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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1907-5-30, Page 70 4Q+o+0+0+0+o+0+01' o+o+Q+Q+o+o+elefee 0)1 r OR, A SAD LIFTS STORY lee0.4-0+O4 0+Q+O+O+Q-l'0+04-0:0+0+o+0+o+o4-o4-0 4'o+o 4.O f'. CIIAPT1 11 XX1X,---(Colltinvedb this modified form of juvenility, to an excellent constitution, or to what other reason, certain It Is that the next Iwo days go by without any diminution, ratites with a sensibie and steady in. crease 111 Miss \Viison's favorable symp- toms, and, on the afternoon of the latter of Mese days, Cecina, in ratter impa- tient answer to Jhn's long daily string of questions about her, says "You could judge much better If you saw her yourself, ] do not see why you should not see Ther to -morrow for a min- ute, that is to say tit you would promise not to talk or ask her any questions." "But would it be safe?" Inquires he, with a tremble In his voice. He desires hes villaneverobelieveethat she iso really going to livo; he has a hunger to as- sure himself that no terrible metamor- phosis has passed over her in these nightmare days; and yet, coupled with that hunger, is a deep dread, which translates itself into his next halting words, "Shall I be—shall 1 be very much shocked? Is she—is she very much. changed?" "She does look pretty bad," replies Cecilia half sadly, yet with the subtying cheerfulness of assured hope; "for one thing site is so wasted. I suppose that that is what makes her loots so much older ; but then you know Amelia never did look young." tit 13 the second time within two days that the fact of his betrothed's maturity has been impressed upon flim, and for- merly it would have caused him a pang; but, now, of what moment is it to him that site looks a hundred, if only she is living, and going to live? "Has she—has she asked after me?" "We do not allow her to speak, but If any one mentions your name there comes a sort of smile over her face, such a ridiculous -sized face as 11 is now I" The tears have come into Cecilia's large stupid eyes, and Jim himself is, with re- gard to her, In the position of the great Plantagenet, when he heard. the lovely late of York and Suffolk's high death, "I blame you not ; For bearing this, I must perforce compound With mislful eyes ; or they will issue too 1" As he walks away he is filled with a solemn joy, one 01 those deep serious gladnesses with when not me stranger, no, not even the close friend oe loving kinsman intermeddlelh, Ile is under an engagement to meet Mrs. Byng at a cer- tain hour, but although that hour Inas already come and passed, he feels that lie cannot face all her sincere congratu- lations without some preparatory toning down of his mood. The streets, with their gay ea -et -dent, their cracking whips and shouting drivers, seem till too secular and every- day to match elle profundity of his rev- erent thankfulness. Ile takes it with him into the great cool church that stands so nigh at hand to Ills hotel, Santa Maria Novella. The doors fail be- hind hint noiselessly es he enters, shut - Hem out the fiery hot piazza, and the gar - 1111 noises of tate world. In the great clim interior, cold and tranquil, there is the usual sprinkling of tourists peering up at its soaring columns, trying to rend themselves, out of 'their guide -books, into a proper admiration for Cimabue's large - faced Virgin and ugly Bambino, folded, with all its gold and sombre colors, in the dignity of its twice two centuries of gloom. There are the usual three or four blue-lrousered soldiers strolling leisure- ly about, there is a curly -tailed little dog trolling hither and thither unforbidden, ringing his bell,and There are the invari- able tanned peasant worsen kneeling al the side altars. Ile does not belong to the ancient church, but to -day he kneels beside them, and the tears he had has- tened away to hide from Cecilia, come back to 111a1te yet dimmer tolesView the details of the dim altar -pieces behind the Lal! candles, Ills. eye, as he rises to his feet ago.tn, falls on the contadina nearest him. What is she praying for? In the expansion of his own deep joy, iie longs to tell her how much he hopes that, whatever 11 is, she will obtain it. it is not the conladina who, standing a ifttle behind, joins hien as he turns away from the altar. "I "Saw you go Into the church," says Mrs. Byng, her smile growing somewhat diffident es she sees the solemnity of his face, "so I thought I would follow you; iho you iniad? Shall 1 go away?' Be would, of the two, have preferred that she had not followed him, that he had been given five more minutes to himself; but he naturally does not say so. "Since WO are Here, 510111 we go into the cloisters? and he assents, A small Dominican monk, with a smile and a bunch of keys, Is opening a door to some strangers, prowling like our friends about the church. The latter fol- low, talo little monk enveloping them too in his civil smile. Down some slops into the great cloister, under whose arches pale frescoes cover the ancient walls— But at this lir, tlurgoyne's auditor looks so hopelessly bewildered that lie thinks IL the simplest plan al once, in the fewest posslbl0 words, 10 plat her in possession of the tale of her son's echievemenla end disasters. Ile does this, party 10 steal the torrent of her questions, bre Mein Mut they liave hither-, to taken pirluoing in him a feeling of frenzied Indignation, which he doubts his own power much longer to conceal— party in order to set Eliaubetl's conduct wp,oa the least possible delay in its true light before her, Surely, when she leas been told of ber nmguaub iuus renuncia- tion, she well do her justice, will cease. to load her with those Hard names and Instilling assertions that have made film grind his own teeth le listen to. Ilut in this expectation he soon ands that the is mistaken. The wrath of Airs. Byng against Elizabeth for having "drawn In her son, as site persists in slating the ease, is surpussed only by indignation at her insolence In having "thrown hien over." As to lite genuineness of this last action she expresses, It is true, the most complete incredulity. "it was only to enhance Ler own Value. 0.1 you suppose that she expected him to take her at her word? She thought, of course, that be wounr follow her—that he would employ detectives ;-it is a proof" —with an angry laugh—"that he cannot • be quite so bad as you mance hint out, that he has not done so." "I would not put it into his head if I were you," replies Jin, with en anger no less real, and a merriment no less spurt- ons than her own. 13y this Mune they have reached lire ho - lel; and .Lim, having helped his com- panion out of the (lucre, shows symp- toms of leaving her. "Will not you stay to breakfast with me?" she asks, a Title aghast at this un- expected manoeuvre; "1 cannot make my toilette till the luggage arrives ; and I suppose that he"—her eyes wandering wistfully over the hotel front till they rest on her son's closed persiennes— {,. "that he is not up yet ; it would be a sin to wake hint ; do stay with me." "1 am afraid I cannot." "Why cannot you?"—wilh an impa- tient but friendly Mlle mocking imita- tion of his tone. "You are not"—with a ooneilialory smile—"angry with an oki hen for standing up for her one chick?" .Tim smiles loo. "I do not think that the old hen need have clucked guile so loudly ; but that is not wiry 1 am leaving her ; I must go?" "Where must you go?""To the Angio-Americain." She lifts her eyebrows. "AL this hour 7—you forget how early it Is. Well, Amelia has got you into } good training; but I can assure you that you will sell find her in bed." lie sighs. "[ am afraid that there is not much doubt Of that" "What, do you mean?—she is not ill surely?" --in a tone of lively surprise— "A melte til?—impossible 1" Ito looks at her with an irrational slupofeclior. It appears to him now, in the distortion of all objects that the last fortnight has brought, as if Amelia's ill-. ness had spread over the whole of his ' life, es if there had never been a lime when she had not been ill, and yet of this event, immense as it seems to him in its duration, the woman before him hos obviously never heard. When he comes to think of it, how should she? bnint. of fact itis not a fortnight since Miss Wilson [ell sick, and during that fortnight he himself has not written ber a line, neither, hofs equally sure, has her. SOD. "I am evidently very much behind the lime,' she says, noting the, to her, unin- telligible astonishment tri his face; "but you c mpletelyremember athehp lidark— as at 1 have been p been ill ?"p In answer he tells her, with as much brevity and compression as ho had em- ployed in the tale o[ ElIzabeth's disap- pearance, that of Amelia's illness, often ederrupted by her expressions of sym- pathy. At the end she says; "I am so thankful I did not hear till she was gelling better 1 It would have made me so wretched to be such a long way off 1" I•Ier adoption of his trouble as her OW1,. an adoption whose sincerity is confirmed by ler impulsive seizure of his hand, and the feeling look in her handsome eyes nmalce him forgive the exaggeration of her statement, and go some way to- wards replacing her in that position In his esteem which her diatribes against Elizabeth had gone near to making her, knee% "But it will bo all right now," contin- ues she sanguinely, there will be no- thing to do but to bullet up her strength again, and she is young—at least"—as 1110 reminiscence of Amelia's unyouthtul appearan0e evidently flashes across her mind; of 11101 prematurely middle-aged tools which an unequal fortune gives to some plain women—"at least young enough for all practical purposes." • Whether It be due to the possession of 00000 40000 44'*0 000 The effect of lmalaria lasts a long thne. 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AND $1.00. r.1 where In Florenee are there not fres- cowl—end bite Mends thathinted them soelil all to have wielded their brushes le that astounding fifteenth century, wheel wee to 110194110',5 life what May la I: fluiyte year, For some moments they Squid silent, side by side, 'perhaps Pick* ing out familiar scenes from among the sweet, faded groups --a slim Rebecca Helene -1g to Eleazar's, tale, end lootdng maiden pleasure at buts gine ; a shiver+lag Adam and Eve abased out of Paradise;. an Adam and Eve dlsmaly digging and stitching respeatively; Old Testanlont stories that lime has blurred, that wea- bbhcr—even in this dry air—has rubbed out and bedimmed, and that yet, in many oases, still tell their .curious faint lain, deoipherabby, "Good news this evening, 1 hope?" says Nil's. Byng presently, (;rowing a little lived of her companion's taciturnity; hr- Ine indeed always one of those persons who aro of opinion that lite gold of which silence Is said to be made has a good deal of alloy bo "i am to sea her lo-nloreow," Ito speaks almost under Ills breath, either because he has no great confidence In his voice, if he employs a higher i;ey, oe because there seems to lien a certain sanctity in this promised meeting nn the kindly hither side of the grave wbiclt has so lately yawned, Mrs. Byng is much loo old and Intl - mate a friend of elm's not to have been pretty well aware of the slate of Ills feeiints during elle poet eight years, though certainly not through any com- munication from hits. So it is, perhaps, scarcely to be wondered at that she pre- sently says, in a tone hinged wilt ad- miring surprise— "How fond you are of her 1" He receives the remark in a jarred silence, his eye resting on the square of neglected graves In the middle of the cloister, how unlike our turfy squads and lawns. A common -place nineteenth century photographer, with his vulgar 0001010 planted on elle lime -worn stones, Is evidently trying to persuade the little monk to pose for his picture. The gen- tle -looking Fra laughs, end draws up his cowl, then lowers it again, folding isle arms, and trying various postures. "You are so much fonder of her than you were 1' This speech—though such is certainly far from the good-natured speaker's in - Mellon --slings Burgoyne like a whip- lash. I was always fond of her—I always thought her Lhe very best woman in the world ; you know I"—with an accent of almost anguished appeal—"that I al- ways thought her the very best woman In the world" "Oh, yes ; of course, I know you did," replies she, astonished and concerned at the evident and extreme distress of his kine. "Thal is not quite the same thing us being fond of her, is it? But"—with a laugh that is at once uneasy and re- assuring "what does that mailer now? Now your fondness for her is as indis- putable as Tilburine's madness; and, fol' my part, I always think people get on quite as well, if not better, after- wards, if they do not begin quite so volcanically." But her light and well -meant words fail to remove the painful impression from her hearer's mind. Has she, dur- ing all these years, been crediting him with a wish for Amelia's death, that she should be so much astonished at his thankfulness Mr her being given back to hint? "I believe that this illness is the best thing that could have happened to you both," continues Airs. Byng, feeling un- comfortably that she has not been happy in her choice of a topic, and yet unable to leave it alone. "It will have drawn you so nllich together; in feat"—ogohn laughing nervously—'I think we are all looking up. As I told you, after the first shock, Willy really was rather glad to see me; and you would not believe how discreetly I handle she burning subject— yes, everything is on the mend, and we are all going to have a jolly time, as the Yankees say 1" CI[APTER XXX. The words are scarcely out o1 Mrs. Byng's mouth before she adds; in n. changed key, and with an altered dfree--' lion to the eyes— "Is this person looking for you ? He seems to be coming straight towards us." Jim turns his head at iter speech, and et once recognizes, In the figure hasten- ing towards them, the porter of the Anglo-American hotel. The man loolcs strangely, and carries a slip of paper, unfolded and open, fn his hand. Ina second Jfm has sprung 10 his side, has snatched the paper, and is sliming at 11.5 contents. They are hardly legible, scrawled tremblingly with a pencil, and for a moment he cannot mance prem out. Then, as he looks, in one horrible flash (heir import has sprung into his eyes and brain. "She is gone; conte to us 1' Airs. Byng is reading too, over his Shoulder. In going over the scene in memory afterwards, he believes thatshegives a sort of scream, and says, "Oh, what does IL mean? 1t Is not true!" But at the time he hears, 110 knows nothing, TIe Is out of the church ; he is in 1110 flacre wetting at the door; he is tearing through the sheets, with the hot summer ale flowing in a quick current against his face. IIo thinks a[teewards al went a pace the horse nnisl have been going, and how the pool' jade 1111151 have been lashed to keep it up to that useless,speect. At the limo he thinks nothing, he feels nothing. Ile rushes through the court of the hotel, rushes through what seems 10 be people; he thinks afterwards that they must have been waiters and chamber- maids, and that there comes a sort of compassionate murmur from them as he passed. Ile is 013 the stairs, the three flights; as he tears up, three steps al tr time, there comes across Ills numbed In- telligence why they always give Amelia the worst room. Ile is at the door, out- side which he fres spent so many hours of breathless listening; he need no longer stay outside it now. It is open, inviting him in. Ile is across that, us yet, unpassed threshold, that threshold over which he Was to have stepped In careful, soft•footed joy to -morrow. Re has pitched through the people—why must there be people eeel•ywhere?--of whom the room .seems full, unnecessarily full ; 11e Is .at the bedside, Across the foot a figure seams thrown—lie learns aitobWard that that is Sybilla, Another figure: Is prostrate on the floor, heaving, In dreadful dry sobs ; that Is Cecilia. A third is standing upright and .tearless, looking down upon what, en hour ago, wos bUs most pellent dauglmler. They have let her alone naw --nava ceased lo tease her, They no longer hold a look- ing -glass to her pale mouth, or brat her tired feet, or pour useless cordials be- lween her lips, They have ceased to cry out upon .her mune, having realized that she is melt loo far away to hear lihern, Neither does lie cry out, Ile just goes and stands 11y Ute fattier, and Lukes les thin old hand in his ; and together they game on that poor .temple, out. of welch lila spirit that was so much too lovely far 11 has healed. Litter on, they 1011 him how 11 came about; later on, when they arc all billing huddled in the little dark salon. Ceeilta is the spokeswoman, and ? yhllle puts in subbing curracUons now and eguin, (Co be continued) ON THE FARM. FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN DA1(LY- ING. My brother and 1 purchased a farm for which we WAIT able to pay $14,250, writes Mr, H. Van Dresser. There was a mortgage of $6,500 on that farm. In my boyhood I worked for 25 cents a day. As I grew older I got more, and when 1 was 21 from the fourth day of September to the first day of April I worked for $21 and an overcoat. My brother taught school and we put our Mlle amounts to- gether for a few years and worked a farm on shares. We made a little money and then purchased the Term named. We had 33 head of scrub cows. We tools our milk to the cheese factory and did without the necessities of file in order to get along; but with all our economy, when the year came round, we did not have money enough to pay our interest. We bought that farm when the pro- ducts were low, and they brought less every year. So we were in a terrible frame of n11nd. If we put the farm on the market we could not get the pur- chase price, and then we thought we would go through another year. Our wives were just as economical es they could be and helped us in the dairy and se on, and when the year came around my brother and Ion April 1st took our money and went down to the cow stable and counted it. We could not pay our Interest. There was that mortgage star- ing us fn the face. There had to he a revolution of things. Something had to bo done. Stories that my grandfather told us about cattle were so vivid in our minds that en idea sugesled Itself. As w e talked it over we thought the best thing to do was to have an auction, ad- vertise those scrubs and sell them, lthe scrub sire and all. And we did, . Then we put another mortgage of $1,050 Orr lbw place and with some of the money „if Yo .'li Do The , Painting liming 'corset °g'et Ramsay'e Paiute. lit you, intend to have it done -- insist that the painter uses liamsor',9 Faints. They go farther—last longer --hold tlleirfresbness and beauty longer—and cost less in the end—than any other good paint you can buy. Write for Post Curd Series "C,"- shoring how some houses are pointed. TT v— 907 MODELS Stand for Excellence and Perfection of Product. The first Russel turned out over three years ago ltd the engine in .front updor the bonnet eliding gear transmission, and shaft dive to live roar axles. The Russel to -day retains the cam features of c000l, ,ction. wo wore In the lead then; gradually the trend of uniformity turned in o. direction, and now this design ie the most approved and u-to•date. Through these years of evol tion towards this construction wo went on perfooting detail and adding improvements, 'I9,ut's wh the Russel owner gets more for his money than anyone else, The Design Is proved. The Materials are the Best. The Workmanship the Most Skillful. And the factory otiose at hand and disposed to use you right. )d Metal -to -metal Disc Clutch. Selective gliding Gear Transmission. Nickel Steel In all gears and shafts. The most powerful braking oyster known—positive in action, easy to reloaso—troo independent sots attached to large drunks on the rear wheels. MODELS FOR 1907 MODEL D-2 cylinder, 18 H.P., 90 inch wheelbase, 80 incl! x 8j inch tires Sr,600.oO MODEL E-4 cylinder 26101'„ 101 inch wheelbase, 12 lnait x 4 inch tires 82,500,00 MODEL I+--4 cylinder, 40 ILP., 118 inch wheelbase, double. Ignition, magneto and accumulator, 84 Inch z 4 inch tiro. in front land 4i in rear, powerful, roomy and handsome c.hr. aapadty to carry seyon'passengers 53,750.00 N11/ Y$S.1E7Cam $`OR.. C5147C.6a.7C.0 es -gy&D, Canada Cycle and Motor Co., Limited] TORONTO JUNCTION, CANADA. BRANCHES—Ottawa, Winnipeg, Vancouver, and Melbourne, Australia, 13(1 Q47exeeKeC> Us>0.0, ip4C1000 Q MAIIY'S VISIT 't'O FAIRYLAND. Mary Freeman was seven years old. One day while rho was 'reading in the woods she heard •4115 blast of a trumpet end she sew a tiny littlo lady all dressed In while, the faire 51154110. 'Would you not litre to go to Fairy' land;" asked $ul b(o, "Very Much,' replier Mary. "Well, you must hurry,. before the ole witch wines,° said Susette, Theo she vanished, lest soon , returned with a rose petal lull of pink liquid. Slee told Mary to drink ties, and when she bud done so she was .surprised to find herself Mlle also, A little designee from them Susetlo. ' tots a dark object. "Oh, horrors," she cried, " 111ere is the witch! What shall we do?" Mary begun to tremble, for she also had seen elle dark. object, Sud- denly a little' chariot drawn by two while doves appeared. The fairy got in and Mary followed. Then she saw an ',old woman on a dragon teach for her, !Mary was so frightened that she nearly fell out of the chariot. Presently they spied a beautiful little lake. They jump- ed out of the chariot, entered a little boat and soon were: on the other side, e There. Mary saw a gate. Susette open- er ed this, and they went down a little "' }stairway, and at last calve to a door ' which Susette opened. There Mary saw a room with a large toadstool for a table and little ones for chairs. Su- sette put her finger to her lips and whistled shrilly. A whole lot of little lliawn men came fo answer her call She bade them get some supper, while she showed Mary the flowers. Ther site led Mary to the long halt where the songs of birds could bo II^ard. On either !side were flowers, leaving only room for a path. After Susette had shown Mary the flowers, they went back to the first room and found the table set. They had white rose petals for plates. There 5105 straw- berry pudding to eat and dew to drink. After supper Susette led Mary to a 111- tie bed where she slept quietly till morn :Mary woke when she heard the fairy call her, but look es she would there was no fairy. She was only lying on e log with a book hy her side. But as sire looked sloe spied a little passage coding into the ground, and. Mary sit believes that that is the gateway to en - tot 1t, but never succeeds. IIOW THE ELEPHANTS BROKE INTO A GRANARY. A traveller, who was making a tour in India some years back, tells us that in his wanderings he arrived at a vil- lage on the north border of tine British dominions Near llile stood a granary, paid the back inteleM, and although there were two mortgages on the farm, 01 which was stored o alarga quantity y a[ rico. The people of the place desm't1- we quietly went away to purchase a g so much depended. In order to mini ed 10 hen how the granary had been at. herd of pure bred cattle. mine this difficulty the range is to be tucked by a party of elephants which We had to sneak off as t were, In a impossible to au a most of these to increased to 2,500 yards al the beginning had somehow Lound out that this gran- few ran few days, however, tie neighbors found and end of the run and 2,400 yards on ary was full of rice. tit out, and I will never forget what our y t t troubled ilh til 1 L the beam. iarly ill the morning an elephant ap- wives said when we came home, Two New gunsighting telescopes of improv- neared at the granary, acting as a scout of our neighbors, old gentlemen, very ed pattern have been issued to all ships, or Rpv When he found that the place considerate men, who had farms paid L thus doing away with the outcry raised etas unprotected, he returned to the for and coupons in the bank, came to when the range was increased three herd, which was waiting no great dis our house in our absence just to sym- pathize with our wives and to tell them that we two boys were fit subjects for lila lunatic asylum. When we came home with the cows our wives came .out and helped put the cattle in the stable. During the eupper hour they fold us who had been there ,and what had been said, and it didn't set well. We took a lantern, went to the barn and looked over the investment, and we were more pleased with it, and bad more confidence in it than before. I am mighty glad that Biose old gentlemen mads those pre- dictions, because It increased our deter- mination to succeed. The great secret of our success was in the selection 0f the heal. \Ve pur- chased of a very conscientious man, told him our condition, how much money we had, and wanted him to give us the equivalent. We did not want to misplace echlklence In the animal or the man we purchased It of. Our foundation stock was the secret of our success; it -was splendid. And as we developed the ani- mals we put them on the market as op- portunity occurred and sold what wo could spare, to pay our debt. Now, in the old way my brother and I could not pay our interest. In the new way, in nine years, we lifted the indebtedness and paid off the mortgage, PASTURE FOR SO\V AND PIGS, in them. In the corn field grass is a weed. Now, by baking a little pains it is c s sprout and then destroy them. Thus you will no be w tem later. 1'.o do this, work the land down finely and perhaps roll it, or go over with a clod crustier. Then leave it undisturbed for a few days. If it is growing weather. the weeds will soon start by the million. Then work the land thoroughly when the sun shines and kill them. oris is the proper way to destroy weeds, that is just as they get started. They haven't used up any plant food to speak of then. You save it for the crop. The corn should trove all there is in soil, sod and manure. I1 weeds are allowed to grow to some size, their substances, after they are destroyed, may not get back to the corn roots this season. Think o[ this all through the summer. But we aro not done will lets matter of tillage yet. All soils bravo have quite large quantities of plant food elements in them in any unavailable form. You can lake a piece of loamy land or clayey, in such a way as to shako little of this available this year, or considerable, just as you please. I have found it good practice to con- struct a number of half -acre lots, plac- ing a portable blouse in every other ono and giving a spec and her pigs an in- dividual house, writes Mr. W. ii, Under- wood. By the time they will have enter 01 stamped down all the green sniff on this half acre, the house can easily be lifted over the fence to the next lot and 111e hogs moved where they will have plenty of fresh, green pasture. The lot from witch they have been lateen can then be plowed up and sowed to rye or forage crops that grow com- paratively fast. By the time they have exhausted the second lot they case bo re- turned to the original one; Thus the two lots will support the sow and pigs until the pigs are old enough to wean. If properly cared for they will support the sows the year round. I have also found it good practice to have a Jaeger lot, 11 possible, of from five to len acres, to torn all the pigs into after they have boon tvenned. 1 al- low idem 10 remain there 1111111 they aro four or five months old. I teed them in the inennllmo tool allow Ahem plenty of .ground and exercise so that they may develop bone and muscle, They will then be ir1 a good, healthy condition to go into the feed lot. In building these portable houses here Is 0110 thing that mast even' be borne in mind, end that is, no mallet! how or where they ore bull, they should pro- vide good, clean, siry sleeping genders, land, above everything else, be sanitary, UOW TO DESTROY WEEDS :\Nil INCREASE e'lls1,11, Meet soils hove pie.nt,' of weed Reeds TOUGH WORE: FOR BIC. GUNS. British Admiralty Devises Harder Con- ditions for Marksmen. The new conditions are published under which the British fleets heavy gunlayers and 11g1et sight setters will ne tested in 1907, For eget, quick fire guns and destroyers' battle practice the sten will lire for 55 seconds with elle ship steaming at 12 idiots an hour past a target 6 by 8• feet. The distance for 12 pounders will be 1,000 yards at the start and end of the run and 920 on the beam. For 0 poun- ders, 3 pounder Vickers and 3 pounder automatic guns the conditions will 1 the same except that the extreme beam distance Will be 800 end 700 yards rt- spectively, Each ship will bo allowed to use any colored sails as targets with a view to gelling better resells. The test of heavy guns covers a va- riety of weapons as (livet'so as the Dreadnought's 12 inch twee turret guns and the old 4.7 quick fire broucbside guns of 1880. The lest is made much more difficult as In 1906 several ships made such good scores that it became Imperative that the conditions should he more difficult. The Admiralty officials stale that in view of the great increase in the rapidity and accuracy of are gen- etelly the target will be reduced in or- der to friths the guniayers to still great- er accuracy of aim at the sacrifice of some rapidity, Reclnnrgulor bullseyes are to be paint- ed on CanVaa 0f all theold targets. Only huilseyties wail he counted, but n record of Ibe. hits on the canvas out- side the buliscve will be kepi for the 1111ose of comparison with former years, The bullseyes will be 14 feel square for turret guns and 10 by 8 for broadcast armament, reducing the clan- ger area hy one (elf to three-quarters rtspeetiviily, In iho ease of 15 (11111 01111 10 Melt lur- r'd guns II was found Mal ler use or Mtge cordite charges produced 1nurh emcke, the projectile reaching the lar - gel before Ihe 1011,10' rlenrivl away and" ifferiupiby ;wedding Ihe geninycr froth esechig the fall of Ihe .shot, an which years ago. The telescopes were then el three power only. The new ones are cf variable power, going as high as twenty-one magnifiers. 111 is 11501 ex- pected that the number of bullseyes will be large this year, as the fleet is not used 10 the new arrangement. -.-..p LAUGHS LAST LIFETIME. People Whose Risibility is Easily Be- cited Sometimes Come to Grief. The case of the young lady, who, es recorded in the English daily papers, recently laughed for eight hours c n end at a joke she heard at her Co5- tumier's, and that so violently as to place her Ire for a while in imminent jeopardy, is not quite unique of its kind. Indeed, there have been several in- stances where people have actually, under similar circumstances, laughed themselves to death; while others have 001y been saved from a like fate, by the application of the electro -cautery bat - bey, iho hot wire snare, and other such like powerful counter irritants used by medical men. ,roan Caron, the famous "giggling girl of Ghent," would laugh immoderate- ly ail day long, the most trumpery in- cident sufficing to send her into uncon- trollable paroxysms. She was mado a. show of, and people took a delight in exciting her risibility, so that prac- tically her whole life, from the age of 15 to 23, when she died, Was 0110 1011g laugh. Another noted laugher was Lamont, the French Clown, who, to win a wager, once laughed for fifteen hours straight off the reel. It was his custom to pen - lice laughing every morning and after- noon, just as a musician practises this music, and his stage appearances in the evenings were simple laughing exhibi- tions, to which, however, all Paris flocked and laughed in unlson. Eventu- ally the broke It blood vessel while go- ing through his. performance, and im- ntediately expired, thus literally laugh- ing himself to death, ns did Calcites, the soothsayer, and Zcuxis, the great painter. Atli TI-IAT'S TiHE QUI.STION. At an exnminalinn in an English school the teacher was so pleased with hi:, class that ire said they could ask ilial any question they liked. Some were asked and replied to. See- ing one little fellow in deep thought, the bencher asked 'him for a question. "l' -please, sir, If you WAS in a 'soh mull -beep up to your neck, and '1 was to throw n brick at ,your head, would yon 11,110" The answer is net. recorded. "'lave you congratulated our hosiers on her birliidnv?" "NN," answered Miss Cayenne; "I have condoled with herb:` lance off. Two men happened to be close by, and they watched the herd ap- proach in almost military order. Get- ting near the granary, the elephants stopped to examine it. Its walls were of poled brickwork. The entry was in the centre of the ter- raced roof, which could only be mounted by a ladder. To climb this was not possible. so they stood to consider. The alarmed spectators speedily climbed a banyan tree, hiding themselves among its leafy branches, thus being out of view while they could watch the doings of the. elephants. These animals sur- veyed the building all round; its prick wails were formidable, but the strength and sagacity of the elephants defied the obstacles. One of the largest of the herd took up a position at the corner of 111e granary, and pounded upon the walls with his husks. When he began to feel tired, another tonic turn at the work, then another, till several of the bricks gave way.. An opening m5d0 was soon enlarged. Space being made for en elephant to enter, the herd divided into parties of three or four, since only a few could find room inside. When one party had eaten all They could,, their place was token by another. One of the elephants stood at a distance as sentinel, Atter all lied eaten enough. by a shrill nose he nave the signal to retire, end herd, flnurishhtg their trunks, rushed elf to the jungle. IN NEWFOUNDLAND. Private hospitality Replaces the Hotel —A Simple Country. I need scarcely say there aro no ho - bels on this const, and consequently no hotel bills, says a correspondent of the London Standard. The traveller selects. hie house when lie enters a settlement, walks in and sits down by the stove. Indeed he scarcely wails for the Liv'. talion to "sit M" when the family goes l0 heals, the people of this coast being inuch'g1ven Iha bOhl nighttoospil000105lity. 0n he simply takes off his boots and—stays. It may he he will have to share a bunk with one of the household, of perhaps lie has a bed in -the room'; that depends on lois social position. If room is short he will turn in on a settle, or simply lic down on the floor. t have slept an es settle under svhich the dens lived 111 • winter and resled.as soundly ns on any Mather beet, the only inconvenience be - 1115 ROW encl again I had to grope eller the mestere Nellie)) persisted in thinking it was morning tong before f did. Thc, first question asked' a sironget or lets enloring a house will not be "What is your business?" It is certain to be, "Clave- you 1-a,7n to MeV' For sur national drink to tea, and a drunk- en man 15 seldom es never seen, in. dyed, wo have . b.500nle 6 prohibition cost.