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; LRe.ally, Cape Town is a wonderful ipiace. it is worth the journey to see thek.str'ets b}o:-k~.:d by abie y ung men and the hotels crowded by rlch re- fugees, while each nig'ut?s train 1ak.:s' out the fearleze ggn-ti-.me.i1 who are de- liberately risking not only their Ives but more of worldly advant: g: than can ever come to these skuikers who r cling to -the shter of Engl and's guns {and weep 'while they wait for men to ; die that they in y rush up to th; Brit- ; ish Treasury wizh th:.ir claims. TC 4-}... .`..l.L3-J. .. 4kn.-.n `-..6'n..-nn-.- urn '- Som-e come here as clerks," some as `laborers in the mines, and some are :merc.hants who brought 10 wor.h of goods out from Birmingham :1 dozen years ago. They tell you that they have left 100,030 worth, or 80000 worth of goods in their shop, and that 'a1tog~ether 25,000,000 is in danger of destruction in Johannesburg. Oh! one has just been saying to me: `fI can't dell ,how much Isha`-.1 lose by dis peezness. I sbpeak mlt much feeling, my frent. Blease ex- coose me g-vying. Vot do you dirk? Do you dink I can git back dirty-dree per cent . of vot I lose from de British Government? Oh, Got, den I lose 6; C00--ain d it derribl 3" I 1- II Ivv LLAILJAWJ u: abubuu All lav uuvu vu uvu. nun`. -see themand move among them. Why don't they fight? The war has jeopar- dised thz-ir property, and they haw a ke net interest in it than any Ttm y or any oft.cer`.now at tm: front. How can they see the cream and fiowpr of Engl `nd's m`-nnood zushhg down "e e I to _spll its ,reci~>us blood (or th.m a d ; never feel a blush of shame. or :1 1:a. g E of any emotion e.\;c.-pt grief over los us which will still leave many of them ricxh? II rrl l,, , -____..]......1 ..,.. ;.wg-., ...... ....... .,.......... I If the exhibition these refugees are ` making in Cape Town were as import.- iant as it is conspicuous. one wouid ithink the Englishmen in change hure ? would drop tie contest; where it is and `go home in disgust. But it is only 9. phase of a side issue, quite apart from ` the principal at stake. I ' Method by which the Names 9! Ibo llrnlsh lulled and Wounded are Known. The names of the British killed and wounded after a battle ere ascertained by means of the identification cards which all our soldiers carry sewn up in the left hand corner of` their khaki tunics. On the card is` written the soldier's name, rank,fregimental num- ber,to-gether with thename and ad- dress of his next-of-kin. The latter is added so that the authorities may know where to forward the effects of any soldierwho `gets killed. They are pulling their long f aces all over the place and shedding their tears w1.erever you meet them. It is enmgh to make a statue ill to have to hear and `TY I, _ ' After an engagement the roll is call- i dd! as soon as the regiments get back to their camp. Every man who does not answer is ticked off" as missing, and search made for him on the field. As theeearch parties come across the dead and wounded men they rip open the tunic at the left hand corner and take out the identification card. The cards thuscolxected are carried back` to camp and handed over to the clerks of the general in command, who there- from complete the casualty lists. LC`-an nil &Ln 1\t\'lIl",< Luann Moon r~n]]D(`.i'- 'l1UIll`UUIpLULU EMU haauun-L; LIQUO- After all the cards have been collect- ed the roll is checkedagain, and :1 note made of those men of whom no trace has been discovered. These are usually persumed to have been taken prisoners, but it does not always [01- low that the assumption is correct. In the corner of his tunic opposite the, identificationfcard every solder carries asmall pad of bandages, etc-. for dressing a wound. This field dressing," as it is called; is udded to -?I`o.mmy.'s" equipment in order that he`-_Inay be" his own surgeon until medi- cal assistance arrives, or may have the wherewithal on him to bind up the wounds. of "a chum. You willprobably be surprised to learn that one of. the last things ;"To_-mmy" does when ordered to the gfrontis '-to make his will, although `-.eyery,_rfegiment contains a percentagl? liifwhapvpy-go-lucky fellows who do not gajorry.-:then;se1ves,ebout what will be- {coha.l`_o_:_thi_r. property when the! 110 '>'IA.u'nnu`nw nauiirfug 3 I- Llninininm, which had no commer- cxistenoe a few,yea1{s 880- W fpnjaduoed-.n the United states Iaast *y`;eI,rV7-`to the extent of 5,200_,000 P0 3 " `allied $11,750,000 which 19 one tell :- " Ln 4g.` 1 Conan; nnldll VGCMVVI. at faguvvgvvv vvd-unva- Loft cost 10 years ago. Ill-D \JVVI-I yG|r|LL'?IGlJ\I. He had gone bright and early that morning to the doctor's in the market town, to tell his old friend of the- hon- ors his boy had won`, and that soon. Reuben was coming back `to them;l and after giving him a few words and ` `a warm han-.=-shake of congratulations. the doctor had added: . "I_was thinking of you, wishing for you, as" you entered. There is a lit- tle girl here who is dying for the want of. pure country air and a little nurs- ing in the way of food; She needs plenty of milk, and liberty to roam all p day in the fields. Take her back with you, Gray; it will be the making at her. and I am coming down soon to see how she : getting along. T+ n `1nnna_nInnn`n nnnnrne-no` +11; WW9 UK` IalI`.II& til` Vt longer require it. ADVANCE on ALUMINIUM. WTHE sIz1'f;' on` ENGLAND. HOW TO IDENTIFY HIM. MANY LONG FACES. 1399 vi-on av Q-crunch, no-own.-- -.v- --_----- " "It will be all over} everything r.eady._V boforo Reuben comes home." I. -____I_- vvvou ucvnn vvvquunv---- --- --~v- . He must be a.lswye.l`. a great man. one whose name she should some day use in the public prints. This seem- ed to her the very height. of: ambition- _,_n_.__ 1.-...- ._ -_`I1...-..- 7"a3B``1u?`x1"1Lo'3E S'dZ` aT-e. but th`e' doo- tor spoke again: . . 7 "VITA nnnN- Ink `EA 19110` 43's 3' 34- :n T `UL DVUBU klayllln ' "We can't let the girl die it it is. I tell you. Gray, she is starving for country air. forgreen fields and the music of the birds. Let hen go.; Mrs. Gray won't turn her out. En :`- cur-Q Duu `Dunn.-- \.llJ VVUII It UIJAII INCL WILD! So it was decided. `But Farmer| Gray's "Whoa I rang out a little less ; loud than usual, as he rained. up the! old horse at his own door; but the quick housewife's ears caught it, and it brought her speedily to the door to bid him welcome and see that his boots were fit to tread her`. spotless` floors. The tracking on them . with mud must be left for Reuben. 13.-.... `If..- l'1_.._I GI... -..__ 'I.-.I. -...`I "W - BCIUIII. CIIIIIOI It's house,-cleanin . answered the farmer,` and a world of meaning was in that short sentence. I1-..I. _..... I-_I_-.I _...._- 1..-; A.I.`--- 1-- Poor Mrs. Gray! She was hot and tired. though she would not have ac- knowledged lt. Her feet were weary, for all the day they had borne her weight. 7 nun... 1.-.... ...... .....a. u.~...... agiu. vv-uu5uu. What have you got there, Seth Gray? questioned she. in tones shrill and sharp. "Con71pany,tI declare, and it : house-cleaning!" ` RAVI nan `-kn '4-usIuv\4\uo VJ-nv|ala:n`uu `:-nu` "in2TT$li}I'}Z?'mer tenaahy lifted down the girl in his strong arms. she continued: ` ' un ..I.:I.1 1- _1__1_'_._ n1vr-|| ._ul 1- "You mustn't mind. my dear. if Mrs. Gray seemsalittle put out like. when she first sees you. It's house-cleanin ' time, and she aon't much like strang- ers botherin" her; but she'll soon find out you won't be in the way, fend when she sees the roses comin" back to your cheeks she'll be happy enough. Only don't worry her 1f at `first she's 9. wee bit flustered." llf\l.. II... -`...___ ._-..- L_-__._I.L _.- 3' ""77X"c`i1'ii`d. I declare !Well, an I can say. Seth Gray~-you must stay at home and take care on her I" 5 CL. L-.._..__.`l ____,._ ___-LL2____ 2.. |.__. IIIUIBIJQLIUIIQ. 3' VII II?` `-5351 V I "Never you mind, said the farmer, as he noticed two great `tears swim- ming in the large brown eyes. and trembling. ready to fall, on the jetty `lashes, while the delicate mouth quiv. prod. "It's just herdway. She mean It. Come now. ' dear--- " N'K7,'.....O;I I-uni-J-gun 1I`|A\-D -1`... `LI... '-n-.-un- "`h?&-223 a`v:a;,wf>rgetting. in her indignation. even her floors. ; l"KTo|1nIt IIILII -n:nJ ,7 nn{:I I-I-an Qnuuv-in-su ` `77`iE'o&7a "t} e``t`2r`'11w}`"`n3B'r"ne fapare room. interrupted` the shrill tones again. "as they entered. A ' ' - Than an East Risa`-sand mnfuumnpi n-"nU|A` IUD 1101- HIV I._Ul lcl-[U W-Illa U-If Ilylllfo _ Mrs. Grp, ._eaid no more. but that eve`n!ng.w on she was washing her _ (nvorite "x-chino. .with her . own hands , - Jm_q_l 6`;-zlltlale` gure`; `stea1i~ng'up beside '- . = fhiiDIfed*; Vl 4et me help. y9u, !. `t ` :gg;vur`ere(ih,_ `.uchL as v,_yoA_u, allulp RE Ivl-I9 WI-IIIULCUQ _ Irhen, as her husband returned alonj trom his errand. his witqjs wrath broke it: bounds. T T - V A... ..... ...-z a-n.~ 11--.. 4.- _--u Are you mad, Seth . Gray. to gmt my more one on my shoulders at his time? You can take another ride to own to-marrow. and take the child ~ uk where she came from. My hand! taro m11,enough;" '1'hedootor said we` coizld ahve hhir mother." I thought we- wouldn I:_ her its for the want. otryin'." ` '"'Dn `I11 -Ii, hang` in Imnl-' ` MRS. GRAY8 VISHOS. @172 ` vision T accorded her. One could see onlg the o.ce--ga pcinoh- ed, worn little face, from whiche_two great brown eyes peered out,.and seem- ed to take in` every blade -of grass by ' the roadside. every leaf upon the trees, as some wonderul heaven`-sent LIIUKFO "You'll do no such thing. Seth Gray l `beginning to pickup to whisk her off `to the-hot town again, She's learned my ways now. and she : not much in the way. Besides. she's company for Reuben." ` Q- IL ,,., .1 Just like a man-`when the girl's` LVWIIUUIIO So it seemed, es out in the queer- roofed arbor they eat side by. side. she `listening, with downcast eyes and a happy, tearful smile, while he told her how different his home had! seem- ed eince she had entered it, and how in solving the enigma, he had`diecov- ered his love for her. N'D.-J. ---L_A. ___'2II ,,_ -1|, , , nu` - u there. and soovnythe litt1._9;i3113"51'5"""' deftly Wiping the-vnmoklng dxghe. and. cannot nap. an r'ei&3ns%trn.1`:do?l% with omtul baits. putting each in itl. appointed place. Qnlvinhnur an fh `(THUR M11. uppomtoutpmce. _ . . Somehow. as the "days were em Mrs. Gray found she` had more tel ,, to sit and rest: that, instead of add care.` it seemed lessened. whilee. little-tairr like gure tlitted here and there and everywhere. like a. burst of sunshine. :5 'nn-uus_nInnniI-um Ivan AVA!` I`|n\U! hBr.~ He. too. began to think he - would miss Hope when . she went away. Somehow the parlor had lost its look of stiffness. and even had an air of habitation. with its fresh flowers in every available receptacle. "WA" T nnrnnxnnh Ilvn `Hutu: Jung :5 uv uuauu: xuuupuuuzu. V94 7 Well. I suppose we have done all we can for Hope. said theetarmer one day.-~'Poor child! she's an orphan. and will have to `win her daily bread. But `she's got back some of her strength, and the color has found its way back to .her face again; and you must be tired of havin' the. care 0! her-thi.s with a quizzical expression, Evhile he narrowly watched his wife's ace. ll1f-__II'I J ,, I III on an nu everywnere. IIKB U. Duran. us auuauuawo .2. House-cleaning was `over how; her. voice had lost its harshness. `her. brow. its frown; and aaop-e-who4had mah- .:ed _to her own room- at jthe sound of lwhee1a-watched..her from, a "window open her motherl-y , arms; `to welcome a hser boy and saw her happy, tear-dim-. med eyes, the girl wondered how she could first have regardadh the woman with such dread. ` -._..I.. ..-.... .._.... `ASA I|a|I' -anus` an 31:15 WILD BIIUII ureau._ _ " A _ b .,_ Hope : own eyes did not seem. so-big `now; a-taint peach-bloom had 'atolen_ into hernheeka; her figure had.- lost its angular-`lines in rounded curves. and all day a. thanksgiving "seemed _to come bubbling to her lips in song. ` "XXII": tn'|n'n fhnf II'|l\+h? '" lII1Q+- UUI-IIV UUUULIIIS I-U I-I-Pl I? III EUR 5- ' "Why. who : that. mother 9" quest- tloned the tall, h,and.some'you~ng' man, as he turned his laughing blue `eyes !out through the open window and. saw the little figure flitting among the flowers. ' ' uaL..u.. - _I.!`I.l n_.-n I.......'.I.L _. I.'.. ..- ``Oh, I'm sorry you brought me. if she won't `like it!" answered the child --for child she seemed, _sitting there, though seventeen summers. had `pass- ed over her head. H7I'Vl.......... LL--- ..--.. I EL- --.!II `I31..- 21- Lav vv Ions. ' "She's a. child Dad brought me home in house-cleaning. `I wasn't over-aglad to see her but I think Iahall; miss her when she goes)`. AI` nIv|IIn.nJ nvv\l`a nwnwnnwnnp. fhn lIa_ VVLDOII &IU `U03. . An amused gsmlle overspread the lie- tener's face. He could" appreoiae that welcome at so inopportune a season as "house-cleaning time. AI! Kan urnm A Assam` A an `-.`\A ' I` in tin uvuww-vsuuulua I-ll.l.IUo Reuben wondered, as the `days lengthened into weeks, why his home- coming. had never been so pleasant be- tone. ' 1'1 . 1... I._,,,,_ I .u,o,,n.&, __,, I1 vauu uu: LUVD 1.01. 1161'. "But what will mother say 3". asked the sweet voice -for, since Reuben oameyshe had learned to say `_`moth- er. fnn ".QHn hon gunk timAn`- nu ! ........v, mu: uuu l.Uul'uUu LU any _u1oLu- er, too, "She has such great and wonderful dreams for your future and thinks thatsomsewhere some princes, xclad in shining robes, is waiting for `I you." % . ((7 `__`__ 'A_____' __ _' (#3,, , . Arr nun .1-HM . "I have found my princess.` Hope!" he answered, placing his arm about her. She is here, and her soul is `clothed in such b`eauty_-such glory .shines through its windows, your eyes, !-that she needs no"outw'ard embelish- fmentl Only any you love me, darling, `and I ha.ve'no' fear but that the moth- ler who has ever smiled upon my boy-' lsh folly will not frown upon the first wisdom of my manhood. Q,` '|,.,,..,1 3... .`k......l ._ 4.1.- _.--_ ----- vvnauulu U1. my l.l.l?l.I.lOO(l." So hand in hand, as -the sun was `sinking in magnifioence, they entered {the house together.`_and he led the shrinking girl to his mother's side. ` H74: has-ya nnvmn 4-- ....I- ..-.... I_1-;._:._.. iuuslunllls 531.1 LU H15 LI.lULI.ICl."B 3108. We have come to ask your blessing, mother," "said Reuben, in his honest, manly tone. "Hope has made me very happy by promising. to be my wife. Tn mnfn hntniinrvnnnf `In- ll-on- uuy'yJ_ U y1u.|.uu:Iu.|g_ LU_ U6 Ely` W118." ' In mute bewxlderment Mrs. Gray looked at them both, a sense of? her own faolly smiting her as with.` aahar `sword, and bringing with `a. crash al Iher castles to the ground. nllf h `#3!!! `kn Anlnn nun uvs vanuua LU Luu gruunu. But she. looked from the calm. re- solute face of her son to the sweet, fair irl whose hand lay in his. and, dra ng Hope down. she kissed the young, red lips, and uttered no word lot her disappointment. Wnrrnnw (Em... I........A 4.1.- _----.. _--u.L ; It mm In a tiino` trying to -hpuie-"A. keepers It Is the period called? npring-= cleaning. " ` L,_,I_, __I14 _..-_ _-' -n-An-in us. uca. u.I.au.p}IUll.lLLl.lUl1(c. Farmer Gray heard the news with a shake of the` head and a twinkle of the eyes. as much as to say he hadi predicted it from the first. 4 | `Dn{- IIr'|\.n~|n"L'Im.g .._-.I .'l_.-L_._ -7-.4 J I ysvusvbvu ll. l.1Ul.l.l LLIU urat. `But whenthe good doctor came, later, to tell them that they had not, as they had supposed, given their son 9. dowerless bride, but that he._her guardian, represented in snug little Ifortune. for her-though, in his proud `love and young` ambition. Reuben, would almost have wished it otherwise -as the farmer whispered to his wife: Blessings in disguise sometimes come even in house-cleanin . .my dear, the last frown left her still comely face, and there is no one in the world so dear to her as Hope. her son's wife, and the little children whose` feet bring. dust or dirt, without reproach, upon the still spotless oor. : ' A novel idea which has oome.direct- ly from Paris is the decoration oi. dresses with water-color designs. Hand-painted mousselines. are very .popular for evening wear, and when a light, graceful pattern is artistically executed the result is admirable. A, dress of white mousseline was tinishedl in this dainty manner with a vine of rich_ scarlet trumpet. flowers, which gracefully followed the outlines, of the long over-skirt, and showed effective-g `Ly upon the low-out bodice. Bunches-of the artificial flowers fastened upon the lett shoulder and `trailing upon the arm served tooomplete. a most- unique and attractive toilet. Satin also is decorated` in` the same .sty`l."e,`~_- some- times with an introduction of `silver; gold or jeweled effects, to give an add- `ed lusterjand brilliancy. . . it ' " unruly boy. Which one do you take T -'1`;-::-ol1'er:--B:a;)'b3:-rai;vt-l;,-.;?t.:;1.'-1'~e ;.'i)'ad,H utter", your father. `or mother 1 - n.un.+u.:4L-. .1 v... .......9.`....... :_-..L Mauaim. % 1EiE.{me V'to `sing for him ;tho other .9YB.ning after we'had been introduced.` , . - IC;~lara-And what` did you sing!` " Maud---W'h!. how you kpbw-`that ~I sang'o.'ta ll3. - N , C!aru'-Woll; -I - nntioedv` that ha didu?._' gpk yvo-1_1: to "is>-i;n&g`_j4-`vt:):-x'1ig'-l1:t.t`. ., u.-..u.u5,_ Juus Luuuol If; uLULuIa_l`y v, bl_)y-jNo_ther._o! -`em. ma'am; but` gometxmes they bath takg after mg.` ' I AND THEN HE _OA ]?G_I Il_S'I*1'_.. GI;u._s. PRINTED DRESSES. 7 ' Farmer Gray : whfe was no` except-1 tion-good. motherly aoul that she `wee. She was up with the lurk day altar day, and gave little` rest tothoae work- lng under her Iupervison. But up paint ' which never `showed signs or soil shone .' with new glass and even the poeaibilty _ .of dust was removed trom where `no traces of dust could be found. her `eyes brightened. . and e he.pp_y thought would go flitting through her brain. . ,n -___.` __.__._.4.|.:.... ....-A IIYL ___!II L- Q . [ma mums 01+ HI8TDB.Y.] may Ana. `nunoinnn IN `QUEEN L vxcroaurs AUTOGRAPH nook. u.a;.iivu..;. 1-; dc w:iau`ujicuue-ra,eu'_-s.anua: " .; el'nll'd."t'eI`.Il ev_e_ a `Queers nameI'ci' the Among most inaa treasures ot a` _persofna1f character belonging to. Queen Victoria` `is an autograph book, on the pageant` which are signed the names of all {those distinnished per-E sonages who have been her guests at ` Balmoral, Osborne. Buckingham pal- ace, and more particularly at Windsor. during the-sixty-three years thatishe has occupied the throne of Great Bri- tain. To .those who are aware of the existence of this volume of autographs -the visit` paid` recently by Emperor William to his venerable grandmoth- er, appeals perhaps theemore strong- ly, because they know that he as well as his escort will not have. been P6?` mitted to leave the historic castle `on the banks of the, `Thames without hav- ing once more inscribed their names and the date of their sojourn in- that b90k, which, more_ perhaps than any other thing comprised in so small 1% compass, shows the march of time and the progress of history. For a perusal of this volume serves to demonstrate above everything,else the extent to which England's sovereign has out- lived her contemporaries. It calls forth memories of dynasties that have been overthrown and kingdoms that have disappeared, and seems to evoke the specters of a great throng ofru1- ers andof celebrated statesmen, all now in their graves, not a few of whom have met with terrible deaths at the hands of as'sassins.. A . u ,__'l IDIQI-l\IIU Vb Ibwlilnwunaaus The visits paid by foreign rulers and by foreign statesmen to her majesty possess, thanks to her absolute and supreme control of Engiand s foreign policy far` more importance thanone might be disposed to accord to them alt first sight. For thelstay at Wind- sor of nearly every continental mon- arch has been followed by political con- sequences. The course of history, in- deed, may be said to have been largely influenced by these visits which the queen receives from her brother and sister sovereigns. And it is this that renders her book of autographs so ex- ceptionally interesting.` MILESTONES OF HISTORY; The autographs may be regarded as hearing a certain analogy to mile-' stones, since they mark so many dif- ferent epoohs. What more remark- able, for instance, than the chang'es which have fallen tolthe share of the reigning house of Prussia during "the near sixty years intervening between the visit of King -Frederick William IV. to attend the baptism of the prince of Wales, and the stay of Emperor William ant Windsor? At thetime when this king was a guest of Queen Victoria, Prussia was in every sense of the word a second ratepower. Fred- erick William, in fact, was almost ab- ject in hissubserviency to the Ger- man emperor at Vienna, and to his brother-in-law, Czar Nicholas I. As far as the Imperial house of Eapsburg was concerned, he seemed to be un- `able to forget that his ancestors had until within a little more than ahun- dred yeazrs held the position of cup- bearer to the Emperors at Vienna, and been c_ompI,e],led to stand at state ban- quets behind the imperial chair, doing duty, if not as a menial, at any rate as a mere vassal. !As for his attitude toward Russia he permitted himself I to be bullied and browbeaten to such an extent by the czar that he: did not venture to take any step, even in his own dominions, without the sanction of his imperious brother-in-law. So great was the contempt in which Prus- sia was held at the time of the con- gress of rest powers held in Paris at the cone usion of the Crimean war, King Frederick William s plenipoten- tiaries were not admitted to the meet- ing, on the ground that Prussia was not a power -of sufficient importance to warrant her receiving any such privilege. - .1-n...... 1:-..-.1..'.:..i, "XTi'lI invn mnsi ni-j+hn [J`.l.'l.VL_I.UgU. . ` King Frederick William was at the `outset of his reign when he visited Queen Victoria at Windsor in 1842. Six years later he was a prisoner in- the hands of the people of `his capital and-forced to pay homage to the dead bodies of the men, women and chil- dren who had been shot down by his -troops. And during that time his brother`, William, who"eventua1ly suc- ceeded him on the throne, wa obliged to flee "for his litte, to England. where he in ;his turn, enjoyed for a time the hospitality of Queen Victoria and wrote his name in her autograph book. The. closing years of the reign of King Frederick William IV. were darkened by insanity of this most violent des- cription. William became. first King of Prussia, and then, after 1870, Ger- man emperor, appropriating at Ver- sailles adignity which had been for centuries the most highly-prize.d_ pos- session of theehciuse of H`/apsburg. - __ _ _i UNSER FRITZ." Emperor William s successor was -that "-'Un'se r Fritz, who. was of all `Queen Victoria's sons-in-law, the one shetloved best, and many were the v1sxts.wh1oh :;he mid-to` her at Balmor- pal and at W1ndsor,`one sojourn at the flatter, ` place `being, `however; sudden.- j denly -.interrIrpte`.d '_.-by ` a vio1ent._'tif_tbe- . -`4.tweenf.1hi.s]wite,~the_ now; widowed. Em - V ""3 917.1` 0i',!|'_ h.5"~..5`1.5J69tf = the latter : 1 cro- , -' I ...1.1.`-. -`.`.... ..`.l ..:a.: iprress.B`reder1_ek",an"dj;her aughst moth-' ~`,.`ajid` t"err:ib1`y_ surlyZ uighg y LG-llil 53-III` llllllll, J11!) VV ll.- `Emperor Wiiliam II. who now vis- its" his grandmother at` Windsor for the second time since `his accession to the throne is, therefore, the fourth rul- er of_ Prussia-.whom she Welcomes be- `nea_th' her: roof tree, and she greets ihi_myno` longer as the sovereign of. av [second or; eve_n"-third-rate V-state, but 'a`s`the, head at `the-'greates`t military power. .,on_-.;thei `tape of the globe, whose`, iron ".i:HE1>;N -ADVANCE. s at the;present"3uncture ,and ivhe hog}; ' to avgreati1_extenit.`5.t"the pi'ea[ent;`m0-3 ; ient the}.balan ce of power in the Old World; his understanding` with .Gre9.t Britain resulting in a combination so i mighty aa*to put an` end to all the` projects which had been entertained of a, continental union against Eng- land. Truly, Prussia, has undergone many and amazing vicissitudes dur- ing the period` that has intervened be-1 tween King Frederick William s vis- it to Windsor in 1842, and the stay` there last `week by his grand nephew.` NAPOLEON `S MEMORABLE VISIT. 0 -L -__J. A very important state visit and certainly one fpregnant with 9 great political consequences was that of Em-3 peror Napoleon III. and Empress Eu-f genie to Queen 'Vi_ctoria,.at Windsor; Castle at the time of the Crimean War. It may be said to have constituted the first actual `recognition of the emper- ` or, and, above all, of the empress.-`by any of the reigning families of Eur- any 01 (De reigning I.il.l.l.}l.I.103 -It --=_--* { ope. Napoleon had untnl that tlmei been regarded as a mere successful?- conspirator who prior, to his. seizu_ro* of the French throne had been a d}3"' reputable chevalier d'industr1e; whxles the empress was looked upon as an, adventuress, concerning whose an?!- cedents the` most scandalous storle were current. Indeed the wars of 1855 T -._..I -3 -dnrn -,1..s--L __._--I.I.....'l an Alann- UVDVOV ovvllllvia Vvloovu :v---- : Reuben washer prlde-the boxwho, I utterly regardless of the clean, sand-V `ed floors. would well: bodily in! where no other foot dared tread, leaving his lmprint ln mud to"mark his course- the boy for whose future she hsd woven such wonderful _a.lr-castles. WUIG Currents lnuau [I16 WuJ.u~ UL. LUV-I and of 1859, which resulted so disas- trously to both Russia and Austria. , were largely brought about by 31 contemptuous -manner in which _the courts of St. Petersburg and of Vien- na rejected all advances made to them by Napoleon and Empress nowned for her strictness on the Score of `the character of all the wo- .men W`hom sheconsented to admit to; and her action there-. fore in inviting not merely Napoleonu but likewise, his consort, to Windsor,- where she treated them with the lit-? most distinction and regard, went so . her presence, far. _to improve the status and ptresti$ of the imperial couple both in the cons- tinental courts and even in France, Eugenie. Queen Victoria was then, as now. T8-' that neither of them everforgot the 4 kindness of Victoria in the matter. Indeed, as long ashe remained on the throne, the emperor continued the 4 warm and `loyal friend ofithe English people. V ' Mnnninnm nuns sunI- Lian nnlv Napoleon was not the only French; monarch whom the Queen had the op-; portunity of welcoming at Windsor.. In her visitor's books is likewise to be `found the name of King Louis Phil- ippe, who stayed with her once while still ruler of France, and then sev- eral. times after _he had been dethron-' ed! and was in exile. V _-__ ._A__- A.-A-u-`(N vs. I-&OA\& vv saw no: X .A.` POPE AND FOUR CZARS. .9 The name of the present pope, while still papal nuncio to the Brussels, court, as well as of no less than four czars of Russia are to be found in, Victoria s autograph book. The first is` that of Emperor Nicholas I., who sud-I `denly arrived without warning in Eng- land to visit the queen in 1844. Tel this day the object of his trip remains; more or less of a state secret. Buti it is generally believed that he came for the purpose of discovering how the` ground lay.'in` connection with his de-I signs upon Constantinople, and that, he quitted Windsor more or less disap-.i pointed by the failure of his mission. The impression that he_ created upon: (the: queen 'does not seem to have `been; altogether agreeable. At any rate, here published diary `leads to that infer- ence. Hisson and successor came to Windsor thirty years later, shortly af- ter the marriage of his only daugh- ter-to Queen Victoria sl second son. Al- exander III. `was a frequent visitor to Windsor and likewise to Osborne be- fore he ascended the throne, while the present autocrat of Russia, agrand- son by marriage of the queen, has visited heronce at Balmoral since he became emperor, but spent whole months at Windsor while he was courting the lovely princess, now his wife. Id: is to the affectionate rela-a tions then established between Y0l1118 Nicholas and the venerable queen that is largely due the maintenance of peape. between Russia and Great Bri- _tain-two countries which find them- selves in rivalry and opposition _in nearly every quarter of the globe. ' - - -- - - 4 ---- -: -- _.o.-..v-nn was-I-4-519! _1f1_yE"o1{I' oi}W'i:11AGEn1Es 'EvoK. One of `the most` dramatic things 32:: aboult this book.of thevqueen s is the days faacit that so many of the personages com, who have signed their names thereinion a have met their death through violence. ' an i Indeed, many are the grim tragedies%J-St that are called to imind when one of u peruses its pages. Taking them at hap-9 k hazard, there is that. to the queen,i; e leasit welcome of all, the guests whom she ever entertained at Windsor, . namely, Nasr-Eddeen-Shah, the ruler `mm of Persia, who was shot down` only a `at ' few yearsago by a reli ious fanatic. 3 ` Then there was the late gultan, Abdul, dek Aziz, who stayed at the castle in 1867, t 1` who who was done to death nine years the` later in his opalanewat Constantinople Wm with a'pai!r of long, sharp, concave- an bladed Oriental scissors. Czar Alexan- der II. had the entire lower pdrtion A] of his body blown to pieces by Nihilist in t1 bombs in 1881`, w_hi1e.Empress Elizabeth. wit; _ of Austria was stabbed to the heart for at Geneva, but a little more than a bro` V year ago.` She had oftenvisited the agai of warm friendship and continuous. queen, and in `spite ofeverything. as-1 -sertedto the contrary, was on terms "aw" polif correspondence with her. The yountglianc Prince Imperial of France was kille ,1 by the.,Zu1us, in~South.A;frica while -3 wearing the queen s_live1:y asone of. Var` the officers of her army. He was one _ 8} of her` speciaj. favorites` and mightvhave! d-` bercome `her, son-iii}-law had he lived. , gigs __..___ ..__.._._`.. 4.... .....__........ . `mistehshkv Qf.-fh.i!!1.:'33i!i8=e "-We.h. ftiecome _ rest ~1r1epds.?. _-.H'is '0n_sort,e `.jwho.-jis;;: _ -, ,.q`11ee,nfs_:irst cousin, has :10! _.._a.s.,_. 1ixd*"'-a:f:x;{d':%v3`;`e vwh II\t- , e KING PEDRO OF PORTUGAL _ succumbed to poison shortly after returning to Lisbon from a visit to Windsor castle; King Louis of Bav-2 aria, whose death by drowning has: never been satisfactorily explained toi this day, figures` in the book, and so` does his cousin, the ill-fated Crown` Prince Rudo_lph_of Austria, whoblew cult his brains at Mayerling on dis- covering that Baroness, ,,Marie_ Vet- sera. had poisoned h(erself.eHe had vis- ited Windsor only two years previous 15', at the timeott the queen's jubilee. His uncle, Archduke Maximilian. who `suffered death` by shooting -at Querei, `taro, after reigning. as" emperor of: Mexico, .e went :a`_' week in; Windsofr. in 1857;-`and-..in` 1161,`.=_di841`. the`: queen speaks 836" I fyeiars<?*been'f?,unfdfer`, restrain? a*~=1`iifn'a.tie. The*. ;'~sDudhess'. eta ., 5-._ff h" th `_ . ., _i1l9l1r' `B1291? .9'?I>!j'.tnW,'t:i!1 en};-,st;syin' =`at' "I "grass, with a full "knowledge of what they I 1' i yvrethes ns. and now. last of all, these wood- en-headed Boers. Of some of these wa are -told that they welcome death, of others that they believe themselves in God's care. And what of these English ? Are they afraid to die ? Who W0111d 511)! 83051.8 thing--or think it for a moment--of these splendid fel- lows who have led England's ranks against every fanatic on earth, except the Turk? They are as ready [to die as 3113' men. and they rank above their toes as towers rise above the a lowly because they risk their, lives are doing. and because in risking them. selves t1.1I.3.Y.:1`_isk the most enviable lot of which anynen boast. The in. 0011108. the-estates, the wives and sis- .t1`.3:f;th' 3933153115058. the sports, the ~1"b9o-e th7.1!1f01`tB, and the luxuries . V With; Whihf-V5990 -menran surround :themseIves.whqn9ver thoy vvill are tie; :'W.h19h'h`m`'.Qzkklie dearer to them than `T59-53170:-vhii most of the whey; historians and win vv unvu v--v twp` p-w-=-.. __, _..._. ,, Reuben was coming home-3. college graduate - to spend with `them his vacation, and then back to the Metro- polis to earn fame. Was it any wonder the floors. the walls, the ceilings, must give evidence of their mute delight? . I ,1. _ _1__-.. 3-.. L..-l. . % 'i3u_IlL `he;";t;..:n;rs `Suit! "signer ' hit; the Dn_]:e ot.Nen1burs.`by her ma-j `u`Ied.ofte n to` go over to Wind-w sor; v'v`a`s-`burnt to death in Charity" Bursar oontlagration `at Par-* is, Prince Baldwin of `Belgium, another near .kins'ma'n of her_ majesty and a of the book lost his life by a. revolver bullet in an adventure of a` _questionable.nha.racter in a mansion" ofthe Avenue Louise at Brussels, while} ail? least two of the queen's former: guests at Windsor, namely, Archduke, John of Austria, and` the late Land-' grave of Hesse, have vanished at sea zvitthout leaving any clue as to their a e. ` 5-n~c-undue` .a|1\11'I` Inn the terrible ` !A TRIBUTE` Th BRAVE MEN; EIJULIAIW RALPH 7_v_vam:sL or THE 1 BRITISH ARMY S_0FFICERS. - uu \u.;u-5 .uvuAwu uuu Lush] Dyllltb. The mama I saw of them the angrier Igot at 21111 have ever read about the [ various fanatical people on earth who aiarecelebrated for not being afraid to ,a die-the Soudan Dervishes, 1 mean, and ;the stolid Turks. and pilfering Alban- 'ians, and last these -en-headed -these Vere '. ' in God's And these 3? English? die? fwould say think _' splendid fel- ' lows whohave led against every except the Turk? '1`hey...are readyto die as ,foes as, towers rise above `grass, because they. risk their, )V-Awithe full knowledge of what _*; are doing, anclbeoause riskingitham. `E; .selve,s_tt_1I_s,y.;,;1;i`s_l;_ the most enviable l",ot.,wh1ch.an`y,~.mio)n can: The ,3 comes. ge,st1: es, the wives and ,. ,ters'.j _j`h`QV`?@3f3_1,i9,l|la other sports. - ,}.c1a! J:_bB;;.~.t!0 99ln,forts_' and the ' jWit_!3 ., W-"`*;*.f,:f_ 1146!:-m!.I" surround above [ta.te. . . , Many more names could be cited !.tha.t c.l.l"forth equally tragic memor-5 ies,`bu`t these will suffice to explain` {why the queen's grandchildren should have nicknamed this so unique volume ins " Grandmamma's Cemetery." 5v ' : Aron Not Afraid of Death on the Battle- eld-Golng out to` South Africa to See the l?'nn"-8omo Johannesburg Vllfugees. . 5 Julian Ralph, the well-known Amer-, ican "author and journalist, is in South Africa as a -war correspondent. In ab 1, rn|._' < -A\r\ICI -.-- -vvv-_ _._ On every ship that arrives in Cape :"1`own from London are many British L `army officers. ` ` I 3 Some ships bring a dozen or twenty;3 .others as many as fifty. They are the pick and. flower of Englishmen. Most A of them are young men, in the late twenties and early thirties, bearing distinguished names, exhibiting the long, slender faces of the British aris- tocracy, carrying themselves at once I like dandies and like athletes. Ll\Ah In`) In vv urn. \l\ILD\-flare.--:-> recent letter from. Cape Town? to The? f London ,Daily Mail, he deals mainly ; with his impressions of the British of- ficer. His letter is as follows :- Au -vv v --w_--v w- ----_ _- 7-- `,7 frrudging along at a slow jog~trot, _oooa.slonnlly opeaking 9. word of en- couragement to the tired mare. Farm. er Grey was nearing home. But, atrou-7 bled look rested on his ace. Wry dif- erent from the bright cheeriness gen- erally found there, and ever and anon his eyes wandered etealthily too little figure perched on 9. high seat at his -11- '1 _"_ '1' "'U ' ' These fine young fellows have come; during their leaves of absence, which! have been Well-earned in active ser-: vice, in disagreeable climates, in lonely garrison posts-in the _Soud.an or on the; Indian frontier. One who came here: with me has given upa billet for which ;he had long been striving, and which was offered: to him just as he had de- termined to come out here, and do a little fighting for variety. Another of my companions on the voyage was starting to make 9. long-proj-cted tour of the world, but this disturbance proved more attractive. A third officer _on the same ship arrived in England to see his people, from whom he had long been separated; but he got no further than London, and` only stayed four idays when he caught the spirit of his comrades and bolted for South Africa. I On another ship was a young man with [an income of 40,003 a year, who was] `just about to be married, but instead 5 of taking his bride to _St. George's he asked her down_ to Waterloo to see higl off for Durban. __-_L_L-J LL_,- 1 0 n 1 ' Illnxo \JK&lA\J.\J\l ups. 5:31.: uyvunurvwuu _ The one strange thing about them is f that nobody is sending them here, and they do! not know to what part 013 the seat of war they are going or what % they are going to do. They oniy know * that they could not keep away`. They gave here to see what they call "the .fun." It is` a war" against bushwhack- ers, guerillas and eharpshooters, in ` which a far greater proportion of offi- ;cers than men are certain to be kill- .ed, but that does not matter to 1 them. THE `FIRST ACCOUNTS 5'0: skirmishes they read after they have landed tell of the deaths of offi-- : ears and. the wounding of others. Ap- Tparently the manner in which the :enemy reveals its presence among the ihills out Natal way; is by the drop- -ping of an officer from hi_s saddle or gin his tracks as he bushes ahead of his men. What of that ? It is part of. I "the fun they say. i M VI-L C-\I& LIX` TIL I watched these men on shipboard during seventeen days. They were up 6 o'clock every morning, runningl so many dozens of times around the . deck in slippers and pyjamas, in order ` to keep themselves in good condition, then plunging into a cold bath and coming back to the deck again in flannels as fresh and blooming as NEW-CUT FLOWERS. -`All day they read about South Africa the little libraries they had brought -withithem, and which they exchanged `for other books that other men had brought on board. They were, I say again, the `best of Englishmen-wide- lawake, we-ll-informed, proud, polished; polite, considerate, and bounding with gani.mal .health_ and. high spirits. I Thh 2'-nnndm T cvn'ur"ruF 4-I-in:-n J-Is`: ...._..:-.. ; gimnea f '1 -- -3` ,".1`7f' one of w1;)cfmfithf:1aerm8 {._bo'It9lvo. fea"1_'_ai _it more than tiny ;_ ;>:_p;vgl:'<:1d..dasping fellows, who keepejg - 0 *:gW9l1 f..i. mmgs out "1 "9 map to V Been to Gprvernment Hou:se`?" I ask. zed one "of these men yesterday. __ ~No," said he, "and-I'm not going, ; I urn afraid they might send me some. iwherla out of the thick of things. 1 I don't want them `to know I'm here. I`m 3- going to wherever it's liveliest. I'll be j-certain to find somebody under whom ',_I have served or with whom I have fought, and; so I'll see the best of. it." A-all 4-Imnf urns: l-kn nnnn .1... L._I.1 ,-Llruguu, nu mu a. LA wvv I..uD U031, U1! 11;." [And that was the man who told me 'th.atvout of 100 men with whom he ;'ae!`ved., 75 are dead already, fifteen of `illnesses: and sixty of bullet wounds and spear thruts. Tl- :.-. .-`l:.~......l-L...-.. I... I_.._- LL, uuu Dylcuz vial unions It is disgusting to leave these men and turn into any one of the Cape Town hotelsto find yourself surround- "ed'by therich refugees from J ohanneg. burg and to Lear them cry like clildren -as they tell you what they will lose if the British do not hurry up and tzxka the Transvaal before the Boers destroy Johannesburg. They actually cry in their plates at dinner, and ha1f-str:1n- gie themselves, sobbing as they drink their whi key at bed time. The Mount Nelson, the .Queen s, and the Grand , Hotels are all full of these merchants `and millionaires, faring on the fut of -, the land, idle, loufing, all of every day and discussing what per cent, of their , losses the British Government will pay iwhen they put in their claims at the |end of the war. 79 \IV 95 I591 HUGE` Thoree. the 9, now! She will like it, I tell you; and when she once sees gnu, and feels. sorry for you, you'll; Ind how kind and good she is." said; the farmer. striving, with the remem. '5 branoe of duty `done. to reassure his; sinking heart as he came in sight of} his own pasture-land. `CL; `int. Iua\U|n `r\n::u`\ nan` -nun`: `Lul-