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Doings and Sayings in
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(London Daily Mail.)
THE INDIAN PRESS.
Tao Littlo Attention Paid, to Ita Influx
enee.
Writing oa "Disaffection in India," in,
"Bleckwocld's Itlagazluo," bit Edward
IfitZUernlcl Law says: " loo little etym.
tion is paid in India to the influence et
the Indian Press. When a single journal
reaches a village its centaur tie react
aloud .by seine member of the vonunun]ty
ails( ongerly dlivuured with that astonish-
ing credulity which is a remarkable ica-
turn in the East. '!'here are nu 1]lu]te tie
T modality, and the fact must be r+elcoiled
With, inure especially when a host of
university -bred agitators are trading
thore,on to excite hostility to the Gov-
ernment.
"The word restraints on journalists
in Western Europe tare nonexistent in
the east, the public appealed to is a to-
tally different. one, and the journalists
themselves are as at rule men of infer-
ior ability according to European stand-
ards, and without elle smallest cense of
responsibility to the public,"
DEPORTED ALIENS.
Only 476 Expulsion Orders Made Since
Act Came Into Force,
Sorno instructive figures bearing on the
. inadequate steps taken to combat with
the trachoma scourge were elicited from
the Home Secretary in the House of
Commons on Monday,
Mee Thornton asked how many people
had been deported from this country.
einee the present Aliens Aet earns into
4feree.
"Quarterly returns," replied Mr. Glad-
stone, "show that 2S7 expulsion orders
wero made against aliens iu the year
1906 and ninety-three in the first quar-
ter of the present year.
"The return for the second quarter
mf this year is on the point of presenta-
tion, and shows seventy-one orders for
the three menthe ending June 30.
"I may add that in the mouth of July
twenty-five orders have been made to
• 476.,
The number of expulsions does not ap-
pear reassuring when it is remembered
that about 100,000 aliens apply to 'this
country for admission every year, and
that traohoma is widely prevalent among
the poorer classes of emigrants from the
Continent.
FIGHT WITH JACKALS.
African Settler's Struggle for Life.
While he waa on a shooting trip about
fourteen miles from his home at Beau-
fort west, Cape Colony, Mr. A. E.
Olerke Kuir, a British settler, had a ter-
rible fight with jackels.
What he took to be it herd of buck
Approaching him turned out to bo a pack
of "Panne" jackals, the large variety so
much dreaded by farmers and herdsmen.
Instead of allowing the pack to pass un-
molested, he fired and killed the leader.
The others advanced on him, and be-
fore they surrounded him ho killed three
snore and wounded two. Then a grim
fight against overwhelming odds began,
for he was alone in the bush. Lasing his
stifle ae a club, Mr. K.uir disposed of a
few more of the brutes, but his weapon
broke and he was left with only the two
barrels to defend himself. By this time
he was fearfully torn and mauled about
the neck, arms and thighs and was rap-
idly growing exhausted.
Just before he sank to the ground un-
conscious one large jackal sprang on his
shoulder and buried his teeth lin lista
neck and ho remembered nothing more.
When he recovered his senses he was in
et sheep great with four friends who had
craved his life.
THE COST OF WAR,
'What England Has Paid During the Last
Century.
Some striking statistics of the cost of
'war to England are supplied by Mr. C. de
Thierry in the United Service Magazine.
During the past century 'war has cost
England. about £1,262,863,711 and a. loss
of 700,000 men.
-et The most expensive wars have been the
Napoleonic, 1793.1816, £800;000,000; the
"Crimea, 1854-56, £100.000.000; the See -
end Afghan Campaign, 1878-80, £18,09x°
000; and the bout,, lifi•,cau, lbii;r-1911.4,
£250,000,000,
Peace losses by emigration have cost
the country 4;1,314,442,038 and 7,000,201
men. Sineo 1820 more ' than 8,000,000
I:nplisit people have Bottled in the Unit-
ed States, whieh in 1000 contained 2,788,-
304 subjects of the King.
COLOR OF EYES.
British Association and a Strange Law
of heredity.
In the village of Burbage, Leicester-
shire, on Saturday, a group of members
of the British Association (which has
been holding its annual meetings at Lei-
cester) was drawn up in line along one
side of a narrow lane, On the other
were marched by and halted et intervals
one hundred or so school children, dis-
tinguished with various badges, Ardent
investigators would now and again ad-
vance from the line of scientists, halt a
group of children, and inspect with mag-
nifying glasses at close quarters their
eyes.
The British Association is asking the
public to co-oportate in hunting down a
secret, of which some fascinating hints
have just been discovered, The difficulty
of investigation is no more than noting
down the color of the eyes in the family.
In the light of science there are only two
sorts of eyes --blue and not blue. It is a
fact that all eyes aro blue or blue -gray
in ground, but a great many have some
other pigment in front of the iris. Hence
appears a strange law of heredity. It is
asserted that where both parents have
blue eyes all the children have blue eyes.
where both parents have brown eyes, all
the children have brown eyes; but it is
where the parents differ that this alleged
law of heredity is most surprising. In
this case brown eyes are said to be domi-
nant and blue eyes recessive, so that of
the children of mixed parents three of
every four will have brown eyes and one
blue.
STRENGTH OF THE ARMY.
Some Interesting Figures by Mr.
Haldane.
Mr. Haldane, in a reply to Mr. Ash-
ley, gives figures which afford an oppor-
tunity of comparing the actual strength
of the army with the numbers provided
for in the army estimates (exclusive of
officers), for several years past.
In 1890 the strength of the army was
202,680, being 4,156 below the establish-
ment. The deficiency in the following
year was nearly 5,000, and in 1892 just
over 4,000. In 1803 the actual number
exceeded the establishment by 1,584, and
increased to over 3,000 in 1895 and 1506.
In 1898 the strength was slightly below
the establishment, but in the following
year—the year of the outbreak of the
Boer war—an enormous decline was re-
corded, the actual strength being 12,333
below the establishment.
The period of the South African war
has been excluded from the reply, as the
numbers then were abnormal. In 1903
the strength of the army was 304,841,
being 35,083 in excess of the establish-
ment.
In the two following years the
strength remained about the establish-
ment, but in 1900 it fell again, the
strength being 13,430 below the estab-
lishment. On Jan. 1, last, the establish-
ment was 250,855, the actual strength
being 6,400 below this.
BRIDE'S TRAGIC DEATH.
Fatally Burned on the Morning of Her
Wedding.
A verdict of accidental death was re-
turned at the Westminster, Coroner's
Court on Tuesday at an inquest on Em-
ily Jordan, the bride of Albert Jordan,
Geffingham street, Pimlico, $$ho died at
St. George's hospital on Sunday from
shock due to burns.
She was married on Sunday morning,
and about 11.15 a. n1., while preparing
the wedding breakfast while her husband
was out for a walk with his best man,
her clothes caught fire.
One of her sisters and a rtan named
I Henry Bungay rendered assistance, but
the woman was badly burned all over
her body before the fistulas were ext
Oohed.
NEM TO 1f1114XONS,
Bittlt of iX Son to the Marquis of
Bute.
A son and heir was born to the Mar,
qui; of Bute at Mount Stuart on Sunday
afternoon. Professor lalliday Croom,
of Edinburgh, was in attendance.
The Marquis of Bute, whose great
wealth is largely derived from Cardiff
Docks, was married in 1005 to Miss Au.
gusto Bellingham, daughter of Sir Henry
Bellingham, alt Irish baronet.
Celebrated in the little parish church
of Iilsarin, County Louth, the wedding
was a social event which aroused wide-
spread interest. The ceremony itself was
of the greatest simplicity, the service
behig performed by the parish priest.
After the wedding breakfast the pair,
headed by Lord Bute's pipers, marched,
to the sea shore, entered a white painted
boat, and were rowed by saitors dressed
in white to their yacht,
Lord Bute, who acme of age in 1901,
has several magnificent residences, in-
cluding Mount Stuart, in the Isle of
Bute, and Cardiff Castle, His grand-
father built the West Bute Dock at a
cost of £350,000, the business being now
carried on by a limited liability company
with a capital of three and a half mil.
lions sterling, The preoent Marquis
owns about 117,000 acres.
VICAR'S STRANGE SPEECH,
Refuses to "Toast" the King Before the
Church.
The Rev. H. Urling Smith, vicar of
Prestbury, clear Cheltenham, caused
great surprise at the annual club dinner
of the local branch of Oddfellows by re-
using to propose the toast of the King
before that of the church.
He has presided at the annual dinner
for the last sixteen years, and has al-
ways proposed the toast of the church
first. A hint was conveyed to him that
the order should be reversed. He charac-
terized the suggestion as an insult to
the church.
Mr. Smith bade the dumbfounded mem-
bers "Good afternoon," and left tura
room.
Tin members drank the health of the
King and adjourned to the village fete.
8,000 -GUINEA PICTURE.
Record of the Season's Sales in London
Art Rooms.
During the London picture sale sea-
son, which has just closed, forty-three
pictures were sold for upwards of 1,000
guineas each.
Last year the highest sum paid for a
single picture sold in the auction room
was 6,400 guineas for Turner's "Rape of
Europa." This year Lawrence's "Miss
Peel," from the Drayton Manor heir-
looms, touched the high-water mark of
8,0119 guineas.
This is also a Lawrence record, the
previous maximum, obtained last Febru-
ary, being only 4,000 guineas.
Twenty-three works by British artists
have this season fetched 1,400 guineas
apiece or more, that being the conven-
tional "master" standard.
NEW FLOATING DOCKYARD,
Could Supply a Whole Fleet With Fresh
Water,
Not only can the public riot view the
new sea -going dockyard, H. M. S. Cy-
clops, at South Dock, Sunderland, but.
even the men who work on it are con-
ducted to their departments and cannot
communicate with any other part of the
ship.
At meal time the workmen, if they
bring food with them, have to go ashore
to eat it.
In this floating dockyard could be
made a new propellor which could be fit'
ted to any man-of-war at sea.
In addition to the foundry, fitted up
with huge cupolas, are forges where
crank shafts can be wrought, and there
are fully equipped copper and brass
works, and rolling and punching mills,
In case of accidents to condensing plant,
the Cyclops could supply a whole fleet
with fresh water.
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Scottish Land Bill Abandoned.
London, _ Because of the dras-
tic amendments which the house of
Lords threatens to make in the Scottish
antral land owners' bill, which was at-
tacked by Lord Itosebery in a brilliant
speech, August 15, the Government has
decided to abandon the measure.
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Lots of people who feel that nothing
is too good for them aren't satisfied
when they get nothing.
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minute. Or you can put on a ten-year roof
that will probably leak after the first rain
hits it, and keep leaking till it is rotted away.
Either roof will cost
you about the same in
money at the start.
But the "Oshawa" -
shingled roof will be
FIRE-PRO OP --liter
ally ; and wind -proof —
actually ; and lightning-
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And that "Oshawa "-shingled roof will be
weather-proof for a century. We'll GUARAN-
TEE in every way for a quarter -century --from
now till Nineteen -
Thirty -Two.
Guaranteed in writing
for 25 years and you
needn't ever paintit,
even ! That's saying'
something, isn't it ?
What would your
trill -man say if you
asked him to •uarantee cedar shingles for even
ten years ? ho certainly would make remarks !
And even the hest cedar -shingled roof will bo
leaking badly inside of ten years,
Seven out of ten of them leak the
first time it rains. No wood -
shingled roof is fire -proof for a,
minute, and the first high wind
that catches a loose shingle—
h h I oes half your °brogues roof
A- 1
Yet cedar shingles cost you just
about the price of these guaranteed
"`Oshawa' Shingles-28-guage tough-
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for a century, guaranteed in writing till 1932,—fire•.
and -wind -and -weather-proof and lightning -proof.
Pour -dollars -and -a -half a square buys "Oshawa"
Galvanized Steel Shingles
—ten feet by ten feet.
Compare that with the
present price of cedar
shingles — how does it
strike you ?
And you can put on these
"Oshawa" Galvanized
Steel Shingles yourself,
easily, --with no tools but a claw -hammer and
snips. Simplest thing you know—can't get 'em ori
wrong.
"Oshawa" Shingles look on all four aides—whole roof
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And GUARANTEED —
don't overlook that. Guar-
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seal of a company with a
quarter -million capital,
-
guaranteed in plain
English, without any ifs
or buts, for 25 long
years.
s the argument fn
a nutshell ---cost the samerus
as wood - shingles; flrei-proof, water -proof, ,t -
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it With less work and for less money.
Plenty of facts that concern *our
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you ask for our free book, "hoofing
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ask on.
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A FINE FORCE.
Pen Picture of the Famous Irish
Constabulary.
' the eon t *ny of
the areal is taken only d a lady of the
one of the equerries n �!
Iiinl;esr+s houselyold. ,l..unehoon over,
rim
thele mutat he some stamps to sort over
(tho Priueo's stamp collection is the fin-
est In the world and, le Wel to kro worth
more than £100,00),
Eben comes another walk in the park
anal then a hook to read until tea, time,
when there z.re.generelly one or two vis-
itors, !)muter, at half -past eight o'clock
p. 111., is quite informal, with a guest or
two only Imre and there. If the royal
couple go to the theatre dinner is sot for
)seven, but tie they do not often go to the
theatre the evening is spent quietly at
hone, the Prince reading a book and the
1'rinee:ls doing sortie useful fancy work
with the needle.
I3ed at Half-;;:;st ten o'clock p. m. Xs
this not truly at picture of beautiful de-
rutetti
C bliss? Nevertheless I am anite
certain that when the Prince of Wales
comes into his own he will surprise the
British people by hie mental grasp of af-
fairs, his wide sympathy with all elassea
of the people and his inherited capacity
for goveruieg.
Composed exclusively of Irishmen, and
founded away basic in 1823, by the great
Sir Robert Peel, the force known as the
Royal Irish Constabulary is the finest
organization of the kind in the world.
It consists of seine 12,000 men, and, while
the minimum height is 5 feet 9, most of
the men are 6 feet and over. They are
recruited from all classes of the popula'
tion, and serving in the ranks are many
men of birth and breeding, graduates of
the universities, and quite recently a
couple of barunets. The officers aro
drawn from the same ciao as the officera
of the army, and are required to have
At certain knowledge of law. Seventy per
cent. of the men are Catholics.
i The constable represents not this or
that chief secretary, nor a Tory or a
Liberal Government, not a Nationalist
or Orange faction, but merely law and
order. If he went, everything would go,
and accordingly he is not disliked' Hie
duty is solely and simply to protect the
civil authorities—the sheriff and hie as-
sistants—in enforcing law and generally
to prevent rows. And when there is a
row it is curious how every class turn%
to hire instinctively for protection.
Whether it is sheriffs or evicted tenants,
Orangemen or Catholics, or any of the
rival factions of the Nationalist party,
who are pining to break one another's
heads, each faction looks to the constabu-
lary to prevent their own heads from
being broken.
A district inspector may have to take
( his men to an eviction on Monday, and
be cursed and pelted with all the wealth
of Irish phraseology and Irish missiles.
On Tuesday he will meet the same peo-
ple, whom he knows individually as well
as he knows their landlords, and they
Will greet him with smiles and be per-
fectly friendly. And it is the same with
tho rank and file. They are generally on
as good terms with those whom they pro-
tect as with those against whom they
act.
The constable is a trained soldier and
carries a small rifle and bayonet, with
his cartridge box filled, half with ball
and half with buckshot cartridges. The
duties which he is called upon to per-
form are of the most extensive descrip-
tion, demanding a considerable amount
of intelligence and education. Thus he
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has to collect all the returns of the
census, agriculture, fishery, and licensing
within his district, to test weights and
measures, to attend to the execution of
the provisions of the food and drug laws,
to distribute relief, etc., in addition to
all ordinary police work. One or more
of them may be seen at every railroad
station in Ireland when the train stops,
and if any passenger alights who may
happen to be "wanted" or who requires
watching he may be tolerably certain
that the constable will have his picture
` and his record in his pocketbook.
I The headquarters of the R. I.0.—that
is to say, of the Royal Irish Constabu-
lary—are in Dublin Castle, facing the
Maple Royal, in the lower castle yard,
. and its commending officer is Col. Sir
Neville Chamberlain, a battle -scarred vet-
eran of several Indian, Afghan and South
African campaigns, and formerly one of
the most trusted members of the staff
of Field Marshal Lord Roberts, who, in-
deed, nominated him as the one man of
all others best qualified for the office of
inspector -general of the Irish constabu-
lary.
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AN EASY TIME
ANAEMIA CURED.
Dr. Williams Pink Pills ging Back
the Glow of health by Making
New Blood.
To bud into perfect womanhood, the
growing girt must carefully guard her
health. Ufless the blood is kept rich
And pure, headaches, backaches and fre-
quent dizzy spells will trouble her. Sho
will always be ailing, and may slip into
'a deadly decline. Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills are a never failing remedy in build-
' Mg up the blood. Just a short time ago
the reported of L'Avenir du Nord. had the
1 following eases brought to his notice:
'In the town of St. Jerome, Que., there
its an orphan asylum under the care of
,those zealous workers—the Grey Nuns,
'In this home Dr. Williams' Pink Pills aro
eonetantiy used. For some months two
'of the young girls in the home were
:afflicted with anaemia, The symptoms
t in both eases were very much alike. They
1 were both pale, lost all energy, and were
subject to headache and dizziness. Dr.
'Williams' Pink Pills were taken and soon
there was an improvement in their con-
dition. The color returned to their
'cheeks; their appetite improved; head -
ladies ceased, and soon good health took
the place' of despondency, What Dr,
Williams' Pink Pills have done for these
1 two orphans—Marie Lavoie and Dosina
Brooks—they they will do for others,
The secret of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
in curing anaemia lies in their power to
make new, rich, red blood. That is why
ithey strike straight at the root of all
common ailments like headache, side -
aches and backaches, rheumatism, neu-
ralgia, indigestion, anaemia, St. Vitus -
dance, partial paralysis and the special
`ailments that afflict almost every wo-
man and growing girl. Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills are sold by all medicine deal -
'era or may be had by mail at 60 cents a
box or six boxes for $2.50 from the Dr.
Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
COW TESTING ASSOCIATIONS.
Dominion Department of Agriculture,
Branch of the Dairy and Cold Stor-
age Commissioner.
Records to hand from the Pacific
Coast
show the average yield of 232 cows in
the Chilliwaek, B. C., cow testing as
sooiation for June to be 800 ib. milk; 3.-
6
:6 test, 29.1 lb. fat. There are several
cows giving over 1,200 ib. milk in the
30 days.
' St. Barnabe, Que., July 10, 66 cows,
average 6'22 lb. milk, 3,9 test, 24,6 lb.
fat. Highest yield, 930 lbs. mills:.
St. Jerome, tyre., July 13, 202 cows
average 057 lbs. milk, 3.8 test, 25.0 lbs.
fat, Best cow, 1,080 lbs. milk,
° Dixville, Que., July 17, 242 cows, aver-
age 683 lbs. milk, 3.7 test, 25.7 lbs. fat.
Highest yield, 1,285 lbs. milk.
Henryville, Que., July 14, 224 cows,
average 083 lbs. milk, the same as Dix-
ville, and 25.1 lbs. of fat.
Sheffield, Ont., July 17, 184 cows, aver-
age 735 lbs. milk, 26.6 lbs. fat.
Bagetville, Que., July 19, 148 cows, av-
erage 810 lbs. milk, 3.6 test, 29.7 lb. fat,
The total yield from these 148 cows was
4,406 lbs. fat, but 174 cows at St. Ar-
mand, Que., gave 455 lbs. of fat more.
Worth Oxford, Ont., July 21, 133 cows,
average 030 lbs. milk, 3.3 test, 31.0 lbs.
fat, a total yield of 4,128 pounds of fat.
Coaticook, Que., July 24, 106 cows av-
erage 701 lbs. milk, 3,7 test, 25.8 lb. fat.
Shearer, Ont., July 24, 114 cows av-
QUIET LIFE OF THE PRINCE OF erage 777 Ib. milk, 3.2 teat, 25.0 lbs. fat.
WALES. 8t, Prosper, Que., July 25, 133 cows av-
erage 820 lbs. milk, 3.8 test, 31.1 lb. fat
or a total yield of 4,241 lbs fat.
ri , C. P. W.
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EDWARD'S THREE SISTERS,
Heir to Great Britain's Throne Reads
Studies and Pastes Stamps in Album.
What a contrast between the King
and the heir to his throne, the Prince of
Walesl exclaims the London correspond -
end. of Town and Country. The father
"weighted with the Crown" rushes up
and down the land in Motor cars and
special trains, attending christenings,
raze meetings, receptions, garden parties,
eCani-State and State functions, morning,
noon and night.
The son, whose only trouble seems to
be the riddle of killing titue, sits in his
room at filarlborougu iiousc pastii'g
stamps into au album or reading a book.
13e does absolutely nothing aim does it
with such a masterly inactivity as 'to
rouse one almost to enthusiasm at the
idea of how successfully this proud
Prince inanages to while away his gulden
days.
i Prince Prosper in Fairyland hadn't a
more delightful cycle of years than His
Royal liigmess Inc Prince of Wales. 1
wilt give you a brief, authentic sketch Of
, the day's doings at Mariboroug llousc.
''Xhosa ei you 17110 hug Inc ancient idea
t that princes get up in the morning to
' the fanfare of trumpets, deck themselves
out in royal robes and pass down a gal-
lery lined with bowing and obsequious
flunkeys will be disappointed at tlus re-
cital of the humdrum ovistonoe of an ap-
' parcntly middle class sueurban home.
lho Prince, the Princess and the rest
of the family are up betimes, which
means about eight o clock in the morn-
ing, 'There is the ordinary breakfast of
a well-to-do English family, and the head
of it beguiles the intervals between ba-
con and eggs with the morning papers.
After breakfast there are charity letters
to dictate to a secretary, for even the
Prince of Wales is not exempt from the
incessant stream of begging letters and
appease from cliaritaole institutions
evhich weigh down the postman's bag at
every delivery.
Ilaving completed this, the heaviest
task of the day, the Prince goes for 11,
walk in St, Jenne' Park oe Hyde Park,
accompanied by one of his equerriev who
lives in Marlborough house, and when
%this constitutional is over it is time to
go bask and prepare for luncheon. Some.
tithe. there is a guest, but Mora often
Interesting Trio of Feminine Royalties
in Great Britain. -
Of the three sisters of the King of England,
Princess Christian is the King's oldest liv-
ing sister, the Empress Frederick of Ger-
many bovine been dead some years. She
was born May 26, 1844, and called Holona.
On July 6, 18E6, she was married to Prince
Christian. of Sohleswlg-eseestetn. see was
passed much of her time in England and is
devoted to oharity. Her daughter, It will
be remenlbeted, married Prince Aribert of
Anhalt and divorced him.
Tb.ough seeming of a very much later
date, Princess Louise is 1n reality but two
years younger, having been born March 1S,
1845. Se was very talented, the statue of
her mother, the late Queen, in Ieensiagton
Gardens, being her work. She was of a
lively character end had some dlfterences
with her husband when ho was the Mar-
quis of Lorne. Ho is now the Duke of
Argyll. The older generation remombors
when ho was Canada's Governor-General.
Thor had no children. An amusing story
of that period may be repeated:
One day the Princess was taking a walk
in the country, accompanied by a servant,
and, being thirsty, she went to a cabin and
asked for a drink of water of the colored
occupant, who was ironing.
"'Dead i won't stop to gat you no watali,"
said her hoetees with spirit. "Mali of mast's
twine to the porcesston to see the Quooa's
daughter, an' dls shirt's got t0 bo done to'
him to wear."
The Princess said she was very thirsty,
and offered to iron while her hostess got
tho wetter. As she took it, she said: It's
the Queen's daughter that has helped with
your ironing;" Imagiito the e0nsternatlon
and joy of ..the colored woman. Loulse 1s
the only ono of the Queen's daughters that
has visited the United States.
Princess Beatrice is the youngest of Vic-
toria's children. She was born April 14,
1857, and July 23, 1885, she was married to
Prince }teary of 13attenburg. Living with
tho late Queen, and influencing her to a
degree, she wua not too popular with her
jealous brothers and sisters. Indeed, it was
said that ho wee fairly driven oft, es he
was very pleasing to the Queen. Sad to
relate. he died on his way house tram South
Africa In 1384. Princess Beatrice, or Princess
Henry, as she chooses to be called, has been
much in the nubile eye of late because of
Ler daughter'% marriage to King Alphonso
of Spain. She is now the mother of a
Queen and the •grand mother of a Kiagto+be.
A Proper Feeling for Style.
tinele---Here, my boy,, are it couple of
chocolate cigars. But where are you go-
ing with there?
Little i'ohnny-a•-Why, l: am going to
eat thein in the smoking-room.---Meggen-
darfee Elaetter,
MHANOES. IN THE RESORT IN
THE LAST TWENTY YEAR YEARS .I
Trete are some pictures of the Coney time when tizeir reeart 'wUi be as
land of twenty este ago. They will the year round plertsuro pla�s iawtw,d
just a eummer resort, and as a matter of
fact that time does not scent to be limit•
distant. Each year the swam styes
earlier and hista longer, with varies
attractioua throughout the entire wiq"
season to draw visitors. The eealloa it
new Considered open from the middle e4
Aril until the latter pert of Ootobeir.
Like Atlantic City, Coney Island%
beach has a southern exposure Those �.
tempted in the island city say that the.
as -
Twenty ears ago the ninci al hotel only need a board walk to become ail an-
y y I p tive rival of the Jersey r�eeort, Up N
was the West Brighton. To the right waa date beach owners have for many yea:*
seen Coiten's 014 hotel, the Albemarle, been alive to the need of cortstrueti
now called Itauseher s. To the lett, next such a board walk, and have done (WW1"
to the West Brighton, was Chgznbet's old thing in their power to have one bunk..
drug stare, which was destroyed in one They have been partly sueceseful, Rs
of the big fires. In the foreground to the there are now many short sections of
right was the entrance to the little els- broad board walk along the ocean front
voted railroad that carried passengers Ilut there seems to be it lack of concert
to Brighton Beach, now torn down, among the shore owners, Trow A bwt-
Further down the avenue is Stuben- tress point of view, say eunry'e prud..;s-
nerd's old place, The round roofed build- sive citizens, everyone conn°ru°ci rvol;ilt
;nerd's
the extreme end at rho dight is find the board walk remunerative, for it
b'eltmali's merry-go•round. anti xeataur- would permit the great crowds of people
nnt, a ._,-,_ to go from point to paint.
The camera obscure and a couple of
merry-go-rounds, were the chief moans
of amusement offered to visitors and
'form a contrast to the enterprises In
which give the Coney Island pleasure
, seeker all forms of recreation.
In another picture is shown the park
i pier and Surf avenue. This park was
Doyle's pavilion, while at the extreiite
1 right are the old iron pier and the old °need navigator cautious.
1 clubhouse in which so many prize fights The morning was sultry, There was
net a breath of air atirr�'ng When the
were held. sun was half way up to .the zenith it
showed as a dull copper disk. A. faintly
bluish haze rested upon the horizon.
"When the tide began to make an al,
most imperceptible breeze came upfrom
the sou'west—just enough to make the
flags tail off at intervals and then set-
tle down and flap feebly against the
I; yy
give an idea. of the transformation that
has taken place eine° then.
Orrly fifteen years ago Surf avenue was
unpaved, in many Fleece there wore no
sidewalks and there wero no sewers,
`!'here was no Luna Park, no Dreamland,.
and oven Steeplechase Park, the pioneer
of the great amusement parks, had not
yet come into existence.
THE STORM.
Graphic Description of It; Coming by
Ono Who Lived to Tell the Tale,
"The weather conditions,' be said, "had
been precisely those to make the experi-
j What is now Seaside Park was at that
;time a barren waste, and only used for
l ball games or to enable pedestrians to
make a short cut. The Sea Beach
� Palace was then in its glory, At that
time the Brighton Beach Music Hall was
l situated at a point nearly a thousand
feet out in the ocean from the main
porch of the Brighton Beach Hotel, as it atarie.
is to -day. j ' Banks of clouds appeared and finally
"There is not now much left of the ;massed themselves in the western sky.
; Coney Island of fifteen years ago to re-
' I said to myself that it was no time to
i mind one how the old place looked," said , be at sea—that at high water .hero
1 Lewis M. Potter, a Coney Island business would be something doing.
I man. "When I was going to school the "Later the clouds began to draw war-
, island had no school of her own, and so
i school children went to the school at
Gravesend just this side of Ulmer Park.
"There were only seven children who
attended school from Coney Island, eo
I
you can imagine the size of the place
thirty years ago. These children were
the two Ravenhall boys, their two sis-
ters; George Tilyou, the owner of Stee-
plechase Park; another whose name I
can't recall and myself.
"Now Goney Island has a permanent
population of more than $10,000, and her
voters number more than 3,000;"
Just in front of the new iron pier in
ono picture can be seen a little stand.
This was the first place where ice cream
candy was made on the island. It was
owned by a man named Wiatt, who
came from Columbus, Ohio, being the
pioneer manufacturer of this delicacy,
and the only one then doing business.
I Now, at a conservative estimate, there
' are 200 manufacturers of the candy doing
a ood business on the island.
Coney Island *as then a gathering
place for fishermen. On Saturday night
great numbers of then came down,
stayed all night, ant spent the whole
day Sunday fishing. Boats were for hire
along the beach and fine catches were
common, for in those days the nearby
waters teemed with fluke, sea bass and
bluefish, and aheepshead were sometimes
caught, the fish from which Sheepshead
Bay derived its name. Probably not a
single fish of this kind has been caught
near Coney Island for years.
With the exception of the row of
houses on each side of Surf avenue and
those along the Bowery near the ocean,
the territory to the westward was nearly
all salt meadows. Lots could be bought,
with very few buyers, at $50 each. Now
a large part of this land has been filled
in, and it is scarcely possible to buy a
lot for less than $1,500, and the owners
are none too aTIX1O1IS to sell.
For trans•portat on there were one-
horse car lino and four steam roads
of limited capacity, besides the steamers.
The horse car line ran from the lower
part of Prospect Park down Coney is -
lend avenue and terminated at West
Fifth street.
The steam roads included the Sea
Beach line, which ran to Bay Ridge,
where it connected with a ferry to New
York; the Brooklyn, Bath and West
End Railroad, whose route was down
New Utrecht avenue, through Blythe -
bourne, Bath Beach, and Ulmer Park,
and the Prospect Park and Coney Island
Railroad, which ran to Ninth street,
Brooklyn, and there connected with the
Vanderbilt avenue horse cars for New
York.
It took one hour and forty-five min-
utes to ride from the park to the island
by the horse car line, while the time of
the steam roads from New York was
about the same. Now the trains make
the distance in thirty-two minutes from
the island to Park Row.
Nothing is now distressing the shore
front owners more than the inroads
made by the ocean currents upon the
broad beach formerly possessed by
Cone yq Island. In the last fifteen years
the changes made in the beach have been
as great as in any other particular.
One can see that the beach extended
nearly to the wider portion of the pier.
Now 3140 feet of this sand has been car-
ried away and the water at high tide
dashes against a breakwater built at
the spot in the foreground where the,
man is etanding.
In the photograph of the odd iron pier
fully 250 feet of sand is in view, while
1 to the left the beach stretches away 100
feet further. Now none of this sandy
1 stretch is visible except a few feet at
low tide at the extreme right hand side
in front of Dreamland, which now oceu-
pies e spot,
.1 fewthyears before the time the photo-
, graph was taken the beach was even
1 ' wider, and at low tide it was possible to
walk around the seaward end of the old
pier on dry sand. One could walk or
drive along the wide, hard beach from
Brighton Beach to Norton's Point, now
Sea Gate.
Coney I8landere look forward to the
er. The heavy bank seemed to part and
one portion of it -bore away to the aouth-
'ard and the other to the nor'ard. A few
big drops of rain fell, but that was all
we got of it, In the course of the alter -
noon I ventured out. .
"Along toward low water the light
breeze of wind failed. There was a dead
calm. I had all sail set, but could not
keep steerage way. She simply drifted
with the tide. The surface of the sea
was like glass, save for a long swell
ming in.
co"Over in the no'theast the peak of a
cloud showed itself, It was fringed with
light. It mounted rapidly. ether clouds
seemed to be pushing it up.
"The white fringe edged the portent-
ous bank they were forming. Below this
the color was dull leaden.
"I knew what that meant. I overhaul -
cd my ground tackle, keeping an eye all
the time on the bank of cloud coming up
against the direction from which the
breeze had been blowing before the dead
calm.
"Suddenly a ripple appeared on the
water beneath the dark aloud with its
fringe of white and sails of vessels up to
windward dropped as if the halyards
had been cut. Men scurried about the
decks."4 yellow pp
dvbrt telwater,advancing with in000noeiaa v
acity.
Behind it was a wall of torrential
rain, rent by blinding streak of light-
ning. Peal after peal of thunder oaae in
quick succession.
`I vainly tried to head the craft so
that she would take the onset of the
gale head on. The dark ripple on the
water, followed closely by the line of yel-
low foam, was almost upon me.
"What was I to do? I could let the
sails go by the run, drop the anoh,or,
pay Out all my line and hang on. But
what if the gale should he so stiff that
she couldn't lie to it? Then I would
have to buoy my anchor line and soud
with bare poles till the gale blew itself
out.
"While these thoughts were flashing
Through my mind it came to a point
where something must be done quiokIy.
"Without anothei- instant's hesitation
I got out, took my canoe under my ann
and walked ashore, barely in tiny° to
keep from getting wet above my knees,"
When I Am Dead. •
(By Jahn G. Neihardt..)
When I am dead and nervous band.' }lave
throat
My body downward into careless dust;
I think the grave could not suffice to
hold
My spirit prisoned in the sunless mold.
Some subtle memory of you would be
A resurieet]on of the life of me.
Yea, I would be, because I love your so,
The speeehletes spirit of all things that
grow,
You could not touch a flower but it
would be
Like a caress upon the cheek of me.
T would be patient in the commonreals,
That I might feel your footfall should
you lease.
I would be kind as rain and pure as
dew.
A loving spirit round the life of you.
When your soft cheeks by perfumed
winde were fanned,
'Twould be my kite, and you would Un-
derstand.
But, when eome sultry, storm -bleared
sun had set
Iwouldgets be lightning,—if you dared for-
-a8eptem'bei' Smart flet.
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Cruel Joke on a Kansas Editor.
(Kansa;
Last week a etNulgerClty droppodStar.) Into Drown-
ington card offered to buy the index. The
thought of real money west so 3031pt1ng that
the editor named a figure cad the stranger
didn't haggle. Ile said hied take it and seven
wont so far As to engage oleo Ideal talent
to $'rite up the nova; until he get acquaint-
ed. The town was ail keyed up end the big
transfer was t6 take place eau weenier
but when morning vitae the stranger lute
vanished like the baseless ramie of a Vision.
Tho editor --lino fame old editor—nova rigs
he didn't want to sell anyway, and adds that
how is the time to subscribe.
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Lack of nourishment is the cause.
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1 entire system. Stulnulates and maker bone.
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