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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1907-6-20, Page 7DARI3 HE OR, A SAD LIFE,STORY +0++0+0-41)+Q$0•M0$0$04-G$0;0¢04¢o'$0.4oe-O.Oeee+-0$004-04, CI [Menet XXXII. wane; aloe (Maws her potent sweet', Clna of the rensau though nal the Hud Mich -1l, sired prickly pear displays sole n1' (Well 7111 mniu 03p, of 13u1 'uynes nlerlujurxml1) lnulignily, lieneatlh, what visit to Algiers is that the Wilson fall- h und0.18 .ut In of viand great - visit trimmed plants-ucnntinis, and a lum- di�ecere wintering niteri n , w�ilte. lt the And 3 1,.le drod tiller green sisters, all ilourishing clJ)O he in ping last ei eePlee,' and waxing, so unstinted, so et large! Mole atter When g stood tePeeled )aunt- 11'i1�1ns reached the main road'-1he:shady Anlelia's open grove, they had all been teed. that leads se a seven -mile U descent 8L a Ihlgi.pa•eseure of einelein, "Cl or from 'ol ud !11) Supurpee to oho lawn, demonstrative affeelionatenees, which 11aw' men li is I i'ejlmi•-bees hang melting thole grrrll hair, so twee and line, over In !heir tastes, hulths n1' n1)- it! anti ilexes hold the Unai4h of ]hair tures, could possibly make feeltinunus, little dark green leaves. Past the (Me- lte 1111S llo tll01 011110 tear that I1e3' will inc. melees summer palace, with its snow L up emir relations at the donee uud !email, arcadesg same point. at witioil 110 had len then). gleaming Ile would do It if he could., but he feels trews its iron gales, From a fixed that IL is al/olulely impossible to lint, wireless a flao'oat u shrub sends r honey The door of Ihat room In lies 1 111n1y anand ho , sweet uud longbity, 1)e of honey whioli is labelled "Amelia" is forever Lass hops, from its yellow lowcr- locked. IL is only in draped silence and tassels to ahs pleased here th solitude that he Permits himself now and At a sharp turn, whsle the hillb fulls again to turn the keyand spare! and, away more snots, precipitously than. before, sparely nus bag, the mob, uta upinn hi the Painfully look b1, flow will he hear 11, dazzling little city, burst upon him -the if they insist on throwing the portals little city swarming up iter hill, from wide, dragging its disused furniture to where the French town bathes its feet the light, rummaging in els corners? in the azure ripples, to where the Arab He sleeps ill on thls, his fleet knight of town loses the peals of its triangle, in Africa; and even when at length he the Casbah and the fort of the now exc- •snc0eeds in losing importunate con- orated Emperor. Blinding white, ardent setousnoss, he is teased by absurd yet blue, profound green --what a pleasant painful dreams, in which Amelia and picture for a suaune' Sunday morning 1 Elizabeth jostle each other impossibly And how gay the road is too, as 11e East with jumbled personallltes end changed and the West stop along 11 together 1 attributes. Extravagant as his visions Here is a tram tearing down the steep are, they have yet such a solid vividness incline with nve poor Mlle thin horses that, at his first waking, he feels a abreast. It is full of English church - strange 80(10)1 01 unsureness as to which goers, and yet, oh anomaly! standing of the two women that have beset his up in the vulgarest of modern vehicles, pillow is the dead, and which the living with his slight dark hands grasping the one? In dreams, how often our lost Mittman, is a tall Arab, draped wilh the ones, and those whom we sell Possess, grave grace of the Vatican Demos - take hands together on equal terms 1 thence, But alas 1 alas I even upon Even when ho is wide awake, nay, more, elm the west has laid Its Claw, for as dressed and breakfasted. that feeling of the bran rushes past, Jim's shocked eyes uncertainly, that something nicht to the realize that lie, who in other respects "Black misgivings of a creature, might have fed the flocks of Ltbat in Moving about, in worlds not realized," Padan-aram, wears on his feet a pair of remains strong enough to drive hen old elastic -sided boots. onco again to the list of visitors in the Here come chattering a couple of entrance hail in order to assure himself smart Cbasseurs, d:Afrique, in blue and that teas bruin has not been the dupe of reel, followed by a woman dressed as Ms eye. Rachet was at the palmy well -so dress - M. Cipriani has been as good as his ed, that Is to say, as to her while word. The corrected list, promised over shrouded upper woman, for, indeed, aright, has roplaced the incomplete one, there is no reason for supposing that and 01111)081 the first names that Jim's Rachel wore a pair of Rob 503' tartan eye alights upon are those of "Mr., Mrs. trousers 1 Past the Plateau Snuliere, and Miss Le Marchant, England." fits wherein the llehln-)roofed level'. French- men name Immediately follows, and he \vcmen are sousing their linen in water takes as a good augury what Is merely that -oh, hideous thought 1 --is changed an accident due to the fact of his coon) but onco a week; along an -ugly su- und (holes being on 000 floor. Elizabethburp, and past a little wood; through Is, beyond question, beneath the same the arch In the fortifications, the Porte roof as himself; nay, even now sho d'isly, 1111 at length Dia Episcopal cha- ntey probably be sunning herself (ice a lel.-why are the Protestant places of white pigeon on that terrace, whose red. tvol'S111P scattered over the habitable tiles he sees shining in the morning sal globe everywhere so frightful? -stands through an open std0-door, before hum. The thought is no sooner formed than He had thought himself In good time he follows whither 11 leads hen; but she but he must have loitered more than he is not on the terrace; and (hough a had been aware of, as the bell is silent trimmed ago his nerves were tingling at end the porch closed. 1Ie enters as quietly the thought of speech wall her, yet he is as may be, and takes his plate near the conscious of a feeling of relief that their door. The building strikes damp and ;meeting is, for the moment, deferred, chilly despite the warming presence of \Veal can he say to her? What can she the whole English colony, emplted out 503' 10 him? of the four hotels sacred to Anglo- IIe stands looking down on the green Saxons, and out of many an flax -shaded sea of richly -clothed dark trees beneath orange-groved campaign besides. The him -ilex and eucalyptus, and all the building is quite full, whleh 15, no doubt, unfamiliar verdure of the soft South. the reason why Jinn fails to catch an From the flerccly-blazing red purple or a glimpse of the Wilson family throughout Rogatnvlllia, so unitise the pale, cold the service. He has plenty of time tin- 1[lac blossom, to which iei our consoro'a- ',arrogate with his eye 1110, numerous tortes we give that name, s eye travels rows of backs before him, as the ser mon Ms b over tree -tops and snowy vitas, each is long. elm had known that it would be 5111111110g palace and c(omy mosque, to thes0 from the moment when the clergyman. curving hay, round which the Atlas entered the pulpit with an open Bible__ Mountains are gently laying their arras; no written sermon -in his band. The and Cape Mnlefou, with the haze of sound of a brogue piercing through, day's young prime about it, is running even through the giving out of the text, old: into the Mediterranean. soon puts 111 In possession of the fur - lie is alone at first, butpresentiy tier fact that ho is in the clutches, and outer people come forth; the 00leludl- at the mercy, of an entirely uneducated neaten, for onco delivered from his yet curiously lueut Irishman. fostering widow, sits down with a pie , Is Elizabeth writhing ender the inflic- of English newspapers to enjoy himself lion too? Never, In the Moat days, in the set, which does not yet ride so she very patient underprolonged ens high as to bo sun stroke . ,Tim's last with pulpit g y .eloquence. fie can see her \vitt; his night's neighbor in the red skirt comes 11memory's eye not very covertly reading out loo, bonneted and prayer -booked, her hymn --can hear tap - she is oil to church • so is he; but her toot tan - he does no tell her so, for fear she ping. Several people round hit; now should offer to accompany him, She are, -bt very covertly, reading !heir hymn -looks, but she is not anion [hent. observes lo him that the climate is a Ile has no ;tore sight of her than he h fraud ; that this Is the first day for three of Cecilia; but in neither case -,such weeks in which she is able to go oil are the disndvantagis of his position - without a mackintosh and umbrella. does its failure to see prove the a "We are not so green for nothing, I 1 absence g g, of 7111 object Ile seeks, He is one of the can tell you," says she, well a laugh, first persons to be out of the church and a rather resentful glance al the ween at length set free, and stands just splendid verdure around her, and so outside the porch while the long stream leaves bum. 01 worshippers defiles before hit;. It He, too, as I have .said, is going to takes some !line to empty itself into church, and is presently asking his way llhe sunshine, and nearly as long before to the English chapel. The Wilson he catches sight of any member of either faintly will certainly be there, and it has of the funnies he is on the look -out for, structs him that the dreaded meeting Of the Le Mmlchanis, indeed,' he novae will be robbed of half 115 painful awk- catches sight, for the excellent reason weirdness 11 11 takes place in public, At that they ,are not to be caught sight of, 11 church porch, crowded with issuing not being there, In 111e case of t(10 WIG congregation, Sybllla cermet fall into sons he is more fortunate, though here, hysterics -it is true that Sybllla never too, a acne . of surprise is in store for attends divine service -nor can Cecilia him. He has Involuntarily been scan- weep(ngly throw her rules about his ting, in his search tor them, only those neck. But whatever means he may take of the congregation who are dressed In In taw the discomfort and smart of mounting, The picture that the retina that expected encounter, the thought of of ills eye has inept of Cecilia is of one It sits like lead upon his spirits, as he leaf -swollen and crape -swaddled; and walks qulelsly-i1 is dillculi to descend though, if he had thought 01 11, his rea- 5loivly so steep a hitt-,down tie preeilpl- son woold have told him that, after tons lane, which is the only mode of seven months, 511e Is probably no longer approach roe 110013 or laboring beast to sobbing and snhled, yet even then elle the high -perched hotel he hes chosen. impression that he would expect to re. tut he is young, and presently the Cheer- ce[ve Irons her would be a grave and a til, cleer loveliness of 111e day and the black one. This is why, although he is sight 1)I Nature's super]) vigor .work on the lookout for her, yet she comes their natural effect upon him, 1t must, upon hire et lest ns a surprise. indeed, bo en inveterate greet that re- "Jim I" cries a voice, pitched a good fuses to be soothed by the influences of deal higher than is wont to make itself this green Eden, heard ,within the preeinets of a church - What, a gotterosity of vegetation, as te female wilco of delighted surprise and :evidenced by the enormous garlands of cheerful evelcomo; "tattler, hero is eine 111 great -leaved ivy, waving from tree to Burgoyne turns, -anet sees n lady 10 a tree ns for some pertelu0l .fele 1 Along very smart bonnet, fill of sprlhg flew - .1110 high hill bank tact skids this steep ars, and with a red en (out cal -tor they hw•rn ad e Hcaf u5 rear Mete loftyht tVe now Leafed ;!leads and their Meetly -scented boobeam'-shading therltresyaface •s potent a(per whose appearance pewee; aboral as wide el contrast to the serious and laity figure he had expected to see us ft Is well possible to Imagine, t1' clha, indeed. Fs looking, what jeer maid adrllh'ingly pronoune'al ler before sending her 101411 to trwmpll, "very dressy, Mr, Wilson e'leu011, certainly -but, then, clergymen aiwltye are black -and he stilt has a bund upon his hat; but 11 is a very narrow one--sorrownearing Its vanteeing point, In answer to Ifs datihler•'s joyous apostrophe, he answers; "'.Ste (30111111 do not {an( a0 loud, 1J iv ate you, .1 fin 1" And 111) mating Ls over -that Bret meeting which Jett had Nereids from wf111 such ilrexpi'essibie npprell'nSJor1-- le melee' to be fraught, with intolerable emotion; wilt calk upon hint nun 11e \voted not be able In 03,3101'; 1\•1111 io>ar- irtg of incurable wounds, The 0,rdrnst will the reality is 8o stealing that at Nest IL bakes holt chest dizzy, 'Con Iho showy rrpulu)11 beside him, preening herself under her gay sunshade, be the Saute overw'flelined, drunk, (cru•. drenched Cecilia, whom at their lust meeting he had folded 1n so solemn un embrace? Iter cheerful voice answers for herself : "[t is so nice.. to see you egaln 1 When did you carne? We. did not expect you quite .50 soon ; in your last letter you repro rather vogue as to dales; I rant Any that you shine as a coreespmldeit, You will come hack to lum+heon with us, of 00(11111, will not you? dejeuler, AS they call It, here ; 1 always tltoug11t dejeune1 meant breakfast. 'Yoe will come, will not you? SybIlla will be so gad to see you -glad, that Is to say, in her dismal way." She nes with a laugh, which the, listens to in silence that is 0101051 8lunned. The sound of her voice, lhouglh apt to so different a tune hem what he had anti- cipated, has brought bade the past with such astonishing vividness to him; 'her Very {leer at Sybllla seems so much a part of the old life 111at he half turns his head, expecting once/ more to see Ameba's deprecating Mace, to Hear her peace-making voice put in a plea, as it has done so tetany hundred limes, for the peevish malade lnuigineire, They have been strolling (awards the carriages walling outside, and have now reached 0100, driven by an indigene, a Moor, dusky as 011, 1 c, solemn as Rhadananlhus, and with his serious charms set off by a striped yellow and white jacket and a red sash. "Is not he beautiful?" asks Cecilia, with another laugh, alluding to her coachman, as she and Burgoyne set, oft upon their tete-a-tete drive, 1\lr. Wilson seeing, apparently, 110 reason In the fact of his ((Burgoyne's) appearance on the scene for departing from (ifs invariable custom of walking Thome from churleh; 13 not he beautiful? When first we came here we were in mourning; as 1f " --catching herself with a stifled sigh - "there was any need to tell you that; and father wanted to put him into black, but, I wm11d not hear of it was not 1 right? He would have been nothing in black; it is his red and yellow that gee hint his cachet." Jim "feels inclined to burst out laugh- ing. 'there is something so ludicrous in the disproportion between his fears and their fulfilment, in the fact of the whole importance of Amelia's death resolving itself into a sash or no sash for an Arab coanhnhan, that he has some difficulty in answering in a key of which the irony shall not be loo patent,: "1 think you were perfectly right." He does not know whetter she per- ceives the dryness of his lone; he 11110105 probably not, as see goes on to ask him a great many questions as to his jour- ney, etc., .talking quickly and rattler flightily, scarcely having room between hoe queries for his monosyllabic replies, and ending wilt the ejaculation : "How aloe it is to see you again 1" "Thank you." Ills acknowledgment seems to hiulself so curt that, after a moment he feels constrained to add something to it. That soinelhing is the bold and trivial Inquiry : "And you - bow have you all been getting on?" Cecilia shrugs her shoulders, "We are better off than we were; you know that, of coarse. Nobody ever thought that father's brother would have died before him. Wait till you see our villa -it is one of the show ones here; and, of course 11 is very pleasant having morn money; but elle cannot help wish- ing that it had come earlier." She sighs as she speaks ;° not an ostentatious sigh, but a repressed and strangled one; and dcsptto 'the lower -garden in her bonnet, bis heart softens to her. Per- haps his'look has rested on teat flower - garden with a more open disapprobation than he knows, for she says presently "I think that ono may iie very colored outside outside and very blade Inside.. Father and I are sometimes very black inside," Are you?" ' \l1' do very well when we are +alone together, father and`I; we like to lark about her, Dear mo 1 what a piece A1- giets is for dust! that Is why (here are so many blind people here. How it gets into one's eyes 1" She puts her hand- kerchief up hastily to her facie as she speaks; but nim is not telcen I11 by the poor Mlle ruse, and he listens to 1111 in a silence that is almost tender, as she goes on : "Sybibla bagtns to cry if we even distantly allude to her ; yet 1 knew" -with exasporalton-"ihat she talks of her by the hour to st'angers-lo her new doctor, for instance; yes, sho has picked up a now doctor hero --a dreadful Mao adventurer 1 She will probably talk of nothing else but tier to y0lL' "God forbid 1" (To be continued). 30 FARM NOTES. It costs just as much in material and labor to masse a pound of butler- Heat is hardly 111 for axle grease es it does to produce one that will readily com- mand 40 cents. Good-sized potatoes are better t0 plant tion very small ones. Selene times, when potatoes bring a very high price we aro templed to sell the good ones and think that the little ones will do to plant. You met follow that up very long and isave any good potatoes to seli• Running milk hl•olgil a dirty separa- tor is similar to running 1t through a dirty strainer, with all of the filth Gt ht' previous milking 14ft hi ft, When properly used, a cream separator is a clarifier and to a'Cat' q l tri extent a purl - ON THE FARMI SYSTEM Q1'' t•'AI'IM ACCOUNTS, While most ear fames, 8 of svtlos ln tell e,10Yu profit, 1100 know which crops or which animals tiro most proltabhl or which aro Rept ala hiss, writes Mir. C. S. 1'br+ops, It 15 easier 11y far to 1111.11, the 1111)11 bo 11y reducing the Poet of production than by advancing the lolling price of any crop, The cost is 1n the Demers' hands, while the in eats! price to yen leelrat by Me law of supply and rleuiend. '1'o Meer the roll of pi¢1duc.l!nu, 11 is lm. pe tenni to 51111y all the redoes enlel•ing into That cost, which ran only be done 1 , n eyelenl of tccvnnit We heral 1''0 need to realize 111nt our line as runnagers is worth arae than that of the common 'defiers, and it Is not economy to do the work that we can him for 15 cents per hour told at the same time neglect the work of uta ntanagel'. The 01)101( factor, entering into :he cost of production are luixmv and cost of food, The labor generally in"nudes that of man, 01(1/111 bend machinery. This Is difficult lo estimate because the lite of ;machinery is s0 811011 incl expense of keeping farm teams exit! throughout the year, wbellter they working 01• not. For this purpose have a daily ether record, Which silo 1110 cost of work put on cinch crop e, duly• Wet beve printed time ea which earls ;ran lolls oil, that tea w1' aIle on largo fauns. These are trans. leered to elle larges daily sheet, which sneers where each man and team alas worked 'each hour. 'i'llc cost of Loam labor is calculated In periods of stx months, so as to in- clude several winter emotes in each pe•lod. It is fair to the whole system of farthing to charge team labor by its average cost per emir, based upon a period of six months. This Cost in- cludes feed, shoeing and all deprecia- lon in horses, harness and wagons. The labor of the neon is charged up at whet It costs per hour and the elalor of the owner the same, when be works with the man. To make proper charge for machin- ery, some depreciation on Its value must be charged to each crop. Special machinery, such es for hay, potatoes, etc., lasts about nve years and 20 per. cent. of the value Is a fair deprecia- tion. Some classes of machinery, ns wagons, plows, etc., do not depredate so much, perhaps not more than 10 per cent. A debit and credit item in the ledger must be kept for eaoh crop and each class of animals. Thls 1 do on en or- dinary ledger sheet which is punched and put on a Shannon ale. This slieet Is 14x9 inches, ruled the long way. In each one of these accounts, the inven- tory 1s first entered and the income and outgo of that account carefully record- ed In the case of feeds grown on the farm, I charge the value sunicient to cover the cost of production and let the profits on Me crops show up In the animals. Purchased feeds are charged at oast, plus expense of hauling and ganging, etc. Manures ere charged to crops simply at the cost of labor to Mantle them, vehicle seems to be about the fairest method we have, the ani- mals being credited with fes value. Pur- chased fertilizers are charged al cosi, A final essential is a balance street, whlclr corresponds to profit and loss account, but which I call an Income and outgo account, as I can put Items into it \Mete really represented no cash transactions, such as the farm garden, For petty accounts, 1 use a card index ledger with cards 5x3 inches, which is very handy and simple. The question arises as [0 where is the value of these separate accounts over the simple debit and credit ea count with the farm as a whole. The advantages are these: It tells the cost of raising each of the crops and shows up the expensive ones at once; it gives n basis of judging the work of the farm, so as to improve the methods, and it shows where all 01 the lobar ex- pense (res been applied. The Great Essentials of *an Automobile To Witbslaml Wear. rower to Mayo. 1b Belafn the Origlrlal r.ustre, Power to Keep Moving. To Ride Comfortably, Power to Stop. 'CIIAT 15 --the ability w111 ease and :comfort to take any road, rough Or 310100111, level or steep, sandy oi' muddy, and wine buck to each day's work fresh and strong as 111 the outset. Ask anyone who owns a BIISS1;I,I., why ho is STILL 1Nt1YIN0 A BISSELL invariably the anewer will embody th le high standard. hf " RUSSELL CARS ARE GREAT CARS." IN THREE MODELS In mil the notal to ;natal disci c1,001 shaft drive, selective nlidbl� ear transmission niolr 1 'tool b1' all goare and shaft+, puwortuldoubie brakoa ou rear wheals, {ie,itifro lubrivatiag and water ilroulattng systema, the 10nh0, 11•-1 pllnaor, 1581,1'., ngl,t touring stir: whoolbase, AO lack Urea 8ax5i 4noa,.,.. $4,600,0o pp{0(31(0 E- 4 ey1nd,r eG I1a'., touring qtr, wheelbasq 101.iuoh, tirga 82x4 !Wali ads 3!0111 , 8'-.!u 1 S215"'°° o f y lodge, da in 1'o touring oar, ,vlmelbase 118 iuuh, titns 1)4x4 Inoh in {rapt § 1's o 0,111 re dad. 4J inch in roar, 83,730.00 , 1 Powerful, Speedy, Comfortable and Handsome. Write for Catalogue. silo Oanada Cycle and Motor Co,, Limited aril TORONTO JUNCTION, CANADA. t(ls, J314AN'CHE5-Ottawa, Wln,dneg, Vancouver, and Melbourne, Australia, 1111- A A PREtMIUM ON GOOD BUTTER. In Rolland the butter that is made in factories under government control and supervision is gbven the government slantp or label. These labels are firm- ly annexed on 1110 butter and warrant it to be pure and of the very best qua- lity. Although [-Tolland hos very strict regulations for creameries, they are not compelled to accept these rules, hut those that do have the advantage of the use of this stamp. it is reported that this system works to perfection In doing away with oleomargarine, process and inferior butler, and thls being line 0050, why would Hol the same system prove beneficial to the somewhat dis- couraged dairy and creonlelymen 1'1 our awn country? It bs at least worthy of consideration by the powers that be." LIVE STOCK NOTES. It is a mtslaken idea for a elan to go into sheep -growing because there is no work to it, TO win in any business (here must be core, Poulton and evorlc. It pays 10 keep n terse well. '1'o keep a horse any otter way than com- fortable and with plenty 01 food is cruel, and ell unnecessary cruelty is sin. There are many borsoowners who com- mit this sin each year, and at the sane time lose money and honor by doing il. If one is fond enough of the worst really to give life closest al(enl(on to his pigeons •until he knows they are properly mated (and this requires a groat deal of Mee and p0tlen00 even from the most experienced), end then will doily continue to give (hem the most careful ai1enl!0n end see that all their requirements are met (and This is css01111111), such a ohne will run a good chance of raising an ayeenge of three lc fivo pairs of mlirkelabie squabs per pair of breeders per annum In the northern steles, 1-14 will, however, ln'e raise s three lo four pairs very much oftener than five, t3tack end green tea ore both 110n ro- litre of the sane plant, Ihe difference eg in the ego of Ihe lanes end Ihe of milk, but when carelessly ileal bei alhod of preparation for market IS a source of filth and contamination. m NURSES OF ROYAL BABIES MOST OF THEM HAVE BEEN ENGLISH \V01MEN. They Have Been Engaged by the Lead" ;nu (loyal Families of Europe. Some of the tenderest and Most af- fectionate remembrances of royalties ate naturally of those who tended and witched over them In their happy childhood days, says London Tit -Bits. And it is a fact of which the women cf this country may well feel proud that in the leading royal families of Europe the nurses have been British, who, by (heir devotion and faithful discharge of their onerous duties, have earned the love and lifelong friendship, ,not only of their 111ustr[uus charges, but of elle royal parents who connnit- led them to their care, Naturally Queen Victoria of Spain preferred an English. nurse, and her engagement of Mrs. -R. H. Green, a nurse of great experience and tact, was a very wise choice. Iter Majesty also engaged *Miss Gertrude M. Bunt- ing to tend the Spanish royal baby. In this imported task Bliss blunting was assisted by another English nurse, Miss Alice Mary Evons, who was engaged last October by the Queen's mother, Princess Henry of Balteuherg. It may be out of place to mention here that probably lbo most prized possession of the King of Spain's nurse is a gold ring, in which !s SET THIE MIST TOOTH shod by her royal charge, The ring bears the curious inscription, "My tooth to my nesse.-Alfonso XIIL" For centuries pest 11 has been the custom of the Spanish royal hearty 10 dispose of (Ile lost tooth oftheheir to the throne in this way, and the ting in which the precious tooth is set is looked upon and jealously gueeded as an heirloom L'1 the family of the for- tunate recipient, , The Imperial Court of Russia had en Engl.sh, or rather a Scottish, nurse, who held her post for a great many years. She was Catharine McKinnon, M110 was born and bred on the floss of Mull. The daughter of a humble crofter, she was at first in the service of a Misstate nobleman, whence she passed talo the Russian royal household. She was trusted impltctlly by her Imperial master, and flew she was es- teemed by lee late Czar was shown by the fact that a couple of years before his assasslnatloti he nrderecl a tweed suit, which WAS 10 130 0000011 under the sooty cabers of a Ross of 311111 weaver's house. The clout was dyed with 11011 - en, which grew on the rocks where Catharine Meetnn0n had romped and skipped wi10a1 a barcfeoted Highland b1 ostC, It is a little known fact, loo, that un Iu a for months ego en English nurse had charge of the children of TiiE PRESENT CZAR. She ens only, driven from her post by the secret teeters of the Russian Court, the extraordinary behavior of the sec- ond nurse being tate cause of her resign- ing and returning to England. She discovered that this woman was in reality a spy in lite employ of the soccer police, She could 3101 leave a !room without being followed by her, and every evening the cuphearcts and Hoots and corners of the nuescries were eureftdly searched for bombs. No wonder that this spying got on the 11 nerves of the Euglish nurse, and that p sole resigned her post. 11 is to this l English nurse that .1111 present Czar• owes his ability to speak out' langu- age without accent and the planting in tris 011111 o/ a love of England. Queen Wilhelnllna of lluilald, it is interesting to recall, received bar edu- cation under 1110 superJnlendence of an English novelle -se, Miss Sexton v\111 - ler, and an off0'ctng ![tile Incident which look place on tete occasion of the Queen's marriage shows itow deep- ly g;vcrnaltuchese.ed her Majesty w J5 to the \\'lien about to leave the palace af- ter the ceretnolly with ler husband the Queen caught sight of Miss Winter in tam of he rorrid'lrs, and, turning back, {;ave her an affectionate embrace and Lade her A TEARFUL FAREWELL. It was an English lady who nursed the Queen of Italy when the heir to the throne was born a couple of years ago, She was Sister Margaret Brown, an English hospital 1101'50, who was speci- ally selected for the important duties by the matron of Queen Charlotte's Hospital, The recent death, by the way, of Mrs. Johnson, who, was Mlle. Vaufhfer, was French governess to the children of the King and Queen, is much regret- ted in the [loyal fancily, The deceased lady was regarded with a Iriendsllip that did not wane alter her retirement from offce, and the Queen of Norway, when Princess Maud of Wales, paid frequent visits to Mrs. Johnson. To avoid publicity her Royal Highness elect- ed to be known on such occasions as Miss Mills, and the fact gave rise to some highly romantic Mules concerning hopeless aspirants for the hand of the Princess. It is hardly necessary to say that little truth lay behind such stories, and the young Princess always thor- oughly enjoyed the peace and simplicity that marked her visits 'lo her former governess. WELCOMING A WiITE ELEPHANT. Everybody in Bangkok Turns Out to See the New Arrival, Amid general rejoicing what was ex- pected to be a new while elephant was landed in tlanglsok. says the Tftnes of that oily, its arrival being witnessed by royally and by large crowds of people in holiday garb. Between 4 and 5 o'cloe landing near the Grand Palace pr very pretty sight. The roadway ;- tier of the palace wall w• with Troops to the water's edge, front of these were the lidera an ear - TINS. A pavilion was e1' between the river and the 1e King and his suite. The raft on which the l 007th his mother arrived f is was moored to the lam 0 o'clock the strains of the them heralded the arrival who calve lin a motor ear. W110 was looking very well pro- ceeded to the royal pavilion, being several young princessesd princes. The crown prince sent. The pavilion erns surrounded high olliciais of the army n The preparations for the I e elephant were at once begs new moments the weird 1 music told the waiting crow• not see lent the elephant v firma. .The animal, which 1 ;months old, and surprising apnp)earallce, showed a very position as it was led to the royal pavilion for his ma Afterward, accompanied by and two of the elephants Dusit Park, Hameed by ban and to the sound of drums, in pro0ess(on slowly to Dusi crowds following, --H THE WISE CHIL k the wonted a Isom Ihe C0 0s 1[11011 whilo hl d banner ca pled miliwa pala00 far 11 new elephan nom Ayuih ding. At 5.1 national an of the 11(111 H[s maj0 13 , at onco 00111) 1111 an 00'05 also pre nrrounded by nd lite 11101'3 ;riding o1 Irl 111, and in a conch shill ds \3110 could vas 011 terra s (0110110 able ly woolly in playful dis front 01 elle jelly to see [l5 mother already 0t 1101 beal'ers i1 \vas taken t Park, targe D, It was Sundoy afternoon, 41id the :lent class teacher WAS ll•yillg to fm- ress the children with the beauties of he Garden of Eden. "But, children," she said, 'there was one thing in the p11110111 that Adam and Eve might not touch." "1 know," said a little boy, nem lead evidently had some prevlous knowledge of beautiful gardens; "it wog poison ivy." 00680.1),,:0.5,.,.00:} f0,) 814 That hacking cough continues Because your system is exhausted and your owers of resistanc p e weakened. 0e Take Scotea JEaraud,.cjum, deal i 0 It builds up and strengthens your entire systems® , o 0 It contains Coil .[vex Oil and Jl�ypophosp4><ites so .�pp,,' • "i/' 0, prepared that it as easy to take and easy to digest ALL DRUGGISTS: i moa. D AN 1 �,y, $.OQ � .0.........„,p,....., 1 WALTB :, : ....4.„.... NOSf;t3LIIGA. Bleeding from 1110 nose oeelli,1 More often with the young ]ban with t11# 01d, and with tr{ale$ than with females, enough always annoying, and emu . Mime alarming, it is very, seldom fat , \Vleep death meters 1181111 henwrrha Penn iere nose,- 1111)1 l is generally some ...Prams condition of disease to 1)00011111 !1)r it, as, for example, when the et• 1' 011 occurs ire subjects alspe( La011hti, to he1110101llae•-tete 80.c011notj1tlly "bleeders,' :s,'' A11 41rdin000 0t (100011(4 1 will' 1!,+m rally. yieldary r'adtiy 'lo slmpl0 home I rl15',1t ', and need/ .memo no. Morin. I; Is nlnil'acterlslc of many people to h,•c'1 ne rin1uly trigbtelled at the sight, ,,1 Hoed, and to. do the wrong tiring 111 Molise panic. 'Phis, with noteibh'ed '1:e putientwill keep the heart hent well d',wn ever lune receptacle; in this w11y, dung everything to favor Ihe now, Plan he sboitbi rattler, Mt' upright e1 ...vett eland, so that gnavity will act la Maw the blood away 'from the ihead, Cold tends to =strict the small t•leed \eestls and, check bleeding, If 11 ie fn winter, end' the air is cold, breathe deeply Ihrouge rho nose at an aspen 1012101,110 Will 5011101110e8 cure the nose- biecvi, or little piece of Ice passed In- to the nostril from ,00111011 the blood ec:lues will often answer the purpose, A pieeo of ice applied to the back of the neck and tee spinal 001un1n just Le- le w is oe,.asion011y ellfoacious. 111 eevere cases 0 w•1dc tape or hand - Reveille/ lied tightly hound the arms end legs may arrest the hemorrhage by withdrawing a large part of the blood temporarily from the general circultu lion. The constricting hands should not be too light, moi' should they be left Kin loo long. Atter the bleeding hoe ceased the bands sliouid he loosened on at a time, so that all the retained blood is 1101 rettuned to the circulation at once, as this ntigllt cause a renewal of the bleeding. When these simple remedies prove of no avail, a.nd the hemorrhage goea. on, a physlCian should bo called in, A too -prolonged nosebleed will beteg about a condition of weakness and ,alemla which may render the sufferer an easy prey to any of the numerous forms of infection always in wait to storm a weakened citadel. The 11eas0n why the services of a physician should be sought In obstinate cases is because he can immediately, with the 101d of oertain .appliances, satisfy himself as.taQ the exact spot in �ho nasal passago where the trouble originates, and bring 1Is resources to bear upon that spot, and thus no time will be lost in expert. meats. -Youth's Compete/en, BREATHE DEEPLY. Deep breathing -that is, laking long, ft111 breaths right down into the lungs --cannot be practised too often in the open air, and the denier and purer the air, Ilm deeper you should breathe. It will seem a hard task at nest, but one will soon find it pleasant, and the re- sults will be. ;apparent In straighter shoulders, better developed chests, clearer elan, and sweeter breath. This method of breathing is the real "elixir of life," and better than any youth -re- storer on the market. In a short time you will be breathing correctly. awake or asleep. It is to be remembered that deep breathing aloe fills out sunken and hollow cheelcs, ,dears the bungs, end reduces the ab- domen. It is comparatively easy to teach c11i1- dren who have not acquired fixed bad habits, whose clothing admits of por- ted freedom, how to breathe properly.. The habit of deep breathing is teethed quickly, and in normal conditions is maintained through life. The weak, who have cramped their lungs and relaxed all the breathing muscles, will find that elle formation et the new habit requires persistent doily pnaclfce, but when it once is es- teblislled they will have health and FACTS ABOUT WATER. A fact perhaps not generally known is that water as well as food requires to be assimilated to properly fu1I11 its natural offices in the system. Water 1.1 not readily incorporated into the blood serum, thinning it, increasing Its solvent peoperttos, and . lessening its plastic peoper(tes, unless it is drums in veeponse to Urireit, 5uct1 as normally follows, good digestion, brisk exercise, eating salt foods, a hot bath, vigorous sweating, /over, etc. Adventitious wa- ter, water taken into 1110 stomach with- out appetite, or demand for It, lingers tenger in the digestive organs, often producing a feeling of weight, followed by sloshing, gurgling noises in the trowels very annoying to patients. Un- less measures are employed to stimu- late the assimilation of water by ere• Ming a legitimate demand torr it, as expressed by eldest, it is not advisable to force too much on lite system. A single glass between meals, and 111 bed- time, will wash out the stomach ns well as several, where tea individual mani- fests no desire for, or an actual mopug Mance ea, water, Inulltorelce to a fluid which, conslilules three-fout'ihs of the human body, is abnormal, and requires treatment, but the treatment must con - Dist in cslablishing a physiolaglcal need fol wooer in Ihe system, 1101 In larhig nature by distending the digestive or- gans w [111 (0 11005)3' fluid, _ _ ...-_ Cl-i1:KE UNG, "This," he yelled, es he surveyed 'ria garden, raided by Ills neighbor's fotv18 Is sickening!" 'No-i1's ohlckening!" said hie witty wife, who dodged immediately. INCURABLE: "Why don't you marry (be girl?" "I'd like Io but she , 1 has an irhpeili• trent in her speech." "What sort of 1nmeefiment ti "She can't say yea,'!