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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1910-5-12, Page 2—.eta THE RAREST OF CRIMES SOME ST.1.11TLING STATEell'INTS ABOUT ARSON. ret, Oases of Ineeadiarism tire Many, and ere the Geese of Great Lose of Life end Property. , peeing how easy ib is to stink a 0 • lighted maeoh into a building, a k e or an out uuse, and e aw- ful ruin that may result, bhe won- der is that there are so few eeses of wilful ineendiarism, says Pear- eveee Weekly. A century ago or less, the crime, even in Ene,land, was e common one. So late as lea hundreds of Name and ricks were deliberately eet fire to in revenge for Leal or fancied wrongs. To -day the crime ia tio rare that not one in a thou sand fires is the result of incendiar- ism, There is another odd point about the crime which the law calls arson. For a long time there is not a single ease, and then suddenly come two or three or even half -a -dozen on end. Not long ago round Eversley, Hartford Bridge, and Bramshill, in Hampshire and Surrey, hundreds as the train stopped at a junction of acres of beautiful ommon were point for the railway from the sae -I c recluoed to ugly blackened wastes. red city of Benares, I was awaken -1 This was the result of incendiary .ed by a commotion outside and a fires started during the dry fares lot of shouting and screaming such night at the beginning of May. There were more than a score of firee started during this period over a comparatively small tract of country, and the damage done to game and secenery was terrible. PARISIAN POLICE PUZZLED. A few weeks presiously, Millwall antlered from a fire that raged fur these days, did damage amounting to $500,000, and took 900 firemen and forty engines to extinguish. This was also aused by arson. More lately there has been an epidemic of similar fires in Paris. The incendiary, who is probably a monomaniac, keeps on setting fire iejetlal'entt;z:',7,1;: METHODS OF CHEATING A PASSENGER IN CHAINS aorroonns Al/VENTURES Or A TRAVELe LER IN INDIA. Natives Show Their Affection for Their Wives by Loading Timm With Trieltets, "When you are travelling in In- dia, you are apt to have strange companions," said E. 0. Thurber, managing direetoe of • the British branch of one of the Americanoil eempanies. "I remember a night that I spent on the train going from the north of India down to buck - nue , which furnished the most un- eomfortable three or fear hours of my life. "First class epistles on the In- dian railways are divided into com- partments containing two sofas and two upper berths, which are let down at night. You furnish your own bedding. "When 1 got on the train 1 wes- t -he only foreigner on it, and I had a compartment to myself. So at' bedtime I turned in with a great' deal of satisfaction confident that I would not be disturbed. "About 9 o'clock in the morning' as you hear only in India. The so- litary lamp that lighted the com- partment had gone out and I WAS IN DARKNESS. "I was turning over with a growl at being awakened when 1 heard the door handle creak and a velem demanded in fairly good English whether I was the only ocupant of the compartment. I replied that I was, and then in the gloom a man climbed into the compartment., Then he reached out to assist some' object—what it was I could not make out—into the car: 'There was a sound like the rat -1 thug of chains. I thought at first the traveller was lifting up a big to 'waggons loaded with hay or doe. Whatever it was, it crept straw, as they pass through the along the other side of the ear, I • streets. jumped upon the sofa opposite, and. More than twenty have been thus remained perfectly quiet. destroyed, and, although the police "No words passed between the St have been on the alert for weeks, man and the object, and after ly- past, the scoundrel who commits' ing there a few minutes I began to get uncomfortable. Perhaps it was a young tiger, or a big monkey, orl perhaps it was some prisoner. Or' perhaps—here I remembered hav- I ing heard that a maniac woman had escaped somewhere in this very! neighborhood a few days before. I 'Just as 1 had reached this these crimes has sa far escaped ar- nee. Previous to these recent eases it is three years since we had a plague • of incendiarism in England. In the yea] 1900 Croydon became the scene of a series of inexplicable fires. The Corporation became so alarmed that a new fire station was point in my reflections the man, in, built, while police and fire -brigade whose hands I had noticed some -I alike were driven nearly distracted thing long and thin, like a rifle bar -I by theseenever-ending outbreaks. rel, got up. The end of the object. The elimax was reached when some huge timber -yards containing a vast amount of valuable timber Were utterly destroyed. At last in the autumn one of the incendiar- ies was arrested, and gave the whole thing away. • lie incriminated three others, and Glue, standing in the clock at Croydon Police -court, had the in- credible audacity to admit that they cuused all this terrible ruin "for fun." The old type of incendiaiy was the man wfleo set fire to his proper- te in order to cheat the insurance - oompa.ny. The George Cullmer gang who, in the course of thirteen years set fire to more than seven hundred houses and shops, causing loses amounting to nearly 85,000,- 00e. and defrauding the insurance companies out of huge slime. 18,000 HOMELESS. The worst damage ever dine by incendiaries was on April 26th, 1900, when a gang of rowdies set fire to Hull, the chief suburb of Ottawa. The flames, fanned by the wind, leaped the Ottawa River and invad- ed Ottawa itself, where they burned till late on the 27th. Eighteen thousand persons were rendered homeless, eight lives were lost, and the material damage was upwards of $15,000,000. There have been cases in which their cowardly crime has recoiled upon the head of the scoundrels themselves. Twenty-two years ago an alien bought a shop in the Strand, over -insured it, and then fired it. The ,flames spread with such awful rapidity that his two poor children, who were in bed in an upstairs room, were roasted to. death. KILLED BY DEAD BOERS. At :the battle of Pieter's Hill, shertly before the relief of Lady- smith, only three officers of the Royal Inniskilling ems] out un-, seethed. Colonel Thaekeray was shot down, but not killed, within eighty yards of the Beer teenches, • Nearly forty hours elapsed before the ambulance advanced to where the wounded lay. Seeing the col- onel's plighb and fearing he must die of thirst, two privates of the regiment web to his suecor, bear- ing him water. Both these hevoes, as they bent over their colonel were shot, and he himself., who mighe,efilierwise have survived, was euffocata beetath the weight of thole- dead bodies. swung very near my face as hei turned it around and put it in a! race near me, and I broke out in A COLD PERSPIRATION. As soon as he had taken his' seat I reached up cautiously and touched the 'object, and found to my relief that it was only one of those long staves which the people in India use in walking. "Then I tried to engage the man in conversation, but he answered in monosyllables. I was lying in my pajamas, and I became so un- easy that I drew on my trousers and got up. I asked the man whence he had come, and he replied that he had just reached the junc- tion on the train from Benares, which was an hour late. He was so short in his replies that by the time we reached the next station I had made up my mind to get out and complain to the station master. "So when we stopped, I alight- ed and found that functionary, who at my request turned his lantern into the carriage, but 1 -could not see the object on the further berth. 'Is it customary to allow prison- ers to travel in first carriages?I demanded. 'Sahib, I know the gentleman,' he replied, 'and he has no prison- er ' "I was not satisfied with the guard's reply and insisted upon leis turning the l.antern into the I:Im- palement again. At this the Hindu ineide, who had been dozing, arose and came out upon the platform. He exchanged some words in Hin- destani with the station master, and then he turned to me. " 'Sir, it is my wife that I have trevelling with me,' he said. ' "Well, I wondered what a man' was doing dragging his wife about with him by a chain, fax the rattling oeietinuoil at intervals, so I decided to remain up, and BEGAN TO SMOKE. "The traveller thawed after his explanation, and 1 found him a very intellectual man. He gave me much information about northern India. Saddenly he asked me whether I belonged to the craft and upon my replying that I did, he informed mo that he was master of his lodge, "As daylight approached I would met an inquiring look in the direc- tion of the other occupant of the compartment. Whet it got light I found to my surprise that the wo- man, whose face was heavily yeile ed. was swathed in a beatiefful silk robo. She wore sandals and as I glanced et them I elieeoveeed that "It is the eastern in ludia fur a MAO to show ittfeetiOn fui his wife by loading her with each trinkets, and that partly:Wax Ilindu display - ad more devotion in that way then any other I ever came across. •110 did not introduce her to me, nor did he Address a single word to her while they were in the tier: He had violated the road's rules by bring- ing his wife into the compartment, but knowing I was not a Hindu he 'thought I would net object. The folthwing day I learned that ho was the chute Governmeet auditor foe the railways of that district." PER SO ee Al. PARA GRAPHS. luteresling Gossip About , Some Prominent People, The German empress is, like her husband, an early riser, and she and the emperor breakfast at 8 o'clock, never later. The empress pours out the coffee and were she not there to do so the emperor would not think of starting the meal. To her habit of early vising much of .the kaiserin'e ill -health is. attributed in Germany, for sire needs far more rest than does her energetic husband. Still, she is the soul of punctuality—even at break - feet time—and so greatly does she value this muehsnegleeted virtue that when she gives a wedding pre- sent eo a friend it is almost always in the form of a traveling clock, King Edward has more thrones than any ether monarch in the wcrkl. He has three in his London palsees, one in the House of Lords, one at 'Westminster and a sixth is ae Windsor Captle. The most anci- ent is at Westminster, where each ruler of Great Britain is crowned. The eoronation thair is a massive throne of oak, in which seven Ed- wards have tat. Beneath the seat is a sandstone block known as the "Stone of Destiny," from Scone.. The throne in the House of Lords is of Burmese teak and is carved and gilded and studded with crys- tals. The throne in St eames's Palace is large, with a canopy over - lad with crimson velvet, embroi- dered with crowns set with pea,r1s. The most costly throne is at Wind- sor. It is composed entirely of carved ivory, inlaid with precious stc.nes, especially emeralds. it was presented to Queen Victoria by the Maharajah of Travancore. King illeamel—Europe's youngest ruler—is by no means secure upon his throne, Last year, it will be remembered, he had a 'miraculous escape when he saw his father and elder brother assassinated in an open. carriage.Ever since plots against his life have been rife. At an important dinner et the Royal palace only a few mouths back, the youthful monarcili had oecasion to show that courage which should be inherent in Royal blood. An officer of the Royal household abruptly rose and declared that he wished to warn his Majesty of impending, disaster. Spies and traitors were iit the palace, and a great plot was kaing hatched to bring about the blowufall of the King. Manoel II. 'Wined ghastly pale, but neither commented nor questioned, and the dinner proceeded. Vladimir Dolanski is a pianist who is creating a furore just now. Born in Btrobaxest, at the age of fourteen he lost the use of his eyes aro his right arm through an ex- plosion. He was sent to an insti- tute for the blind, and hearing of a certain Hungarian who had suc- ceeded in learning to play the piano with only one hand, he—two years later—commenced to study music, of which he was passionately fond, working regularly twelve to four- teen hours daily. His cottrage and determination were rewarded by his becoming—in the course of a, few years—an accomplished pian- ist, being able to play an immens% number of pieces with one hand. When be arrived back, a short time age, in Bucharest, the. Queen of Roumania took such an interest in the young, blind, one-hancled inusi- tia,n, that she invited him to play set Oral times before her, and grant- ed him from her private purse a pension equal to $15 a month. King Alfonso, whose chances of taking a, holiday this year with the Moroccan War on his hands seem slight indeed, is at heart a most kindly and charitably -disposed young man. Recently, while mot- oring at the foot of the Sierra do Guedarraina, he overtook a group ot men and women thoroughly dienehed with rain, and shivering with eold. Ab the King's command the car was stopped, and, in an- neal to his inquiries, the peitsante informed the monarch that they were tramping to Madrid in search of work. Touched by the recital the King and his party gave the 'poor people all their knem money, anti the womenfolk were promptly driven off in the Royal ear to the nearest villa,ge, where Alfonso per- sonally saw that, their wants were ministered to. oon the men ar- riseci, and who ' they, 'too,had beet] provided fo and acquainted with the identity f theft august benefector, the IC. drove off, tel- lini pilgrims apply at, the palace ontheir er val. in Madrid, where work would 8 Provided/ AIDS USED MY Ostel.ejLERS. Ippaious !Uplifting Mirror iH the Hotel of a Pipe—Varioes Holdouts. Gamete of ehence hew always had it fascination fur all classes of indi- vidual, at all ages, and the profes- sitnel sharp has made this weak - flees (which in some persons is de- veloped into a ruling passion) a means for earning an eitsy liveli- hood, at the expellee of the numer- ous flats who visit the racecourse or ether places where gambling is looked upon as a more or less logi- tenet° pastime. The ingenious me- chanical cleviees which have been employed Inc this purpose are real- ly astonishing. Such clumsy ap- pliances as loaded dice aye, of course, out of date, though one in- gemious sharp invented a table, the top of which was sheet ebeel under very thin cloth covering. By ethane of au electro -magnet con- ceal. d within the table, its top could be converted into a powerful magnet, and the dice (whit& were prepared by having one side of rae-• tal while the rest, were ivory) could be attracted to the table when the current was on or Wolfed fall in any haphazard position when the current was shut off. Dice, how- ever are generally suspected, and hardly anyone would venture to stake money upon the fall of the dice any more than he would upon three-card monte, says the Scienti- fic American. , - DEVICES WITH CARDS.' . Cards are the most fertile field Inc the gambler's revenue. Win- ning at oards depends largely upon the possession of certain high cards or the aces which win the tricks, aed to gain possession of these cattle is the gambler's object. For assuring this, varioue elevice,s have been employed called holdouts, me- chanical contrivances concealed fn the sleeve, 'which by a very slight pressure or movement in one direc- tion, will instantly shoot out the required card into the gambler's hand and recede again into the sleeve. One of the most ingenious and perfect; of these was invented by a gambler named Keplinger, and Lee device has ever since been known as the Keplinger holdout. The appiteatus was worked by the knees, so that no motion of the arms or body was necessary. A slight separation of the knees was all that was required to shoot the card into the gambler's hand. The knees were thereupon relaxed, and the holdout receded like a flash in- to the gambler's sleeve. Another variety of holdout is that concealed in the waistcoat, and here the band is held close to the bo 'y with the cards outspread while the thread is pulled, and in that manner a card shot into the hand under cover of the remaining cards. This, however, is a dangerous pro- cedure which is rarely employed. A small but ingenious species of hold- out is that known as the bag. Tho small, sharp point is stuck into the wo d of bhe under side of the table in such a manner that the flat bar runs along parallel to and just touching the wood of the table be- neath. One or more cards are now inserted into the clip thus formed, anei may be withdrawn by the fin- gers in the act of drawing cards on the tabl-e toward the body. VERY SIMPLE. A daring yet simple variety of holdout is attached to the sleeve. It is buckled around the Aire sleeve under the coat and ewo small point- ed hooks, facing outwerd, press against the coat sleeve. These hooks may be separated or brought near- er together by pressing upon a small rubber tube. If now a card be placed against the coat sleeve, en the oubside, and elle clips separ- ated and then released, they will clasp the edges of the card through the cloth of the coat and ib will be retained there by the pressure of the spring in tee holdout. So long its the arm be held ownward, the card is invisible, but the card may be obtained posseesion of by the fingers of the other hand when rest- ing against the sleeve of the arm to which the holdout is attached. A still simple]: device is to have a small pocket cut in the coal; sleeve at the seam. The pocket is merely a slit about three inches long, into which the required card is insert- ed. The fingers grasp the eard and withdraw it with the others at the required moment. Another veal ety of holdout. A eying is worn on one of the fingers, to the inside of which is attaehed, as pare of the ring, a small wire clip or spring, flesh colored. The card is inserted unclee this spring, and in that man- ner is retained within the palm of the hand by the pressure. Experts in sleight-of-hand would not require a clip of this 'eller/toter, being en- abled to palm the card without; any mechanical aid. Besides such devices as thew jug mentioned, the gambler depends fin his success partly upon his clex- illiiii1111111111111111. • terity in handling the canis durinng the actual PROOJ1ESS OF THE GAME. Of eoui•se, marked tetras are fre- quently employed for this ,purpose, but the experi gambler will 800- eeed in marking the curds with his thumb nail during the emerse of the play, ffo that, at the end of a few hands, he knows 'emetically every care in the pack from the slight in- dieatiuns upon its back' Sometimes also, cards are bent more or less slightly to insure their recognition —either individual eards or it num- ber of cards together. If half a pack is bent; in this manner, this is called the bridge. Each card in this section then has a slight curve. . A gambler may even deal to him- self or to any person forming the oirele a particular card witch knowu to him. This card is at the ' bottom of the pack, and the sharp' deals off the cards from the top of the pack continuously until be roaches the person into whose hand be desires to place the card next to him, when by a rapid movement, ho withdraws, not the top but the bottom, card With his fingers instoace of his thumb. This trick, when rap- idly and well executed, is precti- eally undeteutable. Card sharps also employ other deyices for gaining knowledge of the cards. In order to gain this knowledge'e small mirror is em- pleyeel. ,Sometimes the mirror is attached to a needle point, and fixed to the under side of the table nearest the dealer, le, now; in dealing, each card 'be passed over the mirror in turn, the gambler wili be enabled to tell the position of each card dealt, and to follow the cards before a single play can be made. A. mirror of this charac- ter is • A DANGEROUS DEVICE. aud is easily detected. For this reason, very ingenious schemes have been employed. A small mir- rel. is inserted .into the bowl of a pipe laid carelessly on the table, the bowl being turned slightly up- ward and toward the dealer. Now, in dealing the cards, they are pass- eci each in turn over the bowl of the pipe, and in this mannee•the magnifying glass it contains con- veye to the sharp all the required knowledge as to the cards contained in each sitter's hand. Occasional- ly sharps ,employ a mirror ring for this purpose; a large signet ring being used which, during the course of play, is swung around so that the signet faces the Palm instead of the bark ef the hand. The signet, then swings open on the pivot hinge and discloses a tiny magnifying mirror beneath: By the aid if this' mirror bhe majority of cards can be detected as dealt. At least aces and court cards ca,n be distinguished from cards of lower values, which, is tho chief thing to be discover- ed. There are a number of other in- gerious devices, 'but the above will at least give the reader an idea of the extent to which this practiee has been carried, of the remarkable ingenuity displayed by manufactur- ers of such devices, and of the dex- terity and daring of the gamblers themselves in employing them. EMPIRE STOCK TARING. Products, Trade and Population of British Empire. A recently issued blue book gives scmo interesting figure's of the area, populatiou and trade of the Brit ish Empire. The extent of the leritish cloatinioe is how about 11,- 50.1,000 square miles, and the po- pulation may be closely estimated at 420,000,000. The empire produces annually, on an average 540,000,- 000 bushels of wheat, and 470,000,- 000 bushels of oats, coal valued at $650,000,006,, and gold at $265,000,- 000 The tonnage of the British com- mercial marine (sail and steam), is 13,263,354. Twenty million pounds of better, 1,818,000 lbs, of tea, and 7,458,000 lbsof tobacco are imported into the various countries composing the empire. The total trade of the United Kingdom 'is over V7,500,- 000,000, and only 25 per eentof this trade is with the other portions of the •empire. NEW FORM Ole PUNISHMENT. This from a Shanghai newspapot• : "A now form of punishment, was recently witnessed in Chenchow, when a cruel mother-in-law who had driven her slaughter -in-law to com- mit suicide was placarded and com- pelled to carry the dead daughter through the streets, with a man going on befon to call the populace to see the body. It was certainly a hideous sight, bet a doubtful form of punishment. , • REVIVE MOONSHINING. As a eesule, it is said, of the in- creased spine duties under the Blitish budget, the polite hero no- ticed in remote districts of Ire- land indieations of a revival of il- licit distillation of liquor, There has also been a considerable in- orease, ib 18 reporeed, in the con- atunption of spirits of ether as 8, beverage sine° the peke of whiskey vas raised. tineMannariNISSOIRIWAINNOOXOnn5Ventelin Cawthra Whitlock ete Coo OWN AND OFFER FOR SALE AT PAR, $100 PER SHARE. $2,000,000 of the 7% Cumulative Preferred Stock, with a bonus of 25% Common Stock of 1' , APLE LEA MILLINGCO, LIMITED (Incorporated under the sws of the Province of Ontario) Head Office Toronto, Canada. • Capital Stock, Is ed and Fully Paid Up. Preferred (7% Cunculative) - $2,500,000 Common - - 2,500,000 $5,000,000 THE COMPANY HAS NOjBONDS ISSUED OR AUTHORIZED, GUARDIAN TRU T COMPANY' Limited Is prepared to receive snnbscrlptljns for $2,000.000 of the above seven per cent. cumulative preferred stock nt 11,1 price of $100 for each share, with the bonito of common stock equal ha par value o 25 per cent. of the par value of the preferred stock allotted, to be delivered on ayment of subscription In full. The dividends on the prefer d stock accrue from April 5th, 1010.. Subscriptions will be psyaIn as follows :- 10 per cent. on appllcatio and In Installments as follows, in which • 00 per cent. on dIiottmeal ease Interest at the rate of 0 per cent, will be charged 100 per mit. or 3.0 per cent. on Appilealleu. 15 per cent, on allottnent. 25 per cent. on lst June, 1010. 25 per cent. on lst Slily, 1010, and 25 per eeut. en let August,..3.910. . The right ts reserved to ally may be approved and to Ma ,Application will be made for Toronto Stock Bxehange. The subscription list was Ltd.Toronto, on Monday, Monday, the Oth day of Ma 100 per cent. nly suck subscripttons and for such amounts as the subscription book nitholit notice. e listing of the securities of the Company on the ed at the office of the Gliardlan Trust Company. pril 2518, 1010, and will be closed on or before 1010, at 3 p.m. Ba ers of Company: Imperial Bank o Canada and Bank of Montreal. ard of Directors: D. C. CAMERON, Winuipe President. TORN T. A. GLINT, London. pParnesyidennitinRiteadt .Portage ber Com_ President Goderich Elevator & Tran. CWTITRA M1ILOCIC, T nto, vice- ellelleees°LeuiPewIlittiueYdet.'el\velinierierel,Peer'eseledene:te. Eunt President. HEDLD4EY, Limited:11'r' Vice -President and 1.11 ging Direc- tor The Maple Leaf Pur Mills Co., Toron Managing Secretary The Maple Leaf Flour Man •LViicnieirearce rector Confederationldent National Iron Works maniacs W. BAND, Toronto. TORN CARRICR, Toronto.• ' Company, Limited. Vice -President Tames Carruthers Com - Director imperial Bank Citonitla, Di - Lit s dation. pauy, Limited, Grain Exporters. ., /Sec ity and Earning Power The assets of the.Old 0 wattles taken over no above stand In excess of all lia- bilities and vrith 1 an allowance for good -will, trade marks, etc., at 03,170.- .A.m.:01 cat snket pop,r...a, I 524.11, this amen; bein ascertained on the lauds 01 00 appraisal by the Canadian aulndC,,eraeneyriitiLelungte.l.maes.orfs,MparrFit,11v7t1.14r19h100...ofatheeomeappuintyal, an of Tchruttry th, 1 0, as to current assets and currant liabilities, with a liberal allowane for 1 contingencies. There Itas also been solaced in_ the Treasury $1,000,0 of a Menai cash, which. besides permitting: of the completion Port Colborne, d or tteen additlenal elevators in the {Vest, will provide fins new Company ih father working eapltal. of a 0.000 herr mill nd a milllou bushel elevator and storage warehouse at As per certille of r essrs. Price, Waterhouse St Co., of London, the earnings 1 the old Company on the present plant amounted from Se Inbe 2.0th. 1908, to Augunt 20th, 1500, to 8218,843.88 And from Au t 21i , 1900. to Tel/rears, 28th, 1910, to stock of the •• Pros ec es 41 forms of application may be obtained at any breech of 5100,183.20 being for the or r rind at a rate equal to over 13 per pent, on the preferred the Traper al auk of Canada or inc Royal Dank of Canada, from Guardlan Trust Comp , LH:fitted, Toronto, and from CaWthrn Mulock & Company, Toronto. Appilc prospectus a ns for shares should be made upon the form aceompanying the should be sent together with the reatittance due on al1Plicktion to Any B nch of The Imperial Bank of Canada, r The Royal Bank of Canada, ardian Trust Co., Limited, Toronto, o to Cawthra Mulock & Company, Members Toronto Stock Exchange, Royal nk Building - .0110=3.1 Toronto, Ont. WHEN le Ca udidate Officer It is se finds it n ssary to rebuke one of ht., own ejects, but such an o0 - melon bes place it week or so hack. .eondon election candi- date, in the royal emblem private i a numbe,f election cards on which tee roya, andard was lavishly dia- 1 played, •reby giving the impres- Bien tha is candidature was sup- -ported his Majesty. * ALT Y REPRIKA.NDS sed Royal. Standard itradieted the King. ens that King Edward idful of the fact that .anclard is the personal the King, and its use by vkluals is illegal, issued The Is.'s attention was, how- ever, den to this infringement, and an edal document despatched from Seringham had the effect of cause the cards to be immedi- ately weirawn from publication. No eels loss ready to take of- fence tej the King, or more ready iri par cl one when Inc offence is uninteenal, but his lefajesty tiover emits a liberty to be taken with hi and if the people do so, thc-y m±t stiffer the conseemuces ehieheir °Reece entails. attetincur royal ., displeasure.t circles it is a serious m The it or woman who does , so inteneally ce,ases to be recogniz- ed bye Majesty, which means so- eiel Olden, The 'offender's nence struck out of the visiting list, eeeey person Who is anybody in ecey, and should the offender be aim, he is politely informed thee resi eation from his eltib or oj won d not be out of place, Nan o woman of eoefel re- mit tll in .uture•kncie him, and if ht in th army at nosy ho has no �i be to resign, for he will tied nsell ub dead by every ene of his brother officers. Id fact, a few years back a retir- ed naval officer, who wan alititertee•—e, otts bully, flatly contradicted a statement made by King Edsvard, then Prince ,of Wdles. The King passed over the officer's' rudeness at the tine, but somadays later an equerry presented himself at the officer's residence and politely in- formed him that, his Royal High - nue was not desirous el lies ace qramtance in the feture. From that moment the officer was cut by everybody in society, and although he tried. to brazen 1,he matter out, he eventually left Eng- land altogether and 1001(011 his re- sideeee abroad. There he sank lower and lower in the,soeial scale, mitil not long ago the noses of his death in a New York Street, brawl. came 'as. a fitting ending to his no- torious careee, • • ALL OVER. ''Na 1110rO will 1 hear Mb foot- steps exi yonder walk, just as the clock strikee.the hour of eight." "G racious, • Sean ette," "And the ale parlor light will never bum low for him agetin." "You don't mean it?" "I do; and furthermoec, he will never sit on this sofa, three Bights a week, and call me pee names, as he has been doing for the Bast tsv,, years." eatortished," "And to-rtighe I am going tes bunt all the old love -letters in my chert of drawees." "13—bet why? Are you going to discard him ?" "Diseard 1 No. you goo8•4 am going to marry Inuit" '