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I 'M‘W- _._._.__.___â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"-â€" WHEN WAR LllRllS flGliT LITTLE TIFFS THAT LED T0 GREAT DISASTERS. Different Ending of Battles Might Have Resultcd Had the Gen- erals Agreed. Some people thinkuit very funnv when great admirals and generals quarrel like schoolboys among themselves. But it is’nt always funny for the nations whom the ad~ mirals and generals are supposed to serve. Some of the greatest naval and military disasters in his tory have been owing wholely and solely to the fact that the leaders of the defeated fleets or armies have been on such bad terms that they have hampered one another, in~ stead of working cordially together against the enemy. Two of the most famous generals of ancient times were Belisarius and Narses. Apart from each other neither of them had a rival in the art of war. In the year 538 they were both sent by the Emperor Jus- tinian to drive the Gothic invaders out of Italy. Had they helped each other the task would have been simple. But they “were not on speaking terms,” and the result of this was that the great city of Milan, which was besieged by the enemy, was not relived in time. William the Conqueror had reas- on to be thankful that King Harold’s generals were ‘not united. Two of them, Edwin and Markere, quar- relled with the others. They re- fused to patch up their differences and join wholeheartedly to expel the invader when he landed at Pevenscy in 1066. Instead, they drew off in dudgeon from the Saxon army, taking with them thousands of their followers. Nobody wishes to deprive the Scots of the glory of Bannockburn. All the same, it is just possible that Robert Bruce would not have won his great victory had the Eng- lish barons been united. UNDER THE BOLD BENBOW. It was the same sort of jealousy among the French nobles which led the King of France to be defeated by the Black Prince at Poitiers; and our Henry V., fighting five against one. at Agincourt, might have lost instead of won if the gen- erals opposed to him had not hated and distrusted one another. England has lost several times ‘both on sea and land through “little differences” between ‘her admirals and generals. William III. was terriblyhampered zit-the great battle of Steinkirk, in 1802, because his generals, Dutch and English, could not “hit it off to- gether.” The worse naval defeat we ever suffered was off Beachy “I can truthfully say that I believe that, but for the use of your Emulsion I would long since have been in my grave. Iwas past work-could not walk up-hill without coughing very hard.” THIS, and much more was written by Mr. G. W. Hower- ton, Clark’s Gap, W. Va. We would like to send you a full copy of his letter, or you might write him direct. 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The British ad- miral, Russell, openly accused some of his chief captains of being trait- ors to the country before the first cannon shot was fired, and they re- turned the compliment by inform- mg him that he was another. In ’ 1702 Admiral B-enbow was cruismg with his squadron in the West Ind'es, and off Santa Martha gave chase to a French fleet under Du Casse. But many of his cap- tains, for no other reason than that they were on bad terms with him personally, absolutely declined to join in the fight, and sheei'ed off with their ships. Benbow was left to fight alone with the handful of snips which stood by him. He fought desperately, and even after his leg had been shot off by a chain shot, insisted on remaining on the quarter-deck until he was forced to give up the action and sail away baffled. Benbow died of his wound, and several of the sulky captains were tried by court-martial and shot. l WHY PRINCE CHARLIE LOST. There might have been another and different result to the battle of Culloden, which shattered the hopes of “Bonnie Prince Charlie,” had not dissensions and rivalries crept into the Highland army. Two of the generals, Lord Elcho and Lord George Murray, were far more analous to get up a duel with each other than to fight the Duke of Cumberland. The Duke of Wellington was at first greatly hampered in Spain by the conduct of General Picton, the leader of his cavalry. The two dis- liked each other bitterly, and for this reason Picton was always criti- cising and even disobeying the or- ders of his leader. The “Iron Duke” himself might have come to grief in the Penin- sular War, instead. of covering him- self with glory, had his opponents thought of nothing but how to beat him. He was opposed by three of Napoleon’s greatest marshals, Massona, Ney, and Soult. At one time they had a good chance of de- stroying him had they worked to- gether; but Ncy and Soult were personal enemies of Masscna, and, though he was in chi-cf command, they refused to carry out his plans and wasted time in futile wrang- lings. Napoleon declared that he lost Waterloo through the generals un- "tler him- hating each other too much to fight well tog-ether. There was some truth in it. Grouchy dis- trusted Soult, Soult was envious of Ncy, and Ney hat-ed both of them. How could they be expected to do their best when they were, so to say, continually hurling defiance at each other? Pcarson’s ‘Weekly. r1<_._ or“ LENGTH 0F l) BEAM S. May Dream Au Unlivcil Life Willi- iii a Minute. It is not unusual to hear one say that he has been dreaming about something all night, when possibly his dream occupied only a very Many attempts have been made to measure the time oc- cupied in a dream, and records ap- pear from time to time in the pap- ers, showing that often elaborate ones occupy but a few seconds. The following incident is told by a gentleman, who vouclics for its ac- curacy: Ile was engaged one afternoon with a clerk in verifying some long columns of figures that had been copied from one book to another. The numbers ,reprcsenting amounts in dollars and cents, were composed of six or seven figures. The clerk would read, for instance, “Four- teen, one forty-two, twelve, ma:- ing the amount of $14,142.12, and the gentleman would answer, “Check,” to indicate that the copy was correct. Page after page had could be uttered, each number re- ceiving the “check.” The work was drowsy, and it was with clifficultv he could keep his eyes opcn. . Finally sleep overcame him, and he dreamed-dreamed of an old horse he had been accustomed to drive t-wciityfive er thirty ycars ago. He could not recall any special in- cident competed with the dream <, ‘been read as rapidly as the Words ‘ .except the‘: locality and the distinct sight of the horse. and of the buggy ‘to which he had driven him. He awoke suddenly, and as a number was ended called, “Check.” He was conscious of having slept and of having dreamed, and said to the clerk, “Charlie, I have been asleep. How many of those numbers have I missed '1” “None,” he replied. “You have checked every one.” Close questioning developed the fact that of the figures 14,142.12 he had heard the fourteen and the twelve, but had slept and dreamed during the time occupied in rapidly uttering the words “one forty-two.” He tried, by reading other numbers, to measure the time, and thinks it could not have been more than a second. Another story is told of a man who sat before his fire in a drowsy condition. A draft, blowing across the room, set a large photograph on the mantel to swaying. A slend- er vase was in front of it, and the man remembers wondering, in a mood of whimsical indifference, whether the picture would blow for» ‘ward and send the vase to the floor. l Finally a gust of wind did topple the picture, and it struck the vase. The man remembers having been curiously relieved in his state of drowsiness that at last the “old thing was going to fall and be done with it.” Presently he was in the midst of a complicated business transaction in a Western city, miles away. All the details of a new and unheard-of scheme were coming forth from his lips, and a board of directors was listening. The scheme prospered. He moved his family "West. Frag- ments of the journey "thither and glimpses of the fine house he bought came before his vision. A crash woke him. The vase had struck the ~floor. He had dreamed an unlived life covering years, and all in the time it took for the vase, which lie had seen toppling before he fell asleep, to fall five feet and break. HIM->11 RAISING THE WIND. How {lie 01d Sea Captain Wrecked His Vessel. Stranger-“I resume a man who has followed the sea so many years must have been in some wrecks l” Old Sea Captain-“Wrecks'! Well a few. The wust wreck I ever had was on the Jersey coast.” “Long ago ‘.l” > “Soine’at. You see, I got be- calnied off the coast of Ireland.” “Becalrned'l” “Yes._ Well, I tried every way to start a wind, but it was no go. Not a breath stirrin’. At last I got desperate.” “I presume so.” “Yes, I got so desperate I made up my mind I’d try a plan I’d of- tcn'heard of, if it took the last dol- lar I had. Oan’t raise the wind without money.” “It’s a good deal the same way 0n shore.” ' “Jesso. Well, then, I took a big silver piece, kissed it thre times, swung it nine times round my head and then flung it as far as I could into the sea, in the direction I wanted the wind to come, you know.” “I see.” “Well, it came.” “It did?” ' “Did it? Well, you justouglit to seen it. The first blast took every stitch o’ sail clean of? the yards, an’ in three minutes more we was scudding under bare poles a thou- sand miles an hour.” “Ci-icky l’ ’ “I sh’d say so. Well, the nex’ thing I knew, bump went ’er bow, an’ there we was bcin’ dashed all to bits square up agin Jersey. Why, sir, we struck with such force we bounded way up the beach an’ walked dry-shod right into a hotel.” “I'never hear of that.” “Nâ€"o; the season was over an’ the hotels was closed. Well, sir, after that I never tried no more five cent pieces when I wanted win‘.” “I suppose not.” “No, sir. After that I never flung anything bigger’n a cent.” $14 TO SPARE. The Angry Mother-You’ve got an awful nerve_ to ask inc to give you back your ball when you nearly killed one of my children with it. The Boy-‘Well, ma’am, you’ve got tcn children and wo’ve got only one ball. “Don’t you occasionally have company that bores you 'l" “Often; but we have a remedy. \Vc always let our little Johnny recite.” strangest sass Would you like to have a sam- ple copy of The Farmers Ad- vocate and Home Magazine? TiiE BEST AfiklfillL’fllfilll. Add llfifvlii FfiPEli on the American Continent. No progressive farmer can af- ford to be without it. Publish- ed weekly. Only $1.50 per year. Drop postâ€"card for free sample copy. A gents Wanted. Address: “THE FARMEES sure-cars ” Mention this paper. 1261 _.mâ€"hwwmâ€"_aflâ€"mm _ as women. EXTRAVAGANGES (if 0L!) VERY IILTCH GREATER THEN {ruin new. Modern Household and Dress Bills Compared With Those of Gur Ancestors. We hear it said everywhercâ€"at the beginning and at the cnd of each season-that modern extra-v- agance is appalling, that women overdress, that they spend more for a Single hat than their grand moth- ers did for their whole trosscau, says the London Daily Mail. Like many other often recurring general statements, this is far from being accurate. The well known French writer M. Henry de- Gallicr contributes to the current issue of La Revue a remarkable study on “Spending Money in Days of Yorc.” From statistics carefully compil- ed, from private documents of one or two centuries ago, from letters and bills dating from those distant days, it appears that extravagance was far worse then. . The greatest change in the matter of expenditure is that during the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries men spent quite as much â€"if notnmore-â€"as women for their own attire. To-day the average man spends considerably less than the average woman on clothes, andin the weal- thy classes the difference is more marked still, since it was recently stated by a queen 'of fashion that while a man coull be quite “ele- gant” by spending $2,000 a year on himself a woman needed $2,000 a month to dress stylishly. IN THE MIDDLE CLASS, as in the aristocracy, 150 years ago more things were required by a1 man. He wore night cuffs of lace, his black suit cost $20 (of our mon- ey), his hats-he needed half a dozen-$5 each. He required silk stockings, woolen stockings and “skin” stockings and five or six different kinds of boots. He had to spend several dollars a year at the barber and wig-mak- er’s. The middle class woman of those days managed to dress iii a cheaper way, though dress was the main expense. Diaries and memoirs establish the curious fact the upbringing of three children cost a third less than the clothes required by their! mother-,‘r-‘a modest woman! Men woreribbons, lace, embroidcrics, and jewelry in'as large quantities Certain gontlemen’s suits cost as much as $3,000 and three of these were required bi<eacli guest for great wedding i féstivals. (These were exceptions, however. An cle- gant man could “manage” u'ith six summer and six winter suits, at $500 apiece. This, needless to add, docs not include the gold or silver buttons or the lace! Let us turn to women. In 1720 Mlle. de Tour- non married in Paris. It was an elegant marriage, but by 110411160118‘ a great affair. Her aunt offered her $3,500 for "fans, bags, and garters.” The bride herself bought several gowns at prices varying from $750 to $2,000. These were “ordinary things.” For the court she required a long gown of whilte velvet, elaborately embroidered: cost $4,000, and the same dress could be worn on A FEW OCCASIONS ONLY. But gowns Underwear and have to be considered. Choiseul, the wife of a Minister of ~¢ I a The “bills” of Mine. de Ohoiseul prove that thirty sheep a month and 5,000 chickens per annum were required to feed her guests. Three hundred pounds of bread was nec- essary daily. These receptions were elaborate, yet the guests en- joyed THE GREATEST FREEDOM. They called with as many servants, horses and dogs as they pleased. They were at liberty to take their meals in the rooms placed at their disposal or in the main dining hall. Domestics-which so many people believe were very cheap in those days-were, as a matter of fact, more expensive than they are now. During the seventeenth century a kitchen woman was paid $15 or $20 a month, “not including wine and lard.” _ Gambling went on in most houses. There were games of “lansquenet” and “pharaoh” even in the salons of embassies! Servants asked their masters to stake their wages for them. Fortunes were lost and won in a few minutes. People staked their horses, their houses, their estates. The Duke de Rohan once staked his diamond order. He had riot one sou left. _Lawsuits deserve a special men- tion. They were another craze of those days. Suits were everlasting; the son took up cases where his father had loft them and transmitt- ed them to his heir later on. ‘It was the fashion; it was a luxury. The costs were colossal. A gentle- man was able to say at the beginn- ing of the nineteenth century: “My grandfather had thirty-three suits; he won every one of them and it cost him several thousands.” The amounts mentioned in the article are not of course tho amounts appearing in ancient doc- uments, but theirequivalents in our money. .Fs BARTS UWNTABLETS A LITfLE LIFE SAVER. Baby’s Own Tablets have saved many a precious little life. There is no other medicine for children so safe and sure in its effects. The Tablets cure stomach and bowel troubles, teething troubles, destroy worms, break up colds and prevent deadly croup. 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Each school will accommodate seventy-five children, divided into three classes of twontyfive each. The staff will consist of one head are not everything, teacher, three assistant teachers, a other “triflgs” nurse, cook and helper and a Jan- Mmc. de “£013 Of course there are buildings Louis XV., wore several thousand which are occupied a part of each dollars worth of lace on her evcn- (1345’, as ing' dresses. well in pleasant as in un- pleasant weather; but unless the The inventory after her death of weather is hopelessly bad almost all Mme. dc Verrue’s properties i'e- the time is spent iii the open air. A vealed the fact that she poggggged blackboard on an easel is set up\ on 500 dozen canibric handkerchiefs, the grass an 480 shirts and 60 pairs of stays. As for jewels, men formerly wore diamonds and pearls on their clothes, shoes and hands, while to- games day a man of refined taste 1s satis- study 1n t ring, simple 0E fied with a modest links, a little pearl as a shirt stud and a large stonc- as a scarfpin. Hospitality then was on a far greater scale than it is now. would be diificult even for the wealthy owner of a great mansion to place all the year round 700 beds at the disposal of his friends, as did M. he Rohan at his castle of Saverne. One hundred and eighty horses were always ready to be saddled for his guests and (300 heaters were used daily by him during the shooting season. People of moderate means had three days out of six from twelve Ito twenty guests at a time. who called on business were invit- London Ont, ed to stay to dinner and given a ‘ POOH}. People l d the chairs of the. pup- ils are grouped before it. , The children are small and the course of study is light. 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