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HOW OUR GUNS FOR SOUTH

AFRICA ARE MADE.

SOME OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORK-

SHOPS AT THE WOOLWICH ARSENAL,

Never in the history of England has the subject of artillery bean sa universally discussed as at present. It is generally recognised that the weapons which the War Office has sent out to South Africa are unsuitable and insufficient for the work in hand, and the reverses which have attended the advance of the British forces were attributed in a great measure to that fact. Everybody is talking guns and gunnery; and, under the circumstances, some particulars about the making of field pieces and the place where they are made, will not be without interest.

The for the British Navy and Army are

guos turned out at the Royal Arsonal, Woolwich. There also our ammunition is made, from the smallest rifle cartridge in the huge shellfired by the icon gun.

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by the bursting of the charge within it. It is provided with a tinte fuse, and on exploding breaks into hundreds of pieces, casting death and destruction all'round it.

The shrapnel differs by reason of the fact that it contains hundreds of bullets, which are calculated to work fearful havoc among a lady of advancing troops.

The weight of some of these shells is almost incredible. The to-tou gun, for instance, hurls a steel profectile weighing 1,500lbs (or hulf a ton) a distance of nine miles. So that when the British guns do "begin to speak their voices carry no little distance.—Advocair of

India.

THE BOER SOLDIER

(BY. POULTNEY BIGELOW,}

lock. These people left the mother colony, if not the mother country, in bittemess at the injustice they had experienced, and they retired into a wildeness where the post did not pen- etrate, and where nu news reached thern of the grand progress is liberal legislation which marks the England of Queen Victoria's early

years.

Stella Adair pushed Her manuscript away and rose. She was a woman with an intellerimal face, and Mary resembled her to a remarkable degree. Both were artistically correct-from the highbred forehead and nose to the well- shaped hand and foot. Neither of these women would perhaps animel attention in a crowd ; their beauty was too subdued, their dress too

She thanked me so nicely but said she rarely went out. What more could I say 2"

"Poor thing!" said Hugh. For he, too, had' been poor and proud once. And the fellow- feeling for all struggle remained with him now: in his days of plenty, and gave, perhaps, that charm to the pictures which were making his name famous-fame which he valued only as some sort of recompense to Ruth, "At all

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After the Boers had fought their way through emotherabscotly fingered a vase of cheap events, we'll do what we can for the child,E Company's Steamship

London flowers, and her thoughts went back fifteen years.

Natal and stuled at Durban, the English Government laid its hand upon the Colony, withdrew it again, and then changed its mind,

She was a young girl in her teens at iba! It is fortunate ned once more claimed it. for the commerce of the world that Natal time, and she and Hugh had dearly loved one another. But Stella's parents were poor, and is to-day English,, for it is a pattern for other

their

daughter's beauty her sole dower. Su colonies and in cities are in favourable contrastingh Sinclair was given his conge, and

__use_of_the_Beer-Republic-But-fram! the Boer point of view the behaviour of the finely rich man devoted to the only daughter English Coremmen: was capricious, if not ficha was persuaded to marry a

of well-bred paupers,

with

shifty.

In 1835 Dutch and English had fought On the occasion of my visit to the Transvaal splendidly side by side in the Cape Colony in the year made memorable by the Jameson against an invasion of 15,000 blacks, who raid, and the imperial cable to Paul Kruger, had been for some time occupied in steal there was much military stir, and speculationing cattle and destroying farm-houses. Perhaps nothing demonstrates more striking was already then rife regarding a possible con

The amount of damage lune has been officially ly the might of the British Empire than a visit fict between Hoer and Briton. Prusis assessed at £30,000, intended to cover the loss to the Woolwich Arsenal, Something like Kruger received me in a house protected by an of 459 farm lenses completely destroyed, 350 18,000 men die employed there, many of them

excampment of mounted police, and when I

others partially destroyed and 60 big farm at the present crisis working night and day,alled upon General Joubert, his office resem waguas destroyed. The sto en property includ The wages bill amounts to a million and a half bled a museum of modern riles, for he was annually, and three million pounds' worth of

el about 9,000 horses, 112,000 cattle, and 162,000 sheep. The Buers fought bravely, suf- guns and ammunition are turned out in the discussing with his colleagues the tentive

merits of Muser, Krag Jorgenson, Martini- fered great hardships, and earned the gratitude, twelve months, Perhaps the best iden of the

Henry, Lebel, and other makes. Above the

of every colonist at the Cape, and notably magnitude of the place can be afforded by stat town German engineers were constructing ar ing the fact that a complete service of trains tillery positions which was not allowed to

that of the Governor, Sir Benjamin d'Urban, who called them out. They had been runs between the factories. All trains are first,

promised compensation for their losses second; and third class, and they carry every inspect, or even appreach. From a distance 1 body, from the superintendent or the visiting The commander of the National Anillery, a

was reminded of some of the forts about Metz. during the war, "and looked at least for

Rateful

Downing Commander-in-Chief to the

'broad faced, good natured Bloer, and wholbok. éd to me somewhat odd in the Austrian un- iform, showed me oyer bis camp and dwell with pride upon the new barracks and stables in course of erection. lis atl

eris to were physically a good-looking in ofi young men; the equipment appeared to be of the best quality; the Kropp guns were well cared for, and there was besides an anomalous battery inade up of what was captured from Jameson, The Cape cart in which that invader bad made his progress was treasured as care. fully us is the coach in which Napoleon led from the field of Waterloo,

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In a sense, the Arsenal illustrates the devel opement of our Navy and Army, for bure and there the visitor may sen grunt pile, of obsolete weapons, that in their day seemed the deadliest things in warfare. Now they are merely smail mountains of scrap-icon. Should some of the guns now in South Africa have been added in those rubbish hears? That is a question for future settlement.

From its earliest days the Woolwich Arsenal seems to have suffered from the excessive economy of Chancellors of the Exchequer. lis annals show that if England bad been sud- denly plunged into war between the years 1870-80 a decisive defeat of the British army would have been inevitable; for parsimony on the part of the gentleman who kept the national had resulted in the store of cartridges purn 10 reduced that at one time it was

found necessary to transfer half a million rounds from the neuthera depots to London to meet immediate wants!

This state of affairs was pointed out to a well-known Cabinet Minister. The danger of it, the curtainty of defeat if war broke out were dilated upon.

"Gentlemen, the Minister replied, “ure there not lamp-posts in Pall-mall? And when that defeat comes the pripulace will make a big effort to utilise them!

Dal he mean that the lamp-posts, would be converted into canon, or that the populace would take refuge up them?

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int acknowledgment Street, The result, however, was a prise, for every one, from the Governor down. Downing Street scolded them roundly for fighting against the blacks-indeed, it was very evident that missionaries and not soldiers were m-power at Westminister. This along with the sarin of their property, through the surthen aliolation of starway, benght the side of the Buets a large portion of the wavering popula tion; who we made to feel that while the black m* could

aly favour through Exeter Hall. there was not even justre tor Boer. The eighty sems which livre elapsed between the Battle But of all the outbrary, things in and about of Waterloo and the Jameson raid have been Pretorin nude was so fignificant to me as a years in which a huge portion of Boers have piece of artillery which had seen service in the bandled the title as freely as we handle the pen war of 1881. The whole of this machine mightbey have mught their way through black have been constructed by an average village tribes piumahering them ten to one. Same black-smith. The tires of ex-wagens,had been of their expertions have been massacred, heated and then wound trung and round same- hat the rest have been discouraged, thing eýimgirical, and sa hammered together Even today the mestation of Boers who as to puss for a canton by those of us who have

for 理 clay's seen specim.cus constructed in the Middle Ages rifle shooting, it possible after game, if not, This strange instrument was mounted on the tien at

Every Boer, from the Maiget. forward erd of a Lutluck wagen, and the brain Chief Justice down, knows he to rook in the ing of a must have been done by gunners who open and organize a bivouse. 11 is safe to say believed in a special providence in lieu of range that even say the average citizen of the anders.

Bansal is ready at a moment's netjes to take. the fichd tally aned antl eqniqged for at least three days.

The Beers love this crazy old gun, for it symbolites to them a copacity to improvise weapons, and wield them successfully when thei? cause seems desperate to the rest of the world;

The history of British rule in South Africa Such then, is one of the difficulties that the offers many instances of English and Duleb admirable staff at Woolwich Arsenal have to fighting side by side against the common en- deal with. But they themselves in days gone eny, but, we regret to say many more when the by nodded more than once. A huge morta Boer has regarded resistance to the redeous as was forged in 1855 with a view to its being his highest duty. The bitter feeling which used in the Crimea. It had a bore of 36in. to-day arrays white nam in the midst of The shells to feed it were so enormous that spe- wilderness where united they are barely a match cial appliances had to be mected to hoist them for the black, springe from a long chain of into its capacious maw, When the day of tria-events, most of them highly creditable to the came the monster cracked! i was all a mist¦ moral sense of the British Parliament, but, se take fion beginning to end. The gun is now far as political sense is concerned, most un- used at the Arsenal for merely decorative pur. | fortunate. poses; it would certainly never have been of any use.

There is a gigantic steam hammer which may also be manked among the relics. In the days of the iron muzzle-foåder this machine was erected for the purpose of welding the great coils of iron, and it has a striking energy of 1,000 tons! White hot iron used to melt under ils pressure like butter before a fire.

The battle of Waterloo not only resulted in populating St. Helena with Napolean I ut made the Cape Colony the permanent home of a strong British administration. The year 1815 had not closed before this administration came into conflict on the borders of the Cape Colony with a certain beer named Bezui denhoodt, who declined to recognize the authority of a court messenger haling him for Now our most modern heavy guns are made trial, " This Boer was a rough frontiersman, of steel and wire. The latter is wrapped round who had as hazy a notion of government as "The inner tube, and really forms the of the skids some of Mark Twain's heroes who settled in of the gun. In the case of a zin, gun no less Nevada and California haf a century agici. than 100 miles of wire are used, and, although Bezuidenhoodt was suspected of carrying on a the most ingenious contrivances are employed contraband trade with the motives, and likewise this wrapping process would not be completed of having ill-treated one of them. The charge in less than three weeks if the men worked may or may not have been well-founded, but in night and day! This wire has to bear a strain any case the Boers themselves were divided as of over ninety sons to the square inch 1. to how far England had a right to stretch her To watch the process of turning a 6 incharm into the Black Continent. Soldiers were gun-the class being sent to the war-one sent out Bezuidenboot resisted and was shot: would imagine that the ponderaus steel tubes his family and neighbours clamoured for were nothing more than wond, and that the thin vengeance, more soldiers and more Boers came strips which dy before the lathe were merely into conflict, and finalis, in 1816, six of the ring. shavings. At one time the lady visitor to leaders were tried for high reason and hung t Woolwich would invariably be presented by a place called Slagter's "Nek some clever enterprising apprentice with a bracelet made from the chips of steel. The buys used to occupy their leisure time in fashioning the ornaments, But now they have no leisure time. In their way they are very busy helping to wipe that "something off a slate," and the lady visitor must perforce to forego the souvenir.

Another very interesting process is the rifling of a field piece. A steel cutter is fixed at the end of a massive rod, which is driven along the interior of the tube by an ingenious but simple piece of mechanism,” It is a rather prolonged business, and may occupy any length of time up to fourteen days.

gun.

The main object of riding is to insure greater accuracy of aim than is possible with a smooth- bore

But it has been found that the grooves have a tendency to wear away after a succession of shots. Usually a heavy gun re quires relining after about 150 rounds have been fired. When the breach has been fixed the gun is painted and is ready for use, having -in the case of a 12-inch quick firer-cost from first to last about £7,500. It has absorbed the the energies of goo men, and machinery repre- senting Goo hone power. The 6-inch gun be ing sent to the front can be fired at the rate of five shots a minute,

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The chief enemy of the Boer to day is not England, but his own ignorance.

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Ah! how things had turned out since then ! cells was the penniless site of a comirt:

sighed. Stella and Hugh Sinclair, the rising artist, was the fortunate husband of a wealthy, good-natured, if somewhat vulgar Jewess. Parents dead penniless and proud, Afrs. Adair was just abl by the work of} brain to support herselfand her daughter in deceny.

schools. She

And now this strange thing had happened- Mrs. Sinclair had met of course, and in this ! Quite naturally, ananner: Fussy, good natured, and philanthropic, Mrs. Sinclair took a great interest in children and such like, ansi loved prize-givings, bazaars, one day came across Mary at a girls' concert.

Now, Mrs. Sincluír's two children resembled their mother; and, as that good lady beard Mary sing

and marked her angelic face, eyes with long-fringed lashes and golden hair, she sighed and hethought her of Rachel and Rebecca.

"Such a pity! And Hugh so wanting a child's face for his masterpiece!"

However, one cannot have everything in this world; and the fates had given her unlimited wealth, a bandsome husband, and two children.

The girls were gawky and good. But→→→ And Mrs. Sinclair looked at Mary and sighed. What would she not have given for a daughter like that?

And so they did.

And Mary was decidedly an acquistion; one of those girls with a patty shallow nature that finds a smileful way to people's liçana. Lude, and she became the veritable right hand. Hugh p inted her in every conceivable niti-

into months, and still she stayed, and still of good Mrs. Sinclair. Thus weeks passed

Stella had not the heart to recall her.

Once she came back for a night, so changed, turned her face to the wall in her sure heart- indeed, that her mother cried all night, and

trouble.

Once, when she knew Hugh was away, she went to Gadugan Gardens and saw his studio and Mary's picture.

It was herself, with the very, dress she wore that summer-time long ago!

Then she returned to her louely He, and

wrote and wrote. Stella Adair 4774, ame

Ketting known to editors. There was some- thing in her work full of heart. Light touches, through which her life had passed. The days asilber pen had been dipped in the deep floods

were turning from the sunshine. It was autumn. with the worker and her work.

And, when wearied with incessant toil, she sat by the poor frail reunias of a fire-deep in ber one luxury of thought she would wander back down those dim aisles of Long-ago. And the attcome of it all would be: "Ile must never know!

And, after all, Mary's future was made. She had kind friends, and the friends loved her. She was beautiful, she would marry and have a home of her own. Pray God, she world, be fore her beauty and these paintings made her a toast.

And in those days Stella's huswand'died- he whose name, for thechild's sake, she ceased to bear and the mes grew easier for the lovely woman.

And so, the kindly soul sought out Mary' found she was poor and fatherless, and asked her lo coine and play with Rachel and rebener life's work seered done, and she was

To her surprise the invitation was refused. She renewed it, but the only response she could Ket was; Mother did not allow her to go to parties." Poor Mary!

The girl seemed almost inclined to rebel.- She loved laxutics and fine things! There was litle to attract the eye in the upper part of that dicar. No. 4 in Spring Court, West Central. and Mrs. Sinclair-hart actually singled her nut from all the girls at the concept I was really too bad of mother. So that it was somewhat peftishly that Mary responded over the bread and cold meat that frizzling day in July,

"Do you want to go to Mrs. Sinclair's Mary?" The girl coloured with pleasure. Was her mother relenting?

She has a beautiful house and——” I said, do you want to go?" "Yes, mother, I should like it" (cagerly), Stella sighed. With all her toil, it was as much, as she could do to decently clothe and send her girl to the High School. It was quite natural that the fleshpots of Egypt attracted hợp

It was to him a ghost out of the long dead past.

"What is your name, my dear?" he asked, stroking gently the golden curls lying around her waist,

"Mary Adair

And the timid, tong-lashed eyes gazed up. ward into his.

He shook his hand. The name conveyed. nothing to him but her eyes brought back a flood of thoughts.

And then, looking.nt the child for her own sake, the man said to himself:

"She is beautiful!"

The Boer under the English dag enjors more liberty than in the Transvaal, yet soignorant are the burghers of "Oom Paul," that they persist in picturing Englishmen as tyrants desirous of everlowingtbelt freedom. Nowherein English charles have Heard more violem abuse of Pre- siden Range's retrograde policy than in Pre- And so Mary went, and Hugh Sinclair, sitt Sin from the path, of his own burghers-buting in his studio, started and paled as he saw these particular men happened to live travel- the girl enter on his wife's arm, led and observed for themselves that it is Epg- land which stands for freedom in things colo dial, and that no such tyranny would be tolerat ed in Germany as disgraces the so-called Re public of South Africa. But it is our business to look at Boers from their own side and thus to understand the grievances they entertain, in order that after the war the breach may be healed-let us hope for ever To-day the Go: vernment of Pretoria has not merely received the evil spirit of Protectionisin, but has added to it these features of special privilege and monopoly which were a scandal in the reign of Louis XIV. The education of youth has been for political reasons hampered almost as stupidly as in Poland. Young lioers can no longer get a good education at Pretoria, but mus: go to a deighbouring colo y for this pur. pose. Of late years the Kruger Governmen: has emulated the spirit of Pobiedonostseff in seeking to exterminate the language and the institutions which appeared to be hostile to the Government. Instead of recruiting the official

When the portly Jewess, rustling in rigid ranks froin their brother Boors in adjoining coli, went down the creaky staircase, the un antes, they have confessed to an almost Chinese happy mother threw herself ou her little bed, lack of capacity by drawing young clerksdirectly and wept ears of humiliation and pain. Nut from Rotterdam, and exhibiting favorish haste that her visitor was unkind; on the contrary, in isolute themselves from the great onward

it was her kindness which was the difficulty. movement of the white race in South Africa. And, she was Hugh's wife! Hugh, whom she All this believe to be bad for the Boers bid last seen with paled and strained eyes themselves, and therefore, in common with

when she had bidden him good-bye for ever! their most intelligem citizens, 1 hail the day when Krugeism shall have become in South Africa as imperent as the Mormon Government

in Utab.

The Great Trek, wholesale emigra tian of Boers from the Cape Colony to the uplands of the interior, did not com- mence until 1836, twenty years later. From Shapter's Nek there went forth a

As to the war as a political necessity, at this band of irreconcilable farmers or cow-boys manent it is not for to express an opinion. who had so long lived beyond the constraint of But this much I may say, that the whole world law that they could not reconcile themselves to any government. They had their counterpart

has an interest in its speedy close and above all in its conduct, so that it may leave behind in the American frontiersinan, who, in these

the least possible trace of animosity. Time same years, was fighting his way, over the works wonders in these matters, for many Allegheny mountains, down the Ohio river, and of us present, who can recall the hatred toward the Texas border.

between Americans during the great

Civil now witness their descendants fighting side by side for a united country. Boers and Britons have stood shoulder to shoulder in their wars with native tribes, and I, for one, expect to see the dative I, Cape to the Zainbesi only one tongue, know only one union of free states, and see but one uniform under which shall beat loyal hearts descended from the men who now face each other in anger. The Independent.

THE LAST, FAREWELL.

"She is halffed," said the more practical Jewess.

And she took Mary to her motherly heart.

And, indeed, beside Rachel and Rebecca, Mary did look fragile. And the good woman thought she would call and see Mis. Adair, and get a fan of her girl for the summer holidays,

Poor Stella!

But her pride ought not to bright the future of Mary. And Stelli, drying her tears, pro- ceeded to dust the shabby little old porhean- teau wherein to pack her child's scant ward- robe.

She is all 1 have, and I must give her up, too!" she thought bitterly; nor was the pain lessened when the girl appeared rosy with delight, full of the kindness of her new friends, and of gladness for her holiday.

'And, ch! mother, he paints such lovely pictures. And he says I am like a dear friend he had years and years ago. A dear friend he has lost, and he wants to pajor me,"

wears.

When winter came a short hacking cough disturbed her nights. Her daily work grew

irksome; her pen was less productive, "The winter was hard. Had Mrs. Sinclair only known that the hampers she sent to Mary's mother were often her sole sustenance!

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"Hugh," she said, "it is quite dreadful" (the plump cheeks streaming with good-natured Sympathy), "pour Mrs. Adair is dying, and neither nor Mary are fit to go to her. It is quite six weeks since the child saw hermother. What will St. Moritz and, the influenza-blı, dear, what shall we do?"

I will go," he said simply. The good woman sank on her cushion with a sigh of relief

What a dear! I knew you would Hugh, Picase do all that is necessary and-"

But Hugh was gone. Buttoning his fur coat tightly around him, he took a hansom, and was soon across Lendon.

Oh, sir, I am so glad you have come," said the landlady. "The poor thing's just goin.' You'll find her on the top front; I've jist left ber, and the doctor's a comin' again at five,"

All was silence as he entered that small, bare

100m.

It seemed empty, save for thatsmall bed, and its still occupant.

The man sank on his knees by the cauch. "Stella!"

With an effort the half rose, and laid her

bead on his breast. Dir his arms were round her, as with passionate tenderness he smoothed the beautiful hair from the damp forehead.

It was as if they had never parted. And in the twilight of that December day these two once again said "Farewell,"

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The tears raced down Stella's cheeks as she' bent over her child's things. She could sec Hugh. He was the same as ever. His was not one of the forgetful loves. Her heart laughed Kananga Water my retrahing behind its tears. Severance has, indeed, its sorrow, but the deadliest pang is to be forgot- ten!

conscious of the mother's loneliness, the And so Mary went off in high spirits, as un-

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While small parties of Beers were, in these carly years, joining their brethren of roving, if not lawless, tastes on the fringes of the then civilized South Africa, the greatest body of the people recognised the good intentions of the the British Government and remained loyal. Things might have gone on smoothly enough but for an agitation in England whose object was the immediate abolition of slavery. This more meat originated with man full of philanthro pic zeal, but empty of political sagacity. Boer farmers had for many generations worked. their estates by means of slaves, as was then universally the custom in all parts of the world where black men were to be found. The

"Yes, my dear," said the portly Mrs. Sinclair Boer recognized the desirability of treat-

It was July. The relentless gun flared with,

over her dessert. "Mr. Adair is quite the tropical impetuosity upon Spring Court, West lady she did not assume anything. Quite the ing slaves bumanely he was even prepared to

Central, Ismys penetrated the little flat, or, fady, but shockingly poor. It makes me quite abolish the institution by slow degree For he did resent the Injustice and arrogance of London father, upper pants of No. 4, and showed up ill to think of her rooms in that dreadful part politicians and missionaries, who charged himing, and worm-caten boards. It also threw a

is poor meagre furniture, low blackened ceife thabiñess, and all. And yet, with her with cruelty and denounced him as a semi- savage. Parliament, as we all know, voled a

hale of grid shout the head of a woman as she manner and looks--for she la quite beautiful-I sat working at a table by the window. Piler of never really took in the place till I was gone. large sum for the purchase of slaves, but this sum, in the Cape Colony at least, proved to be manuscript lay at her side, and her pen moved when one's once a lady it's wonderful what

enc can do," so ridiculously inadequate that the farmers rapidly as she covered sheet after sheet,

Poor, dear Mrs. Sinclair, that "once is a found themselves bankrupt as the result of this At length the moved, and, going to the cup long time coming to some! And yet i doubt. alleged generosity, Boers who owned Haves

board, made a hasty meal of a sandwich and a got that by indexomy heart,bath in it much for whom they had paid 500 apiece were in- sleep of milk. She scarcely observed what the of largess hout which pane, are gentle, and NIGHT SCHOOL for EUROPEAN, by THE Company's Steamship demnified by an offer of 250 when at the same

great! time each slave was mortgaged for several times that amount. When the day of emancipation arrived, 1838, nothing could persuade the timid-knock at the door, and agisi entered--- His wife's face puckered --- blacks.to remain at work, and lonely farms were left valueless by this one stroke of philanthropic pen. A large and law-abiding population of Christian white men were thus forced to choose between remaining on a value- less farm or trekking into the wilderness and —All shells at prosent used by the British War conquering new territory from the warlike Office may be divided into three, great groups, natives. This Great Trek took them to the viz, the armour-piercing, the common shell, Orange Free State, to Natal and to the Trans Rad the shrapnel, The first-named relies sole vaal. There was fighting at every stage of ~ly on its own weight and the force with which, their journey, and the women loaded, the mus

it is discharged to pierce with its sharp, harden. kets for their husbands and sons, This Great ed point the objective it is alined at. On con Trek was the school in which Paul Kruger was cussion it "explodes, and thus complefer its | educated-z school in which there were no "deadly" work; "The common shelly deprived of books, but the Bibla And no mechanical arts point, is used mainly for the damage it causes, save those connected with the repair of a fint-

A few words about the shells these guns fire and Arst place to the lyddite class, to the. power of which the Boers have voluntarily tes died. Lyddle shells are a comparatively re- cent addition to our munitions. They were used in warfare for the first time at Omdurman, where they played havoc with the Mosque?

Each kind of shell at Woolwich is painted a distinctive colour. The complexion of the lyd dite shell is yellow-a colour which suggests that of the terrible explosive. When a fyddite shell strikes anything, ils leaves its mark be hind it in a double sense.. If it does not anni hilate the object it is aimed at, it brands it a yellowish colour. No doubt many of the bould ex behind which the fluers hide have beenthus, decorated, Chemists have discovered that lyddite in itself is an excellent cure for burns, What incongruity Of other kinds of shell shrapnel is coloured a vivid red, while the armour piercing variety have a white ring paint. ed just below the point,

ale. Her whole was in her work, and glass was hardly empty when she was back again, her pen flying still more rapidly.

She was about twelve years of age, and had the samo golden brown hair as her mother.

The woman lifted her head.

"Can't you help der? ¿Couldn't she come down, too?"

"She is a very difficult person to help," she ansgored. Proud, dear. Not offensively so, you understand. But a sort of woman you would not have to alter her manner for any could by no means take a liberty with. She

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Is that you, Mary? Get your lunch, darling you'll find it in the emyboard, I am very busy."

The girl pai down her school books, spread you have such tact, Razi,passing-hiawífs table cloth and proceeded in silence to lie the post. It seems wicked to leave a woman modest repast.

like that. You say the place is very poor?

"All I can says, that I never saw any place S. now in a position, in his New and Company to and from AUSTRALIA are available for like it. It's only less of a surprise than the yoman who lives in it."

At lengthshe spoke.

"Mother?"

"Yes, dear?"

“I saw Mt. Sinclair to-day." "What did she say?"

"She asked me again If I could, şit for Mr. Sinclair's ploure."

And then, thoughtfully:

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