HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1901-7-11, Page 6WICKED GIRL
MT • Antr OP,Ofa RAT.
(c0WiaNISED.)
• Yes; she desei.ves a liortsc. of her
t-INVIt for her devotion to law little
"a`.1)..e shall be rielia' aeclarea
perey, fervently, "If she will give
LC ehat fas'or."
Thee. very slowly and. thoughtful-
ly she went again. to her paulehig,
sinaeng no more for all the forame;
abat liad come to
CHAPTISill
1 leu, will. If was nothIng to renienas
Nre onlY yea, sneaked R\vay—ia that!
1 right wordt—Se Very demonstratH
ilely, Steven. s It was writtea so',
!airily across the back of your head.
sat You had seen it all, and taaaned
) get away before I caught sight'
k. you, and that you were very sorry,
I ir iny imbeeility, and pledged yoer-;
leli aot to te11. Oh, it was all as'
Hain, as print! Steven., I am rich'
lloW. :l have OVOrYthirig now—but;
you. I mean we have everything, fori
re have you. Steven, don't tremble
1 o.. Oh, how longingly I have wait -
c1 for you!"
"No, no!"
Ile spoke at last, hoarsely in his,
intense agitation, but his longing
eyes still told her what no words
could. :
"I have waited for you," she gen-
tly persisted. "I shall go on wait-
ing," i
"No, my—it would be a sin in
me.''
. '`.1_ shall wait," she said, In (plea
'earnestness, "if it be forever. Steven,
item once said—at least I thought
you Meant it, if you did not—that,,
though I had many faults=so true
that is r ----in your soul 1 bided. Was
not it that? Unless you have put
;me out of your soul I shall wait for
you forever. Oh, Steven," she eried,
arith actual pain, for the unspeak-
able gladness that her worde had
iorought into his lined face was at
;hat moment more -Limn she aould
bear. That words of hers Sfltillld
liange him so, told all that he 'would
pot—for her sake --confess.
1 "Oh, Steven," she cried, in actual
aein; and then 'could say no more,
anti!. a new thought and a new cour-
age came, To all seeming she spoke
.quite easily, looking across the room,
kaway from him. "I declare, Steven,
I have not yet properly renewed my
'admiring friendship with that dear,
Ingenuous gain of Mrs. Frayd's. Do
frou recollect how you despised inc
Tr not appreciating the orange -tint-
ed gold of the frame? You did. I
don't forget that, as it was that
picture which guided me to you,
Steven, and as --without it -1 might
hale beer, for years, or all my life,
and not found you, I must—kiss
itT''
Her lips had been always beauti-
fill to him, but he thought only now
of the svarm, brave, tender heart
!that stirred them.
"Yes,'' he said, still holding fast
his self-control in all his overflies,-
teriug love and gratitude, "yes--af-
terwardt''
; In a room in New York, so high,
that at was on a level with :many;
ef the city chimneys, Steveu Bassed
sat with a pen in his hand, aloe al,
balf-ffiled page before hina as he had;
at for hours. There was a pained
bewilderment on his worn face, for
he had had a long, hard chase after
lahougai,--which had not come at lds
icommanct. This painful experience
lavas growing sadly familiar to leirni
nowt and utter hopelessness Was 1 ol-
p)wing in its train. Yet, from tan
first-, he had said he would not feta
f any possible effort, any trying ever
iso wearily, would prevent it. But
i'ahe effort had grown to be a very
'des..peiring effort now. It had bena
i
Fmwing ever more so, since it had
aarsee beer, brought home to him thall
-, his old power had left him.
He supposed he had power once,
s editors in the .old country had
old him so, and that had gone arst,
Then went all his old ease and aue
'dacity, and that he often thought!
had served him best of all. Some
.critics had been tesed to speak of the
charm his unfailing geniality alway$
gave to his light and cynical vein;
put: sorrow had changed all that.
pverything he did now, he -.---perhaps
'best c., all his judges—knew to le
heavy and forced.
. "I myself," he said, in sadly hon -
pi self-contempt, "would never care
to read, much less to buy, the gray
stuff wbich is all I can write now."
Then he leaned back, and his quill
sti.1,1 bete -veal theme held the thin,
nervous fingers before his eyes.
it is no use. Yet what man can
aoar to do nothing? To seek help
'from 011•er—even if he knew I was
...1.ive to need it—is impossible, for
Iasi a Basset still, though I ehall
never own to it. Not that I have
need to be proud of that name,
though. In its best days it aevew
lead any value in my eyes, and nowi
kahat I have forfeited my identity)
!would I, after makirag myself con-'
§alcucus, come again to life to be
ahe cynosure— But something must)
ae done. I could get manual labor,'
perltaps, and willingly would; but
there's not strength enough left fit
Me now. I don't know why, for
llan. not ill, only growing bony, and
a -odd in the head sometimes. ,Sleepya
Tha consequence" (with a little cyni
iical smile). "of being delivered over
ao luxerioue idleness."
, ,
Steven was lying back in his chair,
and the room was very silent, so no
wonder the heavy lids fell over his
eyes, and the lined face (which held
lis look of power through all Oa
iphysical weakness) fell upon his
clasped hands. Beyond a doubt he,
;was falling asleep, at this hour.
when most busy men turn out to
peel,. He was indeed so far on his:
•Veaer to sleep, that he was only half',
aware of a, knock on his door, end
that after a pause it was opened
'neieeleesly. Presently his eyes en-
closed. and he saw some one,
dressed in black, standing before the
niantel-piece, and gazing at the
1
.1.1hotograph' of Mrs. Fra,yd in its or-
nate frame. How, could be know.
that this was Derry's excuse for,
not at first looking in his direction?'
„How could he know it was not a!
dream? As he looked, she turned:
,and quietly came toward him, utter-
ing his name almost in a whisper. ;
Stunned as it seemed, he rose. to
•his feet, then had to lean for actual
support against his chair, while his
hollow eyes devoured the tender face
before him.
''Steven.''
.Once again Derry pronounced his
name, not in a whisper this time, but
with a thrill of joy, and she took up
his thin, unsteady hand and held it
:between her own, stroking it and
!laying it at last against her cheek.
.' "Steven, i have coma." Then she
stood trembling in alarm, for she had
tnever before in all her life heard a
'man sob. . '
1, Holding his hand still in both of
hers, she waited silently, with smile'
1 , ,
,ing lips but most pathetic eyes, un -
'til the stroll.. resistless sobbing ceas-
''
ed. ;
"Yes Steven," then she said and
I • , ' ,
almost cheerfully, "I, have come _ 1
I
,mean we, Pat and me. Pat is my'
'father. Perha.ps you do not know..
GREAT RAGING. CRIMES,
SOME DARING- 0017P$ WITH A
TOUCH OF ROMANCE.
—.-.,
country. ,
A New Line of Tra.vol and Its Im- A typical instance of turning the
portant Possi'oilities Pointed tables on a similar gang of scowl -
Out. drels is furnished by a case that was
at the time the talk of the whole
Capt. Benn, British Vice -Consul at . racing fraternity. It occurred in
G-eistan, points out that there is now connection with Lord Avirs stables
to Europe. He has covered, it twice at Doncaster. Pellets oa sweetened
strychnine were found in St. Ledger
a really ova:land. route frona India
lay of three weeks at Meshed before favorite's manger, with the ,result
that his trainer, after consulting
and the only inconvenience was a de -
permission could be obtained for the with Lord Avil, had the horse re -
Bet this difficulty would not stand moved secretly to other quarters.
use of the Trans -Caspian railway.
in the way of travellers from. India In the the loose -box formerly occupied
who would make necessary arrange- I seedy animal, swathed up to the
y him there was placed a very
on their journey. !nose, with Lord Avil's cipher on his
cloahing and the name of the la-
ments for passports before starthaw I
Roughly speaking, the overland
route described by Capt. Berm runs
from Quetta to Geistan, through
Persian territory to afeshed, thence
to A.skabad on the Tra.ns-Caspia.n
Almost Every Crime Ras Been
coneraitted in Order to, Win
.A Horse Race,
At dead oi night on the eve of the
Derby of 18aa, taree men were bus-
ily engaged, 111 A secluded hollow on,
Epsom. Downs, burying the.body ef
a horse, says Loadon Aaewers. '
Th0. quadrnped in question was a
thoroughbred,, by, imam, 'Leander.
He imd cost many thousands of,
pounds sterling. , Ana, moreover, he
had been, oaly short while pre-
viously. it hot favorite for the clasS-
le race. Yet he ,
HAD D. ERN SHOT, BY 'ORDER
TH-g
OVERLAND ROUTE FROM& INDIA
"'0,440
....amorommermmotowoosro
1)erbar favPrite, ho should have _ j
c°rLairilY true, ek)11"111h1" a "'rtaill ESOAPI\G COWEIPTION
Won,, but Who dia not. it is aow
lenoWn that the trainer had been
of his owners, after haviig been pur-
posely made to fall and injure him-
self at exercise, and had then been
secretly and silently buried. First,
heWever, his lower jaw lad'heeea re-
moved.
The true inwardness of these re-
markable proceedings came out later
On, ill the COUrSe Of the great trial
of Orlando v. Running Rein. Lean-
der was not a three-yeaf-old horse at
all but a four-year-old; and many
people—among them the upright and
fearless Lord George' Bentinck --sus-
pected as much.
The same swindling gang, how-
eyer, had yet another four-year-old
whom they }fad christened Running
Rein, and with whom they lntendeo
winning -the same race, arguing:that,
public attention having been fixed,
upon Leander, the second horse
might be entered and run with im-
punity. As a matter of fact Run-
ning Rein did win; but an objection
was immediately laid on behalf of
Orlando, belonging. -to Colonel Peel,
who came in second. The litigation
that ensued proved conclusively that
Running Rein was, in reality a
horse named 'Maccabees, who was
foaled in 1810, and that the plot
lia.d been concocted and carried out
by a Jewish bookmaker, who, with
his confederates, hoped to net the
nice little sum of £50,000. During
the trial the body of the unfortunate
Leander was exhumed, by order of
the Court, and
TI -IE LOWER JAW
found to have been removed, as stat-
ed. The upper one, however, was
submitted to two eminent "vets.,'
each of whom declared the owner
thereof to have been four years old
at least. Warrants were thereupon
issued for the arrest of the principal
conspirators, who, however, fled the
ariber1—£1,5,000 Is tee eum which
ims since been mentioned—and that,
on the night preeecling the race, he Record of Occurrences in. the leancl
That Relies i.n the Commercial
the horsa's plates, and prielted hine
slightly in each of his heels, not World.
METHODS ADOPTED TO ELUDE
MILITARY DUTY.
IR MERRY OLD ElGLAND,
NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN
BULL AND HIS PEOPLE.
Inc!, with his own hands, talien oft
Recent Trial in Germany Elicited
'Dhe Many Ways in which
enough to matzo bun go lame, but Eight out of every 1.0,000 English
It Is Done.
quite sufficient to spoil his chance of people emigrate every year,
Probably the most sensational trial
which has taken plaae G ermany
winning.
This was some years ago. "Nob-
'd1- ...or very many years past was that
Wing now, it is, perhaps, v e
necessary to say, is conducted on far recently , concluded, at lalberfeld,
mere scientific priecieles. There are when nearly forty persons, including
chugs 'known to the initiated, so
several doctors, were charged. -with
sure; yet so evanescent, that eta, -
tion, after they have once been ad-
ministered, is practically impossible.
A racehorse is a. very delicate ma-
chine. Even an extra drink of
water, just before leaving the stable tounding facts came to light re-
fer the post, may make all the dif- goading methods which have beea
ference between winning, and losing. employed to cause conscripts tem -
A pailful would be almost certain to pantry illness or deformity, in order
do the trick, that they might escape their term of
rol if Fp uic°0d11},sooPuwi ig'ialhicgtyatt:t ehaternpwardaces-
ing received and taken picric acid
insiliette-traraidiu.etcyr.uits confessed to hate
sence of mind of the pills in Order to produce feigned
FAMOUS TRAINER JOHN SCOTT. jaundiee, and even pills to ,produce
The horse that was to be "doped"--- temPorarY' affectfort of the heart,
to use the moderh slang aerin—Was which had been supplied for the Pur -
Cotherstone. whom Scott was train- PectieSetibiyaLtheinpesresvoenrsal. cilausPelsifattoeod, rien.
cruits had been advised to use cer-
tain glasses, for the purpose of pro-
ducing short-sightedness, while a
temporary affection Was also caused
the ears. sonle.secret mixture into
Conscripts were also shown how to
cleverly feign rupture, While •con-
sumption was also simulated by
thiowing up blood, which had pre-
viously been swallowed. And so
cleverly were these practices 'carried
out that the army doctors were de-
ceived over and over again, and re-
ported young fellows unfit Inc ser-
vice who had
BEEN OPERATED UPON.
In fact several army doctors were
also charged, in the earlier stages of
the trial, with being concerned in
helping unwilling recruits to escape,
,but were afterwards honorably ac-
quitted, the other prisoners receiv-
ing sentences ranging from three
months to seven years.
Recruit faking is also practised to
a large extent hi Russia, probably
more so than in any ,other country
in which the laws of conscription
being concerned in obtaining the re-
lease of recruits from. military ser-
vice by illegal medical practices.
During the course of the trial, which
occupied twenty -ono days, sonie as -
vonte over the door. He was kept
.
close, never allowed to go out, and `•
IT WAS DARKLY HINTED
that the favorite had gone wrong,
railway, across t.he CasPian to Baku a,nd that it was very questionable
and home via Petrovsk and Moscow. I whether he would run.
The reason that the practicability 1 Naturally, the bait was eagerly
of this route has only just been dee ) swallowed by the plotters, who had
monstrated is that it is only within I their own very excellent reasons for
the last year or so that the Indian I believing the rumors to be true.
Government has taken steps to open Their dismay can be imagined when
up the caravan route from Quetta to the real favorite cantered to the
the Persian. frontier. This route was post, on the eventful day, in perfect
known to exist, and centuries ago it form. He won easily, to the in -
was the scene of a flourishing trade tense disgust of the rogues who had
under Arab rule, but Asian misgov- been laying 100 and 150 to 1
ernment and decay supervened, and against him, believing him to be lit -
until Northern Baluchistan came un- tle better than a dead 'un." Lord
der the I3ritish aegis any restoration Avil and his friends netted amongst
of the old caravan road was imprac- them some 225,000, the larger por-
ticable. tion 'of- which came out of the pock -
Capt. Webb -Ware hits, however, ets of the criminals.
been indefatigable in establishing To poison a heree is bad enough.
.
halting places and postal stations, To poison a man. is, of course, far
in arranging Inc supplies and fodder svoese. Yet even this latter atro-•
and digging wells, and ,in improving cious crime has not been altogether
the alig-ement of the road. The absent from the chronicles of .Eng -
trade returns for the past twelve- glish racing. A notable instance is
month. shosv a marked increase over afforded by the murder, by means of
. .
those for the preceding year, and arsenic mixed with his food, of Sir
there appears no doubt that. a very Charles Bunbury's training groom,
great commerce between . Western In- a man named cox. The victim had
dia, aria Persia will eventually purposely. given false information
spring up along this formerly ne- concerning a mare named Eleanor to
glected line of march. some low racing touts. When he was
It shows clearly enough that. a dying it is reported that be called
settled and strong rule will soon the clergyman to his bedside, and,
make light of the physical and polit- in whispered and broken accents, jai,
ical difficulties which beset commune- plored him. to back Eleanor for the,
cations across a sterile region, pa- double event—the •Derby and the
trolled by roving bands of Oaks --adding that she was as cera
tain to carry them off as the sun.
BALUCTI ROBBERS. was to rise on the following day.,
As a matter di fact, she did win
iNc have ecnIle f°r Yun----I, mean, ' Hitherto people have failed to real-
Ireadily, in his silence of great repres, ize the possibility of connecting lne both these classic races; but, need-
sion, '`eve came to do dad's eyes good dia With Europe by rail, mainly lee- less to Sn'y' the Worthy clergyman
because be had tried them too muche.
,
, ause the regions west of the former did not profit therebY•
and a, holiday ee-as recommended. And were so desolate, sparselY populated • Details concerning many of the
ed to see is and' not the and imperfectly known.
tricle Joseph lives here, and he want -.worst crimes, involving the "nob-
, --
terruption which: she longed for, nd "It cannot be denied." says the hlingf" ' . * ,
help in telling, only this strong self,' Daily Chronicle, commenting upsm 011 ATTED B
MPTENOBLING
control — "and we wanted to
this, "that if we were'to display the of the favorites for classic races,
Uncle Joseph awfully, So we thoughti same enterprise over opening up our never really cornes to light- at all,
se,1
of a trip in a Cunarder to—to find sphere in Asia that Russia has over The men who plot these coups are
you, Steven."hers with her Trans-Cia,spian and Si- astute and cuimitig, are usually dan-
gerous customers to interfere with,
The truth had burst through all1 baeerrlyttnaarpaeial.wefe8'siwepet5ohw°Llisrirld (ho000-aon- alai have plenty of money at, their'
;without his encouragement. ,eahVhj Solidation of our empire. It is in command. Hence they are left sat
aer touching childish disguise, en
Steven, Wo w
Want to—only" t h a contemplation to run a telegraph vereiy alone by those "in the know,"
gulp) „we want to tell you w,hoittaw4.1 line along the road from Quetta via ;either through fear, or thrOugh ; self-.
owe you--claa and 7, and Uncle ,ToJ Nushki to the Persian frontier, and interest/ Who, for insteetce, wore the
he
ing for Lord Westminster, and with
whom. he was confident of carrying
off the Derby against the favorite—
Gaper. The latter had been backed
for enormous sums—Lord George
Bentinck alone had, £180,000 on
and a ring had been formed—of
ceurse without the knowledge or,con-
sent of that "itobleman—to try to
bribe the '‘Wizard of the North."
They little knew their man. "Scott,"
said a friend. afterwards, who was
present in an ante-roome during the
interview, "never looked angrier."
Rushing out of the room, he grab-
bed a heavy whip, crying out: "That
cad in there has actually offered Inc
twenty thousand pounds to permit
his dirty touts to get at °other -
stone! I'll thrash the life out of
him," But "that cad" had taken
. ,
fright and fled
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A HAUNTED HOUSE.
Story From Scotland of a Ghost
And a Series of Dreams.
Some years ago my wife had re-
peated dreams of a house, the int,er-
ior . arrangement of which she de -
are enforced. So skilfully, howe-ver,
scribed minutely, althous...1..110 idea as is the business managed that the p0-
to its locality was conveyed to her,
lice experience the greatest difficulty
in. tracing the parties concerned.
But a few months agd the authori-
ties at Moscow succeeded in arrest -
says a writer in the London Spec-
tator. Subsequently in the year
1863 I hired for the autumn from
Lady 1.4— a house in the highlands,
with shooting and fislain
my son, ing a woman who for several years
a
who was in See -Gana a'st the time, past has made quite a comfortable
income by artificially mutilating
young fellows who wished to escape
their term of military service.
Her favorite method was to inject
under the skin of the finger and toe
arranged. the matter, neither ray
wife nor I having seen the place.
When wont (without my wife) to
make final arrangements for taking
possession Lady B— was still liv-
ing in the house, and she told me joints some preparation of petrol -
that if I did n.ot mind she proposed, eum, which produced a very natural-
puttieg me for the night into a bed.- looking contraction of the joint op -
room. which she herself usually occu- erated upon. Her clients were chief -
pied, and which. for some time paat ly the sons of poor people, who
had been haunted by "a little lady" could not afford to pay much for be -
who continually appeared in it. As
I was somewhat sceptical upon such
matters, I replied -that I should be
delighted to make the acquaintance
of her ghostly visitor, and I ac-
cordhagly slept in the room, but no
such visitor appeared ta me.
Subsecmently, upon my wile's ar-
rival at he house. she, to her great
astonishment, found sit to be the
counterpart of her dream house,
and on inspecting it from hall to at- had always managed to evade them,
tic every detail appeared to corres- until' Someone betrayed her by giv-
pon.d. But on descending again to ing information to the authorities.
'The soldiers' pay of is. a day dat-
es back to the end of the 18th cen-
tury.
t2,a710b0e abc.:10-eardel.s of lang•land has 232
clergy in Scotland 820 in Ireland
The affairs of the Duke of Man-
thester show an estimated deficiency
of 223,000.
Lord Rosebery has accepted tho of-
fice of I-Iigh Steward of Kingston. -
upon -Thames.
A. society for the protection of
husbands from drunken wives is
formed in l_iondon.
The ground on which was fought
the first battle of Newbury, in 1.643,
is to be sold soon, '
Only one in. 200 of English crim-
inals is sentenced to imprisonment
for a year or over.
Volunteers must put in (50 drills in
in
Wtoltlieiglehrtfidii•assty.u. under
a er4e)aa:LSt 011t2,hedrsi 101 sl
ent
oldest Enight --61 the Order of the
Which is only two miles wide.
third year and 12 in fourth year.
The proposed tunnel to the Isle' of
Bath, completed. his 92nd year the
Sir Edward Blount, who is the
The estate of the lath George M.
Smith, the publisher of Smith, El-
der 8., Co., London, was sworn at
£761,965.
Three thousand. women spend their
lives in driving and steering the can-
al boats in Southern and Midland
England.
It has been computed that the
"survivors" of the Balaclava Charge
outnumber the whole of the British
army in the Crimea.
The Dean and Chapter have con-
sented to the erection in the Exeter
Cathedral of a memorial, to the au-
thor of "Lorna Doone."
The Right Rev, Cosmo Gorcibn
Lang, the, new Bishop of Stepney,
bas been'presented with 250 by his
old parishioners in Portsea.
hag "faked," although many of the
well-to-do often placed themselves in
her hands. -
It appears that the woman's hus-
band, who died about two years ago
had also carried on this extraordin-
ary trade, and after ' -his death" the
widow. continued in the same busi-
ness. The police had long had sus-
picions regarding the illegal opera-
ticins which she carried on, but she
the hail, she said: "No this cannot
be the house after all, as in my
dream there was another suite of
rooms on that sicie, which is missing
here:" She was at, oncwtold that
there was suth a site of apartments
not approacleed from the hall, and
on being taken, over them she recog-
nized.,every room. She, however,
said that a bedroom in this suite
appeared- in he dream to be a sit-
ting room, and it appeared that this
had been the case, .but that the ar-
rangement had just been altered.
A day or two after, my wife and I
met Lady B—, and I introduced
the two ladies to each other, as they
had not previously been acquainted.
Instantly Lady- B— exclaimed,
"Why, you are the lady who haunt-
ed my bedroom." I have no ex-
planation to offer -nor had my wife
during the rest of her life, as to
what some might calla renaarkable
coincidence, and what would be cal-
led in the highlands a case of se-
cond Sight. Certainly my dear wife
was the last person M the world to
give undue license to her imagina-
tion, and further, I'can vouch for
the fact, and so can other members
of nay family, that she did undoubt-
edly describe accurately a house
which had some rather remarkable
arrangements, and t his : ong bef are
she or any other rnem1Ders of the
family were even aware that such a
house really existed.
SIB, JOHN.
the railway ie not Wont, to lag far members of the gang which, in A89
seph"--who had never heard Steven ' 4 1 ' . .
pilule! behind the telegraph. ' got at"
1 theW
Duke of estminster s
'Di that case the overland route Orme? Columns were svritten .1,bcetit
8(111 (hat touching silence 01 r& to I
ndia„ via' Moscow' anal hfeshea the affair in the Prees at the time,
traintstill his hungry eyes devoute
Deg her, "What do we not owe youi will come to be a formidable rival, and £1,000 was publicly offered 1)1'
fo
s, l
,3teVen.? This'' a— with a Stldtleri in, pointtoi f both tiine
.. arid money, to any information (het would leaa to
a. like y , .0 it say no ling O oneemeneta to ,t ne the arrest, of the criminals. vet the
, , .
'at Harraok's.., I mean net at col ilk4
THE POLICE OF PARIS
recently unearthed a 'whole band of
persons who made large sums of
money by helping young Frenchmen
to escape conscription. Liice the
woman in Moscow, they made de-
formities to order," only the band
worked on ui
a nch larger snale.
'
Merp.bers of the band would copy
from the official lista the names of
yoiing fellows who would be required
for military service when the next
call was issued. They would then
find out those who wished to escape
the service, and for a thousand
francs offer to cause them a bodily
infirmity which they said would, of
course, heal up again after a.xtime,
but which would prevent the army
doctor from passMg them. as fit for
military duty.
If a young fellow accepted their of-
fer a member of the band would be
detailed off to cause the infirmity,
which he generally produced by
twisting and squeezing the toes and
fingers, and thus after a few days
treatment deforming the hand and
foot. It is said that many hundreds
of young Frenchmen have undergone
this operation in. order to escape
conscription, and it was only
through one of them refusing to pay
that the police got an inkling of the
work which was being carried on.
Temperance Sunday was specially
observed in no fewer than 541 plac-
es of worship in the London Dioceze
of the Church of England.
Admiral of the. fleet Sir John Ed-
mund ,Corninerell, V: C., G. C. 13.,
died suddenly on the 21.st ult., at,
his London house, 4.5 Rutland Gate.
Queen Victoria's memory is to be
kept green by a birthday bpok com-
prising an anthology of sentences
spoleen or written by her late Ma-
jesty.
English bands in 'hotels anal res-
taurants are 'being steadily replaced
by foreign onee. The excuse for en-
gaging them isathat they are far su-
perior to English bands.
A great naval review at Spithead
is mentioned as one of the most im-
posing of the national celebrations
ia connection with the coronation
of next year—probably in June.
Lord Salisbury is a collector of historic relics, and his house atHat-
field is full of the results of Ids re-
searches. He owns among these the
cradle in which Queen Elizabeth was
rocked as‘ a baby.
,In a certain school it is the cus-
tom when a new boy arrives for the
master tie ask his name before the
whole -class, so that this may serve
as an introduction to the rest, of the
scholars. One day a new boy cante
to the school, and, as uSual, he was
asked his name.
John Brown, he replied.
Sir, said the mester, severely,
, John Brown again replied the boy.
Put a sir to your answer then,
roared the master.
Sir John Brown came from the
boy.
The reply set the whole class into
Laughter; but as it was $o naturally
and innocent:1,y sa d the master o r-
geve him ancl jOilled in the laughter,
and the, pupil is now nicknaMed Sir
John.
chang° 01 tone — 18 13 Ma 3 ° p. ,
nu O. ai. N. company and other names of the real aelprits were never aa
no adinirals dying in a crowd. el Iltt:tre no inforination as yet regard- men are knOWn; and theta is certain A --SIT`IF-''IATI) FL'ILOW'
,0 10 . ., .
?deck, ix, shirt_frins starched, art ing the cost of the journey from. Iha to be on the course at. every big Swiggers—That man Matinee
there? .Aild no brown, pipes tildel, i • dia.ot Quetta to Meshed; but, as- Meeting more then one of them, ebresed fellow,
.,......undor them oh how that ..d sealing, ii, coena not be much mere with cheek suit nild itapessive lace, Swagger s—whve
covSred ine With confUsion that hrs1 than a tan-pouna note, the total lustily shouting the °ads. Swiggers—fle gave a, lawn mowing
„Itmor'ning! 1 remember so wren, 1, s,hati cost of tae journey from India to There is also the story, party' eeeterdey' Luta had the guests
,talto.z.,for.del it. slisoi..,..4,4. 01 „ma Loridasa Would amount to £44. known to all raeing mem and. cut the grass.
h' Y t inc .1a,tist,. We even hinted et,. 3.;Tevertlie.lees, the
sir allots there is it? There art steemS an 311eSI
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DEAR LITTLE 1,i1IDDIES7
Wordsworth's lines of the child at
play, "as if his whole vocation were
endless imitation," svere recently re -
Called by a conversation overheard
in the children's ward in a hospital.
A 'little girl, whose role was that
of nurse, rang an imaginary tele-
phone on the wall to talk to her
companion at the farther end of the
room, who played the part, of doctor.
Halloat said tha nurse. Is ' that
the doctor? -
Yee, anssvered her companion, in a
deep voice; this is the doctor.
This lady is very ill, lie was in-
formed.
Well, what Seems to be the matter?.
She has swallowed a whole battle
of ink, .saicl tbe nurse.
The doctor, not flurried, inquired
what had been done for the patient;
but the nurse, too, was ready 'in em-
ergencies.
She ariswered I gave her two pads
of blotting paper.
81 per 1,000 of men married in
England cannot' sigatheir names,
and 36 women.
A MODERN BOER FIGHTER.
Gen. Delarey Who Has Just Gain,
ed Notoriety in South Africa..
General Delarey, the Boer come
mandant who is making another De
Wet of himself in the guerilla war-
fare of South Afi•ica, is probably the
most modern and up-to-date of the
Afrikander fighters. He is said to
be a perfect gentleman in his man-
ners and to be far in advance of his
fellow burghers in the matter of
dress. He affects none of the negli-
gence of attire so. dear to the eye
of the real Boers, yet at heart he is
as sturdy, as stolid and as,pastora,1
RS De Wet or Cronje. Delarey is
the officer who engineered the clever
capture of the Scots FuSiliers. He
is now the main pillar of the ciwind.-
ling Boer army, and unless stooped
by a bullet he will probably be the
last to lea-ve the field. For eleven'
years he sat in the -volltsraad, but he
was known as the Silent, Mall. He
rarely spoke except in secret council,
and he was warmly opposed to the
sending of the ultimatum to Great
Britain.
has no love for Kruger. "No
good," he says, "can ever come, to
us until that old man has passed
away." ,
1 -le is one Boer general who refused
to accept men who had taken the
oath of neutrality.
1 -le has his own private griefs ,as
well as public ones. His firstborn
Was killed at Modcler River. The in-
cident was Roinanesque. The son,
a boy p115, Was struck by 'a bullet
while at his father's side.
. "Are you hit, iny boy?" asked the
general.
'.1.7es, father."
They went to the ambulance.
'Toes it pain my boy?"
"Yes father.''
"Are you going to die"
"Yes, father."
'Tall en hour later the lad Wag
dead.
But Delarey fights ore and at his
side is another son, younger but as
brave as the first. One British cri-
tic, writing of the war, says that all
would have gone well always if there
had been. more Delarey and lees
Kruger.
OTJT OF THE PALE.
I -Te is so cultivated papa, Ile can
speak French and German, den
c.
and plays the piano beatitio
Um! Can he earn a. living?
No. But he said he didn't thinlii
that was necessary.
China's silk crop is a% million lbs.,*
of. which two -fifth l cpcported,