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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1900-11-29, Page 6THE MYSTERIOUS C .IME ON THE $,S, NEPTUNE Ch'Al'Ti J.l XX,—ocntinae4. So' Gerald; pitying the young man's sorrow. In hili kindly heart, went bank to Ilia musty law pupate, and Signer 7liteel-in-Love looked .eat of the win, doer, in sulky allouce. Yet not sulky, poor lad, for his heart was aching wit)A the thought of his future life being passed without Oarmala, having, with the flare, chivalrous feelings of youth, vowed he'd marry no other lady. Soon Jnlian Roper arrived, and was welcomed with heartfelt joy by both gentlemen, who sprang with alaorlty to their feet to greet bin. He entered quiet And impressive as ever, but bis ebarp blue oyes Look in at a glance the haggard looks of the Australian, "You've been fretting, Mr. Mon. Leith," he said, looping keenly at hint. "Bahl don't mind me," said Ronald, peevishly; "I'm a little jaded with London gayety. Tell us all you have learned," "I have not mime to tell," said Roper, smoothly. "You read my letter r' "Yes, we read your letter," eoboed Foster, quickly ; "that Mrs. Dexter said Mrs. Verschoyle had not been out of the house. Monteith saw Vassalla, $bo corroborated the tact, and showed me a letter from Mrs. Verecheyl°, which proved Mrs. Dexter's statement Lo be true; but--" "Gu un," said Roper, calmly, "I like but's—there is always a chance of ma- nlier step being made when 'but' acmes into the question. What did you do after seeing Vassa.le 1" ad- dressing himself to the Australian. "1 easy Miss Cotoner," burst out Monteith. "Humph!" — there was a world of meaning in Roper's voice, "and she Paid--" "Thee Mrs. Verschoyie had been on toad." "1 thought so." "And afterward denied it." "Indeed 1' Roper's eyebrows went up. "At whose instigation," "Vassalla e," broke in Foster, hasti- ly, before Ronald could speak. "1 thought so," said the detective, ealm;y. "Why did you think so T' asked Mon- teith, impatiently. "lu the first place,' remarked Roper, complacently, "1 had the honor of iumiug berm in the same boat with Mrs. Verschoyie; secondly, I made her acquaintance as Signor Clement, end sect liked me very muoh. I had frequent conversations with her, and told her I was a friend of Vassalla's." "Dm yen don't know him," said lion - "All's fair in love, war, and—detec- tive work," observed Roper, quietly; ") told bars. Versehuy;e-who 1 knew, from Mrs. Dexter's diary, was in love with Vassalia—that the Marchese wanted to marry Carmelo Cotoner, her sister." "That's true enough," Bald Foster; "he's engaged to her now," whereat Ronald. winced." "The result was I aroused her jealously, and she swore that she would prevent the marriage." "But howl"' from Ronald, eagerly;' fain to cling like a drowning man to a straw. "That's whatl could not find out," said Roper, thoughtfully; "she said she could stop the marriage, and Vas - salter would have to obey her. Now, what logical inference do you draw from tbis 1' "That Vassalla committed the mur- der!' said Ronald, hastily. "Not necessarily," replied Roper, dryly; "but this, that If Vassalla knew she was onboard that night, he also knew she committed the murder, and would therefore have a power over her; but her determination to stop the marring: shrews that she must have some power over him; so that either she is innocent, or he committed the murder himself, and she man force him by fear of exposure to do what she +wants." I "And widcb of these theories 40 you think Is right I" asked baster. "1 am doubtful," said the detective, becoming a tittle Agitated ; "but I--1 have a third theory." "Yesi" eaid Ronald, in a quiet toile, looking strangely at the deteetive. Roper arose to his feet, and took a walk up and down the room for a min- ute, then tµrned to the young men, who were puzzled by his curious mag- net•. "01 course, it's only a theory," said lloper, nervously; "but — loan only tell you what I think." "Tell as, in heaven's name 1" cried Foster, rising. "'Then 1 think Miss Carmela Caton- : er oomniitted the °rime." "What1" Ronald sprang to his feet and made a spring at the detective, but Foster caught him and head biro back. "Be quiet, Ronald, be quiet," be said, firmly. "A lie, a cursed, black lie," panted Ronald, glaring at the detective, who stood quietly looking at him. "What proof, whet pro— D—n you, sur, where in your proof i" Roper took out of his pocket -beak the yellow scrap of paper given by Mrs. Taunton, and the fragment of a leiter written by Carmelo toiler sister. "I Obtained these through Mr's. Dex- ter," be said, quietly placing them on the table; "look I" Ronald locked for a moment, then reeled back into Poster's arms, "My God I my God I" be sobbed."My God I" The handwritings were identical in every particular. Foster went to a cupboard and got Ronald, a glass of brandy, which be forced him to swallow; then, leaving the young man in the chair, with his face buried in his hands, be sat down at bis own table, and began to speak to Foster. "How did yon make tbis discovery!" be asked, quietly. "I remembered in Mr. Monteith's story," said Roper, "that both sisters loved the husband, and I wondered if it were not possible that the younger might commit the cr:me quite as well as the elder, though, I confess to you, t` I had no grounds for my suspicion.) As I told you in my letter, I obtain-! ed a specimen of Mrs. VerachoyIe's handwriting, and found, by compari- with this paper"—laying his hand on the, yellow sheet—"tbat, though there WAS a similarity, there was also a slight difference, This began Lo con-� firm my theory, and by the kind aid of Mrs. Dexter, I obtained this letter of Miss Cotoner's, by which you will see they correspond in every particular." At this moment Ronald arose from his seat, and staggering to the table, produced from his pocket -book the note written to him by Carmelo before the "Neptune," reached Gibraltar. Laying this down by the other papers, with a shaking hand, at the first glance, it could be seen the hand- writings were identical. "It's true," greened Itona:d; "my God, it's true!" and he fel heavily in- to his chair agein. And what is your opinion?" asked Foster. "My theory," corrected Roper, "is this; i thunk Miss Canner saw her old Lover ou the beat, and committed the murder, trustaag to the presence of her ;refer on board to sh:e:d her from the consequences of her °rums. I an so believe that Vasealla knows she is gu.•Ity, and has threatened to tell un- less she marry him." "Yes, but rebel: about Mrs. Ver- schoy+' "Ohl I thank she knows that Car- m;'.n's guilty, and threatens to ex- pose ,her. if she will not refuse to marry Vassalla." "It all seems clear enough," said Foster, tbougbtfuly. "Yea, but it's a d ---d lie, far all that," said Ronald, springing to his feet, uwd ah, how haggard and worn his young face looked! "Look bore, yen fellows, r love ]Riles Gamer, and I don't believe sh'e's guilty. I drink that ourself_ Vassalla le at the bat. am of 1t all, I'm gniia'g to Marlow, whore Carmela is, and there I'll eel: a part. I'll see her, speak to her, thud Ball out everything, but 1 must have your 'pr•om;Lsenot 'to move isi the mat - tar, till I will tell you," "We donut prpinlae,". Said hopers "Winne asi•vant are yen," asked &meld, fiercely; "will you do what I lei:,l youi" The iarw.-•--" began Itoaper • "lime telae Law, and you too," burst out iLauaad; "1f Oar'meate is guilty, you can't arrest bel ou L'he andante you have, but she's i acieeut—lex- uocentl d'yeheari 1'1'1 shake my head on it. Give me a month to o_wa,,' her, SAKI if 1 don't do It by then, the law cunt take its comma." "Agreed," said Roper. „For my part," said Foster, "1 don't care if tilos Case stops now." "I o'ir:y want a month," cried Ron- ald, "and 1'11 prove her innocence, if 1 hove to tear the truth out of Vas- sala's black heart. Because of a Little superficial evidence, you believe bee gu:;.ty. I don't. I love her, and I Il flat her; ao help me God!" Theatrical, no doubt, but both the man felt that the lad spoke from his heart., "I'll have another glass of brandy, Foster," said Ronald, quietly. He got it, and drank it. "J`is but a step from the sublime to tate ridiculous. CHAPTER XXL Sir Mark Trevor's family mansion, as ever'yon'e knows, is in Cornwall but, being paasioaate;y food of the , River Thames, he bad bought a pwace down et Hurley, where he passed the summer months, and there entertain- ed tis large circle of friendl&s The Iidle, pleasant life of the river suited the baronet to perfeet:cn, and being ( a man fond of books and antiquities, { he found the neighborhood quite to 1/Ins taste, mush preferring the un- preinediatg home at hurley to his grand ball in °erne -all, and the plea - sent vales and bus of Backs to the mead Tors acrd iron -bound coasts of the west country. ! }iellf:eld, as It was called—the name beeag an invention of Sir Mark's happy ccmbtnatiou of his daughter's nam_ and the fields white surround- ed the house—was not a very large place. It had originally been a farm- house, and stood near Lhe high road, whoast beyond arose the sloping hills with a fringe of trees on top, anal down toward tam river stretched broad fields, all yellow with waving corn. The original portion of the house was bunt of flint, and Sir Mark had added to it, until IUs whole place look- ed notating but a masts of gablee cover- ed with trelliswork and overgrown with creeping paints, Bat a very comfortab°o house it was, the favor- ite apartment being a kind of smok- ing -room -vdaiela opened on to a glass porch, and b'youd, a wade lawn, a gorse hedge, yellow with blossom, and a vkw of tail beeches a,nd glimpses of distant hills. The wale of the smoking -room were covered from top to bottom with car- toons from "Vanity Fair," only leav- ing one space whore guns, daggers, swords, and other warlike tnstru- m, .t•e were displayed. Plenty of low ba k:t-r.hair•s, soft fur 'rugs, side taines with a generous profusion of p:p.,., tobacco, and tegarettes, and on the large table, roar S'r Mark's writ- ing -desk, a spirit -stand always stood ready, together with an unlimited supp'y of soda and seltzer for thirsty bo,t:ng parties. More was a plana in Due corner, with piles of naw music, principally, it must be confessed, of the comic op ra and neaten -hail orders, and over the piano a fox's head and brush, trophies of Miss Bel's prowess in the hunting f:teiel. Off this snuggery was tee saddle -room, which the young- men, oungm-m, and iudeed not a few of the ladies, used to vote "annuity jolly," an the expressive slang of to -day, There were plenty of bedruuins, low- pitebed Gad quaint, wide en:ireases with eaexpeeted turning, and twist:- Inge, wisttuge, and an oak -pan 11ed dining -room wherein Sir Markle guests used to wax replay at masala; but the favorite room of the house was undoubtedly the sm,okietg-room, and in it on this bright July morning all the guests staying at Bellfield were waiting, ready to start for the Marlow Re- gatta. And a very jovial party they were, Pat Ryan, having returned from the Emerald Isle, was talking his usual nonsense to pretty Nate Lester, who. was stoppling at Bellfield with her wale, a gentleman who passed most of his time asleep, He had declined to go to the .regatta, and was already lying in one of the low basket -chairs pretending to read the Times. Bell was standing by Carmelo, who looked pale and white as she listen- ed to Mr. Cheater's abetter, giving that brilliant youth the mistaken. idea that he had made an impression. Sir Mark was moving about, from one to the other, with his grave smile, and two young ladies, arrayed Ln White Sage dresses, with jaunnty shraw hats, were flirting desperate - H taV AS1 Asevere cageOfCi ri1ric As'thrriaa, which would yield to rio Other treatrrsont Oared by Or. Chase's Syrup Of Linseed and Turpentine. The symptoms of asthma aro keenly distressing and arc not easily confused with those of any other ailment. The victim is Suddenly aroused by an in- tense anguieb in the chest, the breath- ing le accompanied by a loud wheezing, the face beocmes flushed, and bathed in perspiration; he gasps far air, be- lieving that each moment may be his last. After these paroxysms, which may Last for hours, the patient usual- ly falls asleep to arise next day weak, languid and debilitated.' Dr. Chase's treatment for asthma consists in the combined use of two of hie remedies, Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine and Dr, Chase's Nerve Food. Asthma is a nervous disease and the attacks are brought) on by some irritation of the nerves along the ale passages. Those nerves. are soothed and quieted and immediate relief afforded to the pati- ent by the use of Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine. In fact anthem la fregu'entlythoroughiy,cured by the use of this remedy alone, as is evidenced by the testimonial *flatted below. In moat cases, however, it is found advisable to combine the two remedies, Dr, Climes Syrup of Linseed and Tar- pentine and Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. ,The former as a looal treatment acting directly on the bronchial tubes and as passages, and the latter as a nerve re- storative to build up and etrengtheh the whole nervous system. It is con. fidently believed there is be treatment extant' that is so perfectly successful in the euro of asthma as the combined use of these two groat remedies, Mrs, George Budden, Patnamvilie, Ont,, says:—"I feel it may duty to re- commend Dr, Oilmen Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine, ss I had the asthma very bed; could get nothing to do me any good. A friend of mine persuaded Me 41 try this remedy, as he ]tad tried it,and it proved successful, I tried it and it Oared ma, /an thank/el to -day tc say I am a well Women through the use 01 tide remedy, t keep It le the house all the time and would not be without Dr. Cheae's lenity remedies are or sale at all dealers, or front Fdmtamokit hater & Co,, Torontor iy with a young ()zealots. called Well- thltrp, but familiarly known as Bub - Ines, from his effervescent flow of spirits, "We'd better start, I'M thinking," obara'ved die. Ryan to the company; "It's a mighty bud thing wasting all Oaks beautiful' morning." "You wan't Damns, . unole,?" asked Hate, going el'br to her Avuncular relative, ".Net to -day, my dear, I'm it little tired." "Bsged, he's the seven sleepers roll- ed Into ane," said Pat to Miss Lester, as they stepped out into the sun - shins?, "Colne, Mies Lester, I'll race ,you for a pair of giev,es," "Against what," asked Yate, as he helped her through the gate, "A kiss," said Pat, whereupon ,bate blushed, and rowed she wouldn't rug; so Pat set off, like a deer, by himself along the narrow path which led through the cornfield to the vil- tugo of Ilisrloyr "How said you axe looking, Car- mela," said Sir Mark, as ho walked soberly along beside Miss Cotoner. "She, wars . Mr. Monteith," said Bell, mischievously. "Nonsense," retorted Carmela, while a flush Dame over bar pale face. "Then she'll soon he gratified," laughed Sia Mark; "for 1v1r, Monteith will be at the .regatta to -day." Carmela clenched her teeth. )Ie would be at Lhe regatta, and how would he meet her atter all that had pentode The last tiime she saw him she was free, batt now he would see her as the affianced wife of another. Well, she would wait and see. Their meeting must come sooner or later, so why net nowt The party won't through the quaint village of Hurley, past the Old Bell inn with its antique gables and wide windows—through the remains of the old monastery, which was one of the finest in England, and along by Lady Bell Place with its ole. walls and picturesque, red root, under which the conspirators of 1688 met to mature their plot for driving James 1i, from his kingdom. Over the bridge they went, and found the river crowded with boats, filled with men in flannels, and pretty girls in yachting costumes, all wait- ing -for the loak to be opened, Sir Murk's boats were below Hurley Lock, so they all went down, only pausing a moment to look into the lock, filled with boats, and presenting a blaze of color. A number of young fellows were leaning on the great arme of the lock gate, chattering idle nonsense to the pretty girls in the boats below. To be Continued. A. BUSINESS GUAGE. "It's very curious how talk ebbs and flow's over the wire," said a New Orleans telephone girl. "Low tide is at 1.30 in the morning. Around about that tim,a several minutes will some- times elapse seem nobody in this wholes Wig city is using the 'phone, When you come to think about it that is sumetheng very remarkable, Between land 2 o'clock bee calls w,ll average from 160 to 180, rarely more; but, for some reason I was never 1 able to understand, business always 1 picks up 'between 3 and 3—in fact, it nearly doubles. 'Then, for equally mysterious reasons there is another Lull, and Uhe hour between 3 and 4 is almost as quirt as between 1 and 2, Ilene often treed to figure out some theory for those two curious fluctua- mans, but have never even 'hit upon ono that was even plausible. "After 4 o'clock, however, there is a seedy and continuous lee:reade in the i stream of talk. We girls who have been in the exchange a good while get to know exactly how the city wakes up. The market men head the procession, and then follow the different tradespeople and clerks and office employer:, according to the necessities ai theta variolas ea,lings• Ail of them use the 'phone more or lees, and it is very carious and inter - eating to watch the graduations by w,hdch the comrntrmit.y settles down to its day's work. By 9 o'clock the rush of traffic has become somothintg tremendous, and it grows by leaps and bounds until it reaches a climax at 10. from 11 to 10 the culls will often exceed 1,000. Then Lhers,is a slight falling off, becoming more marked as the day advances, and be- tween 4 anal 5 mine -tenths of the busi- ness 'phones have subsided. But od- dly ta'augh, the ree denco 'phones. at that juncture suddenly take up tbo tale, and Lee's• heaviest business is be- tween 4 and 6. I suppose the baste nese folks are through then with the maim cares of the day and have a lit- leo itleo leitwure dor long-distance gossip. Throughout the early evening Balls don't vary, much one way or 1t'h& other, and, with 9 o'clock, they begin to dwindle steadily down to 1.30, wbloh, as I said before, is extreme low-water mark. "How maxi calls can a girl attend to in an hemp Well, I have made connections for 300 talks between 9 and 10, exo4+oeive of the numbers I re- ported as burly..." FULL DOG TENA ITYL WHAT WE :HAVE WE'LL BOLD IS TOdIMY ATJ1 N2' MC 170, „n1e hiettir'nts 'Math Dl@played the Courts() ur Atte hays In ithalrt-.The r+xelolt er Q ltatleiey a1 ltr,ra„arrait To the denneor'itic naiad there is something eminently satisfying in the idea of offloers, non-commissioned, Of f)cers and keen being Galled upon to ohoose that man among their raspeo- tive companies' wins in their opinion has, most silfnully earne4 reward, for bravery and merit, It wee the General Conrinandex-in, Chief in South Africa, the well -be- loved "Bobs," who chose this method, do reoowmen4ing members- of.. the "Q" Battery Royal Horse Artillery for that Crown of Orders, the Vie- tairia Crone. After the l oornspruit action, the British force, including two batteries of the R. H. A., were retiring from Thebanchu toward Bloemfontein. Just beyond ]toornspruit a powerful body of Boers lay in ambush, The ooiintry was home to them, and well they knew its nooks and crannies. Before the main body 0f the Brig ishers were aware of anything, the Boers had completely surrounded and oaptut'ed the greater part of a bag- gage column, and five out of six guns of the leading battery, R. H. A., These are the happenings which spell hopeless panic and disorderly flight for any but the finest of troops. At this critical juncture the now famous "Q" battery were within 390 yards of the suddenly uprisen enemy. Taken totally by surprise, bear in mind, and with 830 yards—deadly kill- ing ''ange—of an enemy in force, who had been watching their ap- proaoh and calculating ways and means to a nicety I "Q" BATTERY IN A TIGHT PLACE. Major Edmund John Phipps -Hornby did not lose his head, however, and "Q" Battery, as though on parade. answered to its helm fearlessly and well. Wheeling sharply, the battery galloped off behind the Major, under a withering fire from the Boers, to- ward the shelter of some half -built railway sheds, 1,150 yards from the enemy. One gun capsized when its wheel horse fell dead, and that had to be abandoned ; as also did one waggon, when both its horses were shot, The remainder of the battery name into action 1,100 yards from -the spruit, and remained in action, serving their guns splendidly, trill ordered to re- tire. Then came consideration of the five captured guns and limbers re- maining in the open, under a ter- rific firs tram the concealed Boers. An awkward consideration that, For already :"Q" Battery had fought their way through a very deadly expert. - mace. But two of the battery's offi- cers were left—Major Phipps-Iiornby and Captain Humphrey. It had bean easy and natural to justify the com- plete abandonment of those guns. Ant it seems " Q " Battery is not given to the policy of abandon- ment. IT'S DOGGED DOES IT -1" The wren jumped to Major Phipps- Ilo'bnby's order, almost before it left his lips. The guns and limbers were to be run baler by hand to where the teams of uninjured. horses sheltered behind the railway buildings. The Boers, in their ambush, thought oth- erwise, and acted on their thought, sweeping tee open with their Maus - ars, till' they were sore no creature could live where those guns lay, They did not know "Q" Battery, The two remaining officers of the battery, its handful of surviving gun- ners, and a few officers and men of Mounted Infantry, dashed out in open order to the guns -the target far e furious fusilade from the Boers. Mon and officers blinded by their own sweat and blood, struggled like tigers about the heavy guns, bullets from the Boer ambush hailing about them, the while they strained every nerve in the effort which is no light work for heavy horses. Thus under an incredible pressure of exhaustion, four of the guns were actually ensconsed behind the chosen shelter. The distance covered in this way, one has to remember, was very considerable, the effort required purely physical apart from the stress 01 orrcumsrances almost superhu- man. The men lay about the recovered guns bleeding and gasping utterly exhausted. " Then we must risk some of the horses." quote the indomitable Leader. Drivers staggered willingly enough, if weakly, to their posts as volunteers, Many of them were wounded, several horses were killed, but only one gun and lixrtb r out of the whole battery .was left, at the last of it, after four separate attempts at rescuing that. Lord Roberts dealded that all ranks had greatly distinguished themselves, Between the two surviving officers, the ,senior, Major P, hipps-ILornby, was chosen for the Cross, The non- commissioned offieere chose Sergeant Charles .Parker for the great honour; tvbile the men of "Q" Battery elected Gunner Isaac Lodds and Driver Henry. Glossoak. Upon these' four, then, L Chang, the Chinese states- man, is of humble origin. Els father. was an ignorant wood -chopper and his mother? pent her girlhood es a ear - Vent. chosen of thou comrades, the Queen. oond'ea'r'ed the Oros wbibb 1s named alter her on dune Oa; and x'ight berdliy they earned it, TWO VICTOI11el, CROSS PICTURES. Be it said that by no means all brave deeds oats be picturesque, espooiaily in modern warfare, But exon to -day ecce herOisnes are {flee fine.pletur•es, Uere are two, ready moulded, for the painter's. brush, and a V. 0. arawnsd ' both, ' On June 20 a small picquet of York- shire Light Infantry mon were sur- rounded near Lindley by 000 Boers; not absolutely at band -to -haul grape, i but at terribly close quarters. Sur- render was lbs obvious course for the Yorkshire Infantry— by the Iloers' way of it; the Yorkshires saw'. other- wise; and, with never a thought of the odds, fought like tigers, giving no hint of surrender, ' ' British aid was near, that the York- shires knew. But 1t was quite out of sight, the signal station was 150 yards to the rear; tile 'space between itand the fighting Yorkshires was swept by Maurer bullets. To enter upon it was regarded, as certain death. Yet, if the signal could not be reach- ed, the Yorkshires must die to A man; their annihilaation was but a matter of time. That was obvious. The two officers of the pioquet were down already ; only six men remain- ed unwounded, many were dead. ''Let me try for the signal station," said Private 0, Ward. But the gallant offer was declined. Eel Majesty's soldiers may not com- mit suicide. Private Ward' was tak- ing no refusals. ' Ile insisted. This was not a parade ground. A grudg- ing nod gave him leave. Off he dash- ed, through a. torrent of bullets, Not a doubt but that a special anger was told. off for duty near Lindley that day! Out of the thousands of Manses bullets whicb bespattered bis path not one touched Private Ward. I3e reached the station. the signal was rushed through; assistance came fly- ing on the wings of comradeship, But Private Ward must cross the lurid. open space again to relieve his comrades' anxiety withal. This time he was dangerously wounded. Il•rt his work was done and the plcquet was saved, Now Ward wears the Cross. THE OTHER P.C. PICTURE. On October 3D, Seeond-Lieutenant Jabal Norwood, of the 5th Dragoons, sallied forth from Ladysmith with a small party of his dragoons. Vie slim Bier was waiting them. They dropped into, a sudden and heavy lire from the enemy, posted in great force on an unsrealable ridge. Tee Dragoons' patrol, then within 61)0 yards of their deadly ridge, re- tired at the gallop. One unfortun- nate trooper dropped, and Lieutenant Norwood did not perceive his fall until a good 310 yards lay between the fal- len man and tee, rest of the patrol. Instantly then the Lieutenant wheel- ed round and galloped furiously back through a pertsct hail of bullets, to where the trooper lay. Disnounting as calmly as a man might in the Row, Lieutenant Nor- wood picked up ulna trooper settled him on his back and then, leading his horse with one hand carried the man steadily 500 yards or more until be- yond the Boers' range. One is sorry to have to say It. of a now disbanded and vanquished foe but the Boers kept their fire steadily concentrated upon this heroic trio of two men and a horse until they were out of range. But the angel from Lindley was doubtless somewhere in the vicinity and, though wounded, Lieutenant Nerwaod• was not disabled. Noxv the Victoria Cross is his; his gal- lant deed awaits the artists brush. A NEW OU1DOOR• GA.MI1 A new game, not unlike our old- time prisoner's base, but differing suf- ficiently to afford freeh amusement, is now popular with German boys, In Germany they call it Mutzenraub," but the best name here for It would be " Cap Thief," Two lines are drawn on staked off upon the ground sixty- five paces apart. At a distance of twenty-five paces from one and forty panes from the other, a stake is driv- en, upon which a cap le hung. One boy m soleoted to net as umpire while the others, the more the merrier, choose sides and line up facing one another from the outer marks. Those nearest the stakes are the thieves or robbel's, and those farthest are police - At a 'signal from the umpire one thief make a dash fon the cap On the stake and one policeman advances at full speed to capture binn, The Fortner has to advance' twenty-five paces to the etake, seise the oogx and return with it behind his own line. The lat- ter has tarty paces to make before reaching the stake, but as he has not: to stop and turn, they are about even- ly matched.. If the policeman succeeds in placing his hand on the shoulder of the thief, bnfare the latter has aroased his own line, he lakes him bank e prisoner and it codnts one for the police, If he fails, be drops out of the game and the thieves score one. After all have tried, the sidehaving the greatest number of points wins the grime. Notes fini1 Comments, News Gome3 ,,Cf a puwgue or' epidemin among 4,115 Xrudians of A;aeka. The plague it! thus beweribe t by a olis- stenary eye -witness, „The eoridttion of the uaativee le so mise'rahen one might say death would be a relief to them. On entering the Lent one sees a mann hits wife ' and three or four children and a number of Infante tuna other anatiives, lying on a thin mat. on the damp ground., all prostrated and affhia'ted by the plague. All aro eoegluieg up brood and bite, and vomit. lung. Witter rutin from the er'up- tiane on' the eyes and nose; 'unaleata some exist an Ube flesh, and to ag- gravate their misery, all the ,suffer-, ere are wet day and aright. J:itve dis- ease is a kind of infectious la, grippe, or complication of influenza, measles and typhoid fever," "The U. •g, got"• ernmeot furnished soine assistance to the auffer:mg natives, but'it was in, adequate, and now, with the approach; al wint,ar, the prostrated Indiana fintt themselves sod heut their austomar rations of food from fishing and flu shasa sand the cliat:ng chapter in the tragedy is threatened in the awning of Lits keen A.r•tax winter," The low- er Yukon bus Lost many Waves at va a :0110 p:aeues, but an, the Bering coast they went by entire villages on the Alaskan side, and on the Siberian side, Dr, Sheldon Jackeon reports that half the population suoeumbed, Owing to the great interest noW taken in naval affairs and the daily appearance of geographical names in war bulletins a few words about the etymology of these may be interest. ing. The Yellow Sea Is so called be- cause Its waters are colored by yel- low soil from the Yengtse Kiang, The Red Sea is red only in spots the Dole Or being due to the presenos of pink animaiculac; wlailo the Black Sea. takes. its name not sq much from the col* of the water a,s from that of the cliffs which form its shores. The Baltic has its name from, a Swedish word signifying belt, the many nar- row inlets which abound on its shores. suggesting the resemblance tostraps. The. White Sea is named from its les bergs and the fact tent during nine months in .the year its shoes are covered with snow. The Adriatic was once the liadriatte or Sea of Hadrian. The Mediterranean has its name from two Latin words which may be freely translated, " the middle of .the earth," and the Caribbean from an Indian woad signifying "cruel men." The Dead Sea kills the fish which swim into it froth the Jordan; the Caspian inherits its name from that of an an - Went tribe settled . m its shores; and the Sea of Marmore from a marble is- land about midway 0f its length. The /.nyder 'Lee is the South Sea; the Bey of Biscay is the Bay of the Basque.•,. Bosphorus is from two Greek wort) signifying the ox ford. The Darden - elks Strait is namedfrom the fable hero Bantams, wba is supposed ,• have built. a city on one of its shore: and that terror of schoolboys, L, Skngerrack, when translated int English from the Gothic, sim), means the crooked strait between th skagen, or promontories, ou eith:' side. It would seem that the movemer from lee country to the city is no the only ons which this generation' to witness. Along with this move- ment, the extent and effect of whin: bee been tremendous, there has de veloped in the the last ten years counter -movement, which while as y; smaller seems to contain the seeds great possibilities, And this move- ment) lilts not been brought about 4,: tbo appeals of reformers or the rea- soning of political economists. It lei. come by the very means which hav tended to concentrate life in grim cities. The movement ns known as tie suburbanite migration and it has be, n brought: about by the congestion of stir great cities and by the ebeapening'o: rapid transit by tits introduction of the trolleys The'ineraaso of striatly +min urban life is a commonplace of static. tical investigation, 'In his study of the census of 1890 Cerruti D. Wright the U. S., Commissioner, analyzes the the figures to show that the over., crowding of the so-called tenement. „rouse districts bas probably readied a maximum, 'largely because 0f the new set toward the suburbs. Colons/ Wright quotes the conclusion of Sydney Ja Low, an authority on the English comas, who after noting similar facts there, makes this predic- tion : "If the process goes on uuchsck. ' be of the city but not in it. He wit be a ,suburb dweller. The majority of the people of these Lalonde will live in the suburbs," The trolley not only marrisx out people to the min orbs but 1t has out the rates for commutation suburban tioktrt_v on IL S., steam railways down fifty per teat, in tea years. Thus the, opportuari+ty of a country 3101110 for those whose work coals them daily le, Lh:a clary keeps paioe with a new devia- tion to allthat now attracts to the country, the love of sport and any interest or diversion that ea'1t one out into the open And with every in- creased remove the Suburban olty worker is brought edoser to the gen- awe country, while the attraction of tliii city life , to the country worker Is tlial)mcllylessened, So far, then, as the oensats .shows a re'fatav'ely arrest- ed rate of iatsirease in city population 11 a:el:ifies ane,w idea tiflea Lion of suburb with ctntntrq, and Is a sign et ahealthy :seemliest which may soma day reach &ilea the eow abandoned farm, .1 I 4 r