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El) TURKISH FORCES.
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sel'ter.
Servia has given the world an-
other Joan of Are, another woman
whose name perhaps will ring
through the poetry and patriotism
of all time when the Balkan war is
aver,
Her name is Sophia Yovanovitseh,
and when some Sorb historian rises
to tell the story of the struggle of
the little kingdom against the Turk
the name of Sophia will become e
household word in the Balkans.
Behind the story of the bravery
and self-sacrifice of the girl there is
a romance almost overlooked dur-
ing the rush of the great events in
eastern Europe. It is a story of
love, patriotism and heroism sel-
dom equalled in the history of the
women who. have become the hero-
ines of the nations, and when the
war is over there is to be a wed-
ding in which a noble name will
figure.
The tale has been told simply,
briefly, in the official reports and in
the dispatches of Prince Alexis
Karogeorgovitch, cousin of the
King, from Vranje.
Sophie. Yovanovitseh lived in Bel-
grade. Her father was a man of
considerable fortune, a physician
and of good birth. Her mother was grade, and enlisted as a private.
of noble blood and in her day was Professors, doctors, lawyer
ono of the beauties of Belgrade. It
is said that during the reign of
Drage she was ono of the favorites
of that ill-fated queen,
Sophia was tenderly raised, edu-
cated in aconvent, and a little more
than a year ago, before she was
eighteen, she returned to Belgrade
and was introduced into society.
Although barred from royal circles,
marry tlu'ln or to seek her love
til they hts, vol urtnereel and pro
their worthiness by serving.
eountry,
Two, both Serbs, at once rusl
to the eelers, but it is related
Belgrade that Dmitri hesitated
finally was ordered by 'the
either to enlist at once or to
nounee forever all thought of m
riage with her. Also it was evict
that Dmitri loved Sophia more th
he loved Servia, for he enlisted,
Sophia Yovanovitseh's frien that Dmitri did not want to
list, but that the girl taunted Is
with being u coward, scented hJ
and sent him from her, and that
angry and determined, went
once to the first station, enlist
and asked only to bo assigned to t
first regiment' to go to the fro
The recruiting officer smiled grim
and promised, saying:
"`Take your choice. They all
to the front first --and at once,"
Those of us in this country ha
little conception of tear scenes
Servia. A. .country with a few ov
2,000,000 people, with perhaps 40
000 men of military age, put
army of more than 200,000 men in
the field in a fortnight,
Sophia Yovanovitseh did
know that Dmitri had enliste
Stirred by her patriotism,
She Decided Upon n Plan.
That night in her boudoir s
called her maid, and, 'ignoring t
protests of the maid,' she clippec
short her great mass of black has
her crowning beauty, and, attain
herself in a suit of clothes belon
ing to her younger brother, sh
went to . Merderi, outside of Be
un- stolid Albanian, fighting for
ved geence, the Austriuns and Germ
the and 1''renall and Englishmen,'
diers of fortunes who fuu'ght for
Jed of fighting, laughed as they Ovate
in the boiglrts, and the allies laug
and and sang and
gi'r'l .felted of the llforrow,
re- The The Bulgarian war cry of Na
ent —which means with the naked b
an net—passed through the earnp.
And that night Sophia Yav
nas vitsch discovered that Dmitri wa
en- coward, Be was discovered sku
lm ing. The girl herself found
m, seeking a chance to avoid the str
he, gle, and in her bitter scorn she
at vealed to him her identity,
ea, The adavnea commenced bef
he daybreak of a raw, drizzly mo
TICIng with this ground deep in m
la The Turkish artillery swept
valley, and from the opposite si
go on the heights over the Blengre
the guns of the allies responde
ve Under cover of the artillery fire
in right wing advanced. at don
er quick, swept across the river a
0,- started upward,
an Before them, not yet cleared
to the morning mists, now mingli
with the smoke of battle, lay t
not little town with the Turkish 11
d, boating over the church. The rig
advanced .under: heavy fire half w
up the hill, stopped and waited
der shelter of a woods and an e
he bankment. The centre advance
h, the Bulgarians fording the riv
and moving to the railroad at do
bre quick.
g Once the Turkish artillery fon
g- the range and swept the lines un
e it seemed as if the Bulgarians h
1- been extinguished. Far to the le
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the battle raged. There the Bul-
garians were moving under open
conditions, and the river ford was
swept by cannon fire.
The sun shone again, and shortly
before ten o'clock the order for the
general advance was passed. In
the mixed brigade that held tate
right the rivalry between the Serbs
and the Bulgarians was intense,
each striving to outdo the other in
bravery.
Through the outskirts of Lule
Burgas the brigade poured, driving
back the Turkish advance line.
The mountainside for three miles
spouted flame, the shrapnel from
the Turkish cannon, the humming
song of the quick -firing guns, rip-.
ped and tore through the advanc-
ing lines, The town was carried,
and the Turkish lines fell back un-
der Over of their guns.
Crouching and Clinging
She Was Admired Everywhere,
and it is said that one of the princes
of the reigning house of Servia was
madly infatuated with her, so much
that he sought again and again to
meet her.
But there was another, a youth
named Dmitri, his other name be-
ing ignored in the brief dispatches.
Dmitri was Russian, or rather his
father was Russian and his "mother
a Bulgarian, who resided in Bel-
grade. From what can be learned
Dmitri was not the ideal hero. In
fact, it ie intimated that, but for
the urging of _the girl he never
would have entered the army, but
would have sought to escape the
<tango.es by claiming citizenship
with Russia.
When the war cloud lihat .has hov-
ered for twenty years over the Bal-
kans broke and little Servia sprang
to arms Sophia was one of the moat
ardent patriots. There were three
young men avowedly suitors for her
hand, and to eiteh of them sho gave
the same order—not to ask .her to
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clergymen, all sorts and condition
of men, students, boys in the gra
mar schools, wero flocking to th
colors, and iu the rush to fill th
regiment Sophia Yovanovitseh
under the name of Alexandre, w
received without suspicion. Sh
had practised at drill with he
younger brother, Who was an o
cer, and oho had been hunting i
the mountains with her 'father.
Among the raw recruits stn
shone, and none suspected that th
slender, lithe, bright-eyed soldie
was one of the beauties of Belgrad
in disguise_ Ou the day that th
brigade marched out of Merderi t
go to the front Sophia saw Dmitri
He was in another detachment o
the same regiment. She recognize
him, but he knew nothing of he
nearness. It developed afterward
that he had called to see her after
enlisting only to find the househol
in an uproar because of her disap
pearanoe, .
tiler .father was an officer in th
regiment, her brother a petty
cer, and her sweetheart a private
One of the other men who sough
her hand in marriage also, was a
petty officer, and the girl, sur-
rounded by friends, was compelled
to hide her identity,
w
Not a suspicion of her sex as
raised,. She bore the hardships of
the journey through Bulgaria and
.the hard work of the regiment when
it joined the allied forces.
The brigade to which belonged
the regiment in. which Sophia was
serving was hurried to the Bulgar-
ian border and went with the first
detachment of,Serb infantry that
jainecl tilt Bulgarians under Gen -
oral Savoff, The battalion, forming
the right wing with
Two Battalions of Bulgarians,
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supported three batteries of Serb
artillery.
There were a dozen ski trashes,
the advances of the allies against
the Turks being rapid, and the
fighting for nine days was almost
constant, with scareely a cessation,.
ns the Bulgarians pressed forward,
eager to engage in a decisive strug-
gle to throw the Titrk back upon his
capital.
What happened to Sophia Yovan-
ovitech during those days of hall
marches, rough camps and steady
fighting no one: knows. But at some
time Sh() met in the ranks a prince
whose name, according to the des-
patches, is fiitephauo and whose
identity is not revealed save that he
is closely related to the reigning
house of Servia. Whether the
prince discovered that Sophia. Yo-
vanovitseh was 51 woman Or not is
not revealed. Probably not, but it
is said that he was attractdd to the
lithe, blight faced private and that
he secured 'a proanotion and a tent
for her,
Ono night the allies lay in battle
formation below the foothills of a
range of mountains. Half way up
the elope of the mountains, above
the valley through which the rail-
way and a little rivet run, was the
little tonin of Lula Burgles, • On t]te.
1
lie hts
S
wft the Turkish `�, ll 11
g all
artillery,
chiefly
-
byGermans, G r la s, ails,
the guns formed the chief dread of.
the allies,
They '],new that ti'a: morrow
would see a great struggle, The op-
partunity for which llulge ie, •Sera
via end the Balkan peoples hem
waited fol i 1 siar:itiees was at hand:
The deMoereay of the allies lyse
shown that night, College. profes-
sors, wearing the uniforrne oi` pri-
vates, sat with princes, ,The fisher-
*men, the wood ehoppot's, the get -
donate mingled freely with n1e11 to
whom et Roma they had bowed,
The great chance llnd'eoino--the
chance that made than all.alike ill
the, service of ,their country, 'The
Sorb and the. Bulgarian, the sullen,
to the steep hillside, half hidden i
the vineyards, the Serbs rested
panting.. The grapes were torn to
shreds by the Turkish fire, shells
and solid shot ripped the earth
around them. And close in the
£rant rank of the Serbs was Sophia
Yovanovitseh—and but a few paces
from her was Dmitri. It is told
now that the girl hada told her lover
that morning she would be close to
him and that she would kill him
with her own hands if he showed
weakness.
• Walking back and forth, erect,
smiling, smoking a cigarette, was
the other man, Stephan°, waiting,
It was just noon when the word
came for the final assault. Ste-
phano' tossed aside itis cigarette
laughed and called a challenge t
the young Bulgarian in the next
company. Along four miles of bat-
tl
n
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she was dead and, tearing her uni-
form open, discovered her secret.
He adds that Stophano was nearby.
and told the story of the death of
Dmitri, the coward, in, the goat pas-
ture, and ordered the wounded girl
cared for.
When she recovered from the
slight wound Sophia Yovanovitseh
refused to return home. She want-
ed to continue. in the ranks. Ste-
phan° refused, but, bowing finally
to her will, ordered her to work in
the field hospitals. She is there at
the front now, toiling with the
wounded, and, the correspondent
adds, Stephan visits his injured
soldiers much more frequently
than before.
In Belgrade they are waiting the
return of Sophia to make her the
heroine of Servia.
s
STREET NOISES IN PEKIN.
Street 'Vendors Raise Bedlam of
Sound.
An analysis of the street noises of
Pekin has been made by the eorres-
pendent of an American newspaper
and ought to be useful when the
anti -noise crusade reaches the
Orient.
The great cause of confusion he
finds is the various street vendors,
each of whom' is armed with a noise -
producing instrument by which lie
advertises his trade. The barber
has two prongs of steel through
which he draws a spike and thus
makes a loud whir. The seller of
sweetmeats holds in his right hand
two brass cups which he jangles
together. The buyer of old clothes
taps a small drum with a bit of
bamboo, getting by this combina-
tion a plunk, plunk, that attracts
trade. The elan who has wicker
baskets to sell beats half a gourd;
with a drumstick, the clothes seller
swings a drum which has two bits
of metal attached to it by strings,
the toy dealer strikes a brass gong
of a peculiarly penetrating tone,
the knife grinder claps three blocks
of iron together, and the seller of
charcoal announces his coming by
a repeated tap, tap on a block of
wood.
The watchman introduces a little
variety. He is armed with a wood-
en drum, which he taps in different
measure to marls the different
hours of the night.
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CLEAR HEADED.
• Bead Bookkeeper Must be
Iloliable.
Tho thief bookkeeper in a large
a business house in one of our great
Western -cities speaks of the harm
coffee did for' him. (Tea is just as
injurious because it contains caf-
feine, the same drug founts in cof-
fee.)
"My wife and I drank ole.' first
cup of Postern a little over two
years age and we have used it ever
since, to the entire exclusion of tea
and coffee. It happened in this
way:
"About three anti it half years
ago I had an attack of pneumonia,
which left a memento in the shape
of dyspepsia, or rather, to speak
more correctly, neuralgia of the
stomach, My 'cup of cheer' had
always been coffee or tea, but I. bo-
nnie convinced, after a time, that
they aggravated my stomach
trouble. I happened to nrentioh
the platter to my groper one day
and he suggested that I give Pos-
tern a trial.
"Next day it came, but the cook
made the mistake of not boiling it
sufficiently, and we did not like it
much, This was,_ however, soon
remedied, and now we like it so
much that we will never change
back, Postum, being a food bever-
age instead of. a drug, has been the
means of banishing .my stomach
trouble, I verily believe, for 1 am.
a well man to -day and have used no
medicine.
' "My work as chief bookkeeper in
our Co,'s branch house here is of
a very confining nature. Daring
'i '
tatfee dr Ulan days
myJ was s l-
sib
g
Vent o tlet}ou nus and i s s n[ the blew)/
i
These have left 'rne since 2 began
using Postern, and I can consci-
entiously recommend it to those
whose work confines them .to long
hours of severe mental exertion,"
Name given by Canadian Pest=
Co., Windsor, Ont,
"Tht+tea.. a "005011," and itis ex-
plained ioi the little' book,' "The
Road to il't•livitle," in pkgs,
aver read the above letter? n new one
'appears from time to time, They ars
abnulne, truer and full of human interest,
y 'ft less
,A0)• Landlord 1V111 ;roll .You Ma,
t alto
Spots on the parlor wane may bel ,"D .
rutted effectively by hanging ,pin•• bun
eves over `them, 1 tox•
o
o front the cry Ra Nos rang—and
the Balkans sprang at the throat
of the hated Turk.
The- ]English correspondent who
saw and described that' mad charge
declares nothing like it ever was
seen in the world's history.- The
wrongs of centuries, the lust of ven-
geance 'seat the allies forward.
They cried, laughed, and screamed
Na Nast as they poured; upward
through the grain field and the
vineyards. The Turkish cannon
poured death upon them—and they
came on. a
According to one who told the
story at Belgrade, out there in a
little open goat pasture was enact-
ed a scone that will live in the his-
tory of Servia. Dmitri, the coward,
stopped and starte•cl to flee. In an.
instant Sbephano sprang towards
him, sword upraised, and at that
moment Sophia Yovanovitseh was
between them.
"I claim the privilege," she said.
And, as Dmitri sank upon his
knees, she fired her rifle and he
fell dead. Saluting the girl turned
again to the attack.
Only. o few, hundred: yards ,above
the cannon roared, the hill being so
steep that the muzzles could not be
depressed to get full effect, The
allies, seeing the advantage, press-
ed upward. The Germans directing
the Turks swore in giittur'als, and
one by one the Lulls .fell or trod.
The Gevmens• cermet and stack to
tate gnus,
They Were Ilu'etl to ll,ie..
jltith s rush the, allies broke
through the guns, Sophia Yovano-
vitseh was among the first., She
sprang toward_ ti .liege Tm'lcish gen-
tler and drove 'He bayonet at trim,
At that'.inetant lie bred a,emell arm
anal ]:tuned to lice. Sophia Pell
close ander the. Inuszle of the gun,
and tisilia, the-'setzed her rifle and
ailed avail amid again.
They foaled ]ler after the ursuit
was ended, crumpled n Clete to the
t p
great goo' she had 'eaptered, ' The
oorrespo.tldent says a doctor from
Belgrade, amble tit. 'alit hospital
corps;. found her; stopped to see if
Lord
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compelled to lead the >ltreilUaua iNTEResT1NC 'BITS of 00salP FROM
A LIBERAL LORD. [� 1 gp�r�y hVv
Crewe, as Liberal leader JOUR LETTER FROM TORO, TO
Hard d iQ Please
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life tlul:ug the next few months.
lapen lues will devolve lire ditty of THE 'QUEEN CITY.
piloting through. the LVpprr Huuse --
several measures which are known n Creat Hopkev season Tne Northern "Now I'm going to have my own
to he highly obnuxi,nra to th- ma- ow OW -Montreal opera company-• bay and call Dr, woraearth ttw," de-
jurity of his brother peei'x. Lord IYIllllonalres' Hobby, oiSi.oh.d Mrs. J e nefebeeteel with def
cision. You've negleete�l yourself
In spite of the unusual mild .winter, long enough, and if yogi don't hlyve
for suet a fight, fur' he is suave an Tor,
Crewe is extremely well equipped
Toronto Las had the
gleatost hockey Alai;
proper treatment ou
Jauntier, but atJ'Ong in pni'p°ae, and son, over, thanks, to the nrU otal loo rink Y '1l- be down
whet to now a part of 110 sparttng para. with pneumonia ar sclluethin'g,"
is, moreover, an excellent debater. pl)arnatut. It Lal had amateur tookoy 1f 2 had a sick horse I wouldn'k
Lord Crewe's abilities are in-on�professional4 5 u oluelous w otitth ' rroim trust it in Siarbattla's hands," limited, for his father, the first the a1)eptaioi,, point Of view the amateur
o 7Lc re"
Baron Honght°n, was - an able i,ot'key has been onueo more aatiefaotory. piled �'&mesR*orthy, �' ;[ion t want
rite td01 of the matter is tbat COOada a any measly old ohirufigeon piroating
writer alts, politician, Educated fol' tl5o )iatio)ial gamee, ho0key and lacrosse, around here, presoi•fhin filth
public life at Harrow and C:am- do not appear t<) lend thpmselves 10 pro- aro s g y
reseionaluam, i•'or end thing.thvy aro too g and charging a dollar a min -
bridge, he entered the political strenuous, The opportunities for the hired' ate, If you'll just keep.hand off
arena during the Liberal ,Adminis- 0100 'ilia 1,5 o,t eiuslno born 000dgrerminat and leave me alone, Wiry. James-
tration of 1880-88, as ane of the as- ttou to uphold the' honor of 0100'0 tows worthy, I'll be right side up with
sistant private secretaries to Lord or alai? a: ran aay man through a game care in a day or two. If there's
p£ thekes er of lacrosse, Then team play
Granville, From 1892-95 he was Is the 0000000 of ball, successful hockey anything more exasperating than a
Lord -Lieutenant of Ireland, and his and. eucorsalui laarosoe. Bosebau le 015. married woman 1 don't know what
fermi, There Avery man. is judged on hie
record in this difficult office was Individual plays, a record of which is it is. Her husband can't sneeze
such that he was rewarded with an aaenas onhliieoorruraSanaho n6uca Seen but she wants to ring up all the
earldom- in 1895. He has written Authorities say that the best amateur Piljamnlers in town and run him,
much on Irish problems, and he is 10001,03, teams nearing in Toronto 'ala. into debt up to his bald spot,
certain to be ane of the most hril- fess ouelaid amsat the Leads off•• th6 pro• <+Things have aam0 10 a prat,
liant spokesmen for elle Horne Rule della 02101wortgames in the
0. II. A.0, we °w � pass if a loan can't enjoy a liktle
bill in the Lords. a new sensation to see 5,000 people, an sick spell in his own humble home
When the Liberals returned to comtortahly "dated in a tremendous am• without having ,to be bullyragged
nhitheatre, watching a hockey match, The and badgered in tf1i
office, Lord Crown entered the Cab- arttaetai Ice, ,tnce the open0pg Gaye :tact ge a way. It was
fan, wbon preliminary difficulties- were far different when I was a bachelor.
discovered, has been entirely eatisfaotory
and. presents, rain or Ahine, mild or *old, Then, if I was -feeling under the
it as"llen,utltut a sheet of Sae asee.s ono 6oatd weather, I could repair to .my own
boudoir and smoke and rest and
Lord Crewe.
inet as Lord President of the Coun- ,,,
cit, a somewhat nebulous lost to ie understood that financially the visit of
1 5310 company has 0005 =taboo/it
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which no department is attached, ae it might have boon. At nearly 0very
but which enables its owner t° un- performance there were a largo number
of vacant seats, and it i0 said on one
des -take a roving commission over.
evening alone a loss of 31,000 wan acea-
every department. Thus it fell to eioued ono explanation of the failure of
the company to puck the*house at every
his lot to take charge of the Edo- performance le sai5 to bo the scale of
cation bill in the Gilded Uhamber, nOices that provail. Orrhestrn chairs
wero placed on ease at x$3.00 cart, running
and the manner in which he han- down to $x,15 for a tow raw, at 1310 very
clued that measure aroused the ell- back of the house, Box seats were charged
for at th,. Oslo of 35,00 a ebatr, gore's': thusiossm of his friends. Though figured tl•:•t 0e. the Lenton season society
the bishops could hardly love him }souls, turn cut to toll farce at,d it lt til
they found him a most courteous op-
ponent and one whose epigrams
enlivened many a dull debate. In
1908 he was appointed Secretary of
State fax the Colonies, and he now
watches over the destinies of India
Mr. Hearst and New entarea have a good. time until I wad fit
So far as announced, the department of again, and no frenzied female. could
Lands and Mines has not yet taken any g'
steps to refute the charges made by Pro- order 'in a doctor or hold my nose
reeeor Fernow that there is danger' of nu -
wise settlement beingand our atent medicine into m
permitted in the $ P Y
great Clay Belt *f Northern Ontario. pro- person. A man sacrifices every
Lessor Peruow, of course, did not condemn privilege when 110 gets married.
the entire area which is understood to.
extend to some 20,000,600 acres, and on "You know how deeply preju-
whioh bright hopes for the fnturt of diced I am ,against doctors, They
Northern Ontario have been bacon, but to
thoao who heard him he was le sections have insane theories about germs
as to the point that considerable eoctthat and microbes which don't have the
of it were unfit Por settlement and .that
It Is up to the Department to diserimle- &pf my approval, Mrs, James-
010` worthy. Wee all know .:that these
Tbere are not wanting sign" that the
new Minister of Lands nod Mines is some- g6'1
theories are bunk. If a nr,iin
what more Interested In the western .part falls i11 he tan trace his sickness tb
of Northern Ontario than he le in the
district along the Temiskaming and its cause without any trouble. My
Northern Ontario Railway, which has present indisposition. was caused by
the a b be,with
then, in the minds of atatrdin On the rah in m 1
public, with floe name of New Oe. g y eh rt
,axle. Mr. Beast comes from Adult Ole. sleeves while a north wind was
Marie himself, and may be pardoned for blown and there wasn't -a germ
perhaps having a little jealousy of the g,
North Bay to Cochrane arca on his own in- sight. Yet if Dr. Starbottle or.
account. He has apnarontiy 5100 been lin'
pressed with the protests el the residents any other old calomel fan ean'te,
of Port Arthur, Port Wilriam and the sur. here he'd say that germs did the.
rounding inerritory against 0o mush pub- trick, and would dope me accord-
Grandthey also aresincluded.Temiakaminunless ingly with deadly poisons; The
Opera Loses Mousy, doctors nowadays never prescribe
tion known as the
Toronto bas been en
ire ag three weeks: anything but deadly poisons.. Their
of grand opera by the Canadian oraaui r one ambition is to kill the alleged
germs, and it never .seems to occur
to them that the 40 -rod dope that
will kill the germs is liable to kill
the ;patient, too.
"Things were different when I
was young. Then every woman who
was old enough to be a wife and
mother knew the medicinal quali-
ties of all the herbs and plants
within ten versts. She was skilled
in yarbs and .simples and alhe knew
how to brew a harmless tea. that
would make an invalid get up and
crack his -heels together and yell
with ,happiness. She never had
heard. of this germ foolishness and
was the wiser for it. Aly mother
knew more about medicine than all
the doctors in this country, If I
had a bad. cold, as I have now,
she'd go to the hedges and high-
ways and collect an apronfui of
burdock and bull thistles and osage
orange and other products of na-
ture's ]aboratorr, and then she'd
stew then for two or three hours
and band me the broth in a dipper,
and when I had drunk that I'd
tighten my belt and go oat and
whip a brace of bobcats,
"The old-fashioned family paid
out mighty little for medical atten-
dance. The doctor never was sum-
moned unless it was necessary to
have a leg sawed off or something
like that. The mother always did
the doctoring and didn't charge a
kopeck for it, so the •head of the
house had a chance to put a few
coins in the savings bank. : Times
have ehanged and the wife and nio- '
11101' of the present day has but one
ambition, which is to see her hus-
band escorted to the poorhotts.e by
a deputy sheriff. You knots very
will .that I don't need any' doctors.
All you want is to run up a big bill
that will. set me back like every-
thing.''
''Tbi' years and years," said illus.
Jamesworthy, "you have been ridi-
euliilg the home-made remedies you
had to take when you were a boy.
There never was each a contrary
mortal, And nowe I'm going to call
tip the lector." .
"Have your. own way, mndinl,"
cried Jamesworthy, dramatically,
"When you are bending over any
cold clay, seeing thee, ray white' ora"
vat is on sti•otgeht, perhaps ,you'll
wish you hadn't 'harried ine to
death."
the 33.00 and 51.00 seats, But epcitty did
not respond as aspected. It was rem -
razed that many real music lavers could
not as a rule afford to pay this price, but
it was figured that they would bo con-
tent with gallery seats.
Whether this year's experiment will re-
sult in a change of poily y in the future
or whether the opera organization will
continue as a permanent Canadian tusti-
In succession to Lord Morley, tution remains f<) be seen. •
Lord Crewe took as his second nowt Like Looking Foolish,
wife the youngest laughter of the Asa ntattrr of fact, the opera.lovtng
nuhlia in Toronto is not large yet. Pro -
Earl of Rosebery-. Lady Crewe bably ono of the chief reasnns is that
there Is a very small population which
understands anything but the English
language, and ae in the good productions
English Is never used, moot people are in-
clined to feel foolish in listening to hours
of entertainment, the word" of which they
d,
' a cn0 , o npatby, be0arlae
cial Council, and as a hostess she et the fact that the opera company hates
is a valuable Pram 11Iontreal. where it has the support
whose birthday falls on New Year's
Day, is a witty and clever woman,
who has been of the greatest assist-
ance to her husband in hie political
career'. She has taken an active d<Ecnside,.tilseretid nt' be lust a tittle, if
part in the work of the Liberal So not jealousy t 1 t f '
asset to her husbands 0f ('el Meig11on and other millionaires.
party. So fat• thry have had mile fat deficits to
tape care of, and it may bo they will tire
of the task. However, they have the sat-
isfaction of knowing that they have
THE y , staged the greatest operas in the world
ll$E SPRING (11.IPl Ii(. on a trier magnificent scale. The stag -
OF }IOIty,I;g, ing. orchestration and choruses could
hardly he improved upon, and the artists
aro fruni amour the best to he had in the
The modern practice among the world, with cure passible oeceptlan of three
or four, snob as Canon, and 2'ettrnzfnM.
best posted and most progressive There isnodoubt that the organization
horse owners and farmers is to clip uO llto e aio i 1 loneeplritptt uaalateai It l 10
all horses in the spring. Ie is done harxel that some m00ns w111 be toned of
011 the theol;v that in their natural making Osl'el tuent tli6 mpaniaatimi en n
purely Canadlaue basso, )lartion1ss'l If It
state horses. were net obliged to results in spenfal in.tontion being paha to
work, s° could shed the winter coat the deeolonment of Canadian artist,,
in comfort over a period cif several ,�_
weeks. Since we oblige them to de
hard'worl; oil warm spring clays, Causer Prismaiir. Sun -sets.
the winter coat should be removed . sometimes at sunset the whole
for the same reason that we lay off at-
mosphere resembles an immense
our. heavy winter garments, screen of prismatic colors, begin -
Clipped horses dry off rapidly, uiltg,overhead }with blue, then turn -
mg green lower dawn, then orange
till lower, and finally red near the
horizon. The ane -common stelae
of all this magnificent display of
colors is the white light of the sun,
whose waves, of various lengths
and 'various t'apidities of vibration,
are transmitted and refected in
varying degrees by the atmosphere
and the vapors floating in it.
hence they do not take cold as easily
nor are they as prone to be affected
with othet 'ailments as unclipped
animals whose longer hair holds
the perspiration for hours. Bemuse
clipped horses dry off rapidly they
rest better, get more good from
their' food and come out in the
morning refreshed and at for
work,
Since the advent of the ball bear-
ing enclosed gealr• clipping ma-
chine, the work of felting off the
winte • teat r c't.e
r is .ass With 1 '
t t ihr inn-'
thine a horse can be Clipped l all
ever in half an hoer, whereas with
the old two -band clipper it required
several hairs io do it.
Dairymen also now clip the cows
ell oyer two or three times a year,
The Tanks and udders are. clipped
every three or four weeks, se it is
easy to elven the pelts before.
milking. This means less opportu-
nit;y for dirt and athet impurities,
i< get into the milk.
it,
Son, you will never be rich an -
you learn to profit by your
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Cri r1[ rled,
A tramp approached an old gen.
tleivan who was retaining in a com-
fortable armchair ori his verandah.
"Please help a poor cripple, sir:"
he whined, The old gentleman slow-
ly thrust his hand into ids picket
as lla .gazed with anxious .concern
at the ' miserable -looking objeet
standing before him. "Blossrue,
why, of• course ;" 710' said ' a3 he
handed him e coin. "i -tow .are you
crippled, my poor fellow 1" Pocket-
ing the money tluirkly, the :tramp
replied, ^henanclaily crippled,
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No doubt the loafer thinks Ilia is
the outs% gerstti0ic simpe life,