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impregnable, should have been called forth'f from his obscurity and entrusted with the siege of Plevna, wich he finally took. Gaurko, another great fighting general in the Russian army, the hero of the Shipka Past, lost even more men than Skobeieff, and was rebuked by the Emperor for wasting so many lives.
By the side of the enormous losses of the Russians in the Balkans in 1876-77, the losses of our own troops in South Africa dwindle into insignificance, especially when we remember Exchange.
ordinary meals at dull ordinary intervals. When we returned to town, however, the mystery of Phyllis's letters was solved by Cuthbert himself.
ANECDOTES OF POLITICIANS.
MEMOIRS OF MR. GLADSTONE's Famous
SECRETARY, HOW HE MET LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL. Sir Algernon West, whose reminiscences have just been published, had preserved a very curious record of his contemporaries. More over, he was from the first in such a position as enabled him to know all the distinguished men this time, and to hear what was best worth His work will be valuable for the historian of manners and customs two centuries hence.
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-NAPOLEON'S BOOTS.
THEY MADE THE FORTUNE OF A POOR COB- BLER AND HAVE JUST HEEN SOLD FOR A SOVEREIGN.
The boots worn by Napoleon Bonaparte at his coronation were sold the other day near Alt. kirch, Alsace, for about a sovereign.
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though on a much smaller scale, in South the greater deadliness of modern arms. ber a thing I write the moment after I've hearing in the pulite conversation of fifty years, sicart, but didn't because Napoleon snatched Captain Douglas, will be despatched for the
THE ART OF RUNNING DOWN.
[By E. S.]
Now, let us hear the news," he began, as soon as we were driving homewards in the cab. "News" said Phyllis, innocently:"dida't you get my letters "My dear," replied her husband, "I don't think you know what your
I'm sure I don't, letters were about." retorted Phyllis promptly: never remem written it." "Well," said Cuthbert, “I think I can enlighten you, for all your letters were exactly alike, even to the date which you ob atinately refuse to belleve had altered from the day you left town. You always began by saying you had just finished breakfast; then you went on to ask after my health, which you know is never anything bui healthy; and then you asked after the children's health and said what excellent cooking you had, all in the same sentence without a stop. After that, you asked after my health again and said the wine was bad, also without a stop; then you said more things about the children and more things about the cooking, and then you'lways had to leave off because it was tunch-time. It struck me," addled, Cuthbert, thoughtfully, that a whole morning was a long time to spend over a letter like that" wouldn't have struck you," remarked Phyllis, if you had known the length of our mornings." "You see," added hastily," when you are once thoroughly run down-
Cuthbert gathered the truth suddenly from our guilty countenances. We were just passing the Cecil and it seemed to inspire one of his odd, irrelevant remarks.
He was born when what seems to us the old fashion began to merga in the new, The London of his youth was not the London which we know today It was at once smaller and more exclusive; yet, with all its exclusive ness it pussessed far more character than it dares to possess in this time of social equality.
You remember about that coronation; how the poor Pope, who didn't want to do it a bit, THE Company's Steamship had been brought from Italy to crown the Cor the crown from the Pontiff's trembling fingers and crowned himself; how a chip of stone, pro- bably dislodged by hammering in putting up decorations, fell on Napoleon's shoulder, which the superstlilous interpreted as a bad omen; how the consecrated ni, trickled into Napoleon's eyes and made him wink; how beautiful poor Josephine was.
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For instance, in that far off age "no tady would willingly have driven down Stion boots because he was lames's street or have dreamt of stopping at a club door. No lady of fashion went out to dinner except in a cliariot, which was pro- nounced 'cheeriot, with a coachman in a wig, and with one or tw
Napoleon was particular about, his corona-
[BY E. A DRAYLEY HODGETTS.]; More than twenty years have passed since the Russo-Turkish War demonstrated to the world what a lot of licking the Turks could take. But notwithstanding the wonderful progress in arms of precision, it would seen that history was once again repeating itself and that the experience of Plevna was being recapitulated, Africa to-day. Once again, as at Plevná and Sebastopol, earthworks a dominant role.
play a And once again the moral effect of "cold stee!" is asserting itself, and leads us to call to mind the memorable words of old Suvaroff, the Russian general, who was the favourite of Technically, we were run down." We were Catherine the Great rind the opponent of both rather proud of it; I, because I could not Napoleon: Poulya doura, shtick molodystz!" remember having anything the matter with me The ball is a fool, but the bayonet' is a before, except a whooping cough that no one brick!")
was sure about at the time, except other people's I luppened to be in Moscow during the Rus-mothers; and Phyllis, because she had managed -Turkish War, and was staying in the capa-
to run down precisely at the moment that I id city of what is called a paying guest in a family
run down. Phyllis does not mind being ill whose traditions were all intensely military. when everybody else is well, but she cannot The son was a grenadier, and distinguished endure to be well if anybody else is ill. It robs her of a chance of distinction, and she himself at the storming of Kars, where he was wounded, and received the St. George's Cross resenisit. Besides, there is something so delight for valour with the sword, a coveted honnur, fully vague about the process known as " run similar to our Victoin Cross; and my host ning down:" it contains infinite possibilities and hostess had numerous relatives and friends in theory, anilin practice merely sends you away with all the various armies in the field. Never for a change. It sent Phyllis and me to a shall I forget the letter 1 received from my golfing hotel on the East Coast, though neither of us golfed, and everybody else was hurrying gallant hero of Kars, who was ns redoubtable a
South to escape the cold. But Phyllis, not boon companion as he was prodigious in the
content with having lived in a whirlwind all field. Describing the storming of Kars he said:
her life, had set her heart on being in a wind; "My dear fellow, courage is all tommy-ot.
Sir Algernoon was adurated, of course, at At Eton he met all I never was in a greater funk in my life and that settled it. Certainly, if we did not than 1
too find a wind at the edge of a cliff on the East
Eton and Clarist Church, in
the boys who were to be distinguished in his Coast we were not likely to find it anywhere.
and their generation. Lords Salisbury, and great a funk to run away, so 1 shut my eyes, waved my sword, and ran up the beasily bili
Carnarvon, Warde Hynt and Lord Peel, Lord in such a precious bury that 1 get there before going away for a change we began to forget
Roberts and Sir George Wombwell, Sir Alfred anybody else, and so they gave me the St, why we were going, and we had to keep on
Lyall, Admiral Tryon, Mr. Swinburne, and the George's Cross. A Turk hit me on the head, reminding each other that we were run down,,
editor of "Truth"these were anlong his or else we should never have succeeded but am getting on famously, and hope to bu
While the garriso: s and inhabitants of Lady-school-fellow. At Oxted his Lutor was the in persuading anybody else that we were. at it again Soon. I am being nursed by n
We look to rushing about town and buying smith, Pafcking, and Kimberley are enduring. celebrated Osborne Gordon, that rough, uneal- Circassian Princess!"
were away, though with light beat and many a jest the bombard. tivated scholar, who, like his betters, loved a At that time all the barrel-organs of things to wear while
ment of their defences and dwellings, it may lord, and Sie Algernon describes one of his lec we argued all the time that we were only going Moscow used to play a tune called the
tures with considerable humour. "Oshome away in order to avoid people; and, of course, be interesting to recall to mind that this method "Strelok," 3 quaint Russian air about a
of reducing a fortified place has in recent cain- Gordon's manner of greeting us," says he, there would be no one in the hotel at this time -hunt-man-who-got married. This song was.
the events of the day, of year, it was a little unnecessary, portugisigns-ben man time employed with more "was in exact mathanatical proportion to our parodied to suit
decisive results than the Boer generals seem relative positions. and I remember the first verse of the parody, to buy quite so many new things, when we
likely to achieve by it. of which the following is a literaltranslation -
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I want to call you, I want to tell you, How they tried to take lespa, Ficken. Yes. Ha they did not take Piesna. Nal They lost twenty thousand men, Yes.
That tune was prohibited by the police, and the organ grinders who dared to play it were rain.
General Skobeleff had the melancholy dis inction of losing these 20,000 men in the coupe at three days. The real state of things was kept dark, and from the front trickled through in dribblets very inrch as it does now. I learn the real facts from my hostess, who got private fattars, which mysteriously reached her from her friends with Skobeleff's army corps Officially it was finally admitted by the Russian authorities that SkobelulT lost 15,390 men in his three attacks; but the general rumour had it that 20,000 was nearer the mark, and my friend's correspondent said that the real figure would never be known, Skobeleff, like Suvoroß; believed in cold steel. "Do not five on any account." he said, addressing his men before the third battle of Plevna "If the Turks coms up, prepare to receive them, nothing more. The nearer they come the better. Hold you
muskets low, so that at the word of command you do not shoot at crows over the enemy's head, but bit him. When the Turks jump into our works give them cold steel."
I have before une & Russian work full of re miniscences of Skobeliff, from which I will translate the following passage, which gives an interesting sidelight on Skobeleff's method. Skobeleff had called together the non-commis- sioned officers of the Souzdal Regiment, and made them sit down in a circle while he addressed them. Pesaid:
As soon as we had decided that we were
"Why didn't you save the railway 'fare ?" he murmured through the open window.-P. 4.
Gastle.
CIVILIANS UNDER FIRE,
AN EXPERT EXPLAINS WHAT A BOMBARD- MENT REALLY MEANS.
During the first, six months of the Franco- German War, between August 1870 and the end of January 1871, twenty-six French fortresses were captured by the Germans, and of these no tewer than sixteen surrendered to a bom. bardiacnt only; among the more notable of them being Taul, Thionville, Verdun, Mezieres, Neuf Brisath, Eungwy, and Peronne.
were much too run down to care whether we wore them or not and there was going to be no one to see us if we did. All the same, we bought them. Then there were the golf clubs, "Shall you golf?" asked Phyllis's husband, when I looked in to make final arrangements with Phyllis. Phy His looked reproachful. “Golf, indeed" she remarked; "you don't seem to realite how run down we are." "Oh
forgot," said Cuthbert, cheerfully. It might A bombardment was also employed to hasten be part of the cure, though, mighn't it?" the sender of Paris, although it may be noted that. it was only with great reluctance Ph His glanced at me, and I wavered. "I don't feel now as though I could drag my that the German traders had recourse to it se'f round the links," said, weakly," "but
on that occasion. For it must be remembered there's po barni in buying a cleek. One Rever
that a bombedment, strictly speaking, is an knows," "That's true," agreed 'yilis, "one operation of was directed as much against the never knows!" So we bought to clecks, civilian population of a town as against its because one never knew.. Then there were
military Peleudeis. in the text books on forti the bicycles. It was Phyllis who suggested fiction it is described as an attempt to over. taking the bicycles. "The roads will be beauti-whelm a place by throwing into it a great ful with this frost," she declared, quite forget quantity of shells, rockets, etc., with the object ting for the moment all about her health of burning and destroying the town (not the was a little doubtful myself as to the credulity fortifications), and so bringing about the sur of our friends, when they saw their two invalids tender of the place by the adverse moral effect going off with bicycles on the top of the cab produced. With this view fire is directed upon and gulf clubs sticking out of their rugs. the buildings occupied by the inhabitants and "Do you think we shall be well enough to ride then? 1 asked. Phyllis hurriedly re- membered her health, and frowned. wor course, i am nothing but a rag note," she ans wered, "but it is wonderful what a change will do, and we must make an effort to get well, you know," Eo we took the bicycles in order to make an effort to get well. Finally, having procured an outfit suitable for summer holi day, we started for the East Coast. Cuthbert came to see us off. We were very cheerful, and had quite forgotten to remind each other for some minutes that we were run down, and that may have accounted for Cuthbert's strange remark as the train, went off. "You've only just done it in time," he observed; “if you'd waited another day you would have been much too well to go!"
"I suppose you are going to gelf?" said the wife of the proprietor affably, as we sat over our tea at the hotel. At this time of year the wife of the proprietor always has plenty of leisure to be affable. Besides, she must have wanted some explanation of our madness in turning up on the East Coast just before Christ- mas. "Oh, no," suid Phyllis guiltily, looking up with a large muffin in her hand; “we have only come here for our health." The wife of the
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troops so as to
WEAR OUT THEIR ENDURANCE.' It was the recognition of the fact that the civilian population and civilian buildings must, during a bombardment, suffer as much or more than the military defenders and defences, which in 1870, caused the Germans to hesitate so long before employing it against Paris. Paris was invested by the Germans in September, but it was not until December 26 that its bombard ment was begun. By January 5th shells were falling freely in the quarters of the town lying- on the left bank of the Seine, and on January 8th a general exodus of the inhabitants from the left to the right bank began.
On January 12th a request that the subjects of foreign States then in Paris might be allowed to remove their persons and property, was made to the German authorities by the members of the Diplomatic Corps still remaining in the beleaguered city, but in reply, Bismark, while admitting that a bombarded town was no fit dwelling place for the subjects of neutral Pow- ers, declined to permit any exodus on a large scale, though he added that, out of courtesy, the representatives of the neutral States might even at that stage be allowed to leave.
The distance of the batteries in the first days
BUTTER MADE FROM NUTS.
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MEN-SERVANTS IN SILK STOCKINGS. Indeed, the yellow chariot and the old Duchess of Cleveland's charios are fresh in the memory of even young people, and must still have been seen by the present generation, who can recollect Lady Mildred Beresford Hope's pony carriage with two outriders." That is a fashion-of yellow chariots and outriders--that lung since disappeared, and we have lost much picturesqueness by our uniformity,
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**Appy to see you, Lord Dalkeith. Aven't had the pleasure of seeing your lordship Jately. Been 'unting, I suppose.
"'Won't you sit 'ere, Lord Lothian ?" Good morning, Mr. Lucy; where will you
sit?'
Good morning (grumpily), West. And not even a grunt to the scholar or the two poor servitura,"
That was happily a typical scene in the Oxford of fity years ago; but we are glad to believe that it is quite impossible nowadays.
However, Sir Algeion West grow up an ne- complished official, and know all the great men of two generations. He remembers
THE HANGING OF COUROISTER. though it was Thackeray's description of that
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After the coronation was over and the great painting made, which everybody who goes to Paris makes a point of seeing. Moll brought in a bill for his boots He wanted £40, which, Napolean tulled a robbery.
'All right," said Moll. "Give me back the shoes and you need pay nothing." For it was 1804, Moll had the Coure custom, and was get ting rich. Josephine was extravagant aboutTHE Company's Steamship boots. She also had tiny feet.
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Napoleon agreed. Ten years later, when the Bourbons came in, Moll's trade went to pieces and his savings were lost in speculation by his son. Then he went back, broken-hearted, to his native Alsatian Jown, carrying with him the Napoleonic boots
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As it happened, the boots made his last years The town was bitterly hostile to Bour.
Here's poor old Mol come back," said one ruined by Bourbon Alderman to another, stock jobbing. Why, he made boots for Napo cop, for Papa Violet, ch?-reviendra-dans le printemps). Can't we"--
Let's give him a pension,"
As long as Moll lived itwas his delight to show the boots and chuckle and swell with pride as he recalled
NAPOLEON'S ANGER AT THE BILL
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"Figure to yourself, my children? he would say. Emperor was in his gabinet,' as he called it a little man, but, ah, the bright eye! Eh chi R-r-robbert' he said 'to, me, so. 'R-r-robber Thief! Cheat Gamorra! Why should I pay 1,000 francs for a pair of boots And then
Here little old Moll would struggle to his feet and on trembling limbs essay to show how the Emperor stamped about and shouted
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to abolish public executions. And he pene trated the salon of the famous Misses Berry, and he know Charles Greville, for whem like the rest of the world, he cherished not too warm affèction. But he tells a brief story which better than any other we know sums up the character of the Clerk of the Council,
The late Lord de Mauley," he writes, "said that Greville would go and talk to his father about the immoralities of betting and the Turf but on the way out, if he could get a turn of the odds from the son he would never lose his op portunity." There in truth, is the real Greville; always discreet, yet until the very and bitten by Newmarket, which he professed to loathe.
So at last Sir Algernon West became Mr. Gladstone's private secretary, and of his old chief he preserves a loyal admiration and affec tionate regard,
Mr. Gladstone, who belonged always to an earlier mode, had a great horror of tobacco, and only twice was he known to smoke. The second attempt "WAB an instance of his courtesy: for when the Prince of Wales was dining with him and wished to smoke, he placed the Prince at his ease by, at any rate, fighting a cigarette."
On another occasion he accused Sir Algernon West of smelling strongly of tobacco. I don't wonder," replied Sir Algernon, for I have been sitting for half and hour in Sir William Harcourt's room."
BOES HARCOURT SMOKE?"..
he asked in a voice of horror, "If so, he must be very careful always to change his clothes before he comes to me."
ment.
So, in these volumes you will find 'sketches of many a famous man, and Sir Algernon West is never blinded by politics to an unfair judg- He was, be frankly acknowledge, prejudiced against Lord Randolph Churchill, and be was dismayed at the prospect of his becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer.
But "I was soon reconciled," he writes "and I well remember our first interview in the old historical room at the Treasury; the stiff and formal cut of his coat-the same that he always ware when he was leader of the House-and the somewhat old-world, courtesy of manner with which he received me at the door. But it was not long before he produced the new- world cigarette cases and the long mouth piece, which so soon became familiar. A very few meetings were enough to show me how sincerely anxious he was to leam all the little I had to teach; and from the Arst hour our acquaintance gradually ripened into a friendship which not all the vicissitudes of his stormy life, nor even his agonising illness, ever interrupted. The last letter he wrote before be left England on his sad journey was to me."
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down the house.
But when Moll died he willed the boots to the village. But when in 1870 the little Napo- leon was caught at Sedan, Alsace became German and learned to spell its name "Elsass." Then one day the boots were thrown away. A villager picked them up and took them home He died not long ago, and it was at the sale of his effects that they brought a sovereign.- Advocate of India.
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The force of which you will form a part must find its way to the enemy to-night with its drums behind it. You must march up to the trenchies as noiselessly as possible. As soon Re you come within twenty paces of them you mual cheer, and the drums must beat the alarm., Then you must throw yourselves into the trenches, bayonet every one you come across, drive the Turks away, and capture as many guns as you can, I give three roubles myself for every gun taken. The enemy's strength is in his muskets. Take his musket away from him and he is nowhere. The Turks are not soldiers. If you kill a Turk and leave him his gun, the enemy won't mind a bit; they will find another man to take his place immediately. As soon as you see the proprietor glanced at our glowing countenances of the bombardment of Paris from the furthest Turks coming on in large numbers, jump over
and will drew. Evidently she was not acquaint-point reached by their shells was about five the ramparts and lie down. Bu nos-fire. Whened with the varying phases of the process known miles, rather more than less. The weather the word is given, pour in your volleys, but not
was at times very foggy, and this, coupled with as running down. "The great thing," said otherwise. If there are too many of them you Phyllis solen.nly, when we went in to dinner the fact that the domes of the building, together may retreat, but slowly, titing on them as you about an hour Inter, is to have plenty of meals.
with that of the Pantheon, were conspicuous retire. If the chemy dous not come for some Little and often, my doctor always says." I objects at which to aim, was probably the time, fill up the trench with earth. When you suppose Phyllis's doctor knew what he was
cause why several shells fell and burst in close retreat, you must not only bring your wounded talking about, but I should like to know if he proximity to the large hospital, Val de Grace, back with you, but you must not leave your meant his prescription to be interpreted by although the Red Cross flag was flying over it, killed behind you either. Remember, if you table d'hute breakfast at ten, a table d'hôte So frequently did this become the case that leave but one man behind, you had better not
luncheon at one, tea and muffins four, and a on January 14th General Trochu sent a formal show yourselves to me. I won't look at you, table d'hôte dinner at 7.30. No one could have protest to the German headquarters. In reply, The following significant incident occurred denied that our meals were often, but whether Count Moltke denied most solemnly that the during the third battle of Plevna. The attack they could be considered little was quite another act, was intended by the German artillerists, had nearly reached the redoubts, when
matter. The wonder was that it never struck and with a certain grim humour concluded by A group of men, in the zone of fire, stopped us how well we must have been to stand the expressing a hope that very shortly the occur short, lay down, and commenced firing on the life we ied at that hotel. Taking away the ten
renses complained of would be altogether Tuks, Their example was followed by larger
or eleven hours we spent in sleep, and the time avoided, as the Greman batteries would be and larger numbers, The men who had almost
that was given up to meals, we had very little advanced nearer to the town, and it would reached the ramparts, also cropped down and
leisure left for the East Coast Indeed, we consequently become possible to place their opened fire, thus wasting their energy. Mus might have been at the Metropole in shells more accurately.-Advocate af India, ketry fire was poured in unceasingly. Suddenly
London for all the attention
paid. It left off. The handful of cowards had infected
to the East Coast Still, as Phyllis said, the whole attack It was evident that the men
rest was what WC wanted
than would not push on. They retreated. "Firing anything; and when you were once thoroughly A valuable discovery has just been made (says the Russian writer from whom I
run down, it was madness to go and overdo it. that an excellent substitute for butter can be have already quoted, Nemirowich-Dantchenko) On the whole, I don't fancy we overdid it. produced from the pea-nur, which has become "when attacking is a sure sign of cowardice. Once we very nearly did, and that was not our so staple a food among the poorer classes
Lord Archibald Campbell is nothing if no The men retreated. They could not remain fault: it was all because people would write through-out America, where its consumption. lying-down-under-fire-for-ever-To-go back from home and upset us.
is increasing by millions of pounds yearly. an enthusiastic Highlander, but like many of was even more difficult than to advance ;.
us he recognises that almost all the tartans "It is delightful to picture your simple there would be greater losses, but they did healthy life," wrote the Professor's wife. "I nutritious food when properly eaten, but medi- worn by our Higldand regiments furnish too not advance. The regiment was broken up can imagine how you live in the air from cal authorics state that especially high praise tempting a mark for the enemy's fire. How At the redoubts. The men rushed back morning till night, fust snatching a moment in can be given to the peanut as a wholesome to lessen the risk incurred by those who wear like waves and in
Those in the rear the middle of the day for a plain but satisfying article of food.. Apart from its being caten
the kill without at the same time sacrificing were the first to run. They were the
meal," &c., &c. The imagination of the Profes whole when roasted there are many prepara spirit de coups is a problem which Lord original cowards They were rapidly fol sar's wife made us a little uncomfortable, but. tions which can be made from it, thus Archibald has been endeavouring to solve. His lowed by the others. But not by all. Every Cuthbert's remoustrance fet us in for a bicycle causing its market value to go up by leaps and Brat proposal was that a reversible kilt should instant some one stumbled, fell down, and ride. "I want to hear what you are doing,"
bounds. Cleaned and carefully ground, it is be issued, made of tartan byt backed with remained on the spot. The hill was gradually he wrote; and so, in order to have something converted into an excellent flour, which can be fawn-coloured material. In the day of battle, covered with dead bodies. The crowd of flying to tell him, we bicycled very unwillingly used in as many different ways as corn-flour, be contended, the kilt could be tumed as it Boldiers dwindled down' to isolated individuals.
for three miles and seven-eighths, over pow although, in value, it is quite distinct from where inside out and would form a less con- The bravest morosely separated, and each raa
dered snow, and against a bitmg east wind
spicuous target. It appears, however, that a on alone; but the cowards kopt together like When I said a wind," remarked Phyllis,
kilt manu'actured as described would have sheep, huddled up in groups and screamed out crossly," of course I meant a nice, warm, sum
the disadvantage of being too heavy for mar something to the reinforcements coming up, mary wind." a pity you came away, at
It is not so much the which offers mark for the enemy panic was thus communicated to them, Christmas to lock for it, then," I answered also And, instead of marching on, they turned and crossly. Indeed, the only effect of our riding As they possess a great quantity of oil, the flour.
men's loga, Many Highland officers ran too. In the meantime the number of the three miles and seven-eighths in that wind was becomes of a thick creamy nature, with a rich assure us that their regiments would really killed kept on increasing enormously. Fort to remind us how run down we were, which we orange colour. By the addition of a small fight just as well in trousers-for the mat unately at this juncture, Skobele, who was
had almost been in danger of forgetting, "The quantity of water this substance is reduced to ter of that, If that be the case why not, if ubiquitous, camo galloping up on his famous fact is, we have done too much to day," declared the exact softness and consistency of butter,
adiateuilty is recognlaer, and Lord Archi- white charger and rallied the men.
Phyllis in the evening; it is no use coming No preservatives are necessary, and it never bald Campbell allows that it does exist, lay General Skobeleff always maintained that his away for a rest if we do silly rash. things like becomes rancid. In this direction, therefore, astle the kilt altogether for the purposes of the Jusses before Plevní.
121 We is 30 Ereat because he that After that, we never did anything that it will prove of the greatest benefit where battlefield? Our Highland regiments are was refused the reinforcements ire, adhocold possibly be called rash and Cuthbert's climatic conditions prevent the use of cream such splendid field troups that it is a pity to PHE Company's Steamship He told M. Nemire itch Danichenko that letten suffered accordingly.
butter, while by the addition of more water it pose them unduly to the fire of the enemy. No Plovna had aged him, that it haunted him, and I used to wonder, sometimes, how Phyllis can be made to serve the purpose of fresh one would wish to see their national uniform interfered with, we should be the very last to was a sort of nightmare to him. He said that could go on writing to him so tegularly, unless cream or milk, he sought death in his third battle, and that if she just copied out the muus of all our meals, It has met with the hearty approval of all advocate any such movement, but modern wea- he did not find it, it was no fault of his and that seemed such an unsatisfactory way of who have used it, and the medical men, who pons have altered the whole aspect of war, and There was a curious irony of fate in the fact willing to a person, who had never mastered have made the most searching tests and expert this has to be recognised even by the most en- that the despised Todiebon, through whose the art of running down, and, was therefore ments, recommend it without hesitation for thusiastic of Highlanders-Army and Navy
Gazelle. genius Sebastopol had been made practically compelled to stay at home; and have" dull | lis great-nutritive qualities and purity.
more
It is well known that all nuts form a most
this.
The newest use to which the peanut has been put is the making from it of a pure and delicious substitute for butter. The nuts are, ching, carefully roasted and ground into
four,
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the
WHY KILTS?
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Agents. Hongkong, 11th January, 1900, [şib
FOR NEW YORK VIA SUEZ CANAL.
HE Steamship
TH
"BIRCHTOR”- will be despatched for the above Port on or about the 27th instant and will be followed by S.S. "BT. REGULUS.” For Freight, apply to
DODWELL & CO., LIMITED,: Agents. Hongkong, 1st February, 1900... f132b
OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
| FOR LONDON VIA SUEZ-CANAL.
HE Company's Steamship
THE
"SARPEDON," Captain Grier, will be despatched TUESDAY, the 6th March,
For Freight, apply to
"CHANGSHA," Captain Moore, will be despatched as above on MONDAY, the 5th instant.
The attention of Passengers is directed to the Superior Accommodation offered by this Steamer. The First-class Saloon is situated forward of the Engines.
A duly qualified Surgeon carried and the Vessel is fited throughout with Electric Light
For Passage, apply to
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Agents. Hongkong, 1st February, 1900.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
FOR LONDON VIA SUEZ CANAL.
THE Company's Steamship
"MENELAUS," Captain Towell, will be despatched as above on TUESDAY, the 6th February.
For Freight, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
Hongkong, 29th December, 1899.
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR MANILA,
PHE Company's Steamship
THE
"TSINAN,"
Captain Anderson, will be despatched as above on TUESDAY, the 13th February.
The attention of Passengers is directed to the Superior Accommodation offered by this Steamer. The First Class Saloon is situated forward of the Engines,
A duly qualified Surgeon is carried and the Vessel is fitted throughout with Electric Light.
For Passage, apply to
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CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,
LIMITED,
(32b
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'HE Company's Steamship
THE
"TSINAN,"
Captaiu Anderson, will be despatched on TUESDAY, the 13th February, at Noon.
The attention of Passengers is, directed to the Superior Accommodation offered by this Steamer. The First-class Saloon is situated forward of the Engines. A Refrigerating. Chamber ensures the Supply of Fresh Provi sions during the entire voyage.
A duly qualified Surgeon is carried and the Vessel is fitted throughout with Electric Light,
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[33b
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THE on
"GUTHRIE,"
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This well-known Steamer is specially fitted Agents. Hongkong, 26th January, 1900,
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This Steamer is installed throughout with TION COMPANY, LIMITED.
the Electric-light.
FOR LONDON.
TEENKAL"
D. Davies, Commander, will be despatched as: above on WEDNESDAY, the 14th March..
For Freight, &c, apply to
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A Stewardess and a duly qualified Surgeon - are carried
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