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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1900-4-12, Page 2BRITS04140 T. 41'13/1( 12, 1200 te tn.,4 ROYAL CONSORTS C;lreq1=3M .1;4:1P=' - vn=tArieeteett-te4lWePetitteelt=3"ene=f3==tetetee'eat. Queen Withelminees Ituabaele This goes te ehow heW exeeedingly perealtted to use the title of difftault erid erem erivettle le tee 101" 8WII•1 ee inveated with tbe 1).renf Qt)f.letrterifoe4rtigle for inine there le prenatally no Cleaeriptien Or qoagnatIon ip iplomatie phrasee- legeOf "Le Merle de la Reins," width likewlee frequently mod to ileseribe in ordinary life a husband who is re - clued to an altogether seeondary role, and obscured by hie wife's brilliancy, beauty and imperiousness, Perhaps the beat proof of the feet that tin poeition Of the husband of a Queen or EmPrese regnant ia abnormal is eur- nished by 1136 eireuraseaume that so few 'settee of this kind are to be Nowt in the hietory of the Old World. In- deed, they ere not more than nalf a dozen all told, namely Prince Albert of Saxe -Coburg, the husband of Queen Victoria; Prince Ferdinand of Saxe -Coburg, the 0000000 of Queen adagio. Della Gloria at Portugal, who reigned in the third and foerth decade of the present century; Prince Francis oe Bourbon, the husband of old Queen Isabel of Spain; Prime George of Denmark, the husbend of Queen Anne of Great Britain, toed Philip of Spain the consort of that Queen who fig - urea in English history under the name of "Bloody Mary." It is not possible to Include In this Het the name of King William 111., for, al- though he was the husband of a Queen regnant of Great Britain, he was pro- claimed by the Convention Parliament a sovereign jointly with herself, and after her death reigned alone for the apace of eight years, his wHe's young- est sister, Queen Anne, only succeed- ing to the throne on his demise. Queen Anne's husband, Prinne George, being a son of the King of Denmark; and a royal personage in his own right, while questions of preeedence were eli- minated by Lhe fact that his wife's only blood relations, her brother and dignItY of a Vrinee Cpueort 1 Or wal be have to remain ematent with the rank which lie beld, prier to his mare riage? This_ hi et problem width 10 exciting a, good deal of diseuseion, not Only i71 Holland, but tilowise in Gere many, gnat to not, at all the ;axon - =Weal courts of Eueope. The coo, minus 01 minion about tbe matter is that, In view 01 the bitter jealoutie df the leuedh as fax as everything German is ecomerned, Queer* Wilhel- Mina's husband., le he be a Gemnen Prince, will receive neither the stem a King nor oi Prime Consort. In teat event, his position will be a very awkward one, and will demand the exmoise of no end of taot aod di- Ploraacy, especially if, hi aocorda- awe with uulversal belief, thechoies of the yeuag Queen falls upon Prime William of Wied.. As mere husband of Queen Wilhelmina he will not be In Otto eyes of Dotch law or of any of Otto foreign courts a member of the royal fatally of Holland, nor entitlen to theHlegal rights or social preroga- tives of the latter. e will be in the position of one of her ordinary sub- jectts, and as such may be indicted at any time by the ordinary tribunals of the Netherlands for offenses against the laW of the land, inoludiug those of high treason and lose majeste. Both of these tan namea erenes lank deli- nitton and are in consequence mote elastic In their application; and there her nephew, were In exile at Versan- ts no knowing what a bot-teinpered, les. An arnieble and harmless man, impulsive and capricious yoeng Prince George may ba said to have Queen might do it she were to find played no role whatsoever in English history, which refers to him but rare- ly, ani then only in a rather con- temptuous manner. The same fate, will be ate:lorded by Otto annals of the times la the hus- band oe Queen Isabella of Spain, who is still living in the utmost retirement in the suburbs of Paris, where his wife visits him twiee a year, once on her name day and once on his own. His zaarriage was the outcome of the most disgraceful political intrigues that marred the reign of King Louis Pb1tt.p. 01 France and had the result did tiot Merge Until tele death a tho quoon. When he beeitele Regent for tee two yearwhich elaneed uotll hi eldeeti eon atteined els majority 'Me Xing ConsOrt then witladretv °nee More into retiree:met, Married an Aene erienn born aotreele, 1ftIlieeelel, ear wemn be tieceirea the Gerinan title of Cteentetie of Ellie, and talelog net flere thee paet either in politico or even In eourt nee, deveted tee remainder et lea (Jaya to the eolleetion pf art treas.' are% widole he beveathed at his death a few years ago to We Aneerioan wide ow, Who le Still From this it will be Men thet the future of the husband of Qneen Win has fallen upon Prince William of Wied, a Prime who, while pememed of considerable wealth, mauves, ae far as birtb arid rank are eoncerned, an oven lower statos than that of tee Prinees of Coburg. Prince William's tether la a more German nobleman, who nolde tne ;position a President of the Prussian Roam of Lords. The Dutch wood bave preferred that their Queen should have married a Danish prince in the person a Prime Herold, the younger eon of the Crown Prince of Denmark. ient if they give their eonsent to their Queen's union to Prime William a Wied—and without Duteh legislative ettnetion she ean contract no valid marriage—they will• only do go after devieing every im- aginable safeguard for protecting the goverementaed the throne from what they do not ;hesitate to desoribe eo the "pernicious effect of German in- fluenee" in Holland. There la not Lhe slightest probability under the circumstances, a Prince William receiving the title or rank of King Consort of the Netherland% and it is equally unlikely that he will ever gain the status of a Prince Con - met, such as Queen Victoria's hus- band only received three years before his death, and fully eighteen years after his marniage. In fact, if the projeoted inarriage takes place tbere Is every reason to believe that he will remain after it, as before, a, mere Prince of Wied, possessed of the same prerogatives and precedence as before his marriage, and compelled to yield the "pas" to the Queen Mother, since she is a member a the royal family, whams he, legally speaking, is not. It remains only to De said that he is a stalwart, handsome youth and universally popular. His elder bro- ther married the most intimate friend a the young Queen, Princess Pauline, the only child a the reigning Xing of Wurtemberg- her husband paying attenhou to otbor women. Kings have before this con- demned their wives to lifelong im- prisonment on enarges of high trat- e= merely badman they thought they had reason to suspeee their fidelity, e.nd as recently as the last century the consort of King George L of England, and the wife of the Xing at Denmark, sister of George I1L of Great Britain, both suff- ered a fate of this kind. Flirtation carried to excess on the part of a Queen Consort is regarded as treason. The seine rule is applicable to the con- of depriving the latter of all sym- sorts of Queens and Empresses resin. patby when shortly atter its celebra- ant. A Swedish Queen is on record as Lion he was driven into exile by the having put tier morganatic. husband. French revolution of 184.8. Tbe feet to death al, liontainbleau, on discov- of the natter was that Queen Isabella ering his infatuation tor an Italian had falleu in love with her cousin, beauty, and, wnite it is not probable, Prince Henry of Bourdon, a handsome yet it is possible that the husband of and good-looking man, to whom, in - Queen Withemina may be exposed, et deed, she had plighted her troth. Xing any rate, to the loss of hie freedom, if Louis Philippe was, however, determ- he aims not bear nimeelf with (Upton'. ined to obtain the position of her ma- acy and discretion. son for one 81his sons, the Duke of According to all the recognized au- Montpensier. But neither England eborities bearing upon the subject, the nor the other great powers of Europe mOst ranks oe commerce, or the gener- Manipur is now 'governed; by a Rajah ientlerY, 1879.. Orme mare the effeet was to Bumps the better emeenplieit- Mont; oe tbe task in bend; it eerved ug, and we went: tet it with OUR INNATE BUIZADOG TENACITY. eleinforuerneute were famnpily dtg- otolied, anti, at 'Ulundi, Keefe Pete- wayo twin to his eoreoev the exeot eignitioation of a "(ewe Lo Britain. Our meet example le peettlierie ape Proliriete et ehe present tint% man- inteth aa IL gave General Sir Frederiek now Lord, Itoberte tee opportunity of executing the repaarkuble exploit; that make him famous, and it augurs well for tee result of the campaign wind: ne leas juet endertaken eo eoecluot, En July, 1880, the Melons of the Weak &met Ali, who lied beim made Welt Caudate= by the British, revolted and Janet! the army of tee rebel Ayoob Xhau. Geneeal Burrows marthed 1,0 Nfaiwieud, and with an inferior tom made an attaele on the etrongly en- trenohed position occupied by the rebels; bue after a desperate figlit he was com,pelled to withdraw, our loss being heavy. A foetnight later Rob- erts left Cabul with a form half as nueneroue as Ayoob's, every man strong in the determination that the previous ohmic should only be a step to victory, On September 1st the two arinies oiet, and Ayoob was utterly routed, bts mane and all Ids cannon falling into our hands. EnTeb, in the Soudan, was the scene a a reverse on February 40, 3884, Bakex Pasha was leading a body of Egyptian troops against the rebeis, and was completely defeated. Al- though this was not a British reverse in the strict sense of the word, as the troops were Egyptian, yet it was a obeek to the re-oonquest of the Son - in which this tiountry was so much baterested, and we took it to oarselves. The viotory in this case fotlowed closely on the heels Of the cheek; no February 29th, General Graham attacked the rebels with a British form of only one-third their number, and, after a desperate en- counter, totally routed them. Our loos in killed was about thirty, where- as Lhe enemy lost nearly two thous- and. In the early days of 1801 Manipur, a small, native state adjoining Assam and Burmah, gave us another example of a oheok, accompanied with bril- liant heroism, and followed by eom- pleee vie:lieu. Mx. Grimwood was ordered to push on from Assam to Manipur with a email force, in ord- er to recognise the Regent, and. re- move the Senapuitti; they were un- able to reffeet their objeet, and Mr. Grimwood and others were treacher- ously murdered. After some fighting our men were compelled to withdraw arid weenie back to Lakbipur, and, in Otto meantime, Lieut. Grant and eigh- ty men marohed frora Burmah to Manipur, with the object of render- ing assistance, but was too late. Grant had the whole of the Manipur army against him; he skilfully de- fended Ms position, and in the end. the Ma.nipuris fled before an advancing Brilstt contingent under General Gra- ham. Manieur was deserted, but the natives gradually returned to their homes, While the Regent, the Sena- pulti, and others were °aught and laLED FOR MURDER. VICTORY AFTER REVERSE, A CHECK IS A MORAL VICTORY—IN- NATE BULLDOG TENACITY. 10151817 EurnlIie, natty Inslances lo Which nvItn,lt riutOc Bias Seen Sumo MOO hy Derent. Progress without a °neck occurs so seldom tbat it Were wise not to ex- pect it, No matter whelher it be the individual striving for an ob- ject whieh he bits set his heart upon attaining, or the business firm en- gaged in forcing its way to the fore- eeivealleekielleilette # Oh the Farm. taloOviwtarvegeb.. A WORD, TO THE DAIRYMAN. Are you cleaning out tbe 'stable!, 'tory eay that Pere air may pre - 113 7 the eollePose temente =mediate* ly ont to the ftekle, or is le heaped up Lae the barnyerit to later lose leaf of ne value through leaching? Hate the worth of every eow to your bard been measured by the Bab - mak test, ea proof of her velue to youit Are you, paying any tittle:aeon to the halienotege of rations, or just pitching the feed in the mangers bap - hazard, as it weree Diel you ever do ouch a thereg se to hong atbermometen in your enable or keep 1.11e oolewelea swept, out of the windows on the. sunny gide? Cows need sunshine juet the dame as plants) do; and Le they don'e get thou mead of it, they will become pie= and sickly, the fume as plants thus de- prived. Deirymen wian maintain neat, eweet atable.s, never "sxnell of the barn" when they enter the house, Good mine, good butter et good oneese never corae by chenee, Ma they are the netutral ouLeorne of a systeux designed to make them! good. Deere tenches what is yowl. system? royat family of a monarchical coup -would hear of a Frenen Prince oceu- al who is leading an army into the appointed by Britain, and is subject Ory emhreaces only the Queen Con- PYing a position at this kind at Ma- , enemy s territory to avenge or up- to the British Government. sort, tlatt Queen Dowager and the nom]. drid, for it was felt that if Queen. Ise - .hold the honor of bis own coun- The tragedy a Khartoum In Jane - and legitimate descendants of the nee- belle, were to wed a French Prince, ary, 1885, when the followers of the ereign. But no Provision is made for French influence would predominatein try, all must exPect cheeks and re- Mahdi rolled back the advanee of cid- the consort of a Queen regnant or for SPain, and the hatanoe of power be buffs, no matter how well they think lization and stopped the progress of ao Empress regnant. Cousequently disturbed in what is known as the . the British arms, will be for over they have laid their plans. the matter stands. thus, that whereas memorable. It became clear that this a Queen Consort is a member of the reigning family and entitled to all the rights and prerogatives o/ the latter, the husband of a Queen or Empress regnant. Is not, unless speeially so created by teeters patent, or by sea - tate. en fact, it was Ant unlit 'Prince Albert of Coburg had been married to Queen Victoria tor eighteen years that he became oeficially mei !smelly a member of the Britisla reyal family through letters patent issued by the Queen in eouncil conferring upon hira Otto title of "Prinee Consort. of tercet Britain." Up to that time he had been without any officially recognized status in England, while abroad he was obliged to acme': the precedeace due to a mere Prince of the House of Coburg, who was not even a "Royal Highness." At the Lime of his mar- riage to Queen Victoria she made a serong effort to give him rank and precedence immediately next to her, and a bill to this effect was intro - PO you know thee grades or even "oonamon stook" well cared' for, ax e Wine wh eh you atm farm Ian diepotees of ell hinorioal romancers eleiteltity 40 tipa pip grow, word Meet be detour:clued en, the appetite end eneeliteon the animate, Either eiveee or eotte tetaY ibe feel to Young lelge, We, pram' tile eweet, espeetelly in. tbuse 04001$ whore a swill - barrel la la use, wilieh ten mille fereanins event to putrottietien„ WOBK IN PLOT RUNTJII l'r IS NO EASY TASK TO WRITE A NOVEL, "How in the world do they get thole ideas 7" is the nuestion still mastant- ly, asked about. novelista, The in- quieing publics, 000 in the aura, con- tinuo to think thet the foreenate literary oelebrity has only 00 take uP a, pan and let it run, and—thereee hes novel, worth anything from £1,000 to £6,000, The truth is very difterent. 00n5.n Doyle, to produeo nieliteab Clarice," read eteadily for Year, and thee wrote steadily for five month% Tills wee praetically a Dien eefort, and it knocked about a good aft' before it wan accepted. For 'The Vehite Com- pany" be read a HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN bootee. Stealey Wayman tells a sim- ilar tale, And, indeed, it meat be the seane weal all historioal novelist% They heee to labor hard Won they begin to produee., No one taket the eating of nove- len moire seriously Line Sir Walter Benant, Among hes ronxime foe writ- ers is this one: "Never ettempt to de- scribe. any kind of life a:mop!. that more profitable than full bloods given. maifterent attention! Are you letting your cows, hogs, lenses mod, calves all ru,n tegether when turned out in the winter borne yard? If that is your plan none of them will do well. es, (end keeps them ev does not have too many irons in the 01mui.li'"' 'lb° fire. Crockett and Ian Maclaren—evrote at Scotch p'ersons—S. 11. The auecessfut winter dearyneau Extra =item& of eleanitness are re- Urn only ahon. their putelies and the rauy charaoters who wee', to their .guired to protium a natural, whole- lele• If tehoy you wisM o know 1 some flavored intik from seattle-oon- 11 s, zealously Crockett Worked. up for "The fated cows. Is Youe milk and butter ”e...., e , Did you, ever teke pencil a.nd peper, th, h neenees,' go among the hills of Gallo.. way, and hear wbat the eliepherds alcsolutely faultless in this! elfreetion? end spend beef an ,hour in figuring seen his inscription tn the presentat on ere awe to sae, about hien. We lire wbether you were putting more clot- cony of the book to one oi these shape lers fo labor foto your dairy than you . - . . nercis—' any shackle' (fool) can write who do no, needy soak themselves in elle period ahout, 10111811 they propoSe to write. It also sluices the keynote of the eurness 815 score of mon wbose naniete are familiar,. Hall Caine a Manxman, won bis concert of Europe. Lnglitnd, in- deed, went so far as to threaten to break off diplomatic relations with France if Queen Isabella's marriage to the Duke of Montpensier took place. In nowise dismayed, King Louis Philippe, with the assistance of Queen Isabella's infamous mother, the late Queen Christina, caused the Duke of Itiontpensier to marry Louise, the youngest sister of Queen Isabella, and forced the latter, sorely against her greater part a the fifteen years that will and inolinations, to break off her vioicry, as they push forward with the have nearly elapsed it has been in the engagement with Prince Henry and to grim determination that sweeps away care of the soldier who is now in wed Prince Francis, a squeaky -voiced every , . • h South Africa as Chief of Staff to dwarf of tbe most unerepossessing and "'ye" oustacie. History farms es Lord Rebate. Witb determena. But to those who possess grit and was a case Mime the object to be at - go, such checks serve only as stimu- tainee must be reached slowly but lent, to greater exertions; the fact steadily; the vieotry that must DA - UM they are held stationary for a lotn Ohs oheok would not be gained by a quick dash, but by the exercise time stiffens their nerve, and makes oe that unswerving determination them inore determined than ever to through years of work that is just as characteristics oe our race as tee brilliant charge and dashing exploit. The work was begun, end fax the mace the goale A. reverse in no wise signines defeat, for by its effect it really brings men nearer to ultimate ridiculous al earance his selection abundant proof that this is more for One position by King Louis Philippe especially applicable to Britons than tion that nothing could upset, he has and by Queen Christina being entire- to any other men on the face of the by due to the fact that the union was expeeted to remain elaildless, and, gr.'." bo consequently, Isabella's younger sis- With us, a cheek is moral victorY ; ter Louise and her French husband, our enemies, who loudly expressed the Duke of elontpenster, would suc- ceed to the throne. As every one their opinion that we should soon be knows these antMipations with re - carried on the work step by step, and always getting nearer, until the time was rine fax the final blow. nen that final blow was struck, and the Soudan was compered !for lerttain, Egypt, and civilization. That we remain so calm under the cheek to progress in South Africa suenag for peaee in consequence of the need cause no surprise, for we ow dined into Parliament by the govern_ gard to the marriage of Queen lea- cheek to our advance in South Striae, that this will only lead to victory, as taant of the day. But it met with bella remaining without issue were bave bad this fully demonstrated to it always does. The Biltish "never au much opposition in the House of not realized, and, while Queen Ism, them by the magnificent response of know when they are beaten," said Gorda that, deeply chagrined, she belle still survives, although deprived . Napoleon. The reason is plain —we ' d •, h _ of her throne and in virtual exile, boLh Britons to the call to arms. But never are beaten. isters to withdraw it, and her husband her younger sister and the latter's busband, the Duke of Montpensier, was left until 1837 without any defined rauk, save that whith he enjoyed haVe gone down to their graves soured as Prince of Coburg. and disappointed, and universally die - At meetings of the Privy Connell liked. On the day of the marriage the presided over by the Queen he Wes title of Xing Consort was conferred obliged, if any of her uncles were aeon Prince Francis by virtue of an act of the national Cortes and of a present, to take a lower seat at the table than they; and that he was corn. royal decree. Moreover, prerednece pelted to yield the "pas" even 00 his was granted to kiln immediately next to the sovereign, It is a matter .of own thildren, and to aeknowledge their superiority of rank, is demon- history that the marriage was &most atritted to the present day by the fact unhappy one in every respect. The that, whereas in the House of Lords Xing Consort was in constant conflict Otto thair bearing the ooat of arms of with his wife, domestic. as WO; tut Otto Prince of Wales is placed on the Politioal, and it some of the official dais to the right of tbe throne, Leo dispatches sent by the envoys accredit - stool embroidered witb the armorial ed to the Court of eladrid to their re- beariegs of the Queen's lamented bus- seective governments are to be be - band is set at the left. t Roved, he actually was privy to sev- 14 !oral of the attempts made upon the eensitive man, Prince Albert keeely belt the many slights to which life, of the Queen. As long as bie wife he was subjected owing Le his ab- , remained on the throne he was known aenee of proper status, and, after hay- aa her most bitter enemy. Indeed, Ing on one memorable occasion bet3n j mane' 02 the moral clelixtquencies of obliged at an entertainment given at his wife were itemised on the ground Cologne in honor of Queen 5,, to that her busband team such a morally wale at the tau „d tete procemon and pbysioally despicabee atom of behind Some Austrian Archdukes re- ,hamanitY, 'So -day he may be said to motely eonneeted with Emperor Frane have outlived his reputation, and the cla Joseph, seaa to the rear of a num. only Eault now laid to his change is bar of petty. German 'Princes, he ea.! that of an evegies which is quite as nouneed his intention of takiog no !extreme in tie way as the extrava- further part in any offielal function or Hama of hie wife. eourt entertainment when abroad. Far different in every respeet was His position, fax from exeiting nay, the husband of Queen Maria of Porte - sympathy on the part of the people , gal, Prince Ferdinand of Coburg, one oe bio adopted country, was, on the of the hendsomest men of the present contrary, made More difficult by them.: century. He, too, received by legis- lative aot and royal &wee the tIlle of The Loodoe ,press was never tired of ' abusing him in the most oruel friabion Xing Comort at the time of his roar - for alleged eGeeime tetereereente ring% Bei ween himself and his wife the affairs of the British nation. The so mnah affeetion prevailed thet she advice which he was alleged to tender began by abandoning Lo him the reins to Oho Queen Waa denounced as enema- of government. Thla, however, Wile elitlitIonal, and the Times in parti- viewed with great jenlotisy end ill cuter distingu' ihed itself by the bit- svill by the aristocraey and the peo- ternese with wit eti 10 vituperated hint pie of E.ortugat, and before 0 year had as a "foreign lei ruder," and as a passed a revolution had teken plaeo at esarper of privie.ees to wbich he had Lisbon, width forced tbe King Con - they ought not to have needed this proofthe history of our eountry is full of confirmations, and even the post fifty years will give us MANY BRILLIANT EXAMPLES. One of the most brilliant episodes of the seige of Sebastopol was the at - tame on the Redeem, the British mak- ing the assault on the Great Rattan, and the French operating against the Lit lie Redan. The attack is usually milled a suctiesstut one, although we were compelled to fall back after a very sanguinary enomenter. But Otto Russians evidently understood that the cheek given toils would only stimulate us LP a greater effort, and in the night they Wisely abandened Otto southern ports, Thls was an elo- ement tribute to British teneeity. The Indian Mutiny atiOrded several instaiaties of rtoVuLee6 leading 06 Vie- tories, but. we will confine our atten- tion to one. Among the struggles in and around Cawripore, theta was ono on November (17th when General Windham attacked the Gawlior rebels and was repulsed; the rebels took part of the eltY, and the prOspeas of the .13ritisb force did not look very great, but the Victory followed promptly. On the very next day Sir Colin Camp- bell arrived at Cawopore, defeated the rebel.; with great slaughter and re- took the city. 73Vtion 3ve decided to punish the Valhis for mitts upon tbe British W- ei I ory 5111 ou rages Upon eUrrcUnding peoples, including t hose oe the Trans- vaal, this Boers were glad that they were atmexed 00 a Power captible of crushing their hereditary foes, nent out a force inadequate for Otto eurposte and our advance wile Beet into a retirement from which he ohethett. by the reeerse al isandUle, in no legal or conntetutiorul rights. MAKERS OF WILLS,. They Plod It Tem. Troublesome to ole In Bavaria and 1.5.090511. Bavaria mama to have placed the most effective pitfalls and barbed wire entanglemenis in the Nth Of the - ee1181 a book, bin it takcs a raan to herd, the were taking out in etaoh? The s 0 might surprise you very, very touch. merreeke, We Would. add that a man Some dairymen' complain that they must have good legs even to walk the have not time in wbioh to read pmectie Merrick, one of the: cal matter relating to improved met -1 hods of oarrytng on their business. ' wilansT pAiRms Because you own cown do you cone 'a all Scotland. seder yourself a &survived You aro. "The Little Minieter," by Barrie, is not a eleeryrapn in the true sense of a moot strikiog e,ample oe the use or. Otto word unless your cows are making concentrating one's writing powers on you financieley 'better off at the end onset sruroundinga. Tlel play ande he of every, year. Are they doing it? book togetber have yielled him a goodly fbrtune. His grace of style GROWING SPRING( WHEAT, elands'. for much, but hie gift of pleo- - . tographIng in wordi th, mere MM end Secure good, plurap seed wheat of women ef bie naeive plates, 'ma put - some standard ktnd which is known e .. ' het h or hes done the , to succeed, well itt your district. Good , triek ter hinn Thonme Hardy would be lost with- Chester white mother. He looked , let of Berkthire pigs being Led by a individual seeds, with performiug an- out the rustic's of Dorsetshire, among happy and yet puzzled, and lest he cestors, count for as much with wheat whom he eyelet in mnen. of htie pro- should hurt them he only raised his found rellections about local charm:- head to look at um, and layiperfectly as do good individual animals in stook ter Darling -Gould is in the same quiet until they were at nrst enticed . IYoung Folks. ,e'lleefee+eele eon. •teneeee4te. CAT ADOPTS' CHICKENS. The lover of dumb creatures bee lit eepeteially a he levee on a fame eource of Me VerYleff 01.81.1 - sum, in the petting ane observation of the deennetio animals alwayle %bout him. To those that underetand and appreteate the marks of ietelleggenoe Otto fourefooted animate tbere 10 ale ways somethin,g new to be emend in their eright and laving way0. We o,L One time OWneit very Nue, leap, white oat who performed the db,, 010.9 of mashie) tn the most praisewor- thy manner, writes a correspondent, Seeing him la the barn or granary attending to affairs of Meet° it was niftioull to realiee that he was. tlie earoe gentle, loving, dignifiecl Tom who was suolt a satistactory friend tq every One about the house. He wee 11100 tenderly at:ached to my aged mother who lived with us, end when- ever she sat down, he would always cpme and look up in her face, and she would never fell to have some tender words for hien and a great number of friendly words. He would thee lie down on her dress, or the part of it that lay upon the floor, and now% and then take another look into her fate, &net be again addressed in terms of en- dearment that were never thrown away. He WO) 10011 Prepared by all this to take a lively interest in whatever en- gaged her attention. SD svhen one oold wet day in the month of May, af- ter, rather during, a protraoted rein, a man employed. on the fanm. came in carrying bis hat as if 10 were a collection box, and he was de- voutly gathering pennies In church, and. emptied mite Lhe eloor elevele nearly drowned and altogether ugly ()Wakens, and dismayed us /with the DONVAI of the old hen's death, mother was, of °aurae, just In her element and • fully occupied instantly, and the oat though not understanding the (awn Lion ,at once, showed a determination-. to live and learn. After tiltich trouble eiglet of the chickens were restored, and when they had. arrived tat the beautiful fluffy period of enickene' life, and had found a use for their small legs, they scrambled out of their basket under the stove and aetempted to ouddle up to the cat. Pees could stand a great deal, but this waa a 'great deal too much. He moved quietly eway, end ktp. moving away whenever thy came too near. He would look at ue as if wanting to know what it all meant, an& what ought to be done about ilt. BS/waver, upon one never to be tor- goeten morning upon going into the suta,mer leitehen, we found. that puss had yielded to his fate and waa lying stretched. 1at full length under the stone with the chickens cuddled up to him in a row looking preeisely like, a growing. Do not spend money for 0W%. lie just gethees a parish into seed of npartieular variety or strain, hi) nee pieks nin its strong or quaint unless, there is proof that it is better paints, dnews a thiek Line under three or four' of Its inhabltants, weaves in than thet which your already have. .A plenty of local Dolor and trathetions— thange of seed for; only ohmage sake and there's his novel. gives little, n any,' advantage, if the ele. E. Norris, the prolifie society breeding is the same, while it often haPPene that the seed obLainece is in- fermi.- be pedigree or antiestry. Screen out ell: weed seed with the fanning mill and allow ot the small, inferior kerneLe to pass out as well. If auf- fiment aeed is at bend it will pay amply to soreen out leaf of Lt., as the smaller kernels will thus 130 reallOVed. Sow the seed whed the soil is dry and wartni enough. Make sure the seed fa good by plantiag 100 kernels in a shallow box. If it ..does not all grow you can make allowanoe for Lt and plant' a little thicker, or if the seed Os too poor you ran. get other aeed before et is too late. The depth to plade wheat must be left to the judgment of Ale grower, ae vames wtth the, conditions. A.11 aeade re- qutre air, neeleture and a certain' de- - greee ot heat to germenate or grow. away from him to Lake breaktast. We thought he would tire of them and keep out. oi their evey. In 'this we were inistaken. He became sa sora a there as any hen river \MS of her little brood. We Lried to break them olf coming into the kitchen. We novelist., of course, ehooaes lus char- fauna it impozsible to do so, for, after miter from the circle oi his acquaint- pees had attended to his mollae hunt- ances mere, or tests accurately. Xeres lag and returned to the hou.se, hie Payn 111 the same thitig "Do you get adopted children would run to meet thiem. from the people aboue" he was hera with all their little mights, and %eked, once upon a time. "Always! fly onto his back and be so noisely A. -a -always, my dear boy! IL is so happy, and make so much fuss over much, ender to take Nature as she is him, thee ha seemed to think no plaoe than to imagine her as she is not," wen good. enough for them but the he replied. Ells "Confidential Ag- ent.," however, was, in its plot, built upon/ the mere DREA.M OF A FRIEND. Thte hint might serve Many, Unless they had been well-read in Mara kitchen. As they grow older, and beertme able to fly up on to a chair and thence onto the leitehen theY became troublesome in the extreme. Gr,anclina would never tudmit that they ware any trouble. "Suoh eetapany ae they are, scientific litereture, Wells and .Grant pine things," Bin would say. One day Allen would not bavo mored their SILO - she left bet; hereon door open, and Gasses in fiction, Both men, having when she went into her room to take imagination besides, ware able to let her afternoon nap, seven of the cheek- ehis loose on thee; studios, and turn ens were roosting on the foot hotted tee them to amuning and ,lucratiee are Lhe bed, and one had flown onto the count. Grant Allen'a east stories are , head board. The cat was en the room If the soil is wet, deep planettn.g will enr,1,-,Mge'f70,015°e; eeep farther, a..„ plays naLreawoteeting rainantabeerwildnesetwanaisd dmreoascitiudiiisy- place the seed where. the soil IS 000 bi, cold and moist, but if dry the seed a 1.... Or Oi inuf V/011.43 ill contrast with DIU- lendltily with tbe Eanciful creations dieturbed at tbis Indecorous oonduet on the part of hes children, and seemed to be explaining that he had reason- ed with them, but it had been unavail- ing. We. hod to pick them up and must be placed *leen enangh 0 0000hselves. moist soil. '. Mrs. Humphrey Ward is said to have — received £10,00 et ' sof • 0 ,FRUIT TREES ON OLD LANDS. ' and 824,000 for "Rebeet /Amore." To mg es yearly becoming more difficult is ?.toutseeu:11.Voeu;hj (eft' PhY 4"16 e- u'ao1J1 1:/eitOno"frOorradgee firm.. We never pies of, the reasons W4.3s fruit grow- earn this .8nele,0000.. sheielotsaod. to be a tverry 0 eredl with a screen every night, and in We had to carry them to a box oov- becauee the mature' proportion be- ,, 'Men like Pemberton, Hyne, Le Queux Otto morning the cat would be wait- tween menerel and nitrogenous ferti- make (reps here end there, and Plant lity that exists its slava land has been I THEIR CHARACTERS ' When thes was done, there were ale ing for some one to 111100VOT the box. disturbed mad changed by cultivation. among the foreign *canes they are able tenen greet demonetrate„, a glo, 00 the part 00 OM chickens, and pees had ' 1 ; d ft nob to reproduoe on paper. IL is a good ginleless maker of wills. In that of the eenaller growth, including find to drop on it oharaoter real en his Dion selcuto, mojeStie methods Oi Ate who niay 10 devekteed Or oxrig- &hewing his delight. The ehtepeee eountry it is imperative that the branches and' bruoli, was piled into , n.0 ee tek,es some doung" to work him up, were ever on tha Nab. Jd ang eou heaps and .burned. This supplied the aerated. Captain Keene. But it were the most 015-85. troublesome pets that most simple will musi be atteseed with all solemnity by seven separate wit- nesses, who must be present at the same Lime; and their aolion must be sanctioned, and their signatures roust be autheetioated by a public notary. Prussia bias also its special complications, under the code 01 Fre- derick II. That monarch, distrust- ing "Ignorant notaries, or minieters, or casual pennons but little learned in matters of law," deolded that only wills made in eolemn 10110 befote Jus - Lefts or Judges should be valid. To these experts all wheelers m.ust be told, any questions they °boom to put mast be unswered, and they finally draw up Oho cleounaent, read to the testaLor and append their signatures. le it is preferred tele will may be drawn beforeband and submit Led to the Judges, who, after due inquiries to satisfy thermielves that alt is will senction and confirm, it. A MAN OF MIMES. Mrs D'Avneo, indignently—What 1 YliolVe /AA oi the city and live in the eubuths Indeed 1 won't—so there! Mr. D'Avnoo, who wants to econo- mize—My' dear, a pretty woman like you never heeler; so therneing ae when eit ling in a pbeeton et a seburben rnilway Minium welting for het 110.0 band. She wont. . 600 w li , • equal their impudence, and no one was it not at hand in the vegeteble I One of the most scrupulous and brill - nevertheless. °mild conquer it. But they were so mapaiteer rthesauttit hoe: nistillon:eyrlyysadrec,sonettepeosumved ' Bane of all our novelists, --Marion teeny and some of their ways were 80 Crawford—hest tor years lived at Sore winning that we had to forgive them. uoolendttioiniotimsof tlletvess,050tuetig sowil:essIn settat. portrayal ot /Wien life 111 fiction. Ile.. faking jeer aeternoon shop, nhe gener. rento, Italy, and devoted hinuelt to the When molher woukt get up after easily secure plenty of ininerel Plant food, and 1000110110 being over etianulat- ha.' the entree c't 1.1pm411 "Psi"sz,e- ally found eat and thickens Waiting . where the best society may be met, a0 her semen door, and she said: that el Mtn growth by nitogenous fertile- . r cultivation begins the 1 amount ac manure reQuirett far weed,. en'us with his local eharanters most gave oen The welcome was uproar- , and he blends Englishmen and. Ameri- it did bier good the weloome that they zereAfte 'Ma delineation, he gees to the top of Inns; but We foxy the motives wore and leat growth is so rapidly, &mini- • :plot and fine powers at deseription sheneennee ithkett. abed thee tti has to be SUipplied. %Ins ., is the thing in a. novee. Combining is universtilly done by the eitoteettee FIXING THE .BLAIVIE. of stimulatieg immures suet as the Otto OrSo excrement of farm animals which causes the trees to grow faster then Ls best for healthy g-rowth. The result 10 that, tile tree.s atter n few years be- come diaensed or inn attacked by in- seet. enemies and die, MILK. FOR PIGS. When ingo are fed milk freely, corn meal mese be fete as ihel grain ration, giving olle pound of meal to meth eight pounee of 'milk. Ground oats or wilosti miellingst a's also excellent footle for pigs, fed in same relation to milk. The oeleetioe elimeld depend Th0 aulthoress of "Isabel Carnaby" has taken surprising rank among suc- cessful writers. She is herself a were sisient sayer of smart things, and thereldTe nada 10 nany to write "tale- ing" sentences of wii and whelom, But bOOs quite fair to 00110 here one of her own private witticisms about her books: "Too many flower -beds, not en - Mei' genies." For "grass" reed "plot." Mee relieve of lass Fowler and her sister for the produetion of Wean would, run thus: "lAve two mantles in town''Mid think tan menthe In the eountry." From the above, it ought to be plain to the 1,1 Loewy respirtant that be has partly mune cost. As the pigs geow 111 Ilol chance of doing anything great older, the proportion ni grain to milk , M11e38 he works hard at a veey tipple - /nay bel gradnelly increamed. The ite programme. It mime turther, be WWI food, daily will be ate inereaeneg mourned that he has talent. Wiggles, looking over a manuscript. —Great Heavens, Waggles, why didn't you learn to spell1 gglee—Len rn to, spell 1 Whales the mut ter with my spelling ? 1 know bow to spell all right. The dictionary fele lows omelet to do some loarning. FAULTY CONSTRUCTION, De Smithere says he is ihe arelii- tect a his own fortune. Tee, but it's probably lucky for hint that the Building Inspector didn't bappett around while be Was making Lt. Surgeon General Villaret publishes at Berlin atatistice ehowing the entire moue spread of tuberculoals among Getman swim) and' oattlo.