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it t lilw some of the .t' lvrrro-lit tiahVâ€"‘(l'tfl‘v'llt‘ll All the splundors of his palace and It tiniw “me eclipsed by this Ilitill01 ’ tui\Vifi'. \Vllyfi lu- flcclllt'tl tn nimw i-Vi'l'ytiilllg. lle Wat's the lirst great naturalist the World ever saw. l‘varmlc: from stmtted the basaltic walks. and apes cliatterul in the: trees, and stalked the parks. and there In“ ‘1 Silitllllt‘ll kings of iliilwi'ility t it‘ll aquariums Willi aries with foreign luirds, and tradi- tion says these birds Well: so well tamed that Solomon might 'Jalk clear across thi- city under the sha- dow of their Wings rs they hovered and llitti-d about him. Well. my friends. you know that all theologians aprre in making Holâ€" onion a type of t'hris; and in male ing the Queen of Sheba a type of every truth serk'r, and I will take the responsibility if saying that all the spikenard and cassia and frank- incense which the Queen of Sheba brought to King Solomon are mightâ€" ily suggestive of the sweet spices of our holy rigligimi. Christianity is not a collection of sharp technicali- ties and angular facts and chrono- lndial ”wrischi ar used to be aIWays so calm] “Noland happy anti hopeful when he had Err-W“ “5“ and avi-imh many trials and Sickne “ iaiiments. '. the css ~- (I Ind! IIIIIIJII wasn‘t-Iv, , 5'1" . t in“, UN: cnarreu portion .mu nu- l'IUXI't-V'. ”'1 could “5“ all those. m ping of loose threads. When not in ilgv ‘1‘:1!thlll‘(t":‘nwll)lt(t’ll'tl*}tt:lcb‘c‘tloluzlifgl: use the wick should to turned down lioint‘nu-nts-I-if I could askyav SUCh‘to ' “at” just below the top 9‘ the burn- rise how ll‘l'lllV weald rise 9 Not er. The iron chimney “in” ”0”“ny " ‘ ’ ' ' need a thorough cleaning, rubbing ".‘.' Ullt' . ." ha (1 wrh h 80- ‘d cloth and .‘some one could not understand‘gkg‘vcr \L'Jhent eiervdicbrner is let‘- why an old (lerman Christian? ', .' . ~ I -fcctly c.ean it is rubbed dry and re-' 1 .plactd on the stove. . ' § 5393 and This first cleaning, especially if the. A man secreted himself in , stove has been in use for some time,l house. He said “1 mean tolis likely to be dillicult. but. once. lwatch this old scholar and (‘liris-lclean, the burner and chimney can .tian." And he saw the old L‘hris-lbc kept in good condition by goingl .tian man go to his room and sit! lightly over them daily. Then by' down on the chair beside the stand ' being careful to avoid the smoking,‘ to l the oil stove should prove what it; is‘ land open the Bible and begin aread. He read on and on, chapter intended to be, a thoroughly useful; .al’ter chapter, hour after hour, until ' article, and with care should last for T Ihis face was all aglow With the many years. ‘ ,tidings from heaven, and when the .â€" clock struck 12 he arose and shut dds llihle and said "Blessed Lord, SUMMER DON’TS- :we are on the same old terms yet. ‘(lood night. Good night.” Oh, you sin parched and vou trouble pound- .ed. here is comfort, here is satisfac- pct. You need not, of course, have ill"? ! 2““.151mu come, and “(it “I” the sun streaming in all day, lvut let ' ' ‘- ‘ ‘ l in the morning, open the Windows at Don’t entirely shut out the sun- light. because it makes he room somewhat warmer or fades the car- pgical tables and dry statistics. ltell you what he offers now. "ltl - .. -. . . . - o ‘tld bo om, nd th 1111 me 1 .mr religion is compared to frankm-ldoth not yet appear what we shall l :vlilclil the i‘htcomiifg driughlt “£0; cease and to cassia, but never toibe,” . . ‘ . . nightâ€"shade. It is a bundle of 0]], home of the blessed ! Penna {3:111 1311:]: e 11221:? Pint of the zoom inyrrh. It is a. dash of holy light. ldations of gold ! Arches of vicâ€" lim’t n grlect. 'our “160“" room It is a sparkle of mol fountains. lt ' tory ! Capstones of praise ! And Be sure cttlmt dining ‘the‘hofir a“; is an opt-nihg of opaline gates. it is a colln'tioh of spices. Would ( that we were as wise in taking spices to our l‘rivine King as Queen lalkis whs wise in taking spices to the earthly Solomon. The fact is that the duties and cans of this life. coming to us in om time to time. are stupid often and inane and intolerable. Here are men who have been battering. climbing, pounding. hammering, for .20 years, lit! years: 50 years. One great long drudgery has their life been. their laces anxious, their feelings benumb- ed, their days luonotonous. What l -.Z.-L0nn ‘In 'htl'. Q l 1a dome in which there are echoing odl| ithe ages ! all i | spre sunlight is being admitted. the bed- -clothes have been removed, and are ad out so that they, as well as and re-echoing the halleluiahs And around about that mansion is a arden. the arde - (:00, and a" 3,0 Spl‘ingingglounilnizg! the bed, Will become thoroughly are the bottled tears of the church in aired. the wilderness and all the crimson Don’t sleep in a draught, although of the flowers is the deep hue that. the ”air should circulate freely was caught up from the carnage oil, through the room. Many people earthly martyrdoms and the has. close their windows at night because they are “afraid of the night air.” grance is the prayer of all the” lThis is a thousand times less dan- saints and the aroma puts into| utter forgetfulness the cassia and | QCl‘OUS than the air WlliCh, in a clos- ed room, becomes heavy and poison- the spikenard and the frankincense' and the world renowned spices which l OUS from the exhalations from the Queen Balkis of Abyssinia flung at lungs. lthe feet of King Solomon. l Don’t eat much during the day. . Solomon goes‘ up the ivory stairs 30‘ his throne bet'.\'eeli l2 lions in {untury and sits down on the back at the golden bull. the head 0! the huge beast turiy-d toward the peo- h,le. The launily and the attendants ‘ a the king are so many that the cat- mm of the [mutt-e have to provide "Cry day in” sheep and 13 oxen, hides the birds and the venison. I hear the staunping and paving o! {.000 line horses in the royal sta- ‘lcs. There were important oliieials who haul charge of the work of gath- ering the straw and the barley for these horses. King Solomon was an 'carly riser. tradition says. and used i 'A despatch from Washington says: h-Rev. lu'. Tulmugt: preached from II- Iollmxing text : ll. Chronicles ix. 9, “U! mucus gnvut abundance: nei- tber Was than": any such spice as the Queen of Sheba. gave King Solomon" What. is that. building out. there [littering in the sun? Have you Dot heard '2 It is the house of the forest 0! U:Lumm. King Solomon has just. takt-u to it. his bride. the finite“ «7,! Egypt. You see the pil- hts oi the purticu and a great tow- .I', adorned with 1.000 shields of ‘old hung on the outside of the tow- mâ€"sm o! the shields of gold manuâ€" ,hcturcd an, f'éoimumi's order. 500 were unpaired by l'uvid. his hither, h battle. Sm: how they blame in the noonduy sun! catly riser. tzzumnm says, and uscug to take a him: nut 11!. duybrcuk. andi when in his white apparel. behind? the swine”. horses at all the realm: and Iolluwml by mounted archers in; purphn as thv Cavalcade (lashed? through the: sweats 0! Jerusalem l; suppmtc it, was sc-nm-thinggvurth g0t-' ting up at 5 o'clock in th': morning to look at. : The fact is that. the duties and cares of this life. coming to us fi om time to time. are stupid often and inane and intolerable. Here are men who have been battering. climbing, pounding. hammering, for £0 years,j 40 years, 50 years. One great long drudgery has their life been. their faces anxious, their feelings benumb- ed, their days monotonous. What is necessary to brighten up that man‘s life and to sweeten that acid thsposnion and to put sparkkzinto the man's spirits? 'l‘hc spicery 0. our holy religion. Why. if between the losses of life there dashed the gleam of an eternal gain, if between the betrayals of life there came the gleam of the undying friendship of Christ. if in dull times in business we found ministering spirits flying to and fro in our otfiee and store and shop, everyday life instead of being a stupid monotone would be a glor- ious inspiration. penduluming be- tween calm and satisfactien and high rapture. I have to say also that we need to put more spice and enlivenment in! our religious teaching. whether it be; in the prayer meeting or in the Sun-4‘ day school or in the church. .We ministers need more fresh air and sunshine in our lungs and our heart and our head. Do you Wonder that the World is so far from being con- verted when you “ll“ so little viva- city in the pulpit and in the pew? We Want. like the Lord. to plant in our sermons and cxhortations more lilies of the field. he want fewer rhetorical elaborations and fewer sesquipedalian words. and when we talk about shadows we do not Want to say adumbration. and when we mean queerness we do not Want to talk about idiosyncrasies, or it a stitch in the back we do not want to tall: about lumbago; but, in the plain vernacular ot the great masses, preach that gospel which proposes to make all men happy, honest, victori- ous and tree. In other words, we tam more cinnamon and. less gristle. Let this be so in all the dine-rent departments 01 work to which the Lord calls us. Let ‘0 he Religion of Christ Counteracts All Trouble. Plum; Let us be earnest. Let us be common sensicul. When we talk to the people in a. vernacular they Cam understand, they will be very glad to come and receive the truth we present. Would to God that Queen Balkis would drive her spice- laden dromedariea into all the ser- aons and prayer meeting exhorta- tions! . Now, I was: to impress you with at. fact that. religion is "cane” fl“ pains. and mikeurd ad sal- UNDATIONS OF GOLD. iron and cinnamon and cassia and! frankincensc and all sweet spices to-‘ gether. “Oh,” you say "I have notI looked at it as such. Thought it: was a nuisance. It had for me a. re- pulsion. 1 held my breath as though it were a malodor. I have been ap- palled at its advance. 1 have said il l have any religion at all I want to have just as little of it as possi- ble to get through with.” Oh, what a mistake you have made, my bro- tl‘icr! The religion of Christ is a present and everlasting redolence. lt counteracts all trouble. Just put it on the stand beside the pillow o! ESlellCSS. it catches in the curtains land perfumes the stifling air. it lswcetens the cup of bitter medicine and throws a glow on the gloom of the turned lattice. It is a balm ior the aching side and a soit bandage {or the temple stung with pain. Why did you look so sad this morning when you came in ? Alas for the loneliness and the heart- break and the load that is never lifted from your soul ! Some of you go about feeling like Macaulay when he wrote. “If I had another month 0! such days as I have been spending, 1 would be impatient to get down into my little narrow crib in the ground. like a weary factory rilild.“ And there have been times in your life when you Wished you could gut out of this; life. You have Hill], “Oh. how sweet to my lips would be the dust of the valley "’ and wished you could pull over you in your last slumber the Coverlet. of {gm-on grass and daisies. You have said : “Oh, how beautifully quiet It must be in the tomb ! I wish I were there." | Home one could not understand in'hy an old German Chr1stian ‘scln ar u4ed to be always so calm 3: ad happy and hopeful 11 hen he had ..4o many trials and sickne. ses and iaihnents. A man secreted himself in lthe house. lle said : “I mean to [watch this old scholar and Chris- tian.‘ ' And he saw the old Chris- itian man go to his room and sit down on the chail beside the stand and open the Bible and begin to 1e.u|. He read on and on, chapter after chapter, hour afte1hmu, until :his: face was all aglow With the ttidings from heaven, and when the {clock struck 12 he arose and shut 1 see all around about. me widow- huml auul urplmnage and childless- nos-s. ;szulncss, disappointment, per- plexity. ll 1 could ask all those in my audience wlm have felt no sor- row and been butl’ctml by no disap- puinummtâ€"il’ I could ask a? such to rise. how many \v0uld rise '? Nut URN}. A well-known variety artiste will shortly appear in public in a dress manufactured entirely of glass fibre. The dress is a delicate Nile-green in color. The cloth Was spun in Dres- den. and the garment manufactured in Paris. It took live months to complete. It may interest lady read- ers to know that the skirt is cut in a (lemi-train. hanging straight in front. with a full gather at back. The bodice is sleeveless, and cut low in front. clinging to the bust with the plianey of silk. The skirt ter- minates with a fringe, surmounted by a glass braid like interwoven cord. It will be the first time a glass dress has been worn on the stage in any land. The color ellects glass dress has been worn on the; stage in any land. The color ellectsf of the dress under a strong light are wonderful. Delicate shades of pale? green. pale blue, and silver white? blend into each other with bewilder-; ing rapidity as " the wearer walks; The dress does not. sparkle ; it. has. indescribable silvery sheen, and, as. the wearer moves, the silvery light: ripples from point to point. on the; dress like waves in the moonlight. i A recent traveller in Central Afrio ca gives several instances «.1 the ca- pacity of sleep developed by his Arab servants. He mentions one of these men as being undisturbed by the discharge of firearms within two feet of his head. Another is describ- ed as followszâ€"Salam, our Arab boy sleeps more soundly than any one else I have ever come across. It is a task of no ordinary magnitude to wake him: He tells a story in re gard to himself to the eflcct (MW 0” night, when he Was travelling with “ . - L-‘ ‘A IIIEIIL, ‘v nswun nu. vv u- v . â€"_-c, an Arab in North Africa, he had to sleep with their donkey tethered to his leg to keep him Irom running away. When he woke in the morning he found that the donkey had wan- IOU ‘7‘...“ v--“ v -â€"_v deréd aWay to . a novnstd'erable dis- tance, and had dragged him along. Judging irom our own experience of his sleeping powers, we do not think the story incredible. NOW, GLASS musssns 9 SOUND SLEEPER. Although there are several kinds! of oil stoves made without wicks. the larger number in use are still those with wicks. It is a commonl experience to have an oil stove smoke; some time after it has been lighted; and when it appears to be burning all right. Miss Bedford explains this. She says :â€"“When the stove is ready for use, light and turn the wicks up gradually, beginning with a low flame. Increase the height alter a while until more than (me- half its full size. After 10 or 15 minutes have elapsed and it burns steadily at the same height it can 'be left with safety, unless the article placed over it is a kettle of water. When the latter arrives at the boil- ing pomt the flame is frequently drawn up, and it turned too high it will surely begin to smoke. In leav- ing the stove to itself, however, pro- }Vision should be made to shield it llrom a strong draft. gar, threeoquarters cup butter, one cup sweet milk, four eggs th1ee cups foux, three men teaspoonfuls of baking powde1.l‘or spice use one 1. and a half teaspoonfuls each of ci n- Winamon and cloves and one nutmeg h 1 C1ea1n the butter and sugar, then r- 'the beaten yolks of the e ggs beating .divigorously, then the milk and flour 11. . alternately , lastly the spices and ithe well-“hipped whites of the e gs. lei !Beat in tinee layers in deep jelly g'tins, and put together with soft icing. d! Spices Layer Cakeâ€"One pound sn- 3 I z n i â€" i “9,‘_ n!---- In regard to cleaning Miss Bed- iord says that the first thing to be done is to remove the iron top which acts as a. chimney. Turn cuch wick as low as possible in the burn- cr. Wring a small soft cloth out of hot suds and rub it hard on a cake of sand soup then with a wooden skewer or a hall pointed blunt knife push the cloth down on the inside of the burner a good quarter of an inch and rub on all the browni deposit ; this will probably require considerable scouring. If it cannot be gotten rid of in this way, scrape it 011 with the knife. Next bCuUl‘ the outside of the burner, lift oll the netting and scour thoroughly. Wipe all parts with a dry cloth. Turn the wick up and rub oil' the charred edge. If necessary, cut each wick, then light. to make sure that it is even. Unce it is cut true it will seldom need more than a daily rubbing oil of the cnarred portion and the clip. ping of loose threads. When not m ‘use the wick should Le turned down [until just below the top of the burn- Ler. The iron chimney will probably Ineed a thorough meaning, rubhing hard with the soaped cloth and gskewer. When every corner is 1-er- ifectly clean it is rubbed dry and re- lplaeed on the stove. ' ’ I" vvvvv â€"- v-' i v v , This first cleaning, especially if the: Mrs. McKinley, wife of tlie Presi- stove has been in use for some time, I dent of the United States, is a lawâ€" is likely to be dillicult, but, oncefyer in full practice before the Ain- cleun, the burner and chimney can ericun Bar. be kept. “1 QOOd CONHUO“ b." goingl 'l‘he Cmr of Russia owns the largâ€" lightly "V" “‘9’” (li‘i'y- Then by;est landed estate in the world. It being careful 1‘) “mm the 5"“"1‘3’1‘5' ' is about one hundred million acres the oil stove should prove what it is ' in extent. many S’Cill's. imore than four hours a. day. He says that. when he :‘leeps eight hours Don’t neglect your slceping room. Be sure that. during the hour the sunlight is being admitted. the bed- clothes have been removed, and are spread out. so that they, as well as Don't entirely shut out. the sun-fl light because it makes the mom' somewhat warmer er fades the cm- pet. You need not, of course, hmci the sun stxcmning in all (lay,l11t, let, it come in freely for an hour or two in the mnrning, open tl e windmxs 11t top and bottom, and the impm e air which the incoming draught. mixes from the lower part. of the 100m may find egress. ..___ q. _ the bed, will become thoroughly aired. Don’t sleep in a draught, although the ‘air should circulate freely through the room. Many people Don’ t. eat much timing the day. Let \our hearticst meal be 'Lt, night, on when your work for the day is over. 1‘ unit, toast, soft-boiled eggs, and oatmeal make a good break- fast. ..... D- 'I‘o Cook a Fresh Fishâ€"Ciean thoroughly a fresh fish. T10 It in a piece of netting or lay it on the drainer of the Iish_ketf_tie, if you have one. Cover with boiling water, add two level tablespoonfuls of salt. the same of vinegar or lemon juice. a sprig of parsley. a dozen pepper- corns and one small onion, sliced. Let cook slowly half or three quar- ters of an hour, according to size. It should boil constantly, but never hard. Li ft the fish, drain it and slide it on on a hot dish on which is a folded napkin to absorb the water. Garnish with parsley and lemon and serve with horseradish or cream sauce. For the sauce, cook two rounded tablespoonfuls of flour in one of butter will smooth, then Stir in two cups of scalded cream. When smooth, stir in {our table- spooniuls of grated horseradish. I! this is not at hand, season with salt and pepper and add two heaped tablespoonfuls of capers. A fish of two and a half, three or {our pounds weight should be chosen for boiling. Though the average housekeeper are many epiEurcs who declare a fish should always be cooked in its na- tive element. Creamed Corned Beetsâ€"Cut enough corned bee! to make one pint. into fine dice, or run it through a. moat. DO M ESTI C RECIPES . OIL STOVES. chopper. Make a cream sauce with one tablespooniul each of butter and flour and one cup of milk. Season with salt and pepper ; add a very little onion juice, stir into the meat. simmer for five minutes and cover with coarse bread crumbs that have been browned in a little butter. Almond Cream.â€"Pare live medium- sized ripe yellow peaches, cut the fruit into rings. Sprinkle with. powdered sugar. Blanch and shred ai cupful of almond meats. Place in a double boiler, threequarters cupiul of sugar and two cupfuls oi millm when this boils, add two tablespoon- fuls of corn starch dissolved in cold milk, “stirring constantly for fifteen minutes.” When cool, flavor with one-half teaspoonful of almond ex- tract ; add the nuts carefully, "fold in" four egg-whites. Line a win mould with the sliced peaches, fill with the almond cream. Place in a refrigerator for four hours. Decorate .with whole blanched almonds. This {dessert may be attractively served Feither with whipped cream natural I or colored a light green, pink or yel- 1 low as the cook's fancy dictates. Peach Spongeâ€"Softer) one half box of gelatine with oneâ€"half cupiul of cold water, Boil one pint of water, one-half cupful of sugar and six peach kernels. chopped ; strain and pour the syrup into the gelatinc, stir thoroughly. When cold, add slowly four stil‘i egg-whites, whip until the sponge is light. Place a. thick layer of sliced peaches in a mould, add the sponge and finish the top with halved peaches. Any cold sauce preferred may be served. â€"--- 2 .L _. U§‘“Vv lluvovu-vâ€" â€"_"'V Charlotte Russeâ€"Whip one pint of cream, add the whites of four eggs beaten thoroughly, one teaspoonlul of vanilla, one-Jourtlx cuplul of strong, black collee, one-hall cupful powdered sugar. Line individual moulds with sponge cake, fill with the. cream. Stand on ice an hour. Coarse brown paper soaked 'in vinegar and placed on the fm'dwagl is good for siCk headache. If the eyelids are gently bathed in Cold water the pain in the head is gen- erally alluycd. Interesting Chat About Scme Great Folks. One of the few ladies who have act- ed as successful engine-drivers is the Murchimmss of 'l‘wccddulc. Thomas 1%. Edison rarely stems more than four hours at day. No says that when he :‘loeps eight hours he feels ill when he wakes up. The Czar is a most wonderful whistler, and can whistle the most intricate vuriuliuns on national airs. lie entertains intimate friends in this way. Among illustrious rersonaees with queer fauls must. be numbered Prince Luitpold of Bavaria. llis collection of beetles is the most extensive and complete in the world, and the Prince is a skilled entmnulogist, deeply versed in the habits of ants, bees, moths, flies. earwigs, and the insect world gene 'ully. The young Egyptian thdlve is said to possess the most costly set of harness in the world. It is made of black leather, with chased gold buckles and collars ornamented with the same costly metal The pad- cloths are also embroidered with gold, and the set is said to have cost£2,000. It is for four "horses, and is used on all State occasions. No other sovereign in the worid has so many physicians as the Czar. 'I‘hey number twentyâ€"seven, and are all selected from among the medical celebrities of Russia. There is first a physician in chief ; then come ten honorary physicians, three surgeons and four honorary surgeons ; two oculists, a chiropodist and honorary chiropodist ; two Court physicians, and three specialists for the Czarina. None of the reigning {aunties of Europe are peculiarly graceful horse- men with the possible exception of the Emperor of Austria. The Em- peror William and the Duke of Con- naught have been singularly unlucky in the matter of bad falls. The late Czar was a particularly unskill‘ul horseman, and it is said that 332m) uncomplimentary remarks of the German Emperor on his riding. which were repeated to him, Were the primary cause of the coolness which existed between the German and Russian Courts in 1890. In this respect th his father After fifty-one years’ service in the navy Admiral Sir Michael Culmeâ€" Seymour, one of the most distin- guished and most courtly of navtil oflicers, goes into retirement. He has just celebrated his sixty-fifth birthday. No one connected with the King’ 3 fleet has had a more stiriing career. The half-century between his entry 011 Februa1y 6th, 1850, and his last sad duties as first princi- pal A. D. C. 011 the occasion of the funeral of the late Queen was packed with incidents, many of them of an exciting character, and none more so than those of the months when the troubles of the Armenians were ringing in English ears, and Sir Michael was in command of a menac- ing fleet “up the Strait. " _ viiiâ€"ribBi-edâ€"ch, my-wife’s mother is stopping with us, but. I don't think she would suit you. Curio Collectorâ€"Have you any old relics you are; willing t9 part yith ? Sugar exists not only in the cane, beetroot, and maple, but in the sap of 187 other plants and trees. An ordinarily healthy man of thir- ty years old can lift, with both hands. 236 pounds, und.support on his shoulders 330 pounds. PROMINENT PEOPLE. SICK HEADACHE. the present. Czar resembles DOUBTFUL. In common with most other men who have travelled into the Outlands of the Earth, In desire of many marvels over sea. I have often been asked the question, "Which was the worst quarter of an hour you can look back upon 1’” writes George Grifl‘lth in Pearson’s Weekly. The answer is not quite so easy as it seems. because the ‘matter is so complicated by the absence or pres- ence of the element of excitement. For instance, I never was neawr to the knife-edged brink of eternity than I was one bitter, dark night in the South Atlantic, on the Jacob's Lad- der of a thousand-ton clipper: I was a lad of fifteen. and Jacob'Sl Ladder runs from what I may call‘ the base of the royal mast to the sky-Sail ya1d. I had just furled the skysail which is the highest sail in a full-rigged ship, and was coming down. when the lower lashiugs of the ladder carried away. The vessel was rolling heavilt. so you may im- agine what the motion was like a hundred and thi1ty feet above the deck. 01‘ course, with each roll I 'swung out over the water like a pendulum, and just as one of the top lashings had given way 1 man- aged to get an arm and leg round the mast. Now at that time I didn’t feel a tremor oUear, simply because I was too busy trying to get off that ladder. but when I got down on deck and thought it over, 1 was simply sick with fear. On the other hand, I had an ex- perience some time ago, in the Isle of Pines. near New Caledonia, which proved to me that a. man can he very frightened and vet ['iCl'SUflde himself that he isn't. I had just landed from Noumea. where the plague was raging. and I had every reason to believe that I had got it. I had all the recognised symptoms. In fact, my glands “'L'I‘C beginning to swell. and I was GETTING: DIZZY AND LIGHT- IIEAI'JEI) at intervals. 1 was absolutely alone. and I knew that if I couldn’t. Walk straight, if I even limped or sun'ered from sickness the next morning I should be marched 011‘ to the hospital there and then. Of course, there Was not a more scared man in the Southern Numiâ€" sphcrc, and for cold-drawn mental nzitsu'y perhaps the early hours of that night were the worst I have ever lived through. Again, the first time I experiencedi the sensation of being; shot at \‘as a distinctly had ten minutes. I wasj unarmed and I was outside the law, because I was trying to get through some military lines where I had no business to be. I had about the same chance with the sentries as a rabb’t has with a, gunncr. and l was so frightened that, if 1 had had them, I would have given all Morâ€" gan’s millions to be tWo miles away. Still, there were redeeming features in the situation. There was the ex- citement of hearing the bunets snip through the air and seeing them knock up the dust, and there was al- so that half-unconscious, instantane- ous speculation as to whether the ‘next one would hit or not. Still, it ,is only honest to say that I was in labout as blue a funk as a self-res- renting adventurer ever wants to find himself. And yet my next experience was absolutely the reverse, although the danger was if anything greater. It was away up in the Sierras of the Andes on the road from Cuzco to the rail head at Sicunni. As I was rid- ing over an old Spanish bridge across a. torrent, I heard the crack of a Mannlieher, and felt a hot, stinging sensation just above the elbow. It was dusk, and I couldn’t see my man. He was behind a stone like a brother Boer, so there was nothing for it but to let him have another shot and fire on the flash, so 1 slip- ped on and popped my seven-shot repeater across the saddle. Happily my mule had been throngh the lie- volution, and took no more notice of the shooting than a stone horse would have done. The fix I was in was this : if I haul ridden on I should have been potted to a certainty, for after the bridge the path was so steep up the side of the gorge that MY MULE COULD ()NLY CRAWL. My friend lired again and missed. l luckily got. him first shot, some- thing whitey grey tumbled out. from behind the stone. The devil in me was awake now, and I deliberately pumped two more bullets into him to make sure, because if he had only disabled me I should have had a knife in me, been stripped, and thrown over into the river, and my enemy, who was a discharged sol- dier out on the road collecting his arrears of pay, would have made a very fine haul. Now, curiously enough, this time I was not frightened a bit. I never shot at a bird or a target more quietly than I did at my friend the highwayman; but then, you see, in the first place, I was armed, in the second I was in the right, and lastly, I felt that cold, deliberate anger which comes over a man when he has been unfairly hit. So here you have the same man in two shooting cases. In one he runs like a scared rabbit, so frightened that his teeth chattered with fear when the trouble was over. In the other he behaved as it he were one of two boys having a duel with pea- shooters. â€"" v-â€" But none of these experiences was quite the worst that I can remem- ber, and yet the incident was a per- fectly simple one, with no element of romance whatever about it. V. a Vunwoo 'v A party of four of us were coming back from the Perene district, which is on the eastern side of the Andes towards the head waters of the Ann- azon. The only road up to Oroya. where the Central Railway 0! Peru begins, is through a tremendous gorge fifty or sixty miles long. and flanked by mountains {our to six thousand feet high. Them had been bad floods for six or seven days, and when we got to a bridge which crossed one of the side torrents flow- ing into the Chamclianiayo, which flows down through the gorge, we found that half of it Was gone. -v â€"â€"â€"v One parapet was left, and about two to three feet of roadway. The torrent underneath was swollen to three or four times its normal size. and was tumbling down from the mountains on the left-hand side in a flood of seething foam with here and there long streaks of blue-black wa- ter. On the other side, where the parapet was gone, was the Chum- chmnayoâ€"bigger, broader, and MORE UNPLEASANT-LOOKING. Now, by the unwritten but un- broken Law of the Uutlnnds. when it comes to crossing an ugly bridge or fording n wickedolooking stream. he who has n mule must go first, be- cause where a mule will go a horseq will follow. I was the only one in the party who was riding a mule and so it tell to me to cross the bridge. There was only one thing that l was more frightened of thnn ll was of that twenty or thirty feet promenade. and that Was letting the other fellows see that I wan fright- ened. The situation reminded me of the old Major who said to a green subaltern when the guns began to talk : "My dear follow. if you were as frightened as I am you'd leave the field." I just. had to do it. so i off-sad- dled and carried my kit across, be- cause the bridge might hear me and give way under the mute. besides, it was a scary trip even for a mule. and if she had gone over with my kit, 1. should have been without money. weapons or stunner-tickets wherewith to get home. to say noth- ing of losing my animal. Then I crept gingerly buck. un- wound thc tethering rope, which, fortunately, \‘ilS about twcnty feet. long, and proceeded to entice the 1mm: across. Somethiies, “"htn I've not. had quite the right thing to: snipei. I do it mer again and “ARC up in a cold perspiration. She tapped (3le foot of the way with her forehoofs, looked down on the water, and stop- ped. shaking her long head and sticking out her upper lip as if she wanted to go for me for getting her INTO SUCH A FIX. I don't. know how long it took to get across. It. might, have been five minutes or five hours. and at any moment the torrent thundering ruzml “‘le foundation vas loft might, have torn the essential stone awayâ€"after which the rest. would have been chaoq for the mule and mys f. Altogether. I think it was quite? the most ticklish moment of my life. I don’t quite know how fright- ened I Was. but I certainly never want to he in such a shivering: funk attain. Fear of that sort is one of the curses of an imaginative tem- perament. You see the catastrophe whether it happens or not. and the worst of it Was that the risk had to be taken in absolutely cold blood. There was no excitement to help ; it was just like towing a coin for life or death. Of course, we got over all right. or I should not be telling the yarn now. I took a pull at my flask of Chacta (cane brandy), and :‘at dawn on my saddle to Watch the other fel- ‘lows come across. I watched them with an unholy satisfaction which *aftCI'WflrdS convinced me that I had a considerable amount of original sin concealed about my person. The bridge collar-sod a. few days later. In France They Must Go Through a Regular Training. The London detective has to join the police force as an ordinary “bobby,” and rely upon his own in- telligence, coupled with a gem! (IL-v.1 of luck for promotion. In France the art of being a «In- tective is taught in a 119::qu [waded school with lessons and examina- tion. The education of the hand follows. The pupil is placed in a darkened room full of curious and unusual ob- jects. lIe is required to touch them rapidly and afterwards to recall ex- actly what he has touched and write a ('escription of them. He must re- member even the slightest details. One of the exercises consists- in pluc- ing a jewelled knife before him in the dark, which he is allowed to touch only for a moment. Alter- wards he must tell by touch what the jewels areâ€"whether rubies, dia- monds, or opals. The students are first trained in the use of their eyes and hands. One of the lessons consists in placing a pupil in the middle of n. ln'illiantly- lighted room. full of furniture. lie is left for only a few seconds. when the room is du‘rlaenml. and he is re- quired to sketch hastily n complete map of the room. indicating,r the. po- sition of the furniture. After this he is allowed to look at a face for u moment or two. The student is then required to describe the face and the color of the hair nnd eyes. He is afterwards required to recognize 11 photograph of the face among sev- eral hundred others. Many people seem to remember only by an effort that the late Rm- press Frederick was the Princess Royal of England. She herself never forgot it. It was a grievance of the German Court that the wife of their Crown Prince always remained “die Englanderin." Bismarck was never tired of growling at it. Her easy, informal manners were always scan-- dalizing the stiff Prussian Court. Soon after her marriage she shocked her ladyâ€"in-waiting by carrying a chair across the room for herself. The lady protested. It (lid not be5 come a Princess of Prussia, she re- monstrated. to carry her own chairs. "Well," replied her mistrc's, “the Princess Royal of England doesn’t mind doing it. In fact, I have often neon my mother carrying two chain! TEACHING DETECTIVES. 0L1) - TIIE GURUHATIUHS. WHAT OUR FOIEFATHEBE PAID 1‘0 SEE THE SHOW. 30" 301‘“! end Luca Struck t Belmo- in the Old-time Displays. it is said that n hundred guinea has already been paid for a window for the ensuing coronation. A copy of a list of prices in former time- for seats in the streets and at win- dows. which may be seen at the British museum. is interesting. as showing the relative value of money the varying amount of loyalty dis- played by the people and the state of prosperity of the Kingdom. ‘ .\-“ At Edvard l.’s coronation in 1272 the demand {or a seat was half a iarthing, at Edward Il.'s people had either doubled their wealth or their passion for royal shows. the prico having risen to an entire iarthing. At Edward lll.'s it was a haltpenny. and the chronieier who gives us these details stems ti. think that the show was dear at that price. At Henry 1V.’s it was a penny. Henry V. was popular and the people opened their purses to the extent 0! tWOpence. a. a sign 0! their loyalty. Henry VL. of whom Shakespeare said "that he could neither fight nor fly," was eer- tainly not popular. yet twopence was given to see him crowned. 'l‘hen en- sued a slump; coronations became so frequent that prices dropped from twopence to a, halipenny, and in one or 'two disastrods instances the splendor of regality Was to be won FOR NOTHING. When things quieted down after the York and Lancaster wars, the. coun- try, having had time to grow rich, actually paid iourpence {or a View 0! llenry Vlll.'s coronation. lteligiouc convictions seem to have had more influence in rising and depressing val- ues than any other cause. In their joy at Elizabeth's ascent to the throne they disbursed sixpenoe to see her crowned; after that the prion jumped to a shilling, and the nation in a paroxysm of joy at getting rid of the ltoundheads. paid half a. crown to see Charles ll.'s installation. Queen Anne and William were both considered Worth live shillings. and they certainly were not dear at the price to England. The Jacobites, hoWever. we: e so determined to stand aloof when the House of Brunswick took possession of their inheritance that the vendors only dared charge a crown. At the coronation of George "I. loyalty became rampant, however. and prices sprang up at an unparal- leled rate. "Front seats of the gal- lery at Westminster Abbey were let. we are told. at It) guineas and up- ward; seats in the street at from 1 guinea to 10, and every tile from whence a glimpse of the procession could be had was a place of eager canvassing and exorbitant demand." It the owners of the windows along the route made large sums, toe hack- ney chairmen and coachmen were de- termined also to profit by THE PUBLIC ENTIIUSlASM. By an Order in Council or rent. 17, 1761, their tariffs and (barges for the occasion were duly gone into and regulated. 'l‘hey determined to frame a tarifl of their own. which lthe Lords of the Privy Council con- sidered exorbitant; they were enjoin- ed therefore to attend on the public by 4 in the morning without any rise in their (arm. The “Jarvey” of the day stood firm, and Lt“. for the in- terference of a patriotic chairman-fer who advised his colleagues to trust to the spontaneous generosity of the public, there might have been an un- seenily riot. Public generosity did not deceive them. and they found that in many instances they received .a guinea in lieu of a shilling. 'l‘he ceremonial in connection with the coronation of our present King. is, we are informed. to occupy two days, and we think it is as Well. when we read the account of what King George and his Queen Went through. to divide the ordeal by two days. "At 9 the King and Queen came in their chairs to \V‘estminster ' Hall. and from that until 10 that ‘ night did they have to remain be- fore the public, playing their part with as much dignity as the strain “,and fatigue of the situation would permit The village of ()stin, about t,m_~nty~. three "flies from Rome and at the mouth of the Tiber. has hundreds of inhabitants during the winter and only about ten or twelve during the summer. The lever season begins in April or May, and lusts till the end of November ; the inhabitants «Eeâ€" sert the village during this period. returning in November in order to cultivate the fertile fields. 'l‘hey crowd into huts of the most primi- tive kind. The floor is 0! stone, as are the door posts and some of the lower part of what we may call the walls, but the upper portion and the roof are composed of branches and thatch. They have a hole in the root to allow the smoke to escape when they make a fire, but the eliâ€" mate is so mild that they do 1.0L often need a tire for warmth. whale cooking is done outside. This in- significant and {ever-stricken \illatg‘e was once an important port at which were landed all the supplies {or Rome. The servant of 0. Vienna jewellcr has recently made an extraordinary discovery. According to him he pick- ed up in the street some yems ago a small round knob, apparently lumen of! from some article oi furniture. He threw it into an open drawer at home. where it remained. In turning this knob 11 short time ago around between his fingers he found that it moved. and, having unscrcwml it, he discovered within the ”COMM“ more than 100 Small brilliants rolled “n h. moms. 'l‘hn last, great 30"0! “P {flâ€"paper. The last. grv robbery in Vienna was in 1%- flve years H tor the jewelled Marshal Radctsky was stole] the arsenal. If_ no one Put HIS LUCKY DISCOVERY. I’LI'IICING FROM FEVER