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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1901-6-13, Page 2,== rig4sigielor=w4r.1•• Pormr-ormw4r46143Pag=m1 THE WHITE ROSE. F.stottf=at==mmagttlismzeite4Polee=eele=W8=1=e1 SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING' CHAP- S. -8h Karl AlImplore Le bout to wod Dolores, Lady lebyeworth. Lola Ferrate has pressed her love upon him but it ea aa been rejected and ehe vowe vengeance on the object of hie affeoe tion. Lola gaze% Abroad. Two year paler happily when one niglat be goes out oo znysterious businees. elIA.PTER XXIII,--Cont Limed, Mteir a few minutes her nerveene tease inorease d so greatly that there wag nothing left for her to do but go down to tete old butletr in the hall. He looked up in surprise at the bountiful viaion .of silk velvet and Pearle covered with white lace. "My lady!" be (clad jumping up Prom the chair. "I am atraid I was aeleep I Did iyau want me?" "I am uneasy about your master," the said. " He wee to have been back at half past nine, and now it is past eleven." The anxime voice aseused the faith- ful servant. Ile went to the hall door and opened it, letting in a flood of moonlight. " There is ne cause for fear, my lady," he xeplied,-"not the least. See hem, ligat tets night in bright an day." She looked down the broad steps; the moonlight lay on flowere and tense, on the grass and the statues. Malaat could there be to fear on sueh a night? Nothing. More could be no accident., she xeflected such as was cncasioned at times by losing one's way in the daek. " May I ask, my lady,where Sir Karl has gone?" inquixed the butler, "He very ofteu tells me himself; but to- night ho did not say a word of his intentions -indeed, my lady, I thought that he did not eeera quite well." "Ile was not well," she replied qatekly ; "it is that which has made roe mew." "I am euxe, ray lady, that there is no need fon anxiety. Did you say whexe my master bad gone?" There was a look of distress and ohildlike bewilderment on her face. "I do not know, Erode:ham. He did not tell me," Even as she spoke a cold thrill of terror passed over her, and a dreadful foreboding of sorrow made her tremble. "I am nulls surre, my lady, that you need not be anxious. ale: accident could have bappeaed on a bright night like, this. You see for your- self that it is almost as light as day." ' Yea, I see',' she answered. What the would have liked would have been to go out herself in search of See Karl. " I should not like to leave you alone my lady," said the butler; "but, if you will peamit me to call the house- keeper to remain with you I shall go to the lodge -gates." The first thing that Mrs. Pickering did when she saw her mistress's white face was to get her some wine. The two stood together in the cold moonlit hall whilo the old butler went to the. lodge -gates. It was some Linn before Frodsham returned, and than he brought no news. The woman at the lodge had seen nothing of the master. She told him that the outer gates were unlocked, and he had paesed through ; he had looked down the road, but there was no sign of Sir Karl. Lady A.Ilanmare wrung her white jeweled hands. " Oh, Frodsham. I am afraid some- thing ha happened to him !" she cried. But still the old man scouted the idea of danger. "Take my advice, my lady," he said, "and do not get aux- bus. Sir Karl knows every step of the ground about here-hc mule not lone himself if he tried. Ile went on bueine.ss, you say rey lady Then he has been detained." "But Eradaham," cried his mistress, with tears in ber eyes, "he would not be detained, I am nine. He would be so anxious. He would know nay alarm. After promising to return at half past niee, he would never have atayed cut until eleven." 1111 the terryous forebodings of the laat few weeks returned to her, and the trembled like a leaf. "I will wallr just a little way it2to the perk myself," tam said. " But not alone, my lady. I will follow you." "Six Karl is nowhere in tbe park, my lady," said theold servant, at last. "It will be better for you to come back tes the Hall; mad, ef you still feel anxione ,I will call soma of tbe men, and they oan go in different direc- tions to look for him." eihe grasped at the euggestion •, and the butler gave a great sigh of re- lief when he loft he: to the care of Mre. Pickering, " Peanuade her to lie down," he said, in a low voice. "She will wear herself out; he may not be home for hours yet" Dolores followed the housekeeper's advice. She lay down and tried to compose herself, tried to believe that there was nothing wrong; hut she sprung up with a sudden cry of alarm when ale heard the clock strike one. " Call Foodeihara I" 'she creed. "He meet send all the servants out. Oh, how can they Mem when their mas- ker it pexhape in danger ? We must not delay any longer." "My lady," eaid the housekeepen "If yott could but let me speak 1 No harem can have oomo to Sir Karl. If you send the servants to look for him the will not be pleased. 11 it should get known that bees:nee See Karl was out until one o'elook, emu eeet serv- ants to emir the country -side for him 11 would not look well; and he would ho angry. Gentlemen don't like every- thing exposed to the world in that eathion. Think Oe it, bay lady, before tiie. servants ago tee; to $re patient, but go new and bewildering that I Panned) wbat to do." "Do you know in whatdieection Six Karl went, or the netnre oe bIs Dersincea 1" Milked Lard Ithemworell, "NO, I do Mot; end ie thet width dietreseee me so. lie told me that be wattle 'exmlein all to is witenbo rammed." Leaking up StuldNalY, She Saw Leed Rhyletvartine eyes fixed tenon her with the EtaMo expression AS She had neon in the Servants, and which had so greatly, annoyed her, . "You loamy eeelielleing," she said, "and you aro keeping it from rue I" flamw ke had tires to anewer, the door opened and the &mire entere ed. " Dolorea, what Ls this I hear ?" he cried. "Sir Karl gone I What in May-. cane namo doeit mem 1" " Gone, papa I" aIio xopeated de help. leers bewilderment. "No one said he wan gone! Be to messing, and I am afraLd tome accident luta eel/petted to The Squire looked at her piteously. His ewe ware the same expression that the hail nem ou Lord Rho - worths; and the cried- " You know something, papa; and you are keeping it from me I" "Sit down, nay darling," returned the Squire, "and tell Me all that pass- ed after 1 wont home. I left you talk- ing to your husband on the lawn; be wog telling you that be eould not drive, me home became be had a busi- ness appointment. Where was that ap- pointment, and with whom 7" "I do not know; he said tbat he would explain it all to me on his re - Then quite uneepecteely slier:aught the glance that passed between the equire and Lord Rhysworth. It was ono or imeret Intelligenoe. "IS you imow anything of Karl, oh, tell one I", she cried. "Do not keep me in suspense." Neither? of the men answered her; but the Squire drew her clomely to him, " lily darling, we will do all we can," said the elder Man after a few mo- ments. "There will not be a place un- eeamhed to which it is Probable he has gone; let that assurance comfort you." But, papa, tell me whether you know anything of him 7 Hee anything been hoard? Why do people look eo eternise? Why do they whisper to one saaother 7" " They axe all puzoled, any dear, I should imagine," he replied, "and it la a puzzle." 'Do yee think any accident has happened to hen?" .the asked; and the Squire /shook hie head gravely. "No, Dolores, I do not." "Then where um he be I Oh, pa- ps, bring him back to me -do bring 'him back! I mime see him I I -I can- not live without him I" She tamed her miserable face to Lord Rhys - worth. "Help me," she eried-"help me to find Sir Karl. "My dear lady, we will do all that we can," he answered. She flung up her arms in despair. He will never come back again l' she wailed. "I have felt it in eny heart all along; it wasi too height to last - too bright I I told him so, and be laughed at me. Papa, it will kill me I "Nay, tmy dexling, you must live for me, and for tbe children," replied the Squire, "Besides, you must, not give- up hope yet. Lord Rhysworth will chive me over to Deeping, and we will get men to eeaxeh the woods. Take courage." But her heart was heavy with dread. They left her, and, were absent many helm. She looked so white and wan, so fragile and heart -broken, when they xeturined. that tears came into Lord Rhysevorth's eyes. The Squire spoke Hest " We hereto news, Dolores -neither good nor bad; we have not heard or seen anything of him." With a faint sigh the, laid heir head bit breast. "Xy darling," cried the Squire, "yea must not give way in this fash- ion; you mut not indeed I 'Dry to rouse yourself. Suppose an aocident hue hammed to youn husband, and he wants careful nursing; you will be quite unfit to help him. Promise me now to take some nourishment, and then I will tell you, something." "I will," the gasped. In eilerace the Squere poured out some wine, and in silence she drank it. Was it her fancy, or did she bear the Squire :whisper to Lord Rhys - worth'. "Wo bad better tell her. She muat know it ; andc I fear it ie true." She turned to hian quickly ; he did not know ;low bee senses were sharp- ened by pain. hear you, papa," ehe said -"tell mo at once; Mae oaothing from me. Take any handle in sclera and hold them fust; that will give me strength to listen to what you have to say.', To Be Continued. yen think bre will evea, orene 'Lynne Again 7" '01 canine ihe wbbb, My bide ; and by thin time to -morrow you will have had many a hearty lenge over tele Thera are go many tillage that could helm detained him, 'Mebane be bas celled In honierivhexe, found, a gentle- men's dinner -party, ,and haa not been ablo to get away. Do (sheer up, my lady; there is nothing to fear I", Lady Illenmore lay quite still lis- tening to the stream of eomfortieg armee until the °look atruele four; then, with re white, dazed false, she looked at the houeekeeper and cried. in a voice the woman never forgot,- " It it roux o'clock. 1 tell you that he will never come home again I I feel 11. You youeself-are you not anxima now 7" lermishem was celled 111 egain. Then it was decided that the men servants reheat(' be roueed from their slum - bee% and eent out in different diree- Mona. The servants were called and CaTaa in, looking sleepy and wonder- ing what was the matter. Sir Karl, they were told, had gone out at half past seven the previous evening, in- tending to return at half pent nine, but nothing was heard of him since. The men were all there, Including James Aahfcerd, the groom, who had driven the Squire home. Dolores, whoee wits wean sharpened by sus- pense, felt sure that she saw an ex- peessiora of eurprise pass over this man's face. " lemma," she caled-"Sames Ash- ford, do You know where Sir Karl went ?" The groona'a face flushed holly as • anaweaed,- " No, my lady," but to himself he muttered, "I shall have to tell." No pereciae elireetions could be giv- en to the men. leorne went one way and somo another. The rumor :Tread quickly in the houiie that something was amiss and one by one the worn- engnevent's came dawn Dolores per- suaded by ben* maid, went up to her Onla room and lay down. "It will be. all right now," tbe wom- en told ter. "The men will be sure ; to come back with good news." .1 Notwithstanding be,r distress she fell aeleep ; end that one hoar'' sleep! made tha awakening mare terrible I still. She &relined that he tame back that she heard his hurried footsteps! up the gates, tha.t the door opened and he, entered, with the same bright I, loving look on hie bendsome face. He went up to her, took her in his arms and said, " darling, have I frigbt- I mad you? I am $o Berry. I have been at White Mere. Youx father WaS not well, and I stayed with him. My ; sweet Dolores, how pale you are, how , you tremble I Let me lees your rears away." Once Inure his strong loving armOs infolded her, and he kissed her It as though he would never en life part , from her again. He whispered sweet - i est and mast loving wards to ber ; ; the was his love his darluag. With her armee twined round him, she told him all her fears. He laughed at them. She heard the sound of his :laugh so distinctly. "My darling Do - loran" he eald, "rest assured that l while I am on earth, nothing will ever ' keep me from you." ; But, alas, it was only a dreamt The' ' face bending over hers faded, the fig- uro clasped in her arras was no long- er there. She awoke. There was a cold, gray light in the room, and the was alone. No after -hours -not even when the truth was xnada known to her -were so terrible as this hour. "Oh, Karl, Karl, where are you?" thee:led, but tbere was no answer, CHAPTER XXIV. When the clock etruck eight, Lady ' Allan/nese came down stairs, looking the ghost of herself. The servants gaz- ed at her in wonder, as at one over whom a great calamity hung. She Stint Inc John Frodsbam. You have no news for me?" she aaid. "No, my lady, no news," and the old man's face was pale, and worn. He did not look at her be ehrunk from meet- ing herr eyes. Quick as thought she weed out- " You know sc.mething, Ertel:sham, and you ere keeping ie from me:" "1 know notable, any lady," he an- swered; 'bat if I may make a Sug- gestion it is that your ladyship should send for seine frieed-enuni gentleman -the &nitre, perhaps, or Lord Rhys - worth." "I will send fer both," she "Give orders. Frodshain, at once I" John Frodehain did so • eine she felt same little relief, but she could not rest. She wandered from room to semm, through the grounds and gar- dens, and amng the terraces, always with the vague idea that the would find Sir Karl or hear him. Then the beertme censelous of some- thing that annoyed and perplexed her. Wheeever AO went in tee house she found groupe of :meatus wheepering. They broke off abruptly when they eaw her; lend in each Imo she per - owned a peculiar expression as though they knew something, but would not, or could at, ilnpart it. She felt as theugh an atmosphere of rays - tory marrow:Med ben Onee she spoke to the weenen-servants more sternly than ahe had ever spoken to there beentre. "Is thexe anything kept ercen my knowledge," the asked, "that. you whisper together And look so strange?" No, ray lady," was the answer; but one by one they stole away lest she. should ask them more. Lord Rhystworth was the first who came. Lady Allannaore Lehi mit her hand to hira in greeting and olung quite untoneeiously to him. it was as though the had found rtfriend in the midst of he.r dietrese. "I am in great trouble, Lord Rhyg- woe Lb," ahe said. "Sir Karl left re- trial: evening at half -past seven 10 transact some business,' and nothing iree heen 'beard of lihe since." 'So your groom told me, my dear Lady Allarrenare; and mon grieved and distressed am 1 to hoar 1.1. Yen' knew yell may rely upon me. / are entirely at your service. What would you wialt me to doe" "I cannot tell, 11 14 si trouble 80 OUR DEAR LITTLE FRIEND ONCE MORE. He was a thartning lieele fellow of fear, pretty in his ways, good to look at, but as nitughty as toeld be. Ife sat on the bottom, step keekiag his fat Little lege, and refusing ueterly to obey Itio lather, who had told him to go upotairre several times in in- creaseng degrees of severity. After few minutes of this clashing of wills IlIs exasperated parent picked him up sornewbat audde.nly, e-arreed him, and ,sat isbn d.own vean, firmly on a chair in hie room, and then went outt and ellen the door. Silence reigned. Not sound fermi Item for at least half an heel,. Then the door opened, and a sweet. Little voteis called out; "nab - 0r, bave you got over your tantrum yet, for 1 ahead like to oome down/ NOT THE, ONLY ONl1. There's imenotheng wrong with this Memel, mid :Mrs, DeS1s10, ae She an- nounced herself reedy for the theater. Premier lan't et provoking, It makes et.goel leered, ConeDiti yonateelf.- replied her hue. band, It 'can't porielbly make yaw head am timed as it will mako thee meek of the poor fellow who heppene to 011 behead you. P,reminer, yoa were naught bit (lis aot of tbiroating your hands in this bielee poteket. I Ions only trying to put in Len adelreseeeterd 51 my place a baseman . NEW IDIlA, FOR( ORCHARDS. A Oelereilleator ea of the opinion that W9Ple trees at Mane varieties may be benne* into euli beering at four yams atter being eet, Iti the mallard and quotes an instance of nineter Lanes been:log the eightb season al- ter setting got= 203 barrels of Moir - ea apples. They wean Baldwin, Rhode Island, Greenling and Roxbury Russet, end were set eighteett feet apart. Large apple trees Eno 41.ab advotetted, teat le, tines 'with tops spreaiding 3.0 tO 30 feet, and gaing up into thel atis 25 La 811 feet, irequilreag a tairty-foot ladder to gathes the fruet. It is bet- terr to set treel eighteen. feat apart, useng 136 tmes per acre, and w.hen the trees are tour years old, and come Milo bearing, atop all other crop- peng, and lett the trees bave an the ground to grow and mature their emit, 13y setting eighteen feet apart there are 100 more trees to the wore to bear from the Cane they are; four years old, and they will noc crowd each Other for ferteen years. At the end of fifteen years the top ef (were other tree should be cut back to cis near the. body Of the tree as can be done, and not leava the limb's, too large the soma aa Nviauld be clone 11 the tree were to be topegreeted. A neW top of young threifty growth Would start it wini)ch oit course would need to be tilienned out onoperly, and in three nom tha tree g would be in fall hear- ing again when the tons of thoae not cut back mie;y be served In like, man- ner. Byl thia meethord oe treatment the toe»yould be kept yaang, the Lona wrould be grcee,n an young and theitty wood, and the apples easily plaked, and trees ca;sely sprayed. When the i.,rves crowd agaVn, Let the Lops be oat bank as before, or take out every other tree e:ntirely. As money from the orchard is ob- ject them planting the 'Lanes 135 to Lhe acre and keeling the tops within a redline of about sixteenfeet, mare apples will be taken froin this orchard in teavaty os twenty-five years and at least expense per mre than, would be tronatihia same grownel.eveth trees set therLy-five trees to the Mere 1a fifty yeams. 'The above peen es for those who have mado up thehr minds to go into orchardring for the prolib thexe is in le Id tate orchard cannot hare the ass of ala the land, and pepper feeding oultevating, spraying and trimming, then ego an the present system. Orchards should have no cut off years but should bear every year at an av- erage of two barrelsper tree, on 250 to 300 barrels Of Peeked uPPlee par acre annually after the orchard is five y1lcw cerlt untie tieteen )'cars old, After this a treueh larger yield may be expected. FEEDING PIGS FOR PROFIT. To begin witth you must have hogs that are good eaters with good can- at:nations, writes Mrs. Leroy Hackett. Thw must be able to digest and as- similate large quantitien of food and thus convert it into bone, neu.sole and fat. Only a hog capable at acumen - peeling this can lea fattened with profit. Pure-bred hogs are more capable of accam,pliabing this than mongrel. However, do not depend too much on pe,dig,nee. If you are planning ta neglect and half starve yourze hogs you had better one& to the razor back, as he de used to ithis sort of tre,a,tment. lo addition to good Lead and water, comfortable quarters, well re.nelaated a:nd clean must be provided. I tlaink houses provided with cement flooxs wad troughs are best. A man who nelewee lets hogs to eat tram, the grciund, often, en mud and filth, will never produce meat at a profit. Then pork prodmed inthis way is net fit Inc human consump- tion. The proprz time to begin feeding for profit IS -when the pegs are fol- lowing tibia sow. Tho sow should be in good Both at faeroweng time. I3egin feeding the pigs at four weeks old, give them a litele soaked corn and miitk gradnaily increasing the amount. Do net oven feed. Do not !Beep a sow and peg; en, a pen, but allow them. the eon of e pasture. Feed all they eat thane times a day and nevelt. allow any leng to became poor. Feed a Vainieity. earn, of coarse, must be the bases of the pig's nation., but In addition feed oats, bran, wheat middlings aad (skimmed milk, than few weeks before tee bogs are to be sold fenith with earn. When Idles come early ia, the spring, they Will be ready Inc market boforo Gold weather le this treatment Is peusieted in, All feed,s will preeduce more pounds of pork detreng werm than during wed weethee, aeu.rther, the mast profetable pork is made from young members. Feed se/ hogs will weigh at least 200 Des at abc month.s. Feed lebe.rally and sell early. It is a MPS - take to feed hags through the fall and maniere Keep your eye on the m,axlret and never ship your hog; When there is an over-eupply, 1111/5 ca.in usually be avoided by, owreiully evaterhener Vannes from: day to day. letarket sewing pigs in Sept naul Oet. and fail pigs in, March and April. I PLOWING1 TIIE OROIIARD. The Meenner ifl which too many farmers PIM their oroliercle when they plow them ab ll moments en large nineteen:: tor parteal fruit fail - ores ana uneatilefeetiory: growth of trees. It ware'better not to plow up the (cohere, meribioularly if the trees leave not xemhed flull bearing age, thee reelelneely gee ilereugh et ea the epreng Math u deep -eel) plow and tear oti^? .1'0011$ by weieleeele. Timm wieekl- ,n't he eel Melee, elainage eotte 11 the phew were net Mtn se Clew to the treee. In ninny hesinneere 'the rows ire eretee are Viewed the eleme as it they were oe Poises hailing ne reins. The efeeet Of Minh aneviee 'ere:it:- Meet qg fruit teem is to eiheek Weed growth and 01151010.raga an abnormal proem:0E0n ef fruit. Thole Llee re- active eontee, and tare, teem seem =- welling either to emodluee ereit or de- velop wood., Generally opeaking, an orehard shotelie be plowed net •nrore then oneo in, five yearo. Arid it eholuld ectt be deal), ascii &boned °Lae earth be pewee tin neer the trees; they oheuld 000upy an unplowed strip twenty feet wide otr more, depending upon their ago and consequent root developeweet, The oneharel never ahould be per - witted to beeorne folul ocr infested with wieeds. Dis,king early in tthe eming ohookl be eollowad by peatiodical har- rotain,gs through the sununer months end until time for 8oeving e cover oxen, Saga) 015 rye 01 vetch, , IAN -MINIM PRIVILEGES WORE 14111 NIGHTCAP IN PRESENCE OF HIS SOVEREIGN. Dune or St. Anions Stay Drive Down Rotten Itow Illientivor - Outmost iigi.es Cant Cerny nor Own Trala 04 t Among the many strange privileges granted by Leiglish Segorelgns to their subjects, probably the most remarkable was the permission giv- en to the Earl, of Sussex by Queen Mary to wear his nightcap, or even two nightcaps if he so wished, in her Royal presence. The Earl was a viettex of colds in the head, which, like the law, are ao tre.specters of persons, and as Ito oonaidered catarrh in the head too heavy a price to pay for loyalty, he petitioned the Queen Inc permission to wear hia nigbtcap itt hee,presence. The 'patent conceding this unique privilege ia one ef the most amusing in Royal annals, It runs thus; "Know ye thee we do give to our be- loved and trusty cousin and counsel- lor, Henry, Led of Sussex, Viscoent Fitzweater and Lord of Egreraund and Purnell, license and pardon to wear his cap, or nightcap, or any two of ithiem, at hie pleasure, ad well in our presence as in the peesence, of any person or persons within this realm, or any other place in our do.uainions wheresoever, during his life; ad these our Letters shall be oufficient warrant in his behalf." Whether or not this privilege was ,heredifetry does dot appear; but if it had bean transmitted to suoceed- ing bearers of the title the Duke of Connaught, who is also Earl of Sus- sex, would enjoy the curious license to wear twonightcaps intim preemie° of . his august brother, RING EDWARD VIL An interesting privilege which has not been exercised ior the last six- ty-three years is that which permits the Duke of St. Albans, of all ithe King's subjects, to drive down Rotten Roos- whenever he withes to take an airing. There are obvious reasons why, apart from the dignity Such a drive should not be pleasant or desirable; and the last oreasion on which the Beauclark livery and equip, age were men in Rotten Row was when the Duke oe the time drove in great State to our late Queenee Coro- nation, When the Duke onNorfoik, the most massuraing of great nobles, mar- ried Lady Flora Hastings in 1877, the question was raised as to his hereditary right to a (revelry escort, a priviLege which had been conceded to his anoestora Lor centuries. The right. was recognized; and the Duke wits content with the concession with- out wishing to give reflect to it. The Duke inherits the strangely contrasted offices of Earl it.larshal of England and (thief Butler to the Xing, and has alesolube control over all the arrangements for Coronations and public emotions at Westminster .Abbey; and as Butler can claim( a cup of solid gold from the Sovereign on hie Coronation. Among the ,great ladies of the Court the most ooveled distinetion is that ,enjayed by the Counteas Spencer, who is allowed to carry bier own train when passing through the Dwane - roam, inatead of having it spread( be Royal pages, it perraiSSinal of which she does not care to avail herself. Far Many hundreds of years the Lords Xingsale have enjoyed, with- out exercising, the strange paivilege of l'elemening with their heads eon- ered in the PRESENCE OF ROYALTY, a concession given c.enturies ago to a De Conroy in eased:ration off his her- culean strength and doughty valour as champion of his Xing. IV ie in- iteresting le knew that the present owner of this mere concession is the managing director elf a tea Qom - pay in London, who is the last men in the world to care to exereise his ancestral privilege. - But Lord Kiageale is not, rte, is com- monly supposed, the only peer who may remain covered Wore his Xing eyelet impunity. The same liberty was granted nearly eaur centuries ago to a Forester by Xing Henry VIII., and has been transmitted to the 111 II Baron Vermeer of our owe day. Of Soottish eu.kes, hie Grace of At. gyll has, like his ancestors, a claim ta certain apartments 151 mayrooa, ad tho privilege oe Offering, in - 'dead al like the Duke ote Norfolk, re- mixing, a gold cup to the Xing on hia Ceroinalion; and on the same oe- eaerion the Duke of Athell May offer to his Sovereign a octet tef falcon. Ardong SWIMS priviieges enjoyed equally by all 'leers are the right le be hanged by a coed a/ silk instead v/ one of hemp, like their lele high- born Salluctout 10 froeileml frOM arrest except Inc eceony 1 and, fri. 011.06 of belony, tel be tried by their, peers( and Go oetnaln monad in the 'preseriee of judgent • ABOUT OUR OWN COUNTRY NEWS FROIVI TUE DIFFBRENT PRO. VINOES 910 THE DOMINION, Jae 14/q0kIO ThOt Interest tivo Canadian reonio inaortinteled newly - What ic Going OR E*'efl IPI� Ailiintle to 1110 Liaglartyef population is 7,024. Peanbanke'a population Le 0,731, Ganaxioque's population la 3,718.. Aylmer, Ont., has u population of 0,183. Desexonto will feral a Magri of Trade. London may Soon bave a abook ex - ohmage, One nonalleex ottee eon the town oI Pembroke e034. A Erospeotore' Union is to be formed itt Nolaon, 13, C. A. lock manufactory raay be eetab- Belied at Belleville, An hiatarioal society is to be or- ganized at eobourg. Owen Sound pmeesses chain table and casket fectories. Waterloo Old Boys purpose holding a re -mien et The Lindsay Golf Oluile will lay out links at Sturgeon Point. Sault Ste. Maxie carpentere and join - eon hare organized a uition. Anglia McDonald kat a hand in a raaehine at Owen Sound chain factory: Coanmissionets Ross was banquetted at White Rene, on his way to Dawson City. jainee Ilaloanquel bon bema elected president of the Belleville Obeese Beard. B. J. Blaney has been appointed clerk of the Towinehip of Taxbutt, 18 Algoma. A. 11. Wallace brie been elected pre- sident of the Guelph Retail Clarks' As- eociaticat, Galt Town Council leen attruek a tax sato of 18 j.-2 miles, a mill higher than Met /year. The G.T.R. will erect new station buildings in Petrolia of red brick and hancesoano design. Rev. D. Willi:tree, of aratiora, ad- vocates the early cloeing of stores on Satueday night. Puny C. Howell, a London, Ont., boy, is e goirgeant in the American army in the Peilippinee. Jobn, F. Boyce inspector of colon- ization roada, was banquet:tea on his departhre from Theasalen. 11 Angus Meheastex, fomerly of Guelph, was married en New York to Miss Ada Balmer, of Brkeville, '!'ann. W. R. White of the Wahaah and G. T. X Simeon hag been promoted to the position of yard master at Chat- ham. Mr. Cheswright, of the Walkerton High school, dropped his gold watch in the mill rime the other day. The water WAS let off, but the watch was gone. Dr. R. C. McKeohnie, has been elect- ed preeident of the Nanaimo labour party. Ralph Smith, M.P., will be banquetted on his xaturn from Ot- tawa. Mee. II. $. Greenwooee daughter of Sir. Henry Jaly, is Leaving very soon to join her hueband Lieut. -Col. Green- wood, formerly of Peterhoro, in South Afxioa. ,W. D. Card, a barrister of Galt, will Lt ie lead, loeate in Henaptville, In a sheet time He ea a son of Chaplain Card, of the Penetangueshene Refer - ma toxy. Dr. Edward Richardson, son of Was. Richardson, Brockville taa received appointmenb to the position of house auageon of the Carleton County Gen- eral Hospital, Ottawa. A.n organization known as the South Ate -loan Volunteer' Association has been formed al Strathoona, N.W.V. Members of the C.M.R. :tad Strall- ecnue limo are °legible Inc member - The proprietreas or the Windsor Ho- tel, Regina, was fined 3100 and costs Inc art illfraCti011 of the liquor law, and, beimg a second offence, lest hes license. An appeal Arta been entoxed. ()mooing is boonaing in Roehester. A. big company in that city has en- gaged Oaptain Grylls, of Lakefield, to take charge of a department for the manufacLare of the well known Cana- dian craft. The population of the County of Kent ig as followse-Camden townshM, 0,515; Chatham, 5,099; Devoe, 4284; Harwich, 4,503; Howard, 3,528; Orford; 2,544; Raleigh, 4,449; Rcanney, 1850; Zane, 1,198; Tilbury, Beat townabip, 8,- 320 ; Blenheim, town, 1,076; Bothwell, 834; Dresden, 1,584; Ridgelown, 2,208; Walladebeeg, 2,861; Thaanesville, vil- lage, 898; Tilbuiry, 1,032. Total, 44,490. PHOTOGRAPHY TO THE FRONT. A evell-knoten photographer recent- ly had his house overhauled. A now skylight was added and alterations were made in the roof. The men took their time and did not ovor-work themselves, but Ohs did not prevent the builder front preseating a very long bill. When the owner at the houso ex - posture -toil it was explained to him that the mon had to be paicl fur their time, and they had spent sev- eral days on the job. No wonder, sold the photographer; need then he produced a number of snap -shoe photographs representing the Men on the roof of Ilia house as taken from the attic window, Sone Were sittieg smoking, 801110 evero reading newspapers, and others wore lying on their backs. Why, said the nstonished builder, theso ate mer numl Exactly so, replied the phetogeaple- or, and they are mining eity money, $HE E GREAT LOOTER, OREAT BRITAIN 415 THE WORLD'! GRAMPION fLADIARIST. 't Bricisb, Syndicate Will Make Steel rrenit Zdtsonn leateetts -Erie:eine Cotton Trade -Alm carrion Tive4'htrde01 ttke Cannucroo, 11 etelkeng illuetretion of the oelor - illy with wheat John Bull snaps up the foereignera' industrial edam wae eliown the other day in connection with Ddison'a discovery of a method of utiliaing low geade non -Bessemer irOn-orea to produce high-grade Bes- semer steel, Tee invention is, Of °online,00 Amerioan one, says Lon- don Anewers, Xt la -So expeuis declare -going to [revolutionize the Isteel trade. But le , La them to be need to advance the intoreets of our American rivals? Not a. bit or a. 5. Dritiall dyndleatd has [secured the hole patent reghts, ansi ben also acquirree ore -bearing estateg en Norway and Portugal, which, for- merly valueless, will shortly be, so the dereotore assert and believe, more valuable, than a gold -name of niMilair 11 has been frequently said that Araerrioa grows the worlrl'a cotton, and that England manufacturea it. Thie asaextion, however, is only partied, true. America no longer dominate, the raw -cotton market, tor the sim- ple mason that WO have taken to growing ootton on our own account in India --we produced 2,410,000 bale% there last year, ad against America's 9,439,559 -and in Egypt. The induetaw, ea thia latter country is yet 1 ONLY IN ITS INFANCY. I I, e the art of spInniag cotton was known Marc than ems hundred yeare ago and pauctised in Italy, and about the beginning of the seventeenth cannery,. the Duto.h beg= manufacturing imi- tattom of the cotton fabrice which i they isapoated from India. Several oth, their Mende at. the new industry; but 4111.• ex Continental countrLea also tried lelngland just waited. It was not un- til the closing year of the eighteenth century that eve began to apply the knowledge gained by foreign experi- menters to our awn uses. :Last year we used up more them 6,500,000 bola', ond monopolised eiectemsix per cent. trade en manufactured to the wear 1702 a poor Notting ham f.ramerwork knitter, returnin boners from work in the evening, wage aormsted by it stranger, who explain ed by signs -for he could speak n Englirsh.-that he was hungry and tired, and dwarfed food and shelter. The kindhearted ,workman took him home to hie humble cottage, and there rested him many days, In return, the wanderer, who proved to 1.03 a Hugue- not :refugee, presented his benefactor with a piece of fine lace, which he in turn, gaveto his wife, who aewed it 011 flOr cap. In course of time, terough constant wear, the lace became frayed, and the eulilleh e7trittexngatruxt itand m ,stutiv1aeule gu c at tere; f of the aavelled thread, invented a mode of applying bit stocking -frame to lha Stui uir Pithuat etrle aa tsoir,11;11Parztrb tho origin of the Engliah lace -making in- dueay-an industry wheels at tbepre sent _moment employ8 dixectly more than FORTY THOUSAND PERSONS. We arra not above even talcing leaf out of the peek of the wily Coles tial, when it sults our purpose, are withese the startling revolution whin has come over the tea trade. In 187 not it single pound of tea was ire ported into England from Ceylomand only a paltry 21,852,000lb. frona India. Laat ye.ar India and Ceylon tient near- ly 270,000,0001b. The fleet practical boat to be pro- pelled by steam -power was launohed oa the Harlem Rives, New York, by, an American named Fulton, in 1807; It was pot until five years later that tho "Comet," the first British -built steamer, was put upon the Clyde. Eng-, laud at that time did not own a sin- gle apecinten of the aloW craft, not war one seen until 1815, rhen Mr. Dodd, of Glasgow, launcbed his first ateamboat an the Thames. Yet we now own 11,513,750 tons of steamers - to say nothing of sailing -ships -in which we carry, roughly, two-thirds of the world's ceeameroe No; England need not be afraid of America or Germany, Or my other country filching from us our Indus - Laird suprentauy, so long as we are slat. too Pr011d to learn. , RECRUITS FOR BRITISII ARMY. • Nunther Wan Enlisted Itenveen .1111110 ary and Hatch 1.1101 Wag 50,5111. A Eritieh Parliamenta-ey return has been dasued showing the number of , rearaLle evho joined the regular weave - and the militia during the first throe menthe of each isee.J.., from 1807 to 1001 inclueive. Taking the regular'. apeny fleet, it appellee that in Wenn- awly, :February and lVfarcli of 1897, 8,303, Men enliated ; lit 1898 there were 9,-. 581; in 1899, 9,(105; in 1000, 10,011 ; and' in the emcee period .o.0 tbe present yeas, 12,810. Isi adeilien to 'thee lat- ter nuanber there were during the flame peeled, 26,843 neonate raised Inc the Tanpeirial Yeomanry, the South A.erknen Conetabulery and other !Me - &al coirpa ra Lecondrataheitonhttolltalitient., juaa,nitindlittlake.Let176,08 Illte mitt:40.111ot; t4504,52i between jranuary to March kiwi. The figures for the anelnia daring elm seres peaeorl of each wear were; 1897, 12,662; 1898, 12,012. 18004 12,407; 107.0; 12,079 ; 1901, 10,878, 4 DIA'airriLONIAL It was Dentist leteGafeeiy, the veretore of verrisee to whiota si lady said: 0 Ian MoGatifey, MI leave just saoltt your eveee far the first time since your -a inuerealge; but 1 bed ottppotee,d the was, a taller woutare Seel settee geode than. Wheel 1 selw Lee test tatmeree in17;8‘l4itid attrud b6ar4e0teclt1 eet'i'n1117w.nni Shrs lu,