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(Copyright, 109, by the Author.]
"As for yon, you jack ,a dandy,''
Edward Conway 'went on, taking no no-
tice of her interruption,, "I didn't know
you this morning When I saw you Stand-
ing talking at the old man's door. I
asked you if you knew some people here
who were passing tinder the name of
Stacey. and you asked me what the man
was like and what he did for a living.
I told you that he scribbled novels and
that I did not know what his appear-
ance was., and you told me that you had
never met him."
"I never did," said Stacey, with de-
liberate insblence.
"You told me that you did not know
anything about Min, and you sent me—
von sent me—you sent me to Roathlyni
Yon told me that there was somebody
—an artist or a scribbling chap or
tionaebody—who lived by his wits and
who had a pretty woman with him
staying at Roathlyn. You thought you
had got rid of me, ebit But you were
beaten for once in your life. Yon live
by your wits, do you? Eh? And other
people have wits, if they don't live by
'eml I went down the street, after we
parted at the door here, and I asked an
old grandfather, who looked a cheery
old soul and likely to know the neigh-
borhood—I asked him if he knew any
people of the name of Stacey. He put
me on the right track. °Why,' said he,
°that's the gentleman who is living at
the Powys Arras—him I've heard tell
is writing a story book.' So I came
back to find the gentleman who was
wring a story book."
"Thia," said Alan Stacey, his voice
very cutting and calm—"then, my good
sir, you can go back again. ,This is not
the place in which to settle a dispute of
this kind. I presume yon have a law-
yer. I will give you the address of
mine. No power on earth can force
this lady to live with you again. She
definitely refuses the honor. Everybody
in London knows where I live—or if
there be any that don't know they can
very easily find out I will give you
every information."
S"You will give me roy wife.
That I never will. While I have
breath in my body I will stick to the
woman who took me in good faith for
better. for worse. And if I know any-
thing of my friends they will honor
her more for staying with me than they
• would if she went back to what some
people would call her duty and you.
"Lawyers!" repeated Edward Con-
way contemptuously. "I don't believe
in lawyers between man and wife. Not
a bit of it I It is all simple and fair and
aboveboard. I want nothing out of the
way. but what I want I mean to have.
I married yon white faced hussy be-
cause I was mad about her. I was a
fool, but men are always fools in that
way I've been stuck on a desert is-
land for a long time, where I've had
nothing to do but to think about the
wife who scorned me, and I thought—
and I thought—that if ever I got back
Pd make her eat her words—I'd make
ler come like a dog to my feet."
"Here! Get out of this!" said Stacey,
breaking in ruthlessly upon his raving.
"Get out of this There'll be no 'dog
to your feet' about this lady. So, my
good fellow, put that out of your mind
at once. Take what steps yon like.
Enter a divorce We shall not defend
it. Please yourself whet you do, only
take yourself out of our way. That's
all we ask. At all events get out of this
room It's mine."
"And that—that is my wife!"
"That's as may be settled in court
afterward Get out of my room 1"
"Not without rny wife."
"I promise you you will, and you'll
go a good deal quicker than you like if
you don't get out at once. Now, come.
°Then, Tau good sir, vou Can go bads
again."
I don't want to make a scene or a row.
You're an older man than I am, and I
don't wish to try which of as is the
better man of the two. At the same
time your presence is unpleasant to me
and distasteful to this lady, and the
sooner you relieve us of it the better.
Now, out you go 1"
There was a Momentary scuffle, and
then the door was shut and Alan Sta-
cey's back Was against it. He and Mary
were on one side of, the door and Ed-
ward Conway was ,on the other.
On his side Edward Conway began
frantically to beat at the door; then he
kicked, and tit laet, when the stoat
panels showed signs of giving may,
there was a sudden cessation of the
efforts to enter—al pause, a groan and
the sound Of a heavy body tumbling to
the ground, •
"Hush! Something has happened!'
%aid Stacey to Mary
"Oh, Alan I"
"Yea; they've all stopped talking, I
heard the landlord's vole° a minute
awn, 1 ahall (men the door."
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"On. no t doe't, Alan! He may shoot
"No. not Listen I He hes had a fit'r
And soit proved to be. The excite,
went, the great mental struggle and
the physical strain to which the unfor-
tunate mon had put himself in trying
tO fcrce open the door had all clone their
work
When Alan opened the door, it was
to find Edward Conway on the stone
floor of the pasSage in a fit of 'apoplexy
and Mary was practically a free woman.
They raised him from the floor and car-
ried him to bed, but he never spoke or
showed signs of consciousness again
For a few hours he lingered, breathing
heavily and with labor, and durb2g all
those hours of anxious waiting Mary
staid down on the beach, listening to
the beatinga the waters upon the
rock bound coast and wondering, won-
dering, whether Providence would be
kind to her or not •
Then Alan Stacey came down to tell
her that all was over:
"Dear," he said, "this has been a
horrible time for you. I knew as soon
as the report came that they had rescued
some of the crew of the Arikhama; I
saw it in. the evening papers. 1 have
never been sure whether you knew or
not. Perhaps I was selfish to keep it
from you, but I felt that 1 could not—
could not—come and tell you what
would put you out of my life, out of
my home, although nothing could ever
nut von out of my heart. Nobody will
know tul,ything about it now unless in-
deed by the merest chance, when there
would be neither blame nor ignominy
attached to either of us. I told the
landlord a lie. I told him that Conway
had mistaken .you for somebody else,
and he believed it. I told him that it
would be Very unpleasant for you if;
when his relatives came down, you
were mixed up in the story in any way, -
and I gave him a tenner to leave us out
of the affair as far as is possible. He
was most sympathetic. He will never
trouble us. We will go back to London
at once—we can get part of the way
tonight—and as soon as possible we
will be quietly married in some out of
the way church, where nobody need
know anything about us."
"Dear Alan," said she, "what out of
the way church will you find where no-
body will know anything about you ?"
"Well, dear child, there are good
souls in the world who would not hurt
us by blazoning forth this unhappy
story.' It is no great matter if the world
does know; it will be certain sure then
that you and I are fast tied in wedlock.'
THE END,
ERE ANE-AN.]XTRA
By RUDYARD KIPLING.
When halter and heel ropes are slipped, do
not give chase with sticks, but with gram.—
Punjabi Proverb.
After: marriage arrives a reaction,
sometimes a big, sometimes a little, one,
but it comes sooner or later and must
be tided over by both parties if they de-
sire the rest of their lives to go with the
current
In the case of the Cusack-Bremmils
this reaction did not set in till the third
year after the wedding. Bre/mean was
hard to hold at the best of times, but he
was a beautiful husband until the baby
died and Mi. Brennan wore black and
grew thin and mourned as if the bot-
tom of the universe had fallen out. Per-
haps Brenwnil aught to have comforted
her. He tried to do so. I think, but the
more he comforted the more Mrs. Brent-.
mil grieved and consequently the more
uncomfortable Bremmil grew-. The fact
was that they both needed a tonic, and
they got it. Mrs. Bremmil can afford to
laugh now, but it was no laughing mat-
ter to her at the time.
Yen see, Mrs. Hauksbee appeared on
the horizon, and where she existed was,
fair chance of trouble. At Simla her by-
name was the "Stormy Petrel." She had.
won that title five Ernesto my own cer-
tain knowledge. She was a little, brown,
thin, almost skinny woman, with big,
rolling, violet blue eyes and the sweetest
manners in the world. Yon had only to
mention her name at afternoon teas for
every woman in the room to rise up and
call her—well—not—blessed. She was
clever, witty, brilliant and sparkling
beyond most of ber kind, but possessed.
of many devils of malice and mischie-
vousness. She could be nicer though,
even to her own sex. But that is anoth-
er story ,
Bremmil went off at score after the
baby's death and the general discomfort
that followed, and Mrs. Hauksbee an-
nexed him She. took no pleasure in
hiding her captives:- She annexed him
publicly and saw that the public saw it.
He rode with her and walked. with her
and talked with her and picnicked with
her and tit:fined at Peliti's with her till
people put up their eyebrows andsaid,
"Shocking!" Mrs. Bremmil staid at
home turning over the dead baby's
frocks and crying into the empty cradle,
She did not cere to da anything else,
But some eight clear, affectionate lady
friends explained the situation at length
to her in ease elle should miss the cream
of it. Mrs. Inefeemil listened •quietly
and thanked them for their good offices.
She was not as clever as Mrs. Hauksbee,
btit she was DO fool Ellie kept her own
counsel and did not speak to Brent/nil
of what she had heard. This is woeth
remembering. Speaking to or crying
over a 'husband never did any good yet
When Bianninil was at 116me, which
WaS nal. Often, he was more affection.
ate than ussetl. end that showed' his
hand. The affection was forced partly
to soothe Iris own eonscience and partly
to soothe Mrs lareinitil, It failed in
both regards ,
Then "the ,A. 0 C. in waiting was
comtnandecl by their excellencies Lord
and Lady Lytton to inVite Mr and
Mrs 0(15801< 131(1011 to Peterhoff on
• 'I eetnnot go, '' said Mrs. 'Breininil,
'It is too soon after poor little Morrie
but it need net Stop you, Tom,'
She meant what she said then, and
Bremmil said that he would go just to
put in an appearance Here he spoke
the thing which was not, and Mrs.
Bremmil knew it She guessed—a
woman's guess is numb more accurate
than a man's certainty—that lie had
meant 4o go from the first, and with
Airs, Hauksbee, She sat down to think,
and the ontcome of her thoughts was
that the memory of a dead' child was
worth considerably less than the affec-
tions of a living husband, She made
her plan and staked her all upon it, In
that hour she discovered that she knew
Tom Bremmil thoroughly, and • this
knowledge she acted on.
"Tom," said she, "I shall be dining
out at the Longniores' on the evening
of the 26th. You'd better dine at the
dab."
This saved Bremmil from making an
excuse to get away and cline with Mits.
Hauksbee; so he was -grateful and felt
small and tnean at the same time,
which was wholesome. Bremmil left
the house 'at 5 for a ride, About half
past 5 in the evening a large leather
covered basket came in from Phelps'
for Mrs. Brernmil. She was a woman
who knew how to dress, and she had
not spent a week on designing that
dress and having it gored and hemmed
and herringboned and tucked and
rucked (or whatever the terms are) for
nothing. It was a gorgeous dress. slight
mourning. I can't describe it, but it
was what The Queen calls "a creation'
—a thing that hit you straight between
the eyes and made you gasp. She had
not much heart for what she was going
to do, but as she glanced at the long
mirror she had the satisfaction of know-
ing that she had never looked so well
in her life. She was a large blond, and
when she chose carried hereelf superbly.
After the dinner at the Louginores'
she went on to the dance—a little late
—and encountered Bremmil with Mrs.
Hauksbee on his arm. That made her
flush, and as the men crowded round
her for dances she looked magnificent
She filled up all her dances except three,
and those she left blank. Mrs. Hanks -
bee caught her eye once, and she knew
it was war—real war—between them.
She started handicapped in the strug-
gle, for she had ordered Bremmil about
just the least little bit inthe world too
much, and he was beginning to resent
it. Moreover, he had never seen bis
wife look so lovely. He stared at her
from doorways and glared at her from
passages as she went about with her
partners, and the more he stared the
more taken was he He could scarcely
believe that this was the woman with
the red eyes and the black stuff gown
who used to weep over the eggs at
breakfast.
Mrs. Hauksbee did her best to hold,
him in play; but, after two dances, he
crossed over tohis wife and asked for-
a dance.
"I'm afraid, you've come too late.
Mr. Brenamil." she said, with her eyes,
twinkling
Then he begged her to give him, a
dance, and as a. great favor she allowed
him the fifth waltz Luckily five stood
vacant on his prograname. They danced.
it together, and there was a little flat-
ter round the room. Bremmil had a.
sort of a notion that his wife could
dance, but he never knew she danced
so divinely At the end of that waltz
he asked for another—as a favor, not
as a right—and Mrs. Bremmil said,
"Show me your programme, dear!'
He showed it as a naughty little school-
boy hands up contraband sweets to a
master There was a fair sprinkling of
on it besides "H" at supper. Mrs.
Bremmil said nothing, but she smiled.
contemptuously, rap her pencil through
seven and nine --two "H's"—and re-
turned the card with her own 0011101
written above, a pet name that only
she incl het' husband used. Then be
shook her finger at him and said, laugh-
ing, "Oh, yousilly, silly 'boyl''
Mrs. Hauksbee heard that, and—she
owned as much—felt she had the woret
of it. Breromil, acceptedseven and nine
gratefully They danced, seven and at
out nine in one of the little tents. What
Brennnil said and what Mr's Bremmil
did is no concern of any one.
When the band struck up, "The Roast
Beef of Old England," the two went
ottt into the veranda, and Bremmil be-
gan looking for his wife's dandy (this
was before rickshaw days) while she
went into the cloakroom. Mrs Hanka-
bee came up and said. "Yon take we
in to supper, I think, Mr. Bremmil
laremthil turned" red and looked fool-
ih. "Ah‘na t going home with my
wife, Mrs Hauksbee. ithink there has
been a little mistake!' Being a man,
he spoke es though Mrs. Hauksbee were
entirely responsible
Mrs. Bremmil came out of the cloak-
room in a swan's down cloak with a
white "cloud" round her head She
looked radiant, and she had a right to.
The couple went off into the darkness
together. Brennnil riding very eloee to
the dandy,
Then says MTR Hauksbee to me—she
looked a trifle faded and jaded in the
lamplight—"Take my word for it, the
silliest woman can manage a clever
man, but it needs a very clever woman
to manage a fool."
Then we went in to supper,
stilt Virotail 'Save It.
Blobbe—Poor Bjones has dyspepsia
so badly that he says his 1120 isn't
worth living.
Slobbs—But Mrs. Biones says he in-
siste upon calling In the doctor when- '
ever he has an ache or a pain all the
same.—Pbilaclelphia Record.
A WonOtois 'tension. '
"Katharine iS so high tempered that
she never reads a, novel through."
, "Pray, tell me, what has her temper
to do with her novel reading?" '
Whd '
y, she gets ma at some charac-
July 26. at 0.81) p nt " "Dencing" was ter In the book and throws It In the
in the bottom tett 1Int)(1"e,''..,'
tire."—Detrolt Free Press,
A
THE WEEDER,' '
Its Place fie Modern PaconLeog and
si`enit G'eolviitge
When it was dieeonstrated that a
soil mulch was neeessari
y n the Corn-
fields of the middle west as well as the
fruit orchards all over the 'United
States, the matter of a shallow going
inetrument became a necessity. It has
been largely eupplied in the numerous
surface working cultivators known as
weeders and used either as ludepen-
ent implements or attachments to the
ordinary farm cultivator. That they
have been the means of increasing the
output of the farm and orchard there
Is no doubt.
But everything must not be expected
Of the weeder. On a large as well as
a sine ecale the best crops cannot be
raised unless the ground has been well
plowed and made thoroughly fine be-
fore seed is planted. pbe e.s.-act depth
of plowing cannot be arbitrarily stated
Lor all sections of the country, as so
=en depends upon the character of
the soil, the amount of. moisture avail-
able during the growing season and the
climate in general. Broadly speaking,
a ,deep loamy soil In a comparatively
warm latitude, as, for instance, that
of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and
the greater part of Illinois and Iowa,
will give the best results if the land
Is turned up each year to a depth of
six, seven or even eight inches. Of
course this deep plowing must not be
done at first. If the field has been
plowed from year to year to a depth
,of five inches, go one inch deeper every
year, or, at least, every second year,
until the desired depth is reached.
In a dry country where the soil is
very loose deep plowing will be a detri-
ment unless harrowing and compacting
are well done. Go over the ground
with drag, harrow, disk or subsurface
packer until the clods have been bro-
ken up and the loose ground is compact
enough to keep the winds from steal -
Ing away the moisture. After this Is
done a large storage reservoir has been
provided which will conserve moisture
during the early part of the growing
season and make it available for the
needs of the plants during July and
August.
All this work, however, will be of no
avail unless the upper two or three
inches are kept loose and light.Here
Is where the weeder or fine tooth culti-
vator comes in. It is light, easily op-
erated and so large that a considerable
area of ground can be gone over in a
day. If corn has been planted and the
surface of the field beeomes compacted,
follow the planter with the weeder. If
the rains come and "cake" the surface
before the corn appears, go on the field
as soon as it is dry enough and break
up this crust with the weeder. If
weeds start and another rain hardens
the surface before the corn Is big
enough for the regular cultivator, go
over it again with the weeder. The
small teeth can go close to the hill
withont injuring it, thus breaking up
the hardened soil close to the plants.
The cultivation which is suitable for
corn applies to all field and garden
'crops, and not only can a weeder be
used where the grains or vegetables
are planted in rows,but in early spring,
when winter wheat and rye are several
inches high and the surface of the
ground is hard, the weeder can be run
over the fields with profit.
The foregoing applies particularly to
the deep, loamy soils. On cold, wet, I
compact soils the plowing must not be
so deep, five inches probably being the
limit. Moreover, it is not necessary to
compact the ground after It has been
plowed, but thorough pulverization is
essential, and this can usually be ac-
complished by means of a disk or an ,
ordinary harrow. After all this has I
been done the upper surface must be
kept loose by the use of the weeder, as
Is the case with lighter and warmer
soils.
In orchards ahd small fitilt planta-
tions the weeder has come to be an ab-
solute necessity. In early spring the
ground between the rows is plowed
and harrowed, and then every week or
ten days, depending upon the weather,
the weeder must be employed to keep
the surface free from weeds and loose.
The fruit grower who attempts to get
along without frequent cultivation is,
not progressive and in nine cases out
of ten will tail, says American Agricul-
turist, which presents the foregoing
view of the status of the weeder in
modern agriculture. -
s•
;
Nowa and Notes,
Remedies recommended for thei
squash vine borer are harrowing of In-
fested fields late in the fall and plow -
hag deeply in spring or the reversal of
this process, to prevent the moths from
isstiing. Dead vines and old plants
should be destroyed as soon as the
crop is harvested.
The government Is io negotiate for
the mammoth tree groves in California..
At the Missouri station the sacking
of -most varieties of grapes has been
found profitable. Green Mountain gave
better results under the treatment than
any other variety tested.
It is claimed by some that alfalfa
hay, even when well cured, is liable
to become moldy, and the remedy ad-
vised Is to stack the bay with alternate
layers of' straw In the proportion of
two loads of alfalfa to one of strata.
Alaska, or parts of It, can grow
spring wheat, barley, Oats,' rye, buck-
wheat and flax, according to an agri-
cultural explorer. tted clover has lived
through the winter ancl matured seed
at Sake, and vetches and other forage
'plants have done equally well. All
common hardy vegetables have been
grown to perfection. ,
Under irrigation Pea buckleyana, one
of the most valuable bunch grasses of
the plain, is said to become less dense-
ly tufted, the leaves broader 4.1,nd more
luxuriant and the yield of bay good.
New England Is taking up the Aug*.
re geoid induatry.
IF GOING TO PAI)IS is considered a very great anxi0Y-
" The cab and omnibus tariff, to a
very great exteat, protects the stran-
ger 10 Paris front being swindled; but
it is not with the drivers and COD,-
quetors of cabs and omnibuses that
the stranger has so much to contend,
as from the rascally garcons M the
cafes and restaurants of Paris. One
THIS INFORMATION WILL BE OF,O0N-
' SibERABLE,VALUE TO YOU, t
•
entermatiou *neat ()robs and,Caob Rates,
n Itestourauts. Tiosiitres and tiotolor—rt.
rt'orlsineo Omnibus and How to Gut
Aboard 0110--A Deceotivo Cein aid
S01111,10 Other Tricks That Inure to the
DePletioU of the Pockets of tIo U "
The Paris Exposition was opened
°t11'.1a tttsheeA til5atnilt 002 Asitp titinai slhl p 1 caogneql)itttsnie0s1
speak the truth when they say tlie
advance booking of passages is ahead
of all previous years, we may look
for a large influx of Canadian visit-
ors to London; for Canadians that
vilit the French metropolis will be
sure to see that their tickets react via
London.
The cochers and garcons of Paris
who are poor to -day, are looking for-
ward to the °petting' of the Exhibi-
tion with the hope that at its close
' their depleted exchequers will be
filled to overflowing with honest
hard-earned inoney, and muck that
has not been so hard-earned or so
honestly obtained. Those who know
Paris and the Parisian cocher and
garcon, have no need of "tips" to
warn them against the many
scheraes by whleh the unsophisticated
visitor to the French metropolis is
separated from his coin; but those
who do not understand Paris and
Parisians do need the warning.
The Biblical saying "I was a
stranger within your gates and you
took me in," is one over which the
Parisian cabman has given many a
stranger cause to brood.
Cab fares in, Paris are cheap
enough, far too much so, the Paris
cp,binan thinks, and he nener lets an
opportunity pass of increasing the
tariff when he thinks his fare will
stand the raise. It does not require
to be conversant with the French
language, not even one single phrase,
to protect himself from being swin-
dled by a Paris cabdriver; but one
needs to know the coia of the coun-
try, so as to be able to give the
cabman his legal fare and if the fare
should be disposed to add to that
pour-boire or drink money.
Cabs may be hired by the course or
by time as the hirer may wish. A
course is any distance within the bar-
riers, but should the fare halt the
-cab 'en route to his destination, the
cabman is entitled to an extra 5;)
centimes for each such stoppage.
From 6 a.m. in summer until 12.30
at night, carriages with two places,
the course 1 .franc 70 centimes, per
hoer 2 francs, 25 centimes. Car-
riages with four places, the
course, 2 'francs 25 centimes ;
per hour 2 francs ' 50 cen-
times; an extra passenger Cart be
taken without extra charge. Trunks
and paekagts carried outside are 25
centimes each, but not more than
three are paid for. When the cab
is hired the cabman is supposed to
deliver a printed tariff to the hirer.
in hiring by time, the whole first
hour is paid for thus. Alterr, that
the hirer may pay 25 centimes for
five minutes, 50 centimes for 10
minutes and so on according to the
printed scale.
A better class of carriage called a
"Voiture de Remise," because hired
direct from the stables may be pro-
cured at a slight advance on that
charged for the ordinary street veh-
icle "Volture de place," the land-
lord of the hotel or pension will
manage this all right.
When engaging a cab by the hour
for the purpose of "seeing the town,"
the charge is 2 francs 50 centimes.
The fare must be careful that the
cabman does not take him outside
the fortifications as, in that case,
the cabman is legally entitled to
charge double fare. It is ,quite easy
to prevent the cabman going outside
the fortifications; as at every point
of egress from Pa ris officers of the
Octroi guard, the e.,it, not to exam-
ine the carriage as it passes out, but
when it enters.
Canadians who may require the use
of cabs in Paris may be surethat the
cabman will dem.and more than his
legal fare; but though he may blus-
ter and storm at them it should not
cause them to part with one cen-
time more than the regular fare.
Omnibus fares are also very cheap
In Paris, 30 centimes inside and 15
centimes outside for any distance.
In London an omnibus may he
stopped aft any point on the route
by intending passengers. On some
lines in Paris thia. same may be done,
but there are a munber of omnibuses
running from one point to another
that are not allowed to "pick .up,"
as they have enclosed platforms con-
taining a gate through which pas-
sengers enter, the gate being closed
toliirilenetly.the omnibus is Performing itS
i
Other omnibus lines have stations
en route, at which they stop and in-
tending passengers cannot, as in -Lon-
don, jump on . the 'bus no matter
should there be ample room; but they
must enter the depot or waiting
room in which, on a counter, 'they
will find boxes of numbered ,tickets,
with one of which each intending
passenger must provide himself; then
he returns outside and should the
omnibus on Which he wishes to jour -
003' have pulled up at the station the
paSsenger must listen to hear his
number called out; he is required to
give his ticket to the conductor, who
it3auese, tpaeit;mi nigt sah seat
me a oinmount nt4erioomr noir-
eon top?, as he maY wish. Should
the passenger not understand the
calling out of the numbere in French
his best, platt is to stand as near the
conductor as possible holding his
numbered ticket so that it can be
'quickly and eaSily viewed by the con-
ductor, Who will take the ticket
which will signify it is the passen-
ger's turn.
Once seated in a Paris omnibus,
th4e Passenger is supposed to retain
his seat until he arrives at hie des-
tination, as the chtenging of a seat
in the interior of the 'bus for an out-
side one after the Conductor has
"ring up" the number of passengers
could get aim -1g without cabs or even
omnibuses, but he must put himself
in the hands of tbe garcon twice if
not three times a day. The garcons
of the Paris cafes look upon, all for
eig,ners as legitimate prey, but per-
fidious Albion's natives the garcons
take especial delight in "doing,".
It is in the dealings with these vial -
tures that the Canadian particularly
requires a thorough knowledge of
French money, for it is in giving
change that the garcon comes it on
the stranger to his tricks.
All nations of the earth will send
visitors to Paris and every one of
them will bring coin of his own coun-
try, which will find its Way to the
bullion offices or exchange offices,.
and it is from these offices the gar-
con purchases coins closely resembl-
ling the current coin of France in .
appearance but the value of which e....1
is often fifty per cent. less. These ,
coins the garcon always has ready
athand so that when called upon to .
change a 29 franc or 10 franc piece '
tendered in ' payment of an account,
he cab substitute the copa of less vale
ae for one of French of greater val-
ue. ,
There is one particular coin, a fav- At
orite one of the Parisian waiter and
theatre tie...I:et seller, which they use
as a French 5 franc piece. It is a
Sicilian coin same size and weight
and to the stranger appears to lee a
5 franc piece, but its value is just
50 per cent. less than a 5 franc piece; .
but a more than casual glance at it
will convince one that it is not a
French 5 franc 'piece. '
The bureaus of Paris music halls
are places where -these coins are'palna-
ed off on unsuspecting strangers; but
.if the attempted swindle is at once
detected, the mistake is immediately,
rectified with profuse apologies add -
'ed. This coin is not so often used
as a substitute by the cafe garcon on
account of its being a conspicuous
coin, but more because the receiver,
not being in such a hurry after his
meal, might possibly examine the
coin from nothing more than curios-
ity. It is the smaller coin the gar-
con uses as a' substitute.
There is an Italian piece with the
image of the Pope on it which is of
no value in France in the way of
trade, and it is the same size as the
French franc and for that, the gar-
con, whenever he has a chance,
substitutes it.
There is another coin bearing the
image of Liberty, but if Liberty is
sitting down, the coin is of no value,
but the one with Liberty standing up
passes current in France. All Swiss
coins dd not pass in France, but they
are mostly of very old dates.
The garcon will often "short
change" his customers,, that, is re-
turn less than the proper amount,
trusting to the chance of mistake will
not be noticed before the customer
leaves the cafe, but ready, if the er-
ror be irrustecliately , discovered, to ,
make good the deficiency.
A favorite trick of the garcon is
when bringing back the change to
secrete a franc under the bill which
is on the. plate containing the -
change. If the customer picks up
his change and puts it in his pocket,
the plate is quickly removed and the ,
garcon is a franc the winner.
In giving a tip to a garcon, it is a
custom in Paris to tip him 10 cea-
times for every franc the bill amounts
to; so if the bill amounts to 10
francs the garcon would expect a
franc.
in engaging rooms it is not consid-
ered mean in France to bargain as
to the price and it is always advis-
able to have every extra distinctly
s ta ted on engaging aeartin en ts .
French people are very economical
and they do not laugh at strangers
if they are the same. Candles and
soap are two articles always to be
found in one's hotel bill in Paris, un -
lees one goes to bed with the milk
and takes an Esquimaux bath. Those
who cannot' pull feathers out of the
oof-bird's tail at will, will find that
candles and soap, if included in one's
luggage, will save money when Paris
is visited.
French coin is easily learned. The
gold coins are 100, 50, 20, 10, 5 --Ten
franc pieces equal respectively to
4, £2, 16s., Ss., and 4s., British
sterling. The silver coins aee 5, 2
and 1 franc piece, equal respectively
to 4s., is. 71/26., 91/2d., and 5d.
The bronze cpins in most general •
use are the '10' and 5 centime pieces.
Formerly foreign bronze coins were e.
largely in circulation, but under an"
law they can now be seized any-
where in l'rance. Canadians visiting
Paris during the Exhibition should re-
fuse to accept any coins but French:
, A ell riouli at' oil.
Perhaps the most curiously assort-
ed population to be found in any
quarter of the globe, says The West-
minster Gazette, is that of the Cocoa -
Keeling Islands, in the Indian Ocean,
which is said to have been discovered
in the year 1823 by the graisdfather
of the present "King." In his an-
nual report, just issued, Sir C. Mit-,
obeli, the Governor of Singapore,
says the present population is 179, ,
there being a net increase of three
during the year. Here is the analy-
sis: 124 Chinese, five Europeans, 24
Chinese carpenters, sawyers and
blacksmiths, 14 Bantauiese coolies,
six Malays, three Sikhs, one Cocos-
born Woman married to the Chinese
contractor's agent, and tWo Javan-
ese domestic women servants.
Vaine, 1.1 0I101 011 by the (loser,.
A meinher of the Imperial Parlia-
ment tells a charming, story of the
Queen and Lady Roberts. When Lady
Roberts visited 'Windsor, It few days
before she sailed for -the Cape, the
Queen handed her a small parcel,
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"Here is something I have tied up
with my own hands and that I beg
you will not opentill you get home."
Lady lioberts fou.nd that the parcel
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