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l '\. "THE DEAN AND HIS DAUGHTER. CHAPTER. XXXV. Ethel was radiant with goodmatured envy of me. I had a splendid income, she saidâ€"any income being splendid which is more than sufficient for your wants ; so that a clerk in the \Var Ofiice or a subaltern in a double battalion regiment, with two or three hundred a year. is very often a rich man as compared with a duke whose many thousands a-year are swallowed up in family settlements, interest on mort- gages, and the inevitable outgoings of his mum. The only thingtto do, she solemnly assured me, was to show a proper gratitude to Providence by living up to my income, and so judiciously expending it as to get out of it the maximum of enjoyment. “ You have, my dear," she said, "the purse of Fortunatus. Every morning when you wake there is four pounds in it to be seriously spent, and very nearly a pound of loose silver for pocket-money. I consider you ought to be most distinctly grateful for your good fortune." . " I will show my gratitude to the gods,” I replied, “ by using their favors wis ely. Let us get our money's worth for our money. That shall be, as Sairey Gamp has it, our ‘ mortar.’ And we will (figuratively, ) of course, dear Ethel ‘ put our lips to the bottle when we are so disposed.’ And now, as I do not wish to be bothered. and feel, in fact, uncommonly lazy, I shall leave the campaign to you. _ Do not worry your- self too much over the choice, as if we avoid the folly of taking a house, we shall always have it in our power to come and go at our will.” “Then, my dear, I think I have the place cut and dried. It is now the very beginning of August. August and Septem. her are the two best months in the year, and ought to be spent in the best of all possible places. Now you know, there is Margate, and there is Chan, and there is St. Helicrs.” “ Are you gone mad ‘2" I asked. “ Not quite, my dear. I was just going to remark that none of these would suit us. There are insuperable objections to each. But I know a place which combines the good qualities of them all, and which is easily accessible." “ Do pray stop skirmishing and tell me. . Isupposc you have been there, and if so, can describe it.” “ Perfectly, my dear. I have been there and I mean to go again, and this time I mean to go with you, and the name of the place is Trouvillc. and we can amuse our- selves there till the end of the month." Trouville ! I had heard of it, of course, just as I had heard of Saratoga. and with just as little thought of seriously going- there. Now I jum ed at the-idea. “ All right. Ethe . Trouville be it. To avoid further bother, and to prevent the. very possibility of our changing our minds, we will say no more about the matter at all to-day, either for or against it, and we'll start tomorrow morning.” “ It is a glorious day, Miriam, and we can get a decent fly here at the hotel. Let us do the old~fashioned thingâ€"drive quiet- ly down to Richmond, taking the road through the Park, dine at ‘ Talbot,’ and so come virtuoust home.” This little programme was followed out. “’8 had a capital day of it, and so thoroughly discussed our campaign over a, very excellent fish dinner, as to leave liter- I ally nothing to he settled. Ethel, as I have said, seemed younger. and was certainly more petulant than ever. She insisted on our sitting for an hour over our wine after dinner, greatly to the astonishment of the waiter, and noticing the bewilderment of that functionary, she mischievously drove i him nearly insane with wonder by finishing up with a liquor glass of kirschwasser, and solemnly assuring him that it settled your wine better than any liquor she knew. Those little vulgarities somewhat jarred l upon me, but I was glad to ignore them for the sake of my friend’s many excellent- qualities. Then, in her own language, we aid our shot, and rattled back to town. ext eVen- ing we left London for Trouville, via Water- loo aud Southampton. When I found my- self at Trouville, I was charmed with it. We put up at the Hotel de Paris, close to the Casino, and with day to rest after the journey, and to do nothing but rest, and a second day devoted to what Ethel called "settling down into our stride," we found ourselves on the third morning with A No sooner did Mr. Harris observe thil announcement than he took counsel with his wife, and posted up under it another to this effect : “ And at the same hour John P. Harris. of Chicago, U. 8., will D.V.) be found in the billiard-room to play any entleman his own e, from fifty to five undred up, for the tables and drinks." The Harris's were as happy and radiant as children, and Mrs. Harris frankly owned in me that. Saratoga always excepted, I‘rouville, in her 0 inion,whipped creation. "Saratoga, am,” she said, " is a place of its own. If you doubt it, go to the Assembly Rooms, and there you 11 see with your own eyes the hub of the universe sticking up through the floor." My income of course, allowed me little luxuries beyond the average limit of com~ forts. I set up a small victoria of my own, with a presentable coachmen ; I invested in a Maltese poodle, and at the races at Deauvills I think I wore as pretty a frock (a creation of Pingat’s) as any woman in the enclosure, although princesses and cocottes were vieing with each other ; and better still, I was on value, or rather Mr. Harris was en veine for me, for I remember that I won every race, and at the conclusion of the “re-union,” was considerably over three hundred louis to the good. I may mention that I was still passing as Mrs. Gascoi e. I had got used to the name and ligd it ; and 1 had, moreover, by this time entirely lost all nervousness. I believe, indeed, that if my father and Sir Henry had turned up together arinvin- arm my composure would have been in no way disturbed, however much such an unholy coalition might have surprised and amused me. Ethel and I exchanged notes one evening, and found ourselves agreed that we were both not only feeling butlooking distinctly better and brighter than when we first left England. CHAPTER XXXVI. Some few days later we made more new acquaintances. How we first came to speaking at all, and how from that we got on to what are called speaking terms, and so on to better terms still, I do not exactly recollect. Ethel and I met the Fox’s somewhere or other. 1 think it was at the Casino, and we somehow gravitated towards one an. other. It is my own private opinion that Fox pere was something in some big way in the Cityâ€"a stockbroker, or an underwriter, or o drysalter, or a wharfinger, or a. member of the Corn Exchange. he was pronounc- edly bourgeois, and very sensibly made no attempt to conceal the fact. His wife leased me less. I must frankly own that could not take kindly to her. She was one of the many daughters of an English Earl, with a sufficiently good and old title, and a yearly improving income. An Earl of W allingford, in the days of the Regency, haifi got most disastrously into debt, and had‘t‘old his life interest in the family estates for a mere sons to the lJews. When he died, the new heir. who was equally extravagant, found that after heavin insuring his life, and taking up all the post obit bonds which he had given, he had about six or seven hundred a year of his own upon which to live. He went and flut- tered about with it at Schlossbad-on-the- Rhine, where he one night tumbled down the stairs of the Kursaal and broke his neck. The next successor was a cousinâ€"a small country clergyman somewhere down in Somersetshire, of whom, until he one day suddenly found himself Earl of Walling- ford, no one had ever heard a word more than had been known of the Vicar of Os- sulston, unlil that learned and exemplary man became a Dean. He was, however, a very respectable good sort of a country clergyman, and finding himself unexpectedly a peer, he ran up to town and consulted some old college friends as to what on earth he was to do, and to express to them over a bottle of port at the “Oxford and Cambridge,” his intense regret that he could not commute his peerage for a few thousands down or a good canonry. When, however, he came to look into things, he found that he was not so badly off as he had expected. It is true that every acre had been sold that could by any possibility be got at, and that the encumbrances were some- thing appalling. But when things had been thoroughly looked into by the emin- ent firm of Snayle, Crawls, Dodger & Slug, of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, it was discovered tnat a good deal still remained to be pulled out of the fire. Agricultural depreciation was no doubt one factor in the case ; but so too, had been urban extension, and a considerable amount of land round about Shepherd’s Bush and Uxbridge and other such places was found to be available for guilding purpose at an immediate pro- to. Thus, then the present Lord Wallingford was far richer than many peers who held their estates uninterruptedly from the days of the Tudors or even the Plantagen- that indescribable feeling of vitality and 818. energy which can only be enjoyed on the shores of the ” Grand, great mother ; mother and lover of men, the sea." It was a very pleasant life. \Ve bathed in the morning : hrsakfasted of? fresh fish, fruit, and ices at the Casino; walked or drove as the fancy took us. or even culti- vated the noble art of doing nothing. which, if you do not allow it to engross you and unduly carry you away. is one of the most fascinating pursuits I know, and in- fiuitely preferable to either flirting or bac. carat. Xon never lose your temper over it ; you cannot very well lose habits growing upon you, you can very easily give it up. Of course we soon made acquaintances. It would have been almost impossible at the Hotel de Paris to avoid doing so. One was a lively young American from Chicago, a Mr. Harris, with a still more lively wife. who apologized for her idioms on the ground that nobody in the States ever dreamed of talking English except a few stuck-up Yankees from " Boraton.” There was an English gentleman in the hotel, with his wife and family, and by the permission of the authorities he posted a notice in the salon to the effect : "On Sun- day morning 103’.) the Reverend George I’outii'ex will celebrate divine service in the reading-room for members of the English Church, at ll am." or money ; y . and should you find it, like at or pleasant! “1 hen he went to his bankers he was Lord Wallingfcrd’s third daughter, Lady Aletherie Letitia Sophonisba Langley- who was considered a beauty, and whose claim to the distinction lay chiefly in the fact that her portrait by the President of the Royal Academy, who had been pleased to take a fancy to her and to paint her in cousequence.found itself hung one fihs May morning in one of the best positions at Burlington House -â€"was a suficiently ood- looking, good-natured schoolgirl, ing indeed for her kindliness, an immense bundle of the most negative attributes in the world. always ushered directly into the er’a private room, and I believe he v ued this outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace more than any other earthly honor. At least that was my impression, judging from the number of times he infom- ed me of this important fact. With all his oddities and even failings he was a well-meaning man, and. according to his own lights, fairly good-natured and 'usi. J Our friendship ripened rapidly. 1 did not flirt with my worthy City merchant. In the first place 1 really respected him too much. and in the second place the very idea of anything of the sort would have been ridiculous in itself. But I did all that I could to make myself agreeable to grea him without in any way arousing the jeal- ousy of his wife, and I think I may claim that I fairly succeeded. He talked about me and wearied other people : and he talked tomeand Iam bound to say wearied me. He complimented me (guardedly) u nmy personal appearance, and ureserved y upon whathewas pleasedto term, with something of the air of a valuer and appraiser, my “accomplishments.” I, of course, fooled him to the top of his bent, even venturing so far towards the extreme limit of mendacity as to felicitate him on his markedly Parisian accent. Then the Fox’s left Trouville for home. and, as the place was emptying, Ethel and I took Parisin in our way homeward, stay- ing of course in her little entresol in the Rue Royals, and enjoying ourselves in our own way, but most harmlessly and dec- orously withel. Finding ourselves in Paris it followed almost necessarily, from the new associat- ion of ideas, that we should one day fall to talking about Prince Balanikofi‘. Ethel returned to the charge vigorously. I had been very foolish in the matter, she said; and she had told me so all along and she thought so still. The Prince had acted most honorably, and had told no lies whatever. There could not be adoubt that he had through- out spoken the entire truth, and was devotedly attached to me. He had thorough- ly proved himselfagentleman by refrain- ing from giving me the least trouble or annoyance when we met at Monte Carlo. Thus Mrs. Fortesque. “A Russian gentleman,” she added, “when he is a gentleman, is without his equal; and I can only say that life is far too short to warrant any of us in throwing away so splendid a certainty as that which you are recklessly tossing aside. If poor Sabine were alive, it Would be quite another matter. 1 should bethe last to urge the cause of the Prince, or, for the matter of that, of the great White Czar himself. No woman in her life ever really loves more than one man. But we are dealing now with facts, and not ,with the strong rich wine of the first and last love. Look at the facts, Miriam, and your sound common sense will show you that my own View of the case is the correct one, the most sensible, and, in every way, the best." Instead of arguing the matter with her, to which I did not feel at all equal, I sug- gested a drive. We visited the Zaiterie in the Bois, and got out and ssuntered for awhile in the neighborhood of the eas- cade. Then we drove pleasantly back to the Rue Royale. Ethel mounted the stairs. and hurried to the balcony. “It’s a sin to stop in,” she said, “on this glorious day, and to sit here tiring one another. Let us turn out again; dine in the open, anywhere you pleaseâ€"in the Champs Elysees, I voteâ€"and then go to the Hippodrome. The divine spirit of youth is upon me once again and I want to see the horse-riders. Yes, we will go to the Hippodrome.” Of course she had her way. We dined pleasantly enough together, and, not ling- ering as men do over our wine, found our- selves ensconced in a comfortable loge at the Hippodrome, and neither too late nor too early for the best part of the perfor- mance. The old King of Hanover’s immense baiouche had just driven into the arena and deposited Mdlle. Celestine, the Amazonian Queen of the Electric Wire, and we were critically contemplating that lady’s massive proportions and masculine muscles, when Ethel touched my elbow, and whispered: “Look at her, my dear. Keep your eyes on her. Prince Balanikoff A MIGHTY WARRIOR DEAD. ls hpeetsd England Would lee ll- a It In 'hrelvv Thousand 51x Hundred Do‘ Gnnbeal Because Ie Gave the Princess unlse a Bracelet. Capt. George, head chief of the Chehalis Indians, who died recently in British Columbia, was in his day a mighty warrior. Until four years ago he was known as Capt. Bob, but for some reason unknown he'changsd his name to Capt. George. Every year be accompanied his tribe down to the salmon fishing to watch over. their morals and see that they did not spend their earnings recklessly. He had great influence with the Simhes, and his word was law with them on all occasions. He was a staunch adherent of the Roman Catholic Church, and his death which was signalled all along the river, has caused general mourning among the tribe. Capt. George had the honor, some twelve or thirteen years ago, on the visit to New Westminster of the Marquis of horns and Princess Louise, of presenting her Royal Highness, on behalf of his tribe, with a pair of silver bracelets and some baskets of Indian make. In return, he received the thanks of the Marquis and Princess, their photo raphs, and that was all. George looke upon the bracelets and baskets as a gift of enormous value, and fully expected to receive a warship in return. He could not believe that the viceregal couple meant to give him nothing more than the photos, and for many months he daily watched for the arrival of the big war vessel that was to make him the skookum hyas tyhee of the whole Pacific coast. A year passed away, and then another, but no ship came, and Ca t. George finally abandoned all hope, an in revenge, never lost an opportunity of regretting the valu- ables he had wasted on the Marquis and Princess, and telling his friends what a delate cultus pair they were. To his dying day he thought he had been shamefully treated. Capt George was considered a mighty warrior in his youth, and if the truth is told, he hurried many a Douglas brave to the happy hunting grounds. This was before the gold excitement in 1858. George’s mode of fighting was to make a trip into the enemy's country with a few chosen warriors, and lie hidden until they could pounce upon a party inferior in number to themselves. Usually he surprised and butchered his enemies while they slept, but occasionally when commanding an overwhelming force, be tackled them in dayli ht. He was a terror to the Douglas tri e, and greatly feared by them, and hated beyond expres- sion as well. The old Indians tell some frightful tales of .Capt. George’s early de- predations, and while his own tribe mourn the death of their chief, the Douglas Indi- ans sre glad to know that he has gone at last. So bitter is their feeling even now that not long since a party of them went to Indian Agent Devlin and kicked up a row because the body of the hated chief was allowed to remain close to where they are encainped. The body of Capt. George has been boxed up and placed in a tree until the fishing season is over. Then it will be taken in state to the Chehalis village and interred with all the pomp and ceremony due to the chieftain of the royal and king- ly line of Chehalis. ‘ MARRIAGE IN BURMAl-l. is here, with his glasseslevelled dead at The T1,, is manly Formed and “um, as us. He will be round in aminute, and, of course, we must be properly surprised.’ . (TO BE CONTINUED) BRITISH TROOPS IN INDIA. Easily Dissolved. A chapter in the Burmah census report, dealingwith what is called the “ civil condi- tion”of the people,gives muchinterestingin- formation regarding marriage in that coun- try. From the tables marriage appears to he The "can" of “"5 Tron“ '5 very G09“ much less common than in India, but this is Considering the Climate. A recently issued governmental report gives some interesting statistics concerning the health of British troops in India. A royal commission appointed in 1863 report- ed that the death-rate of white troops in that country had for some years averaged sixty-nine in the thousand, that this ter- rible expenditure of human life was un- necessary, and that the death-rate might, by certain practicable reforms, be reduced to twenty, and ultimatelyâ€"when the gen- eral sanitary condition of the country was improvedâ€"to ten per thousand. The for- mer of these standards was reached in the decade 1870-9, and near approaches to the latter have been made in subsequent years, notably in 1883, when the death rate was 10.8. The most recent experience, how- ever, is of a less encouraging character. In 1892, for instance, the report for which has just been issued, the death rate was 1‘7 in the thousand, as against 14.17 iii the de- cade, 1882-91 ; the ratio of “admissions to hospital” was 15.17 per thousand, as com- pared with 14.48 in the same decade ; and the ratio of “constantly sick" was 84 per thousand, as compared with 74 per thou- sand in the earlier period. The ratio of invaliding alone shows a slight improve- ment, having fallen from '26 per thousand in 1882.91 to 24 per thousand in 1892. Eliminating the accidental character of single years by a comparison of longer periods, it appears that the death rate of the decade 1881-90 was 14.24 per thousand, as compared with 19.34 per thousand in the decade 1870-79 : that the ratio of admis- sions to hospitals showed a fractional im- provement, 14.71 per thousand for the lat- ter period, as against 14.75 in the earlier : and that the ratio of “constantly sick” rose from 60 in the thousand to 73. In making the comparison it has to be remembered that in the decade 1881-90 large nialarious regions, Burmah and Beloochistan, were added to the British Empire, and that re- cent changes in the terms of service have brought the soldier into the country at a younger age, and remove him from it just as he is becoming acclimatized. .._..â€"â€"~â€".â€"-â€"-â€"â€"â€"-â€"-‘ Time to Get Ready. Astronomer (enthusiasticallylâ€"“A great comet is coming.” . Young Lady (excitedly)â€"-” Isn't that glorious! I am just dying to see a really t comet. When will it be here 2" Astronomer (delightedly)â€"" In 1911." said to be due to the fact that there is no child marriage among the Buddhists and natworshipers, who form the bulk of the population. Moreover, in Burmah marriage is generally the result of mutual affection between the parties after they have reached years of discretion. On the other hand, marriage is more common there than in European countries, for the tie is more easily formed and more easily dissolved, while motives of prudence have not the same weight. Destitution is almost unknown and the wants of life in the temperate climate of Burmah are more easily satisfied than in the colder countries of northern Europe. A young Burmese couple can start life with a da and a cook- ing pot. The universal bamboo supplies the material: for building the house, light- ing the fire, carrying the water from the well, and may even help to compose the dinner itself. The wife is usually prepared to take a share in supporting the household, and thus she has gradually acquired a position of independence not always enjoyed by married women elsewhere. It has been de- cided that under the ancient Buddhist cus- tom prevailing in Burmah a husband can- not alienate property jointly acquired after marriage without the consent- of his wife. Few marriages take place where either party is under 15, and Elie usual age is be- tween 15 and 25. Polygamy now practic~ ally no longer exists, although in ancient times the Burmese were polygamists as well as slaveholders. “ Most Burmese I have only one wife and few more than two. The first, or head wife, is usually the choice of the husband in his youth." The ease with which divorce is obtained is said to be one of the causes why polygamy is so rare. The terms of divorce are based on ancient rules, one of which is that the party wishing the separation can take his or her property and no more: the other party takes all the rest, including the chil- dren. The safeguard against caprice in husbands is not merely public opinion, which condemns too' frequent divorces, but the self-respect of women, which prevents them from marrying a man who has divorced his wives too freely. The privilege of perfect freedom in this respect is said to he rarely abused. " Di- vorce is very rare, afact attributable equal- ly, perhaps, to the high position occupied by Women in Burmese society,‘ the care with which marrisce contracts are entered into and the extreme evenness of temper wh'yh characterizes both sexes." THE HEAT 0!“ THE SUN. races Fahrenheit. How hot is the sun 2 That is a question that astronomers and physicists have been trying for years to solve, and they are not yet satisfied that they know the true ans- wer. In fact. it may be said, they are certain they do not know it, although they areabls to report progress. from time to t'iine, in the direction of the truth. The most. recent trustworthy investiga- tion is that of M. De Chatelier. who fixes the efi’eotivs temperature of the sun at twelve thousand six hundred degrees Fah- renheit. It may, he thinks, be either hotter or colder than that figure indicates, to the extent of eighteen hundred degrees either way. Previous to this investigation of M. De Chatelier‘s the temperature of the sun had been fiqu at eighteen thousand degrees Fahrenheit by Rosetti, and that result was looked upon by many leading astronomers as probably the nearest to the actual fee of any that had yet been obtained. - It will be noticed that the latter estimate takes off several thousand degrees, but this is a trifle compared with the falling off from the estimates of the temperature of the sun made by some of the earlierinvesiigators. The celebrated Secchi at one time main- tained that the solar‘temperaiuro was not less than eighteen million degrees Fahren- heit, but he himself afterward found reasons for dropping down to two hundred and fifty thousand degrees. Such estimates of the sun's temperature as one hundred thousand degrees, and fifty thouiand degrees were favorably regarded a few years ago. If M. DeChatelier’s result is approximate- ly correct, then we can, perhaps, begin to get some thing like a comprehension of the heat of the solar furnace. since it approaches comparison with temperatures that we can produce artificially. The highest artificial temperature has been estimated by Profes- sor Young at about four thousand degrees. Fahrenheit. But it must be remembered that there- are certain arbitrary assumptions, Which may or may not be correct, involved even in the most careful investigations of this subject, and that, at any rate, the sun is undoubtedly much hotter underneath than is at its glowing and visible surface. CURIOUS REQUESTS. Some Cur-Ions Provlslons Found in Eng- llsli Wills. Curious bequests ! Assuredly there have been a. good many of them in this worldâ€"- mcst of them unjust. Strictly, we suppose we should speak of bequest with regard only to personal property, and talk of “device” for the realty, just as the “tests- ment” should deal with the 'personal, and the “will” with the real, but the greater in both cases has long ago included both, and bequest it may therefore be. There is a refreshing quaintness about some of the old bequests. \Valterle Taillour, for instance, in I305, acoording to the will recorded in the City of London Court of Hosting, left “to Richard his son the reversion of a tenement held by Richard is Bakers for life, receiving yearly, immediately after the testator’s death, a rent of half a mark, and weekly one penny tart, in respect of the said tenement. ” He also left fourpence to London Bridge. There is, however, a spirit of geniality about this will which is very different to that of the man who left his son in law “one penny to buy him a whistle." One man leaves his money to his son “on condition that he shave ofi’ his moustacho;" another leaves his to his no hews “on condition that they rise at 4 do ock in the summer and five o’clock in the winterz” another leaves his to a friend “on condition that he always wears black;” another that the fortunate man should always wear a. msuragrlg “.-ure1y" they say. “we can do as we like with our 0\vn”-â€"and they doit, at least to their own satisfaction. There was John Reed, for example, who left his head “to be prepared so as to be used as the skull of Yorick in the play of Hamlet by Shakespeare,” having evidently felt the inconvenience of not having an article of the kind in stock. There was Dr. Wagner, who left his limbs to different friends for dissecting purposes; there was Dr. Ellerby, who left his heart to one man, his lungs to another, and his brain to another, to be preserved from decomposi- tion, and pleasantly added, “If either of the gentlemen named fail to execute this, I will come and torment them until they shall comply,” thus reminding us of the Mr. Zimmerman who desired, in 1840, to be buried plainly and in a decent manner, “and if this be not done I will come again â€"that is, if I can I” The Australian Horse. A London syndicate has entered upon a new Australian experiment, which will make the Australian horse an object of commerce in England. The first trial ship- ment of horses will soon arrive in London from Sydney, and if the animals find a ready market, the trade will be rapidly extended. As Australian horses are much below the Engligh ones in price in the colony, and as on their arrival in England, they are much more likely to rise towards the English market level than to drag the price of the English horses down to their own, a profitable business probably lies before the syndicate Losses caused by the voyage are not expected to be great. This new Australian venture will hardly be of a nature to draw a roan from the British farmer; but as a so sme is iii com- templation for importing frozen pork from the same colony, whose cupidity or com- mercial enterprise has been aroused by the large profits made by New Zealand on its importation of bacon into England, the home agriculturisi may well believe that the whole world is conspiring against him for his ruin. The Maiden's Wish. “l’d like to be a fine, large bank check,” remarked the girl who was very pretty but r. "Why ‘2" inquired her companion. 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