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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1901-5-23, Page 2The Girl in the Red Tam. • \ken Uncle Merriacae down by the London express, and almost in- fested on my going off withe him that very afternoon to the Radnorshire mountains "for e lilac fishing, Leo,' wee not at all unwilling) to oblige him and myeelf, "But evlay, my dean Richard," asked my mother, "have you taken to each a very ugly -coloured wine" I aleo Wanted ta know. "Never mind the wig, Many," said mole M. "Get the boy'a portmanteau Packed. We cart then eateh the 2.5 train." As it tVLIS already one o'clock, it Will be etisen he was in a hurry. My mother VMS easily persuad.ed. Uncle M. was her favorite brother, and she !lever tired of lamenting that he was allied he basinese—the City Road, —with ouch a rough, uupresentable perston as Matthew Barker. The two of them were Rowley, Limited, and itteel toys were their trade. He was decidedly unusual in the train. I couldn't get him. to talk, though ordi- narily he ohatte,d like any girl. "A headache, my boy. Let me have a nap," he said, at length. Whether he weeny slept or not I don't know, but I do know that I Smiled very much at him. His tawny wig had ehifted to one side, showing that ivoried old pate of his. ' At the Forest Junction, where we changed for Greendele Station, he briskened considerably. So did 1, for it was there I was privileged to do the girl with the red tarn oishan- ter Some slight service. She had im- preesed me ,when she got into the train, and1 was pleased to see her again. "Could you tell me," she asked, with the Aweetest little lisp and blush., "if I wait this aide for Greendale'?" "You do," said I. "We also are, go - Lag to Greendale, ao you can, if you like, get into our carriage." I smiled, and she smiled, but we progressed no more than that just then. She threw poor old Uncle M. a look which might have meant any- thing. I took it to mean that he had no intention of putting 'hereelf alone into a compartment with tarn strange men. To my aatanishment, I notic- ed that the old chap had saddled his nose with blue glasses. ;When we were in the train again I demanded an eemlanatien. "My boy," eaid the uncle, "I must ask you notto trouble me with idle questions. I ant twenty-five years your ,Fjenior, and may be supposed to have very good reasons for all I That night we v..ere enugly fixed, in the Anglers' Rest, one cif the tnost precious of fishermen's , quartere, with the hills soaring behind the inn, speckled all too thinly- with big old hollies and oaks --relies of the famous Shellot Forest, in which our Norman friends hunted the bear and the stag. It was respectable fishing weather— eoutherly wind and a broken sky— and the stream was in nice order. But, to my increased surprise, I could not get Uncle M. out of the house; neither the next day, nor the next, nor the next. He at and wrote and read, and was in fair spirits only when the latap was lit of an evening, and he had had two tots of! whisky. Hith- erto I had never known hira to touch a lsecand glass of toddy at one eft - tins. Had I net had compeneation of a very fascinating kind, I should have been quite angry with Uncle M. But in the meantime, I bad again met the girl in the red tam. o' shanter--6vice in three days, to be correct. She, too, was fiehing, and already her brown eYee, sunny smile, gentle speech, and capital handling of a rod had done for me. She was staying at the school- mistress's cottage, half a mile from the inn. Our landlord knew nothing about her, except that her name was Chesson, and. that her landlady thought her a very bold creature to be amosing herself all alone in such a mannish way. She had, le appear- ed, harrowed rod and flies from the •schoolmistress's son --Bill Martin—for aodiel consideration. What with the mystery of Uncle Dles peculiarities and the joy I began - to feel in seeing and thinking of Miss chessain, I didn't do much good with the fish. On the fourth morning I ;went a Step farther on the down- ward path. There she was, a couple of hundred yards or so belovinthe inn, her cap like a red berry on the green- sward. I saw her land a nice one, and then etood opposite to with the Strcarn between us. "How mean of you, Miss Chesson," I gold, "to steal another march on me!" • - "Mean?" plaid she, as if startled, and away ,elipped her rod. It was one fish more, taking her unawares. "Traiterousi little hussy!" I Said. I 'was in the water in a moment; "And to-marrewf" reckleasly, too, for I turned turtle in "There is no time for to -morrows. a hole, and cams up en her ba,nk,a, Go! And goseochnight, dear." Away pretty picture of a dripping idiot. But she whisked, and back to the inn 1 I ecured the rod all righte • Her re- hustled. grete on my bohalt were simply di- vine. "If you talk like that about such, a trifle, my dear girl," I said impetu- °ugly, ''I shall be compelled to tell you you cart catch hearte as cleverly as trout. Anyway, you've caught mine, lea there!" She breathed fast, Witb a deeper blush than before. "Den't!",ehe whispered, "And youm rattst run hoe and change." "Bother the change Marie V' ,eald L That wao leer ether name, and I was etting xecklees. But all the response she made to that audacious touch was to pick up her rod and basket, say, "Please go /mem at once," and turn her cherry- elpe cheeks another way. She march- ed off, and So did I. However, I had taken the plunge, and really, on re- flection, I Was extremely Odd of it, and on the whole not dissatisfied with the retatilt—a% a start, you knew. IL • Ilttele It was rather mad when he that through the achoolsteese'-- Marie thole to tofedia. She wa$ by •hatched -faced goesip! She looked io then eteeled to beer the prodigious at the inn, and, chancing tei clash bloWing-Up Which her father an bota with the uncle in the corridor, dived ther were bowed to have', and had, in with an LXchse me, stet, the hb- ready for her. It was her vane and erty taking," wihloh ended in a tent flutter as a "itec."--Loudou Am- oebae, •impudent inquiry if he could wera, , teli her anything about Mies Claes- AM. After that it WaS Straight eailiog for the vvorthy woman to men- tion our meetings ley the stream—ay, and in the worn-out old forest also. I only wanted to make sure she wan respectable," sho explained. All this ;Uncle AL related. to me in the evening. He raw, to heights on the ,subiject. "Whatever you do, don't make an tees of yourself, Leo!" he staid. Tlaen he sighed. "There's quite enough of that in the family as, 11 "You're a nice old man to talk in that prudeet, way," I said. "How aleout your wig, your specs, and your, sticking to the house here, wheu you. carae dowo, yall said, expressly to Vali?" That hit him. °Yo-u're right, my boy," he eald wearily—"you're right. But I can't explain things. It' a a miserable business. That's all I can say." Of course then I had him on the grill. I did my heat to dynamite the mYetery out of him. No good. The oialy benefit I gained wan his apparent licence of eur goings-on. A deal it would thieve mattered otherwise, for by the end of the week we were engag- ed. I let fly at him with this s:weet new. Than, indeed, he threw of his lethargy, ehoved an old deerstalker on the. top of that sandy' shag of his, and ,took up his rod. "My future mut be subordinated to your, my boy," he said, as solemn- ly as if he wore in a pulpit; and the word e were his text. "Let me see her." 'Well, I knew where Ahe might be, fast enough; but somehow I pitied her, and did not take him straight to her. We juggled among mossy boulderand trickles of water, with thickish birch and holly -rub by the peditioa of 1875-6, and annexing wetereide. But, le and behold! sud- Christmas isltrird in1888. From 1895 denly Uncle et yelled out, as if he feel 1897 Captain, May was Aseistant- had a thron in hie foot, and there( was Director of Torpedoe.s, one of the hie wig dangling in the airt at the most exaning and difficult posts in end of 'Miss MTh Marie's line. e shy, the Navy. In th,e D:temonel. Jubilee clever, dear little minx! proc,ess:Ion he commanded the Naval She'd thrown from the steep bank oonteagent, the eecbion of the pee - right above on It was quite a fun- cession which undoubtedly came in few ny introduction after that. the mast enthusiastic, a•pplause, so Uncle M. did the most sensible admeteably had th,e mem been seleeted thing passible in treating, it as a and so well Organise& , huge joke. "Odd that thie should happen in my very fleet fortnight's declension to false hair!" he said gaily. Marie was disappointing. She had little to eay, and her look e of sorrow seemed to be absurdly overdone. She even answered Uncle M.'s cool quos - time about her parentage much a if she were a dull little raaid at school. But he liked her. "My boy," he Raid afterwards, "she's a good girl, thoughlea imighty queer her sporting about here by herself. Something motherly, don't you know, in her looks!" "What rat!" eaid I, with a roar. I'll tell her that." And tell her I did that evening„ un- der the moon, which looked splendid, balanced on the crest a our parti- cular hill of the foreet. We; met by the old churchyard, with absolute contempt for ghosts. "Ile says you have a motherly eye, pet," I said, drawing her to me. But she wouldn't be drawn. "Leo," she wlaisperecl, "I must con- fess something to you." "Alt right," said L "Overrun the constable ?" "Leo," ehe said, very earnestly in- deed, "can't you nee that ray being here and all isn't an accident? What dear, denae, simple creatures men are 1 And your uncle is one, too, and I ,want you to get him out of the country immediately—to-night, or the first thing to -morrow morn- ing." "Why?" said I. '7'. '- "Bectiuse--because he must. Tell him the writ is issued for his; arrest. I don't believe for an instant he is guilty of any crime, but that Mr. Barker is, and your uncle is jointly responsible. Promise you will per- suade him to run away." It was the fir,et time she had shaven passionAc- tually, too, there was the shine of tear e in her pretty eyes. "Go on!" I said. "Tell me every- thing." "Not until you promise to persuade him." "What' e 'the figure?"i She whispered somethng preposter- ous. "All fraudulently appropriat- ed by 5/Ir. Barker," ehe added. "Now pronaiee. It will lee too late this time to -morrow." Of course, I under- stood raow. "You are employed by the prosecut- ing ,solicitors, I suppose"? I said. Then if elm didn't burst into sobs. "I—I thought 1 should like it," she stuttered. "I wanted to earn my own living, and Ralph and. father eaid I had a good enough head. on my—my shoulders." "They told no lie there," said I. "They have the case in hand," she went on. "Bot don't wait. Go to hixa, and tell him what I say. I'll hunt down that Mr. Barker, if I die doing it." I meditated rapidly, then just took her head between my, hands and kiesed hen AiMerriam came • NOTED PEOPLE. tuterestine hustle aeons Prominent Men unit Women. Dintelonee OE File is an, excellent fencer. . . The tsalea•y of the young King of Speen le .8150,000 a year. The German Einp,eroc is said to rc- cedive more than 050 letters a day cin cIa a.ralrage. Queen Alexandra was not included In the first censulel of hes husband's reign. Silo was at the tun' e in Den- mark. It well be the ;fist eienstas,, for at any rate sixty years, in which the Queen of Bonland has' not figured. Queen Vi,c.t.orea was ude once out of thie kingdo,m, in eenseee week. Few maned the Bar are more able and popular than, 41r. John G. Butch - ea, K.C„ and member for t.he City, of York, England. 'The, eon df an Irish bishop, he had a veny brilliant career at . Cambridge, ea:pent:tag a double first and a fellowehip, while hie elder bx'ather, Prodeseor Dutcher, was a s:entor classic. In spite of his forty- six yeaete he is a singularly youthful - looking tato.ri, and when he first "took se,lk" was, pc,pularly known as "the boy QC.," Mr. Butcher es a ke.etni cyclist, and has been a fine steeplechaser and hunter. The now Oont.roller' of the Navy, Captain W. H. May, R.N., of H.M.S., Excellent, has had a very varied ex-. peeheinee, serving in the Arctic Ex - SOME BOGUS BRITISHER& "SUBJECTS" WHO MAKE GREAT BRJAIN HATED ABROAD. A rameus south auterlean Finonster— Counterfeit John null 1st Japan—An American Flays ate iiriven in Asia. It is in the perfecting- of all the by-play of hes proclootions" th,at Sir Henry Irving excels. , He works as hard en training the huImaeleist of hi3 people as he does ein bringing out the meet telling pointe in his own pant. He raakes the men tiake off their,hats, There is nothing like pretending to be a Briton if y,o,u are in for a big undertaking, for teou 'have the fear of the Envies., at your back., The most e,uecessful of recent shath John Bane was Huy Lopez, the famous South American filibueter, \AD found it more eenv,enient to 'be, called John Philip. He was a eeetless edvonturer of Ec- uador, and he wanted to become Pre- sident of the State. He had already made twa attemptwith a few hun- dred men at bi batik, to oust the reigning President, but had feiled hopelessly. And, finding. the party in power waa not at ALL AFRAID, OF HIM , he disappeared ae Buy Lopez, to bob up again as John Philp, Britisher. Ile disguised laimeelf as well as •he eould by shaving his head and aneus- tache, and he looked. that part better than meet South Americans because he had black hair. He got himself up in strict l3ritiale kir—riding-breeches and lviatte helmet, and even wore an eye-glasS. His rivals "did not recog- niae him. He could talk English flu- ently, and he gathered together about 1,500 men and a couple of ma- chine-guns. He went so far as to call Aernonia, where he represented him- eelf to the peasantry as an English ewe -teeny, who was sent by the British Govornmeot to levy taxee, and collect; whatever valuables. the Armenians had, which WOUltt be etored and pro- tected. la -,...eturn for this, 13ritein would take the Armenians under her espe- cial care, and protect tlatim from the terrible raidby the Turke and Kurile. Armenia at the time wee ter- ror-stricken by Turkieh massacres, and had tiome hope of help from Eng- land. Colonel Stoddart had sal - dam need for violence anywhere, for the people yielded up al) they had to him la moet instances; and he was Said to be the beet imitation of a Bri- ton ever turned out. He and his men fared eunapteously, and altogether he cleared about £00,000, mostly from the country traders. What he Was not given he took. Then he disappeared, and Turkey took no great trouble to find him. He is peaceably se,ttled now in a gorgeous house of his owo in the Turkish provencee. BERLIN'S MODEL P. 0. SYSTEM. Letter BOXe9 Are NawClearN1 Every Fifteen Minutes. Although Berlin's postal service IS the unattainable model for the rest of Europe, the excellence already at- tained does not satisfy the postal authorities. The problem, of course, is the accurate collection and distri- bution of raail matter in thceehortest possible period of time., By a recent innovation the letter boxes in the principal thoroughfares are now cleared every fifteen minutes during, the busy hours of the day. Mantra.- tive of the perfection to which the de - all hia offieera and most of his men partment hi e attained is the ollow- by Entglesh names, and they were in- ing etory. Also it is an instance in which etern officialism saved a hu- man life. A young girl wrote to her parent e expressing her determination to commit euicide, and incidentally mentioned the place where her body would be found. She melted the let- ter. filer father received it within an hour of its being posted, hurried to the apoit in the Thiergarten, where the body wag to Inc found; caught his daughter in the commencement of her rash attempt, and took her( home. structed to speak cinly in broken Shea- itsh and Engaish when dealing with the country people. All,South Americans, as Lopez knew have a great sense of the superiority, of the Britieh, and his rose succeeded, for it really waee thought by his ene- mies that he ,was an Englishman, backed up by Britain, with British followers, and, of course, plenty of money, in which we are all suppoeed, to be roTiiing. The aham Philipe +utterly routed the rival forces in three ethert beetles, and carried everything 13efore him. Ile made hinaaelf President Philips of FRUIT ERIN'S GREEN ISLE LAWS OF SUCCESSIONO Many people have been confused by Ecuador, and ruled for- over ses menthe befotie. he was found out. Ten the verioue laws of succession which weeks after the discovery, prevail in Europe. There are three HE WAS ASSASSINATED. different systems, the raost general and entspents the length cif their hair. Japan was badly "had" acme time being that known as the Salto sys- He tit is who awnainges the proportion,- ago by a counterfeit John Bull, who tem, under which women are com- ate eaements orf youth and age in the really came from Sweden. He was a Iti I dd Thi is the rule in mole., Mies Terry is of great assis- tancem to hein planning a produc- teen. They &settees frankly at the re- la,earsale whether flat% or that pose or pasee of bueiness will be more effec- else. She is very particular about the Swede, whose name was Beetek- the CrealSt:IC cues, and pifilasta.kin4,T in man, found thee out, he decided to the oare with which she arranges that Petra 'himself off as an influential the fortis•sitno p,assage,s shall not Briton, and het a big "deal" out of coins in est inopportune moments when the Crovetriaulent. . they drown her vaLce. • He was ae e -et unknown in Japan, and. he turnd. eup at State, headquar- eir. Lake Elides, B.A., who has tare with alleged letters fram e1.1 been honoured by the oommand to sorts of powerful British authorities. paint the !official portrait of the He wanted Japan to give him eome King, has lat berly painted big trading ii0i1Ce,Si10)1S and monopo- .rnany Ilea, the holding of which meant the portraits. HES heateknown Pictieees acquisition of millions of money. are perhape "The Village Wedding" He was as yet unknown in Japan, wad "The Dolcher." Me- Fades has The name he took was Walter Ade a ,gacpd story of a nestle twhom, he employed as a model for the beide- groom th,e earn:tar work. Soon after the deeiveng, began the artist nobie,ed that his melee became very pale. He made him rest, and present- ly work was ne,suene,d. The model seen became more ,gerestly than, ever. ''You don't seem well," said Mr. gacieS. "Bra a' rigtlat, zthr," answered the unod,e1, "only foe holding ray breath so long!" The. poor rustic Im- agined it was neoessaey for the, per - treat to be ta,ken that he should hold his breath the while! INTERESTING. READING FOR THE SONS OF OLD IRELAND. Dole of (Wan:tut:hes ceniniand Distrit. bonne' teenhui Faperi--The IhIth Vice. hip,,•Entigration StotisticA, Etc. The Shamrock League, ae worked. up by the Countess of Limerick, assisted by Lady Cleeve, and otiher ei•ish brought an enormoue demand for "the choeen loaf of barcl mad chief," and at the price at which it has been selling the cultivation of Lhe Slaamroele ought to be a profitable underlak- . leg. , It is stated that tho Duke ol Con- naught is not likely to relinquish his command in /related for gome Lime— for a year at least. H.R.H. and the Duchess intend to pass a great deal of the ellg111131' at the Ourragle of Kil- dare. The Duke is, a great favorite in Ireland, and there was general re- gret when it was rum.oured that he was about to leave. Lord Aelabourne, Lord Chancellor of big leader in the Eat, and came to Japan to open op a big business, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Italy,Den- Now, the 13,ritiela Ambassador of that mark and Germany. Then there is time happened to Inc engaged on LU1 the German -Dutch syetem, under portant matters elsewhere, and when • which melee in all degrees of relatton- ship take precedence of females, the thrones passing to the female line only in case of the extinction of all the male linee, however remote. This, le the rule in Holland—from which it takes its name—Russia, and some of the minor Gernaan State. The third system is our own, under which fe- melee are excluded when there are males in the same degree of relation- ship, but take precedence of males evhoae degree of relationship is not ao close as their own. Thus an elder daughter of the ruling Sovereign gives way to all her younger brothers and WES, and he haid, among other things, their issue, but takes precedence of that -he was a nephew of the Prime male couein or a nephew. This sys- Miniater of Britain, and the heir to tem is the rule in Spain and Porta - the "Earldom of IVIestley," which in ,gal as well al in England. , unknown In the Beitiali peerage. The Japanetse have a great rever- ence for European nobility, and Bjork- BUT HE KEPT THE GOLD. man, who wan a clever man, and a master of English, plashed his point Twa young men drew up in( a four - so well that he obtained the agree- wheeler oPPeeite a famous exhibition manta he wanted within twenty-four in London. One, having alighted, hour. When the British Minister re- timidly approached the cabman, and turned, Inc naturally, denied all know- tendered him one shilling and six pen - ledge of the mart. But Japan could nies as his fare, whilst the other col - not well retract, and the Minister, lected their ?sticks an,d parcels, pre - on looking into the matter, decided 'aleatory to following his companion. that it would make a bad impreseion, Cabby, descrying a half -sovereign on the ffapeneee to amongat the coppers, whipped up his • DENY THE AUTHORITY • horses, and drove frantically up Bak- er Street. Hearing cries from the of the man, and decided that theee man, who ran after the cab, he had wan no way out of it, but to quietly an attack of deafness, until, nearing wink at the &ham. 13jorlenaan's imper- Oxford Street, he was stopped by a collation was one of the most fruit- policeman. The man, much out of ful pieces nf humbug ever br,ought breath, aeon cantle up with the cab, off In the name- of Witaino for he and CabbY mentally bade good-bye to quiekly -became the richest foreigner the he1fe5hhereign. in Japan, and amaaeed over Z2,000,- I ain't got. nothin' of his! cried the And then, euro enough, my old sim- pleton of a relative let his cat• out. He had 'been done brown by that old brute Barker, svho had cleared off with the proceeds, and left poor Uncle M. to face the music. After long argument I got him definitely to pre- pare for the Southampton -Havre route to Paris the next evening. In- nocent though he eves, Inc could not be allowed to consign himself to a prison. One thing more. A mysterious battalion got up up at the unholy hour of five the next. einorning. There was a train from Greenclale at 5%59. She might—ay, and she was on the platform, with a white, at, eelf-saerificial face, which, hovveVrer, epeedily matched her tam for colour when elite saw me. I just took her by tbe arm, Bfted her bag, and fed her back to the; hamlet. And, believe me, 1 scarcely let her mit of ray sight again till we'd fixed things to sueh a- point that there was no wetting even for a young ladY-detec- tive (amateur) to give me the elip. The Duke of Cornwell always per- , farmed hes full duty whe.n he was an officer in the Nary. While (sailing under Admiral Sir F. Bedford, the ves- sel was c,oalenta- off Symena, when a comfortable Teerkenh. Pasha camo on board to pay his respects to the ,g,randson• of the great Queen. After being received with due ceremony he asked for H.R.H., and was pointed dun O coal-be,gremed officer who was superintending the coaling opera- tions. Anyan,e who knows what coaling =saes on based a man-of-war • will at owe uneleeste.nd the condi- tion in whic,h. the ,D,ake, of York was at the time. The look of inceedoli- ty and offended dignity on the face of the Paeha cannot possibly Inc ex- pressed en, words, and to this day Inc believes that the matter was an ill - tinned joke at dais expens•e. • Ireland, comes in for a nice perquisite by the accoesion of the King to the throne. The new povereign com-' mencing to reign makes an order foe, the nehug of a new. Great Seal and the "breaking -up" consists in the sov- ereign giving the eeal a gentle tap! oith a hammer, after which it is,supd posed to Inc broken up and has lose all its value. j The men of the Royal Irish Consta- bulary were busy distributing the census papers all over Ireland re- cently. This is causing a great feeling, of uneaeiness, as a visit from "the peeler" in the oat -of -the -way dis- tricts, forebodes evil as a rule. There is a general feeling on the part of, the people that any inforraation given will be used against themselves in some mysterious way. The !shamrock was, as usual, the eubject of a Parliamentary discus- sion. This time it was the Woolwich Cadet% who, had been ()rushed int their "wearin' o' the green." ;Some of the eadets appeared at church parade on St.Patrick's, Day, with such enormousj bunches of the "chosen loaf" as to cause an amount of jocularity and. unsteadiness in the ranks, and the, of- ficera on 'duty felt called upon to di- rect the removal of the shamrock in the interests of the respect due ta divine eervice. A good „story is told of an Irish' ae rige a n o who was wun.ded in the head and invalided home from South A.frica. The doctor who removed the bullet accidentally removed a little bit of the brain with it. Prompted by a eense of humour he wrote to the sergeant and asked him. if he tv,ould th like ee bit of his brain returned to him. The sergeant, with true Irish wit, replied; "Thank you, no, I shall not want it, as I have got a situa- tion in the War Office." • The decision of Earl Cadogan to re - 000- • driver, turning appealingly to the (Americana have erteet, found it pay policeman. to become temporary Britona waen ye hevl gasped tho man. Ye ran trying for a hig thing—eapecially ill away wi° me feyther! Asia—and the moat da,ring ot them Sure enough, there was the old gen- all was eertainly the notorious Lin_ tleman etill in the cab, and staring, coin Forbee, who " ruehed" . the pale with fright, at the crowd and Airneer of In.fghanista.n, a.nd risked his peaweman. life in doing it. Hi a reason for be- thantalin____ coming a '°1aln ii3lrilm was simply • Mr. William. Alle,n, a workman D.A.RENG- FR,kur) ; and he wan, very nearly euceessful. employed at the Patent Fuel. Works, Sun,e. eland En lend. has been ad - Ile picked hie time for visiting the d , e' Ameer's Court at Kabul, jut at the judged by the Royal 'Humane Society LIVELY !—WHEN HE MEETS HER! enc,m.e.nt when nobody was preeent to have been during tlae course of last An ofeicer, who had been recently who 'could "bow hem .up," and pre - year "the bravest man in England," eented hieneelf as Joseph Arkwright, traneferred to a new garrison town and was reenatly presented with, the in the be,rviee of the British Cavern - was highly displeased to find that the relent, The. Ameer owed the Govern- gold medal of th,e ec,ceety. His der - grans -plots an the exercising ground ment a sum of nearly, £70,000, which of the troops were largely utilized by wasabout to be paid, and it was this' e the inhabitante of the little town for that Forbewas after. Clad in Angio -,Indian riding -kit, he the purpoee ot bleaching their linen. managed. to get int o the presence of He at once issued peremptory orders that all certificate % of leave for this privilege were to be withdrawn. Nevertheless, a few days later, as he marched his troops on the ground for exercise, he found the . whole grase-grosvn surface completely cov- ered with every description of washed linen. • Intensely mortified at title - contemptuous treatment of his orders, he commanded his troops to go through every epecies of evo- lutien—onarch, coUnter-march, right-, about-face, e,te.—over the innocent bed-eheets, shirte, ate., etc., until sud- denly, pale aa death, and with loose flying hair, tbe eomnaanding officer's ciWn eervent-maid rushed. On to the scene and, wringing her hands, broke fortis into the lament:— "Gracious; me, master, sir! what will the inii%glit nay?" What the "MioSis"- had t'O gay to the ruthloss destroyer Of his own : the Araeer with a Act ,of forged pa- pers, and he actually eucceeded in convincing the prim monarch oil his genuineness. Hehad some camels and an aemed teepee to take the money away. It was paid. in gold, and the sum wee handed enter to him. (He would have bee,n impaled alive had the truth been gueased. He got over the harden, however, and tried the desperate plan of ',escaping through' Kaferistan; a deadly country; but the alaem wee raiSed,eancl he was captur- ed, by a Britten) petrel. Ile is still do- ing time in the Andaman penal settle - One of the biggest and moat 'whole- sale pihlaging expeditiona on record wan made by a eham -John Bull, who called himself Colonel Stoddart, but was really a plausible Turk ,by the name of &dim Hassan. He organised a, foa•ce of about twenty menall rig- ged out in English linen has. Wei regret to interne the CAMPAIGNING CLOTHES, reader, not been neinalurk"tecl,teiandtahlelerttirm":041.0noWilt,'li' tilile133'd%aaellethdeinidseolnf heiard about me and Marie, ike did Uncle 51, got to Franeoi sa,w tne • tain the Irish Viceroyship for another year iebelieved tobe not unconnected with a proepective visit of the King and Queen to Ireland when the period of Court mourning is over. King Ed- ward is known to hold the view ghat a royal visit shouldbe paid at lease' once a year to the sister island. His Majesty is credited with the intention of making his first entry into Dublin as, king in great state. Partly un- der pressure from the sovereign, and partly to oblige Lord Salisbury, Lord Cadogan will stay on at the castle. In extraordinary occurrence •took place in Dublin recently. A car driver naraed Bolger had an altercation with two aoldiers and assaulted them, when he wan arrested by the police, and after arrest broke spree glass in the Clarendon police station. He evite brought before the police inagietratee whodeclined to decide the case, send - log it on for trial. Bolger, who wile allowed out on bail, was greatly in- censed, thinking himself badly treat- ed, and proceeded to 'Mr. Byrne'e house in Leeson atreat, .Graining ad- mittance, he rushed into a room and commenced demolishing the fume ture with a blackthorn. He sraashed up a handsome clock, furniture, etc., to the tune, of over 23. He will un- doubtedly be severely punished. The emigration etatistics of Ire- land for the year 1950 have just beee presented to Parliament on the auth- ority of the Begiatrar-General of Ire. land. The number of emigrants whc left Irish ports last year eves, 47,107, being an increase of 3,317, ae cam, pared with the number in 1399. The number of malas who emigrated last year was 23,295, or 2,727 more than in the previous year, and of famine 23,812, an increase, of 620. Of tht 47,101 emigrant e in 1900, 45,288 were natives of Ireland, and 1,819 weri natises oi other countries. Compark with the corresponding figures fet 1899, the number of emigrants native( of Ireland ',shows an increase of 4,064 but the number of persons belonging tcp other countries shows a decreaet lug el,eed was pealcuireed OD eilarch el 709, 15th, 1900, evh,e,n a mien named M'Lead was dv,e,rpovieneel by the ftemes in 41:1 e,trepty still at the warks referred to. A calleatgue on, going to his rescue was oleo overr-powered, and t,h,e same, fate befell a,nother man' who bravely attempted toeffe,ct a double rescue. Allen, with indomitable pluck. insist - eel on being lowered into the still, and eve.nbuelly was eucceestal 10 bring- ing 'out all three anon, one at a lime Afilen was presented with the silver medal, but the soetety ;recently de- cided that the act. was the bravest deed of 1900, and therefore awarded him the geld medal. A timid odd lady was on board a steamer in the Gulf of Florida. She worried ono of the eailors to such, an exteet with que,stions as to the ves- eel's safety that Inc at last resorted to etrategy to silence her. . rin awfully nervous on the water, ahe remarked that afternoon, for the fiftieth time. Are you quite sure, MY man, that people are never drowri- ed in this bay? Incleed, I am, mum, was the reply. The 'sharks never let anybody drown hereabouts. REGIMENTAL COLOURS. eVilee,n the cc:lours of a regiment are , Loa old for furth,er USD, they; tire gen- erally hung up in a cathedra,' or pariah church of the 'territorial dis- trict to Which the, reginee.nt belongs. But some few years ago some old cceoure of tele 55th, Weetneorel and, Regiment were discovered 'hidden awaY in the r3CCISS33 (:).[ is pawnbrok- ing establishment in London. These ,00loure dated back ito 176), and there is every reason to believe ehat they, had been lying in the ,slicip for about a century. They were discovered by accident, as so xnany other relies of former times have been, but there vvas no recor,c1 to show how they came ther,e. When an editor is in a hurry he docen't waste ;words by saying, It rained. He simply writes', After, many daya •arid desiccation Alio vapoury captaine mainhalled their e ttlatindering hots, an 1 riallred 011.L tea eatoeching humanity atid the fhor- oughly vegetation s fesv inch,e.e of aqua pluVinlis„