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Exeter Times, 1901-2-14, Page 6OW ARRIe ON IN ditNhwectned MAINE. :ot 7,034'"(41. sell 'all$ ke ee Das rrieee-41re,ofelly Cee%pe/ *u4, Altdial/ Inattoi1/4 at Am 1 "Or/eaten artistie aui real be tbem-ere -real in coma permen- sned au/ ade "clown in otore wealthAmerica/1s hare 'he a for the eeslilY embellielt their e xich, eaduriug colors, the simple desigus, the pa et worie, leave beea the e- t ate Orientale aud. ir o tbe eottimerciai peoples lands who sought to eepy Mew there leas. been estab- remote leawa East locatite try that is ate:acting, the atteation of counoisseuna In her own tome. Airs. Vela 'lege*, the wok of matrufee;.,uring the rugs. The conservative country fola looked on wonderingly and duhteusly at 111'64 but her enthusiasm could not fail to have Re effect, and soon she wera• ercin bailee to ouse showiug nee aleighbors hew to get the beet effect% and gettiug desiana Par them tO COW, ,at art Xseialteeee. Last Winter She did tot come tot town At all, but stayed with leer work 'a the quiet, snowbound emintrY. This Tear she tas left several wonlen worlee ing in their hone au tbe rugs that she planeed before she leet in the tall. he tbe early spring she will return to Maine to carry forward the ineustry more actively. The work is slow and painstaking, but tae restate etietify Some a the ruge leave been sbown at Art exhibitions in. New York this winter, and bave been the objects oe lege praiee and eonimendatiora Ate • ts and rich people have -Wee as .reauy orders ae eau be flfled or a long time by the few nem have a. sure ficient lenewledge of the work to earry Um out. Net ouly are tae coloriegs Q thene rime delightfully barn:amen*, but they are as aearly permaneut ae col- ors can be. The vegetabie dyes used evil/ apt fade. Tile thick. hem weave, glee, makes the even PreordealY Ui- destructible, ea flea ,US ordinary Use end wear V. The impentauee ot this neVe ndustry is several aepecte. It is eueouregiugi as an itielieatieiz that Americans bave wieg apprecietlea ot the everta oe aud Ivo* ttioeorglely none Med of ar- ietievalues. It lielpe in the gallant/a perplexiug problem in the rural Vomeaunities, "What ea u the women Tato remelts. at Inane de to oroupy iter time profitably?" old ledustries that leave peesed • left nottiluee to tate their place. Thee hung heavily, Med, even with the trictest economy, it WAS difecult to earn enough money irs out of the way places to pay for the simple purehaene that had to be Made. It win ten a to nevive aud keep Wive eeme et the primitive arta raid oecupo.tione 'that 'were ee distluctiVe et early Americaa women. aud will stimulate the interest. la feellug for geuulne art. Above all, it will eignify the labor or tbe bezels, which is to be emu- neendal from ae industrial. eociAl or en none point of vieW. Oriental Rona. o attempt is xnade to reproduce tha End petternie but artistic principle ithat are true tbrougherat the woree at* ploe-el, and the wore; le dope wly Ann painetalergey ae if th 14 Wagged as elowiy frou one gen. nee to =otter in our buy laud as Old Aelatle ceeattnes. Judea rd eettletire Me., where this neve being teene the bustle anti the cr. tbe nore !melted. and tend to favor tbe turniug that will hese a permae Zeniths or were. Bet when mouthe ot Milted band tweak goes into a rig it cannot be cold ptt ceetlpetitioa with the tateali ma - Mine produced domestic nage. It ap, �e* ls to the tastee aria purses of the ltivatea awl the rel, aud thus ea - into competition with tae valuable 01eems from Ilene and Persia. A rug costa lirki or more, according deeign, and larger ones in pro. although the industry is in ey the value of the rugs has by those who are able pay for theta, and Ox- y rugs are displayed with 1-pritile in their possession owner feels for his artiatio ds r ne other lanes. The avowed purpose of :Mrs. Doue- Res Volk, the wife of the artist evno Vie promotiag the enterprise, is to es- Itablieh eignified, artistic arid rem- theanieve forra ot handcraft araoag a people oe pure American 'Wood, to era- se= •of the best American tra- and eintoms, and to revive a (Miss that has lapsed almost to ex- ction. The Yolks have a, eountrY apace in that remote country far be- te -ate the disturbing influences of rail - avid Mille, commercial hubbub and ?confusing marts. Their hone is gentiry ord, and its furnishings are the accumulation of its hundred years en occupancy by one fatally. Primitive elraplicity prevails throughout the lo - Canty, and the artist and his family ening in no new ways from the lar - leer 'world. Unfortunately, with the naraplicity there exists a, lack of proz Verity among the natives. Many of tee old eources of income have fallen into desuetude, and few new ones have .ree ht.en (Ionised. to take their plat?. Capable and enitesteenee The women are eapable, industrious hde,...-eina intelligent, and. many of them still :nee the spinning wheels and looms that once were found in eyery farm le.ause throughout the country. Grad- alaIly, however, they were being ban- dehed to attic, cellar or outhouse, or everi left exposed to the out-of-door :weather, and the homely arts of '''yo olden tynae" were being forgotten. .1the young women were ignorant of the Weaving of which their grandmother? ;Were so proud. But there were a few elderly women ?Who retained knowledge of carding, aphaning and weaving in all their ihranches, and to them. Mrs. Volk ale- peafed for instruction. She learned ev- erything they could teach her, and then she set herself to teach others. She encouraged all kinds of weaving, Mut her -chief interest and endeavor aentred upon the rugs, the making of -pinch one is seeking to develop into an industry that shall prove of value to nee cotamunity. The country women had a way of pulling rags or yarn through burial) and trimming off the, ends so as to retake an even surface. She utilized :this principle, bat varied it so- that it became pea.ctically a' new industry. material of greater strength and neneability than burlap was head wo- eventera as the foundation for the suge, and the yarn then was prepared 11.-iy hand, deawe through and ;double :rote seam el, Mrs. Volk looked eter eseri detail, beginning with the evaehing of the woof direct Lone the She experimented until she got sat- ' re -vegetable -dyes, in whch she •ed tbe wool out of doors in great 'ssliioned kettlea. The only pro- hich was not done by band was the spiening, whieh eves carried on in resque old Mill min bY Water (seer, I-Iere the owners of the wool ‘waited while the Miller put the wool through the prescribed process and thn carried it home 'with theme as FATE OFTHE NELSON 1:oci Coel Darges ot Der Old Was Seep. owlet; trade of Sydney made $ary the establiehmeet of large epots for the coaltten of ocean liners and tbe adeition ot many bargee and hulks. It le the fate of the Nelson to help eualilY this deficiency, aud the old four -decker is being sliced off eec- Von by section, SO as to melee of ber bait a dozen or mare big barges. The eve of Trafalgar Day wItneesed tho launclting or one enormous Piece of timber comprising the whole of the mane deck, whicb it was expected wchad provide a barge with a coal ca- pacity ot more than, 2,5oo tone. The career of the Nelson -contains so exidiarating records of naval battle and the lowering of enemies' colors. The Nelson. In the sixties she was lent to the Government of Victoria by the imper- ial authorities to aid a scheme of lo- cal naval defense, and for many yeare she was the headquarters of the co- lonial naval forces. Later on, when the vessel became utterly attsolete, Victoria, leaving no further use for her, informed the Admiralty that she was at its disposal, and the latter or- dered her to be sold to the highest bid. der. She -was sold at auctian in Mel- bourne and knocked down to the agent of a Sydney buyer for ;12;000. While the sale:wag in progress a peri- patetic German band, whose conduc- tor appears ta haVe possessed a grim sense of here.or, put up the music stands in front of the building and played "Rule Britannia" and. "The Death of Nelson." Once upon a time she was the larg- est ship afloat, and many experts now- adays regard her as the best wooden vessel ever built. Many new and im- proved principles of construetion were introduced into the building, mak.ng for increased stabilty- and strength. 'The forests of four continents were levied upon for her construction, the timbers used being English oak, In- dian teak. African oak and American greenheart. The value of the metal In her was ,demonstrated by the fact that some. of her copper bolts were as inucli as ten feet in length, and were sold at prices varying from $25 to $37 apiece. Her armament consisted of 121 guns. Her rekister was 2,617 tone. Oscar D. Carpenter, Of South Bond, has been enjoying a '.00ntinuous bath for the past seven weeks. For alraost a year he had been eeffereng torture from a sort of eczercie, " which refused: -to yield to treatment. Seven weeks ago; as a last resort, he was placed in a bath, the water being impregnated witie some sort of chemical. He has been up to his chin ever .eince and. has experienced much inapreveme,nt, The death of the .on. David oarne- Tee, in West Africa, from ua wound Ot a poisoned' arroase is a distinct joss to eeience. Alhough ,only 30 years of age, ths young gentleraan was already known as a distinguished explorer. Fie conducted exploriations into Central , Australia in 1808-9, and expected to be able to Rieke in the course er the fleet euppose that the bronze Raiser gra,.,,e; few yeees,4933ee valuable discoveries in, the, Chief ox S"..ta.ff's quartert West Africa, where he was• assistant; ediniring guests exeialm-, warr-dr... resident eOilliniSSIOner„ • ab l e id loni--Celcrasal-1-12 ' TALMAGE'S SERMON 40ME,.$USPlataaSOFT1-1EHE'REAFTEP THg su B1SQT, amee the Great Sorprirms of weaven foe the itigot Will lie the Cetotial. pxittlat/.. SCRAPS Or INFORMATIM 'rabs never eat fish. !Aleoleol never freezes Fish are always sold alive ill Inl.ran. Palestiae there are not 78,000 1.0evs., Spiders usually live for two or tierce . . nese ornate° wet* en 'earth oevenenteen , Signor Toeti has written over 51.9 Otber 1st Wratitleat reletale. L gouge, Tim Shale leas a. tante40 pipe wOrlIf Sometimes in our pulpits we give et wrong tur,a to the story af the dying 8400,00, "thief to wacine Christ said, "Th3,s day There are 38 lettere' in the Reseien sbalt thou be with Me in Paradise: , elpleabet. We (night to admire the mercy of the ' There are 3,452 diamonds in the Brit Christ that pardoued him in the last ? NU Crown. hour, but do not let us admire the deal The lateen is said to move 3,333 feet ing thief. Whea he was arrested 1 t per secend, thinhie pocket's were full of stolen' The average edition of a book lea -Wet coin, and the coat be bad on his back enen copies. wee not bie own. He stole -islet ell i Only' one American in 264 1,s o'ver G wail be was arrested for is erimen , leo th height He repeuted, and through greAt reereY r arose to Paradise, but he was no en- Ten per cent, of the population of fee ample to follow. What a gigantic a/a are 'widows' meanness to devote the wendroue II The average $14e at equipraeat of brain and aerve, an i farm is 610 acres. enuecle and bone with witieh we are , There Are aine Itilted. leatteltene ia endowed, eeeee etaraeles at sight and : the leritisb. armee hc-aring and Weak, to purposes mat ' The world's press is stated to include ' $7,400 etewspapers. Seeeznig wee gum thought to be a ga of geed Wok. Tbirtyelive worde a reilattle is meld d rapid 'written. TIte average gas jet Mistimes five reet a ga$ per hoer. 1 There are over e,(100 braes bawls hi the Salvation Army. There are 134 different zeligicale note In the Trance Staten The Pope cau speale Engliele, Germen d Frencb pertectty. Railway traveling in India is the heepeet in the world. It is eald that 487 eifferent lauguagee are spoken la Europa Englaad elarne exactly 1 -11th et the land surface ot Africa. Darwin Mrs an acre of pasture lend WAWA 20.000 Wereen Elsie with sort roes ere melee, those itb, lard roes females. It takes 504000 roses to mane an =se Of atter Of roses. .,A. bee does not weigh the oueneute 631skie ct it 1)17134 Ilitm Ile 1"41'nettle f Tbirty-four pounde of raw auger =Met every' Satelay moruing street going to Mime ether eaQuildrehdhne " Mane en pounds ot retitled. one other denominatiou, awl he crieti Oat: "Are yoa there? I never expect- ed to See you in Mich a glorious :place. The deg and dumb language was In, Mott were all vrroug in your form at traduced in the Year 1749. aura geverinneut How did you get tier "Seven by grace," is the bean- enly reply. "Saved by grace." what will be the bigots amazement when he sees side by side on the banke of tbe river of life Calvin and Armin, - WS, ArabiShOP Grellitler and some tIls. eenting preaclier -of the Gospel who never graduated, one 'wit° on eierth wae a robed and sUrpliced ecclesiastic and a backwoods miuister, who in the log - cabin meeting -house preached in a lin. Only one couple In. 11,500 live to con en duster? Among the great surprise a ebrate their diamond wedding. at heaven for tbe bigot will be the A recruiting sergeant says that few celestial friendliness of those who on i men have legs at equal length, earth opposed each other in wrathiesi Twenty-four srdders produce only polemic, Eie will get through the 1 About as much eilk as a silkworm. gate, for he has a spark of divine grace, In his beart, but there will not be an .A. gold coin depreciates five per cena inch or room to spare on either side ol of value in 16 years of constaat use. liim, It 'Will not tune long for heaven In forty years the run across the At. to educate him into a -glorious big- ateartedness. Again, the PenlitiOUS Christian will not ha,ve an abundant entrance. Per. baps be was not converted until all is habits of tightenstedness were Axed beyond recovery. The people 'who are generous were taught to be generous in childhood. You. can tell from the way that boy divides the ape ple what his characteristics for gen- erosity or raeauness will be for the next eighty years, if he lives so long. If he eat it all himself while others look wistfully on he will be a Shy- lock. If he give half of it to some one who has no 'apple he will be an or- dinarily generous man. If he give three-fourths of It to another he will be a Baron Hirsch or a George Pew - body. -T. De Witt Talmage. an, Alneflean o• rthy d prefaue, and then, taro hasty repentauce at last, eater heav Cleeatieg God all wiles ati When taking advantage of a eaultrulet liew wed made free of all liabilitiee. Tim bigot aeceuds with jast enough gran to cave him. As be comes up to the shtulsg gate he sees staulltag .aredtb, part of an ounce. The Teutonie eteamslelp coneumea 000 tons of coal per day. Hermann, the Cannes perfutur, usce 20 tons of violets every year. Forty-01MA different languages are sold to be spoken in Mexico, Spain has fewer daily papers MR Any other European country. Tile teraperature of man is 981,e der grecs, that of fish 77 degrees. An acre of grass newly raown weiglee Imarly two and one-balf tons. Fainting Her l'ortnit. "If I, could be such an old lady as ..hat -so beautiful, serene. sweet end lovable -I shouldn't maid grow.ng old," said a young girl the other day, speaking of a white-haired visitor who bad just departed. "Well, if you want to be that k'n't of ae„ old lady, you'd better begin making -her right now," laughed a keen -witted companion. 'Shedoe-n't strike me as a piece of work that ena done in a hurry. It has taken a zing time to make henwhat she is. If , ou are going to paint that sort of por- trait of yourself to leave the wend, yoled better be mixing your eolars Dow." The merry evords were true; nail. Whether she willed it or not, the girl was already "mixing colors" for ner portrait, and drawing day by day tile outlines of the mature Womanhood which shall yet brighten or darken the lives around her. Many a careless, eel - fish girl has in her inmost heart ao higher ideal than "to be like mother" when she shall have reaceed moth.:'s years; lant in the naeanwhile she tz c,datent to be as unlike her es Doss h:e. lilac has an idea that age brings ite greces with it and that a, beaul.ful character comes, Eke silver hair, not-- urally and without effort. Gir:s, you are outlining your futhrl. and choosing its coloring now. The :1,venian yoxi wish to be must begin in the girl. --Forward. The Austrian Chief of Staff lately received from the German Ihnp,., m a portrait bust of heroic size, welg 3 g eceme nine hureired-weight. Refase euch a gift the Austrian Geueral na g net werehe eo, inclined, To laarbo:' it was the problem. The aid of frien" eagineers was called in to see if tbe ilum.s of the bouse wou'cl support 'Sas imperial gift, and, in the absence of i /if rmetion to the 'contrary, rah,t tantic has been reclined by one -bale Lord Nelson suffered greatly Voir ea -sickness to the end of his career. As a general rule clouds are about a mile above the surface of the earth. There are four times as many nests - men in the UnitedStates as English' men. Italy has 4,800,000 lemon trees, whicb produce 1 260 000 000 lemons per an There are about four yards of very ;lose sewing ln a lady's ten -button glove. Silver articles are called "plate" from the Spanish word plata, whice means silver. Out of every 1,000,000 letters that pass through the Post -office, only 20 go astray. Twenty million copies of "Hymns. atn.cient and Modern, have been sold .since 1872. I At the preset rate of increase, the !population of the earth -will double its. 1 eelf in. 260 years. , An tech of ram means that the quail. .. Otity which falls upon an acre of groune 1 weighs 100 tons. All the correspondence from the Vat. (can at Rome concerning church mat. ters is carried on in Latin. I Four pounds of gold have been col. tooted from the soot of the chimney of , the Royal Mint in Berlin. The pin 'factories of the United Statee . manufacture about 18 000,000,000 of these diminutive but useful articles ev- ery year. , The area of Austrana is about 500; 000 square miles less than that of the United States, and 700,000 less than that- of Europe. One of the largest forests in the world stands on ice. Itis.situated be- tieeen Ural and the Okhotsk Sea. A - well was recently dug in this region, when it was found that at a depth of 116 metres the ground was still frozen. FUN ON THE FLY. The editor Who was told that his last article was as clear as nand, Promptly replied, Well, that covers theeground, anyhow." .."It was .Ben. Franklin whO Auced broom corn culttire into . this country." But thousands of Suffering husbands would realer to see the man who introduced broom handles. "How are ye, Smith," ,said Jonee. Smith pretended -not to know him, and answered heeitatingly: "Sir, yoti have the aavaatage of me.". "Yes,,I suppose so. Ee-erybod,y aas that's got common sense.", , This is the kind of weather when a, Mao sees his wife coming into tiie room with a scuttle of coal, and, after she has poured every bit of it into the ; top of the tali stove, says: "Darn it, alanner, you ought to 'ave asked;rae ire do that. itut it' a too late now.'f THE GOOD QUEEN- ( SH e COMMENCED HeR REMARKABlel RelaNt liehld nor Marriage itt 1840- tier VIrst narrate -"ler 1,..ire irtch the Vrinee--ToneIsoug iTributo Haire Ceuturr AT..0,-Ifer Marrit 0 Idle ViefOrla Alexandrine, queen et Great Britain and Ireland, and Em- press ot India is the Atth le tbe line of Haaoverian sovereigns et England, her predecessors in that line beieig the four Georges and William IV,. ntio was the daugleter of F.devard, Duke et Kent, who was the fourth SOft el George III„ and her mother was Vice terie of eaxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Born in England May 24, 1819, her father died in lase than a year afterward, I -, ' i and her general eduentron was direct ed, under her inethens care, by 'nee Dechess of Noethumberiaxid. Until ;entitle. A few weeks of her elevatioe to the throne leer life Was spent in comparative eetiremelet„ JIllie 2(f, 18s7, ner uncle William VL ated. ehthi. 'Ie Late Queen Victoria. leen au tl she succeeded, him at once Vitoria I., but her coronation in. Weeteateeter Abbey Wee riot celebrated uutil June 28, 1838. lie February, 1840, she married Prince Albert at Saxe-Co- burg-Gotba, by whom slie 4,0 intue eight eltildeen, live et whoa are etIll Hying. Most Of these married, aud were prone% the lint at deecendants of Queen Victinria now numbering about Sixty, and tbe German, Emperor being One of leer grandsons. Her flint Grief. all0 first domestic grief whiell Queen ildleteria suffered was the loss or'her Meehan the Duchaes of Kent, March 1.6, 1861, followed by the suddeu deatie at the Prince Consort, December 14, in the SaMe, year. She was deeply at- letebed to leer husbaud, and leer intense eorrow for his death for a long team prevented her from appearing in pub- lic and court ceremonials. But the habits at a life of ,00mparo.tive seclu- loxt seem never to 'lave been allowed to interfere with the perrermance ef her duties as a sovereign. Thougle the tenors, anxieties, and responsibilities inseparable from her position bane been great, and though her many be- reavements during the last thirty years of her reign have been heavy, sbe has steadfastly euifilled Oil tbe du- ties et her exalted. °lace; and it is a sourco of general pride to aer sub- jects that not only In her awn vast doe minions, but througliout the civillied *world, her name is never mentioned. save in terms of sympatby, affection and respect, as a Christian woman met a Queen., Yet even. the best and most blame- less sovereign is net wholly secure against danger of assassination, and several attempts are recorded in the history of Victoria. In aline, 1840, she was shot at by Edward Oxford; in May, 1842, by Jan Francis, and later be the same year by a lad named Bean; and In May, 1849, by a brick- layer named Hamilton. In May, 1850, she was struck on the face with a tick by Robert Pats, an exalleutenant of hussars'.'and in February, 1872, a lad named Arthur O'Connor presented a pistol at her itt a threatening manner, but the -weapon proved to be unload- ed. -None of the offenders were cape. tally punished. Flogging and imprie- onment -were deemed the wisest penal- ties. Not Absolute rowor. There have been wars during the reign ot Victoria, which some persons are disposed to think She might have aaroided, but they forget that the Crown et Britain is not vested With absolute, power, the British monarchy is limited, and it le the House of Com- mons which, through the ministers austained by its majority, realiy 'gov- erns. The whole life of the Queeu The NewM , pg in Yachting Attire, allows that rc she loves' mey 'and peace, , and any instanees to the contrary tia,v-c been in ma.tters beyond her -control. Her eldest*, son, Albert Edward, Pince of Wales immediately succeed- ed to the throne as Edward the Sev- enth. He is noW' in, his ,sixtieth. year', havingabeen born Novetaber 9, 1811 The follies or his youth are long since passed, and he ,may confidently be ex- pected to become, .wise and prudent eovereigii, wee trill do nothing to dig. turb the proeliteity of his realtne. (1 uestion n h thee chid 1 In the time ee Qoarge 11. were divelei In their judgment was wleeteer tie the King's eldest sou, did not becom. 1?eir apparent, being of full age, aui 1 of right .regent. The Whig party o the time, led bY Mr. Pox, contendet that he did. On the otber side it wa. maintained that it lay with Parlia. mut to nominate the person whc should be regent. No regent was al that time appointed, because the Kint recovered. When the Kia; was a. sea oAd time becapecitated, all partie: agreed ill conferring the title and of. flee of regent on the Prince ot Walee then linir apparent, But it was dont by Parliament. who laid certain re, strictions upon him during the first year; though in the event tendeli event did happen) of the Routinized eicapacity of the King, he Was to an ter into the full possession oe all the powers ,iof King, as if nee K2eI8 were dead, using, bowever, only the name of regent, not King. It was just Afty years ago this com- ing March 'that Temeyson wrote ot the late Qlleoul "She wrought leer People lasting good; Iler court was pure; leer life serene; -Qed gave her peace; leer lea4 re' peeed; A thougarel laims to envereneci closed In her as Mother, Wife and Queen; And etatesraen at her entlitell met WM UllelY the aeclee'lle, Wien to tatter OCCaniOn by the lean& and make The bounds of freedom wider yet By shaping eoute august aecree, Winck kept her throne weshaleee Anil, Broad based upon aer people' will. Aud compassed by the inviolate See." elereien1eil.f.11e. For twenty -piaci years Queen Vial teria enioyed the leappicet of married lives. The marriage with. Pelage .A1- bert ot Saxe -Coburg was oae of real affectiote whieb matured as tiree weeit On, In ber lettere to ber uncle Kan; Leopold and to Baron von Stoelmear, the coundeutial counsellor ot the roy- al family, and Ile the tellehilrg Vulgate Into her life widcle !MVO long been public properine there is abundant evi- deuce ot her deep attacbutent to the Prince. As Lady Jenne has admirably expressed Itt "It wee slot euprialeg that ebe Omuta be so, for he was a Most attractive persouality. Halide g em°, vultivated. and 'meet ueseldish and engaging, be was a Man to Win the heart of ally giri. All tilrougb hie lite his whole heart and soul Were given to the QUnell, mud he worked for, and theuglit Of, naught else but her happiness aud that of 'her people. The poSition Wee at firet a bard and trying one. The Homo of Common acted in the uelimily ungracious Inane ner Of that body by cutting down the Prince% allowance and by tbrowing difficulties in the way of the settle - anent of tbe question of precedence. Happily, however, thee* difecultiee die not interfere witb the absolute Itappiness of the newly wedded pair, and in a very short time Prince Al- bert, by his discretion, tact and charm had won all hearts and 'convinced ev- ery one that the Queen's choice had been a haPpY one for herself and ibie 4ountry," Wee Queen wrote in her dearer in her early married days, when the Duke et Coburg, the Princen father, had re- turned to Gerreaty: "He told me that if I continued to love him as I did now, 'The New Queen. I could make up for ell. Oh, how did feel for my dear, precious husband at e that moment! Father, brother, friends, country-ali has he left, and all for me. God grant tat I may bo the happy person, the most happy per- ; son, to make this dearest, blessed be- ing happy and contented!' What is in nxy Poveer to make him happy I will ao." The resolution was amply fulfilled. One of the Prince Consort's privato letters on the death of the father who called out that expression of his wife's love contained the confirmation: "Victoria feels and shares my grief, and is the treasure an which my whole existence rests. The relation in which eve stand tonach other leaves nothing to desire. It is a union 'of heart and soul." Vireslele Hem) es% This fireside happiness of home, vaptieular trait in which Queen Vic- toria thoroughly exemplified a nation- al characteristic of her people, was realized in the tWo royal country seats —Osborne and Balm -Oral. 'Both owed their creation to the Prince's foresight And tastes. The Queen. and Prince needed a spot ffor -repose and privacy; away from the heartburninge and cen- , tentions of party. It is so pleasant," wrote tbe Queen, "to have a place of one's own, quiet and retired, 'and free from all Woods and Foreste and ether charming departments." By chance they pitched upon the estate in the Isle of Wight, overlooking the Solent, an admirable mariee resort. The hoese, was rebuilt and the grounds -and- model fern laid eut. according to the designs of the Prince -and Queen. A, few years later Balmoral was purehas- ed and developed -in a slinilar way, to beeOnie that "name in the Highlands"' which the Queen altraye loved best for its associations withethe Prince and Ili.. happiest days of the growing royal faulty constitutional and- pelitical authorities ' rouc In every cough there lurks, like a crouching tiger, the probabilities Tic) e c tohnrsouamt p andt on lungs beccme rough and in- flamed from catighing a n d ehonesugetnripttsioOni nd an easy entrance. Take no chances _N. with the di=n- gerous foe. For 60 years JO there has been a jArG feet cure. What it rec- ord! Sixty year of cures, soothes and heals wounded throat a lungs. You escape an at tack of constunption wit all its terrible suffering and uncertain results. There is nothing so bad for the throat and lungs as coughing. A 2$c. bottle will cure an ordinary cough; hard- er actinhs will need. a 50c. size; the dollar bottle Is cheapest in the long run. 1/0uo of my SODA WS SPittipt bleed with a Iiigh fever and wee Nen ill. WI c4;410. hardly 00 *Ay signs of WI) in bitn. Tee doctors did hiragqd, Intenoboulaot your eberryl*eteraleured Paved/de HOP e.Genereattetree, Ilea, 1C,1, ralewsaeat Write taie Dotter. it TOO a'fft crepadin erbaurver Audi +Aetna At reettleal lattice, 'mite the ft 1r. 441 trotivasbarulmowakirwitb, 111.1e,,INIciiKtrxr.o.,carAulcuto ,haar. ralrate col ettaixt ItrilrawAl.amtnt-an IgutMoretatat.faratli• lapenZimaalamal 4 tam Ilnleated 1 rat,twe etm sI h. Mei ith advert:Ie. annaaawatitznitttitom lotNetilttrattlarar=or sod pur ixaTt wx1 bk_rn) co. 4n4olottly tree. who Des tea nee io T9rorite. MR. KRUGER'S HEALTH idled Boer Leader Showing Signs et In- cres.sed Feebleness --- iNew York, Feb,. 9 -In a despatch from The league, the Load= corres- pondent af the. Trilmno says: :Willie Mr. Kruvr bas gone to Ut- xecla for treatment by an eminent specialist for hia oyes, his general health is not good, and he is allowing increasing signs of feebleness. it heart action, as playeicians attentline hint here have admitted, is weak and gives warning that he cannot live long, After Typhoid fever, or other almost mortar sickness, a man or woman. sometimes will gain a pound. a. day from taking an ounee a. day of SCOTT'S EMULSION and. the gain be healthy. The ounce gives strength to, get the pound; there is no, miracle in it. Body and mind are weak; digestion is weak; and hunger is ravenous. SCOTT'S EMtTLSION Of Ccid. Liver Oil is the food to begin and go on with. It furnishes, strength to digest a little easy other food; and a little grows to enough. But the gam is. nearly all fat. ' , The bones had—`n.ot i�it much; the muscles had lost,, and had not got back their - strength; they have lost there' bulk ; the fat was all gone. The fat has come back; the. muscle slowly recovers its bulk,, more slowly its strength --the' bulk of muscle was fat ---and. the bones are about the same. as before. It is SCOTT'S EMULSION, of Cod Liver Oil that starts the - body going again--giveit time,. yenuine has this picture on itr take no other. / If you have-not tried it, send for free sampleelts a- greeable taste will surprise you. SCOTT & 1301A/IVE Chemists, Toronto. . vea 60c. and $1.00; all druggIstne.