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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Times, 1901-10-24, Page 7*X.:* 4:008;4, 4,1044,41:44:04) +1144;:t •• • • • • • • • • 'Se". ••• ••• •• 4441 The Untimely ••4 4. 0i: ILL-GOTTEN .1: End of WEALTH. Joseph BOV48• ees._ esta.easeeeneeseasaeaseena.enenasnia,e,e, 44 lee se.ateeenesesieneeseasseekeaseeseaeseseeas • SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS,—Securities vanish from the strong -room of Candelent, Dandy und Waldo, bankers. Mr. Easke of Scotland Yard is galled in to solve the mystery, 'Share are two keys te the Sarting-rooni—one held by lir. Iltalclo, partner, the other by Mr, Surteee chief cashier. This latter has two children, Boh and .3 °se- Phine- He reproaches Bob, who 18 an extravagant subaltern with as- pirations to the hand of Helena Waldo, for having eonsumed his sis- ter's dowry to pay his gambling debts, Surteee is euspected of the theft. A search -warrant is taken out against, him. Some Portuguese bonds anutvering to deecription 2aissing seeurities are found in • MS possession, He is convicted amd sen- easing •the Marquis for a moment texIced to sevell yes useperVi., Waiting to see Mr. I -leggin, let vs re - par, Uteri to Richard Darla, Whet was lattlerd:a:11'Sa.cCIVuaeelasc4dlolsti?1tise‘9141:f the „interviewing' the other Partner, Mr. theft. Sir Itichard Baent. in love Ilolsrer. with Jonmhine, Meets the b Marquis oe Ara sorry. deeply sorry," egan Ojo Verde to whom Bob lost his tale Private incluirkr agent, "to be mi - Money, able as yet to give you news Of Mr. Surtees; but we be reasoo to be - we axe on his travk." ClIAPTTe..R XVII. The .Albany, ;IS every Londoner "Veryseihy the iht-axmat von well order let mar e hewith- oe knowhas e, two issues. One into Pic- = •,•••• •••••• G:,•• piciously at the disreputable old man, "Ithat do you want with them?" he asked, contemptuously. "Busiu0Ss. Don't judge by appear- ances, say dear young friend. They are apt to mislead. Who can I see?' 41)0 YOU waat a principal?„:" "Of course. Who else?" "Mr Horry's engaged with a gen- tlensaa"—much emphasis on the,word —”who just called. 33ut Mr. Hag- gia's in." "That will do. see him." "Who shall I say?" aseed the clerk still inclined to be ineolent. "Captain Firdl keytooe, from the Straits of Ilallampajang. Come, stir yourself, or make you jump." endillY, the other into Burlington '9;e14,Y„tehil/e/Kee, '/„tyteet,e?-claey I have telle" Garden& At both exite aro (Alicia's: yoq•m•412Qt11.e.1. in fact." Sir Richard Daunt who exercise a general surveillance .;Opotio, sehroy. 4.)54,h0 yoo timer, 'ripen all who pass in or out. Bat ea the morning after the dinner "To be $ure, Sir Riebarci, to,he Sure. Delighted to be of service. Party at the Wades 4!. sewed. unolii- chit watcli was kept at both these 04.1.thwatetehethad poIevrnso.,n, watehed—follow- points. gardens the watcher "Exactly I quite understaue. It Itt Burlington a just in our line. was "ecent4"141"g 17/34U* -with "lie calls bireself the Marquis de blank bag such as shoemahers' lour-, neemen or aselstatits use when. tale- To Verde, a Conan Mgrquie of eld ing e panish descent. but I canaot be - hone their W°11c- er°wded Bove there is any such title inePuba Piccadilly the watcher was of entitle- OZ' nnme., are ee „ e er Stauip. Ile was one of those non- '"uetv41 °A the de=iptsh.hcat wafer. httu rouge_ Punish Legation. I ba.vo just come " from there wbo hang about al/ the great thor- 4,- ' can gime s ouglifares looking out for a job with inll hve hiaddress and ee baggage, or, it eluiliee favored, a, s peraonyou ' esehspehoh• "Ire is a tall, forbidding -looking snap at property left unprotected in Man of foreign appearance, much wme passing carriage—an aged Mau. 'given to jewellery and fine elotheS," ith suow-white hair, in seedy cloth.' "Allow use; one moment; I must VS.,. a batteree tall hat, boots that make a bulged. and altogether an outeat-eln few notes; and Mr. Horry e eine/ stir. He was just in the net of 'with a inaseive pencil wrote down the signalement of the, Marquis from .,."9`ltolding a hansom ltorse—a. brute - Sir Richard Daunt's lips. "And you with 0. patent bit in its Mouth—as its , driver settled Iiimeelf for the cannot as yet give us his lordship's thaddress?" he said, when he had ha- towerds histen, when he saw an urchin nuininglisbed writing. m front e Albany gate. Ile let go his hold of the horse so! "Not at present: but I think if you put a watch at °nee upon another suddenly that the brute started off persort—a, French, maid residing at at acore, and the driver—shouting "you blooming idiot"—was many 20, Carlton Gardens, she is almost thrown from his perch. What did the certain to xneet this fellow in the watcher care? He snatched a scrap ,courso of tp-day or this evening. Hee name ig Few:hate Dinnoulin.' of paper from. the hands of the boy and read:— I "Describer her, too, if you please," said Mr. Homy; and Sir Richard "Started this side; now in Bank gave a minute account .of the ap- of England. If he gees up Bond Street, I'll follow; you watch the permit= of Fanchette. Arcade and Bond street, Piceadilly 1 "Where shall we communicate with end." you, Sir Richard? WM you call, or Accordingly he sot off at a rapid, shell we write?" although shambling. pace down Pia.' "The Albany will always end me. eadilly Westivaael; paused a moment Please use all possible despatch, at the foot of the Burlington Ar_ Good-bye." en e, and looked on ahead as far asi -• Meanwhile Mr. Haggle, other the hatter's at the corner of Bond PertIler• had been closeted with the Marquis. strait. "There he goes." Mr. Haggle was a man of a. differ - It was Sir Richard Daunt, in frock eat stamp to Mr. norry, much older, coat and hat, with his umbrella, un- and much less careful of his personal der bis arm, his hands behind his appearance. His long neck and long back, and his head erect, walking legs ending in great boots, like claws along, not like a sauntering idler, together with his way of pushing his but with the brisk step of a man head forward in an eager, inquiring having an object in view. 'attitude, and the two quill pens, in - Tie passed down Piccadilly, our ivatiably stuck one behind each ear, friend at his heels; turned into the gave him the look of a "secretary Park at the corner, where his pursuer bird," whose rapid, fussy movements keeping outside the railingsbut al- to and fro he seemed to reproduce. ways on the watch, suffered him to The resemblance was heightened by go alone. But at Albert . gate, see- the sad -colored clothes he generally ing that Daunt still stayed in the wore, much of the same tone as the Park, the other also entered it, and pepper-and-salt plumage of this ra- continued to follow, 'always at a re- pacious bird. speetable distance behind. His manner was hasty. He spoke "I could have sworn it," muttered very quickly and almost always in the old taan, behind; "although he interrogatives. can't know much, he means mischief, "Well, well, what is it? Who are and is trying to know more. kle'se you? What do you want?" was his greeting of his visitor. "To give you a commission if you ate prepared to undertake it?" "You, you, you?" replied Mia Hag- gle, eyeing the ragged man in frout of him. ceding straight for Queen's-gate- place—just what I expected. Lucky I put on the 'nark' (watch). Sir Richard Daunt'cild, as his pur- „ suer expected, turn into the Queen's- •' Gate -place. More, he stopped at the panish Legation, rang the bell, and • went in. He Was hi search of information about the Marquis deOjo Verde, and it was the Marquis himself, who, dis- . uised as an • old man, wes at, his about half an hour. On coming out. he walked leisurely' back into Queen's Gaite, and hailed the first_ passing hansom. The Marquis did the same," al- thougli,. the appearance was so muck against the chances of his paying the fare that cabbyinsisted upon ther doubtful:, having his money beforehand. • "If it is neces.sary, of course I -There's your raoney," said the Shall" do so. But I should have Mar•quis curtly.: "Half-a-ceown more 'if you follow that hansom ahead and ruh the gentry cove down. , Scotland Yard. Are you fly?" , • . The cabby winked, and, :Clicking up hes horse, gave chase. ' • Daunt remained at the Legation "This is merely a disguise," re- plied the other coolly. "I assumed it in order- to get to you unobserv- ed." "Should like to know who you are. Tell me, will you?" "I am a foreigner by birth, a, Ca - ban gentleman. of 'high rank. My name is Xavier Solfatierra, Marquis de Ojo Verde, and here is fifty pounds on account. Are you satisfi- ed now?" , "Certainly; 'that is—if you can sat- isfy us _that you are the person you describe," said Mr. Hagg•ie, still ra- thought that by prepayment I could commend your services in anything." "Not at all, Marquis; not at all. Theee are many pit -falls and snares in our profession, and the pOlice are always on the watch. They are not "What the devil is he up to now?" fond of us; we succeed oftener than the Marquis asked himself, as the they do, and we should get no mercy haasom dashed down the Vauxhall from them if they caoght us in, any- Ilaidge Road into Rochester 'Row, thing•shady or underhand." and pulled up at the entrance to "Do you dare to imply that Vincent Square. would suggest anything of the kind?'. However, there was no time to said the Marquis, indignantly. waste on conjecture. Jmnping out "It is better to be 'cautious and on of his cab, which he dismissed, the the safe side. What is it you, want Marquis followed Sir Richard on us to do?" , foot. ."Listen, then. I have reason to The baronet stopped at a corner- believe ,I aria being followed. 1 wish house, and went in. IL was at Hag- to set up a counter -watch --a contre gie and llorry's. ' police, as the French call it. Will . .An inquiry office. Alia!" said the you undertake the job?" Marquis, "now he is going to put -S•Who is watching you, and why?" the `nark' on„, me. How shall I cite "A `certain Sir Richard Daunt; for seals/eat 'him? Haggle and Horsy; do reasons, of Itis own." I 1<new anything about them? I've 'To you ]iitr those reasons?" heard of them, I think, before." "Not positivel, • but I suspect they The Cuban nobleman took two or are of a delicate attire—your' Eng - three turns up and down the pave- lish ladies are so 'mpressionable. I anent, then boldly went to the in- have had my suc sses." The sug- (pixy office •and raiss Clio bell. gestion had 'a effeet com- "Hag"iorici Ilorry" he -isked in, from the disreD.,e,' able -looking bric,fly of the clerk, who lookR4 sus- old man. reed in de poiper dat de world would be full in a. thousand years. 'Gee, Mike! If de populatien Wuz all like you ahe'd be full before night. "In fact, Sir Richard Daunt is heightened by the erilmson scarf he jerilotle of your atteritiens to some wore, and Reggie was more restless friend of his? I that what you in manner than (Wir. would imply?" asked Mr. Haggle. 'W 11?' asked the Marquis coldly. "Precisely; and he wishes therefore It shall be RS you wish, my lord" to ascei tain. whether we meet, to put said. Mr. Ilori7, blandly ;"you shall a spy on nue" know all that we are doing, and in "Aed you wish to eint spy on his return we may expeet—e sine Is that it?" "Silence; absolute discretion." "And on hint. I want to /mow "Where shall we communicate with what he is doing generally, but mere you? Not at your club?" particularly with regard to ime." "No. You can write there to make "1 understand; but I ram sorry ta an appoliitmeut. I will meet you at say, Marquis, we must decline the an address I shall name." Commission.** "Perfectly. We aro at your orders. "What: Impossible! I insist • Can we offer you Auer refreshments? Mr. Haggle waved his baud rather No? Then good day." eontemptuously. The moment, the door was closed, "We have good grounds far reins- one partner saki to the other— ing. Sir Richard Daunt--" "Who is he? Can you make out?" "Is already a client of yours. Is "I have been puzzling my head ev- that what you mean?" er since I came into the rooni." said Mr. Haggle started nervously. Mr. liorry, seem to know his "Ilow do you know that?" he voice too." said quickly. "lie reminded nie of .Tach Smoult, "X know a, goon many things, Mr, who was in that big swindle with the Haggle. For instance, I know that long firms." suggested Haggle. Sir Richard Is at this moment in '".Poo tall, and I should say. too this house. in the °ince of your part- old; but, of course, this chap had a. ner, Mr. Harry." wig. I should say it was Spanish Thiggie Jumned; up and went Saul. alias Greaser." across the room to where there, was a. speaking -tube. Ho wbistled through it, spoke a, few words, then put the cup to his ear and listened. "Well," asked. the Marquis, in a. inoceing tone. "am I right? But don't stop there. Ask your partner what Daunt's business is to -day -- whether he has not conie to speak about inc." THE KING'S CORONATION. Mr. Ilaggie did as requested, and presently, returning to his seat, said, "You are perfectly right in your con- jectures. Sir Richard Daunt is here, and you are the subject of his con- versation with Mr. Horry. But this "Alias the Marquis, and ever so many more manes. If I didn't know Sam was 'at the boat' (penal servi 'nide). I'd say so too." "If s Spanish Sam. The more I think of it the moreecertain I axa." To be Contiaued. QUEEN ALEXBDIZA AT HOME. t As Princess of Wales at Sandrineliana—Beloyed by the Tenants on the Estate., • 4een. o 4e4)**** Details of the home life of Queen to see that nothing is wanting. At Alexandre are being confided to the /least she did so when she was Prin- world just now by one Sarah Teel- cess of Wale's. 43y, According to Mrs. Tooley Queeo Por years it was a Wally custom Alexandra does not believe in toe to walk attounel the estate on Sunday mad, rush to keep up 'with the la.test eget noons. elle Queen petted her fads Of fashion. „She dbeseet go in horSes and fed thesx carrots and °til- ler crazes. She is not eternally re- er equine dainties, Then the family modelling, redecorating, refurnish- party went to the kennels. Tbe ing, re-everytbirtg. She applies Po- head Leeper's wife always had two onius s advice to her personal be- dainty baskets ready, elleel with pie- II°Veingeningsahearldtrasyteielsksthteore°11as rtfriwelniodlse' freir5geofwblizietae(la.ProZ',11eopQenueeedi?.treeutiteonnneal collection ist objects which travel doors and distributed the contents of along with her and most of them said dainty baskets. After the dog have some tender association in her episocle. the family party goes to the ealre emboory. pheasantiy, the bantara rearing al home life of the Queen around4 tbe dove house, aid on, 0 has been passed chiefly At Sandring- winding up at the dairy tea room for ham House, which is a new house, the iodispeasable 5 o'clock. built no ionger ago than 1860. As e Countless storiee are told of the Princess of Wales she spent nore Mildness and thoughtfulness of 207eihaelsftaatfe.eawchiteh-earoctliue.oresq. volt icsota: hQourpeeettaAnale7tanisdrwaw. lCuhArtitlItyg,btelguttustbaet tages for tho worle people, a gem 01 Sandringham people adore their mis- a dairy; in fact all the modern izu- tress who is else their Queen. At proven:tents of big esta.les. The one little cottage a woman says: principal entraece is by the beatitt .'Yes, I've lima unable to get ful Norwich gates, a wedding gift about all winter and an.eocin as the from the city of Norwich. Queen heard I was too ill to attend The park contains soo acres, with a winding lake overleoked from the house by a sunny terra,ce. The rail- road is twa and a half miles' dis- taut end the aceozninodating rail- way company has put up a station there with special waiting rooms for the Sandringham folks. There is an ivy -colored technical school for girle in the village bard by. Queen Alexandra. founded it for teacniug the girls on the estate how to SPIN, WEAVE AND SEW. Evidently the Queen believes in the force of example, for she has her own inning wheel and band loom, she occasionally uses. Tbere is a. school tor boys, too, where they are taught wood carving end cabinet leaking and fitted for situations in towns. There aro the Queen's stables where, according to tbe eloquent Urs. Tooley, "the fa- vorite backs and carriage horses mese: she sent a, nurse to stay with Me. She's been here four months and Ler Majesty has been se- veral times to see me." The only child ot the keeper of the kenuels MIS lying at the point ef death, but the man seemed to be c knee by a. telegram from. the Queeu at Windsor telling of her an- xiety and her sympathy. "The Queen thought a lot of our little girl," he said, and some -bow the Queen emcee to have that rare gi t of waning everybody feel that she thiuks a. lot of there. Mrs. Tool- ey visited a, neighboring hospital one day and found the place bubbling with excitement becauee the Queen had just been there In IIER MOTOR CAR. "It was most specially -to zee me. raaeam, that the Queen came." re - an old lady who had burned lier face by accidentally vetting tire lead a luxurious existence in spotless to her cap. "You see I've been stables, lined with white tiles." .Also yoaatt?veisceeannedr mfoainy- at hand are kitchen gardens and fore- y"esartiswattimoonethe0fdetahre lug houses, covering fourteen acres. Princess has come into roy cottage "Opposite is tho Queen's model and when I stood up respectful -like, dairy with a, dainty ten. room enter- she'd seen ed from a lovely little garden. When " 'Now sit down and tell me bow you're all going on.' "And she'd bring the dear children with bor. Poor Prince Eddy:. He was never fur front her side: and Prince George would be running all 'round my place asking about every- thing. My accident bappened when theirMajesties were muck engaged in London, but when the Queen nune to Saiulringliam she said: 'I can't leave without seeing Granny,' and she brought me a, basket of fruit and flowers and boxes of chocolates to the other patients. She went 'round SLI! the wards, but of course, niteana, it was most specially to see nie she came." To us it is almost a surprise that the Prince end Princess of Wales have had any home life at all. Ac- cording to the papers they seemed generally to be engaged in laying • corner -stones, opening hospitals, vis- iting asylums and siinilar , doings. That this idea, is not without foun- dation is ehown, by the following extracts, culled haphazard, .according to Mrs. Tooley, from the Court jour - July 6—Visit to St. Saviour's church for Deaf and Thimb. July 7—Opening of new wing of French Ilospital, also Fete Franca:Ise on behalf of Frenck benevolent in- stitutions. July 8—Laying of -foundation stone of new building for Royal Hospital for Incurables. July 9—Visit to Royal Normal College for the Blind. This doesn't sound gay nor calcu- lated to make one pine to be a Roy- al personage. In fact it sounds very much as if the Queen is a -working svoraan, and a hard-working one, too. the dairy was first started the Queen took an active beterest in its man- e agement and introduced the Danish method of butter -waning. In the time of the old dairy women, Airs. Barker, the Princess and her young daughters often amused themselves at churning. Tim appointments are dainty and beautiful, with the blue tiles, brought by the King from In- dia, and the silver cream pans lined with egg -shell china, nxed on a mar- ble counter. "Around tbe walls are models, in marble, terra cotta, silver and ala- baster, of the prize animals bred an the estate. .The tea room is a dain- ty room literally fined with presents from the Queen's family and friends, Rules and Regulations Issued by the Earl Marshal. There is a tutter in London high society owing to the feet that the makes it all the anon impossible for us to undertake your business." Earl Marshal has recently issued "d"me, I know of no PeoPle the rules and regulations governing Pal on what is to be worn at tbe coronae so capable in your liue; and I am convinced of this that I cannot con - so tion of King Edward next year. The sent to forego the benefit of your as- whole doeument breathes of the mid- dle ages, when distinctions in dress sistance," said the Marquis, he °. were considered so essential, and the mild voice, but behind it was just a, quaintness of the phraseology in tinge of menace, at which quick -wit- which the attendance of the nobility ted Mr. Haggle looked surprised. of the United Kingdom is required But he said bravely enough, "Wo "at the solemnity of the Royal only undertake what suits us. Your coronation df their most sacred Ma - business does not It is needless to jesties," and describing the regula- 151''ess it." tions in regard to dresses and head "But I insist; you must 'undertake !dresses, is distinctly mediaeval. 'There is a curious graduatioit in the "Who are you that dares to come ,fur trimmings of the robes whith and browbeat Inc in my own place? 'emphasises the • fine distinctions ex - I'll have nothing more to say to you. isting in the ranks of the aristo- So good day." cracy. All the Peers have been no - "Softly, softly. Wait one moment. tified that their robes must be of 'I have a, fdw more words to say. "thetaspn 'velvet edged with miniver, Did you ever hear of Jimps, the law-. the cape furred with miniver, pure yers, of Newcattle?" land powdered, with bars or rows of "Wliat about them? What chi you , ermine, according to their degree." know of them?" asked Haggle in at Here follow the numerical gradua- quick, nervous manner. tions distinguishing between the . ranks. Barons are allowed two rows "There were. two of them, brothers, in a. large way of business, I believe; 1 of ermine, Viscounts two and a half but they were charged with falsifyial rows, Earls three rows, Marquises ing accounts and. making away with' three and a half rows, and Dukes their clients' securities. Both both- 'four rows. All mantles and robes over ers were struck off the rolls, but one !must be worn full court dress, escaped to Spain, while the other! nniform or regimentals. was caught, and did his 'bit,' seven1 COUNTERFEIT PEARLS years at Portland. A word to 'the' The Earl Marshal's order banishes police at Newcastle -would bring the , and all jewels from coronets, which sanae punishment on Jabez, the other are to be "silver gilt, the caps of brother." 1 crimson vela -et turned up with er- "He died' in Saragossa—years ago; ,inine with gold tassels on top. No so I've 'heard." . !jewels or .procious stones are to be "You heard wrong -then. Ile is 'set or used in coronets, nor counter - alive and in London, and I can put feits of pearls instead' of silver my hand on him at' any time, in balls." • spite of his disguise" 1 The number. of 'the latter permit - There was a pause. The two men ted revives a nice sense of distinc- lOoked at each other keenly without ;Una. A Baron's coronet bears six speaking. :silver balls, a Viscount's sixteen, an I',could tell . you something, too, 'Earl's eight with gold strawberry about a friend of yours who was on -;leaves between ; a Martinis' four ce a medical -student, und afterwards 'balls and four leaves alternately. A eniployecl in ababy-farming- business , Duke's coronet has no ball.and has ou a large scale," went on the Mae- eight strawberry leaves. auis. "Shall r" I The Earl Marshal next prescribes ,see, we shall have to do . what the robee, mantles and coronets to be you wisb," said efu. Maggie, bland-j,worn by the peeresses. These are of 13e. You haVe strong cards in your the same material as the,men.'s, with hands." ' • - ieinailar gra,daticms i11 the numbers Yes, and I can play them: s1:•of bars of ermine aad balls. The mean to win the trick. You:* must ;length of the trains neerke the dif- not only watch Daunt for me, bUt 1.ference in rank. A 13aroness is only you must tell him just what I choose allowed a train of tbree feet, a vas - about ." "I must consult my partner first, You will allow inc to do that, I sups "Pose?''- • "Yes; but it must be in here. Whis. tie for him to come up when he is free„I'll have no tricks." By-and-by Mr. Horry came in, splendid as ever. The appearance of Ins partner's visitor rather .surprised him at first, but when fornially in- troduced' Horry made the Matiluis a _low bow. uederstand—I understand—what is it, my dear -Haggle?" A lecturer on optics, in explaining `-'A word in your priVate ear." the mechanism of the organ of vision And the partners retired into a retnarked: Let any man gaze closelsr corner to talk, While the Marquis into his wife's 'eyes and he will see kept his eye on them carefully-. ,The himself looking in exceedingly small, colloquy was .long and anxious. Hor- that---" Here the lecturer's 'voice ry'S pale face when it was. over was waS drownell by shouts. of laughter. countess has one and a quarter yards, countesses have one and a half yards, re marchioness has one an.d three-quarter yards, and a duchess two yards. Then follows i. curtnotification as to who shall be lexcluded. Peeresses in their own Tight and widows of peers are al- lowed to come. But widows who lhave remarried beneath their rank in the peerage are "not entitled to summons to attend the coronation." PICKLES FIGHT YOUR TEETH. QUEEN ALEXANDRA. noticeable among them being the set of Balmoral china presented by the late Queen, each piece being painted With a view from the neighborhood of Balmoral." Sandringham is not a show house like some of the fainous old country houses. According to Mrs. Tooley'S description it seems to be a purely personal habitation, filled with "family portraits, souvenirs of loved ones and intdels of pet animals deceased.''- The drawing -room over- looks the terrace and the Queen's boudoir is above with the sarae out- look. One of the King's rooms is furnished with things from his cab- ia on the Serapis, the ship on which he wont to India. - Formerly , there used to be three balls at Sandringham every 'winter for the tenantry anci servants, but these functions came to an end with DUKE OF CLARENCE. The Queen's birthday, Dec. 1, is celebrated by a tea-party to the 500 school children on the estate. On this \ occasion the 'Queen and her daughters wait upon the children and play games with thein. At Christ- mas there is a gorgeous tree30 feet high, with presents for every. body, and on the King's birthday there is a dinner to the laborers. This 'anniversary comes on Nov.0, and there is always a shootingpar- ty, with luacheon served in • a tent where all the guests of the house come tOgether. Of course, there is the inevitable S'eolock tea, which the Queen herself pours. Dinner is at 0 o'clock. Everybody who has stayed at Sandringham pronounces it the pleasantest and most homely' of countr,y houses. The Queen, person- ally visits the rooms of kr folests One of the commonest causes of bad teeth is taking food too hot. When you drink a cup of very hot tea the mantel covering of the teeth expands, and afterward, when you breathe the cold air, it contracts, This alternate swelling- a.nd shrink- ing makes the enamel fall to pieces, and once the hard covering goes 'he spongy inner substance crmnbles away in no time. Everyone knows the injurious eflects of acid on the teeth. Yet many foolish girls drink vinegar to make their faces pale, and, as they think, interesting. Of course, tJae teeth pay the penalty. A young girl, who conSulted a lead- ing dentist lately, had lost almost every tooth in her heacl from suck- ing lemons, and some of his most profitable patients are people given to eating pickles. It is not neces- sary altogether to avoid acids, but a little jar of bi-earbonate of soda should be kept on everyone's wash- stand, and the teeth should be rins- ed in water in which some of it has been dissolved. This, by the way, is a never -failing cure for that kind of toothache that attacks the whole jaw at once. The best way to clean your teeth is 1.6 wipe them with ie bit of sponge attached to a handle, using tepid water containing a trace of some mild antiseptic. ADVANCE OP: CIVILIZATION. • . . Tbe Kaffir maid servant has net Yet L•tsked 103-13er evening off to tal:e piano les in but it is coming. A °apt.; Town correspondent says Ix; engaged a. Kaffir qiri for the Ust;;1.1 I,onsehold duties: She poiniAlank refused Lo do the kitchen work,' sov- ON -WHAT LIVES DEPBNO. ENERGY CAN NETT-4ER °BEATE') NOR DESTROY -EP. If Man Couldu:OvQz.71s, er of These Thins Wonid Wreck; the If yoll could. imagine au earth-, worm trying to run the Niagara Elec.- trie Lightiug aad Power TranSMiS- sion Works, you wevid, have some iden ef the capacity of the greatest human genius that ever lived to run the visible innveree. That is proba- bly wily the wisest of us are not per- enerietttsaat eclo to. ean rst. d the. enial se- ller° is a, good example. 'relic a the ha.tio rideinbtiotaaPinsaceoluirTeu, clelina fhrn(r ht on the ground, and support it eo that the barrel points straight. up, and pull the triggen. The bullet will rsi elasayel," et 08t, Ohatien0 Ae.fulel :et Leo withe31,;ilialig h, gcei Itiew9ti Gif a, standstill tor an infinitesimal free - tion of a second, and begin to fall been again. It will strine the earth wIthsame le:eerloyeilltye44"alritblueftt ennot queiteetQle°'0; the gun. It would be exactly the W -Me, but for the resistance of the air. exiiplawastionhaost IttatipeppeloiNveciaeirs btoti.sisceTbe solid into a gas, the expansive eint ergy of this bas driven, the ballethip- wards. In. ether Words, it bee. for the time, overcome that rayeterioue force by which the earth, draws eve erYthing towards its own centre. But wiien the energy of the explode ed powder is exactly balanced by the pull of gravitation THE BULLET FALLS BACK. In the first second after its turn, it fella sixteee feet, in the next thirty-- two, in the next sixty-four, la the next 128, and so an till it returns iwtitehtaretveede:increeeing velocity whence Nothing, bus been lost. nothing' gained. The gases set Iree by the explosion ot the powder Weigh. exact- ly es much as the solid. Some of the energy has hem used as heat:, some in propelling the bullet. Gravi- tation, overcome for a. while haS re" eteeerted itself. The sum of matter and force in the universe is absolute- ly unchanged. This is as true of the quickened 'beat of a girl's heart when she raeete her lover as it is of the march 01 fitheeldsploar stpsacaen.4 Everyatthormougohf =telt- s ter, every unit of force throughout ithe universe is constant, external, land exactiy balanced, and the whole strength and genius of Immunity could not increase or diminish them by the slightest fraction. Now let us imagine evliat would happen if man could make that bul- let strike the earth with greater or less force than it left the muzzle of the gun. Ire would either have in- creased or decreased the total •of tm- iversal enevgy, and, in either case, he would have thrown first the Solar System and then the whole universe out of gear. The earth roarr all the other planets would begin to revive in differeot orbits. The sun, withall its family of worlds, would alter its peth rouud the unknown Centre about 'tallith it revolves. Then world would be hurl- ed against world and sun against sun, and stars and planets would be reduced to the flaming gases from which they cooled into solids awl li- quids BEFORE TIME BEGAN TO 33E. Just the same catastrophe would happen if man could either c.reate or entirely destroy a. grain of sand on the sea -shore. The balance of the universe, in which swing stars and planets, whose weight is unexpres- sible in human figures (this tiny, world of ours weighs 6,000,000,000,- 000,000,000,000 tons), is infinite/3r more delicate than that which the chemist has to keep in an air -tight case and at an even temperature lest a breath of air should throw it out of gear. Thus the destruction or creation et a. grain of sand would change the or- bit of the earth round the sun. In the one case it wopld be drawn clos- er and closer to the sun, perhaps af- ter thousands of revolutions to be swallowed up in fiery ruin. In the other case it would gradually leave the sun, and year by year wander farther away into regions of space . where human life would be impossi- ble. The result of the dislocation of such a stupendous system, which has worked with unfailing exactitude for countless ages, is, of course, utterlSt beyond the scope of human imaginer . tion, and yet such a. teeming trifle as the creation or destruction of a sin- gle grain of sand might, and proba- bly would, plunge it into utter chaoe'and ruin. Tar, POIVER OF REASONING. A merry Young Irishman is employ- ed as a. coachmau by a, Liverpool family. While suffering from a severC cold he made his appearance on. naorlsdiena.gdwith his hair cut, close to ilis Why, Dennis, said his mistress in shocked accents; whatever possessed you to he your haie cut while you had such a bad cold? • Well, inum, replied the unabashed Dennis, I do be takin' notice this long while what whiniver I have me hair cut I take a bad cowld, so I thought to myself that now, while I had. a cowld on to me, it would be the tilde of all others to go 1,1,,tid get nie hair-cuttin' done, for by that course I would Save ineself just one cowld. Do you see the power of me, reasoning, naroal?- The lady was obliged to concede that Dennis's logic was irresistible, Al .11fLISTETt. Mrs. Dash—Mrs. Rash's friends didn't come, Mrs. Oaih—Deat me! 1Ter ice cream and (Jake., were a dead loss on her hands, Mrs, Dash—No, indeed, Sh(, uli- ing tile 11,1iSSiS could do that, her red. around M her own be rhood duties being to lookalter the bea- nnci invitcd a lot of shQ. hrmi rooms, Lot ;isked