The Brussels Post, 1906-11-1, Page 2CURRENT TOPICS
More thar OO black men, in charge
• European engincelet, nese been en-
fioned for more than a year in grading
filO rendbed, laying the track and doing
011 the rough week on the new rallwaS'
4h0t has jinr, essen opened along the
•lfilloOr Congo. This reed between Stan-
kyville and r011ttlierValO, beve1441w
stales; cleetunvenIs eiretelt of rapids
. that farms the first impedinielit to navi-
gation on 111.1 upper river. The line
wits aliened a few weeks ago and it is
the pitmen. railway In teeniest central
Atrica, In straight thio, its southern
terminus at the head of the rapids Is
• about 1,070 miles from Zimeiletr and
970 miles from the Congo mouth.
it has been interesting to watch the
progress of tills enterprise. Few run -
•ways have been built, with primitive
• labor, •so far ir0111 the sources of all
supplies. The lirst step was the building
of two large storehouses at Matadi and
Slanleyville, 1,235 miles apnea, follow -
Jag the Congo channel, to house the zna-
iet.ial at its landing place In Africa und
at the starling point ot the railway, Le-
comotives, cars and bridges were car-
ried up the Congo in pieces and put
together where they were needed on the
• line. As there was delay In the dein,
• erY of some of the bridges, temporary
• wooden constritetions, very rough, but
strong, were thrown oven some et the
small Congo tributaries, so that work
• trains might carry rails ahead to the
• roadbed prepared for them. Some ef
the gangs of laborers were superintend-
ed by young natives, who had been
trained for years in the industrial
schools of the Government Or the ItliS-
sionary societies. Here, as elsewhere In
that coMinent, the nativesssuppliecl the
brown and muscle, as well as some
elementary supervieion in carrying for-
ward the vast work of • progress in
• Africa.
The extent of navigation available for
steamers on the Congo is now well
known. and the purpose is to carry rail-
ways around the few parts of the river
• which are obstructed by rapids, so as
to extend unbroken steam transperta-
non to (he end of the farthest navigable
reach of the stream. By blinding this
new railway the Congo State has added
201 miles of steam transportation to
the 1,325 miles already in operation be-
tween the Congo mouth and Stanley
Falls. Nevigalion is again impeded et,
Knuth, 186 miles above the terminus of
the new railway, and the Government
Intends to begin at once the building
of the third and last stretch of railway
• along the river from Kindu to Buil
• about 180 miles, above which there is
Uninterrupted navigation for small
steamers for 372 miles, where the itn.
renitence of the river for large centime-
cial purposes practically ends.
The total length of steam transporta-
tion along the Congo when the last mile
of. rails is laid will be 2,144 iniles, of
which 1,518 miles will be by water and
59e miles by land; and the end of this
long route will he in touch with the
great mining region of Kalanga, which
le said to be es rich as Rhodesia In
gold, while the prospects of copper pro-
duelhin aro perhaps unsurpassed in any
ether part of the world. The importnnee
ea extending transportation to this re-
gion is stimulating the efforts of the
Congo Government. It remains to be
seen whether the Congo rail and water
rout nill reach this southeast corner
of the stale before the branch of the
Cape to Cairo railway arrives at the
seine destination.
LEPROSY IN SWISS AILLAGE,
The Place MS 11,4"11 Often Wsited by
Mountain Climbers.
Tourists in Switzerland here losen,
smIdenty horrified by the ilise;ivery mai
1e7)1053' htc4 flottriilted in a lime village
in the .Ups Nrhielt has been frequent -
Is visited by 111000111111 climbers. and
that Ihe Swiss authorities knew menatis
about 11. The terrifying tact wee
eovered through a conscript presentine
hintself for military service 1110 other
day who seas discos nut lo he settee.
ing from leprosy. He deelared thin ninny
people In his village suffered the sante
• The village wh(rl) harbors this
scourge is celled Gullet, and is about
two hours distant from the rutheiny
. station of Louseite, in the Haul-
• V11111$0.,
SO 111(1511 -111(1101411t)fl 1150 boon six-
presSed. by tourists at the risks whit
the eulhorilles have permitted Mem (n
incur through negligence In controlling
the hygienic sloths of Gullet that nt
. once the fanious Prof, jadassolin, the
geed skin specialist of Berne, was sew,
to investigele. Ile discovered that
among the e00 inhithite»Is of nutlet live
were in a very advaniesti stage ot the
Malady (one has since (1ied) and num-
hrous others allowed suspleinus symp.
toms.
The lepers hetes been temporarily iso-
• lated irt it few huts in the midst of Ihe
ostensive sensing grounds between
• 651111 and Torrentelp, 1111111 proper pro.
visien 01111 be •intale for their care.
The hetelkeopers al 1115 nelghborhend
• Are furious al the INSCOvery, as it mg
rIlirt itlFlir think,. Among the country
peciede the disease Wes knewn 15 MINT
esieled 101 certhin famines in Gullet for
, several generations,
The VollgUmpliori•ot eten 15, The Belt.
18'1 ielands litat year WO 5,070;400 gal
-
Ilsasigsp•o-ossececso-csosSososesocroseee
YOUNG
FOLKS
•laceciessescno-o-eso-ceo-cnesentsiocrOssOiS
I WISH.
Monday, 1 wish for eager feet,
Gis ...Trends of love to go;
Tuesday, I wish for a gentle voice,
Willi tone both i•ton. and 1011-;
Wednesday, 1 wiAk for willing hands,
1,01-05 duties all to do;
Thursday, 1 wish for open ears,
Wise words to listen to;
Friday, I wish Le' a smiling face,
A brignIener of homo to be;
Saturday, I leek for quickened eyes,
Clocne beauty all to see;
Sundial', I wish for a tranquil heart,
That may to others joy impart.
PRINCESS UNA'S GLAD DAY.
Princess Una lived In a beautiful
castle, with big palace grounds all
around, but she wasn't like meet little
prinee.sees, and sbe didn't, enjoy either
the castle or the palace grounds, She
citsi not enjoy the count festivals and
'Iter heavy royal robes. She wept bit-
tern, when she was obliged to ride in
the royal carriage with the King end
Queen an precession days, She didn't
itlie having her small royal hand ktesed
by the courtiers.
In fact, Prineess Una hated all the
ceremonies of the court, and she had
a fancy for slipping away by herself to
the wends which were part of the pal-
ace ground. Here she could pluck Pow-
ers to her heart's; content—viokits in the
spring. wild teses in the surnmer, blue
gentians in toe autumn,
Weil, rine clay slte was plucking blue
gentians (It happened to be In the au-
tu)11n, you see). and she WOS softly lunn-
ming lo herself, glad in the fact thet
one time more she had escaped the vigil-
ance of the royal guard and had been
elle to slip away from their eyes unob.
served.
In the woods the grass was still green
and soft. like a cared -for lawn, and it
was thickly set with gentians, the bluest
;Princess Una had ever seen, $he did
I not know, nee would She have cared
heti she known. that her eyes wove as
blue as the flowers; her lashes were ns
heavy as the gentians' fringe; that
where a shaft of suulighl filtered through
the trees and teuehed her curly heed
• earh separate hair was burnished bronze
and that something of the hrocrs gol-
den shadow lingered in her smile. (Yeti
see, es yet she had not reached the fond
looking -glass age!)
When she hod plucked as many gen-
tiens as her LWO hands could hold, she
got up from the ground and straight-
ened her little grass -stained knees. A
tiny 01010 flitted across hoe brow.
"Dear me! Oh, deary 015," she cried,
"What's the use, anyway? Her nun
jesiv won't let me; fetch them into the
pnlaee—she says they're just wild
syods." The lithe priecess's eyes wore
dewy, like the efteldar cobwebs on the
shadowed green -sward.
Ah, and just at this moment the 5001,
beginntng to gild the green -sward set
thc cobwebs shining Illie jewels. 110
seemed to he leanmg on Ins elhow—llds
holdall). September sun—over the high -
eel eastern hill yonder, looking sti.atglit
down et the 111110 princess.
Suddenly It occurred to Una that there
was an unknown world beyond the
Clone well which shut in the palace
wood. She knew the grounds in front
of the palace that bordered on the high-
way, for that was the road the royal
processions took. Dui what might lie
in this mysterious region between the
snood and the far hills?
The princess set herself to study out
a means whereby she might took over
the stone wall. By clambering alert
among the branches of that tall thee,
mightn't the be able to see the hidden
valley?
Old ohl oh!!! Ilow beautiful it look-
ed out there! And then the creek, dimp-
ling demurely. But the Most wonderful
thing of all Was a barefoot hay, who
stood in the middle of the creek, dang-
ling a line.
"Hurrah!" cried the bey, jerking his
line up suddenly. A radiant Mile fish
glistened there.
"You've got hfml" exclaimed Una, In
a tratispott of delight. Al the sound f
l'ate settee the boy turned, but the turn-
ing cost him his fish. It, perceived its
lipporiunIty, and with a quick effort
freed itself of the hook and leaped into
the stream.
The boy (111\111111'4 1113 sireem toward
t.;,111,. wilding in the whirlpools with
beautiful recklessness. Up In the
bratiehes of Ihe tree, willt grass sthined
knees and ellin eyes, 0110 didn't look One
WI like a ptineess, She didn't have on
her crown, you see, so the boy Couldn't
have told, any way.
"That tens nty fault, wasn•I 11?" oslO
thia, nodding dismally Mullen the bub-
bly spot where the nett 11110 disappeared.
"Don't you enrol" cried 11e, gallantly.
"Got a whole pfie of 'et» up yonder."
fie jerked Ids head backward over Ids
shoulder, indicating SiX Or seven sun-
fish on the shore.
For a while they conversed on varthus
lopies, exchanging experiences n1t the
finding of squirrels' hoards anti birds'
neAs, and on the halefuluess of twiny,
metin, Presently the boy thrust his
hands in his poekets. "Soy! I'm hun-
gry," he declared. "I'll beth you down
ftom that thee. Then lens build a fire
over here ter our Ils•In end we won't
lame lo go home to dinner."
"rause I just hale napkins enil fIrr•
ger-bowled" assented Una, Pale'.
no when the boy MO helped the lIltia
prineess down, he sent her In gather'
sense brush for the tire, whlle he cleetted
the Ilsh. She gathered samo Ihnothy'
greSs ends, inn'because she mkt 'het
Would 11151(5 nico 001)01nges: end she
fetched a lot, of sorrel, which the bay
Immediately began to nibble,
"No, norcried Pm "Not nnw,
plitaitet This is wand; it cotnee after
the fish, yen know."
The bny know, inn he let hor
linve her way. And nllogellter they hod
n One time, end ,fli0 tip 00513' 00511g0 Or
the fish end the asparague and the saInd,
fn the efternorm tina's 1111e friend
SIop-
(184 1i1 prieneis for her, 1110 (liSpIllyeti
811011 wonderful things as
Mashingfisithooles, rind 'compose,
while she sat looking no in silent ail.
nitrnlion, twisting ((Passes ;mond heti
Ongom,
By end by it dreadfully itemising sound
fell on the cars ot 1110 lithe prInciess; it
tens a bugle, end she knew lhal it was
the court chtunberlalti winding ont search
for her.
"I must tin now; It's getting late," she
seal to the boy. jumping up and smooth-
ing out her skirls, But elle didn't ex-
plain, And wee10 he had helped bee
ever the with by the way of the fir thee
and sitw nothing besnind hut the woods,
La thought elm must be one of the lodge
keeper's children.
Of renrse Princess Unit 0000 sorry to
have frightened her royal monis, sorey
tent 11 hail been necessary lo send the
chief chamberlain to find her. but she
didn't mind lhe royal weddings much.
Anil that night, when she was being
(tasked in her 11111e Ivery bed with rose-
colered silk sheets, she smiled softly to
herself.
"Ins been stieh a glad day," she wins.
pored nis•stermusly. "Ins been such a
glad day."
AUSTRALIA TO GROW LINEN FLAX.
Experts Find Fibre Can Ile liaised in
Stale 01 Victoria.
IL has for some years been demon-
strated that linen flax can be success-
fully grown in the State of Victoria,
reports the Canadian commercial agent
In Australia. In favored districts an
acre of land will produce three tons of'
flax and seed. The state depnr1ment of
agriculture has encouraged 115 growth
by a system of bonuses for the cultism -
lion and extraction of the fibres. The
profitable nature of the New Zealand
crop --though of quite 5 different variety
--has drawn the attention of growers to
the remunerative results which should
be attained in tins slate. Hitherto, the
chlef difficulty to overcome was the ab-
sence of a process by which the flax
straw could be quickly treated, and the
tedious methods in the preparation of
the fibre in a marketable onclition.
To 01,01'10111C all difficulties heretofore
experienced in growing flax, a Mel-
bourne firm is now obtaining patents
throughout the world for a process that
Is said to produce a 11111011 larger yield
nt fibre of greater strength, and of an
unstained oti natural color, which, for
the purpose of inanufacturing such Hoes
IIS Mien, damask, canvas, ole., requires
no eltemicei bleaching in the finisning
operations. The stale expert strongly
favors this new process, aloe exhnus.
live trials, on account of its expedition
in producing fibre of exceptionally (Inc
quality.
The flax in its rough conclaion is
passed through a machine consisting of
three pairs u. rollers, after which it is
Itrunersed for an hour in a bath of hot
water, containing added ingredients
Mot chemicals). Then the material is
draine0 and dried. put through ille
breaking machine, and finally through
the seuteher. To make a superfine qual-
ity it is washed twice, bs, which means
the fibre is made pure white. In addi-
tion to the great saving of lime, the in-
ventors claim there is little or no
svaste (tow) and thereby much greater
quantities of finished flax are produced
of a. stronger quality than by any pro-
cess hitherto followed.
1,355 KISSES 13711 THE POST.
Sedge Puzzled to Know How Counsel
Got the Figures.
Instead of going to church on Sunday,
Mr. Riley, counsel for the fair plaintiff
In' e. breach of promise case, confessed
to Mr. Justice 13ingham nt Liverpool,
England, assizes recently that he stayed
el home to count (he crosses in forty
love letters sent from Canada by the
son of a Lancashire builder, Mr. Frank
3epson, to Miss Mary Tipping, of Black-
burn, Wil0 11000' sued Mr. Jepson for
breach of promise of marriage.
"they did you obtain these figures?"
asked his Lordship, with it puzzled
smile. "You must have read yam, brief
with an attention that is quite excep-
tional," (Laughter,)
Mr. Riley—To he 7)e5/05113' frank, my
lord, during part of the limo yesterday
I was owning the crosses in Ilse let -
tem. 1 regarded it AS O mental rest.
(Laughter.)
Ifis Lordship—I am afraid you weren't
at church.
Mr. Biley—Am I bound to inerhnin-
ate myself, my lord? (Laughter.)
Mr. 'Riley, further elaborating Itis
mathematical calculations, remarked
that the mewls worked out at three
frw every weekday and fifteen far eveey
(Le ugh ler.)
Sir, Riley explitined that the promise
of marriage WaS iunde by the defend-
ant on his twenly-fIrst birthdny.
The Judge—Can you tell ns the hour?
Mr. Biley-1 ant not instructed on
that petna my lord. Still, ho was a
temperate man, (I mughter,)
The Judge—Oh, 1 wasn't thinking of
that. But was this promise made be-
fore be wns twenty-one or after twenty-
one? Because, if it was made before
he was twenty-one, 11 is no good.
Mr. Riley—There was a tong enc.
cession of promises, my lard.
Eventually the juts. found for the Indy,
awertIlng her £10 damages, 1111(1115 lord-
ship deprived her of costs, staling that
these willons for breach of promise be-
tween boys and girls were no use to
allybody, except, as in this cese, that
small sums had been extracted front
the boy from lime to time.
GLAD IIE MET Mal;
A Northampton (England) County
Court, bailiff, trudging towards a vtl-
lage some miles out, eatne upon a
gentleman whose moleroter hittl broken
down, and whn was endeavoring to re -
pith. it, The Imiliff •offered ills services,
svideli welt aceepled, end between the
Isvo mailers nem 00011 reethled,
moths 001101', in thanking the nmliff,
mentioned the village Mimic he lived.
"Why," said the bailiff, 'Mans wholes
in) going. 1 want te eels Dr. X. 0011
you loll me In what part of the Village
he lives?" "'Whet do you Went him
Is,'?" 001(e1 the motorist, "1 11111 Dr,
X," "To give him lins writ," Wits the
itnespeined enterer; "and I ern glad
mel you; 111i58 Saved me a long trudge."
"Now, What s the 11)01155, Tonsmyri
"iloosen! My bents hurt Iner
boy! Why- you've got theirs on the
wreng feett" "1 MU% got bo other
ken" •
SOME VALUABLE GEMS
TWO DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH'S
COLLECTION.
The Queen's Tnree inarovite Jewels
Fortunes 111 Gems Sliowered
on Pall!.
Of her personal jewels, next to bee
%yielding ring, the late Queen Victoria
;nest veluen an Insignilleatil enamel
ring, set with ti single diamond, given
to her hy thence Albert 0111011 8110 11115
YOL 11 0111111, and, his bellirothel sing, a
snake set with the finest emeralds.
These three rings were never remov-
eit from her hand and were burled with
her. Much treusurett, 100, wee the
brestelet she always wore, composed of
a numerous array of swan golden harts
each with 5 minute miniature el one
col,
f1111111even.graatlehllihien or great -grand -
Queen Alexandra, in addition to a
Wend of diamonds and pearls, owns
some wonderful colored gerns—rubles,
supphires and emeralds—which, how-
ever, she rasely woes. The only color-
ed stones she really likes are ame-
thysts, end these she has given, at
Chrishnas and on their fete days, to her
friends and relatives In skit numbers,
see in scurf pins, bangles, chains, hat
pins and sunshade lops, that she has
quite popularised the stone, hitherto
little valued 11) England. With dresses
of her favorite color, 1111111V0, the Qneen
iways wears amethysts.
The jewels she values above all aro
her• engagement ring, seL with a beryl,
ernei.akt, ruby, topes, jacinth, emerald
—the Rest letters of 00111011 spell out
the name by which she bus always
called her husband, "Berne"; the beau-
tiful diamond cross given to her by the
wamett e! Denmark on her marriage,
and the crown of brilliants, set in sil-
ver, bestowed by the women of Eng-
land on
11 001 S.11XER WEDDING DAY
The most splendid jewels Queen Alex -
amiss posseeses are 'undoubtedly her
purls. She has ropes and ropes of
them, high dog collars and pearls set
in trimmings for the corsages of her
ball dresses. These have been collect-
ed and given to her by the Cum and
her sister, the Dowager Empress of
Russia, as well tIS by members of the
English, Danish and German royal
Amities, many being heirlooms.
The Queen's pearls ere surpassed only
by the letting Ductless of Marlborough's
historic collection. This includes some
of the most Interesting pcnrls in exist-
ene,e—the pearls that belonged to the ill
fitted Marie Antoinette, which wero
bought by Mr. Vanderbilt for his daugh-
ter 05 a marriage gift. Each pearl in
the young Duchess's necklace—it is on
Immensely long one—is. valued at 41,-
000, and site sometimes wears the ropes
wound twlee around her neck and
twice around her waist.
I hope I am divulging no Wale secret
says u writer in the Grand Magazine,
if I stale that before Queen Alexandra
went Iasi 80043011 1.0 dine with the Duch-
ess a( Sutherland House, the beautiful
home of the Marlboroughs in Curzon
street, she asked her youthful Grace to
"put on all her pearls," just for once,
"for then 1 will wear mine," laughed
the Queen. "After dinner we will count
which has the terser number." And they
did, like two schoolgirls. The Duchess
was the winner by two!
Among the finest black pearls known
ere those worn by Lady Ilehesler of
Hollandellouse, wlitch it took Napoleon
III. lees years to collect in all parts cf
the world for
THE EMPRESS EUGENIE.
What is said to be the most valuable
single necklace of pearls ts owned by
Countess ilenckel of Paris. She has
also a triple necklet of pearls of especial
interest.
'The Cyst string was the so-callrni
"Necklace of the Virgin of Atoklia;" the
second was once the properly of the
ex -Queen of Naples; the third was worn
by the Empress Eugenie on state occas-
ions.
This last string contains the great
•pearl found in Paterson forty-eight
years ago. This pearl, 0 it had not
been somewhat injured by the mollusk
being boiled before the shell was opened',
would be the finest and largest -gem et
modern times.
Mrs. Aleckay is said to have the larg-
est number of ponies of any living w'o-
111011, 0110 almost 4,000.of them
One pe011 rope belonging to her men. -
sues 0 feet in length, each pearl being
the size Ma pea and perfectly mangled.
Of turquoises Princess liemiy of Plos
and the Duchess of lloxburglie ((ormerly
Slits ales' °octet) hnve the finest collec-
tions with the eseeption of one or two
Session Geand Duchesses. Sirs. Mil-
lard Mensal:or, wife 01 the American
millioneire, the largest speeimen
ever seen in it ring.
Some rubles, perfect in rotor nnil nf
enormous vnine, formerly the properly
of the into Dowager Duchess of Coburg,
ere new in poi:session of the you»g
Ortmil Duke; those of lady Wintorne,
including the famous Dope ruby, ore
only 10 Mlle less splendid, alr, lThg
of San. Fennel:son possessed some yenrs
ago a wenderful ruby, which [ow been
said by Lola Months fee a .comparatIve-
ly trilling 811111, hut which is now worth
some (11000.
Sapphires, said to feel the effects of
ntmospheric (Menges and lo shrink per-
eeptibly in cold weather, nen imppesed
1,1 be the Cattiest shines in existence and
to have the power, consequently, rif
quenehing the Mies of unlowful love,
THE CZAR AND THE KAISER
both 010/15 sapphire rings, given them
In, their 10.151S 11S talismans.
Of sapphire sets none is so previous,
either In Eurolie Or f/S teal ha.
tonging Itt the Grend Ditchess Sergius
ef Rooth; no Single slime is so rieli In
the memories that circle ernund IL
the dark sapplitre snered to lite Hinton
nollerns, wtheli has been in their ram-
Ily shunt the time of the (Islanders.
Several ledles—among Miters the
Tit/Wager Colintess It Elulley, the Durh-
es,; or novon ,Thirp, 011,1 1.,111,11(05 1)1111-
1)17) Singh—have helped In peptilmilze
Chu etstereld, so well ;Moe Mime
1:1111WI them. Lady allesterfleld woes
soma noignifteen1 stones sof in n51107),
While lardy West»intleml end the Seem
11011 bitty Helen Vtheent have ,the
ef theieS Sol ti.s muff chains. Stones
unequallee for enter and stze, 0.1 nny
rate in Europe, nee Worn by the Infers
la Ethane of Spain.
Shiny foollight favorites, Serail Herrn
hard, Duse, Melba, CheistIne Nilsson,
Judie and others, are metiers of line
Jewebt; hut Patel possee.ses the finest
diambutis, turquotses and rubles of
them all. Tile gems she 011111011 away
as a girl from Russia constituted one
email fortune, those the Rothschilds
have given hoe another, (Simon Isabel-
la of Simla, a good itinger herselt, be-
stowed einiphires end an einethysi
brooch surrounded with pearls; a eonth
s,ij wIlh thirty-three brilliants was the
gift of the Empress Eugenie; the Enver-
m(1 of nertnany, Austeia and Russia all
loaded her with diamonds; even Queen
Victuria sent a ruby and dlatnoncl bangle
Wee' small one, 'Lis true, but still
Vietorien, so Pain prises it.
The treasures in her Niro are Innitm-
erable—fans heavy with jewels; a gold-
en cutlery set sent) yellow diamonds,
and a little bracelet, the gift of the sub-
scribers at the St. Pellersbueg epees
licuse, a slave of mesie in gold, and
on It, indioaled in large rubies and rile -
mends, the notes la, do, re, "I'Aclaree,'
00111011 indeed she was of those passion-
ate lovers of music.
The most veltiable opal In the world
Is In be seen in the imperial cabinet et
Vienna. Another, worn by the Panpress
Sosephine, known 08 the RurnIng of
Troy, which is only a little less magni-
ficent, is in (he possession of the Mar-
chioness 01 Bute.
OPERATIONS ON DOLLS
HOW LESSONS MW GIVEN IN A
LONDON HOSPITAL.
Little Patients are Taught to Work
and Play — Tnsks are not
Compulsory.
Among various places where London
County Council school week has begun
again is the Alexandra liespital for
children with hip disease. The little
patients all greeted the recommence-
ment of work with a sigh of relief.
Three County Council teachers aro
told off to work among (he 05 beds.
One or two of the children, of ages
from three to twelve, may be too ill to
work, while One boy may have a livid-
ly marvellous talent for drawlng and
another cannot reed. A twelve -year-old
bay. who came In recently scented "e -
solved to shirk all lessons, pleading
every day a headache, backache, or
other similar excuse. Al last, however,
to a sympathetic sister he confided the
truth; he had been 111 for seven years,
and did not know his A B C, and was
ashamed to soy so.
NEW COMERS SHY,
Lessons continue from ten to twelve
In the morning, and 1,30 to 3 in the
afternoon; morning lessons goln,g 011
simultaneously with the daily surgical
work, to the brief pain of •whichthe
little folk soon get accustomed. After
11, however, and again after dinner,
many of the children go to sleep for half
an hour or so, and, of course, are not
awakened. New -comers are mostly shy
or Ill, and do not readlly join in the
lessons; but wort: is never forced on
them, and they are soon eager enough
foe the break in the long dull day:
FELL ASLEEP.
The other day Scripture and histoey
lessons went on for some lime, the
teachers moving rapidly down the wards
and spending a few minutes at each
bedside to portion out and then criti-
cize the tvork; litter on basketwork,
needlework, and drawings were given
out, and finally came such physical ex-
se,rsc‘Nsi0e as was possible. In fronto! a
lr
d,of beds on the balcony the mistress
moving her arms about In the
standard exercises, and, lying net on
Weir bricks, most of the little patients
followed her movements with thin white
toms and many jokes and tnuch laugh-
ter. Then came some singing. A little
nowly-ndmIlled 1)050011 watched Ihe les -
eon with wide, wcriciering eyes. -Two
other beds were wheeled quietly back
Info the weed because their smell oe-
cupants had fullen placidly asleep,
Lessens being over play begins. Two
lilernry geniuses nevi eleven end
(wove, 71(1 011 Nada aa illustrated atmy
which they are writing, and dolls come
oul to figure in rather moonlit genies,
in which operations, bandnges, tempera-
tuee-lakingand death, of course, ploy
a prominent part.
13I1IA--4-1INGIIAM PIGEONS.
Birmingham, 11101 many other Eng-
lish and Continental eines, has its brood
of pigeons. Chamberlain Squere, with
V001 01 nesis in the Art Gallery porti-
co, lins been the haunt of llirmingliam's
feathered tribe. But the presence 01 1110
birds has become so offensive to the Art
colliery eullutrilles 111111 nests and young
birds have been desIrgyed, and a wire
netting screen will prevent, the old Weds
retuening. The birds make pethelic al.
tempts now end Iliels to return to their
old maulers, hut already they ere set-
tling down to Ilnd a new borne. 'rhe
pigeons.
011101'8111;01101 ancluithet110_01101rneesp11111c)01,1,11.vii
lloln (.1111.1e.
litre 110 regarded as the home of the
ARMORED MOTOR -CAP.
The Austrien Wor Depeelment lins
just senctinned the crinslimelion 01 en
wintered motes -one, espeetelly designed
le covey a quick -firing gu», mounted
011 0 pivot enpehle et being seised os
lowered' and turning in all threat Ions,
he% nil isil)to'cir;)swosiaen(li sisu tflililnflI 10 (0 seti t 111)1 1111110t
men helots. (he line 01 1(1,0, lienny Nun -
age work, stunt es the!, of stores, am-
rnunthons, and 51.511 115nry gums al -
nearly done by motor in the Austrian
Army.
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110 111;11g0
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1,0''' lo got no Idea (lint word) 0(111
only be spelled his way."
PAGEANT OF PAST AGES GROWTH °EWAN LINERS
ANCIENT puTuacri REVELS BE-
FORE 2,0011 SPECTATORS;
Alfred Burns the tallies Analn and
Gets a Rating Iron) the Snine-
Iterd's Wife.
On the vivid greeneteard of Butlead)
(Sousa 0815101 1111'3', the decked Ind -
lentil meets look Once cat ti recent Of-
ternonit in delightful weenier in the
presence of 2,000 speetalors gathered
from all parts of England. •
The nurneerms Mental; I' (15)1115 nem
exceedingly effective In their chartnIng
setting of woodlend scenery and bright
blue sky. The labeleaux represented
scenes In Britain's history from the lino
of the Phoenicians and on through (111
pre-Cluilstian days In the lime of the
passing of Arthur and tlie exploits of
Alfred the Great, with sputa' reference
to the Part which Glastonbury and lie
grand old abbey played in those great
epochs, until the middle of 1l,e eigh-
teenth century.
HISTORICALLY ACCURATE.
The pats WOr0 (alien by residents of
Glastonbury and Butleigh. cos -
lames were hielorically accuruleend
nothing could have been more striking
and beautiful than to see the gaily -at-
tired men, women and children 11100I11g
animatedly across the 1111111101 stage oii
dancing merrily on tho sward lo the
strains al an orcheshitt eseenced In the
greenery.
Perhaps the most successful, certainly
the most popular, were the 1)0(100)11 (11111
tableaux dealing with Al:feed's thins Ail
the parts were spit.itecIty taken, and the
Part el the fair-haired hero -king was
wonderfully played. The scene where
the swine-berd's wife rain the king tor
scorching the cakes provoked a storm
of 01/0/1A.
Another especially successful repro-
sr.ntalion was the old Rennin revel on
the green, wilb a man an motley lo
provide uprourious fun. The dancing
by the young men and maiden.; Isibae
King Henry and his queen aroused great
enthusiasm.
GRAND FINALE.
The local netors and actresses. train-
er: for some weeks hack by profession-
als, acted their parts one and all ed.
intrably, entering into the spirit of the
thing with notable' tact. Ladles In griy
summer toilettes largely predominated
in the gathering of spectators, and near-
ly all the clergy of Ole three Wessex
counties 01010 present.
The Ithal pageant was a splendid Si a
topical spectacle, all who had taken part
in 010 various scones joining in the pro-
cession and marching under the grand
erode formed by the boughs of the
great toes surrounding the lawn In the
martial strains of a milithey band.
So successful were the revels that
they May become am annual fixture.
CHEERS ATMURDER TRIAL
MArdnic SCENE IN AN ENGLISH
• counT ncoAL
A Soldier Who was Acquitted of Kill-
ing a Blackmailer is Loudly
Cheered.
Dramatic scenes were witnessed at
a murder trial ot Northampton Assizes
—scenes which heve rarely, if ever, been
everted In the history of the court.
11 was a elemonstratIon of popular
joy over the acquittal ot a prisoner,
which had its busts in the public Rift_
nation against the odious system of
bitiscleripaarail;Pg1;
Tho 01! Was Private Sam Steel,
of the nth liussars, and he was charged
with murdering It civilian named Hod-
ges, who shadowed tlie soldier and ills
sweetheart for the purpose of levying
biactle'telln
Sd a soldier companion were
with two •young women near 11 wood.
when. Hodges wes detected following
thetn. Steel ran back, and In a fight
(hal ensued he drew his seevice knife
and the civilian received a wooed irt
the thigh faint which he bled to
tie:tit:11c sympathy 011111 the prisoner
SUBSCtill3n.
was such that Shijor Beeesford, of 1110
7Ih Hussars, and other ofticers of the
prisoner's regiment, subscribed In 11 de-
fence fund, and Mr. Hammond Cham-
bers, K. 0„ wits entinged la defend
t
alletinstilt11'ee°sainwill ‘0011.118eiseiTe\\d'te
ile.sd
in the regiment, 8(4 they unwillingly
ousted the depttlysneyor and corpora-
tion from their euslomery winis, As 1110
01115101S nf the court declared that they
oeuld not flnd atom for all. the 11501'
11505 of the corporation withdrew end
sent a letter 01 11101081 to the high 01105-
110
The case tested all day, and 11 wns
envious teem the oulsot that proseem
tion and Judge lenned fnvornhly to-
werde the pelsoner5 il'he juts', oiler le-
ing 01151111 on limits snying
(1(01 there Was ene d isse» I 1 tin I. They
a:min retired and (brae minutes later
lalt Ut'il
ngre'de 1 111110of niPcl1
11 ‚.0115 115(811'1111tilli.ieg'''35011'iteeent
"NOT GUlls'n."
"thee there is 11 verified of not, guilty,"
said the judge, "and the prisoner Is
(1:s';'1111rnvh4.14:11(111"eottrl, burst Mtn enthusing.
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wns inlien np 1115111y end echoed through
rowel ths young soldier, even the po-
nce!, prison winsiees end ofileints jinn -
Mg in 1110 chorns of eongrannelions.
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10 Weeder' Onnelson,
DEVELOPMENT (Mo Ton ATLANTIC
UREY110117400,
Row the Great Time Beveureea Unve
Illeatilicil the Present Point of
Perfeelion.
Itis iniereeting to recall the steps hy
w111.11 the elitenites of the Cunard line
!awe risen, for the isxperience of the nue
1; Innen a :synopsis of the his-
tery of ether) 111)0 1(1(0(11011, II began
In 1010 WW1 010 Belthettiti of 1,030 tents
(built by Robert hum:an, Port Glo-
p -tele and not till 1852 was the 2,000
• isms line exceeded. TWO Yet1119 litter
the Arabia, the 1591 wooden eneniner t
Ili e line, VMS 15111W111C1, heti (tannage be-
ing 2,402. Then in 1855 the firm 100111011.
el its first iron easiest's.. the Persia, the
lergest and swirteel, In the world at that
dale. The Perste 01113 3,5un 1(1118 and
4,000 -horse power, and it erns thought
Ilea elle could 1101,, be ,S111TOSSOli. BUt,
mew sthamers were then beginning to
gain upon the priddlo ocean steamers,
and the Cunard determined to make a
supreme effort and 10 produee a pad-
dle ocean steamer that would never be
beaten.
LAST PADDLE STEAMED,
So in June, 1801, the Scotia, of 3,871
tons, the last ocean peddle steamer, and
the largest and swiftest of them eh,
wag launched at Govan, and the Cun-
ard people felt that they wero sesere
'from attack fur many a yottr, nut in
November, 1817, the linium eerew steam-
er City of Paris 115111 1115 1a.,st run or (be
Scotia from Q1.1011siOs.1-11 to Nov York,
and the days uf tlai wean paddle slemn-
er were seen to he minthesed, 1 hen
the While Star 1,111e came into exist-
ence In Jell with the I11e1 Oeennie, and
the Cunard steamers were sitistassed
both in tonnage and in speed by the
Star
Lstsitns
ecamers of the 111111011 anW
d hts
i
Still the Camerd gene no sign of jnin-
fog in the Meshy of tonnage and spent
till 1880, when the lino bevanie tt pulitic
compeny, and one of the first results
of the change 01110 that an order was
given for the building of the eteevia, a
vessel of 7,1192 Ions, Whit`b W118 101.1118.1.
ea at Clydebank in Stay, 1e81.
OPENED NEW Epont t.
From that launch there date:: a new
epoch In the history of Atlantic steam-
ing, The Servin, hir 11 short Lime the
swiftest steamer on tho Allantic, was
soon beaten by the finnotis Alaska., of
the Gulon Lino, and the directors .0 the
Cunard Line went to the Fairfield Yard,
then the greatest on the 0I3de. for two
steamers, the Umbeia and the E11111.111.
'hey are running yet, the largest and
swiftest single SCUM steamers in the
world. 505 n time these two ocean
steamers remained supreme on the 1,00'
an. but in 1888 010 Cily of Nc.w York
and the Cily of Paris were built at
Clydebank, anti they soon proved them-
selves superior in speed to tho Umbria
and the Elistria. while the Wilding of
the Tentenic and the Majestic at Rol-
fast.in 1880 Oared the largest and swift-
est of the Cuilerders still further In the
hackgrdund—so that the Cunard direc-
tors went again to Fairfield, and as a
result the Ce (p011111 and the Lucinda,
of 12,950 tons, Were 1111111011111 in 1003,
and those two steamers were then, and
are still, the two swiftest ocean Steam-
ers uncle\rvalltir
ot .Ll:\
i11\cE
18li(INagr.uny.
No further advance in largo (Sinned
sthemers look place till 1000, when the
Ivernia and the Sammie, of 11.000 tons,
were launched, These two wer0 not in-
tended lo be ocean racers, but quickly
heemne favorites on the Atlantic heenuse
of tfluir steady sea -going twenties. And
then there came nnother pause till in
1905 the Caronle and the Germania, of
19:700 tons each, were launched, the
Caroni.) wall reelptiocaling engines'the
Camellia with turbine engines. Both
steamers have (10 51 intuited success, end
now, with 11 long stride forward, there
COMM in 100(1 the Lusitanitt and the
Mauritania, of 32,500 tons each.
TREATMENT try PERFUME.
Physician's Latest of Treating
Ireshionnble Patients.
1,11.131gplanfarist..11)ihit;,snLillizn Ile
Treatment lty 110115(010 is isliteartisedlesst,
108 31181
pencils:0 on these unique tines,
Certain scolds, Ito maintains, have it
marked effect upon the nervous consti-
tution, Ile 81)011 (los the following;
Geranium — Audacity a11dsel6con11-
00°1111essitin leather—Indolence.
1101)n5110,10.
1%11—pAnnaextelemlneritsnlonsesss
Verbena—A finc aelistio sense.
Ne,relree
tipiltaDeti\v1Y1111°ne. of a well-knew/I per -
Maros with his Inews of the Painsfun's
three menufaclory favored the 1)0113'
"riTifc
sellltrs
iQne,s'"' some scents," he 8014,
"might 81101111010 cornetts nerves 11 ltn.
ne)tttthT'11hV1%ve0108141117n0
efinetonobeis.1e0)01111edic1
affeel, would get Inured to it in 111'0 Or
1(0 1110)1111.8.
11111)tople celled beim Ibm gmell
weenier, but eel) 00 Cologne and Vino -
would he likely lo be refreshing in hot
gat would be 11(110(1 more benefirial,
please 1110 senses."
et sews 11 1.11:(11 hcatinche, Mint
"The only effect. of a perfume is to
NEW 3,111 STAMPS,
Theee should he it 'Melte de0te0:1 on
the part of Minim colleelots for Unties
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