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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1902-02-13, Page 2< ,ed.cr.ord "Zer..ere"Wie aenr,a4CCee,,VCCW1 TUE FALL OF A 6000 MAN.' (B 1aLmnn F. DIV.) egeteeeKWeeeret Regularly every Sunelay• afternoon 1 on Ida way to tiervice the MIlliater e etal for Aunt M'el Stevens. Aloft is a poor, lone widow. If 1,110 Mtnieter had not called to take leer along In Ills team it is to be ) (eared that the emor old seat would not have heard his kierneOne very Anti tO think thin had to happen 1 "Laud salees, ye're eiirlY. WW1- yet elder," elm °ailed oat of the door when he drove up to the gate Vother Sunday. "I haven't got all my chores dope yet, An I havezet got my dreee changed nor nothing. lent dret- Cul sorry, but I guess yeel better go right along 'without Me." There %%lei a note of regret in her voice that touched the eltier'e heart. The minister climbed oat of his car- riage and littetted his horse. He went Into the house where the fiestrated old lady was bustling abOut. What have you got to do, sister ?" he lurked kindly. eAlmut ail the chores are done, ex- cept feedbe the call," she said. "His vIttles are mixed all right, but I haven't had time to go out anti tend him . 1 weaned him off the cow last week and he's been a master sight of bottler over since. Ont in- tendlu' to veal him, but the butcher - Won't he round till week alter next." "You go right ahead, Sister Stev- ens, awl change your dress, and PR se out and feed tb.e calf. I know how to do it. 1 was brought up on a. (arm, you know." 'Masse'. elder, I couldn't think of tette' you do such. a thing. It's a terrible gormin" piece of work Aud here you are all in your ameba' best." "Sister Stevens, we are here on earth to help each other. The best way I can start my Sunday is to help you by /eating that calf. Where is the pail?" So tile eider took the pall and trotted ont to the barn, where a hutigrs calf was already calling for hie breakfast in lusty earitone. When he saw the minister coming with the brimming pail he lowered his head and commenced to butt tit fIr•zy frontlet ,against the bars of his stall in an ecstasyof anti - mire time "Steady, now, steady, now, you handsome little fellow," crooned the minister soothingly, as he stepped gtligerly over into the pen. "Steady, now!" • And then with the skirts of his shiny black frock coat gathered be- tween his knees he poured the warmed skim milk into the • trough, Now *there are ways of feeding a enlf o that he will not do the thing that this calf then proceeded to du. No matter what the afore, said ways are, I mention them sim- ply that the calf may be exculpat- ed. Ile anted only according to his lights. Ele meant no disrespect to the cloth. As soon as the elder poured the trough full of milk the calf rammed nefle clean to the bottom'. The Mills wail up to nis eye. Through noee and mouth with one area au p lee tOole in all he could swoop. It Hiatt off lite breath. He elioked. Ile yanked hie head out of the trough and wtttk whoof like the bellow /rout the ex - hawse pipe a a steam: mill -he blew. ,KITCHENEll'S BIG ItiEEKLY The elder wee right In front of Mtn. After the exploeion he looked ete though 110 had been etantling in the middle ot a dairy kitchen when a eye clone Struele it, The reet of -the story Aunt Stev- elle has tole many times to the herr).- fled neighbors. be riaYs: "1 heerd something of a touse out in the barn just use I was tying my bunnit strings. The elder didn't memo in as quick as he ought to have CIMIU and so I went out there to see what was up. Wall, I do hate dretful to tell ye the reel:, I wouldn't have be- lieved It of him, never, not if the best friend I ever had told me, no, sir, that I wouldn't "And to think that Sunday after Sunday I have rid to chureh with thee be -wolf in *sheep's olothing. To -think Vett I have called him the ealt of the earth! "When I got to the barn there eeemed to be a terrible wrasslo going on in the crag pent I looked over in there. 0, massy, it was awful 1 There etood Elder Smert rislit a -straddle of that calf's/ nook. He had the caff by the ears and plunk, plunk, plank, he wire jabbile his nose down into tbat trough, and what do you think he was mein'? Sayba' right there on Sunday ? It's most ton awful to re- peat 1 Well, eir, he was sayire, grit - tin' hie teeth all the time -he was sayin': " Wad -swelter your dad -rattled pelt, ye wane to chink milk, do ye? Wall, dad baste ye, drink, drink, I say." e 'Elder, elder,' says I, 'who ever bleared the like." "'(Lt eievay from there,' says he, 'Or I'll bold this brindle offshoot of Tophet by the ears and beat your brains out. He'll drink this milk now before I leave him, or I'll chive his nose clear up into tee back of hie neck. 'And do you knew, I had to take the pitchfork and ruin the tine into that man's leg good and solid before lee would let go of that tnercent lit- tle oaf? "Thitnkin it was my bounden duty rtO a good Samaritan should do to the sinful, I took the elder into the kitchen and wiped off his clothes so that he was fit -so fur's the outeltie of him was concerned -to appear in the pulpit, but I told him over and over agin as I felt it in me, that never, never again would I dast to ! ride with a m,an who bad showed, as he had, the cloven hoof of sin. I should expect to be struck by light- : nen out of a clear sky: 1 'Now, that is the kind of a whited ' sepulchre that Is at the head of our blessed church here.' I cam tell you 1 that the presedin' elder will get this ' story straight, arr he'll get it right , from me." Sixty-nine Killed, 17 Wounded 57 Surrendered ANO 574 TAKEN PRISONERS ........"0.4••••••=•••••••••6, FRENCH FISHERMEN AND THE OCTOPUS PEST. Probably never since Last Island, In tho Gulf' of Mexico, was swept away, 45 years ago, by such a hur- ricane as destroyed Galveston, and far many months afterwards the fishermen of Barataria, and Atcha- falaya dared not go to fish because their nete °aught dead bodies every- where, has re fishery been laid pros- trate so strangely as have the fish- eries of the north French coast in UM last three years. But the French fishermen are not soothing corpses in their nets. What they haul ouc of the gray, mold seam of the English Channel, are liv- ing things -perhaps the ugliest liv- ing thing -4 that have their being on the glebe. They are octopi. They fa.sten to the hand lines and rob them of the hooked firth. They crawl into lobster and crab traps and fill them with the slitue of their bodies and theink that they squirt as soon as they find thenteelves captured. They weigh down the deep seines and cling to boats and oars and the fishermen itemsel v es. A vast catastrophe, of which the details never will be known by man bas happened in the !secret deep nbyes of the outer Atlantic Ocean, and has driven these creatures of night and ooze to seek the shallow- er •waters. It is a happening most monstrous, most unnatural. It is as if the graves had opened and were parading their sacred mysteries. For nature, having made the octopuee at once, as it she had become horri- fied at her own handiwork, banished the creature to the graves of tlie ocean -to those deep, dark chasnes where only the explorer's dredge penetrates and gropes awhile blindly, bring up fragmentary oaptures that hint frightfully at frightful things that dwell there in everlasting night feud In terrible companions/hip. ellany In English Channel. Beer*, Suffer Ileavily In an Attack on a Supply Convoy -Three More. Cantidlone Marl -Canadian Scouts aetion-lloer Carotin -Dublin Fusiliers Leave Arriea. London, Feb. 10.-A. report received to -day from Lord Kitchener at Pre- toria shows last week to have beers the liveltest week, with tho heaviest losses on both sides, for several months past. Lord Kitchener gives the Boer casualties ha 69 killed, 17 wounded, , 57 Isurrendered and 57e taken prisoners. 'The British. cap- tured 480 rifles, one porn-poin and the usual grist of munitions and live stock. A strong force of Boers attackeer and captured 00 donkey wagons under the escort of 100 lefantry and 60 district mounted corps, 80 miles from Fiaserburg. The Boors were unable to More the wagons, except twelve, and the remainder were burned. Col. Crabbearrived and drove the Boers north after a severe engagement. In the attack on the convoy and inCrabbe's fight two °Misers foal ele'ven men were killed and one officer and 47 men were wounded. The Boers lost 24 killed and 47 woueded. Nano won captured. One huudred men of Daruees col- umn were rusheet at eight near Calvinira. During their retirement on dm pain body three officers and seven men were killed and seven- teen wounded. Major Von Dollop surprised Poet- getter's laager at Rhenoseer Seruet, and a Free State laager at Zatiti- Zlingsfontein simultaneuttely at dawn on Feb. 81h, killing two Boers and capturing thirty-six. leoetgeiter es- eaped In 1I/11 611.1rt eleeves. ; Greatest Single capture. Lord Isatchener's great plan, whieli he has been elaborating for neentlis past, failed by the escape of Be Wet, but was successful in the greatest raugle capture of Boers since Lord Kitchener arrived in Beath Africa. Altogether 23 columns were eut- deep sea inhabitant that, whatever It was, was mighty and frightening enough to frighten even 'them, 'school after school of the,m came swimming toward shore. Within a week they were a men- ace, for the fislt fled before them. Within} a mouth they'were a plague. Within two months they were the greatest foe the fishermen of the Channel Islands and of the Nor- raany coast ever had to mentend with and now they havet become a calatialty. - For the oetopi leave not returned to their hiddenhomein the ocean, LIA4 men hoped they would. Instead, each year has seen more of them. Whether the unknown catastrophe has rendered their old lurking places .uninhabitable or whether they have found the rich waters of the Eng- lish Channel more congenial, none can say. But scientists and ichthy- ologists believe that the octopi were driven from their homes outside of the English Channel, in water( a thousand and more feet deep, by a eudden falling off of tidel food sup- ply, and that it was starvation that liae forced them to seek( the inshore watere.. From Cape de In Hague to the Channel Islands no net can be cast now without the sea nightmares crawling into et at once, to strip it cf fish. The visitation has extended even to the bathing resorts along that coast, and every tide brings contorted forms with arms writhing as if in deadly agony. In pools along the coast they lie, some dying, others full of life and whipping their sucker - lined, snaky tentacles at all who a nen rich them. The creatures are the most pienti- tut In the English Channel from the well -named Casket Ielands, that have proved caskets indeed to shIpe Innu- merable along the curve that marks the 120 -foot depth to the Channel Islands. Of those Channel Islands one te Sark -the Island of Victor Ilugo's devil.fish, described by him in "The Toilers of the Sea." Sark's marine eavea, In one af which he laid his scene of the famous fight between the Octopus and his hero, now con- tain. not one, but herde of the grey Oleg% "brooding in the aberse." They ere not such monsters as he described. Few of them are larger in the Isely than a manes lone, and their tentaeles rarely are more than ten feet long. Their average weIght le from ten to twenty pound& Bat they are there in hordes. They have not rit larked man, except to fight back Its 1.11,V were .attacked. But they have rendered man helpless n,nd almost ruined the one mode of live - Mood Jeft to bine in those waters. Became 11 Plague. Tile oetepl meths their first appear. anoe 111 the autumn Of 1800. They dill Dot crone gradually. Suddenly one day the sea arOund Sark, Grierney and Herrn, ware full of them Fleeing item 50150 itilaghlary horror Of their el4Serceee?ietete?..etWee(Yeee.e.e The Besom of the White Queen A Story of a Little gust Indian War ..:.4.'r44MaoaW'w'afrxeP;§mP:or,etKi.a;p-,p-Awre-ee". "Tile Words of Women," said the Balm, meditatively, "are au the wind In the tree -tope, and their justice Is as the smoke of the evening, meal," elioole his head gravely as he stood at the top of the Maid and looked down four tlieueaml feet to the valley heloty, "Yesterday 1 stole grain and ghee and they eareesee me 1 To -day I have done nu evil and they beat me be. cause some plot, have gone a -missing, 'Tis a slu to steal pine, yot would I have done so had there been need, but what should I do with pica? There is nought to buy or sell here," And the Babe, who, when his father Wire away, feared neither God nor man, to his heathen little soul, onoo more scanned the valley, then turn- ing, made prints in the dust with his leer° feet as If he were going to the clearing under the doodare where most or the children played. Once off the beaten track, however, he ran swiftly, but with Infinite preoautien, In the opposite direction. For the Baba meant to enjoy himself in lils own fashion, end had no mind to be oeught by -the women or to thew his lair to -anyone else. So he toiled up the steep mountain side till he reach- ed a cleft between two cliffs; there the ground was soft with springing vegetation and blue with gentian, and the Baba flung himself down with a sigh of satisfaction, for the climb was a hard one for him. Ile sooa peeked himself up again. Life was a serious matter in his ()yeti, and there as much business to transact The etortn In the night had blown down many of the houses in his miniature village these he repaired dexterously;crooning a Otte song the while • his ;looks of goats had to be milked and led out to graze; the wo- men had to be scolded, and maybe beaten for their careleseness; lile gun -a, bit of branch -had to be cleaned; a deer was killed and brought into the village, and altoge- ther, by the time the sun etood high' In the heavens, the Baba wag tired and hungry. ployed in an ammense irregular par- allelogram formed by the lines of olockuouses, and tbe railroads be- tween Waive Hoek, Frankfort, Lind- ley and Kroonstadt. It Is estimated that DeWet's forces amounted, rough- ly speaking, to 2,000 men. Lord Kitchener personally superin- tended the final preparations for the expedition, and the great move was mode over, a front of forty miles, the a.dvauce extending six.* miles, - with the object of driving the •Boers against: the railroad line, Where ar- mored trains were, patrolling, art.1 were repeatedly in action shelling the Boers to prevent their crossing the railroad. De Wet succeeded in iiiimeing through the lines to the southward. The whereabouts of Mr. Steyn is unknown, though one report says he is with De•Wet. Three Mere Are Dead. Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 10. -Three more young Canadians have offered up their lives in the CatiSe Or the Em- pire. His Excellency was advised to- day by the Casualty Department at Gape Town of the 'deaths Of Thomas Trickey and W. E. Hedgitinson,at doemfontein, aud R. J. Stobo, at Heidelberg. All were member.; of the -South African Constabulary. Trickey came from Beulah, Man., Hodgkinson trout Kincardine, Ont., and Stouo irom Scarborougto Ont. lei:Aerie fever was the cause of death in each case. Mittens Deetroyed. mighty feasting this has been and is. The food fish that have been de- etroyed since 1890 are counted ea millions. But there Is another feast- ing that the human mind happily can- not coneeive in its appalling details. a'oulel a man look down into the Kil- len sea off the Casket Rocks, where In thirty fathoms ship lies by ship. what sight sufricient to blast the vielon forever from a human eye might not be viewed. Conceive the unearthly herds that come to 1)08. tura in that loet place of the drown- ed dead. They the not swim, or float, or drift, or walk. Each bulbous, ten- tacled thing spurts water from ite mouth and so darts backwards with incredible segiftness, with a motion like nothing else that lives, Eight tentacles, each quivering and sent - eat with an evil life of its own stream in the current. TWO immense eyes, unlike those of any creature that ever was, fiat as the ghastly face pieces that are fitted in coffins, are at the head of each slimy, pallid bulb. Those flat disks do not gleam They have tight but it is the dim light of the see, that they reflect But those serpentine, murderous "Strike hard when the long knives flash, but eat and sleep while thou canst," he said in grave imitatioa of his grandfather's philosophy, and af- ter his frugal meal of stolen grain. and ghee, Imourlect himself up like a little wild animal and fell asleep half buried in the starry blue gentians. And all this time the Highlanders and Goorklicts were winding their way up the hill-ehle. For one of the interminable' little wars against the border people was draggiug outs its slow couree, and the Brigadier had fexed on thie village as a splendid strategic position-, and intended to entrench himself there that night. So, whilet the Baba slept, strange sounds crept Into his' brain and he dreamed he saw the black horse of Nikkul Seyn °meshing up the 11111-alde with its rider stern, erect and splen- did, till he leo,ped over the rock In trout of laim. Thee the Baba started up wide awn,ke ready to hide, with tele inherited instinct of ages, only to find that escape was impossible, for a strange man was stooping over him, • and the man's band was on his arm. A little man, somewhat bandy-leg- ged, with a beaming smile on hist ugly face. Altogether. smell an inof- fenelve enemy •that the _Baba's Riede and dignity Tone. "Whc artethou -who comet 'thus In- to my vUlage 2" he asked angrily. "My people Shall throw thee over the khud!" "So, thy people,"- mid the 'soldier, grinning more insufferably than ever, "And where are thy people, my little lord of the mountains?" "Hest always talk women's taller" asked the Baba superbly. "Where do people dwell but in a village "? "Do the .vrild deer dwell in peace when the tiger is on their track? elven so thy people have fled. I fear the kaud is not for me to -day, Huz- earl" • , Thee was newe with a vengeance, and the Baba's face puckered up for a, howl, when a new ideals:truck him. and black, laughed as tho procession passed. Now the 13a11a hated being laugeed at, and alter trying to find out the cameo of this unseemly mirth, he de- cided time It was became he did, not pet Me hand to his forehead as his wort die, and being a sharp etyle, Ito drew hamself up like a ramrod and 'Arm* Me forehead the next time the man saluted. But at this the laughter redoubled, and it was an utterly furious Baba that stopped at last before Ms own but where the 13rigadier sat. It was a curious seene Of mingled peace and war The snowy moun- t' taine-sappldre, amethyst, rose and gold in the setting sun -framed Du the little shelf of land, rising in peak above peak, range above range, until they faded away in the dim distance against the quivering light of the sky. Lower down, in the shadow, the dark cleodars mingled with the lig:liter foliage of other trees, and in the valley the river .vvound its way like a silver ribbon. Here and there the ory of a jungle fowl, the coo of a, wood -pigeon, or the °all of a pheasant alone broke the brooding ellenee of the evening. But at the edge of the precipice the screw -guns had been placed, just whore they could drop their shot with deadly precision on any one Passing through. the valley, or u.t- tempting to storra the village. The battery mules were grazing; the Martinis stacked; the camp fires were gleaming, and the sentinels were already pacing up and down. Every- where was the ordered precision awl quiet strength which have won and lkept an empire for us in a hostile continent, tho cen•tre of the pie- turesque scattered groups sat the Brigadier- a gray-haired, handsome dandy, who never under any circum- stances beet the gracious courtliness width hacl descended to him with his great name -and before him stood the child of the conquered race that had fought and lost and loved in their mountain fastnesses agee. be- fore the English nation struggled into existence. " How old art thou ?" asked the Brigadier, who had a halting ac- quaintance with the dialects of most of the hill tribes. "Five summers old." "So. And thy name ?" "The Baba." "Hest no other name?" 'The Baba shook his head. "There is indeed,. another name, bu,t it is long and I know it not. Burt' the 130,13a 10 enough, for there be many Babas, and some are little and cry, and NOM are bigger arta fight, but I am the sou of Ali Khan, and there- fore am the Baba." "Humph: And w.here is thy fa - "Hast theri?" "Hest had no lessons in our tongue? Thou-epeakest it very' bad- ly,' Said the Baba calmly. But at this the laughter. of the men broke . out again and the Baba's rage leaped uo like a, flame. He longed to fly at them' tooth and nail, like the little mountain -eat that he was, but they were so big arid he was so little; they were so many and he was all alone! For the .first- tine a sense of Iris lone- liness welled up in his tearless baby heart and his beautiful eyes brim- med over with. tears.- T,11011 he looked up boldly at the Brigadier.. "T.611 thy 'men,- net" to laugh at me. There is nought to make sport about, and I an all alone 1" The Baba was perilously near breaking out again, but hall the men understood, and the Brigadier quietly translated the child's words into English. And after that. not one man of the chivalrous race that has fought to the death to guard les honor, but would- have out off his right hand rather than wound that pa- thetic dignity. "Now, where is thy father ?" "Out fighting the White Queen." "And 'thy people?" "Nay, 'I know not. Belike thou hast swept them over the khud, if thou art the Besom of the Wbite Qtreen." The child trotted to the precipice and peered over in the sunset, whilst the Goorkha, saluting, ex- plained what the " Besoue of the White Queen" was. In the middle of the explanation the Baba returned. "Nay," he said, with a sigh of relief, 'thou hest not swept them away." "Of a truth, nay; the Bosom' of the White Queen has nought to do Nirith Women and children, But wilt Canadian Scouts lueAction. London, Feb. 10.-Reater's special correspondent at Pretoria reports that the Canadian Scouts are now representative of ' several colonies, and commanded by Lieut. -Col. Ross, the well-known Canadian leader. Although they recently trausferred their activities to the eeene , of operations against DeWet at San- derton, the end of December they had their _first engagement on the Vaal, where they captured a punt which was in use by the Boers. The latter held a position on the other side of the river, ethieh the Scouts prepared to attack. They comenenced to cross in the -captured punt, when the horses sank the lat- ter, and crossing was rendered im- possible. Though under a heavy fire, the men who Were already aproth returned safely, time Boers being kept eV by a Colt gun, and losing four MOD, one of them evi- dently a prominent person, judging frour the stir erected among tile enemy. Doer eilinittees. London, Feb. 1.0. --The Cape Town correspondent of the Daily Mall says that a, letter found upon re Boer recently captared in the Transvaal revealed a !IOW trail 'arm% those (load eyes, those soft. of burgher "slininees." The letter puleating, leprous begs that are thetr Was dated from CoYlon, and purs" bodies atilt are not the worst of the ported to be written by a pris- oner there to his brother in South Africa, It was ar impassioned ap- peal to the addressee to use his influence with Drava to mid the War, ree tho Boer cause was hopelesis and the idea, Of interVention was Mefferd. It occurred to a suspicious official, hOwever, to try the &tilde or rabbing soot ou the blank page of the letter. no effeet was Magi- cal. A. new message appeared on thoblaokened page, urging Ithe burgle-, era to continuo the etruggle, US WIS. dan interveation Was inunifient. ootopus. ear rnore un- nerving la this: the aspeot of the monitor is that of a living creative W•ithout a soul. Here are motion and intelligence and action and fear; but thoy belong to a thing from another world. No other living creature look ei like that; ne other inspires SUCII dread and repugnarice.-Cid- cago Tribune. Melvan Hall, who is wanted for burglaricie and other daring crimes in Stormont and GlengarrY, anl Who Is luild at Ogdensburg, will bo turned -over to the Government of Canada in a few days. Steeeph te Lerner, it farmer of Dor., eiteeter, P.) years of age, dropped dead while drosaing. /Ie had suf- fered for unto time from an (Mee - flee of the heart. A evidoet and one eon eurvivo hint. Mnie. Mathilde Sera°, the novel• Lit, a BOMB dee/lintel say, has ape plicA for the deseolution Of her mar- riege with Signor Seatfoglio, editor of the Mattino, of Naplea, on the ground that her huebatiere condeet Mee Involved and compeombled her 15 a Neapolitan Minideipal Beandal. The Dublin lensilleria. London, Feb. 3.0. -The Standard'e correspondent at Durban says that - the 2nd Battitlion Dublin FUelliera hate sniled for Aden. The regiment hnef bear in South Africa throlighout the War., anti has been highlY dielin- gobbed by. Its °endue'. In tho field. At the embarkation the Natal Trish Atesecietion presented an address, re- cognizing the services CO the bat- talion during the war. Steete stated 'het lees titan two lin-mired of the inen who origin/illy landed are now In the ranker the reminder have bern either killed, wounded or in‘ valided. • • wag needed to kindle !wax°, not war. As for Ali Khan, bitter at the de- Fiertion of Me little son, mieerably uneerte.in whether the chill wteel alive or dead, ho could au uotning but wander &trolled heighte IIL the hope of getting some news; vow- ing hi Me desolate eoul that the livee of ten Englisioneu should pay for even' hair of that preoloue head If the child had been injured. So one acaarnat 1°11(in14"islicuplaktlinoi: ();:okcileati", and the Baba strutting at eloirei side with an imaginary gen over lite ittotilill,der, saw the mon coming up the hi:le:hole: al': 3a, moment, then tore down the Mil-skie and sprang into "0, my son, my little son 1 Heart of xaY heart, bast then forgotten "How could I forgot thee?" aekee the Baba, "are thou not my father ?" But Mi Kimn's eyes were dim, and all his manhood could not supprese one deep sob as he felt the supple aligttalien.form nestle down in his arms "Here is my father. I tom thee he would (some," announced the Baba, two mine tee later, saluting the Brigadier. " And, oh, father, wilt thou too be a twig and sweep away the enemies of the Queen 7" "None gave thy tongue deenee to wag so freely," Fetid All Khan, an- grily,ob nei (ilt atonibeeaosi !eon: gl I not speak evenni"asi ltviilloenredrgsrt°?s""s”oubld- eaand. admonitory tap Ho always whimpered on principle when his father struck him, having learned by experience that, though his hands were heavier than those of the women, yet he was softened by a few tears much more readily than they were. "We have spoiled him, I fear," said the Brigadier, "but then we are tender with our little ones and do not elenttevmaypent to the tiger or the Ali Khan started as If he had been struck, and his fingers grasped his vicious Khyber knife. Bat the Brig- adier smiled suavely, flicked imag- tinoanrey. speck of dust oft his khaki uniform, and Went on In the same "Thou, too, thou woulclist never leave the helpless, or else I have lost the trick of reading the fazes of men." "Host spoken truth. I never for- get friend or foe." "But sometlenes"-the 13rigadier rose and held out Ms hand -"loyal foe makes faithful friend." For a moment the hill -man's keen eyes searched the Engliehman's face, boufixitigdaleicifeeleawrtas too sore with the sense wtaoityedieldwiteritllYie, paanctlietnire mon learn In the silnece at the hills. And peace and war hung in the balance in the pause that followed till the Baba muttered pettishly :• "They have nought to say, these Men, and yet thetr cry en silence, silence! Thus my mouth is hut whim I have much -so =eh to say." "Thou hacl'st better speak then," ens -veered AIL Than, glad perhaps to gain time, "there will be little peaoe till thou hast said thy say." The B.abn, seleceed a stone and sat down grunting, in absurd imitation of talinmott.ld and heavy man ehoking with "Would it not bo better for thee and for me to keep the law and or- der of the White Queen and sweep away all her. enemies? Then had we peace and safety and the women would weep lees." • ith"Hanaiertr. fojgotteit that am All "Nay. But ,Scindia and the Nizain are greater men, than thou art, yet they, too, are frielids of the Great Queen." ottast forgotten that -we of the tiatahai are tree men roue have no moat to be in bonuage to- any Y" 'Tome is not. a very I.hg free - 00111. And then tilpself one day when titou had at oeaten. ine, take ate the tato ca the elepnatie foes - the waieet folk in the wrest 'how they work togeilier antl fellow the lead of the areateet, keeping the wrest law. Only wean, one grow s must and runs amos =rouge, the wrest, -that one truly tree, but then he is a,grunst all and all ere againet huu, Anti men call him mau time emoot Ilan witamit pity. Tune evea bereetts are suufeet to law anti oruer-how mutth, more then thou anet 1? Ana, oh, fattier," the Baba onoed beseeoldnglY, "1 would SO lain uts a natio twig and have a istiftri and guio that pokes like the (Rank - has." t '"_CnOtt bast learned thy Leeson well,' answered hes father, granite/. "Lesson," -ctiett the Baba, jumping up iurioue, mora at the tone Own at etee. words, which he liaruly under- stood. "Lesson: Annl. a woman, that 1 thould 'say yea, yea, nay, nay, as the men-ioik wish ? but 1 kuow, 1 nave ?seen, and when the beart is big with knowledge, then Meth the tongue the right to teach." The Baba, retreated, primently, but "With a' the dignity o• Free Kirk becherall," McBeane the sergeant, 14.4.ALletrie(14e. lad," said the Brigadier, "aed eyes aro beautiful as thotre of a woman." "He bath the yes of hip mother." "Ahe murmured the Brignuier, seeing his first shaft had gouo Leone slier "Silo died when the babe was born." The tshadow of a. remembered sor- rowfar,e,falicnkcietrliede olarintahne ofianwe, ittinpassive "So. The, eyes of a woman, the courage O. a man, and the ready tongue of tho Vida°. Ho will be llos- saldar long after 'we have fought Our hest fight, thou and I, All Khan 1" ' And again the 'Brigadier saw that hts words,had gone home, though on the davrer was: "That saMo tongue runs too swiftly foe my pleasure." "Maybe. Yet the child hathspolten Well and truly. ThOu cleat not need to give me proofe- of thy eourage; thou hast heard my name -and that net once or twice -fend no man over add I held beck where the battle rolled. Thou menet help Me if thou wilt, though Oda keowest I Can do my were>, do it well, without thee. Fight if ye Will, but thee° are little graves green en the hill -side, and, When firo aral eWord ren through the land, many a CMG the chil- dren euffer for the father% though We fight not with the '13a.ba-loguol And is the nettle -of berderethief so sweet that yeliterld it lightly. elewn whiero &Frt. aa a child's ithetittentedo joArinoari find In being Oho of a 'nation whose kialgdorn Mule front Went to East, and bank again to the West - far as the foot of man hath trod? AAnd whm braeo men meets bravo men should they not be friends?' Once again tho Brigadier role, and me the two stong men look- ed into Melt °there eyes Ali Khan Paw a pride. ot taste Ana eonrage es great' as his oVen, and kneeling, laid his hands In "Art thou the Besom of the White Quern?" he asked, sittieg on . his heele and looking up 'with bright !startled eyes, "because. thou 'art Iter beerom she hath but a little omen' "What dost thou mean?" asked the puzzled Goorkho.. "Now, I well tell thee," answered She Baba, proud .of having made an impression. "My father is out with the -men fighting against the White Qiieen, for we are free men, we of the Gadizal. But ere he went the headsmen had a Dig talk. I ran away thou eat with me, son of Ali from the women and, being little, lild „lma „ „„ and listened. Some eaid one thing, 'A "Not so " and the Baba spat Some another, but my grandfathee ht a d'i ft. "I eat with no white who is old and very wise, said: "Fight if tem. wilt, but I, who fought with aegviler; Her: be men who serve iny Nliskul Seyn, knots what the power Eoclife he pointed to the Goermifte of thee Great Queen is.' And my fa- wilt eat witb. th " 13M. Good, and wilt thou sleep with ther answered: 'Thou haat spoken ' truly', yet the gray wolf hunts with them, too, little brother 7" Tlie child shook his head, and it; own pack ; neede must that I fight stepping arshie, twisted his hands vvith my brethren.' And then I slip - round Stewart Moiree big fingerer. ped out, for, if my father had found "I sleep with hien till my father me, 'he would harve struck me many t n times, and his hands aro not as the r° ase," 1 said "for surely hods hands el the women. Now, art thou a Ina"' . *the Besom '?' And when the rounds that night "Nay," nald the Goeekint, "I mil but came to the light of 'the flickering one very little twee-" watch -fire, they saw the giant Herta a. voice rang down Irene the Highlander sound asleep, ander his • heights above: " plaid, with one brown dimpled term "Ell, .Tolunty, Ilya -got any one?" flung round him, and the baby tate "Iss," cried the little man, grInnieg half hidden in his neck. SO that Ills byes nearly disappeared, After that dame 'days in fairy - and the Baba looked at bine In (limp- land for the Baba, when he learned proe tng astoia I elunen t. many new and wonderful things. "Then Why canna ye eay so, man'?" How, for instance, there is o lib - And down from the crags came a erty that is onlynot license, as huge Highlander, Wbo, When he saw there is 0, license that is never 1 11 - the mighty enetny squatting like a arty; how no man ever won in the frog in the gentians, burst into a struggle against the Grea,b Queen; e hout of laughterhow there Were kliegs and princes, . The little eloorkhe SUddenly bedtime beside wham his ,Tather was. as grn ve, nought, ewho Were' eager to claim "Seest thou," he Batelle the vernac- her Imentiship, and paid her trete ulagdaying his hand on the ecotch- bute as loyal subjects. He learned man's sleeee, "here is another little to ride the kickleg battery mules, twig of the Queeree begone. Is he to salute and pima:eat armee lin large enough for thee ?" watched the hellograph worhing and le;o•IrIsinghowlithebrgetralltlIC' eltlearnitrhaeti°01/1111aa d t thnth ed retseage come flashIng bath, conceiVed unbneled reverence angry, ""my gods are the same 00 siegac flashes! of light like the gods of the the for all the officers as tuen Who "ely god," echoed the Gootkba, half Could talk to others triiitte awa-th 011110 ; we be fellowestddiOrS/ ho alla thunder. He patronized the: Goer - I. Now, shall 110 (tarry thee bath to khan in a lordly fashlore VS the eatap ? It Is getting late. and 'Us far huge delight of the little to the' 'village for thy little feet." men ; bat he trot t ed after The fair, tanned face rold blue eyes Stoivat t MOir like a of 1110 the Iligillindet were very differeet ful puppy. To him he chattered by fkotn thin° ar his tathsrt yet 801110' the hour, glad regardless of the how the Baba knew 'that In those fact that eloIr understood no word arms ho would be Ps safe as in his - at want he said. And the Highlander, 'father% BO ho nodded as he Was atgi plek- sturdy' ul kint, Whet° r of now ed up, then, sucking his thumb, he h - et reef! on ay rat er n notion han nestled bra against the soldier'e ev„ toanguage, began to feel lonely bread chest and studied 11151 meditate ulete the little brterve hands tugged ivety, while the fnen ran lightly clown at his kilt and the wild, bright eyes tho 111114,1de' to the village. Once hulked admiringly' at him. there the Child inested WrilkIng. "Whitt have ye got there, Stewart But the days that flow by for the var.?" llouted the sergeant. Baba dragged their Flow length along e "Tie the enemy we've eaptured, In pain and 'terror for Ms People, end I'm for taking him to the Brig,a- After their first successee the border cher, Who is pertieularly wielitul to tribes Were getting badly beaten, see nil captives," answered Moir, and a whisper of diseouritgement, of t1ioc ot the Englishman. otollely, with a twinkle In Ids blue the wiedoni of surrender, ran through And thon, day atter day the hill - eyes, whilst all the soldlert, white the different villages; Only a spark men peered 'into camp, 13;inglog In their riflos; the elders met a moat resplendent Brigadier in Meant dnr- bar; the headoinon et the villegee brought tribute; gave up the men who had burned and looted the forts, and woo more took the Oath of Allegiance. For if a man sins, he mast pay for It hluiself evith his own skin, azul ate for the oath of a border -tribe, it is lightly taken and lightly brolgoul But All Khan took the oath of blood - brother to the Brigadier *Loa Isom; It. to hie dying day. And the heliograph flashed and winked more jubilantly than ever, and the telegraph took up the tale, so that men nt Peshawar arid La- hore and beyond the sea declared that the Brigadier was the right man In the right place, and agreed with mnoli wagging of heads, that he aloe() could manage the frontier trIbee. Dat there aro makers or the Eine pire whose names no future historian will mien', and It was only ono of the despised women who, finding the 13aha disconsolately watching his friends mareli away, caught him up and 'hugged him, or,ying. "That Is thy work'Baba; 'tie thy little hands that have drawn us home again I" "Let me down, lot mo down!" screamed the Baba, in abject terror lost any of the Goorkhas should see litm being kissed by a woman. •And pEI she still hogged him, the Bah% slapped her hard. "Bost strike me? Little eon of a. pig 1" Condign punishment followed, and as the last Highlander swung dowln the path, tho Baba onee more pondered sadly over the unfathom- a131p foolinliness of women, -DI, E. Owen Snow, The and QIIilt) Diirereneo. departmental store is useful convenient, but the multifarious nature of its activities sometimes leads to a dilemma. "Where shall I find something nice In oil for the dining -room ?" asked a stout, woman, of the floor- walker in a western departmental store. "On the third-" began the floor walker; then he paused and looked doubtfully at the inquirer. " Did you mean a painting or something in the sardine line?" he asked. 4aLracCollt As12,,aitt,47.16,colt.j37, 9 THE MARKETS lita-ar"7?-71"cr7rerir"Wel/r"WIr To,ronto Farmers' Market. Feb. 10.-Rece1pts af farm produce were 800 busliels of grain, 20 loads of hay-, a Iew dreesed hogs, and the. usual ,Saturday's deliveries a but- ter, eggs and poultry. Wheat -OW bushele sold as followee White, 100 thehele at 70 to 78e; red, 100 bushels at 70 to 73c; goose, 100 buehols at 67 to 67 1-2a. Barley -200 bee:Male at 53 to 63a. 0ats-30U bushels sold at 47 to 48c. e1ay-20 loathe sold at $12 to $14, per -ton for timothy, and $8 to $10 for Clover. r Dreesect Hogs -Prices easier at e8 to $8.20 per cwt. Potatoes -Prices easy, at about 70e per bag by the load. Car lots are easy at about 650 per bag. Pota- tone are being brought to New York from Germany- at a coat of ec per bushel for freight. The freight rate from Torontoto New 'York is 15e per • buteliel, consequently prices are Mode- to be easy horo,' Butter -Prices steady at 18 to 28q per pounce Eggs -on account ot th,e Cold wea- ther, the deliveries of eggs have not been' nearly as large, and prices were firm at 800 per dozen for etrietly new. laid, in fact, special custemers paid as high as 85e in one or two -instances, but 80c was the ruling a flgure. Poultry-Delleeries were not nearly- as large as they generally. aro on' Saturday. Price& were firmer au follows: Turkeys, 12 to 1.6c per Ib.; geeee, none offered; (Woks,- none offered • chickens, sold all the way from' 5,013 to $1.50 per pair, or 12e per, lb. All of good quality -sold read- ily at the latter price. beading Wheat Mathets. Following are the closing quota- tions at important contree to -day: Cash. March,. New York ... 84 Chicago 75 1-8 — Toledo................878-3 Duluth, No. 1 Nor a 73 5-8 --- Duluth, No. 1 hard 76 5,4 -- English Live Stock Market, London, Feb. B. -To -day Ovine are -- unchanged at from 13 to 1.8)ec per le., dressed weight; sheep, 12 1.0 12310 per lb.; lambs, 13% to .Leper pound; refrigerator beef Is firmer. at 101-4 to 1011-20 per lb. Toronto [Ave Ataatt 14,te1tatv; export cattle, ehettae, per owe 14 40 le ee' 60 do medium 3 60 to I 80 do cows tier cwt. 2 30 to 3 50 Butchers! cattle, waked 4 10 to 1 65 do choice . . 3 85 to 4 10 do fair ..... . 348 to 386 So oonunon........ ...... 3 35 to 4 00 do cows.. ....... 2 2.5 to 2 75 d b 11 3 2' Feeders!, fihon-keep 0 55 1.0 4 50 domodatm 3 00 to 3 50+ Stockers 3 00 to 3 50 do 11 la 2 6(4 to 300 Mich 001"7/1, each..". . .. • . 4) 00 o 60 04) Simi% Owns per' mt. 3(45 to 3 50 Lambs, per owt. . . 3 75 to 800 Hoge, choice, noi..1.4•LtiWt; it6 and up to 2e0 lbs 0 SO to 000 Hogs, fel, per ewe 5 76 to 0 00 Hogs, Ui1., tinder 160 lbs, 5 74 to 000 Dumes Iteview, Comparatively little change,- fei noted in the trade situation hi liana. liton and' district durbig the past week. A few retail honeree report gales for January in °nese of the - same month in 1900. Most manufac- turers and jobbers are busy, but la litany oases orders aro hot large. Itradettreet's ou Trade, Montreal wholesale trade has been quite active this Week. The cold weather has helped the sale of hea,vg winter goods, ana it leeks noW ae • if tho retailers would have com- paratively small stoOke to carry' ever at the (acme of the present sea- son. Values cOrithrue very eteteelet- Hamilton Wholesale trade eirclesaret developing the activity that usually !nitrite thie period of the movement: for tho 'spring. Shipments of spring goods are gladly being made in cases inwhiell the rota/lora. Will 0011 - sent to receive them beetturre, owlug to the fact that additional :supplies are now coming to 'tend, the whole- sale trade hz atlXIOUS to command all tlio warehouse apace 150681:1•+. Ac- cording to travellers' repeeto the ro.spoote for Widnes.; eontinues r g Laialon, trail° reporte to Brad- • . Street's aee of a, uniformly enedure aging ellafacter. In Winnipeg there luta been a moderate amount of an- tivity t ineet the ,current demand ef trade. In ?spring mode the dee Mend has been large title weele end shipment 04 aro ,g,rowIng. CottIltrY merchants have ()Morel pretty freely for the Spring, furl seem Soho. A big future dentand,