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I. -\/-~ wafi, D"- - _/ ‘__ " *‘i’i‘t’ H+ ++i +++++++++++1 the funercal silence savory odors the wives of Russian convicts to A BUER [IN THE LATE WAR “=3. refer to is not accustomed to Vsleep in the open air, I would recommend <5 + arose from the streaming dish beâ€" follow their husbands into exile in i l . +1 _ + tween them, ‘ThQ miserame girl was that dreadful land of hardships. you to try flannel next to the skin." it fl {3 ea 3 i right. It must be excellent; but, oh, ficglitlg‘igher: fgtlepyut $331135: WHAT MR. VILJOEN THINKS thhofps‘ghierilteggstnégitplfiua‘il tgfficzéf~ ' no, never. L ~ c s... A = g I But, what was to be done with it? with a baby in her arms. She will OF THE BRITISH ARMY‘ and men. He gives more than om f 1, Give it, to Rose, wh0 would eat it, trudge1 the. whole distance, if her â€".â€"â€"- amusing instance of what he calls Log herself, or worse still, sou it to strengti holds out, alone, begging Assistant Commandant- General “the ordinary lice-haw style of m++++++++++++++++++++¢ some unscrupulous restaurant keepâ€" her food where she can. Her sole Writes a, Book on the speaking” of our ollicers. After Vil‘ O ' . , . - (r , er? Throw it out into the street? object is to join her husband. who Analo-Boer War. jooll had been capturedâ€" ne dreamy alternoo‘l m Jam“ y What a humiliating; end! Bury it? is a convict. He was one of the D “The colonel twisted his mous- during the siege of Paris, M. 3teb0111â€" Who ever heard of burying a stew? Russian troops who, some months Grabhic to the last degree are the tache, which had got very much dis Lina/Vi? twifim (1?: The appetizing odor continued to back, refused to fire on a. mob that glcmfl'gs lifcsente‘i by “TC £26211? arranged, leaned backin his chair, recur, home and, bursting in upon greet their nostrils, and finally Re~ Was demonstrating against the iron 100:} 00 ‘s on Rm I‘vafi’ ‘ “é’ r ,, b puffed the smoke from his cigar his wife, exclaimed tragicauV: uVir_ boullet said: “Perhaps Rose IS hand of bureaucracy. He was court- 50.10113 0f L319 “3'5" a ’1 By into the air, and said, without look. ginia, we must kill Adolphep: right, after all! A dog is only a martialled _ and sentenced to the issgfihnt Come?“ at} ' .911”? . ing at me, “Well, ah, you are ban. Mine. Reboullet sat beside a taâ€" 0053- Besides: this is 110 0”“an mines for life- He was less lucky ' .1110”: mm?“ m wit.“ 1“: ished, don’t yer know, ah, are be- At her husband's emâ€" time- Paris '13 1101? 130510ng every than certain others. who'wcre mereâ€" puDhshed “1 Amsmrdam' l‘lom t 8 ing sent to, ah, hum, St. Helena, 'ble sewing. pliatie words she rose, trembled, grew pale, then dropped back into her chair in an attitude of abject helplessness. day. Dog, indeed! is glad nowadays to cat cats, rats, hippopotamus meat, or any kind, for that matter. Of course, I Why, every one 0 fiber ly shot. Without delay he was dragged to the penal settlement, and not for days did his wife learn what had become of him. time when he began warlike pre- parations, on Sept. 28, 1899,-to his capture by our troops in January of this year, the dashing leader had as hot a time as anyone who fought or as they call it, the eh, ha, Rock. ’Tis a nice ship you go in, called the ab, let me see, oh yes, the ah "31‘it~ annic.’ Now you may proceed to Yes, we must kill Adolphe! It is WQUM never have. $1951“)? to Sec Directly she knew she sought per- . . ., . the station, get your kit, and in the hard, but there is nothing else to be AdOlP'he 0n 0‘}? hab‘c “1 141115 State- mission to join him. It was only m the WEI" says a writer m the meantime Sign this parole and re done. We really ought to have exâ€" BUt .th‘? Wiscmef 19,d°ne "fmd now, by chance that she got within hear- London ‘l'flxpress' .d t port yourself at 3 13.111. at the > DCC’CGd it. What did you say?” sapl‘lsur 1f We don t cat hlm- What ing distance of an official powerful The rust cannon he hem was a Docks.” I muttered in Dutch, “Lord Mme. Rebouliet had said nothing. She sat uite still in 1im hel lessâ€" The CIOUdS had Segmeer “Dd. the mission, but he did neitl‘er ; he he found it" After many hah‘breadth â€" 1} . r . . l r . ncss and(1 great tears wege chasing sunsmne Streamed Into the htth merely said that the road to the escapes he manang toBget dafwaév 1 difflestifig3:11:33, two k . ' ' (1' ~ . ‘- n - ‘ ' ‘ . l 10 ‘ ‘ .1 r ‘ I ' each other dowu her pallid cheeks. ammo 100m- A calm Seemed to pm mines was an open road, and if she from the scene Of the 091 0 ea extremes_either a gentleman or V a “You are crying! Well, that's quite natural, and if I weren’t a man â€"-â€"but what good would it do? One should be reasonable!" But couldn’t we - wait a little while longer?” sobbed the lady. "You know, Virginia, that there is one thin I h‘ v lwa 5 been ed, and .v . . v. very careful aghout; 131:}, fig m3; rem}. Ad01phe! He loved bones so well!" 10:51. ‘1 1_ I , , writer relates that on one expedition more than his share of illâ€"luck. , tatiom well, that is now at: Stake, 0w mom‘s bac ‘_ a hau'f‘lmtmg when two burghers were struck by Of the selfâ€"sacrifice and devotion to is; and all because of Adolphe. You have X01133“ was, taken .1.“ hand by a” lightning, Joubert saw “the finger duty of our Tommy, VilJoen speaks , persisted in taking him out for ex_ ‘on on policeinan._ She had walked of God” in it, and immediately or- highly, But if Tommy comes across crcise daily on the {wanna He is . f1 0111 Leeds ‘80 the MGU'PDOUS 10 dared a fun retreat, anything outSide ordinary routine he :1 inso1cnt1y fat, and people think it. lflfeet hel: ‘ husPand .011 release Ladysmith, in Viljoen's opinion, is a most lielpleSs being. But ‘iin a strange that at such a time as this, 111:3: Igilslfin' ,L‘Slflgvhzgplifgtios fr]??? ‘VOUId UHdOUthdly have fallen to illis faltllimréesg and patrlfofisntflhets when.mc 'e tures hav n’t â€"_ ‘ ‘ ‘ ' , I ' Joubert if he had had sense to at- 10 secre' 0 ‘1951100059 0 10 1‘1 - ‘ when 500:: $1,323,111.85 havgnit THE LENGTH TO ViIâ€"IICIâ€"I SOME pocket, and though faint, footsore, tack on Oct. 30’ 1899’ when General ish armyâ€"a truth which I do not Q and hungry She COUId “Qt be Del" think can be gainsaid.” And of the by even a piece of horse meat to eat, that we should keep a useless mouth to feed. Talk of it has even reach- HOW a Husband was Saved From , _ _ , , , I ed and captured. Not only was no .3 ed the office. For some time past I Ruin_Fr01n Russia to run MONEY WAS 10R HIM' attack made, but the railway to better than the others.” .F' have noticed a coolness among my companions. I couldn’t understand it, but toâ€"day Sci-gt. Bosc said to me, at the distribution of provisâ€" ions, ‘Adolphe is still thriving, I an shall we do with him! vade the . air. Rose thoughtful enough to put on the ta- ble 9. bottle of their very best wine, and full justice was done to it. Half an hour later, as Mme. Reboullet sat contemplating the little bones rang- ed on the side of her plate, she sighâ€" “Poor said plaintively: WIVES WILL GO . _â€"â€". Siberia. ~The lengths to which a devoted wife’s love of her husband will carry her have been frequently demonstratâ€" had been *flâ€"fiu enough to grant or deny her perâ€" could walk the distance no obstacle would be put in her way. So she set out. If’shc falls by the roadside and dies of exhaustion or starvation with her babe on her bosom, the world will never know. But the world is richer for her effort and her suaded to spend a lialfpcnny on her- self ; She was only fit for the hospital, as the police surgeon told her, but she went to the prison gates to meet “herinan.” She went into hospital afterwards and died there. Elandslaagte, and “no sweet music” and joined the Boer forces in front of Ladysmith, where he got the coldâ€" est of welcomes from General Jou- bert. Of the katter Mr. Viljoen had a very mean opinion. I-Iis irresolution cost the Boers many a victory, and of his “incredible” superstition the White had lost more than one thouâ€" sand six hundred men, killed, woundâ€" Maritzburg was not blown up for several days, “giving the, enemy the chance of bringing into Ladysmith the naval guns, which later caused us so much trouble and loss.” I): preserve us from the Evil One- cad. 'The mistakes of officers during the war need not necessarily be as cribed to stupidity, cowardice or in< discretion. Luck, he thinks, had a great deal to do with success or failure, and he cites General Gatacre as an instance of a man who had that he met, the writer “far Tommies found the Irish and the Scotch “If Tommy with his smartness were a good shot, and could judge distances better, he would be perhaps a perfect soldier, and certainly twice as dangerous as he is. In general, pl'esiume!’ Then I understood that cd, but never more strikingly than Women have turned their backs on Great difficulty was experienced by Tommy is a humane fellow. Towards the Sacrifice Was necessary, and it by a. tragedy the facts 013 thh fortunes and run away to mam-V men the author in getting his commando OUI‘ wounded Tommy was. its 'd “110. must be made.” recently became known to a certain their parents would not recognize. together after the defeat at Elandsâ€" sympathetic, and he was eager to After a silence, Mine. Reboullet insurance company. The husband of Most of them have regretted it, some laagte; help a‘ fallen enemy.” stanimered: “But I shall never have the lady in question had for some even so much as to run home again. “I soon saw that among. the bm._ “The infantry did the heaviest the courage. ' ' “Nor I,” replied her husband. considerable time been in grave fin- ancial difficulties, and it seemed that But the heroine of one such marriage must figure in this article. She marâ€" ghers there was a small group whose inclination to go on fighting was and' hardest work of the war.” Cavalry, he prophesies, will in future “We shall have to leave it to Rose.” ruin was inevitable. Unhappily, the ried in absolute defiance of her not of the Strongest I therefore wars be a sort of white elephant, Rose, who was the domestic, and prolonged strain of his affairs so father, and thus forfeited a handâ€" asked those of the burghers Who had Infantry, artillery, and mounted in. who hated Adolphe as much as her deeply affected him as to completely some fortune for the sake of love on the not the courage to return to fantry are the forces of the future. masml‘s loved him. agreed 10 Per- change his bearing towards his wife, eight dollars a week. For years the fightin" line to The author traverses Sir Conan form the agreeable task. who, to her intense sorrow, realized offer of her father to accept her 1 ‘ Doyle’s allegations of treachers It may be said right here that, that, so far from being able to com- back if she wellld abandon her husâ€" STAND ON ONL“ SIDE. against the Boers, and concludes : Adolphe was a dog, and an extremeâ€" fort and support him, she was .reâ€" hand stOOd Open to hOl‘- RCSOhlLClY Some thirty fell out of the ranks. I "Shall the errors of one side 1y ill favored one at that. A curi- garded by him rather as an expense, She igllol'ed it, (105Dite 1101‘ hHSbaHd’S gave each of them a pass good for Weigh heavier than those of the due mixture of pug and hound, with hastening him to his ruin. Moved by urging, Perhaps a little because 0f the journey by rail to Johannesburg, other ? Neither Boer nor Briton is long cars, a stubby tail and slender legs, he certainly would have been no loss to the world from an aestheâ€" tic point of view. bitterest regret that he should reâ€" gard her in such a light, and willing to do almost anything to prove her love and devotion, and to extricate it. Through sickness, in abject want, housed in a wretched room, sur- rounded by squalid neighbors, for more than ten months she nursed her which pass read as follOWS : “Pass to Johannesburg, on in a position to judge impartially of the sins of both sides. Let us try to account of cowardice, free at the exâ€" see each other’s virtues instead.” pense of the government.” ~â€"-â€".â€"+ Maand Mme. Reboullet went out him from his position, she decided husband on a paralytic’s bed, and TWO of 0,“. “heroes” get but slight to walk the next morning at ten upon an act which, reprehensible earned his food and hers with needle credit at the hands of this 41308,. JUSTICE IN MORocco, o clock, leaving Adolphe to the ten- though it was, commands at once and thread at rates of remuneration critic They are General Baden- â€"â€" ' der mercies of Rose. They were dis- sympathy and admiration. In the that made her shudder. And doubtâ€" Powell and MI. Winston Churchill. Scene at the Summary Execution consolace, but, spurred on, by the early days of hm- union the husband less she Would still be working on of “It; former 'he says : “General of. an Assassin. cold, they were soon walking at a brisk pace up and dowu the avenue. life and his of his own considerable sums had insured wife’s for des- of had not her father, in sheer peration at her fearful condition Snyman . . was the real saviour of Mafeking, which had a garrison of An article describing the arrest and execution of the Moorish fanatic who £20“: were Silent After a.ti].1}e’ money! and' u’m‘gh 10"“‘5 had been lifc’ consented to recognize he}. mtg" a thousand men. whom he, with 2.- murdered Dr Cooper a British met. Rebollllet 85,6130? ,3“: It obtained upon the policies, the wife band and to allow of his sharing in 000 men, had not the courage to at_ missionary m'Fcz on éct‘ 17 apfl mufiegfilfigffi (1)331, 111115 ttlklfie' t 1 It estimated that her death would put “1‘0 “Ehlcs the 1101110101 Wife coulg tack. The English wrongly Fave the pears in the Londdn Times-from the c a 15 “7a 01' her husband in possession of sufll- caim. fuel is an acne. case, an . d- . .. y- 0. 11 t ‘1: G 1 . was on] 1;. m1 L~ . , _ _ . . - ‘ , . ,__. , €10 1tf01 Da‘lno 1_0 own 0 011“ Ilcz correspondent of that Journal. y en nites past 11, so went funds to 1905151131151, his bust- it may be one of many. London and BademPowclL” After mentioning the arrest of mm the couple resumed their mute proâ€" ness. To die was not everything : Titâ€"Bits. He speaks of the easy escape of assassin in the shrine where he had enade. In . f ’ - I . . , - . . - . -. eboullet eifcla‘iiiried 13.321533131111105, m 3,191 case It wasnnccgssmy 1’? , $10 '~'3”‘_ Winston Chlll'Chill and Captalll lTfll- taken refuge, the correspondent says: start; “We forgot, to t5” Rose what a natural death or‘llllfliy. CANNOT MAKE FIRES. dane from a pack of sleeping guards, “Within half an hour the assassin to do with poor Adolphe after â€"- Where to bury him.” "True; I never thought of it. But don’t worry; he shall have the sort undrainatically, would be wasted. She died a "na- tural death” under the eye of a physician of the honesty of whose certificate there could be no ques- The I’apuans of the Malay coast of New Guinea are still in the most primitive state. They are wholly unacquaintcd with metals, and make “about which they (the-escaped prisâ€" oncrs) have, entirely without reason, boasted such a lot. To this day I cannot see what there was heroic in this escape." was brought into the Sultan’s pre~ scnce. His Majesty, who was seated in a chair under a tall archway, in full sight of all viziers, officials, and Some hundreds of troops, ordered the of burial he deserves." -_ . . theii weaions f stone, iones and . Distracted in spite of themselves “on i and her hus‘b‘md benefited by woold. T1193, d: not 1mm; how to It is a curious picture that he prisoner to be brought before him. her death to such a degree that he ' though fire is used gives us of life and discipline among Mr. Hastings and myself stood by by the movement in the street and exnilarated by the nipping air, they began to think less exclusively of their dog, and when at noon they not only tided over his difficulties, but EXTENDED I-IIS BUSINESS. start a fire, among them. When a Russian ask- ed them liow they made a fire, they regarded it as very amusing and anâ€" forces. There was too among the Boers for too little centraliza~ Tugela River, for inâ€" the Boer much praying his taste, and At the His Majesty’s side, in order that we might hear what pass-ed; The murâ€" derer was a man of apparently some forty years of age, of tall stature found themselves in front of their th, when 3, Is 1’. f. tion. home, Reboulle't exclaimed: “How tII‘t “(as n‘ot for months aflterl 'hat iszgiltciut hétgot some 2;: niilgibgr? stance, “I received sometimes in ten and not unpleasing countenance. hungry I . n!” .1191. {nséuan‘ce .fomtmrc‘ly .‘m and if an the fires in the village minutes four different orders from He confessed to deliberately “And I, too,” sighed Mme. Re- lnf‘tl‘g O , Suspluon'a“ m“ e “1' should go out, they woum get it four different generals.” 5110015951312 Cooper because he was bounet' qmues quwtly' It le‘wnt how one from the next village. Threir fathers Of the use of the sjainbok in the 5" Chricflan' Up to thls' tune the Immediately after they gave each other a look that promptly brought night the lady’s maid had seen her mistress dressed in her night attire, and grandfathers had told them that remembered a time or had field we have heard before now,,but never so definitely as in the follow- news of Dr. Cooper’s death had not been received. The Sultan there- . _ , . they , . them back to a due sense of proâ€" 3nd Wlthl bale fetch 133011}? PD in“: heard from their ancestors that there ing passage. , if?” ,Séd'mfmd “In? mirugttol be Pubhg-Y PrthY- Own 5“ (mg S one D‘Lss’a‘ge’ Jus was a time when fire was not known “To quench an open outbreak of Ogg" or “S ‘L ‘1‘” “Von 1' The pair were soon seated at the table in a little oak dining room. Onleiitering this room, so full haunting memories of Adolphe, after having had a hot bath. Thinkâ€" ing her mistress Was walking in her of sleep, the servant was too frightenâ€"- and! ed to betray her presence, but on on sitting down at the table around lthe fOUOWillf-i’ night kept WMCh- For which he had always wandered dur- a second and a third time the sleepâ€" ing meals, watched for bones delicate morsels. Mine. Reboullet 'had a, fresh outburst of grief. So .when her husband asked what they a n-d walking occurred. although on the third day ' the lady was showing signs of a severe cold. Alarmed for her mistress, the maid and everything was eaten raw. .4»... HIGH-FLYI N G BU T’I‘ERFLIES . Both in the Himalayas and in the Andes butterflies have been found at heights ranging up to 16,000 feet, and in the Alps they are quite com- mon at 6,000 feet. The very high- est elevation so far observed is 16,â€" mutiny I was obliged to have a burg- lier stripped of his upper garments and cause him ‘ to be given fifteen strokes with the sjainbok.” . The English phrase most often heard in the war, it appears. was “Hands up !" and on this Viljocn has AN AMUSING ANECDOTE. Cooper, and the man received sev- eral hundred blows from leather thongs across his hips and thighs, administered by soldiers in the prc‘ scncc of His Majesty and the entire court and troops. He bore his thrashing with great fortitude, and on its completion was able to rise up without aSSistance and walk. “He was then ordered to be p'u'b- li.c.ly exhibited in the streets; and, were to have for luncheon, she reâ€" betrayed herself on the third night, 026 feet, where they were found by A mounted Kafllr attendant of one lied between her sobs: “I don’t and found to her astonishment that M. Bonplan-d on the slopes of Cliimâ€" of the Boer commandants was hard mounted 1113011 EL donkey and guard- :now, my dear; I ordered nothing else, you remember.” “Bring in luncheon, R050!" called out M. Reboullet. strings flying. a. good one, too As she spoke she set down a large dish, filled to the brim with yellow- ish gravy, in which a number of small objects were floating about. The same thought instantly struck both M. Reboullet and 'his wife. Ill the lady was’ not asleep, but per- fectly rational, excusing her conduct by saying that she wished to see for herself that the basement of in the servant’s mind and she continued to watch. The following day the lady was ill and in bed, and the doctor who Was summoned spoke gravely. Yet at dead of night the patient sat at an open window until the maid went into the room and, knocking at the I the I The mold entered HQiSily, he? CHIP lhouse was properly locked up. Susâ€"j “Here it is, and it’s lpicion grew boraxo. Sir J. D. Hooker found butterflies on the slopes of the Illin- alayas at about the same height. He speaks of “the amazing quantity of superb butterflies, many large tropif :cal swallowtails, black, with a scar-- let eye on the wings.” The South American highâ€"flying butterflies beâ€" long to the family of Colia diinera, the Asiatic that of the I‘icris calli- dicc. The explorer Sir Martin Con- way also found them at high 'alti- tudes in the Himalayas. pressed by an English nlancer, and cried to him “Hands up !" Kaflir had so often heard the words spoken of that he thought they were about the only words in the English language. He took them for a kind of general phrase implying greeting and conciliation. When the lanccr, in turn, called out, “II-ands up !” he therefore said again, “Hands up, baas !" and was astonished to get a lanceâ€"thrust through the arm. He" saw there was ed. by soldiers, he was taken from I the palace for this purpose. “It was at this moment that the news of Dr. Cooper’s death was re« ceived. The Sultan, who was still seated in the great courtyard of the palace, ordered the public exhibition of the murderer to be stopped and, after consultation with his viziers, hi Cominanded the man's immediate ex- ecution, requesting Mr. Hastings and myself to be present, together with all the viziers. cggmt Is that? they aSkGd m mnâ€" door, indu’ced her to return to bed. T : ’ some mistake, and bolted, but in the ovein $1121:flfihegiraxa:05%;”; Why the dog __ stewed in White A few days later the battle of life MIND XOUR P 5 AND Q 5- midst_ of Hhis precipitate flight kep’t m‘sm'ml Square, which had been wine. ’I thought first I would serve had been fought by the physmian for T1119 VOI'Y familiar admonition glolltlng’ Hanas Up. ! hangs Up ! quickly cleared of the usual crowd of him roasted, but as madame said his Patient: and 10$t- A letter‘ 10“ took its rise from a custom which II} the 110170 Of SONOIHHQ the heart of people. He remained extraordinarily nothing about it” by the lady for 1101‘ hUSbfmd .fell prevailed in the inns of the olden 1‘15 pursue“ “013‘ whom he eventual' plucky to the end." Reboullet half rose from 'his chair, into Other hands long after the times, when the simple accounts of 13' made goo‘l his “scape. _ . exclaiming; “Have you darcdn_.__ writer’s death and aroused susâ€" the devotees of the flowing bowl The capture ofjthe naval gullBlll'lS- J W -+--â€"â€"â€"â€" I-What! Wasn't it to have him picions. The maid reluctantly ad- were kept on a blackboard hung in toned Lady lioberts by VllJOCll. ANCIENT BANK NOTES. tozeat that __. If I had known, mitted what she knew, and it is still the (linjhgfl-oom, 131311113.- Showihg _ led to an exchange of pleasantries Professor Ilouvglas, Keeper of the uncertain whether action may not with P. for pints and Q. for quarts IJCtWC‘E‘“ the latter and General 'Department of Oriental Literature in I could have sold him for twenty francs, lie was so fat!” be taken by the insurance company how the 13's and Q's were being Smith-Dorricn. _ I the Brith Museum, has obtained "Leave the room,” s-obbed Mme. to recover the amount of the inâ€" scored up against ~ the bibulous “I “'33 COInD9110d-” VIIJOCD Wl‘OtO, for the museum a curiosity in th( Reboullet. Surance money paid} guests. Whenever a patron was “130 “GIUOVC ‘l-fldy RO‘JL‘I‘L‘S’ from shape of a, Chinese bank note of tin Rose shrugged her shoulders and The Siberia that the Russian conâ€" likely to reach a state of inehriety, Helvetia. . . . 1 can assure 3'0" that fourteenth century, which was thi‘Ct went out, slamming the door after vict knows is, if half the reports 01‘ was Observed to be Q'Gttihfl‘ 1300 in 1101‘ “0511 SUl‘l'O‘UMiDE‘S and 110W hundred years prior to the introduo “Such a fuss â€"- for a about it are true, a place where deeply in debt. he Was jokingly told company. She was VOW happy and lion of paper money into Europe her, saying. dog!” If. and Mme. Reboullet sat for: a. speaking a word. In tim" Without LIFE IS WORSE THAN DEATH to “mind his P’s and Q’s.” If every one followed this advice toâ€"day the Yet it is not an uncommon thing for world would be vastly better off. very contented with her lot." To which General Sniithâ€"Dorien rc- plied as follows : “As the lady you The note in question was discovered in the ruins of a bronze statue, pro- bably of Buddha, at Peking. «yawnâ€"W7 A“. M . .- a was «um .kiwn ~..~>~<â€"v.n-¢~ x: «nu. . .- n, _ . “Mme www.m- “awn .vz.awWWM-'â€"â€"-â€"'-' ~ 7- mâ€" ‘ vi www- waaflwiquifilllal m