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A retired Government clerk died in Vienna a few days ago, and bequeathed a consider. able sum of money in these terms 2â€"“ Up a. second flight of stairs there lives at door No. 63 a. widow who has two daughters, I leave the sum of 80,000 florins to the one who always nodded in such a friendly way when she met me.” The two sisters fell out as to which of them the old gentleman had left the money. Legal proceedings are im- pending. but the lawyers are said to be in- clined for a compromise by dividing the money. ' When Miss Fawcetc, daughter of the late Postmaster General of England, applied to a famous mathematical coach at: Cambridge to be tall en as his pupil, she was rudely re- pulsed, and the unzallunt tutor remarked that he “would take no tabbies.” Very well. This same Miss Fawcett has been systematically beating the best men of her‘ year in the frinity College examinations, and will doubtless be senior wrangler tor the ensuing year. A New York hostess marked the places of her guests at table by a single, perfect rose. Upon a petal of each was delicatele written, by means of electricity, the name of the person to occupy the place. A women at Hutchinson, hem, with fourteen children, applied to the city mar- 31ml the other day to make a split in her family asshe could not support them all. She now huetlea for eight. Nous. In boas, now so fashionable, the longer they are the better. They should almost touch the ground. - A lady and gentleman were travelling to- gether on an English railway. They were perfect strangers to each other. Suddenly the gentleman said : " Madam, Iwill trouble you to look outof the window ior a few min- utes. I am going to make some changes in my wearing apparel. ” “Certainly, sir, ". she replied with politenes, rising and _turn-' ing her back upon him. In a short time he said : “ Now, madam, my change is com; plete, andyou may resume your seat. ” When the lady turned she beheld her male compan- ion turned into a dashinglady, with a heavy veil over" her face. “ Now, air or madam, Whichever you like, ” said the lady, “ I must trouble you to lock out of the window. for I also have some changes to make in my ap- parel. ” “ Certainly, madam, ” and the gentleman in lady's attire immediately com- plied. “ Now, sir, you may resume your seat. " T) his great surprise, on resuming seat, the gentleman in female attire found his lady companion transformed into a man. He then laughed and sg'd: “It appears that we are both anxious to avoid recognition. What have you done? I have robbed a bank 1 " “ And I, ” said the whilom lady, as he dsx- l terously factored his companion’s wrists with a pair of handcuffs, “ I am Detective Jâ€"-â€", of Scotland Yard, and in female apparelhave shadowed youl; now,” drawing a revolver, “ keep stlll l" A correspondent of a London paper writes asfollows: Allow me to utter an oftre- posted and oft-neglected warning to English girls aboutto marry Frenchmen. It does not yet seem to be understood, as it ought tobe, that though a woman may be marâ€" ried tos Frenchman according to all the forms of English law, she is not neopesarily married in Franco. The Fremh law still requires that the absurd and antiquated form of asking the head of the bridegromn’s family to consent to a marriage shall be gone through; and if this is omitted the marriage is invalid. A very sad case came under my own cognizance recently. A young French- man, visiting in this country. became en- gaged toayeung English lady. Enquiries were made, the gentleman‘s position and prospects appeared satisfactory, the afl'ec- tion was mutual, and the marriage wps duly solemnized in the parish church and before a registrar. The latter precaution was taken because it appears to have been thought by the bride's friends that only a civil marriage was recognized In France. But nobody had thought of enquiring whe- ther the bridegroom, a man of independent means, twenlyseven years of age, had troubled to ask anyone’s leave before he got married. The man took his wife over to France; and a couple of years afterwards coolly informed her that they were not mar- ried at all! Apparently there was no re- dress for'the unmarried wife who had to re- turn to her relatives with this indelible stig- ma upon her. For the credit of human nature we may hope that such cases are rare; but English parents and guardians ought to know that it is possible for them to occur. To keep the face and lips soft and smooth, they should be annointed daily with cold cream or glycerlne and was waterâ€"a little experience will prove which is best suited to one's use. But a clear and rosy skin not only means good health; it is often the in» dex of good temper into the bargain. Bad temper, fretting and worrying are usually quite on detrimental to the complexion as bad health. We can't all be angelic in dis position, but we can at least tase life easily. Advice to the girl who wants to cultivate or to keep a good complexion may be easily summed up : Don’t fret. Don’t chew gum. Don’t stay in-doors more than you can help. Don't drink too much, tea or coffee. Don't eat all manner of trash, and too much of it at that. Don’t neglect regular and frequent bathing. Don’t stay up late, but have regular hours for sleeping as for everything else. Bear in mind all these “ Don’ts,” an you will have little use for powder. Quite "scession has been held lately, in some of tl.e New York papers, relative to the proper care of the complexion. Advice has been giveg bi a. lot of the most promin- ent actresses and "beauty women,” telling how to preserve or purify the skin. But they all agree on one point at leastâ€"that is, that good health is the first requisite for a good complexion. “ Out-door exercise and plentiful bathing,” says one pretty singer. A good many or these women, however, say that they never actually wuh their faces, a. culinrity we should be very slow to copy. here is no doubt, however, that to preserve a. de'icste bloom one should be sparing of ice.co1d mater, it should be tepid water ; either v'ery hot or very cold should be avoid- ed. Rubbing a lather over the face is in- jurious to many delicate skins; 3 little in the water should be snfli :ient for cleanliness, and the skin is softer if it is rubbed with the hands, instead of a coarse wash-cloth. A WARNING T0 ENGLISH WOMEN. F0]! AND ABOUT WIMIEN. NEATLY NABBED. m: or mt: ComszroN. The Hon. Edward Blake hasi .imated *0 a reporter for a British Columbia journn‘. that he has no thought of resigning his seat . . . 1m Parhament. A men dressed in Tyrolese costume en- tered the shop of the principel barber in lmbruck, sat down in a chair V and made a sign that he desired to be shaved. The pro- prietor of the establishment, seeing a rough- looking fellow clad in the national Joppe reclining bu the velvet plush, requested him to “get.” “ We don’t serve peasants here ; this is a saloon for gentlemen." The stranger rose with a. smile. “Very well.” he said. “ but; oblige me, in case my adjunut should come in, by telling him that l lwve gone to be shaved by you rival across 1:} s street. 1 am the Archduke J oseph.” hood And those good buckwheat pancakes I ate when a boy. Those good buckwheat pancakes, those ex- cellent pancakes Those unrivaled pancakes I ate when a boy How nice from the gridlle right bot to re oeive them, I” To swallow them quikly and then call for more, - Not even ambrosia would tempt me to leave them, When once they had entered my month's open door. And oft when pursuing my way through life's wildwood, And learning a bit of it's sorrow and joy, My fancy returns to the scenes of my child- were goinâ€"z _ i V Of those anodbuckwheat pancakes I ate when a boy. Thane goou buckwheat pancakes, those ex- . cellent pancakes Those unrivaied pancakes I ate when a boy That old palncake griddle I hailed as a. tree.- sure, {3:24. “W 3:41 For at noon or at night, when returned from my toil, ‘ I found in the source of an exquisite plea- ant-0,“??- For better than food that you roast, bake or boil. How ardent I seized them with countenance glowing, And unto the table did hear them with joy. And soon to niy month mighty fragments - nigh it, V The mince pies which often I fits with such 0 9 But beruyut' them all and I cannot deny it, Were thJae good buckwheat pancakes, I etc when a boy. Those good buckwheat pancakes, those excellent pancakes. Those unrivaled pancakes I ate when filmy. pr dear to my heart is the food of my childhood When poor hotel dinners recall it to view: The chickens, 1_:he partridges shot in the wild wdod ‘ And all kinds of jam that my infancy knew. The plurnp fat old turkey with cranberries These mounds are built into a mesh-work of tunnels, galleries and chambers, where the social interests of the community are at- tended to. The most spacious of these cham- bers, usually far underground, is very pro- ,perly allocated tothe head of the society,the queen. The queen termite is a very rare insect, and as there are seldom more than one, or at most two, to a colony. and as the royal apartments are hidden far in the earth, few persons have ever seen a queen, and in- deed most if they did happen to come across it, from its singular appearance, would re- fuse to believe that it had any connection with the white ants. Her one duty in life is to lay eggs, and it must be confessed she discharges her function with complete suc- cess, for in a single day her progeny oftne amounts to many thousands. The worker white ant is a poor, defence less creature, and blind and unarmed, would fall an immediate prey to those well-drilled benditti who forage about in every tropical forest in unnumbered legion. But at the critical moment, like Goliath from the Phil- istines, the soldier termite advances to the fight. With a few sweeps of its scythe-like jaw it clear: the ground, and while the attacking patty is carrying off its dead, the builders, unconscious of the fray, quietly continue their work. To every 100 workers in a. white ant colony, which numbers many thousands of individuals, there are perhaps two of these fighting men. n The division here is very wonderful, and the fact that besides those two specialized forms there are in every post two other kind of the same in- sect, the kings and. queens, shows the re- markable height to which civilization in these communities has attained: Peering over the growing wall one soon discovers one, two or more termites of a some- what larger build, considerably longer, and especially of the mandibles. These Impor- tant-looking individuals saunter about the rampart in the most leisurely way, but yet with a certain air of business, as if, perhaps, one was the master of works and the other the Architect. They are posted there as sentries, and there they stand, or promenade about, at the mouth of every tunntl, like Sister Ann, to see if anybody is coming. Sometimes-somebody does come in the shape of a ‘other antâ€"the real ant this time. not the defenceless neuropte'on, but some valiant and belted t nightirom the warlikeformicido, Single, or in troops, this repacious little.in- sect, fearless in its chitonous coat of mail, charges down the tree trunk, its antennae, waving defiance to the enemy and its cruel mandibles thirsting for termite blood. The white ant is blind ; it has many en- emies, and can never- procure food until it comes above ground. How does it solve the difficulty? It takes the ground out along with it. I have seen white ants working on the top of a high tree, and yet it was underground with them to the tree- top ; just as the E quimaux heap snow up, building it into the low tunnel hubs in which ‘they live, so the vihite ants collect earth, but for some depths underneath the ground, and plaster it into tunnelled ways. 0c casionally these run along the ground, but ‘ more often mount in endless ramification to the tops of trees, meandering along every‘ branch and twig. here and there debouching into large covered chambers which occupy half the girth of the trunk. Millions of trees in some districts are thus fantastically plastered over with tubes, gAllBI’IBB and chambers of earth, and many pou nds' weight of subsoil must be brought up for the mining of even a single tree. The White Ants of Africa. Pancakes. ' ‘ A' , ministry ’without love, however eduoxtad nr otherwise (flicicnt, is as “sound- ing brass.” a. home uponvthe'deep, I’In Syria. in Canada, inTul'key, in Egypt, in India. and in Burmah, wherever the athirs of England required special attention during the lascthirby years, thither, Lord Duffel-in, has been sent with buccéss. no sense responsible. \Vhetever work he has since undertaken has almost inverinltly been crowned with success. The noble mer- quis is the son of Helen Selina Sheridan, the eldest, if we mistake not, of the three famous daughters of Mr. Thos. Sheridan -â€"ladies renowned alikefor their beauty and their accomplishments. The late Err! of BBJCODSfieid. charmed‘with all of them, used to speak of Lady Dufl‘erin as possessing even greater ability than Caroline Norton, SUb' srquently Lady Stirling Maxwell. Both sisters were flowered with a. large measure of genius: but probably Ln-d Beaconsfield was right in awarding the palm to the euth- or of the “Emigrant/s Farewell.” In “Let. ters from High Latitude,” Lord Dufi'erin showed himself at once an able writer and e plucky seamen. For a time he had Prince Jerome Napoleon as a com punion in his v03 ' age to Iceland. But the vexed ocean was too much for Jerome. The Prince preferred Paris to the North Pole, having 11? ifncy for The Earl of Dufl‘erin has been made a marquis, and in future will be known as the Marquis of Duflerin and Ava. This honour has been wort/hily won. Few men have served the State with greater efficiency. Thirty-three years have passed since be en- tered upon the service of his country. In 1885 he appeared in Vienna attached to me mission undertaken by Lord John Russell to the Austrian Court, a mission whichproved unsuccessful. But for its lack of success the youthful lifiplomatisn was in The whole system of secret police is high- ly developed in J span. There is a regular staff of detectives who disguise themselves as laborers, merchants or travellers, or even in case it is necessary to hunt down some great criminal, hire a house in the suspected neighborhood and live there. One of these men loses caste very much in his office. if he does not actually} suffer a degradation of position, by failingto return with theinforma- tiou he is dispatched to secure. Besides these however, there is a. regular staff of private police correspondents in all parts of the country, and one whole bureau at the department of police is devoted 16 receiving, ordering. classifying these, and taking ac- tion upon them. A good deal of information must be picked up from the tee houses, each of which is a. center of gossip, and in one or other of which almost every male well-tn-do inhabitant: of Tokio is an hebitue.â€"[I‘okio Cor. I.‘ ew York World. The procedure of this branch of the Jap- anese police is simple in the extreme. A lynx-eyed censor discovers an article which seems to his conservative notions :o threaten the stability of the government, to bring a minister into contempt or to foster improper agitation among the people. He extracts it and submits it to the director of the bureau, who probably takes counsel with the higher authorities. If the censor’s view is confirm- ed the editor of the paper is peremptorin but politely summonedâ€"everything is done politely in Japan, and I have no doubt that the school boy is politely birched and the criminal politely executedâ€"to appear at the department of police at a certain hour on a certain day. When that summons comes to' join the innumerable caravan of martyrs to a sense of journalistic duty he knows thatâ€" in the expressive language of the Boweryâ€"- he is a “goner.” “ Sir,” he is told, “ your1 estimable journal is suspended for so many days. Good-morning." Isnw the joke. It was the Bureau of News- paper Censorship, and those gentlemen with the spectacles and scissors and paste were examining all the newspapers of Japan for unreliable or seditious sentiments or im- proper criticism of ministerial and imperial afisirs. I was introduced, the twenty gentle- men rose simultaneously and the laugh be- came. generals “ This,” said my guide, waving his hand proudly over the piles of newspapers and the teapots of the censors, “ is an institution you have not yet reached in England.” ’ After visiting mnny court rooms we reach- ed a. room where twenty particularly intelli? gent looking cfficiale sat at both sides of a long table piled up with newspapers, eéissors, blue and red pencils,’paste pots and all the familiar equipment of the exchange editor‘s sanctum. 1 turned to my guides for an ex- planation, and chughh them regarding me and each other with amused smiles. Then The formility of an arrest, however. in the only amusing side of Japanese justice. If you follow the white clothed po.ioeman and his prisoner you will soon reach a polka station in which sit a dczen clerks and functioners hard at work at hooks and ac- counts and reports, with nothing except their physiognomy and the little teapot ard tobacco brazier beside each one to differ- entiate them from similar European tfiicielr. The prisoner will be taken before a superior officer, the charge against him noted down; he will be searched and then put in one of a dozen wooden cells. ten feet square per- hnps, separated from the central-pissage by great wooden bars reaching from flJOI‘ to ceiling, and making a. cell curiously like an elephant house, but providing admirably for ventilation in this hot climate. At the police station he may not be kept more than twenty four hours, and then he is re- moved to a central station on a. large scale minus the functionaries and plus the neces- sary arrangements for the dentention of prisoners for long periods. The courts are much like European courts. A Japanese policeman was never known to smile. but when he finds it necessary tn proceed to the extreme step of arresting a inwbreaker his face becomes clouded over with a psll of sor.‘ow and solemnity that would do credit to an Irish undertaker tak ing the coffin measurement of an archbishop Grasping the ofl’ender firmly with one hand with the other he extracts from an invisible pocket of great capacity a roll of strong cord. Whispering polite and minute directions in the ear of the victim, who obeys them with scrupulous consideration for the feelings of his csptor, he winds the cord several times around his waist and then attaches his wrists in optical contact with the small of his back Six feet of cord remain ; the pJIicem.in grasps the loose end, and bowing to the pris- soner with an " After you, sir," the pair much away in a touching-union of sadness and security. The neighborhood is paralg 2- ed during the performance. business is sus- pended and traffic is stopped. Lord Duffel-in Police in Japan. taugfit tn [flake butterr 313:] of his: quilizyvduring all seasons of the year. Denmark, which twenty years ago expert- ed bad butter of $420,000 annual value, last yqar expoxtad excellent butter of the value nf $2,600,(00. The improvement in quality has been mainly Wrought by a judicious ex- penditure of a sum not: exqeeding £11,000 a year in providing the country With dairy schools, where the pupils are traiged in the theory and pr'actiée of dairy‘work, and aye richness of effect: of this hafidwork Rigg- unsurpsssed in beauty and art by any of the treasured relics of the sixteenth cen» tury. For head garnitnre in full dress, we see visible indications of a return to narrow flower~wreaths, sometimes twa and three rows of fine blossoms going round Lhe head, after the fashion of the classic coif worn by the ancient Greeks. This, however, is a. spe- cial mode, adapted to the style and carriage of but few women. But more general, and much more simple, is the fashion of wearing an osprey of delicate flowers, or one large damask rose with foliage, This is the “Jan- ny Lind” fashion revived, and the cluster is worn on the left side of the head, just below the bump of caution. Nothing so useful, and at the ssme time so elegant, has appeared us yet this season as the embroidered French csshmeres. They are brought: out: in reseda, rosewood, gold, term coma, pine green, oliveâ€"in shor , all the newer art: colours. The embroidery is Worked in self coluured silks, exquisitely done, and the price of each psctern, though rather expensive at fi'st, pays for itself in the wear of the gown when made up. These dresses are charming in appearance, they do not wrinkle or soil quickly, and can, after long use, be cleaned (qnsl to new if desired. the mine ownerein Lancashire oil'uul m in- crease the pay of their men 5 [0‘ rent. ‘V|t’1- out condition, and even 10 per cent. if the mine owners in other parts of England made corresponding increase. But the conditions of mutual support made it imposaible for the Lancashire miners to accept this proposition, thoughit was understood that quite a number of them were favorable to it. The trouble with coal mining in England is that prior to 1875 the prices of coal were abnormally high, which led to the opening and develop- ing of a. large number of mines, so that the average output has frequently been consid- erably greater than the ordinary consump tion, thus leading to an inevitable decline in prices. If the coal strike .n England actually takes place, it will be the most formidable movement of organized labor that has ever occurred. It has been estimated that it would throw out of work 240,000 men and boys. representing with thhlr families, quite 1,000,000 peopl). The object of the pro- posed strike is to secure an increase in wages of 10 per cent, this corresponding to the refluction in wages that was made three years ago, At the timeof the cntdown the coal trade of England was in an exceedingly de- pressed condition, and it was generally ad- mitted, even by the miners themselves, that a reduction in wages was inevitable. But within the last twelve or eighteen months the coal business has improved, though the owners of the mines assert that the improve- ment consists in larger sales, bun not An in- creased prices. However, there Erwin to be a difference of opinion on this srubi ~ct, for Salt Lake, America's Great Dead Sea, ls mvsrerious, because covering as it does ‘2 500 square miles with an aver e depths of fortv feet, no man has yet foun its out let. Fresh stream! pom- int0'it from all ~ides, sud yet to day it is brlny as when irst discovered. It is one fifth pure salt, and [-0 dense is it that. it is impossible to dink in it. It hss puzzled scientists from all quarters of the globe to tell, what be- :omes of the water that constantly flews‘ into its capscious mew, and while some have given as 3 solution the possibility of a sub- Lerrnnean quiet, and some have accounted for its disappearance by solar evaporation, no absolute satisfactory theory has yet been designed for the lake maintaining its average Vulum: since its first dilcovery. Strange to relate, while there is no outlet to this saline mass there is yet a strong current found in two places. Old seamen who have navi- gated the lake for years have always held to the theory that this was the fastest water in the world for rowing; for two reasons. One of these was that the water being so buoyant 9. boat flould naturally float higher and therefore displace less water ; and the other, that the water being so dense the blade of the car necesssrily had much more purchase because cf the great resistance of the heaven water. It is further argued that the greater the speed of the boat the less the displacement; and hence the faster ouo‘ht to be the time made in covering a certain distance. One of the peculiarities of the lake is its proneness to sudden and tote.in unexpected storms. On the clearest possitle day, when not a cloud can be seen overhead and the sun is shining brightly, s. squall is liable to rise on the Water, and the wind has been known under these circum- stances to blow at the rate of sixty miles an hour. 'Ihese winds come from the mountain tops and hillsides which are only a few miles to (he eastward. Sometimes they rush down the narrow canons, and, stealing silently across the plains between the mountains and water, spend their force on a current of air coming across the lake from the north. At the point of contact the storm .will be terrific, and then there is gre it danger to unseaworthy vessels. The Coal Miner's strike America’s Dead Sea. Fashion Notes Do not listen to hear whom a. woman praises, to know where her heart is ; do not ‘for whom she expresses the moat earnest enthusiasm. Bntif there be one she once knew well, whose name she never speaks, if she seems to have an instinct to avoid every occasion of its mention ; if, when you speak, she drops into silence and changes the subject, why, look then. for something 2 -â€"j net as, when getting through deep meadow grass. a bird flies ostentationsly up before vou,yon may know her neat is not there, but far off under distant hills of fern and buttcrcun, through which she has crept, with a silent flutter in fee spotted breast, to not her pretty little fs's .hood before you. The first years of man must vision for the last. He that 21 cm: never be wise. The neiives of Honduran and uljoining countries take the fledglings from their nest: and bring them up on corn, boiled, ground, and mixed with water to the consistency or dough. They thrive well on it, and having had‘oue wing clipped, are left free in house and garden, subsisting on earthworms and other insects ; but they generally become in the end the prey of cats. The mocking bird selects some tree, par. ticularly that called palme. real. or royal palm. and makes it its headquarters as soon as the fruit is ripe, appaearing like clusters of golden berries beneath the broad waving leaves. The bird in possession of the tree devotes his time and attention to guarding the fruit. He cannot: possibly eat it all, but will allow no other a. share of it, and this is not so much because he thinks of 'the marrow as because he loves to dispute. he pretends to honor at home while all the time he is lying in wait. He will perch on the roof of the nearest house, or if away from habitstions, on another tree, keeping as silent as a. mouse does when u cat is hard by, not even indulging in “fortv winks.” :The instant some bright winged songster alights among that yellow fruit, down swoops, the watcher, and trouble ensues, generally ending in the unwelcome visitor being driven ofi‘ as hungry as he came, temper and feathers bath rufllad. Then back to the housetop or tree flies the mocker to await patiently another adversary. .vv This amusing songsser, so highly nsteemed in the countries to which in is imported, is almost as common in some parts of Central America as the robins are in our country lanes. Free in the Woods they learn to imitabe a number of birds so correctly as to deceive any one. The mocking bird is by no means weak or timid, and can defend itself against a score of other birds, as we have more than once had occasion to see. They are quarelsome, living alone, except at certain seasons when they seek mates, soon to seDarate again. “ Hate scarcely expresses his senti- ments," said the Captain, with a shrug. “It is curious. in all the delving and investigating oi the newspaper correspond- , cuts that the real reason has never been pub- ‘lished of the Crown Prince's antipathy to- ‘wsrd the English. He in of a peculiarly re- vengeful‘and resentful disposition, and his dislike for his mother's people dates hick from the moment of his birth. When it was i learned that the Empress Victoria was about i to give birth to a child, and to the probable heir to the throne of the German Empire, ‘ there was a great deal of excitement in Bar- ilin. The Empress. as you probably know, ‘ is a woman of strong mind. S18 is the old- lest daughter of Queen Victoria of England, and, over there, she ’inibibcd all snrts of notions concerning the superiority of woman to man, and the mission in life of l’hL Q ieen's daughter, and so on. The reuit was that, at an early period of her married lilo, she convinced Frederick that she munt have her own way at all hflzu'dfi, on] when she made up her mind on the eve oi the birth of her child that she must have an English physi- cian to attend her there was a. great skurry- ing and rushing around the palace. At the last moment an English physician was found and taken to the palace. He was clumsy and (xnted. Th: reeult was that when the child was born it was found that the surgical ins‘n uments had crushed his left M11 and hand. From the instant of his birih young Prince William's aim was withered. H: grew up a soldier in eveiy fiber of his hodv-a wonderful horseman, skiliul with his sword, and full of fire and dash. But, even at the outset of his'careei as an athlete and horsemen he found himself handicapped by the awful drawback of the withered arm. He was obliged to eat with a queer sort of combina- tion of knife and fork, which could be held- in one hand, and, for a long while, it was impossible for him even to h rid the reins of his hiirse in his left hand. B] dint of con. tinuous practice in developing the muscles that were not withered iii the hand and arm he su.ceeded in inquiring the grip on the reins, and he has it to this day. A species of blind and angry rage posscssed him that heâ€"the prospectivu heir of one of the great- est empires in the world, descendant of a line of kings extending over 900 years, and the possible future master of Europeâ€"should find himself crippled in the lace of every worldly adventage. By degrees rhis peculi- ar, sullen resentment for m hrcn he is notable settled upon the bungling physician who had caused him all this nimble, and thence, by easy stages, he grew to dislike not only the physician, but also the people of his race, and this feeling txiefldtd so far that William was actualiy and antflIly ant- agonistic to his own mother. because she was English born. Nothing on earth will ever convince him that the English are not in some way responsible for me Withererl arm." the CJPithl an that time. 'The whole civil- ‘ized World had its eyes centered on the Cmpibal of the German Empire, juat as it is to day, and the English-apaking world was particularly interested in the attitude of the Crown Princeâ€"the present Emperorâ€" toward the people of Great Britain. “ He hates the people across the channel, does he not ? ’ I asked. l I was uitc‘ng in the corridor of the K iiserho Hole] one night, in Berlin, when an ofiiJer of the Guard de Corps, with whom I was A. quainted, came in. He was commanding the escort of a distingiliahed foreigner at Berlin. who came to pay his respecfe to the new Emperor, Frederick. The officer nab down on a bench beside me, after sending up his cud, and, learning that the Ambassa- dor was still in bed enjoying his afternoon nap, we had a. talk about court matters in Germany. It was imposaible to hold a con- versation of interest on any other anhj 1‘03 at 9|..- r‘ -tn-| ,AnnL,r A The Mocking Bird on Guard. The Story of the Withered Hand. xorman must make pro- t. He that never thinks Love.