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The Brussels Post, 1904-10-27, Page 7THE ANOMIE OF A 131J.KE OLD DUKE OF NEWCASTLE AND THE VOTER, Amusing Result of the Impulsive Promise of a Politician.. A laughable stoesc moss circulated <Imams GM administratien of the old Duke of Newcastle and retailed to the ',oldie In various forms. This nebleman, with many good points, wtte remarkable for being profuse of his peointses on ell occasions, and valued himself particularly on being able to anticipate the words or the wants of the various persons who at tended his levees, before they tittered u word, This sometimes led him in to ridiculous embarrassments; and it was this proneness to lavish prom ism which gave ocetiston far the fel lowing anecdote: At the election of a certain bor, ough in Cornwall, where the opposite interests were abnost equally poised, .a single vote was of the highest lin, Poetance, This object the duke, by well applied argtunent and personal application, at length attained; and tho gentleman he recommended gained the election. In the warmth of gra- titude, his grace poured forth ac- knowledgements and promises with- out ceasing on the fortunate pos- aessor of the °meting vote; collect hint the best; and dearest friend; protested that he should consider himself as forever indebted to lihn; and that he would serve him by night or by day. The Cornish voter, who was an honest fellow, and would not have thought himself entitled to any re, ward, but for such a torrent of ac- knowledgments, thanked the duke for his kindness and told him the super- visor of excise was old and infirm, if ' he would have the goodness to re- commend his son-in-law to the com- missioners, in case of tlie old man's death, he should think himself and his family bound to render his grace every assistance in their power, ON ANY FUTURE 0 OCASION. "My dear friend, why do you ask for such a trifling employment?" ex- claimed His Gram "Your relative shall have it the moment the place is vacant, if you will but call my attention to tt," "But how shall I get admitted to you, My• 1•'or in London, I understand, it is very difficult to get a sight of you great folks though you, are so kind and complaisant to us in the country." "The instant the man dies," re- plied the Duke, "set out postsliaste for Londoni delve directly to ray house, and, be It by night or by day, thunder at the door; I will leave word with my porter to show you upstairs directlyl and the employment shall be disposed of according to your wishes." Tho parties separated; the Duke drove to his friend's house in the neighborhood, without a wish or de- sire to see his new acquaintance till that day seven years; but the memory of a Cornish elector, not being bur- dened with such a variety of objects, was more attentive. The sepervisor died a few months after, and the Duke's humble friend, relying on the word of a peer, was conveyed to Lon- don post-haste, and ascended with alacrity the steps of that nobleman's place The 'reader should be inforined that just at this time no less a Person than tho King of Spain was hourly expected to depart this life—an event in which the minister of Great Bri- tain was particularly concerned; and the 'Duke of Newcastle, on the very niglit that the proprietor of the de- cisive vote arrived at his door, had sat up anxiously expecting despatch- es from Madrid, Wearied by official business and agitated spirits, HE RETIRED TO REST, having previously given particular in- structions to his porter not to go to bed, as he expected every minute a messenger with advices of tho great- est importance and desired that he might bo shown upstairs the moment of his arrival. His grace was sound asleep; and the porter; mottled for the night in his arm-thair, had already commenc- ed a sonorous nap, when'the vigorous arm of the Cornish voter aroused him from his elumbors. To his first question, "Is the duke at home?" the porter replied, "Yes, and in bed; but bas left pnrticular orders tlint, come when you will, you aro to go up to him directly," "Bless him, for a worthy and hon- est gentleman," cried our applicant for the vacant, post, smiling and nod- ding With approbation at the in•ime minister's kindness, "How punctual his grace is; I knew lio would not de- ceive me; let ine hoar no more of lords and dukes not keeping thole words; 1 verily believe they are hon- est, and mean as well as any other folks," Having ascended the stairs as lie was speaking, he was ushered into the chit:W.8 bed chamber. "Ts lie dead?" exclaimed his grace, rubbing las eyes and scarcely awak- ened from dreaming of the king of Spain, "Is he dead'?" 'yes, my bnel," replied the eager expectant, delighted to find the elec- tion promise, with all its dram- gtances, so fresh ire TI -Ill NOBLEMAN'S MEMORY. "Whet did lin die'?" "The day befose yesterday, exactly at half -past 1 o'clock, after being confined three weeks to his bed, and taking e power of doctor's 5t115; and 11101)0 your peace will be as good as your •word, and lot my sort -in-law sneeeed him." The duke, by Mg time perfectly aWelco, was steggareci at the impos- sibilitsr of receiving, intelligence from Madrid in So short a specie 01 time, and perplexed at tim absurdity of the king's messenger applying for hie son - :it -law to secered 'the King of Spnin, "Is the men drunk, or mad'? \Viler() are your despn exelaimed his grace hastily (t)rming back his cur- tain, where, instead of a royal eour- lee, lie recognized et the bedside the fat, geed humored countenance of lits friend from Cornwall, making low bows with hat in hand, and "hoping my lord would not forget the grucious promise he was so good 115 LO 1110110 In favoe of his soa-in- law at the last Motion." Vexed at so untimely n disturbance end disappointed of news from Spein, the duke frowned a moment; bat elm - grin soon gave way to mirth nt so singulor and ridiculous a combina- tion of circumstances, anti, yielding to the impulse, he snide upon the bed in a violent; fit of laughter, which wtts communicated in It moment to the attendants, The relator of this little narrative concludes with observing: "Although the Dffice or Newcastle could not place the relative of his old acquaint- ance on the throne of his Catholic majesty, he advanced him to the post not less honorable—he made him an exciseman." POUR azAL BABIES IN WOOD. Nursemaid and Four Charges Slept All Night in Open Air. A real case of "Babies in the Wood" has occurred in North Staf- fordshire, Englane, Silverdale was P20 scene of the pretty little story. A young servant took four children out for a walk; they lost their way In a wood, wandered about until they were exhausted, then huddled togeth- er for warmth, and after the girl had said a prayer, went to sleep. At four °Week 111 Lho morning they were found and tiiken home. The servant's name was Lizzie Kirkham. She was sixteen years old, and her little charges varied in age from five years to eight months. Three of them belonged to a family named Moto. The party set out in the afternoon, and as none of them returned to tett the parents began to get anxious. Their anxiety deepened as darknes came ono and there was still no sign of the missing party. Inquiries were made among relatives and Mends, but no trace of the children or the girl could be found. Meanwhile news of the allele spread throughout the mining village, and bends of sympathetic colliers formed themselves into search parties. The father of three of the chirdren pro- cured a tram end other men started scouring the district around on bicy- cles By ton o'clock at night the Whole village was busily helping in the search. The police ia neighbor- ing pottery towns were apprised of the occurrence, and in every likely quarter a vigorous search was con- tinued by hundreds of people for the gteater part of the night. It was feared that the children might have fallen in the dark into some dis-used pit, or into some un- fenced pond. However, just before dragging operations were to have been commenced the miseSng party. were found. About four o'clock the next morn- ing a Noweastle-under-Lyne man was startled while mushrooming in Mace Woods by hearing what he thought to be the bleating of a lamb. He struck a match, and approached a white ob- ject and 'discovered that it was • ft baby. Near by lie saw the nursegirl an1 the three little children asleep beneath a tree. aroused /Kirk- ham, who gave an account of their adventures, "We got lost," die said, "when out for a walk. Iustead of getting back to Silverdale, as we thought we were doing, wo got further away. The children cried when dankness crime on. "We could not see anyone, and there was no house in sight. Wo wandered on till Ave were all exhaust- ed. Then wo sat down. It was very cold. 114/ huddled together for warmth, and then went to sleep al- ter I had said a PraYcza" The man who found the children gave them some food, and wrapped his overcoat and jacket round the lit- tle ones, and led thom to Silverdale, where they arrived nearly four hours Intel', the distance being seven or eight miles. Beyond contracting colds the child- ren were little the worse for their night in the wood. MUSICAL POST CARDS. Latest Phase of the Continental Craze for Cards. A striking novelty in picture post- cards is about to bc Placed on the market by a French syndicate. To an ordinary pictorial card is eflixed tt very thi12 transparent gel- atine thee, on which is impressed a gsemophone musical record. A hole in pierced thvotigh the °mitre of the disc, and the post-carcl can be placed on an ordinary "talking machine" and played in the uintal tray. The musical post -cavil opens up an en i rely new fielcl for the craze. l'hotogra.phe of greet singet•s and composera 28111 be action:ponied by extracts 'fi•om their works, pictures of national flags by the nuthems of the different countries, .ntid so on in endless variety. Ca (1111110100 for political honors, instead of sending mestil,y their photogrephs to constit- uents, will be able to trecompany them with the phonographic records of an election adctrese. Et is believed that, as private greeting cerds, the new cartes pots - titles will have nn 0110111101ln 005110. Instead of wishing their Mends a "Aleery Christmas and a IrraPPy New Year" in cold manta 1111. end Mee, Smith will be uble to send a spoken messege broadeamt through the post. A field is aleo opened up to the practiral jolcce: by the neW 'Cards. Mantorously inn ppro prat 10 musical postcards inns' vela" well take the place of the alittoet ohentete "condo" valentine, 101111a "surprise'' 11081 011(118 the mrsenge of which vannot be (Its - covered 11111 11 tho disc is placed on it gramophone, are certain to have a large 81110. The addition east an compared willi ordinary cards is very slight. The disc, being 1srfoetly temispnrent, deem 1101 in any Wily interfere mi(l) the pief ere 1101100111, 1(8 11novel (((P011 ising 111011111111 Pc 11010 111'0 001.1 ((1(1 L0 he 1)018' 1)181', Frenth cbanipagne ulnas ere «beady 1111/Ing pietosin I cards 1)r111t- '1 lel N011/.11 rill Ong the 11211802 11 SCENES IN SABRED OM WEIRD RITES PERFORATED IN CATHEDRAL AT LEASSA, Worship of the Devil—Golden Shrines and. Sacred. White Mice. Mr, Edmund Candler, the vadat correspondent of the London Daily Mail with the Tibet expedition, sends a wenderfully vivid areount of e, Visit to the great iltuldnist cathedral in Lhassa during service. The strange, mystical atmosphere of the place, the barbarie melodies, and the abomina- tions of devil worship are conveyed with striking realism and power. He says: I have written of the squalor of the Lhassa, streets, The envisons of the city are heaatifUl enough—Wil- low groves, intersected with clear, running streams, welled -In parks with Palaces and fish ponds; marshes where wild duck flaunt their plumage le se- curity, fled ripe barley fields stretch- ing away to the hills. The trees are now wearing their ,Autumn tints, The willows are most - 1Y a sulphur yellow, and in the pools beneath the red -stalked water -weed and burnished bark and leaf glow 111 brilliant contrast, Just before dusk there is generally a storm in the valley, which only occasionally reaches the city. But the breeze stirs the poplars and the silver under leaves glint brightly against; the background of clouds. Of- ten a. rainbow hangs'. (War the Potala like a nimbus. But when one loaves the broad avenues between the walls and the groves and pleasure gardens, and en- ters the Sacred City, one's senses aro offended by everything that is un- sightly and unclean. Pigs and pa lanai/ dogs are moving about the black, oozy mud. The houses are solid', but dirty. Close to the western en- trance aro the huts of beggars, out- casts, and scavengers, who cut up the dead. WALLS Or YAIC HORNS, The outer walls are built entirely of yak horns. Some of the houses have banks of turf built up outside the doors, with borders of English flowers. The dwellings are mostly two or three -storeyed, and bird cages hang from the windows, The outside of the cathedral is not at all imposing. From the streets one cannot see the golden roofs, but only high blank walls, and at the entrance a forest of dingy pillars be- side a massive door. The door is thrown open by a sul- len monic, and 0 huge -courtyard is revealed, with more dingy pillars that wore once red. The entire wall is covered with paintings representing l32ldd11ist myths arid symbolism; the eolors aro subdued and pleasing. In the centre of tlie yards aro masses of hollyhocks, marigolds, nasturtiums, and stocks. We enter the main temple by a dark passage. The great doorway that opens into tho street has been closed behind us, but we leave a, com- 1)11117 of rathans in the outer yard in case of accident, and our party of four is armed with revolvers. OIrAIBALS AND -DRUMS. Service is being held before the great Buddhas as we enter, and a thunderous harmony like an organ peal breaks the interval foe media- tion. The abbot, who is in the cen- tre, leans forward from his chair and takes a bundle of peacock feathers froni a vase by his side. As he points to the earth there is the clash- ing of cymbals, the beating of drums, and the blowing of trumpets and condi shells. Then the music 'dies away like the reverberation of cannou in the hills. The abbot begins a chant, and the monks, facing each other tike singing men in a choir, repeat a litany. They !have extraordinary deep, devotional voices, at once.unnatural and impres- sive. Tho deepest bass of the west does not approaCh it, and their sense of tins° is perfect. The voice of the thousand monks is like the drone_ of some subterran- ean monster, musically plaintive—the voice of the Earth God praying for release to the God of the Skies, THE BUDDHIST TRINITY. In an Mime temple we found the three great iniages Of the Buddhist trinity—the Buddhas of the past, present and future. The images were greater than life-size, and set with jewels from foot to crown. As In the cloisters of an English cathedral, there were little side chapels, which held sacred relics and shrines, There were lamps of gold and solid golden bowls set on altars and em- bossed salvers of copper and bsonze. A hanging grille of clininWoelt pro- tected the proolects from sacrilege. and an exteuded hand, bloody and menancmg, was stretched fro211 the wall, terrible enough Whe12 sttddenly i•evealeci in that dim liglit to para- lyse and strike to earth with fright any profane thief who would Mire to enter. In the upper storey we round a plaee wlitc11 we called "Itell," which somo lamas were worshipping the demon protectress of the Clrand Leann., BARBARIC 5111, Tlie fretsie here wns linesh and bar- baric, Thero were displayed on tlie pillars rtnd walls every freak of Lila - helical invention in the shape of wrens and devil maske. 'The obscene object of this va0ish-41 Was huddled 311 n 00011e0-0 dwatelsh abortion, hideous mid malighant snough for such rites. All about the lames' root ran little White mice, searching for gettin, They aro fed daily, and are scrupulously re- verenced, as In their (1011 211111,0 bodies the souls of the previous guardians of the 81101110 0120 be1101/0C1 to be incarnated. 'In another temple we found latrine holding seteiee in worship of the ninny -handed Buddha, Avaloki les - vara,, The picture of the god linng from pillars by the altar, 'The chief limas were esenring peaked Mips pleturesreiely tolored and subdued blue-ctratgold vestments of the eamo pattern. The leseor lamas were bare. beaded, and their hide wos cropped, UNCANNY SILENCE,. When we first entered an acolyte was poiiring tga out of ti nniesive copper pot with a turquoise on the SpOut, lo1aCh monk received his tea in ft wooden bowl and poured in barley flour to melte a paste. fniring this ieterval no one epolee INCONSISTENCY Clas WAR, Strange Occupation for Civilized Nations. The Red Clem organization is alto- gether beyond praise. But the spec- taele of these maimed soldiem being carried in, with their fresh bandages, recent wounds, their white faces and vague wonderin5 eyes, in the scorch- er whispered. The rootatepa or the Rig n11111 belt, 802.110 01 11111211 dying, acolytes were voiselens, only the soms of 111(112 arivieed far Lo, an 01 youngee onee looked up at us seha, them suffeling, made ono think once more what a strange lromeal pro- ceeding is modern warfare, writes Hon. At. Baring in London Poet. We create cuisines of destruetion with tho object of inflicting the most deadly injury posisible to our fellow-createres and at the saine. time 000 take the greatest possible pains to organize a system by 00111011 these sane men, whom it is our °base. to destvoy tui swiftly as possible, may be restored to activity as soon as they have been once ire any slight degree injured by our instruments of destruction. 'To earry on war on humanitarian prin- ciples is, if ono comes to think of it, an absurdity, Our objeet in war is to kill, destroy and damage the tem - my as rapidly as possible, to let those who are whole and hale fight for . all they are wortli, and lot the weak and the wounded go to tlie wall. Logically Bed Cross organiza- tions and field hospitals are a great Hindrance and an unnecessary ex- pense. If the fact of war be admit- ted, logically it ithoold be waged as barbarously as possible, since 0 hu- mane war is a contradiction in terms. It is like a, humane boxing match—or A HUMANE BULL FICHT. But, I suppose, just as to fight and to wage war are an ineradicable in- stinct and a raison de'etre of man- kind to succor the wounded is like- wise 11fl ineradicable instinct, and 09 long as armies exist, Red Cross so- cieties will exist. At the same time, when one sees the wounded brought in on the stretchers all the philoso- phy in the world does not prevent one from thinking war a strange oc- cupation for eivilized nations. It may be argued that the field of Cre- cy after the battle was probably as gruesome a sight as a. modern battle- field, and that we would no more part with the name of Crecy that we would part with any of the jewels of our national inheritance. But there made, so that uow we learn, says, is this difference: there was no more The 1Vestminster Gazette, that the 1 an ambulance or a hospital at Crecy trial trip of the Midland Railway than there woul11 now be at. a loot - Co.'s now turbine steaiuor Manxman,' ball or a cricket match, Tho French built by Vickers, Sons & Max -and the English fought. for fun then, in t, at Darrow, has established 0111) the same way in which they now Pew record ia propulsion by means of 'play football. War Wan an aristocra- the turbine. In her several runs i tic game. Witness the despatches of over a, measured mile on Um Clyde' Manxman gave a speed of 23 the correspondent of the French side— the 1I mean Froissart. Was there ever knots. X-Iitherto steam pressures for Gel, less turbines have been kept down at 150 lcorrespondent more Duper 111. per square inch, but in this yes.. ['blind to the faults of his own side, set 200 preseure has 1)0011 provid- more enthustically appreciative of the enemy's euali ties? But non' ne- ed, and this has economic results. The Manxman has been built for the buiendy can say- that the ,Tapanese and Heysham and Isle of Man 5e0010e. Russians nee fighting for fun. Sucli incidents as the loss of the Pet- ropavlovsk and the Ilatsnse are merely desperately and fruitlessly de - are engaged in the maufacture of the lo and no mere inspiring than turbines states that for fast prissen- a railway accident, and owing to tho ger and other rapid steamers the 'present conditions of moclorn werfiun turbine 2005 01111001)1y stilted wheth- 1 such incidents must necessarily be or the boat was engaged in the short 1 more and more frequent. home trade or long foreign (rade voyages, One cd the chief advan-i stet SAID "YES," tages—apart fro01 the question. ofl no, speed—whieh . the turbine possesses fl .,.wO young men wore 1101)11101)t. . over the reciprocating engine is that I ei,er bad weather n does ot prevent the d I toll you it's a waste of good time for you to call on Per and tuthine milking its normal speed, and env or the three cress, ask her to marry you," said Tom. passengers in Channel turbine steamers may count, as far as the engines are concerned, o12. being landed at schedule (line, notwithstanding heavy hand wawa ,torted Tom. "I overheard her tell and seas, !Lucy she preferred medium-sized men to either tall or short ones." "You say that because y-ou are medium-sized," "And dark -complexioned to light - complexioned men." "Tlint's because you're dark and PnIlnidgatbai' r,AllLy of tongue rather than of the pen." "You're fabricating on the fact that you're a lawyer and I'm a newspaper reporter," responded Dick. "Not at rill," said Tom; "I'm mere- ly cmoting what she said." "Well," remarked Died:, thoughtful- ly, "111 bet you a cigar, a hat, a dinner, or a house that X can go to ber rind ask the matrimonial ques- tion and receive an affirmative an- swer to my tivestion within two min- utes of tho time of asking." Tom laughed. "'Done foe clinnms for the entire wedding -party," So it was agreed. As to wlio should be out of pocket to the extent of dinner for an 10 definite number was to be decided that evening. Dick rang the door -bell at Alice's house, and whe22 he entered he ad- mitted also Tom, who hid behind a door in tho parlor, that he might liear plainly both question and an- stver. • Dick thought Alice novet looked so P0001181110517 beaUtifill, and all that sort of thing, And he told her so. "I've been wondering," said he, af- ter some time, "If 1 wee21 to ask you —to ask you, &lice, to beeome 1)17 wife, if yoti'd refuse ine. You would, wouldn't you?" "Yes, indeed'," rodekly responded Alice. "Volt know l'in to marry Harry next month," "Sio he told nio aosteeday, when he risked ine to be his hest mem" said consciously us we• watched thein from 0 115(110001 W11111QW 111 L110 corridor above. Centuries ago this service was or - dallied, and the Intervals appointed to further the pursuit of the truth through silence and abstraction, They had 002/1 wri, but they Were secntIngly obliviouS. (Inc wondered Wert! they pursuing the -truth or were they petrified by ritual and routine'? Did they regard us as non -material reflexes of the un- substantial and illusory, passing sha- dows of the world cast upon them by an instant's illusion, to pass away again into the unreal, while they W'1)1'0 absorbed in the contemplation of changeless and universal truths? Or Were we noted as food for gossip and eritieistn wben. 111011: self-imposed ordeal was done? The reek of the candles was almost suffocating. '"rhank Clod, I am, not a lama!" said a subaltern by my side. An Afridi Subadar let the butt of his rifle clank trona his boot to the pavement. At these calls to sanity we clatter- ed out of this unholy atmosphere or dreams as if by an unquestioned im- pulse into the bright sunshine out- side. FUTURE OF THE TURBINE. A New and Promising Record. in Propulsion, The signs of the times all indicate an impertant future for the turbine, eays a, London letter, Having prey- ed its useillness as a means of pro- pelling small craft at high speeds, anol then its adaptability to the needs of the passenger traffic, it has P00)) employed in the Allan liner Vic- torian, ascends- launched, while the Cunard Company have two turbine vessels on order. While this evolution in sIze has P0022 in progress, however, improve- ments in details have gradually been She will carry 1500 passengers, A gentleman intimately connected with a largo flem of engineers who that s Just the way you look at it," replied Dick in a friendly spirit. "It's a pretty good way too," re, Referring to the m105110)1 of the best reversing gear, the firm sug- gested that for moderato spedds as- tern a reversing turbine was ade- quate, but for liigh stern speed a re- ciprocating engine was preferable. In time this difficulty would, no doubt, be solved without recourse to inde- pendent engines. In regard to tho CommorCial outlook the engineers maintained that at 110080111 the tur- bine was not economical for tramps or steamers whose everage speed wag below 15 knots. Even in ocean pas- senger ships 0 speed about a 25 knot everage Wan generally _fatal from an economic standpoint on account of the huge coal space necessary to Po reserved, crushing out 0111%0. 0204 hence they did not naticipate a fur- ther :development of speed beyond 25 knots in passenger shipe until the fuel difficulty had been 02'00001110. With l'00,01'Ll to the navy, the en- gineers affirm that the turbine was for all ships, with btit a few isolated exceptions, preferable, because the propelling power Wan less liable to damage during war. They, there- fore, expected large developments In this direction. 4 THE PRESIDENT'S MOTHER. Old Lady Still KeepS a Vegetable Stall, President Lottbet, e France, hag bowl visiting his old 1101110 at Minitel - 110 was received at the reit- way station, say Ilie French news- PaPerS, by severa1 funetionneles, and 110 Sabsequently took s drive in semi - state with one of his children, Much less ceremonious was the cherming scene deseribed by the lima A. N. Cooper, the "walking, Pelson." &Tr. Clooper in one of his rambies, found pia. "But by asking you the clues - himself at .NIentelimar, and, looking' ,.,„p 11101 221)7 1 won n out or the window at his inn in the 1211(110- 01111111'l' (01' early 'morning 110 saw the President '"' lie wont to the door and drugged ""°"ing 11 18 old "1"1 Ivy 1() "10 1"t".' Toni from his 11114111 of shelter. ket-place, where she continued. to sell farm produce, even though lior fon "I esked her tho question as you had beConte Chief Magistrate of the licerd,"1111 told 1.115 101086, “1)1111 5110 Republic. She drove up in a 111.1 '(1.. said 'Yea.' " et -cart which was duly unloaded. heard it, but didn't look ns Then the President gave her 1104arra, Lbough 110 had1 cavorted her to hes eliair, and stsined the greet umbrella under which 1110 A redeem tree on the islend of floe. sat. No functionories were in it iien, neer liombay, is him ”sorroWful tree." donee, end tho Peet of the market- Tliat name is given to itbecause the people showed no signs or reg,toilea. 3120 has a drooping, sad appearnnee the hidden!! ITS anything remararthle, durieg the daytime, Ind. its (1141)8)1 At the end AT. Loriliet, gravely sehrt• clinnges as the sun goes down, Then ! ed his mother end went off to lead its lenves open mid no longer droop, Slate miners, while she remained 10 and fragrant bloesoine come inte sell enbliagee. lbloont Upon it. 000-0-0.0-0 0:CX/s000-0-O0•00-0•0•0-0 YOUNG FOLKS I FrELD MICE IN FRANCE. Serious Cancers/ in the Agrioni. tulal Districts. According to the statema ent of 0.0-0-0-00-0-0•40-0.0-0-0-0•Saansca0-0.0 last in the Department of the Char- Cfran'ina says she' spectin1 Sing a song of 141)01)01112!To make an 1111(110 Wu' When it's by and by, 11111,10 during the month of tocibrintry tear 11)81111118, estimated that tho average nnalber of field mice to be French newepaper, in the 0)0p0011)10311?erste, Alr. Chitinberland, of the Pas - found at that time upon a hectare 12,47 a(res) was 1,350. They con- sumed tunnuilly at least 13t• tons of Oralfma says she'll see vegetable matter. In 1893, in the When the pie is finished, If there's nay 1100511 left 01005,0iporio tl iiio,111011.1aleiviior-fieintothee, cillepec•otarc11.01.7 to Another expert, there were more than She'll give it all to me.• • it wit/ be seen, then, that the anxi- ety among the farmers is justified. Such an increase in the number of mice as would be naturally expected would permit them to eat absolutely every bit of living vegetation that O fleld could produce during the sea- son. The story or a nude Boer bay who To destroy these pests people form - refused to betray his friends, even on erly resorted to asphyxiation by all - the threat of death, is told by Major Mg the burrows with smoke or to seoy, m.p., as illestration of deeply- drowning by pouring water into them rooted love of freedom end country, or to sowing poison about the fields. 11 happened during the Boer war. The latter method, though the most "I was asked," said Major Seely, efficient, proved so dangerous to do - " to get some volunteers, and 117 to mestleated animals that it was re- capture a commandant at a place sorted to only in exceptional cases. some twenty miles away. I got the At the present (ley another method men readily, and we sot out. It. 0008 15 U.4011 00111010 is considered much a rather desperate enterprise, but we more efficacious—Infection by a mi - got there all right. I can see the erobo which is deadly ter of the horses' hoofs. mice only, domesticated animals be - to rats and little p/aCe yet, I can bear the cat - "The Boer general had got away, ing immune to Its influence. In 1893 but where had he gone? It was even Doctor Danysz, of the Pasteur Insti- ll question of the general catching tete, while studying the habits of us. and not we catching the general. field mice in the Department of Seine - We rode down to the farmhouse, and et -Marne, observed that largo num- there we saw a good-looking Boer bers of mice died apparently from boy and some yeomen. asked the disease. Ho collected virus from sick boy if the commandant had been animals, made cultures, and assured there, and he said in Dutch, taken by himself that these cultures absorbed surprise, Yes. 1Vhere has he gone? I said, and the boy became suspi- cious. Ile answered, 'I don't know.' 'I decided then to do a thing for which I hope I may be forgiven, be- cause my mon's lives were in danger. I threatened the boy with death if lie would not disclose tho whereabouts systematically on a surface of 2,800 of the general. He still refused, and acres, and has proved able to accent - I put him against a wall, and said Plish the destruction of the mice, X would have to nave hint 'shot. At utile the game, fowl, and other ani - the same time 1 wItispered to my mats of. the farm were in no instance mon :—Tor heaven's eake, 'don't affected. shoot.' The boy still refused, al- The seriousness of the situation is though I was going to have him emphasized by the fact that the shot, I ordered the men to 'aim,' French Parliament appropriated Every rifle was levelled at tho boy. 295,000 francs $56,9311 to be used 'Now,' I said, 'before I give the for the destrection of the mice. The word, which way has the general virus, which Is furnished free to de - gone?" I remember the look in the partments and townships, is supplied boy's face—a look such as I have ,from this fund and is sent directly to never seen but once. He th was;e regions affected. The virus ia transfigured before me, Somethingthen distributed and /nixed with four greater almost than anything human shone from his eyes. ITe threw back his head and said in Dutch, 'I will not say.' There was nothing for it but to shake hands with the boy and go away.'' AUNT ESTTIER'S SECRET. EOSSIO sat by the table, working at her home task in arthmetic. Her face was very sober, for she was in O great hurry to finish and go out to play with her cousin Polly. By and by 'Aunt Esther, Polly's mother, came in, andaseeing Bessie, asked her why she was not out at play. "I Imre to get illy number work, done, Aunt Esther," said 13essie, "and it is very hard." "Is it, indeed? Perhaps X can help you," said her aunt, sitting down beside the little girl. "Four and five make how many? Here is your mama's button -bag. Take out five buttons. Now four more. Count "Nine!" cried Bessie, her eyes ek da'n'Yeionsg.. Now take four, then five." "Thotn So 1110 lesson Went merrily on, and neatly written out her aunt covered when Bessie had the numbers all she could remember every one of the answers, and Bessie found 'that "Nino again 1" declared BOSSiO. 7012, .Aunt Esther," said the "This has been so easy, and I thought it was so hard. I will try 111(211112 11 buttons Again." 'That is a. good iden., and now I will telt you a secret. If you learn to add and substract all the num- bers up to tem if you learn them vory carefully, so that you can give the right anewee every time without stopping to 0011111 um then you will not need the higher numbers' very 081.1011, but can add and sUbstract them just cts easily as you can one 1170t.- Es a 1101 a lovely secret? Do you not think it is true? Try it for yourself and see, WHERE YOU ARE LOST. Your watch makes a good compass:, (it the number of hom's from id - night, divide by two, and point the hour tit the sun so that the shadow at a match or lead pencil falls direct- ly across Um centre of the watch; 12 o'clock will be north, south, 9 west and 8 east. Suppose it is 9 a. m,; minther et hours front midnight is 9; one Mill is point 4.80 at the sun so tlia shadow of a 11101011 or lead pencil falls ecross the centre of the watch, and 12 is north, 6 south, 8 east, and west. Suppose it is (3 1),111.; number of 1101108 from midnight 1821 i0sneno111d01.11 2, ,69:st7t1.11111,t 39 04iti'Stsuanlida31091 \Vent. SINGULAR F1DIlLEII. Frank 010014011 15 3110 name of a stsgulne fiddler of Atlanta, Georgia, WHO in without bands, Many Vocal's ego lic wata caught in a blizzard and (IRAN'AIA'S API'LIS, PIE. 'Then I'll 111,11(0111,11(0 a 111 Pie, 'Cause I Obis know When she sive, ''711 800, and," There'll surely be some dough. 1115 INIT11111111111111]' PATRIOTISM. with the nourishment produced the disease in healthy rats and mice. These experiments were made on a large area, nearly 200 acres, and seemed conclusive to the experts. This method of destruction has been recently commenced and carried out times its volume of slightly salted water. In this liquid crushed oats are soriked; the oats are then distri- buted in suitable places near the bur- rows in such 20117 118 LO ate as many' families or groups as possible at one time. When this has been done, ten or twelve days after- ward what is estimated at 95 per cent of the mice have been found dead in the fields. One would expect from these 1'O - sults that the work would be quick- ly done, but the "campagnols" aro great travelers, and many disappear front ore locality to reappear sud- denly in another, breeding with great rapidity. The work lia,s been going an 18" some months, but. there aro re- appearance in regions hitherto un- affected, and it is probable that the fight will continue for many more weeks. 4 a GOAT'S MILK. While Dr. Koch and the Royal Com- mission on Tuberculosis, with their several adherents, are exchanging po- lite scientific invective as to Whet:het' tuberculosis is or is not transmissi- ble from cows and their milk to hu- man beings, many have solved the question in their own way by leaving COWS' milk severely alone and drink- ing(101111211) but the product of the goat. This may be regarded as a very safe move, for the average goat has a, most enviable constitution, be- ing 111111)111)0 aPParently to every dis- ease that attacks sheep 00 cows, while it may be kept with atiVilnLag0 On the roughest of land, Certninly no goat has ever shown signs of tu- tubercular disease, and on this fact alone the drinker of goats' milk re- lies for his safety. An analysis of the nanny's milk 011011250, still furth- er advantage, for it contains, bulk for bulkhe , almost twice t1101011111of nourishinerit that COWS' milk has hence, though it may be double the price, half the quentity ought to 5u( (Ito, for it may be diluted with water up to twice its original volume. As a. milk producer, the goat is of course iliticli inferior to the cow; nannies have been knoWn to give a gallon of 1113110a day; but two quarts Is nearer the average yield; but on the other bond, honsing accommoda- tion and area or run may be on the most exiguous scale, a feet which has earned the goat the title of poor man's cow. The chief, perbnps the onlryoes,olinjeoettiiinenepsove tothleiTnsa ilii te. cot;I:p.st itl. 010105 to its exceptional richness; and goats' butter has the sante in- herent defect. To the 11(111)1121l however, 8011.0101 Objection can be taken unless kept rigidly to its own domain, for it is inordinately fond of young shoots of trees, and would speedily ruin 11113'young plantation to which it had aCCOSS. This pro- clivity has been cnie of the 011101 onuses of the nakedness of the moun- tains all roti00111211 the Mediterranean where gonts 111)0111(11, 81101 it greater demand for their milk Would soon show 89 1111 101' eremite in our own his arms were frozen so badly that both hands were amputeted at the tt;1011:11eliiirt.olireesitsicintstrelettralsliii0n8g.1401." Were weists. For long time the violin was silent; hut, being a merlittnical genius, he invented n contrivance of POPULARITY 0111 P1110711. wire to enabl,1 him to Wield the Drown is holding its 00011 POW. '1110 '1110 fingering Ares more dilli- fully well. It 10 a strong favorite cult, but by practice lie trained the with all women. Certainly no color stump of his 1011 hand to make the is shown in greeter veriety, ontl 1114 (1001'0081',V 1,11 i tn 100111 0110 0101115 in rich finis make it adaptable te •sill enother and the varying positions, sorts of rombinatione, A combine - With the violin held in place by •Itis tion prohnhly 05 odd 1: Malrre and shin and knees mill with lie help of burnt orenge is brown and 51'e7i • 12114 fingerlers arms, Clawson man- Both colors mutt Pc ges to 1(1(17y his 0111 -time selections to produce thl eitistreesItn ti'lt'S'10 110200000',, s a with letirly as 13111c11 skill as he fora C/111 still be improved by the, Mee. Wetly did, Lion or highly finished fabric:a 4