The Clinton News-Record, 1899-10-19, Page 3OF OURS OF WATOiln•
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SKILL OF THE SWISS PEASANTS
SNOWED UP IN TIIRMOUNTAINS.
2Ne Partin* *astern it here -Par; Adoption
` Wietierst Menne% In the 141041 Euro.
peas Iteptillilie.
" To one acoustomea to our methods
of manufacture,' said an old-time
Styles watchmaker, of New York, " it
seems ineompreltensible that the crude,
rougli isolated Mountain -folk of Swit-
zerlancl, without what we deem ne-
essoary faellities Omuta be capable of
turning out auob aelicate workman -
as is represented by the meehan-
ism of a Jurgensen or a jacot move-
ment, R is more easily understood,
however, when one takes into coneid-
eratiOn the fact that the art of mak-
ing one part of a watch movement has
been handed down from father to son
for
generatiOns, There is in Lucie,
where the original' Urben jurgenson
;mit established. his famous wateh
faetory, one family the male meuabers
. of whicli, have devoted themselves to
• making the balance and fork for fine -
movements ever sino,e the watch• in-
dustry was Drat. atarted in the cora-
*Malty, something like
• THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO,
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The manufacterers," the
.watennialter continuinl, " are, now ad-
ootliag in measare the 'American
system of having "all • parts of their
„ Movements made in the' factory. One
or twO still cling to the old. plan, of
lettiag their:work out to the peasants,
however,, and it will probably be a
rdii-g-time before this arrangement,' in-
convenient' aa it is in many respects,
. will 'be d•isco.otinued,,. as Alla present
. arrangement haa been.- in existence so
Icing that it is difficult to pet:made the
wotkmen to adopt the. changed con-
ditions et life brought about bY ;lite
MONOTONY OF WORKING' • , .
year in;and year •out within the •Walld
.
Of a. tactory. As it is now,. the peas-,
anis work at watchmaking during the
winter. .montlati only, ,fat the Sutamer
they' tenct their flocks oa the. Molin-
a tain side, or attend to the anted bara
vests,'whiola they sell in thefalito the
•dealers ;in the' 'large "towns. Between
the :tall of . the Year When the chips
• are allain,;' and the fiest outburst et
• winter,' Which comes eaily and atays
late in the Swiss , mountains, . there
, conies' a season. of recreationi. during
which the last of the' ixteaey not soent
uPon, sePlaies for' the' winter is
Pesed ;Of.. Ias • 'Men :as the first signs
., °VIVI:a:ter,. Make thela apPertranceatite
pearnints ticiela th the several large
. watch fectoties in the town• for the
niaterial, patterns,' an4 toole with
'Which to make the parts of. lhe move-
.. mutts they.inare beera. taught.
:to iWOrk, Out: of the etude steelt "
" The. yeaSents Select their 'steel' and
• • tools from the stere-rothi in the .fac-
tory. and :retire With' them to their
. homee, where they deliberately allow
theineetties' to • be snowed op for the
winter, alach Pea;sant takes ordersloa
-his. partieutar part 'an • anoveineitt
, front Several makere, •and Werke' Ont.'
the piece& from aternplatea furhisbed
by each itianiitacturer.', , • •
"-The winter& Icing , aft they' are in
Switzeriand,. hardly 'give the .• work-
men thae to fill the order& so: delicate
is the work of•entting oat. and finish;
ang the eeveral • sectione •of even :the
limplest of 'the complicated move-
. - mente. 'In working out ' the nridges,
. atm& and rearibea. of the repeatere and
• stoparvatc,hes.-
• • THE UTMOST CARE, '
te necessary hot to cut the rieetions of
• . the reechantam across the grainor the,
'steel; 11 has been clearly uemonstrata
' pal in wittchanninutacturea: that where
the springs and• arms,' which in many
• instances are also called:upon to per-
. form . the function. of springs,. tire
out; nekesi 'the. gnain. of: the titatelathity
lose their flexibility in the conrse :of
tirae. The tools nsed in working tbe
steet are simple anima to, primitive-
neas in character. 'A. fiddle -bow dr,11
•ie employed to :Tun the pinion holes
through the, plates, and the rest of the
work is. aone by the aid 'of •fine. saWs
• • and •files: The .peasants put only a
superficial on :their work ; the
high polith is, 'given to the movements
alter they have been retorned to the
factory. , • . . • •
'" When the peasant who makes the
block or ,main 'section's of the Move-
. ine2it has finished: his task he patties
the. several seetiona Set up in their
proper.. position osi the, man who . has
the Work of making the winding
wheels and pinions.. This man sets
ma his parts aeottrately, • and 'passes
;the movementa on to the but of the'
man whe has in charge the fitting -of
the •minute, bodr, 'and second-hand
wheels. and pinions. The 'wheels by
the Way' are stamped out of block
brass in the factories, and are inerelY
fitted • frietiori-tight te the ;pinions by
• the ontside workmet. ' . •
• The wOrk of . constructing I he bat-
. amp and' fork few' the complicated
movements as the repeaterat and stopa
Watch Movements are 'called, is the
Most • .
DELICATE AND PARTICULAR
work connected with the construetion
of a movement. The least variation
from the model in fitting the weights
to the 'balapee-Wheel will not only de-
stroy the usefulness of the entire
movement, but threaten the sanity of
the adjuster when tbe , movements
finally pass into his hands, When the
last workzuto,n haa fitted his parts to
the blocks, the Motteroents are re-
turned to the factory, where they are
taken in charge by the examiner.
" With this examiner the first work
' ander the roof,* as the outside work-
men say of the factory, is begun. The
exarainetatakes down the inovementa
and examines each part separately, to
be aure that the different sections. of
the mover:Mat are accurately made.
As feet as the movements are ex-
amined and apprOved, they ere' paned
on to the engraver, where the Manila
marked on 'the plate of the regulator,
na Well as the various private marka
.0f the; manuftteturer. The parts are
then Passed to the finisher, who put
ths final polish on the plates and
pinions With the aid of a soapetone
arxd oil.
" Another branch of work which par-
takes of the nature of a 'specialty, and
is dolie by' men outside the factory, IS
the fitting of the bearing jewels to
their sothets, The jewels, whith in
deference to publie demand are turn-
ed' down from ruby-elippings, though
the smoky sapphire is by tar the bet,
, ter atone for the purpose, are set in
bleekti of breed of eqUal size, which
• are later brought devfrn to the shape
derated 'and fitted to the Movement.
,• 'Weeks In 'the factory, Many persons
have an exaggerated notion as to the
VALVE OF THESE JEWItlf,S,
rind it wilt, no doubt,: be of intereit
to theta to learn that the most ek•
pensive eost about two fraties, or for-
. ty cents in, our money.
• "After having 'Passed through the,
helots of the txalaher the "separate
pleases of the movement are estrefully
set up. The completed watch is then
handed (Wet tO the adjuster tor cora"
paritiOn and regulation, before being
Wasted upon the Market. The adjuster,
who hair to be a watchmaker of great
skill and extaerienee, in hie craft, ad -
;theta the balance of the watches In-
truated to hint to meet eight different
conditione-variatIonts teinperature,
variations In position, and variatona
in the telition of the Main.Raiting. Thid
Werk Of adjelitinent is assoompliehed
solely by changing the weights Oft the
haleness wiled, The Proeese of regti-
lotion and adjiietineot eonsiste in Bret
rsrtiols ttIgn;artthuarls iszif oouvten10104eit
grees. Fahrenheit. The watches are
aubjeeted to the teMperature for a
number of hours, when they' ere Plac-
ed in an ice -box for an tatual length of
time. The mean rate ot variation Is
teken and the neee,ssory alterations
made In the weights on the balance -
wheel to siounteract the change. The
process Is the eame in adjustmg the
movements to ehangea in Poisitton. Tbe
wafehes are placed in six different
Positions and run in each for a fixed
length. a time. The rate of variation
In each position is then established
and the necessary °henget! Inade."
TRE:DENAND FOR 000AINE
IT HAS HAD THE EFFECT OF
GREATLY RAISING .PRIOES,
lase Ties IS Growing ai Marsilius Mille
-Ificlinst foam Firmer !wound Tium
B 04110.11 bl TI $ hi
Pam Etistaiiiiy-Wituti Hula Pi PIO ite.
811114 Or its lists,
-There is 'some relief in store for vie -
time of the cocaine habit who are for-
tunately poor, for the drug bas been
raised in prim another dollar per °Uncle
in the past three weeks. It tit now
worth $5, but those who are able to
JUDGING MACHINES- buy it avill still have it, for druggists
say that once ensnared in its inalal-
letta Imbibes there iti eticaPe.
No ehemical known'to pharmacy hes
-had suell an unpretaidented riee as
this.
Quinine, the other stimulating and
fever -destroying drug. from Peru, had
flurrly several years ago, but this
watt due largely front a shortage in
the 'einohono, bark crop, and not frozu
a sudden end unheard-of increase in
(be demand for the drug. In the disc
of cocaine the demand hes oullooted
the supply to an enormous degree.
No warning, no restrictive, .ot pro-
hibitive legislation, no agitaton
against such things has ever been de-
finite of cure. But without any such
legislation,. and with the people as -
sinning a knOwledge of the .effects of
the drug, similar to' that generally
possessed concerning quinine, the dan,
ger min be readily conceived; Cocaine
ia :the most insidious drug carer discov-
ered. It exalts the user beyond the
exaltation paoduced by Indian hotel),
quinine, liquor, opium, or an, other
narcotic or stiraulant. It is a stimulant
of wenderiul poteacy, Its power • of
producing local cessation of pain or.
even feeling is its most dangerotis ele-
ment, • -
ITS NATIVE USE, .
Anstr.illan rave,* toes Ingertiou 4 Can
I ri IA ce.
For registering the result, ot a foot,
ram. the aurnan eye and voIce seeM,
paiuluily inadequate, Close ponteata
of this kind will doutalesa end more
plaasantly when the new :ljudg,ng =-
thine" comes into general use.
The machine, whieh was invented
by an Australian, is designed to be
placed al. the "finish"' line, and eon-
sists Of a light metal frame parti-
tioned into two • d' ' • ,
each qbeut four feet wide, On the -
top of the frame stands it small ealaa
net emit aining numbered divisions
corresPonding to the numbers of the
tracks,
The instant' the first man passes
threugh his division S' alintteV falls,"
disclosing his track number. The other
numbers are immediately locked, arca
met when the machine is set for final
heats. In thie ease a small cylinder is
attached to the machiue, and a ham-
mer bead strikes a mark on the re-
Voltring cylinder as the nien finish,
.Thus the exact positions of all the cool-
Petitors can be told to a nicety.
The same inventer hag originated an
automatic judging machine for bitty-
ele.ratrest It coneists 'of line, light
metal strips placed in a small trench
attend two inches wide, which is sunk
across the track at the finish. „
During the last tap these stripil
which are coated with enamel:, ate
placed in position by wane of a lever,
and the tirst• wheal ta cross receives
fiye 'marks. crossing,• howeVer, it
displaces one of the strips, and the
nett wheel, therefore, only missives
four marks, the third thretsand so on..
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..WOMEN'S CURSE.
Of all the laurdena a woman Is call.
ed opon to bear there is none that can
be made se galling to her.ae depead-
elm, writes a 'correspondent. Man , is
ushallY; in the family life, the bread-
winner', ..Whatever money the Woman
wants comes a') her from bia' haodia
It could, of conise, be given her in
Bath way that she -could preaerve
her self,adspect, but it. so often is net.
Censequently if she is a proud
she. will bewail in secret her depend-
ence , and mourn over the Shaine and
homiliation which it brings to her.
Mea.are Seldom. se Mercenary on wo-
men; h4t for the 'selfish pleasure' of
ShoWing that they aro ioasters, like
the jailer who rattles hia keys lest the
prisoner forget 'that he has lest% his
liberty, they negleet iri.„mast eases to
make a stated allowance for leauseltold
expenses: but . say with a lordly air!
a The money ia always here ;• ' if • yoa
Want any tisk for it." It may be'hand-
ed Over without a murmur, but the
very fact of 'being obliged to ask for
it is, humiliating to a sensitive spirit.
Were 1. a man I would not even al-
low my children to ciamete major e-
ery nickel they wanted, hut would
make them antallowance. That Woild
teach them the value ef iiieney, would
'make them less extravagant and would
eultivate that feeling of independence
which goes so far toward making a
succesaful man or woman,
We are: alt more or less ,Canceited,
and to have motley whith•is abicantely
her own gives a woman. teeling of
power, and power is only gratified con-
ceit. There are wives who have. Si use
all the diplomacy Of a foreign minister
to'obtain a new gown: Yet that same
husband hi often secretly ashained of•
his wife's "down -at -the -heel" aPaear-
Almest all women,. no matter
whet theit Bottle! status, like to look
pretty; to be 'admired, and not more
than one in , a hundred would be 'a
sloven if aihe were allowed sufficient
money with which . to clothe herself
decentlY. • •
Go into almest any haunt • where
13acchus is king and you will see these
same husbands idle away a day's
wages upoo sociability. In the everi-
ing the wife timidly bega fors meney
for a new gown for "Laura," then the,
self indolgent husband and: father
taunt -hes forth upon -along discourse,
With "the riiinous eXpense of keeping
up a family," sta a text.
Then, on the ()thee hand, there is the
unselfiaki man, who works early and
late that hid children may, like , the
lilies Of the field, haVe no need to toil,
and it) maintain the ostentation of dis-
play upon which depends the social
success of a vain and frivolous wife.
This family seems to think that. all the
"head of the' bandy" is good for is
to aecumulate aaithes and pay bills,
They stanct before him with open hands
crying, "give," like hopper& waiting for
a grist, Them men are ad Much mar-'
tyrs any'that Were ever burned at
the stake. Perhaps this same extra-
vagant family, if eonfronted with the
ainount in figures vrhich every month
they spend more or lest foolishly,
would be surPrise4 end inereduleus.
has been so often, urged, but it hi rude
tO again say to all husbands and fath-
era make your family an allowance,
tha't very shame the extravagant
may restrict their expenditures, and
that the sensitive wife and daughter
may be spared the humiliation of beg-
ging for a mere pittance, and.may not
feel their dependence so keenly, when
they should in fact be equal sharers
in the family purse, although no more
than &Mat. There is justice in all
things.
RInCuA'S GOLD AND DIAMOND MINES
1AF0
flan lasso,eoe,tsee sr Quid Ali -rear Takea
*POMO eke Worn' of Ronal* flimflam%
e ng lotereste of Africa, es -
'rectally the wonderful gold and dia-
mond. minas which _hey° attracted ao
, a f
ehapter In the monograph just pre-
pared by the Treasury Bureau of Sta-
tistics, on commercial A.frica in 1899.
Much of the receotly rapid devel0P-
nient of Afrimar especially in the
southern part where the greatest IV-
idity of development has occurred, is
duo to .the disoovery and developinent
of extremely valuable mineral depos-
its, The most valuable of theae are
gold and diamonds, though Ificidentally
it may be mentioned that the iron,
socoaulthaenadst Aotthriecia') emivineeprarolmdiespoe.ostits of
great
value when wealth -seeking man has
time. to turn his attention from the
gold maim to those whieh promise less
rapid, htit peahens; equally .certain
profits. - •
, That the gold and diamond, mines
ef South Africa hive bowl, and still
are; 'wouderfully profitable, however
is beiond question, The Kimberley dia-
mond mines, which are looated in Bri-
tish. territory, just outside the' boun-
daries of the Orange :Erise State and
aboot 600 miles from Cape Town, now
supply 98 per mut. et the diamonds
of commerce, although their exist-
ence was kooivn. prior- to 1867 and the
nainea have thus been in. operation
abottt thirty years oely. It is eahn.,
itted that 5860,000,000 worth of roagn
• diamonds, worth. double. that Irani at,
ter: cutting, have been produced from
the Kimberley mines. sines. their open-
ing it:11868-1 and this enormouti pro-
duction vvouici .have been greatly in-
creased' but for the fact thitt toe own-
- ers of the various naine.s in thia vicin-
,ity formed an agreement by. whieh the
annual output was so •limited as; to
meet, but not materially 'exceed, the
annual consumptien of the •world's dia-
mond„ markets. So plentifut is the
suppli and so coinparatively tn'expea-
sive the' work of production that 'dia..
Mood digging „in other parte of the
world nes alniost ceased since the
South Africa,n • mines entered the
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EQUALLY WONDERFUL .
and equally promising are the greet
" Witwaterinand " gold fields of South•
.A.frica, 'Mated in the South African
Republic, bettet known as the "Jo-
hannesburg " mines: The Detch word
" Witwatersrand" means - literally
White Water Range," and' the Strip
otterritory, a few hundred miles long
and a few nailes in width, to whieji it
Is applied, was. but e few years. ago
considered a nearly worthless ridge,
useful only. for the .pasturage of cat-
tle and sheep, and for even this etnn,:
partitively a-valuelessa:. In. 188a, how,
ever, geld wad diseevered,• and in 1884;
the value of- the gold preduction' was
•abont 550,000. It ineteased With start-
ling raeidity:, the production of• 1888
being aboUt 55,000,000,000; theta 1890,:
010,000,000; 1892 over 520,900,000 ; •1895;•
over 540,000;000, and 1897 arid 18980)9ot
555,000,000 in each year. The Wonder,
developraent' haa• attracted great.
rittention.to South Africa. an'ci'drawn
thither thoustinds•of people ia the:hope
of realigiag quick Airtime& "Deyelop-
ment, Ibtveyee, showed that the mineri
could only, be successfully worked bY
the itseof costly insehinery, and while
they hive been extrenielY • Productive
where Machinery has beenaiised; they.
were not of. sueh tharacter as to make
hand of placer. mining profitable, as
was the case in California. The gold
production in the ' 'Rand '' 'since 1864
has been over 58130,000,000, and cat*:
ful surreys of the field by the use of
drilla and Other priacesses of experts
'show beyond question that -the " in
eight" probtibly amounts to $3,500,005
while the large number ef mines.
which have 'been located in oadjaeent.
territory. ',.particularly io parts •of
Rhodesia give proniise sof additional
supplies, se that it' - seems Probable
that South 'Africa will foe many Years
'continua' to be; •as it eowc is, the larg-
est gold-produoing. section of the
World. Reeent discoveries lead to the
belief that these wonderfully rieh
mines 'are the. long lost '' 'gold. of Op -
tar,'" from which Solomon Obtained bis
supplies, making ".a. navy of *hips in
Ezion-Geber,:which iia opposite Eloth,
on 'the shoee of the Red 'Sea in the.
land Edoni; and Hiram sent in the
oeyy his servants, shinmen that had
knowleilga,of the sea, .with the eery,.
ants of •Solaaton ; and: they' came to
Ophir and ; fetched froin thence gold
and brouglit it to !Vng 'Solomon:"
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. •
,. The weed frOM which Cocaine is de-
.
rived is used extensively by the natives
of Perw and Bolivia; where it is found,
as a stimulants '
They .chevV •thet 'Itinties and are en- -
shied to withstand the exhauetion chie
to high altitudes and mountain climb -
Cocaine comnos'ed of carbon,
hydrogen and nitrosyl reduCed to a
sulphate, Esch element of the clam -
eland. has..a. direct innuendo on '• the
nervous sYsteM, blood anti lymithatios.
It possesses the singular Preperty of
killing all eensation of pain in the
parts where it is loudly epplied while
elevating mind or; that patent to -
•
.a-pitc.h :of exaltatien absolutely With-
out
alebitual nse of coCaine thiftWo•.
results: They , are Mere . alternatiVes
"at 'that. One is the Overthrow of the -
mind before the beds is utterly de-
stroyed.; AIM 'other is the collapse of
Mind and'hody, together: No othen end -
is possible. Indefinite tn. thee:the re- .
suit is as -certain ai fate. 'No .escape •
but abandonment; of the Use is pos-.
sible. Once well fixed on the victint
and the abandonment is practically
hopeless. Opium victims detteloP a cer-
tain cuaning. They ; seek by' evety.
meinnio their power to disguide -the
Dicta •Coeitine'':victimsaint •the other,
hand, -de not apparently iittenapt
witch secreci, Still when aWaie of the
dreadful fetters they will also evade
the question end give false replies to
qu.eations concerning why they use it.
PHYSICIANS TO BLAME.
. • .
It is probable that the use• became
habitual in the first case hy reason'of
eareless. use by aohysiciana, Toci little
knowledge ef the baletul effect. wag'
combined With 'a. too great' knewledge-
of the power' to preducelocal anathesia, -
It waft -tided to ellay toothache,. toritop
the pain of aeuralgia and as an anes-
thetic iri minor' surgery. The 'patient
wits, advised to use a very Mild _Solu-
tion to allay pain in the eyes, nasal'
passages, etc. Tbusa by degrees, the
lay public became acquainted with one.
effect: of • the drug without the other'
being matte known to ituratil too late;
Now the 'habil-has outgeown that of
'opitnneating, dritking and every otha.
pr. form of aimipation. In fact, many
'a.. man has adopted :cocaine to drive.
away. the headache ' following a smee
the •night .before, ,Re• thus ctimbinea
.two 'things certain pto.duce mental.,
and. physical collapse. • ".
" The advance in Price hes been ex-•
ceedingly rapid," said doctor- when
asked:concerning the; increase In iise.•
"It coats druggists ati even dollar
more to -day thati it did three weeks.
ago. This is not the first rise, eith-
er, since it first tame pn the market.
Itt fact, there is no way to determine
to What flight it muy go. The cause?
Increase in demand. Certainly the in-
erease is very rapid and very mark-
ed. Hundred's. apply for a little m-
ooing now where one did a few years
ago. We always 'advise' a Man not to
nee the stuff when he aeks for it.. 1
think any man is a fool who tarnpers
with the thing in any way. I have
one case in mind right now, He is a
clerk in a store. A few months ago
he bought a little on the advice of a
friend, not a doctor, to stop tooth-
ache. I, tried to prevent it, but be
was deterMined, To -day, that young.
fellow uses 63 'oerite' worth melt day.
'CAN'T BREAK THE HABIT,
"They all say that they can stop
it when they want to. They all have
sonde ailnient winch don't amount to
mud', but which is painful. They have
learned that it wilt kill Train, and they
want it only for that. But the feet
is it acts so gently at first that a
mail has the hebit before he knows
it .and then Its good-bie. The 'victims
use it in the forte of a solution, the
only way a layinen knows anything
about. UsualIs a 5 per cent, solutiort
is strong...enough for all' purposes. It
is used in Monk 'different ways, but
snuffing up the nose and injection
seem. to be the moat frequent methods
employed. Sonia victimsahave a mania
for applying it with the finger. They
rub the atuff on the gums; and are
soon very brippy. '
"Bully is about the best Word fn
use in describing its effeets. You see, it
will kill off pain almost afi onee. Then&
the man grows contented with his Tot,
he forgives his enemies and wants to
give all be haa to his friendS.
kilown he is the best Mein on earth,
anti that the earth and people are all
lovely wort& Of art. He las no dares
and no worriea while the fit learn.
When it: is over 'whim a set ot nerves
which are out of gear. The victint
who emergea from the influence is
pitiable object, indeed. The Stuff will
kill Mkt or drive hini mad if he does
not shut off abruptly. Then be stif-
fen tog Maks which hell cannot equal,
so one of them told me.
"rt, would he hard to. give a'fair
timate of the increuse, but it is emu..
mous, We hatte constant demands for
the drug. It is not confined to any'
one Waage; but invadee. all. I never sell
it without a warning, but a warning,
detail to good. Any man, who wants;
it get it,' at he will other things
he ',vants, but 'should not have."
Other taruggista confirm the report
route by Me one. NO lalw is in exist-
ence whit% prohibibs the stele ef
sons to any appliCaot who hoe the
money. The pharmasty law requires
the druggist to label the goods with
the name of Ow stuff arid. the mistreats
of his place of businems. That elide
teepenxiibilitaa
THE BOOK TEA. a
• Thelatest °raze is the book tea. A
number of guests - the sexes equally
represented -,- are asked to afternoon
tea, and each is to wear a badge ¬,
lug a book. The book is not neeetssarily
a novel, though the ran is on novela,
nor ia' it necessarily a modern book,
though these are more generally
selected. The badge, which is a little
toy, must express the title of the book.
The guests arrive decorated, supply-.
ing and wearing their own decorations,
and each has to guetis the titles of all
the others. Same peopIN are very
stupid. at it, some very quick. • And
there is skill, too, not only in ginning
the bUt in making the ordere,
There aro two prizes one for the
gueat who guesses most and one for
the guest whose badge has'been most
difficult to interpret. Much tea Mad
some time are consumed, and men And
ivoinen show themselves to be children
of a larger, growth.
TO Ottitt FEATHERS. ••
It would pay the average woman te
buy a curling knife and learn to curl
her feather's at home. They require it:
often when it is impoeelble to send
them to a ptoteselonal eurler. The
knivea are theap, and mo be found in
most hardware stor . the
feather over a kettle of oiling Water,
*reading out With both betide the
Bum to their full length, Let it be.
come damp, hut not too wet; then wave
gently from side to side until partially
Idry. Begin to' purl at the end, not the
begihning of the stem, Take only a feW
fittets at a time, and owl Under,
SCOTLAND'S LINCOLN STATUE.
Seotland 'Seeing etrange plate to
find it endued Abreham Lineoln, and
yet there is One there. 11 adorns a
monument eroded 10 old Carlton bury.
ing ground, Edinburgh, to the Mem-
ory Of the SCORIA Amerleane who
fottgbt In the Altieritan Civil War,
,
DOG TATTOOING.
•
ProleAsloii Which Caine lino Wegito With
the Earley canine, ,
"You see," said the dog tattooist, "so
inany dogs are being stolen nowadays
that -it hi neceasary to put an indelible
meek upon them. •Some thieves can
take almost any kind of deg' and do
him up in such a way that his best
friend Wont' know him, They can dye
a dog, trim his ears or tail, and disfig-
ure him in other Wage. .
"Not long„ago a read of ,a woman
Who proted her ownership of a pet
dog by showing some of his t.rielcs to
the Ildagistrate, It struck me that if
she had had her dog marked in some
way she would have had less difficulty,
"I can take a long-hairett dog and
pet his owner's initials on the under
side of one of the ears with blue, India
ink, and that will be a mark tvhicili
will never fail; It is not very painful
to the dog. On three I tattooed ringa
about their tails, with Certain private
marks known only to the owner's.
"Of course, each man, for his •own
protection, wants his dog to have a
private tattoo mark Which cannot be
seen by the ordinary observer,„so that
when his dog is stolea the mark can't
be destroyed, even if its place is dis-
covered under the hair. The ' ovvner
Cart then easily prove property,
"It is harder to tatoo a dog than it
ia -a man. It tstkes one man to hold
the dog alone, For an easy mark un-
der a long-eared dog I generally get a
&oiler; but•my price runs up to $5
when the mark is big and ifi two &dors,
and takes time."
WE TWO.
Atwell together, my love and r
'Under Love'S blue and cloudless sky,
Wander wa whore joyous blossoms
grow,
Among the bowers where sweet violets
blow, '
And plUek the sweets of everlasting
spring,
Whilst the birdlets melodious num:
bers ging.
And ever to us the skies are blue, '
For we're all in all to eaeli other, we
tnre*
The blossoma demy not that Love has
The violets live on in our aundit
heaven,
The birdie& song is our own for
aye,
Tt lngers and greeta us wherever we
strayi
Where is thill dotintry in which wo
roam
That I 'and my Mae may eall our hornet
Its LeVeland that nurees the blossoms
fair,
'Tis in Loveland that Violeta scent the
• air,.
And aongstera, they sang us a Welk
tante true,
So we atayed in their Loveland for aye
tWet • A.
•
, 'SAY, THOUGH, IS IT
More men Would marry If they"real-
laed how muck theaper than flirtation
Matrimony is.
•
AT TIM READ OF AFFAIRS
'SOMETHING ABOUT THE LEADING
MEN OF THE. TRANSVAAL.
oskrs's Journey so &moron." Pro S.
vhe rairiaeat 'trite ireitilluet Ilse Republica 1 can ne peopisor041 ity Any One Walk 8141, Cotten Text. Ems O. Oa.
Mate Ineldents Their atilionceaatinipie ROW foe Oise thud. PRACTICAL NOTES.
taireers mum of Taos* Wh Whih, so ae mire 045 stssousas-sosessneetst VielerY
Gen. Plet.''J. Joubert, wiav cora., Exact echoic& Verse 21. On the twelfth day Ezra or oho AWN* Annl.
MY EASILY NAMED
SOME OF THE SECRETS THAT ARE
TOLD EY HANDWRITING.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL THE BATTL/ OF THE ALIA
I
••••••••• *4..0
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, OCT, 22, THE FIRST GREAT ENGAGEMENT IN
THE CRIMEAN WAR.
The *Metier* sett Aillool Anoka 4.11004$
0116 3 In Sireining -Superior Posnion
billaks out between that country and graphology, said au expert, "is that
"The main uodetlying principle of awl his oaravan halted at the river
Alum. This is not certaiolY tish 'armies landed in the Crimea on
mand the .Transvaal forces • if war The allied French, Turkisb, and BA.
Great Britain, has been deaortbed SO handerriting reflects acourately eau tied, but Stanley and others believe September 14, 1884. At daybreak on
the ablest and moist popullar Boer sahtlI the oharaeter of the welter ; it) t° be the stlot where earevene nev'' the 19th the advance towards Sebasto-
South Africa. When a yoMig Man that the han4 is onlY the instrument make their plunge into the desert. I pol was began. Having biyouyactrea
proclaimed a, fast there. He had near -
he took part in the Great•Trek from of the brain. No tato handwritinge
ly two thousand people ender kis con -
Natal and fought la wars with the are exactly alike; and yet we all learn
trol, including heada of familrea, mein -
natives under Krageia yeara Writing in the same school of potiwoks
ed President (gibe Smith Alrban Re-
later, moat after the latter avas. eleet- and hungers. Now, juat think et bers and -servants, prtests, Levites' end
that 1 We all begin in th-ranirWay temple slaves. Venting as a religious
public), Joubert Was, mede Vice-Presia -straight strokes urv d k aet was popular amena the Jew& The
river Abeam flows into the Euphrates
from the east. At the junction was
an ancient city called Ava. That we
raight afflict. ourselves before our God,
mat es the older man. He is esPe- this immense diversity bniaawaiiing. fniperficial a•fflicti n wee the for -
c e ro es,capt,
dent, Joubert caries fess for deplo- tal letter& mediaM-eized writiag, then
Macy th,an does President Kruger, ordinaryasized writing. Will you
though among his own people he is then, explain to me, as I see you are
regarded as quite as sitilfui a diplo- inereduloua and cynical, why and how
• .
daily beloved by the J3oere. for his vie- comes about when we leave school? abataining from food "4 Utan
toriee at Laing's Nek, Bronkhorst Think of it In all the. millions. of •peo- the bath' The deePer affilaiian was
Spruit and Majuba Hill in, the war ple in Ragland no two of there write what all theae thinge were signs of -
with the English, and for the clever exactly the same, Graphology's ex. profound. penitence, cloee Commuoion
manner in whith ne balked jaMeaoll's Planatilan is that this; diversity tvitit God, submiss.ort, etnsecration.
seek of bim a right way for us.
out the guidance of Go4 , their ivould
plan and captured that bold raider and brought about by the diversity Of char -
his company. Gen..Joubert belongs atter. There is no other explanaa
to the Liberal party in the South Af- tiOn."
emit Republic) and hail twice narrow- "Let' me take you over some ele-
ly missed being elected, to the Presi- mentary principles firstr!!, he went on.
dainty, Ife is an espedal ttiovrite of "Do you agree that' the nervOus, eager
the yeenger element aniong the energetic man will Most probably
Boers anal -has come in contact with write a glowing, rushing, impeteous
the progreSsive .outside world, eaYs a hAnd I Or will
writer in the Buffalo Eaartiss. arty thet this nervous, energetic min
you, on the contrary,
JOUBER:T AND KRUGER. will -write 'a round,. eopybook
An amusing story wind' illustrates hand, like the lawyer's clerk? if you
the difference of Character between
Joubert an4 Kreger is told by Hovvara
C. Hillegas in his aecent work, "Ooro
Paul people." Soon after jai:meson
and his officers were taken to Pre-
toria; President Kruger gaited a score
ot -Boer cOmmanders to his house for
consultation. ' The President was
deeply affectea by the serious events
and counselled calmness, but several
of the officers, including Gen. Joithert; c OCCUPATION AND CHARACTER'.
ers be shot. It wes dawn when Gen.
were excited and advised that the raida eig,:hitoagentriaeesapr'.rholiiicacuapavtatn athgertee. detlehremitnwe:
ohaisntrinnh.anad thrattanaex-
jdeonutbearntdwha: imwomnedoivaetrelyby.to.tohke uPpretsbie-
oases state milt oily I tlacilts 112';..
case of Jameson and his men and ar- subject, but his business as well mere -
geed tor them. •"I wilt tell you the olYn,,e,,i,PNhyvlikomslosttuhadid oojoszdquitdewserlfi t on ray,
stit6orr,sy, do4,,t,hseofdarmhee,r taondthethilstneenlignhg-• Imre .raay easily bee° gn zepat.
Boers. °Ssippose that near youi farm t'ialifiiinrdsitoalextiaosensin, easthiet w jairteing fxorowg,denif-
lives a men whose valuable-tlogs at -
agree in all this you. have Con-
ceded the whole ot graphology -that
character is revealed in handwriting,
On that principle-th,at .the man's
character manifests itself in the Writ-
ten gestures of his' hand -we base the
where oa graphology. The individa-
ality of the writing lathe individualty
of the man, and as no two individuali-
ties are exactly alike; so are no two
handwritings exactly similar." •
Lack's your sheep ane kill many. Will, duecti onnez4ess tigliusrevititra; I
ttiorTSvartildi: (o3i
you' shoot the doge as sootras you see examPlea-that the writer is of an as -
them and in' that' way make yourself piring 'and tinabitious temperament. If'
liable •for .damaged greater than the they droan downward, I. Conclude that
value of the Sheep that were .destroy- the writer is pesaimistic, lacking ener-
ed? . Or -will y.ott eatch the 'clogs. when gY, and not pating.-in,uch or , exerting
Stott are able to do So;nand, carrying hiniself to get cm. ' ' .
them to his neighbor, say to hiM; '1 • "I always point out:these as My ear -
have caught Your 'dogs; new pay me dinal• position& ., There. are certain
for the damage 'they have dotty me. main lines of charactet, which .etatail
and . theY :shall be returned to arota" susuGehlt:aannddluecta yviioreleasi•i4anddef.e..qoutsalitiweso.
Gen. joabert waited a moment for.hui
words in make an impressionand then aiten'Ieeding traits as. ambition and
potash; . . • a : • to -Stotler'? • The -man who writes
South Africa,: to take advarit.age of
erawl upon the enemy and Mill keep.
dreadful thing -La men u'ntrained in the
bow they haye learned' through long
trainieg in striking the wild beasts of
every bush, bunch of ,grasa or stone to
screened from his 'sight. It id eugges-
sottow.: One English correspondent, ".".iia‘a fake tbe body na theawritbig.
who went through the
effectiye end the commanders at once are. soniewhat kin -What, after all; is
deeided to deliver the pritionera to the graphology , but a paychological mani-
manner ba whieli the 13oerti fight, and
tive a our, Indian fighting, and is a
method, as the English' know, to their tail.. . . , .
he reniarked : • "We hart the neigh,. 'energi color all. the Teat Of a• man's
boes doge. in thia, jail. . -Wliat •shall individuality; drag him after them, as
we do with. them ?" The parable Was it were, • Graphology. a,nd: psyebology
. . • .
'Mitch has be,en etar reg'arding the.
' • HOW, THE'BOERS FIGHT.
oam,paig.n of tiever br
' straight across the page is mere dif-
self in a. capital letter. Your can-
teen. will express a geeat deal of him -
strokes, . 'There is no detail In graph-.
The. man wbo•joins his letters; who
tic* to interPret than he Whose lines
°logy too insignifiCant for study, In-
lairttrrit:' .An' irctaginative, .expansive
flit, reserved, nian will eotitent himself
amend oy descend. • - . ' • •
itial letters •are important-rtioat.ini-
With small, unobtrusive, • weak ina-
.• "Then the letters, their jeina and
neater are able to see the'enemy," he
agga has given a brief andaimptessive tfurposes. . . ,
deseriPtf" ef !-"ble'.8°Or•as a f°e' "We ed.,' is the man of ierill, the manef set
eaks, Who is heier•diseonnect-
wrote; "Eacept -before tbe fight ' at • •
INDISPI.TTABLE. DEDUCTIONS,
Majoba Hill, I aever saw but a: hand -
fill of them at any time, And when °Always bearing in mind that hand -
they thought we noticed them they and writing is a thing of the brain and
their hoirsed disappeared as if aWallow, net tbe ,hand, the infereneea drawn
ed up by the earth. I think we all feel from. graphology are simply' indiaptit-
that they can shoot. Our losses at able. Lel me tri,ke the voiCe as an
Batley and Haing's Nek showed that; analogous case. The voiee . reveals
We were very snitch in the open, but character, everaane. will admit that ;
wit a blesMd Boer was to be seen. But but he who denies the truth 'of grepha,
every once in a while there was the ology Might juat as well atiestion the.
crack of a rifle, 'and then ene ef our. .self-eVident truth that':character- re -
poor pays would go over, the line veala itself in the ;aide& The mcfuth
would 'close uia and we wOuld begin and tongue are muscles Obeying, ithe
chasing again for the enemy we:could brain; the hand also obeys the brain.
never. finEtiEtE, pR‘amia. , you sonie rides th•at reveal the whole
• a . The man who -but here, let me giVe
secret in a. nutshell! Here they are:
The Mine correspondent also' bas If the writing ascend the writer will
soinething to say anto the treatment
be 'courageous; even rash, if the slant
of English prisoners' taken hy the
Beers clodely resemble those, of the isItextabgegleinraestediag.
Boers. While, the field tactics of the nt toward the bottom
iii of the page the Writer will be despond -
American Indians, the similatity ing, cowardly, easily discouraged.
the method of warfare of the two pee -
Flourishes below words and all nn-
ptesceases at that point. °I' Was taken necessary , loopi and 'strokes' denote
prisolier jest after Gen. Colley was vanity, affection and egotism.
killed," said the correspondent, ."and
A single stroke tinder the signature
1 can say that I could. not have been,
treated better by any people. ' ' They simply
praise and affeetion, not so intense. aa
shows a strong desire • fOr
were' kind to our -wounded, did not
to be called vanity. .
molest the dead, nor insult us of the
Heavy cross strokes 'Show a strong
living." ' It Is thus seen that, while '
the Boer ants all his. experience, skill will, -
strong Character. The Align is a very
and are the indications of a
and brain's into his fighting, and pritc-
important one, as it intensifies every
tically makes every allot tell, his en -
quality. In. the term "cross strokes"
mity ceases when his foe is helpless.
are included wily the crossing of the
Dr. F. •W, Reitz, the Secretary of
Vs, but the dashes between words and
State for the South African Republic
sentences, end the strokes at the antis
whose insinuations regarding breacil
of wotds. '
of faith in the negotiatious on the
If there are few Words on a page the
port of England have been comment-
gn denotea extraVaganee both in
ed upon In a note from Mr. Chamber.' si
thought and estate, but doea not unite
lain, was fornterly President of the
with this tharacteriatic that of gena
Orange Eree State, He coulee cif an
Holland 200 years ago. Olie of his ercisity.
old Germa.n fantily vvhith e.ettled in
If there are so many Word's on a
nncles Was a lieutenant in the Bei- 'Page at; to give a eramped appearance
tish navy. The first member of the
ly nature, reserve and saspickin.
to the sheet,' the eign betrays a inieer-
family to settle at the Cape was Dr.
Long final .strokes at the ends of
Reitz's grandfather. The tiecretazads '
of considerable learning, Dr. Reitz
father was a sheep raiser awl amen words indicate generosity.
and a word are all of the mime size, or
When the lettere whieh go to form
Was born on Oetober 6, 1844,
studied at the South Afriean College When they grow larger io size at the
ending of the words, the sign is that
and in England, being admitted to
of smcerity, One 'writing. in such a
the tar in 1868, He returned to the
Cape and, after' practising as an ad- Manner will be fully worthy of trust
and confidence.
vobate for six years in Cape learn,
wag apppinted Chief Justice of the If the letters decrease in size at the
Orange Free State. After holding end of a word the sign is of deceitful -
nem and dishoneaty. The writer will
that, position for fifteen yeara he was
elected President ia 1880. 5ccretary. be thoroughly dishonorable, even in his
Reitz's wife is a Dutch, woman of high strongest friendehips, using everybody
literary distinction. She founded at alinply for"his own ends.
Bloemfontein a library and a Web in When words terminate With a little
*hie!' ladies difietiss the latest liter -
erica.* . '
art' Productions of Europe and AM -
THEM STRANGE WORDS.
be adrift on one of the moat savage of
desert's, but it wa$ not sand and sun
only that they must fear, Hostile
tribes, especially those Who lived on
Plunder and loot, were plentiful, anti
there was already •political ,oppoa.tion
to their plans, For us, andfor our lit-
tle oned; and for ;all our substance.
We can hardly overestimate thedana
gets that beset 'Ezra. No one now
would cross from Babylon to Jerusa-
lem with children and trea,aure If he.
could possibly help it, and certainty
no one would venture without military
eesdoreorrt. jeIhto.vvyaahs::;I:o many that
Ezra mai to earry the treasure destin-
22-1 was Pilo:mad to require of the
king a band of Soldiers and horsemen.
Ezra knew that lie' had made a.pro-
found' impreasion WI. the mind of the
Persian king, and heateared. that that
inipressioa would,bo tieutralized if he
how asked for human, protection. The
enemy in the way. "This enemy was
made Up of swarms of nomad trib.es
who eared nothing for the Persian
king, or tee Persian: or the• Hebrew
gods. That the enemy knew of Ezra's
start, and' dellherately planned to
plunder the caravan, is evident front
verse .81. While Ezra continued in the
king's undisnuted territory he *as
reasonalri,v. safe, lig-these wild men of
the desert oared nothing for' the king's
authority except as it was 'manifest-
ed by soldiers. Ths haad tif our God,
isaupan all. them for good that seek
him. This is immutably true. In the
midst of all uncertainties God's hand
favors those that' hive him and oppbse
those that oppose, hire. It is true
Chriiitians: are' given worldly Posper-
ity,'but, God neyer forgets them. Ezra
had -every toile of tbe journey leaned
on "the hand: et 'Gad:" .in anothei
'place he eaysa "1 Was: streng,thened as
the hand of the Lord my God Was Upon
roe;" and again, "The hand of our God
was upon us:" , •
• 23. So We fasted and besolight our
God tor this. To fest. Would have been
hyaecritical Without, the prayer; the
prayer •was greatly intensifiea. by the
fast; He Was entreated' for us. Ezra.
hbeaednthheeaaisda.uronee that his prayer', had
24. 1 -.separated •tWelve of the chief
of. the 'priests, •etc. The eld Greek -
translation, Sepatiaairat gives a .111rue
evident nteahing, "I assigned twelve of
theohief .of the priests." That is to say;
twelve uniumerfleading Priests were
added to mane:di:tee already appoiet,
ad,' consisting of twelve Leyites, Shore-
Hashabitih; Ptus• ten. As the
vesaels _had been set apart for, God's
worship, be,' deaired to set apartl cer-
tain men Who would have no reapon-
sibilityaon this journey. bet 'to take
care Of the 'vessels. • ,
25.i • Weighed unto them the' silver,
and the gold, an& the vessel& In spite
et the fact that 'coins Wete Orrerit, at
this time the Persian treasury kept its
wealth irtliard'or nuggets. :We they
suPpose the vertadis to haare come
or.ginally froth. Jerustilein The offer-
ing of the house' ofaour God, which ;the
king, anithis counselors,. and his lOrds;
and all Israel there present, had offer-
ed, • ' The aacredness of* the occasion
when these lavish offerings wete made
ita2poresseei: bEundstareapricinfodunfiry. faii'mts
slitter, et& It has been roughly estim-
ated that the. wealth of . this yerse
Would be tepresented'by a Million arid
,a.quatster of savaLmoney and five mil-
lions of gold'. , -.;
27,41artenta basins of gold Of a thou -
dead ,drame, ' Or, ,as have it in the
Revised Version, "bowls ot gold bf •ti
thouriand •daried." cleric, was woith
abotit live dollars, Pia° .copPet, Pre -
china as gold. Net, howeverawhat we
would call cepper, but a beautiful
atnalgam made by the ancients; Which
had almost fabulous value.
28. re are holy: unto the I4ord. That
is, ,separated, consecrated. The .men.
tnemseties by their •birth were conse-
crated men, debarred from marly of.
the pritaleges of other tsraelites, be-
cause they inherited the sacred duties
of the temple. The vows% are holy
also, 'May tou had, been set aside by
a formai consecratiora and some Of
them aoubtleihr made • for the holy
temple. Let, the lady •yessels be giften
to the holy Men. A freewill offering;
unto the Lord ' God: ' Not a tithe or
tax of any tort, but the spontane-
ous' outpouring of their hearts: Of
your fathers. Jehovah; the Gird ot
your fathers.
29. Watch ye, and keep them. As if
he' had said, "The Vest of us will de -
fetid you; you defend these sacred via-
sels.". Until ye weigh them. '. Make
a definite account of the treaaures.
Chief of the fathers of Israel. The
appointea heads of the several °Gin-
n:mettles, as' well as of the sacred or-
ders. At Jerusalem. In the, capital
city of the rejuv•enated . The
chambers of the house of the Lord.
Reoms en titleil side of the nutiii beilda
ing, • Used sometimes for lodgings.of
the priests, sometimes as storerooms,
20. So took the taxieets arid the. Le-
Vites. The eommands ef the forego-
ing venni vvere obeyed,
31. The twelfth day of -the first
month. It took Ezra and his cora-
pany 8 or a daya to journey front Baby-
lon to A.he,vit. To go unto Jerusalem.
To go straight acrosa the desert'
which hi In the middle of What
hook, made by a return movement of our Gad
is now Turkey in Asia. The hand of
the pen when the stroke is made, {Ms upon us. See note on
and persevaair. verse 22. lie delivered usi from the
sign denotes tenacity hand of the enemy, Whether with eq
anileihe writing is full of sharp an without fighting, we are not told. Stroh
as hey in wait by the way. See mate
gles A 22
The frequency with Which the at the bases of the letters and where '
of South Airiest are appearing in the te n 4 a' la
putoll fame" I the letters unit th i di ti i
s rn ess an Meer y. words deseribing a journey which
32. We catae to :formations Four
strange words of. the e n ca on s of
despatches !wakes an explanation of mot have been fraught, morning, noon
their pronunciation appropriate. The -I • and night, with plat ereaqUe incident a
double o, for instance, which la m,ost TIME AND THE PHILOSOPHER, and dangers. The strange sound that
of the expreseion "Own Paul," has the Sir William Robinson, at one t
inie atilt make that journey ti• tertor to
often used on account of the frequency
Governor Of Trinidad; recently read a the traveler, the tropical sun, the mir-
sound of o in Rome, while the diph- paper before the Royel Colonial India ror of sand, the dry, stale food, the
thong ott has the scsibui Of oo in boa. thte of London in Which he had ine,ora Want of water, the exhaustion of the
the "pronunciation of bloomfentirie. The the natives. one, which follows, belt g celinidlidersesh a taanxdiettyheot a.gEzerda, ittinide iircillttscoti:nt..
fear of wild beasts and wilder men, the
The !atter sound gives to Bloemfontein porated many of the quaint sayinge of
ou has the Miami of ow in owl, which canal, rich in negro philosophy:
in eonneetion with oo, already explain- Pe aelors-all these go unrelated, Abode
ed, would make this pronunciation of The late 131811°4" Rawl°, Passing a there three daya. For three days Eire
is no y in negrO Sitting in idientiaa by the roa&/
Own Paul ome pawl. Ther stide, wilted hint hoW he managed to' remained reating from the journey
44
before midertaking to execute the colla-
tive Dutch lartgliage,,,its ce being
in defy, and thus, remembering the pans the tithe, ,
1
taken by ij, whiell'has r o souna of y I 'tit in de Attn. maim, an' let de titne manda of God. .
attund of ou, the prosiunolation of aots- Pam mel Was the smiling' TOP'S'.
MOTH AND THE FLAME
beit, for example, becomes- yowbert.
The hound of ur nearly that of oy
in boy, which makes the pronunciation
tritlander oytlonter. WOWS, or, to be
stecurate, "Domani," for the eaten/ of
the Offal is an Anglielant, Pron0Unee
110er as though it were of two eylla-
bles-boo-or. The double hfte the
tome sound as a In war, whleh gives
DIDN'T LUCE IT THAT WAY.
itoggy.A.w, Maud, to Me you ere
Weal
ltfaulalIold on, Roggy TIlo *Ahoy
day you said was a briek. Now, /
want you to underatand that / am ne
goId brlok.
CRUSHING Tat or,a) Ktot.
Purse Proud Father -Can you sup -
pert my daughter in the istyle to 'which
Atte halt been eeeneteitied
Complacent Young Millnal could if
I were eontented with It, but hope to
giVe her omnething better.
PROVOC.A.TION SUFFICIENT.
When I think what might have
inade•if I had held on to that stock
a little longer, sold IllaldwIn, by
C4eorge, Itla enough to drive rde to
drink!
Weil, we'll make a pretty atrong
teant, Mid !tenth°, Tieing veith alanrity.
Mottle fly against the eandle Battu.
beeause their eyes tan bear' only a
ainall amount of light. When', there-
fore, they come witlan the light of a
Candle, tbeir eight id overpowered and
their vision confused, arid as they eati•
not diatingulah objeete, they pursue
the light IOW and fly againat • the
Hanle,
WIIEN CONFIDENCE 15 LACNING.
Ves. know ohs loves Me and bas
Canifidatztee ift WI, hub there are times
.tvhen she won't put her hand in mine.
Can „it be 1 And when le thett
When `were playing *Met,
ton he left bang of the river Hula
settee, early on tne morning of the
kilth the allied armies resumed their
March on the river Alma, on tho
beats of whioh the Russians,Ayere en-,
trenched in great atrengtb. The al -
under the command ot Marshal St.
Arnaud and Lord Raglan, numbered
about 50,030 men, while the Russiane
bad in the field some 40,009 infantry,
6,000 cavalry, and 180 guns, under
Prince Illensoldkoff. Inferiority in
point of numbers was in the ease of
the Russians amply Made up by the
superiority of position. The enemy's
army lay aeross the great road to Se-
bastopol, abaut three miles from:the .
sea, A bold precipitous range form,
ed their left, while their right rested
on a point where the descent to ,the
plain was more gradual. This was '
tbe 'key to their position, and conse-
quently strongly defended. IlalfwaY
down the height waa a trench extend- ,
some hundred yards, affording cov-
er against an advance flanked the
whole, of the right:of the position, and
artillery °was posted at tha best points
commanding the passage of the
aiver. thet heights abbve were the
reserve. •
It was arranged, that.the French and
Turich should make ,n fiank attack on
the enemy's left by'crossing the river
at its junetioia with the sea, while the
Britiati bore. uPon the centre and right.
.the part played by 'the, French and
Turks was not, as turned out, of more
subsidiary importance, the
' BRUNT OF THE BATTLE
being benie by the British,• to Whom •
were oppoaed at least two-tbirds of the .
Russian • face. The British advance
Was. made. in the following• -order: The '
amend Division, the 80th, 5.5111,•• and
95th ; and the '41it, '.4715, and:49th, and
the Light Division, the 7th, 23rd, and
83rd; and the .19tb, 77th; 44th, led in
line, of coltimns ;•the Third lavibion,
'the let, 38th, and .50th , and the .4th,
280, and •44111, and the First Division,
anderthe Duke of Cambridge,: the Bri-
gade of Guards and the Highland Bela •
gade-42ad, 79th, andeard, were in sec-
ond line • L)3,8 Fourth Diviskia, thelOtha. .
21st, and' 68th, Oath, and 1st Rifle Bra.
gad& Was in third line; and the Cav-
alry, the 4th, 130, 1811, and Ilth Hus-
sars; and -17th Landers, fortnea enthe
flank and•rear.
The Ships of war, coasting along es
the' trooas advanced, opened fire on the:
Ras:dant; soon alter noon, aed 'almost'
ianniediately the• Ftench began .scal-
ing- the height ea the esioray's, left.
Theo the order Wee given- to the Hatia,......,„„
dell to advance.. As they neared the ,
ehenay, whose batteries Cra the heights'
poured Out a fleadly fire of• shots arid
shell as our men mine in Sight, the
two leadiog divisiona deployed into'
line: The 'enernes • aliarpshooters; •
posted in Sow vineyafda on tne slopes,
opened' fire on our Men •as they ad-, ".
vaiwed to 'the river; inflicting heavy '
losses; The crossing of the stream
under fire was iaade the more trying
,ba the tact that, •the enemy fired the a
of Boarliouk, .itnmediately �pa..
posite our centre, and rendered the
passage of the river jgrpossible at that
point. The Light Division, tinder Sir
George, Brown„, however, cros.aed in
their inimediate front, and. were the .
first:civet- the riieta
IN SPITE OF 'A GALLiNG VIRE,
they began ascending the heightes
Stitt on • they wept, losing heaviy
they adVancedi arid the First Brigade. .
consisting of the 7th, 23rd, and 33rd, •
rushed uri the steep slopea, and,. sap.'
ported by the cp-o'peration of Buller's
Brigade and by • the advance. 'of the
Rifle Brigade,: succeeded in carrying :
a -redoubt, from *haat the Riussians .
withdrew, taking, their . guns with ."
them. Thissedouot now becairae the
central point ot the 'engagement; •for
thOugh "the gime were silent, our men
found themselves in the face of large
massee,' of. the enmity's infantry and
Cavalry. The anal was ever, and sup- ,
parts not. being chise enough to he 1
available, the gallant .brigade. was .
compelled to relinquish the 'position it'
had gained. Then the Guards,: Un-
der!' the Duke 'of Canibridge. and Gen-.
eral Bentinck, moved -up to sopport it. •
They . were met by four batallions of
'the Vladimir regiment, and two Kazan
battaliona which had already suffered .
aeverely,„ 140 IF.gblexiders. under
Sir -Colin Cain:obeli, mune up on the
left 10 suppott. the Guarde, and a
magnificent charge by- the Highlaract
regiments finally drove the enemy
from the field; . In the meantime, the,
other divisions had 'been deing [food
work; por had the Artillery been Idle.
The Whole Rassian army wail in re-
treat, and the heights of • the Aline
were Won. It. was a magnificent Vic..
tory.• Our losses amounted; to 106, of-
ficers, 121 'sergeants, and 4715 rank
and file,'Of whom 25, 19, arid 318 re-
spectively Were killed, The French
loss, according te British authotitiee,
'amounted only to 60 killed, including
3 officers, and 500 wounded. trbe
Russians put their loaseri at nearly
6,603 bin this was ptoliably. less than
the truth.
THE BANANA AS A FOOD PAODUCT
rweiaraetve Timor MON! ?inferno's; Than
Bond Bailie. .
It is worth noting, in connection ' "
with periods of famine India and
elsewhere, what a yast supplY of
wholesome food exists in the banana,
treated as breadstuff. In the West
Indies the fruit id out into "pegs" or
strips, and dried in the sun. then
ground to powder in a Mortar and
sifted. This flour niakes conveui,
ent and nutritious addition to the pro -
Visions ihenegro takes with hint when
travelling, aud he knows the art of
making it into a, Variety ef appetising
dishes.
It is estimated that the' banana has
forty-four tinies more nutritive value
than the potato, and is twentY-five
tieleS more nutritious than good white
d. Th' f tit d I th
French Government to Bend a eonnalle-
sion to the United States and Central
Ameriea to investigate the adaptability
,ift the banana plant fdr extenstve.
agricultural operations in the Congo
and for the produetion of cheap food
for the working pleases in Ilelgiunt.
Now the lianatia grows plentifully in
India, where it is, however, little aged
in edinparison With. its univeraar
popularity in Africa. A rood of it'
there will maintain a lorge faMilY,
and furnish them besidea with plan-
tain beer.
• A. HOITGIIITV TII.4 FRIEND,
Mother -That is a bandaealle Vitae
of bronze you have selectwl for ilVtiss
riangup EC wetkling present but why
do you leave on the priCe-matk
Daughter -The bronze is verY heavy
end I do not want the dear girt to,
heraelf carrying it around, to
the stores to find out what it twit.
rutst womuws P.tputi.
A copy of a curious newspaper, Iota
been found in the "Fteriek national '
s.rehivee. IS dated January 4, 180g,
end is called "L'Atlienee -deo Domes."
The article's are tetirely written by
NeeMait, end the object of the paper
ateres to have been an attempt to
place /women ott an equal footing
with li• Litt