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1tAR1pNi$$ DUIIDETTE-eoUTTS,
I1011y badge, the lame of the Bar-
omens Burdett -Coutts, is built buugee
how fashion, consisting pf two Storeys
only. Its deep verandab, with eraaper
entwined tani'lis, is a oheracterhetio of
s the place, and the fifty-two wee of
perfaatlykept pram' and well -wooded
park gives it a 8e01u$ion which is suer
prising, considering flow, olose it id to
the great metropolis.
At the chief entrance there is a relic
of film, Coutts, it$ former owner;
whose fancy caused 0boSsesboo.to be
'Sailed on. the threshold; In the wide
entrance hall, now thronged with well-
dressed guests, hang rare old por-
traits, engraved and in mezzo -tint.
Many of these are interesting, lister-
felly, to the family.
Lady Coutts is well known for her
charming grace and courtesy of the
old sehool, and her home is the scene
of many interesting festivities and en-
tertainments. She is tall and slender,
and in the courteous greeting to indi-
viduals, in the few kind words or gra-
cious remarks accorded to each guest,
one recognizes at once that there is
a remarkable personality in this wo-
man, ,whose name is European for her
benevolence and far-seeing charity',
and that the intellect which has dis-
tributed the colossal wealth of which
she i5 possessed into such useful chan-
nels for so many years is of a very
high order, and ber powers of penetra-
tion remarkable.
lift. Burdett -Coutts, whose pleasant
manner and brilliant coadjutation in
his wife's philanthropic schemes, as
well as his talents as an earnest poli-
titian and a witty speaker in the
House,where he has successfully pilot-
ed useful bills, have earned bim uni-
versal respect.
Every another in Christendom will
think that of all the good works the
Baroness is engaged in, none bas been
better directed than her efforts on be-
half of the children.
It was mainly due to her unceasing
devotion that the bill was passed in
1809 which so materially improved the
condition of the little ones. That par-
ents who have clearly proved them-
selves by their cruelty to be unfit to
be the guardians of their offspring
should bave them removed from them,
but should be made. to contribute to
their support, seems at once a humane
and common-sense arrangement, and
leer efforts in the matter were crown-
ed by her work in establishing the Na-
tional Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children, the first meeting
taking place in her pretty drawing-
loom.
The name of this society reminds us
of another wbich the "Good 'Baroness"
was mainly instrumental in founding-
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Am -
Dr. Moffatt and Dr. Livingstone were
also materially assisted from the deep
purse of the Baroness, and nobly she
pleaded on behalf of her brave friend.
the martyr Gordon.
Ireland, that most "disthressful"
country, which is always in need of
funds, was, on one occasion, assisted
to the extent of £250,000, when her
practical scheme for i;he resuscitation
of the work in the fishingvillages was
begun. A fishing school, where 400
boys can be taught boat -building, net -
minding, and fish curing, was opened
m 1887.
Lang before slumming became the
fashion the Baroness had penetrated,
,accompanied by ber great friend,
Charles Dickens, to some of the vilest
dens of London. The effect on her of
witnessingthe sorrows and sufferings
of her fellow -creatines in the poverty-
stricken East End had immediate re-
sult. She bought up Neve Scotia
Gardens, the resort of murders and
thieves, a fever -trap for the disreputa-
ble and abandoned. Anyone may now
see the four blocks of model dwellings,
each containing .forty tenements, with
every accommodation of baths, laun-
dry, and reading -room, wl.:ich have re-
placed tbe former abominations.
Can we wonder that when the hon-
our of a peerage was conferred on lfiss
Coutts, kn 1871, the Queen's grateful
acknowledgement of this remarkable
woman's unique benevolence met with
universal approval?
esters finally agreed ea ac more zer pus than now, Ralph Bar
been caused by a severe 8pastte similar tie, a trusted friend, who had stud'L:
to that which had killed Mrs, Neville, medicine with his father in his stood
was to a0c0mpeny them and see Alio
and that the soratoh Upon bis hand, safe home again.
although it bad the appearance of be -i "They arrived in New Orleanssafely
lug au irritating one, was ineuffioient and there Robert met Alf Dutton, a
to cause death. And so, you see,yaung Englishman, who wee going to
Haat is tbe reason the superintendent's cava Ror India in about three .weeks
p to Prue as assistant surgeon in the
undeveloped murder theory was drop- I Brit' h l'h d f t
Fed.
d
e
15 army, ey 80on scams sa
Ifriends, and as Dutton gave him a a04 -
dial invitation to accompany him t
"Barton first gave voice to nay sus- arena Robert finally co oluded togo
picions.by saying that the band looked as by so doing he would have a friend
as if it had been poisoned, and that the andcempanion on his voyage.
dootors bad at first thought the same. I for theitr departure had aan vo he da
Barton, who bad at one time served in was a beautiful day, a day never to be
the army, doing duty in India, said forgotten by Robert. The hot rays of
that both the doctor and bis wife looked the sun would have made it very un
to hint as many of the victims of snake comfortable had kt not been fox' the
cool breeze stirring. About 10 O'olook
bites wbom he bad seen out tbere. So the
ollafarewells were said, as they all
he, Duroch and myself secretly set to upon the deck of the ship whioh
investigating. was soon to hoist anchor and bear away
work in es inquiry revealed many minor en its long course. The final embrace
q y was given and Robert's wife stepped
facts unknown to us, such as the door over the side as the last line was cast
being unfastened when the servants re- off, and the voyage was begun. As
turned and found Mrs. Neville dead, or long as he could see her she was stand-
ing mthe same spot, waving her hand -
dying. Another bit of evidence was kerchief as a last token of adieu,
the visit of a suspicious -looking foreign- The voyage was an unusually long
er, who had called to see the doctor the and tedious cue, and many severe storms
daybefore his death, but had not found were encountered in the vicinity of the
Cape of Good Hope. On two occasions
him at home. This same man, the it seemed as though' the ship was to
housekeeper remembered, bad passed go to the bottom, but they weathered
them in the street a few blocks from the storms, and Bombay wareached
in six months or a little more, -from the
the house as they returned from the time they left New Orleans.
thertre the night of Mrs. Neville's India was Robert's home for more
death. We found, further, that since than two Years, and he spent' his time
th
the doctor's death this same stranger ere wholly either bunting or loung-
e. About ten months after his ars
had been in a hospital sink with fever; rival he received a letter from his wife,
where, in his delirium, he talked of re- which she lead written a few months
after hi d t d it 't
yen a on 'Ralph' somebody, and on s spar urs, an om 1 he
g learned of his father's death. That was
'Alice'; but, having recovered before we the first letter he had ever received
had traced him there, be had been die- from his wife. It was also the last.,
charged, and so was lost to us for the Only one adventure that befellhim
there will I mention, and that is one
time being. he will never forget.
"Barton and Duroch, who have been 'He and Alf liven in the same bunga-
hunting this man ever since, have at low. One evening there in company
last found him and several officers had been sitting outside,
My friend lifted his head and listen- where they had been went ase
M fes. About 9 o'clock Al!lf went inside
ed for a moment. Then he said: to light a lamp so that they might
"That carriage which has stop- {illy ihiscsrpip.e,Ralsotentered,land going
ped, must contain Duroch and his plassto their sleepingroom, reached for hie
over."
• And so it 'proved. The door soon
opened and Barton and Duroch enter-
ed, and between them walked the pris-
oner, with manacles upon his wrists.
He was a tall man, six feet if • an inch,
with broad shoulders, which looked cur-
iously out of place on his wasted frame.
His limbs seemed too weak to carry him,
and he leaned heavily upon the arms of
his conductors. His clothing, once of
fine material, was worn. and shabby, and
hung loosely upon him. His face was
ono not soon forgotten it being dark
oat, m whi was his tobacco. He had
thrown his coat on'his bed in the early
part of the evening. He had taken hold
of the garment, when there was a hiss,
a swish of a body quickly cutting the
air, and by the pain in bis arm near
the shoulder he knew that he bad arous-
e sleeping serpent.
His cry of alarm quickly brought
Alf, who had by this time struck alight,
and by its rays be saw tbe serpent's
body rising front its rusty brown coil,
thus bringing into view its yellowish
white belly, above which, moving to
and fro, was the nasty head of a cobra,
with the sides and back of its neck, di-
lated, as customary when angr,
With ay of rage Robert snatched
and swarthy, as one accustomed to all its bead loath unerrkabl akin d fired
at
sorts of weather and to tropical suns. death of the snake did not lessen the
1 he cheeks were sunken and gave to peril of R b
the cheek bones a prominence they were
not wont to have; his eyes were dark,
and the heavy black eyebrows gave
them a severe appearance. From be-
neath his slouched hat could be seen
o ert, whose blood seemed
now to be on fire, while the veins inhis
forehead stood out like huge cords. The
noise made by firingthe pistol had
drawn a crowd of sodiers and natives
to the bungalow.
"Robert was almost crazed, and his
straggling dark locks of hair that Whole body seemed as though it was
being consumed by some internal fire.
matched his eyebrows. They forced him into a chair, while Alf
Upon entering the room he was seiz- dispatched one of the soldiers to the
ed with a violent fit of cougbing, storeroom for a flask of whiskey. Hav-
which left him weaker than before. As shoulder hee took a fscalpel, anclni bile
he dropped into a chair he asked for a the soldiers held the other in the ebair
little brandy, and my friend brought ccnd,a piece of flesh away at the wound,
a bottle and poured some for him. He immediately applying his lips to
drank this ana seemed to gain strength, the gash thus made, began to draw out
g as much of the poison as was possible
Then, in a low voice, he said: in this way. As the soldier was return -
"I know that you suspect me of lne; with the whiskey an old native
causing the death of Dr, Neville, and stn ed ]Sim and made him put a hand -
I also know that you have no proof fu";o of
cayennehe hi it.
whirls was handed him
that I did, and that you are working Robert took the flask and drank it all
this case bypothetically. But as I have
only a short time to live—consumption
has me in its cinches, and my late fever
has strengthened its hold -2 may as
well tell you my story, and thereby save
you a great deal of trouble. So if you
will pour me another glass of that
brandy I will begin."
This was the story that he told:
'The sun shone brightlyon that
beautiful May daytwenty-five years
ago when, in the little town of R--,
111 Illinois, the wedding bells rang as
Robert Hart and his fair young bride
went from the village church to their
future home. Sha was the belle of the
village, who, having just passed her
nineteenth birthday, bad linked her fu-
ture—for better or for worse—to that
of Robert Hart.
"Some of the village gossips shook
their heads and said: 'She would be
sorry that she had married him, for he
was not the one to settle down very
long and attend to home duties. When
he left school had he not thrown away
his father's offer to study medicine un-
der him and succeed to his practice
when he was no longer able to attend
to it himself? And did he not start
out for those wild lands in the west,
which were overrun with ruffians and
desperadoes, whose chief pleasures were
gambling and murder ? Ile had stay-
ed out there five years, and no know-
ing how many crimes might be laid
at his door, for be was always reckless
and daring. Probably the wealtb he
bad br ht home with him when he
came back a year ago, and which he
said was the price he had received for
his gold mines, might have belonged
to some wealthy speculator whom he
had murdered.'
But for all this talk of the gossips
Robert and his wife lived together two
happy, years, with no darkening cloud
on their horizon, when his health began
to fail. The hardships and exposures
to which he had been subjected while
in the gold fields and among the moun-
tains bad at last begun to tell on bim.
That winter he spent most of his
time in bed, with his patient and faith-
ful wife to nurse him, and it was try-
ing on her, who had been accustomed
only to pleasures and gay society, to
be obliged to stay close at home and
wait on a grumbling sick man, whom
none could please. And so he lingered
through the winter until warm wee-
ther came again, wben he was able to
Sit up once more and take short walks
by leaning an his wife's shoulder, and
ffinlly to walk short distances by him -
"The doctor was then told tbat if he
wished to pass through another winter
he 'bad better take an ocean voyage
and visit some tropical country for a
couple of years. So it was decided that
he should try the ocean and the tropics.
"The day soon came when, with his
luggage packed,, he bade his friends
good -by, His wife was only to mem-
down without stopping. He declared
it felt cooling, and he held to this after
he recovered although the soldier who
had brought` it, and who tasted it after
it had been dosed, affirmed that it was
fiery enough to set tbe bungalow on
fire. Alf anointed the wound with
olive oil and then bandaged it, Next,
picking two of the stoutest natives, he
bade them take bold of Robert and
make him run with them.
'Keep bin trotting too, you ras-
cals,' he said; 'for I will shoot the first
one of you that allows him to stop.'
for two hours' bad was allowerunning e
minutes' rest, and then kept going
for another hour, at the end of which
time he was almost exhausted. After
feeling bis pulse Alf had him put to
bed, where he soon fell asleep and did
not wake until the next afternoon. But
when he did get up he was as well as
ever—barring a sore arm,
'Robert's snake, and its mate, which
one of the soldiers bad killed that morn-
ing, were lying at the back of the bun-
galow ; and tbe first task was to extract
this venom from the sack at tbe base
of the fang wbere the fluid was secret-
ed and seal it in a small phial, to be
kept as a memento of his narrow escape
from deatb.
Shortly after this he left India, tak-
ing passage on a vessel returning to
England. Thence bpsailed to New
York, from which place tbe remainder
of the journey home was made over-
land.
And what a home -coming it wast
Home! He 110 1011ger hada home. His
father's old servants told him the sad
truth. His trusted friend, Ralph Ber-
tie, had destroyed his paradise. The
wife he had loved so well had proved
false. Naught bad he now but shat-
tered bopes. For clays he wandered
through the house like one in a dream,
going from room to room, and at times
mournfully calling 'Alice '1 but no Alice
came to answer him.
(To be continued.)
CECIL RHODES'S ROMANCE.
There is a story that when Cecil
Rhodes was in Landon, last year, be
fell in love with Georgina, Dowager -
Countess of Dudley, who, although she
bas been a grandmother for two years,
is still one of the most admired of Eng-
lish beauties. Since she declined his
offer of marriage, he has grown more
of a misogynist than ever, and has ar-
rogantly rejected the counsels of his
former advisers,
FORCE OF HABIT.
iii•r. Hakcede-By gosb, of I loafed
around like you do, it would nigh kill
me, 1 ain't happy lessen I got some
work to do.
Dismal Dawson—That ist goes ,to
sbow lvhat hold a bad bait will git on
a man in course of time.
FOR SOUND SLEEP.
E1es'ate the Feet alai nepeess the 11ea,1.
Says it German..
Prof. Fischer, a German, has demon-
strated by a series of painstaking and
careful experiments that we should
sleep with the feet slightly elevated,
or the bead a trifle lower than the
the feet, as be puts, it, and this con-
dition he advises bringing about by
placing pillows under the feet and
none under the head.
The advantages claimed by Prof.
Fischer resulting from this manner of
lying, are that the intellectual re-
pose is much mere profaned than ob-
tained by the present prevailing meth-
od; also that amelioration of the ner-
vous system is greater; that theef-
fect on the veins is better; and con-
sequently the condition of the blood is
improved, and wenkness of the lungs
is therefore largely overcome.
If in trying the effect of this position
for sleeping any unpleasant sensation
is experienced, the feet will be found
to Piave been too high, and therefore
they should be 1cowered little by little
by using pillows of less thiokness un-
til the proper height is reached, which
is readily determined by the more
comfortable feeling the sleeper ex-
periences.
Briefly, the professor urges that the
veins are better kept filled with blood,
the bloodflowing toward the brain is
conducive of a clearer and more rest-
ful mental condition upon awakening,
and the heart finding easier action to
not called upon for such bard work,
and therefore the tired feeling often
accompanying the first awakening is
done away with.
A GRECIAN ATHLETE'S GLORY.
Louis, the Greek peasant, wbo won
the foot race between Marathon and
Athens, has since been treated as a
sort of demi-god. His sayings are
reported in the papera, crowds 01 men
and women follow bim in the street,
and the King of Greece has invited both
Louis and his father to the palace,
Private individuals bave given him
large sums of m0n0y' wine dealers,
grocers and other tradesmen have of-
fered to supply all his requirements
foraear free of cost, and a barberhas offered to shave bim and cut his
hair for the period of his lifetime free
of cost,
PRACTICAL FARMING..
BEST CROP Poli SHEEP.
Tee sbepberd who attempts to carry
his Sleek over the summer without
having recourse to the rape 0r0p is
waking the worst mistake that Is pes-
sibhe in their management. An early
eown piece of rape will supply an
abundance of succulent food at a time
when the ewes and the lambs will most
appreofate it—during the hot days of
abort, burnt grass and annoying flips,
It is a real luxury for the flock at this
given to them such an appetizing Rod -
der as green rape, fresll)y cut. By
cutting tee crop with a scythe a short
distance from the ground, two or three
cuttings at least may be secured if the
ground between the rows of plants le
well cultivated after each nutting.
Rape drilled in a finely prepared piece
of grdund at this season, in rows
thirty inches apart, about two pounds
to the acre, will be ready for feeding
the latter part of July, and successive
outtisgs may bo made from it through-
out the season. This is the best way
to utilize the crap for rams or for ewes
and their lambs, For feeding fatten-
ing stock the best plan is to sow it
this month and have it to feed after
the lambs are weaned. It can be pas-
tured off by fattening stock during
the autumn months with best results.
The clover crop is one that the shep-
herd should grow extensively for his
s ee as well as for other stock, For
feeding value and also considering the
Preferences of the sheep none of the
clovers are superior to Alsike. Especial-
ly is this true when it is made into hay.
It is fine in stalk and the sheep eat
it ravenously when it is rightly cured.
But it does not yield heavily and the
aftermath does not amount to much
for pasturing the lambs after they
Have been weaned. All things consid-
ered, the common red clover, ifproper-
ly managed, meets the requirements of
the flock -master as well as any of
them. I£ it is cut early and cured so
as not to become hard and brittle it
makes an excellent fodder for feeding,
in the winter either for fattening ani-
mals or for breeding ewes. Well -cured
clover bay will enable the feeder to
make a profit from his feeding opera-
tions when be could not do so by using
straw and the common grains. There
is 130 food so cheap for fattening pur-
poses as fine and well -saved clover best-
ial
ayin addition to the need of baying clov-
er bay to feed, the aftermath or second
crop may be used to good advantage
for the lambs that areweaned. There
is nothing that will give as gond re-
sults or may be relied upon with as
great certainty for this purpose. Fresh
clover aftermath, though it must be
fed carefully, cannot be surpassed, even
by rape, for young lambs.
Oats and peas are two other crops
that sheep are especiallyfond of as a
part of their winter ration. The oats
cut early when the grain has just filled
nicely and before the straw has turned
in the least, make an excellent fodder.
The crop is cured as hay and harvested
loose and fed uncut. rt is a mistake
to cut it for a sheep as the fodder gath-
ers in the wool about the bead and
causes the sheep much annoyance and
very often some suffering, as the irri-
tation of the pieces produce sores on
the skin. The best way to have both
these crops for the winter feeding of
the flack is to sow them together. The
ground intended for this crop should
have been ploughed last fall, but if
that has not been done an early plough-
ing should be given it and then just
previous to seeding it should be disced
and the peas sown and covered with
the same. The peas need to be cover-
ed deeply. Then the oats are sown
just the same as if they were the only
crop that the ground had to carry, A
good proportion is two bushels of the
19205 to one of oats. There is, as a rule,
5 51st enough oats in such a proportion
o hold the peas up and prevent them
from lodging and mildewing. Sheep
are very fond. of pea, straw, and for
fattening sheep there is not two other
foods that will surpass peas and corn.
As a fodder pea straw ranks next to
the best clover hay.
Of the farm grains that seem to give
thee best satisfaction for sheep feeding
corn, oats and peas might be selected
as the tbree best. For breeding stock
there is no grain that is so satisfactory
as oats, while for fattening sheep the
corn and the peas are among the best.
For rams, ewe lambs and for the breed-
ing ewes, oats are a safe and whole-
some food to feed at any time, but
when fattening is the object there are
none of the farm grains that will sur-
pass corn, especially when tbe question
of profit is the important one. The
addition of peas to the grain mixture
makes the ration more appetizing and
the sheep or lambs make more rapid
and greater gains on it.
During the winter months the sheep
may be kept in much the best thrift
by having some succulent food. There
is no food that will surpass a good crop
of turnips for this where they may be
successfully grown. Where they can-
not be grcavn because of the inadapt-
ability of the climate, silage may be
made to, take the place of the roots.
The only objection to silage is due to
the corn that it usually contains. This
is likely to make the ewes too fat and
result in the birth of large, flabby
lambs. Mangels are an excellent food
for sheep, especially towards spring
after they leave been stored long
enough' to permit them to ripen or
sweeten. Many cases are reported of
deaths occurring from feeding them to
rams and it is a wise policy not to
feed these roots.
FEEDING vs. CHEMICAL VALUES.
"Every once in a while some one is
trying to convince feeders of the little
feeding value there is in skim milk,
comparing it to different food articles,
as roots, corn, etc., writes Theo. Lewis
in Hoard's Dairyman. With all due
respect to chemists, who have given us
considerable light on many subjects
and been a great help to the art of feed-
ing, it seems to mo that spine of them
forget that the pig gets out of skim
milk wbat chemistry cannot. If they
bad served a term of years as practical
pig feeders they would have found that
nature's food—milk, cannot be replaced
or duplicated for health, thrift or
growth, when used in combination
with other food material. Any ex-
perienced feeder will bear me out in
this. 1ts true value is owing to time
and condition and how fed, and age
of animals, and criuld not fairly be
computed with prices o£ pork. It is
well known that not any one kind of
food will give satisfactory results for
a full and healthy development, and
since it is true to all experience that
where milk enters in combination the
results are invariably better; its value
could Wardle' he determined by chemi-
ca1 los,
'1t is too woefully true that eompari-
son of values of pputter, cheese or oris
t
with the prodgets out of which they
are niallufaetured, and not knowing
how to 4o it intelligently, is the 0(15180
of many failures which undo men give
it up ire disgust and return to the roe"
tine of sellm grain and with it the
fertility of the soil 011 which it.grows.
1 Have never mat as yet a, dairyman
or hog -raiser, or a 0ombinateon of the
, ho hesa
to twostaywand,as arranenterged buildingsintothebusineaaldin'
all parte suited to this side busme$s,
but that were prosperous because they
have learned that not in singleness but
in 8000255, the combination of the whole le their
Therefore mane men could value
milk like friend Everett, et 89 cents
per13 100 men punaats10 and cents gat
per the100 valuepounoutds,
it, wile it woai1d be dear to some
IWe nave fifteen sows and over 100 pigs
in ten nares of clover and they could
pet, they woluld, eat one-half of it
in
Before Wag someone will
comtbatecl'aopB
dverte,ll ueand thathe t oll.itamfsicalnotvalueapav-
of
ing investment with pork at 98,90. He
will figure interest on investment
of fence and land, and will want to
know how nmol live weight weare
getting out of that clover, not think -
ng of the combination of ahings, In
spite of such nope -paying investments
and eiqh and low estimates of feed-
iag values, where the animals found
something that the chemist did not,
we have risen from nothing to prosper-
ity. It 'is not always a bat we feed,
but how we feed it, and the how must
receive as close attention and observa-
tion as oh'emistry, But then the
cow and the hog are partial to 501390
men. Some men seem endowed with
a faculty to make them do their best."
MERRY MOMENTS.
Miss Gushinton—"How did you feel
when you found that the ship would
surely go down in ten minutest" "Cap-
tain Salted—"I felt for a life -pre-
server."
"He is good-natured, is he?" "Good-
natured? Why, I have known that
man to wear a smiling face when he
was speaking of taking off a porous
plaster.'
Walter—"Poor Dibbles! They say he
got apair of beautiful black eyes late-
ly. .1 feel sorry for bim." Tom—"You
needn't. He got a very handsome girl
with them."
Olive—"I'd rather spend the winter
here tban the summer." Violet—"I
don't see howou can say such a
thing." Olive—"Why, then we could at
least have a snow man."
Aunt—"Why did you stare at that
gentleman so rudely, Ethel?" Little
Lthel—"Oil, he's a drefful man; he
never goes to church or nothing. I
beard father say he was an acrostic."
Lawyer—"Do you think that you are
capable of filling the position, young
man ?" Boy—"Capable i Why, my
last boss said I knew more than he did.
That is why I had to leave."
Applicant—"I understand, madame,
that you desire to employ the services
of a chaperone for your daughter."
Mrs. Croesus—"Yes; -I do. Can you
ride a bicycle?"
After they had departed she wept
bitterly. Suddenly she ceased. It had
occurred to her that perhaps her tears
might fall on her new silk shirt waist
and spot it irrevocably.
His merited punishment—"I cured
Giddington to talking to me about bis
smart little boy." Ho•iv did you do
it?" 1 told him all about tbe eleven.
summers' experience I have had with
hay fever."
Howland—"I understand Scorcher
and his wife have quarreled and separ-
ated,' Davis—"Yes; he precipitated
affairs by telling her she couldn't ride
a wheel halt as well as his mother
did."
"1 am very mueb afraid that Jimmy
is in mischief," said Mrs. Snaggs to
her husband. "I can't hear him," re-
plied Mr. Snaggs. 'That's why I think
a must be doing something lie ougbt
not."
"What do you think of the bicycle
craze?" Great thing! I never took
so much' good exercise before in all my
life." "Why I didn't know that you
were riding." "I am not, but I have
to cross the street once in a while.'
Millie—"It looks as though tbe bi-
cycle would drive the burse out of ex-
istence." Leavitt—"Not a bit of it.
The more bicycles there are the more
they will need horses." Millie—"What
for ?" Leavitt—"Ambulances."
"Sweet one, I love you," he whisper-
ed to his partner at the masquerade.
Ihould think you would," she re-
plied, seeing that I am your wife,"
Didn't I know 11, darling? What
other woman do you think 1 would
say that to?"
"Of course I'm a friend of the work-
ingman," said the aspiring politician.
"Then wb,,- don't you work occasion-
ally'?" asked one of his auditors. "Oh,
that's simple enough. I don't wish to
crowd same more deserving man out
of a job."
"You must take good care of your-
self," was the physician's weaning.
"Don't worry about anything, and dont
overexert -yourself." I suppose you
mean that I must take a vacation trip?"
No, what I mean is that you must
remain away from the summer resorts."
BREAD FROM WOOD.
In times of famine very good bread
has been balled from wood, bran and
husks of corn. The "wood bread" is
made by selecting the sawdust of the
least resinous wood—the beech, for ex-
ample—and Washing it walla water to
remove any soluble matter. It is
then dried in an oven and reduced to
fine powder. With the addition of a
little. flour, some yeast and water, it
farms a dough which, when baked, con-
stitutes a bread resembling in appear-
ance and taste our ordinary brown
bread.
TEXTS OF THE DAY.
Money Talks—. . . But money
swereth all things.—Ecol. x„ 19.
Ballon Sleeves—Woo to the woman
that sews pillows to all arm-holesl—
Ezek. xiii., 18.
We Aro the People.—No doubt you
are the people, and wisdom shall die
with you.—Job xii, 2.
You Make Me Tired—But now be
(Eliphaz) bath made me weary. -Job,
an
A LONG -NEEDED INVENTION.
A device for freeing a runawayhorse
from the vehicle lois just been patent-
ed. By moving a laver the shafts are
released from the vehicle, which can
be guided by the Same lever until it
Stops, .
E TGLIC1' DECORATION.
ORDERS OF 11{IVALRY AND WNA'T
TNEY STAND FOR.
A Nen' Order .+fust 11stabltshed b' sleeve
`tleterlae'['lle ;imitative (Helms or the
Gamer+inti 11ia Telstle-arise Jewels.
Queen Victoria has established a
now order 0f chivalry, nulled the Order
of 'Victoria, It is designed to enable
her to reward those who do her per -
weal service, and yet receive no pule.
lie rec0geition, Up to now she has bad
to ask the Ministry to re0ommendcer.•
tain equerries, grooms' in waiting et
al. to Parliament for knighthood. By
MUMS 0 the new 'Victorian order she
may hereafter confer the honor with.•
out consulting Parliament. The 'first
to wear the Victorian decoration are
the Prefect of the Department of the
Alps, the Mayor of Nice, and the offi-
cer of police who was charged with
the duty of safeguarding the Hotel de.
Cimiez during her recent stay in the
Riviera.
Four orders hayo been instituted by
her present Majesty. These aro the
Orders of the Star of India, the Indian.
Empire, the Victoria and Albert and
the Crown of India. The last
ytwo are:
do net.
conveconfiy any title d to ladifaknightnash000d, should.
be styled Orders of Merit. Most digni-
fied of all the orders is that of
THE GARTER,
instituted by Edward III, With this
goes an elaborate regalia, The full''
dress and insignia of the Garter include
a broad blue ribbon worn across tbe
breast, a garter of the same hue edged.
with gold worn round the left leg and
bearing the motto, " Honi soil qui mal
y pense," ir1 letters of gold, with a gold
buckle, For dress there is a blue vel-
vet mantle lined with white taffeta;
a hood of crimson velvet; a bat of black
velvet, lined with white taffeta and
adorned with: a plume of white ostrich
feathers surmounted by a tuft of black
heron's feathers, and secured to the hat
by a band of diamonds; a golden col-
lar 01 twenty-six ruses, surrounded by
a garter, and flanked on either side by
knots, all united by a fringe of chain
links; and the "George" a golden pen-
dant hanging from the collar and rep-
resenting the figure of St, George in
full armor and on horseback tilting at
the dragon with a long spear.
In addition to these there are the
jeweled star of eight 'points, containing
in the center a red St. George's trees
surrounded by a garter emblazoned
with the motto, which is worn on the
left breast; and the " lesser George"
a smaller edition of the first, which is
worn at the end of a blue ribbon pen-
dant from tbe shoulder.
Next in importance is the
ORDER OF THE THISTLE,
which was revived by James 17., re-
established by Anne, and placed in its
present high esteem by George IV.
].'ou may know the possessor of this by
a star made with a St. Andrew's cross
of silver, with silver rays, the center
being formed bye green and gold this
(le upon a field of goad, surrounded by
a circle of green, upon which is insorib-
ed in gold the motto, " Nemo me impute.
lacessit." In addition there are for
full dress a collar which consists of
thistles intertwined with sprigs of rue
wrought in gold, and a badge which is
a figure of St. Andrew grasping bis
cross. The badge is worn pendant from
a dark green ribbon over the left shoul-
der. The star is worn on the left breast
of the coat.
Ranking next in dignity comes the
wearer of the Order of St. Patrick, He
display's, on state occasions, a star, col-
lar and badge. The star is pointed,with
a center -piece in which a shamrock
rests on it red St. Patrick's cross, on a
silver field surrounded by a sky-blue
circle. On the circle is tile motto, "Buis
separabit?" The collar is of gold roses
enameled red and wbite, harps of gold,
and connecting knots of gold;. the cen-
tral harp � is crowned with an hnperial
crown oC gold. From this hangs tbe
badge, which is of gold, and bears in
an oval, the same device, motto and date,
enameled on silver, as the center of the
star.
Only a few may wear those knight-
ly emblems. The old limit of the Gar-
ter was the Xing, his eldest son, and
TWENTY-FIVE KNIGHTS.
Now the number of knights is increased
to fifty by the addition of members of
the royal family and foreign princes.
There are sixteen Knights of the This-
tle, all of Scotch nobility, besides the
sovereign, Prince of Wales, and four
other members of the royal family. The
Order of St. Patrick includes the sov-
ereign, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
(who is the Grand Master) twenty-one
ordinary knights of the Irish nobility
and five members of the royal faintly.
The Garter is never, and the other two
orders very seldom, conferred on any
but a duke, marquis or earl.
No doubt many have wondered as
much over the name al the Order of
the Bath as over the name of the Ord-
er of the Garter.l There was once an
old lady who insisted that they couldn't
be anything except rewards for merit -
the uKingg and iQueen. washing and the
Order of the Bath was a military ord-
er, created by Edward III. It has been
within the last 100 years enlarged and
is now divided into military and naval
grand crosses, bivit grand crosses, mil-
itary and naval knights, civil knights,
military and naval and civil compani-
Dns.
The insignia of Sha grand 0108515 aro
a collar o1 gold, a badge of gold en-
ameled pendant from the collar, anda
silver star with a center, which eon -
stets of three gold
IMPERIAL CROWNS
on a rod field, surroadnded by a circle
bearing the motto "Tria junta in uno."
Knights wear a badge pendant from a
red collar and ribbon and a Maltese
cross with a center as described above.
The insignia of the companions consist
of a badge pendant from a short rib-
bon. The badge for the military classes
is in all cases a Maltese Dross of gold,
with an enameled center like that of
the star; and for the civil classes the
devices and motto are enameled on an
oval of gold.
The Order of the Star of India was
instituted by Queen Victoria, and is re-
served for those who have distinguish-
ed themselves in connection with India,
The Queen. the Prince of Wales and the
Governor General of India aro ex -officio
Members„ There aro three divisions—
the Knights Grand Commanders, the
Knights commanders and the Compan-
ions„ In the list of the first aro many
of the leading princes of Indian The
insignia' are as splendid as a rajah,
could wish.
The Order of St. Michael and St.
George is reserved for persons wbo hove
distinguished themselves kn colontalar
foreign affairs,, It is in fact, the high-
est, and