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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-8-21, Page 2ee feet-eft*tgUteeettetiledelbA0 6 .141forwWW4t9440*4$94304W4W3448-4rfWbvil4VVVOrilitr#04.4 vait,A*e.etit.0261/taae..A11... CONFUSION OF CASTE. Or Gentility Ys. Nobility of Soul. 1 CillAPTIele XXVI. Often, as she talked to Domes, Mrs, Harcourt would. Iriontion he ' son's name; she would oven speak Q hine freely, and When lettere emu from him she wouid read parts o Viera aloud, but she never for ,a Ion lenee made the neost distant refes Once to the -terms on Neldeh he auf Dorcas stood together, no gave he any message from him, nor algtoe epoke as If she SO tiniCh as recogniz ed that they had over mot. This ignorMg a her' poeition wa a relief to the girl at first, but pre- uently she began to wonder a little when it would cease, and then et last there cerne to her alitost a longing that it would cease. "Does she want to mace terms with me? - and has she not courage to do it?" the began to think. "Does she wish to keep me because she thinkshe may gain an influence over me, and make me do what she desires, and give Frank up?" And she could not tell. Some- times, daring these days, her love made her suspicious, so that at mo- ments it seemed to her as 11, per- haps' Mrs. Harcourt was playing a cruelgame, and trying to weave a web about her. She thought this sometitnee, and then again she be - care° ashamed of leer suspicions. "Only -why will she not speak to me?" she began at last to ask hex - self, almost passi 0 ne eely. '1 tun so weary of this sileace. Is she not Cruel to let all these days pass, and never to tell me the oue thing that concerns ine most?" "Yes, I am tired," she said to Mrs. Harcourt quickly one night. speaking with a sudden impatient impulse, in answer to a question that the other asked, "I base been doing nothing, I know, but oven living seems to the one some- times," "You ought not to feel that - at your age," Mrs. Harcourt an- swered; and then Dorcas laughed ra- ther .sadly. "Do you thiuk age has anything to do with it?" she said. "I think it Is only want of food that has to do with it. Whether we are old or young, if we cannot get bread we starve." Aimd then she thought she had said too much, and colored, and rose hastily from her seat. "Child, is It I, do you mean, who will not give you bread?" Mrs. Har- court suddenly asked. She was ly- ing on her sofa, and Dorcas was not near to her, but she half raised her- self as she spoke, and hold out her hand. "Come here, I want you to sit beelde me. Come bere, and let us talk together," she said. Dorcas came, half athanied, and eat dora at her side. "Forgive me for being impatient," she said, abruptly. "I ought not to have said what I did." "Well -if you felt it, it was as Well to say it, perhaps." "No, I hardly think that. One may feel many things, but it is gen- erally foolish to sneak them " "Is that your experience?" And Mrs. HarcOurt looked at Dorcas with an amused textile "You are a very reserved woman, my dear." "Are we not both reserved, per- haps?" "Well -possibly; but that is not tbe question, for I am not talking now of tnoself. I am talking of you. 1 think you aro unusually re- served. Or, at least, I should say, you are reserved in general -to ma - to na.ost people. Hardly, perhaps, altogether to -everybody?" - in ra- ther a dry tone, that brought the color in a rush to Dorcas's face. "That is not unnatural. Olio is Instinctively more reserved to one person than to another," she an- ewered, half defiantly. "Exactly. And I think in your ease I have heard that you make very marked differences indeed. Be- tween ttvo members of the same fam- ily, for instance?" And then, with something very like laughter in her eyes, Mrs, Harcourt looked at Dor- cas, and Dorcas, with an expression very far indeed removed from laugh- ter, returned the look. dear I am inakieg you an- gry,' tho elder woman said the next moment, "and I did not mean to nude° you augry, but sometimes, you kno w, we jest when our hearts are rather bitter end sad. And I ane bitter end sad to -night, Dorcas, for I am going to make a sacrifice, and all the natural woman within inc is shrinking from making it. Ilear with me a little, my dear. I have been lighting with awed! all these weeks -more than you khow." And then she became suddenly sil- ent, [Led the silence lasted -for Dor- bus, with her heert upon her lips, could not break it -for several min- tes rene_eeeeeneomeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeseeee. "You eee, I am a woman who has cared for this world," Mrs. Har- ✓ °alert beg= again et lest, abruptly, after that pause. "I have eared, I e hope, for other tillage as well -bat 1 for that I have cared to. I hare et set store by the • good thins that - the world has been able to give Me, 1 and I have tried to get it large Mese ✓ sure of those good things for-iny t only soli. Forlutps I think that - there are, on the weole, some worse things then worldlieees, 1 bare s known many worldly people who Inc better than some who eall theni- eelres saints: but still 1 allow that, when life seems about to entl-as mine, you Iceow, I believed was end- ing two mouths ago -the worldly successes we have striven for most appeal* small things to us. Dorcee, I make this admission frankly. .1 confess to you honestly that If I had not supposed I was dying it lit- tle while ago I hardly think you would be sitting by my side to- night." 21,3 She paused again hero for a little while, but Dorcas made no answer. Tbere was nothing that she could say. She sat quite still, and with- out even, lifting her head mail her companion chose to go on speaking. came -tor it was very odd that,*eil- meet fee soon as 1 had made all MY eleue preparations for departure, began to get hold of life ngeirt, don't knew how leraek felt %bout It, het I ain afraid thiet, when I Ismer was getting better, whee 1 bad Wel troubled eie it good deal. "For, yoe see, my (leer, 1 lied not quite the conspience to draw btu* front It. I suppose I would heve drawn back front it if I Could, but we are emnotinies virtupue ageinst our will, and perhaps -well, per- haps in my beare X thought at that time, when X was still ver,y weak, that my lioy'e gratitude was sweet- er than, any other eeethly thing; so one day, when Dr. Haswell said 1 was out of all danger, I paleed Frank What we were to do now, since he heel not been able to put me under the sad; encl It was this ealk that' ended in the suggestion upon which muted presently, when 1 Wrote to you and asked you to come bore. I promised Frank that I would ask you to come if he weuld go away, and so he went iiivey-anci 1 have kept my word. And now -now, any dear, what is to bo the end of it?" She turned to the girl all at mice, and put her hand on bees. There was it tiCtle color in her face, a very little tremor on her lips. "Dorcas, do you love iny boy as well as he loves you?" she said, suddenly. "Do you think 1 shoulil bo here now if 1 did not love him?" Dorcas answered, with hot cheeks, and al- most below her breath. , "Do you mean that'emit have found it so hard to remain here?" "I mean it has been. herd to come where I know I have been looked "My dear," Mrs. Harcourt recom- down upon, and -have not been menced, after this second silence, th-ought worthy of nne. 1 "it was no objection to yourself per- "So hard that you could only have " sonally that made me try to op- done it if -you loved blue?" "Is that your true cuswer? Well, I can believe it, for your face is more eloquent than your words, my dear. There, turn 1.1 away, child; wo need not talk any more. Only, the beginning, if (you must forgive sloop down, if you will, before you nee for speaking plainly) -if , your :go, and kiss me. 1 have never kiss - position ha.d been alfferent fromled you yet. I suppose" - and she what it is. I had no fault at 0,11 to gave a sudden laugh - "1 suppose find with you except that one -that i the queen that is abdicating ought you were beneath him socially. Ii to salute the queen that is to, be." wanted him to marry some girl who i "What can I say to you?" the girl should be at least his equal; per-, began to murmur, in a trembling haps X thought (for 1 have been voice. "I never wislied to marry proud of him, Dorcas -I have almost • him if it would do him harm. If you will tell me I am selfish to hold to him, I will go away now, and never trouble hira or you again." mb 11r8 that ho wanted yeti to be hie wife. I thought from the first time I saw you that you had a sweet 'face, I , could have loved you, and have been. :glad that he should love you froun believed that no woman he cared for could help loving him) -perhaps I thought it not unlikely that he might even make 'what is celled a "My dear," said ears. Harcourt, great marriage, and I should have liked hint to do this. But you came !quietly, "from here to Shepton is ; but a four hours' railway journey. in his way, and upset all nay hopes.' Do you think you could prevent Frank from going to Shepton to ed, in a low, quick voice. look for you, if, when he comes back next week,he should find you gone?" "Is he coming back next week?" she said, quickly. "He tens me so." "Was that ray fault?" Dorcas ask - "No -1 do not think it was your fault; I blame you for nothing. I only say that it was so, and I ask you (for I think you have a frank, fair raind)-I ask you if you do not understand ray feeling in the mate - ter? -if you do not think my oppos- ition was natural?f' "And he knows that I am hero?" "Then you must tell me what to do." Dorcas spoke nervously and "Quite natural," Dorcas said. quickly. "You must ten me if I am "I thought and hoped that his Ito go or stay. affection for you would pass away. "My dear, you are to stay,T the I was sorry for you, Dorcas; you 'elder woman gravely said. may not believe me, but I did think She took the girl's hand, and held of you too, even thongh I would ,it, though with a half -reluctant have sacrificed you for my son. I ;clasp. trusted that you would each forget! "You are to stay, and talce-what the other. But when I was 111-" I cannot keep from you," she said. She began this sentence, and then "That is the truest way of putting stopped, and only resumed it after it, / suppose." She roe() suddenly up froin her sofa "Are you tired, Dorcas?" she aske "We spoke about you on* night," ed, abruptly. "If you are not tired she said again, presently, "when I -look, the sun has hardly sot yet, thought I had not many more days and I think we have each had as to live. My son had. beou with ine much of the otber's company for the all through my illness. You don't Present as will do us good. You can know how good he is to bave with get half an hour's walk before night memos." She put her hand on Dor- cas's shoulder, with it moment's half laugh. "Go and dream your dream. Go and. be happy, my dear," she said. (To Be Continued). several moments. "When I was 111 I found that -as far as he was con- cerned -it was hot to be so." you when yon are suffering -what a tender nurse he can be. We have Ioved each other, you see, Dorcas, he and 1 -we have been a great deal to one another. It was not a light thing, even from the first, to think that any other woman had come be- tween us. But -1 was going to tell you -we both believed we were about to part, and I spoke to litm of you. We had never spoken of you before for many months. 1 asked him if his feeling for you had changed. I hardly know whether or not 1 hoped that it had changed, but I had made up my mind thal if it had not, I would buy his last more frora him by telling him to go to you when I was gone; and, iny dear, I did tell him' so; I told him, when he had laid me in the eerth, to go back to you, and to say to you thee I had sent him. Only, unfortunately, you see, Dorcas, after all thie had been done, 1 did Mee11 To prove to eau thee De rti 21,Mg":"'tr=es 11o and every RCM et !Whim, • bloodinirand srotradlas sites, the toarinfactureri have ktinvoiteed it 'goatee. timontalain the deny prow and ask your neigh. bore What they think oftt, Yee can use it and get yens money bock if not cured. Gen n box, at idi coolers cr EDNIANTSON,8ATEa & Co.,Tor.nto, OrnOliaster's Ointment. "Love," said the poet, ''is a mys- tic influence; it is a message and a response, voluble in a Rasa of thought; it conquers tinae and dis- not die; and after a week tied pass- tance, and its exchange requires no ed, I found myself In a. very ftwk- medium for transmiesion." "That's ward and unexpected prieitione,not love," said the prarticel man. She said these last words sudden- -You're talking about wirelese tele- ly, almost with a laugh, and then gravity now." paused for e moment er two before she went on, A Sunday School teacher, who had "Let my caSe be a warning to you," she began again, ''never to be almost become diseouraged over the too sure of anything that Is only go- listlessness of her close, at hest felt ing to bappen. X expected, you per- rewarded by an ihterested look from ceive, to make a very edifying end, leaving nothing but peace and blees- ing behind me; brit I made a serious blunder, 1 enacted my little part- ing scene a trifle before tho clue time oa lastic? a little girl. The reward WEIS lest Whell the little creature touched a bead bracelet onthe lady's men and melted; -Teacher, are them threaded ortured by Eczem 30 rez. A Dreadful Case—itching Alitiost Unbeara,ble—The Flesh Raw and Flaming. M11817.01•111190,..../. ITNCOMMIILatlIMMVIIIPISSMILIM Dr. Chase's ilintmerrt. Mr, G M, eifeCohnell, Engineer in Floury's Foundry, Aurora, Ont., ntetes :-e"I believe that Dr. Chase's Oirdenent is worth its weight in gol d. For about thirty years I wee tr oubled WW1 eelL01710„ and could not obtain any cure. I was eo unfortun ate ae to have blood poison, and this developed to eczema, the most dreadful 01 ekin dieceses. ".1 Was SO bad that I weuld get up at night end scratch leyeelf uhtll flesh wee raw and naming, The torture f aliened is elmoret beyond deseription, tencl now I cannot say anything too good for Dri. Che.seei Ointinent, Tt has cured Inc, and I recommend it because I know there Is nothing so good for Itching skin." leepecielly during the hot summer months ehirdren are tortured by itching skin dieceee, chafing, stinburri, and a score oi eilments that are reliceved end Cured by Dr. Chase's Oin tment, Mr. J. Gear, mail carrier and stage driver between Port' Elgin awl Kincateline, Ont., elates e --P/ on testify to the worth of ler, Chase's Ointment as it Gime for ecteMa. My atter, Mrs, J. Dobson, of Under- wood, Oat„ has a boy Who Wafi a el•eat eufferer from this dreadful skirt dieetteo. He Was then only four yoars old, add, though site took Mtn to several doctors and tried it great maey remedies, all efforts to a- foot, a cure scented in vain. "This little follow Wee coveeed With itching some, Mid heeds and lace Were eepecially bad. The way he 'mitered Was something dreadful, and my tester had been disappointed with so many proparatioos that elle did uot have much faith in Dr. Olicee•es Ointrimet. I can nOW testify that Dr. Ohaeree Oittiment male a. pi reept cure in tide efa30, Mid there fa not a mark or beer left oh hie body," Dr. enesseel Ointminite 60 corite u boy, at all dealeree or lednieneion, pains and Co.s eteetintoe 06106MAYNAleirtRa FARM. ON THE ;4 it Turturz:g Biusacius, Yoit Wish to kaow eomething about growing turkeys ? Well : Don't let the young turkeys get wet, Donet feed them inside of twenty - tour home after they Nem mit of the shells, Xeep them free from, lice by dust- ing thent with Persian 1101501 Pow - cloy. Dust the hen, too. Don't neglect the unites and big lice. Greasing will drive them off. Don't let the turkeys run on dilly ranges or in filthy querters. Give water only in small • and hallow dishes,.• • - During the first week feed them „with sifted, rolled or ground Oat% 400ked and crumbled and mixed with a beaten egg, with this give them milk and curd. Feed them Ave or six times a day. Add it little raw meat, lino -chop- ped onion and green food deny, During the second week put wheat and ground bone in boxes whore they can get at it, and give them three daily feeds of mixed cornmeal, wheat middlings and ground eats, coolced, and mixed with chopped green food, Thereafter supply them with cook- ed rico, or turnipe, or potatoes. Re- move the coops to fresh ground fre- quently in order to avoid elth. Supply a dust-bath. Brie gravel and ground bone. They aro tender until their fea- thers are full. Fresh bone finely cut will' .be good thing for them. On dry, warm days let them range, but never on wet, cold days. Give them it roost in an open shed facing the south. One gobbler will answer for twenty to twenty-five beim, as a single nutt- ing fertilizee all the eggs a hen will lay during the' season. Mate pullets with two-year-old gobblere, or yearling gobblers with two-year-old hen. Should you. wish to use an incu- bator and brooder, do not try more than twenty-five to thirty In a lot, tor the constant care required by young turkeys makes it difficult to handle larger floelcs. In nutting select mecliem-alzed gobblers. The turkey is a range bird, and cannot thrive in confinement altec reaching full size. The turkey hen should be permit- ted to make her own nest. Once fully feathered the turkeys are able to look out for themselves 1 argely.. Feeding them in the barnya,i'd night and morning will accustom them to returning home at night to roost. WHY I BZCAME A. DAIRYMAN, When I first started into farming,. I put all my land in wheat, as was Ibsen the custom, writes Kr. W. C. Bradley. For two or three years everything went fairly well, but it took a lot of hard work and some bookkeeping to buy machinery, hire help and pay $700 a year interest. The chinch hug came along and helped ma to harvest my Wheat, and ono day eel was oiling my binder saw the canvas eovered with buge, and I knew that this industry must be abandoned, What to do next was the question. After attending a dairy meeting, I concluded that keeping COWS was the way out of the trouble, sci I bor- rowed money, built a silo, bought a creamer, hunted up some Jersey cows and began 'dairying. I have been at it ever since, with good re- sults. True, it is hard work, but it keep e me out of mischief a,nd itt home nights. It gives inc good habits, as the dairymen knows he must feed well and keep himself in order or he will get no results. It furnishes steady work the year around at good wages. Dairying keeps tip the fertility of the farm which helps to increase the bank ac- count. 11; will pay the mortgage on the farm and help to get it on the other fellow's farm if we want ite I became a. dairyman for the same reason I .beeeme bald-headed, be- cause I couldn't help it. Sometimes I wish I could trade the farm for a Belt pond or turn it late a straw- berry patch. Then 1 take any pencil and try to figure out how 1 could get $200 a month mit of it. Whe strawberry crop and ,prices are both uncertain, but people mest balm milk, cream and Metter every day, so 1 keep on millii»g for the money there is in it. • POULTRY YARD, Sell the surplus stock before they aro in melt. Nave you remotod the male birds from the flocke ? Don't buy the eggs for your cus- tomers.. It is rieky. A good time to sow rape for win- ter green food. 11 you dislike to work 'keep out of Ute roultry business. August -hatched pullets will mako good layere when eggs are scarce next summer and fall, The bon gets her summer vacation (lining her broody spells. II you intend to keep her let her rest, awhile. The latter part of summer •fs good time to buy breeding fowls. The breeders then have a good supply to soleet from, and can also eel' cheaper that after Wintesing, The peoduct ot the stolen nest will be lively as crickets. The brood is 'usually email and the mother will take care of them. Throw them' food when they are present at feed- ing time, but let theta rUStiO, DAIRY MW STOCX. Whole graio givoe beeter results than does ground grain when rod to slicer. leveret indication points to the in- evitable high 'price of :them, for the umet tWe or throe yettes at lereet, • The cow doesn't Mahn itmilit. to morrow from ' the feed ol to-cley She Makes it from stored vitality ; therefore, keep lier vitality up to leo Welting roint ell the time. Die not liamper horeee in Stalls thet ere itot very wide when the hot nights come. Turn thine i the pas - he breezy air of the night le grate- ftuelretoWetielieeimi.heY c1011 etrafghten coin T A geed dairy cow Is Made by in- tmeoillili:einit0113creoendleby ingcienildanfoe:rt d tas t alolts') des seeen yeers of steaclY, weteleful ate tenteon after birth to brieg a cOW to leer best In the produetion of Do not thinle that became) the weather is bet; the cattle do not want salt, If they have It where they can Belt a, letele of it every day they will net get so hungry for It, and your ,milk testtvill be tho more uulform for thie fact. KNOUT IS KING IN RUSSIL MOST TERRIBLE CASTIGA.TOIt nVER INVENTED• Death -dealing Instrument Which Is Being 'Heed to Quell Re- bellious Students. "The knout for students." Many of us have read this headline in 0011- nection with the Emission riots with the same equanimity its ,they would 'erho cat for •highwaymen," think- ing that the former is simply Rus- sie's equivalent for the British flog- ging instrument. As a matter of fact, the "cot" is soothing and genie° . In comparison with the "'knout." The "knout" is the most terrible castigator ever invented by Mao, and to be sentenced to it, as adinin- istered by Russian "Notice," is practically the equivalent to death. Tit feet, the average sentence, name- ly 101 strokes, is regarded, by the Russian legal zlinct as a capital sen- tence. "Knouts" differ in 101"111, but the one generally in use 15 a heavy leather thing, about eight feet in length, attached to it handle two feet long. The lash is about the breadth of a broad tape, and is curved so as to give twosharp edges along its entire length. It is sometimes bound with wire thread, with a little hook at the end. At each blow the sharp edges of the lash fall on the victim's back, and cut him like. a flexible double-edged sword. • "TCNOCTING" AS AN ART. Peter the Great fixed tho maximum number of strokes permissible to be given a prisoner at 101,, the human body being unable to support more. The prisoner is stretched on an in- clined frame, and his hands and feet are extended at full length, and firmly bound to iron rings at the extremities of the frame. In many cases tho custom is ;to fasten the head of the sufferer so that ho is unable to cry out, which adds great- ly to the pain. "Xnouting" is regarded as a pro- fession -even an art-roguiring life- long study and practice, and execu- tioners have to serve an apprentice- ship before being regarded as quali- fied to administer it. In the old days, the chief knouter was always a criminal himself condemned to re- ceive the punishmen t, but reprieved on condition that he undertook the duties, at which he would be em- ployed within the prison walls for a period of twelve years, after which he would be released. While in Pris- on he had to give inStruction in the art to Amnia whom he taught to practice by means of a lay figure, on which they would operate until they acquired the necessary pro- ficiency. HOW IT IS ADMINISTERED. Different prisoners were knouted in different ways, according to the nature of their offences. In . some eases, the knout could, by a slight alteration in the Method of areplying it, be transterree into an instrument of death, while on others, it merely administered castigation. rennediate death Would be caused by making the victim dislocate his own neck against the fasteninge as a reetat of the agony from the blows. Death would he insured, but de- ferred Inc it day or two, by making the lash wind round the body ,of the victim, whereby it would cut into the interior of the chest, and cause mortal injury. A skilled operator of the "knout" could smash a brickbat into dust at it single blow, were he eo disposed, so it, will lo seen wha1 terrible power Is placed in the heolds of these executioners. Ono of the most tereible stories of knouting comes from the Meehan of 1820, Seven Tartars had been found guilty of nuirder and robbery in several. tmens. Tlwir senecece was thet they Weee . to be knouted• in each of the towns in which they had committed their crimes. cavrm IN INSTALMENTS. At the first town, Alnnetchot, they recede ed the first huitelneent, which took place in the preeence of the citizens, in tho market place. Each culprit, was in turn iastened to an inclined post, with a ring at the top, to which the head Was tightly fixece by moons of ti, rope to prevent him crying out., The hands were closely tied on either side, and the feet were summed. Per rings at the bottom. After reading' the sentence, the executioner approached, wlelding a knout as thick es a, man's wrist, gavo one cUt, and Walked back ebout forty yards. Flourishieg hie whip, he returned, and struck again until the neceesary number wee given. This. process was repeated at eath of the tome, the prisoneris being dragged ih hone from plac.o to place, Not one of the mon survived to en- dergo the full punishtnent. The idea of subjecting a woman to such tree:Intent makes the BrItith tnind shedder, bet one of the Motet tervible elmoutinge" in history is recorded in Which the violent' Was a beautiful and bre Ilomi t Wer11011, 11111(laTad Carmelite, one of the lead - leg ladies al tho court 'of Elleftbeth of • Russia, She 'hied been eompro- mired through it loVe affair With an nenbiteeticlor, She Was at nest or- akeillo'atalupt08,,haZ yijlootript101algpp1100:130: Q11.0t1,1 hat elds the Moores* mitigated to the eeeSeild elreeeed la a carelees e08- tunni, end gave an inteeteting glance ati the crewd, hQPing, Seine of leer old friends and admirer* might lit- teafere to save her, pet tee People wore onxione to Bee the operation, end the Unfeetenete lady had to undergo the frightful torture whith was not mitigated in the least • ON ACCOUNT Ole HEIL SEX. In all grades cif soeiety there ere stories of women having been flogged with terrible severity, even 'tidies of nine, guilty of sinall °Mimes, being sent off to the pollee station, /Ike ordinary criminals, and eubjectecl to the %tree 'tideway, A German news- sitalere toll° otflis"soe'ut'LladrtiynarYyeairns- ago in St, Petersburg, The victims were throe noteil beauties, and were seen to be drivenom an Imperial epoallil,teinotathetieolit;, ociWaaci cianrett,iangetsiletonntelri; of their court costumes, to be flog- ged for an offence which we should eesignate "tietle tattle." After the outbreak of the Crimean War, the Russian Government issued an order for supplies of lint, rags, and other aids, for the use of the wounded, to be supplied by the up- per atlases-, The wife of the Gover- nor of Moscow, having heard of the superior strength of the British and French forces, remarked frivolously that the supplies were not likely to be needee." This remark 'leas re- ported to the authorities, and ehe was summoned to appear before the police. Unable to deny what she had said, she was summarily sen- tenced to be flogged itt a merciless manner. PLAYWRIGHTS ARE FLOGGED. Insubordinate servants are flogged for offencesein Russia, and the late Mr. George Augustus Sala pnce gave his authority to the statement that ballet girls are flogged in Russian theatres if they are disobedient to instructions. Supposing Britons were to have beard that a day or two before his death Shakespeare had been flogged by ,order of royalty for having in- dulgeden a joke or two in his plays. They would dearcely believe such barbarity possible. But this is pre- cisely what happened to Pushkin, the Russian Shakespeare, the great- est poet that nation has Produced. The Tsar disapproved of his too caustic humor, and he was arrested by the police, and flogged in the rooms of the prefect, Two days after he teas killed in a duel. • But extraordinary as this maY seem, to Russians such a story would lee quite tin everyday oc- currence. As a matter of fact, the rod is a national inetitution in lhat country. Women in the highest so- cial circles take it as a token of love from their husbands to be well beaten. 11 they are not chastised from time to time they suspect that their husbend no longer loves them. -Pearson's WeeklY. it DOOX'S REMINISCENCES, Ile Was Xing Edward's Chef When the King Was Prince of Wales. Leopold Albert Villard, a French- man who acted as cook for Xing Edward VII. when he Was the Prince of Wales, for the Duke of York, now tho lernice of Wales; Lord Salishery, Lord Lennox and other titled persons, is spending a short time in Orange, New Jersey, before returning to France. He was on the royal yacht Britannia from 1891 to 1895. He has a letter written by the Duke of York commending Ids He also has a Jotter from 011e of the Xing's secretaries, saying that his Majesty had received his application for re-engagement as cook and would be glad to engage him if he took another cruise on the Britannia. Villard met the Xing nearly every day he was on the yacht. It was his Majesty's custom, the cook said, to order his own meals, sometimes the order being given personally and sometimes in writing. The Ring talked French fluentily and was af- fable and democratic. Villard said the Xing preferred French to jilneish cooking. "The English," Villlard said, "can cook nothing hot roast beef, potatoes and plum pod- clingeand thee is enough to kill Ono of his SJitiesty's favorite dishes was a kidney omelet. Ono day, in accordance With the royal command, a large omelet was pro- parecl and placed on the table, As the rTalee and hia party entered the dining room the yacht was rolling heavily and the omelet was. OVERTURNMD ON TI 11) FLOOR. Tho Prince was aunoyee, V il lard sent Arm 0 to his highness that, he would prepare another in tun min- utes. The Prince wee ineredulotee, but. 'Ciliate} was as good 410 Ilia word and in eight minutes the second omelet was served, A short time alter that the Prince sent Albert a handsome pin he the term of his coat, of arms in appreciation of the excellonee of the seemed omelet FRU g1lliV3 GRE.01 ISLE, WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE LAND OE THE sammocx, Some Personal arid Buseness Notes That Will Interest Irish - Canadians. At it Pliblie meeting hi Deblin it was deelded to commemorate the coronation by founding a Mod for the relief of eticeseitous aged, sick or clisabeed eertieed female nureee working in Ireland, Dublin's Zoo is to, have it giraffe, presented to the Royal Zoologieal Society of Ireland by Butler Boy, a dietinguiebed /Nth oeficer, Vila) 1101.d8 it high and responsible poeition itt El (Mica, and is the son of a Dub- lin gentleman, Mr, Jennes T. Butler, n ono year alone the yarn spun by the come -Wise mills in the Belfast district was estimated to measure about 044,000,000 miles. To grasp Whet this means is• to realize a, gi- gantic ball of yara which, unwound to its single thread, .would encircle' the world 25,009 threads. The coronation honors, so far as ereland is concerned, are not very much, but all the same they give just as much dissatIsfaetion as such a list always doee. The Nationalist party is, of course, very wrathy at Mr, Arthur Snail -Barry being rais- ed to the peerage. There was a disorder la Phoenix Park, Dublin, on a recent Sunday. A crowd of rowdies hissed mid hooted a military band which was playing selections of music, and the band was compelled to leave. Recently poisons of the same elnee hissed and hooted the National Authcen. • Some people attribute the presence of royal 'stergeon in the Shannon te the unusual coldness of the waters in the Northern Atlantic, caused by the abnormally large number of ice - floes. It is thought that, this May have driven these large sturgeon into the mouth of the Shannon. The Lord Chancellor of Troland, says a correspondent of the Law Times, is probably the most high - paid holder of judicial office in the Empire. his salary Is 118,000 per annum. The Lord Chancellor of England gets 1110,000, but of this sum 114,000 is paid to bim as Speak- er ol the House of Lords. The race of Sir Boyle Noche has evidently not died oat, yet in Ire- land. For example, we find it re- ported in a Dublin daily paper that when an Outgoing thairman of a Roscommon District Council was op- posed On nomination for re-election he exclaimed that "he was a Home Ruler when it was not 'patriotic to be one." Ho was re-elected. Mr. T. Peckehliam Law, IC. C., writing to the Pall Mall Gazette, says that his mother, who Was the first cousin eo the Duchess of Well- ington, had told him frequently that silo had always heard that the Duke Was born in the house No. 114 Grafton street, Dublin, and not in Mornington House, Upper Merrion street, Dublin, the family town resi- dence. Nothing of the sort, can equal in fantastic and sumptuous beauty the hanging garden at the Irnwth de- mesne. It is et pity that any one who can visit Ilowth should miss a sight that is unsurpassed on this side of the Indian Ocean. This is a high compliment for "an Ameri- can visitor," bet his opinion will be endorsed by many Americans and Onnadians who visit Rein this sea- son. In eve years the "Blue Ribbon" of the turf has been captured twice by Irishebred horses -by Galtne More in 1897, and Ard Patrick in 1902, Mr, John Gubbine being the fortunate breeder and owner of both. Mr. Oubbins is a County Limerick sportsman, who • inherited a large fortune from his uncle, Mr. Wyse, it wealthy distiller, Galtee More is ealled after it large mountain near Mr.' Gtibbins' residence, and Ard Patrick after a Limerick village. There has been a, lot of wrangliog over what is the national flag of Ireland. Tito • green flag, with the "harp without the crown," is' being denounced as a "rebel rag," and the extreme loyalists are elemorieg to have ie pulled down Wherever 11 is found flying. Sir Arthur Vicar, tho Ulster leing-al-Arms, however, who is the best authority on the sub- ject, says that the nationnl flag of Troland is a golden harp with silver strings, on a blue ground. The harp anti 'crown on 0 'green ground is the flag of the Province of LelliSter. • +.-- JOITLN BULL'S FARM. Britain may he viewed an one farm extending from county to county, interrupted by towns 11, is true, but surrounding them like 4i1,1 ocean sur- iounds an arrld of islands Orme Britain possesses a iaLal area of 82,437,889 acres of cultivated land, of eyhich 7,825,408 Acres are under wheat, the rest hell% in Per- nanOnt Pasture, temporary Pasture, mot, crops, fodder crops, end so on. It includes over 51,000 mires oi tope, 78,000 acres of fruit, end 808,- 000 acres of bare fallow. The Geld - till employed is enormous, mid may ie roughly estimated at $1,185,- 000,000, while the nenount paid in Wave is estimated at 8150,000,000 per immure There are at ieit 1- 000,000 men, women, and boys e111 - ()toyed in agricul ral pursul ts 10 Clreat leritnin who not (»fly cultivate the ground, but attend to 1,500,000 herseti, 0,805,000 cattle, 26,500,000 slime, and 2,1381,000 pie's, besides countless many. Such is John Bull's farm. ' LoNnows YEARLY POSTAGle. • A billion of letters and pottiecerds and 400,000,000 neweempere aro aninitiely bandied at ,the eleneecti • Post Office, London. A Oily firm has posted 132,000 letters at ono time, while as Many es 107,000 t oee cards have bece reeelved In a single batch. 1 The royal yacht was going front I Cannes to Nice with the Prime and three or four guests. Despite the commend that lemehoon would not ), lic served on the vessel, Veined hied Provided some young chickenand asparagus, of width the Prince was fond. The yttelit was MOOD becalmed, Vitiated was et work at tho time making a beefsteak pie for the cap- tain of the vessel. While the cook was at work the Prince walked emend to the galley. and asked V 11 lard what, ho wee pee - paring, Tho iuture Xing direcied that the meat Me be eerved for his guests, as it would be impoesible to reach Nice in thno for luncheon, There was not a little surprise wheu the meal 'was served to Mei that il, coneieted of towle, asparagus and other dishes. The Prinee ordered Mind to came tO the ditties room. When the elle( eppeared the Prince remerked •to his 51)10(0 feint he wanted theta to 800 o man "who eves.; tilwayeproPtered eor an emergeney. Tho Primo also 'Weeded Albert to send the tocipe for the meat Pie to a titled English Woman WhO woe at. the Labia. Some time after that, Ai- .Derece ved $25 front the Woiliant lefistress (to neWl)seingeged cook) -"And eow, what, shall we mil you?" Cooke -nine'', intim, me mane Is Bertha, but •ne freeeele eall 010