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The Sirdar raised his hand. A pull at the hulliards, up ran, out flew the Union Jack, tugging eagerly at his reins. dazzling gloriously in the sun, rejoicing in his strength and his '* dom. "Bung!" went the Melik’s 1‘. pounder, and the boat quivered ; ~ backbone, "God Save our Gr Queen” h3'mned the Gunrds‘ luv 7‘ “bang!” from the Melikâ€"and :12 .1‘ and private stood stiffâ€""bang!" to attention, every hand at the helmet peakâ€""bangl"â€"in salute. The Egyp- tian flag had gone up at the same instant; and now, the same ear-smash- though the steps by which ihe butchers mounted have long since vanishedâ€"we were aware of two flagâ€" staves. By the right hand hailizu‘ds stood LieuLeuunL Staveley, R .N., and Captain Watson, K.R.R.; by the left hand Bimbashi Mitford and two other officers. The troops formed up before the palace in three sides of a rectangleâ€" Egyptians to our left as we looked [rom the river. British LO the right. The Sirdar, the generals of division and brigade, and the staff stood in the open space facing the palace. Then, on the roofâ€"almosL on the VERY SPOT \VHERE GORDON FELI a large building rising from acrumbâ€" ling quay. You could see that it had once been a handsome building of the type you know in Cairo or Alexandria -â€"all stone. and stucco. two-storied, faced with tall regular windows. Now the upper storey was clean gone; the blind windows were filled up with bricks; the stucco was all scars, and you could walk up to the roof on rub- ble. In front was an acaciaI such as grow in lsmailia on the Ghezireh at Cairo, only unprunedâ€"deep luscious green, only drooping like a weeping willow. At that most ordinary sight everybody grew very solemn. For it was a piece of new world, or rather of an old world, utterly different from the squalid mud, the baking barrennessi of Omdurman. A facade with tall winâ€" dows, a tree with green leavesâ€"the facade battered and blind, the tree drooping to earthâ€"there was no need to tell us we were at a grave. in that forlorn ruin, and that die-consulate acacia, the bones of murdered civilizaâ€" tion lay before us. The boats stopped plugging and there was silence. \Ve were tying up oppo- site a grove of tall palms; on the bank was a crowd of natives curiously like the backsheeshâ€"huntets who gather to greet the Nile steamers. They stared at us; but we looked beyond them to Fourteen years next Januaryâ€" yet even through the humiliating thought there ran a whiSper of triumph. We may be slow; but in that very slowness we show that we do not forget. Soon or late, we give our own their due. Here Were men that fought for Gorâ€" don's life while he livedâ€"Kitchener. who went disguised and alone among furious enemies to get news of him; M'auchOpe, who POURED OUT HIS BLOOD LIKE WATER at Tamai and Kirbekan; Stuart-\Vort- lay, who missed by but two days the chance of dying at his side. And here, too, were boys who could hardly lisp when their'mothers told them that Gordon was dead, grown up now, and appearing in the fulness of time to exact ten thousand lives for one, Gorâ€" don my dieaother Gordons may die in the futureâ€"but the some cleanâ€" limbed brood will grow up and avenge them. 1 The steamersâ€"screws, paddles, stern~ wheelersâ€"plugged 'their steady way up the full Nile. Past the northern fringe of Omdurman, where the sheikh came out with the white flag, past the breach where we went in to the Khalifa‘s stronghold, past the choked embrasures and the lacerated Mahdi‘s tomb, past the swamp-rooted palms of Tuti Isâ€" land. We looked at it with adispasâ€" sionate. impersonal curiosity. It was Sunday morning. and that furious Friâ€" day seemed already half a lifetime behind us. The volleys had dwindled out of our ears, and the smoke out of our nostrils, and to-day we were going to the funeral of Gordon. After nearly fourteen years the Christian soldier was to have Christian burial. 0n the steamer: there was adetachâ€" ment of every corps, white, or black, or yellow, that had taken part in the vengeance. Every white officer that mnld ha spnrncL fram duty ,was thorow fifty men picked from each British battalion, one or two from each unit of the Egyptian army. That We were going up to Khartoum at all wus evi- dence of our triumph; yet if: you lookâ€" ed about you, triumph was not the note. The most reckless subaltern, the most barbarous black was touchedi l with gravity. We were going to per- form a necessary duty, which had been put off far, far too long. FITNERAL 0F GEN. German HONORS FOR THE GALLANT DEAD BY KITCHENER’S ARMY. An Impressive Scrunâ€"flm-tlnl Requiem Amid the Ruin» of lUmriou-I " [Indu- lhe Conquering l-lmslgn of His own People. Geo. Stpvens, writing to the London Daily Mail from Omdurman, thus de~ scribes a touching incident 2â€"â€" Our ancestors have traveled the iron age; the golden is before us. â€" Sir Pierre. We are indebted to Christianity for gentleness, especially toward women.â€" (7. Simmons. God governs the world, and we have only to do our duty wisely, and leave lhe issue to himr‘JLllll My. Good taste rejects excessive nicely; it treats little things as little things and is not hurt. by them.â€"Feulton. No man was ever so completely skillâ€" ed in the eoudum of life as not to reâ€" ceive new information from age and experienceâ€"Terence. Our lives, by acts exemplary, not only win ourselves good names, but do to olhers ’give mailer for virtuous deeds, by which we liveâ€"Chapman. Narrow-minded and ignorunl [)E’rsuns talk about persons and not things: hence gossip is (he bone and disgl-.;:w of so large. a portion of societyâ€"Sheri- den. There cannot be usurer proof of 10w origin or of an inn-ale meanness of disposition than to be always talking .mrl thinking about being genteel. m H‘uzlitt Be not merely good; be good for somethingâ€"Thoreau. Evil is wrought by want of thought as well as by want of heartâ€"Hmod. Our ancestors have traveled the. iron age; the golden is before us. â€" SL a sigh of relief. The long-delayed duty was done. The bones of our countryâ€" men were shattered and scattered abroad. and no man knows their place. None the less Gordon had his due burial at last. So we steamed away to the roaring camp, and left him alone again. Yet not one nor two looked back at the mouldering palace and the tangled garden, without a new and great con- tentment. We left Gordon alone again â€"â€"but alone in majesty under the con- quering ensign of his own people. The bugle broke in upon us; we went back to the boats. \Ve were quicker steaming back than steaming up. We were not a whit less chastened, but every man felt lighter. \Ve came with a sigh of shame, we went away with yet still he loved his garden. The gar- den was a yet more pathetic ruin than the palace. The palace accepted its doom mutely; the garden stroveagainst it. Untrimmed, unwatered. the oranges and citrons still struggled to bear their little hard green knots. as if they had been full ripe fruit. The pomegranates put on their vermil- lion, starâ€"flowers, but the fruit was small and woody and juiceless. The figs bore better. but they, too, were small and without vigour. Rankly overgrown with dhurra, a vine still trained over a low roof its dwarfed leaves and limped tendrils, but yielded not a sign of grapes. It was all green, and so far vivid and rerfeshing after Omdurman. But it was the green of nature, not of cultivation; leaves grew‘ large and fruit grew small, and dwindlâ€" ed away. Reluctantly, despairingly. Gordon‘s garden was dropping back to} wilderness. And in the middle of the‘ defeated fruit trees grew rankly [her hateful Snudan apple. the poisonousi herald of desolation. 1 for fourteen years. and he stood at the goal at last. ' Thus with Maxim-Nordenfelt and Bible we buried Gordon after the man- ner of his race. The parade was over. the troops were dismissed, and for a short space we talked in Gordon’s gar- den. Gordon has become a legend with his countrymen, and they all but deity him dead who would never have heard of him had he lived. But in this garden you somehow came to know Gordon the man, not the myth. and to feel near to himi Here was an Eng- lighman doing- his duty alone. and at t e "Abide With Me." Perhaps lips did twitch in t ,a little tn age the abony healhens 5l‘ervently blowmg out Gor- don‘s favourite hymn; but the most irresistible incongruity would hardly have made us laugh at that moment. And there were these who said the cold Sirdar himself, could hardly speak or see as General Hunter and the rest stepped out according to their rank and shook his hand. \Vhat wonder! He had trodden this road to Khartoum Before we had time to think such thoughts over to ourselves the bands were playing the' ‘Dead March in Saul." Then the black band was playing the march from Handel’s “Scipio,” which in England generally goes with " TOLL FOR THE BRAVE." This was in memory of those loyal men among the Khedive's subjects who could have saved themselves by treachâ€" ery, but preferred to die with Gordon. Next fell a deeper hush than ever. except for the solemn minute guns that had followed the fierce salute. Four chaplainsâ€"Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and Methodist â€" came slowly forward and ranged themselves, with their backs to the palace, just before the Sirdar. The Presbyterian read the Fifteenth Psalm, The Angli- can led the rustling whisper of the Lord’s Prayer. Snowâ€"haired Father Brindle, best beloved of priests, laid his helmet at: his feet and read a me- morial prayer, bareheaded in the sun. Then came forth the pipers and waited a dirge, and the Sudanese played, "Abide \Vith Me." Perhaps lips did ing, soul-uplifting hangs marking time, the band of the llth Sudanese was playing the Khedival hymn. "Three cheers for the Queen!" cried the Sirdar; helmets leaped in the air, and the melancholy ruins woke to the first wholesome about of all these years. Then the same for the Khedive, The comrade flags stretched them- selves lustlly. enjoying their own again; the bands peeled forth the pride of country; the twenty-one guns banged forth the strength of war. Thus, white men and black, Christian and Moslem, Anglo-Egypt set her seal once more, for ever, on Khartoum. Im Th INSTANT PERIL OF HIS LIFE m y GRAINS OF GOLD. What is the x't any now BOTH HAPP‘il 1J1 and not bane and 1 of society have separated trouble ’6 ary, not 3. but dc virtuous lpmflu. ' there newspap‘ est unute hubitant The Great Eastern Railway has an income of £4,000,000 per axmum,which is larger than the entire revenue of the kingdom Hf Greece, and. not quite so large as thv, revenuel of the united kingdoms of Sweden1 and Norway. The Persians in 516 B.C. invented 4L transparent glass varnish, which 1hpy laid over sculptured rocks to pre- vent them from weathering. This coatâ€" ing has lasde to our day, while the rocks benwuh are honeycombed. At the sunset hour in Seoul, Corea, a town bell proclaims the fact when the sun has vanished beneath the horiznn. No man is allowed in the street after that hour, under penalty of a flogging. More than half the Lord Chancellors of England during the past fifty years were the sons of poor men. One of them was the son of amountry har- ber, and the fellher‘ of another was :1 Newcastle conlhezwer. It is stated that 40,000,000 dozen eggs are used every year by callcu print works, 10,000,000 dozen by wine clari- fiers, and many millions mora by phn~ tographers and other industries. Ten ihousa‘nd new cab and carriage horses are among the items which Paris is acquiring for the accommo- dation of visiiurs to the, Exhibition in 1900. BeHin is one of the most cosmo- politan of European cities. Though it: is the capital of Germany) only 37 pm‘ cent. of its inhabitants are German by birth. Compulsory army service has just been established in Holland for all males over nineteen years of age, ex- cept priests, ministers and divinity stu- dents. A scientist declares that ahlot‘k of steel ten feet square Woulffl be pressed into ablack only two feet square if taken 4,000 miles below the earth's surface. About 6,000 persons are employed by the London hospitals, and. of this num- ber 1,300 are honorary medical officers, who receive no fee of any kind. ItaIy leads in. the number" of crema tories, having twentyâ€"four. Americ: has Lwenty-Lwo, Germany four. Eng" land (hree, and France two. The cheapest railw‘m’y travelling in to he had in Hungary, where it is possible to go a. distance of five hunâ€" dred miles for 63 8d. Capital sentence cannot be proâ€" nounced upon any criminal in Sweden until aconfession of the crime has been obtained from him. In an exhibition at Dresden are colâ€" lepted a number of boots, shoes and slippers once worn by emperors. kings queens and princes. The mummy of a Pharoh which re~ cently arrived at Marseilles from Egypt was charged Import duty at the rate for dried fish. There are said \tO be in Land 8,000 children who are feeble as distinguished from idiots beciles. RGUND [HE WHOE WORLD. WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE FOUL CORNERS OF THE GLOBE. Old and Now World Events 0! Interest Chron- lcled Brieflyâ€"Interestlng‘ Happenings of Reno: Data. A peer cannot resign his peerage. Crabs two feet in length are often seen in India. The deepest mine in the world is the Lambert mine in Belgium, which is 8.490 feet beneath the earth's surface. While boring for coal at Barrow a bad of salt was found at adepth of 320 feet. The bed. is said to he 70 feet, t ick. Police Court statistics Show that Cornwall is the best behaved county in England. Italy produces annually 70,000,000 gallons of olive oil. the market value of Which' is £24,000,000. The Lord Mayor of London receives more than 30,000 letters in a year, most of which have to be answered. One of th Tea is cheap in China. In one pro- vince of the empire good tea is sold at 11-4d. a pound. The largest organ in the world is in the Cathedral of Seville, Spain. It has 53 pipes. and 110 stops. There are enough paupers in Lon- don to fill every house in Brighton. £3,000 There are supposed to be something like athousand murderers at large in Great Britain. San Marino, the smallest republic the world, has an annual revenue Charity organizations existed in Egypt 2,500 and in china. 2,000 years ago. Including 1' h ial 11 mts of fish 0: Aqunri‘ are fish m'u quishezl bi rum over . from 111 L director 1t hlt such CDC policemen, post-office of ‘1: men and Women, care 3, hospital nurses ant item and printers, it i: 1 fully 100,001 of the in- .ondon are night \voz'ksrs UI'K ly any limit: ('0 (hf ny kinds. In the I head. Thie nun mouth of one of Hl that are mg fian- l‘he rum nts minded 1nd im‘ m alone known but it your lunch-Lime? And what has that to do with it? I should have! thought appetite was what had to be conâ€" sulted, not time." The. trealment of servants was an- other subject on which the stranger found her ideas had to be remodelled. She quickly dropped into the habit of being as free and easy with them as was tha custom. “[ndeed,“ she says, “I should have guided nothing if I had tried to keep [them in what we should call ‘their i “Lunch-time?" he said. “Who made Mud myself cessfully being as free and easy with them as was the custom. “Indeed,” she says, “I should have gained nothing if I had tried to keep them in what we should call ‘their places.’ They would not have under- stand it, because they were not accus- tomed to it. Moreover you could nev- er be quite sure what their places were, they changed about so. I shall never forget my surprise when Imet [he ameer's old doorkeeper riding some distance outside Cabul, surrounded by quite a retinue of servants. He was on his way to Kandahar, of which city he had just been made governor. . “Several of the ameer's own relations are table servants. This is, indeed, ra- lhzr a coveted pist, as it oflten means advancement. Rw when they have laid the cloth“ floor. of course â€"and placed lh- .;.r; on it, they sit down and partake Ll‘ lhe repast with «The difficulty is that as soon as he is astir every one is expected to be in attendance. The most important ofâ€" ficials keep aservant waiting at the court door, to leap on his horse. and warn his master the moment the ameer wakes. Being so unused to punctuality him- Selfgthe ameer cannot understand it in others. Miss Hamilton says, that one day when she had been sitting with him, she noticed that it was about her lunch time. Accordingly she ex- cused hL-rself. explaining where she was going. “Are you hungry ?" asked the ameer. “No, Icannot say I am.” "Then why are you going to eat?" he persisted. "What astrange idea." Again she explained that it was her lunch time. Civilization, at least as we under- stand it, makes much of economyâ€"a saving of money, effort and time. Moreover it teaches us that one of the most efficient helps to economy of any. sort is regularity. Nevertheless the civilization of Afghanistan teach- es the lesson otherwise. Miss Lillian Hamilton. M.D., who oc- cupied the important position of lady physician to the ameer tells some of her amusing experiencesâ€"among oth- ers of the lack of regularity in the umeer's household, and the reason therefor. She found that work be- gins in the morning when he is ready, when he is tired. work ceases. \Vhen he wishes to eat, dinner is served, and when he feels inclined to sleep the court is closed. He seldom rises beâ€" fore noon, though he may be astir early. 000 of population. The Duchess of Marlborough and the Duchess of Devonshire probably have the finest pearls in England, the Man- chester necklace being very well known. Many smart ladies wear their pearls constantly, although they are not seen. as they are worn under a high dress, as pearls are supposed to keep their colour better when worn next to the skin. Pearls have, Within the last twanly-five years, increased in value 1,000 per cent. Tlle Amt-er of Afghanistan In Nola B» "over In PIIIu-tunllty. Civilization. at least as we under- A statistician, who has been: looking into the matter of divorce has found that the proportion of divorces to population is least in Ireland ~only one divorce to every 400,000 inhabiâ€" tants. In the United States the proâ€" portion of divorces is ominously large, 88.71 to every 100,000 of i population the largest known, in fact, save In Japan, the figures for that happy emâ€" pire being 808.45 divorces to every 100,â€" 000 of population. There are no fewer than) 35 tunnels over 1,000 yards in length; on English railway lines. Those of notable exâ€" tent are the Severn tunnel on the G. W. R., 7,664; the Totley tunnel, on the Midland, 6,226; the Stanedge, on the North-western, 5,342; the Woodhend, on the Great Central, 5,297; and Bram- hope, on the North-eastern, 3,745 yds. long. The largest inhabited building in the World is unquestionably the Vati- can at Rome, with its eight grand staircases, 200 smaller ones, 20 courts, and 11,000 apartments: Its marbles bronzes, frescoes, paintings and gems are unequalled in the world, and its library is the richest in Europe in manuscripts. Its collection of sculp- ture not only surpasses any other, but all others together. One of the most beautiful sights in the world is the annual migration of butterflies across the. Isthmus of Pan- ama. W'here they come from or whither they go no one knows. To- wards the end of June a few scat- tered specimens are discovered flitting out to sea, and as the days go by the number increases until about July 14th or 15th the sky is occasionally almost obscured by myriads of these trail in- sects. to have been there at least 150 years. Some of them are five times as big as when first captured; others have not grown an inch. ' and parluk at of the c‘ IRREGULAR BY SYSTEM. yourself the truth â€"\Vell yo! [ have the h GU'I DANCE LI (1! urLiers 1w uvy )uh s tried to guide Ie succeeded in it pretty suc- clear track An electric motor car. belonging to the Electrical Vehicle Syndicare, was employed on (own work for four weeks. One or two accidents of a minor character occurred, giving rise to delays, but in olher respects the work was satisfactorily performed. Arrangements have since been made for extended trials. and it is confi- dently hoped that the results will Show that, motors can be permanently used with advantage to the mail ser- Vice. THE RIGHT OF \VAY. It is a well established principle of law that in arms-sing streets or highâ€" ways the person on foot has the right of way. Drivers and bicycle riders should always hear this fact in mind. should alway It is law, a: trinn by care are responsib periment a steam motor car was en- gaged, the property of a private firm, and the vehicle was employed for six weeks conveying parcels between Lon- don and Redhill. The price charged was £7 a week, compared with an amount ranging from £11 to £14, the «(muted cost of a pairâ€"horse van of like capacity. As a rule, the journey was performed in from (en lo twenty minutes less time khan that allowed for :1 horsed conveyance. Experiments Made In England and How They Worked. .A novel feature of the yearly re- port of the British Postmaster-Gener- al, which has just been issued, con- sists in the account of experiments made with motor vans driven by oil, steam and electricity. An oil motor car. the property of the British Motor Syndicate, was engaged for two separ- ate weeks. in the first instance con- veying letter mails between the Gen- eral Post-office, and the Southâ€"west- ern district office, and on the second occasion between the latter office and Kingston-on-Thames. The work of the motor car was per- formed satisfactorily, but the experi- ment was not pursued, as the syndi- cate were desirous of constructing a more suitable car. For the next ex- For the first week there was a nomâ€" inal charge of 263., said to be the out-ofâ€"pocket expenses of the syndic cate, whereas for the service which the motor car displaced in the week. about £6 would have been paid: under the contracts, and for the service to Kingston ralhe'r more than £5. The Russian court military and min. isterial dress is costly and rich in the extreme, and the richness is carried out even to the liveries of the ser- vants. their scarlet Coats being liter- ally ablaze with gold, says a. writer in the English Illustrated Magazine. It is a fact that no court in the world presents such a picturesque and magnificent appearance as does that of Russia. At any function, therefore,the show is brilliant, but more especially perhaps, at a. ball, when the rich even- ing toilets of the ladies. enhanced by jewels of priceless worth, add much to the already brilliant effect. The Rus- sian dances are of avery stately de- scription, and both the emperor and empress take part in them very thor- oughly. The aspect of the armorialâ€"hall where the supper is often laid, is grand beyond all description. This meal is not partaken of standing, as at the majority of thel courts. but the guest: sit down at the long row of tables. A porcession is thrmed‘ which is head ed by his imperial majesty, and the most distinguished lady present, and the room is then entered in' the order of precedence. Of course, an immense quantity of plate is displayed. This and the china that is also used are noted throughout Europe for their richness and beauty. There is one ser- vice alone, capable of dining 500 per- sons, that is composed entirely of the purest silver overlaid with gold. Added to all this the use of avariety of thc choicest fruits and. the rarest flowers. among which orchids figure largely, makes the scene one of the most gorge ous magnificence. During the evenin a state progress through the suite 0 rooms is made by the imperial person- ages, and the chief officer of the house- hold, the guests forming up into a long avenue on either side. One special feature is that two or three of the largest halls in the palace are‘ on the occasion of a ball, fixed up as a huge conservatory, palms, exotics, ferns, banks of flowers,. and even fruit) trees being transplanted thither with the most marVellnus effect. Electric light is carried throughout, and glam down from myriads of globes of avar- iety of colors. In this veritable fairy- lamd hundreds of seats are placed for the convenience of the guests between dances. It would-be utterly imposc sible to mention the rare works of art to! be: seen in this palace, compris. ing paintings, statuary. collections of jewels, antiquities and curios of every description. Everything is of oriental magnificence, and to see it all. the eye must weary of the continuous dazzle. The Russian (‘onrt Is the Most Mngnlll- cent In the World. 21y. Driver (1 always 1 law, and POSTOFFICE AUTO-CARS. THE CZAR AT HOME. 1‘1 pedes- )f you not the 1nd