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SAPH. After a cycle of twenty-five centuries. in the same problem that formerly was preâ€" sented for solution to Ancient Greece Shall women with the advance of civilization move forward as the equal and true helpmate of man, or shall she be condemned to A sort. of birdâ€"cage life. born in a cage Accounting that to leap from perch to has again been solving Britain and her colonies, history Great viz ', and her colonies, perch _ Is act and joy enough for any bird. In the Homeric period the position of the Greek woman was simple and free. In the Iliad and Odyssey she is always treated with respect; unlike the great poems of modern Europe, they do not But with the advancing culture there inevitably arose the question, what shall be the Should she be adâ€" mitted to share this culture or be ex- Athens herself under the in- to exclude them. Sparta and the Dorian colonies, on the other hand, preferred It was only the Aeolian colonies, such as Mitylene, that undertook to admit the culture and the Nowhere else did women occupy what we should call a modern Among the Ioinans of Asia. according to Herodotus, the wife did not share the table of her husband; she dared not call him by his name but addressed him with the title of "Lord:" and this was hardly an exaggeration But among the Dorians of Sparta, and prob- ably among the Aeolians as well, the "mistress" not in subserviency, but after the mod- ern peasant fashion; Spartan mothers preserved a. power over their adult sons such as was nowhere else seen; the dignity of maidenhood was celebrated ' called "Parthenia," which were peculiar to Sparta; and the Women took so free a part in the con- versation. that Socrates in a half-sar- castic passage compares their qurifik- e permitted to share the meals of their husbands, and as a compensation, they made for their husbands such excellent bread that it has preserved its reputation for two- The old Greek poet Archestratus, who wrote a book on use go s were to eat bread they would send Her- mes_to the Aeolians to buy it, and ac- cording to "Travels and Discoveries in the Levant," the same excellent receipt And these women shared not only in the meals and labors of their husbands, but also in their intellectual pursuits. In short, the Spartan women were free, though ignorant, and this freedom the Athenâ€" But when . the equality a. step further, and to freedom added culture. the Athenians found it _ Such an innovation was equivalent to opening, toâ€"day, the Uni- verSities‘of Cambridge and Toronto to women, and to setting up the English theory of woman’s position against that contain an indelicate line. statues of women? eluded? fluence of Asiatic models decided to exclude the culture. women also. position. of the habits of Athens itself. husband called his wifé in public songs mass-of wit to that of the men. Aeolian women were also thousand years. art of cookery, said that if the and art is still in vogue. ians thought bad enough. the Aeolians of Mitylene carried in tolerable. of the French. In the present century such women as Charlotte Bronti, Elizabeth Brown- ing (of whom, on the occasion of her death, *an opponent of the rights agitation said: No more Aurora Leighs, thank God! of it all? She and her sex had better mind the kitchen), and George Elliot may be considered at the same time the product and cause of the continuation of the movement towards women's rights: So in the early centuries the elevation of the status of women proâ€" duced many women who were "divinely tongued." Of these Greek poetesses, the admitted chief was Sappho. Among the Greeks "the poet” meant Homer, and “the poetess" equally designated her. "There flourished in those days" said Strabo, writing a little before our era, "Sappho. a wondrous creature, for we know not any woman to have ap- peared Within recorded time, who was in the least to be compared to her in respect to poesy." The decaying Turkish village of Mity- lene marks the site of what was, some centuries before the Christian era, one of the great centres of Greek civiliza- tion. The great theatre of Mitylene was such a masterpiece of architecture, that the Roman Pompey wished to copy it in the metropolis of the world. The city was classed by Horace with Rhodes, Ephesus, and Corinth, yet each. of these laces we now remember for itself, whie we think of Mitylene only as the place “where burning Sappho loved and sung." The dates of the birth and death are unwrtain, but she lived somewhere between the years 628 and 57:3 B. 0., thus flourishing three or four centuries after Ilomer, and less than two centuries before Pericles. 0f the actual events of Sappho’s life al- most nothing is known, except that she had once to flee for safety from Mity- lenehto Slclly, perhaps to escape the political persecutions that prevailed. It is hard to ascertain whether she pos- sessed beauty even in her prime. Tra- dition represents her as being "little and dark," but tradition describes Cleo- , patra in the same way. and we should clearly lose much from history by i â€" noring all the execution done by smal brunettes. The Greek Anthology de- scribes her as “the pride of the lovely haired Lesbians," Plato calls her “the beautiful Sappho." After her return from her refuge in Sicily, she became the centre of a group of girls whom she taught the fine arts. Concerning the morality of this academy, opinions have varied. One critic has. pronounced it to have been a school of vice. The German professors sec in it a, school of science. Others think that it reâ€" sembled the Courts of Love in the Mid- dle ages. .But it seems evident that Sappho having undertaken the duty of instruction in the most difficult music, the most complex metres, and the proâ€" foundest religious rites, had on her hands quite too much work to have been exclusively a troubadour, a sav- ante, or a Sinner. Professor Felton says, "she has shared the fortunes of others of her sex, endowed like her With God's richest gifts of intelâ€" lect_and heart, who have been the Victims of mmorsoless calumny for asâ€" women 's A woman of real genius I know; but what is the upshot daring to compete \Vllll men in the struggle for fame anrl glory.” That a. high intellectual standard prevailed in this academy of Sappho‘s may be inferred from a fragment of her verse, in which she utters hcr dis-.pâ€" pointment over an uncultivated Woman. whom she had, perhaps, tried in vain to influence. This imaginary epitaph warns the pupil that SIJL'. is in danger of being forgotten through forgetful- ness of those Florian roses which are the Muscs’ symbol: ‘ "Dying she reposcs; Oblivion grasps her now; Since never Pierian roses \Vei‘c wreathed round her empty brow; She gocth unwcpt and lonely To Hades' dusky homes, And bodiless shadows only Bid her welcome as she comes." For sincerity, depth of feeling, and exquisite grace of form her lyrics stand alone among the masterpieces of anâ€" tiquity. Her poems were divided into nine books, according to their metres. Of the single complete poem that re- mains to us, it is safe to say that there is not a lyric in Greek literature, non in any other, which has by its artistic. structure, inspired more than the "Hymn to Aphrodite." The German critics, true to their national instincts, hint that she may have writâ€" ten some of heir verses, as exercises in different kinds of metre. It is as if Milton had written L'alleg‘ro in his character of pedagogue only to show where the rhymes came inl Let us then, in fancy, call around her, ‘at her abode in Mityleneâ€"eithcr in some garden of orange and myrtle, such as once skirted the city, or in that marble house which she called the dwelling of the Musesâ€"the. maidens who have come fgom different parts of Greece to learn 0 her. They have come from Miletus. from Salamius, from Pamphylia and. from the isle of Telos, E'rima and Damo- phyla study together the complex Sap- phic meters; Atthis learns how to strike the harp with the plectrum, Sappho’s invention: Mnasidica embroiders a. sacred robe for the temple. The teach- er meanwhile corrects the measures of one, the notes of another, the stitches of a third, then summons all from their work to rehearse together some sacred chorus or tem le ritual; then sto s to read a verse 0 her own, orâ€"must say itâ€"to denounce a. rival preceptress. For if the too fascinating Andromeda has beguiled away some favorite pupil to one of those rival feminine academies. then Sappho may at least wish to re- mark that Andromeda does not know how to dress herself. "And what wo- man ever charmed thy mind" she says to the vacillatin pupil "who wore a. vulgar and tasteieg dress, or did not know how to draw her garments close about her ankles?" ' The. most interesting intellectual fact in _Sappho's life was doubtlem her re- lation to her great townsman Alcaeus. These two will always be united in fame as the joLnt founders of the lyric poetry of Greece and therefore of the world. The name of Alcaeus is well preserv- ed to Anglo-Saxons through an imita- tion of a fragment of one of his works by Sir \Villiam Jonesâ€"the noble poem “\Vhat constitutes a state?" It is worth while to remember that we owe thiesefine lines to the lover of Sappho. His life_ was much spent amid political convulswns, in which he was promin- §311L and in spite of his fine verses it is suspected, from the evidence remain- ing. that he was a. good deal of a fop and not much of a. soldier; and it is as _well perhaps that the lady did not smile .upon him even in verse. Their loves rest after all rather on tradition than on direct evidence; for there remain to us only two verses that .Alcaeus addressed to Sappho. The one is a compliment, the other is an apology. The compliment is found in one graceful line, which is perhaps her best. description: ‘ “Violet-crowned, pure, sweetly smilâ€" ing Sappho." The freshness of those violets, the charm of that smile, the assurance of that purity all rest upon this one line and rest securely. If every lover hav- ing thus said in three epithets the whole story about'his mistress, would be con- tent to retire in oblivion and add no more, what a comfort it would be! Al- ‘caieus, unfortunately went one phrase further, and therefore goes down [to future ages not only as anardent lov- er but also as an unsuccessful one. For he addresses Sappho agains as follows: "I wish to speak, but shame restralns my tongue." _Now this apology may have had the smelest possible occasion. Alcaeus may have breakfasted in the garden. With her and her maidens, and may havespilledsome honey from Hymeitus on a crimson-bordered veil from Eresus. But it is recorded that the violet- crowned thus answered: “If thy wishes were fair and noble, and thy tongue designed not to utter what is base, shame would not cloud thine eyes, but thou wouldst freely speak thy just de- sires." Never was re roof more exquis- itely uttered. But " the occasion was indeed but trifling, it is rather refresh- ing to find theselgifted lovers in the very morning of Civilization, simply re- hearsing Just the dialogue that goes on between every village school-girl and her awkward swain. when he. falters and "fears to speak,” and says finally the wrong thing, and she blushinglyi answers "you ought to be ashamed." But whether the admiration of Al- caeus was more or less ardent, it cer- tainly was not peculiar to him. There were hardly any limits to the enthusâ€" iasm habitually expressed in ancient times for the poetry of Sappho. In re- spect to the abundance of laurels, she stands unappi‘oached among women, lawgiver, Solon, that he expressed the Wish that he might not die till he had learnt it by heart. Grammarians lec- tured on her poems and wrote essays even to the. present day. One of her poems is said to have so affected the on her metres, and her image appeared on at least six different coins of her native land. And it has generally been admitted by modern critics that "the loss of her poems is the greatest over which we have to mourn in the whole range of Greek literature. It is odd that the most direct report left to us of Sappho's familiar conversa- tion should have enrolled her among those enemies of the human race, who give out conundrums. Or rather it is in this case a riddle of the old Greek fashion, such as the Sphinx set the example of propounding to men, before devouring them in any other way. It has been rendered thus: SAPPHO'S RIDDLE. There is a feminine creature, who bears in her bosom a voiceless brood; yet they send forth a clear voice over sea and land. to whatsoever mortals they will; the absent hear it, so do the deal. It appears that somebody tried to enthusiasm i sorting the prerogatives of genius andlgucss it. The feminine creature, he thought, was the state. The brood must be the orators, to be sure, Whose voices reached leyond the seas as far as Asia and Thrace, and brought back thence something to their own advantage; while the community sat deaf and dumb amid their railings. 'l'liis seemed'plaus- iblc but somebody else objected to the solution, for whoever heard of an orat- or being silent until he was put down by force? All of which seems quite mod- ern. But he gave it up at last and ap- pealed to Sappho, who thus replied;â€" A letter is a thing essentially fem1n_ ine in its character. It; bears a brood in its bosom, named the alphabet. They are voiceless. yet speak to whom they will; and if any man stand next to him who reads, will he not hear? It is not an exciting species of wit. Yet this kind of riddle was in immense demand in Greek society. and "'if _you make believe very hard its quite nice." While this memorial of Sappho remains, her solemn hymns and Epithalamia or marriageâ€"songs, which were almost the first effort toward dramatic poetry, are lost forever. In none of the fragments of her work is mentioned the name of Phaon, who is represented by Ovid as having been her lover, and modern critics deny his existence. But to lose her fabled leap from the Lcucadian promontory would doubtless be a greater sacrifice; it_ formed so much more effective a termination for her life than any novelist could have con- trived. It is certain that the leap it- self as a. Greek practice was no fable; sometimes it was a form of 'SlllClde, sometimes a religious incantation, 'and sometimes again an expiation of crime. But it is certainly hard to believe that the most Iovelorn lady, residing on an island whose every shore was a. preci- pice, and where her lover was at hand to feel the anguish of her fate, would take ship and sail for weary days over five hundred miles of water to seek a. more sensational rock. .One German writer on Sappho thinks it Is as if a. lover should travel from the Rhine to Niagara to drown himself. But whether by the way of the'Leuca- dian cliff or otherwise, Sappho is gone with her music and songs, her pupils and the very city where she dwelt, and all but the island she loved. It is some- thing, howcver, to be able to-record that twenty-five centuries ago in that re- mote. nook among the Grecian Isles. a woman's genius could play such apart in moulding the great literature that has moulded the world. FEW DO IT. The. Pcome Who nejolce In Adverslty Ari- Vcry Seal-cc. There is still existing a manuscript letter written by Sir Thomas More to his wife, Alyce, when the news came to him that. his great mansion at Chel- sea, with its Offices and huge granaries. had been almost destroyed by fire. Instead of lamenting over his loss, he bids her first “find out if any poor neighbors had stored their corn in the granaries,” and if so, to recompense them. Secondly. to discharge no ser- vant until he have another abiding- place; and lastly, to “be of good cheere, and take all the howsold with you to church, and there thank God for what) Hee hath given us, and what Hee hath left us." He urges her, "I pray you, Alyce, with my children, to be men in God." Most of us, if We had ost property and home in a night, would think we did well if we were patient under God’s will; but to be cheerful, and even "merry" in Him, is an almost forgotten girace. I Robert Louis Stevenson. in a prayer written for his family on the night beâ€" fore his death, asked' that when the day returned it should find them strong to endure if it brought sorrow, and eag- er to be happy if happiness were their portion. . “\Vhy,” asked a Hindu sage, "why are the Christians melancholy men? If I believed as they say, that the great God was my father and that His Son was my Elder Brother, I should not groan though I lost a few bushels of wheat, or even an eye. I should be of all men most happy and gay. They do not believe what they say. David, whose life was full of struggles and griefs and sins, taught the world its hymns, full of a mighty, joyous thanksgiving. . _ Paul in prison, knowmg'that death in its most painful shape might be near, could exliort his friends'not only to be patient, but to "rejOioe in the Lord alâ€" ways. And again I say,” he adds. ur- gently, "Rejoice." Most men will laugh when they are well-fed and their lives are comfortâ€" able, but it is a. different thing to sing in prison, or when one's home is burn- ing to find time to be kind to_ the. poor and "merry in God," like old Sir Thom- as More. n TRICKY TREE CRAB. flow the Naillve Africans Stop Ills hep- rcllailions. In Africa there exists a certain memâ€" l-cr of the crab genus commonly known as the gieat tree crab. This peculiar shellfish has a trick of crawling up the cocoanut tree, biting off the cocoanuts. and then creeping down again back- wards. The theory is that the nuts are shattered by the fall, and the great lice crab is thus enabled to enjoy a hearty meal. The natives who inhabit the regions infested by this illâ€"conditioned crab are well aware that the lower portion of the crab’s anatomy is soft and sensi- tive, and they believe that the crustacâ€" ean was thus constructed in order that, .he might: know when he reached the ground, and when, consequently, he might with safety release his grasp of the trunk. So what they do in order to stop his depredalions, which often ruin the co- coaiiut crops, is this: \\'liile the crab is engaged E'ii nipping off the cocoanuts they climb halfâ€"way up the trees and drive a row of long nai :3 right around the tree, allowing an inch the nails to project. The crab has no knowledge of disas- ter, nor yet of the fitness of things. As he descends, the sensitive part of his body touches the nails. Thinking he has reached the ground be naturally lets go. Instantly he falls backwards or so of and cracks his own shell on the ground. IS THE GREAT MOA EXTINCT ? Travellers Say That the Blrul May Still Exist In New chlnml. Every one who has read the won- derful adventures of Sinbad the Sail- or, as narrated in the "Arabian Nights," remembers the great white roc, the gigantic bird which enabled Sinbad to make his escape from the valley which was paved with diamonds. But how many know that within the present generation there has been seen a huge feathered creature, twelve to six- teen feet high, and in comparison with which the ostrich is a. pigmy? The bird referred to is the great moa, and it is not at all positive that it is extinct toâ€"day. As late as 1882 Prof. Owen expressed the opinion that the bird could be found in some of the re- mote districts of New Zealand. When Rev. \V. (‘olcnso was travelling in New Zealand, the natives told him of a strange, uncanny creature that they had lately seen on Mount Whakapunki. They said its body was like that of a gigantic rooster and that it had a face like a man’s. They said that it lived on air and was constantly guarded by two huge 'l‘ualaras. The natives did not dare go near the home of the creature, expressing the fear that they would be trampled to death. u According to the Bishop of VVaiapu,in the year 1872 an Englishman heard that a moa had been seen in the vicinity of Cloudy Bay, Cook's Straits. In com- pany with another Englishman he started in search of it. Arriving in the neighborhood where it had been seen they caught sight of the bird, which they declared was fourteen or sixteen feet high. So startled were they by its enormous size and terrifying aspect that they made no effort to capture it,and it disappeared among the trees. In 1863 a party of miners crossed the hitherto hnpassabe lmountain range which runs the whole length of Middle Island. There they discovered traces of an enormous bird, and while sitting around the camp one eveningrhey saw the creature on a. knoll a short dis- tance away. The bird seemed fascinâ€" ated by the glare of the camp fire,and remained motionless for awnsiderable time, but finally stalked away. It had along, flat head, which it can ried inclined forward and not erect like birds of the ostrich kind. They judged that its height was nine feet. The foot- prints showed three claws about twelve inches apart, with a. pad and a spur about the same distance in the rear. Walker Mantel] found a gigantic egg in the volcanic sand in New Zealand, the diameter of which was as great as his hat. Bones of the moa. have been found in New Zealand in great quanâ€" tities, many of them so large as to justify the description given by the Englishmen as narrated above. ._._â€"â€"__ THE LETTERS “J” AND “W.” They Are (‘omparaflvcly Modern Additions to the Alphabet. It is a fact, not so well known, but that it may be said to be curious, that the letters jand w are modern addi- tions to our alphabet. The letterj only came into general use during the time of the commonwealth, say be- tween 1649 and 1658. From 1630 to 1646 its use is exceedingly rare, and I have never yet seen a. book printed prior to 1652 in which it appeared, says a writer in the New York Mer- cury. ‘ In the century immediately preceding the seventeenth it became the fashion to tail the last i when Roman numerâ€" als were used, as in this example: viij., for 8 or xij. in place of 12. This fash- ion still lingers, but only in physicians' prescriptions, I believe. Where the French use jit has the power ofsas we use it in the word "vision." \V'hat nation was the first. to use it as a. new letter is an interesting, but perhaps an unanswerable query. In a like manner, the printers and language makers of the latter part of the sixteenth century began to recog- nize the fact that there was a. sound in spoken English which was without a representative in the shape of an alphabetical Sign or character, as the first sound in the \voi‘d "wet." Prior to that time it had always been spelled as "vet," the v having the long sound of u or of two u’s together. in order to convey an idea of the new sound they began to spell such words as "wet," "weather," ‘web,’ etc., with two u's, and as tho uof that date was a typical v the. three words above looked like this: "Vvel." “vveather,” "vveb." After a while the type founders re- cognized the fact that the double u had come to stay, so they joined the two u’s together and made the characlei‘ now so well known as the w. I have one book in which three forms ofthe w are given. The first in an old double y (vv). the next. is one. in which the last stroke of the first v crossed the first stroke of the second, and the third is the common w we use tu-day. SUMMARY PUNISHMENT. Sir Frederick Carrington, now in charge of the military operations in Matabeleland, had a summary method of maintaining discipline among his un- ruly followers. \Vhen an offender was brought up before him, he would sit solemnly in Courtâ€"martial, and the change was recited. "Did you do it?" he would say. “Yes, Sir." was the re- ply. It was not. much good to say “No.” “Oh, you did, did you?’_’ Il‘hen flake that.” rWherwith Carrington would rise in his might: and thrash the cul- prit until he considered him sufficiently punished. 4-,. CASEY AT LEISURE. Burkeâ€"l heard yez are on a shtrlke, Casey? Caseyâ€"I am. I hours. Biirkcâ€"An' (lid ycz git thim? Caseyâ€"I did. Shure Tm not wur-rk- in at all now. shtruck fer shorter 7 desperate opposition to FAMOUS MEN AND WOMEN ABOUT WRITERS. KINGS. SOLDIERS AND NOTED PEOPLE. An Aged Blcycllslâ€"The German Kaiser'- ankâ€"Thc Late Shah's Crueltyâ€"Tho Largest Royal Familyâ€"Cause of Baron lllrnch’s Death. ‘15, die. Prince Bismarck is said to earn about $175,000 ayear from the varioul industrial undertakings in which he is a participant. Count Tolstoi, who went among “39 bicyclists last year, aged sixty-seven recently applied in Moscow for the permit which wheelmen need who wish to ride within the city limits. “You, young men," said the Bishop of Derry to a congregation of under- graduates in St. Mary’s church, 0x- ford "are very proud to call yourselves agnostics. It’s a. Greek word, I don’t:. think you are equally fond of its Lat.- in equivalent, ‘ignoramus.'" It is said that President Kruger. of the Transvaal Republic, has confined his reading to the Bible, and "Pil- grim’s Progress” until recently. when somebody gave him one of Mark Twain’s books. The humour of tho American joker happened to hit th- slowâ€"galng Boer in the right place, and he has purchased a. full set of MN Clemen's books. ~ Armand and Raymond Forest, the. two foster children of Baron and Baroness de Hirsch, are respectively. *ightcen and sixteen years old. They up both Protestants, and were not: legally adopted, it is said, owing to some technical difficulty, but the Baron and Baroness regarded them as their own children. They will. of course, inherit a large amount of money. The German Kaiser’s luck in lotteries is phenomenal. The annual ballot for pictures has just taken place in the society known as the "Kunst-Freunde," and among seventy prizes and some thousands of blanks no fewer than eight fine pictures fell to the lot of His Maj- esty, while the Kaiserin won one fine engraving. Every year the Kaiser's luck excites the same respectful‘envy from people who never win anything. Viscount de Santa Thyrso. the new. Minister from Portugal to the Unit- ed States, is only thirtyvtwo years old, a. young man to occupy so pro« minent a. place. He belongs to a. wealthy and aristocratic fannly, and was created a Viscount a few years ago because of services in connection with his diplomatic work. He was for a time Secretary of Legation at London. The Viscountess was Miss (iétlil‘l‘lla Jervis d’Althongina Ferre- ira Pinto, daughter of the Portugese Consul-General in London. She was ed- ucated in part in England and speaks English fluently. . There is a curious coincidence about the place Where the late Shah met his death. On that very spot some years ago a numl er of sol liei's presented him” with a petition asking for arrears 0! pay. The Shah was furious at their temerity, and ordered that they be torâ€" tured where they had addressed him. Some were strangled and others had their ears cut off. His Majesty’s much- talked-ot reforms consisted of introduc- ing electric light into his palace and es- tablishing a. bank. The Golden Rose which the Pope be- stows every year upon some Cath'olia princem, will this year be given to the Princess of Bulgaria, who, after her the .orthodox christening of her little son,Pi‘ince Bor- is, has become "persona grahsstma." at the Vatican. The Golden Rose, or the Rose of Virtue, was established to marl! the highest type of character, and the practice of presenting it dates from the thirteenth century. It is a. rose- tree formed of wrought gold and bless- ed with much solemnity by the Pope in person on the fourth Sunday in Leht, which is called, from the first word in the servme for the festival. "Laetare Sunday." Henry VIII, of England. had the Golden Rose bestow- ed on him three times. Other recipi- ents have been Maria Theresa, Napol- eon III. and the present Queen of the Belgians. , Queen Victoria has the distinction of having the largest royal family circle in Europe. Her Majesty’s family num- bers fifty living descendants, includ- ing sons. daughters, grandsons and grantlaugliters, greatâ€"grandsons and greatâ€"granddaughters, Besrdes these shi‘ has four sonsâ€"in-law and four daughters-inâ€"law. The Queen has lost one son and one daughter, five grand- sons, one granddaughter, one great- grandson and one sonâ€"in-law. If these were living her family circle would. number seventy-four. There are now, seventeen members of the royal family who are possible successors to the throne. The next largest royal famâ€" ily is that of Denmark. King Chris- tian has SIX children and twenty grandâ€" children. i'l‘he oldest royal house in Europe is that of the ducal house of Mecklenburg, which traces its descent from Guiseric, who sacked Home A. D. 455. r M. de Pazmandy,the celebrated Hun- garian member of Parliament and an intimate friend of the late Baron Hir- sch, asserts that the death of the lat ter was caused by a. Violent. fit. of rage into which he fell on finding how he had been cheated and deceived'in the purchase of the estate uponlwhich his chateau, O'Gyakei, was being bliilt and which had already cost $160,000. He had sold his beautiful and extenSive property of St. Jean, Situated on the banks of the river March, because it was so damp, and had given orders that in buying another site-one should be chosen with a sandy s01], iii-being his intention later on to turn his new ac- quisition into a hospital for children, He was first. informed by M.de Pazman‘ (ly to the extent his orders had been disobeyed, that the new property was damper than St. Jean and absolutely unfit for the hospital project. Upon hearing this the Baron started im- mediately for O'Gyakei, where. on veri- fying the truth of his friend's report, he gave way to such angcr and indig- nation that it terminated fatally 1st Edition.