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SYNOPSIS Ole PRECEDING Leen, musingly. The sudden or-
QIIAPT.14118.-Seeeirities vanish flora rest bad iioneaecil his misgiviegs ;
the etreng-recen of Candeient, Deotay and why hati they set this Gros
and "netede, eanhers. leasne ot U efree ? Heel they overheard
Scottaiel ldarti is sailed in. to salve the question asked by Carapata, and
the 1Xt,yst<try. ereeee, are two keys ,wese zeSOIVed fellOW his niesser.-
to the Sl.r0141.-1:(1-03= Leed hy tire oer
Waldo. Paotner, the other ley Telr. .It why not re/ease Carapata
• tcce ctiet ceehier. This latter ionseeit ?" aseed the Marquis, think,
letter that you ere to hey° as roomy.
1.11.ore S'On deliver it as I say."
The. utter disposed Leon went
upstairs to his bedroom and hastily
cleaned his clothes, Ile hod be
wearing a frock eat and ta,1 hat all
clay, but now he substitute d 0-
tra,velling suit aild a soft wide-
awake ; then, carefully pacidng and
locking his portmanteau, he went
dowu, and ageiti left the betel.
The clocks were steb
rirg two as he
wellce4 (town the now nearly deserted
boulevard tow:Anhe tis tItiadeleine.
It was a beautiful, brillient sum-
mer's eight, firm and warm.
"What shall I do -drive or walk
I can get no train at this time °-
night, and I mav
must not risk leing
Paris till the raorning. I shall be
morede
independent, perhaps. if I go
re Amt." And, having thus settled
M. Leon set bboseli bravely to
lute two ceiltivoe, Slob and dos...e-. nhe towed,.
his task.
phew. lie repreacees Deb, who Is Even as lie spohe walked M. His woes laY by Neuilly, here he
• extreseageet sizezeterr.: Van
is-
L.ts fea tr:ViAki llIehene.
Waldo, foe Lavieg coeseeneci his sits,
ter% diseStes to aoey his oatehting, ,
debts. eebeseeeted
' •
p
. crossed the river u-1 made for Cour-
Ilead silence fell upen the whole trevoie. wee -beyond be crossed
'4114-'1r3ge* rere 1.341rabP's °MY b°Trithe railway caul made for Beeons,
1 14
tereees
inert, nee:owes-were sa , repnesenteetve of the law. river. he regaieed the line et. Holz -
out phereeheose Set. Joleord looned r-euncl curiously, ones,
beest37'enses Leese; te eneeatteeta of ' -'r4mainirsed every face,. eiezen„, an, "So far so good," he said to hire-
W4/1AP4a or the orde-rs Of nett tyere ho avinegain paseed the
ntieseeng serairatiee ore Zi -'-Lis .drete.''W, the Mor4U1S, he said : eelf - "the fent • train is elle here
pa-res-e-anna, cenvicted, end free- "A. eteenge place, nemesieur, for a vaboUt eeven ; I will wait for it. then
setj,
tVi` ,Z.'''',,,,00 -W414111, or. at leest, for Ona, SO go as far 4,d`i 10i$SY arid take fresh
Vole. hire. W.ecio reiessee eeree pa- eeeil1 NourFtqf. May I eel:: tichets ttireettli to Cherbourg for the
tte fer :sour name and domicile, tunl „two oi ue. ib -t teat throw them
see treeee.3°4 V.,..,114Z. 101,74 l'op,'"L'S if you 14:the then t but ;Ven?" ell the scent if they think of tracking
noes meets the :dlareens " 1 ala an 1:3egliahnian.1 ueed 110 us un, from Mautes. The only point
Appeal to our ambassador.
BO!) 10-1: 1,ort. You dere not touch s'e aeon -
4 ,0 1•CM,' '1110
zallerar atwateh ehall :"sue will he to attract Iaeei:ette
' ition Poieny, «AS she will not ese-
meet-. `meeteleur. I wouder where you ehhetee this by eearehm. pro. Leon WaS given into custietto en 11 BENiFITS OF EDUCATION
Lae eee, iseeehette, hire. Wei e hie; speale eery excellent krench,. pect, to set.t. me before rdentes.
ee". een fume
"97 eneene se, ,••• oyes"
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11. ICE -BREAKING WA FERRY STE:A.:Vane "SCOTIA."
The tleW ice-breatdog rttrawo)? ferr steatite', the "Scotio." wus recently 1o:inched trout the lelswien works,
Ithovcastleson-Tyne. Site has teen hit lit to the order of the Department of Railways and Canals. at OttaWn,
and is inttroled for the carriage of railway trains aeross the Straite of Causo to end trout Port, Mulgiseve.
S. 'Pate "Scotia" has been construct ell ohste as an ice -Weaken erder that she may be able to eerie with the
ge reasses iee that, dt•iit into tit P WW1t1.. W1 V: titles and winds during the winter aunties. see eon
carry PA exp
art: eteetlive to rees locomotive and leader ond 1 -enter
Care.
Me• gat,
it I Here, ,Antoo this minewhe at, the glass door er the charge of cardsslorping eimplect with
..,',wees to one of hie assietants who lied salle d'attente as the Cherbourg tee- a nrincleralls' PY-31/
4, rihtit 7.,...t.,,,, • _ i rcznaidd4 out' idea **atop in and pre
eee y; eeese In, Ito wen the Fauchetto was also arrested att au
tu:c11 Va'illa r 7:041 li4ve seen this gentles Ipp,,Sa`liqw. and Pam:tette, •tvho heel 'accoinplice ; and thus the two, in es -
vs. - pleced znan hefore." Foes wee levelly. wee loathe,. out of caving the thenele fell into the
clutches of the Eliguol reace. er eut
of the lryingepan into the flre.
(To Be Contieucd).
;.;',,arpente
•5,9aftee ed- Lea
'.5n eolitarz; cell44 %e . ,fol-aarel turred as be svelte, end tee yayanae ei a eerana...elase ear,
;nee t0 say. aaal later- gave tIR Mereu:s his opportunityriage as Ile came on the platform.
ard, iarleed, !,-ee Witn aae bound the latter dashed .5 "Ali ritsio." 1m said, "Look out
1.4+0.1 V 4 1411ieF dealing Jobard ie for me et MIntes."
eese, s wite iviereeee to the blow sc-erli his f:st tbot nearly. Teem be thee, and forbed her.
41tee neeeniteseerg lertoielo hini to the grourd, and with "1 haw tieleete for Cherbour,
z
L-
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1114 Nome hunhech-out
NV: -..14.1 /Vt. et;r41 :the et4i::: 141sletoine from las,.first elasc. Conte, let trl evenge." Th9 tme survieing officer el the Old
sentio They weahed aleug the train too;C
l:- lieed of the. Filet Napoleon*o zeal
ce,se emit n'144 13
NI:est inseseit, ta.e Mtrquis tvas hag for scats, moil entered a eorriege to he liking ot Warsaw' in poverty.
roe, deenree remises fee osee we. oewe tee 1;3 e eohupieo1 tome \0'I3 31 men. 1' '11e u 44, ,V446.1 3434.31 Murisiewice, and
etevete coet-Z-Ose ,oteo formsrlY 1,14e nue i11:-11Men 1, 144i41 all in suits of .is now 10; years old. Ile receives a
el tie al; we waled ,fert'y dill"oes. with .930 rather yolsi- email peusion from the Russian (kw-
jah.113, Iran- „erad Air of the Braila :erianinit. het It is cbni,entied that ue
F ;70P.11 IA, recovered him- %Oh) h hC4n3 eating life. 'he Ilea the military croes. of the Le-
" dee ;sees
ttereets.- eterarall ',elf.- 'nee 44: '1141 .111st not ea- They sat -vale -I ailItir the 111anner of gion of enteon be entitli;11, to an
4 3t 14 3.1 Litra iete th0 41;41,'=' 1,a't t..Ftit51t".1 the ONOlusivs. Elikgilaunc-11 at M ,.eoi anti ollowinece from the third republic.
Illat isebee.f.4 UMW' C11, Aseeine ; ,y4111 1 H 34513343334 ae though My maix,,,.,e,witz was dcearated for df4titte
• them et Jericho. and seemed alto- 31411 1304 conduct 011 the battlefield
w•di. rele.t.e,t lerter fan ze.:31 104 44,W. AV 1:411
1 leen etraiebt cue (333 1 ir1111 3303 051* 40 3'i1F1'1151 dit'CiiiiCiNVti and- put out by eleety.eietot, heare since, weea he _was
saat. eon .wia 4474194 3 11 P, With Whole rt1 irtm. only a lad of 10. The decree is -slat-
I meows -it -3 31 JeOe.rd„, '1,1rreetsi on :it t1 c. heelf,s of the now They had been playieg dummy (0.41 NO.Venlber 28, 1813. 31,11.1iieWICZ
- it% ,V,V%493 49i1:5313,;43344314 ed, v/ 9':•dP3 end- i 1fugitive. 'gait whist. avid did not at first Hite to go
Jew
ahe; dere hair and heard. both of !:,on. with them game.
ieltf, •
anoren` the police had lost ,'!Weieit rat-ryh t)."34 1 should say it After a geoid deal - of whispering and
is thus nut only the sole eurvivor of
the officers of the Old Uuartl, but he
is doyen, or senior member of the
ohee to tee siterouie, or M. Leen, es etvite Leen L00133334130110. alias Tiieilnudging. one of them obeerved at Logion of Honor. He bite however.
,
cell him frent lieucetorth- :Toote, the fareat.r* i last in the hest A33elo-1.'1eee11 : Leen enabled to live in three centur-
leo thee cow:tett on itie retearillat„ WhAfser 0 is well have him for !' "Monsieur, vons n'avez has objec- ies. and according to all accounts is
%he ni oh day to The Rue de flee ; ,,11s4;ap1iit. Tlenoll ;coon leant up 11::S?;tinra, reepere." and he „eoduced a astel alort in epite of ago and p04.-
4 41 1 t, met wile ear:retell With the flo”,..i..1' (ant PrN1,1if ei at the Pre- 1 loch of cards. ,,,, erty.
of rens-dive their Movm
eent:I feCtUrer. rine m
d hay tools out for, "On the vontrary," replied at.
theie. Iteleg et lieute in the inniee 1.,q4,411114," . II.0011, in excellent Enolish. "1 eni
e ceeld 10 !Ina W1:11, arid v: 4t11031t i 1 kit to cat eh la. Leon twee not eel -very partial to ea rile myself. ' What
:anti hite Fe441010m .lecordingiy the easy. Ile ran liee a greehhund and ere yon phi:slim ?"
•4•••
A BIG BLAST.
leig blast, by which 50,000 tons
'tare M. &diem once more up- 11e 13' (3 a hare, Da mem. "Iintru,t7 wholt. will you maim a of rock 'were removed, has been re -
at the tairdreeeer's, and 3.3 r' tereet, every er:ey„ every turne fourth ?" asked the first ;treat:els, ec:ntly succesefully carried out. at the
relinere- ineniral for la. eatronsee wen e..s„ If not better than, his florid. overgrown youth, who might Iteleh Grate Company's Sett Quer-
ey- eee lied gone wet for the whole:nursttere. and after half en hotir at hir-ee been ertickel cleric to a betting- ries!. Littrutelhainru, Wules. The to-
day. M. Maxiiiin. tite lieed-aeslistant 'top silted he had forged so far ahead man. tal length Of Ulu tunnel was 731 feet.,
in the 3 hop, told ham. Sies had given ',that the chaSe Was practically at an "With ell my heart. if my wile will and its construction was entrusted
ine. answered Leon, with a to ledward ihteies, one of the oldest,
hercelf a holiday. A dear relative ,end.
errieed from fete ...est they were : "He shall not escape its. though." langh at Shincliette. and most experienced ruiners in the
leaid .Jobard, in high deelevon at le- Next, minute the curds were dealt, .quarri.s. tell', was occupied Seven.
taahine a little fete.
• lheiet, rat isiled, Wrnt t011 IIIS 11 g outwitted end outrun, as oe loe une thezr NMO deep in the game- -months ill the work. The heading
luetantly abandoned the chine.
heat opartment. It waS not till' lt, WaS a curious game. No one .was tonstructed and filled ready,for
-1•Avra-T.
PARENTS ARE Tall -GI -IT BY
„THEIR CHILDREN.
ebco1boys Who 1Fre-Ve Hade
cdroiceepers ei Illit-
erate Fathers.
Of all the strange outcomes of the
recite educational advances made
during the last decade Or -two, there
uothing• etrauger than ouch ettees
thet of a 3114111 named Joseph,
Crieunell. an English. miner.
Chemi(311, When O. more boy, unable
to read or writo owat moue, fol-
lowed hie father and grandfather into
,the*Durimin mime to earn his liv-
lime. When he wee twenty he found
Alinteell a. fellehedged miner, a, mar-
rieil mato mid the father of two line
tales hosse. Computsory education
leonling° into force, the boys had
eosin to attend echool, neith to the
diseciet of thole either, who bad no
svmpatity with the movement to
-
nitrite teaching the maseee. By de-
ooe ee, however, became so intere
(*Feed in hin chIldrenhi studies. that
ho used of an evening to make them re-
peat to him what they lied learnt.
during the day. anti a short time
, after that he found lihneelt learning
ibis alphabet, mut tigeres Z1'0113 his 111.-
tle hope who delighted in teriching
him the little they know. The bet -
1j3435 part of every evening was deeote
ed b the 'hitch -en to instructin
their hither, mid as they progressed
he, having a quick mental capacity,
advanced witli them. By the time
they lied aseed the re uired etends
ard and were able to leave school,
Chonnellahad acquired such un ap-
petite for learning thrtt lie emit them
to some evening s,chools to obtain
further knowledge to impart to him.
Qualified by the instruction lie had
reeCiVed froIn his boys. Channell mice
ceeded in obtaining a clerkship in the
office of the company lie had served
as a miner, and. then he joined the
boys in attending
TUE EVENING SCHOOLS.
• Seb.sequently the two sons obtain -
'ed posts in the same eoffice, and step
iby step they followed the advances..
.made by their father, who, entirely
!owing to the teaching. he received
from them. Row finds himself a sub -
manager of a mine owned by the
company, in which positeon he is
• g b • d • - t* •
the best wages he could ever have
hoped to earn as pitman.
In a line Glasgow street there is a
evening that he felt little at fault. I Leon, as Sean as he had distenced eehnee to have much, melon of wiest blasting. under tee supervision of tee
Five, si.N. ..!even wale and Vicnt, 1 141,4 Iseoe least of all. But his opponents Working' Manager, Air. .1. Sharpe.
pursuers, paused to take breath.
sign of seedile had to cousider whet lie enuld held excellent car1s. and before they 'The gunpowder used represented the
and still there wee no
triir. Wiect had leceome of them ? neieleel lesieux he had lost thi.ce ;toes, the filling of the chambers oc-
do next. Iiow was he to .escape from
, Paris. that rat -trap into which 110 1.10,,bers. ,cupying from five o'clock in the
Sir Ilicherd felt it wes right to let, '
them know at the Prefecture that ;bad su rahlaY "retrtured ? Ile N';`” a The game went on steadily all the morning uutil two o'clock 3n. the
njiti„.hr vauhihtte nor ;Ite, y,203,1 ai-
hiI man of many resources, fertile in tx- rest of the day. rriwy elianged part- ternoon. soon alter which time the
essii.peareti. a plan. Ile weighed all his e.runees
The eict wee the Lathe- lied to always the lo 4» All the points
avoid the Ilue du. Bac. lie had been ,as be walk -ea rapidly along, and tom wen! low. lie Jaime have 11(.441 at
!came to a decision. lie woule start
greetly nrisettIcel by what had OC 1-C313111 least ten or twelve pounds to the HE' HAD ins REASONS.
' 1 is jour e • back to Ea land that
liedients, quick. to devise and eeeaute nere again and egain. but Loon was fuse was fired by electricity,
curred that morning, and ahvady eon 1 n a g bad.
night, leaving T'ancliette to join
ec le - ear' Tt• .- wernino tin ,vcrY “ I shall have no thence of ray re -
officious attentiens of -the French as eire"14-1". VC111P.1,” said Leon, gaily. "We are
him en route. or follow,
i stances would permit.
pollee. Had he followed his first telose to Cherboerg, rnd we may
impale° he wouel have left. Peads It would. of course, lie neceseary never meet again."
there an len.
d ti to communicate with ber kis' Cherbourg ? iheti quite er the
But when the first alarm had pass- frast. -care WaS "t0 o that safele, t me •eas oun. yo g
ed less cautious eeunse s preva er
He could not tear limiseir away all
at once from the fleshpots, from the ;write to her a prudcntly-worded can. Are you ? -Ses ?-then WO
grosser and more material delights ter. Tie must contrive to get it into can continue the game on board. You
of Paris. Fancliette's hands early next morn- must. give me. my revenge."
The day's amusement only ended ,ing, and, if possible, unobserved. "The idiots ; the asses ; the
with the day itself, and it was near- He had selected as his temporary double -dyed fools," said M. Leon,
3y midnight when Fanebette regained !residence one of the grandest and' with the deepest scorn, to Fanehette,
her home. But Fanelictte was alone, most frequented hotels in Paris, well as they were changing from the train
Madame -.Tabard said, on her return; knowing that there he would be the to. the steamer. "To try and fool
there could be no doubt of that. least exposed to the inquisitiveness nm I 3, who know. every trick in the
What, then, had becoxne of her corn- - of official or other busy -bodies. Mr. trade 1 They shall have their re-
panian ? Herbert Vivian. a well-to-do lenglish
The fact was, M. Leon's roodeties gentlensan, as he had called himself
An officer in one .of the English
esh ini Lei regiments, o 13*3.31 3313644134
himself exceedingly .unpopular with
the men, was coming home one even -
he slipped and fell into
ing when
111194 dee44 4 p water Ire was iescued with
il I without conlipromisin himself ing over in the boat r, Lesko great difficulty by a private in his big business run bv a man muned
The best, plan, then, would be to the fat youth.
Cote him. Under Men manage -
meat end (emelt the business pre*
piree et) well that he finally shifted.
to Gliiegew. where he has now tiii•ee
fire Itoiseishilat :deeps dolug a
VERY LUCRATIVE BUSINESS,
1 cell lead awl write ae well a
man in Glasgow ; his matlietua-
s. though not osIvanced, are Wile
dent to euenle loin to have a com-
plete mastery over his 111.1641eSS' C0111 -
placated financial affairs ; lie speaks
View)). better *lieu most Scatsraen,
and is uow studying Latin semi Greek
c• With SOM euecees. All this he has
'dom. with no other tuition than that
lie bee Inceived 'front his deugliter,
who Ls not extentling her ethicatiou
to the chiselen
In a little Derbyshire village celled
Hull the local autheritiea have in-
stitutod evening schoole for children
and edtilts W110 are employed during
the clay. One of the inincipal teach-
ers in the fehool is a. young WOMan
nalned SPIldall, W110 IS ialE0 teaCher
in the children's .day -school. She is
the -C10.11glAter Pt a market-gartlener.
who with his brother regularly at-
tends licr claws and receives in-
, eteuttion tom hex. Until her death
rceently, Mrs. Sendall,• the .schoole
intetress' mother, also attended the
class:es in company with her elder
daughter, who was then employed in
her fate ez's geiden, but is now in
demetitie, eervice in London. Miss
feendallt who Is in such pecilliarly
interesting position of paid instruc-
tor to her parents, is only twenty-
three, and her father,. whom she still
continues to teach, is nearly fifty,
COSTLY Ae.RITHISIETIC.
venge I Listen, Fauchette." And he
hastily whispered a. few iustructions
had increased ae the night drew on ; on arriving, travelling for his plea- m her ears.
he felt more strongly than' ever that sure, was not likely to attract the Gambling was forbidden on board
it would be unsaid to show at the attention of the police. the Cherbourg and 1Veymouth boat.
Rue du Bac. Besides he had his a.p-
pointment to keep with Carapata at
the cabaret of Pere Barabas, in the “Dear madam., -It is with infinite got into a quiet corner -at the far
Place Maubert. It was of vital lin- distress that I have to communicate end of the saloon, and there • cou-
portance to hear aldiat the voyou to you that our dear aunt Angelique tinued their play.
had to say. - lies at the point of death. I have Suddenly one sprang up, and, with
Driving to the 'neighborhood of heard this evening from our cousin
what was once the palace of La , Anna, that our revered- relative is not you cheat, you beggarly, rascally,
Heine Blanche, and is now the lowest ;expected to survive to -morrow. Ar- swindling French foreigner I 1: to
quarter of Paris, M. Leon threaded irangements have been made to ad- i caught you in the aet."
its intricacies with the assurance of minister to her the last sacraments The others bad. risen at the first
one who knew the place by heart. of the Church, and it is her earliest
Pere Barabas, the landlord of the desire that as many as possible of
most disreputa.ble cabaret in that . her sorrowing relatives F3houlcl be
disreputable quarters' eyed his visitor present on, this sad and solemn o44 -
askance as he entered, but a word I casion. I propose, therefore, to bas-
in his ear soon converted surprise ten to Mantes at an early hour . to -
1
into obsequious attention. Morrow, and shall deem niyself fore
"Carapata. 7 Where is he ?" asked tunate if you are able to accompany
• • • el
Returning there, be wrote as fol-
lows :-
but it it*as not easy to check the
practice. Leon and his new friends
a fierce oath- cried, “You sharper,
Leon, quickly and peremptorily -
']Jo is not here, nionsieur," re-
plied the landlord. “I have not seen
him to -night,"
Nor won't," remarked another
rufean of the same stamp as the
absent.ee. "He can't eome,"
"What !" interrupted M. Leon,
"Is that yon, Gros Chene ? Where
is Carapata `.4"
"E'mballe I 'They brought him to
the depot just before I got away.2"
"When ? On wha.t charge ? Did
he tell you ? Did you have any
talk
me. Thole is a lapid train whi
leaves the 'Ouest' station at ten. Mill-
11tCS to nine. You should on no ac-
count neglect to take this -it is. the
only' one to serve otir purpose.
Friends will be waiting the arrival
of the tnain at Maates. 0011311. 1143033
the pleasure of -seeing you. As you
may have to remain till after the
funeral it is as well that you should
be prepared to leave your establish-
ment in the charge of Maxime.
-Your atta.ched cousin,
"VICTOH VILLARS.''
Having completed the foregoing,
"Yes ; for a Minute or two, He Leon took out his watch end saw
came out into our big room,. and we that it, was half -past one. His net
soon gotatogether. Ile asked if I levelness was to arrange for the se-
knete of any zig who was to 130 free cure delivery of the lette1.
that afternoon, and who could take 'How early can this letter be
you a, message. I said I could end taken to its address ?" he asked. of
some one., and, as good luck fell out,
,they put mo inelsell Lhe right side of
the door soon afterwards. Insuffi-
cient, proofs, I didn't want to stay ;
ari'd ',lere you have the ready to driak ;soon as possilDle after six, and with -
your ' out. attracting attention. liere, then
' 'I date*, ea,e look of it said are five francs. I will actcl in the
the head -waiter.
"lff monsieur likes I could take it
myself when I go off duty at six."
"The letter' mest be delivered as
word, and tried hard to pacify their.
friend. .‘
-"Don't - you see, you fools ?i All
this while that we've been carping
our luck he has been correcting his.
fortune, He faces that glass there,
and his wife, who sits juot behind
two of you, hae been signalling : to
him. What cards you held. That's
why lie ne-ver doubted when to play
or take 'Miss."'
It's false, you. cur 3 • ]row dare
you accuse your betters of foul play?
Apologize, I say, or r11 And Irritability, Sleeplessness Feelings of Lassitude And, DePressieri, Weakness
1
Apologize, or na. take it out of you.
Dr. Leon advanced threateningiy. e and irregularity of the Bodily Organs.
own regiment.
The officer was profuse in his ex-
pressions of gratitude, and aeked his
preserver how he could reward him.
"The best way, srad the soldier,
"Is to say nothing about it."
"I3ut why 1" ai.sked the officer' in'
amazement.
"33ecause,'' was the bhmt reply,
"if the other fellows knew I'd pulled
You oat they:4 chuck me in,"
BURGLARS AND TELEPHONE.
Burglars in New York have been
trying an ingenious way qf securing
their entry into houses unmolested.
Gentlemen of the 1nel:rending persua-
sion enter ordinary telephone (pay)
stations and call up the house of
some wealthy citizen. If the calls
are answered' the callers state that
they have made a, mistalre as to the
nunabers, and ring off. When no an-
swers are given the predatory gang
conclude that the houses called lip
are empty, and immediately go round
and start operations. Numbers of
burglaries havd been perpecrated in
this way, and the police seem (mite
helpless in the matter, the only in-
formation at their command being
that the thieves "are well dressed
and gentlemanly in appeahance.
Andrews, who, until his only daugh-
ter erst returned from boarding -
school, could not add two and two
or ,distinguish between the first and
last letters of the alphab?t. As his
wife was equally ignorant, he found,
himself heauily handicapped hi hi
business which was then carried on
in a small back street in Perth, and
there is no doubt that those he em-
.1)1.oyed to assist him robbed him
WITENROYALTF VISITS YOlf
WHAT IfCSIT HAVZ 1,33773
uow YOU MUSrtt ;Da IT.
Perticularly Remember This 1.•
Yew Ilouse is •Not Yoar Own
'When, Royalty Is There.
Royalty messes about within 31335"
3403.11 social eircles. No natter hoes
efficient and capable and brimful or
resources you, might be, your char.=
oi entertaining, royalty woold be In,
volved obscurity it you *ere 210t,
one of the choeen. cams. Now oso
there is no telling what fortune hay
in store for you mid thet posseble-
one day you might hove to enter-
tain royalty, you may as well know
what would be expected of you ir
you were so honored.
Now, everybody has his idionviierae
cies, more or less triflino„ but,
nevertheless patent, and royalty pi
no exception. About ten days phor
to the roe•al visit it is customary for
one of the private secretaries to
write to the host informing hhe
what the prince or princess likes or
dislikes. In the case of a couple et
prominent uiembers of ems. royal
family, their Royal Highneeses, for
instance. must have early cups al
tee, served to them. before they rig:.
There is nothiug 'very special perhapa
in that, but whilst a man le dreesing
servaute are to eeie that he ifs pro-
vided with an egg beaten up in
eherry-well, there is certatily some-
thing net17 in that. That is 'the
prince's custom.
Pew British royelties brealdaet
with their host or hostess oi toilet;
the visitors invited to meet there ;
they prefer
BREARPASTLNG ALONE .,
•
Too Ittuch "Pere" Prejudiced Fa-
ther in Favor of Water.
it. teacher in a. public school Ila.s re-
ceived the following letter:
Sin -Win you in the future give
any son easier sums to (30 nites.
This is what be's brought home. two
or three nites back.: "If fore gallins
oi bare will 1111 30 to pint bottles,
how many pints and' hall bottles
will nine gallins of bare fill'?"
e Well, NVO tried and could make no -
thin' of it, al all, and my boy cried
and laughed and sed he didn't dare
go back in the mornin' without doin'
it. So I had to go and buy nine -
gallon keg of here, which I could ill
affor to o, an en le want an
borrowed a lot of wine and brandy
bottles; we 1111 them, mid my boy
put the number down for an answer.
don't know whetner it is ri lit or
not, as we spilt S01110 while doin' it
P. S. -please let the next sonic be
in water, as I ara not able to buy
more bere."
_en
THE CURFEW IN COREA. „
A. very curious custom, in Seoul,
Corea, is the -law which makes.it ob-
ligatory for every .man to retire to
iright and left owing to his inability his home when. the huge bronze bell
wen of the city has proclaimed it to be
i to detect them. It was only
diffitulty he could afford to send his the hour of sunset and the time for
'little girl to boarding -school, but closing the gates. No man is allow -
quite unexpectedly this effort was the ed in the streets after that hour un-
egg,
making of hwie hhe child was full10 WOm011
• ' 11 ' b ti
of her studies when she returnee. for are allowed to go abctut and visit
her first holidays, and her keowledge len. .
slig,ht as it was, so greatly im-
pressed her parerite, that they de- 1 ' WHERE WOMAN IS LORD.
cided future to send her to a day-,
school, so she could teach them slcaonacslt calofleind ikaoil6osfft
leer spare time. in sae uttihileYrni
In the course of a few years the peculiar sta,te of society exists, fax
wonlan is lord of all she surveys.
father was able to tackle his shop
aceounts so well as to detect the The wife is the recognized head of
manner in which he had fdr years 'the house. She owns it and everye
been Tobbed -so systematically that thing in it, while anything that her
11.10re than ,half his profits never husband, who works very hard, can
reacbed. him. He obtained new as- earn goes to increase her wealth. Her
sistants, and attended -to the books husband belongs to her too, and
himself, With occasional 'help from when she marries him she gives hien
hie deueliter, who continued to edue her name instccrd- of' taking his.
lu their in•ivate sitting -room. ,
etth breaLfasts are preferred to
French. After the matutival meal ,
is partaken of, the programme le
submitted to awl aperoved by your
royal visitor and then the fun eon,
mows till luutiteon time. Your
Watts had often meted his braia
, and your other gueits and eat
and drink Mee ortliteiry pereons.
Of course. the honee is not your
own whilst you have ellch
guiehed people beneath the rtiof, for
though you may have the temerity to
suggest what should be done to kill
time, the chancee are that the wine()
or Inincess, or both, w111 alter your
idea. Under ordinary eircurnstonces
you would lead your guests antl they
WOUld fallOW your programme with-
out a murmur, ,but :inch is the pre-
rogative claimed by the relatives of
OU*' liege -lord that the right to do
this or that, belongs to them. 03
course, posse.ssing tact, they know
how end where to draw the line.
h. plain live o'clock tea. would suit
the tastes of ordinary folk, but tho
palate of the. particular couple of
royalties we have refert•cd. to refusee
to be 'satisfied with anything leen
than eggs, senilwiches, and potted
meats, as well as the tea. And
royalty eats this meal with gusto,
though theh. guests may just sip
their tea, and yet always eat a piece
cif bread and butter with it. --
Should your illustrious visitpis bo
a, little slow, and souse royalties are
so, you must, while standing oh
great cc:looney, eintiee, them as best
vou can
TILL DINNER. TIME.
nsio,aucanatqzlcamwxmagooll=9,4"...10.
,
it:What will you do ? Lay a finger
on me, you low French -villain, you
Next instant Leon had him by the
throat ; there vias a short, struggle,
and the Ithigliehman, before his
friends could interpose, was thrown
heavily to the ground.
When the two were separated it
was found that the Engiishman Nvas
insensible, and seemed' very badly
hurtThe news of the disturbance
spread rapidly through the st6arner;
other possengers came crowding- into
the saloon ; then the captain end
one of the mates appea,red, and alter
a short colloquy witil the- Englishmen
they fell foul of 343. Leon.
The end of it all. 14 9.414 ithat, on the
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49.
Dinner is usually served at 8.30,
for the convenience of your thieg'e
relatives. When you were master of
your own house, and could do what-'
ever you liked, your nornml clinner-
hour 3.I70.8 perhaps half -past six. And
the mistress of the house ordered
what she thought the family and her
guests would like and everybody of
course went away •praising your
dinner. But this sort of thiug would
not do at all in the present circum-
stances. The dinner you ore -to pro-
vide every night whilst a prince or
nrincess is 'staying with You 'must ".
consist of the items nhich have been
beat you many days before by the
secretary. You are to follow ,the
menu chosen by royalty. Whether
you care for it, or whether your
guests like it, is a seconderY
All that you have to .do is to get it
ready. This is the usual menu for
dinner which a certaia prince asks to
be served to him : Two soups, tva
kinds of fish, two entrees, a joint,
t wc kinds of game, a, hot, and Cold, ,,,
sweet, a savoury, and the usual ate',
cessories in the way, of oysters-,
cheese, ice, and desert' And yet
everybody wants to know how the
poor live. Of course, goer royal
gueet would probably net eat all the
dishes here mentioned and named by
hbn, but they are there in case .ho
should want more to stop the paegs
of huTmer. cLoT.H RE
movED,
one would ieel that the demands ior
the day on the culinary department
of your house were f,nished•-aan -bre'
dinary chciunstonces they would lie,
but you are entertaining royalty
11tYCA. YOU must not send your guests
hungry to bed. Though you !a-ve
dined them well they now must have
suOper, and this must be served in
their own private apartments. What
this menu may consist of is usually
left to your' choice -a conceseion
which brings with it more anxiety
than pleasure. The meal over, yem
private enstructions, 'sent you for
your guidance, tell' you that it is
customary to place in the royal
berr-chamber a cold thicken and It
bottle of claret, in order to provide
against emergencies that might 11(46e
during the night -a desire to eat and
lrink laill°rvee
)ois the programme 'that
bah, in nine cases out of ten, to be
followed by those who entertnin
royalty,
33
1'le-0FITAI3LI41 'WEDDINGS.
'hat is known as -the opay 134139413'
(1)1141'' is popular in GeraiLtny. 'The
bride receives t.he guests with a 31 4434
set before her and into this eath
visitor entering the reception-reoin
drops either soma 03.3.011,'] ,4, a, silver
S1'0011, or a piece of .1') -131,3 In sonic
parts of the country the expenses of
-Lilo marriage feast, are inet eaen.
,guest paying for what lie Or she May
0.3.5. and drink. Some 5.3,
high prices, and the happy couple
analte 1 1141443 '1110 peefit out of their
wedding, as many as, 30e :i t:' of, '
ten being present at #V34,34 a
t,
- atiLtthl.se,