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The Brussels Post, 1902-7-3, Page 7gews7Autztnial c:) ON THE FARM. '11 I. AL wwwpwvspgr1444mmlimr-rmeaga,pgtf,,,qmsfgetpste-epgioeadoime CONFUSION- Or ilentaientanesteasraateavirstatstgreineseettletaee SYNOPSIS cal' nulonaDmiva THAFREIts, — • Mr. Teatime ney, e. scholarly keelusei• Ana"- • ries hie housekeeper's niece. Their daughter, Dome, grows to he a girl of considerable refinement. Prank Harcourt, of geed loudly, wb° Rawly heras 0, ellild; meets her and le fatscinat'ed with her. onArmari XIX, The Upper Foot was the lergeei of eeries of shallow ponds thet lay a uiflo pr two out of Shepton. It Was the place alwane used for skating, wboa skating anywhere at all WAS r/OSS010, SAW .112 All° ice was strong enough to bear on this Monday morning, amd it was the fleet ice of the season, the pool was soon. fairly full of people, and the winter , ,susi shone all dey upon •a lively scene. The Warburton girls were very handsome, and they skated well en- ough to keep many eyes upon them. "I wish I ha.de Dorcas here," Frank thought often to himself as be ekim- mad the ice by Afend's side; but, as lie had not Dorcas, he satisfied him- self fairly well with the companion that had fallen to his share, and the day would have been a very pleas- ant one to him if, when It was about half spent, he had not suddenly come upon a sight that drove the color ill ea instant impetuously to his face, Lind the demon of jealousy to his heart — the sight of Dorcas Trelaw- nay near the eclge of the pond, with a man whom he did not know kneel- ing before her and budding on her sic ates. He gave a start that almost made him lose his balance. Mattel was saying something to him, and what she said conveyed no more meaning to him than if she had been a fly buzzing in his ear. For two or three moments his whole soul was absorbed in the contemplation of Dorcas, and the figure at' her fee. .And then he and his companion glid- ed past the place where she was, and M a few SCCOM/S S110.bad passed out of his sight. Ho made an excuse as soon as he could for coming off the ice. He was too unreasonably upset to care to go on skating. Be wanted to stand somewhere where he could watch Dorcas, and nurse his jealousy et his Opelcility Vs. Nobilliy of .5oul. eleasereretaVee'Vreteirdeilefleileall "0)1, one is out ef practice a little; that is all," she eat& She joined his another, and let Jinn take off her skates. "I should lie° to steer a little long- amelook a them, You don't mInd weleing ebout a little, eo you, Dorcas?" Mrs. Penrose atua, I am afraid it. was not e..t Mr, Penrose's performances that Dorcas was gazing much; she was looking, at quite another part of the pond; her oyes were following two other fig- ures — rather wisttully. "Of course be cannot leave Miss Warburton to come to Me," she mist to herself; biet yet elm felt strangely deserted and lonely. Was it not only yesterday he told her how little he cared to be with Maud, and yet now haseem- ed so engrossed with her time be had not one look or woed to give to — his old playfellow? She concealed her disappointment as well as she could, and talked to Mrs. Penrose. She was a little an- gry, but- she told herself she had no cause to be angry; she was a little unhappy, but she would not allow that she was vexed. ."Do you see how inseparable Mr. Harcourt and Maud Warburton are? I wonder If there is going to be any- thing between theme" Mrs. Penrose said. lands. The ghee were pleased with "Perhaps there is," Dorcas answer- their morning's entertainment, and ed rather wearilywere talking gayly, but Frank was The pair of skaters bad .come near angry with them and himself and all the world, and would not talk. He had almost voluntarily kept himself apart from Dorcas, but now it un- reasonably seemed to him that it Was' wholly Maud's Sault that he ban been kept apart from her. He had meant at least to speak one word to her before she went away, and she had gone away when he had not seen her departure, and so even that word had not been spoken. etelekly, "Well, it does pet mat- ter—Ot least, not much, It is only iettle thing to bear." Dist Yet, though she said it was OnlY a little thing to bear, her lietle't ewelled, and her eyee Mice with bitter tome. It had been very ewe Upon the ice, the said to hoe Mother; oh, nee very nice, and she lied seen a great realiy people. Was Frank Hercourt there? Yes, Mr. Hameln!: Vas there with the Warburtone. She hed not spoke en to him, but he was elcating a great deal. It had been e very pretty Keno, The day was eo line, and everything had 10 ()lied 29 bright R -Tad gay, Dorcas Paid, llow could she help biding the Wound that had been given her? She was aeluemod because she hnd been wounded; eh e was aegry with herself becumeo tbd.pein she felt was eo sharp, ''T woulcl not have tuimed away from him for such a theism his mother mignt have teen a begger out of the street and it would have made no 'differ - 0000,7 the said to herself Passionately once bet this was the only bitter speech sue made. Once, when Letty was settles' et work, she Went 1.11) t� eer, and suddenly, with- out any apparent reason, put her (Meth softly to hers, and, when Lot - (y looked up inquiringly at this car- ess, Dorcas only began to soy some- thing that to the other seemed quite irrelevant — about long ago, when sho was a little child — "a, bad little child, who didn't love you, moth- er," she said—and kissed her, half laughing, but with her eyes a little wet. Frank Harcourt was not very con- tented or in a very happy humor when the Warburton party drove home in the afternoon to 1Vood- them as she spoke. "There is Mrs. • Penrose," the young man Was saying. . "Yes — have you not seen her be- fore? I have seen her a 'dozen times," Maud answered. "Let us go back mid speak to her, then." But Afruid objected. ''l can't when :dies Trelawney is with her," she said. And thee Frank bit his lip; and as he passed fleeces this time he did not even leek at her. If it had been poseible he would have thrown Maud off .and gone to her; but how could he throw Maud off? Dorcas looked at her watch; it was past one o'clock. "I think I ought to be going home," the said. She was tired of it all; there was O bitter taste in her mouth. The ease. elder womail did not notice that the girl wns out of spirits. Dorcas talk- ed as she walked home much as she usually did, even a 1310113 acute ob- server than the vicar's wife might have failed to perceive that any- thing was amiss. "Ffe's a fine looking man — don't you think so. Dorcas?—that young Harcourt, I mean," Mrs. Pthrose said once; "but there's always some- thing arrogant about these liar- . "Are you going to leave off? Are you tired?" Maud said, rather sur- prised at his movement. "No — I only want to loot on a little," he answered curtly; and thee they stood for a few moments side by side. What did it.signify to bim who DOTOOS skated with? He told him- self that it did not signify a straw, and turned vigorously away, ' but half savagely too, to the task of at- tending upon Maud, It was not that be was ang,iy with Deices. He was only angry with fate, and fierce- ly jealous of the man who was in the place in which he wanted to be. De vested the girl once and bowed to, her with an expression that filled Ler tette amazement. Her lips had broken into a smile at sigbt of him (she could not but smile at sight of ,him, even though he was with Maud Warburton), but the solezem lugu- brioesness of his countenance cbeck- ed that sign of pleasure ahnost in its birth. "Does he not want to eeem as if he was glad to see me?" Dorcas thought; and then the color flushed to her face. Was he ashamed •of knowing her and being seen to bow to her before these people?" she began to ask herself. She tried to keep out e his way alter that, and it seemed to her as if he too tried to keep out Of hors. Perhaps a couple of hours ago, wham meeting Mrs. Penrose and her son, the vicar's wife had good-na- turedly asked her if she would not it James get her ekates arid thane with them to the pend. Dorcas had accepted that invitation with a little half-conscious hope at her heart that she might meet Frank lIexcourt on the skating ground. He Wailed be there; probably, she ,thought, .and It ho were there he would be sure to come to her; he would be pleas0 to see her; could she doubt that? She felt as if she did not doubt it in the least; she knew ho would be glad; and so, when she saw him first, the bright young face had broken into the smile — which received in the next moment euch a wintry oheck. "I think 1 um rather tired; I think I won't skate any more," sho said quietly to James Penrose presently, She had enjoyed the. exercise eo much at first; 'she had told Mrs. Penrose it was so delightful that she should like to skate for home, the sudden collapse in her energies puzzled the young raan 'a little, probably. "I am afraid you find It more tir- ing than you thought you would?" he inquired. P le, Her "I think youe Mies Trelawney is rather dowdy, Frank; she wants style, she always puts me in mind of p. Quaker," Miss Warburtoe said, as they sat at lunch; •and then all began to talk of Dorcas, and to cri- ticize her, till Frank's ears burnt. She was pretty—yes, the girls al- lowed she was certainly pretty, in a way, only—"It may be fancy, but I always feel certain, for' my own part, that I should know there was something peculiar about her," Miss Warburton declared. You see it in her manner; and-oi course it is na- tural. It would be very strang-0 if she did not feel her unfortunate pose ition, poor girl!" "I really cannot see why her pos- ition need disturb her," exclaimed Frank, hotly; but of course, as soon as he wild this, all the others were down upon him, and he had to de- fend his asseetion as he best could courts to my mind. I remember "Well, why should you try to meg- the father—dear me, he was a man nify a small evil into a great one?' I disliked; and Mrs. Harcourt, Ile said boldly. "Let it be allowed that. her father did a foolish thing; he married out of his class—that is the long and the short of it. But Mrs. Trelawney is neither a 'vulgar woman nor a bad woman, and if you suppose that Dorcas is ashamed of her, you have made an utter mis- take." "And •so we aro all to 'marry whom we like in future, and live as If we were in heaven, without re- spect of persons? Hear, hear!" sakl Miss Warburton, with a cynical sneer. And then two or levee of the oth- ers laughed, and Frank felt the col- or rising- to his face. "I don't think there is much imane- diate fear of our coming to live as if we were in heaven, sir, whether we choose our wives above our own rank • or below it," he answered quickly. "Possibly not, Frank -- only a re- partee proves nothing," said Mrs. Nercourt in her quiet way: "It certainly, at any rate, does not justify such a marriage as Mr. Trelaw- ney's " "I ,am not attempting to justify It, Mother." . ',You are atterepting to make light of it, my dear boy." "Some of us may well try to do that, I think, when eo many aro on the other side." And then there was an abrupt sil- ence, and after a few moments Mrs. Harcourt began placidly to talk about some other subject; but Frank was angry, and everybody in the room was quite aware that he was angry, and, with the exception of Mr. Warburton, who, was extremely Indifferent to the condition of the young man's temper, made each one her own private comments on that fact. IT° 33e Continued.) • • —*-- though she's very soft and pleasant in manner, they say that at heart she's as hard and proud a woman as ever lived, and that her son has to :give way to her in everything. You saw her at church oa Sunday -es clici you not, my done? A very ladylike woman, isn't she?" "Yes, I saw her, and I thought her very lovely," Dorcas said. "She was a Miss Cholmondeley. The Oholmondbleye are all people of good family, I believe." "Are they? Oh, yes, I suppose so," Dorcas replied. These people with their family Pride and their pure blood—what had she to do with teem? she almost an- grily thought. She felt as if- that pleasant hour Asterday with Frank had gone such a long, long way off —as if she should never see any more like it again. Had Frank not known yesterday about her mother? she all at once asked. herself, when she had parted from Mrs. Penrose. Hai he been ignorant of her story yesterdey, and then had somebody at Woodlands told it to him since, and was this what had changed him so much to The thought occiored to her sud- denly — a new thought, making ev- Piles To prove to son thee Dr, Chase's Ointment is a certain and Albsolvie cure for each an& every form of itching, blocdlegand protruding Piles, the manufacturers have guaranteed a. See tes- timonials in the daily press and oak Tour neigh. bars what thoy think Wit. You can vse it and rcE3-our money' beck a net enrol. Mon box, at ell dealers or EDHANSON,BATES&CoeTeroete, 71r8 Chase's Ofinthient erything clear. Yes, she saw It now; he ha.d never heard the story before, and"last night some ono had told it to him, • and now he Was ashamed of seeming to be intimate With her. • "I ought to have remem- bered so.oner; I ought to hare sus- pected that he might not, know," silo said to herself. And then she add- Thirty-hine soiling ships aro lost yearly out of every 1,000 British sailing -Ships afloat ; but of steam- ers only 29 per 1,000. From a Skeleton of Skin and Bone rrs. Edwards Was spilt up to , Health and Strength Eli Dr. Chase's Nerve !Food: „Mee. R. NV, Edwards, 88 McMurray street, Brantford, Ont., describes her case as tenon's : 'Tor five years 1 have suffered niore than words can tell from neryous headache, nervous dyspepsla, and exhaustion, The pains in my head would at times almost drive me crazy. I Could not sleep nights, hut would walk the floor in agoey, entil 1 fell celmusted Lunt unconscious, and any husbatid would ,eaeo to carry Ine bock to bed. "Somethnes I could take no food for four days tit a time, cad experienced terrible gnawing sensations in the stomach, bed taste) in the mouth, and coated tongue. I was pole, nervous, irritable, easily ma 'muster), was reduced to a mere skeletoii of elide and bone, and my heart would palpitate as though it Was about no atop beating. tfy greatest suffering was mused by the drea.dfill pains in my head, neck, end back, and all tbie was in epito of the best efforts of three leading doctors of this city. "For the past nine nionths I liave used Dr. Chereee Nerve Food, and for a considerable time I hare not experieeced a headathe, or itny of tho eyerpimms mentioned abevo. 17een:1 a mete 'skeleton this medicine hag, bullt nie up in fleah and weight, until now 1 ant steong and well, do my own hottework, walk out for two hours without feeling tired, and ainthorougbly rbetored to health. Is it Daly wonder that words fail to ex - prim nay gratitude for dais remerkable cure You can use this testimonial for the benefit of other gull. teethe." et would be inlooSsible, belieVe, tO produce stronger evidence to prove the wonderful power of Dr. ()bagel; Nerve Food as a eyetem-buildee.• It eoutaine the very eseence cf the mole, potent restoratIvee of eater°, and it eettain to be Of benefit to yell. 50 cents a box, 6 boxes f $2.60. at all dealers, or Edeastn- son, Dater, o Co, Torento QUIe FARM 'micl al:ailing hills Of rithest gree111 Where s1lvr strove:elate rush be- tWeen, A velley fair holes wondrous (Marin The mane of our fertile Meese; 'Es bore we delve hem gam to sun, And nere 00011 longed -foe Pelee is vson,— The luscious fruit; the golden grain, For hours of toil ere precious gain; Tho flocks that Claim our tender -02X0, Wi0.1 US the golden moments share, And nude affection ktill bestow On those whoee every tone they know, Tbe skies ' are wondrous blue above This leaPPY spot, the farm we love. OARING FOR THE HERD. A practical swine breeder writes some of his experiences in managing a herd: We believe many of the hog's ail- ments are due to the method of handling and the way ln width he is kept. Apparently the hog is of 0. strong 'constitedon, and at the same time be will encounter some (Us- enet) whoa one thinks he is giving him his best. attention. The high- ly -bred hog oi to -day cannot under- go the treatment like tbe hog of years ago. They can't eat and drink eyerything, sleep everywhere and grow fat. To be successful and have thrifty healthy bogs they must be dared for similar to that of a hu- man being. Their health depends largely, or we might stay wholly, upon the feed, water, exercise and shelter that is provided for theth. Our experience is that when we feed regularly a ration that is nutritious to all the organs, with plenty of salt and ashes, where they can have ac- cess to it; and plenty of good fresh water to drink, and good, clean, comfortable shelter, free from • dust, from storm and winter; with plenty of cool shade and grass for sum- mer, it is 011 that any hog raiser needs to meet with success in his herd. Some feed too'nume. of one kind of grain, which makes the hog strong in one respect and Weak in some other. The object is to have the system as near uniform as possible. Don't allow the troughs to become dirty and filthy, nor the floors or ground round them to become sour and foist. Aim to keep the pens clean ad sweet; then, a little air - slacked lime sprinkled around in them will keep them in good shape. Salt and ashes mixed together, half and half, avoids constipation and is a tonic to the system, which is all that is needed as a drug. It is not necessary to keep feeding the herd a preventive against disease, Lor such remedies act upon the well hog and open the pores, irritate and inflame the organs evnich afford a victim for most tiny neighboring 'dis- ease, KILLING WEEDS. The best way to kill weeds is to dig them up with a hoe. In the case of quack grass it is safe also to put the weed in a blazing fire after it is dug. Many 111011 have worried their heads over the invention of a chemi- cal weed killer. If one could take some agreeable medicine for weeds, as he does for ague or that spring foaling, it would be a great relief from hoeing 2,11d plowing. The botanist of the Vermont Ex- periment Station, who is an expert in such matters, says this sort of medicine will work in some cases., Grovel walks, drives and tennis courts, for instance, can be kept free from weeds by the use of cer- tain chemicals. The trials made at the Vermont station. have included telt, Penner, selphate, potassium, sulphide, ' kerosene, carbolic 'acid, selphurie acid. The arsenical componnes tested were as follows, named in the order of theie merit: Henderson's fluid weed' -destroyer, arseelatu of soda, Smith's weed killer, arsenical soda mixture. In choosing between these, cost, effectiveness and con- eellithee ELM to be considered. • The cost is as follows, using eight gal - lone to the square rod: Bender - son's weed • destroyer, 40 cents to the square rod; arseniate of soda, cost 11 cents a square rod; arsenic- salsoda mixture, 81 cents a square rod. The arseniate of seem seems to be best for general use, cepecially when the expense is considered. For kill- ing weeds in lawns or similar places, where it is desired that useful plants shall occupy trio treated soil as soon as possible thereafter, crude car- bolic acid is the most generally use- ful chemical, since it is prompt in its action, and does net permanently poison the soil. Suiplairic acid comes next, but it is less penetrat- ing. Its orily advalitage ice com- pared with carbolic acid is that it is not . malodorotts, Connnon salt is inferior to any of the above 'chemi- cals for miscelleheous weed idlling. DAIRY NOTES. Who has not heard of Jeno butter— the beet of all the year's? What makes it so? Perfect food—the sweet,, fresh, abmidant pastures. This fact should convince every ono that it takee perfect food to nialce perfect butter. It is what the cows eat that makes the quality. They must have something good to Make it mat ef. Provide perfect food the year round, When the Juno Peeturee begin t0. fall brieg on the Soiling crops, One must be ready as Seen as the other fails. Then the ensilage, clover hay and It Variety of rotate which will last mita the auile pastures come again. All that is necessery l te put, on your thinking 'cap and look aimed add, be ready for eVery Seaton. It pp,70 nno. ie 045101 tlipp St1,114ball along behind the Preeession. Be euee that the drinking Pleee in the pestles:a is elean, Drinking frenn a foul, stagnant pool is ruinous. Delaymen have all these things 411 their 05111 001)1.881, and if their but- ter is of peer quality. and bringe a lew re price they are mply suffering for their ewn stupidity.' The coming successful dairynean must raise a lot of fodder corn, Not the watery, Washy stuff, grown thieldy, but well-matueed fod- der corn in chills, with one kerma eVery ton ar twelve Males, Every stalk will hare an ear on it and from 'twelve to tiveuty tons can be grOwn on an aere. Don't neglect to plant lots of sweet corn. It is 0 delicious addi- tion to the table mid also valuable for every farm animel. WARBLES IN OATTLIO, The andleation of any disinfecting remedy in vaseline or grease or in emeleion(811 hill the, warbles in cattle and prevent most of the great damage to the hides. The high high price of hides now makes this more imperative than ever before, und belittles the injury to the hide there IS perceptible loss in flesh which might readily be prevented. A cattle breeder writes in the leng- 'hill Live Stock Journal: The im- portant() of the subject is a good reason for my again troubling you with a letter asking owners of cat- tle to squeeze the warblee out of the backs and kill them If allowed to fall frona cattle, after awhile teey turn to a fly and again attack them. Damage to the hides amounts to thousands of pounds yearly, be- sides the suffering causede•to the cattle, which are often seen gallop- ing madly about when the fly is piercing into them, VOLCANIC Tell'OPTIONS. Efeects of Some of the Most Ex- tensive. The appalling volcanic eruptions in the islands of Martinique and St. Vincent recall the remarkable and alarming effects of many other up- heavals of the earth in the world's history, the most famous, of course, being that of ill-fated Pompeii. Many volcenic eruptions have corn - 31101100C1 upon the bed Of the sea. Etna and Veseivius in their younger days were submarine. The vast cones of the Sandwich Islands are of the same character. About one hundred' years ago a, column of vap- or was seen to rise from the North Pacific Ocean near ITnelaska„ and the effect was the formation of an island. 'The ejected materials width eventually raised the crater above the Mt level were responsible .for this 'strange formation, and ',Wing to repeated 'eruptions the island is now several miles in circumference. Some volcanoes are in a state of permanent eruption, while others are intermittent, belching forth only occasionally. Stromboli is con- stantly active, and a volcano in San Salvador which first became active a century ago has continued active ever since. Other volcanoes which are alwaye busy arc two in Nicara- gua, one in the Andes of Quito, Co- topaxi, Sion, in the Moluccas, al -id O eolcano in the Friendly Islands. The tops of these fiery mountains re- mind one somewhat of HUGE CHIMNEY STACKS emitting strong volumes of vapor at intervals. When volcanoes continue quiescent for some time and then break forth again the eruptions are all the snore violent. This was the case when Herculaneum was de- stroyed, and also when the terrible outburst took place at Krakatoa, in the Straits of Sunda. Perhaps the most remarkable of the great volcanic eruptions which have startled the world was that which occurred in. Iceland during 1788. The lava, then thrown up from JOIcal flowed in two main streams for distances of forty and fifty miles respectively, and varied In thickness and depth from 600 feet to 1,000 feet. In 1779 jots of lava, mixed with stones and scoriae, were thrown from Vesuvius to as groat a. height: as 10,000 feet, or nearly two miles. In 1845 the ashes of Hecht were in ten hours lying thick in Oekney rod Shetland. Ashes from Consequina, fell in 1885 in Jamaica, 700 ladles off, and fine dust covered the ground thirty miles south of the volcano to a depthof tell feet. Not infrequently fresh rents aro opened in the sides of a, volcano, forming new craters round which cones are built up by t,he rejected matter, the sides of the principal volcano thus bemoaning studded with a number of smaller • volcanoes. Tide, it is interesting to note, hap- pened with Vesuvius, where the pre- sent cone of Vesuvms rises 111 the centre of the old crater of Mount Somme. HEALTH ANT) WALK. A London doctor has asmosinces1 his belief in diagnosing 0 patient's thee it is as eseential to observe his walk as to feel his pulse. From recent investigations in this branch of what we may venture to call ped- estrial therapeutics, it appears ,thet a person in vig,orous and robust, health walks with his toes pointed to the front, and that ELS beilath be- gins to go the toes turn gradually out and a perceptible bend appears In the knees. CHURCH CURIOSITY, In the city of Heidelberg, Ger- many, there is a building called the Church' of the Holy Ghost, Width 19 %MIMI° in its way, being the only Church in the world M. Which the Protestant and Catholic services are held at the same thee, e partitiort Hirotigh the centre septtratieg the two 'congregations. The Duke of Northumberland, With 186,000 acres, is the largest land- owner in England, In Ireland, Mae. quis Conynglutin owns 156,000 aeres, In Wales,. Sit Weelde Williams Wynn's °State COVere 145,000 fierce. THE HEE MSS 800IETIE8 THEIR SPLENDID IIVOlielC. IN THE ,SOTITH AFRICAN wAn. sozne of the Brenehes ef the Work and Instances of the Good Done. One of the pleacninteet features in connection with the war in South Africa wee the outbueet of natiou- el tharity which eccompaniect it. But in melee that the fell volume of .tharity should reach the objeffie for evhich it was intended, a Con- siderable amount of organizinp.; week was neceesery, The work of or-. giudzateon is reported in a blue- book on the Central Britiell Rod Cross Committee whith was issued recently. 31. is a fascinating tele of sel asocrill co, The mere list of voluntary organi-. 1at10115 Whieh enalle under the con- trol of this central committee is be- wildering, end is alone enough to , show the multiplicity of the work in. hand, First, there were three ea -i Meths at home with the following^ work: (1) National Society for Aid to Sick and Wounded in War. (2) St. John Aanhulance Associa-1 ti on. (8) Army Nursing Service Reserve. These had to work in hermenY with seven local societies in South Africa. Then tbere were twelve auxiliary hospitals. There was the Princess Christian 110591(01 train, No. 4 hospital train, and other im- provised trains. There were two hoveital ships, the Princess of Wales and the Incline. There were four miscellaneous societies, eleven foreign Red Cross Societies, col- onial and Indian aid, and convales- cent homes for both officers and men to be provided at h,olue. INSTANCES Ole WORK. The following extract from the re - Pert of the British Red Cross So- ciety gives an idea of the work that VMS done in South Africa: At the relief of Kimberley the Bri- . tisli 1/041 Cross stores were the gest to reach the sick and wounded of the garrison. At the relief of Ladysmith the Red Cross Commissioner cisme in with his well loaded wagon only three days after the entry of Sir Ilederers Beller, and on both occasions the help thus given was of the utmost value. The "Princess Ceristian" hospital train was the first train which was able to each. Ladysmith after the siege, and, in fact, the temporary trestle bridge over the Tugela was inaugurated by the passage of the train over it. At the relief of Mcdeking the ne- cesssity of providing comforts for sick and wounded was not so great, but here also by great exertions the society gave timely aid. In the early days of the campaign the soolety's provision of clothing to home -returning .invalids met an urg- ent need. In combination with the Good Hope Society, at supplied over 14,000 hospital kits to the hospital trains for the use and comfort of the sick and wounded passengers. It gave help throughout South Africa to over 200 hospitals of all sorts to the furthest point of the line of communications. It distributed over 18,000 bales and cases receiv- ed from England, the colonies and abroad, in value ,Z80,000. MONEY EXPENDED. In addition it expended in South Africa itself the sum of 1340,000. In the some time the Good Hope So- ciety spent over 138,000, and gave away besides large quantities of clothing and other material. But the whole field of 'charitable work was much too large to be cov- ed in the space at our disposal. Filially, we would tall attention to the following extract from the report of the Duke of Abercorn's Committee, sthich touches us on a defect in the present policy of the War Office: The arrangements for the care of invalid officers at Notley ere strict- IY limited, eo that only a few can be accommodatecl at a 'time, and these have to pay a daily charge. It 111115t be borne in mind that in such cosesein officer not only loses all, his special fleld'allowances, but alto his lodging allowances, etc., and that the War Office does not provide 0011- valescent homes for officers as it does for the men. The restoration of an invalided officer to health or the alleviation of bis sufferings have hitherto been beyond the grasp of our national ideas of militarY or- ganization. RECOGNIZED , THE SYMPTOMS. "Life is a failure," said the tired looking Passenger in a grave and fax -away voice. "Man is a fraud, woman es a bore, happiness a de- lusion, friendship a humbug ; love is a disease, beauty a deception, mar - rine it mistake, a wife it trial, a child a nuisance ; good is merely hypocrisy, evil is detection.' The whole system of existence—life, Mor- ality, society, Innnanity, and all that—is it hollow sham. ,Our boast- ed wisdom is egotisin ; generosity is There is nothing of anY importance but money. Money is everything'; and, after ail, wbat is everything ? Nothing. Ar-rer-r 1" Glad to meet you, sir, said the thin little man with the ginger -hued ,whiskers, extending his, hahd eor- dially to the speaker. "I have the dyspepsia pretty bad at times alv- eoli." SHIls'S SHORTEST N.Amn. The Ea is stied to have the short- est name for a vessel in the world. She 10a Spanish steamer, and reech- ed Philadelphia led= with iron 010 after a voyage so rough that three of her sailors wero Incapacitated by eee sickness. The Eitwas named by it Spanish noblemsei after hie daugh- ter, Esmeralda. Sho belong') to 0 line that has set, la the Metter of short names, an enainple teat other linos tiro beginning im boilow. The Eeho, the Aro, and the Oria are sister shipe of hers. Di all the fleet there ie not 11, nano that le more than five letters long. .11.INOST HUMAN', 44 Officer Siived Moree. se. graehle story is told 'by ur- geoii-Uaptpjui Grey. One Of the elite cere who served in Rhodesia,, ln the eleacis 011 :Pattbil'al/S1))31bi'S, -1,139 1103,200., begftl} tO drop., 411(4 /$0011 thirLaell lay 011 th0 ground, and it looked asif the anon would all be killed. Vivi- dently Captaie Turner thought SQ, for lee virtually gave the order, "Salm qui pout," telling every num to fight tee best 110 001114 for his own hand. But, though the 1101500 con. - Veiled to fall, the men escaped, Dr. Oren to use his own werde, "lee to- wards the way out under a raking iire at a gallop, and 1545 closely fol- lowed by the te•Oop. Very 80011, however, 1 fell Set= the saddle, struck with a bullet frein an Pie- phant gun about 000 yards oll, The bullet avec& zne 01/ the top of the tingle smathing the socket 01 the thigh bon, breaking a vein and otherwise woueding me. Wry horse wee carried on at full 'peed with the rear-guare, which rushed at desper- ate speed to clear the pocket -like en- trance of the drift, where the natives were rallying in the hope of Idiking ue. As 1 lay on the gratis, bleeding profusely, I looked up and SEM two natives aiming at me at a destance of about 40 feet. At the same mo- raent I saw any horse come tbunder- ing back from the drift. 311 suddenly stopped and came and stood over comprehend unless a radical change my prostrate body, covering me from the firing and at the same time making a peculiar noire through its nostrils. 1 thought it bad been wounded, and that, in the Pain, noise and confusion, it had gone mad. This notion, however, was soon dispelled, for it continued standing over rae in a kneeliug pos- ture, and I could see that the faith- ful animal had come back to protect me. I may remark here that this horse, which I myself selected, I made a pet of. The assegais frorn the approaching natives were now , beginning to fly around me, and, thinking if I could reach my horse's , back. I should he shot which was preferable to being assegaied, I seized the reins, put my right foot In the stirrup, and made a supreme effort to mount. And I was sue- cessful, but how I did it I do not know. for my left side was entirely paralyzed. On finclieg myself in the saddle, I called, 'Go !' to my horse, which darted like an arrow towaecis the exit from the drift." NATIONAL DEBTS. They Are Increasing In Almost Every Country, The volcanoes of national debt are in constant eruption. 1n 1801 the world's 'debt amounted "to $8,090,- 000,000 ; in 1848, after the 'Napo- leonic wars, it was $8,100,000,000 ; in 1901, $81;800,000,000. It In- creased within the last century by $28,800,000,000; but, whereas dur- ing the first part of this centeny notwithstanding the gigantic wars which then unsettled parts of the world, it increased but at the ratio of three to one, the increase during the second part svae at the ratio of ten to one. In this recldess race after debt, of which repudiation is the inevitable goal, each nation as jealously par- • ticipating. The Austrian debt, winch M 1850 was but $600,000,000, reaches at present $1,700,000,000 ; the debt of Germany has grown from $116,000,000 in 1870. to 4559,000,- 000 ; that of Italy, which an 1869. was $1,400,000,000, 15 now 52,- 583,000,000 ; the debt of Ressia, which in 1858 was 6400,000,000, ex- ceeded in 1900 $8,000,000,Q00. France is easily winner in this con- test; her debt, which in 1852, was a little over $1,000,000,000, amounts to -day to about $5,800,000,000, or almost six times the a.moene in the former year, constituting almost one-fifth of the total world's in- debtedness. Spain and Italy have doubled their national debts; "while Frame has trebled hers. Some of the Latin states are already beyond hope of liquidatiou, while Turkey is said to Ise bankrupt. Most of these, coun- tries have nothing commensurate to show 111 tbe way- of assets. Great Britain and the United Stittes are the only countries which managed to reduce their debts in a period of 40 years. The arithmetic of ell this is easy to is wrought in the future policy of natioms. Who can discover any pros- pect of it ? PRECIOUS PICTURE) FRAMES. Perhaps the most valuable triune ever made for a picture is that which encloses "The Virgin and Child" in the Cathedral of Milan. Its size is 8 feet by 6 feet, and is of massive luunanered gold, with an Inner moulding of lapis lazuli, The corners here hearts designed in large pearls, and precious stoee are ielaid around it. It is said to have been the gift of ci rich nunnery, and its estinuited value is 5125,000. One of tbe pictures of the Vatican at . Rome is encloses' in a frame studded with jewels, se that the velem of . the frame nearlyequals that of the, pictuee, Many Conttnental churchee bare pictures with similar frames of great 'value. ' 4 ASLEEP OH A )3AG OF GOLD: For some years Mr. Somers, a dis- trict councillor of Jolunstown, Coun- ty Wexford, Ireland, has been sleep- ing on a small gold mine. PM did not itnow it, however, -rhe other day he gave away a mattress to a poor laborer, and on the mattress be- ing forced through the narrow door of the laborer's house it was tern, and out dropped a silk lutedlserchief containing 61,050 in gold. Tbe money was returned. Mrs. Duguitl (monitor or the Bo" ciety foe the Prevention of Create - to Animals)—"My dear cbildren, 1 love all anneals, 1, never ender any circumstances Mart one. I eveu had ne family of pee tOadS. 1 102'e them 00 that I Catch flies to feei teem." Sxnafl 13oy—"Please relestia, eir'e flies animale ?"