a Mes --==. THE FARM WORN OUT PASTURES. It is well to have a good reason for everything and the main reason for plowing up pastures is when the forage plants become scarce and thin and weeds and moss are plentiful. Many such fields are found and they are allowed to re- main so--a most profitless proceed- ing, for while we have many hight and poor crops on arable land, worn out pastures are quite as common. ~ It may be the argument that there is not the expense of culti- vation that there is with arable, This is true, but unramunerative Grass land is as undesirable as any other. The durability of pastures depends to a great extent to the elean state and good heart of the land when the seed is sown and also on the quality of the seeds. Some are really perennial and perman- ent, others contain a great many weeds and all 'such pastures: fall away ina few years. _ Renovating may be attempted and is often successful if begun in time, but as a rule nothing short of plowing up and recultivating makes really satisfactory perman- ent pasture. To say that a field has only been laid down a few years and cannot need renewal is not & strong reason for letting it re- main. The condition of the pasture only ean be taken as indicative of whe- ther it should remain. or be demol- ished. Some fields are so foul that a summer fallow is urgently needed in their redemptions. I am not averse to this course, though it means delay and if the fields are not actually overrun with tenacious weeds, they may be broken up in the fall, cleaned as much as pos- sible in the spring and persevered with in the succeeding year. Tf land is plowed in the fall, har- rowed in the spring, cleaned as much as possible anda grain crop with rather thick seeding introduc- "ed, the weeds will have experienced a severe setback by the fall, and if earefully prepared for roots to fol- low, quite a new state of things will be experienced. GOOD BUTTER MAKING. Dairy work is ne longer guess work, but science. Simple, it is true, but all the same science. People who are troubled with their cream and butter are general- ly those who have made no study of the principles that absolutely fovern the souring of cream and the process of making butter. There is no excuse for any far- mer's wife being ignorant of the methods of good butter making in these days of scientific teachers in the experiment stations. Mottled butter is; generally due to improper working. It is some- times due to uneven distribution of the salt and sometimes to the fact that all of the casein has not been thoroughly washed out. Salt on the casein-in butter forms lighter. spots: and the remedy is thorough washing before salting. FOR HORSE BREEDERS. The best bed for a horse is a clay floor covered thickly with straw. Faney driving and saddle horses bring big prices when they are wanted, but the demand is govern- ed by freaks of fashion and finan- cial times. ; A well-bred draft horse is al- ways'in demand and the farmer who breeds them constantly is the one who makes the most profit in horses. A young, high-spirited driving horse for which $600 was paid was rendered almost useless in a single week by a fool driver who yelled ai and whipped him until he became frightened at the city sounds and sights. It took a sensible driver a solid month to inspire confidence and bring the animal back to good driving form. A man with an un- governable temper should not be trusted with a horse any more than drunken chauffeurs should be al- lowed to drive an automobile. GOOD LUCK IN HORSESHOES. Talisman to Ward Of Evil--Shoes of Gold and Silver. Tt is not difficult to understand why lovers of horses came to adept the horseshoe as a talisman against misfortune, says the London Globe. Horses were considered to be, espe- ' = cially liable to the machinations of | This fact stands out in all| Witches. the records of the Lancashire witeh- es and other evil hags. If precautions were these mischievous witches would ride the horses at dead of night over the hills, and when the owner came to the stables in the, morning he would find his animals in a lather and utterly exhausted. A horse- shoe fastened over the stable door was believed to ward off such evil. There no euperstition more deeply ingrained in all classes of seciety than that which is attached to the horseshoe. As an emblem of good fortune it holds price of place. Nelson did not disdain to nail a horseshoe to the mast of the Vic- tory. In the early part of the nine- teenth century, the horseshoe was very highly prized, and there were few London mansions where it was not displayed, while humbler folks were at great pains to fasten it over their doors. Horses were not shod either by the Greeks Romans. The cients were content with wrapping fibre' cloth round the feet of their horses in cokl weather, is or districts. attention to hardening the hoefs of their mounts. Nero, who ever strode to outdis tance his contemporaries, caused his horses to be shod with silver, while his wife's were resplendent with gold, but in no ease were nails driven into the hoofs. . of shoeing horses by driving nails into the hoofs was introduced into ~ England by William the Conqueror, "but such a practice did not make any hesdway for ceuturies. The Indians, who had no super- Jors as horsemen, never thought of shoeing their mounts in any way, andl yet they were capable of per- forming remarkable journeys over most dificult country. The San-| down Derby was won by a horserun- | ning in a natural state. The race | The practice | THE BRIGHT BLUE SKY. Air Surrounding the Earth Is the Cause of the Color. Until a few years ago no one knew what made the sky blue and why it was always that color. not taken | Pecially about the way it effects The reason for the blue in the sky | Was discovered by John Tyndall, an English professor of natural philo- {sophy, who has' written some very j learned books about the air and es- \light and sound. Tyndall observed that the sky was jnot blue at night, but almost black lexcept in moonlight. He also no- | ticed that the blue of the sky is not ithe same in all parts of the world, so he concluded that there must be something in the air that was blue }and not in the sky at all and that as | there were different things in the jair at different places this would ae- eount for the difference in the color of the sky. The air that surrounds the earth is full of countless tiny specks of dust. If you see a sunbeam stream- ing through a small hole in a dark part of the barn you will see mil- | lions of tiny specks of dust floating all through the ray of light. When are so close to them we | or when it} the sun shines on them, they cannot was necessary to pass through miry | reflect any of the color rays back to Instead of troubling | our eyes except the blue ones, and about horseshoes they devoted their | so the whole sky looks blue to us. | | | i } | | { | | | | | was run twice, owing to the fact, that three horses. made a dead heat on the first oecasion. second attempt the owner of Mar- | Prior to the ; den gave orders for the light plates | to be removed from the hoofs of ms nominee, with the result that Mar- den gained a comfortable victory by three lengths. es Even at the present day ir Japan the modern horseshoe finds a strong enmpetitor in the old fash- | janed sandals made of straw. which e=nre fastened to;the horse's hoofs » after the manner of equine 'Coricket -- ghoes."' SRS | RES BOMEBRBODY. Somebody has to mend the socks, 'And stareh the frocks, 'And clean the crocks; ee "Somebody has to wash the floors, And dust the doors; Somebody has to beil and bake, And make the cake, And fry the steak: Bomebody has to buy things cheap, 'And wash and sweep, With little sleep-- = eats Pat's mother. } } an-| or We might 1 twhen these specks are a great dis | tance off, away up in the sky, and | ago the dust floated all they appear to be a reddish yellow, call them white, but You may have been in the moun- tains when some of the peaks were so far off that they looked blue, al- though you. know quite, well that they are covered with green trees. Red brick buildings look blue when they are very far off, because the other rays are lost on the way to our eye. The specks of dust that are in the sky above us are just. the right size to reflect the blue rays, but when there are others up there, larger specks, or of a different material, they reflect other colors. After-the i key of the Russian Government. A HONEYMOON IN SIBERIA WEDS SWEETHEART THAT SHE MAY SHARE HIS EXILE, Brave Polish Girl Is Content, So That She May Be Near Man She Loves. The man and the woman around whose love this story turns were married in prison, Their honey- moon will be spent in Siberia, writes a Warsaw, Poland, corres- pondent. The bride was in a simple walking dress and fur cap; the bridegroom just relieved of his chains for the ceremony, and surrounded by sol-} diers and warders. No wedding guests were allowed. The priest was admitted to the prison chapel after undergoing close investiga- tion, and the bride was carefully searched for fear she should have a rope ladder hidden away for the bridegroom. The witnesses were the two officers in highest command in the prison. They took a keen in- terest in the ceremony, for such an event is not likely to happen again in all their experience. But though the couple look to spend the honeymoon in the. wintry wastes of the north, that is not yet. After the knot was tied the newly- wedded pair were parted. The bridegroom was hastened back to his cell at the far end of the prison; the bride. was shown to the huge gate of the arsenal--where the pri- éon is--and told to go home as quiekly as possible. Behind this unusual wedding is a great deyotion and A HUGE SACRIFICE. Few women would undertake what this bride has undertaken. She was a Miss Dziekievicz, a teacher in the factory schools at Zyrarfow, in Po- land. She is now Mrs. Zakrzevski, wife, of young Bolislaus Zakrzevski, whose one and svle position is that of a prisoner under the lock and In spite of this ugly fact, the little bride, who is both young and comely, does not seem to mind. She, is quite cheerful about it and looks forward to the honeymoon in Si- beria. "You see,' she says, "'I could not possibly leave Bolislaus, whom I have been engaged to for a long time, Neither of us can be happy without the other, and when I got engaged to him I knew very well that he belonged to a political or- ganization called the Polish Party of Socialists. So I was quite pre- pared for emergencies, for the par- ty is a secret society which tries to spread ideas of liberty among the people, and fights as hard as it can against the autocratic Russian Gov- ernment. Many people disapprove of it because it goes in for terror- ism, but that is a matter of. opin- ion,'? Here she stopped and looked across the snowclad fields around Zyrardow. '"'The party was very strong here, as in all manufacturing centres,' she continued at last. "But more than two years ago the Goyernment got on their track, and there were about fifty arrests. My sweetheart was among them. He + was taken off to Warsaw, to await his trial. Oh! in America or Eng- land they have no idea what. this means. It is nothing at all unusual for men and women te be kept in prison for two, three, and even four years awaiting their trial. During all this time. I was forbidden to see him. Only his nearest relatives were allowed to visit him once a fortnight, for ten minutes, behind a double grating, with armed sol- diers walking up and down close at hand, and LISTENING TO EVERY WORD, "Tt was weary work, waiting all that time, as no letters were allow- ed, and all we could do was to send one another little messages through his mother and brother, who went to him. At last, after two years waiting, the trial was fixed for the beginning of last December. I had applied for permission to marry him long before, so as to have the right to visit him, even if only for a few minutes every fort- night; but the authorities refused. When the trial came I felt I must be in court, just to see him, and let him see me. 3ut this hope. was vain, for the case was held behind closed doors. : "Tt lasted a fortnight, and no- body knew what had gone on except the lawyers, who thought at one see great eruption inthe East 25 years the way | round the world, and the eolors in! the sky were wonderful. If it were not for the dust m the sky, which reflects and diffuses the light of the sun, there would be no time that my betrothed would be let off. But this was not to be. The court was thrown open for the sen- teneces, which' I went to hear. My future husband was sentenced to five years' exile in Siberia, in one of the prison settlements, and -noti- eclors in the sky, and the. whole} thing would be just like a black hole in the ground, with a great ball of) fire burning in the midst ef it. ee ates SHORT: KINGS,.2ALE QUEENS. | "Many European monarchs are of | shorter stature than their queens. George V. is several inches shorter than Queen Mary. The German'! Empress is slightly taller than the Kuiser; and it is alleged that when they are being photographed toge- ther. William sees that' the Queen takes a seat, while he himself stands. The Czar of all the Russias is by no means as-tall as his consort, and Alfonso of Spain is said to be a head shorter than Queen Victoria Eugen- je. The King of Italy hardly reach- es to the shoulders of his Monte- negran wife.. The Queen of Den- mark, too, is taller than her hus- band. Exceptions are the King of Norway and the King of the Bel- gians. The latter, eix feet two inches in height, is the tallest ruler in Europe : ) ful j home here?' } young fied that he would not be allowed to leave Siberia frontiers for another five years. Even then it is doubt- if he will be allowed to return Once the sentence had fallen, the man was taken back to his cell, without being able to exchange more than a glanee with his be- trothed. Bunt she was not daunted. She determined to follow him: to Siberia.. This is not at all easy. Only wives and husbands are allow- ed to follow prisoners, and, in some eases, children, She would have to marry him whilst he was still in pri- son, Sometimes the "politicals" are not sent off into exile for months, for lack of room. But ence she was his wife, she would be allowed to visit him in prison, perhaps once a week, so she again applied for permission to. marry him. But on this occasion young Zakrzevski made objections. He felt he had no right te con- demn a young girl to spend the ten best years of her life in @ prison Like Cincinnatus, was ealled in the House of Commons, but it plough. # settlement, and, probably, the reat of it in some FORSAKRN SIBERIAN TOWN. He told his mother this, and she repeated it to the young girl, but she was firm. After a great deal of trouble and repeated refusals to listen to her at all, and after seeing that the pair were really anxious to marry one another, the authorities gave in. There is nothing in Rus- sian law to forbid such a marriage, and robbers, on the eve of their ex- ecution, have been known to marry their sweethearts, the ceremony taking place in the condemned man's cell, But the Governor of the Warsaw Arsenal said this was avery different case. He felt it was a pity that so young a woman, uni- versally liked and respected in the town where she teaches, should link her lot with a man henceforth civil- ly dead. He sent for her and argued with her in quite a fatherly way, telling her that she would undoubtedly marry in a year or two, and be able to lead a quiet and comfortable life in her own country. Miss Dzie- kieviez listened patiently, but. re- mained faithful to her lover. She declared she would have him, and no other; so the authorities gave in and the Governor gave them handsome wedding present. a Me PEN a nepradent HE ETHERIZES PLANTS. Copenhagen' Professor's Flowers Blossom in Ewo Weeks. Most plants living for a greater period than a year require certain intervals of rest; it is at these times that energy is stored up for future activity. The more complete this peried of quiescence the better is the development, and the quicker the rate of growth when the plant | awakens from its sleep. Dr. Johannsen of Copenhagen af- ter an elaborate series of expericd ments, has given to the market! grower an effective method of rapid} flower production based on an in-| tensification of the plant's resting | period, For long it has been known that | vegetable tissue is much affected by } the vapors of chloreform and ether, | After a good deal of investigation | the Danish professor was able to} demonstrate that plants submitted | to the influence of these anaesthet-| ics were afterwards capable of an| astonishingly rapid growth. So satisfied has the practical @rower been that the treatment vill be exceedingly helpful to him that the method is being extensively em-! ployed, particularly by the enter-} prising French gardeners. The manner of procedure is de- cidedly interesting. When in an} entirely restful condition specimens, of lilacs, azaleas, lilies of the val-| ley, and other plants are placed in, A an air-tight box. A small vessel, affixed to the lid of the box is filled} with chloroform or ether and the cover is placed in position. Being heavier than air the vapors | rush to the bottom of the box and> mingle with the plants. At the end | of 48 hours, the specimens are taken ! out and grown in the ordinary man-| ner. | Nothing in the way of forcing is, required, and without the employ- ment of any great degree of heat} the plants develop in a most re- markable manner. Lilacs were in full bloom within a fortnight after | being placed in the vaporizing; chamber, whilst lilies of the valley! were hardly so long in coming to) maturity. In no way did the treatment harm! the plants, which produced flowers} and foliage in profusion.--London} Sphere. La Sa pn raeett NO ONE. ELSE. CAN. When little differences arise be- tween young husband and wife, as rise they sometimes. will, néver let} outsiders, though the dearest and; nearest, be told. If the husband and wife-cannot put things right be- tween themselves no one else can. Half the, troubles in early married | life arise through the partisanship | of relatives. The home, and the re- lationship which exists between. husband and wife, are meant by the very words of our Lord to be sacred and inviolate from interference. SS, Cotton ean only be grown in tro- pical or semi-tropical countries ; but wool is. mainly a product of tem- perate regions. leomes in with Parli from retirement to lead his party was a golf club that he left, not a BEWARE OF RUN-DOWN HEELS Ht Is a Sign That Your Vitality Is at Ebbing Polat. A humorous editorial in a recent magazine asserted that many a wo- man showed her character in the rear view of her 'heels, but many who laughed over it amd at once be- came uncomfortably conscious of their own have yet to realize that what heels often do betray is the state of the wearer's health. Any woman who observes herself for a time will netice that the tendency to run over the heel toward the in- side deereases when she is in thor- oughly good health, and becomes noticeable at once if she is deficient in vitality. It is a danger signal to be heeded by those whose physique is not strong. If running over is a matter of weak ankles it can be, cured by ex- ercise and temporary supporters. The woman whose ankles turn easily should be careful how she indulges in low shoes, especially at times when she, has to be on her feet much. She can also be helped ma- terially, by being strect with herself in the matter of having the heels corrected at the first aml slightest sign of unevenness. Once a heel has begun to wear off it affects the gait instantly and. most unfavor- ably. It also ruins the shane of the shoe in a manner that no mending, however skillful, can remedy, as it twists and pulls the whole rear half | of the shoe out of position. When that has onee happened the wearer will find that the shoe itself "push- es" the ankle over. Better to pre- serve the fit of one's pretty foot- wear by untiring vigilance in this matter, as @ven a day or two May distort its comely lines past remedy. seis, ens LONDON"S SEASON. How It Is Observed In the World's Metropolis. Among all manner of folk the sea- | is recognized those s0n few weeks in the early part of the year, when London becomes the sechne of extraordinary brilliance and festiy ity. Strictly speaking, "the season lament, and goes out at the approach of summer ; but the advent of the motor-car and modern progress generally has made this a much tess democratic affair than formerly. Many society people are in and out of Londen all the year round, but there are still left some people who would not dream of as le | the dreadful offence of being seen in town out of the proper tame of year. Society gaiety in London is now by nov means restricted to the season altogether, but it is still marked by certain special signs--Court Levees, Drawing-rooms, and entertainments of unparalleled gorgeousness. For the most part, it is no longer customary for society people to have a town house always on their hands. large majority now simply take a furnished house or flat for the sea- son, and save unnecessary bother and expense. To many of the chief | participators the season is a dread- red time, eminently tiring in the de- | mands it makes upon brain and body. A society man or woman--and particularly the latter--needs to be | absolutely perfect in their know ledge of society, in the byways .as well as the broad paths. slip might be fatal, et OI GRAINS OF GOLD. To be trusted is a greater compli- ment than to be loved, Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely about all liberties. The wealth of a man is the num- ber of things he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by. Christianity wants nothing so much in the world as sunny people: and the old are hunerier for than for bread. When people begin to talk falsely it is better to be quite silent and let them say what they please, till | the sound of their own makes them ashamed. When unconscious soul purity which exists in a mind unscathed by the fires of passion no after tears.can weep it back again. No penance, no prayer, no anguish of remorse, can giye back the simplicity of a soul that has never been stained. nonsense <: piss fare bs The famous Buffs (East Kent FRIENDLESS. Regiment) are, of course, so called ; : ; z on account of their buff facings; "He hasn't. a friend in the | white the Yorkshire Regiment were world." "That's. tough. Whom |p po6wn'as 'Howard's Greens.' from does he blame it on when-he stays out-late at night then?" committing | A. single | Joy ei a@ man has once. lost that A MEDIEVAL HOUSEHOLD. How Rich Men Kept House in the Geod Old Days. The extravagant luxury of the modern millionaire's establishment, with its scores of servants and un- derlings, is not. so remarkable, after all, if it is compared with the ela- borate house-keeping conducted by a great neble or ecclesiastic of the middle ages. Take, for example, Gaseoigne's account of Cardinal Wolsey's retinue as it is quoted by Mr. F. J. Snell in his recent book, entitled "'The Customs of Old Eng- land."? After stating that the am- j Litious churchman had in atten- dance upon him "men of great pos- sessions and for his guard the tall- est yeoman in the realm," the old chronicler proceeds : "And first, for his house, you shall understand that he had in his hall three boards, kept with three several officers, that is, a steward that was always a priest; a trea- surer that was ever a knight, and a comptroller that was an esquire; also a confessor, a doctor, three marshals, three ushers in the hall, besides almoners and grooms. 'Then -he had in the, hall-kitchen two clerks, a clerk-comptroller, and a surveyor over the dresser, with a clerk in thespicery, which kept con- tinually a mess together in the hall; also, he had in the kitchen two cooks, laborers and children, twelve persons; four men of the seullery, | tworyeomen of the pastry, with two 'other paste-layers under the yeo- men. "Then he had in his kitchen a )master-cook, who went daily in vel- | vet or satin, with a gold chain, be- | sides two other cooks and six labor- 'ers in the same room. | "In the darder, the seullery, the |buttery, the ewry, the cellar, the |chandlery, the wafery, there were ;yeomen and grooms; in the war«- robe of beds, the master of the wardrobe, and twenty persons be- sles; in the laundry, a yeoman, |groom and thirteen pages; in the | jbakehouse, the woodyard, the barn | j there were yeomen .and grooms; /porters at the gate, two yeomen and {two grooms; a yeoman in his barge, land a master of his horse; a clerk ) of the stables. and a yeoman of the jsame; a farrier and a yeoman of jthe stirrup; a maltlour and sixteen ;grooms, every one of them keeping four geklings. | 'Phere were also the officers of | Wolsey's Chapel, and the singing jmen of the same. And he had two 'cross-bearers and two pillar-bear- fers; in his great chamber, and in his. privy-ehamber, all these per- jsons, the chief chamberlain, a vice chamberlain, a gentleman-usher, | | besides one of his privy-chamber ; lhe had also-twelve waiters and six | gentlemen-waiters; also he had} nine or ten lords, who each of them } } 1 jin the usual way. |promotions from the ranks would jta ;had two or three men to wait upon | ihim, except the Earl of Derby, who had five. men. GREAT BRITAIN'S POSITION STATEMENT BY THE UNDER- SECREPARY. FOR WAR. A Striking Force of (56,006 Mon Ready at a Moment's. Notiee. Colonel Seely, Under-Secretary for War, in the recent debate in the British' House of Commons on the army estimates, said that what we had to look at was how we stood in regard to possible enemies. Mr. Amery said we had made no ad- vance in the past few years, and. that our situation was deplorable. He (Colonel Seely) held in his hand an envelope addresseal to Mr. Am-: ery marked "Seeret," and he would send a similar document to any bon. member who wanted it and would regard its contents as secret. Mr. Amery had made a very fierce at- tack upon the military preparedness of this country, which would have # grave reaction, if believed, upon our position in the world, Coloney Seely, continuing, said that on the word 'Mobilize'? being given, and if that word were given to-day, within a few days--and the number of days would be found in the paper marked "Secret" --- 150,000 men could be despatched abroad--to Na- tal, for instance--fully equipped with arms, ammunition, provisions and stores, and with reinforcements ready for them for three months. That marked the most extraordi- nary advance in the whole military history of this country. Nothing like it had ever been attempted be-- fore. It had been the result of vairs of thought and effort and ex- Tonka! It had involved the cutting . down of many redundant things, and it had involved the setting up of many necessary things; but we stood to-day in a position quite ex- traordinary in offensive force com- pared with what we held during the Boer war, or even six or seven years ago. It was trifling with the committee to say we were better off now than when the South African war broke out. PROMOTION FROM RANKS. In regard to the shortage of offi- cers, the War Office had a list of non-commissioned officers suitable for commissions, but owing to the system of competitive examinations which now prevailed it was found in practice to be almost impossible in time of peace for rankers to hokd their own intellectually m examina- tions with officers who had come, in In time of war ke place in large numbers, As to the rifle, hon. members op- posite had used arguments which were naturally contradictory. The | | War Office intended always to have "Then he had gentlemen bearers, and carvers and of 'servers, forty persons: also, he haa | 'of alms, who were daily waiters of | cup- this board at dinner, twelve doctors | the Europe. ;and chaplains, besides them of his | ichapel; a clerk of his closet and two |wecretaries, and two clerks of his l signet: four counsellors Jearned in ithe law. | 'And for that he was chancellor iof Eng'and, it was necessary to have officers of the chancery to at- 'tend him for the better furniture of | the same. } 'All these were daily down-lying and up-rising; and at attending, { | |meat he had eight continual boards | for the chamberlains and gentle- men-officers, having a mess iyoung lords, and another of gentle- men: besides this there was never a gentleman, or officer, or other worthy person, but he kept some two, some. three persons to 0 wait | upon them: and others at the least | had one, which did amount to a great number of persons. | "Now, Gascoigne quaintly in- quires in concluding his formidable i specification, "having declared the }order according the chain roll, of his house, and what officers he } | | ; expeditionary force has ;country, taking into account the re- the best rifle of all the powers of The rifle now in the pos- session of eur troops was, in the judgment of the War Office aalvis- ers, a bétter rifle than that of for- eign European powers, but we wanted to have a new rifle, because other people were going to get new rifles, and we wanted to be first. In regard to horses, we were more ready for war in that respect than we used to be, but we were not se ready as we ought to be. We were, however, more ready than other powers. Mr. Wyndham (C. Dover) asked how could he say that the expedi- tionary feree could be allowed to start if behind that force' we had the state of affairs described by Mr. Amery? <All Colonel Seely had said was so much dust in the eyes of the members of the committee. SAFE FROM PWYVASION. Colonel Seely: The General Staff |are of opinion, and the Secretary of State for War authorizes me to @ay this, that we consider that when the: left this USC | lative strength of our navy and all the surrounding circumstances, this had daily attending to furnish the | countfy is safe from invasion, That same, besides retainers and other! statement seems to be a complete | persons, being suitors, [that] dined | petutation in the hall: any more such subjects (keen such a noble house? that household ; in the ¢haimn persons." were eight hundred &. C FACTS T FACINGS. ABO What They Mean on a Soldier's i Uniform. | Taking the breeks off a High- j lander is one ticklish job, and to de |prive a British regiment of its cher ished facings is another. Many years ago, however, the military authérities, in thelr wis jmake almost all regiments wear | white facings in place of the distane- itive colors of which they were so jproud, with the result ef wide- | spread discontent. | 'What, by the way, are facings? The next time you see & soldier in} full uniform, cast your ¢ye over} him, and you will notice that his collar. the cuffs of his sleeves, edging, of his uniform are a differ- ent hue from the rest of the tuni¢. | 1 These are facings. | | t } | | dom, attempted to do so, and to|' of the alarmist sugges- and when shall inna tions of the hon. members opposite, Shashi. and I repeat that it isthe opinion é a : statis . |of our advisers that, taking all the "Therefore here, is the end of his | facts into consideration, when the the number of persons |» xpeditionary force has left, this country is safe from invasion or from defeat in the event of invasion. A i SOLACE FOR G RIEVED. Kindly Customs of Arabs Towards Those Bereaved, "Arabs east of the Jordan have a eustom which shows a kindly feeling one toward another,' writes a tra- veller. <'If a man's horse dies next te his eldest son, his best eom- panion) his neighbor will bring in another horse and put it in the stall of the dead one and allow it to re- main seyen days, thinking én some measure to make up for the loss of the dead animal. The women alse do something similar when a baby dies. A relation or friend will give ithe bereaved mother her own baby ito nurse and care for during seven shoulder-straps, and the piping. or} days; in that time the parent is swp- }posed to become reconciled to her loss "Memory calls up a touching in- leident that occurred tin our domestic The gencral guile is that Royal; Site" 3 regiments--i.e regiments called | le "in Moab." Soon after our ad- "Roval,? or which are known 25 | Yent:!nto that land my wife had the or "Queen's So-and mstance, the "King's" iso. Regiment"--for Regiment--wear blie facings; but there are exceptions. Scarlet, for example, are the fac- ings of the Royal Regiment of Ar- tillery; while the gréen uniform of the Royal Irish Rifles is relieved by dark-green facings. No regiment, however, that is not a Royal regiment wears blue fac- the name of their colonel} and their the! i Royal Scots, the King's Liverpool | It soon became known and the women were very grieved about it. A day or two after a young chief that hag always been kindly disposed -to- wards us presented himself at on door. : "T asked him in; he entered, and from under his cloak brought a tiny white lamb. He put it into my wife's arms, saying. 'I'm korry for your loss, and if 1 had a baby would have tent it to you to care for until vou had got over your grief; T had this lamb, so have brought it for you. to look after, feed and carey tor.. * imisfortune io lose a little one. La Fortune is apt to favor the brave gyass-green facings. who hustle while they wait, ~