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I 1 fSjemi, of m. mm. HONORS^l'bR THE GALLANT DEAD BY KITCHENER'S ARMY. An ImpreiiiilrA Hrrne-nnrtlal Rrqnlm Aiuld Ihe Knlnt »r Ki.iirlnaM "Daalrr Ihc t'uiiquering Knitlan nf HIh Owb Ffoplf. Geo. Stevens, writing lo the London Daily Mail from Omdurinan, thus de- 8cril)es a touching incident :â€" The steamersâ€" screws, paddles, atern- wheslers â€" plugged their steady way up the full Nile. Past the northern fringe of Omdurman, where Iha sbeikU came- out with the whits (lag, past the lireacb. where we went in to the Khalifa's stronghold, past the choked embrasures and the lacerated Mahdi'a tuiub, pu»t the swamp-rooted palms of Xuti Is- land. W« looked at it wilh a dispas- sionate, impersonal curii^sity. It was Sunday morning, and iLai fucipus Fri- day seemed already half a lifetime behind us. The volleys had dwindled out of our ears, and the smoke out of our nostrils, and to-day we were going to the funeral of Gordon. After nearly fourteen years the Christian soldier was to have Christian burial. . . Un the steamers there was a detach- ment of every corpa, while, or black, or yellow, that had taken part in the vengeance. Every while officer that could be sparea from duty was there, fifty men picked from each BritiHh battalion, onu or two from each unit of th.B Egyptian army. That we were going up to Khartoum at all was evi- dence of our triumph; yet if you look- ed about you, triumph was not I he note. The most reckless subaltern, the most barbarous bluck was touched wilh gravity. We were going to per- form a necessary duty, which had been put off far, far too long. Fourteen years next Januaryâ€" yet even through the humiliating thought there ran a whisper of triumph. We may lie alow; but in ih<it very slowness we show that we do not forget. Soon er late, we give our own their due. Here were men that fought for Gor- don'.s life while he lived â€" Kitchener, who went disguised and alone among furious enemies to get news of him; Wauchope, who iPOURfiD OUT HIS BLOOD LIKE WATER at Tamai and Kirbekau; Stuart-Wort- lay, who missed by but two days the chance of dying at his .side. And here, too, were boys who could hardly lisp when their mothers told them that Gordon was dead, grown up now, and appearing in the fuluesa of time to •xact ten thousand liven for one. Gor- don my die â€" other Gordons may die in the future â€" but the same clean- liml)ed brood will grow up and avenge them. The boats stopped plugging and there was silence. We were lying up oppo- site a grove of tall palms; on the bank was a crowd of natives curiously like the baoksheesh-hunters who gather lo ffreet the Nile steamers. They stared at us; but we looked beyond ihem to a large building rising frum a crumb- ling quay. You could tee that it had once been a handsome building of the type you know in Cairo or Alexandria ^all stone, apd stucco, two-storied, faced with tall regular windows. Now the upper storey was clean gone ; the blind windows were filled up with bricks ; the stucco was all scars, and you could walk up tq the roof on rub- ble. In front was an acacia, such as grow in Ismuilia uu Ihe (ihezireb ai Cairo, only uuprunedâ€" deep lusciou.s green, only drooping like a weeping willow. At Ihat most ordinary sigbi everybody grew very solemn. Fur it was a piece of new world, or rather of an old world, utterly different from the .squalid mud, the baking barreuue.'^s of Umdurman. A facade with tall wia- dow.s, a tree with grei'U leavesâ€" the facade battered and blind, the Iree drooping to earthâ€" there was no need to tell us we were at a grave. In that forlorn ruin, and thai disconsolate acacia, the bones of murdered civiliza- tion lay before us. The Iroops formed up before the palace in three sides u( a rectangleâ€" Egyptians lo our left as we looked Iroin the river, Urilish to the right. The Sirdar, the generals o£ division and brigade, and th« staff stood in the open space facing the pnhice. Then, on the roofâ€" almost on the VERY SPOT WHEKI-: GOKUON FKLl. though the steps by which the butchers mouuled have lung sinri' vanishedâ€" we were aware uf two flag- staves. By the right bund halliards stood Lieulenaut Staveley, li .N., and Captain Watson, K.K.R.; by the loft hand Kiuibashi Milford and two other offic'4>rs. The Sirdar raised his hand. A pull at the halliards, up run. out flew the Union Jack, lugging eagerly al his reins, dazzling gloriously in the .si i, rejoicing in hi^ strength and bis : dom. "Ucingl" went the Melik'a i. pounder, and the boat quivered tu -. backbone, "God Save our Uric ;; Queen" hymned the Guards' b: ,. ''bang!" from the Melikâ€" and .- 1 .;ii- and private stood stiffâ€" " bang !" lo attention, every hand al the helmet peakâ€" "bang I"â€" in .salute. The Kgyp- tinn flag had gone up at the .same instant ; and now, the same ear-smash- ing, soul-uplifting bangs jpaar^ing time, the band of Ihe lltn iSicftuaeSe was playing the Khedival hymn. "Three cheers for <rhe QO«!e»f asrUJlT the Sirdar; helmeta lea^d in the air, and the melancholy rnii^4*'o4e to the first wholesoine shout- jf *'«ll these years. Then the satne for the IChediva' The comrade flags stretched . tbeob- selves lustily, enjoying their own again; the bands pealed forth' the pride of country ; the twenty-one guns banged forth the strength of war. Thus, white men and black. Christian and Moslem, Auglo-Egypt set her seal onOB more, for ever, on Khartoum. Before we had time to .think such thoughts over to ourselves the bands were playing the' 'Dead March in Saul." Then the black band, was playing Ihe nmrch from Handel's " Scipio," which ia."EjclgIand generally goes with ,;"rpLL FOR THE BRAVt:." This Wtts.jii HMiRory of those loyal men among Ih* ' Khedive's subjects who could have, aaved. themselves by treach- ery, but preferred to die wilh Gordon. Next fell a deeper hush than ever, except for the solemn minute guns that had followed the fierce salute, Four chaplainsâ€" Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and Methodist â€" came slowly forward and ranged themselves, with their hacks lo the palace, just before Ihe Sirdar. The Presbyterian read Ihe Fifteenth Psalm, The Angli- can led the rustling whiaiSer of the Lord's Prayer. Snow-haired Father Brindle, best beloved of priests, laid his helmet at his feet and read a me- morial prayer, bareheaded in the sun. Then came forth the pipers anil wailed a dirge, and the Sudanese played, "Abide With Me." Perhaps lips did twitch just a little to see the abony heathens fervently blowing out Gor don's favourite hymn ; but the most irresistible incongruity would hardly have made us laugh at thai moment And there wefe those who said the cold Sirdar himself, could hardly speak or see as General Hunter and the rest stepped out according lo their rank and .shook his hand. What wonder I He had trodden this road lo Khartoum â-  for fourteen years, and he .stood at Ihe goal at last. Thus with Maiim-Nordenfelt and Bible we buried Gordon after the man- ner of his race. The parade was over the Iroops ^ere dismissed, and for a short space we talked in (iordon's gar den. Gordon has become a legend with his countrymen, and they all but deify him dead who would never have heard of him had het lived. But in this garden you somehow came to know Gordon the man, not the myth, and to feel near to himt Here was an Eng- lishman doing his duty alone, and at the INSTANT PERIL OF HIS LIFE yet still he loved his garden. The gar- den was a yet more pathetic ruin than Ihe palace. The palace accepted its doom mutely; the garden strove against it. I'ntrimmed, unwatered, the oranges and citrons still struggled to bear their little hard green knots, as if they had been full ripe fruit. The pomegranates put on their Vermil- lion, star-flowers, but Ihe fruit was small and woody and juiceless. The figs bore better, but they, too, were small and without vigour. Rankly overgrown with dhurra, a vine still trained over a low roof its dwarfed leaves and limped tendrils, but yielded not a sign of grapes. It was all green, and .so tar vivid and rerfeshing after Omdurman. But it was Ihe green of nature, not of cultivation ; leaves grew large and fruit grew small, and dwinill- ed away. Reluctantly, despairingly. Gordon's garden was dropping back to wilderness. And in the middle of the defeated fruit trees grew rankly the hateful Soudan apple, the poisonous herald of desolation. The bugle broke in upon us; we went fjack lo the boats. We were quicker steaming back than .steaming up. We were not a whit less chastened, but every man felt lighter. We came wilh a sigh of shame, we went away wit h a sigh of relief. The long-delayed duly was done. The bones of our country- men were .shattered and scattered abroad, and no man knows their place. None the less Uordim had his due burial at last. So we steamed away to the roaring camp, and left him alone again. Vet not one nor two looked Imck at the mouldering palace and the tangled garden, without a new and great con- tentment. We left Gordon alone again â€"but alone in majesty under Ihe con- quering ensign of his own people. GRAINS OF GOLD. Be not merely good; be good for something. â€" Thoreau. Evil is wrought by want of Ihought as well as by want of heart.â€" Hood. Our ancestors have Ir.iveled the iron .ige; the golden is before us. -^ St. I'ierrc. We are indebted to Christ ianily tor (jCi'Ut leness. espi'ciiilly toward women. â€" C Simmons. God govern.s Ih- world, and we have only to do our duly wi-sely, mid leave ihe issue to him.â€" .Ji bn Jay, Good ta.ste rejects excessive nicely; it tre<its little things as little things and is not hurl liy iheiu.â€" Feullon. No man was ever .so compleiely skill- ed in the ootid uci. of life as noi lo re- ceive new iiifurmalion from age aiiii â- â-  X per ience.â€" Terence. Our lives, by acts exemplary, not only win ourselves good names, but do to others feive matter for virluou.s deeds, by which we live, â€" Chapurin. Narrow-mimled and ignorant perstpns talk about per.soiis and not things; hence gossip is the bane and disgraci- of so large a portion of society.â€" .Sheri- dan. There cannot be a surer pr.iof of low origin or of an innate meanness of (li-ipositipu than to be always Oalking 111(1 thinking about being genteel. â€" HizliU. BOTH HAPPY. Yes, mv wife y-nd 1 hajre separated. Indeed? What is the trouble? Thiro isn't any now. fVHAT IS aOINQ ON IN THE FOUl, CORNERS OP THE QLOBE. Old and New World Bveati of Intereet Chron' telcd .Brieflyâ€" lotarasting Happealnxs ot Kscmt Data. A peer cannot resign hia peerage. Crabs two feet , in length are often seen in India. There are enough paupers in Lon- don to fill every house in Brighton. San Marino, the smallest republic in the world, has an annual revenue of £8.000. Charity organizations existed in Egypt 2.500 and in china 2,000 years ago. Police Court statistics show that Cornwall is the best behaved county in England. There are supposed to be something like a thousand murderers at large in Great Britain. Tea is cheap in China. In one pro- vince of the empire good tea is sold at 1 l-4d. a' pound. Italy produces onnually 70.000,000 gallons of olive oil, the market value of which ia £24.000,000. The largest organ in the world is in the Cathedral of Seville, Spain. II has 53 pipes, and llO stops. The Lord Mayor ot London receives mora than 90,000 letters in a year, most of which have to be answered. The deepest mine in the world is the Lambert mine in Belgium, which i.s 3.<90 feet lienealh the earth's surface. While Iwring for coal at Barrow a bed of salt was found at adeptly of 300 feet. The bad is wiidi to be 70 feet, thick. There are said .to be in London alone 8,00U children who are feeble-minded, as distinguished from idiots and im- beciles. The mummy of a Pharoh which re- cuntly arrived at Mjirseilles from ISgypt was charged Import duty at the rate for dried fish. In an exhibition at Dresden are col- lected a numl>er of boots, shoes and slippers once worn by emperors, kings queens and princes. The cheapest railwaijr lrav«\lling in to be had in Hungary, where it is possible to go a distance of five, hun- dred mi las for 6s 8d. Capita) sentence cannot be pro- nounced upon any criminal in Sweden until aconfessiim of Ihe crime has been obtained from him. Italy leads in the numbei' of crema- tories, having twenty-four. America has twenty-twn, Germ.any four, Eng- land three, and Franca two. About 6,0110 persons .ire employed by the London hospitals, anil of this num- ber 1,31)0 are honorary medical officers, who receive no foe of any kind. Compulsory army service has just been established in Holland for all males over nineto'-n years of age, ex- cept priests, ministers and divinity stu- dents. A sclent i.st declares that abluck cf steel ten feet square woulill lie pressed into a block only two feel square if taken 4,000 miles Iwlow the earth's surface. Berlin is one of the most cosmo- politan of Eurnpean cities. Though it) is the capital ot Gormauyj only 37 per cent, ot its inhabitants are German by birt h. II is stated thai 40,000,000 dozen eggs ii,re used every year tiy eHllco print works, 10,0I)1I,I)IM) dozen by wiua clari- fiers, and many millions mor(\ by pho- tographers and other industries. Ten thousand new oab and carriage horses are among the items which Paris is acquiring for the accommo- dation ot visitors lo the Exhibition in 1900. At the sunset hour in Seoul, Corea, a town bell proclaims the faol when the sun has vanished beneath the horizon. No man is allowed in the street after thai hour, under penalty of a flogging. More than half the Lord Chancellors of England during the past fifty yecars were the .sons of poor men. One of them was the son of a country l)ai-- ber, and the father of another was a Newcastle coalheaver. The Persians in 516 B.C. invented a transparent glass varnish, which they laid over sculpt uied rucks to pre- vent them from weiitlieriiig. This coat- ing has la.sted to our day, while the rocks beneath aio honeycombed. The Great Eastern Railway has nn income of £4,0011,000 per annum.which is larger than the enliro revenue uf the kingdom of Ur«M>ce. ami, not quite so large as the vovonuei of Ihe united kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. Including policemen, post-office of- ficials, market m-n and women, care- takers, bakers, hospital nurses and newspaper wrilois and printers. It in ealimaU'd thai fully lOfl.COi) of ih.- in- haljjtants of London are ni«ht wo: kers One of the Sunda.v rimu.senients in Havana is cock-fighting. It is cus tomaiy at ' sUch coutesls tu levivo a halt-vanquished bird liy spraying San- ta Cruz' rum over it;) head. The rum is blown from the mouth of one of the fight directors. There .seems hardl.y any limit t« lh«v age uf fi.A I't many kinds. In the Royal Aquarium i^f >St . Petersburg there are fWJi to-day that are known lojbtLve been there at least 150 years. Some of them are five tillies as, big, as when first captured; ^ners have not grown an inch. There are no fewer than' S5 tunnels over 1,000 yards in length on English railway lines. Those of notable ex- tent are the Severn tunnel on the G. W. R., 7,664; the Totley tunnel, on the Midland, 6,226; the Stanedge, on the North-western, 5,342; the Woodhead, on the Great Central, 5,297; and Bram- hope, on the North-eastern, 3,746 yds. long. The largest inhabited building in the world is unqueationably the Vati- can at Rome, with its eight grand staircases, '200 smaller ones, 20 courts, and 11,000 apartments. Its marbles bronzes, frescoes, paintings and gems are unequalled in the world, and its library is the richest in Europe in manuscripts. Its collection of sculp- ture not only surpasses any other, but all others together. One of the most beautiful sights in the world is the annual migration of butterflies across tha Isthmus of Pan- ama. Where they come from or whither they go no one knows. To- wards the end of June «i few scat- tered specimens are discovered flitting out to sea, and asi the days go by the number increases until about July l4th or 15th the .sky is occasionally almost obscured by myriads of these« frail in- sects. A statistician, who has beau looking into the matter of divorce has found that the proporti(on ot divorces lo population is least in Ireland â€"only one divorce to every 400,000 inhabi- tants. In the Uniteil States the pro- portion of divorces is ominously large, HH.74 to every lOO.OtKI of i population Ihe largest known, in fact, save id Japan, the figure^ tor that happy em- pire Ijeing 608.45 divorces to every 100,- t)t)0 of population. The Duchess of Mitrlborough and the Duchess of Devonshire probably have the finest pearls in England, the Man- chester necklace being very well known. Many smart ladies wear their pearls constantly, although they are not seen, as they are worn under a high dress, as pearls are supposed to keep their colour lietter when worn next lo the skin. Pearls have, within the last twenty-five years, increased in value 1,0UU pi'r cent. IRREGULAR BY SYSTEM. Tke Ameer or ArKkaulxlan â- Â» Not a Br llpvrr la fuurtunllly. Civil iziil ion, al least as we under- .stand it, makes much of economyâ€" a saving of money, effort and time. Moreover it leaches us that one of Ihe most efficient helps to economy of any .sort is regularity. Nevertheless the civilization of Afghanistan teach- es the lesson otherwise. .Miss Lillian Hamilton, M.D., who oc- cupied the important position of lady physician tu the ameer tells some of her amusing experiencesâ€" among oth- ers uf the lack ot regularity in the ameer's household, and the reason therefor. She found that work l)e- ({ias in t ho morning when he is ready, when he is tired, work ceases. When he wishes to eat, dinner is served, and when he feels inclined tu sleep the court is closed. Ho seldom rises be- fore noon, though he may be astii early. The difficulty is that as soon as he is ustlr every one is expected to be in attendance. The most important of- ficials keep a servant wailing at the court door, to leap on his horse, and warn his master the moment the ameer wakes. Beiug so unused to punctuality him- self, the ameer cannot understand it in others. Miss Hamilton says, that one day when she had been .sitting with him, she noticed t hat it was about her lunch time. Accordingly she ex- cused herself, explaining where she was going. "Are you hungry T" asked the ameer. "No, 1 cannot siiy I am." "Then why arc you going to eat?" he persisted. "Wluit a strange idea." Again she explained that it was hei lunch time, "Lunch-time?" he said. "Who made it your lunch-time? And what has that to do with it M should havfll thought appetite was what bud to be con- sulted, not time." The treatmenl of .servants wa/i an- other subject on which the stranger found her ideas had tu be remodelled. She quickly dropped into the habit of being as tree and easy with them as was lh(i custom. "Indeed," she says, "1 .should have gained nothing if I had tried to keep them in what we should call 'their places." I'hey would not have under- stood it, because Ihey were not accus- tomed tu it. Moreover you could nev- er bo quite sure what their places were, ih.'y changed about so. I shall never forget my .surprise when I mot the ameer's old doorkeeper riding somo distance outside Cahul, .surrounded by quite a retinue of servants. H»' was un his way to Kandahar, uf which city hi! had just been made governor. , 'â- .Stsveral of the ameer's own relations are table servant.s. This is, indeed, ra- th'M- a coveted p.ist. 08 it often means aiiv.inccmi-nl . I! r. when they have laid the clutli- , floor, of cuur.se -anil placed thi i.i .i â- .( on it, they sit down and partake if the repast with Ih?. rest of the courtiers." GUIDANCE. MiidRoâ€" 1 liave ajwaya tried' tu guide myicl.f by Ihe truth. , '••â-  Yalideyâ€" Well you have succeeded in sloe ing .vours.df past it pretty suo- (««:.slully THE CZAR AT HOME. The KuniHii Caart â- > Ike Noil MagaU- rent In (ke World. The Russian court military and min- isterial dress is costly and rich in the extreme, and the richness is oarried out even lo the liveries of the ser- vants, their scarlet coats being liter- ally ablaze with gold, says a writer in the English Illustrated Magazine. It ia a fact that no court in the world presents such a picturesque and magnificent appearance as does that ot Russia. At any function, theretore,tha show is brilliant, but more especially perhi^ps, at a ball, when the rich even- ing toilets ot the ladies, enhanced by jewels ot priceless worth, add much to the already brilliant effect. The Rus- sian dances are ot a very stately de- scription, and both the emperor and empress take part In them very thor- oughly. The aspect of the armorial-hall where the supper is often laid, is grand beyond all description. This meal is not partaken of standing, as at the majority of Ihei courts, but the guesta sit down at the long row of tables. A purcession is fbrmed^ which is head- ed by bis imperial majest y, and the most distinguished lady present, and the room' is then entered in the ordsr of precedence. Of course, an immena* quantity of plate is displayed, Tbii and I be china that is also used art ijoted throughout Europe for theii richness aud l>eauty. There is one ser- vice alone, capable of dining .000 per- sons, that is composed entirely of tha purest silver overlaid with gold. Added to all ibis the use ot a variety uf th( choicest fruits and the rarest flower* among which orchids figure largely makes t he scene one of the most gorge- ous magnificence. During the evenina a state progress through the suite ol rooms is mad« by the imi>erial person- ages, and the chiet officer of the house- hold, the guests funning up into along avenue on either side. One special feature is that two or three of the largest balls in the palace are, on the occasion of a ball, fixed up as a huge conservatory, palms, exotics, ferna. banks of flowers, and even fruilj treea l)eing transplanted thither with Iha most marvellous effect. Electric light is carried ihrougbuut, and glows down from myriailH of globes of a var- iely of colors. In this veritable fairy- land hundreds of seats are placed tor the cooivenience of the guests between ilances. It would Iw utterly impos- sible to mention the rare works ot art let be; seen in ihiM palace, compris- ing paintings, statuary, collections of jnwels. antiquities and curios of every des(M'i|ition. Kveryihing is uf oriental magnificence, and to see it all the eye must weary ot the continuous dazzle, POSTOFFICE AUTO-CARS. KviH-rlinrnln Mntlr In Knuland hikI How The)' Worked. A novel feature of Ihe yearly re- port of the British Post mast erJJener- al, which has just lieen issued, con- sists in Ihe account ot uxperiments made with motor vans driven by oil, steam and electricity. An oil motor car, the properly of the British Motor .Syndicate, was engaged for two separ- ate weeks, in the first instance con- veying letter mails t)etween the Gen- eral Post-office, and the South-west- ern district office, and on the second occasion lielween the latter office and l£ingsl<in-un-Thnmes. For the firsl week there was a nom- inal charge of 2Ca., said lo be Ihe out-of-pocket expen.ses of the .syndi- cate, whereas for the service which the motor car displaced in the week, about £0 would have been paid under the contracts, and for the service to Kingston ralher more than £5. The work of the mulor car was per- formed satisfactorily, but the experi- ment was not pursued, as the syndi- cate were desirous ot constructing a more suitable car. For the next ex- [leriment a steam motor car was en- gaged, Ihe property of a private firm, and the vehicle was employed for six weeks conveying parcels between Lon- don and Hedhill. The price cbarged was £7 a week, compared wilh an amount ranging from .£11 tu £14, the oatimaled coal of a pair-hors* van of like c^ipncily. As a rule, the journey was iierformed in from ten to twenty niinulos less time man that allowed for a horsed conveyance. An electric motor car, belonging to Ihe Kleclric.al Vehicle Syndicate, was employod on I own work for four weeks. One or two accidents of a miiiur character occurred, giving rise to delays, but in other respects the work w.i.s .satisfactorily performed. .Vrr.ingonienta have since been made for exteniled trials, iinil il is confi- denlly lnqied liiat the results will .show that motors can lie permanently u.sed with advantage to the mail ser- vice. ^^ THE RIGHT OF WAY. It is a well established principle, ot law that in cro.ssing streets or high- ways the person un tuol has the right of way. Drivers and bicycle riders should always liear this fact in mind. Il is law, and it you injure a pedes- trian by careless driving or ridin„' you are resiwinsible for il. A per.son is not required by law to i.iii ac.ruos the street to keep out of the way of ve- hicles and bicycles. The drivers and riders aio Ihe ones to look out tor a clear track. ^^ / \