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The Exeter Times, 1887-7-21, Page 6sawar Y ORDER., j)F.THE.E LEAGU CHAPTER XVIII. You wished to see me?" " Yes ; if you will be SO good as to Sit down and listen to me." Enid stoocl looking at her mysterious vis- fitor in some perplexity. There was some. thing almost weird about tate etraage wo- man's beauty ; but irt obedience, she seated herself to listen. so. I have a strange story to tell," Isodore commenced. "For a long while now I have been watehiug over your welfare, Do aot think me personal or rude in any gums - Wow I may ask. Believe me, I do not for lost ghtred to the life ! one moment with to pain you ; indeed, on "Tis is the long -lost brother," Isodore the other hand, I wish to do yeu a great ser- continued. "Linda, throw your hat away, vice," and tell Sir Geoffrey the tale you told Lu - Enid inclined her head gently. "Per- once. Listen, Sir Geoffrey, and you will haps it will be as well to have as perfect hear something entertaining, and Miss c.onfidence between US as possible. You al- Charteris something that will restore the xetady know my name. Will you be so bloom to her cheeks." good as to tell me to wilora I owe this Linda Despard pushed her hat aside, and visit ?" stood, half -boldly, half-tireidly, before the "My name is Isodore." startled baronet. There were tears in her Enid looked. at her visitor in interest and eyes as she looked admiration. This, then, was the beautiful "But what can this possibly have to do at Enid. TaYsterY about whom Maxwell had often with Le Gautier?" Sir Geoffrey demanded. spoken, the princess to whom, the fatal Teodoro waved him aside haughtily. Brotherhood owed allegiance. Then she aa Much, if you will have patience, she grew frigid. Had it not been for her and said..—" Linda, you had beat coinmence. mach as her, Frederick would have been We are trifling." with her now. There was an air of command in these "Von misjadge me," 'soden continued words there was no disputing. Enid sank sadly, for she had read the other's thoughts into a chair pale but collected, the baronet as easily as an open book. "Believe me, had. I known, Mr Maxwell would never ha.ve been sent to Rome. But if I am to continue, I must have your confidence. What if I tell you your lover is in England now2" "In England, and never came to see me!" :Enid exclaimed with a little gasp. Impos- aible I Ile would surely have written." ' "Nevertheless, it is perfectly true though he only arrived yesterday. He -would have come to you, or written, had I .32ot forbidden him." "Forbidden him," Enid echoed_haughtily. 44 And why ?" "items/se things were not ready," Isodore replied calmly. "'1 did not take a journey to Rome et the hazard of my life, to rescue him from a great danger, to have my lane afterone awful night, I left him. I came co upset at the last moment. If it ha not England, and brought my boy awith me. been for me, Mr Maxvvell would not be alive After some. hardships, I contrived to get a stow." Isodore could not restrain herself shoed= in a, London theatre under a new sufficiently to conceal this touch of womanly name. It was only a, small part, for my im- afeeling. perfect English was against me. One night, .Enid's face softened strangely. " I have some months ago, as I was comine out of Imard of you. Forgive me if I seem cold, the theatre, I tnet Le Gautier. I had known but I have been severely tried lately," she him in better days, and though I was not ;said. "You do not know what a load you ignorant of his character, it was pleasant to %aye taken off my mind; and yet perhaps" hear the old familiar tongue again. It ap- -She stopped abruptly; her thoughts peered he had been in the theatre, and re- turned in the direction of Le Gautier, tuia. cognised me, and waited to say a few words wondering how she could face her lover as I came out. Time went on, and he was MOW. really kind to me. Through his influence I " And yet," Isodore replied—" and you a rise of salary, and I was grate. which see a way out of the difficulty into obtained What he really wanted with• me you which the miserable schemes of Le Gautier nil* shall hear presently." The narrator paused ?have placed you? Do I speak plainly, or a moment here, and looked round in the shall I be more explicit'" The random shot went home; Enid's faze flushed crimson to the fair curls lying on her forehead. "You speak plainly enaugh," she faltered. "You need say no nnore. I am dazed and bewildered by your wondertul knowledge." "It will be clear enough presently. The elands are dark now; but I see rays of light _ played ghostly pieces, such, for instance, as here and there. Do you study spiritual translations of Dickens' Christmas Carol, a ism?" simple thing, a mere optical illusion what "No," Enid answered, puzzled by the yen call Pepper's •Ghost. I told 'him I abruptness and inconsequence of the ques- thoitght I could remember, and then he tion. "I cannot say that I have. But matte a proposal to me. I never hesitated: ." If your father is in the house, I shall be glad to see him. Will you be good enough to ascertain if he can be seen ?" '91 I tell him he is wanted on superna- tural affairs he will come." Enid smiled as she rang the bell. "It is his craze." After a little image, the baronet entered the room, and, like his daughter, stood in thralled by the visitors perfect beauty. e bowed low; in spite of his age, he was a over of the beautiful still. He looked up admiringly in the perfect eyes, and waited for her to speak. Fla" Sir Geoffrey, you are a swindled, de- luded man !" "Bless me !" the startled baronet ex- claimed at this unceremonious opening. 4‘ Swindled, deluded, 1? Who by? Im- /possible 1" By the eonjurer, Le Gautier." Sir Geuffrey stared in open-mouthed am- azement ; even the breeding of the Charteris - es did not rise to this oocasion. Enid's heart gave one leap, and then began to beat -violently. She was conscious of some com- ing revelations of the deepest interest to her, and. waited with itnpatience for Isodore to Some time ago, you went to a house near Paddington.. You will please correct ane if I am in error, Sir Geoffrey. During ,your presence there you saw several start- ling manifestations : you were commanded to do certain things one of which affected .deeply your daughter's happiness, and which, by some happy accident, were equal- ly acceptable to Le Gautier. Am right ?" "Perfectly," the baronet gasped. And need not say they will be carried out to the letter. I believe"— " They were a common, vulgar, barefaced swindle !" "1 beg your pardon," Sir Geoffrey inter. ;posed politely, reedy to do brittle in defence of his pet scheme. "'I cannot agree with .-• a• you. ao aaaaner — " Is a lOw adventurer. I an not talking idly ; I can prove every word I say. This -very morning, I was at Paddington, and saw the manifestation r00121, or whatever you may choose to call it. At the back of the room is a. large mirror ; over the window is another. Preparations for the manufac- sture of visions to suit any taste were mani- fest. And one thieg in conch:alien ; the girl who personated your better self and your dead brother, who never was married, is at present under your roof, She is Linda Dos - pard, the girl who met with the accident in lecaclilly. ,Sir Geoffrey began to feel encomfortable and moreover experienced a twinge of cows mon-sense. There was something so horribly reelistie about the beautiful stranger's story, abet it Ihook his faith to its foundation. ""But, really, such an, extraordinary tale," be stammered, "and everything appeared •so real. I canmet doubt, the likeness to rny brother was so perfect. An I mad that I should believe this 2" "If you will excuse me for a moment and permit me to 8ee this Linda Deeper& I will introduce you to your brother in a tew mo- enerite. Miss Charteris, have I your per- mission ?" "You have my permission to do anything which will clear up the wretched mystery,° Enid cried passionately. " Evert now, I am Without another word, Isodore vanished, haunted, Sir Geoffrey,. you premised me anything. You ?misread to join some League, the meaning of which I do not linow, co *any *At your dead brother's work ; and last, but not least, that my geed angel and preserver there should become Le Gautier's wife. The illusion was perfect, and a little of Le Gautier's matchless ventrilo- quisua completed it.—And now," the speak. leaving Sir Geoffrey pacing the drewing. er iclotiiiiatieuufeedet,,ruening forward and falling room in great .perturbation and casting ue- let me implore your for - easy glances iu Enke, direction. He was giveness 1 My benefactress, how grateful I not convinced yet, but his doubt e were am,,that I have been able to serve you 1" troublesome, " It is all nonsense," he ex- I have nothing to forgive," Euict replied. " Your brother, Sir GeoffreY." ii(2JigishdYoer tmaeketon rfeaprrotoacoligyroeuatnaowlo.,a?d °IT claimed. " I saw with my own eyes—" " But the whole thing is inexplicable to The baronet looked up, and. there, stand- me," Sir Geoffrey exelaimed. How did ing in the doorway, saw Isodore, holding by you manage to impersonate my late 'brother the band a figure dressed ha a slouch -hat and so accurately e, enyeloped in a cloak. For a moment, he Linda Despard smiled and pointed to a stagtred back in amazement ; it was the photograph album, " Boy enough with plenty of these about. What simpler than to abstract a likeness from one of these books and. give it me! With my theatrical training and knowledge of makeup, the task was nothing." "I am all the more astonished," Isodore remarked, "that the audacity of the com- mand relating to Miss Enid did not open your eyes." "But yea understand Le Gautier profes- sed to know nothing of what had taken plaee " Sir Geoffrey explained. "1 even had to broach the subject to him. He never by any chance alluded to it." Such ounning as his always proves too deep for simple honesty, I need not esk if you believe what you have heard, Sir Geof- frey ?" "Indeed, 1 do.—Enid, my child, come and kiss me, and say you forgive your fool- ish old father. Taee me away into the standmg behind her, lookmg anything but country, where people cannot find. me, I comfortable. Luerece took up her place am not fit to mix with men of sense • and, beside her mistress. Isodore stood through 0' Enid, as soon as it is oonvenimit, tell the interview. Varley to go into the library and pick out "Well, I will do anything to help that all the works he can find on spiritualism angel of mercy who has been so good and and burn them." kind to me !' the a.otress conunenced, with "You are sure you, have forgiven me?" gratefal glance at Enid. "1 tried to do Linda Despard asked Enid timidly. her a great injury ; but, thank heaven, I "From the bottom of my neaat. You am not too late to save her yet. I am much have done me a service to -day which I can- to blame; but this is a hard world, and not forget, or indeed ever repay—And to there are times when a few shillings are a. you, Isodore, if I may call you so, I am godsend to me. It is not a long story. gratefuL You will pardon me if I seetned Lucrece here, and Isodore, knew my hus- harsh or hard when you came here, but I band, and how he used to treat me, beating; have distrusted every one of late." half. starving me, and taking all my earn- "Von have no cause to thank me," Ise- ingsto spend at the cafes: Well, I put up dore replied simply. I am afraid I must 'With that life as long as I could ; and then confess that it is not entirely upon your be- ' half I have done this thing." "1 care not for that. I shall always re- memberyon with gratitude." Isoclore turned quickly from the window. "Le Gautier is coming up the steps," she exclaimed. "He must not see me here 310W, or everything will be ruined. I must see you again before I leave the house. Where can I hide? I would not have him diabover me now for ten thousand pounds 1" (To nu ocalmninan.) IMPERIAL HABI. 'tontine et a, day in the ",ife or the German Emperor. The Emperor rises almost as early as the hardest worked of his subjects, nom -rely, be- tween s'x and seven o'clock, His bedroom shows a 6oldierly, stern simplicity. The bed in which he hes slept nearly seventy years is of ordinary pine,without carving or other ornamentation, SLEEPING WITH A DIGII PILLOW. What Molasses will do for a Sick Man. "1 am going to epen a molasses cure establishment,' said a young man, who was recently laid up with a complication of troubles, and then explained that he was a firm believer in the magic virtues of moles - eager faces. Every sound could be heard ses as a. cure-all. He said that he had been distinctly—the ticking of the cloaks, and I studying up the subject and found that mo - Sir Geoffrey's heavy breathing. "Otto lasses was recommended for all the diseases night he came to my lodgings," the speak- known to humanity. "First I sprained my er resumed, "and then he asked me if I wrist by falling from a bicycle, and before had forgotten the old spiritualism tricks. I got home three people told me to put I must tell you that once on a time I brown paper and molasses on it. Rheuma- travelled the continent with a. company that tism caught me by the knee before my wrist was well, and nine different people told me to use molasses on it. Molasses and opodel- doc was one remedy and another was mo- lasses, salt and vinegar. I caught a bad cold on my chest last week, and was told to try molasses and rum internally. The cold the pay was too good for that. I was to got worse, and when I proposed to try the meet Le Gautier at a house near Paddington effect of a mustard plaster I was told to mix one night, and go through the old tricks for the mustard with molasses so that it would a gentleman deeply interested in spiritual- not blister my cuticle. The first time I got ism. I learnt my lesson well. I was first out of the house I was walking up Broad. to personate the better self of the spec- street in company with a pronounced limp, tator, and afterwards the spirit of his and was asked what was the matter. I told bro ner. two or three people that I had the rheuma- "Ah !" Sir Geoffrey exclaimed. "Go on !" tism and learned. that I ought to try moles - "1 inerest you now. I thou ht I should. ses and camphor or salt and molasses. I got I knew ab the time, to my s ame let me confess it, from the things I had to say, that the spectator was to be got into Le Gautier's power. Well, the night came; the simple apparatus was fixed: everythin He sleeps, with his head much raised, al- most as though he were eitting up. The covering is an eiderdovvn quilt, but in cold weather the Emperor throws over the quilt the military overcoat he has worn during the day, There is little furniture beyond a high clothes press. The sole luxury in the room is big mirror, giving a full length view of the Kaiser, The Emperor has never owned a dressing gown or pair of slippers. As further evidence of his simple life, may be cited the feet that until the attempt on hie life, nine years ago, the Emperor dress- ed himself with scarcely any aSSiatalIee from servants. Since then aetiffness in one arm caused by powder burns has made a valet up with knots of rosescolored ribbon. Sal - Cleanliness in Holland, oleanlines4 is famous and deserves its tome, The Deitch are the only peeple who live as if cleaulineee were not next to, but part of, godlusees, The traveller, on entering his room in an inn, finds the linen enow.white, the window -panes transparent as the air, the furniture shining as H newly varnished, a,nd the floor EIO clean that a ma • nifying glass could, not discover a epee thereou. There is a basket for waste -paper, tablet for ecratchieg matches on, a dish for cigar ashes, a box for cigar etunme, a spit- toon—every man ie supposed to smoke—a bootjack, and everything to remove a pre- text for soilieg anything. Even his candlestick is of copper, end of the size of a dinner -plate. It might sustain a torch but holds instead a candle, as large as a lady'e small finger. No grease should be spilt from that candlestick. •The traveller stands on a bridge, and over- looks the vessels crowded in the canal. Each one is as clean as the room he has just left. The mast aud debit are varnished, and shine like a recently scrubbed house -floor. The eabin has its windows ot clear, clean giaSS, each one with its white muslin curtains tied necessary. lore, women, and childreu aro busy, every rue =Pelson's sensraems, spare moment, washing, sweeping, polishing Over the Kaiser's low bed hangs a ben rope leading to the servant's apartments bel low. Between six and seven o'clock/ when, bed. rings for his personal attendants. These Kamnzerdiener are men of some education, usually selected by the Emperor from among in health, he wakes of his own accord and soldiers Uckermaerker, their chief, was the with a muslin curtem, like the canopy of a Kaiser's attendant at the time of Nobiling s attempt, and jumped from the box seat of The flreplace was covered with china tiles the carriage to oatch and shelter his master that looked as bright as if no fire had ever in his arms. been lighted there. The shovels, tongs, and TOILET MAKING AND BREAKFANV. poker, menthe chains and hooks seemed made of polished steel. In answer to the bell Uckermadter and "A lady in a ball -dress might have gone the chief wardrobe servant appear to aid in into every hole and corner of that kitchen, At half -past seven coffee with milk and wanhidtecnomeses.,forth without a smirch upon her he Emperor's rapid toilet. a single Carlsbad wafer are placed for His The master of the house, seeing the Ita- Majesty in a room off his bedroom. lian's surprise at the fact that a eervanagirl From eight to ten o'clock the Emperor was cleaning up, where there seemed not gives attention to his private business—that the shadow of dirt, midget To have an idea is, to all inail matter, which comes to him of what cleanliness is with us, you ehould direct, instead of terough the Depart- (watch one of these women for an hour. ments of State; to his private estates and There a house is soaped and sponged and to a multitude of personal appeals. VISITING TUE EMPRESS. De Arnim an Italian on visiting the kitchen of a house in Dell t, could find but one word to express his feelings, "splen- did I" Tile walls were as white as untouch- ed snow; the saucepans reflected like mir- rors, and the mantlepiece was ernamented tired of these suggestions, and when the next man asked what ailed me, I answered that my corns troubled me. "Tell you what to do. Sure cure. Take a little piece of kid, daub it with molasses and stick it on the promised welL I was a bit nervous, for. corn.' I broke away from him andsavagely was out of practice, and I wanted to see told the next sympathetic inquirer about my what sort of a man the victim was. While aihnent that it was none of his business what they were at dinner, I looked into the room, and there I SSW the gentleman whom I now know to be Sir Geoffrey Charteris. When was the matter with me. I stopped on the corner to rest, and while there heard a man telling a victim of malaria to take molasses I saw your credulous face," the narrator and red pepper to break his chills. I am be - continued, addressing the baronet, "I was ginning to think that the molasses cure no longer afraid. Presently, when it be- should be developed. I understand that the came dark and they at over their wine, I sticky stuff is a favorite remedy for every - listened till a word agreed upon was uttered thing out in the country, where they eat St by Le Gautier, and I commenced. First, on all sorts of things, and use it for all sorts there was some music, sounding strangely of complaints. Up in Sussex you will find enough in the room, but not to me, for lots of people who eat molasses on salt pork, played it. That was simple to an unbeliev- sweeten their tea, and coffee with it, use it er with ordinary nerves; then came flashes on lettuce and tomatoes; and drink it with of light, also easy enough; and when I deem- vinegar and water in harvest time. I am be- ad I had created a sufficient sense of fear, ginning to think that half of my life has I entered the room. It was quite dark by been wasted, for I never knew enough to that time, and I was dressed from head to use molasses on anything but buckwheat foot in close garments. I touched Sir cakes. Geoffrey on the face and whispered in his ear; and once when he showed signs of un- belief, I clutched him by the throat and nearly strangled him.—Sir Geoffrey- if I make a mistake in a single particular, cor- rect me." "Von are perfectly correct," the baronet answered, flushing scarlet. "Fray, con- tinue. You do not know what the suspense is to me." "Had you been quick and strong of nerve you would have found it out then, for, as it was, you grasped my arm, covered in wet etl•skins, a creepy thing to touch in the dark, even if you know what it is, That was the first part of the perforrnance, and then the real business commenced in earnest. Le Gautier led you to a room at the back of the house, a room draped in black rubbedlike e. person. It is not cleaning, it is making a toilette. She blows in the Perhaps during this work the Empress cracks between the bricks, pokes in the cor- has rung to announce that she will receive ners with finger and pin, makes a minute the Emperor. If so the Kaiser goes up supervision enough to fatigue the eye as in calling upon the Empress, maintriins al- ways a state of spruce new uniform. • a lsion. well as the arm. It is truly a national pas - When asked whence arose this mania for stairs to pay his morning call. The Emperor, During this call the day's programme is , cleaning, he answered: "It is due to ; the arranged, invitations for the evening's din_ ' atmosphere, whioh injures wood and. metal; ner are settled and general gossip discussed. to the dampness and smallness of the houses, Afterward the Kaiser goes down again to , and the multiplicity of small objects favor - his work -room, at the window of which so .ing dust; to the superabundance of water; many Americans have seen him in uniform Ito the need of the aye, which finds beauty with the Grand Cross of the Hohenzollernim simple cleanliness ; and, finally, to the On his breast. emulation which pushes things to extremes.' family order and the Iron Cross, won 1n1813, DEPARTMENT WORK. • The Emperor for two hours receives the A CAPTAIN IN CHUTE AMU., ited Devils Who Danod While They Tor. sorted a 'White Mau. Col, Shelley (Mexics.n J oe) was one of the earliest American settlers in old Ahihuahua, locatieg a large ranch in the Same valley, says the St. Paul Globe. He imported the first jerseys and Durham cattle into the country, and had a flourishing ranch, when the most terrible trial of his life took place. " One day I was gut on a solitary ,prowl among the Sierra Madre mountains,' said Col. Shelley the other day, " and met two whitemen and. a Mexicau and was invited to their quarters. I was just making an inter- esting haul in a game of monte, when my hands were seized. from behind, a gag was thrust into my mouth, and I was releived of my revolver in a style that wasrefreshing in its rapidity. Bound like a trussed turkey, I was carried all night up to the mountains on ponyback, and at the break of day was driven through the narrow natural ga way that led to the mountain fastness of Chih hue, a plateau surrounded by natural mo Min walls. Cliffs rising from fifty to a h dred feet above the ordinary level, approach- ed by tortuous mountain paths, made im- pregnable the eyrie from which the famous chief and his followers emerged to raid over all the surrounding country. For three days and nights I was bouad to a eapling between two stakes, and was an animated target for jeers and jests and arrows of the bucks and squaws. [The oolonel has the marks that furnish the documents for his latter statement tattooing his entire body.] The arrow heads were sharp as the blade of the knife, and were shot so as to oat through the Skill and. draw plenty ,of blood without touching a vital spot. Three days I defied them with all my powers of endurance, al- though my flow of language was hardly equal to the flow of blood I waisted, and at the end of that time I was assigned. to the care ot two guards to do menial duties with the squaws. "For eighteen motuiths I scraped hides and stood the rough racket of an Indian prisoner. Finally one of the chief's squaws took a great fancy to me, and through her aid I saw a chance for escape. I shall never forget the beautiful moonlight night I left. The outfit had a big celebration and mescal had the best of their brains. 'One of my guards was asleep, the other dozing. My hand went over the mouth of one, and my knife through the heart at the same instant. My other guard was similarly treated. I crawled out of the sleeping camp through the gateway, and threaded my way down the rough trail about a mile and a half, where the faithful squaw was waiting' with ten ponies. Then came a wild ride down the Sierra Madres. I rode one and drove nine ahead of me. Thus I went 225 miles back to Gracia, taking a fresh pony every time one was exhausted." cloth, and seated you in a certain spot, daring you to move at your peril. I wond- er I did not laugh at this; I did once or twice, I know, so that I had to finish with an hysterical scream, which had the advant- age of relieving me and heightening the effect. Well, the jugglery commenced— the meanest trickery, hardly sufficient to clecieve a child. It was easy enough to vvotk it under cover of the incense and smoke; from behind your chair, Sir Geof- frey, the curtains were pulled back and a rsurror exposed. I stood upon !L pedestal in the window, behind ariother mirror. The illusion was perfect, and all I had to do was , to ask and answer questions. I got thtough the first part of the performanc,e well enough, but when I had to perscinate Sir Geoffrey's 3 brother, the case Was different. Had. you, In a Changing World. Geologists have described Britain as swarm Mg with a multitude of forms of gigantic reptiles, some of them 60 feet or more in len th during the reptilian age—the middle period in the earth's geological history, when mollusks and reptiles attained their culmin- ation and declined, and when the first mam- mals of England at a later epoch—the middle of Quaternary— is given by, Owen: Gi- gantic elephants of nearly twice the bulk of the largest individuals that now exist in Ceylon and Africa, roamed here in herds, if we may judge from the abundance of their remains. Two -horned rhinoceroses, or at least two species forced their way through the ancient forests, or wallowed in the swamps. The lakes and rivers were ten- . . anted by hippopotamuses, as burly and with I h• Each must do what Noble Lives. A rude earthen vessel is often chosen to France, England, and Egypt. Since the retirement of Gen. Boulanger from the French War Office the storm cen- tre of European politics has again drifted reports of the departmental chiefs. On alter- convey a divine memos. Again and again . . towarda the East. The protests of France and Egypt - nate days come the civil niilitary chiefs of men and women'havebeen taught that the Russia againat the settlement of the Egypt - the Cabinet, but Friday and Sunday are free. old nursery tale was prophetic. It tells of a ian question arranged by Sir H. Drummond All State documents of any importance re- fairy. who appeared clothed in rags, and as Wolff have been so peremptory thea4,,s, the quire the Emperor's signature, and until an oldwome,n, wrinkled and bent. Those . . urged the British Government to acquiesce Porte hesitates to ratify the treaty, exii:i has heeded her in a modification of the most objectionable provision. It proposes that the right of m- tervening in the event of danger to the Nile land. from either external or internal causes shall belong not to England, but to Turkey. To such. change in the terms of the compact 'Lord Salisbury is understood to be inflexibly s OFFICIAL PRESENTATIONS. . opposed. Sooner than assent to it, he will Iliad a, claret -mate named Fry, a young man I let all negotiations drop and prolong the oc- cupation of Egypt for an indefinite period. Unless, in other words, he is to be the sole contingent supporter of the Khedive, herwill continue to be his actual protector.... ,..if From the point of view of Franoe and Russia the Wolff treaty is naturally regard- ed as a trick. The withdrawal of the were ent army of occupation seems a delusive con, cession, if England retains the right to transfer to Alexandria, at a. moment's warn - ng the garrisons stationed in Cyprus and Malta. As under the contemsplated agree- ment between England aud Turkey it would be left to the former power to determine whether the Egyptian situation called for interference, and what measures would be expedient for the safeguarding of the Suez Canal, it is not likely that the fleets of her enemies would be suffered to use that water- way in time of war. That is to say, the channel opened by French enterprise would be barred to France at precisely the junotpre when she would most need it. Whether the Suez Canal is to be covered by a European guarantee or is to virtually become in criti- cal periods tlict Fivate property of England, -within afew years he signed no documen. who receive her y anu without having first mastered ;ts contents words were some day met by a beautiful It is easy to see, therefore, iia what ceaseless young lady, arrayed in silk and diamonds, Moreover, for public affairs he has no !wile bl eased them with favors. The old woman and the beautiful lady were one and work he has spent his life. , private secretary, but trusts entirely to the same fairy. the departments of State for such work. 1 Charles Reade's father. a village Squire, -'"dent t Oriel College,Oxford sir, been calm and cellected, you must have discovered. personated the spirit of your brother, desiring penance for Borne I faneied wrong done to my ehildren ; and to At twelve o'clock come many persons who who wasintending to study for holy orders. are daily presented to him. All officers Fry had brains and a kind heart, but he was presented to him on their promotion. A host rude in speech and rough in manner ; he above the grade of Major, for instance, are ef civil officials and distinguished persons weloayrepg•ripaey. woollen stockings ,and smoked a are also presented, so that he may himself I The set to which Reade belonged cut About twelve o'clock, breakfast is often l Fry, and Reade himself dubbed him " a judge of the capacity of all State servants. of ivumalugaraffelflaoawhin"n aarnrided the library nearest his workroom, though, The Sciouulirtuerere, placed for him on his desk, in the corner senttwleed of course, he frequently breakfasts with the ' down on the paternal estate to hunt foxes Empress. and shoot grouse. I3REAKFAST NOT IMPORTANT. The Vicar of the village parish fell sick, land Mr. Fly came to supply his place. This desk has broad projecting shelves onl "You =mat ask the gentleman to dinner," the lower half and narrow book covered said Mrs. Reade. shelves above. On the broad table top of the 1 "1 really can't," answered the Squire ; lower half the servant places cold meat but he and his wife occupied the family pew bread and a single glass of port wine. Fre- , on Sunday morning. quently between presentations the Emperor i The "vulgar fellow" of Oriel had become breakfasts hurriedly, often standing, it is a mighty preacher. He was fervid aud elo- said, like an American before a lunch count- ' quent, and his rhetoric struck hard both the er. Sometimes he forgets brealrfa.st until Squire and his lady. reminded by the servant. His spare time 1 ' I wish I had asked Frytodinner," said between twelve and two o'clock is filled in the Squire after church. "I'll do it now," by study of new laws, either already before , His wife smiled encoura,gment, and the non GUARDED WIIILE DRIVING. great house, near y v. nule s n is tor all the maritime powers a queetion. only At two o'clock he drives for two hours. church. 1 second in importance to the distribtionof the There are no guards around the carriage. I The " vul ar fellow" was a born mission He formerly drove alone, but since Nobil- ary, and he elivered his message to Mr. and ing's attempt at assassination an adjutant Mrs. Reade. They both accepted it, and it Rus - sit with him. When attempts are made to , revolutionized their character and life. The Squire dropped his gay, sporting or to come before the Reichstag. preacher walked back with them to the • • Ottoman amts. There is no doubt that England under the present Goverment will fight before she will surrender at the bidding of France and Rus - surround him with soldiers the Emperor eia the measure of control ever the Suez fashionable life that she might do good. The Canal which the Wolff treaty assures to her. takes the greatest delight in eluding his friends, and Mrs. Reade turned aside from guard by qui& changes of route. That agreement represents the maximum concession which is deemed compatible with Coming home at four o'clock His Majesty ' village became the most religous in the coun ry t • for though the vicar cared more the safety of India. But will France on her of late, sits down in a battered old red for his living than for Ms parishioners, the chair and sleeps for an hour. 1Squire became to them a lay -reader and a CLOSING THE DAY. II lay -preacher. III the evening there are often small com- •He invited them to come up to his house panics in the Empress' apartments, but the on Sunday, when there was no service in the Emperor is not always present. Somenimes church. and read the Bible with him. if he works for an hour or two finishing the they could not read, they could hear him day's work. At eleven o'clock his Kammer- read and explain one or two chapters. cliener are called to help hi111 to bed. The , The Vioar who preached a tenaninutes part go to equal lengths in the enforcement of her demand for neutralization? If M. JulesFerry retained of6 ce with his originally :strong majority behind him, we should be inclined to answer in the affirmative. A war with England for the prizes of leapt and the Lesseps canal would be almost as popular in France as a war with Germany for Alsace-Lorraine. It would also be an Emperor when in health is frequently asleep sermon, and then cease incomparably safer and cheaper adventure. before the last servant is fairly out of the until the next Sunday morning, wrote a let- Toward the close of M. Ferry's Premier - room. ter to the Bishop, complaining that the Squire . . ship there were many indications of a wish It was said of the Emperor during his was holding a conventicle in Ins house °°n- to substitute the old antipathy to Albion late illness that his tireless energy from trary to the law. for the later craving for revenge upon the early to late in carrying out equally the The Bishop investigated the facts, approv• Rhine. The comparatively cordial relations smallest and most important of his duties, ed of the Squire's course and urged him to of the Berlin and Paris Governments at that his great tact in discovering 8,nd handling cortinue his good work. A Sunday school time lent color to the surmise that Bismarck' men, together with his great kindness in was established, then a schoolhonse for day far from the wafting the designs of Frane keepingeach man in his place are the Kasier's and Sunday scholars was built. In ib Mrs. in Egypt, would be glad to see her expend", strong personal che,raeteriaties. A REGULAR ROUTINE. aRmeapdlee.taught, and for many years her chit- : dren and deseendants have followed her ex- her passions and resources in a grapple with the foremost naval power. He has laid out the path for all, who camel It is true that Bismarck has refrained from offering a remonstrance against the in contact with him from the Empress to Is persona attendant. Sir Robert Peers Heir. Wolff convenition. But that is just what he as formidable tusks as e can say that the heir to the Peel would do if he desired to embroil France Three kinds of oxen found subsistence in the those of Africa. is allotted, and must also keep strictly with- N° °n plains. There were also gigantic deer, wild i an these limits. With each official, as with baronetcy is not beginning his career early. and England, for he knows that the latter horses and boars, a wild cat, lynx, leopard, earth servant, the Kaiser spoil; only of the Young Robert, son to the late member and power would, however reluctantly, cmisent the grandson of the great statesman, nephew, to modify the treaty, if the influence of Ger- a British tiger larger than that of Bengal, I and another and even more terrible carni- ' Emperor even opened ail his own letters duties of his department. Formerly too, to the speaker of the House of Commons, many were ce.st into the scale against her. is net yet twenty, and he has already been But admitting that it would be good dip• eight inches long. 'Troops of hyenas preyed brought before the Vice -Chancellor's Court i lornacy for 13isinarck to make England, the 'serous monster with saber-shaped cardises . , Now he allows this to be done for him. upon carcasses and feebler quadrepeds. NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS READ. at Oxford, charged with wilfully breaking ' target of the hostility of the two powers T h ere was a savage bear larger than the Usually the Emperor reads no newspapers, a college window and threatening a euper- whose combinationagesnst himself be dreads, Rocky Montan grizzly, a gigantic beaver, but of late he is much read to. Clippings intendent of pcdice Dr. Bellamy fined the we find it hard to believe that a Ministry so young man two guineas, and told him that vveak ire M. Rouvier's would try to make • him from the Foreign cc so t at in this 18 1 OM h li* conduct was unsentlemanly. But one good ita claims upon, the Nile lend by a vvolvee, and various smaller animals, down • from news xspers of all nation's are sent to Ibetween temperament and clia.racter of tise only eke out a majority by the aid of the ophrions. way he keeps track of the world's news and cennot help remarking upon the difference threat of war. The preeent Premier can to bats, moles, rats and inice." he Sat beside her gazing on the rising health. 1)uring his recent serious illness priggishness, and he vves aS self -restrained with the British Government. It is there. She Found Out. When well, Dr Von Lauer calls each real Sir Robert and of his descendant. Sir folfowere of the Comte lc Paris, who would " Do you like a mustache ?" he asked vs morning to gile him a tort of certifieate of , Robert Peel's dignity all his life was almost certainly discountenance an open rupture in his early days as later. He was no more fore probable that, however truculent they ladies who sey they eke horrid. ' and a servant in n room- next to the Ernpenicapable of breaking a windovethan of making seem, the demonstrations of the French and rnoon " I ask because th.ere, are young Dr. Timaim alert in the palace each bight 'I don't know, ' she replied iimocently , or's bedroom, but as soon as the Emperor d speech inlet() years in the hens° of Russian Ambassadors at Constantinople " whethhr like one et not. / never ima regained sufficient strength to be out of bed Commons. His succeseor hi the baronetcy against the Wolfe treaty will end in smoke. totally at a lose to know what you are heighten the effect, tsvo ragged little boys one on rny the old rottine began again. y e a a, - speakieg of, ! Do a.nythirif you may were introduced to personate the' dead roan's " Oh," he exclaimed, with a long -drawn •rnal il•••• 4lesire, so that 'we can have a litt e quietness starving and adandoned Frighten- "'breath then he (Irew her closer and. th The 'in uisitive fellow may not b cl aaereaf ter." ed almost to death by the fear of being was a Sound as if a bird hacT chirped, der, but he is always n "why sir" man. is of the very type which he barely tolerated, GiVen MD St>: feet of earth and he Will take a knell. —11/4Tew York Sun, It IR estimated that twice as much English as American capital is invested' in 1Ylekte0.