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• the geet, and, eeemlog te envelop her
Iattyahip, looked over her ahoulder, A
I tall figiare wee advancieg briskly. He
I reeegnized it Oven iu the reanua by its
height end gait and Ewing" for•Oh
Ieaelly—.so easily, vtith such frank and
'Why here is Terence," he said
*Walls .henesty of welcome, that the
anger in Whielt 0"Mey mine wrapped
:tell front him. en the instant, oto be
replaeed by shame.
"I have been looking fee yon every-
where, my dear," he explained to Una.
"I have a very deav frietid who le
anxious t� pay his respects."
"This ia damn4 indisereet of yots,
Ned," he added, turning to his seere-
tary. "Suppeee you had been seen by
any of the scandalmongers,' ;
Tremayne accepted the rebuke in
all. Cliela ,China Gr en* the friendly spirit in which it appear-
ed to he conveyed, Your quite right,
eir. We shoull have thought of it."
And O'Itloy felt again the glow of
By RAFAEL SA.B.ATINI.
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The Master Tale -Teller, Author of I'leardeisrs the Magnificent." ,Another
Stirring Story of Adventure and' Love in a New Setting—
The 'Peninsular 'char.
WHO'S WHO,
Lt., Richard Butler of the Irish dra-
61e, on. a foraging expedition. during
We weenie cameaign againet the
Freed in 'Phosstnaal, comants an of-
fence during a drunken-meth:sae 1114,
eleotisea the resentment a Portug ese
officials, end disappeara from his regi-
ment.
Terence •O'My, brother-in-law of
Butler and adjutant -general, is visited
by
Miguel Ferjas, Portuguese seere-
teay of state, who 'warns Sir Terence
that Butler must be shot for his of-
fence. O'lloy promises.
Principal Souza of the council of
regency is oppowed to Lord Welling-
ton's plan to devastate part of Portu-
gal, and interferes with military op-
eretions until the British commander-
ir-chief has isseed the ultimatum that
unless Souza be removed from the
government he, Wellington, will with -
craw from the country,
Una °Won Sir Terence's wife, and
Butler's sister, hides Butler, unknown
to her husband.
Count Samoval avowedly an -ardent
supporter of Wellingtos
n assures Una
- that he will aid Dick ifgiven an op-
portunity.
Capt. Ned Tremayne, O'hloy's sec-
retary, is in love with
Syivia Armytage, Unals cousin a
csear-thinking, intelligent young lady.
shame of suspicions so utterly un.
worthy and dishonoring.
CIL.A.PTER' XIII,
THE UsiTtLLIGE/sJOE 0.FFICER,
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In a small room of the palace where
the ball vria held, sat three men about
a card table. They were Count Sarno-
vah. the elderly Marquis of Minas, and
a geritleman who wore the dark green
uniform ef• a major of Cacadares.
IWith perheps the single exception
of the Princepal Souza, the British
policy had rie di:Ore bitter opponent
"Tell nie, what is the name of the ir- !in Portugal than the Marquis of Min,.
resistible gallant Whe has so lightly nes, Ouee e member of the Council of
ravished yen of your corepartienr Ilaeeench—before Souza had been elect -
"Count Removal," aaid Tremayne ed to that body—he had quitted. it in
shortly. •* disgust at the 'British measures. Be
Grant's face „remained: inscrutable. I was listening intently now to the soft,
Iheally 11-''' he said softly. "So that is rapid speech of the gentleman in the
Jeronilino de Samoval, eh? A great maeor's uniform.
supporter of the Brash policy; there -1 "Of course, rumors had reached the
fore an altruist; since himself he is a i Prince of this policy of devastation,"
, sufferer by it; and I hear that he has ' he. was saying, "but his Highness has
become a great friend of OsMoy's "
"He is at Memento a good deal cer-
tainly," Treinayne admitted. •
• CHAPTER. XL
COTATFHOUN enema
Above in the crowded vestibule at
the feet of the great staircase they
were met by Capt. Tremayne and
Capt. Marcus Glenme of the Tele-
machus.
Lady OlMoy's talarance of the bail-
ie ri ezi hetwhichet-
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tom now inured her. Soon she
found herself the centre of assiduous
attentiops. The first quadrille im-
pended, and as she was swept away by
Capt. Gletune, she came face to face
with Tremayne, who was passing with
Sylvia on his arm. . She stopped and
tapped Ina, arm with her fan.,
"I have something to say to you,
Ned." He met her glance, and found
It oddly serious ---most oddly serious
for her. Responding to its entreaty,
he :murmured a promise in courteous
terms of delight at so much honor.
• But either he forgot the promise or
did not conceive its redemption to be,
an urgent matter, for the quadrille'
being done he sauntered through one
of the crowded ante -rooms with Miss
Armytage and brought her to the cool
of a deserted balcony above the gar-
den.
"Una will be waiting for you," Miss
Armytage reminded him. She was
leaningon the sill of the balcony.
He sighed, and stiffened- slightly.
"Of course if you insist," said he, and
made ready to reconduct her.
She swung round as if to go, but
checked, and looked him frankly iin
the eyes.
"Why will you for ever be misunder-
standing me?" she challenged him.
"Perhaps it is the inevitable result
of my over -anxiety to understand."
"Then begin by taking me more lit-
erally. When I say Una is waiting for
you, 1 state a simple fact, not a com-
mand that you shall go to her. Indeed,
I want first to talk to you."
"Sylvia," he ventured very boldly,
and there checked, so terrified as to be
a shame to his brave scarlet, gold -
laced uniform.
"Yes?" she said. But he recovered.
himself.
"You have something totay to me?"
he questioned in his smooth, level
voice.
Had he not looked away as be spoke
he might have observed that her fin-
gers tightened their grip on her pear.s
almost convulsively, as if to break the
rope. It was a gesture slight and
trivial, yet arguing perhaps vexation,
But Tremayne did not see it, and had
he seen it, it is odds it would have
conveyed no message to him,
There fell a long pause, which he
did not venture to break. At last she
spoke, telling him of Una's premoni-
tions about Dick.
"Una shall have my assurance that
I am ready to help Dick this very
evening," he promised, 'I at least
have not pledged my word to anything
oz to a yone."
And then the sleek and coartly Sam -
oval, cletachieg from, seeming to ma-
terialize out of, the blittering throng
they,had entered, was bowing low be-
fore her, eauming his dance, As Tre-
mayne stoozi looking after them some t
one tapped him on the shoulder. A .
very. tall, hawk -faced mait tood be-
side hint It was Colquhoun Grant,
the zibleet intelligence (differ in Well -
ti's service.
"Why, COamel !" cried ,Tremayne, f
heltiing out his hand, "I didn't know t
you wero in Lisbon."
"I arrived only this efternoon." The
, keen. eyes flashed alley the disappear -
Ing figures Of Sylvia end her eatedier,
been, disposed to treat these rumors
lightly,. unable to see, as indeed are we
all, what useful purpose such a policy
, "Most intereeting." Grant was could finally serve, Since you assure
slowly nodding, and a faint smile me, Monsieur le Comte, that milord
curled his thin, sensitive lips. Wellington's policy is beyond doubt, as
teported, it but remains to address
ourselves to the discovery of the mys-
teryunderlying it. What conclusions
have you reached? 'You, IVIensieurele
Tremayne elbowed his way through Samoval, have had exceptional oppor-
the gorgeous crowd, and soreached tunities of observatien, .1. understand."
Lady O'Moy, who was shriuundecl by "I am afraid ley oppoetunities have
officers, been none so e exceptional. as you sup -
"Why, Ned," she cried, you have
os
- pe," replied Samoval, Oath a dubious
kept me waiting?! And with a cone shake. of his sleek, dark head. "One
plete and charming ignoring of the conclusion, however, I have reached:
claims of all who bad been before him, Wellington is preparing hi Portugal a
she eased on th ,, t ' ' snare fotehlassena's army." -
CHAPTER
THE AUX.
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through the little crowd that gave way "A 1- snare? Muni" The major
pursed his fu
before her, dismayed and intrigued. ll lips into a smile of
"I want talk to yeu most earnest- scoria "There cannot be a trap with
ly, Ned. Take me somewhere where two exits, my friend. Masseria enters
we can be quite private," she had bo. Portugal at Almeida and marches to
Lisbon and the open sea. He may be
inconvenienced or is certain.' Wherehampered. in his
27 march; but its goal ,
then, can lie the snare? Your theory
Ned suggested the garden. Her lady presupposes presupposes an impaesable barrier to
ship went to find. a wrap, then etre. in arrest the French when they are deep
Fen they passed out, and were lost ill the country and an overrthelming
in the shadows of an avenue of palm force. to cut off their retreat when that
"It is about Dick," she said breath- "The overwhelming force exists,"
barrier 's reached."
trees.
said Samoval. "You should remeinbei
"I know— iss Aimytage tole .
leS'elY'k . . ' what Wellington obvildialy remener
me."
"What did e tell you?" hers: that a French. army depend- S for
"That you ha ` a 'premonitionthatits sustenance upon the, country it is
he might come to you foa assistance." Invading. That is why Werangton is
"A -t-- !" ..P stripping the French line of penetra-
laughed nerveusly. "It is moreYsthr
eten as bare of sustenance as this card
a premonitioe, Ned. He has 'come." table—an impassible lien of fortfica-
The captain to cl ' h' ' tions encountered within many
marches of the frontier—we may also
assoree that starvation will be the
overwhelming force that will cut. off
the French retreat."
(To be continued.)
ged the captain. "Somewhere where
there is no danger of bhing over -
Since the night was soft and warm
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and stood quite still. "Comer he
echoed. "Dick?"
"Sh!" she warned him, and sank
her voico from very instinct. Followed
details of his appearance and a re-
t'
cital of his wandering so far as he had
made tbem known toher. "And he was
How It Will Be.
so insistent that no one should know, I know how it will be this afternoon
not even Terence." Within a certain little island' town
"Terence rnust not know," he said From four o'clock until the sun goes
gravely.
"You think that, too!" down— ,
From suneet till the rising of the moon.
"If Terence knows—we:I, you will
regret it all the days of your life,
Una. You will realize it when I tell
you that duty forced Terence to pledge
his word to the Portuguese govern-
ment that Dick should be shot when
found."
She stood still, ghostly white
against the gloom. A dry sob broke
from her. "Terence did thatl Ter-
ence did that;" she moaned. And then
in a surge of anger: "I shall never
speak to Terence again. I shall not
live with him another day. It was in-
famous. Infamous!"
"It was not rnfamous. It was al-
most noble, almost heroic," he amazed
her. "Sit down, Una."
They had reached a little circle by
a piece of ornamental water, facing
which a granite -hewn seat had been
placed. She sank to it obediently, if
sulkily.
"It may perhaps help you to under-
etand what Terence has done when I
tell you that in his place, loving Dick
as I clo, I must have pledged myself
precisely as he did or else despised
myself forever. Won't you under-
stand?"
"I understand that men are very
stupid," was her way of admitting it.
Tremayne sat down beside her.
"Now that we understand each other
on that score, let us consider ways and
means to dispose of Dick."
At once she was , uplifted and be-
came all eagerness.
How are we to get him out of the
oar 1, an
d this 'is' one way it diminish- 1
es men's burden, It makes them citi-
"I think I lcnow a way. I am sure
zees a.uother world. --Its. Drum.
I can iriduce Glermie to take our fugi-
tive home in the Telemachus and land mond, in "Whit 'raises Are For,"
him safely somewhere in Ireland,
where he will have te lose himself ft)•
a while,"
"Do you, think Glennie CO1,-
cent?" she asked in strained anxiety.;
"I ein sure he will, I sae aim et
pledge reneward on It."
Under that confident promise her
leoubies fell from her, as sightly ar
hey over did.
"Yoe are vera good to Me Ned. For-
give nee what I said jug now about
Terenee."
"Of course." Moved to teeter!: her
us he zeight have beet moved to ann.
ort e child, he flung his arra along
he seat behind her, and 'patted her
shoulder soothrogly.
Feli a step on the patch 'bellied them dark-
erunehing the gravel, Captain Tre-
Minaret's Liniment for Colds.
ineyne, ha ata still along 'the back of
A .happy • time, a tranquil time, and
free:
School will be out, and childeen com-
ing, home;
Strong -muscled, hardy, weathered Men
• will tome
Back from ,the quarries and the toss-
.
ing sea..
The.. fie -tree shadows will be length-
ening;
The slanting. rays of sun will richly
stain . •
The harbor and each westeext window pane
Deep rose. The, sky will he a lovely
thing.
Against the glary sonie belated boat
Will reach- its moorieg. Plash of_
rhythmie oars; .
Then silence save where &Sean Laps
the shoeed—
Only the distant inesmar of the rote.
--Alice Lawry Gould.
Another World.
The weight of a load depends upon.
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Does the attraction of the earh were
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where the attraction of gravity is less,
does not weigh half a ton. Now Chris -
Yes, yes. 'You will hep me, Ned? tianity remove% the atteaetion of the
country?"
They're So Light.
'Why de you prefer blendee?"
"Yon ten see 'ern better in the 1
shtions-r
hasla
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DON'T WAIT TO BE HAPPY!
Seize Your Fun While You Cult By Dorothy Dix...,
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We,thl
.want: do he hap -y. We ex; instead of waiting to -buy nate with' it
When they haie 't'eeth to...ceetek
Many merd'expeet to aeltappy. when
they ratite from .1yeelness. They nerver
.take a laelitlay. They never play. They
are geared up, to • high: speed all. the
They ;Work So hard that they
never hue lime even to get acquaint -
happy when .they are ' riele Yet, to e'd with illarathildienacquire the ; ,
tnihbez;eyt:otItn eyliketzpoeiaetvetes enaJnedy. sVITrYstoif.bL.an.. i.dettt,1.1334iu`vt.hes'yfenuch.whasainit
phials' and economize. They deny does early out his plan and retiree he
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themselves the comfortalsle home they geTharaft.1111.41
dive. They eat 'cheap feed. The do' having mt3141kg
that lie is herednivith
,• He Misses , tire di30a;pp'ieieas' 'and -ilia
health. .4.16 might have had AI he, had.
mixed his work .and his piste theough
the 'Yeisaso if he had given more thies
to his home and le.ss tie his bushiese:
if. he.. had. taken time to °Why his
habie.s, to have games -with his lioYs.
. Many ;women expect to enjoy their
children. e hen 'they .are igrown
Peet" to be happY at Some' indefinite'
firttrr4 Aate, and we. look for heainineea
to -Conte tO in' Sterne Strange, mysterie
eta :way...We keep petting, Off etdoying
doeseves: We let theoyeare. .by,
nd .oldtage toyeetaltesata *Idle we are
still waiting. to 'be haPpy., •
We see people wheezty they -Wild be
without the books theyehould enjoh,
the plays they' wOuld like to see, the
.muste they'whiild like todiedr, the little
trials they long -to. take. They live
harO,'unbeaetiful, baleen
Too Old for Happiness.
When they have made their fortene,
und they Start odt'to enjey the plea-
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sures of 711120 they, have, Oeeameet..so, They look. noon. theinselenso as 'little.
lohg, they fina to their amazement leses than. rants -es becanse tisey have
that you cannot buy' happiness over 'to stei , at home with their. babies.
ithe counte.r. They have doneWithout They donnilain that ,their children are
thlage, so' long that they have lost. the under 'their 'feet'aal the time and that
Sense..of clesire. their noise gets on their nervez. •
A 'thousand dollara • when yon are But they look forward. to a' time
'eighty will not buy you, tlse Nees:tires when the hoese will be orderly ana
that ten will whene you are twenty. quiet, with OltilY gT,GiOli-'11.12rehir.ittren in.
And jeo those who. get -any happiness it. Vain, hoph. itis Only the 'Mother
Mit' of money must do it by enjoying with a flapper daughter, and a young
all the luxuries they -ban afford as they son away fro nt home, who, knows what
go, along It Is every man's' and. wo- eeal ankiety is; and if little ehildren
man's duty' to set apart enough monee., get ender your feet, older. children
to. secure. them' against 13eing depend:. only tee often walk on your hearte.
ent in their 'old ?gen Vet- efter they The moral of of which la that We
have done that they are wise if they can't put off being h -appy. It is'noic or
esijoy 'what they .have Abe present
never. ,
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That Apostrophe!
,May people aro worried; by the
perseeseive opostiamlie. They: Seem to
think ehat muit eatheys be eset1 bes
fere the' final as." ,.. Few 1:estance, not
long ago . a notice In a hell read,
."Ladie's room," insteaki et "I.attliele
roeni." -------
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The: general aniels-le put the e•pos-
trophe iinthediatIlya.,after. the singular
form of the nom-C.:if: one pare= or
thing is meent; and atter the plural
when mere...then one. meaat. „When
the pineal is formed by the addition ot
!'4" tiriS7rtae is pi:tain aucl, easy, -Thus.
we ill:MS:id say; "My boy's school" and
"A large boys' school"; "That
fish's tail', and .
.The trouble begirds -when the plUeal
fohm of the wora does not end in "s."
But it need not, if the rule to place
the apoetrophe immediately after the
plural re,membered: For hastamee,'
one ebould writ e "Men's .headgeer,"
"Women's hats."
There are worde whica make no
ellen& for singular and Parini. Tates
we see-, "A, sheep's fleece and "A
thousartd sheep's fieecte." Other
weeds heve siegulate form. Thus
ws should write,. "AlY shears' bla.dee"
and "The .scis,sore' edger are ,dull,"
Whethee an caking of. . one pair or so
little of eint flee businees of human grO,S,
living is, all ab -out.
The acquiring, of the -!t11 heart, catel
not be taught: but the revealing of
the heart, Which is the develomrtent.
of artistry, may be guided by e: cane•
isbOe hand. It is not Something which
eat be forced Or hurried:, the student's
visry earnesinese sorn'affnes'ilinyeleadi
him to ilareparable mietakesawboll hie
ealthizsdeem over nee Seale makes hizn
eareleee or otruors_1:14,01.. nciiiaily
vital.'
-Let' there be. here "a tittle building,
th-ere a tall e g-rdwth. new tile heed
of restrain t, gala thee aesiee, of Mi.'.
collt agein t;'; d
so go r?nec1 q4FI14 PiPitri h•dietleis
to tile ether,' tb-t 'OW
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this art • at retelsttion' Mile; reveal); 'as
eruiThet,rieallr, 10111 as ineVite ea
the itefoldin:g 'of a flower,
The Distinction.
• "Bove you Shakespeare's works
here?" . • .
"No, ma aam," repIlea tbe junior
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Dia you know that many of the eye-
ters, eaten in America spen t ta sir
seintis plinging to ,the- twig of a birch
in the Shallow waters of a tidel fiat? :
The -death -rate among eystera yeas
sci high that it woe feared the supply
of bivalves, would soon be. exhausted ,if,
measeree were not, taken to protect
When. about fourteen to eighteen.
days old, opthea laaetai attach them-
selves to a sweetie snirface and remain
fixed. Hitherto a sulimengeereck hut
been a favorite resting-pla•ce, but ex-
perinienfis have Shown:, that laireli
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all. A single, brush may ;. beecnne the
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and by this m-eans It IS hoed that it.
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• Umbrellas, so long out of favor
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The inather apesStirn, like the kan-
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ISSUE No. 49--P2. .
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RICH MEN'S SMALL
BEGINNINGS
I foprza mucheasier te melte aly
teecoad million than tosave, MY first
istl,iliateT'etke ecu-
fpecIM:ali2dFifa.
Men wise have amaseed great wea4tlit
,savysr,alicaErunwegle hraittier.toiled
;a, fi,oze
os.
years—aboblsiu boy el tenpence a.
I day, engine -tender, telegranh -bon ihnek
I ineseengets•-befoee he was able ,tat
scrape tog -ether, his firit hundred'
pounds out of'iiis *ages of 25s. a`Week
as a railway .dork.
Lord Leverhalme began his climb
iteor millwioenebs
skl:elii:iluns.
dthean•eodhis
untericdoef pit
grocer's shoo, working early andlat
ae ,
•
&ad he Was well in the twenties be-
fore he had £100 to call his Own., -
Sir Thomas I -Intone -Stowaway!
Mr. Gordon Selfridge says: "1 start-
ed. at the very bottom, as a boy, at .
Marshall. Fields great store in Chicago
and .vvorked my way up etep by eteP
to be manager -of a department. But
it was slow climbing, and I had been
working hard for many y.eare before
I had a hundred pounds as nest -eggs"
At ellev,en Sie Thomas Lipton was .
earning half a ciown a. week as errand ;
..bory. to a Glasgow stationer. A few,.
years later be was croseing the Allan...
tie es a stowaway in search of fortune. •
Several pears ofgreat hardship passed
—working on a Carolina rice plants-
tioa eindtdoing any jobs he could get
—hefore he was able to return to Scot -
hand ,with £100 in his pocket and open
hresgosiil shop in StOtOTOSS Street.
a
, Vegetal:Ile 1-itawker to Wool King,
Lord Perrie, the million,atre ship-
betides-, :was fifteen. when he -left hie
cottage horneett Clfandeboye, in County
Down, to Mt on a obool 1 Meesre. Ber-
land asid Woiff's office in Belfast; .and
•ss clever and diligent did he prey°
himself that within tax years hee hid
gra:dilated as head -draughtsman, h'lle
that time," he, said, "bY 'saving, every
possible penny T had managed to put
by My first hundred pounds."
Sir Jainee Hill, baronet and "Wool
ICing," started on the road to riches
by hawking vegetables threugh the .
streets .of Bradford. 'Deserting his bar
row, he next set hiniself to...learn weav--
ing and -Weol-stapling. He graduated
as buyer and ealesman,, aoroped tos
get:her every pound he could spare
from the moSt frugal living, and was
at last able to start in business for ".
himself as a wool -merchant in. Brad-
ford. 'atom that time his progress to
riChes has been unbroken; and to -day
the ex -hawker centrole .several large
eoinp.anies, employs an army of work -
people, end is reputed to be one of
Britain's richest men.
• Man Who Made JanlaicR.
-Sir Dthiald Currie, fouader of the
famous -Pestle Lino 'to South Africa.,
,saved his first R.1.00 froi:ti his salary
as elerk in a Greenock shipping office.
Aad Sir Alfred Jones, the man who
made ?ansalea," began his .successful
•careed at fifteen M the 'office of the
African Steamship Company, where,
he has said, pay. and plenty of •
work were my lot. I Was twenty-two
before I,, • by much set -denial, had
mead a hundred pounds.'
W•••
Men in omen'
s Clothe.s.
In carnivals and festivities men of-
ten dress up as women, and women as
men. The. motive for such interchange
of efothing is, a purely social one, e5.2.
Pressive of the desire for good -fellow-
ship and amiability.
Among seratolvilized.races, however,
interchange of deemis a .yety-eeriotis
hue -Mese and is practised regularly.
niany of the tennerous ielands
'Australasia, whenever a man is
troubled with an evil spirit he leaves
has home secret:1y, dons a woman's
dress, assumes a female voice, end pee.
tends: to be other than he, really is.
In tome of the remoter earts of
Wales a. man will dress in his Wife'e
clothes in order .to change,a spell of
bad luck. •
An China.' a, father's trousers , are
heIng on a clotheallise pate his child'
cot, so that will influences may enter
into them instead of into the child.
The ancient Lyceans dressed them-
selves a* women whenever one of
their number die& Plutareh, the his-
toTian, explains thie b saying that it
18 •womenly and weak to 'in.odiraa.
, .
"Drivi It Mild."
.ipaa expres•slen, "Draw it. mi.L.11" is
nowadays a sly injunction not to in-
dulge itt too mach essaggelation, or, in
otheir words, .and use 'another
phrase, to Cease to "draw •th,e long-
bow.".
-One Would natitrally co.nelude tbat
the phrase arose in. tile tap -roam efs
the -village lane and this idea is
'strengthened hy thio "Ingeldeby Le-
genda!! where, in "'Misadventures et
Margate," Mr. Sinhakineon aeks,•for
pint of dOuble Z attd pleeSe to draw it
At ties same Mae, the expreselon is
reuelcal. The leader of the orcheetra ;
used to tea -the viokin players, to "drava •
it mild."—that is, to, play ahmissinee,
to draw their braes mildly or gentlY
over the strings, atel not to 'easiggeta
ate the notes,. Even the opassaite ex-
lirettgdeali "Co23 strong," to a.musti.
cal terni, Ned 15i eqraivalent to fortl.i•
*Lino,
China's Dink Cerks' Small Pay.
The aYernie eahaey . s beitilt clerk
f1hinaie, ethOut $1,8 e$ month,