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""3 Chemicdmmwn’ °f Canad’” limited' ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ “mu-“L ‘ lunchJ With myself and my opin} I w-â€"--~â€"â€"â€"~ â€" "muâ€"â€" + 1013‘s; I ‘ A fln‘yori‘ng mod the "me a: lemon or vanill 1 ho, .you interest me,” says his ffifflflwfiféfafi o"'"‘-"““,-““‘ “"5 . + companiOn, with a. serious seren- nyi’iiibgahxl‘tk; ” I.“ ?3nӤ'§l¢b’r § ity which deprives the- words of all _ . ., , . > 32353:»)? i “In t “E: + sound of flattery or encouragement. ' ’ " " ‘ ' ‘ ‘ 15' 3‘693 18- 0-. mice. a ‘l’ l“I have long admired your writ- he was last seen +++++++++++++4++64+M+ lings,” she adds, and Blanford ,colors 3. little with gratification. Thesame kind of phrase is said to him on an average five hundred times a. year, and his usual emo- ‘tion is either ennui or irritation. The admiration of fools is folly, and humiliates him. 'But the ad- miration of as lovely a woman as oak woods‘ of my own old place.” “I an] dcvoutly thankful," sayst his host, "that Dorothy, among her caprices, had never had ‘the fancy you have, for Dr. Johnson my quotations, abuse my architecâ€" ture and make prigs of the chil- 50 whisper, my dear Cecil.” d. 7) Xenia S b' ' ff ‘ _ . . V ‘. [on 1 a- aio would lay a flatter- .r'fllllel fiabel bibéldelhlfit'oqfifirge “Prigs l" exclaims Blanford. 'mg uuction to the soul of any man, mi 10 ciee 5, W 0 s 3 - y Uprigsy when did ever real Echo}- even if she were absolutely mind- aalls him Cecil he is conscious that he has committed some flagrant of- tense. “Those brats are always bot-herâ€" ing you, princess.” says their faâ€" ther. _ _ ” .They are very kind to me, re- plies Xenia Sabaroff in English which has absolutely no foreign accent. “They make me feel at home! What a charming place this Sal I like it better than your casâ€" ile, what is its name, where I had the pleasure to visit you at Eas- for?“ "‘Orme. Oh, that’s beastly â€" a regular barnâ€"obliged to go there just for show, you know.” "Orme was built by Inigo Jones and the ingratitude to fortune of its owner is a constant temptation to Providence to deal in thunderâ€" :bolts or have matches left about by housemaids,” says Blanford. “I think Lord Usk has not a con- wtented mind,” says Mme. Sabaroff, amused. “Contented! By Jove, who thould be, when England’s going to the dogs as fast as she can ’l" "111 every period of your his- tory,” says the princesS, "your Country is always described we goâ€" ing headlong to ruin, and yet she has not gone there yet, and she has not done ill.” “ ‘Our constitution is establish- ed on a mere cquipoise, with dark precipices, and deep water all around it.’ .80 said Burke,” re- plies Blanford. moment everybody has forgotten the delicacy of this nice equipoisc and one day or other it will 030 its balance and topple over into the waters and be ingulfcd. Myâ€" self, I confess I do not think that time is for distant.” “I hope it is; I am very much attached to England,”. replies the Princess Xenia, gravely, “and to naughty English boys,” she adds, passing her hand over the Shining locks of the- Babe. ' “She must be in love with an Englishman,” thinks Blanford, with the oneâ€"sided construction which a man is always ready to place on the words of a woman. “Must we go indoors?” he asks, regretfully, as she is moving to- ward the house. f‘It is so pleasant in these quaint, green arbors. To be under a roof on such a summer afternoon as this is to fly in the face of a merciful Creator with greater ingratitude than Usk’s ingratitude to Inigo Jones.” “But I have scarcely seen my hostess,” says Mine. Sabaroff; nevertheless she resigns herself to a scat in the yewâ€"tree out like a helmet. . “Why do you let those innocents be tortured, George-p?” asks Blan~ lord. ‘ “Books should, like business entertain the day,” replies Usk; “so you said at least just now. .Their govcrncsscs are of the same opinion.” ~ "That is not the way to make them love books, to shut, them up against t-llcn‘ wins on a summer afternoon.” . “How will you educate your children when you have ’em, thcn’l” "He always gets out of any im- personal argument by putting some personal question,” coinâ€" plains Blanford to Mme'Sabaroff. “It is a- common device, but al~ ways an unworthy one. Because a system is very bad it does not fol- low that I alone of all men must lac prepared with a better one. I think if I had children I would not ‘have them taught in that way at all. I should get the wisest. old man/I could find, a Samuel Johnâ€" son touched with a. John Ruskin, and should tell him to make learnâ€" ing delightful to them, and associ- ated, as for as our detestable cliâ€" mate would allow, with openâ€"air studies in cowslip meadows and under hawthorn hedges. only read dear Horace at school, should I ever have loved him as I do! me toifeel all 'the delight and the ,“At the presentjoncc his If I had No; ,niy old tutor taught sweet savor of him, roaming in the arship and love of nature make 19$S§_anCl the gives him the im- anything approaching to a pl'jg! pi'ess‘ion that she has a good deal Science and classâ€"rooms make 0t mind, 311d one out ofthe com- prigs, not Latin verse and cow'â€" mon Ol'del‘. ’ slip meadows? “My writings have no other “That is true, I think,” says the merit,” he says, after the expres- Princcss Xenia, with her serious 510“ 0f the sense of the honor she smile_ ' does him, “than being absolutely “If they are beginning ,0 agree the chronicle of what I have seen with one another I shall be do and What I have thought; '33“ I trop,” thinks Usk, who is very think they “1'0 expressed in “310‘”. good-natured to his guests, and popular enough with Women notto be resigned to play what is vulgar- ly termed "second fiddle” (though why an expression borrowed from the orchestra should be vulgar it were hard to say). So he goes a- few paces off to speak to a gar- dener; and by degrees away toward the house, leaving Blanford and Mme. Sabaroff to themselves in the green yew-helmet arbor. Blanford is in love with his sub- ject and does not abandon it. “It is absurd,” he continues, “the way in which children are made to loathe all scholarship by Blame“, is “Ma’s leased to its association with their own pains Speak 'Of St HH'BQJBVS' 7 He. and subjection. A child is made as 'has a. grmit '10“) for it arid for the 8’ punmhmcnl’ to learn by row fifty traditions of his race which make lines of Virgil. Good heavens! It mam, 1300 1") qécuse ’him of treat ought rather to be as a reward that fami‘lyln'riS; ‘ghou as; hm {‘béen he should be allowed to open Virâ€" wen gaiam n; m ofga’ reat'e'r man gill To walk in all those delicious thén' Bla'nllorf, 'it is gram“ than piling 0i thought_ Should be the sentiment which the Romans deâ€" highest pleasure that he could be fined M pietv When he tflkg of brougm’ to know' T011513“ to the his old home he grows eloquent, claiminga great deal in these times, for Since John Newman laid down the pen there is scarcely a tongue With eloquence and purâ€" it‘y..3} “I think it must be very nice to leave off wandering if one has a home,” replies Mine. Sabaroff, with a slight sigh, which gave him the impression that, though no doubt she had many houses, she had no home. “Where is your place that yen spoke of just nowâ€"the place where you learned to love Hor- ace?” '4' '. . ' mmlc 0‘ thgilgcfgtinfiwlglf 1:201? unreserved, cordial, and be deâ€" ense T13} be as rifled of books scribes. with an artist’s touch its l) r- 0 P antiquities, its landscapes, and should be, on the contrary, his cruclest chastisementl” ' “He would be. a very exception- al child, surely,” says Mme. Sa- baroff. “I was not an exceptional child," he answers, “but that is how I was brought up and how I felt." “You had an exceptional train- ing then ‘1” “It ought not to be exceptional; that is just the mischief. Up to the time I was seventeen I was brought up at my own place (by my father’s directions, in his will) by a most true and reverent schol- ar, whom I loved as Burke loved Shackleton. He died, God rest his soul, but the good he left behind him lives after him; whatever grains of senSe I have shown, and whatever follies I have avoided both what I am and what I am not. are due to him, and it is to him that I owe the» love of study which has been the greatest con~ solation and the purest pleasure - of my life. That is why I pity so profoundly those poor Roehfort children, and the tens of thousands like them, who are being educated by the commonplace, flavorless.. cramming system which people call education. It may be education: it is not; culture. What will \‘be Babe always associate With his Ln.- its old-world and sylvan charms. “It must be charming to careifor any place so much as that,” says his companion, after hearing him with interest. “I think one cares more for plac- es than for people,” he replies. “Sometimes one cares for nei- ther,” says Xenia Sabaroff, with a tone which in a less lovely woman would have been morose. “One must suflice'very thorough- 1y to one’s self in such a case 2” “Oh, not necessarily.” At that moment there is a little bustle under a very big cedar near at hand; servants are bringing out foldingd-ables, foldingâ€"chairs, a silver camp kettle, cakes, fruit cream, liquors, sandwiches, wines all those items of an afternoon tea on which Blanford has animadâ€" vc-rted with so much disgust in the library an hour before. Lady Usk has chosen to take these inurder~ ous compounds out of doors in the ‘west garden. She: herself comes out of the house with a train of her guests around her. “Adieu to rational conversaâ€" tion,” says Blauford. as he rises evergreen helmet. Xenia Sabaroff is pleased at the expression. She is too handsome for men often to speak to her ra~ tin themes. Four walls, hated . 1 , , books, inky, aching fingers, and a tmnaly’ they “mad-V plunge headache. Whereas I never see a headlong into attempts at hom- Lmin mm in a, newspaper, be it age and flattery, of which she is nauseated. . ever so hackneyed, without plea~ cure, as at the face of an old friend. and whenever I repeat to myself the words I always smell the cowslips and the lilac and the l1»€}t‘\\'fall(il'll of the spring mornings w ion was a boy.” - .. ,.v ~ u I u." '. ?” Picnic. carburoff looked at him vvith some little wonder and more returned Jim uue’motgonzuv, . apPX'OV‘ll- . “Think he looks like me: old man .9” “My dear lord," she says, 'scri» persisted Bingleton. ously, “I think in your enthusiasm "H-m! Wellâ€"er-â€"ali â€"â€" you forget one thing, that there is ground on which good seed falls and brings forth flowers and fruit, and there is other ground on ’1‘ Wind] thefiame #90], be lb strewn When the yellow streak begins to ever to thickly, lies alwaysbarrcn. work out of some peome they have. \Vithout underrating the influenc- a, fit Of the blues ' es of your tutor, I must believe that i had you been (idiicatcd at an Eng- isnpumrc 501001, or even in a o: . . French lycce, you would still have they! , Mrsf COlmr'dâ€"‘Ohj "fry! become a scholar, Still have loved ,Wc could actually hear our neigh- your books.” bors having celery for dinner last _“Al-as, Madam says BlanEOi‘d,. with a sigh. “Perhaps I have only been what Matthew Arnold calls ‘a foiled circuitous wanderer" in the (To be continued.) d" a. “A Hard Moment; "Well, Jim,” said Bingleton, aslhe proudly showed off his first-born, hum â€"- well, embarrassed Jim. .- apai'tmcnt are very thin, 1}) night p) "I imagine that you have not ilmumnmalunda . Bill, l»well, old pal. to tell you the truth, I’m afraid he does l” replied the Mrs. Howard~“The wallsâ€"of your aren’t ._.â€"â€" iiiâ€"{Retr'crriiliisuurs‘ GREAT CASES COME AGAIN lEFORE THE PUBLIC. _â€" Ticliboruc Case BCVlVClIâ€"-D(‘I2lill of Archduke Johannâ€"Dauphin of France. ‘Thrce cases of mystery, the ac- cepted solutions of which never sat- isfied many. persons, have been oddly revived at the same time. The famous Tichborne case, which occupied the public mind to an ex- traordinary degree in the early ’705, has just been recalled by the death of Sir Henry ‘Tichbornertlie disappearance of the Austrian ably pure- English, though that is lAi-chdukc Johann Salvator, other- wise known as “Johann Oi'th,“ has received a fresh interest from the- application of his nephew, Archâ€" liVing Briton who can write his own duke Joseph Ferdinand) for a com firmation of the death and permis- sion-to deal with the estate of his uncle, and the question of the lost Dauphin of France has been revived by the case of the brothers Nannâ€" dorff or De Bourbon being broughtl before a commission of the French l Senate. It is a question interest in these cases will lead to the production of any substantial proofs. It is believed that Emperâ€" or Francis Joseph has positive I proofs of the fate of Archduke 30- i hann Salvator, and it is said that. in the archives of the Russian and German courts are all the records relating to the supposed death of the Dauphin. ' One of the curious things about the Tichborne case, it has been said, was the readiness with which ted to know better supported the claim of Arthur Orton, the impos- tor. He found believers of his story i in some brother officers of Rogcrfia. I . Tichborne in Guilford Onslow, who ibefore the Austrian'court, but it gave the, claimant about $75,000 to “fight for his rights,” 'and above all in the Dowager Lady ’I'iclibornc, who accepted him as a son. THE ’I‘ICHBO'RNE CASE was famous not only on account of the attention that it attracted but also from the fact that it was the longest modern trial before an Engâ€" lish court. The claimant was brought from Australia at the ex- pensc‘of Lady Tichborne, who had never believed that her son Roger had perished with the foundering of the sailing ship Belle on which- he had taken passage at Valparaiso for England. the trial the claimant elected to be non-suited and was committed to. jail and sentenced to fourteen years penal servitude. He was a man of massive pro: portions and is said to have borne little resemblance to the real Roger Tichbornc. His story while in some points convincing was as a whole- pretty flimsy. He confessed in 1895» three years before his death, that with regret from his seat under the he was the son of a, butcher ofi Wapping and that his name in reality was Arthur Orton. ‘ Yet in spite‘of all this, said a London newspaper at the time of Sir Heuâ€" ry Tichborne’s death, “even to this day one may come across those- who still maintain that the Arthur 01'â€" ton who died in poverty in l‘vlaryle- bone twelve years ago was the real . Sir Roger.” - JOHANN ShLVATOR. The application filed in the court at Vienna for the. registration of the death of the Archduke Johann Salvator is evidently going ta: cause more trouble to the legal :iu- thorities than they had anticipated. IThe summons to “all persons han- ing knowledge of the Archduke” to brought forth many stories. Many of these are upon foundation that no attention will be paid to them, but vestigatcd. The Archduke, b-ered, abandoned the if the presentT people who might have been expec- ltorney, and Baron von Albaco, who On the lOBrd day of . inform the court of the facts has such a flimsy . V there are others which will be thoroughly inâ€" it will be remem- Austi‘iun = accepted story when he set sail from Barnes Ayres for Valparaiso. ‘ 'Whilo it is evident that the Santa Mm-ghcrita was lost it is asserted that “Johann Oorth” never sailed on her. or if he did that he was saved from the wreck. An engin-- eer named Ranaux has offered him- self as a, witness before tlie‘court saying that he saw Ol'lill after the time of the alleged wreck and help- ed him to find an “estancia” in the disputed Zone between Chile and Argentina and afterward visited him several times. LEADS SOLITARY LIFE. A second will be the Belgian ex; plorer and scientist, M. G. LO- oointc, who commanded- tlio Bel- gica. in. her expeditiOn to the Ant- arctic in 1899. Ho saysthat he met on the slopes of the Andes a man leading a solitary life. with his horses, dogs and “books. The man was of distinguishedbearing, spoke several languagesawith a German or Austrian . accent and bore a. striking resemblance to the pictures of the missing Archduke. When shown the recently published por- traits of Johann Orthhe pronouncâ€" ed them' “incontesta-bly these of the man with whom I spent several days in the winter of 1899.” ‘That would be nine- years after 'thefianta Mar- gherita was lost at sea. Other persons living in South 4 America claim also to have seem~ ' him and a French .ivritor assert( that he. spent several days as hi1 guest on an Argentina farm. 11. is said that the late Dr. Helicrt, the Austrian historian, was in communication with the missing, man and the papers that he left will be carefully examined. Others who, it is said, heard from'liim regular» ly were Dr. von Harbeler, his at- zretired some, years ago to German New Guinea. These stories and man, others of r similar nature will e brought s. iseems‘ quite safeto say that what~ v A ever may be the- decision there will , always be a large number of per~ - germs who will insist that Johann l {Oi-lb was not wrecked off the South American coast and that he lived for many years after the time of the reported sinking of the Santa lizlzirgherita. In cases of death un- der unusual circumstances there are invariably some people ‘who are u’illing to believe stories of possible you if improbable, escapes. ..... on...” ',_ GUI ion muss BACK sun. l _l“il'l,v is Fattor and “Palcr 'l‘liau Thirtyâ€"No other Difference. There is no fact ,more striking i than the way rode-1m life is pushing gback tlieifériod' of old :age. Les‘s‘ gthan arcentury ago a"maii.vvas old Sat 40; You have only to pick up Llano Austen’s novelsto find gen- ;tlcmen of 35 described as middle- !aged. At 60 they were grabbing iin their dotagc. And there is Mr. illickwickâ€"vtliat dear, delightful, be- ‘ uevolcnt old gentleman ’of 45. Fifty years ago when aiman reach- ed the age of 45 he grow a beard under his chin, bought. himself a. .pair of drab gaitersiand a white inc<.-i»:.<:lctn, and spokezwith anXious .eonccrn oi the Vl‘lsmg generation, . umnncrs were 'so different {from those he had known as a f‘young man.” In our generation 271-22 is outwardly indistinguishable ilk-mm 5:3, save in that the former |l‘::‘-S a slightly more youthful- tint in its check and itswaistcoat. As for (he fair,scx,.thc genus old lady is all but extinct. The pretty ,\.'i\:;u:ious matron you admire at a 1 garden party may have seen ‘25 or C l I I i. . = whose smnmors. As Queen Alexandra not long said to Mme. Adelina . l’ntli: "We two are two of the lel!2:c'=i women in England.” The illustrhws royal, example has been 3-"! sotlulouiily followed that (he ,lztclicsmiilwavs young, always active l â€"~-mziy he said to laugh in the very l l I face of Father Time. ’l~â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"......â€". An :Hlvcrtisomcnt in a German ii-n-,i's}'iapci’â€"-Â¥"Fritz TC, an cxpcriâ€". ' oucr'd accountant, desires it place 31iflahs€am orbit of life 3” H a. id h i, “ ulct y Mops: Col! 3 cures co 5 ea .1 _ ' > ' “me i 3’ 3:0 8 o hf: ' S I ’ . - . . _ s'ceman pea} ed. According to the generally the rum: aid furilfu. ' Eur-e 18013.3 {25:52 courtâ€"some said because he had a, . . . distaste for the world and others i‘” “whim” 1“” the security 9f because he. did not secure political ll"“”'"""'l h“. “""l'l'd State “Mt he .18 favors that ho wishedâ€"fell in love inflicted With W0 wooden law." with Milli Stubcl, the premier dan- i "ivâ€""MW sense, married her in London and! then took her to sea on the stemnâ€" l or Santa Margherita and disap- _._...aâ€"....â€"â€" m semis firm i ; ~â€"