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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1914-10-29, Page 6etreeeroreaee,aereesewase Or, A Strange Stipniati n. C 111.----( Con tin tt ed), could before dawn azitt cltit,,\" agtein, of numerolee lettere: these itlysrloteet aSIVivi SU IEE, THE [AI) MAL leiters whtch he bad never OPenedeect her 1 presence. lewd read oarefaitytdorougie this lewyer's letterl ., and Where elett, heed etnte (kerma!' Author Wit° Has 1w., done so she sat awcovered bee treette With her hand*. She wee PAP 1041.01 SOlted MS ettetittn'S Ideals, feozu the efeeet of a st•eat, a teetieril . shoelc. For this teeter' reoteettatttee , tu I , ,Nieteeeteeee peetlasaphy •es, seed to (met 'eget terms certain feet* Veintitt-tieee , '.'- • - • • , , .te- already .been eomenueiceted ta, her eelez- ellnere had' great influenoe on LOU band; teed' thetzehfart 41eit i‘„1,..miov.,,o_ valvq, 01,,c4ermaay, and. ill ilw pro_ grirnultraili.f. t 4 4 e 1'4' e eltietiell Of the present State of at - The amount of this bequest was so fairs there -Rwthee than being an - largo that the egures dancee before fairs - -• Tileitrs OYes- ' ' active influence upon aernetentr, The lawyers had written anizerehtly„, , to repeat one e agein that -there hall been leletzeetle might better be called the . ity of denpromise; their duty was to ,,, ., e, Puer over thie o ey to Mr, leryent ouly 'a eathedeal sentiment that was if he fulfilled the condition atteoned- to 1 growing in Gerillany,. That send - the beggest. , And What was this ootialtion? Melte, fed' by her -swifter -tying fac- . the girl he had maretede then Juliet , - 'Y 1, aete S, her broadening com- . If be agreed to live his hfe apart from tat at 1 Bryant would he a Flee maze ete man merCial lines, is eineeply the sent - with an assured Poeition- a Man With ,,,raent, that has ,tinged her moroA48, POWer! If he rettieed ta fate in with , this condition, then not a peony would her philosophy, her very life—ma- .rulian Bryant's wite sat she her ly • ) . a 1 terialism commercialism plogiess. pass into ins possession. • • . knew how long With her trembling How Nietzsche Can he identified bands pressed to her hot eyes. She tbonght she heti gene through- as 'union with that *sentiment has been hard suffering Ix the it few inelethe es a' tee see until now, when everything woma,n'e hearr can bear; but nothing To Gerilla,n—the MEd of Gerellaller—hiaa that had gone was as bad aa this, feel that she stood a tangible barrier in been laid bare by the war. Nietz- sche, known to us as a mad, dis- eased, rhapsodic blasphemer, sim- ply idealized the "material pro - its way, it destroyeS so rimehl lq°,'W gress” religion of Germany! IdeaAl.- was explained to her so much; the tr- ritability, the restlessness, the un- izeti it, put it on four oorners, of sPoken trouble: ell those things that philosophy, bound it up in argu- thie.admaliiaxii. her husband .so surety awaY , i. nent, and—as far as we can see— She knew him so well. She could wittingly, thought he was read lath his heart and follow almost did i am ever/ Phase of the torture which this a philosopher, when in reality:he was a.nly an instrument thrust ahead of his Time, to co7 in a stra.nge -voaee about a Superman . -who was to come' after—a,ncl that we should prepa,re for his, coming! Friedrich .Wilhelin Nietzsche. was born of Polish blood, long settled in Germany, at Roecken, hi • Saxony, 1844. • He was brought up in a most ,religions home. atmosphere a,nd, stu ed at Liepza.g; label. becoming a professor at 'Basel ,University, in Switzerland. As a camp steward in the France -Prussian War he con- tracted a nervous disease, and from youth to his death he was a nervous wreck, dyspeptic, addicted to drugs... He died in 1900 insane. . His books, which eaused a genu- ine sensation in Germany., were published between 1872 and 1888. He has long been an aceepted figure in - no• mistake. nor Wee there any possum- fit,,§t one to .e.jt- vss a hiloSiOpby Or ``Pleasede." said Julian BrYant. • le 1 more "You've :got queer eotions or *hat 06,404,4 y. : goo, discassions. -no : more likely to please ine, I muet par!" : Plans for t,lie future: poverty had work-, So Enid never went back to theetta,e e31a blight on the happiness of these who had :given or sii0h hope, ;awl cue two yet/11g people. the sordid uglineee little old Piano eemalned shut. , of -a life destitute Of alarmhad .eoiee They Staeeel on theoggh the winter, betereen '.them.Veld ' clierished , her aud the earlY Part of spring Little .11Irs, hope and. her ,falth In the-. eanshine to e were no, more era es. , Bryant rarely laughed now, indeed, come, but it wa.s no easy ta.slie for Ju- graduallth y ere fell :upon the tWO young lien wae ea. changed. . : - People a ellenee. They walked together, When the work had come Ms wife they' etit together; they were alwaya had felt that teie heavy, Cloud that twat - together; but the misery of their posie ed so tangibly laver!, them woeld .surely tion never let them be together reaelye be lifted, but 3- -ens spirit had: seem - 'When the Anrilversary or their wed- ingly lost the trIelt of ca.tehing hops; he ding day came round, Julian Bryant was not merely physically tired: the found biniselt literally without 13. shit- znan was morose, cynical, cruelly hard: ling in his pocket. at times, and Bold could never bave. , kiss- guessed the real cause of this change i 1•Ie went out in the usual way in her husband. leachael Marinades ing his wife gravely and saying ne- ttling; and suddenly there mune upon silence, that humiliating silence,..did him the impulse to go to Rechel Mar- more than disappeint. it burned., node The fact that he bad humbled him - "Ie 1 humble myself, it I give her the self to write and solicit her lielP ern- bittered Bryant; hundred times a dae satisfaction of letting her know that ;she wt rightperhaps he may do he tortured himeelf with the"rocolleetion s , s 1 le • of that letter. He did not hesitate to whether she le wcirking against me, and curse the woman to whom it bad been But when he gaited at -the well-ree And thee one day 'the paptbers put. out if she is, I won't spare herl" addressed. membered office the porter gave him the in largo th lettere e news at 'Mrs. information that eire. elarnock , was Marneek was death her millions gave • not there. her a place' ot importance; :her death a"She tient come often now, sir," he WaS a fact of public interest. . eaid, "She has been ailing a bit this juliant Bryant- read the news and a winter, and is abroad, somewhere in :quick pang of regret shot through him; to -reign Parts; leastwaye, that is what it was followed by a .strange sense of I hear. .. relief, The humiliation Was lifted, frtnn Bryant thanked the man and gave . him. Her silence --was noW explained. him a smile, He remembered the last ' She must have" been too ill to write. He 1 time he had entered the offlee, a,nci how was sorry he had misludged her. Death beautiful life had seemed to him then...is the great leveller. Re had only gone a few yards down Neither he nor his wile spoke of the the street when the porter ran ape] dead woman when they met :that night him. nor did they ever discuss her deeth. The "Oh, she I beg, year pardon, she" he, very name of Recited : 11e1U nock had. :mid; but I've ',Met heard as Mrs.! Power to etab them both. The young Marnook's come back. She is in London.] wife bad- never .known exaptly . what. 'You kneew where she lives. dont you?" I words had been spoken' in that most re- -Yes, said Julian Bryant. ' . I marka.bla interview; but she had a quick Again aeting on impnise, he hailed, imagthation. She, could guess, And. a 'bus and was carried west -Wards. el Many and Many a time ef late Eine, bad Tbere was something new beating- in, forced herself - to confess that Mrs. his heart, something that dispelled for ) Marnock's Aerce denuneietion of teals a little While the wretchedness. It was marriage had at least the merit of cone hope. For if she were ill and suffer- , mon sense to recommend it. At any Mg then perhaps this would be the rate, ene always shrank :from the mere moment in which to approach her. She recollection of Rachael Marnoolt. Enid had been good to him, she had Auntie had DO time nor chance to read the pa - I him kindness more than any other pees,so was ignorant of the fact that person in those days when everything everybody was talking about Mrs, Mar - had been .taken from him so suddenly; I nook and the money she had left. The he only Wanted work., not favors, only; will had made a. sensation ; there was one the means of earning a life for himself 1 so much money. The wonderful. bee and for dependent on him. quests to charity, -the almost iron -Mel He made his way by degrees to her, disposition of her lertune was' the house• she lived in one of the most' theme of the moment. Unlike his wile. ,Iulian Bryant knew of all this, and that his heart would be sore withenvy as he read the names of those whom thee death had enriched was to discuss his future. only patinae Her relations, her secre, The luxury, the beauty, the wealth tariesher servants, all those who had contained in this house had said vere worked for Rachel Marnaelt had beee -little to him then because to a certain remembered, even some of his coten ki_th extent he had been accustomed to such and kin (people connected with the dead things; but now, as he stood on the woman through her marriage) ' were doorstep, the remembrance of this we- mentioned as benefitting by the will. man and her power mocked him anad he Although he was doing splendidly in almost turned away. his new work, and the promise ,of earn - Necessity was however so- presshae ing a tequly -wage was drawing Calle that he set leis lips and put his heel on nearer, the 'bitterness- that 'had trept his pride. He was not destined, how- Into Julian Bre-ent's neazze 'Still poisoned ever, to see Mrs. Marnock, as he was him; he was always sullen now; his given the information that she was not wife saw less 'and less .01 him, he even wen enough to • teeeive. anyene, She forgot. at times to kiss her when he was confined to her rocimwent out and came im . And little bY 'Will you give itte a message, •eh'? littIe there stole into Enid's' mind the fashionable quarters; he had dined at this house twice in the old days, that had been When bel' husband had been • alive, and he had been summoned there 'Would YOU like to write a note. eedian Bryant eesid "No" at -first, and then he changed his mind. "Yes, ru write." He eat down at the table in the wide, spacious hall, so charmingly arranged, hatvirre treasures on the walls; it was suspicion that there was- an element of mystery underlying her Misband's changed manner. She grieved for her elost ha.ppineee, but there was a touch of natural re- sentMent in her sorrow.' She did not un- derstand whyelulian should treat her so scented. with flowers, a glimpse of an- unkindly. unless indeed he bad lost all other world. He did not choose his love for her, and she would not let her - words, lie vrote like a man distractedself think this yet; still. their life was ee wane you -to, -helm me; Bee tried so different. Thee seemed to be Denim everything and everything has gone she could do for Julian. He • but her against ma You tvere once very good aside so completely. She knew nothing to me and I disappointed you. • rrA of his work or of his prospeets. H6 sorry; but just because you were good seemed to have a god deal of business to me once I want you to give me an about which she knew nothing other chance. I've come to my last Letters came frequently, but he put penny. Cod knows what will haPPeu if them in his pocket unoperied to be read I don't get something to do. 1 dont a.slt when he was alone. you to take me bade into your office,. Once as she was looking at hire noting but a word from you would give me with a pang at her heart how tired he work eomewhere else. , I 1-Lsk you to was. and how his geed looks had faded, speak, that word. He signed it -with hie: full muneand his hand trembled- ae- he inscribed her's nn the envelope. - He hardly knew -where he walked, when he ieft the house; he was agitated. nervous. unhappy, Now that lie had written to her he felt as if he had done wrong, and yet --an yet, a drowning man will clutch at a straw. and unless he had bele, he. too, would go under, severed. and he spoke roughly; but he caught' her to him and kissed her as he perhaps never to come to the top.a.galm. had not -kissed her for a long time, ane. Be found himself after awhile en Pic a,- fieme of happiness ran .through her, cadilly, and gave a great start . when routingitt twit wasaaart, tor just u, soMeone bit him on' the shoulder. Turn-. little weile . their eyes met. There WM such an agonized expreesion in the man's face that leinid's lips trembled. She rose, aed going- across, she kissed him- ten- derly. "You are worrying about something," she mid. -Dearest, my dearest, won't Y00 tell me wbat it Is?". "Don't imagine things," Julian an - nig, he taced a, men he knew weli former chum, one of his old regiMent itlet home from India on leave. "You are the first of our.fellows rve struck, gr.vant. What are you doing?— nothing?' Well, come along, we'll have a 'peg' first and then we'll have 1110011. ' How nice It is to be back In the old sountry!" ' In. a dazed sort of way- Sullen follow - el the' other. man into a ..club. It was like a glimpse of old d.ale to sit a a well-appoihted table, to hear regimental. "shore.' to talk over old times and old of cornfoit . That night be told her he was going friends; and out of this there came a to the country on the morrow to be suggestion. testell le his driving; he rzlig-ht be ab - The man home from India was too sent en nay, tacted to express -the sympathy he felt Enid was up to give him his break - for Bryant; neither (multi he offer as- fast, and she sent him to hie work with sistanee, at least not the assistance a loving kiss, and a 'blessing, felt if which he felt pretty surely was what not spoken, and then she went back to the other man needed; but the shebby bed again, for it VMS very early, and look of his fernier chum, the misery in she cried a little while; she was so 11110- .11111a/es eyes hurt him dreadfully, and ee„,,,.. he would not /et his guest go till they -e"" She yearned over the Mari she hall bad talked things over anl lee had made u ;Milan promise to meet Me -fain a couple iehanraried just tee a M, etleer yeares over a of day'e time. • She feli lier mileage fadiug slowly The nat day he wrote saying that he away, She was beset with anxiety. had backed a winner and that his chum 'What could she do? How could she WaS standing in with him, and with the help him? How. bring back a semblance ebeque he enclosed came the suggestion. of their lose happiness? "Why don't you learn all there is to After she had risen and dressed sbe 1,731ONV about a care" he wrote; and then roused berself, g.'he little home had to he added, "I may be on to a good thing be 'cleaned, andthere was.mending tG again next week at Hazleton and It so I be done, for jultates Work played great shan't eorget you. 'Don't be stuffy havoc with. his clothes. about this, old. chap; you know we must And while Bind swept, dusted, and stand by one another; and you were even scrubbed, .her heart was with him. good to me in many ways when I first She determined to meet him with a loined.' smiling face and planned to give . him That night ,euliten Bryant tad Ms something nIce for his .supper. Once wife that things were +Maimed, and that again she set herself to look optienisti- he was going to serve an apprenticeship catty to the future. Perhaps to -day at some motor works. -would be a- turning -point in thelr liVes, ' "With just a little luck, Tel be able he if he did well to -day he might soon he, to turn in something before long," in regular work. That the., Work .would mai& be in a sense menial had ceased to vex "You mean You are.going 14 learn to her tender epirit. They hail. teeeed SG. drivwi a c'ab'?" asked Enid, with a little many degrees of suffering that theee catcb in her voice; and her husband itode remained not a glimmer of' snobbery to ded Isis head. e . either of. them, . To chive a motor-etee "'Yes," 111131 then he ended grimly; if would behard work, bat it Was a Melee 1 get the chance." . work, and a man with brains eoutd rise "if you drive' a car, Why can't I play even -10 ads. aeoeossion. Indeed, Illnid in public?" found It possible to rejoicee that her ba. And Julian Bryant caught his breath loved one should have a life lived ' 011t OM he answered rio':. 111 the open air; no close oftice deeds- '130eaelSe' J. won't let MY wife work., cry, "I want you only to remeniber Unit aen'here," she whispered to him un- steadily—'that 1 love you '.that I 'would do anything for you. eulia,n, anYe thing, my clear one, anything!' , His -voice Wait' not steady; as lie an- swered her— , "I know it," he said, and hie voice was strange alai hard. She drew away froni him, and, all was dark once again. for it seemed to her as if her •loving words had carried hart to him instead Tee kiesed her and hall her very tight- As :she sewed herseifi 0fl13.T1V vvith her ly in his arine.needles and cottone end a (zest or his "Please God, we are gemg 10 get (in tvhich there eves a big rent) In her tio•ough. with oar bad times very soon lapSOMOthillg hatTeneit. A letter slip - now, darling." lie saw; ped , out of oils tet he noekets af the Afire, that lie evas out of the hottle all coat and tell on the floor., the time and lenld worked again limes- As elnici Bryant stooped 1(1reek up 930t11; on the old -piano, his lettee and neelace It, elle naused Onci "Some dee be will -change his mind t,„„id,./00,„ A derion liaa,6 inscribed 161 me share the worl,,, she Said te bm•qe.if I and though she loved him. be- aught- •' etteee fi•ti races ' I 11)6e111.161161. tl)terd"L81$"'W'ilr fC)."1"k".07-7"rier161' a .ter heart betee hesl- woe lonfette. ' duties the works' kept Juno! out- till everY late; be put in at least -fourteen boars a day at the start; titers were no Mort pretty little dinners, no DION' 111i:enter' .cielleples. 'rite tired • ' eihr, oniy. 2 uu,or rutmed into fler aee, aside; then once more she hesitated, and then her dectsfem waS taken. - Pushing aside the coat, sbe spreao opt tilc paper on the table in '+'(11I1 Or her. It was a comynuni(ation frorri e. firm .of solic)tors, was dated a -week 11111El s'ereilowe 1111 e 4 to previously, end headee fte the lets he 1 in haete in watch wbilt Pi141". 315 Ml'S. itTarnock," and was evidently ono his path! %hat she, who lovall him, who would have gtven her life for him if It had been demanded of her, should he recognized as a bar to all that was worth having in life, was a tragedy unusual and most cruel propositton mut have signified to him, and when the -first hot resentful Misery had PasS- el, her -thought .was of fullest pity for the man. She longed to comfort him,. to put her arms -about -him and to kiss bine and to held his tired head on her. ' breast; for she knew the poison of ,this strange bequest. Love' for. herself (that Won- derful love!) was lighting :no:v.'not merely Against ugly neces,i«.-,- .but against the grimmest determin• "He will never do it!" ' she • • 'be herself, "never! never!" . * She rose, and picking up the letter she slipped it back into the ,coat 'pocket. and then she stood a moment with dos- ed eyes, lifting the coat in her „arlDS and pressing her lips to it as though- it were sentient and.responsive: then she brushed the tears away and 'sat down and thought .deliberately. - Happily, Ju- lian was not coming back till late, there were so many hours in which to think and act! (To be continued.) NoitmAx ANGELL IN FRAsNCE. — Tells of His Experience in That Sorely -Tried Country. Norman Angell, the world's peace propkganclist of London, has been here in France, where he has been shut off from the outside world in a small village. Of his ex- periences he said.: '3Soldiers, soldiers everywhere. It was impossible to get away from them. I was living cheek by jowl with them, occasionally sharing their food, sitting. rbuncl the camp fires and discussing the war and politics. The contrast 'between Eng- land and France as 'regards the 'sit- uation is striking. ' 'Ip France there is not a family that has not suffered priva,tion, ruin, or loss of a member, mostly 'the breadwinner.. Thec..h,eelos of wealthy persons remain uncashed. Soineone goes to Paris with the intention of returning home the next day, and is swallowed up. A week passes, and nothing is heard of him. .We are told that the train Service is 'Still exoalienlia. which means that a_four hours' journey is accomp,lished with luck in 16 or 20 hours.e' Angll recited some of the ru- mors current daily. "Your local paper tells,1' he said, "quite seriously that,the Russians have entered Berlin and that Pots- dam Palace is in ruins. Then you get darkhints that whole French regiments are demoralized and that officers and men have been execut- ed by scores with a distinguished general thrown in. 'German spies are arrested everywhere. Advertisements are being ruthlessly pulled down by the town officials on the ground that they contain. some subtle ,form of German espionage. ., "Yet the soldiers with whom you hobnob are models of good humor and kindliness. Sometimes they are the Most unmilitary of mili- taires, goo, honest, bourgeois, running to lat and a partiality for sleep after meal. But the moment they hear of German barbarities they become Inflamed and pray for a ehance to a,Venge them." ' Take Notice. A. specialist claims to be .able to make hair grow on a bald head by rubbing it frequently with a Turk- ish towel. It is 'barely possible that fuzz off the tower has given •him false encouragenrient. Paw Didn't Know. Willie—Paw, are a, man and his wife one 7 raw—Yes, my son. Willie—Then how many was Sole• M°1-inagev-hou go to bed, young man. A Three Tear Old. "Mother," said a three-year-old girl, "I don't think you know much about bringing up children, do you?" "What , makes " you think that, dear V' "Because you always send me to bed when I'm not a bit sleepy, and make me get up when I ant," The Ideal. "Would you forgive hie i 1 kissed yeti 7" . "How can I tell beforehand V' Every girl 6ui earth imagines that she would make an ideal wife, Frederich "Niihau Nietzsche. , . Germany. His works are read by all students. But in England and America, where his books have crept in as if by 'stealth, he is not taken seriously . Christianity Greater Folly. In a word, Nietzsche believed that Christianity ,a -rid. Democracy, . the pillars of our life, were the great- est of human follies. Both systenis held the average man, the humble man, the modest man as the ideal type, and so put the brakes on pro- gress. Both Christianity and Demo- cracy preserved the weak and forced the strong to give of their strength to the weak. Nietzsche's ideal so, cial .arrangement ;was' one in Which there would be a huge, moral, help- less slave class mastered byasniall, active, progressive class, which did not nim at the equality of all class- es, but at the Ultimate production:, at the top, of Superman! All *this based ',upon an amendment to SekO: penhaue,r, which Nietzsche . called 'the will to power.!' . • The idea, ;took at enie in Gei-- many, where, as a matter of fact, a huge mass is under the heel of a master 'class—the militarists. pro_ lessors, eager to adopt Anything so flattering to the class as Nietzsch.e's philosophy; began teaching it. And • this great mass, who can pass legis, lation only under the censorship of t,h. Kaiser, in spite of their vaunted Socialistic strength, has grown up to fancy itself "super." Por the beauty "of Nietzsche is that he in- veighed against monarchy just enough"to allow this mass of which he -spoke 5. o witheringly to imagine itself capable of getting into the running in the Superman stakes. Anglo-Saxon minds, in the last fifteen years, have weighed Nietz- sche, and while they put PP Et ism- teetive barrier by claiming be was product of his time, they admit he was honest,: that his scatch ` for truth was genuine. In short,,,we „have atiast pictured hini as 4 wild, mad man, who, -armed with 0, broom, -Iimf fierely .attieked the great edifice of hut,rvait life, to 'sratiell it to pieces; but that.bie° broom has onlY ewept &w -ay a, lot of dust and grime and the cobwebs Of miscon- CePtien and error, lea -ting thevast pillars, the massive masonry,' shin- ing brighter h r t.obilasnie.oeiveestr . PI or that we have given him eriedit. He has bo_doa Rooks- 1'4 ot , Rea da Nietzsche's books, the greatest of erfection • Vaterznan's Ideals write with un. equalled ease and last a lifetime. Cleanly' to use and safe to carry. Be sure you buy the genuine: with the Spoon Feed. Look for the word "Ideal" in globe. Regular, Safety and Self -Filling Types. $2.50 to $50.00. At Tour 'Nearest Dealer's. L E Waterman Company Limited, Montreal Ifs en which is probably "Thus Spoke Zoroaster?" are not very readable. He deals in generalities mostly,' ancl he sticks to no set plan, -w.andering about from idea to idea, and using & roaring, bellowing, jumbled style that occasionally permits a, passage of real beauty to crop , Of peculiar significanea ara same of his sayings just now. For in- stance : . -"It is characteristic of ail un - philosophical race to hold on firmly bo Christianity ---they need its disci- pline for moralizing—and humaniz- Mg. The Englishman, more gloomy, sensual, headstrong, and .brutal than the German, is for that rea- son, as the baser of the two, also the more pious, he has all*the more need of Christiar&Y-" That- passage has a, terrible hu- mor about it, just now! Then again— "Every elevation of thetype man has hitherto been the work of an aristocratic society—and So Will it always be --8 society believing in a long scale of gradations of rank and differences of worth among human beings, and iequiring , slavery m 'some form or,43ther."' "Soldier s and their leiaders ha,ve always a anueh higher anode of com- portment toweads (Jae smother than workmen and their employers. At present, at least, all militarily es- tablished civilization still stands high above all so-called industrial civilization; the latter, in its pre, sent form, is in general the meanest mode of existence that has ever. been." It is just possible that the Devil has released Nietzsche's 'soul from the mild torment of fire, .to take him over the fields of Belgium, to see his countrymen believing- what he believed ; nd to look on the seamed .towns. whe.re a few weeks ago there flonrished "that. meanest forni of existence." NOTABLE :WALKING STICKS. Late King Edward Collected "Over' Three' Thousand. The collecting of walking -sticks was his lato Majesty's favorite hob- by, his most treasured stick being , one which was regularly carried by Qiieen Victoria. This remarkable• i stick was fashioned from a. branch , of the Boscobel oak -which once con- i cealed Charles IIwhen escaping / from Cromwell's soldiers. Queen Victoriabad it altered somewhat, and a, little idol from Seringa,patam was inserted ass knob. King Edward's collection of walkingstioks, of course, included all sorts of designs. It wean fact, how- ever, that he preferred as a rule an 'ordinary crook shape. Indeed, his fondness for this particular design gave,'not a little impetus to its pop- •ularity, Talking of famous walking -sticks and their owners, Messrs, Henry •Howell & C.o., who are probably the largest stick *makers in the world, recall a. curious story of the ominous trick , which Charle's L's walking - stick played on that unhappy mon- arch, for during the famous trial at Westminster Hall the head of the stick fell off. Bygone monarelis were very fond of walldng-sticks, and Queen Eliza- beth put hers to an unpleasant use, for the merry Queen Bess employed them for beating her niaids of ho- nor, In the club -room of the Royal College of Physicians there is pre- served the gold -headed cane once the symbol of the doetor's. profes- sion, which was used by the cele- brated Dr, Sohn Radcliffe, who at- tended Queen Mary, and afterward by lour other eminent physicians, At Kensington Museum, too, may be seen Goldsmith's analacca cane, wl,iich has some char ming gold mounts. One of the most remark- itble sticks in existence is owned by a seaman on his Majesty's ship Glory, and was made out of love letters placed on a steel spike. Shop girls in New York city number over 100,000. 'An egotist is a man who expeets a woman to marry him for himself alone. Once in a 'while a Man . has mo much money that he feels he Can af- ford to be honest. olimpflommammimMwmummil A Goodlamp Burns Its Own Smoke The Rayo Lamp mixes air a.nd oil in lust the right pro- portions, so that you get a clear, bright - light without a trace of smell or smoke. LA PS Rayo larrips are easy on the eyes—soft and steady—light up a whole room. Made of solid brass, ni;c1tel plated—hand- some, made' to last. Easyto clean and rewick. 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