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Exeter Times, 1902-8-14, Page 7tta4<ael D cro ',•4 e 0 ,• ;It JACK. By ST, GEORGE RATFIBORNE, Atahreecl "ipeeteeJeek'S Wife," "Captain Tome" °Baron Saha, Mss Pauline of New Yoga°. "Miss Caviare" late. From the harp Mercedes goes to the mandolin, arid ste the daughter of Spain trills out a ditty, Jack can easily imagine himeelf once more in Mexico, lietening to the dark-skinned beauties , of old Montegurria's, realm, Soon Don Carlos joins them, and, ars mentiores ineideetally. how Jack used to sing about the fire in their n canteen camp of an evening, Mer- cedes begs that he will de them the favor now. Sack is nothing if riot obliging. He has a fair baritone voice, in fact a rernarkably good one, and can uee well. • So to Mercedes' accompaniment on the harp he sings several Sparlieli siongs. Then, taleing the guitar in hand, be accompanies himself to "The Arrow and tes Song," and other Eng- lieh ballads, The pleasure is mutual. Their sur- zouridiese aro so quaint that the mel- ody seems to have an additional charm. Mercedes notes, however, with a little frown, that smote than once this brave American takes mit his watch when • he thinks he is not obeerved, and con- sults it. She knows he is thinking of the eagagement at eight, and conse- quently of the ether girl. This causes the beauty to bite her lips in chagrin. Te music has charms, • but even these have failed to make • Doctor amok forget. Surelec he UalSt be pretty far gene to even remember that there is such a being in existence when under the beaming eyes of this Spanish houri. • At last dinver is announced, for Don Carlos has Imported some of the mis- takes of the Engnsh into his house, his business bringing him In contact ulth the islanders, and taking him over frequently to the tigbt little island beyond the English channel, Don Carlos offers his arm to the sinera, so there is nothing else for Jack to do than e.scert -Mercedes in to the table, not that he as the slightest objection, for any man would have been Pleased lo have had such a com- panion. They loiter sayer the meal, which is men served, thanks to the English ideas, and a foreign cook the Don had imported. ,Jack enjoys himself beartily, but he is at the same time careful about tak- ing wine, 'with which lie indulges only in limited, quantities, and then only nith his partner. As they arise from the table Sack menages to get a glimpse at his wateh. It is twenty minutes past seven. The time has slipped by, and he must now be going; for if he leavethe house on the Del Prado at half -past -seven he can reach the Fonda Peninsular before the hour set for his arrival --eight. He • is glad now he had forethought enough to tell the driver of the vehicle to wait for him, not knowing that Don Carlos aftermard went out and paid him. seeing that the American gentleinan had decided to remain, and would. not need his services. Once more they enter the mule - room, and Mercedes is about to re- sume the charming strains of melody -where she had ceased at the call to dinner, when Jack begs pardon, but • declares it his duty to leave them. In vain they beg him to remain, even the wonderful eyes of Mercedes, filled with pleading, fail to turn this inexorable American from his purpose. He •is of stone, she thinks, piqued more than words could tell at her sig- nal failure, and already, the volcano within threatens an eruption which even the great VSSUVillS cannot eellsse. "At any rate come with me to the den I have, and smoke a cigar in com- pany ere going," says bon Carlos fin - &J." • To refuse such a request is an in- sult to a Spanish gentlernan.-even 11 the gravest of evils overhung one, such an invitation is not lightly put aside. Doctor Sack knows this. It Is not yet half -east seven, and even if de- tained to the quarter of eight limit, an extra tip to the driver will bring him through, Panctual alwa,vs, he thinks of all these things ere he re- • plies to the •other's invitation. ' " Certainly, Don Carlos, I can en- joy your comean, for some ten mine utes or so. I am sorry, indeed, to tear myself &Way from such charming company, but duty calls I hope to • renew the plea -mire at an early date." He sees the face of Mercedes light up as he begins to speak; and even intercepts • a. meaning glance • she 0/mots toward her uncle; hut pre- tends to be unaware of this signal, bends over her hand at partirig, gal- lantly' raises it to his lips in the eld time fashion still in vogue •"among, these high bred Castilians, and then turning, follows Don Carlos out. of the music -room to one some distance beyond, which he calls his den, but which just now is to be the web that the American fly is to be trapped in, CITA.PTER VIL Jack has heard about this "den • beer°, and is a little curious to see it. •Ho believes tb,e eagerees of Don Carlos to have him evoke arises from • his eesire t� she* his sritig bachelor eitutrars, of Which he has spokee, More than once When they camped in the Perth ees. The snuggery is on the ground floor, and looks out Upon the gardens, Through an open evindOW ateals sweet peretiche from the night •bleona ing flowerto be deadeted by aliaeager eclair frone the nexious•. 'Weed; Arolend the wane of the room are hung a ‘louguirv,3 and on things- eee len e ' -nee e91. mementoes of the cb.a.se. plees from all nations. and many articlen the line of brio -a -brae which a rich bachelor with a leaning :toward a sportsman's liee might pick up in. his travels. Queer things there are, • too, but Jack leas even a much finer collec- tion himsele. Ile has no time now to do them justice. "The first chance I get, Don Carlos, I mean. to spend half a day with you. It will give me pleasure to look over these things," he remarks, talciag out g cigar, and rolling it between his fingers, an action the other sees with conelclerable apprehension. What if the American insists upon smoking his own Particular brand of tobacco? He had known smokers to have that habit, and the ether has already in mare ways than one proven that he can be a very stubborn man When he makes his mind ma "Notice the rug at your feet, Senor .Tack," "Ah yes, the bear we killed up in the mountains together. He was about as tough a customer as I care to see but the old reseal serves a good purpose at last." Doctor Sack takes a taper froth a rack. and is about to bold it in the blaze of the wall lamp near by when a hand touches his arm. Looking around, he sees the senor's face close to him, and his yellow fingers hold 'a deter. " Paraon, Doctor jack, but in lerY house you must smoke my cigars. That is etiquette with us Spanish gen- tlemen, you know," sbowieg his teeth beneath the blase moustache es he smiles in the American's face. "1 beg your pardon, Don Carlos. 1 should have known better," and in- stantly he slips his own cigar into his vest eocket, accepting that of the Spaniard, whose eves fairly scintillate with pleasure. As a cat watches a mouse, so he; keens his black orbs on Doctor Jack until the latter has applied the light- ed taper to his cigar and given e, fere puffs, when, with an inaudible liegh of relief, the Don proceeds to put fire te his own weed. While his back is turned an expres- sion of amazement creeps over Jack's face. He looks at his cigar, and then at the Don, shaking his head dubious- ly, the sinner, as though there is something about the weed he fails to appreciate, and yet dares not offend his host by throwing it away. To himself he mutters :- "12 this is his much yeeented brand, bless my soul what a perverted taste these Spaniards have, and here I al- ways believed tbey beat the world at growing and using tobacco, especially in Cuba. 1 wonder—" he does not finish the sentence, but a suggestive smile that flits across his face takes Its place announcing that Doctor Jack has conceived a little scheme to at least save himself a headache. "Don, would you mind getting my light outer coat. There is something in the pocket I wanted you to have to remember me when I arn far away. My friends are too few to allow them to forget me when I am away. • I brought this from Paris with me." Don Carlos' eves sparkle with plea- sure. He says he. will be back with it in a minute, and hastens from the room. "No hurry," calls Jack after him, coolly. The game is won. Hardly has Don Carlos vanished from view than Sack's hand slips again to the upper pocket of his vet, and out comes a cigar - the one he had been about to smoke when his host interrupted. He knows the line flavour of this, and can vouch for it. Quickly he bites ofe the end, then the lighted weed is held clase to the new one, a few puffs and the thing is done, after which Jack manages to extinguish the fire from the gift cigar, He looks at it with a shudder, is about to cast it away, becomes seized with an idea, apd hastily deposits the sus- picious affair in his pocket, which is a gcod way to get rid oZ the obnoxious weed, and gives a chance for future investigation. When Don Carlos returns with the coat over his arm hardly a minute has, elapsed. He discovers Doctor Jack leaning back on a divan, holding the eigan between his fingers, and looking at the smoke curling upward with an expression of ecstatic bliss seen only upcn a smoker's face -the gnawing has been satisfied. Don Carlos grins, aud mutters " Car- ajo the drug is already having an ef- fect," but M this he deceives hiniseta for it is only the smoker's tontent that has Poesession. 'Therf he admiree the diamond pin Sack hands hina-a de- cided beauty-aad is loud in his thenks. Thesit here for some little titne Seek smoking furiously in or- der M uso his cigar up as speedily as possible, and the Spaniard watching him out of the corner of his eye while • he tents. To his surprise shows no ;Igne of giving way to the somnolent god. Something'Is undoutedly wrong; either the drug has lost its power or else - Wen Carloo hesdly &tree conjecture Che other poeelbflitse • He grinds' his teeth in secret rage, and yet feels compelled to act plea- eant, but the task 15 eueli a hard one that Doctor Sack perceives he Is trou- bled, At length the American athlete tos- ses the butt of his cigar Into the recep. taele near by, and rises to hie eeet, donning hie light ovrcoat as he doee so, Di vain the other begs him to re - Main, Re might as well talk to a Stone Wele and secretry curses at the relefertlerse that hes beaten him 80 nealOY at his own game, Ile does not Miderstand It now, but perhape Ito may Wilen he Vas it chance to ex- amine that cigar stump itl11 ernolder- Ins ia the cuepidor, o Doctor actelt Maas ale hat, aids ale lost " lasenos troches," and passes out of thealoor. Taere is a Attie gar- den in frent, and it •couple of lamps from trees 13how thS, path to the calle. • It is othereviee as datk as negypt, and as the doer closee behind him neck melees a bee line for the exit, •which he has no troutite in passing, thotigh.generally docile and settee ere well berried in Madrid after eighteen, as thieves abound in the strange old •Saanisa city, • Once upon the street be looks around for his vehicla and of course fails to find it, since Don Carlos was se kixid as to countermand his order hours ago, Doctor Jack reuttere a malediction upon the stupidity of Jehus in general and Spanish ones in particular. He is also put out because he stayed so late, as this must of necessity keep him from fulfilling his engagement at the Fonda Peninsular to the letter, and In his eyes it is very important that he give Avis no cause for complaint at this stage of the game. Such a man, hoeveyer, is not at a loss for means to carry aim through. Since the vehicle has failed him he has his own powers of locomotion, and selectieg his course, starts oft with a swinging stride down the driviug avenue at a pace that pronases to bring him to the plaza in the heart of the city within half an hour's time, provided no accident befalls him while en route. There are lights here and there up- on the Calle del Prado, and these help the stranger in a degree. Time was, and not so very long ago, when the henest eitizen of this burgh desiring to go out at night had to take a guard along with him, and unless the moon ' shone, ha -se a link -boy run ahead to light up the way, The Madrid of to- day has made i giant strides, however, though far in the rear of such a bril- liant city is Paris. The street is !rot deserted, though its life is nothing compared with the heart of the city in the plaza known as the Puerta del Sol, where the pulse of the populace beats, and all gay sights are concentrated. Doctor Jack meets reveral slouching fellows, who look at him inquisitively, ana with such evident menace in their manner, that, considering „the circara- stances surrounding him, the Ameri- can may vell be pardoned for holding himself in readiness to do battle. ale is the worst man in Madrid. for such footpads to tackle, as they may find out to their cost. The hearses become more numerous, and he sees more signs of life. Soon he will have to leave this lighed thor- oughfare, and plunge into a narrow street that by devious turnings will, if he have rare good luck, eventually take him to the,publie square. If danger is to descend upon lath it will probably be at such a time, but there is really no way to avoid the dis- agreeable task. Music greets his ear. Beyond a wall conies the serenade song of some dark -eyed senorita enjoying the cool air of the evening in the midst of her friends, perhaps with a stalwart and gallantlover seated at her side. Over the way the music is more weird. A gipsy bolero, as the fandango is call- ed at times, is getting under ;way, and although matters are tame enough at this early stage, Jack shudders as he remembers the wild orgy upon which he gazed while in the company of Don Cealos on the previous evening. Passing on he enters among a more animated scene, and anally is filled with joy to actually discover an al - come% to whom he puts a question and hands a piece of silver, whereupon the guardian of the peace tells him in Spanish that if he enters the first calle on the right, and follows it pertinace- crusly, he will at, length reach the point he is struggling for. Somme more Doctor Jack strides on, covering the ground mucla after the style of a prize pedestrian en a spurt Slow going Spaniards look after him in wonder, and shrug their shoulders as they mutter something about the crazy heretics who get loose ;mon the streets of their wonderfel city. Jack has ,already found it warm Work, and removing the light.overcoat, carries it upon 'els left arm. • Later on he has cause to rejoice that it was not hanging from the other, or, worse stile, on his back. ' Coming to the narrow cane he glances down it in dismay, looks around with a last forlorn hope that there may be some vehicle in sight he can engage or buy, and discovering none makes the plunge with a groan. It is terribly dark her after coming from the broad and lighted Del Prado, until Jack's eyes become accustomed to • the gloom he can see absolutely nothing, a.nd in consequence the very first thing he does 18 to come in wa- ter:a with some unknown person tra- velling slowly the other way. In his best Spanish he hurriedly apologizes, and goes on, leaving his, victim almost stupefied with astonish- ment Progress is being made, though of a somewhat costly nature, but this man never yet conceived it project that he was not ready to devoteallhese ener- gies to in ordeF-to-Percute, and he will reach the grand tentral plaza if he has to walk over the half of 1VIadeld's pop- ulaticeo fast. Such a man is Doctor Jack. No weirder fortune emiled up- on him in the old Mexican mines. The earth is bound to•open its treaeure teees• before the knock of a man who poeseeses the obstinacY of a nage•aerde ed to the courage of a lion arid the shrewdness of it fox. At the same time Jack is muttering little enathernas concerning the pea- erty stricken nature of the Metropolis thee cannot afford to ligat all her streeta while he gathers neck over toe streete, wane he gathers hiniself up after nearly breakage his valuable neck over some obstacle which in NeW York he would have believed must be an ash box. . • afo JC Continued.) 4:- MAO,iiibabLtat of,France peeen yearlt teiX of 8 cents on mateheet Setieev*.vateseeeeitraaWanatesalevaitaitia 4. FOR FARMERSJ. ,sensonablo and Prefftabte Mate for the Busy Tillers of the siumoTioN OF mi -IE DAIRY COW. There are three phaees to be con- sidered in this • elmosiag •a cow. lairet, 1 veould select the cow as au individual Without reference to ante- cedents aerie reeords, The amet )131.1-Itaielgeiril,diNctticTwca02 a'n. fle7t1CelecPxr7uctles milk without a capacious udder, This is net measured eo Muela by its •vertical diarneter as by its length as measured by the attach- ment -to the body. It should extend well forward aad far back or Lee- ward' between the legs and should be wide at the' same time, bet not necessarily pendulous. The next point to be considered is the barrel. The cow mast have a big body, which is her workshop or labora- tory. . Those features that indicate• a good breeder or mother should come next, She should he wide through the hips and large and roomy in the hind quartere. The fourth point to be considered is the fore quartere and here she .should be rather thin and sharp, • of spare flesh, loosely put together ' with chine a little sharp. The neck should be sharp and rather loosely put on the sboulders and the head long. Lastly should, come • the superficiel points each as good milk veins, escutcheon, fine hair and loose skin. The udder, barrel, • pelvic region, fore quarters and superficial points should be con- sidered in this order, but most buy- ers begin with the last anti seldom get as far as the udder. The sec,ond phaee of the selection has to do with the pedigree. • A pedigree of the right sort should be a record of ancestry that includes., animals of superior merit close up. The mother of the cow 'should be a superior animal and of the type which you wish to perpetuate. The mother of the 0019'S sire should lee the same. If -they are mediocre, you have poor pedigree to start with. The larther back you can go with good animalo, the better the pedi- gree. The next point is uniformity and similarity of animals on both sides. In the selection of a herd, the third phase is to choose a few each year from among those cows you ha-ve and weed them out, selecting a, few from outside superior to those you prdpose to let go. To make selcetions in your Own herd, it is necessary to keep a daily record and to make frequent tests of the milk. Dispose of those not making it sat- isfactory*proh t. At the Connecticut experiment station it costs about $42 a year to keep a cow, here about $60. In order to pay for this feed, a cow must be capable of mak- ing 500 pounds of butter per year. The average of the herd ought to be 350 pounds, and 400 pounds is possible With care and selection. Too many farmers don't know which cows are making a profit and which a loss. SLIP -SHOD FARMING. ing that lead been done in bate aleeence. How Meet do yens suppose that tenant made 7 Orre farmer's Wa,ter supply wept ciry eboat every meaner, aad if the winter dia not bring a Ince dearth, It was only luck that favored him. He was tolal OVSS and over ngniu that hie supply came from a aide rein aaa riot the realhead of the elering, but yeare elapsed before he would try it better sapply, and Urea found that by laying about 4 rods mole pie° he had it natter failing supply. He had Wasted' more time iu drawing water for both farm and house, thee, would have came all the work forty times over, to say no- thing of the greater satisfaction. When men do a little repairing why do So many 01 theFe do ie itt the front yard ? Is it because they are naturally slovenly, or because their g•ratelfathers set them the ex- ample'? We call ourselves a, pro- gressive people ; well then lee us progress towards cleanliness and etyilizateon. • RAISING CALVES BY HAND. • At the county council school at Newton Rigo, England, the calf is taken away from.the cow as • soon as born, rubbed dry with straw, woll bedded and covered with more straw and in half an bour fed with a pint of the =ether's warm. milk, For the filet and second week it is fed three times, it day with its mother's warm milk, lee pints at it time, inareasing to two quarts the fourth day. The third week one-half separator skimmila is substituted and a half pint linseed aoup added to each quart skinamed. A little hay is added the next week. The quan- tety of milk at each feed is increased to 2e, quarts skinemille the fifth week and hay is also increased grad- 1141m1Yi 0t the linseed soup the ninth week and after the noon feed give a liandful of linseed meal and a, little pulped swedes or turnips (grass in summer) and hay as before. • The noon meal is omited the 12th week and three-fourths pound linseed meal mad crusted oats and two quarts pulped swedes subetituted, but the morning and evenieg feed of skim - milk is continued. The milk may be discontinued the fifth month but • if one has plenty give 'one �r • two feeds a 'day until the eighth or math month. To prepare the lin- seed soup put one quart flaxseed in four gallons water to soak over night. Boil and stir the next day for one-half hour and ju,st before aniehing add me -half pound flour, mixed up with cold water, to collie- tere.et the laxative tendency of the flaxseed. To prove to you. Duo 'Dr. sChase's Ointment iS a certain and absolute (lure fer each and every feria of Imbibe, bleediugand protrudIngpiles, the mannfaotarere have guaranteedie suttee. arnonials in tam daily press and ask yours:are:t- ans what they thinir of le Yon oan use it and get your money back it not cured, am a bon at ell dealers or aperaesorealeas a Co.,Teronto, Chasees Ointment UTILIZING WEEDS. There is an old saying to the effect that "a. aog may as well.. be killed as given a bad name." On the farm there are some errant species of plants that suffer from the odium of being called weeds, I wonder tow many' .farrners have when as a matter of fact they have heard the old adage, "Leave the • ends loose and the middle will get • tangled.," writes aa observing man. I often Wilk of it when I go through the country and see farm after farm with tools and carriages mer' confesses a fear of couch graee standing put seasoning and weather or medick spreading through the cracking in the san and wind ; the - - fields. A crop of rye is likely to yards about the house one litter ,of infest the succeeding crops where unsplit blocks Of wood, .chipe, arok- there ie careless Management, yet if en'waggons, etc. And still sucli men rye is, Wanted there should Ise •no sontetirnos proper wondmiully con- sidericg the slipesihea way. ih which hesitation in sowing it. Sweet clover is it persistent weed of the their work is done. •roadside, and yet it niay be used When you unhitched' from that to advantage in improving the tex- mower or rake just at the end of tare of soils that cannot be induced the house or barn' iestead of driving to grow .anything else. Couch grass will thrive on. soils where other grasses will fail, and in additioia to protecting the s.oi1 givesa supply fve very good pasture. In the sanee media: can be left to grow on the way the little yellow blossorae.d bare knolls that seem' to salt it so • Ono of the competitors in a re- cent ping-pong tournament at Gox- hill, Yorkshire, was a nmiden lady, aged eighty-one. , The youeg baby of a couple named Docherty, of 'Sunderlancl, was given a eupper ot tinned salmon by its parents. It survived the meal by just twelve bean's. Gainsborough possesses Lincoln- shire's chtunpion band. It is known as thee Britannia I3an1, and has won £1,000 in eclair, taken. twenty- four first and forty-five other prizes, four special medals, three batons for its conductors, and several instru- ments for best soloists -more honors thaua all the rest of the barrels of many Valuable.qualities, and if not so tenacious of life would be regard- ed as friends rather than enemies. It is often a confesseon of poor methods of cultivation, when a far - a few feet farther, and leaving it Under the ehed, or in the barn floor, you might have known by ex- perience that the chances were it would be • left right, there until it Was wanted next year, and you also might • have • known that it was pretty sure td need more or less re- pair when warded. Truly it is the little leaks that sink the ships, and the time and the brains of the own- er can aften be peolita,blyemployed in stopping these leaks. I have known several men in my life • who were so busy in making money, that they had no time to save it ; the consequence being that they never had treacle to save. Some never plated up the little apples or pota- toes or pumpkins even when. the saving of theni would make the dif- eerence. between a crop that just paid for the work and land, or a crop raised at a profit. I know a man who let his farm f or a year or two, and on. leis return found seven cow chains completely covered up in the manure pile, and this was on/y it sample of the general 'style of farm_ the county. .0MenimaritelwirksimivalneummewelimonetcnaniNcrotieoraWavaa IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND NEWS BY hEAXL 4I0U enNeIN BULL AND T:11$ PEOPLE, Occurrences ip, the Land, That laeigas Suprerac ip, the Com- •mercial, World, A memorial brass tablet to Offincers and meg of the 210 Lifeguards, who have /lot return,ed from SOuth wee unveiled in Holy Trinity chureh, Windsor. A 'dairymaid was milicieg it cow at ICeleeeei it Bette village hi Norfolk, whest the arnenae turned epon her, knoekeri her down, and gored her in the cheek. Probably the einallest village in the Caned Kingdom is Bagley Wood about 3e Miles from Abingdon. It Was formerly the abode of a hermit', and has ouly four inb.abita.nts now. • "Are you in the habit of having a drop too much ?" askecl the magis- trate at Halifax of a witness con- coraing his alleged liking of beer. "We cannot have too much," was the naive reply. In it, roek garden . at Calveeley, near Leeds, Elagland, there are 1,- 200 species of perennial and Alpine plants, some 250 of which are now in bloom. Many of the epeeimens axe extremely rare. A log -burning oil fount for switch and semaphore lamps is now being put tato use. It noble oil eieough for seven days and nights with one filling, and the wick needs no atten- tionin the meantime: A. tragic afPair occurred in. London at the funeral of the late Mr. P. W. Sim°, one of the mournees falling clown dead walle the first part of the service was being held in. the deeeneod's house. While erossing Ludgate circus, London, during a rain shower a young lady fell on, the sliripery road- way in front of a two -horse Vaal,' the wheels of which passed over her body and killed her. Yarmouth beach and sea: front are now being kept clean by men who go about with baskets( and spike - headed sticks picking up paper and other refuse, after the fasibioai of the Parisian chireoniers. Five pounds was the price that Charles Sharpe, a carrier, was call- ed upon to pay at Northampton for proposing to a Miss Annie Buckley and afterwards refusing to carry out his promise of marriage. While singing 'the Amen of the last hymia in • church at Northaller- eton on Sunday, Mr. Edward Clark, headmaster of thtt local national school, fell unconscious in the arms of a brother chorister. He never re- vived. A young Londoner named Herbert Coleman, while cycling clown a very steep hill at Iledsor, near Bourne End, Bucks, lost control of hie ma - thine, dashed into a tree at the foot of the hill, and was killed • on the spot. A young shepherd, mimed Wm. Pool, was found in a field at Great Stambridge, near Southend, with his throat cut. He died before xrtedi- cal aid could reach him. Losses among his flock are said to have preyed oia his znin;d. Mrs. Crawley, widow of the bank clerk who was murdered in the Ken- nington branch of the London and South -Western Bank last hTovember, has been presented With it £50 cheque slubscribed by residents of the district A cabman lawned John Winter, while standing at the ca,b Tank in Southamptonrow, was knocked sud- denly 'down by a hansom cab which was suddenly turned round. Be was picked up insensible and died a few hours later in the Royal Free Hos- pital. Although 12b years old, a watch owned by it gentleman in. Gloucester- shire, England, still keeps excellent time. It was worn at Trafalgar, duriag the peeineular War, at Wa- terloo, through the Chine War in 1840, and fillally in the Indian Mutiny. • Thomas Inerriclge, an employee of the Hammersmith Borough Council, Nvare carrying a bottle of *carbolic acid in his pocket when, from swim unkuown cause, tlio bottle broke. The acid flowed over tae man's leg, inflicting barns from which he has same died. When Lord Roberts was oi hl his way to review the India)t treope at Hampton Court, he Passed a group of sexual boys, one of whom shouted enthueiasticaliy, • "Bravo, Bobs 1" Greatly to the youngster's delight the Commander -in -Chief stopped and shook hands with the youthful. ad- mirer. When Frederick, Burgesswas found wet and dripping on the canal bank near Sally Oak he said he was tired of life, and that he had 'jumped into the canal, but bad got out, again beoause "it was so dirty." He want- ed to find some clean water • to drown in. At King's Reath Police Court a° was remanded. as •T rtured by E 3 Y re. A Dreadful Case—Itching Almost Unbearable—The Flesh Raw nd Flaming. • •‘Dr. Chase's Ointment. TI. McColl:lel], Engineer 1 n Fleury's Foundry, Aurora, Ont., stateS ;-"I believe that Dr. Chase's Ointment is 'worth its weight in gel d, lsor about thirty ereetrs I was troubled with eczema., and cauld not obtran any cure. I was so einfortue ate as to have aloud poisora and this developed to eczema, the " meet dreadful of ckin diseases. • "I wee 80 ban that I Would get up at night and scratch myself entil Roth Walt raw and flaming. The • torture 1 endured is almost beyond destription, and eow I cannot say anything too good for Dr, Chase's • Ointment. It has mired me, arid 1 rectaximend it beenelse 1 know there is nothing so good for itohing skin." Eapecielly during the hot samme r months children arc tortured by 'it caing akin diecaee, chafing, sunbeam and it score of elle-Lents that are relieved and cured by Dr. Chase's Oin anent, Mr, J. Goat, naafi. carrier and stege driver between Pert Elgin and raincardine, atates :-'"I elan •testify to the warah Of Dr. Chase's Ointrrielet, as a oure for eceenia, My sister, Ma% J. Dobeon, of Tinder' ,wood, Ont., has it boy wbo was a great Safferer from this dreadful skin clieease. He Was then wily feat 'years old, aria, though shatook hint to sevcatel doctors and tried' a great many remedies, all efforte to el - ; feet a euro pawned in. vain. 'This little felloW was covered With itching ebres, an'd hande and fade Were especially ba,d, The Way he Seffered Was Something dreadful, and My sister had beee disappointed 'With -go many Preparatiotte that she did aot 'lane Mitch faith in Dr, Chaeces Ointment. earl. new testi fg that Dr, Chase's Ointment matia a Period, cure in this ease, and there ie not a mark or scar left on his body," Dr. ChaSe's Ointarreat, 60 ' cents a box., at all dealers, or ladelonsclis, Bathe anel Go,, Tororttrak TOWNS BUILT UPON PEOPLE WHO AIM lfgAio ITATTIRE'S WARNINGS. W. ma,las pia,"slaruapvtpigoAese:1 DeStreyea • by Great Veleauic The tete,/ destraotion, witain the past 4 st f0,0Oliiite few week, t Pierre,• efartiniqtte, West Lidice, by volcanic eruptien, le a be' uo meene unique exaMple al the ultimate late ef towns nestling, in apparent de- ture and ecuarioneelese, at the feet oefaalcinen_o:ct,tilni.eat labi:ernionfa, b:ntolemaotftti :a - Around tile base of Vesuenue, for instance, numberless email villagee exist, their inhabitantperfeetly, blind to the danger that threaten-, ingly hangs (literally) over' their slheoapcies. stilf?oerfesla4ertiee vd1insetyaallic4eauffpe ourleleht! These are tended and, in some eases, owned by the folk below, who live • praetically upon a, faundation of fire. • weSrieriedeevPtroomy..apdeii 71,,,e,tilatrireirean has been no notably tragical out - buret of the famous Itrtljnla aolcano, although itscrater is never aetuallee idle. Smoke, hot stems, and neulta with now and then a stream of lava, brealdnethrough a thin place in the - ' crust, testifying periodically to its present vitality. The curious part of it is -as also, in all similar casesu -that the people 'who have thue, planted themselves at the base, erect' even a little ray up the slopes of; , the mountain, seem to have no feare of the possibility of fiery extinction, living and, dying, as they de, in the; su11 of a fancied security. Even( Naples., in the event of a gfea,t an overwhelming eruption of Vestuviuse would stand a. very good chance of being wiped out. 'That, it is st4 extant, is due more to good lucle, than to any great amount of dise cretien. on the part of THE ORIGINAL FOUNDERS. Wha.t has been said about Vest/alias applies be like manlier to Etna, Sicily. The vegetation for nearly half eta height of 10,963 feet aboss sea level, is even more prolific than in the ease of its Italian Sister., Long immunity, too, from disaster seems to have confirmed -the in- habitants of the villages at the bast. of tihe mountain ia their sense of • safety. Lying, as Etna dams, miae way between the towns of Messina an Catania, it is easy to imagine what would take piace should the volcano exert its power. Both the towns would, without doubt, suffee to a terrible extent, with regard alike to life and property. So re- , oently as 1693 lifty-four towns • and 800 villages were 'destroyed in Sicilye by a combined eruption and earth-', quake. Of the town of Catania not-, it trace remained, nor of its 18,000 inhabitan.te. Altogether more than 100,000 lives were lost. The Caucasian, range is wholly more or less volcanic, and a volcanic! , outburst in February of this present I year, at Schemacha, Caucteausi. which destroyed over 2,000 houses, and by which 5,000 lives were lost, recalls a still greater misfortune which befell the same place in 1667, when 80,000 'persons were launched into eternity. The latter catae- trophe contained no warning for those who ought to have profited by it; and it is morally certaiu that people will still continue' to live under the shadow of the very cause of DEATH AND DES0LITI017. Java, again -and, ineleed, most of the other islaacls of the Eastern Archipelago -are largely velca.nic, being, nearly all of them, submarine upheavals, due to volcanic action. Krakatoa, Java's monarch mount tain, gave a raesenificent displa.y of its powers in 18t83, 35,000 persons, living round and near it, losing their lives.'Krakatoa, is the chief of a, group of thirty or rnore vole canoes on this island, and those. who, on cruising in those seas at the time of the eruption, were prey. ileged to witness the scene,, eay, that for it distance of fifty miles round the island the air was data!, -with hot rnard„ ashes, and learning dock -splinters. That Soath America is largely volcanic • is, common knowledgee though the great eatasteophe, itt this connection, in this part of the world, take the forte of earthquake -1E arid seismic nraxes, In. 1797 the. whole country between Santa Ft and Panama. was 'destroyed, include leg the cities of Cuzco anel Quito The latter plaee, built in hare. brained faetic,n right up, the Mal131, tain side, hangiog on to it, as it were, like Babylon's famous aarclena of old, is ever a Peritedical state of collapse from subterranean - Otherwise Yolcanie-distUrbance. • one oecasion 4.0,000 persons perish., ed 111 El. second. • Japan and Ohara in the East, and almost the ulnae of Southern •Eta rope, afford touutleee inseances •el man's temerity in building his dwelling', anel establishing himself in spots which Nature has done her best to mark "clangerous."--Pear. sons' Weekly. e• TRUE TO TIM LIFE, • One morniaa a banket stepped in. to his office and moet, effusively greeted hie bOokkeeper, •who had en-' tend •his service just teeent,v-ilye years before, at the same time hand- ing him a closed enmelOpe with the 'remark; "This is to serve you as n Me- mento of the present oetaisient." The gratefel recipient did not ven- ture at • firee to open OM exiVelopee until encoutuged to do SO by tt and a Smile from his employer. And• what do you think it ceateleed? The banketee pito tograph-that, ati nothing More, The bookkeeper Woe dumb Ter th6 Meteorite "Well, What do you thina ef bin principal inquirorit. Itzt like yew," wets the tee