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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1900-2-15, Page 2101E3'1", FEB. 11 1900 A LITTLE REBEL. CHAPTER ;;CY];,^•.Oontintied. h vin 'dl plucked tefew lastpousie a e y and as Iasi pansies, looked at them, Idly flung them away, goes on her 11e11ose way through the gardens. A whole long month and not ono word from him I Are bis eaoial dutues now so numerous that be brie forgotten he leas a ward? "]'Nell," emphatically and with a vicious little tug at her big white bat, "some people have strange views about duty, She has almost reached the summer- house, vine -clad and temptingly . Cool: in all this heat, when a quick step be- hind her causes her to turn. "They told me you were here," says the professor, coming up with bar, He is so dlatinotly the professor still, n spite of his new mourning, and holler : cut of his Clothes, and tbe general air of having' been severely looked after -that PerpeLua feels at home with bin at once. "1 have been here ter some time," says she calmly, A whole month, Isn't it ?" "Yes, I know. Were you going in- to that green little place. It looks pity • Sh cool." when be had spoken of his••:ntanttun 3t is cool, and particularly empty. of resigning. "But you cannot," says Ono small seat occupies the back of Elbe. "You have promised. Papa said it, and nothing else at all, except the you were to take care of me" professor and his ward. - "Your father did. not know." "Perpetua I" says he, turning to "He did, He said you were tbe one her. His tone is low, impassioned, "I man in all the world he could trust." have come. I Could not come sooner, "Impossible," says the profosser. and 1 could not write. How could "A lover -cannot be a guardian"" His I put it all an neper? You remember voice has sunk to a whisper. Ile that last evening?" turns away and makes a step toward "I remember, " says she faintly. the door. "And all you said'?" "I said nothing. 1 did not dare, Then I was too poor a man, too in- significant to dare to lay bare to you the thoughts, the fears, the hopes that were killing ins." "Nothing I" echoes she. "Have you then dorgotten?" She raises her head, and oasts at him a swift, but burning glance. "Was it nothing? you mane to plead your friend's cause, I raged lion. however, are sound in wind nnrl limb, made, and the desperate, sortje by lbs think, Surely that was something? -You are a Child," says he, in a tone; Iia'. during the same period- the Rus inns from Sob stapol-cur losses I thought it a great deal. And what sufficient to make any woman resent-, t mont11 of October -there were, eroord- in killed and wounded barely reached was it you said of Mr. Hardinge? Ah1 fol. "It is folly to argue with you.";, t the figures published in the `2000. 1 have forgotten that, you know how "A child! What are you, then?"' you extolled •him -praised him to the cries she tremulously. d skies -recommended him to nee as a "A fool l" furiously "1 was giveen desirable suitor." She makes an im- my cue, I would not take it. Y are not. exceptional. battles, fortunately, are of rare ocour- patlent movement, as to shake some- told me that it was bad enough to beAfter the colliers, eve come to the rence. During the ten months of the thin from her. "Why have you your ward, that you would not onunylrailtcay workers. Iters, again, the present year 3,426 workers have been g coma to -day?" asks she. "To plead his account be closer to me. That should !mortality is fearfully big.. At the killed, and 65,441 injured -a larger to - cause afresh?" have been clear to me, yet, like nn, S "Not his -to -day." idiot, I hoped against hope, I took last 00110 US, 465,012 persons were em - infantry than the whole, strength of our may- mirage from each smile of played in carrying goods and Pamela - And in South Africa. • "Whose then? Another suitor even false g ars. Now, every railway accident And even considering the proportion 1 d It seems I have more than yours, leu glance, each word! There" has, by h0,, to be reported to the of those injured to the total engaged, I dreamed off." Once I leave you now the chain ba- Board of Trade, and from these reports the risk of industrialism remains "I do not know it you have dreamed Cweer us will be broken, a we shall neve we find that of the 465,012 persons greater. In the construction of the of this one," says Some o hope perplexed er, with my will meat again. Ymentioned above, 443 were killed, 826 Panama Canal sixty per cont. of the ibyn bar manner. had been say you have had suttees since youdisabled, fi7,000 temporarily diasbled, common labourers were killed-a.pro- in his heart in his journey to her, came down here. You hinted to ma owing to accidents sustained during portion that no bettlofield'has ever but now it dies. There is little love that you could mention the name of teal in her small, vivid face, her him you wished Co marry. So be it.• aOLla the et the drivers, firemen, e Compare this showing. for instance,. gleaming eyes, her parted, scornful Mention it to not to line -to any one brakemen, end plate -layers are the with one of the worst battles of the ups you like, but not to me:' greatest sufferers. For ivatnnce- century, namely, the battle. of Grave - "I am not given to dreams," says He strides toward the doorway. He nd those figures are tbe worst of any lotte in 1078, and we find, according she, with a petulant shrug. ' I. 1knowtell has almost turned tbe corner. -of 7,052 shunters and hrakesmen, 85 to Lord Wolseley, that the total casu- what: I mean always. And as I tell "Thaddeus I cries a small but fran-allies in killed, wounded, and missing, you, if you have come here to -day to tic tette. If dying he would hear that pet 18e7 1039. Mr, amounted to only 7.30 of those engage lay before me, for my consideration, and turn. She is holding out • her Ritchie Duringh President of the Board of ed. Yet this battle lasted for twelve the name of another of your friends Trade, ithe President. 310005, who wishes to marry me, wby I g "I don't think 1 ever contro110d you, "11-o I PerhgPts not. Dat then yon tried to. Tbet'e worse. "Do you forbid nee then to lay bee fore yeu,-this name. --that I-•�' "I kayo told you," says she, "that I Dan find a rime for myself, "You forbid me to speak Z" Bays he does not know these figures" but the slowly, ward forbid her goer- miner's do, nod that they go unflinch- it eloA dian 1 I should be afraid 1,, says she, ingly forward woe lc�lie 4i• a were; with an eatroinaly naughty little spanks hi ;11'y fol their u g glance at him. if these f:guras•form a etriking con - 1 with me," says the pro- Buil when 'eompttr'od with those at- Perpelua Per cent,' ell the tote," miners, raieea 17 Pet cent. of the Doul., and -kills 29 per Dont. of the total dead' 'et'lalps, you think there is !a risk attttcbod to every occupation, end' Lbw in connection with mining are no greater titan anything else. But this is a greet mistnko. Compare ter it moment. the above grim figures with khose applying to farmers or Worn' men during the soma p'ricd. Of 2183. of Lhe latter, only twenty-three met tdith aceidonte, ea against dol from the same number' of Welsh Dalliers, The man in the shoat, of twang), Xou trlf e clergymen, they ate even lessor slatvly, a litho sternly, Aho more remarkable when the "tut them s ' wi.la unconLroaed de. pa t Ithou -1 behaved -1 was mad suough to im- agine, from, your manner to me that last night we met, that I was some- thing more than a mere guardian to you.' than that. That seems to bo a Ileroulean relation. What more would you be?" "I am no longer that, at all events" "Whal1" cries she, f,usbing deeply, "You -you give me up--" "It. is you who give me up" "You say you will no longer be my guardian l" She seems struck with amazement at this declaration on his ' o had not believed bin "You are going,' ories she, fighting with a desperate desire for tears, that ed. In Ibe South Wailes colli G 1 I Russlnns, at the end of which tome is still strongly allied to anger. "You during 1807 there were 205 killed, 79040 the enemy were repulsed with the as - would leave me. You will be no wounded, and many more permanent- sistan a of 0,000 French soldiers, 0,.o. longer ml! guardian. Al 1 was I not 1 disabled, bad just arrived on the scene; yet the right? Did I not tell ou you were yircin; during October, during the losses among our own troops, and those in a hurry to gat rid ofmsi rouses early stages of the unfortunate war of our ally only amounted to 1,800. In Thie most unfair accusation u 0,i! li the Transvaal beers there were the two fiercest encounters at Bala- the professor to estreme wrath. He some 1,6:'0:) soldiers killed, woundi d, clava --the (tineas battle nude memor- turns round and faces her like an en- I and captured, the latter of whdui, able by the charge of the Light Bri- than Dna-ball per gent. ,Again, at Ulundi, .Lhe ol'owniug battle of the Zeta campaign, whore our little fo1'oe, under Lard Choilnsfarli, had to anooun- ter an army of 23,000 Zulus, who bee 'laved with groat gallaolry anti bold- ly charged at the British square, our loss Wag 0110 oflioer and, nine men 1111• ed. the edder, one of the most To M difficult feats In the "tuna's of I3'rltIsll Arne, nearly 400 men were either kill- ed or wounded. But in tbe demolition of the Chicago Exhibition, 5110 were killed, and the injured amounted to 700, Belt even more startling than the above instances is that of the Mane atwitter Ship Canal, in the building of whiob no tower than 2,000 men were slain and injured. If we take the battle of Inkerman, one of the most hotly -contested en - 15 building the Manchester Ship Limo/. 2 coo men were killed and: wounded r so Inkermca, ,coo nritish 050 Preach were. 111100 sol 0,0050501 wbllo dt etish,olavn ser t0te1 1011003 wcro bnruty 2,000. silo by side with those affecting our gagements in our lest European war, trcops. the list of our killed is smolt in con- A, the taking of Khartoum there parison. For six hours 8,000 British were forty-nine kis •d in 1334wound- troops withstood the attacks of 40,000 WAS ELIQOY BATTLE,. LIST ACOOUNT OF THE A REALISM BATTLE OE MMMAIERSFONT1IN. 'Ch, lilaek watch ,"'pat IR a Trap al The Night Ilr,tn'IJ' f111N'�ed Inc Alalrm,dll•4 WW1•14-^ CKtun1/1ca ah iial1al*lrY tial" Out troops extended over many miles of Country Every move had to be 'made in full view of the enemy upon a level plane where a collie dog Could not have moved unperceived by those foemen hidden so securely be- llied impl'ognablo ramparts. During the 'whole oe Sunday our gunners Played , bavoo with the enemy, the shooting of the Naval Brigade being of such a nature that even thus early Ie, the fight the big gun of the blue- jackets, with its 42 -pound lyddite shell, struck terror into the hearts of the enemy. But the Boers were not idle. Whenever our Infantry, in manoeuvring, Dame within range of their rifles, our ranks began to thin out, and the blood oe our gallant fel- lows dyed Lhe sunbaked veldt In rich- est crimson. ;During the night that followed, it was considered expedient that the Highland Brigade, about four thous- and strong, under Gen. Wauohope, should get olose enough to the lines of the foe to make it possible to charge the heights. At midnight the gallant but ill-fated General mov- ed cautiously through the darkness to- ward the kopje where the Boers were most' strongly intrenched. They were led by a guide, who was supposed to know every inch of the country, was dealruclioo,. and when, at 1,30 out into the darkness of an African Ing o Lnhoi Gazelle, no fewer than 348 And even then Peace remains more workpeople killed, and 8,861. injured, deadly than war. These industrial cas- ualties Ei,•ures which appalling as they are, are always going on, and. big you to save yourself the trouble on hands to him, the tears are running a measure to stop down her lovely cheeks. this saughter on the railways by com- But a feat nearly as difficult as any "IL is to you -to you I would tell 11'11 the compantes to adopt auto -of the above -the building of the treeipbes, and, like it toreeetet, their roe aistlese Vater bore all before them, an4. for a few brie" malnente they got witbin hitting Matinee of the foe Well did they avenge the slaughter of os Cho Spoto; the, bayonets, like tongu of flame, pissed above or below the rifles' guard, and swept through brie - kat and breastbone. Out of their trenches the Guardsmen toaeed . the Boors, ate mon in English harves Zelda toss the hey when the reapers soythoe have whitened the oornfieldo; and the human streams were plentiful where the 13rilish Guardsmen stood, Then they fell heck, for the fire from the heights above them fell thick as the an mie of the surf on an Aus- tralian rock-ribbed avast. But the Guards had proved 'o the Boers that, man to man, the Briton was his mas- ter., 1 the country does not save me from his name," sobs she, as be returns Pe matic�seu;;liags. Ther Ilway interest Blackwall Tunnel -cost fewer than ten suitors. I can make my choice from slowly, unwillingly, but surely, to her. in the House proved too strong for lives, for the reason that the L.C.C. many and when I do want to marry, To } ou alone•" „1 t took special precautions, and the one obstacle to tepee precautions being al- ways taken is merely the sordid one of profit. Some trades aro even more inhuman- ly dangerous than that et the railway workers or the miners. The slaughter among the dookors is terrible, and the wards of West Ham, Poplar. and Lon- don Hospitals are always full of these maimed heroes of industry. Either a rope gives way, or a plank slips, and the clocker' falls in the hold, or a Crane, owing to defective gear, knocks him below. Of late, there has been some slight improvement, for the last Factory Act e - passed, that of 1805,inmluded these ne- glected Toilers, and after some trou- ble, the Dockers Union have succeed- ed in getting some of its provisions enfos'ced. SOib]H LIICKY DOGS. The largest sum ever. "paid Lora One thing that these. railway fig- was in 1806 paid by a wealthy noble - EVOLUTION OF 11010 SHRAPNEL, Awful lleslreeilve poroa or a 0411;[10' Planed sllelk-009 late .a'''rea Thieve $I • 1II In*No, emit.; i 1 It seams tilers than; 4 WAS strange' that, in spite of all the beasted im- provemonte in 5Veepens of war, 'the deadliest/. o4 all instruments in uao today was as familiar to our grand. fathers and greategrandfetbers In the' earliest years of elm century aa toles, Machine guns, suoh ao the Maxim'. and Getting, eaoh vowed forth every deluge of bullets at the rate of ;savor..• al hundreds a minute, and mowing down the enemy's ranks as a scythe mows down grass, aro very terrible wee ona; but for sheer deetructive- p Haas and the power to moralize the en- emy they must yield preoedenoe to the shrapnel shells, within whose "opera. tive area" nothing can live. These deadly projectiles were invent. ed, two years before Trafalgar, by a: Colonel Shrapnel, a British officer; but, ! as ie the amse with 00 many inventions, the original shrapnel shell was of dery primitive construction. It consisted. of a lipherical shell, filled with bullets. - and a bursting charge of gunpowder 1. ;but, as it had a trick of exploding at the wrong time, and was only(lre• liable in its._ uncertainty, it was often a source of as much danger to friends: as to enemies. It is, however, from this prude pro.. jectile that the wonderful. ellen of to -- day has been evolved, The MODRB,N SHRAPNEL SHELL consists of three parts: the base, the head, and the tube whiob runs, through, its body. The explosive charge is placed in the base of the ehell; and on a kind of diaphragm piec- ed over this charge two or three bun- dred bullets rest, being kept in post. tion by resin,: which is melted and poured' over them. Running from the base to the point of the shell is a tube filled with' pow- der to connect the explosive charge in. the base with the fuse which is plao ed in tte head of the shell Before firing the shell the distenoe of the enemy is calculated and the fns@ is out down to snob, a length that the shell will explode at the precise frac- tion of a second when Lt can inflict Pe vain all that day Methuen tried by every rule he knew to draw the euemy; vainly the Ilanoere rode reck- lessly to induce those human rook Cronje knew the mettle of our mea, and an ironic laugh 'played round hie iron mouth, and still he stayed within bis native fastness; but death sat over at his elbow, for our gunners dropped the lyddito shells and the howling shrapnel all along his lines, until the trenches ran blood, and many of bis guns were snowed. In the valley be- hind his outer line of hills his dead lay piled in hundreds, and the elope of tbe hill was a charnel house where the wounded all writhed amid the masses of tho dead: a ghastly tribute to Bri- tish gunning. Por hours I stood within speaking distanoe of the great naval gun as- it spoke to the enemy, such a sight as their, shooting the world has probably never witnessed. not a shell was wasted; cool as if on the decks of a pleasure yacht our tars moved through the fight, obeying or dere with smiling alacrity. When- ever the signal cams from the balloon above us that the enemy were moving behind thein lines, the sailors sent a mesetege from England into their midst, and the namo of the: messenger night. The brigade'marahed In line of quarter -column, eaoh man step- ping cautiously and slowly, for they knew that any sound meant death. Every ordeu was given in a hoarse whisper, and in whispers it was passed along the ranks from man to roan ; nothing was heard as they moved to- ward . the 'gloomy, steel -fronted heights but the brushing of their feet in the veldt grass and the deep - drawl) breaths of the marching men, So, onward, until 3 o'clock on Lhe morning of Monday. : Then out of the darkness a rifle rang, abates and clear, .a herald of disaster -a -soldier had tripped in the dark over the hid- den wires laid down by the enemy. In a second, in the twinkling of ori eye, the searchlights of the Boers fell broad and clear as the noonday sun. on Lbe ranks of the doomed Highland- ers, though it 'left the enemy con- cealed in the shadows of the frown- ing mass of hills behind them. box one brief moment the Scots seemed paralyzed by the suddenoss of their I shall choose for myself." "Still -if you would permit me to name this one," begins Curzon. very humbly, "it can do you no harm to hear of him. And it all lies in your own power. You can, if you will, isay yes, or—' ' He pauses. The pause is eloquent, and full of deep en- treaty. "Or no," supplies she calmly. "True! You; with a half defiant, half saucy glance, "are beginning to learn that a guardian cannot control one altogether," "To me! Go on 1 says Curzon ;"let me hear it. What is the name of this man you want to marry?" "Thaddeus Curzon I" says she, cov- ering her face with her bands, and, indeed, it is only when she feels his arms round her, and his beart beating against hers, that she so far recovers herself as to be able to add, "and a hideous name it is, too I" But this last little firework does no herrn. Curtron is too ecstatically ha,'PS to take notice of her small im- pertinence. , t_ �°'WAR. THAN �1 KILL Comparative Risks of Workmen and Soldiers. Showing That the Average Workingman in the Execution of His Daily Work is in Greater Danger Than Many Soldiers. will come as a surprise to most, injured, and permanently or tamper - people to Learn that there are peace- ful trades and occupations which de- mand, not only quite as much hero- ism as that now being called forth from our gallant soldiers in the field, bur that In some of these the risk of casualties as severe, and even of. death itself, is as great, and greater, than those our Tommies face in ac- tual warfare. Of course, it is the same qualities that 'shine out in our troops, a su- preme disregard for danger where there is something to be accomplished, so eharacteristio of the Anglo-Saxon race, that enables our workers to run these industrial risks. But tbere Is this difference, that while the risks our troops are called, upon to face are inevitable, those which their brothers at home, with equal fortitude, con- front, are not, and it behoves the Les- (slalure to properly appreciate this arils disabled -more than all who have been wounded in the wars of the century. The Registrar General's report helps one to understand this startling fig- ure. There were in all 7,28,000 min- ers employed during 1897, and of these 1,102 were killed and 118,458 injured - in other words sixteen per cent of all the miners had to suffer death or in- jury. And In some districts the propor- tion is even higher, In South Wales, for instance, 20-25 per cent. of men Latterly there have been move- ments in the political world in this direction. But there is still an enor- mous lot to be done before industriae lism is rid of needless death, -and al-' most the first thing is to obtain complete statistics on the matter. Even with those we have, however, the are able to see how fearful is the lose of life and limb in modern indus- trialism, how bravely our workers face it, and how .great is the need of reform. Take first the position of the min- r. No man has a more hereto con- tempt for death than be -and be needs it, In sixty years there have been as many thousand killed, and, appalling as the figures is it is au- thentic, over five million maimed and purtnR atto00r trade meed 345 man and Inlured e adf. During tore same pertm war li ,50811, Afrlf' 111104, confined 4`t,600 d' Dur nq the ten months of the present year, 3,426 worker, hove been killed, and 66,441 Injured—a tote nlmoet03 large as the whole of the aritlia troops In South Africa (excluding the Colonials). him, however. But it Is certain that dog collar was £550, which large sum thespondee will not continua long discovery, for they knew that they were buddred together like sheep within fifty yards of the trenches of Wee the. Then, clear above the con- fusion rolled the voice of the General: "Steady, men, steady!" And, like an echo to the veterans, out came the crash of nearly a thousand rifles not fifty paces from them. The High- landers reeled before the shock Mee trees before the tempest. Their best, their bravest, fell in that wild hail of lead. Gen. Wanohope was down, rid - died with bullets; yet gasping, dy- ing, bleeding from every vein, the Highland chieftain raised himself .on h(s hands and knees, and cheered his men forward. Men and officers fell in heaps together. The Black Watch charged and the Gordons and the Seaforths,. with a yell that stirred the British camp be - 10w, rushed onward -onward to death or disaster. The accursed wires caught them round the legs until they floundered like trapped wolves and all the time the rifles of the foe sang the song of death in their ears. Then they fell back, broken and beaten, leaving nearly thirteen hundred dead and wounded just w.:iere tae broad breast of the grassy volts melts into iho embrace of the rugged African bills, and an hour later the dawning came of the dreariest day that Scot- land bas known for a generation past,. Of her officers, the flower of bar chivalry, the pride of her breeding, but few remained to tell the tale, a sad tale truly, but one untainted with dishonor or smirched with disgrace, for up these heights under similar. circumstances even a brigade of devils could scarce have hoped to pass. All that mortal men could do the Scots did; they tried, they failed,, they fell, and there is nothing left us now but to mourn for them, and avenge them, and I, um no prophet if the day is distrait when the Highland bayonet will write the name of V1'auchope largo and deep in the beet bload of the Boers.. p.m. on Tuesday, we drew off to Mod- der River to recuperate we left nearly three thousand dead and wounded of grim old Cronje's men as a token that the lion of England had bared his teeth in earnest. ANIMAL BRAVERY. numb . Densis 111,0 Have saved 31en's Lives. "Ship's aground 1" shouted the mate, as the Harpooner crashed on the rook of St. Shotts, off Newfoundland. She bumped free a moment later, but the next wave flung her further on to the crags.. A breaker: swept her, decks; all .wars confusion, At1 last a; boat was lowered, and the mate and. four seamen pushed oft for the shore, which they reached after a desperate struggle. Unluckily the distance was too great to throw; a' line times. Hope vanished. An idea came to the Cap- tain, He brought his big Newfound- land dog szt„ attached a light rope to its collar and threwit into the sea, Struggling gallantly through the great, waves, the brave beast reached the party ashore. By means of the lino they some got a rope across, and over 160 of the passengers were sent across before the rope, by friction on therocks, parted, and left the rest of those on board the ill-fated ship to perish. ;A little, fat, wheezy pug is hardly urns prove is that the "inherent risk" man for a gold band to encircle the theory demanded more safety -and neck of a valuable dog, upon which account for these c isualties is a mere be is said to have spent altogether be - the high mortality among passengers of silver, with four small diamonds, nostrum. In 1675 railway directors urged inherent risk as an excuse for tween £3,000 and £4000. A dog -collar and railway workers. The passengers was in 1832 sold Rei London to Lady. -i. e., the public -would not acoept the Mackin for £210, and was placed round .theory, demanded more safety -and the neck of the pot pug dog. Some got it, The men have Hol yet been powerful enough to do so. But the people spend small fortunes on their dog pets. Mrs. Gillig, daughter of moral is that the risk is only "inher- Mr. Croker, tbo great railway mag ant" when dividends are kept high' at nate, for tnstanae,'.bus three pot dogs,,, To go back to the shooters and the cost of life hind limb. known as the Bat -eared Babies, and valued at £7,500, who We a special brakesmen, Mr. Sohn Burns,. M. P., maid to watch over thud, and a spa- wlios" work in connection with this ural footman to exorcise them on the subject has been not/ a little valuable, t ereee and in the grounds 101 the entente -tee that in twelve years, owner's •pulatial•residance. They are a mean of 0,311 men employed, there provided with four suits of ulothes a have been 424 killed and 4,405 in year at u cost of £100, and each.dinner. jured. So that the odds are that in they get costs about 5s, The dogs' fourteen years every shunter and footman gets £100 a year and his uni-. brakesman will be either killed or' in -Poem, and the dogs' maid's salary le jure&. I £75. bee's. Gillig bad a miniature of And there ie. unfortunately, no im- the three dogs' heads minted by tho provament. In 1887, 209 shooters and' famous animal artist. Mrs, J. C, Chan- brakasmen were killed, twenty-one in- filer, and set round with diamonds and jured ; in, 1897, 203 were killed, twelve pearls, injured. working in the mines, or one man in five went down beneath the earth to meet, if not death, let least terrible injury. t; bas a fearful South Wales, indeed, wefur record. Yet one that apo ber none the less. She employs 18 I A New, York evening patperr publish - To leave individual trades for a mo- ment, and to come to industrial vie- ing a pair "of eyeglasses. The story torics. It is s terrible reflection that, Is that Simeon lfeekctt, of Oldtown, just as it cost some hundreds of lives Dote., was told that 'bis favorite setter to win a great battle, it oosts hun- was neat' sighted. A Pair of spectacles grade also to exoeate a great engin- wore made for the dog, whiob at first caring feat, though here again, the dif- tried, to got them off, but soon came derence we spoke of comes in, as we to know, their value. He now refuses shall know. ' to go .hunting until hie master has In the making of Barry Docks, 180 fastened them on,him. men Were killed, or as many as per- , The latest thing in et:moony pro- ished on the Greek side at Marathon, moting oomee from Paris whore a and, overa hundred more than the doge' oo01etery company has been Britishers who died at Rlandslaagte, floated, with a capital of $70,060, The Again. to execute the Forth' Bridge promoters of the concern aro ladies, cost as many lives ea Tel^el-Ke13ir. 'l who are determinedthat their pets .Tho number of men engaged in the when they Dross .the bourne, shall construotion of this' bridge was near 1 nave docent interment. Should the ly 5,000, and the' number killed reach- , eompany be formed, and we .have no eel the 'high figure of fifty-six, equal ,: doubt it will,^ one may expect to 560 to rather mere than One pee cent:,; on ' a novel field of enterprise opened to. the other hand, we had more than l artiste and designers In the de0ora- 11,000 men at the battle of 73e1-el-IOehir, Son of the graves of the dear, de- of whom fifty were killed, equal to Iese yarted by emblematic heade6ones• es i,he picture of a hunting clog wear - the ideal hero of a dog drama, but there is now living in Philadelphia a child who owes her life to her mo^ t'her's pug dog. Little Ina Weloh, when bat a year old, got hold of a ,box of quinine, pills, wbich had been carelessly left lying about. Taking them for sweets, the baby begin to 4.11 that fateful day uur wounded mon lay close Lo the Boer lines under a blazing sun; over their heads' the shots of friends and foes passed, without ceasing. . Many , a gallant deed was done by comrades helping aoniardes; men who were shot through the body lay without water, enduring all the agony of thirst engendered by those wounds and the blistering heat of the day, to them crawled Scots with shattered limbs, sharingthe last drop of water in their bottles, and taking messages to bedelivered to mourning women in the cottage home of far off Sootlaled. Many a last farewell was wbieliered by pain -drawn lips in between the ringing of the rifles; many a rough soldier with tenderest care elosed the eyes of a brother in arms amidst the tempest and the stir of battle, and above it 11 Oram jo, the Boer General, must moot damage. In other words, rho fuse must be of suoh a length that the charge will be exploded when the shell is about 20 feet above and 150' feet in front of the enemy. The fuse Ls ignited by the act 0f fir- ing, and as the shell screams through the air at the rate of 800 to 1,000 miles an bour, it burns rapidlyuntil, just as it is on the point of•striking the ene- my bodily, the charge tie the base of the shell is ignited,- and with ter- rific explosion the shell is shattered, pouring down its deadly bail of a 'quarter of a thousand bullets over an. area of about 500 square feet. The bullets are so evenly distributed from this terrible "spray diffuser" that, if 250 men were massed within this area, every man would either be killed or dangerously wounded In some recent experiments with shrapnel shells were fired ata range of a mile and a halt at a wooden tar- get anget 1 inch thick. Fifty yards behind this target mem were placed to re- present a battalion of infantry in col- umn of companies. The shells were exploded on contact with the target, and the number of hits me the 'screen were counted. From ONE SHELL 160 BITS, were scored, each hit in alt probabili- ty representing a man's life; a sell - end shell made 180, bits; and from a third shell no fewer than 2.20 out tot its 250 bullets found billets on Lie screen,' - 1 r Thus a single shrapnel well 1 a med is capable of doing terrible exeoulion on an enemy; but their destruotivenese only becomes apparent when we con- sider the rapidity with which they can be fired. Lot us take, for illustration, a single battery of half -a -dozen guns and see what`bavoc it might conceit/ ably do within each a short limit of time as a quarter of an' hour.. Each gun is capable of firing a shell every five seconds, or twelvesilelle a minute; and as each shell has on an average 250. bullets, a single gun cam deluge the enemy with 3,000 bullets a minute, or 45,000 bullets in at quarter of an hour. Thus our battery, oe six guns has a killing capaetiy of 270,000 men in fifteen minutes. The effect on an enemy of, say six batteries showering on them a hail 02 over 100,000 bullets a minute may -well be conceived; and it s 'little wonder that the Dervish hordes at Omdurman fiebefore suoh' a tornado of destruct. tion like grass before the scythe of a eat them. After a time her mother beard the ohiW erring, and ran in. There sat rue on the floor still pick- ing the capsules from the open box. In front of her sat the pug, his' eyes fixed on her movements, and every time, she toak u,r a p•11 hem de a da. h, and, snatching it from her fingers, swallowed 11 bim..elf. There had been originally 40 pills in the box. Twenty- seven were gone. The child could not possible have taken more than two; more would have been fatal. So poor pug had eaten no less than 25. There is an cert fairy tale about a King, who, out hawking, got thirsty, and stopped to dip his cup in a rill that sparkled by the roadside. As he was raising it- to hie lips his falcon dashed at it, and again and again. knocked it frosel his hand. Enraged, the monarch seized the bird and wrung its neck, but when it. was dead he saw, to his sorrow, that in the spring lay a poisonous serpent. This pretty fable has a realparallel in the case of the spider that saved, the life of Fred- erick "William, King of Prussia, grand- uncle of the present: 'Kaiser. An at- tempt was made 10 poison the King in a cap o0 chocolate. By chance a spider fell into the cup, and for that reason the ohocolete was given to a dog. The dog fell dead. Inquiry was melds, the cook was hanged, and now a large spider, wrought in gold, decorates one of the chief rooms of the palace at Potsdam,' inmemory of His Majesty's escape.: WHY WOMEN HAVE EDIY, NOSES. The prevalence of scarlet noses among women at thie 50a8011 is caused by wearing veils. The discoloration is most pronounced .at .those • points where the veil is most intimately ape plied to the face. The effect is due partly to the mechanical action of the sharp and rough texture upon a son. sitive skin, and to Lbe Influence of the watery vapor that collects within its meehee and prevents evaporation.. Blood is thus driven from the tip" of have smiled grimly, for well he knew the nose to adjacent parts, whose blood Whore the Highland Brigade had flat , all world might feller, All vessels in consequence become enlarged failed, long the g d; scarcel ant1 conspicuous. The condition is tbg- doy the battleoraged; y raveled if t;Uo use of llic veil is persist - eyes s tee rho foe -all that met our g eyes was :the snaky weights that spoke ed in on passing from a cold to a;w'arm with tongues' of flame whenever our atmosphere. The alterations tend to troops drew near. We could not become permanent the longer the vell reach their linos; it was murder, grim Is worn without airing, the longer.its andhastly, to send the infantry for- tnjulicue action is maintained by 0001- wa`r'd to fight a foe they could ncllsee. pression,.tlee colder the soasen, and the end could not reach, Onceoar greater tbo exposure. Sometimes Guards made a brilliant dash at the cheeks are also affected similarly,. t A sbrapnel shell weighs only about 14 pounds, and of this weight its 'bur- den ofbullets is nearly half: ' It has an effective range of two miles, and an average speed of flight of 1,20016. to 1,800ft. a second. Swiftly as it flies, and short as its journey, ie, tbe second shell is following 'from the, same gun, on track of the first before the latter bas travelled much more than half of its journey. LET'S HELP EACH OTHER. Let's help each other on the road For though the read be weary, Yet helping hands and loving hearts Go far to make it Cheery. Let stronger hands and surer feet To aid the weak be ready While these weave bands of love and trust, To keep the strong: hands steady, Let's help suoh other ole the road, Though neither rich nor clever; Just, do the good that Domes to hand With honest, frank endeavor. Take up the burdens others shun, The task that none may Covet, And lightly bear each toil and fret' With hearts that rise above it. There are more wrecks Ln the Baltic Sea than in any .place in tho world. The average is ono a day throughout the year.