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The Brussels Post, 1891-10-30, Page 66 THE BRUSSELS POST. 0(7, 30, 1803. the value of their hides. The 1ua•kets of Late Fo rel n`n N ews , rho large edifies are overfilled w•i I1 horses, eager, oxen, sheep, and goats, 11011 large 5 The reports that 1''.ntperor 11'itliam wil 'visit Heligoland this fall to inspect the net defences there, are false. 7j he works it question are 81/ far from completion the there is practically nothing to inspect. A. St. Petersburg dispatch aunetteee8 th departure front that city for Denmark of 1b Czar', the Cz0111)0 and other members of til numbers of them are transported to foreign 001111trie8, According to the calenlaton of Government experts, [about 3.10,0011,000l rubles wilt 110 required to keep the Menthol w: 1 people and part of 611011' cattle from st:arva• t doll until (ho nest summer, Wien 0118 ('zarelvitoh nn hie racoon journoy vn.itotl the Arasto �orskt m settle. a •N t ks in Nlherii ,�f1 bol (cossack journoy a, , 111011( n( t'„-. • t' • 13 years „4t begged to aecompauy him an lbody guard to the border of tine sett linen t m distal) •a of 193 verats (sere)) volts 01' litre 1011011, '1'11e pvivii1ge W.,x ;punted Mtn I and the boy, triol and nice on his little hors O ['ode the whole distance by the right wbee 1 of the t'zarewitoit's carriage at an av(rag e speed of twenty eons 011 hour without to least, sign of weariness, 13e had a stool O satin ensign with the imperial osentehen O 011 000 sid0 and the inscription, " God Save O Oar A11g1181 Atainath," on the other, The ensign land been wrought by a Cossack W0111011, the aunt of the lad. The boy re. ceived a gold watch and chain for his bravery, and his amt received a dltunond ring. imperial family of Russia and the rept family of Greece, 'I'itey sailed on the yauh -Polar Star, Frederick Junket., a locksmith in Hall on the Seale, killed his 10)10, (laughter ant sister, one night this week. lie laid all th dead bodies m one bed and then stretcher himself out at their' feet, The police war auminoned by neighbors who heard th women's cries When the entered th 1 y house they found Junker sound asleep with III knife beside 1tin1. The projoot for an underground railway in Paris is said to have disappeared. IHELLESPONT AS IT IS, The Narrow Neel( of 'lister That Gives England, Bassin, and Tar;ley So 311 mit tial east. 'inhere 1.01tn48)' Peru to Pl•t•il'nl III )1'undrr(at Ague tir 80018 la FC0 "01 Lit Ilan acro, The whole eirililizatl wafld was startled a t fele weeks ago at the repot that a detatch• c meet ofbtu 'auk 1 1 ''n 1 •o 1 a La mid na i 1 J e a to a3 f m a British irotl•clacl, accompanied by a battery 0 of field pieces and asverin liabling guns, haul 1 1 n Much talk has been created by a speech of Deputy Von Stobleurski-Thorn, in which Prussian Poles re advised to sHPPort i1/ future the great and good German Emperor, the deadliest enemy of the Russian Czar. His position is endorsed by the Polish Cath clic Church. The efforts in St, Petersburg and Paris to induce American financiers to Join in taking ;he Russian loan have failed. The slow progress of the commercial negotiations involving Germany and Austria is said to be clue to Emperor William's orders. The scarcity of,grain in Germany, the sufferings of the Silesian weavers and the poorer people of the great cities ander the agrarian laws, and the universal complaints ofhi,ipri 1 cos have convincedhim i n tl(at no 6 1 new burdens 11 1 b1/ hs s )01/111. beP lac ed on hamasses. t The Governor of Mittan, Russia, has or. tiered all municipal councils under his jurisdiction to fix the price of bltked bread in their respective towns, in ore :lie ler Out .l e bakers may not be able to make their own prices and to extort from the consumer a larger profit than is due. It is supposed that the Governors of other regions will follow his example. The bread baked by the famishing pea. sante on the Volga is made of flan/. of goose feet (chenopodium rid» •urn) with the admix. ture of a small quantity of rye. The bread is black, light of weight, and looks like turf. The criminal statistics of Odessa fc r the year 1890, according to the police records recently published, show that the moldier of crimes was by 26.9 per cent. larger then during the preceding year. The whole num. ber of crimes actually continitted was 3,061, Of these 64,3 per cent. consisted of larceny, theft, shoplifting and similar offences ; :31,2 per cent. were assault and battery, itaubori. nation to the authorities, and disturbance of the peace. The rent were crimes of a high order, such as burglary and murder, This increase of crime is ascribed to the in- crease of poverty among the population of Odessa. lvau Shafrauskly, a master mechanic of Kiev, has come to grief. His wife ha8 eons. plained that he desecrated her sanctuaries. The attorney of the Church indicted him, and he was sentenced to imprisonment a t hard labor for fear months. The trouble a0ise8 from the feat that he is a Roman Catholic, while his worthy helpmeet oonfes- se8 the Greek Catholic faith. He became tired of the images of her saints, which his wife kept in the house and persisted in put- ting in his way. Two such images which he found in his room he broke, and of a.third ono he put out the eyes with a bodkin. His punishment followed promptly. A St. Petersburg dispatch says that the Czar, daring his brief return to Russia to attend the funeral of the Grand Duchess Alexandra, expressed the deepest concern for his suffering subjects, and that he has personally directed and dictated must of the measures for relief, Berlin (Melees state that bitter letters have been received from Russia by business men with agencies there denouncing 0110 action of the Germans relative to the Russian loan, and threatening to retaliate. A Berlin surgeon reports that pure water injected under the skin with a syringo is an excellent an)a8thetic, The authorities of the Lyceum of Sara- tov, Russia, have decided that all students must live in a certain house annexed to the institution. Only students having parents in the city may live outside of this house ; other relatives, brothers and uncles) even, are declared incompetent to take caro of the students. The reason for this °nactnheut is that "objectionable " ideas has spread among the students of the Lyceunn. A curious kind of unrest is apparent in court and military circles in Berlin. The 001180 10 a lank of confidence in the judgment of the mercurial and impulsive young lim- eror. His claims to infallibility in State matters, his rashness in speaking what is last on his mind, and his belief that all his acts are done "by the grace of God," have led all patriotic statesmen to be fearful and uncertain as to his attitude in eaoh new crisis in European politics, There ate 181,000 foreigners in Paris, or one-tenth of the entire population, Among these the Belgians lead with 45,000 ; next the Germans, 37,000 ; then the Swiss. 25,000, and Italians, 21,000. Then comes Luxembourg, and next Great Britain with 13,000. The Prussian Government has made a report upon its buildings struck by light. ping between 1877 and 1886, There were 52,502 buildings used for official purposes in Prussia. Two hundred and sixty-four of these were struol(, or one-half of one per cent per thousand annually. Of the total number 6f18811 only were fitted with ooduct,. ore, and only one of these escaped injury, Generally the conductors were found to be either dangerous or useless. In six they were not touched. A letter from the champagne district says: "Things here aro most unsatisfactory. There will be a still further rise in all the brands, and we shall be at last forced to follow suit. I have visited nearly all the di0- triete In the Champagne, and the .vines are, in most eases, a complete failure. Upon our own vineyars we shall not have at most more than a sixth of the vintage. * * The season is so baokward, and the grapes in many places are so green and hard, that wo are of opinion that the produce will not be suitable for Vin Brut." The number of students seeking admission into the St Vladimir University at Kiev is 460. Of this number 160 are Jews, Ae. cording to tho prevailing Tawe only thirty Jews can be admitted. Besides the 011Ormou8 efforts which the Roman Gavernmenthus to make to alloviato the distress of the famishing peasants, it must also devise means to preserve from Starvation the cattle of the famino.stricl(en region, The peasants sell their battle for Whatever they can got, or kill them only for The Pcsther 0' publishes ublishes tan extremely sensational article i1/ which it emphatically sn t declares that an enormous concentration of troops has been effected along the Russian bank of the Pru111, opposite Roumanian territory. •. A large and iorulot4 deserted K Y tract of country is now• swarming with Rua• sian troops, Tho article states that tents of substantial structure are being erected for the ahoomnlodation of these troops, and in. deletes that everything gives evidence of the near approach of an unmistakably hostile movement on the part of the Russians, The Russian Minietey of the Interior in conjunction with the Ministry of .Justice has prepared a new set of laws against usury. By these uh3 persou lending mono atrate of interest higher than ten per cent, per 1 annum can be proceeded n a1C1 •t o s mon l , Upon aniudietnlentby tnelli8triei attorney and regular trial before the 0011 rt the person found guilty of usury can he imprisoned for a o : t -in term, exiled to anotherP lace and put 1/1/1101' the supervision of the )elite, de• prive11 of his personal rights, or [despatched to Siberia, according to the enormity of his crimp. The Odessa polies force 3000 at in great commotion recently by a singular incident. Before the louse of the Natehalnik of the pity, tho Chief of the Poliee, was a big gun, fired every clay at 00011. The gen was fast. ened with a heavy chain to tine granite base of a pillar before the houtie of the official, On Aug. 30. when the artillerymen came to fare the gun they did not find it. A search was immediately instituted, lint nothing could be discovered, One week later parts of the gun and of the heavy than)) were formol before the residences of the highest officials in town. Iris supposed that the revolution- ists or Nihilists removed the gun to show the Government officials their power and craft. There is no doubt but that many persons must have labored at this feat. Still, not trace of the perpetrators can be dis- covered. Japan wants reciprocity or some other sort of closer trade relations with China, ami the native newspapers are agitating, and advocating the matter. In the ukase by which the exportation of rye from Russia into foreign countries was prohibited, Finland was not mentioned, Nov the Finnish S at b notified Senate has a been no ]lad that it must petition the Czar to inol11de Fin- land in the ukase, otherwise the klintster of finance will be compelled to regard that province as a foreign country and to prohib- it tie expertatiol of rye to it. The Finnish Senate is thus placed in great difficulty. If it sends the required petition it will praeti. 0011)' renounce the last vestige of independ- ence left to the country; thepetition would be an official acknowledgment that Finland is a part of Russia and not a State by itself. Ilut the consequence may be still \001'30 if the Senate refuses to send the recpur.:.1 petition. The belief is fast spreading in the Ger- man army that it no longer 811150es to be a capable officer to gain promotion, but man must be also a courtier and time.server. The belief is sapping the eiiicienoy of the officers' cops, hitherto the irreproachable feature of the imperial army. This state of allaire is especially evident in Berlin and Potsdam. Nobody, for instance, dares go to the once popular Union Cleb, because the neighbor- hood thereabouts is infested with the Em- peror's spies, who note the names of 1111 visitors. It 18 equally fatal to en 0111. cer's prospects to stop at rho Officers' Casino on the Parisor Platz, 'Ile Emperor has expressed his disapproval of these planes, and has warned his officers that the bar- racks' messroom should afford them all the refreshment and rejaxattiun that they need, WHAT EUROPE TALKS ABOUT. 1'e,'sonnls and I'olilies from the Gret.N gannets or the Old *lbrid. The Steamship Conference opened at Bre. mea yesterday. Representatives were hero from theNortb German Lloyds, the Hamburg- Amerlean,the French Line, the Netherlands. American Line and the Red Star Lino, It was decided that the examination of ami. grants for America should not be made by consular inspection, but by sob -agents con- trolled by the companies, The singer Marie Wilt, who recently com- mitted suicide, left 7200,000, mostly to chart. tins, She disinherited severed members of her faintly, accusing thein of intrigues to secure her money. A Madrid dispatch says that the judge who has been inquiring into the cause of the Burgos railroad collision, has issued an order compelling the Northern Railroad Company to deposit 6400,000 as 0eemity for damages claimed by those who suffered injury, and by the relatives of those who lost their lives through that aouidenb, A letter from Venice says that Don Carlos, the pretender to the throne of Spain, is in very straitened eironmetan0es and recently pawned a valuable jewel, A dispatch from Bridgend, Glamorgan Colmty, Wales, reports the killing of eight miners by the overwinding of the pit gear at the Abergwnfl colliery, near that place, Iva. Ribot, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, has been informed by the Chinese Charge d'Affafree in this city that the gov- ernment of \4'gclnt, province of Ngan•Hoei, on tho Yang -tats -Kiang, where the recent outrages on foreigners were perpetrated, has bean disinfected in compliance with the. demands of the powers, Reports received in Dublin from Bore Haven and frotn other fiehinf; stations in the southwest of Ireland indicate a complete failure of the maokerel•ouring industry, which fur0f0hc8 a supply to the Amarioan market, The failure is Clue to bad peeking and bad oaring. Tho London fatiyNews says 1 ".I'he pay sent of members of the House of Commons will b000rne a practical question in the next Parliament. Tho theoretical objections do not amonel; to mush, The .London Chronicle's 13erlin oorros- p1pondent gays that the Jaime of 011•ryo bread has been resumed in to German Army, landed on the 'Turkish Island of \Iitylone, fo•nn111y 0ccll lying it in the name of the Queen of Llllglaild. There 1058 an element of truth Ln the report, The lauding had tale Islake, but the 13rdtah force remained on Il land but two days• Nevertheless it ha the effect of ettraotmg attention to th perennial eastern question end making ti world wonder what would be tho next mo 011 the European political ohess•board. The whole matter resolves itself into a very simple proposition : shall Rll8ai1 have Constantinople and drive the Turk back ' Into Asia whence 1110 C r hs ase Y Since the year 1 nearly a hundred years after Mohalemel the II, stormed Constantinople, the Rus- sians and Turks have been fighting. Tho various wars have been complicated ddif- ferent by fe•ent issnee, but the plain object on the part of Russia has been to obtain command of the Bosphorus and the sea of Marntora, and thus have an outlet for her vessels into the Mediterranean, During there 08111nrie0 thereinto been varying success on 1)0111 sides. Russia has never lost an opportunity of provoking n Harrel. In 1853 she 7ros the aggressor and made war 011 the 1111•)11,1 pre- test tint the holy places in Palestine were improperly looked after. Turkey was coinedthis st • .• in t us Ln le byEngland ]n0' J a �K K and France, r ce and a was ins roulalined after the fall of Sebastopoolpin 1151, This peace treaty of Paris neutralized the ];lack Sea, Russia 0101 Turkey alike engag- ing to keep 110 war•shi )s and to nlaiutadl no P t 0 1 arsenal there. The overthrow of France in the war of 1871 and the eonsequont isolation of Eng- land led Russia, to declare the provision of the treaty of Paris, which excluded its ships of war and its arsenals from the Black sea, to be no longer in force, In 1877 the ad. ministration of government in Turkey had grown more corrupt than 808x. Some Turk. to provinces had revolted, and massacres of the most fearful character hard taken place in Bulgaria. Turkey could give no real se- curity for better government, so Russia took the opportunity of declaring war, The Bal- kans were.passed in midwinter, Adrianople was occupier], and the Turkish armies were captured or annihilated. The vietbtious Roesians marched to the very suburbs of Constantinople, to St. Ste- fano, where peace was concluded March 3, 1878. Great Britain refused to agree to the provisions of the treaty and sent her fleet' to the Dardanelles, Tins had the desired effect and the treaty was modified by a Euro. peen eongresa assembled at 13e'hu, Great Britain will not allow Russia to take possession of Constantinople, lamelae it wo11d be a menace to British power in the lo" east. It is the high road to India, that •• brightest jewel of the British crown." England carries on an enormous trade with Asiatic cowntriee, 101x1 this she con81ders would beendangered o s well as her influence impaired by Rnsaian occupation of Con8t0n- tiuople, For this reason there is nlw0ys 11, powerful British fleet in the Mediterranean, and the English 0110111 of outposts, Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, also the Sue,: canal—the latter being controlled by (41'401 Britain— ere kept fully equipped awl garrisoned an ready for any emergency. The Dardanelles, the narrow channel separating Europe from Asia and uniting the sea of Marntora with the Grecian archipelago, ie the bone ofleoutention that has caused 1150 British naval demonstration at Mitylene. Several treatiesbetween the fivogreatpowers and Turkey have confirmed the provision that no ship of war belonging to any nation save Turkey should pass the Dardanelles without the express consent of Turkey, all merchant ships being Mao required to show their papers to the Turkish authorities. A Russian vessel coming from the Biaok sea recently was not permitted to pass, on the groen11 that she was 0 war transport and had soldiers on board. Russia protested, the ship was allowed to go through, and the sultan of Turkey practically apologized, England views anis notion on the part of P,ussia a0 ea effort to get in the titin end of the hedge that the provison of the treaty may become a dead letter. The Mitylene incident is to show both Turkey and Russia the British lion i0 going to look after his own interests at all hazards. There is probably 110 part of the world that so teens with historical and mythical associations as the Dardanelles. While sailing through the channel and stopping at the forts, as all vessels aro obliged to, one feels In sacred waters. It is the ancient Hellespont, widely known from the story of Hero and Leander and from Lord Byron's successful attempt to rival the anoient awinlIner. Here Xerxes crossed by means of a bridge of boats, ate] 0.lexandor the Great performed a similar exploit. Xerxes crossed 480 B. C. to enter Europe, and Alex- ander almost at the same spot to enter Asia nearly 150 years later.. Now the Dardanelles is strongly defended on boot sides with for. tifications mounting many guns of more or less power, but some of t110m being of im- mense caliber. 011 10 d e y, 15' to 200 feet. At Kilid ]3811r there is low 1'a g�ro1n11 between the water' and the 11111 be- hind, and metal gglistening in the sunlight ION eals the foot tlat there are powerful bat. torics almost flush with the water, On these are forty -ton Krupp guns, some of vhIcl1 ore mounted on earthworks, c entero on Gar• bette, Above en the crest of the hill some hun- dred feet above the tenter are most formid- able batteries These constitute 1 . T tttttt0 thorecto et danger to an advan0mg fleet, as from their elevation the shot of the fleet would pass over them, while they world be able to play upon the clacks, the most vital part of iron- clad ships. The uurrent, toe, 1s in favor of the forts. An ascending squadron would find the treads of the vessels tending toward the powerful guns of the Chanak batteries. Merchant steamers going up tine Dardaneles pass under the very mouths of the common 4f Ii' 'd Bahr. th I A fleet would be 6 met a it t. k advanced by the fire of Kili 1'l Lahr and Ch0n0k, it would pass the gums of the former within pistol shot, as it crossed to- ward Chattels, it wonid be raked fore and aft by the guns of bout forts, and as it left G Chanak it would he s' '1 ami arty raked by other forts, receiving the fire of loud Baht' on its broadside. Chanak is not so strang naturally 0011ihd Bahr, but the fortifloations are 11111011 stronger, the guns being for the most pars in cas5mat55. When it is remembered that in addition to these very powerful frits there may be torpedoes in the 1111,1103 than. nel, it will be seen that the difficulties in the way of forcing tate passage are enormous. Later in the day we reached the &goon aehipolago,and were within a few miles on the island of Mitylene or Lesbos, which lay on our left, its warm purple hills wrapped if a soft drearily haze. It is quite near enough to the Dardanelles to make both Russia and Turkey feel uncomfortable should Great Britain takepossession of it. The island, by the way, recalled Shakspeare to mind. Several scenes in " Pericles, Prince of Tyre," are laid i1/ Mitylene, in the clear morning air the fez -capped Turkish minds% paled their lon0ly rounds on the parapets. 1V0 1031)•0, linked, in tho laud of Byron's " Bride of Aboydos," lieaetiful is the scenery of rho alsiath' shores of the Dardanelles, the town ' f liilid Lahr is piotlll'eethle, the Melees being nearly all hidden by Cho trees, And then. are gentle slopes and hills in strong tem trust to the 19nropeau shore, which is generally steep and ragged. A exhume rows towattle 118. -00mes 111011g Sid0 WW1 rows I1 Turkish officio/ 1111 0101113' boatmen, Our papers aro examined bund tee reactive permission to proceed on 0111' 305 age, The delay, however, gave us ample or timeto -take 'n o .1 , l thoroughly p n surround 1/ i 1 0 1/101 € Y bogs. There are ao•eal forts and castles on both sides of the Dardanelles, but the two most important ones are Chanak Kallessi and Kilid Bahr, They are distant but a short 111118 from each otter, 1 rom the en- trance the European bank 18 the higher, rising abruptly but not precipitously from the waters edge to a hal Mt of front 100 feet • Easily as this narrow passage is defend- ed, nevertheless in 1807 the English Admiral Duckworth made his way past all the fort. resses into the Sea of Marmara. The feat was also accomplished by a Russian 00)110l. 0011 in the wars of the last century, but itis probable that, modern artillery well directed would make it an almost impossible attempt. The British fleet in 18711 had orders to force its way through if permission were refused by the Turkish authorities, By leaving Constantinople in the after- noon one macho about sunrise tie next morning the fort or castle of dhanak Ka- lessi on tho Aeiatio shore. This is the place where all vessels paesing through the strait are obliged to stop until they receive a fir- man allowing them to proceed. The guns, facing the water throw stone shot of two feet in diameter and 150 pounds in weight. The town, which stands mainly to the east- ward of the castle, consists of about 2,000 wooden 11ou5e8 anti a dozen minarets, Its streote are narrow, dirty, and ill -paved, and tho population is a mixture of Greeks, Turks, and .70308. About a mile distant, on the European shore, is the castle of ICdlhl Bahr, a build& Mg of peculiar construction, being all on tho elope. It elates from the time of Mahomtnod II„ and in 1850 WAS repaired and fitted with pixty.fonrgnus for throwing huge stone shots. ' Many of the gene have gone, lint close beside it atingle the formid- able Namaviele battery, upon which aro mounted modern guise of fifteen to eighteen tons. The oun rose. The Ottoman element and star flag fluttered in the balmy breeze, incl The Sagacity of the Dog, An English paper presents the following account, which sets forth the sagacity of the dog in a manner which will please all 110 lovers. The paper says : " A serious 00- cident happened e. fav day ago to Mr. Platt, farmer, of Knoll Wood, who might 1111,0e suffered considerably more inconvenience that he slid had 'he not been accompanied by his Collie dog, an animal worthy to vie, as for as intelligence goes, with the Most gifted of the canine race, Mr. Plant was leading it young home along an unfrequent- ed and rarely used by road when the animal knocked himdownand injured trim so severe- lytilat he had toremainonthegrounclwhere he fell, being quite unable to stand or make his way home, which was a considerable distance away. Thea was no house near and none whose attention could be %ttraet- ed, so i\lr. Plant wrote a few words upon a piece of paper and, fastening it to the dog's neck, told him to take it home, This the dog did at once, and led tine relief party straight back to where his master lay. The latter when conveyed home and medical aid procured, was found to have sustained two severe fractures of the leg, and might have lain many hours in misery in so lonely it plane had the not possessed a Collin of more than average intelligence. Here is another canine story, It is of a dog that can tell the time of day and that is owned by Col. 1. %r. Barksdale, a gentleman on the staff of the Pennsylvanian railroad. The dog acquired its peculiar talent in a very remarkable way. Col. 13arksdalo has a tine cloak that strikes only on the hour' and then very slowly. The colonel got into the way of Making the dog tap with his foot at each etreke of the cloak. Finally he got so he would tap at the hour without being told. Just before the clock strikes it 4)iv88 a little cluck, and whenever the dog heard this, he would prick Hp his ears, raise his paw, and gently tap his paw at earth stroke without being told. After awhile he got so that when toy one clucked like the cloak he world get into position and wait for the strikes. 1{e Wee for along time confused at not heaving the cloak, but after awhile began tapping lti0 paw anyway. The remarkable point is that after awhile he remembered how many strokes were due (8t ee,oh succeeding hour, so that now when. ever the colonel clucks he gets into position and taps tie number of strokes the 0100k should make next time. Thus at any time after 10 o'olook he taps eleven times, after 4 o'olook five (aures, etc. Some learned scientists arsgoing to investigate the mat- ter to see whether the dog 0otually posses• sea reasoning faculties. Bedtime Tales. It used to be, long tato ago, In days of boyhood sweet When yyou were my big brother Poe Ansi I was little Pete, T11414) when you took lne tlptho s fair Andetowed mo into bed, Iturned, when I had "said my Prayer,' And " Toll a 'tory," said. And you old boy what wondrous things You told, of talking boars, And ponies that flew by on wings, And djlnne with golden wares, And pprineossos in 8iikon gowns, 4110.Robin .]food's bold 80amp8, And poor young men who built groat totem )3y rubbing magic lamps I And soon that darkened room of 0)108 Became a fairy hall, And everywhere 30805 gorgeous flowers, And diamonds over all, And glittering llghte from stone to stone E'er seemed to dart, and leap, And sbral0s of music floated on, And then—I Poll aslakp, Al, dear Old boy, 7 cannot hear Those tales you told agate, That tbuo is past now many a year, Alul both of its aro Goon 1 Bet memory cannel and dtvolis with me, And visions rase to VIM, And thereon times I think 1 see Those fairy 008(108 with you, Fos there is ono, militia tyke, Who, when the night la new, Commands that fairy army like 111e »apaneed to do 1 A.jld there bestdo hie rib I greet firs° 808noe of long ago When 1, you know, was L lo Pete • And ou wore brotlaroo fl.xnn S: CTrt, GIANTS OF THE QORAILL411AS, 'filer Gourd lytuntotla Treasures or Gold and Sit ver 4,1 '1110 h• 1Notud4Ins. 11/ 11'eslen Patagonia, among the ('011111•. It 0)11 immutable, dwell 11e grouts of whorl s1/ man' big 8to1l)'8r)ave Leon told. As 0 uli8tt1'r of Met thee0 Araurrlttlana, ns they are called, aro rarely under six feet in height and sometimes reach eight feet, mem font 111011 being+ 11,11, imfrcgoeml. 'Though mildly disposed, they admit o0 stranger,' to their 15rritnryandl ly still:horn reslstallee they have compelled ('hili to let them alone, 1'' 1/1110118 trea8ures of gold and silver are hel'eved o b 1 s r t d tm•ednt•1 away in their moue. (111,18, but proepecturs who have ventured tiitlterhave always been driven away. They commonly adorn themselves in rich and heavy ornaments of these precious metals. The greater part of Patagonia belongs now to the Argoutino Republic, Chili holding by treaty the strip along the Pacitio coast, which continues its :shoes tring-liketerritory for nearly half the lengthof boat)) America. Most of the country is a desert waste, cold of climate, and eoutl'asting etroegly with the richly productive p0mpa8 or plains of Southern Argentine. Thesep ampas are remarkable s for the strange tKo f h 1 illusions which beset the eye of the travelers who journey over then[, On any bright day a distant thistle field is as like as not to be trans- formed seemingly into a forest, while to few f o clumps raps will Lal p grass 1'o on the appearance of a troop of horsemen. Mirages are con- stantly in view, frequently offering a dela. sive prospect of water, by 10111511 men are often deceived but their horses never. Indemnifying the Sealers, Advices received ab Ottawa from British Colombia inchoate that in promising to in- demnify the Canadian I 1 3 is sen cis for nn • loss they e might sustain in K t Lein 111'1 • on out of Bellying Son this season the ]British Govern- ment assumed a responsibility they had not aoeurately estimated. It now appears that Groat Britain will have to pay at least 7500 000 and possibly 77 l 11 4 166 ()()) t fulfill its pledges to the sealers of British Columbia, The understanding was that, basing the cab cnlation upon last season's total catch, which includes all the seal taken in and oat at Behring Sea, the British Oovot•nunont Agreedtomakegoodanydoflcienov those vas. eels might suffer between the average catch per vessel lust year and tho difference be. tween that average and the total catch per vessel the year. The returns received here show that the average catch per vessel last year was 1,356 shins, while this year it is estimated at 600 skins, a decline of 756 skins per vessel, or 55 per cent, Last year there were only twenty-nine vessels in the Behring Sea sealing trade, while this season there are fifty. Tito aggregate catch this year in and out of I3oln•tngSea was only 30,- 000 skins per vessel, the value of which at 717 per skin would be 712,852 per vessel ; or, in the aggregate, to make the average good for the fifty vessels engaged in the seal- ing industry, 37,800 skins at 717 por skin, amounting to 7642,600. This will be rather a surprise party to Downing street, as the British Government did not expect to be ailed upon to pay one-quarter of that amount to the Canadian sealers who had been driven out of Behring Sea, Every ar- rival from Bullring sea reports that never in the history of the sealing industry have souls been so plentiln1, to which fact the Minister me1' of \iarfnen0' 8 t Fisheries pointed as a vindication of the position the Do- minion Government hail taken against the contention of the United States Government that seal life m I3ehriug Sea was becoming extinct, The Pleasures of Prison Life. Here is a very suggestive passage taken from William P. Andrews article on the " increase of Crime by Reformatory Pri. sons" in the Ootober Forum: " Several times the prisoners have eons - plainer] to the writer that the officers hare made a mistake in copying their vnit0imuses, and not given them time enough. Hee is a complaint of this character last made to him : I have got but two months, and I an entitled to four. Please have it altered for mo: I want all four menthe that I was sentenced for.' Again : meeting in a county prison a physician sentenced for two years for malpractice, the writer was astounded with anis conversation. The primmer lune a man who hail been noted for itis enjoyment of the luxuries of existence. He said, ' Ib is a great mistake you follows make in thinking you are in hitting punishment when you send man here. I have been hero a year, el d can truly say I have enjoyed )t so nn1011 that I (hall not feel sorry if my pardon is not obtained, Von coo, it has been vacation, with ,just enough to do to amuse me. The novels ie the prison library are entertaining, and I am very fold of dominoes and checkers, and find some first rate players among the men. Now if 11 stripes me in this way, who have been as- oustomed to every luxury, bow must it be to the poor devils who never have a square meal outside? Do you wonder that they flock by hundreds and thousands to the jails in winter 1 My only surprise is that you can keep any of them out at a11.' Te is the opinion of an educated man who has experienced the benefits of the system lin his own person, and finds them ' delightful' —a life from which he is loath to part. But itis evident that it is far from the ' auster- ity' which onee did ' pervade the prison plane ;' and it will be hard from this to real- izo the good man's desire of ' impressing the prisoner with the idea that the wayof the tranegree0ot is hard.'" Jolly English Clergymen, Owing to the fact that so many English citizens spend the summer on the nontinonb, the different Church of England societies detail preachers of that faith to take thole own vacation on the continent, and at all the resorts the preachers conduce religious sorvioos each Sunday. I have met a number of these ministers or rectors, and they seem to he a very jovial sot of men. In contrast to oar own preaohers'they not only frequent the gardens and drinking-pla0o0, but they do not hesitate to eat in the smoking -rooms of the hotels and indulge in" grog"—Sootah whiskey and water, " Why not l' said one of these preachers to me, rte he sipped his grog and smoked his pipe. " We enjoy the good things of this world but do nob abuse them." They are evidently the same kind of persons that Thacketay so vividly describes in his'novelo. I observe when handed a card by any of these preachers that they invari- ably give you their club as well es private address, and this i8 pertioulclrl. true of London and the outskirts. One of these preachers seemed much surprised when told that it was a rare sxooptton 111 America for a minister of the gospel to belong to a club. --'[London Lotter, Mon who have papront81 feelings for ne— on r landl0rd8. As man and wife aro one, the husband, when seated with Ms wife, meet be side ]himself, YOUNG FOLKS". Patsy. 1')118)' 110'8 my brother, an' I wish 3" could x)1)1 I1 inn o yen r ago, 'fore lids hurt 111/0111. (111141' noir 0'x a h awful 1/+1111:0 like an' uoEhht' howl, 111/6 boors 811100 hci;ul. a41 11 by that big earn all loaded up n•lthmmoms. Somehow f fuel11ko er3'1n' when taro flim I1Lyin 1l,opo A•xmil(II 011' 11.1,1',•111' (0 lot on' al lie don't cum, \\'he'. i 1;11010 hos wlwhin awful Ie 1' 1/d trend ))n(lde 'lilt ole An' he n•l n t nht' with the fellers, pH like le used 105 bo. 1'110110011,1' wet comas round our ward, he told "IIo's m8 sori'e8ry, Loy1,ea-, t Gels 18)1011 nfonrd P0t8y'd always be that wry," Minute me xwatler mighty hard an' then 11 made me mad T' think lilt 1 3008 big at' Arent; w1,118 Patsy felt est had, When the doctor he told Patsy 'at he Wouldn't wank no more. Patsy he ,leo' 8)1111811 011' said " he knower' that long before,' An' 4,1,801' belt al l laughed1an' joked 'lth me, jos' 's 11 But when 110 thought le 31(80 alone, 110 cried t 1 t!/ ullitsml }ta g —T. L. B. a t f b 0 t , si 0 n 1 f tl 11 hMinn] 1' , N h Il 0 b F great h bis I h h \P m probably 1 t than et 13 still h1 b fa regular P A Glri Sovereign• lVilhol mina, Queen of the Netherlands 000 'n t Th w bet n e Hague on Aug. 31, 1880 f n0' received rho full name of \Ytlltohnina Helena Pauline Marie, Tho monarchy 0 (8 Nethet'londn 11101111100 not snly Halla utitscolonial(lepondo80ineinSoutllAm 1 n and the East cul West Indies. , 'l e1' 31011105 are both rich 811(1 extensive hu ng an area of S00,p00 square males, and eon airing population of 1111400 than 27,01)0,000 x times that of Holland hoall. 'rho youthful Dutch Queen 10 Vie daughter [ William D.I 0'110 died 2t ti on Nov. ? 1.00 n0' of 1':n11r.0Adslaido 11 IJheln,i 1311 Pl'ill cos r , f \1 aldecl)-1. linen[. II ' father 3 el was the est (lesoondal11, in the direct 11110 of one 0 e 1(1051) fllm008 families of Europe, the 3080 of Grange -Neeson, 8111011 has given to hist()) splendid fir, I p three 1111/ b0' mos • 1'1' ' llhnn Y l g no Silent, the first NtadLhntderof the DntOh Republic:, his son Maurice and William 111, who became also King of England. From her early childhood Prhtcoss Wil- helmina 11415 1100)1 trained to prepare 1)01'(0) e1' royal dnl.ios, Oho has been easefully rheatedtlndaran7Cuglishgoverness, Gavin{, 4011 regnhrnd to master 1118 English and 1'811011 languages a0 well a0 the Dntel(, and rear 00101111011 has 1,0011 given to ler dict, 1810158, 011(1 811 that 11511 contribute to her health. She has also received the constant 1p000101nn of her mother, 0 woman of amia• le chtu•aotor (11111 excellent judgment, 30)11 greawlyan(ldesorvedly b'lo'od fn Ilol- aud, and who acts 08 Queen Regent during e1' daughter's minority. As Princess, 3Yi1- obuina is (11000011 plainly, wearing simple 1(11,0 gowns, and 1100103 a0 her 0111)' urea. 0 tm•4110158 or pearl 11801)1880. She will not take up the full duGos of 118011 fur six or 800811 y0000 to coma and. robably there 3111 bo no groat 011084)0 in her habits and )01011)(180 in the 10101val, privileges Ind Tim people of Holland 110'0 welcomed her o the thane with (5011114)8 of tender pride and interest akin to those 30)1111 which ,11000 fan half 0 celtsryy ego Great Britain greet- ed the 1)00500111 of their " Bonny 1311;