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The Exeter Times, 1920-3-11, Page 6Keep your eye on this Brand The oae Tea that never disappoitits the most critical taste 11 eon fon a ,:ealeci PackYour Safeguarct 10,6**14111 iVies We lita VD% efee "ea VIZTflIL len We tee Mee tita VI elell ellie 111, X& Ian V& Vat 0 0 PA4\\ T I., L, 0 0 0 0 0. BY BEATRICeee GREVISHAW. It! 0 ene seee ea vet •ese -gee lea esg, Nate ege keeska tee, yet me we mie esie PART IL hand. He WaS fond of hie wife and Anus told her that they were pa- very fond of assuring himself that he aws, the male and the :female tree; was ao. But he vete not the only le 'Igo :thet bore the smaller flowere woman in the world; and handeome room, looking about her as she went. also bore the fruit, as she could see— en:ewer's did not teed to go begging he shut the door and blinded the there it was under the mown, a for a little flattery in the town or window. The white-hot sun of after - heavy mass of oval melon-ahaped Laulate Jean, did not flatter any one.: noon gave ample light through -the *nits, dark green and gold and trreel $he would have ehought It Immoral. I blind. Jean opened the cochineal: hots 'color between. There was nothing in See only loved bini -malt e inee that ! tle that she had taken from the dres- the trees to make a fuss about; they would have stormed the gates of hell: ser, and with a trembling hand Ted - 'were as eel -Anson as dirt; she could to Teaeh;his side, had theytwo died dened her eheeks and Else, drwinag f have some of the fruit if she fancied together togeer ei end she been left n heaventhe wet oork s..eross and across. She et, 'but most people got eired ee e.rei as eieee, I etared for a moment, then ran to the they wow ell ''..." the is/and. They alono, washstand. She did not See the earliest el' her I e ' 61 .t grew so sleek, you see. asked pape .aws ripen, Angus's son came La -1 tichaniels, she sale. Sure, a "How quick do they grow?" to the world at Christmas; and when ' makes me look like Jezebel." She Jean on the :wonderful even if their I washed her face euthlessly with the 'eat first brought her baby out on , awleshee arrival, standing to look at the tree, u hea- heart almost •sore with thebeaute the veranda, the natives lad stolen i ''''‘.*-h7ringnis came in a little later, grew thinner. Mee, Tmeg told her1 she wags a fQ01 net ta do as the other • women did, and make up a bit. "There's; not one a us doesn't do it," else /said fraekly, eIfs Pink pawkier wash with some, tend plain reap with others, end some use that mai. lona cream that makes you like ivore, and'every woman reds up her live. You look anyhow, my good girl. to brisk up a bit, and at least pat on a b male a ourts. None of ns on sem on wee konel good looks in the Laelau eliwate, elencl if you know what eats scree of these women ale about tak- ing away other woreezes husbauels—" "I don't like gossep," said jean, fleshing. She was afraid of what might be coming next. It WaS" three yeaTs tow since she had, eoine to the house beside the papaws, and the misty fear that sometimes shaped it- self elearly into "liew long?" grew :faster than the seedling tree. She avoided the women of the town; they lived and breathed In an atinospheTe • ecantlal. Little Angus and Jessie were enough to fill her days. She had no desire to know tee 11212Oh. Angus of the red -gold hair was fond of her still, She often told herself ee. And he certainly worshiped the ehildren. They kept him at home it the evening once in a way, nowadays; she was thankful for that, Yes, everything was. well. beb But when she had put y Jean to sleep, she went into the kitchen, stole like a thief to the dresser, took down a small bottle and erept away to her the ripe papewe that she had bop - elle had seen that day. • he gave her a second look. The nail- ed to find. Jean, still weak and, "Come to fruit in less than a year brush had left her cheeks honestly from seed," /said Angus, reeheeess a much alone, for .kIngus had got out red , of the way of spending his -evenings, • . 70.11 in the bungalow since her sickness, "You're looking well, lassie," he re- seedeng just up. You eon pick pa - want to." It was now the middle of • cried a little;e Then _she kissedhthil! marked. It was the first time he -had i seemed really to see bee for weeks. paws off it before Christmas if March. red gold "gone a little Angus's ea and went in again. Jean cried after he had gone out for "Hotv -wonderful!" said Jean, for, the evening, the twentieth time that day. She was A woman tailed on her that day; a . The we; of the wicked shall per - the wile of the head engineer of the . > „ -Y. • is he said to herself. But /Me harboe works—five-and-thirty, child- 1 ' , could not find as much support for leas, indolent with thetropicindolence l the in as she could have wish - that eats to the bone, long -eyed, some- what too golden -haired, aomewhat too! ed m the history of Port Laulaur as handsomely dressed. She was Teput-1 far as it. was known to her. ed to be "wonderfully good-hearted! • Jean had. the trip to Au:calmed that and ready to do anything for any: -!? consideredthe due of every wife down Tahiti way" and eame back one." Jean had met her before, and: feeling fresher and younger: 'The chil- scarcely liked her, •deepite the alleged good heart. Mrs. Lang, liowevev did eren benefited also, and Auckland in steel/ was delightful and new. Bet not seem to see that she was not warmly -welcomed. She paid a long she Was not sorry to return hto the . - 1 whate-hot runs and jeweled seas and not a woman of many :words. Angtie felt inclined to yawn for about the tweetieth time,. He had been in the ielareis beeore, and had never seen enythereg eel -de -rite in them. He ate guyed himself that Jean was a "queer gooti sort .of a girl, ard a better -wife for any nean than e'er ane of those eossy pieces brought up in the, is- lands," It seemed somehow - a fitting tbing to do just then. Afterward he left her to oversee the getting of tea, and wandered di to elle town side ref the island "I won- ea , ao-ug a cap or y, as be lighted his fared to take Jean and the -child out year-long endless sumraers of the eer," he thought, in the eegineeess launch fee a rue! emulaus. The bungalove beside the tip! "whether that little tufty at the *theist the hzarboe. She was full of papaw tree had become -home to her. oiel has resaeried any of them yet? She looked about the sitting' She looked for the tree as soon as She'd have me it I'd put the word." lehlahese. eyes, which fixed the house tame in sight. It had 'He twisted the ruddy mustache- that Teem -with shalth andt themselves on Augus's p'hotograph, grown iinmensela• dummg the month dew the eurly eed-gold rIciuter fee.,1 stared heed, and than turned eway of her absence; its. graygreera trunk, sealed like a serpent's skin, hati was his pride and that of Jean, fiber down on his forehead, walking ehlY• She went 'ant bY and by ; and Jean, watching hr down the steps thickened and shot up, and the crown rapidly toward Laplau main street. I beeide the papaw, said teiherself: "I was leveled on top, aspiring no more. Jean went into the kitclien and be- hate youl" The papaw was twenty feet high and "Pretty trees you've got theee,a hed done its gro-veing. In these days traid the wife of' Angus's superior of- it bore enormously; the cluster . of Beer, patronizing the big papaws. eream-white bloseoms underneath the "Must be nearly four years old, trowel was supported by masses ,oe thoueli; best get rid of them before solid fruit, ripe and unripe, enough to gill several sacks. Tall, deep-rooted and sturdy, it looked fit to last for fifty years. Angus was glad to see ber baekeHe had imesed his home comforts. Meals at the hotel weren't all they looked; and the new barmaid from Sydney had taken up with a rich tourist to hem Speech of the provincial tains in the exclusion of more deserving if ess gan the long wrestle with her "boy" that is the lot o-1 island housekeepers. The eun wont down ca a day that she hael found fair. The seedling papaw grew wonder- fully From a t reedlike /stalk two blase long, erovvned by a coulee ee the . emery storms.' einy pointed leave% it shot up M a "Why?' asked jean. Week. or so to something the size kef "They'v.e nearly reached their teem, a stout lead pencil, Then it went to awl they fall so suddenly." the alze of a ruler, and 'then it paused "Terra? I beg your paTelon, I—" or a while to make roots. Afterward, 'Tb ey don't live long, you know." eirm-anehored against the merry "I didn't know. How long do they 4"-rades" that blew up freer the lie be—do they live?" She -hied to purge these days. Angus eaid that immeYed men* 01 emirse ha didn't ean used to think that she could tactually see it grow on hot, damp dies of soon, it shot skyward M good earnest. d' : f he ' 1 d" did not care twopence about her, but still— talk like old Ann ef the boreen, lemmings and, iiideed, the tree often AI .1 4..., . , iOnl lour 0 e era 9-- iv , made an advance between rimerting if you're hecky." She gathered up her What a good little soul Jean was. and evening that could be measured expensive organdie Adria and went She know how to appreedate a man. lee ineless. Soon Ito topmost erown of leaves, --large, beautifully palmate down the road with a languid, dreamy If only she hadn't grown quite so gait Mee, Lang alwaers eoemed to be plainl She never had been a beauty; and raying eut like a star—was level with the drooping lower leaves of the half a -dream. but now— great male papaw beside it Flower "Five, if you're lucky!" said Jean sot tell whether fruit or only hies- le to herself, going tip the steps: She eked at the big trees. Four, were of things. . He suppo_sed it was_... the nature (To be contint-ed.) mom was to be its tontalination to the they? Her eye fell on the growing' -world. By the middle of the year papaw. It was almost a year old. AN OLD WOOL DRESS green melons were set in •cluetees; as leer throat felt suddenly dry. ChTistenas neered the golden gleer of "A thirst does be on TAO with this she -was "grey an' bonny." Odd she 'should have such poor taste in men. The Chitcl and the Dark. There are sorsa° ehildren, as every mother nnoess who are absolutely terrified in tile dark, They may not he at alI cowardly children, but if you notice, srou will find probably that the fear is peen- s to one of two eausee, either they are speeially imaginative children, or they have been frighteeerl in some warewhich gives them at un- natural terror- oe the darkness. -weeereiee often leet by e .cleanseng agent, apply I the flhiel to the eleen sterface, matelde I the spot, then ref) toward the centre where the spot is. When using the old-time , decoction de/soap-barn, to one ounce (costing about five cents) [ add one quart of boilieg water. Ale low this to steep for a while etrain through a cloth, ehen add to the water in which woollee- clothes aro washed. ___---, These two causes shoald be treated Household leinte. in very different ways. e . Using Chicken at,—By tieing Take the ease ,of the imaginative egieaen eat in cooking yea . eau no, It isk very seldom atill Tor child. When one 'really thinks about • down the araeurt of fat you mud buy more than a. few seeends befere it deehee out on /some tempting bit to lively bird, eat. It is partial to the wooded bathe of 'streams. It usually keeps in under- :1)21mb near the ground, viNsmarimastia 61/2% Interest PAYARLE HALF YEARLY „allowed on money left with us! to froze three 'to ten Yeart. Virrite for Booklet. The Great West permanent Lean Company. Toronto Office • 120 Kings se., West aimismommisisawmaniens He Wears a Necklace. Did you ever bear of a man wearing e necklace? Veell, that le what the male Canadian warbler dm, willies en the female of thee attractive bird there Is only the slightest Indication of 11 neeltlace, The warbler's necitetee or black spots shows up very ;strikingly on bis olive green and yellowish throat a.nd breeet On the back the bird le of a elate gray color, with the tail nacre of an olive bro-vvet tone, This is a very its what 14.2210r0 natural than that such a ebild should be afraid of the darkness ?' The unknown has it: feers for most of us, -and for the imagina- tive most oa ell. And to a ohild., how many things' in this strange World in which it finds Itselif are unknown. It has to exelore everything iteelf and it never knowe what well be tbe mead surprise, The darkness raust neces- sarily- be mysterious! to it, What may come out ofeihe darkness to its bed- side? Some strange, dreadful mon- ster like the scarecrow that frights (seed lt is in the field, am perhaps that great spider that frightened Miss Muffett- so reach—it seemed to de it on purpoee—or the three bearsmight come all round the bed, for they 'came all round little Goldie Locks' bed; it said /le In the story. Such thoughts vire quite native; and even raore tenifying ideas than these e•e- cur to the imaginative 'child, for it is quite capable to drawing on that im- agination until it actually .sees Mete things and to add to the horrer, by hearing the scarecrow speak, or the beams claws ecratelerig on the /leer; 'the furniture of the room will take the shape of strange neretutures who stand silently mound -watching unceas- ingly; in fact, there is no end to such night terrors when they mice begin. IS NOW WORTH( $50 :ripeness crept slowly over the fruits, child," she said, and went to the watea. Jean lead been horrified by the livetare "Diamond Dyes" Turn Faded, many people who seemed to be re- The harbor Works went on.; harbors eeevecl in the soelety of the town; she are not finished in a day or a year, Shabby Apparel into, New. Tetreated thankfully to the soiree:le especiall "down Tahiti way." An- • ere her bungalow," encouraged by ngus, who faund interest ersough in °thee baby came to the bungalow be- side the sea.. It was hot all the year Is work on the new 'harbor and who round. Jean lost her pink -anti -white lied other reasons for wishing a free North Antrim freehnese, and her hair `cononty of Rules ib is: eeeneetecie to Irate rules, and it ie economy to obey them. trem-endous ntunher of accidents reault from the breaking of rules. Sometimes the rules are not laws, laid down in black and white and en- toreed by law, but they are rules, just the frame. Many motor noel/lents COMO because of speeding, delving on the wrong side ol the Toad, disobeying traffic regulations In the city ;streets, Many accidente to •pedestrlane oceux because they don't 'stay on the slide - Walks, etd when they Mint OrOliti the streets they don't de so at the mese - eagle Many ilres start teeause in- elammables are kept in dangerouss plaeeseggaeolene le stored in the linen , closet, when we know it eheald not eceording to the terms of our lease, be bought large quitutities, or kero. • *elle le Used ogrelesely about e 'Art, IR WO of eattioe from the Piro Del partMent.' .0o it goes, 11`.any of the ilia of man. klieg reknit from a illeobvieg of rule% 'hie attitide athilte raell like disobedienee in chilidren.,-and me TO- 4Olto ere z.etib, the gem% for plata, meet .1.a enoMe font is Tee/ likely to . , ilaten.e SeedeV• heueohbla there AO rertalierixteis, reerei itiafi flfortno, lated> And they elioula be a bele to family life. Unfortunately for the b.ousel,-eopor, punisbraent for the breaking el these 'rules does not al- wayn fan on tholes -who break them. Too °Yana it Is the housekeepee or the iseevante who get the punishment. Nevertheless, it la poseible to forme late a at of houeeholci mules, -and to drill one's family to -obey them Per - haws without aetuee punishment they tan be made to believe that tb.e most conforable way or living le to ob- serve the rale* eiet down be the house- keeper. And to the housekeeper theee rulee ean be ;made a mean e Of saving time and energy And nerve force, Think over every rule yeti 1701210127aCe before you ;meek of it 'For a foolish rule, like a foolish, law, breede-disre. spect on -the part Of those who are wilted to observe lt, • There on' 'be lust rules about PrOraPtnellie At Mettlpout tnaltitinal duties for eaelt member of the hetse- kelt% Sleet Opening wridowes about oloeing Screen 400re, nett. curing for tao e1othee moni OtiOi thing. And snob these Tele" an be sti worded oat It *m 10.Ofai mad at the Iam4 thao ao thetitt eat that it vini liOak;$141112' to ono. �. whom tlao turdo at 400060.0* fatal Don't :worry about perfect results. Use "Diamond Dyes," guaranteed to give a new, rich, fadeless col& to any fabric, whether it be wee. silk, linen, cotton or . mixed goods I,- dresses, blouses, stockings, skirt se children's coats, feathers, draperies, coverings. —everything! The Directien Beak with each 'pack- age tells how to diamond dye over any color. • To match any material, have dealer shove you "Diamond Dye" Color Card. for that peirposse. To prepare at, try it out in a double bellee, ex- other Tee - sol Set ink hot water, until the fat just melte Away from tne tessues and an be poured off, This fat becomes rancid easily (axed eliould be kept 000l and eoveTed flke butter and used hi a very ifeer„slaya. Chicnen eat, like goose eat, may be need for shortening In eakee, such as fesiee cakei whemo the seasolieng used wen Meek any never: veil& the fat inight have. It can ago be used for frying the ehic- kan itself or other meats, and for warming- vegetable, eta—Mrs. 5,, j. 0'0. Thilna eleperated with gilt should never be vresellee with water contain- ing:wale, for the soda well soon -halm eiff the gilding, e400d white sleep tut into bits and put in anodeTately hot water, will answer the purpose and do 710 imeary—lleTs. 4'. .1. vc. - Many -who :Etee-gasoline for cleaning spots on clothing dislike the "Tang" wleich at leaves aratInd the Place wheee the aepot was: If a very Eta° water is added to the gasoline no marks will_appears--11/Irs. EL, T. Last fall I picked ripe grapes!, /sev- eral diffeeeet kinds, dipped the stem of each -In melted parafin, and pa.elted them In a wooden box between layers of cotton battimg, being .eareful not to Now how tan all this be ended7 let thee bumehee :touch, lesel a neW13- The best thing a metheT eell in to paper over top of box and set an a dry, cool room. We had grapes to eat on New Veme's day, as nice as if they were Jima picked from fele viese.--Mese F. welcorae that imagination in the ebeld as her ally. Let her tey to plant ha the eheld's mind the seeds of love and treat. Teach the little one to see the good in everything. Don't let it fear or despise ugliness and deformity, hut pity it. Let it understand that such things as lire and water and darknese are beautiful . and useful and our friends; that animals are here to be loved and to love 12S, and that if they scratch and bite it as generally be- cause they have, beer. badly treated, even. lioias and tigers do not kin fee cruelty but for food. Alomg such lines the child's imaginationewill take tlie right attitude to things, and worked's will have been aetomplished. For the game reaS022 choose a child's read'ing from the cfiret along these lines—no fairy stories of eruelty ...and horrors!), Buell stories are too eonamon—but beautiful fairy stories of pretty fairies and good spirits and lovely. deeds. And above all, teach, It to love nature. The case of the child who has been frightened, is different; Though what hag been geld of the draaginative child does apply, •it is not enough. Find out whit 'frightened the •child and put an end to that one fear at once. It will probably be found that someone told it tome sstory fornthe very purpose of terrifying it, a pre- ceedeng which 1s nothing short ef - Forgotten. Peerages. • - • It would be inte-resting to know how many et the present titles of Bra tieh peers will be known fifty years hence, • • , Peerages disappear at the Tete of five every four- years, There eqe numerous eeasone for this. The ie - cent case of Lore eiveinfqn, vnio,diefi before the lettere Patent of 'his peer- age pameed the Great Seal, is urntsual, but not without precedent, Eleven yeaes ago 4 barony was be- stowed. on Sir Themes Borthwiesk; but lee' died before the issue of the lette4s patent. From various eaaSee peerages beetme et,inet between 1800, and :woo. 180ino .Piers have bad 110' heirs, AO Lords Kitchener and Itoberte, Lord Xelvin the , scientist, left no heir at all, ierd•Lister,' the hile.12107, ,ot antiseptic eufgeryi. had no 'cue to. Catty 62 which hes thus be., AM! atinet, Of present peers fiefther Leril Milner nor Lod North.' cliff liM a son te Ancceed' biro, ece tr. • Freshening Up YourInaollea Clothing. Serge or ether woollen dresses which have 'hecorne soiled or shabby, aye freshened 'up in this rammer. Sponge the goodie on the rig -lit side with ammonia water, one tablespoon to make douglrouts 2" (Sweet Young of ammonia to each quart of water. Thingl "'Yes, I am terribly interest - Oar* should be taken not to have the ed, but how do you fix the inner &batten too strong as Zeine dyes turn tubes?" purple or greet , it „such a case. Keep Lamps Shining Brightly., A good reatyludiatateicere and 'clean- ly diepoted houeevehree, like elladdie of old, :believe in rubbing their metal lardpe. _Aladdin got What he wished for when be gabbed hifi selem producer, but the, honsevrife generally gets, in the Celine of time, what she doesn't want; tamely, a shabby appearing lanep, for it doessn't take long to Tub the lacquer off metal, Lamps :wouldn't be permitted te remairs shabby very long if. house- keepeee knew how simPle a process it is to relaequer or re -enamel them. Point dealers, druggists and dealeee in plumbing suppeles sell the lacquers and -enamels - small-emantity con- tainers, Directiim for appeitg ussual- ly tome with them, Royal Clothes. The moist • extravagant Enropean monarch as regards dress was theeate (Isar of Russia, 'elle bill of his civil tailor bordered on $10,000 a year, and, that of his military tailoe $1B4O00, His ton -hat cost him $25, and every year ho ga•vo $2,000 .for a fur coat. It in said that he never gave Iwo that $60 for a suit, and never wore it more than three times. , COmpared with him the Kehler was quite altappy, His price for e eta is at roost $86, and lie will wear it thirty timese...ewhilst Ring Haskon opends no more on a suit than the aiterage Norwegian grocer, Grandma: "Shan I teach you how When the -drese entixely sponged, ss'm i ot ar oat tor sale turn it mon side out, lay a eloth over it, and press with -a hot iron until dry. Should your elothes wear shiny, it is due to theeesil.whieh is more or Mee present in all, weal, and is made con- spicuous by the friction ineidente& the wear of t e e g. . especially tie of ingel--twileted wooi pr :worsteds, Sponging weth hot atte- ster cute this oil.and greatly irepeoves the looks of the, gem/sent. Or the nap may he pulled lip by pressing damp crinoline on the goods until it dries, then pullimg it off. If there are trimmings, 'which- aan be easily removed a serge dress may be welshed, -provided you usie . Reap tree from alkali oe pure ewer) flakes. The dress should be hung ttp men it Is partly claw, and then pressed .oes the virrong side. Wrinkles zany be /steamed out by preeting on the -wrong slat with e wet eboth ender the iron. Care of olothes from day te day is more eaving 'of garenerits than the Praotlee of letting then get ,spilesi Ana TnInAted'ahd then using strenoots 'cleaning eind,eroning proceseee. There - tore, it is wen to rernOve spotees soon as; they eeetir, and the follow- ing Commie ,foreen cIeaneing fluid 'el 'an excellent pee: Benzine, one pint; ehlorofoirm, one -sixteenth of en ,dinlee; isnlphuric ether,- one-silarteenth oe an voice; oil OfewinteTgreen, on*2. eighth of en 01211te; aleohol, mats eighth oe en ounce. , Thie must neve? lothin This sie _ t he used near a fge, es it is highly • , > • e '0ent ateitsver srtti )210, Inflammie able. ere ,avd the ringSet t ' • niiseeire ..tes. everrwherp, good cellar in connection *with a farmhouse is as important es a welleaTeangecl kitohem. eautiful Worriers of Society, duringthe past seventy years have relied upon ill; for their distill- guished appearance. The soft, refined; pearly (white complexion ft rendees Instantly, Is always the source of flattering comment. COARSE SALT LAND SALT BIM Cadets . TORONTO SALT WORKS ' C. J. CLIFF - TORONTO Use Baby's Own Soap. Its "test for Baby — Best for you". Cleansing—Healing—Fragran Albert Soap initctl, Ilfre• Atolutreftl. -520 Oto Cubes contaira the rich nourish - went of pritne beef hi so compact and 00everiient a form that they are handy foe ins anywhere, et any time. Just a Oube—hot water—and a biscuit or two —and a light sustaining meal is ready. At Your Service Wherever You jive. The woman in town, or conntry, has the same advantage as her oiter In the city In expert advice from the beet -known firm of Cleaners and Dyers in Canada. Parcels from the country sent by mail or -expreee receive the Same kiareful attention as work delivered pereonally. Cleaning and Dyeing EtiClothing or.Househeld Fabrics "Y''' Foy years, the name of "Parker's" has eignifled perfection in this work of making old thinge look like new, whether personal garments of even thO moot fragile reaterial, or house. bold eurtaine, draperies, tugs; Sto. • Write to uss for further particelare or send your ramie direct to ' rker irlye,Works Limited Cleaners uh,ers '791 Yoncle St.. Toronto GHOSTS AT ROYAL. PALA QUEEN BESS HAUNT VONDSOR CASTLE. "Lady in White" Was Hold of Calamity to Reigning House of Austria.' The news that a "veiled speetTe" has recently been sieen on three eepaie, ate occasions promenading tho corals: dors of Windeor Ce,stle recalls a stogi told. by a young otlicer, Mr, Carr G1y11, yofeathTsgeaGreradier Guards, some twentY Mr. Glyn was reading a book in the, Casale library when, glan.eing up, bese saw the black -veiled tiger° of a wee; man walk past hins and' eilsaPPear litt, the inner library. As be did not re.' turn, 'he tollowed her; but found tee, kis amazement that she had complete- ly izanished, although there wee me means of exit train the inner room. The Woman In" Meek. When he told hio 12110E17212y story the following morning it created coasters nation in the Palace, especially wleen, • it VMS dieeovered tb,at three centueies ago the roora had had an exit at the' :very place through which the black lady had passed. Ti was generally bee: lieved that the mysterious eguseel.* must have been that at :Queen. Eliza- beth herself, of whose midnight ape pearances in her old haunts in the Castle many stories are told. But Queen Bess is only one oi the taeveial royal spectres which are saki' to haunt our royal palaces. The Duehesse de Mazarin, one of the Mex. ry Monarch's many favorites,. has. been seen more than once In the rooms and corridors of St, James' Pat- see'which is Also said to be a favor- ite haunt of Nell Gywn, of the owner tongue and merry laughter; and of that termagant beauty, the Duchess of Cleveland. Harapton Court Palace, too, Las the reputation of being visited- by the shades of several great people whe ha,v'e once "walked he splendor" witia in its historic walls. Strange tales are told of spectral figures which vanieb when accosted; of mysterious noises, the uncanny opening of doors, with- out visible agency, and of sue of merriment and snatehee of otiM'pre- ceeding from empty ebonas. When Henry's Wives "Waik." But the most affrighting all is that of a white -robed 11;1`...40..,eui- ning down a corridor, with- her losergeye hair. streaming behind her, and dis- ene'• appearing into the chapel. This start- ling apparition le said to bp that et tho unhappy Catherine Howard, the second queen whom Henry VIII. sent to the executioner's block; and who, - so long after her tragic death, re- peats an incident in her troubled exs istence when, escaping from her guards, she rushed into the chapel to beg for her life from her tyrannous: lord who was praying there. Catharine of Aragon is also eaid to hatuat the Palace of Ile.mpton, -where her 'spectre has been seen many a time, clothed in black, and lighted taper in her hand, walking up a cer- tain staircase, and disappee,ring through the beauitful archway known as sOnthe ni'sGgabtet. before the death et Frederick HI., father of the present ex - Kaiser, a mentry declated that he had seen the figure of an old woman& bowed with age, and carrying a broom in her hand; and his story would cer- tainly have been sooleed at as the creature of a disordered brain, had not a similar tigure been seen on for- mer occasions, notably on the death. of the Emperor 'William 1. This gra- e tesepie old lady, whose vioits.bode so, little good to the House of Hohenzoe lern; ie disreepectfully spoken of as "The Sweeper." id Of Calamity. Spectres In white or even in black are perhaps intelligible, but what are_ weto think of tho "Red Man," -gee is said to haunt the Tuileries, and to have been seen by no less famous per. sone than Cathariue de Medici and the •••• , eclat Napoleon, the latter of whom is said to have held a lobg convene- neee' tion with him on the eve -of hes fated Russian campaign. ' During the eight before the late Em- press of Austria Web Po treacherously teNeatielnated, a sentry on guard it the Castle of Schonbrun was • frightened "out Of his wits" by the epectecle el a' beautifulwoMa.n, robed it white. toed wearing a long, flowing white veil, walking along the corridor where he was 00 duty, Thrice he ehallengeOik the trespaseee, and had started in piesis -Milt of her, when, she vtinished oa suddende, and mysteriously as she ha appeared. This was by 72C) means' the Bret pearance of the "lady in white," for she was seen as long ago' as 1967, aest before, the tragic death of the ill-fated Archduke, who was made Einaperor of Mexico; -.again, in lee% on the very night whet Ruddif, heir to the Austrian throne, was to ;strange- ly done to death in the forest ot ,Meyorling; and Oh other et/memo when a member of the Iniporlel family bl4leot •oneldent, have been Jur AR- , pearances with disaster ett the pallor ingtouse'of AustrolItingery that hie vieits have always been drelded the Weide of calamity, -0-er Mildew en isathar tto btribbed off With etelatus„..-