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"One of Vie :most terrible frights I
ever bed in my life," were the Words
with which lewd Russell of etillowen,
the late Lord C'hief olustice, of Eng-
land, esed to introduce an exPeriense
of his younger cloys, Ile was un-
known Etna almost friendless in Lone
don, and had ono night gone to the
theatre, to forgot in the amusement
Of a condo Wimp how badly things
were faring with hint. '1 1 preoent
ond the future seemed alike dark to
hior but the play was amusing, and
same place, he told him that he
would givo hint, Alva shillings if he
would drive 'the Cattle for him to
Westminster Bridge, Where he would
find a man awaiting
Gill Wes delighted, and undertook
the job readily; and the stranger, a
m ost agreeetile person, rode off, hav-
ing given mtr
any insuctions 09
to not overdriving the beasts, and
so on. 'FOi• Nolan lioura 0111 drovo.
the cows in peace, but at Wands-
worth he Was, to his sierprise end
indigoation, pounced on by the po-
llee,' on a charge of hain
vg stolen
the boasts.
ROBBED AND TEEN CHAIWED,
lo such an unlookedefor altuation,
con lost his wits. Hie great anxi-
ety was that his friend should know
nothing of What had happeeed to
him, and Ito way of pret (noting that
occurred to him then by giving a
Salim name and concealing bin lion -
oblivious or 1ity by a sweet/ of vory maladroit
young. Russell boearne falsehoods. Ile was 0000101111 and
all hie trout les as he looked and
senitmeed, but before he had metered
laughed from his seat in the the gal -
long the true facts crone to light
lery. As lw and those about hint
through the capture of the netted
V7131'0 about to leave at the end of
the performance, a person close ty
discovered t hat he had been robbed
of his gold watch, raised an 11100111,
and the police were called in.
"PL.ANTED" ON Tall 131S1101'.
"The rothed person haa been sit-
ting close to me," said Russell, "and
Inv beatt stood still as it suddenly
ilasbcd across me that the thim, ho
terrible position.. '111(1 eanie vomit
terror lest ho should be caught with
may attend low/mg articles stolen
the stolen watch upon hint, might
put it Otto ..my pocket, 11 suspicion Aeon one. Reel Franz, a. Young Oar
-
lighted on ine, and the watch - were 0101.11, had hie pocket picked of a
there, what would become of me/ The packet of :papers- belonging to him.
thought' ffiled nte' with. such terror rhe ntoo, he hoard of the packet was
that D felt a cold perspiration break that it bed been discovered beside
the dead body of a woman who had
out on 03.0. Such a thing would
been murdered by:lorglars at Kings -
Mean absolute and lorlarleyabie ruin.
But the polled did not light o11 me, wood ltoetorY• Prow. Was driven to
and 1 paesed out as calmly as I
could. As soon as I had got a lit-
tle distence away, I carefully \trout
through all my pockets. The watch
was not there. I gave a sigh of re-
lief -as if I had eseapea from some
awful peral"
IN JERUSALEM OF TO -DAY
AS IT APPEARS TO AINT ENG-
TOVRIST,
Pe u Picture of Its Decay and
Squalor, Tts Shams and
Superstition,
direct to tho very centre of the
Christian exp cira t I on -the imp ulehre
alleged to 'MVO Seen that 01 000
Saviour, and now enclosed in it
church, The open quadrangie in
front is occupied by naive hucksters
and menclieants, and al, the entranee
guard of Turkiell solcliere-in as -
poet ae ruffianly as the dregs of
Whilechapel-st ioned for the 1111r -
0011e of preserving order erelong tho
"Oh, come, I'm a bit of liar rilY- quarrelsome Memitere of various
Christian seats. This is especiolly
self, but really I cannot stand your
outrageous statements," Was nlY 10- necessary at Laster, When the Ro-
dignan remonstrance with Iny Jere man and Creek Catholics fight with
usalem dragoman. Ds 00a8 not (me
whit more ruined than if 1 had
charged him with being an inveter-
ate punster, 1111(1 persisted in bland-
ly booking up his falsehoods with
the incessant asseveration, "It's all
quiP, true, mu1 beyond any possible
the bloodthirsienees of famished
wolves. The interior is even darker
than the cam religions light dear to
English ritualists; only after /otiose
taking peering can the forms of the
different objects which claim atten-
tion be made old, and there alweys
doubt." Perhaps this paint. wig net remains the sensate= ot semi-lffind
bo quite futile if I van put intending groping. The atmosphere is that of
visitors to the Doty 1.0.1111 011 OW 0111)1errammn vault -dust -laden,
chilly and choking. The columns and
arches, enlovoly in eonstruction, ere
but roughly outlined in coarse, feat-
ureless dilapidation. 9110 area is
broken up Into niches, shrines and
chapels, the largest of whieh are but
guard against anWholesome fables,
and yet ma convinve them to what
extent their personal 111 lily of
sites will protium+ a realization of
events recorded in the Bible, and how
far they will be compensated for the
thief. Ile had stolen the Polly ha trouble cind tedium of a, jouroey (root a few square feel. to area, and dis-
hed been riding, and various other Port Said to Jerusalem. writes 1. 01. malty glower with some flickering
artielts, and at the tlioe 0111 Fleury I1)1011;es in Illarkwinors. corpse -lights, which seem to con-
ch:owed to overtake him had 001110 1,00 Oxamph., Iny ship, fica-infeSted, vert, the Inner gloom lido outer 1101'k
1, tho ecinelesion that he s.hould dirt -begrimed, and squalid-trifilng ncss.
IN Cli 111SO"Fi FOOTSTEPS,
More disconcerting than aught else
:denote past our objecttto Mont, • al- is the jostlingpropinquity of the at-
tn., only 150 miles front 000 pOl't ef legod sites. laor example, my drago-
on um the penance of a preposterous btolated 810
1)
a nominal ChrieLlaii, points to
b as tho 11(0110 whom-
embarication, Port Said, and :toilets
ciecular route via Beyrout, 140 miles, on the body of our Saviour was'plac-
farther on. We loll at anchor in thc ed when Nieto-looms was preparthg it
bay, pacing the (lecke hour after hour for the tomb. Fifteen paces distant,
with the suppressed growling of proceeding in a straight line, is a
caged animals, and waiting for, a small circular railing which indicates
quarantine inspection, which at 14.8t t110 exact square yard whence the
sight appears inexplicably purpose- women witnessed tho anotating; tide-
less. A greasy, solemn, fat Turkish t
Paces further on is a little ante -
apothecary crawls from 111s retten- chamber marking the spot ia iho
garden where Christ made tlimself
known to Mary Ilagelalene-"Maryl"
"My Lord and my God!" -two small
cfreles indicate the ground, to an
inch, where it is claimed the speakers
stood, Four steps upward, and I
enter a chapel, where, according, to
legend, our Saviour appeared to His
mother after the resurrection. Be-
hind its altar is a grated niche en-
closing a fragment of the column to
which Jesus was bound when Scotirg-
ed. Pilgrims rub it with a titan
thrust tbrough the bars, and then
kiss the poiat of contact with ecsta-
tic: devotion, ln another enclosure,
thiety-two paces distant, are two
orifices in the masonry and two
small clepeessions in the pavement,
fabled to be the stocks and the
footprints of Christ, here imprisoned
afterwards to make some purehases, the rmitee Ottoman F.Tpore dem:tads during the preparations for crucifix -
a slotting from ettli. European trav- ion. Another thirty-six paces and wo
the lady felt in lure dress for a. pock -
eller. Full of British cussedness ana roach a chapel, the fanciful silo of a
et -1100, in width sho had placed a
loantnote. it was gone. The police
never be able 10 get the cones safely inconveniences at who'll the sons It ft
aw ay. Ile therefore hand:d. them to traveller laughs at the 1010 and
0111. 80'0008 $111,80(11101113y (10111030a( Oly
Hat Ing' stolen things foisted on
ono may place a man or tvoman in a
WHOSE THE "FIND?"
A week or two back a lady ap-
peared in. the courts to claim the
contents of a purse of which- she be-
came the possessor in the most re- geranium leaf. It is, however, as -
markable manner, and under circura- megket one day, stooped down to Walled that WO 0.1%1 11001 disinfected.
stances which aught have proved lootc at 80100 vegetables exposed for 'fp-Rh:ISM QUARANTINE.
nmst embarrassing. With a little sale In a basIcet. While she was,
girl, she was. enteeing an onntibils in looeing at them she felt someone One by one we march past 0111'
the West End of LP 101011, when touch hor, and, standing up cirri lows -bird inspector in review order,
passenger who had just alighted dis- looking round, she saw a young fel_ and are proneunced clean. Now 011 -
covered that she had lost her purse. low beside. 1100, who at onee walked pears the true reaeon for the 0110110'I"
911101010 WaS made among all the pas- one Entering a shop a short thite 801110 quarantine. This cmploye of
seneers in the vehicle, without re -
mat. The rolibed lady went her
Way, toed the new passenger took her
place in the oninibus with her little
00111r anion.
When she arrived home, she, to hor
amazement, found the miseIng, purse
at tho bottom of a somIl bucket that
sho had bought for the child with
her, and which silo had been carrying tives, they quickly succeeded in flod-
in her hand. flaying at once'coot- inghlin
MYSTERY Ole A POCKET -1300111.
ilIs name was Gould, and he
stuntly protested his inimeenee; loot
on his being taken to the Pollee -
owner was never found, however, and
station and searched, a black pocket -
the question 10001111 as to whether the
book was found upon him, which the
latlY at. once recognized as hers. 'the
banknote, however, was not in it.
The lady and several 110050011 who
knetv hor pookot-leook swore pos•itive-
frantic terror by tho 110108, and mad()
desperate ellorts to hide Ail gtillensi"tliTtdolvol-w:1117it'Osamslicti)ou.11111)1gelYisst
was in vain, however. The detec-
tives ran hini down, and he was
placed on trial. It was only by a
train of marvellously fortunate eir-
emnetances that he was able to show
that he could loot have coannieted
the murder.
Not eo fortunate Was a young fel-
law named Gould, who was tried at
Stafford Assizes for steeDng a pock-
et -book. A ladv, having gone to
companied It thabolical-look.ag
imp caroying a tattered bag, a bat-
tered watering pot, and a squirt, He
puts a handful of powder -or teas it
aboriginal clitt.,?-fi•om the bag into
the pot, awl (W00 the upper clock
squirts a • tiny spray, which the
breeze inetantly dissipates, and
which would not he sufficiently pow-
erful to disIodge au aphis from a
f fury at tho prolongation of olY real event -the ceowning with thorns.
oyage by 1150 miles and 30 hours Close by is the Chapel of the Nailing
were at onee called, and the lady
communicated to them hdr suspicions
of the yosne; man whom nho had
touted beside her near tlie veoetable-
basSet, and, setting all will actec-'
f'ERSONAL POINTERS,.
Interesting Gossip About Some
Preminent People,
Josef I 10101ann, the great pinnist,
is a. clover eleeteleian, and devotes
nearly all his spare Gine to science.
When he was a youngster hie fathor
fertinde 10111 to skate on the ice foe
feel' that a fall might injure his
hands; whereupon youeg Hofmann
Pronditly invented a pale of skates
that, eould be folded up tool put in
municatocl the fact to Scotland Yard,
every step was taken to discover the
owner of the purse and ite contents --
something lite ton pounds, The
'mese and its contents should bo
handed to the lady or to the omni-
bus company. The Colin decided in
favor of the lady.
In what a fearful poeition the most
ly to the one found on tiou.d.
innocent may find themselves is
ilo
ehown by a catm which, occurred some was cOlivicted, and senteneed, A. few
days later, while two men were mow -
years tigo ie Dublin. A 112(011 0'110
WEIS accustomed to visit the house in
a bachelor friend very frequently
used to do so in an uneeremonimis
memoir by the Imelc clooe. The
bachelor was waited on by a woman,
who came in at certain time, mod
who then left him to 1)15 own devices,
the only other person 111 1110 1101180
before a medical student. The itlend
having tapped into the house one peril through a wonnan's dress die
-
covered in his lox, A girre dress'
had 110011 81010(1 by tho burglars, and
had been most minutely deseribed 10
the pollee hy the girl to whom it.
belonged. She identified the dregs
fouod in the prisoner's box without
the tattehte5t hesitation, coon it
agreed in every reepoet with the
particelars slie had suPPBed to 010
au thori GCS. One Or the jurymen,
however, was, in spite of all, ii,ot
111010 eatisfied, aud he suggested that
the girl should retire with the dress
end put it on. Foe a long time the
Court 001011 i, and then tile woman
in atiendanee on her came back to
sa,y that the prosecutrix could not
gel; the dress on, It had been made
for someone moth more slentler and
sumller. 'the prisoner tras acquitted,
but it. had been "a close shave" for
him,
A WAY Ole ESCAPE.
A witness in ` Glasgow marder
case narrated how he had saved hints
self from a 011051 uni3xpocted end ter-
rible situation. Walking down a
lonely' street one night, he had sud-
denly come upon tho body of a WO -
111 h. lying 111100 the pavement. See.
had been stabbed to death, and her -
111g. a fiela of nets in the oeighhor-
hood of tho market, they discovered
blaCk poeketebookt 11 woe exactly
eimiltir in ,Mery respect to that found
on tionbl, but the missing banknote
itself was in it! Gould was at tome
set free
A mail suspected of hurglary at
Cardin' found himself placed in dire
day by the back door, he and the
lennitt beenme engfcgtd 111 a discus-
sion respecting some juggling trick
with knives which the visitor had
seen. The bachelor declared they
were easy, and proceeded to give
practical illustration of the fart.
DANCED, BUT INNOCIeN'It
By an unlucky accident, he ionicted
O terrible woend on Wieser. The
friend, afraid to leave him to call
assistance, strove to ao best. All
WaS ill vain; the wound proved fatal,
and the visitor became filled with
horror lest he should be accused of
having reused the death of his
friend. Ha stoic qoietly from the
liceleo, and actually 100k a peseage
to New 'York, and hastened to hide
hinoself in one of the wilthist parts
of the States.
To the meantime, stispleion had
centred on the heeond innocent man -e
the lodger. A lady who lived at a
house opposite, and who occupied
herself in knitting at an open win -
(1010, and observing what. went, on in
the etreot, swore most positiaelY
that no one had during the fatal
morning eotered the dead man's
house. '1 he deed must have been
committed, then, by nomeone 1.00 rooted him to the afoot beside
A knife in the iodger,s possession, her. 1Vhile lin Was standing there
With some bloodstains on it, and
aome blood discovered on. his
clothes, the fact that he was a vio-
lent -tempered nett, and that ho ilall
teen hoard to quarrel with tho dead
man, together with his agitation
when he WaS accused, an.t1 80111(1
ous lies he told t,o 10 tbaL 110 100.8
out that morning, all contra:tiled to
prove lle was hanged. The
truth begaree tooter: years later,
when 11111 man who had rim atray to
America returned to Welton',
TOO READY TO ()MACE.
An onforluratte conntrymen named
Gill, wit() found himself in the dock
of the Central Criminal Com•t, was
another Victim or rnieleatling circum-
stances.. 111, leaving served his
slam tot apprentice to a butcher at
Iltitinktvenreloulh, eet MT to visit an
'uncle at I'ortterioutli, and from that,
place Commenced to walk to L0'
010(1, Between Guildford and London
very ratqy One inoriiing, canto up-
on Mao letting a pony and driving
tteo 'Cotes. The etranger Was taking
the eattile• to London, Ito said, Mod,
huffing thdt 0911. WWI beefed foe 111e
for this paltry plunder, I defiantly
retort, "Well, I Amu% pay your ras-
cally extortion, and you know you
can't make 1110." And tile apothe-
to the Cross. I Poi -near to alTront
tho commonsense of my readers by
any detail of the localities whore
fabulous prolixity declares 111e Um-
cary pasha, stroking his beard, re- press Helena found our Saviour's
plies, "It is true, I cannot make
you; but if you do not eovo me my
811111111g, I shall report you to our
authorities as 'suspected of disease,
and you will be widened in 0, Turk-
ish lazaretto for four days." How
did I deal with this "poser"? I
blush to confess -I crawled.
JAFFA THE BEAUTIFLIL.
Jaffa, etymologically the beauti-
ful, is worth some Penance of a
cross,
MORE FABLES,
Now, the area I have described is
represented, approximately, by forty
Pates by fifty paces -for bettor real-
ization, say by the size of an aver-
age lawn of a s0o011 English counti•y
house. Within this scope have been
11041(110d together not only the imag-
inary positions of scattered occur-
rences, such as scourging, 11011)0180(1
(10101(1111(9 voyage, ley reason of the ment, crowning, nailing to the cross,
wealth of its historical realities, anointment, and two separate meet -
mingled with the charm of its poeti- ings, but Golgotha and the sopul-
cal myths. There is tho rock to
which Audromeda was fabulously
chained; thoro the rocky inlet whence
Joriah certainly embarked ecclesias-
tical relic -mongers have mercifully
forborne from producing the skeleton
of the fish, although, the bones of a
large marine animal, alleged to be
Andromeda s monster, and her re-
puted fetters were long an obJeCt of I place and walk to Calvary; is it far
curiosity; hero is the doubtful site' distant?" is my indignant intorrup-
of Tabitlaa's house, and also that of
"ono Simon, a tanner," where Peter
tarried; and leer° Hiram undoubted-
ly sent cedars or Lebanon for the
building of the temple. :Jaffa is
closely associated with the cam-
paigns of the Egyptian Thollunes, of
Sennacherib who "001110 down like a
wolf on tho fold," al the MaccabeeS,
nf the Crusaders, of Saladin and
Richard Coeur de Lion, and finally
of Napoleon's Kleber and NaPoleon's
poisoning of the sielc; it is Moores -
sive by its Oriental pieturesquenees closed, roofed oVer, and sub -divided
and entrancing. by its sub -tropical into small, mean chapels. It is not
bea.uty of vegetation. For centuries known whether it is netural or ar-
chre, of which I will speak later,
This marehalling 011 the stage for
scenic display, this crowding on to
the boarde, this lying localization
of the most sacred anti momentous
events of Chrint's life, produce an im-
pression of outrage on reverence 1111(1
a painful scepticism, "Stop telling:
1710 such fables; wo will h3eove this
of 11. lady friend while his parents
went on a tour Mt the himeht iiif his
mother's health, The guerdian under
look a suilden journey on hearing of
the serious illeetet of a distant rela-
tive, and she was killed ill a carriage
;occident. Th0.1111111 was saved, but
as it could not loceitleutifled it tt1111
sent to a tioverament. foundling in-
stitution.
The parente subsequently searched
111 vain fur the child. About five
revs nitre the child's illeappourance
the pocket, so that he could elip away tile tether, who WON 10'1 011008111/1111,1Vs
anti enjoy his stolen pleasure. Hie to 1,110 xnateolisute, WON bill -
many ingenious devices attracted. the ad while hulltillg, 01111,00 "1(1"w (9,1:11
attention of 1(11 00(1, who al 1003'5 of a brolcen heart, Twelve mottos
sends him any 11011( 111110011011 Vel Job adto the Mayti."1"1 '1\119 991°, tta
ho has completed. uncle of the missing. child," Med 11111)
101118103' Is 111 110 80", a popular out issue. In the ordinnry couree
writer, vet ids works have a whit„. the estates would have revertod tO
his !nether, the father of the missing'
011114
It wes at tide singe that a 110111
or solicitoes in Turin, who had
charge or the fluidly estate, discover-
other people Came up, and ho awoke
at last to the fact that there was
crowd of anery and threateoing per-
sons artiond him, who regarded him
as the nritntlerer,
De was in terrible danger, when a
means of eseape flambee! DOOMS big
11,11(1. lie bade tlie people Stand
Inock from the body, bent over it,
and proceeded to describe the. poor
11'011lall '5 1001inds in the best medical
language he cot 1 id Conn ti Thn
1100011 0'0111 1 11011(10081 11101(. He WaS-1
1101, 1110 murderer, then, hut a dote -
tom, who had born exondffing the
poor viable to do hie best for leer.
Ile maintained the role till the po-
lice roomed hiin.-Tmecion Anewers.
TilliffilfejlENT MEANING,
Beaks -What broilght. on oid tVil-
kho's paralytic stroke?
Pealcs-1. didn't know he watt afflict -
oil with one,
peaks-13ot yott just told me he
WWI parillyzed:
Peaks -Quite tree" but didn't Say
he was sufferity 'frorei a paralytic
etrolfth
tiort of my gabbling ehowman. Ile
unblushingly reiterates his shibbol-
eth, "What 11111110 told you is all
true and beyond question," adding,
"This is the way to Calvary- op -
stairs; you know the 1111)1e says the
sepulchre (elosely adjacent to which
WO are standing) was nigh unto the
place of ceueillecion. This tvay, first
IloOr to Golgothe." Walking up a
few steps, about 15 feet. above the
eorrna1 level of the church pavement,
we roach an eminence, partly ell -
eirculatien than those of eitv living
author. Up to the present lois boolts
have been printed in forty-five (111011'
01(1 hinguages and clialeels, llie first
appreeintors, curionely entnigh, W0011
tho Creeks. The Bret tiecek traesIne ed the first clue of the missing heir,
tio„ of ids work „m published In ile was traced from tho family W110
1870, and during the following thirty inet eticeored him to the alithorities,
years eighteen Creek trauslations and finally to tho fOrindling home in
were printed, In the new Russian which he had Bove' until about the
bibliogenphy of 1', Di•agonog them age of twenty. 11, 11,11 8 themigh tile
authorities at this institution that
appear 130 Czech translations close
'Amrose," by which moue ha was why not gather caraWay Seed 1.0 sell?
cookies, a 1.12qghli idea canto to her-
on 100 Servian, and eighty 13(1(9111" 111)1(00,1, teacked to West Austra- Dow„ 10 her 4' +1
ian. Last of all omen P001,11g110S0 kn""'n' .a...ter's mowing ioti.
lia, end finally to lite John's Ilosple grew
and Rantoul Man transiatio es, a big plot of plants, the flat
The Rajah of Kapurthela, 110W taol, at Kalg°"lie' 001101.0 In' Waa 010- white tops of the blossonie showing
agnin in London, is the rider of one PloYed as a handy ninn. above the waving grase.
'Ambrose, ' by which name he oes
of the sinalletd native States of In- ' rYery ,anxicianly: did she wale.11 this,
at the instatwe or c op. .1 110 blossoms disappealoci and
dia. Ho Is thirty-two and somewhat tam mantils ago,
. ' i , anothee youth, named Francisco, who ..le , . •
0 arm hitle green seeds appeared.
HOMEBODY ELLIE, w"...-eee
There's always somebody else, my
dears,
Wilo geleven, when a child Is bad;
Somebody ovate:hue the einatee Or.
tears
Of each 111,11e lass or hod;
If youe foreheads frowa but
while,
Somebody else Is sad,
And wig. neve). your sunny
Somebody else is glad!
-1•
A CORNER IN CAT1AWO.Y.
This is a true story of a young'
girl friend of mine who lived on a.
farm, and like minty formers' daugh-
ters earned hot' epending tummy bY oe?
picking berries and nuts. Ono day,
watchieg her mother 111ak0 caraway
it was illustrious by Its deeds of
war; it is now beeutiftil by its deeds
of mercy, carried out by the Eng-
lish Medical Mission and Orphanage.
IN TIIID CITY.
The railway front gaga to Jere -
stiletto pmesesses the single intorest
of being clevorely engineered across
mountains and valleys; otherwise
the three-and-a-ltalf hours' *journey
through the stony region of ever-
increasing desolation, barrennese and
ugliness, gives rise to disappoint-
ment to a, dismal degree. 'This, tho
Oriental visitor, the (inekwar, who is was reared at the same instataion,
wholly English in his teeters and and who had emigrated lo Western
ways, itis Highness sir jagatiit. Australia. Tho first communication
Singh Tlehadur is French jit Ids syra-
pat hies -speaks the language with
rare fluency, is enamoured of French
cooking, and reads everything in that
tongue which is worth reading. lie
1:3 an enthushostie motorist and has
had several natives taught all that:
facial; it is even a question 0(1(01111-
010011110 controversy among scholars
whether or not tile genuine Golgotha
lay ' in 'this neighborhood, In the
apse of one of the chapels is a.
ground aperture eparldby with tin-
sel lining, wherein, poor credulous
bigots insist, 1V08 inserted the cross,
that "bitter cross" to which
"those bloseed feet,
'Nigh nineteen hundred years ago,
were nailed •
For our advantage."
Thom came the haying anti you 111031
be sure Illy lady wits on hand to
'mewed by Ambrose respecting hot gatturr the caraway plents as icoon as
Moulted for good fortune 1.110 'men with Seythes had cut them
him six months ago, but was cooly in down, 'Iro dry (heel 10115 the next
the nature of an inquiry, and the 111- Step and meanwhile gm did much
formotion was too meagre to furelsh Nanning, CaraWitty Wan SUMO and..
the recipient with any' definite clue as quite a 17,0008801'y thing to. have, eo
to what was abOut to transpire. of coca's° R. would bring a good
b0100. 3110 thought it would bo•
worth -well, not to place it too.
high, $2 a pound, and judging bY
the weight sha lonel careied up to tho
attic to dry, Shtl 0700111 have three.
00 four pounds to 01 after she liad.
ligtneico.1101. mother seine to Imo at
Such a time as she had getting
those seeds 011 the stalks and after-
ward separating them 11.0111 the thalle
and bits of sticks, ind it was please
ant lotor for her mind wee busy
epentling the coining money, countin(9.
upon having. at the very least, $115,
for had site not a big bag of the
niceet, fresheot meadow grown seed.
At ittst tho eventful day arrivete
and with the precious hag contain-
ing. the enttee crop of the 50118011, 81i0
000111 to town and proceeded at once
to tho only baker,y there, 'rids she.
had decided was Lim proper Mace to
dispose of her treasure. The clerk
appeared, eut no one but the mae-
age/. would do, so she was called and.
she stated her errand, asking liow•
much he would ray Tor the contenta
of tho bag. "Eighty cents. she
he said, but no, it could
which WON 111111 tett -.,1'11,(1‘00.011 s though
liturgies, as settled by Parliament: not be, so she asked again. This
'The earth is thine, 0 Lord, and time there was no mistake. "The
all that is contatned therein, not-
withstanding (loon hast given posses-
sion of it to the children of man 130
pass over the time of their shot•t
pilgrimage in this vale of misery.
We heartily pray thee to send thy
holy .spiril. into the hearts of those
that possess the grounds, pastures,
and thveiling-places of the earth, that
the,y, remenibering theMselVes to be
thy tentonts, may not rack nor
stretch out the rents of their houses
anti lands, nor yet lake unreasonable
fines and incomes after the manner
or COvetuolls worldings; but so let
them out to others that the inhab-
turas thereof may both be able to
pay the rents, and also honeetly to
live and nourish their families and
relieve the poor. Give them grace
also to consider that they are but
strangers a.nd pilgrims in this world,
having hero no dwelling -place, but
seeking one Lo come, that they, re-
membering the short continuance of
their life, may be contented with that
which ts sufficient and not, join. house
to house anti land to lend, to the
impoverishment of others,: but so be-
have themselves in letting out their
lends, tenements, anti paStures that
after. this We they may be received
-into everlasting dwelling -places,
throegh Jesus Chriet our Lord.
Many will consider this prayer as
npproprinle to -any, in the reign of
King Edward VII. as lit that of lois
Itoyel predecessor. What hes land-
lordism aceomplishod all these cen-
turies for the good of the people
when word for word this prayer of
Tudor days describes the 110000 of.
modern civilization? asks the Chron-
icle,
Other letters followed, and it was oc-
ean bo learned about driving, le-
plained that the questions put W(
ri0g., and aran bnilding a Mli'"n- asked in regard to the disappearance
The German Exnpress is an early
riser, and sits down to breakfast
with the Emperor, xvinier and 5U111"
(11(01', punctually at eight o'clock. At
one o'clock the Imperial couple dine
"Yes,'' chatters my 'dragoman,
Promieed Land, flowing wieh "and there you see the other two
and honey, teeming with the rlehes holes foe the crosses of the thieves,
of nature mod the luxuriance of Neg-
otiation! Yes, of a surely, once, long
ago, Ilut 11010, "the whole land is
outdo desolate," ravaged by oft -re-
peated wars, pestilence and famin10
depopulated, and even essentially de-
teriorated through altered climatic
coedit...1one, Our deereseion deepens
when WO 111(11 an angle of "the hills
which stand about efertmalem," and
draw op at the railtvey station,
sithateti on a eterile limestone pla-
teau. Farewell to ell highly wrought
romimtic (*pc:dat)on, nt 100.8t 80
ial' 1(8 external aspiett is concerned.
The scene is ono of ugly decay and
squalor, of regs rind dirt; of poYerty
tend gloom, Thera is eVer a lack of
enlivening loth& of chatter alnongat
the crowd of mixed nationalities. A
'listless Moslem delves Its 111 tt de-
crepit vehicle, drawe by a totterity
horso filmy a mete which is both
dusty tool muchle, to the orb -Wipe,'
hotel, whero we cam to say the least
obtain Victuals and shelter,
THE :HOLY SEPTILCIIRE,
Dismissing dejection, and pluckily
up heart with the 0011001.1011 Gott, no
(1ooed eXterna)4 can dePriVo ort, -
rodent, of 'the tame!! i 11 1 (west attach-
ed 10 iteS sites, 1 botako myeelf
Tuillinno estates.
or the boy who was the heir to the
"Ambrose," however, treated the
COIllnal 111 CO i 0 OS lightly, as he be-
lieved that a mistake had been trovio,
and it was only at the -urgent solici-
With their children; gueets are but teflon of ids friend Francisco, who
seldom invited to this midday meal, thought "there 31111;111 be something
and when they are, they are treated in it," that he sent all poseffile te-
rmite en fa mine. She is exceedingly formation to Jtaly. Three weeks be -
fond of childeen, of all sorts and fore the 000tava left Australia "Alt -
0111) 00S1 and when she is etaying in brow, received a et„.„1„,micatto„
tho country she often stops her eer- telling him lo retum to Hely at
lingo at the sight of a group of
children, and lots them climb into once, as his rigid: to the title of the
it in. search of the loonbons which late Inarquis Jowl been established.
leunds were placed at his disposal.
she carries with her foe the doieeta
Lion of an3r little ones (1110 11103' "Anthrose" decided to obey 1 he
pen to meet. summons, and ce.bled his intention of
doing so.
Sir William Treloar is one of the
fin VS Hooking men In leindon. and
when he first went to Wintlicor with A PRAYER PC11_1, LAN'D.LORDS.
tho City Corporation Queen Victoria
of 'Vat very hainitiome man." Sec-
sPecially desired to 13e told the name The Plaint of Tenants in the Time
the kindly Altlerman's love of vete, of Edward VI,
ond only` to Ids love of children is , The Lontr,loilioa; 11nilyCshall•onliacIllea1,11,13b18-
and Ile is- the owing of to wonderful 1.1"ea a 9 prayer
aviary of rare birC114. Most feecinate
ing is tho talking cockatoo, which is
a special favorite with its master.
Ito always rehearses his speeches to
it in private berore venturing upon
them in public, and ho affirms that
tbe bird makes a roost critical and
impartial listener, and compels hint
to do his best.
Mr. Charles Studley, tho great
baritone, owes much of his life t
the generosity of one of his first ern-
111)111°11Ylectrmsilsa 01101171 oeyr'es wth.o° ilirniettaed afll'esi •
which singing 1088 1(1(101(904 in as a
means of entertainment. On SentleY
being called upon to contribute lois
share, he 'displayed a voice of such
quality that lois master, a Illusion)
amateur of much discrimination, at
011120 informed him that with efficient
training he would make his fortune,
and generously Volunteered to pay
the expenses of three years' music:al
01 Ilion in Italy. The otter 0700
once accepted, with such results as
all the world knows.
Lord Young, who lately retired
from the Scottish Bench, is 110111111g
if not a born wit. --On ono occasion
in the °alert of Session his lordship
found his duties heavy owing to a
vacancy on. the Bench. One of his
colleagues at the time was Lord
Craighill, and the OW Judge, when
at last he was appointed, took the
courtes'y :title of Lord Curriehill, On
the appointment being announced
Lord Young gratefully quoted the
neat two lines of tho- 121.st Psalm:
I to the "hills" will lift mine eyes,
Front whence doth come mine aid.
On another occasion Lord Young
asked counsel, "What are you read-
ing now; where are you?" The l'OplY
MIS "I ran at 0, my lord," and the
rejoinder was, "I thought so,"
All people who possess jewels have
certain trinkets which they regard
with almost superstitious arfection,
Sarah Bernhardt pins her faith tO a.
eecklace of gold iniggetS, a gift from
the California miners; and the Duch-
ess of Orleans to a set of sapphires
which belonged to Marie Antoinette,
Tho sapphire is the Queen's favorite
stone, She wears, as a brooch, one
of great size given to her by the late
Duke of Col3urg. 13ut old E'gyptian
jewels are considered the most po-
tent guareliturs of fortune. lats. St.
John lb:Q(11'10k oWns Egyptian gems
of priceless Vahle. Mrs, Clareece
Mackay has a Weird carnelian neck-
lace which hung (Mee Upon the noel:
of a daughter of the Phartiahs. Mrs,
Clarente MacOay has a welred carne-
lian mot:lace which hung upon the
neck or a daughter of the Pharaohs.
IVIrs, George :Koppel wears a, pendant
of emeralds, the noest beneitiful 1(1
the world,
POTINDLING A MARQUIS.
Heir to Vast Estates Discoveted
in to, Young Laborer.
By the mail steamship Orotava,
Own Aestralla, there recently traVel-
end yf(t)•outfolt, 1.9lctile(e)mweanaLlebyt(VadiattililtA4stiiitiditta,
fronffiliry hoepital, 031c1 who has 118'
1111111111100 claim to bo the Mar-
quis of Toilliano, of Italy, and 1110
owner of estates Werth £20,000 a
year.
The life story of the yofith, who
hall been glean the Immo of °Ate-
lordse' at thd instifoltion,
is a partietilarly ronientie one: 411
ii litthe'ehltet 1101100l1 left the core
one on the right band and the Other
on the left, just as the Bible says."
"Dan't talk such noosense," was
my wrathful and pained reply, "01011-
110t you see that the intervale be-
tween the alleged positione are bare-
ly live foot -impossibly dose for three
human forms with extended (w)ns?"
•
While he Was yet a teacher it the
:lows' Elmo School, Spitalfloltie, Emo-
tion, Mr. Israi31 Zangwill. the now
famous authoe and pinywright, 110111-
p0sed some versee and timidly sent
Linon to the editor of an American
magazine. They 10000 promptly re-
turned. Some years later, 0/11011
ft11110 bad eonto his way, the same
editor cabled for a poem. Wile Zang -
wilt clitffiatched tho rejected Verses,
which were paid for at a. high rate
nod "boomed" as the work of a eel-
ebrated
Elsie. -"Your Uncle Harry seems
atviol young 1.0 1)0 a doetor,," Wile
lie --"Yes, be ain't a real groWecl-up
1111.0.0600d010111' 1(1 gol
(Wine 9100,e1106."
THE 111.P. AID THE, BULL,
A certain member of l'arliament,
visiting a farm, went across a pas-
ture on which a bull was ,geazing.,
The bell gave chase, and' 0131'lively 01111 the toember reached the
feoce and clambered over Just in tinio
to preventhe tbull from assisting
him. Boiling with rage, he 805(1910(1the femme and protested in lurld
language against the action of the
1)1111, 'The farmer made light of the
inceclente Inasmuch tho vale -
man 001511't hurt, he saw 010 reason
for getting 000011(1(1."Do you 110W who I am?". (le'
13900(11(11 the 1,111.
price," be said, "Is 10 cents a poond
and you have got just eight. cents'
worth."
Site fled and though this happened
several years meo, she. still has a,
goodly supply a caraway and where
she gives lier grandchildren cOokies
cord Ming some of the eelfeame Seed,
she may toll them this story.
"STT.1111P61."
For tho delightful evenings of sum-
mer holidays, with long hours
for outdoor guinea, nothing' Can ba
better than a game whicli, as played
thirty years ago, still seems the best
of all games for odd times when you
do not Want a serious garno of
cricket.
"Stomps" is not unlike cricket, be -
cense it eonsists of bowling, 11010111e,
batting and making runs for your
side; but the wickets, which are only
twelve yards apart, OAT made with
to single stump each, and you ' use a
stump instead of a bat, and (1tennis
1)1111 11119101(11 of ft cricket ball, it is
ant' run," °nil you can also
run for byes and oVerthrows, adding
1116111 ite your score. The bowler
must 13110(1 slow, underhand balls,
'well pitched •up; and if, in his ex-
citement -for the game is often very
eXciting'-lie send in a swift ball, he
cannot get the batsman out with
it, though it can be atmeed all either
with a hit or as a bye. .Wlia,t makes
Rio game, very quick and lively, hoW-
peer, is that there is a bowler at
each end, and eithee of them can
bowl directly Ile gets the ball, no
matter whether the batsmanat the
other end is ready and In lote place
or not Thus, if the fielding • is
smart., ha may be bowled by the next
ball before he has finished malcitig
his run all the last. There is a bats-
man at each end, of couree, as in
double Nvicket cricket; and they must
Wield theft stomps with both hands.
Jt is in the excitement of being
boWled to while you aro not ready
that you aro very llahle to put y0111"
8011 out by striking With ono hood
only. But yotir inningS is moat like-
ly to come to an inglorious end
through your being "stemped," be-
ettuee the tereptatiot to stvipe at
these slow balls is groat, while they
are easily taken 113' the wicket -keeper,
"No," replied the farmer. who is also bowler, and-unlees ha
"Well, len a member of Parties ear, swop you_howis directly :he
gets the lien. '1'110 game is au qme,10,
briek Inn: and afk both sides "field,"
every one iti bosy.
01111E FOB, sm-sAiaxmins,
Seoesteliness, accorclin(9 to the lat-
est ecientifle view, 18 an affection) of
the eyee Which, for itet tlisteessity
roality, might almost bo described ate
ell 0101.1011l delusion. Ate, .1. Motealfo
elluirpo, ship suranon of the Collard
liner 1111,01110, 511gge8t:5 a novel 1001.
11(3'. According to him, seeesickness
hi a nervous Maltedy produced by see-
ing the motion of °Ideate 011 btottel
ohlp The romeely it tO bandatio ono
eye, tehleh has the effect of alteling
tlee footle. Sixty -11,o nor wilt. Of
fifty eases a treated by Me, tehniffio
Wore relieved in Seem .tilef to 10ent3'-
1 It
meet," was the reply, as the man
with Gm won»tiect dignity struck an
attitude
"1.114 you tell the bull that?" Was
the farmer's quiet rejoinder,
There OM a lot of (hinge We do
not understond, This is the most
mysterious ono: How a woman tvith
five co' six little children and a hus-
band who doeen't amomit to much
and 'who isn't very considerate,
stands it.
"Oh, yes, &is's quite POP111O0 at
social gatherings. She's 11-191.0111. one
to keep the aonVercation ball roll-
ing," "Why, she iSn't much of a
talkor." "011, no; bolt siogs oot
Rio sligliteet provotatidm"
Do hie vivito days thitT Lortt Oldet
Jolene() of England vita Well ktilatto