on | fore we would let her stop. se ead {but so ip 1 me, that Internal Papp) {bad s way i him that er what Ed y, was the green glory of the two coddling way a certain class of women Bave, and Homphreys-he was a for ward imp-slipped the ring on her { looked.” RdAith’s mother was with os | thaperoning the party, but nobody ex- cept me seemed to have any evil | thoughts, and I even suspected myself. | anything move thrilling than small crevice : kept up a protty sendy ex change of rather tropiesl compliments, { we all went inte the music roots for a ‘a | song. I think there were eight besides | + | young people of the very best families ain Cincirmati, and all old friends ex- in | tept Hamphreys and the New Orleans Pousin. a conldu’t help figuring him out as an In. a | terioper, a misfit, & what you might call ‘cheap skate’ : | ¥Now for the ugly part of {+ Some | body maked Edith to xing a ballad and | of course we all insisted, She sat down {10 the plano. fingered the keys & mo ment, 100k off the beautiful marquise ring. Iaid it on the top of the instru. yey | ent, and began to play and slog. I think she played four or five things he She was an exquisite pianiste and one of those amiable girls who Joved 10 give pleas ure without being cossed. Bhe didn't t| require any notes. and as sbe played 1 wwe wandered abont the big room or sat stil fo snjoy the effect. 1 nothend | that some of the girls couldn't resist d | picking up the ring. They were all en. {vious of it. and if I'm not mistaken y | Humphreys stood for quite a while | {near the plano. At any rate it was | during the music that I got my only 1 | chance to whisper to Corinne Forgeron. | Phreys must have been by the plano, 1 Bhe langlied at first and called on as to ‘quit joking.” but when we had lighted sll the lights and crawled all | movable, poor Edith began to pout, jand, well, you can imagine how we fell § No servant had entered the rooms. The top of the plano was closed, ft was an ‘apright one, and we moved the instru ‘ment four times in the valn search other. 1 The girls looked mystified and Only Humphrers kept up his everybody knew it was thoe to go. I, for one, wan convinced that there was 1a thief in the company, and naturally {1 suspected it was Edith's fiance, whom I bated cordially. Finally, in a burst 3} of long suppressed anger, | suggested | that the men should retire to the parlor {and search one gnother. That raade the girls angry, and Edith began to a lot of whipped curs. all but Hom phreys. He bad the impudence to keep reassuring us, said that no doubt the Pring would ‘turn up.’ and so forth, till 1 felt like choking him. soniething to poor Edith about her ‘carelessness,’ and. upon my word if Fannle Ziegler wasn't hanging to my arm I'd have smashed him one then ard there 4: “But we all went home then, and, to {Orleans and called at the Forgeron mansion to see the tawny creole. I. ‘F didn’t stay five minotes, { ward mine, hut before 1 touched it 1 psnw the ring. | ‘Hont soit qui mal ¥ pense” but, fel rimmed with Samonds, but the pect: Harity of It. and I think fits chief & lar or an imbeclls”—John H. Raf * emeralds set at the far ends of the ob- | long. Corinne looked at it and then at} | Homphreys in that awful way these| J women with velvet eyes dave, and| sald: ‘I'd say yes myself to a ring lke] that’ Then sbe laughed in that Umpkl, PRE ail Ceveing man wih i had been &. guest in the house of which the woman fs mistress, says the Ban gor News. “She and her good husband are entitled to the best earth can pro duce. They have labored together and {plamp, white finger ‘to see how it forty years of married life. + “We got back to the honse weithout | ; + : : they bad reached the long desired but | in talk, and after a nice little supper at | went journeying beyond the sea. wife began lamenting. The splendor | ith's mother in the party, all nice | Ed pasy. upon her vision like an unexpected dream of beauty. visited Paris long ago? : She fitted in all right. at least | hief | With the men. but Humphreys just ‘she saw pntil her fine old husband told her to go and order what she wanted the evening of their lives, neighbors, and the fown paper prineed | pieces about the Parisian purchase and | the whole village was standing tiptoe ‘Awaiting the coming importation. Only | rificed. Some of ft was sold and some ally the French outfit reached its des tinatien, sat up. As an old friend I was In | the w the furnit had drawers that the ure had | de undermined Weibeck ADDEy With | shipped to France snd there sold ss : } my cuff butions up to my shoulder. . { Bot as Michigan a a pretty big State, the middleman is ware to go op agalust Lr ; Freyer-bas introduced a process for That's what makes me thisk Hum | paiow. | “When Edith got through playing | and looked for ber ring It was gone! ment ia therefore singularly pure and over the floor and lifted everything ment in regarded more seriously than The men looked sheepishly at one an | front. Noboily wanted to go first, and nessa and other qualities, wocld seem ery. At last we all retired. feeling like | Then he said him be stooped down and picked up: laction of about I50¢ of all sorts and Bliss two months when t got an invita. | fon to the wedding of Corinne Forger ‘on to Herbert Humphreys! 1 conldn’t £0 to it and wouldn't it 1 comld, but I was snmmonoed just then to Washing. ton, and, Just for ‘ meanness—for I Hated them both—1 dropped off at New “Hho put out her big white hand to- It may be a case of lTows, If it wasn't poor Edith's ring I'm tery, in the Chicago Record Herald. YANKEE FRENCH FURNITURE. Household Goods Bought = Paris Tars Out to Be Made by a Michigan Factory. “There is one woman fn Michigan who will never spend any more money had a variety of experiences in their “Less than a year ago they thought ssually receding time which men and | ; down and take their ease. Bo they | “When they got to Parls the good | of the shops slong thi bonlevards burst Why bad they not | “Now her crochet was furniture, and | you know that Frencth furniture sim- ply makes a woman stand stiff. This good woman talked about the farniture and they would biave it to enjoy in| “When they got home they told their ten years before they bad refurn thelr home out of the factories at | Grand Eapids. Al this bad to be sac of it was parcelléd out as gifts. Fino “1 wan in town while ft was being vided to see the linported goods and £31 dinner. “Ome of the articles was a handsome | dresser. My friends were not content with having me look at the article but T minst inspect It. Bo far as my spection also caused] me to think better | of my mechanical friends In this coun | try, for 1 made the discovery by » trade mark on the bottom of one of been tarned out In Grand Rapids, Parisian handicraft, *As an American I Iaughesd from and lots of people go abroad and buy | on the other side, | bave no hesitation | in telling the story. I quite agree with my host, who said: "Between the cute. ness of thore ebapy in Grand Rapids, and the gliboesa of a Parla dealer, Forveslain Violins, A well known manufacturer of mush | cal Instruments In Germany Max making violins from clay. These 6d. | dies are of the onlinary pattern, but are cast in molds, an that each Matern. | ment Is an exact counterpart of it It Is sald. but it ts somewhat bard to wlieve, that the porcelain body wood, and that the tone of the instru. full, The same thventor ia alse making mandoline of china clay, and It seems that they are much appreciated in southern countries where this instru itis in Britain. The obvious disadvan. tize of a musical Instrogent being | but both these drawbacks seem to have been forgotten. For some time we Bave beard rotors of post excel | lent vicline being made of alumininm, | and this metal from its extreme Heghs | to be admirably adapted tn such a pur | pose. ~Chambers's Journal | | i | * They Do Drop Them About’ A curious old fadidist Is to be met with in the streets of Birmingham. who goes about marmuring, “They do | drop them about.” “They --ladies, and | “them -~hatrpias, of which the old gen | tlerman has a fine ollection. Between Five Ways and Broad Sirest Corper, a distance of about a mily, as he in formed a friend. Lie had picked up no fewer than a dozen. As the friend left] another, repeating the while, do drop them about.” “They He has a ob sizes. Liverpool Pos ASIN ne ie Jtave” gets as a better rewonator than one of | markable tale mtd long passages Londen eccupled by the bagaar of the ‘elder Droce was also undermined with made of china olay is the brittleness. of that material, as well as {ts wolght, | kl Ir wi John AMthor Ohaies 3 | James Cavendish-Bentinek sleeps more i a « sonndly than formerly there is good ronson. His right fo the title and prop ‘arty of the Duke of Portiand has been confirmed hy & British tribunal The claim of Mrs Anna Maris Druce that her son, Sidney George Druce, a gillor boy In Australia, is the rightfol duke, has been repudiated. William John and so forth retainn famons Wel ‘beck Abbey and the title of Marquis of | & Tichfield, Ear] of Portland, Yiseount k. Baron Cirencester, Knight oie eter ete, not to mention & ‘triding income of $2,000,000 ® Jour from the dukedom. oh : odom of roudest Cf i ecm in one. of the pro the | his Jife, and to have died childless, richest. The present duke succeeded to the title on the death of the fifth! | duke In 1870. and bis right was not questioned until Mrs. Druce appeared | oh the scene. Mra Druce is the widow of & legitimate son of Thomas Charles Toruce, # merchant on Baker street, London. The elder Droce in ; supposed to have dled In 1884, leaving a will] bhequeathiog his property to Herbert Druce an illegitimate son. Mrs. Druce ‘hrought a sult to lave Thomas C, - Druce’s estate awarded fo her son as | he legitimate heir, but she has just heen defeated in the Probate Court. ‘In support of her suit Mrs. Drocel For up the remarkable claim that Thomas C. Droce was really the fib Duke of Portland, who did not die nntll 18T0, She asserted that the al Jeged burisl of Diruce in 1564 was a frandulent affair. sand that the coffin} was loaded with lem pipe instead of a corpse. Hor explanation of this double life was as follows: “The marriage on October 30 1951. at New Windsor, Berkahire, between my late husband's father and ‘mother, nm which the names were recorded as Thomas Charles Druce and Annte May, was in reality between the Marquis of of the fifth Bar! of Forkeley. “The marquis and his brother. Lord George Bentinck, wire both in love with the same woman. but wills the younger's sult received the approba- tion of her father tho latter not only Asconraged the desire of the sldest| son, bot trested him with insult and peforrial In very gross terms to a skin disease from which he suffered The climax to the quarrel between the tw brothers wus reached September 21, C1848. when Tord George was found dead near Walbeck Abbey--it was stated from a spasm of the heart Whether this was the trae anus of bis death will never be known, but it jin certain that from that time my husband's father suffered the keenest friends are concerned, I shall miways | TOD9Fse and abject fear. regret that 1 consented, Bot the in | “He took various courses for his pro. fection, and, adopting the name of Thomas Charles Druce, transferred ‘to himself as Druce an immense prop- erty from himself as Duke of Port Iand. You know the manver in which subterranean apartments. He did pre elnely the same thing with the Baker - street basaar, his desire in each ease] being that be might always have ready ‘8 place of refuge. : “Realizing the risk of exposurs fo which he was subjecting himself by his double sitistence. he determined to fend bis ifs as Druce and caused a coffin to be buried with his supposed remaine. Even after this his fears were not quieted. At last he deter mined to assume madness, that, should ‘Be ever be acensed of crime, he might have the plea of Insanity to fall back upon. Taking the name of Harmer £nd conducting himself In the most extravagant manner, he cansed himself to be placed upder the eare of Dr. Forbes Winslow and snccesded entirely | In eouvincing that geatieman of his madpess. Bat after about a year of iscareeration he ‘wan permitted to © There wers many peculiar cfrenm- tances to lend plausibility to this re It 1s well known that | the ffth Duke of Portland was an ex evedingly eccentric character, and that he did honeycomb the grounds about Welbeck Abbey with great chambers The building In a labyrinth of tunnels, whose purpose Wits not apparent en casual observa | tion, He had a mansion in London sor Fo rounded by a Righ wall, which shut out prying eyes, and it was supposed he Ment to hls town house, but Mra. Deuce Cofferad another theary. She declared | that when the Duke disnpreared from the splendid abbey he made his way into the Baier street lasaar through one of Hs hidden tunnels and beecama transformed for the time being into tht tradesman, Thomas Charles Drues. After attending to basiitess for 8 time the merchant woul! disappear by war | of his labyrinth, be goue for seversl weeks, and then retusn to resume the conduct of his affairs, ss though he had been absent only a few hours Mrs. Druce made desperate efforts to have the cuthin of the elder Diruce Gnearthed for examination, staking her tase on the belief that it would be found to contain a quantity of lead ‘Pipe instead of the remains of a human ‘body. One wuld supose the man : ; | whe bad ot the 1557 towns in New England wo trie character. world knew, { court and did not niingle in society. | ponal Interviews with him, land. The fifth Duke of Portland, who Aled tn 1870, wus an excondingly eocens quarter of a century he lived the iife of a recluse, wo far as the outside He was never scen at Even his lawyers were not allowed por- He was to have licen a bachelor all ‘was public rumor thit he was a oi which may be ths foundation of Mrs. Druon’s charge concerning thie offensive #kin disease of Lord George. ownership of a large part of London, | und a city rent roll bringing in 81. 500,000 a year in tine led the world { to socept the Duke's eccentricition asa ‘But the matter of course, The Duke had a passion for archi tecture, apd much of his vast income Was spent on the estate ans its build- It in estimated that he spent | from $10,000.000 12 $15.000,000 on his | ing subterranean works alone, There is a subtérriinean plefure gal- lery that is larger than any other pris wate gallery (n Buogland, Among the other underground halls were a large | riding room, a dining room, a ball room, a chapel and baths like those of the Romans. | There is a mage of private tunnels, through which threo persons can walk abreast. They are ehmfortably heated | and are lighted like the roain tunnel AIL this 1a a remarkable. monument to human eccentricity, but none of the inte Duke's friends apparently sus | 1 pected that remdniy was gnawing at | G08 [8 given the cows it will his vitals or that hi had constructed Titchfield, afterward the fifth Duke of | °° Wonderful and splendid labyrinth Portland, and the Hlegitimate daughter | as & refuge. It was the famine Bes of Hardwick who bought the sity and remains of | the oid Premonsiratensian Abbey of Welbeck for her son, Bir Charles Cave Cendish. Walbeck Albey, which had no abbot for centuries, Is in Robin Hood's It stands pear the centre of | what was Sherwood Forest, where | Robina amd his mers men were wont Bi to despoll the rich to help the poor. Weibeek Park, which contains a part of Bherwond Forest, is one of (le on ast woodlands in the Kingdom. The | chief of the oaks ln the Greendale, The | which, under the strict sopiatration ye laws of England, must erist some | where if the merchant was a distinct ‘personality instead of the duke mas querading as a shopkreper. i He succeciled to the title and vast estates in 1854, and for bie 1 ee the ides | them very satisfactory. —J. A. Wodd ly secured 2% 10 some Industries { the firm is a sure source of ine Though the profits of some years Be but little, yet the gains are It | tive, the fertility added to being a future store from which draw. In some occupations panies ‘business depressions bring ruin the merchant or manufacturer, but farm remains as 8 source of reven for {iw owner, and that which m have been years accumuinting 1s res und avatlable at any time. Why Butter is Bitter. There is always more or Jess plant 16 winter about: bitter buttie - and wonder {3 expressed why It shou ‘be so. Butter very easily gots “off fav and ¢ne principal cause is a rant ot p proper cleanliness in the stables the milk ts being drawn. The rank odors and Alth of « ste very caslly Infect milk with a | which remains with It until it to the churn, and then a peculiar is transferred to the butter: no a of rinsing and washing ean remove The secret Hew In not allowing t Ath to fall into the pall, and In vihg the stables proper ventilation and thér ough dally cleaning. : It 8 suBiclent: Aaount of good § vent the filth from coming in tie Re with the milk. So This may seem a small matter. when the butter goss tis market the & ‘act difference between pure and pure favors in it will make the ¢ ence In prices that are offered — Datryman. Surmertions Yor Waktu axing Wire ¥ riven a the spring ne soon an the Isout of the ground. It will Detter fence If the wire 1s ot put legend runs that a huge opening was | _, made through its trunk, siready gap nz In order that the first Duke of | Portland might win bis bot thet a car | © riage and four might drive through I | That was in 1724 The Ath Duke of Portinnd was wil i fam Jobin Cavendish Scott Bentinek. | He was born in 1800, sucveedsd to the |" title In 1801 and dled In 14TH. He was |. =~ buried at Kensal Green. His sueces | | BOT, the present Drike, was cousin his third | He was born In 15567, and ny 1800 married Winifred, daughter of | Thomas Dalles Yorke of Louth, ane |® of the hundsomest women in England. | The Bentinck family took to horse | racing 100 years ago. and the present | | Duke bas revived the stables. which | were neglected by his eccentric prede | cessor. There are twenty-five farms | in the Duke's domain, and sixty houses are needed to shedtur his people. Pai Adelphin Record. Keeping Time » His Bele, “I've heard of many strepge times pieces.” said a buyer for a New York week. 1 went to a lake hack of New burg to estimate the lee crop. Among | the men working tiiere was a heavy set fellow, who was dressed in blanket elathes. He kept his trousers in place with a parrow bold, and several thoes in the course of the morning I noticed him tighten it & hole at a ‘hoe, “What time Is 1? I asked him, for my watch was pot ronning. “Fe ghwoeed at bles belt and answered promptly, ‘11.30. him bow Le knew, and he explained his system af felling time by his belt After breakfast which wis eaten ar 81 a'eloek, the belt was set ar the last hole. Every hour during the morning | Be was forced fo taka it ina hole, Hae knew it was thirty mingiey after 11 be. | binles and | cause he had taken ju five the halt wna just beginnlag to slacken. After dinner he wonlid ler it out again to the lat hole. and it waonkl marl aft the hours during the afternou, said it was as trustworthy as the best watch he had ever owned god several testa provixt that be was right.” —-New ! X ork Tribune, I messin snr For Signaling ia Fog. An experiment in marine tog signal ing is shortly to be carrie! ont off Egg Rock, Lynn, England. A large bell is to be fixed below a buoy. 80 as fo be rung Afty Teet under water, It will be worked by electricity from the Egg Rock Light Station so that the opera- 1 tor on the island can sound it when re. quired. The theory of mariners 8 that a bell ringing ander water is heawl at a much greater distance by sailors out at sen than when it i» ng aehile sus. pended in alr. At the same time, the loud ringing will no longer disturb pees 1 ple living in the neighborhood, superior to B's, He times the post is likely to be raised of the ground. but by letting the wire ron to the ground and there f en to & large stone or log in the 1 ‘per that linemen anchor telege poles, | small posts the fence should mn solid through wet or ease. ) lve company, “but 1 ran across some- | 5 ay thing entirely new in that line last Then if there are not too ” vin Ginter, in American Agriculty Jesmig Tomi, | There are those who advocate ti ‘all poultry at exhibitions should [be Judged by comparison, and pot (BCore cards at all, Judges think the prise winners are § perior, and where they pronounce ps We deo not favor this ides We want to see where {i to be lacking in the points that i. ap 2 good bird. If the bead, neek, thil Ings or weight Is not what they eo { er up to the standard, Jot ue soe wil “HReping that he had no wateh 1 asked snd where the fault 8. We may agree with the judges, bur we shall {be quite as likely to do so as wi sha if they merely sald that A's birds we and did mot tell (us wherein the latter lacked the cha 1d teristics that go to make up the ple fect hird. We look upan the score card as a means of educating the poulp ‘exhibior or the Keeper, or even the vis itor ar an exhibition, which comipariton 1s nol, We know a man who exiithited’ a Sne looking Langshan, apd found him disqualiied for a “wry mil” He had never heard She term befare, but he learned what it meant, whieh he might not have dove if the awards Had been made by conrparison only, and| he might not have seen where his bird was pot as good as the one that téok ithe first premium. We think Te he taken some premiums since, but ‘mot shown any wry tail birds ince, Another man who showed some vi fine chickens at the same show them ruled out of the competition, lor as thoy call it, “disqualified.” beeajise “they were hatched a little late, “thus lacked a few ounces of the well tequired hy the standard. If Judged by comparison only, we might have thought the first prize ought 10 have gone to them, thou® they were too | Cmature to have been shown, and wi - ont the score card we should not b nd i known *hy it did Ast -Ametica {
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