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Cynthia without delav,
"Prirnie ST2
liver them. with the letter to 'Miss
were her tavourita flower—and de -
That waa M the Afternoon Ia the
T, evening hia fate was decided. At
"'Arrah Mateethor Cerald lint it's a dinner hile \c1b•nnQ11 af Purl'Ic
'
grate day for Ireland that S'n'S Ye Leaking backward now, Colonel
home in ,the efuld place 11 10'' ' Desmond kunv that of all the battles
Colo/lel Desmond snilled at his old he had beet) through in his time, the
' one lee had eought with himself that
gardener' fervency, ill-etarred oight was the hardest, and
"Thauk you, Casey, arty 7:rove 1"— tate victory the most creditable he
glancing round the quaint, stra.g- had ever won. Ile had token his
gling garden --"it is good to be home leave like a geatleman, and a week-
, later Sailed for India on active ser -
in old Ireland again. Seven yeare vital.
roaeting in India mak.es a man ap- That was seven years ago now:, ana
PreeLate hi,e ow -'i country with 'a the ycara blunt our sorrows wonder-
fully; but he had never forgotten the
vellgeances
.e, tvhite violets, nor Cynthia.
"Bor
ut look at that, nONV:" 1 u Presently the colonel retrace(' his
Casey admiringly. "And to think footsteps.
It'a seven long yea.r$ since ye put: yer "Caaeya' he said, "is the bed of
foot in this mild garden! And is it white 'Violets by the south wall still
inTexiatenee?"
thrue, hlasther Gerald, you've been 41.,0erNairi.doenermLsicso;ja.2eterlied his head.
fightin' the blacks Ivor since? Micky Gerald!" he
who reada the paper raga. said. "A blight seemed to come over
them goon tattier you left, and the
tar, eez the QU'een;•.:ent you a geoid
elivU 31 steinla the bed but died!"
CrOSS, she was that plazed at the way b
Like dreams, Casey " said
you knocked the diyil eut ol the hay- tile colonel'. "Violets die.' q-u-Ceizly."
thens 1" "Shure; air," agreed Casey vague -
1v; "but the other WallS—you remern-
"Not a gold one, laug,heil his mai-br Hoe bed of double purple wane- be
ter. ,"It's one made of gunmetal, but the ould greenhouse--'
not all the coin in tho realm. imuld Desmotol nodded.
buy it, Casey. And. now tell Inc all "Well, though it's mesel.f that sayS
it continued Ceieey proudly, "the), re
the 111.11. 1 see"—glancing around—
as bright and bloomia' an the day you
'You've looked after the old place tould me to pull a bunah and iatko
' thoroughly during my absence." ' them aeroes with the letther to Miss
"Thank ye, Mastlacr Gerald," said Cynthia! Will ye cante and have a
look at 11110.3,hlasthee Gerald?
Casey, beaming with pleasure. " "
1° "I am afraid, Casey," said Colonel
IN
an' the ould woraante, done our best Desmond, smiling, as he eallawed tha
Le Coolager eince the day ye shut it 'old gardener, "your memory as play -
up and wint abroad to fight. As for ing you a triek. They were. 1\1-11,1,te
violets I told you to take to liss
the news, the clivil a strap of change Cyril:Mathat day. I have every rea-
.
there's been hereabouts, save and ex- eon for remembering."
cept the killin' of the one -eyed fox "Bleas your soul, no, Masther Ger-
, as
in Kelly's wood. the saison af tiler yoo
ald!" replied Casey confidentlythey atapped oppoeite a bed of rich
left, and the death of Owen Molloy, purple violets. "They waur the
the schoolmaster, six months ago., double purples. These is the very
'And the rectory people—how are wane at out feet. I remember it Ye they?" queried Colonel Desmond, with \c‘d1111.2dasnii,f ihtpwtaou.,r,h,oetivlee•rd,ensdtyerdcaya.‘seye,
the faintest flush of colour on his scz you, 'take tbii letter, along wad
forehead. a bunch of vilets, aeroas to Miss Cyn-
"Musha, they're all thrivin," re- itlhia at. \bVIIDee2 0 b.igAbond,hCaserza.esmeizjeyroua,
plied Casey, with a covert glanee at
bigs.btunelia Yez manc\, hav-e sal white,
t
hie master. "Of coorse, the rector but' the divil a bit of me heard, so I
hinaself gets an odd twinge of gout, tuk her a darlirO hunth av the deu-
but that's, natural enough in a man ble purples, and," continued Casey,
of hi •
age. As for Cyna
too interested in his narrative to no-
s Miss thi, . . .
tice hie master, s \vinte fate—and I'm
ehe's the swatest lady in all Ireland! gain' to tell ye a saycret; sir. The
You'll be afther hur yerself, devil a flower Miss Cynthia has ever
Maether Gerald, in a few minits. She warn from that day to this but pur-
ple
cam.ee over to me ivcry 11101010'ornin' for violets!"
But Casey's information ;appeared
a posy of --" to pass. unnoticed. The colonel nev-
"Miss Cynthia!" interrupted the er spoke, only stared across the sun -
colonel, 11 '1 a start. "Why—why,11 meadowa to where a spiral wreath
I thought elle 31 15 to have married 0 1,13. amok, crept upward through
111'. Harvey!" the distant woods. So that was the
"Lord bless you, no, sir! Miss e.xplanation of Cynthia's purple vio-
Cynthia will nevermarry—least- leta. Poor Cynthia 1 She Ind lov-
ways," he added confidentially, not ed hiin, after all. And he—what had
'a -unless She getg the man she's been he dcne to her? He turned. on Casey.
alba' her heart out about this many A savage desire to choke the tile out
a year!" of this softabearted idiot, who had
And who may that lucky indivo. well-nigh ruined two lives, swept
dual be. Casey?" asked Colonel Des- through him. Then the man in him
mend, with the taiatest touch of bit- triumphed. Ile foueeht dean the pas-
terness in his voice, sima bravely. What was dome, was
Casey shuffled uncomfortably.
'Arrahl aura it's not or the lik.ea
of Me to be discussin' the gintry," he
began insinuatingly; "but they do
say in the village that he wint' oft
to the wars sivia-- Begorra,
ther Gerald, he wint somewhere about
the alone time as you wint yerself!"
"They talk awful rot in the vil-
lage," was Colonel Desniond's em-
phatic comment, as he turned away,
impatiently, and walked down a
side alley.
Frona the farther end of the alley
he could ace a wide sweep of meadow-
land, with a house or two peeping
from out some distant woods.
"So she iaever married Harvey, af-
ter all !" he muttered. "I wonder—I
wonder why ? Confound it !"—he
broke off angrily—"am I never to
get rid of that confounded episode?
Seven years, and I haven't forgot-
ten. Seven years since she—since she
sent inc about my business," he con-
cluded bitterly, "and I haven't had
the decency to forgethl
For some moinents he stared
straight aoross the, $oft sweep of mea-
dow -land.
Memory pulled back the hands of
the clock seven years, and in his
dream he loaleed on life with eyes
that never would, in reality, look the
m
sae again. Life was such a good
thing in those dear old far-off days
—so good, that not all the bitter dis-
appointment and reckless danger of
seven years had rubbed one hour
trona off the elate of his memory.
But what a fool he had been! She
had fooled him—led him on, played
with him as a cat plays with a mouse,
and then----. It. is the way of WO -
mer. bo eacrifice men's hearts to their
vanity. But she might'laave spared
him, beca.nee--well, because, after all,
he bad loved her e.ver since she had
been a long-legged. kiddie in short
freaks. That was years, before Har-
vey had appeared upon the scene, with
hie pushing insistence, and knack of
dangling . around her wherever she
went.
Ile had always believed in Cynehia,
in whose cause he had. first learnt
the art of battle. It was like losing
his faith in God. when ha lost faith
in Cynthia. '
He remembered the anguish of jeal-'
ousy that had prompted him to write
that last letter—the leh
letter wose
answer was to finally settle hie hopes
and .fears. Every phrase of that
fateful ,missive had burnt itself in-
to his 'brain for ever. His reproaches,
hislaurning love and passionate jeal-
ousy, all passed before ,him now, lilee
the ghosts of a play. And then
there blazed out before hind, in let-
tere of flame, the closing wordsa-tlie
words, that demanded her final de-
cision. ,
'I am sending 1h', note 13y Casey,"
, they ran, "who will also give you a
bench of. violets. Should you WO;)r
the latter at clinter to -night, I will
know at once, and for all. time; that
youlove me; if ,poe, I tvill never both-
,
er you agaile
n.
That wad till—an ill -written hate
rind a bunch of violets; but they were
the het chapter in a Man's tragedy,
He ad coalared Caecy to gather
at their feet'. 'AS elle pinned them In
his coat, her eyes metlus
"For seven yeare," she said, "I've
never worn any floWerta but these!"
LAND OF TBE HUMMING BIRD.
The, Surprising WIlenosneiton That Wallows
Digging In Trinidad's Asphalt Late.
Few people who travel °Yee the
asphalted streets af our large cities.
are awar0 of the origin of the black,
pitchy metes that goes to make up
the basis of the smooth roadway wi-
der their feet. Eighteen hundred railes
almost due eouth from NOM York
liee the little tropieal island of Trini-
dad—a 13ritteh possession off the coast
of northerA
n South naeric,a. At the
south-weettrn extremity of this col-
ony the fanome PitchLake is located
on the summit of a small hill, less
than two hundred feet above the
level of the Isea. In appearance tlaere
is nothing phenomenal about this
woader of tam tropics. but a visit to
the lake as it is familial -1y collate re-
veille 0110 of the most unaccountable
additiea of nature in the annals of
travel.
The tourist may fake passage to
the "land of the humming-bird'—aa
Trinidad people like their country to
be called—and after securing ac-
commodation nt the only decent hotel
M the colo‘ny, proe.oed to the ,lake by
matt' of the emoathree
Government steam-
ers plying castwise times
weekly, disembark at the' 13rightan
pier, and proceed to the scene of "dig-
ging." Of all the ,crude, rough, and
ready meana of. extracting Wealth
from mother earth, the Trinidad Lake
asphalt operations are the inost
striking. The visitor arrives on a
fairly level plateau, spotted here
and there with tiny pools of water,
beneath which the saft shiny sub-
stance known as asphalt glitters in
the reflection of a fierce tropicalsun.
Scattered over the surface of the lake
dozens of swarthy negroes are ply-
ing pick and bee, extracting the tar -
cooly looking etuff from the earth.
One may it in the shade of a near-
by ohrub, or under the prohecting
shelter of an umbrella, and watch the
negroes pile heap after heap of the
asphalt into the endless chain of
tubs .that hurry along to the pier,
from which one hie but recently land -
oat until at yawning. excavation *.Ltwenty or more feet suggests to the
supervising darky that the time has
eame to move a bit further on. In
the course of a few hours the excava-
-tam resulting from the morning's
diggtngs begins to look less deep,
and by eventide the spot from which
more than five or ten tons have been
dug is again level with the,surrcund-
ing earth and ready to be dug over
by the gang of noisy blacks. From
the point of digging to thetpier is
but a male or less of endless -chain
descent; moored to the. pier are bigni
sailing vessels, and sameties steam-
ers, into whose capacious holds the
tubs disoharge the pitch at the rate
of two or three hundred tons per 'day.
TO VACCINATE FOR CANCER.
done, without noae of redemption. ao
"Feae all the workt as if he'd seen a huh
alo Physician Annonace's a Host Int.'.
ghost," Casey told a crony long af-
t erwa.rda.
"She kem over here wan day afther Dr. ,ITarvey R. Gaylord, of Buffalo,
ye'd gone abroad, 5ir," resumed the N.Y., has announced to the medical
loquacious Casey, at length, "and profession and to, the world at large
axed me if I'd let her have a bunch -
that he has diseovereda that cancer is
av the dotible purples every moan -
in while. they waur in saison, which caused by .ft microscopical animal
was quare, scein' they have the best parasite a protozoon.
flowers on the eounthryside in the He ha, produced cancer by inject-
recttory gardenCasey,d .. I reminded her avbut she only m
.
g a eerum containing these para -
continue "
smiled a bit sorrowful like, and sed sites iato the, blood of animals—dogs:
she'd rather have the \vans that grew and guinea pigs. Ile has discovered
here. She called thima quare name that a protozoon' causes cancer, and.
somethin' like that—but the divil a that the protozoon ie like the bodies
name I've iver heerd thim called me- found in the blood after vaccination
aelf but purple violets!" and in smallpox.
"And you always' let her have Scientists have been vainly search -
them?" asked the colonel slowly. His ing for vegetable, not animal, germs',
face was very white. as the cause of smallpox, scarlet fey-.
? "Av coonse, Masther Gerald!" as- er, measles and hydrophobia. In the
sented Casey insinuatingly. "I knew light' of Gaylord's discovery that
if ye waur at home yerself yea" let theee diaeases are caused by animal
Miss Cynthia have the sowl out of yer organism, scientists, Win TIONV divert
awn body if rhe axed it. So iverY, their attention towards finding a
m.ornin' she comas over about this remedy to combat the cancer microbe.
time, ad Degorral here she is Gaylord is now searching for a sena
herself!" broke off Casey suddenlY• um containing the protozoa of can -
"And if ye don't mind, Masther Ger- cer which he can inject into the blood
ald, I'll go and look at the roses." and 'prevent cancer or cure it if the
She came along the wide, gravelled sufferer has not reached the advanced
path, with all her old grace and dig- stage of the disease,
nity; and Colonel Desmond, as he On
layman's English, he seekS a
watched her, thanked God he had avachi,. against came,,h a serum
loved and waited even aaven years. that will give a man a mild, case ofi
Her eyes were fixed on the ground, cancer, tea to say, and will prevent
aa if she were lost in tlaougnt:, and him ever having the real cancer. Ex -
she had drawn quite near before she periments made with guinea pigs
looked up. Then he went towards
her.
"Cynthia!" he said.
A flush of color suddenly swept
through: her face, and as suddenly re-
ceded again, leaving her ole.adly pale.
"You?" ishe cried, recovering -her -
If, avith a brave effort "I we
never heard you had coin?, home."
"No," he Raid, gently-, taking her
hand. "I came home last night quite
sud.clenly. Only yourself and Casey
knew I am in Ireland.I never meant
to have eoro.e home ag'ain," he went
on; "but Fate Seemis th have forced My
footsteps back to our side again.
Oh, Cynthia, Cynthia," he cried, 'for-
give Me! I made an awful mistake
that night eeven years ago!"
Then, with one hand tightly clasped
in his, he explained Casey's mistake
—the mistake that haeOswallowed up
seven- years of their happiness," and
well-nigh wreckeci their lives. a
"I could stake my life that I told
hion the. violets, Were to he "White," he
concluded; ''and When yeti came into
tons of coal, and the whole of - the
dioner \veering purple, Well, af-
ter 'that, nothing mattered much." He shib's st01°57
broke.off thickly.
filled with tears. laITERA.L INSTRUCTIONS.
Iler eyes suddenly
"It ne,trly broke my heart," she Mr, Youngbueband, recoverifig from
said softly, influenza :—This beef -tea seems veny
"Oh, Cynthia, Cynthia," be cried, his weak, ray dear.
clasp on her hand „tightening, "what Mrs. Y.—I'm sure it ought to he
O heartless brute you must have geed; I made it according to the doc-
thought me! Try to think of what ((WS instructions,
I did a little gently. And—and will latr. Y„ inquiringly --The cloctroaa
you let me try to atoac for the wrong ' Mrs. Y.—Yes, he said half the:people
I did you in tale past? Let me try didn't stew the beef enough to get
to win back a little of the old love-- all the goodness out of it. I'm eure
only a little." I did, for the imuce-pan boiled dry
She soddenly atoopea down,/ and twiee, and I bad to fill it bp with
pu)led own oA the violets growing water.
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NEW AND PIQUANT SALADS.
An authority on cookery tells us
that "a salad should be Pleasing to
the eye; delicious to the taste, artis-
tic in combination of color, beauti-
ful, and above ,all daintly served."
Certainly, then, if all these be con-
eidered, no' more attractive dish can
be imagined with which to tempt
the appetite an the warm days of
spriug and early summer. And how
infinite is the variety of salads now
compounded—tho,se of fruit for beak -
fat and dessert, and of vegetables
Lor dioner, an well as the heavier
meat, and fish salads auitable for
lurichecal or supper.
A alad in which celery plays an
important part ia generally popu-
lar, arid the crisp white stalks are
combined with many other edibles.
For instance:
Nut and Celery Salad:—Thie is ex-
cellent and very dainty, served in
Orem) peppers, which have been scoop-
ed out. To 1 qt walnut, hickory nut
or even peanut' meats, allow 3 pts
finely cut celery and 1 1-2 pts may-
onriaiee. Place the outs in a sauce-
pan Oath 1 teaspcon salt, 1 small
onion sliced and two bay leaves, if
they can be procured. Cover with
boiling water and cook 10 minutes.
Sidra, out the nut meats and, drop
into ice water for half an hour./ Then
draM dry, sprinkle, with salt and
'pepper and mix With the celery and
dressing. Fill into the little pepper
cups, putting 1 teaa,poon, mayonnaise
on the top of each. '
Russian Salad—This is a mixture of
vegetables, which may often be pre-
pared of "left -overs." All or any of
the following vegetables can be used.
One-third cup each of cold boiled
carrots, cauliflower, , beans, green
peas, beets, turnips and potatoes, and
1 teaspoon finely chopped parsley.
Separate the cauliflower, hat° sma.11
sprigs and cut the carrots, beets,
turnipe and potatoes into dice. The
beane and peas can, of course, bel left
whole. To brighten the colors, drop
them into cold water as soon as cook-
ed, When it is pretty to drain, dry
ad arrange them in order on a.fla.t
dish, alternating in rays of red, white
and green from the centre formed of
the heart of a small head of lettuce.
Pour over all a French dressing and
eet on ice, so as to be very cold when
served. ,
French Fruit Salad—The ingredi-
ents are 2 oranges, 2 bananas, the
meats of a dozen English walnuts, 1
head of lettuce and 1 cup mayon-
noiee. Peel, seed and divide the or-
anges into mouthfuls. Peel the ban-
anas and cut, in thin slices. Break
the nut a quite snaall. Arrange the
lettuce leaves on the serving plates
and in each little green cup put al-
ternate layers of the bananas and
oranges. Dress with the mayonnais
and garnish with the nuts.
—sed they waur her romance, or
A BOY'S ROOM.
"Roy takes such a pride .in his
room and keep a it so orderly we must
put fresh papert on the walls and give
the 'woodwork "a coat of paint," said
his mother 'when talking over her
• .
house-cleaning plans for the spring.
aThi s mother may not have guessed
it, but she held the secret of, her son'e
good Way to have a riaveet cellar is
to close the cellar and burn sulphur
in it three or eouie times a year. A
cleat), dry cellar 14 essential to health.
Use raw linseed oil and benzine in
the proportion of ono teacup of ben-
zine to 0. quart of oil, to oil hard-
wood floors. After rubbing it into
t'he wood polish it smooth with a
soft cloth. '
'''.1ao stain soft woad floors mix to-
gether a pint of boiled linseed oil,
three-fourths pint of turpentine,
three tablespoonfuls of raw umber
and three tablespoonfuls of whiting.
Try the color on a piece of plain
board before tieing it on the floor. If
too light, add a little 1110r0 umber, If
too dark, mbre oil and turpentine.
Lay it on with a good sized brush
making tile 'strokes the way the.
grain runs. Apply it evenly. Af-
ter a day or two rub with a soft
woolen cloth. Then varnish the
floor, adding, half a pint of unbolted
lineeed oil to a quart of varnish.
A HANDY GARMENT.
If you have an old but good jersey
jacket that you have outgrown, ju$t
cut off the collar, cut out the sleeves
bind neatly and knit or croelset an
edge for it, ad you will have a handy
garment for slipping on in the house,
or to put on under some other gar-
ment. We should have said round
the fronts, make the jacket just'
waist length, but don't get it too
short in the back.
KEEP THE CAKE LIGHT:
To take a cake from a pan with
eaae when baked, lay a clean towel
on the kitchen table, invert the cake
pan over it and put a cloth folded
two or three thicknesses, wet in cold
water; aver the bottom of tbe pan. 'In
a.rainute or two the pan can' be lifted
from. the cake with ease. Now take
hold of the end of the towel the cake
rebs upon and turn the cake over
right aide up. It is apt to make a
cake heavy to let it cool upside, down.
AN ARTIST OF THE
An Enzli•lt Exhibitor IVho Ham I1ee71
Armless Since Ills Eighth Year.
Fireworks and fancy jewellery
seem in the popular mind, to be more
closely associated with the Crystal
Palace than Art with a big Ae yet
just at present there is a little studio
M the. South. 'Nave with a suspicion
of Aubrey Beardsley and a decided
atmosphere of iWilliam Morris, says
the London Express,
Artistiz wall paper designs, designs
for dainty fans, wooderftal little wa-
ter -colors, and striking line draw-
ings are an the walls, whilst the
young and handsome artist busily
paintby means of his --mouth.
Mr. Bartram Hike was born in
Drietol, ad was deprived, at the age
of eight years, of both his arms
LIPS.
interest. in his room. Keeping it
freshened up and inviting looking' as
ehe does, he naturally takes pleasure
in having it always in nice order.
Boys enjoy pretty things and conve-
xilencee as well as girls, but too ot-
ter) their rooln is scantily furnished
that' their aisters' room may be in-
viting,rand comfortable.
Ir a boy's room is diagy, uncar-
peted arid wathout decoration, of
courae, Ihe will keep it cluttered up
and untidy and will stay out of it•
aa much as possible. But if he has
a desk, where he can sit and study
and keep hie papers in neat order, a
bookcaee or a book shelf, where his
schoolbooks and story books are
paced, picturethat he has fancied
and cut out of papers and magazines
put on the walls, his treasures col-
lected from the woods and here and
•there arranged in convenient places,
pretty curtain's at •the windows', an
easy chair or two, his guitar, a lounge,
with a few pillow,s; if he has, these
comforbs, and conveniences he will
enjoy his room, invite his boy friends
to jain him there and will never be
along this line tend to show that it found, you maY txi aura, lounging on
will be possible to secure this can= 1 the street, because there is no place
for lura at home.
A boy's own room has a great in-
fluence on his character, and the
neater and prettier it is tlie more
refining the influence. Mothere who
Many etorie,s are told of good buck,
tdea$4.0 tO make their boys happy and
folloiving old purchases made by the
keep them in the safe shelter of the
enterprising mercantile man known home will give special attention to
a'S "ship -breakers," who buy up wrecks their room when freshening and
and the hulks ol etranded vessels, elc.1 brightening up the rest o•f the house;
But the latest reacived econcs from wlill °'eet'
p easan comforta.ble as pos-
indeded, that it is made ' as
Newpaet, Eugland,e w her c one lucky sible,
ship4neaker made a bid for one of
the `veseels stranded on the Welsh
Hook, between the English and Welsh
sarlds, 'at the time when the steam-
ship Brunswick groundeet,°and was
wrecked. Apparently ao hopeleas was
the condition of the vesset that he
hadthelot for L'82. However, he sac,.
ce,eded in raising her, and having
towed her to Newport thus became
possessed 1the vessel, a Ca-tg0 0/990 and hanaastwater be poured over 11
cer vacinc and prepare a positive
remedy for the dread disease.
A GOOD INVESTMENT.
through an accident. Befoa•a this
catastrophe he had developed a
strong passion for drawing—so strong
that the loss of leis arm al in no way
diminished his ambition to become an
artist. Working with courage and
enthueiasm, he obtained a "first-class
excellent" in the eecond grade for
freehand (I) drawing 11 ithin two
years of his accident.
At the age of 1651r. Hiles exhileited
a situdy in water colors at the Bris-
tol Fine Ara Academy, anal his car-
eer ate an artisfa was fairly begun.,
But it took hini upward of six years
to obtain complete mastery over the
=sales -of his mouth; yet time and
practice made him .more expert than
ever in freedom and touch.
The young artist has exhibited at
the Royal Society of Bristol Artists,
the Dudley Gallery, etc., "very near-
ly," he 4aid smilingly, "at the Royal
Academy," arid where Mr. Hiles' pic-
tures 'were accepted it wa,S entirely
an their 01Wri merits, the hanging
committee being quite ignorant of
the method used.
Deftly a brush was picked up, col-
our mixed and applied with an, ex-
quisite touch, by means of the paint-
er's mouth; ad even as one repre-
sentative looked on a rustic child
grew audde,nly out ot black and white,
watching the aetting sun.
The artist's delight ir) his 'work,
and his breezy cheery manner, seem
tocaat one's pity back; th,e man who
has conquered, nobly and patiently,
so trimly and terrible difficulties,
asks for appreciatidn of his work
from the common ground of Art ra-
ther than from pity for the misfor-
tune which he has so wonderfully
overcome.
'UTILIZING THE " AD."
IN CAMP A.111) IIABJBI
NAVAL AND MILITARY NOTES QP
-THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
Contienseal P4rav,raphs Or Interest to Hoih
and tivillan Holy Tonitoy
Aililas Fares ba blirerent Countries.
The amount expended every year on
the arinies and navies of Europe is
Gaid to exceed £20G,000,000.
The British moldier is in hoepital 001
average of 18 day,0 a Year, the Aus.
trian only 13, but the 1tUS6i2T1 28 days,
The thickest armour on" oar new
battleship, such as the London, is 12
inches. The Nile, built in 188, has 20
inches.
According to an article in Engineer.
ing the new eubinarine boats which
are being built for the British navy,
dive like porpoises, instead of sink- '
ing on an even keel.
It has been asserted that the only
British aegiment that marched Into
Sebastopol, at its capture, with band
playing and colours flying \yam the
20111 Voot--Laiaeashire Fualliers.
Here's a comfortable way of doing
sentry go. A contemporary informs
its readers that in the Republic of
Hayti the sentinels ase provided with
chairs in their sentry baxesam which
they can seat themselves during their
turn of duty.
•
It is perhahs not generally known
that 17,000 Russian :troops wore en-
,
camped in the C1ounty of Kent in the
year 1799. They were to form part
.of that army which made such a dis-
astrous campaign in Holland, under
command of the Duke of York, '
HOUSECLEANING SUGGESTIONS.
Equal partS of fine salt :and fine;
white tiartd, moistened with vinegar,'
Nvill clean brass 'faucets.
If a lump of nommen washing soda
ie put inta the sink over the drain
down which the avaete water passes
at fiequent intervals, it will thor-
oughly cleanee the ipt; from grease
and keep it from clogging up.
If aelittle ammania is pub into the
warm soft water used for waehing
wirolowfa, and plenty of clean'lintles
cloths are used for Polishing, the sec-
ret of beautifully shining windows is
known. '
See that every part of the cellar ie
perfectly clean and have it white-
washed if possible. After your eel-.
lar is cleaned, if there is the least
daionness, use ttrislacked lime, to 3111-
1 11 inoistere. Place a churik
here artd there about the cellar. A
The appointment at Vice -Admiral
Sir C. A. G. Bridge to be Commander -
in -Chief of Her Majesty's ships and
vessels -on the C'hina station, is offi-
cially announced to the Admiralty.
It took a long time, to get to India
before the Suez Canal was opened,
For instance, the 71st Highlanders
embarked and sailed from England in
Januairy 1779, but n.cot tall January
1780, did the three shipal containing
the regiment anchor in Madras Roads.
By the laws made centuries ago,
and whiela have been in existence in
some forna or another ever siace.,ethe
reigning monarch isosuprerne lord of "
both the army and navy, for both in-
stitutions are considered to be his
own, and are really supposed to be
paid by him.
An act of Parliament was passed
in 1710, by which all English magis-
trates were empowered to impress fox
service in the army and navy any man
who had no viesibla means of' subsist-
ence—of course, supposing the man to
be physically fitted for service.
had to serve five yeara at least. ,
Th,e War Office has decided to pub-
lish an official history or the war,
Dr. Robertson Nicoll, in the current
number af the British Weekly,states
that the work has been entrusted to
Lieut. -Colonel G. F. R. Henderson,
There...are to be at least six volumes,
and perhaps seven, each of about 451
pages.
On April 16th, 1852, an eagle from
one of the, captured French flags in
the chapel at Chelsea Hospital was
stolen. This eagle had a copper -gilt
wreath encircling it, and, with the
banner, was probably the heat ever
taken by our army. It originally be-
longed to the 8th French Regiment,
and was taken during an engagement
with the French at. Barossa.
The War Office returns show- that -
the total of British deaths in South
Africa up to January alst was 12,989,
of which 7,793 died of disease, and
only the comparatively sinall re-
mainder of 5,196 from Wounds received
in action, More men were killed out-
right in the three days' battle at
Gettysburg in the American civil
war than have died on all the bat-
tlefields of South Africa. in , sixteen
naonths.
The Young men of Cockburn, in
South Australia, formed a rifle club
shoet tinae ago, hut found some
difficulty about securing rifles from
the Government. Feeling that, in tha
worst event, •
they could not be hang-
ed for their daring, they applied to,
.Lord Roberts, who promptly had therella)
supplied with Mauser weaponsecap-
tured from the Boers. They are now
as a mark of gratitude, aencling home
to the comma nder -inachier a hand-
some inkstand made of silver-mountaao.,...
emu eggs. ,
The new , warrara coaaeitutang
Royal Garrison Regiment mainly ap-
Now, if you \\rill show me n here the
burglars got into your .shop, said the,
detective, I will 500 if 1 in find 2
clue.
In a moment, said the proprietor,
I am working at something a little
more important than hunting fax a
clue just now. ,
And while the detective waited, the
merchant wrote as follows at his
desk: '
, The burglar \vim broke into Kat-
zenhefter's shop on the night of ;a13e
15111 and carried away ,e). silk hat; a
pair: of French 'calfskin boots, a fur-
trimmeel overedat, a black broad-
cloth suit, and two suits of silk un-
derwear, was a blackheartecl
and scoundrel, but a man whose judg-
'ment cannot be called into question,
He new where to go when he Nviint,
ed the finest clothing marlret af
frd
Jacob, he tOtid ta the book-keeper,
send a copy of this to all the papers,
and tell 'em I want it printed in big
black type to occupy half a column to
morrow morning, Now, Mr. Hawk
-
Shaw, I am at your service.
OVERHEARD AT TnE, TAILOR'S.
Boy—Please will you give niesome
tr c't1Sh8c6) - a esipatternsetant— f Co re r nit aoi ttilllye,r bow hs eal?
kin&t does your mother prefer ?
(7 —011, mother is not at all par-
tieular as to the patterns, ao long as
they are strong etiough to hold up
our creeper.
Indignation on the part of the is
can better he iakaagined than
desom 'IVO.
peals to non-comnaissioned officees
and men of the Royal Reserve bat-
talions. Its object is to induce sea -
sealed soldiers up to ,forty years of
age to enlist upon certain favourable
terms as to bounty pay tied pension,
Lor the specific duly of garrisoning
our Mediterranean and other non-
tropical. statlons. The idea obviously
is that if aapecial farce of this ebar-
acter can be constituted, a consider-
able ritimber of the ordinary infantry
battalions; at present engaged on
work of that character, would be re-
lieved of it, and become available for
active service in their own proper
sphere,
Prince Christian of Denmark, who
is on Lerma of close inti"-macy With oar
Duke of Cornwall, has mare {ha/ton-0S
demanstrated bbs eolness and per-
sonal strength. The other day tile
heir to the Danish Clown \vas driv-
ing with tile I'rine,ess when the bells
on their horsca startled the animals
in another sleigh, which 1Nas over-'
turned, the oceupantsl)eing entangled
in their rugs. The Startled horaes'
bolted, and the unfortunate paf...sen-
gars were in great danger. I:ut the
Crown Prince immedlately leapt out
of his sleigh seized the runawqys and
braught tlaenx to 'a staudstill2