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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1897-6-3, Page 6THE EXETER TIMES THE PILOT'S CLACK. i CHAPTER III. ed to take much interest in the details enact - Next morning as the Lynches were at of the tragedy which bad been enact - Y ed, so close to her home. Moreover, the .reakfast, a neighbour rushed in Lynches were bad correspondents, and breathless: "Mrs. Lynch, ma'am, did] newspapers seldom found their way to you hear the news? Oil Nally Byrne's i Knocklrennan Farm, sc that Dolly been murdered!" knew little beyond the fact that old Nelly Byrne had been murderer, and " The Lord preserve us 1" cried Mrs. i that the murder was supposed to have Lynch. "Murd .red 1 Do you mean to+ been committed by the Italian. sailor. say she's dead?" 1 " Why, then., what would she be but CHA?TER .rp, dead; and her money, that she kept w W as aDolly ll ereturned t.und eeafter murdesix hidden in the thatch, all gone. Sure, "teas a foolish thing, as I often told trial was toitake Ala eoannthasfollowe hex, to keep money by her in that way, ing day, and aiic;,ae, Lyn h and his wife and she living all alone. Couldn't she had keen summoned to appear as wit - have given it to some one to keep for nesses' This entailed an entire day's g absence from Jiome, the assize town be - her? But she was always that suspic- ing some sixteen miles distant; and lues that she couldn't trust a human Mrs. .Lynch thoughtit necessary to baling.,. make as, many p.reparations as if she "She oughtn't to have been living had been going to emigrate. Doily, g who was to be left in charge, was alone at all," said Mrs. Lynch. " Why. scarcely as much impressed as her aunt didn't she go and live with Jim? Ile would have wished -by the importance asked her often enough, I know." of the trust committed to her ; but " She didn't get on well with the and v made sanand bbadeefarewell oi her daughter -la -law. She always thought aunt and uncle with becoming solem- khat elle, and Jim too, for the matter nit.y. Then, having despatched her of that, were looking after the bit of light household duties, she sat down to make a dress for herself, taking money. Sure, 'tis she that's paid dear advantage of her aunt's absence to for her obstinacy." isecure a more faisbionable cut than " Have they any notion who it was that lady would have at all approved ,stat dans it?' asked Michael Lynch. of. Absorbed i in 'ter work, she sat over it until past mid-day, when she " Little Maggie, Jim's little girl, was was disturbed by two young men, the coming to see the grandmother, and owners of a yea+let which lay at an - just as ebee got to the top of the Bill, char at little way off, coming to beg she saw to man in a red ea corrin f°r a ight• fur their cigars. F, g ..How coal and ca2nfortable it is out of the cottage. He came along the here," said one of them. --"May we sit road towards her, and as he passed, she down and rest a bit on this bench out - saw that he was dressed like a sailor. side the door, Miss Dolly?" To be sure, eir," said Dolly, resum- He was very pale, she said, and seam- ing her own place at the window. ed seared like. She thought that be while the two young men established had gone into the cottage, as many themselves outside and began a desul- tt ane does, just to ask for a drink of peen no atten i n ; at length however, avatar or a light for his pipe ; but she she fA• never once thought of anything being wrong with the grandmother until she got to the cottage and found her stretched au the floor. Poor Maggie was so frightened that she set off at a run, and never once steeped until She reached home ; and by the time Jim and the police got to the cottage. the sailor of course was miles away. How- ever, the police are after him, and they say they'll bare him yet." "I hope they will," said Mrs. Lynch. "Poor Nelly; 'teras an awful end for her surely. A decent, hard-working woman like her." The neighbour went away. anxious to be the first to impart such sensational at they were talking of the murder, and the began to listen. "It will "Carrollis a defending i oodxigao ing for Carroll if he gets him off ; but. 1 am afraid the evidence is too strong." "The evidence seems little to hang a man on," "They hanged a man here last year on quite as 1it.tle. Carroll mean+ to maintain that it is imrossible he could have walked from here to the foot of Kilf.irlane: Hill. where the murder was committed in Uareeequarters of an hoard' "What has, the time it took him to walk there to do with the ease?" "Don't you Fee ? The clock in the old woman's eottage was ;exiled down in the etrugele. and stoped at a quarter to three, thus marking the exact time of the murder. N+uw Lynch a�� h news to as man as possible. while Mrs. s t ie man did not leave this until Y Ptwo ; so that if it cans impossible for Lynch went about her work, muttering him to alk the distance the e time, inarticulate sounds expressive of pity it is iihave (Omltewimttted trise impothesihlemurder." that he can and consternation. "I see. Perhaps the clocks were Old Lynch smoked in silence for some t wrone thounh." time; then be said; "A sailor in a red r "Not Ly neh's clock ; it is infallible ; cap. I hope it wasn't that chap that i never made a mistake in the whole w7ts here yesterday. I liked the looks i course of its existence, Lynch would -tae hie awn life, or any one ele'y, of him,' on its infallibility. Seriously though minded me of Tom. I'm afraid, though, 1 queetron. far Lynch remember. com- �� paring ti with the gun that night and it must 'have been him. the night before." Later in the day two policemen call- "I'm afraid it's a bad lookout for ad at the cottage bringing a coloured Carroll's client," A a young men, having; finished cha.el Lynch's name, which had been away, found on tbe floor in poor Nelly's cot- Dolly he.d listened with some amuse- tage. Lynch and his wife at ones re- went to their assertions concerning to Wised it as the she the infallibility of the clock,remember- g given by the ing as she did the day on whish she latter to the foreign sailor. The man had caused it to bear false witness in had not yet been arrested, the police her behalf, Suddenly the thought said, but would soon be, no doubt. They flashed into hex mind; Was not that r er " So did I," said his wife. "He re -1 it must have been right on the day in cotton handkerchief, marked with Mia! And the their cigars, nodded to Dolly and went served L nch with a summons to a the very day of the mud ? YP- Her head turned giddy and her heart pear next, day at the inquest, and, as • ,stoapetl heating as she remembered they were going away, one of them , that it was. She put her hands before said: " You couldn't recollect, I sup- her face. trying to collect her thought% pose sir. at what hour the man left t but for some time she was too confued this?" i to understand in what manner the �� ' T can than, just," answered Lynch, • knowledge in her possession wuu'd bearlie turned round at the door, just for on the facts of the ease. Being natur- all the world as you are doing now, and ally clear -beaded however. She soon began asking some question. I couldn't perceived that as she had put back the understand him, his English was so clock a 7uerter of an hour, at tbe time queer, and while T was trying to come her uncle. believed it to have been two at his meaning. tbe clock struck two. o'clock it must in reality have been The moment he heard it, he nodded and a quarter past; and that if it were smiled and made signs that that was doubtful that the man could •walk a what he wanted to know. Re went certain distance in three-quarters of away at once, after that." ; an hour, it was clearly imeossibie that " The clock was right. I suppose?" ; he could do so in two' -thirds of the "Quite right;'turas with the gun last ' time. night and the night before. There's not i What was she to do, or to whom a clock in the three kingdoms that's,was she to apply for help? Her first more to he depended on."im• ulse was to run after the two Next day, an Italian sailor, giving ! young men ; but on looking out, she his name as Antonin Tedesco, was ar- . perceived that they were already half - rested, and at once identified by little ; way out to the yaeht in their punt. Maggie as the one whom she had seen ; Then she remembered Martin Delany. leaving her grandmother's cottage .And 1 At another time, or for any more by the Lynches as the person to whom I trifling cause, wipe would have shrunk they had given the handkerchief, A from applying to him ; but now the curious, old-fashioned thimble, known mere thought of him seemed to give to have been among the old woman's , her courage and confidence. Snatching treasures, was found in his pocket, and .up hat and shawl to.put on as she went his clothes were slightly stained with . she set off at her nutckest pace towards bloat. 'Another link in the chain of Delany's farm, which was some ball - evidence was tibat some curly hlaok mile distant. M she approached the hair, exactly corresponding to that of farmhouse, she caught sight of Mar- h,is beard, was found in the murdered tin in a large meadow, giving vigorous woman's grasp. That there had been assistance to the labourers who were a struggle was evident from the con- saving a late crop of bay. She ran dition of the cottage. The furniture was over to him at once ; but by the time much displaced, and a clock which hung she reached him she was too breathless upon the wall had been pulled down, to speak. Much frightened, Martin apparently by a frantic clutch at the made her sit down upon a baycork and weights. This clock had stopped at a quarter to three, thus showing the ex- act hour at which the murder had been oommitted. It was near four when Maggie Bjrne bad seen the man leave the cottage ; but his discrepancy was easily' accounted for on the suppositionthat the intervening time had been spent by the murderer in a search for the money which the old woman was well known to possess. Tedesco's own story was that he had gone to the cot- tage to ask for assistance in securing the bandage on his insured hand. it having become loose, rend had been hor- rified at finding the old woman stretch- ed on the floor mud covered with blood. He lead gone over to her to try if •he could give leer any help; but finding that she was quite dead, and fearing that suspicion might rest on himself should he be found in the cottage, he had left at once and made the best of his way onwards. The thimble he had pioked .up on the road. This explan- ation was of course generally disbe- lieved . and the verdict of the coroner's jury was one of wilful murder against Antonio Tedesco. Dolly meanwhile was out of reach of the excitement caused bythis event. On the day following that of the mur- der, another of her aunts, Michael Lynoh's sister, had taken ill, and Dol- ly had been sent for to help in nurs- ing her. She went very wiilingiy, as she was fond of Mars. Driscoll, who had always been kind to lier; and in her anxiety for lie aunt's welfare she ceas- filling a cup from the can of milk left for the haymakers, he put it to her lips. In a few moments she had re- covered breath to tell her story in sbort broken sentences. Martin was slower in taking in its full meaning than she herself had been ; but once he did understand his action was prompt and decided. "We must go up to town at once, Dolly," he said, "and see the prisoner's lawyer. He'll know what's best to be done. Coma into the house with me, and Margaret will make you a cup of tea while I put the horse in the car. We must drive straight to Marshport ; it will be quicker than waiting for the next train." "But how can I leave the house to itself ? There's not a soul in it, and the door wide open." "We'll ask Margaret to go and mind the house while you're away. She will I know." "Aunt will be so angry," said poor Dolly.—"O Martin, will she hear what I did to the clock?" "I'm afraid she must, Dolly.— But nevermind ; she can't be very angry Anyway, it's a matter of Tile and death to this poor man, and you must tell all you know about the matter, cost what it may." T know that," said Dolly. "I'd have told long ago, if I'd understood that it made any difference." By this time they had reached the house; and Margaret Delany, a plea - OUR NEW JUBILEE STAIVIP WILL BE ISSUED ON THE 10TH DAY OF JUNE NEXT. The Dominion Will Celebrate the Sixtieth Anniversary of tier 31ajesty's Reign by an Appropriate Postage Onth t --Wearing the Empre.. t'rotyn. The Postmaster -General has deter- mined to mark the Queen's Jubilee by the issue of a postage stamp of unique and attractive design, a stamp so at- tractive that it is questionable whether it will not rank as a bit of art work with any stamp that has ever been issued in the postal world. For some time past it has been un- derstood that the Post -office Depart- ment intended issuing this JuLilee postage stamp, which, l:y the way, is not to be confined to stamps, but will also include postal cards ; but no de- tails as to the stamp were obtainable at . the department until yesterday, when the design was finally decided upon. It is to the credit of the designer that adverse criticism will be at a dis_ount in connection with the stamp, for the work in the design and the skill of the engraver have excited no- thing but favorable comment from those who have been privileged to see the first impressions. The design itself represents her Ma- jesty at TWO Int ORTANT ERAS in her life, namely, at her accession on the 20th day of June. 1837. and within a few weeks of her jubilee in 1897. The first vignette, showing her on her coronation day, is from a well-known portrait of that period. It is a full- faced portrait, and her Majesty wears the crown. Looking at the stamp, this vignette is at the left side. To the right is a picture of her Majesty as she appears to -day, the face in profile, looking towards the vignette of 1837, The profile of to -day represents her Majesty wearing the Empress crown. Between and above the two vignettes is a beautifully executed copy of the Imperial crown of England, and under it the letter " V," with the letters "R. I." in the fork of the " V.," the three letters meaning Victoria Re- gina, (Queen) Imperatrix (Empress). In the semi -circle or upper part of the vignettes are the words " Canada," "Postage," and underneath them are respectively the dates 1837-1897, and between the vignettes an =entente - tion of maple leaves, while in the lower corners of the stamp are also maple leaves, and between these and , at the base of the stamp is its denom- ination in black letters on a white ground. Simple as is this postage stamp, its preparation has involved some months STUDY AND WORK. Me. Pareira, of the Department of the Interior had the honour of suggesting the subject of the double portraits. Since then many artists have been con- sulted, and have ass;sted in perfecting the design, and it can he safely said that the occasion of her Majesty's Jub- ilee is most fittingly represented in the result. Much history concerning the people Canada and the Empire is embodhed in this stamp picture. It illustrates a period of sixty years from the date of the accession of the Queen to the throne to the ,present time. It tells of aperiod which is full of vital eras in the life of the British Empire, and the solidilleation of an empire in its colonies and dependencies, such as is not to be found in connection with any other empire in the world. As one looks at the design its associates thought with the empire as it is, and suggests the bond of union which is being so firmly cemented between Great Britain and her dependencies, and from the day of its issue until its withdrawal from circulation it will be the popular stamp of the Dominion. There will be fifteen different de- nominations of this stamp and a postal card. THE ISSUE WILL BE LIMITED. The first set of stamps will be sent to H.R.H. the Duke of York, who is an enthusiastic stamp collector. The sec- and set will be presented to her Excel - lenity, Lady Aberdeen, and the sugges- tion bas been made to the Postmaster - General that sets of these stamps be printed and numbered and a set given to eaoh member of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, bearing the autograph of the Postmaster -Gen- eral. These jubilee stanps will be printed before the day of issue, and the num- ber to be issued when decided upon, will not be exceeded and when the required number has been printed, in order that the stamp may not be re- peopuced from the original plate, the dies will be destroyed in the presence of the Pcstmastex-General and the members of the Government. NUMBER TO 13E ISSUED The denominations o1 Juuilee stamps and the total numuer of stash Jubilee stamps to be issued are set forte in the following soneuule:-150 003 1-2e. stamp ; 8,000,UuO lc. stamp; 2,500 000 2c. stamp; 20,000,000 3c. stamp; 750,000 50. stamp; 75,000 dc. stamp; 200,000 8c. sit amp ; 150,000 100. stamp ; 100,000 15c, stamp; 100,000 20c. stamp; 100,000 50c. stamp, 25.000 Si stamp; 25,000 $2 stamp; 25 000 $3 stamp; 25,000 $4 stamp ; 25,- 000 $5 stamp ; 7,000,1)L'0 lc. postcards. Total value of a complete set of one stamp of each kind, $16.21 1-2. Assoon as the Lotai number of stamps mention- ed in said sc:aedule is issued the plates from width they will have been en- graved will bo destroyed in the pre- sence of the nese anu ewb officers of the Department. DATE OF SUPPLY On the IOth of June the Post.•office 'Department will proceed to supply Jubilee postage stamps to the principal post -offices in Canada, and through them the minor post -offices will obtain their ,supply until the issue is ex- hausted.. if this jubilee issue were to wholly displace the ordinary postage stamps it would supply the ordinary wants of the country for between two and three months, but as the use of the ordinary postage stamps willro- ceed concurrently with that of the Jubi- lee stamps it is expected that the Jubi- lee stamp supply will last beyond the three months. Inasmuch as the department is al- ready receiving application for the purchase of Jubilee stamps, it may be stated that the department will adhere to the established practice of supply- ing them only to postmasters, and through them to the public, who may purchase them on and after the 19th June, 1897. sant-looking, sensible young woman, on a few words of explanation from her brother. readily consented to take Dolly's place for the day. In a few minutes Martin had brought round the car. drawn by his own riding -horse, an animal usually considered far too valuable to gn in harness; and Dolly was soon established on one side of the car, a shawl round her feet, while Mar- tin, whip in hand, mounted the other. (To be Continued.) BOOKBINDING. Women are constantly finding new avenues of employment open to them, bat bookbinding is one Which bas been taken up with great interest and very satisfactory remuneration by cultivat- ed woom.en. in England. In old times the nuns did this sort of work very successfully, and, besides binding their religions books, they embroidered the covers and painted the margins. Some of the peactioal work in bookbinding has been done by women for some time, brat naw it is the artistic side which engages their attention. The adorn- ment of the book and the art of repre- seating the sentiment of the inside on the, cover is ane which requires train- ing and study, expensive lessons, and the purchase of expensive. tools. Ori- ginal designs bring good prices, so the successful bookbinder must be an art- ist in heir line of work New York has one woman who has thoroughly studied the subject in both London and America, being prompted to do so simply by her love for books and not far any money which she might make out of it. She has one pupil, so she cannot long claim the distinotion of being the only woman doing artistic bookbinding here, Mock Dunk.—A very excellent dish is "mock duck," which, properly pre- pared, is very palatable and tender and has a flavor not unlike that of n well cooked bird. Get a steak from the top of the round, and have it cut twice as thick,as usual. Fry a cup of sliced onions to a light brown ; miry with a cup of bread -crumbs, season with sage, sweet marjoram, pepper and salt, moisten with stook, or with a little butter and hot water, plaice this on the beef, roll it up and tie with a cord and put skewers in the ends to hold the stuffing in place. Put it on a saucer in a stewpan,i cover with boiling water and simmer forty-five. minutes to the pound. When cool enough to handle cover with egg and bread crumbs and brown in a hot oven. Serve with a brown gravy. ®,...SMI..�.,,.... FLAYED ALIVE. stantly present, that being the only guarantee of safety to the men who take up land in the islands and estab- lish trading stations. Frain Woodlark Island, Staignan, the news of the murder of two miners by natives was brought to Sydney by the schooner Ivanhoe, which arrived there on March 16. The day before her de- pature, the natives, in canoes, brought news to the effect that Thomas Mur- ray and his mate had been murdered by natives on Normanby Island, where three or four parties of prospectors are working. Details were wanting. South Sea f:annibaic Enjoy a Feast — Shocking Atrocity. The cannibals of the New Hebrides have had another man feast. The steam- er Amur, which arrived at Sydney on March 17, brought the details of a shocking atrocity which occurred at Port Stanley, in Mallicollo. The victim of the savages was a native, who was working for a French settler named. Gana. After clubbing the man into un- consciousness the bloodthirsty wretches tore the flesh off his body, leaving the skeleton pinned down by wooden spikes on the shingle of the beach, the idea being that the man would be supposed to have been eaten by sharks. Mr. Gana, two days after the tra- gedy, while searching for the lad, met thte murderers. They endeavoured to persuade him to accompany them into the interior to buy some copra. He hesi- tated, but drawing his revolver. went with a guide into the bush. Scarcely had he gone a mile before the paint- ed savages surrounded him, their blood tihiesty eyes peering out through the scrubs. Realizing his position, he fled to the beach, where he saw that he was intercepted by an armed crowd. Firing his revolver. he sprang into his boat, and pulling for his life, got clear. A strange experience was, however, in store for him, for on arrival at his station he found that his place had been looted, evidently in anticipation of has death, and his house servants were bound to trees.. It was afterward found that a system of signalling had been arranged between the tribes with the object of killing Gana, and massacreing the whole of the occupants of the sta- tion. TJee same tribe two years ago mur- dered a French settler named Joao - him, when Caxmicbael and O'Connor, two settlers escaped. At the same place two Englishmen were butchered six years ago. In the same locality the crew of the Eliza Mary were killed and eaten. TJis natives were aarmed with Spiders. At Aoba, the other day,three Englishmen left in a dingy at night, when they were attacked. by Kanakas; at Point Sudest, Ambrym Island, a Ger- man named. Wamage Leone was killed, and at Tanna a Britisher fled, aban- doning his homestead. Immediately the warships clear from the group the na- tives assume an arrogant and violent demeanor toward the settlers, and Port Sandwich settlers have petitioned the Joint Commission to have a cruiser con - COSTLIEST WOVEN MATERIAL. One of the most beautiful, and with- out doubt, the costliest materials ever woven in Lyons is the magnificent and unique brocade manufactured last sum- mer for the German Empress. 'The ground is silvery -white silk, a,nd the highly raised design, consists of bold sprays of flowers and foliage, among which bright plumaged birds disport themselves. Every petal, leaf and fea- ther is perfect, and the whole stands out in such strong relief that at a dis- tance the effect is as though the pat- tern was laid lightly upon the silk be- neath,. One weaves alone was capable of pro- ducing this masterpiece, and it took many long months to complete a piece of sufficient length far a gown. The wages he received in addition to his or- dinary pay, were at the rate of 100 francs ($20) per yard, the eventualrice of the brocade being 600 francs ($120) per yard. The stuff has been specially ordered for a state gown for the Em- press, but ' when Her Majesty beheld itshe instantly exclaimed that it was far too beautiful to be cut up, and gave the command that curtains should be made imstead. of ,utilizing it for the purpose originally intended.. Up to that date the most expensive material an record was the cloth of gold bought by Louis XIV. for a dressing gown, which cost, according to modern reck- oning, the respectable sum of 414 francs per metre. CONVERTED AT LAST. You remember Johnson, the dry goods man who would never advertise?" " Yes. He used. to say that it was a mere waste of money to advertise." "Exactly: Well, I sawhis store ad- vertised in this morning's paper." , Ten don't tell me 1 1 wonder how he was won over ?" " He wasn't won over. It was un- der the head of 'Sheriff's Sales.' ROUND If WORD. WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE FOUR CORNERS OP THE ULOB13. Old and New World Events of interest Chron- icled Briefly—interesting Happenings of Recent Date. An electrical engineer battalion has robeenyal added to the voluh.Englandteer. corps of engineers in In 1808 the number of Bibles printed inwere 3,Engla970nd 39 wascopies 81,157; inpublished1896. there ,4 It is proposed to extend the Victoria embankment in London from they hoos- es of Parliament to Lambeth Bridge at a cost of $5,000,000, Mgr. Allen, who has just been ap- pointed Bishop of Shrewsbury by the Pope, was one of the stenographers at the Vatican Council, twenty-seven years ago. Rice is being exported from India in spite of the famine, according to London Truth, 75,000 bags being ship- ped in one week to Mauritius, while the people of the neighboring districts were appealing to England for food. France has a dialect society, the Societe des Parlers de France, whose President is M. Gaston Paris of the Academie Francaise, which is collect- ing legends and songs in all parts of France by means of the phonograph. Prince Nicholas of Montenegro has the luck to dispose of all his grown- up .pretty daughters if the engage- ment of the King of Servia to the Prin- cessold Xenia turns out to 1po a fact, He will then have left only the ten -year - Princess Vera, Paris consumes 209,000,000 litres of milk a year, which comes to about only two-fifths of a pint daily( for each inhabitant. City cows yield 21,000,- 000 litres, suburban cows within a radius of twelve miles 53,000,000 litres; the remaining 153,000,000 litres come by rail from a greater distance. Australia's rabbit plague bids fair to come to an end, owing to the large exportation of frozen rabbits for the London market. From Victoria alone 1.2,000 rabbits a day, or over 4,000,000 a. year are shipped now. Budapest thieves are considerate. One who had stolon an ivory and silver sta- tuette from the Art Exhibition, after pawning it sent the ticket to the Secre- tary of the Art Society, who then for the first time noticed its absence. On the pedestal was a written notice: "Stolen for a. day or two." By the birth of the Duchess of York's little girl the number of Queen Vic- toria's descendants rises to eighty, sev- enty ofwhom are alive. She has had nine children, four sons and five daugh- ters ; forty ons grandchildren, and thir- ty great-grandchildren. Two of her children and eight grandchildren have died. Filial regard is not extinct in South London. A young man charged with hitting a woman over the bead with a, beef bone explains that she had been fighting from 5 o'clock in the morning till noon with his mother, and that he thought it time to stop it. A police- man testified that to the same street two women once fought all day long, stopping only for meals, till one went home and died. Her husband had look- ed on, calmly mending shoes, while the fight went on. The Rev. John Vallancey, vicar of Rosliston, near Burton -on -Trent, has been suspended for eighteen months and ordered not to come within twenty miles of his parish or to interfer with its management in any way during that time. His offence was violent and indecent behavior in his parish church- yard, which he treated as though it were his private garden, tearing up the flowers planted on the graves by the relatives of the occupants and using force to keep mourners out of the emit. Australia, which has led in many so- cialistic experiments made by the. State is now considering the question of State physic. The President of the Queens- land Medical Association proposes that the country be divided into medical districts. under doctors paid by the State to look after all the inhabitants, and that the money for the purpose be raised by a poll tax of $2 a year. This would enable the State to pay $1,500 for the lowest medical saleries. A New South Wales labor league has declared that "the practice of medi- cine should be a. national service." Queen Victoria's watermen are dis- gruntled at having no part in the jubi- lee procession, the more so that tbe Queen has never made use of her state barges. She has two of them, kept at Teddington. which should be rowed with two watermen to an oar, The uniform consists or scarlet jackets, waistcoat, 1preechers, and stockings, with a remarkable black jockey cap and low shoes. On the front and back of the jacket is an enormous royal badge. The barge has only been used once, when the Prince of Wales and the Khedive Ismail of Egypt were taken by water to Richmond. ITALY'S NEXT QUEEN Italy's next Queen will be the most remarkable woman ruler in this mod- ern history of the world. She has the courage of a lion, the physique of an Amazon, the spirit of Joan d'Aro. She is perfectly at home in the saddle, and is an expert with the rifle. The Prin- cess, moreover, takes a keen delight int shooting birds with a revolver, and so great is her skill with that weapon that even.t.he smallest animal falls an easy prey to her unerring aim. The number of languages with which she is thoiroughly conversant is half a dozen, and she knows the a polikical intricacies of Europe as well as a Prime Minister. Though a lover of the wild and fero- cious, she has enough intelligence and training to make her a finished woman o'f the world HOMELESS. Come, said tbe kind, -hearted officer, you can't wander about here all night. You must go home. Home, echoed the unfortunate, bitter- ly, what is home to me ? But you have a home, a warm, come Portable, cheegful home. I did have such a homey the very home you have painted, but now, ah, heaven, but, now--- But now what, sir ? My wife is house cleaning, HERMITS OF GREI(tiOE. Strange Religious Recluses Who Live Boles to the Thessaltao CliSte One of the most curious scenes on the Thessalian frontier, now the center of the war between Greece acid 9;urkey is to be found at Kalibaki, Bornefiftj miles by rail above Ttrikbala, Thtows lies on a plain, which is beaked by the extraordinary rocks of b eteoerising precipitously to a great hel,ght and oommanding the marked attention of travelers. In places the cliffe ascend like a wall to a (height of 2000 feet; They are rough, free from verdure, and disfigured by innumerable holes and caves all over tuheitr face. It is these caves and the remains of monkish dwellings in them that gine the rocks of Meteora the atrange, a most prehistoric appearance that has made them famous. There are several monasteries at Kale ibaki. The largest if gt. Stephen's. Unlike the other monasteries, this is reached by means of a drawbridge thrown across a yawning chasm. This is one of the largest of the monasteries of Meteors. and has a guest chamber especially fitted up for visitors—that is to say, there are three iron beds in it, and it is only courteous to surmise that the wadded coverlet and single sheet, that go to make up a Greek bed, once were new. The Hegoumenos is most hospitable; he gives his visitors excellent monastio wine, a dinner of MANY WEIRD COURSES, and is himself very good company. As usaul, there aro two churches in this monastery, the smaller of the two pos- sesses some very fair ikons, set in beau- tifully carved frames, and one very old picture, dated 387, The large church, consists of a nave, ante -chapel., with the body of the church under the dome, which is decorated with the usual half-length figure of Christ. Here are seen some of the inlaid ivory and mother-of-pearl stools and lecterns which at one time were the staple work of the Meteors monks. All the manuscripts of any value have been removed to Athens. A long build- ing to the right of the bridge contains the cells of the monks, which open into a dark covered corridor, In time of war these monasteries are used as places of refuge. Not the least curious feature of these unique racks of Meteara are the holes and caves which literally pepper the face of the cliffs in places. In many axises these retreats of the hermits of St. A.nthony are merely cages. At a distance they look, some of them, like big bird cages hung u against the face of the cliff. As dwell Ings they are all exceedingly primi- tive. The Thessalian hermit did not ask much of iife. A roe lkky floor to lie on, bars or railings to keep him from fall- ing out of his hole, a shaky ladder down which he might now and then descend to earth, and a basket and string to let down for supplies were all he need- ed in addition to his crucifix and other religious necessities. These aerial caves ware occupied in the fourteenth century. THOUSANDS OF HERMITS, a judging from the remains of habita- tion, must at one time or another have sought refuge in these cliffs. Few of them can now be entered, for the lad- ders have for the mast part fallen away. Seemingly, the way a hermit pro- ceeded was to choose a hole that took his fancy's up be this be ran a ladder; then, driving poles into the rook before the cave, he built out a little platform; this he roofed in and surrounded with a wall made of sticks or dried grass. From one platform to another these anehoirites ran up their ladders until the whole faos of the rook was alive with these hermits of St. Anthony. After tine time -battered fashion of re- ligious recluses the cliff -dwelling her- mits of St. Anthony depended wholly on charity for their sustenance. Far up in their airy caves they spent their days and nights in ptrayer and contem• plation. When hungry or thirsty they Let down thein' baskets to the ground and when these were filled they pull. - ed them up again. The devout people of Kalibaki believ- ed that these hermits were a special charge upon them, and kept them well supplied with bread and water. Every morning men, td could be seen tramping tolfs children the baskets that were let down by strings from above. And so the hermits were able to live their quiet, lazy lives without a single worldly care. A MODERN BRUTUS. Au incident of Franco•German War,. Wh le General Chanzy was command.- ing ommand-ing tate Army of the Loire, a small com- pany of soldiers got too near a large post of the enemy near the town of Mezange, and were driven back by a terrible cross fire. They had left- their regimental flag behind them, a thing almost unheard of in that army ; and when Captain Henry, who was riding toward them an the field of battle, no- ticed this loss, he immediately ordered them to follow them into Mezange. One of the worn and exoited men laughed at him, and with insults refus- ed to obey the officer. Captain Henry made report of this act of insubordin- ation to General Chanty that evening, and the strict but just commander or- dered the soldier to be brought before a court martial at once. The unfortun- ate man was condemned to death, and suffered the execution of his sentence 'within a few hour. Long after this occurrence, when General Ohanzy was in Paris, in the seat of a deputy in the National Assem- bly, he was one day informed by the usher that a gentleman was waiting in one of the outer halls to see him on very important business. General Chanzy went out to see what was wanted of hint, and found an old man who told a pitiful tale of a son lost in one of the engagements just before the entry into Le Mans. He gave his name --a well-known name—and end- ed: Can you tell me whether my child was killed, or whether he was taken prisoner?" General Chanzy's kind heart almost stopped within him. This was the father of the unfortunate young soldier who had been shot for insubordination on the field of battle 1 What could he say to him ? What was thetre to lay ? Finally, with emotion, the old gen- eral told the wretched father just what had happened and how. "It was neces- sary," he concluded. "You will wader - stand me better . than any one;udge you who have so often dictated. and enforced. the law?" "General," Replied his caller, " since my son had taken his fia'st step away from the enemy, it was better that he should never take a second, You acted well. lA father may weep for his oh ild, t the Frenchman thanks you fraan flus bottom of his heart I"