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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1916-8-31, Page 6rife TI1E r r�R s1 C replied with a bib a glass to you, LEMAN ;N EXCITING PRESENT-DAY ROMANCE. BY W€:ATHERBY CHESNEY CHAPTER XXV.—(Cont'd). "There, that's my philosophy. Hor- ace. Probably you have skipped it to get bo the practical part; but read it through again, when you have nothing to do; or better, let the girl read it and see whether she doesn't agree with evey word I say. I did not act on it myself. and that is. why I am anxious that you should not repeat my mistake. I was just about as old as you when I let my chance go. Don't cio as I did, "I say all this to you because you seem to suggest a doubt whether you can manage on what you have got. You inquire whether my former offer is still open. and you hint that if it isn't, you have no right to ask the girl to marry you. My boy, if you love her, and have reason to believe that she loves you, you have no right to keep silent. Of course the offer is still open—two offers, in point of fact—but if I refused to help you by so much as a shilling that would not alter your obligation. I've preached enoughNnow for the practical part. "You can have a place at my city office at three hundred a year, with the prospect of rapid promotion if you earn it; that is the offer which I hope you will accept. The other is, possi- bly, more to yo:u taste. I have been investing largely in land lately, and I want a land agent to represent me, The salary in this case is £500 a year, because the position requires that you should make a certain amount of show amongst my tenants, and you couldn't do it on less. But it is a stationary salary. Make your own choice. "There is one thing more. When I die, you will be mentioned in my will, but net as my sole heir. The condi- tions will be somewhat pecular, and the amount which you inherit will de- pend upon yourself. If you can prove to my executors that on the day of my death you were worth ten pounds, you will receive something; if you can prove a thousand, you will receive a great deal more. As you know, I preach the doctrine that nothing suc- ceeds like success, and my will is to be my last sermon to you on that theme. The proportion of my property which conies to you is, therefore, a matter which is in your own hands; -ti;-,e sur- plus will go towards founding a chari- table institution of some sort, whose nature I have not yet decided. Proba- bly it will be an Ambler Home for consistent Failures amongst 'Varsity Men the most melancholy class on earth, Horace! "Gree my love to the girl. Tell her there are no family diamonds, • but there will be a cheque to help in the furnishings." By the time that Scarborough had finished reading this characteristic letter Elsa returned. "I am ready, Horace," she said, "Shall we start?" "Yes," said Scarborough, and as they passed out of the room, he whisp- ered to Scott:— "Ride a little in front, or behind, old man, will you ?'' Scott answered with a grin. "Uncle Croesus turned up trumps? Are you going to win, as he cabled to you?" "I hope to win," Scarborough whis- pered back. "Anyway, I am going to follow Phil's example, and try." • CHAPTER XXVI. Sebe Cidades, the Seven Cities, are seven small craters which lie in the deep bowl of another and far vaster crater. They are round ponds of tinted water now, or shallow cups filled with a crowding vegetation; once they were volcanoes; but their rage is spent, their furnaces have long been cold, and on their ashes flowers grow. Nature by giving a rich fer- tility to the soil which their emblers made, has covered with a garment of beauty the scars of her former wounds. The sides of the main crater are steep, and difficult of descent, except in one place where the flowing lava found an exit. At the bottom of the great cup there are two lakes, the Logo Verde, filled with brilliant green water, and the Lago Azul, of an equal- ly brilliant blue. On one of the many tongues of land which stretch into these lakes there is a tiny village of white houses, nestling amid the trees.. "That is the Blue Lake which the writing on the stone refers to," said Scarborough, "and the Dripping Wel] is on the opposite shore from here. If only Davis's photograph had told us how far from the well, instead of leav- ing a blank before the word `feet,' we could go down and begin our fishing, I see no sign of Gillies." The two young men and the girl were standing near the edge of the great crater, looking down. They had approached cautiously, thinking it was possible they might effect a surprise, and by coming on the clerk and Mrs. Carrington suddenly, win the secret of the stolen plan from them. But the waters of the Blue Lake lay quiet and mirror-like in the evening calm. "There is no one working near the. Dripping Well,' said Scarborough. "You go down, Scott, and find out in the village if they have been here to- day. Neither of the pair knows you, so evert if they are there now, and see you, possibly they won't think you are ti c" r, Better go to the yenta, hadn't we?" z They went to the little inn, and found Mrs. Carrington sitting in rough. wooden rocking chair, clothed grotesquely in country garments which she had borrowed from the padrona, and with a white bandage wrapped about her head. There was a .hot flush on her cheeks, she looked very i11, but she received them with a laugh, "You are too late," she cried mock- ficial and private correspondence, in mock- ingly; "but of course I am glad to see ac - you r Is Our Mr. Montague ith you business When It'chad �servedin `rtsl pus- Charming .leant I was sorry to have s to part with him so rudely this morn-• pose it was thrown away, leg." Mother, are you hurt?" asked Elsa' anxiously. the early part of the last, century "Don't be silly, child. Of course 1 Without attracting much attention, amhart," was the ungracious answer, ieays the Christian Herald. The said - "Do you suppose I wear this thing ars ofthose days were interested in around my head as an ornament?" classical lore and literary remains, after them. We will wait for you here.' Scott went off down the rugged path which led to the lower ground, and when he was' out of earshot, Scarbor- ough said to Elsa:— "Would you like to read my uncle's letter for yourself ?" "No," she said. "You have told me what he says." "Most of it" said Scarborough, "but not all. He says that if there is love, nothing else matters. You said the same thing yourself this morning," Elsa did not answer, and presently Scarborough asked in a low voice:- "Elsa, is there love?" "Yost, The answer was lower than a whis- per, hardly more than a movement of the lips; but she had burned her face , to him, and was looking into his eyes. He heard it. "My darling!" he whispered, and bent towards her to take her in his arms. But even now she drew back from him. "Ib is true that I love you, Horace," she said, "but—" "But nothing else matters, dear! You said so yourself." She shook her head, saying softly:* "There is one thing that matters— disgrace." "It wil I not come near you, he cried. "You are not disgraced. The crimes of others do not touch you." "The crime was my father's," she answered steadily. "But not yours!" Not mine, but the disgrace of ib must be mine. And my mother is committing the crime over again won, perhaps has already committed it My name is dishonored, and I should dis- honor yours if I took it." Scarborough took three steps• away from her, and then turned, and be- fore she knew what he was going to do she was in his arms, and his kisses were on her Iips. "You love me," he said passionate- ly; "you have confessed it! Do you think thab after hearing you say that I will take any answer from you but 'yes?' " She did not resist. She had not ex- pected his outburst, but she loved him for it the more. She returned his kiss, and was content. Presently she looked up into his face, and asked:— "Horace, do you really mean that nothing natters except love—nothing —not even disgrace ? You say so now. but will you say so always?" "Always, sweetheart." She nestled closer to him, saying softly:— "Then tell me again that you love me, and in listening to you I will try to forget the rest." He told her, and told her again, and it seemed that she would never tire of hearing the words, or he of saying them. They forgot all about Scott and his errand to the Blue Lake; for they were living through the supreme moment of existence, the moment when the first kiss .has been given and returned, when Love has put the old question, and has been answered by a whispered `Yes.' But presently Scarborough jumped (to his feet with an exclamation. "Scott is signalling something with a glass!" Down in the valley a point of light was flashing against the setting sun. Scott had a piece of broken mirror in his hand and was using it as a helio- graph, winking a message to them. in the long and short flashes of the Morse code, "What does he say?" asked Elsa. "'Are you asleep up there?'" Scar- borough read the message to her. " 'Mrs. Carrington is in one of the houses, but Gillies has gone.' " He took out his handkerchief, and waving it like a flag, signalled back by the same code "O.K.," the telegraph- ist's sign that the message has been read and understood. "I'm going down," he said to Elsa. "Will you come or stay here?" "I will come, of course. Together in all things now, Horace!" she said with a happy smile. They clambered down bhe rough path hand in hand, and Scott, met them at the bottom. "Hullo," he said with a grin, "you look uncommonly cheerful.. Scarbor- ough! Anything happened? Been baking the prescription Uncle Croesus sent you? He was in rather a bad way you know, Miss Carrington, and so he cabled to England for advice. Glad to see it has done him good!" "This," said Scarborough, turning to EIsa with a laugh, "is my fellow cab- leman's uncouth way of congratulat- ing me on winning the sweetest girl in the world for my wife. I hope you gather that, Elsa! Now, Scott, what about Mrs. Carrington ?" "She's at a little vents in the vil- lage. I think there has been trouble." "Have you seen .her ?'" "No, but 1 a.sw a dress hanging on a line to dry, which didn't look like a native garment, and I asked a man whether anyone had been upset on the lake. He said that an English Sen-. hor and Senhora had gone out in a boat, and that the Senhora hacl been found on the shore later, dripping wet and unconscious. -She was at the vents now, but the Senhor had gone, . I didn't wait to hear More, .blit teleg- SOME UORGtiwTTEN TREASURES.' Studying . Life of Ancient Egy From ~Cast Away ay *'apyrus. • It is. a strange story that reads more like a romance than cold tact, how the most intimate thoughts and emotions of two thousand and more years ago lay buried in the rubbish of ancient .cities to come to light in our day. Papyrus was the writing ma- terial of ancient Egypt, used in of - Much of it also was used to wind the embalmed bodies of the dead. Fragments of it passed westward in "What has happened? And where is Gillies?" asked Scarborough. "I haven't the faintest idea where Gillies is," said the widow, "and my knowledge of what happened is vague. The only thing I am sure about is that we had a difference of opinion in the boat, and that he struck me. I don't remember any more. But as I was afterwards found lying on the bank, wet to 'bhe skin, and with a bleeding cut on niy head, I think the probability is that I fell ou'a of the boat and struck my head against something on the way. He seems to have taken the trouble to pull me out of the water; which is surprising, because he was in a great hurry." "Had you found the diamonds?'' (To be continued). STORMS HIS MOTHER'S S HOME. Son Knew Germans Had Driven His - Parent From It. The Chateau La Maisonette, France, ther Gemellus came I still had four so often named in recent bulletins on hundred drachma'. They are all gone. the Somme fighting, is the propertyI bought a team of mules. Send me ' of Mme. Fernet who has lived there I monthly allowance soon. When I was for many years. The property is close with you you promised to send my to Biaches and Peronne. The owner brother before I came to the garrison. was there in August, 1914, when Von But you. sent nothing. You left me Kluck's forces passed through during to go as I stood, nothing in the poc- their rush upon Paris. She remained ket. Also my father on his visit gave in her house and for months after- me not a penny. All laugh at me and ward no news was heard of her. One say:. 'Your father is a soldier himself of her sons, Victor Fernet, son-in-law and still he sends you nothing.' My of Gen. Boisdeffre, although free from father tells me when he gets home he military obligations, volunteered at will send me everything. But you the beginning of the war, and the sent nothing. Why? There is the hazards of wear sent him recently to mother of Valerius; she sent him a and could not •foresee the infinite pos- sibilities for studying the life of. a past age from its private correspond- ence. Within the last decades, however, interest changed "completely. Ex- ploration parties were sent out to go over every inch of ground and ga- ther the remains, A host of scholars set .themselves the task of decipher- ing and interpreting the documents. ! But still an immense amount of ma -1 terial is stored away in Oxford, the British Museum, Berlin, Paris and other places. In a group recently' examined there ate three letters from recruits, young men who had passed the mili- tary examination and were taken from simple home dtu r•oundings to the cosmopolitan Roman army. The first is a letter from a youth in Alex- 1 andria to his mother. He writes: "Send me two hundred drachmas. I have nothing any more. When bro- the Somme front, where he has shar- ed in all the attacks made. A letter frrirn Germany had inform- ed him that his mother, who had re- mained until a short time ago at La Maisonnette, had been sent away with almost all her aged servants, so that he was able to take part in an attack which meant the destruction of his home without the fear that his mo- ther was still there. The Germans made six desperate efforts to retake La Maisonnette be- tween 11 p.m. Sunday (July 16) and Monday afternoon. Each was made by at least a battalion, but each was defeated. 3000 SHIPS UNDER JELLICOE. Tightness of the BIockade Sur- passes Expectations. In an article in the current number et "Cassell's Magazine of Fiction" on British effort on land and sea, Mr. Frederick Palmer, the well-known American journalist and war corres- pondent, tells that "including the re- gular naval and the auxiliary vessels, some 3000 ships are under Sir John Jellicoe's command. Success in keep- ing tight the blockade between Ice- land and the North Sea surpasses ex- pectations. It was feared that a number of raiders might get by, and, considering that the fog in the North Sea is often so thick that a man can hardly see his own Mand held out be- fore him, it is amazing that only one raider has got through at the time of writing. The fuss made over that single one is proof of the pudding to naval experts, who realize the diffucil- ties if the layman does not. It was as unusual as in the case of the man biting the dog." Courage is a fine asset, but its riead- ly unless accompanied by good judg- ment. pair of abdominal bandages and a cruse of oil, a basket of meats, and two hundred drachma. Send quickly. I already went and borrowed from a comrade. Also brother Gemellus sent mea pair of trousers." TITLES OFTEN DUPLICATED. • Various Lords Greys, Two Lords Mor- ley, -Two. Earls. of Mar, Etc. Sir Edward Grey will probably be known by the title of Earl Grey of Falloden. The peerage is already well -stocked with peers of this name. There is, of course, Earle Grey, for- merly Governor-General of Canada, who is himself Baron Grey of Howick. Neither of these must be confused with Lord Grey of Ruthyn, nor with Lord Grey of Wilton, the eldest son oa the Earl of Wilton, nor with Lord Grey of Groby, eldest son of the Earl of Stamford. And all these are quite distinct from Earl de Grey, who succeeded to his father's Marques - sate of Ripton in 1909. There is really no copyright in titles. There are two Lords Morley, an Earl and Viscount. There are two Barons Monteagle, voting as such in the Lords, though one is known as the Marquess of Sligo and now Earl of Clanricarde in the Irish Peerage. Scottish Representatives Peers in- clude the Earl of Mar_and the Earl of Mar and. Kellie. . There are Baron Clifford and Baron de Clifford (a minor) ; while two other titles which are often confounded because of the spelling are Viscount Midleton and Baron Middleton and the Earls of Desert and Dysart. Lord Midleton sits as Baron Broderick in the Peer- age of the United Kingdom. Giving up smoking brings one -great compensation with it—the joy of be- ginning again. This isnot to be de- spised. ee COMPILING THE CASUALTY LISTS. A): ftc;:ii British photc,grFut,h' ialceaz "somewlierc"'alone, the,ret,o.n of ,irivr. ?bowing a Brit;ch company, lined up for io,i-tall In ono of the auvanccJ trenches FFfter the gruelling battle of July 14th... . �=/ .•x=+r�rr:�.�,;,Y�.—,_:��„ . M ,bay, :� �. Important to Wheat Growers This is important to. you 'because it means dollars to you, Ina short time you will be preparing for the seeding of your fall wheat, and ib is necessary to keep in mind the danger of loss :from Smut. Especially last year, Smut was very general in On- tario. Gram dealers advise me that that it hasa Meant a difference of as much as 10c. per bushel for the grain delivered at elevators, aside altogeth- et from making some of the wheat unmarketable. This means a loss of $3 to $5 per acre, while the cost of treating to prevent smut and prevent this loss is only a few cents- per acre. Be sure this year amid treat your seed for smut. The method usually adopted is as follows:—Mix one pint of formalin with 40 gallons of water, or two table- spoonfuls bo one pail of water. Place the grain to be treated in a heap on clean canvas or floor. Sprinkle .the formalin solution over the grain, then shovel. Repeat this until every grain is moistened by the solution; then cover the pile with sacking and leave for three or four hours.' At the end of this time spread the grain out thinly to dry; ;shovelling it over three or four times' will hasten the drying. Forty gallons of the formalin solution is sufficient to sprinkle thirty or for- ty bushels of grain; smaller amounts in proportion. Bags, machinery, or anything with which grain conies in contact before being put in the ground should be thoroughly treated. Immersing the grain in a bag is' sometimes practised and is equally ef- fective. Of course smut is not as prevalent some years as others, being influenced to some extent by weather conditions, Treatment, however, is a form of in- surance. You do not expect to have your barn burned down every year be- cause you pay the insurance every year, and it is equally important to keep up your insurance on your wheat crop. This is important at the pres- ent time, nob only qn your own ac- count, but on ac'couuit of the Empire, which requires the maximum supply of high quality foodstuffs. The ship- ping of smutty wheat not only gives this Province a bad name but reduces the price you receive for your wheat. Further information on the subject may be secured for the asking, either from the local office of this Depart- ment in your County or.from th eun- dersigned.—Hon. Jas. S. Duff, Minis- ter of Agriculture, Toronto. Cost of Raising Dairy Heifers. One of the important things for the farmer to know is the. cost of the thing he produces, wheher it be a crop or an animal. Profits are governed as much by the cost of production as the price for which the produeb sells. One of the questions often discussed is the cost of raising young stock. Sev- eral of the Unibad States Experiment Stations have taken up the question of finding out what it costs to raise a -heifer calf. The question is an im- portant one and should interest Can- adian dairymen. We would also be glad to have the experience of any of our readers as to the cost of raising heifer calves forthe dairy herd. hTe Ohio station has just conclud- ed such an investigation. The fig- ures given are the averages of the re- cords kept on 51 heifers -29 Jerseys and 22' Holsteins. This involves large enough numbers to merit con- sideration. The items other than feed are aa follows: Value at birth $5, Iabor $11.50, bedding $4.50, service fee $1.50 tools, etc., $1.50, shelter $4, interest and taxes $4.68, or a botal of $32.86. Nine dollars is credited for manure, leaving the net cost $23.68. To this must be added the feed cost. The botal cost of raising the Jersey heifers to two years of age was $78.1.9, and the Holsteins $81.80, the difference being due to the larger animals eat- ing more feed. They were charged 30 cents a month for pasture the first year, and 90 cents the second. The pasture had to be supplemented with grain in order to keep the : heifers growing properly. The heifers were bred to calves at twenty-six and one-half month of age, and at calving time the cost averaged $91.39. The high cost of heifers as brought out by these different • studies, clearly shows the folly of raising inferior in- dividuals.- It costs just as mach to feed a heifer sired by an inferior bull. as one sired by a high class hull. The figures also show why dairymen are justified in asking good prices for well-bred dairy stock. As a dairy farmer recently stated, they cannot afford to sell really good heifers for $60 or $70. The dairymen who insist on buying only cheap stock will get only culls, and would be better oft without them. They roust expect to pay good prices for well-bred heifers that have been properly grown and developed. The economical thing for the dairy- man who is just getting a start, is to give the most careful attention to the feeding df his heifer calves, saving only those having the right kind of parents. Even though the Cost of bringing a heifer up to calving time docs seem high, it is the safest and most reliable way of. adding to the herd and is '- :aper in the long run. than to depend on buying, ribose who are just making a start roust of course buy their foundation . stock, and it is inip.ortarit,$hat these be sel- ected with care, A bunch of culls, is not every good start in the building up of a dairy herd, This Oliio report also shows that fall calves can be raised more cheap- ly than can spring calves, This should fit in well with dairying on the general farm, for there is always more time to devote to the cows and calves during the fall and winter months than during the busy season when the crops are demanding a groat deal of labor. Pure Milk For Butter -Malting. It is most essential to use only pure uncontaminated milk for the produc- tion of butter when the finished pro- duct is to be of prime quality. In a great many cases where' butter hasan objectionable flavor it is due to the milk employed being badly contam- inated with undesirable bacteria. Cream is ripened by bacteria, and it is only when the right species of germs predominate in the:cream that it will. ripen •properly. The .germs which produce lactic acid, and thus ripen cream, have the power of over- coming other species of bacteria un- less the cream is very badly contam- inated, in which case the cream- ripening organisms could not perform their functions. Why Milk Sours, Bacteria cause the souring of milk. Bacteria usually get into milk in dirt and the bacteria develop fast when the milk is warm. To keep the bac- teria out, keep dirt out of -the milk. This means care in milling and care to have the mills utensils clean. Keep- ing the milk cool will retard the de- velopment of the bacteria, that do get into the milk. Cans or vessels that have had,milk in them should be. rinsed in cool water first, as hot wat- er hardens the albumen of the milk and makes it hard to remove.—W. C. P., North Dakota Experiment Station. Grain for the Skim -Milk, Calf. Calves are usually fed w,hole milk for two to three weeks, then gradually changed to slcim-milk. About the time of changing, begin to feed a lit- tle grain, but do nob think that it is necessary to use oil -meal or any oth- er high-priced feed high in protein or fat, or both. Experience at the Mis- souri Agricultural Experiment Station shows that a, mixture of two parts corn and one part oats, by weight, gives as good results as oil -meal and ready -mixed calf -meals often purchas- ed at much higher prices. Bran is not especially good for the young calf because it is too laxative. The grain mixture should be fed immediately after the milk, and neither should be fed too..liberally, or scours may result. 4. JERUSALEM IN WAR TIMES. • Dumping Ground for Young Germans of High Family. To Western minds the idea of the Holy City serving as a base for mod- ern military operations must be full of incongruities. And) as a matterof 'fact, it was an amazing thing to see the streets packed. with khaki clad soldiers and hear the brooding silence of ancient walls shattered • by the crash ofsteel shod army boots. Here, for the first time, I saw the German officers—quantities of them, says Alexander Aaronsohn in the Atlantic. Monthly. Strangely out of place they looked, with their pink and whiteness that no amount of hot sunshine could quite burn off. They wore the regu- lar German officer's uniform, except that the pickelhaube was replaced by a khaki sun helmet. I was struck by the youthfulness of them; many Were nothing but boys„ and there were weak, dissolute faces in plenty —a fact that was later explained .when I heard that Palestine had been made the dumping ground for young men of high family whose parents were anxious to have them as far re- moved as possible from the danger zone. Fast's Hotel was the great meeting place in Jerusalem for these young bloods. Every evening thirty or forty would foregather there to drink and talk women and strategy. I well re- member the evening when one of them a slender young Prussian ' with no back to his' head, braceletted and monocled rose and announced in the decisive tones that go with a certain. stage of intoxication: "What we ought to do is to hand over the organization of this cam- paign to Thomas Cook & Sons." Stark Idealism. Mother (entering the nursery) -- Children, why' do you sit about look- ing .so ook-ing.so solemn and unhappy? Why not play a game of some sort? One of 'Em—We are playing. We're grown-up ladies making .a call. 'Y Wise is he who has the cage ready for the bird. The running track at the Canadian National Exhibition is one of the few on the continent 'giving a 220 yards coarse straight-away. Many records have been equalled or broken on Athletic Day in past years. CANADA'S GREAT C ;. TELESCOPE SAID TO BE THE LARGEST IN TILE WORLD.. Instrument Is for Use of the Do- minion Observatory at Victoria, B.C. The great 72 -inch reflecting tele- scope designed : and constructed for the Dominion Astronomical Observa- tory at Victoria, B.C., ranks in size as the largest yet completed .i i the world. In design the telescoiiea is a reflector 6 feet in diameter with an equatorial type of . mounting, having the main or polar axis pointing to- wards the north star and swinging the body of the telescope• in a plane parallel to the earth's equator and the apparent paths of the stars; and a declination axis at right angles to and passing through• the centre. , of the polar axis, to :allow movelTient north and south. The instrument weighs 55 tons, and will rest upon massive piers of reinforced concrete. The polar axis is. 23 feet long and weighs 10 tons, The declination axis weighs 5 tons, is 14% feet long, 15% inches in diameter, carrying a flange 41 inches in diameter and ' 4' inches thick, to which the body of the telescope is attached. The tube is 31 feet long in three sections,yet weighs 12 tons. The central cy drical casting is 12% feet long, an weighs 7 tons. The mirror cell, weighing with counterpoises and' mirror 6 tons, forms the lower end,e, while to the upper end is firmly " at- tached the rigid skeleton tube, made of structural steel in tension. The skeleton portion of the tube is 23 feet long, 7r feet in diameter and weighs with attachments about two tons. Driven by Clock. A driving clock similar( in design to that which has been so successful in the Lick and Yerkes telescopes, moves the telescope east or west with great precision, through an ac-` . curately cut worm wheel 9 feet in diameter mounted on the polar axis. The telescope is moved from one position to another, and is set and guided wholly by electric motors. Seven motors with : solenoids and magnetic clntehes are provided for these motors. With' the focal length of 108 feet the guiding speed neces- sary for a star image is 1,300 inch per second. The observer,' at either the upper orlower ends of the tube can clamp t'` or unclemp the teleseope, make the} --- fine settings and guide the tele- scope by means of push buttons on a portable key board kept at a con- venient place. Weighs 43 Tons. The engineering and mechanical problems involved ire designing and constructing a telescope of such great proportions and accuracy will be apparent when considering the extreme rigidity necessary for carry- ing the • optical parts invariably in a their correct relative positions with- out strain, and at the same time so well poised and adjusted as to en- able the telescope to be easily pointed towards and accurately set on any desired object, and to enable the whole massive mechanism weigh- ing 43 tons, to unvaryingly follow the motions of the stars. The sun, the moon, the planets and the comets all have different rates of motion to that of the stars, and all tb ateaaist be provided for in the con clang mechanism. The revolving dome is 66 feet in diameter, and is provided with a double shutter having an opening 15 feet wide. Its weight is 120 tons. All of the movements of the dome, telescope, wind shields, shutters, etc., are by means of electrical motors. The principal mirror is 73 inches in diameter, 12 inches thick, and pierced with a hole in the centre. The mirror, weighs 21 tons; yet it is so accurately poised that no flec- tions can distort its surface, which must nowhere deviate from the theo- retical curve more than the two hundredth -thousandth part of an inch. The instrument is made to allow its use in three forms, the New- tonian, Direct or Cassegrain forms. The secondary mirrors are 9 inches Are in diameter. This great engine of science, the largest completed telescope in the world, is now being erected at ,Vic- toria, B.C., by order of the Dominion Government for the Doiniriionbro, nomical Observatory in charge of Dr. Plaskett, Chief Astronomer, un- der t'he late Dr. Ring at Ottawa. Doing The Work Of The Army: By a p'ece of good luck the new re- cruit had been appointed orderly to his captain and the latter was now giv- ing iving him his instructions. "You 'are to rise at 5 o'clock," he said, "sha:ve yourself and clean your boots and equipment. Then you clean my boots, buttons, belt, etc., shave rna see to my horse --which you must, groom thoroughly and clean the equipment. After that you go to your hut, help to serve out breakfast, and after breakfast lend a hand wash - frig up. At 8 o'clock you, go on par- ade 'and drill. till 12".— The recruit), ,whose face had been growing longer and longer, then inter- rupted. "Beg pardon, a rdon sir, - but is there any one else in the army . besides me." •