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Exeter Advocate, 1900-1-25, Page 2PORK AND BEANS, • rTl$ not a dab* the froaS would relish, Those Westing gods of rantle would never with grace embellish Tbe OW11113 of higl, society; Stet nothings can got molo beautiful action. On OW hunifar spot 'untll. a fellow's jeans— ran glee more comfort itnci satisfaction. To st Yearning Otonlacl. than pork and beans. When the inner man for a feed is craving And the system is wrapped in a flame of yearn, kt?hen the stomach rebels and is misbehaving Anil the teeth in anxiety seem to burn, Vow the gay, glad light of anticipation Through a fellow's optics in Joy careens When on the air of the feeding station He sniffs the fragrance of pork and beanal Men the purse la Pat from a dearth of boodle, If but a dime is reposing there, !find a fellow feels be could eat a poodle Vi'ere it shown on the menu as Belgian hare, When a reeler dieeer with pie and puddin Away up yonder beyond his means, Pine feast is Ms, and a mighty good 'un— A man's size platter of pork and beans. Pleage„ mart of the hog, we bless yon, In wreaths of gratitude deck your O2S11. 4nd, Boston, we fain in love would caress you For the succulent truck you have given faro& leo combination de culinary Fvont the dainty dishes of kings and queens Olear down to poverty's commissary. Can hold a candle to pork and beans. —Denier Post. tory of a Young 'Eeroreast ysicima and a Young Man Patient. -Rerreeeeeeyeerweneeereteerean -was a proud day for Martha Evans after four years' hard work in a leelebrated medical school, she returned to her native city, rented and feruished a tiny office on the main steeet, hung a leilt sign in tbe window and sat down to await a call from some afflicted one. Martha was a "nOW woman" in the erweetest, noblest and purest sense of that much abused word. She had none of the coarse, mannish affectations that so =any women suppose they must display In order to impress the world with their mental superiority, but a holy desire to relieve mankind of a few of the "ills that flesh is heir to" made her voice eoft with ;womanly sympathy. Dr. Evans spent the first three days in arranging and rearranging the little office ento which she had gathered numerous tokens of love received from friends and admirers, and the place were a decidedly leminine eppearance. On the morning of the fourth day, just as she WOS enteeingethe office door, a loud tring at the tele:Motes made her heart leap with expectation. She fairly ran to the Instrument and received this message: "Please cell at once at the residence of Mrs. Greengo. GreE'LlgO is ill." In her !mete to answer the call she al- most forgot her medivine case. The Greener) residence was ouly a few blocks distant, but the short walk gave Martha time te compose herself, and when old Mrs. Greengo greeted her the youthful physleian was as quiet and dignified as if aife was an old story. 'Yoe remember me, don't you, my iaear?" asked Mrs. Greengo, extending leer hand, aud elartba replied: "To he sure I do, but who is ?Jr. areengo? 1 thought you were a widow." 'I am a widow, my dear. Mr. Greengo as my nephew, a very brilliant Young law- yer, but en -mew -hat given to melancholy. He seemed well enough when he came down tbie morning, but a few minutes ago became ill and asked me to eall you." So saying, the old lady led the way into the sitting room, where Mr. Greengo, %lad in dressing gown and slippers and with eves closed, lay stretched at full Dength on a great couch before the fire - lace. "Here is the doctor, Paul, my Near," announced Mrs. Greengo, and then she seated herself on the couch at ails feet. The men on the couch moved his head elightly, but made no other sign of having heard. Martha's quick eye noted the giant Ermine, the long black hair and the large, stroug mouth as she drew a chair to his elide aml. laying her tiny fingers on his :arrist. asked in geatle tones: "What is the trouble, Mr. Greetago? Where are you ill?" Without opening his eyes he replied Lesossly: "I am a lawyer, madam, end not a phy- sician. Bow do i knew wheat is the trou- We? 1 sent for you to find out." "Yee, she 1 know," said the lady coax- Lingle-, "but Y01) MUSt toll me how you gee!. Your pulse is quick, but with no Signs of fever. Show rao your tongue?" Ile extended a large, red, clean tongue, and Martha eontieued in sweet, coaxing tones; "Your tongue is peculiarly healthy Booking, so it cannot be your stomach. Vow, me, have yon pain any place? Sere you dizzy or faint?" The patient opened a pair of large, melancholy brown eyes, looked her squarely in the face'and, Baying hie hand OVOT his left breast, said: olPor a tong, long time I have bad a strangely nlanb, empty feeling right here and a pain. not an ache, but such a pain aS I used to have in childhood when my :limner had punished rue.. I feel like Weeping sometimes, and:lately, on sever- al oeceeions, by heatt Lae palpitated as wildly that it tnade me faint and ill." Martha's cheeks flushed lightly. Kneel - Deg beeide him, she laid her ear against fele chest and listened. Truly, the pulsa- Mon of his heart was peculiarly rapid. "Are yoe too 111to riser' she asked ' "Why, if it Is neeessary, 1 euppose Sao stand," he replied savagely, rising to Nle feet. MrA. OTOOng0 shook her head and look- reff itrighteeed. Dr, Draw smiled roguish- wieb to get fey ear between your Shoulderelett. clreenge," she aid, quiet- ly' eying the tell figure before her. "Shall IT Stand On 60 couch or will yoe sit iaowit? And pleaseeemove your dressing Mniloci Jest the ghost of a smile end eat down. fle Was so belpiese' it required Ole eeeletence of' both ladiee to remove iaiut dee-elm-4 einem. The doctor then 'aeol: two etrange looking instruments feeeee Ifer erip and proeeeded to give Ma fareenge's heart and lunge a through illtblhilttlOn. 'Mee it was completed, ebee, replaced the instremente, and, seat - kg herself beeide the couch, he said y "Mr. Geeengo, I fail to find the least arlaptom of disease ahoet you. I think ;toe Intee overtaxed your riervoest fiesteie • little and need ecemerest fled 'on. If If You will ispend a Moe* le Pereaing yoerselre Mostly in outdoor et- *Ssiste, and Will tete* %Seek AAA lea0)01 toul busieese ;:ntifeele' out of tbe pro' genfefile '1 will 'dee Vat) tt 11-tle tonie and o prowiee that you will feel fie sound ae evey before the mouth le out," She gave bine the Preseripieoe she had been writ- ing while elle wes epeaking and thee, ae she deew 011 bete eloVes, turned toi„Mee. Greengo and began an animated conver- sation abore old times and old feiends. Paul Greengo evatehed her it few nee - laths, a henvy frown between his eyes„ then arose Red left the room without worL TWO clays later, as Dr. Evans sat' be- fore lier OWEI cozygrate fire reading the meruitie paper, the office door opened and Greengo entered. '9 hove been doing just Os you told Me, doctor,' he seek "and I am feeling much worse. In fact, 1 have never been so mist:Amble in all my life as I have these last two days." Martha's great blue eyes filled with tears. "13' r. Greengo." she said, "you know I an) just 11 young physician and have bad Iittle experience. 1 will be geld if you will consult some one older aud wiser than 1." "No; I will not," he replied stoutly. "I don't want any one else. I am sure YOU can help nae. That is why I called this morning. I want to tell yeti that 1 feel horrible when I am alone, and 1 be- lieve 1 need cheerful company. I wonder if you canuot arrange your work so as to drive with me for an hour or so every morntug?" He looked so helpless and miserable, tbit great giant with the meleneleely eyes, that Martha a user ered readi1': will, eite Greengo, for 1 am very anxious to help you." And so it came about that they drove together every morning theveafter, and little Dr. Evans amused her big patient with merry conversation, and he began at once to mend. The days and the weeks flew by, and Martha's patients increased in number, but not in inaportance. One morning in June Paul entered the little office on Main street with a curious twinkle in his eyes. "Doctor," he said, "I wish you would listee to wy heart this morning." Alartha looked alarmed and immediate- ly arose and laid her ear against the broad chest from which Paul had drawn his coat and vest. "Do you not hear a strange sound there, doctor?" be ash -ed. "No, 1 do not. Mr. Greengo," she re- plied. "It seems to me your heart heals wonderfully strong and true." She moved away, but he drew her to him. "Something is wrong with your ear, Martha," he said, "for I hear it plainly - a little song iu nay heart that sings ever, 'I love you, 1 love you, I love you.' " "Paul Greengo!" cried Martha, draw- ing herself from his embrace and looking angrils into his sort eyes. "Have you been fooling me all this time?" "No, darling," he replied. "1 have had all the symptoms 1 told you of. The buruitig emptiness and pain came into nay heart the morning I saw you place that little gilt sign in the window. After that every lime I saw you or heard your name or even thought of you nay heart would leap into my throat and there pal- pitate so wildly I could hardly breathe. Don't give. me any more pills or prescrip- tions, dear, but give toe your own sweet self, and 1 will be well and happy the rest of toy days." Paul is Martha's only patient now, and she declares slat, has all she can attend to. -Chicago News. Borial Customs. Velifie in old tithes it was more or less the custom, in the interment of bodies, to bury them with their feet to the east, a custom now .substantially sepersecled by the almost COLIIMOn practice of bury- ing tee body witb the feet to the path along the front of the lot, so was it once more or les a the custom to Mace the coffin in the room in which the deceased was to lie before burial with the feet to the east. Nowadays the disposal of the body in the room would be determined al- together by the shape and size of the room, except that commonly the feet would be placed toward the door, Though the conamon way is to place the body in the center of the r00/11, another way, in comparatively modern practice, is to place the coffin or casket across one corner of the room. This gives oppor- tunity for a convenient and effective dis- pesition of flowers mid floral pieces, and it perhaps affords a better ViOW of the face. As to the manner of moving a body to its burial, that is always done wit)] the feet foremost. It is carried out of the house in that way,put into the hearse feet foremost and so is borne to the grave. -New York Sun. - Looked Dark. The Clevelnnd Plain Dealer says that an educated colored man addressed the students of Adelbert college. tie told about his experience in Lis choeen pro- fession, that of a lawyer, asserting that on but one occasion had he ever met with diecourteey at the hands of white men diming his legal expeeience in his native state. Virginia. This happened in a backwoods hamlet, Nvbere the general ig- norance of the inhabitants was some ex- cuse for their booriebness. In the course of hie remarks he perpe- trated an unconscious bit of humor that brought a smile to the students' faces and drew a laugh from the speake,r him- self as soon as he realized the suggestion in his statement. "I started out in my profession with somewhat gloomy anticipations," he said. "laelien I reached Alexandria, where there were 7,000 eolored people, every- thing looked dark." It was at this point that the emile ran aroulati. Legol Motion as to Stables. The English language ehould be so amended as to preclude the legal word "inffint" from applying to all persons un- der 21 years 00 age. There is fiemething eo babyis13 in the term that it fa hard to reeoucile it witO the idea of e person 20 yeare 11 enouths and 20 day e of age, tbough teach an individual would undoubt- edly he an infant in the eyee Of a court of chancery. 'This setenine incenitietelecy Wile alee,tuelly demonstrated in 'New York a few days ago, \effete an "intaut," not qUite '21 yetive old, weighing 105 pounds and sfeudieg 0 feet 1 inch tall, was rep- resentecl in court by ft father who wanted his son's marriage anatilled.---Richwond Disputa. A CilOoking Argument, 'WlfeNow3 John, You IttlOW yore' web that if 1 don't get diet bonnet 1 ehall ery and *eery myself bite in retail( of nerv- Otte prostretion, and the detetoles bill will be ten flutes the peice of the bonnet. - Neve York Jeered. CITEFAIJN(i °Till BOYS • CAPE TOWN NEWSPAPER TELLS HOW IT WAS DONE. How the 000330 113)5 Left thie City or Cape Town for tho Proot—Very Cotnpli- tnentary Thilitt, aid AZUGUt Thom - now They Strike the Cape Town Foto We- Hrothers.iu-Arnte. The Cape Argus of December 1 coetaius the following report of the departure of the Canadians from Cape Town. let, is of epecial interest as being written feom. the. South Af- rican point of view:— Cape Town was able, in a moder- ate sort of way, to give a send-off to the New South Wales Lancers and the New Zealand Mounted Rifles, the exigencies al the situation demand' ing their presence at the fighting front without indulging in the courtesies intenaud for them by their brother colonists here. To -day, how- ever, the main body of colonial vol- unteers are being despatched front the city, and, before evening falls, will be well on their way to join one or other of the British coluanns on this side of the country. The first to in0Ve 011 were tbe Australian Infantry, consisting of drafts from Melbourne, Sydney, Ade- laide, and so forth, and numbering 22 officers, 442 men, a few horses and t-wo gems. They were paraded, in marehang order, early this morn- ing and marched into town headed _ 6 n it , ,ereteeee _ea • te;;Tieel SW:Mut wriA 131101il 0100-10. A UMS. "AS this Ls a Family Affair, Old Chap, IrlihanottLi,gh,t I'd Come and Give You a by the pipers of the Cape Town 1-lighlanders. Leaving Maitland at 9, they did tbe four or five miles into town in quick time, cheered all along the route by multitudes of people. Within the limits of the city great crowds assembled, and the men had a grand reception as they marched to the goods yard of the railway terminus. Here they were met by Major Wyncoll, who is in charge of the transport arrangements, and his stafT; and they at once paraded in front of the waiting train. It being just only alter 10, a long wait en- sued, but the time was beguiled by o dstand easy" chat with the crowd who fraEornizecl in the simplest fashion and exchanged courtesies, not excluding drinks, though these were wholly of a non -intoxicating charac- aer. The men, who looked in the fittest condition imaginable, ultim- ately entered the carriages, and at 11 sharp were despatched on their way to denah or glory. "Look you up as I come back?" queried a rough, hearty Viceorian to the writer. ;'Rather! Give me a call!" The A n..tr:d 1;v1 Infantry. The Canadian contingent received orders to fail in about noon, the commanding officer having previously' intimated his readiness to depart. Notwithstandine-, the early start, which was commenced about 12.30 o'clock, the residents of Green Point and Somerset road were not unpree: pared, weal from many of the resi- dences au abundance of bunting was flying. As the men approached the road also the news went around like a flash, and soon the route to town was lined by an enthusiastic crowd. Farewells were Waved from the bal- conies, which did not pass unno- ticed by the men nor by the officers.I-leaded by a bugle band and march- ing to the skirl of the pibroch,whieh did not teeene at least uncommon to the Canadians' ears, the contingent passed through the two lines of en- thusiastic spectators and took the route as arranged. The regiment eves in two divisions, between which came the tWO Maxim guns,' acoompanied by their squads, and these launediately attracted atten- tion, the physique of the gunners and their soldierly 'appearance being much admired. The second detach- ment wa,s headed by the .Cape Gar- rison Artillery Band, the whole line extending from the 1-lospital road down into Waterkant street. On en- tering the tovvri the crowd increased, as did the enthusia,sm, and all along the route shops, stores and work- shops were forsaken by rnen and woraen anxious to take part in the fareev-ell. The march continued along )3ree street and down- Wales street, but it was not until Adderley street • was reached, where a large crowd had already gathered, that the height of enthusiasm was reached. After the many disappointments of the week, the Jong anticipated was granted at last. Most of the large houses had been gaily deeorated with benting, and ee-ery baleony was draped. Every pOint• of vantage was immediately taken up by large crowds, and the throng on the streets, on seeing the mounted police retied the career, immediately lined up. The petit -up puttriotienl. Was let loose, and the voeiferoes cheeting wets kept up till the whole eontine gent had passed down and entered the railway yard. ,rhe ce xi 1)c/intim ThO Canadians certaiely look a serviceable lot of men, and for aver- age height, perhaps, eseel any yet, landed here. They are almost to a man elregeecl in khaki and are eertned with the Lee -Melford and short bay- onet. Their eqUiptrient is Most corn - pieta, although it was noticeable that they did not wear the khaki putties 00 general with those 61:1 - gaged in the campaign. No more battering commont o11 the eilieiency of the regiment eould lao 'made than to point out that it was wily yes- terdey moraisig that ehe emu dis- embarked, and the military autheri- ties have already despatched einem to the front. The Departure. A posse of police were stationed at the eetrance to the goods station and as the last of Hie troops passed throughthe gates the guard- iane of 'Le law cloeed up behind them and et:eyed'the rush of the dense croWd for a few moments, How long they couie have kept back the crowd is doubtful. After a few mo- ments the seneible order was given .to lot the public through, and a 'wild rush followed, the wonder being that no accident occurred, Every available coign of vantage was oc- cupied, arid those more favored crowded the preciects of the goods yard. The troops were drawn up in double file, the roll being called, and while awaitieg tbe orders to enerain the band of the Cape Garrison Artil- lery played some brisk selections of music. The rays of the afternoon sun beat pitilessly down on the gOOdS yard, but nobody minded the dis- comfort. The occasion was a rare one, and the public would have gone through ten Limes the amount of dis- comfort and inconvenience in order to give their iellow-colonists a good send-off. At about 2 p.m. the troops wore ordered to eutrain, the Order being carried out he a marvellously short space of time. The men crowd- ed into carriages drawn up on either side of the yard, and pro- ceeded to make thediselves as com- fortable as circumstances would per- mit. Aerated waters and fruit were forthcoming and the weather more than justified the onslaught made upon both. Provisions and delicacies of various s'orte, frona biliong to gingerbeer, were hurried into the van, and Mr. J. D. Cartwright was busily engaged in storing caees of choco- late. One of the Canadians suddenly discovered that he had left a purse containing .$25 in a fruit shop, and a friendly crowd hastened to render What assistance they could. A po- lice -sergeant was forthcoming, and took down the details and the riaane of the trooper—his address for ob- vious reasons was left rather an open question. It is to be hoped that the lost money will be forth- coming at once. Si)' Alfred Milner. At about 2.10 o'clock a burst of cheering heralded the approach of His Excellency the Governor, who drove up alongside the train, ac- companied by Mrs. Hanbury Wil- liams. His Eecellency eliatted foe a few minutes wieh Colonel Otter, the officer cowman:Rine thu Catuatlians, and subsequeuely the efficers of ihe contingent were presented, the strik- ing scene being witnessed with in- tense interest i.er the ccowd end the troops in the train. The Mayor (Mr. T. Ball) and eeverue mend:ere of the Town Goittuel were also euteent aud shook hands with His .Excellency, A demonstration of extraordinary enthusiasm followed. Cheer upon cheer was raised for His Excellency, the Canadians and the Australians, and a mighty. chorus of voicesewhich drowned ate band, at once roared out the grand old National Anthem of our race. A number of Canadians followed with "The Maple Leaf," the patriotic a,nthem of Canada. The shriek of elm engine's whistle then sounded above the cheers of the crowd, and the long train steamed slowly away amid another frenzied outburst of enthusiasm. ' The band startecl the 'falniliar melody—the loved and -well-remembered music of THE CANADIAN CONTINGENT—WHERE VIM 01E0 ATE AND SLEPT ON THIT,SHID,' SO many partings -- “Auld Lang Syne." Instantly the crowd took up the strain, and never were "auld ac- quaintance," our kith and kin of C,re.ater Britain, given so magnificent a send-off. The scene was se very memorable one. Out of every Win- dow craned the heads of the troop•- ers, and amid deafening huzzas the last of the carriages swept out pf the station. His Excellency the Governor then entered his carriage, and as he drove away again received an ovation from the crowd. THE TROOPS VACCINATED. Description of the Work Performed 11,6 "Doiez,"35 Shipload. On Wednesday, NoV. 8, the three Surgeons aboard -the Sardinian com- pleted their three days' task of vac- cinating the -whole eXpediJiion, and now wo are nursing our left arms arid wondering wheuher it will take. The' work. was atcluous, especiallY Yes ter d , says Mr. ler e d eri cle Ham- ilton, the Globe coerespendent, when the whole day was given up to the work. The hOepital quaetera are craraped, like the rest of the accom- modatiOns. aboard, and tho atmos- phete oppreseive. Through the tore, Hioue passages Nvhili led t0 the dis- pensin31 room long?, line01 men lowly moved, their left. a,rrns bared. In a epecies' of tiny ante -room stood an assistant; the ready left arm was projeeted bite this, a'nti the soaped and amtieseptic epouge Wes plied on 11. A step took 'the subject into the roonia evlierta another aerfistant done- pleted the work of preparation, Then' tine slit -goon made the crossewise acraeca and another placed' the,ready lymph upon the ficatitled eurface. After that it was a matter of eines- ing the arm for a feee hours until it dried, The surgeons spread the re- port that the shoulder would be ready far the Fleuve in half an hour, but they were gravely, fruspected of being optimists, • " UANA..VND 11ICA, 1•1':eryouthfid .4,its10,n„ale, 10 Uic GREAT, WIDE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIBS: 1",":1°:etrroi‘p'$°111di:::171:f. 61:71: Not u Pleanatit Picture of the Great Camping ,Grounil— The 1)0)0 Under Cativaii-4:xpeoting 3ita1elkiillr0rd.ra. Camp at De Aar junction, Cape Colony, South Afrioa, Sunday, :Dec. 3.—YOU must have seen, many 0 time of late upon the Leap the dot which represents De Aar. That dot af atreetless bamlet upon the spacious plain we are studying at close quarters to -day. All day our men. have lain -tipon its powdered dust, all day a furious northern wind has seat appalling dust clouds swirling through the air. , Several tittles in each of the half-dozen hours of the heat of the day we could not see building fifty, yards away. Thousands of troops have ,camped here for weeks past, anni the whole brown surlace of the karros ie ground to an impalpable dust. It is everywhere, silting through sosey creeiee, filling every cranny. Dry, baking heat there has been, but we scarcely , minded it for the torment of elle dust; with it goes a rarieod atmosphere which set our noses bleeding, for we have climbed 8,000 feet sinee we left the oceam Such is the first day of the Cana- dians' practical experience of- South Afri urn. campaigning. It is the worst day which old residents of the place have known for years. And yet the men a,re in good spirits and are not grumbling,. A. Contrast With Canada. Do you wish to realize the scene ? You will hardly do so, for no great,- er contrast to our own land could be imagined. First of all, the plain is flat, seamed with occasional old water -courses two or three feet deep, Hard -baked, reddish -brown earth, not unlike that of our famed Niagara peninsula, is , the base. but the finely -powdered dust which over- lies it changes to shades of yellow -30 seeee *,4,954kr' CAIIP 07 TIM CANADIAN CifisiTINGENT. and brown; at inteevals of a few feet are shrubs a few inches high, some grey aud as dry as stubble, others woody, spiky and of a pale mauve tint. To east and west of this plain are jagged conical hills—the far-famed kopjes—the boulders stand- ing out like bristling teeth upon their strangely regular sky line, a few dots and a flagstaff showing that each is capped with a fort. North- wards, some miles away, are three long purple table mountains of the strange South African. type, loolcing as if a mighty mountaiu Med had its greater part shaved off and -the ped- estal alone left. The tierce crests' run in loag, even, horizontal linos, the sides steep and the shadows lying 111 wonderful shades of coloring upon them. Southward another long stretch, then -Lore flat-topped hills. Strung along the plain are the lines of rail, two converging into one at an zeolite angle; and where the lines meet is the stone station -house, the solid masonry platform, and the few irregular rows of houses, gener- ally cottitges, with ample verandahs, which shelter the two Or three hune dred souls , -whom the exigencies of the railway 'service and the service of the big general store and the hotel oblige to live here. Not a tree is to be seen except the few careful- ly planted and watered from the windmill wells, which stand before the houses, the only touch of green in the horizon, slut in the Plain. Out in the plain, hundreds of yards away—distances are generous in this great lone land ---the camps are scattered, while enormous quan- tities of stores lie in the sheds aud in the open air. It struck me as grimly humorous when I was tied thee' this is an important agricultur- al district; but had my intorma.nt said pastoral he would have been accurate (enough. The dry, woody, mauve -colored little shrubs afford peculiarly nutritious food for sheep, and the in.ueton is excellent. The farms 'averag,e twenty thoesand nen-- gen, or twice that ntunbor of acres in extent, and it takes one naorgen Lo support one sheep. The farna- alipoaurst.esare usually about six miles Here in this ade-anced base the leoyal Canadian Regiment is station- ed, waiting the 'word to go to the front. We may go at any moment ; an onward move Will be made by Lord Methuen On Wednesday, cred- ible enough rumor says, and 'several theme 111 the day a rumor flies about that we are to entrain oece• niore. Trains come and go from north and south, the cars from the , south crowded with fire -new supplies,those from the north empty or 01110510001- by filled with a grisly freight of wounded. war is an erainetiE con- elInter. A train with its little "goods waggons," drawn by a loco- motive, thin aad shrill o,f -whistle, draws up from time to time, and for 0. epace the platform is crowded wieh the articles which 11 disgotgee; then the platform is again clean- s -wept and (100,1. Another train of empty cattle trucks draws lip, 11,s heed to the north; an irruption of mules comes, veld with, whaeLing and peesuasion they are sent rtboard each paid the cot:teethe-fent of the slarnmfrie; of the car door behind him.. Then again the platform ie cleared, and looks peadeful and de- serte d. eito,000,00e,of 8upplies. Two million pounds worth of elepplies lie here; the figging army oho hundred and twenty-five miles north of us ie fed with ei wonderful procession of trains Upon thIS single-. track, narrow-gauge line, and all goes with clock -work pretiahm. A 8feetion, whose doer is labelled Station 00mIliandant,'' and man- ages •the depot and transacts Lis business With you with perfect calm, perfect politeness and uncom- mon despatch, The Canadians are now cotisidered one of tlie cues of this sure-11orkirig, mile- tttry machine. 01L3(1LOI ,n' rirOt CiAtla The regiment arrived in two trains eerly this morning, tile first train, with the right half battalion and hale of le Company, coming in about 2 o'cloelt, while the remainder arrived about two hours later. The men fell in as .hey left the car- riages, and 111031 marched oil some huudred yards to the east to a spot exactly like the rest of the plain. There they formed isa quarter -col- umn, piled arins and lay clown to ,e,,r--eitarieTeltet eve OA NADIAN CONTI-NB ENT--IlOW THE OF. FIChltni WERE 0,,I1A1T01tE1) ON TIIE SHIP. await developments — and tents. These came in the, waggons which the station oelicials provided, and in clue time were. pitched; 'while tho breeze, which at S o'clock was sharp and spun the dust starred up by foot- Lalis to leeward, ew stronger and sitoeger, and the, dust drove through the camp, blinding, Buffo- catiug, sifting down necks, into boots, everywhere. This is the first tame that the battalion had pitched camp as a battalion, and arrange- ments necessarity were not as com- plete as will be the case when ex- perience has shown each Mall'S moat fitCing place in the machine. A strange Sunday it was as officers and men picked up a hasty breaks fast of coffee and biscuit and has- tened hrough tbe necessary work of organization. The day wore on and the wind grew fiercer, sending the dust in, fterce-flying masses -they were not clouds. As little was done as possible, and after a dust -be- sprinkled lunch the regiment spent O wretched enough afternoon shel- tering from the flying evil. The even- ing parade was cancelled, and the projected church parade was hot held. Cast back In your mind when you read this the first Sunday of this month, recall how you spent ite and think of' us struggling through the wind, cowering before the deist sterna, and try to realize how dif- ferent a land this is. some Go tlipunsationm. Compensations aranot Jacking, ons, and the chief, is the good temper of tee men. They have not been grumb- ling or complaining, but have ac- cepted the fortunes of the day with the best spirit imaginable.. Only ' when a carnp rumor said that the 13oers were about to yield, and that the war was close upon its finish, did they repine; deep was the dis- may when that report went around. The second compensation is the night. The sun went down in con- centrated yellow splendor, and as it died the wind fell. Darkness visited first the purple, flat-topped hills,then the dark -brown conical lcopjes, -then 'elle yellowish brown plain. Coolness, clarity of air, come with it, and the complete circle of the sky glistened with the coestellations, instead of the tumbled, rolling cloud masses whieli filled the southern sky in da,y- light. The night was delicious, ,and it brought to an and our first day of service at the advanced base.--- lcrerccibiek Hamilton, in The Toronto io A Horse Parada. Mr. Frederick Hamilton writes to 'The Toronto Globe: Drill was again the programme and the quarter-deck was again crowded with squads. Arm drill and the firing exercises oc- cupied a good deal of time, and a gratifying degree of smartness was displayed by some of 'the squads. It is remarkable how correctly the men maintain their alignment on the tossing dock. The drill went to 'the accompaniment of an incessant Bre 11:1(413 o AND EXCBCISINO 11113 nausea. of bugle practiee, the morning being sot aside for this Work. Captain Forester took his horse" out for exercise to -day. The sides of the stables and the stall pa,rtitionia eveve knocked down, atid soon the ten chaegers were being, walked 'up and dosen the foredeck, which for securer footing. was streevn with Sand, Vehleh Ca•Dtalli Fors ter' disin- terred from the depths of the hold. The eight eves a novel ' one, and a,roufeed initeb ieterest among thel men, lioneeforweed in good weather the promenade will be a. daily efiair. The lierseas are keeping their Condi- tiara wonderfully 0)011, He—There's nothing half eio sweet ' as love's young (trefoil. She ---O, I don't knOw. Whtit'fi, the matter with such saccharine,. dreintiat as ic creaen and socia water. that Pocornlivicaell ciostotth:tbactsitstibcho els laav.dor cowlt jat, in Mot/lurid.