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-J' ''il.J" -11.1 BATTLE IN DEFEAT OF THE ENEMY.. OFFICERS' CASUALTIES. Eq-orton, Commanding the British Forces to the Secretary of Slate for War, despatched from Jidballi, says he proceeded on Monday morning to that place with a force consisting of 2,200 Regulars and 1,000 Irregulars. Jidballi was held by about 5,COO Dervishes, who advanced to the charge, but could not face the frontal fire of the Infantry and the flank attack of the mounted troops. The eneniy broke and fled, and were pursued for ten miles by the mounted force. The Dervish loss in killed is esti- mated at about 1,000. Many prisoners were captures, about 400 rifles were taken, and more were being collected. The British losses consisted of two officers killed, seven severely wounded, two slightly wounded, and one missing. The British rank and file had five wounded the native ranks, seven killed and fifteen wounded the Irregulars, two killed and two wounded. General Egerton adds that, from the number of riflemen present and rotable men killed, he thinks this was the Mullah's main fighting force. The officers' casualties are as folIows KII.I.ED.—Lieutenants C. H. Bowden-Smith, Hants Regiment, and J. R. Welland, Royal Army Medical Corps. WOUNDED. —Brevet-Major G. T. M. Bridges, Royal Arti!1rry; Lieutenant A. E. Andrews, Hants Kegmunt; Captain G. C. Shakerly, King's Royal Kifies; Lieutenant H. H. R. White, King's Royal Kdlcs: Lieutenant n. S. Reinhold, 27th Punjabis; Captain and Local Major F H, Young, 2nd King's African Rifles; CapcalIl E. n. Llewellyn, 2nd King's African 1;ifl"f. All the above severely. SLIGHTLY WOUNDED.—Major (Local Lieutenant- Colonel) G. T. Forestier-Walker, Royal Artillery; Captain G. R. Breading, 3rd King's African Rifles. MISSING.—Captain Hon. T. Lister, D.S.O., 10th Eussars. Lieutenant Charles Henry Bowden-Smith belongod to the 1st Battalion of the Hants Regiment, which he entered as a Sub-Lieutenant in December, 1896, becoming a Lieutenant in June, 1898. Lieutenant J. Raboteau Welland, M.B.. entered the Royal Army Medical Corps on June 27th. 1901, aiwi was attached to the 6th Battalion King's An ican Rifles as medical officer. Captain Hon. Thomas Lister, who is reported by Egerton as missing, is heir to the Barony of Ribblesdale, being the elder son of the present Lord Ribblesdale. He was horn in 1878, entered the Army in December, 1897, promoted to Lieutenant in 1899. and got his troop on Christmas Eve. 1902. He served with his regiment, the 10th Hussars, in the South African war from 1899 to 1902. was mentioned in despatches, and received the D.S.O. Among the officers severely wounded is Captain Evan Henry Llewellyn, Royal Inniskilling Fusi. a son of Colonel E. H. Llewellyn. M.P. Captain Llewellyn was appointed in Junp, 1901, to tin- 2ud (Central Africa) Battalion of the King's African Rifles, in which he was a company com. mander. Major G. T. Forestier Walker, R.A.. who is also wounded, served on the staff in South Africa, was afterwards appointed D.A.Q.M.G. for Intelligence at the War Office, and since July of last year has been A.Q.M.G. for Intelligence on General Egerton's staff.

MAIL STEAMER FOUNDERS. FIFTY-THREE LIVES LOST. From Victoria (B.C.) comes the news of the foundering of the mail steamer Clallam during a fierce gale which raged on the Pacific coast on Friday night. The Clallam plied regularly between Victoria and Seattle. It appears that when off Smith Island, four miles from Victoria, heavy seas broke over her, smashing the deadlights in the bow. The water poured in, extinguishing the firesf and she became unmanageable. A jib was set, and the vessel scudded before the gale until it was seen she must founder. The women and children were placed in three lifeboats, but all were swamped alongside, and the occupants perished. Of those left on board thirty-one were rescued by tugs, leaving fifty-three, who perished either in the lifeboats or when the Clallam went down. The captain and purser were saved. Among those who were lost were Mrs. and Miss Gallently, wife aud daughter of the manager of the Bank of Montreal at Victoria.

POLICEMAN'S EXCITING ADVENTURE. Alfred Cook,a powerfully-built man,of Kempston, was charged, at Bedford County Police-court, with threatening Police-sergeant Nicholson. Nicholson was called to prisoner's house, and on arriving tl ere met Cook at the door. Cook raised a. rifie and threatened to "do for" Kicholson if the latter advanced. Eventually he invited the sergeant inside, but, owing to his suspicious movements, the officer seixed him. Cook thereupon exclaimed: "Here goes!" and discharged the rifle, the bullet only just missing Nicholson. After a struggle the sergeant managed to gain possession of the rifle and handcuffed his assailant. Cook was sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labour, and Nicholson was warmly complimented by the bench.

SHOCKING CRUELTY CASE. At Lichfield Quarter Sessions, John and Sarah Ann Langley, aged about fifty years, carrying on a baker's and confectioner's business, were charged with neglect and ill-treatment of a child named Arthur Langley, aged six years. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children prosecuted. According to the evidence the male defendant had been married three times and the female defendant twice, and both had families. Last July the male defendant consulted Dr. Rowland, medical officer of Lichfield Workhouse, in regard to tlw child in ques- tion. and it was removed to the workhouft. After staying there a month the doctor and master advised its "discharge, considering it to be quite tractable and manageable at its own home. In consequence of complaints as to the treatment of the child, a police-sergeant and a district inspector of the society visited the, place, and found the child so emaciated that they removed it to the workhouse. Dr. Row- land said the little boy bore bruises and abrasions which were consistent with his having been beaten with a strap, which the woman had said was used to correct the children. The child was thinly clad, and then only weighed 281b. Two former workmen of the accused and a neigh- bour stated that the boy had been left in a yard and on a swing for hours at a time in all sorts of weather; that it had been seen to pick offal from a pig's trough and refuse from an ashbox, and scrape up crumbs from the bakehouse floor; that the child had been made to stand in a passage while other children were enjoying a good dinner, and that crusts were given to it through a door or window that on two occasions the male defendant had dipped the child into a rain-water tub up to its shoulders and left it to stand for hours in the wash- house in its wet clothes; and that on one occasion its stepmother had said either the child must go or she should. For the defence it was urged that the child was the son of a consumptive mother who died within .'■'■veil weeks of its birth, and that it suffered from j-i neral tuberculosis and infantile paralysis. For three years it was put out to nurse at Canwell, m ar Sutton Coldiield, and attended by Dr. Chavasse, but shewed no signs of permanent improvement. Dr. Chavasse and Dr. Joy said the child suffered from consumption of the bowels—a wasting disease v. hich would be attended by fluctuations. The voracious appetite and unnatural habits of the child re due to the disease and not necessarily to star- vation, and medical attendance could do little for the child. The jury found both, defendants guilty, m d the recorder said that but for the fact that they l.u oilier children dependent upon them lie should have sent them to prison for a considerable term. Ti" he could do would be to impose a fine of £<5 on each defendant-, with the alternative of six incut hsJ imprisonment. 1 i on the application of counsel for the defence & !'o; t ui'hr was allowed for the payment of the fines, ami tlie defendants were liberated. Tl e hearing of the case lasted from morning till cio-e on midnight. A hostile crowd followed defen- dants to their home, with the result that an aii creation ei;.sued, and the windows in the shop and h.juse wen; smashed.

An English traveller was arrested by a police blunder in Trieste owing to his being mistaken for a "white slave" dealer. The British Consulate at Constantinople had to he clesivu in a nio!> of riotous Bokharan pilgrims friiui Djedilah, who had been victimised by a The German courts have held aSilesian employer jus. ilie-l in striking an employee who refused to e. CLK,- ;m order. the Goodwin Sands and the Kent coast are, according to Government assurances, to be put communication by means or Marconi instaHittiOM Lcfure Parliament reass. niblcs. Air. W. 11. Smites, son ottne author of ".Sell- Help," has died in the club room of the County Down Golf Club while dr, ssill for eun. He was managing director of the Belfast hope Works Com- pany, with which he has been connected for over a quarter of a centurv. After forty-shv years, th" Chatham Army and Navy Veterans' Association lias obtained the widow of an Indian Mutiny veteran her husband's share of the Lucknow prize-monev.

I "TORDS OF WISDOM. A los good name is never retrieved. Make others happier, and so thyself in peace and gladness grow. The person who groans a good deal about the sins of others will bear watching. Honour and shame from no condition vise: Act well your part—there all the honour lies. It is sometimes easier to weep with those that weep than to rejoice with those who rejoice. Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character and conscientious observance of duty. The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means, and the exercise of ordinarv qualities.—SMILES. The world is full of life, each life is a tune; so the world in a great orchestra; and of them all how few tunes are played through. Neither retail nor receive scandal willingly in the case of scandal, as well as of robberv, the receiver is always as bad as the thief. It is a great blunder in the pursuit of happiness not to know when we have got it—that is, not to be content with a reasonable and possible measure of it. There is none made so great, but he may both Deed the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkinduess, even of the meanest or mortals. Train yourself to find the good in what seems evil, to make of disaster an opportunity for your courage, to master suffering by patience, to learn from sorrow sympathy. Common sense in one view is the most uncommon sense. While it is extremely rare in possession, the recognition of it is universal. All men admire it, though few have it. The source of agreeableness or disagreeableness is in the thought life we lead. It is in thought that the social climate is made. Think pleasantly and you will act pleasantly. Much of the world's pessimism is but personal vanity putting on the air of critical wisdom. The humble are never pessimists. They do not get their own shadows in the way. Because charity begins at home is no reason that it should be restricted to that limited sphere; of all the virtues she is the one wllo needs to have the most constant exercise. The best rules to form a young man are—ta talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinion, and value others that deserve it. t The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that shall shew you what the real smallness of your greatness is. By love's delightful influence the attack of ill. humour is resisted, the violence of our passion is abated, the bitter cup of affliction is sweetened, and the flowers are strewed along the most thorny paths of life. The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving; to reach the port of Heaven we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it —but we must sail and not drift, nor lie at anchor. Nothing can be a substitute for purity or virtue. Man will always try to find a substitute for it. But let no man lay such flattering unction to his soul. The first and last business of every man, whatever be his station, party, or creed, is morality. Gentleness subdues all hearts, and also ennobles them. Not only vice is seductive, virtue is so like- wise, and in equal measure. Who can resist the charms of love and kindliness? Who can insult a meek and gentle person without at once blushing at his own vileness ? An Egyptian papyrus, which dates back to about 4,000 n.c., has the following injunctions: "Calumnies should never be repeated." "Guard thy speech before all things, for a man's ruin lies in his tongue." The wise men of the race early learnt good sense. How cheap a kindness, says Tillotson, to speak well—at least not to speak ill—of others. A "ood word is an easy obligation, but not to speak ill requires only our silence. Some instances of charity are charitable, but were a man never so covetous he might afford another his good word, at least he might abstain from speaking Til of him. THOUGHTS FI;o:.R THE HEHRKW. As is the garden, such is the gardener. The day is short and the work is much. Do not look upon the vessel, but upon what it contains. A myrtle standing among nettles does, notwith- standing, retain the name of myrtle. Never cast dirt into that fountain of which thou hast sometime drank. Thy secret, is thy prisoner; if thou let it go, thou art a prisoner to it. Though thou has never so many counsellors, yet do not forsake the counsel of thy soul. CHOICE OF WORK. Gradually see what kind of work you individually can do; it is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. For that is the thing a man is born to, in all epochs. He is born to expend every article of strength that God Almighty has given him, in doing the work he finds he is fit for: to stand up to it to the last breath of life, and do his best. We are called upon to do that; and the reward we all get—which ve are perfectly sure of, if we have merited it is that we have got the work done, or at least that we have tried to do the work. For that is a great blessing in itself; and I should say, there is not very much more reward than that going ill this world. If the man gets meat and clothes, what matters it whether he buv those necessaries with seven thousand a-year, or with seven million, could that be, or with seventy pounds a-year ? He can get meat and clothes for that, and lie will find intrinsically, if he is a wise man, wonderfully little real difference.—THOMAS CABLYLK. THREE USEFUL RULES. When I was a boy, says Bishop Gore, a famous cricket club used to have—and probably still has a threefold fundamental rule for its members Keep your promise keep your temper keep your wicket up." I have always thought these three very healthy and fruitful rules for life. In other words (1) to be absolutely trustworthy in regard to all undertakings, solemn and trivial; (2) to be self-controlled and not to suffer either exasperation or disappointment to upset one's equanimity; (3) to defend the position entrusted to one, secular or religious, like a faithful soldier on guard, from all I attacks, with loyalty, vigilance, and the best skill of which one is capable, and to give one's whole mind to the work with courage and hope; that is, to be a good and useful member of society. FILIAL GRATITUDE. Be grateful to your parents. Consider how much you owe them. The time has been, and it was not a long time past, when you depended wholly on their kindness, when you had no strength to make a single effort for yourself, when you could neither speak uor walk, and knew not the use of any of your powers. Had not a parent's arm supported you, you must have fallen to the earth and perished. To your parents you owed every comfort; you owed to them the ohelter you enjoyed from the rain and cold, the rrvnnent which covered and the food which nourished you. While you were seeking amusement, or were employed in gaining knowledge at school, your parents were toiling that you might be happy, that your wants might be supplied, that your minds might be improved, that you might grow up and be useful in the world. And when you consider how often you have forfeited all this kindness, and yet how ready they have been to forgive you, and continue their favours, ought you Hot to look upon them with the tenderest gratitude ? lhree bodies, supposed to be those of aeronauts blown out to sea in the balloon Lusitaue, have been washed ashore near Ferrol, says a Lisbon despatch. William Ilolloway, aged sixty-two, who was sentenced at the Middlesex Sessions to eight years' penal servitude for burglary, has been sentenced six times to a total of forty-two years' imprison- ment since 1864. I

# SOMETHING FOR YOUXG FOLKS I FOLLOW MY LEADER. H It is very strange how sheep will all follow their leader. We sometimes play a. game called "Follow- my-Leader, but we do not do it- so well us the sheep do. I once heard of a man who was driving so;ne sheep through a busy town. The leader turned H down a narrow street where the driver did not want them to go, and of course all the others H followed. So the driver shout--d to a nr-m who was sweeping a crossing to stop them. This man stood in the middle of the road with H his broom over his head, Hud tried to frighten the H sheep back again. But the first ore- <r>ve a sprint. H and jumped right over him. The others all did the same, and the man was so surprised that h" did H not move until all the sheep had jumped over him. Then he found that he was splashed with mud from head to foot. A HAPPY FAMILY. H I know a happy family of cunning boys and girls, Who have such round and rosy cheeks and 'pretty golden curls. In all that they may have to do thev pleasantly H agree, And every one of them is kind and good as good H can be. They never call each other names, nor pull each H other's hair, Nor find the slightest bit of fault with what they H have to wear. They never cry at night because they have to go to bed, H Nor ever frown at anyone, no matter what is said. Not one of them was ever known to try to tease H the cat, Or even have a wish to do a naughty deed like that. H When they are asked to do a thing, they never say, Because they're dolls, these boys and girls, and so, H you see, they can't. H NEW NAME FOR TWILIGHT. I Kenneth is five years old and attends school. He H is very much interested in what he hears, as the I following story will prove: He went with his auntie to be fitted for a new H pair of shoes. It was late in the afternoon, and as H they waited for the shopman Kennech noticed that H the street lamps were being lighted outside. H "Why, Aunt Emily," he exclaimed, "it is dark." H "Oh, not very," she replied. H "Oh, 1 see," said Kenneth, with a comprehending H nod, "luke." H "What did you say?" asked Aunt Emily. H "Why, luke," repeated Kenneth, surprised that H she had not understood. H "What do you mean by inquired his H aunt, still mystified. H "Why, you know what luke means, it's middling, H luke-dark, you know, like luke-warm water, not H real dark nor real light." ■ TED'S PARTRIDGE, I One fine day in May, Ted went into the woods H with grandpa, where he was going to mend a long I strip of fence. H They had just got fairly into the woods when there H was a loud whir-r-r and a mother partridge flew H up almost into Ted's face, then fluttered off amung I the bushes and dry leaves, "quit-quit "-ting, and I making a great fuss. H "She has some little chicks about here, I dare I say," said grandpa. "Oh, look quick!" he I whispered, checking Ted. "Bv that log, there I I And there See what little balls they are I "The little darlings!" whispered Ted, uuder his I breath but he only saw them for an instant, for I the shy little grey things seemed almost to melt H into the dead leaves about them, so quickly they I disappeared. Mother partridge well knew how to I call her brood together safely. H The very next minute they found her nest, full I of empty egg-shells and oue egg that had not I hatched. I "Don't you s'pose it would hatch, grandpa ?'r I asked Ted. ■ "I don't know. It might if she had stayed on I long enough. I believe I'll carry it home and put I it under old Speckle. She's almost ready to hatch." I So grandpa wrapped the egg carefully in his red I silk handkerchief, carried it out on the edge of the I woods, and laid it on a rock, where the sun would H shine all the forenoon and keep it warm. H Then they went back into the TVfiOds, and while I grandpa cut down bushes and mended the fence, I Ted followed along, watching the birds and H squirrels, and picking flowers. I The noon whistle sounded far in the distance. I "Come, Teddy," said grandpa, shouldering his I axe, we must go to dinner. Aren't you hungry ? I "I believe I am," said Ted. "It make3 us hungry I to work in the woods, doesn't it? Oil, grandpa, I we mustn't forget the egg r I "We'll go to it now," said grandpa, and they I did. But what do you think ? I The handkerchief was there, all unrolled, and I the empty egg shell was there, but the little M yiiu-trid^e ti.id hatched out and gone I "1 wonder if his mother came and found him ? I said Ted, after they had looked for him in vain. I "We shall never know," said grandpa. I KNOWING ELEPHANTS. I A traveller journeying rouud the world foun-1 I nothing to interest him more than the celebrated I trained elephants of India, which he saw at I Moulmein, a seaport town on the Bay of Bengal. I He thus describes their wonderful intelligence I "Here you see the trained elephants at work, I piling up teak timber in the numerous timber-yards I that line the river. Their knowledge and inUdli- I gence are simply wonderful. They are guided by a I native called a mahout, who is perched Oil th., I neck, and who gives all the necessary orders, assisted by his heel and a sharp-pointed iron goad < very much like a small pickaxe. "The elephants thoroughly understand what is required of them. Think of their piling up square timber to the height of forty feet, every stick of which is in line and in its proper place, each piece weighing from two to three tons. "They carry the timber on their tusks, holding i: in place by their truuk, to the place of piling. When the pile is too high for them to build upon comfortably, they build a staging for themselves out of the same material, and do not hesitate to mount it with their load. "The owner of one of the largest yards had his force of elephants put through their various forme. of work for our benefit, such as piling up the logs and tumbling them down, as well as drawing bv chain harness and pushing with tlwir trunks anil tusks from three to five of these logs, end to end, tandem fashion. When drawing the logs, the elephants, at the word of command, unhitch the chain or hook, but cannot be made to couple it. "When pulling down the timber lie had just put in place, 1 thought one of them cast a suspicious eye in our direction, as much as to say, You people are at the bottom of "They are at times very troublesome and danger- ous, and great care is taken to keep strangers at a respectful distance. They are immense in size, anc! cost from 1,800 to 2,500 silver rupees each; that is to say, from £lRO to £250 each. "When the bell rings for dinner or quitting time, they quit at once what they are at, and cannot be induced to go on, but bolt immediately to their quarters for their meal. Woe to the feeder should any of them be cut short in their food. They never forget, it, and revenge themselves at the Iir.ii opportunity. "They bathe in the river every evening, and know as well as anyone when Sunday comes. On that dav they make for the mud pits, and, like pigs, v. allo\V there all day." GRANDPA'S TEDDY. "Children," said grandpa, lost my pen- knife. When I was upstairs in my room a while ago I picked up my coat and I thought something dropped out of oue of the pockets. ] looked round, but could not see anything. Nowlthuimvpen- knife missing, and I think perhaps it was that. Will one of you go up and see?" Teddy was playing with his little toy engine. ft. had been wound up and started, but the boy decided that it could stop at a wayside station fur a few minutes. go, grandpa,"he answered. Teddy was such an obliging little fellow. He was always so readv to do things for people. Mattie was reading a book, and she hated to leave it even for a minute so she was glad that Teddy offered to go. Then there were Joe and Albert, the ten-year-old twins. They were playing a game together, and did not like to stop, so they, too, were glad to see Teddy going upstairs. Pretty soon down came the littl: boy. His eyes were sparkling and his cheeks we re red. "Grandpa," he cried, "I found your knife and your sixpence too. Aren't you glad that 1 found them? They were both on the floor." Grandpa smiled and answered "Yes, my hoy, I am glad to have my knife because I want to use it, and I am glad to have the sixpence because I want to give it to the little fellow who was so willing to do something for grandpa. Grandpa's Teddy, 1 think we will have- to call him." When the other children heard this they were sorry that they had lost, the chance to get, that silver piece. Besides, grandpa's words made them feel nwan. As for Teddy, you may be sure he felt very happy. COUSIN KATE. Mr. Kajner, of Brimstage, a well-known member of the Wirral Harriers, has been thrown white hunting. His horse trampled ou his face and he was seriously injured. Stepney Borough Council has made represent ations to the Asylums Board that fresh outbreaks of scarJet 1,1 VV have occurred through parents being | discharged from hospital too soon.