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H I it .1 ("IO Blu'h “4..---- - '.S""af/rur'r': ot.ts lady; the ttrcl,di,1TP" ' ”’ ”'Ww'" ""Il vents. too, had retired. with VOIVEtI "Yes Mr. Dane" / I lactating”, softly closing the double "Pooh! tiii7 do I know chant my I 1 door. whim! them. and the two memIm hewt He has not one etool in my 1 friends and partners. ",,T,utet the t',"t'he'l for two years because my broth- I Matthew Lane, Pts',,'"'.),', I'f, t and or. a parson. and an improvident man. house. and head or. t " pn" en . as all par-sons no, naked me to give I. wry-porous mercantile firm of D‘moih'un be . l "' .I . " to the a uh. I gave him e stool and I “end lithOt, ant with his hack il salary. I know nothing about him - l ruwsrue: A “mu", ”30mm! oh [what are his capacities for business? mn- with . 31mm. n??". and m" I How can I tell what he in made oft" “m“ and ,rrpeley "t in” well-m 1rlred Ho spoke with a certain angry impati- .oeop,what trio-couture" dentures. bat ence a.» though the sthi ct had been without * “mm In". tn hin almost maimed oat in his J,e,",'i,'i'in'l before aim-Mack, straightdulling looks. Mat- "if I might make so bold we to any: '.hew "uns, w“ a man bertt to ruU Mr. Dane, Mr. Geoffrey not only bears and to command Ready of Wit. clear I your name bat he is a highly 'iGiiuu-l of brain, untiring in energy. he had, mg fiirifi'iiiii, one that either my by his solo exertions. tor many years or I would be L"ii indeed to ',',',22, piloted tho great house tel', lthiIongh Ib son " . ' ' .ll the storms and dangers o If" sear . with. depression e,', trnilekvgnd writing "931: Jlgt, "vyfeif $02331 $31115? » unnmroial impu so. are C are l . 5; mid sunk, nulunarged in the remorse-l 'ie, 'rihf,'vTp"l You have daugh-I {has stream, Matthew Dune but kept ..:' " I up hie. ttead--pretseawing, unbroken. the . Two daughters, Mr, Dane, lovely Armin and the prestige of tho tspien- qirls, well brought up, well+ducated. did huh-nous which. nearly halt a cy?- Till::..? innered young women, with "HY NRO, he had inherited from his vhom no _ need be ashamed to Pi guuNIthhol‘. As to "Lit-hot," he had ' connected. . .And Ar. lizill'iday set-I hill no perennality since those rcmote‘ tled his e.hin Into his collar with a. lit- ‘gw when the French branch, ut| tie conscious pride. l Lyons, had joiovd hands with the Lon-I Matthew Dane gave him a swift and run firm, thereby consolidating and l entHen glance. sharp as a needle, out. of ngthoning it tr. an extraordinary I of those keen, hawk-like eyes. Nothing ""xa,'.rtM' Trichest. save in the person lever escaped him, no shade of. sigrtifi- at one clerk. representing an almost _ 045nm. however remote, was lost upon lullehdod Junior branch at the oldlhls ever-ready comprehension. He funny, had now no existence. As in i was master ot the minds of men. Landon. no in Lyons, Matthew Dane] "Ohot Bo that's your idea, Joe an the head and me,insprintr of the | Halliday-that my nephew should whole btuuteaa. He was, in fact, a I marry one of your girls, and that I derai-god, not only to the firm, but, I should take the young couple into unfortunately. to himself too. it I Partnership?" ,esergttut to hub that he had but toI "f give Fou my word, tgir--no suchi musk. and his word became law; only i thouéU--riothtnii so 'iiisGuitiotyi-ur) ' oommand and senile ohedience wrong if, indeed, a. transient idea did ptvio' mlantly rendered unto him. Ila waaI through--"the trembling junior part- uumhr of all that mine into Pontact : ner hastened do cry with confusion. (wl‘h him, for th" heads of 01th ttrttttl, My. D1110 laughed". "My ttood tel.. 's; ”um-i, at home and abroad, with ', low. dov't apologize. It's a. very nn- .l mm lhxdid business, and who, when ': tural idea. Human nature, my dear -.:.-I,hew Dune reconunended such and Hallidny, in tho some. all the world _ r,', I. n (nun-as of action. were at once'oven ‘Chacun pour soil’ as our dear ”mum-oil of ils ieftvlrybi.iitr, simply be-: neighbors any. Why should you not Hm“ tit, advised A, ot Joesep.h 1iallidtV i have dreamt Four little day-dream? Ear long years his managing cteaY-! After nll, it's as good as mine. “may, Alum; by his own good pleasure. and I Phillibut to mot Or to you, dor the inf him irwll advantage, hahad trans-I matter of that? Nothing at all, of {m rod, with one stroke Os his pen. into I course. Whereas your daughter-. a... paruwr. without in any "yr al-l which i. it to be, 11atiidart-Weli. wring his peition as his inferior 01-13110 is Four daughter-and my nephew hair -rnruter too, of his clerks and his; --well, he is my nephew-and blood is unvnnin. of his dependents, of every thicker than water-and all the rest kind Ind degree, and tic.sst, if“ not of the twaddle, Halliday, my good fel- and. he was master oi his wity And low." And Mr. Dane slapped his hand wt. ouric-uqu enough, it wad "l, the l upon his knee. and laughed heartily-- VFW of Mrs. Dane that orTotrit.iorl laugh in which satire and amuse- !wl [not that proud tsru.l dominetruW, mom, good nature and dovxlry. were “writ in the must obstinate and al'-It~.unningly intermingled. :1 waited torm._ . . - _..., -." “i Mr. Halliday sipped at hie port with 03mm IV. “Fill up your glam. Hulliday. You Can't get '47 port every dar, you know. and than Rant much ot it left now 10:. old bin. Fill up your clan. and t we. can talk over this matter A low-swung shaded I abated radiance over I an. in the dining room Wt hume- in Crumm who decanters. of until} oatortatsir." w manuals. v. -_...._- __ 7 Mood on Lho table. and some old chins m tilled Wllh nuts and winter (ruin. The” was a glitter of silver, Old of Colored Venetian timrerr-bowiat whilst a few rare hot-house flowers. orchid» "nd ourharis lilies in a silver bowl, In the centre of the snowy cloth, that was oi an exceeding tinenean, ”plated the perfect decorations of tho unmll table. A chair. ml! push- " urn " one side. denoted she ro- Mr. Inna, had married " wire, not as vmlmary [non marry, and from ordi- mu-y motives. He had not fallen in love mu. the lady as ordinary mortals are man to do; neithtr had he nought .her Dune. in 11 lot me hen t old m4 £103; , w to bowl! m, to allo to r. i Lawn cwion' t ndod lamp tttrxrw . over a small round ' room of one of the Cromwoll Road. The t antiques ou.t. 'rye, "tir-she was ikr troy- woaulthy; our “89m his bride fret any as a third partner? Phillibnt bu fpuri sons," added the great man mediu- tively. with tb suddenly tolling voice,‘ and then he was very silent. tappingl against his (ingot bowl with his M...) mond-ehaped finger-Mil. "It seems tome.Mr.Dane," here and the juinor partner. with a covert glance at the fixed and dreamy facet "that there is one element which you; have left oat of consideration. I may he mistaken, of eotusr--" and here he filled up his wine glen with the '4'9 port, making a distinct pause " he did mr-"and in any case." he continu- ed, with a. certain timiditr--reat or ftitrneti--"r, of course. have not any l right to open the aubject." I "Speak up, Iiailiday. Speak up t" i "Well. sir"-oometimea, Irom force of Hons hahit. Mr. Halliday called his irhiet "Sir" tstill--"" I might remind "oe---thtrss is Mr. Geoffrey." "Geoffrey? Mr nephew, rot' mean t" . "Yea, Mr. Dane." ’ "Pooh! What do I know abogt my nephew? He has not on a stool to my ortiex, for two years because my broth- or, a parson, and an improvident won. as all pnrsons are. asked lye .to tr','"? him uborth. I gave him a stool and I salary. I know nothing about him - what are his napacitias for business? How can I tell what he is made of t" He spoke with a certain angry impati- ence. as though the subject had been mawnud out in his own mind before. "d I might make so bold as to say. Mr. Dane, Mr. Geoffrey not only bears Four name, but he IS a highly promis- ms young man. one that either you or I wpuld be glad, indeed, to own " -C.iiif" Dane laughed shortly, with a little offence. "You, my good friend! Oh, Ter, 1_dnretarl You have daugh- "Two daughters. Mr Dane. toveW girls, well brought up, we1i-edueaty1.. well-m mnered young women, with whom no one need he ashaqu to be connected." And Mr. Hallway et- tled his chin into his collar with It lit- tle conscious pride. . Matthew Dane gave him a swift and audien glance, sharp as a needle, out; of those keen, hawk-like eyes. Nothing ever escaped him, no shade of signifi- cance, however remote, was lost upon his ever-ready comprehension. He was master oi the minds of men. "Ohol do that's your idea, Joe IIallidar-that my nephew should marry one of your girls, and that I should take the young couple into partnership?" l --woll, he is my nephew-tsad blood la thicker than water-and all the rest of the twuddle. llalliday, u'y good ter. low." And Mr. Dane slapped his hand [upon his knee, and laughed heartily-- ‘a. laugh in which satire and amuse- _rnertt, good nature and devxlry, were .cunuingly intermingled. l Mr. Halliday sipped at his port with "l. {are of resignation. and looked in- l tenxelv uncomfortable. He never qutw knew whether the great man gwaa in Jetrt or in earnest. I "Your nephew, Mr. Iyamy---" he be- ggan, tentatively, after a short silence, ' during which his superior cracked cub- 'nvts and sipped hie port contempla- l, tively. i "Ah! Never mind my nephew, my :doar friend, let us leave him alone. I ' can do a: I choose with him, of cqqrse; "I give you my word, Blr--no such thought-nottfrmr Bo pretsymptu9us-or if. indeed, a. transient idea did pass through-"the trembling junior part- ner hastened do cry, with eontu.ssipy “I"! unsvcuuu uU L31" "um- b'Var.'.r-r.r"m"-"" Mr. Dune laughed. "My good tel.. low. dor't apologize. It's a. very nn- tural idea. Human nature, my dear Halliday, is tho same. all the world over. ‘(fhacun pour wil‘ as our dear neighbors say. Why should you not have dreamt your little day-dream? After all, it's as good as mine. Whug'a I can make him. or I can break him," he added, with a little chuckle. as though the prospect of thus destroy- ing his brwher's son had attractions for him. Cast bien entcndu. n'etrt-ee pas. as partner 'J'richat would tsay---" The mythical "Trictwt" often fitrted as a. somewhat familiar Jest. m Mr. Dana's intimate conversation, and wua usually a token that the numeral was in a good temper. Mr. Hallway, when he helm! it, took heart of grace, and laughed the usual little "Mu. In!" which he considered due to the time-honored joke. was nruully a token that the numeral i"viie"' a'iiuiGrriiteGr" door opened. was m a good temper. Geoffrey in. sitting close to it on a Mr. Holliday, when he hettrd it, took low chair tehind a tall Japanese screen heart of Kratu', and laughed the ursuBl thot sheltered the entrance to‘tho little "Ha. in!" wh'u'h he considered room. As the. door opened he heard due to the time-honored joke. Mr. Hulliday sar--"Wo might send "What I want to hear about is your i Faulkner, perhup.S to France." Fauik- daughters, IInllituy," continued Mr. i ner being the name of one of the head Dunc. "What sort of girls ore they?" |clerks. "My tleur friend, they are dear. good': Then Mr. Done answered quickly: girls, I assure you," replied his jun. l .. No, no, I don't know enough about tor, msriously-:tlmost putln-liculty. (him, we don't want a repetition of the Mr. Dane wan-d his hand impati-Hk Brefour tse.rtnda1-tragedr businesy early. "Pooh! that's not what Imeun. I no more untried clerks where money " As a matter of course. they are good. ': urncerned for me, Halliday. Ah! Geof- All young‘ women are good, till they , trey, how d'ye dot Helping your aunt are tried," added tho old Cyntc. with l with her wool work, eh i" a sneer. 'fh'hat is not what I want toi Bctt for once Geoffrey had no re- know: Are they clever! Are they pane-o ready. The name of De Brefour beautiful ' . Are. they he.itrr m ty?d.r, I hid struck upon hisoars with a strange and clear Ln mind? What are their _ intensity. swiftly there noshed before e.haratttrs. and what are the dutints his mental vision, the long, low room, Hons between them t" 7_ twarm-curtained and book-lied,.. the "You ask a great many questions, but I will endeavour to satisfy them." And Mr. Halliday crossed one leg over the other. and folded his hands to.. gether upon his knee. Mr. Dane look- ed at him keenly and sharply. . It wan, perhaps, not an easy thing to ar-thas to define the physical and mental pecularities of his children. Butt Joseph Halliday held in his hand the key to the situation. He was not a. great man, like his senior, but he was a very shrewd one-he knew. ex- actly why Mr. Dane wanted to know all about his girls. and their natures. just as plainly as though be had heard him say: "Which of the two In the most suitable for my purpose-which can I easiest mould and govern. .0 that, in the event of her becoming my nephew's wife, I can still rule both him and her t" _ - _ -ir, 1:831, to work to answer him diplomatically and cautiously, tor, " ter all, it was upon Geoffrey, and not Mr nephew, rtm tinny rest. . "My two “when ore both, I thunk God. in very good health. both are tell , iam1 comely-looking. they have brownI hair. end nice complexion- As toI ithelr characters, Angel, the eldest. _', retiring nature. whilst her sister Dul-1 1 who is twenty-two, in of a gentle and» I ole. although equally treetsble. is. nay-I ‘ertheleu. rather more impetuoue inl 1,iiiiiiiiiii"tiln, and impulsive in iiiiiiii,') I "Hum-Missa Angel is * tool; I sup- l pose." muttered old Done. I " "Not at tur-not st all." replied ML; lellidny, considerably nettled by the. " remark. “Angel is by no means dar-l, '.i, fluent in talent and character; all l, I I mount to imply was that she is less. " easily carried any by her teelingsI t than Dulcie." I . "What in the name of fortune, my . good fellow." here broke in old Dane, E laughing, "induced you to give such ”sugary names to your girls t' 'Angel.‘ ll, 'Dalek,' who ever heard of so much r scraphic sweetness in one family! If H Miss Angel were a little fiend. and I Miss Dulcie as hard as the nether mill... r, stone, you could scarcely blame Provi- rf deuce. after provoking the notice of ri the gods in so preverse a fashion." I "A fancy of my poor dear wife's. w.. ' Dane, that was all." And Mr. Batl"b. A. b day sighed, as a. widower may be sup- ; posed to sigh, even after fifty years of f liberty. mjis uncle. that the incision would “it’s Mr. Geoffrey, Mr, who is ttil stairs in the drawing-room with Mrs. Dane." I "Ah, we are just coming up. How} long has Mr. Geoffrey been here t" _ "A quarter of an hour, sir. Mrs. ‘Dane wished me to let you know." "And at the auspicious hour, The auspicious swain arrives," quoted the old man gaily, with a a], [smile as he rose from the table, but IJoseph Halliday knew the man too 1well to he led away by this apparent 1geniality. Mr. Dane never committed Fhiumelf, and he was as uncertain as ever as to the ultimate success of the 'rntrtrimonial scheme which he had ‘dared to suggest to him, and upon I which hung 30 many ambitious dreams [and hopes. "l'hu ground had been (brokttn--tlrut was all. . "Well, my friend, I must see these young ladies myself. Why do you keep them moped up in the country! Have them up to town, and bring them to see me. What is it, Barnes?" for the soft-footed butler had opened the door. Meanwhile, upstairs, Geoffery sat by his aunt's sofa, patiently holding a skein of white wool on his outstretch- ed hands. while she slowly unravelled and wound up its many tangles. Long disappointment, and God knows how much of private suffering and humil- ialion, had broken down this poorludy until she was now but the faint sha- dow of the radiant girl who had gone forth fifteen years ago trom her hap- py, if "oenewttut ponurious home, to unite her fore with the elderly mil- lionaire who had some a-wooing to the overcrowded house. Then she had Lem full of hope and life and energy, determined to make her husmml happy, and to be a good wife to him; soon. very soon. she learnt that she had no influence over his “go, and ,ii'Giiiririi iiiidG/him, save in this Only fashiun in which she was unable to gratify hit ambition and his wishes. .. """""ar _.V. ___ -___ -- "Any washerwoumn can have tmb- ies," she would bay to herself in the bitterness of her soul. " There is hard- ly a poor wonmn in the streets who would not be more precious to him than 1 am, Just for that one thing of which lam incapable, and, for fail- ing in that, I “in as nothing to him." Aug In Iu.u, 1 nu.- (w ”nun", -- ---. For in her fashion, she had loved him once. weekly and submissively, in ac- cordance with her marriage vows; but now that all delusion was at an end, and that she realized to the full of her own position with him, the love had perished, and only the misery and the disappointment remained .to, her. She was frightened of him, too; sci-nus of violeawe ond angry reproach- es had broken her spirit, whilst con- stant fretting over the unalterolts had undermined her health and ruined her nerves. A poor wank creature, feeble in mind. yet clinging with n pimous affection to those who were kind to her, that was what Mrs. Matthew Dane was nnw, after fifteen years of married life. She was fond of Geoffrey, for be was always gentle and tender in her, yet she bud reason to believe that her husband regarded her friendship with him with suspicion and displeasure. I But for once Geoffrey had no re- partm ready. The name of De Brefour had struck upon his ears with" a strange intensity. Swiflly there flashed before his mental vision. the long, low room, _waran-e,urtaiaed and book-lined, the shaded lamp, the flickering tirelight, hand the " Lady Hamilton" of his ; dreams, who had granted him that one iinterview. now more than six weeks (vatro-bts'y1tiful Rose De. Brefmit!A L “hen gh; héard {be sound hf the gen- tlemott's voices on the staircase, she pushed her armchair further away from him " Don't he tnlkirut to me, Geoff," she mid nervously; "he will think we have been plotting something.“ "My dear mun. surely that must be fancy." . "Oh. you don't know him as T do. Ho must be musier evorywhere,'even Ova." people's ihousrhtr", " '_""""'"""' -‘v... y, -e-- l By what strange chance had her name, held sacred within the innermost ,recesses of his soul. come to be men- _ tinned again to him, and upon the lips of his uncle! ,and why were words of Juan dire import as scandal and tre- [ My named with it in the same breath? , The next moment. he was smiling at himself for his folly. It was. of course. but e mere coincidence of similerity of narmr--it could be nothing more. 3 And yet the coincidence was c singu- j lar one. ': i To Be Continued. atTiCtiiriiai the people awed in getting there who think they ought There wouldn’t ttts hull quench toga! irre- Nehe- to gate-er-Mr"" DIN.) l ”no Men Prue-ted u Gleason! n (Be-none" In Irma Were-rho l late“ mue-uumavm Trophy.‘ T The London Daily Telegraph an: 391: Herbert Kitchener, to be known| Ihenoetort‘h as Lord Khartoum. will be {presented with the sword of Honor on} , the 4th at next month. This is one of Hum many reoccnitionn which the Sir I dar will receive for his memorable con- ".duct of the campaign which restores , I to Egypt. under English guidance. con- 'ee, of tho comma of the Niles. What ',it century in the life of Egypt in that I now closing! It is just 100 years i/iii': the Corporation bestowed upon _ Admiral Neuon--not then raised to the t I Peerage--" Sword of Honor for his aer- [ e':',',' at the mouths of the some great . river. BllIillBIlfll LONDON nououns run: amass or - GREAT BRITAIN. Generally highly distinguished mili-! tery men are presented with swords uni donating the arm of the Service to which they belong, and great navel commander. receive, like them, the Freedom of the City and the additional gift of a. box enclosing it, this casket being made of British Heart of Oak with gold fittings. Sometimes. how- ovtt.eswords have been given to men who have won their renown upon the The Corporation were never stintea in their admiration of the man who won Trafalgar. They gave him the Freedom of the City in a gold box in 1797. There was more than a mere sense of fitnetrt, in his recognition of the favour. In the following year he forwarded to them the sword of Blan- quet, the only French Admiral who survived th edisastrous Battle of Ab- oukir Bay, with a letter, in these terms: Vanguard, Mouth of the Nile, August 8th. 1798. [ My Lord-rItwintit the honor of beian a, Freeman of the City of London, I take the liberty of sending to your lordship the sword of the commanding 1French Admiral. Monsieur Blauquet, {who survived, after the Battle of the lFirst., off the Nile, and request that the City of London will honor me by 1 the acceptance of it, as a remembrance ithat Britannia still rules the waves; :whioh that she may for ever is the ‘fervent wish of your lordship'e most obedient servant, HORATIO NELSON. Right Honorable Lord Mayor of Lon- don. The weapon, which, along with the letter, is preserved in the Guildhall, was made during the Empire, and bore thewords: "LeLiberte, Ln Loi et le--" "Hoi" was not quite to the taste of the time, and had been entirely effec- ed, having been barred over with I hammer. , Nelson's Intimate friend, who was with him at his death, Captain Hardy, was not forgotten by the Corporation. who, on January an. 1800, bestowed up- on him tho sword for his gallant be- haviour on board the flagship, the Via. tory, on October 21. 1805. But Hardy is remembered better in connection with the death of hischiet than for his own undoubted vulour. It was always, as Southey says, Lord Nelson's desire that the British fleet should be distinguished. by humanity in the victory he expected at Trafal- War. He set an example himself, giv- ins orders to cease “1138 upon the} French ship Redoubtuble. believing aa' she did not return his tire, that she had struck. It was upon this ship the man was standing who mentally wounded him. As Nelson fell he said, "They have done for me at last, Har- dy." "I hope not," replied the young captain. "Yen my backbone is shot through," continued the Admiral, and he covered his face and breast with his handkerchief, so that the crew would not see who was being carried away. "You can do nothing for me.m he said-"to the surgeon, and insisted that others of whom there was hope should be attended to. His lust words were. "Thank God, I have done my dutr" _ I ca _ NELSON'S FRIEND. HE niilil 1ity at Burma. and the diplomntlc or- T ' m which had allowed J unot to regain tu-. “no- -lnf ha hnd [out on the were never atinted wuwu WuVIuw-vv.a v__.,,, superior ceneralship of Wellesley. Ao- eordingly. in 1809, when Napoleon burst into Spain. the national enthusiasm de- manded that Sir Arthur Welleeley should be given sole command of the war. There is no need to recall the series at brilliant Victorian which. from this point, marked the course of lthe Peninsular War. In November, 1818, Wellesley descended into France - ‘ , - --»----a fet G" t'iGii"irariiurtrd [out can. fierid. An inquiry took place It home which oonetussivtslr. dtmjiestt,te the pursuing hia conquering course to Toulouse, from which, a ter some de- sperate fighting. Soult was driven. With this engagement, the Peninsular campaign may be said to he" ended. and in 1814, after an absence of five years. the great oommmder. now the Duke of Wellington, Itnded in Eng- land. where his reception was unpre- oedentedly brilliant. Three years!»- tore the Corporation resolved to pre- sent the Iron Duke with . sword, end the ceremony took place on July a, 1814, under the most impressive cir- cnmstanoea, and with the almost pu- smnate concurrence of the nation. " From his earliest years the Duke af Cambridge has stood high in the - teem of the City of which he was med. we“ UL Lu- "'"' v; wu.v_ --- .. - . a Freeman in 1814. On the would! of his mturn from the Crimea Eh Royal Highness was presented, In 1857. with a sword as a testimony to hi: coldiorly qualities General William, whose name le'eo well remembered in connection with the terrible siege of Ken, received e word with the approval of the whole country. At first it was decided to give him the Freedom in e gold box. but " his heroic courage under priva- tion and suffering became known the Court of Common Council resolved to preeent the sword in recognition, of this quality as well u of his velour. lt will be remembered that in 'ssptern-s ber, 1855, the Russians were defeated at Kare, Colonel Williams reporting that after a stubborn combat of sev- en hours they left on the field over 5,000 dead. Notwithstanding thie bloody repulse, they still clung to the blockade with extreme obstineoy, and continued to invest Kare on all sides. in the hope of compelling the garrison to surrender. Well might the Cor- poration eympethize with Colonel, at- terwarde Major-General Sir W. F. Williams. Our troops suffered fear- fully after the engagement from their meagre diet of bread and water, and Dr. Sandwith wrote in the following month: "They are no longer stout and hardy men who fought for eeven hours against overwhelming odds, and drove} back a magnitieent Russian urmy. The newly-opened hospitals are filling daily with men whose only disease is exhaustion from want of nutrimout, The grass is torn up in all the open apnea and the roots eaten by the sol- diers and people," But no privatiorf could subdue the spirit of our men. land in honoring s11ujor-Genvra) Wil- liams the City showed what it thought ll! his and their high courage and pub- riotistn. Upon Baron Clyde, better known as Sir Colin Campbell. was conferred a similar honor, in Ig58, "for his distin- guiahed service in India, particularly for hia decisive operations at Luek- now." "The Bayard of the Indian Army." Sir James ()utrum, received, in the same year, the Freedom of My: City and a Fword of Honor, "in besti- - ‘ . . . -- ,V~_)._..-J My, ...... - - _._e_-' ___ -- . mony of the rignal services rendered by him in suppressing the mutiny and rebellion in the East Indies, und in ad- miration of his high personal and publu: charaoier, exemplified through _ . . " .... _ ___.., .., ll... i'iiiiil 1:80; "oiiniiiidr", service in the East, as a brave, akilful, and patrio- ties soldier." To Lord Nupler at Magdala this civic reward of valour was offend for his rescue of a number of Europeans held prisoners by King Theodore. The capture of Magdula was distinguished) by a very spirited attack upon the fortress. the lending men of the' 88rd scaling a. rock and turning the defenc- es at one of the gates, thus allowing the troops to enter. The King, find- ing all was lost, committed suiéiie. LATEST RMIPIENTS. But time would fail to tell of all those who subdued kings and wrought national righteoutnea.. Besides. the later ivavsrertr-all but one-ot the hon- orable trophies are still serving the nation. Lord 1yhleeltr, who, in le, ll‘lulvu- JII'I“ ""'""'-'"qFF _ _ - as Sir Garnet \Volseley commanded the expedition to the Gold Coast, ob. tained the prized distinction for “bringing about results conducive to peace. ctauuiertte, and civilization on the Continent of Africa." Six years later Lord Roberts; at that time Ma- .jor-Greneral Sir Frederick l, mamas. .ll'lerlAK In. . .. _ -v_V_ -- - V. C., was made. a Freeman of the City and presented with a sword in recog- nition of his gallant service: in Af- ghanistan, where heao wellund nobly uphold the.prestitrts and reputrtion of the British' Army. The late Admiral Lord Alt-eater. who bombarded the forts of Alexandria. was the [at reci- pient of 11 Sword of Honor from the Corporation, who are never slow? to re- cognize the "Wisdom, Duty, Honor." which animate the men who serve our may Remaining $ktrttee Bell-I - or} ttgr Funnier. ( There now remains only one people and one little valley south ot the Equsp tor whose severeigmy has not been claimed by somn European power. It is the Valley of Emotive. fifty or sixty miles wide, north of Lialui, in South Africa. And the only reason why the Marotas, who inhabit it, have pre- served their independence isthat Eng- land end Portugal both claim it,snd therefore the work of "eivitimstion" is It s standstill. It may notbeso easy to conquer the Karena whenthetlme comes. for they are s tell. well-set-up race. very black in skin In manners they are courteous and in bearing dignified. Every full- blooded Murmse is by birthright a chief, sad takes his pruse in the aristocracy ot the empire. The bare {not that he is sMorotse in'ures the respect of the subservient tribes. and as he grows to murthoo,l n ara/ot super.ority usually implants in tin native the diuni‘y of 'wiLLums or mas. THE EMPIRE 0F BAROTSE. INDIAN MVTINY MAG DALA. lulu - of to mu m m - The - "I of All Glam. Mere. ' I never told you the exact height of the great qitutt--what't' the an I" and the old circus man. You would not believe It it I did: " I've said be- for it would only make yo, diulzelievo whut I do tell you about him, not! whit}: the use: But you can tum some nort of an idea about it it trom than thing- that I’ve told you and from what I'm going to tell you now than: his death and buriul but“. in the course of time he died. "We “to under oanvu then, show- jng than timb- t day, and moving our- Iolven. and m were mlerable busy, and we really hadn't than ur [in such attention as we ought to the burying of what had been, afar the great WMU. our very greatest attraction. The digging of a, grave tor him would heve been like digging the foundation eeverel home In a row end would have teken late of time, and the more cost of the lend would be considerable. "Well, ee usual. the old man's hone eenee came to the rescue. In looking around for forage when we etruck the town he had discovered the bed of an cbcnronod menu: therd Itoqqed un- inl When the rnulroad wee built. This ‘old eenel ren thtough the edge of e men’e term these, end the lend me no use to enybody. It didn't pay to plough it because it wasn't worth the time end trouble it would take to get horeee end ploughe up and down the bank; end it wasn‘t any good for any- thing;und the old man bought edrip at that land along there, e few ecree OUR. enough for a cemetery lot for the giant, Cor next to nothing. So you 'Myer there we were, with the land bought and the grave dug at very smell ex- perpf, ap.iprystielr PtEP,uLtu,. W-.. - ,....-_-_ -- __ “We laid the giant down in the eno- tion of the ennui “a had bought and hauled earth trout the root of the piece to cover him-the old nun was wise enough of course to buy [and enough to provide tor that. When the mound " as rounded up in proper sh me and due proportions it made quite a ridge; it was a flat country around there, and you could see this ridge for quite a piece. "Ot courae the old man put up a headstone, and it was much the hip, gost headstone I ever saw, and quite different, from any I ever saw-it w'tn built. of brick. The old man hired all 1119 men that could work on it, and they (put in a foundation and hui't the headstone in trait, a day. It wat, mum- thing like the side wall of .1 brick house for general dimensions, only it wa- very much thicker and tornbstotte.liket in shape, and tf a little distance in that level count ry the ridge with the great. intone at one end of it looked like. what. it won, the grave ok I mighty giant. "And no we left him smure in mean- nry as we thought with the inscriptm.. we had put. on the ttoaduones,hut a great storm came Up before the mortar had set and blew the hoodlum.» down, and there. it lay simply a scanning pile of mid. But the mound remained,na it still does; I saw it there only a your ago'Iwhen I. aired through that coun. try. But with nothing to mark imam“ knowledge of it gradually faded, and even tradition had Crown indistim-t, and, the great mound had come finally to " known simply as tho giant'ts hill. Seven 'tr-em u" for Twenty-chm DC." on Three Mel and Mn weed. Captain George C. lienner. of the wrecked schooner. Jennie P. Willey, from Jacksonville to Martinique, and his crew of six men who were landed at Quarantine, New York, on Sunday. by the nteruner Saratoge buttered greatly from hunger before manned. Their veeeel run into e hurricane on September so. It we: not long before she was n wreck. Her mute went overboard end her deck load we. drift- ing in all direction. When the storm subsided it wee found that the need was completely wear-logged end there wan no apparent chance of rescue. The water nuke had been waahed away and there wee nothing to out. The pangs of hunger roan struck them. They took the pin out of their cloth- ing and nude hooks of them. They ecc- cured a line by revelling a. piece ot mil cloth, end after two deys' fishing they unused to hook email fish. Thin the Ceptein ordered out up into equal perte and each man received en equal ehnre. The fish wee devoured at once. For eleven deye. .the Cap- tain declerel they were without food of any kind or a drop of writer to drink. -- _ TOLD BY Till HIGHS ILI. "The agony thet we eutfere¢" he continued. "none can ever know un- ion he has ind e similar experience. For eleven hours I sat in a drizzling ruin with my rubber coat spread out on my up trying to collect water enough to satiety the awful thirst that seemed to commune me. My lipu wore cracked end packed. and the blood wan running hour the cracks and trickling down my chin. I thought that my arms and legs would be pure- lyzed from keeping them in one posi- tion no long, and yet-l waited for the rain to tilt the receptacle in my lap. ed. and dey after day. whenever e sprinkle would come, we used the rub. bar coat to ouch whet water we could. and the little we unght by that new kept us from perishing." . "Atter the rain 1 had collected but. two tableapoonfuls. _'Ihtrt vyu divid- For twemy-three days the ”ml drifted lifeless, her men growing weaker end more disheartened as the days wore on. Two small sharks were washed on board and eagerly devoured, and that meagre supply gone. the men were reduced to eating seeweed. And then at [at the veaeel was wash- ed on a reed end a Spenieh timing whooner took off the half perished crew. The neck was med then end the 021:" were our!) dead from - t . WRECKED AND STARVINU. ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO I [ii LT, E37 it?