The Quebec chronicle, 16 avril 1900, lundi 16 avril 1900

[" I Ke PORTFOLIO 18 NOW READY b PSS = TYOL.LIV.NO.19,584 QUEBEC, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1900.PERFECT CONFIDENCE = | ~ FELT AT BLOEMFONTEIN British Army in Good Cond Baer Laager to Cheer Downhearted Burghers.GTA it \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 REPORTED BAD DEFEAT OF TLE BOERS BY GENERAL BRABANT.;_\u2014\u2014 London, April 16.\u20144.10 \u2019 o.m.\u2014The {Pretoria, dated tie 13th, says: \u201cMrs.War Office had nothing to communicate to the public yesterday.It may taken for granted that the rumors of General Brabant\u2019s victory at Wegener is premature.The remainder of Lis troops has left Aliwal North yesterday for Rouxville and there hes scarcely, been time for an engagement.; NEWS SCARCE.There is practically no fresh.news AH the Bloemfontein despatches, however, breathe a confident fous.There seems 10 be a heavy demand on the railway for so large an army leaves the populace destitute of everything save the absolufe necessities of life.FIRST FROST.The despatch \u2018announces the progress of winter, the first pinch of frost has heen felt at Blcemfontein, where con: siderable rain has failen.It is said that President Kruger visited the Boer camp at Kroonstadt ax well as Brandfort.The Cape Town\u2019 correspondent, of the Daily Telegraph, telegraphing Sunday, says :\u2014Ân unconfirmed report is in circulation Lere that General Brabaul has infiicled a crushing defeat upon the Boers at Wepener, capturing guns and taking ammunition.WINSTON CHURCHILL'S OPINION Mr.Winston Churchill telegraphs to the Morning Post frum Bloemfontein, under Saturday's date, reiterating his opinion that war is bound to prove an exiremely expensive business.He says two hundred and fifty thousand men will be heeded befcre the end is al- tained.The question of remounts will continue one of vital importance.(Great numbers are row arriving, but owing {o the fact that they have to Le put to work tetore time is given them to recover from the effects of the voyage, their condition is low and the death rate among them high.Yhous ands, therefore, Will Le wanicd in ad- diticn to those now here and on the way, anl great resting depots must he found together with an ample stall ta nurse and exercise them.If that is done then about 4 or 5 months hence you wilf be able to give your cavalry a new lease of life and strength.The Bloemfontein correspondent of the Times, telegraphing Sunday, says :\u2014 Mi te reported {lat reinforcements for the Hoers, with G0 waggons, have arrived at Dewet's Dorp for Wegener.This should precipitate an action.The statement that President Kruger has bcen south seems lo comiirm (he reports that the Boers are getting disheartened.This continued exertion of hig personal influence appals row tc lave become g necessity.TO LEAVE FREE STATERS.The Bloenfoniéin correspondent of the Daily News.tckographing Saturday, says :\u2014President Kruger attended a conference of the commandants at Brandicrt on Thursday.It is believed that a decision was reached to withdraw tLe Transvaal forces to the north of Vet River, preparaicry to a general retirement across the Vaal river if hard precsed, leaving the Frec Staters to thelr own resources.ENEMY DRIVEN BACK.Lordon, April 15.\u2014 Natives teport at Kimberley that Col.Douglas cn aged the Hoers near Swart-kop on Moanesday, ond succeeded in driving them back.The British casualties were slight.Jandslnagte last evening reported.thÂt there had ban no trace of the Boets in Urat ncighborhood for the past two days.Their progress sonth- ward has been effectively barred by be |she trusted that God would soon stop i will taldresses, ition\u2014 Kruger Visiting the Up the Spirits of His\u201d Kruger, on beiug interviewed, said that the merciless bloodshed, but that the Ropublic would be vigorously defended wen if Preloria were finally taken.She added that she had in the field 33 grandsons, two of whom were kill ad, four sons, and six sons-n-law, and numerous other felatives.\u201d De Aar, April 14.\u2014 The main boly of the Carnarvon field force, in command of Gol.Parsons, including = the Canadian Artillery and the Mounted Riftes, arrived here, this morning, af ter a five week's march from Victoria vad, by way of Kenhardt, a distance of more than 590 miles.They encoun- «ered no active opposition.Col.Parsons pacified the district, which was areviously in rekellion, and arrested the ringleaders.LORD ROBERTS\u2019 PROTEST.Bloemfontein, April 14.~Lord Roberts in his telegram of protest lo President Kruger regarding the (reat- ment to which the Colenial officers and {roops, who are now prisoners at Pretoria, have teen subjected, vom- plaining, that Boers have treated them as if criminals confined in jail He points out that there are 9 cases of enteric fever aud dysentery in the yvisoners camp at Watervaal, that the Transvaal failed to supply on demand, of the doctor, the necessary medical comforts, that the prisoners were forced 10 bivouac on the open veldt, that the sick were placed in an ofe: OPENING OF THE PARIS EXPOSITION \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Scenes of Sumptuous Splen- © dor and Confusion THE INAUGURAL CEBEMONIES.\u2014\u2014 A BEAUTIFUL BUILDING \u2014 GORGEOUS UNIFORMS \u2014 SPLENDID ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS \u2014 A PICKED GUARD OF HONOR \u2014 PRICELESS GOBELINS \u2014 THE WEATHER ALL THAT COULD BE DESIRED \u2014 A HO LIDAY IN PARIS.\u2014\u2014 Paris, April 14.\u2014 The Exposition oi 1900 is opened, but it will be at least a mouth before anything.but buildings is to be sven.The day's coremoriec were a peculiar mixture of sumptuo splendor in the Salle des Fetes, and widespread confusion and unreadiness elsewhere.Nothing could have exceed: xd the picturesque stage settings in the beautiful building in which the in augural ceremonies were held, the gorgeous unifortas of the diplomats aud soldiers, the splendid orchestra \u2014 and chorus, and the magnificent effects produced \u2018by the grand staircase, up which President Loubet proceeded to view the Exposition, lined with some 200 picked mea of the Republican Guards, with jackboots, white breccher gleeming cuirasres and horse hair plumes streaming from signing helmets, A SPLENDID APARTMENT.At the top of this-stairway was a room, the interior of which could he scan from the Salle de Fetes, and this was hung with priceless gobelin: from the Louvre.Into this splendid asartment President Loubet entered, and from there walkel down the avenue to his boat.This part of the day's arrangement was perfect, the rest was chacs.shed with an iron rosf and that it was only when the new doctor threat- ned to resien that medicines and mat- | Irersay were supplied.He invites Prethings and cunlrects it with the trea ment of the British Government to the Boer prisoners, sick and wounded, who, as Lord Roberts says, receive the same treatment as our cwn soldiers.\u201d PERJURERS.Four farmers who had took oath to Abstain frou further co-operation with the Queen's enemies, were found sig- paling to ite wnemy at Karee Siding, and have Leen brought here.POLICY OF THE CONSERVATIVES \u2014_\u2014\u2014 As Laid Down by Their Leader, SIR CHARLES TUPPIR, BART, IN REPLYING TO THE ADDRESSES OF POLITICAL CLUBS IN MONTREAL.- HE BELIEVES IN THE UNITY OF THE.EMPIRE \u2014 WANTS MUTUAL PREFERENCE TRADE \u2014 DENOUNCES THE GOVERNMENT POLICY AS A BLOW AT CANADIAN LABOR.Montreal, Aprit 15.\u2014 Sir Chailes Tupper, the Conservative leader, who is spending the Easter holidays ia Montreal, was waited upen en Naturday afternoon by deputations from tle Liberal-Conservative Club, (he Sir John A.Macdor-ala Club and the Junor Conservative Club, awl presentzd Sir Charles made a which long reply to the addresses, in the Britstocouprtion of Jenoneskes lp defended {he policy of the Liberal on the left and Umbulwati où the right WHY THE BOERS ATTACKED The belief that the Boer action on Tucsday was due to restlessuess an dissatisfaction in the ranks is ronlirm- ed by matives, who say that the Boers have been ready for susne lime and wanted the British to atta.them.iw order to force this, the Poers commenced shelling, at the same time sead- ing a force to Make a flanking movement on the left.The natives also confirm the statement that one of the Roers' heavy gins was put oul of ne tion and the gunaers driven off.BOERS LOCATED.The scouts on Saturday located the Boers in @ strong position 11 wiles northeast of the British advanced po- gition at Uloemfomlain.FOR A LAST STAND.It appears from every indication that the Boers are preparing, in the event of Proloi:a ting captured, to make a last stand alory the line reaching from Leydenburg, aking th: mountains into Swaziland.LYING TO THE SWAZIS.A traveller recently arrived at Hloem fontein rays that the Boers age .ner- geticnlly working Nwazis that the lritish cause 1s lost nl are seeking 10 ingrafl themselves, hoping to secure à footing in Kwari land peacefully.or to seine hol of the 10 persuade the |\" Conservative party and attacked the Government, especially en the prefcr- ential trade policy.The d\u2018anserva- d | tives, fir Charles Tupper said, Lchevol in the unity of the Ewpire, but thev Lelieved the Lest means to oe comnlish (hat unity was lo have a mutual preference in trade nite s within the Entire.He was oppoed 10 making a free zift to England in the way of a preference.ns such & policy was ga blew at Canadian labor.The Govern i.ns 128 polis wit faking the most effective Incoue he claimed, to prevent a policy of netival preference.It was rlso, he declir:4 a breach of failh, zs the Government had declared that (he present tariff was fixed and would not be changed, Sir Charles Tuprer also declacd against (he icheme of having Canada represented in the Imperial Parliaawnt, as provoriionate representation.he claimed, would mean Droportinnattaxation, and such inatend of heipoue would be fatal to the unity of the Empire.The Conservative polir he defined as Vroisetion fer Caradion In dustries and the unity Of Le Téinpire hv means of a muinal preforvuse with, tt the Emvire.\u2018 Sir Charles Tupper will rennin several dave longer in Montrealee fee CIGARMAKER'S STRIKE Montreal, April 15, \u2014 Severat- hund red men employed by the local cigar for country if necessary.PATROL CAPTURED.A upecial despatch from Bloemfontcin says : \u2018A patrol of Royal rsh, with whonk was Lord Rosalyn, hos teen capturd, Lord Roselyn has Lem sent to Kroonstadt.\u201d MRS.KRUGKR'S STATEMENT.Londan, April 16.\u2014 A special from manufacturers are out on strike, à \u2018cour?which has been dictated, ac- jcording to President \u2018Mavean, of the Cigarmekers International Union, bé leatuæe the firms persisted in employing apprentices instead of skilled labor.As \u2018a result of the strike a protracted and bitter fight is expected (0 ensue, The manufacturers expect to be able to im- sport skilled lahor from the United !States, sident Kruger 1o ramedy (his state as! BEAUTIFUL.WEATHER.The weather to-day was luckily all that could be desired.Fourt-en thou- send guests had been invited to.the function, and they.had, owing to the weather, only the dust to endure.[iad the day been wet the untolled paths oi the exposition grounds would havc been turned into a mass of mud.HOLIDAY IN PARIS.The afterncon was a holiday in Paris bv general cousent, and a host of coun try people crowded into the city tu swell th multitude who from au early hour trudged in the direction of the Exposition ard took up positions along Uic routes of the procession and at the approaches to the grounds.SIMPLE CEREMONY The ceremonial within the Salle des Fetes was simplicity itself.The re cxplion to President Loubet at the entrance lusted but a few seconds, and on reaching the principe) tribun, M.iMillerand, the Minister of Commerce, immediately delivered his addiess, hang ing over the xparition to the Chie! cf State.Président Loutet then replied and the.spealing part of {he function her: ended.A feature of the proceedings vas the serics of tableaux -vresented to tho gan of the President and his party by the wonderful spectacle in th: Salle des Fetes, and (he imposing vistas {rom the Palace Trorader® down the Champ de Mars to the Chatsau D'Fau and along the esplanade of the Hotel de: fuvalidss, from Napoleon's tomb 10 the Champs Elycers, while the view from the Seine along the embankment 'n which stands an irregular line of nulticolored.national pavilions, pre- sting covery conceivable form of ar- hitacture, might have Leen a \u2014 scenc {rom th: Arabian Nights entertain- nent.The ladies of the President's party reached the Salle des Fetes in advance of the others and took their eats in the special gallery.\u2019 Madame Loubet richly gowned, sat in front, surrounded by the wives of the Ministers.MAGNIFICENT SPECTACLE.The spectacle that met President Lou pet's eye, when, amid the rescurding strains of the Mersellaise, he stepped to We front of the principal dais, an his entry into the Salle des Fetes, was probably never cer before within the wails of any building.The vast crens was filed with a sca of human kings who overflowed the balcunies, \u2018ulting out from the sides.The de oration of the interior.was certainly a triumph of artistic skill, with a hand some stained glassdome, through which he rays of slight fitered down upm the concourse below and à color scheme n mural painting with the strikingly wecuted frescoes of appropriate alle sories in brilliant relief.The galleries and balconies were draped with = red slush, and {he hall was profusely .ador ned with teophies of triccolored flags.spending fanlike from shiclds bearing the letters \"R.F.\" THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.The group among ve great assembly which was the most a'tractive wax the body of foreign representatives in i\u201cturesjue attire, Since Queen Vie- \u2018arla\u2019s Jumlee or {be Crar\u2019s corona lon, no such congress of strange and wrgeous national gostumes las tee son in a mans fogcether were arbaned chefs, Arab Shieks, in flow- ag white roles, and with (aces muff.A in nen cloths, Hungariin magnaies n magnificent velvet dolmang (rimmed vith vatualle furs, with green breechey wd top Lonie, and vrariax Eur togues aurmounied by waîving nigrettes ; Pre ee and other Oriental embassy = of- licials in cheracteristic silk garments; \u2018all Cossacks in.sumptuous cloaks with handoltersshuxe across their chests from ~hich shown the polish brass of cart- Wontinued on Serenth Page.) but |: ADMIRAL DEWEY'S POLITICAL MOVE How His Candidacy is View ed in England PEOPLE LOOK UPON IT AS À JOKE \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 RELATIONS BETWEEN = GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES.\u2014THE NEXT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WILL HINGE ON THEM.\u2014TBAT IS THE OPINION OF A LEADING LONDON PAPER \u2014AFTER THE ELECTION ALL WILL, BE QUIET.\u2014\u2014\u2014 Our Special London Cable Letter.London, April 14 \u2014Not a little _interest is beginning to be taken in Eng \u2018and in politics in the United States.Admiral Dewey's cahdidacy is regarded rathée more humorpusiy that in any sther Hght, the opularity of the Admiral laving never been quite understood in England, nor his achievements thoroughly appreciated by either aaval or lay circles, whose attention has always been more confined to our naval operations in the West Indies than to Manila.GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA, The Spectator, which so often voices Government opinion, has a lengthy and important editorial on the - re tions in the immediate future between America and Great\u2019 Britain, during which it says inepart \u2014' \u2018The British people will have to keep their tempers for the next few months when they cousider American affairs.By rather in odd series of cireumatances it hap- Lens that the pivol of the next elec tion will be the relations of the United States and Great Britain, and of course in the frenzy of the campaign very hard lhirgs will be said.Mr.Bryan and his supporters will perhaps 2 resolutions in the Democratic \u201convention calling upon the Governnent to intervene strongly in behalf of \u2018resident Kruger, who either i instinet or craftiness, always appeal ta them through literature which they «now Lesi\u2014the Onl Testament.We shalt have a shower of hard words from their side and may te even 2 difficult and perplex arguminl lo maintain through Lord Pavrcefote, \u201cud too we shall not be very sirenu- ously defended + ike Republicans.President McKinley will ist in bis soliey and carry Ms party with him, \u201cait stilt lie is the American candidate \u2018or he Presidency and canpot bear, with the second {erm al stake to lose a vate.Mr.McKinley, therefore, and the Republican lesders, will do nothing to show themstives friinds of Great \u2018Jritain.They will utter no plain protest against the chorus of isnorant any appearance cn this side of a hearty wish for Republican success.We musp however possess our sculd in rai- ience and receive American cencure with that dogged silence with which we re- eived censure from the remainder of the world, The clectoral campaign will come to an end and wilh it mos af the attacks où Great Britain.The Tetter opinion in the United States including, we Lelieve a ma\u2018onity of (he ropulation, n the whale friendi- to us and 3 vinced that all tke world over, Bi anh American interesis are the same.Neither nation desires anything except to trade in peace.Of ane thing we may ke sure, the Americans will not carics- ture the Queen.In the fercest of their Aecloral bettles they will respect the wed lady who foriy years ago was on their side in the civil war, a who now is the only monarch in Eurape who watches tlieir prosperity with grudging pleasure and without the idea that their grewth, wealth and in- quence is a menace to the world.\u201d This article Voices better than anything that has recently appeared, the tcne of the sentiment toward America and by those who ars seriously interested in the relations of the two cour- ries.HAY-PAUNCEROTE TREATY.The statement that the Senate will not ratifv ihe Hay-Pauncefute con vention this year has created little comment These who maintain that England kes given something for nothing in the Nicaraguan agreement.exprese pleasure and hope that it will never be ratified, while those who sap- vorted tbe convention accept the post nenement of action as the most.advisable step in view of the political conditions in the United Stateseee ee SUFFERED THE PENALTY Williams, the Toronto Murderer, Hanzed on Saturday.Toronto, April 14\u2014Hlarry Willlameihe murderer, was hanged in the Toronto gaol this morning.\u2014\u2014\u2014 DISTINGUISNED SOLDIER London, April 14.=The futeral of the late Ficld Marshal ir Donald \u201cfartin Sitewar! who died at Algiers, March 26 lad, in his 77th year, took place here this afternoon.If was conducted with the fuilest militery Tonnes and in the presence of a representative of Queen Victoria, who placed on the coffin a wreath bearing an autograph inscription expressive of Her Maiesiyv's high \u201cterard for (he distinguished vel- eran.The Prince of Wales was aisn represented, while (he commander-in- chief of the army, Lord Wolseley, and Ue whole of the gereral staff, heshles a hast of high mval ard military officials were present in full uniform, The members of the Cabinet and» number of distinguished civilians also parlicipated.mr mr rte NOTHING PRETTIER.150 parasols in black and fanny ma- terfal.Ladies should make haste and make the first choice.FAGUY, LEPMXLY & FRERE held by British Government officials Risk 5 cents Only SKK a NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL INSPECTOR STRICKLAND ACCEPTS A POSITION IN STRATH- CONA'S HORSE\u2014ANOTHER CANADIAN DIES IN SOUTH AF- RICA\u2014MARINE RAILWAY.{From Our Special Correspondent).Ottawa, Ont., April 15.\u2014Mr.White, Controller of the Mounted\u201d Police, received a telegram from Inspector Strickland, \u2018at Victoria, today, stating that he accepted a commission iv Strathcona\u2019s Horse aud will commence recruiting 56 men to-marrow, beyin- ning at Vancouver and (hen wravelling east.A telegram received this evetine from Colonel Ctter, dated Bloemfouteim, announces the death there of Private R.Harrison (No.7,462), 20d Canadian Artillery, Montrezl, from en teric fever.MARINE RAILWAY.Mr A.D.Provand, M.P.for Blackfriars, Glasgow, in the British House of Commons, is ere again with an other proposition to lay cfore the Government from the Board of Directors of the Chignecto Marine Railway, in reference 10 the completion of the caterprise and carning 1 tie Company of the first Government subsidy.It will Le rememtered that some months ago the Government de dined to give any puasantre that the subsidy criginadly voted vould be paid in the event of the railway bring cons structed.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 FROM THE GASPE COAST A RECORD ONE FOR IN THE WINTE them.will soon be allowed to lard ai lagua bay and occupy Lorene Marques, and that the consent of Portugal has already igen obti ned.teproaches are accepted sby practical linduma tists as evidence that the trans- for and partition of Portuguese East and (nat the \u201cinperor will not be furced to wait until the close of (he campaign Lefure convincing His subje has made excellent ments with Lord Salisbur Area and try the famous cigar TOD SLOAN The Marvel of Canada.«£2 TEXTE TD TR OI CXL MILLER & LOCKWELL, i Manufacturers, Quebecmener BOER DELEGATES AND PORTUGAL Tie Former Reproachesthe Master for the BETRAYAL OF THE BOER CAUSE \u2014 ALLOWING THE TAIN AND GERMANY \u2014 THE DELEGATES LAVE NO FRIENDS.\u2014 New York, April 15.\u2014 Mr.Isaac N.Ford cables the Tribune, \u2018rom London, this morning, regarding the Boer delegates, as follows :\u2014 \"Mrhas bern reproaching He assuines are ImpcFding an HAVE NO FRIENDS.IRITISH TROOPS TO PASS THROUGH PORTUGUESE TERRITORY \u2014 i$ THE LATTER TO BE DIVIDED BETWEEN GREAT BRI- Fischer the Portuguese with petraval of the interests of Boers under the pretetise of supporting that the British îe- the is that he Business «Frame L.PAQUETS Departmental Stores.THIS WEEK.OPENING OF Our New Department of House Furniture The Exhibition Comprising The latest styles of cabinet making as well as carpets, oil cloth, uphois- tery goods, wall paper, frames and pictures and houschold utensils.Cavers four complete floors.\u2014_\u2014 a Take elevator to the Sixth Floor, and visit the New Show.Rooms and Sample Furnished Flat on Sixth and Fifth Floors, \u2014 Ten Show-Rooms of the Best Cunadian and American styles af furniture.Carpets and upholstery on a ro ps and pictures, wall paper, wl cloth and household utensils on basement floor.The Exhibits Comprise Elaborate parlor or receplion suits, dinig room sets, chamber and hall suits.Funcy gilt-framed chairs, (Mtomans, divans, Egyptian stools.Roman chairs, five o'clock tea tables.Easels, screens, upholstered sets and dd chairs.second Causeuses, fardinniere stands and marquetry tabourettes, parlor desks, artistic parlor tables.Hall trees, chairs and seitées, and umbrella stands.Fancy tables with reed legs.ROUGIEN HEAVY SNOW! The Boer delegates are on their way st ; PALL\u2014MUCH SICKNESS PRE [10 The Hague.There are no dns of | China and silverware closets with VALENT \u2014BUER SY NMEATHIZ- (2 willingness on the part af ane Gas- [COuvÉX and flat plates.ERS ernment to receive them, even if they | Combination sideboards and china >.Le have terms of Peace to sug closets.| ra ur Special Correspondent x Siting room, library and | student (From o pecial Corresp THE BR UTALITY chairs, arm and reclining chairs.| Point St.Peter, Gaspe County.\u2014 April 10.\u2014The past winter along 4 Gaste coast tas been one of tlie rousi- jest known for forty vears, while the \u2018cold has not been so iplerse as some years.The stow fall kas been greaicr than during any previous winter during that space of time.Over «x fret ot snow is lying on the level.Our fence pickets are only just beginning to ap- in ice, with uo appeatance of breaking up.For 1ke past thee days we have been in the embrace of a dreadful snow storm, Sunday tie 8th here was a fearful day, the roads full and 1tspartment breakdown Mr.OF RED TAPE IN TIE UNITED STATES NAVAL DEPARTMENT\u2014A SICK OFFi- TO REPORT FOR DUTY \u2014MEDICAL, CERT 5 CER ORDERED FICATES DO N COUNT.pear.AN predict a very Iute spring :| New York, April 16.\u2014The brutaïits | our.lays and rivers are full and fast lof \u2018red tape\u2019 intle U.S.Navy Ford says is emplusized by Mr.LN, * Ford, in a Loudon cable to the sin | Fancy wall cabinets.ing 'fritune in regard to the physical of Commander Culweil.:\u2014\"Conusander Col- Twn and three foil card tables, office tables, desis and chairs.Revolving and standing book-cases.Screens of all kinds.* Old bachelors chairs, leather chairs and couches.pkers' revelving cares.Éibksine | tatiles and dressers with wy catch bevel mirrors.$Wiled or serpentine front chifion- tiers.From and brass bedsteads with mattresses and spring beds, locked as in [nid Sater, nat even the | well closed his accounts asd seltled up ! \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 rraeous ones venluring out of doors his business with his naval successor \u2019 Our mails are behind, last wick e- [at the Americon Embassy Thurs 3 recialty was thir the case, whe n only ea ordcred Tv his hes ar Post Materials of all Kinds two Quebec mails were delivered here.|a hospital for the next week and for-! maj _ Much sickness has been rife this | bidden to sail by today's steamer fer land hogany, cherry wood, golden oak, winter, mostly measles and chickenpox |New York.He has teen sullering : the firest imitations, carved and among young people, though at New | from overwork and complete nervous highly pol : Carlisle and Paspebiar there are some | breakdown, and is not in condition lv Siik damask, veivet and brocatelle, twenty cases of small pox so report [carry cul (he orders of the Navy [tufted of plain.says, and the talk of vaccination along | Department and report in Fan Fran- Framings upholstered to order.the coast supersedes that of the much | cisco early in May and sail for the { All ices from the cheapest to the socle | railway.auietty being mad China squadton.Dr.lennox Brown, |bighest values.5 ) ¢ | his physician had warm x i i for the summer's catch of ccd fish, vas una for work ved um lat ue ha a the exceptional bargains whilst it seems fewer persons are go- need of rest.Two medical repurts ui ing into the lobster catching industiy, the auantity caught last summer being small, proving that the lotster is Le ing exterminated.\u2018There are lots of Boers along lis coast, and as \u2018\u2019Boers\u2019 they scem quietly to increase, and no attempt is made to exterminate them\u2014a rreat pity for their own good ?and the good of the coast that they cannot be transferred to the Transvaal.Victims Dead.Toledo, Ohi, April 15.=Shartly be fore midnight last night, two tramps with white _landkerchiefs tied _ over their faces, stopped at tle house of two sisters, Kale and Johannah Sellivan, living four miles west of = West Toledo, knocked ai the door, and as Jotantah ovencd the door one of the men struck her across the head with a club, knocking her down.Kate sprang to the assistance of her sister when the second tramp felled her with an axelalve.The women were then dourd and cageed and the house robbed, Johannah died in a short time, and Kate is a raving maniac as the result of her ini .The tramps escaped\u2019 with $200 Rey.CANADIANS IMPROVING Dr.Fiset and Lieut, MacDonnell Now Convalescent.Dr.Todgetts, of the Hed Cross, received a cablegram on Saturday night, from Dr.Rymson, announcing that Vr.Fiset and Tient.MacDonnell are now convalescent, and Private Waltee, of \"CC Company, Hon.Clarke Wallace's ton, ba much improved, tr eff mg sea car Are \u2018Truro, March (ith, 1880.Mr, CC.T.Burus, (he well inown Mantel man, savas \u2018\u2019Kumfort Dowders are just the right ihing.\u201d ers.were sent .to alarming statement and application was made for months\u2019 leave on waiting orders.The Navy Department, Secretary Allen, cabled to him yest application.This was a curious illustration of lhe thoughticss brutality of red tage Department seems fo be unwilling af eminent day its accept Toronto, little five year .Kyle, a C.P.R.engineer, of 142 Vine street, Toronto Junction, Was crushed tv a trolley om Saturday afternoon while crossing Dulas street, saw the litle fellow too late to stop the car which was going rapidly, and the body was carried 80 feet under the cross bar before the Evidence at the inquest last night showed that the car had no fender and the .motorman had not rung hin gong at the crossirge.to death The motorman Washington refusal of hig medical reports that à faithful officer is incapacitated for à long journey and an immediate service.4 BOY CRUSHED.TO DEA1H By a Trolley Car \u2014Evidently a Case of Carelessnessold son of Hugh was brought ta a standstill.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 LARGE MINING DEAL Toluea, Mexico, April 15.\u2014 One of the largest mining deals ever made in Mexico has juni Hocn\\consummated tre.by the sale of a group of four ovediugly rich and st \u2018 + with an of his condition.three through Assistant .The to April 15.\u2014Willie Kyle, the G {bat e productive gold mines, located in the Zacuatnan trict, near here, by heir Mexican ow- nore, to a London syndicate for 000.000 in gold.Cecil Rhodes in raid TELEPHONE 2171.to be one of the principal stock-hold- dis- A parlor suit, 5 pieces, from.$15.75 up A chamber suit 3 pieces, from 10.73 up A fine sideboard from.4,75 up Dining hall chairs at 78c.apicce.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 A very interesting part of the slow is a whole furnished fal, comprising six rooms, parlor.master\u2019s bedroom, daughter's white chamber suit, bou- duir, dining room and kitchen.A \u2014\u2014 English physicians respecting Com- A COWARDLY MURDER |mander, Cowell's physical een, \u2014 \u2014\u2014 and will not pnvinced im : Two Tramps\u2019 Terrie | Crime\u2014One thing shart of eons invert | 980 Pictare Gallery in Basement Srecial bargains for visitors to the exhibition © Fine engravings in cardboard frames, religious or profane subjects at 16e each.Panel landscape 18c.each.Ask for the Symetroscop er.A most ingenious device to make do- signing casy.It amuses, instructs, en- tertaing, enlichtens the children, the yound and old people, Beautiful and curlous geomefrical figures and color effects are obtained through it.Only 30c.a Piece.PAQUET, 165, 167, 169, 171 St.Joseph Stoil paintings at 16th April, 1900. THE CMIRONICLF, QUEBEC, CANADA, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1900.BROWN MIG s #4 Chewing and Smoking Grown by Canadians Made by Canadians Chewed by Canadians Smoked by Canadians The BIGGEST PACKAGE Ever Sold FOR oJ) CENTS.QUEBEC.SAVE THE COUPONS IN THE PACKAG Redeemable at Our Office, No.22 St.Peter Street, THE) RASH VOW OF GENERAL GATACRE Domestic Scandal which Led to Peculiar Triple Pledge HIS PRETIY WIFE INVOLVED, FORCED INTO EXILE IX AMERICA WITH CAPTAIN FIT ALB\u2014 \"1 SHALL Ni 1 URN TO ENGLAND ALIVE WAS THI Vow TA PALS.TI 50 FAR.\u2014\u2014\u2014 v BY THE PRINCI- 5 VOW WELL KEP in view of the anuouncement that Ma:or-Gezeral Gatucre has been recall ed 10 England.| (he following story, which is going the rounds of the press, wii Le of special inierst :\u2014 Major-Zeneral Sir William Gatacre, commanding one of the British army corps now operating i South Africais under solemn pledge dol Lo return to England alive, aud thereby hangs a story the like of w has Lever teen equaled in dram ction, of otctual lite.Thee?peiscns took tlic rolemn pledge.\u2018They ved 1h: same words=\" de | demi pledge myself pot to return to England alive Oue of thes: persons was Colonel Gatacre Another was Colonel Gatacre's wife, who died recently in Southern Calis fornia.The third person vas Captam Fitz rerald, formerly of Her Mawsiy's ser- Nice, now a resident of America.Some vears age Colonel Gatacre Was ordered ta Dubin to take command nt the Kighity-bighth Connatzht Rangers, then stationed in tat city.He took with him his beautiful vows wife.She became à favorite with society.Military society ie always at à pre- miem, and military helle is the belle of all belick.Mrs.Gatacre tceame à mititary belle, and tte next thing to it, a military \u201ctoast.\u201d Culonel Gatacre himself was popular en his digni- way\u2014a calm, stetn man, serupu- lousty technical in his obseisancé of the station he occupied and of those with whan he associated, His wife he treat-d with the of a man who was sition as be as of his own.and knew she would maltfain il, what ever laxities she ight irduire in by way of diversion from the loneliness that she sometimes felt ax a result of Mix entorceil Absence trom her Poviety There waz a cerfain _ hapdsome guardsman in one of the Dupin regiments at the time Colonel Gatacre and sidierly chivalry sure of her po- his wife were there\u2014r rortiin tand- some œuardsman pamed = FitzgeraM.There are always certain hawdsome guardsmen in stories of (hig hindein the true ones as well as in the fictil)- ous.They were in the true ones before fiction wns born, and (Ley will be there after flelion is dead, unless jet and the last man die simultane ously, as is not unlikely.Anvhow, Lere was à certain handsome guards- nu su in the plot of Colonel Gatacre's strangely true romantic tragedy, le S a captain of the cuard and a hi \u201cial lion.Goud looks were a small Ipart of kis possessions\u2014lie was distin- tinguished by birth and by fortune | aristocrat with large estates, a rate man, and a strang one: à soldier for the taxe of fighting, and one Iwhont Ro woman thus far had tem Ha to win from kachelerhood.Gatacre was (he social queen of v Dublin in those davs.but Calnel Gatacre was not the social king.Ou sovietv's throne the queen's cone sort had 10 be of soriety's own selec tan.Swiety chose Captain Fitzgerald, THE GATACRE-FITZGERALD SCANDAL.One dav Colonel Gatacte found so- iety whispering.This would not have interested him if the whispering hadn't erased the moment he came within car- shot.When it occurred several times and had berome wimistakably of per- susal sizmficance, the Colonel tapped one of the whisperers on the shoulder and demanded 10 know what was go iug on that he might not properly hear.The whisperer was a dear éviemd of the Calonel\u2019s,.s0 he carefully broke the fatter's heart with a rumor \u2014as friends have a habit of doing.The sumior connected Mrs.Gatacre with the handsome captain of the guard.It was only a suggestion, of course, wd the Colonel's friend hoped there was nothing in it; hut that wax what wople were saving, and the Colonel's iriend, neglecting to state that he wes one of the people himself, sympaike- tically thought that the Colone! ought te know about it.The Colonel grimly arsured the friend that at Jast he did know about il, and was Very much obliged for the kunwledge.\u2018Then he turned his back on the friend and went in crave an au- dienee with Dublin's social queen.\u2018The interview between husband and wife was bijef, aud, in effect, some thing like this: \"1 amp informed, madam, that you are in love with Captain Fitzgerald.Is it true ?* \u201cI ix true\u201d \u201c1 thank vou for your candor.I will prevent anv unnecessary complications.It may preclude the neceasity ~ mv killing Captain Fitzgerald.That will depend, of course, upon his Lng equally canald, and upon both of vou being willing to abide by the terms 1 shall make for all three of us.\" at arc the lerms, Colonel Gatacre ?** hat, Captain Fitrgerald shall lave the country.immediately and take you with him.\u201d \u201cAnd vou?\u201d \u201c1 shall lave England torever.\" \u201cYour commission in the army \u201cThat can be arranged\u2014I wil te transferred to a colonial post.Denied this favor from my Sovereign, who afone is left me to serve, | shall ve sign my commission and gn abrond, an outcast unranked by my country, \u201c 1 am otherwise degraded by my wire.\" \u201cI am sorry, 1 could not help it.{ will do anything you ask, and | I am gone away.Or | wiil let\u2014ict Car 6 Fitzæcroid re.stay\u2014or, better still 1 vitre vou\" \u201cYon will go With Capiain À itze r- all, and as fur a fiom ie a can take sou.Voit mist boih phd vourselves never to return to Faychand alive.Tell him ti tem also if ever 1 shall kill him.good-ty\u2014my good-bye with nd tu Lis The good-by af wife» Bois Majol Gatecrehero of the South African war, r- meuber as the plo.along the fae tier of battle todav the Lablin Caio nel's strange leave taking Looe from {he queen of Dublin snctety ?FLIGHT TO SOUTHERN CALIFOR- Nix.Captain Fitzgerald was a glen.em that is, he was what © ecntieman.The Health Habit.Just As Easy to Form as Any Otherform ont pe: a We do nat deiiberately hatits, bat they zre neon ionsly guired aml row we grow, and the time we leon they are hurting we find them 100 strong to Le broken.Then, why nat form a gant hatit, a habit whith will counterset the many had ones, in offer verds cen tract.the unfashionable hatit of Peine always well, The lest health habit to ref info is tp have and keep a vigorous stam.ach : if yon have a healiliy digestion you can drink vour helns coïve, smoke your favorite rand of tohacce, with little or uo harux ; the niischisr beging * when three things are fenced upon the faithful = stotmach, without any assistance.Form the habit of taking after weal.some harmicss Fri efficient direstrs which will relieve the stomach of su much extra work.Nature furnishes wg with such diges- fives and when they are combined in such a pleasant preparation as Stuart s Dyspepsia Tablets, thev give the overworked stomach fast the necesearv assistance to secure periert digestion without any of the harmful eficets of cathartles and similar drugs.The habit of taking Stuart's Dyr pepsia Tablets after meals in as neo sary fo the weak stomach as food weil, and indeed 10 get the Lenefit from fond eater, nothing etter end core tainly nothing safer can he ued Many families ct.ovider Stuart's Tablets as essential in the Louse a8 knives and forks.They consief entirely of natural di gestive principles without the efieet om characteristics of drugs ; they have aa cathartic acticn, but simply Ze 10 work on the food eaten and ciuest jt, Take into prrennt your bad bal ig and the expense they entail and then invest fifty cents in n tar of Stuarl'y Dyspepsia Tablels and ve if vour diges tion for the next month ix not vastly improved.Ask the clerk in any drug store the name of the moat succesful ond popn.Jar atomuch remedy and he will say \"Steart\u2019s.\" acre had devised the most sensible ngément jpussible of what might have becoune an open scandal, with its wevitable tragaly, to make tad 1nat- ers worse.Certainly the situation embndizd all the elements of a fatal doinestic embreglio in high life.Cap vain Fitzzorald revopnized that it was only the pride cf\u201d Colonel Gatacre wlth had prevented him from aking the course common in such affairs.Other husbands he knew had been roid, and their pride had spurred them on rather than delcrred them from avenging (heir wrongs'in bloodshed.Colonel Gatacre's pride rose hove (Le conitien kind, and Captain raid redpected dt.tera was nin a coward.It Mas noi fiar of lating his life that wade hit an exde.The departure from Fnsland of ail three princcpals was fie acrepled 2s an alternative to remaining in Dutlin to furnish svondal for the possips.So Captain Filzgeraid settled Tis business affairs in Bublin, convericd his estate into fash, and, in company with Mrs, Gatwre, went to Southern California, © he bought a handsosze home and sled down Aud so it \u2018 ht have remained if fais world vere not such g really sbail place, after all.It is not so wf a crv from Dublin to Les Angeles that a whisoer avainst 4 woman's re prt tion \u201cait hé heard.It did not Lat! Hlin long Lo whisper to Los Angeles that Mrs.Gaiacre was not Mrs.Fitzeerald, and while fhat was auile as much as it Was really necer- SIV lo whisper, it went on at a much of length and todd the firm chap- ters of the story which are keze set down, When it became huown that Mrs.Gatacre was not the Captain's wife both were turned oot of the English colony summarily, and oul of pretty nue everywhere else besides, so fat scarce anylluse was left them tut to try and enjov earth other's society a little more than ever and retire oa solitude where \u201core were no knowing tanmies to remind them that even that \u201choynient was wrong.Captain Fitzcetald went down into sis inexhaustible purse and bought an orange or- thard near Duarte.REMORSE KILLS THE WOMAN.THther the two outcasts revaired.and in a cozy little home amid the frecs (he brilliant man and woman of thé world resigned themselves to te flection and retuiniscence.Neither Was œuod for them, cspecially | remin- iscente, If there is anvildng that will make a well person ill in California it is such reminisrence as Mrs.Gatacre dwell upon In her solitude in.the Due arfe orange orchard.The residents round about Duarte gay they lived hap Pily in their seclusion, but they do not explain how the woman slowlv wither. homo Boal wiih Hom.rece a \u2014 i nce.ee ables\u2014 Green Pea , oid, and Mashed Potato a e-Giner Pud: ing and Brandy Sauce, Pear Tart.Fruit, Tia, Cotfes and Milk, Cheese end Celery.16th April, 19°0.Blea VARARA WANTED\u2014YOUNG MAN\u201d TO AT- to a set of hooks and perform general office work.Apply, J.T.Chronicle office.WEYL! 0.\u201cWANTED.\u2014 A MAN of 38, married, speaking English and French, having about eighteen years\u201d experience \u2018as bookkeeper or t having tbe best references, is looking for any opén vacancy.Apply, P.ES Chronicle office.D Sas ST SCT Ou ENGINEERS, FIREMEN, MACHI- hizts & electricians : Send lu cents for new 40- pamphlet, containing list of questions asked by Examining Board of Eugineers.Geo.A.Zeller, Bookseller, St.Louis, Mo., U.S.A _ Mention Quebec Chronicle._______BOARD AND ROOMS.PRIVATE BOARD.\u2014 VACANCIES for May at Mrs.C.Burroughs\u2019 13 Hamel street.Si gle room.Imumediately if required.No Children.Yo PRESODAL._ IE YOU WANT TO POSSESS A VA.Jinble souvenir of (he var In South Tics, he portfolios issued cac \u2018week oy ihe Chtonicle, Ten cents in sliver or stamps will bring you an Portfolio you ask for by return mail.Fou YALL OX TU LET.FOR SALE OR TO LET \u2014 HOUSE No.18 Ann street, opposite the Ringpps to Wan.Sorin The \u2018Woy apply m.Sh , - lows,\u201d St.Foye Road, or betireen 6 aad 8 p.m.to A, R.Henry, No.16 Ann street (next door.) HOUSE FOR SALE OK TV LET, \u2014 That first-class property, No.73 Champlain Street, suitable for a Store or Warehouse, with dwelling overhead.| For further particulass apply on the premises.Latest Striped _ mui cia mous, QUEDEU, CANADA.LAFRANCE & MULLIN FASHIONABLE TAILORS.- OFFICIAL HABERDASHERS.English Flannel For Suitings.++*+*+.+.+e JUAN OF THE SWORD HAND.This, the latest book by Mr.Crockett, is g historical romance of à bygoue sp.in which the ¥fe of à lovely duchess\u2014and later, princess\u2014 gleams throughout.Joan is a noble wouan full of daring and high-spirited independence worthy of a luter centuty.The following extract is a key lo ber character througuout : \u2014 \u201cLadies.\u201d flashed Joan\u2014\"l am sick for ever bearing that à lady must not do this or thal, go here or there, because of her so fragile.reputation.She may du needlework or embroider altar- cloths, but she must not shoot with a pistolet or play with a sword.Well, iam a lady ; let him counter it Who durst.Aud 1 cannot broider altar- cloths, and I will not try; but 1 can shoot with any man at the fying mark.Ske must have a care for her hunor, w (pour feckless wretch 1) will le smirched if whe speaks to any 18 a man speaks to his fetlows.Faith! For me [| would rather die than bave such an exe-sliell reputation.1 can care for my own.| need noue to take up my quarrel.If any have a word to say upon the repute of Juan of the Sword [land\u2014why let him say it at the point of her rapier.\u201d Price of hook : Paper, 75 cents : cloth, $1.35.I'he Copp, Clark Company, Limited, Front street west, Toronto.MRS.PARKER FOLLOWS HER HU BAND.Family ts Grief-Stricken jy Double Lereavement.Mrs.Elizabeth Jave Parker, widow of the late\u2019 Thomas A.Parkerat her residence, 433 Jefferson avenue, at 2.15 o'clock yesterday afternoon in the 6sth year of her age.A few hours after returning from the funeral of her husband Wednesday afternoon, Mrs.Parker complained of an acute oain in her right side, which the phy.siclans summoned to attend her pronounced to be plearisy, accompanied by a slight congestion of the right lung \u2014a well-derined attack of pleuro-pieu- monia.\u2018She sank rapiliy, despite ; ait medical wid.There was hope, however, that the ssoniestion might be chock d and her life saved; but yesterday nervous prostration, superindwed by eriel and her inressant devotion at the nédlside of ler dying husband, atlarked her impoverished system, and she Japsed into astate of unconstiousness, from which she never rallicd.She passed away peacefully, | surrounéed by her griefstrickae children, Tie shock due to We deaths of both fatler and mother within the brief space of Jess thea five davs has plun- ad Ue Parker fousthold into the deopest grief, and their sad alfiiction is shared will tender and svinpathetic wlicitude by the family's wide circle Af friends amd acquaintances.Parker was born in Quebec in and was Lhe daughter of Robert ofl, a banter of that city, She marricd \u2018abere in 1833 Lo Mr.Pnswha wasiengaged in business here.@ the first + few yoars of their cd life they occupied a Erik still standing ob the outskirts h still stonding on the north side Cf Jefferson avenue, adjoining the pre- wit residence of William J, Gray.The fiouse was at that time the last building vathin the city limits.the corpe- rate limits heing at Dequindre street.Mrs.Parker established hersoll a fave sit in Detroit society from the day she came here a bride of 24.Cultured avi intellcetgal, and possessiig rare graces of mind and person, she drew round lier à coteris of friends whose tion 10 her combined unbroken ongh Jife.Of a jeatle.wing and sweetly sympathetic wesapcrament, fer devotion fo her family was ber \u20ac est happiness.For nearly forty vears she has beer a faithfel and \u201ctant member of Christ Ff Chureli.af which her id was mn nie warden at the + Lis deattr: and, just before ter tan soul was «d to the care of jlim whose she tang in life, ravers of tte pal Church were read at her bal side by the rector, Rev, Dr.Wo Db.Maxon.The only surviving members of Mra.Parker's family are Goose 11.Macot quel Miss Maxwell, both of this city \u2014Detroit Free Pres, Suturday, April 7.\u2014-e 2 Cures In One 100.Package.J, lred, f2dwards.the well known clerk of (he Tcarment, says :\u2014\"1 re cently had Headache, Tried Kumfor1 Headache Fowders\u2014eured me in short order.Que of our guests, à commur- cial traveller, was complaining so pave him [alatice of package\u2014another eur.H seems they never faël.* rar prete Cuecn Victoria's collection of jewel- TV is the Biest in Furope.Mest of # is her own promerty, however, awd will not go with the crown unless s'e leaves 8 bequest io that effect.The celebrated Kohinoor diamend, which she wears as a brooch on slate ocea- stous.tx her own property, but it is considered highly probable that she will leave that tp the crowr.The actual crown jewels\u2014the ornaments of feminine adornment\u2014were dine nished in amount early in the rtign, when a collection of the finest pearls in the world was successfully clame hy tle ihe Duke of Combertand as King of Hanover, on the ground that they were part of (we crown xewrls of the Kinedown of Hanover.They are now in tte porscesion of the present Ducher: of Cumberland, who by a curiowk Co incidence Iu the sister of the Princess nf Wales, who, if the praris lad remained in the English Royal Family, would hate been one dav the owner of them : IRA w x nm \u2014\u2014 pese An intenious atrangement ti prevent overcrowding of both elevators [01 staitwavs is in use in Scranton, Pa.The time of entering and leavir a certain building is regulated by clocks en eich of the five floors.On the Jower floors thé clocks are cet corrects Iv.hut on the wager floors toey ate a few minutes slow, so tat the om- over nn the low-T fluors are at (her work before those on the upper fcors yure due and of course thew on the upper flours do Rot Jeave their desks until several minutes later, thus avoid ing all confusion.THE BRITISH PRISONERS IN THE HANDS OF THE BOERS\u2014 LARGE SUPPLY OF LUXURIES FROM ENGLAND \u2014 U.8.CONSUL DISTRIBUTING THEM.Pretoria, April 14.\u2014 United States Consul Hav has received six and a half tons of preseuts for the British military, mostly from England and the Cape, comprising luxuries, grove: Lies, cigars, cigareties and beds for the hospitals.It has also veeu ad: mitted duty free to the Transvaal, and everv facility afforded, © which bas reatly pratificd Mr.Hay.He recent y visited the prisovers at Waterval, and says that he found evervttung as well ag could be expected under the circumstances.Good Friday was otwerved as s boli- duy throughout the Reputlic.AU is reported quiet al the front.ri ee eeegarreeee Are free from all crude and irritating matter.Concentrated medicine ouly.Carter's Little Liver Pills, Very sinall ; 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The question of the food supply, always go important in a time of siege, did not worry us for some weeks after the investment had 5 \u2018The Boers having, at the -outset, seized the pumping station on the Vaal River, the fnhahitants were much perturbed on the day we were cut off as 10 how long the water would hold out, and on the Sunday morning hundreds of taps were turued on, and every available vessel utilised in the \u201c\u2018drawing off\" process.Fortunately there was no real cause for alarm.The re serve supply was sufficient to last about a month, and long before this was exbaugted the De Beers Company had arrange, for a supply from the Premier Mine, ample for domestic purposes.in regard to the food supplies everybody felt confident that we were well provivioned, and that there need be no anxiety on this head.As à matter of fact, we were far better provisioned than most people imagined, but it had never been anti- vipated that the siege, if it came at all, would last four months.It had hardly lasted three days when the majority of the storekeepers commenood \u201crunning up\u2019 the prices, but Colonel Kekewich soon stopped this, regulatin the prices of various necessaries, an decreeing that what was charged for the remainder should not erceed the figures prevailing before we were cut of.For the first month things went on as usual, and then the stocks of four, Boer meal, ctc., held in town, were ordered to he delivered at certain depots, and allowances of bread flour, mealie meal, sugar and rice were shortly afterwards fixed for.consumers, the allowances being on a fairly liberal scale.At the same time, fiat went forth thai no fancy bread, biscuits or-cakes could he made.REDUCED RATIONS.When it became known that Lord Methuen's advance had teen checked, there was a run on tin goods of every description, and these\u201dwere soon practically unobtainable.On December 28 the bread allowance was cut down from 115.to 14oz.mend three weeks later to 10juz.per It, During the last few weeks of {AF siege (he allowance per head was as follows :\u201431b.meat, 10}oz.of bread, 2oz.of mealie meal, toz.of samp (crushed mealies), and 20z.of sugar per diem.This was ust about sufticient to keep body .and soul together.The little bacon, cheese, tinned meats, butter, condensed milk, etc, remaining in the town had long since been commandeered by the military authorities, and were only doled out (o sick persons provided with a apedical certificate.It was only when New Yesr arrived that the shoe really began to pinch.At Christmas a sovereign apiece was paid for fowls, 0s.to 50s.for turkevs, 153.to.18: r dozen for eggs, and 3s.per pou for potatoes; but most persons man aged to have a fairly good feed for Christmas Day, taking in (heir belts another hoie for the following weak.HORSEFLESH.It was in the first week of the New Year that we were called upon to le come hippophagisis, à call to which the majority of the inimbitanis did not respord with alaciity.From January 2 all meal for whites was served out at the market building from 6 to Bam.A board was placed outside the building zinouncing the kind of meat obtainable.At first it was usually one-third beef and (wo-thirds horsefleshh but soon the following was the standing ordef of the day : \"The full ration of megl tan be supplied to- day-\u2014ail horseil .Then a few would drop o \u2018the ranks, and those waiting for the rations and their fellows closed up.On the rare occasions when the one-third beef was on sale, it scarcely ever lasted until all had been served.Vegetables were supplied in like manner, at first twice 8 week, and ther once, a threepenny bunch being allowed to a family.For t who had no reserve stocks of any kind the last xix or seven weeks of the siege must have been a part ct larly trying time, but it was marvellous to sce how patiently and uncomplainingly the privations were borne, en horseflesh became the fashion, a \u2018\u2019siege soup kitchen\u2019 was started by Mr.Rhodes, to whom the idea had teen suggested, and soon thonsands of pints of soup were being supplied daily at threepence per pint.ON EQUAL FOOTING.À noticeable feature of the siege wag the way in which it levelled social distinctions.The Diamond Fields had never at any Lime been remarkabla for the observance of such distinctions, but we have our Beleravia, and if not an \u201cupper len thousand,\u201d we might put the number down at a few hundred.The Town Guard, composed as it was \u2018of men of all ranks in life, proved an important facior in the \u2018levelVng\" proces, and in no corps was this more noticeable than in the \u201cBufis,\u201d the title given to the corps of veterans.[Tlere there ware three or four of the Dè Fcers directors serv- tng as full privates, cheerfully obeying the orders of members of the company\u2019s staff and others who had been wet in authority over them, while some of the largest stofekceçers in camp \u2018were under the orders of {their emplover.\u2018The meat market was another great \u201cleveller,\u201d and scores of men anf We men, who had beer accustomed all their liver to give thelr orders and before 5.30 a.m., the cause of this dis- ovedience to the orders of the officer commanding being their anxiety to be early at the meat market, WAITING FOR NEWS.One of the most trving experiences of the siege was the waitiog for news.Every now and then a despatcherider or native runner would manage to get through from the Rritich lines with a bundle of English and colonial papers, but these occasions were very much like angels\u2019 visits.To people In England it will doubtless seem almost incredible that, although we were within sound, almost within sight, of the battle of Magersfontein, we received not the slightest information on the subject for six days, when iv was announced that Lord Methuen's advance had been checked, while the list of officers killed, wounded, aud missing was supplied at the same time.Bad 28 the news was, it js not too much to say thal it was 9 relief to know the worsi\u2014il may be imagined what our feelings were like during the week of waiting.The Muers, | may mention, had been kinder (han our own people, and had flyshed in on the afternoon of the_day of battle a mes sage to the effect that they \u2018lad \"knocked spots off us.\u201d Needitss to say, this was not communicated | to the public.DARING SORTIES.On November 25 (he most :uccessf:il sortie made during the diene tok place.Our men went out during the night, the artillery kecping « leok- out to prevent reinforceme:ts veach- ing the Boers, and at daybreak | surprised the pickets.\u2018The Boers were completely surprised, aud cur ten soon gok to Close quart:vs, the Kim berley Light Horse, wino lad \u2018mlv been served out with the arm se dav ie fore, charging the Boer positing wu the bayonet.The occupants of t doubts spexdily evacuated relishing the look of the cd vel © thirty-three, unable La retire vapily enough, surrendered, after (reacherous- ly shooting three or four of our men while the white flag had beeh hoisted.The Boer loss must have been heavy.1 believe they admitted losing eleven killed, but as they put down their \u201cmissing\u201d at fifteen, when we- had thirty-one safe under lock and key and 1wo corpses, it is evident that little reliance van be placed upon their | re- Uuirns.Three davs later (November 28) another sortie was made at the same place, but this time the aflair was anv- thing but a success, resulting most disastrously for our men.Nothing Was known as to the result of the opera tions until after 8 pm., when the news was passed round at the Kimberfey Club that the attack had fecled, and that Major.Scot(-Turner had been killd.Poor Seott-Turner, than whom a braver or cooler fighter never wore Her Majesty's uniform, was killed, being shot through the head when taking aim at a Boer in the final redoubl.RELIEF AT LAST.We had learned that \u201cBob?had promised speedy relief.But hope had Leen so ofien deferred that the hearts of the majority of the inmates were sick within them.When, however, on February 15 il was at last reaVzed that a large numter of mounted mea were approaching from the south-east, an exodus took place, - rush being made to Beaconsfield, whence, it was said, the troops were plainly visible.\u201cLong Tom\" had ceased \u2018'boomong\" for some hours, but it is doubtful if even the terror of the hig gun would have kept the people back at such a time, Arriving at Beaconsfield, one found the debris heavs and the tops of Opiates Hasten the Decay of Nerve Cells \u2014 Dr.Chase's Nerve Food Restores atl Revitalizes Wasted Nerves.Your physician will tell you that morphine, cocaine and other oplates in duce sleep and rest only by dening the nerves, that such relief is onl temporary, and that the use of suc! drugs actually hastens the decay of the nerve cells.The nerves must not be trified with.No one can afford to waste nervous energy, the vital force of the body.No one can afford to neglect diseased nerves until overcome by nervous prostration, paralysis, epilepsy or Insanity.It is next to impossible to estimate the effect of disordered nerves on the organs of the body.The whole machinery of circulation, respiration and digestion can only bd properly carried on when force is supplied by the nerves.Starved exhausted nerves cause pains, such as headache, neuralgia, sciatic rheumatism, backache and aching limbe, The lunings of nerve disorders are usually slecplenancax, irritability, loss of energy and appelle, a twitching of the muscles, ti brain and depressed spirits.When you can't sleep at nights and toss in misery, longing for daybreak to come, do not yicld to the temptation to use morphine, cocaine or other opiates, They only hasten decay.het reason rule.Get right down to the foundation of the trouble and huild up the sysiem by using Dr.Chase's erve Food.This great restorative is in pill form and contains the very elemenis of nature which go to form, new rod corpu- acles in the blood and create new nerve have their supplies delivered, had now | cells.to take their stand and wait their torn with thelr poorer broilers and sisters.Mcn who had tnade hundreds in an hour mizht be seen ride by side with those who would think themselves fortunate If thev could corn half-a-crown in the mame time, waiting a full hour to draw their ration of horsefiesh or get a \"ticket for soup.There were other humours of the siege, such as, for instance, the fining of a director of De Beers half-a-crown for allowing hiz Kaffir boy to water the plants in the garden.Other unex- pecied occupants of the \u2018dock\u2019 were well-known commercial men and ladies caught contravening the proclamation It ix worth while to remember that Dr.Chase's Nerve Food is not a patent medicine, but the greatest prescription of Dr.A.W, Chase, author of the famous receipt book.: Dr.Chase's Nerve Food is an up-tp- date, scientific preparation 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