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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1900-4-26, Page 2A SATIN SLIPPER. Loon and hte bride were coated in a co'mp'artment by themselves, They had' given the eantdector a fee'.. and Forefeet' themselves solitude on their, wedding ,tourney, a "MI aboard!" shouted the eon- 71;uetor, ' -ilyd tale. Just as the train was about to move sal elderly loan sprang onthe step. aid entered the compartment, The 'door slammed, the bell struck, and the train moved away. Although annoy ad by the intrusion, the young couple e'onttnued their conversation in Eng - bob, when they were interrupted by their fellow traveller in moth' better Englishthan their own, "Monsieur,' said he dryly, "if you have any secrets to relate I would advise you not to do ae before me to linglisb, as I am eon - versant with that language. I am sorry to intrude upon you, but this is the only compartment I could find place 10, However,' I will try to go to sleep," And he faithfully tried to do so. But his efforts were In vain, and fin- ally be drew a book from his valise asd began to read. When be plunged into his sack, he drew therefrom a large roll of Bank of England notes, lend showing them to Lean asked if he could change theme at the next town. Leant replied that It wad pro- bable he could do so, as the road was much frequented by English travel- lers. When they reached the next town, the Englishman descended first. Af- ter him came Leon, who endeavored to conceal his wife's ankles as she de- scended the steps. Such are young husbands. Suddenly there darted from the groupe of loungers on the platform- a young man of peculiar ap- pearance, Be was sallow and unshav- en, bis eyes wear bleared and) blood- shot, his clothing was shabby to the last degree. His once black coat was t buttoned closely to the chin, probably to conceal the look of ashut. He ad- vanced toward the elderly English- man. "Uncle," said he humbly, "Is that you?" said the other angrily. "Be I offl Idon't want to have anything to dq with you." Come, uncle," said the other, with a mixture of menace and humility, "don't be so hard on a. man." He seized the elder's arm and led him aside. After some moments' con- versation the uncle seemed so soften and opening his valise gave the other some bank notes. The nephew devour- ed• the remaining roll witb his eyes, and after a curt word of thanks disap- peared in the crowd. Leon and his bride entered the hotel and were shown to the best room in it, Their status as a newly married couple procured them that borror. The walls were covered with paper re- presenting scenes around Naples. Un- fortunately certain idle travellers had added mustaches to all the female faces and pipes to alI the male, eo the effect was to acertain exteac lost, The room was called the "blue room," the furniture having once been of that color. Leon ordered dinner to be served in their room. The difficulty in procur- mg it excited his wonder. and ,on in- quiring he found than officers of .the Fifty-second hussars were giving a dinner to their comrades of the Sixty- first ehasseurs that very evening; hence the confusion. To his horror he found that the banquet was spread in the room immediately adjoining the blue chamber. However, there was no help for it. The host swore that abs officers were the quietest men be ever saw in his life; that, excepting the ehasseurs, there were no more lamblike individuals in the service than the hussars, and, besides, they always rose from the table before mid- night. As Leon, somewhat troubled in mind, returned to the blue chamber he noticed that his English fellow traveller occupied the room on the other side. The door was open, and through it he saw the, Britons seated before a bottle awl glass and non- templatuig the ceiling. "Well, it makes no difference, after all," said ha to himself. "The En- gltshma.n will soon be tipsy and, the officers will be gone by' midnight." Wheat he entered the blue chamber Leon looked to bolts and bars. On .the officers' side there was no door, ut a very thin partition. The young couple had a mediocre dinner, Which they would bave enjoyed more had it not been for the talk of their military neighbors. The conver- sation of these gentlemen bad nothing whatever to do with tactics, strategy or the art of war in any way. On the contrary,, it consisted of highly sea- soned stories, And such stories) They were followed by roars of laughter, and even our friends of the blue room found it difficult: at times to preserve their gravity. But the stories grew broader, the laughter grew louder. Althougb he Was not prudish, Leon thought the situa- tion anther embarrassing for his bride, and, sending for he landlord, he re quested him to bog the gentlemen not to make so much noise, as there was an invalid lady in the next room. The host entered the banqueting room, and his request was followed by a roar of dissent. Finally one voice prevailed over the others and cried: "What sari: of a woman is she?" "Well, gentlemen." replied the host,. "I don't know for sure, but f think she's a bride and that they're on their wedding tour. "A bride?" roared the revelers. "Bring her in. 7!etab 'em both here. We want to drink to the bride and talk to the busband." Our friends in the blue room trem- bled. They feared an asdauit would be made. (tut the alma vola! prevailed over the din, and it was evidently that of a superior officer. He lectured them an their lack of courtesy, and there was eoultarative quiet for awhile, But from the muffled laughter that broke out from time to time Leon and his bride hod eel idea that they Were still the topio, Suddenly there was a road' from the left hand room, "Garemlg," shouted the Englishman,"gimme another bot. Ile o'. port." The port was brought and the Eng- ltsbman grew quiet. Finally the offi- cers, baying drunk all they could carry and some of them more, depart- ed after -having joined le a parting toast to the bride, Quiet al last reigned over the hotel. The nigbt was clear, the moon shining brigktly,. Leen and his bride leaked Cut from the window and inhaled the fragrance borne from the flowers in the garden below, Suddenly Leon's gaze fell nett a man who *as saunt- ering amid the shrubbery. He walked with his head bent down, a cigar in bis mouth and Joie .hands thrust into. his pockets. As he turned the moon- light fell upon 'hie face. It was the Englishman's dissolute nephew. The night wore on, Leon and his bride had almost forgotten their Eng- lish neighbor, when they beard a strange sound in his room. It was that ot the fall of some heavy. body, Ming- led with this there was a peolliar crashing grating sound, followed by a stifled cry. Silence. Then there were two or three muttered oaths, and silence again. The young couple shuddered. Whet could it mean? Leon tried to reassure his trembling companion, but he was interrupted by the eautluus opening of the next door. It was softly closed again, and then slaw and apparently careful footsteps were heard in the hall. They were lost in the distance. They ceased. Again all was still. Soon the young bride was sleeping calmly. But not so Leon. In spite of himself the sinister face of tbe Eng - Oshman's nephew returned to his re- collections. There was hatred, he thought, in the glance oast upon the. uncle by the young man when he left him. And then tk'at roll of bank notes in the valise, and that dull, heavy sound just now, tike the fall of a body upon the floor -the ory — the curses. Suoh was the train of thought that ran tbrough Leon's mind. Mechanically he tired his eyes upon the door which communicated with the Englishman's room, There was a little. space between the bottom of the door and the flooring. But by the uim light falling from the partially turned down gas he could see something forcing its way under the door. It seemed at first like a knife blade, for the edge was thin and reflected back the light. It moved slowly toward a little blue satin slipper, which had been thrown carelessly near the door. "What can it be?" thought Leon. "Is it a knife? No, for it has divided into two parts. And now it divides again, and yet again. What can It be? It is some liquid." The thing slowly crawled toward the Little blue slipper. It encircled its heel IL stained its front. It was a li- quid of strange and unmistakable col- or—the color of blood. For a long time Leon lay and gaz- ed upon the stained' slipper, and the reddish stream which encircled it. He pictured to himself the oorpse lying in the next room; its discovery the fol- lowing morning; the door opening in- to the room, of which the bolts were on his aide; the blood stained slipper, These things passed through hie mind, and a cold sweat started out upon Sim. He attempted to rise and hide the slipper. As he did so his wife awoke and started with affright as she felt his icy band. "What is the matter?" she cried. Leon explained to her the terrible situation in which they were placed. He arose and attempted to remove the telltale stains from the slipper, but it was useless. • Day was breaking. Already the ser- vants were moving round the hotel, In a few hours the crime would be dis- covered, and the officers of the law would be upon them. Alas," said Leon, "our only hope is this. At 8 o'clock the train leaves for Paris, If the Englishman's body is not discovered before that time, we are safe. We will take the train and lose ourselves in the great city. There we shall be safe." His weeping bride flung herself up- on his bosom. She felt almost as though she had committed the deed. But there yet remained two mortal hours before the train left. .At each step in the corridor they trembled with affright. They made their pre- parations for departure. Leon's bride wished to burn the bloody slipper, but hr, restrained her and concealed it on his person. Seven o'clock sounded. The hotel was alive again with bustling ser- vants. Leon forced his wife to take a cup of coffee, although she declared that her parched throat refused to swallow. Then they descended to the watitiug room, and Leon demanded his bill. The Bost presented it end beg- ged his pardon for the noise of the previous evening. Leon assured him that they had passed a very quiet night. "Well, I am glad of it," said the host. "However, your neighbor on the left didn't disturb you much, I'll be bound. He's sleeping like a dead man yet." Leon shuddered. Ills wife grasped his arm oonvuleively. "He's an English milord," continued the host. "We've got anotber English man here, too, who paid his bill and left this morning. Ha gave me an Eng- lish bank note, I hope it's good, Look at it, What do you think?" He showed Leon a bank note. On one corner of it there was a reddish stain, "It seems to be a good one," said Leon, with forced calmness, "How lung before the train gone?" "Half an hour yet," replied the host, At this moment a waiter entered. "'Gimme aome brandy and eode, quick, for the English milord," be remarked, "and send up a chambermaid with a mop. Re dropped a bottle of port on the floor last night, and the room Is flooded," ' To the Amazement of both landlord and waiter, Leon and his wife sat down and laughed until tbey cried, "Order us a. good hrenkfast," said he to the landlord, "We don't go until the two o'clock train." HINTS FOR TIIE FARMER. MAKING. MANURE, RFPJ1CTIVE. A large part of every farmer's capital conatsts of the stable and barnyard fertilizer's made from the ex- crement. of stook worked up with the coarse nay, strew andother fodder produced on the farm, ,but witioll for atone reason; ni not eaten. It is' newt' to pile this in lieops and let it ferment before applylsig. Xf It is redacted' in bulk without moth lose of its nitro- genous ,elepnente, the manure becomes exceedingly vuluaJIle, as aferrtilizer. Ons the success of the farmer in mak nag this, needed change, and putting the manure where it will /to the great- est good, depende,his cash balance at the close of the year. There is, therefore, no subjeot - which' at this season cif, the mum is more practical than the, best methods of compost - mg manure; It may be done so as to waste most(, of the nitrogenous ele- ments ot fertility, and causing the manure to' "fire fang," or byt the use of aome cheap minerals like gypsum and kainit, the ammonia given off in heating will be absorbed( and form mineral nitrates; whish possess much greater effeot in stimulating plant growth than! any other method of munturing. Most of. the farm -made manures are so deficient in lime and potash that they," need these additions to adapt them to growing crops, and especially in fruit production, which requires extra fertilizing with potash, The ka•]nitl or the German potash sults, supplies without being caustic as wood; ashes ire, and causing the arannure to, heat violently and lose its a•m'enonia, il'be kainit absorbs the am- monia as feat as it is formed, bolding it in a soluble form, so that the plant roots can easily .use it. If some phosphate of il]ane is mixed ;withthe compost it will mks a nitrate com- pound from fermenting manure, with the phosphoric acid and lime that the mineral fertilizer supplies, The min- eral is also benefited by this union, as it prevents the phosphate of lime from reverting into insoluble condi- tions, We believe the time is coming when very little 'manure will be ;put upon lend natal •1t has ,been fermented, DM merely to reduce its bulk, but to make it 'fine and' more evenly distri- buted in the soil. tiV bile we write this we are aware that the bulk of barn- yard manure' is now, drawn out and spread asrevenly as possible, and then plowed under to ferment(, under) the, furrow. In this way most of its min- eral fertility, is lost, for as plowed under the =mire does not rot down until so late in summer that no crop than growing cat use it, and not only the minerals fertilizers, but much of the. nitrogenous as well, are wash- ed out by the melted snows and reline of the following,, fall, winter and spring. Perhaps the best of all., ways to make manure effective is to follow it as soon as possible alter its ap- plication with, aclovar needing. If the small clover seed finds .a clod of stable manure or a pinch of phosphate in, closet contact with it on moist soil it: adds amaeingly to its growth, and also enables it to put forth earlier the warty, nodules on its rodta which decompose the air. We have seen these nodules nn clover which had been sown on ground that had .beet dress - before it, was sown, and which. had only grown from April till Septem- ber. It is, known that a dressing of manure will bring clover in a fever - able season into blossom, and even to make seed the first year of its growth. It the clover seems to be making; too much growth it should be either pust- used or cut dor hay to prevent itfrom seeding, In applying phosphate to land there should he either a rotting sod or it dressing of barnyard fertilizer to go with it, and keep it from reverting into insoluble forms. Wherever eitber of these are used., a dressing of salt at the rate o! 200. to 300 paueda per aore wilt add greatly to their elfective- ness. In this small quantity the salt hastens decomposition' of all veget- able matter. This causes the forma- tion of carbonic acid gas, which is a powerful solvent and will dissolve the phosphate so that it Ban be used by the roots of plants. THE) DAIRYMEN'S MISTAK.C. Probably the first and greatest mis- take is, tbat the dairyman fails to macre the best of his environment writes M. J. S. Shattuck, Eossibiy, he does; not have as good, cows as lies neighbors, but he should( mike the best use, possible of what ho has. Ile should keep tbom bettert and raise more grain, thus lessening, the ex- pense of maintaining his herd. Grain is very costly in this part of the coun- try and ought always to be raised if lanssiblo. He ehduldt not make the mistake of keeping too many cows, Discard the poor ones of the herd,, and give the remainder bettor stables, bet- ter feed end use more care m handling the milk, I do not believe with many Omit the profits of the dairy are entailer than they used to be. We have gotten into the habit of shipping milk, which( any be mare profitable for the time being, but I am afraid of the final outcome, In my, saottan we Save a condebsmgt factory whtoh in competition with, the Borden factory pays more for the milk and eon - sequently supplying' this competing factory ns a paying business, Another mistake .is that dairy men depend too mulch upon buying caws to replenish) their herd, instead of raising them. I can raise a good calf on Mid (11118g8, water ajrd oil meal, and have raised calves on bread and tie i, V O $ S I 1.7 FOS Tr water. Teen raise a oalf very :nruebs cheaper than, S Out buys a ocw, Up tc the time she las two pare old she will ooet roe bet $15, and as a rate fe much better therm a cow whic'b is bought en the 'inerkst for 8115 to 40, ,Another mistake 'is int Raving milk shipping stations Menlo the village, I would, have them outside for the rea- son tbuhl it is easier, to keeps the ;Mlle pure if it is away franc; buildings, and than there is no teteetatton for the farmer to stop at the hotel on hire, way home und drink up the Foie of many quarts of milk. It ite much bet- ter to give the 10 or 200 to the twife and children. Another great mtstake is the failure to treat the cow with kindness. Anything'tltat dielrutbs her nervous condition will lessen the flow of milk, Make her comtfortable, by good bedding, good stables and the like, Never scold or swear at a cow. "Bit'ao t• • _ FROZEN WHEAT. In Manitoba, where there are fre- quently large quantities of frozen wheat, experlmenta have been made with cattle, and hogs to determine its ulremelted 52 1 value. In one; test •it requ e 4 bs of ICi to produce 100 lbs weight of (pork, while; at ,the ,same time and with a similar lot of bogs it required 522 lbs. of a mixture consisting of equal parts of No. 1 wheat, barley and peas to produce the same increase in live 'weight. In a second test with younger bogs 388 lbs frozen wheat was required to produce 100 lbs of in- crease in weight, In both trials the frozen wheat was ground and soak- ed for 12 hours before feeding, The test indicated that it is paactioaliyi equal in value to grains that .have not been injured, . GAWP -9 FOR THE FAMILY. The "proverbs" need not of necessi- ty be strlctly proverbs. Any well= known saying or line of poetry will do quite as well. The point of the game is in the illustrations, and the pleasure for all concerned is only en- hanced if some of those who play this game draw very childishly and others very well. 11 is most fun when played by quite a la ge party. Each person thinks of a lino of proverb to be illustrated and makes a picture at the top of asheet of paper to Lilustrate it. He passes it to his left-hand neighbor, who writes his guess at its meaning at the bottom of the sheet of paper and folds, it up; as in the dame of "Consequences," each folds over the top of the sheat. For example: Suppose the proverb il- lustrated was "Birds of a feather flock together." The 111ustrator has made a picture of three owls sitting together on the branch of a tree. Per- haps his first left-hand neighbor will guess "wisd,om is better than rubies," remembering that the owl is the bird of wisdom. It will be passed on round the circle, and the next person may write the same thing, or make some other guess at other people's proverbs as their toluene came hurrying to him from the rigbt. Thus everybody bus made a picture and has also guessed the meaning of everybody else's picture. And when each illustration has at last his own picture in hand again he unfolds the crumpled paper and In turn reads off the guesses of the rest of the party. There is sure to be a refreshing am - aunt of cheering laughter, particularly over the guesses at the meaning of pictures which ,are an badly done that the picturema,kers themselves can scarcely Lail whether they look most hike oeibbage beds or last roses of sum- mer 1 "Marchingg to Terusalem" is an old game wbiah valways makes fun for a 'party of young people who are in the mood for a genuine old-fashioned romp. The fun is sure to be hilarious- ly increased if an older person plays, too; and if chance loaves out a grand- maanma or a dignified uncle on the first round the merriment is certain to start well, for by the curious law of contraries in fun -making, even a semblance of a "joke on one who 18 willing to wear it gracefully and is not often thus joked adds to the gayety, A11 that there is 10 the game of "Marobing to Jerusalem" is run on for a half dozen or a dozen or; mora peo- ple to have ready against the wall choirs for all but one. Than one of the pasty at a piano or cottage or- gan strikes up a march. If there is no musical instrument, everybody beats Lime for it march by clapping hands like primary school children learning to keep time in marching. All march round and round and round the room. The lewder at the piano suddenly stops playing, or the leader of the hand_ clapping suddenly stops that, and on this signal of silence everybody rushes for a chair. One must of necessity he left out, since there is always one place lacking by previous arrangement. It sounds very simple, but for a, good rollicking romp "Marching 10 J'erusa_ Iew" is as cheer -inspiring as a pillow fight of Mosaic honors, A Targe piece ot wrapping paper pinned to the wall is a good substitute for a blackboard in making lba"study from life," oalied a paleh-work por- trait." 'bbe first would-be artist carefully draws a head and carefully oovers it with a piece of paper. Tha second odds neck and shoulders and covers his handiwork in !ike =queer, The third draws the terra rr lody The fourth draws one or Lotti legs. The fi-f1lr draws one or both foot. The sixth one or both rarms, the seventh one or both hands, according to the number of ptayers, When each person's pa- per drapery pinned over his part of the "patch -work portrait" is taken off and the whole "statue unveiled," so to speak, the result is more than likely. to be lawgha.bLy worthy a situation as a scarecrow in a oorn field rather than in a museum of art. But when people are playing at picture making they sometimes also develop or reveal tat- ent. NOT ACTING I11S PART. Cuetoaner—Gracious I How loud- mouthed and domineering that man to ? Salesman—Yes, he's the silent part- ner. MAGIC OF A NAME. What's that ugly yellowish -brown thing you hated on, Dorothy? Ogle Tbis is my nett/ khaki coat? It la. Ob, how lovely! RE INDICTS TTIB BOERS, JULIAN RALPH OWES HIS OPINION OF THEM, .Sneeiielgl War Correspondent Dlsttusse9 apo pYetho,ls el Warfare £mplered by Brllalu's liseuiles. The moat eerioes-indietmeut of the Boone' methods of warfare which bas Yet appeared in England tomes from Mr. Julian Ralph, the American war correspondent, in a letter from Kim- berley, published in Tho London Daily Maid. It is In part as follows: "It is a war steadily and stealth.- ]ly planned by the Queen's Dutch sub- jeotts•and the Dutch republics for ful- ly twenty years. For between four and six years they have been equipped for it, They began purchasing arms and planning defences before the Jameson raid. Let no one fool you with the falsehood' about that. Finally, 'Presi- dent Kruger begged President Steyn to deolare war three weeks before President Stoyn consented.' Next lid your mind of .the notion that you are °rushing two farmer republics. Theme is not a farmer in the two countries, and only one, the Free. State, was a republic. in .any way except misnam- ing. These people are herders of oattle; sheep and goats, like the Israelites of old, and the Afridia, Turkel and Balkan peoples of to -day. His, the Boer's, m- oaned forma aro ae nature made them, merely reaches of veldt whereon' his nettle graze" On each one be has put up some hut, and its surroundings are almost invariably more. REPELLANT AND DISORDERLY. than any houses Iever saw, except the cabins of freed slaves in the United States. Their camps are strongholds from which we have routed them are the filthiest places Thome known men of any sort to live In, and Ihave seen red Indian, Chinese and Turkish camps end the camps of many sorts of shack man. As to their bravery and. honour I have Been and heard suffi- cient to fill a page of the Daily Mail with accounts of their cowardly and dastardly behaviour before I came to Kimberley. Bu't here I final they have been guilty of different and origin- al enormities. Hera they killed our wounded and laid their bodies in a row afterone of the forays out of town. Here they armed many blacks to fight against us, showing all the world how scandalously fraudulent were their exclamations of borror at the idea of out employing native In- dian troops. There has hardly been a battle in which the Boers have not abused either the white flag or the Geneva Cross or both. At Spion Kop our people saw them loading =minas in ambulances, in order to get them safely away. This we eaw them do at the Modder River also, and. Kimber- ley is where the Boers SHELLED THE FUNERAL CORTEGE of Gorge L. Abraham, an American. At many places they fixed on our am- bulances. I sew them do it at the Modder River, and saw them fire on our stretcher bearers in that battle time and time again. When we en- tered Jaoobedal it looked like a city of doctors. Every man in the streets wore the Red Cross bandage on his arm. These were the men who had just been shooting us from behind gar- den walla. There was nothing 'novel or original about their exciting their cowardly shelter of the doctor'a badge. We have become quite accustomed to it. We once entered a Boer laager atter a victory and found 27 of these bogus doctors and seven or eight wounded for their patients. Tbey bavo not been content with looting the houses of the loyalists in the British colonies, but in Natal, in scores of instances they have smashed into kindlings and torn into ribbons what- ever they did not want or could not carry off. Worse yet, they have foul- ed the walls of the homes of defence- less woman with obscene writings. They never knew the value of an oath or promise, and have not learned it since the war began." A KAFFIR "SMOKER." In South Africa the native woman smokes incessantly. Your native ser- vant smokes as she cooks and( as she washes. The tobacco she likes is rank. The dainty cigarette an Eng- lish or Russian lady of fashion enjoys, smoked through a quill, so that no nicotine can stain either teeth or, fin- gers, would be sneered at by a Kato fir. "Give me u pipe and something in it I can taste," is in effect what she says. The men Kaffirs are beyond tobac- co. They smoke something so vehe- ment that it makes thein cough and splutter, lose their breath, choke and sneeze to au alarming degree. They liko snuff, too, end are fond of offer- ing and taking pinches of it, "schniff" they call it, when they meet and visit one another, Regarding tobacco as too mild for their taste, the linftirs'take another. weed and smoke that. They preceed. to arrange a smoking party, by squat- ting on the ground and getting ready their "pipe," a cow horn wicks a thin tithe in it inserted halfway loan at right angles to the horn. The earls of the tube is in a basin, enol it; is from it that the smoker sucks the strong stuff that makes himincapable of any- thing but -a series of coughs end chokes for some time after he has had hie turn at the pipe, which is passed around frost man to min, until a per - deal chorus of coughs, rends the air. The tobacco the Boers smoke looks like poor tea, and is peculiar in flavor, yet_ Englishmen who have become. used to it aoqudre such) n teeth for it that they never ask for, any other kind.— ' ----,.-•- - Nothing is so,wretclied or foolish as to aeticlpute misfortune, What madness it is to be expecting evil be- fore it comas.—Seneca, aAI ALT 1.,w Wil? Mill A;Nfi? 1IAND, Many snon declare that nothing fus- oinatee them so Mitch in women ee a beautiful hand. Ilowevee, a well kept hand can ecaroely be oorrsidered a merit in any- body, Man or woman, It 1s a matter of course, There le npreadier way to gauge the breeding of an individual than by a study of his hands and nails. Nat every one has beautiful hands, But, no matter how belly shaped the hand may be, one oan always have a well groomed finger nail, and soft, clean skit. This pray not constitute beauty, but ft is a very good substitute, Many . women neglect their ;lands for ail days of the week, and spend an hour . on the seventh at their meal- cure's. They wonder why it is that their hands are never fit to be seen. It is with the hands as with the hair, and complexion, and everything else pertaining to beauty or health. The care must be oonstaat, Everyday moist contribute its mite. The requisites for the finger nails are few. A nail brush, an emery file, a nail scissors, a cuticle knife, a pol- isher and an orange stick, some hot Water, a little paste paste and a pink nail powder comprises the outfit. The wo- man who does not know how to use these things could not spend fifty cents or a dollar more profitably than by gotng to a manicure and having her flail's attended to. She can thus learn from' observe. tion to perform the manlcure's office for herself. At first it may not be easy tot mani. cure the fingers of theright band. but with practice that difficulty can be overccane. A few minutes every morning devoted to the care of the hands will make and keep them soft, white and pretty. If the hands be red and rough the following preparation will improve them:— White almonds, three ounces; cold cream, four ounces; honey, two oun- ces; orange flower water, five ounces. Pound the almonds in a mortar to a paste add the cold oream and mix with the other ingredients. Apply at night. Washing the hands and arms in oatmeal water is another means of Whitening them and improving their texture. The oatmeal should be boil- ed in water, a cupful to the gallon, and the hands and arms bathed often in the strained water. Young girls are often troubled with red hands and red arms. These de- fects are usually caused by poor circu- lation or by tight lacing. Then, of course, no amount 0f "local treat- ment" can have any beneficial result. Remove the cause. .Others are annoy- ed by perspiring hands. The malady can be checked to a certain extent by ' washing the hands in bot water and powdering them with fuller's earth. GROWN PEOPLE AND DOLLS, Her Gracious Majesty Queen Vic- toria, in less engrossingperiods when no bloody wear is being fought, loves to play with tbe dolls that pleated her in childhood. W. S. Gilbert, of opera fame, pre- ssrvea not only miniature scenes of bis various plays, but doll figures of the dhe.recters therein introduced. A famous ventriloquist is never so Nippy ae when playing with his dolls, not merely prolessionully,, buf' in his own hams. Their marvelous antics 'and conversation serve to dispel "the: blues," proving a source of delight to his youngsters. Boos be take a shore: holiday, his favorite figures journey with him, and it in reported that on occasions he has frigbloned one or more worthylandladies ru: cf their senses by the magical flexibility of bis voice end sudden production of his most hideous doll. Equally affectionate Is the proprietor a£ a travelling wax -work exhibition. Long after the doors bave -;,sad '3n the patine he wanders ';:rough the dimly 1it corridors, unveiling Ileum af- ter figure, nut to discover damages or deficiencies, but to talk to the :vl,:nt benuties. • One fair lady eapeeially pltnseshim; he modelled her with his own bends, Great caro is exerelsed to packing and replacing her. She is unlabelled and uneatalbgued, and knowledge -thirsty (admirers receive an evasive reply when :prompted to assn who and what she 'represents. It is a striking portrait lot the proprietor's dents wife, worship- ped by. Mien oven as he worshipped the living model. The most. extraordinary doll collets - Lion, la the world, perhaps, is tont be- longing to Wilhelmina, Queen of Hol- land. Although these were presented tc, ]tor when she was a little girl, site is still very fond of them. They are dressed to represent the test ants of every part of the vast. Dutch colonial possessions, chieily brown little ace and women of Java and Sumatra, not dissimilar to Amer- erie 's naw lentil men and brothers in the Philippines, A tidy of title possesses a family of dolls which form n perfect diary in themselves ninth figure is: elegantly and expensively hahilerl in facsimile of the gown worn by the owner at different periods of her life. The eld- est doll wears a wedding dress of sat- in, lace and blossoms, the next a repro- duction of her first ball dress, anoth- er a habit of mourning. Theatre gowns and so nn are represented, and a fah• dolly sports an outfit precise- ly similar tonne which graaed'my body on the 000tsionof'a lucky WI: al, Mon le Carlo. Asa panorama of fashion's foibles the tiny persons lake one beck to the lime of hooped skirts arid gigot sleeves; the dressing of Bair being carried out in faithful imitelion, while styles in jewelry have not been omitted. When 11 is stated that the costume of a ra- t her plainly nt tired doll eclat $10 ono (nay judge that .no expense has been spared I nitain urcuraey. • Every woman niece to talk of. .the "gra),, moaielony" of her lino. APRIL 20, 1900 BRITISH.STATE PRISONERS, armament o? MAIM Wile nave neon ,cep' mimed la the Lase RII'ly Tears, Xn 1840, when the State of Mab'artie ja Dhuteep Singh was finally anneal" ed to the Xndian .Empire, that poteoo tate was requested to take up his ro, e nco Enipla—the Indum to 1dea needyIn eompbianaend being givenooent by, the prom:ee of a yearly Inmate if $240,000 with nothing at all an an el,t tornative Dbuieep Singh wiriely era quiesoed, porobe,sing the fine estate • Brandon in Norfolk, upon wielik he resided for many years as a weal- tbe English country gentleman, Though, during this period the Ma- haraja frequently expressed the dem sir's to revisit his native ceuntry,pra- fessing the utmost loyalty to the Em- prese-Queen, yet he was never permit ted to travel Oast df the Isthmus of , Suez. Ia this case the bond scams A ,,i to have descended upon the heads of hie children, for while his sonshave entered thBritish Army, and one �yti of them, Prince Pictar, recently mar- ried the daughter of the Earl of Coo - entry,' yet they bave never been al. lowed to set eyes on the lend ovee. which their ancestors ruled. Approaching Calcutta on the lei1L te. bank of Uujlt River at Garden Beach' the visitor will have pointed out the fine puttee of the late Weald All, King of Oudh. Thera from 1850 anter fro. cent date, this Prance was held in semi-vaptivity upon an annual alloy,, encs of $0OO,000, the only proviso; as to hie freedom of action being that he ahoulld not leave the vicinity of Cal - putts. The King of Oudh, true to• those prodigalinatinots which brought about bis downfall, not only manag5 e d to expend this large sum, but an the keeping of snake mounds, men- ageries and other costly forms of am. usement dear to the Oriental mind, 4 was ("bilged to draw frequently upon the imperial treasury for further amounts. The leniencywith which, he was thus treated was probably due to f/ the fact that he offered no armed, re', sistance to his own deposition. Blitzing with jewels. and seated in a amar pgµipage with servants In royal iii': ernes, the Mug of Oudh was often a ao( conspicuous figure in the Calcutta Park, where the society of the Indian capital takes an outing after the beat 61 the day has passed. Flan different was the fate of the poor old Bahadur. Shale last of the Great Moguls. After the fall of Delhi,. , in 1857, he was' tried for high treason jand sent as a state prisoner to Ran good. Therein a email hut, the pale lineal descendant of Shah Jehan and Aurangzeb passed the remainder oil his days, unnoitioed and upon a mere Pittance. As, however, both his sons were slaughtered and a 'less culpable ,.�^i rebel leader. Tattle Topi, was exe- cuted, he may! bave thought himself fortunate to escape with his life. Near Colombo, in Ceylon, England still holds in light durance Arabi Pa. cha and his colleagues of the Egyp- t ten rebaliion of. 1002. Wjiilo -Arabs bas not ccase'd to bemoan hie fate and uselessly petition tbe British Govern. 'leant for permission to return to Egypt, yet considering the nature of bus offence, sad tthat be. was sentenced to death, his lot oaunot be considered , burdensome. Provided with an income sufficient for his wants, a pleasant jresidence, permission aoaorded him to :receive visitors, and a considerable measure of freedom within the district he would undoubtedly have been worse off bad his successful enemies. been olt his own race and religion, For several years Celewayo, Kung of the Zulus, was held an unresigned pri- saner at Ghowo, near the scene of the Fluent military operations in Na- IsI, wiiere. he diad before the promise of restoration to his throne was oar- , Tied ar-tried into effe^t. 1 OWNEiTp Br.�AA,, Q�UEEN. While it is considers:'; the worst of form. In court circles 'ydisoues the private wealth of kings aiid (usenet it is a well-known fact that Lair fin- ances are gossiped about, and so loud. ly, too, that information regarding the pecuniary standing of Monarchs es - copes to the curious world without. • Fur instance, every one knows that Queen Victoria is the richest sovereign in Europe, if not in the .world. Here is an estimate of her private possessions: • Annual income from nation, ;1,025,- 000. Revenues from duchy of Lancaster, 0300,010. Estates in Ireland, Sootland, France„ Italy and Wales. The famous Koh i-noor diamond, worth $3,500,000. Money invested to the amount of $50,000,000. Yet, in spite of these figures, there are those who claim that the sum of her majesty's fortunes when made known deanilely will be acmparatieely small, They argue that Victoria is one of the most sympathetic and gen.- mutts en_eruus sovereigns in L+"utope, adding that bee ,money is eaten up by pet charities, p riv a le salaries and pensions; and there is the mise en seen? old roma ally to be kept up, which requires an enormous amount of money. Her majesty's wealth consists prin- eipally of jewels and cash; for, einaa she relinquished' her olai.m to. many of the lend properties of the eroWn in re. • torn for the $180,000 civil list a1law.t (ince, ,years ago, her riches aro exceeds. ed in reel estate possessions by those of t he Czar of Itu:isia. THE TEST. t have been buying soave things on the iastallanent plan and have given MI its a referents°. You know bow, L stand financially, .and ell that, Well, I am not so sure . that I do. Are you so fixed, for instance, as to lend Inc $15 on the spot? 11rIE LINE OF DEMARCATION. What's you idea of the difference between' a city and a town 0 Well, a$owu is a pines where but- ter, eggs and ohiekens ate °heap.