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Exeter Times, 1901-10-31, Page 3',nen nenonneehenn•Sentn•nentneennnentleintnnententtensneeletttnnentnenenenenttetenet.+an tt, ,re ne tie The Ulltledy ee . ILL=GOTTEN I. " - End of A • 00 p - * deeeph POVass 'Ili ...... W ,,..,,,,,A LTI-1. ,...., ...... ,.. „. . ... .,,,,...,,,,,,,„9,..„,..;,...„..,...„,...,..:.,.....,,,,...,....„...„..;,,,,..:..,...,..,..,..:.4...:,..,,...„. OMS OF 'PRECEDING., enereatee eatd Beh, "I .cat be 011A.PTERS.-Securities vanish teem fieerotta. Taws Mr,s. Itonastre, r4 ow streqa,,_--room of Candelent, Dandy 4 Icium ie' vieamegg a thousami, ad Waitici2 hauhers' '117'" 3?ashe ot I weeder who they're with ? . Scotlaud Yard is called in to solve eaeate ether iteeiao whom a owe; IS—•,-Poro• Waldo or made public, mond ruiri yint for ever. Will yea buy them, and silence ? "Their price is on thousand pounds11 you agree, send some man on the third day from this to the garden on the Exelmekneent near Charing Cross at one p'eleen, Let Yolir messenger -wear a bouquet of lilies et the 'trainee and bluebells, and Jing the moneY le notes. Where coveted, the lettere (seventeen in weber) will be given up. "Your messenger Most be alone, Or ezo wee will sateen to bine "A thousand pounds 1 Where am to get a thousated -tweeds\ Dot, I must nave it by noon or croon. At the mystery. There are two keys we know." eaid Datinte snveral the worst X wIll ask Oneelmus. lne no the serong-roozna-one hekl by l'Inn figures passed out on. to the baltonY 1 cannot refuse. The minx, t,be artful tiVaido, perteer, the other bY e Surtees chief cashier, ,rom the neighboring room, This latter There- was lins, Waldo and bier bas two ebildren. Bob and Jose- On the third day, soon after twelve Phine. reproaches Bob, \eta is daughters end Horace Wiegspur, end Mrs. Waldo left Carlton Gardeas on, an, eoni‘ et subaltern with ft5e t - mo* wo ore pirations to the itaud rtaena '20b, tins is too enchanting 1" Waldo, for limning consumed Ins sine cried Clam Waldcn "Wilat a layelY tenn dowry to pay hia gamblieg spfit, !" ebtSurtees is susPentna of, the 'Row truly good of you. lifarclizia, ds. tbeft. A neaxeb-warraxit S takee to malte up this party or us," add - eat against attn. aortas rertegeeee ed Augusta, casting languisning eyes bonds answering to description of at the Cuban, vino looleed his hese ia missing Seeurities are fiound lila a light grey froelt coat aml a, very Possession. Me is eouvieted mad Sene Sbny hat " It was Mr, Meggitt's idea." in- terposed Mrs. Waldo. "You must, give nim some credit." "We. -won't quarrel over that, with Josephine, meets the Marquis, ladies." Paid the ereehler. "Tbe tand- de 040 Verde to whom Bob lost, hie , uess is on your side in h000rieg us money and sets a. detective to tveteb ovith your company." bine ,t "But -don't let's stick up here on. the balcony," put in Mrs, Bonastre. CITAPTER with her gay voice. "IVA far more !fun down in the gardere" Itiebard accidentully exet. Jos- ! "BY Pal nieenS ; we'll go into 1,he vphine on the career, a few oaye After goalie/ha sotti eere wallet), ae5110 his visit to Haggle llorrie's, and maw baek lute the ahauga.00m. AeeornlIADYilW be r borne* rPQrlt "WA Will join you. cliere madame, joyouS later. le. a few nieraenis,," said ille Mar - "rite talk flowed on pleiteantlY an" „quite "'Ma Aleggitt and X boxe eheerfellY. het at last Bob veld :"" ifew orders to give about the come UP- ellen only lust have x „ ing feast." time to walk ha,* to the theatre. The two men remained on the bal- Alter a tender leavenalring with cony engaged, in coruost. eouversae Jonephine, Daunt ;joined Bob in the Jima street. Preeently they came away. mid -Loeh here. 11013.- "hl ehraPte followed the othere down into the ly. "I think your friend Ilelena,--; goaleu* vaunt caught u, .word , you see her seemetlines I elippoee . two ot their cunversatiou as they Ali. 1 thotight so, at tbe Bonato.res. Passed in front of him, mid 'Mint he --well. I think she might be of great heart] justified men, Ile thought., in use to us just now." stepping out on the balcony and try - so ?" oteeed Bob. ing to bear more. "1 waut to know more about tlxis wonet, be easy to talk her Wench maw Mr;;* ; where over. I tell you ; you don't linow she came trent ; what sort of Pore Petuchett' the Moguls luxe said. as Fon she ; Mutt contpany she keeps; be eret eeeme out. short. all about bete" "it's a mere matter of money. I "Ilelena, couldn't find out much." expect... saw meggitt. But her own maid might. And 1 eeete it.e not. rouebettere mete have my Templeton.; about letnehette. eenary. couno, so are ot her Remember, it Zane out at the trial eex and elass and country. but mo - that she was the only person wive nay won't pacify ber now. she% could have got at old Waldo's men Newt jealousy and spite. She stroug-roone key re, holes to see xne here, carryleg on "Bet nothiikg oi the land was with the daugliter of the hintsQ, while size s the servant only of that old cat, the mother." ' "She'd, better leave the \Valdes wretele X could slay tonced no eevete years penal seiNi- laule. Mrs. Waldo misses scone na- Pots and encases joecollitie of the theft. Sir itieliard Patna, in lone proven. liesielts. what could she do with the Ley ?" "Give it. or an impression of it.In wax, to sortie one else who had ac- thaao I:TeX to tho place where the mewl- .11 elle does sheet be eiwaye in ties were kept, and who could so my way, and it. mita, be very awa.., atetract, the bonds-conunit the: crime wawa In fact for which your father is "matt, teen, do you propose ?" SU fferi ng.." We must humor her, that's cer- "ro whom would leeeeltette be teat. Iler great desire, she says, is likely to give the key ? What Cone to leave this weary, which she de- --**----"-teneetiell had she with Iteyeee as the tests, and the drialgei7, 'winch slut bank ?" hates still worm. Well, ebe shalt go; "That has been my clifilculty in bean be acao thinking the matter out, For a long "And if that; fails to liCeP bar time I could net trace any Ounce- quiet en lion between liov mid the person I have all along, suspected." "And that is--- ?" "Ileggitt, who is now the *Nish - "Percy efeggitt I Is it passible that you believe him to be base enough to have woven sucin an in- farxxous plot ?" "X always thought the man a cad, but not a villain till lately." 21But what benefit would my fath- er's disgrace and downfall bring to Meggitt ?" "His promotion in the first place. He expected to succeed your father, and, as a. matter of fact, bas done so," "That, after all, would hardly be enough - to tempt a. man to commit such a dastardly crime. A few hun- dreds a. year Is all the difTerence be- tween the pay of casbier, and assist- ant -cashier." "That was another great difficulty. I can only suppose that he has some .3nueh bigger ulterior game in band, and that he Wanted your father out of the way so as to have a .elear _ tonne before him," "Rave you any idea. wbat his game is ?" "Not yet. 1 ani still in. the dark, waiting patiently for nevidence, for facts and information as they turn up. But I have had a watch set noon his accomplice." "An accomplice' Whom do you 'mean 72' . "The man calling btmself the Mar- quis de -.0jo Nora°, the fellow who swinclleni you at cards." t - "nntnneee-ntnice Verde ! Is he really a leg, 'do you 'think ?" "Ire looks it," said Daunt ; "but there's bardly sufficient proof.," . he adaca, with laugh, "Nor have I • any proof as yet that be is very thick with ,ateggitt. But that I still hope. to get at. But he knows Fan- . chette intimately. Of that have no doubt." foot. It surprised the establislenent, but .01 were too well sirilleci to make aey. relearn. She was very quietly chessen le a, simple • cloth costume. but silo carried a bounvet Of Mien of the valley and bluebells in a. .pro- .miuent place on her breast. "Hollea 1" exclaimed a- Man in One Of the windows ot the Athelmeina, "What tokes that ola cat, Mrs. Wale do. out so early 1 wonder ? Oa foot ten 1 I never heard 'before of her walking hale a dozeri yards. r sge what titte'e up tont • The Reeler Was Sir Richard Daunt, who quickly canglit .1v Ms •hat and sellied torth into 'the street, • tfrs, Waldo's figure Was plainly visible fifty paces ahead, and Deuat followed her emonsoeved. as She con- tinued. along Pail Mali riwt, through Trafalgar Square, Into Ihnigoetion "I know that, too," said Dob, and he described what he had seen at the" • .eafe restaurant at Kilburn. 'That's corroboratIve. I was cer- tain she cold not tutoyer the Mar- quis and call him by his Christian name 'unless they were very closely Who is this Marquis, no you sup- pose 1" asked Bob; innocently. "Ah that's the very Pint thing I want to know. I cannot act freely till I do." Next morning Daunt 'drove joseph- 1110 an el her, brother to Richmond in •his nutil phaeton. e , Thcy only paused a few minutes at first Plata her .1'rentb maid and the Star and Garter Hotel. Daunt factotum threateiied to leave her ; ,encured a private dieing -room, and next, her dresemaker insisted on all three went clown the slope to the eiver-side, and it was quite Tate in the afternoon before they returned to the hotel, By this time all the private rooms were engaged evidently, and in that next door to Daunt 'and the Surtece 'there was a large and noisy party. Their voices, raised high, and shouts house Dauntsecond door, el A grineY Daunt at once passed tbrough, and was abet to close it agaie, when a voice from the passage was beard erying„ "Hold on, I'M in this swim, Let me in too." "What, Faske Paurit„in great surprise. "I never expected to. see you here, Wbat brings you ?" The detective put his auger te Ids ose Asked Faso. en was is the recently in new Wit ou their way wb711:1.htl:ta:11:134321re:;.:711S14:ht11:111: 19°1 t:11:elerPs'a,7'h.ae:Tivleeed: taion.1141;xf1:12thlwros4irze: ,a. roL,BountstflobtlyS ogiododygatirii"tt noeese s9neveletzteorliauttedirtiols.aon , atnaciilastlMagthe. May roal t at nary te .Faslw r ' said line of the Canealiae Paeifie Railway still rather annoyed. I felt sure there was genie phmt *ithin the mountains. Hasler is a, on, so I felt it ray (let,' 1.0 keep you Lc sight," "Did yea recogeize my man ? I want to lied out who he is ; that's wbat I've been after all da.y." ‘O.LNADA'S 111G11 PEA.4.S, TWO NOTINTAIN Gli/DES PR,ON SWITZERLAND. Tell Their Experiences Wnile Di- recting Tourists in the •Rockies Two of the guides in the employ of the Cauadian Peciae Railway Particulasly intelligent man, and, as he speaks very fate Enalieli, he is able to tallc interestingly on bis ex, perienees in the Rockies and Selkirk Range. Boble; and Ranier were the "I could never see his Sage rightly. ramOegsubd.esouwtrlictoraw, eorfepwititohchtyl7sItee jt,. etoeirkerpotwttia:.sbleoutherireadomtbaatIbeganieodr ml.aonuds, wash:ennth_ethmeatershtisfmaizodrya_ti it, you ii t I ekgn-o awl 1 ; obldloinrorteobeetrang: babro face rightly, and the vey bair, II w-Thatteerohnodr4enpu• Mount Assinibolue, the Canadian wae puzzled. I won't deny." agyut:tre307aasndtilatht frpe(lamk "41: am determined to know, sooner 1,rwinseldbagged on September 3. liazr, e wSsitei hIre''eart''svantrienVe Ilsiallitd,aor a. prli! i li:eurtsaltilastultrieaTeescnetnwt a';:asfairfairlY1y#astryy: ,-. . a • vate adventure of yoUr own ? 1 dare , leg, and that the elightest mistake Say X snail COMO aCrOsS him." wouln have been fatal to the whole Daunt did not care to tell the po- party. The steep north lace. down licteoflicer-why be was so =lone to r Fhteh they erePt. is a lames of !rage unveil the mystery about tbe ?a1- 10 rock. offering but an ineecure Ws. Paste had taken so Strong a hold for foot or hand; moreover. it part against Mr. Surtees that it was covered with a film, of ice, width would not have been easy 1.0 per- !in its turn was dusted with a sprint- euade him that there Was still a Or freehly-fellen snow. Ilowev- threme of reversing, the zeutenee. To ,er, the aecent wine made. and made have made the detective an ally, for at the fag end el the season too, for Street. and so to Charieg Gross. the present. at any rate, would , as Heeler says It IVa.4 the lest There she turned' quickly down, anti probably have done more harm than !day upon which the mountains could made towards the river, but on geed. &have been climbed this year." reaching the Embankment Gardens '4111 come to yeti it I'm in trouble AN ASCENT IN JIRO?, Ondar Adelphi Terrace she entered Vesta." said the baronet. "But* in them, and sat down, tbe meentime, way shooina,t, we In addition to Mount Aasinibolue, ie the commiesierieire came emelt the house We Teas once our the guides report that Mounts Vaux, and accostee her. A short conversa- tion follewed, they interehauged pa cels, then Mrs. 'Waldo got up, passed eut an to the pavement. hailed a lianSOUX Cain and was speedily eriven away. Sir Richert' Daunt in the distance bad witeeeeeil and token in a, good general idea of the scene. ile saw, too, that the commission- aire as lex waited hack towards Charing, CrOSS Was Inef, by a, women who seemed to have entered from the reed. The connaissionaire. after a short colloquy, went else way, eastward ; the women. the other, westward, passing close by Sir Richard Daunt. She was veiled closely, but there was something in her figure that eeemed not unfamiliar to hint. What was the meaning et an this ? Daunt hati started with -the idea of spying Mrs. Waldo, but Mrs. Waldo bad disappenred, and, as the last nitIODY VAL.KER EXPERIENCE'S OE MILE, ELLA The Moat Clever Tight -Rope Per - termer in the Woad- Jaer Specialties, That women are not by any means always the helpless, frightened, tim- id creatures they are enter,. made out to be could scarcely* be better proved than in the person of Mlle. Ella Zink., the faraous tighterope equilibe rist, who bats for seine time been Performing on the high wire at the Aquarium in London. Mita Zeno.. is probably the clever, - est expooent of her gurt sioce Mediu, by whom she was eongratula,ted and preeented with a diatitowl eecielace. "Yoa are tbe wily artiste," said Blondin, "that X acknowledge in MY profeesiori." There is something weird and thrilling about Mile. Zuila.'s hazardous performance. Ibigh up hi the Aquarium roof, nearly 100 feet aloft, size gives her acts, meting forwards awl bennwards ;tomes the rope bliedfolded, and with her feet in two WAWA, lying </owe, riding a cycle forwards and backwarde blind- folded, and many other Was. Her Most difficielt oat in one per- formed with e cbaer. en to the Seat Tweet world generene. of which ehe climbs from the rope, is Jo/elle O. Nevem, a membee finally seating herself en the chair - back with one foot only on the seat and oue leg crossed, and carele.sely swinging to and fro. But wheal she shifts this chair about cornerwise and begins te rock it backwards and forwards, your beart stops beating and your hair stands on end. Accidents? said Mlle, 'Zane. Yes, 1 114110 bad some. Once. riding across At ewe tieee Lord Wolseley woe at full speed, my bicycle pedal broke. very nearly leaving the army in die - 1 fell* but caught the rope (to fall gust 'Re bed been gazetted with one one arm over the rope is 050 of tam at the end of lea. when he the thins you learn as a begineer). was apt yet twententwo yearn el and I eauglit the bicycle, too. Tile age ; but the anthoritiee mace/fen his promotien on the score of his youth, Wolseley thereupou threaten- ed to resign, and the vancelletion wae ite turn cancelled. TXT -BITS. NoteS of I.nterest About Sonne Great l'eople. The Duke of Cambridge is the g1.7dr, member of the royal fanaily Who era- PIOYS Worn= Peek, Mr. Guliy, IC -0.. the Speaker of the 740140 of Commons, went to CaMbricige When he was only 5eve54 tebn years of age, Ire was the Yeuegeet undergraduate of his time in the Heiversity, Swinburee le said to have a =M- ery almost as wide-reaghing as Mae.. melon had Burnenfones relaten that upon one occasion the poet. recited verbatim several pages of Itfiltonni preee,, which be bad read only mice, and that twenty years before. Tho One of Greece holds a uniqUe position, for., on account of her tereat love for the sea, the late Em - Perm' AleXander Ill: of Russia made her an admiral. Of the Russian Met instead of giving her the customary regiment, ITer Majesty is the only lady admiral in the world. Awing ilinstriouS Pereonages with queer fads must, be membered Rrince Luitimid of Bavaria,. Hie collection Of beetles is the most extensive and eemPlete tie 'world, and the Prince is a skilled eutormlogist, deeply VerSed in the habits of ante. be, moths, dies, earevige, and the el a Presbyterian Sunda.yeechool is Germantown, Pa. bee been given a. gold .medal by the congregation for What is believed to be the. World's reeorci regular atteadance. She went to the school Orel as a baby in her mother's Mane, and has not 'illieSed a Single Sueeley la twenty - live years. man somewhere," (louden:, Cbancellor, and attendants fetched a blauket and "No good at all, Sir Rithard ; tbe Colley trete else bagged this seas9o. shouted to me to drop. but 1 was home has another exit. it Cenenanlie Of these eloodsir was the .34ePt diUl a»ziotis most about lily bike. so 1 calve with Illirrard Street at the cult. The aeceet wee made in JulY dropped my Maeltifie carefully into back; and you can get into the 1To-c and the COM -Wes of °verbal:014g the blanket and came down tel Gaillard by that way. Besides. it you found your friend, have you a warrant to arroet Ohm or any good grouutis for meddling with him 2" Daunt elm* his bead. "Then we couldn't touch him. even if we eaught him ; and the steelier we get out of tbeSe shareS the better for both you and MO." (TO Be Cootinued), snow slopes Were uneenelly Urge and dengereus. "Do you tidal; some of the peons might, be better climbed in winter ?" "Y " id Hasler. "bee nee then BY ONE OF TRE GUY -ROPES. The rope 1 walk is a steel haweer or cable; eel hemp rope would bear the strain. Ithat if it broke? Well, the crevices would be seed, and it. did break, once and ,down it calne. the snow would banal frozen. mein Ann 1 with it? Gle dear, noi X re- ing the danger Trona elides very . mauled up. How? Well. it's a pro - Meth lese than it is in summer." fee...done% eeeret, but I'11 tell you, 1 Resler added; "1 emu° to this elimhed up the rope. It sounds 3m - try liret uwa, and found that on Poeetble, doesn't it? But I'll ex- eeploring the mouutains that many Plam. You eee. you may break a the ascents would be compa.ra-' roPe in the middle or at either end, SAPPY CAVE DWELLERS. ztaitt:fanly deawsero at o tlaxagtoeoedaedoeno.l oIrn efilutemibta.. Ibritten nyeovielr honalt, itboctriatordssonatruonneaen. far as you can before it, breaks, and ing in the winter." These two guides brought with then grab hold ol the shortest end them a young mountain goa. 0, nen- anundg.ellIntihstiiileisttliief tictipberowaltisleniotalt foanle- rile, which they caught on Mount, on the 29th day of May last. sthidee,hfilloteritiosytouonde.annuiduaykociAgranwhilaigt The little creature had then been Traveller Lived 7ive Years In Northwest Mexico. Dr. Carl Lumholtz, the well-known Norwegian traveller and explorer, Mame° of solving the enigma, be has been travelling for live years in could not resist the temptation of the hitherto little known regions of following the other WOM0:11. Nortinvestera :Mexico. Re is the But in that he was forestalled. As first wbitennart that, has lived among she left the gardens and passed the cave -dwellers in those parts. In under the railway exch, a. slouching, Obristiania. Dr. Luniliolte. gave a sluthbileentreesed man, a. man grey- vivid doeription of his life end Itnired and of uncertain age. but travels among the wild Indian tribes still very active on lxis legs, darted of the Western Sierra, Madre, and out from the entrance of the Metro- especially among the cave -dwellers, politan Station, Awl also gave who still live in the same primitive clime. One word from bim brought way on their forefathers many thous - She turned, and stopped, affrighted and years ago. In order to study exclaimieg in her turn- these people ha sent boon the entire sten of his expedition, alai lived alone among them. At first the taibes objected to bie taniug ep his a.bode with them, but eventually he gained their confidence, and was allowed to remain. Be learnt their ways their language and their sougs, and joined in their festivities And dances. One. chief among the cave - dwellers even event so far as to offer him his daughter in mctrriago, and on another occasion he was nearly married to one of the Corm Tribe .a,t the express wish of the girl's family, but Lunaholtz bad to de- cline both offers. The Mexican Indians are mono- gamists, and lead on the whole a very nappy existence. They are highly intelligent, and are, the lec- turer said, a far superior race to their kinsmen in the United States ' kindly" 1 -My lael, would you not like to be mixt South America. Among many of the tnibes he found a bigiter de- out this pleasant afternoon, spin - gree of morality- than in civilized ning your top, or watching the oth- countries. Theft and diseases are er boys at their merry games ?" both unknown in them e I The sick boy closed hisneyes weari- both unknown among tbem. The 137.' as one who is not long for this land is held in common. Their prin- world, and has lost all interest in eipal food consists of tndian corn tle,sfrivolities of a mundane exist - rind beans. They attain to a great nge. Both men and women of . 100 "Wouldn't you enjoy trundling years and- over 'are often to be met your hoop or playing 'touch' with with in the mountainous pine tee your little schoolfellows ?" persisted gions, where they live longer than the physician sympathetically. in the valleys. They are polythe- The invalid's only reply was to ists, their. principal worship consist- sigh like one who is almost gone. ing of religious testivals and dances. 1 "Sure, now, docthor," exclaimed the lad's mother, "thot's not the . way to be rather livening the by.e up at all, at all ! Ar -r -r -r, Mickey, inc SCHOOLS FOR CRIPPLES. dar-rnarlinn wudden't yez loike to The London School Board has op- be rennin' about, t'rowin" stones meet in 'Paddington the first, of a through MeRafferty's windy, or ty- iaries of •special schools for the edu- ing the widdy Mulvaney'S pet eat to cation of cripples. The children are the railway lines, an' watchin' the tenon to and from their .hoines in 'an. trains squanch theloife out uv ut ?" ambulance provided by the Board, The sick boy promptly sat up and and a min -day meal is supplied. in dernanded his trousers in a voice of authority. the school. "X than try other means. No 'tea- "Leon l" man shall melte n. fool of Inv, or in- ,An animated colloquy followed in teller°. with my game." French. little of which, however. Aud that was all. Daunt did not reached Daunt's ears. Ile thought it wish to be canght listening, • and prudent to. pause a little and watch. what* he had now heard nearly euf- It was not, till the unknown man ficed. It proved the complexity of Meg- gitt ; It showed that Fanchette, one of his confederates, was dissatisfied ; it opened a thence of detaching her from tbe others, or at least extract- ing some damnatory evidence from her. This little incident had put Sir Richard in great good humble Bob, too, who had seen Ilelena„ was also in high glee, and Josephine was in e.xcellent spirits: All three made merry over their dinner, width they had. early, so as to enjoy the drive home by day- light. you in charge. The only contretemps, the only Bet the man kept his head down, blot on the day's enjoyment, Oe -tend struggled violently to break cm -red. a.t the moment on their de- away irone Daunt. parture from Richmond. , "Why, surely," added Daunt, hest- Daune's phaeton, with his pair of ily, "I cannot be mistaken ; you high-stepping seventeen -hand roams, are Mrs. Waldo's French maid, Pan - stood at the door. Ile had, helped chette, tuul you called this fellow Josephine into her seat, aad was Leon. Can it be possible 1" taking up the reins preparatery to The idea at once ctune forcibly jumping up beside her, when Mrs. upon him that it was the Marquis Waldo, with the •Marquis, and- fon whom he had thus captured, but, al- lowed by all her gang, came out mest before he had time to think the hall door, bent seemingly on a again, his prisoner, by a fresh and *walk in the park. more adroit movement, wriggled "Ali, tiens, it is that excellent Sir himself free, and took to Ms heels. Daunt," said the Marquis. "Do you But by the time Daunt began to pot see him, Madame ?" tbe mysterious personage in "I do .not choose to see every- front had gained a fair start, and thing, Marquis, replied -Mrs. Waltioa was making the most of it. Ire bad coldly. run straight ahead as fast as his "But wliat a beautiful person .is legs could earey him, and Daunt with him ! Angelic. face, met foi 1 just caught a glimpse of Min turn - Ile has surety. good taste." iug to the left.into that Dart of "That may 'be questioned, /Mar- Spring Gardens which communtcates quis," went' on Mrs. Waldo.. bitterly with the Park. .adding, in a very loud voice, 'art is Sir ilicha.rcl ran after him, but pre - not good ta.ste, according to our sently slackened his pace into walk ideas, to allicher oneself in public The fugitive was just in -sight, and places with such persons., She is a that. was Daunt wo.nted. His saleswoman at some shop," .cliief Object in following the Cuban "It is a etendresse eters ales was to track him dewn, and gain compliments, Sir ,Daunt," cried the some information,about Meat Marquis, gaily, as he kissed his hand .. ?For . Cuban marquis," thought to giT Richard- • Daunt, who kept close to the fugi- But Mrs. Waldo's .words had been tive's heels, "our frierad knows heard, and • they . stabbed ;Josephine London remarkably well!, to the quick. Iter only retaliation Disappearing down White' Lion was one glance or proud passionate Street lie turned off sharp into Cas - contempt as they drove away. tie 'Street, and acroes- the. top 'of Uppee St. Martin's Lane, into Wet fr Street. CHAPTER XIX.. "Back to Ms oh diggings. 1 won - A few days later Mrs. Walclo was, der if he thinks he has got rid of in the depths of despair: ln the me ? It looks like it: For there, at last, he 'goes to ground 1". seized Fanehette's hand roughly by the weist and twisted it that tie hastened forward to her rescue. "Give it me," the inan was saying in a furious tone still, in Frencla "I will know what tliis mystery means, and what brings you out here at this time of nay 1" - "Leave me ; it is zny affair. Leave me, I say, Leon, or will call 1" But now Daunt's hand was on the fellow's collar, and, with a. sharp wrench the young baronet twisted liim round, saying, -Who are you, who lays hands on women in the Open ,London streets ? shall give having a cheque, and money was very tight with Mrs. Waldo just then. . ' But the worst blow came at the encl. of the day thus embittered bY many worries. She got a letter by the night post, the reading of which agitated her eterribly. It was as follows :- of langeiter Wer0 • heard plainly "The writer holds tertain letters .through the partition. of yours, which, 11 given to- Kr., They were once more in Sceptre Street. The Marcinkithad halted in front of a dingyden.. On onn,, side was, a shop front, on which were a few shreds of cat's -meat. on the other an entrance with a half -door, •communicating, with a black passage. DoWn this he went with the assur- ance of a man who felt at home. Daunt promptly follgwed, nothing dismayed. The black passage opened into a small Court, at one end of which born but a few dans, otherwise they could not ha.ve caught it alive, as by tbe ttme the goat is a fortnight old it can follow its dam anywhere. During the summer these guides met one grizzly, and several black and einumuon bear, in addition to num- erous sbeep and goats. Goats they consnler are most plentiful on tbo Iltuthe of the Mount Coodsir. They safely' by that while the other part drops to the ground, and you climb up to the platform above, which is wbet 7 did. I commenced learning' wire -walking soon alter X was thirteen, and SIM then, as regards miles I've walked on the rope, I calculatil I've walked round the world several times. At the Zoo. St. Intereburg. 2.13V salary also saw a few caribou. As a hunt- MIS $350 per week; at the Theatre nfelbourne, I was paid $500 ing ground the Selkirk Rauge is bet- Royal, ter, as a rule, than the Rockies, but Pepi; enmeoetkberMiroafairtste.rmennadslantalessnabbaii.io, an exception must be made in favor of the Yoh° Valley, where all species in Austreein. so call myself Brit - 01' game native to the region are ish• particularly numerous at the present time, Hasler mentioned iecidentally that a neW glacier, twenty-one miles long, was discovered in the hills, borderieg this valle,y, during the summer. 3.10 I get many letters from the public? Scores; love -letters especial- ly. When in Frankfort an English- man sent inc a letter inclosing a. dead nosegay which Ile said I heel thrown down from the rope five ,years before. I have n. letter pro - 'posing marriage that came to Me !some years ago from a youth who TOUCHING, Tim SPOT. has ,since succeeded to the title and estates of one of -the most waste- IncLubberty," said the phy- exotic families in England. You'd sician, addressing the mother of the know the name youthful patient, "something must IF I MENTIONED IT. be done to cheer up the little fel- low -to raise his spirits and arouse How do we practice when learning? Isis ifiterest." Oh, not with the rope near the Turning to the bedside, he asked, ground, as most people imagine. You must have it raised about 10 feet to give depth for the balancing - pole to dip. For learning difficult tricks it's well to have it lower and a mattress underneath in case of tumbles. You buff shoes with non -slip, ping chamois leather soles, and practice enables you to hold the my wire is from the ground doesn't eia.eoia.priaeism.sgtoretteioied that the mere height doesn't count rnake me nervous of falling,. Well, in any way. I feel as safe at 100 feet high, and also the Niagara tbe fact is, as wire -walkers know, feet as at 10 feet, and so I should at 1,000 feet. I've walked a rope across the innigani. Falls, near Piet- ermaritzburg, in South Africa, 300 wire a good deal, with your root. People often aslc me if the height Some years ago- I tried to cross the Thames on a across from Cleopat- ra's Needle, but 3: believe her late Majesty Gnieen Victoria objected, thinking it too dangerous', I suppose. I could walk any reasonable dis- tance, such. as .from Dig Ben clock tower to Stn Paul's Cathedral dome, if a wire could be stretched.between the two structures. I have a novel- ty I'm going to try one of these days, which. is, briefly, to walk, cy- cle and perform my entire "act" up- on a. rope stretched - between, two captive balloons, about , 500 feet high, or as high as I can be visible to, spectators. SAFE EITHER WAY. Copper -Lined Pete---yShay,, now, look 'ere! I'vejes' finished two - .quart jug; if .yer the.usual kin' yer wen't hurt me -an' ef yea genoeine, i11. my pres'n' condislinayer cant. SO male 'self 't hornet'. (Goes to DLA,CIC R.ANDNERCRIIIDES. The black handkerchief which the sailor of the Royal Navy knots around his throat was first worn as mourning for Nelsen and has ever singe been retainek While the bright stripes _around the broad blue collar of the sailor's jUmPer: commemorate the victories of Trafalgar, CoPen- liagen and the Nile. Thebroad blue collar itself is older than Nelson, and was first ,.adopted at that 'period when .sailors plastered their hair into a stiff pig -tail with grease and pow- der, • The • average weight of 951/5011 caug-ht, in British waters is eight pounds, Ilat ZellerAny keen% that the rereable Of all the Ceara Of ItuSefa Sinee Peter the Great lie in a Mem- orial Chapel built on, one of the islands of the Xecra. All the moo- tapbs ale exacelly alike, 04eb. being a block of white ;marble, without any decoration wbateirer. The only die- thietion whicli one is marked is the nalne tbe dee„eased Emperor, bTo other Sovereige in the werld has so many physicians as the Czar. They number twority-seven, and aro all selected from among the medical celebrities of Russia. Titer* Is nrst a physician in thief ; then come' lea honorary physicians, three surgeons.. and four honorary surgeons ; two oculists, a, e,hiropodiet rind bonorary chiropodist ; two Court pbersielaue, and three specialists for the Onatinn, The Sloth mate asked a group of his courtiers whom they thought the greater Mau, himself or his father ? At first he could get no reply to ea dangerous a. question, the answer to wbich might cost the courtiers their beads. At last a. wily old courtier said "Your father, sire ; for al -- though you are equal to your father in all other respects, in this he 15 superior to you -that be had a great- er son than any you liave." There is every indication that tho 'widowed Queen Ifargherita of Italy intends to devote ixer time and mo- ney to the intellectual tultuee and, artistic development of her country, She received under Xing Efurabeit's will about $2,000,000, and the State makes ber a dowager's anowauce of $200,000 a. year. She has already, specifically set apart $140,000 year to assist and reward young workers in science, literature, and art. Recently, she personally con - suited with a number of representa- tive Italians, including composers, poets, novelists, and artists, and all enthusiastically approved her design and promised assistance in its exe- cution. - The Queen of Portugal is one of the most popular reigning Sove- reigns alive ; sit that anything like a revolution in Portugal ie absolute- ly out of the question. The recent net of heroism through which she saved a fleherman from drowning will not diminish that popularity. Tho fisherman was in a boat which capsized, a.ncl, was in a. very bad way indeed, when Her Majesty, who hap- pened to be near, Rung herself into the water, swain to the rescue, and brought him sate to shore. Anyone who has ever tried to swim with his or her clothes on will realize the pluck of the young Queen, and as it turned out that the fisherman's leg was broken, her act deserves all the more wonder and admiration. Count Lamsdorff, who lia.s at last ' been appointed head of the Russian Foreign Office, is one of the most hard-working men in BuSsia. Io - body 'remembers his last holiday. For tbirty years he has been behind the scenes of foreign affairs in Rus- sia. Ile knew the roinds of the two Alexanders, and tie was the 'line zeian • to recognize the humane character of the Czar Nicholas. Iris grandfather was the force behind the great Czar • •Paul, as Lamsclorff is"likely to be a force behind the present- Emperor. The Count is an able man, who knows how to face a crisis, and has . the saving (nanny of knowing how to hold his tongue. Like Lord Sal- isbury, whomhe met at the Berlin Congress, he' has no love of society, and lie generally leaves his cards early in the morning before his friends are out of bed. Count Lams- dorff has just turned sixty, but he is as young as most men at forty, Bluster --"Did you say I was a liar?" Blister -"I hope I Could not do so ungentlemanly a thing. But I see 3rod catch my idea." 1 -re went fishing, and when he canie back a friend met, him and asked.: "Did you catch anythieg?'' 'NO`I'' in a tone of scorn. `'Well,'' e I aim- ed the friend, "you are triAtilfill, anyhow, whieli 011 lisileiluen are not." "As to that," responded the fisherman, "perhaps you inieht lavat . called thene 1)nt I IvouldiCt, biggest ono 1 got only weighed 111 pounds,"