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EUREKA,

BY

MABEL QUILLER-COUCH.

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And the whole of this lovely little place is to be bad for the ridiculous-sujn-of-ton-pounds a year! Oh, Ann, Ann, would it not be flying aid the face of Providence not to take it?"), *The girl sank down on the miniature sent under the miniature verndah, with a big sight of mingled excitement and relief. The cuttage stood at the side of a long, wide road leading down to the sea, a pretty title, one- storied house, with a verandah running along the front of it a verandal festooned with luxuriantly-growing creepers, and a large seven sisters tose, which crept up over it and peeped in at the windows above, straggling across the panes in unrestrained freedom Two small French windows opened out from the tiny sitting-rooms on either side of the door.

It wants a lot of doing up," she sighed, looking round ineditatively, and the woodwork wants painting. Perhaps the landlord would do that, if not must get it done, by degrees, 1 cannot do much at a time." The old servant sat down on the seat the other side of the door and looked at her young mistress.

"You leave him to me, Miss Lina," she said, and I'll get it done."

Liha smiled. We must not ask too much," she said, knowing to what lengths her old hand- maiden would go in any cause for her;" the house is very cheap, and I should not like to be unfriendly with my landlord. I am too

much afraid of him as it i is.".

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studying the

while nation to defend had coloured whe proudly, I have been herself to the last gleamed from her eye?)

At her wondered hogood deal lately. She "Yes, oh, yes, ON Ann I wish, we had touchy She seems suce, and Bob, looking brought Peter."

freak of hers, and would she had grown

100, over thi Softly they crept across the little plot of grass

"Yes, this place might be yudhing. to the back door and peeped in. Against the little Paradise, he said,tag he

The perfect glass of the front door were silhouetted two view the rest of the garden," dope, her 10 men's faces. They stood out distinctly in the fully, as I should like to do it 1 shorste bright sunshine, an old face find a young and soiry ever to leave it

They look respectable," said Ling, softly, "I except they only want to inquire their way. I will answer the floor, you stay close, behind me, Ann, but pretend to be quite unconcerned."ey She knew the two men could see them quite distinctly, so with quick firm step, she crossed the little hall and with an alarmingly haughty and self-possessed air, unlocked the door and turned the handle to throw it open, but the door refused to come, it was struck fast, and no efforts of Lina's could budge it,"

**

"Allow me" cried a voice from without, and with one strong shake and push, the door few open suddenly, and the younger man came almost dying in.

"Why, Bob, is it you ?2

Gond heaven, Ina, you here!

The young man grew very white, but that may have been from standing in the sun su ung, or from wrestling with the door. The girl grew very rasy, that also may have been. from wrestling with the door..

"I came here to see over this house," said the young man.

"So did I answered the girl.

They seemed a little embarrassed, these two, at this unexpected meeting. So much so that Ann and the old gentlenian began to seek ex- will wait outside in the garden," said the latter, cuses for absenting themselves. I think 1.

the action one through the kitchens, Miss Lina," said Ann, “and the larders, and see to the stove.”

to the word.

For a moment after they were left alone they stood without speaking, the girl playing with her sunshade, the man with his cap.

"Why have you not written to me all this time, Ling?" he asked at last. "It is six months since I had a letter. It was quite by chance I heard that you were-alone in the world. Why did you leave off writing to me? You must have known, how I should have sympathised with you "

There was no resisting Bob when he talked like that; at least Lina could not resist him, She was feeling tired, too, and miserable, and overstrung.

"So shoilla Taid Liga, "in fact I never should. But of course you could spend more on it than I can; you want it for pleas

nándent. sure, 1, for business.

"Business" echoed Bob, business, Lina? “Yes,” said Lind, colouring again at her mis- - will be reas

Sip Redvers Buller take, "at least, I mean, I should have it for my one and only home, while you want it for a to be called the "Wolseley: month or two in the summer." She talked easy," says AL Forbes in quickly to try to divert Bob's attention, Bob, sketch of the Commander-in-Chic however, refused to be diverted.

most censorious, to challenga the di "But, how about-Lina, coufs here.. Turning acumen of Wolseley's selections round and look at me: look me straight in the be superfluous for me to emphasise the me face, and tell me what this all means

nf. Redvers Buller's military character, al though, perhaps, I happened to know, more. than de grost men hay much, once and agaib, Bull that fine officer's acute discenunent, fearless iron. smasterfulness of pature, and rathless prompti-sort of dog it. It means that. I have no other home-now" tude have served us

ment has been's every step of a she said, great tears welling up in her eyes as

The gallant, soldier to whom England is she obeyed Bob and looked at him.

enemy, just as pyon. old one? Have you lost and then the

"No home i" cried Bob,"have you left the fooking now to bring to a speedy and success series of deeds of almos ful conclusion the war, between ourselves and Routine men grumbled that the Boers of the Transvaal is, as all the world have sent him to the Easter Soute significance of it all flashed across him. "Why knows, no poxice in Aftican warfare In Mrmand a brigade in Sir, Gerild Gralia Lina, ny poor child, you don't mean that you" Forbes's "Bauacks, Bivouacs, and Battles' She bowed her head, and covered her face there are some passages referring to Sir Red: with her bands" have lost everything and vers Buller's exploits in that country. When pleadingly, but she would not look at him. everyong"

Mr. Forbes reached Durban in 1879 Colonel Nueveryone, Lina." Bub looked at her Redvers Buller, as he was then, had already, won his Victoria Cross, by deeds of conspi- "Yes, everyone-no, no," she burst out, "I

not everyone; I still have Ann and the Inhlobang Maumain unfortunate affair attion, and buttressed the futtering fortunes of Peter.".

the British arns. Again, Inter on the Nile, it "He assisted, while hotly pursued by Zulus, was he who, with characteristic abruptness, And me," said Bob softly. Linn did not speak. Bob thought she had not heard. In rescuing Captain C. D'Arcy, of the Fron snatched the dishevelled remnant of the column understand now why you could not bring your tier Light Horse who was retiring on foot, which he found af Gubat-ourel the very jaws of self to write, you poor child, but one line would Colonel Buller carrying him on his imminent peril, and reconducted it, with a cool have been enough, and I might have belped horse until he overtook the rearguard promptitude that was all his own, back inte a On the same day and in the same cir you so, Lina"

region of comparative safety. He shares with cumstances he conveyed to a place of safety the Duke of Devonshire the by no means Lieutenant C Everitt, of the Frontier Light unserviceable attribute of os be damned. Horse whose horse had been killed under him.ness. I have watched Redvers tiller's career Later on Colonel Hullor in the same manner with the closest attention and profoundest saved a trooper of the Frontier Light Horse," admiration. who was completely exhausted and who other- wise would have been killed by the Zulus, who were within eighty yards of him.'

These are the formal words, of the Gazelle and give no very vivid idea of the man Mr. Furbes's brilliant pages do, and his incidental references to the dashing officer give an inpression of verisimilitude very interesting under present.circumstances:

"No one could help me she said, I did not want to be helped. But after all, with an effort to speak more brightly, "it might. have. been worse. I have-well, enough to live on, daresay, but I want to bave a home and to keep Ann with me and Peter and that is why I want to earn more, and that is why I have come to this cheap, out-of the-way part of the world. must keep them. I have no one else and i did not know how to manage it otherwise."

Bob was astounded, struck dumb almost by what he beard, and in the midst of it all he felt a vague feeling of pleasure. "Come here and sit down," he said presently, "let us get on this hedge and test a bit. You must be neatly tired.

fraid Miss Lina! Are snorted with in- dignation, “Afraid! That won't do ; the way to maongo landlords is to make them afraid of you, It never does to be backward in asking," went on the old servant, sagely, and shaking her head, "folk won't offer you more without it, and they expect it too."

I have not much worldly wisdom," said the 13 girl, sadly, "but I expect a few years of struggling for existence will make up for that deficiency, I am stupid, I know, but I can't bear that trying-to-get-all-you-can-out of everyone style, of life-t is low, and degrading But

must-will become a good business The girl turned away and looked out of the woman," she cried more brightly and spring window. “I could not bring myself to wrile ing to her feet. "I must, for your sake and about it," she said softly, "it seemed like going mine, you good, old faithful Ann am through it all again.” going to make money fast as ever I can, "Poor child, he said, coming over and staád.I and I should expect people to mete me as gooding beside her "how terribly you must have niensure as 1. shallingto them....We will get suffered. And I have done nothing to help quite a large business in time. She went over you" and sat beside the old woman and took-her Bony workworn hand in her own sun-burnt unes." mean it seriously, she siad, "we must put our pride away with the best Crown Derby set, which we shall never use now. I ought to see at once what fruit there is," with a business-likeair that sat oddly on, her "and write 1o the markets to try to sell it. Oh you shall have enough for jam-tonking," seeing the dis. appointed look on the old woman's face, "and for every imaginable kind of tart, you like to make, but you know, Ann, we shall not need very much. We are only two now," she finish- ed, sadly.

Ann looked up quietly at her young mistress and patted her gently on the arm; there was a tear on her cheek but it got hidden in a wrinkle when she smiled. "You are forgetting Master Peter," she said."

"So I am," cried Lina, more cheerfully, "I had actually forgotten that dear dog. wish he was here now, Ann, he would cheer us up and how he would enjoy scampering all about the place Shall we go inside and see the rooms now? Ah, Ann, I am longing to have the furniture here and to begin to settle down at once, aren't you? I want to be at work, to begin this.

very moment, it's the only cure for the bluca,"

The top half of the front door was of frosted glase, against which a shutter was fastened. We'll take that down I think Miss, it'll make the place look cheerfuller." They were standing in the tiny ball, on either side of which was an

open doorway leading down two steps into the small sitting rooms, from whose windows one looked out on the little front garden with its high laurel hedge. At the other end of the tiny hall was another little shuttered door opening out into the back garden. Lina opened this, while Ann was unfastening the windows, lett ing the freshween-air into the musty-suting rooms. Suddenly acryTrenched the "house, a cry which would have frightened Ann had not known her young mistress well. An, Ad, quick, quick, come out here, just look, look at the garden, look at the fruit, and, look oh look at that dear little house. Is not it like a place in a story book?"

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There was a long - silence then, neither of them knowing quite what to say. He was longing to know so much, and not daring to ask; slic, hoping with all her heart that she might be able to hide from him the fact that she was lonely, miserable, and very, very poor "What are you going to do here?" he asked at last.

"I saw the advertisement of this place, so came down to ste it. l'avanted a little home," she went on in her soft sad voice, "för our old servant, Ann, and myself, and Peter. And is it not lovely here? turning round with a brighter look than he had yet seen on her face. "I think it will suit us beautifully.

"Yes, it seems very jolly" be said absently. But what are you doing here ?" she asked suddenly wondering how to account for his presence there.

"I saw the advertisement, too, and came to see the place. That old gentleman out there is the agent

"How odd" ignoring the last plece of information. "Bur Bob, what do you want with

house?"

its merits."ANG ANG

She turned and looked out of the window again while she waited for his reply.. It was so long in coming that she went over and gathered minent danger of being caught in when the a spray of jessamine that hung down in im- window was closed. “Are you married ?” she asked in a voice, so unconcerned as to sound unnatural to anyone but the young man.

**No he ansivered, quite as unconcernedly, but with an inward sigh of relief that she had her back to him and did not see how he blushed: "I wanted a little place to come to in the summer. I am gong to bring down my yacht, and hope to get in some fishing, too. But now, as you are already acquainted with the house perimps, you will be good enough to trot round with me and point out all "I have only seen, these to lower rooms and the garden-but, cl, Bob, the garden is fovely!" He looked at her with a sudden odd gleam in his eyes. She was standing framed in the green of the shady window, the bright sun in the garden beyond sending an upward That's for tools, I suppose," said Ann, pant-light over her face and pretty, hair. She looked ing a little after her run down the long strip of very slight and delicate in fler beavy black garden in the wake of her mistress. It would gown, and hor face was paler than when Bob be handy too to keep boxes and that sort of had seen herJaïr; But the

were the same,, only, if and more sweet thing in

Boxes!" cried Lina, "Why it's fit for a dog, or rabbits-or——"*~*

"Oh, Miss Lina, you don't mean to put Master Peter out there. You won't do that will you," pleaded the old soul, tearfully. "Think of the cold and the loneliness; don't 'ce keep him out there, Miss."

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should sleep out of doors; one she held over It was an old threat ofttina's that Peter Ann when the latter more than usually spoilt the dog. But now it was Lina who qualled before the other's glance. :

out.

"Oh Bob, do you really want it?".

"I want it very, very much, I would give. the old man twice as much as he asks for it- to get it--but I would rather boy it of him." Lina's face fell and the smile died away.. cannot coldly, I must go elsewhere and seek a home? a home.", Bob saw her lip quivering, and felt a brute, "Do you really want it so much, Lina?”

"Oh, it does not matter-but i was here first

saw it." and 1 made up my mind to take it directly I

Mountain:

BULLER IN ZULULAND.

4.

Mr. Farber chum "Bill," Lord William

Beresford, got the appointment and next day went off up-country to his billet, "and not loss affer, ays the writer, "I joined Wood's force

up si Bambula 1.

the choice. It is not too much to aver tha short expedition, Amply did,Buller vina by his cool, skilful handling of his brigade in the crisis of the Gght of Tamai, he averted a evitable, retrieved that all but desperate situa. disaster that but for his conduct was in

1 regard Redvers Bullers," says, Mr. Forbes in conclusion, as the strongest soldier of the British Anay, to-day and if he remains in the service, and there be hot work again in our time, I predict for Bel 'fer a great fighting career. An interesting | prediction, which is now, we do not doubt, to be fulfilled to the letter.-Rangoon Times.

THE TEMPLE OF EARRAK,

ANCIENT JERRY BUILDING.-

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Goldshly Grosjean, Hudson, Lt Heinszen & Co., Hesketh, S. B Harrison, W HC. Havit, Maris Hold, J. G. Heward; J. C. Haimovitch, E. Hague, Mrs. Hill, Mrs. Hardouin, C. Iplicilan, S. Johnston, A H. Jackson, H. Johnson, G. C. "Kammol, Ja, Kydon, A. King, L. H Kool, Miss L

Sherman H Somberbielle Thomsonek Taber Mi Tritabal, A Tara Singh Valimisp, Rev Volkmann, Jë Windrich, Wilson, Mes:7 Warbuk, Dr. Ka Wheeler, P./HAS Walker, C.-H.

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Madar, Or M Bourdonne), Mons, de, Miller, Mr.S, Cumomitis, A. (2) - Nestor, WN Cameron, Wm. S Chief Engineer Hong. Crawford, JR.

kong Railway Ekman, Miss Ida Forsyth, G. G. S Gatlands, J. Hancock, W. Hooper, G. W.İ

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Romero, JAN Reiber, Fr. Rankin, A. W. Ranchyerger, Miss F.-- Schwaz

Mayer, A Millet, Miss.

Meha, Estain Mullins, Da

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Silva, M. da, Swantanes, Rupert, S.C Syett, Mr. Sanders, Mr. M. A. Suckermaun, R. Silva,

L. J. da Taho, Mrs. Tajima, Mr. G. Vanuxen, L. C. Weisman, B. Weinstein, J. Weil, R.

"We reached.Port Durban about the middle Ant and the agent will find the kitchens of April, 1879, to find its raadgicads crowded and the view enough for the time. I can't with the transports that had brought realise it all; le. us sit here, I want to think." the reinforcements out from England,

Lina scrambled on to the broad low hedge and it hotels crammed with officers of A lule while agga Reuter's telegram from and settled down on the thick rank grass all ranks, and all branches of the services. Cairo.announced that some nine columns in the with a sigh of relief. "It is good to Genemi Fred", Marshall an old friend of great hall of the Temple of Ammon at Karak meet a friend again," she said, smiling. Beresford and myself, commanded the Regular had fallen. These formed part of the huge a little and, putting away her pocket Cavalry Brigade, and Bill hoped for a berth on- colonnade which supports the roof. Previous handkerchief, think. I have shut myself up bis staff. But a better. Billet, fell to him. Fur in the fall of these columns, not fewer too much." Bob aniled a smile of Batisfaction, up. in the Transvaal Sir Evelyn Wood's little than one hundred and thirty-four supported What a lot of things seem to be happening brigade had just gained a brilliant victory over the great square stones forming the roof, 10-day." Then suddenly becoming practical.. some 20,000 Zulus, who had made á des- one hundred and, twenty-two of the We must sort masters out a bit. Businessperate attack on their position. Colonel Redvers calumns measured 42ft in height the first. How are we going to manage about Holler commanded Wood's Irregular Volunteer remaining twelve central columns measuring house?"

Cavalry, and in the recent fight his staff-officer, 69ft. by 12ft, in diameter. The telegram, un Major Roland-Campbell bad been killed." fortunately, does not state to which class the fat ien pillars belong. Both classes were so huge in dimensions that they could not be constructed like any previous Egyptian pillar. In fact, these columns are not true pillars at all, but are merely columns of masonry put together just as we now build a chimney shaft or a light house. An ordinary stone column such as "I found Bill too busy to give me more than Nelson's Monument in Trafalgar-square, is a hurried handshake. He was Buller's only formed of solid stone sections with a metal staff-officer, and the force commanded, about a thousand strong, was the strangest congerie core, but it was, of course, impossible to obtain, imaginable. It consisted of broken gentlemen, sections measuring twelve feet across, so these of runagate sailors, of fugitives from justice, of hollow shells of masonry were erected, and their Centres were filled with mortar. the scum of South African towns of stolid Columns which have previously... fallen, Afrikanders, of Boers whom the Zulus had

reveal the fact that some disgraceful- driven from their farms. Almost every European jerry-building went.: on even in the nationality was represented; there were a few

day of Set 1, for it is found that the centres Americans, some good, some bad; n Greaser: have in several cases been filled with any rubble Chilian; several Australians; and a couple of which happened to be handy. This may" Canadian voyageurs from somewhere in the possibly have been the case with some of the Arctic regions. There were Frenchmen who

freshly fallen columns. is interesting to could not speak a word of English, and Channel note that they belong to the last form Islanders whose patais neither Englishmen por of Egyptian pillar when the, desire for fa Frenchmen could understand. One and all surfaces on which to record one's great were volunteers, recruited for the campaign at deeds overcame every other architectural the pay of five shillings a day. What added to the Instinct. Hitherto the columna bad-shown complication was that the force comprised a the ribbings which tymbolised the bundle dozen or more sub-commands, each originally; of lotus stems in imitation of which the pillar THE ABSENT MINDED BEGGAR® and still to some extent, a separate and distinct had originated, but at the time of the building.RAND NEW PATRIOTIC POEM, by unit. There were "Baker's Horse and of the Temple of Ammon wall spaces were in "D'Arcy's Horse," and "Beddington's Horse,"

JRUDYARD KEPLING Mźle, by

"I had made mine up before I came." The absurdity of the situation and the expression of Bob's face struck Lina so forcibly that she broke into a peal of laughter. "Bob she said, laying her hand on his arm, "It does mean so much to me, you don't know how I want this place 1"

"I think I do, for I want it more than I ever wanted anything in my life, at least-almost.

"Well," she said, looking at him gravely for this selfish phase of Bob's character was new to her, and she did not feel inclined to give

"I don't know, I am way to him, 14 to be done."

sure, what

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S.S. Diomed,...W. McMarnie. Sas, Loosok G. Menius... S.S. Machee, A. J. Farrell va S.S. Patroclus... D. Fritchard. S.S. Patroclus... S.S. Paranang S.S. Roselia,... 5.S. Rosella,

W.R.Wigmore. Chief Engineer. Miss Elder. M. T. Clarke

S.S. Tsinan ....Capt. Anderson.

Intimations.

I do," said Bob, gravely, "there is only one, way of solving the difficulty. He looked so stern that Lina was taken completely off her guard,

What is it?" she cried eagerly; hope springing up in her heart

We must take it between us," he answered. and "Ferreira. Horse, and so on, each body sufficient for record writing so the columns had ARTHUR SULLIVAN

solemnly Then before, he had jumped off

wistful eyes the meaning of his words, he

the hedge, and was beside her. "Ling, dear, did you not see that i was teasing you all the time, did you not know that I have been wait. ing for years for you in the hope that you would marry me at last ? You won't send me away now, will you?"

"Oh. Bob, Bob, how could you treat me so," she cried, blushing, smiling, ignoring his ques. ung in her eyes,ad of me, was it not ? and, I will tion, yet-answering it by the happy light shin-

never be such a brute again, but answer me, Lina, answer tie, dear*.

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and more wistful. And asshe stood there, there awoke in Bob's heart a great desire to take her then and there in his arms, to comfort and protect her, to drive from her pale face that sad look. It seemed to him the only thing worth living for, to have her dependent on him, to be able to guard her and make her happy again. thoughts showed in his eyes, they were quite But he only thought these things, and if his lost on Lina, for it really seemed as though her one aim and object was to look stanything but Bob, and especially to avoid meeting his ayes, "No," she said, "not Peter, but--but fowls."Um Well I'm glad there is a garden, but "I cannot realise itall--I seemed to be losing. In her relief at Peter's escape Ann took dhy I don't know I am very keen about it. Are everything, and-and-and now lift medown, other suggestion calmly. "You know, Miss, these two the only sitting rooms? I should This was a rash request, for Bob, having got you'll have a good many expenses when settling, have liked three

her in his arms, did not seem inclined to let for in here, and you won't have any money to I believe so have not been upstairs yet!go waste. Hadn't you better wait a bit beföre Let us go now then," he said, and off lie Fromise," he said, "promise Lins, or I will you" Waste!" cried: Lina indignantly larted leaving her to follow him. She ascend- buy the House, and raise the tent, and by them. I am going to sell them with a feeling a little perplexed, but when she came we must arrange everything in rotation, Waste! Ann i am going to make a living ed the short fight of shallow stairs, slowly, Oh, Bob, do remember Ant and the agent, going to sell poultry and eggandence to the rooms above their land vel, foot and this must

away out over miles and miles of sen, forgot and this must be settled frat," said Bob with a "Well, Miss," said Ann, drawing herself up perplexity and everything else,

strictly businesplike aiy with a spice of dignity, "I thought there was Ob Bobl Is not this view alone. worth acted, inspector of the house and garden has What Ann and the agent thought of the pro- nothing on earth I wouldn't do for you, but I three times the rent?” should find it very hard to go round from door Three rooms in front," said Bob meditative never transpired, but the result satisfied them to door asking people to buy A ringing ly, wandering from one to the other suppose And this is to be your workroom, or study, laugh interrupted her. Why, Ann, you poor this one is a dressing soothe continued, dear old thing, fancy your dreaming I should Lina tofe herself away from the window and heald gb, smiling down into the eyes from ever ask you to do that. Don't you understand? followed. Oh what a dear littlagroom she whence he had banished already, the wistful I sball write to the tradespeople, and the people cried, entering as Bob left, and dot hearing hit look. They were taking ont last look round to who buy for the markets, and they will come remark, I must have this for my very own inspect it with a different objectin view. And land take them away, and we shall have no my study, or workzodu, or whatever I decide to you think it will be large enough for ur het.

bother at all,”. =

-call-it Bob afected not to hear this remark BBD she cried, blushing furiously "But-but-what will the people round Two servant's rooms," he went on,The were you, thinking of that when when think, Miss Lina?

stargra | bouse is rather small, but it id uch a jolly little, Bussfob would not answers an

place one could put up with some incong on," he said, teasingly, whers they reached venientes

the filtle outhouse again, "this will make a

Theq

said Lida, and eyeing

room for

*** do not care in the least what they think All those who are worth knowing will see bothing derogatory in it, and by and bye when ny portrait appears in the paper as the suce jessful lady poultry-farmer, and I am later, fiewed, and poultry pours out and money pours h, all those

both..

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had to arrange all details... and be in every- sion of the vanity of the Egyptian race. asserting a distinctive independence, Beresford to be shaved smooth in order to give yet more. space for aleroglyphics. It was the last expres thing Buller's right-hand man.. The volunteer officers, some sealous, some sluggish, some cantankerous, were, as regarded any knowledge

PHOTOGRAPHING THE STOMACH. of duty, for the most part quite useless, In effect, the force, which in numerical strength A device recently invented, by Dr. Fritz reckoned as a brigade, was "run" by these Lang, of Munich, Germany, is thus described two men Redvers Buller and Bill Beresford: in the Medical Times-The camera in con Buller was as ilent, saturnine, blood-thirsty structed on exactly the same principles as all. with rod of tron, Beresford, to the full combine them so as to project the actual pper a man, as ever drew breath wa born leader of cameras for taking moving photographs, Al- men-who ruled his heterogeneous command though, of course, there is no attempt made to a keen a fighter and a firm in compelling tions of the stomach. It is doubtful, however, il a camera has ever before been fashionad which obedience, was of a different temperament"

After a page or two explaining the situation, as compact as this one, or which has been Mr. Forbes continues ;-

put to as strange a use. This camera is actually "So on the morning of 3rd July, orders swallowed by the patient, and no sooner, doar were issued that Buller, at mid-day should it reach his stomach than the walls thereof are take his irregulars, across the river and illuminated by a small electric lamp attached to make a reconnaissance of as much of the the apparatus. At the bottom of the camera ja plain beyond as the Zulus might see "fit to wound a photographic film twenty inches long

firstlings of the muster permit Buller and Beresfoftl.were ale and a quarter of an inch wide, and one end of ways in the saddle, early, waiting for the this fim, is fastened to the cord, which Büller's favourite runs freely in the tubs. Of course "the Cord mount was dddle-headed brindled, flat with the camera le for, inorder to draw and the conducting wites must, be swallowed" sided, owo-necked, cob, named Punch. He day and generation in all South Africa, but As soon as the camera' reaches to boom-of- was, perhaps the very, ugliest horse of his the film past the lens, the bord must be pulled. he was also among the most valuable, begin. All the surgeon has to do is to pull the the stomach, the work of photographing may ful be made nothing of a hindred miles at a though not very fast, his endurance was wonder-

cord and thus run the Alm past the lenk Tho stretch, with an occasional off anddle and a electric gif is then turned on, and after the roll as the only reliefs. But it was neither his sensitive mihas been impressed with ika endurance not big ugliness that constituted his image the current is turned off and another special values. He was "salted to the third section of the film is brought into play until the... degree of salineas that is to say he was proofquisite.uumber of pictures have been against the malady knownas "horse-sickness."- obtained. When this is done the entire The feader of the Irregulars and his staff apparatus in withdrawn from the stomach, and sat on their horses in front of Evelyn Wood's the films are carefully developed and enlarged tent waiting for their followers to come on the res ground. Whod, standing in his tent dogs – UNCLAIMED LETTERS chaited to the Iconic Buller, while Beresford

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