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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.
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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
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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,
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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,
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