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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1906-3-29, Page 3f+++++++4+++ +++++4++++ M Charles H++I4++ 4++++++++ 44++ 4. A merelinnt In St, Petersburg, Frenchman by birth, was playing wi I 1 his hurelsome Mlle son, mid en his face sat en expreseluo «hloh tole lent he tvi well-to-do roan, .111.1 one who enjoye I his riebes end 00uSiderril thelu a IlleSS- ing of God, Teen 0. stningeta 11 Pel was shown into the MOM, and wile him were folir ailing, !Miming cieldren "i fere Mt the children," he said,. The inei•chant looked at the Pole with a questioning glance. "What uni 1 to do with these nieldren? • tette tire they? Who has seat you ""rney belong to nobody," said the „Polo, "except to a woman who died In etheasncieve seventy leagues this skis of WI can do with them whatever yell like." The merchant said, "I am afraid you have come to the wrong place," bin the Pole replied (iamb'. "ii you are M. Charles I have come to the right place." Yes, said the mere,hant, he was M. Charles. Now IL happened Unit a Frenchwoman, a prosperous, kindly widow, had lived tor many years at Moscow, but when, live years ago, the French bad entered that oity, she bad shown then] more Idndness than .111e inhabitants liked. For the feeling of compairlotism cannot he denied. And when, In the .burning of Moscow, she end lost her bouse and her possessions, saving nothing but her fly children, then she was accused of sidire with the enemy, and ordered to hew the city and the country. Otherwise pile would have gone to St. Petersburg where a . wealthy cousin was living When she had reached Vilna in her flightathe terrible cold and the unspenit able suffertng had made her 111, and silt was entirely without means to conlinus the long journey. leen a large -hearted Russian prince, to whom she told her story, gave ber three hundred roubles and when he heard that she had a cousin at St. Petersburg, be left her free ''o choose whether she would continue hen journey to France or turn back and go to St. Petersburg, provided with a pass- port. The poor woman, in doubt, looked at her eldest boy, because he was more ill and more seesible time the ethers "Where would you like to go, my boy?" she asked. "Where you me going, mo- ther," she child said, and he wits right. For be went into les owe before they left \eine. Then the woman bought the necessar- ies for the journey and engaged a Pole to take them for five hundred roubles to her cousin at St. Petersburg, for, she thought, "My capsin will pay him." 13u1 every clay of the long and terrible jour- ney she grew worse, and died on the seeth or seventh day. "Where you are going, mother," her boy had said, arid the poor Pole had inherited the children, and they could maim him understand es much as a Pole generally understands when a French child talks Russian to him. The Pole was et, his wits' end. "What am I to do?" he 'paid to him - mei. "If I turnbacic, where aro the children to go? 11 I go on, to whom am 1 to take them?" But something wealth him 'Said, "Do what you ought to do. Are you to rob the children of the only thing that is left to them—of the word which you pledged to their mother?" And so ho and the four orphans knelt down by the dead body, and be said the Lord'e. Prayer in Polish. "And lead us not into temptation." Then each little one dropped a handful of 'snow and a freer upon the mother's dead form, 'in token that they would have given her the lest honor of burial if they could, and that now they were but desolate orphans. And after that the Pole drove on with the children along the road to St. Petersburg, for he \WM sure that he who had entrusted the little ones to him would not leave him in the lurch. When the great city rose before his eyes he did as the hawker does who In- quires outside the town gates where he Is to put up, and asked the c.. -..ren as best he could where the cousIn was liv- ing, end they eeplatned, as well as they could; teat they din hot knows. "Whet es his name?'he asked, and they erect they .did not know,' .eVeliat WOS their awn namete 'titmice," they said; ahd at cause the reader Imagines. at (hie point that the M. Charles at the begin- ning of the story is the cousin, and thet the children have found a 1106116, Mid that the story is at an end. But truth is sometenes deeper. than fiction. alp; the M. Charles at whose house the Polo had arrived with the children was no rela- tion, and to this hour no one knows the name of the real coudin and where he lives in SC Petersburg. Tees:tee peer Pelle, in great distress, drove about he city for two ditys, and tried to got ridof leo small Frenchmen. But there was:no one to ask, "Hew meth do you ' want for a couple?" and M. Charles did not oven want them as present, nor would lie, indeed, take a single one of them. - But as one word led to another, and the Pole told him, simply and feelingly, the whoie, sad story, M. Charles began to think, "Well, 1 enlist take one of them," and his heart serreel more and neve within him. "1 win take two,' he thought; and When the children clung to him with learful eyes, thinking he Was their cousin. then God leached Ins hozirt, and he felt like a father who sees his own children In teers end soerow, and he mild, "In (lod'e mune, if things are as they are, I con. 1501 refuse." And he tool; all the chth then. . "Sit down awhileee he said to the.: Pole, "1 will 'order some broth for you." 'Ile Pale ate his broth with a geed appetite and en easy hero and put down the spoon and did not Stir.' lie got up and did not depart. Al luta -be said, "leave the kindness to settle with U10, for the road, to 'Vilna is long. The weenan opted (7) P11)' me 500 reelects." 'This was rather. too /IMO for the kepi - hearted M. Charles, and an expreesion paSSed over Me Mee litre the shedow of a drifting elouit over the emiling try. 'My- geed elate" he told, "my you not going jest a little too far? Have 1. not cionn enough in taking the children from yoilevithout olso havingeo.pay the earner's .Wages?" For it May happen to tire noblest and' be, 1 nI inevehants (end to ()there et well; Ott- he must try to drivere.`good bergain, tegnelf .itehe only with hineselle • 'lite Pole replied, eiVy good sit; 1 Will not Willem to your face how you thpear to rne. Mote I not done eluting] In bringing tee zelldren to you without eitto having to do it for taniting? 'Hines are evil, and money Is scene," "That is 07100113, 1113' reason," mild M. Charles. "Or. do you imagine that 1 am SO rich as to wish to buy ell'ange chIl- (1:01), or ;co wicked that I should bargain tibout, them? Will you have them back?" And as, once meat, one word ied 10 another, and the airtonished ('ole learnt that 0.1. Charles was not the cousin, bet was taking in the pool, °vellum trona sheer pity, he wed; "Weil, If this le 80, 1 aill 1101 a r101) man, and. you], cornea - heels, the French, haveseen to it that i did not grow recher—howevor, If this Is se, 1 01111nel—expect . you to pay me. lie good to the poor bairns, anyhow," and the poor fellow brushed tears of pity from his eyes, These tears went etealgin to the heart of ei. Chance. "Hero arn 1," be thought; "here Is the poor Polish drivel'," ane IvIten the latter itegan to kiss his small charges, one after the other, and to bid them good-bye, telling them in Polieh to be good and obedient children, then M. Charles said; "My' good friend, just wait a moment. I am not quite so poor that 1 caunot pay you your wethearried wages, since I have taken the goods from you," and he gave him the 500 roubles. So now the orphane have found a borne, and the carrier's weges are paid, und it is perfectly clear that Providence ean find a substitute for O nameless cousin even in a great, city. PERSONAL !PARAGRAPHS, Interesting Gossip About Some Promi- nent People. O The new Queen of Norway never wore 4 it ring until the token of betrothal was e placod upon hor linger. Mr. George Mitchell, ex -police consta- , Me, author of "Ballads in Blue," and . mobably the first poet -policeman on . record, has been appointed minister at - the Wood Street Baptist Chapel, WM- s thantstow, England. p The Timelier° of Gonda), 'a State in In- dia, is a regularly qualified physician, having taken his medical degree in Eng- land. Ills eldest son end heir, two ether sons and a daughter, bave.also been educated in the British Isles. The Tha- . kore practices among Ms people, giving speefal attention to the poor. Sir Henry Campbell-Banneriean de- rives a great part of his income from -house property in Glasgow. Fie is no great landowner. elis Belmont Castle estate, on the borders of Perthshire and Forfarshire, extend to less than 2,000 acres. ft is good agricultural land, how- ever, end is worth more than 620,000 a year. Mine. Alban', elm most great singers, leads a strict life. Her, diet is of tile plainest, and the dnys preceding impel, tent -performances are spent hi solitude and silence. Mine. Albani believes in hard work. • Her pleaeures are simple. comprising gardening, of which she is very fond, and an occasional hour with the fishing -rod. a Sir Charles Boss Is undoubtedly the largest landowner in the United King- dom under the rank of a peer. He owns between 300,000 and 400,000 acres in Ross -shire. Sir Charles rowed in the Cambridge eight in 1894, and later enter- ed the Seatorth Highlanders, and for the South African War raised a corps of his own. He hes since invented a service rifle, which is being used in' Canada, - manufactured in a big factory at Qua - bee of which he is the head. Mr. Fletcher Moulton, K.C., M.P., is one of the most remarkable men at the English Bar. Born in 1844, the son of a Wesleyan minister, he was Senior Wrangler and Smith's Prizeman at Cambridge in 1868, was President of the Union, and, not content with these bon- net, be became a gold medallist of Lon- don University. 1.10 had not been long at the Bar when he became a loading authority on patent' law, in which his rare mathematical arid scientific ability gave birn pre-eminence. Mr. J. hadshow, heir to an estate It worth 211,000,000, has refused to accept 1 1 One penny of his patrimony on the, a ground that he has not earned it Ho' t I s now spending sixteen hours a day In -theslums of Ste- Louis- advocatingethe. common brotherhood of man, sleeping an it Salvation Army industrial home, and ereparine his'. own ineals.on a .three- ehillingtil stove. He thairee a bete etibe eiatence by killing papers at tbe Street 'corners, delivering messages for the tel- egraph Companies, and by other odd Jobs. . It is interesting to know what a man of General Booth's age and vitality lives on. Hely is Ins dey's menu. For break- fast he takes a moderate quantity ,J buttered toast, with strong tea and an equarportiOn of milk. Between break- fast and lunch he eats a few raisins. For tun& he has a bewl of vegetable soup with dry' toast soaked in it, vege- ethics, especially potatoeic cooked in their nickels, and whatever green -stuff is in season. Then he sleeps from a quarter to e half an hour. Tea is shnilar -to ...,breakfast, with the occasional addi- tion of u few mushrooms, For supper he takes invariably a plate of Flee and milk. Gustave Nordin, the Swede, who pad - died his own canoe from Stockholm to Paris, is a fine living testimonial to vegetarianism. During hie arduoes voyage he lived on apples, a small sup- ply of milk, water, and some breads 'lite Swede states that he undertook ,,so lase to show What conid -be done by Ot man who has given up meat, tea, coffee, wine, beer, spite, and tobacco. Ho states that when in America, at the age of .eighteen, he Sound that he could not digest any of the ordinary food by which ntoretis rut suetained. He was Bettering horribly, tie he tegen his regime cif fruit, principelly apples, onewhich he throve and became the robust person that he Is to-doy. ' Mr. William Weightmon, a Grimsby beteher •hoy, frit England many years ego, and died hi Philedelphilt a million- aire, aged . eighty-two. He went to America penniless, but betame one of the -leading manufacturing- chemitits in the' World.. A.lithe Sugar-raatcel quinine pill Made Weigetinan the wealthiest mail In Philadelphia, 1101 sole owner 15 Ito ingest drug Monitories in axis - lettere Witereshe had begim as errand - boy twenty -live years before he term°, proprietor. Weightentues entree say- ing Wes: "1 made 'my money by hard work; why ehould I give it away?" He never telinicad or drank, 110dt,10 this air ii stineece :. l31(1' Ittitibuted his yin earkaid heellte- 'Ile:lett $ 10Q,000,000 eterlinie, ) to hie only dattglitere ' i ++++44++++++++tt+++++ About the House ++4444+++t++++++++++++ DOMESTIC necirris. Stilly Lunn,—011e quart of flout', four eggs, half -cup. of tnelled butler,' ono cup of wa:M milk, ono cup of .wann water, four tablespoontule of youse one ton - spoonful of salt, luilf-tablespoontiii et soda tilesolved in bet water, Beat the eggs lo a still froth, add the melt, but- ter, soda, and salt, stir in. the flour to 1 smooth batter, and beat the yeeet 11 'well, Set to rise In a buttered pteldlnp, Male ih witich it must be baked and sent to the table, Or, if you wish to turn it out, set to rise in a well -buttered mold. 11 will not be light under six hours. Bake steadily Ihree-quarlers 31 an hour, of, until a army thrust Into 11 comes up clean. Ent while 1101. This ls the genuine, old-fashloned "Sally Lunn, and will hardly give place evei, yet to the newer and faster compounds known un- der the same name. Honeycomb Pudd in g.—One cup of molasses, one eup of raisins, nne cup of milk, three tablespoonfuls ofetnelled but, tee, one teaspoonful of Botta, nutmeg, end cinnamon. Mix together as stiff as. gingerbread. Stearn three hours. To cook potatoes Virginia style.—Pare and boil. In as little , water as possible drain, add butter, a Mlle sugar, salt an popper. Let them brown, then pour ova them milk thickened with cornstarch Lel them boll and thicken slightly Serve hot. Spanish Stew.—one pound of fat sal Perk out fine. Put Into a saucepan witi one pint of wafer stew down twenty Minutes on a slow fire. Don't let it stick to the bottom. 'Pwo young chick- ens, jointed, and two quarts of tomatoes strained enough a colander, one tea-' spoon black pepper, and one tea- spoonful of red. Stew until the chickens are tender. After it is cooked have ready four toiled potatoes, mashed, with one- quarter pound of butter. When done pet on a dish with 11 can of Mynah peas boiled and spread over the top. Drain the liquor from the peas. Celery Sandwiches.—To sorhe good whipped cream mid grated Parrne.san cheese to form a paste, spread delicately thin slices of bread with the paste and sprinkle well with finely chopped celery. Make just before serving. Boiled Leg of Mutton with Caper Sauce.—Cul off the shank bone, irini it round, and after washing it, put It into het salted water, and 11 11 should weigh eight pounds or more boll 11 slowly for three beers. Remove the scum as lt, rises, and when done place it on a dish, and garnish with sprigs of parsley. Caper Sauce. --Half a pint of boiling water, two teaspoonfuls of flow, two ounces of butter. Mix the flour and but- ler. together until they are perfectly ember, see leis into the•boiling water and add salt to taste., If mule with milk instead of water less butter will anSwer. Add two tablespoonfuls of capers with a little vinegar. Serve with the mutton. peas, and mashed potatoes. After this [ewe stuffed peppers with tomato sauce. Take six green peppers, wash them and cut the stems from tee tops. Carefully remelt the seeds with a smell spoon. Fake a cupful of finely chopped cooked ham and mix with the same quantity ef bread crumbs; add two tablespoonfuls of chopped parsley, one small onion chopped very fine, and mix even with. one-half cup of stowed tomatoes. Fin with this mixture, place in baking pans, stem side up. Add two cups of stook, replace Ltai stems and bake in a moder- ate oven for an hour. When doe re- move very earyfully te prevent breaking. Stuffed Stealc.—Take a tender, round steak and beat well; sprinkle with salt toed pepper; then rub over one side one easpoonful of lard, over which spread good layer of cold mashed Irish paha oes, seasoned- with finely chenned on - ons, and a leespoonful of fresh or can- ed tomatoes; roll as you do a jelly roll; le to hold in shape' place the roll in a bYking uisli, in which put a pintof warm ‘iatereeed Neste frequently while in the von. Serve with.or without gravy. Orange cake.—Whites of nine eggs. wo eupfnle of granulated. sugem, three leaping cuptuir of 1)11(100, 'one cueitul ef! milica twe teaspoonfuls' of bilking- pow- der, one teaspoonful of lemonaluesee. Celearn the buttery add the pewit' and beat for ten minutes. 'Add the milk and then add alternately the whipped eggs and the flour, the baking powder hav- ingebeen sifted .with the flour; „add the lemon juice last and mix all lightly. Bake In layer tins and spread the layers with orange filling. Orange the whites tif two eggs to a stiff froth. Boil one and one-gitarler cupfuls of sugar with one- half cupful of water. Pour the boiling sugars In a very fine stream _onto the whipped weites, beathig hard ell the time; add the grated aind and juice of one orange, and continee to beat 11 un- til it is cold, and Me sum is stiffened enough ea place between the layers without running. Frost the top and Bidets with icing flavored with oning,e juiee and trim with the halves of English wal- nuts. Water feelde. a quart linely aced care rote, One head eelere; boll two and one - 11011 lanna, add Mindful Of rice end bell another hour; Se118011 PePPee Ftels1 solt and SC7r01:ols.—Serape tee cartels, cooic 'antler, and mit 11i Mee, TUrn Into a heated dish, season to taste and pcnir OVer MAIO 11101ted butter. A MOTH -PROOF?. CHEST. , it will soon be. time to put away furs and woollen garments. Those who have expensiye clothing Can generally afford to 100.0 11 to a Menge house, weere 71 will be kept safely. The ,el'age house- iceeper has to be enntent with her 0401) cupboards end chest, and oven bags, of Muth or 1,111011 paper, Wilen ono cannot afford a cedar chest, boxes may Ite 101100 Lt home which will keep melee away from furs and garments. The following plan has been recommended, Get the box from a grocery or shoe etore and go over It carefully, driving the nails In tight and smooth. Brush the box out well and fasten small hinges to botle the box und covet', or use 11 strip of ',Joking two Inelies wide and as long as the lop of the box. Tack one edge of the cloth to the Inside of the box and the other edge to the Inside of cover. This will form a continuous hinge. Fasten a strip of cloth at each eide for a strap or stay bloneilitrevent the cover from falling 4)0 far Lille the box throughout well news- papers, for printers' ink is disagreeable to moths. Leave the box open to dry thoroughly. Cover the outside with 1 wall paper, cretonne or denim and tact 01 a loop of leather oz. braid to the front of the cover to lift it with. 'l'o store gar- ments in the box lay them in long folds piecing here and there a sachet of elven- • der flowers or sheete of blotting paper t evhich have been saturated with cologne 1 .venter or perfume. Moths object to strong odors of any kind. When the box Is comartably lull, cut a single thickness of newspaper the moect size of the top, brush a little poste arouni %o '1 MANY USES FOB CARROTS. - Bettetifier.—Not every one knows that carrots are better Item medicine and un- equalled as 0 complexion beautifier. A noted beauty specialist claims thot a spoonful of ,grined carrot,,erilen raw lie - lore breakfast, will preventwrinkles, and are also good for -the hatr. As a medicine they act as a blood !purifier, and stecield -appear on the table not less Ilum two or three times a week, sem Mg them liu different ways, ae it is h vegetableono soon tires of. Here is ii faVorite way Of solving them. ' „ Creamed Carrois.--Sitrape a fitimber of carrots, put them in a stow pate with water to colter and boil unlit tender', which will take about tkvo beers. They must be .watehed closely, eepecially on a gas stove_, that they do not bell dry and burn. When detect remove from water and Old in thin' slices. Make a cream dressing of cream or rich milk.Fire put two tablespoone .01 bitter 'Want) in a saucepan with nvoelablespoons of flour, (11171 to a paste, lbw)" ruld ereara 00 milk; idie until sriusoth and !leek, add stilt and PePleeke If liked., Four over the eareete „Med eleepTe iivte pfotty bowb emeriti Sthip.-Pitt" n'tottp kettle a knnethe 00 *zeal, three or IOW* littarte. the edge of the top and press the paper. down closely. This will make a tight seal for the box and its contents will be secure If no moths or eggs were con- cealed In the clothing before sealing, and you muse of course, take care that there are none. USEFUL HINTS. To maim a tight shoe comfortable put on the shoe and lay a cloth damped 'n hot water across where it pinches. This should be constantly changed, and the moist heat will cause the leather to shape itself to the foot. An oven that is too hot can be cooled by placing a basin of cold water inside it, and the door can then be kept shut. The water will prevent burning, and IL ehoulci be remembered that when cooking by gas, water should be always kept in the oven to absorb the smell. Directly you flnd a cold coming on go to bed. and drink the following mix- ture as hot as possible:—Two teaspoon- fuls lemon juice, one teaspoonful sal Volatile, bait a tembler Water, sugar to taste. Cover yourself up warm- ly and in the morning you should feel perfectly right again. The most nauseous pitysic may be given lo children without trouble by pre- viously letting them takee.a peppermint lozenge, a piece of alum, or a bit of orange peel. Many people make the mistake et giving a sweet. afterwards 10 take away the disagreeable taste; it is fai. better to destroy it in the first place. Coal should be Icept in the dark. Its nature changes uneer the influence if strong light, especially under sunlight. 11 becomes friable, and is less able lo give outei strong heat when burnt. When stored it should have salt sprinkled over it. This keeps it in condition; and pre- vents its undue drying. WEATHER PLANT. , Position of Leaves Fortelle Changes in Atmosphere. Almost every magazine has a small advertisement for a plant known to bot- anists as "abrus precatorius," or weather remit. It is a climbing exortic, and is held in great veneration by the natives of India, who say thin the state of the eseather may be told' Conte Ilene in ad - ramie byethe position which the leaite assinne. Though this theory is disputed n by some,it is held by botanists of estab- t lished reputation as being within the e hounds of reason. Atmosphere unques- tionably affects the leaves of flowers and t plants and shrubs, and to a close obser- ver this action may indicate conning changes In weaeher which can be ear - :telly foreshadowed. One of the greet beauties of the plant IS lis small egg-shaped seeds of bright scarlet tiriped with a blares spot. These seeds are very hard, and for this reei- son are esed for necklaces and orna- mental purposee. Their size is so uni- form that they are used in India as the standard of weight, and called "ran." it is n recorded fact that the weight of the famous Kohinoor evils first deter- mined by the tee of the seeds of this eyouliar plant. Probably the epeelfic name "preentoritis," meaning prayer, came from the fact that the seeds are used by 13urldhiets for rosaries. ELEPHA.NT HUNT IN SUDAN EXCITING NIOITT ALONG AN .461111ICAN STREAM. Itheters Georgiel by the Big Briites nd 'BarelyEsiezves, ed With 'Their- Townrel the end of our three seal 11111111 Triune& leave, se tech we were spending sheeting tip the Wrote Nile, our striker- oloseill:n1deausof0fgraitin11gueo0lelpvlalinea 1110WMe Wg4ust to the place one afternoon, Sinai a on" l'eseendent of the London .010111, end 1 went mit to' loolc.for tracks, which, ow - trig to .et heavy rainstorm two nights be- fore, were very plain in moot 'places. After going inland for about a uille and a half .1 came 'upon a ithor, or stream, which was for the most part full ot reeds and long gees. I waded across, arid on the further side found tracks, where 'flve elephants bud been winking the night before. On a leit bandy ground abou1 a mile and a bait further inland I found a lot more tracks. The natives told us that they came dowu 10 drink every two or three nights, and, they went long distariees inland. As we had no means of following them our. only chance was to try and shed them as they came down to the writer, We went on into a belt of trees about halt a mile from the kitty and There out d pedowlhau emli socivreslcftp, vaenfednitinteg ntoativbees nsat1/0.1,Kpi- when there wee any danger. We then lett the trees and crept cautiously into the long grass. We saw the elephants ttrinking at the water, but after n short time they all started corning back in single Mo. I think they must have sainted danger. They passed about 100 yards to Our left, and WE COUNTED .ABOUT AS they crossed a clearing about 100 eards away we made out an old gilt leading the bad, and both Find at him. The whole herd closed up into a bunch and sniffed [Motet with their trunks in the air.. We sat still, waiting to get a chance to she& out a bun. Alter a minute or so, which scorned a very long erne, the bull we had fired at Began trumpeting loudly, the rest immediately following suit, breaking Me stifines cf tile night by a terrific trumpeting and screaming. The whole head charged straight for us in a mass. Tbe natives fled, as they could do no good by shooting, W. and I went oft In different direc- tions. The ground was covered' with long, dry grass and little bumps, and I had not run ten yards before I fell flat on my face. I was up in a second, with the herd behind me, and rushed on, only to fall again. This happened a third time, and then I was absolutely blown and so 1 stopped, and teund to my re- lief that the herd had stoped, too, hay - Mg evidently lost my wind, and were sniffing about. 1 went back to Within about sixty Or seventy yards of the herd, and was joined almost immediately by W., who had made for the belt of trees. We Waited for a while to get a good shot, and presently the herd begat) in more off again inland. We, madeout a bull and both fired at hag, The elephants Mopped again and °laid up, but ap- Parentey did not get our wind this time as they presently started back to their khor in single Me; but after going about thirty yards they maidenly turned cued came for us in line, TRUMPETING LOUDLY, We made off in differene'dfrections, but after running a little way my sink- er' said that he thought, that they Sad stepped. Atter a lew minutes my sin- kari clutched my arm and pointed out to me two elephants, winch I had not seen and which were facing me not fifty yards away. One of them was waving 0.18 trunk ie about in the air, evidently thinking something was near. " Sud- denly he curled up his trunk, clicked his e17001110115 ears, and, giving e tremend- cue trumpet, charged down on me, toil- Jowed by his mate. With my late ex- perience of running in the long grass clearly in my mind, I went ' off at a steady double, husbanding my breath for a, sprint if they goi close up to me. I Made for the' belt' of treee, whet° it was. better ping, and 00017 00:170 on net the natives, who were coming back look for me. As my shikari said he mild. see the rest of the herd opining on too, we an went along the belt ef rees at oue best pace. We were soon out of sight of them in the darkness and stoped. Although we could not see we could bear them not tar eft. They must have lost our scent after a bit, because after writing some time we eent a native 'hack to nnoltre, and he repented that the elephants had gime back lo the kbor. Wo then got hold of our hit and settled down for the night, the ietention being le follow them up as they went, inland anti get a shot by daylight. Some of the elephants went away In- land very soon, and at Intervals all night we could see them loom up in the darkness as they passed "by lee There were a few elephants at differe.nt herd on our rIght, se that we had them un all four sides of us. The betel eve had fired at were very angry and kept, up a tre- mendous trumpeting and screturdng till about 2 a.m., when most had' gene in- land. ALL BECAME QUIST THEN, and we thought that they hell an itone. Ai the first streak of dawn we went down to the khor to see what, damage we bad done the night before. To our surprise we saw a herd 01 sev- en still deinking and playing abolit 111 the mud. We crouched behind a teeth .ind evalched them throwing water a&ut, for a few minutes., They then began le walk back in single file. We let them paes us about 150 yerds to our lett, to as to get the windward ,side of them, and then ran along through the trees I o emu tip with them. We saw them coming Mit of nee trees about •yertiek away. We had just Belliedto hill et one bull who had n, good pelt. ortirialig when around u besh aboet sixty yarns away cone nn enormous ten eleptient, with a fine nail' et tusks, brottrielde oti. We both time ;simultaneously. He melted his enormous ears and Made oft 05.17 lure -thereto trot. P0011 rifler 111r41 es iterdAs I could to get in another shot, bnurrt mi‘tven; e . Leie )ee)v 111 O) elsuglftttl4516wtho and lied 1111130 pair Of tosIts. • BE 1',01111 OWN WEATHER PROPHET. Wath a lithe pretence and a Mile know- ledge every Mali eon. be his own weather prophet. A rapidly rising barometer In- dicates unsettled weather. A modest rise slams settled weather: A, rising barometer, with dry air and cold in- creasing, in smarter, indleates a 'north wind; If rein -line' fallen, there win be better weather. A north wind, wilt 'rain from the north, ie shown by a rise, with o damp atmosphere and a tow tempera - tura. A Had, with southerly Winde, Means fine weather. With a steady baronieler, in dry itir end a seasormble temperature, read fine weather. , When the barometer falls rapidly, look out for storms. A fall, with dry Mr, tand cold increasing, In winter, indierttee mew., Wheit„ the mereury falls after calm and,' Warin Weather, leery home out your umbrella, and look out for squalls. Look at a bright, Near Sunset. and 'expect fine weather; it it is blur- red, rain. Ono ,oftenlibirM distant sounds with startling eleerneste, math es the etracing of a clock( sticlelo yew, um- lirelkt in 11110 ctase Mee. Seaett rititilthev in,lhe morning, Still rain, 'Ng is settled 'weetlieleettat iS 3o gee', the- 0.111ti'.1e1 1100thet' 3401) 1100 tr RIGHT HON, JOHN BURNS FROM "BOY IN BUTTONS" TO GABI. NET MINISTE11, iftemantie, Story a( one of file 10081 inimitable Men in ilio Britten Pureament. Among the Trinity stories' which Mr. John theme tells of his boyhood oi "struggle andstarvalion" the following itIe%e; eot l'ccc°10111;c%%‘11)ellitiPhrt7In1(11:141:1111LZ --be was helping his manlier 10 earry home a heavy basket of waelling frorsi Park Lane; 1111110 bottom 0111 was some broken food for hinewit and his bro- thers. 'The basket Was very heavy for his Inlay arinti, and he recallbow 110 sat down to reel on it for a few moments near the Houses of Parliament and said: "Mother, If I aver have health and Istr114:vgefitton , doo.mnothr eshall have te Work as you do, and no child shall do what In thee° impulsive words, wren out of the boy by a sense of the bitterness and Injustice of life, one can discern tile humane motives and Ihe "high resolve" whice aro the chief eharacteristics of John Burns's public life; but how little could mother or son have dreamt thet one day he wetted walk over the very tetili6otbwasliiteerteotsliciurlotired arniS lied dropped III0I17 IION, JOHN BURNS, one of the rulers 01 (110 greatest Empire 1 he world has ever known I Fate ens played many a strange fleck with men, but surely this is one of the strangest of them all that has teens - fennel] the "boy who takes home the washing" into one of the King's die Ministers, and certainly never has suet a reward been reached by ways so thorny and hard. Born only forty-seven years ago, the son of Scottish parents, John began early to learn the bitter les- son of life, for he was but a child of ten when he was snowier bripging his few weekly shillings home from Price's candle factory to add to Ins mother's scanty exchequer. There were many mouths to feed in that humble Wands- worth home, and every shilling was a substanLial help. A little later John improved leis world- ly position by blossoming tor a brief space into "a boy in buttons," but Ins strenuous nature soon rebelled against this gilded slavery, and we not find him toiling early and late as nvet-boy in the 'Vauxhall ironworks as a prelimin- ary to leis aaerenticeship, at fourteen, to a Ifillixink engineer. Five years later ite was a free man, and signalized his emancipation by feting forth into the, great, world as far as the We.st Coast of Africa, where for twelve months he acted as foreinan of engineers, "THE BEST WORKMAN 1 EVER HAD,' says Sir George Colette. Wonderful tales are told of the man's grit and pluck during this torrid anti adventurous year in A11ica—how he saved a comrade from drowning and nearly lost his Me in the attempt; how for live hours he "dodged sharks" while searching for a lost propeller at the balm of a river; and how he attacked and slow a formid- able snake wan a shovel as his weapon. At twenty he was bacic again in Lon- don, and was airing bis prentice ora- tory on Clapham Common, en expert- ment whieh had two curious results— one, a night spent, in a police -cell, and the other, the Miroduction lo his future wife, Mies Cluiriolte Gale, who dranIt in the young mechanic's eloquence from the fringe of the eroWci—a stroke of for- tune which was cheaply purchased by a night's police hospitality. At last John Burns had found bleep° metier, and it Is eloquent of his eelnestness of pur- pose that, as soon as ins brief honey- moon was finished, he spent his small savings on a six months' tour in Europe to study metal conditions there and to broaden Ids outlook on tile. But many years of poverty and strug- gle were eel] in store for him. As re- cently as 1386 the Cabinet Minister of to -day was tramping the country tor seven long, and terrible weeks in search -of work, only to meet with constant. FAILURE AND REBUFFS; and a few months later came that fatal Sunday in Tisfaigar Square, which had for its sequel three months in Pena:Ne- ville Prison. Such, in brief outline, wee the career of the Right lion. John Burns up eo the time when his doings became a matter of public knowierige; and when he be- gan to take the first substantial steps towards the goal whith he has now reached. To -day theee is no man in London so universally known 01' more widely and highly respected than "lion, est Jobn," "the men with the big head and the big heart." You cannot fail to recognize hint if you .see ben—a short, broad -shouldered men, in a blue suit, pea-jacliet, and "bowler"; a man with a grey—now almost white—beard, and keen, challenging brown eyes ender bushy grey eyebrows; a man who walks with a long, swinging stride and the breezy aspect of a sailor. If you meet such a men in London streets you will instinctively, say, as did the writer when he seW him for the first lime, "That's John Burns I" And you will be right.— London Tit -Bits. P TIM TutIDINE AT The recent eneeessful trips times the Atlantic, et ihe itu.go turbine steamship Germania ere regarded etr settling the queetion el the appliealion el the turbine engine te all kinds of ocean-going ees- seis, and the teehttical engineering heir- nele are "now filled with diseesslons eaneeiaing the proisable supersetterie of the recipronning engine al the nOW type; The abSenee of vibration in hit:bine; driven ships 18 One of the edvtageS specielly eniphatieede °Wen ing to the small diameter of the turbine pronellers end the depth of their immersion, the blades (10 not enlarge even when the vessel is plunging heavily, and thus `riteing" of the engines is prevented. Mother (to' children who have been teasing filo goon.: "Children, 01111(100(77 slop that noisel YoUr tether is 'eery lathered to -day, and ,yolletetilly MUM, not wort the POOP Inter THE MAKING Of PAPER l'XIE TALE OP P1531 IBSTINC11)/0 WAWA/BABB, Origin of Curious Devieefi Used by the Met Manufaelurers — FIX Ago of Bootie. • It is a little known face that many of tbe most ancient leolencal 1011115 used rii the nest paper mills are snit. ellialeYea lit modern stationers, drat the London Leone, end teat we all et the Present day ask for pupee in accorthince with the anelent distmetive watermarks of utunifees or sizes. Just as every shop and inn had a sign, papermakers intro- duced tnarks in order to distinguish the eaper ot their manufactine from that of others. EARLIEST PAPER BOOK, Paper was probably Made en Egypt and oenturies before the Citneleare era. It twee made of cotton about rate A.D. and of rags about 1100. Mr, Joseph Hunter states 111(11 11)0 earnest PaPer he bad seen Was a MS, deo:runt book dated 134)2. it is believed to have been menu - Pictured at Ravensburg, in .Swabia., by the Holbein family, who are credited with Lue inVentiOn of making paper from linen rags, and bears a bull's head, the liethein ulna, imprinted as a water- mark. In Pomerania Friesland, Aus- tria, Bordeaux and ieris records are extant written ou this so-called "Bull's head" paper, the oldest linen paper ex- isting, while Faust and Schoeffer used It in their first impressions. On many sheets also we find a clapper or rattle,' such as in olden times ,the Mimeo were wont to carry to warn the approaching wayfarer of their dangerous proximity. Ibis symbol is related to the fielbein hospital for lepers at Ravensburg, to which a part of the profits from the fare/lye paper mills was assigned. OTHER GERMAN MARKS. After the "Bull's head," two of the earliest watermarks consist of a circle surmounted by a cross, signifying the cross planted on earth, and an open hand surmounted by a Star or cross, representing the pastoral benediction of a priest. "Post" paper takes its name from the post horn, which mark was in use as early as 1370. It someUrnes ap- pears On a shield, and in Um 17111 cen- tury is surmounted by a ducal ceronet, cirrtdIvnlaitrych nfooitepiat pisers.tierh i meatewt wierrnarko thonu orf "demy" paper has ever been the flour de lys, the peculiar cognizance of the House pi Burgundy, who were patrons of the Bordeax industry. In course of time the manufacture of paper became centred in the Low Countries, and the excel- lence of Dutch paper, its purity and dur- ability have never been excelled. FROM DUTCH MILLS. The papers manufactured in the Dutch mills have a great variety of water- marks, and many of them were the Midges of the noble families who had founded mills elsewhere. Thus the P. cud Y., sometimes separate and some- times conjoined, are the initials 00 Phil- ip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, 1419 to 1467, and lembelia, his wife. The ex's head was another ancient watermark, on which Caxton and Faust printed some of their books; but Caxton used a watermark in the form of the letter P for the "Game and Playa of the Cheese," first printed in 1474. Another form of P was partieularly characteristic of early Dutah papers, end had reference to the pot in common 1, a al the time of their original manufac- ture.. This letter gave its name to the "pot quartoes," which Were extremely popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for printing &Mimes of plays anti pamphlets. The first edition a Shakespeare, printed by Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount in 1628, will, bow - ever, be found to be mostly on paper bearing a cap like a jockey's as a wat- ermark, and the general use of the term "cap" to various modern papers 'Ayes it tc marks of this kind. FIRST ENGLISH PAPER. The first English paper maker was John Tate, who founded a mill at, Bert - 'ford at the close of the fifteenth century. Tate made a fine thin paper, having for tt watermark an eight -'pointed star with- in a double circle. Wynkin de Warde's edition of "Bartholemus de Proprielati- bus Repute was printed on i'aba's pa- per in 1494. White coarse paper vats made by Sir Iohti Speihnan, a Gel- man, at Dartford in 1580, and here the first English paper mills on a largo scale were erected. 7111 1690, however, when William III. passed an act to en- courage the home manufacture of white paper, all the best paper for writing and printing was imported from Holland and France. The official paper used by the Governme,nt ofileee and House of Parliament, and nutde in Holland, dor, Mg the reign of Charles I., was water- marked with the royal arms. ITALIAN FOOL'S CAP. • A story goes that the meet envious ct all watermarks, a fool's cap, which is derived from the Italian "foglio (expo," O folio sized sheet, was ordered by the Rump Parliament to be substituted /or the royal arms in the paper Used for the journals of tbo House of Commone, As a inette.r of fact, no paper se marked found Its way into England before 1659, end the story probably owes Its origin to the topical allusione 1vhIch the Iloy- Mists contrived to perpetrate In the eitse oi papers introduced from liellend dur- ing the Eromweillan regime. For clx- einple, in 1811) a large bet, to denote the broad brimmed beaver worn by Me Purtionse In 1651 four crowne, and in 165/ n regal crown—all symbols likely Io be 'obnoxious to tbe ruling powers —were exhibited on many papeve. • BEST 11AZ011eSTIIOR. Por a l'azor-strep that Will put 11 real edge on your razors, procure a piece ef leather belling Moe to tevelve incites long by two and a half inches wide. 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