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It 1 by Chamâ€" s. and the After the inisterial onference appointâ€" +~ English is outrage _ outrage and â€" we and brag Bufialk»s varns . he the Boers 7 batties, ai Stormâ€" ut a price such a deâ€" men M on the 1 settle it LN IP M. L the esb N M by the ho are se and of the f 1d ; and ibout 5.000 NQo,‘* () Meanâ€" slege ne@ the tad hold . ool here n@ he #ar up Or the »me the &8 ad 1% he ed Mi the And it was! Punctually at four wclock he presented himself at Grosâ€" venor Square and was ushered into one of the smaller reception rooms. Helene came to him at onceée, a smile _ halfâ€"shy, halfâ€"apologetic _ upon her lips. _ He was conscious from the moâ€" ment of her entrance of a change in her deportment towards him. She held in her hand a small locket. "I wanted to ask you, Lord Wolâ€" 4 tenden," she said, drawing her fingers slowly away from his lingering clasp, "joe= this locket belong to you ?" He clanced at it and shook his head at once. . _ _ _"I never saw it before in my life," he declared. "I do not wear a watch chain, and I don‘t possess anything of that sort." THE SEASIDE HOUSE, ATLANTIC CITY, N.3 "That, my dear friend," he smaid, "you will never know. No one will ever know the cause of Germany‘s suddenly belligerent attitude, and her equally specdy climbâ€"down! There are many pages of diplomatic history which the world will never read, and this is one o( them. Come and lunch with me, Lord Wolfingden. My yow is paid and without bloodshed. I am a free man, and my promotion is assured. Toâ€"day is the happiest of my life! _________ own life? Weifenden emiled and looked at the letter on the table before him ; might it not also be the happiest day of his ne far waq_a ic U 0te! has been a favorite resort for Canâ€" adans for years past. With acco mmodations for three â€"hundred guests, it is considered one of the best located in Atlantic City. _ Is open throughout the year; has all modern conveniences, such as elecâ€" tric dighting. Hydraulic elevators running to level of the pavement. Sun gatleries and covered walk to the ocean. Thoroughly warmed with open grate wood fires and steamtheat thrcughcut. The Seaside House has a full and unobstructed view of the ocean, with a lawn extending and connecting with the famous oceam promenade. She threw it contemptuously away from her into the grate. _ _ â€"" A woman lied to me about it," she sald slowly. "I am ashamed of myâ€" self that I should have listened _ to her, even for a second. 1 chanced to look at it last night, and it suddenly cecurred to me whero I had seen it. It was on a man‘s watchâ€"chain, but not on yours." "Surely," he said, "it belongs _ to Mr. Sabin ?" She nodded and held out both her hancdw. * _ "Will you forgive me ?" she begged softly, " andâ€"andâ€"I â€" thinkâ€"I promâ€" ised to send for you !" _ & They had been together for nearâ€" ly an hour when the door opened abâ€" ruptly, and the young man whom Wolfenden had seen with Helene in a barouche entered the room. He stared in amazement at her, and rudely at Wolfenden. Helene rose and turned to him with a smile. "Henri," she said, "let me present to you the English gentleman whom I am going to marry, Prince Henri of Ortrensâ€"Lord Wol{enden." The young man barely returned Wolâ€" fenden‘s salute. He turned with flashâ€" ing eyes to Helene and muttered a few hasty words in Frenchâ€" "A kingdom and my betrothed in one day ! It is too much ! We will RHe Eit CCe "He has gone to find the Duchess," whe said, "and there will be a scene! Let us go out in the Park." T 8 & C Lologec P\ Con .Mfi.e left the room hurriedly. Helene laughed. HckY . _2 4 4h ... dh â€"A0 * sW c on They walked about under the treea: suddenly they came face to face with Mr, Sabiz. HMe was looking a little worn, but he was as careâ€" is HEWeRp < Weserlhy RETY o e O ol n oi t folly dressei as uscal, and he _ welâ€" cemed them with a smile afd an utâ€" #er abscnoce ol any embarrassment. ", soon!" he remarked â€" pleasâ€" antly. "You Englishmen are as prompt in lore as you are in war, Lord Wolfenâ€" den! It is an admirable trait." Helene laid her hand upon his arm. Yes, it was no fancy ; his halr was greyer, and heavyy lines furrowed his "Uncle," she said, "believe me that I am sorry for you, though for myâ€" selfâ€"1 am glad !" He looked at her kindly, yet with a faint contempt. k "The Bourbon Llood runs very slowly in your veins, child," he said. " After all I begin to douby whether you wochd have made a queen! As for myselfâ€"well, I am resigned. I am going to Pau to play golf !" "For how jong, I wonder," . she said smiling, "wilii you be able to conâ€" tent vyourself there?" _ _ "For a wouth or two," he answerâ€" ed: "until I have lost the taste of defeat. â€" Then I have plausâ€"but never mind; I will toll you later on. You wili all hear of me again! So {far as you two are concernec at any rate," he added, "I have no need to reproach myself. â€" My failure seems to have _ _ ¢ L _ 4 ‘HOus surroundings equal to any hotel on the com{ort and elegance. Wide piazzas, five hundred feet long otel. Drawing, recepti on, waiting, billiard and smoking tily furnished. The t able is supplied with the best the rket affords. Hot and cold sea water baths, long distance telegraph communica tion to all parts of the world. For terms address e h *L sB3 40 j 4 CHAS. EVANS S ON, Py y Seasile House, ! ' Atlantic City, N. J. ww 6 .“A hrcughcut. The Seaside House has ocean, with a lawn extending and promenpade. watched his slim figure lost in the tnrong of passersâ€"by. CHAPTER XL. The Way to Pau. The way to Pau which Mr. Sabin chose may possibly hbave been _ the _ most circuitous, but it was certainly the safest. Although not a muscle of his face had moved, although he had not by any physical movement or speech betrayed his knowledge of the fact, he was perfectâ€" ly well aware that his little stateâ€" ment as to his future movements was overheard and carefully noted by the tall, immaculately dressed young man who by some strange chance seemed to have been at his elbow since he had left his rooms an hour ago. td ‘Into the lion‘s mouth indeed," he muttered to himself griwmly, as he hailed a hansom at the corner and was driven homeward. The limes of Berlin were very beautiful, but it was not with any immediate idea of saunâ€" tering beneath them that a few hours later he was driven to Euston and stepped into an engaged carriage on the Liverpool express. _ There was a travelling cap drawn down to his eyes and a rug pulled up to his throat, he sat in the far corner of his compartâ€" ment apparently enjoying an evening paperâ€"as a matter of fact anxiously watching the platform. He had taken care to allow, himself only a slender margin of time. In two minutes the train glided out of the station. He drew a little sigh of reliefâ€"hbe, who very seidom permitted himsel{ the luxury of even the slightest revelaâ€" tion of his feelings. At least he had a start. Then he unlocked a travelling case, and, drawing out an atlas, sat with it upon his knee for some time. When he closed it there was a frown upon his face. C « "America !" he exclaimed softly to himself. "What a lack of imagination even the sound of the place seems to denote ! It is the most ignominious reâ€" treat I have ever made." w "You made the common mistake," a quiet voice at his elbow remarked, ‘"of many of the world‘s greatest diploâ€" matists, You underrated your adverâ€" sarles." t Mr. Sabin distinctly started, and, clutching at his rug, leaned back in his corner. A young man in a tweed travelling sult was standing by the opposite window. Behinda him Mr. Sabin noticed for the first time a narâ€" row mahogany door. Mr. Sabin drew a short breath, and was himself again. Underneath the rug his fingers stole into his overcoat pocket and clasped romething cold and firm. 2 "One at least," he said grimly, "I perceive that I have held too lightly. Will you pardon a novice at necroâ€" mancy if be asks you how you found your way here ?" Felix smiled. "A little forethought," he remarked, "a little luck, and a sovereign tip to an accommodating inspector. The carâ€" riage in which you are travelling is, as you will doubtless perceive before yor reach your journey‘s end, a species of saloon. ‘This little door"â€" touching the one through which he had issuedâ€"‘"leads on to a lavatory, and on the other side is a nonâ€"smokâ€" ing carriage. I found that you had engaged a carriage on this train, by posing as your servant. _ I selected this one as being particularly suited to an old gentleman of nervous disâ€" position, and arranged also that the nonâ€"smoking portion should be reâ€" served for me." Mr. Sabin nodded. "And how," he asked, "did you know that! meant to go to America ?" Felix shrugged his shoulders _ and took a reat. "Well," he waid, "I concluded that you would be looking for a change of air somewhere, and I really could not see what part of the world you had left open to yourself. America is the only country strong enough to keep you! _ Besides, I reckoned a little upon that curiosity with regard . to undeveloped countries which I have observed to be one of your traits. So tar as I am aware, you have never far as I am aware, you resided long in America." w‘-‘i&.;l‘fl;râ€" have I even visited Kamtâ€" chatka or Greenland," Mr. Sabin reâ€" marked. 4 i Ratel‘ o "I understand you," Felix remarkâ€" ed, nodding his head. "America is cerâ€" tainly one of the last places one would have dreamed of looking for you. You will find it, I am afraid, politically unborn ; your Own little methods, at any rate, would scarcely achieve popularitg. there. Further, w eympathies, of course, are with democratic France. 1 can imagine that you and the President of the Unitâ€" ed Statesâ€"a"" worthy grocer just now, I believeâ€"would represent opâ€" posite poles of thought. Â¥Yet there were two considerations which weighâ€" ed with me." "This is very interesting," Mr. Rabin remarked. "May I know what they were ? To be permitted a glimpsse Into the inward workings of a brain like yours is indeed a privilege!" . Felix bowed, with a gratilied smile upon his lips. The satire of Mr. Saâ€" bin‘s dry tone was apparently lost upon him. ite sympathies, of to mysel{ that Kamtchatka _ and Greenland, although equaily interestâ€" ing to you,would be quiis unable to afâ€" ford themselves the luxury of offering you an asylum. You must seek the shelter of a great and power{ful counâ€" try, and one which you had never ofâ€" fended ; and, save America, there 1s none such in the world. Secondly, you are a Sybarite, and you do not withâ€" out very serious reasons place yourâ€" selfl outside the pale of civilization. Thirdly, America is the only counâ€" try, save those which are barred to you, where you could play golf !" "rou are most perfectly welcome," he declared. "In the first place, I said "You are really a remarkable young man," Sabin declared, softly strokâ€" ing his little grey imperial. " You have read me like a book ! I am humilâ€" iated that the course of my reasoning should have been so transparent. To prove the correctness of your concluâ€" sions, see the litt‘e volume _ which I had brought to read on my way to Liverpool." He handed it out to Felix. It was entitled, "‘The Golf Courses of the World," and a leaf was turned down at the chapter headed, * United Sta tes." "I wish," he remarked, "that you were a golfer. I should like to have asked your opinion about that plan of the Myopia golf links. To me it seems cralmped. and the bunkers are artifiâ€" clal." Felix looked at him admiringly. " You are a wonderful man," he said. " You do not bear me any ill will, then ?" * None in the least," Mr. Sabin said, quietly. "I never bear personal grudges. So far as I am conceraed, I never have a personal enemy. It is fate itself which vanquished me. You were simply an instrument. You do not figure in my thoughts as a person against whom I bear any illâ€"will. I am glad, though, that you did not cash my cheque for £20,000 !" Felix smiled. " You went to see then ?" he asked. "I took the liberty," Mr. Sabin amâ€" swered, "of stopping payment of it." "It will never be presented," Felix said. "I tore it into pieces direetly I left you." "* Quixotic," he murmured. The express was rashing on through the night. Mr. Sabin thrust his hand into his bag and took out a handful of cigars. He offered one to Felix, who accepted, and lit it with the air of a man enjoying the reasonable civility of a chance fellow passenger. " You had, I presume," Mr. Sabin remarked, "some object in coming to see the last of me? I do not wish to seem unduly inquisitive, but I {feel a little natural interestâ€"or shall we say curiosity ?â€"as to the reason for this courtesy on your part." ty AAd " May I ask, a friendly message, or otherwise ?" * mm mm o o e en " You are quite _ correct," Felix answered. " I am here with a purpose. I am the bearer of a message to you." His fingers were tightening upon the little hard substance in his pocket, but he was already beginning to doubt whether, after all, Felix had come as an enemy. "Friendly," was the prompt anâ€" awer. "I bring you an offer." " From Lobenski?" " From his august master! _ The Czar himsel{ has plans for you!" â€""His serene Majesty," Mr. SBabin murmured, ‘"has always been most kind." "$nce you left the country of the Shah," Felix continued, "Russlan inâ€" fluence in Central Asia has been gradâ€" ually upon the wane. All manner of means have been employed to conceal this, but the unfortunate fact remains. You were the only man â€" who ever thoroughly grasped the situation and attained any real influence over the master of western Asia! Your re moval from ‘Teheran was the result of an intrigue on the part of the Engâ€" hish. _ It was the greatest misfortune which ever befel Russia !‘ _ , " And your offer?" Mr. Sabin asked. " Is that you return to Teheran not as the secret agent, but as the acâ€" credited ambassador of Russia, with an absolutely free hand and unlimited powers "Such an offer," Mr. Sabin reâ€" marked, "ten years ago would have made Russia mistress of all Asla.". â€"*""The Czar," Felix said, "is beginâ€" ning to appreciate that. But what was possible then is possible now !A" * _Mr. Sabin shook his head. "I am ten years older," he said, "and the Shah who was my friend is dead." _ "The new Shah," Felix said, "has a passion for intrigue, and the sands around ‘Teheran are magnificent for golf." Mr. Sabin shook his head. "‘Too hard," he said, "and too monâ€" otonous. I am peculiar perhaps in that reapect, but I detest artificial bunkers. Now there is a little valâ€" ley," he continued thoughtfully, ‘"about seven miles north of Teheran, where :o;methmg might be done! I wonâ€" P__" " You accept," Felix asked quietly. Mr. Sabin shook his head. "* No, I decline." It was a shock to Felix, but he hid his disappointment. ** Absolutely ?" % " And finally." #+ IWhy ?.' "I am ten years too old !" "‘That is resentment." Mr. Sabin denied it. * No! Why should I not be frank with you, my friend? What I would have done for Russia ten years ago, I would not do toâ€"day ! She has made friends with the French Republic. She has done more than recognize the exâ€" istence of that iniquitous institutionâ€" she has pressed her friendship upon the Presidentâ€"she has spoken the word of alliance. â€" Henceforth my feeling for Russia has changed. I have no object to gain in her development. I am richer than the richest of her nobles, and there is no title in Europe for which I would exchange my own. You see Russia has absolutely nothing to offer me. On the other hand, what would benefit Russia in Asia would ruin England, and England has given me and many of. my kind a shelter, and has even hela aloof from France. Of the two countries 1 would much prefer to aid England. If I had been the means of destroying her Aslatic empire ten years ago it would have Mr. Sabin nodded. Infidtenet. ‘Ther Wamabon 4* * Felix sighed. been: to me toâ€"day a source of lastâ€" ing regret. ‘There, my friend, I have present, then, I accept defeat." "The fault," Mr. Sabin murmured, "is in no way with you. My refusal was a thing predestined. The Czar himself could not move me." $ "We are nearing Crewe," he said. "I whall alight then and return to Lonâ€" don. You are for America, then ?" "Beyond doubt," Mr. Sabin declarâ€" _ The train was slowing a little. Felix looked out of the window. > _â€""If you will deliver this for me," he said, "you will do me a kindness, and you will make a pleasant acquaintâ€" Mr. Sabin glanced at the impreâ€" scription. It was addressed toâ€" " Mrs. James B. Peterson, "Lennox, 4 i "I will do so with pleasure," he reâ€" marked, slipping it into his dressingâ€" "And remember this," Felix reâ€" marked, glancing out at the platâ€" form along which they were gliding. You are a marked man. Disguige is useless for you. Be ever on your guard. You and I have been enemies, but after all you are too great a man to fall by the hand of a German asâ€" sin. â€" Farewell !" * â€""I will thank you for your caution and remember it," Mr. Sabin answerâ€" ed. "Farewell !" y io ie Felix raised his hat, and Mr. Sabin returned the salute. The whistle sounded. Felix stepped out on to the platform. 3 oo _"You will not forget the letter ?" he asked. d â€""I will deliver it in person without fail," Mr. Sabin answered. CHAPTER XLL Mr. and Mrs. Watson, of New York. It was their third day out, and Mr. Sabin was enjoying the voyage very much indeed. The Calipha was a small boat sailing to Boston instead of New York, and contemptuously termed by the oceanâ€"going public an old tub. She carried, consequently, only seven passengers besides Mr. Sabin, and it had taken him but a very short time to decide that . of those seven passengers not one was interested in him or his affairs. _ He had got clearâ€"away, for the present, . at any rate, from all the complicaâ€" tions and dangers which had followâ€" ed upon the failure of his great scheme. . Of course by this time the news of his departure and destinaâ€" tion was known to everyone whom his movements concerned. That was alâ€" most a matter of course, and realizâ€" ing even the impossibility of successful concealment, Mr. Sabin had made no attempt at any. He had given the name of _ Sabin to the stewâ€" ard, and had secured the _ deck‘s cabin for his own use. He chatted every day with the captain, who treated him with respect, and in reply to a question from one of the stewâ€" ards who was a Frenchman, he adâ€" mitted that he was the Duc de Sounâ€" pennier, and that ho was travelling incognito only as a whim. He was distinctly popular with every one of the seven passengers, who were a little doubtful how to address him, but whom he succeeded always in putting _entirely at their ease. The first time a shadow crossed his face was late one afternoon, when, coming on deck a litâ€" tle behind the others after lunch, he found them all leaning over the starâ€" board bow, gazing intently at some object a little distance off, and at the same time became aware that the enâ€" gines had been put to halfâ€"speed. _ â€"He was strolling towards the little group, when the captain, seeing him, beckoned him on to the bridge. # Mr. Sabin mounted the iron steps carefully, but with his eye turned seaâ€" wards. A large yacht of elegant shape, and painted white from stern to bows, was lyingâ€"to about half a mile off, flying signals. > C _"Here‘s something that will interest you, Mr. Sabin," he called out. ‘*Won‘t you step this way ?" _ _ ‘L'Ibrué;tbitvlr;z;cfi;rthe bridge and stood by the captain‘s side. 3 "I shall know in a moment," the capâ€" tain answered, with his glass to his eye. "She flew a distress signal at first for us to stand by, so I suppose she‘s in trouble. Ah! there it goes. ‘Mainshaft broken,‘ she says." _ _ :A pleasure yacht," he . remarked, "What does she want ?" Felix drew from his pocket a letâ€" ‘"She doesn‘t lie like it," Mr. Sabin remarked, quietly. The captain looked at him with a smile. "You know a bit about yachting, too," he said, "and, to tell you the :ruth, that‘s just what I was thinkâ€" ng.n t *‘*Holmes !" ‘"Yes, sir." 1 "Ask her what she wants us to do." The signalman touched his hat, and the little row of fiags ran fluttering up in the breeze. & l oAvavldiurâ€"alsnie? en ‘She signals hersel{ the Mayflower, private yacht, owner Mr. James Watâ€" son, of New York," he remarked. ‘"She‘s a beautiful boat." C fi;- é;f)fii. who had brought his own fil’aues. looked at her long and steadâ€" "‘She‘s not an American built boat, at any rate," he‘remprked. s # "'Tgh;a;; going on under canvas," he said, ‘"but she wants us to take her owner and his wife on board." _ _ _ An answering signal came fluttering back. The captain opened his book and read it. pick 1p passengers in midâ€"ocean." "Then I ghouldn‘t do it," Mr. Sabin said. "If they are in a hurry the Alaska is due toâ€"day, isn‘t she? and she‘ll be in New York in three days, and the Baltimore must be close behind her. I should let them know that." "Are you compelled to do so?" Mr. Sabin asked. 1 The captain laughed. "Not exactly ! I am not expected to ‘Well," the captain answered, "I don‘t want fresh passengers botherâ€" ing juset now." The flags were run up, and the reâ€" plies came back as promptly. ‘The captain shut up his glass with a bang. "No getting out of them," he reâ€" marked to Mr. Sabin. *"They reply that the lady is nervous and will not wait; they are coming on board at onceâ€"for fear I ghould go on, I supâ€" pose. They add that Mr. Watson is the largest American holder of Cunâ€" ard stock, and a director of the Amerâ€" ican Board, so have them we mustâ€" that‘s pretty certain. I must see the purser." He descended, and Mr. Sabin, . folâ€" lowing him, joined the little group of passengers. ‘They all stood together watching the long rowing boat which was coming swiftly towards them through the smooth sea. Mr. Sabin exâ€" "at an unfortunate time. For the compliment of perfect Silcat® ols plained to them the messages which mired the disabled yacht. e ;‘ Mr. Sabin touched the first mate on the arm as he passed. o i se "NDid you ever gee a vessel like that, Johpson ?" he remarked. F The man shook his head. *‘Their engineer is a fool, sir!" he declared scorn{fully. ‘"‘Nothing but my own eyes would make me believe there‘s anything serious the matter with her shaft." * "I agree with you," Mr. Sabin said quietly _ : The boat, was now within hailing distance. Mr. Sabin leaned down over the side and scanned its occupants closely. There was nothing in the least suspicious about them. The man who sat in the stern steering was a typical American, with thin, sallow face and bright eyes. The woman wore a thick veil, but she was evidently young, and when she stood up displayed a figure and clothes distinctly Parisian. ‘The two came up the ladder as though perâ€" fectly used to boarding a vessel in midâ€"ocean, and the lady‘s nervousness was at least not apparent. The capâ€" tain advanced to meet them, and gallantly assisted the lady on to the "This is Captain Ackinson, 1 preâ€" sume," the man remarked with extendâ€" ed hand. ‘"We are exceedingly obliged to you, sir, for taking us off. This is my wife, Mrg. James B. Watson." _ Mre. Watson raised her veil, and disâ€" closed a dark, piquant face with wonâ€" derfully bright eyes. _ _ _ _ _____ "It‘s real nice o: you, Captain," she said frankly. "You don‘t know how good it is to feel the deck of a real oceanâ€"going steamer beneath your feet after that little sailing boat of my husband‘s This is the very last time I attempt to cross the Atlantic except on one of your steamers." "We are very glad to be of any asâ€" sietance," the cabptain answered, more heartily than a few minutes before he would have believed possible. "Full speed aheaid, John !". [ There was a churning of water and dull throb &f machinery restarting. The little rowing boat, already well away on its return journey, rooked on the long waves Mr. Watson turned to shout some final instructions. Then the captain beckoned to the purser. "Mr. Wilson will show you your state rooms," he remarked, "Fortunâ€" ately we hawve plenty of room. Stewâ€" ard, take the baggage down." _ The lady went below, but Mr. Watâ€" son remained on deck talking to the captain. Mr. Sabin strolled up to Some of the Good They are Doing in Families of the Poor. An éEfort is being made in London to put the Queen Victoria fund for Nurges on a more solid basis, . At queen Victoria‘e Jubilee the women of Great Britain raised the sum of £70,000 as the women‘s gift to the great Queen ; and the Queen, after long pondering as to what she could best do with her money, decided to devote it to the formation of a band of surges who should visit the poor in their own homes. After twelve yeare there were now nearly 900 Queen‘s nurses, properly trained and equipped, together with a number of probationere, and they were at work under the centres establighed in Engâ€" land, Sceotland, Jreland and Wales. Lagt year they paid 4,000,000 visits to the poor in their own homes. Speaking at the latest meeting in beâ€" half of the Fund, Hon. Sydney Holâ€" land alluded to the eaving presence of a nurge in a poor home at the tima of a woman‘s greatest trialâ€" amd hig eloquence®was lstened to in a @ilence that was a very high testiâ€" mony to it@ force. He spoke, too, of the nurges‘ usefulness with children, and he meationed two etrangely imâ€" pressive facts. One was that the "signs of winter" in a children‘s hosâ€" pital werse the number of burnt chilâ€" dren who came for treatment. _ The other was that 30 per cent. of the poor blind of this country owed their blindness to the ignorance of their mother@ while they were children. them. Lawyerâ€"Don‘t you worry ; I‘ll see that you get justice. . _ Defendantâ€"Gee whizz! What 1 want is mercy." He that waits upon Fortune is never sure of a dinner.â€"Franklin. Mrs. Browneâ€"I‘ve just been to see Mrs. Swellman‘s new place. She has staimned glass all through the house. Mrs. Parvenuâ€"The idea! Her serâ€" vants are too lazy to remove the stains, eh ? Above all things reverence yourâ€" self,â€"Pythagoras. Of coursa the bridge jumper doth never Inherit his fame, Yet nome may deny it comes to him by Descent, all the same. "That boy of Jones‘ can give points to any school teacher who comes along." "Bright, eh?" wX "No ; mischievous. Bent pins, you know." Sin may open bright as the mornâ€" ing, but it will end dark as night. â€"Talmage. . "I wonder what is the key to the origin of man," soliloquized the pusâ€" zled student. 1b matieigpniy o5 8 o _‘"Monkey !" repked the follower of Darwin. Calummy would soon starve and die of itself if nobody took it in and gave it lodging.â€"Leighton. "If you are a sensgible man," said the Rev. X. Horter, "you will stop Geiukimg." . _ . 00.‘ "What an effeminateâ€"looking man Horace Highmore i# !" said the girl in the pale green shirt waist. "He‘s just am effeminate as he looks," replied the girl in the Gaine@borough hat. "I have been told he #gits on the floor when he pute his shoes on,"â€"Chicago Tribene. â€"â€"‘-'i!_;(.i-ear sir," replied the candid De Tangue, "if I were a sensible man I would never have started." Bome will never learn anything beâ€" cause they understand everything tao egon.â€"Blount. . ; ( ; , .. [ ; . 900 QUEEN‘S NURSES. WISE AND OTHERWISE (To be Continued.) <IO ARCHIVES TORONTO $OZODONT â€" roomroma 25" Some of Iron and Others of Gold. â€" [The London Gilobe.] ~ If the head which weare one crowKk lie# uneasily, what must be the unâ€" reat of him who supports the weight of three crowns? There is only one! ruler in Europe thus burdened, and 10 is Â¥1 years of age, the feeble Leo, Pope of Rome. Double crowne are worn by many soverelgns. The Emperor of Austria is K. K. 1. e., Kca®#erlichâ€"Konigiich ; he is King of Hungary and Emperor of Austria, The Germar Emperor wearse a douâ€" ble crown; he is also King of Prusâ€" sia. His Majesty EAward VH. will be weighted with the royal crown of Great Britain and Ireland and with the Imperial crown of India.: O[ single crowns there is a vast number scattered all over the in« habited earth. A crown is a material thing, not merely a rhetorical expression,. It4s not necessarily of intrinsic value gold and gems, a specimen of the goldsmith‘s art. In very ancient: pagan days, the sacrificing priestsw bound their heads with a fillet, or wreath. The Flamina or Rome were: so called from the filum with which the{ bound their hair. When king# took on themselves the priestly of= fice they must needs also don the sacerdotal circlet. The Syrian kings affected a crown which imitated the rays of the sun, that luminary be= ing known to be their direct ancesâ€" tor. The Roman Emperors sometimes wore a laurel wreath, s#ometimes a crown of gold and jewels. The Byâ€" zantine Emperors had a crown closâ€" e@l at the top, and this shape has become accepted as the imperial pattern. Charlemagne seems to have, been the first Western Emperor who wore a closed crown; the shaps war revived by another great Charles, he of Spain and Germany, whom the French call CharlesQuint, and by Francis I. of France, who wae not Emperor; and by William the Conqueror. C C in it a cirelet of iron said to be made from a nail of the True Cross, which nail was given to Theoâ€" linda, wife of Argilgull, King of the Lombards, by Pope Gregory the Great. However that may be, an Emperor in the Middle Ages was not King of Italy until the iron crown had been placed on his head. It wase worn by Charles Quint at his magâ€" nificent Coronation by Clement VIH at Bologna. Of course, there was fie« tion in this ; the emperors were not really kings of Italy ; in fact, Italy, was then, and long after, only a "geographical expression" ; it was dAivided into a large number of semiâ€" independent duchies, of which the territory called the States of the Church was the temporal possession of the Pope. The iron crown of Lomâ€" bardy is still preserved in the caâ€" thedral at Monza, near Milan. c Perhaps the most famous crown in Europe is that of _ Lombardy; it is ol gold, having withâ€" In conpection witn the history of the iron crown may be told the curious facts of the two coronations of Napoleon Bonaparte, who broughts the aged Pope Pins VII. from Rome to Paris in order that the Corsican General, First Conwul of France, might be made Emperor with all the formalities of ancient times. Furâ€" ther, to carry out the idea, Napoleon and Josephine were arrayed in cosâ€" tumes like those of the middle ages ; be wore also a imantle of crimson velvet strewn with golden bees, and lined with white satin and ermine. Following him were all the new made princes of his family, cardinais, bishope, ambassadore, and officials of various high grades. The venerable pontiff anointed Napoleon in the usâ€" ual manner, and then took the imâ€" perial crown, intending to place Mt â€" on . the head of the great conqueror. But, either by a sudden impulse, or by a theatrical stroke previously deâ€" cided on, Napoleon enatched the crown from the hands of Pius, and plasced it on his own head. He who had #uch implicit faith in himself, and in his own powers, would not be beholdea to even the Holy Father for the «ymbol of imperial dignity. The next moment, Josephine . was kneeling at the feet of her terrible hugban1, who laid on her lovely head the crown of Empress Congort. A few month» later, "the new Charlemagne" received the Iron Crown of Lombardy, at Milan, from the hands of Cardinal Caprara, and thereby became the unâ€" doubted King of Itaiy. _ C C The crown of England, which will shortly be placed on the head of King Edward VIL, hae four Maltese crosses and four Tieureâ€"deâ€"lys ; both these eymbols refer to longâ€"exploded ficâ€" tion@. ‘The crosses are borne because our eovereigns are nominally “De(_eod: ere of the Faith" of the Church of Rome, a title bestowed on Henry YIIL by Clemeat VII., when Henry publighed his tract against the teachâ€" ing of Luther. When Bluff Hal se ceded from Rome, he chowe to retain the title, which had by that time beâ€" come abseolutely satirical, _ and his successors still retain it. The fleursâ€" dAeâ€"ly@ also perpetuate a fiction, that by which our monarche are Kings of Frapce. It wase Henry IIL., Plantaâ€" genet, who united Anjou to the Engâ€" lish Crown:; and the claim of our Kings to rule over France was mainâ€" tained as late as the time of George IIL, who was styled King of Great, Britain, Ireland, and France. The fiction is kem up by the materiar crown of this land, but is now the mere@t reminiscence of a long wornâ€" «* Streetdust." "Quida‘s Jatest story is called Streetdust.‘" "Must be dry." "IPll bet it isn‘t to be sneeged at." "It will surely meet with sweeping criticisme." * _"And be lucky if it isn‘t carried off in the refuse cart." 3 Â¥ out coutroverey. blow about."â€"Cleveland Plain Deaion "But I can see, of course, why she named it that." i "Why t" "Because it will be something to KING EDWARD‘ CROWN. FAMOUS GROWNS $1