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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-9-11, Page 7e tr. '+'1,1”:44444+44/441c.14+.1'.1.4014 i":,++'3"14+444*,14'1,4:01w1"+0101 The Power of Persuasion ,Cor Lady Caraven's Labor 0 • • • • 4+1,+"1"1`4`.10101014•1•4”1.4"I•14"1"101,1 ei*.1,,,+.1."14+++•,1**144,.1"I'')."144"1.4"‘" crainTat JI September bad almost passer% when the earl mentioned home, He a,elced ble wife if she could' tear herself from the diseipatione of Faris. Ile -Won- dered that she looke4 eo bright ;31 goieg away. He cliO not know what ehe was thinking, Here, in this 'brilliant, allow Pane, he had not shoWn any love for her; he had, in feat, hardly seen her -he bad treats ed her as a perfect stranger, But it might be different in his own heme -it Might be different at Ravens - mere, where he would be alone with her; he Might leato care foe her then. • "Yon look pleased at the idea '01 going," he said, briefly. "1 am plebeecl," ;she replied, "Are you not?" • I like Ravens/mare; but it is very dull. It is suitable for what people call lovers of nature -the ecenery around it is among' Ole ilneat In England; but I am always dull t berm " "We 'nest hope. it will be different now," she ,said, He thought ,1ie meant because of the increase in his prosperity?. She meant -because she Would be there, and would try to aenuee him. "I do not know," he said. "I fancy it will be pretty much the same.' She turned away, wounded by his col tiness. 'It was a chill even at the end of October When the Earl and CounteSS of Caraven. moiled Ravensmere, No preparations' had been made to re- ceive and welcome them. There was no gathering of tenantry, 'The earl's tenants simply detested the sound of .his name. They had been so heavily burdened, so taxed and tormented' by the earl's confidential agent, affie 131antyee, that they had no macerate left for his 'nester, They consideeed him an unjust landlord, and they did not scruple to say So, . There was ho glad shouts of Wet. coine for him; even the curly -headed children had heard so often of the earl's folly and neglect that they had no cheer for him when his carriage drove through the streets oe °Mut lea.ven. it was but a sorry 'welcome home, The earl felt humiliated, disgraeeO,, remembered to have heard his father speak of the rejoicielgs when he had brought his young wife hoine --how that- •fair bride, his mother, had listened with tears en her eyes to the cheersandcries of welcome -L. how she had clasped her husband's se braid, saYing: "We 'deal with them as we wish Heaven to deal with us." Now he had brought his wife home and not a cheer was rais- ed for him; there was not a' 'cry of welcoine, not cie smile. Strange voices geeethd blin, strange 'faces surrounded him. Ilis wife looked sad. and wistful. A brilliant lire was burning in all the rooms', while a chill, gray fog hung like a. pall without, but the bright fires and the bright light could not give warmth to their reception. They dined together almost in sit - elm. Lord Caravel." did not tell his • wife what a comfort he felt it to see the family plate once more in use. Hildredwas slightly overwhelmed by the magnificence of everything around. 'How little she dreamed that her fortune Preserved tbe grand old place from utter ruin - that but for her the massive Plate; the beau- tiful pictures, even the old walls themselves, would have passed from the Caravens, and the family. name 'would have been written in the dust! Perhaps some such though 'occurr- ed to him as he looked at the sweet -face' before him; perhaps that thought made him feel a little more kindly *ward Taildred. After all she had saved hire from ruin. He might think what he would of her -she was a money -lend-‘ er's daughter --She had been given to him with her money in exchange for his title and position -her father was cunning, shrewd, and mercenary, un- scrupulous and anthitiouS-yet she bad certainly saved him from the blackest euin that Could fell ole mor- tal man. It made him feel a little more kindly toward her, but he dicl not love her -nothing was further from his thoughts; still he remem- bered that but for her he would nev- er have seen Raveneniere That gave him the idea that she, too, Was. entitled to some consider- ation. Ile had told her father frankly enough that he shoUld never like her., and he knew that lie never should. But the arideey slio hnd brought him saved him from ruin. Ile ought to Study her comfort and be grateftll to her.. After dinner Wee CreCr; instead of lingering over Lis chiest, he joined her into the draw- ing-rooM, • ;Perhaps the . houe that f011owed Was the happiest Hildred had known since bar inarria.ge. At the Hotel Maurice, although he, had been Ca3s- ful to show her every kindn' ess he had not thought of her or studied her, .A laavensmere it was quite different. The servants, he hnew, would watch ithn closely, and woeld maim thele OW11 comments 0)3 1,18 be havior and, if they saw that he slighte'd Ms- wife, they would imi tate his example quiekly enough That he would not allow, She was only a money-londerat daughter e - Woman he could ewer like -a, but she had saved him from ruin; she should at least be respected. She. chose ber rooms in the west- , ern wing -rooms that opened on to a bread beautiful terrace -from the windows of which. one saw pleasan gilmetees of garden and' distant land ,scape. The holesekeeper. Meta Hamm i ton, showed her over the whole 'siilitsee.. Lady Caravel). prefeimed these. "Your ladyship has decided then on this suite?" eaid the housekeeper Lady Caraven did not even hem her; sip) was looking sadly round the rooms. Ilow many years would this be her home? How Many long weary hours of suspense and peen would she pass hersh e? Would e soma the of this gilded splendor? he S would be always alone-hei rooms .always silent foul desolate; no loving face Would brighten them, no glad voices cheer them. Alone all her lifel No wonder that she turned with 4 sigh from tho flower wreathed window. The housekeeper looked curiously at the young face with the sad sweet eyes. "You have decided, my lady, upon these rooms?" she repeated. "Yes," said the yeung countess; "I prefer them to any others. And I will remain here now while my boxes are unpacleed. I will not go d a ain " Mrs. Hampton thougbt her decision strange, indeedt It was the young wife's first evening in her husband's home, yet she preferred remaining alone in her , rooms while he was alone down stairs. "Shall I take that message to the earl?" she asked. Lady Caraven looked up in sore He looked at her gravely and al - MOS eeldly as, alter she had 1(18805she steed at his side. The 8115. San tenrs had come to her eyes; the eight el, the lonely Ulan had giVen it ;Agra pang to her, When he said to her, after a few 3.,ncnnonta, °And you haVe been very, sappy, have Yon net, ray dear?" for 010111081t or two she could not speak. All thet first everting he said very little to her, He eat with her and Letty, and seemed to listen while she telked to ter mother, but lie 813.15 1101511, anytting to her himself, and never uttered Frank s lianas le the twilight She 0.81(05 1,1111 if he Would not come out into the garden with her, but he shook his head. "Not to -night, my dear - not to he said, "Is he angry with me still?" Dor- ene meted her naother, stunt', • when elle went to bed, and she cried a lit- tle before she fell asleep. As the days went on, Mr. TeelaW- ney came by degreeto see111 to me, poet her to sit in the study with hint rigein-to look for her if she • Was long in coming -to fall once 311013.0 into tho old habit of taking , help from her in 1110 work. He wee kind and tender to her, too, but it was always in a grave way; they never jested together; be never for a long time asked her any questions abott Frank, nor ma.do any direct refet•ence to her marriage. Some- times -with a certain glednees, and yet not without a momentary na- tural pang -she noticed that he would turn from her to her Mother, and ask for little services from Let- ty that she had always dope for him of old. He was very gentle to his wife, and would sit sometimes holding her hand in his. He had answered a letter that Dorcas had written to him froee the Dower House after Franke" arrival there, asking for hie consent, to ber marriage in the autumn, so that she knew he was not ignorant of the time when she was to go away; but for several weeks alter her return home in never epoke to her about her leaving therm The period ef her stay was almost half past before one night, ae they sat alone, he said to her. abruptly - "We shall have been together, my dear, for one -and -twenty years." "Yes,- for twenty-one years," he repeated after a minute. "That is a long time, Dorcas - and we have been very happy with one another. No father and daughter in this world, I think, were ever happiey. You tuust remember me a little stall when you are' gone. Yes, Yes," - for she tried to interrupt him, -.. "I know you will, I kno0 you will, my dear. Only you are going to begin your real life now -and I am ending mine," She took his hand, and hid her face upon. it, and the tears cantle as, she tried to say something about the pain of this time Passing away; but the broken sentence reached no "Oh, no!" she replied. "Lor Ciaraven. wilt mit expeet" me." • And the housekeeper, who was a shrewd woman in her way, !though that it seemed a strange kind marriage Where husband "and Wife preferred solitude to each other'e so ciety. (To Be Contineed). Cofusion U Cr, • CHAPTER XXVIII. • The summer was beginning to pass into autumn. when Dorcas ended hee vieit to Mrs. Handourn t, and we back again to her father's house. Sh had given her promise by that Mtn to becoine Feank's wife in two more .months. "Yon must let me go with you," he said to her, when she was pre paring fors her Journey; but she shook her head. "Paine would not want you,. .you know," she told him a little sadly. "II a, does riot love' you -and he will Ateyer love you, I am afraid." So ehe went I,ibme alone. Whom she reached Shepton, it was I.,etty, and not her father, who came to meet her at the etatatu. "Yes -your papa is well -- he's pretty well, my dear - but he didn't seem to care to come out this afternoon," Letty ,said. "Ile doesn't go out much now. You see, 119 misses You --that's how it is. I get him to take a turn with Inc about the garden on most days; but what he likes best is to sit indoors with his books. You .mustn't mind if he doesn't say very much to you at first, my darling. Ile's got to be Very. quiet these last weeks." ' Dorcas found her father sitting at his desk when, Arerrying across the hall, she. opened the study door. At the sound of her step he turned his head quickly, but he did not rise; he merely held out hie hand. "Child,.,so you have come back?' lis sidd, "You know I would not keep you if I could," he said, after a • little 'While. "I may have seemed very selfish, but I wouldnot do that. YOu shall go to Your new home with your father's whole heart's bless- ing. Love your husband, my dear; make him happy; tell bim.I give you to him-! - my own tisasure! -- to be a light in his house,. as you have been in mine." He took her in his arras after that, and broke into one deep sob as lie clasped her to hint. A few minutes afterwards, as they were tilting hand in hand, he spoke to her a little about Frank, and for the first time asked her some onestions about her future home. The girl's heart was full, and for a while she • could hardly anewer him; but she t I was young, that coming life of hers O seemed to her in prospect very e bright, and she talked of it to her father presently, with a lia;ppy smile upon her lips., It was on a morning in October - that Dorcas was married, very quietly, withotit either bridesmaids or 'marriage breakfast. That was ter own Wish, • and the Harcourt's. did not oppose it. Miss Harcourt 'came. to ' the wedding,' and drove -back • when it was over to wood - back, When it .was over to 'Wood- lands; at the church door they all parted. , In almost complete silence Mr. Trelawney and Letty walked home across the fields; with something; at - most like a groan he re-entered the house, and, not speakieg to Letty, passed on into his stndy; but he left the door behind him open, and when he went into the room she followed him -timidly at first, till he turned round end held his hand out to her. They sat down side by side. Pre - antler' he laid Ids.head upon her breast, and, Lor .the first time dur- ing all the veers thee, they had been man and wife, he called to her for help. "Wo must bear this together -and I am very weak. You ere the strongest; Letty, you must hold me up." he said. THE END. .3...02112011.11010,11144.1.1.19 ainsreewesenearianar ' ‘erhemitaavesestame00, re Xidney' Disease and Stomach Troubios Mori Evidence of the Efficiency of Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills • 'Kidney disease and stomach and liver disorders are almost alwaye found together, and for this reaeon Dr, Chase's Kichtey-TAver Fills, me • acceent of their direct ahd continued action on these several orgaile, aro wonderfully effective in curing oath complieations, • Mr. James Keeley, caretaker of ihe Primary &Mom and Presbyterian elturch, Newnaarket, Ont., states 1- "I find tha,t Dr. Chase'e Kidney - Liter Pills ere the best medicine I aver eeecl, I was troubled for some time with kidney diethee, Paine in the back and eternach clisordeire. At thattee I suffer.* 'rerY veeerely from backache, but since using Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills I am all right again. lit iv my belief that they are the inost et:motive medicine a pererm can une for kidney disease and stomach trou bl es." ' Mrs. Ross, 100 Manitoba street, St, Mollie% oat, states ;-"I had a very weak bath, and at times suffer- ed very much from severe pities across the onntil of my back. Be- lieving those to be caueed by de- rangements of the kidneys, I begat the tee of Dr. Chase'e Kidney -Liver This treatment seemed to be exteetly What X requiredk for it vat not long before the pains entirely left me, and I was quite strong and well again. We have ale° used Dr. Chase's Syrup of ',insect' Red Tur- pentine for the ehildren when they had coughe and olds, end I never knew it to fail to relieve the trouble at once," There le no quicker or more cer- tain way of outing back pains and kidney disease than by the use of Dr, Chaos ICidney-Liver P1111. Scores of theellsentie have proved this, and many, have seat Us state. ments shnilar to the above. One pill it dose, 25ets, a box, at all dealers, or EdIntinecn, Bates ele Oo. Toronto, 06,0,9WQ2v4Mlfaira Po ON THE rom 4 WAgar0g5;009Q106,0 LiTTJDY CONDITIONS, What one can grow with profit another ca11 only grOW et it Mee, be- cause of the conditioes of the mer - Rot. The first cOtisideration of irn- nortance is, to grow ouch fruits and vegetables only as can be grown to neefection in your locality. That matter settled study your markets, and this le a study, ate the market- ing of fruits aud vegetabies during the put. 20 years has undergone radical cheese, The queetion arises, what, can 00 grown to the best ad- vaatage, or with the greatest pro- fits ? Tee firet coesideratlop • ls, what vegetables or fruits will be the moat productive in the soil and situatiou we have for them e• At the same time whicti will reach the greatest degree 01 perfection ? 11 is qualiey not quantity Lbet brings the highest price, consequently the most' remun- erative. It is an axiom 111 agrieul- tune that there are certain districts in all countriee, earl sonae penieu- lco., farms in oath, winch aro famous' fefr the production of a given even, as for instance, celery, which in some localities hue a richer, nutty flavor than in others; in such local- ities it should be made a specialty. In our locaLity the 3inua bean, while fairly good, does not compare in richness, with those grown on a heavy loam, or rich alluvial soil. And such is the case with all other fruits and vegetables, Consequently we should grow, for the markets we are to supply, such classes and V11.- rieties as will glee) the greatest sat- isfaction. • In regard to these favored localite ies their advantages arise not less from the nature and properties of the soil being favorable to the pro- duction of one particular vegetable or fruit, than te the infinitely great- er care and e.ttentiox which is paid to the growing of the crop. Many of our farmers say the extra quality of their productions ie largely clue to extra care given to their cultiva- tion. After ascertaining what you can produce, tee next step is to know what the market demands, then grow accordingly. In supplying re local market a much greater variety will be required than if growing for the 'markets in the. large cities, which are in a great measure sup- plied by those who grow largely of a single variety. This is much hot- ter for the gardener, as he can keep every rod of his soil constantly at work doing something, mill land suffers from idleness as much as in'dividuals. In all cases, the proper method to pursue is to keep the land con- stantly at work. It is no more ex- hausting to' the land to raise a crop of vegetables than a crop of weeds, and nature will not permit idleness in the soil ; if it is not employed with the useful it will bo with the useless. Whenever there is a vacant spot cover it, with spinaco if nothing else is wanted. As a fertilizer for some other crop it is valuable ; if it can be sold, and there is always a demand for it, it is doubly valu- able. FEEDING YOUNG TURKEYS. After the eggs are all hatched and the young 'lurks aro taken off and placed in their house and yard, give them their first meal which should be stale bread crumbs soaked in milk, and hard-boiled eggs. lIoil an egg five minutes and it will be tough and indigettible, but boil it half an hour and it will be easily crumbled. When four or five 'days old begin feeding curds, and give ctll the sour milk they Will drink. Chop onion tops and lettuce and give with the food until they, begin picking young and tender grass. Twice or three times a week give a little pepper in the food. Don't givu too much -their mouths are not lined with sheet iebn-but season na, 'if you expected to eat it emerself. By the third week, begin feeding cooked corn meal. Do not give a Tull meal at first, but add a little more each day, until at four or five weeks they are to be fed entirely on cooked corn meal, with all the sour milk they will drink. NOVOC feed any raw meal to your turkeys. It should always be cooked by baking until the turkeys- are 21. months old. Feeding meal too soon, feeding un- cooked meal and 'feeding grain be- fore they aye able to digest it will kill fully one-half of the brood. . When six or eight weeks old, feed Cl'aCked corn or wheat'screenings at night. From the time when you be- gin feeding until they are fully feathered and have thrown out the red on their heads, feed five or six Unice n day; then if insects eye plenty they wibl thrive on two meals a day, cooked corn meal and pota- toes in the morning and cracked corn or other graitt at night. The chief caese 51 mortality among yoling turkeys is theie exposure • to. wet before they are fully feathered. The ordinary turkey raiser trusts It good deal to the'instinct of the mother turkey, lend the mother tuts key,' if left to herself, squats down just Where eight overtakes her, gets up early in the morning end wan- rlerS around in the wet grass in seals% for food long before you think of getting oet of bed. A hen mOther will be very apt to bring her brood home at nightfall, but for the first few nights you will have to 'drive the turkey mother home. After being driven home 0 few tights she will prebably coree home without any urging, especially ie you give her a good meal 'ate', She goes into the pen.' Should a sudden shoWer come Up While the young telkeys are out foraging, drive them to their coops. If any get chilled and refuse to eat, take them to the Meuse, dry and Warni them thoroughly, retire to the Mother and give a good feed with pleety 01 red pepner 00 ginger mixed lra Wtere Inettet forage le abundant, turkeye w111 piele tho 51031101 1)511 of their living. for three or four menthe and in such loca,litiee i1 will de to turn them out after theY are three Monthe old without tiny brealtheet, but they 0110e15 eS- ways have e handful 'of grain at eight, eve31 if they coMe beetie wit11 full crops. oosT levamsa, At a milking trial held in cottage- tIon with one of the recent summer 55(1 ,olvdulicieeaci swhoosivas wt. gtl lawn stth ep 10zoow over 6 gallone of n111k 111 the clay, and her milk woe ea rich in quality 10311 11 produced over 4 -pounds of butter. At the mine show there wore on exhibition other eowe of the Same breed and prectically the same size and weight which peoduced only 2 to 3 gallons of milk and beesly pound of butter. It would be a 21103- 10.11e 10 suppose that the feeding of CUM of the last named would cost aS much as tile six-gallon cow, be- cause, as n rule, the better milker a cove is She more eood will ehe con- sume. It is only natural that to Cow yielding 6 gallons of milk should re- quire 313. moth more liberal food ra- tion than one producing less than half that enantity. The difierence in the cosi of feeding the cows question would not, however, be anything bike so marked as their roletive milk yields would suggest. In practice it is found that COWS PrOdUCillg only 1i gallons to 2 gal- lons -that is, 6 to 8 quarts -Per day cost as much to keep as those yielaing double that quantity. It, ie only when calculations of this kind are gone into that the difTer- ence between good and bad milkers Can be prorerly estimated. At least occasional tests shoe/ft be made of the milk which all the cows 111 a herd aro producing, and a similar test should be made of the food which they are consuming, and (1 it Is found, as it is to be feared will be only too frequently the case, that the animals are not giving a stilfi- cient return for the cost of the fooa which they are disposing Of, tbey shoald be got rid of at the first op- portunity, and their places filled by others capable of giving a better return for the food. WEEDY MILK. There are weedy pastures' in the land and there are pastures free from weeds. It is plain that the more milk froin clean pastures and uot from weed3r pastures we have in the creamery, the better the chance to geb a good flavor. Tho creamery manager, in order to manage, must know the farm conditioes of each and every patren, and, the weedy milk must be separated So as to run as little milk as possible into the cream. As it is not practicable to keep all the milk from clean pas- tures separate front that coming from weedy pastures at the weigh can -at least it may not be practic- able -the proper caper is to separate all tho cream. thick and rich, ren- ting the inhilmette of milk into the Crallll, then take same cans of railk from patrons with pastures free from weeds, patrons who are neat and tidy, who keep the milk pure and un- contaminated, and dump this milk straight into the cream vat in suffi- cient quantity to insure the right, percentage of fat in the crewel and cause it to ripen in tirae. This is a winning method -a winner because it is lanincied upon nature and common sense. GREAT AIRSHIP. Being Built by Prof, Bell, Inventor of the Telephone. Prof. Alexander Graham Bell, of telepbone ianle, is hard at work at Iladdeck, Cape Breton, on a flying machine. He has taken' great in- terest in this matter for some years, and was in hopes that the machine which Prof. Langley, of the Smith- sonian lestitution, at Washington, was said to be perfecting a few years ago would prove a success. This machine waS so far successful that Prof. Langley ,was able to make it fly to soine extent, but nothing has been heard about it for a long time and Prof. Bell has taken up the problemlie has been constructing a flying machine in Cape Breton nearly all the summer, and word now comes that it is nearing completion. While the utmost seerecy is main - tabled it is reported that the ma - 0111110 ie 20 feet long and is com- posed of 75 distinct parts, each Celled internally by canvas, or in the finer portions by 1111011 and silk, stretehed on piano wire, some • five miles of which were ueed in the con- struction of the machine, which is said to resemble a huge kite. Prof. Bele has a sunuter residehce at Haddock, overlooking a lake athlete is said to be 011e of the finest sheets of water in Eastern Canada. He has been experimenting there for several summers with kites, having use,d 150 in all, aad has tabulated the varying angles of elevation for the 'different shapes. 1.5 has been his aim to embody the data thus ob- tained in the flying rtmehine that he has been constructing this summer. How great a success his efforts will be.cannot be told until he makes' a test. _ ri To elms, to you thet On plias ehnsa's Ointment fa a certain and abeolute cure for each IleY and every forma of itablne, bleeding and protrullingellea tho manufnetrware hex° guaranteed it. Igoe toe- timeninls in the daily taws and eat your neigh - bore what they think 01 (3. you am use it end getyour naoney bank tenet cured. 1100a_box, at all eanlers or JEDIUS80ITMA1'116 & CO.,Toronto, DrVhaset's Ointment AN ARGUMENT IN 7A.V011. "What have you to say in favor of polygamy?" we argued. The man with sixteen 18-11CS chuck- led; "My Wi'Vee quarrel among thereeelves, and let ine alone," he said. Hotel Visitor --"Now, you are sure this bed is quite cleat?" Servant - "Yes; the the sheets were only %melt- ecl this morning. Just feel them, they ain't .clry SONE KITCHENER STORIES Tx= oamAT---"CM+171tAL IS A 111AV 0)3' Striking and Charatteristig Stor- /OS of the Here of the Bay. A win: SerresPoildent who knows the here of the hour well saye that he is sileat almost te delleess, ex- cept oq the subject of hie profees $1 on, Then be 18 alMOst tte voluble a$ a gold enthusinet on "fittnies" and "beakers," says the London Mali A.good instance of Kitehener's la- conic style of speech was that given to his often, who, after struggling vainty to get an artillery train titre -lisle roads that were almost rivers of mud, came to Kitchener, "lt is no use, General," in3 said, "we are so deep in mud that we cannot 12)00 our heavy gulls another mile, and the Boore will get them for certain." . Kitchener looked at this worn-out and discouraged officer a snoinerat,. then quietly said, "Go on with your walk, but don't forget that the mud ife not only dogging our wheels, it is clogging the Boer wheels as tvell." HIS SARCASM. Nitebener's scathing sarcasm is well illustrated by the reply he is Said to have sent to the leader of a not over-eucceseful column. This officer had several elight eagage- ments wit!u the enemy, mainly con- sisting of flinging a few shells at them at long range. After each en- gagement he wired to the Command- er -in -Chief, substantially : "During action several Boers Seen to drop from their saddles." The thing was becoming tiresome, for Lord Kitchener's rule was that only those actually "gathered" should be counted. He'soon thought of a remedy, and sent back to the officer this polite telegram : "I hope when they fell they did not hurt themselves." This reminde one of the answer Kitchener sent to a certain noble - elan whose son was serving in the Yeomanry. Kitchener's detestation of the "playtime" sort of warfare indulged in by cort,iia officers is well knoven. One cannot imagine Lord Kitchener as regarding anything more important than war. Therelore, when the noblemanin question, with a large idea of his own importance, sent this wire : "Please allow son return at once ; urgent family reasons,," Kitchener answered it laconically : "Son cane not return et' all; urgent military reasons." • THE YEOMANRY have done such splendid service in South Africa that this one little story at their expense cannot be taken amiss. A party of Colonials and Yeomanry was told off to cap- ture a small laager. A friendly Boer volunteered to . show the way, and. left them when within sight of the fires of the Boer Mager to make the attack as soon as dawn appear- ed. Dawn came, only to find • our men themselves surrounded by the Boers. There was one gap in the cordon, and for this gap the Yeo- manry made, their officer at their head, leaving their Colonial com- rades with the gees to tackle the Boers as best they could. In due course the Yeomanry came to Gen- eral Clement's camp, and he wired to Lord Kitchener. "Competes, Of Yeo- manry turned up. What shall I do. with them 2" The reply was almost inunediate : "Keep them as 'far from me as they kept from the Boers." An anecdote illustrative of the difference between Lord Kitcbener as a chief and Lorre Roberts is worth recalling. Before Lord Roberts left Cape Town he celled into his °thee a certain colonel, and charged hire with a particular mission. "How," said the chief, "how soon can you put this through ? I know you will do the best you can." "Well," replied the colonel, "I'll try to do it in a fortnight." "Well," Lord Roberts repeated, "I know you will do the best, you can," and with a pleasant smile he dismissed the officer. • Outside the door he met Lord Eitchener. "Well," asked Lord Kitchener, with business -like abruptness, "what are you doing ?" "Oh," said the colonel, "Lord Rob- erts wants me to do so and so," "When are yott going to get it through. e" "Well," said the colonel, "I pro- mised to try to cue it in a fort- night." "Now, colonel, was Lord Elicit- ener's retort, "if you cannot do it within a, week we shall hare to see about senelleg you home." AND ET WAS 3)01.M. Girouard, the Cana- dian engineer officer and Director of Military Railways during the war is probably the only man who has ever "answered back" to Lord Kitchener. It was years ago, when the railway was being pushed into the desert. Girouard, independent colonial, was superintending a piece of construc- tion when Lord Kitchener appeared on the melee. The Work did not please him, and 13e spoke his 11111131 'freely as is hid .dtistorn. Girouttrd is reported to have listeeed silently Un- til the torrentof worele WaS spent. TI3011 he stepped up to hie chief and said: "Look here, Mr, Kitchener, are you bossing this railway or am 2?" What Kitchener said to tbis has not been reported ; but it is it fact that Gircmard's "cheek" did 1101 prevent Lord Kitchener from select- ing him to be chief of the railways in South Africa. And what one thinks of his railway werk ,duriiig (110 War he eannot help commending his selection. Do not enter matrimony without sefficient patrimony. "Why, papa," she argued, "you know Arbuthnot never drinks. play earde, smokes, bete on horses, or swears." "Yes, 1 Ichow," the rugged unromantic, old Man anseeered, "hut I doh't want a chap for a 13031-111.-Ia80 who maw:1y' doesn't do thinges" NEWEST 'WAR ICITRIAL WEB WORLD'S Pit,1441g5T Winv. r0VVID'4Xi, VACIOSIgS, gelMet of Chromium Steel,,-- Now019rofactro,'Xorpecio B It is intereetieg to note that pow.' der rattneiacterect for gene reinumed an areicle 01 teeport np trk the mid» dlo of the nineteenth century, and after et brief One, during 'wheel ov- ery aittioa made its crem yowler, is agitin 811 artiele of ,export, and is likely to remain So for Some tinle to come. The original invention for black gurpoweler lees eleelle to do- Vg.te,10QaPt.' isno2prijoitrifXt.,e41,01 0olta ptlaigicee, a1rd consequently there wa8 no rivalry in this respeet between nations. Ilut,1 ,cs time went on and improvements began, each nation felt the necessity of having ite own powder Aatteries,, at least for military purpoees, leader , State control, all foreignere being carefully excluded from working fU them. Other considerations lea to the same result, euclt as the dangea , 01 transportation (eithough Viet hasi been practically overeeMe by (meal easy -running railways of to -day). Again, the various nations, in time , of peace, used so little that a few , factories could produce all that was • needed, and no extensive plants were required. Fleetly, the greatest rem - son was that the process of mane - facture was so simple, and the ne. ceseary ingredients so aburalant arida easily obtained, that no nation had any difficulty in establishing its own. factories. This is the most imports ant point of difference between the olcl powder and the new, bettveen TEE PAST AND THE PRESENT% The invention of cotton powder, oh gun-eotton, in Austria, of compress. ed black powder in the United Statell and Germany, and of Nobel's ex, plosive gelatine in England, changed all this, and powders and explosivee became once again articles of produc- tion o11 a large scale. The manu- facture of these articles of com- merce was abandoned by all those States in which the necessary in- gredients and chemidal reagents were not commercially manufactured, such as sulphuric and nitric acids alco- hol, ether, phenol and other similar tar products. Modern powders re- quire long and complex chemical processes, not only for their manu- facture, but also for obtaining the original ingredients, hence, the plants for the factories are very ex- tensive, and nations which did not possess, as cuticles of commerce, the ingredients and reagents in sufficient quantity, could not compote with thousztho do t didsi. Bre ol eamh nation to possess its own, powder, and the best, was still strong, and almost every nation invented a, special powe der and kept the process of manufao- ture secret. The next diecovelle however, was that the arm for the old -powder would not do for the new, and that the ann, the powder charge and the projectile were not three independent things, t had to 04 co-ordinated /or harmshious ac- tion. Then began the etruggle, last- ing for thirty years, between gun and powder, every new powder caus- ing a change in the gun, and every Thetgunest osuf gaglelsttihige vaarnicowus .mP:tewrdlealr. however, principally in colonial wars has gradually led to some uniform- ity of opinion as regards powder, arid to -day, all the military powders used aro comprised under two classes: gun cotton nowder and NITRO-GLYCERINE POWDERS. France was the first to use gun cotton in a, military gunpowder, but Germany was the first to develop, , this manufacture. In England there are many private factories of gun- cotton powders, but they are largely workeds according to German pro- cesses. Russia has lately added its quota, to the world's inventive work by the invention of pyrocollodion, considered by some experts the best of guncotton powders. Germany stands pre-Ominent as a powder making nation; nearly all the nations which do not poseese tiaeir own national powder factories uee its powder -the Argentine Re- public, Brazil, Chili, the United States of Colombia, Spain, Holland, gexY,lecibesieSdersDma viaehU;k,ap 11"efacd, Pr- Tjrou- guatugal, Roumania and Sweden, which use German powder in part. The great German powder works Imo the national works at Spandau, those at Cologne-Rotheeell, • and those at Troisdorf, In order that the field artillery may 'do its full duty on the battle- field it is generally achnitted that the eaenoneers should if practicable, be protected against infantry and shrapnel fire, The eannonems are partially rrotected by the shield used on the modern rapid -lire field pieces. In order to more fully pro- tect them, Prance is experimenting with chromium steel helmets for the earinoneers who carry the ammuni- tion between limbers or caissons and pieces, since they aro entirely ex- posed during their passage FROM ONE TO TOE Germahy is engaged in experinfellts to determine the best color of tor- pedo boats to lessen their visibility by day. Deep black has been in general use 100 the past twenty years, 0111 noW these smaller vese sole are to receive a gray -brown color. Of course, there is Do eingle color that is beet for all geographi- cal regions, but this ha.e been lotted the Most effective tor the perpese 10 the North Sea, and generally ih northern waters. The Ceerman bet- tleships aro painted gray -blue, as being the least visible by day, since, with that color, they do not staled out in n marked way against the water, the sky, the toast or Cie powder smoke. The Britieh gave their entliest torpedo boat destroy- ers a grey color, and the Freedh tried that color on their warshipl yeaes ago. Both nations, ltowevdr, gave it up, because in some waters and under certain conditions of light the gray-broten Was more rapidly- vieible than black. Nevertheleaa, Domain/ has now decided on after exhaustive experiments,