The Brussels Post, 1906-2-15, Page 7,:q11
NOTES it,,ND CONIATS
A le of photographs edam Iti trope:al
Africa lost year are suggeetive. Here
fi a butte &eerie on the wide veranda af
31 house on the upper Congo, Two Meek
fellows am running sewing machines.
A woman sitang tailor -fashion on a
table is sowing buttona on cogs, and
other women nee busy with cloth and
nacelle. They aro making clouting for
the whiles and uniforms for tho Mimic
• a
soldices, This is a part of Lila Gomm
ment training school for tailors; and
e, ft stands within a storte's throw of the
elf= where hundreds of Canoes were
launched upon the river on the day
when the fathers of these people, the
deirre
Nivea Relegate cannibals, gave Stanley
the hardest flight he encountered during
his long denten of the Congo. The
twenty-eight yeers that have sing) pass-
e(' hove wrought a wonderful change
in this people and their country. Stanley
efgled them "the Aehantis of the Con -
gee"; but the Bangala are now fovemost
tainong Wm natives in industry and pro-
#resa,
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„eel'
• Anethee picture shows 200 of the
Bangala school children drown up in
el long line, naked to the waist, but
wrapped in cotton skirts that fall to thew
ehkles. The women and. girls formerly
dressed In the shortest of grass edge,
woven by themselves, but scan-
(: oveekfor the ballet dancer. Yards of
eottOn ,`"e now used in their attire, which
euflitastsehe now marIcets for cotton
tebries ••rainually developIng in Africa.
wIto settlement throughout the
tale shows the new arts the ne-
e learning. They aro burning in from the street show, and it was not
lime . malting millions of brIcks. One rag trove Rik° brecar thtonspl,kev't of
ms
pleura shows a lime kiln of the most wereindulgedwceilh aamiLbearance tlsat
IMPlevee imam in the remote south- proved beyond doubt the love of his
'Mt corner of the Stale. Nettely all the guardians. They never scolded, never
aouses at the stations are built of brick. molested. It was. only when some one
of their number, out of sorts, perhaps.
'Other pictures show the Government gave him a stronger reprimand than the
.' training school in carpentry, with black ordinary monkey rebulce. They fought
men sawing, planing and hammering; his battles, crooned over him in his nits -
making door frames the wooden forms haps, romped with him and stood up for
him like one great parent.
esed to shape the half -oval brick tops lecke was not like other monkey chit -
of windows, and many other specimens dren, and soon grew to know bus power.
of elm cola:melees art. Then there is a He wrapped his little self around their
view of the school in which young men hearts, and when he grew big enough
aro Instructed in cabinet making, for otor oinutoniritcovtherasmairyetIlinaevadne
the °o
the houses of the Congo are beginnin Vgl:
a
to be supplied with furniture of home
nn
mafacturo. On the lower"Congo they
aro doing thole own printing, and the
press room of the printing house at Bo-
ma is shown with a modern cylinder
press, which black men aro tending and
feeding,
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JOCKO;
A TRUE STORY.
all, And he was bringing him back
dying.
Tenderly he laid tilm inside while the
other monkeys, dazed to see the little
fellow come home In an other way than
, a romp, gathei•ed aboutchattering their
I misunderstanding. They soon saw the
Jeeko's life was Met going uway. Tite
poor little maimed body lay pathetic:idly
still, and but Inc the old liget in the eyes
te4-04-04-0-+•04-04-04-04-0+0+0.e. they could not have recupized their
bright, loving igllo
The great circus was out on Perade Ile looked up at them piteously. They
when hetko Paine. Everything Waa onir, bed been so prO1341 Uf 11101, and he had
Melon about grounds In PreParaffon need Omni all. His little eyes blinked
Inc the afterrmm
on perforence, and 10 a pathetic farewell to Ms fulthful guar -
ono thought to take a poop into Um mon- mans,
key cage whore onollwe little member Outside in the big tent the bind
had been added to the family. banged away as a daring equestrienne
lundreds of street urchins stood about dashed around the main ring. But there
gazing at the wonderful sIde-show plc- was no MY in the monkey 940, for
tures, patronizing the rod lemonade and Jcalco had ridden les last. race.
peanut men and staving to pass the
thne before the hour set Inc tho show et
begin, Teo smell of sawdust permeated
the air and brought real joy and fond Fashion Notes.
memovles to the, hearts of the few old
timers in the crowd who sniffed and ye-
called their flee circus. WORK APRONS.
Criers were drumming up patronage. Percale, linen, lime and gingham,
Mounted on high boxes, they enumerated and oven denims, in soft, dull, artistic
the endless chain of marvelous; features
shadea, are used for making the sets -
to be seen in the "throe great ring." factory work aprons which cover you up
And then "A grand concert will follow from throat to wrist and hem, and a
the main show and will enlist the ser- woman with an artistic soul has die
vices of some of the greatest artists in covered the possibilities In a lot of stuffs
the world. All this can be hoard for the never before put to such a use—those
einall'sum of ten cents—only a dime." queer, interesting cotton stuffs which
From one corner of the grounds came belong by rIghLs to upholstery shops,.
the boom of a drum and the subsequota .rhey've just a little more body to
announcement that "now could be seen Limn, as arule, than materials Ube ones
the most wonderful side show ever ex- which nearly approach them) ranged
heated," while a few feet away the
family differences of "Punch and Judy" Under the hettd of dross stuffs''and the
offered amusement to as many as could patterns are often the very things to
crowd about the little_ improvisedtoalte
something a bit out of the wenn-
theatre. y Best of all, they're such wide
The attnosphern was full of circus, and things (double width, in a ateral sense,
to the great events of tha day had been most of them) that there is Mlle or no
added the coming of Jock°. Piecing to do—at the worst, fewer seams
Jocko's mother wore a real look of to metal and stitch.
monkey pride when me her associates caCretonne with a cream ground, scat-
tered over in rathee a spare way with
tiny, olcl-fashloned roses in soft, old-
fashioned colors, made one aprom.-a
departure from all rules and tentlitione,
but wonderfully becoming to the girl
who had the orieenatily to design it. It
was made without sleeves, but with sbib and a wide, full skirt, deftly gored,
"so as not to make her loot( as big es a
house," as she put IL.
Of course, IL bad strings, and straps
down the back to hold that bib comfort-
ably In place; and, equally of course, 11
was ono of the lighter, softer cretonnes.
And she wore it over a while linen
shirt -waist, suit, making a little picture
of herself—whIch was just, exactly what
she wanted to dot It made the work
"go" more easily, she said.
Ginghams make probably eight out, of
First he travelled In a cage with hie
older associates: His little red coat, ten of these real workaday aprons, who -
brighter in hue than , any of the others thee .11 is to be a help in the doing of
and embroidered most elaborately '11 housework or more intellectual week in
gilt—for Jocko bad his friends among
the circus people—made him a mispicu-
ous figure in the group.
Jocko was the t•eat monkey in the
crowd. Ho imitated the others, made
them play "understander" for him while
he practised ail kinds of acrobatic fetes,
and he soon became an expert performer.
The joy of his guardions, therefore, was
complete when they saw him riding
about the big arena perched on a pony's
back. They squeaked in true monkey
delight at their protego's fine "horseman-
ship," for Jocko beacene the finest, mon-
key bareback ridee in the menagerie.
Day alter day he rode his pony to vie-
lot.y. Day after day the monkey family
waited excitedly for his "turn." They
were there to squettic approval when he
came bounding into the cage and to fill
Isis little monkey soul with joy and adul-
ation.
One day the circus showect in a big
city, and great preparations wero made
for an unusually line display. After a
great street parade the company came
marching Into the grounds.
The noon meal over, Jectco could
hardly wait for his "turn," and went
romping about the cage teasing first one
and then another. In turn for the little
pinches and pokes he gave the others,
he received ouly a loving Lap on his tiny
head and a sly little dig now and then.
It was the happiest fondly under tho big
canvas.
The show was on and one after the
other went in to perform. "Ladies and
gentlemen," sang the crier after awhile,
"we will now inteoduce to you the
greatest troupe of trained monkeys in
the world. They will be entered in a
pony race once around the track. The
champion rider, Jocko, the finest mon-
key bareback rider in the world, holds
the record in pony racing. He is nine -
bee 4 and wears the bright red coat."
Out come the ponies and their little
riders. They aro lined up at the stare-
ing point and everyone's eyes are
strained for a look at Jocko. Down goes
the flag, and 1110 potties are off like the
wind, their riders clinging to their necks.
Jocico Is in Use lead. A quarter of the
way he whirls, the °thus vainly en-
deavoring to gain on him, tie is half
way rund, and tho crowd is cheering the
mucky little rider, when suddenly he
soorrts to lose ins hold and daps back on
tho pony's haunches. His grip is gone
but he has not lost his heart, and tries
desperately to regain hold.
Startled by the monkey's unusual
movement, the pony leaps forward.
Jocko tries to steady himself by hanging
to the pony's tail, but is thrown sudden-
ly backward to the ground. In his little
monkey heart Jocko 'trusts his faithful
mount to stop, but the pony, unable to
understand what a Is all about, dashes
madly on, dragging his lane rider,
Cheers die on the lips of the ,speetators
as the little fellow Isbumped and Icicle:1
oyezthe rough mune. Attendanta rush
otte but the pony flnighes the distanco
before be Can be stopped, and ifrolco has
ceased to struggle.
As tenderly ae if he had been a baby
they pkeceil Itini me His little heitt•t el111
licat faintly, end through MS dim Mlle
eyes Ile looked up at them. They tveeo
the men who had watched litm from
babyhood, and lie knew their grief.
The bawl stopped the l'oircus inusio"
abruptly as one of the men bore ,feeko
baek to the animal tent. 11, was the man
who, but, a few Minutes before, lied
placed Jocko on' his favorite inount, It
was he who had fastened Um strap but
for which tho little follow might have
jumped to safety indeed of to death.
Caring Ifille foe those who saw, the
big, burly tallow tattled locket in ono
arrn and hid hei fate in Bic Other as he
made hie way to the monkey .cage. He
'had taken Rio little fellow out only a
short; while before, had romped evith hini
all the wny to tee big tont tlied had given
Philanthropy is prominent In these pic-
tures. Tho hospital for natives at Boma
is said to be the finest building but ono
on the lower Congo. A hundred or more
little waifs me shown In front of the
orphan asylum of the esters at Moancla.
Another sorie.s of views, from Gorman
East Africa shows several handsome
hospitels, surrounded by fine gardens
of sfueibbery and flower beds.
aleten Stanley arrived at Boma, fifty
miles from Cho mouth of Rio Congo, in
Auguet, 1877, ho found six trading build-
ings of rough boon's, engaging the at-
tention of eighteen white men In the
midst of a dreary, bleak and unpromis-
ing landscape, The Europeans on the
Congo to -day try to make their sun
rounding pleasing to the eye and to se-
cure all possible comfort. In tho older
settlemonts the dwellings aro surround-
ed by an arrangement or shrubbery,
noway beds and gardens that give a
pleasant impression. Every comfort is
sought for in the arrangement of the
meals and the ventilation 01 1110 houses.
Neatly oil the stations vie with ono an-
other in making the surroundings 3131
attractive as possible. Nature is so
luxuriant in those latitudes that, with
guidance and pruning, vegetation !lay
he made to soften the asperities orehe
ugliest, Mows. Boma has its public
park, weal winding walks and shell
bned flower beds, its foundations and
Musical statuary, all vory pretty if
somewhat conventional.
The colleotion inoludes many pictures
01 the Ceeliollc mission statione. The
Uri& houses, schools and churches are
commodious and neat, the trees aro not
too ntenca•otts nor the treeleas arms too
wide; tho tilled lands streeb away on
every 331410 34nd thie, roads are wide and
straight, and seem'adapted for any kind
of vthialt, Somo of these stations might
bo taken for humble hamlets in central
Europe ie it baobab or a palm tree hero
and there did not spoil the illusion. At
the larger stations the Church dominates
everything, and some of the edifices
accommodate hundreds of worshippers.
Some oe Uto finest of them are as Inc
may es Lake Tanganyika, on the east-
ern edge of the Congo State.
Seal 'piceirea are eonvfnehig proof
that the they of pioneer exploration of
Africa is over and the area of develop-
ment te well along in Its initial stage.
There it plenty Of barbarism left; but ft
Is losing He foothold In widening evens,
Selectee is holping to hasten its retreat.
Those pee/ores from the Congo and East
Africa, ishowing the rooms in which dis-
cus° Is being studied undo*' the micro-
scope, OM eeperimental farms, the eel-
ontst itt the healthful Usambara itp.
Jamie, the autentolale roads foe freight
transpoetrition, Um railroad whieh 470
althea rind 4,000 betake are new build -
Mg us tito ot Africa, the watee
'oonduile csid tho bridges ;meet:ling
. stratune Uwe axpleeere lind le ford, are
eon:Mu:fag prOef that the beet forces of
eivillzolloe ere enlisted in the work el
tteming trepietei Arnett te geed aceount. , him it par Mg tap as 1150 pettles daeted
O studio.
Ttiose aprons which &TO MIL 40 cover
you up to the very collar of your dress,
and which have sleeves, aro splendid
things for you if you have to be ready
to receive people, yet in the intervals
between visits have the sort of work ie
do that would soon soil your dress 11 11
wore kept unprotected.
A pt•elty way of making one would be
to take percale, white, with a rod dot
for decoration, and pipe belt, yoke and
cuffs with plain red. The aprons made
of plain brown holland, which the little
French children manage to look so pic-
turesque in, furnish suggestion for mak-
ing these work aprons of. These the
French children wear are piped with
red or blue, which gives them a curious,
good little style of their own.
Where the work is not so soiling as
to require waist and all to be protected,
bib aprons are really more satisfactory
—you've just a lithe more freedom of
motion in them. A good model for suoll
an apron is shown in the sketch, and is
made with a bib which has just enough
"blouse" to it to prevent mussing the
Waist beneath.
As the little flyaway, fancy things
which have the effrontery, In the taco ct
the sober, useful varieties, to call them-
selves aprons, there aro more styles than
over.
Ay sort of pretty sheet cotton or
linen stuff is used to make them up; most
of them berated and finished with ab-
surd little pockets, and with strings
trimmed as much as the apron Ls Itself.
LEED'S CHOWS SUCCESS.
English Singers and London Orehestra
Astonished Parisians.
The great audotortum of the Chatelet
Theatre, Paris, was crowded by the note
aert given by the London Symphony
Orchestra and the Leeds choir, recentyWhen President and Mae. Loubet,
the British Ambassador and Lady Ben
tie, tho Minister cif Fine Arts, and their
orchestra and choir played and sang
the "Marseillaise" there was not a va-
cant seat anywhere.
By way of emphasizing the "entente
mediae" Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
had asked M. Andr&elessagor to conduct
the orchestral selections, and at the sec-
ond and last concert, M. Colonna to act
as conductor.
The great stage of the Chatelet, which
is as large as that of Drury Lane'm
The
tro, London, 111118 entirely filled by the
orchestra and the choir.
From the opening bars of the "Man
seillaise" to "God Save the King," the
concert was cm immense suocess, and their papers and found that, the Cunardee
nothing but expressions of delight and PaVonia and Um German liner Bavaria
aetonishment at the wonderful singing were still missing. They wore saved,
of the choir. Paris haS Ilisis orchostres thanks to splendid seamanship and do.
of its own in theee of M. Colonne and votton; but how many steamers have
that of the late M, Lamoureux. now con- brolcen clown in mid -ocean and drifted
ducted by M. Chevillard, his eon -in-law, away into the unknown, to bo ground
but musical Paris deelates the the Lon
don Symphony Orchestra is anor than
anythiug it hes over heard.
The applause was goat at the close
of the are items on the programme, but
it rose to enthusiasm after the hiacIi
motet, Well the Leeds choir sang with
wonderful effect, elthottgh the Mateo!,
auditoritnn is really too aenall fee them.
Several Fronelt oritics expressed theie
astonishment and delight al what they
termed lho choir's marvellous porferto.
anal. What impressed them greatly
wita as wonderful sonority, and the hit-
trautity, living mobility and abeence of
metthanical effect nhout the Singing.
OGEAN ROAD
TERRORS
ROCK THAT COST ME HUNDRED
AND SIXTY LIVES,
It Is the Safest, Rut Not the Kindest, 10
Go Full Steam Ahead in
a4)Cl
It might seemalt1itist sight that the
liner, with lier accurate geering, her
independence of wtnd and tide, and her
ability le regulate law speed to a yucd,
would reduce the dangers of fog to a
minimum, and yet the facts are exactly
the reverse, for the number of line's in-
jured or lost in fog is not only t•elatively
greater, but, as may be understood, the
loss of property and life Is infinitely
grea len
Now and then we hear of a small trad-
ing vessel cut in two by 11 big steamer,
which passes on, primps never having
felt the shock; but it would lake many
*itch accidenis as this to equal even one
of the terrible clingers in which 11131 fog
spectre has luted tho liner to degree -
Lion.
FIVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY LIVES.
In 1873 the Atlantic:, a record -breaker
in hey day, bit the Nova Scotian eocics
in the fog, and five hundred and sixty
lives paid the penally for the ori -or in
the course. In '78 tile Grosser Kut•ftwst.
it German warsinp, feeling Inc way
through a channel fog, was struck by
a homeward bound steamer and went
down, taking three hundred neen with
her. In '91 the Eutopia, a ship full if
Italian emigrants, was lose in the same
way in Um Mediterranean, end the bill
hare was five hundred and seventy-four
lives. In '05 the North German Lloyd
liner Elbe, running down in a fog to -
wands the Straits of Dover, was struck
almost without a moment's warning and
stink, taking down withher three hum
deed and thirly-fivo lives.
These, of course, are eve a few In-
stances taken almost at random to illus-
trate the perils of the ocean road. Every
device that human ingnuity meld sug-
gest has been tried to make it less, but
so far with very little avail. 'L'ho chief
reason is that fog deprives the sailor ef
Itis two most necessary senses—sight and
hearing. You see a light gliminering
through a fog; it may be fifty yards or
a quarter of a mile away, according to
the conditions, and hitting or missing is
Ls merely a matter of chance.
SOUND OF THE FOG -...,RN.
So, too, in a fog, you may hear fog-
horns braying and sirens screaming all
about you, but you haven't a notion
where they come from 00 how far tetcy
aro off until you let something or some-
thing hits you. Of the horrors that must
happen on a crowded liner sinking iti a
dense fog the less said the better.
For many years there has been an in-
teresting controversy among seamen
which is worth mentioning briefly. Is
it safer to eve full speed ahead, or dead
slow, through a fog?
On the one hand it is argued: Given
a fog area fifty miles across, go through
it at twenty knots, and you reduce the
possible collision time to two hours and
a half; al ten knots you aro five hours
In 11, and double your chances of hit-
ting or being hit; while at five knots
you would have ten hours' fog and four
times the risk of collision.
This is perfectly sound as far as it
goes, though it nntst be confeesed there
Is a certain amount, of selfishness in the
argument. A linen rushing through a
tog at twenty knots an hour may be a
danger to other craft, but she is peace -
petty safe herself unless she hit an ice-
berg or some other big ship.
ptho genius f
Happily, in recent t
Marconi has brought the conquest 01 1110
fog (lend within apparently measurable
distance. Fot a vessel Med with his
apparatus can hold constant communi-
cation with All similarly -fitted vessels
a range of
HUNDREDS OP MILES,
and also with lighthouse% however
dense the fog may be. Therefore, if
only lho carryIng of this apparatus were
made compulsory, as 11 certainly should
be, each vessel could at once learn how
many vessels there were abate, her, how
fast they wero going, and what course
they weeo steering, as well as getting o
fairly accurate idea of their positions
from last observation dead reckoning,
and so on.
This system is such an immense pro-
tection against what is, aftee all, by Inc
the greatest peril of the ocean road that
insurance ' companies are already Mee
criminating in favop or those ships which,
carry the reearates. It is to bo hoped
that some day it will be illegal fr a pas -
stinger or groat cargo steamer to go to
seacexviiin
thoute
N
importance of the dangore
that lie in the path of the ocean liner 13
4110 ever present poestbility of break -
dawn. A galling -ship may get dismasted
and crippled for a time, but if Inc hull
is sounu she can always rig jury masts
and stagger home somehow; but let the
tnightiest liner that over brolco a record
break a scrow-shaft, or lose her propeller,
and sho is as helpless as an empty bar-
rel on the Water.
To quota only two recent ineklenla.
Everyone will remember the intense
anxiety whialt people in England and
Germany felt day titter clay they opened
Tiller. ENOUGH.
It is about «8 0550' to dt•own trouble in
drink 58 11 10 to pitt out 11 fire with Rene
Sens.
to Weigle In the northern or southern
sena, or gnashed into scrap -iron on the
roces of Some deselato coast, i$ ono of
the secrets of the soa.
A DOUBLE CHANCE,
Thio, by the way, taisea•a point, of
rp•cat importartoo to the ocean teavoller.
Always leave' by a twirescrew steamer
if yeu can. In the single screw every-
thing deperels tipon ono piece of stool
casting, and the best screw -shaft over
turned Out is not quite perfect. If Wet
should beoulc, it is just a questine of be-
ing piciced up by another steamer ar
cleating away le destruction,
Take, foe instance, the pasenge from
Yokoluune le Vencouvor aoross the
North Paoiffr; It ts a little over Aix
tholfrand milea, It Is ono of the lonliest
pails 01 1110 ocean, and but foe the (111)11-
(111m Pavia" sterent•rs it would bo praoti.
catty deeorled. All theee veesele are
twin-screw, and So could always
001! IM THE BALTIC PROVINCES
somewhere even if one emit broke; but.
a single -screw. vessel with a broken shell
might theft about for years end rio Ono
bo the wiser.
11 15 the same with that other frequent
peril—a smashed rudder oe a disabled
steering -gear. The twin-screw can steer
with tier propellers; the otlier Is unman.
ageable and hue to stop.
'rho icoberg le a peril altemet peculiar
10 the Atlanta: highway, but iL is never
dangerous eye Ln fog, and Is a sharp
eye is kept .ea the thennometee its pre-
ttenee will always be shown by it sburp
tau in temperature.
THE MOST APPALLING TERROR.
Fire, that most appalling of all oeean
dangers, is, of course. 0OMI11011 to sail-
ing ships end 51t3111101'S alike, but II hai
nem very much reduced on the modern
liner. All the lights are electric, the
criers are strong and well drilled, and
THE CHARACTER OP TM?, PIMPLE
NOW ARVOLT.
Race That Neither German Nor
Reselan—Lenguage and
Literature.
TlusSia'S Baltic p0001110115 are at 111P
present 11010 busily engeged in making
history, so the the following facts may
be of interest, ieslhonia, ICurland and
Livonia are the districts principally In-
volved. In all Urea the aristocracy Is
Gorman 111 language and nice, hie com-
poses only a small purl, of tito popula-
tion. In lesthorna the vast inejority of
envy conceivable appliance foe fighting • the trellabilitias fira P3.51,115, 15 040111811
people of Crate -Altaic stock. Livonia
and Kurland aro inhabited chiefly by
Um Leila, closely allied to the Lithua-
nian'a. The Russians constitute but a
emelt fraction of the inhabitants. of the
district. In the thirteenth century the
heathen peoples dwelling on the shores
of the Baltic were subjugated by the
Knights Sword-Beerers and Teutonto
knights, who introduced
the flames is in use; in fact, figures go
10 show that this is the 001011051 of the
dangers which the liner has to foar.
The last of the great perils of the ocean
road Is at once the (nest incomprehea-
sible arid Um mos1 difficult to guard
against. This is what may be called trio
personal danger. The captains and Mil -
cern of the modern liner are the very pick
and flower of their peofeseion, and as
men it veould be very hard to and thew
superiors in any other sphere of life;
yet, after all, they aro only human, rind
now and then the time comes when 00.111
their &kill fails them,
Why did the Drummond Castle run an
the rocks near Ushant on a clear niget
and send two hundred and fifty of her
re•ew and passengers into Eternity.
Why did the Paris get forty 'Mfrs out el
THE GERMAN CIVILIZATION.
With the Lithuanians the Letts consti-
tute a separate division of the Aryan, yr
Indo-European family. The old Prue-
sians belonged to the Letto-Lithutinian
stock.
These Letto-Lieluanians are physic/la
ly well bunt. The face is mostly elong-
ated the features fine. The very fair
highway In the world, and hit the Mann- linblue eyes and delicate skin dis-
her course on the best-known ocean, leer,
iew ds of where the guist' them from the Poles and Rus -
dos within a fyar
Md done the same thing a few co
sians. Their dress is usually plain 'n
ohegan ha
weeks before? Why did the P. e,,, (I' mparison tvith that of the Poles, and
featly olear evening, run full tat on ,o ranguage has great similarity to the
erayish colors predominate in h. Their
liner Chine, in clear weather, on a per -
a loolc-out on board of her?
though. she hadn't' Sanskrit. The popular poetry of both
the rooks of Perim as
the Letts and Lithuanians is rich in both
of many that furnish puzzles' which per-; most poetical feeling for nature, and are
; tenderest love and melancholy and a
idylic and lyric songs, Imbued with the
These form only three Inatances out
haps will never be solved until that Ina,
probable day when the perfect man remarkable for their absolute chastity.
T
commands a perfect ship.—Pearson's he national character is fully expressed
choly and sociable. In the Lettish songs
In them—not warlike
Weekly. at all, but melee -
TO PROTECT THE EMPIRE hatred which the people feel toward the
there is an added characteristic, the
German landholders.
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GREAT BRITAIN'S NAVAL MANCEla
VRES OP 1906. '
To Test the Distribution of IleteetrThe
New Policy of Con-
centration.
The current year will witness the new
policy of naval redistribution subject-
ed to searching peactical tests in Feb-
ruary, June and September, says the
London Daily Telegraph. The tnanceu-
vres will be on an unexampled scale,
and aro expected to be most instructive in
eettling important points on naval stra-
tegy. This new policy has involved the
withdrawal of the naval establishments
from Canada's Atlantic and Pacific
coasts.
EARLY RELIGION.
Despite the fact that the people are
either Lutherans or Roman or Greek
Catholics, the names of their old pagan
elivinilies, very numerous in their for-
mer mythology, ore continually men-
tioned in songs and also in cbmmon
speech. The forests of Livonia. and Kur-
land have played an important part in
their eegory. Their chief priest worship-
ped in the forests, the people brought
their offerings to their divinities at the
foot of mighty oaks, and oven during
the fourteenth century the "zincz," an
inextinguishable (he, -was maintained.
To this day traces cf the worship of oak
trees may be seen.
PERSONAL POINTERS.
Notes of Interest About Some Well -
Known People,
CONCENTRATION AND MOBILITY. The Countess of Westmorland is a
first-rate fishet•woman, especially with
It has been determined by the tenor trout and salmon. She favors the Spey
of the late war in the far east, i. a, the and
necessity of messing British naval pew- the Tweed, and her biggest capture
Pr so that it can be handled in time 01 was a salmon weighing 22 lb. She also
pursues the fireside occupation of needle -
war In skilful combination with Imes-
work, and is a most skillful ern-
tibis effect foe the protection of them
hoe
broideress,
and ovonsea dominions and for guard.'
Ing the Bsh mercantile marine in: When the King of Greece first landed
evary sea. Canadians will watch the re -1 on Grecian soil some forty-two Years
sun with interest.
ago te rule over the notion of which .te
had been chosen King he could net
The year's monmuvres will be as fca-
I speak a single word of modern Greek.
February—The Channel, Atlantic and Thal was one of the first thing he had
Mediterranean fleets, wall the three as-
sociated squadrons of armored cruisers,
will concentrate at Lagos, a magnificent
bay off the Portuguese coast, and then
take part in joint operations.
31.111D—Th0 S311110 naval forces retro'
forced by the ships of several divisions
in commission In reverse at the home
ports. and all trio torpedo craft, will
combine for the "grand maneeuvres." -It
will be the greatest naval ese,embly ever
called togeteher, and fourteen British
admirals will fly their flags. Every eta
notelet man-of-war in tho British fleet in
tome waters will participate, and the
co-operation of the ship -owners has been
promised, so that the conditions during
the period of the mimic war may resent-
ble those of actual hostilities in all es-
sential respects. Tho squadrons in els-
tant seas will oo-operato as thou& war, Bishop has the Saxon chapel supposed
hab
d eenember—The deemed.ChinaEast Indiand ngdom.
I to be the oldest place of worship in the
Sept, es ki
Australian squach•ons evil' concentrate 1
at SIngapore for joint manceuvres Sir Robert Harvey, of Dundridge,
specially Intended lfr Illustrate tho bee
"
South Devon, England, has been called
mattes of safeguarding British inter -i The Cornish ,Nitrato King." Ho is e
ests hi for eastern and southern sem solamado man, and was the partner of
Pmod
Poe the first time hi ern times the
the late Colonel North. Born at Truro,
whole of the Mesh fleet willbe placed
nod in due course apprenticed to an
tingincee, he first wont out to South
or, a veritable war tooting, and 11(50)'
out Ile duties as if the fate of the Empire Afeica to fit up sonte coppentnining
depended on the issues, machinery, at a salary ot $60 a month.
Sir Arthur K. Wilson, our mama His abilities were quickly recognited.
naval tactician and strategist, will 110 and when the Peruvian Government ex.
throughout in genorel contra' of the eer. ProPriated tho private speculatoes he
was appointed Engineer
mirally's plans, and the assembled fleets of the Province
in :rune. The most important maneen. of Tannin& and Inspeetter-General • f
vros will be under his supremo orders. the Nitrate Fields and Works at $7,500
The squadrons in the for cast, East a year. As a livrey intet•lude ho found
Inciter' waters, and the AntlpodeS -and
in Um Atlantic will co-operate.
TO DOMINATE THE NEAR SEAS.
to learn. He lost no time in securing
competent, tutors, and spent hours a
day learning the language of his adop-
ted country and acquiring an accent
welch was eventually to be so perfect
that there is said to be no one in
Athens who can speak bolter Greek to-
day than Ring George. Ile alse speaks
English fluently.
The Bishop 'of Ripon (Dr. Boyd Car-
penter) possesses among his treasures
three volumes containing the autographs
of most of the erchbishops and bishops
of England for nearly 300 years. One of
them is that of Juxon, the Bishop cif
London to whom Charles Stuart spoke
the word "Remembere with almost his
tieing breath., Another album contains
a photograph of ovary chui•oh in the dio-
cese of Riport. In his palace, too, the
Navel power that nifty Mash with Bra-
ise inlOrOStS IS satiated in Europe, lf,
then as the results will prove, British
royal Meyers can dominate tho Chan-
nel, the Nortli Sea and the Mediterram
ean, 1. O., the "near seas," it dominates
tI,Iiierelcased. by Iftentet in the far east, end
with the Meted SUROsIn the west, lerit-
Isli navel •power sets aside the seas
'which Ile between Esquimault, Hong
Kong, Sydney, Cele° Town, Almeida,
Halifro and London.
WOMAN'S flIGITTs.
gamio—t believe in woman's rIghte.
Beettee-Then you think every woman
sil°1‘11111:n
k1 1;1711_1 think mob' woman
slimed tiara a voter.
•
lee tipsier fev 11 soetely make
her debut then 11 15 for her te mem" her
owa deems,
himself a prisoner of war In the hands
of the Chillans, who were again so *Mich
impressed with his merits that they co11.
flt•med him in his °Metal appointments.
Believers in the influence of sheer
chance on the fortunes of individeale
can pent triumphantly to the one of
00110Val Rupee, Um commandenin-ehtel
of the French army, On a. ano autumn
day the General, wile Was then only e
colonel, was tramping threugh the
stubble in eortmany with' the Ittle Prose.
dent Carnet, and some high function'.
aries Of Ide household. 'Hee occasion
was a shooting party, and Colonel Beta
gero tons walking in froid, of the Presi-
dent, who was nervOes and short.
sighted, Suddenly tho 'Presidential gen
banged, there VMS a.shelek of pen, and
a portly field officer wits Seen weithine
on the ground bleeding profusely,
Colonel Betigera wns not long in ream
eying from his injueles. That Mont
cluil•ge of 81104 WAS the milking 01 151115
Iet•Cciertot could not do enough for the
gallant Milder, end in rapid suceeestoo
Brugere feeild 'MOOR military Goiter.
tor of Paris, fromprosident Of the Super-
lor Colwell Of War, and Mealy general.
taStraci of Fence's 8,1111Y3
IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND
NEWS BY MAIL ADMIT dOON BIAN4
AND WS PEOPLO.
Occurrences ill t110 Land TIM!, HOP
Supreme in the Commercial
World.
1'04,Inteo wQuaenelnou'snlfsuptocl i4forlatolt000 , uncut ploy.
'coSnlitteZeo.
ldryis tho only town whore the
notIlleation of oases Of Oensumptien 15
net in salaries will be over
o47101,001s0.caculated that the total coat 01
the Cabi
Princess CheLstlan has reeeived an
anon:crimes gift Of 420,000 for tho Royal
School of Art Needlework.
More than 13600,000 has been subserite
eci, says the Jewlsh Chronicle, for the
relief of the Jews in Russia.
In 1894 England Imported from Bos-
ton alone 530,015 pairs of boots; Scot-
land, 59,334; Ireland, 82,540 pairs.
At Billingsgate, London, the fog was
so dense Um other day that a drunken
man lurched into a coffee -tavern.
Parliament has met on Sunday It
Limes, the first in the reign of Edward
III., the last at the death of George
11.
Mr. John Fletcher Moulton, M.P., haa
been lord justice of appeal In
Place of Justlee Mathew, who recently
t
Mr. i•Ioward Paul, the jotu•nalist ane
entertainer, has left timely all his for-
tune, 446,000 ln Britain and 137,000 in
America, to charities.
It Is computed that the money spent
on drink In Leeds in a single year would
provide 5,000 families with 30s. a week
all the year round.
The Lhrowing of oonfetU and rice al
weddings in the Wigton, Cumberland,
Parish Church has been prohibited by
the church wardens.
In Woolwich Arsenal is being erected
a new "danger" building, with walls 3
feet htick, to stifle" the effects of an ex-
plosion that may occur.
Penny postage. between the Unitel
Kingdom and Egypt, which came into
force on Dec. 15, has already led to an
Increase in the number of letters sent.
nChristmas weelc the postoffices
ittpLuothindgo
deal with 113,000,000 letters,
of which about 24,000,000 are delivered
and the rest forwarded to other offices.
Slr Herbert de Stern, who recently re-
ceived a peerage, LS a Jeveish banker in
London, and is a son of Baron Hermann
de Stern, whose title was Potuguese.
It is not generally known that there
fe a memorial in London to the horses
w11tiackhfegoin the South African war.
11,es
ing trough. appto,. print° form of a deistic -
Last year 48,610,000 tons of cargo were
carried from ,all the seaports of the
world'. and out of that total 31,0001$10
toraim
nitwere carried by the ships of Great
B
The members of the Otley (Suffol14
District Sparrow Club have killed 3.680
slarrows and destroyed 2,250 eggs dur-
ing the first six months 01 1110 club's ex-
istefellilacering Cross station will be re -op-
ened early in March and traffic will be
resumed as soon as the temporary roof,
or whichf woric will begin next week,
has completed.
Miss 'Arthur, the daugliter and heiress
of the late Fred. Archer, the famous
Englisb jockey, has come of age, and
enters into possession of her fortune of
abalrl
ltISer resw.
riick, a member of the
Macclesfield TOWIl Council, and a sub -
postmaster, was eommitted for trial on
a charge of embezzling 4304 belongleg
to the Postmaster -General.
John Gaunt, who lives near Amber -
gate, Derbyshire, and is the official rat-
catcher to the Midland Railway, has
trained a fox to be as expert and reliable
O rat-catcher as any of his dogs.
The King's footmen wear wigs tylileh
have eight, roves of curls, whereas those
01 the Priam of Wales have seven rows,
and those of the Lord Mayor of Lon.
don six only.
A serious flt•o occurred at Yarmouth
on Um 25111 ult., destroying a large block .
of riverside warehouses, the property ef
11. Is W. Paul, grain merchants, to-
gether with hundreds of tons of grant •
and a new grain elevator.
In London you can now have your
boots made while you wait. Some thirty
machines are employed on each boot,
turned out In ilfteen minutes,
and a completely finished article cad::
resolution requesting the King to visit
Cardiff next year end open the new
The Cardiff City Council has passed a
town hall and law courts and the
of the Cardiff Ilailway Company.
The formal opening of thoaeome Spin-
ning Mill at Pendlobury, Manchester,
hits just taken place. 1( 10 the first elec-
trically equipped and chlmneyiess Wa-
ning mill built in England.
Ste A. limes says that no man Who
eats a lot of fruit can drink a lot of in-
toxicants, and 13100,000 worth of lima.
nas spread over England ovary week
would do more to keep down the drink
bill than legislatlen or temperance 100-
turas
Sir'floney Campbell -Bannerman 18 one
of six members of the House of Cora.
mons—five Conservativee and One Lib.
oral—Whe began theft Parliamoetary
°goer in 1868, ane have sat continuoits-
IY13111:10certilstielaellm'enjoys the distinction, So
Lot' ae Great 'Britain is toncotttr
eenean,,,eo
ci,bae.
Ing the place whore
was started, a lino being Opengl Moro
on Aug. .30111, 1866. The next was in
Bays water, in Maroh, 1861,
The Corporation of Nottingham have
decided to Spend 0.0,000 fa restoring
Nottingham Caestle. , The fogeess 15 as.
sociated with many outstandIng overtta
of English histoey, end it Is to be pre,
s°711116 fetlOsildaennaMtirraelpornalannUMPOIlitnn hated
cad onorlialecciffnerainotst orecervierinlitnyaitaliottistainlatis biseateen,
completely established that the thin em
bilitiry ridges on Um lipe of the fingelef
Undergo 110 nattlettl change of Charade
teristies tfroM the mune to the 0aecei,
in the east eed of London there is
!targets club, iteeortfitig to a Meet erase
etaille, the tnombors of 1011101 aro
"Ilt•ither Soots," hut in elreutlistanees
Ii e rovente tei inhume!, At New Year
(1101 11500 tt pgriotie luenkeritig after the
torithsento dainty, The tvoethy Bete.
(Cortina therefore, contribUte eaelt WM-
'tenon a woolc foe some Unio, and make,
certain of thole annual Weak