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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-9-14, Page 2TIE LAPSE OP ENOCH W I3NTVVORTH By 1SABEL GORDON CURTIS, Author of " The Woman from Wolvertons " CHAPTER XII.—(Cont'd). The singer sank in a chair exhaust- ed,then she rose and pushed her way down from the balcony. Dorcas watched her with a pitiful gaze. Per- spiration was washing white streaks throkigh the patches of rouge on her cheeks. "Who is the woman?" she asked. "Twenty-five years ago her name +was famous from one end of Italy to the other. When she went to Genoa to fill an engagement the whole town turned out bo meet her, the shops closed, and it was a public holiday The people pelted her with flowers and screamed themselves hoarse in a welcome. She was the star of the Bellini in Naples. She sang in Paris and London. She came here, grew sick and could nob fill her engage- ments. A manager went back on her, ehe lost what money she had, friends deserted her, she came down to— this." "Oh, the poor soul!" Dorcas' voice was a whisper. "Her's was an unusual case," said Mercy, "She is only fifty-three now; so I've heard. It makes you realize into what a short bit of our lives fame is crowded—if fame conies to us. The has-beens in our profession are an army a pitiful army. Unless one has a home and some one in it to cherish and love, the lonely days of old age are—" Andrew laughed cheerlessly. "Well, I never think of them." He stretched out his hand to in- tercept a boy who wandered between the tables with a tray full of crimson roses. He laid a bunch of them be- fore Dorcas. She buried her face in the cool petals. "Shall we go?" asked Merry. As they pushed their way through the maze of crowded tables they pass- ed a woman who sag dining alone. She wore an orange velvet gown, and a shabby lace scarf covered her naked shoulders. Dorcas paused for a moment, laid her hand upon the wo- man's arm, and spoke a few words in Italian. The singer looked up and put a grimy, ring -bedizened hand up- on the girl's fingers. Merry stood watching them. The woman looked very old and faded under th ewhibe glare of the electricity, but her face grew eager and tremulous while she poured out her soul in her own lan- guage. Dorcas took one rose from the cluster in her arms and laid the rest of the fragrant blossoms beside the singer's plate. "You'll forgive me for parting with. your flowers?" she whispered as she rejoined Merry. • "I'm glad you did it. Once upon a time stage bouquets were a worn-out sensation for that woman; to -day I roses iss guess she howered with about once in a blue moon." Dorcas paused near the door to nod good -by to the singer, who sat gaz- Ing after them with her chin burial In the red roses. Suddenly Dorcas turned to Merry. Her face had grown white, and she put her arm within his. He clasped it with a strong grip, but neither of them sYh a oke. At the same momentthe had P caught sight of Enoch Wentworth He was seated in an alcove at a small ' table hedged about with palms. Zilla Paget sat facing him, Enoch's hands clasped one of hers which lay upon the table. They were engross- i ed in each other. Dorcas stopped abruptly when they reached the foot of the steps. "Oh!" ' she whispered appealingly. "Andrew save Enoch from that woman!" over I want to make a dicker with you." Wentworth stared at him blankly "A dicker?" he repeated, "Is it money?" "Money!" Andrew's face grew harsh with scorn. "What is it then?" "I was dining last night at Coigax- zi's. I—" Wenbworth's face grew sueldenly scarlet, then it whitened. "I saw you there." Merry's voice was relentless. "I don't know a blessed thing about the Pageb woman, for or against her. I do know this, though: every man who has. lived among good women knows she is not fit company for—your sister for in- stance," "Who said she was?" snarled Went- worth. "I had not thought of throw- ing her into my sister's society. Dorcas would not have to bolerate even a passing acquaintance with her behind the scenes if I had my way." "She is not fit to be seen with a de- cent man." "You give me bhe credit then of be- ing—a decent man?" sneerer Enoch. "To a certain limit—I do." "Well, what do you want?" Went- wqrth turned an apprehensive glance upon him. "I want you to promise, before I turn over this manuscript, that you will have nothing to do with Zilla Paget except in a business way." "Why, are you interested in her yourself ?" "My God, Enoch!" Andrew stuffed the roll of paper in his pocket and jumped bo his feet. "Here, sitdown. I want this affair straightened out—now." Merry did not answer. He walked across the office and stood beside a table where a litter of photographs' lay. He picked one up carelessly and glanced at it. It was an exquisite portrait of Dorcas. Her eyes gazed into his with a straightforward look which was characteristic of the girl. "Will you tell me," there was stern • demand in Wentworth's voice, "will you explain why you are so concerned about my morals?" "I don't cane a damn about your morals." answered Merry contemptu- 1 ously. "I was thinking about your sister. I am still fool enough to be- lieve that you have some decency left. I will hand over this act, rewritten as you want it, when you promise to have nothing to do with Zilla Paget." When Merry stopped speaking he took a that opposite Enoch and waited , for a reply. I A visiting card lay on the table. Wentworth picked it up and tore it into halves. He sat tearing and re-' I silence. When it tearing it in Perfe b e was reduced to fragments, he gather- ed them into the hollow of his hand and dropped them in the waste basket; then he looked across at Merry. I I "That was Miss Paget's card," he said harshly. "Im through with her." Merry took the manuscript from his pocket, laid it on the table before Enoch, and walked out. A few minutes later Enoch opened' the door which led into the boxo ffiee. A young man sat beside the window. 'Dingley," he said, "I have locked the outside door. Don't let a soul in on me, I can't see Mr. Oswald, even Tell him I am busy, writing." Wentworth locked the door of the office, sat down in his big chair, and picked up the manuscript. He read it rapidly, slipped a blank sheet of paper into a typewriter, and began to copy it with slow deliberation. When it was fifinished he read each typed page carefully, He tacked them to- gether and rose to his feet. He be- gan to search the office rapidly with his eyes, then he turned to awash- I bowl in the corner, He crushed into a loose bunch each of the sheets which held Merry's writing and benched the paper with a match. It leaped into a red blaze. He watched it care- fully, poking the sheets over with a paper knife until each one fell away into a shivering back ash. When every spark had died he turned on a faucet, and the light ashes were swept down the waste pipe. He rubbed a speck of grime from his hands and opened the box office door. Oswald sat on a high stool beside the window. "Here is the second act," said Went- worth brusquely, "I imagine it will suit you. The changes are exactly what you suggested.' "Oh, splenl;id!" Oswald's voice was cordial. "I'm ever so glad you felt like it. You will say yourself it is an improvement" "I hope so." Enoch spoke listlessly, "And, Dingley, while I think of it send a message back to Miss Paget. Ask if I can see her now, in her dressing room for a few minutes." He turn- ed to Oswald. "I must explain to her the change we're malting. Bet- ter have the part copied at once; it must be put into quick rehearsal," CHAPTER XIII. Wentworth sat in a small room at I the theatre, which he had appropriat- ed as his own. It led directly off the `• box office. He was glancing over a heap of press clippings when the door 1 opened and Merry walked in. "Good morning," Therewas a sur- prised glance on Enoch's face while II he spoke. Andrew nodded a response, then he drew a package of manuscript from his pocket. Wentworth's eyes turn- ed on him curiously while he flattened it out on the table before him. No unnecessary courtesies passed be- tween them. "I rewrote the scene as you sug- gested," said Andrew carelessly. "That was good of you." In his sur- prise Wentworth showed an impulsive friendlinese. He stretched out his hand for the manuscript. There was no cordiality in Merry's face. He glanced quietly through the written sheets. "You count, this change in the play e necessity7" he asked brusquely, "I guess that's what it might be defied." Wentworth's voice was impa- tient, and afrown chaseli across his face. "Oswald's been asking for ib this morning. When a quiet fellow like; hint makes up his mind to have a thing, he's apt to be confoundedly in- sistent." "Then you want it?" ttCerbainly." "I sat up until daylight to write this It's an improvement on the other ad: can the that myself. Oswald will tell you, I think, that ib carries out his idelts exeetiy, Th ore I hand it throbbed from head to foot, and she felt as if the emotions of a lifetime had been crewded into that single hour. There was a babel of noiee be- hind, bhe scenes; in front the applause sounded like a tempest. At intervals the handclaps died away as from weariness, only to begin again with tremendous vigor. "Come," said Merry; "we must go slit again." "Again?" whispered the girl. "Yes " Merry smiled; "this time the two of us alone." "The two of us?" "The two of us—alone." There was a low, tender thrill in Merry's voice, He took her hand and led her out upon the empty stage, The curtain was lifting slowly, From where she stood she saw Enoch standing in the wings. Elis face was flushed with ex- citement. The audience looked to the girl like a blur of color and human forms. The people swayed forward eagerly, and the applause became up- roarious. A voice cried. "Speech! Speech!" Ib began to come insistent- ly from the back of the house. The cry was taken up by men and women everywhere in the audience. Dorcas turned to Merry, Oswald was beckon- ing to him from the wings, but the actor shook his head. "I weld not make a speech to night if my life depended on it," he whis- pered, and the curtain descended slow- ly A new cry came from the clanmor- !ous house. Some one was shouting author. Dorcas laid her hand upon Merry's arm. "They want you," she cried. He smiled and shook his head. She heard Oswald urge Enoch to go in front of the curtain. The noise in front grew louder. The girl flew acvross the stage and put her hank upon her brother's shoulder. "Enoch," she pleaded in a whisper, "take Merry with you and explain," Wentworth left her without a word. Oswald and the stage manager beck- oned to him from the wings. She took a few flying steps as if to hold him back, then stopped. Merry had called her. She paused, staring into his eyes with terror. (To be conbinued). JERUSALEM IN WAR TIMES. Dumping Ground for Young Germans of High Family. To Western minds the idea of the Holy City serving as a base for mod- ern military operations must be full of incongruities. And, as a matter of fact, it was an amazing thing to see the streets packed with khaki clad soldiers and hear the brooding silence of ancient walls . shattered by the crash of steel shod army boots. Here, for the first time, I saw the German officers—quantities of them, says Alexander Aaronsohn in the Atlantic Monthly. with out of place they looked; with their pink and whiteness that no amount of hot sunshine could quite burn off. They wore the regu- lar German officer's r eiform, except that the pickelhaube \t'.5 replaced by a khaki sun helmet. I ';as struck by the youthfulness of them; many were nothing but boys, and there were weak, dissolute facesces in plenty —a fact that was later explained when I heard that Palestine had been made the dumping ground for young men of high family whose parents were anxious to have then as far re- moved as possible from the danger zone. Fast's Hotel was the great meeting place in Jerusalem for these young bloods. Every evening thirty or forty would foregather there to drink and talk women and strategy. I well re- member the evening when one of them a slender young Prussian with no back to his head, braceletted and monocled—rose and announced in the decisive tones that go with a certain stage of intoxication: "What we ought to do is to hand over the organization of this cam- paign to Thomas Cook & Sons." The running track at the Canadian National Exhibition is one of the few on the continent giving a 220 yards course straight-away. Many records lave been equalled or broken on Athletic Day in past years. CHAPTER XIV Dorcas stood motionless in the wings, with Merry beside her, leaning against a table. The curtain had fallen on the third act of "The House of Esberbrook," The girl's body SOME FORGOTTEN TREASURES. Studying Life of Ancient Egypt Frain Cast Away Papyrus. It is a strange story that reads more like a romance than cold fact, how the moat intimate thoughts and emotions of two thousand and more years ago lay buried in the rubbish of ancient cities to come to light in our day. Papyrus was the writing ma- terial of ancient Egypt, used in of- ficial and private correspondence, in business transactions, in legal ac- tions. 'When it had served its pur- pose it was thrown away, • Much of it also was used to wind the embalmed bodies of the dead. Fragments of it passed westward in the early part of the last century without attracting much attention, says the Christian Herald. The schol- ars of those days were interested in classical lore and literary remaine, and could not foresee the infinite pos- sibilities for studying the life of a past age from its private correspond- ence, Within the last decades, however, interest changed completely. Ex- ploration parties were sent out to go over every inch of ground and ga- ther the remains. A host of scholars set themselves the task of decipher- ing and interpreting the documents. But still an immense amount of ma- terial is stored away in Oxford, the British Museum, Berlin, Paris and other places. In a group recently examined there are three letters from recruits, young men who had passed the mili- tary examination and were taken from simple home surroundings to the cosmopolitan Roman army. The first is a letter from a youth in Alex- andria to his mother. He writes: "Send me two hundred drachmas. I have nothing any more. When bro- ther Gemellus came I still had four hundred drachma;. They are all gone. I bought a team of mules. Send me monthly allowance soon. When I was with you you promised to send my brother before Icame to the garrison. But you sent nothing. You left me to go as I stood, nothing in the poc- ket. Also my father on his visit gave me not a penny. All laugh at me and say: 'Your father is a soldier himself and still he sends you nothing.' My father tells me when he gets home he will send me everything. But you sent nothing. Why? There is the mother of Valerius; she sent him a pair of abdominal bandages and a cruse of oil, a basket of meats, and two hundred drachma;. Send quickly. I already went and borrowed from a comrade. Also brother Gemellus sent me a pair of trousers." TITLES OFTEN DUPLICATED. Various Lords Greys, Two Lords 11Ior- ley, Two Earls of Mar, Etc. Sir Edward Grey will probably be known by the title of Earl Grey of Falloden. The peerage is already well -stocked with peers of this name. There is, of course, Earl Grey, for- merly Governor-General of Canada, who is himself Baron Grey of Howick. Neither of these must be confused with Lord Grey of Ruthyn, nor with Lord Grey of Wilton, the eldest son of the Earl of Wilton, nor with Lord Grey of Groby, elest son of the Earl of Stamford. And all these, are quite distinct from Earl de Grey, who succeeded to his father's Marques - sate of Ripton in 1909. There is really no copyright in, titles. There are two Lords Morley, an Earl and Viscount. There are two Barons Monteagle, voting as such in the Lords, though one is known as the Marquess of Sligo and now Earl of Clanricarde in the Irish Peerage. Scottish Representatives Peers in- clude the Earl of Mar and the Earl of Mar and Kellie. There are Baron' Clifford and Baron de Clifford (a minor); while two other titles which are often confounded because of the spelling are Viscount Midleton and Baron Middleton and the Earls of Desert and Dysart. Lord Midleton sits as Baron Broderick in the Peer- age of the United Kingdom. Giving up smoking brings one great compensation with it—the joy of be- ginning again. This is not to be de- spised. COMPILING THE OASUALTY LISTS. An official British photograph taken "somewhere" along the region of the English drive showing a British company lined up for roll -call In one of the advanced trenches after the, gruelling battle of July 14th, Important to Whest Growers . This is important to you because it means 'dollars to you. In a short Nine you will be preparing for the seeding cif your fall wheat, and it is necessary to keep in mind the danger of loss from Smut. Especially last year, Srhut'was very general in On- tario. Grain dealers advise me that that it has meant a differepce of as much as 10c. -per bushel for the grain delivered at elevators, aside altogeth- er from making some of the wheat unmarketable. This means a loss of $3 bo $5 per acre, while the cost of treating to prevent smut and prevent this loss is only a few cents per acre. Bo sure this year avid breat your seed for smut. The method usually adopted is as follows:—Mix one pint of formalin with 40 gallons of water, or two table- spoonfuls bo one pail of water. Place the grain to be treated in a heap on clean canvas or floor, Sprinkle the formalin solution over the groin, then shovel. Repeat this until every grain is moistened by the solution; then cover the pile with sacking and leave for three or four hours. At the end of this time spread the grain out thinly to dry; shovelling it over three or four times will hasten the drying. Forty gallons of the formalin solution is sufficient to sprinkle thirty or for- ty bushels of grain; -smaller amounts in proportion. Bags, machinery, or anything with which grain conies in contact before being put in the ground should be thoroughly treated. Immersing the grain in a bag is sometimes practised and is equally ef- fective, Of course smut is not as prevalent some years as others, being influenced to some extent by weather conditions, Treatment, however, is a form of in- surance. You do not expect to have your barn burned down every year be- cause you pay the insurance every year, and it is equally important to keep up your insurance on your wheat crop. This is important at the pres- ent time, nob only on your own ac- count, but on account of the Empire, which requires the maximum supply of high quality foodstuffs. The ship- ping of smutty wheat not only gives this Province a bad name but reduces the price you receive for your wheat. Further information on the subject may be secured for the asking, either from the local office of this Depart- ment in your County or from th eun- dersigned.—Hon. Jas. S. Duff, Minis- ter of Agriculture, Toronto. Cost of Raising Dairy Heifers. One of the important things for the farmer to know is bhe cost of the thing he produces, wheher it be a crop or an animal. ' Profits are 'g erned as much by the cost of production as the price for which the product sells. One of the questions often discussed is the cost of raisingYounce stock. Sev- eral of the United States Experiment Stations have taken up the question of finding out what it costs to raise a heifer calf. The question is an im- portant one and should interest Can- adian dairymen. We would also be glad to have the experience of any of oar readers as to the cost of raising heifer calves for the dairy herd. hTo Ohio station has just conclud- ed such an investigabion. The fig- ures given are the averages of the re- cords kept on 51 heifers -29 Jerseys and 22 Holsteins. This involves large enough numbers to merit con- sideration. The items other than feed are as follows: Value at birth $6, labor $11.60, bedcling $4.60, service fee $1„50 tools, etc., $1.50, shelter $4, interest and taxes $4.68, or a total of $32.86. Nine dollars is credited for manure, leaving the net cost $23.08. To this must be added the feed cost. The total cost of raising the Tersey heifers to two years of age was $78.10, and the Holsteins $81.80, the difference being due to the larger animals eat- ing more feed. They were charged 30 cents a month for pasture the first year, and 90 cents the second. The pasture had to be supplemented with grain in order to keep the heifers growing properly. The heifers were bred bo calves at twenty-six and one-half month of age, and at calving time the cost averaged $91.39, The high cost of heifers as brought out by these different studies, clearly shows the folly of raising inferior in- dividuals. It costs just as much to feed 41 heifer sired by an inferior bull as one sired by a high class.bnll. The figures also show why dairymen are justified in asking good prices for well-bred dairy stock. As a dairy farmer recently stabed, they cannot afford to sell really good heifers for $60 or $70. The dairymen who insist on buying only eheap stock will get only culls, and would be better off without them, They must expect to pay good prices for well-bred heifers that have been properly grown and devel. Tho Veenendaal thing for the dairy- man who is just getting a start, is to give the moat careful attention to the feeding of his heifer calves, saving only those having the right kind of parents. Even bliough the cosi; of bringing a heifer up to calving time does seem high, it is the safest and most reliable way of adding to the herd and is cheaper in the long run than to depend on buying. Ili.osr who are just making a start must of course buy their foundation stock, anti it is important bhet these be sel- ected with care. A bunch of culls is not every good start in the building up of a dairy herd. This Ohio report also allows that fall calves can be raised more cheap- ly than can spring calves, This should fit in well with dairying on the general farm, for there is always more time to devote to bhe cows and calves during the fall and winter months than during the busy season when the crops are demanding a great deal of labor. Pure Milk For Butter -Making. It is most essential to use only pure uncontaminated milk for the produc- tion of butter when the finished pro- duct is to be of prime quality. In a great many cases where butter has an objectionable flavor it is due to bhe milk employed being badly contam- inated with undesirable bacteria. Cream is ripened by bacteria, and it is only when the righb species of germs predominate in the cream that it will ripen properly. The germs which produce lactic acid, and thus ripen cream, have the power of over- coming other species of bacteria un- less the cream. is very badly contam- inated, in which case the cream. ripening organisms could not perform their functions. Why Milk Sours. Bacteria cause the souring of milk. Bacteria usually gee into milk in dirt and the bacteria develop fast when the milk is warm. To keep the bac- teria out, keep dirt out of the mills. This means care in milking and care to have the milk utensils clean. Keep- ing the milk cool will retard the de- velopment of the bacteria, that do get into the milk. Cans or vessels that have had milk in them should be rinsed in cool water first, as hot wat- er hardens the albumen of the milk and makes it hard to remove,—W. C. P., North Dakota Experiment Station. Grain for the Skim -Milk Calf. Calves are usually fed whole milk for two to three weeks, then gradually changed to skim -milk. About the time of changing, begin to feed a lit- tle grain, but do nob think that it is necessary to use oil -meal or any oth- er high-priced feed high in protein or fat, or both. Experience at the Mis- souri Agricultural Experimenb Station shows that a mixture of two parts corn and one part oats, by weight, gives as good results as oil -meal and ready -mixed calf -meals often purchas- ed at much higher prices. Bran is not especially good for the young calf because it is too laxative. The grain mixture should be fed immediately after the milk, and neither should be fed i too liberally, or scours mayresult. Y, STORMS HIS MOTHER'S HOME. Son Knew Germans Had Driven His Parent From It. The Chateau La Maisonette, France, so often named in recent bulletins on the Somme fighting, is the property of Mme. Fernet who has lived there for many years. The propertyis close to Biaches and Perone. The owner was there in August, 1914, when Von Kluck's forces passed through during their rush upon Paris. She remained in her house and for months after- ward no news was heard of her. One of her sons, Victor Fernet, son-in-law of Gen. Boisdeffre, although free from military obligations, volunteered at the beginning of the war, and the hazards of war sent him recently to the Somme front, where he has shar- ed in all the attacks made. A letter from Germany had inform- ed him that his mother, who had re- mained until a short time ago at La Maisonpette, had been sent away with almost all her aged servants, so that he was able to take part in an attack which meant the destruction of his home without the fear that his mo- ther was still there. The Germans made six . desperate efforts to retake La Maisonnette be- tween 11 p.m, Sunday (July 16) and Monday afternoon, Each was made by at least a battalion, but each was defeated. 3000 SHIPS UNDER JELLICOE. Tightness of the Blockade Sur- passes Expectations. In an article in the current number a "Cassell's Magazine of Fiction” on British effort on land and sea; Mr, Frederick' Palmer, the well-known American journalist and war corres- pondent, tells that "including the re- gular naval and the auxiliary vessels, some 3000 ships are under Sir John Jellicoe's command. Success in keep- ing tight the blockade between Ice- land and the North Sea surpasses ex- pectations. It was feared that a number of raiders might get by, and, considering that the fog in the North Sea is often so thick that a man can hardly see his own hand held out be- fore him, it is amazing that only one raider has got through at tho time of writing. Tho fuss made over that single one is proof of the pudding to naval experts, who realise the cliffueil- ties if the layman does not. It was as unusual as in The ease of the man bitin8 the dog " ' ' ' CANADA'S GREAT TELESCOPE SAID TO BE THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD. Instrument Is for Use of the Do- minion o.minion Observatory at Victoria, B.C. The great 72 -inch reflecting tele., scope designed and constructed foil the Dominion Astronomical Observa• tory at Victoria, B.C., ranks in size as the largest yet completed in the world. In design tho teleseene is a reflector 6 feet in diameter with an equatorial type of mounting, having the main or polar axis pointing to- wards the north star and swinging the body of the telescope in a plane parallel to the earth's equator and the apparent paths of the stars; and e declination axis at right angles to and passing through the centre of the polar axis, to allow movement north and south. The instrument weighs 55 tons, and will rest upon massive piers of reinforced concrete. The polar axis is .23 feet long and weighs 10 tons. The declination axis weighs 5 tons, is 141 feet long, 161/2 inches in diameter, carrying a flange 41 inches in diameter and 4 inches thick, to which the body of the telescope is attached. The tube is 31. feet long in three sections, and weighs 12 tons. The central cylin- drical casting is 121/2 feet long, and weighs 7 tons. The mirror cell, weighing with counterpoises and mirror 6 tons, forms the lower end, while to the upper end is firmly at- tached the rigid skeleton tube, made of structural steel in tension. The skeleton portion of the tube is 23 feet long, 71/2 feet in diameter and weighs with attachments about two tons. Driven by Clock. A driving clock similar in design to that which has been so successful in the Lick and Yerkes telescopes, moves the telescope east or west with great precision, through an ac- curately cut worm wheel 9 feet in diameter mounted on the polar axis. The telescope is moved from one position to another, and is set and guided wholly by electric motors. Seven motors with solenoids and magnetic clutches are' provided for these motors. With the focal length of 108 feet the guiding speed neces- sary for a star image is 1,300 inch per second. The observer, at either the upper or lower ends of the tube can clamp or unclamp the telescope, make the fine settings and guide the tele- scope by means of, push buttons on a portable key board kept at a con- venient place. Weighs 43 Tons. The engineering and mechanical problems involved in designing and constructing a telescope of such great proportions and accuracy will be apparent when considering the extreme 'rigidity necessary for carry- ing arr -ing the optical parts invariably in their correct relative positions with- out strain, and at the sante time so well poised and adjusted as to en- able the telescope to bo easily pointed towards and accurately, set on any desired object, and to enable the whole massive mechanism weigh- ing 43 tons, to unvaryingly follow the motions of the stars. The sun, the moon, the planets and the comets all have different rates of motion to that of the stars, and all this must be provided for in the controlling mechanism. The revolving dome is 06 feet in diameter, and is provided with a double shutter having an opening 15 feet wide. Its weight is 120 tons. All of the movements of the dome, telescope, wind shields, shutters, etc., are by means of electrical motors. The principal mirror is 73 inches in diameter, 12 inches thick, and pierced with a hole in the centre. The mirror weighs 2/ tons; yet it is so accurately poised that no flea tions can distort its surface, which must nowhere deviate from the theo- retical curve more than the two hundredth -thousandth part of an inch. The instrument is made to allow its use in three forms, the New- tonian, Direct or Caasegrain forms. The secondary mirrors are 9 inches in diameter. This great engine of science, the largest completed telescope in the world, is now being erected at Vic- toria, B.C., by order of the Dominion Government for the Dominion Astro- nomical Observatory in charge of Dr. Plaskett, Chief Astronomer, un- der the late Dr. King at Ottawa. Doing The Work Of The Army. By a piece of good luck the new re- cruit had been appointed orderly to his captain and the latter was now giv- ing him his instructions. "You are to rise at 6 o'clock," he said; "shave yourself and clean your, boots and equipment. Then you clean my boots, buttons, belt, etc., shave me, see to my horse—which you must groom thoroughly and clean the equipment. After bhat you go to your hut, help to serve out breakfast, and after breakfast lend a hand wash- ing up, At 8 o'clock you go on par- ado and drill! till 12"-- The recruit, whose face had been growing longer and longer, then inter- rupbod. 'rev pardon, sir, but is there any one else 10 the army beside% rhe„" J ee i