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High above the hum and roar of
the Oily came the boom from the
greet thick -tower as Basil Vyuec
stepped into tho hall at Chesterfield
Mansion% where he and Erie Jere
inyn shared a ilat together.
• Twelve times the boom thundered
through the night, like a salvo of
canna». It. ciehood and vibrated in
the hall, as Vyner closed the door
hotline him.
Emmeline was waiting up far him,
as usual, pretending to be busy.
Whatever time he came home, be
found her wattieg,
"Not in bed yet?" he questioned.
''You really should not stay up so
late, Now, of( youtrot, you—stott.
visen, Good -night!"
The girl was the daughter ce, his
dead clerk. Ile had taken her into
his service when her father diet
There were times when her gratitud
oppressed him. He did not kno
that often when ho had walked i
his sleep to tke head of the stair
cese, the girl, ever watchful, ha
]ed him backto the door of his roo
end saved him from harm. She ha
often longed to warn him. Ye
gomehow, when hecamein at nigh
be always froze her courage.
"I like to know you're in, sir," sh
ventured tremblingly. As she spok
her eyes grew Mutinous. They ha
a look of sadness and pity. Sh
looked up into his facto mutely, a
dogs sometimes look up into th
face of those they love. "Good
night, sir," she added. An.d sb
dragged her weary body slowly u
the stairs.
Vyner had been hard at work in
the courts all day. After seven
years of waiting at the Bar briefs
had come. He worked at them early
and late. They were a fever in his
brain. His keen, strong face was be-
coming thin and haggard. 711s eyes
shone like lights in deep, clark
cav-
eros. The great god Success had the
grip of him. And it was making
hint pay. Success has no mercy
when it grips a man as it gripped
Basil Vyner.
He made his way upstairs to the
room of his friend. Jermyn glared
tip trete his hook at Vyner's whiso
face.
"Hallo, Basil!" he cried. "Where
did you see the ghost?"
"What do you mean, Eric?"
'Look in the mirror, my Mend,'
"Oh, bother the mirror!" exclaim
al Verner, as he sank into a chair
wearily.
.lerniyn's answer wa.s to ring th
bell. Alba, the valet, came in. He
had served the two fri.•nds for six
years, and had received ninny kind-
nesses from them.
"A short cross-examination, Alba,
if you please," said Jermyn shortly.
"Where did you see Mr. Vyner at
four o'clock this morning?"
"On the landing, sir."
"How was he dressed?"
"In his night things, sir."
"What was he doing?"
"Looking over the rails of the
landing, sir."
"IVhere have 'you seen him every
morning about the same time for a
month past?"
"On the landing, sir."
"Same ate ire?' '
"Yes, sir; always,"
"Looking over the raile?"
"Sometimes Mt*. Vyner looks nom
tho retie, sometimes he tries to endo
the catch of the street window,"
"That will do, Alba." And the
valet went out
Vyner had listened, grey -Mad. The
grey hl slowly crept. over the white
his face, Now he so 1 with 11 is
head bent down. Ilis Ilmetee were
interlocked between his knisse
Jormyn went to him, and laid a
strong hand on his friend's shoulder.
"Now, then, Bach," he said oat,
nestly, "you have heard. Get this
present rase off your hands, and
come and have a holiday with me.
II make a man of you again. Prom-
ise mo?"
"All right, Eric," Vyner said lan-
guidly; "when I get through with
this care. I own it has gut an my
trees. Leclerc admits that tho re -
Aver found on kiln after 1 he inur-
e) was hie. But he says he bought
year; ago, second -Matt. :me t hat
won't go off. I've been experi-
enting with the thing, at I -Ie. -Wend
cirri toenight, Either the bullets
ne or leave the muzzle erratic:Ally.'
tring at on object, it is twenty
chancel; against one that the bullets
i not leave the barrel. Oe . the
her hand, there le that ono ,lance
in the twenty. NoW, steproehest•—•-"
Jerneyn stopped his friend alas/M.1V.
"Let the suppositiotot of prosecute
g counsel welt till his mind is
fresh enough to tackle them!" ex-
claimed Jermyte "I'm Heed, who-
thor you are or not. act ofT to bed
like a sensible fellow. Good -night!"
The hands of the two mon mot in
a firm elesp, and a few moment s
later Basil was. creaming the C011.1-
001 tO his own room, Ire undressed
rapidly in the daek. Would Natut•e
grant him a little sleep out of
night, sir."
As soon as Vyner's footsteps had
ceased to 501111(1 on the stah•ease,
Alba, unlocked tho door of Jevinye's
bed -room and entered. He had been
itt previously, unknown to anyone,
He walked a
towrds the bed.
Jermyn iny (Mot, his Neu looking
up from the pillow. The eyes stared
from under his brows like fixed glass.
A thin rod Stream had Healed from
a, wound in his forehead down the
side of his fame but Mut now al -
11108t (named to do so, lender his
neck w as a little pool of de en rking
red. There teas a Millet 31010 in the
(telling, another in the wall, another
in a picture, another in a chair -
back.
Jermyn lay quiet, because ho was
dead.
His features showed no Omen of
pain, 110 bad died wit bout a
struggle.
Alba left the bedside and went to
the dressing -table. From a small
drawer in It ho took a now revolver,
which his master had never touched
since he bought it. It was loaded
in six chambees. Carefully, ono by
one, Alba withdrew the bullets, Theo
he went to the bed again, and placed
he
trevolver
in the dead man's right
I. hand. Presently, having looked care-
fully round the room, he Melted the
W door, and wont into tho breakfast -
Id
t,
-room.
Ire started when he saw Emmeline
there. A seared look was on her
face. Fora moment tho two :faced
each other without speaking. Einem,.
line was the first to break the
sil-
0001,
"Is not Mr.—Mr. Jermyn taking
e —taking breakfast this morning'?"
e she questioned hint nervously.
d Alba stood deep in thought for a
e while, with his eyes turned to the
S floor. Men he raised -there, it was
e to see tears streaming down the
- girl's cheeks.
o "I went into his room a little after
fi
p rse this morning," ho answered,
"and—and I founcl Mr. Jormyn dead.
He has killed himself with a revol-
ver. Colne and look."
Shrinking from knowledge of the
worst, yet anxious to know it, the
girl followed Alba into the room.
She glanced at the dead man's face,
and a poignant- cry came to her lips
as she looked, She crushed a core
nem' of her apron into her mouth. The
cry broke as a pitiful moan,
"I've 110 doubt he killed himself,"
Alba repeated quietly. "it's very
shocking." And he led the weeping
girl back ieto Gm breakfast -room.
"What, are you going to do?" Em-
meline was faltering presently. She
was consumed by alarm and perplex-
ity.
"Do, Emeine?" answered Alha. "I
shall fetch the police, now that Mr.
' Vyner has gone. I'm all of a shake
-.and a shiver, but there's nothing else
• for it. It's awful—awful "
Some confusion in the .answers Al-
e ba gave to the officers when they
mercy? he riled himeelf, \Vas It
Worth While to fight the numster
Night agele—to fight again only Icr
fail again? His teeth gritted to-
gether, mouth Set bard. TIP
Would light- Vet he did not elwer
for mow homer. Tvy as he tynuld,
the Leclerc 1 -ase and the problem of
the revolver kept his brain awake,
IT.
Alng!, imine ohtloek Vytor went in-
to the brealtfaeteromneedhere he ex
pected to end Jertnyn. Ire was see.
prised to see the table set only for
one.
jermytf begget T would ask
yott to exellee tmbm VHS Morning,"
came in, turned their suspicion to-
wards him. Besides, there were sev-
eral spots of blood on his clothes.
Almost before he knew what was
happening, a pair of bandeulTs snap-
ped on his wrists.
HI.
Vyner was racked with grief.
Though be was all but convinced of
Alba's guilt, he sent a solicitor to I
him to give him, a white man's
chance in a white man's country.
On the clay when Vyner entered the1
coronal's court as an ordinary wit-
ness, he was a mere wreck of his �lml
self. Ho reeled into his seat like a
man drunken.
After one of the pollee had de-
ecribed the cordition of the roem,
the appearance of the body when
jacket with the bloodstains upon it, a
found, and heel exhibited Aibg's
Vying was called. He could only say ,e
that be had loft Jermyn well on lo
the previous evening, and that When
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Itho public, Alba himself, Stared lb
a St oniehawilt.
Vyner gazed at the girl by las
side, as amazed as the rest. Being
nearesl to her, her cov Inel struck
through his nervous frame like a
suddc n tmlimh,
"Ile isn't guilty! Ile isn't
gn11*!" cried Emmeline Wildly, bet
arms ihtng out in distracted supplls
(lethal. "Ile didn't do it. 1 know
be didn't." Then she fell back
/teethed her seat; and buried her Oleo
against; Vyner's shoulder,
"So it all this CO 013 is eoneere_
ed," said tho enrolee', "tho verdiet ms
given."
"Ole Mit he didat do it," Wailed
the distracted girl.
W110 d id?•• asked 'Ismer.
'"I'ell in.' the truth—lor that 131a0'8
sake, Tell me the whole truth."
was you! It was you!" she
cried, sobbing against Ids shoulder,
Vyner jumped to as feet. Her
words smote him like a paralysis.
His face was like white marble, with
tho veins in a quiver, Staring ter-
ror Was in every line of it.
"1? I?" he gasped.
"Yee, Yes," sobbed Emmeline.
"Yort—yott did it in your sleep, with
—With thiti." And she thrust into
his heeds the old revolver with
width he had been experimenting at
Scotland Yard. "I saw you go into
his room. I saw you come out. You
dropped the revolver on the landing
as you walked back to your roma
Alba saw you come out, too, lie
came out on the corridor, though he
climi not see me. I was too late to
save you—oh, too late—too late' But
they can't harm you. You didn't
know, 1 wouldn't have spoken If
they hadn't said he did it. Forgive
nie, master, forgive me!"
Emmeline cowered against him,
rocked by her anguish.
Vyner stood rigid, like a pillar of
marble. One question oily came
from his palid lips. It was address-
ed to. Alba.
"Did—you—see—me, Alba?" he
gasped.
"1 can say nothing against Mr.
Verner," said Alba stolidly, "Mr,
Vyner has always been good to me.
He and Mi'. Jermyn were like bro-
thers."
For a moment Vyner remained mo-
tionless. Then a perceptible striver
shook that human pillar, and it be -
gate to totter; tottered and fell heav-
ily upon the seat..
For a few moments Vyner writhed
in his despair. He did not think 1
of himself. He had ceased Lo cure
for himself. He was dust end tithes.
He has killed his friend—killed the
friend whom he loved, and who loved
him. This was his life's rent cools-
trophe, as he saw it. This was the
iagoriy which wrung the aobs frum
lim
A pollee -officer touched him on the
shoulder.
"I am sorry, Mr. Vyner," he said,
in a sympathetic voice. "but I must
arrest you,"
"I ant ready to answer," said Vy-
ner brokenly. And he was led away.
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SPIIE 11A N Tit Y
Care cannot be given the pantry,
for it is here that many false move-
ments may be :made and Mane' false
steps be taken if the place be not
in every ck'tsi 1.
10 most bowies the baking 18 pro -
Pared hem for unless it is possible
to prepare many dishes on a broad
shelf in tho pantry it lemurs that all
the ingyediente used must. be (tarried
from the pantry out into the kitchen
to the table and back again When
the baking is finished. lir a snout
convenient pantry there is a broad
shelf sufficiently large to holci a. wide
bake board, this shelf being at right
angles with the shelves where the
supplies aro plaCcd, and it. is possi-
ble to stand in one place while pro -
paring a baking and at the most
take but a step or two to tho farth-
est end of the shelvem,
In loent of this shelf is a large
window which gives perfeet light by
which to work without straining the
eyes. All up and doen tint sides of
this window small brass hooke are
fastened into the woodwork, and on
each of these hooks is placed OM)
litenSil used in cookery. When one
is at work it is possible to lift any
one article without disturbing the
rest, and, as each article is always
kopt on its own book, it becomes al -
rest a mechanical movement, to
'each for any utensil needed.
On the wall at tho right of the
bnite board is a knife rack, and all
around the wood -work of the door as
wen as On the back of the door more
brass screws aro fastened, and on
these seueepans, balcieg pans, and
larger utensils are hung, each one on
a hook by iteelf.
Papers are kopt at hand all the
time to use in Varietal ways, and on
the upper part of the pantry 4100r
is fastened a receptacle for the pap-
ers, is most simple in consteu
lion. Au oblong piece of denim is
turned in on all the edges, a selvedge
being usecl for tho top of the bag.
The clentin is then laid•• t tho
back of the door and tacked into
dace with large headed tacks. An-
other lino of tacks down the middl
divides it into two compartments,
yid 311 One Side lleWSpaperS are kept
vhile in the other ere placed paper
bags of all sires and pieces of clean
trapping paper. The linings of all
!aka and cracker boxes are saved,
or these may be used underneath a
flat iron as a lining for cake tins end
or wrapping the various parts of a
uxmth.'out SO t.bat one a 0
Will not bo contaminated by the rest.
There are many other uses to which
these box linings may he put.
lino idea for pantry shelves is to
use two coats of white paint and
then a finishingcoat f .1 it t
tome Wosh the shelves with cold.
water as soon as the enamel dries,
cul than it will harden quickly.
War this place no oilcloth or papers
nit leave the shelves hare and notice
ho Improvement; since there are Do
memo under which crumbs can col
tet there is no encouragemeia for
uce, the enamel is easily wiped on
lth a clamp cloth, and with suertr,altit
Irish it Is never nece.esary to el
ho entire pantry at once. It keees
lean all the time,
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el NOTABLE TEA. TOPERS.
11 Nen Who Drank the Stimulatin
ensu halve, leaving tho pit la oil
half. When all Are pared, drainit
the limo water, cover with fres
water, risen Wel1 and weigh, Tal
h, half the weight of pared fruit 1
es granulated memo', put IL over tho Ili
A in a preserving kettle, With halt
A pint of ginger tem and the juicer o
10 lemon to each pound prepared a
follows; Pare air the yellow hullo
rind before squeezing, and put it 1
with tha freit. Make tho ginger to
by bruising half an ounce of ging()
for each pint weave, covering 1
with belling water, and letting i
stand 15 minutes before straining,
Boil 1,310 5( (111) live minutes, them
ming it well at leak, twice, and wile
11, boils hard, drOp in all the peach()
it cover, Leave them in unti
the kettle again stelkes a boil, that
skim out with a perforated skinener
and put into hot glass jars. Set th
jars where they will keep hot, anti
all tho fruit, has been in the syrup
te Brew to Excess.
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11 The 111081 hardened (ea drinker may
a admit that tea (Molting van be, and
t often ix, overdone, amid yet!. the best.
knoWn topora do not appeal. to
11 have suffered in terneequence of thelr
le•excesmive indulgence In the cheueing
(11 1imbm.
QuInCey Waft El. notable tea
er. 111 his picture of a winter even-
t, ing in his cottage among the Cum -
I berland bills 110 mentions the tell
I Kill ipage on a table berdele the fire,
and bellied tho table a fair tea malt-
ei ar, wbose duty it was to 1111 an al -
1
, mord endlees procession of cups. Be
'IQuineey deviator; that lie drank tea
o'• front 8 o'clock. at night to 4 the
!morning, and claims the infusion ea
"the favorite beverage of the Intel -
IV,
A few clays afterwaeds, he was
brought before the magistrate with a
Alba. Alba elected to give evidence
for his master. Enanclinc followad.
Vyner wifit int o the wit ness-box,
too. The MSC ter the defence woe
veiny the ease for tho prosecution; I
0 could be 110 other, The story elie
'Red the sympathy of all who lleard 1.1‘
Strong Mell heard it with Cniiv-
eying lips. Wetrien Were. S0031 10
weep. The . 'voice of the magistrate
trembled as he spolie..
"Mr. Velum, and you, Alba," be
said, addressing the prisoners, "it
has been difficult for me to discharge
my duty for pity and sorrow. 1 feel
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ANNINfl PF,ACIIIIIS AND PleAllS..
Fruit of medium size and high flu-
or is best for canning. It should bo
illy ripe, but firm and free from
raises or rotten specks. Clingstone
caches are much the hest, Choose
mit front tho neurest orchards—that
•hich has been shipped a long (Us-
ti:tee seldom pays for 'canniug. This
particularly true of pears, which
re almost flavorless unless ripened
n the tree. Fruit must he picked
ist es it begins to turn for long dis-
trict) shipping, hence is always more
r less insipid.
'Wash and drain the fruit before be -
inning to pare it, if it is the least
it dusty or sticky. 1 are as thin as
ossible—tho finest fruit flavor lurks
oxt the skin. Drop Poaches as fast
s pared into a deep Jar half full of
011'lime water. This prevents their
ening hrOWII, and in a measure lum-
ens them. Leave thew whm
ole iless
oo big to go in the can. In that
ft
hat no Mry would convict on the b
vidence before Me. Your place at p
he Bar, Mr. Vyner, is an honored ft
11,', Ito not let what hns hap the
e
wreck your career. Yon hove not
ost e single friend. You have not
ant anyone s sympathy or good a
Nestles. You are diseharged, both of 0
cm." .11
A wild Maze broke out of the hush H.
afore the last words were spoken. 0
"'ever have sura cheers been heard
1 a comet of law. Allat's face was g
reathed in smiles. Vyner drew him -
elf up. As tho sunlight streamed M
hrougel tho window it seemed to
tin that ho stood at the Wide-open
ales of a new world.
"I knew they wouldn't harm you!"
cried Emmeline, 1aughlug and (testing
by turns,
Venter turned to her, with a sad
smile. Then he gripped .Allt's hand, In
in sight of the court. tV
"Alba," he said fervently, "we inc L
he entered the breakfast -room the
Inceet morning, Alba had told him
'that .Jermyn was usleep, and (lid not
I whet to be disturbed. It was nega-
tive evideneel but it was the first
'link in the circumstantial chain
against Alba,
is
h
Inc e 111 t. nee , 1,
I She swayed from Side tO side as sho w
!stood. She said Alba had only or -h
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s
dered breakfast rm. one, and she had
not Seen. ibfr. Jermyn since the prev-
ious night, when lie was in hits usual
health. That was all she knew.
Alba elected to give evidence on
his own behalf. :fro repeated his
story. With the revolver found in
Jermyn's hand on tho desk in front
of him, the 001.01ler oommetreed to
put his questicers.
"You quite mulerstroul what you're
Saying, Alba?'' lie commenced.
"Yes, sir."
"Thin W118 the revolver you found
in the dead man's hand?"
"Yes, she"
"You say ho must have shot him-
self with it?"
"It moat bo so, sir."
"Then the bullets found must nee-
1esecteily have fitted that revolver?"
"Yes, sir.",
"Then, Albo," 1411.111 the coroner
quietly, but with the confident air
of a man who haslogs:lied the bot-
tom out of a trumped-up story. "E
have to tell you that they don't—not
one of them. They aro all too
large,"
Alba glared round tho court help-
lessly, wildly. Ilis native wit had
not beett clever eneugh. When he
ma the 3'01,0117E3r iti Jormyn's hand,
he had not asked himself whether the
Minute would fit the weaPell.
Ile tried to in k. 1 tbti voice
cu'utmlced aL thc• back of his throne
Ito could not argue, ibm, could hot,
contort the evidence... ile ryes detel
The ((Molter summed up demi
againat him. The hlry, Whhollt
leaving the box', roinrued 11 verdict
Of "Wilful murder" egaii;s; him.
'rho police again closed round their
1)118011er. The eoroner rose from his
seal. I lie Jury commenced to lettVe
the b07:,
woman sitting next. to Velier. It
Then a pit•Ol1E1 We 11 terse P11111 10
enter from lertme.line. The exodus
ceased. Coroner, jurors, the pollee,
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Add a pint of frsh syrup for each
half gallon already used, bringing it
to a quids boil, skim thoroughly and
1111 the cams with it, boiling hot,
Scatter thm lemon peel well through
the fruit, when it is put in the jars.
Seal after filling, and let stand
where tho cooling' will be gradual.
In filling cans let them stand so'
oral minutes before Reeling, so
tho liquid falls below tho fruit, mole
may be put in. Pears may be earl
sed or brandied in exactly the sem
way,
If a tart flavor is desired, use two
lemons in place of one, Tho abov
recipe has been tested and found to
bo excellent,
chooses the picnic spot with referenC
to shade and accessibility. A day
or two before the picnic the list
edibles to be taken should be writ
ten out, together with the necessary
articles and utensils, so that when
the luntheon is unpacIced it, will not
be found that the salt was left at
hoote not' thut Utothat oi cr, are nmiesl ng.
As the package goes on each article
is checked alt the list.
A hamper will hold everything
safely, but if the mewing is to he
divided among tho j itnickers peek
the sandwiches in a box, the cake in
another, and so on, keeping futzh
viand separate,
Broiled or fried chickem a small
baked ham, the best portion sliced
anti the rest mincteri for sandwiches,
are setisfactory meats, A cold po-
tato salad, tomatoes, 01 1Vell, and
salted almends may bo edited. Cake
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Martel,"
Another tea toper was Hazlitt, the
essayist, who was not only vely fond
of the beverage, but aeonis to have
drunk it of extraordinary etrength.
We are told on excellent authority
that ho used two ounces for his
breakfast and two for his tea, with
cream; and that for this tea—the line
ost Soochong—he paid at first four-
teen shillings and aft encore! twelve
- shillings per pound. Perhaps this ex -
e. travagarit and excessive consumption
of tea may account for some of the
essayist's quarrelsomeness.
O Cowper, as we all know, appreci-
ated to the full the charm of the
fragrant leaf, but there is hardly suf-
ficient evidence to show that he was
guilty of undue indulgence. The
most lemons tem toper was, of
course, Dr. Johnson, whose feats
with the cup which MIT. Thvale filled
THE PICNIC,
The wise organizer of a picnic
so assiduously are too well known
to need enlargibg upon. His record
- appears to have been twenty -eve
cups, which he drank at a sitting,
• but in mitigation of judgment it
should be remembered that in all
probability the cups worn much smal-
ler than the teacups in use at the
present thne. Still, Johnson told
Miss Reynolds In playful verse:
Thou const not make the tea so fast
As I can gulp it down,
ver, cat•amel, lady roll jelly, or mere
ble cake, cookies, and jumbles, Lot
to mention the ever popular e1101 -
elate, are all good picnic cakes.
Sponge cake cut in thin slices, and
retread with orange, given gage, and
pineapple marmelade, or wtter crys-
tallized ginger chopped up and Mois-
tened with orange juice, and, then
rolled up in waxed paper, are found
tasty bits of sweetness.
Fruit juice in the proportion of
two oranges to one lemon is sweet en -
ml and poured in bottles, securely
corked and put, on 110 OVer night, al -
SO a, jar of mayonnaise dressing made
with cream, and a jar of treys for
the coffee 11 coffee is desired, are also
put on ice. Just before startling,
- at in ecivct'al
thicknesses of neWSpaper, and then In
flannel. This keeps them cold for
several hours,
This is n good net to follow: Chit: -
ken broiled or !,'led: halted ham,
sliced Mon sandwiehes, biscuits, cake
fruit, potato salad, salted nets!,
olives, mayonnaise, cheese
fresh eggs, table cloth and paper
Impkins, wooden plates and tin cups,
salt. and pelmet-, corkscrew, comb
and Muth, towels arid soap, ham-
mock, twe or three shawls, arnica,
court plaster,
'USEFUL HINTS.
If sponges are treed for seal) they
should be rinsed met daily; otherwise
they aro sure to become slimy and
most unpleasant. lit any ease they
require periodical tleaeing. Dissolve
some borax or soda in warm water
and let the sponge soak in it for an
hour, Squeeze it sell out and then
rinse m data warm water. Many
People make it a habit to put their
sponges outside tho window after
using them in order that they may
air and dry ill readiness for tho next
using.
When oilcloth loses its shiny sur-
face it can be made to last longer
told to look smite new alma hy var-
nishing it over with glue. Wash the
oilcloth thoroughly and let it dry,
Then at night when the traffic of tho
clay is ovr, go over it. with a piece
of flannel clipped in gine water.
Choose a dry day for it, and in tho
morning the glue will bo quita Leed
nod tho flooreloth new looking. The
glue water must be prepared some
time before it is needed, putting
a 81111111 qUalltity of glue in a pint or
so of water and lotting it stand on
the stove until dissolved.
Fruit stains may be removed from
table linen by moisteniug the stain
with milk and then covering with
powdered common table salt. Mar -
wards wash in the military manner:
],r you want 10 break off a glass
bottle quito evenly soak a piece of
string in turpentine foul tie it around
the glass just where you wish the
break to come, Then fill the glees
to that poi ne with cold Water and
set fire to the string, The glass will
slum all nlolge the heated lino. 13y
breaking off the top of a broken and
battered (even -ter, if the base be in-
tact, it may be ttonverled Into a use-
ful howl
A BATICIAIN IlLA.NKIIITS,
Salve MorosofT, the Butts:Ian "Wool:
king," is dead, aged only forty-four.
Ho employed in factories over 70,000
workere, Al the beginning of the War
with Japan he made the Government
present of 100,00q 'blanket, but
thoe never reached the ermy in
Manchuria. Officials tried to sell
thorn foe their own profit, tted ono
of them, not knowing whence thoy
luttl come, ectuaily Mewed them to
MoreeolT at 0, greatly reduced priea
And he described himself as a
"herdened and shameless tea thinker,
who has for many years diluted his
meals with only the infusion of this
• fascinating plunt; whose ltel (bo has
scarcely 1ime to cool; who with tea
solactis
the midnight and with tea welcomes
the ramming." It is an amezing
I confession, but wo are bound to re-
member that this intemperate -tea
bibber lived to the age Of 75.
johnsen's record was equaled by
liiehop Gilbert Burnet, the author of
the well known "Histmee of My Own
Times," who is reported to have dig-
; posed of twenty-five cups itt a morn-
ing. Another man of letters of a
very different typo, Nathaniel Haw -
theme, who might have equaled the
doctor mt
eed his tea drinking; pro-
; penstiles early. When he was a very
yo .ng man Hawtborne was in the
ihabit of i isitiug at a house wlere
the hostess made exterl Iem. tea. and
Ione evening when the veitor's 51111
WaS paSSOd to be retitled she said:
"Now, Mr. Hawthorn°, I am going
to play Mrs. Thrale to yam' John-
-son, I know yeu are a slave to my
tea." The young Man made no re -
PLY, but he had no inclination to
play the role assigned to him, and
for five years from that night Haw-
thorne did not taste a cup of tea—
proteat Which Wenn: aS exuessive
in its wny as the inclination which
his hostess had attributed to lih.
ahem hate been other het•oes of
the teapot nut a fon- Hartley Colo -
ridge may Oth•ly claim a place
among the tea topers. Some one is
said to have asked him mice how
many cups he usually drank aril to
have received the scornful rply:
Cups! 1 dant count by cups. I
count by potrier Then there have
been others whom it would be hardly
fair to rank as tea topers, but whO
have shown marked devotion to the
teapot. Tit recent clays Mr, Glad-
stone end Dean Stanley would ap-
pear in this class but indeed Mier
list of enthusiastic levers in recent
times of what Waller called the "best
of Wm" would be of most; inordin-
ate length.
Al! :ANSWER 11F,ADY.
Evert a severe eviticiser may be
disarmed of its SOVerity by a happy
anewer that changes its meaning, and
it is often no less fortunate to he
able to turn a good-natured one, Sir
.(ohm) Wetson melon, who 01 timate-
ly immune President of the Royal
Scottish Academy, rased to tell this
story of Lord Palmerston:—
'I had exhibited for' several years,
but without any particular success.
Ono year, howevie, Lord Palmerston
took a sudden fancy to my picture
called 'Summer in the Lowlands' arid
bought it, at a high price. Nis lord-
ship at the saner time made inquir-
ies after the ertiet, and invited mo
to call upon him, 1 waited upon
him accordingly. lro complimented
nee upon the piettire, but said there
wan one thing about It he could not
understand.
'What is that, my lord?' 1 pokd.
'That there should be such long 1
grass in a field where there are so
nutey sheep,' said him lordship, I
Promptly, and with it merry twinkle
of the eye, It was a 'decided hit,
and, having bought the picture and
paid for it, he war; entitled to his
joke, 'Irow do you account for it?" c
ho wont on, Smiling, and looking first s
at the picture end then at me,
" 'Thoee sheep, my lord,' I t•epliecl,
"Were eels, turned into that field the s
eight before I (Wished the picture.' 1,
"His lordship laughed haertily, told
said 'Bravo!' at my reply, end gave I
me EL cominfesion for two rnoro pie- 0
tuari
res, d havecashed since then
scene veret notable cheques Of his,
dear Old beetle!
1
Lig ngered Loo— Di yoU ever f
etudy geometry, NociT'e Nimble Ned— y
'I clId.1t Tpeiogiilecteelitin:nerzeld, Leo—"Oood. t
wish you'd toll Me how to square 0
SOME PECULIAR WILLS
wrins AS LEACLES. 111
MANY iNsztialms,
Bitter Pilla to Swa- llow, But Pot: -
tunes in Money Decided the
Cass.
John Wi•O, of Cooker, County
Longford, Boland, willed his farm
to Patrick MacCarthy "under coudis
ticin that withia ono year after my
death he ecintraet marriage and
001110 to nemhou
e Ill y se ot Cooker
with Rose Anne Reilly, daughter of
Philip Reilly, of Totteyg•ardect." Ga
the teetator; death some time after -
weeds MacCarthy sought out Mies
licitly In America and offered her
marriage, She refused his hand, Lind
lie had to r(11,11411 with the terms or
Mr. Wren's will unfulfilled,
He (lid not, however, lose the farm.
for 1.110 Irish Master of the Rolls, be-
fore %Alain the matter Caine for hear -
trig, considered that in joerneying to
America and prhe oposing to tlady
he had done ell that lay in his power
to carry out the testator's intention
for the miscarriage of which he WEI8
ill 110 WiSu to 1)111131e. Finally, the
judge hold MacCarthy to be the
rightful owner ofethe farm, and nut
Miss Rcillys brother, to whose, ac-
cording to the will, it was to have,
reverted in the' event of the marriage/
not taking place.
A legacy saddled with a wife is
not, indeed, always an unalloyed
blessing, as a young Liverpudlian
discovered a few years since when he
siteceecled to a handsome fortune con-
ditionally on his espousing the tes-
tator's wiclow, a woman of unattrace
tive appearance and shrewish tometie.
Being, however, in sore pecuniary
stt•aits, he accepted
BOTH LADY AND FORTUNE.
The former dying within six months
of the marriage left hint In peece to
enJoy the latter.
Not long since Bt•istol gentleman
left a considerable fortune to Ills
nephew, provided the latter should
marry his eousin. Now, althmigh
the nephew was already deeretly
mated ho had luckily for himself
wedded his nice Americen
in Chicago, where the bond matri-
monial is by no means unbreakable.
So with his rolfe's connivance a di-
vorce on the ground of incompati-
bility of temper was obtained, and
by marrying his cousin ho was en-
abled to secure the accompanying
fortune.
An ecCentric citiven of Ih•eoklyn,
who owed his son a grudge, left him
nt, his death $250,000, $addled with
the condition that within the space
of a year be should marry a weinan
hearing the Christian mance of 'Pheo-
closia Sophonisba.
booting this name the yoimtig 11100
sought far and wide, and he WaS be-
ginning to dttspair of success when
the longed -for daniScl Owned up a
foW miles frt»n his own home.
No beauty wits she, however, who
bort) the requisite names, but his late
father's scullery -maid, a fullthlooded
nem ctss, whom the testat had
doubtless hall in his mind's eye when
be drew tip his fantest eerily punitive
testament. She Was a bil ter matri-
monial pill to swallow, but, as she
was well gilded, the legatee gull oil
her down and departed into another
Ccaintry
WHERE DE WAS UNKNOWN.
Somewhat similar though riot so
verdict lye, in spirit was the bepost
of $25,000 by a Mr, Muir to two
distant relatiVcs named Adam, con-
ditionally on their °spots/ eg id thin
six months two sisters named leve
who kept, a small milliner's shop in
a Midland. tlIV1.1. At first the laillem,
who, like the gentlemen, he d not
been eonselted in t he matt 01',de-
murrect at rec.eiving the addresses of
two strangees, but pt•ud(•nce at length
prevalled—thy wero no longer. young,
and the future was cloudy—and the
double marriage duly took leave
only, by reclean of the illness of ono
of the brithts, two days previous to
the lapse of the specified Lime.
A gentleman living in the North
of England espoused in second nup-
tials a lady weighing fully 1180 llire,
thereby °vetting the ridicule of his
1.wo sons, 15310 WOr0 11111ch (3Xatiperet-
ed at the mareiage. Ou teeth, father's
death soon afterwards they f mild
to their dismay that the ample leg-
acy that had hem bequeathed them
was conditional on their leading to
tho altar within six months LW° sia-
tors liVIng in the reigliberhood eho
were cet•tainly of not less avoirdu-
pois than their stePniother. The
elder preferred to forfeit the money;
bet the younger, by espotteiejs. ono o•
of the stipulated ladies, when ample .'
proportions would bave earneci her a
place in a freak 1111.1$01.1111, Se01.11.0d 1118
patrimony.
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THE DARINGNIIIS% OF JA Ci. e.
Tho number of sad neeiclente which
take place every year in the Britith
Navy go a long' way to &thew that .,
Jack Tars aro men of deering-do, A •
motto of the Service seetes to ho
"Nothing venture, nothing. cl 011J' '
for the Navy oan neVer be accused of
tot teying to excel in everything
that they tem a hand to. The keen- 1
less shown in gun practice et:counts IS
for many big accidents. After every
mend fired the gun is supposed to er
be carefully sponged, but it is well
mown that this vele is "winked at"
to a very largo extent, Whirl) 0 11- •
counts for the rentarkablo results in
speck -firing attained on some occa-
sions. Sponging a big gun Means
lelay. Jack consequently taltes the e.
'ice; jest for the chance of winning
at practice, NOW coal then there is
a big explosion through neglecting to 1.4
ponge properly, It caoldorn heppens 1
hat the real truth of the accident is tt
made knowe, and although all the
latelymen collld tell they eiMply
entinue in their claringuese.
'A schoolboy recently wrote the fol -
owing essay on "Frindship"; "A
riond is ono Who knows all abOut
011, rad likes you, all the same," If
hero Is amething more to be said
:a the subject, eve cah't Beagle()
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