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.r w v a v em:- 11“":w'xy‘v-sr!” gvk¢4'\ A.rma‘irwv-v&~a_amfor violins: mm ms. - y“- ..... ....... .-â€":<~.__-w.p,_,~ . . THE KING'S $10,000 0000. 'A EBENCHMAN AND OF COURSE AN ARTIST. » ’ "‘A Perfect Treasure,” the King Calls Himâ€"The Kitchen of a. Palace. ' All the world and his wife. are free to look upon King Edwardls coronâ€" ation pageant ‘in June, The public performers, however, will not be the whole show. Inside the palace gates distinguished artists will have to make the effort of their lives. Their- names will not appear on the pro~ gramme, and for that reason their achievements may pass unrecognlzed unless‘menti'one'd now. ‘Among them are the King’s cook and his‘wme taster. , . It was a decree promulgated by King Edward when he ascended the throne that Mr. Menager was not to be interfered with. Mr. Menager draWS an annual salary of $10,000 a yearâ€"about the same as a Lieuten- ant-General in the British Army or an Admiral of the Fleet. It is the same as the. official income of two members of :Lord Salisbury’s Cabinet and it exceeds that of the Keeper of the British Museum and of sundry Bishops. ' - Mr. Menager’s firmer than the Ministry’s. has referred to him again position is much The King and .again as a “p’e’rfect' treasure.” and frequently proficrs him a cigar from the royal pocket case. Mr. Menag- er’s career goes to substantiate the saying that great cooks "are born, not made. 110 is not more than 40 now, and the compliment of being asked to become chef to the Prince, of Wales was paid him. more than five years ago. He is a Frenchman, probably of the south, tall and come- ly with a black beard trimnied‘on the A MODEL OF HIS MASTER'S. It was from the kitchen of the Reâ€" form Club, the best club for dining in London, that he moved westward a few hundred yards to Marlborough house. The Refer-m Club kitchen has been for long the studio of great artâ€" ists. Its Tory neighbor, the Carle- ton, plodded along with the old plain dishes and let the cookery conâ€" test go by default, only shaking its head and muttering, “Those, Whigs always had French leanings.” Before the Prince of Wales’s friends started the Marlborough Club at his own door he dined often -with 'the Marquis of Hartington, now the Duke of Dcvonshire, and Sir Henry James at the Reform Club. ~â€"There he learned for the first time to ad- mire the man who devised his din- ners. When Mr. Menager was asked to come up higher he took his methods with him. For one, thing he will have all the simpler. work done by kitchen maids. No male hands in the junior kitchen for him. He says with conviction that he does not beâ€" lieve that feminine nature can rise to the greatest heights in his art any more than in painting, poetry or music. Yet, in his rare moments of comparative. humility he will half admit that his women assistants contrive great works for which he, as chef, gets credit, and he knows other renowned kitchens in London. Sir Edward Lawson’s and Julius Wern- her's, which have frequently served dinnersto his royal master and are controlled absolutely by women cooks. His OWn male assistant conâ€" fines himself to pastry, omelcttes and rolls. Other matters he intrusts to feminine. hands. He does not sleep under the King’s roof, but has his private residence in a street not very far away. Breakfasts are not his afâ€" fairs on ordinary days; they are the task of his assistant. It is not looked for that any artist can pro- duce three masterpieces in one day, especially when the greatest, the din- ner, has to come .last. Thus, Mr. Menager need not quit his own roof tree till after 11 o'clock. Then he steps into a handsome and drives to Marlborough House. His ‘kitchen is big and bright and has all the win~ (lows on the ground floor facing the lawn. The carte for luncheon is brought to him and HIS WORK BEGINS. The King never draws up the list of dishes for his own meals. That is done by Lord Farquhar, the Mas- ter of the Household, or Lord Valen- tia. the Comptroller; but of course .it is always varied enough to inâ€" clude anything the King wants, for it is a chief qualification of these functionaries to know his tastes. Mr. Menager selects everything that he needs. The master of the kitchen Mr. Blackwood, a much more pro- saic _personage, a mere man of figâ€" ures, sees that all the articles come in and that the items on thc trades- men's accounts correspond. When he has verified them they are taken to Sir Nigel Kingscote, the Pavmaster, who writes out checks for payment. Leaving these persons to their count- “4' ,dpg-house work, Mr. Menager sallics forth: from Marlborough House smok- ing a big cigar and walks up St. James's street. His destination is the Chef’s Club in Shaftesbury aven- ue, wherb he will play a game of bilâ€" liards. rl‘hen he will drop in at the Cafe Royal and afterward have a friendly chat with one or other of his restaurateur compatriots near Piccadilly Circus. At six o’clock he returns to Marlborough House to prepare the King's dinner. He is frankly proud of his early creations and will often include cutlets a la Reform or other dishes named after the great Whig resort in the King's menu. Tinwrous cooks might hesiâ€" »,.,;v~.-.~»» unmtrkmi'n" 1' .dustry. ‘ tate to thrust the word “reform” under the eyes of a King when he was dining, but Mr.,‘_\lenager and his master understand each other. His is a far harder task than was his pensioned predecessor's in’ Queen Victoria's days. For weeks at a time, the Queen’s meals in the last reign would all be servedron a single tray in a corner of 'one of 'her priâ€" vate apartments with only one of her' daughters and two ladies-in-waiting for company. But now King Ed- ward, when he is, at Windsor. orders the banqueting table to beset every night. The main table seats about thirty, and for that 1 company Mr._ Menagergmust be prepared. Every- thing is?carved in the ~'kitchen and built lip-again, on serving. dishes. The King insists that the food shall all be Served like entrees, the separate portions ready cut for each diner. Only at Christmas time, when the baron of beef and the boar’s head are on the list, is any carving done on the great sideboard. Before‘the King touches a dish a senior mem- ber of the household tastes it and PUTS IT BEFORE HIM. No waiter touches the plate this tasting performance. But these things are outside Mr. Menaget’s province! By that time he is mixing in the outer world among his friends. He knows nothâ€"' ing about politics, but he is always very glad to know a good thing about horses. It is his great re- laxation .le sport_.and his. master sometimes lets him know a good thing. Then he puts his money on with a will. Tradesmen holding the. royal war- rant furnish all the meat and houseâ€" hold‘ supplies. They are'under'stood' to complain that though the volume of business. is'much bigger in the new reign th (loyal purse-strings are more tightly held. , ' The King’s wine-taster, Mr. Payne, is scarcely so close to the throne as Mr. Menager, the cook. Mr. Men- ager rose to his present height through sheer genius, while Mr. Payne belongs to the hereditary branch of the British Constitution, for he succeeded his father. Physically, he is a great man, and he treats his office with becoming gravity. Twice a weekâ€"it will be oftener when coronation time comes â€"he walks into St. James's'palace, produces his bunch of keys and deâ€" scends through a trapdoor into the cellar accompanied by a servitor holding a lantern. The cellar is a subterranean pasâ€" sage extending to Buckingham pal< ace, passing under the Mall, the traf« fic of London' going unheard above. Locked side doors show 'whcre par- ticular bins lie and the thousands of bottles stacked along the walls are scarcely distinguishable from the old gray sidesgof the passage. What is now a long,‘ narrow wine cellar, stretching from palace to palace had romantic and other uses in the days of the Stuarts, and even, they say, much later. Mr. Payne has the list of wine he is to take out. Each kind he tastes. after Like the professional at his craft, he does not swallow. that a man who swallows cannot taste. He just takes a little in his mouth and‘puts it out. So many dozen are taken up in a crate and handed to Sir Nigel Kingsâ€" cote; Paymaster of the Household, who issues the wine to the King’s table when it is used. Then Mr. Paynereturns to his cellar for more. There are no rivalries between Mr. Payne and Mr. Menager, although the wine cellar has, by the King's preference, scored one rather notable victory over the kitchen. The King never takes cofiee for breakfastâ€"alâ€" ways champagne, a small bottle. . h__ ' L JOHANNESBURG REVIVING He will tell you .â€" Hotels Are Crowded and Gold Mining Resuming. A letter received from J ohannesâ€" burg says that a large number .of residents are returning every week, everybody is too busy to think about war, and all are sanguine that in six months from the present time the mining industry will be on as large a scale as it was when the mines were closed over two years ago. The town was never so busy as it is toâ€"day. If these sanguine expectations are realized 6,000 stamps will be at work before the end of the year and if they turn out gold as fast as be- fore the war they will be producing at the rate of $80,000,000 a year. The people in the Rand, however, feel perfectly certain that there is to be an enormous increase in the x inâ€" Thcy say there is not a particle of doubt from what is known of the mineral resources and the present plans for. development that. within five years there will be 17,000 stamps -in operation. This would be nearly three times as many stamps as have ever been worked on the Rand. This estimate of future growth may be extravagant, but it shows at least the confidence of the people in the future of the Rand whose fal- len fortunes they are now working with the utmost energy to restore. 0â€"7.â€" , , REMARKABLE FEAT. From Paris is reported a remarkâ€" able feat by five lieutenants of the 12th Hussar Regiment. Starting at three in the morning, they rode se- ventyâ€"two miles in thirteen hours, dismounted, walked a distance of tWenty-four miles, dined, and then walked back the twenty-four miles, and rode again the seventyâ€"two miles on the return journey, arriving at three o’clock the next afternoon. . days the man EXAMININB ITS .05 NUT-ES. SOME RECENT BANK or ENG- LAND FORGERIES. â€"â€" The Penalty Formerly Was Death ’ â€"Some Big» Fraudsâ€"Note -' ‘ Splitting. ‘A writer in the St. J ames's Gaz- ette, referring to the recent arrests in connection with the forgery of five-pound Bank of England notes, says: , ,, "The Bank of England is examin- ing its five-pound notes with a closer eye than ever just now, and those on whom the responsibility of identifiâ€" “cation rests will be thankful, no doubt, that they have not to deal with the notes of a hundred. years ago. Bank notes were not always so difficult to forge as they are toâ€"day. , “The first forger must have found his work tolerany easy. But he paid for it with'his life.- century and a half ago, and in those ’who forged a bank gote, like the man who stole a sheep, paid for his crime on the gallows. “Every fortnight in 1818â€"011 an averageâ€"there was an execution .in England for forgcries of bank notes, and in 1820 more than ahundred forgers were convicted. Nearly nineâ€" ty years ago the Bank was the vicâ€" tim of a more amazing crime than the famous Bidwell forgeries, one of the chief cashiers defrauding it of £320,000. , .‘ r “Twenty years later, the forgeries of a banker resulted in an even great- er‘loss.' The forging banker was a Mr. Fauntleroy of Berners street, and his crimes seem to have begun with his forging. powers of attorney to'keep up the credit of his bank. In that way he was able to sell from the funds large sums of money be- longing to other people, and thus for years he ‘ FLOURISHED AND CREW RICH. “Then the banker's sin found him out, and at the banking house was found a. confession __'_written eight years before, with a postscript which said: ‘The bank began first to dis count our acceptances and to deâ€" stroy the credit of our house: the bank shall smart for it.’ Smartfor it the Bank did; the 'i‘orgeries ran into £320,000. ' , “The sum at stake was greater, but the Fauntleroy " forgeries‘ were prosaic and uninteresting compared with the way in which the Bidwell brothers set the financial world ablaze thirty years ago. Everybody knows how the plot to rob the bank, hatched in the throneâ€"room of a roy- al castle as the brothers passed through to see its glories, developed and succeeded. “The rich American and his imagin‘ ary fortune, the introduction to the bank by an admiring and expectant city tailor, the clever manipulating of the £3,000 which deceived the Bank authorities, and, ,at length, the forging of half the great names of the-city, are all familiar incidents in the greatest bank drama of our time. It was one of those great crimes which are revealed by a slip at the eleventh hourâ€"at the fifty- ninth minute of the eleventh hour. “The Bidwells and the accomplice sat in a little room sharing up the stolen fortune â€"£100,000â€"and tear- ing up the evidences of their guilt. One of the last bills left pleased the forgers so much that it.was decided not to burn it, and in a few days the 'last of the forgeries found its way to the bank. It was the One bill the only bill among hundreds. which the forgers had FORGOTTEN TO DATE. "Such a crime as this could hard- ly have created a. greater scare in Threadneedle street, however. than the announcement a few years ago that somebody had succeeded in ac- complishing a very simple scientific feat. It became known that a banknote hadbeen split in two. and the authorities were aghast lest the world should be flooded with dupliâ€" cate notes. “The splitting of the note had unâ€" doubtedly been accomplished quite honestly and without any evil inâ€" tent, and the man who split it was frank enough to let the Bank know that he had done so. A long corâ€" respondence passed between the Bank and the man with the secret and at last a test was decided upon. a Bank of England note being sent to the in« ventor for experimenting upon. .The Bank received it back in two pieces, the one a facsimile of the other! “The authorities were puzzled. and for a moment the scare seemed to have become more real. But only for a moment. Closer examination brought back confidence. The test had shown the possibility of split- ting the note, but itproved, too, the impossibility of passing the second half, .the printing on which was too faint to pass. v "Had. the mysterious inventor been able to overcome. this difficulty his secret would have been worth‘ an alâ€" most fabulous sum, and the, Bank of England would no doubt have bought it from him. But there was no way of splitting abnote and re- taining the clearness of the impres- sion throughout, and ’ ‘ - HERE THE INVENTOR FAILED. It transpired that his method was to glue a piece of calico on each side of the note, leaving. the ends loose. When the glue was dry the pieces of calico were pulled gently apart. with tlie-n'esult that. tlie,,adhesi01}r- of the paper to the cloth being greater than the adhesion of the paper itself. the two sides of the note adhered to the cloth. and the calico were again separated, «It. ,4. >-_' It was a On being damped the paper , amM.__..-....__.. .. and there were two bank notes where only one had been before. “The Bank of England can hardly Education and Discipline be accused of running any unneces~ sary risk, and such incidents as the Splitting of the notes, and the for- geries, have made the authorities more than ever careful. It is strange to think of a bonfire rof . banknotes in the heart of London, but such a sight was regularly wit-l nessed until a few years ago, when' the Bank of England destroyed all returned notes by fire. “Now' ' they disappear in another1 way. PlaCed in long, cylinders. the notes, when their life is over. are converted into pulp by acids. What to-day stands for ‘a golden harvest is to-morrow a heap of waste. and the magic little bit of paper. its life of glory over, becomes a piece of common cardboard, or something to strengthen the backs of lodgers.” â€"_...- «.47.. "â€"â€" nnrams BY A BLIND MAN. Farming Implements and Watches in Order. There is in the Clay county, 1nd., infirmary as a pauper, a blind man, who is as much of a prodigy as “Blind Tom,” the musician, or any of the mathematical lightning calâ€" culator freaks who have from time to time been exhibited over the country. “Gus,” as he is called. by his fellowâ€"inmates and the keepers of the institution, is a rare mechanical genius and manifests as much ambiâ€" tion to excel‘in his work as though all the avenues of competitive in- dustry were open to his hand. and application. He maintains 'a general repair shop on the'prefnises, which he built himself, which is provided- with a. variety of tools and ap- pliances, all of which are kept in ex- cellent order and every piece in its proper place. , When ‘any of the farming imple- ments on the Place become impaired. garden tools or domestic utilities, including watches and clocks, brok- en or out of order, they are taken to the shop, Where “Gus” feels them over, and quickly discovers what is wrong and what is wanting, then proceeds to make the repairs. Should itrbe an unusual break, for which he does not have the necessary tools, the work is laid aside until he'providcs With his own hands and skill the appliances required. Two years ago the superintendent of the institution desired to put a new picket fence around the large. front yard, and "Gus" was given charge of the job, with authority to summon other. paupers to'his asâ€" sistance. But when he proposed to run the lines and locate the different sections of the fence, “Gus” told the superintendent that he would do that himself ;- that he was ambitious to do the whole job‘ from “cellar to attic,” and he did. Having prepared the pickets, which were all cut true to his model, he proceeded to run the lines, which he did as accurately as ,w0uld a man with two good eyes. He then planted the‘posts, put on the railing and drove every picket to Puts its place. “Gus” also hunts rabbits and goes fishing, unaccompanied. He fishes with hooks which he baits and from which he disengages the “finâ€" nies," just as any other expert‘ Izaak Walton might do. But when he hunts rabbits he takes with him (not a gun) a dog and an ax, and when his dog trees a “cotton-tail,” “Gus” is sure of his meat. “Gus” was not always blind, havâ€" ing been deprived of his sight a good many years ago by an explosion while at work in the mines. +â€"â€"- : BREAD MADE WHILE YOU WAIT.I A self-moving flour mill and bakery to follow regiments on a march, and- to make fresh bread every hour with‘ flour ground from wheat obtained by requisition upon the. spot, has recentâ€"l ly been designed on the Continent! This vehicle is formed of twu parts, after the manner of artillery‘carâ€" riages. The first comprises the motâ€"i or as well as a battery of mills _with their bolters, and alongside of them the mechanical kneading troughs. All this apparatus is actuated by the motor that is employed to propel the vehicle. A continuous oven is haul- ed in the 2 11‘. 1 tests. -. ._ . . . . . .. . ... .-.......n...;-n-.uns=am-.vm. m-v-vâ€"M-w -â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"Iâ€"d A COURSE OF SPROUTS. of 1m; German Princes . A correspondent of an English pa- per writing of a meeting with the German crown prince, describes him a rather good-looking young man with the fresh, high color and the ready blush of a country boy. He was surprised to find him exceeding- ly simple and retiring, in spite of the rumor that he inherited his father’s a1.:preciation 0f the might of the I-lohenzollcrns. The prince is a young man of fine physique, the fruit of having had little pampering from his youth until now. His father even improved on the simple military education and dis- cipline under which all the Hohen- zollern princes have been brought up. It is only “a few years ago that the crown prince could have been seen trudging behind a plough, or milking, or cleaning out the hen- coop on the farm that has been es- tablished for_the young princes. His brothers, August‘William and Oscar, are going through the same cours<‘ now. v The farm where Prince Frederick William was trained is Plon, in Hol- stein, the home of the Empress. The cadet school is there, where the cadets are prepared for the more ad« vanced classes of the upper cadei academy of Gross-Lichterfelde. The royal pupils have a residence in the royal park. Near it is a large lake, and on a. peninsula of twenty-eight acreS'is a leased farm, where, wrtli six companions, they seriously undertake agricultural labor. The farmhouse on the place is a typical old-fashioned.peasant’s abode and it has not been altered in thl slightest , degree. A great chuestnui tree shades .the entrance, which leads directly into a. primitive, whitewash- ed room, furnished exactly like any peasant’s room, with a woven mat. a red-painted table, and a. closet that contains heavy earthenware plates and coarse dishes. Adjoining this room is a small kitchen where the princes often do their own cooking, for they have no servants. .While living there they must do everything for themselves. The produce of the farm is sent to the imperial household in Berlin 0! Potsdam, and the Emperor examines it. both in respect to quality and quantity. The season’s crop last-year. was sent to Berlin. It had been planted, weeded, grubde out and barreled by the two princes and their comâ€" panions, with no aid from adults,. and the yield was excellent. The Emperor pays his sons'the market price for their produce, and in ad- dition to raising the crops, they must keep exact accounts, showing just how their farming operatiOns stand, and what arethe profits each year. The princes had a bad time their vegetables last year, for the drought killed nearly-everything. But the orchard did well, and they balanced their loss in vegetables by unusual success with chickens. Prince August William invested in prize white American Wyandottes, and they proved to be phenomenal layers. Besides the chickens, there is a col- ony of white Pekin ducks that have with a beautiful little house built for them near the pond. ' .._+.._,_..._... A REMARKABLE COW. A British journal announces the death of one of the most remarkable cows that ever figured in public milk. This was a shortâ€"horn Guern- sey crossâ€"bred animal. She was in her ninth year at the time of her death. Some idea of her great abil. ity as a milker may be' gathered from the fact that during the 10»; months prior to her death she had produced at the rate of gallons of milk per annum. day before her death. she pounds of milk. 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