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A" Sod bless the loving little ones. The one: you can your own, And give you deeper tenderness Than you before have known.' The years are bearing them ewny With sure and rapid flight; O. cal the darlings to your heart. And kiss them all to-nightl Perhaps the days are sometimes hard; Perhaps you sometimes scold, With lies you may forget. to guard, 'Slid triah manifold. _ Is there a quivering lip, a (our! Then haste to make it right, Nor sleep without a fond cares: And loving kiss, to-night. Let not the growing girls and boy. Drift from your heart away, But win and hold their confidence, Lest they should go astray. The heart that Show. its low. hath power To help the young night; For than let sympathy be strong, And kiss them all. ur-night. ”We. The dear Lard madetbairlittle bod- ies perfect, and will bold us account- able for squeezing and pressing the tender organs out ot place and pre- venting natural action and develop- ment. Oh! it fills me with "right- eous" indignation when I find a cry- ing, delicate baby weighted down with lung skirts, squeezed with bands innumerable, tortured with stately- pms, buttons and all such like imple- me-nts of torture. A email safetrpin should be used to pin the. diaper. The diaper should all) be small. Their lulu legs are aoft, - the bones,‘ l BABY CLOTHES. More or less. according to the size of the mother's pocketbook, I know every intellignnt lip-to-dste mother wants her. baby to be comfortable, healthy and happy, and I am going to tell you how to mike than not only that, but also dainty and pretty, says I nurse. Of course. they are always cweet. In the tirat place. shirts no out of date, and a good riddanee, for they were an abomination. Ex- pensive to begin with, they were cler- nnlly shrinking and rolling up, making baby uncomfortable. Second, bands unnecessary and harmful after the cord is hauled, end shoulu only be tight enough then to hold the dressing in place. A - _ _ .. . 'rx-q, ' mcm--nndug, bulky diapers make them bow-legged, pigeon-tood, etc. Two very small safety-pins are needed to pin the stocking: to tha dimer. Bootees are pretty, but they will not stay on unless they are tied tight enough to stop circulation. You can get cashmere and silk stockings for twenty-five and fifty cents a pair had you can put the money intothem instead of shirts. All weight. should be suspended trom the shoulders. Once seen. any. woxmn can cut them herself, they are; so simple. But any amount of love and labor may be expended in the puking of them. for hand-work is the pzopor thing. Htan-stitelsing,l drawn-work, eat-stitching and hcr! [lug-ho ring with "Bull's cotton," ete.l Lace beaming mound the neck and sleeves. and hem with hahyribbon run through it. ’liny groups of tucks in the yoke. with Monitors inserton or otrt-trtitcttes, between, and it makes a E,",li't', finish to out the hem and put oniton between it and the dress. Dimity, tine lawn or any line. soft material is used. Never use embroid- ery in little infant th'ngs. Wait until they get into short clothes for that. Never use anything except white, un- less it is the little outing flannel nightgown-t. and pink does not fade as much as blue. Always take every llilch. except the diaper. off at night and rub gently with your hand the little l.o.ly before putting the afore- mid nightgown on. Two of these gowm are plenty, h.cause they are easily washed, and are all the more fresh and slew-producing from being washed every day, t-spt-cially if they ere dried in the sun. In fact, baby's bed and bedclothing should be in the sun eVery day. Sunshine in the Lest hypnotic in the world for babies and other people. Twenty-seven inches, tiui,hed is the proper length for all sip. 'l‘htee and one-half yards of material makes two slips. A slip of line white flannel takes the place of shirt and skirt. A white elven-less slip comes next, then the dress, and the whole business can be put on at once. The baby don't get cross, the mother don't get nervous, and, best of all. there are no tight bands and villainous safety-pins to prevent development and expansion. and hurt the tender, little body. Lastly-Instead of bundlidg baby up in forty shawls. make a hood- blanket of cider-down and line it with silk. Seven yards dimity will make four dresses: three and one-halt yards Iawnwil! mike, two dresses; “in. and one-half rtrds nainsook, or any other fine goods, will make two more drerue--eigttt dresses; three and one- half yards of "long cloth" will make two skirts, and some large pieces left "finalist: long cloth" washes and irons lovely; seven yards of fine white flannel will make four nice tulips. two for Sunday and two tor any day: three and one-half yards outing flannel will make two night- gownu; one yard of eider-down will unite a hood-blanket; another yard will muko a buggy robe: one-half yard of silk will rate, the hood and tae, the robe. New. with a half-dozen or In: of stockings. a box of powder, anda nice jug of cold cream you are tized. There are different kinds of dress- ins for was fowl, but we believe the following to be the one most gener- aily used. The beat effect in color is perhaps obtained by browning nice. of bread in the oven very carefully, for it burned ever so slightly both color and taste are spoiled, and it inn great advantage to have the bread, use, em, prepared the day before using. " pre- ferred. the brood may in tried in but- DRESSING FOR ROAST FOWL ‘Fill the fowl with the dressing. Have a dish of melted butter and tie a l small piece of muslin to a fork or stick and after dipping in the butter, rub the fowl with it. Do this several times iwhile roasting, and keep a little wa» ‘ter in the pan with the fowl to pre- vent burning; boil the wings, neck, (iii.,' and pour the water in which they were boiled into the baking pan to make gravy when the fowl is remov- ed to the platter. . ter. but in either one pour boiling water over it u soon a prepared to soften, using juet enough to cover it, " the water must be used in the dress- For one fowl use two slices of breed. one-halt cup of finely minced onion fried brown in butter, the same of cold boiled potato minced and fried, also, one tablespoon of powdered and sift- ed use. one teaspoon of salt and a pineh of pepper. The bread may be softened in mile and a well beaten egg added, but neither are necessary. Use threee tablespoons of melted butter in the dressing for one fowl. Beat and blend the ingredients together in the spider, and if not sufficiently season- ed add more. When prepared, it should be of the consistency of thick gosh. f Oysters for frying should be, washed in ; cold water, drained on a soft cloth and 1mlled in fine-seasoned bread crumbs. ,After laying ten minutes, dip in egg 3th has been beaten only enough to gcumbine the white and yolk, roll again iin crumbs, let lie fifteen minutes and [fry in a wire basket in deep, smoking {but fat. At the last molding of bread take enough for a small loaf, roll it out and spread over a beaten egg. 2 tablespoonfuls granulated sugar, a scant 1-2 (camp of lard. mix well, add- a handful of flour, let rise, mold into rolls. let rise 20 or 80 minutes and bake. Tea 1touss-SeMd a pint of milk, add 1 tablespoon sugar. 1-2 teacup yeast, 1-4 dry yeast cake, and flour to make a moderately stiff batter, and let it rise over night. In the morn- ing add I-lt, teacup son: butter, 1 tea- spoon salt, and the whites of 2 e.ggs well beaten. Knead well. let rise, knead again, roll about 3-4 inch thick, cut with a cocky cutter, butter one- half, fold over. let rise and bake. Dinner "ous-Nea-e and mix to- gether 51-2 teacups warm milk, 1-2 teacup each butter and lard, l teacup yeast, or part of a yeast cake dis- solved inl teacup water. add flour to make a. moderately stiff dough. Let rise over night, then add a beaten egg. 1-2 teacup sugar, knead and let rise. Make into balls the size of a hens egg, with a round stick 3-4 inch in diameter press each ball in the centre, place in a baking pan, not touching each other, rub the spaces made by the stick with melted but- ter, let rise light and bake. Breakfast Rolrs.--To 2 tearupe warm milk, add 1-2 teacup melted butter, 1-: teacup yeast, or 1-4 cake dry yeast due soived in 1-2 teacup water, three tablespoons white sugar. 1 teaspoon salt. then add 8 teacups flour. Let rise over night, set over a kettle of warm water, shape with a little flour into long rolls, let rise an hour, or until light and bake. ', EVERY COOK SHOULD KNOW. Aly cut roasts of meat should be laid on the rack, skin-side downward, that the lean part may be quickly soured over to prevent the escape of its juices. A pot roast of beef is more perfect- ly browned before than after boiling. Rub the damp roast with sifted bread crumbs; fry to a rich brown on every side in the kettle in which it is to boil; then cover with boiling water and simmer gently-closely covered-until tender. Tite rank flavor so generally dislik- ed in mutton is decidedly less if the can] and pink skin-like substance that is about it is cut away. Then moisten the surface. rub thoroughly with flour or fine bread crumbs pnd roast. The fat from broth or soup qan be easily removed without waiting for it to become cold, by repeatedly drawing butchers' paper acoss the top. .. . The flavor as well as the digestibility of broiled or fried ham or bacon is im- proved if it is laid on warm butehera' paper and placed in the oven, to drain the minute it is sufficiently cooked; serveon a hot platter, with a few drops of lemon juice squeezed over the top. Sufferer, angrily. You advertised to pull teeth without pain. Dentist. Well, I do. Suffurvr, with increased vehemence. It's false! Dentist. calmly surveying the ex- tracted number. Is it, really? Well, well; it's the only instance I ever knew of a false tooth decaying. Wife. Don't you think you might m wage to keep house alone for a week while I go off on a visit! Husband. I guess BO. Yea, of ccurse. But won't you be lonely and miser- ablet Not a bill Bah! Then I won't go. WANTED HIM TO BE MISERABLE Questionable Guear. Waiter, I amin a great hurry, and would like to know what there is that you would require th" least time to bring me! Waiter. Well, I dunno, sir. unless it might be so'r bill sir! Young Housewife, to obliging friend. Did you tell the butcher to send me a les; of we!!! _ - _ _ . Obliging Friend. Yes, dear; but he said he had no legs of mutton in to- day, so I told him to send you a leg of beef instead. Mistral. Do you think that young policeman Reagan, who calls here BO otttn, pegnq _bu§ipesa. Jiryrah) A - "Th6 Cook, blushing. I think he do, mum; he's begun to complain about In! cooking already, Qt ICKEST BROUGHT, A RARE INSTANCE A SUBSTITUTE A SURE SIGN YEA " ROLLS ITEMS OF INTEREST ABOUT THE BUSY YANKEE. Neighborly Intel-en m tus Do-utter. of Moment and ttirth Gathered tron “I. Dally Record. live hundred persons are buried every year in Boston's potter's field. WHM MII tIll IS ll. The health department in Minnea- polis periodically, fumigates the Pub- lie schools buildings. Mrs. W. H. “barman. daughter of ex-Governor Bullock, of Massachu- setts, is touring India on a wheel. A coat of arms adopted for Deer Island, the site of Bostons reforma- tory has a deer’s head above the motto, "Strong Yet Mild." Claus spreelcles, the San Francisco millionaire, has given $6.),000 to the commissioners of Golden Gate Park for " new band stand and music course. The Chicago banks have recently adopted the policy of charging 81 a month to customers who keep a run- 'ta' deposit account of not more, than 5- i . Bishop Potter, asked what he con- sidered a woman's highest sphere, re- piied, "Wifehood, motherhood, sister- hood, the ministry of sympathy and love." Gen, Marsh, of Illinois, has a know- ledge of military laws and tactics among the beat in Congress for he has made a careful study of these matters for years. Mrs. Benjamin Harrison will accom- pany her husband when the ex-Presi- dent goes abroad this spring in the intorest of the Venezuelan commiSr axon. Vice-President Hobart had the resolution of thanks for the portrait of Pocahontas handsomely engraved on parchment and forwarded to Henry S. Wellcome, of London. Carolus Duran, the portrait painter, who is to mlke a second long visit to America, is said to have earned dur- ing his Inst stay in this country a sum considerably exceeding $60,000. In one small township in North Carolina, Southern Pines, 4,000.00) lbs. of fruit were shipped to northern mar- kets in 1898. It was all raised by northern invalids living there for their health. 1.123 Democratic, 5 Populist and no Republican votes cast in Bullock county. The late Joseph Medill. of the Chi- cago Tribune, was one of the wealthiest editors this country has ever known. Ten years ago the annual net earnings of the paper were $275,000 a. year; now they are 8400,000. Bullock County, Ala., may be said to be strongly Democratic. At the last State election in Alabama there were The rheumatism from which Cor- nelius Vanderbilt has been suffering is not, as is popularly supposed, a new experience for the millionaire. for he has been a. victim to the disease ever since early manhood. Bishop Rowe. head of the Episcopal diocese of Alaska, who is at present in Chicago, says there is no lack of food in the, Klondike, but he does not think the country as rich as it is gen- erally supposed to be. When Dr. Eiiot became president of Harvard, he at once donned, for the first time in his life, a high silk hat, In all the years since that time he has never been seen out of doors in any other style of headgear. The American Bible Society circu- lates the Scriptures in 96 tongues be- sides their own speech; 28 European 30 Asiatic, 88 Oceanic, 9 African, 9 American Indian, and 3 South Am- erican languages and dialects. Leo Mielziner, of Boston, has made a small bronze bust of Israel Zangwill. the author. It is no more than nine inches high, including its pedestal of Sienna marble, the glowing gold of which, with the rich green of the bronze patine. is in the perfection of taste. Senator Depew says that President Garfield once advised him "to stop telling jokes from that day, for I have studied the Americxn mople carefully, and it will not place confidence inthe mm who says humorous things." The youngest member of the next Congress will be Martin ll. Glynn, edi- tor of the Alb-ny Times-Union, who and it wi l r"t ,Lcc confidence in the town of ‘ inderhook, N.Y., which pro- duced Martin Van Buren and Samuel J. Tilden. Miss Rebecca Wiswell. the oldest living army nurse of the civil war, has just celebrated her {list birth- day at her inns in Plymouth, Mass. She was born in Provincetown. and is the last living member of a. family of ten children. Dr. Merrill E. Gates, late president of the Amherst College is to succeed Gen, Eliphalet Whittlesey as secre- tary of the Foard of Indian commis- sioners. do has been a. member of the Lnard of Indian Commissioners for a number of years. Nebraska: Populist Senator, Wil- liam V. Allen, who now retires from Congress, will be chiefly remembered for his famous 15-hour continuous speech in the Senate, and for the inno- vation of making a. valedictary ad- dress to his colleagues. Representative Johnson, of Indiana, is the most disputative man in Con- gress. He is always on the, other side and agrees with no one. He has a violent temper, and has been told by his physician that his passionate out- breaks are shortening his life. John D. Rockefeller, jr., started in business life recently, being elected a director of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad. He is the only son and heir of the possessor of one of the greatest fortunes in the world -a fortune that probably exceeds 8800,000,000. It is maid that Senator Mills, of Texas, who has retired from the Senate, is rapidly getting rich, and will probably soon be a. millionaire. During his whole career in Conan: Mr. Mills has been poor. but a short time ago oil was discovered on his property, and the wells are now pro- ducing great quantities of this wealth- producing fluid. A Dresden Chemist’s lulu-(Ion efn Chinese Emperor's Wonder. The Chinese Emperor Tai Tsung pos- sessed among other treasures a picture known as a. magic painting. It rep- resented a pastoral scene with a cow standing in a field and mountains be- yond. When the picture was shown to strangers or guests and they admir- ed it the Emperor would say: TORONTO "Yes, this is a remarkable paint- ing. The cow, as you see, is standing; but it the room was darkened the pow would think it night and lie down." Then the Emperor would order the room to be darkened, and the cow would be seen to be lying down, ap- parently asleep. The picture was a water color, over which was painted in colorless phosphorescent paint a. similar picture representing the cow lying down. In the light the stand- ing animal was seen, but at night or in a darkened room only the phosphor- escent picture was visible. So the magic picture was. after all, a very simple trick. A Dresden chemist, named Schade, has discovered a method of imitating it which can he accom- plished as follows: First paint in or- dinary colors the picture of the cow standing. Then melt some Zanzibar copal over a charcoal tire, and dissolve fifteen parts of it in sixty parts of French oil of turpentine. Filter this and mix with tss enty-five parts of pure linseed oil which has been previously heated and cooled. Now take forty parts of the varnish so obtained and mix with six parts of prepared calcium carbonate, tweive parts of prepared white zine sulphide and thirty-six parts of luminous calcium sulphide, all of which can be OBTAINED FROM ANY CHEMIST. This emulsion should be ground very fine in a color mill; the result will be white luminous paint, which should be used to paint the cow lying down. Many seemingly wonderful tricks can be performed With the use of a. few simple chemicals. One of them is the ball of tire. Take for this barium sulphate, CP. 1 part; magnesiumcar- bonate, CP, 1 part; gum tragacanth. q. s. This should be mixed and rolled into marbles and kept at a red hot heat for about an hour, then allowed to cool slowly and placed in a glass-stop- pered bottle. A few hours before ue- ing place in the sun, and the marbles at once become luminous. At the en- tertainment ordinary marbles are trees- ed among the audience, one or more of the luminous marbles being concealed in the hand. The exhibitor then takes a marble from some one in the audi- ence, holds it between his thumb and forefinger, blows upon it, and asks to hale the lights turned down. As this is done he substitutes the luminous marble, and the mysterious light is seen. This is handed around, and changes again as the light is turned on, when the magician presents to the audience several of the ordinary mar- bles as souvenirs. _ Another trick is very effective. Take two similar bunches of artificial flow- ers; brush one over with glue or muei- lage and powder it with the dust from one of the marbles described; then place in the sun. When taken into a daikenqd room luminous flowers are seen. The magician exhibits the flow- ers that have not been prepared and shows that there is nothing peculiar about them; then, as the light is turn- ed down, he substitutes the conceal- ed bunch. blows upon the flowers, and presto! displays to the astonishedob- servers a luminous bunch, each flow- er of which stands out as it at white heat Luminous letters can be written and exhibited in the dark, to the won- der of the audience. Luminous ink is made by pricing a piece of phosphor- ous about the size of a pea in a test tube with n Illtle olive oil. Place the tube in a water bath until the oil be- Comes heated and the phosphorous li- quid. Shake well and pour into a bot- tle with a glass stopper. Admit air just previous to using it, and the fluid will become luminous tracery in the dark. Water can be rendered luminous in a very simple manner. Dissolve a small piece of phosphorous in either for Bev- eral days in n glass-stoppered bottle. In this Platte a lump of sugar, then drop the sguar in water, which will at once become luminous. Luminous paints can be made any eolor-green, yellow, violet or blue-and if applied to various objects make a wonderful display at night. The thrifty and sensible Queen Emma, of the Netherlands. had her daughter taught the art of pillow lace making. The young queen rebelled against it, but it is thought the ex- perienee will bear good fruit, as Queen Wilhelmina has since remarked that she would .always sympathize with those who had to work so hard for a bare livelihood. INSTITUTION OF THE ZADRUGA. In Servia there still survives 3. won- derful old institution known as the Zadruga. It is the living together of a whole tribe. numbering about 100 persons, all under the absolute auth- ority of one chief. He keeps all the money. makes all the purchases, and decides the minutest details of family life. There is no more daring rider among European royalties than the heir to the throne of Italy, the Prince of Na.. plea. He is a keen sportsman, and has very few equals in the hunting field. TAI TSUNG‘S MAGIC PAINTING. ITALY'S CROWN PRINCE, FORTUNATE AFTER ALL. A Ger-n m- murders. A murderer not unlike the fiend Holmes was tried and untenoed in Bresia, last week. He was a shoe- maker named Herrmann, and had in the course of twenty years disposed of three wives and 12 of their chil- dren. He practiced his art for years without suspicion. In two cases the dead wives were supposed to have deeded to him considerable property, Toward the end he grew impatient and took off his children too rapidly, whence the denouement. Hermann! first wife died in 1880. His second disappeared in 1883. He Professed to know nothing about her, but intimated to the neighbors that she had probably gone to America with another man. At the same time he was able to exhibit papers by which she had apparently transferred to him a house in Fuerstten-strausse belong- ing to her, and in which they had been living. Herrmann continued to live in that house and married again. A shocking mortality brooded over the place. His children died one after another. His third wife, after leading a miserable existence with him, also disappeared. It was thought that she had gone away somewhere and committed suicide, and Herrmann encouraged the idea. In common with Holmes and many other exponents of murder as a tine art. he possessed a strong fascination for women. As the years rolled on he took to his home a fourth wife, and she also disappeared in course of time. And the monsters children continued to be carried off by some strange malady until the death roster numbered 12. One of them was the child of a working girl whom he had betrayed as a preliminary to robbing her of her earnings. She, also died under suspicious circumstances. Not until a year ago did Herrmann. tempted by profit, part with the old house. . Five months ago the new owner be- gan to make. some structural altera- tions. Workmen in the cellar noticed that one place sounded hollow to the (outfall. They tore up the brick pave- ment and found a doubled-up skele- ton in a vault. The skull was frac- tured. By a ring on one of the finger bones it was identified as the skele- ton of the slweunakera secund wife. Other excavations disclosed the re- mains of her two successors. There were nearly a. hundred wit- nesses at the trial. It was shown that the shoemaker had been also a photographer, with access to cyanide of mercury and other poisons. Once he had been heard to say. "I cannot keep so many children. There are enough of them on earth already. ',,1il'i'ir drops of cyanide suffice for one c ild." Millions or laborers Are raid With Very furious Monet. The pastors of certain churches in the remote provinces of Australia re- ceive their stipends by curious meth.. ods. Every quarter the members meet at the minister's house, bringing with them their contributions toward his support. These rarely ever take the form, of cash, but consist of provi- sions, clothes, ete., which are after- ward used or sold by the pastor. A droll disadvantage attaching to this system is that a superabundance of one particular article often prevails, while another article, equally needed is not represented at all. An employer of labor in the Mid- lands has adopted the odd method of paying his workmen's wages in cop- pers, of which in his business he re- ceives an enormous quantity. The same master presents a bank book to every new employs, and suggests and encourages thrift by placing a shil- ling of each man’s wages in postage stamps upon a. form provided for that purpose. A number of his men have had reason to thank him for this thoughtful notion, since it has enabled them to save pounds which would oth- erwise have probably been wasted. But the most fearsome incident of the trial was the testimony of a deaf and dumb woman who had seen Ilerr- mann at his bricklaying task in the cellar, and who described each step of the work with wonderfully eloquent gestures. t The lower grades of Indian coolies. who toil tremendously as carriers and messengers for European residents, re- ceive their Wages in rice, which ls weighed out to them once a week in seven-pound bags. With this arrange- meant. they appear to be thoroughly satisfied. Ethel. They say it cot 'Steed,??."! a you to angelic", Ton on“ ope. Dear met. T . _ he. do it fort hen what does Peasants engaged in the tea trade in China receive remuneration for their toil in the shape of maize and tea, which form, as a rule their staple diet. For eight pounds of maize and one pound of native tea the ordinary hill man in the country of Celestial' will cheerfully work for a week of 70 hours, and will deem himself amply reward- In some parts of Siberia the peasant who labors in the salt mine rarely re- ceives a solitary hope]: for his pains. But, instead of money, he is provided with a liberal quantity of coarse, black bread, wine that tastes like vinegar, and a. weekly allowance of crude salt, which he is " liberty to use or ex. change for mansions " the village tea shop. ed. A USELESS EXPENSE. SINGULAR SALARIES. YEAR FOR EACH- shoe-alter su-u-Ieod for ht. an " ' The building of this railroad is the direct outcome of the report made by Sir Gerald Portal in 1894 at the mn- clusion of his mission to Uganda. He .spent over a year studying the country between the sea and Victoria ‘Nyanza and the lands around that ‘lake within the British sphere of in- i, fluence. and he was sent out to collect idata upon which the Government might decide to take the country out of the hands of the British East Africa Company and make it a protectorate. directly under the control of the home authorities. Sir Gerald said that nothing but a railroad would drain the commerce of. Uganda, Usuga. Unyoro and the other countries lying around gtho lake, and until the railroad was t built "any organization, system of ad- _mirtirstration or plan for the improve- ment of these countries which may be ‘devised will be of the nature of a makeshift. Of the financial prospects of the t line it is not easy to speak with any Approach to precisenesa. but unlvss 1 t.here has been some great miscalcula- itlon an adequate return may be ex- ,peeted in good time. There is of tcou‘rse no doubt that the Government It In Sow Completed an In“. In": In" the Way u VIM 5‘”... The British Gamma-mt 11.. just completed 800 miles of (he Uganda nilroad. The total length at m. route from Mombasa, on the Indian Ocean, to the northeaat Gout of Vic. of the entire road therefore. which i. to connect the eel with Uganda, in completed. Ugande ie one ot the most populous and promising parts of Africa, etretching far along the northern and northwestern aides of the second largest fresh water lake in the world. The railroad hu been pushed toward thin inviting (on! for three yenre put with great miduit y, in spite ot serious obstacles, such an the abnormal rainfall of 1897, which retarded the preparation of the road- bed, and the breaking out of the. plague in India, on account of which the t1]- listment ot coolies for the railroad works was for some time suspended Furthermore. tor the first 203 miles, or two-thirds of the completed part of the road, the conditions for rail- way making were very unfavorable. Between Mombasa and Mtoto Andei there are only four places on the route where water may be obtained - at Maji Chumvi, " miles tram the coast; the Voi River, 100 miles; Tsavo. 131 miles, and Mtoto Andei, 162 Hillel, Most of the country thus far is covered with almost impenetrable thorn scrub and is cut by many valleys. in August last when the line was about 200 miles on its way, it had only Just emerged from the DIFFICULT JUNGLE COUNTRY. On March 31 of this year the line reached the 279th mile, which brought it close to Kikuyu. the densely peopled country south of Kenia. the great equatorial snow-mountain. Not until it reached the district was it to be expected that the line would have an appreciable effect upon the ex- port trade. tio Great Britain is just reaching with her railroad the region- which she expects to benefit and trout which she hopes to derive a profit. The Government steamer Juha is already making a round trip every three weeks between Zanzibar and the coast towns of the British East Africa protectorate, and it is expected to pro- vide regular and sufficient outlet and ingress for all the trade the railroad may help to create. twill reap much indirect profit from the road. The Government hes been lepen'ling about '200,000 a. year merely éfor the transport of the "131011;” 'nnoded by it: went. end stetions In (the lake region. It is estimated that ‘the railroad will reduce this charsm [to $30,600 a rear. The transportation lot the steamboet which the Govern- :ment sent to Victoria Nyenza rust 33100.0(». but it might have been car- iried by rail for I. twentieth of that [sum But whether the railroad, when {completed to the lake. pays dividc-nda 'tor many years to come it may he re- 'garded as the natural and necessary Insult of the tut of establishing lGovernment end commercial for. li- ‘ties in that region which Eng'and Inndertook to curry out. since August 201ast. trains have run regularly over most of the route com- pleted at that time, or, in other words. from Mombasa to Mtoto Andei, 162 miles. The stations on the way num- ber thirteen, of which Maji, Chumvi and Voi are the most important. Toi, which is about 1,900 feet above sea level, is the dividing point between the seaward and the inland slopes of the country. Two trains start every day, or from the coast and the other from the inland station. Leaving Mombasa at 8.89 in the morning, after forty-five minutes' halt at Maji Chumvi, the first water place. the train arrives at Voi at 5.15 p.m., sire it stops for the night. Next morning it leases Voi at t o'clock and arrives at 11.15 a.m., at Mtoto Andei. If the passenger wishea to set out on his return to the coast on the same day, he will take the train leaving at 1.80 p.m., which arrives at Voi at 5.80 p.m.. spends the. night there. leaves for the coast at 8.80 o’clock next morning and reaches Mombasa at 8.15 pm. De- ducting all the time spent at war stations. the actual travelling time for the 162 miles is ten and a quarter hours for the inland and eleven and a half hours tor the seaward journey. Only mixed trains, carrying freight as well as passengers, are now run- ning. 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