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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1900-8-9, Page 2Th1E MYST.JRIODUS CRIME • ON THE S.S. NEPTUNE CHAPTER IL --Continued, ,'I.dere say the effect wouldn'teta dues long," said Ronald, lightly, "Reli- gion, watate appeals purely to the theses is 'never so strong, as : that whioh acmes strelata to tae minds,' "Of coarse, not," replied Pat, who knew nothing about what he was talk- ing, and only spoke to irritate the old lady, " I'd back Preabyterianiem Against Catbolicistu any day for fan- atioiem; it's a fight between Calvin and Peter—•two to one on the win- 00r." Mrs, Pellypop made no reply, being struck with horror at the light way In whieb tbe young man :treated rein glee, and walked hastily away with, ltfise Lester so as to close the discussion. " Hang it, Pat!" said Ronald, as they walked slowly behind, " wby can't you leave the old girl alone ?" " Because she won't leave us alone," retorted Pat. " Why the deuce should the come with us to spoil sport 1" " Two young men and only one girl isn't sport."' "Oh, bilged! we'd hove tossed fog. bet, and the loser could have made himself scarce." They then went to the Capuchin Convent and caw the dried monks, looking grim and ghastly enough in the dim light of candles carried by their living brethren. Pat's comment on their appearance was original, " They look like Bombay duck," he said, " alluding to the dried fish usu- ally eaten with curry. " I don't think P1l touch any more of it." Kate Lester laughed. " You are amusing," but irreligious,' she said, turning away. "Irreligious, certainly," observed Virtue, la the person of Mrs, Pellypop; " but amuaing, no." "I don't think the old thing's got remelt sense of burner," whispered Pat to Ronald as they went up again into the light of day. ' Well, if no one else 'aligns at your jokes, Pat, you always do yourself." retorted the Australian. consolingly, " But come along, we'll go to the Bar- raca and see the view." They strolled slowly along, inhaling the trash air, and going through the rained Barraca, whieb was unroofed by one of the Grand Masters they stepped out on the terrace, and saw that wonderful panorama, which is one of the finest things in Valetta. .A. magnificent view of the open sea, the blue waters of the Quarantine Har- bor, while immediately below are the Sultan's garden, the huge walls of Fort Lascaris, and the Fish Market. Away in the distance can be seen Fort St. Elmo protecting the entrance to the port, Fort St. Angelo, which is the of the oldest in Malta, and the angular lines of fortification standias sharp and clear against the vividly blue sky. It was a gorgeouspanor- ama, and even blrs. Pellypop was im- pressed. Tbia place is impregnable," she said, surveying It through her glasses. "I don't think so," said Pat, in a oontradiclory tone; " a few of our new guns would knook it to pieces in no time." Mrs. Pellypop deigned no reply to this flippant remark, but walked off indignantly, wishing that the fate he intended for Valetta would befall this intrusive young man. Suddenly Ronald uttered an exclam- ation ; By Jove, what pretty girls i" Valetta, its traditions, Its views, its pleasures. all vanished to nothing as be saw before him feminine beauty. 111rs. Pellypop was dieguated, as ebe aonaldored he man Iliad a rigbt to ad- mire a woman when anotherwas be- side bins, 'line, however, was merely the Pellypop oode, and not generally adopted. But the two ladies who bad caused Ronald's exclamation, fully justified bis remark. One was: tall and slender, with a dark, ovaleaoe, and coils of jet black hair wreathed round her small head. Wonderfully dark eyee which had a sleepy look, a straight, delicate- ly ahisellled nose, and a full red mootb. She was dressed in a loose, white gown, with a orimsen sash round her waist, and instead of the ugly hoods generally worn by the Mal- tese ladles, had a saucy sailor bat on her head, long Suede gloves, and a tall pompadour umbrella of reed silk. completed her costume, The other was somewhat similar in appearance, but evidently older, and bad ralber a repelling expression of eo(ntenanoe. She was dressed in black and did not show to such ad- vantage as her companion, so after e. eareleas glance at her, Ronald—who, like all fair men, admired dark women —turned hie attention to the young - ea' of the two, They appeared to have been quarrelling, and the youpger girl was walking quickly a little in ad- vance of her friend with an indignant expression on her face, while the oth- er followed more slowly witb a Crown on her strongly marked features. Ronald turned to his companion with a sigh. " Yes, awfully pretty," I confess," observed Mrs. Pelly- pop, slowly, "I do not think so." Ronald was disareet, and surren- dered, "I dare say not," he observed has- tily, " but you see one is so often de- ceived by a passing glance." They wandered all over the city— went to the market and bought fruit, and were warned against eating it by an officious Maltese—saw the Armory in the Grand Master's Palace—stroll- ed round St. George's Square, and viewed with patriotic pride the flat- tering inscription to British Power aver tbe Main Guard-House—sat in the carriage of the last Grand Mas- ter, and then went and had a light afternoon meal at a well-known ho- tel. It was now getting late. so, with a farewell glance at the Strada Reale and its queer crowd, they went down to the water -gate, where they found their boat waiting. A crowd of pas- sengers was there, full of excitement about bargains made and experiences gained, and some guilelessly thought they had got the better of the Maltese shopmen. -a. thing quite impossible in this enlightened age. They rowed to the steamer through the dark waters, with the lights of the city gleaming like stars in tbe dis- tance, and the tall forms of ships looming like phantoms in the gloom. At last, after an adventurous journey, they arrived an board, and the first thing Ronald saw was Ventin leaning over the bulwarks watching fresh ar- rivals. As soon as Mrs. Pellypop and Kate, esoarted by Pat, had gone be- low, Ronald went to Ventin. " Have you been on board alt day 1" he asked. Ventin shook his head. "No; I changed my mind and went on share shortly after you left." " Did you see her 8" " I did." Ri 13, SEE 08 '" Well, eho won't eo¢no 0n board w," that Ronald eonsolingiy I " 00 you'll be all rjght," Ventin sighed, "Nothing 18 so,oertain as tbe un- toa'eeeen," he replied moul'Ufnlly, CIIAPTIH 111, Tine excitement ofarrival at enew. plate is only equalled by the excite.. meet of departure, and as the 0 Nep- tune,' was to leave at nine o'olook no' one thought of going to bed until the anchor wae up, The deck was crowded with passen- gers talking' gaily about their adven- tures during the day, and bore and there could be teen the strange faces of new arrivals ora board. All round the steamer numerous boats, each. bearing a light, were cruising about, and the water leaked as if covered with restless fire -flies. Every now and then the whistle would sound Ln order to summon heedless passengers who bad forgotten the hour,of sail- ing. A lot of people had come to the new passengers off, and some were having a parting glass at the bar, wbile others were talking together in knots on deck. It was a very ani- mated scene, and Ronald, standing by Ventin, felt amused at tbe °batter and bustle that was going on. Ventin, however, eyed the crowd in bis usual gloomy manner, and Ronald oould not help asking him the cause of bis low- ering looks. "Nothing mare than common," be answered, carelessly ; " I've seen all this soft of thing no often, it has be- oome dreary—I'm bored, and I detest being homed." " Are you afraid of seeing your wife 1" " Well, I don't know," replied Ven - tin, pulling his mustache ; " if she thinks she can make a row she cer- tainly will, but as I am under anotb- er name she will ask for me by my real one, and therefore, she will be told there's no such person on board." " And then 1" interrogatively. "Oh, as the saw me in Valetta to- day she will think I'm stopping there, and hunt everywhere for me—I hope her patience will be rewarded—by the way, when do we start f" " Nine o'clock," replied Ronald, look- ing at his watch, " it's now half -past eight." " I'll go to bed, I think," observed Mr. Ventin, holding out his hand. " Won't you wait till we start 1" " Too sleepy," yawned the other, ''Well, if your fellow -traveller en- ters later you will be awakened." " I daresay," said Ventin ; "but I've got a whole cabin to myself—queer you haven't seen it—I've some things you'd like to look at." " What is the number 1" asked Mon- teith, carelessly. " Forty-three." Some one pushed against Ronald at that moment and he did not hear Ven - tin's animal.. " What number did you say f" "Forty-three," from Ventin, in a louder tone of voice, " look me up in the morning—at present, good-bye," and he shook the young man's hand cordially. "Good night, you mean," said Ron- ald laughing. "It's all the same thing," replied Ventin idly, "like Kathleen Mavour- neen—Lt may be far years and it may be for ever—good night," and be mov- ed away slowly down the saloon steps.' Ronald remained leaning over the bulwarks looking at the stream of people coming up, and presently he was joined by Pat Ryan, who made facetious remarks on the late arrivals. " The devil—did she see yeti?" " How much sbam jewellery have ye " I think so." got, Chester 1" be asked of a fair below the water line. " Oh, so she didn't speak to you 1" young man who came lurching up There is °wonderful fish in Alaska, " No! I was afraid of a scene and evidently having more on board than which, when acted, is used as a candle, came back to the ship at once." he could carry. Mr. Chester made The Alaskan inserts the tail of the Only establiebed In the smoktng-room Lh,rougb the wide doorway u£ whioh trey could the the lights of Valetta fading slowly away, "I'll follow suit," said Pat, prompt« ly lighting' his pipe, " Two whiakeye and soda, atomise', and not too 010011 Soda," All the ladies, tired with tbalre exe paa'ienoce oe Valetta bad gone 10 bed, and the Smoking -room was filled with gentlemenwhose tastiugs of the wines of the eomatry bud made them more exhilarated than mewl. Being convivie ally disposed they ordered mere liquor and prepared to make a night of it, " Where's Ventin l" asked Pat. "Gone to bed," replied Monteith, knocking the ashes from bis pipe. " The dance be bus," said Ryan with surprise, " that's unusual for him." ''Tired, I suppose," was the an- swer. "It's a pity," observed Ryan, re- gretfully.; "he 15 a deuced good fel- low for a song." "give us one yourself, Pat;" ttaid Bentley, tapping bis glass on the ta- ble. ' " Mr. Ryan for a gong, gentlemen." Yes, a song—a song "—from all. "I'll sing ye ' Killaloe,' " said Pat, "it's got a tomb of the brogue about it that will go beautifully with the whiskey:" So he accordingly sang i' Killaloe to a delighted audience, wbo joined in the obca'uS with bacchanalian veheme enoe, and wbo gave the " Whoop ye diens," at the end with a vigor wor- thy of Donnybrook Fair. Tben Ronald sang, " Weep me up in my old stable jacket "—that old song which is al- ways such a favorite; and after sun- dry other selections had been given by gentlemen with good intentions, but husky voices, Pat was called on to sing his favorite nigger song, " I love a !ably gal." A pleasant voice had Pat, and he sang the plaintive little melody in a ohurmingly sympathetic manner. " 1 love a lubly gal, I do. And I have loved a gal ar two; An I know how a gal ebould be Lub'd—you net I do.' Ronald found himself humming it as he went to bed, and then fell to sleep, and dreamt the dark girl he bad seen that day in Valetta, was the "lubly gal" he loved. !To be Continued., FACTS ABOUT FISH. Why They Are Coated With 611tue—Tile Ain•knu Candle—Wondera or the Carp. Fish, es a rule, increase in weight and length every year up to their death. There are several varieties of flab that can not swim; they are deep- sea -dwellers, and crawl about the rocks, using their tails and fins as legs. Why fish are slippery is accounted for in this way: The slimy coating pro- tects them from the attacks of fun- gus, a form of plant life found in all waters, If a fish is uncovered by slime the fungus lodges there and grows until in time it kills the fish. The slime helps also to increase the speed of the fish through the water. In order to capture a certain fish, a South American tribe whips the water with the wood of a tree which contains a substance having a narco- tic influence on t he fish, whioh are then readily caugbt. One South' American Lisle, the anableps, a star- gazer, can see in air as well as in water. Its eyes are divided into an upper and a lower portion, giving the effect of two pupils in each eye, one suited for seeing in the air, and the other for seeing in the water. Tha fish often swims at the surface with its head sometimes above, sometimes Is Wors Than Death. Sleeplessness Is an Unmistakable Symptom of Weak1 Exhausted Nerves, and is Permanently Cured When the System Is Built up by DR. CHASE'S NERVE FOOD. To pass a single night. In the vain attempt to sleep anions the miseries whioh one can never forget. To lie awake night after nigbt with the brain on fire with nervous excite- ment and tbe thoughts flashing be- fore the mind in never ending variety is the common experience of persons whose nerves are weak and exhaust- ed. Daring such nights nerve force is consumed at a tramendoua rate. Instead et being restored and rein- vigorated for another day's work the 'holy la further weakened and ex- hausted, and the mind is unbalanced by this terrible waste of anergy with whioh the lamp of life is rapidly burn. ed'aut. tit le in this despairing condition that many men and women attempt to drug and deaden the nerve by the use of opiates. Theme is a reaction to all truth treatment that is doubly injure Lath to the nervous system. It has- tens the decoDP the nerve Cells, partial parelysis, locomotor ataxia, completely restore the nerves by us- ing Dr. Chaea'8 Nerve Food, a treat - Meet whioh gets right dawn to the foundation of the difficulty end ef- {teats permanent reaa)ts by rev taltii- ing the waeted nerve -Idle. There w ill be no mare eleepleae nights, no more nervoua headache and dyspepsia, no more days of gloom and despondency when Dr. Chase's Nerve Feud is used, But don't expect a cure le a night. The nerve tisane of the body Is caln- pletely changed in about sixty days. 'Though you will feel the benefit of this treatment in two or three weeks, you should persist in the use of the nerve food for nt least sixty days in order that the results may be last- ing. Sleeplessness is only tine of the many distressing sympttims which will dis- appear with the use of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. It ie a positive cure for nervous prostration and exhauption, Surely it in wiser to build up and epilepsy and alt the most serious forms of nervous disease, DR. CHASE'S NERVE FOOD Is the world's greatest reeterative for Pale, weak, nervous men, women and children. It is specific for woman's Ole, beeauss they almost invariably arise from exhausted nerves. In pill farm, 50o a box, at alt dealers, or by mail from 14dmaneon, Mutes, & Co., (Toronto. some unintelligible reply, and .Nut re- dried fish in u crook of his rough, earned, " Ohl it's sham -pages a- wooden table and lights its nose. The ye took instead ; it's a bad pun, but u fish burns with a bright and steady he venly truth. That you, Bently'd flume of about three candle-power, how many girls have you mashed to- Giving u clear, white 1Lty and eon_ siderable heat. A. fairly large fish will burn about three hours. The fish is very fat and its vertebrae are form- ed largely of phosphorus—thus the fat is the tallow and the vertebrae the with oe Lie curious candle. I£ netes- sury it eau be eaten afterward, being nicely stuuked. The polloek is severely let alone by its finny brethren, for it is armed to the teeth with a formidable sting and a the of poisou. The lake lamprey of Central New York is another fish which isforoeiuus and bluodthiesty. Its ,ueuth is bigger than its bead and its teeth are sharp and pointed like a tiger's. The brook Lamprey bas never. been known to eat at all. It is sup - os that. hal he does all bis b s eating before ha becomes a real lamprey—in the larva period --and is never hungry afterward. day ,' Begad,if your success bas only been equal to your knowledge of Mal- tese it's mighty small progress ye've made. Ah! Monteith, me boy, that's a pretty girl in black, I hope she's tome on board to stop; keep your wicked eyes off her, ye villein, or P11 set Mrs. Pellypop on to you." The girl in question was neituer pretty, nor fascinating, but Pat's brogue, "nuc started, never knew when to atop; and Ronald was just going to march him off to the bar as the Linty way of closing hie mouth, when the last bell was rung, and the cry of " All aboard for the shore," was beard. A rusb took place to the side, and a black line of people streamed down the gangway; then Lha ladder eves lift - se up; the old and new passengers lined the bulwarks and sang out People marvel at the mechanism of "good byes" to their friends in the th01nm10n body, with its near 500 hones, but man is s;nrple in this respect darkness—the anchor was tripped—: compared with the carp, whioh moves the, whistle blew, and the throb of the no fewer than 4880 bones and muscles every time it breathes. It has 4820 veins, to say nothing of its ninety-nine musetes. One Deb bas a brain larger than man's --the whale. To SHAME HIM. Mrs. Gabble—Mrs, Phoxy eeeme to akerolse a vomiter influence over her husband, Mrs. Noah Tall—She aloes. )dire has preaervod an alleged poem he wrote when be was arming rean,`and when- ever ha gets obetroporous she threa- tens.to read it to him. engines announced that the " Nep- tune " was once more on her way to England, ' 1 wonder if anyone is left behind," said Ronald to Ryan, as they went to the smoking -room. "They must. he deaf if they are," retorted Pat ; " that divil of a wbis- Ile would wake the dead—now, me boy what is it to be 0" Whiskey and .soda foe me," said iIonLoith, when they were aomfort- LIY RPOOTIIS [CREAT ROCKS T -TS EV3RY PRECAUTION IS TAKEN 'i'Q PREVENT EASE, Nu Saab Calamity as Itcdoatly occurred 133 New Peril Could •Patin Place Tltere Ittre Atter eine of Seiki Granite 00045 —A A'anatalet W+.rtel Ie Kelt Day and MOO. The thousands of traveller's who go to Barone by way of Liverpool every year p058 along aeverai milds of the finest doaka ;n the World, The tide at this seaport ranges from seven to nine feet, aoaoa*ding to this Beason, and spa' tem of ,berths for vessels in whioh n uniform depth of water aan be main- tained ie absolutely neaessa,ry, This le erre anthem why the Liverpool docks were coatstruoted of stone. Another important reason, however, was to prevent lass by fire, and although they extend along the waterfront, a dietanoo of six miles a person cannot find' a single beam er other support made of wood. For mile after mile the walls of granite extend above and a foot ar so below the water ebb tide. The walls nest upon a solid foundation of stone masonry. They are divided in- to sections each connected with the river by a massive water -gate. These gates are operated by steam and by- drraulic power andareonly opened at high tide to allow the movement of vowels inward and outward. Some of the gates shut in a series of berths barge enough to accommodate a fleet of forty of the largest steamships. The piers in eaohdook are also built of stone as thorougbly and carefully as the wall whioh bounds the Jiver front. The lumber ships' go into one section of the docks, the grain vessels have a space allotted to thein„ while general cargo is distributed in four or five of the principal ones. Altogeth- er there are pier front net a Wooden etruoture Pen be Found with the exeaption of the abettelr's .et I3irkeubead, These build- ings, ) owever, aro aoyor'ed with aor- t'ugeted Lrm and have Iron roofs ahoy' aro Separated f1am the other portions of the Birkenhead docks by heavy steno walls and aro PRACTICALLY ISOLATED. The reales regarding fires et Liver- pool are 8o strict that workmen are not allowed to 010VJ'y matches illtheir poekots. If deteeted they are immedi- ately discharged. Smoking inside the dock limits is practically unknown, It iseeenade a 0ri114,i0tsi offence by the laws of Liverpool and Bootle whieb inoludes a considerable election of the wetereeant. A man caught with a lighted pipe in his mouth would, be 1i - able to get six months in the city xi - eon, but an arrest of title kind bus not been made for several years, although over 10,000 men are employed as stave - death and in other occupations. When a voseel is docked the officers and crew receive strict{ orders not to smoke on deck. Smoking mast be confined to their own quarters. The steam plants whioh supply pow- er far :operating tbe gates and run- ning the transferring machinery are enclosed in brink and atone houses with Iron roofs and all of the chim- neys have spark arresters. They are located from 100 to 200 feet away from the cargo space and the entrance to the boiler rooms are generally closed, when fires - are lighted, by heavy iron doors. llydraulio power, however, is being substituted to a great extent for steam power and it is calculated that, within a few years vary few steam engines will be in op- eration inside the dock limits. In ardor to out off the docks from the rest of the city a stone wall ex- tends along the land aide the entice six miles The entrrances are provide TWENTY-SEVEN DOCKS ed with heavy iron gates at whioh. watchmen are constantly stationed. In in Liverpool and Birkenhead, whioh is cane of a flare in the neighbourhood, of just acroae the Mersey, bearing such any section of the doeks,these gates names as Cobus•g, Brunswick, Prin- are immediately closed and the dock nese, Waterloo, Trafalgar, Victoria' fire department planed in position to and other titles dear to the English prevent the fire from spreading, to heart. their side of the wall. The general fire Probably the most elaborate systembrig• ade attends to the fire outside no of fire protection in the world is pro -matter if it is but 300 feet away. vided at Liverpool. It is absolutely DAY AND NIG$T necessary on account of the inflam- mable nature of mucb of the cargo a constant watch is kept for fire, es - which is disebaaged. In •spite.of the rectally at the lumber and cotton construction of the Manchester Canal -docks. Men eover every portion of thousands ad bales of cotton are un- the cotton warehouses at intervals of loaded at Liverpool weekly to he ship- fifteen minutes. The watchman do not pad to the Lancashire shipping dis- merely walk around and press the triot. This cotton is taken immedi- buttes of the time indicator, but are ately from the ship's side into ware- obliged to olimb upon the pile and look houses built of steel framework; sup- between the bales to see if any fire ported by motel girders and covered has been caused by spontaneous come with corrugated iron. The only wood bustles. The same system is follow- about the place its the floor, wbich is ed among the long rows of lumber composed of heavy planking support- piles and as a result no fire can gain ing railroad tracks. Coils of hose are mare thran ten ar fifteen minutes' placed on each side, also attached to headway before it is discovered. Each hydrants so that merely a turn of the watchman has a map showing the lo- wrench brings the water through the cation of every section of hose and hy- pipe to any spot desired. In addition drant, also the nearest alarm box. To chemical extinguishers are placed at send an alarm it is only necessary to frequent intervals and 200 feet away pull a handle. The fire department from the cotton dock is a detachment immediately responds and if the bat - of the Liverpool fire brigade, include talion chief ar lieutenant thinks the ing several engines, trunks and hose fire is to be a large one, another pull carts. No loose cotton is allowed to linings a section of the city fire brie remain hover nix hours in or around gads from outside the walls. The the warehouses and its contents are alarm boxes are very generously dis- taken away as rapidly as trains can tributed, being attached to the side of be made, up for the cargoes of a cot- nearly every large warehouse. They ton ship. One of the dock regulations aro conspicuously Indicated by red imposes a fine upon the owners of the and white poles planted by their side cotton if it is left longer than sigh- and it is a criminal offence to dump teen hours after being discharged. cargo where tante might be lost in THE LUMBER PIERS reaching them. are constructed entirely od stone, the logs, beams and planking being piled THE SECOND LIEUTENANT upon a dirt surface with which the piers are filled. Here also are hyd- SCORED.rants with hose attached and in prox- A correspondent, who is at present a imity is another section of the fire church dignitary, but who was form - brigade, Like the cotton wharves, the eriy an officer in her Majesty's ser - brigade, lumber piers are so far apart that a vioa, tells an anecdote of his Luther's Fillip 500 feet long can be turned be- whioh, though it may not represent the feeling of the army to -day, is one tween two of them, thus preventing the flames from leaping from one side of those stories which explain the to the ether as in the case of the Ho - one "Cheesemangcs," as applied to baken fire. At the Waterloo docks is one of has Majesty's regimental unloaded much of the grain and flour, tical Lieut. F., to Secnnd Lieut. S. The breadstaffs are transferred from °ay, S., is it true that your tiuth- the ships to a series of huge brick er was only a shopkeeper i buildings, supported on stone fonuda- S.—Quito true. What of itt tions with merely open spaces for win- F.—Oil, nulbing; only it was a great dews so that at all times the ale bas pity. 1. think, that he didn't maks you a constant circulation preventing the "al heating of their contents. Each 001'0 S..u drink sob Wali, opinions ionise, as it is called, is divided into differ. Bat, let me ask you, what oo sections from 50 to 100 feet square by was your lather0 Mick partitions, 21-2 fiat In Intek- F.—My father I \Vhy, my father, of nese with cambia doors of sheet iron. course, tous a gentleman. The various floors are supported b3, S,—(Ahand what a pity he did not heavy arches of brick and are com- melte you one. posed of steel girders filled in with musses of rancrete, Even the receiv- ing troughs for the grain are of metal and there is nut a partial.° of wood about any at the bauses. Should Lha contents of one section ignite. it world not affect the others as wile above by a fire which occurred severs] years ago. The corn houses eve absolltely fireproof. In the settee provided for miscel- laneous cargo, the atime oars is taken to guard «genet fire, all of the piers being equipped' with hydrants wild hose as well as aul0rnatic extinguish- ers. The werehcatSes nee tnastly built of brick with iron roofs; (although soma of the piers reeenlly errnstr•uined have ,the steel -Med we mimeses, Ile ready referred to. In the entire eye. tem comprising thirty-three miles of • PEOPLE WHO 11AT NO MEAT, being alrltish gaueral. A topcoat Ju India, China, Japan, and ndjneent was named for the hurl of Chestor- ouun1ries are about -100,000,000 people, most distinguished courtier and leafl- et gong, active and long-lived, who e.at titian of his time. Lord Raglan, who no meat. The 'l'nokkb palter air a lost his right arm al. the battle of dnil)' ration of rice and d0181 will jog Waterloo, and was com nanuer-in-obis[ along with bent back, under a load of the flritlalt Lorries in the Crimean that would crush a western run. tear war, gave the mule to this loose over win tells us that the Andean' natives coat with 010(10 sleeves, which Bova do a day's w ua It of 400 fool: tons, Haar- been wc'n enure or lase since.18555. ly lake. the work of en ordinary lair. ower on tr diet of hmanas. TIE HAD NOT. Aroma 9, 1900 QOlbSIGAN MARRIAGE f3I.TS'TOlid. Many of the old-time oustams of Corsica bava fallen into disuea ex- cept in mountain distriote and in vile awes remote from the sea, One of the most interesting 'among them is' the Trento, a kind of barrier whioh stops the bride's. precession as site la being conducted to her husbend'!t village, The whole 01 her ettcndante Must suceeed in passing this barrier without touching it, or sbe must ped a tribute. Early e mng 'of twtul- ding' day in a thcrowd orofinrelatives he nod friends assembled in the market pleas of the bride's village; the youths armixd, their guns' loaded, pistols oltarged ' and belts wall furnisbesy with ammunition, They arrive by all the moun'tai'n paths,, moat of thorn on horseback, ` The bridegroom i° led forward by hie father', hs en tens the village, receives hisbrlds, and loads her off; but at the end of the village there is a triumphal arab, and under it the passage le obstructed bye belt ofribbons stretched from one side to the other. When tine bride reaches the arch one of the el- ders of the village stands on the oth- er side of the ribbon barrier and de- livers a speech. "Why do you leave us?" he says . to the bride. "Were .you not happy . with us? Had you not your father toproteot you and your mother to love you, fertile tlelds in whioh •te feed your flocks, as well as a healthy habitation in the winter season, and a holy church for the feast Anna Again, young woman, why do you leave us? The bride, .leaning on the barrier, insists and gives her reasons; then ebe places a small purse in the ora- tor's hand. This contains an offering. for the church and for the necessitles of tbe village. The ribbon is then detached, the bride passes, and at the same time all the young people of the wedding party state off, spurring on their horses in their effort to be the fleet to reach the bridegroom's village, in whioh will be the residence of the bridal pair. The first to arrive bas the right to take the keys of the house, present them to the bride, and do honors of the wedding feast. During this time the procession slowly advances. Al the entranoe to the village is another arch and another barrier. Anotber orator also appears. He fleet of all addresses the armed yoythe, asks who they are and whence they came, whether as friends or enemies, and demands the usual tribute. One of them answers that they come as friends, and as proof of their friend- ship escort a bride, whose beauty will delight the village, and whose affec- tion will gladden the heart and home of one of the bravest among them. The orator then turns to the bride and demands what she intends to partake, and what is the family whose tender- ness she expecte to share. The bride responds, not without emotion, speaks of her affection, ot, her duties, of the friends she has and of those she hopes to have, and joins the orator in the wish that her com- ing may be a blessing to berself and the community. A second time the purse is given, a second time the bar- rier is lowered. The procession en- ters the village and proceeds to the house, where the winner of the keys is waiting to present them; the bride is at home and the, festivities com- mence. BOWLS ON DRESS HATS. A new method of facing the beim oft n dress hat,; to be worn et a lawn or garden party, m to do away with Ube usurer underbrfm faring eh.elr was once conventionally supplied in eel - vet, silk or lace. This new facing does not go all the way around the brim, but menages to frame the face En a manner even more beoonitng than the old-style flal: facing. It is no- thing more nor fess than a ribbon bow, voluminous as to loops, and stretched out sideways so as Le fare the. front and side of, I'ho hat, always intervene rag between t"he head and the strn'w brim and crown. Neither is iw aflal lining, for looks of ribbon are super- imposed one upon) I'he other, the ands pulled rut softly and etrelrbad to hide the, atruw brim, ne well as to overlap the under loops just as a rose peed rests on petal, yet more opened in afree'hly-opening flower. COATS NAM.EI) FOR Mh1N. The Maniple warm, oluse-fitting, knitted, woolen jaokat, or waistcoat, was muted after the Earl of Cardigan. He was burn in 1707, and died in 1808, field, who died in 1770, and was Ibe •CHI Tenon NAL ,P11011LEM.. 1 don't understand that Miss 010e- iaya Sklggs at all. Why don't you? She lied snob a kittenish manner and smelt a stately walk. Have you beer out since 'you thine Lc last, Mr. Simkins? asked the On sent -minded , employer of his book- p r. Mr. elimktno replied'' that he had not,', but the queattonm' could not 'enviuo why everynody ,ixitiled at the antt- Wee,