Seven years ago, was fetching prices almost as high as thosd of to-day, "rumor had it at the upp uca River, in the Bacuiis of Hons duras, Central America, were al: t entirely "unexploited, and si: ly teemed with rubber, For once: no Rumor told the truth; and, op n Roland W, Cater and his partner Anson itched their camp river bank, at a distance of about forty-five -- "miles from the Sty. they. found rubber trees ounded in quite extensive patch: es, and none of them appeared to have been tapped before. Their jubilation was shared by th eir "orew'? of ten men--nine - Caribs and an' Indian whose name us Diego Casco; for, in addition to a monthly wage, each man was itled to a premium of two pesos, native dollars, for every hun- | cepa hc of rubber he brought into the camp. Little did Cater Anson know, however, that of cunning thieves, lazy vagabonds, ate: out-and-out scoundrels there was none ta beat Diego. THE FIRST INSIGHT which the two prospectors got. in- . Diego's character came on the ird day, when he refused to take a turn to hunt for fresh meat, and mutinously declared as there was plenty of reserve of tinned meat he meant to have some of that An- _ son thereupon threatened him with strong measures, -- "Bah! What could you dot" joined the Indian. » Beet wer -you nicely covered," he continued, onchalantly. "And, suiting the ac; on to the word, he raised his eu his shoulder and, screwing up one. eye, glanced along the barre! in a very ugly fashion with the oth- Whether the native really in- ended to shoot at Anson or no ts ill an open question, but shcot he id, for Anson--naturally alarmed at Diego's action--instinctively put nis hand to bis hip for his revolver well, that. did it! § onsidering that scarcely ten aces separated them, it is little 'short of marvelous that Anson was not blown to pieces. Instead, how- ever, one tiny shot alone reached him, lodging in his forearm and using quite a minor wound, Witb savage howl, he rushed towards he Indian just as Cater arrived on the scene with the nine Caribs, for- unately in time to prevent further ble. Diego was soon overpow- ed and disarmed, and, precaution Meing the better part of valor, the o partners had him bound and eposited in his quarters. Next morning Diego expressed sorrow for his action, sa,ing that was DRUNK AT THE TIME, d the partners decided to forget e affair; merely resolving to "Hep a closer eye on the Indian and never again permitting him to handle firearms. But Diego was merely hiding his time. He was out ) revenge. On the twelfth day, sy and Anson decided, as the ear supply of rubber was exhaust- d, to abandon the first camp and ivel farther up the stream. Two or three nights bofore mov- ing the camp, however, Cater, who ad been unable to sleep on ac- count of the mosquitos, and who had gone outside the little apari- ment which he shared with Ansor a smoke, observed a light eaming through the trees in the direction of the crew's camp, whieh was situated some forty or fifty avds farther along the bank Creeping up, he discovered Diege nc one of the Caribs carrying bale after bale of rubber to the boats, dently with the intention of inak- g@ off with » goodly portion before | he quer- 8, eae dat we doa got for you at presen," was is imper ent response; and with last word he rushed at Cater, ga nasty blow at his head udgel. Stepping aside just : Rokr with a ; eg backw + seein, Acie 2 pinning round, but my advant 101 ived, for a moment "ls T myself Jay beside him.. Uys Cater; ad come to his econ- | reoping me with and « ar h ad felted * | stood there tot feeding cattle, the moonlight now tland has a new chef, or rather | | cessor fing frem the royal service. im with a cruel-look- re. the rubber \with the Carib, neither did he want a man alive who could tell the story of the rob- bery. He raised the knife ready for the blow which was intended to vid him at once of his, confederate and gp possible witness. against him, when the ¢ Caribs upon the raft hail. Hos Baer crer THE WOULD-BE MURDERER. Diego was so startled by the un- expected salute that he seemed to be quite dazed for 'awhile, and gazing vacantly to- wards the river. But he was not long in regaining his composure, 'and a few seconds later darted to the water's edge and sprang upon the raft. Seeing himself cornered, the scoundrel dived headlong into the river; and, "Well," to -- quote |Cater's own words, "there is a great deal of soft mud at the bot- tom of the Patuca in places, and huge boulders hidden beneath the watér in others, with innumerable alligators, occasional sharks, and no end of strong currents; so that in the absence of evidence it would amount merely to a speculation as to why he never came to the sur- face again. : That is how we Kelowna a' i z at life, while Diego ' "Diego did not want to] "CENTURIES: eae ' aes % tate Howsolvla "Decoration Was. the Original Idea of . Prince Shotoku, ie ay ee es F. In no other country but Japan is the art of flower arrangemtnt taught as' a special accomplishment by trained masters and according to fixed rules established .by the various schools. ' There have been be followed in_ this important de- coration in a Japanese household, according te a writer in the Japan Magazine, but none has' aisplaced the original. school, which hgd its inception in a family named Ono, generally known as Ikenobo, in the seventh century. Prince Shotoku was really | the one with whom the idea originated. He instructed Ono-no imoko, a Minister of State, to form a set of rules for flower arrangement. Im- oko was a man of learning and cul- ture and had enjoyed tne advant- age of foreign travel, having twice made a voyage to China. He took for his model Mount Sumi, India, associated with the Horai Islands of Sofuku, and from these develop- ed. what is known as the rikkwa, or upright grouping of flowers, so much admired at the present time, and of which through forty-three generations of this notable FAMILY OF ARTISTS. the same essential elements have goodly portion of our stolen rub- ber. Delighted with the success of| our chase, we shook hands with} ourselves and each other all the} way back to camp, journeying throughout the night. 'lbhen 'came cha hardest blow of all--the five! men we had left in charge had dis-| appeared, and so had -.e remain- der of our rubber! Evyndently tak-| img a leaf from Anson's book, they | had fashioned a similar raft to his, followed us .closely down oassed us under cover of night, and probably by then had dispos- | ed of their ill-gotten gains and| reached a safe hiding-place !"' Roe ANDALUSI AN PLAINS. THE ern Prairies, To traverse the great plains of Andalusia is not only to travel and characteristic part of Spain but to receive an impression, at least from a distance, of the West- ern prairies as they formerly were. | For miles and miles on either side | of the Guadalquivir (which, its romantic name, is a very muddy stream) the country stretches away | into a faint blue haze of distant} hills, with the foreground and mid- dle distance full of herds of horses, | mules and cattle, feeding slowly or | lying at ease in the Jong grass and | tow gorselike serub. The wide and lengthy tracts of grass country, the immense herds and the mounted cowboys combine, says the Wide World, to present an| aspect which seems to belong much more to America than to Kurope. On closer inspection of course this ilusion is dispelled. Vor example the horses instead of! having ordinary foals at foot have mule foals, and interspersed among the horses and cattle are herds of mules, with occasionally a few don- keys. Moreover, near the alqueriasi or farms will be seen droves of pigs of a dull red color, flocks of goats, and in some places merino sheep. Spain, especially on these plains, is a country of mnmagnificent sun-! seis. Words fail absolutely to de- seribe the glories of the svening sky. Bulent and statuesque against the distant glow one sees silhouet- ted pechapa a mounted herdsman --@ brooding figure, motionless and grim---cy en a viver's bank a black bull siendiog dark against the roseate eky. Again in the invonlight one may desery the faint and dusay forms and again oatchinig on a glenming horn. The silence, broken by the faint lowing of distant kine or the weird cry of sorae night bird, gives an enhansed beauty to a wonderful scene, not easily forgotten. -- KING | WAS NEW CHEF. Monsieur Cedard Will Superintend --, Coronation Banquets. His Majesty King George of a new chief chef. Of course he is a Frenchroan as was also his prede- M. Menarger, whe is vetir- The Iname of the new chef, who receives: the madesi: sum of. $10, a00 per year, ay he w the cry from a king' s 0) Westminster Abbey, but whe has been imported ace to supervise the meais 'ish royalty also is destined © the Coronation banquets afte te stream, | Remind the Traveller of the West-| tO Wet art Perecnediy anteresting | have been the most skilled expert among all the devotees of the art. for all | | He simplified the method of rikkwa 'and beauty of their fof the Ashikaga family, Yoshimasa, | sion from the Emperor to hold the been preserved, and one might al- | most say reverenced. | Upon the death of Prince Shoto- / ku, Ono-on Imoko went into retire- | |ment, became a Buddhist priest | jand founded the Bokkakudo, or) ; hexagonal temple, at Kioto, where |he enshrined the image of Kwan- |} | non, or gowuess of mercy, of whom | 'the Prince had been a votary dur- ing all his life: Later the flower lenthusiast established his temple of Shinnazan, where he daily devoted | himself to his chosen art, offering the pleasing results of his erdeav- | lors to the departed spirit of his be- | loved Prince. His influence became widespread, and successors in his family from ; generation to generation have been proud to continue in the pursuit of flower arrangement and do honor to the name of so worthy an ances- tor, one Seno, who stands twelfth in the line, being considered to He it was who introduced many new and beautiful adjuncts and was so highly appreciated by the people of his time as to have had bestowed upon him the title of "HIGH PRIEST OF RIKKWA"' for straight flower arrangement. and originated what is now known as the Ikebana system of grouping, which is supposed to typify the ex- istence of the soul in the body, and which he used to that end in in- structing the people in this prized refinement of their customs. Through its priestly advocates flower arrangement attained its greatest height and became _ so closely associated with Buddhistic expressions as to be regarded as one of the essential ornamentations for the tokonoma, or raised dais forming the decorative feature of a Japanese room when _ religious paintings or images were shown. When the power of the Fujiwara family was at its zenith and the various members vied with one another in perfecting the elegance homes even those who disliked any semblance of Buddhism and its practices con- formed to their manner of Hower arvangement, so powerfully did its charm appeal to them; and during the days of the Ashikaga Shoguns it was considered an indispensable drawing room decoration, and up- on such occasions as the fetes of ar- mour absolutely necessary in point of etiquette. Rival schools in the art aroused such jealousy among the enthusi- asts as to cause the eighth Shogun to issue a declaration to the effect that ; ; , THE ONO FAMILY | was to be considered the authority for highest school of flower ar- rangement, and passing unimpaired through the stormy days of Ojin the art received further promotion at the hands of Emperor Mizuno-o, who presented a handsome flower vase, ornamented with dragon' handles and still kept as a great treasure, to the bead off the Ono fainily, Ikenobo, Afterward he was so honored as to be allowed to visit the Imperial Palace, and later received permis-} festival of the flower arrangement of Tanabata (July), which had been previously celebrated at the palace, at his own house. Further favors from the throne came in the form of 'the gift of a screen from Seiryoden Palace. to be suns on the above oc- casion, all being high honors and | ea enhancing" the bao belt of : pea oe as ne repres scHoon. Is tsa a kis oe some trai different authorities on tne mode to} | ness after | ments, which will take twenty years | books of the disk is fitted into the larger end of is held securely by means of stiff being made of paper, may be dis- carded after use, and new ones may a-1 be employed ed oer "fresh "Use | Tot 'the bottle. upper classe )00T- indeed | the ad- in this accomplishment. 'The present day finds it still one of the chief fea~ | tures in the attainments of cultured Japanese young pense a woheter, education. -- was f i a . ; Do FIRST PORT OF THE WORLD. $70,000,000 to be Expended on the Port of POnHGE. The London (England) port au. thorities propose to spend more than $70,000,000 in improving the dock and harbor factic:'cs of the = ? Thames estuary, with the view to] making London in reality as well as in name the first port of th: -world. Experts have bee studyin the subject for fifteen months ont they have now issued a report con- taining recommendations. The scheme is a far-reaching one, but is: in no wise more elaborate than ne- cessary to prevent London from succumbing to the competition of other British and foreign ports. It includes the dredging of the river channel from Tilbury to London Bridge, the part used by the large vessels being widened to 1,000 feet and deepened to thirty feet. Half a million pounds sterling has al- ready been expended in a dredging plant. Other striking features of the scheme are the construction of three new docks at Tilbury of 65, 126 and 138 acres, respectively, to accommodate the largest vessels afloat or projected, which will be "capable of dealing with any pos- ee sible growth in the size of vessels | for very many years to come. "he existing docks will be en- larged and deepened and the en- trances widened. There is also a plan of railway extension to bring) the docks within easy communica- | tion with all parts of England. | The construction of a passe nger | landing stage similar to the Prin-! cess landing stage at Liverpool is | contemplated. It is intended to follow the present scheme with an- other programme of extension, the scope of which will depend on the! development of the shipping busi- the present improve- to accomplish, are completed. % ODD CLAIMS FOR INSURANCE. British Employers Are Liable For Accidents. When a few years ago British employers became liable at law for injuries suffered by employes in the | course of their work cartoonists | got busy depicting the hired girl | gleefully tumbling down stairs with the tea tray or the coal box, secure} in the prospect of a long rest and | no loss of wages. Householders, of course, cover their risk by insur- ing each employe against accidents. English courts, as a rule, place a liberal construction on the word accident, and accordingly on the insurance companies may be found many odd claims. Here are a few :-- A cow whisking her tail caused injury to a milkmaid's eye. A farmhand was stung by a bee. A manservant sprained his leg through stamping on a rat. A coachman coming out of a sta- ble was struck on the face by his master's boot, intended for a cat- erwauling cat. A cook was breaking coal piece went down her throat. A curate was scalded through stumbling while carrying a tea urn at a parochial gathering. A servant was pricked by a rus- ty needle while sewing on a button on her employer's clothes. It is somewhat difficult to imag- ine that success could attend claims hke these :-- A servant received a shock through seeing a large Teddy bear when the room was only dimly lighted Another servant fetching coal out of a cellar collapsed from fright caused by. the silent appearance of a washerwoman and broke her arm, and a % BOTTOMLESS MILK BOTTLE. Top and Bottom are Closed With Removable Paraffined Paper. In order to overcome the difficul- ty of cleansing a milk bottle thor- oughly, says the Scientific Americ- an, a "bottomless bottle' has re- cently been invented. The device consists of a tube formed like a bottle, but open at each end, so that all parts of the interior are readily accessible. When the bot- tle is to be used, a paraffined paper the tube to serve as a bottom and spring metal strips After the bottle has been fil ea it is closed in the usual way by means of a paraf- fined cap. The caps and-- bottoms, ."shtshi," which you to become my wife. NEWS: BY MATL ABOUT 100s BULL AND IIS pubes ¢ A " -- - ¢ © deveined 'i the Land ghat - Reigns Supreme in the Com : 'mercial World. ue Last year London had a \ iawn: a death rate than the other great ite ies of the world, | Three hundred otinibhis cee used on the streets of London were sold by auction last week. Some fishermen caught a lavas seal in their nets on Dover beach recently. It fought fiercely for its liberty, but was secured, Old silver plate valued at $1,5 was stolen recently from the wien at Birmingham assay office. The thief escaped unseen. During a dance at the West Som- erset County Hunt ball at Taunton, Mr. Edgar Watson, a solicitor, ag- ed about 45, suddenly fell dead, People in Berkshire and adjoin: ing parts of Buckinghamshire anil Oxford are adjured by red placards to give no help to tramps and beg- gars. During 1910 25,764 dogs--of which about 23,000 were "strays '---were received into the temporary Home for Lost Dogs, Battersea, $.W. That form of. animal measles which is known as distoraper has been raging much beyoad th» ner- mal among all classes of dogs, es- pecially foxhounds. There was a terrifying scene in Bostock's Jungle at Sheffield the other day, when Herr Felkendorf, the tiger trainer, was attacked by a tiger and seriously. injured. The White Hart Hotel in Spald- 'ing market place, Lincolnshire, the | history of which goes back to the , fifteenth century, was sold by auc- tion the other day for $25,000 Arthur Samuel Bradley, a youth | of seventeen, left his home at 90) Jodrell road, Old Ford, because his | baby sister cried, and has not been seen since. That was on December | 21st last. A petition has been presented to the governors of Dulwich College, asking for the removal of the an- cient toli-gate in Dulwich Hamlet, the only one now now remaining in or near London. A Roman urn decorated with leaves, and an ancient stone coffin containing cremated remains, and two ancient glass "tear bottles," were found recently on the South Common, Lincoln. At a recent meeting in London of the Royal Commission on Metallif- erous Mines, it was stated that some workmen in factories used | their trouser pockets to keep dyna- mite warm. Up to January last the only pau- | pers in the Parish of Great Hol- land, Essex, were five old people, who were in receipt of out-relief. All of them have now obtained old- age pensions, so that the parish has not a single pauper. Messrs. Pauling & Co., Limited, Victoria street, Westminster, have been given the contract for the con- struction of a dam in connection with the Bombay -- hydro-electric scheme, the total cost of which is estimated to be about a million and a half sterling. The ancient ceremony of cutting the Baddeley cake was performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, the other day. In 1796, Baddeley, the famous comedian, left $500 on condition that on Twelfth Night the | theatre company should cut a cake and drink to his memory, A fit-of temper, following an. al- tercation with his mother, was the | excuse put forward recently at Not-| tingham by a *ollier named Stacey, remanded on a charge of setting fire to a house at Hucknall with in- tent to murder his mother and hive children, who had to jump froma window, * PEACHES $12 APIECE. Peaches, at about $12 apiece, im- ported from the hothouses of the south of France, generally appear on the tale of the Czar of Russia on certain festive occasions, which shows that the Russian imperial cuisine is carried on on a most lay- | desire to fall so suddenly into this of | new ish scale, though, as a matter fact, the Czar's tastes are very sim- ple. Codfish, fried in oil, scarcely requires a chef with a salary run- ning into four figures to prepare, while the national dish, known as includes pickled cabbage, meat broth, and a few other specifically Russian ingred- ients, is a dish that every national cook has at her finger ends, ¥ Da "Darling," said he, tenderly, "I have made up my mind to ask you --to ask you---' "Yes?" 'she| whispered, breathlessly. 'To ask I know, dearest, that it is bold--it is pre- sumptuous for me to do so. You are so much superior to me. I am, I feel, unworthy of your----'" "Say no more, John. {am yours. You may be unwor thy of me, but----" "But what, dearest?' 'Half a Se is s better than no bread." zee Cee ce | cms, BARBERS PROCLAIM] 2 oA NGW 'LIFE. i They Are Cutting Off Queues by Thousands to Show Their Adherence, -- : i . A revolution" in- social custom] of far-reaching significance is now sweeping over China, This is the cutting off of the queues. "Starting with the radicals of the| Nev China party, the docking of the queue was urged by them as the visible and necessary sign of an acceptance of new ideas. Patriot- ism demanded that the Chinaman should rid himself of all the cus- 00 | toms of the dark ages, said the re- formers, and there was no better evidence of emancipation from con- servatism than the absence of the queue. Jt was not more than three years ago that the New China party start- ed the queueless crusade, and so rapidly has the movement spread that before the end of last year a rescript from the dragon throne itself advised the wholesale cutting of the hair, and the new, half-or- ganized Tzucheng Yuan, or Na- tional Parliament, passed a meas- ure commanding the REMOVAL OF ALL QUEUES, This change is all the more sig- nificant in that it came from Chin- ese inspiration, and not through foreign suggestion. . Thirty and more years ago the foreign mission- aries in China attempted to make headway against the practise of foot-binding; and their suggested innovation was at first bitterly re- sented. It was not until within the last ten or fifteen years that | © anti-foot binding societies compos- ed of Chinese made any great headway against the evil, and now the reform is by no means general. But so rapidly has the queue- | docking idea spread throughout all the provinces that a foreign paper published in Hong Kong estimates that in December alone over 40,000 Chinese in that city and its vicinity cut off their queues. A despatch from Pekin, published in the North China Daily News in December, |~ says that all the officers in the Im- perial navy and in the army in the northern provinces have fallen in line with the reform, that the mem- bers of the Wai-wu-pu, or Board of Foreign Affairs, now appear queueless, and that instructions will soon go out to all representa- tives in the diplomatic and Consu- lar services ordering them to dis- pense with the APPENDAGE OF DARKNESS. In December there were hair- cutting festivals in Canton, Hong Kong, Amoy, and even in Manila, | where on Christmas Day over 1,- 000 Chinese underwent shearing. In Singapore and other cities of the Straits Settlements, down in * ws 2 EG 4 What i is Going on fe 'the. Mig and Lowlands of 'Aul a Scotia, te are now 388 Bo Sooute: en- rolled in EA Gi Ra eee Greenock. is Rape SP spat ew gas. purifie to co dit of ee ae a ings Bank. Twenty-eight cows" were burned to death early on a recent morn--- ing at Broompark Dairy, Corstors: phine, es The Victoria Infirmary, Glasgo hy. has received $25,000 for a patho- | logical laboratory from. an Ree) mous giver, 5s The Clyde trustees have iébole. ed to erect a new granary at Mea dowside to cost between $200,000_ and $250,000. : The depression in the Leith hulle! ing trade still continues, building operations being practically at & standstill. At Rutherglen, an Italian ice. cream dealer has been fined $10 for persons in his shop smoking after -- the closing hour, ' Of 27 counties in Seotland only. four haye*had the same convener since county councils were insti-_ tuted 21 years ago, There are 654 paupers over 70 years of age chargeable to Govan Parish, and of these 529 will now accept Old Age pensions. | The total number of deaths rog- istered in Edinburgh during a re- cent week was 63, equal to an an--- nual mortality of 9.0 per 1,000. For selling milk three per cent. deficient in fat Lewis Gall, a dairy farmer, near New Machar, was fined $25 or ten days' imprison- ment, The number of proclamations of, banns of marriage made jin Earls- ton church during 1910 was greater than in any other year since 1856. Last year the production of Scotch whiskey decreased by over 2,000,000 gallons, and totalled only mare gallons, the lowest for 16 years. For unbroken attendance of ten years each at a Kilbarchan Sunday school three children in one family have been awarded silver. watches. Mrs. Drew, of Ardencaple House, Row, who is in her 100th year, gave 174 children of the village a treat at the end of last week in the Row Hall. In Stirling, the buildiffe trades during the past two years have been comparatively slack. The new land taxes have had their effect on the property market. The trustees of the Carnegie Hero Award Fund have awarded their medal for bravery to Mr. George Black, Dundee, who res- ee Batavia, throughout the cities of; Japan and Corea,-the snip-snip of | the progressive shears has been sounding the knell of the old re-| gime. In Shanghai the craze has decd deep-rooted. At one time 4,000) Chinese gathered in a market- place in the heart of the native + city and patiently stood in line un-!} der a blazing sun until each could take his turn at the shaving stools| of the corps of barbers. Each man} picked up his once precious queue as it fell from the shears and car- ried it home with him in the sleeves | of his blouse. The North China Post describes a remarkable scene which occurred ,in Hong Kong recently. The oc- casion was the shearing of six of the oldest and most influential Chinese of the city. A congregation of Chinese pack- ed in*the largest hall available in the city and the six old men took their seats on the rostrum. Then, while all who could found seats on the floor and tea was passed around, five of the leaders in THE NEW CHINA PARTY addressed impassioned oratory the multitude. The old men sat nursing their queues in their hands meanwhile, not seeming at all ardent in their to regime. Tnen when men stood up while a camera snap- ped them in two positions, front and back. They had said that at least they wanted to preserve a re- cord of how they had looked. That done six barbers advanced to the stage. Every whisper was «enced and the whole assemblage 'sat in breathless awe while the barbers snipped the grey queues from the hads of th six pat viarchs. Then when the six thin wisps were held up there was a great cheer, and the old men left. the platform with tears ine their dimmed cit; _ \ Equal parts of ammonia and spirits of turpentine will take paint out of clothing, no matter hew dry | or hard. Saturate the spot two or three times and wash out in "soap- the! speeches were finished the six old} cued two ladies from drowning. May 3rd has bcen fixed by the Duke of Counaught for the formal. opening of the Scottish National | Exhibition and the receiving of the freedom of the city of Glasgow. The turkey-red dyeing and cali- 'co printing trades in the Vale of Leven during the past six months have provided steady employment, and shows a great improvement. Fourteen hundred Dalkeith chil- /dren were each presented with a savings bank book and a shilling by a former chairman of the School Board three years ago. They have £750 standing to their credit. Official statistics regarding ship- building on the Clyde show that despite the fifteen weeks' lockout the year's production reached a to- tal of 390,000 tons, only 14,000 tons less than in the previous year. WOMAN AGED 126 YEARS. Bulgarian Woman tas Record to Prove Great Age, The claim of Frau Dutkiewitz of _ Posen, Poland, born on February -- 21, 1785, to be 'the oldest woman in- the world is now contested by Mme. Baba Vasilka, who was born in May, 1784, in the little Bulgarian village of Bavelosko, where she has | lived ever since. he record of her -- birth is preserved in a neighbor- -- ing monastery of the ae ; Greek faith. She is the daughter of a peasant,: and has worked herself as a pea- sant up till a comparatively recent date. Wor more than 100 years she regularly worked in the fields, ac--- comling to the custom of her coun--- try, where women aré employed in all sorts of manual labor, The events of her life up to the. time when she attained the age o 80 are far more distinctly impress ed on her mind than the happen 'ings of the last 46 years. ae Her son Todor, following tho family tradition, has also worked in the fields as a peasant nearly all |his life, but he has also taken pa "ae 'in various wars and rebellions ithe Balkan Peninsula. 'quite so fresh and vig mother, elthough he is sill ing such emal) taxur id pips: and the ee