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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1906-1-18, Page 6r - .0.0.0,0,001N, YOUNG FOLKS ooGQ000 1 THE GARDEN OF LIVE FLOWERS. Ono day Max and Maisie were scram- bling about on the races at the foot if the cliff en which perched their summer hurtle, I daresay nobody had ever be- fore been on that shore of the Island, for it was a bad landing place, and no boat could ever have come In from the Sea on account of the big waves that dashed up on the sharp rocks; and no- body would thwe thought of scramblin down the steep cliff and over those reel onless, like Columbus, he was an ad- venturous explorer, looking Lo see what he might find. And that is Jit what Max and Maisie were. They were ex- plorers, and they had their eyes very wide open indeed to see what might, Le in this new place which they had never before visited. They hopped over tile little rocks aryl climbed over the big noes, and crawled under some and slid down others, which were very slippery, for the tide had just gone out. Here and there the rocks were full of little pools which the sun had not dried. 'there were shells and seaweed and star -fish in these mile. But the children did not stop to gather them, for they had seen others like them many times before. So they scrambled on towards a big, big rock that stood ,m right across the way between the cliff and the foamy water. "We can't go any farther," cried Maisie. "0, we must go farther," cried Max. "Perhaps there is some big discovery lust beyond. Why, ' Maisie, suppose Columbus had slopped the flrst Ume ne was discouraged. he wouldn't have di - covered America. And then where should we be now?" Maisie could not answer that gees_ lion. So they decided to go on. Max helped Maisie and Maisie helped Max, and they scrambled and climbed and puffed and panted, and bumped their knees on the rock, which was the hard- est one they had ever climbed. But at last they came Lo the top. and beyond, down below, was a flat rock which the tide had just washed clean as a sandy floor. "Poohr said Mnx"1 don't think that is very much to find. 1 hoped • there would be a cave," "Let's go down," said Maiele. "I think it looks nice. See there Is a shelf over the edge. Perhaps there is a cave or something under this big rock. 0 Max, suppose there 1st' So they began to slide and scramble again, and it is a great deal easier to slide down than up, as you know. To a very few moments Max 'muted on al fours upon the MU platform. and in an- other meet° Maisie had bumped down beside him. Then Maisie cried, "0, 01" Now, perhaps you think she said this because she had bumped her little nnse on the rock and had plunged her foot into ice-cold water. But that was not the reason. Maisie never cried, even when she bumped herself hard, even when she fell into the water all over. For she was a brave little girl. No; Maisie cried "01" because she heti made a Discovery. There was something under the shelf of rock down which they had slid. There was a pool of ice-cold water, and it was into this that she had plunged her leg. But that was not all. The pool ran under the rock and became a cave, a deep beautiful cave, all purply. pink, with the roof tall enough for a child to stand upright, and a big rock in the middle to sit on, dry and comfort- able. Max cried "01" too, as soon as be looked around, and In a minute the two children had scrambled into the cave and were sitting on the big rock, star- ing with all their eyes at the wonderful place. Myl But 1 wish you cored have seen how beautiful it was. It was a living Bower -garden. Tho walls were moist and dripping, where the tide had washed them elem. For at high tide this cave AIMS all full of water, and no one could go in there. If the children had come at a different time of day they might not have found the cave, and they would never have known that it was there. On the roof and sides of the cave grew all sorts of sea creatures—lichens and seaweeds and shells. The whole cave was painted a brilliant purple -pink, bright as Malide3 lips, and this looked very lovely through the green water. It was, I suppose, the painting of some little animal like a coral creature. In the next place, up from the pink- ness on the bottom of Um cave grew tiny plants of seaweed, green and brown (Id yellowish, branching out like little erees and bushes, and waving in the water just as trees wave in the wind. There wore sponges, too, growing on the rocks, barnacles and periwinkles, with their shells upon their backs. Among the seaweed lived pink and purple end yellow starfish, and big red crabs hud- dled together in bunches under cracks if the rocks. Here and there a funny little hermit Crab scuttled about in Itis sly way, keep- ing tight hold of the shell house which he had stolen for Ws home, and acting as though he was afraid that some ono would arrest him for robberSr. Swim- ming around among the leaves of the seaweed trees Maisie spied a Wile con- ger•oel, waving his two flns as though they were wings—this queer ocean bird But what made Max and Melees pry, "0, 0, 01" was the living flowers. Living flowers 1 Yon have read m fairy -books about flowers that came alive, but this is no fairy -story, and the !lowers were real, truly live flow- ers, flowers, that were lumpy and hun- gry, thal ale and drank and moved, opening and closing whenever they chose. Some of the flowers were brown—little brown sacks With a daisy Power grow- ing out of tho end, waving its petals to and fro to catch lts dinner of tiny live things that dwell in the sea water. Some of the flowers were green, some were yellowish -pink, some pule greenish - blue, There wore flowers as blg as mem, and others tvith babies no bigger then pin-heaes. There was just One growing on the roof of the cave that was like a ,littla ripe, red strawberry, and it looked good enough to call The greeny-bthe flower stars had no stems, but grew flat on the rooks, and, they, looked like, daisies With White centres. One was grewing in a Milo era& close beat& elaisle'S hand, and when she put hoe little finger down carefully into the white centre, which was the flower's mouth, it closed its petals tightly, for It thought that 11 had found something nice for dinner. 11 was u funny, bekly, prickly feeling, and Niaisle did net like it. So she drew away her finger, but very gently, so as not to hurt the see flower, Then Max put his armee into the Mouth of ono of the big fat pinky flow- ers, and the feelers did not move. He tickled the flower gently, and it Reined to like this reeling, which 1 daresny was 118 new to the flower es the flower was to Max. Foe the children had never be- fore seen a garden of live 110Wers, Mir a long time the children sat and watched the wonderful things going on in the cave, and they never noticed that g a storm was gathering out to sea. By is and by they saw that the CLOWNS were closing up, one by one. "Why, what me, the newere go to sleep?" cried Maisie. "It Is not night yet, and garden tlowers do not go to sleep until dark." "It is growing dark," sold Max. "There is a cloud coming over the sun." Sure enough. A heavy cloud rolled over the sun, and all the flowers closed their eyes tight, Then Max and Maisie looked around out of the cave, and my! but they were surprised. A heavy mist was corning in from the sea and it was going to rain very soon. They had been so interested in the flower gurden that they had not noticed. "Oh, it's going to rain!" cried Maisie. "Let's run home." • SOME NARROW ESCAPES DANGEROUS POSITION OF A MOUN- TAIN CLIMBEIL Man Imprisoned on Top of Cbininey— Boy Fastened in Wheel of Moving Vehicle. Surely one of the most terrible exper- fences which ever befell man, says Pearson's Weekly, is that, which befell the Hon. Gerald IsitzOtrald while on Monte Rosa, in attempting to descend to Macugnagna. lie had left the Margher- Ile hut, and was tied between two Swiss guides named Miler, father and son. On tile way down they were passing along a clangesenus ledge, when file Fitz0eralil and the younger guide feel over. Tho rope held, how•over, and young Alner succeeded in dim:ling Wei - sell up over the face of the rock. Aller he had saved himself he returned to the Marglierite hut, whence he telephoned to Alagna for immediate assistance. It was impossible for Mr. FitzGerold to raise himself, as ho had broken his right leg. There ho remained for seven long hours, supported by a rope and suspended over a precipice at a height of 10,500 feet. Could a more horrible situation be imagined? There he had to remain all those weary hours hanging BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATII. It was the old guide who succeeded in supporting Mr. FitzGerald the whole of the time. Old Alner stood motionless for seven hours, with his leo propped against a boulder, the whole weight of Mr. FitzGerald being upon his body. Eventually, when help arrived, poor old Alner appeared utterly exhausted by the vest strain being put upon him. Eight guides and two physicians conveyed err. FitzGerald to Alagna. It is needless to say that all the inhabitants warmly cheered old Alner as he came down the moun ain. A tourist named eiregorex has been on the edge of a precipice a much longer Ume than this, but still he was not sus- pended in midair. Mr. Cregorex was found on a narrow ledge of rock on the Emir, where he had been six duys. Of course, he had been the whole of the limn there without food or drink, and if he had moved he would have fallen down the side of a precipice 000 feet deep. It is surprising how long life may be maintained in the 1011181 of cold. For instance, in Weshnnreland a sheep has been discovered which was buried on Dent Fell for twenty-two days. It wos got from the crevasse and thawed out, when it was able to walk a mile and a hall home. There has been lilt recently a great factory chimney 10connection well Lowfleld 01111, Beffield, near Ithelidale. Ono day three workmen, named Wanes Dempsey, enseph Evans and Samuel Bardsley, were engaged in winding up some of the material for the top when it became entangled In the scaffolding and would move neither up nor down. Thus it sees that the men were effectual- ly imprisoned in their aerial position et THE TOP OF THE CHIMNEY. 13venturilly the Rochdale steeplejack, Ioseph Smith, was summoned to the scene and he devised a method of escape. Acting upon his advIce, one of the men tore his shir1 into strings and lied the pieces together to forte a rope. One end of this shirt rope was let down and tog, was tied a good stout rope, which was hauled up to the top of the chimney and made secure. After fills a saddle was fastened to the end of the rope and it was hoisted up, and eventually the men were lowered safely to the ground after four hours imprisonment. The other day an errand boy, with a medicine box on his arm, jumped on (he back axle of a cab at Teignmoulle Tho result was that the wheel of the convey- ance (hogged his box into the spokes and the boy after it. The boy's heed was On the outside 01 1110 wheel and his legs inside, and in this position lin was dragged a (Defame of 400 yards, At every (urn of the wheel he revolved, reel yet at the end of his remediable rile 10 was not hurt. Some little time ego the Neighley po- lice Were attreeted to 0 pawnbroker's shop in Park street by the shouts of a man. There they, found that the man had the upper part of bis body pretend., Ing through Me glass panel of 0 titter. When the oftleime coked the men what lie wos doing lin replied that he Wee wedged in and ceuld not get out. Then the nonstribles tugged met pufl. (.d and jerked end pushed 01 111 human 01110105 ragtime,' in the cloor, Gut it was firmly wedged. It wee noceesery 11) break in 1110 (lone before they could roe- sible, relerree the 111011. When 11 1111'. 011111 got inside the 1101180 10 break the door he fennel a considerable Maim er articles of wearlini apparel alreadg peeked READINESS FOR DENIOVAL, This is surely One 01 the most congeal captures of a burglar ever known. Wiwi upon trial ho appealed to bo sent 1 Armley Jail instead of having to lie or the bare bowels at Keighley pence sea tion, 'be told the magistrute, amid a con eiderable amount of laughter., plat for long tune he would not like to sit an sleep on baro planks. Lance Sergeant ethephy, 01 1110 Sing apnre water police, has had a remark able adventure. It was set him In ares two notorious gamblers who had Wee refuge on a barge moored off the Doti quay. Immediately the men sightet lain they dived under the water, Sergi Murphy, thowvr, was not baffled, for he dived in after them and 10011(1 the two criminals in the slimy mud at tie bottom of the harbor. There lie seized hold of them and brought them to the surface, lie swam slraightawny to the adjoining steps with his eanlives, ani took them oil to the police Mallon. A blind boy, who wus left In charge of a baker's horse and van near the Clifton Suspension 13rIdge at 13risiol, had a must marvellous escape from 0 cruel death. Tho horse walked Weight over the cliffs end fell to the 1)011010, a dis- tance of 100 the!. The boy himself tumbled into a tree, whence be was afterwards exh.leated unhurt, while et the fool of the cliff the cart was found smashed to atoms. The miramilime es- cape does not end here, es it was found that the pony was uninjured. The stout old ehip Fannie Neer has had a miraculous escape. She tuns oboe - cloned an fire in the Nettle Ocean 01 May of last year while on a voiyage from Newcastle, Nov South Wales, 10 San Francisco. A short lime ago this ship drifted ashore at South Cape, For - maga. She must have been a derelict vessel for over twelve months, and dur- ing the time she was abandoned it is calculated that she drifted nearly 4,000 miles. This is not bad for a ship that had been abandoned as 'unseaworthy. A REMARKABLE ESCAPE. 115(01, and riled leaving behind him o twenty-tive dollars. 1 MISERY AMONG MILLIONS. - Anulher miser mIllioneire lived with 1118 family in extreme poverty. 11) un - o derwent terrible- hardships, even el - lowing his wife to go out clewing, and 0110 0( 1)15 children to die of starvation. ' When ho himself died his wife, old be- ; e re her time, worn and grey, with S wrinkled hands and weary Mee, found himself the possessor of over $5,000,00e, On the dily of the inillionnirees death '111,. Milo Meld, a girl uI eight, had 1 • (sheen to her re‘e from death is that of a girl who. was ad- mitted to the St. Bartholomew's Hospi- tal In Rochester. This female patient was the daughter of a local pollee officer, and by some accident she had a needle thrust right into her heart. A remark- able operation was preformed at Um hospital as the resull of which, after a considerable amount of suffering on the girl's part, the needle was successfully removed from the heart. At the thirty-first congress of the Ger- man Chirurgical Association, held at Berlin, a very remarkable patient was introduced to the congress. This was a young man who, attempting suicide, shot lithiself with a small callibre gun. The bullet bad penetrated Ws heart, but the wound had healed up very rapidly. The ilontgen rays were turned upon the man's heart and the bullet was dis- covered in the right ventricle, bounclug about with each beat. The man was for all tiro world as though his heart were a rattle. After some nine the bul- let gradually became encased and now it MAIMS rhythmically with the heart without causing the slightest inconven- ience to the patient. Equally remarkable. wee the temporary escape from death of 01 domestic servant nained Ellen Niesby. Some years ego she was aceidenUy shot near North- ampton and the bullet lodged in new head but could not be located. Recently, the girl said she thought the bullet had moved itsposition; later in the clay she died. An inquest. was held at Wooden, and it was proved that death was caused through inflammation of the brain, the bullet having been in the young woman's brain the whole 01 1110 lime. An almost miraculous escape from death was MU of two Mlle children m a bungalow in Bengal. A tiger rushed out of the jungle and broke in after the children. As he rushed at them be came across a looking glass, and there he saw what he took to be another tiger rushing at him. Furiously he at- tacked his reflection, smashing the glass into ten thousand pieces. The noise and excitement so frightened him thet lie fled into the jungle, leaving the chil- dren unhurt. MILLIONAIRES' FREAKS INGENIOUS WAYS OF SPENDING MILLIONS. One Wore Diamonds as Large as Good - Sized Raspberries for Vest Bretons. The lain Mr. Tweed, of New York, ehen in the zenith of his pewee as "Ross of New York," was standing one (ley in a gentleman's ofllee. There wore three other gentlemen preseat. A large diamond stud dropped upon the floor and rolled to the feet of Um gen- tleman who nettles the incident. lie pleiced it. up—it was a diamond nearly es big as a good-sized raspberry—and (awed it to the Moyer. Said the Mayor, "It Is not mine." "Nor mine," said rine after the other of the gentlemen. "Stop 11 minute, though," said Mr. Tweed, suddenly fumbling with his clothes. "Al), yes' I believe it must ho one of the buttons off nisi under -vest!" T110 e0n10 Mr. Tweed had golden knives end forks for everyday use, jewelled furniture, and a gateway cf soli•I‘ gold opening into a conservatory. iloaSES 5110D NVTII GOLD. This reminds ono of another million. etre who had gold fittings to his stables and shod his horses with the same preolous metal. And of another whose daughter pessessed a bicycle with hie- quolees and brilliants. A terrible wrinion waste steer (reeks ere to peer folks, yet seems better that 110111d Spend 111011' meney leovevee foolishly, rather than hoard tip as sortie hay) clone, for the benefit, of a Few. One million/lire in Now York owned a etrip of land in the middle of the city wIlich was just, seven feel wide, When Oro adjoining plot was wen upen, 511 offer of $10,000 erns mode le him fes the useless sh•lp. The offer 000 ilelignetely refused, and the mile limouire proceeded to hired a Mute on it for irk own exemption, Aral be dii not even avail himself of the run sev- ,e) reo, or width. The "armlet room wee six feet wide and ten feet tong Another millionaire who mode 11 mistalie of hoarding his money, he no only son whom ire determined bring up rigoronely In lho belief th, ellen he inherited his fortune he wore know hosv le take core of 11. Ile we I:night to work . hard for little mone He had no indulgences, and for ell I line' he would not get a pe»ny at It father's death. When this took plae end lie found himself a milllionaire, 11 proceeded to genitor the luierdeil gal right and lef 1. ln five yenrs he sve penniless. 'Fn -lay you could ilnd WI 011 Yarmouth brath, half whe 1y hopeless, gelling scene sort of a Ity ing, somehow, amongst the rishorme there. Why is it that poverty often has curious attraction for rich men? 0-fgaegeegee-Xefre-fge+geeele-geegai Hemel I am here as the hl) onora Science," Well, go on!" Slur Gave him 11 hand again, "'Them is some appreciation al LAX 10"1`1811Uncli 1t1;:t. Mean that. Tell me th kind of milli 1 aro likely to merry. "1 am not mire 11--" Ohl your. honorable steence sten there, flonfl it'? Well, 1 don't thin Inuch of It." Por a moment HeyinotIr 008 1100 1)1088011. Ila etrokt it Ills long ben rd with thn habit be hail been acquirlep for the lose few hours. Then a bright. ideit occurred to Wm. Ite ex - ambled her hued attentively. "I think 'I can see Lim Main cher acterieithe o1 1.110 man you will intik your Inishand—I mean, the man yo will take--" "1 prefer what you first said. Pru ceed!" -The indie,ations are that you Wil ma spy 111111 wi tette 0. year or so— CONiete R01111111100 ge'4*(.44:4):Iieeee(4e:(4.0.44:(41:4)0.4-1elee The matter ended in Hilda Wynter to paying the three shillings and Six- pence that was demanded by the 01- 10 umlaut and enterreg the palmist s ji tone. to outside she had bad a long argil - 11 ment —with hereelf, Of cuurse, p111111' (1 Wry was silly, unspeakably silly s Mit then it was all for the good of e• tire baisaar. The whole thing winsiti es probably prove a fraud, and she Is would tomo out really knowing hers e• of herself than When sho wont 111 y1 0 the hospitals would benefit. What 151 pieuarssetlienvie-Laliul-six from a well -stored helped to isndow a cot? 111 A tail figure, clad in whet appear- : ed to be ti dressing -gown, but. was „ probably intended for an Eastern " robe, rose at her entry curd gravely bowed. a "Clood afternoon!" 110 said. leilda started. The voice seemed familiar. Mee eyes travelled above 8 his robe, above a long, white hertrd, s evidently false, and looked—unciar sbaggy eyebrows, equally false—into e the dark -brown oyes of Charlie Bey - mom.. 3` "Mr. Seymour I" she metal med, backing towards the aperture by ae which she had entered. • Seymour deftly slipped round •and • closed the curtain. a "There is rather a draught when s that is left open. You want to have your character read. Pray be seat- . oil)" ✓ came to consult Professor Did- dle." • "X am Professor Diddle21. Ear lips curled. "You? Since when?" "Since twelve o'clock this Morning. , At 10 p.m. the day after to -morrow. when the bazaar closes, I shall re- sume my old identity—plain Charlie Seymatir.. Meantime W On't yoU sit down?" "Not knew this affair was a fraud, but I had no idea it 1(11(3 so gross a fraud as this. To think of you quietly sitting here and taking in peeresses, duchesses, perhaps oven Royalty itself." "They've all been in, certainly. But aren't you a little unjust? I am here by the express invitation of tho committee of tho bazaar, for which 3 am, of course, giving rny services.' "Bet what clo you know about palmistry?" In an amateur way a good bit. It has been my hobby since I was a boy." 'You never told me." "I was afraid you would laugh at it, as you do at most so-called fads. It's not the kind of thing a mart who wants to stand well in a woman's eyes likes to pride himself epee." "Then you am ashamed?" "Not in the least! I behave there's something in it, or I shouldn't be here. You believe there's something in it too, or you wouldn't be here." "1 merely paid my money for the good of the cause." "1 bog pardon for wronging you. Several of the people who have been in helm to -day told me that, but you could see they wore simply eaten up with curiosity as to what I should tell them. Lady Montagu, for in- stance—whY, she literally put me in the witness -box. Now, shall We be- gin? Iffy tiro is valuable, you know." IllIcla sat down on the extreme edge of the chair. "lies dreadfully hot in here." -Tents always aro when the sun. strikes Upon them. I must kindly ask you to remove both of your gloves." "But ' haven't said yot that "Iou are unlike every other wo- man under the sun if you pay away three -and -six and receive nothing' in return." He 'drew forward a chair for himself and sat down facing her. "By the way, don't you admire the fee for consultation which I fixed upon? 'lair -a -crown would have been too plebian, whilst five shillings would have kept half the people out- side. May I help yen?" •"Phank you, but I an eapable of taking off my own gloves. Doesn't this strike you as rather an absurd situation, Nr. Seymour?" "Perhaps it, reminds you too forci- bly of the last time svo were in a similar one." "When was that?" 'elle night I proposed awl you re- fused me. Our positions on that memorable occasion wore certainly not so Very clissimilae from now." Silo bad hastily withdrawn her hand. / beg of you never to refer to that, This doesn't remind me , of that evening in the least. Please s stick to business I" "I am most anxious to, but yori took away your hand." lee seized 5 it again. "Ilold it straight out, please, palm upwards! Alit you bay1 some) woll-defined lines." "Kindle, he more explicit!" "I am taking in the general char- 1 head—long and unbroken." "What does that mocur?' "You have sound intellectual qual- HIPS. The, line of heart is not so we,1,31romatiairnkge?ce.;" "Well, in anyone else, lack of af- fection." "Ilub in me?" "Only that you do not choose c ways to wear your tweet tipon your s sleeve. That's the life-line—strongly 1 Marked. You ShoUld livo to a ripe old 1 age." "edot n glorious prospect for a sle- d gle woman.'' "Not too fast! You ace that lino %WIWI ng and 111 tort wining there. I hat means that another re will bo closely Belied with yours. , other words, yon win marry." cl "Yon bay() probably enid the Atone 8 Wog to eters( eligible young Indy p virone bane you bare 00t1111 ined to- 11 aV " it Ito dummied her hand huligneintly.be -"now can you accuse Inc of such a 11 MANIA le0 13 DISAPPEARING, One millionaire nf the present day 1 in the hatilt of diseppearing, o a poor man for months and even years al, a time. He has a house like a palac in Chicago. When lie is at home 11 lives like 11 fairy prince, surrounded 1.) the most extravagant luxuries. B12 when he goes for one of Ws mysterlou trips be takes nothing with WM but small and shabby bag and the Mottle be stands up in. Where he goes 110 on knows, and he does not tell. And has been icnown to make 5100 last e many months, 13u1 the frealis and whims of million mires are usually exhibited in the! 'muses, One man in Chicago lives in one that is an exact copy of Windsm Castle. Another lives in a emission that is a model of the Castle of China, 011(1 a Meet hos an •Elizabettian house furnished throughout with old oak blase, and tapestry. No modern luxury or nineteenth century invention is al- lowed inside his house. Even the Men - sits in the kitchen are Elizabethan. The millionaire lives plainly on roast beef and beer, and refuses to anew such things as entrees or modern dishes on his table. ado uses pewter plates, old silver, Iwo -pronged forks, enci born knives. What Mlle glass ho uses is old and thick. No tablecloths are allowee, and straw covers the floor, He sleeps on short, narrow old oak four-poster bedsteads, and washes Ws face iu a basin about the size of A MODERN SOUP PLATE. After they have built their 110USCS, millionaires seen" to turn their aeon - lion to their coffins and funerals. One eccentric gentleman stipulated in els will that an electric light shouM be kept constantly burning in his tomb, and another in hie coffin for twelve months after itis death. Another, apparently having a sort ef Chinon belief that he might wake up hungry, ordered that there should be placed with him in his tomb a bag et gold, a bottle of port and some sand- wiches. A third directed that his grave should be planted with twenty acorns, a pen - fissional gardener being retained to ate tend to them, and to protect and rear the tree. One of the most extraordinary MOS before the British Court, of Chane.ery was brought about through the eccentri- city of a millionaire. Who Ile was, where lie originally crime from, no one knew, but some ten oe twelve 3.ears be- fore his death he had appeared Isom don, managed somehow to get intro- duced to a 00110111 set of society, and ended by marrying a WWI, lady of means, Ito was poor at the lime, but his wife's money brought good fortune, Ills wealth increased by leaps and hounds, and in a very few years he found hiniself a millionaire. One morning he sat out to see Ids solicitor, who had offices near ihe law courts. Ile dismissed his coachman et the done, spying that Ito would prob- ably walk home, and passed into the office. MADE HIS WILL AND WENT AW'AY. "1 want," he said to his lawyer, "to Make a ((0511 Will, and I want you to make note of my nestles now and to bring the will for my signature to me tonight at my house." The lawyer made preparations. He took his pen in hand and glanced et 1118 client. He erns known to bo "add et times." but his oddity puzzled the soli- citor to -day, Ho looked and his eyes had in them something that haunted the num of law long alter ho had gone. - "1 waut," said the millionaire, "to lenve half my property in my son." "To your son!" The lawyer dropped his pen. The millionaire me childless. 'To my son. Ho was born In Liver- pool twonly-five years ago. Iffy (lest wife died soon afterwerds, and desert- ed 111111. I disappeared. My sister took charge of him, arid 1 have never seen or heard from tier since. But I have welched my boy, and to -day be has just finished serving three years' im- prisonment for fraud. Ile is out to -day and I—I have found that have a con- soionce after all. It has been my fault that he has fallen into bad ways. I should have looked after him. I go to see lum now. eon, Mr. --, brine me the will to my house to -night." Ile went out, leaving the lawyer con- eiderably esiontsbed. Ile passed nut into the street, ond the lawyer got the will ready, aud Met very night made his way to the Milllolialrft.8 1101180, But 1(10 millionaire had not returned. Re was [timid two clays litter floating in the river somewhere lielow Rammer- smith. 'rhea) were mortis of violence upon him, he had been robbed, and it WaS proved that 110 lind visited 1110-• reputable lave.rii On !Kt day fie hod seen tile lawyer. In that tavern Well: eeveral Men who had served sentences, and einonget Mem an evil -Dorking youth, the 8011. The Shock of the diseovery eventual. ly killed witp. Tho lowyor, holey - g son 1" nave innedeeed, or aselst. at Me murder of hie hither, raised fines obelere,•e \droll ho claimed the ban, 1.1111 11:0 romp, eves 1 town into ehineeey, end is 11101y 1,1 11111111 there. And 10 -ally the eon is d 10 of the elevivest. professionni hem ng letter writers known to the police, ed 01) end would only admit a lalen fourteen 19 inches wide. Hero the 111fi1l Wed, ear11) - vying ills own cotes, chopping his own l'e wood, meeting It own nameable e meals. He lived on less than e500 a /11 le SIMPLE LIFE FOR KING tir .1 its NOT TONI' 11:11:111.11N8111e.NGLAND WILL Too Mei) Wealth and Thne aro Da. veiled by Rich Men and Women Merely to Pleasure. According lo a committee conlposee of some of the most influential local ivereseniative8 of 1.110 people in the Lon, doe district of Saint. Pawnor, King O Mem will Imes to slop motoring, u horse i•acing, smoking arid other, things wheel ilia sovereign has hitherto le - r. utiged ha, writes a London coreespon• dere. If ho wishes to 10811 1110 1„ melon front going lo the douriallon e hew-wow/1, he will have le leaf! the 1• 70111Plievolii)(111; toit11(11() try 10 Iflthlco 01110(1 0i A 81rongly worded addresa line been prepared kir Ills by 1• 110 Reverend Hubert Handley, the well - e known ether of St. Pancras, and second- Ici.11011y13 stehinneplii.leenriliti.ent of the famous Pass- , The King war( asiceel use his in. 01i01100 "and personal 0511111p10"' to re- _ form the richer section of emeely; and the ffistress committee protested with • all Lire fervor. und depth of their pah,lot- 1 ism against the luxury, excessive love of pleasure, and thoedinate attention to slime of the rich," As tire resoluline 11115 not yak been P0050111011 to the King owing to some dissentient voices who objected to its cent wording, the Reverend Hubert Handley, the instigator of Dm aluVe- Inoue was interviewed by me 111 his home in London. "The niovernent vee inaugurated," said the Reverend Mr. Handley, "was not directed particulerly egainal the King, save as the leader 01 1110 weeny social class In Englend, eniong which class, I must admit, the 01 plea- sure Is glowing MORE Al3S011131NG. DAILY. We feel that the King would lend his countenance to oura etforis would have an immense end far-reaching 1a - (thence nn all these people, who toolay arc leading peregtly empty existence:1 tea ring about the country 111 motor I()ere with rin object env°. pleasure; de - emerging Ah 10)10 1111e18 of firm melee)- ! WWII districts in Scotland for no oilier rellemse 1-1•••11 keeping 111e111 es game preserves; ;getting, theah•es and amuse- ilia,epildls-lifice‘a:ling, in fact, an absolutely "(.01111.1 you give any instances 0.1 imrliculer persons who live this way?" 1 ask0d. "Without naming anyone in parliere Mr," replied Mr. landley, "I !mow that there are a mother of men In England ith annual incomes of, say 111500,000, out of which they /mend $350,000 on no- 11111710ed.e.,Ise bill pleasure as I have men - 'But whet should these people do— does not the spending ot their moral/ benefit the community at large' a'''1cle'lle* spending of vast sums In mere pleasure does not. benefit the commun- il,v at large, as has been shown by such economists as lohn Stuart Mill and others, If ono man empinys labor to U11 the soli end the other employe the same labor merely to dig a hole met fin it up, the labor 111 0110 ease is wast- ed; while 1110 01110r i is liendlinial. "What we elate) is," contimied Mr. Handley, "that people with 5(00,100 year Jerome should litre on 165,000 a year find that the rest. of their Lime and money should go In philanthropic and ealriolic work of some kind—serving en local governing hoards, or in CM RITA 131.1e INSTITUTIONS, and so forth. 'Ile life and labor of the 11011 num are demanded by his cormtry, and no man has 0 right to squander his time mid wealth as he pleases, lie has merely the right to spend as much as would keep him in imall•h, and em able him properly to disrliarge the duties ho owes to the nation. the rivet man with 5350,1100 spent on himself were to spend needy the whole of We money on hem:fitting, uplifUng and helping his fellow num, what a greet change it would bring about in the fate of our country? "With our whole nation suffering from terrible social disorders, end with aura institutions of learning crying for aid, is 11right for these people to go on living as if life were an empty dream " "But hnw is this wonderful change to be bronglit about?" 1 asked. "The man himself—the rich spend- thrift," replied the vice r, "must bit 001)- 110110cl. Ile must see the danger of Eng - hind is the danger of Mime great prosperous empires in their prime. These weall•hy men must be brought ter see the uselessnessseoLf lilhiseht.eeetrWlacend • ell1telfilismahnanndislisi' and, as the selling fence, decide to 'burn what he adored and adore what he burned."rhe rich must begin to lead simple lives—they must sacrifice themselves to save 1118 nalion"BhlCw0111t1 you expect rich men to give up eveeythIng—their clubs, horses --end all their' amusements?" was asked. "No set rules can be laid down," wos the ropily, "but only the principle must Le adniilled that, at the present_ day, the 01011 in the country are throwing them- selves morn and more into the VORTEX OF PLEASURE; :Mould Nay, eighteen menthe at th ou tsicte," "Then I must make hay whilst Ibi sun shinee." "Ifis temperament is pretty situila to your own. His will is strong, hi character determined. I foresee me monis whet. melt will want to go 10 their own way, but love will step It and avert a catastrophe. In the end you will geve in to Ilinl Without bo clone so." ing 111 the least aware that you have "You aro drawing a very "lima picture. Who ie this paragon? Is he rich or pour. "Rather poor!" "it won't run to a, rnotor-car?" "1 sheuld say not even a pony - trap." wed 11110. " "About thirty." "Tall?" "What is his age?" "Dark?" Hilda snatched away her hand. "Thank you so much, Professor 01(1(1101 t don't need to ask any more. Palmistry is a wonderful thing. I had promised. to give Cousin Phil his answer within twenty-four hours, and rye been dreadfully hesitant, but now that you've given me so exact a portrait of him I Must write on at once and accept him. There's no gooel struggling against ono's late," "le top " said Seymour, laying a detaining hand upon her. "Thanks, you've told me alb 1 came hero for." "lifida, you must hear rm" This behaviour is most unprofes- sional, Professor 'Diddle. Take 3.01.1r hand off or 1 8111111 scream," "Hang Professor Diddle! Por good- ness sake listen to Inc, Hilda! I be- gan right enough, bet for the last nem minutes I've been purposely talk- ing undiluted rot. Palmistry can no more fotetell the kind of a man a woman will mamy than it can fore- tell the end of the world, It was pule lumbUg of mine. She stopped in the act of drawing 00 her other glove. "1 shall demand my three -and -six back " sible object?" "Do! It's not that I care about. You Understand?" "No, I don't understand. What. pose "The object that I love you and want to make you my wife Hilda," "5 am beghining to see. But it isn't possible that you were trying Lo portray yourself.'/ "I was. It was a poor attempt." "It was. I should never have re- cognised you. And what coneeiti ‘33.is will is strong, his character de- tOl111111001 -, " "I intended to plead my cause again, and thought that a good way of leading 1113 10 it. But it's no good. 11 you prefer that precious cousin, I'd better pack up and go" Hilda stopped in the act of fasten- ing the last buttons of her glove. His eyes were downcast. She touch- ed hint lightly on the shoulder. "Mr. Seymour, I knew you were talking nonsense, and I thought that two might play at that game. There Is 110 CcooussisninPlpiiiii.;1'? Hilda, Is it posls,iebslr'A' nd if you take off that 11mTid dressing -gown and that atro- cious beard I'll 'tell you something else." Seymour threw the things aseclo, standing revealed in his shirt- sleeves. "There, Iliffia! Now?" "Well, now, I've been so fascinated by the portrait of yourself you drew that really think—eh, -chive% please, Ides me a little more quietly, what will the attendant thiuk?"— Pearson 's —6 -- LOZENGE CURE FOR DRUNKARDS. Church Army in England is Supplying Antidote. The Church Army of England is try - ng to !untie people sober by lozenge, Experiments have been on lee way Inc a month. end in that lime one hundred- velght 01 1110 DOW patent curcepreventiee weeds has been sold. The experiment ass sirecerded, and tesihnonials Earn mired drunkards are pouring in by cores.lhelicv. Wilson Carlile sketched me he life history of the sweetmeat the thee day. 'Three physicians have put heir heads together and made the lo- mtge. 1( 18 a successor to the Church Army nerve ionic, another and older nid o"fleeetneeeePerfilloCled me that when they bit like drinking alcohol a draught of Um tonlc saved them," said the chief 01 1110 Church Arley; "but one cannot always be chinking out of a bottle in the street; obre1111:zleionliges°;"to establish a lozenge hat te n. hi ocrr our. cl 0 polnt, out. that the charge el in the near figure but ho was espence for some filly -one leeenges eaves no margin 01 1)10111 for the inven- ors. The lozenges are white and odor- ess; their shape and general appearance o not betray the user. ACADEMY FOB BIRDS. A men in London recently ended on ecadomy of Musks" for birds. 'le larges 2s. Oil. 10 lend) it bird three nngs, There nee three rooms with a heliograph in enah, end the propt•lolor rings his pupils in cinch room in turn, usually hikes about throe weeks in ach 11111 Med.% and during Six Menthe a has lied only end telltale). acteristies. Ion have 0 good Rue of and they should be brought to a stand; call a halt and see where it Is leading them, IL mums ruin both for thorn- aanIc•ol ilti)eortiontn100141,'Cortnin del% men in England who are already leadieg Sinl"'Pltieerelivheit817:e' 11.mtlsenWa 'few," was Millie fed, "brit it must, be general, 11 the rich people would dilly imitate the late Lord Leigh, lord lieutenant of War. e.'"2'I0e'01(,s0I00Ill'aa. yeWar,111111ettiniralcnric(lei01110y 0g1001101)011): We whole life In good olhts He took on interest in ell educational and poor work, viefied the prisons, in- terested himself in the hominids, and, in fate ems the lire end snel of the country, 1 -lis thrluenee Is fell there tie dey, though he himself has passed away. t"ltlieseillllnrIce67tgtlietrprZteislivi w1:e res, wetted lake a vital interest in Ilse arialre of their fellow -men, lune mei) happier they Would be theineeieee. • -1- eee: . 1.