heir Apparent is deeply imbued with the idea. of Imperial un- ity may be inferred, among other things, from the fent, that he and bis Consort, cooferred the significantly additional names of George Andrew Patrick David—those of the patron saints of our four uotionalities—on their eldest sou, Priuce Edward, wbo now stands in direct succession to the 'Throne and thus in his own boy- ish self incorporates the Uoited King- dom. The Duke of York is now en- gaged in a mission which is bound to result in the closer unity of the who! Empire. Aped from its purely polit- ical aspeete, this mission, with its bracing tsea-breezes and its healthful changes, will also, as we all hope. have the effect of strengthening the constitution of its illustrious chief, whose illness prevented him froni be- ing proseut at the final scene in the momentous lifedramn of his grand- mother's reign. as well as the open- ing sceeo in the drama of King Ed- ward VII. BOERS EMIGRATE. Molorm•milk It Duchess of Cornwall AA0BRAIT1811 PF.110 04. 4 3,111.1:1 York. --sagmrst.,NINE REEN 4$.1 4 tap VnitiViiiirVeit-xiestiegas44tir44W+-444-+Oes AtHig.tisitte„. Bq. uTsznelsg.sa VAT: otary Nano it necessary in 1883 to give ude up altogether their LoneloO apart - Inc Agnes,, pueliess of Cornwall and merits in Kensington Palace, and to York, AS n greategrancida.ugater of close White Lodge aod spend same King George III. of these realms. time as ec000nxically as possible King George III. had fourteen child- 'abroad, The greater part of their ren, but of these there were singular- period of absenee was passed in that ly few descendants in the secoad home Of art —Florence, and there generation. Scrreral of bis SOUS PrineeSS May, now an intelligent either did not marry at all, till maiden in her teens, studied art quite late • in life, their marriages were hurried on because it was seen imeler the guidance of her mother. and w that the line was in danger of failing theauitthhthe wilesoli:gre shel ubljecrwlio while others only contracted child- cluster in Florence, Amidst the trea- less or unrecognized unioes. The sures of the Pitti and 'Uffizi Palaces Duchee$ of York's grandfather, 'end other gallex les. Here, too, she Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, perfected bet- knowledge of foreign was one of those wbo married to languages; and she returned to Eng oblige the nation, when be had land with her parents after an ata reached the ago of forty-two. Ile sence osome eighteea mouths to then had three children, the Prince take her place in f now known to us as the Duke of i Cambridge (the late Commander -la -1 LONDON CODUT CIRCLES Chief of the army) ; Princess Aue•a more aceoraplished and cultered gusta, who married the Grand Duke young lady than elm could PesslblY of Mocklenburg-Strelitz ; and Prin- have been but for that ex-perience cess efary Ade/aide, who xearried the f princess May atteoded her dast Duke of Tecic, ant become the inothe;Itoyal Prawiag-Room in the spring er of the present Duchess of Corn- of 1886, and was present ot two or wall and York, as well as at three three other Sate functions in that SOPS. Iyear. She was a coast:ant compeaa PRINCESS MARY ADP,LA1DH ictll of her mother at 411 the private was tile only young princess about gatherings whlc! the Ducliese of Teel; the Court in the lateQueen's young - honored with her presence, as well er days, and thence bore something" as at the theatre and ether Public like the relation of a younger sister ;Places, and the bright. Fell -reliant, towards her. But, though thus seen ;4141ast 41141"115us C"ntenanCt) of t" aeci admire by many. it was not 'gaY and happy Young PrilleefiS he till she was thirty-three years aid Crime familiar be many people. that alio met her fate. Then a young! Constantly together as they were. Prince, a, few years younger than Princess May could not. but be herself, and almost as bandsmue As epired with the characteristics of the Queen's husband, appeared on her "English" mother. Of these the scene. He was Prince Francis of perhaps the most, notable were char - Tack, the °My son ot the then Duke ity and industry. The Duchess of Ale:nen:ler of Wortemberg. The chile Teck was very iodustrious. AU her chart of this uoion. the eldest eon liousekeeplug was done by herself • being the father of the Duchess of she wrote innumerable letters. leati York, were tailed "'reek." as that Wendt.' and 'charitable, with her is one of the lesser titles of the own hand ; And elle always had some Kings of Wurtemberg, piece of ae.ediework ready to take, Are Leaving for German South. West Africa. Twenty Boers, who live in Amster- dam, will leave for German South- West Africa shortly, and in Decem- ber et00 Coe e Colonists will leave Cape Town for the same destinealoo. These people have been influenced to emigrate by the favorable reports re- ceived from. Cape Colonists and Transvaaiers who emigrated there last spring. They are, without ex- ception, perfectly sasisfied. Twenty five of the forty who went there have bought laud and are very' 'busy cultivating in They affirm that they have seen nothing of the German , bureaucracy, which bad been paloted to them in such dark colors; on the contrary, the kindness of the Governor and his officials cannot be praised enough. All find the 'climate very good. Sonic have started sheep breeding, and, beginning with only a 1017 hundred, they have had a great increase in lambs, which thrive very well, The plan conceived by the Ger- man administration of the Comer- oons to penetrate into the country as far north as the River Benue, and to found a settlement at Giulia, is no* to be carried out. First Lieutenant Dominik will lead an ex- pedition thrmigh. Adamara, and es- tablien himself at Goma. It will not be a military expedition, but. will consist of a caravan of carriers and workmen. A large military ex- pedition cannot be sent owing to the lack of men. The Colonial Adminis- tration Will, for the present, only gain a footing there. The settlement ill establish relations with the na- tives and accustom them to German rule. The intention is not to ad- vance as far as Lake Chad, which is situated 400 kilometres from Benue, and could only be reached with a great military force. Owing to the disturbances in the coast districtg, of the Cameroons, the whole garri- son must remain there for some time to come. THAT "017" FLAVOR CHEESE Prof. Harrison Tleinks He Has Found the Bacteria. The difficulty over the ill -flavored cheese from a number of Ontario fac- tories is in a fair way to be cleared up. Hon. Mr. Dryden is in receipt of a letter from Prof. Harrison, bac- teriologist at the Ontario. Agricul- tural College, stating that he has. found a species of bacteria, vehich, he thinks, .is responsible for the "off" flavor. He is experimenting with it to ascertain, if possible, if it is the same as that found in the milk about which complaintejs made. Prof. 'Harrison, who is 5iesisted in the investigation by Prof. Dean of the dairy department,. has instruc- tions to spare no effort in the at- tempt to solve a question that for some months leaa puzzled cheese- makers and fornadrs 'alike., It is in- tended thatheelihenild examine milk cans fit Which the whey is car- ried back to the farms, and also pos- sibly, the sta,bles. It has been notic- ed that the "off" flavor is irregular in its appearance, and sometimes is not present for clays • at a tithe. The conaplaint came first respecting Cheese made at the Innerkip factory. The "off" flavor has since been de- tected at a score or more other fac- totieslat irregular intervals, and as it affected the price ef the cheese in the English market it was deemed necessary to find the cause and the remedy at once. Between 1850-1860 one and a half million people emigrated from Ire- land. in Sandringham Park, was enlarged, and became THE' COL-NTRY HOMH of the vouno couple,. This marriage has proved fruitfal, the Duke and Duchess being already the parents of four children. The Heir Presumptive to the Throne, Prince Edward of York, was horn at White Lodge. where the, Duchess hod gone to have her mother's tender care and mien port, on June 23. The Duchess of 'Peck's death in the following yeor was a great grief to her daughter, Who had the-ineloncholy eatisfaetion of being present at the last., thovgli the demise was very eueldein "The Duke of Teck has died Since. . Many public !unctions have been performed by the Duke and Duchess of York. One of the most important es-uts in their bistory was their State visit to Ireland. But the in- creased consequeriee now given them by the accession of the Duke's pare eats to the Throne will render their public appearances even more num- erous and interesting in future. and the journey to Australia, SOUth At- isa. and CRaiadn• bas proven that ey van fittingly fulfil valuable high Menial duties, DUCHESS OP CORNWALL AND YORIC, The young Prince Francis of Teck went to England in 1866 to visit the Prince of Wales, whore he had met on the Continent. Be was pre- sent at a dinner at St, james' Pal- ace on the 7th of farch, and there met the Princess Mary Adelaide ; on April 7th, while walking with her in Kew Gardens, near liew Cottage, where she lived with her widowed mother, he proposed to the Princess and was accepted, and the wedding took place on July 12th, after some sixteen weeks' acquaintance. Queen Victoria was present at the wedding in Kew Chureh. The Duchess of Cornwalltand 'York was the first' child of the young couple, and was born at Kensington Palace at oue minute before midnight on. May 26th, 1867. The baby was ! baptized in the long string' of naraes above given, in Kensington Palace, the Queen being one of the sponsors by proxy, and the Prince of Wales, who was present in person, another. PRINCESS MAY remained her mother's only girl ; three brothers did not take the place ofthe one daughter, and the tender relation between the Duchess of Teck and her one girl was of the closest and fondest throughout their life. Between Princess May and her brothers and the children of be Prince and Princess of Wales there was a good, deal of intimacy and fre- quent family visiting. They were much of an age, the Duke of Clarence the Prince of Wales' eldest son, be- ing three years and the Duke of 'York only two years Princess May's senior. Prince George (xfow Duke of Cornwall and York), was the "pickle" of his family at the time, full of gaiety and pranks. He had not then hanging over him the re- sponsibility of being heir to the throne, bat expected to pass his life in the perhaps really more pleeeett comparative obscurity of a younger son. Princess May was very gay and lively too ; but perhaps the gentle and more melancholy elder cousin was more attractive to her lively spirit at that time. 'Many as are the calls and respon- sibilities of xi leo,val housekeeper, and costly as is the education of sons, the Duke and Duchese of Teck, whose income for their st alien was small, up to fill unconsidered trifles of tiane. In a little paper that she once wrote to recommend the "Needlework Guild" to ladies, she observed that both she and her daughter always had a piece of knit- ting or needlework lying ready to take up at an odd moment, and that the result of these accumulated mo- ments was astonishing. Charity, in- deed, took almost the form of a business—at least it was an ever- present duty—with the Duchess, and tbis respect, too, Princess May was trained to follow her mother's example. Such work as all this is not done so whole-heartedly and kindly with- out winning recognition ; and when it was announced in December, 1891, that the then Heir to the Throne, Prince Edward, or, as the public knew him, Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, was betrothed to his pretty cousin May, public satisfaction with the "ENGLISH PRINCESS," the daughter of the beloved Princess Mary, Duchess of Teck, was very great. The Queen, who had always felt and shown great kindness to her cousin's family, gave her hearty ap- proval to the match, and prepara- tions for the wedding were blame- diately begun. Alas I those happy plans were clouded over almost in- stantly. Only two or three weeks after the betrothal, influenza broke out with great virulence at Sand- ringham,. Prince "Eddy" was taken ill only on January 8, and on Janu- ary 14 he passed away ! Something more than a year elaps- ed before it was made known that the Duke of York had offered him -- elf to his.cousin, and that after all Princess May was to be the bride of the Heir to the Throne. The same reasonS that had made the original marriage with the geir popular were now added to by public sympathy' with the loss that she had sustained, and the marriage was generally ap- proved. The Queen gave it all the distinction in her power by attend- ing in State at the ceremony, which took place in the Chapel Royal, St. James', on July 6, 1893. Apartments in St. James' Palace called York House, were provided as a town residence, and York Cottage, THE neaRliIIT OF CAPE 31„ALEA. Pathetic Story of An Znglial See. captain, About twenty-ilve yeore ego there was a young English sailor who, byi dint of nerd work, integrity of char.. ter and farreeess of will, reached at the age of eitv the sununit of his am- bition—liecomiug a master of what then would be called a. good-sized steaollIt'n gip' sacte9smsleon90t0o gclolulodllfogrreieuvx; he married the girl of his .eheiCe. Wiae had patiently waited for hini 8inee as boy and girl sweetheerts they parted on his first going to eea. And with rare complaceney Ids °woe rs gave him the inestimable priv- lege oi carrying bis youog bride t sea, with Win. anirvaliregu)Ybratehnegwesb; Ibw deeells steaming down the grimy Thames be ceplaired to the light of his eyes ail the wonders that she was pow wit- neselog ior the first time, but which he had made familiar to her mind by his oft -repeated sea stories during feiv bright days between voyages thee, it had been able to develop to courtship, The SiliR was bound to several Mediterranean ports. the eime liemg late autumn, and conee-, Onentit the most ideal season for a I 140416)71100ia that could poesibly he I imagined. Cadiz. 'Genoa,* Naples, Venice. a delightful tour with not one weary moment wherein to wisb for somethiug else. Even a. flying visit to old Route from Naples had been possible, for the two officers, rejoicing in their happy young sup - Per's toe', saw to it that no un- imeessary cares should trouble and bore willing testiniony, in order that he should get, as much delight out of those halcyon days as possible that the entire CrOW were as docile as could be wished, devoted to -their bright commander and his beautiful wife. Then, at. Venice mum orders to proceed to Galata and load wheat for home. Great was the glee of the girl -wife. She would see Constaati- nople and the Danube. Life would hardly he long -enough to recount all the wonders of this most wonderful of wedding trips. And they sailed, with hearts overbrimmiog with joy aS the blue sky above them seemed welling over with sualight. WIND AND WEATHEIt favored them, nothing occurred to cast a shadow over their happiness until nearing Cape Melee, at that fatal hour of the morning, just be. fore the dawn, wheat more collisions clean than at any other time, they were run into by iteblundering Greek steamer (It, VMS the other way, and cut down tortidehips to the water's edge. To their peaceful sleep or quiet appreciation of the night's silver splendors succeeded the overwhelm- ing flood, the his and roar of es- caping steam, the suffocating em- brace of death. In that dread fight for life all perished but one, he so lately the happiest of men, the skipper. Instinctively clinging to a, fragment of wreckage, he had been washed ashore under Cape Malea at the ebbing of the scanty tide, and his strong physique reasserting it- self enabled hire to reach the pla- teau. Here he was found gazing Seamtu'd by some goat-herds, who, in search of their nimble -footed flocke, had -wandered down the pre- cipitous side of the mountain. They endeavored to persuade him to come with them back to the world, but in vain. He would live, gratefully ac- cepting sorae of their poor provisions but from that watching place he would not go. And those rude peas- ants, understandinabsomething of his woe, sympathized With him so deeply that without payment or hope of any, they helped him to build his hut, and kept him supplied with such poor morsels of food and drink as sufficed for his stunted needs. And there, with his gaze fixed dur- ing all his waking hours upon that inscrutable depth wherein all his bright hopes had suddenly been quenctecl, he. lived until quite recent yearsr'the world forgetting, by the world forgot," a living monument of constancy and patient, uncom- plaining grief. By his humble friends, whose language he never learned, he was regarded as a saint, and when one day they came upon his lifeless body fallen forward upon his knees at We little unglazed win- dow through which he was wont to look out upon the sea, where his dear one lay, they felt confirmed in their opinion of the sanctity of the hermit of Cape Malea. BUR BONNIE sonLAND. NEWS " BY, NAIL Irl -t4, g-Elt RILINTIcs AND Irdoentt‘ii, Many Things Happen. te Interest the Minds cif Auld, Scotia's Sons, Afr.. Carnegie has given £100 foe an organ kir the Boot PAW 01,wral{, .1014i Mr, Nathaniel Denial" hen been elected deputy -chairman of the Clyde Trust ley 1.4 vetes to 9, Sheriff Prinoipol Lees has Appoint- ed ex -Provost Coekburn, Falkirk., an II/More-1w Sheriff -Substitute. It was so foggy at Clesgow re. cently that the electric cars had to rim all day witk their lights turoed 00. Mr. W. Bailey has been elected as representative ot 010 SiXtil Greenock, in room of the late Ilailie Cook. Tho Ceuneil of Ayr bas decided that no electric street cars shall be run until s. plChisoite haS been 'taken to ascertain the pepnlar will. Tho Rev. Ittilliam Robertson, fore rneriy of Philipliaugh Congreeotional Church, Selkirk, has accept;d the pastorote of the church of Foolin Shetleml. The Earl of Gelloway hen cora seined to run for the peeitiou Ot provose of Newton Stewart. In SIM. cession to Provost Kelly, who hen A. reSigne4. new Eetobliehed church is to be erected at Annbanic, Ayr, the coat ot which 'will be Z2.4,09. A gOnsider,. 4ble portion of the cost bees olreieder been efihscribed. The fiehing eeeeien at Etremeiees, le dlinost at 0, cleee, Tbe total catell" 40,000 creme, repreeentiog ear bgs to the liehermen of nearly AS ninny pounds sterling. itracts are being galled for with a. view to the conetruction of an electd railway ot Kirkcaldy, and it is propoecci to enlarge the echeina 58 to tote in Ilyeart. The death is aonottnced of gra ordon Pirie. of Waterton, father of Mr. D. Vernon PIN% M.P„ for North Aberdeen, at the Chateau de V. Imes. Mame et Loire. Franey. A well known 31214SiCiall. f Edin- burgh died recently in Ibe person iet Mr. J. C. IIbdin. Mr. Villain was a. grandson of the famone Charles Dib - din, the writer of so nanny of Eng* land's sea song. The inaugurotien of nhandeoluil organ. Mr. Andrew C'arnegie'e gitti to the town of Kirkcaldy, in Oa Adam Smith Hall, was gelebrated by a recital given by Ur C. W. Pere tins, organist to the Corporation of Birmiugham. Ilrovost. Hutchison Preeided. The proceeds of the recite el were awned to tit* Provoetle war fund. The new Gifford and Garvaid Rana way, whith opens up a. considerable • portioxi of East Lothihrto traffic, has been inspected for the Board of Trade by Major Pringle, R.E. The line, which has been in course of construction for fully two years, will probably be open next month. At present the terminus is at Gifrora hut it is hoped it may prove slob+ eessful enough to .encourage es, tension to Garvald. Provost Keith, Hamilton, has ro- ceived e. letter from Mr. Andrew Carnegie intimating his intention of presenting a free library to lIamile ton on coudition that the burgh adopts the Free Libraries Act and provides a site. It is hoped that in connection with the library n. techne: cal institute may be erected. Mr. Hew Morrison, curator of the Edin- burgh free library, who is Mr. Car- negie's adviser in such matters, was in town on, rriday, and, accompanied by Provost Keith, had a number of suitable sites for the library pointed out. A NEW BUILDING MATERIAL. An excelleet building material, re- sembling pressed brick but harder, is new being made at European gas- works from coke ashes, hitherto a troublesome waste. The ashes aro Carefully powdered, mixed with a tenth part of slacked lime, formed into a: stiff paste with water, and pressed into bricks like ordinary clay. • The bricks, protected frona rain, harden in the air without the aid of artificial heat. THE CORNER STONE. There are men in business who are not taking advantage of their oppor- tunities. There are men who are sue. cessful because they have just acci- dentally fallen into -the great whirl of prosperity. Ehey succeed and can't tell why. There are other men who fail even after a conscientious, determined effort. It seems strange to some — especially to the one who fails. ° The man who stumbles into prosperity is fortunate. He would probably never have gotten there any other way. The man Who fails gets consolation and pleasure, perhapS, out of the activity which should have but did not produce re- sults. He gets benefit out of his ex- perience and next time can go about his work more wisely,, with a greater chance of *winning. The whole rea- son for success may not be becauee of good advertising, but good adver- tising is a foundation upon which to build success That foundation must have for its corner stone honesty and persistence. These points are commercial requisites. They give to the merchant his reputation. They make his advertising valuable. They cause people to know Plat when the man says a thing it can be depended upon. It is easier to get business froni advertising after the reputation for honesty has been established. It is easier to secure customers when people know what they have bought in times past has proved satisfactory., The reputation established by a firm is the strong point that clinches the argument and causes people to know, tlat values Offered will prove worth the price asked or the establishment will -make it worth while for the cus- tomer to call attention to the goods that were not of the right quality, AN OPPORTUNITY. Stpposing 1 give you your supper, said the tired -looking woman. What will you do to earn it? Madam, said Meandering Mike, 111 give you de oppeeeemity of seein' man go t'roo a whole meal wit'out nridin' fault wit' a single t'ing. The woman thought e minute and then told him to ceetae tee au,-,\ she'd set the table. , 440i