The Brussels Post, 1913-8-14, Page 64`And Ever Upon the Topmost Rbof
the Banner of England Flew:"
JTbe general got to his feet
akily; Of late an increasing
t3 meas in Ms labs wapltetl him
that theimitecd activity of 86 yeses
(permitted wad lessening, says
Chambers'sournal.
On the tale lay the flowers, a
big bunch of red and white roues,
We -hest money could buy. He
sniffed thein appreciatively and
fingered the white silk streamer
with a red lettering attached to the
stems.
"Read it to me," he commanded,
and the servant read: "And ever
upon the topmost roof the banner
of England flew."
"At, ay," said the general, com-
placently, "it's true. Mrs. Frowde
and I both knew it."
A raw October day met him when
he issued forth, blit he was well
muffed up and heeded it not. Self-
absorbed, he :stepped into the wait
ing taxi; and Henderson, laying
the flowers on the front seat, shut
him in.
Lady BurreIre butler was on the
lookout, and the visitor had hardly
descended, clutching his flowers,
ere the man was beside him, reliev-
ing hint of his charge. "Her• lady-
ship is out, sir, at present; but Pin
expecting her back every moment.
I'll tell Furse Palmer you're
here."
"How is Mrs. Frowde 1"
"About the same, sir, I believe."
The nurse came to him in the
downstairs drawing -room, a tall,
good-looking woman, with the pla-
cid face and capable air that mark
the model, sick -room attendant. "1
don't think I can let you see my pa-
tient to -day, general," she said at
nnce.
"What! Hot see Mrs. Frowde
to -day? On her birthday! Non-
sense! Why, I've not missed it
since— She'd be hurt not to see
me."
-Her memory is failing. I delft
think she'll know you."
"Not know me! Nonsense!"
"She's getting a little childish,"
said the nurse, gently, "but I'll
take her these lovely flowers, I'm
sure she'll enjoy them,!'
"Childish!" echoed the general.
"I don't believe it. Mrs. Frowde
childish! Gad, young lady, if you'd
been in the Lueknow residency 54
years ago—only, of course, you
'weren't born—and seen her nursing
the wounded, sustaining the last
hours of the dying, entertaining
and cheering us men in our scanty
hours of release from the trenches,
never despairing, always bright and
sniffing and hopeful! The Florence
Nightingale of the siege, Child -
jell ;"
"She's 54 years older," said the
nnrse, with a deprecating smile.
"H. Wever, general. if you insist—"
insist on. seeing my old friend
on her birthday and offering her my
congratulations and homage."
Wrapped in a purple robe, she
lay in an invalid chair near the lire
staring at the flames with a face
utterly void of expression. While
f.er body obstinately- lingered on
earth her mobilo mind came and
went, her senses were blurred and
almost dead ; she had outlived
ei'erything but life itself.
The nurse, stopping, said loudly
in her ear. "Here's the general
come to see you, Mrs. Frowde."
'.Fanny 1' said the visitor, ad-
v,aneinee
The voice struck a chord of mem-
ory and for a moment the wrinkled
countenance became animated ;
perhaps she recalled the days when
she had listened to it during the 87
days of the first 'siege. that siege
with only three days without a cas-
ualty list. "Seen!" she whispered.
He took her hand and kissed it
reverently.
The tragedy of his life wee in that
salute, Her husband had been hie
brother officer and friend, and to
that friendship, though he loved
anny, his loyalty, had been , life-
ong.
A time there had been when the
temptation to try to win her from
Frowde had come to him, but a
eel, fain memory stayed him—a
memory of the siege.
In its earliest days, when the
story of Cawnpore had• filtered in
that blackest page in the book of
Britain's history--Frowde, in his
• wife's presence, had asked his com-
rade and best friend, if he survived
the speaker, to kill runny with his
own hand' when the residency fell,
for fall they then feared it must.
Fanny had religious scruples as
to' taking her own life, but infinite-
ly preferred to die by the hand of
her husband or of his comrade ra-
ther than fall into the power of the
rebels, She told them so, a hand
t.:
f.1 eaolr of theirs, her dark,tired
eyes tihinfugsombrely in her white,
• dl:wn fart, •
At was ifrowde who diad stood be-.
,�iveen �}ihe 'ollnjj ot `ali-
nous--- itnn' 'wa4 b;erodes Vifo.
Yet in after years he etlmetimea
sinned he J'« mensber how he watch-
ed .over Captain 1rewde, how the
fear of having to keep his sworn
word heel haunted hien waleing and
'sleeping, like a fldg*btmare, 01.14.1)6W
he prayed that Tack would outlive
hien:
He would manoeuvre to keels his
friend out of the forlorn hopes.
I3:iaaself he would (Imbrue them.
No man, pave Belly, the mad Irish-
man, as heas called, risked his
life eagerly and recklessly, or
left the lines tsb frequently cu ooun-
ter-assaults on the houses from
which the eepeys fired upon the
garrison, as Captain Frowd•e's com-
rade.
He and. Helly and a faithful na-
tive, Kelly's shadow, used to steal
out at dawn with a bag of gun-
powder, approach the house whence
the firing particularly annoyed the
besieged, blow up thee door with the
powder, rush in, and; put the rebels
to death by the sword.
Incredible to relate -but the true
story of the siege of Luckno•w is
more incredible than any fictitious
tale—they did this again and again,
and came back alive, red to the el-
bows with alien blood. tater, Kel-
ly fell fighting under Havelock.
But "Ever upon the topmost roof
the banner of England flew," and
the skirl ofthe bagpipes—ah, mem-
orable day1—"Outram and Have-
lock breaking their • way through
the fell mutineers," lifted the grim
shadow of tlhat'p1omise.
Fanny lived, the general lived,
Frowde lived. It was 30 years later
when the parting came, and Colo-
nel Frowde, full of years, died of
pneumonia, peaceably in his bed.
"It's your birthday, Fanny, you
know," the general said. "I've
come to see you, and I've brought
you a few flowers. There aren't
many of your birthdays I've missed
since '67, eh?"
But Mrs. Frowde answered not;
her eyes had again turned to the
fire; her mind was voyaging in un-
known seas. She was past hearing,
part caring.
At that moment Lady Burrell
came in. "My dear general, for-
give me for not being in when you
arrived," she said. 'I was delay-
ed," Also the visitor was early.
"Tea is coming up. I'm afraid this
isn't one of mamma's good days.
But I'm here, you now," and she
smiled into his face. "Anel I was
in the siege. I rememher•his carry-
ing me in. his arms," she explained
to the nurse.
The nurse tactfully begged to
!hear from the general's lips the
story of the first of three gatherings
54 years ago, and the old man, with
a flash of interest, plunged into the
recital:
More were eight of them that
day—''not counting you, my dear;
you were too small to count ;" this
to Lady Burrell—Captain Frowde
and himself, two civilians, three
ladies, besides the giver of the tea
party.
A precious ounce of tea had been
hoarded for the occasion, and there
were slices of ham, and flat cakes
baked by one of the native ser -
vents. But the crowning joy of the
feast was thedue te
general.
By means, he declined to partic-
ularize, he had seeured and brought
them a handful of sugar—sugar
was alinost as precious as pure gold
at that- time --and in their sweeten-
ed tea they toasted their hostess,
who in reply invited them to tea on
her next birthday and every sue-
ceeding one as long as she lived.
The general had missed a few of
these birthdays since—five when he
held the Canadian appointment,
one when he was at Gibraltar, and
one when Mrs. Frowde lay serious-
ly ill with influenza, That was
about all ; but Penny and Brandon
and Mrs. Thwaite did not come the
next year—death had claimed them;
Mies Hope had been dead many
years, and Mrs. Luttrell at least
ten.
Gradually, as they grew older,
the birthday tea, in the eyes of the
two survivors, assumed an ever-
growing importance. The general
would not have missed it for a
king's ransom, and Mrs. Frowde
took extra care of hereelf for fear
she should catch cold and not be at
her best and brightest on the great
day.
The two old folk and Lady Bur
rell, whom they still unconsciously
regarded es a child, would drink
tea together, end the past would
rise up; the flies, the vile edorsof
the dead cattle they could not
evade, the overercwding, the
scanty food, the ever -brooding ex-
pectation of death and the loss of
friends, who, .ono death,
one, by bullet
or pestilence, had left the survivors
to fight on.
The memory of it was like a bad
dream, and yet something to be
proud of; they, the old man and
the old woman, had email in their
own wayfought for Britain, fht $ n, aril
their names were linked together
lyith the imperishable record of the
siege,
But soon the 'general's voice fal-
tered; the story of the brave days
of old did not come readily to his
tongue. Lady Burrell had to take'
it tip end talk while his eyes wist-
fully arrayed again and again to
Fanny, blind to hhe'presene'e, deaf
to the tale, dumb Wien the siege
was the topic of. conversation.
Tears gathered in his eyes,
He looked s�9,a aid end frail stand-
ing in the hall that Lady Burrell
said she would, accompany him
home, and wee about to bid ce told
be, called, but he stopped her:,
"I'm going to walk home, and I
prefer to be axle,he 1144..
Against; her will, Lady ,Burrell let
him go., The 'world celled her domi-
neehng, and her husband, who
liked a quiet life, gave in to her;
but she never withstood the gen-
veal; There are some impressions
that never die, and that of the bi
kindly soldier who carried her
his aims at the .elege of Lnoknow
lingered. His wish was law.
The general marched Of with a
fine assumption. of heel'tband ac-
tivity. But inwardly hp. as it
stricken mat, There 'would kis nd
more visits to Mrs, Frowde, tag
More teas on her birthday to look
forward to.is old friend mi • ht
live a while, but would never be
the same again:
Henceforth there would, be a big
hideous blank in his life, He would;
be very lonely; he would feel ever
more acutely the disability of age
creeping upon him, Perhaps in
two years, if he lived, he would be
like Mrs, Frowde, helpless es an
infant, dependent upon other,
It came to him in a sudden flash
of knowledge, that they, Mrs.
Frowde and himself, had lived too
long, Their Contemporaries were
dead, and they had in a sense out-
lived their faculties. An old wo-
man in her dotage, and a frail old
than who would soon be too weak
to dress himself without assistance.
By this time he had come to Pic-
cadilly. Before his eyes ran the
gleaming lights of the passing vehi-
cles. He stopped and looked at
them with unseeing eyes;'his mind
was back in Lueknow residency in
siege time, in the days when ho
was young and, hale, and the leader
of eounter-assaults.
As in a reverie he suddenly saw
Kelly standing beside him, pluck-
ing at his sleeve and pointing, and
to 1 it was gray dawn, and they
were outside the lines and under
the shadow of the (louses whence
the rebels fired upon them. Surely
it was from this house that the shot
came that killed Lieutenant Clark
the day Before ?
Bank! A loud report. Ah, Kelly
had fired the train and the shatter-
ed door fell slowly! He saw that
the way lay open, and, sword in
hand, he sprang forward shouting,
"Follow me, lads! Follow mei"
The traffic eastward was stayed,
for the motor 'bus pulled up in the
middle of the road, and a small
crowd, including a policeman, had
gathered in front of it round the
prong figure. The driver, his hon-
est face white under has cap, lean-
ed over the wheel.
"As God's my judge, it wern't
my fault. He jumped right into
the roach hallooin' like a madman."
"That's' truth ye'ro sayin',
mate," a weedy -looking loafer
chimed in. "1 see'd 'im, an' I'll
swear to it. 'E fair committed sui-
cide. 1 'Card a motor beck fire, go
off like a cannon, an' turned an'
saw 'im. 'E chucked'isself in front
e' yer. Silly old josser!"
' "Hero, none of that," said the
policeman, sharply, as he straight-
ened himself and took command of
the situation. "He's an offieer, or
I'm mistook. Don't you speak like
that 'c him."
The pride of the army man was in
his voice. He looked at the luck-
less driver, "Let's have your
name and address."
Someone, muttering "I'm a doe -
tor," lead knelt beside the fallen
soldier. He now stood up, saying
briefly, "Dead from shock. He was
a very old man."
A tall, well-dressed gentleman
overlooking the scene fronh the
pavement, pushed his way forward,
glanoed down and cried out, "It's
the general!"
"You know him, sir i" respect:-
fully asked the policeman.
"Yes, I knew 'him well ; he was
my father's old friend and brother
officer, a most distinguished eel-
dier."
Then, addressing the driver, he
saki : "You've killed ono of the her-
oes of the Indian mutiny with your
cursed Car of Juggernaut; e. man
who won the V.C. in India over 50
years" ago, and went through the
liege of Lucknow."
"It weren't my fault," sullenly
repeated the driver. "God knows
it weren't my fault." •
The face was very peaceful; he
seemed to be asleep, It was the
face of a soldier resting after vic-
tory. They laid him in his narrow
bed; and Henderson placed his
various medals and decorations on
his breast. '
Lady Burrell came later and,
with blurred eyes, put into the fold-
ed hands a bunch of red and white
roses, Attached to the stems was a
longwhite to ri boon, whereon Was
written in red letters :' "And ever
upon the topmost roof the banner.
of England flew."
Selected Smile -Molten.
"Murumy, I'd like to be as fat as
that woman when I grow up."
"Why so, dearie 1"
'"'Cos than I suhoilldn't hurt •my-
self when I fell out of bed,"
THE WORLD IN REVIEW
AR orcling be tiro daily papeii, tl
qep velp p ooie4v evr11 o T�oripnto;
dgg r H isi? ata !veli Icgiown ppd
'abort, Pali illy With a yOung.maii
she had nouowu for mors lila
dpys fund got carried. Abe w C.1SNNffpu
hely taken home by ]ter papSii i
lett, day tier, ausbnn lyt,pppeare i
yoltce court evil li ride's fat et
hepar ng tq Ipsil a prooced n
eitpmp to ltpye t marrlue
T in acne o tamer ineidonte•i'e
h sort or i1s recterinehnGss that Id se.
It.elf in 4 an nkn society; but Cii
on ti t 4. e orm bud r41e utk
s e 111r5t o�c ap }��t71tt ho tiewepagert
iia o It p-flahodlaa prt}1s, tl, s pq
t �stoup to 3kaap a eteeies ant of pr - t•
to bo{ ig bI'�'e of the t utetagatltg d e•
n nisi1�tn �,{ya� t:cy .the nerve•
panels oe thi., og000lniry as �Oinnnarod to
these ot.o, ,}cel hbors to the 'mutat;
The fat 1n that nocprdil r, to.private gee,
Rip }hero are• e.nyy iutmoer e - it]]cidentd
do not,
in Torbtltc ani{ Itp tee al whish
do act t Orel pay oredia op tee stamina
and s undeea of Canadian oltaractar, One
frequently her the prediction that soma
day. if thing a on as they are, there
will be a trnger y in Canadian society, so
called, which may attract the attention of
the world.hese conditions apply only
to a certain.. mall set.
. One wopdei sometimes if It would not
be a good tlilng it Canada had cue real
"fellow" newspaper which would go after
tese proceedings and bring them to pub.
1attention. Perhaps the fear of pub.
Hefty and the light of day would be a
vastly more repressing Influence than have
been the laws 0f the land or respect for
morals.
The U. S. and Mexise
A good many people In Canada view with
suspioon the couductof the United States.
toward Mexico. It le not evident that
there is any ground for this suspicion ex-
cepting the feeling that the United States'
has not always been most considerate In
its attitude toward Canada, and that per-
haps if §§be saw a good chance to absorb
Mexico she would not be. averse to taking
it. Such critics point out that the United
States obtained the Panama Canal zone
by tactics that were not altogether free
from criticism, that she has more recently
obtained a protectorateoverNiearagua be
the same methods and that she would
not be averse now to cleaning up the map
from the 49th parallel to the Isthmus of
Panama by enuring a status in Mexico.
It ought to be aaid that so far as out-
ward acts eo there doea not seem to be
the slightest ground for 51119 such neper.
sion with reepeet to her activities in Mex.
leo. Indeed, in England and in Europe
generally, the feeling is that the United
States is shirking Ler reeponsibility in not
having interfered long ago with the re-
volution ridden Country of Madero and
Huerta, particularly, when the lives and
da
propertnger.y of many foreign citizens are in
The Republican party 1s .generally cred-
ited with being in the 'United States the
Imperialist party, that is the party which
wants to branch out and become a figure
in world affairs, True, it was responsible
for the taking over of that waif of the
Pacific Ocean, the Phillipine Islands. But
it has to be remembered that It was the
Democrat party that caused the Venezuela
explosion. It would-be Watery reneating
itself if the Democrats, on their first re-
turn to power, got Into a mix up in.lifex•
ice. They play Jingo politica in the Uni-
ted States as well as other nieces.
A Big Municipal Enterprise.
If the City of Toronto's negotiations with
Sir William Mackenzie for the purchase of
the Toronto Street Railway and the To.
routo Electric Light Company go through,
11, will inaugurate ono of the largest ex-
periments in public ownership which have
been tried in Canada. The deal involvea
approximately $10.000,000, of which about
922,000,000 is for the Street Railway and
about 98,000,000 for the Electric Light Com-
pany.
Mayor Hocken and Sir William Macken-
zie have tow come to terms whichthey
have agreed to submit to their principals.
What the exact terms of tide agreement
are is not known yet. Sir William on his
pnrt will anhmlt the propose] to his share-
holders. The Mayor before leaving for a
holiday trip in Newfoundland, also passed
the aggreemett'over to expert valuators
who will eheck en the flguree, after which
it is to bo considered by the Provincial
Hydro Electric Commission.
'list what !Ion.. Adam Beek and his sol.
leagues will say to It is somewhat diffi-
cult to guess. They may come to the
conclusion that the deal prejudices the
rights of the other municipalities outside
Toronto now being served by the Hydro
Electric Commission. 31 they dome to such
a decision they may arouse thehostilityof Toronto's Mayor, who apparently be-
lieves that the deal will be a good thing
for everybody. and that if Toronto mute
to spend her money buying up these local
concerns 16 is nobodye business but Iter
own.
Ithe Hydro Electric Commission give
.theP ir approval it will ,help the reception
tlriclt the proposal will receive from the
citizens, for of course the whole propos!.
Mon bee to be voted on by the ratepayers
before it can zo into effect. It le expected
the vote will be reached about the last of
Santember., or perhaps some time in Coto..
bee, that is, providing the Hydro Electric
Comm1sefnn give the arrangement the
stamp of its approval.
Will be Opposition.
Undoubtedly there- will he vigorous op.
position tothe proposal. The Toronto
Telegram early showed its colors and is
opposing the whole business with char.
aeteristio vehemence.
l'ho chief criticism from n Toronto view
point is that the price quoted by Sir Wil-
liam Mackenzie is excessive. The Toronto
Street Railway franchise has but eight
mere years to .ren, and thongh the cone
ottbt100rraao0000ist
about yer$22,0,00o
big price to pay for an eight-year Iran.
ohfse. In 1921• when the franchise Oemea 10
au end, the City will get for nothing what
it is naked to pay something for new,
though at the same time it hue to be re-
membered that there Is the nosalbility in
1921 of a big argument over what the city
will be obliged to pay for the plant and
equipmentof the railway even after its
i
franchise s expatiated.
From a provincial point of Vine' the sit-
uation is' complicated by reaeou of the
fnet that the Street Railway and the Elec-
tric Light Company both have long. torn,
contracts with the Eleetrioal. Development
Company, the chief competitor of the
Provinioat hydro Electric Commission.
Before the matter is finally settled there
will no doubt be 5101110 warns dieeussion
and perhaps interesting developments.
Less couraggeous mayore would not have
tackled such a big problem, but Mayor
Hocken from the beginning of hla term
hie seemed determined to make his regime
mean something,
Visiting Englishmen.
A party of some twenty -English M. P.'s,:
with their wives and daughters,,Itave been
passing through Canada en rouse to Ails.
tralia, where they are t0 be the guests of
the ConlmonweoIth. • They had no mission
to Canada other than any alien. tourists,
being members of the Imperial Parliamen.
tary Union, it purely steeled organization.
The remarkable thing about the party
was the. extlOmo difficulty in ggetting any
of them to express an opinion on any
Political eubeect whatsoever. The exp0300.
,tion of this curious feet no doubt lay
in the fact that even theta small nem -
bore represented dlment every altade of po.
litloal opinion. including alike "Lords and
workingmen, Liberals and Udioniets, and
it Woeld have been, almost impossible to
have expressed any opinion on any no.
Iltfeal matter to which someone in the
part Would Stet heel taken violent ex.
Cap tiyon.
anspiotmua in the, party were two for.
mer oatculiaita, Hamar Greenwood, a grad•
rOf' Toronto University, and Donald
Waster, a graduate of McGill University,
of Matte mon have made distinct
encccssca In law and politics In England,
the former es a Liberal and the latter 50
,a Unionist, 110th ere comparatively young
Mott and luny be in lino for still ftinthor
honors. Greenweod is a partletllarly ag'
-emotive typo and his career- 00 a vont.
able romance, While Oapada Is the land
et sepertlmity for many a Donnllces im-
migrant, England proved t0 be the land
ef opportunity for, panne Greenwood wild,
es -hie arrival t1oro, wail rte tenni ads as
any ifnmigrant who got Poet' 18500 thes0
550„00. ITntlr,ntledJS' hie pull 503 3.315 stair
form, hale boon a 2o11re0 00 strengt,5 to ole
partyy.� Noldaeteg its morel of the ntellsat-
'inctype nth tee epntlq oxpooted to bu
inolny(ea. the 3 Cnlon sE Oahtne5
where • r It
ve 40 or 4 Pd,
gu yp Chet,r ill.p `t 40 embgre n�
tltyhi'�r wad W I Uroo hs Laltor
web tog Vo KWh; Peer or ponsue0,
IT plf aft,} 'rapid; He is hail fellow
r J�inn qqtr au Lord Sheffel ere.th
0 p�. ,pf hy pa�tq, b y ua $p 0
, c ort w 1110
towi . h 1 tell ftp rp s ho
pc s 9 lo0aLtlt to ` timer i1u uqlr c early
fh retb lead nronounoed "Ladleful Proollly
TUSSLE WITII MRS, EPHRAIIII:
An Engineer's Experleneo In Bids
Gish Columbia.
Grizly bears are not gat extinct
among the mountains of the far
West, ancb they aro fls tulsociable as
ever to the human beings who cas-
bally friake their acquaintance. The
Chief ,of a geological survey party,
camping on .Mineral Creek in Bri-
tish Columbia, ,is one of the latest
to suffer from their lack of cordial-
ity;
The engineer lied gone.out to ex-
amine the mountainside behind the
camps and select the best route by
which to climb it on the next day:
Presently he eat down on a log to
rest, wben, without the slightest
warning, a boar charged savagely
at him from some bushes;
As ho ,struggled to his feet, he
saw, a pair of cabs at one side and
behind hila, Unknowingly he had
sat down to rest between a female
grizzly aaid her young. Firing one
shot et the charging animal, he
rushed down the steep mountain-
side. The •bear'followed with such
determination that she actually
past him before .she could cheek
her speed, Instantly the man turn-
ed and ran back up the hill• As a
bear, however, can run faster up
hill than down., the huge beast
caught him quickly, and began to
.shake him much as a terrier shakes
a. rat. Luckily, the exertion made
the hear lose her footing on the
steep hillside, and both man and
beast rolled sone distance down.
It was now that the engineerdis-
played the courage• and presence of
mind that saved his life, for on roll-
ing in among some bushes, he lay
perfectly quiet, feigning death.
Satisfied, after sniffing him allover,
that he was really dead, the bear
ambled away to her cabs.
When his men got to him, they
carried him into camp, and made
him comfortable, and sent a. couple
of men to Vancouver for a doctor.
The doctor found that the leather
leggings that the engineer wore
had saved hie right leg fhwm serious
injury, but the bear's teeth -heel
badly torn the.left leg, both above
the knee and round the joint itself.
New Use For Rubber.
It is predicted that with the out-
put of the plantations yearly in-
ereasing rubber will be put to many
now uses. One authority 'thinks
that before long the flooring of
every new public and commercial
building will be covered with rub-
ber in some form or other; the arti-
cle deadens the sound, it is more
sanitary and it wears longer than
any other material, and it pays
over and over again the initial cost.
The warships of to -day and largo
mercantile steamers use a very
large .amount of this commodity,
and he thinks that every steamer
built will have rubbee in place of
other articles in use to -day as a
substitute.
LITE Aril) LEARN.
Smith:—"My wife is' learning to
play the banjo, the girls are learn-
ing the violin, and irll]he is learn-
ing the flute,"
Friend :—"And what are you
learning 4"
Smith;—"Oh—I'm learning to
bear it !"
Of Course Not.
"Mother, when you married papa
did you -really love him 1"
"0f course I did, my .child. Yon.
don't suppose that my love for your
father came after I got to know his
bad hahite V'
It's All off.
Liza—"When yer ,goes ter git
married, Polly, my' dear l"
Polly—'Never,'
Liza—"Why 1"
Polly ---"Well, yer see, I won't
marry Bill MCn 'o ain't sober, an'
'e :won't marry me. wen 'e is,"
There is t]snally an Excuse.
When is man admits be is wrong
he dote so with.';} mental reserve -
tion that he isn't so awfully wrong,
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CAUSE OF BALDNESS.
Due to Compressing Blond Vessels
1l'itit Tight Hats:
Baldness is 1t matter of head-
gear: (rhe doctors are fiairiy well
agreed upon that mon grow bald
more frequently than women be-
cause of the hats they were. It is
true that }v omen wear bigger and
often heavier hats than men, but
they attach them to their hair and
not to their ;scalps, hence they per-
mit ventilation and do not constrict
the veins, while men'•s ]hats, with
their hard, tight -fitting brims, nob
only permit no air to enter but con-
strict the blood 'vessels all around
the head;
Consider the scalp of roan. It is
a thin layer of muscles covered
with thick skin, stretched over a
hard, bony' surface. Through this
flow email arteries leaching to a net-
work of capillaries which end in
veins. The skin is full of the folli-
cles or roots, of hairs and of glands
which secrete copious supplies of
grease and perspiration. These hair
root sand glands need e. plentiful
supply of blood, an<i anything that
tentis to• cut off this'sepply tends
to impoverish the hair.
The tight band of a hat constricts
all the arteries, but to a much less-
er extent, as these are more deeply
'seabed and have strong muscular
walls, while the veins are close to
the surface and have no muscle in
their thin walls. The checking of
the flow of blood through the veins
eauses it to stagnate in. the capil=
laries, to back up, as it were. And
the top of the head is just that part
of the body which the blood find
most difficult to resist, as it has. to
be pumped up higher there than
anywhere else.
.Gluts there is congestion of ven-
ous blood in the scalp. ,The that al-
so keeps the head !hot, another bac!
condition. The scalp, again, is that
part of the body which is most ex-
posed to dirt, A woman's hair gets
dirty also, but it is so thick that it
protects the acalp from the dirt. A
man's short hair, on the contrary,
catches all the dirt, but doss not
prevent it from reaching the scalp.
And the scalp of the average man,
with its grease and perspiration, is
an ideal culture -medium for the
growth of microbes.
The remedy for baldness, then,
is light, well ventilated, soft -brim-
med hats and scrupulous cleanli-
ness.
Grains rof Gold.
o ti.
Nine -tenths of the miseries and
vices of mankind proceed from idle-
ness.—Carlyle.
Trust your heart, especially when
it has been proved. Never deny it
a hearing.—Gracian.
Old tjyuths are always new to us
if they oome with the smell of hea-
ven upon them.—Bunyan.
There is undoubtedly always good
somewhere in a man, even a man
who had been !hanged for murder.—
Mr. J. Jennett,
The soul of a nation is far more
to be found in the countryside than
in the darts and thickly populated
cities,—Earl Curzon.
• That nation is religious,and
Christianity religious, tihat tries to
see that justice is done between
man and man.—Prof: Martin.
Even with the meanest we cannot
gain a glimpse into their inward
trials and struggles without an in-
crease of sympathy and affection,—
Kingsley.
ma
How Irish Lace Originated.
Irish lace originated from the
failure : of the potato crop that
caused the, £amine of 1848. The Ab-
bess ef a convent in County Cork,
Booking about kr Mee lucrative
employment to help the half-
starved ohildren who attended her
schools, unravelled thread by
thread a scrap of point de Milan,
and finally mastered the co2ih:pli-
calted details. She then •selected the
girls' who were quickest of needle-
work, and, taught them what she
f
The nfttll learned. � ed.
p y now
indestry prospered, and one of the
pupils, in es pardonable "hull," do -
elated that "if it had not been for
the famine We woiold all have; been
starved,"
Maiden Fan' ---"Oh,, it always
makes my head swim to go on the
water 1 - • i'acetiocs Sailor --''.No
danger of •drowning, then; finer if
you should fall overboard."
EXCUSES FOR POING MUROEit
INVES'T'IGATION IliiIVP,ALS OD0
REA SONS,
Eurasian Doctor Declared He slew
Patient t
fI b
i' •ti l Out of
Pity.
Why* men kill has been mane the •
subject for investigation by a
noted criminolcgi•st — Dr. Echole
Areiman.
Each murderer is found to give
a different reason for his Time,
Whether the truth is told or not, ib
is hard to ascertain, but reassert;
given are so strange as to show
that mentally -all was not well wittli
the murderer, and they strengthen
the idea that murder is really the
result of insanity,
"I killed him out of pity;" wad
the answer of Dr. Clark, the Eura-
sian doctor, whose trial for the
double murder of his wife end of
Mr. Fullanahh created intense ex-
eitementyn India. This, of course,
was not the original ;native, but
Clark had already reduced his vie-
lam to such a pitiable condition by
the use of arsenic that perhaps pity'
was one of the real motives.
Killed ft Complete Stranger.
The infamous Thomas 'Wain-
wright was beliered by hie most in-
timate aequaintanee to be kind-
hearted and good. He was par-
ticularly kind to animals,. He kill-
ed a complete etraeger for no bet-
ter reason than because he had in-
sured his life in an office against
which Wainwright hada grudge.
He gave as his reason for killing
one woman that "leer ankles were
too thick."
At five o'clock one morning a
man walked into the polioo station
at Fraconville, near Paris.
"1 havekilled my wife,"' he said.
"My name is M, Bagucry and I
live at 100 Boulevard Gambetta. I
have killed my wife because she
suffered so."
He was found to have told thta lit-
eral truth. His• wife was a hope-
less invalid, partly paralyzed and
suffering great agony. He could
stand it no tenger, and, finally, to
ease her sufferings, took e, rovol-
ver and shut ]ler through the heats.
Some murders appear without
object. One was the shooting by
the so-called 'Silent Man" in the
bar of the Horse Shoe Hotel in
Tottenham Cermet Road, London.
Stephen Titus, without any provo-
cation, shot and killed the mana-
geress and wounded four other per-
sons. He wao sent to Broadmoor.
A man in VIenna, asked a woman
for a rose she was wearing. She
Defused.
He Shot Iter Dead.
Two Swiss boys killed their employ-
ers and the litters' servants so
that they might steal money to go
to Africa.
Dr. Echols Arduan, criminolo-
gist, has come to the conclusion
that the form of insanity that
causes murder is the small bone
pressing against part of the brain,
and that a small operation, remov-
ing the bone that .is pressing and
inserting a, thin silver plate, will
turn the murderer into a kind-
hearted person.
The trouble, lll'. Ardanan con-
fesses, that is hardest to overcome,
is to find the man with critnintl
tendeneies and perform the opera-
tion before and not after the crime.
The murderer usually, is harmless
in appearance, and seems normal
before committing a crime, and
there is no way to tell if he is suf
fering from this forms of insanity.
WHERE THEY SALT EAI!1II3S.
An Oeeasknll of Great Celebration
In Some. Countries.
An old, superstition is that if a
new-born baby is earoftt ly and
abundantly salted he will bo strung
and hardy when he grove 'up, and
that moreover evil spirits will never
be able to pursue him.. And this
custom is still clung to in various
parts of the world, though the
method of procedure is different
with different peoples. In certain
parts of Russia, especially aonong,
some of the Armenian settlements,
the salting of an 'infant is an occa-
sion of greet celebration, an event
in the life of the youngster whish is'
going to influence the, whole of his
life, The baby is rubbed well with
fine salt, which is '1'eft on fol about
five' hours,. anti during that time
songs are .clung, • food and drinks
partaken of, and all the relatives
and friends join in the eclebrotion.
If this ceremony is neglected hal
luck is certain to follow the child
even tc the last years of his life.
Mountain tithes of Asia Minor in- •
duigo in
the earne b
oli ', though
with them the baby is generltlly.
from thirty to thirty-five hours in
the salt. The longer the duration
the better chances for goodforhlno.
has the infant.
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