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And vhen all was over she swept
the people out of the room with a wave
of her hand and fell back to the bol
ster -
Then Greeba thinking it a favor
able moment to plead for her father
mentioned his name and eyed her
mother anxiously Mrs Fairbrother
seemed not to hear at first and being
pressed she answered wrathfully say
ing she had no pity for her husband
and that not a penny of her money
should go to him
But late the same day after the
doctor who had been sent for from
Douglas had wagged his head and
made a rueful face over her she called
for her sons and they came and stood
about her and Greeba who had nurs
ed her from the beginning was also
by her side
Boys sne said between fits of
pain keep the land together and
dont separate and mind you bring no
women here or youll fall to quarrel
ing and if any of you must marry
let him have his share and go Dont
forget the heifer thats near to calv
ing and see that you fodder her every
night Fetch the geese down from
Barrule at Martinmas and count the
sheep on the mountains once a week
for the people of Maughold are the
worst thieves in the island
They gave her their promise duly
to do and not to do what she had
named and being little used to such
scenes they grew uneasy and began to
shamble out
And boys another thing she said
faintly stretching her wrinkled hand
across the counterpane give the girl
her rights and let her marry whom
she will
This also they promised her and
then she thinking her duty done as
an honest woman toward man and
the world but recking nothing of
higher obligations lay backward with
a groan
Now it did not need that the -men
should marry in order that they might
quarrel for hardly was the breath
out of their mothers body when they
set to squabbling without any woman
to help them Asher grumpled that
Thurstan was drunken Thurstan
grumbled that Asher was lazy Asher
retorted that being the eldest son if
he had his rights he would have every
foot of the land and Ross and Stean
arose in fury at the bare thought of
either being hinds on their brothers
farm or else taking the go by at his
hands So they quarreled until Jacob
said there was plainly but one way of
peace between them and that was
to apportion the land into equal parts
and let every man take his share
and then the idleness of Asher and
the drunkenness of Thurstan would
he to each man his own affpir At
that they remembered that the lands
of Lague then the largest estate on
the north of the island had once been
made up of six separate farms with
a house to each of them though five
of the six houses had long stood empty
And seeing that there were just six
of themselves it seemed as Jacob
said as if Providence had so appointed
things to see them out of their diffi
culty But the farms though of pret
ty equal acreage were of various qual
ity of land and therein the quarreling
set in afresh
Ill take Ballacraine said Thurs
tan
No -but Ill take it said Jacob
for Ive always worked the mead
ows
In the end they cast lots and then
each man having his farm assigned
to him all seemed to be settled when
Asher cried
iBht what about the girl
At that they looked stupidly into
each others faces for never once in
all their bickering had they given a
thought to Greeba But Jacobs re
source was not yet at an end for he
suggested that Asher should keep her
nt Lague and at harvest the other
five should give her something and
that her keep and their gifts together
should be her share and if she had
all she needed what more could she
wish
They did not consult Greeba on this
head and before she had time to pro
test they were in the thick of a fresh
dispute among themselves The mead
ow lands of Ballacraine had fallen to
Jacob after all while Thurstan got
the high and stony lands of Ballafayle
at the foot of Barrule Thurstan was
Jess than satisfied and remembering
that Jacob had drawn out the papers
for the lottery he suspected cheating
So he -made himself well and thor
oughly drunk at the Hibernian and
set off for Ballacraine to argue the
question out He found Jacob in no
snood for words of recrimination and
so he proceeded to thrash him and to
turn him off the fat lands and settle
himself upon them
Then there was great commotion
among the Fairbrcthers and each of
the other four took a side in the dis
pute The end of it all was a trial for
ejectment at Deemsteers court at
Ramsey and another for assault and
battery The ejectment came first and
Thurstan was ousted and then six
men of Maughold got up in the jurors
box to try the charge of assault There
iwas little proof but a multitude of
witnesses and before all were heard
the Deemster adjourned the court for
lunch and ventilation for the old
court house had became poisonous
with the reeking Dreath of the people
that crowded It
And the jury being free to lunch
where they pleased each of the par
ties to the dispute laid hold of his
man and walked him off by himself
jto persuade him also to treat him
and perhaps to bribe him Thus
Thurstan was at the Saddle Inn with
o juryman on either hand and Jacob
was at the Plough with as many by
ihis side and Ross and Stean had one
each at the tavern by the Cross
lYoure right said the jurymen to
Thurstan Drink up said Thurstan
to the jurymen Im your man said
the jurymen to Jacob Slip this in
your fob said Jacob to the jurymen
-Then they reeled back to the court
house arm-in-arm and when the six
good men of Maughold had clambered
up to their places again the jurors
box contained several quarts more alt
than before
The jury did not agree on a verdict
and the Deemster dismissed them with
hot reproaches But some justice to
Greeba seemed likely to come of this
wild farce of law for an advocate
who had learned what her brothers
were doing for her got up a case
against them for lack of a better brief
and so far prevailed on her behalf
that the Deemster ordered that each
of the six should pay her eight pounds
yearly as an equivalent for the share
of land they had unlawfully withheld
Now Red Jason had spent that day
among the crowd at the courthouse
and his hot blood had shown as red
as his hair through his tanned cheeks
while he looked on at the doings of
Thurstan of the swollen eyes and
Jacob of the foxy face He stood up
for a time at the back like a statue
of wrath with a dirty mist of blood
dancing before it Then his loathing
and scorn getting the better of him
he cursed beneath his breath in Ice
landic and Engiish and his restless
hands scraped in and out of his pock
ets as if they itched to fasten on
somebodys throat or pick up some
thing as a dog picks upa rat All he
could do was to curl his lip in a ter
rible grin like the grin of a mastiff
until he caught a sidelong glimpse
of Greeoas face with the traces of
tears upon it and then being unable
to control any longer the unsatisfied
yearning of his soul to throttle
Jacob and smash the ribs of Thurstan
and give dandified John a backhanded
facer he turned tail and slunk out
of the place as if ashamed of himself
that he was so useless When all was
over he stalked off to
but too nervous to settle to his work
that day he went away in the even
ing in the direction of Lague not
thinking to call there yet powerless
to keep away
Greeba had returned from Ramsey
alone being little wishful for com
pany so heavy was her heart She
nad seen how her brothers had tried
to rob her and how beggarly was tae
help the law could give her for
though the one might order the others
might not obey So she had sat ner
self down in her loneliness thinking
that she was indeed alone in the
world witn no one to look up to any
more and no strong hand to rest on
It was just then that Jason pushed
open the door of the porch and stood
on the threshold in all the quiet
strength or his untainted young man
hood and the calm breadth of his
simple manner
Greeba may I come in he said
in a low tone
Yes she answered only just aud
ibly and then he entered
She aid not raise her eyes and he
did not offer his hand but as he
stood beside her she grew stronger
and as she sat before him he felt
that a hard lump that had gaered
at his heart was melting away
Listen to me Greeba he said
I know all your troubles and Im
very sorry for them No thats not
what I meant to say but Im at a loss
for words Greeba
Yes
Doesnt it seem as if Fatet meant
us to come together you and I The
world has dealt very ill with both of
us thus far But you are a woman
and I am a man and only give me the
right to fight for you
As he spoke he saw the tears spring
to her eyes and he paused and his
wandering fingers found the hand
that hung by her side
Greeba he cried again but she
stopped the hot flow of the words that
she saw were coming
Leave me now she said Dont
speak to me today no not today
Jason Go go
He obeyed her without a word and
picking up his cap from where it had
fallen at his feet he left her sitting
there with her face covered by iier
hands
She had suddenly bethought herself
of Michael Sunlocks that she had
pledged her word to wait for him
that she had written to him and that
his answer might come at any time
Next day she went down to the post
office at Ramsey to inquire for a let
ter None had yet come for her but
a boat from the Shetlands that might
fetch mails from Iceland would arrive
within three days Prompt to that
time she went down to Ramsey again
but though the boat had put into
harbor and discharged its mails there
was still no letter for her The ordi
nary Irish trader between Dublin and
Reykavik was expected on its home
ward trip in a week or nine days
more and Greebas heart lay low and
waited In due course the trade
came but no letter for her came with
it Then her hope broke down1 Sun
locks had forgotten her perhaps he
cared for her no longer it might even
be that he loved some one else And
so with the fall of her hope her wo
manly pride arcse and she asked her
self very haughtily but with the great
tears in her big dark eyes what it
mattered to her after all Only she
was very lonely and so weary and
heart sick and with uo one to look to
for the cheer of life
She was still at Lague where her
eldest brother was now sole master
and he was very cold with her for
he had taken it with mighty high
dudgeon that a sister of his should
have used the law against him So
feeling how bitter it was to eat the
bread of another she had even begun
to pinch herself of food and to sit
at meals but rarely
But Jason came again about a fort
night after the trial and he found
Greeba alone as before She was sit
ting by the porch in the cool of the
summer evening combing out the
plaits of her long brown hair and
looking up at Barrule that was heav v
ing out large and black in the sun
down with a night cap of silver vapor
over its head in the clouds
I can stay away- no longer ne
said with his eyes down Ive tried
to stay away and cant and the days
creep along So think no ill of me if
I como too scon
Greeba made him no answer hut
thought within herself that if he had
stayed away a day longer he must
have stayed a day too long
Its a weary heart Ive borne he
said since I saw you last and you
bade me leave you and I obeyed
though it cost me dear But let that
go
Still she did not speak and looking
up into her face he saw how pale she
was and weak and ill as he thought
GreeDa he cried what has hap
pened
But she only smiled and gave him
a look of kindness and said that
nothing was amiss with her
Yes by the Lord something is
amiss he said with his blood m his
face in an instant What is it he
cried What is it
Only that I have not eaten much
today she said thats all
Ail he cried All
He seemed to understand every
thing at a glance as if the great
power of nis love had taught him
Now by God he said and
shook nis fist at the house in front
of him
Hush Greeba whispered it s
my own doing 1 am loth to ue be
holden to any one least of all to such
as forget me
The sweet tenderness of herlook
softened him and he cast down his
eyes again and said
GreeDa there is one who can never
forcer vnn mnrnine and me ht vnn
are witu him for he loves you deany
ay GreeDa as never maiden was loved
by any one since the world began
iMo there isnt the man born Greeba
who loves a womn as he loves you
for he has nothing else to love in all
the wide world
She looked up at him as he spoke
and saw the courage in his eyes and
that he who loved her stood as a man
beside her At that her heart swelled
and her eyes began to fill and e saw
her tears and knew tnat he had won
her and he plucked her to his Dreast
with a wild cry of joy and she lay
there and wept while he whispered
to her through her hair
My love my love love of my
life he whispered
I was so lonely she murmured
You shall be lonely no more he
whispered no more my love no
more and his soft words stole over
her drooping head
He stayed an hour longer by her
side laughing much and talking
greatly and when he went off she
heard him break into a soft song as
he passed out at the gate
Then being once more alone she
sat and tried to compose herself won
dering if she should ever repent what
she had done so hastily and if she
could love this man as he well de
served and would surely wish Her
meditations were broken by the sound
of Jasons voice He was coming back
with his happy step and singing as
merrily as he went
What a blockhead I am he said
clieerily popping his head in at the
door I forgot to deliver you a let
ter that the postmaster gave me when
I was at Ramsey this morning You
see its from Iceland Good news
from your father I trust God bless
him
So saying he pushed the letter into
Greebas hand and went his way
jauntily singing as before a gay song
of his native country
The letter was from Michael Sun
locks
CHAPTER IV
THE RISE OF MICHAEL SUNLOCKS
Dear Greeba the letter ran I am
sorely ashamed of my long silence
which is deeply ungrateful toward
your father and very ungracious to
wards me Though something better
than four years nave passed away
since I left the little green island tne
time has seemed to fly more swiftly
than a weavers shuttle and I have
been immersed in many interests and
beset by many anxieties But I well
Know that nothing can quite excuse
me and I would wrong the truth if
I were to say that among fresh scenes
and fresh faces I have borne about
me day and night the momory of all
I left behind So I shall not pretend
to a loyalty whereof I have given you
no assurance but will just pray of
you to take me for what I truly am
a rather thankless fellow who nas
sometimes found himself in danger of
forgetting old friends in the making
of new ones and been very heartily
ashamed of himself Nevertheless
the sweetest thoughts of these four
years have been thoughts of the old
home and the dearest hope of my
heart has oeen to return to it some
day That day has not yet come but
it is coming and now I seem to see
it very near So dear Greeba for
give me if you can or at least bear
me no grudge and let me tell you
of some of the strange things that
have befallen me since we parted
When I came to Iceland it was not
to join the Latin school of the ven
erable Bishop Petersen a worthy
man and good Christion whom it has
become my happiness to call my
friend but on an errand of mercy
whereof I may yet say much but can
tell you little now The first of my
duties was to find a good wonjan and
true wife who had suffered deeply
by the great fault of another and
having found her to succor her in
her distress It says much for the
depth oT her misfortunes that though
she had been the daughter of the
Governor General and the inhabit
ants of the capital of Iceland are
fewer than two thousand in all I
was more than a week in Reykjavik
before I came upon any real news of
her When I found her at last she
was in her grave The poor soul nad
died within two months of my landing
on these shores and the joiner of tne
cathedral was putting a little wooden
peg inscribed with the initials of her
name over her grave in the forgot
ten quarter of the cemetery where the
dead poor of this place are buried
Such was the close of the -first chap
ter of my quest
To be continued
TALMAGES SEEMON
BLESSINGS SHOWERED UPON
AMERICAN PEOPLE
Draws Comparisons Between Oar Own
and Other Countries Our Duty to Ex
tend These Blessings to the World
Some Happy Conditions
Copyright 1900 Louis Klopsch N T
Washington Dec 16 Dr Talmage
preaches a discourse of Christian pa
triotism and shows the resources of
our country and predicts the time
when all the world will have the same
blessings His two texts are Reve
lation xxi 13 On the south three
gates Psalm cxlvii He hath not
dealt so with any nation
Among the greatest needs of our
country is more gratitude to God for
the unparalleled prosperity bestowed
upon us One of my texts calls us to
international comparison What na
tion on all the planet has of late had
such enlargement of commercial op
portunity as is now opening before this
nation Cuba and Porto Rico and the
Philippine Islands brought into close
contact with usand through steamship
subsidy and Nicaragua canal which
will surely be afforded by congress
all the republics of South America will
be brought into most active trade with
the United States On the south three
gates While our next door neigh
bors the southern republics and neigh
boring colonies imported from Euro
pean countries 3000 miles away 675
000000 worth of goods in a year only
126000000 worth went from the Unit
ed States 126000000 out of 675000
000 only one fifth of the trade ours
European nations taking the four fin
gers and leaving us the poor thumb
Now all this is to be changed There
is nothing but a comparative ferry be
tween the islands which have recently
come under our protection and only
a ferry between us and Bolivia Peru
Paraguay Uruguay Venezuela Salva
dor Nicaragua Colombia Costa Rica
Equador Brazil while there are raging
seas and long voyage between them
and Europe By the mandate of the
United States all that will be changed
through new facilities of transporta
tion
The Nations Advertisements
In anticipation of what is sure to
come I nail on the front door of this
nation an advertisement
Wanted One hundred thousand
men to build railroads through South
America and the island of the sea un
der our protection
Wanted A thousand telegraph op
erators
Wanted One hundred million dol
lars worth of dry goods from the great
cities of the United States
Wanted All the clocks you can
make at New Haven- and all the brains
you can spare from Boston and all the
bells you can mold at Troy and all the
McCormick reapers you can fashion
at Chicago and all the hams you can
turn out at Cincinnati and all the rail
road iron you can send from Pitts
burg and all the statesmen that you
can spare from Washington
Wanted Right away wanted by
new and swifter steamers wanted by
rail train lawyers to plead our cause
Wanted Doctors to cureour sick
Wanted Ministers to evangelize
our population
Wanted Professors to establish our
universities
On the south three gates yea a
thousand gates South America and
all the islands of the sea approximate
are rightfully our commercial do
main and the congress of the United
States will see to it that we get vhat
belongs to us
And then tides oi ravel will be
somewhat diyerted from Europe to our
islands at the south and to the land of
the Aztecs Much of the 125000000
yearly expended by Americans in Eu
rope will be expended in southern ex
ploration in looking at some of the
ruins of the 47 cities which Stephens
found only a little way apart and in
walking through the great doorways
and over the miracles of mosaic and
along by the monumental glories of
another civilization and ancient Am
erica will with cold lips of stone kiss
the warm lips of modern America and
to have seen the Andes and Popocate
petl will be deemed as important as to
have seen the Alpine and Balkan
ranges and there will be fewer people
spoiled by foreign travel and in our
midst less of the poor and nauseating
imitation of a brainless foreign swell
Some Happy Conditions
Again in this international compar
ison notice the happy condition of our
country as compared with most coun
tries Russia under the shadow of the
dreadful illness of her great and good
emperor who now more than any man
in all the world represents peace on
earth good will to men and whose
empress near the most solemn hour
that ever comes to a womans soul is
anxious for him to whom she has
given hand and heart not for political
reasons but through old fashioned
love such as blesses our humbler
dwellings India under the agonies of
a famine which though somewhat lift
ed has filled hundreds of thousands of
graves and thrown millions into or
phanage Austria only waiting for her
genial Francis Joseph to die so as to
let Hungary rise in rebellion and make
the palace of Vienna quake with insur
rection Spain in Carlist revolution
and pauperized as seldom any nation
has been pauperized Italy under the
horrors of her kings assassination
China shuddering with fear of dismem
berment her capital in possession of
foreign nations After a review of
the condition in other lands can you
find a more appropriate utterance in
regard to our country than the ex
clamation of the text He hath not
dealt so with any nation
Compare the autumnal report of
harvests in America this year and the
harvests abroad Last summer I
crossed the continent of Europe twice
and I saw no such harvests as are
spoken of in this statement Hear it
all you men and women who want
everybody to have enough to eat and
wear I have to tell you that the
corn crop of our country this year is
one of the four largest crops on record
2105000000 bushels The cotton
crop though smaller than at some
times will on that account bring big
ger prices and so cotton planters of
the south are prosperous The wheat
fields have provided bread enough and
to spare The potato crop one of the
five largest crops on record 211000000
bushels Twenty two million two
hundred thousand swine slain and yet
so many hogs left
The Story of Prosperity
But now I give you the comparative
exports and imports which tell the
story of national prosperity as noth
ing else can Excess of exports over
imports 544400000 Now let all pes
simists hide themselves in the dens
and caves of the earth while all grate
ful souls fill the churches with dox
ology Notice also that while other
countries are at their wits ends as to
their finances this nation has money
to lend Germany we are glad to see
you in Wall street If you must bor
row money we have it all ready How
much will you have Russia we also
welcome you into our money markets
Give us good collateral Meanwhile
Denmark will you please accept our
offer of 3000000 for the island of St
Thomas My hearers there is no na
tion on earth with such healthy con
dition of finances We wickedly waste
an awful amount of money in this
country but some one has said it is
easier to manage a surplus than a
deficit
Besides all this not a disturbance
from St Lawrence river to Key West
or from Highlands of New Jersey to
Golden Horn of the Pacific Sectional
controversies ended The north and
south brought into complete accord by
the Spanish war which put the Lees
and the Grants on the same side Ver
monters and Georgians in the same
brigade And since our civil war we
are all mixed up Southern men have
married northern wives and northern
men have married southern wives and
your children are half Mississippian
and half New Englander and to make
another division between the north
and the south possible you would have
to do with your child as Solomon
proposed with the child brought be
fore him for judgment divide it with
the sword giving half to the north and
half to the south No there is noth
ing so hard to split as a cradle In
other lands there is compulsory mar
riage of royal families some bright
princess compelled to marry some dis
agreeable foreign dignitary in order to
keep the balance of political power in
Europe the ill matched pair fighting
out on a small scale that which would
have been an international contest
sometimes the husband having the bal
ance of power and sometimes the wife
NThe Question of Wages
Again in this international compar
ison there is not a land whose wages
and salaries are so large for the great
mass of the people In India four cents
a day and find yourself is good wages
in Ireland in some parts eight cents
a day for wages in England 1 a day
good wages vast populations not get
ting as much as that in other lands
50 cents a day and 25 cents a day
clear on down to starvation and
squalor Look at the great popula
tions coming out of the factories of
other lands and accompany them to
their homes and see what privations
the hard working classes on the other
side of the sea suffer The laboring
classes in America are 10 per cent bet
ter off than those in any other coun
try under the sun 20 per cent 40 per
cent 50 per cent The toilers of hand
and foot have better homes and better
furnished How much wages do you
get is a question I have asked in
Calcutta in St Petersburg in Berlin
in Stockholm in London in Paris in
Auckland New Zealand in Sydney
Australia in Samoa in the Sandwich
--
I equerries in ordinary crown equerry
hereditary grand raiconer -
berlain clerk of the kitchen grooms
in waiting lords In waiting f s oC
the court chamber sergeant-at-arms
barge master and teSl
ladies oi
bed chamber women eight
the bedchamber and so on and so on
All this is only a type of the fabulous
expense of foreign governments au
this Is paid out of the sweat and blood
of the people Are the people satis
fied However much the Germans like
William and Austria likes Francis
her glori
Joseph and England likes
ous queen these stupendous govern
mental expenses are built on a groan
of dissatisfaction as wide as Europe
If it were left to the people of England
or Austria or Germany or Russia
establish
whether these expensive
ments should be kept up do you doubt
what the vote would be Now is it
not better that we be overtaxed and
ihP siirniiis be distributed all over the
land than to have it built up and piled
up inside the piilaces
Question of Monopolies
Again the monopolistic oppression
is less in America than anywhere else
The air is full of protest because great
houses great companies great indi
viduals are building such
fortunes Stephen Girard and
John Jacob Astor stared at in their
time for their august fortunes would
not now be pointed at in the streets of
Washington or Philadelphia or New
York as anything remarkable These
vast fortunes for some imply pinched
ness of want for others A growing
protuberance on a mans head implies
illness of the whole body These es
tates of disproportionate size weaken
all the body politic But the evil is
nothing with us compared with the
monopolistic oppression abroad Just
look at the ecclesiastical establish
ments on the other side of the sea
Look at those great cathedrals built at
fabulous expense and supported by
ecclesiastical machinery and some
times in an audience room that would
hold a thousand people twenty or thir
ty people gather for worship The
popes income is 8000000 a year
Cathedrals of statuary and braided
arch and walls covered with master
pieces of Rubens and Raphael and
Michael Angelo Against all the walls
dash seas of poverty and crime and
filth and abomination
Ireland today one vast monopolistic
visitation About 45000000 people In
Great Britain and yet all the soil
owned by about 32000 Statistics
enough to make the earth tremble
Duke of Devonshire owning 9600Q
acres in Derbyshire Duke of Richmond
owning 300000 acres around Gordon
castle Marcus of Bredalbane going
on a journey of 100 miles in a straight
line all on his own property Duke
of Sutherland has an estate wide as
Scotland which dips into the sea on
both sides Unfortunate as we have
it here it is a great deal worse there
While making the international
comparison let us look forward to the
time which will surely come when all
nations will have as great advantages
as our own As surely as the Bible is
true the whole earth is to be garden
Ized and set free Even the climates
will change and the heats be cooled
and the frigidity warmed
Its
NATURE IS -STRANGE
Impulses Illustrated by Teamster
and Hungry Dog Episode
Seated at the edge of the curbing
was a weary teamster while near by
stood his horses crunching away at
their noon portion of oats says the
Chicago News Heaving a deep sigh
the teamster slowlv ambled to tho wa
ggon and from under the seat drew forth
a good sized dinner pail Resuming
his seat upon the curb he mechanically
removed the cover from the lunch
bucket and began to eat
His mind was far away from his sur
roundings and with an occasional
ominous shake of the head he mutter
ed the thoughts that burdened his
brain The appearance of a lean hungry-looking
dog resting upon its
haunches directly in front of him at
tracted his attention The animal
gazed longingly at each morsel of food
Islands so I am not talking an which passed the mans lios The mn
straction The stone masons and car- shied a bit of bread at the dog who
penters and plumbers and mechanics
and artisans of all kinds in America
have finer residences than the major
ity of the professional men in Europe
You enter the laborers house on our
side of the sea and you find upholstery
and pictures and instruments of music
His children are educated at the best
schools His life is insured so that in
case of sudden demise his family shall
not be homeless Let all American
workingmen knew that while their
wages may not be as high as they
would like to have them America is
the paradise of industry
Expenses of Government
It is said that in our country we
have more dishonesty in the use of
public funds than in other lands The
difference is that in our country al
most every official has a chance to
steal while in other lands a few peo
ple absorb so much that the others
have no chance at appropriation The
reason they do not steal is because
they cannot get their hands on it The
governments of Europe are so expen
sive that after the salaries of the royal
families are paid there is not much left
to misappropriate The emperor of
Russia has anice little salary of 8
210000 The emperor of Austria has
a yearly salary of 4000000 Victoria
the queen has a salary of 2200000
The royal plate of St James palace is
worth 10000000 There is a host of
attendants all on salaries some of
them 5000 a year some 6000 a year
Comptroller of the household mistress
of the robes captain of gold stick lieu
tenant of silver stick clerk of the
powder closet pages of the back staire
master of the horse chief equerry
r
devoured it eagerly One piece of food
after another he tossed to the emaci
ated animal until the contents of pail
had disappeared all but a tough and
dangerous doughnut Breaking jir V
piece from the sinker he bade Emi
eat it The animal sniffed but refused
to take it in its teeth Thinking that
by tossing the morsel to the ground
the animal might eat it he did so but
the dog pushed it aside with his nose
and disdained to eat it This act on
the part of the dog so angered him
that he arose slowly and landed a vi
cious kick in the dogs ribs which sent
the poor animal into the gutter where
it lay writhing in agony So you
too refused to take what I would rob
myself of after
having sacrificed
ev
erything else said the teamster
with that remark and a parting kick
at the prostrate animal he
hastily re
moved the nosebags from the horses
mounted to the seat and drove away
Horse Shoes for Luck
The custom of keeping horseshoes
for luck is said to have originated at
the lime when in every home was the
picture of the patron saint About the
head of the saint was the distinguish
ing halo which was frequently made
of metal sometimes the
shape of a
horseshoe When anything happened
to the picture the halo was still kept
and remained fastened to the door la
order that the saints Influence might
still prevail As the bit of metal was
the most substantial part of the pic
ture it soon became the custom to
make a charm of this part only and
the horseshoe followed
logically as a
prevention against evil
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