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passieg years have been gen-
erous to Mrs. Mewlsley, my reVered
landlady, in thu matter of solid flesh
and it is seldom indeed that she
faces the ordeal of dilating the
stairs which lead to my apartments.
When, therefore, she panted her way
up the torturing flights, I knew sho
had somethieg of importance to
connuunicate, and motioned her to a
chair. Then, with the forethought
for which 1 win fatuous, I mixed a
potion which is supposed to give re-
lief to those who suffer froin
"Nooses," and waited.
"Thank you kindly, str," she said
at last. sure I ought not to
bother you with my troubles, sir,
but I've come to tell you about a
letter I've received from my daugh-
ter, and— But it's a long story,
sir, and if you're busy—"
"Not at all, my dear Mrs. Mund-
sloe'," I assured her. "Not at all.
I am pleased to are you—very
pleased."
:1"ov, as a member of that glorious,
but, rinancielly spettking, somewhat
precarious institution of our coun-
try, tho Press, 1 havetlearneri that
It is wise to be civil to oue's land-
lady.
'Well, sir, I'm sure it's very kind
of 'you. And if you don't mind, I'll
start at the beginning. TIM tale
goes back about—let me see—yes.
about ten yeers. I had my nrst
floor and the little off -room to let
at the time, and I was beginning to
think as they'd. never go off, when
late one afternoon a lady awl gentle-
man railed to see 'ern. She was
golden-hatired little thing, but
the gentleman was quite different.
"He was a big, loud -voiced sort
of man, and when 1 saw him T put
him down as some sort of racing
man, or perhaps something on the
mueic-halls, thoegli they told me
afterwards lie was a sporting jour-
nalist. But he was hearty and plea-
sant spoken, and seemed easily pleas-
ed and not short of cash. so I count-
ed myself in luck when, after he had
tried the easy -chair and the sofa,
and found 'ent eotniortable, he said
as he thought the rooms would suit.
and threw down a week's rent in
advance on the table.
" 'llut you've forgotten Frank
dear,said his timid wife.
" 'lly Jove,' be said, 'so I have!
Well, Mrs. kfundsley, up to now my
wit's brother, Mr. Frank Meads, lies
alwaas lived Nellie us. He's alone in
London, you know, and hasn't any
other friends. You've got another
bedroom you could let us have,
suppose?'
" 'Yes, sir,' says 7, my mind turn-
ing on the off -room.
" 'Let's have a look at it,' says
he.
" "Fliat'll suit Frank all right,'
says he, oti-liancied; 'you'll find he's
all right. He won't be nearly such
a nuisance as I shall. He's a quiet
old stick is Prank, different to me,'
he says, with a laugh.
"And no truer word was ever spot -
en than that. For the difference be-
tween Mr. Tom Burnaby and Mr.
Frank Meads. his brother-in-law, was
remarkable. Mr. Prank wits as quiet
as the other was noisy. He was one
of those ereepy sort of gents—always
walked Raft as a cat. Very nice
and civil, and all that, but very
Parnell/0r, whereas Mr. Burnaby WaS
ono of tho careless sort. Nothing
mattered to him as long as he was
comfortable,
"Take them all round, they was
very good longers, though I must
say 7 never liked Mr. Morale. Ile
was too quiet and catliko for my
liking; yon never knew whether lie
Was in the house or out of it, But
my Isyclta—thetes my eldest daugh-
ter, pee know, sir—she took to hios
front the fleet.
"I fold her my (minion et Hine but
that didn't make no difference, and
it's my opinion she was beginning to
t&lhead-over-heels in love with him
when a terrible thing happened.
"One terrible Mazy night, Melia
two months atter they first came,
the Frank never came home, Mrs.
Buenaby worried bereeIf almost into
efever, for elio told me that Mr,
Frank was at a, diamond merchant's
end ofteii had a lot of vatuables on
him, and she wun afraid he'd betel
knocked down antl perhaps, killed,
"I tried my best to cheer helonp,
hut 7 coon( see at a ginner. as she
was upset, and all of a tremble.
'7 didn't think mneli about the
matter that night, but f twist con-
fess that when f hettrd next morn-
ing that his candle Was still on the
hall -stand, and that Ids bed had
zuwer heart slept in, 3. got 0 bit un-
easy.
"Yammerer nothing out of the nay
linpormed that morning., 111e. Burn-
aby eta/need his tray out of the
rind went down the street whistllug
ns 8ua1. But early in the after-
noon he came hack, lookieg graver
nild morn solemn than I had ever
vain him.
" 'What's wrong, Air?' 1 asked hira
meeting him In the hall, 'Me.
" eliterrhi' he said, 'Don't let My
wife hear you. Mr. lerank left his
nflice at 'Manny yesterday with dia-
monds to the value of 11.5,000, aml
has not ham mien shire.'
" Mind gem:riots, 51it 7 said.
"Hum whatever ran have harnientall'
" "allot I can't tell,' gays he. 'We
Must wait and see,'
"Ana he walked upetnirs quieter
nnd mare itubdued than he had ever
(Toile before,
"Nothilig waS aeem of Mr. Aftrale
that ilaY, and we hotted nothieg of
hh» late in the evening, eehen
WEIS itstit leaking UP foe the night.
Thee there came a thtaldering rat.
tot at the (1001', mel 1 opened it,
to See a sie-foot p011eeznan standing
there,
" 'Anyone here of the moue of
Meads?' he says.
" says I, 'there Waft,'
" 'What Was his other name?'
asked the policeman..
" 'Frank,' says 7.
'Wm!' sus he, 'Is this 'is bat?'
'Ile brought Out ikons 'behind his
back a battered and muddy top -hat,
which had been knocked about some-
thing cruel. There was a lot of
dark Maths on it• too.
"Lydia was In the hall, and she
came to the door.
" 'If it's got his name and addeets
ieside of it,' says she, going very
white, 'it's his hat.'
" 'Well, his name and address nee
inside,' saye the polleemate "l'he
hat eves found an the river -bank. Do
any of his frionds live here?'
''T went upstaire tis quiet as I
could, and culled. Mr, Burneby.
" '05, Tom,' I heard his wife
say, 'it's -some news about Frank!
Go at oneo.'
"Well, sir, to cut a. long stOl'Y
short, that hat was the last thing
that was ever seen of Mr, Frank
Meads. There was a lot of foot -
footmarks on the river-baak, clone
to where the liat had been fount),
which seemed as 11 a terrible strug-
gle must have taken place, and f•M,
stains on the hat was proved to be
blood. But though they dragged the
river, all they ever found wan apair
of cuffs with his name on, and ono
link missing.
"The river rues very swift just
there, and there's a lot of deep holes
in the bed, and it wasn't the first
body that had gone in there and
had never been seen or heard of
again; so, although for the nest
week or so after it happened ',the
house never seemed to be free of the
police. who mune bothering round,
badgering all the house, and making
Mr, Burnaby say hot-tempered things
to them, they never came to any
definite conclusion, and the whole
thing was wrapped in mystery, as
they say in the books.
"For my part, 1 believed it was a
put-up lob front the first. I had nev-
er liked Mr. Frank and his sneaking,
catlike ways, and it seemed to me.
that it would come natural to him
to make out as he had been done
(twee( with, whereas all the •tinie he
had • timed off with them diamonds,
and was taking his ease and laugh-
ing at us all somewhere miles away.
"Ot course, it was an exciting time
for everyone in the house while it
lasted; but after a time things quiet-
ed clown; and though Mr. Burnaby
didn't sing so loud as he used to do,
he gradually got back into his old,
cheerful ways.
"Rut his wife moped and brooded
just like my Lydia, who was worn
away almost to a. shadow, and one
morning Mr. Burnaby came down
and gave me notice to quit. •
"01 course, I couldn't but agree
with him when ha said he thought
it would be bettor for his wife if
they went away from a place which
had so many sad recollections for
her. A few days after they left, and,
to tell the truth. I wasn't sorry to
see 'ein go, for the whole thing bad
brought my house into 'unpleasant
prominence.
"It was the third or fourth day
after they left that Lydia eame down
to breakfast looking streined and
WO)') ied.
" 'Mother,' she said, 'did the Burn-
abye leave any address behind
them?'
." hadn't any to leave,' says
I. 'Mrs. Burnaby was going home
to her mother's in the country for a
little While to get the roses back
to her cheeks, and Mr. Tom was go-
ing to stay at a hotel until she
was well enough to come back and
start housekeeping again. What
makes you ask?"
" 'This morning,' she says, speak-
ing in a strained sort of way, 'Just
after 7 woke up, I had a strange
mutation come over me, All at
once I saw, cis plata as the daylight,
what had happened to poor Mr.
Meads. 7 -Te wa.s murdered, mother,
frit the sake of the diamonds, and
Mr. Burnaby was the Man who did
"I was So took back that I
couldn't speak for a minute, atld
whorl 7 did 7 blowed hat' up sky high
foe being so silly to let, such stupid
fancies get into her head.
"33ut nothing would convince her,
and she even went to the police with
her tale, though, of course, they did
nothing. Prom that (ley to this I've
never seen a sight of either Mr, Tom
Burnaby or Isis wife, or anyone coo-
nected with tho business,
"That's all I've got to tall you
about the Frank Meads' affair, and
as tu Lydia—well, in time she got
ova, it, and a little over four
years ego she got married an)1 went
out to Australia with her husband,
to start farming out there, Up till
about a. year ago they did very well;
then tho drought came along and
killed oft nearly all their eattle, and
a bush lire pretty nearly finished
elmni up for good, -
"T. was worrying abont them a
good deal. Every lette' 7 got, seem-
ed to contain bad news, and this
Afternoon this arrived, I want you
to read it, eir, told tell mo what you
11,''
With the best will in the world,
WS. Mundsley had found it difficult
to eontinue talking for eo long, and
believe she was grateful for the re-
pite which she wart able to take
whilo 7 read the letter,
"My dear mother" (it fail)—"the
Strangest thing you over dreamt of
bee bapponed, in my Met letter T
told you o/ the iniafortenee which
have deggod Robert, and last month
we had to sell tho farm to pay our
debts. 33iit we got a recommendte
tion from some Sydney Monde to a
wealthy squatter living in Geeawo-
long, a diatriet which has boon lay.
°red With rebut wbich the rest of the
colony has been without,
Mr. Patterson, Wo wero thld,
was in want of 11 Man and Wife to
set as housekeepea and manager Olt
hia estate, ,ahd nobert.Wroto and
wae told to Come along and Da up
prellegoariee. I Insisted Oh aeatere,
panYieg Releetie and ati Matt aftee
Joerney Which seemed as if it would
jest foe aver, wo reached fleetewee
long. On the way wo bed heard
nothing but good reports of Mr.
Po 1.101800,
"But whom do think he turn-
ed out to be? Why, the vory Mr.
Tom 'Burnaby 'that 1 always Deady
believed murdered poor Froze
?Seeds! I knew him and Ids wife et
once, though could see they did
not recognise me, and it inside um
boil over to think of that poor fel-
low whose death had been thu foun-
dation of the wealth whielt it Was
evident these people bad.
"Ilotart was proceeding to open
neg•otietione, but I stoPPed him,
" 'I'll tako no service with these
people!" I said.
"Robert looked at me in amaze-
ment. The others eoemed struck
dumb.
" 'What do you merin?' he asked
me.
" '7 1110011 that that man there
killed his brother-in-law for the sake
of a few paltry diamonds. My 1101110
was Lydia Mundsley, Mr, Patterson.
It was in my mother's house you
all lived at tho time,"
"Mrs. Burnaby turned to her bus -
liana, white to the lips.
" 'It is the irony of fate, Tom,"
she quavered,
"He rose beavily from the chair,
and znoved towards the house. 'The
irony of fete,' he iiepeated slowly.
'Excuse ma for one moment.'
" 'Oh,' I cried after him, 'you aro
free to god
"And 7 turned to Robert and ask-
ed him if We could got to another
station that night,
"We were just about to mere off
when someone came out of the house
and stood on the vevandaht
"it was Frank Meads! The neat
black suit, the small moustache—
evmything was complete.
717.
"Miss Lydia!" he said.
" 'Mr. Meads!' I cried, M utter as-
tordslunent. 'You have come to life
again!
" 'No,' he said, smiling sadly, else
as he used to do. 'I was never dead,
In fact, as I was never alive, I can-
not have died. Look!'
"Ho whipped off (bit little mous-
tache and the black, neatly parted
hair, changed his coat in flash, and
Tom 73urna.b5 stood in his place.
"Then he and his wife told me the
whole story, and left themselves in
my bands. It appears that. tho dia-
mond merchant 111 whose employ
'ILTearls' was had cheated Burnaby's
father out of his partnership in the
business. In order to spy out the
lend, pad to site if there was the re-
motest chance of his regaining what
really belonged to him by right, he
touk weir° with him under the
name iS Frank Meads and the dise
game which so utterly deceived us
all. Ho found there was little likeli-
hood of his being able to do that,
and then the idea, of building up the
double identity aad appropriating
the diamonds mattered to him. How
well he did it We know. And when
you come to think of it, mother, no
ono in the house over saw them both
together.
"Hc Was able to sell the diamonds
and to come out here, where, as
have told you, he has prospered, and
is extremely popular. But, of
course, whether they continue to
sail under false colors any longer de-
pends upon me.
"Mr. Burnaby (as he will always
he to me), informs me that, in spite
of the manner in which his late em-
ployer bad cheated his father, the
matter of the diemonds laid heavily
on his conscience, and he declares
that he returned the £5,000 to tho
firm atemymously.
"1 want you to find out whether
this ill true.. If it in, I shall take
no further stens."
"Yoe needn't road any further,
sir," said Mrs. Mondsley, as I went
to turn the leaf. "The vest is * fam-
ily matters. Bet that ie where you
come in. I am too old and too
asthmatic& to find out retina Lydia
wants to know for myself. But
you're clever if you ain't very suc-
cessful. Will you make the inquir-
ies? And - if you do, and it all turns
out satisfactory—why, We!74 -call that
little bill that's owing settled."
And T am pleased to relate, for
my own sake, for Lydia's, and for
Mr Patterson's, Jere of Gretwolong,
that the inquiries 1 made provod
that the latter gentleman had really
made restitution, The inquiries cost
ine some little trouble, but, it is
al-
wsys worth while to be civil_ to
one's landlady. --London Answers.
WILL PRESERVE VOICES,
--
British Museum to Treasure
Gramophone Records,
At a recent meeting of the trustees
of the British Museum it was decid-
ed itiat the records of voices of the
most eminent singers 101(1 publicists
of Ole tinIcfp—ineni and women Whose
voices will interest entree genets,-
tions—should be eollected and stored
with other of the nation -at teeasures.
A difficulty confronted the Museum
trueteezt—the difficulty of obtaining
ii»peradiable records. But no soon-
er was at raised Ginn it was over-
come. Mr, 5. W, Dixon, teenager of
the Cramoplione Company, at once
offered to make iMperiShable records
of the 'voices of sun' persons as a
ennunittee approved 15y the British
Museum trusteee Shall select, and
(Ripply them free at charge. Tide
offer the truetees have decided to
accept, and beforo long the first of
the records Amulet be lodged in the
archives at Bloomsbury.
The records are intended solely for
eoaterity. They will not be used,
for instance, for the purporto of giv-
muig S'eturany afternoon concerti' at
the 'British Museum to Die peesent
generation. Their value will be in
years to ezene, When granchthildren
and groat -grandchildren af persons
living to -day Will be able to listen
to the great eteitettmen, eingers, and
ttetOte of the present, day.
Mies Ilraddon hes ell the Mann-
ecriPte of her nOVele bOlind in eed
loather,
VIRTUES OF THE MIKADO
DESCRIBED BY ONE OP KIS
S'1713511 CTS.
Se eta of the Emperor of japanis
Popularity Among His
Subjects.
Newspaper readers may very like-
ly have been ga'eally atavism -a miller
than deeply iiiipi''titit'ib tiy ono of the
sentences in the ofbeia( despatch of
Marshal ()plena to Tokio announcing
bis grea 1 eletory in the battle of
laukcion, wherein he aseribeti the
"1St eat virtues" of the Temperer as
ono of the chief causes of his vic-
tory, But when Admiral Togo sank
the Russian ships he cabled to the
saine effect, end there is vonsltIorably
more in the sentiment than appears
at first sight.
The following. atatentent ham boon
furnished to the welter by 15 Japan-
efie gentlemen of position, who has
been considerably concerned. in Ja-
paneee mattes, and who has the
most intimate knowledge of all that
Pertains to the Royal Memo of Ja-
Pan. It explains some of the secrets
of tlio tiikado's Intense popularity
among his subjects, and of their real
belief that all the good that in those
clays accritee to the country comes
thiough his instrumentality. Ile
says:—
The glorious awakening and the
triumphel !regress of modern Japan
is entirely due to the genius of our
Emperor, Mutsuttita, who is noW
Afty-two years of age. When he
ascoadell thethrone the country wes
In a most. dangerous state, but by
series of master -strokes he himself
got rid of nil tho bad and baekward
elements in .Japan and set the new
movement on its feet,
When he had banished the Sh'ogun
and established the now order of
things he sent rrince Sank) all over
Europe to investigate the different
forms of government read the social
conditions of
THE DIFFER:Ma' COUNTRIES,
in wider that he might adopt a sys-
tem that would be suitable to Ja-
panese requirements and program.
From that they to this there has
scarcely been an item in tho for-
ward movement which hos not been
instigated or assisted by the
Emperor.
We regard him as the saviour and
maker of nutdern Japan. 1-10 came
to our assistance when we 5vere on
the edge of et terrible chasm. There
was on the one hand a feudal baron-
age with a &Voile government, like
that of our present enemy Russia,
which was crumhing the life out of
tho people, and on the other hand
there was the dark spectre of a
fierce revolution which it was pos-
sible might, end in the extinction of
a nation, so that, like Poland, Jit -
hall would exiet only in name. From
these Iffutsuhito, our Emperor, eaved
to; rind has led us on. Flow can any-
body bo surprised that with such an
Emmet, and with such lieutenants
as he has trained, Japan is marching
on victorimisly?
lie is an icleal man, front oar point
of view. and an ideal Emperor, He
rises early, and at five o'clock every
morning may be aeon on horseback
outside his palace, He makes a
plein lireakfaet and then proceeds
to the Cakumonjo, the place for
study and inquiry, where he ex-
aminee the lee orts from his Minis -
tees anel the committees of the two
Nonses of Parliament, the foreign
criblegreense including the despatches
from the Rent of war, agricultural
report e, and hundreds of other docu-
ments affecting Die 'welfare of the
collate- in one !respect or another.
Scarcely a paper posers him with-
out life making some note or mem.-
omit upon it. Ile is master of de-
tail, arid
FIXTIIEMPILY TI101.1017C71,
After all this he will attend State
functions, visit the schools, listen
to a.tlaresses by the most distingu-
ished students, and generally do
evorything.thi,hiS 1..ostier bo show litS
neon 'interest bo the' ron t bleat i on of
the proeess of Japan's enlighten-
ment. It is not enough, lie says.,
that at present: Japan is showing
hersolf to los the equal of Ieutemean
eat ions. The lenmress assists hi kii
in an hie work, and he constantly
expresses his obligations to her. Ilto
says: "I am the committee of poli-
tics; fait is tho committee of educa-
tion."
Ile is constantly thinking of litS
tiOlmil'Y and what ha may do for it.
Elven Jo the depthe of night, wheh
the stiles ate shining and nearly all
Japan is fast asleep, be may bo seen
clothed la it simple cOatums of army
serge, to emerge front his palate and
steide hp sem down the battlements.
He is then deep in thought. He
Martins dreams mod soars among the
spirits of the departece listening in-
tently to their wise: advice ancl in-
struction. Thus be sees the dim °M-
ilne of a great fame. 'Sometimes
his wifita clad as Shoply as he, walks
his•side, bet elm never speaks lest
silo should dieter!) the workings oa
his mind,
rartiCtilarly, he 1,9 conela n y
eolleitovie o tho welfata of his brave
soldiers wit° have done so Intioli for
the glory of Japan, When -a new
pattern' of rifle was introduced the
Emperor ordered one to be set to
the palace Si' Ids own use. Thee he
7IYSTER101381,Y DISA rpnA ityn ),
taking the rifle with hint, ale tild
not retern 1 or ' twen ty-f our limns,
and dining the whole of the inter-
acting pertorl he Mal been marching
Hong the roada—nlone, and with the
rifle on his shoulder or in Ills hands.
He 010 this simply to satisfy him-
self that it was not too hoavy for
the soldiers to eitrry. Ie the Senn)
Way Ile late Marched With the heavy
"lcit." on his back etad tho melee
shoes on hie feet 11001 hie shoulders
breve beet Moline and his feet sore
and bialtered, 80 lie knowa exactly
what his soldiers have 1.0 go
tlil"eugsoh
tnt 11,1 soes to fight With Togo
eleel Oyamet, iMatight them tip
10 iho beat Weet, • At ,the SPorte tleY
In one of the publie schools the
Critain PHI= 01105 took part in HOMO
wrestling matches and defeated all
centers until a farmer's Wu appeared
Iin the ring. kluny people thought
that tbe farmer's sen would feel
himself, eldiged to lot the Prince win
but ha did not do so. The Theme:
was defeat ed after every short lend .
Then the Emperor summoned the
victor to hie presettea, 51111 the buy
went in fear leat he had been too
bold. But the kimpeeor only Said
to hint, "Will you become one of 1555
companions of my NOM and Ilve anti
study with him while he Venni 1114 in
the school, for hp needs ninny a 1111511
like you/
Have not the virtues of Ruch a
mon, and the note which result front
than>, sonething to do with the suc-
cesses of the country?
WILLIE'S gUESTIO'N,
Where do you go wheh you go to
Weep?
Tbat's what I want to know;
There's loads of things I can't find
out,
33ut nothing bothers nie so.
Nurse ruts ine to bed in my little
room,
And takes away the light,
I cuddle down in the blankets warm,
And shut my oyes up tight.
Then of I go to the funniest place,
Whore everything seems queer;
Though sometimes it. is not funny ot
Just like the way it is here.
There's mountains made of candy
there,
Big fields covered with flowers,
And lovely ponies and birds end
trone,
A. Moaned times nicer than ours....
Often, dear mamma, 1500 you there,
And sometimes, papa, too;
And last night the baby came back
from heaven,
Mid played like he used to do.
So all this day I've been tryleg to
0 htoleivink,
twish T could know,
Whereabouts that wonderful eountey
is
,Wbero sleepy little boys go.
BRITAIN'S DRINK BILL.
Shrinks Eighty-five ATillion Dol-
lars in Pive Years.
The British Chancellor of Exche-
qiier'S reforeace in his budget speech
to the remarkable decrease ite tho
consumption of spirits and beer, end
the failure of his expectations re-
garding tho reVenlie front, exelee,
raises the question whether the
heavy income tax is not defeating its
Own purpose,
Though it Is a fact that the 111n
1(0(10.1 drink bill during the laza live
years has 1011015 no less than 4E15,-
000,000; experts in the wino tattle
do not agree with tho Chancellor
that it is due entirely to a wave of
sobriety, On the contrary, they put
it down to business depression and
high taxation, consequent upon the
South African War.
9'110 prOprietOr of a well-known
group of London wine lieeses said
recently that his ledger accounts
show that his customers are spend-
ing on the average about half as
much on wines as they teem eight
or ten years age.
"It Is clue primarily to the high
income Mx," tie said. "When tbe
tax was eight pence to the pourid,
many of my smaller customers were
spending about $350 yearly on
wines. Now they aro spending only
about 11150 or $200.
"My thirty years' experience has
shown me t•hat anent:masa hi the in-
come tax always means a. decrease
in the expenditure on wine. A man
who a few years ago was rayIng
away $350 in income tax now Jute
Lo pay about 501100, which leavee,hiln
over $200 less to lay out liateixtie-
ies;
'The easiest Way to eurt‘l ex-
penses With011t ilia neighlf0rs re-
marking the fact is to deeetease Ids
wine 5111. ITo keeps a fear bottles
of choice wine for special- occasions',
and lot, ordleary purposes uses a
cheap wine. Perhaps he gives up
wino intogetlier. 11. is easy to say
that the doctor IMS °littered ilim to
00so.,1I
iany aaso,
it, Is it fact that
Otero has lately been a great falling
off in the consumption of good
'1ines. Only a little whila ago three
hundred thousand dollars wortli of
0110(00 wines was sold at about the
price it cost to 'bottle it ten years
pioarecioentitiffpy.,. We aro bat making four
p
eat osi good Wine to -day.
"Wise End people are not drink-
ing cheap WilleS by choice, hut be-
cause their (inmates compel them."
REWARDS FOR muttC/I-norad.
4. At lehmotally,' 51 Devenshiraa
Engines!, the, prettiest girl who aP-
tends 'church gets• well rewarded, for
doing se. About fifty years or, so
ego it stemok the Reee ThonmeaMey-
tick, who was then vicar of the
parish, that; the young ladies there
ISO not attend ehuech So often as
they might do. So he left a emu of
money, and this, according to the
teems of his will, Ives to be put out
at interest. Tho annual income from
it Was to be given *tach year to the
prettiest young woman at Itols-
worthy who had attended church re-
gularly for that Year.
WHERE MONItY 38 USELESS'.
On Aereeption 'shield, in the At -
15,11110, money is (mite melees. The
%Me)1is the property of the lbettsh
Admiralty, end bit goeerned by a
ettptaln, There is no private to•or-
orty in land, so there are 550 vents,
rates, or taxes; The, limilts e»(I herds
are Public Praieletlea rend tIte Meal: is
Metied in leaning. So are the vow:-
tabloS •011 tlie feriae,
TIM RISK
Last night I had tet go to bed,
All by inyeelf, my mother sald.
'Causti:l.')d155en naughty all day
ht(ag ji
S'be wouldn't hies una good -night,
too,
I didn't want to Mt hav.511010
MOW MUCh I. cared %out that, and
oo .
1 •dpooped my elotlies 'right, on. the
floor—
A thing I never did before—
And put, each stocking in a shoe—
She Jest bates that. --end didn't. (10
Tfy balr, or wash my fate, or lough
My tttepto.,k
1:, and left things, in a squatith
All 'round the rootn; and then T
Her picture, and my fairy -book
SIM gave Me On my last bitaliday
In Jane, and bid 'ern both meal.
TUpP"Itt; it'1}1,Y0 it't'1'11/11455..8otPiteltilow°11g.lb.igt,ht
To show 'cm just, the way I feel
'Cause he said; "Mae the child,
Lucille,
Don't let her go to bed like this
Without your usual good -night Itins."
But, elle just ShoOlc her head and
Iter Itirui:e:14::,:liand then ley eyes they
Lake ere. . . , It's been a horrid
Ann then, of course, I dithat say
My Petterers at all, but went to bed
And wished nett wished that I was
.dPrit
Well, iat know jest how It was,
For 1'0 been half -way sleeping, 'cense
I was so 'pletely tired out --
When I hecird something move about
So tpliet, and' the next 1 knew
The deer moved beck snit sha Came
through
And put her arms around me se,
And Paid, a -whispering very low,
"My pone, dear child," and was so
And Itaisd;(111 rne twice. My, I was
glad!
—Harper's Magazi ne.
t
PERSONAL NOTES.
—
Interesting Gossip About Some
Prominent People.
raderewski, it is said, can play
from memory over 500 compositions.
Es needs to read or play a composi-
tion new to him only twice in order
to memorize it, and, frequently aloe
reading it over, can sit down at the
tpatiianola,a5,10dtesplay it without referring
Not the least peculiar of Mine.
Sarah Bernhardt's many rads i
that of breakfasting the moment sh
wakes of a. morning. No matter
what the hour may be, as soon LIS
San slumbers are over her 'maid
biilln 8rs'rie t
so ttoiliunesnlgg
l'betlisideocoffee and rolls,
al
Miss Jane Nathan, who is the first
South 'African -born girl licensed to
practise as a deutal surgeon, has
returned from her successful studies
in Europe to liegin her profession at
Hanover, Cape Colony. She is also
believed to be the arst South Ana
cail girl to take any medical deg•ree.
ICieg Oscar of Sweden once passed
through a small town which was fes-
tively decorated, and noticed a largo
transparent board bearing the in-
scription, "Welcome, your Majesty!"
harmilig from a house. "eVitat house
is theta'? asked the Xing. "That is
the town prison, was tho answer.
Whereupon His Majesty, laughing,
said: "That is rather too much po-
liteness!"
Signora Cousino, of South Ameri-
ca, is undoubtedly the richest woman
In the world. Her silver and copper
Minos are noW yielding $100,000 per
month; her coal mines' yield $85,000
per etionth. Her stock farms for
thoroughbred horses Rod cattle at
present bring in an income -which
exceeds that of all the mines put
together. In addition, she has large
lended interests and a Bout of
steamships,
Miss Frances Wolseley, the daugh-
ter of ',mil Wolseley, spends most al
San time at Farmhouse, Glynde,
langeand, She is one of the keenest
of lady gardeners and thoroughly
understands OM scientific side of the
subieet. Sho has !Minded a school
for ortrdening at 0 ly n de and person-
ally simerintends the teaching. Miss
Wolseley is heiress by . przeolei re-
mainder to hot' father's elem.-May.
What is declared by electioneering
hands of great experience to be one
oS the vora smartest things. ever see4
on a political platform is attributed
to eilz, Wilfrid Lawson on an °coca
elan when he was preaching the gos-
pel of temperance in his most "aigor-
tees style. "This country," said ho,
"is governed by tivo heathen deities,
Bacchus and Mars, or, in other
Words, by the god of aottles and
the god of Maths." Such a pro-
noat cement may not have been able
to stand temmination, but it emend-
ed uncommonly ;Well.
The Earl pi- Jersey onee &aimed'
that he nearly lost his life theoug't1
"Pickwick." He was reading Dicke
on's famous work when ill; and it
made . hint laugh so ranch that he
suffered a relapse, and was neatly
deepaired of by his doctors, whO
forthwith banished Dickens from his
bedroom. Lord Jersey 113 nOt only
a geota admirer of the Nage of Gad's
Hill, buteatie. • is almost Dickensian
himeelf ioi appearance, being proba-
bly th45' fairest of the .pccrs, veey,
tall112/1) thin, and the Wearer of
,01)0t31,,,i,clorttiiitoeclartieylpteierst of a quaintly un -
`Pip :Melee at twanty yeare of age(
Ruch' is Ilia ream& of ' George Stew-
art ' Malimman, who has just
been appoieted pipe -major of
the 3st no ttal ion Cordon nigh-
laridete. Ito Come of a family
or expert pipers and dancers. IIis
coesin was one of •Lhe most famous
exponents of Oto two arts that caw
live.d.Tho pipeemaJor bog'an his
stuclien at eight yeare of ago; two
yeas toter lie appeared by commroid
adore ,teeleten Victoria at lealtnoral;
when be was eleven he gained chat -
lenge Metiale hi London and Min-
aurfeb; and he Wee atriateer °ham.
pion of Gteat Britain when ho was
t'velee. Sinee thee he lute won
medals etie the einaber of fifty, and
innemerable prieeif all over the eotna
try, Ito jellied the Gordon :Frei -
merles ae a ;boy. It le believer: that
Pipe -Major lirtieentte le the youngeet
man ever appoitited to Snell a poat,
tiou 111 tho DrItiah Ailq,,,, - •
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YOUNG
FOLKS
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A 1ePIATIMP.P10
Olio (lay in early spring, as 7 ware
busy at tvork, .r gin -item( out: of the
paalay window, and saw Roble Bed-
brease tryine fa dislodge a, long
piece of gray twine that Was caught
securely under the cistern-In:Imp
platform.
Ho would pull end tug, and tip
over backward, then fly away, al-
ways returning with his red breast,
swelling under the courage and his
beady oyes greedy With the desire
of poeseseion,
eta the twine into lengfilS Slat -
able for nest -building material, and
placed several pieces .of white string
with it, When Bob cattle back, 50
carefully looked it all over; then,
selecting a piece of the white string,
flew away with It,
Ire came again nod again until all
the white string was gone, but
never touched the gray twine be had
worker -I so hard to get In tho morne
Mg. I Lbouglit this was on account
Of the fineness of the white seeing,
and tested Bob by placing more
pieces of white, alternatingthe
with pink, filler seeing. As bm
efore,
he theca thit ivhite. plainly ((hewing
that it was eolor and not quality
which pleased Min. After tete mest!
m tbe maple tree Was flnished, Ma.
add Mrs. Robin Rectbrealt settled
down to keeping house,
Mrs. Redbreast, well knowing thee
a home without a baby is a poor af-
fair al, best, at once set about sup-
plying that article in her home, Alas
for her hopes! Susan, the big, bleak
cat, discovered the nest and tumbled
the eggs out on the ground.
The Ilobia Redbreasts held long
discassions about their mined home,
and, judging. from -Weil, tones, lost
'their temper quite like people. At
last they abenrioned thole home, mid
for several days flew about, picking
worms in the garden aucl examining,
the prospects for cherries,
begati to th-ink they Were malty
discouraged, and became impatient
at their lack of ambition, 1 lowevor,
I was too hasty in formine• an opin-
ion of my feathered friends.
About six o'clock one sunny movie-
ing I saw a strange eight. A sinall
kite well supplied with a tail or
white string, which nky son, in care-
less boy fashion, had Mit on the
front porcli, was slowly moving
down the path.
I looked closer, and there was
Robin -Redbreast turned thief to ac-
quire the coveted white, string. lie
gathered several strands of it in his
501 at Onee, and hooped along the
path, only to be brought: lip sudden-
ly by the weight, of the .eite. Every
failure made him try the harder, al-
though he fell over backward manye
many times.
At last ho took hold near enough.
tee the kite to fly up with it. A puff
of wind caught the kite, and took
it,Tioliin and all, over tho fence.
Robin lot go of it, and sat. on the
fence, chirping angrily.
In a few moments lie commenced
his struggle all over agele, but this
time Data -kite fell into a 511101 ap-
ple -tree, from which he was unable
to dleledge 11.
I went to his aseistance; but lie
Had changed his mind about using
a kite in his !raw nest, for IM never
came back far it; »or could I find
his now Horne, though I was sure
from hie actions and happy songs
that he had one some'vhero.
70,000 STREET BEGGARS.
Record of More—T—han That Num-
ber in London.
At a mooting last week of tlie
Londonilendicity Society, an organ-
ization e formed for the purpose of
itountettictieg the efforts of the pro-
fessigicol beggar, many interesting
reateihtions as to the methods et0-
1110ared " by tho bogging fraternity
Vern made. Durin# the last year the
'Society brotight lts lists of street -
beg,gars to 70,000, and in order to
keep this extraordinary record cone-
pletely up to date, the chief come
lodestone'. of pollee lies directed that
full particular° of every street liege
ging ease that crimes berme the Lon-
don Police Courts be scot to Sir.
etric Buchanan, the society's secre4
tary.
The soelety's experts investigated
1,4 130 begging letters last year.
They have POW a conectien of 2813,-
000 such appeals in their posneseion.
Three t rai neq, Investigators were 010 -
played tO angertain whether the writ-
ers of beggieg letters deserved h•elp.
Analysis shaeved that Out of every
hundred, 25 were sentby absolute
investors, fifty wore not deeerving
of lioIp, and Of the remaining 25,
from five to aeven, were verY deServ-
ing. 'rho eocieleas secretary esti-
mates that at' leartt,4500,000 is give
en in hapainatted aims amalallYa ,
LONDON'S 3-101WELESS F0011,
A recent census of the horologe
pooe of 'Landoll, taken at )light,
showed that 1,000 men end 812 wo-
men were in tho (divots or 011 sten-
crises. In the common lodging.
holiSeS end shelters that night thero
were 28,600 persons, of whom 21,-
25,1 Were 8ingle men, 1,500 single
women, 357 Married ermines, end
thirty-four children under ton yeara
of lige.
A. ny end a flea in a flee
1Vere imprisoned, NoW tvliat could
they do?
Said CM fly: "Lot. ea flee!"
"Let flea ' said tlho
ihry fleaf, through a flaw in the
flue,
Sonle ertietej ideas ere het a
Ole)', aro pOotod,,,
tad