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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1904-12-8, Page 3I Inc ICISS 01 [leCell May J eenii in?" A smile lit up the face of tho in- s obit Mile. "Of (eitireo you may, Balm: oh, it's you, Harriet! How marvellous- ly your voice resembles Barbara's!" The smile earl freed when he saw 11118thhO, ena hh4 pale, milelued snftereinelaw bushel herself with the medicines. "Yese, we're ttliee In Wet," she said, "If In nothiug else, But rye no- ticed that brothers end Sitit.q.m neon often resemble each other in voice thaa in anything else—haven't your, "At any rate, it is so /11 your 01180•" 8111d Philip Chesney wea- rily. "Why doesn't Barbara (fume UP?" Tbe Solemn Harriet teemed :May. Low could she till the strieken man , Vila 1 ittebera—iireau ti MI, winsome, selfish Barbara, who hall looked un - on life ne 810-83ner nardrini ,,nd her- self as the fairest flower therein — how could mho tell him that his who had taken his illness In ehe light of a perrional affront? Her plans were ruined for the season; the parties and hauis and festive gatherhigs, where she would 110V0 heeu enVied and wora shipped as queen' indisputable, had to be exchanged for a dopressieg bed- room. It was unendurable! But how could Harriet, tell tlio do- ting, helpless mars knowing as she dirt that he worshipped her with all the stneoetli of Ills nature, that she nad lett, Barbara in hue room, crying 011t in the bitterness of selfishness against her hard and cruel fate? "Barbara is tired. She has a beculache, and Is lying down," said Ilarriet glibly; and be was satieflixi. swallowed the medicine she poured out for him with a wry face, "Rake yourself for a 1aumont," said, "while 1 smooth your pillow." "Veoy rend he irritably. "nut be •quick; I cannot sit up long." Ho was scowling when he IMO back again on the smoothed pillow, for it is hard indeed to be ill xylem a benettifel wife and a prosperous buei- nese clangie tantalisingly, and call mookingly to him who wile so mighty yesteeday to come to -clay and reap the harvest for which he had worked BO hard. Thieriot turned away, eta to the quick by the eoto of irritation, She knew it was foolish, and that Philip Chesney had enough to try bins if any man had; but she felt it, never- theless.. He caught her look as oho turnod, and a touch of remorse swept over him. "Little sister," he sald, clasping lin' hand, "take no notice of me. I am ill and peevish; but. believe m0. aux grateful." And Harriet left the room with a wild tonna beating in her -usually quiet brenst. That was in the early days of Phil- ip Chesney's illness; but the hope which ugly, gentle little Harriet Fra- ser had cherished—that time would win Baribtara to a seriSe of her duty— was not realized. The gay little but- terfly -soul pined and wearied for its rose -garden, and grew more and more to loathe the nauseous, unhealthy weeds within which it had to flutter. Who shall say she was to blame? Have you, render, ever attempted to analyze the charm of tho most. fascin- ating woman of your acquaintanee— to find out the secret 'by the magic of which &he makes inen her Blanes? 'Do so, and, if the gift of seeing be yours, you shall find that on the re- verse side of this bectutifuj tharm them lurks the sinster demon—SeInsh- ness. All the them Philip grew worse. Ile would either -dle, or become a life- long invalld—that was the verdict of Wo doctors; nod the beautiful wife shuddered, and bit ber rosebud lips till the blood came as she con- templated the prospect. And one day a male butterfly, also without a heart, fluttered into that gloomy bower, and flaunted his goo - germs, tempting coloring before the dayolcel eyes of the brilliant fetninine insect of his speciee; and, lot they new away from that gloorny beam— which was assuredly no place for but es—together. 11, 1-tal'111 et 35118 the hest to learn of t,he flight. She had feared for so long that her lovely sister would in revolt against the fate which was so distaeteful, take 001110 such etep as this, that the discovery scarcely etono es a surprise. She had done her best to drive the male butterfly from the house; but ho had found entranee again and agate Rev thin pale face grew More firmer' fdie contemplated the position, like the drab, quaselfIsh creature site Was, 8110 soon fell to bleanieg herself, Babe had been elide neellierni 4101 - ling, 10)11 011 her deathbed had bestowed 1101, upon. Harriet as it previous trust, "Tow, she eeflected, sho kaPt that toust? 11 ie over !hes with tbe drab and 11315510811. That night the doctors came from the beveltd's room: looking greeter than twee, Philip, they said, 31118 sinkitig, nod ugly, gentle !Merlin grew lo think that surely Yale Must ludo him bitterly indeed. 'Po lose life is bitter, in enne of tlie peseitniete; bet to have file keoet- lodge that, while lite 3508 slowly eb- bing honor itself had folcen wings 11151 flown, is to teste the aterenotit dregs of' liennin doge/1(101ms She hail not tont him of the 111011 of the lenttetelive, HIM lied heed, for 8110 reenceived it to 1.0 her anty to rio se; but the words had el (3011 in her Myrna ;And now, VS fille Was 511011 lo enter hie ennui, She (13.101'- 10150d 131111 he 811011111 1031'r jalow if fihe V011111 it. "Who 11, it'?" emanee .Elillip, es ehe entered. blind. I can't see.' "It is X Philip," ik1 ugly Herrn et's beautiful voice. A glory of satinfied longitor leapt into the sink man's face, "At last," bo tatid, "Iny wife, ray de1.1110.0 1/,413.1giVe 11101•^4 thought you had 'Heed of yoll lilplies, tate. Mee Ittorband. you 1111:111 001110 1.0 ine—you gave comet" The yoke had deelvecl him again, aml austere, truth -loving Thieriot, who had Bever lied before, did not enlighten him, 3 fe einsprel Mg hand, and they talk- ed es lovers 110, lightly igtioring death, who watehea them sandonlven ly, But Harriet saw that the shock, of the joy had been too much for the sick and Winn man, A grey ebrolow Wow)." spread over the sunken eheek, "Mee me, and say that yeti love mel" lie gasped. "f love you 1" she said, as she kissed him tenderly. '1'110 kiss wart 0 lie, and a Ile is a foul thing; but the Recording Angel has sorely written the 8111 in the faintest of eharariters i lile book, for the words that gentle, ogly irar- Ain obediently spoke were, and had always been, trues Are!, with tho Siss of deceit on his brow, a happy man passed into the great Tinknown, where, if there is moron/ he never learned the truth. THE DOGS OF LABRADOR RETRIEVE TEE COD THEIR 'WASTERS 11001i. They Are Wolfish in Vfaxmer o.nd Looks and Hardly 'Used. Dogs trained to eaten fiat nre among the features of every -day life on tlie barren shores of that distant part of Labrador which belongs to Newrouncllantl. l'he cod fisheries aloug the 1,100 miles cf letbradov's coast yield about ono -fifth of Newfoundland's total catch gad furnish employment alum - ally to thou,sands of fisher folk, They fish with linee from 150 to 200 fa- thoms long, two men to a boat, and leach man ueleg two bandit/les. 'The 'usual buit is capelin, Wlien fish are plentiful 11 takes 0 [very ration time to l311 a boat with cod. A number of the fishermen have tratni3d clogs to anstst them in eateh- ing fish, 'The rapidity with which the listen. - men haul up them long lines when they feel a bito roba tho flieh nlinost entirely of life and breath by the time it reaches the surface of the sea. It comes to the top ae completely ex- hausted as a salmon that lias been played by an angler until 110 can tad it, with his hand anti so avoid the necessity of gaffing., 71 is one thing, however, to bring It limey cod to the surface of the wattle alai fteliei nine other to get it into the boat. Gaffe and landing mos aro unknown to these toilers of the sea. II they can lift Lhe fish into tho boat by the line, all is well; bin this is often where they fail. If the ash is large and but slightly hookei, as ie often the ease, the hook breaks nway from its mouth when the attempt is made to heel it front the water. The 11811, still quite inanimate in manner and in appear- ance, floats away from tlio boat on the surface of tho waves. This is only for a moment, howevev. The fisher's trained dog, often without waiting for a Cigna' from his master, leaps over the gunwale of the boat, plunges into the sea, owlets after thu floating fish nod SEIZES IT IN 1115 MOUTH. Returning consciousness, has 11100)1 by tho new sensation of being taken eatirely from the water and firmly grinned between tho jaws of its cap- tor, often produces lively struggles On the part of the fIsli, which add ceinsiderably to the difficulty the dog has in swimming back with his bur- den to the boat. The dog rarely re- leases his hold upon his wriggling captive until safe with it within the b°Snotetimes tliese dogs have larger game than codfish to struggle with in the water. They aro trained to plunge into tlio ice-cold waves in the spring of the year and to net as re- trievers for their masters when seal are shot from Geo shore on the sue - fate of the sea. Tho dogs employed by tho fislioe- men of Newfoundland and Labrador are by no moues the apecimens of canine intelligence usually known as Newrotemiland clogs. They more nearly resemble liniquinutux dogs than anything else, and are often quite wolfish both in manner and appear- ance. It is oven believed by many persons that the blood of the wild brutes of tho forest flows in their veins. At a post near liramilton Inlet not long Lino, the door of a house in Which an infant was Sleeping -io cradle had been left °Pell fos a short time during the temporary absence of tho aloe. otembere of the family, When the mother re-entered the 1101180 She f01.17171 only the bones of lier ethild. 'Pilo little ono hod boon devoured by doge. Tlio Labrador Slogs are exeessively glialgelsome and, Wolf -like, shelters a1 then the wealcer. All seem anxi- ous to ta,ko pert in the fray, and remineSe e .55710011 plISSeS without the settles lomieg two or three dogs durine the summer, froin woends re- ceited in (marvels, Vence 18 Maria- ly resloreil, even if twenty or more eve engaged in the elliittly, by the soutel, or even the sight, of tho (treaded Esrptimatix whip used by T1 lin 3.,All A 3011 Thoso people have seRlom secceedrid lu inising eny other domestic anineal oe the cot; cate, cotee and pigs have all been destroyed by tho dogs. Tf ever a dog is brouglit with the family, in the house, his doom is seniell„ A1 the nest opeeenitunity hle jealous complacent -3 ponnee Von Sim 131 the 111/8011(10 Of his 1111181115 Mid worry him to 11001.13. This is the invariable fate of any privileged efog on the wart that perneitted to 1(311(5) his 1/11181(31•'); 110410/ and receive the V0111881.11 Of 111)) differ - ea member:4 of the family, 'The pre- ference excites the jealotiey of tho other dolai, and they patiently 35)113 for an opportunity to avenge theta - selves. In tho wine er these aniillItih 15111 drag a eominetique, eleigh, fifty or sixty miles a day oxen the A11014, - 'Amy haul wood •Moin the interior, carry suppliem to the limners in the comets far ;mei; front the rocky and desolate coaetis draw their musters boomo ji.fri,101,i ,5lwts, lo 1101185, ( , 7,,710 3 1 7,13 1 1th 11,11111• oath, even 10 the 113(0,1 Maas sterna 11 the traveller win oidy trust te tele fregiteity of an experienced lead - or, he limy wean himself up in hie . Wog and 'I('.) 10161)1 robee, anil, regard -1 less of piercing winds rind blindiag snowdrifte, thee. enteteious ana oath- ful animals will (1170W 11 1111 scanty to I 11114 01101 deer 01' the 11410.1'081. 13081, The cominetique 103 abotit 30 inches ' 11101.1d 0.11d 1(1 Or 12 feet long, The runnere are shod with wholebone, whica by friceion over the snow moon 'becomes beautifully polished and looks like ivory, The ecinunetique is well floored with the skins of the heir, or Labrador, Beal, over whica bear cm more seal- skin(3 aro nailed all round, with Ell) opening On. the traveller to introduce his belly. The hareem lir made of sealskin. The foismost dog, caned the guide or leader, is placed about ihisty feet in advance. 'Pile 0111505 nre ranged in sales lethind the guide. Someesnes three, o3 IVe11 four pairs of doge are- thus attached to one commetique, besides the guide. The lesquitnaux dog of pure breed, with his strongly bent frame, long whito fur, pointed ears arid bushy tail, is capable of ea/luring hunger to a far greeter extent than the mixed breed. But the latter beats him in long joerney-s, even wben fed only 0050 dny. 3511.10 FSQUTMAIJX DOG will travel „Owe days without food One of thennixed breed 1111185 be fed at the close of the first day, 017 he is good for little tho next. In winter their food often coneists chiefly of driecl merino—the email, smeltlike fish used by the end fishermen for bait. An expert driver can hit any part of the Marling dog he chooses with hie formidable wliip. Tt is used, however, rie little as possible, for these clogs, althnuah tractable, are ferocious, and will endure little car- reetion. When the whip is applied apon one of them with severity., he rails upon and worries his neighbor, and . the Intro; in turn, attacks a third and them 143 a scene of universal confus- ion; 00 the dogs dottlile from side to side to avoid the whip and the tames become ealettigled and the safety of the sledge endangered. Thu vehicle, must thou be stopped, each dog, put into Itie proper place, and the traces readjusted. This frequent- ly hareiens several Utiles in the C0111'Se of the clny. The driver, therefore, depends 111111- ('11301131 mein the docility of the lead- er, who, with admirable precieion, quickens or slackens 1118 paee and starts oh or Mope, or turns to tae right c0 left, at the summons of his master, When they are jotiree,ving.. 11.0111e, ward, or travelling to some spot to which the leader has been accustom- efi to go, he is generally sunercel to pursee his own coase; for although Gooey trace of the rund is lost In the drifting snew, ha vents it out end follows it with undeviating accuracy. Even the leader, however, Is not always under the control of his 171118 - ter. If the journey lies homeward, he will go his own price, and that is esti- ally at the top of his speed; or, if any game starts, or he scents it at a distance, no command of his driver will restrain him. Invaluable 08 these dogs are to their owners, the treatment -accorded them seems ill calculated to cause any strong or lasting attachtnent. During their period of labor the 31511 which form their staple food is often quite putrid, end in Hummer they ere turned loose for several months to shift for themselves until the re- turn of the severe season rendere it necessary to their tnaster's interests that they should again be bought for arid once more reduced to their state of toll and slavery, Thee have been known for several successive cleys to travel more than sixty miles a rho,. They seldom raise theft. road, although they may be drieen oeer one ontrodelen, snowy wliore they are 00C1181 011011y 1111, able to reach any place of shelter. When night comes they partake with their innstee of the scanty fare which the sle'clgo will afford', nod then, crowding nromul, keep him wenn anti defend him from clungne. If any of them fa victim to the 310111- 8131(15 to which they are exposed, their master or their companions 'eminent.- ly feed on Miele remains, and their skins aro converted into warm and comfortable drosses. ITTLES 010 CLOUD, - great, cernuloter thunderhead cloud is often higher than the highest- AlpS Woeld be if they 33er0 1.311061 top of the ITlineloyas, It js not an.. usual for these clouds. to megrim% five, six, and even eight, miles from their flat, dark Leese, hovering a mile or Mee above the earth, to their rounded, glistening summit, splendid in the eunliglit. And in tliese eiglit miles the changes of temperature are tie great as those over mausr thou - Sands of miles of tho earth'S sure face, These donde contain strata of tempereture, narrow belts of freezing Cold alternating Willi largo distances of rainy mist and frozen sneW eticl leo partieleS, ."1 noner beeelne angry beettnee 35 Man flees net think quite as I de," remarked the professor; "for Whoa I find a Man Who disagrees with nto realien that it le probably With thot ho thinks at alle ++,14+4,+++144,-.Hrle+444**He • Pash ion :LP H tits. floteinlaireinielolaigle++++++++.+++ WHAT PARIS WEARS. Next t • i evening ileatedes the feshlonul,1 (11- 3(1)1)000 binetions, in matters of clress--nel enjoys high favor with the elite. 11. is most effective in the millinery mentions, 'however, hats be- ing partieulaely entart. Ono of the prettiest. nuidele Sell/ this season 18 a hat mile of steered liberty oath), tne :thieving bein31 done in dark red threads, lending a shaded eliect to the hat, Tlie brit» turns lip sharply at the side, and 1e eauglit place with a. Mulch of tinted 1'e15111 ger- aniums, Tbe crown is a conical af- fair, without trimming of any sort. A charming bronette with perfect complexion appeared at an exelusivn hotel R few evenings ago dressed In rod silk crepe do chine. The shirt was full and trimmed with teatimes or 11011111001.es of the same nutterial. The eilken bridle° might also be called O coat, us it 31/118 cerise fitting and extended below the belt line in ripples limed with very pale pink satin. 'Pho sleeves deserve a paragraph by theneselves. 'Mee were formed of three Puffs, but at each dividon of the puffs there was it turned back cuff, making three dletinet cuffs for eacb sleeve. These were finished with • navrow palling of- Pori talTete gab- ered in the centre ivith red and 'cream lace. ISinisbing the sleeves Were cleep ruffles of Mee ann cream and red chiffon. Women who garmed tit the extra- 1-an31elic0 of trimming a gown with two or three kinde of lace when the fashion tens fleet introduced, will be inconsolable at the annotmeement -that two or three more varieties nre to be added as the season advances. As to the kinds of lace it mattein little, for if the grandmother's oliest boasts a bit of real point or old rose, it will hobnob with an imita- tion in tlio 1rienellient manner. Few combinations aro more enective than Point duchesse neplitpicel to a lace with a net background, snob as Lisrre, for instance. A feature of the season's einc,ssy freaks is the high -necked dinner gown. Rs variety is inflato aS re- gards both models end materials. On thn whole, elle soft silks have first place for such frooks, but it is haml th tell where taffeta mousseline fades into silk mousseline, or where they draw the dividing line between chif- fon liberty or chiffon crepe end chif- fon. In many instances the silks are so light root sheer and soft that they seem to invade the territory oe the moesseline, gauzes an•ri other spider web fabrics. The white trinnta gown when well designed and made has great name-. bons, .A. model which does not oweo sitate too great expense has et round skirt, toucthing the 11001' evenly. At the top it is smocked to the deptli of a Short yoke, the smocking form- ing regular points all around. Above a modem width at the bot- tom, two-inch wido hand -run tucks form a simple finish. The yoke of the 'blouse is formed of smocking cor- responding witii that of the skirt, and tho eleeves are fulled Into deep smocked cuffs. Arounol the collar and edge of the cuffs are narrow hand -embroidered bands of taffeta, tho embroidery silk being rather coarse, and of a shade matcbing the gown. The fastenings at the back are tiny buttons covered with the silk, loops being eised in- stead of buttonholes. FASHIONS 10011 CHILDREN. The econornicaloninded mother will be glad to learn that there aro no marked catenates in the styles for chil- dren this seaeon. '1115 rule is strict simplicity, and whether the material is the finest broadcloth or the most inexpensive serge, tho model remains the SO 1110. For boys, tlie middy suits and the Russian blouse are the only two styles. Of the tWo the blouse suit seems most rittraetive, the long, fuel "middy" trousers seeming rather metre on a small bon. The blouse has a15 ea/ collat. and is worn with O leather belt aerl full knee trousers. Brown seents to replace tlio ever popula dark blue this season. Isor best, these suits are made up In velvet, velveteen or broadcloth; for every -day use, serge and corduroy are Med, the latter having special wearing mutinies. Elecki is used a good deal and is excellent for hard Nveniitli Lle girls wear the blouse of the middy suit with gathered or pleated skills. The latter remain abennelly short, being even above the knees. Tlies exaggerateilly long waist still 0911 31113. A pretty dress for et mall girl has 0 medium low round neck with deep turnover frin or collar mode of 5e0110ne of the material ptxt together with insertion and edged with lace. Thirgwaist is gathered full and sewed to the ebroviatod aldrt, Which has four mall tucks ns trimming. The full bishop Onevee are gathered to a pleb) Wrielleand, and the drena is Worn 05el. ft 311111117)0, ille /OW 11ee1( 18 liilod in with fetching finiehed witli fibliet000liCerl'cr0pedIngic01; nod tartans in small designs are mach liked for lit- tle girl& dresses and for boys' kilts. A detaelleade and weslieble sailor col- lar is a judicious adjunct for tow smell C0017111110, UN it „adds mach to Ole style witlimit itnich ex- ponee or trotible, 10or school girls three is nothing Meat prattler then the shirt. elitist suit, meek ep in plate serge, reortli shernierd cliorks or Heole11 1)111)310, This makes n, very ettitable dross for the School room. A 111010 elehel'ele 1110(10 18 011 the 101110. 1115S, bet laIS a skirt trimming of gradnaled Wats, long& in MOM: 011(1 eboetenitig to - Ward the back, stitelictl, and With a button in the centre of path rounded end. These bands are cut to form a yoke at the waist line. The thole Myle of trimming' ie delineated on the widen the stritlei cut from a yoke end the yol,e fritining a pointed vest, or ehetnifiette, while tho same 1(1(37; Is (111711irated in the reline the eterips extending up on the sleeves. Many skirts for children of sehool siee luive box pleats or tellie pleats, stitched for quite a dietanee below Ilia belt, and finiehed with tueSs above the hem (Inc of the smart eSt 1.00771(.718 for c1111 - (Men of 10 years end above has 4t yoke and straight bawl down the Mont of embroidery, with the ma- terial gathered under the yolce and drawn into the sides and beak, gath- erer] or shirred soft folds tinder the bell, The front to math the waist. 111e05e5 are f1111 at the wrist, where the cuff shows a touch or embroid- ery, Little yids' lints are very pictur- esque thie year, being inade of shir- red velvet, with Inner facing of shirred- tulle, in white, palest pink or blue. Close little bonnete of felt boielerecl with fur have big roriettee on eacli side, over the ears, of black satin, while the same rosettes in verities ribbons of delicate shade are seen on babies' caps. XOUROPATRIN AND MIKADO Famous General Once Enjoyed Hospitality of Emperor. General Alexei Nichoievitch '<our- Opatkin wed a staff of Russian on1- cers enjoyed the horipitallty of the Emperor of Japan a little OVer 000 year ago. It was in June, 1903, that the Russian minister of war, the eow world famous general, jour- neye(3 to China and Japan to attend the important (3C11le0ellee held at Port Arthur to talk over the Rus- sian position in the far East. All the Russian high officials then sta- tioned 11) NorthChina and Manchur- ia, including the Russian minister to China, were present, and to show this distinguished gathering honor the mikado extended a spoceal imi- tation to (lenient Nouropatkin and his staff to cross to Tokio anti o01 - joy an entertainment, however brief, at the hands of his imperial repre- sentatives. Though the time of the Russian members of the conference was some- what limited, they decided to avail themselves of the invitation so cour- teously extended, and this is how it bappened about fifteen months ago that Russian and Japanese soldiers of the highest rank. 35110 are now using every effort to annihilate each other, drank tea together in the frierielllest manner 01/ 11030- hostile 8°Anecordifig to the oriental custom, when this noble ollicer, representing the czon of all the 'tussles, called upon the mikado In response to the latter's polite and official summons cups of fragrant pale -colored Japan- ese tea wore passed tu the guests assembled in the royal tea garden. The occasioe VMS an important one from a poliLical standpoint, so the ()dicers of each nountry wore their hantLsomest untforms and all the medals they could boast collec- tYoifvAeullen as they ldettire was taken f othe group sat under the cherry blosecon trees and in the shadows of the imperial palace. 350 General Kouropatkin was given the seat of bettor in the center, and on one side sat the Japanese minister of war, Toraueld, and on the other side Major General Murata, also of the mikado's army. The Ruseian general mot his dis- tinguished staff presented a strilcing aentrast in appearanCe to the small- er Japanese officers. Nournpathin himself is a striking, 11110-looi31ng man of purely Russian type. In full uniform he is the ideal Wel' god, and even as Ile sipped his tea 1115 hosts must have felt a. conscious Rymer:deo tion of the vigor, strength and might of this great man's mind and body, though occasion placed Mai, from the western point of view, in rather effeminate surroundings. General Nouropatkin comes from tho ancient Russian nobility. I -Te was born at Psoff in 1348. ARMY RATIONS AS 13IALTURE. South .A.friean Stores That Were Thrown Away. Some remarkable statements as to the enormous waste of South African army rations aro reported in the Natal Advertiser, in eonnection with the prosecution of entities fee steal- ing condenuted stores which hail been buried as mature, The evidence, given epon oath, of Mr. Robert Cheves, manager for Messrs, R. Spence a., Co., of the Re- union Sugar Estates, was that two years ngo, when the military ewe. damned large quantities of nemy 1'O' 1.1-0115, he got 250,000 00.108 from them for the purpose of manuring hits cane crope, This statement, the Aclivertis- or, discloses several hitherto impub- Belied facts, Upon tlie wit:lie/raw& of the military forces from South Africa, it was found that large quantitiee of military rations had ncenneelated at varlets centres, and the Rica mer- lons were overflowing wills tinned foods. The stuff had to be got rid of somehow; and so, in 8011111 places, the rations were burnt, Other local consignments were thrown into the 800. The last lingo Weep of rations- have now borne fruit in muntileent, eager harvests, Yoe &morel months treelt- loan upon truciaload of eaaos of 0111- itary rations Were taken to Reunion and elsewhere. The eases each con- tained six dozen tins. These tins were buried all over the Cape fields. The Advertiser estimates the cost to the British taxpnyer of this one ronsigellimit alone at over 0 million ma ends that if Llie anment of army ratione that Were met into the sea Mid romigned to the segav erclutes on the smith 7311,1 11(11414 rivet:4 of Natal were also Veined at Wool41 be totted that fieSeral Million 1,0'11145 sterling Were tints the -pond of, lEALTII 4 14 it• EATING AS A 50IE5010. It .1141y neon hard that the man svho in youth has known the pinch It ire Our-me)1 that the greybitiend of puverty, who remembers how the lam the sinellest Imola lipase'and, eut of mutton, with 8, supply of 0000)'71103330000)'7110333to his size, the ineotehl potatoes and greens, scareely leveler the beet. You will make tho ed fee a vigorous appetite, ehould 'greyhound has strange, etnnid svnYtil find that in the prosperity of lator for a dog and the Scotch terrier life an eIght course dinner of dein bright, quick mere. Arr trick dogs moles fails to tempt him, 011d 111 OnntneneneneSSO-P-O-CeinSTCHINOSS0000.0 I YOUNG FOLKS 13.0000-0-0-00-0-0-0-0.0-0.00-00.0 A SMART DOG, )111, •. they excel. I have a Scoteli terrier. nevertheless, 11.8 physician 10-01'08 of the Dindle Dinntunt breed. Curly him that an attack of gout from 141 1113001n13, Anti Carly has tauglit which he is suinging means that lie etnesen how to do lots of thiThao ooai is1)1(1(131thee() 301n.:0001a0da.,118daymthtehte III)! writes ida 21. sheour. other dogs would not till* ot doing. don liospitol, to W11/011 the editor No matter which00(3 of the W0111 of ane of the New Y011t (1011108 I tell Itim to go wake un for break- edit': 1711e., then, never to (nee satis- fast, ha goes straight to that per-. son's bed and barks and pulls at, the faction? Meet youth know hunger bedclothes. if lie wtints water, which anti old age satiety? -Meet the Peer , is the only thing he will beg for, muscle worker nevem. have enough foul to give energy to his frame and he will get right in "n11 ei me end round and round, 01131431131a must the rich idler have so inueh to turn eat that disease is the consegeence? e fr noi • •1110 a bany. 01 1 say, "Curly, is it water you want.ii" be To find tho ho.ppy mean, to live ac - will my, "ugh, ugli." cording to sweet reasonableness and Sometimae I will say; "Ourly, 1 knowledge, is the aim of the reach- gjuotitailia'OUVZIend.ttotilill teohlegle,ent Yy0aurdwaatanidl ai /Idle dor tsehieen 01)1:1,1 lawnidp jelsf too! tchie,sreistiaarne communism, the wealth of later life lidrink with the chickens." Be will wilt not leael to self-indulgence, but ;go as straight as lie can. A neigh - to the mitigation of the sufloring oftibnorrlpyaas ve etNOuirlngh ly, and ilisn ndb,ue Iliclees anhceoe those who want the moans of life. ea One of the many Splendid examples ;I told him to go to her 'house, nem - is that of a gentleman now in pos- ling her, and get a drink, and he -- 808111011 of a very large ineome, who j went as straight RS lea could go, to In his youth lived on a salary of a . coax liar for a drink. little over two dollars a week, He Curly knower when I say that he Is early merle up his mind that to eat a mean flog, and so cross that I have come to hint. Nearly an oetogenar- as kind as possinle, he will sneak rule in life. To this resolution he I children. When I talk this may has adhered, though fortune has about hint, though I malco my voice little and drink loss would be his ,to whip blin for wanting to bite , ian, he is still a man of untiring away and bide, I found one out life, he dispenses his great fortunelneighbor, vigor of body and mind. Simple M once weal nomeg not even telling his name about him to a 118 a custodian for his master while ; or looking at blin as I did so. Then living amid the sentiment and cull' tried telling her how good he was, tured surroundings of an English and my, how he did rejoice and frisk gentleman. 1 about me! Since that we often have Sir George inumphrey has investi-itested hint. with praise and blame, gat ed the life history of centenarians look 0.4 jamed over, n d invariably he knows which in England with tho view of ascer- to tailing the MAWS and circumstances Curly ean drive a hen and chicks of longevity. As one reads of the habits and lifo of these men and can. All this knowledge regoires ain home out of the wet better than NV010811 who attained to the age of •I - . „o isle a n amount reason ale. lt is one hundred years and more, were not in4inet by any means. Too struck by the fact that they almost invariably lean people,1 mue1007100) 0fof etirinstolfncbtrat"illiTo'awiesr en spare habits and of great modera- 11 tookh tion in eating and drinking. 01 0.1(10 to reasoning to bring about thirty-seven, three took no anm ial food, four took very little, twenty O little, ta moderate nutrient and only ono acknowledged taking much meat. With regard to alcohol the returns are much the same, and ab- stemiousness is found to be the rule of life of these eentenarines. that which to -clay is habit, AN INDUST -11101M MOTJSIIL A number of white -tooted mice I had in captivity, says a writer, escaped from their crige to a cup- board in the hitehen, and thence through a hole in the plaster and bee 1. Open tho window; breathe pure house. Evely night they crone out RECIPES 5011.; HEALTH. tween the laths. to the walls of the air. for food. One evening I saw a moven 2. Eat plain, digestible food and come out of tem cupboard. He feenti a Maury nut on the Door and at- tempted to carry it up the wall twelve inches to tho hole in the plas- ter, but. 01051 the crack between the laths was too narrow, and after. fumbling with his burden for a 4)1)10' 1110 or two. he dropped it to the floor. Next lie tried to push it in ahead of him, ttnri failing In that, ho went in himself, turned round and attempted to pull it in after him. Oc- casionally it would slip out of his • paws and roll upon the kitchen iloor, and then out he would come and repeat the whole performance. He Lried it again and again, but with no better success: he kopt at it tmtil far into the night, and when I awoke at eeven o'clock tho next salesman at Smithfield, and has an marinas the -first thing that I heard extensive forming and butchery busi- was Ufa mous33 or anothor 010 Minh- netiS i'eterborough, with branch ling and Since then I have kept them well dropping the hickory nut. establishments in many other towns. s311,11 w A shrewd man cif loudness, he has I nuts, and alt. lough 11 1 Ill 1' they still openti hours in carrying • 1110111 to the crack in the laths and letting them fan, they are, 0 1 WaYS forced in the end to eat them in the • cupboard, There 18 plainly a lock of ingeouity, because ton ninnies' gnawing would have solved the prob- lem. Had the.aperture in eithe.r cane been too narrow to athillt 0118111 - selves, they would have (middy wid- ened it with their teeth, hut to ap- ply the same principle to get 3110 113)3. throtigh gimlet1 to be 0 piece of reasoning entirely beyond them. at regular meals 33(131. 3. Drink largely or pure water at other than at /noel times. 4. Keep the skin in health by bathing and rubbing. 5. Cultivate a cheerful spirit. 6. Tat, sufficient sleep and rest. LAYS CLAIM TO OHICAGO, Mayor of English Town is Heir to Original Fenn Lands. Alderman 'Daniel :U. Redheml, who lies consented to net as Mayor of Peterliorougli, Englaiel, next year, claims to be the ormer of the land on which the eity of Chicago 1.1001 stankls He is a well-known meat long been connected with public lite in the calierlral city, of whicli his 'invents were natives, tend he occupied the mention of Mayer 111 11303-4. TE5 1007er-el5('t hltS 37, 11108t 10111101- 1103 and interesting story to tell eif his party Me. His 1110ther's name was Searjeant, and a few years lie - fora he was born a was receiv- ed from tier uncle, who lived 111 the State of Illinois, saying that if any member of the Searjeant Donny cored to go to AMerittal, they could stay with him, anel he would, at Ids death leave them hie property. The ressilt was tintt Mr, iledliend's parents went to Anent -ea in 1(33111 en, 1885. The overland journey 15118 1101015 111 bul- llock wegons, the country in malty places swarming with the Red Tor:fl- ans hostile to all White num. Fee- quentler their Jives were in dangee, mut when Thirdly they reached their jomeleysie end they found that old Henrietta hed died few doe's be- fore their arrival and without linvinee 1110141e W111 111 3111111.' '1111/Y eneleavorcel to 'assert their Heim t.o tlie propeety, but withotit etiecess. They /100.1 went to New 1irleane, where Mr, lieelhend set up in business es ri cribbed: notion. About two years nfterwards the mayor-04.in of to-eley ems born. He had a narrow escape of havinghie career cut short for his _slave nurse -girl, in leaning. Om' a verandah, droPpeci him on his head on the path 111 035, end he bears the sent' on his scolp to this day. A year after the alderman's birth Ins father died of yellow fever, and his mother returned to Peterborough 1.8/38. The presea city of Chicago stands on the very land his parents loft Pothrborneigli to claim seventy yee.es ago, "No," ead Alderman Redhead, in reply to ilie interviewer, "1 littem never proseetded my claim to it, for the letter iny mother's uncle sent her, 35liirlh site often shOwed to 11107 501.11CI net be found after her death," 4—* PATON TIANDS' mums. Fano Hoene Itt nnteatan Wear linen geernerits of Erpotloss White. When they beconle oven slightly Soiled, they hasten to Wang° them. Work IS plentiful there, farm laborers are wen ahd llury oaa aaord to 10 lay, THE 1.0551.331 PItINCESS, 'nen Oilmen Sylva, the poet, queen. of Itheinnnia, Wali the little princess of Pied in her father's cas- tle on the Rhine, she used to sigh because she was it princess; and she has herself told how she Singed to be 11 3711115g33 ebila liko those that sho saw every tiny. Since sho could not get aut to play with them, she invented plays of low own; and in those Plays, the trees of the big caetle peek were her playmntes. 'Every tiny she pore formed whole fairy plap.t. in which one tree was the wicked giant, an- other the fairy prince, mei 10 on, 'It woo 11171111•111 that this 00117.00 Of life (:11001)1 fan the enthusiasm of the ehild for sioreatelling; end in her eleventh ye8r she had boon to Wri 1Mel.IT, While 1101' 101.11.`the1d 11 ! 11111.11- By the 1131)0 she was 10431(13', she day saw her busy over a (11071(43. had writte)) enongh poetry, ploys, (111(1 storie)4, including several novels, to make books that would till long shelf; but she showed thcee to no- body, and it was not until Prince N'ael of Romualdo took her to that land to be Os queen that 81131 began to publisb any of her worh. CAN 1)3035 SAY TITTealltn See ir you can sny thew, nomtenees fast 1 S'he sells sea sbells 17 filo sea. shore. Seven. selfish shellfish shoved some ahrimp eidowneee. PrOdently peel prima potatoes. Royal riders raliely really read ri& dles. 1stele1 finiTieS fretplently keel fieree fires,