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ght that lhcil‘ fortunate hour tlâ€"that, in detail, they would ”3*. Macdonald, then’ one by ther iihedivial brigades. What Ve been, had fathell and son t the same time. and distance sides 01' Macdonald, as they intended, I will not venture e. Hippily the onslaught: ild, angry dervishea (lid not uchrunise, and Colonel Mac- a‘a able to devote virtuallyhis iug strength to the overthrow ultia’s division ere rapidly uuut {itsc one. then anather talions to deal With the She- in’s unbroken columns. The both sides got very close in, of them being killed almqat t of the men of the h'hedivml Dervish spears were thrown ver the Staunch and unb'leld' nts; and h‘ellaheen soldier; tiwde’s and de R-Ougemomfl etoud theirground, Side by the infantry, never waver- point blank upon the der- consumptfonafil $313293? was 79mm, P0 ’ temde it was 1.33am”: t was 1,580,000,009. ‘ ‘ ’ . ‘V 3}“; :dhisS b. 1m: dervis to crush him 11 0:11. 1’0 oppose x battalions, or. . udancse and Hg tact, 000111683 a we: Seen eonalle first instance from the ajor Williams’ and another L! the Maxims upon thalafl am hurried forward by th0 elf, as I SAW. General 8 over to the headquarters" -ng L0 get a.:s;stunce and with \\ auchope’s brigafle. led. for a considerable (113' riuus was the situation and .- [8113an of that. thrilling 8. Hezd the brilliant, £110 ed or arms wrought by been done under the eyegol or in some Other armleso 13' been created a gene“! . 1f the public are in seam}! s A; Jn‘ I0,ooo mums 3 Run a - L92 ’A-‘I_ -- U -- uuv r“~--v wâ€" ' hero of the battie of 03d? he is, ready madeâ€"011° wso no blunder to be redeemed ugs conduct afterwards. Be used his right of personal :1 a moment of 61qu he result amply justmed ass of his decision. L to sum'e of us looked like disaster staring him in the )nel Macdonald fought has ’r all it was worth. ‘30 oved upon the been available ’I‘med up, wheeled about. and {e or win. He won practical- l, for the pinch was all Put 1 the Camel Corps; hurrymB 1 upon his right, alter he had at to receive the Shaikh Ed laught. The Lincolns, who Ler on, helped to hasten W ue enemy, whose repulee W8} 3 they 01 any of \\ auchope's are wiLhin 1;.00 yards of M80- wis’ brigade were not even sis: so much, and such out- 18 came in time to be of 1190 -~. “Mt 1 a a catastrophe; "an order '1 1 Macdonald, which ' of mod‘ the new mpplied a minute .UY AS A GLADIATOR, picture, saw the 1 IS Charging “W0 'ID-FIRE GUNS. y reswnded. to mg . and alacrity be modern German ne w quick-firing Lied them» can equalled, C Juueu [0 1113 can with alacrity begotten of : and implkcu falthin had led several 01th. h a score of fierce “1 Egyptian Soldiers, Less and numjhood l I‘lva\li-.l vivid diVision cm not attack the W; ' and by her population. 30“ the ground, the street rail- “is: the gas plants, the waterworks. the parks and gardens and concert halls. And although every one of these institutions is worked more cheaply mm in any other town, each one is made to bring in a greater yearly pro- f; to the community. the total pro- ht per annum on municipal undertak- 21135 being $374,5fi0. The corpOILlOIl of Glasgow has spent ater$150,030,000 on making their mud' ditch into a river up \\ hich the great- est ships afloat .can sail, and in rais- ing their town to its present position. lad yet its public debt is, taking into consideration its size, by far the small- estof any city in the world. The key to its prosperity is that every common improvement, everything has been done - by the corporation ! lake, for instance, the poorer dwell-g ings. In 1844 a Royal Commission was: sent in reply to a cry that the poorer districts were unhealthily overcrowd- at The report of the commission was; that the death rate was over 44 in3 9"”! 1.000 of the population, and that typhus fever was as well known as; the face of the oldest inhabitant. The :erporation took up the matter, and W3 Glasgmv’s model dwellings are ‘39 very best at the kind. CLEAN BEDS FOR SEVEN CENTS. I0 Puild these, of which there are W 11%, capable of housing 2,000 per- ?fiheggysgfihttfiethirigulf rookerres, . . . , rom every lllznt of View, of nearly all other large mus were swept away. Any one, man awful: can get a thoroughly clean lithohéht :‘vesllmggfoggven cents. And , of the publlc at: was spent on erecting. these Witâ€"hezrgtgoél yearly return 18 paid __ , _ .y per cent. And the death ‘0..- kneuesL ‘1'..." porataon levied no‘ fill 1545 the cor whole of its revenue was ”as. The fled from duties made on all arti-E waffoOd brought into the city. was In excess 3795 year this revenue dmexpcnditure, and the surplus and in 1845 they in- ns P“[ I . ..umu1uted money inthe t firsc Lb Good” was only a. little over s in over $170,000 way. A , common 5000. It now “ring “P3 has been reduced to 19.9. [Instead of the city being supplied “Eh those necessaries of life, water in“ 838. by those private companies. if 999918,}hr0ugh their own corpor- . 0“» bunny themselves at the nom- w.‘ ,. _ . . . m1 Wes 0f, In the first case, 12 cents, and m [ha canny“! Q"- ’ 4- nnn‘h A“ Ann-“n N of RVsâ€"covered W afifql’opulati H u u lllnfnor he r8 35” 24:” Uiasgow stands alone. n ‘ " ‘ ' . me pubhc property. By «he inhabitants are able to 01011183 washed in the very 3 11:1 aft ’tlhe V‘ery lowest price. 96.. Wuen indulging in ‘92)“ a\..:__. - LLA‘l‘ PARK SYSTEM. 11 the good results of their the city at a yearly PIO- 0. With this money the bags looked to procuring anon parks, with the 1‘9" 1 the matter of “11111853,. Dds first. in the world. It Lacres allotted to this pur‘ Works out at one acre 0f I‘COVerz-d ground for every POpulatiou. During th6 l“|\r\â€"- ‘ r THE PEOPLE. mags, situated on day she stands 3e0- )pulati0n and com- sh Empire, and in ion and municipal urv in advance of “W1, [him any ptofit i t” the public welfare. THE SMOKE NUIS- ANCE. 191' bands play in each 'nd :‘nere is no collec- Wid by the Corpora- .1side $8,500 for this ry Cheaply F"- ;3 Reduced Near- muway, Water, at source of “once!" “axis which, up to the present, Glasgow has not been able to cast off. Millions upon millions of tons of coal are con- sumed yearly, and the black, suffocat- ing smoke hangs continually over the city like a death pall. But. it is not Glasgow's fault that it has not been removed. The corporations are will- ing to pay any one $10,000,000 who will dash it away. By running their own street rail- ways, gas plants and waterworks, and also being owners of their own city, they have been able to’ build Glasgow at practically no cost to themselves. And not. only this. By improving their city they have saved every year an av- erage of over 1,200 lives, and scourg- ing diseaSes are known no more. It muqt not be thought that Glas- gow never rests. She was one of the first to enforce Sir John Lubbock's Hours Act, wherein it is set down that no one under 18 shall work for more than 54 hour» a. week. EASY TO SWIMâ€"IF YOU KNOW HOW Fear Is the Only Thing That Makes It Difficult to Learn. Now that the bathing season is not far distant, a few hints as to swim- ming by one who is an expert will prove timely. If. the student will faithfully observe these, there is no reason why he or she may not become a first class “natatorial artist.” That which prevents most persons from learning how to keep afloat in the water for hours, with no further assistance than that which nature af- fords, is the fear of water. In many cases this fear can never be overcome but if the tyro will strive to conquer it, confidence will be gained. i w Swimming on the side is an easy, graceful way of covering distance in the water. There are; several differ- ent means by which the side stroke is accomplished, but the most usual one is this :â€"Place the right cheek against the water, when the right arm andl be'raiSed slightly above, and the stroke 1 for this side will be a short, quick one, ‘1 the elbow away from the body. The right hand will describe a circular, long, downward and backward move- ment, the palm almost literally pull- ing the swimmer forward. The legs are drawn up and kicked, back, as in the “breast stroke." Some swimmers give an extra kick with the right leg before drawing both for the kick out and back. LEARNING THE “BREAST STROKE." The “breast stroke" is when both hands‘are brought toward the breast, on which the swimmer rests, then ex- tended forward and back in a circular movement until they reach far back. The arm movement alternates with the leg movement. This is a steady way of moving through the water and. ; is an easy method to learn. i How to swim on the back is not {hard to learn. The lungs should be i inflated and the legs allowed to drop (“LA A‘Mn LU: wm‘c uLD uu- uvvo Floating is easily acquired after the hours and hours at a time. There are many tricks which can be learned easily after a swimmer has once acquired some knowledge of how to sustain himself in the water. These are graceful and pretty, and are cer- tain to gain applause for the per- former, for, while they are not diffi- cult, there are few who are certain enough of themselves to attempt them. The art of keeping afloat in the wa-_ ter is one which every one should ao- quire, for it may be of use at some time. When once learned, also, it is never forgotten. Wukens all the woes of years; Grating harshly on the bearer, Prompting deeds he’ll lxve to rueâ€"- Comes once more that fiendish ques- tion; “Is it hot enough for you ?" Flies a main straight through threshold, Through the hal .\ stairs, . What his fate is in his transit, No one knowsâ€"and no one cares. He’s the fool who asked the quesâ€" 'Muddleâ€"By Jove! just look at that hat skimming into the water. Tangleâ€"By the way where. is your hat? Did you leave it in the cabin? Muddleâ€"No I distinctly remember having it on when I came on . Great Scott! Come to think of it. that must be my hat. This magazine arl Ncrlhside. says that t Australia. are being miaated. So those animals :2 legs literally aswwell added Mr. Northside. ON THE STEAMBOAT- so THEY ARE. VERY WARM. 1e article. said M18. that the kangaroos of being rapidly exter- nals are on their last 3 well as figurafively, SAND BUYERS MILLIONS. HOME-BOUND GOLD BARK SUNh 0N AUCKLAND ISLANDS. Survivors Sought in Vain to Revisit the Spot â€" Treasure For Which Many flaw Honied~llcroism of One of the Pas- sengers. Another effort is about to be made .to recover the treasure lost with the ship General Grant. The story of this unhappy vessel and her tragic end was once a household tale in both England and America, but the half century elapsing since her fatal voyage has dimmed the details in the minds of all but a few. Her tale is unique. Of the thousands of vessels of which a re- cord is at hand, none sank under such peculiar circumstances as the Austra- lian bark, whose cargo of uncounted millions, moreover, has made her an object of especial interest to all who would seek for lost gtreasure. Per- ; haps as many lives and as much money have been sacrificed in a vain effort to find the .scene of her disaster as were lost on the stormy morning on which she went down. l WEST WARD, HO 1 The General Grant set sail from Mel- bourne, Australia, on May 4, 1866. She was a fine full-rigged sailing ship of 1,200 tons, and was owned in Boston by an extensive shipping firm. The voy- age which she had lately completed from Boston to Melbourne was her maiden trip. For the return voyage she was billed to England. They were wild and eventful times in those early years of Australian gold diggings, and what with the “bushrangers,” “sharp- ers" and escaped convicts, and the like, the miner's life was often a short and rarely a merry one. They had to maintain their rights with a strong arm, which often proved awkward to the bully and the thief. It was of such men that the passenger list of the General Grant was largely oom~ posedâ€"men who had toiled hard and with their well-earned gold were re- turning to. their old homes in Merry England. There were 83 souls on 'board. In addition to the general cargo, stowed away in some safe nook in the Captain’s cabin, and known only to a few trusted men, were several boxes containing each 1,000 ounces of gold, valued at about $18,000 each. This was the gold that was insured, and, in addition to this there was the individual wealth of the returning miners, carried privately, including a large amount of jewelry. STRUCK ON AUCKLAND ISLANDS. She cleared the port of Melbourne at dawn on a day such as only Australia can‘ promise. Her voyage for the first few days resembled a trip through fairy land. The hearts of her passen- gers were beating high with hope; they were successful miners returning home. As a call had to be made at New Zealand, a course was shaped so as to make the middle island of that colony, but by some extraordinary cir- cumstance, which no one of the sur- vivors seemed ever able to explain, the vessel passed away south of her in- tended course. At four bells in the first watch, 10 p.m., of May 13, just one week out from Melbourne, the “lookout" man reported land on the “lee beam” three or four miles distant. on the weather side of Disappointment eh the weather Island, one of group. some shallow sands near a huge cave. The cavern is supposed to run into the interior of the island, and has never yet been fully explored. As the ship drove inch by inch into this truly aw- in? place the tall masts began to scrape the roof of the cavern and im- mense masses of earth and rock rain- ed down upon those below. Nothing more terrible can be imagined than and rise of the vessel. A der the keel, terrible darkness madness. When daylight was break- . ...... llonl- "1an name sounding taken at this time showed that the depth was {we fathoms unâ€" d this decided the Captain to hesitate no longer, so the order was given to lower the boats: The utmost iled durlng this fear- rdea1,.but after day- onfusmn and panic. d madly overboard, while down, an 'WRECKED IN A CAVE. he terror of the situation and of self-preservqtion had driv- .f the passengers into a panic, THROES. vices of. James Teer. The Captain and one of the passengers climbed up into the riggmg. The longboat glided of! the sinking deck into the water. leav- ing behind it two or three unfortun- ate beings. The boat was pulled rapid‘ 1y to the mouth of the cave to join the rest, but before it was 100 yards from the ship a heavy sea, a swift eddy, and the great weight of the passen- gers, caused it to. founder, and all its occupants were left screaming and fighting for life in the angry waves. Two of the crew and one passenger were picked up by Teer, but the rest were drowned. In their endeavor to save these .last the people in Teer’s boat came rlght ecrpss the mouth of the cavern_ ju_st in time to see the last throes of the General Grant. .She went down be- fore the eyes of Teer and his compan- ions, who saw the water crawling up the masts quicker and quicker, and over the heads of the few luckless be- ings who screamed for the aid that could not be given. Over the head of the last passenger to be seen went the heaving water, and those in the boat knew that they had parted forever from their Captain and their ship. Fifteen souls survived the hor- rors of the cavern. THE TREASURE STILL UNFOUND. After almost unparalleled hardship ‘1 the. few who were not dead of hunger .( or marl of thirst were finally picked up " by a whale-r. Their story, of course,‘ caused great excitement on-twc con- ] tinents. Several efforts made by ‘ different parties were unsuccessful in ‘ recovering the treasure lost in the General Grant. Steamers were char- tered and divers sent with them, but so severe were the gales of wind in the locality that all attempts were! abandoned. In all of these expediâ€"5 lions Teer was a prominent figure, and ' in one actually visited the scene of all s his past sufferings. He would never; reveal at that time the exact location of the scene of the wreck. One exped- ition was entirely lost and never heard of again. Even so recently as the .year 1889, 22 years after the catasâ€", ltrophe, 'Teer prepared for another! 'great effort. He laid all his plans! carefully and everything seemed to: ‘favor the attempt. But on the eve of i i l I the expedition, when the final prepara- tions were being made, and when it seemed that the gold in the ill-fated General Grant was at last within reach, James Teer was found dead in his hotel in Melbourneâ€"a dramatic end to a dramatic life. Sometimes an umbrella seems to arouse suSpicion, even when it is in honest hands. {Thus a London paper tells a painful story of a young man in a street car, who carried an um- brfella which had been his birthday gi t. On the seat facing him was a lady with '_ a precocious boy, evidently about five years old. .The youngster regarded the young man with at- tention for a few moments and then his eyes wandered to the umbrella. He gazed at it in silence for a sec- ond. then he wriggled in his seat, clapped his hands and shouted; 1 ‘--‘_ 1:1,”; nnm’fl umbrella? Hush, hush, my child! mother. “v Vn-vâ€" - Papa. was looking for this evening, mamma, boy. I Q 7 £‘_-‘ UUy 0 Yes, yes, but he found it, said the mother, hurriedly, as the conversation was becoming of interest to the other passengers. A _ - _- L:_..AA +1“: vnnn'o- yaDDDLLeUL u. \Vhy, mamma, continued the young- ster, you know he didn’t. You told him that he didn't know enough to keep an umbrella. Why mamaâ€"â€" At this stage the young man left HE HAD “v“: At this stage the the car. Mommaâ€"Johnny, what do you mean by Saying No, when I asked you if you went in bathing. when- you knew you were telling a wrong story? Johnnyâ€"Didn’t you tell me the nH-m'r dav to be a man and learn to n33hrifiyâ€"Didn’t you tell me 1 other day to be a man and learn say no? . “ NECESSARY TO WARN HER. \Vhen you get your groc day, said the butcher to I don’t go to that little grocer my shop. Why not? she demanded. {Be/035159, 'he seal "in y‘esten‘ borrowed an old pair of my LIKE A LADY. «- Frances, said that little girl's mamma, who was entertaining callers in .‘the parlor, you coma. down stairs so noisily that you could be heard all over .the house. You know how to do it better than that. Now go back; and come down the stairs like a lady. Frannpfl- retired. and after the_ lapse V‘lu-ov â€"_ Frances retired. a4 of a few minutes parlor. this time, mamma? No, dear. I am g1 tnls L‘mj, I“ “““““ No, clear. I am glad you came down y. Now don’t let me ever have again not to come down noisily, for I see that you can come down quietly if you will. Now teil these ladies how you managed to come like a lady the second time, the first time you made so quietl to tell you muon uUl§o. .The last time, I slid down the banis- ters, explained Frances. The puperintendent of a city Sun- day school was making an appeal for a collection for a Shut-in Society, and he said: ne S'duu. _ Can any boy or girl tell me of any e’ --in persohs mentioned in tbs l... J? Ah. I see sweral hands raised. That is good. This little. boy right in front of me may tell me. Speak up good and loud so that all wili. hear WHOSE UMBRELLA? ‘ LEARNED HIS LESSON WELL. segiMRw-Sflwevsfe‘rday and: old pair of my scales. oking for his umbrella mamma, continued the SHUT-1N. your groceries to- tcher to his wife, tle grocer next to come downstairs low mph-es an Anetta! by Climate»- A nation only lives a. few thaw Years. Look at the great nations of 4,000 years ago. Egypt, Yucatan. Mexi- co, Peru. Assyria are all dead and bur- ied. China is only staying alive to save funeral expenses, says the London Daily Mail. The next generation of nations in- cluded Rama. and Grezce, and 1h 38 are like galvanized ghosts. The third gen- erations, the Turks, Moors. Spaniards. Moguls. Dutch, and Scandinavians, are alive, but have lost. their power. From this you will see that the na- tions in hot‘countries die, and; stay dead. The nations in cold countries rise, become great, fall, lose their out- lying dominions, and yet stay alive. That is because the land does not lapse into jungle like Ceylon and Yucatan, or change into desert like Assyria and Egypt, but remains fertile. providing: plenty of food. Now to apply these facts. Great Britain, the United States, Russia. and Germany are gaining in population. wealth and power; but the British Em- pire is extending more rapidly than any one of them. Compare her with France, for instance. A couple of cen- turies ago, when France owned most of North America, and was founding a vast empire in India, Paris was bigger {than London, and was the capital 01 Tthe civilized world. .To-day Paris has 2,500,000 people, and is the capital .01 Hhe arts and fashion. But London has ‘5000,,000 souls. and has taken the place ‘of Paris as The British Empire is growing, and ;it will keep on growing along the line: iof ltast resistance. At the present rate. gthe whole land surface 01 the planet gwill be absorbed by the year 3234:; A.D. fBut as Great Britain grows it comes ginto closer contact with the boundar- ies of the United States, Russia, and gGermany. Even if we could, we have fno wish to swallow these or any other Edecently governed countries. ’i‘he United States, Russia. Germany, and Japan are playing the same game. The British Empire is nearly as large as the four combined. As England-does not wish to conquer the well governed countries, the area open to annexation may be diminished by half. In that case all the world will be properly gov- erned by the year 2012 AD. So in 113 years from the present time the British Empire must stop spreading for lack of room on the planet. Even then it will grow in. wealth and popu- lation. But meanwhile these little is- lands are getting very old. Sooner or later we may feel the weakness of age and be no longer able to fight. for our possessions; our colonies may cut adrift from us; the conquered countries like India may revolt. If all this should happen, as politicians of a pessimism: temperament are already predicting, it would only be a case of history repeatâ€" ing itself. 'How long will that befW'ell, Rome rose in 400 years, as wegdid. and took a thousand years to decline, Our em- pire is infinitely greater," stronger, and more loyal than the Roman. Suppose we say 1500 years before the Little England party wins a general election and little England is a second- class power, as she was in thd days of Henry VIII. Narrow Escape of an Indian l’rofesslonal Fowler. “The gods made nine gems, but only one peacock," says a proverb of India, the native and ancient home of the beautiful bird. 'lh: proverb, however,‘ is not strictly in keeping with facts. There are two peacocks-the bird of India and Ceylon, and ‘a second species, the peacock of the Far EaSt, of Java, Burmah and Siam. It is a legend of the Indian jungles that leopards and tigers can fascinate peacocks, and a writer in the London Spectator refers to the experience of Colonel Tytler to :show how strong is the faith of the lnatives in the story. METROPOLIS OF THE WORLD. Calonel Tytler, while stalking a pea- cock, was surprised to see how near it allowed him to approach. The bird paid no attention to him, but was gaz- ing intently, as if fascinated. at a lit- tle patch of jungle jllSt'. in front. Looking in the same direction, he saw a leopard stealing on its belly to- ward the bird. He was suipiised, but his astonishmm: was greater u. hen ,on raising h1s gun, one barrel of wh1ch was loaded with ball, and covering the animal, the leopard th1ew up its paws, and shrieked in a voice hoarse with terror, “No, Sahib, no, don’t fire!" Colonel l‘yLIer £0r a moment thought he. must be going mud. The next m1ment he saw a man disguised in a l ,opard-ski n w: th a well-stuffed head and a mw and arrow in one paw standing b fore hm. Ihe man so dressed was a professional fow 121, who said that in that disguise he could al- ways approach near_enough to shoot the: birds, and sometimes catch them in his hands. A heavy stroke of lightning in th~ city of Lynn, 131.355., on. the evening of: .. May 1, caused the bleak-mg of many water pipes. LARGEST BRONZE STATUE. -In St. Petersburg is the targest bronze statute in e;istenceâ€"that_"ot Peter the Great, Wh-LCh wetghs 1,4”? tons. LIGHTNING’S STRANGE W'ORK. DYING NATIONS. STALKING A PEACOCK. “'0 -’