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The Brussels Post, 1891-4-3, Page 6THE BRUSSELS POST. AGRICULTURAL. Fattening LaMini for Market. Lembo which are designed for the butcher abould be aupplied with grain every day mud leee protected from oold storms. If their 513011/5 are large, are good milkers, and 0re 'wen. fed, the lambs will make a pretty fair egeowth, even if they receive no grain ration. Size tele gain will be deceptive. It will be cliirseted almost wholly to an inerease In aie.e, M* t but comperatively little lira trill be hid on. Thus it will come to pan that 'When the Iambs are large enough to be sold to the butcher they will not be well fattened. Weis means a grout deal of shrinkage when tkey are dressed, and a poor quality of meta, erhieli must be sold foe 0 low price pet, peunci, and even then it will not give sates. haetion. On some ferule where sheep are kept the case is even worse than this. The ewes are not well fed, and sometimes foe this reason alone they do not yield sufficient milk to keep the lambs doing well. Corse hay, with little °en° grain or roots, will nee enable them to supply anything like tho wneettity• of notwishment which the lambs elionld. receive. The ewes which have lambs siketild reveive liberal quantities of fine hay —we have felted roweu the best for this per. pose—and either a small quantity of grain eke some roots eiteli day. This in order to keep the sheep in vigorous health and in- crease their yield of milk, In addition to this the la ellis which are to be fattened should be r ridaley grained. A small pen should be fe wed off from the large one in which the !hick is eaufined, anti -mere should be on opening large enough to admit lambs, but too small to admit the sheep. In this email pen troughs should. be -placed, from which the meal is to be fed. Probably the ealci process oil meal is the best kind of grain for lambs ; but if this is not to be had, Indian areal, if well ground, answers very well. The quantity given should be small at first, but is to be increased as the lambs bertome larger mid get accustomed to the grain. 'This course of grain feeding shonid be con- tinued until the animals are ready for the butt:her, There are few, if any, other kinds of farm stock which give seek prompt and large returns for liberal feeding as is made by lambs which are properly fattened for market.—Demerican Dairyman. Eggs for Hatching. Select for hatehing eggs whose size and •eolor indicate purest blood, in shape sym- metrical, smooth, thick shelled, neither over et under size, and round rather than long. ir.t.her daily, handle carefully, and keep in .51. cool place. B.eus over 1 year old and tis. der 4 lay larger and more perfect eggs, which make healthy end robust chicks, and as the ihens themselves are quieter and more easily ;managed, they make more reliable mothers and rear a larger percentage of the chicks ;hatched. The livelier the egg the better the hatch. It is said that eggs net within twenty-four honee after they are laid will haeeh in twen• hy days. Therefore 11 18 Important that all set wider one hen should be of the same clay's letylug. in order that the chicks may break the shell within a few hours of each other Isolated nests are preierable for sitting hens. Wheu a number are placed together, the brooders need some protection from the kens that are laying. Make each hen a. now meat when she begins to sit, and burn it as 40011 as she has hatched ; old. nesting nutter. /al is 0. favorite resort for vermin, where they grow and thrive ad infinitum, als many as three hens should be setat the ,en,ree time. In that C058 the chicks hatched may be given to two. Best results are um ally obtained from giving sitting hens only what eggs they can convenientlycover ;some ..poultry keepers advise nine, but for a good ..eleed hen thirteen are not too many. Broods ef moderate size also thrive best. Remem- ber that heat, especially dry heat, is as de. elernatiee to the embryo ohlek as cold or dampness; therefore in simmer a cool, shady ple.ee should be selected, and unless the eggs ere placed on the ground they must lie sprinkled with warm water several times during the latter part of their ineubetion. 'This is best done at evening. After the averin season begins it is useless to attempt to set hens in the poultry house, unless it is kept scrupulously elean, told energetic pre- -cautions are taken ageinst vermin. Give the remt boxes a good coating of whitewash, 'strongly tinctured wieh crude carbolic acid, rind place a handful of trashy tobacco on the :floor of -each, with barely enough grass to prevent the eggs from rolling. An inch or two of damp loin covering the floor of the nest will also be found advan. teepees, and 00 0. further pi oteetiou against vermin, providing for the siting hens a clean dust bath in which has been thrown at hand. toil of insect powder, a little kerosene or car- bolic acid, 'his will enable the hen to free 'herself from vermin before the chicks are hatched, and will tend greatly to the thrifti. awe of the young breed. Do not give a hen any hut artilioal eggs until she has remained on her nest for several days, and folly made I cipher mind to sit, and then, should she 1 prove refractory and restless, flying from bee neat alt your approach, and breaking her eggs, or develop the prenifflous habit of egg. eating, it is best to break her up at once, and divide her eggs among the other sitters or give them to a new one. A hen of that disposition is likely to prove an unsatisfac- tory brooder, an improvident mother, and will doubtless wean her °Woke at an early date.—EH, 0._lludley in American Cultiva. tor. DeVthp a Walk, Neither the fat mar nor any other man oath effete' to keep a slow walking hero, A team that will plow five rounds while another goes four, and do it all day mid every clay, Itt worthaannah greater premium ov or the lat- ter than indicated by this proportion of work, The horse is a maehine to perforin work, the walk is the working gait, and any improve., meet in this direction is of just ae inuelt itn. portauee as any Impeovement thist enables a enechine of any kind to do more work. We labor to invent such improvements ha machinery ; why ehouldn't we lair to bring aimed the same with our horses? We am do this by training—breeding to horses who are good, oven walkora, unit developing this trait, in the colts, :Heavy horses need nee be slow -Walkers many are excellent walk• ere and proportionally more valuable than slow ones.—telan Francisco Breeder, ghee Of Wisdeln. Otte of the best elope for pige in 0 ' morning is a drink 01 wenn water with a . smell gmentity of eorn meal added. ' Lieseed eleal is one of the beet foods for animals that aro shedding their coats, arid i also for fowls that are molting their feathers. Double -yolked eggs invariably indicate that tho hens aro out of condition—too fat, in Weeding eggs for hatching, ecio that they ;rile urriform. 'hhTo Work hnrse will keep well without faithful grooming. If the skin b000mee many and rough, the perspiretory eystent In disordered. Corn ie a fatteeing grain, aud is defifflent in material to produce hone and muscle, end consequently is not suited for young, grow. In enimels. R is said eggs can be preserved fresh by simply platting them on racks in a cool place and turning them ewiee a week, but a tale "ffff in the lot will injuee the whole. Mod, welhoured hay is an article of food that seldom causes any 111 ellhote. All clews of stook may eat their 511 of it with- out danger of olio and other compleints of the bowels. Cream will rise quicker if the milk has been thinned with water warmed to 110 degrees. This is especially important in winter, when milk is apt to become thicker and somewhat viscid. Cattle should not only be fed regularly every morning, but about the same hour every movning, and the feeding during the day aud evening should be marked by Lite same regularity. An animal will perish if fed exclusively o t one kind of food, no matter how oneeen- tatted or nutritious it may be, as there 15 no perfect food for all ceasees of stook except by affording a mixed ration. In making good bettor, the true point is to select the best food to keep the ow in the bot condition, rind uot to find out the lead mut that a cow em) he kept alive ou. , Clover is the best hay foe mileh cows. I Gentleness with all stook should be the rule of the farm. Alinsmg dumb creatures is not only inhuman, but impolitic. Horses and cows have memories as well as their human mestere, and reward good care by good service. Smutty corn is my injurious to stock, horses frequently dying from the areas of the mut eaten with the eerie All grain containing ergot giros ill effects also. Grain tor stock should be olean and free from all signs of disease. The roots of a tree, a.s 11 rule, have twice as great spread as do its branches. lt is well to remember this when manuring them, and also to remember that it is the outside oe end roots that get the greater part of the nourishment taken to the tree. Throw the sweeping of the hay -loft, and the chaff from the wheat, in the poultry house, so as to induce the hens to ;wretch and work in the litter. When given an op. nortunity to exercise, by scratching, the hens will lay more eggs than when kept in a state of ineetivity. Disestahliehment in Wales, The British House of Commons by majority of thirty.two has just rejected a motion favoring disestablishment in Wales. The closeness of the vote -203 for, and 235 against—is moat significant as showing the trend of popular opinion in that country on this important question. It is clear, that unless all signs fail, the lareer question of diaestablishment in England will soon be amo»g the leading issues before the British people, The discussion of the recently re. jected motion was chiefly remarkable for the position assumed by the Hon, Mr. G ladstone. Twenty-one yearn ago when the question was before tho House, the ex -Premier contended that clisestablisInnent iu Wales meant dis- establishment in England ; that the historic identity was absolute, and thet there was no analogy with the Irish disestablishment. From both of these positions he has entirely receded and has publicly allied himself with those who would bring 10 108 en d the existing rehition between Church and State in that principality. This separation he contends is both expedient and just. On the one band the adherents of the Chureh of Wales are a mere handful of the people, and on the other the demand for disestablishment can- not be much longer refused, Said Ile: "Looking at their numerical preponder. fume, and thole distribution in respect to the various classes of society, it was not far from the truth to say that the Nonconformists of Wales were the people of Wales. Nobody could doubt that they would agitin speak as deresively as in IfiSe, when out of thirty members twenty-seven were pledged in favor of disestabliehmont, Such a voice could not be much lona' contravened by English, votes, These semi -religious controversies were not good for tho temper or soeiali con. dition of the country. Therefore, when tile end is certain, there can be no advimtage in lengthening the struggle. The English were %just people, and would insist upon the It receiving satiefaation of thole just demands, whieh in like circumstances they would claim for themselves." No doubt the abandunment of his /Ginner views will be regal decl with disfavor by those whom prejudice and self-interest have blinded, and who consider it a weakness to change ; but to those who believe that no now light should be rejected and that it is no disgrace to alter one's eonolusions when the premises have elienged, the franknees with which the veteran stetesman acknow• ledges his former errors and his manifest deeire to mete out justice to alb no metter tvho or what may be unfaverably affected thereby, will appear not the least distinctive of those many traits which have gained for hen the appellation of the Grand Old Mae, 11 ould that all our rulers limbs great respect for truth and righteousness, Eaonoinitial Reeipte, Borhen 1St-co.—Draw and thoroughly wash, either a tame or a wild ducile, and stuff with the following dressing 1 One pint of breed crumbs; ono teaspoonful each of salt, pepper, arid powdered sage ; teblespoon• fel of butter ; ono smell onion out very fine, aud ono ogg to bind it. Take an old piece of muslin and sew the duck up closely, put it Lim saucepan, and cover with cold water, to whieh has been added one tablespoonful of salt. 13011 two hours. Make a rich gravy by browning together a half cupful abetter , nd one heaping tablespoonful of flour. Salt ! elightly, and pour in ono pint of bailing water ; one teaspoonful of enrry powder. Cream the yolk of ono egg, stir all together, and 'neve with the duck. Borten Ranierr.—Cut up one rabbit, wail and let stand five or six hours in malt water, Rinse twice in cold water, put in a semeepan, and add 0110 teaspormfel of pepper, one of celery seed, ono tablespoonful of powdered sage, throe large onions. Cover with told water, mid boil until tender. Remove the rabbit, and place on a hot platter. tee liquor, setting it aside. Pet a largo tablespoonful of butter in a skillet and brown ; tuld ono tableepoonful of llour, and browe also, thee pour in the liquor, adding ono tettepoonl of curry powder, cover, awl boil three mientes, feeler over the tebbit, and eeree hot. This is a delioions dish and, milk in the above manner, there is uo mein. blame of the wild =ate so ohjoutioerible to many, 81.51VED 11001,,,—,Two• pounds of round Moak, out in small pieties, melt end pepper. Simmer %lowly mail tender. Add ono tables spoonful of ourry powder, ono tablespoon- ful elf butter, and dumplings mnde by the following recipe; One pint of of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one of salt, end milk enough to make a stiff batter ; (imp front the end of thes•poon, ancl boil tett minutes; witheut stirring. Arrange nicely on the outside of a largo platter, and pour the stow in the center, THE ogna OF jUDAS. tsY 00010114 11010.159, 11 10 the eines, meriting of Good Friday. Out et the home of the High Meet they lead Jostle to take Him to the pelace of tho Gov ernor, The chiefs of the Jews ere ite the company. These are the religious hailers of that day—none more zealot's for the Church than they, None more exaotine in observ. era of her tithel thaa them blind guides, God ie manifested in the fleelt, and they who are Amounted the men of Clod reject him. "Heeame unto His own and His own re. ceived Him not," So they came to the palace of Pilate, the Governor. Pilate'a coneent must be had before Christ arm be put to dee tie The crowd stands lichee Pilate's palace. It is a heathen's house, and they will not set foot within it, because this is a holy season. So careful aro they, ebout the iehnitely litele, so blind to the mfluitely great 1 it is in the gray dusk et the early morn. ing. The street before the door is thronged with priests and elders. Jesus is led with- in, into the hall of judgment. Pilate coulee ont to meet the erasers. He asks the ao• eusation, For a moment the accusers are confused. They have uo accusation which willteeigh with Piltute. Blasphemy, if they etlirin that, will count for nothing with him, "If He were not emeleffieter," they cry out, pining a little time, "we would not heve delivered Him unto thee." Then the telling aeousetion oomee into their minds. They charge Hint with soli - bion. " Wo found this fellew perverting the uation, aecl forbidding To give tribute to saying that He Himself is Christ, a Pilate returns into the judgment hall. Jesus is called before him. "Art Thou the King of the Jews?" asks Pilate, half in score end half in aim, looking into the face of this strange criminal, " Art Thee the King of Lite Jews ?" And Jesus answers, yea He is a kw, but His kingdom is not of this world. It is the Kingdom of the Truth over which Harpies. Everyone that is of the truth heareth His voice. And Pilate goes out, pondering this strange am swer, sitying to hunself again with that in. terminglieg of scorn and wonder: " What is truth ?" Pilate goes out and gives his verdict to the waiting raved. This man is innocent. "Iliad no fault in him at all." At once goes up a great disorderly cry. This crowd is in an instant passion, exec 0' tion, epithets, shouts of accusation, all sorts of fierce speech, and threats, and lies, and slanders, and words of hatted are hurled at the silent and guiltless prisoner. Among the riot Pilate hears the name of Garnett. He asks if the man is a Galilean. And when they tell him that He is, at ones there occurs to Pilate a way to escape out of responsibility. Herod is in town. And Herod is the ruler of Galilee. Christ be- longs to Herod's jurisdiction. Ea must be taken to Herod. Away moves the precession through the quiet streets. It is still the early morn- ing. Herod is in his place. Herod has heard of jesus of Ihretztureth. He has heard of Him as a worker of wonders. He demands that Christ shall work some wonder now. He wants to me tO miracle. Christ; keeps stern silence. Herod plies Him with questions ; Christ returns no au. ewer. Outside stand the chief priests and the scribes and vehemently accuse Him, but not a word breaks that determined silence. Again, Christ is derided. The scenes of the house of Caispnas are repeated. "Herod, with his men•of.war, set Him at naught, and marked Him and arrayed Him in 0 gor- geous robe, and sent Rim again to Pilate." Christ has ilot spoken once. "Ho was op- pressed and He was afflicted, yet opened He not His mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, mid as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so Ile opened; not His mouth." What at significant silence 1 To Pilate He will speak, but not to Herod. To Pilate, who has a little gleam of justice in him, a little purpose to do right, weak, easily persuaded, yet with fair enpulses, with a possibility of good in him, to Pilate Christ will speak. But for Herod, foolish, curious, sneering, He has no word. To him Christ has only stern anti most significant silence. So they go hack again. Where is John? Where is Peter? Where are the others? Have they hidden them- selves? Rave they soughtsome upper room and set the hamlet of barred doors and windows, as they did& little later, against the hostile world? Or do they follow afar off? We know not. We know where one of the apostles is, and what he is doing as this procession plisses, but all the neat are out of sight. The end is near at hend for Judas. Christ is enudemned ; somewhere from rufar off Judas has seen that they strike Him, and mock I -Tim, and spit upon Him, and He utters no word. He puts forth no effort of Power. He is in the hands of his enemies, It has all come to pass as He predicted, and the cross ss the next step in the -wity. Judas, watching, sees that. Whatever dreams he may have had that the 'Messiah woelcl at lase in His exbremity decilitre Himself, are gone now. The fatel deed is done. Judas has betrayed his Master, even to the death of the arose. A fearful revulsion of feeling comes over him. Sin inks so different on its two sides —so revolting, so shenieful when we look back upon it 1 Juclae, ab last, opens his eyes and sees, What can he do ? More is the blood money ; the price and symbol of his treaohery. ile cannot keep it ; he will ap- peal to the men wito gave it. He hurries into the temple, and &great and hitter cry broke Ron his lips, " I hive sinned," he cries. "1 have sin. ned in that Shave betrayed the innocent blood." Rut he gote no sympethy, and tied no pity. Irliey give lihn not so much ae 11Paring, " What is that to us ?" they say ' we theu to that 1" 1Vho eon help but pity him! Ito is reaping what be has sown, as wo all do, but what &dreadful harvest 1 The man is friendless 011011 010 Mall. There is but one ninon all mon who might ;meek a word of kindness to him, send to that one Judas dares not go. Christ passes down the street, led by the priests and the servants, clothed in tbe garment of mookery, throng. ad by Om plasphomy rebble of enemies and Hut Jams does not dare to look at Chiist, Down he ffingi the money at the feet of the older priests, and as it rolls ring. lug over the toinple peverneet, he turns Whet ellen Ito do with himself lit'here shall he go1 Away ho hurries beyond the eity out of the sight, of 111011'5 hateful rues. Down he maims into " the horrible frolitudo of the valley of }Iinuom," a place accursed. They burned the eaten of the city there, and the fainted smoke rose tip above it al- ways, Aorose the valley goes the traitor. Up ho climbs along the steep side of the opposite hill, Behind him is the city, beneath his feet 1,110 MiTO and clay andprojaffling rook of that barren hillside, It fa the pouter's field. Hole 15 O. a000(1 troe, gnarled and twieted. Hem is a girdle about the trititoriti walla, The 30 pieces of silver were hidden in it but an hour ago. Judas knows now what he 1vil1 do, With that long, neat -treed girdle he will hang him. self. Tho tree ehall he the gallows, So down he falls, with the sky black above hint anti hope dead within him, Tito girdle elips. The sharp reeks reoeive Itisae, The life of the traitor goo ont in paid end despair and deeknese. And he goes to If hie own plasm," HIS LIFE AGAIN6T A PENNY, A Solitary» Wager flestsits so a WOO and a Ruined The Paris correspondent of the London Times writes : To wound tu man mortally because he bet a penny that to friend who had a revolver in his hand would not fire at hint is about the most ineoneeivablehtromed. ing that could well be imagined. It WRIN a mule of horse -play after a oonvivial meetleg. The two young men—both belonging to the working elesees—were enjoying themselyee in a dancing saloon, whom one of them tried to snateh a cigarette front hie companion's month. The latter, named Baratte, took revolver out of his pocket. "You won't film that at nie ?" exclaimed his comrade, Weiner:Ida. Disregarding Otis ohellenge, &tette put the pistol back into his pocket, and Itis unlucky Unit he did not keep it there Unfortunately Weinachter returned to the subject and filially ofliered to bob his tiro sous that he would not fire at iiim.The crowd mcI collected round tho oouple in the dancing saloon end soon, followed by a number of onloekers, the friends were wend. log their way to the street. Banat° tired once without effect anti deviated at the trial, which has just taken place, that ho took no aim at all, Weinaehter, however, was not satisfied and told him to fire again and to aim at him or he would forfeit the penny. Stung by his taunts, Beretta exelahned, " Yon think that I am afraid ? Come behind the church i'"fhey proceeded to a, retired spot and there Baratta fired again, his bul. let inflicting so serious a wound that his comrade expired in the hospital a few days afterward without Mining been able to give any account of the Millie. At:reeding bo Baratteh version he was about t d .ol arge his weapon onoe more in the ale when Weinaelder seized him by the arm, pointing the weapon ih his own three. tion. As all the eye -witnesses of the scene had disappeared the prisoner's evidence could only be taken, but it tees contended by the peoseeution that Baratte had aimed cleilberatey at the dead man, and he NVIS sentenced finally to five years' itnprison. men t, Some Sorapa I speculate much on the existence of un. marvied and never to he married women now- afflays, and I have already got to the poiht of considering that there a no more respecb. able character on this earth than an twiner- ried woman who makes her own way through life quietly, perseveringly, without support of husband or brother, and who retains in her posseesion a wethregulated mind, as dis- position to enjoy simple pleasures, and fortitude to support inevitable peine, sym- pathy with the sufferings iA others, end willingnees to relieve want as far as her means extend. iS young woman onee consulted a seer re. gerding a way to retain the animal= of her husband, and this was the advice received : "Get a raw piece of best sirloin steak about half an ineh thick. Rub with a central slice from a wild onion, salt and pepper. Toast over a bright coal fire on a gridiron which is handled only by yourself, never by your see, vents ; then put a little sweet butter over the beef. Give him half a pound of this meh morning and de uot speak while he eats it." The result was so satisfactory that ever after the wife had firm faith in second sight. A trick thee; is going Lite rounds just 1101V Is to measure by the eye the distance to uvhich you must push away the central one of three silver dam% side by side, their cir- cumference touching, eso that the distatee from the lower odge of the centre coin, so removed, Bluth be equal to the distance ;Tent of the ontee edges of the torn othee emus, says the Chicago Herald. Yon will proba- bly do as every one else dam, pub the ooins aide by side end push the middle one upwerd along the table until you think you have done a rash thing by pushing it so for, When you measure yeti will find ont. It's en old perversity of the eye. A " hammee and needle party" is the en- tertainment a country social club invented lately. Each lady was requested to bring a needle, a ;spool of thread and several but. tons, lind each gentleman a hammer. When all the materials were on thetablo, rah lady picked ont a hammer and was given a block and some nails Each gentleman oliose sew- ing material and battens, and the contest began. The ladies drove as many nails i» their bicolor as they could in five minutes, and tho gentlemen sewed on na many buttons as possible in 10 minutes. Prizes NVCCO given and much laughter provoked, A. mother should he careful to make only reasonable demands upon her child's obedi- ence, but, when wee made, to enforce them implicitly. One should be very entrant never to enter into a contest over a pointthat =- not be enforced. A child may be made to do certain things, but no power on earth can force him to do others, or to say words that ho has mads up his mind not to any. The prudent mother will °afore° her authority and teach obedience on ground thet she is sure of being able to hold. Points that she knows she cannot carry she will avoid until the habit of obadienue is formed, and then there will be no discussion, A Shocking Superstition, The British Viee-Consul nb hlossina mentions aoheiracteristio example of aSicilian pilgrimege. At a mountain town about 50 miles from Mession, there is a festre 115 September oellecl the Madonna of the Chain (Madonna clothe Catena). If te man is clang. erously ill, or in trouble, or in love; or for whatevee reason ilst ay be, be vows to go for ono, two, three oe four value on the pilgrim. ago of the Madonna clellit Catena. The devotees serip themselves of all a cloth about their loins, They have in their haucle soft pieces of pithy wood called sfi:r.rt, about the diameter of a palmy pieue, through which aro simek from 40 to 50 pins, their pointe projecting one -eight of tot inch, The procession starts from the town to the chapel of the 'Madonna belle, Catena, about four miles distant, the 111011 011N13 themselves with them pins on the ehouldere, breast thiglie' anti logs, sholitieg all the tbno, the women encouraging them with wine and bread, and a priest loads tho way tvith ss 1/1111001N When the Vice -Consul maw this there were over 100n= in the prooessi n, end theetala given over and over again 00 the same spots caused horrible bleeding tumonts, and two deaths oceurred, Ti.a women who have made emit pass their tonguee upon the ground theough every imptivity from the church door to the high altar. 'Rho mom it is said, never 1»,ealr a vow when ;mule ender the 80080 of religion. It011011N (400, WATTR) 31, A., NT. 1L 51, 0, fia of Alhiot Homer Quadrant Road, Cattonbur,y, Ne London, Bug., writes ; oromot refrain from testifying to the offialey ef Mt Jacobs Oil in*eases of ahronio rhem modem, sciatica and neuralgia." affILIAN SOLDERS. 11,n nuts or Army Organization—fly- marisubit Enduronou of the Men. The news that a whole regiment and three battalions of intently stationed near Pisagua, Chili, have shot their officers and gotta over to the insurgents is generally regarded as especially ominous for the Chilleu Government, whieh has fewoe troops bo lom than usually lute been supposed. Even on paper the entire standing ariny of Chili contains but 5,710 men and 3117 offiame, These troops aro included in eight bat. talions of infantry, one battalion of sappers and miners, three regiments of aavaley, two regiments of field aetillery. This fame was distributed al the breaking oat of tIto peyote,. tion as follows : In the northern provinces, Tama, Iquique, and Antosagasto, two bat- talions, one regiment of cavalry, and one regiment of mail ery ; near the middle of the country, that is, between Valpareuiso and Santiago, three battalions, two regi• meets of cavalry, two brigades of artillety, and one brigade of meet artillery ; to the south three battalions, a bettalion of sap. pers and miners, and one regiment of eav• airy. The effeeeive strength of the Milian army, however, falls for below these figures. 10 1800 it was estimated at only:2,305 men ; since, dining the period between Jan, 1 end Nov. 1, 1,158 privates had deserted. This rather despornte stete of affairs is clue to several faults of army, orgaization LIS well as to the persistent interference of in- fluential politietans in the teohnioal manage- ment of the solilime. In the firet place, Chili is the only eouritty in the world that unites a vegulav volunteer service with an obligethey militia service. All 'mention of the regular fenny receive liberal pay, after the system prevalent in the United States. 01100 enlisted, however, the soldier is not hell so strictly to the duties of the service us with us. 13y the personal influence of feiends, by petty belbery, and in a hundred other ways he may secure his release with- out incurring arrest for desertion. At the head of the Chil ian military organi• maim; stands e Minister of War. This Minister is known among the foreigners in Chili as the most "nomadic. official " in the Milian Cabinet. It is by no means infre. quint that a Milian 51inistry falls iive or six months after Its organization. Often, indeed, Ministera resign four or five weeks after having been named for office. This fickleness of the head administrator, com- bined with the division of responsibility between him and two InspeetoteGenerale, la regarded as ono of the most fruitful causes of the demoralization of the regular service. The drill, moreover, is concliieted on the most antiquated lines. The =vales', for in. stance, follows the Spanish regulations of 1807. 'I'he weapons o1 the troops on the other hand, are modern. The artillery has Krupp guns, and the infantry Mannheim. rifles. The arsenide and repair shops are under the eurervision of German officers, The Chilian militia has a nominal strength of 58,60.2 privates and 2,1111 officers. Lest yeite, however, only 1,065 officers and 27,, 000 men could be found for duty. All the rest had " disappeared," the teeliffleal ex. pression in Chili for desertio». A ramie of weakness of the recruiting service in MUM the law that whoever serve& as a volunteer fireman shall be exempt from militni obli. gations, Hence it is that Chili has the 'largest and most willing force of volunteer eremee of all coun tries in the world. Despite all the dor; ei ittm of the organize - tion, and the wide gaps in every division of the army, the Chilian army is fer from being seo eompletely inefilelent as the armies or most of the neighboring States. The Chilian soldier has two inherent q nail [lee which render him ampere». to all °thee South Ameriaane, as well as Lemony Europeans on the battleeeld. Ho Ina wonderful endue anee and few needs, With e little water and a few bites of bread he is able to preserve his strength Gil oughont forced marches of which the Europeen soldier hardly dreams. During the lest war with Peru he showed tide guality of endurance to a remarkable degree. Considerable bodiee of Chilian in• !entry marehed frequently thirty miles a (lay. Chinon cavalry, moreover, often coy, oreo, marching clay and night, sixty miles at a stretch. The explanation of thts excel). tional physical enere y of the cavalry is to he found in the fact that every Chilian is at home on horselmok end that tile homes have staying powers when on the gallop (the only gait the cavalry knows) which European horsesnevetattain to, The common eon- elesion, however, that the Chilitens are weak in their feet because strongon horseback la i entirely false. Not only s the average Chileen norsemee an eixeeptionallypez,sevor. ing pedestrian, but °Rea the fastest foot courier le the world. 'I'he regular military couriers are fro nently able to cover between fifty and 5i:Nly 1111103 so clay, and to Milian private of only slightly, extriordinary run. vino ability has been known to make, often under a load of forty pounds, forty or forty. five miles a day. The Ozar's Little Joke, An amusing story, which illustrates lo tu pointed way the fateleaching effects which may attend even a small pleasantry on the part of the Czar, has reached us front to trusbweetny source in St Petershurgh. On the °comfort of the reassembling of the Holy Spied in the Russian capital ie was resolved to forward to his Majesty, in accordance with traditional usage, the arehiputoral benediction. The clerk who erns employed to prepare the document formally communi- eating this pious resolution made a outioue mistake by a slip of the pen. Ile wrote " erchitectural "instead of "etrehipastotel," and the resolution Was forwarded without the error being detected. When the Czar received it he laughed heartily, and wrote 001 the margin, "1 heve no need of such bles:sing." He then drained the mattee from his mind, Tho document, however, with the Imperial minetetion, foued its way back to the Holy Synod, and produced among tho membere of that body the greatest surprise and eon- sternation. Without stopping to investigate the maLtee, tho exalted eoelosiastics rrho were responsible for the resolution ;jumped to the conclusion that they had itt sumo W005 or other incurred the Clzer's ilk:pleasure, anii4 that, his Majestyh C0111111011t WA 011 intimation to them that they teem expected to immodietely resign, They accordingly wont in a body to the Imperial Palace, and !tenthly tendered their joint and seemed reeignutions, It was now the turn of the (leo to he overwhelmed 'with tunacoment, alla it Wile only after to g000d deal of em- barriteemeet end reeiproen1 explanations that the matter was sot right. The interview torminated with a mild hint on the part of his Majesty OM oven in the reacted fee religioue bodies verbal accuracy was a highly desirable quality, Guileless Willie, Wiliie—" Papa, is it swearing to talk about old, socke being darned I" Pa)oa—"No my son, Why 1" Willio—'"dituse 1 wish Johnny..would keep his darned old socks out of my draw - or," APRIL 3, 1891.. A 0 S Sarsaparilla Is a coueeetrated manta of Sarsaparilla, Yellow Duck, l'IpsIssewa, juniper Serrles, Mandrake, Dandelion, and other valuable vegetable remedies, every Ingredient being strictly pure, and tho best of its kind It to possible to buy. 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