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The Brussels Post, 1901-1-24, Page 2..�, E ROSE. t�=tc.4C=v,a.-7M---1av happiest woman in the hind. One mo•• went more. I lay my fortune, my t Ile, my heart, my very itfe lit her. feet. tiles ebail livein luxury mad magnificence, She shall never know one wish ungratified, One longing um iudulged. Sim shall nave all that this world car. give her, all that love oar compiles for her, If elm will 'marry me" He paused for a few moments, "l must see you," not from want of wards, but because " It ie Lord ilhyenvorth," said Del- ores. unclasping her arms, with alit- tle flush on her lace. The visitor entered --a tall, aristo- patio-looking man, rather above myself." middle -age, but not old enough to be palled elderly. He was not handsome CfAPTelte II. but hie face was that of a noble, gen- Tbey formed a striking group --the eroua man. olcl Squire, with ble gray bead raised " Yon met forgive me, Squire," he in wonder, his face full of pain, aur - Baia: "I could not help Doming to BOO mese, and pleasure, all etriviug for you. Is the news I hear true Has mas.ory; the young girl by his side, the company failed?" whose faultless face had grown per - "Yes; and I am a ruined man— £eetly colorless, whoa° bands °lung ruined, pennileas—shall soon be home- more closely to ber father's neck; and less. I, the last of the Cliafdens, in tbe eager, noble -looking man. my old age, must die a pauper I" Twice the Squire had essayed to The Squire's volae sank tato a mur- speak, bet each time his voice bad died mur, and his head fell upon his breast, away ; the only sound that had same. Lord Ithys'worth turned to the girl, from his lips had been the whiepured wbose Moe had grown colorless with naive of "Dolores i" Twice he had emotion. i looked up with an eager exoitedges- Is it quite true, bliss Clietden 4" i ture, as though he would fain In - he ,eked. "Quite, true, my lord," she answer - I cannot tee any ono, Poloros," he said; and oven there tba vary utter - once of the beloved name wormed to lighten hIH earr0W, "Dolores!" be re- peated, dwelling tenderly on the word. But the visitor would take no denial; he had followed the servant to the drawing -recut. "•L must come in, (Heiden," he said, his emotion was so great, said again—"yoe must not give me any answer yeti I could not bear it. Let ma grow calm. 'Wait until I recover ed. "I am very sorry," said Lord Rhys - worth, The words were simple, but terrtrpt, but the fire and passion In the other face. had stricken him dumb, Lard Rbysworth beut over him. " You must not think," be sail, "that "I bave been, 'too abrupt P' oriel ,.rel lzdryaworth, "Dolores, I with I aid pray to you; nay prayers ehpuld e eo eloquent that yon 0001d never eluso them. X will make you so hall. py, and will live Only for. you. Nc reneger man multi give you the love, the °are, the teudereaae, the dove Mon that lshall lavish an you, Dole ores, yon wiLl be truly beppy with me, I am eerie, if you will but, rent the tenant" ' You ase very good," oho answer. ed. I3et.he saw that liar lips were pale, and tbat the words came with diffi- eelty, "I meant to be kind," he said regret- fully ; egret -fully; "but- I fear I have been meet, I have been too abrupt. Dolores, you mein think the matter over. I will take uo answer yet—neither 'Yee,' nor No.' Think over it. Squire, will you do the same? And, then, after a few days, you will write to me, Dolores. I do not wish to ,press my suit unduly, my dear ; but always remember that your words win bring me either life or death." " Whatever happens, Lord Rbys- worth," observed the Squire, "I shall never forget your goodness to me:' "Never forgot my love for your daughter." was the reply. " Use your influence for me, Squire, and you sball be the bapplest man in the world. Dolores, it your heart says ono word in my favor, listen to it. I must go uow; and when you have an answer for me perhaps you will write l" " Yes," she returned, faintly, " will." • He took her white cold hand in his, raised it to his lips, and kissed it with passionate tenderness. Then he whis- pered a few words to the Squire and pitchy darkness, knowing that at retired. ores; and there was every reason to any Instant a blaze of fire each as Father and daughter sat for some believe that'they tyould be• great few minutes after his departure as as flamed eform-the Highlanders at Wends. 1vladame de Forrwas do- Magersfontain might crash out in though they were turned to steno. lighted with her visitors; she made Then, drawing her tc him gently, the front of them. A hundred, two, three, fa'iands at once with fair and gen- four, five hundred paces were taken. old man said tie Mrs. Cliefdon, was most gentle to Tern, knew that they moat be close Whet do you Think of 1313 Lord- the Squire, who Was full of admira- lupin the trencLea, If they sauna tion for her, and charmed with Dol only creep silently enough they might they had the ring of sincerity and I take an unfair advantage. 1 spark truth. "I am more sorry than if the abruptly now; but the object of my same misfortune bad bappaned to my- visit has been the dream of my OM. 1 self," he continued. "Is there any way was thirty years of age before I look- out of it 4" ed with admiring eyes at any woman's "No," answered the Squire, sadly. face; and then I saw Dolores. She was "I must leave White Cliffe and find only a child, but, oh, how I loud her, refuge in a workhouse or almshouse, and how I have toyed her ever since I and Dolores --oh, Dolores, my darling! She was only a child, but I vowed then —will nave to work. I am the last of that, when she grew into womanhood the Cl'iefdens, and such is my destiny. she and no other should be my wife. Fate has been more than cruel to I have watched her from year to year, mel" and have loved her with a deeper and Again the soft arms stole round his deeper love as time went on. Dolores," neck, and a sweet voice whispered to he cried, turning suddenly to the beau- tiful wondering girl, "have you nen- " Papa, what some men call fate oth- ex guessed how muoh I loved you?" ere call Providence; and Providence " No," she answered faintly• can never be cruel." "1 wonder at that," for girls are But the Squire would not listen. quick enough in such matters. There " I am an old man," be murmured; have been times when I have gone "my eyes are dim, and my hair is away half mad frjm you, and bave gray. I am an old man, and it is hard left you because I could no longer to eat pail tar's broad and die like a control my love. Dolores, have you pauper." never fancied it 0" Then Lord Rhysworth went up to "I have never even thought of it," him, and, laying his hand upon his she answered. shoulder, said gently— "My beautiful love, you are fresb "Will yon listen to me, Squire? 1 and fair c+ the marnins. your eyes can find you a way out of your item- beam with the clime light of youth ble—a way by which you may live at and innocence, your lips have the White Cliffe, by which you may enjoy bright smile of happy childhood! It a good income, with every comfort was hardly likely you would think of and luxury until your death, if yeti it. Still I have loved you so! 0 am will listen to me." There was a cur- net young, Duloree; but many a man toes hesitation, in his manner, a pal- of hail my years has a heart twice for on his faee, and a tremor in his as old. My eyes have sought no face voice. "Let me marry your daughter 008e yours, my heart no love but yours Dolores," be went on, "and you shale —you bave filled my life. I have be a rich man for life," Hush—do not wanted to tell you this for months speak—do not refuse! Hear what I past, but I have lacked courage. It is have to say first—a riot man for life, your father's trouble that forces it Squire I I will buy back White Cliffe from me now. I come of a. race that for you. I will settle an annuity on knows no fear; but. I tremble for the you. You shall be a richer man than word which has to fall from your you have ever been, Hush—wait! I lips, and which will mean either life lova Dolores. I bave loved her since'I or death for me!" the first moment I saw ber—a ohild,1 Onoe more be paused, unable to you remember,—and she came dancing I speak. The Squire looked up at the Into the room witb little blue shoes beautiful colorless face. on. I have loved her all her life. I " What do you say, Dolores?" he would sacrifice much to make her my asked. wife. I love bee es no young man "I do not know What to say, papa; could ever love her. Shesball be the I am bewildered," she answered. at is the Ca noum se AHD NOW IT 13 MOST EFFECTIVELY MED BY DR. CHASE'S SYRUP OF LINSEED AND TUR1E`lTI1E. Thee question is of vital interest tt the season of the year, when Pearly every newspaper c.3ieta'ms re- parta of one or more deaths, from this deadly disease. Pea. J. 3. vvalah, 140.1)., Ph. De an cement au- I t'bcm ty on d'ielea ns of tbe lungs, says that paeumlamin 11* the result ,if tisk- bug cold •whim the system is in a run-down condition, and of neglect-' leg to take prompt mains of cur cig it. The beginning is with acough, 1 chills and aching of tha b.nes, sore-! nems and bightneas in the chest. IAD in the lungs, weariness, exbaustion nese. and alaeles s P It is easy toot let a cold) run on. You y say with othare that you, always et a eald take care of its :If. There le clanger of following thix plan once toe ,often. At tbis season of the year the lungs ,veem to unusually 8135081• table to ammo and benne you sus- pect it peettmonia or consumpiian mad seated Itself in your system. It is poasihle you have tried the cough mixtures which druggists offer to Moir oestomers, These may, do well e'noug'h teak alight (soughs, tlukling In the throat, but tbly are powerless do the prosenee of serious disease. Dr (1ase',a Syrup of Linseed and Tnurponl,ene fix far more than aoough tent ly. It ".*era, the emiil as well 00. ioceonInl{ nen teeing the cough. It any gee else--oa'lm,quiet yams thea had net e ripple on their surface. Her home bad been a tranquil, well -order- ed Quo ; life bad boon annooth as a client river en a summer' day. But there were some 1300004 wbioh were 80 vlvidly impressed on her noon701'y tbet they would never die away; they came to hes now, See remembered a fair summer day; when alto with her mother, was Sit- ting on the lawn, and the Squire Dams to them full of eager interoet in some nova he had just heard, Wyeebcombe Halt bad been PerehaSad by a French lady, a widow, Madame de p'erra8, who had been exiled from France for po- lttioal reasgns. She tend purOharted the Wynoho0mbe property, and had nam- ed the Hall "Beaulieu," It was re- ported that she had ono daughter and woe pdeseseed of ample Meana. " That Will be very alae, for. Dol- ores," Mrs. Cliefden had said, "I have often wished tbat' cele had a play- mate I" lay-mate1" and the gentle lady was hlgh- ly delighted with the prospoot. Dolores could remember uow, as ber to advanoo, the Gardena to support, parents dlsoussed the new -comers, she, and the Shropsbiree to take such a wondered in her ehildis'ei mind what position on the left as would out - this playmate would be like. never dreaming that on that day a new els- ment would be brought into bar life winch would mar and blight it. ORIAfIA tS Gar a Ei CCNAN DO Y LR PAYS A TRIBUTE TO OUR BRAVE MRN. Turn f0 lee 4'hte flue to tee 'Moiety et leaarembet'It ^ maybes lleecrlpliea{ eE. the tareat name. In his book, "The Groat hoer War," Dr. A, COMM Doyle pons a graphic deeeriptien of the eventful :battle at 'aardebergl and pays ae eloquent tri. bate to the Oauadtens wllo partici. paced. "On the prght of Feb, 20," says the celebrated author, "it was determined that Smith-D0rri0n'S men abound try their leek. The front trenches of the British were at that time 700 yards from the I3per, lines. They were bold by the Gordons and by the Canadians, the latter being nearer to the river. It is worth whlle entering into de - tulle as to the arrangement of the attaok, as the satcese ot the oampaign wee at least a0eolerated by it. The orders were tbat the Canadians were flank any oountor attack on the part of the Boers. "The Canadians advanced to (the darkness of the early morning, be - She recalled 0110 day when they fore the rise of the moon. The front went together—the Squire, her moth- rank held their riflaa in the left hand, er, and herself—to visit Madame de and each extended right hand grasped ' the the sleeve of the man next it. The Fermis. Dolores remembered stately handsome matron with her rear rank had thou riles slung and courtly polished manner, and the carried spades. Nearest the ricer s'tartllng vivid beauty of her dough bank were two companies (G. and H,) who were followed by the 7th Company ter Lola. Before her dusky beauty, the complexions of English girls look- ed pale and delicate ;for Lola de Fer- 0as was gifted with unusual loveliness. She was three years older then Dol - land it was onetoinaay for the nQbil- itx to sand pewee* el gold to the king. In the Daunts of Europe how • eeeie is a great day, Ail the moneeehe be- gin the day icy Attending thumb, at- teewerd, they rogolve the dignitaries of Ohuroh, State, Army and dlploma- tie comm. At the ltetelere aapltal' the princes of the Imperial family, personages of the court, fanotionaries, and servants of the palace mime in regular order to present their lrorat130 and good wishes 1.0 the .Emperor, who kisses all the members of his family, and all tho high offielals these times according L'0 the Russian fashion, People meeting in the street in Ramie. 0n New Year's k18s each other, whether acquainted or . not; The favored ones who have been kissed by the Ozer are permit- ted) to kiss the 'hand of the Empress: The ceremony of hand lei/Ming weir suppressed fora time, bet reestablish - pd a few years ego under the reign of Alexander III, 3'an, 1 is in Berlin the day for the Court of Congratulation which fs held by the , Ilmporer and Empress. Early in the morning the streets near the Royal Schloss aro crowded witb people, aa wpiti Sg to see the state marriages of the ambassadors, princes and nobles,, who ase on their way to attend the Colum of Congratulation. The ceremony is preceded by a short emcees it the Castle (Mapce All the princes and princesses come to this court as well as all those who bave the privilege of attending court fes- tivities, so tbat it is a very long, and rather fatiguing affair, especially for the WORMS AND HER LADIES. During tbe next few weeks all the great court festivities take place, and there is a constant sno0e88ion of oourrt and private gayeties. In China, the New Years' rejoicings. extend over three weeks, during which time little or no business is transacted. The Chinaman endeavors to start the new) year free of debt, and all obliga- tions are dieeharged before the close ot the old year, and a trash supply of charms is laid in. At midnight, a general discharge of crackers and fire- works ushers in the New Year, the houses are decorated with flowers and lanterns and family parties are In order. Much the same programme is oar - feasting lasts for ten days; every one appears in a .brand new suit of clothes. The Japanese New Year was formerly a movable feast like that of the Chin- ese, but it is now oelobrated on a day corresponding to our first of Menu - my. Bonfires of mammoth proportions are kindled on New Year's eve in Per, sia—New Year's is Marab 21—and peon ple dance about them. This holiday is the most important of the year, and feasting lasts for ten days; every one appears in now clothes. No people in the world make more of New Yeam"s than the Scotob. and innumerable are the superstitions eon - netted, with the day. In the first place nested with the dey. In the first place on gettingout of bed in the moaning one must stop on something higher than the brad that the first step may be taken upwa.xd. to dress- ing if unfortunate enough to put the left shoe on first or a garment on wrong side out ono must entirely un- dress again even to the taking down of One's hair, and dross over again. It is bad luck to be late for breakfast and good luck to be the first one to speak to the cook. All salt -cellars must be full and the bread basket well sup- plied; it a basket of eggs or of oranges is brought as a present it indicates the best kind of good luck. All gar- ments if possible should be 110W and a, torn garment should on no account be worn. Neither hair nor nails must be cut; money must be in the purse and the purse In the pocket. To stum- hie or fall is a bad luck sign, unless it be upstairs, in which ease do not look behind. LONG-LIVED ANIMALS. Fabulous ages have been asorlbed to the elephant and whale, but it Is now thought that they may be capable of attaining the ago of 400 years. It is recorded that when Alexander the Groat invaded the dominions of Por- us, one of the Rajahs of Upper India, he took a huge elepbant from the con- quered Prince, named' him Ajax, dedi- coted him to the sun, and let him go, witb the insarlption, " Alexander, the son of Jupiter, bath dedicated Ajax to the sun," featened round his leg. This elephant, the story goes 00 to Bay; was found 950 years later, with the tneoription still intact. The average age for an elephant is, however, 100 Ya 0 is rimer - Mined Oars. the age of wlu l s twined by the size and number of lay - ora of whalebone, which increaseyear- ly, and a period of 800 or 400 years has been indicated thus. In theSoycholles Islands tame tortoises are habitually kept, and are handed down from ratti- er to eon as legacies. Many of these ase known to be mare than 200 years old. In Ceylon there is now living in the Government Gardens a tortoise said to be 500 years old; white an- other historic tortoise was kept as a pat by Archbishop Laud, who com- mended it to the etre of a friend, and it eventuaily died in Leaden in the reign of Queen Anne. of Royal Engineers, carrying bags full of earth. A PITCH ' DA= NIGHT.. "The long line btole through a ship's proposal Dolores? Is it a favor from Heaven 4" "I cannot tell," she replied. " He is very good, very noble ; and, oh, (Mild, from my heart I dread pov- erty and the workhouse! He is gen- erous and wealthy fie said I should be a rich man. What will you do, Dolores? Can you give me some idea, something to rest my heart upon, so thin+ to think of and hope for 4" takes in,. pttns out of Ombonesand reaches the very sett of dialects° when th:'o, are p:aln ani ti3htness in the ah.et. It would not b> too much to. say that Dr. Chase's Syrup of LIa- seed and Turp.ntino hie saved thous - anis of pe:,pla from pneumonia and coneumptitm. These Is not a ei1- lege or hamlet in Cana la where this famous fam.ly troatm ot is not re- cognized en a m):est unusually effec- tive Dura for cm etp, bronohitis, asthma, coughs and e.,13s. Airs. In Dwyer, of Chesterville, says; "My little girl of three a Y ears had an attack of bronchial pneumonia. My husband and I thought she was going to leave the wort;] as her case resist- ed the dootors' treatment. I bought t bottle of Do. Chase", Syrup of Lin- seed and Turpentine from our popular (Megabit, W. G. Bolster. After the tiret two or three doses the child be- gat to get better, and we aro thank- Eul to say is all tight to -day after sev- . 0n weeks' sickness" 1 Don't take anything said to be "just as good. There is no throat and lung } medinln0 just all good as Do. Chasm's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine. Ito - 1 member this when buying and Insist ' un having'• Dr. Chase's; 25 cants a bot. tle, family siz3, throe times as much, fid cents; all dealers or Edlnans0n, Belem & Ca,, Toronto, ores. spring -span the defenders man - Tobe Cannoned. meowed. On and; on they stole, step by step, praying far silence. Would ATTACK ON PARTS APPETITES. the gentle shuffle of feat be heard by the men who lay within stone - throw of them t Their bopes had be- uep;,tiea unto to a>er51,1 the ante or Ab- gall to rise when there broke upon s111858 311101 0)510 Diners. The London; Pall Mall Gazette's par- the silenoa of the night a resonant is correspondent writes: "A moment- metallic rattle, the thud of a falling me a man, an empty clatter. They had ne "I will consider the proposal, pa- os decision—in appearance—has been walked 'lathe line of meat cans slung pa," she answered, "I cannot decide taken by the Chamber in a usual kind upon n 38100' By measurement it at onto. I must have lima." of way. The manufacture and sale of was only 50 yards from the trench. "Yea would be mistress of beeping absinthe and the other decoctions that Hurst—a place the like of wbicb is not go by the name of appetizers are to be in England—Lady Rhysworth of Deep- forbidden in France Such, at any rate, ing Hurst ; and I should be a rich is the purport of an amendment tack- man, You love me, do you not, Dol- and on to the Drink bill that has just ores 1" he asked, with almost childish been voted. The Government are 5 - eagerness. She kissed his forehead tenderly. "I love yoe so well," she replied, "that I would give my life for you, papa." " And you will weigh his lordship's offer 1 I shall try to be satisfied with those words, .Dolores. I feel better now. Get me a bottle of the Ber- gundy with the yellow seal—theme is enough to last until I am a rich man and you are Lady Rhysworth. Then I will go to sleep. My brain is tired ; it aches with terrible misgivings. Sometimes, when I was a young man, I passed the almshouse al Deoping. I should not like to live there, Dol- ores. You must not let the last of the Cliefdens go there." "I will think about what we bad better do," she said; and, though his eyes followed hem wistfully, she would say ne more. She brought the bottle of Burgundy vited to issue a decree tabooing all drink of w.hioh the consumption, in the opinion of the Academy ,of Medi- cine, is a danger to the public health, " The realization of this revolution- ary measure, of which the author was very fittingly, a Socialist, is, of course impracticable. The Government will quietly ignore the invitation they have received and tbe Chamber will have sufficient sense to forget its bootless vote. Not, indeed, that there Ls not much to be said for the measure in itself, but to suppress the prac- tice of drinking aperitifs by astroke of the pen is as feasible as it would be to abolish smoking by royal i,n ctamation. During the past twenty )ears the habit has attained to appalling rro- p0ltionr in France. It is calculated Mont in Paris alone some 500,000 per- sons consider it is impossible to dine until after they bave swallowed aso- and gave him a glass of it. Tears called appetizer. Many people in- camp to the old man's eyes. dulge in the batbit before lunch as "I should not live long without my well as before dinner. and needless to wine, Dolores," he said ; "it gives me say the number of those who are not fresh life." content with a single drink is legion. She brought a pillow and lowered The consumption of aperitifs in Par - the blinds, making him comfortable is, after increasing for many years as only such loving hands could, and at the rate of 10.000 hectolitres a year, then left him. hes of late gone up by leaps and IR QLD EIGIAliD 1,1..1.1 NOTES Oz' INTEREST ABOUT JOHN ,$ULT, AND HIS Pb0PLTr, Record or escnrrcnses 1fi Ills 14114 That Helene Memento In flee pslnatorelai )World, salmon is half a orpwn a pound in London. The ineom0,01 the Prince of Walat exceeds £10400 a year. No Lower than thirty-three general$ Ire eerving in South Afriata, It coat £800,000 per mile to build the underground railways of London.. An African, who had visited Eng- land, described snow so "rain gone to sleep.,' . The Marquis of Bute's valet le rio11 er by his master's will to the extent. of £2,000. More doat'hle are due in England t0 alcoholism than to diphtheria or ty- pboid fever,. In Lancashire an effo'r't is A13530 made to introduce the rose as the no- tional emblem for the Queen's bi.rthe day. London now 'hon two electric sub- ways—the umways—the City and Waterloo Rail- way and the laity and South London Railway. Ito, George Cadbury,i the cocoa manufacturer, sent Kett Hardie £000 towards the expenses of Labour can- didates for Parliament. The War Office bas decided to award ware medals to the next-of-kin of son diens who have died in the course of campaign. In the last sixty years the speed of ocean steamers bas been increased from eight and a half to twenty-tsvo and a half knots an hour. The farmers of hent are waging n war of extermination against spare rows bullfinches, and rate, in sense- quenee of the damage done to the Drops. During the past season £1,100 w,{i.s paid by visitors viewing Baton Hall, the seat of the Duke of Westminster, who divides the money' among Chester charities. No fewer than thirteen of the Lon- don Daily Mail's wax correspondents have either been wounded, captured, invalided, or killed; a fourteenth died of disease. "A't that instant a single rifle sounded and the :Canadians hurled themselves down upon the ground. BOMBS BEGIN TO FIRE. "Their bodies had hardly touched it when, from a line 000 yards long, there came one furious glare of rifle fire, with a huie like water on a red- hot plate, of speeding bullets. In that terrible red light the men, as they lay and scraped desperately for rover, could see the beads of the Boers pop up and down and the fringe .of rifle barrels quiver anis. gleam. How the regiment, lying helpless under this fire, camped destruction, is extra- ordinary. To rush the trench in the Lace of such a oontmuous blast of lead seemed impassible, and it was equally impassible to remain where they were, in a short time the moon would be up,and they would be reeked off to a men. "The outer companies up on the plain were metered to retire.. Breaking up into loose order, they made their way back with surprisingly little loss, but a strange contretemps occurred, for, leaping suddenlyy into a trench held by the Gordons, they were mum taken by the mon, who seem to bave been asleep, for Boers, A subaltern and twelve men received bayonet, thrusts—none of them fortunately 01 a very serious nature -before the mis- take was dlecovered. CANADIANS DID IT, "A better fate meanwhile bad be. It was piteous to see how old and1'e- bounds, and the annual increase is fallen the two companies who had been worn his face seemed to grow when now 20,000 hectolitres. followed by the engineers. It is diffi- he was left anon°. He slept; and in "There are no two opinions as to cult to understand why in the Whole his sleep be went bask to the dreams the foot that these aperitifs among regiment the rear rank man might of his youth, for he murmured cortin- which absinthe is no worse than the not have carried a sackful of earth ual1y the one name that seemed to bamany varitles of bettors, reprosont the instead of a spade, With ehese two engraved upon his heart, "Dolores i" very direst form of alcoholic poison- flank companies, the experiment was while his daitgbter went to ber room ing. Tha healthiest persons cannot most successful. On the outbreak of knowing that she held the, issue at swallow 'these lethal decoctions with the erre the sacks were asst down, their lives in her hands. She had pro- Ina'unity; they are a sura coffee of the mon crouched behind thein, and misad to think of Lord Rhysworth's nervous disease and physical degenor_ time was given for further trenching, proposal, to see what she could do; ttion. The ravages they are taus Ba the morning 11117 were not only bat her reasoning powers seemed to ing in Firearm are universally recog- have left bite all at orae, and she nixed. A serious effort to grapple could not collect hon thoughts. with the evil is assuredly imperative; Sinoe yesterday wbat a change had unhappily, the vote in the Chamber come over her life! Yesterday she was iK not serious:' little more than a child, her girlish heart full of a beautiful lova-dream, Sato which no sorrow, pato 00 carS came—only yesterday ; and naw she j Blondes' may weep, for in the beau - was a woman, with a woman's doom ty contest in Paris all the prizes for of patient endue -alma and self-saeri- both "the fairest face "and for"plas- tico hanging over her. tie beauty," wont to brunettes. The Before she amid decide the quer- saddest part of this was that the board tion which troubled her, she moat sit . of judges was compreheesive, There down and think over the events of , wore wall known artists and Red - her life. True it hail all been passed fern, the tailor, on the committee, 80 at Whine Cliffe ; bat it was not so beauty was judged from the stand devoid of interest as one might ex- point of nature as the artist judges pent. She remembered no other home and: of the manufacturer, as the tail- --indeed ;she had no other; but she of judos. The house of Werth should 40001ltel some long; bright, happy have been represented. Worth, win years, when her fair, gentle mother': sent out the first blonde robed in el taught her herself, because she ye]tow, said he had dressed her in sue - loved het het too well to intrust ber to light. BR.UNETTTE'S TRITJMPII, secure lbamselveso but they found tbemselves in suob a position that they could enfilade the first lines of Boer, tranches, eo doubt Cronjo had already rdalized tbat the extrema limit of his 08813101mo bad come, but It was to those two 0empanies of Canadians that the credit is imine- diutely due for that white flag which fluttered upon the morning of Majuba day over the Ines of Paardober31l' NEW 'YEAR'S THE; WORLD ROUND. 80ne,lona la 1010.1110.00 e(1111. NI 11110 W. .101el4g4 in t'5brn „nd an on. The celebration of the first clay of the yens by exebouging gifts dates from old Roman times. So costly wore the presents in tl.e time of the Caes- ar's tbat they were a great source of profit to the Emperors and quite' bur- densome to thoie subjecte. Several Hundred years' ago In Eng - Waldorf Astor, son of William Wal- dorf Astor, who has just come of age, will wed, it is rumoured, the fair ata ter of the Duke of Roxburgbe, Lady Isabel Innes Ker. Mme. Patti bas for some time held the record for the largest sum that has been earned in a year by a wo- man. The highest total for twelve months is £70,000, A. box of the Queen's obocolate,sold at Reading to provide a little money for the mother of a soldier who died at Modder River, realized twenty-sev- en and a half guineas. Alfred L. Jones, the Liverpool ship- builder, bas offered £1,000 e year for five years toward a fund for estab- lishing e. comprehensive system of technical education in Wales. The Mersey Dook Board of Liverpool has decided to spend nearly 32,000,000 in risking the southern dook able to hold steamers fifty per cent. longer and 'Moader than the Oceanic. In 1843 the United Kingdom had Ma than 2,000 miles of railway, carrying about 20,000,000 passengers a year. To- day tbere are over 22,000 miles of line, carrying 1,000,000,000 passengerp. The British Government is the owner of 25,000 camels. Several tbou- sand are used in India, to carry stores; and equipment when companies age changing quarters by line of march. With a population of 5,500,000 Lon- don harbours every day 120,d00 strangers. Some may remain a week, some a montb, but all tbe year round there is an average of 120,000 visitor* wbo are within the metropolitiin boundaries. The Queen is establishing a por- trait gallery of soldiers who have dia- tinguisbed themselves in South Ate - ca. She has secured a portrait of pv- ery general in the field and makes en effort to obtain one of every officer who especially distinguishes himself. Lord nosebag the other night told a good story to a circle of oluh mates. Conversation ran upon the plethora of Scotsmen in London, and lois Lord- ship set the table in a roar with the following:-' A countryman of mine Was asked by a gentleman in the Strand, where the Calodonin Asylum was. 'Hoots, man, yen in MP was the paws rejoinder." BRAIN AND BODY. Debating societies have often dis- cutsserl the topic' of the relative able ity of short mon and tall men, but the Chicago Board of Education, brie gone Into the subjeot in a -very seieu tific planner. It has examined all the school children on the 'following points: Height, height sitting, weight strength of grip. bearing and acuity " el vision. The oonolesians thus far reached aro that, there is a physical Weil of precocity, that dull children ore lighter and preoo0]ous childeeu heavier than the encrusts, chill, . and that mediocrity of mind IA associated with mediocrity of physiglhe.