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The Brussels Post, 1902-6-19, Page 2ffl•vosplmeepoo,s, I 11M CQNFILION OF CASTE. liatatekialaseeeskiestel Or Gentility' vs, Nobility of Soul, ilecia*VairdeVigiara5kgrar&iittaartates=raetaa-aa ea o esee. ateeeetevateatectaseeeseever loeked at him icindly—"I don't hnew h Whether yo ud te be AMIN than Otifffr boys -abet X guppies° X ant fond Q t !Soya generally, ter 1 alWaYe liked tio to heye you here, X used to think, teeny and Meaty 4 tiarie how' ranch I liked it." "You will Melee MO vain 'if you tell Me that," be answered, with helf a laugh, but as he spoke be teak her hand, and elsowed his gratitude by giving it a clasp that almost brougat •the weter to her. eYQ;+"ell, I Shall the you again—very Eaton, X hope ?" he sail. .to Dorcas., ae he shook bands with her too— with eomeosiust less fervor. And with that question-et:which Dorcas did not answer—he took his depar- ture, end two women watched hira as he went quickly down the garden path, almost with as springy and light a Step as that with which he bad been used to tread it when he was a boy, There was a little more color than usual in the cheeks of both of them. I think in them both their pulses were beating a little quiekly. A few evenings leiter 1Sorcas met Prank Harcourt again at a party given bythe Penroses. Throughout the evening be was markedly atten- tive to her. At lest the guests arose to go. "Are you sure that Elizeboth is here, my dear ?" Mr's. Penrose said to Dorcas, as she shoolc hands with her ; and the,girl answered - 1001_14 yes, I am sure she has 00 Frank Ffarcourt was talking to some one as she loft the rooni, and did not bid good -by to her (which surprised her a, little perhaps); but when she had put on her hat and cloak, she found him waiting there by Elizabeth's side. "We go the same way, do we not 9" he said at once. "Z'), I don't think we do," she replle,l, and opened her eyes ; but at that be began to laugh, and merely exclaimed—"You are es bad as Elizabeth I Como along. I always go to Woodlands past your house," he stepped out at the door, and in another moment she was walking along the little drive to 'the gatc very contentedly by his side ed away to find her mother. ShO The night was darlc, and after a minute he asked ber to take his arm, Mil not know how eager and full of The road was niore familiar to her life she looked as she presented bar- The it was to him, and perhaps that thought occurred to her ; pos- sibly, too, she might remeniber how a couple of years ago, when Mr. Hardy used to make the scene re- quest to her, cilie had always excused herself, and said she had always preferred to walk alone ; yet now, when Frank Harcourt offered her his arm, she took it—he hardly knew why. "What a long thne it is since we We had been out together all clay, and then we ran back to the house, and I had to say good -by to you— and I was -awfully cut up 1" "I remember you saying good -by to us," replied Dorcas a little mark- edly. "What—you remeinber that, you mean, and you doubt the 'rest 7 Now,what a thing thatisto thll one 1" CHAPTER XVII, you Wetilci care to see her, she masa e. said. TiMo laasSeS so "Xf sheuld caxe a" he repeated passeo negatitonouely t they *mote instantly. "Well,. I don't think you 0110 Meriting earl tound that Poreao need doubt that. Do you suppose , was nineileem "41ait° a great age," forget What a geed Weed your her father said to her, and she mother was to ese ?" Aral then laughed, and answered, Yes, she without waitiog for auy warmer ia- Would be growing old soon, Rae , waitron. he proceeded t once to laughed, but, after a, moment or two open tho gate, and they both Walk - she also orive a little eiga, ed "X with that something would ',why, there le not a bit of change happen oosnetimes," she said to her- elsotit the place 1" he exclaimed self cin this nineteenth larthdeY, next namnent.. "nem are the "We exts ao very happy. X know, and flower -beds with the little walks all 1 gappose I ought to be content round them, and the ivy-borders— but, oh 1 when one thinks what a and the very same seat, I do declare, big, big world it is, and what lovolY under the Pear tree, whore we used things and places there aro in it, to 'sit while. I told you ghost storielis and that cve never see them, never remember I frighteeed 'your very go near them, never have anything with out once ender that tree, Are new to think of from year's end to you afraid of ghosts now ?" year's, end I" "Not a bit,' she said. She Steed at her window in the "Then I should have no chance of bright winter's morning, looking out making your hair stand on end, I at the blue sky, at the leafless tont, suppose, it I were to tell'you ghost and thinking this. She was just a stories again ? Arid, besides, your little dull—a little tiret of her quiet hair is long now, so I could hardly life. The years woula go on so fast, expect to do it anyway. It used to she thought, and she should gsow be very short, you know, in those old, and know nothing beyond this days.. little spot of earth—nothing of all "Yes—T remember." tho far-off things about which other "Almost as short as mine is now. people knew. And it was always tumbling Into Some one passed Dorcas In the Your eyes. Sometimes you lost your village one day, and looked at her temper over it. I suppose you never rather curiously as he went by. lose your temper now ?" ' "Who is that ?" Mrs. Gibson, who "No—never. was walking with her, asked. "He "Ah! do you mean that se - seemed aLraost as if he thought he riouely,'I wonder 7" knew you." And thee he looked at her sus - But Donee shook tor head. piciously for a moment. till she "He could not know me, for I smiled a littM, when, vvith a quick— don't know hini. Fie must be a, "Oh, I don't believe it a bit 1" he stranger. " she replied ; and Gen no- , went off again into one of his bright thing more was said. frank laughs. The next day, however, she inet She ushered him into the drawing - the thane person for the second time room, and then let him, and hasten - very near to her own house, and, though he again passed her, no sooner had he passed than—as she quickly became aware, for it was frosty weather, and the roads were hard—the sound of his footsteps ceased, as if he were standing still to look after her, and scarcely had she paused at her own garden -gate before those same steps made them- selves heard again, not retreating now, but approaching her rapidly, while suddenly a cheery voice called out her name. "arise Treleavney 1" it said ; and she turned round and found the stronger close beside her, his face bright with pleasure, and his hand already stretched out, "I met. you Yesterday, and I was almost sure it was you, even then, though I didn't, like to speak. Oa, I suppose you haen quite forgotten me ?" he exclahned ; and then suddenly, as he looked straight at her, there was something in the open, laughing eyes that all at once stirred her memory, and made the color come up to her cheek. "Are you—I am not sure—are you Fr—Mr. Harcourt ?" she said. "Why, I never thought you would remember 1 I am so glad you do," he answered heartil;e. "Just think of it being more than a dozen years since I was here, and of us knowing ono another again 1 Well—and how are you ?" "Quite well, thank you," she an- swered demurely. "And Mr. and Mrs. Trelawney ?" "They are very well too." "I was coming to call on you, you know. I meant to come this . very afternoon. I have only been here a couple of days. You can't think how I was tempted to stop you wben I saw' you in the street yesterday. I felt so sure. it was you. Do you know, you-stte not a bit altered I" the young -man ex- claimed', and leiviacqz, Mao' her face &Tight again with' Is frank eyes, "But you are," she said. "No 1—am. I Oh, I don't think I am—very much—or else, you see, you would not have known me." "But I did not know you a bit when 1 met you yesterday. I think I only know you now because—you could not be anybody else." "Oh, I am sorry for that. I hop- ed you had really recollected me— though, indeed, I suppose you hard- ly could. Why, what a little morsel of a thing you were when X saav,you last I You were only six," "And you were tvvelve." "Yes—and now I am five -and- . twenty." "And X am nineteen." self before Letty, with her news upon her lies. "Mamma, who do 'you think I have met just . now 7 He is dowa in 'the drawing -room. He has come to soo you. It is Frank Harcourt l's she said. "Frank Harcourt 1 Oh, dear me, Dorcas ! What, Frank turned up again 1" Letty exclaimed. It was curious how even she, at Dorcas' tidings, began to dimple and flush. She had been fond of tbis lad a dozen years ago, and be thought of seeing him again threw tho gentle, _timid little woman into a flutter of pleasure. She eame into the drawing -room shy and yet eager. The sight of tho tall, broaci- shouldered young man frightened her for a moment, yet, by the time he had grasped her hand and told her how glad he was to meet her once more, it was wonderful (as she said to Dorcas afterwards) how she al- most felt at home with bine again. "I don't know how it is, but he always had such a pleasant way with him, and, bless the lad ! he takes us up now just as if he had only said good -by to us yesterday," she said, as she and Dorcas talked the visit over presently. They sat down, and he began to tell his history to them. Yes a good deal had happened to him since he saw them last ; he had stayed at Eton till he was nineteen, then he had gone to Oxford. He had taken bis degree two years ago. Since then he had been moving about a groat deal ; he had been all over Europe ; he should be abroad pro- bably still, only I was summoned home suddenly last summer,"- he said gravely, "by the death of my father. It came pery unexpectedly. I have been in England sincethen— for the last six months, and I sup- pose I shall remain hero now—at any rate, ler the present, for ray mother is glad to have Me with ter" "You can't.imagine haw often I have thought about you all I" he exclaimed. "Those weeks I spent here—why, they were amongst the happiest weeks of my life, I think I must have been an awful bore to you"—this to Letty—"coming break- ing in on you at all hours—but how good you always were to me I,—and as for Dorcas—I beg your pardon"— hurriedly—"but you know you were Dorcas then—" and suddenly Le laughed, and did not bring the broken sentence to an end, "You don't know," he said, instead of ending it, "how often I have wanted to see you—and what a curious They both laughed suddenly. They thing it is to feel that I am here were standing still outside the gate, again at last 1" and she had not yet °eked him to "I am sure we have often thought come in. She was not quite sure of you too," Letty said. She al - whether it was her business to ask most unconsciously put her hand him to conie in, or whether he half caressingly on theyoung man's should offer to do it. She hesitated arm as she spoke, in the old way : for a moment or two, and them a, it seemed so natural to do it that little doubtfully— she did it almost without thinking. think moraine is at hoose, if "I don't know—" and then she "Oh, I don't express any doubt about the rest. I don't remember your being cut up : tbat is all." "No, because you were too young to know anything' about it. But 1 bad a lump in my throat, I can tell you that." "Had you ? I hope you soon got rid of it ?" inquired Dorcas polite- ly. And then he burst out. laugh- ing. "Witat a hard heart you have I Do you never feel lumps in your own throat, or anything of that sort ?" "Yes, sometimes." "I know I was horribly sorry to say good -by that day. I don't think I was ever so sorry about anything." "I don't think you were sorrier than—we were," the girl hurriedly said.. They were the softest words that she had spoken to him yet,' since they had met. Perhaps, hitherto, though she had been glad to be with him, she had hardly let him see that she was glad ; she had been rather brusque to him, ; if she had liked to talk to him she had not made it too evident that she liked it ; but now this little sentence came out with a sudden sweetness and earnestness in it, and when she halted near the end, it almost seem- ed as if the word upon her lips had been not a plural pronoun, but a 'angular one, Did he notice the little hesitation Piles.7,2„,ggiverve,,TretitOg To prove LO you alias Dr. and every form of itching. bleeding and protruding piles, ;he manufacturers have guaranteed% See tes. amonials in the daily press and ask your neigh. :ors what they think et% You can use it and etei,rour manes, beak if not cured, deo ahem, at ill stealersor EDUANSON,BATES 80 Co.,Toronto, Dr, Chase's Ointment and give a true reading to it 7 They were silent for a few moments after her answer to him, end then it was sho again who said something next—. about the clearness of the evening, Seize ith Cram s. Acute indigestion. More Evidence to Prove that indigestion of the Worst Kind Can be Cured and Cured Perrnariently by Dr. Chases Kidney -Liver Pi I is.' afote people suffer from indigestion cold ite accompanying ille, such as constipation and deranged kidneys and liver, than from any othe of diseitthe. The use of digestants, pepsin, bismuth, te., sometimes gives temporary relief when 14 trouble le confined to the stomach, but the most serious form of indigestion is that which aSects the istoetlneswedis attended with constipation, kidney pains and cramps, That Dr, Chase's Kidney -Liver *leille is the most effective treatment for this dreadfully common affliction is now generally known, oda, we here emote a letter from a Peterborough resident, who gives his experience for the benefit of other sufferers., Mr, It, Beach, 225 Sherbrooke treet, Peterborough, Ont., states i—"About two years ago X became subject, to cramps, Which were. cattelad, X was told, from acute iedigestion. I was so had that X would bo laid up for weelcs at a time. These attar:as thine oti periodically, and disttessed me greatly, "X then bosom using Dr. Chase's Kidney-Xaver Pine, and have found them a wonderful medieine. They have entirely prevented a rectserehce ot my trouble, corrected the derangement of my digeetive organs, and made Me fool like a dean -tent Magee," You need not lose time and Money in eeperimenaing with new and untried medicines, You know that Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pille ate baelced by almost a life-long exporter' ce of the great, physician end teceipt book author. They have proven their remeriority 111 ecoree of eases in every community. Ask your, Mende about lamas% One pill a dose ; 25 Cents a box, At all dealers, or Edmanson, Bates Oc, Coe Toronto,. end how, if the Reset Worst On, theY ehollid lieve ekcialeg soon. pia be tilcaolcating 7 she aelcea, and did he know 'Whet greet eicetere the Mies! %wheat:Me Were 7 And then they talloO of winter amusements for alt the rest ef the way home. • They parted when they reached the gardee-gote, Elizabeth had been walking almost by DOIML5' nide, her lantern throwing a quivering light over the pathway at their feet, and perhaps neither her Oreeenee 1191' the flickering illumination had aided their conversation inuch. Yet when, ae they were bidding catch other good night, the disturbing lantern, lifted for 0 moment, gave hint a parting look of ber face trained in ite soft swan's -down -edged hood. the, sight was so^ pretty 11 one tha he almost thought it made up fo whetever else lalizeboth's ether might have made him lose. "I 5.11011 see you again soon," ' ho said, as they shook hands. "Shall you ?" she merely aeswer- And then he took his hat off ancl was gone. (To Be Continued.) gi3 ON Till FAIIM 916191%Z67609%6361 BRIDENING SWINE. 30 raising hetes for maricet, it must be realeendsosaa that the female le the mechine fehop from welch the finathed prodtlet comes; consequently i1 le absolutely necessary to eolect sows With eepecially streeg conethtu- tams, Thle, in fact, is tho moat important point. ConetatutIon is in- dicated by geed heart Oath, well t sprung ribs, and a frame rangy Mul tending , toward coarseness, Quality must alee be considered, De-: Wee upon the type of aniniel to be raised, then Stick to It, fgr it kit dote Onward to successful breeding to change fiequently from one- typo to anoeher. • The boar ehould be opposite the SOW, that Is, silo should tend toWard coareeness and he should tend te- woad fineness. Ho ehould have com- paratively fine bone? fine hair and soft, mellow skin and a head indi- cating reanonaent. He should also bo they compact. He must, bow - ever, have a vigorous constitution and be a healthy animal in every way, In selecting breedirig stock, either sow& oi botirs, it will pay to consider the size of the.1itters from whietr the atimale thine. Other things being equal, breeding' stock from large. litters Would be more prIonlifloco 'Meting sosis, 11 le well . to aveid choosing those which fatten too readily. Let this quality be transmitted to the offspring by tato boar. See that the sow Mai a gen- erous development of high pricea cuts, the most valuable in the hogs being 'the tenderloin but close to it is the ham, the difference in price usually being about one-half cent per pound. The sides or bacon come next, then the loin and rump and finaily tire shoulder. These parts are all comparatively high and a syinanetrical development should be secured if possible. CORONATION ,.330'UNTIES. ' Acts of Generosity Displayed by English Kings. The Edwards have almost without exception displayed unwonted gen- erosity towards their poorer subjects upon their installation, Edward X. being the founder of the custom of providing a public banquet on such an occasion. In this laste.nce 60,- 000 poor were invited to partake of a. hearty meal, which resulted in the eonsuraption of 880 oxen, 900 'pigs and sheep, 20,000 fowls, and other viands, 2,000 cooks beingemployed to prepare the feast. But Edward had reckonecl wifiliout the cost; and when the bill. was presented to e him he was compelled to resort to Par- liament for a special grant to covet expenses. Among the visitors to ao him homage at the coronation cere- monies was Alexander of Scotland, who, anxious to impress the people of London with his generosity, lib- erated 800 of the finest Highland horses in the streets, which anyone was allovved to catch and retain. Several monarchs have caused the fountains to run with wine, Whiell VMS the cause of the tragic incident at the coronation of the Conqueror. While the cerernony was le progress a proclamation was read in the city announcing that by the King's or- ders the water 'conduits would run with wine for oae hour on the fol- lowing day. Such cheering greeted this announcement that the Norman garrison, believing the English had revolted, fell upon the masses, burnt the houses, and sia.ughtered OVER A 7SHOITSAND PEOPLE before the mistake was explained. Diehard IX. ordered the conduits in the Oheape to run with wine for, three hours on his coronation a day, and a castle Which then stood in the center of this historic street poured fourth four kinds of wine from its towers all day. Henry IV. kept the Cheapside fountains running with red and white wine for twenty-foar houre, but Mary provided the masses with an entertainment only as a means of showing her bounty. She paid one Peter, a Dutchman, £16 18s. 4d. to perforni acrobatic feats on the dome of St. Paul's, to wit- ness which so great a crowd as- eembled that , seseral people were trampled to death. A noteworthy fact about the cor- onation benquet of Edward II. was that, although 5,000 people were in- vited, the food was so badly cooked that half the visitors had to go away with their appetites unappeas- ed, which so enraged the new Xing that he ordered the coolcs to be brought before him, and had sixty of them hung the same. day. Perhaps the most costly corona- tion feast was that provided by Henry XIX. in Tothiel Fields. For eight days LondanaWas fed, by the now monarch; and 1.1a1tie was served (silt to rich and poor alike freely, for which uurpose five shiplends were brought up the Thames. An- other elaborate banquet wag that even by George XV., which is aiso memorable as being tho last held in Westminster Hall. The vast quantity of 17,000 pounds of meat, 400 dishes of fieh and entrees, and 8,000 fowls was distributed to all and sundry, and, in addition, 4,000 gal-, tons of wine were drunk, this being the first coronation feast at which champagne was used.—Tit-Bits, JOHN WAS BEADY. In these days of proposed interne - renal alliances it is interesting to cad of the little difficulty in which a Chicago -newsboy round himself in- volved, and how he extricated him- self therefrom. lie had svandered over late one of the "foreign quarters," on the west side, where ono can hear almost ev- ery language except our vernacular, and he was set upon by two or three boys. He defended himself bravely and was holding his own fairly well, en - 111 the two or three were joined by as many more, arid thee the battle began to go against him. he yelled in a group of boys watching the fight, from the sidewalk, "is there an English boy in the crowtl?" "Yes," shouted a stockily, built urchin of about his otvn, size. "Come yero, then," panted the young American, laying about him .with 1011 his might, "and we'll clean out the hillgang." And they did. —_ AT THE NORTH POLE. Dr. Bruftge, a Russian Medical man, proposes to establish 11 sane- torium for consumptives in the Polar regions. Ho has observed that the members of exploration parties re- turning from the Polar regiohs aro always in perfect health, Owing to the purity of the aii• and complete absence of ctll Malaita mierobes. In the Polar regions brohchitis, induenea, o.nd other Menthe gious diseatee are enknotyn, In selecting hogs to be fattened', consider first the outline of the body, depth of chest, mellowness of skin, fine bone and silky hair. These all indicate that the animal will give a large percentage of edible product when dressed. From tho butcher's standpoint good hogs sre hard to get. Very few which are sent to the market are as fat us they ought to be. If a farmer makes a practice of fattening hogs for the market, he should go occasionally to the big Packing houseend examine the ani- mals which bring the highest prices. The average farmer is not paying much attention to breeding, By in- discrisninate crossing he soon loses the characteristic of pure bred stack —transmission of good points. The flesh of a, desirable hog for fattening purposes should be Arra yet mellow and cover the bones vsell, In se- lecting hogs for tmarket, it is well to remember that barrows have, a little better flavored meat. A bunch of uniform barrows will sell more readily than sows. . FORAGE °HOPS. Too much can scereely be said, about the importance of having for- age crops to supplement the pas- tures, when drought causes the crop to run short. It is important to the dairy, because without it at such times the cows will shrink in their milk, and after this shrinkage has taken place, the gress that starts after the rain comes cannot bring back either the full milk pro- duction, or the flesh they will have lost, and the most liberal feeding at the barn, though it may put on 'flesh, will not Cause the milk to re- turn. Worse than that, starvation will induce the cow to eat weeds or the leaves of trees, so as to soriout- ly injure the quality of what she may produce. There is also anothe er value of these torage 'crops. Fear& ers are often tempted to feed too late in tbe' fall that they may save hay. This leaves the pasture bare in winter, and the ground after the fall rains gets trodden and 'peeked hard, and the grass starts slowly in the spring, while if enough lia.d boon left to protect it, it would have warmed up and started more quickly, giving good feed Just when the steels seem to relish it best. Do not fail to possible, of these crops, that they possible, of these (rope, that they may be ready at any time from July to October. If any are left they can be cured for use hi' winter, saving the precious hay, IMPROVEMFNT OF' SOILS. Any scheme of rotation should have the glowing of at least one leguminous crop in its Mem By this means large gains of nitrogen may be made from the air, Potash and phosphoric acid, unless already in the soil, must be supplied by com- mercial fertilizers. In the case of very poor soil it is not advisable to rensove the crepe unless the manure is returned until a fair state of fer- tility has eon reached. Stock rais- ing, dairying, and poultry raising are profitable linos of agriculture to carry on in a scheme for hem:eying the fertility of poor soils. PLANTING GRAPES. As a rule most planters prefer to set vineyards in the fall, eepecially where the climate 10 not too severe. If this is done the entire plant is covered .with an inch or so of soil. This is removed . from the top in spring as soon as the frost will per- mit. The ground usually works bet- ter in the fall than in spring and the soil is sufliefent/y 'dry to settle (Maly around the roots, where new fibers will be tbrown out for growth in spring. If the plants are in good conditioh, tliey 0011 be sot any timo from October to May., roort ,00WS, OlAY the rich can afford te 'keep poor cows, and they (10111 and the Poerer0 Man is tbe better hie few COWS Ellemild be if he 10 to Make a living. To the it poor Man keeping inter C0WS 18 a eight to make oue WO at the sherteeightednese of Men, 1 Meer Man eannot effetrd to waste ills Money on poor °owe, aut e rich. Man the. Ustially We hear It Paid that i poor Mall cailliet &Terri to criOn good COWS. This it c0011a1Y 10 all OSperlaneo. St lie call affOrd tO Qwn allY he eon afford to own the boat. It seaters not so muell what kind of 4 breed.you have so long as the anlmitla are (Wanted to dairying, and, 1110SY are good re- presentatives 01 their recoailloolt exile mai must be Judged on its individual merits, and if not upto the stand- ard it ;Mould 18. aisearded, price does pot always ineas•uee, the vela() of a serviceable cew. Sonsetimee high prices are tacked Oq for cer- tain structural forms ancl breed cheaenteristice whith would not be of any use to the ordinary dairyman, HARNESS BLOCKING, The follasving is given at a good heelless blacking; To two quarte of fish oil add two pounds of mut- tou tallow, once pint of easter oil, 00)0 -fourth pound of ivory blaelc, one- half pound beeswax, four ounces of reSin, one ounce of Burgundy pitch. Put all together in an iron kettle over a slow fire. Boil ancl stir half an hour. Then set off end let settle fifteen minutes. The pour into an- other vessel, leaving all sediment in tthro ubsoottom, When cold it is ready f SITTING HUNS. Sitting hens should not be fed while on the nest. They need all the exercise they are likely to get. Too constant sitting makes them of bad disposition and difficult to manage when they come off with tile brood. Eggs will stead a wide range of temperature without injury, TO SUPPLY OCEAN LINERB EVERYTHING Ip DONE ON A VERY BIG SCALE. Immense Stores Are Required to Furnish Articles for the ' TaLle. Everything about the modern lin- er is on a 'big scale. And so long as the money is forthcoming the shipping corapanies are quite will, ing to provide for this expensive taste, Probably the public has little notion of the extraordinary care the companies take that their clients are completely catered for. A visit to the immense stores of the Cunard or White Star lines is a revelation, for at these wonderful establishments not only is everything to the small- est spoon kept in stock, but all the laundry work and most of the re- pairs on the steamers are carried out, says the London Express. Both stores are most conveniently situated—the White Star 011 ,atraxtd aroad,.,Bootle, and the Cunard on Herby road, Liverpool, close to Bankhall. They are quite modern beildinas of great storage capacity. Almost any day you will find in one of these establishments some two thousand hams and four or • FIVE TONS OF BUTTER. The appetite of a modern liner is hard to appease, but these stores achieve 'the task in regard to every- thing that is not quickly perishable. The Wine and spirit department is 011 as big a scale as the rest. The companies are justly proud of the excellence of their brands' of wines, cigars, etc. The value of their bond- ed stores during the quiet these]) was estimated to the writer at be- tween forty and fifty thousand pounds, The experience of the White Star lane is that the popular drink of the Atlaatic passenger is champagne. The consumption on the round voy- age is something like a hundred bot- tles, at nothing less than'atwenty shillings a bottle. A lot of money .is turned into smoke on the Atlantic trip. During 1901 passengers ors the Ounarders accounted for 1e1,688 cigars, 10,300 boxes of cigarette.se and 84,124 pounds of tobabco. ' THE LAUNDRY DEPARTMENT.. From the storeswith their serried ranks of piled boxes, cases, bags and bottles, it is a. pleastrin to pass to the ,rooms devoted to aaundry work. The° aro spacious, beautie fully lighted apartments, in which about . fifty men and women are employed. The capacity of the laundry departmeot to turn otit work is necessarily great, for at, times the demands are enormous. Such vessels as the .Oceanic, Lu - canal, toM Cconpania send out oh ar- rival betWeen thirty and forty thou- sand pieces—tablecloths, table nap- kins, etc. --to the wash.. These are in the first place put through disinfecting rooms, and then passed on to be writhed. In cases of fever, no mother how mild, every- thing that has been in contact with the patient is destroyed by the port s rani Lacy au thorities. Of course this big waSh is done by machine'', of the very latest pate tern. Tho washing cylinders crui each turn out four hundred pieces in twenty minutes—that ie, about 3,- 500 an hour. The White Star laun- dry, Which is kept continually busy, only deals with the better class of work, tho third-class wash being sent to prevate establishments. , Mrs. Ida. Flegler, the divorced wife of a wealthy New Yorker, .has beat taken to an asylum because she is inSane, one delusion being that she le engaged . to be married to the Ozer. She is constantly talking about details which 'she lute arrang- ed for the wedding. The largest elicese over made Was 6 feet 10 inchal in diameter, and 21. feet in eireuinforeece, 11 With made at the Ingersoll faetory, and Weigh - ea 7,000 pounds. The elandatd marls for gold of 22 mate Is in Ungifted a lion peasant; in Ireland a harp crowhed; for Glas- gow 00 lioh riusipent; and ter Edin- burgh a, thietlet FRON tIOTLAND NOTES BY MAIP PROM HITT,' BANES ANP Malay %tinge aappen to Interest the Mind* of Attic; Seettin,fii Sons. . The llooreleth tied Angleton trade nee irePro'tha at Rirkealdea Eleetric cars are now running frOal Manl101101(1 to Castle etreet, Aber - Mena The old Episcopal church, Nelms, is being pulled down anti tranthip- ped to Latehinver, feel eeSerg a a', V01.40 SOO • 111 V011110 ss, jaabreenaeeriginhtooclohjonottll.ii.oe bf the niemiin About 800 men have been Uri town idle by the closing of Broomhouse Colliery, near linillieston, Aberdeen 'Inaoistratee recommend ell Heenan holders there to close their premises at 10 f an. after 1et °°tItcitihears. heon arranged to Send a Loam of Glasgow cerlers to Canada under the auspices of the Royal Caledonian Cltit.' Perth Town Council have been oflicially Informed that the Highland Soolety show, of 1904, is to be hold in Perth. • Brechin is to honor the coronation by providing robes for its Dailies and Town Clerk, The Provost has already an official overcoat. Mr. James Hyslop, a Dumfries- shire farmer, died in his 100th year laesittd7Owekhe, raohe at the bormornf .13arngleish H The Marchioness of Brecideabane 15 ono of the beat lady shots' in the peerage, anti is as expert with a . sahnon-rod as with her gun. , A parde occurred during a cine- matograph entertainment at Wick on the 9th instant, and several children wore severely. injured. ' At Shetland Licensing Court ' the justices recommended that all pub- lic houses In the county should close on holidays and half -holidays; Mrs. Andrew Oernegle has sent be named after her daughter Mar- line Cottage Hospital, the hod to gZal,re5t0.0 to endow a bed in Dunferm- The Dundee steamer Lock Leven stranded on Forne Islands, and will probably become a total wrecic. The crew landed at North Sunderland. The Alva, a steel sailing these' be- longing to Althea which ieft a Swed- ish port for Grantee. on March 26, has been given 1.11) as lost with all hands. The charge against two Greenock ice-cream dealers of contravening the law by selling ice-cream on Sunday without a license. has been found not P101511. Lord Leven and Melville has pre- sented to tho Church et Scotland a sum of•115,150 as a coronation year donation towards the Wauchope Me- morial Fund, Charles James Steven, a draper's -salesman, iof Edinburgh; was killed through falling from the cliff over- hanging the Cora Linn, the lirst of ` the falls on the Clyde. • Dunblane folk are te observe coro- nation day as a holiday, ring the, Cathedral bells, treat tho children, have a public banquet. and also a bonfire on Slasher's bile The Lanarkshire Miners' "Union have resolved th select candidates to. contest the constituencies of North- East Lanark, North-West Lanark, and PalktrIc Burghs at the next elecallih. BtiRing, at the Glasgow licens- ing board, remarked that while the eingistrates desired that barmaids should be. dispensed with, theya were quite willing that two or thee° months notice bo given. About 50 of the most prominent marksmen of Scottish Volunteer bat- talions were entertained by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh in honor of the successes of Scottish Volunteers during the past year. The report by the CoMmittecr on Statistics of .the Gionah. of ScoMand which hail just been issued; -gives a total membership 01" 668,885. with a a total income team collections-, and contributions_ of 11473.299. In the Firth of Clyde exhaustivo and successful tests were made on board the steamer Marcum/ with the "Bunsen Bridge," a contrivane.e for which it is claimed that with ito use there is a complete absence of snll7k.a Bir. David ET' Ludic' and Mrs. Hardie tether and mother of Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P. for Merthyr Tydvil, died at their residence at Cam - bushing .last "week. The deaths of the aged couple took place within an hour of each other. The first annual meeting of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Co- operation for tho Simply of Domes- tic Servants was held last week, when it was reported that during the year 856 employers and 1.141 servants had been enrolled as mem- bers. Thd death occurred at his residence Queen Street, Berkeley Square, Lon- don, on the 12th inst„ ef Dr.. Alex. Macgregor, it well-known Scottish . medical man. He cv05 a native 01 Invorgordon, Roes -shire, but tho greater part of las life, wes vent 11,' Aberdeen, where he had a, brilliant career: SUN SPOTS COMING 'BACK, Evidences of the gradual revival of solar activity, on manifested by the 1)00501100' of dark spots on tam face of thc sun, are becontieg more mimeo, ous ancl conclueive, It Is consider- ed certain that the sun has now passed the minimum of the spot per- iod, end during the preeent yens. many spots Piny be seen. The in- crease of it eurespot Period is inere rapid than its subsemient decline. The mininium just pessecl hest been somewhat long-drawn-out, and the return ot tho spots has been itwaiLed for it year, In March the first spots beateug all the traits of those that belong to a nOW Period were seen in the teun's northern 'hemisphere, in latitude 25 degrees. 11, le character- istie Of a new period that ite first Vets appear tar eaten or saute o!, the eetiator, while et the end of to period they, 010 neer the cettietor,