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the by 4'hron of his ancestors, a Holy ens, aid the late Khedive 'T5u•Ak et
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and deeper #ntorrst rh.ttav l Cairo—having cape lonco f n
9d to llis Dlajosty's'second mad only .things wherever he went, After an -
surviving son, the Duke of York, other come° of gunnery training at
who, by the elevation of els father Portsmouth, to which 11e volunteered
to lcillgiy rank, at once beeamo, heir
'apparent of the Crown, while oleo
etleceeding to the title of Dunce of
Cornwall. But this was lnruh mono
than a title, It has often happened
that there has been a .dunce without
ducats, but the Cornwall title is one
not merely of 'a. dukedom, which
might conceivably carry wil.h it nei-
ther land nor lucre, but of a duchy,
with its solid and "delectable" in -
conte of 4:160,000 a year— a sunt
which has fallen to the heir to the
Throne as part only of the income es-
sential to the keeping up of his dig-
. nay; and in the case of our last
Prince of Wales this income amount-
ed to over 11.00,000, apart from
A10,000 allowed for the separate use
of his Consort, Sixty thousand a
year alone from the Duchy of Corn-
well is a handsome enough revenue,
and it may truly be said that it
could not have devolved upon a more
citroful economist than its present
possessor, in whom there never was
anything of the wild "Prince Hal,"
still less of the Prodigal Son.
HIS CHARACTER
was formed in the two best schools
of our national. virtues—the family
circle and the fleet, In his messages
to the navy and homy on succeeding
to the Throne, Edward VII. rightly
thought fro was paying the former
the highest compliment in his power
when he reminded it that, as her de-
ceased Majesty "had made it the pro-
fession of my late lamented brother,
so 1 also chose it for the early edu-
cation of both my sons,"
After two years' training on the
Brittania, the Royal brothers were
transferred to the steam corvette
Bacchante, commanded by Captain
(now Admiral) Lord Charles Scott,
ho was'next appointed to the North-
umberland, flag -ship of tho C1u nnel
Squadron; arhd during the naval `man-
oeuvres of 1889 he woe placed in com-
mend of a torpedo boat—which, by
the way, also tools part in tho grand
review at Spithead in honor of his
cousin
THE GERMAN EMPEROR.
As a' result of his solid merits
Prince George was soon thereafter
(May 1890) appointed to command
the gunboat Thrush for service on
the North Ainerican and West Indian
Stations, a command Which ho held
for thirteen months, and it was dur-
ing this period that he was deputed
by the Queen to represent Her Ma-
jesty at the opening of the Indus-
trial Exhibition in Jamaica, on
which occasion he specially request-
er] of the Admiral in charge of the
station that he might simply be
treated as an ordinary naval officer.
On returning to England the Prince
was ,Promoted to the rank of com-
mander (of the second class cruiser
Hlelampus) being then only in his
twenty-seventh year and the four-
teenth of his naval service, but with
as good a record behind bim as any
of his contemporary mates, This
was in August, 1891, and a few
months later it seemed as if his car-
eer were to be suddenly cut short by
a serious attack of enteric fever,
which caused his another to hurry
home from Livadia, where, with her
daughters, she was on a visit to her
Imperial sister of Russia. From this
dangerous attack the Prince recov-
ered, but a few weeks later his bro-
ther, the Duke of Clarence, succumb-
ed at Sandringham to a similar mal-
ady, it being fated that one should
DUKE O1 CORNWALL AND YORK.
and as "middles" on board this ves-
sel they made a memorable voyage
round the world, visiting among oth-
er places, Halifax, N.H., the West In-
dies,
ntries, South America, the Cape. Aus-
tralia, 11'iji, Japan, China, Singa-
pore, Ceylon, Egypt, the Holy Land
and Greece; a voyage, of which the
Princes kept a careful diary -record,
which was afterwards published as
the "cruise of H.M.S. Bacchante,"
with additions by Mr. Dalton, and
was: "cad by the public with the deep-
est interest.
On returning from the voyage
round the world the two brothers
went to Lausanne, in Switzerland,
fur six months to perfect themselves
in French, and then tlhcie paths for
the first time diverged, to their great
soreow—for they had ever been a de -
vol ed pair—Prince "Eddy" corning
ashore. so to speak, to acquire those
graces and accomplishments, inde-
sliens bre to a prince, standing in di-
rect, succession. to the Throne, which
were impossible of attainment on the
fleck of a ship; and Prince George
STICKING TO THI'1 SEA
as to a scene of fixture honor and
usefulness. As a midshipman on the
Canada he served with dist.iuctioe On
the North American and West Indian
l-itetions, which gave him an oppor-
tunity of visiting the Dominion, theft
envier the governorship of his uncle
by marriage, the illurquis of .Lorne.
on his nineteenth birthday (Juno 8,
185.1) iie passed as sub-lichrtelraut,
obtaining; a "first-class" in seaman-
ship; and in little more tlhar, a. year
thereafter, having spent the interval
in hard study at the Naval College,
Greenwich, and •II:II.S. Excellent at
Pm'tsnloutli-a ship which is not a
ship but an island— he obtained This
lieutenancy, after taking a "first-
clasa" in five of leis subjects— sea-
nnulship, navigation, torpedo, gun-
nery end pilotage; and it is known
that his severe examiners were no r•e-
epeetors of persons,
After this his career was as rapid
as it could be by dint of honest mer-
it and Znot of rank, which is not a
thing to conjecture with in the Brit-
ish Navy In matters of promotion.
First appointed to the Thundorcr on
the Mediterranean Station, Igo was
transferred to the Dreadnought, and
to the Alexandra, flag -ship of his
0111.101' -uncia, the Duke of Edinburgh,
under whom 'he remained for lass,
years, diming which time he visited
the Stlitnnat Stan .noui, his meter.
be taken and the other left. And
now the life of Prince George took a
totally different course. Ile had
been, looking forward to the further
pursuit of his naval career, but ho
was suddenly diverted from his path
es a sailor to prepare hitaseif for be-
coming a sovereign.
To begin with he was created Duke
of York, a title which, created by
Richard II. iu 1885, had always beet
confined to
TIIE ROYAL, I'AMILY.
It had generally been conferred on
the Sovereign's second son; and in
three caves at least they had suc-
ceeded to the Throne --two of them,
Henry VIII. and Charles L, after the
death of their elder brothers. The
last Lehrer of the title had been the
soldier suit of George 117., tvao was
our commander-in-chief for many
years. having this suca,r:ded to his
brother's position as heir apparent
to the Throne the nett' Duke of York
after a decorous interval, also step-
ped into his Lrother's shoes in re-
spect of his lotrnthed, Princess Vic-
toria Mary of Teck, whose formal
engagement to Prince "Eddy" had
only keen announced a few weeks be-
fore he died. This matrimonial ar-
rangement has its auulogue in the
cave of the Czar Alexander III, of
Russia, who had siutilarly `taken ov-
er the matrimonial engagement of
his elder brother, the Czarovitch de-
ceased, to Princess Dagniar of Den-
mark, sister of the Princess of Wales.
II, was said that Prince George had
long been an admirer of Princess
May, but had stood aside in favor of
his older brother, and had now sim-
ply reverted to his old love. This
was the first time since Juntas II.,
who 11ac1 also been a Duko of York,
that an heir to the 'Throne had chos-
en an English bride, so the British
public were all the more in favor of
the marriage, though the blood of
Princess May tens not exactly a fresh
h1Lr'educticn into the Royal family,
she and the Prince, among other con-
sanguineous ties, having had n com-
mon ancestor in the person of George
III, Novel' was a, Royal marriage
Moro populn', and its celebration on
July 7th, 1898, will always rank as
one of the most splendid and me-
morable pageants of the Victorian
ere.
TIM Duke had once already, it rt
Whir could be trusted, returned to
old love and new ho was to go back
to an older one still—Itis
AFFECTION FOR TUI7 BHA.,
llofoi•e his marriage in 1898, he
had been raised to the rank, of ems.
tain in the lleyal Navy, but it was
not till 1808 that lie was given. 1110
first oammissien. The interval h'ttd
been seditiously devoted to the learn-
ing in of allnowt illsduties
fie heir'Apparent-4400a whielt,in-
eluded a, semi -state tour in Ireland
in company with his wife, when he
rendered a real.service to the cause.
of li) ru' rx pacification caul Iu
or
-
inl unity, Dut the time had now
come: when ho thought lie might safe-
ly exchange, tor a little while, his
functions as Sovereign -in -waiting for
those of an active Bailor on h0'
waves, and in the summer of 1808
he coeutuod command of the Crescent,
This fine vessel he coanirlalxdod for
three mouths, pertly et tile' )nan0eu-
vros, thoi`est of 010 time in various
Channel ports, and in the solont his
vessel was visited by the Queen, who
cofnplintonted him on its very smart
appearance. As the Duchess of York
had shared her husband's society
during a part of his tbms on the
Crescent, so she is again leis devoted
companion on the Ophir for his se-
cond v0ycge round the world, com-
mencing with Australia and
TENDING WITH CANADA.
That the Heir Apparent is deeply
imbued with the idea of Imperial un-
ity may be inferred, among other
things, from the fact that ho and his
Consort, conferred the significantly
additional names of George Andrew
Patrick David—those of the patron
saints of 'our four nationalities -on
their oldest son, Prince Edward, who.
now stands in direct succession to
tho Throne and thus in his own boy-
ish self incorporates the United I{ing-
dotn. 'The Duke of York is now en-
gaged in a mission which is bound to
result in the closer unity of the whet
IEmpire. Apart from its purely polit-
ical aspects, this 101551011, with its
bracing sea -breezes and its healthful
changes, will also, as we all hope,
have the effect of strengthening the
constitution of its illustrious chief,
whose illness prevented Trim from be-
ing present at the final scene in the
rnomentous life -drama of his grand-
mother's reign, as well as the open-
ing scene in the drama of King Ed-
ward VII,
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BOERS EMIGRATE.
Are .Leaving for German South
West Africa.
Twenty Doers, who live in Amster-
dam, will leave for German South-
West Africa shortly, and in Decem-
ber
ecember 300 Care Colonists will leave
Cape Town for the same destination.
These people have been influenced to
emigrate by the favorable reports re-
ceived from Cape Colonists and
Transvaalers who emigrated • there
last spring. They are, without ex-
ception, perfectly sasisfied. Twenty
five of the forty litho went there
have bought land and are very busy
cultivating it. They affirm that they
have seen nothing of the German
bureaucracy, which had been painted
to them in such dark colors ; on
the contrary, the kindness of the
Governor and his officials cannot be
praised enough. All find the climate
very good. Some have started sheep
breeding, and, beginning with only a
few hundred, they have had a great
increase in lambs, which thrive very
well,
The plan conceived by the Ger-
man administration of the Camer-
oons to penetrate into the country
as far north as *the River Benue,
And to found a settlement at Gama,
is now to be carried out. First
Lieutenant Dominik will lead an ex-
pedition through Adamara, and es-
tablis.i himself at Garna. It will
not be a military expedition, hut
will consist of a caravan of carriers
and workmen. A largo military ex-
pedition cannot bo sent owing to the
lack of nton. The Colonial Adminis-
tration will, for the present, only
gain a footing there. The settlement
will establish relations with the na-
tives and accustom them to German
rule. The intention is not to ad-
vance as far as Lake Chad, which is
situated 400 kilometres from Benue,
and could only be reached with a
great military force. Owing to the
disturbances in the coast districts
of the Came'oon5, the whole garri-
son must remain there for some
time to come.
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THAT "OFF" FLAVOR CfTFESE
Prof. Harrison Thinks He Has
Found the Bacteria.
The difiiiculty over the ill -flavored
cheese from a number of Ontario fac-
tories is in et fair way to be cleared
up. IIon. Mr, Dryden is in receipt
of a Jotter frau Prof. Harrison, bac-
teriologist at the Ontario Agricul-
tural College, stating that iia has
found a species of bacteria, which,
lie thinks, is responsible for the
"off" flavor. Ile is experimenting
with it to ascertain, if possible, if
it is the snore as that found in the
milk about which complaint is made.
Prof. Harrison, who is assisted in
the investigation by Prot. Dean of
the dairy department, has instruc-
tions
nstructtions to spare no cllort in the at-
tempt to solve a question that for
some months has puzzled cheese-
makers and farmers alike. It is in-
tended that he should examine the
Intik cans 111 which the whey is car-
ried back to the farms, and also pos-
sibly the stables. IL has been notic-
ed
oticeed. that the "olT" flavor is irregular
in its appearance, and somethnos is
not present for days at n. time.
The complaint canna first respecting
cheese merle at the Inne'kip factory.
The "off" flavor has since been de-
tected ata score or more other fac-
tories at irregular intervals, and as
it effected the price of the cheese in
the 'English market it was deemed
necessary to find the cause alis the
remedy 01, once.
Between 1850-1880 0110 and it half
million people elnigratod front Ire-
land.
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up altogether their London aart,
Ductess ve Corllatiall and meats in Kensington 1*atavo,, and to
York, in a great-granddaughter of close White Lodge and spend some
King George III. of those realms., time as economically as possible
King George III. had fourteen eliild- abroad. The greater part of their
ren, but of these there were singular- period of absonco. was passed In that
ly few descendants in the second home of art — i' loronce, and Ulm
generation. Several of his sons Princess May, now all intelligent
either did not marry at all, till maiden in her teens, studied art
quite late in life, their marriages under tlio guidance of her mother,
wore flurried on bocquse it was... Seen and with the willingly -given aid of
that 1110 11410 was in clanger of failing the authorities on the subject who
while others only contracted child- cluster in Florence, amidst the tree-
less or unreoognired unions. The sures of the Pitti and Uffizi Palaces
Duchess of York's grandfather, and other galloiles, ,Aero, too, she
Primo Adolphus, Duko of Cnrtibticlge, perfected bee knowledge of fomeigll
was one of those who married, to languages; and she returned to ng -
'oblige the nation, 'ellen be bad land with 11or parents after an ab -
reached the ago of forty-two, Ho sense of some eighteen months to
then had three children, the Prince take her plasm in
now known to us as the Dunce of
Cambridge (the late Commander -in- LONDON mum' t—
Chios of Um army) Princess Au- a more accomplished and Cultured
gasta, who married the Grand Duke young lady than she could possibly
of Mociclonbm'g-Strelitz ; and Prin- have been but for that experience.
cess Mary Adelaide, who married the Princess May attended her first
Duke of Tecic, and became the moth- Royal Drawing -Room in the spring
er of the present Duchess of Corn- of 1886, and was present at two or
wall and York, as well as of three three other Sato functions in that
sons. year, 5110 was a constant colnpan-
PItINCESS MARY ADELAIDE ion of her mother at all the private
gatherings which the Duchess of Tack
honored with her presence, as well
as at the theatre and other public
places, and the bright, self-roliant,
towards her, But, though tints seen almost audacious countenance of the
and admired by many, et seas not gay and happy young Princess be -
till she so s thirty-three years old came f1 nnilfar to many. people.
that she met her fate. Than a young Cohstantly together 'es they were.
Prince, a few years younger than Princess May could not but be . in -
herself, and almost as handsome as spired with the characteristics of,
the Queen's husband, appeared on her "English" mother. Of theso
the scone. 110 was Prince PranCis of perhaps the most notable were char -
Teck, the only son of the then Duke ity and industry. The Duchess of
Alexander of Wurtemberg. The chit- Teck was very industrious, All her
dren of this union, the eldest son housekeeping was dono by herself ;
being the father of the Duchess of she wrote imuunerable letters, both
York, wore called "Teck," as that friendly and charitable, with her
is one of the lesser titles of the own hand ; and she always had some
Kings of Wurtembe•g, piece of needlework ready to take
was the only young Princess about
the Court in tho late Queen's.young-
er days, and thence bore something
like the relation of n younger sister
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DUCHESS OF CORNWALL AND YORIK.
The young Prince I'rancis of Teck
went to England in 1866 to visit
the Prince of Wales, whom he triad
met on the Continent. Ile was pre-
sent ata dinner at St. James' Pal-
ace on the 7th of March, and there
met the Princess Mary Adelaide ; on
April 7th, while walking with heir in
)7ew Gardens, near Kew Cottage,
where she lived with her widowed
mother, he proposed to the Princess
and was accepted, and the wedding
took place on July 12th, after some
sixteen weeks' acquaintance. Queen
Victoria wns present at the wedding
in Xew Church,
The Duchess of Cornwall and York
was the first child of the young
couple, and was born at Kensington
Palace at one minute before midnight
or. May 36th, 1867, The baby was
baptized i11 the long string Of names
above given, in Kensington Palace,
the Queen being one of the sponsors
by proxy, and tho Prince of Wales,
who was present in person, another.
IntINCESS MAY
remained her mother's only girl
three brothers did not take the place
of the ono daughter, and the tender
relation between the Duchess of Teck
and her one girl was of the closest
and fondest throughout their life.
Between Princess May and her
brothers and the children of the
Prince and Princess of Wales there
was a good deal of intimacy and fre-
quent family , visiting. They were
much 'of an age, the Duke of Clarence
tem Prince of Wales' eldest son, be-
ing three years and the Duke of
York only tam -years Princess May's
senior. Prillcc George (now Duke of
Cornwall and York), was the
"pickle" of his family at the time,
full of gaiety and pranks. Ile, had
not then hanging over him the re-
sponsibility of being heir to the
throno, but oxpeeted to pass his life
in the perhaps really more plca,v.11t
comparative obscurity of a younger
son. Princess May was very gay and
lively too ; but perhaps the gentle
and more melancholy . elder cousin
wile more, attractive to he lively
spirit at that time,
IMany as (1350 1.1113 cells and respon-
sihiiities of n; Royal housekeeper, and
icostly n0 1s the education of 0011s,
the Duke, and Duchess of Tack, whoso
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income for their station was small,
up to fill unconsidered trifles of
time. In a little paper' that she
once wrote to recommend the
"Needlework Guild" to ladies, she
observed that both she and her
daughter always had a piece of knit-
ting or needlework lying ready to
take up at an odd moment, and that
the result of these accumulated mo-
ments was astonishing. Charity, in-
deecl,` took almost the form Of e
business—at least it was an ever-
present duty -with the Duchess, and
in this respect, too, Princess May
was trained to follow her mother's
example.
Such work as all this is not clone
so whole-heartecily and kindly with-
out
ithout winning recognition ; and when
it was announced in December, 1801,
that the then heir to the Throne,
Prince Edward, or, a5 the public
know him, Albert Victor, Duke of
Clarence, was betrothed to his pretty
cousin May, public satisfaction with
the
"ENGLISH PRINCESS,"
the daughter of the beloved Princess
Mary, Duchess of Teck, was very
great. The Queen, who had always
felt and shown groat kindness to her
cousin's family, gave her hearty ap-
proval to the match, and prepara-
tions for the wedding were imn e-
diately begun. Alas •1 those happy
plans were clouded over almost in-
stantly. Only two or three weeks
after the betrothal, influenza broke
out with great virulence at Sand-
ringham, Prince 'teddy" was taken
ill only on January 8, and on Janu-
ary 14 he passed away 1
Homethiug more than a year elaps-
ed before it was mad.o known that
the Duke of York had offered him
self to his cousin, and that after
all Princess May was to be the bride
of the Heir to the Throne. The Same
reasons that had made the original
marriage with the Heir •popular were.
now added to by nubile sympathy
with the loss that she had sustained,
and the,marriagc awns generally ap-
proved. The Queen gave it all the
distinction in her power by attend-
il1g in Slate at tho ceremony, which
tools place fit the Chapel. Royal, St.
.Tames', on July 0, 1893.
Apartments in St. James' Palace
called York house, were provided as
a'town residonee, aisd York Cottage,
in .Standritlgiliun hark, ayes .enlarged.,
and bacaina
THE COUNTRY IIOMi7
of the young couple. This marriage
has proved fruitful, the Duke and
Duvss being already the )agents of.
feat' (*iltlrela. The heir Presumptive
to to Throne, Prince Edward of
York, was born
at White Lodge,
lvhor0 the Ductless had gond to Dave
Iter mother's tender Aare and ship.
port, on ,Ione 23, The Duchess of
Teek's death In the 1.0110wjnb voar
Vas it great. gllof to her daughter,
,
who had the melancholy satisfaction
of being 1)1005111 at the last, though
tho demise was very sudden. The
Dunce of Took has died eines.,
Many p MHG functions have been
performed by the Duke'and Duchess
of York. Ono of the most important
events in their history was their
SLato visit to Irolaild. But the in-
creased consequence now- given there
by the accession of the Duke's Mir -
oats to the Throne will render their
public eppea,rmlees oven more num-
erous and interesting in future, and
the journey to Australia, South Af-
rica and Canada has proven that
they eau fittingly fulfil valuable high
peremonial dutIos,
TBE HERMIT OF CAPE IVIA.LEA,
Pathetic Story of An English Sea
Captain,ve
About tw'oty-fiyears ago there
was a young English sailor who, by
dint of hard work, integrity of char-
acter and firmness of will, reached at
the ago of 26 the summit of his am-
bition—becoming a master of what
then 'would be called agood-sized
steamship, some 900 tons register.
Upon this accession to good fortune
be married the girl of his choice.
who had patiently waited for hint
since as boy and girl sweethearts
they parted on his first going to sea.
And with rare complacency his own-
ers gave him the inestimable Priv-
ilege of carrying his young bride to
sea with hi111.
Iiow happy he was ! How deep
and . all -embracing his pride, as
steaming down the grimy Thames he
explained to the light of Itis eyes all
the wonders that she was now wit-
nessing for the first time, but which
he had made familiar to her mind by
Ids oft -repeated sea stories during
the few bright days between voyages.
that it had been able to develop to
courtship. The ship was bound to
several Mediterranean ports, ' the
time bung late autumn, and conse-
quently the Most ideal season for a
honeymoon that could possibly be
imagined, Cadiz, Genoa, Naples,
Venice, a delightful tour with, not
one weary moment wherelllt to wish
for something else. Even a flying
visit to old Rome,from Naples bad.
been possible, for the tWO officers,
rejoicing in their happy young skip-
per's joy, saw to it that no one
necessary cares should trouble flim,
and born willing testimony, in order
that he should got as much delight
out of those halcyon days as possible
that the entire crew were as docile
as could be wished, devoted to their
bright commander and his beautiful
wife. Then at Venice. came orders to
proceed to Galata and load wheat
for home. Great sons the glee of the
girl -wife. Sho would see Constanti-
nople and- the Danube. Life would
hardly be long enough to recount all
the wonders of this most wonderful
of wedding trips. And they sailed,
with hearth overbrimming with joy
as the blue sky above them seemed
welling over with sunlight.
WIND AND WEATHER
favored them, nothing occurred to
east a shadow over their happiness
until nearing Cape Mala at. that
fatal hour of the morning, just be-
fore the dawn, when more collisions
occur than at any other time, they
were run into by a blundering Greek
steamer comet the other way, and
cut down amidships to the water's
edge. To their peaceful sleep or quiet
appreciation of the night's silver
splendors succeeded tlio overwhelm-
ing flood, the hiss and roar of es-
caping steam, the suffocating em-
brace of death. In that dread fight
for life all perished but one, he so
lately the happiest of men, the
skipper. Instinctively clinging to a
fragment of wreckage, he had been
washed ashore under Cape Males al.
the ebbing of the scanty 1100, and
his strong physique reasserting it-
self enabled him to reach the pla-
teau. here be was found geeing
seaward by some goat-herds, who,
in search of their nimble -footed
flocks, had wandered clown the pre-
cipitous side of the mountain. They
endeavored to persuade him to come
with them back to the world, but in
vain. IIe would live, gratefully ac-
cepting some of their poor provisions
but from tihat watching place the
would not go. And those rude peas-
ants, understanding sosethiug of
his woe, sympathized with hint so
deeply that without payment or
hope of any, they helped him to
build his hut, and kept him supplied
with such poor morsels of food and
drink as sufficed for lois stunted
needs.
And there, with his gaze fixed air-
ing all his waking 'hours upon that
inscrutable depth wherein all his
bright hopes had suddenly been
quenched, he lived until .quite recent
year's, "tiro world forgetting. by the
world forgot," a living monument
of constancy and patient, uncom-
plaining grief. By his humble
friends, whose languag'o he never
learned, he was regarded as a saint,
and when oho day they cane upon
his lifeless body fallen forward upon
his knees at the little unglazed win-
dOw ttlrougli which he Was wont to
look out upast the sea where his
clear ono lay, they felt confirmed in
their opini ie of the sanctity of the
hermit cif Cape Males,
A NEW BUILDING MATERIAL.
An excellent building material, re-
sernthling pressed brick but harder, is
now being made at European gas-
works front coke ashes, thitherto a
troublesome waste, TIso ashes are
carefully powdered, mixed with a
tenth part,of sleeked lime, formed
into a: stiff paste with water, and
pressed into bricks like ordi miry
clay. Tho bricks, protected from
rain, lhar'clenin the nil' Without the
aid of artfieial heat.
FAt� �0 O pS J )'LAND,.
i,Y1Y�M
N8IWS 17Z' NAIL TItOM ITEC
PANICS AND ,BIt4ES,
1313ony Thing'sHappen to Interest
Auld S a
r
i1 s .of -. A 1 o.tiaJs
The Minds d
Sons,_
Ali', Carhogio has given £1,00 for
East e (Mural,
• 1 f Ill rt
an organ for the t t I
t' i
I tlkl o.
in
O7l9e1'uc11sta.t d Nxydeet1hp4uatvtyi-oovltt pttll pof the Cblyeedre1
Sheriff Frin,ulpe! Leos` has appoint-
ee ex -Provost Cockburn, Falkirk, as
Monceau• Sherif]'-Substitute,
It was so foggy at Glasgow r•o'
COntly that e e8s'
ruin all day thwithtl00holr1e lightsearshitturnedte
cn,
Me. .1, W. Baileyhas been elected
as re i'osentat'tve othe Sixth Ward,
,
Greenock, in room of the late Bailie
The Co•
wmen Cowment •-of Ayr has decided
that no electric street ears hall bo
a s
run until a plebiscite has been taken
to ascertain the popular will'*
The Rev. William Robertson, for-
merly of Philiphaugh Congregational
011urcll, Selkirit, has accepted . the
pastorate of 11x0 cihurch of Foula,
Shetland.
Tho Earl of Galloway has con-
sotited' to run for the position of
provost of Newton Stewart, in sun
cession to Provost Kelly, who .has
resigned.
A new Established Unwell is to be
erected at Annbank, Ayr, the cost of
which will be £2,400. A consider..
able portion of tho cost has already
been subscribed.
The•fisliing season at Stromness is
almost at a close. The total catch
is 40,000 crone, representing earn-`
Ings to the fishermen of nearly as
many pounds stai'I) lg.
Contracts •aro being culled for with
a view to the construction of an
electric railway at IKirkcaldy, and
itis proposedto enlarge the scheme
s0 as to take in Dysart.
The death is announced of Me.
Gordon Pirio, of Waterton, father of
Mr. D. Vernon Pirie, M.P., for North
Aberdeen, at tiro Chateau 'de Va-
rennes, Marne et Loire, Franco,
A well known musician of Edin-
burgh died recently in the person of
Mr, T. C. Dibdin. kA•, Dihdin was a.
grandson of the fatuous Charles Dila-
din, the writer of so many of Eng-
land's sea songs.
The inauguration of a lnnndsome
organ, Mr, Andrew Carnegie's gift.
to the town of Kirkcaldy, in the,
Adam Smith ITall, was celebrated by
0 recital given by lilt C. W. Per-
kins, organist to the. Corporation of:
Birmingham. Provost Hutchison
uresidecl, The„ proceeds of tho recit-
al were devoted to the Provost's tear
fond,
The new Gifford and Garvald
way, whi:lt opens up rt collsidornble
portion of East Lothian, to traffic,
has been inspected for the Board of
Trade by Major Pringle, It.E., The
line, which has been in course of
construction for fully two years,
will probably ha open next month.
At present the terminus is at Gifford
but It is hoped it may prove sue,
cessful enough to encourage erre
tension to Garvald.
Provost Keith, Hamilton, hes ro-
oeived a letter - from Mr. Andrew
Carnegie bah -eating Isis intention of
presenting a free library to Hamil-
ton on condition that the burjh
adopts the .Tree Libraries Act and
provides a site. It is hoped that hi
connection with the library a techni-
cs -1J institute. may be erected. Mr.
f3ew Morrison, curator of the Edin-
burgh free library, who is Mr. Car•-
nogio's advisor in such matters, urns
in town on Friday, and, accompanied
by Provost ICeitit, had a number of
suitable sites for the library pointed
out:
1 _
THE CORNER STONE. •
There are men in business who are
not taking advantage of their oppor-
tunities. There are men who are suc-
cessful because they have just acci-
dentally fallen. into the groat whirl
of prosperity. They succeed and
can't tell why. There are other men
who fail oven after a conscientious,
determined effort. It seems strange
to some — especially to the ono
who fails. Tho man who stumbles
into ,prosperity is .fortunate. IIs
would probably hover have gotten
there any other way, Tho elan who
fails gets consolation and pleasure,
perhaps, out of the activity which
should Have but did not produce re-
sults. Ho gets benefit out of his ex-
perience and next time can go 0001
Isis work More wisely, with a greater
chance of winning. The whole rea-
son for success may not be because
of good advertising, but good adver-
tising is a foundation upon which to
build success. That foundation. lntrst
have for its corner stone honesty
and persistence. Those points aro
commercial requisites. They give to
the merchant Ills reputation. They
make Ills advertising valuable, They
cause people to know that when the
xnaa says a thing it can bo depended
upon. It is easier to get business
from advertising after the reputation
fol' honesty has beCn established, It
is easier to secure customers when
people know what they have bought
in times past has proved satisfactory.
The reputation established by a first
is tho strong point that clinches (Iso
argument mid Causes people to 'Chow
the values offered red( prove worth
the price asked or the establishment
will make it worth while for the cus-
tomer to call attention to tits g(10ds
that were not of the right quality,
O -r
AN OPPORTUNITY,
Supposing T give you your supper,
said the tired -looking 1501110)1. What
will you do to earn it ?
Madam, said Meandering Mike, I'll
give you de opporeamity of seem' a
man go t'roo a whole meat wit'ottt
bndht fault wit a Bingle L'Ing,.
The woman thought e minute and
then told hint to a"•>me t:l and she'd
set tite tablet
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