Queen Mary, University of London Archives QMC/PP/14/8 Issue 140
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DEVELOPING THE FLAVOR AND AROMA. Chairman—JOHN FRY, ESQ. Hon. Secretary—SIR EDMUND KAY CURRIB. THE NEW BUILDING FOR 160 BEDS IS NOW~^OMPLBTB. The Hospital Is oonduoted on Strlotly Provident Principles. ORIGINAL PATENTORS. ACCIDENTS AND CASES OF URGENCY ADMITTED AT ALL HOURS FRBS. THE CHARITY HAS NO ENDOWMENT. Funds urgently needed for Furnishing, Opening, and maintaining the JVew Wxrd*> £«. KTRT I GLYH, MILLS & Co. This Cocoa solely used at the People's Palace. ^ 1 LLOYDS BANK, LTD. CHARLES H BYERB, StcrtUt^ |U1 i rp*i|THii[Hi |rJ|[r1 IrJI |rJ r*^l lr,|l1^1 I Mr 1 r 'l|r 1 l^i |^f r 1 |cJ I**'11^HI^JI|tiJII— " Applications for Advertisements in the " Palace Journal "to be made to SMITH & BOTWKlGHT, 6, Eldon St., FinsbTuy^^ no The Palace Journal\ July 16, 1890. measured terms. We have all suffered more or lc»s through the wet. We have had our holidays spoilt, and our best Sodetp ant> Club motes. clothes ruined, and our tempers sadly damaged. But I hear that the rain is good for one thing, and that is, the growth of NOTICE TO SECRETARIES.—Club announcements should be addressed to turnips. Let us cultivate a taste for turnips, and smile. the EDITOR, ani not to any person by name It should be remembered L. M. H. C. that the earlier these reach us, the greater likelihood they have of being inserted entire, and every endeavour should be made to ensure their delivery at the Palace by MONDAY MORNING. IPalace Botes. PEOPLE'S PALACE CYCLING CLUB. o ''A' We know that water is good, and is greatly esteemed in the UR first promenade Concert—last Monday—was a very centre of Africa, but there is such a thing as having too much of a decided success. good thing If the wet weather continues we shall have to invest in water cycles. Members should take care not to have their VOL. VI.—No. 14°-] WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1890. [ONE PENNY. machines geared too high for ordinary use. A member has had to IN regard to the Elocution Competition to be held on give up riding for a time through riding a high-geared facile. The Friday, it is well to bear in mind the conditions of the exami flies and insects are at the present time very troublesome to THE PALACE JOURNAL trill be sent post free as soon as published to any nation. The following is an extract from the Evening News cyclists, especially riders of the G O. O. The North Road fly address in the United Kingdom fcr 6/- a year, or x/6 a quarter. Sub motes of tbe Meek. of a recent date" Mr. F. H. Macklin, a leading member of catcher, though simple, is very effective in preventing these pests from their playful habit of swimming in the waters of your optics. scriptions must be prepaid. VOLUME V. is now ready, neatly Mr. Henry Irving's company, has been requested by the bound in cloth, 4/6. Covers for binding, x/6. The Committee of this Club sat on Friday last, and went through a pupils of the Elocutionary Class at the People's Palace, HE postal agitation seems to have subsided, though deal of business. Messrs. W. Farrant and O Stevens were elected not without some riotous demonstration. The White- Whitechapel, to act as honorary examiner on the occasion of to fill the vacancies on the executive caused by the resignation of T their annual competition. According to his verdict, and his chapel district tas suffered a good deal in consequence; G. Mansfield and F. Glover G. Mansfield has given up riding verdict only, the prizes and certificates will be bestowed. It there has been several dismissals, which will mean trouble at on account of business, whilst F Glover is busy at Brighton. Coining Events. should be mentioned that the members of the class were left home. But though the Post Office work is now proceeding Messrs. Bright. Farrant. and L. M Nathan, were elected to make entirely untrammelled to select forjudge whom they pleased. all arrangements for the Garden Party, the tickets for which will without interruption, and the crisis appears to be passed, The examination, which promises to prove an interesting shortly be issued. The run on Saturday week will be to Sawbridge- there is much to be settled before peace can be really THURSDAY, July 17th.—Library open from 10 to 5 and from affair, will take place in the Queen's Hall in the Palace." .worth ; tea at Epping. J. Howard took third place in the Eastern ensured. In the meantime, however, we can all go on writing 6 to 10, free.—Newspapers may be seen from 8 a.m. Counties fifty miles race The roads were all against ordinary riders. and receiving letters again. Did some of us indulge in the Those members who aspire to racing honours should keep themselves Cycling Club.—Ron. vain hope that correspondence was about to cease, and that THERE are a few vacancies in the Isle of Wight trips in form, as there will be several open rac * meetings held at Lc> .on there was to be a holiday from letter writing, and a freedom later in the year. Every Member should get last Saturday's during July and the latter part of August. Students or their FRIDAY, July 18th.—Library open from 10 to 5 and from 6 to from pending engagements, and an absolute pardon granted Cycle Record , the life and portrait of M. Moyle is the inducement. friends desiring to join should apply to Mr. Osborn. The E. Ransley secured second prize in the two mile handicap at High 10. free.—Newspapers may be seen from S a.m. Orchestral us from injured friends, whose letters lie in that ever- total cost for one week is 27s.—this includes rail, boat, Wycombe on Saturday last. A very enjoyable tour to Cambridge increasing budget of " Unanswered " ? Those who may board, and lodging. Society.—Rehearsal, at 8. Choral Society—Rehearsal, have dreamed such dreams must awake to their duties, for was carried out on Saturday last by several members. If Oxford at 8. Elocution Competition, in Queen's Hall, at 8. there is no reason to suspect that the Post Office strike will is the city of cobble stones, Cambridge is the city of flowers. be renewed at present. From every window in the town, boxes of geranium and other THIRD GRADE EXAMINATIONS IN ART, 1890.—Results. flowers were displayed The three things for which Cambridge is SATURDAY, July 19th.—Library open from 10 to 5 and from 6 Outline Drawing from the Cast. Harry Layton, excellent; noted are its flowers, clean, cool streets, and Salvation Army to 10, free —Newspapers may be seen from 8 a.m. Laurence Harris, Charles White, Wm. S. Wray, pass. band—the latter equals any Volunteer band of the East Ena. BUT none of us can—or ought to—feel secure while there Chess Club Practice, at 7. Lawn Tennis Club Practice, As several names have been handed in for the August tour, those are these strikes and rumours of strikes, which after all are who intend to take part in the same are requested to send in their at 3 Cycling Club.—Run. Junior Chess and Draughts but the symptoms of a wide-spreading mutiny. The future THE results of the examination in Mathematics, stages names at once as the number will be limited. Club, at 8. Performance of Faust, by Palace Choral Society. of labour is a problem that cannot be solved while capital 1, 2, and 3, will appear in next week's Journal. J. H. BURLEY, Hon. Sec. and labour are at such grave issue. Labour is clamouring in Queen's Hall, at S. Ramblers' Club.—To Abbey Wood o for a fuller share of the profits that have hitherto been and Bostal Heath. swallowed up by the capitalist, and workmen are coming to ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION.—Result of examina PEOPLE S PALACE RAMBLING CLUB. the fore with a steady determination to have their rights tion, First Aid, held on 2nd July, 1890. Lecturer, Dr. Milne ; On Saturday last, seven Members met at Bow Station, N.L.R., SUNDAY. July 20th—Organ Recitals, at 12.30, 4 and 5. respected. We boast of the education we give to our Examiner, Dr. Potter. and took tickets for Hampstead Heath. We took the turning Library open from 3 till 10, free. voting classes ; and having taught .hem to speak we can but Re-Examination.—Sarah Thomas. parallel with the station, leading towards Parliament Hill, but listen to them now. owing to the mist did not get much of a view, but what could be First Aid.—Ellen Anstey, Alice Bennett, 'Sophie E. seen of Highgate looked v -. pre*»y. with the lakes at the foot of MONDAY. July 21st.—Library open from 10 to 5 and from Chapman, Eliza Forder, Marianne Gaudge, Emma Johnson, the hill. Continuing across the hill, past the ponds we came to 6 to 10. free.—Newspapers may be seen from 8 a.m. THE Decorative Branch of the Kyrle Society has sent Florence Leroy, Evelyn Meadows, 'Emma Pinder, Annie M. Millfield Lane, leading to the" Spaniards." The east and west heaths are quite distinct, the east being more field and meadow out a petition for funds to enable them to carry out the work Thompson, Grace Triggs, 'Jessie Whitton, Eva Wilson, TUESDAY, July 22nd.—Library open from 10 to 5 and from *5 Hilda Wilson, Kate Howard, Maude Howard. land than the west, which abounds in gorse, broom, ferns, etc. it has in contemplation. The Kyrle Society has been so While tea was being prepared at Mrs. Sheehy's, North End, we to 10. free.—Newspapers may be seen from S a.m. CL^ss long before our notice, that most of us are familiar with its • Are requested to call at the Schools' Office, or forward rested in a beautiful green spot, not far from the " Bull and Bush." Club Practice, at 7 Orchestral Society.—Rehearsal, at 8 aims, and the steadily increasing efforts in behalf of the their addresses. After tea we turned sharp to the right, and walked up hill and down decoration of hospitals, working men's rooms, clubs, etc., dale towards the flagstaff and " Jack Straw's Castle," where the Shorthand Society. — Weekly Meeting, at 8. Choral call for support from a sympathetic public. The Society has Hampstead Band was playing Near Hampstead Hospital is a Society —Rehearsals, at 7.30 and 8. succeeded in bringing brightness and beauty into many dull, completely shaded lane, through which we walked to Oakley Park rc°raers, but there are several buildings in poor and Class IRotes. Estate ; the birds were singing, and everything seemed very plea WEDNESDAY, July 23rd —Library open from 10 to 5 and from 6 squalid localities which are awaiting its magic touch. It is sant, but as it was rather cold, we started the good old English game of touch, and soon became warm again. Returning by the to 10. free —Newspapers may be seen from 8 a.m. Junior to be hoped that the appeal for funds will not be in vain; field path leading from Kilburn. we passed down by the Row, and and that the lives of the poorest among us may be lightened, FRENCH EXAMINATION. Chess and Draughts Club, at 8. rambled leisurely across the heath to the" Vale of Health." where the beautified, and bettered by this noble work. This was held at the end of the Session, when the three prizes swings, roundabouts, etc . attracted our attention. Passing the lake ofiered for French were gained by Miss Louisa Rattrey, we proceeded on over the hill to the station, having had a very Messrs. A W. Tyte and J T. Taylor, who stood first on the list of nice outing. Saturday, July 19th.—Abbey Wood and Bostall A MOST vonderful doll has been turned out by Edison's their respective classes. Heath Members are requested to meet at Coborn Road Station works in the United States, and presents a most ingenious One more prize is presented by Monsieur Pointin to the second at 3.25 p m„ and take return tickets to South Woolwich ; the train Organ TCccitals, bit of machinery. By the simple operation of turning the best of any of the divisions, which was won by M. A. Geis. leaves Liverpool Street at 3 22 p.m. Saturday. July 26th—Gardea crank a child makes the doll repeat " Mary had a little Monsieur Pointin is very pleased to mention that the classes Party at " Roebuck," Buckhurst Hill, for particulars see next week's Journal. Members can obtain photograph of Boating On SUNDAY NEXT, JULY 20th, 1890, lamb, or " Wait till the clouds roll by," or any other nursery have been very well attended up to the last, but on the examination nights they were wonderfully thin. This timidity is certainly a Party, June 21st, on application to the undersigned. Saturday. or drawing-room legend that it has acquired in the factory. mistake on the pupil's part, as they have everything to gain by August 9th —All day ramble to Cambridge. Members wishing to IK THE QUEEN'S HALL, 4T I2.3O AND S O'CLOCK. Dolls such as these might be an incalculable boon in the their presence; if not the prize, at all events the correction and take part please send in their names. nursery if charged with moral maxims for the young. We explanation of their mistakes, which, to a genuine Student, is A. MCKENZIE,) U « nothing in these days if not educational. The hours a very valuable. E. P. W. POCKETT. [ HON" SOCS* ORGANIST—MR. B. JACKSON, F.C.O., child spenus playing with her doll might become valuable o opportunities for instilling in the infant mind the elements of Organist to the People's Palace. PEOPLE'S PALACE CHORAL SOCIETY. sound and wholesome doctrine. It is of course possible that " HALLOO, Charley, what are you doing—moving ? " asked the prejudice of childhood might assert itself in favour of a one young man of another, whom he met with a big bag in Conductor—Mr. ORTON BRADLEY. game with the less ingenious but more lovable rag-doll. his hand. At 4 o'clock, Organ Recital and Sacred Songs. " I've just commenced my vacation." We shall give selections from the " Messiah" to-morrow o " Your vacation ? " evening, by the invitation of the Hon. and Rev. J Adderley in St. THE weather lately No, I will not be betrayed into Frideswides Church, Leonard Street, Poplar Members must b« " Yes. I'm vacating at the request of my landlady." ADMISSION ^ZR, ZEE_ any remarks on the weather. Such an apparently hopeless there at 7 30 o'clock. We perform •' Faust " (by special permission subject is best let alone; it is impossible to allude to it in 112 July 16, 1890. July 16, 1890. The Palace Journal III The Palace Journal. of the Carl Rosa Opera Company) in the Queen's Hall, on Saturday, 8.30, and Cowley, who was down there with us (having a friend at at eight o'clock. The Singing Competitions will be held on court in the shape of a porter), got the said porter to secure for our Tuesday and Friday next week. All particulars will be announced party some carriages. The journey up took us about two-and-a-half on Friday next. A Committee Meeting will be held next Friday, hours. The time, however, passed quickly away, as we had no end we PEOPLE'S PALACE GYMNASIUM, at seven o'clock. of a concert all the way up About 10.15 arrived at Coborn A. W. COURSE, Hon Sec. Road Station, where most of us got out, and, after a cheer or two, MILE END ROAD, E. J. H. THOMAS, Hon. Librarian. we bid each other good night. Considering the wet day we had, everyone was remarkably good-tempered, and we had a good deal of fun. THE PEOPLE S PALACE TECHNICAL DAY SCHOOL L. G. LOWTHER. o RAMBLERS' CLUB PROGRAMME This Club held its last ramble on Saturday, the 12th inst. It PEOPLE S PALACE JUNIOR CRICKET CLUB. was the grand finale for the year. Mr. Castle, who manages the On Saturday last, the 12th inst , the Palace Juniors met the OF Club, wound it up in a grand style. All the previous rambles were Harvey at Wanstead. Our captain losing the toss, the Harvey certainly instructive as well as pleasant, but were all compassed in captain decided to put us in first, our score being 88 runs, C. Munns a small circuit. This time, and as if to give the boys a foretaste of playing well for his 50. The Harvey next started batting, all being the coming seaside holiday. Mr. Castle took them to Laindon (about out for 21 runs. Our captain then sent them in again, this time thirty miles from London) Several masters, having heard that it coming out for 39 runs, being a victory for us by an innings and GYMNASTIC & CALISTHENIC DISPLAY was a charming place for a nice ramble, also promised to join the 30 runs The scores were as follows:— TO BE PERFORMED BY THE Club, but owing to the preparations required for the next Annual PEOPLE'S PALACE JUNIORS. Summer Excursion, one or two were compelled to give up their intention. However. Messrs. Granville. Bateman, and Pointin did Newport b MacMutrie Sanderson caught .. .. 2 not miss such a good opportunity of getting a little of the country Bradford run out Mahoney bowled Day School Boys of the People s Palace Technical Schools, fresh air, and as no real party is supposed to be complete without Clark caught Pogson not out o C. Munns MacCaffery bowled .. .. o ladies, the ramblers had ladies amongst their numb--; very little UN" TEE IE QTTEEU'S HALL, ladies indeed (the two Misses Pointin). but still there was the Branch b MacMutrie .. diversity. The party on their arrival were, of course, greeted by Fayers b MacMutrie .. Total a hard and hearty rain, but after this pluvious acknowledgment, W. Munns b MacMutrie Under the management of Mr. H. H. BURDETT (Director of Exercises, People's Palace all went on splendidly. The whole party, boys and masters, HARVEY. .Gymnasium) assisted by Messrs. D. M. NELSON & C. WRIGHT (Assistant Instructors, enjoyed themselves thoroughly. Some of the boys alighted at First Innings. Second Innings. Pitsea, about six miles further, and walked back to Laindon to People's Palace Gymnasium), J. Hawes 1 c Pogson b Newport o meet the bulk of the party, sixty in number In the wood the boys H. Hawes . 5 b Munns 2 gathered wild cherries, raspberries, and wild apples. Now that the ramblers have had an idea of it, we feel sure they will be wishing Nightingale 6 b Newport 4 ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 16th, 1890, for a few more of these trips next session. The Members of the Outing 2 b Munns 2 Crowe o c Bradford b Munns 12 Club felt grateful to Mr. Castle for having taken all these pains to AT EIGHT O'CLOCK. afford them such a pleasant outing, and at the same time appreciate Ackland o c and b Munns 5 Millington 1 c Munns b Newport 5 the kind attention of the London. Tilbury and Southend Railway Company for providing them, for both journeys, with reserved Buckes o c Bradford b Newport .... o carriages. E. P. MacMutrie o c Munns b Newport 4 Cole 5 c Clark b Newport 4 MUSIC BY THE PEOPLES PALACE MILITARY BAND, Thornton 1 b Munns o CONDUCTOR—MR. A. ROBINSON (late Bandmaster Prince of Wales' 3rd Dragoon Guards). IPeopIe's ipalace 3unior Section. Total 21 Total.. 36 T. J. SANDERSON, Hon. Sec PEOPLE S PALACE JUNIOR RAMBLING CLUB EVENTS:— On Saturday last we visited the Zoological Gardens. Meeting at Aldgate at 3 p m . we took the train to Portland Road ; we then people's palace Xibrarp. I. BAR-BELL EXERCISES AND MARCHING, arranged and conducted by H. H. Burdett. made our way to the park. The walk to the Zoo is one of the prettiest in the park, the flowers being now in full bloom. Reaching By Sections 1 B, 2 A. the Zoo at 3.40. *ve made our way to the reptile house: leaving HE Library was used during June, 1890, by 29,488 there we visited the lion house, just in time to see the animals fed T nersons, 4,607 of these admis;- is being on Sundays. II. GYMNASTICS ON PARALLEL BARS. We then visited the houses of the smaller beasts, and uere very much The number of books issued in all branches of literature amused by the escape and capture of a fox; leaving there we visited was 5,492, 775 of these being given out on Sundays. III. SINGLE-STICKS. By Sections 2 B, 2 C. Conducted by C. Wrighi. the house of the foreign birds; from there we went to the stables of There is a slight increase in the issue of books against the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and giraffe ; we then visited May. 160 new readers were registered. Eleven new weekly IV. INDIAN CLUBS EXERCISES, arranged and conducted by H. H. Burdett. the insect house; from there we went to the house of the eagle, publications have been added, as well as two monthly and hawk, and other birds. After listening to the Band of the First Life Guards, we started on the return journey, having spent a very one local newspaper. V. BOXING. R. Wright v. E. A. Moxhay. profitable two hours and a half. We started across the park f-v Messrs. Cassell and Co. presented the back numbers of home, stopping on the road to watch the manoeuvres of the The Magazine of Art, 1889-90, up to date, and it may be seen VI. DUMB-BELL EXERCISES, conductcd by H. H. Burdett. volunteers, who were drilling in the park, arriving at the station at in the Library on application. 6.45, after a most interesting and enjoyable ramble. List of the books received have been printed in the VII. VAULTING HORSE. J. S. BURCHILL, Hon. Sec. Journal. C. J- Longman, Esq., Alfred Harper, Esq., Rev. W. H. Frere, the Trustees of the British Museum of Natural VIII. MOUNTED COMBAT (Humorous). A. Tanner v. R. Boustead. History, and Messrs. Percival and Co. have been among the JUNIOR SWIMMING CLUB chief donors for the month of June. IX. PHYSICAL EXERCISES, arranged by H. H. Burdctt, conducted by D. M. Nelson. On Thursday, July 3rd. a race of six lengths of the bath, at the The report for the half-year 1890, from January ist to X. BLACK AND WHITE BOXING (Humorous). "Miller," S. Smail; "Sweep," E. Gully. Working Lads' Institute, came off. One of my Juniors (H. J. June 30th, shows that the Library has been open 180 days Gardner) and one of the old boys entered for it. Gardner, I am out of 1S1, being closed for cleaning on Good Friday : during XI. MUSICAL RUNNING MAZE. Led by H. H. Burdett. glad to say, coming in second, and so winning a handsome prize. this period 35058 books have been issued, and out of this We hope, now our Swimming Club is fairly started, to challenge total 5,183 we e read on Sundays. 204,647 persons have the Working Lads' Institute Club. passed through the turnstiles, 27,228 having been admitted L. G. LOWTHER. on Sundays. 1,532 books have been presented, and we have the promise of the Wilkie Collins Memorial Library. 183 SIR JOHN HENRY JOHNSON, JUNIOR SECTION AND OLD BOYS' EXCURSION. books have been sent to the Students' Library, and thirty- UPPER WARDEN OF THE DRAPERS' COMPANY, On Saturday. July 5th, the Junior Section and lads of the Old six to the Boys' branch. Boys' Club went lor an excursion to Southend-on-Sea. Starting Thirty-three periodicals have been added, and seven Has kindly consented to present, during the evening, the Medals won by the following Boys :— from Globe Road (G.E.R) at 8.20, we reached our destination soon newspapers. after 10 It rained heavily when »e started, and continued to do There is a steady improvement in the class of reading, and Robert Wright, ist Prize for Single-Sticks; F. William Gravener, 1st Prize for Bar-Bells; so until about 4.45 p m The lads, however, were not to be the Library is apparently appreciated by the public who James G. B. Edwards, ist Prize for Physical Exercises; Richard Ford, ist Prize for Dumb- frightened by rain, and at once made for the beach, where they frequent it. divided into parties, some going out boating, while others started LIBRARIAN. Bells; Frederick Rawlings, ist Prize for Indian Clubs; John Relf, ist Prize for Gymnastics. for long walks along the coast, and others again taking cheap drives to places of interest around Southend. The lads were under the charge of Mr. Osborn and myself. Some of us struggled to the Also the Silver Medals fur the Boys' Swimming Competition, to the following:— end of the pier, which, by the way. is more than a mile-and-a- answers to Correspondents. quarter in length. At five we sat down to tea, which was more SECTION 2 A.—ist, Priestly; 2nd, Coram. SECTION 2 C.—ist, Bonfield; 2nd, Lakin. than welcome to us drowned rats Mr. Osborn left us about SECTION I B. ist, Wooton ; 2nd, Young. SECTION I D.—ist, F. Rawlings. SECTION 2 B.— 4 p m. to return to his duties at the Palace. After tea. the rain A. W. COURSE.—Please direct Club news to the Editor, not having cleared off, we went in for more taring about the place, and to any person by name. ist, Tanner. SECTION 1 A.—ist, Robinson. SECTION 1 C.—ist, Davison; 2nd, Randall. so after a time we got fairly dry We assembled at the station at L. W.—We know of no such rule. SECTION 1 E.—ist, Clements. CHAMPIONSHIP.—Nai Plaak. 114 The Palace Journal\ July 16, 1890. July 16, 1890. The Palace Journal. "3 The illustration was somewhat weakened when the officer IPeopIe's palace {Technical S>a^ School. seized the inspector's hand, and pressed it upon the back of the chair. The official then discovered that even oblique rays possessed a quantity of heat. This demonstration SWIMMING COMPETITION. admitted of no further theorizing, and he gave way to the PEOPLE'S PALACE N Monday afternoon last the boys of the above school extent of promising a wicker screen to fit the back of the O held their Annual Swimming Competition, the head chair. The officer protested against such a trumpery appli master, Mr. Low, presiding. The first part of the programme ance, but the apostle of red tape was implacable. Either the consisted of Class races, two prizes being offered in each officer must have a wicker screen or go without one alto Class, except were the entries were very few. in which case gether. At length he ~cepted the offer, and the inspector only one prize was competed for. The various events were departed doubtless feeling that he had won a great financial SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION, watched with keen interest by the spectators. Loud and long triumph. A few days later a wicker screen reached the were the cheers raised as some favourite was seen struggling office. It was then found to have been made for a straight- gallantly to win the post of honour in his scction. The Class backed chair, while all the office chairs possessed semi Under the direction of MR. SAMUEL L. HASLUCK. races being concludcd, a short interval was allowed, during circular backs. A long correspondence resulted, and after which competitors for the championship prepared for their several weeks' delay, a workman was sent to adjust the arduous task. Ten lads were reduced by heats to four, viz., straight screen to the round-backed chair. In doing so, be Rawlings, Priestly, Clements, and Nai I'laak. In the final split the chair and destroyed the screen. More letters on onlv three responded to the word "go," Clements having the subject passed between the officer and the department, withdrawn. A splendid start was made. Nai Plaak rapidly and eventually the same workman fetched the chair away, drew ahead, giving a splendid exposition of " Siamese since which time the officer has had neither chair nor screen! swimming " or " water walking." All seemed to think that A good deal is often heard of the costs of proceedings his enormous exertions would prevent hiin holding out, but under the Bankruptcy Act owing to the interference of red Rcclting. considered. After a week's delay he wa^ gravely informed Reading. steady persistence. Eventually he was transferred to Canada, in an official communication extending over three pages of and there his peace was broken by voluminous correspon note paper, that inasmuch as he had had two pencils within dence about the missing tent peg. At length, tired of pur *3 BOSE, ANNA W 5 " Story of the T ithful Soul" ... Proctor. the last three months his application could not be granted. suing the luckless soldier, the officials ordered him to pay at 6 CAREY, AGNES 12 TI,e Women of MumLIes Head " C. Scott. The seer-. , applicant, after a long exercise of patience, once the value of the lost article. was rewarded by having a peg worth about twopence placed 7 DIXON 3 " The Village Preacher " ...... Goldsmith. Visions of a happy release from the meshes of red tape in his office. As a preliminary step an inspector was that had been spun round him induced the officer to forward DOWNTON, CAROLINE (MRS.) 4 " The Needle, Pen, and Sword " Sigouoncy. authorised to inquire into the application, and report 9 the money. He transmitted to the War Office six penny whether a peg was required. Finding that the clerk had 8 ELSTOB, AMY 2 " Wedding Bells " ... Griffiths. Canadian stamps, solacing himself with the reflection that nowhere to place his coat, he piepared a report recom they were useless in this country. The correspondence then 1 GOODWIN 6 " From India " Bennett. mending that his wish should be granted. A plan of the ceased, but it has been preserved as a monument of official room having subsequently been prepared, showing the exact 4 GRAYLING, ALICE 1 " Maud Muller ' XVhittier. devotion to the red tape idol, at whose shrine no less than position in which the peg should be placed, the clerk was £15 had been expended in recovering the value of a sixpenny 12 HAVARD, GEORGE *3 Selection from " Hamlet " ... Shakespeare. made happy six months afterwards by possessing the much- tent peg. needed convenience. (Hamlet and the 0»een.) With the advent of the Bankruptcy Act of 18S3, which Even in democratic America red tape has a formidable 10 LEEDING, JONATHAN Selection from " Julius Caesar " ...... Shakesfcare. brought an increased number of persons into active con 7 sway. A military officcr in 1S4S filed a claim for £15 in res (Speech of Brutus to the Citizens.) nection with the Board of Trade, red tape received a fresh pect of a horse lost in the Mexican war. Last year he was lease of power. Many are the stories which official receivers 11 ROSENGARD, LEAH 10 " The Slave's Dream " ... Longfellow. notified that the claim had been allowed. He may, there and bankruptcy trustees have to tell of the mysteries of cir fore, cherish the hope that at the beginning of the next x SAVAGE, SAMUEL 11 "The Glove" . Translated from Schiller. cumlocution. In 1SS6 the registrar of a provincial county 4 century he will receive the money. SOLOMONS, KATIE I. 8 " The Voiceless Chimes " A non. court appealed to the State to make certain small alterations 5 to his rooms to admit of more light. For two years a corres In the transfer of English land red tape plays an impor 3 STEWARD, HENRY J. 9 " The Field of Waterloo " Byron. pondence was kept up, and inspectors were sent down from tant part. Not long ago a gentleman purchased a piece of (I'rom Childe Harold.) Whitehall to view the building and prepare reports on the copyhold land, worth £G. Fees for admission to the land subject. After that lapse of time the work was commenced involved him at first in an expenditure of two guineas. Then 2 WAYLAND, ADA J " The Dandy Fifth " ... Gassaway. 4 and finished in a few days at a comparatively trifling cost. there was a fine of twenty-four shillings, a stamp for the copy An officer of the same court, whose desk was uncomfort of admission, and a further ten shillings for surrender. A ably near the fire, petitioned the Government to provide him stamp on the copy of admission, No. 2, was then required, THE FOLLOWING AWARDS WILL BE MADE:- with a screen costing a few shillings. An inspector of the and this amounted to a further ten shillings. Another ten department travelled from London to see whether circum shillings weut for surrender, and finally there was a host of Ccrtificates of Two Grades. stances necessitated that the application should be granted. fees for quit-rents, stewards' fees, etc. Altogether the land, which was worth £6, cost the sum of £18 11s. in its transfer a. To all Candidates who pass the First or Second Class Standard in Reading at Sight. The petitioner pointed out that the chair in which he sat was almost opposite the office fire, and that his spine became to the buyer! b. To all Candidates who pass the First or Second Class Standard in Reciting. unduly heated thereby. With a face betraying the wisdom of Solon, the inspector argued that as the heat rays fell FUSSY people want everything done to order, and expect Prizes value One Guinea each. obliquely upon the chair in question a screen was not that the sun, moon, and stars are going out of their way to a. To the best Reader. required. To emphasize his point he had recourse to natural oblige them. The first lesson of practical wisdom is, accept phenomena. He spoke of the intense heat which was felt in cheerfully the inevitable. b. To the best Reciter. summer when the sun's rays fell vertically upon the earth, and of the difference in temperature in winter when the rays fell obliquely, although the orb was nearer the globe. CARrETS, like vegetation, come up in the spring. The next Term will commence—after the Summer Vacation—on Sept. 25th. «5 July 16, 1890. The Palace Journal. The Palace Journal. July 16, 1890. nothing appeared to criminate him, beyond the tacts already day. He then asked me, suddenly, if I had observed any the voice of a Spaniard, and ' might have distinguished some tlfoe flDurbers in tbe IKue flDoroue. detailed. . thing peculiar at the scene of the atrocity. words had he been acquainted with the Spanish.' The Dutchman Dupin seemed singularly interested in the progress of this There was something in his manner of emphasising the BY EDGAR ALLAN POE. maintains it to have been that of a Frenchman; but we find affair—at least, so I judged from his manner, tor he made no word "peculiar," which caused me to shudder, without comments. It was only after the announcement that Le Bon knowing why, it stated ' that not understanding French this witness was examined through an interpreter.' The Englishman thinks it the voice of had been imprisoned, that he asked me my opinion respecting " No, nothing peculiar," I said; "nothing more, at least, (Continued froa page 105.) a German, and ' does not understand German.' The Spaniard the murders. • . than we both saw stated in the paper." ''s Sllre ' that it was that of an Englishman, but 'judges by HE house was a four-story one, with garrets I could merely agree with all Paris in considering them " The Gazette," he replied, " has not entered, I fear, into the intonation' altogether, ' as he hat no knowledge of the (mansardes). A trap-door on the roof was nailed down an insoluble mystery. I saw no means by which it would the unusual horror of the thing. But dismiss the idle T English.' The Italian believes it the voice of a Russian, but, very securely—did not appear to have been opened for years. be possible to trace the murderer. opinions of this print. It appears to me that this mystery is ' has never conversed with a native of Russia.' A second French The time elapsing between the hearing the voices in conten "We must not judge of the means," said Dupin, " by considered insoluble, for the very reason which should cause man differs, moreover, with the first, u^d is positive that the tion and the breaking open of the room-door, was variously this shell of an examination. The Parisian police, so much it to be regarded as easy of solution—I mean for the outre voice was that of an Italian; but not being cognisant of that stated by the witnesses. Some made it as short as three extolled for acumen, are cunning, but no more. There is no character of its features. The police are confounded by tongue, is, like the Spaniard, 'convinced by the intonation.' minutes—some as long as five. The door was opened with method iu their proceedings, beyond the method of the the seeming absence of motive—not for the murder itself Now, how strangely unusual must that voice have really been, difficulty. moment. They make a vast parade of measures; but not —but for the atrocity of the murder. They are puzzled, about which such testimony as this could have been elicited ! " Alfonzo Garcio, undertaker, deposes that he resides in unfrequently these are so ill-adapted to the objects proposed, too, by the seeming impossibility of reconciling the voices in whose tones even denizens of the five great divisions of the Rue Morgue. Is a native of Spain. Was one of the as to put us in mind of Monsieur Jourdain's calling for his heard in contention, with the facts that no one was Europe could recognise nothing familiar' You will say that party who entered the house. Did no*, proceed upstairs. Is robe-de-Chambrc—pour micux entendre la m ti sique. The results discovered upstairs but the assassinated Mademoiselle it might have been the voice of an Asiatic—of an African. nervous, and was apprehensive of the consequences of agita attained by them are not unfrequenlly surprisiug, but for the L'Espanaye, and that there were no means of egress Neither Asiatics nor Africans abound in Paris; but, without tion. Heard the voices in contention. The gruff voice was most part are brought about by simple diligence and activity. without the notice of the party ascending. The wild denying the inference, I will now merely call your attention When these qualities are unavailing, their schemes fail. disorder of the room ; the corpse thrust, with the head down that of a Frenchman. Could cot distinguish what was said. to three points. The voice is termed by one witness ' harsh The shrill voice was that of an Englishman—is sure of this. Vidocq, for example, was a good gucsser, and a persevering ward, up the chimney ; the frightful mutilation of the body of rather than shrill.' It is represented by two others to have man. But, without euueated thought, he erred continually Does not understand the English language, but judges by the the oid lady ; these considerations, with those just mentioned, been ' quick and unequal.' No words—no sounds resembling by the very intensity of his investigations. He impaired his and others which I need not mention, have sufficed to intonation. words—were by any witness mentioned as distinguishable. "Alberto Mont,mi, confectioner deposes that he was vision by holding the object too close. He might _ see, paralyze the powers, by putting completely at fault the " I know not," continued Dupin, " what impression perhaps, one or two points with unusual clearness, but in so boasted acumen of the government agents. They had fallen among the first to ascend the stairs. Heard the voices in I may have made, so far, upon your own understanding; doing he, necessarily, lost sight of the matter as a whole. question. The gruff voice was that of a Frenchman. Dis into the gross, but common error of confounding the unusual but 1 do not hesitate to say that legitimate deductions Thus there is such a thing as being too profound. Truth is tinguished several words. The speaker appeared to be with the abstruse. But is by these deviations fioin the plane even from this portion of the testimony—the portion not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important expostulating. Could not make out the words of the shrill of the ordinary that reason feels its way, if at all, in its search respecting the gruff and shrill voices — are in them- knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial. voice. Spoke quick and unevenly. Thinks it the voice of a for the true. In investigations such as we arc now pursuing, selves^ sufficient to engender a suspicion which shall give The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not Russian. Corroborates the general testimony. Is an Italian. it should not be so much asked ' what has occurred,' as « what direction to all farther progress in the investigation of the upon the mountain-top where she is found The modes and Never conversed with a native of Russia. has occurred that has never occurred before.' In fact, the mystery. I said 'legitimate deductions'; but my meaning sources of this kind of error are well typified in the con " Several witnesses, recalled, here testified that the facility with which I shall arrive, or have arrived, at the is not fully expressed. I designed to imply that the deduc templation of the heavenly bodies. To look at a star chimneys of all the rooms oa the fourth story were loo by solution of this mystery, is in the direct ratio of its apparent tions are the sole proper ones, and that the suspicion arises glances—to view it in a side-long way, by turning towards it insolubility iu the eyes of the police." narrow to admit the passage of a human being. By ' sweeps * inevitably from them as the single result. What the suspicion the exterior portions of the retina (more susceptible of feeble 4 were meant cylindrical sweeping-brushes, such as are I stared at the speaker in mute astonishmen . is, however, I will not say just yet. I merely wish you to impressions of li ^Lit than the interior), is to behold the star employed by those who clean chimneys. These brushes were "I am now awaiting," continued he, looking toward the bear in mind that, with myself, it was sufficiently forcible to passed up and down every flue in the house. There is no distinctly—is to have the best appreciation of its lustre—a door of our apartment—'• I am now awaiting a person who, give a definite form—a certain tendency—to my enquiries in back passage by which anyone could have descended while lustre which grows dim just in proportion as we turn our although perhaps not the perpetrator of these butcheries, must the chamber. the paity proceeded upstairs. The body of Mademoiselle vision fully upon it. A greater number of rays actually fall have been in some measure implicated in their perpetration. " Let us now transport ourselves, in fancy, to this L'Espanaye was so firmly wedged in the chimney that it upon the eye in the latter case, but, in the former, there is Of the worst portion of the crimes committed, it is probable chamber. What shall we first seek here ? The means of could not be got down until four or five of the party united the more refined capacity for comprehension. By undue that he is innocent. I hope that I am right in this supposi egress employed by the murderers. It is not too much to their strength. profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is tion ; for upon it I build my expectation of reading the entire say that neither of us believe in praiteruatural events. " Paul Dumas, physician, deposes that he was called to possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firma riddle. I look for the man here—in this room—every Madame and Mademoiselle L'Espanaye were not destroyed view the bodies about daybreak. They were both then lying ment by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too moment. It is true that he may not arrive: but the pro by spirits. The doers of the deed were material, and es on the sacking of the bedstead in the chamber where direct. bability is that he will. Should he come, it will be .necessary caped materially. Then how ? Fortunately, there is but Mademoiselle L. was found. The corpse of the young lady " As for these murders, let us enter into some examina to detain him. Here are pistols; and we both know how to one mode of reasoning upon the point, and that mode must was much bruised and excoriated. The fact that it had been tions for ourselves, before we make up an opinion respecting use them when occasion demands their use." lead us to a definite decision. Let us examine, each by each, thrust up the chimney would sufficiently account for these them. An enquiry will afford us amusement " [I thought this I took the pistols, scarcely knowing what I did, or believ the possible means of egress. It is clear that the assassins appearances. The throat was greatly chafed. There were an odd term, so appli- but said nothing], " and, besides, ing what I heard, while Dupin went 011 very much as if in a were in the room where Mademoiselle L'Espanaye was Beveral deep scratches just U..JW the chin, together wnu a Le Bon once rendered me a service for which I am not soliloquy. I have already spoken of his abstract manner at found—or at least in the room adjoining—when the party series of livid spots which were evidently the impression of ungrateful. We will go and see the premises with our own such times. His discourse was addressed to myself; but his ascended the stairs. It is ' '.-.n Oi ly from these two apart fingers. The face was fearfully discoloured, and the eye eyes. I know G , the Prefect of Police, and shall have voice, although by no means loud, had that intonation which ments that we have to seek issues. The police have laid balls protruded. The tongue bad been partially bitten no difficulty in obtaining the necessary permission." is commonly employed in speaking to some one at a great bare the floors, the ceilings, and the masonry of the walls, in through. A large bruise was discovered upon the pit of The permission was obtained, and we proceeded at once distance. His eyes, vacant in expression, regarded only the every direction. No secret issues could have escaped their wall. the stomach, produced, apparently, by the pressure of a to the Rue Morgue. This is one of those miserable vigilance. But, not trusting to their eyes, I examined with knee. In the opinion of M. Dumas, Mademoiselle L'Espanaye thoroughfares which intervene between the Rue Richelieu and "That the voices heard in contention," he said, " by the my own. There were, then, no secret issues. Both doors party upon the stairs, were not the voices of the women had been throttled to death by some person or persons the St. Roch. It was late in the afternoon when we reached leading from the rooms into the passage wers securely locked, unknown. The corpse of the mother was horribly mutilated. it: as this quarter is at a great distance from that in which themselves was fully proved by the evidence. This relieves with the keys inside. Let us turn to the chimneys. These, us of all doubt upon the question whether the old lady could All the bones of the right leg and arm were more or less we resided. The house was readily found ; for there were although of ordinary width for some eight or ten feet above have first ''estroyed the daughter, and afterwards have som- shattered. The left tibia much splintered, as well as all still many persons gazing up at the closed shutters, with an the hearths, will not admit, throughout their extent, the body mitted suicide. I speak of this point chiefly for the sake of the ribs of the left side. Whole body dreadfully bruised objectless curiosity, from the opposite side of the way. It of a large cat. The impossibility of egress, by means already method : for the strength of Madame L'Espanaye would have and discoloured. It was not possible to say how the was an ordinary Parisian house, with a gateway, on one side stated, being thus absolute, we are reduced to the windows. been utterly unequal to the task of thrusting her daughter's injuries had been inflicted. A heavy club oi wood, or a of which was a glazed watchbox, with a sliding panel in the Through those of the front room no one could have escaped broad bar of iron—a chair—acy large, heavy, and obtuse window, indicating a loge de concierge. Before going in we corpse up the chimney as it was found ; and the nature of the without notice from the crowd in the street. The murderers wounds upon her own person entirely preclude the idea of weapon would have produced such results, if wielded by the walked up the street, turned down an alley, and then, again must have passed, then, through those of the back room. self-destruction. Murder, then, has been committed by some hands of a very powerful man. No woman could have turning, passed in the rear of the building—Dupin, mean Now, brought to this conclusion in so unequivocal a manner third party; and the voices of this third party were those inflicted the blows with any weapon. The head of the while, examining the whole neighbourhood, as well as the as we arc, it is not our part, as reasoners, to reject it on heard in contention. Let me now advert—not to the whole deceased, when seen by witness, was entirely separated from Louse, with a minuteness of attention for which I could see account of apparent impossibilities. It is only left for us to the body, and was also greatly shattered. The throat had testimony respecting these voices—but to what was peculiar prove that these apparent ' impossibilities' are, in reality, no possible object. evidently been cut with some very sharp instrument—pro in that testimony. Did you observe anything peculiar about not such. Retracing our steps, we came again to the front of the bably with a razor. it ? " " There are two windows in the chamber. One of dwelling, rang, and having shown our credentials, were ad " Alexandre Etienne, surgeon, was called with M. Dumas I remarked that, while all the witnesses agreed in suppos them is unobstructed by furniture, and is wholly visible. mitted by the agents in charge. We went upstairs—into the to view the bodies. Corroborated the testimony, and the ing the gruff voice to be that of a Frenchman, there was much The lower portion of the other is hidden from view chamber where the body of Mademoiselle L'Espanaye had opinions of M. Dumas. disagreement in regard to the shrill, or, as one individual by the head of the unwieldy bedstead, which is thrust been found, and where both the deceased still lay. The " Nothing farther of importance was elicited, although termed it, the harsh voice. close up against it. The former was found securely disorders of the room had, as usual, been suffered to exist. several other persons were examined. A murder so " That was the evidence itself," said Dupin, "but it was fastened from within. It resisted the utmost force of those I saw nothing beyond what had been stated in the Gazette des mysterious, and so perplexing in all its particulars, was never not the peculiarity of the evidence. You have observed who endeavoured to raise it. A large gimlet-hole had been Tribunaux. Dupin scrutinised everything—not excepting the before committed in Paris—if indeed a murder had been nothing distinctive. Vet there was something to be observed. pierced in its frame to the left, and a very stout nail was bodies of the victims. We then went into the other rooms, committed at all. The police are entirely at fault—an unusual The witnesses, as you remark, agreed about the gruff voice ; found fitted therein, nearly to the head. Upon examining and into the yard ; a gendarme accompanying us throughout. occurrence in affairs of this nature. There is not, however, they were here unanimous. But in regard to the shrill voice, the other window, a similar nail was seen similarly fitted in The examination occupied us until dark, when we took our the shadow of a clue apparent." the peculiarity is—not that they disagreed—but, that, while it; and a vigorous attempt to raise this sash, failed also. departure. On our way home my companion stepped in for The evening edition of the paper stated that the greatest an Italian, an Englishman, a Spaniard, a Hollander, and a The police were now entirely satisfied that egress had not a moment at the office of one of the daily papers. excitement still continued in the Quarter St. Roch—that Frenchman attempted to describe it, each one spoke of it as been in these directions. And, therefore, it was thought a the premises in question had been carefully re-searched, and I have said that the whims of my friend were manifold' that of a foreigner. Each is sure that it was not the voice of matter of supererogation to withdraw the nails and open the fresh examinations of witnesses instituted, but all to no and that Je les mciiagaisfor this phrase there is no English one of his own countrymen. Each likens it—not to the voice windows. urpose. A postscript, however, meutioned that Adolphe equivalent. It was his humour now to decline all conversa of any individual of any nation with whose language he is " My own examination was somewhat more particular, Ee Bon had been arrested and imprisoned — although tion on the subject of the murder, until about noon the next conversant—but the converse. The Freuchmau supposes it and was so for the reason I have just given—because here it July 16, 1890. The Palace Journal. 117 18 The Palace Journal. July 16, 1890. was, I knew, that all apparent impossibilites must be proved have been made in this quarter, they would naturally bestow to be not such in reality. here a very cursory examination. It was clear to me, how MARRIED AT LAST. AT W., a village in the north, a farmer's wife lay on her " I proceeded to think thus—d posteriori. The murderers ever, that the shutter belonging to the window at the head of death-bed. H and and children stood around in deep did escape from one of these windows. This being so, they the bed would, if swung fully bark to the wall, reach to within A GOOD deal of fun is being made in the newspapers of a distress. The or sufferer was resigned to her fate, as could not have re-fastened the sashes from the inside, as they two feet of the lightning-rod. It was also evident that, by rich old farmer up in the Connecticut valley who in his affording a wei< r ':e release from a long period of suffering. were found fastened ; the consideration which put a stop, exertion of a very unusual degree of activity and courage, an eighty-fifth year has espoused a fifteen-year-old bride, and Like a faithful mother and spouse, she gave her final direc through its obviousness, to the scrutiny of the police in this entrance into the window from the rod, might have been who gives the following account of the hereditary courtship tions, and was especially careful to speak words of comfort quarter. Yet the sashes were fastened. They must, then, thus effected.—By reaching to the distance of two feet and a which has at length resulted in this ill-assorted match: " I to her sorrowing husband. " And there is another thing I have the power of fastening themselves. There was no half (we now suppose the shutter open to its whole extent), a knowed her grandma and wanted her, but she wouldn't see want to tell you, my dear Thomas," she said in conclusion; to it. She married my biggest enemy and had a daughter. I escape from this conclusion. I stepped to the unobstructed robber might have taken a firm grasp upon the trellis-work. " when I am dead and g' and you don't know what to do casement, withdrew the nail with some difficulty, and Letting go, then, his hold upon the rod, placing his feet courted that daughter when her folks wasn't around, and with the children, then g id make up to Widow Johnson ; attempted to raise the sash. It resisted all my efforts, as 1 securely against the wall, and springing boldly from it, he somehow they got wind of it and I was dished again. She .she'll be just the right sort of wife for you, and will look well went and got married and had a daughter. Says I, had anticipated. A concealed spring must, I now knew, might have swung the shutter so as to close it, and, if we after the children." " Yes, my dear Betsy," replied the • Jonathan, you'll marry this'n,' and I settled down glum-like exist; and this corroboration of my idea: convinced me that imagine the window open at the time, might even have inconsolable husband, in a voice choked with tears, " I—I've my premises, at least, were correct, however mysterious still swung himseli into the room. to wait for the youngster to grow up. Martha's folks v/atchcd been thinking so myself! " me close, and I began to suspect I'd have to wait for the appeared the circumstances attending the nails. A careful " I wish you to bear especially in mind thai I have spoken next family, when they died—all of them died—aod Martha search soon brought to light the hidden spring. I pressed of a very unusual of activity as requisite to success in was left without any relatives, sc 1 popped the question and it, and satisfied with the discovery, forcbore to upraise the so hazardous and so difficult a feat. It is my design to show A SUNDAY-SCHOOL teacher recently asked a member of sash. you, first, that the thing might possibly have been accom we were married." her class what was charity. " Please, ma'am, giving away " I now replaced the nail and regarded it attentively. A plished : but, secondly and chie/ly, I wish to impress upon things what you don't want," was the immediate and un person passing out through this window might have reclosed your understanding the very extraordinary—the almost pre hesitating response. On another occasion ihe parable of the AT a London book sale, a copy of Drew's " Essay on it, and the spring would have caught—but the nail could not ternatural character of that agility which could have accom sower was briefly recorded thus: " A certain sower went forth Souls " was knocked down to a shoemaker, who, to the great have been replaced. The conclusion was plain, and again plished it. to sow. And as he went he fell by the wayside, and the birds amusement of the assembly, innocently asked the auctioneer narrowed in the field of my investigations. The assassins "You will say, no doubt, using the language of the law, of the air came and devoured him." if he had " any more books on shoemaking to sell." must have escaped through the other window. Supposing, that,1 to make out my case,' I should rather undervalue, than then, the springs upon each sash to be the sai..e, as was insist upon a full estimation of the activity required in this probable, there must be found a difference between the nails, matter. This may be the practice in law, but it is not the IT is said that in some parts of Africa there are birds or at least between the modes of their fixture. Getting upon usage of reason. My ultimate object is only the truth. My MRS. H. was entertaining some ladies at a select little five with bills a yard in length. If the theory of transmigration the sacking of the bedstead, I looked over the head-board immediate purpose is to lead you to place in juxtaposition o'clock tea, and Bobby, who had been exceptionally well- of souls is a correct one, these birds must be the spirits of minutely at the second casement. Passing my hand down that very unusual activity of which I have just spoken, with behaved, was in high feather. " Ma," he said politely, as departed plumbers. behind the board, I readily discovered and pressed the that very peculiar shrill (or harsh) and unequal voice, about refreshments were being served, " may I have some tongue, spring, which was, as I had supposed, identical in character whose nationality no two persons could be found to agree, please ? " " There isn't any tongue, Bobby." " That's a thunder cloud ? with its neighbour. 1 now looked at the nail. It was as and in whose utterance no syllabification could be detected." funny," commented Bobby ; " I heard papa say there would WHY is a spendthrift's purse like Because it keeps continually lightening. stout as the other, and apparently fitted in the same manner At these words a vague and half-formed conception of the be lots of it." —driven in nearly up to the head. meaning of Dupin flitted over my mind. 1 seemed to be " Vou will say that I was puzzled ; but, if you think so, upon the verge of comprehension, without power to compre you must have misunderstood the nature of the inductions. hend—as men, at times find themselves upon the brink of To use a sporting phrase, I had not been once ' at fault.' remembrance, without being :.ble, in the end, to remember. The scent had never for an instant been lost. There was My friend went on with his discourse. ©able of ©lasses. no flaw in any link cf the chain. I had traced the secret "You will see," he said, "that I have shifted the question to its ultimate result — and that result was the nail. from the mode of egress to that of ingress. It was my design It had, I say, in every respect, the appearance of its fellow in to convey the idea that both were effected in the same man the other window ; but this fact was an absolute nullity (con ner at the same point. Let us now revert to the interior of For the Summer Term, commencing July 7tli, and ending September 26th, 1890. clusive as it might seem to be) when compared with the con the room. Let us survey the appearances here. The sideration that here, at this point, terminated the clue. drawers of the bureau, it is said, had been rifled, although ' There must be something wrong,' I said, ' about the nail.' many articles of apparel still remained within them. The CLASS B.—TUESDAYS, 6.3C to 9.45 p.m. I touched it; and the head, with about a quarter of an inch conclusion here is absurd. It is a mere guess—a very flIMistcal Classee. of the shank, came off in my fingers. The rest of the shank silly one—and no more. How are we to know that the (Under the direction of Mr. Orton Bradley, MA ) This Class is suitable for Boy Clerks and those beginning was in the gimlet-hole, where it had been broken off. The articles found in the drawers were not all these drawers to study for Female Clerks, Excise, Customs, aud Lower fracture was an old one (for its edges were encrusted with had originally contained ? Madame L'Espanaye and her HOURS. FEES. Division. rust), and had apparently been accompli*' 1 Ky the blow of daughter lived an exceedingly retire'' life—saw no company a hammer, which had partially imbedded, in the top of the —seldom went out—had little use l>»i numerous changes of Subjects .—Handwrit .ig, L'ictation, Copying Tabular Choral Society ... Mr. Orton Bradley, Tu. and Fri. Statements, Orthography, Copying MS. Composition, bottom sash, the head portion of the nail. I now carefully habiliment. Those found were at least of as good quality as [M A. replaced this head portion in the indentation whence I had any likely to be possessed by these ladies. If a thief had Mr \V. R. Cave ... Tu. and Fri. S.O-IO.O Arithmetic (Addition, Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, Square Orchcslral Society Mon. W.Th S.O-IO.O taken it, and the resemblance to a perfect nail was complete Military Band ... Mr. A. Robinson... and Cube Roots, Practice and Interest), General Geography, taken any, why did he not take the best—why did he not Mon. & Tu. 6.0-10.0 Violin Under the dircc. —the fissure was invisible. Pressing the spring, I gently take all ? In a word, why did he abandon four thousand of Mr.W. R. Cave and Map Drawing. raised the sash for a few inches ; the head went up with it, francs in gold to encumber himself with a bundle of linen ? Mrs. Spenccr M.T.W.Th.F Pianoforte Mr. C. Hamilton I Fee for July and September, 7/- remaining firm in its bed. I closed the window, and the The gold was abandoned. Nearly the whole sum mentioned semblance of the whole nail was again perfect. by Monsieur Mignaud, the banker, was discovered in bags Ladies admitted to this Class at a Fee oj is. " The riddle, so far, was now unriddled. The assassin upon the floor. I wish you therefore, to discard from your had escaped through the window which looked upon the bed. thoughts the blundering idea of motive, engendered in the CLASS C.—TUESDAYS, 7.45 to 9.45 p.m. Dropping of its own accord upon his exit (or perhaps pur brains of the police by that portion of the evidence which Civil Service Classes. posely closed), it had become fastened by the spring ; and it speaks of money delivered at the door of the house. Coinci THURSDAYS, 8.45 to 9.45 p.m. was the retention of this spring which had been mistaken by dences ten times as remarkable as this (the delivery of the the police for that of the nail—farther inquiry being thus money, and murder committed within three days upon the This Class is suitable for Candidates for Excise, Customs, considered unnecessary. party receiving it), happen to all of us every hour of our lives, SPECIAL SUMMER COURSE. Female Clerkships, and Lower Division Clerkships. "The next question is that of the mode of descent. Upon without attracting even momentary notice. Coincidences, in this point I had been satisfied in my walk with you around general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class Subjects .—Copying Tabular Statements, Dictation, Geo the building. About five feet and a half from the casement of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the Tutor:—MR. G. J. MICHELL, B.A., LOND. graphy and Map Drawing, Composition and Copying MS., in question there runs a lightning-rod. From this rod it theory of probabilities—that theory to which the most glori with Class B, Arithmetic (Percentages, Stocks, Alligation, would have been impossible for anyone to reach the window ous objects of human research are indebted for the most These Classes prepare Candidates for most of the Examinations Specific Gravity, Duodecimals, Mensuration, Scales of itself, to say nothing of entering it. I observed, however, glorious of illustration. In the present instance, had the conducted by the Civil Service Commissioners. They will also be Notation, Application of Square and Cube Roots, Difficult that the shutters of the fourth story were of the peculiar kind gold been gone, the fact of its delivery three days before found useful by all who desire to make themselves projicient in Problems, Logarithms, Theory). History, Indexing, Digesting called by Parisian carpenters ferrades—a kind rarely employed would have formed something more than a coincidence. It Handwriting, Arithmetic, Composition, and Geography. Returns into Summaries. at the present day, but frequently seen upon very old man would have been corroborative of this idea of motive. But, Book-keeping should be taken at the Book-keeping Class sions at Lyons and Bordeaux. They are in the form of an under the real circumstances of the case, if we are to suppose held at the Palace. ordinary door (a single, not a folding door), except that the gold the motive of this outrage, we must also imagine the lower half is latticed or worked in open trellis—thus affording perpetrator so vacillating an idiot as to have abandoned his CLASS A.—THURSDAYS, C.30 to 8.30 p.m. Fee for July and September, 8/- an excellent hold for the hands. In the present instance gold and his motive together. This Class is suitable for Male and Female Telegraph these shutters are fully three feet and a half broad. When (To be continued.) we saw them from the rear of the house, they were both Learners, Female Sorters, and Boy Copyists. about half open—that is to say, they stood off at right angles Subjects.—Handwritingr Dictation, Spaced Dictation, Civil Service Guides, Official Regulations, and Specimen from the wall. It is probable that the police, as well as A STATISTICAL fiend has figured that a man fifty years old Copying Tabular Statements, Copying MS. Addres^sj Examination Papers may be seen at the Palace Library. The myself, examined the back of the tenement; but, if so, in has spent three months in buttoning his collar. Arithmetic (first four Rules, Simple and Compound, and Guides give all particulars of Hours of Work, Salary, and looking at these ferrades in the line of their breadth (as they easy Problems), Map Drawing and Geography of the British Prospects of Promotion in the various Government Office. It ts must have done), they did not perceive this great breadtn proposed also to form in the Library a Civil Service Department, itself, or, at all events, failed to take it into due consideration. Isles. which will contain all the recently published Text Books. WHAT is it you must keep after giving it to another? Fee for July and September, 6/- In fact, having once satisfied themselves that no egress could Your word. Goro ROGERS* " NUJRSERY " THE GEORGE HUNT'S G-rvEisr ,A_W_A.Y i Established 25 Ye^rs. Your Rubber Stamp. E. RICHARDSON, nMTicMW'cqw. Tf TAME in FULL or MONOGRAM. FAMILY BAKER, XV mourned, post frt>- for tlixe ALLAR3 BROS, stamp* to CRYSTAL PALACE JOHN H. 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