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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1908-10-01, Page 2•••►• • • ♦`.♦♦♦♦•'0''►+♦+i4+4+4+4+44444 4+44+•1+++++♦++�'+ could be told, in the coolest pos•i M'y 4d44?l4.tM!'d'd`g°h Z Bible fashion, that he was done with, and that they had no further 1• A Broken use for him ; the unhappy man got Vbut little of amusement for his! rm clear loss of three thousand pours 's. ♦ 2 Then, by good luck, they man- 1 ♦♦ Z aged to secure the most remarkable' flat in all the world again, and to -�Q ♦ stock it with the vary furniture (or ♦ something very like it) that had 4-cl owded it before; only on this ac - BETTER THAN REVENGE, eaaion it. waa paid fur. And then at last Olive went down to that lit - 1♦ Ile place in the country where Chris 4++++++++4+44.4 +-4-4+++++4;+++-•+++++++++++++4-4444 ♦+� ♦++++++++++++4-4•�N i allel Lucy were staying. It was with rather a queer feel - CHAPTER XXIX.—(Cont'd). talk about business, and decide how' ing that she came to the place. For "1 think not," said Phipps, with test the money—in cash—is to be this was, as it were, the and of renewed confidence. "This lady obtained. I presume you have things ; everything had come beau - has some object—some purpose to agents in London?" tifully right, and Aunt Phipps was se rve --in pretending to be )lire. "All that can be arranged, said j no longer needed. The fraud must Phipps. Suppose 1 go to this ne- phew of mine, and toll him that she is not his aunt—that for some rea- son or other she is pretending to be Mrs. Phipps. Suppose he begins to discover who she really is—what then 1 1 imagine that she has some very strong reason for assuming that name." "A very strong reason indeed," raid Olive. "One moment, Mr. Blake," she went on, stopping Mar- tin as he was about to speak—"I think I can deal with this matter. Mr. Phipps—I have so strong a rea- son, that I do nut want anyone to know that I am not. Mrs. Phipps. Your wife is dead, and no one su- spects that fact; my secret is appar- ently safe. My reason is so strong —my purpose so much bigger than you can understand—that I swear to you solemnly if it is discovered I denounce you at once. I shall ba reckless then, and nothing will ntatter; I'll set the law in motion, and make you account for the large soul of money due to this boy to the last farthing. Now, Mr. Phipps —look at me well; do I seem the port of woman to go back on any- thing I have said; do I look the sort of Mrs. Phipps you've been used to dealing with—to be fright- ened out of any purpose on which my mind is set'1 Take time; there is no hurry." Tho man tried to look her in the eyes; began that blustering roll on his shoulders again ; but finally shrugged the shoulders, and turned away. "Very well, I give in," he said. "Name your terms. Only, they mustn't be high, because I don't intend to pay too dearly, 1 can assure you." • "It's rather a pity, in a way you didn't commit suicide after all, Phipps," said Victor Kelman, with a chuckle. "It would have comp out cheaper." "What was the original sum due to your nephew 1" asked Olive. "I don't see that it ,natters — but it was twenty thousand pounds. I can't let you have that—nor a twentieth of it," he added. Olive glanced at Martin, as if for some suggestion. "I think we'll ask for half," she said. "Utterly impossible," said Phipps in a decided tone. "Then we invoke the law," said Martin—"and see what that can do. We shall have to put with the ex- posure." "Now, I'll tell you what I'll do with you," said Phipps, after a mo- ment of hesitation. "It's a down- right robbery, and if I wasn't a soft-hearted fool, I shouldn't do it. But I'll give you three thousand pounds—in cash—and not a penny amore." ''Three thousand pounds—and si- lence on both sides 1" asked Olive. "Silence on both sides," said Phipps eagerly. "Is it a bargain 1" "Yes," said Olive, with a smile. CHAPTER XXX. Even after that satisfactory bar- gain had been struck, there were difficulties in the way. Mr. Phipps felt that he had been too generous ; hs wanted tints to think over the matter; he would like to go away with his "dear friend Kennan" and talk it over. But the sturdy figure of Martin Blake lounged against the door of the studio, and the calm eyes of Martin Blake told himthat there would be no delay, and no question of compromise. Indeed, Martin made a curious suggestion, which was at first bitterly resent- ed. "Under all the circumstances, Mr. Phipps. i think it will he well for us not to lose sight of you," he said. "That forgetfulness and ab- sent-mindedness of yours have be- trayed you before, and while I would not suggest for a moment that you would do anything wrong, still you might, for instance, medi- tate another suicide." "in other words, you do not trust me." said Mr. Julius Phipps an- gi fly. "Well, you might put it that way if you like," said Martin with a smile. "I was only anxious to save ye sir feelings. 11 hat I was going t, spy was, that under all the cir- 11.114 1 WHILE MOULTING. There is no time in the year when the poultry yard looks less attrac- tive than during moulting, and poultry -keepers are liable to lose Interest in their fowls at this sea- son, because of their unproductive - 1 ess, inactivity, and unsightly ap- pearance. The birds look dull, rag- ged, and in many cases almost hare of feathers, and the runs are untidy Mr. Phipps sulkily. "Since you end here; she must simply fade out and repulsive with cast feathers take such an offensively personal o` a business she never should have which have blown into the corners interest in the platter, you shall go touched ; she was grateful that she and lie strewn about the walks like with ole to my agents, and the sum e, ,.td fain out of it decently, and autumn leaves which herald the ap- shall be transferred to any bank that above all things she would be you like --and in the boy's naive. remembered kindly, even while they Will that satisfy you 9" never knew the real truth. She felt 'Perfectly," said Martin ; and so happier than she had felt for years; it was settled. Mr. Phipps, with happier indeed, than she had ever some lifting of the eyebrows, and felt in all her life. The future did many muttered remarks concerning not the meagreness of the accommoda- matter, when this thing was g done with, Olive Varney would dis- appear, and must snake her own fight for life. That she deserved; to that she had fully made up her mind. When the time came that this was done with, and the money tion, was sent into Martin Blake s room, to retire for the night with as good a grace as possible. Only at the last moment,Martin discover- ed that Mr. Victor Kelman was waiting a little sheepishly near the in the hands of Chris or at his dis- dcur, and was evidently thinking oral, she would go out again into somewhat deeply. Martin walked pie world, penniless, to face it across to him, and spoke in a low alone. The deep sterling honesty tone, so that. Olive could not hear. of the woman demanded that • she "I recognize, Mr. Kelman, that you have on several occasions been instrumental in making mischief. I can understand pretty clearly that tante from London—a little strag- in this case you had intended that cling town, lying in a valley with the result should be a very differ hills sot all about it. The cottage ent one ; you have really poen of itself lay at the top of a great wil- very great use to us. I don't think derness of a garden up through we need detain you any longer." Still Victor Kelman hesitated, moving one foot restlessly about on the floor, and looking at it. Martin was about to speak again some lawn here, or a flower -covered bank which are dropping out have a ten - what impatiently, when the elan there; so cunningly contrived, in- dopey to accumulate in the corners from St. Petersburg. Immense, looked up at him; and his face, dead that each turn of the little of the houses, and to form a haven beautifully kept parks surround the though it wore something of the old steep path held a new surprise. And for insect. vermin ; but it does not palace, with magnificent old trees whimsical smile, was graver than there, as Olive began to climb the take any great time to sweep them and gorgeous shrubs with dainty usual. path, was Lucy among the flowers, looking down at her. For a moment these two women, whose lives lead so curiously crossed and entwined with each other, stop- ped ; Lucy because there was a sud- ocn dread in her heart that this vis- it might mean a disaster ; Olive Varney because of another feeling. proach of winter. But there is no time at which the poor birds require more care than wen in moult, and everything which can be done ought to be done to improve their condi- tion and promote the rapid growth ,r new feathers. When hens are moulting, it is of considerable importance that they shall be well and comfortably housed. They do not need to be closely shut in nor is it advisable that they shrld be allowed leas air in their housidthan at other times; but hens which roost in comfortably waren houses generally moult ear- lier and better than those which moult in open sheds or in the If you want to thoroughly enjoy your vacation don't for- get to take along a supply of TRISCUIT=The Dainty Shredded Wheat Wafer, Nutritious and appetizing. Try it with butter, cheese or fruits. ALWAYS READY TO SIRYI—told by A 1 Grocers: IOS� RUSSIAN RULERSAT HOME SPEND MUCH TIME AT PE1ER- HOF AND TSARSKOE SELO. Live in Small Residences in Prefer- ence to Palaces on Imperial Estates. When on New Year's Day, 1905, the saluting gun on the Peter -Paul Fortress "by a mistake" fired ball cartridge against the Winter Palace the Czar and his family left their that; of trees, and early moult - residence for good and took up their would have nothing else. residence at Tsarskoe-Selo. Since The cottage lay on the outskirts ing is, of all things, most desirable. then only on two occasions, writes of a little town at no great dis- But it is still more important that B. W. N suitable day shelters should be pro ogaard i sided. The roosting house, of Daily Mail, have they visited St. course, is rainproof, unless it is a Petersburg, and then only for a few very poor ono indeed ; but it is of hours—at the opening of the first little use to fiotect fowls at night Duma and at the consecration of the cathedral built in memory of Alex- ander II. on the spot where he was murdered. Tsarskoe-Selo is situated on the Baltic Railway half an hour by train which one had to climb to get to ,t; if they are allowed to become thor- a garden built, or rather allowed oughly drenched with heavy show - to grow, in such a fashion that you ors in the daytime, and in the me unexpectedly upon a tiny moulting season. The feathers "I know—and I'm not going to say anything to you about it, Blake," ho said. "I'm going —and you're not likely to see me again. But the lady here is an old friend of aline, and I would like to say a word to her. You have no ob- jection to that, I imagine 1" Martin drew back, and Victor Kelman, a little less confidently For this was to bo the- hist tune; than usual, walked across to where without their knowing. it, silie was Olive was seated. She looked at Presently to walk out of the gar - him steadily, and for a moment his den, with smiles and promises, and eyes fell ; then he laughed and was never to see them again. She shrugged his shoulders, and spoke. would live this one hour at least "My dear Olive—I haven't used to the full, she told herself ; the fu - you well, and I"—he shifted about taro might trouble her to -morrow. with that foot again, and looked So she laughed, and waved a hand down at it, and then up at her— and went forward to meet the girl. "and Fm sorry. You're the most "It's all right, Lucy," she said, wonderful woman I've ever met or "why do you look so frightened 1 ever shall meet; you've played a You're not afraid of me—are you?" desperate game for desperate stakes OE course not, Aunt Phipps, —and I'm glad you've won. Sol- said the girl. "It was only be- emnly and seriously—I'm glad. I cause - haven't been serious before, except "Only because you were afraid in regard to a matter which is buri- that something dreadful was going ed between us. I'm serious now, to happen to that boy of yours. and I swear to you I'll give you no Only because you stand. like an more trouble. I'm going away, and angel in the path, to ward off den - you won't see me again, unless it gess and disasters—eh 1" asked should happen to be by accident. Olive. "See—you shall take him Blake tells me that I've helped ,you ; I'm glad of that, although I didn't mean to. I'm not going to talk nonsense about being a bet- ter fellow—about giving up this, or the news—oh, quite the best of news :—yourself. You shall go in and tell him—well, what would you like to tell him'}" •.. "I would like to tell him liiat he taking to the other ; because you need never he afraid of the future,'" wouldn't believe it, and I shouldn't said Lucy slowly. "Not that ho is mean it. But I want you—(you over afraid really, you know ; it is needn't unless you like. of course) —I want you to shake hands and say good-bye." She was on her feet in a moment, with both hands held out to him. He caught them in his, and for a moment looked into her eyes; and there was no smile on his face then He turned away without a word, and with only a nod to Martin Blake ; paused at the door to look back at her. and to nod again ; swung on his hat with the old flour- ish, and was gone. shall see you to -morrow 1" asked Martin, as Olive made a movement to go some few minutes later. "And for many to -morrows, Mr. Blake," she said brightly. "There's such a lot to be done. you know— money to be spent, and two babies t. be let into a great and wonder- ful secret. We've been very lucky. ' she added in a lower tone. and with a glance at the door of the inner room. "Very lucky," said Martin. "And what are you going to do 1" He held her hand for a moment at the door. "I am not the first, Mr. Blatt !, to be considered ; time enough to talk about ale when the others are done with. Good -night :" She went out into the darkness, and he eunlstances you must allow me to , saw the tall erect figure move away. oiler you the hospitality of this Then he came in, and closed the pinre for to -night. There is a very door ; carefully locked it, and put comfortable bedroom, and I shall eio very well here. If you should happen to stir. Mr. Phipps, 1 should Lear you in A moment. "I absolutely decline any such proposal." said Phipps. "It simply nieans that you are making a pris- oner of me." • • 1Vhich is really far better than the key in his pocket. lest Mr. Phipps should prove forgetful its the night ; and sat down to think about al the events of the evening. After that, a busy and a wonder- ful week. Mr. Phipps had probab- ly never been so much bustled as he was on the following day ; what with being dragged off to a solici- if the law stepped in, and made a tor of Martin's acquaintance, and prisoner of you," said Martin. there pinned down, as it were, to "Y•.0 will be at no expense, and the execution of certain documents; breakfast shall be provided for you and then rushed about from one in the vaoruint. Atter that we can place to another, until at last he only on ply account. "Well-gyou can tell him that," said Olive. "Go and tell him that Aunt Phipps has been lucky—that she has found her money again, or the best part of it, and found the best part of his, too ; go and tell him that a certain little flat, that was the most beautiful in all the world in the oyes of someone 1 know. is ready and waiting for him ; Fo and tell him that all his world rs right. Itun now ; you wouldn't kce , hila waiting --would you 1" She was excited herself ; laugh- ingly she thrust the girl away, and watched her as she raced off to- ward:, the house. Then, of course, came a banging of doors. and a scurrying of feet, as Chris was breathlessly called for, and sought after, and finally told the news, and dragged out into the garden to meet Aunt Phipps. (To he Continued.) WOMEN IN RUSSIA. "If it is true that national adages give an insight into the ideas of a people," says the Berlin Radical, "women must occupy a strange po- sition in 1lussia. One of these old saws run : 'Love your wife as much ss your mule,' and another tells the good Ulan, 'Shake your wife as you would a fruit tree.' That wo- man is not considered frail is shown by the adage, 'You may safely beat your wife with a broom handle, for she is nut made of porcelain.' Beat- ing must be considered a whole- some pastime. to judge from the saying, 'if your wife deserves a Seating in the morning remind her of her faults by giving by another at noon ' in justification of this kind of attention the Russian says, 'The more a ratan beats his wile the better his meals will be.' " 1 FROM ERIN'S GREcN ISLE Czar nor the Czarina takes much in- terest in court ceremonial or formal social functions. They are both ex- tremely fond of their handsome, bright children mid devote as much of their spare tune to their cunl- pauy as they can manage. It is a common sight for the courtiers of Czar Nicholas to see the Autocrat of All the Itussias romping merrily with a bevy of delighted, boisterous children. Of course even in the quint pre- cincts of Peterhof and Tsarskoe-Selo the time of the Czar is pretty fully occupied. He rises early and after a bath and a light breakfast nearly every day sets out for a morning's ride. He is a good horseman, his lithe, erect figure lending itself ex- tremely well to the saddle. At 10 tie is back and at his writing desk and till 1 o'clock—luncheon time— is occupied in receiving the reports of his Ministers, seeing foreign Am- bassadors and others. Ll the same manner his afternoons are mainly spent, the day often including a re- view of one or other regiments of NEWS ill' )1.111, 1ito11 IRE- i..tNt '1: slioltE:S. Happenings in the l uu'r,ttd isle of Interest to Irish- men. Michael McKenna, of Bawl', ('aunty Longford, washot and killed recently by a Iran named McNally. As a result of tilling 36 Iris.)acres in Limerick County, for the yrar 1907, crops were produced to the value of $3,539.50. Tho emigration to the 1Tnite l States fell away 1t1 July by 8,(Y:), and to Canada by 1,000. A recent census showed that theee are 6,541 persons of 70 years of ags and over in Belfast. A Milliner named Mary Fitzsim- mons died suddenly receetly at tug residence in Dublin. Lord Altarnant, son of tha Mar- quis of Sligo, has been sworn in as magistrate for County Mayo. John Berryman was executed at Londonderry recently for murder- ing his brother and sista. in law. Tho Rev. Graves Samvol Eves, aged 32 of Dublin, was founi deal i,t a bath at the Ivanhoe hotel re- cently. Lawrence Parsons, fou:th Earl of Bosse, representative pee- fur Ire- land since 1868, died in London re- cently. William John Graham of Pal drank a bottle of dissinfe •ta:e mistake for beer, and died in short time. ` ~ Lord Dunraven has given $2,r to Limerick to establish two scho at ships in industrial training in th city and county. Orders for a considerable quan- tity of Irish woollen goods have the guard. But from dinner time been recently forwarded from Buo- the Emperor so to speak lays down no Ayres, Argentine. his crown and devotes his time to his A fire resulting in considerable family. less took place recently in the drap- Dinner as well as luncheon is gen- cry premises of Messrs. Hawks and erally served to the imperial family Co., in Main street, Boyle. Mr. Alfred Ansell's jewellery shop, Donegal Place, Belfast, was robbed of several thousand pounds' worth of jewellery not long since. The Royal Dublin Society's Horse Show, held during the last week in August, attracted an unusual num- ber of American and Continental strangers. The death is aeinounced of the Hon. Arthur Cole, second son of the third Earl of Enniskillen. Mr. Cole was at one time president of the Hackney Society. Of four boys who escaped recent- ly from the Malone Reformatory, Belfast, two were recaptured in a field near the city. They had spent the night under a bush. The death is announced at Folke- stone, of Sir Eyre Masaey Shaw, who was born at Monkstowrr Castle, Co. Cork, in 1830, and who, for 30 years ruled the London Fire Bri- gado. :1 practical test of establishing hiring fairs for the unemployed dur- ing the two principal market days of the week in Belfast had but lit- tle result, as only two inett out of 1,500 were hired. CHANGE iN OLD LOON. Streets With I.ess I)rimkcnnc"" Re- veal New Order. There is one thing about the streets of London that strikes ono this year of grace as being the har- binger of a London both greater and morn glorious for the years that are yet to be. Only a few years ago and the streets of this world - metropolis had a far different look at the revealer of the habits and usages of the English people. Ono need not look for evidences of drunkenness; they wero brutally common and brutally obtrusive. The streets told the story of pov- erty's crime against itself, the com- mon London woman being as brazen and shameless in her drunkenness as the common London man. Tho saddest sight in all this universe surely is a woman reeling at the bar of some public house, brutally drunk, with a baby at her breast, and this sight in this largest city of Christendom has puzzled the rest or the world for many, many years. But London has changed and is changing. The streets tell the story-. A new order of thing:; is grade• ally revealing itself, and the out- ward signs of this new order are to bo seen in the comparative ab- sence of that which a few yeare'llgo was painfully comnlun—the Cock- ney in his culls. On all bands one hears the word that the social ha- bits of England among high irnd up and burn them or consign them snow white pavilions and fine works in a private room, not even the ad - to the manure pit every day. All of sculpture and beautiful terraces jutants being more than occassion- ally invited. Since the famous Nihilist attempt of killing Alexand- er II. by exploding a mine under the dining room at the Winter Palace it has been a custom at the Russian Court to have meals 'served alternately in different rooms. This custom is still adhered to. Gen. M.— told me that once, being in- vited by the Czar to an informal luncheon he felt rather surprised at finding the table laid in ordinary precautions must also be; and colonnades. Cl.,se to the palace taken to keep the houses free from; is a great lake with richly wooded vermin, and these may include limo! shores and a most picturesque little washing of the walls and perches,island, on which a pavilion, model- fregeunt cleaning of the floors and led as a Greek temple, gleams out radiantly white among the luxuri- ous, vivid green foliage. The palace is a stately construction in late Italian renaissance style, built by Catherine II. It is, however, only used on state occasions, nt official dinners or banquets. The imperial family as a rule live at a much smaller palace called the Alexan- drovaki. In May the court moves to Peter- hof, on the Finnish Bay, and stays the free use of air -slaked lime upon them, the renewal at regular inter- vals of the litter and nesting ma- terials. DAIRY NOTES. Butter -makers should be thor- oughly posted on the secrets per- taining to their business. The factors that control the water content in butter are : temperature of churning, thickness of cream, amount of create churned at a there till autumn. Here also there time, condition of churning and are vast, magnificent parks, extend - working of the butter. ling the whole way to Oranienbaum. Under normal conditions a thick right opposite Cronstadt. cream will give a higher per cent, i of over -run than a thin cream. The THE PALACE IN PLTERHOF, reason of this is said to be a dif-: Built by Peter the Great and con- ferent form of globule in the one,siderably enlarged by Catherine II., than in the other. is situated on a low ridge running A churn filled two-thirds full parallel to the coast line at a few with cream will give a larger water! hundredy ards distance. Peterhof content in the butter than one only!is chieflyrenowned for its water - one -third full. The reason is that works and fountains, which were the butter gathers in a less firm hililt on a larger scale than those of condition in the larger churning. Versailles and for beauty and cffec- There was music all day long in tiyeneas more than rig al them. .the Dairy Building at the Canadian In a turner of the park, right on National Exhibition, Toronto, Aug. the shores. of the sea, sheltered be 31st, to Sept. tach. This is an en - hind hind tall brick walls, guarded by tirely new departure and was doubtless appreciated. Where cream is kept in an un- sanitary place three or four days, as is often done by farmers, the fla- vor of the butter is seriously in- jured and cannot be entirely re- moved by any known method of treatment. Old, stale, or over -ripe create is very little benefitted by pasteurization. FARM NOTES. If you want to know what kind of a fanner a man is, look at his cul- tivated crops. No matter how much he may brag himself up, the weeds will talk louder and a great deal faster than he can. Linseed meal makes a most nour- ishing and profitable slop for hogs ef all ages, and is cheaper than bran ; but don't feed it too freely. It is coneentarted stuff. Every pound of it fed on your farm has a fertilizing value of at least 50 per cent. of its cost, aside from its food value. There never was a time in the past when the labor of man would produce as much as now. The plow and the harrow of the present day are twice as effective as in years past. A planting machine will do the work of five men by hand, and the cultivator and the hiller the same. The mowing :nachine will do the work of ton men with scythe:;, and the horse rake and horse fork as much. Tho binder in harvest performs the labor of ten men or more, and the thresher and cleaner accomplishes the same, as compar- ed with former modes. All taken together, they enable the laborer in agriculture to produce two to four times as much as in for.ner years. �1'--- TRYING TO. "My wife has that awful disease, kleptomania." "Is she trying to cure it "Well, she is always taking some- thing for it." many sentinels and mounted gen- darmes, three small residences are situated, not much bigger than the average dwelling house of an ordin- ary landed proprietor. The largest of these is inhabited by the imperial faulty. The second is at the dispos- al of the Empress Dowager during her—lately not very frequent—visits from Gntchina. The third, The Farm, indeed deserves its name, be- ing an old peasant house, fitted up so that it may serve as an abode for the imperial family. It was first used when after er. of the imperial children had re suffering from measles the larger residcnc? had to be disinfected and replastercd. Tlie whole family then for a time moved across to The Farm, wl.ere the little convalescents speedily recovered their strength. The stay here so charmed the child- ren that year by year now one or the other of the girls pleads feeling ill, their parents generally English. The and entreats her parents to go fora Empress has learned to speak itus- few days to Tho Farm, which had Sian quite fluently, but with the proved to be such a wonderful t zar and with the children she al - health restoring place. 1 have been ways speaks English. told that the request is occasionally The children have their ponies; granted. But the Czar and Czarina which they use for riding and driv- are really delighted to have an ex- Ing, and even the little Crown case for some days in the small, Prince Alexei has his own donkey, cosey rooms of the quaint old farm- on which he proudly takes his rides. low are changing, and cert linlyl Itis house and forgetting for a while the He is a very handsome little boy of. superficial clevidence of the streets cares and responsibilities of their four, strong and sturdy. and the jol- }.crs interest to this. Th seeming exalted positions. Best little fell nv imaginable, very alarming physical deers, seeming ° of On the whole, in whatever light far advanced for his years. His England, and her recession in many THE CZARINA'S BOUDOIR "Next time," the little Grand Duchess Tatiana pertly remarked, "1 suppose we shall lunch in the bathroom." After dinner the children say good night and the Czar generally plays billiards, of which he is very fond, or there is music, of which he is still fonder, being himself a skilled and talented executant on the piano, often playing in his intimate circle either solo or accompanying the violin of his sister. The Czarina also is very musical, having a pre- dilection for modern Italian music. The persons of the imperial house- hold whom the Czar honors with his personal friendship and who aro his constant companions in his ex- cursions and his sports are Gen. Didjulin, Commander of the Palace; Gen. Komaroff, ('omamnder of the Guard, and among his adjutants Prince Orloff, Count Hoyden and Gen. Drentelin. The Czar is a good tennis player and a good oarsman. He takes great interest in motoring, and nearly every day goes out for a drive with Prince Orloff, wile is an expert chauffeur, at the wheel. He is also a good shot. During his nn- nual autumn cruise in the Finish waters among the thousands of beautiful islands he often goes ashore to enjoy a day with the guns. On these cruises he is accompanied big the Czarina and the children, the wR*O In -particular looking forward to an expedition full of novel experi- ences. The children are made to lead as much as possible an outdoor life, and have plenty of exercise. Their education is conducted wholly on English lines. Between themselves they speak mostly Russian. hut with the accident at the New Year's precocious sayings and doings area irolustrtal lines from her former 811 - salute may be regarded, sure it is constant source of merriment to his premacy, have at last alarmed and elder sisters, as indeed, they are to pushed conceited, slow John Bull into a reformatory mood,•and he ;s evidently taking hold of himself with vigor and doing penance for his sins. 4 ITS FAULTY ('i)NSTRUC'TION . that for the imperial family it was in a way A MOST FORTiTNATE EVENT. The climate of St. Petersburg is far from healthful, the social obliga- tions are very cumbersome. Peter- hof and Tsarskoe-Selo, nn the other hand, are real sanitariums, and their healthy life in the open air. their situation away from the caps• -- •} .__ tal allows the strict court etiquette Dane i ►•r't:n^ d„es not tingle on to he considerably relayed ese-, •, s . , k:u• just looks at some largely dispensed with. Neillie t:is • •s. the whole court. The sisters. the Grund lhirhesses Olga. Tatiana, Maria end .lnestasia. are from 14'/, to R' ; veers ,.f age. They are all very pretty. anther thin and tall, taking after their handsome moth- er, hat lively and robust. thanks to • "I sat away up in front,” Mrs. Lapsling was saying. "and yet 1 couldn't hear half the actors said. I tell you there's something wrong with the agnvstie prieaertieb of that theatre."