INTERNATIONAL LESSON, NOVEMBER 19. --_---- " ' Ezra's jeurney to Jerusalem, Ezra 8. 15-36. Geldea Text, Ezra 8. 22. Verse 15. Gathered theom--The ,fevious part of the -tharmatets x de- voted to a list of the f the fathers' houses, who a a 'te Ezra to Jerusalem. [Ezra's first step was to assembic his company op the Banks of one of the artificial vers, or canals, in the neighbor- hood cf Babylon, at a place Ahava. This enabled him to @ review of his forces before cata: ally beginning his march. The in- terval of three days, iasting from the ninth to the twelfth of the first month, gave him time to secure the reas of Levites. rons of Levi--Zerubbabel signee back with him 4,289 priests, of whom only 74 were Levites, Ezra has difficnity in obtaining even few- er. reason their absorption ? + the high places, and other forms of 'idolatrous worship. In the later reforms this class took a prominent place. They were chosen men of patriotic impulse and religious spirit, who were willing to sacrifice at pesition in order to" serve -- a 16. Then cent I for Eliezer -- The proposition here has a_ peculiar value, the meaning being, appar- ently. not that Ezra summons these leading men into his presence be- for sending stay upon a definite mission, althongh the English says so much; but, that he actual!> com- missioned them, on the spot, the following verse giving the details of their mission. The marginal read- ing of verse 17. "Il gave them com- mandment,"' is in that casé prefer- able to I sent them forth. 17. Iddeo--He held some position of authority. perhaps over the young Levites. and Netbinim (a body of temple servants who were detailed to do thé more menial 'tasks, such as drawing. water and hewing wood). At Casiphbia, a small! settlement in the vicinity of Babylon, there may have been a kind of college of these yfung men. We need not suppose, however, that Iddo belonged to this second class of mere drudgers. The text is dificult at this point. But the meaping must be that Iddo presid- ed over all these young men, t brethren mentioned being the Le- vites. 18. The geod hand of our God up- on us--Ting is a frequently occur- ring phrase in the chronicles of these times. It signifies the merci- ful favor ef God. In times of ad- versity, the hand of God is repre- a as turned against _ It is looked upon as a provi- mtial cceurrence that a man o discretion (which, as suggests,. may be the name, Ieh- seche!, of this otherwise unnamed descendant of Levi), together with thirty-eight Levites and two hun- dred and twenty Nethinim (19 and 20), are found to accompany the Jews on their journey. Although these were all mentioned by name on the list before the writer, he does not think it worth while to take up space with their names. 21-36. EXents of the journey, in- cluding preparations, and a descrip- tion of the journey itself, and the arrival at Jerusalem. 21. A fast--That it was a strictly spiritual exercise is evident in the language used to describe its pur- pose. It was a symbo! of humble submission befure God, a season of prayer for a course free from dan- gers and hindrances. 22. A band of sold'ers--Such as Nehemiah had (Neh. 2. 9). The en- emy in the way was not any speci- fic foe, like the Samaritans, but bands uf robbers in the desert. Ezra had confidence that, if they sought the Lord with faithful hearts, they would need no help of kings and armies. fer the Omnipotent hand would be upon them for good. The great leader had already intimated this to the king. If now they were unequal! te their foes, it would be an evidence of the wrath of God turned against them for forsaking 24. Tweive . priests--It is dif- ficult tu decide which is meant, whether thet prieSts mean Levites (margin), and that there were twelve of them. including Shere- "biah and Hashabiah, who have al- ready been mentioned as Levites; or, that there were twenty-four in all, one group consisting of twelve priests, besides (margin) which there were the two Levites named and ten others. 25. Weighed--Money was reckoned largely by weight. The offering of silver and geld and vessels, made by the king and others, has already eseribed in Ezra 7. 15-19. The sym has been c-timated at about five million dollars. Holy unto Ichovah--The priests and Levites were by this act separated ante the sacred service of the Lord's houre. The solemn- ity of this vetive offering was in- tensified by an appeal to their here- ditary connections. The mere men- tion of the God of their fathers would cause their memories to turn back upen a past in which the hand of God was evident They are precious treasures, con- secrated to a high purpose, and are to be vigilantly and jealously guard ed. GhainbersSloreroomis qQ Kin ith the outer build. San! ee ae not, vied bay Ls gir 29. Watch ye, and keep them -- panions were dou the rs td receive the oMerinee after carefully determining if they corresponded wi written liste, and to convey them the trea- sury. There were two priests and two Levites, correspo g to the two groups commission a. and ind list preserv hey furthered the people -- This Rakes a new turn in events. It to have officials Tickeaaial Seaucne. cree determined everything. The |king's commissions are set forth in Ezra 7. 21-24. MAKING SAFE INVESTMENTS AS A MEDIUM IM WHIOH TO INVEST, LAND Too Speculative for These of Small Capita! Depending on Their tnceme--Many Cood Features, However, fer Those Whe Use Care--Not Readily Saicabie--income Usu- ally Small. - are for the sole pur Iscing it in nana +nterprises. faparti and gg ge ree of ne information may its to serve paper hare no -- other than of this pepapecyice oy ag this ma Next'to real estate mortgages, probably, real estate itself forms the best kmown medium of investment in Canada. While speculative possibilities--as was noted in a recent issue, they lack this feature al- together--real estate is, unfortunately, too often bought for no other purpote than the hope of making a quick profit. Of course, land may be purchased on the outskirts of growing cities with a reason- able prospect of making a profit; but real estate so purchased can no longer claim the title of investment; it is a pure specu- a<i--e although often a reasouably safe "taed purchased for Investment must be land capable of returning an income to the purchaser over and seen. a moder- ate allowance for repairs, renewals and |contingeacies. Such land must, therefore, his peo-|,, capable of producing crops, or must have buildings erected on it which are sufficiently desirable to be remted at a rate which ee the return above mentioned. Now, such investment has not only rea- sonable safety, but---io Canada--great prospects of appreciating in value. But, just as in the case of mortgages, the pur- chaser must use great care to choose a place that is growing and has good pros- pects of continuing to grow. It seems superfluous to discuss this form of investment at great length, as prac- tically everyone has at one time so in- ed; perhaps for the sake of the ren- tal, or perhaps to obtain a farm or house for his own use. People who buy pro- perties to nse ivuvest for the reason that, while it does mot return a regular income, it saves regular expenditure, which amount to the same thing. Few people realize, however, that, ag a rule, rval tate investments return a very small net Few large properties return more than 5 per cont.- and probably less-- on the investment when all proper allow- ances are deducted from gross income. Io Toronto at present there is a dearth cf medium-prived houses for rent. As a re sult rentals are not only high but consti- tute a large return on the original cost. But there is always the chance that new building will cause the supply to exceed the demand and rentals will fall as a result. f Many people, too reckon their rate of income from a real estate investment on the amount invested. It is a better me- thod, avd will save many false impres- sions, if the returas are figured on th market price. If, despite large advances in the price of real estate, the return on the value of a property is reasonably good, when reckoned on the market prioce, there is no occasion to disturb the invest- ment. If, on the other hand, the return lz too low to give a reasonable return, sell the property and reinvest. Granting that care is exercised, land, producing a regular revenue, is fairly safe, both in regard to principal and in- terest: .it etands a fair chance of appree ating im value: the market price is on, but the rate of income is often small, when proper reductions are made for paira, renewals, maintenance, etc; and ally, land is not readily saleable in the | wense that a good bond is. No one who | has Mmited means can afford to invest! in resi estate for the last two reasons. Morecrer, many of the drawbacks attach- ed to mortgage investments exist also in the case of real estate. vest revenue, EEE WILLING TO SLEEP. "And do you have to be called in the morning?' asked the lady who was about to engage a new "y don't have to be, mum,' Tre- plied the applicant, | Maclen. you happens to need me.' A woman isn't necesaarily a cook- ing school graduate just because her husband takes his dinner aon town. : se of the cor .iant-pall of} that hangs over it, the older pre- leaatioe of Edinbuagh is known as "Auld Reeki6."' : SOMETHING n mortgages are never purchased for their - re ae } order ABOUT THE GREATEST GENERAL. Adventurous Career of the Man Who Has Been Appointed te Centrel Egypt. Lord Kitchener is a man Leaving England a! imp: sioaable age of twenty-four, wandered for cight years between the Jordan and the Euphrates, and then spent another sixteen years in the desert in Northern Africa. His soul, a pe on ape * Laequi edge and a resilien toughness ris made it as differ- ent from the soul of the ordinary | Brition as steel is from soft iron. This is why the ordinary Briton does not understand Lord -- ner. The hot, fierce winds of the desert that burnt his face brick- rel) have ov his character. is too, is more Kercaly | tempered 'than that of the ordinary i trenchant, more lucid, I think, and harder. Here the influence of the spirit of the desert has produced a strange reaction. Its wildness, its disord- er, its impulsive vehemence--every- unstable force in the world--react- ed on Lord Kitchener in his early days and inspired him with 2 deep, strong passion for the organizing -- of the civHization from hich he was exiled. "Owing to the complexity of all this action and. reaction of exotic forces on Lord Kitchener, somewhat difficult now to disen- _| tangle the qualities inborn in him from the qualities he acquired. Even when he left England he had been moulded by external circum- stances in a way that made him entirely different from an ordinary young British officer. He was BITTERLY AMBITIOUS; he took to work with as fierce a assion as a drunkard takes to drink, and with a similar motive, for incessant work was to him an yne, And he then had the same zest for economy which afterwards en- abled him to defeat the Mahdi at little more than the cost of build- 760 miles of highly profitable rail- way track and 2000 miles of tele- i Emp.oyed thirty years ago to out some civilian work, he was publicly mca by the persons that employed him "not only for his energy and abil- ity and his tact, but also for the economy wita which he kept his expenses beiow the estimate.' This very businesslike talent for keeping his expenses below the esti- mate was something that Kitchener acquired early in life. It was taught by a hard lesson that left him with a feeling of ae at the conditions of an officer's career in the British army, and cane him the sternest army reformer since Cromwell. His father, Lieutenant-Colonel Kitchener, was not a wealthy man. frugally on his half-pay, was able to give his three sons a mili- tary education; but he was not in a position to make his second ric much allowance when the 1 came im 1871 so subaltern Royal Engineers. Life British army in 187! was for second lieutenant as expensive a pastime as it is at the present day. The only way a young officer can manage to live on his pay, even at the present time, is to get a e-| position on the Indian army staff. Faced with the uncomfortable pro- blem of earning a living, Lieuten- ant Kitchener took \ MORE DANGEROUS STEP. At the risk of losing all chance of promotion, he practically resigned from the service and went out an exile to Syria. 'He entered the em- ployment of the committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, with the result that he remainéd a hum- ble subaltern for twelve years. He quickly distinguished -- him- self, however, by his courage aud ability. On one occasion he and his chief, Lieutenant Conder, were | linob of Arabs azul with guns, lelubs and battleaxes, attacked ithem. Conder had only a hunting- and Kitchener a cane. Kitch- fener's cane was smashed to pieces jin parrying a heavy -bluw with a club at his head. Conder, in writ- ing home to the committee, said: "IT must inevitably have been! | murdered but for the cool and! | prompt attention of Lieutenant y. | Kitchener, who managed to get to} me and engage one of the Arabs,' Lieutenant | hener was the last tou obey the to retire. His cSeape is! ' enaccountable." The fact was that Kitchener had already learnt the art of quelling, | single-handed and weaponless, a mob of armed Arabians. Man ij years afterwards, Lord Wolseley | sent him in front of the Nile Ex- pedition. Unarmed ard alone, he j used to ride among the hostile or doubtful tribes, and win them over. Ii was not.merely courage. Men as brave as 'he had been murdered sometimes a few mil+s Sway. Kitch ener succeeded partly by reason of his strangely commanding person- ality--a tall, slender figure, with a eee Ga face ba ming Pe eyes-- y reason of Pepailades of the Oriental mi HIS APPRENTICESHIP in the East lasted for eight years. After s. and drawing | covering ry retreat. | Kite ra on eave re, owing to his Sanwladan Pr native lang- uages. was made ) major of the Cavalry. thing that has made the Arab an|noy By retiring to France and living ri which was always concealed about -- his person. ee Arab merchant _ himself into an English Agi neral. this the. frst time thes mative soldierly, whom he had trained, showed w virtues reside in ine. They advanced for three hundred panda under fire, even when they STORMED THE TRENCHES they did not lose their formation. The next year he led the Egyptian Cavalry, and with them he com- ee routed the Madhists at For some years afterwards the blue-eyed Arab trader was not seen in Khartoum. He was working night and day at Cairo, building up the tain Army, and plan- ning a railway system. He, how- ever, made a very dramatic reap- pearance in 1888, when the Anglo- forces 'vere nearing Two Dervish spies were discover- ed in camp and examined at head- quarters. lt was a critical mom- ent, and information about m enemy's plans and pan wis of the highest impo Neither of the Cahest bribes for the most terrible threats could in- duce the prisoners to speak--they affected to be deaf and dumb. They were led away for the night, a placed in a tent. About half an hour later there was an alarm in the camp, and a third spy was captured, and thrown into the tent with the two Dervishes. ' Soon the guards outside heard a murmur of voices; the dumb men within had found their tongues, but, as they talked in whispers, it was impossible to hear what they sald. About an hour afterwards, - third Arabian--a man with blue es--came out of the tent. The aphtiece let him pass. Some time before he had been seen loafing about the camp and one of our men had thrown half a brick at bim, : "Be off, you dirty nigger !"' BELOW HIS EAR. And yet they say that Lord Kitch- ener is a ha feeling for the romance of life! The truth is we have to go back to King Alfred to find so romantic and daringly adventurous a war- Though he apparently resem- bles the iron Duke in manner and temper, he' is really a man with the passion = a try of ac- tion. Ash ee oon Londen at the « on African War, I _ a y gil pitch a rose into his carriage. picked it up, and smiled at the sik It was the sweetest smile I have seen on aman's face. In 1838 a young German officer went out into po ---- of Arabia and surveyed and mapped out the lands round the gn ale His exile among the races of the Orient had a curious effect both on his! character and his ideas. He be- came the most taciturn man in Germany. Somewhat of the spirit! of the desert seemed to have enter- ed into his gern and, oy a curious rebound of mind he learnt from is sojourn in the wilderness, the overwhelming importance in war- fare of modern method of transit. For twenty-three years he devoted himself to building a railway sys- tem against France, with the result | that in 1870 that country was at his mer Lord Kitchener is the only com- mander who had le same school as Moltke. He equals him in genius.--.<tward Wright ia Everybody's Weekly. ------ WHEN HE W faseS TO IDLE. i Mr. Billtons Leaks | at Mrs. Billtops and Gets Down to Work Again. "When I feel a little off ward hooks,"' said Mr. Billtops, "I wan to stop work; but when I feel that way and am temp » stup I. i look at .Mrs. Bilitops and then I 'keen on. "Yon cee, ag matter of fact there 'ure times when really she ought to y{ Stop. But does she stop? Why, 'not as long a§ she can stand up. She says she has the work to do a \if she should let it it would be. twice as hard to catch up, and she doesn't like to let gO, anyway, she doesn't = to give up. oT again I've tried to, ee her aad get her to take a rest; but tired or not ti she keeps right on; er -- that's the best way if you "So crt Tl el a little bit off ! road ' Mrs. meee , cold man, with no rms. Any sprouts should be teen 5 | eatotaily cut off with Brenise tonnage Tere' . 80 a8 fot to bruise the nota Company | § ships, | to. Tie pasteas should be half- totalling buried in the vegetable mold, in NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. oe Occurrences in the Land That Reigns Supreme ia the Com- . mereial World. Bom! ing experiments were @ feature of an aviation meeting Leld at Dover recently. A chorister named Ti fifty, died while at gavviss ae Wal- mersiey church, near Bury, Lanes. At the funeral of Mr. W. Grix, a Norwich caterer, a copy of Shakespeare's works was placed on the coffin There is, the police declare more poaching going on in Do this year has been known for many years. Alderman James Trumble has consented, by unanimous wish of the Croydon County Council, to continue as mayor for his second year. It has been found in Warwick- shire the development of al- lotment gardening is seriously af- fecting the attendance at football m e8. A man named Field was drown- ed at Rochester in attempting to rescue his retriever dog, which was geing carried down river py the strong tide. For the year a member of the choir vena Christopher Stokes took part in the harvest festival service at.Hose (Leicestershire). Among the porsestinks Ss a burg- lar sentenned at the Middlesex Ses- sions was a directory of 100 houses whose occupants were absent on holiday. - Owing to the illness of the har- ber who holds the contract for shaving the inmates of the Bourne (Li hi , the work Pee is being done by his wife. Ten large motor rollers lrave been sent off from Peterborough to the order of the Turkish Government, the last beiug a ponderous mach- ine weighing 14 tons. Gseydon Borough Council have decidad by 26 votes to 23 to throw upon the rates the whole cost of providig meals for underfed school ¢ ren ducing the ensuing winter. A.Carnegie hero award of 350 has been made to Miss Lily Bolt- wood, a Cheshnut domestic ser- vant, for bravery in rescuing two children from a burning room on ay 5. Because his snores kept the other inmates of the ward awake, a man Workhouse has been | sent back to the Rochford (Essex) guardians, who had "boarded him out"? at Maldon. rge motor car which had been left unatte ran dowh a hill at Blackburn recently, ed a road crowded with traffic, broke through iron railings, and fell into agarden without injuring any one. Among the sources of revenue of a suburban hospital, whose re- port is just published, were football! a cricket matches, a barrow competition, adraw for a lamb, two cake competitions a a bil. hard match. The Queen and Legh pits at Hay- dock, belonging to Messrs. Rich- ard Evans and Co., colliery pro- ncashire, have a century of activity. now worked out. An order has just been made by ocal Government Board for The pits are these are of reason- size should be removed. This leaves old potatoes, from even be a third, since budding contiues until the old pota- to is exhausted, and nothing left but the skin. foc ase TWENTY YEARS' ADVANCE. What Has Been Accomplished Since the Year 1891. We have been civilized for quite a long time, if you asked a mn} aged man if things are much further on now y were twenty years ago, he would probably say, "Not a bi Oh-- well, there's the satcolané; of course! And the motor-c is r pretty new, too. But I don't think there's much difference." Yet that is only because new things come one by one and we get used to them. If we were ail sud- denly Be byt sora back to 1891, we si that an suboaiaking anaher of things in daily use now were quite unknown then. In fact, the world would seem full of gaps. The aeroplane, it is true, is the most startling« novelty. Twenty years ago flight on a machine heavier than air was looked on much as rpetual motion is, or the age ge gh stone--a vain dream ificult for re cently saw more than twenty air- men start confidently on athous- and-mile race that twenty, ten or even eight years ago not a man in the world had ever flown a yard. In 1891 not only was the picture- palace unknown, but the cinema- wogeeeh itself was in a very feeble babyho Who ate bananas twenty years ago? Very few. Most of our popular fruits we have had with us for centuries. The banuna is a aby. The coming of the motor has made big changes. There were one ing about the roads, wi the motor as a thing of daily | =. The taxi and "the 'initor- s have revolutionised the traffic a our cities. The myriads of han- soms and "growlers" that throng- on's streets twenty years ago are represented by a few ling- ering relics. In the same period wireless tele- 2 and spread to the ends earth. The tactics shown in the next naval war will be very differ- ent from those possible in 1891. "Wireless" has tzcbled the Navy's mobility. The Navy would be very sorry to have th: elock put back. In twenty years we have absorb- ed many a new idea and institu- tion. How did poor 1891 get on without them? sean THE LIGHT OF GENIUS. Tommy Wanied to Borrow the Lamp That Wouldn't Burn. "Boxville,"' related little Mrs. Spicer, "was the greatest place for borrowing I ever lived in. Nearly every one had fallen into the habit, and all borrowed of one another-- the closing of Bell-court, a slum area, descri as the worst in | Bermondsey. The residents be-| long to the lowest class of casual. cae and one house had 22 oc- ee the body of Elizabeth | Tooth, an elderly woman, was re- covered from a canal at Longton, (Staffs.), a pipe filled with tobacco , was found in one of her hands and , an unstruck match in the other |! Accidental death was the verdict at the inquest. POTATOES soll THE DARK. A New Way of "Radius Them Has! Becn Discovered. Purely by accident anew way of raising "new" potatoes of unusual | delicacy of texture and flavor has | been discovered. An English farm- , er. says the Technical World, ha left a pile of potatves heaped in a dark shed. He found that instead) of being decayed, as he expected, | they were surrounded each by sina | Potatoes, perfectly white. e began experimenting with more o!d petatoes, which he placed on some boards in a dark place.' Small potatoes about the size of an: Fnglish walnut surrounded them.;: | The best of them were selected and le ooked, and were found to be flavor superier to "new potatoes a cultivated in) the ordinary x _ Specimens exhibited in the London Horticultural Expositien attracted much attention. arge, perfect potatoes, without 'the slighest particle of mold, should | . be selected for this method of pro-| pagation. Potatoes grown the pre- | |vious year are the best. vod | crops can be obtained in a cellar, a cave, or even a room from which | the rays of light.can be carefully | excluded, for light causes the pota- | toes to send forth sprouts instead | of the buds of small potatoes. . | Some dry vegetable mold sifted | very fis® should be spread uniform- ly three or four inches deep over some boards. _ The rotatocs must be wiped clean with a wet sponge st order to remove the cryptogamic \ {2 zlec at 'Susie,' everything from buttons to setting- hens. I like to oblige my neigh- thors, and I had the pleasure of lending eggs, pies, pans, coal, jstrach. mu sekksors, tprons | table-cloths, " frujt-jars, carpet- sweepers, and even my children. rs. Huskins sent over once to know W I wouldn't lend her Kitty to take care of her baby while she went to town "Well, Iwas so used to being horrowed of that I wasn't disturb- when Mrs. Gorley asked one Saturday if I wouldn't hurry up my baking so as to le ner my bread-mixer, and Ididn't think anything in the borrowing line could surprise me; but I was pluz- once when Tommy Lang came | over and said his.mother wanted to . let sg have the lamp that wouldn't bu "iv hy, Tommy." I. said, 'I ee ren't any lamp that won't burn, We use gas, and the only lamp I have is a new one; we use it to carry about the house. Do you } Ean your mother wants that!" "Tommy yanked "at his red hair bi minute. No'm,' he said, 'we got plenty of lamps. I b'lieve ma said it was a book. She said tell , You Mr. Spicer said she: could have it.' "Just then Mr, Spicer walked in and heard Tommy's last words. said he, 'I forgot to tell a I promised Mrs. Lang Kipl- ng's 'Light That Failed." She hecdin't read it, and she said she'd serd Tommy over for it." "T got the book for Tommy. and ; then drew a long breath of relief. | 1 was so glad i. waSn't our one lamp that" was wanted !"' ----* EVERYBODY KICKING. Manager of Show--' "Well, what's the matter now, John Man -- " Everything | m wrong. > erocodile says he'll leave if you don't pay him his last week's salary; the bearded woman wants a plug of tobacco, and he's angry because I won't lend him a dime to get it with: and the fasting girl says she'd rather starve than éat the steak the butcher has sent. eS The risk of a tumbler breaking when charged with boiling water is reduced by first placing a tea- spoon in it. {the doubtful ones -may perhaps graphy has sprung into oxmgeet of * Some Facts About the 36 Who Preceded the Queen Mary. influence in their time. It is a little difficult somes: the nationalities quite correctly, as several of their homes have ceased to exist as separate dominions, no classed more Sorrow as Frenoh than anything ¢ Taking meee granted, we "Sad our Queens t! Ficach, thirteen, namely : Foe licia of Louvaine, --_ clgne, Eleanor Berengaria of avons, I Angouleme, Eleanor of once Margaret of France, Isabel 'france, Isabel (the little) 'rance, Joan of Navarre, ne of France, Margaret of Anjou, Henrietta Maria of France. English seven - Elizabeth Wood: ville, Anne } zabeth of York, Anne Boi 2 Seymour, Katharine How. ., Katharine Parr. Germat® six: Anne of Bohemia, Anne of Cleves, Varoline of ~"Ans- bach, Charlotte of Mecklenburg- Strelitz, Caroline of Beunswisk, Adelaide of Saxe-Meininge Flemish, two: Matilda ot "Fland- ers, Philippa of Hainault anish, two: Anne of 'Denmark, Alexandra of Denmar Spanish, two: Eleanor of Castile, a of Arragon One Scotch, Matilda of Scotland; one Portugese, Katharine of Port- SIXTEEN QUEENS. were the eee of the succeeding sovereigns. * tee Queent were oa the present King and Queen Mary. The Eng: lish Kings as a rule acted on tht are of Weller pere, "beware "' but in one or yes Crown matrimonial di displace the widow's veil, Eleanor, of Aquitaine was, like Anne dé Bretagne, a twice crowned, Queen though not so reputably ; for it w ed het second lord, while Eleanor wat divorced by her first husband, Louis VII. of France. She had the strange hap 'of re- ceiving as her eldest son's bride the | daughter of her first husband by his second marriage; saw two sons, on thethrone; lived to what in her day was extreme old age--ovet 70; and did not murder fair Rosa- mound. er daughter-in- ity Berengaria, it may here be noted was the only Queen of En land who was never in England. Henry. IV. married Joan, the widowed Duchesse de Bretagne The number of Queens left w:dows is eighteen, nay, if we in- clude Anne <f Cleves, nineteen; but as for long years she had been the monarch's "'sister" her statua is perhaps doubtful. Of these royal ladies five married again--Adelicia, Isabel of Angouleme, Isabel (the little Queen), maar of Francs and Katharine Parr, who mourned her redoubtable spouse something under three months. NOT ALL WERE CROWNED. The plague deferred Jane Sey: mour's coronation, and within 1 few months she was dead. et three successors, too, were un- crowned. Henrietta Maria de- clined to participate in a service of the English church, and Charlet II., perhaps fearing a similar pro- cedure on his wife's re made n« suggestion thereto. unhappj story of Caroline of Brae is well known The great majority became Queen on their marriages, but Eleanor ol Castile married Edward while he as heir; Mary of Modena wat "Duchess of York, Caroline of Ans bach, Princess of Wales, as was her grandfather of Brunswick and her descendant of Denmark; and Adelaide of Saxe-Meingen was Duchess of Clarence. The present Queen is the only one who has been wife of the heir apparent. and then Queen. She is the first Englishwoman to be on the throne for 360 years and like thir- teen of her predecessors is descend- from Alfred the Great. The shortest reign of a Queefi consort was that of Anne of Cleves, not quite four months; whole good Queen Charlotte, coming as a bride of 17, ocevpied her throne fifty- seven years. ----__--* QUALIFIED. "Have vou ever had any experi- ence as a street car conductor?" asked the superintndent The applicant for a job peste: WwW ell--er~ -not exactly, plied. "tbut I used to "work 'in A sardine packing establishment."' Studiousiy concealing his delight, the petit engaged the man forthwi ae ON ALIBIS. oe claims she has a perfect 5B oh a "What is her alibif" "She says that she can prove that at the time the crime was commit- ted her little girl was brushing her hair."' "That proves an alibi for her hair, but how about aerselft' ugal; one Italian, Mary of Modena. -