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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
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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.