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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1909-1-7, Page 10rig aaa**01140002440e0e9/004001490,0*C, a—e......e.--....aee—eeeeee—a-aease-a',...... 17.tme Heals MOstiNotiti. 1 fasa—steassaaasarataWatiMistaSeein***04/4MOOsOineeraagarntaagataaasae I CHAPTER X. Iliad but a few hundreds left. Then Ack,eyd left ise caesTe wish' he stood aghast at his unwise eon - Joel's cheque in his pocket, but be duet, ' slid not feel alteemther comfortable, "It I had but invested the money He could not arrioye in London in , at four per cent. Gould have lived 4* time to be able to pay the cheeps: in comfort for the refit of my life, into his bank. He could not cash, while now api nearly aS badly off it at. aloes bank, for it had natur- ' as I was befc:re I got the cheque," ally been crossed. Ile therefore' he growled to hiniseif, Ile had just risen after a late night. His breakfa,et tin -boated on the table; armind him was every "I wapt this cheque to be sped- sign of vmalth ; his room was lev- elly cleared.," be said as he handed ishly furnished, and the dressing - cgreonoce oniaoiont to toll ita own tale. 1 ea. Thief as well as bleekmeiler, Mr. :WOO: how much?" Ackroyd." "Whet will. Yon, PaYi" ' He hastened from the room and "Now You are tatking• buslactifa ,enteted hiavraotoimaiars4ehicateWaf What have you to sell? I caa't fix weiting below. an amount till I know ; I don't want "Now, my "Lord Har'b'edstle, 1 detaals, you needn't show youe hand think you win slug to a different tam muds, but I must kitew if it tune. I hold the whip hand," he Itlakea tt, pOW011111 lever," cried triumphantly. "Yos, We a weightY weanon," (To be coatinued,) Akroyd said with a smile. "It must have been to enable yog woman 1" t 0 8.1; that cheque. What is It A Aelcroycl sbook his head, - "I'm glad, That wouldn't have been much use tb me, Whet would be the effect of the use of this in- formationyou possess 1" •"Ireesechato and irretrievable ruin to the 'Earl," Ackroyd replied. "How would it affect Lord Hare - castle'?" he Asked, "Is _he con- cerned direetly?" . "No, but he would naturally suf- fer with his father." "That is am 1f this information is of the nature you any I will pay you---'' e st over. Ackroyd leant forward -exPect- gown he wore was of silk; away, Joel eyed him keenly, and of this disease. The mani ager looked up n sur- His FOrvarkb entered quietly, finally came to tha"conelusion thet Foot-and-mouth disease, also prise as he read the amount -a' Mr. Joel 'Josephs wishes to see no uncial 11 t 1 ' ' sura wou c tempt t um man, called Aphthous Fever, is a viria "Rather a largo cheque, but the a' a. 51 .a0 1 Y. I will give you a similar cheque lent and contagious disease of cat - drawer is good for it," he said with "1401.1 al home, not at home," ho to this," he amid at last, . tie, E heel) and swine, Young ani - a Bustle. "I Can clear it by noon to-inorrow if that will do?" cried hurriedly, "Twenty-five thousand pounds?" nods being particularly susceptible. "Yes. That will be satisfactory. But joel had aaticipated such a be said breathlessly. Symptoms. --The general symp- I suppose You don't mind if I draw move, and he had followed closely "Yes." toms are usually slight fever 'and a few hundred in the meantime." on the servant's heels, "It's a bargain," . lack. of appetite, and in milch cat - "I am afraid I caa't do that," "I won't detain you a minute," Aekroyd impetuously jumped to tie there may be SOMC diminution aannediecnerneLercerteiedee° ean1,1)e 1: coef, oh! ern- hesaidmanager replied, after , a Tao- he said as he pushed open the door, his feet and. held oet tas hoed. Jnol of the milk flow, These troubles Lee. Aniceoycl rose and angrily told the looked at it contemptuously and he are quickly followed by eruptions These changes, however, have not inent's hesitation, "If a hundred servant to leave the room. shook his head. . of the muscous membrane of the Leen eftected so much by foreign will dol" "What is the meaning of this in- memo is a business transaction, mouth, the skin between the tom influenceas might be supposed, "Yes, that will be sufficient. trusion 9" be demanded curtly. Mr. Ackroyclo" he said grimly, and of tho skin a the udder and The notes once in his pocket, Ack- "Simply that I desire to see yeti, 'Ackroyd'e face flushed hotly, and teats. The eruptions or pustules in aabut rather because of their better Good morning." roycl'S' spirits rose in a wonderful Ala Aekroy a" for a moment he was about to **sal, the month may be on the Ens, nal- Pera°atkeeestiand wagimadin.:ttormfilScitypEhonolisli degree, but his mind was not quite J'oel laid emphasis on the name. angrily, but he quickly changed hie ate or tongue, and they soon burst "What do you waet1" mind. He went to a safe and took easy. IlIe bought an evening paper expoaing a red, inflamed area, and are a constant mum of danger to in which he found a mention of "May I sit clown1 Thanks. ' 1 out the cipher letters. He then re- r • salivation the Japanese but fire is their great - see that I stated your correet name sumed his seat. , • ,.„. est menace. Enough to fill the Lord Wolverholrecas illness; to his it was stated that he was a tie, a rarely ivhen we met at 1VoIverbolme Os- "Some thirty years ago," he be- fagigo..1"as'safermnegiimsales7—ilelteedylv.InteTho: Stoutest heart with dread a,re those make a mistake," gan gravely, "Lord Welverholme frequent conflagrations that utter - relief little` better. ' Joel said, as he tea a seat and was sent by the Prime Minister to pain Then came a' disquieting idea. made himself comfortable. in eating, rumination is iza- thousands of homes, Tokio, the annual finds much difficulty and ly destroy hundreds, and often What if the Earl were to confide in a St. Petersburg on 'a, delicate nego- redee, and tho breath becomes capital, has been partly reduced to ). ,Toel and get hini tO stop the I think we 011,11 do business to- Haitian with the Russian Govern- fetid. cheque, for he may have gather," he continued genially. "I moist. It appears tha,t the Earl was ashes on several occasions. The disaaver- have yee for you, and I am prePar- heavily in debt and he was The pustules on the feet and ucl- inethoci of eoustruction insures their - ad that he (Ackroyd) had succeed- ed to nay handsomelY:" he went about to marry. Unless he couldderder are usually snaallor than those ed in regainiug possession of the en, "Blease underetand .that 1 find a largo sum of money the mar - cipher lettere during the thne that nom, in 4 perfectly friendly spirit," riage would be broken off. The he was unconscious. Ackroyd cons- aOn that own account, or that lady to whom he was engaged was forted himself with the thought that the E 1 ld dareof another'?" Ackroyd asked with a a high rank and osse sed d A Tale of Love arid Pi5appointment had a restless night, but as soon as his bank operied its door he enter- ed and asked to see the manager. SafVeaseseassaaasseasalastMeasaasea.~1 ON 1-11E FJ)1,111 AAAA.WWAA0,40+AlW FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE.• The present outbreak of this dis- ease in tho tinged States, and the blocking of all ehipments of live stock from certain States of the Unioa into Canada, has attracted the attention of the agricultural community, and has resulted in several inquiries as to the nature ost a dealing with sueb an epi - 95 enormous, and the Seam - tam qt„Agrieulture, is asking for o444,1011OX • ,59,01:1yOyn,j41,1b-or.;of ,!P00)906 ter tals work. The last epidenaie . in the. Stetes marred in 190a, when 4,411 ani- mals were killed, ami the Owners compensated to the amount of 028,908.07, Tide outbreels lasted eleven issontbs,—Prof, F. C. Har- rison, Macdonald College, in Farm- er's Advocate, HOW JAPS FIGHT A FIRE FLIMSY S'I'RUCTURES MENACE TO CITIES' SAFE`TY. An A nil (I ea fed Rand Engine Manned by Chanting Firemen, Travelling in the Island Empire, one sees the old, mud -walled, thatched -roofed houses of ten cen- turies ego. But in the cities they are giving place rapidly to IX more modern form el architecture. The tile roofing has superseded the thatching, and the mud walls are covered with black plaster. Tin „" The .physician attend: "'ing*O'"-Prescrilied, on my rallying from an attack of rheumatism, your Scotrs Emulsion, which 1 have been taking every winter Since, ,1 And it most valu- able in strengthening and building up one after a severe illness. I have not bad rheumatism since the time mentioned above and 1 owe it to your most valu- able Emulsion. It is my life now, and makes me strong and healthy."—R, PICARD, Grand Ligne, Quebec. For two hundred years be- fore Seora's Emma= came Cod Liver Oil was used for, rheumatism. virb, 81011 is modernized Cod Liver Oil; the purest and best oil partly predigested, made palatable and suitable for the most delicate child or invalid.' It enriches the blood, tones up the entire system, and drives out rheumatism. AIX, DRUGGISTS Lob mond you a copy of Mr, Pteerrre letter aud other Iambus,: on rho tub- jaot. A Pod Cord, mentioninn We paper, 1. sufklidout. SCOTT &BOWNE 126 Woltineton St., W. Toronto dwellings against all exeept the the burning dwellings. All the of the mouth, and, on breaking, most severe seismic disturbances friends and neighbors of people hv- ulcers usually form, and, in the .and wind -storms; but the use of ing in the immediate vicinity called . . case of the feet, extend under the candles and poor enaanspe rest_ at their houses, and left cards on which were 'written offer of f - horn. From exposure to mud and nig on uneven floors, for lightin s • P"-ec a, • No, keen look. tion to them, should their homes deal of money The Farl d'd b filth, further infection occurs and and small hibachi (fire -boxes) 'filled of his treachery to Joel. Ise, _he am be endangered or consumed. These y .own, a so site y, bub seY know which way ' bl 1 b „• , a i no , . . , to turn me cos the hoot may be entirely shed, with glowing charcoal, for heating, felt he was safe. , calls usually are returned the next business does not concern an- the story 'short, a Russian official Slier•p in such a condition itili often purposet, make danger from fire But he found that he could not rest, so he proceeded to amuse him- self by spending the hundred pounds. The luxuries, that pover- ty had compelled him to deny him - other." morning by the recipients of this got into communication with him walk on their knee.S. In acute doubly probable, s most Japanese houses are of ' At the fire, which was consider - only one storey, and built close to- ed a small one, eighty-nine houses three officers were lost to every gother, a fire in one may burn down were destroyed. After a fire, near- twenty-two men. a street; or an entire district. A Statistics prove that nearly two- thirds of the letters carried )ay the world's postal serrices are written, sent to, and read by English-speak- ing 'people. England has one member of Par- liament for every 10,290 electors, Ireland one for every 7.177, Scot - laud one for every 8,974, and Wales ona In fEonrgelavneYanc10113Veles about one four of the population has an ac- count in the Post Office Savings Book, in Ireland one in ten, and in Scotland one in eleven. Under the Austrian poor law every man sixty years old is entit- led to a pension equal to one-third "Come to the point then," Aek- aud offered 11/111 a large bribe to sell .cases the disease extends to the k' d royd oried impatiently. his eountry. The F,arl accepted the respiratory and digestive treats, "With pleasure. How much do , bribe--" ea I occurs in se o sia. ass. self, he immediately indulger! in to you want for your hold over Lord Joel rose to his feet, and his face The majority of eases, however, WolverholineS" ho replied coolly, plainly showed the pleasure whic.h are mild, and respond to proper the full. The finest cigars that money could buy, expensive jewel- Ackroyd started violently, as the this statement gave him. treatment, and the animals reeev- words reached his ears. "Can you prove itI". he demand- er in about Myr, weeks. lery, enclose visit to a Bond Street tailor. where he gave orders that "I don't understand you," he ed hoarsely. - - astonished the tradesman. "The evidense is here," Ackroyd "I shall pay half when I try on tars, phicing his hand on the lot - and the balance on delivery," he said curtly. "Let me See it." • "No necessity for that, sir," was "It's a cipher, but a eimple one, 1 will explain it' to you," the respeetful reply, but the tailor blurted out as soon its he had re- covered his self-possession.. "You understand me perfectly. How much do you want?" "What hold have I over Lord Wolverholme 1" Ackroyd began can- tiousiy. "I am asking you a question, Mr. Ackroyd. How much do you want?" "Don't yell think you bad better be frank, Mr. Joell Pt will shorten our interview considerably." "I am perfectly open with yeti. I want to know how much you want." • • . "Do you kJ:tow what 700 want to buy'?" •Ackroyd asked slily. joel thought for a moment. "No, I do not," he rapped out at last. "I thought so. What if I say I have nothing to sell?" - "You will be a liar, Ackroyd," Joel said genially. "How do you know that I have any connexion with Lord Wolver- hohne 7" Joel did not speak but took a checlue from his pocieCt, "This endorsement speaks for it self. The Earl handed my cheque over to you. What was the con- sideration 7" Joel. demanded.- His lazy mannea had disappeared aud there was menace in his voice. Ackroyd changed color. • For a few minutes he paced to and fro, deep in thought. He had great admiration for Joel's astutement, and Se 'wanted to ascertain his mo- tive in thus approaching him. Was it on behalf of the Earl, or was there something. behind it that he did not kriow "That was a private business, transaction betivcen the Earl and myself," he said firmly. "Yes, I have heard it tetmod business," Joel timid musiagly, "I have also heard it called by a harsh- er word," he added emphatically.; "you had much better be' frank, for it will pay yoa," "If I understood your object?" "I do not see how that col:motto you as long as you get the money. Yoe are 'broke,' and in confidence you won't get another penny out of the Earl, he hasn't got it." "Bet he could fina it," Ackroycl said astiltely. "Not so easily, as I can, will pay handsomely, "First you must tell me -what makes you thiak that I know any- thing. "With pleasure, Itis really vary siniple, knoia you lied 111 saying you were ttot Aeltroyd When we met at the Castle; that was suspicious, 'rhea I am pretty well infotmed aS to what goes on in the City; I heard ef soon: sudden accessioh to wealth and of your gambling, took a bead in that tnYself, and / think accourited for a aumber of your bad investments, Inc I can meta) the market when I ehoese, Finally, obtamed my cheque back from tinued, You did give them and the; bank. Your endoesoment was got them bask agate when he faint- eral Government, alaturay, the would probably have respired it 11 ±1 had not been suggested, and Aekroyd smiled grimly. He determined to have a night's onjoyment fox he VMS Sure that he would be unable to sleep so he snood his trunk to the Carlton Ho- tel and engaged a table for dinner in the restaurant. He required eveey delicacy in and out of zeason, , tied his choice of wine was made with fetich deliberation and a keen aeLicipation of enjoyment. *Ho had no intenbion of hoarding his ill-gotten gains, for he was al- ready making plans for increasing * them by speoulation. To his joy Ise foun 1 that the cheque was duly a cleared, and that the suni of near- ly twenty-five thousand pounds stood to his credit. •He revelled in its possession. To de Ackroyd justice he was not • hi the least mean, for one of the fust things that he did was to hire a motor -car and drive to a little cottage a fow miles from London. There he was received by a white- haired woman, with every sign of evident joy in his presenee. "Well, Nan how aro you getting n 1" lie asked cheerily. "Sitcl/y, sadly, Master juhan, she replied, with a shake of her head. "Sorry to hear it, but things will be better noiv. I are arranging that you shall have thirty shilliogs ▪ a, week for the rest of your life." "God bless you, Master Julian; You have been so kind to an old woman," she said sobbingly. Aad inded ho had been kind, She was his old nurse who hadmfallen oti evil days, and in spite of his poverty, Ackroyd had managed to give her sufficient money to keep her out of the workhouse. Ile left with hex bleasings tinging in his ears, and Oda in a meaner ▪ eerved to soothe the qualm of con- science that had been peickieg hire. Now he launched forth into every O kind of extravagance He took chambers in St James' and pnr- a chased a motor -car; each rimming he drove into the City and specu- lated on the. Stock Exchange. A rage for riches had seized him; he 4 . was not content with the thousands that he had, he dreamt of becom- iug a financial magnate. Erdal the outset ill luck followed hirn hie speculations. This only involved him the more, for he now hegam to plunge heavily. to recoup hinaself for his losaee, The estial result ensued, and in a vast short time he found that his fat, balanee at the, beak was well night depleted. He did nob stop to consider po- video, far he was governed by the gambling fever that possessed him, hut the tinza viekly came when he Infection in Man.—The cheease attacks man, and there are many cases of such infection taking place. in a small northern tow, far from is kept up tall the next morrung. It Such eases usually occur from the beaten track of tourists. I was is rather .siegular that, with so mals, and the symptoms are some- reading by staying at a small native inn, and many strangers about, and rough at the time of the first alarm was men freely entering different bons - drinking the milk of infected ani - the light of a tallow as and shuns, di t i '1 ' , GENERAI.4 INVOUIWATION. - .5ertips: liaovlealge Whie 4 ' Ven ShOuld A. full-grown elephant eun carry three tons on its beak, ',Dim quickest growing plant in the World Is the kudzu, a speeies bean. It is said to have been known to grow 00 feet in three months. Sweden and Norway are the only countries where practically every grown man ean read and write. 114. nate comae next in this eeepect. Steam has by ' means made - sailing vessels obsolete, The total number of them in the world is still 06,034, as against only 00,561 steam- Nev :7:11100,. Duke of Portlend's picture - is the finest private gallery in the gallery is 230 feet long and covers more than a quarter of an acre. It Egypt, with 10,000,000 people, has only one lunatic asylum, and that with only 500 hods. The peasant of the South of ea - France spends on food for a feat -ft of five an average of four Olt:: a day, Tho German Emperor is said to be twenty-fourth in the line of sue - cession to the British Crown. Denmark's army is the cheapest in Europe. It costs only $120 a head, against $565 spout by Bri- "Tun. France, for the privilege of wearing roen's trousers, the French Government charges women a tax of about $10. The 'United States now has forty- seven typewriter factories, and these export $2,520,000 worth of inOcarini ptear.:neinsearv3e'edare:t the Ring's table does mot bear any label, so that none of the guests can tell what brand he is drinking. The coronation role precented to the Empress of Russia was of fur. It weighed only 16 ounces, yet was worth $6,000, or $375 per ounce. Spitsbergen is one of the few countries as yet unclaimed by any nation. Anyone may dig the coal found in the cliffs there. An Italian nobleman, who also belongs to the Austrian nobility, bas for several years been making his living as a crossinglsweeper in ViTshaenagreatest proportionate loss of ofacers to men in any battle was at the capture of the Recian, where large fire in a Japanese city is a sight NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN. The writer remembers one he saw ly every near -by house not burned sets out a large cask of saki (rice ivine) from which friends and ac- quaintances help themselves, A good time, bordering upon revelry, For a moment Ackroyd hesitated : i01000 , candle. • THINGS ARE RARELY STOLEN, ananais. A very good example to la the papers out othissposses- may be instanced during the prev- ''rhe landlord came in with many low bows and apologies for inter- One reason for this is that an ar- trust Joel, for he had come to the sion, but he now felt that he could alenee of foot-and-mouth disease rupting the honorable roreigner:s ticle stolen from a burning house, in Berlin, Germany, in 1095. A learned meditation ou subjects or horn one in danger of burning, eonclesion that he was not acting considerable number of mius. 000- is thought to bring down the curse on behalf of the Earl, so there was sumer, in that city suffered from which no doubt his (the landlord's) of the fox -god upon the culprits. no danger of his destroying thein. ignorant mind could not even int - fever with the characseristic erup- a: 'After the fire was conquered I "Can you make it out 2" he ask- • ' 1 ''returned to the inn, which had been the amount per day which he has d fi 11 begged t Tao, an na yto sta e ed. - hen ou tie tongue and mucous that the house next door but one. , • ,membranes of the month, which, on was on fire By the time that the le un Perli, as the wind was blow- earned g g days. during his working ' "Yeat Yee," 'Thel cried h°1).atient- bursting,1 f ' f 1 1 ' ' 4 ' • h 1 ' h 0 't very Pana u u cer- coreraomous host finis or h ing -11 another direction, and found In South Greenlaud the color of I ations The acute disease last 1 I had e th •ed is a- : the hair -ribbon which a woman ties co only f . et rangueea ei up ros o , For a while all was silen• 1 age MY servant whore I had left him. broken by the heavy breathing of or five clays, and left a sense of belongings, dumped them into my: tt 1 • old always are address- condition of the wearer—whether The "boy," as male servants, no round her heacl denotes the social the two mom At last Joel looked . great weakness for a time. The two tra,velling eases, and bad them Ina er '" : • • • • celebrated pathologiet. Virchow ready to marc.led in Japan, seemed to think that she be maid, wife, or widow. In some German Us:ens children up, and ins face glowed with tri- umph. "This was written by the late Prime /Moister 7" Acktoyd nodded. "It must be true or tho Earl would 'not have let you blaakmail him. I Will keep these letters, Mn. .Atkroycl." ',Teel took out his cheque-book and filled in a forra. "I will retain the letters, if you don't mind, Mr. Joel, You go to your bank and bring the cotes here," Ackroycl said suavely. As he. spoke he laid bis hand 011 the letters which joel still grasped, and the two men faced one aaother, "As you like," Joel said indiffer- .ently, "I will be back in a quarter of an hour. Doe't go out," An unholy 'joy seized Aokroyd who made an investigation, unhes- itatingly pronounced it to be foot- ondanouth disease. Cases of infection through butter, buttermilk and cheese made from infected milk, are also on record. Fow affections have been the ob- ject of so much bacteriological re- search, but so far the organism which causes the disease lute not been foiind, In 1895 the German Governzient appointed a commis- sion to investigate the causes of the disease. In 1997 they reported that they were unable to find any casual organism, but from their experiments they were of the opin- ion that the disease was caused hy an invisible znicrobe, or, in other words, the organism was so minute that even the most powerful reser°. when he WaS alone. A fortune wa scopes' could not reveal its pres- ence more M his grasp and thi:a One he would not clissinate it. Al e"ee' Since this dissave17' a a"ra- ber of investigators have reported looked impatiently t t quarter of an Soma. PniTodionenitd. 1 on certain other diseases produced nce by invisible mictobes, was beginning to grow nervous Provention.—The usual measures when to Isis relief Joel bustled in- taken to prevent the spread of the to the teem, disease is to arrest all movements Be pulled a bundle of crisp notes of stock in the affected dietricts, to from his roast and flung them clown en t ie table. exclude all visitors, and quarantine clan lettere, please,» he mid all who attend or are brought into curtly, contact with the infected animals. In Europe such measures are Aokroyd took up thas notes and methodically counted them, while rigorously enforted by the sanitary police, The -writer remembers, on Joel ivatelled him with a grim smile, amesare right, suppose he one oacasion, whilst taking a walk said caustically. "I thought so. 10 the viehn6r 01 Berne, 8.witzer- Now let me have the letters." land, , being stopped by a policeman, pinced them carefully in one of the paw& a certain point, he would have who info He took out his Pocket -book and rmed him that shoald he compartmente, to remain in the district for ten "Good morning, Mr, Ackroycl, daYs, OM foot-and-mouth disease Let ese give you a word of wailing, was present in that locality. Blackmailing is dangerous game Disinfection raliSt be carried out to play. You have* twice been site- thoroughly. 1Vlany Governments eessful, but be careful of the third endeavor to stamp oot the disease attempt. It's an unlacky hum- by the slaughter of all infected wi- lier," unals, paying the owners some eons - Joel nodded eurtly earl then a, peesation, This is the method the thought moemed to strike him, [Tatted States Clovernment are "133 the by, why did the Earl carrying out. All infected horde put with the cheque befote he got are slaughtered, and the °where the letters?" he asked. are indemnified to the extent of Ackroycl's face flushed, and he two-thirde of the appraised value hesitated to reply. „ of the cattle in sonie moles the "Oh: I wieler0. stand," 3001 we- State paying f!he rest. Tho coat of disinfection is also paid by the At the entrance tO the courtyard Fed- Ins master'.s possessions, and even the inn etself, had been saved are allowed to travel free on the I met iny Serrallt, WI10, With others of his class attached to the inn, was through his pagan, prayers. local tramway ears if they are un - loudly lamenting, but making no At the.prOsent time, in large Ja- der a certain height, which is mark - effort to help put out the fire, now panes° males, orchoarices and regu- ed on the doors of the vehicle. raging with Nry, pulled my lations to a certain extent govern Turkish women do not come into tottuu inside the door of my apart- tihe form of construction of houses. control of their prirate fortunes un - 1\ early the evhole house is built at til after marriage. After that they meat, and pushed him down on my luggage. told him that be could be the earpenter shop, and taken to can dispose of one-third of it with - moan kis fate or pray to his fox- the site and set up, Few nails are out the husband's consent, god of fire as much as he wished, used, but the posts and dovetailing A clog lives on the average from are ingenious and effective. The ton to twelve years, a cat nine to roof is first built, math a large beam ten years, a rabbit about seven, a person from those chattels until or- dered to do so be would be skinned alive by his most indulgent and kind-hearted InaSter. Then I ran out of the gate into the street, aed monsent later was ses. six feet apart, and joined by Some cover as much AS fifty being literally carried toward thel el'ht-hamba° latticework tied with miles in six hours. Eight miles in fire. I don't think my feet touchedi rice -straw ropes and pellet? in with an hour is an ordinary fat. the ground more than two or three plaster. These uprights rest on The British Empire outside the our -by -fours, so that the heavy tinted Iaingdom only contains some times. Every one was bearing a part of the house is at the top; and 8,500,000 of .people of British de - red -paper lantern,_with his namc during an' earthquake or wind- scent—that is to say, only one in and address on it. This human cy- storm the holm is able to give, forty of its total population. clone ab last deposited me up which would be impossible if it was In a paper read before the Char - 015 a solid foundation, At the back ity Orimenzation Society it was Just in time to got the full benefit'of of every large store, and also in stated trust there were now 473,000 A BREAK IN THE HOSE. homes of rich men, a fire -proof fewer agricultural laboters in Eng - But I was too much interested in warehouse, called a go -down, is land than there were fifty years tho proceedings to mind my drench- built, in which aro kept merehan- ago. ing. At each end of the engine dise- or family treasures. Foreign The modern bullet, will pierce tl:o long bamboo poles, with red -paper rooms are being added to the homee carcasses or three horses in sources* lanterns fastened to the top, were of the HO, rather in the form of sion at 550 yards ; of four at half 'the set i»to the ground. The men who were pumping water from the'well rooms. ing 'Ian every -day living distance; or kill a man after pa4s- Some of the nobles have built ifiii.ege,through the trunk of a thick sang, or rather elmnied, a dismal appeal to the gods of fire and wind. beautiful palaces; but it 14 to be Without losing a single animal, Men, women and children rushed noted that usually they live in their seven shepherds recently drove a into the burning hoilding, and came attached Japanese suite. All the flock of 14.,000 sheep frain Mali111- 0111 again with whatever they could new Govan:silent buildings are ot go, in Queensland, to Narrabri, in lay theta' hands on; but, as far aS fureiga archttecture, and as the Ja- New Sooth Wales, a distance of 900 eonld see, they put everything in panne rarely entertain at their miles. a sate ylace, own homes Woos found ueeessary Ladies ttre forbidden to woar Toonats in Japan up to 1808, for the Government to erect official trains to their dresses in the streets wondered wliF the following clause residences after the foreign etyle by a new by-law passed by the nut - was inserted in their passports:: "It of construction, horseback." The reason for this remarked, have 11c1 cellars, and are of 33.10. htwe Itittnedilesral4ittap• eonf aBitoydecorbaaenliir,, xniimAutlinatfirinao, is forbidden to attend a fire on The native houses, restriction Was that only the Pro- heilt a, little above ground, on an It is not so verv long ago that sident of the town was permitted average of ebout two feet. It may eepper was: used in Sweden as tho to goto firo on horseback, so that be adacd that the Jepanese enapou- chief medium of exchange,' and ab be might 'bettor direct the work of tors Prepare a superior kind of times morel:outs had to take wheel. the firemen, and be recognized more seaffolding, The root once up, the barrows with them when they \vent easily as the chief, OrdirP 11011aG is Snrr011nded With to receive payments of larp:e 6111118, Ths bo.o f,,,n1 the ono poles tied tugethet 'and protected There is a wild flower in Turkey mtatritli swfoaosdtoortila telhoesetnoorfaspiocitlytivIi'iarde: if,rItgnsu. t.15mi,cnli,\{,v)e,a,t111)elta.,btoyl,stfirtiaciw natrione which is tho exact florr,l image of is humming,bird. The breast is joining houses and threiv large materials are not cervical from one green, the, wings are a deep rose: IlcriGe8r's,Ptaltsse 'Lore quietuy to raze hand la hand from the grouad, the tbliarcokatairsO atri4lciith tO theID,h,Y mon on place to atinther, Mat .passed from lsisb but -that if be raised his low -born for the ridge -pole, so fashioned as equirrel or hare about eight, and 15 to enable the house to sway and fax about fourteen to sixteen years, give in time of earthquakes. Sup- The rate at which the Zulus can porting the roof are upright posts run in an emergency is astouishing.