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X3ESJES TIMES CLYDE JULY 26th 19042

A QUESTION OF COURAGEskirt from its entanglementiu Ills stir-rup. “May I?” sin' asked.

“I shall he very grateful.”“Well, then, I—l1—1 believe it is custom-

j;rv for a treat!email to ride on the othershie," she began. n

Eincbnaul had quite recovered hisscif-po; session by tins time, and hepulled I’luto around to her right. “Ofcourse. I should think that would sug-gest itself naturally To anyone but aLook worm like myself; I assure you Ishouldn't have made my hero in a storyguilty of such awkwardness. Now,how about these stirrups? they seemto me to he too short, or too long, orsomething'.”

She looked at them critically: “Ithink they are a little too short. ShallI hold Pluto while you dismount to letthem down?”

“No. thank you; I think I can manageit from the deck,” he replied, slippinghis feet from the stirrup irons and ad-justing the straps to a more comforta-ble length. “There, how is that?”

“That looks better. Now, shall wetry a little gallop?”

“If you please. I'll do anything youtell me to.”

They swept along the level road at aneasy canter, and Eingbrand profited byHester’s suggestions as well as lie couldin the short intervals which his furtiveadmiration of her graceful carriage andradiant beauty spared him from aconsideration of his own shortcom-ings. The, road led them finallyto the western brow of the moun-tain, and they pulled up at theedge of the cliff to enjoy the viewspread out before them.

“Tour surroundings are a perpetualinspiration, Miss Hester,” said Eing-braud. feasting- his eyes with the keenappreciation ofan artist upon the mag-nificent panorama of the mountains

,cnd valleys and forests stretchingawayto the westward.

“I am glad you like Tennessee,” re-plied the girl, with a touch of pathos inher voice. “So many people—especial-ly northerners—seem to think it an un-profitable wilderness.”* “TVho could be so unappreciative as"Tosay that?”

“Miss Brad fern, for one. She is fromBoston, and she visited, friends in Bun-bar last summer. She was continuallypining for New England in general andBoston in particular. Em sure 1 can'tunderstand how she will be able to livehere.”

“Is she coming here to live?”“Yes; as the wife of our rector in

Tregarthen. I tell him he's setting aPad example by going so far fromhome.”

“Then I presume he is a southerner?”“lie is; he’s a Georgian; but 1 believe

he was educated in the north.”“Am I to understand that you think

one ought not to marry out of his sec-tion?” he asked, making the rector'sease a possible opportunity for ascer-taininghis own standing.

“Oh! I wouldn’t say anything soradical as that,” she replied, strokingher horse's mane; “only, it seems tomo, there are many reasons against it.You don't understand—you can't un-derstand —how much sectional feelingthere is in the south.”

“I know there used to "be, but 1thought it was a thing of the past,since the war.”

“It is. in some senses, I suppose, andin others I think it is as strong as ever.My father fought for the south; and ifyou could know how strongly my sym-pathies are enlisted upon the side ofsome of the things which you thinkaredead issues, there would be only oneword inyour vocabulary that would fitme—an ugly little word of five letters.”

“I hope I am broad enough not to ap-ply it. Miss Latimer.® I think I can putmyself in your place sufficiently to un-derstand that there may be many andhonest differences of opinion.”

'■‘lt’s right kind of you to say that—-especially as your side has the better ofthe argument; though I’m not so sure

about that, either. It’s one thing tostarve people into submissionand quiteanother to subjugate them.”

“I believe I can appreciate that, too.”1 Neither of them- spoke again for afew' moments, and then Hester calledhis attention to a jutting crag project-ing far out from the cliff-line at theirfeet. “Do you see thatpoint over yonderto the right?” she asked.

“Yes; and I was going to ask you ifit has a name.”

“It has; it is called ‘Tom's Jump.’lt‘s not a very poetic name, and it couldnardly be called a ‘Lover’s Leap,’ al-though thestory Is dreadful enough.”

“Tell me about it.”'. “It’s short and quite prosaic. Thereused to be a moonshiner’s still some-where in this neighborhood, and one ofthe men was young Tom Gran in-, I lie souot the mountaineerwho owm d the still.'One day therevenue men wore ' t ring le-anest the party, and they i based youngCragin out into this road. He rat-down that way, and two more oIT-cifcame out into the road ahead of him.When he saw he was surrounded, la-climbed out to the point of t hat rodand flung himself down.”

Bingbrand looked surprised, “f didn'iknow the penalties wore si v> :v enoughto warrant a man in doing that," hepaid. V.

“I’m not sure that they are." repliedthe girl, “though a long- term in in-

penitentiary is hard enough ; r <h>free life of the mountain. But ia Bra-gin’s case I think there t.iie OiitC?

things; there was a long storyof blood-shed and violence leading up to thetragedy, and perhaps he had reason H-fear something worse than a.prison.You don’t know anythingabout t he sav-age history of these mount airs. Mi.Eingbrand,” she added, turning l’.o>horse’s head homeward. “r-can;,every family in the neighborhood is orhas been mixed up in some d.cadfittrouble; even our own has not escape-:!

She did not offerany further explana-tions as they rode hack to “TheLaurels,” and Eingbrand hit instinct-ively that it was a matter about v. hickhe could not- ask questions What .-diehad said, however, made him thought-

ful, :uul lie resolve' to ask Bndlowif heknew tlie story. ■. -T

When they reached the house Hesterasked Ringbrand to stay to tea, andafter the meal they sat togetheron theveranda while the colonel and his sonrode to Tregarthen. Since they werewell beyondthe period of acquaintance-ship in which young lovers take eachother seriously and talk upon abstrusesubjects, the conversaton drifted aim-lessly and easily from one topic to an-other until it finally came back to thesector and his approaching marriage.Hester spoke of it again in terms of dis-approval. “It seems to me likea case ofnfatuation on his part,” she said,‘though I suppose I’m prejudiced. I

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can’t see how they are ever going to beable to make peace between the sec-tions.” --

“Is Miss Brad fern so very pronouncedin her views?” asked Ringbrand.

“I think she is; and I fear she is muchthe stronger of the two.”

“Is thal-always a misfortune“Possibly not ; but it seems so to me.

Tt inipiies a surrender on the par t of thehusband, and that’s a pitiable thing tocontemplate.”

“Do you i hink so? I should say thatsuch a surrender might be very noble—-under some circumstances.”

“I can’t imagine the circumstances.What are they?”

Ilia frank question drew him ratherdeeper into the subject than he hadmeant to go, but he laid hold of Liscourage and spoke the thought 11*3.1was in him. “I mean when a man hasbeen fortunate enough to find the onewoman in the world with whom ho canshare all things.” He said it quietly,trying to keep the vibrant note of pas-sion out of his voice.

She did not reply at once, and whenshe did there was no sign that she hadtaken his answer in any sense otherthan as an abstract statement of fact,“Even then I think youarewrong," shesaid. “It doesn’t seem possible to methat any woman could accept such asacrifice and retain her respect for theman who made it; does it to you?”

“I had never thought of it as being asacrifice. It is more like a part of thehomage which a loyal subject wouldgive freely to the one whom he had en-throned.”

She looked at him in doubt. “I cannever tell when you arc in earnest andwhen you are trying to be satirical.”

“Oh, I beg you to believe I wouldn’tjest upon such a serious subject,” hehastened to say,

“Then I can’t understand your posi-tion at all. You—you write aboutwom-en, and you should understand thembetter than that. Isn’tit true that eventhe strongest woman prefers to lookuprather than down, if her husband benoble and brave and generally worthlooking up to?”

Ringbrand winced, for had he notsigned his name to a certain narrativein which the motive turned upon thetheory that deep in the heart of everywoman there dwells anunspoken desireto be dominated? He smiled at 1 1is un-conscious mendacity and wondered whyit is that a man who chances 1o be in

1 love cannot apply the wisdom of otherdays to the solution of his own riddles,

“Perhaps you are right, after all,” hesaid, musingly, “Now that von recallit, it seems quite possible that i may atone time have held and expressed sucha view myself. Your proviso, however,helps my side of the question.”

“In what way?”“By asking for a. rare combination of

virtues in the man.”“How do you mean?”“You said he should be noble and

brave and generally worth looking upto.”

“Arc those qualities rare?”“Rare enough, 1 fear. I think there

arc not many of us who could lilt the re-quirements. But to retro nto MissHradfern: You thinkshe will he on thegoverning hand, do you?”

“Perhaps not quite t hat, but I'm verysure she has some—shall we call themconvictions?-—that will make Mr. Ra-leigh very uncomfortable. One of themis the idea that it is a part of her mis-sion to bring about the social recog-nition of the negroes.” Site said “nig-gers,” but the provincialism bore nocontemptuous accent.

The remark caught Ringbrand off hisguard and lie said: “There is room forreform along that line, isn’t there?”

“That depends very much upon thepoint of view.” Hester drew hers el fupand a shade of austerity crane into hermanner. “I’m not quite sure how youregard it in the north, though am saysyou make no distinct ion—or. r- least,not very much. "With us the questionhas been definitely settled for a longtime.” x

He was besotted enough to try toargue the point with her. m’t youthink that much of the oh;. ■ . ato so-cial equality on the score oi * • lor ofa person’s skin is prejudice hj: asked,

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please,” she an-swered, with chilly preciseness, “andthere is nothing to prevent your put-ting yourself upon,an equality with ourservants if you feel so disposed.”

“I’m sure I don’t wish to do that,though I’m quite as certain that thequestion of color or race would not pre-vent me. I think the negroes in thenorth are given all the social rightsthey expect or deserve; they are atleast the social equals of white peoplein their own class.”

ITester rose and stood before himwith sparkling eyes and flushed cheeks,and he forgot all about the argumentin his admiration of her superb loveli-ness. “That’s just it! ” she exclaimed;“you all are quite willing to let the ne-groes take their chances in the north,but you try 'to compel us to acceptthem as equals, without regardto class,whether we want to or not.”

It was not their first difference, andRing-brand smiled “You. are of thesouth, aren’t you. Miss Hester? I wishyou would teach me how to be enthus-iastic,” he said, mildly.

“It wouldbe a hopeless task,” she re-plied.

“I’m not so sure about that. I thinkit would depend upon the teacher.”

“Hut you would be enthusiastic onthe wrong side, if 1 did.”

“Perhaps you might convert me inthe process.”

“I am afraid that isn’t possible; andthen it wouldn’t be honest of you to letme,” she added, with feminine incon-sistency.

King-brand smiled complacently. “Ilike that,” he said. “I shall try here-after to be both enthusiastic and loyalto my section.”

Thinking about "this conversationwhen she was braiding her hair beforeher mirror that night, Hester blushedwhen she remembered how emphaticshe had been. T hope he didn’t thinkI was inhospitable and rude,” she said,speaking softly to herself; “but hedoesn't know how his cool way of as-serting himself irritates one. And 1was almost angry, too; I'm sure I wasgoing to say something spiteful; butthere was a look in his eyes that saidno, just as plainly as couldbe. He al-ways looks at me that \vay when I’mabout to say something mean, and thenI can’t go on. I wonder—but thatwould be ridiculous; he ought to mar-ry a Yassnr girl at thevery least; some-body withcalm grayeyes and fluffyhair,a girl with advanced ideas and all that,and with plenty of intellect, so shecould help him in his work. That isn'tmuch like you, is it?” speaking to thereflection in the mirror; “you’re noth-ing but an enthusiastic, impulsive coun-try girl, with coarse black hair”—shedrew one of the shining braids overher shoulder to look at it—“and eye-brows that make me think of the pic-ture of Beatrice in the big Shakespearedownstairs—only she's pretty andyou’re not.”

Mirrors do not always tell the truth,and Hester’s must have been a veryAnanias of a looking-glass if it reflect-ed any such distorted likeness of theembodiment of sweet, wholesome wom-anhood standing before it; there were

and pride in every line of thebeautiful face and perfect form, but itwas the strength that harmonizes withgrace and purity, and it was the pridethat abhors mean things and scornsthe ignoble arts of deceit and subtet-fuge.

THE IITBTOBr OIT A EEUD.Places, like persons, have characters

to keep or to lose. From the time be-yond which fireside tradition fadesintothe less authentic record of legendarytales, McNabb’s cove had shared withits scanty population the evil report ofa bad neighborhood. Topographically,it is a mere gash in the side of Murphymountain, with a few acres of arableland in the center shut in on three sidesby steep wooded hills, whose summitsare the cliffs of the mountain. Prac-tically inaccessible on three sides, en-trance by the fourth is scarcely lessdifficult. A narrow wagon road windsup the sharp ascent which measuresthe height of the cove above the level ofHarmony valley; and besides this thereare no means of ingress or egress forvehicles, and none for pedestrians savesuch as are afforded by two or threerocky trails up the sides of the moun-tain.

The isolation of McNabb’s cove badmuch to do with its unsavory reputa-tion. For many years the Bynums,whose log farmhouse of “two pens anda passage.” was the only human habita-tion in the small valley, had acted asgo-between for the illicit distillers onthe mountain and their customers inHarmony valley. In consequence ofthis, t he cove had been the scene of sev-eral encounters between the revenueofficers and the moonshiners; and although the Bynums had usually main-tained an outward show of neutrality,there was little doubt that they had al-ways given the secret aid to theirneighbors on the mountain. It wa.-:luring the life of Col. Latimer's fatherthat the Bynums had first broughtthemselves within the pale of the law.•V revenue ollicer had climbed the steejroad lending to the cove one afternoon,and the next morning Ids dead bodywas found at the foot of the declivitywith a bullet hole in the skull. OldSquire Latimer was justice of thepeace at the time, and he v.aespecial-ly active in pushing the inquiry whichfinally fixed the crime upon cue of theBynums. As the evidence was mostlycircumstantial, the murderers gut offwith a life sentence: but for thesquire’s part in the prosecution theBynums declared war upon the Lati-mer family, instituting a series of per-secutions which culminated in theburning of the manor-house in the, val-ley. The ex-Virginiau was a law-abid-ing man, and, although there was lit-tle doubt as to the identity of Ids ene-mies, he refused to retaliate in kind.With each fresh leprodal ion he re-doubled his efforts to obtain proofwhich could be produced in court; hut

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Nothing Like Experience “One truthlea'necl I >y actual experience does mostgcod than ten experiences one hears about,Tell a man that Chamberlain’s ColicCholera and Diarrhoea Ki-medy will cmecholera morbus, and he will most 1 kelyforget it before the end of the day. Lethim have a severe attack of that disease’ft cl tha' he is about to die, use thislemec'y, and learn from his own experiencebow qu'ckly it gives relief, and he willremember it all his life. For sale by B,Naylor, Clyde.-

.Relief After Six Years—Mr-s M Alark, of Tirol erry Range, N S W,

Austtaha, wTtes:—“l wish to in-*form you ot the wonderin' beneffts Thave received from your valuablemedicines. I suffered from a severecough for six yeais and obtained noleliet until I took Chamberlain’sCough Lemedy, One bottle curedme and 1 am thankful to say that Ihare never had the cough sinca.Make any use of this letter that youlike for the good’ of any other poorsufferers.” For sale by B Naylor,Clyde

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THE LOSS OF THE PHILIPHERBERT.

It is a true remark that Englishmen haveforgotten as much of their naval history aswould make the reputation of a lesser nation;and thcsyi is a certain spedihrift grandeurabout thifc carelessness which of itself bearswitness eloquently to the vast riches of ourcountry in past deeds of glory. We canafford to neglect the crumbs and remnants,yet it is well occasionally to make sure thatwe have not let any deeds slip into oblivionwhich were better remembered.

A tiny volume printed in Paris in 1693,and now growing rare, contains the story ofa sra fight which well deserves the famewhich tho caprice of history has denied it.In May, 1600, a squadron of six Frenchships of war, under the command, ofDuquesne, son of the famous sea captain ofthat name, was lying at Mohilla, betweenthe nothern point of Madagascar, and themainland, when the news came that an Eng-lish ship was at Am jouam, a trading stationtwenty miles away.

Duquesne got his ships under way at once;out the winds were light, and two days wereoccupied in tunning down to Arujouam.Late on the second afternoon tho land sur-rounding the anchorage came in sight, andshortly afterwards the roadstead lay open,and tho French could see a large vessel lyingat anchor close to the shore, with the whitepuff of smoke from two guns which she fired*o call her crew on board when she saw thestranger ships approaching.

The sun was already sinking low, andDuquesne ordered every stitch of canvas tobo set, in order that ho might be able to at-tack tho solitary ship before the fall of nightgave her a chance of escape. The fleet camein under Dutch colours, a trick which be-trayed tho English captain into making noeffort to get away. The Ecusil outsailedtho other ships of the French squadron, andwhen she came within a short distance of theEnglishman she lowered her Dutch flag,though without hoisting another in its place.This ect aroused suspicion. Tho Englishcaptain hailed, ‘"What ship is that?’ Thereply came in Dutch, asking him to senda boat on board. The boat was lowered,and the captain was about to step into it,when a few of his sailors, who had beenreconnoitring the strangers in another boat,cried out that it was a French ship. Thecaptain stepped hack, the order to stand tothe guns ran quickly round, and the ‘Ecueil’seeing that her imposture was discovered,cast outan anchor alongside, and with loudshouts of ‘Vive le roil’ ‘Vive France!’poured her broadside into the doomed vessel,followed by a withering fire of musketry.

The shock of this surprise did not startletho Englishmen ont of their self-possessionor resource. There were no such things as•peaceful’ traders in those days, at least inEastern waters; and the English 'ship—hername was the Philip Herbert, of London—-was as well equipped for fighting as many amodern cruiserproportionately to the fashion

* of her time. lave guns, which may havebeen the only ones trained on the enemy,roared oat defiance of the French, and at thesame moment the order was given to weighanchor. The next discharge from the Ecueil,however, shattered the windlass, andstretched twenty-two men on the deck,

v whereupon the Englishmen oat their cable,and hoisting the top-sails got under sail.

By this time, the Halliard, Duqaesne’sflagship, was within range, and the Englishcaptain, seeing the four remaining vessels ofthe French squadron closing fast around him,must have perobived that, speaking humanly,he had no chance whatever of escape. Thewind was so light that the ship made hardlyany way; yet, making the most of whatthere was, he executed the manoeuvre of abold and skilful seaman, and laid the PhilipHerbert between the Gaillard and the Ecneil,thus making it difficult for either of them tofire on him without serious danger of injur-ing her consort, while he poured his shotinto each impartially. The Philip Herbertshoe slightly ahead, and the English cap-tain ordered his men to restrain their fire,hoping that in the darkness that was fallingrapidly they might slip past tho enemy andgain the open sea, if not first crippled ordismasted.

Duquesne appears to have been sensiblethat this was not a groundless hope, and re-solving, as we must suppose, to shake thenerves of his plncky adversary he orderedthe firing to cease, and hailing himself inEnglish declared that if the captain of thePhilip Herbert did not strike his colours, hewould hang him to his own yardarm.

It is a~Frenchman, and a follower ofDuquesne, who records the utterance of thisatrocious threat; in which it is charitable tosuppose we ought to see rather an evidenceof the exceptional ferocity with which thesebattles for the Oriental trade were fought,than any high degree of barbarity in Du-quesne.

However this may be, the English captaintook the only proper course, and deigned noanswer save in round shot, of which hiswhole broadside crashed into the flagshipbefore Duquesne had well done speaking,thereby Winning the admiration of the French—so our * Garde de la Marine * tells us—fcrhis hopeless gallantry.

Never had a captain and his crew moreneed of gallantry. The French flagshiplay on one quarter, the Ecneil on the other,at so short a distance that the yardarms ofthe three vessels grazed each other, and sopoured in the hottest fire they could main-tain, a fire so heavy, indeed, that the ‘Gardede la Marine’ assures ns that the PhilipHerbert was crippled by it, and must havelost half her crew. Yet, he adds, with apuzzled admiration, that for all this loss theEnglish did nob seem dismayed, nor did hehear a single cry for quarter. On the con-trary, all the Englishmen wanted was anopportunity of boardingone or other of theirenemies; bat this they could not obtain,being, perhaps, already too much damagedin spars and rigging to manoeuvre witheffect. So, with undiminiehed courage, ourmen fought their two powerful advenariesfor a full hour, when the remaining fourships of the French squadron came withinrange, and, closing round the Fhilip Her-hert, poured in shot upon her from everygun which they could bring to bear. Still,tho English showed no sign of flinching,though the ‘Garde de la Marine’ testifiesthat their gunnery at this stage of the fightwas getting a little wild, as well it might,in the confusion of a combat with six enemiesat once. It had grown very dark. The jetsof fire coming in qnick succession and theperpetual hissing of balls through the nightair were the only indication of the positionof the ships. To avoid confusion, Duquesneordered each of his captains to show twotorches on the poop ; but these signals wereno sooner displayed than the men coantedseven of them. The English captain was aresourceful man, and had sailed tho seas toolong to be made the victim of so simple adevice.

It was about eleven o’clock. The fighthad raged for three hours, and the captureof (he Philip Herbert seemed no nearer thanat first. She had made no reply to the lastt?w broadsides; and Duquesne, convincedthat nothing more could be done until day-light, sent a boat round tho squadron withorders that firing should cease, and that themen should be allowed to rest. How sorelyrest was needed on the Philip Herbert weshall never know, but we may imagine thatthe Londoners saw death too near them tobe inclined to sleep. b

Meantime the crew of the Ecueil had beenstartled by the sound of a voice from thesea—* A moi, Francois, a moi 1’ and rightlysurmising that the cry was that of somefugitive from the English ship, they lowered

and, picked up the young Frenchwho had been a captive on the Philip

Herbert, and had cast himself overboard inthe confusion of the fight, trusting to thefinger chase? ot being able to gain the

squadron of hk countrymen. From this fel-low the squadron obtained their only directinformation about the ship which bad foughtthem with such unexpected and recklessgallantry. She was, as already stated, fromLondon, pierced for sixty-four guns, andactually carrying fifty-four, with a crew oftwohundred and fifty men, and about eightypassengers, among whom was a rich Englishhanker, accompanied by his wife anddaughter, a beautiful girl of twenty, and twolittle sons. What interested the French morethan these family details was the intelligencethat the rich banker had with him no lessthan forty thousand crowns in silver ; and,indeed, everything which they heard fromthe fugitive about the vessel, which theyalready looked on as their prize, raised theroost golden visions before their eyes. ThePhilip Herbert was laden, it appeared, withgold lace and scarlet cloth, with beaver,tobacco, canary wine, and, above all, a verylarge sum in coined money, destined fcr thepayment of troops in India, who were saidto have received no pay for four years.

* Quand on prend du galon,’ says a Frenchproverb which Duquesne's men may haveremembered on this eventful night, ‘ on n’ensaurait trop prendre ;* and, indeed, therewas enough to justify a good deal of exulta-tion on the part of the French, who not in-excusablycounted the goods as theirs already.Here at the first blow was compensation forthe weary voyage, and an earnest of thegoldenharvest which was to come. But thesimple fellows forgot that the very richnessof the prize might make the English resolutenot to be taken. In fact, before the nightwas over they had learned more about thecharacter of English sailors than they seemto have known when the fight Lagan.

So the ships lay motionless through hourafter hour of darkness, broken only by theflaring torches on the poops, and more rarelyby a spit of fire and a roar of cannon, as theEnglish gunners, wearying of inactivity,sent a broadside in the direction of theirenemies, after which all was silent as before.One may imagine with what fierce restless-ness the English spent the hours ofwaiting,trapped and doomed as they were beyond allhelp unless a wind sprang up. The air wasabsolutely still; there was no motion amongtho sails or cordage ; and the Philip Herbertlay like a log on the water, waiting for themoment when her enemies choseto administerthe coup de grace.

About two o'clock a little waft of windwas felt, and the English, spreading sailsilently, endeavoured to steal away. Butthe French were keeping careful watch, andthe English ceptain, finding that they fol-lowed and still surrounded him, took thedesperate resolution that it was time to makean end—prompted, as We need not donbt,by a patriotic determination that so valuablea ship as thatwhich he commanded should notfall into the hands of the French. And apartfrom the importance of keeping a great ad-vantage out of the hands of the enemy, wasit not better for him and his men to perishgloriously by their own act than to belike rats on the following morning whentheir ship was sunk, as she must be on theresumption of the action, or perhaps even todie by the more disgraceful death whichDuquesne had threatened ?

And so the French, ‘triumphing in havingprevented the last effort of the Philip Her-bert to escape, were startled by a red glarewhich shot np suddenly across the blacknessof the night. A vast column of smoke il-lumined by tongues of flickering dametowered up from the deck of the PhilipHerbert, showing the astonished Frenchmenthat the Londoners bad preferred the mostterrible of all deaths, because by that alonethey could maintain their own honour andthe prestige of England. The was anawful one. Ere long the Philip Herbertwas completely enveloped in fire. TheFrench sailors watched in awe-struck silencetheir late enemies climbing up the highestpeaks of the rigging to escape the flames aslong as possible; but they seem to havemade no effort to save any fugitives. Itwas a long agouy. The Philip Herbertburned for three hours before the flamesreached the magazine, when a sudden ex-plosion hurled into the air whatever rem-nants of humanity remained on that proudand goodly ship. The next morning, whenday broke, the French lowered their boats tosee if any wreckage of value could be secured;but they found only charred masses oftobacco, and an infinite number of corksfloating over the spot whore so many bravemen bad passed out of life carrying theirhonour with them.

Some time after the fire broke out on thePhilip Herbert the French declare that abeat put off from her and made its way toland. This is probable enough, for therewere women and children on the Englishship, and what seems to have been the onlyboat available would naturally be used toput them in a place of safety. But theFrench stoiy is that the boat contained thecaptain who thus saved himself by a basoflight from the awful death reserved for hiscrew and passengers. Now in common fair-ness a charge so atrocious ought not to bebrought without strong evidence, especiallyagainst a captain whose conduct up to thatmoment had been all that was moat admir-able. In this case there is no evidence atall.The night was dark. The boat was notstopped. How could tho French possiblyknow who were the fugitives ? The country-men of this brave sailor—whose name hasnot come done to us—will decline to believethat his heroism deserted him at the suprememoment; and will not doubt that tho boatcontained the rich banker with his wife andchildren.

Such is the story of the Philip Herbert—-one of the many glorious incidents of theirpast history which Englishmen have beencontent to forget. Yet in the telling ofeven so old a tale there should lie somestimulus to emulation; and it will be wellfor that nation who** children interpret theirdoty towards her in her heur of peril asfaithfully and bravely as thoea long-for-gotten Londoners of two huadrsd years ago.—A. H. Nouwat.

SPRUCING UP THE PATER.Mr K—— comes of a plain family, unen-

cumbered with wealth. He was brought upon a farm, afterwards tampered with tradein a country store, then associated himselfwith a livery stable, next cultivated a la teatgift of oratory for a year or two as anauctioneer, and later widened his activitiesas a retail coal-dealer. This about twentyyears ago led him on a propitious day intothe coal-mining business, where one dollarbrought on another, till he finally foundhimself a millionaire. But, despite Liswealth, he was not the man to waste moneyin riotous living. His ways of living haveremained plain.

But Mr K has a son with quite dif-ferent ideas on the subject of the uses ofwealth. Naturally his father has been asore trial to the young man. While theyouth’s clothes have averaged about eightydollars a suit, and came from the besttailors, the old gentleman has never yetexceeded a fixed limit of fifteen dollars inthe purchase of a suit, ready made, andusually he has taken advantage of a removalor fire sale, and fitted himself out at abouttwelve dollar*. Long and painful havehem the wrestlings of the son with thefather on these matters, but without result,‘ The man that pays more than fifteon dol-lars for a suit of clothes is a tarnal fool,’ hasalways been the ending of the argument bythe older man.

Eut-the worst thing which the son has badto bear has been his father’s umbrella. Hehas carried the sameumbrella ever since hisold friends can remember, A local anti-quarian has declared, over his own signature,that it is tho original umbrella carried by oldJames Hanway iu London in 1750, andhas suggested that the Pennsylvania His-torical Society secure it for preservation Inits archives; but this is probably only anill-chosen joke by a man not accustomed toincursions into the field of humour. But itis certainly an anoi§»t un* br^lla; the cover

i* of a dingy drab, and the ribs, which areof whalebone, are so permanently bowed,even when closed, that it is an impossibilityto force it more than half-way into thelargest umbrella-vase made. Mr. K——always carries it, rain or shine, holding, ifthe morning be fair, that it is a ‘ weather-breeder,* and sure to bring storm, and if itbe cloudy, that of course no sane man willgo forth unprepared.

The son has not failed to point ont thoadvisability of the other’s providing himselfwitha new umbrella, but for a long timewithout producing the least, effect. Thothing, however, became unbearable at last,and one day he met his parent in the hall ashe came in, and said :

* Now, seo here, father, you must got anew umbrella. The whole town is (talkingabout that thing. The very children in thestreet laugh at it.’

* What’s the matter with this umbrella ?’

loudly inquired the millionaire, striking thenewel-post a couple of resounding whackswith it. ‘ lust as good as it was the day Ibought it.’

‘ But it’s old, out of date, out of shape,faded, disgraceful, wretched. You canafford a new one.’

* Can’t afford a new anything aa long nsthe old one doea_ well enough ;’ and hethrashed the antiquated outrage about thenewel-post again, making its ribs rattle likethe boughs of a dead tree in a Novembergale. ‘ But you make such a taraal fussabout this umbrella that I’ll tell fou whatI’ll do, for the sake of peace: I’ll get a newone, but I won’t pay more than 1 did forthis one.’

‘ How much was that ?’ inquired the son,doubtfully.

‘ One dollar and a half,’ answered theother. ‘ That’s the limit. Any man whopays more for an umbrella is a fool.’

The son hesitated. Was an obviouslycheap co f ton umbrella to be desired over theold one? Suddenly light dawned, however,and he said : v

‘ All right, father. Umbrellas are cheapnow, and you can buy apretty good one for adollar and a half.’

Tho young man surreptitiously sent a noteto his umbrella-dealer, and after luncheoncalled in with his father.

‘ Now there,’ said the tradesman, bringingout one of the best in his stock, ‘is such anumbrella as gentlemen of yourago arecarry-ing this season. It’s ot superior make andfully warranted.’

‘ What’s the tariff?’ inquired the olCl gen-tleman, suspiciously.

‘ One dollar and a half,’ answered thedealer.

‘l’ll take it,* responded tho other, pro-ducing the money.

After they had left the store, the trades-man charged ten dollars to the son’s account,being the difference between the real price ofthe umbrella and the price paid for it. Atthe office Mr K crowded the old umbrellabehind the steam-radiator, observing that itmight come handy to lend to some visitor.

The next morning, when he came downtown armed with the new umbrella, thewhole town was astonished. Many peoplefailed to recognize him. That afternoon,stepping out of his office, a friend met him,and said:

4Mr K , that’s a pretty fine umbrellayou’re carrying.*

The rich man smiled and responded :

* Well, it ought tobe. I paid a dollar anda half for thatumbrella.'

‘ls that all? I’d like to get it for fivedollars.*

‘You have got it,’ returned MrK~—•,handing it over. ‘ Gimme the five.’

That evening as he entered the house hewalloped tho old bag of whalebone roundthe newel-post to attract his sou’s attention,remarking gleefully when he had done so:

* By George, boy, I never made three anda half dollars so easy before in my life ! Itwas a great stroke your patting me on tobuying that new umbrella!’

And ever since he has carried the old one.

TRAVELLER.SIBERIA’S LAW COURTS.

Siberia, by a recent ukase, is to have anew system of law courts, removing theinhabitants from the arbitrary rule ofGovernment officials. Justices of the peacewill be appointed by the Crown; there willbe superior courts at Tomsk, Tobolsk, Chita,Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Yakutsk, Blagove-stchensk, and Vladivostok, and a court ofappeals at Irkutsk. The change is made,the decree states, on account of tho develop-ment of the country and the changes in civillife brought about by the Siberian railroad.

A GHOST IN BUSINESS.An amusing case of spiritualistic impost-

tore has lately been tried before the Lands-gerichl.atHamburg, The accused, who wasan apprentice 19 years old and an adept in‘ spiritualism,’ had a friend of the name ofKaiser, who informed him that he was 70marks to the good in his recipts, and howthis money got info the safe he had no meansof divining. The accused at once explainedthis surplus by his own dealings with thespirit world. It was Onkel Ernst, his de-ceased relation, who had conjured the 70marks into the safe, and who would shortlyrequire them back, spirits being apparentlylenders rather than givers, but being gene-rous enough to forego the interest. Kaiser,who also played with spiritualism, acceptedthe explanation, and his belief was confirmedlater on when he received a document writtenprofessedly by Onkel Ernst. It said; ‘ Re-pay at once the 70 marks I advanced. Myfaithful medium to receive them;’ Kaisercomplied—and found a few weeks later thatthe surplus had no ghostly source but was

due to an item he had overlooked inhis accounts. The firm took the matter np,and the prosecution proved that the writingof Onkel Ernst was exactly the same as thatof bis faithful medium. The Court decidedto protect the nephew from the influence ofhis business-like uncle by sentencing thefaithful medium to six mouths’ imprison-ment.

the"gTpsies.Surrey, with its six hundred open tracts,

continues to be a favourite camping groundof the gipsies, who cling to their independ-ent ways in the most tenacious manner;and, in fact, this county may be looked uponas the last English stronghold of naturalfreedom. The pure Romany Rye people aresaid to be of Egyptian descent, though manyhave joined their ranks who have nothing in-common with them save their love of vag-rancy ; and did not one of the police-courtsthe other day present the amusing spectacleof a Scotsman whohad set up as an ‘amateurvagrant’ from pure love of too life ? But itis a curious thing that in estimating theethnological elements which have gone to themaking of the present conglomerate Britishrace—Celt, Roman, Saxon, Dane, Norman,and Jew—none of our historians have everthought it worth while to make any referenceto the gipsy element in our national com-position. Ido not refer to those gipsies whohave continued to lead an existence asseparate from the great mass of our peopleas oil from water, but to those who havebecome absorbed iuto our mixed race, andmingled their blood with ours.

ii.Yet there might be made a very consider-

able list of distinguished Englishmen ofgipsy origin—the Buck lands, for example,‘ Christopher North,’ and many others.Mrs. Cirlyle, too, was of gipsy extraction onone side of thehouse—at least, I have readso somewhere—and this accounted for muchof that peculiarity of temperament whichwas not always soothing to the Sago ofChelsea. I fancy that Mrs. Carlyle was re-ferring to her Romany origin when, inwriting to a friend about the personalappearance of Tennyson, she saidsides, he is a very handsome man, and anoble-hearted one, with something of thegipsy in his appearance, which for me il pet-feotlj charming.’

SHORT STORY'

' P’TITE LISETTE,Her clumsy sabots clicked noisily as she

tripped down the cobbled street to carryMadame Duret her newly finished dress.She wondered how it was that ladies couldthink of such things when the Prussian gunswere booming beyond the river, and therifles cracking night and day at the barri-cades. She tpok no heed of the soldiers wholounged outside every cabaret—twirling theirbig moustaches, rattling their sabres, andlooking at her little figure admiringly as shehurried past—but made her way towards thelarge white house, for madamo grew veryangry if her orders were not executedpromptly.

Lisette was shown into madame’s dress-ing-room, and she sat down patiently whilethe lady finished writing a letter. She staredat the flowered carpet, and thoughtof PierroVermot. She remembered the night whenhe had staggered into her father’s cottagewith a bullet in his shoulder and a laughon his lips. She had loved him frorav thatmoment, and Pierre had loved her in return.

Pierre was a spy, and his pockets werealmost always filled with gold. Sometimesbo drank more than was good for him, andthen ho would gamble away his money, andfight, too, if he could find anyone rashenough to fight with him. But Pierre'ssteel-grey eyes always softened when helooked at Lisette, and he was so big andstrong and fearless that his lover was alwaysquick at finding excuses for him. She hadnot heard of him for weeks, and her littleheart almost stopped beating as she called tomind the grim stories people told of how thePrussians treated spies.

‘So you have brought my dress,* saidmadamo, lighting the spirit-lamp to seal herletters.

Lisette started from her reverie, and wasbeginning to open the parcel, when madamothrust back the fable and rose to her feet.

‘ You are Pierre Verraot’s sweetheart,Lisette ?’ she-asked kindly.

The girl’s heart leapt, and she blushedprettily as she gazed at her own trim anklespeeping out below the short serge skirt.

* Yea, madame.’Madame was old and thin, and usually

very acid. But the hard lines about hermonth relaxed somewhat, and the glance shecast at tho girl from under her shaggy greyeyebrows was a pitying one. Madame’shusband was fighting gallantly for hiscountry, risking his life every hour, and heronly son had fallen for France as ho led hishorse up to the very mouths of the Prussiancannon. She knew what sorrow was, but itwas her habit to conceal her feelings,

‘ I have just received a Ifetter from myhusband,’ madame said. ‘ Pierro Vermotwas captured by the Prussians four days ago.Ho might escape, Lisette, as he has escapedbefore. But ’

‘What, madarno?’ Lisette had droppedtho parcel; her oheeks were ■white as chalk,and she clutched at the table for support.‘ Is he wounded ?*

Madame nodded, and, waiting to hear nomore, the girl staggered blindly down thebroad staircase and out into the street. Theclouds wore hanging low, and the pavementwas dappled with snowflakes. The soldiers,wrapped in their greatcoats, were hurryingtowards the barricades, and oft the bitingwind came the distant rattle of guns and theshrill blast of bugles.

‘Poor Lisette!’ said madame, as she rangtho bell for her maid, and prepared to try onthe new dress.

Lisette saw no one as she sped along, butmany people saw the little seamstress, andshook their heads compassionately, for thenews of Pierre Vermct’s capture had spreadfar and wide. She hardly knew where shewas going ; her brain was in a whirl, and allthat she could remember was that Pierrewas wounded and in the hands of the Prus-sians. Then a sudden clattering of hoofsfrom the direction of the barricade causedher to raise her head, and she gave a quickcry and sprang forward.

‘Jean! Jean!’The man reined in his horse, and when he

caught sight of her would have ridden on,but she seized the bridle and held it fast.

* Where is Pierre?’ she panted. ‘Tell me,Jean; you were his comrade.’

The man tuggedat his beard uneasily, andhis eyes blinked in a manner that was farfrom soldier-like.

‘ I did my beet for you, P’tifce Lisette,’ hesaid, examining the horse’s mane attentively.‘We got him out of the Prussians’ clutchesyesterday. Mon Dieu, how we rode ! Theywere thick as bees all round us. Then woreached the river, and found it was eachman for himself, for the knaves wore every-where.’

'So you left him—a wounded man !’ shecried, with flashing eyes.

4 What could we do ? It was by his ownwish that we abandoned him. He is hiddenin the old mill, and the Prussian lines are soclose that a mouse couldn’t aqueez > ia be-tween them. I will risk it to-morrow, macherc. Bah ! Wipe your eyes and all willbe well. Pierre has only a broken arm, andyou know what Pierre can do.’

* To-morrow !’

She released the bridle, and turned herback upon him contemptuously. Jean drewhie sleeve across his eyes and rode on, forhis wife would be waiting for him, and herclaim was of more importance than Lisatte’s.The wind blow stronger now, laden withsnow, and the jsound of firing rolled up dulland theatening. Lisotte hastened homo, andsat with her hands clasped over her knees,gazing vacantly into the tiny charcoal fire.

So Pierre was hiding in the old mill,wounded, hungry, and without either lightor fire !

Sho knew the old mill well, but Jean hadsaid that no ono could pass the Prussianlines unobserved. Poor Lisette ?

The grey shadows were beginning to creepin upon her before she rose from her seat,and her heart was beating wildly and herhands clenched tight. She packed a basketwith provisions and a bottle of wine, andJbegan to pace the room, longing for thedarkness.it came at last—a night black as ink, and

full of whirling snow. The noise of gunswas almost silenced, eavo for some fitfulhoominsrs beyond the river, and a few an-swering’rattles from the French outposts.

She stole out and passed unnoticed throughthe northern outskirts of the town, for thePrussians bad not jet crossed the stream, andin that direction the town was almost un-guarded. Then she turned her back to thewind, and ran towards the fr >zen river,scaling the bluff.

She knew then that her quest was hope-less. Far to the right and left the outpostsstretched on either hank, and here and therered tongues of flame leapt out of the gloom,showing that both parties were awake andwatchful. From where she stood she couldlook down upon the little town, and see thedark figures flitting flaring watch-fires at the barricades. Even had the rivernot been clad in its dazzling mantle of snow,none could have crossed it unseen. Herheart sank.

Then the vision of Pierre lying racked withpain and hunger in the old mill came uponher, and she hurried on through the snow,till the sound of voices made her halt pre-cipitately and strain her ears to listen. Therewas a picket of French not thirty yardsbehind her, and she could even catch thescent of tobacco the men wore smoking.There was no retreat now, and she crept for-ward on hands and knees, and slipped overthe shelving banks. The ice creaked omin-ously under her weight, and a bullet shriekedover her head, fired haphazard at the invis-ible foe. The mill stood back from the river,fullv two miles up, and the outposts ex-tended more than half that distance.

Lisette shivered, if fora moment she slippedout of the shadow she would bo seen by bothfriends and foes, and she crouched down andprayed, not for herself, but for Pierre. The

guns spat and splattered viciously, and thesnow eddied around her. She was growingstrangely drowsy, and her hands and feetwere numbed with the cold.

Once more she remembered her lover, andwas tottering to her feet, when a strong armgripped her from behind, and a hoarse voicecalled upon her to yield.

* Pierre !* "she gasped, ‘ Pierre !*

4 Mon Lieu ! Lisette !’

She clung to him, and for the first timeher tears began to flow. But it was no timefor dallying then. A random bullet struckthe frozen bank, dashing the sand into theirfaces, and Pierre shrugged his burly shoul-ders and whistled softly.

‘ Come, Lisette,’ ho whispered, * you areso small that I think I can carry you withone arm. We mu.-t run for it.’

He picked her up as if she bad been ababy, and swung her across his uninjuredshoulder. The Prussians saw him themoment he sprang into the light, and theirbullets rattled round him like hail. Thebank was too steep for him to climb, ham-pered with his burden—for Lisette was a deadweight now—and all he could do was to hugthe shadow and run for the barricade.

‘Help!’ he shouted. ‘Help! Vive laFrance!’ *

--

His comrades hoard him, and every manseized hxs gun, answering flash and flash.Once he staggered when the fires were fullyin view, but he came on again like a race-horse ; and a mighty cheer went up asPierre Vermot, tattered, dishevelled, andblood-stained, scrambled over the barricadeand stood in the light, with P’tite Lisette inhis arms. —E. J. Mueeay.

BIANCA LOVE STORY.It was in a pretty, old-fashioned country

churchyard that I heard the following story.The sexton had been at work at a little dis-tance, but he observed the interest withwhich I had stopped to gaze upon a straightshaft of white marble, on which was cut thesimple inscription, ‘ Bianca Morelli, aged 17.’

• I never beheld a prettier girl,’ said he ;• eyes so big and dark and shiny ; a com-plexion like ivory, and the reddest lips.She was a fine figure of a girl, too.; tall andelegant, though slight; and the regularblue-black hair that I’ve heard belongs cothat kind of beauty. Her family consistedof an uncle and aunt, and their son, towhom she was engaged to be married, andwhom she seemed to hate worse than poison.

*lt isn’t likely that I would ever haveknown the family affairs of folks so farabove me, even in a country place like this,where everything gets talked of, more orless, but for the circumstance that I pos-sessed a nephew, who was about the hand-somest young fellow that ever the sun shoneupon. He was as fair as the Signorina.Morelli was dark ; his eyes were blue, likeviolets, and his hair like gold; ana, blessyou, sir, when these two young people firstsaw each other it was as clear a case of loveat first sight as any other Romeo and Juliet,and jnst as natural as the flame betweenfire and tow.IMy nephew—hist name was Reginald,

and we called him Rex for short—was theorganist of the little church over.yonder,and the young lady sang in the choir,though she was such a grand one. J

*ln that way the two youngpeople firstmet, and their acquaintance progressedrapidly, as you may suppose. The cousinto whom the Signorina was engaged used tocome to church with her. 1 reckon thatItalian fellow loved the girl in his fierce wayas well as he could ever love anything,though it was thoughtha cared most abouther money.

‘Of course he was as jealous as a Turk,and if looks could have killed, poor Rexwould not have lived long to bo his rival.But neither my brave Rex nor Miss Biancacared a bit for the Signor’s black looks, andthen, you must know, the young lady neverreally agreed to the engagement. It was allmade up by her relatives, and she alwaysdeclared she would die rather than marryher cousin, declaring boldly that she lovedRex Haywood, and would never msrry anyother man.

‘And one day, with his bright face shin-ing with triumph and merriment, Ibexhurried away to the church to practise hismusic for the next Sunday. But it was avery different music that ho played whenthat sad day came, for on the very nextmorning I tolled the bell for Bianca Morolli,who had been found cold and still and whitewhen her maid entered to dress her forbreakfast. This was a Friday, and thefuneral Was set for Sunday, and you may besure, in a place like this, there was plenty oftalk about the sudden death and the hurriedburial.

‘ But hay nephew-poor Rex ! —said noth*ing. He seemed turned to stone, but heplayed the most beautiful music that everwas heard in our church for the funeral ser-

vice of the girl he loved ; and, though theywouldn’t allow him to go near the grandmahogany coffin in the church, I took carehe should help me to lower it into the grave,and he stood beside me and dropped a groatbunch of rod roses down on to it as I beganto shovel in the earth.

‘ Well, well, my poor Rex ! I hope I maynever see such a face of despair tviain ; andas I glanced at him from time to time I feltsure that his would be the next grave Ishould fill in.‘lt was late that night, and I was just

thinking cf going to bod, thoughRex hadn’tcome home; and I was mighty uneasy abouthim, when I heard the click of the doordownstairs as it opened and shut, and then 1recognised his step, quick and hurried, us hecame upstairs—not a bit like the slow, drag-ging steps cf the last two nights, but evenlighter and quicker than it used to be ; and 1hadn’t done wondering when the dooropened, and the next moment ho was besideme—wild, haggard, pale as death, and withhis great blue eyes almost starting from hishead! I’m not a nervous man, but Ijumped up, worse Scared thau if I had seen

a ghost. Before I could utter a word, formy voice failed mo, Rex caught mo hard bythe arm and whispered hoarsely—-

‘Don’t speak,/uncle, but just listen.Bianca isn’t death I hope and believe she isnot dead! Look !—read!’ and he heldbefore my eyes a scrap of paper, on wddehwas scrawled these words:

«‘ Rex, my darling, if I die, or seem todie, believe them nor!’ Have me takenfrom the coffin within twelve hours of myburial, and all may yet be well. You willnot fail me, dearest. Adieu !

‘ BIANCA.’< I read this extraordinary message over

more than once before I took in Rs meaning,but as it flashed on me, I saw as well as Rexhow little time we had to lose, and I fore-stalled his words.

< Come on, in Heaven’s name!’ I whis-pered. ‘ It must bo close on twelve o’clock,and as safe as it will ever bo for such awork. Fortunately, it’s a pitch black night,and all the moon there was has gone hoursago. Como on !’

‘ While I spoke I found a little darklantern, and we were already descending thestairs, and next moment wo were stealingthrough the churchyard, with my pick andshovel in hand, which I had caught up aswe passed by the outhouse whore I had keptthem. It was terrible work; hut in losstime than I had ever used a spade before thenewly-made grave was opened, the coffinrifled of Its precious contents, which Rexand I carried to our home, wrapped up iu ahuge shawl which I had brought for thepurpose.

• Rh, my! But it was the uncanniestnight’s work that over I did since the hourI was born ! We laid the body on mv bed,and we chafed the cold, white bands, andlistened in vain at the pulseless heart. ButI saw no sign of life. She was as beautifulas a figure of alabaster and as lifeless, foraught that I could see; but Rex declaredthat she was not dead,

‘So, as it was necessary that I should

restore the empty coffin end fill’a. the graveagain, I was obliged to leave him there, onhi« knees beside her, wildly kissing thepoor, cold hands and calling on her toopen her Isvely eyes to see her lover byher. Bat I had no hope that anything butsome fearful trouble would come of it, andmarvelling and terrified as to what might bpthe end of the business, I hastened away tothe work that awaited me. (

‘But they were right, and like a stupidold man I was wrong ; for when I returnedthe trance-like sleep was broken, and thesoul had awakened within that apparentlylifeless form, and the lovers sat holding eachother’s hands, her head resting on hisshoulder, while he sought to calm the fearfulagitation which had taken possession of hernow that sho began ta realise the horror ofall that had happened.

‘ Ah! that was a brave girl, ami a story-writer might fill a volume with her historyand all she went through in those fewmonths from the time of her first meetingwith Rex till this awful night. But I mustcut it short, for the night is coming on. Tobe brief, then. She had, never told Rexhalf, or indeed a tenth part, of wha* shesuffered with those wicked relations of horsespecially the cousin who wanted to marryher. .

«

* At last their persecution reached a pointwhen sho could bear no more, and sho dis-covered a plot by which she was to be hur-ried away to Italy, unknown to anyone, andshe knew wolf that sho would never aeo Rexagain iu this world if this plan should becarried out. She was in despair.

‘ The Italian saw that she had discoveredtho plot, and sho was immediately locked iaher room, all communication with tho outerworld cut off. Even her maid was in thepay of her relatives, as sho know, but thegirl seemed to love her personally, and,driven to the last extremity, she fpund her-self obliged to make a confidant of her, andto trust hor life to this girl’s discretion.

‘ She proved worthy, and gave her entireassistance to her young mistress. They concocted the desperate plan, which, by meansof some mysterious Italian drug, theymanaged to carry out, with such result as Ihave described ; and while I was still listen-ing to a story more wonderful than any

romance I had over read, this same faithfulservant joined us.

‘ I found the door open,’ she said to theSiguorina, ‘ and heating voices, knew all waswell, and came directly here.’

* But it'was easy to gee from the younglady’s agiyation'thatall was net, well; add 1guessed that if some change was not (joiningsdbu she was ia danger of dying ih earnestfrom exilement and consequent exhaustionMy mind was speedily made up. I knewouf good minister to be one good man pickedout of ton thousand, and 1 was aoou at hisbedside, toiling him the whole story while 1helped him to dross.

‘Never have I seen a man mere dazed ;

but ho soon took in the situation, aud helpedus out of our perplexity. Ho went with medirectly, and a special license was obtainedat once by Rox, so that next day tho youflecouple were married and. driven by ise (inthe minister’s one-horse carriage) io a dis(ant railway station, where they fook thefirst traiu for Loudon.

‘ Of course 1 neftd not say that Maria, themaid, accompanied them. Shp had provedher?elf invaluable in bringing clothes for hormistress, and a box cf valuable'jewels onwhich Rex raised a large sum of moneywhen they reached London.

‘ The next day there was a greaf bno andcry over tho disappearanceof Maria, whomthe Italians called a thief and a monster ofingratitude; but they never suspected thereal cause of the girl’s running away. Allthis happaned years ago, sir; but f hoarfrom my uepliew now that his wife is at.length so strong and well that they aregoing to make t,heir appearance before tboItalian cousin and claim the Siguorina’sgroat fortune, which that villain tas beenenjoying over since his return to Italy.

‘ I don’t doubt but there will bo a. greattime over It, but we will be able to prove ourstory—for there is the empty cotfiu belowthere, and tho living occupant! myself, whoplayed such an important part; and theminister who married them, thank Heaven !

is still alive and hearty. And now goodevening, sir ; I’ve my work tp finish, but Isuppose you don’t wonder now that I laughwhen I look ai that handsome white marbleheadstone!’—W. Stone.

HUMOR.

Dolly :* Tbe man I marry must bo band-

some, and olever.’ Fitz Jones: ‘Dear me!How fortunate we have mot!’

Ho ; ‘He that courts and runs away willlive to court another day.’ She: 4 Bat hethat courts and does not wed may find him-self in court instead.'

Tbe Irishman has a great power of enjoy-ment, after all. One day he saw a bull at-tack a man, and he had to hold on to hissides with both hands, tho scene was sofunny. After a. time the animal turned hisattention in another direction, and poor Fat,after exploring* the heights, came down witha thump on tho other aide of tho fence. Herubbed his wounds, and as he trudged along,the worse for wear, he said to himself,< Faith, I’m glad I had my laugh when I did,or I wouldn’t have had it at all.'

Not long since aUd at Radoliffe—one o’their wise'uns—went to tho butcher’s for apound of beef steaks. ! I want it towf, astowf as yo con give it me,* be said. ‘ What’sthat forf’ asked the butcher. ‘Well, it’sthis road, if it’s tender my feytber will eightit aw, and not leeve a scrap for me ; but ifit’s towf he oorn’t, because ha’s geet badteeth and corn’t chaw. So give it me verytowf, an’ then there’ll be a chance o’ megottin’ e^rne.’

Indignant Purchaser: ‘See here, sir; Idon’t want this hoiso you sold me. liebalks I can’t get him over the bridge.’Dealer: ‘That’s the reason I sold him.Why did you come to mo for tho horse?' ‘1saw you/ advertisement in the paper.’ ‘ Ithought so.’ ‘ I gave my reason for soilinghim.’ ‘Yes, to be sold, you stated, for noother reason than that the owner wants to goout of town.’ ‘ Well, if you can go out oftown with him it will be more than 1 can do.’

• What was yer daddy lickin’ you foi ?’

asked the half-grown boyThe other half-grown boy answered : ‘Oh,

ha was jLot proviu’ to mo that tha whalereally did swaller Joncr.’

Frankie: ‘Papa, I’ve just boei. lookingat a grand daddy-long-logs, and thinking.’

Papa; ‘ What have you been thinking,my boy ?’

Frankie: *Fve been thinking that if hetook tha rheumatism in his legs thore’d bevery little wellness left.’

1 1 saw your mother going to tho neigh-bour’s as I crossed the street. When willshe be homo ?’ asked tho lady caller.

‘ Shesaid she’d he back s soon as youleft,’ answered truthful J ■ramie.

* This is a splendid chance for you to socpapa, George.’

How so ?\

'‘ He’s just home from a fishing trip. «.««!

if ho can get you to listen to his stories he 11give yon anything you ask for.’

‘ I'll do it for your sake, dearest.’

Bobby : ' I s’pose father knows I stole theapples ?' .

Mother :‘ Yes, he knows it.’

Bobby : * And I s’pose he’ll whip me?’Mother : ‘ Yes, child, I expect so.’Bobby:' ‘Well, mother, don’t you think

we made a big mistake in marrying father f’

All Round.

FOLLOWING A PRECEDENT.W« can hardly wonder at the satis-

faction which a nonsuited ligitanfc iaa certain court once gained from anopportunity that chance gave him,

A judge, travelling on circuit, hadbefore him, in a email country town,a case iu which a tavern-keeper wateued for payment on a land trans«action of a largo amount of moneywhich ha had not agreed definitely tcpay. The court declared that, al-though hia agreement was not onrecord, it was involved by construc-tion, or implied, in hia participationin a business proceeding connectedwith it.

After judgment had been d-livered,the court adjourned for refreshment,and the judge found that tho onlyeating-house in tho place was the innkept by tho defendant in tho casewhich he had just decided. Ho able*found that tho defendant personally{superintended the precaution oX thqmeals. -

’• ' '

The judge called for two boU/tvieggs, which, with tho other foodordered, were brought to him done tAa turn. Ho ate them, and at tho endof tho meal tho bill was presented to,him. He was astonished to read Qait the following items

8. d.Two boiled eggs 0 -1%Two chickens at 3s 6 0Ho called the proprietor and tni;\

1 How is this ? I have had nochickens ; why do you charge mo forthem?'

* Those are constructive chickens,my lord,’ answered the best.

‘Whatr’* Why, they are implied iu tho

eggs, you know, my lord/ tho mqgapersisted.

The judge began to uoderetayd,and said no more. Howovor, waeahe handed over half a sovereign topay tho bill, he found that tho inn.keeper hadgiven him his full change,without charging for the ‘construc-tive ’ chickens.

MYSTERY ON MYSTEuY.Our own country possesses some

good conjurers, but if you want tosee the very elite you must go toIndia. Some of the tricks performedby Indian jugglers are so marvellousthat they border on the supernatural.

I had become very friendly withone of these fellows (writes a travel-ler), and he gave me a private 'ex-hibition of his wonderful skill.First, he took a canary from its cage,and proceeded to stroke it softly.Suddenly he uttered a violent excla-mation ; the baud ia which ho heldthe bird described a semicircle, and,hurtling through the air, came downwith a crash upon the man’s thigh.

‘Oh I You’ve killed it!’ 1 ex-claimed. i

But the bird was not dead; assoon as the detaining hand w&aopened, he flew to the table andperched there serenely.

The conjurer now produced a cagemade of wire, about eight incheslong and six wide.

«You sea that it is simple wirecage,’ said ho, and lo ! it vanishedfrom eight, I rubbed my eyes, andwas beginning to wish that I hadn’tcome, when it suddenly appeared•again.

This wonderful conjurer thenmo to take a bird from a largo cageand place it within a small one.Both cagas were side by side upon atable. I did. so, and immedialalyboth cages and bird disappeared—-where or how I could not form theslightest guess.

A moment more, and (the [identicalcanary was fluttering in the conjuror'shand. The man then proceeded toswallow him, and while hi* audience

one was congratulating him uponthe state of his digestive organa, itre-appeared from his trousers pocket,only to vanish once mere in his hairand issue from one of his boots.

Needless to say, the conjurer wouldnot divulge the secret of his marvel*lous art. Ho professed, however, tohave a certain hypnotic power overhis birds. As an illustration ho tooka small white feather, and placing a

bird on tha table, he threw it intowhat he called a ‘mesmeric trAucc-’by passing the feather over its eye*.Whether this ability might accountfor tbe passive state of t> e birds inhis hands or not is. an unansweredquestion.

A FEW STATISTICS.A flgare-fiend in America, has hj n

compiling some statistic* concerninga popular novel of which over■400,000 copies have been sold, Toprint those volumes, this genial luna-tic inform* ua s.oooibs. of ink wereconsumed, and 1,90Q miles of t/ixoadwere used in the binding. As topaper, 5,805 reams, weighing 871b. aream were needed for the book, ifplaced end to end, the volumes wouldstring out to fifty miles; if placedone on lop of the ether, they wouldmake a lower seven miles high.Quite so i And if tbs statistician sathimself up on top of that tower, fci da very small and inaiguificent flyperched itself beside him, and if acommon yellow mongrel dog wasabout at the foot of the pile, and thewind blew, the seven miles hightower would topple, the statistician,would come down with a bang, andprobably hurt himself quite a lot ; thedog would be flattened out of ex«istance, and the fly would fly off toclimb other impossible towers con*structed out of unlikely materials.

■ Beauty unadorned may be roostadorned ; but, unfortunately fox tbidressmaker, it doesn’t think so^

THE DUNSTAN TIMES. JULY 2d, 1804 3

The Dunstan Times."Fiat justitia ruat coelum."

CLYDE, TUESDAY, JULY 26th.

A Petition is at present being cip*

, culatcd in thisteachers district for signa-

SUPERANNUATION ture> jn j avor 0 {

scheme, th e teachers’superannuation scheme. No factorplays a more important part in thebuilding up 4of a nation than theefficient education of its children,the precepts that are instilled intothem by their tutors naturally form-ing their minds into the grooves inwhich they will run in later years.For this reason it is imperative thatonly the services of the most ableinstructors should be availed of,and these only for the very bestperiods of their lives. Under tiresystem now in vogue many of ourteachers are compelled, throughlack of a competency, to struggleon at their weary working of instil-ling knowledge into the usinggeneration long after their servicesshou d have secured to them thatrest horn their labours whichquestionably the main body of ouroder teachers are entitled to Theprincipal cause of their inability to

retire is, especially in the smallerschools in the back block settle'ments, due to the totally inadequateremuneration given to them fortheir labours. In a gieat numberot cases the pay received by thesemen, who from the necessity ottheir occupation, must be possessedot a higher degree of intelligencethan the bulk of the community andbe educated to a better standard than

needful for most walks of commer-pipl life, is not equal to that ol the

ordinary labourer. The teacherssuperannuation scheme, a schemewhich, by the way, is entirely self-producting the funds being obtainedby a percentage deducted from thesalaries of the teachers, wculd CD'sure to our teachers a competenceat that time of lire, when it wouldbe to both the interests of the com*munity and themselves thal theyshould be retired from their laboursand enjoy that rest which thegreater majority 01 them will haveso richly merited. The movementhas been started in this district byoar local M H R, Mr Jas Bennett,and we trust that residents, will byaffixing their signatures to the peti-tion give the scheme the supportwhich it deserves.

Losses of Sheep by Snowstorms.

A deputation, consisting of SirW «J Steward, Messrs Flatman.Reid, Millar, Rhodes, Rutherford,W Fraser, Taylor and’ Bennecwaited cn the Minister of Landsat Wellington last week, in respectto assistance being granted forsheep lost by the snowstorms oflast year. Sir W J Steward saidthat he had received a petitionfrom runholders in Canterbury andOtago for presentation to the!House. It showed that as a resultof the unprecedented fall of snowon July Bth of last year 23 peti-tioners had lost 217-607- sheepvalued at £164,218 In somecases as much as 57 per cent ofthe stock was lost. It was therefore urged that a measure shouldbe passed similar to the ‘ PastoralTenants’ Relief Act- 1895/and thusenable the Waste Lands Board ofCanterbury and Otago, after fullinquiry into the merits of eachcase, to grant such relief as wouldsecure to the petitioners time toenable them to maKe good thelosses Something like 400.000,sheep had been lost

The Minister of l ands recognisedthat the deputation had goodgrounds in approaching the Gov-ernment on behalf of tho e whohad lost stock by snowstormsPersonally, he was not satisfiedand had not been for >ears, withthe way the higher country hadbeen handled by the Government,it ought to lengthen the terms ofthe leases, He was ia favor ofgiving an extension of lease tothose who had suffered lie pro-posed to send all the petitions onthe subject to the - and < 'c umitteeWhen its report came to hand thewhole subject wou d he fully venti-lated in the House, and he hadno doubt that something of asatisfactory nature would esult.

The following is the number of sheep losin the last snowstorm in Canterbury iniOtago and their', value given in a peti-tion presented to Parliament to day a?follows

Number Value0 G Dalgety 3200 £2400Lady A Yonug 7894 5924J A Sutton ... ... 5200 4208D Mathoson 1077 961Hugh Cameron ... ... 3000 2400Alfred Chapman .« ...

800 640Mary Muuro 200 180Morven Hills Station ' i .. 32,338 24,253Hawkdun Station ... 4777 3582W Laid law 7288 5466Andrew Jopp 3139 2354James Cowan ...

'»■ ... 2210 1768Tripp (executors) ... 6167 5000J B Aokland 4571 *

Robert Shew ’ 590 590Thomas Blair ... 838 838L Walker 2300 1700Hamiltous (executors) .. 2860 2570A Dunnett ... ... 4000 2000Seddon and Hamilton ... 4300 3675W Pringle 740 370J Pringle 1688 844John Matheson ... ... 5719 4575N Z Loan and M A Co

(Canterbury)... 13 479 10,000

Mrs Haytcr 2690 2200Alexander Grant ... 1700 1275M‘Arthur end Co ... ; 5080 3800William Grant ... .. 12 574 9430J and E Schlaepper ... 800 609Robert Campbell and Sous 44 795 33,594Ross and Gleudinning 15,961 11,927N Z and A Land Company ■ 15,618 *

* Value not stated.The number of petitioners is 23, the

number of sheep lost 217,607, aud the value£164,218.

Land Board

At the Land Board meeting last wcouthe following business of local interest wastransacted:

District ’Surveyor Wi’mot forwarded areport on the applica"ion by John Hadeyfor a grazing license over an area of about23 acres in block IX, Leaning Rock districtThe application was granted at a rental of10s per acre.

Ranger M'Dougall reported that he hadgreat difficulty in getting returns Lora DCalwell of his output from sawmill, Wilkin.—Decided that Mr Calwell be asked toshow cause why his license should not becancelled for non-compliance with its con-ditions.

Messrs Brodrick and Cbalmer, on lienaltof a client, applied to have section 5, blockXI, Rock and Pillar district, offered underpastoral license fora terra of years. 1earlylicense not to be renewed.

PARISH OF DUNSTAN

The annual meeting of par'shioners ofthe Parish of Dunstan was held in thecourthouse, Clyde, on Thursday evening,the vicar, Rev W A R Fitchetb in thechair and a good attendance.

The following vestrymen were appointed :- Messrs G Fache, S M Taylor, and C CHut on (Clyd ), W S I.aidlaw. E Terry andF Williams (Alexandra), L E Haines andC Co per (Roxburgh!, G H 'tephenson andG Stringer (Cromwell), and F Jeffery(Miller’s F at).

Mesris J K and B Naylor wereappointed Vic >r’s Churchwarden and Par-ishioner’s Churchwarden respectively.

Mr N D Parcell was appointed auditor.The reports of the vicar, church warden

and vestry were read, showing the financesof the parish to be in an exceedinglybuoyant condition. The receipts for theyear exceed those of last year by £53 5s 6don the ordinary revenue. • In addition tothis a grant, of £7O was received from theS Pc K in aid of St Ai. I ans's buUd ngFund. On account of the Vicarage Bui d-ing Fund, £ll9 7s 8d was received from theCiomwellbazaar,£79 Os 3d fiom 'he Clydebazaar, a donation of £BO from Roxburgh,£7 8s lid from Miller's Flat and £3 11 6dfrom special offertories making a total cf£2BB 14s 4d, the total receipts for the yearbeing £797 5s Bd,

Dnring the past year the financial posi-tion of the parish has been improved to thevery considetable extent of £446 7s.

Special mention was made in the reportsto the necessity whichexists of immediatelyproceeding with the erection of the newvicarage, also the need of seen ing the ser-vices of a curate to assist the vicar in thework of attending to the spiritual wants ofso large a parish.

S I RON AC H MORRIS & Co.,report for week ending 20thJuly, 1504, as follows—

157 head were yarded for to day’s marketPrices were much the same as last week.Best bu 1 cks £lO 10s to £ll 15s; medium£8 5s to £9 10s; inferior £7 to £7 7s 6d ;

best cows and heifers £7 to £8 5s ; medium£6 10s to £7 2s fid; infericr £5 to £5 10s.

Sheep—l949 were yarded. Today’sprices were on an average with last weekfor all good wethers but inferi*- sorts wereslightly easier. Best wethewmade 24s 9d,one pen ejtra 28 9d to 22sGJ, to ewes 19s fidto 22s Jp. medium Ips fid, inferior

LjimDS-f 474 J’wjli tip greater numberof whichJyere fit far fuzing. For thesethere wm a good denijnd hut store laßlbs

Best lau»s fii to 18f 3d,medium 14s to 14s 9#infepo|;lls 6d fo 12sGd. M I A—- f.

Pigs—ll2 yards* A demand forall sor'.s. Suekop 9a to }ls, siip£ 13s t<-IBs, stores 17s tOiBSs, po burs 25s to 35-,baconers 41 to 4|f, heavy baco ers 53s to575. ...Rabbitskins—P ices quite up to tho-elately ruling. We have had aivioefromseveral rabuiber- staring th -t the nr c*s

outlined for hei s ins s conaiJe-ably ir.ex ess of whit the. c ull obtain -t th-factory. We 0 d winter gn ys mix dhacks md does up o 17J f , autumns to134 d summer- t > 8d and hj acks to 22 I.

Shei-p kins -At Tue d y’s sale the He,n ml w 1 very good a hough on -yinoat ywi hj Londonmarket half «Dole I ire •-sha ee.sier. Brs merino are wo t > CJd prlh, .n * ovosv n;d t.71 pe lb We oa“r’o-tnmtjml co-jsigiimec.es bein sen in a, re-eni.

Hi es—Wv offered a large ct logu • ! -8s\ _ek but tvgrec to repot that tie m >rk twas agiiu easier, our top price tor ox b’ing5| 1 aid ter vow 4£d.

Tallow an i Fat—lire ma ket remainsmuch the same, prices being as ollo«9.Best rendered mutton 18s to 20?, medium15s to 17s fid. best caul fat 15s to 15a fid,rough fat 13 to 14s 6 k

Wheat—I There is a fair detrandfor primemilling lines, but medium sorts are harderto dispose of. Prime milling is worth 3sto 3s 3d, medium to good 2s 7d to 2s 101,best whole fowl wheat 2s 4d to 2s 61, in-ferior and damaged Is 9d to 2s Id.

Oats—The market continues as last weekand a fair amount of. business is passing.Quotations : Prime milling Is fid to Is 'ijd,good to best feed Is 4d to Is si<3, inferiorHid to Is 3d.

Potatoes—Best dements are worth 97<i61 to £2, other sorts 30a to 355.

Chaff—There is a good demand forprime quality which brings from £2 17s fidto £3 *2s Gd, medium and inferior areharder to disp< se of, the former at £2 7s 61to £2 10s, and the latter at £1 los to £2per ton.

SHEEP RETURNS

An interim return showing theapproximate number of sheep inUie colony on 3Gth April last hasbeen laid on the table of thehouse. Ihe total number is setdown at 18 289.539, being a de-crease of 605,011* compared withthe same date last year. TheNorth Island shows a decrease of212 542 and the South fsland adecrease of 452,472, The numberfor Auckland is 693 302. a decreaseof 90,741 ; Napier 4,504,709, anincrease of 85-290 ; Wellingtono

West Coast. 4-023,278. a decreaseof 207 091; Marlborough*Nelson,932,073, an increase of 4590 ; Can'terbury-Kaikoura, 4,776 686, a de*crease of 183,788; Otago* 3 359 481a decrease of 273.274. The chiefinspector of stock commenting onthe return says ; -

‘ When it is con-sidered that the export of carcasesof mutton and lamb for the yearended 31st March last was over180,534 less than the previousyear, whilst the number of sheepto be drawn from was consider*ably over 1.000000 less, it is amatter of surprise tnat the decreaseis not more The number ofcattle has. however, increased by133,884,01’* roughly sneaking- sufiicieut to make up the decrease insheep. The number of carcasesof mutton and 'amb exported forthe year to 31st March last was4 456,003, compared with 4,456,003compared with 4 636,537-

Local and General.

The ordinary meeting of tha VincentCounty Council takes place to*<morrow.

It is estimated than the penny per lb rimin the price of wool of the late London in-creased the valu* of the New Zealand clipby no lese than £646,347.

It is stated that portable oil engmes arecoming into use rapidly on the farms inCanterbury,and that they are supersedinghorses in several directions.From Grecian ages up to our own d .y.Have bronchial cures appeared and ceased

to be ; -

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mint Cure.An interesting cycling and mo or cycling

experiment is to be held in F ance thismonth. .It consists of » nesparcb being

evened across Fiance from Biesi to Bvtfovs,a distance of over 6l’o miles, by tbe aid cfthe cycle and motor cycle »he idea is toshow how fast a message can be earnedover a long distance in war time in casetelegraphic and railway commuuica ionswere cut off. The French militarv authori-ties are taking much interest in the even .

A similar event was held between Sydneyand Melbourne, a distance of 600 miles, onSeptember 24th, 1596. when by the aid ofthe cyclists of both States a despatch wascarded from the Government house. Mel-bourne to Sydney in 42 hours 35 minutes

On Friday last, a young man namedAlfred J Smith, employed on the railwayworks at Chatto Creek, was charged beforeMessrs Pitches and M Knight J P’s (1)refiling to quit licensee premises (kcownas the Commeic al Hotel) at tbe Ophir rail-way station when req ested to do so; (2)assaulting the licensee, Francis Frewen;damaging ihe licensees clothing, and (4)making use of ii.decent language. Con*stable Kennedy appeared for the police;and accused pleaded guilty to the charges;Accused was fined 10s each on charges 1and 4, and ordered to pay 10s for damages■to Mr Frewen’s clothing; whilst on thecharge of assault he was convicted andordered to come up for sentence whencalled upon. Costs of court and witnessesexpenses made a total of£3 14s, which ac-cused was ordered to pay within one weekin defamlt ene' month’s imprisonment inClyde goal.

The usual weekly meeting of the C ydeDebating Club was held on '' ednesdaythe subject of the debate being the deistruction of agricultural lands by mining, .

the decision of the club being th*t thethis process was detrimental to thp inter-ests of the colony. Next Weinesday themerits of poultry farming and fruit growingin Central Otago will be discussed. MrW Holloway, of v\hite Wyandotte andMinorca tame championing the poultryindustry and Mr J Hanning the fruit-growers.

We understand that the Acd matisaiionSociety intenus to debar ang.ers from wormfishing for trout in all New Zealandrivets,during next season. This will veryprobably mean a considerable Jimi.iut onin the bags taken <>y local angiers, especi-ally daring the early part of the season.

It is gratifying to learn that our railwaysare paying, ami alsuih,it the total earningsfor last year were the highest yet attained,being £2,18'».641 compared with £1 974.038 in the previous yea; Fr-.n thevlinisters .Statement we iemu tnat theexpen ii.ure for lasi .ear w.s £i 434 724which leaves a mu profit ~f L 24; 9-7 aninc ease o' Lll 1.294 when compare - wuhthe profits for 1903. That sev n ucksoirailway have been upeue.; du in Ui*? >a ,

making the total >u>w oen 2328 aides, hetotal cost of the tines (inciudiu pi .m audsteamers on Lake Wakatipu) has increasedfrom L 19.081.735 to L20.692.91i, and thenet profit on woraing is equal to 3.58 percent an the capital invested in open linesand 335 per cent on the total capital(L22,173,220) invested iu open and un-opened railways. An inciease of 242,066train miles has teen run during the year.The total number of ordinarv passengerscarried was 8 306,383, an increase of 730,993.

A young Southlander, Mr HenryQuertier of Mataura, has invented a ma«chine for excavating ballast and makingrailway cuttings and similar works. Theinventor claims for the machine that itcan load screened ballast into railwaytrucks at a cost of one penny per hour-two men with the machine being able toload a truck with gravel or like materialwith greater facility than a gang of32 men. The machine, which apparentlyworks on a somewhat similar style to adredge is at present being given a pre-liminary tiial in ihe railway ballast pits atGlenham. If the machine proves a suc-cess we would suggest to the Public WorksDepartment the advisability of securingone for the Otago Central line, and thusmake certain of having railway commun-ication established to Ophir before thecommencement of next winter.

“ It is not the teetotallers solely whoare asking for licensing reform,” says theHon A L Smith, “It is the great majorityof moderates, who are disgusted with themethods ofTrade.” If the Trade mendedits ways, he thinks, the Prohibition partywould not be so strongly in evidence as it

is now.

Never in the history of British emigrationhas there been such a rush as is now takingplace to the farm lands in Western Canada

At the rate of over IiOOO a week, some ofof the most enteiprising citizens of theUnited Kingdom are being driven by hardtimes and the scarcity of work to seektheir fortunes in the undeveloped lands ofthe great North American Dominion.“Imperialism,” said Mr Bryan Hoare in

an address at Christchurch, “is a systemof greed, cruelty and injustice, though on solarge a scale as to throw dust in the eyes ofthe people and look sometimes as if itwere magnificent It is not a grand thingfor it has benefitted only a few. Democ-racy is the very opposite of Imperialism;for democracy forbids honour and gloryfor a few.”

One of the most useful Institutions ofthis country promises tope The DiabeticInstitute of London,,establishing for scienatific research Jpto ithe otigin, cause andtreatment of I iabetes andJthA secondarysymptoms: goi t, jtheumafiamf and v car-buncles etc. Hardly ariy disease us solittle understoo , and at tha samp-iinjsa soinsidious and dangerous as |)iawetes, whichaccording to the highest aodern authori-ties, is curabie after all, vfyen treated intime. If interested, write to the DiabeticInstitute. St Dunstan’s Bill* London, E C,for free information.

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I.lSl' OF COURl'b.

JULY. 1904.

QueenstownQueenstownCromwellCromwellClydeAlexandra ...

AlexandraRoxburghRoxburghAnowArrowArrow (justices only)

Thursday 28thFriday, 29th

Thursday 7thFriday Bth

Saturday 9thMonday lltliTuesday 12thThursday 14th

Friday, 15thTuesday, 19th

Wednesday 2()thSaturday, 9tb

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Friday 261h~,

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Tuesday 9thThursday Ilth

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Wednesday 241h

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Thursday. 28th inst

The Sparkling thrce-act Comedy

Not Such a Fool as He Looks.’

In aid of the Fuads of theTOWN HALL, CLYDE.

' Dramatis Personp:Sir Simon Simple i .... Jir H. B. StevensMr Murgatroyd (sdficitor <

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Mr Marker (yaung svM]') Mr ValentineMrs Merton f ~M fliss CorsonMiss Craven (Murgatjfiyds /

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PLOT— wife runs away fromhim, leaving tfeir infant son with MrsMould to brinj? up, . The child is after-wards secured by Murgatroyd (who isunaware of its identity) and brought upas Sir Simon Simple*heir to a baronetcy.The play opens some 20 years after,when Murgatroyd’s ambition is to marryhis neice Felicia to Sir Simon—theformer, however, thwarts him by run-ning away with his clerk, Fred Grantley.

Scenes—Act 1 Murgatroyd’s OfficeAct 2 Mrs Mould’s Kitchen,Act 3 Mrs Merton’s Drawing

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A rather good thing was overheard atthe Poultry Club’s Show at Alexandra onSaturday. Two fanciers were admiringthe Aylesbury drake exhibited by the

Irxandra Poultry Company. "Judgesays he’s the b st bird in Australasia . re-marked one of them admiring y A ladyhappened to be passing and attracted bythe remark naturally stopped to have alook him After a pretty fair invest-igation the lady remarked to herion *■ 1 don't see anything very great about

it’

Our geese are almos as large and theyhave much longei necks’. ISo wonder the

drake quacked.Ex-Sergeant McLeod, who for a number

of years was stationedat Clyde and of latevea,- has been icsiding at Pembroke, diedat Alexandra on Saturday. The funeraltakes place at the Alexandra cemetery to-

morrow. ,. .

i am clearing theremainder of ray stockof blankets at a l 5 per cent reduction, to

clear before the winter is over, also Mar-cella and Salin qmlls at J-reaily reducedprices, at Vicuna *tore. Clyde,(advt) / g J .

Owing/to snjptnenps f/ Sjjrmg goodslandinJfhofliyri a/ ejearing the re-mainder of my w njfr reducedprices. • adies pur dp betterthan call at B Naylors \icto la Store,Clyde, (advt) i

The heu fev»r «as ve y ranch in evidenceat Alexandra on Sa urday, and is yet rifeto a considerable extent pretty we Iall over the district A good number ofbirds changed hands at the show, andorders were alse given, by budding fanciersfor both birds and eggs. Altogether itseems evident that the poultry industry is

one which has come lo stay in the distnct,and next reason should see a marked ad-vancement both in the quality and numberof birds kept by settlers The increasedattent on which has been devoted to poul-try keeping duiing the past twelvemonthsis undoubtedly the outcome of the senes ofinteiesting lectures on 'he subject given

by the Government expert, Mr D D Hyde,ia this district last winter, and shows 'hewisdom of our government in sendingthese .experts around to instruct us in ourindustries.

We would remind our teaders of tneentertainment by the Clyde DramaticClub in aid of the funds of the Town Hallwhich is to be held on Thursday evening.

The comedy is perhaps one of the mosthumorous yet staged bl v

the Club, andpatrons can rely on a good evenings

amusement.The canvasseis appointed to collect

funds for the new floor fffr the Town Hailore meeting with i response to their ap-peals and the greater part of the money is

now subscribed. The public meeting toconsider the proposals advanced by thecon-mil ee is to be held in the Lib-ary Hallat 8 p m on Friday evening.

Judae Reillv, at the local Poult-y Show,appeared to give general satisfaction toexhi itors. indeed there did not appear to

be a murm. r at hU decisions, fancierstaking iheir beatings with a good pace.Mr Reil y was particularly obliging to ex-fa.biters in pointing out the *ood and banpoints of heir birds and althongh somefancers did not get away with a greatdeal f piize money, they got a lot of goodsound information cheap and appearedwell satisfied.

New Zealand Patents

B. Idwin and Rcywaid. chartered patemagents. National (’hair,Lera, Grey street,

Welliimti.n, repi.-n h.t they ha\e preparedan . til d apolu-ationa f-r patents o vZe.lan fo the foliowing inventions dumpthe <• toV t enciiik July it*'.

Wm B- k (ot Samuel Bants ,-nd So^)

■ mp- overt -c men hj r jo n’

inir saniia j ppe ; Daniel B shop Hllde:*thorpe Ot g<> impr ved means for securing ihudß i" blind lOleis; C F Straus ,

KaUdOine an improve lever gripper andattaohnv nt for teed. )s and the like; W HPiper and A E C< phy. Christchurch, an im

proved extension hoot for the use of a [er-gon with a dehorned foot; Henry Gnffiihs,

Viet r a, m provemeals in Ba'm ral boots ;

W.-.trr , Ritdic. and Co. trade mark“Kenan”; T B O’Connor, Auckland, im-proved indicating d-vice for employment|u connection with bridles for > ac.--horses; W S Rigby, Gnymou hj. improvedme-,ns for lowering ships’ boats; IsaacEdmond, Mauriceville, an improved rat-hap; James Davies. Auckland, improve-ments in means for utilising the flow oftides and otl er water currents ; G Hutchin-son, "Wellington, improvements in milkingmachine, y ; W iliam Gray, Auckland, im-provemeots in adjusting handle bars forcvcles ; A I yrce a-.d Co Ltd, Christchurch,trademark “The Ntpger ”; E G May,Christos,urch, an improved door holder

Kessis Bal win and Kay ward are nowdirectly represented at the seat of theFe- eral Goverrment and have specialfacilities for the conduct of ayplicatiomfor patents of the Commonwealth of

A handbook of pVcnts ib obtainable fre<on application from any office of the firm.

Mining

The directors of the New Rox-burgh Jubilee G I) Co have de-clared a dividend (The 13th) of 3sper share. The company has nowa reserve fund of £looo,_ Thedredge has now been working fora period of two years, and divi*dends amounting to 26s have beenpaid.

The river has fallen severalinches during the past week, andis ab a good level for successfulgorge dredging.

The diver found that threeplanks in the Stafford Waimeadredge had been crushed in by astump- The damage can be re-paired.

The First Chance returned onThursday last, but opera'ions aregreatly hampered by drift

The M atari is (hedging steadily,but the returns are onlv payable.

The Unity is operating on a goodlead of and is consequent!'getting good re urns

The Monte Christo had not bot-tomed yesterday, but it was expectedthat she would do so last night®

CROMWELL..

(From our own correspondent)The sharp frosts experienced lately have

lowered the river’s level greatly and thegorge fleet are making the molt of It

Junction Electric 1 is still on very goodground, as is also Electric 1.

Alpine Consols is rapidly improving andit is quite on the cards that three figurereturns will be got by her.

The Halfway House ground is still veryd ep.

Hartley and Riley’s winch engine brokedown, end will probably resume dredgingon Monday night.

On the Clutha the Shine 1 is on verygoad ground,and had an exceptionally goodweek’s run. No 2 was repairing the majorpart of last week.

The Rising Sun is evidently on 50-zground. As she did not resume dredgingtill Sunday night her leturn of close on430z for 111 hours is very good. It willnor, I e long before this company will haveall liabilities paid off ana be ou the dividendpavine list.

Mr Kloogh, so long and favourablyknown as dredgemaster of the Cromwell 1-nters on his new duties on Shine 2 onAu-'ust Ist.

The New Royal Maori ia still opening outher cut. As *he tround is 50ft deep somet me muat necessarily elapse before bottoms iea -hed and so form an estimate of the

ground..vjessrs Bethene and Tillman are still

onriug the Cromwell Ccs, claims on the(Tutha about a couple of miles south ofRocky Point.

The following is the dredge-masters weekly report of the Ris-ing Sun Gold Dredging CompanyLimited:—

Dredged ill hours and worked aheadnine feet last week. The bottom is dip-ping ahead in the centre of the cut, and isabout 43 feet deep at present. Prospectsare fair, and the width of the cut is about135 yards. The machinery is runningwell.

Alexandra,

From Our Own Correspondent

The weatherkeeps fine We havehad a spell ofhard frost and are nowpretty well through the winter

The river is just about low enoughnow to favour the gorge dredge«, andgiven a continuance of frostv tightswe ought to hear oI a few good returns If, however, the weather con-ditions do not remain favourable. I amafraid it is good-bye to some of thegorge dredges

The time table maintained by theIda Valley coaches has sudden y taken

change for th- better and duringlast week residents were able to geiheir papers a little ea> her,

The poultry show, much talkedabout and anxiously anticipated bylocal fanciers, took pl >ce on Saturdaylast in tne town hal The competi-tion in a gO"d number of classes waskeen and it was really an eye openerto anyone no' imme-iatelv interestedin poultry rearing ti> note the num-bers and fine appearance of the localbirds shown One would, scarcelythink from casual acquaintance withthe district that It contained such avan ty ot ready fine birds

The judging ' y Mr Reilly of Dune-din was unanimously declared to behighly satisfactory and it is indeed ane uoation to man Lmci-rs to bo ablenow to tell a bird of points from anugly duckling The show it-elf wasv II managed and the officials usedsveiy effort to carry it out to a suc-cessful issue

I notice that a meeting cf the Ee-“erves Conservation Society has beencalled for an early date and it is to behoped that this body will be well .>up-poited in carrying further the goodwork taken in hand last year in th<dir* ctiou ot planting our reserves withuseful trees and shrubs

A young man, working on one ofthe dredges down the gorge had ih»misfortune to have his hand tadlyciushed in the machinery on Fridaylast ai d has been sent to the Dunstanhospital for treatment

It is my sad duty to record thedeath at Alexandra on gaiurlay nightot Mr William McLeod of Wan&ka,who was some years ago in cha? ge ofthe police in Clyde Th.j deceasedgentleman who had been in bad healthlately had been ordered awi-y for achange of climate and only succe dedin reaching Alexandra when he wastaken worte and rapidly sank

Poultry Show at Alexandra

CENTRAL . OTAGO POULTRY CLUB.

The above club’s first annual showwhich was held at Alexandra onSaturday, was an unqualified success,both as regards the number andquality of the entries, and attendance<>f the public. That the show is apopular innovation was soon provedby the eager thiong, which, in a fewnrjmtes after the show had been openedfilled the hall to its utmost capacityThe space available for staging the*exhibits was taxed to the fullest, in-deed if any more entries had beenforthcoming it would have been adifficult matter to have made room forthem. The secretary and stewardsbad every detail in connection withthe show attended to and everythingpassed off without a hitch* Compet..ition in a number of classer was verystrong. Buff Orpingtons were sped*ally so in numbers 21 pullets and ninecockerels being staged, the w'nnerturning up in an exceedinglynice bird shown by Mr FrankYoung- Wh te Wyandottes f rrae ia very good class, tho judge ex-pressing the opinion l.hat they wirefully up to the standard of the hi dsshown in the metropolitan shows. Incockerels in this class Mr A Kennedygained fir t honours- Mr D Low scoringfirst and second in the pu let« out of aclass of 15. White Leghorns producedanother Vi-ry good, claws the pulletsbeing an especially lot. In these MrJ H Keddell secured Ist, 2nd and 3rdthe winning pullet being a tip-topbiid. In ‘.fact this bird had agood chinca for the bp.»c!al forthe best bird iu tbs show -thejudge bav<ug some difficulty inpassing her. The Aylesbury drakeshown by the Alexandia PoultrySyndicate, gained the honour ot bestbird in the show, being in the judge’sopinion, the best Aylesbury in theAustralasian colonies. In WhitePlymouth Rocks the same companycarried all before them, scoring firstand second in both classes, in BlackOrpingtons, Mr HP Pocock carriedoff the palm, securing first and secondfor pullets and first for cockerels outof two very strong classes, Minoroaswere a well represented class, Mr W*Vatson securing first in cockerels out«fa class of eight, and Mr CSUmenspnfirst in pullets. In the hen class M«) D Thomson obtained first awardout of a class of five. Tho special forthe best local bird was awarded to thewhite rock pullet by theAlexandra Poultry Club, while MrsNoble carried off the honours for theheaviest turkey.

The judge, Mr E Reilly, expressedgreat satisfaction at the quality ot thebirds shown, seyeral of the classesbeing equally as good as seen in theshows at the large centres. The bulkoi the exhibits were exceedingly welUgrown, and evidently bred frem thetiptop strains. Indeed, ss Mr Reillysomewhat naively remarked to oneexhibitor “You may be novices at thegame, but you evidently know enough»o get hold of the right sort of stuff tostart with-” Mr A Ashworth had onexhibition a trio of White Leghorns ofthe world famed Wyckoff laying strain,and also ot Silver Wyandottes (sistersip the winners of the HawkesburyCollege laying competition) importedfr-m Mr H B Warren of Sydney.

Following ia the prize list :

Game, pile, cock or cockerel—FergusonIst 1 entry ; pullet or hen—Ferguson Ist1 entry

Game, Indian, hen—J Kelly Ist 1 entrycockerel—H Olsen Ist 1 entry ; pullet—H Olsen 2nd 1 entry

Hamburg, silver spangled, cock—H PSanders 2nd 1 entry ; Hen—H P Sanders2nd 2entries ; Cockerel—P Gardiner 1t entry ; Pullet—P Gardiner 1 1 entry

Plymouth Rock, barred, cock or cockerelB Naylor Jr 2nd 1 entryPlymouth Rock, white, cock or cockerel

—Alexandra Poultry Co Ist and 2nd 3entries ; Hen or Pullet— Alexandra PoultryCo Ist and 2nd 3 entries

Minorca, Black—W R Nevill 1 2 entriesHen—J D Thomson Ist, W Watson 2nd5 entries ; Cockerel—WT Watson Ist J HRivers 2nd 8 entries ; Pullet—C SimonsenIst, W R Nevill 2nd 10 entries

Leghorn, white. Cockerel-D BringansIst, J H Keddell 2nd 4 entries ; Pu'let-J H Keddell Ist, 2nd and 3rd 9 entries

Leghorn, brown, cock—W Watson Istand special 2 entries ; Hen, P GardinerIst, H P Pocock 2nd 4 entries ; Pullet-P Gardiner Ist 4 entries

Langshan, black, tten—Mrs A Jopp 1 2entaes ; Cockerel—G Field 1, I entry;Pullet—Mrs A Jopp Ist 2 entries ;

Houdan, Cock or Cockerel—A William-son Ist, A McKe.lar 2nd 4 entries ; henor pullet—A McKellar Ift W Kilgour 2ndA Williamson he 4 entries.

Wyandotte, silver, cockerel—C Weaver 1and 22 entries , Golden Cockerel—L BGrimstone 1 1 entry ; Golden Pullet—L B Grimstone Ist, J M Foohey 2nd 2entries ; White Hen—J O Smith Ist 22 entries ; white ccckerel, A Kennedy Istand special, Mrs Mackie 2nd, vhoD Low,hc W Murray 9 entries ; white pulletD Low Ist and 2nd, A Kennedy 3rd, v hj oW Holloway, vhc Mrs Mackie, he AKennedy hj c 15 entries ; silver pulletMiss Cameron 1 3 entries

Orpington,black, hen—C E Richards IstD Low 2nd, H Watson vhc. 5 entries,cockerel, H P Pocock Ist and special; JM Foohey 2nd, D Low 3rd, J M Fooheyvhc 9 entries ; Pullet—H P Pocock Istand 2nd, J M Foohey 3rd, J G Gloss vhc,H ichaumann hj c 11 entries; Buff, cock—Alexandra Poultry Co Ist, K Eady 2nd6 entries ; Buff Hen, Alexandra PoultryCo Ist. Jas O’Kane 2nd 4 entries ; Buffcockerel —D Low Ist, F Young 2nd, J DThomson 3 7 entries; Buff Pullet—FYoung Ist, Robt Gunion 2nd, D Low 3,R Eady vhc, D Low v hj c, W Watson hj c21 entries.

Pair Pullets, any variety—A WilliamsonHoudans Ist, L B Grimstone, GoldenWyandottes 2nd, P M F.: nk, Buff Orping-tons 3rd 4 entries.

Barndoor Hen—l entry no award.Pair Ducks Pekin—L Cameron 1 I entryDrake, Aylesbury—Alexandra Poultry

Co Ist, and special best bird in show,

R Gunion 2nd 2 entriesDuck, Aylesbury—Alexandra Poultry Co

Ist, R Gunion 2nd 2 entriespair ot Turkeys—Alexandra Poultry Jo

Ist, W Noble Jr 2nd. 2 entriesBest local Bird in Show—white rock

pullet, the property of the AlexandraPoultry Co.

Selling ClassesAny variety ccck or cockerel—H P

Pocock, black Orpington Ist, L BGrimstone, Golden Wyandotte 2nd, J MFoohey, blk Orpington vh c, 5 entries

Market Reports

DUNEDIN WEEKLY MARKETREPOFT,

Messrs A Moritzson and Co auctioneers, woostock, station, grain produceand commission agentsreport (wholesale) for the week as under. All quo-tations are subject to market fluctuations. Wewould ask farmers when sending samples always toputa price on them as buyers do not feel inclinedto make offers

Wheat-Market remains agitated and last, week’sprices are fully maintained. We have mads salesatPrime velvet and tuscan 3* Id to 3s 2d Bed Sorts3s Id good whole fowl wheat 2s 4d to 2s 6d.

Oats—Remain firm at last week’s quotations, Agrade Is Od, B grade Is sd, inferior Is Id to Is 2d,

Barley-Prime malting in fair demand at from3s to 3s 3d, milling 2s Sd.feed 2s,

Ryocoru—Fair offerings 2s od to 3a Od.Potatoes- Market fully supplied: Prime derwents

are selling at £1 5s to £2 per ton. White sortsunsaleable.

Chaff Market well supplied. Prime oaten sheafchaff L2 12s Od to L2 17s Od, Choice £2 15s primequality £2 Ts Od to L2 12s 6d, medium and inferiorunsaleable. There is no enquiry for inferior lots.Straw chaff LI Ins. pressed sfraw LI 10s primeclover hay L2 10s to L 3 turnips loose 12s Od to 14scarrots 1.2. /

Ryegrass VVoqeeote: Farmers dressed 3to 3s Cd,machine jdressed is to fls per Wished

Cocksfoot Od ; farmers dressed3 l-2drtu 41-2 d per Us GJbd demand We soldseveUST thousand saafs du*ng the week.

Linseed j-From yS to LHJ per ton as per quality.Chewing* fcsjsnc—No jfcmghdat present owing

to largejKoefef of last SMSoiwpeales have batn madecqttal id andTid petflb J- /

Ralpiitskins—We h#d JBles/every fgrt'night andoffered a fair cataUfejUrthik; wjmiwrimtomand inexcess of arrivals. / and runnel 3d to4id. early autumnafh|T to ibid, late autumns 12idto 13}d, autumn Blacks M l-2a- Lu.ilW Winters 151to 17d winter blacks up to Is lOd

Sheepskins -We hold sales ever} Tuesday. De-mand good. AVe quote: Pelts Is Od to 2s largeIs lOd t* 2s 3d crossbred and halfbred 6s 01 to5s 8dmedium 4tod to 5s Bd, inferior 2s 6d to 8s 9d, neltslarge Is 9d to 2s, small Is to Is 0d lambs good 3j to8d to 3s 9d small 2s Od to 3s

Stack covers 16 x 18, 40s.Hides—AAr e quote prime ox Sid to 5Jd, heavy at

Sjd to 6Jd, light to medium 4id to 4 l-2d, cowsheavy 4gd to sd. light to medium 4Jd to 4Jd, calf-skins Is 9d to2s 3d, yearlings 2s 6d to 3s Od horsehides 6s 6d to 6j 9d cows heavy 4 l-2d to 4£dmedium 4jd to 41c* light 4d to 4 1-2(1. W« havesale for any quantity that you can forward andcan guarantee top market prices. Our next saletakes place on the 28th July,

Tallow—Rough fat 13s to 15s 6d, rendered 18a to10s- Tallow in tins 16s 0d to 20s, casks 20s 9d to !2sWe have an orderfor tallow in casks

Horsehair Is Ijd to Is 24d.Grass Seed Cleaning—Our machinery is up to

date. AVe have justadded a clover polisher and aswe have a machine of the latest type for each kindof seed, we give from 6a to Is of better cleaningresults than a machinewhich cleans all seeds. Wealso store seed free of charge until cleaned and keepsame insured.

Fruit and Produce Report.Butter -Fresh butter in pats storekeepers lots 7d

to 8d separator in 11bpats 9d per lb.Eggs - Fresh Is 5d preserved lid to IsCheese—Factory 4|d to 5Jd, Akaroa 5d loaf Sjd

to 6idHoney—Demand bet cr. Prices are ruling from4d to 5d per lb for good quality

Walnuts—Soares at 4 l-2d to 6jd per lb, wantedBeeswax —AVanted Is 4dOnions—Prime just landed L 5 toLOBacon—Rolls 7d to 7Jd per lbHams—BdPigs—For sizes up to XOOlba flrst-olass dairy-fed

quality 4d, to 4Jd prime quality Si wanted, ovsrthat w eight prices range frem Sid to 4d.

Butter boxes, with parchment lining we oaasupply at 18s per dozen

Vickerys egg preservative 30* per ease of 8 gallonsPoultry (local) —Geese 4s 6d to ss.Export.—AVe have an unlimited demand for boil-

ing fowl* chickens,ducks Mid turkeys. Large quan-tities are required for the next South Africansteamer. Please consign ail poultry to A. Moritzsonand Co Dunedin, N.Z. Government Poultry Depotand advise us.

Fruit —Wo receive consignments by ever}’ steamerfrom Australia, th [lslands and our own colony andhold sales daily on arrival of consignments

AVe quote 44in comeacks 6s , second hand grainsacks 4s 9d, good flour sacks 4s 0d per dozen. Thereis a considerable saving to the farmerin taking second hand flour sacks as new sack

GRAIN AND PRODUCE RE-PORT

Messrs Da’gety and Co, limitedDunedin, report,

Wo held our usual wetkly sale of grainand produce a* our stores on Monday whenwc submitted a faiily representative cata-logue to a good attendance of buyers,O' mpetition whs good, and prices realisedwere fully up to, and in some cases aheadft last week's rates, and the greater por-tion of our catalogue w-s cleared under thehammer. Values ruled as under :

0„t»—During the past week there hasbeen a good demand for till classe*. Brightlines are scarce and in cases where buyershave had orders to fill extreme values havehad to be paid, but any Hues offeting arereadily placed at quo*,;.t;on‘>. viz: Primemilling Is 8i to Is 7id : good lo best feedIs 41 to le 5£ f ; inferior to nudium Is toIs 3d per bu-hel. sad s xtra.

Wh, a * The ma t remains firm.Prime railing is enquire I for but theprices now arked a>-e somewhat ahead ofbuyers limits and medium qua’ity has nowa fair sale. F-w! wheat is not ; fferingfreely a> d shippers are uniblr to obtainorders at pi ices now ask-d, although thelocal demand I s* well maintained. Quota-tions : Piime milling Si !o 3s 31 ; medium2s 7d lo 2r lid; whole fowl wheat 2s to2s 6d ; broken aud damped 2s to 2s 3d perbushel, sacks extra:

Potatoes—This markrt is st I m astagnant state with no qu't»b!e change.Beet derwents 35s ,to 4Ue; others 30s to32s 61 per con, bags in.

chaff—Consignments during the ps’week have not been heavy. There is stilla grod demand for bright heavy well cutoaten ehe«f,; which is readily quitted extruck; Medium and inferior quality is,however, slow of S'de. Quotations:Prime oaten sheaf £2 17s 61 to £3 2s fid ;medium £2 10a to £2 15s; light and in-ferior £1 15a to £2 5s per ton, bags extra,

lurnip?—The market is well supplied*We quote : Best swedes 13s to 14s per tonloose, ex truck

gtraw We quote oaten at 2/s to 30s,and wheaten 26r to 27s per ton ton pressed

Vincent County Council.

The eleventh annual ordinarymeeting ot the above Council willbe held on Wednesday, the 27thday of i uly :

ORDER PAPER.

Giving notice of making andlevying a general rate lor the yearending March 31st, 1905, undeithe provisions of section 148, of•‘The Counties Act, 1880 and theRating Act 1894.”

POLITICAL GOSSIP.

(By Oun Special Correspondent).

Wellington, July 18.The third week of the session was con-

cluded atan early hour on Saturday morn-ing and a very dull and dreary week it was.Shop and Offices Bill, Stud Bill, UpperHouse Reform, and sundry other thingswere debated at length. Every possibleand impossible person sent here by theelectors voiced his opinion on the slightestprovocation on all these dreary, dry-as-dustand exceedingly uninteresting topics. Theresult was a great triumph for “ Hansard.Ministers showed their appreciation of thesituation by retreating on Southland, Auck-land Nelson and elsewhere. Of courseyou know how Native Minister Carroll was

beaten on a motion to adjourn at midnightduring the discussion on Mr TannersRegulation of Local Bill. Thehappening was purely a tacticil blunderand the Hon James, when he discoveredhis error, made haste to explain that hehad no desire to block discussion on thebill He thought members had had enoughand desired to go to bed. King Richardwas on his way to Auckland at the timedoing his best to “ imperially perform themultifarious duties of Minister in attend-ance on the Governor, Generally speakinghowever, nothing of an exciting or eveninteresting nature took place during thefour *ys. The House o! Duderyunanimously dee ded to give itself a fort-night’s holiday to secretly ruminate on - itsimpending extinction. '1 he debate on theReform Propos.l , by the way, was chieflyremarkable for its insincerity and want offai hj If the truth was known ir. would befound’ that a good many members were look-ing forward to the day when they themselvesmight *-e doing a little revisiooary work in

chc Upper Chamber.’Hie despised minority felt very wrath

on Tuesday night when the ColonialTreasurer delivered his Budget incidentallybeating all previous records for lime andexpediency. The surplus, hkc the poor,now bids fair to be always «uh us. \ou

are always in possession of the pointsof the

statement, and no doubt like many otheisyou objected to the verbosity of the manwho delivered it. but it is pleasing to notethat the awful calamity, which accordingto the predictions of the Opposition, hasbeen about to descend on us for the lasteleven years, is still as far off as eveiLiberals here welcome the assurance, how-ever, that borrowing is to be gradually de-creased; On the Opposition benchesJames Allen, of Bruce is looked upon asthe financial genius of the party and it isan open secret that evoi since his return tothe colony from bis trip abroad he hasspent many sleepless nights in hunting updetails to stagger the present administra-tion and crush liberals for ever and a day.You know the old, old story. The afore-mentioned authority on finance fires off hisgun to-morrow, so the gis of his condemnation will p> obably have reasbed you bytelegraph before this appears in type. Afew headings herewith: Ministerial Ex-travagance ; Corrupt Administration ; In-terference with the Public Accounts andPublic Departments; Immoderate borrow-ing • Increase of the public debt, etc, etc,—you’ll find them in the reports of Oppositionspeakers in every newspaper in the colony.Next week I may be in a position to cullfrom the debate a few narrow mindedspecks for the edification of my readers.

A little trouble is often of great benefitto the political insight and capacity ofOppositionists A well-known HawkesBay runholder and land owner, by name GP Donnelly (who married a Maori princessand thereby secured the title to a prettylarge area of ttT'ra firvia in this colony) leftfor England recently in company with biswife. Now he is so disgusted with Con-servatives that he rushed to the telegraphoffice and cabled all the way to New Zea*land advising the Opposition “ to bury thehatchet ” and by interfence to do some-thing in the direction of placing thiscolony’s meat exports on a better footingon the London market, and to cease growl/-lug and to broden their and generally toput out their hands and see if they etcaW

Qur new Governor has already got him-self into hot water. He attended the Wel-lington races last Wednesday and in orderthat there should be no interference withhis progress back to the city from thecourse at Lower Hutt per medium of specialtrain, the ordinary train leaving Wellingtonabout 4pm (carrying some' hundreds ofpassengers) was delayed at Ngahaurangafor nearly an hour Unfortunately for theRailway Department or the Premier, orProvidence, or whoever was responsible forthe delay, a newspaper man wrote theincident up in a manner which justified thestory being telegraphed all over the colony.Since the exposure the Governor lias denied,that the public was inconvenienced at bisbidding and Sir Joseph Waid has come tolight with a statement that the Governorwas not responsible for the delay, so itappears that the engine-driver and guarddecided to call at the hotel at, Ngahaurangato have a drink and forgot all about thepassengers and the disorganisation of theservice I Tor ways that are daik andtricks that a<e vain the future ruler of theTransvaal is not in it with the person whoissues the official denial. This sul ject i«hardly one of political significance, butsomething will shortly be asked about itin the House, and 1 thciefo e offer no

apology for referring to it here

The “ Western Medical Review,’ a

medical publication of ihe highest stand-ing, says, in a recent issue :

“Thousandsof physicians in this and other countrieshave attested that Sanders and Son’sEucalypti Extract, is not only absolutelyreliable, but that it has a pronounced andindisputable s iperioity overparatioKß of ¥uca,]y.ptus.”too precious io be tfpiperfore, reject d.\unscrupulous nr~getting S/idcrthe only/veparafi.

other pre-henl hj is

>th ; there-upon you by

rid insist upon_jcalypti Extract

recommended by yourphysicist and-"/the /Medical P'esUsed is a moujmwas#regularly m themorning (3 djßps glass ofwater) it prevents /cay of teeth, and isa sure protection Against all irifectunsdiseases such’ a etccatarrah of nose/md milis quicklycured by garglinimwith same, Instantaneous relief protpces in colds, influenza,

diphtheria, bronchi us. inflammation of thelungs and consumption, by putting eightdrops of Sander & Sons’ Pure VolatileEucalypti Extract into a cupful of boilingwater' and inhaling the arising steam.Diarrhoea, dysentery, rheumatism, disease?of the kidneya and urinary organs, quicklycured by taking 6to 15 d ops intonal ly3 to 5 times daily. Wounds, ulcers, sprains,and skin diseases it heals without inflammation when painted on.

The AJAX R suit Trap which has become so popu'ar with trappers can be ob-tained from Mr B Naylor, an 1 all sto’C-keepers. Insist on having Ajax Thetrap that catches.”—Advt.

Dr Mclntyie’s Extra Strong FemalePills 4 6d postage free: Obtainable fromAlfred Oudaille, Uhemiet, Duned

DREDGING RETURNS.

Saturday July 23rd 1904.

New Roxburgh Jubilee 133 3New Fourteen-mile Beach 113 6Electric 1 74 1Junction Electric No 1 64 9Cromwell I 57 19Rise and Shine No I 53 4Alpine Consols 52 5Perseverance 1 50 GRising Sun 42 17Unity 35 5Nugent Wood 35 9Golden Run 34 11Hartley and Riley 31 6Hessey's, Waikaia 30 7ounstan Lead 30 5Upper Waipori 30 9Perseverance 2 26 3Riley’s Beach 26 11MuddyCreek 24 19Alpine 2 22 16Cromwell 2 21 11AlexandraLead 20 6Central Charlton 20 11Enterprise No 1 19 17Enterprise No 2 16 8Lady Roxburgh 15 6Matau 13 16Gabriel No 1 13 12Garden Gully, Waikaka 12 1Junction E ecfcric 2 10 7Mystery Fiat 9 19Inchdale 8 17

Football.

By Drop-Kick

r I he Association match played atDir edin on Sa'urday, between theN 8 Wales and New Zealand'earns resulted in a win for theformer by one goal to nothing.

The Clyde team journey to Ophiron Saturday to try cone usions withthe team at that p’ace.

Considerable intere-t was takenin the match, Alexandra v Crom-well, played «t <he latter place onSaturday. From what I can learn(he game was a remarkably goodone, being fast and of a widmgnature. The game ended in adraw, neither side scoring. In thesecond spell Cahill had bad luckin not potting a goal the ballstriking the crossbar Both skieshad turns at defending, the gameending in the visitor’s twenty-five.

Two of our oldest gold-field’splayers participated in Saturday’smatch at Clyde, viz Bob Thompsonand W Stevens. Both players des-pite the fact that they played insenior football as long ago as 1888are singled out in my report of thematch as having played well.While on the subject of old playersJ. might mention thatWattie Burn*■side, who represented Otago in 88is also playing yet, and he tooseems to be still a heap ot troubleto his opponents.

The Clyde Juniors play Lowburnat the latter place on Saturday

In proposing a toast at thesmoke concert on Saturday nightMr Dan Gibson expressed hispleasure at finding that therewere several gentlemen who hadgiven tangible proof of their de*sire to assist the sport. He refer-red to the generosity of Dr Hydein helping the club financially, andto theaction of Messrs Sutherlandand vVebb in presenting goldmedals.

CLYDE v BANNOCKBURN

The first game of the season be-tween the above teams was played atClyde on Saturday. The ground wasin a very greasy state, but notwith-standing this the game was a fast one.This being Bannockburn’s first matchof the season, it was generally thoughtthat Clyde would come out victorious,and though this proved to be the case,ihe home team had not a vety easytask. Indeed in the first spell, theyhad all they could do to keep theirlines clear. The first spell endedwithout a score being registered, butafter changing ends, the condition ofihe home team, cottp’cd wi hj a fewvery necessary alterations iu the pos-itions of their players, told. Shorthafter changing ends Gilray snapped upirons a loose rush and dashed over.Me Neish made a good attempt atgoal. A loose rush, following on a

good kick by Crombie, saw the visitorswithin an ace of scoring, but a freekick r. Roved the pressure. MacCrawford a little later took advantageof an opening, and picking up sraait’ydashed over and scored near the posts.Me Neish registered the major points'lheie was no further scoio, the gameending in favor of the 1 omc team hi8 points to nil. Neither team werer presented by their full strengo. Thevisitors are to he congratulated on thestand they made, and it is a mat.toifor regret that they d; d not commenceplaying at the beginning of the seasonI f they hao done so there wou.d probably have been a different tale to tell.Of the visitors. Crombie at five-eightswas the pirk, while McCabe at haltplayed very well- In Tippet. Ban-nockburn have a very safe full-back,and it was chiefly owing to bis effortsthat the score was not larger,

For the home team, the backs allplayed well —the veteran, W Fteven-,who played as a substitute at halt-back,being particularly good. The for-wards as usual, played well, promin-ent amongst them being DaWdsou andThompson.

Mr fl E Stevens controlled thegame

The visitors were entertained at asmoke concert in the evening in theDunstan Hotel

Russo-Japanese War.

THE MALACCA SEIZURE.

A GRAVE SITUATION

The Daily Mail states that theMalacca’s captain nailed his flag tothe mast, and that the prize com*

mander tore it down and hoistedthe Russian flag. He also threa-tened the captain for protestingagainst an attempt to bribe thecrew to give information about thecargo. The captain alleges thathis ship was captured two and a-half miles from land, in territorialwaters.

The Russian request that theMalacca be supplied with coal inorder to proceed to Cherpourg wasrefused.

The Daily Express says that theMalacca is detained by virtue of theEgyption proclamation, made inFebruary, forbidding the passage ofwar prizes tin ough the canal.

The Standard and Times declarethat the Malacca must not be per-mitted to leave Port Said under theRussian flag.

1 he Standard warns Turkey thatif she fails to observe her treatyobligations she may find ‘Britishwarships entering the Dardanallesfrom the south.

The Egyptian Government hasscut a steamer to claim the icturnof the native pilots aboard the StPctcrsberg and Smolensk.

Reuter’s St Petersberg correspo-ndent reports that the Russian pub-lic, though excited, is disposed tobelieve that Britain is bluffing.

It is uncertain if the RussianForeign Office has replied to LordLansdowne’s communication, as itis awaiting details of the seizureSome suggestion has been made thatthe matter should be (referred toThe Hague Tribunal

The Daily Telegraph states thatLord Lunsdowne (Minister of For*,eigu affairs) informed Count L&ms-dorff thrt Britain would not perßmit volunteer merchantmen to becruisers after passing the Dardanselles If they interfered with Brit*ish vessels they would be sunkThe Telegraph also states that Tur*key has undertaken to prevent thepassage of such dual classed shipsIt evaded Turkey will inform Brit*ain The Telegraph implies thatBritain consents to the Malaccabeing unloaded at a neutral port toshow that her naval stores are in-tended for Hongkong

LATE TELEGRAMS

(From our own correspondent)

Monday July 25thMr Carew, S M, Dunedin, has retired

from the Government serviceMr Peter Millar representing the'Hcapi-

tal Trustees is asking the Government forthree acres of land at Logan’s Point for aninfectious hospital, and the Premier isagreeable, provided the hospital peoplegive him the old maternity home in ex-change. This he will fully equip andmaintain. This is considered hardly fairas Logan’s Point land is only worth £3Oan acre.

It will be fully a month yet before theOrder in Council will be ready to admitrunning cars to Andersons Bay, TheCorporation are expected to submitplans tothe Government for reducing the width ofall cars.

Mr Tapper, member for Bell Ward CityCouncil, who resigned in consequence ofthe corporation’s opinion being againsthim in re the plant storage question will behotly opposed by a member of the ratespayers committee,

Auckland.In reference to the movement among the

Maoris in the North Island it is stated thatover 20,000 Maoris signatures are assuredfor a big petition for the restitution of theirrights.

Napier.Edwin Englebretfch, who was last week

lined £ls and costs for placing obstructionon the road with view of interfering withthe Napier-Woodville cycling race has beendisqualified for life.

Canterbury beat Southland at football byeight points to live.

ATEST WAR NEWS

( From our own Correspondent,)

Dunedin, WouJyay, July 25th.

Details of the battle on ria Yangshow that General Kuroki on the1Si h unmasked the Russian batteriesalong the Chi River The Russianslater attacked Kuroki’s vanguardwhich suffered severely, losing all itsofficers The Japs were reinforced,and after fighting till midnight theRussian retreat being partly cut offit became a rovt

The Russian loss is estimated byprisoners at 1000

The Japs had 54 killed* IS officersand 351 men wounded

The Yladivostock fleet is reportedto be 80 miles 'ff Yokohama, steer-ing south

THE MALACCA INCIDENT.

RUSSIA BACKS DOWN.

It is believed that Russia, besidesapologising, has agreed to pay com-pensation and to rehoist the Britishflag—reserving the question of statusfor the Hague Tribunal

THE DVN&TAM TIMESCLYDE JULY 26, 39045

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SHORT STORY.YANO AND THE RIVSR-COD.Kami Sama was a river-god, who

owned a shrine in the corner of ourgarden-lot •, Yano, a small heathenof fifteen, the youngest and brightestof my Japanese domestics.

Was the day too wet for my statelycook to riak the bespattering of hislacquered clogs and immaculate‘tabi’ (socks)? Then Yano wassent to do the shopping and market-ing.

When the pretty housemaid Sugahappened to lose any of her relatives,which she did frequently, and always,by a strange coincidence, on the eveof some great matsuri (festival),Yano was brought in to make bedsand wash dishes. The gardenermade him fill the gold-fish pond andweed the foreign posies. If any-thing was lost, Yano lost it. When acup appeared minus the handle, Yanowas invariably the culprit. He wasgenerally scapegoat as well as drudgeamong the servants, and when calledinto my presence to answer for somemisdemeanor, which, in all pro-bability, he had not committed, hoattempted not the slightest excuse,but would fall prone at my feet, hisjetty, close-cropped head upon thefloor, and his hands spread pigeon-toed before him in such a touchingmanner that my heart always meltedat the sight.

I think that the little rascalstrongly suspected this weakness onmy part, there wa§ such a knowingflash in his small, shining eyes as heraised his head to thank me for mygreat clemency and mercy, and hacould scarcely wait until he got out-side of the door before bursting intoone of those strange, falsetto songsof the Japanese peasantry, whichexpress for them lightness of heart.

Although Yano’s incidental dutieswere legion, he was originally en-gaged to amuse 0 Alan San andsleep on the floor of his little roomat night. O Alan San was the onejuvenile member of our small family,a fair-haired boy of five, Yauo’s soledefender and admirer.

Some weeks after our installationin this quaint Satsuma home I wasstrolling about the spacious grounds,with Alan and Yane at my heels,when I discovered in a neglectedcorner a small and ancient shrine.It was of gray stone, llchen-covoxed,and a pointed roof surmounted aHollow cube of stone, with crescent-shaped windows ht each end and twodeeply-chisseled Chinese letters onthe faco. It aeemed to be too grotes-que and ornamental to bo met in soremote a spot, eo 1 called inosky, thegardener, and by dint ot pigeon-Engliah and many gestures madohim understand that I wished it takento the front g&rdon. 1 gave it aquick little push to see if it wasmoveable, when Yano fell on hisknees before me, clutching upward'at my sleeve to draw my hand away.His round little face was graen withterror.

‘ Okasan! Okasan I’ he cried in asort of hoarse whisper. ‘ KamiSamal Eoroshimaebo!’ He struckhimself on the forehead and threwback his head, with closed eyes, tosimulate death.

I turned, in bewildermant, towardInosky. He, too, was pale andagitated. He pointed to the shrine,then to the front garden, and, shakinghis head said earnestly, ‘ Shoshi modekimasen,’ which, being literally,interpreted, means, * I cannot do it,even a little.’

That evening I learned from aninterpreter the cause of their horror.

I had, unwittingly, been guilty ofcue of the most deadly sins, that ofviolating a shrine. The peasants ofJapan implicitly believe tba* thisoffence ia punished by instant death jhence the terror of the servants.

Each spring, brook or river whichflows in that land of poetry has itsdeity, and must possess at least oneshrine, and the one which I had dis-covered was placed there hundreds ofyears before inhonor of a little springwhich crept down the mountainbehind our home. Until we came ithad trickled contentedly among theferns and camphor-roots, but now itwas led, in underground bamboopipes, to a broad, shallow well in therear of the kitchen, This situation,in itself, must have been harrowingto the feelings of a water-god, so Idecided not to cast further indignityupon him by making a toy cf hislittle temple, and soon forgot allabout the affair.

It was months and months afterthis that I began to notice a changein Yano. He no longer startled mewith sudden outbursts of unmelodioussong; he moved more slowly abouthis endless tasks, and his bright eyeswere fast losing their sparkle. Heneglected nothing, but he seemed tohave lost all the young joy of living,which had first attracted me in him.Even the delightful task of catchingfor O Alan San the big yellow moun-tain-spiders, which are a favoriteplaything with Japanese children,had lost their joy, and in his dailyrole of highway sobbtt in tbabamboohedge, 1 noticed that the little Amer-ican hero, masquerading under someponderous Japanese title, overthrewhim much more readily than of yore.

Ono afternoon ha came to mo witha shy, half-frightened look on hischildish face, and besought the loanof 8 sea (cents). This was some-thing unprecedented. Hitherto hislarge salary of 76 sen a month hadbeen ample for his humble needs, andcuriosity prompted me to ask what heintended doing with it.

* It is for ‘kusuri,’ he said, timidly.* I am feeling * teihen (verysick)/

I gave him the change and toldhim that he could go home for therest of the day, at which he prost-rated himself three times in token ofgratitude.

A few moments later, Alan Sanstood alone in the big front gate,mournfully watching his playfellowdown the narrow street.

Yauo did not return next day, buta clumsy, large-headed youth ap-peared to take his place and informus that Yano Sau was dangerously ill.

I did not dream that we shouldmiss the child so much. Alan wasinconsolable, the cook cross, thehousemaid hurried all the time, andin fact, there was no member of thehousehold, who did not mourn, openlycr in secret, for the merry, willinglittle drudge.

It was a week before he returned.His eyes were heavy and sunken, asthough with excessive weeping, andhis cheeks were pale and flat. Ashe wearily entered the gate, Alancaught eight of him, and rushed outwith endearments and exclamationswhich brought, for a moment, the oldlight into his eyes. They came intomy room hand in hand, and I in-quired with sincere interest concern-ing the sickness through which hepassed.

At first he was so much abashed,and uncertain whether to speak ornot, but Alan’s little arms werearound him, and my sympathy wasobvious in every tone and gesture.So at last he told his story. Longbefore he had been forced to give up,he had been to * Isha Saan ’ (doctor),he said, and had spent all his moneyin buying medicine, but in spite ofthis be, he grew worse and worse.At night he could not sleep for feversand ague, and in the daytime hecould' not eat, not even meat.

Then his mother went to a priestfor advice, and the pious man atonce declared that it was no ordinarysickness, but the anger of some god.So he went with her to the temple,and there the priest, after feeling hisheart and bend, and sprinkling himwith holy water, Had declared thathe was cursed by a water-god.

Yano turned almost green at themention of the dreadful edict.

‘ But how did you offend the water-god ?’ I asked.

Yano hung his head and fingeredhis long sleeves nervously as he an-swered that he and O Alan San hadthrown stones and dirt in the wellafter the frogs and had defiled thepure water. Therefore, the god wasvery, very angry. He did not cursethe Christian child, for it is moredifficult togain power over Christians,so a double share of pain was sentthe faithful little servitor. I did notdare to express my opinion of theconduct of the water-god, eo I simplyasked him what the priest did lo re-move the curse.

The child raised hia head with alook of .quick terror, and said in anagitated voice that he couldn’t tellthe foreign * okasan’ all that wasdone—the priest had forbidden it;but that be bsd suffered a great dealwhile the evil spirit was beingdriven out, and at times had runaround like a mad dog, yelping andcrying for mercy. The priest hadimposed a fine of twenty sen uponhim, and commanded him to makean offering at the little shrine, atsunrise and sunset, for seven days.

Looking in-that poor little pinchedface,.! felt a secret but intense de-sire to see the Kami Sama, theshrine, the old priest, and the frogsin the bottom of the well together,but I did not say so, principally be-cause my limited knowledge of thelanguage rendered it impossible.One gets to understand the languagemuch sooner than to speak it readily.

Lata that afternoon, as the wildprimroses softly awoke and thehoarse crowa sought their homes onthe hill, I saw two little figureswalking slowly along the weed-grown garden path toward theshrine, I followed, unseen, and at arespectable distance. Yano carrieda email cup of smoking tea, and atiny, lacquered bowl filled with rice,while Alan held reverently astick of incense and a Japanesewriting box of the cheapest kind.The shrine loomed through the duskshadows, ancient and squat, and be-fore it the children knelt. The smallcup was placed npon the ledge, withthe rice bowl beside it, and then thestick of incense was carefully ar-ranged in a tiny bamboo vase, justbelow the carven letter, I could ee efrom their gestures, that Alan wasentreating the privilege of lightingit. This rite was performed in awedsilence, Alan striking the match whileYano curved his thin, brown bauds•about the wind-tossed flame ; thenYano opened the writing-box, anddipping his brush into the thick ink,traced on a slip of paper a few strag-gling words—a prayer. This he tiedto the end of a cherry switch, andstuck in the ground before the shrine.The faint, fragrance of the tea roseand mingled with the slow-curlingincense. The little paper rippledsoftly in the gentle evening wind,and Yano surveyed it all with gravesatvsd&cAnya he drew a longbreath and bowed his head for theinvocation. Clapping his hands threetimes to call the attention of thedeitv, he laid his forehead upon theearth and began a long falsetto droneof sorrow and repentance.

Alan San watched him with wideblue eyes. He had never seen thisgame before —and Yano was not evenlaughing j he seemed to be in trouble,which bis little friend could notshare. For a moment his childishmouth quivered, and he made a faintmotion as though to rise, but Yanowas still singing this strange song,rocking himself to its droning

cadences, and—whatever Yano didmust be right. Sc the little* Christianhands were clasped, and the gcldc-nhead bowed in perfect mimicry, whilethe thick curls fell over, crowdingagainst Yano’s jc-tty locks, and thelichen-covered stone. Yano, with nointerruption to his slow swaying ofhis song, threw one arm about hislittle friend, who nestled to him, com-forted.

Of course, Yano soon became per-fectly well (possibly some medicinewhich I took the responsibility ofadministering to him may have has-tened the operation of the priest'sprescription), and it is needless tosay that his reverence for the water-god was stronger than ever.

Pigeon Postæen on the Seas.Two years ago a thousand Qerm&u

war pigeons were in one batch re-leased at Dover by German agents.In 1898 the number of this annual‘flight’ had reachocl two thousand,French war pigeons are frequentlyflown from the English shores;though English birds intended forsuch purposes are nob allowed overthere, and even the numerous pigeonracing clubs of Belgium find so manyvexatious rules to bo observed whenbirds are tossed up on Gallic soil,that the Belgian long-distance racesare in future to be flown mostly fromEngland. The French Ministry ofMarine, as well as the Germanauthorities, will be seen, therefore,to repose considerable faith in theutility of the carrier pigeon in war-time, Spain, Bussia, and Italy alsohave numbers of pigeon stations,whilst Portugal is reported to possessthe very finest of such services of anyPower,

In the country referred to, olcourse, most of the birds are flownoverland, a proceeding a deal easierthan training the ‘homer’ to cross theseas. Pigeons are fond of freshwater, but do not take kindly to thesalt variety, in addition to whichfact there are upon the ocean nolandmarks to guide the aerial messen-ger on ■ its way. Of late {years, how-ever, the British Government hasbeen considering very seriously thequestion of sea-flying carrier pigeons.More has, indeed, been done in thisdirection than is generally supposed,for in such matters it is not alwaysdesirable that the brightest light ofpublicity shall beat upon the meansand methods adopted.

Nearly two years back a pigeonpost was established at Sheerneas,and there is now another at Ports-mouth. The Admirality, to whomthe birds belong, would not appear toaim at accomplishing such great dis-tances as our Continental neighboursseem to yearn after. The beat birdsare trained up to about a hundredmiles, a record at which many apigeon fancier across tiro Channelwould smile in pity. Much greaterdistances have, however, been coveredby pigeons flying over-sea. Onesteamship company, using the Havreto New York route, have bean ex-perimenting with a pigeon post forsome time, and it is said, that severalof their birds have come ia from GOOmiles out on the ocean. A *t.\rt witha regular- service, however ia to be

It is the liability to loss of oven /

a good, tried bird, that makes dis-tance pigeon flying such uncertainwork. If a strong wind blows thepigeon may turn and run w'th it, andby the time the'galo abates ’ho birdmay have been carried so f».* out ofits course as to be quite unable tofind its way home again. Meetingwith difficulties, a pigeon not suffi-ciently * game’ will lose heart, andsimply seek the nearest loft. Greatnumbers of ‘ carriers,’too, fall victimsto pot-shot sportsmen. The birdsbelonging to our Admiralty areplainly marked by a little aluminiumring round the leg, or other dis-tinctive sign.

As to the distance which carrierpigeons will fly, and the pace atwhich they go, a bird came from theShetland Islands to Loudon—s97miles—in less than thirty-sevenhours, flying, of course, only duringdaylight. Two others were releasedat Ollaberry, in the same isles, at 4a.m., and one reached its loft inLondon, 622 miles, at seven neatmorning, the second bird coming inone hour twenty-live minutes behind.250 to 300 miles is in Germany acomparatively common distance,though this will be in the majority ofcases entirely overland. Roma toBelgium, 800 or 900 miles, is thelongestrecord.

For all the ‘ boom ’ there has oflate been concerning this subject, theemployment of pigeons for militaryand other work is no now device.For years such birch; were used uponour Indian frontier, bat the post wasabandoned, aa mounted men did thework more cheaply and quickly,

* And for sea messages,’ remarkedan authority consulted, ‘ I fancy saveat short distances, that the failurewould be considerably mors marked.I am well aware that many birdshave found their way home from agreat way out over the ocean j but,however good your ‘ homer/ it is im-possible to rely on its twice perform-ing the same distance feat. A headwind or fog may spring up tobaffle your messenger, when, if ithas the good luck to espy a passingvessel, it will, in all probability, takarefuge on board.

‘ Carrier pigeons are tame, and theyhave to be so, more or less, or theirowners would be able to get the mes-sages (bey carry with them. Especiallywhen hungry they are readily cap-tured, and in this way a despatchmight in war-time easily fall into thsenemy's hands.’

Rural Life.FOOT-AND-MOUTfi DISEASE.

A remedy against foot-and-mouth disdainhas been devised by Dr. Morandl, of Milanrecommended by the Italian Board olAgriculture, and tried on more than 40<farms in Italy with complete success. DrMorandi’s method, briefly summarised, is ai

follows: It is a simple application of a solu-tion of thyme. Pat sufficient thyme in abarrel or cask of pure cold water for 48hours, draw off the solution, wash the ani-mal’s feet and mouth first with cold water,then with the solution.

FLOWERS OF THE SEA-The tendency to make a larew.ell present

in the shape of flowers to the 'departing dearones who go by way of the liners'for foreignshores, is every day becoming more andmore noticeable. But lately another fad hascome into vogue, and that is iho sending olflowers to be laid on the plate ef the fair oneevery morning in the course of the voyage,as fresh and fair as though they had onlyjustbeen plucked from the hothouse. Theway that this is done is a problem to many,but in reality it is a simple thing. Theflowers are first ordered and then they arepaid for. Those are the first steps, arid theyare all that are taken by theflorist then sends a number of boxes to thesteward of the steamship, and they are putin the cooling room. Each box is markedwith the date on which they are to be used,and every morning the steward places thecontents of the right box beside the plate ofthe chosen one at br'eakfast. In this wayflowers are made to bloeirr even on the brinydeep. But it costs money.

VEGETABLES.If cold surface soil containing snow-

water, or even thin frost, be dug down, thenit makes the soil below very cold muchlonger than would be the case if it be left tothe influence of warmer air rather longer. Itis also, when cold, bad for seed, which willnot readily germinate. When the ground isthoroughly workable, then proceed to trenchand dig and get it ready for cropping. The

■ first things to sow will be some early peas,also some, broad beaus. Rhubarb roots outin the ground if covered lightly with straw,or have someftubs without beads turned over(hem, will push growth all the sooner, and inthat way give stalks so much earlier andmore tender.

TOMATOES.Everyone who has a greenhouse naturally

wishes to have plants of these to fruit underglass as early t?s can be. Where a little extrawarmth can bo given seeds may be sown inpots at once. If fire or dung heat cannot beprovided, a box without top or bottom, butstool on a sheet of thin iron or an old metaltea tray, then half filled with cocoa, fibrerefuse or coal ashes that is kept damp, intowhich the seed pots can be placed, and overall a big piece of glass laid so as to make alittle frame, then stood up so that a lampmay be placed under the bottom and keptburning, will, in that way, generate a geptlewarmth in the box that will greatly help theseed to germinate. So soon as the plantsare well up the glass top can be taken offand the seedling will grow strong. If thedamp fibre or ashts generates too muchvapour somo air must be given to the box.Still, there is no great danger on that head.

POTATOES.Potatoes do so much hotter if trot in early,

thou set up in shallow boxes with the budends upwards and close together, then stoodin the light and where they can have plentyof air. If but a few boxes, 6in. deep, be sofilled, a bushel, of good seed tubers will oc-cupy, but a very small space, and at nightmay be stood box on box. Where tubers sotreated show later too many shoots if they beof rather small size, scoop out all but twoof Ihe stoutest shoots. If they be large thena couple of days before planting the tubersmust to cut into three or ’ fodr sets and welldusted with lime to dry and harden the cutsurfaces before planting. These cut setsshould carry one good stout shoot only, asthat is quite enough.

FRUIT.fHiere grapes aro wanted early under glass

a little warmth given and kept at aboutfifty-five degrees in the day and fifty atnight, will soon start the vinca. A blackHamburg is the best for early work. Thevine should have previously been hardpinned to one good bud to each side shoot orlateral, so that the wounds aro well callusedover, or the sap will run out, and that iscalled bleeding, and is wasteful. Of course,the plants in the vinery, if there be any,should be tender, and thrive all the better forbeing in warmth.

FLOWERS.Where it is possible to do so, a little hot-

bed made with properly prepared stablemanure, made up in a warm corner, if butjust, largo enough to hold a small frame ofbut 3ft. square, will yot be most useful inhelping to strike cuttings of tender plants.Fu'ihsiaa, geraniums, lobelias, petunias, ver-benas, and many similar things will soon befurnishing plenty of nice young shoots in thegreenhouse ; and if a number of clean sln.pots be prepared, by putting into the bottomof each one lin. of coarse crocks or rubble, ,on that some coarse turfy soil, and then fill jup the pot with fine sandy soil, well pressed jdown, cuttings that are properly made and |set into these pots fairly :bick, then watered,will soon, if there be a nice bottom heat onthe dungbed, give roots, and thus in a fewweeks become good plants. The hotbedshould be protected round the sides by peg-ging mats or bags to kept out the cold windor adding more long manure. In that waythe warmth may bo kept up for some time.A week or two later some seed im.y bo sown Iin pots or pans that need warmth to raisethem. Indeed, if things rooted or well up botaken out from the frame into the green-house, their room can be occupied by otherpots in which seed may be sown or othercuttings put on.

CURING SKINS. ; .

Goats, dogs, sheep, cats, deer, rabbits’,indeed, any skins be they larger or smaller,may be. cured by the following easy method.When the skin to bo treated is dry and Lardas a board, soak it in cold water till it is verysoft. Scrape off all grease or bits of fleshthat may have been left on. Nest wash theskin in tepid soapsuds till the fur is quiteclean. Wring it out of the soapsuds, but dohot rinse it Then for softened, dry, orfleshy skinned pelts prepare your pickle ac-cording to the amount you have got to do ; |make it up in tho proportions I give. To 5 *gallons soft water, add 3glb. common salt, jand stir till it dissolves. Then slowly stir in, !Ijlb. commercial sulphuric acid. Put in tho )skins and let them remain for 4 hours for -

small skins such as tho squirrel, to 4 days forlargo ones such as tho tiger. Then rinse insoft cold water, wring out, and hang in thoshade to dry. When half dry keep pull:***out and handling till perfectly dry. Ka’bany hard edges or corners out with pumicestone. A little whiting used with thopumice stene improves the appearance of thoinside orleather part of the skin. Comb ou*the Lair or wool, and tho work is finishedThis sounds simple enough, but if you are tosucceed a large amount of patience and caremust bo bestowed upon tho pulling andhandling while drying. Upon this dependstho skin coming out soft. Small skins jtreated in this way may be fift|6.hed off as jsoft as chamois leather.

NOVELETTE.

His Little Missis.UpIZZIE LOVE’S shop stood at the

corner of the principal streetin Malton Dip, and it was the

owner’s fixed opinion that in situationand in appearance it coaid not beoutshone by any. She was accus-tomed to regard the small window—-of what had been her front«parlour—-and its stock of wares with a critic-ally satisfied eye, and wonder howthere could be folks blind enough topass it by, and repair to the ‘ stores,’which lay ‘down to bottom end’ ofMalton Dip. She felt competent to

j supply any needs; and to do heri justice, few persons who sent to thelittle emporium with a reasonablerequest sent in vain.

There were those in Malton Dipwho sent to Miss Love with requeststhat would hardly be classed asreasonable by the outside world,-,prwho made in person demands thatwould have astonished an ignoranttown-dweller. Lizzie sent few ofthese away empty.

The door of the shop was shut, fora wintry wind was finding out thecorners of the village, when SamuelLake halted for a moment by MissLove’s window, sent a wanderingeye over its contents, finally settledupon one item, and bent clumsily tofind the low handle of the door.

Miss Lovo was sewing carefullybehind the tiny counter when hemade hia appearance within.

‘ It’s a deal colder, Mr Lake,’ shesaid amiably, sticking the needleinto the cloth and setting it aside.

‘lt’s more reasonable-like,’ saidSamuel. He sect a glance about theshop and to the room at the back.‘ Your mother ain't in ?’ he asked.

‘ No ; she’s justpopped down to thebottom end to see Garry,’ said Lizzie.‘ You ain’t wanting her f’

‘ Ob, not particular,’ said Samueluneasily, lie rested on one foot,then on the other. Then he leantshamefacedly against the counter.‘ The way them kids wears out theirstockings is shameful,’ he said,

.

‘ You ain’t wanting more stock-j ings?’ cried Lizzie.

Samuel nodded mournfully.‘ Annie says she’s a-wanting them,

so do Albert, so do Winnie* They’sullus a-wanting them, all th* timV

‘ It comes costly,’ said the littlewoman. Her placid face took on afew wrinkles of perplexity at sightof the lines on his.

4lt do that, Lizzie/ said he. 4 Butthe stocking ain’t the worst of it;there be worser things. If you’d ’a’seed that there kitchen of ourn thismorning you’d ’a* cried—there, thatyou would, Seoh a sight as it ware,wi’ ashes and the children's shoes,and their clo’s and the breakfast allof a scramble, and them winder-curtains that black the daylightcouldn’t come in ! Oh, there weren’tno beginning nor no end to thellammery-gummery. Annie she bebut a little thing, .and I be bound tosend her off to school.’

‘Ob, Annie ain’t no/good for a fullfour year I' said Lizzie. llt ain’t tobe expected, that ain’t. Let a childbe a child; you can’t alter it nowajs, There’s a deal to be done ina house, and it tabes a wixmnin todo it Can’t you get someone to dofor you—to run in and out and keepthings tidysome till Annie be oldergrown ?’

Samuel shook his head.‘ I’ve tried that there,’ he said,

‘ and it ain't no good. ’Tain’t naturalas it would be. Wimmin as havehomes of theirn ain’t likely to bethinking much o’ yourn. If theyain’t got nothing particular to do,they’ll drop in and look after thingsfor you, but if they has anythingspecial they stays away. It be anunsteady arrangement any how yout.'ke it. They’d sooner see yourhouse all of a heap than theirn tot-tering, ’Tie. the nature of wimminis that there.’

Miss Love’s face looked blank.‘ Happen things’ll better themselves

j by and by,’ she said unhopefully.1 ‘Things never does better them-selves, they worsens,’ said Samuel,with grim emphasis. 4 No; thatain’t no good, Lizzie.’ He straight-ened his broad shoulders, and sighed.4 What I do need is a/’wife.’ tie said.

Miss Lizzie brought down a pac-ket of stocHings.

4 Are they to be for Annie ?’ sheasked, her hand on the string.

* Yee, for Annie ; the strongest asyou have, please,’ said the man.‘ Yes, what I want is a wife; thereain’t nothing else as’ll put things torights. Ihey’s been all wrong since’l-ilda went. Suppose you ain’t gota likely article, Lizzie, in your eye,one as‘d suit ?’

‘ You should make Annie mend herstockings; ebe gets through a deal,’said Lizzie Love. She drew out apair and began . to fold them roundand round with puckered brow.

4 She can’t. I mends them,’ saidLake succinctly, and with an air oftragedy. 4 1 suppose you ain't want-lug to marry, Lizzie, now ? I don’tknow a woman in’ Malton Dip ascomes nigh you in righting things asis wrong.’

He stood looking at her with per-suasive eyes; but Lizzie shook herhead.

4 No ; I ain't for marrying,’ shesaid decidedly. 4 I likes work asbegins when you take the shuttersdown* and ends when you put themup, A married wiramin’s work ain’tnever done Mayhap, too, I’ve a-grown into the shop, as it were,’fwouldn’t come natural to me nowto be doing in a house the day

through, with only the house tothink about, and children’s ways.You wouldn’t believe how I’ve cometo see other sides to folk’s worriesand troubles, sitting here listening.I’ve got quite fond of human nature,like.’

. Samuel did not understand, but hej understood the light in the bright

L eyes opposite to him to mean thatj the attractions ‘human nature’ and

, the shop offered were not to be out-done or to be got over by any plea.

‘ The house must be,’ he said. despondently. I suppose it ain’t sor bad, but it couldn’t be worse st 11.’

) Miss Love had fetched out anothert packet of footgear,j ‘For Alberti’ she queried. The

( man nodded, and she undid the. string. She was withdrawing thes stout article required when a light

, suddenly broke upon her face. ‘ Why,if you do really be in need of a wife,’

, she cried, ‘ there he the little aunty,j as’d suit you to aT I’j ‘The little aunty?’ repeated the

. man questioningly.. Lizz : e nodded brightly,

i ‘Joe Weston’s sister, as lives downi Tufty Lane,’ she explained. ‘ When

Joe’s wife died, she looked after them. children a treat; and a lot o’ thanks

j she got, to be snre! But they be grown[ now, and little aunty lives alone,

j and sorrowful she must be at times,. and lonesome. Other ways, she be

[ bright enough, I never wishes to( see anybody brighter than she be.’.

‘She be a short little wimmin,. very short,’ said Samuel doubtfully,

j bringing the little aunty before hismental ej e.

( •Of course she be j that be a dealj in her favour don’t you see ?’ Lizzie

cried, scornfully regarding his dense-[ nees. 1 Who wants a big wimmin in( a home what has four chii’en ? It bo

a deal too full without any wimminx at all ! Little wimmin gets about

easier, too, and they gets throughmore, not taking so long to turnthemselves like. But there be othersafter little aunty, and likely sheain’t for marrying at all 1’

Samuel's eyes fired.‘ Down Tufty’s Lane, you say she

lives ?’ he asked quickly. ‘At whichend would that be ?’

*At the end nearest Brown's Cot-tages,’ said Miss Lizzie.

She began to tie up his parcel, butpaused as he went out out at thedoor,

‘ You’ll come in for this o’ yournon your way back and tell me howyou’ve sped ?’

He nodded.‘Yes, I’ll come in and fetch that

there. I ain’t wanting hel to see mecarrying stockings; happen thatwould frighten her about the thingsto mend. There bo more’n a heap ofthem.’

* She knows more about child’enand their ways than you does. Sheain’t easy frightened,’ said LizzieLove.

When Samuel Lake pushed theshop door open about an hour later, aneatly-tied parcel awaited him onthe counter, and ut the side of itMies Love sat sewing.

‘ Well ?’ said she.‘ it be settled,’ said Samuel laconi-

.cally, but liis face beamed. Helifted the package on the counter,and swung it on one work-worn fore-finger. Had Miss Love asked anyquestion it is doubtful if he wouldhave said more ; but she sat sedatelysilent, her needle going in and out.

‘ She'll do I’ burst out Samuelenthusiastically—4 she’ll do ; she bethe right sort. I’ll alius owe you agood turn for this, Lizzie.’

Said Lizzie Love :

* You’ll have as good a wife, SamuelLake, as there be in Malton Dip.’

4 Think you I don’t know thatthere ?’ Samuel asked sharply.‘ There ain’t much as I do knowabout wimmin folk, but I do knowthe real article when I sees her.Little aunty be that earns.’

He hesitated, and Lizzie went onsewing.

‘ When I ast of her if she wouldhave me,’ said Samuel haltingly,< bashful-like she were, and all forsaying me nay. She had. no mindfor that there, she said, and thethought of it kind o’ frighted her. I |seed that were true; ’twas on 1face. 4 No,’ says she, again andagain.

‘ So I were for coming away, andI told har ’twere as well as she’dsaid that there, for the child’enthey’d ’a’ frighted her, anyway, andshe’d ’a’ been most worn out with thepower of work to be done in a houselike mine. ’Twould take near sixmonths to fetch it clean, to startwith,’ said I ; 4 and the young things’doe’s would take another six, forthey’s all in rags.’

4 It were like you to say that, SamLake,you goose !’ said Lizzie, smiling.

4 Whether ’twere like me or not,’retorted Sam, 4 she turned straightround at that there. 4 PT’aps I be

| more fit to be a married wimmin thanI thought on,’ she says. 4 1 couldmake manage to keep the child’enclean and mend their do es. PerhapsI wouldn’t be too old and set in myways for that there. So mayhap’twouldn’t be you giving all, and megiving nothink, after all. You can.take back that as I said, Sam Lake,’she say?, <u.ll of a tremble, • I’llmarry you' and I’ll marry you quickif you’re wishful, for the ohild’encan’t go on like that there j theymustn’t, nohow !’ All of a trembleshe were, and I ain’t never walkedpast a prettier bit of pink |than that as were in her cheeks, norseed a prettier pictur than she made.There's only one thing as dismaysme—only one.’

4 And what may that be P’ asked j •Lizzie Love, biting off her thread. 1 i

‘Why, that she be too good forseech as me,’ said Sam. He walkedto the door.

Miss Love watched him stoop tothe handle, and her eyes lingered onthe package in his hand.

‘ You won’t be buying as manystockings,* she said, with a quaintsmile. ‘ The little aunty will see tothat there, Mr, Lake.’ Mr, Lakechuckled.

‘ The little aunty! She’ll be thelittle missis in a month’s time I’ saidhe, with enjoyment.

And so she was.

Miscellany.

IMITATIVE POISONING.

ST a recent inquest in Englanda local chemist complainedstrongly of the public dan-

ger through publication of WhitakerWright’s death. Since that had oc-curred, he said, he had on severaloccasions been asked for cyanide ofpotassium, and he felt that it placedchemists in a serious position.

JEWEL A YARD WIDE.The largest agate ever seen has

been offered for sale in London. Itscolour is l: ght yellow, with manybeautiful shades, but the remarkablefeature of the stone is its enormoussize. It is nearly a yard wide. TheVenetian Republic paid a suraequivalent to £40,000 for a giantagate only a third the size of this,for which only £13,000 is asked.But even at that price this beautifulstone appears unlikely to find a pur-chaser, for agates are no longer thefashion. A Hatton Garden dealer,who has seen the stone, said that it (was certainly unique, but not wortha tithe of the price asked for it. *ltis really an Oriental onyx,’ he said,* and, because of that remarkablesize, would have been worth a smallfortune years ago. But nobody wearsagates nowadays, and therefore, ifwe were to buy it and cut it up, weshould be really throwing our moneyaway. The only possible use itcould be put to would be to mount itto form the top of a fancy table, butit is doubtful whether any merchantwould pay anything like £IB,OOO forit for that purpose.’

TRAINING OPERATIONS.The ‘ School,’ as most people used

to call the pre-Raphaelite brethren —

of whom Dante Gabriel Rossetti wasone of the chief ornaments—becamevery ambitious about many things,one of which was the taming ofanimals. The * School ’ thought itcould do wonders in this directionmerely by the look of its eye ! Ros-setti was a great tamer, and had beenrather successful with one or twosmall and curious, not to say weird,animals 1 Not content with this, heone day ordered a bull to be broughtto his house in Chelsea, where therewas a nice bit of garden, with someslender Raphaelesque-looking appletrees. The bull came, led by a rough-looking man, and was duly usheredinto the garden by the door in thewall. Rossetti told the man he couldleave it and go away. The man,having some misgivings perhaps,merely went to a public-house closeby, and hadn’t been there fiveminutes before he heard a noise ofgreat shouting, and, rushing back tothe garden, found Rossetti up anapple tree, clinging on with all hismight, the tree bending under hisweight like a fishing-rod, whilst thebull stood looking up at him andpawing the air. The noise the manhad heard was Rossetti shoutingout:—‘ Take away this infernal bu’l—this cursed beast. Take himaway I Quick, quick.’ After thisRossetti went back to one of hisearlier triumphs—a wombat.

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLING.A little time ago the newspapers

discovered a lady commercial travel-ler, whom they forthwith proclaimedto be the only one of her sex on the4 road.’

S This is so far from being correct| that there are known to be at least

155 women commercials, and thereare probably many more.

THE STEWARDESS NURSE.4 The Rritifh Medical Journal’ is

supporting a movement to inducesteamship companies to employstewardesses who have had somehospital training, in order that theymay be better able to attend to casesof illness which are constantly oc-curing on board ship. At presentthese poets, which are attractive onaccount of the generous tips receivedfrom passengers, are generally givento lady relatives of the male em-ployees of the companies.

MENDING ROR BACHELORS.There are one or two ladies who

are making a fair income by mendingthe clothes of that helpless creaturethe bachelor, or of the still morehelpless married man who is tem-porarily absent from home. Theycall on hotels, boarding or lodging-houses, fetch away the clothes, andbring them back mended. Someneatly printed cards, setting forththe name, address, and terms of themender, would be helpful in bringingher business under the notice of pos-sible customers.

THE DUNBTAN TIMES. JOLY 26. 19046

To learn to cut hair and to dress it-in the more usual modes takes aboutsix to nine months.

DOWIE ON BOARD SHIP.

“ Pr ’’ Dowie, better known as theSecond Klijdi. hiving tailed to im-pre s ihe fMis'.ra iariG with the seriousness of their s; ns, left Adelaide by theP and 0 steamer Mongolia, whicharrived in Loud Oh recently (says theDaily ( hronicic).

“Dr Howie is a nice quiet oklg< tideman,” sud one of the stewardsto a Davy Chronicle representative,** and made himself quite a»rrcable toeveryone on board.’’ Throughoutthe ship nothing I nt approval was ex>pressed at ihs- way the ‘‘ Dr ” Ie«liaved.

Many thought when they saw himci me on heard that lefore the tripwas over the appearance of the Monagoli n would have changed consider-ably. Instead, Dr Dowie joined -nall the games—bridge excepted - andnever att mpted to bold a service. Tcthe complete astonishment of all, hesit through the usual Sunday serviceswithout a murmur.

In spite of all this Dr Dowie wasnot idle- He disturbed literaturewholesale, and favorably impressed af w of the passengers and crew withhis ideas. Having their nattrs

and addresses, he left the boat promis-ing to send them tickets for his lec*tore at Exeter flail.

A mongst the pamphlets he leftbehind him was one entitled “ Heal-in-z 1 eaves v In it Dr Dowie says :

“The gist of the matter is if youdiligently lis’eu to the voice of thecb cto s you are on a short path to the<>r vo l et those who say medicinei< a scierce demonstrate it. Theyne-cr have and they never cam Itis an art. Yes it is an art—an ar iifice, all humbug.’'

Ou one page the following interest-ing announcement appears :

El : jah’s needs have alway beensupplied.

Before I left Australia for AmericaI had considerable gold; hut J wentup and down the coast, and spent themoney 1 had intended to take withme to America, except a few hundreddoll-rs, in God’s work.

Further oa is an advertisement,set out in catchy style.

Invest in Zion Securities. The par-value cf certificates is £2O and £IOOeach. These pay an income ol 6to12 per cent per annum.

Near and Far.

A correspondent writing from Con-siantinople to a Paris journal claims,as the result of personal inspection, togive details of the amazing collectionof jewels ; n the Sultan’s treasury.The turbans of all the Sultans sinceMahomet II are (here, all glitteringwith rare and large gems of the purest.There are also the Royal Throne ofPersia, cmded off by the Turks in1514, and coveied with more than20,000 rubies, emeralds, and .fineptiils, and also the Throne ofSuleiman I, from the dome of whichi here hangs over Tie head of theGaliph an emerald Gin long and 4indeep. These two thrones are the chiefobjects in the collection.

A feature of the World’s Fair atSt Louis, and one that is the centreof much attraction, is a modelpoultryfarum This establishment, besidesbeing must interesting, is educational:In model houses, equipped with the1;» test improvements, thoroughbreddomestic fowls of every known kindare exhibi ed, while the latestu e hods of breading are exemplified.In the main pavilion there are fortyincubators in which chickens anddnclTinu-. *are hatched. Ibe youngbirds are advanced Through indoor:i> d oublo r roodois and colonyp-ns. being moved ahead cm pen a

i-’V until Tiev are rcaoy for 'he table.And a restaurant i- »UU in' conjunc-tion wi hj Tie farm, at which m> meatswith the*excep'ion if poultry or pculatrv products are served. it is alsorepotted that some of the finest Gamefowls in America will be on view, andthat in order to test their ‘ pit ’

abilities, a main has been arranged,Mr Jacques, the new fruit canning

expert, expresses surprise that NewZealand had, according to a recentre'uni, imported Too.OOO woith oftroit from California, wh le only ex-ported fnrt to the value of £25 Iftl e right kind of fruit for canning besupplied, the imports he says, mustbe stopped first, before an exporttrade is thought of. Mr Jacquesspeaks discouragingly as to

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themarkets for fruit pulp. He is ofopinion and recent developments haveproved that the season is so good inRagland and on the Continent thatTie e is little opening for the profi.table expoit of pulp from this colony.

There are said to be six membersof the London Stock Exchange who,o co business with a piece of 'copperin one boot and piece of zinc in theother. The idea is that ii a man is

always standing on the two a littleelectricity will pass through him con-tinually, with beneficial resultj to hisheal hj.

A Wellington brewer, who hasjto o to America, is said to be going

biiug back with him the strongest“ i erty ' o ators of the States, anddough tom Maine and Kansas andelsewhere *o buty prohibition

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Special Value in Black and BlueVienna, Worsted, All Wool,Indigo dyed. Guaranteed to keepcolour and to wear well.

Large selection of Expensive Suit*ings and Trouserings,

The beet selection of patterns in theColony.

Suits trom 30S to VOS. (dutyand postage paid)—usual prices 77sto 105s.

Troubling, from 13s to 20s,(posts* paid), fluty from Is 6d to 3sextra/ Usual prices 22p 6d to 27s 6d.

CheJteie. 45 inches/ong and over,from 39s to 555. wastage paid->dutyfr<*n 8s to ejjfra. Usual prices60s to 90s. g J

Youths Ttd aser Suijw[ includinglined trousers/from 3|/61 to 52s—-postage andmuty paid/

A s I haje secure/ the agency of aLondon jfrm, I am in a position tosupply with a Suit at the abovequoted gaices.4 TRIAL SOLICITED-IT WILL PAY

YOU,

An extra pair trousers with suit for10s 6fiSuit landed in twelve weeks fromdate of older.

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Agent for the Harrison Kerosene Stoves.

OIJL11 EATEK^

Oftl HeatersSmokeless and odorless, cleaner,

safer and cheaper than wood, coal,or gas

Price 23s 6d ; Cookers 18s 6d.FROM. a. HO RE,

Commission Agent*Waipiata.

\ WERL KNOW NNZ' HKM ISTRecommends Chamberlain’sCough

Remedy.

Henry Edg-r Eton, chemist, Mas-««ys :

“ People who once u.e

Chamberla'most cejftin nee/c»eG'ix|pieN«jjpr, <’lv^

"Vy hepfear anbottle ofedy andno dang<remedy icures quictr

Potl!V° GTJ

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Remedy are ator it when againledjcine. I alwaysFpr sale by B

Jfrom a cpld andsecure a

futn's Rem-judiciouslsrtwi jOM»i'e ’S

‘ ' i disease "when this; always cures and• sale by B Naylor

Trees « Trees

OVER 40 acres of young Fruitand Forest Trees- and Ornamentaland Flowering Shrubs of all des-criptions.

Grown by - one of the mostexperienced iNmseymen in theworld.

All plants guaranteed we’l rootedand hardy specimens,

Stevens Bros, having been ap-pointed Agents for Central Ot-gofor Mr Robert Cleave’s well-knownKirau and Avenal Nurseries are ina position to give especially goodvalue in all kinds of trees, shrubsetc.

ratalogne§ lorward-«?«l free on applica-

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Sevens Sros.- Ag-eiatfs

y I.VCBNT JOCK BY CLUB

PACE MEETINGTo he run or. 2nd and 3rd January 1905.

(Approved by 'he Dunedin Jockey Cluband No v Zealand Trottirg Association

1. D 1 TKICT MAIDEN HaNDL AP of25-ovs, Second lioise to revive Jaovsfrom the stakes, third horse 2?ovh.

D stance, Six Furlongs.For ail h- rsr-S thath-ve never won anadve tis d race o'/over £2O at date ofnouniK-tion. Foya'l boms bed andica'ed in Vince/t, Lake, jVDnoto'o orTnapcka Counties. Niinii atinns (15s)mns! be in theiCnds of the secretary atat Opbir, n«t 8 pniSeptember \lMa. Handicap! will bo de-clared on Qjnober 1 1th. /Acceptances(10s) must Be in the handvof the secre-tary not lawr than S p \mon Saturday,November/^. hj. All /Pinners of anyrace handicap maybe re-haipicapprd. /revised weights (ifanyj, Wpl be declarffTon December 30tb,1904. f

2. NEW YEAR HANIICAP TIME TROT(in saddle) ct 60sovb, second horse 7so”S,third horse 3-ov.- from 'he stakes. Twomiles. No weight under list. Nonrna-lions (20s) to be in the hands of thesecretary not later than 8 pm on Satur-day, September 17th. Handicaps will bedeclared on October 11th, the first ae*ceptance (20s) to be in the hands of thesecretary not later than 8 p m on Sat -

urday. November 19th, the second ac-ceptance of 20s to be in the hands of the,secretary not later than 9 p m on 31stDecember, 1904. All horses nominatedfor this race must have been owned andin Vincent, Manlototo, Tuapeka or LikeCounties prior to the Ist January, 1904All winners of any race after ihe handlecap is declared may be re-handicapped,Revised handicaps (if any) will be de-clared on 30th December, 1904, beforesecond acceptance is due.

3. MATAKANLJI HANDICAP, of flOsovssecond horse 7sovs, and shiid horse Ssovsfrom the stakes. Seven furlongs.Winner of any handicap flat race afterthe declaration of weights may be re-handicapped and made to carry such ad-ditional weight as the handicapper mayImpose. Revised weights (if any) willbe declared on 30th December, 1904,before second acceptance is due. Nom-ination (20s) to be in the hands ofthe secretary not later than 8 p in onfclafurday, September 17th. Handicapswill be declared on Octob?r 11th,the firstacceptance of 20s to be in the hands ofthe secretary not later than 8p m onSaturday, Ntvunl er 19th. The second

acceptance (20s) to be in the hands of thesecretary not later than 9pm December31, 1904. All horses not accepted byabove dates foifeit all claims to therace.

4 MANEHEBIKIA TROTTING STAKESof 27£son, second horse Ssovs from thestakes, third hmse 2sovS. Optionalsaddle or ha-ness. One and a quartermiles, for thn e and four year olds Forall ho scs bred and reared in Vincent,Lake and Manivtoo C Unties. For allmaiden horses at I'm-' t entry. hoaryrar "Ids ser, tlvc y ar olds lo co;-'.

All winners ah or d to <>i mi ry p-n s.;ir.edsoecs- Nominal on (17s lid) must bo inthe, hands of t'.o siccTi y no Ktcr thanBpm on Sr'tm ay, nop ember 17th.Acceptances (10s) .oust i>e in the handsot ‘.lie secretary rot later than 8 p in ORSiturday. Nov mber 19th.

HULKS.

Tbfl trot* will be run under the rulesthe New Zral-vd Tmtthig Asa.uitioa.

NB .V T iO ; I INO KUI EB,

Toe names of ill* <»•:.itior and owner orowueis must Lo included in II aoceptano.-f ,rrus "hen aectvtincon nr.i sent in, indr-faint <>t wl-.ic‘v the owner o owners ortrainer may he lined in a sum not exceedi"g £5 or he .lii-qualific 1,

By entering a horse the nominator andaveiy person having any interest in sucabor-e shall he deemed t > accept all - he con-ditions and restrictions imposed or impliedby these rule?, aiut to he debarred fromquestioning any action or coidut of anyoftioiil of a tro tino or racing c’uh in re-spect of such horse or <f anj person con-nected theiewiih otherwise than is providedfor by rule 92, rules of trotting.

Nominations close Sep ember 17th,handicaps October 11th, li st a« ccptoiiceNovember 19 li for all these races.

—Owners will oe able to laud theirhorses at Ophir by tail, as the OtagoCentral will be opened before NewYear to that place.

Add es- of SecretaryT DUGGAN,

Shamrock Hotel,Ophir.

Bheumatiam is cured >

lain’s P->in Balm. Oner Sieves the BovNyi V. lyiie

MOKO the gieai Ccugh Chani troublesome coughs. A-Price Is tid Ob enable a aheui'sts

y Chamber*a I*, lioalion-.jo by B

no. For dry•ts like magic.

1 rpeers and

THE DONSTAN TIMES TUESDAY JULY 26 1904

Printed by .Harold Edgar" SteVeKSClyde, Printer, and published bySydney Arthur Stevens, of ClydePublisher, at the registered office ofthe Dunstan (Times, Sunderlandstreet, Clyde, on

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JOHN SMARTWhist returning hanks for the

LIBERAL MEASURE OP. SUPPORThitherto acotuded him, Respectfully

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Eegs to notiiy the public that hehas just landed a large]

of <h/latesi PatternW WatrPaper;

Also i)€w of Paints, and isprepared Mr undertake paintingand in all itsbrand

iBB AND CO. !? Livery staolesLawrence, will now be under the

personalSupervisionof Mr Craig.

Horees and Buggies always on Hire.

Horses broken to Saddle and Harness,

H CRAIG AND CO.,' N oprietors

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Gl COItGK FA CMET General Asent and Valuaton'

Auctioneerregistered Agent of the Warden's Court

Agent Government Life insurances

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with the assurance that any busi* jness entrusted to him will receive!every care ant), attention, and tirestrictest secrecy observed*

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C. l>ickinsou,CjGAR/IMPORTER CIGAR-

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—o-Sdt> manufacture# the favJhteViceregal tigaimtes. and #gen*for Nestor Giaiaclis

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Australia CompanyAir H, E. I'rtvkns, of tne DuNsrAN

’ /MLS, Las been appointed ap-er.i for .hisompany at Clyde,

U KiM s accepted al Lowest RatesLosses I rrmptG settled;

A. J SCLi IVAN’tine! *qent or Otago

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llOp'l'y.jK K Klf/tCLYDE.ttoo]/ arid Slopes n#de to mj&snre

L'Ct'C f iI,ANTHfBRepairs L#a.)y pecked

ill work will or. STRICTLY CASHLINES

trscec Moderate,

Git pX' i Uf'aijog tain from corns>'Ur ions, or cl) 1 lains may be avoided by• tree piliOH j. n«f CL mberlain’s PainBalm, For tale by B Naylor, Clyde

Eodenck .

. . Mackenzie'sEXCELSIOR HOTEL

PRINCES STREETi DJNEDIN’A Highland Hojne.First Cliufe Accom-modationfor Visitorsand Boarders." looted Hotise

od IUy., .i'Also forUoijffortgf of every

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Opposite the A.M.P. Build-nge, and at thecornerjjof the Dowling street crossing;

UHalLADIES AND GENTLEMEN’SsHAIU1

DRESSING ROOMS,77 Princes Street, DUNEDIN,

Aj stall of First-cla* Assistants areoustantly employed,

HAiRWORK OF EVERY DESCRIF*'hon |

on Mud or made tOj&rdcr.

Ladigp’ own up.

Otderafby Post Pwmprfy Attended

if your hair requires a Jtin ulant, you oanuse uniting Ipttw thafl

OaathurideaAND

Eosemai^As'need, and for which a valuable test i-

monial has been received, by LadyRaufurky.

To be had at 2s 6d a bottle; postage 3aextra.

Note the Address—--ILES, Princes St, DUNEDIN-

DON'T COUGH—R-Tefcafl be obtainedimmediately. Use KifIATIJSG’S COLuHLOZENGES /welt fnuwn Is au utterlyunrivalled (sugh Remedy,# re,commendediby m*ny emiapnt physiciansThey at onle <*ugh and relievethe cause #without ajiy jKter effect / themost deljcate can Tl JFefopS take themOne Lozenge alone #ive* ea«e—one ortwo at bedtime ensure# every,where in tine I3fd ea|n

wr A NEW SUII FOR SPRINGOf nouivse. Well

H U Wright,t an irlve i»»

the p}ik d j'lufe Best jlweeK ;

ir th*> Home and Colonial.just drop demand see MmhI

H G. W RIGHTTAILOR

Sunderland Street*Clyde

ELW/K Wf ATTFIELD/ Botcher,

/ C*jL YD B.Having |Cow taken over the

abo\® Business, X Beg to solicit aof the Patronage and.

Support M the customers of this-Butchery'Support if the customers of this-Butchery'

Cls/omers waited on daily forord&te. Poultry always on hand.Accounts rendered monthly. .

A cait will viufc Alexandra iwirp

The Southland I imberCompany.

Branches*. Dunedin and Christ'church.

Correspondence Invited.

MOKO the grefct cough cure A ladywrite*: —“Please send two bottles of Mokothe cough cure, it's > wonderful uudicjae

week.

SAWfITLXKtiS /ANTIMBERfIEUCUANie,

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Mills and Cen-tre Bush, Jtfid Inser*cargiil / IEVERY DESCRIPT»NOF

PRESSED TljfeEß SyPPLIEI|p.O. Box' 191 Telephone f}.

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P L 0 R I L 1 N E -For the-teeth andbreath. A Pew drops of the preparationFloriline s iriuklcd on a wet WoUi brushproduces a pleasant lather, whichIhoroughly cleanses the teatli from allparasites or impurities, harden0 the gums,prevents tarts*- stops decay, gives to theteeth a peculiar pem ly-wnitcneas, and adelighetul fragrance to the breath. Itremoves all unpleasant odour arising iromdecayed teeth dr tobacco smoke. theFragrant Uloriline,” being composed inparts of honey and sweet herbs, is deliciousto the taste, and the greatest toilet dis-covery of the age. Of all Stores,Chemists and Perfumer “ Wholesaledepot, 113, Faningdou il°ad, LondonEngland.

Advice to Mothers ;—Arc you brokenin yom rest by a sick child suffering withthe pain of cutting teeth ? Go at ouoc tca cncmist and get a bottle o Mrs Win-slow’s Southing Syrup' It will relievethe po r sufferer immediately. It is per*fectly ..armless and pleasant tc [taste. Itproduces natural quiet sleep byjrelievingthe child from pain, and the htae cherubrakes ‘as bright as a button. It

soothes the child, it softens/the gums,allays all pain,mlieves wind, i®gulatoa thebowels, and isjlie best fcnowtfremedy ford 'sntery andialiarrhoea,' whether arisingfro.n teetbindj or other pausas. Mrs Win-

oothing Syrup/- sclfl by Medicinedealers everywhere /

Valuaple Discovery gonIf your hair is turning grey or white, orfallingcif, use forIT WILL POSITIVELY RESTjMCE IN EVERYi-CASEGrey or White hair tailswithout having the dpagreeirtffe sinejx <-•!

most ‘ Restorers.’ It makes tha hair charmingly beautiful, ‘as w-ell as promoting thegrowth of the hair on bald spots, wherethe glands arc not decayed. A.:k yourChemist for * The Mexican Hair Henewer. Sold by Chemists andeveiywher e. Wholesale Depot, 33Farringdon Road* London.

Kew SSealsiocl Accl-d c* 11 %,

I i\rß U&ANCE COM PAN YWORKERS’ COMPENSATION FOR

ACCIDENTS ACT. 1900 *

AMENDMENT 1902.

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Throat Affections and Hoarseness.—All suffering from irritation of the tiiroatand hoarseness will be agreeably surprisedat the almost immediate relict afforded bytho use of “Brown’s Bronchial Troches.These famous “ lozenges ” are new sold by-most respectable chemists in this countryand others. People troubled witha “hacking cough,” a “slight cold,’ o:bronchial affections, cannot try them toosoon, as similar troubles, if allowed to progress, result in serious Pulmonary andAsthmatic affections. See that the words“Brown’s Bronchial Troches“ are on theGovernment Stamp around each box,—Preparedby John 1, Brown &Sons, BostonU.S. European depot, 33 Earriugdon KoadLondon, England.

beating's Powder destroys bugsFLEAS, MOTHS, BEETLES, and allother insects, whilst quite harmless todomtsli animals. In exterminatingBeetles the success of Ibis powder is extra-ordinary, It is perfectly clean in apphea*tion. See the article you purchase is‘KEATINGS,’ as imitations are noxiourand ineffectual. Sold in Tins, 6d, Is, and2s breach, by all chemist.%

CLARKES 841 PILLS ,rL*arr“ !SGravel, Pains in the back, all kindredcomplaints, Free from Estab*liahed ward of 30 .years, fir boxes4s 6d each of all Chemists and PatentMedicine Vendors throughout tho V »rldProprietors, The Lincoln and Mia.andCounties Drug Company, Lincoln, England.

A SAFE REMEDYFOB ALL

Skin and Iblccd diseasesIf you’suffer from any disease due to.an

impure sta e of tie Blood, from what-ever CAUSE ARISING, you should test thevalue of Blood Mixture, theworld-fßined,Eloccl Purifier and Restorer.This inedic: nek has 40 years’ reputation,aud'is to-day more popular- than ever, thereason for this being undoubtedly because

| this wonderful remedy does what it pro-fesses to do.—lt cures skin and bloodDISEASES PERMANENTLY.

Clarke’sBlood

MixtureIS THE FINEST BLOOD PUKIFHR

ever discovered;It is w.'itranted to c'eause the blood from

all impuiitics, f r om vh .tevir c use arising.r"r /Scorfula*JScurvy /

Eczema '

Blood poisonUlcers §

Skinand blooddiseases

Bad Logsitches.!jots?

ilackhoads'implcsand

sores, of all.kinds

is a safe and PennineLt Reim<y,In is the only rcaJf specific font! >ut and

Rheumatic Pains, jfr itjcmoveytho causefrom the Blood am#Bom

NOTE.- -Thin npxtu e is pleasant to thetaste and warranted free from any-thing injurious to the most dolicatoConstitution or cAlmt six, tiom infancyto old age, and the lb op ietore solicit suf-ferers to give it u trial to test its value.

Thousands of wonderful cures have beenaffected by it.

TRIED MANY THINGS WITHOUTBENEFIT UNTIL 1 ToOtv CLAIiKEa IiLOODj

MIXTURE.Mr F E Lewis, 48, Bridge Street Row

Cheater, writes “ Just a line in favourof ‘Claike’s Blood Mix are,'. 1 had eczemafor seven mouths, and tried many thingswithout benefit until I to k jour remedyAfter the eighth bottle 1 was quite wellaeain. Please accept this Liter us a tokenof gratitude to yoor wondeiful ‘Clarke’sBlood Mixture.’ ’’—June 13, 1803.

IMPURITIES IN THE BLOoL).— “We haveSeen hosts of lett-is fn m all soits andconditions, iu which the writers acknow- .ledge the benefit they have received fromClarke’s Blood fdixtme, wh'c’i as a curativeageut cannot tie too higb'y estimated,since it cleanses ami e'ears the Diced fromall impurities, .-ad restarts it to its nor v Imal conel ti< u.” This is a goed testimonialfrom the Family Doctor, the popularmedical weekly, ninth goes on further tosay : “It is£ certainly the finest bloodpu itier that sc.cnee ami skill have broughtto light, ai d we can with the utmostconfidence recommend ii to our subscribersand the public geuetrlly.” i

Sold by all Chemists and Pat nt MedicineVendors throughout the II ' >rld.

Ask fc>...Clarko’s Blood Mix ure

and bewaie of worthless imitations andheiitutes

{ PKESEBVED EGGS.

IF you want to Preserve your Eggs, useEG Gift E EGG I’KFSKkVa**

TIVE or WATER GLASS This preserva-live is without doubt the best of all. Wemake our<j of a special strength. AH youhave to do is to pour it into a kerosene

1 tin or other vessel, ind then acid timesthe quantity of boiled or water.Pint tin Is cach/by post »

<luarttins Is 6d eachj/by post 2sJP, 'lrocemcan < btairT frojn ua at whpiesale gratesthroughany wholesale house#

Eggine Chicken Food/1 post Is 91 /live this *0 spur chicks, andthey will grow as fast aajffin.

If ycur hens are not laying give Eggine ,

Is 6d a tin by post, ‘M.

IB I $ €fieiui§tOCTAGON DUNEDIN.

ft.F,- Minorca Eggs: No 1 pen 10s,No pen 5s Langshan Eggs :7a6d a

sitting.To be procured from A, Ashworth, Alex

andra.

THE BLACKS HOTELOPHIR

Mrs S, DONNELLY ... Proprietress,

Mrs Donnelly has much pleasure inintimating to the Public tha£ she haspurchased /the above well-knownHotel, angt’irusts/to merit A share ofthe pubhc patronage/ /

Thk/is generally considered themost uojjSe up countiy,built entirely of Stiafo, with lath andplaster partitions,jmd accommodationunsurpassed. Lpifty aptf well-venti»fated Bedrooms/ Dicing ani SittingBooms, the \abole weli-tilijFsubstan-tially furnished Every jjpmfort forG’ommercial/Cravellers, jurists andVisitors; /

A Kange of Stabling—none betterin the Colony, including eight Loosetioxes—in all to accommodate 26Horses. Also a good

BILLIARD ROOM-It is well lighted, its general appoint-ments are of the best, and the Tableone of Alcock’s best, with patentcusl ions and all the latest improve-ments,

Every attention will be paid to theStable Accommodation. Horses andBuggies for hire, and obtainable at amoment’s notice,

None but the Choicest Brands ofSpirits and Beers kept.',Caauging Stage,for Cobb and

Line of Coaches,

Commercial HotelCLYDE/

W, 0/PITCHES Propr etor1

m. C., PitchesBegs to fnfovmjne Public tnat thiscommodious /Two-storied StoneHotel is concreted and fitted with

the appliance®

SPLENDID ACCOMMODATIONAND MEAL?.

Inly the Best of Liquors Kept—0 ~

Hot and Cold Water laid ou

First Class Stable Accommoda*ion in chaise of an efficientgroom

Wi’OOping Cough—My three childrensuffeiing seven ly from uhooping cough

have been entirely cured after using twolotthsof Cbambe< lain’s Cough Remedy.—John Graingc, Grafton, NSW There isno danger whatever from whooping coughwhen the cough is kept loose and expecto-ration c»sy by theuse of this remedy Isrenders the pnoxysms of coughing lestfrequent and less severe. For sale by BNaylor Clyde

The greatest danger from influenza is ofits resulting in pneumonia This can beobviated bv u»ing Ciiambsrlain's CoughIlenedy, as It not only cure influenza butcounteracts any tendency of the diseasetowaids pneumonia, Is 6d vcrby B Naylor Clyde

Albany Liver Pi I (Diamond Brand)bn- Bilious oess. t enstipation, Headachetry them they are infallible Is boxes allGrocers.

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Tailoring -

Tailoring,THERE i)if no vse ingoing all theway to and Dunedin whenyou

f localI have just-iMifpased £4OO worthof the latest worsteds, coat-ings, serges* Jind trousering, andwill do suits/cheapar .igd,to&tfltthan the unahlled traveling agentsI have aipo a very Ift’ge stock inthe latestfin hats, ties, shirts, andmercery. In fact everything in theway of dress that a man requires*

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KEATING’S POWDER destroys BUGSFLEAS, MOTHS, BEETLES, and allother insects, whilst qnite harmless todomestic animals. In exterminatingBeetles the success of tl powder is extra-ordinary. It is perfectly clean in applica-tion See the article you purchase isKEATING’S, that is, with the signatureTHOMAS KEATING on each tin, asimitations are noxious and ineffectual Soldls6d and Is each, by all chemists.