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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1910-4-14, Page 6SERVANT GIRL HEROINES Bite 51'O111:f N wOlt`rits OF' ( ItelAT'llE1VARDS. Nled a Burglar Senseless—Gave " flex Savings to Save Her Master from Ruin. "You noted with remakeble bray- wry 1 may even term it heroism. scene in his carriage took her and her little charge into it to drive them borne, :inti their way was made slow by the cheering throng that surrounded thena,esoortieg the eervaatt-girl home to bei mas- ter's door as if she lead been a'liero returned from war crowned with glorious deeds. She lied risked nor life for the child she loved I :No hero oodld have done more. !! NURSE -GIRL. Ie was the ,devotedness 'of a nurse -girl to a: child in her oluerge that resulted in a remarkable wed - ROMANCE OF THE SHEEP 90,000,000 O1 THEM IN :tUSTR A.. LIA TODAY, The Pastoral I)ltlniry Ilriugs $125000000 lir the Land of the Kmiec rote suer, endings. Broad, .deep veran»T WEDDING IN NEW CHINA. dans, '.elaborate sun -blinds, double' Pestling tooFs and ',reale mitigate the figree• firstling Away of Old Cplttoms and ness of the sun's heat, which ellen Elaboenttr Ceremonies,* registers. over :700 c 1e ri'es tt- r g IAhre �, licit f zr weeks at a stretgli, ,Thei d.it y yearn ago it was a very try. winter climate of these inland i" ordeal to attend a wedding in plains is splendid like that of (UM 011 aeooant of the fearful dial Egypt--br•iglit, clear, and worm in made by the 'hand of musicians the day culd and frost at night.' "th there ssyrnbais, flutes, fifes, Though so furious] hot, the in- drtuns, etc,, to say nothing of' the land climate is' not unwholesome, loud Popping of fireeraekers and Women and children suffer' how,' skyrockets• I All tl ' ' . ' , ever, in snnrmter, and oho squatter's us•'Ta clog rapid y cnangen, There were sheep, before .lustre- fa,ue)• usually sand tlzo hot says the N.erth Ohina DailY News. iia was known of, just As there wore , ..,, s on thehillsor in one of the The band is still employed for such Had it not linen for you, your inns.• .ding acouple of years ago (n New brave sten before-tgatvemuoii, but ti,astal titles, festal occa'ntons, but is only allow-, to would probably not have been 'Rork. On a ship named the (:140, the lino wool sheep of t•o-day' is - 1 led to play now and then, when de. here .to -day to the storyhe risen -er vessel a certain 11r. '1'110 lambing', the shearing• t hose r fell a p g pruoticully an :lustralian.pzuduc ;r rt Ilio two attxaatis times frit the fired: New Cline celebrates the lima." Emanuel West,. a young fellow and tion—one might alinost say rage), .t t s r is. rgood la tI . miptials of her -sons and daughters ustruhai qu t o t# g x t o Those words'were spoken a feta the son of an enormously, wealthy tiort. in *, uiu • aliirust doublet his fiutk so at"tile home of the bride, instead of weeks bark by one of His Majesty's American, was travelling when the . Australia started its national life , a y ' i as in the old days when the young judges milting' on the. Bench of a vossel encountered a. terrible storm. a.; a'reforivatoty.. with the -„first e 1' • 1 l h unfor-r a blady rahutin:il court, grid Ile was address- and was wrecked, and the 1 l,lcet of prisoners and .their lens a young girl who had' been g(v- tunate passengers on beard were weenie there went a few sheep. Un- ing evidence against the scowling driven to seek safety in. the boats.' !lt-., the human exiles, they w SURGERY TO ni PAINLESS, Operations .Also 'Without Loss .ef Dined, ” In the Boston (Massachusetts) Medical and Surgical Jonrnet an- nounoelnenU is made o£ the discov- ery by Dr. John T. Hurley of this eke of a new method of produeiug consciqus anaesthesia, both blood- less and painless, in human beings which promises a world-wide revo- lution in surgery, especially that of the brain' and head. • The most delicate operations may be performed, he claims, on the brain and any part of the head, the eyes, the ear, the norm, and throat, with alsolutely no discomfort to the patient, who during it all is con- •ttlantdlAaly p1O111C, C.0 &nmirt m saious, ooute in 'ustral,a. to •t was sekeri in ,t closed sedan On no occasion, says Dr, Hurley, the house of the bridegroom for was an,y interference necessary af- I'IIEEZING TILE SUPERFLUOUS the wedding festivities, • ter starting the patient under his were The superfluous •' sheen; who is On one pui•tieitlar occasion the new anaesthesia, save giving the at B isba a the ca itai of occas- rti;0ian in the clock, a burglar, says It was a time when the human soul. nos sent out for reformation. Yet not wanted as a wool -grower, rower is,as sprtciims hall was tastefully decor- patient some strong black coffee to r destroying» etinn of the I.unrloix Tit -Bits. The girl had,it betrays its heroism or its mean, ig, land, inan,he a se g Y r they were dest(ned to found praeti a rule, readily convertible (i;tu nicer with cedar chains wrapped sip or a cigar to smoke, if the pati- city ; at (New South Wales); Apt»^tired, been ' alarmed by a ness, Young West had travelled sally a new race of sheep, vastly money by being sent to the meat ped around the large wooden pil- enc wished it for distraction, and at r Bourke i' (New, South tut,dslle of the night. Site had slept cover, if possible, some young stto cd and, m addition, FLOODS OF AUSTRALIA' IL t DRY WEATHER,r , FOLLOW110 DY ICI;AVY'HAINS. Town: in New South Males Destroy- ed and Many Lives Were Lost. Australia has the reputation ' 01 being .a very dry country. '4a a matter of fact, the rainfall dyer one-third of its area is greater than that of England, writes Frank Flax in London. Answers. In most laces the rainfall is, low p After however, ovox, badly distributed, long spells of very dry weather will come .fierce storms, during which the rain sometimes falls at the rate of an inch an hour. Thus f;tet, and the curlew; physical Formation of the eontieent, make it liable to floods. Great floods of the past have been. ntuvese noise in the hoarse in the far, one of his objects being to dis-I more valuable than any dial; had markets of the cities; or if hods of lira with strings of colored paper s7lo.elnfms that the new method Wales In the last atown'was de- 1udY sone before them, soundly incl had at first heard no- whom he might deem worthy of h.zs• Hung of the desperate struggle her love. He was almost giving up his WHE.tUi WOOL COMES 1'1i0M. extra good quality, to the freezing and flowers. A raised platform was works for exhort to Great Britain, at one end of the hall, on which The sheen kept for wool -growing stood a piano and an organ. The master had been staking against quest' when the wreck of the Clito The )faked rams of the First should earn for his owner about six mother of the bride, being a widow, the midnight enemy he had found revealed her to him in the most un- Fleet would yield about 3;; pounds shillings a year. It can, from these sat on the rostrum with two male in his room, Grappling with him, expected manner. She was a young of coarse wool. The picked ram of fuels, lee understood how fine .a relatives, the nearest of lrfn. he had boon dashed to the floor and servant -girl, who, amidst all the a first-class Australian stock to- money -spinner the sheep is.. The The bride was attired in the red hie wife had fainted. Creeping to peril that threatened her, remained day yields up to 40 pounds of fine than with fifty- thousand of them cin silk robe and skirt as was the nus- tho room, the servant -girl had ap- calm and collected and, possessed wool, and the average' yield of a good country is a happy mean, in- tctn in former days,' but it was a peered on the scone unexpectedly, apparently of only one thought—to decent flock is 8 founds per sheep. decd; -and the largest of the squat- relief to her not to be blinded by armed with a poker, and had dealt save a little fair-haired youngster f 1 the heavy he lrad With this great increase in gran ter peaces pasture up to one aril- red veil.- Now she has the burglarso sturd • and unhooked-! five years of, age, whom s only to wear the bride's clown with for a sroke that she had felled him; confied to her. In that moment t:ty there has been an even greater lion sheep. growth of duality. Australian sic-' .ado days of hand -shearing aro its hanging .strings of beads. The to the floor unconscious. She had' when they wore quitting the sinking 'rico wool is finer,more elastic Tun: anneal over hn. Australia. All but mother read the marriage ceremony saved her master's life at the risk` ship West's eyes, resting en the ger in staple thou anywool ever small sheds have sheep -shearing from a paper and placed it on the of her own! There was an out- I pale -faced girl speaking courage reamed oa ceutur • r, and its machines, driven by steam or elec- table, where it was signed by the burst of applause in the court ate mus words to the bot= clasped to her nukes ' iossible trir•ity. Whether the shearer uses bridal couple, the two kinsmen and the judge's praise that he did no -`bosom, found the girl he sought, »rcductiun alone herself. Congratulations were then thing to restrain, and the youth- semi, of the exquisite fabrics which handshtars or machines, thowork h 1 t luxury 01 is most arduous. A tradition of the g _-3 display the taiump tan u y . offered to the bride and bridegroom expectedel heroine, ieation with the re- modern civilization, industry, having its basis in the by formal bows, after which the achuiration she was re- lILRDLRED SOl IlY 11rSt 1H1.. 000 000 sheep are pas fact that the sonnei' the wool—once three elders stepped aside, allow- �t '1 00 1 oka ing looked' as one of the re - eat '•fL •tl iup the generation below them t iters said "a picture of , tired in Australia to -day, and the it has reached maturity—iso great *10031 upon the platform and offer porters pretty 1 'lure/Its encs Fuited to Ilec ognize Mint delight; .and embarrasstuent," pastoral ai,dustry brims to Atrst, a- sheep the better, makes g • and speed an essential: their good wishes to the happy When•. He Returned Hoare• ha's population of b..turen foot p anal- foie and a ca millions some Stem- THE ART OE SNIPPING. 0 a rear—iuo • than 435 a DEVOTION TO BER MISTRESS. A tea ed almost without p l 1 ] if 11 Nl' walked Y Many a family could tell of hero- 101 is reported from the Pros 1010 0JJ,0 0 y Yet, also, great care is of Galicia, Poland. year for every man, woman and necessary, £sat and self-sacihfice on the part ror the wool must be cut at one prostrations' of past years have of their servants—of services per- a Polish emigrant named Przeni chit '• as close to the skin as formed for them thatarenot onlykowslci returned to his home in the Of much more thusetilstralian ,81011 --the ice staple • the more gone The est thing on the programme y forever. "not reckoned for in the wages," village of Zeilony after ten years' moment was the growth of thislonger1 o p g United States. 1I:s grand wool industry. It gave to:valuable the wool—and the sheep,' was the presentation of written hut that. no money could adequate -.parents in the L did not recognize him, se England a new source of wealth. of course, must not be injured. A congratulatory papers. aaerentleThg inan but t ly reward. Przentm gfew scratches and cuts theyhave presented y gentleman, "In addition to the _sum :of two Przenikowski pretended to be an Before the days of Australia, Spain intimate friend of their son's He was looked upon is the only cum- to put '1' with in patience ; hut a following himcahn four ladies swit hundred pounds y year et be paid tryin the world which could pro- shearer 'who y papers to the said Mary Garnett during asked for a ought s lodging. I many would be•dischar ed as ary style bytheir own hands and liter - the term o£ her life,I also bequeath The old couple gladly consented duce fine wool. Spain of that day sheep gy' q him for a night,, and plied was not willing that British looms tner'nipetent. I read by themsrelves•. , to her the mark of one gratituderausuto keep g i shculd have any advantage of her Marvellous is the quick skill of; Lastly, about twenty little girls krpounds as a of my deceased him with ghat their on had los told them that their son land pros production, and the British wool- these sheaa'ers. To get through one firm; 4.to 8 years of age, ornament. wf Itar devotion if my aeceased United 'hundred sheep in• a dayof eight ed with large satin rosettes, -stood Wife and to myself upon an occa- pored in the States, and len manufacturing industry, tun-» for. when other friends failed said that he himself had £350 in fined to the use of coarser staples, hours is a fair average for good in a. row before the bride'and s • 1 ' h • shearers Some men can double bridegroom and -sang several vers - These words were part of the will of a rir& gentleman, named Miller, , whr ,diad some three years ago, old couple decided to kill him and woo of. oho ,t•orid; and rE, Muller feed lived.in a northern sub- steal the money. They strangled course of any future developments, urb of London and had done fairly him in bed, and then went through an Imperial Zollverin confined Au - in Stook Exchange speculation his papers stralia wool to the mills of the Em - pair. The younger members of:the family . and relatives wa ed up With smiles and bows; all the old' his pocket book, the result of his anguls ec . that score. "And the rice is from' es of a kindergarten ballad. The savings. Now, ractica1ly alone—produces the fine *n a hundred upwards. So the bride and bridegroom, who had After he retired for the night thep • in the shearers' earnings are high. De -'stood all this time on the platform, I sei•aedly, for the Australian 'shear- then stepped down to leave the hall. er is probably the prize workman 4. in the world for speed and skill CATERPILLARS MADE USEFUL 1 f combined seeenjan- g f fine clothes would ' e came disaster. One evening They were horror-stricken to prod, a great pant of t to orergn The wool shorn -its value over III China They are Made into a he arrived home with a pale face, find a passport hearing their own production o the whole of Australia reaching to Trees. Fertiliser for Ire was ruinedl From that. even- name, and, after examining other perEerce cease. that of 175 tons of old -it is pack- int; Itis wife went about the home, ,documents and certain marks on John MacArthur was tie first g that Itad, reviousl een ha the bod of the dead man, they dis- wool prince of Australia, and as ed hard into bales, and streams in- "Catch a caterpillar, smash it, p y b so n»y, Y y 1 to the orts for sale at 5 dne, Mel- and then our on the lime; allow a broken woman. Tradesmen in telexed that they h.ad killed their ouch deserves to bo honored as one P Yi Y, » of thio. founders of the Common- bourne, Adelaide, or Brisbane, or to ferment fora few hours and the neighborhood scented- danger son for direct shipment to the other plough under." d d tl t R Overwhelmed with remorse Prz- wealth. From him stretch, in de- great markets of the world,—Lon- This is the recipe for a new ferti- reached r the a t i letter. informing the authorities of blood, a long line of big-hearted, dor, Answers. Y ._x14. y, T g us regar e • tern acconn s, moth spread abroad, and quickly enikowsk-h's aged father wrote a scent of industry though not of the ears of servant in m �lro 0h-cumstances, and then he and big -brained men, who hide under his wife'laanged themselves. Their the curious name of "squatters," bodies were found next morning by the fact that they ware, and are, a servant, suspended from a beam the ichief pi ionsthe of Australian pros- pros - in the living -room. perity, andAustralian character. the unfortunnte villa, Mary Gar - path. Having balked the matter over with her "young man," the ' servant -girl caste to a brava re- solve. The two had about :6120 in the bank, and the girl insisted on her astonished master and mistress teking,tlte money and "seeing what tiaey- could do with it." It was a big sem for .the young couple to spare, and they had saved it with a view to being married. "Do you know," asked Miller, 'THE P1;NDEREL ANNUITY. Another Scaech for the Missing Heir. The romance of the Penderel an - "that if thus stoney is to be of any nutty is now tinged with pathos. use to me I shall have to speculate Robert Maclaren, the London cab - with it and I may lose it all'" "If you do, I shall have done my best," replied the girl. "But 1 don't believe you will lose it." - He did not. From that day the evil fortano that had hung over the family melted away like mists be- fore the sun. Miller became rich that he was a descendant of the add he was not ungrateful. famous "honest Richard Penderel" man, has died without receiving a penny of the £1 a week pension to which it was recently proved ho was entitled. After long search, it may be re- membered, a firm of London solaei- to-s found Maclaren and proved AT GREAT TISK. Tt was a Cardiff girl, named Mar- garet. Evans, who, walking with her tittle charge, a child of five years to whom Charles II. awarded an annuity of £100 for sheltering him after the battle of Worcester. Living in penury, the aged cab - mar. was overjoyed when he found of age, saw suddenly ab a turn of that of -the annuity £50 a year the road a dog coming towards would be his. After his claim had them, pursued by a trowel uttering: been upheld by the courts in De - the terrible cry, "Mad dug:" There ()ember last, legal formalities en wits no time to escape. The brave sued before the first installment girl hurriedly thrust the child be- could be paid to him. On Febru- hind her in a doorway and, pulling ary 11, before these formalities an the old cabman .1 e ''ncompleted, c she was zand . •r n s we ed co offhd, shawlld be , u gao p n her arm,stood wrapping it round toad died. over the precious mite calling on Another search has now to be Evare, with snrne. eenae.of strange danger, to protect it. Springipg en her, the dog buried its fangs in Tier wrapped arm, while she grip - poi at its threat with her other hand. The next moment one of the crowd, rushing up, dealt the beast the ilea that; laid it life- lowon d ab less. At what post had Margaret 'Byline saved the child? She had 'fainted, Bending over her, one of 'the rescuers tore away the shawl and the sleeve of ler dress, The dog's fangs had not penetrated to 1'r, r fir sh:! 'Shia was safe; When Margaret. Evans struggled - book to her senses she heard the sound of ivild cheers around her: Relieved ''hem their terror concerning her, the crowd wri'e giving exlrreselon to their joy at her oseape.. A gen- Henan who lutd arrived on the commenced. The cabman's eldest son, Robert William, to whom the pension reverts on his father's. death, cannot be found. Twelve years ago he lived in London, but since that. time no trace of him can be discovered, It is supposed, how- ever, Smith Africa loS ever th at ha went , at the time of the Boer War, JOHNNIE'S. BET. "Mamma," said little John, "I just made a bet•" "You naughty boy, Johnny 1 What) made you do it" she asked. "I bet` Billy Roberts my cap n,gainst two buttons that you'd give Me a penile to - buy some apples, with. You dont want m0 to 1086 my cap, do you t" Ile 'got the penny. SQUATTING ON BIG SCALE. DANISH 'FARMERS. er thin is Done b Co-operative conducting experiments hn affores- La gytalion on the barren hills around Societies. lizer sent over by Wilbur T. Gra- co American Consul at sin tau, China. The secret was discovered by some Germans who have been that ancient city, The Danish farmers,'living as The 'first plantings of trees were the.y do on or near the seacoast, are made about.eleven years ago. The arc The squatter earned his name great exporters of dairy stuff. Eng -varieties used were pine, '1 h, from the fast that in the early days land is so big a customer that the walnut, oak, ash, maples and al he pushed out with his flacks and Dunes in fun reproach their neigh- tiers. So rapidly have the trees Maga- herds beyondd the borders of bora with eating up their gutter, grown, says the Van Norden Maga herds beytheion, and "squatted" then and leaving thein only olemargarin. zine, that timber is being sold at Yet, says Mr. F. M. Butlin in .fancy. prices. Srnall branches are where he listed. His title to the "Among the Danes," "they are not in great demand for firewood, and land was his use of it. As settle- all of that way of thinking, for one the larger wood is being used in [neat progressed, that free and old farmer asked us if we could mines. The sale and exportation of not persuade our fellow country - acacia are expected to become quite I. man to eat butter with their cake, an industry in the next few years. "If you ask how the Danish farm- It' is considered very remarkable ars manage to keep pace with "our that these'experiments should have (the British) increasing appetite for succeeded in the least degree. Prae- Dan'sh eggs, butter and bacon, the tieally every known difficulty was answer is, they co-operate. Tho encountered, and the chief ono was or purchase. butter which is exported is made' the caterpillar, are the areas now held byin their co-operative dairies. Tho Girdles of glue, so effective in this Vast pigs are slain in 'their co-operative) country, were placed around the Not herr is in Australia,. In the slaughter -houses, and the Danes trees, but the energetic worms hur- the r ern territory, where pa•hma- are not a little proud of the process. dled them without apparent trou- tive conditions still rule,some of I (os women One distinguished traveller tom- ble. Thousands of Chan g the sans are as big as file prinei plains that during his stay in Den -:and boys were employed to destroy alit of Wales. Even in the s not r caterpillars and insects b palitymark he was always being asked th., tato l Y settled parts of Australia it is net to come and sec a pig killed. hand. Mr. Graney reports that in uncommon for one man to hold up "The eggs are exported by co- 1004 more than 7,000,000 caterpil- to amillion acres of land for a, cat- operative societhes. If a Dane has Tars were gathered, smashed, cow•• ole or sheep run. only one egg ho can export it—al-I erect with lime, e, anti afterward used Generous .hospitality marks the ways provided it be a good egg. No as fertilizer: wool- rower.a been Australian Thelantationsh have , life a .g riot that. Mosto£ u l e made about t t u mistake must1 n his gates a bomountain sides stranger withint mayh moa a sbutout c ggr x- av cl theare packed for e s c Before eggs o ,up eof m lordlyweIcom • almost won assured a which have a m caterpillars > co-operative a fat- the c ter n• in dl' o -o e n v port, down the c » p easy method of occupying the coun- try had to give way to more elab- orated and not, in all cases, such satisfactory tenures. The squatter, however, remained still in title a squatter, though he was now a ten- ant of the Crown on a long lease, or an actual freeholder by right of grant stretches even to the loan or gift of fresh horses to resume his jour- ney "'This gracious custom of hos- pitality—born of the days when travelling a d d'fft 1t-- will be of the greatest use in eases y ', of patients suffering from diseases MANY LVES WERE OST. that prohibit the use of ether or chloroform, such as consumption, acute lung affections, diabetes and nephritis. Another,thing which he described as most important, and radically different from the old way, is, that the patient can be given a full meal just before and immediately after the operation. The .doctors• discovery has been demonstrated and accepted at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirm- ary The patient was a woman 40 years of age, who was admitted to the hospital for the removal of the ossicles of the ear, a particularly trying and delicate operation. The operation was absolutely painless and bloodless, say the doctors. AN INDESTRUCTIBLE SNAKE. A .South American Lizard Met Its Match. Snakes on the pampas of South America have many enemies. Bur- rowing owls feed on them, and so do herons and storks, which kill them with a blow of their javelin beaks. The tyrant bird picks up the young snake` by the tail, and flying to . a branch or stone, uses the reptile as a . flail until its. life is battered' out The large lizard Another flood on the Hui er (New South Wales) wa, by the drowningof the Sl the local Parliaent. _p But great loss of human life is rare; the sacrifice of stock: is some- times, 'however, enormous.. Cattle faro better than sheep, forIthey will make some wise effort-tn. reach a Point of safety ; whilst sheep will, as like as not, huddle together in a hollow, not having the sense even' to seek the little elevations which are called "hit's," though only raised a few feet above the general level. I recall well a flood in the Nar- rabri district of New South Wales' some seventeen years ago, and its mcving perils. 'Tao hillocks on which the cattle, sheep, and in some cases human beings had taken refuge were crowded, too, with kangaroos, emus, brolgas-•'a kind of crane--kolas—known as. the na- tive bear --rabbits, and snakes. MUTUAL HOSTILITIES were for. a time suspended by the common danger, though the snakes mice the rabbits• were rarely given the advantages of the truce if any human beings happened to bo pre- sent. ter Rio - :narked esker of An incident of that 'flood was that the little township of Terry -hie -hie • —these aboriginal , names are of the pampas, the iguana, is a strange 1. --was almost ,wipe d out famous snake -killer. It smites *el by starvation. Beleagured by the shako to death with its powerful 4 waters, at was out e�r from all corn-. Natnr_ mfuticatiori with- the' J ailway and 'When the ;ft on these . T just as fore :tempt after send flour and bullock It was im- orses to get of flour, and look desper- only raised of the little vll,erge of star er urhbourns itself seve dst from floods; • tail. Mr, Hudson, in his alir•t in La Plata," tells this story: One day a friend of mine was rid- irig out, looking after Isis cattle. bluele-soil plains-wa One end of his lasso was attached I tnidable a barrier., to his saddle, and the remainder of attempt was made, the forty -foot lino was allowed tol through by horse trail on the ground. teams, but all fail The rider noticed a large iguana possible for thirty. lying apparently asleep, and al- through with one t though he rode within a few inches, the situation began it did not stir. But no sooner had"ate. Tho siege the rider passed' than. the trailing when the populate lasso attracted the lizard's atten- town was on the v tion. vat'on. Tt dashed after the slowly, moving Tho suburbs of rcpe and dealt' it a succession of used to suffer with food supplies waters fell, the moo tcry� on the shore, they aro hold their fight. The acacia withstands' over a basin filled with electric' the attacks of these little enemies light, when all defects can be de- of plant life better than any other tected with the naked eye. It is no species, and it is now being ,planted: n on the summits of the mountains in an effort to'cheek future destruc- tion. Chinese Government officials are the ' access of d thes so impresse by , experiments that they are establish- ing forestry :schools and placing there under the direction of the Gormans. The first school was °period at Mulcden, Manchuria, two years ago. Dielc—"I know a girl who accepts rings from men she doesn't know." Clara—"I don't believe it, Hoty like to have you trim the endo o' the could shoo" Dick—"Why, the has rope where it's frayed, It tickles to, yolk know; site's a'' telephone; me neck." girl.' race tag was rare an 1 eti ' use for an old to. pose as a young now dies reluctantly fes the railroad one then. Each egg is marked with carries on its campaign against pre. the owner's number and the nutn- ntitivism• bur of his district; the owners of fine merino sheep needs ds a The» bade eggs aro fined: No lass than. hot, dry climate to grow its wool eighteen thousand Danes belong to to perfection, 80 the big sheep-sta- this one soehety, :Here, too, but- tions aro mostly in the hot belt; for is peeked for the English mar - but some of tate station homesteads, ket," though situated in the back coun- try, far from any railway, 'manage Leader of Lynching Party (in Far to Mum end life with much refined West)—"You s;ot anything to say luxury, before we strings you up 1" The Water is brought front a river or ()endemism.' Man (ap°lo ebict lly) dam. to irrigate the homestead gar- "Lf it ain't toe much trouble, I'd den, and flowers, grapes, oreng631,. lemons, peados, and many.'. sub- tropieal fruits make gracious the viclent blows with its tail. When the whole of the lasso, sev- eral yards of which had been pound- ed in vain, had passed by, the igu arca, with uplifted head, gazed af- ter it with astonishment. Never had such a wonderful snake crossed its path before. LOST THINGS IN LONDON. A Branch of Scotland Yard A.ppre• dated by Forgetful People. "That lost and found, property department at Scotland Yard is one of the best things they have in London," said a. woman who has spent much time in England. "Last summer I had experience with it. "I fall into a sort of habit of los- ing things. First it was a valuable umbrella, I did not miss it until I got to my hotel after an after theatre supper. Tho next morning I `Made my husband -take me to the theatre and the two restaurants where wo had been the night be- fore, but without result. "Then an' American friend sug- gested Scotland Yard.. 1 went there, and 'there it was. It had been turned in by a cab driver. "Twice afterward I lost that umbrella, and got it back in the time leavingas ' n each gismo fashion, C a toward for the cab driver a per, cent. of, the 'value of the'umbrolle, as required. Then I lost a fine pair of opera glasses and I got them back "It is an'excellent system the p0- lice over there have of encouraging honesty. A oat) driver who finds anything in his vehicle is required ]e knows that it 'n and o aril a to fur , the owner claims it ho will be re- warded." EARNINGS, "Father, to -day I earned money fo,r the first time in my life.. • "Excellent, my son 1 How did yeti do it t" "I lost a bet." "rLoat a beet" "Yes, : father, and refused to pay it •" but of late d. FLOOD REL7it' r WORKS in the River Yam undation of the, practically imposs other river banks min has;been act against 1101 ill `r Tains. The loss of th —one of the eine flood—is partici coming at a tem embarking on a policy. The w fttsl• of the wort or asequence -pf kin's powerful tion many year 1t is being sr toria just no weir, a mulch New South WI Jack weir, an rivals in side 4 wcrk disowouould,rag�1 many expertil mus loss to' that could. follow MONKEYS RE0 The monkeys o ulnar objects cf interest to vis(. tors to ole Roc , and hold, cinchol anln '.anile hue ouneE' cin' " g o twi• ow J th oho garrison: Ii they first•got•.into ` occupation of o stronghold is un-', renown, thotaghnhey are undoubted- ly descended ;from an ancestry ,brought by inib from the Barbary':. const opposite They are a great and proteetol community. Tho guards otj "�' signal-sta,L',t ' siclo g' ciao teed to r 'll deaths. 1'" so greatly d o reed thinning, 1 t from high Ion eel Ct•1 a 1 a 1 i curnivaiit b give the quietus to u small p; oatago, of the commu- nity. lave made in- ;orlon capital ; but on some )gt, all the art of C' ensure safety iter torrential anecocrie weir its of the 1000' y unfurtdnate, '.en Australia is sst.k irrh alien • as one b catered upon , Alfred Dea- cacy of irriga- cntented in Vie- t the Goulburn er work, and in by the Barren dertaking which Nile dam, t to irrigation r gatron n the opinion of to the most seri- Ealia industrially ram this flood. STEII.ED HERE. Gibrailar are fa. .. highest point --the have strict orders to )cake s' movements, Vem nt 0 a r s rtl �' emir births and - their numbers hate i+)rcased as t i cia,I warrants _ tthorities are reee£y- c truly have it in No who Vow an carry a great' burden sot k'new haw to let ht forget it at times.