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with Christmas. allow of 1/110$° WI' 1.1111VW.S. 11'11/1701`04 gift they /11014 1 desire ;
al and well.known all over the Cnrattinso
world, Others are peculias to eurtain
countries and »ationali ties, while in many
lands- Ifingland especially -every country
and alrnest, every town, village or hamlet
has 11.04 owe peoa liar Christmas 11011441013 11,111011
"IIRLD LT RUSSIA'S DOOM.
Axitolt1 on the Present.
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(-4 h rim 11130 Par 01' 1'11 V1011113* Day l'ar '181 14 1"131'41"" 011011'1.l' "n "'"`" ; I have S01110 plltwrii 10 100k ovor before - of interest to See what the condition of
Let me wish 1/ 11"i011 outy (theek 1411,1 fie died of idtusi ponmn i LI*" „
1r ini111,, W11 h forts of was ;811111to a lawyer to -nee -row 1" the land is, hmerally, it may be said, Si-
" No, Sey ! yoti've gone and got anotner
to, will make my what eoise true.
i Istria by the nature's hand has been t tido
One of the oldest. and foe uentin•ies one of 01114,,‘ inn "011,1 1 ' ,„ • 0ff 001 leSti than other coma ries. it pro.
the most, popular of all Christouts usages la A t lotion ? When did I ever have ono'. I Mahellinlectall Funeral in. Livorp001, !
; duces ithieem, every kind sf European grail)
1)11.4810gli,g „7 chrintinas (4,,,,b, by par 14,, of " V 011 got one two or three years ago 11? r 1 ' . .
' Y f, ' i- and fruits, 110411 grapes, awl hum en almost.
1 hu,roi c, and how .11(1 you come out Wit/ it !
are tinknown nisd unpracticed elswhoro. children or of young men and women who t lie remains of sergeant ilukari, 01 the 00/ff 'arlea Of all inetaL,, irsn, gold, silver eopper,
Those old Christmas belbsfs and obeervatates go about from house to house for that pus- ;Sir. Bowser, you clo the most foolish thirs
p 1 01101, CottstabtllarY) Wilo died at the Itoyal lead, vine, Me., coal graphite, porphyry and
seem to have had an especial (Marin for my peee, Tim frilli„v1„g 1, pr01,111y 111, 01,/,,1, Of 1111,), 111110 I,. ever heard of in all my life ,
tiquaries and wanders in all ages, 0.11s1 011011y of those (walla hymmi that has been pre- _ 111111.11111rY, LivorPool. under is,grottable ,dr- 1r t•eaimis 81 ent•s, and il, is, Or 11/18 been, tlia
" I do, oh ! in it. 7001)511 far ale to want tf° tonnstances, wore inlet -10d 00 Monaftv in the ,
of the inost noted writers of 0,11 Christian eerimil, and datee 'stoic to " eatly Englitsh " 'voitl blood poisoning by shaving Hired , ; isrouro,,,,iis. AH ii,,, dweasoil was a :ital... tome nf ttll Muds ef mammalian 3111111020/
'rlit• rivers and lakes are crowded with ad
countries have sought. material in the 1,ast twos; to say nothing of the cnormons saving of mods4, i, „as ,10o1,1,„1 liy the members of
1110110y ? Y115, 1 did get 1111 out fit in Deteoit, 0,,, i is,,,.. ool chi, .0 r li , j 1 • knob; of fish. and the Asetie Sue abounds
reaps of folklore which they comprise.
Even Luther has not disdained to note the
superstitions and (nylon -Lions of the winnows
pooplo in connection with the day of ous
Lord's nativity, foe in " Colloquia " he
toll us the!, ou Christmas Day, at an hour
whieh he does not give but which he says is
called the " swinish Minis" it is customary
for a young woman desiring to know what
mannee of man she is to marry to go to a
pig 0011, L110 pop111101. 1/01107 being 111Itt if a,
largo hog grunts at her appromat hes future
husband svill be an old man, but if ts
smell hog grunts she Neill wed yottth.
While travelling at Christtnas time in the
old English county or Devon a few yeaes Changed 13) 3 C11 31%11 Hymn.
ago, I found it peculiarly all awl 1 in these There aro inttny son,gs which W0100 00111.
0C1(1 Cheistmas soperstitions and customs, posed in the time of Charles II., svhose
music) is vogue today, whose words UW0
of the most infamously indecent description
originally. Henry l'urcell, to the shame of
that epoch be it said, bronght forth many
of those. lint sinee even filtakspeare
times descended to tho level of his ago we
need not too bitterly blame the musical
genius (the greatest that England over.pro-
duced) for tsying to earn 311 enamored
shilling by turning out studs wicked musical
compositions. Some of the early English
ballads tell of times of persecution, of Ingo -
try, and of intolerasme. Naturally these
1110014111 works have undergone transforma-
tion in modern times ; but one, " The
j cw's Daughter," bas remained Intact, and
tells of the mussler of Hugh of Lincoln,
which took place A. D. 1215, and was
charged upon the Jews of Isineoln, of whom
over 200 were brought to London end tried,
with torture, for a mythical crucifixion of
the unfortunate lad.
The tale of ancientjealousy hos come down
te our times in the song, " 0, Waly, Waly
Up the 13ault,"schielt refers to the separation
of Lord Jamie Douglas from his wife. Tho
original tole rea,cls much like the •plot of
'Y 0 a staybel crysto Wil8 borne,
Al ye elite! bends; t It usre knees
on ve nrOsH 1110 lymbs were term)
Thal heaven may be remelted with ease
Monte and syng and Mole yo
Cryste 0114 Lurde, ys borne, ys borne.
Peace good will to el on eyrthe,
Wyse from every eye ve tem.
Bye that wendres roptle hyrthe
anky tele are freed from every fear,
Shouts and syng and Mgt ye morint
Cryste, our lord°, 3's borne, p; borne.
METANOB,PD.OSES 02 OLD SONGS
ItnOrgni 10 and iiingeitly Pence Tim
beery family I visited provided, if able to
afford them ti, " cheese," tool a " Yule
cake " for elte Christmas season, and it is
eonsidered very unlucky to out 1,110111 before
Christmas Day.
The same superstition prevails with re-
gard to the " Yule candle "--11 very tall
one specially provided -and the Yule dog"
or log -a lat:ge stick for the Christtnas fire.
Misfortune is regarded as certain to folksy
if either candle or log is lighted until just
as the family are sitting down to septic!! en
Christmas Eve, and i Cis also considered a
sure precursor of evil for ally one to stir the
-; log or snuff the candle during the peogress
of the meal.
On Christmas mornieg no member of the
family must. stir out of the house until its
threshold has been crossed by the footsteps
of some male; outsider. If a woman or girl
is the first to enter on Christmas morning
ill leek. is sure to follew. Another Devon-
shire superstition is that if the sun shines
brightly at nonti on Christmas Day there
will be a plentiffil crop of apples in the gnu.
miffing summer.
Front timo initnemosial it has been regard-
ed as a PoonliarlY ins'ornbl° Om" far Slitikspeare's " Othello," for there was am
Sago in the shape of a certain Lowrie of
'Blackwood, Secretary to Douglas, and in
default of the fatal handlteechief which plays
so important a part in the Shaltspeareen
tragedy this melted man placed a pair of
boots in such wise that the jealousy of the
Marquis was aroused, and apothetiesepara-
tion followed, of which few who sin the
song know anything.
Some of the odd transformation of songs
are due to what nnist originally have been
sninething very like theft. Thes "VVillie,
We Have Missed Yon" is only 41 paraphrase
of the fames Scotch song, "jock o' Hazel -
dean." The yet more celebrated "John An.
(lesson My Jo" is suspiciously " Wlion
Johnnie Comes Marching Home Again," a
popular song of Will! times. But sometimes
these resemblances to the Scotch music
come about cosy innooently. Thus a stratla
spy changed into " Oft in the Stilly Night,"
and this is by no manse- distant; relative to
"Nearer My Cod, to Thee, thus making a
favorite l'synin Pun first cousin 10 0/11 un-
godly and vory energetic damns. Such
changes might oeous through the uueon-
soious retention of a tune m the mind, as
once happened to Mendolssohn while &im-
posing Elijah" ; he had Marti " Auld
Robin Gray" sting to Leaves' tante (this pop.
ular melody is not the original tune which
went with the words) and the melody clung
to his ;memory without his being aware of
the leak When theceforo, he set the words
of " 0, Rest in the Lord," to the extreme
horror of the publisher, ' he used Leaves'
tune without the least being conscious of
plagiarism. When his sttention WU drawn
to the fact he altered the melody, but the
careful observer will still discover some-
thing of the flavor of " Auld Robin Gray" ill
" 0, Rest in the Lord."
Many of the songs of the Gertnan students
have been stolen and reproduced in new
guises on this side of the Atlantic. " ;Mary.
land, 1117 Maryland," for example, is note
for note the old German song 0 Tenn°.
baton," song in praise of fidelity. The
simple little song so often heard in kinder-
garten or Sunday -school as "0, Oome, Come
Away," is ono of the most popular of the
student sotigs, but in Germany it represents
the merits of a, very fiery punch called
" Ctambembull." Our national music is full
of metamorphoses akin to those mentioned
above, " Yankee Doodle " being old Bug-
gl ish, " The Star•Spengled Banner "kb jovial
drinking song, awl "America," the English
national anthem, Even the hymnology is
not exempt from those importune resent -
blames, for " Son of 11,1y Soul " is not very
fee feotn Mozart's " Se VtioP Bellew," and
many other instances of metamorphoses
might be tilted, but enough has boon noted
to prove that Solomon's saying, " There is
no now• thing under the sun," may be very
strongly applied to muste.
Christmas to fall upon Sunday, wntle 11-. is
thought an equally unfavorable one for it
to own- on Saturday. A quaint. old poem
of the SI iffille Ages, almost ineomprehensible
at the present day by reason of Rs obsolete
mediae -al svords and spoiling alludes to this
simerstit ion :
Ler (tinges I warms you al beforne,
Yef that day that Crysto was borne,
Valle mien a Sunday;
Thal wyn ter shall he g,00d par fay,
itut crate wyndes alone shal be,
The smiler shalbe fayro and dry,
What ehylde thin day borne be,
.k grete lord /to:Melba
Yet Crystemitsse on yo satertlay fano.
'Mow wynter 5-0; to be dreddon ale,
Hit sholhe sno fano of grcte Lonnesto
Thitt, Iwt ste bothe man and baste,
And elly1/111111 that bo borne that, de,V,
Wythin holfe a sere the3' sbal dye nor Poi.
Two old Christmas, customs WO aro still
observed to a considerable extent in certain
parts of England are those of the " Yule
Dow " or in mod srn parlance " Dough " end
the " Christmas Pound." The former is
small cake baked in the form of a little
baby and intended te represent 111e infant
Jesus. It WW1 customary, a century ago
for English bakers to presen'; one of thes
" Yule Dows " to every custotner, but this
gift is now maslo only to children. The
" Christmas Pound " mimesis of a pound 04
half pound of raisins or currants which
grocers present to their regular patrons 701.
11 011418t11130 pudding. The latter oustom is
now psinoipally confined to Ripon in York.
hire.
hough the term " Christmas box'' is 'tot
applied in America as it is in England to the
gratuities which are expected and oven de -
mended at the Christmas 80105011 by the letter
carrier, tho milkman, the butches boy, the
district messenger and other equally useful
and indispensable members of soaiety, yet
the custom of giviug them has come to b
nearly as general In the one country as in
the other. With us these donations are
usually expected before Christmas or on the
morning of that day at tho latest, hub in
England they are ma levied until the fol.
lowing day, IDeeember the 20. non all
111110 expect them go about: and collect them
in person, end from this collecting f
" Chriatinas boxes " the day after Christmas
is known as "Boxing Day " and its night as
" Boxing Night."
The origin -of the term ?Christmas box "
as applied to donations of Christmas spend -
Mg money is uncertain, though au tiquarians
generally seem to think that it W11,8 derived
from the custom of placing nioney for masses
to be said or sung on Christmas Day -there.
fore " Christ masses "-in a box, which from
this use was 03110d a Ohrist-mass box, a
term gradually corrupted to Christmas box
and finally applied to all money given as a
Christmas geatnity.
Boxiug Day -especially its night -is one
of the greatest of ell holiday occasions in
England, evert surpassing Ohristnuts Day
itself in festivity among tho working classes,
whose pockets, thanks to their Christmas
boxes, are then sapplied with the means of
enjoyment. Tho London theaters, svhich,
strange as sttoh a thing would seem to ns,
aro (dosed on Christmas, reopen and ere
crowded fsom floor a coiling on Boxing
Night, on which caleasion the goat spode.
matte pantomime, with which every London
manager vegales his patrons at the Christ.
Inas season, is produced for Om first time.
Why pantomime should so long wahine
the universal English theatrical attraction
during the Ohristmas holidays i 1 impos-
sible to say. Oolly Cibber tolls us that the
English pantomime was itts outgrowth from
the ballet d' tuttion. 13e that as it may, it
was Oibber's rival in tho tarical manage -
meals a tnan named Riots W110 fiest present-
ed pantomime in in present form to an Eng,
lish audience. Hu WWI that managing a
company in Lincoln's Inn Melds, London,
and finding ib imposeible to compote stab
Cibber'e product iota of the lo iti mete drama
Oontrasts.
When outward aspects aro gladdest,
When days are fats and-brIghr,
Hoarts may be 01011(1044ml saddest -
Wkant In a starless night.
When o'or the sweet, fields is springing
Fresh Macias &waving green,
Over some Wants, brown and searing,
Stubblos of ettro are soon.
Fountains wh3Fte watery feather
Spouted in glistening Rimy
Streams that seeni'd molten together
Now flow ported away.
Clo to the woods 1 there in contrast
Young leaves fondle and kiss
Deed ones unstrIpt by the wild blasth,
Grief seems sister to Idiss 1
But above miseey's sliadowe
Beaman lione's golden son -
joy ever follows when sorrow's
Gloomy cavoor 100 rum
letigews E. tan it.
ObserVatiOnS.
with whale and seal.
but I had 14 1/011 011 my anti and coalsin funeral eonducted after the Moslem manner, T
; kilometres, but the northern aunt greater
he area of Siberie is alma ltf,1010,000
health, the razor. That 11010 (heap outfits and. aucordingly the 00/1111 W1L1 brought from!
this inilinsarY 11;11 oPen hearse, followed by • iort of it is alineet. ws.ae 0111 1.
just its an ex vestment."
" And you cut you rself and pranced around a nambm, ol sergeants, 1,, the door of the tt few thousands of Sustiojeties and Es.; M.
and- w11""11"'l "ail II"' "01g111knn 111"0g11 1 Mosque, where it stood weile servieo was I ma„,"
we had a fire. liow much did this outfit i1111141, 111111 100 10/1704 the earth in the
oost ?" 8011"14811 Withi". Ai' /i" ni"Pla thenorvioo !north almost all the year vaunt, only melt-
" Only SI O." seas very simple. The muezzin having iegie Iwo or the months in the summer, when
°headed the (Vitilt or call to prayee from ths the sun never 1101.11/ T11111 e01111117 70 then
"Ton dollars thrown right 0Way
lini°°IlY looking 0" nnon West DerbY Road- visited by large herds of wild reindeer, emu.
" 18 11 ? LAO' 800 04111' 14'1". II1Winfl where a small crowd had assembled, the
own outfit I can shave That; 00 70 ing from the smith and retuniffig there es
00011 101 Winter sets iti. The polar bear and
the Meek fox live here constantly, and
hunting ilitsto and the seals and fishing are
L115 only occupation of the northern people.
The Samojedes and Esquisnaux seem to be
telniad eaoh other. Their langnages are
not 80 different that, they cannot understand
each other. Their manner of living and
culture, if it ens be named so, is ahnost the
same. They are all nomads, going north in
the summer and south in the winter. Their
clothing is merle of sealskin, and both sexes
wear the saute style of dress. In the sum-
mer they dye in tents made of skin, and their
only furniture is of akin. They corer them-
selves svith skins and sleep on skins. The
tents are heated with open fires in the mid-
dle of the tent, and, OM ti10 pine never here
becomes a teee, only a shrub, the natives use
the blubber of the whale aud the oil of the
seal for hie/.
The people are chiefly small, filthy and
indolent. They 110 1101, provide for the
olorrow, and it seems incredible that a
single man is able to eat from sixteen to
twenty pounds of IILW salmon in a day.
The tiamojeci can count only tr, seven. A
lavger number " many." They are
very fond of intoxicating drinks, but for-
tunately these are rare in their regions and
the importation of 4110011 is forbidden.
In winter they live in huts, made of turf
and moss and covered with snow. The ea-
t:0nm to these has are long and iota, mul
one has to arawl through them. Three and
four families live in one hut, where the heat
is intense. Their food is -fish and seal meat
which they wash down with brain oil, and
they do not leave the huts in cold weather
except svhen they have nothing to eat, They
have neither preachers nor authorities. T1
strongest 1111111 is the most respected and h
decides all quarrels. The men have only
one wife, but wedding ceremonies are mi.
known. Wives are commonly gained by
bargain anyl often exchanges are made in
a goodmatured svay. Dogs are tk o only
domesticated animals. Each party has at
least six or eight of them and treats them
tvell, keephig them in the general living
room,
In the long winter season the weather -
besieged people make or repair their im-
plements and weapons. They sleep a great
deal and tell legends, these varying only
slightly. The Stonojed, however, lias good
ammo' sense and almost, mother wit and
of ton entertains his company extremely with
his tales.
'Ioney is miltnown among the people, all
trade being carried on by barter. ....Jostling
ly there aro no poor people, as they say,
and the Samojedes consider themselves a
happy folk. They love their cold homes
11/11d 111 other countries elways are homesick
end take the first opportunity to return to
their native land.
Central Siberia has sterile land. and cold
winters, which make it unfit for agsioulture.
In this part of tho country aro found mines
of coal and mends and there are small set-
tlements where merchants drive bargaius
with the natives. Intoxicating drinks are
notallowed to be sold on credit. Taxes to
the Government are paid in skiu, fut. or
other natural precincts. Here ere immense
forests of pine, larch, fir and birch of large
growth, among which live several kinds of
animals with costly fur. Hunting these and
herding reindeer give subsisteuee to the
inhabitants who for the greater part, like
the Satnejecles, are nomads ; they are most-
ly of Russian origin and have the Russian
orthodox religion. They live in tents attd
have in every tent an a tan In winter they
go Sonth.
South Siberia, from 59 degrees to 40 de.
grew latitude, however, produces 'European
crops of all kinds, It has a greater 0.rea
than Enropean Russia, but is notsettled for
great distances. The railway, however, is
expected to open the country to settlers a
in America, and. oity by city, it is believed
will grow up along the tracks. There will
bo a great number of stations, and it is the
Government's purpose to nuthe the rates fo
traffic° low and to give the 11111111grant
favorable terms and aonditions, All build.
in materials itite found in more than staliei-
en t quantity and of exaction t q entity. Herse
and cattle aro cheap and of fairlygood breeds.
'I'he country needs only an intelligent, in-
clustrious population to become prosperous.
The cities on the caravan way iron
Kiaohta to the Ut•al Mountains have tt eon-
siderable trade and are comfortable place
in which to live. Houses, ordinary food,
etc., ere cheap, but all imported luxuries,
swill 58 °ogee, tobacco eta, aro extremely
dear. But it is not impossible that the day
will onus when South Siberia can export
products Which it now must import.
cents ft week, os 2.80 per month. Seems to
mo that ;$34 per year is worth saving. In
the twenty years L have been shaving
could have sevecl the trifle of 5780, Where
are you now, Mrs Bowser ?"
" net where I was before, Yott'll shave
mute and that'll end it,"
woes tippets proeeetled to the uarpet, and
here the Mutton, facing the east, repeated
three sets of verses in Arabic from tho Koran.
A procession was next farmed and the Mos.
lems, mob wearing a red fez, accompanied
the hearse to tho ceinetavy, almost directly
opposite. Here, standing around the grave
the soldiers forming a ring outside, more
" Will It? if t hat s your optnion I have verses from the Koran were recited in Eng.
great surprise in store for you. I've been lish for the benefit of the assemblage and
taking lessons of a barber on how to handle the proceedings:1 closed. It was observed
the razor, and I can shave cleali in exactly that no sigus of mousning were worn, the
four minutes. Easiest thing in the world Moslem practice boing to distribute
whon you know how. Jost thlok of the gifts to the poor instead, so that fifty poor
8780 I have thrown misty !" persons will be relieved. This is the second
Well, suppose you'll try it in pi occasion apon which a Mahal -timed= funer-
anything 030 011Y, but' ;than decline to be
held responsible for any trouble."
" Responsible I Trouble I How could I
hold you responsibia? And what trouble
eau there be?"
" 1Vhy, that time in Detroit you almost
tore the house down because you cut yonr
ear "
What Children May or May NotEat.
al has-been witnessed this year, the first
being that of a Nubian servant of Mr. 1?.
liathbone. During the Crimean War,
howevsts thirty-three Turkish soldiers who
died in Liverpool 18'01.0 'buried here, and
Sergeant Bukari's grave is amongst them.
" Pooh ! I W140 probably jeking. Don't
remember a thing about it. l'd took pretty
blaming you foe what I did, wouldn't I ?
After dinner I'll take a little shave, and if
you don't spy it's a better 000 than any
barber has ever given. me I'll pul; the razor
up for good."
.After dinner Mr. Bowser took a bowl of
Isot water and started upstairs, saying to
Mrs. Bowser as he scent
" Better time trio by the clock. I may be
six or sin -en minutes this timo, but rfl. bo
right on tick to.morrow night."
He went into the bedroom and looked the
door, Then he took off his coat, vest, neck-
tie and collets He looked clown at his shoes
for a motnent and then decided to take them
off also,
" Let's see 1" he mused as he opened the
box and stood before the glass. "The first
thing is to lather, of course. That's as easy
as rolling off a log. This is something like
comfort, this is. Hanged if I don't believe
I shall want to shave twice a day 1"
Mr. Bowser decided to put on plenty of
lather. He put it on his chin, cheeks, nose
forehead, ears 1111 11 throat, and more or less
fell on the earpot. When Ile heal lathered
until both arms milled, and no more would
stick to him, he piakad up the 111001' and
chuckled. :
" I just hold it with three fingers, thia
way, and lay it on tny cheek this way, and
move it gently down. A child three years
old could do that. I'll show Mrs. 13owser a
trick or two before I'm through. Good
weinam, but she thinks she knows it all
Razor just slides- 1"
Mr, Bowser gave a jump and at the same
instant he saw the lather stained with
blood.
" Don't annum t to anything -just the
head of a pimple I" he whispered to himself.
" Barber told me to keep my arm still', and
I forgot. Can't expect to get the hang of it
in oae minute, you know. A little more
lather."
He lathered away until it began to drop
off, and then picked up the razor twain.
" The idea of my throwing navai 8780 to
the barbers !" he muttered as he laid the
flat of the mot- on his cheek. "Inell, bet -
Ler late than never. No partiordar Mary
about this, however. Feller wants to give
111,110011 time to got hong of la Perhaps Pd
better begin on my chin first. Doss% sup-
pose it makes any great distance whether I
shave up or down, so long as I- !"
" Mr. Bowser, what's the mattes?" ealled
Mrs. Bowsee, as she kicked on Om door.
"Nothing 1" he answered.
" Thee what, are yen jumping around. so
for ? I thought you'd shake the ehaudellys
down 7"
" The blamed thing must have slipped en
toe 1" he growled as he roturned to the glass
bo survey the out. "Probably didn't bold
it exactly right. Ah I that's more like the
way the barber told 1110 to hold it. Now,
then, take a easy Dill you gob the hang of
it. May be ten minutes this titne, but 011
the next mmasion I'll. --1"
" Bowser, open this door 1" called
Mrs, Bowser from the hall,
" W -what you w•want ?" he gasped.
" I want to know •what all this swearing
and kioking over the clinks moans I Didn't
1001 1 you how you would come out I"
" Yoe go away 1 I'm all right 1 It WM the
man next door you beard 1"
He heard her go away after a bit, and lie
wont back to tho glass to whisper :
"Pll be hanged if I haven't pretty near
out my old 011111 off 1 What in Texas ails the
old thing, anyhow ra get the hang of it if
11 etas my heacl off I I didn't havo lather
enough,"
He lathered some more. Then he picked
up the rime and earefully eltat111110ff ball
sides and the edge and back, Then ho
laid the fiat of the blade on his chin mid
smiled sweetly and whispered :
"Probably a little nervous, being the first
time. I'll pat get used to it by degrees.
That's the WAY to do it I NO barber over
slid it 11.1000 aver• my ell in any riclice then
ODA The idea of Mre, Bowser calling it
$10 thrown right away I That's the way
with a W001311/ If they can save a dont
here they will waste a dollar there. ril
Mts. !Bowser hoard a yell and started for
III a friondehtp between two women there the stairs. 8110 met Mr, Bowser linif-way up.
at, Drury Lane, he advertaset In tho London 10 elthee 0. mom at tho beginning- or will bo The lather Was flyittg about, and the Mood
Daily dociwni of Deo, 20, 1 7 1 7, that, he aii tho and of its stretsming dolvn on Ms shirt bosom, and his
would present, 00 that Boxing Night, " A A quarrel between two persons assumes eyes were as big its 011101111/
11050 new; mheie 00011.0 (neyor performed. Rs most serious aspeet when a third pasty . Well, 1101 t I say so l" she demanded,
before) ledween a searamoutill, a haricquin, (Imes 141 who has nothing to 110 with it, Her W01'118 brought Mr. Bowses to him -
a ceun try farmer, hie wife and ethers," :Revenge is sweet, Ma foregeing it is self. 1 le turned hack, beckoned for her to, A utan does not like to appear in public in
',De now savlo of entertainment captured SW00101. i follow, and as they c11 wed 00 bed,,,,,,,, hdi a stolon hat because ills not his style.
sso fmoy of 110 Lawn 4, the very garb, end The rural visitor ivho clomps to the city silently pointed. T110 1.3001/ lay on the floor, King INienelek, of Abyasinia, eamonitms
soon the legitimate &MLR' w.ith being played green usually ,goes out of a blue. ;the bowl was brukem 111 three plows, and that lie proposes to re-establish the 11001010
t, ethpby benches, net wht, the fir:4 pro. The egotist is bi 01011 00A00 the man W110 there 110113 lather ovetywhore. frontiers of his country at Khartoum and
due lion of the style ot Christmas pitittem Imo has tho least reason to bo one. 1 " Well ?'' she queried, Lis she ,pleked up Lake Nyanzs. If his majesty is not earef-1 I
en Boxing Night, and the custom has been I three toweliand. placed. two chairs 011 !Slims he will get into trouble. Great l3rilain it Is
cool lilted deft to the preSellt binley having Many of tho disappointments or 110) 00M0 logs again, . put remit a olefin to the territory whitill lie
obtained se firin a hold upon the erections , from Mistaking empotiolamees for friends, 1 " Woman 1" he hoarsely whispered, 11 this proposes to abeorb, and there is comdtlee-
of the English people, that It London Mi. Bo UM soy it WU a wook ago to -morrow, Os toe mitell 1" 'able doubt as to his being able to make his
oven a provinoial theater Without a new nut 11 Will ba a week ago to-inorrow, 1 " Why, what have I done?" . promise good.
-Per breakfast, children three years old
should. be given milk, oatmeal, breed and
butter, a little fruit and eggs, lightly boiled
poached ov scrambled. If, instead of eggs,
they prefer fresh fish or steak, either Islay
be allowed, the meat of coarse being minced
lino. Pried foods are forbidden, and frit-
ters and fried cakes are inoluded in this
class.
At dinner, if the soup is thin it may be
given children but thick soups would be
more than their digestive organs could safe.
ly boar. Roast or boiled Meats, such as
beef or mutten, ttre allowable. The fact
that pork and all salted and otherwise cured
meats are bard lo digest forbids their use.
Potatoes, boiled, dry and mashed, spinach,
peas, string beans, asparagus of good quality
cauliflower anti beats, when young, are eas-
ily digestible.
Tins is not the case with green corn, un-
less it is very tender and the kernels are
carefully removed from. the cob with the
book of a knife blade nal then crushed or
grated. Such vegetables as turnips, carrots,
parsnips and onions require strong powers
to digest them. The same may bo said of
celery, un1ess it is stewed. The sweet pota-
to is lisucts less easily digestible tiusn the
(omit?, or, as commonly called the Irish po-
tato, and quiekly undergoes ascot of sngary
decay, hence st must be held unsuitable for
young children.
For slIppor, milk tonst, breed and Mater,
and glass of milk, with possibly a little
stewed fruit, will bo (suite 11111101001 for
young eltildreo. The latter, by the way.
when eaten at night, sometimes causes
clyspeptio symptoms. Het bread, cheese,
hashed meat and vegetables and the like, so
often Um simper of the hearty workman,
aro altogether too indigestible for young
children.
Rousehold of Twelve Persons Murdered.
News of a horrible crime has reached Ber-
lin from Wilna. The house of a farmer
named AbramovItch, Autopol, near that
town, was attacked by a mob of starving
peatian is who, having forced an entrance,
killed Al'iratnovitch, his wife, children, and
servents-twelve persons in all -and then
plundered the place of all the food and vela.
ables they could find. The object ot the
raid seems to have been only for the sake of
robbery, as it cannot be discovered thia
there 10110 any ill -fooling tosvrtras Abram°.
vitc11, while the brutal massacre of the in-
mates of the household WM presuinably
prompted by fear that some of them might
got &AMY 0/1111 raise an alarm. Seismal per.
sons supposed to have been concerned in the
affair have been arrested. -
Very Queer Sailors.
Small boy (at a dook)-Papa, those are
not real senors, are they ?
Papa (ts theatrical manager) -Why, yes,
my son. They hastejust, that big ship
clear across the ocean, anti in about a week,
they will sail back. •
" Well, I s'poso they must know Rome-
thin"bou analog, hut they ain't, really and
truly, sailors, are they ?"
"Indeed they Why do you think
they are not?"
" Why, I've been watching them most an
hour and I haven't seen 0110 of them hitch
his trousers an' stand on one leg and spit
over his head and say 'Blast my tarry top -
lights ' 01100/
The Shah Going to Pieces.
The Shah of Persia is desoribed by the op-
position in his country as nearly played out.
Ho drinks a bottle of bramly a day, and"
uses numb hashish and opium. Thu (Mild
that he brought to Europe with him, the
son of his cook, is now his solo and irre-
sponsible grand vizier. There is no enter-
prise possible in Persia. The t•iels bury their
wealth, tttla are seised and tortured for it.
Revolt 10 beginning to show various pro.
vincos, The masses of the people are affront-
ed by the shith'0 surroundings, and 34.3 1)0.
ginning to look ontsido for redress.
Yon can't telt anything abota a. man by
his tombstone.
After all, the old-fashioned motor by
moonlight, is %beet the only one that has
etood the test of time and the experts.
Paithful Unto Death.
137 wintry -sun s declining glow
A wanderer found,
Modeled In freshly fallen snow,
A eerious mound,
Was It the he Ill over the storm,
Ov N attire's Jest
To mint 40 Dins a (011,1'n plinun form
Antl rounded mist
Not, so -for when the snowy mask
Ire brushed aside,
A duck sat patient o'er hor task
There -as she
Haddlod beneath the downy breast
Sweet 11.011011400 111Y/
W11111h8110 11'17 11 311:11101M onea had pressed
That elite! amy 1
Alla braved leng boars the blinding Mikes
The wild wind's monn
And crushing cote -nil for shots sakes. •
iler nostlinge own.
No mate In Omer wi volen or food . -
The lest frIend
Sole guardian or a numerens breed,
stillsat
Nor ever in that, bosom stirred
Or doubt a ghost,
nut, motherlike, the simple bird
Bled at her post,.
Pest well. fond morlyr, love endowed
With leen content f
Tho 1171111,001 8110W 01160 0111111 tby shroud
And monument,
BLOOD RAS BEEN BRED AND RE-
PARATION MUST BE MADE,
Ellg111/4 11 VnillIW-; I ;I ki,000,500/1 Draft
-Stir Never In Bruer Condition for
the Struggle • -Tile Russian near :oust
lr'17:$4•0: V; i;jille"s' I ril:4.117:Irn Inifi (A' %len:
IL SU PrellIlley.
At St. L01110 the other day Sir Edwin
Arnold, in reply to a requeet kr an '1.11ter.
14)411' on the fight of Gilgit, fedi 1, said ;
" The t•risis e limning for
0110 special 40110110 1 1110 reuse» is the fact
that the blood of English otlieers htss been
spilled 1111w skirmish near Gilgit. To one
not familiar with Anglo•Indisti hottory and
spirit the gravity of such a fact can thirdly
be explained. There is a thatlitiou in the
English Army in India, aud it held 1/1•
111081 (10111311 throughout the entire Indian.
Empire, that British blood is ssered. Once
spilt there can be no washing it out, no
compromising, no explevation, save the
most eanyintang disavowal on the part of
any foreign government implicated in the
act of bloodshed ; and no satisfautory set-
tlement except the most prompt and com-
plete expiation for the shedding ef English
blood and the blood of its &Rears in India
is an article for which the Anglo-Indian
Empire charges S:1,000,000 a drop,
Gilgit and tho fort on the threshold of
Cashmere, where the conflict oeiurred, are,
it is true, not British possessions, but Cash-
mere is a State under the protection of the
British Empire. The danger nf trouble be-
tween Russia and England at that point of
the position has been great for some time,
for the reason that down the slope towards
this pan, on their side, the Russians have
been steadily advancing for months past.
Russia has lately made advances there so
marked that England cannet allow them.
Russia now occupies a slope of the Pauli
from which it will have to recede. England's
doinands to that effect wsuld. have been
made in any event, They will LOW be made
'n such a tone that Russia must heed them
and retire from its present occupancy of
the Pamir slope, A. refusal to do so will
neast war, twilling more nor less.
" The present outbreak arises, I ant con-
vinced, from the fierce, restless and turbo -
ant war spirit of those peculiar component
parts of the Russian Armies. The Russian
colonels commanding the frontier forces aro
officers whom it has always been difficult
for the Czar, a ruler who desires. peace, to
control and keep in check. Their lives are
spent on the frontier ; they stagnate, they
grow almost savage : they are always yearn -
ng for war ; they have bus one idea -to
push on and push on towards India. There
s no read to India for %am there and al-
though that particular region is not oficapi,
ea by no, 11 is detued to Russia, In Indian
parlance, it is a, sphere of British influence,
"Now, asi to the Englielz -silicon and troops
who engaged in tho fighting near Gilgit,
I say proudly that, as is inevitably the ease,
they have behaved nobly, one justified that
English conviction that the Queen never
wants for men slated to the emergency of the
moment. The occasion developed the man,
as it always has isncl always will in English
history, I know Col. Durand, tho officer
in command there and 1V110 WLES among the
wounded, and lie and the other English
officers, as English officers should, ;tend
gallantly ttnel promptly.
"As for the troops,I see they consisted of
Ghoorkas and Cashmere forces, no English
soldiers having been engaged. The Cashmere
soldiery are not a part of the British Army
in ludits They are the troops of the Rajah of
Cashmere; who is a warm friend of England,
however, but the Ghstorkas are a part of the
native soldiery enlisted in the British Army
in India, and very gallant soldiers they
are, too. They have the true spirit of the Se-
poy. Their battle ory of the present time
" Maharine Ka Jai !' (' Victory for the
Empress.') The Ghoorkas, in addition to the
regulation arms of our troops in India, oarry
also their National weapon, the kookri a
curved knito or swordAvhieh they use in b'at-
tle with terrible effect, their favorite stroke
being an upper cut, which disembowels the
enednlYVith the blood of English 01110011 al-
ready spilt, war will follow any sett= save.
the most complete reparation and expiation.
The British Empire is prepared for war. It
is so tremendonsly prepared that no man
eau estimate the vast extent of Opt prepar-
ation, both in money and in men. A better
time for war, if war must come, could not
be selected, Whether or not war does. fol.
low t•his complication there will be ono sure
result. arising from it -the Russian advance
on the frontiers of India will be checked.
The Russian forces will have to retire far
within their present line of oeetipation along
these frontiers.
"I doubt if Um Czar will allow matters
to resell a crisis. The inevitable result of
Russian defeat in a War 1Vibli the frontiers
of India as tho battlefield would bo stu-
pendous catastrophe to that netion.
would moo that England would roll back
noe and forever the Russian approach on
India, raze Central Asia to the ground from
one end to the other,restore to the Nhanates
their independence, thrust Russia back be-
yond the Caspian, free Persia from the Ras.
sum influence, rescue Kborassan inevitably
cause a revolution in Russia /Dud' end in the
overthrow of Russia's power in Europe."
True Philosophy.
First Chappie-Dosh boy, ere yott ill ?
You aro on that couch most tif your time.
Second Olinppie-No, Oholly. Not ill.
Only me bwain is 80 beastly wigowens it tires
inn out, and innst always lie down whoa I
13vewy day I pawsitivoly envy the
00110110/1 who eau thwitik standing
up.
A well-known firm of opticians in London
inanufatanro speeitaly constructed speeta-
oles to bo worn by horses. l'ho object is to
promote " high stepping,' Horse speetao-
les, 'ive learn, are made of stiff blather,
finite enclosing the eyes of the horse, 141111
the glasses employed ate deep, concave and
large in size, The effect is to give tho
ground. in front of tho hone the appeltranee
of being raised ; the animal, therefore, steps
high, thinking he is going uphill, or has to
step twos an obstaele in front of him. If
the system iS persevered with when the anis
mid is young the abet is said to be marvel -
loos. Many horses, it, 10 alleged, eould be
materially improved by visit to the opti.
elan, and It, is recommended that the sight
of all horses shoifid he tes.ed. This peat-
eular applies to valuable Invite*, Which are
found optically unlit for their work, when tt
little artificial assistance weuld make them
as useful as ever, Apart. from this consider -
&don, many viees, it is believed, might be
cured by means of eyeglessies, The cause of
shying is, as a lode a short sight,