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AT OUTS OVER ROAD. ENOLAND AND RUSSIA DISPUTE ABOUT A RAILWAY. .'blu Start* th* Row Out of the Kffeit* of RopaillMI«| a Contract— Troobla Mar B« So Merlon* a* to t'auio War. The friction between England and Russia, arising from the attitude as aumed by the Chluese government in regard to railroad concessions in th* Celestial empire, hue become the all absorbing topic of the hour among for eign diplomats. In view of the large American interests In the far east the trend of uffalrs is also being closely followed In this country. At the close of the war between China and Japan, England and Russia, both watchful for an opportunity to Increase their power In the Chines realm, stepped in and gained control through "leases" over the territory which hud been occupied by the Japanese troops. Russia took Port Arthur and the surrounding coun try on the north of the Gulf of I'e-Chl I<l, while England acquired control of y Wel-Hal-Wei, on the south of the gulf. At the present time there la only one ralirond In China, which was bnllt by hi Hung Chang and la under the con K trot of the government. The trouble now threatening between England and Russia has arisen through the repudi ation by China of a contract with the Hongkong and .Shanghai bank to bulid a road from Tlenstin via Shan-Hai Kwon to New-Chwang. The bank Is owned almost entirely by Euglish cap italists, although a few Americans bold Stock in it. The proposed new road wue an important part of the railroad system under development In China. At its northern terminal It was to have connected with the Manchurian road, which formed the connecting link with the great trans-Siberian route. On the south it would have tapped,through Tientsin and the road reaching to the Y'ang-tse river, the rich valley which is t.hlna s chief source of agricultural wealth. The proposed road, which the Hongkong and Shaoghal bank held the contract to build, run through the Rus sian sphere of influence, aa will be seen by the accompanying map. Conse quently Russia brought great influence to bear upon the Chinese government to prevent the carrying out of the terms of the contract. Russia's charge d’affaires at Peking, M. PavlofI, appeared before the Yamen and pro tested and threatened. Id Hung Chang was made to feel the czar's determined opposition to English aggression, with the final result, already announced,that China repudiated the contract with the Hongkong and Shanghai hank. The proposed road now building between Tientsin and Han-Kow is being fin anced ostensibly by French and Bel gian capital, hut, as a matter of fact, Russia is supplying the money. This road runs through the English sphere of influence. In view of this fact dis interested persons are trying to figure out the Justice of Russia’s opposition to an English road in its sphere of in fluence when Russia is infringing in a similar manner upon English proper ly. Another peculiar feature of the controversy is found in Russia’s de mands regarding the financing of the two roads. No matter what nation supplies the money, Russia insists that In the case of the road running into her sphere of influence it should in no manner he mortgaged with the possi bility of its falling into the hands of an alien power. At the same time Russia insists that all liens on the road running lo the Yang-tae river, through British territory, shall be under the czar’s control. In 1896 an agreement was made between the Chinese gov ernment and the Rueao-Chinese bank, a branch of the Russian ministry of finance, by which was created the Chi nese Eastern railway company. in reality this was merely an offshoot of the Siberian road. Its object was to connect the latter from a point near Nertehinok, In the trariBbaikal district, with tile terminal Vladlvostock by a line carried across Manchuria. In sonnectlon with her recent negotia tions for the lease of Fort Arthur and Tallen-Wan, Russia openly claimed the right to carry her railway down Into the Leao-Tong peninsula. The agreemeut signed in March per uma ivunMu iu fAii'iiu u immin nue 10 Tallen-Wan, or, if necessary, to tno most suitable point on tho coast be tween New-Chwang and the Yalu riv er. The North of Chiua extension, as provided for in the contract with the Hongkong and Hhaughal bank, would have spoiled such a scheme by connect ing Now-Chwaug aud Tientsin and Pe king. Husslu'a plan would have left that important treaty port out In the cold, and the bulk of the Manchurian trade would have been driven down to Tallen-Wan nnd Port Arthur, instead of passing, as hitherto through New t'hwaug. This was another consider ation which weighed heavily with Husain in her determination to con trol all railway commuulrallon from t ha north to Peklug. The proposed read from Tientsin to New Chwang a* surveyed eover«d a distance of about SM tulles The Franco ftelgian lltua* slant railroad from Tientsin to Hsu* Kow wilt be about Mo miles long tier* many ha* also obtained important run <ration* In connection with lb* sctjul sitlon of Klao-t'hoii whit# France ha* rights of a similar nature in suuthern ( bins Ae fur the I'nlted Htatev, * d«ep Intereet is being taken by lb* Mate department at Washington In the i uni ret t given to Ik Yung Wing by the t'hlneee government which Is «o* • Idered one uf the moet vnlunbU rnt granted —New York Tribune politeness pnye as a rule, yet m*ar v man had tuet henvtly through a civil MttM DENTISTS FOR THE ARMY. Urgent l’l«* for Their Knsplorment by the Federal Government. Our government surrounds her en listed men with comfortable saultary quarter*, supplie* them with good, wholesome food und enforce* physical exeretse for the proper maintenance of good health. During Illness the hos pital facilities are of the best, and only skilled .surgeons and thoroughly trained asuhjlnntg are employed. 'I he latest Improved surgical Instruments and the best medicinal agents are used, regardless of cost. All portions of the human organism are guarded with care, excepting wne of the most im portant, the dental organs. What, part of the physique is of more importance than the teeth? Anil If they be ex tracted or diseased Ihe whole system suffers, and perhaps beyond remedy. We have neglected the blessings of dental science. Statistics show that 90 per cent of the people of this coun try need denial attention, while only iiO per rent receive the same. Dr. Otto Arnold forcibly remarked while speak ing on that subject to the Ohio State Dental Society: “In our army there Is great suscepti bility to the Insidious process of den tal caries, which Is no respecter of per sons and has no limit, for other dis eases may come anil go, but dental carles, when once bogun, like the brook, goo* on forever.” In many Instances persona suffering with dental disturbances are totally Incompetent for the performance of their regular duties. When dental caries reaches a certain stage, and if the skilled knowledge of the dentist is not employed, the extraction of the offending tooih Is necessary, which re sults in Impaliing the utility of Ihe antagonizing looth, causing the ad joining teeth to lean toward the space from which the teeth was extracted, due to the stre: s of mastication, Injur ing articulation and making mastica tion more difficult. The loss of sev eral teeth will'so Impair mastication that, mnutitut Innnl Hint iirhn will often result. Proper denful attention would decrease the retired list and many valuable men would be retained In the service who are now disquali fied; diagnosed as dyspeptics because suffering from indigestion traceable to lack of proper mastication facilities. Assimilation \n imperfect unless there Is proper maaticatlon of the foods, and where there la malasslmllatlon the susceptibility to contagious diseas es—diarrhea, dysentery, etc.—is ex ceedingly great and the effects of fa tigue are more rapid and lasting. The dental surgeon would be of inralua I ble benefit to the general surgeon In ! cuses of gunshot wound*? or other in juries to the mouth or face. The den tal surgeon v.ould be of valuable as sistance on the examining board In preventing the enlistment of men with defective teeth. An almost accurate means of identification would be avail able from the charts kppt by the den tal surgeon. We have In the army veterinary surgeons, but Is the care of the horse of more Importance than the proper care of the men. and do they have proper care if dental sur gery Is lacking?—Fix. Drink from t Ump-l'ml, An English paper says thnt for gome time there Lave been rumors that one of the next things In applied science was to he street lamps for Ixjndan which should supply the weary pedes trian with tea, coffee, cocoa and hot water on the penny In the slot system. The rumors have turned out to be true. The hot water lamp is an established [ fact, as any one who is able to make a Journey to Queen's buildings, South wark Bridge road, may see for himself. The lamp locks somewhat like an over grown gas lamp standing on a square base. This base is really a tank con taining fifty gallons of water. The water comes from the street main,runs up the lamp post and passes In a spiral of many swirls round and round three great gaa flames. The heat turns the water into steam, and the stpam, con fined at a pressure of thirty pounds to the square inch, becomes superheat ed, and passing downward, keeps the water In u small tank above the main one always boiling. From the upper tank the steam passes to the main one. which It keeps at a temperature Just below the boiling point. The smaller tank Is supplied from this main tank. A half-penny put In the slot at the side releases a spring and enables a handle to be pulled over, whereupon the boiling water runs from a spout in any quuuttty up to a gallon. At present only hot water is on tap. fit ter. compartments In the square pe destal will be flIICd with tablets of I compressed tea. cocoa, etc,, cups will | be attached to the base, and then the thirsty traveler will only have to put bis penny In the slot, draw out a com pressed patket from the drawer, drop | luto the rup, turn on the boiling wat j *r by means of another half penny, i and enjoy his r ip of hot drink at any hour of the day or n ght. Was IxrMBullte* Are NttmOrraU. A prominent rnilr.ad man saye that the old custom of naming engines la* I dnil of oumiierlng them was done away with be arise there to such a preasure brought to Uar In favor of thla, that and the other locality. The vartou* tafluemea used bet am* *o an* aoylMg to the ollti tela that they U*< Id.* to adopt the plan of numbering the lo cum live* which waa dona. A almltar outworn* • state at ts esuingtoa la the , «*»» depai 'ii*et I’rotmbi) during the tale war Hecr»tery l.«uj waa pestered 1 more with people who seated veaaeie named In honor of aometiody or aunt* thing then fce was with ail the other j qweattona which come before him pwi . '.father NEW YORKERS MANOLE NOW. Occupation Familiar to Krailtn of lllekoa* Introduced In Uotham. Foreigner*, especially those of En glish birth or parentage, ere ail more or leas familiar with the term "man gling." says the New York Herald. To the average American the word haa lit tle meaning. To the reader of Dick ens the ignominious ending of Mr. Mantallnl in a "mangling shop” la fa miliar. The scene described by Dick ens <an now lie witnessed of course, omitting the reduced gentleman and his virago companion—any day and evening on the east aide of town, for there is to be found the "mangle shop,” presided over by a woman und liberally patronized by all the house wives of the neighborhood. Regu larly every week the women go there with their baeketfuls of newly washed and dried houaehould linen and take turns at the wheels, each doing her own mangling. The neighborhood be ing thrifty and comfort seeking In an humble way, the week's wash is an event and the place is well patronized. Some of the patrons of the shop are women who work out by the day, widows with families to support or women with luckless or thriftless hus banda, and for these the shop is kept open till 10 o'clock at night. In the daytime the customers are the more prosperous housewives, whose hus bands have steady work and who are, therefore, free to devote themselves entirely to their housework and their children. Some of these women bring their children with them, Infants in arms, who are dumped down against the wall until mother ahall be at leisure, but who, If on mischief bent, are tucked Into the deep’clothes bas kets, which sometimes hide them en tirely from view. “It’s cheaper by a good deal to bring your rlothes here than what the wood or gas or even oil for heating your irons would cost,” said a sturdy matron as she began her task, turning slowly and ateadily, after seeing to it that the rollers wars in even. "And it don t boat you np ao, like ironing docs. And If you taka pains and go over the nicer, finer things a time or two extra they raise out as smooth and glossy as if they were ironed," spoke up a younger woman, who was folding pieces at a table. "I went over this tablecloth twice and I'm sure It's as nice as need be.” "What Is the charge for man gling?" I asked the young woman. "Ten cents an hour, if you turn your self, and if you are lucky enough to get here among the first, so as not to have to wait any, you can run over the whole week's work, even if it's a big one, in an hour and a half. It was a good thing for this block when Miss Schmidt decided to open, and I think she Is liable to always have all the customers she can handle. There are plenty of places like this in the old country, I have heard mother say," she went on, as she pulled out a roller and proceeded to unwind some newly mangled articles, "but there's only one other here In New York, and for a long tlmo the people about here did not know what a mangle was. Miss Schmidt got these machines brought out from Germany. There ain’t any made like them here. She used to keep one of these shops over on the other side and the Rlgn that hangs out there she brought along with her when she moved her things. She does well at the business and takes In mangling to do when the machines are not In use. Only she and her sister and a lit tle nephew live there in the back rooms and I think that they make out well." Independent Voting l’almer. Ilonorc Pulmer, non of Mrs. Potter Palmer, nays the Newport News, la a very Independent chap and a rnueh liked one. When on a visit home from Harvard on one of his holidays his mother asked him If he would like a new runabout for a birthday present, suggesting that an old buckboard, very antiquated in style, whirh was as tho apple of his eye. was really not the thing to take the girls driving in of an afternoon at Newport, where the finest vehicles In the world arc seen on the avenues. This proffered gift was re jected with great hauteur by Mr. Honore. who said: ‘Tf any girl objects to driving In that buckboard she can stay at home!” Ksglieh la ttalusse t'uctuma Sarvlra. 'Hie Chinese customs service Is head ed by an Englishman. It Is irhlefly manned by Englishmen. It was cre ated and organised by an Kngllah ar my oUlcer and diplomatist. 8lr Thomas Francis Wade. At Kong-Kong and Wei-Hal-Wet England has porta, and In the former case a tract of mainland has recently been added to the possco sions of England. The Chinese navy has been built In English shipyards and much of the time has been com manded by Englishmen The uaitve steamship lima have English com mender*. Ns ueeteWm I* fete • A foreigner who eras brought before a Han Fram taco magistrate the other day was found to be so unelsenly that the police were ordered to gtvs him a batfi “Vet! tlo In the vater?" he asked "Yes. >uu must take a balk, you need It How long Is It sloes you had user The forstgasr shrugged his shoulders end replied T esvsr was arieeled before” a Srne»**e*e *»#*••• “llo« about that Klondike mining t-empany *»*u »•» a year ago* I thought It waa going te he amh e big ikteg "It was a tdg thing ‘ We dt#p«**4 ef nearly |4*»,• Ml worth ef ttueh IN A DUTCH FAMILY QUEER SAUSAGE NEGLECTED FOR DELICIOUS EGGS. NrrvnnU Art Never TruaUd—Food, Flat*, China and linen Locheit Up and Weighed tint Only When Needed—A» Afternoon "At Hume." It Ik given to comparatively few to |>ny vleltH In Holland, for the Dutch are rather chary of opening their doors to foreigner, says the London Chron icle. With public attention turned to the little country for tho Hake of Its youthful queen, there may bo Home who would like to receive the Impres alon of an uverage KngliHh girl hh to an overage Dutch home. I uaed to wake early In The Hague. Not nearly ho early, however, an the busy r,erv anta, In their ahort skirts and tight lace cape. They rlHo to clean the Htreeta In front of their masters' hous es as Htreeta are aurely never cleaned elsewhere, Hprlngless carta jog over the uneven pebblea of tho Zrestraat, largely freighted with glittering milk conn and tidy old women. Fruit and vegetable venders shriek the nature of their wuich with a harsh InHlwtonce of moat Bleep-murdering *ort. So I get up and dress and linger at the window. Truth to tell, the Dutch breakfast !h not altogether tempting. The windows are cloned and Myhcer has obviously only Juat put out hln first cigar. Nor are the toilets of Mov row and Jufrow quite complete or en hanced by certain popular English hnlr-curlers. On the other hand, the tea from Java Ih delicious, the ham worthy of York. With the freshest of eggs one need not depend upon either the Inevitable cheese or the queer sausage. More imperially as the butter Ih perfection, despite the dam aging circumstances that we helped ourselves with our own knives. Ah to the Dutch “little breads," they are as suredly the best in the world. liefore the meal, all pray In silence that has a quaker Improaslvcnerw of Its own. Then Myheer, In a aonoroiiM voice and with an indeacribuble accent, reads a chapter from the French testament. This ended, he vanishes and the ladles begin the arduous labors of housekeep ing. Mynheer was rich; his cellar would have won the respect of an al derman. Nevertheless, every article of food, plate, china and linen la locked up and weighed out and talked over to an exasperating degree. Honest Chris ties, the Friesland cook, was radiant on Sundays with dangling earrings of gold filigree and n skull cap of pure gold under the fine thread, last that Is an heirloom. But she was never trusted to take coffee or sugar at dis cretion. She had an aged mother, whose wooden shoes were too often heard clicking In the back yard. Iler spotlewi kitchen was scrubbed and rub bed at some unearthly hour. As to the store closet, crowded with potted vegetables, with dried meats, with pod ded vanilla from Paramaribo, and scented spices from Sumatra. that Is altogether the sacred domain of Mev row. Lunch came at 1 o'clock. It rather resembled breakfast, onve for a hot dish of beefsteak and of those round, floury potatoes that grow in comparably In the region of sandy Schevenlngen. There was tea, there was milk, there were wines of all kinds. Mevrow was resplendent In rich silks by this time, the Jufrow prettily reminiscent of the English modes she so much admired. For Monday was reception day and by 2 o’clock visitors, chiefly ladles, dropped in isieuiuuiiy. /\ioo u newiy raarrieu couple who had previously been much discussed. The bridegroom was of un dent family, and—horror of horrors!— the bride wus but bourgeoise, and very shy of the Are of critical eyes directed toward her, despite her smart new clothes. At 5:30 came dinner and two guests. Of course they were cousins, hut, for all that, some of the beat wines were brought out. Port and sherry are served with rice soup, claret with the rest of the repast. We have over roasted beef, rarved after the abom inable Dutch fashion, by which the carver whittles the meat away In chips. We have carrot* In an exquisite cream sauce; curry a la Hollandalse. with the rice In a pulp. Next Irrele vantly comes a delicious mayonnaise of salmou, and, Anally, sugary pud dings and a handsome dessert of Ane fruit. At this stage the Rhine wines make their appearunre. Mynheer calls toast after toast In old Hudeshclm; nor does he neglect to (tress his choice liquors. Heads are strong In Holland; even the ladles sip their tiny glawes of “Parfait Amour," The best china was used on this occasion rare old I •sift, valued at 20 and 30 Aorlne each piece. We did not linger for coffee, but put on our hats and got Into the big, old-fashioned carriage that took us to llet den lloech; In other words to the very beautiful beech wood* that surround The Hague, where the spa ■ lous buildings Itelonglug to the White club made an agreeable r«udextoua for the gay world of the capital The night wa* flue and warm, and, won derful to relate, not at nil damp Tlw band of grenadiers was playing the pretty music of the ‘ Dame IHsn»he" Very few ceople listened The Hutch are not a musical nation, though every one told me with pride that these same grenadiers had once wrested the gold medal from the 'Tluidee'' of Itelgtan celebrity. We had not. Indeed, much lime to attend, for every moment hats were ratted end greetlaas changed with prefound bows. Mevrow hrewed lea of alarming atraagth. boiling her water on n quaint stove that was. In fact, n poll of biasing charcoal * Our circle enlarged Bvery possible alien ttug was wa to the solitary foreign er. Dutch gentlemen are prodigal enough of gallantries which do not sound amiss whispered In French. At 10 all was over and we went home to more tea and fruit and wine. Red at last, at about midnight—a square soft bed. with tent-llke curtains. Had I been an orthodox Dutchwoman, these would have been closely drawn. As It was, a gentle air from my open win dows lulled me peacefully to sleep. SUEZ CANAL SIGNAL SYSTEM. The Devices, Nave In Kieeptlnnal Casas Work Perfectly. In the large office at Terrepleln there Is almost perfect alienee, though the employes are working steadily, each at hln especial task. Sometimes there are an many as forty ships in the canal at one time and the slightest mistake in signaling between the stations might lead to serious consequences, declares the New Haven Register. All these vessels, whether they are In the nar rowest cutting, whether they are mov ing along at full steam through the twenty-three miles of deep water In the Great Hitter lakes, or whether they are leaving the canal at Port Said, are under the direction of the man who sits at his desk in the office at Terrepleln. The method of working the canal is In genious, yet comparatively slmplt. At one side of the room against the wall Is a narrow shelf, along which runs a groove. At Intervals this groove has deep recesses, which In two places are much larger than they are elsewhere. The groove represents the canal and the recesses the sidings, the two large one* being the Great Hitter lakes and I-ake Tlmsah. When a vessel has been signaled and Is about to enter the canal -at the Sue* end, for example— a toy boat or model about four Inches long Is chosen to represent her. A group of throe little models stand ready near the model canal, and each one Is furnished with a flag to denote Its nationality. The English flag Is naturally the predominating ensign, though all countries are provided for. As the real steamer approaches and her name becomes known It is written on a slip of paper and placed on the toy ooai. i ne numurr or snips actually in the canal can thus he seen at a glance, and also the exact positions In which they are situated, for, as the tele graphic signals give notice of each ves sel's progress, her toy representative is moved along, placed In a siding or shown crossing one of the lakes. Sig nals are sent from this office to the various "gares," or stations, naming the siding at which each ship must stop and wait to let another pass It The official on duty moves the models according to his dispatches, nnd when two vessels going in opposite direc tions are nearing the same siding he warn/ their pilots by means of the sig nal halls and flags at each station, which he controls from the office, and Indicates which of the two is to givo way to the other. The arrangement, except In the case of occasional acid dent, works perfectly. The clerk can tell In a moment the name, nationality, tonnage, draught and precise position of every ship In the canal; he knows who her pilot Is, how fast she la mov ing, l»jr breadth of beam and various other details, and he has absolute con trol of her every movement. Most of the Suez pilots are of Greek origin, though Englishmen and men of other nationalities are occasionally met. The pilot’s chief duty Is to prescribe the rate of speed, cm the officers of a ves sel would have realty no difficulty In tRklng her through the canal without guidance. In the uarrow cuts the speed is limited to six miles an hour, but vessels may proceed much faster In the lake sections. Two pilots are always employed, for one goes off and a sec ond comes on at Ismailia, on Lake Tlmsah. Wlailum IJI*pUre<1 In the Ural retire Agreement. In itself (he protocol for peuo» was a remarkably concise and comprehensive document, in which President McKin ley stood (Irmly on the object nnd vic tories of the war. The one incomplete clause was that relating to the future of the Philippine Inlands. To retain, surrender, sell, lease, or share with some other nation or nations this large possession are matters of too far reaching import to be decided without the matures! consideration. Possibly two-thirds of our citlsens favor the re tention of the Inlands without knowing how much of trouble and expense would be Involved therein. With all that has been wrlttan and said about them, too little Is really known to war rant an opinion aa to whether they are worth holding permanently. The pro tocol happily oolve* the problem, for the preaent at leaat. by relegating the whole question to the judgment of the peace coturaleslouera, I.•*•»•! ®f the I’eweh. The Japanese, who clultu to have drat discovered the peach, have a quaint legend regarding It. A pious old couple, stricken with years and poverty, *ul>al*ted by begging One day on the highway tha woman found a Iteauttful peach. Although utmost famished, she did nut eelAahiy eat the In*, ioti* f-ult alone, but took It home to divide with her husband. Aa tha ’ knife cut Into It the frnit opened nnd nn Infect epiang fouh, who tntd the 1 astonished beggar* that he was the go<l Shun To. and had so idealally fallen from tha nr> hard of the Japanese hasten while al play with some other gods and goddesses, I’ar ratio sting him from Ihe peg, h. h.m Tu gave the Japanese Ms seed to plant nnd told the in Its piodut t would make them wealthy. H»U*We awn n a*. Uteo tier man soldier ear rim a four •*oa«e i*iign»oe kook with the raat ut hi* MMoaal equipment OLD-TIME MEMORIES. Carious MmU«| of • Yank** and • R*b on Virginia Moll. In the camp at Falla Church, Vo. are a number of veterans who fought with Hherfdan In the Hbenandoah valley. From Falla Church to the Blue Ridge mountalna, which aeparate the Shenandoah and the Loudoun valleys, la a trip of not more than thirty mllet, aays the Washington Times. The panorama of na'ure presented on one of these ridges la one of the finest In the world, and those soldiers now In camp, to whom tho scene la famil iar, have taken advantage of their nearness to the old fighting ground to visit It once again. Among those who made the trip recently was an officer of a western regiment, who took his wife with him. At Round Hill they hired a vehicle for the ascent of the mountain. The driver had been one of Mosby'a men. As tho officer and hl» wife were being driven along ho Indulged In many reminiscences of his experience In the valley during the civil war. There was Just a little bit of vainglory In his narrative of per sonal adventures. Heveral times tne man who was doing the driving touched up the horses a little vicious ly, as If he were In a bad humor. Once or twice he aeemod on the point of breaking in on the conversation, but he reconsidered and beld his peace. Finally the party reached a point In the road where the ascent In the mountain begins. The officer's face brightened up. "Do you see that hill right over there, dear?" be said to his wife, pointing to the place. Bbe nod ded. "Well, my dear, right at the foot of that hill Is the very place where we cooked our supper that night I've been telling you about." "Yes, my darling," eaid the old driver, turn ing around, "and that Is the very place where we-uns ate your supper." “What," said the union offlcor, "were you one of that party of rebs that came down on us?" "Yes, I wus. We sot up thar on top o’ the hill and watched you-uns cook It, and when it was done we swooped down." "Well, tell me, my friend," said the union of ficer, "where on earth you fellows came from?” "Well, I'll answer that, Htranger," said the old man, "ef you'll clear up a mystery fur me, Wbar In thunder did you-uns go to? My idee at that time wuz that you dim up the Inside of sura tree." QUEEN MARY’S PERMISSION. (Iraiita to an Karl tha flight to Waar 'two Mgliloapa. Among the musty state documents of Great Britain !h one which every reader of Miss Strickland's "Lives of the Queens" Inevitably giggles over, says the Memphis Scimitar. In the life of Queen Mary Miss Strickland reproduces a wonderful stnte docu ment, In which her majesty grants special permission to one of her coun cilors to wear a night cap In her pres ence. This royal concession Is made, presumably as a reward for valuable services rendered. The carl of Sussex was the nobleman thus honored. The earl was a valetudinarian and had a great fear of uncovering his head. Considering, therefore, that the colds he dreaded respected no persons, he petitioned Queen Mary for leave to wear a cap in her presence. The queen not only gave him leave to wear one, hut two nightcaps If he pleased. His patent for this privilege Is unique In royal annals: "Know ye that we do grant to our well-beloved and trusty cousin and councillor, Henry, earl of Sussex, license and pardon to wear his cap, coif, or nightcap, or any two of them at his pleasure, as well in our presence as In the presence of any other person within this realm, or in any other place in our dominions whatsoever during his life, and these, our letters, shall bo sufficient warrant In his behalf.” The queen's seal was affixed to this singular grant. Three persons In Great Britain alone enjoy the privilege of remaining covered in the royal presence- Lord Forester, Lord Kinsale and the master of Trinity college. Cambridge. A ritllma tiod. Almost as ancient as the earth her self was Kras, the personification of love, lleotod relates that he was among the Arot of existing things, and that he assisted Karth In bringlty; forth from chaos the earliest forms of life and beauty. Aristophanes and others wrote of Bros as the son of Night. I«ater poet* sang of him as the Kon of Area and Aphrodite, and honored him as the sweet-minded promoter of human affections. They represented litre as a fair-faced boy. winged and <arrylng a bow with which to Inltlet sweet wounds upon those who came within range. Nor has Rros ceased to exist even In thia practical age. for to this day the poet* sing of this little I winged god. as ahtllfu! and as pitiless as In the days of old. The philosophic myth of Krue and I'ayche la one of the most beautiful of the auctent allegoric*. tHtiwIs Wests leeliiMta. The Vsneaueian government has j ontrmctrd fur the Importnllon of It, 000 fatnlliM from the north of Itnly, 1 .utils nnd houses will be given them and (hey will be assisted in a Anna list way. It la expected that they will develop the cultivation of fruits and .creels and will P*y spool*! attention in the growing of vines and tnaaufns tuts of wins K*ch Immigrant will got fourteen acres nnd ll Is assorted that this amouet of lend I* loo smell tor growing reran I*. The I'nlted Males consul at Carat** ear* .hat when the frail producing caper tty of Ihla flood of immigrants in developed * market must he sought l* the failed dt*la* there I* a one Id Vs use us l*
