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A PRECIOUS PEARL
GTER L—(Cont1nued4)
Mrs. Calverne was a charming hos.
tees. She herself conduate;d Audrey to
her roome-e. . pretty apartment, hung
teeth blue eilk and white lace. The
long windings looked over the grounds
that led to the Aver, presenting a most
exquisite view. In the room there was
everything that a glee's beart could
desire. Ten, toilet -table was covered
with =reels of glass, Dresden china,
and. Lycra, and with most elaborate
scent bottles. A pretty couch was
drawn near the window, There were
looks, flowers, pictures, statuettes.
Audrey looked round. in wonder.
This was magnificence compared with
the plain, bare aspect of her room at
the rectory.
"I hope you will spend. many haPPY
hours here," said Mrs. Calverne.
Audrey WAS delightel whet the size,
.he zuagatieleen.ce, the picturesque teen
-
Ly of the hone, She was delighted,
too, on the day following, when Mrs,
Calverne—who was almost royally
generous in. her liberality—took ber
out shopping. To .A.udrey's simple im-
aginatio.a her hundred pounds seemed
almost inexhaustible. It bought so
muoli—everything that $ young lady
eould desire. There was nothing for-
gotten—evening dresses, ball dresees,
walking costinnes, gloves, fans. Par-
isian sheen pretty ornaments—yet in
the purse Mrs. Calverne handed to her
there was left a handsonie supply el
gold,
"A hundred pounds goes a, very long
way." said Audrey, tnoughtfulIy.
She IN as well pleased; and on the raor-
row. when Mrs. Calveane's friends and.
visitors arrived she felt quite athome
and at her ease among them.
Miss Hainlyn, gave One keen com-
prehensive glance at Audrey when
they were introduced and then
she smiled at Mrs. Calverne.
"We shall hear of something before
very long," sbe said.
That earue evening Mrs. Calverne
seemed highly delighted with a note
that she had received.
"Sir Roche Villiers is coming." she
said. "I hardly hoped to see him."
Miss Hainlya looked up with a gleam
of pleasure in her dark eyes.
"Coming here, is ea? 1 ha.ve been
given to u.aderstand that he is most
difficult to please. I repeat my pro-
phecy—we shall hear of something Le -
fore very long."
Mrs. Calverne made no answer; she
was looking at Audrey with an intent,
serious gaze, She shook her head.
"I am afraid it will hardly do," she
thought to herself; "yet few girls have
ever had such a chance."
Before three days had elapsed the
party of guests were complete and they
had before them the prospeet of a
beautiful month—July, in all its glory
of flower and leaf.
CH A.P T.ER 11.
The London season lead almost come
to an end and the participators in it
had nearly all gone their different
ways. k or some the season ended in
the chime of wedding -bells; to others
it bad brought regrete and disappoint-
ment.
One who had been perhaps more bril-
Kant, maze popular, inore sought after
and admired than any other, eat alone
in his house near Hyde Park. The table
Lefore hirn leas strewn with notes of
invitation with dainty envelopes veith
papers still unread, periodi, als still un-
eut; tbe warru sunl,ght fell upon his
face, whion was shaded by his hand—a
lace that at once attracted; attention.
There was someth ng at once bril-
liant gentle and. strong about this
man, hooking an him, one saw by
the handsome tboughtful face that his
breast held a life story. It was half
revealed. by the firm grave mouth; the
lips looked as though they had sealed
a secret; it was told in the dark, keen,
blue eyes, in the whole expression of
the face. He was above the ordin-
ary height, with strength and grace
combined—a man who could never
have even passed. through a room ten -
notice -1.
Most men envied, all a-onaen ad-
mired, Sir Roche Villiers. Ile was
rich; he owned. a magnificent estate—
Rowan Abbey—he possessed a magni-
ficent mansion in London, called Roche
House, he had a villa at Cowes, a large
estate in Wales. His baronetcy was
30.118 of the oldest in England. Fortune
bad lavished some of her richest gifts
on him. He had a, fine, clear, keen in-
tellect, a brilliant, vivid fancy, the
soul of a. poet, the mind, the taste and
instinct of an artist; he was a brilliant
orator, an accomplished courtier. He
was one of the leading menibers of the
House of Commons, and was a power
in the land although he had not yet
reached the age of thirty. He was
sought after, flattered, and admired;
no one had a word to say against.him.
And he won the love of women by the
eloquent beauty of his face, as well
as by his marvelous talent, tact, grace,
. and evit.
The room in which he sat was spa-
cious and. aandsorae. The eimbeams
lingered. on a thousand beautiful
things, but those same sunbeams.
brought no smile to thp face of the
man to whom everything brought only
weariness. He put away his thoughts
and gave the whole of his attention
to the letters lying on the table. One
after another he read them, and wrote
on each' the same word, "Deelined,"
.until he came ne Mrs. Calverne'e let-
er.
"I will go there—I always enjoy a
viait to Ricbmond."
He wrote an acceptance—it was the
same letter which gave such delight
to the fashionable widow—and then the
old air of weariness and gloom came
ever him.
wonder," said Sir Rothe Villiers,
the possessor ne thirty thoueand per
annum, "if theta is anything in this
world whiele would make me feel like
my old. 'emit again, light of heart, hope-
ful, trustful, sanguine? Caul any-
thing give me a desire for lire, take
frora me the ranking sense of ill -usage
restore my faith in my kind, in the
love and the truth of women, tne honor
of men, I would give my fortune for
them and consentto stand penniless
it the world. if 1 Mild regale what
I have lost. Why should. my heart
have lost its youth, ray life its spring?
Other men are happyuntil they die
—and I was nappy for only a few short
moths."
The day arrived on whieh he left his
home and. wept to Richmond where
a warm welcome from the graceful
widow awaited him. He never forgot
the day. It was rith a,nd warm with
the glory of July, but the radiaace of
nature brought no smile to his lips.
Mrs. Calverne received. hina with the
graceful warmth that made her so pop-
ular; the said kind pleasant things to
hem, she hoped a. few days of change,
rest. and bright companionship would.
do bleu good. Ile thanked her; but
when, after a short conversation she
went away to order some luncheon for
hem, he walked to the window and
stood looking absently over the green
lawn with its wealth of rose trees.
Calverne's retuan aroused him.
Be knew that he had the usual society
routine to go through. While he
drank the claret cup so perfectly are -
pared, and admixed the cool, tempting
feint set before bim, he asked who were
hes fellow -guests. Mrs. Calverne aas-
wered brightly that they formed a
pleasant and well -selected party.
"I have a belle, a beauty, an ingen-
ue, a, wit, and yourself. Could any-
thing be better?"
"No," he answered with a smile.
"'When you have rested. a little, and
care to go out, you will find them all
n the grounds. Miss Haredyn and
Miss Brooke like the bank of the
river. I think you will be pleasedwite
ler
fIeisssh.prooke; she is something quite
He raised his eyebrows a little—as
though anything in this weary world.
could be fresh to him! Ile forgot all
about Miss Brooke the next moment.
and enjoyed his cigar in peace. he
preseatly strolled down to the riv, er
bank. Then and there he saw the
rector's daughter.
He had prayed only a few hours be-
fore for forgetfulne;s; now he boped
that no time. no thought, no trouble,
no sorrow would ever take this new
memory from him He bore thee
ture with him until he died, The Mil
slender girl standing idly by the
river bank watehing the stream. ev-
ery fixie and curve of her figure clear-
ly defined against the blue sky, her
two white hands idly cliteped. was as
perfect a picture as artist or wiet
rould suggest. A. smile, half thoug,ht-
ful, half proud, played around her
lips. Her fair, sweet loveliness re-
vealed ao trace of human passion,
there. was nothing to mar the calmness
of girlhood.
It was quite a aew type of beauty
to him. rieh in its brilliant coloring,
proud in its half -haughty grace. Peen
in s drearny loveliness.
He stood melte still, as a man who
sees some wonder of the world for the
first time, spell -bound by the beauti-
ful purity of tbe uneonecious face.
What happened as he wetched it he
never quite knew: the sun toek a more
goldengleam, the river eeemed to
flashinto light and song, a deeper
green fell on the rippling leases,
sweeter fragrance came to the flow-
ers.
As he looked at Audrey his life seem-
ed to grow complete; something awoke
in his heart and soul that never died
again sonaething that gave him tar,*
his youth, his faith, his trust—that
took away bis doubts, fears, and dis-
may. He watched her intently. while
the moments passed 'unheeded. and
then he murmured to himself that he
had found the spring of the waters
of lathe at last.
He roused hiraself suddenly as from
a sweet sleep. He was obliged to pass
by the spot where she stood, for he
saw Miss Hamlyn in the distance. As
he drew near, the girl raised her fare
and their eyes met—only for a mo-
ment. but that same moment held the
fate of two souls. Ile hurried on and
found Miss ETamlyn /luting the capa-
bilities of the smooth, green tennis
ground. Whea he spoke to her, he
had the look and manners of a man
who was dreaming.
"He speaks to me." she thought,
"but he does not even see me."
And then he asked the question
that trembled on his lips.
"'Who is that lady standing on the
river bank, Miss Hamlyn?"
There was a demure smile in her
eyes as she raised them to his.
"This is Miss Brooke, AudreyBrooke
—or l'ingenue, as Mrs. Calverne calls
her."
"Audrey Brooke," he repeated slow-
ly and. to bis excited fancy it seemed
that the surging wavelets re-echoed
the name.
"Audrey Brooke," he said again; and
Miss Etamlyn smiled with the superior-
ity of a young lady quite above such
weakness as love.
"I will introduce you; to her, if you
like," she said.
Mechanically he followed her, and in
a few moments he was bowing, while a
fair face was raised to his—raised for
oen monaent, and. then the. dark eyes
fell. It seemed. to them both that in
one glance their souls met.
••••••••••••••
CHAPTER III.
Sir Roche could not/ es. -plain the be-
ginning of his love for Audrey. A
new, beautiful life, had suddenly
sprang up within him; flowers bloom-
ed where an arid desert had been; the
funeral pall which had covered earth
and sky fell away; he who had thirst-
ed so long drank deep of the sweet
waters of content.. Daily companion-
s ip with her enhanced her radiant •
charms, and ane bright day he told
Audrey that he loved her, and asked
her to be his wife. He mild not recall
the wards in which he heel proposer&
to her, or the manner in which she
had accepted him. He remembered the
sunlight of the summer morning, the
fragrance, the shade under the tall
green trees, the huraming tem bees.
He had met slept all night for thinking
of het—he had risen early. He saw her
at breakfast time, looking more beauti-;
ful than ever, in a cool, blue muslin ;
dress, with white lace.; He had tried ;
hand to be content and to persuade
himself that he hate no right to seek
,,to make that pure, young life onewith
"Yet, why not?" he asked, himself,
" ShaIl a an suffer all nis life and
lose all his life, because of one mis-
take?"
f Be tried to find a thence of speak
mg to her when bteakfast was ove
and the visitors, In little groups, wer
discussing their letters and plans fo
the day. Hehad nor opportunity jus
then; bat, on going down to the rive
bank shortly afterward, he cauglit
glimpse of the brown hair and the blu
dress under the thada of a Ume tre
lie did not wait then to ask himself any
questions, to review past scruples, he
said to himself that she was the good
angel of his life, an& that he would
do his best to make her bis own. He
went to her at once, his heart on his
lips—he loved her with a wonderful
love—and he asked her. if she would b
his wife.
To neither of them. did the xnemor
of that time even return very clear
ly— it was all a blinding glare, of
golde,n, sunlight, a sound of sweet
music.
When she raised her fair, startled
face to his, he knew that he had
won her, for he read her love i
the dark eyes that drooped so shy
ly from his. Yet hes bappiness era
so great that he could hardly believ
lb,
"You. will really be my wife, Aud-
rey?" he said. "Say it again, darling
—it seems to me so much too good to
be true. You always appear to me
more than mortal; I can hardly believe
that I have won you., You really love
me, Audrey?"
"Yes, I really love you," she re
plied.
"And you will be true to me until
death?" he continued,
She raised ber pure, fair face to
"Yes," she answered, "in the high-
est sense of the words, "I will be true
to you until death."
"I feel as tbough I had plighted
my troth to an angel," be said. "My
darling, I should never be very ear -
prised to see you, suddenly take wings
and fly away."
She laughed a little, sweet laugb of
perfect content.
"I feel more like a happy young
girl than an angel," she said,
ask'Beant are you happy, darling?" he
an's'Yweeer,,",e1naasnathijeallevayK, frank, half shy
And then they talked of the future
that lay so bright before them.
He told her of his splendid old borne,
Rowan Abbey, the large estate near
King's Wynne, of his numerous ten-
ants and dependents,
"I have neglected my borne," he
said; "It is three years and more since
the great gates of the abbey were
opened. They tell me that inoss leas
grown in the courts and weeds in the
gardens."
"But, why," she asked, "have you
neglected it?"
mooHidsy,handsome face grew dark and
"Do not ask me," he said. "My
past has not been a happy one. will
tell you this, darling—I have neglect-
ed my duties, I have not !leen near ray
home; I have negleeted my tenants;
any-
thing." taken no interest in any -
"Bat why," she persisted, "tell me
why?
He was silent for a few minutes,
during whith he asked himselt should
he tell her, or should he not? If he
told her, the chances were that he
should lose her; and he clung to her
not only lsecause he loved her with a
passionate love, but because he, saw in
her the means of amendment, saw how
she could help him to lead such a life
as he had dreamed of years before,
and had longed for always. He could
not risk all by telling her; besides,
what could it matter? He would be
a true, faithful, loving husband to her
—he would make her very happy; for
the rest, his story related only to an
old-fasbioned prejudice, at which the
wise children of this generation laugh-
ed.
"Why was all this?" she asked
gently. "Why did you neglent every-
thing, and care for nothing, Sir
Roche'?"
Darling, you must not call me
'Sir Roche,' I have never known
the Leauty of my narne until now. Say
Roche that I may hear all the music
of it."
She half -whispered the name, and
then he answered her. He took noth
her hands in his and. kissed them;
but be did not look into her face as he
said:
She shivered e little and drew
her Mane lace sbawl around her shoul-
ders.
"Have you told her?" she asked.
"No," he replied, angrily "why
need I tell her? She' need never
know. I dare not risk losiaa her,
for if I lost her it would drive me
✓ mad.
mr"sWielladyvoerunsitealltteDrnaBrpomouskeer asked,
t "Ni; why should I? Why need I?
✓ It matters to no ciee. Let me forget it
a —that terrible ghost of a hated past;
e let me be good and ha.ppy with this
e. sPterruotain0171,— sent to me, I believe,
by eaven to save me from utter de -
"Do you think good ever, comes from
concealment?" asked Mrs. Calverne,
presently.
"No, not as a rule—in' this ease,
yes. Old-fashioned prejudices would
e be arrayed against new and more
advanced ideas. I da not see the
rneefeedr,rinthgtodays
ewiclyosgom,tnte bliay&eisaNkirhinciilsityo
ihoauprpni ne ;7—wish me God -speed in my
"I do," she said.
But long after he had, left her the
mistress of River View set looking
thoughtfully at the green trees.
I hope I have (low:, right," she
5 said. "A.fter all, it is a brilliant
e match for her; and weat, can a few
old-fashioned prejudices matter?"
To be Continued.
"1 had a friend, one whom I loved
and trusted. This friend deceived
and betrayed me. The deceit; was
so cruel, it blighted my life, and
r lost all interest in it until I saw
you."
Her hand stole gently to his shoun
der, her dark eyes dim with unshed
tears, were raised lovingly to his.
"I will never deceive nor betray
you," she said. "You shall have one
love true and faithful to your life's
and ; I will make up to you for all
you. have suffered. But, Roche,
you must have loved your friend
very dearly to have suffered so
mucb?"
"r did," he replied, hoarsely. "But
we will not talk any, more about it. I
shall forget it in your love. My life
will grow bright again—all the inter-
est will come back. We will live at
Rowan Abbey, and we will do all that
I ought to have done, but have so
sadly negieeted; we will build schools
for the children, almshouses for the
old and infirtn. We will do all the
good we can, Audrey."
She listeaed to him in a trance of
delight.
Considering his vast wealth, his
ancient title, his large estates, he did
not look like a lover assured of victory .
when he asked that same evening to
speak to Mrs. Calverne.
"I think it but right," he said, "as
Miss Brooke is staying ender your
roof, to tell you that r have asked her
to be my wife, a,n& th,at I have de-
cided on „going to see Dr. Brooke next
Week."
She looked at him half gravely, half
sadly;
"Yme do not congratulate Me," lie
cried,
"I am remise," she w 1 be
your pardon, I do congratulate
you. I think more highly of Autl.
rey Brooke than of any girl I
know"
"You are recalling theee old -f 4
ioned prejudices," he said rmpat1entj1
"surely you are more enlightened th
to deem them worth 4 momentl„
thought?"
THOMAS ATKIN'S PLUMAGE,
A Million a Tear Makes Ulm 'Beautiful to
Zook Coon,
Mr. Tames Atkins, taking all grades
of him, even if not actually the best
dressed, iscertainly the most brilliant-
ly garbed soldier in the world, says
the London Mali, But the cost of this
gorgeousness is not so great as on,e
might reasonably expeot. According to
recent ieluras, clothing the whole ar-
my for the year 1896-7 left John Bull
poorer by no greater a sum than Ma,
000,000.
As is well known, India pays for
the clothing of the regiments quar-
tered there, this being arranged by a i
curious system of exchange. Regiments I
are continually going out from Eng-
land, taking clothes with them, for
which the Indian Government credits
us with £135,000 annually—a very tidy '
little stela, 1Vhen, on the other hand,
the regiment returns, we must credit
our dependency with the value of what
Tommy Atkins wears. As the clatbes
are usually pretty well worn, we put
it at £5,000—an excellent bargain. Old.
and worn out clothing is vended. to the
second -band dealer, who, it may be
remarked, usually grows rich in a
short space of time, for a matter of
£28,000; and. " cutting'. " fetch as much
as 46,000.
Altogether the 'War Office gets back
I over £300,000, which reduces the gross
expenditure very materially.
' It costs £14 annually to clothe and
decorate the quasi -private, known as
the warrant officer, of the Foot Guards.
But then he is very magnificent The
Ordinary beautiful infantryman, who
is the cynosure of all the nursemaids
in the park, is fitted out from top to
toe, complete, for £3 1
I At the Army Clothing Department
in Pimlico hundreds of thousands of
!yards of flannel, linen, calico, velvet, 1
millions of buttons, tons of cotton-
evool, Tommy must be padded out a I
bit, and billions of yards of sewing cot-
ton are all at superior quality, and cost'
the nation £485,000. The wages for
making these up into tunics, trousersi
and shirts is a matter of .21,200 a '
week, or £64,000 a, year..
They do not all sew and stitch at
Pimlico. For instance, there is that
snug little post, the Inspectorship of
Clothing, which is worth n1,200 a year,
while his assistant receives £750. Tom -
ray Atkins might be, it should be add-
ed, clothed—merely clothed—for much
less money, but to inake him beautiful
costs £1,000,000 a year.
A GROWING CITY.
Vladisvostock Will Soon be Famous as a
Railroad Terminus.
Open your atlas at the' map of Asia
and look for tbe city with the long
name of Vladisvostoek, on the eastern
coast, north of Japan. Ar few years
ago this was only a little barren strag-
gling town of a few thousand inhab-
itants, most of whom were Chinese c
fishermen, who lived in the deepest
poverty. Now it is a rapidly growing
city of =tore than twenty thousand in-
habitants, and it will soon become one
of the great ports and naval stations d
of the world. Last week the corner-
stone of the new Russian public works a
was laid with great ceremony.
The importance of Vladisvostock lies 8,,
in the fact that it is the terminus of
the Trans-Siberian Railroad which runs a
from Russia, a distance of over five
thousand miles across the barren iee
stretches of Siberia. When completed e
it will have cost over one hundred and e -
seventy -five million dollars, making 'e
it one of the greatest business enter -
GIANT COLONIZATION PLAN.
A foreign Syndicate Mama nomeeee Euro-
peans to Mexico.
A syndicate composed of some of the
wealthiest men in the old' world has
been organized to oolonize Mexico, eays
a despatch from the City of Meanie,.
Vast concessions have been given to
the syndicate, whith also assumes a
lain a block of the pablie debt, as ex-
plained in the Government organ, El
Menthe, which says that the contraet
has beea signed between Limantour,
Secretary of Finance, and an English
• It is stated that this' syndicate un-
dertakes to place in various portions
of Mexico, within the next twenty-
five years a round, million' of Euro-
pean colonists. The details given are
incomplete and rather mystifying, bat
they are believed, as the article ap-
pears in the Government organ. The
company 'which has the transaction in
hand was organized in England.' One
of the Rothschilds is active President.
It guarantees to take over, the public
debt—whith debt El. Mundo does not
state, but presumably some of the later
issues, amounting to about one hun-
dred and ten million dollars—and as a
guarantee of good faith will deposit
one million dollars with the London
Bank of the City ofeMexico. The Gov-
ennaent, on its part, agrees to turn
over 33 1-2 per cent. of all receipts to
the foreign syndicate. It also agrees
to pay one hundred dollars for each
family- located as colonists, and to
withdraw all the publics lands from the
market, giving the new' syndicate; the
exclusive use of the Government lands
for colonization,
The Governemnt also agrees to de-
fray thirty-five per cent. ot the cost
of any public buildings erected; in any
of the colonies, the inane, of the same
having previously been approved by the
Government. Mr. Tesnos, who repre-
sents the syndicate in the Mexican
capital, started on last Monday for
London with full details of the con-
tract to be submitted to his princi-
pals,
.A. syndicate of English capitalists,
headed by Wililam L Malool
veteran Ceylon coffee planter, hus been
organized to engage in coffeei culture
on a most extensive, scale. in Mexico.
It iutends to purebase one hundred
thousand acres of land in the best
coffee district in Mexico, and plant
all a it to coffee trees. Mr. Bialcolm-
son and other members of' the syndi-
cate have arrived in the City of Mex-
ico from London to carry out the
plans of the big investment.
'DROPPED FROM MARS MAYBE.
Strange Message 'From Above mat Exhibits
Some Ihitratudatable Characters.
Scientists in Binghampton, NX., are
puzzling over an aerial visitor that
cropped in this vicinity early the other
morning. Prof. Jeremiah McDonald,
who resides on Park avenue, was re-
turning home at an early hour in the
morning, when there was a blinding
flash of light and an object buried. it-
self in the ground a short distanee
from his premises. Later it was dug
up and found to be a mass of some
foreign substance that had been fus-
ed together by an intense heat. It was
i o an ween cooled off in water
was broken open. Inside was found
vi hat might have been a piece of metal,
on which were a number of curious
marks that some think to be charac-
ters. 1Vhen opened the stone emitted
a strong sulphurous smell.
The object was submitted to Prof.
Wliliney of tbe high school, who declar-
ed it an aerolite, but different from
anything he had ever seen. The metal
had been fused to a whitish substance,
and is of uaknown quality to the sci-
entific xnen who have examined it.
Several have advanced the opinion
that this is a message from another
planet, probably Mars. The marks bear
some resemblance to Egyptian writing
in the minds of some Prof. McDonald
s among those who believe the inyster-
ious ball was meant as a means of com-
munication from another world.
ROYALTY INCOG ON THE; WHEEL.
Bicycles are about as popular now
ne Germany as anywhere, even in the
nost exclusive circles. It counts many
votaries in the imperial family and
()urn That was seen recently while
a number of Princes and Princesses
vere visiting at Chateau Friedrichshof
vhen twelve wheels stood in the sta-
les. Preece Henry, the Emperor's
rother, is an enthusiastic bieyelist,
nd while visiting his mother the oth-
er day in Cronberg, he rode, incognito,
o to speak, to Frankfort on his wheel
rid presented himself in the shop of
dealer and repairer to wait until a
much-needed change had been made in
is tire. The dealer, who did not know
ixa at first, chatted on about wheels
nd wheeling, and the Prince chimed in
hewing a thorough understanding of
very part of the wheel.
prises of modern times. This railroad
will give Russia a great port on the
Pacific ocean and enable her to develop
the rich coal and iron mines of her vast
territory, all of which will add to the
importance of the new city. Vla,disvo-
stock is also well located for a fortress
and it is expected that Russia, will arm
it and make it a base of supplies for
her ships. Two months every` year its
harbor is frozen over, but the Russian
government keeps a channel plowed
through the ice with a great ice crush-
er.
SHOULD SHE EXPECT THEM,
You never bring me lovely flowers
a.pd cappieep as you used to when we
wee eileedded,, pouted Mrs. MoBride.
�o, dear, replied her husband, I did
neit buy fifteen -dollar bonnets and fife
ty-dollter dresses for you Ale% though,
• ; I ' ' I Iee'"Iee
' A SLIGHT hilleTAKE.
VNisterrier—Oh, yes, I've board of
brotheryoip oaaiaarrisil! Gulch City,
He s a
re gctr brother is a
alitrinelk.- 1, 1 loIsve it was
ilifileib tete no ask
RULES OF BOARDING SCHOOLS.
' The Indian girls of the Crow agency
boarding school in Montana gave a
soiree dansante the other evenitig, and
the following girls were present: Mara
Spotted -Horse. Edith Long -Ear, Kit-
tle 1VIedicine-Tail, Lena Old -Bear, Clara
Bull -Nose, Blanche Little -Star, Nellie
Sthell-on.the-Neek, Mary Old -Jack -Rab-
bit, 13ertha Full Mouth, Katie Dreamer,
Fanny Plenty -Butterflies, Bessie
firooker-Arm, Martha Long -Neck, Isa-
bel Lunch, Flay Hairy -Wolf, Alice
Shoots -as -she -Goes, Stella, Wolf-elouse,
Lucy Hawks, Beatrice Beads -on -the -An-
kle, Susie Bear -Lays -Down, Louisa,
ThreadVolves, Anna Medicine -Pipe,
Maggie Broken -Ankle, Ruth Bearein-
the-Middap, Helen Comes -out -of -Fog,
Sarah Mee -Irons, Ida Wrinkle -Pace,
Jessie Flat -Head -Woman, Lottie Grand-
mother's -Knife, Esther.Knows-Her-Gun
Minnie Nods -at -Bear and Daisy Young,
Heifer.
The tradesman who resorts to imi-
tation and substitutiOn deseryes no
conraderation. (Meow him nonh. Get
wileiet You. ask for when von go to
buy.
MONO THE WOE WON.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE FOUR
CORNERS OF THE GLOBE.
Om and Nev World Events of Interest Chrotio
lcld Briefly—Interesting Happenings di
Recent Date.
It is estimated teat the Manchester
Ship Canal has saved the cotton trade
4150,000 a year.
It is estimated that as many as 60,-
000 farmers and others in France make
their living by the manufacture of
Roquefort Cheese.
Botanists have found no fewer than
120 different kinds of flowers on Spitz-
bergen, most of them being unknown
on the European continent.
Russia is said to QW11 30,000,000
horses, or nearly one-half of the whole
nuraber in existence. Most of them
belong to the peasants of that vast em-
pire.,
Abyssinian social code provides for a
fair chance to youngmarried couplets
by forbidding the bride's motber to
visit her daughter till a year after the
marriage.
One large agency in London employs
women for bueliffs, putting them in
°barge where the victim of distraint
; is a woman or an elderly persou who
;18 not likely to raane trouble for the
custodiare
What is called malaria, after raging
for four years in Central Asia, where it
was attended by great mortality, has
reached the Caucasus, and is spreading,
; The military hospitals report 400 cases
a day each.
Geerge F. Watts has presented to St.
Paul's Cathedral, London, his allegori-
cal paixiting entitled "Time, Death and
Judgment." The dean and thapter
have selected a spot to hang it, in the
central nave near the north-west quar-
ter arch of the dome,
An appeal has appeared in a Darm-
stadt paper asking all Hessian women
to contribute toward a monument to
be erected to the late Grand Duchess
of Hesse, the Princess Alice, who, with
the English people, was the favorite
daughter of the Queen.
A Jaen, ce Groat's to Land's End re-
cord for motor carriages has been estab-
lished in England, the first carriage
to make the journey having covered the
distance in ninety-theee hours. The
time can easily be beaten when a re-
cord for speed is sought.
At Ludlow, in Germany, 129 fathers
have been fined one mark apiece for
allowing their children under ten years
of age to dance at the harvest festival
of a village near by. The village pastor
objected to the dancing and reported
the case to the police. It was discovered
however, that his ohildren had danced,
too, and he was fined with the rest.
A celebration was recently held in
Bontoise, France, for the coachman,
Georges, who gained undying renown
inParis byhis bravery in easing lives
at the bazaar disaster in the Rue Gou-
jetn. There WaS a banquet and a pub-
lic meeting, with speeches, from winch
Georges escaped at the earliest oppor-
tunity, and a presentation of a gold
medl to 11n.
Verdi, who objects to hand organs,
has an effective though expensive way
of suppressing them at Moncalieri,
where he spends his summers. He hires
all the organs in the distriet for the
season and stores them in his house,
A reporter of Le Figaro counted
ninety-five instruments and the cone -
poser told him that it cost him 4S00
a season to suppress them
Gabriele d'Annunzio cannot become
a member of the Italian Parliament, as
his political opponents have shown
that his rTeed ineludes a sentence to
six months imprisennmeoiettolnoiry
ery, which makes him
ihle, but deprives h m ofthe right to
vote, In commenting on this Le Fig-
aro asserts that such a law in France
would be equivalent to suppressing uni-
versal suffrage.
just before he died Lord Leighton
referred with some bitterness to the
fact that one of his earliest pictures,
"Orpheus," had been generallyridi-
culed. When asked where the picture
was, he said he was sorry that he did
not know, as it would now be worth
a fortune to him. After his death the
canvas was found. in the coal cellar,
where it met been thrown among a lot
of rubbish.
While England is fighting on the
Afghan frontier Russia is building
military roads in the Pamir region'
3lose to the boundary of India. One has
just been corapleted over the Ak Baital
Pass, at a height of over 15,000 feet.
It can be used by carts, and was begun
in. July. Another has been made near
the Kerne Tata boundary, and it was
intended to complete another before the 4.
cold weather set in at the Bordoba
boundary in the Allal
An overhead trolley system for the
conveyance ot power to motor car- o
riages on ordinary roads has been in u
successful operation fax six months 1
past at Greenwich, England. The sys- s
tem is the double wire one, as the cir-
cuit must be completed entirely by the f
wires. The motor le placed in the front
of the carriages, and connection is made
by a flexible wire winding on a drum.
Carriages can pass each other by an e'
ingenious arran eraent of rollers at -
tithed at intervals to eithez side of the
connuotingwire, the trolley being guid-
ed to the right or left as may be neces-
sary. ,
Orthodox Greeks and Anglicans have
-fraternized in an unusual manner in
RECKLESS LAKE NAVIGATION.
skippers and Sailers Who Soave olio roma
of Our inland Sias in Deftest Sulks.
"The loss of the steamer Idaho WV
Lake Erie," said a former forwarder of
grain and freight cargoes on the lakeo
"is but another exatuple of the reck-
lessness that c.haracterizes lake skip-,
pers aid sailors, and of thee risks, they
will tale to make all that is possiele
-,..e
out of a season's transportation, Tiler
will start frora port with veseels that
are .hardly seaworthy even in fair wea-
ther in the face of the most threaten-
in'g weather, and weather is aeraost con-
stantly threatening on Lake Erie at
this time of year. The textual loss of
life and property, although it is much
less now than formerly,nbecause there
are fewer unseaworthy hulks afloat, is
proportionately larger than it is en the
Atlantic Ocean t The reports that fol-
low every severe storm on the lakes
are burdened with disaster.
"No ocean saiior that ever lived
would dare to take the risk that the
average lake shipper will, anl thieCriet
only without a word of protest, but
with avidity. It looks sometimes as if
lake sailors rather courted 'aisle and
danger. It is a fact, too, that there
are more unseaworthy craft braving
the treacherous waters of the lakee.
during the
MOST DANGEROUS SEASON
of the year—Ootober and November—
tban at any other time. There is reas-
on for this though, fax grain shipments
are livelier as the season, draws to a
close. Cargoes are conseauently imam
plentiful and freights higher. Every
vessel that will float cau command a
cargo. I have eeeu sehooners that were
searcely fit to be towed on s. canal leaVe
port in November, loaded alraost to the
guards with freight, and yet the skin -
pars would have to refuse many applica-
tions from sailors anxious to sail on
the shaky hulks. There is not a wort.
reckless class of men on the face of
the earth than the fresh -water ;sailors,
although they have the terrible fact
constantly before them that hundreds
of their fellows are last annually on
the lakes, nine -tenths a them going
down with the rotten oraft they begged
the privilege of sailing on. Tbis faeb,
is made the more startling because it
is well known that the dangers of lake
navigation—especially . navigation on
Lake Erie—are so great. that even the
stanchest vessels are frequently un-
able to weather them, I would rathe
cross the Atlantic Ocean eanises
t
at this season than make one trip f
ro
, the St. Lawrence River to Chicago.
"Storms sweep oyer the lakes with-
out any warning. The Novetaber gales
founi LaTkkskippers
e Erie. are indescribably fright-
"landraarks for guidesP and arge 5 on
in navigation.
The bliaeling rain or sleet that merry
always accompanies these storms ob-
literates tbese marks sometimes for
days, and as the sea room is limited,
vesseis caught in these gales are incon-
stant danger of going to pieces, either
on the rocky shores or on SOMA of the
is.anels that stud so thickly these in-
land seas, or being suddenly swamp-
ed
° Idabo was. Lake Ontario a.
shores are especially menacing to lake
craft during storms, but fortunately'
this lake is not so liable to be swept
by storms as some of the others. If
o vessceelrhaetnavesoto in a storm it is al-
.
niost
Y or if
th
it runs down e lake18 castotwatearr
THE MANISLANDS
, that abound there. Man; skippers an-
nually wreck their ;craft in the al-
ways risky effort to make Oswego harb-
or in a storm. The entrance to this
harbor is very narrow, and. the vessel
that is steered for it and does not make
it is almost certain to go to pieces on
the rocks under Fort Ontario.
"The sailing season is comparatively
short on the lakes, for it is usually late
in the spring before the ice embargo, is.
removed and early in the winter
when it is again placed on navigation.
Tbe skipper's desire to take advantage
of every hour of his time and; he takes
no precaution that will cause him an
extra moment's Idelay in port. Of
course all vessels that sail on the lakes
are subject to the control of Govern-
ment inspectors and none can sail with-
out a permit. But the pay of these of
ficials is small. They are human, and
lake skippers are the most willing peo-
ple on land. or sea, At any rate, there
is a. host of unseaworthy hulks engaged
in the commerce of the lakes. There are
not so many of them though, as dared
the. dangers of th,e trip before Govern-
ment inspection began.
"Reckless skippers would, find their
occupation gone if there were no reck-
less sailors eager to share their risks,
and reckless lake sailors are thp rule -
Tether than the exception. This is all
he more singular because, ordinarily,
hese sailors are the quietest and most
modest of men. A curious thing about
hem is that many of them are farmers
r, rather farm owners. The individ-
al land holding in the vicinity of the
ake ports of some of these dayeedevil
ailors is considerable. The moment
asigation closes they return to their
arms, remain there until It reopens in
the spring, and then hasten back to,
he lakes to tempt death on any old
raft where tthe can get e best
ages, leaving their wives and childxen
to look after the farms."
Melbourne, Australia. Owing to the
absence of a resident priest, baplisms
and marriages among Russians and
Greeks have been celebrated according
totheir rites by clergymen of the
Church of England in the parish
churches. qn some occasions they have
also administered the communion. The
newly., appointed archirnandrite has
pot only eatified the ceremonies per-
formed in the past, but has refused to
administer hay. communion until he
receives peril:demon to do so from the
Anglican bishop of the diocese.
. A STrUY LAMP.
Guest—W,ha,t sort of a. lamp is that?
Host -4 study lamp,
Guest -e -Ah 1 Celled that because it -is
for the study, I presume?
itiost—No. Caeled that because it takes
a great deal of study to run it.
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A FAITHFUL EXPONENT.
Clara is a hard girl to please. She
never gets a new dregs withcat
sitting down and virtually making it
over.
Yes; Clara is a faithitel exponent of -
that good old saying, 'As ye sew, so
shall ye rip.
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ACCORDING TO HIS THEORY.
Why is Lighter always uzging peoPle
to live in accordance with the (olden '
Rule?
He poses as an authority on the fi-
nancial question, you know.
WHERE IT FAILED.
Is anything wrong with your egg,
Mr. Gruff? asked the landlady; of„, the;
hoarding house. „
No, madam, nothing at ail, was the
reply; but isn't, It iust a little small
for Ile eget
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