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SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING' CHAP-
S. -8h Karl AlImplore Le bout
to wod Dolores, Lady lebyeworth. Lola
Ferrate has pressed her love upon him
but it ea aa been rejected and ehe vowe
vengeance on the object of hie affeoe
tion. Lola gaze% Abroad. Two year
paler happily when one niglat be goes
out oo znysterious businees.
elIA.PTER XXIII,--Cont Limed,
Mteir a few minutes her nerveene
tease inorease d so greatly that there
wag nothing left for her to do but
go down to tete old butletr in the
hall. He looked up in surprise at the
bountiful viaion .of silk velvet and
Pearle covered with white lace.
"My lady!" be (clad jumping up
Prom the chair. "I am atraid I was
aeleep I Did iyau want me?"
"I am uneasy about your master,"
the said. " He wee to have been back
at half past nine, and now it is past
eleven."
The anxime voice aseused the faith-
ful servant. Ile went to the hall door
and opened it, letting in a flood of
moonlight.
" There is ne cause for fear, my
lady," he xeplied,-"not the least. See
hem, ligat tets night in bright
an day."
She looked down the broad steps;
the moonlight lay on flowere and
tense, on the grass and the statues.
Malaat could there be to fear on sueh
a night? Nothing. More could be no
accident., she xeflected such as was
cncasioned at times by losing one's
way in the daek.
" May I ask, my lady,where Sir Karl
has gone?" inquixed the butler, "He
very ofteu tells me himself; but to-
night ho did not say a word of his
intentions -indeed, my lady, I thought
that he did not eeera quite well."
"Ile was not well," she replied
qatekly ; "it is that which has made
roe mew."
"I am euxe, ray lady, that there is
no need fon anxiety. Did you say
whexe my master bad gone?"
There was a look of distress and
ohildlike bewilderment on her face.
"I do not know, Erode:ham. He did
not tell me," Even as she spoke a
cold thrill of terror passed over her,
and a dreadful foreboding of sorrow
made her tremble.
"I am nulls surre, my lady, that you
need not be anxious. ale: accident
could have bappeaed on a bright
night like, this. You see for your-
self that it is almost as light as
day."
' Yea, I see',' she answered.
What the would have liked would
have been to go out herself in search
of See Karl.
" I should not like to leave you alone
my lady," said the butler; "but, if
you will peamit me to call the house-
keeper to remain with you I shall go
to the lodge -gates."
The first thing that Mrs. Pickering
did when she saw her mistress's white
face was to get her some wine. The
two stood together in the cold
moonlit hall whilo the old butler went
to the. lodge -gates. It was some
Linn before Frodsham returned, and
than he brought no news. The woman
at the lodge had seen nothing of the
master. She told him that the outer
gates were unlocked, and he had
paesed through ; he had looked down
the road, but there was no sign of
Sir Karl.
Lady A.Ilanmare wrung her white
jeweled hands.
" Oh, Frodsham. I am afraid some-
thing ha happened to him !" she
cried.
But still the old man scouted the
idea of danger. "Take my advice, my
lady," he said, "and do not get aux-
bus. Sir Karl knows every step of
the ground about here-hc mule not
lone himself if he tried. Ile went on
bueine.ss, you say rey lady Then he
has been detained."
"But Eradaham," cried his mistress,
with tears in ber eyes, "he would
not be detained, I am nine. He would
be so anxious. He would know nay
alarm. After promising to return at
half past niee, he would never have
atayed cut until eleven."
1111 the terryous forebodings of the
laat few weeks returned to her, and
the trembled like a leaf.
"I will wallr just a little way it2to
the perk myself," tam said.
" But not alone, my lady. I will
follow you."
"Six Karl is nowhere in tbe park,
my lady," said theold servant, at last.
"It will be better for you to come
back tes the Hall; mad, ef you still feel
anxione ,I will call soma of tbe men,
and they oan go in different direc-
tions to look for him."
eihe grasped at the euggestion •, and
the butler gave a great sigh of re-
lief when he loft he: to the care of
Mre. Pickering,
" Peanuade her to lie down," he said,
in a low voice. "She will wear herself
out; he may not be home for hours
yet"
Dolores followed the housekeeper's
advice. She lay down and tried to
compose herself, tried to believe that
there was nothing wrong; hut she
sprung up with a sudden cry of alarm
when ale heard the clock strike one.
" Call Foodeihara I" 'she creed. "He
meet send all the servants out. Oh,
how can they Mem when their mas-
ker it pexhape in danger ? We must
not delay any longer."
"My lady," eaid the housekeepen
"If yott could but let me speak 1 No
harem can have oomo to Sir Karl. If
you send the servants to look for him
the will not be pleased. 11 it should
get known that bees:nee See Karl was
out until one o'elook, emu eeet serv-
ants to emir the country -side for him
11 would not look well; and he would
ho angry. Gentlemen don't like every-
thing exposed to the world in that
eathion. Think Oe it, bay lady, before
tiie. servants ago
tee; to $re patient, but go
new and bewildering that I Panned)
wbat to do."
"Do you know in whatdieection
Six Karl went, or the netnre oe bIs
Dersincea 1" Milked Lard Ithemworell,
"NO, I do Mot; end ie thet width
dietreseee me so. lie told me that
be wattle 'exmlein all to is witenbo
rammed."
Leaking up StuldNalY, She Saw Leed
Rhyletvartine eyes fixed tenon her with
the EtaMo expression AS She had neon
in the Servants, and which had so
greatly, annoyed her, .
"You loamy eeelielleing," she said,
"and you aro keeping it from rue I"
flamw ke had tires to anewer, the
door opened and the &mire entere
ed.
" Dolorea, what Ls this I hear ?" he
cried. "Sir Karl gone I What in May-.
cane namo doeit mem 1"
" Gone, papa I" aIio xopeated de help.
leers bewilderment. "No one said he
wan gone! Be to messing, and I am
afraLd tome accident luta eel/petted to
The Squire looked at her piteously.
His ewe ware the same expression
that the hail nem ou Lord Rho -
worths; and the cried-
" You know something, papa; and
you are keeping it from me I"
"Sit down, nay darling," returned
the Squire, "and tell Me all that pass-
ed after 1 wont home. I left you talk-
ing to your husband on the lawn; be
wog telling you that be eould not
drive, me home became be had a busi-
ness appointment. Where was that ap-
pointment, and with whom 7"
"I do not know; he said tbat he
would explain it all to me on his re -
Then quite uneepecteely slier:aught
the glance that passed between the
equire and Lord Rhysworth. It was
ono or imeret Intelligenoe.
"IS you imow anything of Karl, oh,
tell one I", she cried. "Do not keep me
in suspense."
Neither? of the men answered her;
but the Squire drew her clomely to
him,
" lily darling, we will do all we can,"
said the elder Man after a few mo-
ments. "There will not be a place un-
eeamhed to which it is Probable he
has gone; let that assurance comfort
you."
But, papa, tell me whether you
know anything of him 7 Hee anything
been hoard? Why do people look eo
eternise? Why do they whisper to one
saaother 7"
" They axe all puzoled, any dear, I
should imagine," he replied, "and it
la a puzzle."
'Do yee think any accident has
happened to hen?" .the asked; and
the Squire /shook hie head gravely.
"No, Dolores, I do not."
"Then where um he be I Oh, pa-
ps, bring him back to me -do bring
'him back! I mime see him I I -I can-
not live without him I" She tamed
her miserable face to Lord Rhys -
worth. "Help me," she eried-"help
me to find Sir Karl.
"My dear lady, we will do all that
we can," he answered.
She flung up her arms in despair.
He will never come back again l'
she wailed. "I have felt it in eny heart
all along; it wasi too height to last -
too bright I I told him so, and be
laughed at me. Papa, it will kill
me I
"Nay, tmy dexling, you must live
for me, and for tbe children," replied
the Squire, "Besides, you must, not
give- up hope yet. Lord Rhysworth
will chive me over to Deeping, and
we will get men to eeaxeh the woods.
Take courage."
But her heart was heavy with dread.
They left her, and, were absent many
helm. She looked so white and wan,
so fragile and heart -broken, when
they xeturined. that tears came into
Lord Rhysevorth's eyes. The Squire
spoke Hest
" We hereto news, Dolores -neither
good nor bad; we have not heard or
seen anything of him."
With a faint sigh the, laid heir head
bit breast.
"Xy darling," cried the Squire,
"yea must not give way in this fash-
ion; you mut not indeed I 'Dry to
rouse yourself. Suppose an aocident
hue hammed to youn husband, and
he wants careful nursing; you will
be quite unfit to help him. Promise
me now to take some nourishment,
and then I will tell you, something."
"I will," the gasped.
In eilerace the Squere poured out
some wine, and in silence she drank
it. Was it her fancy, or did she bear
the Squire :whisper to Lord Rhys -
worth'. "Wo bad better tell her. She
muat know it ; andc I fear it ie true."
She turned to hian quickly ; he did
not know ;low bee senses were sharp-
ened by pain.
hear you, papa," ehe said -"tell
mo at once; Mae oaothing from me.
Take any handle in sclera and hold
them fust; that will give me strength
to listen to what you have to say.',
To Be Continued.
yen think bre will evea, orene 'Lynne
Again 7"
'01 canine ihe wbbb, My bide ; and by
thin time to -morrow you will have
had many a hearty lenge over tele
Thera are go many tillage that could
helm detained him, 'Mebane be bas
celled In honierivhexe, found, a gentle-
men's dinner -party, ,and haa not been
ablo to get away. Do (sheer up, my
lady; there is nothing to fear I",
Lady Illenmore lay quite still lis-
tening to the stream of eomfortieg
armee until the °look atruele four;
then, with re white, dazed false, she
looked at the houeekeeper and cried.
in a voice the woman never forgot,-
" It it roux o'clock. 1 tell you that
he will never come home again I I
feel 11. You youeself-are you not
anxima now 7"
lermishem was celled 111 egain. Then
it was decided that the men servants
reheat(' be roueed from their slum -
bee% and eent out in different diree-
Mona. The servants were called and
CaTaa in, looking sleepy and wonder-
ing what was the matter. Sir Karl,
they were told, had gone out at half
past seven the previous evening, in-
tending to return at half pent nine,
but nothing was heard of him since.
The men were all there, Including
James Aahfcerd, the groom, who had
driven the Squire home. Dolores,
whoee wits wean sharpened by sus-
pense, felt sure that she saw an ex-
peessiora of eurprise pass over this
man's face.
" lemma," she caled-"Sames Ash-
ford, do You know where Sir Karl
went ?"
The groona'a face flushed holly as
• anaweaed,-
" No, my lady," but to himself he
muttered, "I shall have to tell."
No pereciae elireetions could be giv-
en to the men. leorne went one way
and somo another. The rumor :Tread
quickly in the houiie that something
was amiss and one by one the worn-
engnevent's came dawn Dolores per-
suaded by ben* maid, went up to her
Onla room and lay down.
"It will be. all right now," tbe wom-
en told ter. "The men will be sure ;
to come back with good news." .1
Notwithstanding be,r distress she
fell aeleep ; end that one hoar'' sleep!
made tha awakening mare terrible I
still. She &relined that he tame back
that she heard his hurried footsteps!
up the gates, tha.t the door opened
and he, entered, with the same bright I,
loving look on hie bendsome face. He
went up to her, took her in his arms
and said, " darling, have I frigbt-
I mad you? I am $o Berry. I have
been at White Mere. Youx father WaS
not well, and I stayed with him. My
; sweet Dolores, how pale you are, how
, you tremble I Let me lees your rears
away." Once Inure his strong loving
armOs infolded her, and he kissed her
It as though he would never en life part
, from her again. He whispered sweet -
i est and mast loving wards to ber ;
; the was his love his darluag. With
her armee twined round him, she told
him all her fears. He laughed at
them. She heard the sound of his
:laugh so distinctly. "My darling Do -
loran" he eald, "rest assured that
l while I am on earth, nothing will ever
' keep me from you."
; But, alas, it was only a dreamt The'
' face bending over hers faded, the fig-
uro clasped in her arras was no long-
er there. She awoke. There was a
cold, gray light in the room, and the
was alone. No after -hours -not even
when the truth was xnada known to
her -were so terrible as this hour.
"Oh, Karl, Karl, where are you?"
thee:led, but tbere was no answer,
CHAPTER XXIV.
When the clock etruck eight, Lady
' Allan/nese came down stairs, looking
the ghost of herself. The servants gaz-
ed at her in wonder, as at one over
whom a great calamity hung. She
Stint Inc John Frodsbam.
You have no news for me?" she
aaid.
"No, my lady, no news," and the old
man's face was pale, and worn. He did
not look at her be ehrunk from meet-
ing herr eyes.
Quick as thought she weed out-
" You know sc.mething, Ertel:sham,
and you ere keeping ie from me:"
"1 know notable, any lady," he an-
swered; 'bat if I may make a Sug-
gestion it is that your ladyship should
send for seine frieed-enuni gentleman
-the &nitre, perhaps, or Lord Rhys -
worth."
"I will send fer both," she
"Give orders. Frodshain, at once I"
John Frodehain did so • eine she felt
same little relief, but she could not
rest. She wandered from room to
semm, through the grounds and gar-
dens, and amng the terraces, always
with the vague idea that the would
find Sir Karl or hear him.
Then the beertme censelous of some-
thing that annoyed and perplexed her.
Wheeever AO went in tee house she
found groupe of :meatus wheepering.
They broke off abruptly when they
eaw her; lend in each Imo she per -
owned a peculiar expression as
though they knew something, but
would not, or could at, ilnpart it. She
felt as theugh an atmosphere of rays -
tory marrow:Med ben Onee she spoke
to the weenen-servants more sternly
than ahe had ever spoken to there
beentre.
"Is thexe anything kept ercen my
knowledge," the asked, "that. you
whisper together And look so
strange?"
No, ray lady," was the answer;
but one by one they stole away lest
she. should ask them more.
Lord Rhystworth was the first who
came. Lady Allannaore Lehi mit her
hand to hira in greeting and olung
quite untoneeiously to him. it was
as though the had found rtfriend in
the midst of he.r dietrese.
"I am in great trouble, Lord Rhyg-
woe Lb," ahe said. "Sir Karl left re-
trial: evening at half -past seven 10
transact some business,' and nothing
iree heen 'beard of lihe since."
'So your groom told me, my dear
Lady Allarrenare; and mon grieved
and distressed am 1 to hoar 1.1. Yen'
knew yell may rely upon me. / are
entirely at your service. What would
you wialt me to doe"
"I cannot tell, 11 14 si trouble 80
OUR DEAR LITTLE FRIEND ONCE
MORE.
He was a thartning lieele fellow of
fear, pretty in his ways, good to look
at, but as nitughty as toeld be. Ife
sat on the bottom, step keekiag his
fat Little lege, and refusing ueterly
to obey Itio lather, who had told him
to go upotairre several times in in-
creaseng degrees of severity. After
few minutes of this clashing of wills
IlIs exasperated parent picked him up
sornewbat audde.nly, e-arreed him, and
,sat isbn d.own vean, firmly on a chair
in hie room, and then went outt and
ellen the door. Silence reigned. Not
sound fermi Item for at least half
an heel,. Then the door opened, and
a sweet. Little voteis called out; "nab -
0r, bave you got over your tantrum
yet, for 1 ahead like to oome down/
NOT THE, ONLY ONl1.
There's imenotheng wrong with this
Memel, mid :Mrs, DeS1s10, ae She an-
nounced herself reedy for the theater.
Premier lan't et provoking, It makes
et.goel leered,
ConeDiti yonateelf.- replied her hue.
band, It 'can't porielbly make yaw head
am timed as it will mako thee meek of
the poor fellow who heppene to 011
behead you.
P,reminer, yoa were naught bit (lis
aot of tbiroating your hands in this
bielee poteket. I Ions only trying to
put in Len adelreseeeterd 51 my place
a baseman .
NEW IDIlA, FOR( ORCHARDS.
A Oelereilleator ea of the opinion that
W9Ple trees at Mane varieties may be
benne* into euli beering at four
yams atter being eet, Iti the mallard
and quotes an instance of nineter
Lanes been:log the eightb season al-
ter setting got= 203 barrels of Moir -
ea apples.
They wean Baldwin, Rhode Island,
Greenling and Roxbury Russet, end
were set eighteett feet apart. Large
apple trees Eno 41.ab advotetted, teat
le, tines 'with tops spreaiding 3.0 tO
30 feet, and gaing up into thel atis 25
La 811 feet, irequilreag a tairty-foot
ladder to gathes the fruet. It is bet-
terr to set treel eighteen. feat apart,
useng 136 tmes per acre, and w.hen
the trees are tour years old, and come
Milo bearing, atop all other crop-
peng, and lett the trees bave an the
ground to grow and mature their
emit,
13y setting eighteen feet apart
there are 100 more trees to the wore
to bear from the Cane they are; four
years old, and they will noc crowd
each Other for ferteen years. At the
end of fifteen years the top ef (were
other tree should be cut back to cis
near the. body Of the tree as can be
done, and not leava the limb's, too large
the soma aa Nviauld be clone 11 the tree
were to be topegreeted. A neW top
of young threifty growth Would start
it wini)ch oit course would need to be
tilienned out onoperly, and in three
nom tha tree g would be in fall hear-
ing again when the tons of thoae not
cut back mie;y be served In like, man-
ner. Byl thia meethord oe treatment
the toe»yould be kept yaang, the
Lona wrould be grcee,n an young and
theitty wood, and the apples easily
plaked, and trees ca;sely sprayed. When
the i.,rves crowd agaVn, Let the Lops
be oat bank as before, or take out
every other tree e:ntirely.
As money from the orchard is ob-
ject them planting the 'Lanes 135 to
Lhe acre and keeling the tops within
a redline of about sixteenfeet, mare
apples will be taken froin this orchard
in teavaty os twenty-five years and at
least expense per mre than, would be
tronatihia same grownel.eveth trees set
therLy-five trees to the Mere 1a fifty
yeams.
'The above peen es for those who
have mado up thehr minds to go into
orchardring for the prolib thexe is in
le Id tate orchard cannot hare the
ass of ala the land, and pepper feeding
oultevating, spraying and trimming,
then ego an the present system.
Orchards should have no cut off years
but should bear every year at an av-
erage of two barrelsper tree, on 250
to 300 barrels Of Peeked uPPlee par
acre annually after the orchard is five
y1lcw cerlt untie tieteen )'cars old,
After this a treueh larger yield may
be expected.
FEEDING PIGS FOR PROFIT.
To begin witth you must have hogs
that are good eaters with good can-
at:nations, writes Mrs. Leroy Hackett.
Thw must be able to digest and as-
similate large quantitien of food and
thus convert it into bone, neu.sole and
fat. Only a hog capable at acumen -
peeling this can lea fattened with
profit. Pure-bred hogs are more
capable of accam,pliabing this than
mongrel. However, do not depend
too much on pe,dig,nee. If you are
planning ta neglect and half starve
yourze hogs you had better one& to the
razor back, as he de used to ithis sort
of tre,a,tment. lo addition to good
Lead and water, comfortable quarters,
well re.nelaated a:nd clean must be
provided. I tlaink houses provided
with cement flooxs wad troughs are
best. A man who nelewee lets hogs to
eat tram, the grciund, often, en mud
and filth, will never produce meat at
a profit. Then pork prodmed inthis
way is net fit Inc human consump-
tion.
The proprz time to begin feeding
for profit IS -when the pegs are fol-
lowing tibia sow. Tho sow should be in
good Both at faeroweng time. I3egin
feeding the pigs at four weeks old,
give them a litele soaked corn and
miitk gradnaily increasing the
amount. Do net oven feed. Do not
!Beep a sow and peg; en, a pen, but
allow them. the eon of e pasture. Feed
all they eat thane times a day and
nevelt. allow any leng to became poor.
Feed a Vainieity. earn, of coarse, must
be the bases of the pig's nation., but
In addition feed oats, bran, wheat
middlings aad (skimmed milk, than
few weeks before tee bogs are to be
sold fenith with earn. When Idles
come early ia, the spring, they Will be
ready Inc market boforo Gold weather
le this treatment Is peusieted in,
All feed,s will preeduce more pounds
of pork detreng werm than during
wed weethee, aeu.rther, the mast
profetable pork is made from young
members. Feed se/ hogs will weigh at
least 200 Des at abc month.s. Feed
lebe.rally and sell early. It is a MPS -
take to feed hags through the fall
and maniere Keep your eye on the
m,axlret and never ship your hog;
When there is an over-eupply, 1111/5
ca.in usually be avoided by, owreiully
evaterhener Vannes from: day to day.
letarket sewing pigs in Sept naul Oet.
and fail pigs in, March and April. I
PLOWING1 TIIE OROIIARD.
The Meenner ifl which too many
farmers PIM their oroliercle when
they plow them ab ll moments en
large nineteen:: tor parteal fruit fail -
ores ana uneatilefeetiory: growth of
trees. It ware'better not to plow up
the (cohere, meribioularly if the trees
leave not xemhed flull bearing age,
thee reelelneely gee ilereugh et ea the
epreng Math u deep -eel) plow and tear
oti^? .1'0011$ by weieleeele. Timm wieekl-
,n't he eel Melee, elainage eotte 11
the phew were net Mtn se Clew to the
treee. In ninny hesinneere 'the rows ire
eretee are Viewed the eleme as it they
were oe Poises hailing ne reins.
The efeeet Of Minh aneviee 'ere:it:-
Meet qg fruit teem is to eiheek Weed
growth and 01151010.raga an abnormal
proem:0E0n ef fruit. Thole Llee re-
active eontee, and tare, teem seem =-
welling either to emodluee ereit or de-
velop wood.,
Generally opeaking, an orehard
shotelie be plowed net •nrore then oneo
in, five yearo. Arid it eholuld ectt be
deal), ascii &boned °Lae earth be pewee
tin neer the trees; they oheuld 000upy
an unplowed strip twenty feet wide
otr more, depending upon their ago and
consequent root developeweet,
The oneharel never ahould be per -
witted to beeorne folul ocr infested with
wieeds. Dis,king early in tthe eming
ohookl be eollowad by peatiodical har-
rotain,gs through the sununer months
end until time for 8oeving e cover
oxen, Saga) 015 rye 01 vetch, ,
IAN -MINIM PRIVILEGES
WORE 14111 NIGHTCAP IN PRESENCE
OF HIS SOVEREIGN.
Dune or St. Anions Stay Drive Down Rotten
Itow Illientivor - Outmost
iigi.es Cant Cerny nor Own Trala 04
t
Among the many strange privileges
granted by Leiglish Segorelgns to
their subjects, probably the most
remarkable was the permission giv-
en to the Earl, of Sussex by Queen
Mary to wear his nightcap, or even
two nightcaps if he so wished, in her
Royal presence.
The Earl was a viettex of colds in
the head, which, like the law, are
ao tre.specters of persons, and as Ito
oonaidered catarrh in the head too
heavy a price to pay for loyalty, he
petitioned the Queen Inc permission
to wear hia nigbtcap itt hee,presence.
The 'patent conceding this unique
privilege ia one ef the most amusing
in Royal annals, It runs thus;
"Know ye thee we do give to our be-
loved and trusty cousin and counsel-
lor, Henry, Led of Sussex, Viscoent
Fitzweater and Lord of Egreraund
and Purnell, license and pardon to
wear his cap, or nightcap, or any two
of ithiem, at hie pleasure, ad well in
our presence as in the peesence, of any
person or persons within this realm,
or any other place in our do.uainions
wheresoever, during his life; ad these
our Letters shall be oufficient warrant
in his behalf."
Whether or not this privilege was
,heredifetry does dot appear; but if
it had bean transmitted to suoceed-
ing bearers of the title the Duke of
Connaught, who is also Earl of Sus-
sex, would enjoy the curious license
to wear twonightcaps intim preemie°
of . his august brother,
RING EDWARD VIL
An interesting privilege which has
not been exercised ior the last six-
ty-three years is that which permits
the Duke of St. Albans, of all ithe
King's subjects, to drive down
Rotten Roos- whenever he withes to
take an airing. There are obvious
reasons why, apart from the dignity
Such a drive should not be pleasant
or desirable; and the last oreasion on
which the Beauclark livery and equip,
age were men in Rotten Row was
when the Duke oe the time drove in
great State to our late Queenee Coro-
nation,
When the Duke onNorfoik, the most
massuraing of great nobles, mar-
ried Lady Flora Hastings in 1877,
the question was raised as to his
hereditary right to a (revelry escort,
a priviLege which had been conceded
to his anoestora Lor centuries. The
right. was recognized; and the Duke
wits content with the concession with-
out wishing to give reflect to it.
The Duke inherits the strangely
contrasted offices of Earl it.larshal of
England and (thief Butler to the Xing,
and has alesolube control over all
the arrangements for Coronations
and public emotions at Westminster
.Abbey; and as Butler can claim( a cup
of solid gold from the Sovereign on
hie Coronation.
Among the ,great ladies of the Court
the most ooveled distinetion is that
,enjayed by the Counteas Spencer, who
is allowed to carry bier own train
when passing through the Dwane -
roam, inatead of having it spread( be
Royal pages, it perraiSSinal of which
she does not care to avail herself.
Far Many hundreds of years the
Lords Xingsale have enjoyed, with-
out exercising, the strange paivilege
of l'elemening with their heads eon-
ered in the
PRESENCE OF ROYALTY,
a concession given c.enturies ago to
a De Conroy in eased:ration off his her-
culean strength and doughty valour
as champion of his Xing. IV ie in-
iteresting le knew that the present
owner of this mere concession is the
managing director elf a tea Qom -
pay in London, who is the last men
in the world to care to exereise his
ancestral privilege. -
But Lord Kiageale is not, rte, is com-
monly supposed, the only peer who
may remain covered Wore his Xing
eyelet impunity. The same liberty
was granted nearly eaur centuries
ago to a Forester by Xing Henry
VIII., and has been transmitted to
the 111 II Baron Vermeer of our owe
day.
Of Soottish eu.kes, hie Grace of At.
gyll has, like his ancestors, a claim
ta certain apartments 151 mayrooa,
ad tho privilege oe Offering, in -
'dead al like the Duke ote Norfolk, re-
mixing, a gold cup to the Xing on
hia Ceroinalion; and on the same oe-
eaerion the Duke of Athell May offer
to his Sovereign a octet tef falcon.
Ardong SWIMS priviieges enjoyed
equally by all 'leers are the right le
be hanged by a coed a/ silk instead
v/ one of hemp, like their lele high-
born Salluctout 10 froeileml frOM arrest
except Inc eceony 1 and, fri. 011.06 of
belony,
tel be tried by their, peers( and
Go oetnaln monad in the 'preseriee of
judgent
•
ABOUT OUR OWN COUNTRY
NEWS FROIVI TUE DIFFBRENT PRO.
VINOES 910 THE DOMINION,
Jae 14/q0kIO ThOt Interest tivo Canadian
reonio inaortinteled newly - What ic
Going OR E*'efl IPI� Ailiintle to 1110
Liaglartyef population is 7,024.
Peanbanke'a population Le 0,731,
Ganaxioque's population la 3,718..
Aylmer, Ont., has u population of
0,183.
Desexonto will feral a Magri of
Trade.
London may Soon bave a abook ex -
ohmage,
One nonalleex ottee eon the town oI
Pembroke e034.
A Erospeotore' Union is to be formed
itt Nolaon, 13, C.
A. lock manufactory raay be eetab-
Belied at Belleville,
An hiatarioal society is to be or-
ganized at eobourg.
Owen Sound pmeesses chain table
and casket fectories.
Waterloo Old Boys purpose holding
a re -mien et
The Lindsay Golf Oluile will lay out
links at Sturgeon Point.
Sault Ste. Maxie carpentere and join -
eon hare organized a uition.
Anglia McDonald kat a hand in a
raaehine at Owen Sound chain factory:
Coanmissionets Ross was banquetted
at White Rene, on his way to Dawson
City.
jainee Ilaloanquel bon bema elected
president of the Belleville Obeese
Beard.
B. J. Blaney has been appointed
clerk of the Towinehip of Taxbutt, 18
Algoma.
A. 11. Wallace brie been elected pre-
sident of the Guelph Retail Clarks' As-
eociaticat,
Galt Town Council leen attruek a
tax sato of 18 j.-2 miles, a mill higher
than Met /year.
The G.T.R. will erect new station
buildings in Petrolia of red brick and
hancesoano design.
Rev. D. Willi:tree, of aratiora, ad-
vocates the early cloeing of stores
on Satueday night.
Puny C. Howell, a London, Ont.,
boy, is e goirgeant in the American
army in the Peilippinee.
Jobn, F. Boyce inspector of colon-
ization roada, was banquet:tea on his
departhre from Theasalen.
11 Angus Meheastex, fomerly of
Guelph, was married en New York to
Miss Ada Balmer, of Brkeville, '!'ann.
W. R. White of the Wahaah and G.
T. X Simeon hag been promoted to
the position of yard master at Chat-
ham.
Mr. Cheswright, of the Walkerton
High school, dropped his gold watch
in the mill rime the other day. The
water WAS let off, but the watch was
gone.
Dr. R. C. McKeohnie, has been elect-
ed preeident of the Nanaimo labour
party. Ralph Smith, M.P., will be
banquetted on his xaturn from Ot-
tawa.
Mee. II. $. Greenwooee daughter of
Sir. Henry Jaly, is Leaving very soon to
join her hueband Lieut. -Col. Green-
wood, formerly of Peterhoro, in South
Afxioa.
,W. D. Card, a barrister of Galt, will
Lt ie lead, loeate in Henaptville, In a
sheet time He ea a son of Chaplain
Card, of the Penetangueshene Refer -
ma toxy.
Dr. Edward Richardson, son of Was.
Richardson, Brockville taa received
appointmenb to the position of house
auageon of the Carleton County Gen-
eral Hospital, Ottawa.
A.n organization known as the South
Ate -loan Volunteer' Association has
been formed al Strathoona, N.W.V.
Members of the C.M.R. :tad Strall-
ecnue limo are °legible Inc member -
The proprietreas or the Windsor Ho-
tel, Regina, was fined 3100 and costs
Inc art illfraCti011 of the liquor law,
and, beimg a second offence, lest hes
license. An appeal Arta been entoxed.
()mooing is boonaing in Roehester.
A. big company in that city has en-
gaged Oaptain Grylls, of Lakefield, to
take charge of a department for the
manufacLare of the well known Cana-
dian craft.
The population of the County of
Kent ig as followse-Camden townshM,
0,515; Chatham, 5,099; Devoe, 4284;
Harwich, 4,503; Howard, 3,528; Orford;
2,544; Raleigh, 4,449; Rcanney, 1850;
Zane, 1,198; Tilbury, Beat townabip, 8,-
320 ; Blenheim, town, 1,076; Bothwell,
834; Dresden, 1,584; Ridgelown, 2,208;
Walladebeeg, 2,861; Thaanesville, vil-
lage, 898; Tilbuiry, 1,032. Total, 44,490.
PHOTOGRAPHY TO THE FRONT.
A evell-knoten photographer recent-
ly had his house overhauled. A now
skylight was added and alterations
were made in the roof.
The men took their time and did
not ovor-work themselves, but Ohs
did not prevent the builder front
preseating a very long bill.
When the owner at the houso ex -
posture -toil it was explained to him
that the mon had to be paicl fur
their time, and they had spent sev-
eral days on the job.
No wonder, sold the photographer;
need then he produced a number of
snap -shoe photographs representing
the Men on the roof of Ilia house as
taken from the attic window, Sone
Were sittieg smoking, 801110 evero
reading newspapers, and others wore
lying on their backs.
Why, said the nstonished builder,
theso ate mer numl
Exactly so, replied the phetogeaple-
or, and they are mining eity money,
$HE E GREAT LOOTER,
OREAT BRITAIN 415 THE WORLD'!
GRAMPION fLADIARIST.
't
Bricisb, Syndicate Will Make Steel rrenit
Zdtsonn leateetts -Erie:eine Cotton
Trade -Alm carrion Tive4'htrde01 ttke
Cannucroo,
11 etelkeng illuetretion of the oelor -
illy with wheat John Bull snaps up
the foereignera' industrial edam wae
eliown the other day in connection
with Ddison'a discovery of a method
of utiliaing low geade non -Bessemer
irOn-orea to produce high-grade Bes-
semer steel, Tee invention is, Of
°online,00 Amerioan one, says Lon-
don Anewers,
Xt la -So expeuis declare -going to
[revolutionize the Isteel trade. But le ,
La them to be need to advance the
intoreets of our American rivals? Not
a. bit or a. 5. Dritiall dyndleatd has
[secured the hole patent reghts, ansi
ben also acquirree ore -bearing estateg
en Norway and Portugal, which, for-
merly valueless, will shortly be, so
the dereotore assert and believe, more
valuable, than a gold -name of niMilair
11 has been frequently said that
Araerrioa grows the worlrl'a cotton, and
that England manufacturea it. Thie
asaextion, however, is only partied,
true. America no longer dominate,
the raw -cotton market, tor the sim-
ple mason that WO have taken to
growing ootton on our own account
in India --we produced 2,410,000 bale%
there last year, ad against America's
9,439,559 -and in Egypt. The induetaw,
ea thia latter country is yet 1
ONLY IN ITS INFANCY. I I, e
the art of spInniag cotton was known
Marc than ems hundred yeare ago
and pauctised in Italy, and about the
beginning of the seventeenth cannery,.
the Duto.h beg= manufacturing imi-
tattom of the cotton fabrice which i
they isapoated from India. Several oth,
their Mende at. the new industry; but 4111.•
ex Continental countrLea also tried
lelngland just waited. It was not un-
til the closing year of the eighteenth
century that eve began to apply the
knowledge gained by foreign experi-
menters to our awn uses. :Last year
we used up more them 6,500,000 bola',
ond monopolised eiectemsix per cent.
trade en manufactured
to the wear 1702 a poor Notting
ham f.ramerwork knitter, returnin
boners from work in the evening, wage
aormsted by it stranger, who explain
ed by signs -for he could speak n
Englirsh.-that he was hungry and
tired, and dwarfed food and shelter.
The kindhearted ,workman took him
home to hie humble cottage, and there
rested him many days, In return, the
wanderer, who proved to 1.03 a Hugue-
not :refugee, presented his benefactor
with a piece of fine lace, which he
in turn, gaveto his wife, who aewed
it 011 flOr cap.
In course of time, terough constant
wear, the lace became frayed, and the
eulilleh
e7trittexngatruxt
itand
m
,stutiv1aeule
gu c at tere;
f
of the aavelled thread, invented a
mode of applying bit stocking -frame
to lha Stui uir Pithuat etrle aa tsoir,11;11Parztrb tho
origin of the Engliah lace -making in-
dueay-an industry wheels at tbepre
sent _moment employ8 dixectly more
than
FORTY THOUSAND PERSONS.
We arra not above even talcing
leaf out of the peek of the wily Coles
tial, when it sults our purpose, are
withese the startling revolution whin
has come over the tea trade. In 187
not it single pound of tea was ire
ported into England from Ceylomand
only a paltry 21,852,000lb. frona India.
Laat ye.ar India and Ceylon tient near-
ly 270,000,0001b.
The fleet practical boat to be pro-
pelled by steam -power was launohed
oa the Harlem Rives, New York, by,
an American named Fulton, in 1807;
It was pot until five years later that
tho "Comet," the first British -built
steamer, was put upon the Clyde. Eng-,
laud at that time did not own a sin-
gle apecinten of the aloW craft, not
war one seen until 1815, rhen Mr.
Dodd, of Glasgow, launcbed his first
ateamboat an the Thames. Yet we
now own 11,513,750 tons of steamers -
to say nothing of sailing -ships -in
which we carry, roughly, two-thirds
of the world's ceeameroe
No; England need not be afraid of
America or Germany, Or my other
country filching from us our Indus -
Laird suprentauy, so long as we are slat.
too Pr011d to learn. ,
RECRUITS FOR BRITISII ARMY.
• Nunther Wan Enlisted Itenveen .1111110
ary and Hatch 1.1101 Wag 50,5111.
A Eritieh Parliamenta-ey return has
been dasued showing the number of ,
rearaLle evho joined the regular weave -
and the militia during the first throe
menthe of each isee.J.., from 1807 to
1001 inclueive. Taking the regular'.
apeny fleet, it appellee that in Wenn-
awly, :February and lVfarcli of 1897, 8,303,
Men enliated ; lit 1898 there were 9,-.
581; in 1899, 9,(105; in 1000, 10,011 ; and'
in the emcee period .o.0 tbe present
yeas, 12,810. Isi adeilien to 'thee lat-
ter nuanber there were during the
flame peeled, 26,843 neonate raised Inc
the Tanpeirial Yeomanry, the South
A.erknen Conetabulery and other !Me -
&al coirpa ra Lecondrataheitonhttolltalitient., juaa,nitindlittlake.Let176,08
Illte mitt:40.111ot; t4504,52i
between jranuary to March kiwi. The
figures for the anelnia daring elm
seres peaeorl of each wear were; 1897,
12,662; 1898, 12,012. 18004 12,407; 107.0;
12,079 ; 1901, 10,878,
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DIA'airriLONIAL
It was Dentist leteGafeeiy, the veretore
of verrisee to whiota si lady said:
0 Ian MoGatifey, MI leave just saoltt
your eveee far the first time since your -a
inuerealge; but 1 bed ottppotee,d the was,
a taller woutare Seel settee geode
than. Wheel 1 selw Lee test
tatmeree
in17;8‘l4itid attrud b6ar4e0teclt1
eet'i'n1117w.nni
Shrs lu,