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a minimum of complication. In Spain accounts are reckoned in reals vellon, worth within Spain five cents of our money each. but having no existence as a circulating medium. In Portugal calculations are by reis and milreis. {Fen reis nominally equals our penny, while 1,000 reis consdtute one milreis, but neither appears as coin. A bill tar 10,520 reis would be stated as 10 milreis. 5:20 reis, and, if paid in actual cash. might be settled by handing over I; caroa. 5 testoons and 1 vintem; but In practice it would probably be paid in paper bearing the necessary number of reis. The Gibraltar real is a purely haginary coin used only for account- im and womb in theory about 81.12, whilst a quarto, reckoned in bills as one sixteenth of a Gibraltar real, is also without circulation. It Is l'sed for G'onvenleuce of Calculation In Many Countries. Purely imaginary money is used in b0th Spain and Portugal, where the complications of the currency .demand an independent basis in order that the fluctuating values of each individual note or coin may be determined with " ‘Well,’ éhe said, sniffing as she went out, ‘I suppose I will, but if I had known it would have burned down, just the same, I never would have had It Insured, neverl’” ‘i‘here’s a good deal of good. For insrance, you will get 81,500 from the insurance company; which you would.- n’t have gon, and you have only paid 812.503 “ ‘When do I get it ?‘ she sobbed, as if she wasn't going to get a cent. oâ€"v .- vvukv "'Just as soon as we can get mat- ters in shape and report. the loss to the germanyfi " ‘Yes, you did. too,’ she insisted, ‘for what is the good. of insuring a house if iL is going to burn down, I‘d like to know ?’ ‘But I never togd ybu fbagt .it sure¢’ v y _ _-.__._.. .. _..vv gut“ yuuv, can; Lo "‘Yes, you did, or I never would have had it insured. I’ve been living in that house for fifty years, and it never burned down before. And it wouldn’t have been insured now if you hadn‘t have put me up to it.’ “ ‘0, I beg your pardbn‘, 11â€"13â€"56-531' lan} couldn';_have said that,’ said I. “‘I thought,’ she sobbed. ‘that if I had my house insured it wouldn’t. burn (103531: _X_'ou told me that, I am sure.’ She Knew That Was What Made ller House Burn flown. “Women are the most unreasonable creatures in the world," said the fire insurance man to his wife. “Some women," she corrected him. “Well, we don't ouarrel about it, but let me tell about that old lady in Slabtown, who had her house in- sured three weeks ago,” he went on. "She had a 81,500 policy on it, about all it was worth, really, and we were only getting $12.50 a year for carrying it. Last night it burned to the ground, and toâ€"day she was in to see me. She was fairly sopping in tears, and angry besides." A WOMAN WHO INSURED. IMAGINARY MONEY‘ CONVICT ISLAND. t0 tion, however, a young man had leaped the gate whlch led into the meadow dressed peOple, and probably be was no :judge of femmine beauty, so he did mt approach the glrl even when she held put her hand to him. Lilas was the only C118 of the party who retained her presence of mind; but she knew the dog, and she now called it by name." Before the girls could recommence their discussion a huge bloodhound came bounding into the midst of the group, scaring the little ones out of their wits, and terrifying even the eld- er girls. To this Susan retorted by springing to her feet in a passion and "tearing off Lilas Lampier's hat. \Vhat further damage she meditated I cannot say, for the shrieks of the small children under the care of these five girls became so shrill and piercing with terror at the prospect of a fight between their guardians that hostili- ties had at once to be suspended until silence could be restored. v ‘v’ -vvv‘b ed Lilas, losing her temper, “no one could blame her for good looks, and if what some Iolks says is true, not for goodness neither." “Yeâ€"s, mower says you’re far too good looking to come to any good,” re- toned Susan Harper. “Your mother is a spiteful old cat, and you may.tell :her I say so,” retort- "You needn't laugh,” she said, hotly, irritated by their very trank re- marks; “I ain’t a fool, and I'm as good looking as any of you.” But she was only twelve years of age, and she was very dirty at the pre- sent moment, for the baby she had been carrytng had contrived to bespat- ter her: with the mud from which she had. more than once rescued him, and to which he had managed to return while she had been talking. Bum at this the other girls laughed aloud, and not without some malice in their mirth, [or Lilas Lampier was the most idle, selfish and sensual, as she was by far the best looking girl in the party. Her hair was golden, her eyes were dark, with heavy silken brows and lashes. Her complexion was like the warm pink glow inside a sea shell, and her features bid fair to be firm and delicate. “\Vell, we shall see, Matthews, “But now more of you, beside me going to be, Lilas ?” ' "I‘slhall be the same as Eva,” was the reply, uttered in all apparent ser- iousness. “Some ladies do," replied Eva, con- fidently; “Ive heard that the Queen works very hard, and then the ladies who went out in the war last year to nurse the sick soldiers, see how they must have worked. I think ladies do a great deal of work, and 1' mean to be one, and- I mean to work." “\Vell, we shall see," laughed Mary Matthews, “But now there's only one “Bu't ladies don't work," lobjected Mary Matthews, who. although she had great faith in Eva’s talent and in- dustry, ye-t could not help thinking that. her plans for the future were, to say the least, extremely visionary. “Them how will you set about it ?" questioned the others. “I mean to work hard. and to teach- myself, and to get other peeple to teach me, and always to do what is just and right. And I mean to read about great and noble women and to try to be like them. It will be very hard work, bwt I shall do it." “I don’t think it is money that makes a lady," replied Eva, in the same dreamy manner; “my dear mamma used to tell me that money wouldn't do it." ‘ "A lady I" echoed the three who had spoken. “How are you going to man- age that? Where’s the money to come from '?" “1?" said the girl thus addressed. opening her round, gray eyes and with a half-vacant, half-dreamy expressxon of countenance, as though she were peering into the future. “I mean to be a lady.” “Don’t: quarrel, girls, but let us all say what we're going to be, and when we grow old we'll see if it comes true; what: are you going to be, Eva Ran- dolph ?" “Lady’s; maxds don’t: live in the kit- Chen,” reverted Susan, “and you've got to get the home of your own, and 'tlsn't every girl with a. face like yours as can; get a hue-band, Emma Bligh." .. Eiffma was about to retort angrily, whey: Mary Matthews interposed, by saymg: v “I don't think nothing of being a lady's maid," sneered Emma Bligh; “it's only like an upper servant, no- thing better, and if a lady’s maid does get fine clothes, why, they’re only cast-off things, as have been worn be- fore by her missus. I'm not going in- to service when I grows up. There's ten pounds in the bank that my uncle left me.a.nd when I get it I'll have a little shop and sell tea and cheese, and sweets and candles, and I'll have a husband who’ll work to keep me; that's what I will. It's better, hav- inga home of your own, to living in a oomntess' kitchen.” I can tell you,” and Susan Harper arched her neck, tossed her head, and looked at her companions with undis- guiged pride and self-satisfaction. ”I'm going to be a lady's maid when I gmw a bit older. My mother’s couu- sin is own maid ’00 the Countess of Firtop, and you should see the lovely clothes she hasâ€"silks and satins and laws, and real gold brooches; it's a rape fine thing to be a‘lady'sflmaid, wam't frightened" .. 8116 Would BC 21 Lady; THE DURHAM CHRON ICLE What aré you get you to 11 some lace .for me,” said Mrs. W brook, graciously ; “ but you mustc up to my house to do it. I could The girl dropped her work, and de- scended the stairs, to find in the best sitting-room, the Honorable Mrs.\Vest- brook, the mother of the young man whose bloodhound had startled her and her companions the previous after- noon. ‘ “Eva, come down, you’re wanted!’ shgpted _Mrs.l Church. She was a tall, proud-looking with fair hair, blue eyes, and regular features, and she bore with her ‘an air of perfect' satis that it had pleased Hpnvnn fn Her fingers were very rapid in their movements, but her thoughts had wandered far away from her occupa- tion. She was wishing that she had time and money wherewith to get a good education, and thinking thus, her mind soon traveled beyond the question of ways- and means, and she had given herself up to the building of some very airy castles, when the harsh voice of her stepmother roused her from her day-dreams. Such was 'the condition of affairs, on this, her thirteenth birthday-n. CHAPTER II. The day after the conversation of these girls had taken place Eva Ran- dolph sat in her own room, busily at work upon some delicate lace, in the making of which she was remarkably clever. There was no one to grumble or to bring the dishonest. couple to book. Eva did not know she was being rob- bed. She was told every day of her life that she was eating the bread of charity, and she believed it, and she worked hard, harder than any servant would have done, to satisfy herself that she earned her food and shel- ter. A little ready money was very use- ful to a man in business, and a small income from houses which, thcugh they could not be sold, could be let to ten- ants too simple to ask for proof of his right! to receive the rent, helped to cover many expenses, and to enable him to put away money against a rainy day. Mr. Randolph had died without a will. He had no near relatives, and Eva was left to the care of her stepâ€" mother. Mrs. Randolph’s widowhood did not' last long. Her first husband had been a surgeon; her second was a small shop-keeper. Mr. Church. when he married her, quite understood the condition of affairs, and willingly 30- cented the responsibility. By earnest seeking after all that is true and noble, and by eradicating any- thing that is base and unworthy in her nature, she hopes to succeed. And poor Eva is worse than being simply an orphan, for her father’s death left her to the tender mercies of a step- mother, who would have sent her to the workhouse. but that the parish au- thorities would then have taken care that the girl’s share of her father’s property should be applied to her So much for one of our heroiness She means to be a lady, a lady, 30‘ cording to her ideal of one. To have fine clothes, dainty food, a soft couch. nothing to do, and every wish and whim gratified, as soon as it can be formed, that Is Lilas Lampier’s notion of being a lady, and of the life that a lady. should live. Eva Randolph’s ideas are widely dif‘ ferent. The lever that is to help her onward in life isfhard work, strength- ened by self-denial. Lilas would have liked her father to be WWII her. bwt she had no great love for him; Jndeed that young per- son's affections were principally 0311' tred in herself. She had shelter and food from her mother‘s cousin, whom she called aunt, and such clothes as her relative could afford to give her, and she nursed the children, worked about the house and was treated neith- er better nor worse than if she had been Mrs. Flood’s eldest daughter. and at length, unable to endure his exile amy longer, he left his child in the care of some distant relatives of his late wife while he himself went back to Paris. What became of him there those whom he had promised to write to in England did not know. He might be in prison; he might be dead for auglh‘t they knewâ€"almost for all they cared. . a! _ L_ proud-looking woman a,” saili Mrs. W53}; “ but you must come to mend her gidfleoe to his pmgress in the study of Turkish lang e which 11 o o . .. 8 has my gmoe his V181 to Constantin- “VA WLLUL He unlocked the door of the car and invited Lo Ben to step inside. “I no go," said Lo Ben. “I want not to die to-night !” After much persuasion and the prom- ise of some golden guineas the diffi- culty was overcome. Lo Ben landed in the basket. and with the combined weights of the three persons, it slip- ped down about six inches. Lo Ben- gula's cry rang out like ablast from twenty trumpets, after which he sank down almost paralyze-d. When terra firma was reached he gurgled out, :Oh, my father, my father, bona!” “-v v- VVhile Lo Bengul raged there climbâ€" ed up the outer edge of the wheel a sailor in a coil of cordage. Then fol- lowed a chain and pully and a steel cable, and finally the rescuing basket containing g another sailor. He tried to light a cigarette, but the match would not catch on the box, and the cigarette would not Slop in his lips, and his straw hat wabbled all over his woolly cranium, “It is evil.” he exclaimed. “1 do not like it.” The wheel stopped again some one hundred feet from the ground, and Lo Bengula cried, “Oh, we must get down. I lose all my money; ikona mus’hla l” It; is not nice. Court. Lo Ben was induced to come again to the Window, but, he evidently did not see anything at; all attractive. “I am afraid; we shall all die to-day; oh. my father. Why won’t it go down 2” he said. Lo Renaula. Slack on a Ferris Wheel. Said. “I! Is Not Nice." Prince Lo Be-ngul‘a, of the Matabeles, the latest royal African Prince to be conquered and taken to London, had an experience When he was taken up ‘80 Mrs. Church said nothing to her husband about: Mrs. W'estbrook's visit, except that she wanted Eva to mend some lace for her, and that the girl was to go up to the Grange to do it. As she pondered these questions, Mrs. Church thought of making her husband a Sharer in her anxiety, but second thoughts convinced her that she had beSL be silent. Mr. Church was not an amiable man ; he was scraping together a very nice little fortune, and it was more than likely that if he thought there was any danger of losing Eva's money, he would, by some imprudent step, precipitate the very CI‘lSlS they both dreaded, for be greatly disliked the girl whom he was daily robbing, and he gruldged every mouth- ful= 'of food that she ate. Mrs. Church knew that the girl's .own property entitled her to good clothing and a fair education, quite as well as any one could tell her so, but for five years she had gone her dishon- est; way unquestioned, and it certainly would be extremely inconvenient if any investigation were to take place mow. “What could Mrs. Westbrook know of her late husband 2’" she wondered. ”W'as the great lady aware that he had a small income independent of his profession?” And, worse still, “Did she know that he had died intestate?" Mrs. Westbrook went away, and Eva netu-rnde to her room. But Mrs. Church was ill at ease. Over and over again she assured her- self that no one could blame her for appropriating to her (own use the money that legally belonged to her stepdaughter. She gave her a home and she and her husband only approp- riated the girl’s share of her father's property, and exacted two-thirds of all the. money she earned at her lace work in return. The chamge was due to the respect in which her dead father was held, and she valued it upon this account far more than if it had been brought about by amy personal regard for herself. So “Yes; I knew him,” said Mrs. West- brook, sadly, “but it was long before he was marriedâ€"when he was but; a yxoumg man, In fact; but I shall be glad to help his daughter. Will you come up to my house to-morrow at ten o'clock, my dear ?" “Yes, ma'am," replied Eva, grateful fer the changed tone of kindness, al- most of affection, which the lady now used toward her. Iv “Y , ma'am. Did you know him 3" asked Mrs. Church, in alarm, for it suddenly occurred to her that any friends of her late husband might be- come unpleasantly curious as to the amoucnt of property he possessed when he died. ”an“, W JV“ WV. “Algernon Randolph! ' repeated Mrs. Westbrook, while something like .an expression of pain passed over her countenance. “And so he 13 dead!" slhe?added; “and this is his daugh- ter " ' en for her full age, which was con- siderably over thirty. “She's too old to be my own daughter, as you can see, ma‘am. I married her father, who was my first husband, though I was his second wife, and I’ve taken care of her ever since, for she hasn’t got no relations .of her own ’I” “ Indeed! Then 'what was her fath- er’s name ‘i’ asked the lady, gracious- ly, _ - u I A‘ ‘_._.--. DA‘AA‘nh ,’ -a 1J- . “ Randolphâ€"Algernon Randolph ” re- plied Mrs. Church, proudly. “ He was a surgeon at Trebourne; so I married beneath me when I took a second hus- s 9 the big Ferris Wheel at Earl’s KAISER A LINGUIST. \ A PRINCE IN MIDAIR. (To Be Continued.) trtue, The 'world upside down she A'nd gold be found at the r tree, _ Through hills man shall r;de.. And no home or ass be at {us sxdey Under water man shall walk ShalL ride, shall sleep, shall talk. In the air men shall be seen In White, in black, in green. Iron on the water shall float A's easily as a wooden .boat. Gold ’shall be found and Show” In lands now not known” . England shall at last admlt 3 J9“ do- And fire and water shall qunerfi The world to an end 3113}! 605° Shall fly, In the twinkling of at 'Wabers shall yet more v How strange! buL yet Those of Mother shim-q: Kinn- All Unm- True But one. An interesting film which may not be generally known, is that the things and events predicted by Mother Shipâ€" cept- that referring to 1J8 en . the world in 1881. The latest fnlftll- mat of the seeress’s predictions 15 the §uccessful Use of the automobile. 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