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CHAPTEISS.—Securities vanish from on Mr. Waldo; besides, the head. ser -
the streng-room of Candelent, Dandy vent was not yet dewristairs.
and Waldo, bankers. W. Feslee of ",Steall and heady, sir. To see
Scotlaad Yard is called in to solve the dress rehearsal and afterwards a
the mystery. There are two keys
to the strong-room—one held by Air.
Waldo, partner, the other by Mr.
Surtees chief cashier. This latter
has two children, Bob and Jose-
phine. He reproaches Bob. who is
•Waido, for having consumed ins eise
tees dowry to pay his gambling
debts.
dance.
"Kept up late?"
Art after three. Hope you
weren't disturbed, sir?"
Disturbed ! had passed a
sleepless night. Seldom, indeed,
an extravagant subaltern' with as -
could he shut out the uneeasing din
Pirations to the hand of Helena
of the addles; but this last night the
banker Was kept awake by what had
occurred- at the bank. Poor Surteesl
they had been clerks together. had
knewn each other ever so long', and
now at the end of it, all his old
CHAPTER, III.—Continued. friend and colleague was accused of
rebbieg the bank. Sleep He had
tossed. anti tumbled, and groalee4
the whole night through, seeking in
vain to make excuses for tho cashier.
The more he thought over it the
blacker and the more impossible of
explanation Air. Surtee's conduct. ap-
peared.
His heart was heavy within Mtn
that morning; he ate little or no
breakfast, end it was with none of
his customary alacrity that he pre-
pared to start for the City.
"Anythinh else I can do. eir ?
Red the footman.
"Is the brougham at the door.
Albert?" asked Mr. Waldo, a. little
doubtfully.
"Well, no, sir; 1 think not. The
Capting. I believe, took IL Lie had
to eaten an early train."
"You'd better get me a cab.
then." Mr. Waldo was accustomed
to be disappointed about the carri-
up a constant chatter. to the an- ages, for widch he paid so large a.
noyance of the audience and discora- every year; "or stay, Albert;
Attire of tge actors? The Weldos. walk as far as Thratelecio Place,
'That select party which sought to and idelt no a ,bun..,
monopolise half the train betweenWith that the City magnate took
atm of the actors? The Walden. up Itis hat, and was about to seek'
'At holm or anr°d• on shore°1'
atioat, in coach or carriage, in their humble vehicle which daily con -
own so many other financiers east -
own or other people's yachts, in the ward, When the butler. making his
perk. at. Hurlingham. Lillie Brialge, hest appearance. came up to bis
aster and said :
"Alademoinelle, sir, has come from
Airs. Waldo, to say that Airs. Waldo
will call for you at the bank, to-
day, about four."
"Very good," replied Mr. Waldo;
sha,evr...I shall be very pleased to See
The fact being that the proposed
attention gave him no pleasure at
the bank; Mrs. Waldo. a Young wh all, lie knew that such an honor
preceded some extravagant demand
flow, with bright, bold eyes, which upon Ins purse.
the had used with considerable ef-
fect upon Mr. Bandy, one of the Mrs. Waldo, in her struggle up -
partners. She was the widow of a ward to the highest levels, had her
tIlv muth of good family, one of slices of good and ill fortune. The
the Wingspurs, whose elealenhe eau first came to her in a series of acci-
chused a. certain scandal at the dents which made her son heir -pre -
time. Young Wingspur bad, died eon. sumptive to the Wingspur peerage.
vonaently soon, leaving his wife a It was by no mane a rich title, and
small fortune, awl a banking an. the Lard Wingspur for the time be -
count in Mincing Lane. It was lag Was an improvident noblemau.
this way that she came to know
Mr. Dandy. She had played her
cards to win him, and had failed.
Then she came to think more tole- do's bank.
antly of little Waldo. Her chief cross was the pushing
"He'd just do for you," Mr. Dan -
dispositions of her own relatives,
der had said with a. mocking smile, especially her sister, Mrs. Donastre,
who after a. long struggle had gained
, "Steady, industrious—ono of our an excellent position on the provizi-
most promising young people. In- cial stage. She had married an act -
tensely respectable, moreover, and or who was also a. success, end
without an idea or an opinion of much to Mae. Waldo's disgust they
his own. And I never saw a man so
Smitten. He'd just do for you, I re- came to London to push their for -
Peat.
So she consented to make Waldo
happy, and he was in the seventh
heaven of delight. She did not come
to him empty-handed. The few
thousands she had of her own seem -
There Was no smarter carriage in
the park than hire. Waldo's; no toi-
lettea SO brilliant or so varied as
thoeo in which mother and daugh-
ters appeared in public places, at,
Sandown, Lords, ChoodWood, or
Ihyde. Quiet felk Were continually
hearing about the Waldos. Court
and other journals—often at so
much per line—chronicled all their
'Wipes, their comings and goings,
their guests and the Clothes
they wore. The Waidoe Welled up
enerywhere. That etealnelannen On
the river, dashing recklessly among
the ,outriggers, and driving the tishe
ermen in their punts nearly mad?
The Waidos. That, big barge at
Henley Regatta, full of gorgeous be-
ings, rainbow -hued, and noisy as
parrots? The Waldos. That box at
the theatre, the royal box, or next
to it, the occupants of which kept
at the Opera, or a. fancy fair in the
Albert Hall : always en evidence,
loud, pushing. offelenaled, rude,
wherever people congregated, and it
was the right place to go. there the
Waldos were certain to be seen.
It had not been always thus, how-
_ ever. Time was when the Waldos
• 411 were at the very foot of the social
ladder. Thirty years previously Mr.
Waldo had been a simple clerk In
who promptly realiaed the advan-
tages which might accrue from open-
ing up friendly relations with Wel-
tunes together. 13oeastre was an
undemonstrative person, but beneath
a calm surface ran silent depths of
cool determination. Mr. Bonastre
had a. set purpose in coming to Lon-
don. This purpose was to have a
ed to him a colossal fortune; she theatre of ids own, and to make
had For the indispensable capi-
had her little house, too, and quite till he counted, rightly or wrongly,
a fine lot of diamonds—some of the upon Waldo's bank. Mrs. Bonastre
Wingspur's family jewels, she told w
him, but which, if the truth must was a pushing person with a. very
be told, were presented to her by good opinion of herself—a jolly, off -
Mr. Dandy, handed, and noisy woman in the
prime of life and looks, was fully
They began housekeeping in rather aware of this, and equally keen.
a. modest way, and for years they Their chances of success seemed
were never too flush of money.
They had to wait many years be-
small enough at first. They had not,
fore Waldo became cashier. At last
came a grand stroke of luck. Mr.
Candelent died, leaving Mr. Dandy
alone. The bank was at once recon-
stituted; Mr. Dandy wanted new
blood, with the solid help of some
one he could trust. Waldo became a
partner with a fractional share.
This gradually increased, till, after
. seine ten years labor, Mr. Dandy
withdrew himself almost entirely
---froin business, and left Mr. Waldo
with half profits and a clear income
of twenty thousand a year.
And now Mrs. Waldo began to
make the money fly. She revelled in
these riches. It was her only com-
pensation, she told herself, for mar-
rying Waldo, and she meant to make
the most of it. Old Waldo degener-
ated into a kind of financial stoker,
whose only business was to keep the
domestic engines constantly supplied
with cash. Otherwise he was quite
a cipher in his own house—in it, but
not of it; less at home there than
the meanest of the gangs of guests
by whom it was continually infested.
See him as he slowly comes down-
stairs the morning after the bonds
had been stolen from the strong-
room of the bank. He still retained
the habits of his youth; -rose with
the lark; long before the servants of
Carlton Gardens, of whom he was
rather afraid; had finished his lonely
breakfast, and was off to the City
an hoer or more before any of the
ladies of the family appeared.
A portly figure, all in decorous,
shiny black, save for the buff waist-
coat and the snowy shirtfront with
its frill, walking with an air that
was rather consequential than dig-
nified, but with his rosy face fringed
with white whiskers, high shirt col-
lars, and stiffly -starched light tie,
•looking the very essence of solid re-
spectability—a typical City poten-
tate, a man of wealth and mark,
highly esteemed in the eat, if not
in the west, end of the town,
"A party last night ?" he aSked of
thfootman, who had made /11: \ tea,
ti-tkai was buttering his toast. \The
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in fact, been received with open arms
at Carlton Gardens. Mrs. Waldo
had hinted that she could not have
the Bonastres much at the house.
Soon after Mr. Waldo started for
the bank in the manner I have just
described, Mrs. Waldo awoke from
rosy dreams. After a couple of
hours spent in personal adornment
with the assistance of Mdlle. Fan-
chette, a treasure of a French maid,
whose almost priceless services she
had only recently secured, she came
down into her boudoir—a sweet
room overlooking St. James's Park,
which no one entered except by Mrs.
Waldo's special favor or invitation.
She was seated here at a pretty
marqueterie writing -table, in high
good humor; for she momentarily
expetted a visit from Lady Wing -
spur, when Panchette appeared.
"Mrs.' I3onastre, ma'am, you
know, of the Royal Resoles"— the
relation was known. only in the fa-
mily circle, and not yet openly ac-
knowledged in the house—"she is
most anxious to see you."
"Does she know I am at. home?"
"Ces jeunes mees — Mrs. Bonastre
is with them—said Madame was chez
elle."
With a gesture of displeasure Mrs.
Waldo said the visitor might be ad-
mitted.
"My dear," she began, in a stiff,
ungenial way, -you know I am al-
ways delighted to see you. But if
you could select any time but the
forenoon, especially after a dance, I
should greatly prefer it
• Don't rate me, Relia., as if I was
late for rehearsal or had missed. my
call. I. came on besiness, to see the
girls rehearse, you know. I should
not have troubled you only I have
something important, particular, to
say."
"Important to ine ?"
"Indirectly so; that is, if you have
any sisterly feeling. It is life and
death to us.''
-Money, I suppose?" Mrs. Waldo
was like ice, "Are you in debt ? If
so, you're mucla to blame„ I believe
your salaries are go az,
"Generous and disinterested crea-
ture, it is as yon suppose; our sal-
aries are good, more than sufficient
for present needs. But what we
want is to make our fortnues."
"Ail! strange wish /
"Which we are certain to do by
taking the Roseiue. The lease and
Management have been ethered to us
on most advantageous terms. All
we want is 5,0001.”
"Dear me! no more ?"
"And that we Want Mr. Waldo to
lend us from the bank."
"You must be mad to aele such a
thing. Do you suppose Air, Waldo is
made of manee'. that he can squane
der It on eveiy silly, ridiculous
scheme? Of course, it is out of the
"I said you would never agree.
Benjy thought differently. 13ut then.
he said if you refused he would raise
the money front. the Jews on the
strength of being brother-in-law to
a, banker. IleeZ would the bank like
that?"
"I declare you are a, most unprin-
iPled
"You see, we are actors, my dear.
A century ago we were denied Chris -
thin burial. I dare say you would
like to have us buried alive now.
Weil, as revolt', Reline dear. Take
my advice and think over this; at
any rate, you might mention it to
your good man."
And Mrs. Donastro made her eat
with much satisfaction.
Mrs, Waldo remained in no envi-
able state of mind. But soon elm
smoothed the frowns from her fore-
head, and wreathed her lips in
sweetest smiles to receive Lady
lingspur.
Her ladyship was a, bony, angular
woman, prematurely grey, with an
nmusical voice, and a. supercilious
stare. But she Was evidently anx-
ious to be agreeable to Mrs. Waldo.
She had COM expressly, she said, to
say that at last the day for the
next Brawieg Room had been fixed.
Would Mrs. Waldo now make up her
mind as to the presentation of her
dear girls?
Next after Mrs. Waldo, her daugh-
ters reigned supreme in Carlton
Gardens. They had everything pret-
ty much their own way. Three loud,
bouncing, royetering girls, full of
life and spirits, with a, fair shave
good looks, fond of apparel some-
what too gorgeous, and amusements
e little risques and fast. Clara, the
eldest, was especially proud of her
strength; Augusta, the second, of
her horsemanship and driving; He-
lena, the third, of her elocution and
dramatic powers.
"It is my dearest wish that they
should go to Court," said Mrs. Wal-
do, with a sigh, "But----"
"There need be no difficulty, dear
Mrs. Waldo," observed her ladyship,
warmly. "If you like I will charge
myself with the whole albite"
Heaven seemed opening its portals
wide for Mrs. Waldo; disclosing with-
in a vista. of State concerts and
State balls.
"It is really too good of you,
Lady Wingspur," she gasped, nearly
breathless with excitement. "now
can I. thank you sufficiently 9"
"Not at all. Between relations,
you know—for of course We are con-
nected"—it was the first time she
had made the admission—"there
need be no talk of gratitude."
Then she got up to go, but said
one last word, Like a. lady's post-
script, it was the germ and essence
of the whole affair.
"I believe Lord Wingspur is going
In a day or two to see Mr. Waldo at
the bank."
"Mr. Waldo will be highly honor-
ed."
"There is some question about
mortgages—on the Scotch estate. I
ani so stupid about money matters
I cannot explain; but I believe he
wants a re-arrangement—an advance,
3. believe —"
The scales fell from Mrs. Waldo's
eyes. The presentation, then, was a
purely commercial transaction after
all !
Perhaps you will prepare Mr. Wal-
do for Lord Wingspues visit. A
word from you would do so much,"
said Lady Wingspur, blandly.
"I fear you overrate my in.auence,
Lady Wingspur. But I promise to
do all I Can."
The compact was signed, sealed
and delivered in these few words.
Yet both ,parties to the bargain
seemed satisfied, and Lader Wingspur
took her leave, Mrs. Waldo accom-
panying her.
As they passed one of the draw-
ing -rooms on the same floor with
the boudoir an extraordinary uproar
fell upon their ears, a Wild sort of
glee or chorus, with a loud stamp-
ing of feet, followed by shouts of
laughter. Lady. Wingspur looked at
Mrs. Waldo inquiringly.
"It's the girts;theyjre rehearsing.
We're to have some theatricals, you
know." •
"Oh, how interesting—how amus-
ing! I delight in theatricals.
let us go in; may I, do you think ?
Mrs. Waldo, in reply, opened the
door without ceremony, and the two
ladies walked into the drewing-
room, where five figures were dancing
a mad' break -clown, Mrs. Bonastre
leading- as they "walked round,"
Agatha, Clara, and Helga followed.
Last of all came Bob Surtees, with
his face blacked, and all were -mat-
ing hands and feet in time as they
Sang the chorus to "Nancy' Led,"
the popular an just then in vogue.
Every one, was toe busy at first
to notice the entrance of Mrs. Waldo
and Lady Wingspur, and for some
minutes the wild performance con-
tinued. It was not until Lady
Wingspur, having carefully inspected
everybody through her eyeglass,
said, "Surely it is Airs. Bonastre?
I thought I knew her face," that
the latter!s attention was attracted.
The dance ceased suddenly. The
Waldo girls cameup, breathlese, to
Lady Wingspur to stammer out,
"How do 'you do? Bob Surtees hid
himself behind the door, and Mis.
gBloannacsetre took in the situation at a
"So that is your dear friend and
relative, Lady Wingspur?" she whis-
pered to Mrs. Waldo. "please intro-
duce rae.''
"No, no faltered her sister ;
"not now. She cannot wait."
-You mean; that you are ashamed
May I?"
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The new statue of Her late Majesty
Queen Victoria. executed by the Can-
adian sculptor. Hebert, caps a. pret-
ty little knoll to the west of the
Main building on Inirliament
Ottawa, which in turn commands a
mognific.ent view of the Chaudiere
falls and lam Ottawa river for five
or Mx miles up that stream. The
figure of the Queen is draped and
W QUEEN VI
TORIA. STATUE IN OTTAWA.
will so remain till it is formally un-
veiled. But enough was seen of it
while in process of erection to call
forth very general admiration. The
British lion, too, and the allegorical
figure which ornament the base are
both of them worked out with good
effect, and, the only criticism heard is
:in regard to the pedestal. 'which does
not meet with universal approval. It
of me, of Airs. Bonastre, the actress.
You deserve to be exposed, Bella,
and I'll do it now. I didn't Weak
you were so mean."
She was moving a little towards
where Lady Wingspur was standing,
when Mrs. Waldo stopped her.
"Please, Bina, spare me; at least
for to -day, anything rather than
that."
"Will you get Samuel to lead us
the five thou' ?"
"Yes, yes; I will try."
"You must promise. You know
you have only to ask."
"Well. I promise. There !"
• Mr. Waldo had good reason to
dread his wife's visit in the City
that day. After it he found himself
pledged to two new operations
mortgage on a rotten property and
an advance to bolster up a doubtful
theatrical speculation.
(To he Continued.)
FREAKS 02 THE 'YANGTZE.
1 ICE 'FLOATS.
—.
3Xf It Sank There Would be No ..m -
erica to Live In.
IEveryone who Juts seen ice has no-
ticed that it floats. But why, since
; ice is only water Itself frozen? Sim -
',ply because when water freezes it ex -
'pawls ever so slightly; that is to
say, a pound of ice occupies just a
'little more space than a pound of
'water. This also seems it very shin -
pie little fact, and yet the existence
' of civilization depends upon it.
At first sight there does not seem
much connection between a piece of
ice floating down a river, or an ice-
berg drifting about the North At-
lantic., and the spleialid civilizations
of the past and present; and yet
there is a very close one.
Supposing ice did not float, what
would happen? It would sink to the
bottoms of the rivers and the oceans
and the heat of sununer, oven in the
tropics would not be sufficient to
melt it. Winter would come again
and down. would go thousands of
millions, more tons. For instance
the rivers of Northern Siberia are al-
ways frozen at the bottom, because
as ago they were frozen solid and
never thaw now except on the sue -
face.
A few winters would 1111 our rivers
with ice, and, as year after year went
on, the ice caps of the North and
South Poles would gradually spread
down towards the equator. till all
the seven seas were a mass of ice.
The tropical sun, might, of course,
cover this with a few feet of water
every summer, just as the summer
sun. does with the Siberian rivers;
but all ocean traffic would be impos-
sible, and commerce, the greatest
civiliser of the world, would cease to
exist.
Meanwhile the temperature of the
continents would have gone down
enormously, because of the vast ac-
cumulations of ice on every side.
The north temperate zone, the
birthplace of all the great
civilizations of the world, would be
as uninhabitable as North Greenland.
Inside the tropics man might manage
to drag out a degraded existence;
but the scenes of the triumphs of As-
syria, Egypt, Rome, Britain and Am-
erica would be buried under glaciers
and snow-fields—and all because ice
had ceased to expand when it froze
and so sank instead of floating:
Something About the Great
Muddy River of China.
The Yangtze, the great muddy
river of China, is one of the greatest
of rivers, and its valley is the most
densely populated and closely cul-
tivated river -basin on the globe.
It crosses the whole empire in its
three thousand mile course to the
sea. The Yangtze has a. different
name in almost every province, and
pours a flood of diluted mud through
half its valley, tingeing the ocean for
more than a hundred miles offshore.
In "China; the Lone -Lived Em-
pire," Mrs. Scidmore Ascribes many
interesting features of this most in-
teresting stream.
When the snows melt in Tibet and
the monsoon pours its annual flood
on the water -shed, the Yangtze rises
eighty or one hundred feet at Chung-
king, seventy or eighty feet at
Icha.ng, and forty or fifty feet at
Hankau, sweeping in a fierce flood
from June to October, and then fall-
ing as rapidly as a foot a. day
Strange things happen along this
"river of fragrant teahields" when
all the landmarks and boundaries are
submerged ; some of them match
anything from the "Peterkins," or
comic opera.
One year a passenger steamer found
itself aground in a. rice field far
from the river bank, and the water
fast subsiding. The rice -f turner rag-
ed, talked of trespass and ground
rent, forbade any injury to his pro-
perty by trench -digging, and finally
forced the ship -owners to buy the
field as a storage -place for -the ves-
sel until the next year's flood should
-
release it. Then the river rose in a
sudden and unparalleled after -flood,
and floated.' away the impounded
ship.
Meativihile a war -junk which had
been sent for to quell the riotous
people, ran aground in another
country held while seeking the be-
sieged ship, and the mad country
folk, cheated .of their winter prey
and profits, set upon the dread en-
gine of war with pitchforks, drove
off the braves and the commander of
the battleships, looted the junk of
every portable object, and made
winter fuel of its timbers.
—
THE NEW NEIGHBORS.
How do you lika your new neigh-
bors?
rate. The first thing they
did was to borrow our lawn mower.
. Have they returned it?
Not yet; and I hope they'll keep it.
Then they'll be careful about using
it early in the moi or at any
hour when it would attract my at-
tention unduly.;
A BICYCLE' OR A COW!
AnTrish farmer went into an iron-
monger's shop to buy a scythe. Af-
ter serving him the shopman asked
if he would buy a bicycle.
What is that? queried the Irishman.
It's a machine to ride about the
'town on.
And shut -c, what might the price of
it be? •
Forty-five dollars.
I'd rather sad forty-five dollars in
But what a fool you would look
riding round the town on a cow!
Shure, now, replied the IriShman,
not half such a fool as I'd look try-
ing to milk a. bicycle4-.
—
Policeman—Here, move on out of
this. You can't use this here park
for a lodging -place! Tramp (with
dignity)—Sir, are you aware that
you are a public servant, and that I
am one of your employers?
Mrs. Cobwigger—Are you sorry you
called names after that little boy
next door? Freddie—Yes, ma. He
can fight twice as good as I thought
he could.,
PERS 0 NAL PQ14,TMita,
krgeteg of Interest About Some
Oveat 'people,
Arrayed in a.11 his state clothes the
Sultae of Johore is a glitterieg cur-
iosity, Be wears gem,s worth Me,
000,000. They sparkle ie his crown,
on liie epaulettes, in his girdle, and
in his cuffs.
Llanrug, in Carnarvoashire, Eng-
land, hae the oldest choir member in
the Principality. Air, Robert,
Thomas bee been a, member of the
ehurch choir for eighty years and
conductor for sixty-three years Re
has served threescore years as a, Sun-
day school teaclier and Ofty-four
years as a member of the brass band.
The Miltedo of Japan is a man of
much energy and endurance, and is
constantly smoking cigarettes. He
;is fond of outdoor sports, mid has
warmly encoeraged the introduction
of football into Japan,. He is a.
bunter and fisherman of no Mean re-
putation and a good suet with a
rifk.s. His devotion to lawn tennis is
• marked, and he is clever as a. wielder
of the racket,
lieginaid cl'Iberville. eighth Baron
de Longueull, of Loegueuil, in the
Province of Quebec, is the holder of
the only Canadian title hi existence.
It was granted. by Louis XIV. in
1700, when Canada. was under
French rule, and it was confirmed by
Queen Victoria in 1880. The pre-
sent. Bayou is forty-three yearn of
age: be succeeded to the title on the
death of his brother in 1898.
To celebrate the seventh 'sary of the birthday of Prince Ed -
rd of York the Xing gave his
grandson a bicycle. The reachine is.
of emrse, very smell. Tim frame has
been made of the lightest tubing.
The gear is thirty-seven, and it is
Interesting to note that by the
Ring's express desire the frame has
been enamelled in plain black, there
being no elaborate decoration In the
ay of gold lining.
,it is not often that a Woman of to-
day can array herself in any fabric
that once formed part of the ward-
robe of Queen Elizabeth. The Coun-
tess of Pembroke has, however, this
Is understood that the Minister of privilege, awl at the last Drawing -
Public Works proposes talzing the Room she attended she wore a. white
advice of Mr. Hebert himself on this and silver gown, the peach -colored
point. It is not as massive as sante train of which was trimmed with
think is desirable to correspond with old Point de Flandre, which not only
the statuary. It seems to be under- had been owned, but also worn, by
stood that the unveiling will take the famous Tudor Queen.
place dining the visit to the capital When Madame Sarah Bernhardt re -
of Ills Royal Highness the Duke of turned to Paris from America, she
Cornwall and York. established a record in kissing which
will be hard to beat. A large num-
ber of her friends and admirers met
LORD KITUHENERP PLAN thc station and greeted her
13 with an enthusiastic outburst of ap-
- plause, some 200 of them insisting
upon Itissing her. She returned the
34°w RE PROPOSES To END salutations, and for nearly a quar-
ter of an hour after alighting from
the train the great actress was being
kissed and embraced.
Will Employ 50,000 Specially Se. antics' in Ritifsla is time famous Fa-
leeted Horsemen this Summer. ther John, the handsome priest
Details of Lord Kitchener's plan swuiplopsoeselle% ilsiasvoe gtrheeatpotlwlaert olfie e its!
for the ensuing summer campaign. !forming miracles. He is devoted to
which provides for the return of no his religious work at Croustadt,
fewer than 70,000 men from South whore he often greets English travel -
Africa early in the autumn, have lens; and he distributes large sums of
been published.
whole of the Guards, the whole of ahimmo among weal-
These,it
thirty militia battalions, the of the neighborhood. It was Father
thymommyit entrustedssiunnob pees
These, it Is proposed, shall consist
the troops lent by India, about ten
line battalions, several batteries of
horse and field artillery, a large
number of the new 5s. a day yeo-
manry, Engineers, and other depart-
mental corps.
Lord Kitchener has been hard at
work of late planning to bring this
result about. It, is -understood that
he has evolved a plan whereby he
will have 50,000 specially selected
horsemen, both from the colonies
and from home centers, which he
will divide into three corps to oper-
ate against the three leading Boer
commandoes, hang on to them and
never leave them.
These horsemen will be supplied
with special transport, and in addi- 1881. He was once Military Secre-
tion to their provision convoys will tary at Gibraltar, and has been at -
be enabled to live in the country -Welted to special embassies to var-
they pass through. In whatever di- bus capitals of Europe. At one
rection the enemy may flee they time he sat in the House of Com -
will be followed up by British mons as M. P. for Huntingdon, and
mounted troops, only left the Lower House When he
All the routes in the rear of these had to succeed his father in the UP -
troops will be followed by specially per.
PICKED SHARPSHOOTERS
and infantry regiments, who will
form, as it were, a strong rearguard
to the cavalry, holding strategie
points, and always providing a fresh
THE WAR IN SOUTH
AFRICA.
One of the most interesting person -
John who was called to prey at the
bedside of the late Czar, and he pos-
sesses many tokens of Royal favor,
How many people who daily eat
sandwiches are aware that it is to
an. ancestor of the Earl of Sandwich
that that popular form of food. owes
its name? The story runs that the
Earl in question was very fond of
playing cards, and in order to pre-
vent having to atop to eat he used
to have a. slice of meat put between
two slices of bread and eat these as
he played. This got to, be called a
"sandwich," but gradually the in-
verted commas were dropped as the
word became an accepted one in the
language. The present Earl became
Colonel of the Grenadier Guards in
LIME WATER FOR STREETS.
suuplremouuts for use as re- Its Use Might Be Productive of
qtedy.
Sanitary Comfort.
All the special South African corps Dr. A. Eddowes, writing to a
will be employed, and several of the Aaedical journal, suggests that the
colonial officers who have rendered use of lime water, prepared fresh,
valuable services in the past are to for watering the streets in. hot wee -
be asked to take tip commands. then, would prove to be a practice
So arduous will the operations be productive of sanitary comfort. The
that the new Yeomanry to be em- advantages claimed for the practice
are said to be those, first of aggre-
gating'together loose particles of
manure' and thus to prevent theta
from being diffused by the wind ;
second, of exercising a certain an-
tiseptic action ; third, of preserving
wood paving, and fourth, of render-
ing wood less slippery. The idea
should be worth considering by the
local authorities entrusted with the
care of the streets, and an energetic
surveyor might make trial of Dr.
Eddowes' plan on an experimental
basis. Lime, eVe are told, is employ-
ed near Vienna for the disinfection
of sewage. Collected in one of three
tanks, a day's sewage is mixed with
fresh milk of lime in the propertion
of from 1 to 2 per cent. The mix-
ture settles for 48 hours, then the
clear effluent water is drained off.
The sediment remaining is used as
manure. Its value in this latter di-
rection is alleged, to be great. The
effluent was said to be dearer than
the water in adjoining mountain
streams. We may remark that lime
has long been used for purif3ring
sewage, From giX to. twelve grains,
of lime are employed per gallon of
ssewage if too much ham is added,
thud is tiTieherap°ibdjepttlit°rieliatcotioinhlosf ltnhCe-
matters in suspension are alone af-
fected.
while it is said that as the organic
cation
ried? Two can live cheaper than one iteheotendiainliir vaishledetective,
d
Watson—Why don't you get mar -
you now? It costs the average Vessel 4,800
Wilson—But bow about four. to pass through the Suez Canal,
ployed will consist palely of raen of
tried experience in the earlier por-
tion of the war, and "who are thor-
oughly seasoned to the 'work.
The number of fresh cavalry and
Yeomanry to be pent from England
has not been definitely settled.
There is no question. of abandoning
any portion, of. the line of communi-
cations
In addition to strong military
guards posted at junctions and stra-
tegic points; a complete cordon of
infantry sentinels will be placed
along all the railway lines, after the
system employed ,on English
ways on foggy dam or when royal
trains are hand -signalled,: to their
destination.
A, certain nurriber of Men will be
allotted to each Mile, so that it will
be possible for tile closest communecatioa to be easily:maintained.'
IndUceMents will be .offered for the
re -enlistment of .old and tried men.
:Of Veornanry corpe new in lfingland,
and special arrangements for 'their
traneport to the front are already
well in hand -
Ti as hoped iffmt by, the measure§
mentioned above the best part of
the civil and working population Of
the new colonies win he back' in
their homes by the end of October.
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