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NUTIBER..
PART III. Continued. ; death, but eat1 with the right to
" Baron de liermansthal, the chief hie own privacy and the society oa
of the police and half-e-aozen of his hie oWn sale. 31adame," be added. fl tortny le neglected. Most women beaaing cup of slated f out an
men, will in the meantime be stationtorning to the Countess, who had seem to expect It to be always ready te rounding teaspoonful of baking
ad in my bedroom, the door of evbiela atom' impaealve at first, but on for business, whatever care is given, 1 pet -odor. Seed tbe raieins, weal the
! k ow exactly Opposate to I whose facto row a look of Pity ',spread and it it _a6
f it to comet up to exPeettie eurrants and shred the eitron; mix the
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augur., line' the trait layer Ilse One- !GRIN A
Alm vAsT popilliTiox
foOrth eon of buttov, tine-ttalf etp of k
time dark brown anger, one egg, a level
he () teaspoonful Of °leant:gin, a saltepoone A GREAT EMPIRE WITH THREE
RAO eath of (doves and maces, ope-fourM HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE.
pound each of raisins and currant -MA Oa
RE OP THE SEWING MACHINE, , °twee of citron, enessousso sap tomb remelting gleiti fer commerce Orrercel All
Ats rule a sewing mathine used by of molasses and strong black coffee, a Nations-Aso:mit Rtery or the CellwitiM
ittuptem-Vbe One coterie» tit
Prescott crises
"The Present oriels in China is eig-
nificant of a great and wonderful
transformation, Tile Ina mighty
colossus of heathenism is crumbling,
A new celestial empire is being born
out of the tbroee end travail of the
ana tnieown's nig .eu. God is calling China to
Thus wrote Rev. W. Remfry Hunt,
the head of the Obristian mission in
Central China, in his last official own-
raunieatIon to, the missionary bead -
quarters. As a bold and competent
pioneer of the Gospel ho may have
overestimated the oasis or the cause,
but in view of the present situation
bis words, written less than one
year ago, have a strange prophetic -
nese. God may be (tailing China in-
to a new life, but or whom, or just
how, is not so evident. If the Powers
fail to bead Russia off the "new life"
of heathenism will be a mere change
from Confucianism to the rites of the
Greek Chureh, a transition not at all
acceptable to the Protestant world.
And if escaping the Bear she becomes
the prey of Christian England, tbe
fate of India, is hers, whittle view of
the future doubtlees influences John
Chinaman, who is next door to India
and knows what the dauntless Bri-
ton has wrought there.
But, after all, the one criterion in
the Chinese situation is: "What do
we get?" Is there sufficient gain to
warrant the risk ? It is tbe criterion
of the civilized nation and the un-
civilized, since Adam. And when
you consider it on all sides the gain
is great from purely commercial
point of view.
aa you the stedy door. As ema as they have , as bar ayes met those of Andre, wall
,
seen that the spy is within they will 1 you allow nte to conduct you to your
Aguarding every exit, own rooms, while we leave Monsieur
Baron de Ilermansthal will eater tbe ! to effect the rapture a the spy, wiitoo
we beliere 'the ecwinse machine res ; In a elm oven as other fruit cake, If
!nutty by one door, while you, whom !surelat! will not tarry if be means
ceives more attention and better oars,' more conveeient, this layer may be
I
Iremainder of the peke and wrapped in
in ents instance a dressmaker using paraffine paper and kept in a closely
rubbing his hands with delight, "tbat and his men, wbo saluted them both
but one machine and employing two I covered tin pan or box, Spread a
when our spy finds himself thus eon- as they went At the door of her machine claim boiled Ming thickly between the
fronted, be will he only too willing own room she stopped ; evidently the girls as asSiStant °Ile hal'
but once a week and never unbends 1 layers and ice the tog and sides of the
ta sell us himself ante his silence for meant, withed to say something;
it. It is needless to add OM' a new ;cake. Have the lowest layer red, the
whatever we choose to offer him." Andre took her hand, forcing her to
serving martinet in ber hands is worn I middle layer fruit and the top layer
Zaika bad listened to his Excel- look him straight in the eyes. •
out in a .very short time. I white. To make the ling use whites
leney's discourse silently and atten- " Mone,ieur—" she began.
Lively ; he did nut wish to lose 0810- '.&h, Maearne r" he eaid, "do not Directions for ssee and care eccom-iof four eggs, one cap of water, two
gle wpoet3 of the, plan that was to &Peak to the dead, bid. them good-bye. PanY each machine purchased, but. i beeping cups of sugar, a level nit.
expose the spy to infamy. That spy and wish them Godspeed, and let ttena ' there are a few general directions spoon of cream tartar. Put the
which apply '10 any and all maehln- 'sugar, water and ceearn tartar into a
was bis wife, the Countess Wladimir go whence they came."
Rostopcbine, the bearer of his own "1 c)wa you my safely and ray bon- os. For every ten hours' use the sew_ granite sauaepan; heat slowly to boil-
tistorie name. our, Monsieur." lug machine should be oiled. tborough- ing, stir only until sugar is dissolved
weae he oda in answer wets Be_ " You owe me nothing, Madame," Ir and alasurplus oil carefully cleaned and cook without stirring until it
eellency he did not know; Hayes eve. said the young maxi, simply ; 'the away. The machine wben not in use spine a good thread ; then let it stand
?Jenny eatisfactory, for the Arabes- name you bear is still mine, and it should be unbanded and lite foot lift-. aside a moment only.. 'Meanwhile
was but the ghost of Wladimir Ros- ed from the feed. It should be run I beat the .whites until very stiff, add
ipeculier in his secretary's eemeanour; tenchine Who came to defend what atentlill-never, started or stopped gradually the syrup anti vanilla to
with a jerk. I flavor, and beat vigorously until cool
seder appeared not to notice anything
how be spent the early part of the was his own."
evening be knew still less; all he was "You are not going. Monsieur'?" she ()arc should be used in regard to the mougb to spread.
distinctly conscious of was the all- said in entreaty, as the young man
pervading thougbt: "Count Wladi- turned away.
neir Roetopthine, must save his wife's She held out ber hand to lalm, and
honour, bis own, at any cost, but once more their Mends were joined
)ow?" By warning ber, of course,, But as they had been ten years ago, and
the was not in tbe hotel; the young their eyes met, but pity and contempt
loan had seen her going out; radiantly had faded from her enigmatical face
beautiful, laughing and chatting now; she could read in bis that their
gaily. She had not dined in the ball. parte had been exchanged,
clean and oiled with the best eperua
Would be haeme an opportunity of He bent low and klssed ter Icy cold
oit, will be found very effective and
speaking to her? 11 he bad, would fingers, close to the spot where the
save many dollen.
she listen? He had written to her a i old pope had placed the narrow gold
guarded, carefully -worded' epistle, band-" In the name of the Father, Any woman of ordinary intelligence
which she alone would understand, i and of the Son, and of the Holy may learn to clean the works of her
sewing machine and keep it in good
and he had bribed one of the hotel I Ghost."
servants to place the letter in her I The next moment Countess Mad- running order. She abould learn It
room. inal '
Would she get the letter? Would • • • • • •
she read It? were the eternal ques- The arrest of Count Wladimir Ross
tions that recurred to bis fevered topchlne, whom everyone had heliev-
brain, as his Excellency, very excited, ed to be deed, and his subsequent
was giving him some final instrue- trial on a charge preferred against
tions, and then left him in the room him ten years previously. became the
next to the study, face to face for talk of St. Petersburg society that
balf-an-hour, with torturing hopes winter. it was said that high luau -
and fears, while the clook ticked mer- rare was being exerted on his be-
cilesely on. half ; that his Excellency the Trans-
. ' • • •• • balkanian amaassador, accredited to
How short, and yet bow Intermin- the Court of Vienna, moved heaven About the sixth year of the child the
ably long, the minutes seemed 1 All and earth on behalf of the young true molars aopear. These are perma..
lad heard in the etudy taint
a noise I Count Wladimir reeeived from His Ma- Ni at elicd I or, and their condition fre-
and also around y ke in back and over
0W
at once Andre Zaika jumped up, ev- man, who had been his friend and sec- 1 tient teeth. Once lost t hey are never k
ery nerve tingling with emotion ; be retary for years. There fofe, when reelaced. Their appearance should be /
-a mere, nothing, the rustle of a , jests, a gracious pardon, mitigated by quently noted. If lost, the jaw loses
I the shoulders. Collar of black velvet,
silk dre.ss. It was curious that he i an order that he should continue to 1 symmetry and is inclined to become
narrow. Sleeves cut with pointed ruffs. Ma-
' I required, cashmere, 4.0 inches
A baby's first teeth should be daily serial
wide, 2 yards.
wasted. At three years of age a soft
PRINCE OF WALES' AUTOGRAPH.
Hens tbe fault is attributed to tbe fruit. and flour it well. Mix thel cake in
Machine without besitattan. Witen ' the order given, adding lastly the
found with dressmakers and tailors wtite of egg beatep until st.iff. Bake
shall ask to remain in the adjoin. coins nil 1" thougb here It is not (thew given made one or several days before the
bag room, will enter by the other ; She took his arm, and be led ber
proper care,
and I think," added hie Excellency, 1 away past Baron de Elerreansthal
breaking of neediest One dealer
claims that nothing contributes so
readily to throw a machine out of
order as this. Anything tbat may
give the machine 11 shock should be
avoided. Should poor oil be used and
the works become gummed in ranee-
quenee 0 thorough oiling with kero-
sene occasionally, and afterward wiped
thoroughly and understand the use oi
the attachments She should know how
to lengthen and shorten tbe stitch,
loosen and tighten the tension, both
upper and lower, adjust the feed and
presser foot, and every other part of
the machine that will require attan.
tion.
CHILDREN'S TEETH.
The milk teeth ars 20 in number.
Their duration is about seven years.
Corsage of pastel green cashmere.
Vest and yoke of cream lace and
mousseline. It is trimmed with black
velvet ribbon ni tbe edge m of fronts,
about(' feel so calm suddenly; his live out of Russia, no one was partic-
emotion had vanished, his nerves „gassy astonished.
seemed to have gone to rest. He push- ;
AA usual, rumour had been alto -
e,. open the door of the study, and , getter on the wrong seent. The young
tooth brush should be procured and
torted up the electric light. The Count's chief advocate was a beanie- the use of it carefully taught, Sugar
Countess did not seem frightened or , ful woman whom society had long changes to acid in the mouth, so after
even astonished at seeing him; she known end admired as the widowed easing confections, which, if the
raised her eyebrows slightly, and her ' Countess Rostopthine, tend whose future beauty of the teeth is valued,
lips were once more parted in that honour her husband had so bravely the mother will not permit to be fre-
curious, half -contemptuous smile. ' saved by his noble self-sacrifice. And quenl the mouth should be carefully
The young man seized her hand, and ea her honour also entailed that of
with utmost calm drew her to the Russia, whose prestige would have
sofa, forcing her by gentle pressure gravely suffered, had her agent been
to it down near him I exposed and compromised, the pater-
" Monsieur---" she began. • nal Government was obliged to grant
"Boob 1" he whispered command- the young man in return both his
ingly ; "there is no time now" life and the wee of his name.
Truly there was none, for he beard He now lives in Paris with his
Baron de Hermansthal's men lining young wife, whom he is said to idol -
the passage outside, and presently Ise. They both go a great deal into
the door was thrown open, and the society, but neither of them has ever
°Meer himself entered the room, The touched on politics, since the night
lady bad turued vero pale -the under- when Countess Rostopthine so nar-
rowly escaped being branded as a spy.
stood at once ; the hand that still
lay in Andre Zaika's was icy cold.
"By order of bis Excellency the . HORSES IN BATTLE.
Transbalkanian Ambassador—" be- I ees-4.
The swarmed .tre negularty cared Per es
gan Buron de Etermansthal,
'1 am afraid, Monsieur," said An-
veterinary surgeon..
dre, who had risen very calmly and
Horses wounded on the battlefield
5.10 duly attended to when no clanger
somewhat ironically, " that there is
same mistake."
to human life is involved. The veter-
Mistake?" said the chief of the inary officer in charge is expected to
"
pollee, who habeen a little taken follow close on the fighting line, and
il
aback, on seeing a beautiful, richly- together with a number of aids Lo the
dressed woman and his Excellency's together, with a number of alas to
secretary the only occupants of the inspect properly wounded animals and
room. "1 e.nd ray men saw a person give. inetruotions Inc their removal or
surreptitiously entering this door, and slaughter, as the case may be. The
1 eertainly—" veterinary surgeon is naturally ex.
" You certainly were sent here by posed to coneiderable danger, but if
his Excellency," said Andre, "to watat his work is not carried out during
for a spy whom the Ambassador sus- the progress of hostilities in all prob-
poets of breaking open his bureau. Malay it cannot be accomplished al -
'Kola do not, I presume, imagine, tha 1 terward, tor, although the Royal Ar -
the Countess Wladimir Rostopehine is my Medical Corps is allowed to p10 -
here for that purpose." eeed to the rescue of the wounded men
" It is just. as easy to suppose," all. under the Red Cross, the members uf
Baron de Hermansthal, highly net- the Army Veterinary Department are
tied, and still doubting, " that tbe not permitted to attend to the injur-
Countees Wladimir Rostopehine is in ed horses, because they are not under
a gentleman's room at twelve o'cloelt the protection of the Geneva colleen -
at night for political purposes as
for—"
"As for what, Monsieur ?" said An-
dre laity. "Pray oontinue. Why should
net the Colintee$ Wladimir Rostop- :the combatant armies have been droe-
, r i •
chiral be at any hour the chooses, of en from the if told, a'partY of :veterin-
the deg or of the night, in her hue- ary surgeons, with tbeir assistants, is
bapd'a mine 0"
Her huebatid -you, M. Zalkar said
Baron Hermanethaa, struggling to re-
tain official sangfroid,
" My name, Moneietr, is Wladimir
Roatopebine," said the young man
proudly ; " an outcast and an exile
Iran my country, one condemned to
tion, whit makes uo provision what-
soever for wounded animals.
At the conclusion of the battle, 11 11
has been decisivis and one or other of
The Gem tells a story of the Prince
of Wales playfully declining to write
in a lady's album. He said : " A lit-
tle while ago I spent nearly an hour
one evening writing verses in several
albums. I even made up a verse so
brushed and rinsed. Baby will soon badly put together that only a Royal
consider this an agreeable pastime. An Prime or a Duke at the best could
occasional visit to a skilled dentist have had the shame to write such
stuff. Now, madam, what do you think
happened to my verses? Well, th.ey
were all sold at a good stiff price, a
week later to provide funds to sup-
port the Society for the Restoration
of the Stuarts. Perhaps, Lady-," and
the Prime laughed heartily, " if I
write in your album you will sell the
book to provide 'funds for the aboll-
sent out to examine every animal that
has Wien and to shoot scot as aro
badly wounded. Those suffering from
only slight injuries are collected and
taken to the veterinary bospital lines,
formed as fixed camps, and establish-
ed on a similar basis to those of the
Royal Army Medial Corps.
also, when made in time, will not be
aectomeaniecl by the usual dread.
NEAPOLITAN CAKE.
This cake is made in three layers.n
For the red layer take one-third cop
eact of butter, granulated sugar, red
sugar and milk, one and one-third then of the monarchy in England.
cups of flour, a heaping teaspoon of
baking powder and tbe stiffly beaten Benevolent Lady -lou say you have
a wits and six children? Where are
tbey? Beggs e -I'm all alone. My
boys and girls are at college, and ray
wife is in Paris visiting the exposi-
tion.
whites of three eggs. Mix in the
order given and bake in one layer. This
is sufficient for one good sized pan.
For the white layer make exactly as
the red layer using all granulated
Great ures
Br ght Atbks,ut
By the Use of the Famous Prescription of the Vener-
able Dr, A. W. Chase,
Heir are reported three eases in
which Dr. Chase's faintly remedies
proved a blessing of incalculable
worth. There are thousands of oth-
erjust na remarkable, for Dr. Chase,
through his recipe book and home
medicines, is the eunsulting physician
'in the majority of homes hi Canada
and the United States.
NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA.
Mr, Joseph Geroux, 22 Metcalf Ste
Ottawa, Ont,, writes :-"I was ner-
vous, had headache and brain fag. I
was restless at. night and could not
sleep. My appetite was poor, and I
suffered from nervous dyepepsia. Lit-
tle business cares worried and irrl-
tatqd me. After having used Dr.
Chase's Nerve rood for about two
mongol. I can frankly say that I feel
like a neW
"My appetite is good, 'lest and
sleep well, and this treatment has
strengthened me wonderfully. Dr,
Chase's Nerve Food Pills are certainly
the best I ever used, and I say so be-
cause 1 want to give full credit where
it is due."
KIDNEY DISEASE.
Mr. James Simpson, Newcomb Mills,
alert les mberland County, Ont., writos:
-"This is to certify that I was s ok
in bed the most of the time for three
years with kidney disease. I took
several boxes of pills -different kinds
-aad a great many other kinds of
patent medicines.' besides that I was
nosier treatmentby four different
doctors during the time and not able
to work, I began to take Dr, Chase's
Kidney -Liver Pills, and since that
time have been working every day
although a man nearly 70 years of
age. Dr. Chasers Kidney -Liver Pills
have cured me."
ECZEMA ON BABY.
Mrs, A. McKnight, Kirkwall, Well-
ington Gounty, Ont., writes: -"I feelit
my duty to lel you know what Dr.
Chase's Ointment has done in a very
bad ease of eezema on our baby. We
had tried any uumber of cures with-
out any Permanent relief, but from
the hour we commenced using Dr.
Chase'e Ointment there was great re-
lief and the improvement continued
until there was coneplete cure. Wo
think it the gren test of family oint-
ments."
Dr. A. W. Chase's portrait and sig-
nature aro on every box of hie genu-
ine remedies. Sold everywhere, TM -
mention. Baton & (Jo., Toronto.
THE MAMMOTH EMPIRE.
China is larger than the United
States with Alaska. It is 24 times
larger than the German Empire and
80 times larger than France. It -has
4,400 miles of ooast line, 1,703 walled
cities and a million villages and
towns. Words fail us to impress on
the mind the vastness of this greatest
empire of antiquity, whose teeming
millions, enslaved in the bondage of
heathenism, cry loud and long for the
light "to shine upon them that sit in
darkness and the shadow of ,death."
The fabulous history of the Chinese
lies back a million years. The first
dawn is clouded in the mists of the
centuries. The real historical Maine
is conteam :r.:ry with legendary Rome,
China is the ancient Colossus; I Be-
fore Israel was called out of Egypt
China was a civilized Power. Frosts
the time of Abraham China has had a
settled form of constitutional govern-
ment. She lifts her hoary head over
the graveyards of ancient empires.
HER ANCIENT GLonr.
The Chinese had firearms In the
reign of Edward Is engraving 1000
B.C.; made coins, 1100 B.C.; invented
compass, MR B.C. The art of print-
ing was practiced 500 years before
Caxton was born. They made paper
A.D. 150, and used gunpowder and
arms about tbe commencement of the
Christian era. Before Columbus dis-
covered America the Chinese had a
grand canal 1,200 miles long7, The
great wall of Liela miles was built just
220 years before Christ was born in
Bethlehem.
We reach out after comparisons. A
missionary writes: "When the arches
of Babylon first spanned the Euph-
rates, 'tetra the towers of Nineveh
first cast their shadows into the
Tigris, while Solomon in all his glory
was receiving the Queen of Sheba in
Jerusalem, when Jonah threatened
Nineveh with destruction, when Isaiah
foretold the downfall of Babylon,
when Daniel prayed and propheeicd-
through all these years the Chinese
were engaged in their present pur-
suits of agriculture, commerce and
literature." China was 700 years old
when the Israelites crossed the lied
Sea, and had existed 15 centuries when
Isaiah prophesied of her future con-
version. "Lo, there shall come from
far . • . . and these from the land
. . „ , • • • • • , • - -
Amore] march! n le egoist to bore, -
lug London every three months, and
ail the people ef the United Statea
in loss titan a year and a half,
Think of them living, Make them
an army and let them north 90
miles -a day, and for days apd weeks
and moths under the sunlight and
solemn stars you will bear the
ceaselees tramp, tramp, tramp of tbe
weary, burdened, Pressing throng for
281-2 years.
HER FATE Is SEALED.
Yet ber fate Its sealed, Despite her
ancient glory, her vast area and ber
teeming millions, it needs but a faint
power of pereeption and but little
close study of the condition of things
to see that Ohina, whittle for long cen-
turies could boast inaperial strength,
is weak -very week -almost on the
verge of dissolution. Weak in ability
to properly defend her ,borders, weak
in the administration of her internal
affairs, weak in the face of the de-
mands of Western Powers, whose ex-
istence is but a day compared with
her hoary centuries. What a eon-
trast is her attitude of half a cen-
tury, or even a quarter of a century
ago, to her attitude to -clay in her
lelPlessness to resist the strong, ag-
gressive, selfish demands of Western
Powers 1 How quickly and how
weakly she makes concessions of im-
mense and painful significance to one
nation after another. Observe bow
she has been stripped of her terri-
tory. Her interior borders in 111 and
Turkinstan have been ravished from
her by the Russians, whets° iron grasp
and relentless pressure have con-
tinued without interruption or serious
check. Her nominal sway over tbe
southern kingdom of Annam has been
overthrown by the volatile and in-
solent French, whose coming is a
bane to sous, land they take. Korea,
by a eombination of causes, has en-
tirely escaped her influence and eon -
trot, Formosa, with its lofty moun-
tains and camphor forests, has gone
to the Japanese. Manchuria is virtu-
ally under Russian control, while
choice places are being snapped up
along the coast without much regard
for ceremony, The great nations of
Europe are seated, or sailing, in ex-
pectation on her shores, waiting and
watching until the inevitable division
of the spoils brings the good fortune
they aro seeking.
• e
NEW WAR MATERIA4
few.*
ArSeured IrraeDlon Writhe( Evolved prom
Armored Railroad Trains.
It ham been found, In the war in
South Meath, that the armoured
trains rue on the permanent railroad
crooks have not Proved 00 efficient go
wee expected. Tills le due mainly to
the fent that the Boers were able to
locate them me readily, since the
were, of Doi ,confined to the rail-
roads, Alter ' destroying the road-
way at any point, they could. at °saes
locate their guns to cover the point
wbere the armored train would be
etopped, and prepare to destroy it on
its arrival; for armored trains -are
protected only against small -arm fire,
it baying been found impracticable as
yet to protect them uagainst artillery
fire,
But a train protected against rale
fire is still of great 'service in War;
therefore England decided last fall to
have a number of armored traction
trains constructed for service. As •
they go across country they are not
confined to the railroad linos, and so
they cannot be so easily awaited or
taken when mean.
Unprotected traction engines wean
used for transport purposes in 1870,
the Germans moving their seige gum
around Meiz by their aid. In the war
in South Afriea they have had more
extended application, but when un-
protected by armor they are so easlly
SUBJECT TO CAPTURE,
even by the enemy's raiding parties,
that they require a convoy of troops
to protect 'them. It however, tbey
were armored, the gun detachments
of the guns transported, or in came
other material is transported, of gums
specially mounted, could protect tbem-
selves, a.nd artillery would be requir-
ed for their oapture.
For these reasons England had six
such traction trains constructed, each
consisting of one armored engine and
4 bullet-proof cars, 2 of which were
recently completed and tested. In
the test the oars were loaded with pig
iron to represent the load to be oar-
ried on service, and two 0 -inch bow-
itzers were hooked on at the end of
the train, making the load behind the
engine thirty-three tons. With thin
load the engine found no difficulty in
ascending a hill as steep as 1 to 18.
The engineer has only two narrow
slits on each side of the fire box as
Peep -holes for observation in (steer-
ing, nevertheless, be took part of the
train, one car and a howitzer drag-
ging behind it, over a newly ploughed
field and through a gate only ten-
inchem wider than the engine.
The wheels, for ordwary road, have
rivited to them strips of tees, about 5
inches across and 2 inches high, form-
ing regular teeth, giving an excellent
bit on the ground; for very soft
ground speoial spuds are provided,
which section of T iron, about 5 inches
deep, flanged to hook over the edge
of the wheel rim, and so arranged an
to be put on or taken off quickly and
readily. For still softer ground, a
rope is provided, by means of which,
la
wen fastened to any fixed objeot
ahead, the engine
CAN PULL ITSELF ALONG.
The boiler, engine and gears are in-
closed in one quarter inch nickel -steel
plates, capable of resisting the small -
arm bullet at 20 feet, stopping shrape
nel or shell fragmenes.
The care are designed to take a B-
ina breech -loading howitzer and its
limber inside, or a 4.7-10011 500. If
the guns are dragged. along bebind,
the cars are used to carry ammuni-
tion, 100 rounds for howitzer or 125
for 4.7 -inch gun, each. The cars are
protected by 1 -4 -inch verlioal armor,
and 3 -10 -inch side armor, inclined at
30 degrees. Icor loading and unload-
ing each car Is provided with two in-
elined rumps of heavy steel. The
rear of each car ean be opened, and
by means of the traction rope the en-
gine 0011haul up the load.
This, new war material 1$ carefully
studied by all military nations, since
it will undoubtedly find even greater
application in a future war, and be-
cause of the Immense importance of
transportation in general for an army
in the field. Draught animals every-
where are being displaced by other
forma of power, and the domain of
war is no exception. It is all the
more important to study this new ma-
terial under the present cIrcumstan-
°es, because it is being tested under
war conditions, and the results will
furnish the best available data for
any future application of it, !
SUMMER SMILES.
A. Wild Goose Chase -Yes, both the
criminals got away. without any troa-
ble. What were the pollee doing?
Chasing theories.
Dealer -Five dollars for this beau-
tiful painting ? Wby, man, the frame
is worth more than that. Connoiss"
seur-Yes; but not with that picture
in it.
Did you read my latest novel, entit-
led A Terrible Experience? asked the
novelist. Yes, answered the blunt-
ly candid friend; and that's what It
Wee.
So Mies Primrose has purchased a
kodak f Yes; I presume she thinks
she can catch a man that way.
Sure, Pat, and why aro ye wear-
in's yer coat buttoned up loike that
on a warm day loike this? Faith, yer
riverence, to hold the shirt 01 haven't
on.
Blanche -Old Blowitz said he would
marry me if he were twenty years
younger ? That would be exactly
my age. Blanche -0, Cholly, tbis 15
so sudden.
Teacher, suspiciously -Who wrote
your computation, Johnny ? Johnny
-My father. What, all of It ? No'm;
1 helped him.
He -When is a woman's happiest
age? She -Well, a woman's happiest Bt
age is when u has got ole enough
to feel that she doesn't have to keep
on pretending she is young.
She continued the conversation. No,
sir, I wouldn't marry the best man
on earth. Of course you know, be
urged, -that it is not the custom for
the bride to marry the best man.
A Falling Out -And why did you
leave your lest place? Cook an' Me
had a fall& out, mem. I don't see
wby you ehould leave for such a lit-
tle thing like that. But we fell out o'
th' third -story window, mem
Ala, she sighed, as she looked pota
ENORMOUS POPULATION.
The missionaries leave taxon en- sively out anross the spreo.ding ftelds,
THE ENO
there's netting so 7010 as a day in
one. Oh,I don't know, he anssvers
of Sinina."
ingenoity, imagination and riMiorie to pariences at tbe club, four kings are
eadcwith rcollections of' recent ex -
convey, any adequate Ldea or the vast not so plentiful.
and teeming milliote of the Chinese.
The fact that there are twice aa maty
as there are in the four continents
of Africa, North and South America
and Oceanica, ought to be solemn
enough in its appeal on their behalf.
The whole population of Canada could
STRATEGY.
The mosquito was reconnoitering
among the papers on the country
storekeeper's desk.
Good morning, suddenly cried e
bookworm, peeping from behind the
g
FATRiario WAR STAMPS.
'21.10 colony of Victoria has adopted
the device, of 188,11115cie
g special war
stamps in aid of its local pctiriotie
be accororamlated in a single Chinese leaves of the general leder.
fund. These eternise were !made even-
thmosquito politely, Perhaps you
city, The five millions of IVIadagasear A.11, good morning brother, replied
able to the public last month. They
e
can give me the information I seek,
Can you give me t list of the people
in town who have not yet bouglit
tbeir wire screens or netting?
would only be a seventh part of the
single province of Shantung,
In Ilonan, Antoci and Kiangsu, the
Eroperor of China rules over 80,000,000
of people. A. hundred cities' of the
size and capacity of London would
hardly accommodate Lha 400,000,000 of
the Chinese ram. Turning to the
funereal arithmetic, what facts tato
ON TBR SAME PLANE.
You argue Him an idiot, angrily ex.
claimed the husband.
know tt, my dear, cahnly, replied
his better half. 'roil see, den't There is no killing* the layspicion
Os I Thirly-three thousand die daily!
A. million a month are dedng in Chinal waet to take an unfair (Advantage of dist deceit has otos begotten. -
Tae pallid ranks pass away like a grim you. • George Eliot,
depict colonial troops at the front.
They are of iwo OlaSeee, first and sees
end, The first are sold for 2s.,. the
second fur ls. Forty thousand have
been printed of the one, '20,000 of the
other, and it is anticipated I hat the
sato of them will add stung 015,500 to
the putriotic fund,