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His cab drove off, and Wolfenden was left alone. He was a little surâ€" prised, but on the whole he was glad. ‘"Those fellows must be very hard gih" he said to himsel{ softly. "I ever knew Densham surly before. g;;n: may go home, Dawson," he called t to his coachman, "I shall walk!" Wolfender started on his way homeâ€" ward, filled with a curious sense of baving added richly to his stock of t;ger‘mnem When he got out on Embankment the rain had ceased hoad the stars were shining. *Yes! there was no doubt about it. Heo had obtained what, to his somewhat epicurean turn of mind. was a disâ€" tinet and aubtle luxury. He had acâ€" quired a pew sensation. As he had m It with regard to Harcutt and wham, bhe was hard hitâ€"hit very bard, indecd. For the first time he feit even the memory of a woman thrilling. BHe had drawn color into a life which was on the oeve of beâ€" u.w Bawaltodalo‘:s with yant steps and an unwon mthun‘-. The world isn‘t such a bad place when you feel Nko that ! Ts we Buddenly came an a!l Wtop Hs noaver quite knew what E stinct it was whichâ€"led him to Jlook a more than ordinary curiosity the face of the man who, with club, smoked a final cigar, and inâ€" dulged in the inevitable whiskey and apoilinarig. Harcutt would have talked scandal and told them stories, Densham would have lapsed into the latest art gossip, and Wolfenden would have supplied the general conversaâ€" tion. . Toâ€"night not one af them proâ€" posed any such thing. Curiously enough alil three of them exhibited a desire to be alone. They stood toâ€" gether a little awkwardly for a moâ€" ment or two, induiging _ in general or _ somewhat _ strained remarks as to the strange thing which had happened. Then Harcutt muttered something about an engagement, some professlional work which must appear in the morning paper, and after a litâ€" tie hallâ€"apologetic and wholly unnecesâ€" amry grumbling as to the exigancies of the journalistic profession, .tm lnto his night cab, ana with a g byo certainly less hearty than usual, drove off. Densham hailed a stray hanâ€" som, and departed also after a fareâ€" vgl_l_ epeech, which was almost spiteful. Woilenden laughed without repiying. He was thinking that his luck, If luck it was, had seldom so opportunely beâ€" friended him. ‘"Remember, though," Densham addâ€" od, leaning over the apron of the cab, "It is not always the man who wins the first trick who scores the game." He stepped into the carriage with a farewell bow, and it drove off at prnce. Wolfenden remained looking afâ€" z It with his hat in his hand. From embankment below came the faint sound of hurrying footsteps. CHAPTER III. The Warning of Felix. The coupe brougham, with its flashâ€" Ing lights and noiseless wheels, turnâ€" ed the cormer and disappeared. The three young men remained standing togother upon the pavement until it was out of sight. As a rule after such a meeting and supper togethâ€" er, they would have adjourned to the "I am exceedingly obliged to g:n. sir. Lord Wolfenden, I beâ€" ve?" he added, raising his hat. "But fer your intervention the matter might really have been serious. Perâ€" mit me to offer you my card. I trust that aome day I may have a better opportunity of expressing my thanks. At present you will excuse me if I bhurry. I am not of your nation, but I share an antipathy with themâ€"I hate a row!" .. "You always were a lucky beast Woifenden !" he exclaimed. man who had made the attack sprans across the roadway, and into the garâ€" dens which fringed the Embankment. The commissionaire and a loiterer folâ€" loweaed bim. Just then Wolfenden felt a soft touch on his shoulder. The girl had opened the carriage door, and was stainding at his sida. "Is anyone hurt ?" she asked quickly. No one," he answered. "It is all over. The man has ron away." Mr. Sabin stooped down and brushed away some grey ash from the frout of his cont. Then he took a matchâ€"box from hiw ticketâ€"pocket, and reâ€"lit the olgarette which had been crumpled in his fMagers His hand was perfectly @teady. The whole affair had scarcely taken thirty seconds. "It was probably some remarked. motioning to resame her place in th Wolfendan followed close pehind. The feeling which prompied him to do so was a curious one, but it seemâ€" ed to him afterward that he had even at that time a conviction that something unusual was about to hapâ€" pen. The girl stepped lightly across the carpeted way and entered the carriage. Her companion paused in the doorway to hand some silyer to tho commissionaire, then he, too, ‘leaning upon his stick, stepped across tho pavement. His foot was already upor the carriage step, when sudâ€" dflllll what â€" Wolfenden lmded beet: vaguely anticipat bhappened. _4 dark figure mgmf‘rom out of the hwdows, and seited him by the throut ; something that glittered like a streak of silver in the electric light flashed upwards. The blow wold certainly have fallen, but for Wolfenden. He was the only person aot wholly unprepared for something of that sort, and he was consequentâ€" iy not paralyzed into inaction as were the others. He was so near, too, that a single step forward enabled bhim to seite the upilfted arm in a g:poflron.'l‘homa.n who â€" had attacked was the next to re cover himself. Raising his stick he struck at his assailant vioâ€" bantly. The bilow missed his bead, _ but _ grazed his _ temple and fell upon his shoulder. The man, released from Wolfenden‘s grasp by his convulsive start, went staggering back into the roadway. There was a rush then to secure him, it it was too late Wolfenden, half expecting another attack, had not moved from the carriage door, and the commissionalre, though a powerful man, was not swift. Like a cat the lunatic," the girl e carrla he to handle. It looked like a green opal in the electric light." The young man assented gloomily. "Yes! It was the stick with which he struck me. It was given him by an Indian fakir, and he would not part with it for its weight in gold. They say that so long as he carries it he is secure Who is he ?" "That I shall not tell you! "The lady, then ?" "That I do not know ! She is his companion for the time. That is quite sufficient for me !" Wolfenden was silent for a moment or two. "You are not disposed to be commuâ€" nicative, 1 can see," he remarked. "I presume that I should be alluding to & delicate subject if I asked you why you made that little attempt toâ€" night ?" _ Felix smxl curiously. "There ," he said, "three _ disâ€" tinct and different reasons why I should take his life. Three, that is, so far as I personally am concerned. There are others besides me who owe him more than they can pay. I have not been his only victim, nor is it a new thing for him to stand . in peril of his life. But he bears _ a sl‘lia;n;ed existence. Did you see his c 79 Wolfenden made an effort to reâ€" cover himself. The man‘s earnestness was terrible, but his language was the language of exaggeration. It was out of keeping with the place and the times. He was probably a little mad. "You excite my curiosity," Wolfenâ€" den said, with a faint smile. "Let me ask you to tell me more about him. "If you are a Christian," Felix said solemnly, "I would say to you, down on your knees there upon tfi stone pavement and pray to your God that you may never see him again. Never yet has lived a man or a womaneither who has not been the worse for knowing lum. He is like a reptile that creeps about, carâ€" rying with it poison for friend and foe alike." *‘*What I did," he said, almost apoloâ€" getically, "I was forced to do. I should have done it for any man with equal readiness! As it happens, that man and I are strangers. I have never seen him before in my life. I may," he added more slowly, "I may never see him again." will live to regret it." * Wolfenden was silent. Was that a chill breeze which had sprung _ up from the riverside, floating along amidst the grey mists which rode on the bosom of the dark, still waters? He was suddenly cold. The blood had ceased to travel so pleasantly through his veins. The earth was very solid again beneath his fTeet. He was no â€"longer lightâ€"hearted ; _ on the contrary, he was vaguely _ disâ€" turbed. The man by his side was degply. passlonately in earnest. in the tim who has : it will be to regret night ! Yo wish nase! his hands, and the seat solem "You are a 14 his life," he phasis. "Listen young man. and there mary who have desired But never yet has anyo from peril, or stretched ln.thg time of danger a Felix raised his eyebrows. His face sakl as plainly as possibleâ€" ‘"What the devil has that got to do with you ?" Wolfenden understocd. "O(f course," he said, " it is not my business exactly, and yet you must admit that I am concerned in it. You were my guest when the man came into the restaurant. If it had not been for my asking you there, you see, you might never have met him. Then, too, if it had not been for me, our friend there would have been a dead man. and youâ€"well, it sounds uk@ly. but you would doubt: quite nim wiil **Well, I don‘t know that it‘s any business of mine," he said. "The man whom you went for diin‘t seem to care, so I don‘t see why I shou}d. How did you manage to escape?" he added, curiously. Felix laughedâ€"a dry, bitter, little laugh. "Because I did not care whether 1 was taken or not, I suppose," he anâ€" awered. "I hid behind some shrubs in the garden yonder, and jlet them go blundering by me. Afterwards I blundering by me. _ Afterwards I came out and sat here." _"And what are you going to do less ‘bave been a murderer|! now Woilfenden _ hesitated. Then he sat down on the seat by the side of the man who had glared at him so flercely. To keep a yvow.‘" the man on the seat replied in a low tone. "I faile® as I seem doomed to fall whenever I lift my hand against him! Why do you not summon a policeman? I am :uannhg. I shall not run away this e," a soft cap pulled down almost over his eyes, sat in a corner of the seat which he was passing. Perbaps it was the good natu:* with which he was brimming ove«, and which would bhave led him to listen just then with amazing generosity to any of _ the common street tales of trouble or distress. â€" But after that first curâ€" wory glance he knew at once whom he bhad found. The opera hat had been thrown away, and other deâ€" tails of his dress were changed, but as to the man himsel{, Wolfenden never had any doubt. He knew at once that he was recâ€" ognized, and sat up, a bright, red mark _ across . his tempies, _ his eyes wild, his lip «rembling, They looked at one another steadâ€" lly. It sllence to ask out to ed. "What th trying to do ? Wolfenden nodded. _ â€" ‘"Yes, I saw that he had a stick. here was a curious jewel set in the Wollendemw shrugged hi "Thank you," he said Well, you ask out Cile stoppe« was Wolfenden who broke the n Before heavyen, I say you 0 regret it." n was silent. Was that a a lool, because you saved be said, with slow emâ€" sten!" He is no longer a . and there have been have desired to kill him. yet has anyone saved him or stretched out to â€" him of danger a helping hand, with you what you â€" will live mately. t which had sprung up riverside, floating along grey mists which rode on re a nice sort of fellow to supper!" he remarkâ€" the mischiel were you bitterly again® any attack." him. He spread out struck the back of Iy. it had not been there would have and youâ€"well, it you would doubt: repented it. So ! You will live _ have done toâ€" to wish, and iat you had let iven, I say you s shoulders. +. ***I ‘dor‘t it‘s any ‘The man seem . to shou}d. pe ?" he be able to gather some idea as to the status and social position of Mr. Sabin and his companion. Both were perhaps a little surprised when the brougham, which had been makâ€" ing its way into the heart of fashionâ€" able London, turned into Belgrave Square, and pulled up before a great, porticoed house, brilliantly lit, and with a crimson drugget and covered way stretched out across the paveâ€" ment. Harcutt eprang out first, just in time to see the two pass through the open doorway, the man leaning heavily upon his stick, the girl, with her daintily gloved fingers just restâ€" ing upon his coatâ€"sleeve, walking with that uncommon and graceful selt-lg- session which had so attracted * sham during her passage through the supperâ€"room at the "Milan‘"‘ a short while ago. _He turned abruptly round. Denâ€" sham was standing upon the paveâ€" ment by his side. "I might return the question, I suppose," he remarked. " We both followed the young lady and her imâ€" aginary papa! We were both anxâ€" ious to find out where they livedâ€"and we are both sold !" _‘"Very badly sold," Harcutt asdmitâ€" ted. "What do you ;mzon pose to do now? We can‘t walit outside here for an hour or two !" "Great Scott!"‘ he exclaimed tes tily. "What are you doing here?" Harcutt looked at them, watching them disappear with a frown upon his forehead. ‘"kather a sell, isn‘t it?" said a quiet voice in his ear. Densham threw away his cigarette and laughed. At the Russian Ambassador‘s. The brougham containing the man who had figured in the ‘"Milan" table list as Mr. Sabin, and his companion, turned into the Strand and proceeded westwards. Close behind it came Harâ€" cutt‘s private cabâ€"only a few yards away followed Densham‘s hansom. The procession continued in the same order, skirting Trafalgar Square and along Pall Mall. t Each in a different manner, the three men were perhaps equally interâ€" ested in these people, Geoffry Dens‘am was attracted as an artist by the exâ€" treme and rare beauty of the girl. Wol{fenden‘s interest was at once more sentimental and more personal. Harâ€" cutt‘s arose partly out of curiosity, partly from innate love of adventure. Both Densham and Harcutt were exâ€" ceedingly interested as to their probâ€" able destination. From it they would be able to gather some idea as to the _ He opened the study door, and closed it again. Selby walted for the bell, but it did not ring. « "A young lady hereâ€"at this time of night !" Wolfenden exclaimed, increduâ€" lously. "Are you mad, Selby ?" "You were not expecting her, then, my lord ?" Selby said, a little anxiousâ€" ly. ‘"She gave Johnson to understand that you were." ‘"You are a couple of ~silly fools, babies, both you and Johnson," Wolfâ€" enden exclaimed angrily. "Of course 1 was not expecting her! Haven‘t you been long enough in my service to know better than that ?" "I am exceedingly sorry, my lord," Selby said abjectly. "‘The young lady‘s appearance misled me. She is quletly dressed, my lord, and if you will perâ€" mit me to say so, 1 am sure she isâ€"she is quite a lady. There is probably some mistake :" Wolfendsh crossed the hall towards the study door. "Wait where you are until I ring, Selby," he said. "I never thought that you were such a consummate ass !" Wol{enden walked â€" swiftly â€" homeâ€" wards to his room in Hall Moon street. His servant admitted him as usual, and took his coat. "I beg your pardon, my lord," he sald, as Wolfenden was turning away, ‘"‘but were you expectingâ€"aâ€"young lady 2" s The man coughed discreetly. Wolfâ€" enden looked at him in amazement. "Aâ€"what, Selby ?" "A young lady, my lord." Wol{enden frowned. . "Of course not!" he answered. ‘"What the mischief do you mean ?" Selby proceeded to explain. "A young lady arrrved here a short time ago, my lord, and asked for you. Johnson informed her that you would be home shortly, and she decided to walt. Johnson, rather imprudently, adâ€" mitted her, andâ€"she‘s in the study, my lord *"Lord Wolfenden," he said, "you are a decent fellowâ€"remember that it is only for your good I speak ! The girlâ€"" Wolfenden shook him off. "If you allude either directly or inâ€" directly to that young lady again," he said, calmiy, "I shall throw you Into the river |" 1 Felix shrugged his shoulders. "At least remember," he said, as Wolfenden walked away, "that 1 warned you." "I wish you goodâ€"night," Wolfenden said, moving away. "I will not listen to another word." â€" Felix rose up and stood beside him. His face looked very frail and eager in the faint halfâ€"light. He laid his hand upon the other‘s arm. in doing me harm, either now or in the future. I think you said that you knew nothing of the lady ?" Felix looked at him keenly. ‘"‘The young lady," ho repeated. "No, I know nothing of her beyond the fact that she seems to te his companionâ€" for the nonce. That is quite sufficient for me !" Wolfenden rose to his feet. "‘Thanks," he said; "I only asked you for facts, As to your suggestionâ€" well, you bad better not repeat it in my presence !" Felix laughed mockingly. ‘"You are so blind and pigâ€"headed, you English people," he said. "I have told you something of the man‘s charâ€" acter. What sort of a girl, do you supâ€" pose, would be supping with him alone in a public restaurant after midâ€" night 2" "They say," Wolfenden repcated. "Who say so ?" Felix shook his head. ‘*Never mind," he said. _ "You are wiser not knowingâ€"and happier. I do not know very much about you, Lord Wolfenden," he added. "We are almost strangers, but I am going to givo you the very best advice you ever had from anyone in your life. Avoid that man as you would the pestilence. Go away before he can find you out and offer you thanks. Take a little tour on the Continent; stay away from England for a while. Stay away for ever rather than accept his fricadship or have anything to do with him." _ ‘*You must admit," Wolfenden said slowly, "that such sweeping condemâ€" nation sounds a littleâ€"well, extravaâ€" gant. _ I am an ordinary, matterâ€"o[â€" fact Englishman, leading an ordinary lif@ I am not a politician, a diplomatâ€" ist, or a gambler! I am not in the least likely to become either ol these three. This man could have no object CHAPTER TV K e Flemish is confined to the north of the country, including all Flanders; Walloon prevails in th> south, while French is the officilal and commercial language amd th> language of choice among all tho wellâ€"educated classes and is spoken throughout the country generally. Flanders, until filty years ago, had neither poet, novelist nor historian, and it was only as recently as 1887 that Hendrik Conscience began to write for the people of Flanders. He wrote well and was talented, though he wrote in the Flemish tongue, in order that the people might read, for the Dutch of Flanders had become so corrupt that the Flemings were unâ€" able to read their mother tongue, and so kad no literature for themâ€" selves. [" . Others followed in the wake of Conâ€" science, but even now the Flemings can boast of but few litterateurs of merit and can show but a very small library of Flemish works.â€"Philadelâ€" phia Press. Three languages, or rather one lanâ€" guage and two dialects, namely, French, Flemish and Walloon, are spoken in Belglum. It is said on good authority that the purest French is to be heard at Liege. _ In fact, the Fronch spoken there is far superior to that of Paris, And anyone who has resided in the two cities will recognize this fact at once., Holland has a literature Of its own. There are Dutch poets, novelists and historians, whose works have been translated into nearly every Euroâ€" pean tongue. loyful surprise Christmas day." _ . ‘"‘Oh, Henry‘! A new weal coat?" "No, Harriett ; I‘m going tochurch The ‘grammar of the Flemish lanâ€" guage is th> Dutch grammar, the dicâ€" tionary is the Dutcg dictionary, and yet the radical Flemish faction bas been clamoring in ‘the S»nate and Chamber for years to have Flemish made the officlal language of Belgium, when not oneâ€"half of the inhabitants of the country understand it. At present all laws, official rules, regulations and decrees are printed in both languages, and in court a Flemâ€" Ing can insist on being hoard in Flemish if he so desires. There is no doubt that the lanâ€" guage of. Flanders was formerly identical with the Dutch, but that after the separation of Flanders unâ€" til now the Flemings, no longer beâ€" ing accustomed to pure Dutch, wish to raise the dignity of th?ir dialect by calling it a language. Bome of th> leading authorities, among whom are prominent Flemings, declare that Flemish is nothing but a corrupt form of Dutech, a, dialect epoken lin Flanders, just as the tongu» of Yorkâ€" shire is an English dialect or any patois a corruptiqn of the language of the country where it is spoken, The theory that Flemish is a corrupâ€" tion of Dutch is consistent with the history of the country nnd its people and, above all, its literature. It cannot be agreed, even in Bel glium, whother or not Flemish is : language. â€" Belgium HMas a Cholce Between French and Flemish Languagess The question whether Flemish or French shall be the prevailing lanâ€" guage in Belgium is a matter that is regarded quite seriously thore. to him. He glanced down the vista of covered roof. A crowd of people were making their way up the broad staircase, and amongst them Denâ€" sham. After all, why not? He laughâ€" ed softly to himself and hesitated no longer. He threw away his cigarette .anfi walked boldly in. He was doing a thing for which he well knew that he deserved to be kicked. At the same time, he had made up his mind to go through with it, and he was not the man to fail through nerâ€" vyousness or want of savoir faire. (To be continued.) MAY CHOOSE THEIR TONGUE least be sure of their address. He would have gained something for his time and trouble. He lit a cigaretto and walked slowly to the cornmer of the street. Then he turned back and retraced his steps. As he nenred the crimson strip of drugget, one of the servants drew respectfully aside, as though expecting him to enter. The man‘s action was like an insplration Harcutt watched him disappear through the open door, and _ then walked a little way along the paveâ€" ment, swearing softly to himself{. His lirst idea was to wait about until they came out and then follow them again. By that means he would at "You see, Harcutt," he said, "I am bound to take an advantage over you. I only got this card by an acciâ€" dent, and I certainly 4o not know the Princess well enough to present you. I shall be compelled to leave you here. All that I can promise is, that if I discover anything interesting 1 will let you know about it toâ€" morâ€" row. Goodâ€"night.‘ *"*Pooh! We can travel together by the same road," he protested. " The time to part company has not come yet. Wolfenden ha@got a bit ahead of us toâ€"night. After all, though, you and I may pull level, if we help one another. You bhave a plan, 1 can see! What is it ?" Densham was gilent for a moment. ‘"You know whose house this is °" he asked. s Harcutt nodded. . "OI course! It‘s the Russian Am bassador‘s !" Densham drew a square card from his pocket, and held it out under the gasâ€"light. From it, it appeared that the Princess Lobenski desired _ the honor of his company at any time that evening between twelve and two. "A card for toâ€"night, by Jove!" Harcutt exclaimed. Densham nmodded and replaced it in his pocket. " Let us consider the matter toâ€" gether," he suggested, diplomatically. ‘"We ought to be able to hit upon something." Densham shook hig. head doubtâ€" fully. 6 "No," hbe said ; "I don‘t think that we can run this thing in double harâ€" Denshain besitated. "No, we cun‘t do that," he said. "Have you any plan ?" Harcutt shook his head. "Can‘t say that I have." They were both silent for a moâ€" ment. Densham was smiling softly to himself{. . Watching him, Harcutt beâ€" came quite assured that he had deâ€" cided what to do. Harcutt did not see it in the same light. terially Men are So Tantalizing. "Harriet, I‘m going to give you a You see our interests are ma & By Curing Their Peculiar Hiis Dr. Chase‘s Nerve Food a Surâ€" prising Restorative for Pale, Weak, Nervz;s Women. / Am@ a resgult of much confinement { nerves I would taka shaking apolis, within doors, and the consequent lack | and a dizzy, awi mm feeling would of fresh air and health{al oxerfiue, wmd o:::ermceio lz:; :-;f:: :nlzdht.; most women not only lose much in | W + . figure and complexion, but also sulfer | head would ache though it would more or less from serious bodily deâ€" | burst. At last I had to keep to my rangements as the result of thin, bod."l:: r:l]lmftl“l:{“fi?g&or attonded usted me , his medicine :;':z:n’. p1o04 agd exhaupted‘Rervous ‘ did not help me. I have now txikenm More than nineâ€"tenths of the cases of diseages peculiar to women are diâ€" rectly due to a weakened condition of the nerves, and can be cured thorâ€" oghly and permanently by taking mild outdoor exercise, breathing plenâ€" ty of pure, fresh air, and using Dr. Chage‘s Nerve Food to form new blood and revitalise the depleted nerâ€" vous aystem. It takes time to build nf the sysâ€" tem to fill the shrivelled arâ€" teries wlt‘: new, rich blood, restore the wasted nerve cells, and renew the activities of the bodily organs, but the persistent use of Dr. Chage‘s Nervre Food will accomplish results and bring health and This is told of a minister in Engâ€" lang, who is said to have had an irritable temperâ€"The â€" churchyard was surrounded by a low parapet wall with a sharpâ€"ridged coping, to walk along Which required nice balancing of the body and was one of the favorite feats of the nelghâ€" boring boys. The practice greatly anmoyed the minister, and one day, while reading the burial service at the gravesiqe, his eye caught a chimneysweep walking on the wall. This caused the eccentric chaplain by abruptly giving an order to the beadle to make the following interpo lation in the solemn words of the funeral service â€""And I heard â€" a results and bring health and happiâ€" ness to weak, :o‘mu and suffering DR.CHASE MAKES FRIENDS _ OF HOSTS OF WOMEN. asked. ‘ Murie! nodded and #miled. Up went Netta‘s head a little higher. "It is so common to be born," she said. "I was founded !" Ag it was Murlel‘s birthday Netla wished to be very nice to her. At the game time Netta felt she had an advantage over Muriel, for it was not every one whi lived in a foundâ€" ling hospita) Netta was a little girl who lived in a foundling asylum, a place where homeless children â€" witbhout relatives are cared for. A visitor who often came to the foundling hbhad taken a great fancy to Netta. It was the birthday of Muriel, the lagy‘s little girl, and permission was asked for Netta to take tea with Muriel. "Certainly. If you will accept me as a sonâ€"inâ€"law you will readily unâ€" derstand that my future is assured. If you do not, your daughter has promised to elope with me, and we {eel that we may reasonably expect your â€" forgiveness. Altogether, I think I may safely say that the outâ€" look is quite promising." "It geems to me young man," reâ€" turned the old gentleman thoughtâ€" {ully, "as if you thought you had a mortgage on my fortune." He hesitated. She booked up into his face, and then, somehow, his arm got around her, and she whispered : "I will not deceive you, sir," reâ€" plied the honest young man. "I think they are reasonably good. "I would be glad if explielt." "That‘s how it seems to me, t answored the honest young mau There is one story (according to M. A. P.) which Mr. Sims Reeves was very fond of telling. It concerns an early engagement at Glasgow, which had been arranged through a metâ€" ropolitan agency. One of the items was "Hail, gmiling Morn," and Mr. Reeves was naturally ret down for the solo portion. The chorus consists of an echo, and the London agent asâ€" sured the sololst that a satisfactory choir had been engaged. The whole matter was mrranged very hurriedâ€" ly, and Mr. Reecves was at first disâ€" inclined to accept, as his other enâ€" gagements precluded him from reachâ€" Ing Glasgow in time for a rehearsal with the choir. "Don‘t worry about that, my dear sir," said the agent, "you will find the choir note perâ€" fect.‘ Mr. _ Reeves was perforce obliged to maike the best of the bargain, and be journeyed to Glasâ€" gow, hoping everything would turn out well. The concert was a success, and all went merry as a marriage bell until "Hail, Smiling Morn," was In course of performance. When the soloist came to the lines demanding an echo, he delivered them in his best mannerâ€""At whose bright preâ€" sence, Darkness flies away." What was his horror to hear Echo regcu.t- ing his words in the broadest Doric ‘Fleees awa‘, flees awa‘.‘" Yet Sims Reeves averred that not a soul in the audience smiled or saw anything inâ€" congruous. He put the case to a baillie afterwards, who assured him, ‘"‘That‘s just nothing at all. _ You were wrong a little in your pronunâ€" clation, and the echo was correct. You see, it was a Seottish echo." "Oh, Edward, how did guess that you had any hope t"* "What are your financial pros peots ?" demanded the old gentieman "Why is it ?" she asked "that when you are playing whist against papa you make so many blunders? _ You never seem to make mistakes when he isn‘t in the game. Are you awed by him t "Well, not exactly that, Miss Rockâ€" ingham," he answered. 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I was so weak that I could not walk twice the length of the house. Since using Dr. Chasge‘s Nerve Food L have been comâ€" pletely restored, I can walk a mile. withont fiheonmluoo. 1\-‘ 76 years and quite fleshy, I G my own housework, and conslderable,; sewing, knitting, and reading beâ€" . _ Dr. Chase‘s Nerve Food, 50 cants m at all deoalors, or Rédmanma, %.MMI‘O- 1 Ar & duit & , Weak, Nenzus Women. _ nerves, I would k\; shaking apolig, and a dizzy, swiinming feeling would come over me. Night after night I would never closA my eyes, and my. head would ache thourh it wanld Danie!l Macalcese, member of the British House of Commons for the North Monaghan division, is dead. I subjoin the transliteration of Sr Chihchen‘s rendering of the verse in question. It has been tested and proâ€" nounced accurate by some of the best musiclans in Europs, as well as by the ‘leading scholars of Chinese in Europe and Americaâ€"one and all proâ€" nounce it as a most excellent renderâ€" ing and a masterly performance. It was Andoubtedly a courtly and friendâ€" ly tribute to the good feeling existâ€" ent between twp of the greatest emâ€" pires of the Eastern and Western hemispheres. "Chi shan pI yu yu kiang ' Shan Te‘ang chiaung fu fang chang Wan Shon au chiang t Yung shih Shen Jen yu yu ~ . Shon fa pao pang yu wu 6@ Ko kung sung teh wel yang 33 Tien yu Chun Chu." C Unjudicial, But Human. Not many weeks ago, says the Aydâ€" ney Bulletin, two Australian judges â€"one of Supreme, the other of the minor Benchâ€"settled a little differâ€" ence of opinion on a question of honor in the good oldâ€"{ashioned way with bare fists. Preliminaries were fixed up in a few minutes at a fashâ€" lonable club, and the legal lnuminarâ€" ies retired with their seconds to a wellâ€"known private boxing hall, where they vigorously pounded one another for fifteen minutes. The minor Judge eventually established his claim to _ precedenceâ€"probably for the first time in Australian hisâ€" toryâ€"by a knockâ€"out blow under the Supreme Court jJaw. To say the least, it was a graceâ€" ful act on His Excellency‘s part to undertake the translation of " God Bave the Queen." U w few such men as Sir Chihchen had the supreme direction of affairs in China today that country could have vied with the best state in Eqrope. C me some one at the legation who would ba able to undertake the work. In reply 1 received the folâ€" lowing letterâ€" { "49 Portland Place, Aug. 25. 1897.¢ "Dear Professor Salmone,â€"In conâ€" formity with the request containzed in your note of the 21st inst, I have the pleasure to enclose to you the caligraphic copy of my transiaâ€" tion of the third verse of the Brit, ish National Anthom. "I beg to call your attention to the fact that the Chinese version is also in rhyme, and in the same metre as the English origina!, and the caliâ€" graphic copy is made in strict acâ€" cordance with the directions enclosed in your nota. I have the honor to be, yours faitbhfully, h "God Save the Qusen*‘ as it Soundsin Chinase. Professor Salimone caentributes the following to the London Postâ€" _ In 1897 I devised and edited & #mall publication entitied "The Imâ€" perial Souvenir," this being the Translation of third verse of the National Anthem, meirically readerâ€" ed into filty of the mast important language‘s spoken in the Queen‘s Empire. In the case of Oriental lanâ€" guages the verse was likoewise preâ€" sented in Roman characters, so that every subject of lHer Majesty is thereby . enabled _ to sing, with beart and volce, . "Goa â€" Save the Queen" in the fifty languages refoerred (to. It was naturally a huge task to obtain the translations of so many Eastern languages, but I eventuaily succeedel. Clhinese, howâ€" ever, proved almost formidable. Noge of the Chinese scholars and my colâ€" leagues at the various colleges {feit capable of undertaking so diificalt a task, owing to tho great diverâ€" gence of the Chinese language frowm anything Woestern as regards OXâ€" pression, idiom and metre. At last 1 applied to His Exceliency Sir Chihâ€" chen Lofengiuh, and amked him to bo fgood enough to recommend to At a term of the CITGIls v2g py one of the upâ€"river countier? ons ago, a borsee case was on trfi";md well known "horseman" '"“-alle: as a witness, "Well, sir, you saw this hm\,.. said the defendant‘s counsel. "Yos, sir ; Iâ€"â€"" "What did you do ?" "I jest opened his mouth to finc out bhow oid he was, an‘ I «says to him, says 1, ‘Old feller, 1 guess you‘re purty good yet‘." k 6 "Stop !" cried the opposing counsel, "Your honor, I object to any conâ€" versation carried on betwern the witness and the horse when the plaintiff was not present." A The objection was sustained. 4 Amory the cm-l.:mitio.f"f Is the following, _ ropo‘} Rochestor Postâ€"Exprossâ€" volce from | l:saven. a that black rascal ol CaAN YoU s1xG Ir? _wayingâ€"knock % g“.c wall ‘P " Lofenklubh." XAf the law »1 by the 'gom't. in JFv Img :I:Lund a "~alled ® ( 8 |