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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1907-09-05, Page 60+040+0+0+0+0+0+0♦0+04O+N+O..tlnerno Impatience al Ills OWII }>txiily weakness--"uud t.k you must hutubly 01111 kndeily and rcvetcnlly to punkin me." She kooks at him, and nein his wasted fleas flushing with, fatigue and worry and mental suffering. Oh, whin a biller wove of de's(duleness tolls over )ler ! nut she smiles. "1 still do not undershot(' what 1 nm to forgive you for. 1 s►.ppose that you could no more help having once though: you lowed tin'. Mutt you can Itel1)'-sho stops abruptly h1 compassion for the look of acute regret, shauto and remorse teat crosses his sharp features, and. in her mercy to him, gives a different close i(. her phrase (loin that which its begin- ning had seemed to fiespeak--"ilia you can help having 1►een so ill." 11er leve, quite unto seiousIy to her- self, is Ikexpressibly touching; and Its ng, weakener by illness, Willi his face upon the pillow, and breaks into violent weeping. His mother had cried too. 11 seems to be in the family. She has risen -what further is there for her to stay fort -and penes: quietly athis side till the patoxysni is pad. Itoi standing Js)sture Iet►s hon that she b going, and ho consequently struggle; to recover himself in some degree; but having never cultivated self-conhol when ho was in health, it declines to come at. Ids enfeebled bidding now. "Forgive 1114) ! 101104'0 Inc 1" is all he can A41111111(4'. t'. She looks down upon hint with a strange and tetldcr smile, in which for Vie 'lenient the selfless, pilyin;; sweet- noss has swallowed up the misery. "Which min 1 to forgive you fl' -for having loved tie? or for having ceased to love mi'? For having beet' toad? or tot being rano? hes, of course I forgive you from the very bottom of my heart ! God bless you! Make haste and gel well!" She walks eheer(hlly to the door, and, leaching it, turn., still wearing that senile. Ilial he may see how perfectly friendly is her last look ; but he does not see it. 110 has rolled over on his face, and the whole sofa is shaking with his sobs. (co i,e continued). :. A FINE COLOR IS 1T.I.LOW. DARE 1113? OR. A SAD LIFE STORY i►o+o+>+c+o+00 ♦ L U rER XLIl. Ellznbeth's feeble tap at Byng's door 1s instantly answered by the nurse, who, op011ing it eineingl• 10 admit her, the next moment, evnknlly ut aceor- Mince with directions received, passes out herself and struts it behind her. Elizat.eellt, deprived of the chaperonage o: her cap need npmn, and left stranded upon the threshold; Inas no resource but to cross the Ilour as steadily as a most trembling pair of lees will let her. The room is a square one, ivo of its thick walls pierced by Moorish windows. Deaton up to one of those wnidott•s- th•: nno through which Jin► had caught his first glimpse of Elizabeth on the night Of his arrital-is the sick mane softs. A! the side of ilea sofa his visitor has. all to soon. arrived. Sho had prepared n little set _speech to deliver at once ---n speech which will give the keynote to the after -interview : bel, alas! every word of it has gone out of her head. Unable to articulate a syllable, she Mends beside him, and if anyone is to give the keynote, it must be lie. "This is very, very goad of you. 11 seems a shame to ask you to come here. with alt Ibis horrid paraphernalia of physic about ; but 1 really cout I not wait until they let rob bo moved into another room." "She has not yet dared to tiff her eyes to his ice, in terror lest the sight of elle chong° in it shall overset her 'lost hn- sur° coml'osur(: Already, indeed, she bas greedily ily asked and obtained every detail of the alteration wrought in him. She knows That his head Ls shaved, that hi: features are sharp. and that tis view 11 faint ; and. when as he ceases speak- ing. sho at. last wins resolution enough to took at him, she sty that she has been t eld the truth. this heat Ls shaven, hie nose is as sharp as a pen, and his voice is faint. Sho has been told all this; but what is there that she has net been told? What is his voice be- sides faint? "Will not you sit down? It seems monstrous that i should be lyinghere letting you trait upon yourself. \\'UI yet, try that cove?" pointing to the chair which ie figuring nt (he same inolneut in JIIII.s tormented fancy. "1 ant afraid vei: will not find it very comfortable. 1 have not tried it yet, but it looks as bard as a loa'd." Slie till 414)W11 meekly as he bids her, glad to be no longer obliged to depend upon her slinky limbs and answers : "Flank you : it is quite comfortable." "\Voutd not •it be better if you hada eitshion ?"-looking all around the room fee one. Ike voice is courteous, tender almost, In its solicitude ft r her ease. But is she osleep or awoke? Can this he the sante voice Ilinl poured the frenzy of its heart-rending adjurations into her ear scarce a month ago? Can this long, cent. w•itite saint -he looks somewhat like a young saint in his enuhcinllon and his seellrnp-lc the stammering maniac who, when last she saw him. crashed down nigh . (tend at her feet, slain by three words from her mouth? At the stul.efnetiun engendered by these questions, her own brain si'eym turning, but she feebly tri:e to rerove. is t pelf. "I--1 nm so glad you are Better." "Thank you s-0 murk. Yes 11 is sic, nice to be "'Net Knill with !bleeding, Nor with hot lingers, nor with toil et, bursting.' Dr you remember Nerds?" After all. there is something or111e original Ryng left. mud 1110 ghost of hi - oho :pelting voice in which he revile the above couplet give\, her back t. greater nu':.ure of composure that tould almost anything else. "It is nice, ratty ohne w011141 like 10 t- able le futile, not 4h0 life to cook It t ha !-Kul the .r)nvalescence In c(4nle. �t !nether is even more impnlienl 11. am. She has mule up her mind are h) be off in three day's, even if 1 :iii, carried on boatel on 8 s1mlller•." She can vee new lied he Is very 11115.1, (•8(114rrais. !--Ili it his Iltency Ls but Ili. Uneasy (Aver of sonic emotion- find Ili, diecnvery enables her yet further to tee gain possession of herself. "1 shook{ think." she 8nys in her gentle voice, "that you would be. very gel l to gel eu1 of thin room where -where you have suffered so touch." "Nell. yes; one does grow n 111110 tireti of seeing "Tire easement slowly grow a glim- mering square r hit"- a fdi w tgilher forced lnu.gh---"ol lcr..st, 1 have hnd cameo to lee thnnkhil Pod there is no \wall•paper tee ".111(1 the pattern et. 1 have blessed the w bite wall fur its tentueless face." She merest n little in her chnir, ns if 10 ns,Ire herself that :the is really 'wake. That 81up•'f►clien da beginning k: numb tier again --Mel hazy feeling; that tills is not Byng al III1, this polite in- velsI. making such civil conversation for her; this is t►oniehody c•I+e, "11111 1 must not tire myself nut before 1 heat.. said went 1 wont le saw 14. yen." 1. ethnics. lei ernhnrrassm"nt percep- t.' . deeper erg. while his transpnrent lone tklgele I.nenoly with the barter of it:" coverlet threw') over him, l utftling agtun-"1 shell have that tyrant of a tense (!own upon me. and - and I do wt h-1 have wished r.) rnuch- 8' unspeakably --to gee you, to speak to She sits iminovnhle, listening, whit' a ti,) of something -can it be hope? why should it be pipe! -darts ner).Cei her heart. After all, this may 1•e 11yng-her Ry ng : this strangle new manner may be only the. garment in which sickness has dreesc(t his passion -a wornnut garment frown to drop away train hitt' in rags and 1(•1l.•rs, and in which cannot sho already dt- ten IJ►o first rent? After all, she may hu:o need for her nrinor-that ar- mor which, so far, hus seemed so pit - hilly needless. "1 knew that it would be no use ask- ing leave to send for you any sooner ; they would have lo,.. 1114) 1 mus not, up to It -would have i,ut 1110 off wile sone. excuse; so 1 kept a 'still sough.' Io, you know Ilial 1 never um-►tioned your 'ante until to-tit►y ? But it has been hard work, 1 can tell you ; for the last two days I have (scarcely been able to bear it, 1 have so Mingoied to se,'e you." Iler eyelids tremble, tied she instinc- tively puts up ll(.'r 111111(1 to 00ve1' her :ell- Itak motel. Surely this Ls the old lun- gt.age. Surely there is, at till events, a snatch of it in his lust s u'ds: and again that prick of illogical joy quickens the beats of her fainting heart, though she tries to chide it away. asking herself why she should be in any measure glad Mat the Wye which she has come here fur no other purpose than to renounce slit' lives and stirs. "You may 1heik 1 ant exaggerating, but in point of fact 1 cannot by any ex- pression less strong than the gnaw of downright hunger convey the longing 1 hat•o hod to sec you.,, Ile pauses with a momentary failure of hes still feeble pewees: She catches her breath. Now Is the lime for her to strike in, to arrest hi11 before he bus time to suy anything more definite . Now is the lisle for her k, hall! her promise, her inhuman pro- mise, which yet never for ono instant shrikes lief• as anything but irrevocably binding. Does he see her intention, that 110 plunges, in order to anticipate il, into, so hurried a resumption of his In- let rupte.d s '11te.nce? "To see you in order to beg -to sup- plicate you to forgive oto for my conduct to you." Sho gives. nn almost impercepl(ble start. 'i'hiz ending is not what she hnd expec'A(I, not the ono to defend herself against. which she, has been fastening en her buckler and grasping her shield. The words that it (demands in nnstvcr are not pulse with which she has been furnishing herself, and it is n moment or two beforo she can supply herself with others. Ito must be referring, of «anise, to his last. meeting with her- nial one so vioientl• broken off by lite_ catastrophe of his collapse. "1 do not know what I am Io forgive," sit- says, half bewildered. "You were not accountable for your actions. You were too i11 to know what you were do- ing." "Oh, you -think 1 am alluding to flint last tote," cries he, precipitately cor- recting her. "No, no ; you are right. 1 was not accountable then. You might as well have reasoned will a wild beast out of a rmenngcr•ie. 1 was a perfect L'edlamile Then No" -going on very ropfdly, as if in (i(sixt•nte anxiety to slake her comprehend with the lensi possible delay -"what 1 ani asking you -asking you on my knees -lo forgive 1t for, Ls my whole conduct to you 'rant the beginning." The Iwo white faces nre looking renthlessly Into each other, and though f It'•,e lie bus been lusting with death n a bed, and she hos leen walking i out, and plying her emhroldery, and ening at a public table. hers Is for the biter of the two. 11 must be Ilio un- nlal exertion of talking so much 11 makes him bring oft his next 011 In jerks and gasps. 1 fele 41 my acquaintance upon ye 1 t eery beginning; 1 watched yell 1,. 11 d.•14'c114T ; 1 ls'set you whose 4)r ear went; 1 pestered you with my vis- e. altsey+ 101(1 11)0 ilial it was 11411 ,• . nlduct of n gentlemen, but I would 1..1 believe hint --not even alien" -how !.UG alt 11 IS! he finds it almost as hard l Itis 'Hither had done upon the t 'nal even when, by my 'moor. Hies, I had (hire!) yyu nway- .1.11g1ed you 10 rash away almost by :wilt from n place you piker) --a plat( .uv were 1 appy in -to es_mpe ate. And 1 have no eeense to offer you --tone; tinkles. indeed. 118 I sometimes Think, my mind was off its Whitey even then. ."preset myself wretchedly !"-in u tone ••1 rent dietress-"lige you wilt overlook Mel. will not you ? 1•ou Will -will 111141er•land what 1 ineim Y" She slakes an assenting melee) with he: head. AI this moment sho cannot speak : she will be able k) do so ngnin directly, b(11 she trust tate just it ntiiulc r toe). Yet she must not leave 111111 for m inelatil hl doubt 111111 she 111141ets10nds tom. Oh, yea, she understands hint- i,nderstands that he Is apologizing for hoeing ever loved her ; that he to awk• wnrdly frying to draw the mantle of insanity over even the Valk»nbtt)snn weed. It is True Mil to d(>as it trill' every sip;' of discomfort and pain ; and he looks away from her. as Mrs. 13yug, too. hnd found it plensnnter to do. "Ike you remember what Schiller said when he ons dying? 'Many things m° growing clearer to one.' 1 thought n good deal of Heise words n; 1 lay over there" --glom ing towards the now neat. Iv -arrange' and empty bed. "One night they thought it one n11 up with me -1 Leant them say so. They did not think 1 was eongelous, hit 1 was : and it (lid sihike me that 1 had made n poor thing of it, and that 1f ever 1 was given the c►uncc 1 would make a new start." Ag nin that little assenting movement of her fair head. How perfectly com- prehensible Ito still is ! How well slie understands that he is renouncing her among the other follies of his "salad days" -college bear -1101e, mtnttle.halLs, gambling chase. Well, why should not he? Has not she 00:11.' here on purpose 4• ren(wnce hien? Can she quarrel with him for having saved her the trouble? "And t drought that 1 could not begin Io'ter than by falling on my knees to Its Present t'se is a Case of the Mighty !laving Fallen. in ancient mythology yellow was sncred to Jupiter, and to be worn on Sunday, the day ruled by the sun and consecrated to deity. Saffron or flame celored robes were also dedicated to Hymen, says the Queen, and brides were covered with a veil called the flammarion, without whielt no morrl- aeee VOW rues held binding. The imperial color of China is orange end Ls sacred to 111e use of the Son c.f Heaven. Yellow mixed with red is often an emblem of turbulence, as the orange lite badge of the Orangemen in Ireland. Yellow is considered a fundamental color, like red and blue; its principle 1., healing. stimulating. but met' prove injurious and overexciting to very h•ri- tr.bie and nervous conditions. as it is powerful in its effect ,upon the nerves especially of the brain and lower parts C' the body. The yellow principle pervades poisons, t(.nics, emetics and such medicines as senile, figs, castor oil, olive oil, sulphur. etc. C offe0. with its yellow brown prin- ciple, is inflammatory and (Iisposes to re.11essnees; saffron in small doses ('x- hi:arales the spirits; in large doses pro- duces headache and delirium. Nearly all alcoholic drinks contnin the stimulation of yellow-sheiey, Marsala, whiskey, brandy. champagne, the gold- en wines of Italy and Spall, etc., also c: reals such as wheal, oats and barley. There are strange chemical nflinities be- tween colors and it is curious to note with regard to the growth of plants'liow• certain colors group themselves together such es violets and p)rinmoses, gorse end heather, etc.. violet and yellow be- ing affinitive colors. \\'I►erever yellow titters an•ither color there is n deepen - eel and warming; thus yellow with Lite, green; yellow with red. orange. Yellow is assured the outward expres- -iien (4f power, vitality, vigor --physical. ra• 1'ectual and spirilunl. II contains all ti,e qualities for good and (or (ell ( f the planetary principle of Jupiter. the riling qualities of the world; wherever .1 Is present i1 shrikes a donlinnnt note. The raging fire, the illimitable desert with its situating cnnlel8. the beautiful. Ili rce body of a lion. 11 ilg,kr. a nlbrn are nlike yellow. 'Ther is 4)o power n earth greater than Idose little lumps of yellow metal, pissed with the un• consciousness of thought from hand to hand, focussing like a magnet all the .vii passions of 111e11. (r,nsurning cls seekers with tee gold fever; i1 is the boot of all evil. y. t will) 8 blossoming power for good; by It Hien must live, without it. di(:. In the )(wish ritual the most precl- (•t. 11101'1 is nn ever recurring symbol. Ti1 golden eherithinls above the golden leek and mercy seat. the golden table end the golden candlestick, the golden !(Imps. the golden bells on the high priest's rob(', the golden 'litre with ilei etigrnvenlent, "holiness to the lord.' And the slime syn1Is'1 sin I1.ws through the vi.kin of Patties -the gel - Oen altar. the golden crowns and gird - los the golden viols of odors find 1M>se seven terrible vials of the wrath of (;:ad, uud the golden cup of abominations held by the scarlet wenn'. running. re 11 were. from the height to the depth of the golden sente--eir renter shall i1 be said, from the depth to the height, (rem the barbaric, lawny orange nt phy. shell force, through the infinite gamut of tone shades -copper, bronze. jneinlh, topaz. Rance, saffron. amber. citron, !e - melt. primrose, cream. ivory --up to the glcrieue fount nt light before whom the spirits veil and fro' whose radiant gory the torch of life is lit. 4 FOOD FArr1.ETS. N') foo.! Is sometimes good foul. indlg.stien is the devils workshop. Dyspepsia uncovers a multitude (f stns. ' An overloaded stomach Is bound to t rcak down. It's easy going w•crks all right. The food that suits the stomach is the f(e)d tent rules the world. A meal of viclunls on the 1h(' table tv worth Iwo Ihnt have been •nlrn. When gn»st digostien \v )tte .lin epee. fie a than may cipher dare to love ( r when your slo111aeh )fou d" -vi itil a momentary expression of figiht, • LAND OF QUEER CUSTOMS "IIERUIT KINGDOM" IS A P.%II%DISE OF Ql :1CKS. Bullocks uud Duns Are ('.,,nmlon- Seoul. the Capital, Is Rich In Fleas. Koren, called by outsiders the "Ilernlit Niilg;donl,' is known to its own (501'10 us Cla('scn, meaning, "morning cutin," or "morning freshness" It comprises a peninsula of Asia, nei lh-east of China. 600 'sites tong, 135 miles broad and including un area of about 83.000 square miles. The popula- tion is estimated at from eight to six- teen million people, including foreigners, of w•11e111 rho greater nu'tti'er are Japan- ese. 'There are about 3u0 Americans resident in the country. The leoreans aro of Mongolian origin, tall, !obusl, and rather prepossessing in appearance. Their Iuiigunge is polly- syllabic. In dress, customs mod archi- tecture they show the intiollce of (:hinetso civilization. The Chinese claim to have civilized Korea in the twelfth century 11 C. WOMAN Till's BURDEN BEAi3ER. Korea has loom under the suzerainty or China from earliest times, exceta for a bi of period between 1692 and 1698, when it was under Japanese protection, until 1876, when Japan signed a Treaty recognizing it as an independent nation. The burdens of life fall more heavily upon the women of Korea than in most countries, even in the Orient. indeed. it, would be difficult to point to any na- tion where the lot of woman is more completely unenviable. than in Korea. The orale Korean, except in the highest classes. regaries his wife as the burden bearer of the family. Curiously enough, however, the male Korean does not attain to the full dig- nity of -nlnti s estate unlit he marries. N, matter low long he may defer that event, he is compelled to go bare -headed and to weer his hair In u pig -tail until les wedding. Ile is treated tis a boy, ex- cluded frons the councils of men and is a person of no consequence during the pig -tail period of tris life. QUEER MEDICINE. Korea Ls the paradise of quacks. As medicine the ground skull of a tiger is high in favor for all ills. while ginseng, pulverized horns of a fawn, macerated spiders and similar mixtures aro con- sumed in greet quantities with trust and conlideuce in fl►eir virtues. In surgery their practice is limited to tee crudest operations. Ileligion in Koren. as far -as there may be stied to be any. Ls 'modeled on Chinese patterns with such results as might be eepeckd. Law and the administration of justice are utterly feeble and reeking vrilh corruption. 'Thee reins of government. as in Chinn. are in the hands of a class which,by family tradition, lives by the shameless oppression and robbery of the poor. Koreans are passionately devoted to flow,e s, although comparatively few have the means to indulge their taste in thi. direction. NEVER USE MILK. The land is generously blessed with animal life. There are no oxen, low - ewer, and Koreans never use milk or any of its products. The work is all demo by bullocks, wheel ustrell• attain magnifi- cent development. \\'Iltout his bulled; the Korean would be helpless. and this fact is cited to prove Ihul the Koreans have never been a nomadic people:. Korea rr)duees nu ::bee), but none in Mat country is so poor IIS 1)01 to own al least one dog. No family would be com- plete without a dog. Koreans, unlike the. Japanese, lore n good lire when the chill blast, of winter sweep acmes the barren country. This fondness for warmth is the cause of flint barren appearance which so often has been referred to hy' travellers. The Koreans keep their forests cul. 10 the (peek to protide fuel, while the canny Japs tet their fueestes grow and shiver. EVERYBODY SMOKES. Everyone emetics in Koren. doth men and woolen 1184) pipes with n tiny metol bowl and Mettle se long that generally assistance meal be asked to light them. As they are - inveterate ein ekers, the greater part of the Kormn's day is con- sumed in loading and lighting pipes. Thr Koreans oro, eeecn11(111y. an agri- cultural people. They come h•om a stock entirely diflercrtt from Iheir tw,e great 11c•ighbnr4, !.Kron 1h° innt 118(1011, find Jai an the lighting people. They are undoubtedly 01 'I'l,rnnian origin 8•ith .strong admixture of Chinese and Nlan- c hu e, '1'110blKordeans ore a peneefu1 and hos- potnBt' people, though they have fought web met bravely when they have bird 1;, light. They seem to lack the strain of fighting Malay blood which is so strong- ly marked in Inc composition of the war- Mit! Japnn(tae, FOIrrIFIED BY SMELLS. 4'oul, the capital, is nn ancient gilled city built in network of hills eighteen miles frons Ilio sen. It Is fortified in tie strongeet fashion by n system (,f smells that would drive any but an Asiatic nrnty gnsping into the sea. Seoul 19 poor in nppx ar:ince. let rich let fleas. On autumn nights tigers and other tweets of prey frequently contest the right of way with helmet traveller.. to lite sUr'ets Tho t'i+ln across the louselops of Seoul 7\87,7fecoti appalling(monotony.Altchhnnrty into the narrow str(eds from the ground. 8nd nt eventide when the pod wives start their Iles the pnit of smoke and nsties 11at. selling upon the town would make n l.enilon fog to look like a section of the cerulean ue. The 080 ndvblnnlnge of the ruioke evil in Seem is its ability In suppress the odors which rise up from els tworough- tares. CITY OF MOt'11NI:RS. Seoul is the home of mourners. in- dent it tiny be Bald lilernliy with the Se ripture.s that "the mourner"; go nbreut the tctr(v {s:' \Viten n Korean is be- reaved by the dente of a close relntswe he Ls entitled to mourn hie Iwo for n nthis eeriest of three )'curse n d during hts lune he is not expecte' In perform any labor. As the average male Korean pro- le...4 i a lofty sworn for labor at any time, itis quite to be expos led that 11,0 period o' woe f. eccepted with resignation if net embruced with joy by nearly all. Tho wall surrounding Seoul. from which kites fly }erenniall•, is a small replica of the great Chinese watt. The traveller is \\eteem d at the west gute, hut, should unfortunate chance delay hint until the sun has disappeared and a big bell boughs its warning note, he meet prepare to camp in Ilse ejeen until Ueea Joon' brings the gatekeeper back to lies duly. !IO\\' BAKING IS DONE. Barring an occaslonnl court pageant, Seoul is singularly free 1tutu sights to interest the tourist. A Seoul bakes -Imp is a triumph of clenniiness and ultogether n unique in- slituti.m. Of oourso there is an oven. Mice flour es data caned and kneaded into dough. This mass is spread upon a Week and two testy men proceed le treat it to a p(undieg Froc(vs with heavy wooden mauls. \Vhile this is being done an elderly aseislaiit dips his hand into water and rerlorms the somewhat hazardous feet of keeping the dough moist by patting it between the b'low's of ihe others. The oven crowns the work. PER I. 1 .1111Glt %i II . . A Few Intereslin0 Facts .!bout Some Well-kuowii People. Earl RoberLs, who fifty years ago was lighting in the Indian Mutiny before Delhi, where 1►e encountered hi, first bullet, which L:rtunately was stopped by his cartridge pouch and did no twilit. Iia•, just trade an interesting confession. "I have hept myself young on purpose, eity-s this :evenly -four year old V. C. hero. "1 have not drunk or smoked, and 1 (ern really not to day older than alit( \lajutut in ISSO." 11 is over fifty -lift years since the sprightly Earl first be- came a soldier. Sir Edwin Elgar, the eminent musics-' conductor, while in New l•ork a few weeks ago, was aroused from his shine hers, after midnight, in a hotel by ar irrepressible would -he interviewer, who while knocking violently at the 1111151 .ion's door, exclaimed : "1 represent the Sem." Sir Edwin made reply : "Go am represent the moon; it is more suilabl( at this hour of the night r All tte sante 1) column "interview" appeared the fol lowing morning. \Vhen once touring In Scotland, Mr f;eerbohm Tree got into cones-leatol w•illi a Gaelic guide. "And what airy you do a living?" asked the -ofd llow."1 " said the actor, a little take: aback. "Oh ! I'm on the singe." "Cir cue or hand -bell ringing?" ';ked the guide next. 'free hastened to esplair that he did neither, and added, "my work is more serious than that." TIP mon eyed him doubtfully. "Ah, weer, he said at length. in 14 lone of (1isae to raiment, "it seems tae me ye're nue i tt'kIo Is•Iler than a ni(leenistcr." Many stories are being told of Di Itichter, who he., just celebrated he: Thirtieth year as a intisieinn in Englund le' entry, when rehearsing a \1oza1' synrpl►ony, he stepped the bend and ex claimed! "Please, gentlemen, non p,iwtissinto, 1 want you to ploy like (ween ;stub, not like suffttgeltes." Oi another occasion, when going throe;:' l'schaikowsky's "Romeo olid Julie' scenes, he pulled up the ore! e!el remarked : "You all play like new a .e teen, not like lovers." Dr. Richter i certainly at the lop of his profession, lee 1 0 obtains stints frim ;1100 to £300 he conducting a single concert. The Quest private residenco In Ili, world and Ilio largest in Great Brittle Is that possessed by elle Marquess 4 Rule. in Mount Stuart. Rolhesay. Every thing, from n dining -room to an aquar- ium, is to be seen (here, and (1111(4n; utter things are three libraries, 111:-1. date swimming and Turkish balh- avi:u•ies, a billiard -room, and 0 dining )\ 4,nt which will a'oomnlodale 3(10 vi•. fors. The mansion (xost $I0.(Mx),IMM, Far! Fitzwilliam owns the finest Eng fist house. Su:roundeed by 1,500 acr; u leautiftll pari; hinds, the mansion (\\ enl worth 1Iol.se) stuudc 61(1 fest in length The hall alone is 60 fret by 40 feel, from which can be gathered n gree' Idea as 1( tee size of the outer roams. Anotlw, (moue resf.len(•(. is Eaton Ilan, which: Ile Duke of \\ cslminsler 08•)18. Otct. fitly suites of 18)41(115 ore set aside foi guests, whihe lene 1h011sep h neiu•ly flee•'tt, Chagthl-sw'ooft•Ih th1101154' (5)5 scsses grounds nine miles in circum- ference. The DuI:' of see -ensile. who recently returned to Engine.' frig! the Collet Slates. has n great admiration for Altera and Americans. Ile crosses the At- lantic nearly every yenr, and spend,. some weeks wilt his tinny friends in lee United Slates, who ore mostly lead erg in the retigione world, The Dille teas none of 111e testes Mel might lee looked for in one Mei fee times such or exot4d slntIat in hh'. �nu►Ii and slight lel stnit(re. h0 has slknvn ort affectlen whatever for sport, nor is he a society roan. Church mollers are his eel -ions c(,mcern in life, being tin advanced Whittled and ono of the mein suppor 1. id the ndvnnced Church party in the (louse of fends. The Duchess of New- castle loves sport just ne much ns her husband despises it. She hunts during nearly the w•imle of Uu0 sm'on. drives .(,ostomy. and i..5 a breeder and a judge of dogs. She was Miers Knthl(en Candy. nut married the Duke In 18x9. when she was barely eights'. She sitar's her ta.ele net's love for music. 11.\111) 1111'. - "plegorrn, an' il'.'s hared to collect n1•eney Leese days " "Is it you bin Irvin' to collect some. t►ir. Murphy T' "Sorry a penny : but there's plenty Iryin' to Collect some from me.-' JOKING CROWNED HEADS T111: -11111 or 1'I:it':It 1-; :1 1'll(Il.11; SO It: 'ION %Ill i1. Kaiser William. Prater., the 1. and (:harks Ilii' 111. alv, 111 the fatclgur) oI J, eers. Although the Kaiser has Keen known 10 allow one American millionaire to slap him heartily on the hhoukier, and another to hell lent that he is "a jolly good ((11uw." II,Ilhlul drawing a (race cf of(e u(Icd dig city, he is said nevelt to penult the least 18111iliarily from even tl►s most exalted of his subjects, says - Lundell 'Tit -this, And yet no monarch better enjoy a jeke al the expense of his officials, as was recently proved by a remarkable ptotogruptt presented by loin 10 an ad- miral. who usually accompanied hent en hie ynchling expcditiotis. On a r,.:eat trip this admiral tw115 1101 pres,vll. and his Mn esty, in order to show inlet that he had mieeed, had a wonderful p holo- graph "faked" representing a gigantic and fears olne sett -serpent gliding through the water within pistol -shot oI the wipeout y00111. --..' A more frolicsome monarch is 'THE SHAH OF PERSIA, of whom lee 'following story is told. (la•irig his last ti.eit to Paris tie Shah, just us he wee towing hi: hotel, sum- moned the two pxoiice-insp eciers wh.) al- ways accompany tint on their bicycles, and begged the lural of their 11111 11i'1es• as hies Court Martial anti Chief Chiunber- inin were anxious to try them. 'These digniliel officials had never Leen en a i(icycle in their lives, tied great 8•as heir eenslernteeon when their royal (4 4) 41er e`7dlt(na11)k'I them to (11ou1)1 the unstable steeds and ride awny. There was, however, no escape; so, -un(nlnninb t.p' timer courage, the two fig n:furies lucke:t up their frock -coats. goo s inelow, astride of Iheir respective wheels, and begun to wobble down the i:han►pts .Elysees. They had scarcely gene half a dozen yards.. however, be- fore o-fore crush went one machine and Ihcn 11.0 other, and the gallant riders were sprawling on the ground, vti11e the shah !atgh(d so consumedly at the lud.rrn18 spectacle phut le' was obliged to dry hus eyes will' his handkerchief. "All you want es a little practice." he gushed be- evecl} his paroxysms of laughter. as the !ellen heroes picked themselves up and began ruefully to-bru;h the dust off their ;:Irmcnts. On another occasion his Majesty put several of his most ndipose and grave -outliers on roller skates. and was so 'c,nvulsed by thea antics that he had to =•ommand them to desist. But, perhaps no living sovereign) re - deltas n joke of this kind mole heartily 'tun otic irrepressilere KING OF SPAIN, who is never so happy ns \viten he is shocking his grave met decorous «s ur- ie1•.s. they the 4,1110- (ley, it is ..ted, he interrupted an inlet -vice with one of his SUPPORTs SCOTT'S EMULSION sena a kids to carry the woakeatl and slmvsd system stool vettil 11 tilt Sad Ikea supper b ordiawry food. 51.1 ler free sa.pf.. ' • sco' T a sow i4 It, CisSYls� 7breet�artsss ��dela \liltisters 10 show him I1•n•: eteetese lee sold turn a somersault, un nerebnlic lent which he also performed for Me ''enefil of Queen Alex:Hideo. n short tines ego, in one of the corridors of Bucking - :ant Police. Francis 1. praetised some cruel jokes n Jlteob Paul von Gundting. an 4.1111 - lent scientist ; en (4110 ocr asbm dre ;,ing (o n nienkey in ••le,llies similar to Mose worn by, the i:r•ef--..r and 'liking the niter embrace lien in public and ao- 'uto'vlt'dgo him i1. ht, '18-n son ; and on •'undling's death the King hail his body tressed in Stale weren't and buried in , \vine cask. Chin -lee III. loved In g , abroad in dis- gine'. assailing his subjects in the coarc- e,t terms. lle would enter the shops (if vendors of breakable runlet-inls, and taking up n mirror nr drinking gins.; s told let 11 fall lo Ile; ground. Innghing unrestrainedly RI the l:•rr.•ive tent he !In11 dare and at the Ilea was showered on him. M11. eve bel ono enure cxn►r►ple. Peter le • e :el loved tel Chrlsi►nels lime to tele. 'silt in the an• mint sledge procese, . . in which the clergy. gergrv)usly ntt.re.l, stewed al certain h0u80s. sang n carol and re- ceived charitable offerings. \ 1.11\I:i.1' 1'Os'l 01'1'1(:1'.. lakes 'Ina 'tears In Iterrite a Lew. From (:;tlrip:llpa. Wands, Two le flet., depo•itea nil one of the Galapagos Islands itt 1!►(ti, hat.' just Imes delivered 14) their addr0sw'd (aw•n- ers. The Tetters wore en n barrel phenol un the i801411. left Mere by the ''r4W of the Bullish steamship Arr,pl ain in the nineties. They were "concreted" By a 11(1lise of F,cunder, 1s-. mould be hard to find n lonelier spot foe p oetd service that the (;nlapng.in, Eight hundred mile's west of the mein - Intel of Ecuador 114- fifteen mountainene, Ienrren islands of volcanic origin. A manlier of years ego I'1eundor supported n penal colony on one of the islands, 14111 the convicts revolted, killed the gover- nor. and e'crapd. The. (lalnpages tars now uninhnbitsl, ntkl the only tutees of former occupation are the pigs. dottkey.s, cattle and horses left behind by Ilio convicts. Certain facts in regard to the faonn of Ili.• Chilnpagos make these isi3llds of area! intertsl 1., scleniiM; Iit•uslignlo(:s. species of tortoises) nleou 1d which ore unknown to any other port of the world. \\ hat is more curious:, some specie.; oro re-Iricled to corinin Islands of the group. This fact is partly (eri laitted by the d.s'p clientele nn41 strong Carr et,s 8 hieh sell. aril.' the blends. Imtrnnigratlon is pre- vented by isolation. 'rhe romance of the Gnlnpagos Bels In the fact of their having some time posy sessoel a real Robinson Cruusn0. A vise el neetoring at ono of the blends sent si crew ashore. To the amazement of the sailors. they were appp'isch(4d by a man apparently wild, little c1othnl• nnj will, long hair and beard. A number of yew% before a party hart Kett:his1 tie) Wand fur a val,rnb19 moss. '111Lv Hurn had tensl come r.'para ad from lite companions,' was left behind. and sincn lhr±n loud Iiv on roots and fr1111 and what tn4'At ar, which f• 4 1 With fits b 1 h Ir) ch m c 11 t ,mc For n i e,.10,1 of his knife faakonad on a lona Pols.