The Brussels Post, 1891-11-6, Page 3Nov, 6, 1801.
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TOMMY ATKINS /N CAMP,
/110w the itritish Army Recruits
Demme Soldiers ot Alder.
shot.
either cavalry or infantry, and 31 eepecially
sorely truce the pationee of dandified
ofileere.
But lel, um widt with Die cadets drawn up
in the spume ii) front of the Royal Coliego
for impection by 1 fie Royal Iliglunnec, the
Duke of Cambridge, Tho 1 has teeny
d titles 1 0 perform es Com man dm, in •Oh id of
the army end other mikes fur Der Maj•
ENGLAND'S' HOME TRAINING SPOT, osty, but Dune IS probably none so pleasing
11 in as the inspeetion o I cadet s att4and.
horst Hist ingendted (deem 1,111100 of tho
e
An *774144'8"g 11.18" '31,81 l'undun "11°' peohjo'nei,,,, world, eminent Pitelituincintastane
'rem tate enspeetion by Dune
et' ct% bri e. Joel Cabinet hosiers usually witness he
display of soldierly ellicieuoy of Din flower
Atilerehot to the 13liglicilmite means the of the muntry. The trumpetere, 118 11rule,
great home training ground of Britain's are little y 0113.118 burn end reeved with the
Reline:1f There Tommy 13.1 111110 learns the
art ol war itud sues nu inns hattleS fought told
won. I His brother of the volunteers also ges
something of the soldier's trade there, and
annually tho oyes of England are turned
toward the Berknhire Hills and the greteli-
es of Ilants and Surrey, where (luring the
day% of tho " manuniVreS' tlinre IS much
rtuttling of musketry, much booming of heavy
guns and in Lich waste Of powder. john Bull
'pays for it all and is satisfied. 'Aldershot) in
itself is a small town which thrives on the
military, and the grant encampment in its
Deighborbood isiits sole object of atthaetion.
tiandlinrst, which is in Hampshire, is a
girt of aneen nf the oamp, or at least tho
a >yid M litary College is in which are
;rained tho leaders of English armies. In it
ingland's eadete, whether for the cavalry
ir infantry, are prepared for entrance to
.ho line. Their friends destined for the
trtillery go to Woolwich. Not many. years
1.33,,England's 010011N were 1101 required to
nave any very peat scholastic attaiements,
They were gentlemen of the gocel old style,
fighters every ono of them, and so long as
they cotlicl carouse and. win betties they
cared but little. The doing away with the
pule:hum of commissions hen changed ell
this, and nouvadeys the military neophyte
is 'a ductelet 17 years, staffed full of ancient
classics, modern languages, end the myster-
ies end intricacies of mathematics and
physical 301011110.
The encampment is one of the most in.
toresting places wit I ti 11 easy reael) of London.
It Is but thirty -ft ve miles from the metropolis,
and Tommy Atkin's daily life, whether On
Or off duty, has 'much in it to attract the
0101111111,
Tommy, while stationed at Aldershot,is
kept pretty busy from reveille to taps.
There is an eternal round of drills flout early
moruing till night. Reviews, dress itrados,
and other worries are eltveys in order, and
officers and men alike find little idlo time.
When off clay the soldier has either hut
or a tent to go to. For miles arouncl tents
have been p11011013 11013 huts erected, making
the place ono vast military city. Tho but
is very plainly and scantily furnished, after
the manner of an ordinary barrack room.
There is a stove to heat it when the weather
is cold, a very comtnonplaee sort of a stove,
and the furniture 88001810 01 a Main white
table, or rather a wooden slab sot on iron
trestles, and, couple of forms, also mounted
on iron. Besides these aro the iron bed•
steads of very simple construction 118(1 08013)'
portable. Hero Tommy keeps his rifle and
accoutrements, eats, sleeps on his mattress
of straw, gets up and prepares t0111101113 the
bogie call for the parade ground.
A few evenings a week 113. 10)101 Tommy is
called to echool, and to a great number of
men there is no more hateful (ha)' than
this. Those who cannot road or write
don't care to meet the young shoolmate
who may possibly be a pompous civi-
lian arrayed in soldier's clothes ; and
those who oan, hate being kept withm dooes
and lectured for an haor or two. 11 1103. a,
civilian'the schoolmaster is a soldier who
has either had a better post or has Molted
1(3) 11. little more " book -learning" than his
fellows.
Tho soldier who can write even a little
prefers practicing in letters to the girl Ite
left behind him in London 011 001110 big garri•
son town, and after marching and eoun•
tormarehing for hours, and having abuse
heaped upon him by some drill sergeant, he
will 80111101 1130 tale of love in any nook in
which he 0811 secure a few uninterrupted
moments.
England's soldiers aro always kept well
eingt, and once a year Tommy. gets a brand-
new scarlet tunic and fatigue Jacket. Then
in batches of half-a-donen the soldiers are
marched to the stores, and there hi a good
deal of profanity before the fits nro complet-
ed. Profanity is rampant in 1116 0.701y.
Tommy gets Morn at by everybody, even
by the corporal of a day's standing, and in
turn 110 831,010110 111 his comrades, himself, his
girl, 01' the moon,
It sometimes happens that Tommy loses
his temper, or, for spite, goes on a drunk if
he clan obtain the menus, and as a result Ile
ands himself in the guardhouse, alld, later,
before a courtmartial. The officers who
form the court as v, turtle have little mercy on
Tommy for his faults. He is away clown in
a golf from these scions of noble or wealthy
110USCS.
The oemp kitchen in very much ni, alfresco
affair, but, uevertheless, the solclier cooks
know their business, and Tommy gots good
food. Tho camp bath is also of the al fresco
style, and only when the choupant ducks
oan his " churns " fail to 008 113(11 shivering in
the chill atmosphere.
Tho resonation room is supposed to be the
pleasantest place on earth for the soldier
There Ito finds spread out on a regulation
table periodionas, very often a week or two
old, and there may bo provisions for eneb1.
ing him to indulge in an innocent gamo of
chance. Bare walls aro still the order, if
one exception cheap rint or two. They aro
colors,
Then 80101110 the call for attention, and
tho Duke and it brilliant stair 0131001'appeae
upon the scone. The 0,1,111114 (31331 with
prneision and 110113111110)', 111(13 the Bake
hobbles along the lino in his own portly way,
aided by 13. stick or umbrella, usually the
latter, to which ho seems wedded whether
it rains or 81(31100, 'l'114111 he praises the
youths for their °Laverne:la and appearance
and tolls them abont the duty they owe to
their country and Queen. A little while
later all is over, the cadets are once again in
mufti and smiling with their lady friend ,
and the Cabinet Minister, tho stalwart
guardsman, the light hussar—ono and all
aro equally stutisfied that there is yet no need
of fear for " Old England,"
PleaSuree of Oyoling,
0, wild green 1(1103 your mute society
lbw weaned high spiritS from the vulgar
brood,
And fired them with sublimer piety
And
Dint whiell sways the common brother
hood.
To live among you is not, to exclude
Our •olves from holy converse Tho fresh
ciente)
In taught a witelom in yOnr solitude
Par deeper 31)111 that pedagogues impart
gtilp their worldly lore and dm! it out by
net.
To aye among you is to worn the "(rife,
The pill 30 pride, the bentescorrodi ng emit
That 1 feet the blosqotti 01 0)11' 1 ter al lire,
And make existence more than wo can bear.
T. the man who through the day is hem-
med in with restraints, bullied by superiors,
harassed by 01,3.011131,16108, chained to a desk,
fastened in the grimy factory, all who on-
dergo any or all the disagreeable exper-
iences inevitable to those who 10081 work to
earn their daily bread•—to such, what sport
can vie with cycling, that takes him away
from all sight and thought of his labour and
HS dreary, choking routine ? Your other
reoreations keep you still within limits—
wider, perhaps, and less ,irksome than the
restraints of office, shop, or mill, but still
narrow and confining. Take cricket or
football. You hovo your plece, jest as in
the office, to which you must keep. Certain
work is assigned—pleasant, no doubt, and
you feel an enthusiasm for it—which you
10081 (10 as well as you can, but no more or
no less is required or allowed. Your
thoughts aro still foctissed on a. matter of
small compass. Similarly you get exercise
and excitement, but there is not that free.
dem which the soul of man yearns for, But
on the bicycle it is 133110110111. You need
have no more companions than you wish ;
if you prefer solitude you are at liberty to go
alone, or if you will ride with a Mender two
these you can pick, and those men you tip
1031 013110 for you nuty leave behind. No one
need bo near to compel yon to this or that.
For the time you aro 0. fico agent—free as
air, amine whole 90,111111seems open to you.
There aro thousands of miles of evorchang
ins scenery—some 03 31 unsurpassed of its
kind—for you to explore. The rends are
endless, 811(1 00 may traverse them—mein
roads and by-lenes alike, up hill and down
dale, to your heart's content. The country
is open and free ; you are face to face with
90(13001 Nature's choicest handiwork. 11001811
beings y011 evil quickly leave behind and
avoid, and the wild militate will share their
country with you, while the 010001-1003300(1birds will slug you welcome. All this time
you are strengthening your body in every
joint and muscle with an exercise that is
second to none and far better than most,
while in addition you obtain mental and
spiritual recreation such as few only give in
any degree, and that slight as compared
with cycling. The rapidity with which you
travel, and; the quickness and ease with
which you ciun ohn.nge tho scene, 0113011133Measure and exeroise all the time, is indeed
one of the chief advantages of cycling, for
tho more quickly we oan ohange our habitual
surroundings the more beneficial is the effect
011 the mind. Most other reoreations give
0. 0011013 body that it may contain a sound
mind, for unless the body be sound the mind
cannot be, Bub cycling gives us at one and
the same time a sound 13)311(3 tuna body ;
hence the popularity of the recreation, 11
popularity that has increased in an
unprecedented way, and will still increase
in no less proportion.
Dwarf&
Ibis a. most 38801)10.131133 snbjectwhich Mr.
Htaiburton dealt With in his paper at the
oriental congress in London, It 000(1)8 111111
in the Atlas mountains, only a few hundred
miles front the Mediterranean, there is a race
of (110(1.1130 11831011 four feet high, who aro 110
gturdecl with 911011 superstitious awe by the
Moors that for 80010 thirty centuriee their
existence (('110 kept a profound 8001181. Some
of them, however, have apparently knocked
about the world nt odd 131100 (15 smiths,
tinkers, acrobats and Feathers of the light
gypsy crafts ; but they have always avoided
town whore Europeans are. They shay
their feces ; they are not good 'Moham-
medans ; some say they aro Christians
and soma that they worshi " Didoo Isiri,'
considered good for Pommy. , It is poseible to connect ranoh of them
Often in the early afternoon the soldier, with the troglodytes of ilerodothe and to
tired with 3,390 1111(118 of the month , may identify another with some dwarfs retire.
welt out a retired nook from 30111011 0 can
watch the sunlight on the hills, and the
snow-whito tents and the golden goose,
while ho stnokes the pipe of peace. Perhaps
he dreams of far off bettleflelds, where he
laid some comrecto Wrest in desert sands, or
a fond mother and it happy home (*mom) to
him out of the past
Tho camp at Aldershot was formed in
May, 1855. Ili grew out of a temporary
oamp in 1853, lichen Lord Hardingo, recog-
nizing tho great advantages 03 3.110 pound,
pitched tents on Cobham Ridges. Aldershet
is unquestionably unequaled for its facilitiee
for marshaling and manteuvring troops, and
3.1115 1198 Govermnont of tho dey wore very
quick to recognize. Since the establishment
of the camp thousands of troops have been
quartered there all the year rotted, and
during tho annual mancouvres the Long
Valley law trembled beneath tho trea(3 of
marching hoots the smoke of 1011010 guns
rollout up and up the Berkshire Hills. The
camp et Bourloy, whore the dark Mlle rise
111 the background above the white tents,
is ono smell sootier 01 1,1)10 military oily.
Away up the Long Valley intleoh at ease
the men of the Grenadier Guards, tired die
their field day 11100011101115, The band is
silent ; there is neither a bugle 1(03.0 11013 tett
03 (11110111, and not a Mall from the colonel
douvn but is anxious) to roach his quarters.
They are motto and deg bogrimod, and,
above all things), they suffer from intolerable
thirst.
A. day in the Long Valley is (8330 oke for
sented on the monuments of the fourth
dynasty of the Pharaohs, Somewhere in
the bowels of Mount Atlas they seem to
have run in prehistoric times the ihrming-
bion of the bronze age. There aro all kinds
of stories about them—to say nothing of tho
oddest fact of all that the surrounding peo-
ple decline to repeat the stories. Those
(11011111 111008, whether in Central Africa or
elsewhere, are no doubt responsible for
many of the legends about trolls, which in
some form or another aro found all over tho
World.
Thoughtleee1311,
8310 10100 ver31 rich, but slightly passe, and
ho was poor,
"You aro so beautiful," ho whispered as
they sat out in the lambent light of the
harvest moon and the languorous musio of
tho orohestr(1 in the distant ball -room Wart
War t0C1 10 them, sweet and low, on the even-
ing air,
litio did not take hor hand away AS she
felt the warm pressure of Ms upon It.
"Stit beauty fades," shoeighoil regretful.
ly, and there was a 3.011011 of bitterness in
hor tones.
" Yes," ho said ebstractodly, "I had
notieed that,"
She snatched hor hend from his, end with
scornfal 1 oak froze him to the spot Se that
ho iceman -Melted hitn up with his tongs in
ho morning and delivered him at the hit -
Mien door.
TEE COMING XING,
iletimitle or tile vicareeter or tile rrieee
or %Voice,
(11301(0' tv, buoy,
4Yo In Great Britain have grown t1e0118..
1(111)191 3.0 the existent% of the Prime of
Wales, end Ms personality, ('11131 131(11 fulinl•
one, is not familiar on pine side of the
Atlantic). But if we come to think of it, It
3*11 very avenge phenomence, The only
way to rcalim its immensity is to conceive
ceeig ion to•clay, supponing that hereto-
fore through the history of Englitull there
had been no such Institution. A child is
born in n03,1811011 Cironinstauces and With
ALUM conneetiona that might just as rem.
Reliably !Ikea fallen to the lot of some other
entity, Ile prows from childhood to youth
into manhood, and through all the stagee,
with inereasing devotion and deference ho
is made the object of reverential solicitude,
All his wants are provided for, even
pitted. Hs is the first parson to bo consid-
ered wherever he goes. Mon who have
won renown In Parliament, in the clamp, in
literature, doff their hats at his coming, and
high-born ladies curtsey. It is all very
strange ; but so is the rising of the sun and
the sequence of the moon. We grow aeons.
tamed to everything, and take the Prince
of Wales, like the Solar system, (XS a matter
of course,
Reflection on the singularity of his post.
tion, leads to sincere admiration of the
manner in Ivhich the Prinee of Wales fills
it. Take it for (*31 1(1 all, there le no p001 10
13nglish public life so difficult to fill, not
only tvithout reproach but with segue,
Day and (1133111 13310 Prince lives under tho
bullseyolight 03 3.310 lantern of a prying
public. He is more talked about, written
about, amyl pulled about than any English.
ninn, except, perhaps, Mr. Gladstone. But
Mr. Gladstone stands on level ground with
his countrymen. If ho is attacked 011 mis-
reproseni ad, he can 3111 1,1103. again. '1'318
pesition 01 1310 Prince of Wales imposes
upon him the impassivity of the target used
in ordinary rifle pre:Mice. Whatever is
said or written about hitn, he can make no
reply, and the happy result whieli in the
neon follows upon this necessary attitude
suggests Mug it might with advantage be
more widely adopted. Probably iu the
dead, unhappy night when the nun Wee On
the roof nod the Tranby Croft scandal was
on everybody's tongue, the Prince of
\ Vales had some bail quarters of an hour.
But whatever he felt of suffering be made
no sign. To see him sitting in the chair on
the bench in court whilst the trial was pro-
ceeding, no ono,not having prior knowledge
of the fact, would have guessed that he had
tho slightest personal interest in the affair.
There was danger of his oven overdoing the
attitude of indifference. 33nt he escaped it
and was exactly as smiths, debonnaire and
courtlyas if he were in Ins box at the thea-
tre watehing the development ot some quite
other dramatic performanoo. He has all
the ceurage 01 1118 race and his long training
has steehid his nerves.
It would be so easy for the Prince of
Wales to make mistakes that would alienate
from him the affection which is now his iu
unstinted measure. There are plenty of
precedents (11143 41 fatal f u 13)0,8of exemplars.
Take, for example, his relation with politi-
eel life. It would not ho possible for him
now, 110 1* Prince of Wales did at the begiu-
cling of the century, form a Parliamentary
party and control votes in the House of
Commons by cabals hatched at Marlboeougli
House. 13113. 310 might, if he were so dispos-
ed, in less occult ways, meddle in polities,
/Is a matter of fact, noteworthy and of
highest honor to the Prince, the outside
public have not the slightest Mem to which
side of polities his mind is biassed. They
know all about his private life, what he
eats, and how much, bow he dresses, 'whom
he talks to, 3031(11 110 clues from the oom-
paratively early hour at which ho rises to
the decidedly late 0110 01 Whiell he goes to
bed. Bat in all the .gossip daily peered
forth about 11310 131010 10 never a hint as to
whether he prefers the politics of Tory or
Liberal, the company of Lord Salisbury or
Mr. Gladstone, In a country where every
man i11 whatever station of life is a keen
politician, this is a great thing to say for
one in the position of the Prince cf Wales.
This absolute impartiality 03 113.1,111,130 does
not arise from indifference to politics or to
the current of political warfare. The Prince
is a peer of Parliement, sits as Duke of
Cornwall, and under that name figures iu
the division lists on the rare ocettstons when
he votes. When any iinportant debate is
tiukingplace in the House he is sure to be
fou
nd in his oorner soot on the front Cross
Bench, an attentive listener. Nor does he
confine Ilio attention to proceedings in the
House of Lords. Tho present Parliament
has boon so systematically free from heroin
conflicts as to fall under the imputation of
being dull. Tho Prince of Wales has an-
uordingly avoided its precincts. 13111 the
last Parliament there was no more familiar
figure than his seated tho 'Poem' Gallery
over the °look, with folded hands irreproach-
ably gloved, resting on the rail before him
as 318 101)110(1 forward and watched with keen
interest the sometimes tumultuous scone,
Thus he set one afternoon in tho spring of
the session of 1885. He had come clown to
hear a speech with which his friend, Mr.
Chaplin, was known to bo primed. The
Nouse Wee crowded in every part,. a, number
of peers forming the Princes suite in the
gallery, while the lofty figure of Count
Munster, Gorman Ambaseador, towered at
bho Prince's right, 118811, divided by the
partition between the Peers' Gallery and
that sot apart for distinguished. strangers.
It was a great occasion for Mr. Chaplin, who
set below the gangway visibly pluming him-
self and almost audibly perm% in anticipa-
tion of coming triumph. But a few days
earlier the eminent orator, who is now
Minister of Agriculture, had the misfortune
to incur the resentment of Mr. Joseph Gillis
Biggar. All unknown to him, Joseph Gillis
was nOW lying in wait, aud 11183. as the
Speaker was (thou t to call on the orator of
the livening, the Member for Cevan rose and
observed: "Mr. 8310113.011) 83*, iboliovo there
ere strangers in the House." The House of
Cotninons, tied and bound by its own arch-
aic regulations, had no appeal against tilt
whim of the indomitable Jo,y 13. He had
spied stranptors 10 due form and out they
ning go, So they filed forth, the Mince* of
Wales at the head of them, tho proud Eng-
lish Peers following, and by another exit
the envoy of the most potent sovereign of
the Continenk, representative of a, notion
still 310031811 01133.11 the overthrow of France—
all publioly and peremptorily expelled at
the ridging of the finger of en uneducated,
obscure Irishman, who, whennot eonoorned
with the affairs 01 1310 Imperiel Perliament,
was curing lateen at Belfast end solling at
enhanced prices 311 the Liverpool market,
The Prince of Wiflos bore this 11113)00111101'
s(3 indignity with the good -humor which is
one of his richest ondownionts. I -loneness -
es in rare degree the faculty of being amused
and interested. Tho 13ritieh workman, who
insists en his cley's labor being limited by
eight hours, would go into armed roYolt if
he wore celled upon to toil through so tong
a (ley ootho Pewee habitually faces. Some
of its engagements are terribly boring, but
the Prince imillos his way through What
would kill as ordinary man. 1118 manner le
charmingly unaffected, and through all the
varying duties and eirounistatioes of the clay
he manages 1.0 May and 110 the right thing.
11 is not a heroic life, 31,11 it is in its wey
11001111 ene, and mug he exceedingly hard to
live, Watching the Prince. of 31 eles mov.
Mg through all tinSelnillage, whether it be as
ho enters a public meeting or as he stern.)
about the pee/tamed at M tfrIburough Douse
on the micasion of n garden party, the , n •
server would got some faint 1,101 of the
elMr 1130111 11 1111. YOU can 33.13 1138 eyes
glancing rapidly along the line of the
crowd in seated' of some one whom be can
make happy for the day by 801111113 er v. nod
of reeognitlon. 13 1.110r0 Were 001110 one
there who might (11(3)1901 3.1)0 honor, end who
wits passed over, the Prince knows full well
how sore would be the heart burning, There
is nothing prettier at the garden party than
to see hill) walking through the crowd cif
brave mon and fair women with the Queen
on his con, Her Majesty need in days gone
by to bo labile enough at the performanee of
this imperative du ty laid upon Royalty of
singling out persons for recognition. Now,
whon he 1.0 In her company, the Prince of
Wales does it for hor, Escorting her, bare•
headed, through the throng, the Prince
glances swiftly to right or left, and
111I1011 he sees some one Ile thinks the
Queen should smile upon he whispor:
the name. Tho Qtteen thereupon 1300
14
share in eontribation to the sum of
hunian happiness). It is, as I began by
saying, all very strange if we look calm-
ly at it. But, in the present order of things,
it has to bo done. It is the Prince of Wales'
daily work, and 11, 10 impossible to conceive
its accomplishment with fuller eppearance
of real pleasure on the part of the active
agent.
Manitoba Wheat Standards,
Samples of the stenclards of Manitoba
wheat, chosen by the Western Board of I3x.
tunings at Winnipeg, have been on exhibi-
tion et the rooms of the Board of Trade for
some days, says the Montreal WU nem, and
have excited a good deal of adverse criticism
f rom grain merchants, millers and shippers of
the Om% 110011118330 Association. The
standards have in the first place
all been lowered as compared with
those of former years. It may be that the
standards selected in former years, of num-
bers one and two Manitoba Hard wheat,
were 00 high as to bo beyoncrthe roach of
the sound grain of the great majority of
producers, 1,011 that therefore it was neces•
eery in order to fix upon mercantile stand-
ards whioh would be reached by fair
quantities for purposes of export, to reduce
them somewhat. But could not this have
been done by increasing the number of
standards of sound wheat? .No. 1 Manitoba
hard wheatshould bee standnrdof excellence
requiring great care and attention on the part
of farmers to reach. It ought to be bright,
souud,hard and clean Fyfe wheat, St for seed
of the best quality. Manitoba and the
territories produce a considetable amount of
such wheat already, and those who produce
it should be encouraged by having their
wheat classed, and others should be stimu-
lated to grow such wheat. If necessary to
have three merchantable gradosof hard wheat
there might be numbers two, three and
four Manitoba Hard. It is doubtful, how-
ever, whether this Mass of wheat hasnotheen
wrongly named. Why not simply Manitoba,
without tho "Hard," or "Manitoba Regu-
lar ?" Manitoba and the North West terri-
tories are noted for their black soil which
produces hard wheat in groat geantities
year after year with little apperent exhaust-
ion for if long period. Why should not this
faot be impressed upon mankin,1 by so
naming this wheat that it might be taken for
grentocl thatMani belie wheat or Manitoba re.
gular wheatwas hard wheat. Manitobagrows
some sof t, wheat offiourse and this is,perhaps,
well enough distinguished as "Northern,"
but oven this name is not well ohosen in
view of the filet that Canada is a northern
country, and as such, should make
tho nems "Northern " synonymoue
for exeellenee in wheats. If; however,
this idea is too fine a one for mercantile con-
sideration why not call the standards of all
frosted wheats " Northern?" As it is, the
standards of frosted wheats are this year
called " Regular." No, 1 Manitoba Regular
is a slightly frosted hard wheat; No. 2 is
pretty badly frosted wheat, not very Men,
and No, 3 is a badly frosted wheat with a
good deal of smut and other uncleanness in
it. Are samploa of frosted wheats, unclean,
smutty and shrivelled, to be sent forth into
the world labelled No. 1, 2 and 3 Manitoba
Regular wheat? Is it to be published to the
world in this very practical fashion that the
regular wheat of Manitoba and the Canadian
North-West is it poor, shrivelled, smutty,
unolean pain, the lowest grade of which
has just escaped rejection altogether as a
millablo morchanteble breadstuff? Surely
the Manitoba, examiners were extremely
advised in selecting such a name for sech a
class of wheat. The word "Regular" means
"according to rule," "1101'1119l " ; 10o the
grain 111011 of 'Manitoba 31,ant to impress
as a fact upon the world that frosted
wheat is the rule, is the nortnal
kind of wheat of Manitoba and tho North-
west? 03 00071001 they do not. They want
on the contrary, to make the Ivorld believe
that there is no frosted whet, and for that
reason they have wiped the word "Frosted"
from the standard nomenclature. They
'wham] hope, by calling it "Regular," to
got the "Regular" mho 3m' 31, end by lower-
ing the standards generally to got higher
pities for large quantities of wheel) called
atm, former standards of higher oxoellenoe,
This is a poor policy, which will be foetid
out at once, Frosted wheat should be mulled
frosted wheat, or, 33 1.110 worcl has earned too
bad a, reputation owing to the fact that mill.
ors did not know 110W to deal with frosted
wheat when its reputation was made as
they do now, 33. 1(13331)3. be called Northern,
which wouhl imply that 11 111311 bean grown
where frosts mine untimely during some
someone ''Northern" wheats hare, however,
0.8 established reputation as sound wheats
in the American North-west, so that per-
haps it would not do to use that name.
Some other name might bo ohosen,—"Aro.
tie," for ingance. Perhaps Irregular would
bo host of all. Whatever the nettles chosen,
and howevee the standards are fixed,
they should remain fixed and not, be
ohangod year after year. If millers
and dealers could eount UpOli 3110 stability
of Manitoba and North-West standerds tho
purchase mid Bale, as well as transport.
mien, of Clehadian wheat would bo muesli
and the demand weeld, probably, rapidly
increase. This year there will probably bo
twenty millione of bushels exported front the
Canedian North-West, ono half of which,at
loath, will be sound Menitoba Herd and
Northern whoa, and one half frosted or
Replity, As 1110 years go by tho proper -
tion of sound wheet will rapidly Montag
3(11131 1310 quantity of " Regular " will be
comparatively smell. Good oultivetiom
emend drainage, a01111113310 which 18 331109011133
niilder, and thous() of smudges aro rapidly
doing tuWay with the worst dregs of early
froste. Tho standards should be differently
namod, therefore, and they shoilla bo made
permanent.
A. Long Engagement.
The apimoaelting marring!, of couple
been officially (010(101101131in Berlin. The
Irian is 059'051)'.111118 years of ago and the
woman seventy-Gmey. In 1811, when troth
wee plighted, the prospective bridegroOM
W08 it 011311'111111('11t10111 1,3 it largo fartn few
111)301) fronB
t erlin, 1118,/fanere was 11 '11103311.
1131' of if Government official, who 4)311131,8(11Gm match, The father and the young
(111(1
haa il violent quarrel, and the lovers were
separated, 11153(1(113311 both refused tc ter.
minute the engagement. The young limn
became tired of life near the 800/10 of hie
clicappointment and W011 t. to Alnerica. 13.
wits reported in Berlin that he had died ;
there. At the same time ward W1111 tient
10 hill] that his old love had married.
About five years ago he returned to Reriill
and took bachelor quarters. 110 heard
nothing of the W0111a 11 W110111 110 10Yed until
at a reception in a university (1 short Dine
age he zbet her, Shwunmarried
and still loved him, and the engagettient,
which bad not been broken, is shortly to
have its happy ending.
who have atm engaged for lifty years has
Number of Stitches in a Shirt.
There aro just 21,000. There are four
rows of stitching in the collar, 3,200 stitches;
01100 ends of the collar, 5330; button and
buttonhole, 1111) ; gathering the nook and
sewing on the collar, 1,205 ; stitching wrist-
bands, 1,328 1-011130 of the same, 08 ; button-
holes in wristbands, 148 ; hemming elite,
204; gothering the sleeves, 840 ; setting on
wristbands, 1,408 ; stitching on shoulder
straps, 1,880 ; hemming the bosom, 383
sowing in sleeves and in eking gussets, 3,050
sewing up seams of sleeves, 2,554 cording
the bosom, 1,104; " tepping " the sleeves,
1,520 ; sewing up all other 0(1(1(110 111(11 setting
thu side gussets, 1,272. That represents
the Amount of labor that must be put into a
shirt and explains why the homemade
article has gone out of fashion.
The World's Oldest Rosebush,
The 0111081 rosebush in the w7,e3.1 in at
Hildersliehn, an old town 111 Difigiver'cep.
nal of a Prussian administrative distriet.
It was plented more than 1,1100 years ago bt
Charlelnagile in commeinoration of a visit
Made tO hint by the A in bassitdor of the Caliph
Haroungd-Rasehid of "Arabian Nights"
fame. After 11 111111 become a flourishing vine
a cathedral was built over it, the date of
building being doubtful. It 18 1100105, how
ever, that a coffin-shepad vault was built
around its sacred roots in the year 818, the
fault and bush surviving a tiro which de-
stroyed the cathedral in 1146', The bush is
now said to be twenty-six feet high and to
cover thirty-two feet of 3.310 11,1111, The stem,
after 1,000 years' growth, is only two inches
in diameter.
Crops in Great Britain,
The London Tinley on the 1 Oth inat, pub-
lished a final estimate of the state of crops
in Great 13ritain, and says it anticipates a
bad yield of indifferent quality. Much of
the grain stacked is in such a condition /18
to necessitate great delay before it eau be
threshed. The real state of affairs, therefore,
will not be known for a month. It is
possible the harvest as a whole may not be
worse than those of recent years, but in
meny distrioto the cops will be the worst
in 40 years and the farmers 911111 1101 be able,
as they had hoped, to recoup themselves
for recent losses, by abundant (mops mid
improved prices.
Out a Woman's Ears Off.
COLCMIII.k, 8. C., Oct. 14.-1red Kemp -
son, a, negro, was recently convieted
of assaelt and battery •tvith intent to
kill at Columbia, 8. C., and sentenced
to eighteen months imprisonment in the
State penitentiary. Last week be escaped
and wont Intek to Lexington county. He
ptowled around the neighborhood where
his victim, 13.ebecea Thomas, lives. 'While
he WEIS cormealed in the woods the woman
name along and was SOOn 111 Kempson's
power, Ilo gave her the 0110100 of having
her throat 0111 011 her eare out off. She chose
the latter. Ile took 11 pocket knife and
severed 1)011 08110. Sampson then made threat
against those who were instrumental in oo
vioting him.
Ooddling Children.
Itis 133)7003. mistake, and one that is
bound to restilt in much delicacy and gen-
e1(11 discomfort Boys are often made deli-
cate by over -careful mothers. Girls aro
still more frequently protected front every
blest that blows as though it would kill
them Mated of 11013)1833 (0 make them strong
and hearty, To mothers of young children
I would say, Send rim 01111111%11 out in all
weathers but heavy rain, mikes they aro
weak in the chest, then remember that an
east uvind will do your child no good. A
great evil in girls' training is that they are
not taught to use their muscles. They
should do so in moderation, and theme will
bo little fear of "strained backs" or any
other mischief.
The Moon's Influence
Upon the weather 13 accepted by some as
real, by others 11 35 disputed, Tito moon
never attracts corns from the tender, aching
spot. Petition's Painless Corn Extractor
removes the most painful oorns in three
clays. This great remedy makes no sore
spots, doesn't go fooling around a man's
foot, but gots to business at mule, and effects
a cure. Don't be imposed upon by substi-
tutee mid imitattons. Get, " Petnam's,"
and no other.
•
" How pale the cream looks," said the
housekeeper. " Yeah," replied the cook ;
" It's been whipped, mum."
"Ilow clicl young Clark take the news of
the remarkable recove17 of his rich uncle ?"
" Philosophically. Ho said he was pro.
pared for the worst."
Convincing Proof.—A recruit was brought
up for medical inspection, and the doctor
asked hint.—"Have you any defects?" "Yes,
sir 1m short-sighted,' " How do you
prove g 1" "13asily enough, doctor. 'Do
yen see that nail np yonder on the well?"
"3)00," "Well, I don't."
kes the
Weak Strong
Inarked liftman which pPoplo ill ran
clown or weakened state of Mehl, derive
filen ,Immrs SursaparIlla, ccnehisirelY PreroS
the Oahu that this coed 'eine "makes the weint
etrong." It does net net like a stimulant,
thwarting fictitious strength from which Mere
must follow a renetlen of greater weakness
than lwfore, but In the most natural way
Hood's Sarsaparilla overcomes
That Tired Feeling
creates 1111 appetite, purifies the Motel, and,
in Short, 03.013 great bodily, eerve, mental
and digestive strength.
"I derived very much benefit trom Hood's
Sarsaparilla, when, I took for general debility.
It 1)11111, 1(10 right up, and gave me an excel.
lent appetite." En. JExiciss, Mt, Savage, Md.
Fagged Out
"Last spring I was completely fagged out.
My strength left me and 1 felt sick and mis-
erable all the nine, so that I could hardly
attend to my business. I took one bottle 03
Ifood's Sarsaparilla, and it Cured me. There
is nothing ince It." It. C. Bzoorac, Editor
Enterprise, Belleville, 3411c11.
Worn Out
"Hood's Sarsaparilla restored me to good
health. Indeed, I might say truthfully it
saved 107 1130. To one feeling tired and worn.
out I -would earnestly recommend n trial of
HoodisSarsaparilla." MEM PHEnitMostruto,
0033110(1119 Street, East Boston, Mass.
17. 11, If you decide to take Hood's Sorsa.
pulite do not be itulneed to buy anything else
instead. Insist upon haring
od's
Sarsaparilla
41),I
Sold by all nnerglSts. 331 ; six frtr3311. Prepared only
by C. 1. HOOD CO.,,t.notlemarlos,Lowon,211a.s8,
100 Doses One Dollar
,,,ZirttOr
53.713(111
Financ:ering.
(11(1 11 tr.1 11 p —" Say, gm any Me?'
Waiter--" l'ep."
Hardep—" How mach is 31011r pie?"
Waite!' —`. Five cents."
Harder —" Any cheese with it ?"
Waiter -" Yep."
Harclop—" How much is 1 he elieeee?"
Waiter--" 14e throws in the cheese."
Iffirdue—" Well, then, give me an order
of pie and mako it, all cheese."
Those who employ the plumber must em-
ploy the piper.
He who feels for the poor should make the
poor feel the felt.
How does he feel ?—}le feels
blue, a deep, dark, unfading, dyed-
in-the-wool, eternal blue, and he
makes everybody feel the same way,
—August Flower the Remedy.
How does he feel?—He feels a
headache, generally dull and con-
stant, but sometimes excruciating—
August Flower the Remedy.
How does he feel?—He feels al
violent hiccoughing or jumping oii
the stomach after a meal, raisin
bitter -tasting matter or what he ha
eaten or drunk—August Flower
the Remedy.
How does he feel 2—He feels
the gradual decay of vital power;.
he feels miserable, melancholy,
hopeless, and longs for death and
peace—August Flower the Rem-
edy.
How does he feel 7—He feels so
full after eating a meal that he can
hardly walk—August Flower the
Remedy. '
G. G. GREEN, Sole Manufacturer,
Woodbury, New Jersey, O. S.A.,f
They Returned.
A Harlem girl isn't troubled by her father
any more 110W When the young mon come
01100011 30 the evening. About at month ago
she was having a charming time with a
young fellow from Madison arerrne, when
they heard the old gentleman shu flii eat
around et the heed of the stairs, They
stopped talking, and then they heard Me
('11100,
" Mary ," it celled, complainingly.
"Yeo, papa," said Mary.
"Didn't I hoar the cloak, down there
strike eleven 0. few minutes ago?"
" No, papa," she replied, sweetly ;" "not
unless you were ont tho hall listening ;
instead of being in bed, whore you might to
Then they heard him shuflling away, and
they resumed operations.
Wherein Thoy Resembled,
110—"Thet actress reminds rile of the
leaf of 8 wild rose."
Sho—" lror heeven's giro why?"
Ho—" Because oho is blown about so
11111011."
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4$.
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ham
THIRTY YEARS.
b, ' Johnston, N. 13., March ki, x$89.
• :: "I was troubled for thirty years with
Y3.,,i,44r e; pains in my side, ‘vhich increased and
..,Vit,(434,
1,-, , t V " became very bad, 111,111(1
ST. JACOBS 011.14
and it completely cured. I give it all praise."
MRS. WM, RYDER.
"ALL RIGHT! ST. JACOBS OIL DID IT." •
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