Exeter Advocate, 1901-7-18, Page 21: A MUSICAL •••°
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Bric-a-brac was the only eubject
upon which Sir Donald Sinclair's
thouglits were ever known to
dwell conseeutively for longer than
fifteen minutes; and when he tumbled
scanty of breath'and visibly perimeh-
ed, into nay office one morning I in-
stantly connected the visit with that
topic, an assumption wbieli his first
dozen,weasIs proved to be correct.
"Saunders,” lie jerked out, "can
you come baek with me at once? A
Sevres vase of mine—a thing :I've re -
refused a cool thousand for twice—
has been broken, and I'm anxious to
know how it came about."
"Certainly, Sir Donald," I replied
affably. "I will be at your service
in less than five minutes"; and after
dictating a couple of letters to my
clerk I announced my readiness to
depart. The baronet, who had been
fidgeting uneasily with his gloves,
gave his coachman a curt 'Mame!"
and we were soon bowling along
quickly in the direction of Park
Lane.
must tell you, Saunders," he
said, "that I am not presuming to
occupy your valuable time with this
matter Out of idle curiosity. Unfor-
tunately, no. I _have good cause to
believe. that the loss which I have
' sustained is due to Wilful damage on
the part of my nephew, Roderick
Mowbray; and this is the point I
wish to clear up. And by Jupiter,
sir, if it is so, take precious
good care he never sees a penny of
• nay money or marries my daughter
either !" And, pulling out his hand-
kerchief, Sir Donald blew his nose
with vigorous emphasis.
"Do I understand, then, that he "is
about to marry your daughter?"
asked.
"He wants to—there's the rub !
Briefly it amounts to this. He came
to me yesterday telling me he loved
her, couldn't live without her, and
this, that, and the other —, Eve no
patience with such ridiculous non-
sense—until I cut him pretty short
by asking him how much he had lost
at cards the night: before, and if he
expected to keep a wife in that way.
Master Roderick lost his temper at
that, and 1—well, perhaps I said
more than I intended. Anyhow he
(took himself off a few minutes an a
'rare passion, vowing never to set
foot in the house again—a threat
which I, of course, estimated at its
proper value—and I've not seen him
since. This morning, however, on
going into the drawing-roe,n, I
found ray Sevres vase lying in a
complete wreck on the shelf of tl,e
cabinet; and all I can learn in c,x-
'planation is that one of my maids
saw my nephew fling angrily' into
,that room. for a moment before leav-
ing yesterday."
" And the inference is that in a
spirit of revenge he deliberately
smashed the vase ?" -
"Just so!" Sir Donald settled in-
to his corner and pulled his grey
Moustache indignantly.
"You are satisfied that it was all
right when he went into the room, I
suppose ?" —
"It was at four o'clock; ray daugh-
ter, who was playing the piano, is
sure of it.,"-
-nr "And no one has entered the room
since ?"
"So far as I can ascertain," was
the reply, "he was the last person
there. I have given directions that
nothing is to be disturbed during my
absence, so that I believe you will
find things just as they were yester-
day."
"Thank you; that will undoubted-
ly make any task easier," I said.
"Now, will you tell me at what
time Mr. Mowbray left you ?"
"About half -past five. as ne.u•ly as
possible."
By this time we had reached Sir
Donald's town house, and I. asked
to be shown into the drawing -room
straight away. The handsome black
cabinet which stood at the far end
was a conspicuous object; and I was
soon viewing the remains of the Di-
lated piece of china. Its companion
stood at the other. end of the shelf;
and 'one did not need to be a con-
noisseur to see that it was a gem of
ceramic art. ,
As it chanced, I had some small
acquaintance with Roddie Mo vbray,
and although well endowed with the
headstrong-ness of youth and perhaps
something of the spendthrift in addi-
tion,-;.. I knew that these were his
worst qualities. That he would be
capable of taking such a mean and
paltry revenge for a few hastily
spoken words as Sir Donald attrib-
uted to him I did not for a moment
believe; nor did I think that the lat-
ter himself seriously considered it to
be true. Teather, I suspected, did he
,wish to establish the fact of his
nephew's innocence in spite of the
circumstantial evidence ; hence his
call on me.
From the start, in fact, I was
strongly prejudiced in Mowbray's fa-
vor. Probably it was this which
caused me to look for something ex-
ceptional in the case; at any rate,
after making a preliminary inspec-
tion of the details, I found myself
contemplating a soneewhat fantastic
theory which had come into my head
as a possible solution of the mys-
tery,
As Miss Sinclair was the only
person who could help me forward
on this point I went in search of
her. Five nairiutes' conversation and
the deepened color in her cheek each
time she mentioned her cousin's
name showed plainly how the lady's
affections stood, and 1 Mentally cdri-
gratttiated the young gentleman on
11114 ttiSte arid geed fortune alike,
" PtOWy Xise said, Etf-
ASV1 had disposed of the prelimln-
[Oleg, "1 eliOttld be glad to know, in
Place, if you aro Satisfied
that yotie SerVatits are above w4p-
tldff title Matter',"
'1 belieWO eo," she ,replied, "None
4ifthein le allowed la he to duet --
11 make that a tn offOnal task—
hand their 4ii10 hrL,. them into
Very' 01.4Onlen ' •
we Will dismiss the sr/ants
1.1-aza the q*Iteetion at, once, You
were in here Yourself), 1 believe,
terday afternoon ?"-,
• I Nres.1,,k,
Yes. -
"And this unfortunate vase was
then all right ?"
"Again sho nodded in the affirnia-,
ti,V0-
are quite sure of it ?"
"Quite! 1 noticed it particularly."
"When Was thiS—seen aftOr you
came into the roem, or hacl you
been in some time ?"
"Perhaps 1 had been, here half an
hour.''•
You were playing the piano,
think. Will you tell me what`f pyon
were playing ?"
"Principally Chopin; I am takinga course of him just now." I think
she wondered what I was driving at.
"Do you remember what was the
last, thing you played? Try
Please !"
Again she looked her surprise, b
after a moment's consideration, t
me it was Ohopin's Polonaise in
major.
"When you had finished, did you
get up from the piano and come'
straight out of the room—without
noticing the vase particularly a sec-
ond time, that is ?"
"I certainly did not notice it spe-
cially again."
"Thank you. Just one other qu
time, Excuse nay apparent rudene
but will you tell me what makes y
so positive that it was unbroken
the first occasion ? I wish• to
away with the slightest possibili
of doubt on that point." 14
"There is not the slightest doubt
in My mind," returned the young
lady, with decision. "I haPpened to
observe that there was a large spi-
der thread just in front of the vase;
and it reminded me very forcibly
that I had omitted to dust there
that morning'," Then I suppose she
gathered from the expression on my
face that there was a change in the
situation, for she went on very
quickly : "Oh, Mr. Saunders, you
know something -- yes ! Rod --Mr.
Mowbray is innocent ; tell me, is it
not so ?
The rosy blush and the little hand
laid so pleadingly on mine broke
through professional reticence.
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"Well, Miss Sinclair," I said, " I
had noticed that spider -thread my-
self, and wondered what it meant.
I think I may venture to say now
that we are on the way to success."
Then I wondered whether I had
rbdsed her hopes unjustifiably; after
all, the clue was very slender.
The next thing I didwas to drive
straight to Messrs. Meredith &
Muir's, the well-known art and-rsic-
a-bra.c dealers. The sending -up of
my card, with a brief hint as to the
nature of the business easily procur-
ed me an interview with the head of
the firm, and his first words gave me
a shock nearly as great as if a bomb-
shell froin the clouds had dropped at
nay feet.
"My dear sir, shall I let you into
a little secret ?" The Old gentleman
peered at me through his glasses al-
most, as critically as he had done a
moment before at the fragments of
china on his desk. "That -vase was
not Sevres at all—only imitation !"
, "Wh-at !" It was all that I could
say.
" Right, I assure you," he sal
With a peculiar smile. "It's rathe
a curious story. Whemi the pair wer
put up for sale about six month
ago competition ran high, and it wa
only after some spirited bidding tha
Sir Donald, secured them. Shortly
afterwards he was asked by th
trustees of the Angle -Scottish Mu
sewn, who had been` very anxious to
become the owfiei-s themselves, if he
would allow copies to be made for
exhibition in their •colleetions. Ra-
ther flattered, I .-think, at the re-
quest, he consented, and the mattei
was put into my hands to arrange.
Now comes the queer part of the
business. When the copies were
ready, by some stupid bungling, Sir
Donald, instead of getting back his
own property, received one original
and one imitation, one spurious and
one genuine vase likewise going to
the nruseum. Strangest of all, nei-
ther side discovered the mistake, till
this very week.. On Tuesday, I think
it was, I received an urgent wire
from the curator of the museum; be
chance he had spotted what ha.d hap-
pened, and sure enough, when I got
there, I had to acknowledge that he
was right."
"But are you sure of all this ?" I
asked in astonishment, Here was a
mew feature, with a vengeance I
"Quite ! Here are the pair frc.m
the museum Look at them — mar-
vellously alike, are they not ?"
"And. Sir Donald's broken vase is
a thing of merely nominal value ?"
" Pre-cisely ! I haven't dared facc
him yet; he's too good a customer
to want to lose, and I'm afraid it's
a case this time !" Mr. Meredith's
face bespoke the concern he felt at
the prospect.
"You think so ?" I eaid dryly. "I
fancy that, apart from the blow to
his aplomb to be told that, he's had
a 'fake' in his house three months,
he'll be rather glad to learn of the
mistake. Look here' had been
rapidly revolving a scheme in my
mind—''can you truet me with
those ? You'll oblige me eternally,
and I think I can promise that you
won't be a loser by the transaction."
"Certainly, certainly ; I shall be
only too pleased, Mr. Saunders.
Anything that, 1 ca,n do to assist
you . . ." Mr, Meredith rubbed his
hands together inueh more cheerfully
than one would have believed possi-
ble a anoment ago, and even began
to wax enthusiastic over the theory
—which he was pleased to call high-
ly ingenious -- which 1 stiggested as.
an explanation of the shattered vase.
As for me I was very soon off back
to Park Lane in a hansom, with nay
precious blarden by my side, not less
gratified than astonished a,t the re-
markable way in which `things had
veered round. little dreamed on
setting. out, to ask old Meredith a
few questions on the properties of
fragile china that I should. learn so
much.
"New, Sir Donald," I began, when
I was once more seated with that
gentleman and his daughter in the
drawing -room, "with your perniis-
sion ani about to try small ex-
periment. Perhaps," I saw that he
Was bubbling over with totes of in-
terrogatiOn,. "you 'kindly defer
any questions for the menient ?
Thank You ! Miss Sinclair, will You
be so kind 08 to place this as nearly
es you can in the position oceupie
by the vase whin unfOrtunatelY
came to grief ?"
Sensation number one ! 'There was
a duet of surprised exclarnations an
I took the coverings off my lucky
•L''find."
" Oh I" This from tbe young
lady, in an ascending treble./
"Well, I'm !" Sir Donald's
bass said it at the same instant.
vase !"
"Noe Sir Donald. Only a very fair
in\itation of it."
e"But how the dickens? Where---"
My glance, and a strong personal
cawt—there was no mistaking that
it was an effort — managed to re-
strain his impatience ; and we pro-
ceeded.
"Thank you, Miss Sinclair. Now
will you be so good as to play to us
the Chopin A Polonaise, if you have
no objection ?"
I opened the instrument— a Broad -
wood grand—invitingly, and sank in-
to n comfortable chair. Sir Donald
hesitating whether to be angry or
only mystified, finally did likewise.
The lady herself, 1 oould see, began
to realise that there was method in
my apparent madness, and seated
herself quite blithely at the key-
board. Trust a woraan's head, as
well as her heart, when her lover's
concerned !
I am not exaggerating when I say
that Chopin's brilliant' composition
received a brilliant rendering; Miss
Sinclair had genius at her finger-
tips. The` bright staccato, the deli-
cate crescendo broadening out into a
massive fortissimo, and general
crispness of the first few bar rshowed
the real 'artist; the ponderous, crash-
ing discords which came afterwards
revealed a strength Whichonewould
hardly have guessed the delicate
hands and slight, blue -veined wrists
to possess. ,
But it was not aesthetic consider-
ations which had brought me there;
all my faculties of observation were
concentrated in another direction,
I was playing for a big stake; and
a slight nervousness was excusable
under the circumstances. As nearly
as possible I had reproduced certain
conditions, in the hope that what I
believed to have taken place under
those conditions would be repeated ;
if it was not, I should look, to say
the least of it, foolish.
Nothing had happened when she
came to the second section of the
piece. This is. entirely different f: om
the first, consisting of a melody
loudly proclaimed by the right hand
with staccato accompaniment in the
left, in. the key of D. She dashed off
at it with a vigour that certainly re-
alised the energico directed by the
composer, and might have made me
tremble for the piano , had it not
been that inwardly I rejoiced at the
forceful descents which her right
hand made on the long -enduring keys
Two or three bars' of eplick modular
tions; theii there wa.s a lightning
chromatic scale in octaves, leading
to the key -note and a resumption of
the original theme. That octave D
did it. She came down on it with a
tremendous crash; I rose abruptly.
"Thank you, Miss Sinclair!" She
stopped — astonished. Sir 'Donald
was also on nis feet.
"That is how your vase was
smashed, Sir Donald ! " I said, -
pointing to • the cabinet. It lay in
several pieces !
"But how—what ig all this, Saun-
ders ?" he asked, after a silence.
"What does it all mean ? I don't
understand."
"It means, Sir Donald," I replied,
"that you have here an illustration
of •a very pretty 'scientific truth,
namely, that sound causes -vibrations
which are capable of being, trans-
mitted from one body to another.
In the present case, that vase res-
ponded• to the D vibration. Miss
Sinclair, as you observed, struck the
note with considerable foree, and the
vibration was sufficient to cause the
vase... -.—as delicate and fragile an ar-
ticle as one could well imagine— to
break. 'The phenomenon, is, of
course, at'are, but quite reasonable."
Whether lie, altogether, understood, I
don't know ";,. anyhow, he was bound c
to accept the evidence of his own '
eyes.. "Your nephew., Sir Donald, is
quite innocent in the matter. His
hurried look into the drawing -room 1
yesterday is, 1 "believe, ,quite easy of
explanation. Can you tell me what
this is ?" I held up a small photo- b
graph -frame — enapty—for inspection. s
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The Sale of the King's Horses at Wolferton • A Tandem Pair,
King Edward VII„ as is av,ell
known, is, and has been for many
years, an enthusiastic breeder of
horses and stock. With the care
taken in their selection it is not to
be wondered at therefore that much
interegt is taken by horse dealers of
the best class and the horse -loving
public generally on the occasion of
the sale of any portion of His Majes-
ty's stud. As can \yell he imagin-
ed, there is active competition tit
these sales and 'the bidding is al-
ways brisk, 'long' prices being in -
Variably realized.
FORTUNES MADE IN A DAY
INSTANCES WHERE PAUPERS
rthavE I3ECO1VIE RICH,
A 1'001' Cotton Spinner's Luck --
Fortunate ,Result of a Mouse
Hunt.
In these days of wild gambling on
tho Stock Exchange it is quite com-
mon to hear lucky speculators
cleating thousands in a day. But
t e romance of the Stock Exchange
e
is a. sordid thing .compared with the
extraordinary accidents 'which every
now and then turn a pauper into a
millionaire, as if by the Wave of a.
magic wand,. says. London Answers..
Take, for instance, the case of
Manchester, cotton -spinner who had
worked ham :d for - • f
."Ihe Wise general gives his beaten
week. He 'had time Misfortune one
seals or $7.50 a
millionaire within a very few years.
Almost ecitually startling was the
rise of Maxmilian Damn, twenty
years ago a clerk iu the City of Mex-
ico on $750 a year. I -le saved a lit -
tie from his small salary and went,
into business as a money -lender',
Taking over a supposedly worthless
mine for a bad debt, he tested the
workings, and discovered the great
El "Pronientario silver lead, which
nciw gives him the comfc.n.table fn
come of $600,000 a year.
HOW TO PURSUE.
Exactly What to Do When Your
Enemy Ilas•I-Iad Enough.
The rule in warfare when, your en-
.
emy has had enough, and signifies
the 'same in the usual manner by
running away, is to give him some
more.
day in 1897 to -be accidentally enemy /10 FCSt, but continties,to,push
and .hammer hinruntil.'a vanquished
poisoned with acetic 'acid. He took,
it appears; enough to 'kill three or- army retreating in good order be-
comes a broken and disorganized
dinary men,. yet did not . die, and so met) of men with rifles. .
remarkable was the case considered This part of .the work is done by
that a. Well-known doctor wrote to a the mounted men, and. the general'
London paper on the subject. The
letter, was copied into an Australia'? an
who fritters away his 'cavalry during
jburnal, and there eeen. 'by the cot- action inetea.d of keeping them
fresh for. the pursuit should be shot:
ton-spinrier"a brother; who: had emi- Arrangements' for pursuing the ens
grated When young, . made money, emy are. begun the' Moment' he' gives
and quite :lost. sight of the rest of
tokens of having had enough The
his family. He came bade to 'Eng-
land, looked up his brother, and
when he died last year left him $90,-
000.
Here is another instance of what
at first appeared a disaster resulting
in money and fain°. Henry George,
the writer of "Progress and Pov-
erty," was sent to Ireland during
the Fenian agitation as special cor-
respondent of a New York paper.
At that time George was an un -
chief of the staff ' details the trOoPs
to take each road' byewhich the en-
emy can retSeat---details of each 'hav-
ing,,- Of coal*, been ascertained be-
forehand through the 'Intelligence
Department—and indicates to .ehe
generals in conimand of eada colnum
their: line of route.
'The' general. Who ,Can. eembiee dar-
ing .and dash with adroitness is the
man to command 'a .pursning eolumn:
Caution and.- p_bility to manoeuvre
knewn Man, .end hie book are not so Important in such work.
eaj. ,eltheugh had betell hanthier ana and • harass
!Si' SeiPeStal. yearSe. Iffti'die. :had ; the -the. flying 'foe -till 'he is .
tiOrt'eePolident landed bei 1m Wag •
dintSsito. 4.t LetighSed d @tisPeet CRUSHED
Mad lodged hi gaal: is the object:of pursuit, and the
1/e SelSaSed 'next dof, bait net cavalry leader who errs on the side
befOre hi@ bailie Wrae ell the of recklessness rather than that of
pers. Without delay he brought otit ' caution is to be selected.
anew cheap edition of "PrOgresei `the enemy naturally uses his fresh -
and Poverty" in London. The est troops to cover his eetreat, and
Times gave a whole page to it, and his cavalry and horse -artillery are
the entire edition went off in twenty- !prepared to give trouble. The pur-
four hours. Its 'Author cleared I suing general, whenever he comes up
thousands, and beca,me the most- with the flying foe, hammers him
with guns and charges him with
cavalry. He hits him in .the flanks
if possible, so as to retard him while
the infantry Cal) come up and fall
tallred,-of-man of the year. ' •
A mouse -hunt 'brought fortune to
a ;Parisian naarket woman- named
Jaques. She espied the tiny, crea-
ture undee the grate an her lodgings upon lima. Reserves of, infantry (if
but when she tried to catch it it dis- any) will at this juncture naturally
appeared in a crack in the brick.- he used, so as to spare the foot al -
work. She pulled away a loose ready tired with a long day's light -
bundle of dusty papers. They prov- Ing.
ed to he bank -notes to the value of Every consideration -gives way to
$8,000. By French law she may following -up the enemy. .Having
claire. the whole amount in a year's ,wpn a battle, every great general
time •no one else can prove a makes tl,e niost of' it, and gives tbe
'title. Seeing that the notes' are beaten ellen-1y tine to breathe,,
many years old it is very improba,- The excuse that the Men are tired;
blo that anyone will ever make a or. that there are wouridecl to look
laim.- after, ,condennis the general -who uses
Sometimes it is a dead hand, that it as incompetent to comniand.
do.wers a pauper with unexpected ,The staff has a busy time' in pur-
millions. Henry I-Iawthorne was in suits, for' the pursuing army has to
854 a boy of eighteen. He was be fed, and ,the enemy nataraliy
bathing in the sea near a Kentish burns and destroys all behind hiin
v,illage when he Saiv a small sailing inhis retreat. Moreover, every hour
oat nearly a mile out suddenly up- takes the'pursners farther away from
et. Flinging ea; his clothes' he ,t4eir base. Thus the, inen who arbil
umped . into his boat which was reSponsible for theefeeding ,td the
aulled up on the beach, launched it, ninny must be well -up La theie
and went' to the rescue.; A woman unless disaster is to occur.
vas still clinging to the capsized
raft. ' Ire pulled her in and saved
er life. A .P1GEON'S GRIEF;
Afterwards he fell in love with her Henry Chapelle, pigeon breeder at
nd asked her to marry him. She veraiers, died, and f
trainno sor-
as a widow but she refused, _saying rowing, anc relations came to
friendd 1
he had promised her dead husband
bear his body to the grave. But as
ever to marry again. But' she beg -
"Why,' that had my photo. in it !"
exclaimed Miss Sinclair,'
"Thank you ; I rather guessed as
much when -I saw it lying upside
down on the mantelshelf this morn-
ing," I replied. "Now perhaps I
come to the cream of the informa-
tion I have to give. I remarked
that the vase with which we have
been experimenting was only an imi-
tation. So was the other !"
I thought Sir Donald would shake
my hand off when I fetched the gen-
uine article out of my bag and told
him the truth. I might just mention
that I netted the largest fee it has
ever been my pleasure --and profit—'
to receive; ` and I was gratified to
see from the `Times"' advertisement
columns that noddle Mowbray le,d
his bride to the altar shortly after-
wards.z-London Tit -Bits.
BIRTH OF GENIUSES.
Mr. Havelock IDllis finds that most
of our greatest (geniuses have been
born in April and fewest in January,
The numbers born in the first, sec-
ond, and fourth quarters of the year
are fairly equal, but there is it
marked deficiency in the third quar-
ter. Thc ordinary birth-rate of Erig•-
land and Waled is higher in the first
and second but loWer in the third
and fOurth quarters, About 15 per
cent. of the geniuses were delicate in
childhood, but these often developed
into hecathy, vigorous, long-lived
men, Druce, the traveller, was a
typical case. Very delicate in early
life, he was' a nia,n of, huge propoe-
tions, athletic power, and iron con-
stitution. 0,ver 14 per cent. had lost
one or botitiparente bY the age of
ten.
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a
ed Hawthorne to accept a -portion
her income, as, she said, she had
Oro' money than she could spend.
Iawthorne refused, 'Went to America
nd enlisted in ,the U. S. Army.* '
'He served in the Civil War in
861, 'MIS mustered out, and has for
Orne years been an inmate of a sol-
iers' home. A' few months ago he
eceivecl word that the lady he had
aved nearly forty-seven years nefore
' and had •
of
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.s
was dead,an as1 I e t owne'i .
nearly $06,000 'a y, ear. including- ese
t,ates in France, the West Indies,
England and Australia.
Minos have given many meii sudden
fortunes, but only as ,a •,...te after
long years of toil. Few !awe the
luck of George Cormican, an Irish
seamster, who went to Al/IfiriCa some
three years ago, and got workson a
cattle radial. 111 Montana. 'He was
coming across the plains with his
wagon one day laSt auttimn whorl he
stepped to give his tired mules,a few
minutes' rest.
, Suddenly lee noticed a badger dis-
appear into a hollow under a bank
neer the road. He ran across to try
to catch the creature, but it wad be-
yond his reach. Then he noticed
some blue stones lying at the mciuth
of the hole: He picked a few up and
took them home. 'They ,preved to be
blue sapphires,equal to -the Very fin-
est Oriental stones: Cortnican's
chanaa'find has ,macie him' a rlcia'rnan averages 2 500 'miles of reading' in a
the funeral. procession was, being
'formed one of .the pigeons fluttered
down to the cokin, -on which it
'perched.; So, as the pigeon would
.rnit' be driven away, it was taken to
the cemetery, and. here it stayed by
its dead Master's tomb, neither mov-
ing nor eating till it died of starva-
tion-,
WOMAN SEA -CAPTAIN.
Marie Joanna . R'ersalio, whose
death on the Island of Croix, in
France, at the age of seventy-two,
has been reported, had the distinc-
tion of being the only woman sea -
captain in the world. She went to
sea with her father when she was
twelve years old, and after this death
she captained three more vessels,
and obtained se-veral medals and
andney rewards for heroism on the
water.
NO EFFECT 'THAT ,WAY.
There is a tendency now, to' abbre-
viate the spelling of the Gains-
bon/nigh hat to Gainsboro', said
Mrs. Bunting to Mrs. Perkasie.
But it doesn't reduce the peice.
There are in the world '24 prei-
,dents. and 011137,20. kings,'
, .
The ',eye cif '"azi,tiziedticated ' pers
ofl
•
alread y, and
he will piobably be a, lifetime.%
A XX -CENTURY SCOTS VIER..
CENARY,
Raid ,Maclean Corrirnander-ine.
Chief of the Sultan of Moroc-
co's Troops..,
The Commander-iii-Ohiei of tint
Moorish aranY, 1Cald Maclean, now
accompanying the Moorish mission
to the King, is a Scotsman who has
been- to r twenty-three years in Mo-
t3,11.a°01icc.cele 'cdlaal;,Tase took jlelaelix?Itible,:ilweilfani4cttiliail ye illaficiagY11-4".
and Lowland °rays. En tering tilda:
13ritish army some thirty year's ague,,
he saw sighting during the Red River
expedition. When Mulai I-Iassan, the
Sultan of Morocco, decided to reor-
ganize his army, he applied to Eng-
SM1 aoalloccini c fioanlf•terie,eaehiiNds'ertill ittelusrP'aPloanliondltig'nI1Cettniriiit:
Moors he won the Sultan's confis
dence, and became not onrY the Cora-
mander-in-Chief of the Sherefian Ar-
my, hilt the trusted 'adviser of the
late ruler. He reorganized the arialY
and his daring, ciceds in battle imj
Pressed the natives so Inueli that he
practirally held the nomination t�
the throne on the death...of Atulai
Hassan, althOugh the Grand Vizier,
Ahmed Ben Mussa, also , possessed
ninch influence.
The Sultan's brother was ready to
seize the throne,' but as Kaid Mac-
lean and Ben Mussa were the °MY
persons present when the Sultan
died within two days' .march from •
1Warakesh, they had the body con-
veyed secretly to that city, where
they announc,e.c1 the death; and had
Mulai I-Iassan's son, Abdel -Aziz pro-
claimed in his stead, and a slight.
outbreak was quickly suppressed by
Maclean's admirably disciplined sol-
d
i
'ller
s
0.
Thio new. Sultan being 011Y 13 •
years of age, a regent was necessary,
and Ben Mussa. Was appointed, with
Kaid Maclean's influence, power, and
hand behind him. Any incipient op-
position. which broke out, was suiS-
pressed with a strong hand, as all
risings of the tribes have been, and
notably that of the 2Iisilwa tribe a
ble, the recurrence of such incidents
few years ago. To prevent, if possi-,
the heads of fifty prominent .Misfiwa
tribesmen figure on spikes over the
city gates of the port of Rabat, and
a similar number adorned the gates
at Pez. Maclean always leads the
punitive expeditions himself, and has
thns seen much tribal fighting. On
the death of Ben Mussa last year
the Sultan took up the reins of Gov-
rimient, liaid Maclean still retain:.
ng his predominant influence.
The Moorish co/111/lander-in-chief,
y long residence in Morocco, ha?
ow become a "Moor of.the Moors."
He is sun darkened and swarthy in
omplexion, and wears the pictures-
ue costume ,of the nativ,e Kaid. His
rotracted absence froni his native
ountry has been broken by periodi-
al visits to Scotland, and the nriu-
ic of the barbaric war slogan of the
ael, the bagpipes, of which he is
uch enamored, is appreciated quite
s much among the Moroccan moun-
ains as among- the Bens of the
-lighlands, the Kaid having succeed -
d in introducing ,the instrument
is adopted country; the young Sul -
an, indeed, enjoys the skirling of
he pipes as thoroughly as the High -
and clan stories which his coni -
ander -in -chief ca.n tell with genuine
eltic' fervor and humor.
The Keit', whosafull name is Har -
y long residence in Morocco, has
.G., and is 51 years of age. He is
arried and has three daughters and
ne son living. At Fez and Mara-
esh the family live in palaces of
riental magnificence. The . ariaty
ver which this intrepid Scotsraan
the commander-in-chief comprises
bout 20,000 men, and is equipped
ith European rifles.
DID MRS. CIIEESEAIAN SMILE?
Mrs. Cheeseman, arrayed in her
-best, gown, was sitting forher photo -
Your expression—pardon me.—is a
trifle too severe, said the photo-
grapher, looking at her over his,
camera. Relax the features „a trifle:,
A little more, please. 'Wait a
1111 -et came 'back, ma,
ade '' Slight,
change in the adjustment of the head
rest then stood off and inspected the
result.
Now, then. Ready. Beg pardon --
the expression is still a little tdo
stern. .Itelax the features a trifle.
A little more, please. Direct your
gaze at the card pn this upright
post. All ready. One moment
again—pardon me, the expression is
still too severe.. Relax the-- ..
Jemirna! roared Mr. Cheereman,
.coming out from behind the screen
and glaring at her savagely, smile,
Confound you! Smile.
VALUATION OF LOST LIMBS.
According -to a..scale of value fur-
nished by the miners' -unions and
miners' accident insurance companies
of, Germany, the loss of both hands
is valued at 100 per cent., or the
whole ability to earn a living. Los-
ing the right hand depreciates the
value of •an individual as a worker
70 -to 80 per bent., while -the loss of
the left hand represents from 00 to
70 per cent. of the earnings of both
hands. The tinunb is reckoned to be
worth from 20 ±0 30 per cent. of the
earnings. The' first finger ,of. the '
right hand ie valued at from 11 to
18 per cent., that of the left hand
,at from 8 to 13.1. per cent,
MILITARY CYCLISTS..
The decision of the War Office to
send nearly a thousand Volunteer
cycliets to the front is a striking
instance of prejudice overcome. .Fif-
teen Years ago the idea of a military
cyclist was treated with mild deri-
sion,. Now, however, there are Irons
10,000 to 15,000 Volimteer cyclistei
in Great Britain; at the begipning of
1898 they only numbered 3,400. It
is interesting to • notice that other
countries are beginning to regard the
biCYCIO as a serious item in modern
warfare. The - French Minister of
'of regular soldier cyclists shalP,b• .
'floVatinr decided -that , two PomPau08