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_______a________________g======================get LADY .____._ CHAPTER I. DICK asn noito'rnv. “With you, you infernal young idot, I haven’t got the patience of a mouse. I hope you’ll live to repent it. Meantime keep out of my way, and don’t expect more than you: four hundred a year, because you won’t get it. And if I hear of your marry- ing anybody under a hundred thousand pounds I'll cut off your allowance. After you are forty we can think about it. It is only just to tell you that if I have a chance I shall marry again in the hope of having an heir of my own. Yours, AYLMER.” So ran the letter that Lieutenant Dick Aylmer received from his amiable uncle, the Lord. A nice. cheery letter for a young man to receive when he contemplated marrying a girl with a fortune of a thousand pounds ! But he made up his mind t hat hewould marry Dorothy Strode, in spite of all the angry uncles in the world, and marry her he did privately, just as if that letter had never been written. It was as Mr. and Mrs. Harris that Dick and Dorothy went out hand in hand to face the world tegether. Fortunately, under the circumstances. there was no one to interfere With Doro- thy's plans. Her aunt, Miss Dimsdale, was dead, and a distant cousin, who lived in Egypt, was the only surviving relative. It was not likely that she would meet David Stevenson again. She had left him behind her with her old life at Graveleigh, miserable enough, she was sure, for his love had been very strong and sincere, and would probably haunt his life to the end. There was no one, in short, to remind her of the past but Barbara, an old retainer of her aunt’s, who adored her young mistress and would not be parted from her. Six months had gone byâ€"six glorious and blissfully happy months, during which Mr. and Mrs. Harris kept their secret \vell,and Dick was all the world to his wife Doro- thy. l)uring two of these months they remain- ed abroad, living in the smaller towns on the Riviera, seeking no interest beyond themselves, but leading a quiet, peaceful life of love, of which neither had become the least weary when Dick's leave was tip and it was time for him to go back to his ditty. Now, as the Forty-third were still quar- tered at Colchester, it became a question of some importance for them to decide where ‘ Dorothy slioitld take tip her abode after this. Golchcster or its immediate neigh- borhood was, of course, an impossibility, as her whereabouts might at any moiiicnt be discovered, and also Dick’s real name. Dick suggested thatshc might go to Chelms- for-i and take rooms there for the time; but Dorothy had stayed more than once in that sleepy little town, and it was tiiete- fore almost as impossible as Colchester itself. So finally they agreed that there was no place to hide oneself and have a good time all the same. and therefore they came back to town during the last week of Dick’s leave, and they took a littie flat in Kensington, just where Dorothy and Barbara could get on very comfortably without any other servant, and yet could be near to good shops and u tolerably lively street. “I’m afraid you’ll l;e awfully dull, Liar- ling,” he said to her when they had taken possession, and their last evening had come, "because, of course, you won’t know any one, and you are not at all likely to get to know people," “I shall have Barbara,” said Dorothy, suiting bravely. "Yes, you’ll have Barbara, but Barbara won‘t be much company for you,” he an- swered. “I do hate all this concealment. I hate leaving you at all, and I hate liming! to live, as it were, on the sly, and I’m' afraid always that some one you know or one of the fellows will be seeing you, and that they may get hold of a wrong idea altogether,« tindâ€"aiidâ€"I sometimes feel as if 1 should like to kill that old savage at Aylmer's Field." “lint. Dick dear, nobody \vill see inc and if they do they will think lam Dorothy Strode still. Remember, I don’t know many people in all the world, and none of your officers know iite at all, and if they even happened to see me with you they wouldn't think anything of it. Really I wouldn’t worry about that if I were you, dearest, and as for my being dullâ€"why, I ‘ l l l l l never am dull. I never have been used to having more than one person at a time-â€" Auntie all my life. and now you. lslmll get on splendidly with Barbara, and I shall always be able to look forward to the days when you will be coming home." “And I shall come like a bird whenever it I get the ghost ofa chance, he cried, tenderly. “And I," cried Dorothy, “am going to make a study of gowns, I have always been used to make my ordinary gowns, and I shall have lots of time, and 1 am gomg to begin as soon as you are gone. I am going to make myself some beautiful teavgowns ; they will make me 'ook married and digni- tiedâ€"â€"-they will make you tespect me sir." “llut you don't want to look married and dignified," he cried. half iilaiined. “Suppose you meet some one you know and' “ 1 shall not be. wearing a temgown, Dick," cried Dorothy, with a gay laugh. “Ah! no, no, of Course not," he answered relieved. “All the saute, though, did you not tell me the other day that you izad al J cousin somewhere or other 2” j “0h, Esther l Yes. but she,"carclciily, = "is in Egpyt." “ But, my dear child she won’t be in Egypt always." he rejotued; “and if she comes back to London, which she is sure to do"â€"â€"â€"- “By no means. Dick,” interrupted Drum, been in the World all your life, should take 7 "l‘wh 9'" “we d‘seue‘ so much trouble for a little nobody like I, thy, quietly. “Esther is just as likely to! 0 oil for the contract to New Iieitlsnr'i or; inland as to come to London. And the; would no: opflually hunt me up if she did ' come here. Slu- is beautiful, and rich, and very independent in her mind, but she isi It: yean older than I am, and thinks very AYLMER. ,‘that I met her in London to-morrow. she jwouid certainly not try to pry into my iatfairs, and even if I had your leave to tell i her part of the truth, she is perfectly safe. ‘lassure you that you never need worry yourself for a single moment about my cousin Esther." So Dick was pacified, and the following day went off to Colchesterâ€"not in a very happy frame of mind, all the saute. “I hate leaving you, Dolly,” he said vexedly. "I hate it. I’ve a good mind to throw up my commission and trust to Fate and the old savage." ” Dick, Dick !" she cried, “how can you ‘ be so foolish? Supposing that “the old savage’ did turn round on you and stopped and tender to you than you have been to me. You don’t set half enough value on your dear self,the most precious self to mein all the world. Believe me a man does not care so much what his wife knows as what she isâ€"and you forget what Ialways re~ member, that you might have liked the other fellow best, and you didn't." “The other fellow,” Dorothy faltered. "You mean David Stevenson 2" “Yes, I mean David Stevenson," Dick answered. “Many a girl would have taken him before a poor pauper devil, who had to ask his wife to live incog. in a poor little hole like this. Do you know, I went round to have a look at Stevenson‘s place, Hol- dyod, the other day, and when I saw itâ€" shall I tell you what I did, my sweet. heart 2” “Yes,” answered Dorothy, in a whisper. “I went round to the churchyard where site lies, our best friend, and I thanked God and her, if she could hear me, that my dear your allowance, where would you be then? little love had given me her pure love in If you are in the army you have always the chance of going to India, and I don’t know that I would not rather be in India as Mrs. Ayliner than have these dreadful partings here.” “ No, no,” he cried, hastily. “I couldn’t take you out there. I’ve always hada sort of horror of the East, and I would do any- thing to avoid running any such risk." So he went away, with a lump in his throat which made him glad he was safe in a cab, leaving Dorothy to face the next week by herselfâ€"that is to say, except fof‘ Barbara, who was jubilant at having got her long holiday over and delighted to be at work again. ’ To Dorothy, Barbara at this time was a wonderful study, of which she was never tired. For Barbara had been born and bred in the country, and had lived more years at Hrsvclcigh Hall than Dorothy could remem- her, and her comments on town people and town ways were more than amusing. ” Ah ; they did things in a queer sort of fashion at Holloway. My cousin Joe lives at Hollowayâ€"you know, Miss Dorothy-â€" he's a plumber in quite a large way of business, and has money in the bank and two children at boarding-school learning French and music and Heaven knows what beside. Mrs. Joe used to go out every Sat- urday night to get her stores in for the week, as she always saidâ€"for Sunday, I used to think. Never did I see such mar- ketiiigs! A quarter of a pound of butter and four fresh eggs. She regularly prided herself on those fresh eggs. ‘My dear,’ said I one night- to her, ‘tiiem eggs have been laid at least a Week, and I doubt if I should be far out if I'weut as far as ten days.’ “‘You see, Barbara’, says she, ‘you’ve been used to a country life, with newly- laid eggs, and gallons of milk and butter by the stone, and I dare say you feel ll. bit pinched-like here. But if I’d let myself go in butter and live on new-laid eggs at twopence hit’-petitiy eachâ€"~Well, all I can say is, I should have had to rest content without any boarding-schools or anything put by in the bank.’ “1 don’t say, Miss Dorothyâ€"Mrs. Har- ris, ma'nm, I should say,” larbara went rin, in her wisest tonesâ€"“that I wish to go against my cousin Joe’s Wife in that respect â€"a thrifty wife is a. crown of gold to a man that. has to work for a living; but at eggs that have never seen a hen for nearly 8 fortnight, ] do draw the lineâ€"to call ’em fresh, that is.” But although on most evenings Dorothy used to tell the old servant to bring her sewing and come and sit with her in the pretty little drawing-room. It must be con- fessed that at this time she found her life dreadfully dull, and as each day went by she seemed to miss Dick in her daily life more and more. For though she had been used to a quiet country home and a quiet country existence, there had always been plenty to interest her. If you live as Dorothy Strode had been used to live. all her life, you know why Janet Wenham was not at church on Sun- day, and why Elizaoeih Middlehams girl left that nice place at \Vhittington, and how Elizabeth Middleham cried for days over it, and her girl’s intention to take ser- vice iii London and see life. And you know all about it when Mrs. Jones has her mauve dinner -gown dyed chestnut-brown, and how it is that the rectory curtains keep clean your after year, nlthocgli white silk with a delicately-tinted stripe would be ruined in three months in some houses. Yes, you know everything about everybody in the, country, almost without knowing why you know it. But in town, in London town, it is all so dill'crent. It is true that when you get known in London the gosstpping is nearly as bad as if you were the centre of a small village set ; but to a girl situated as Dor- othy was, London is a social blank. Oh, dear, dear, it was all dreadfully slow, and beiorc she had been a month in her new home Dorothy was pining, pining for some woman friend to talk to, to confide in, to be friends with. Oh course, to set off against this, there were the gay and glorious times when Dick came ho . e, Sometimes only betwoen after- noon parade and morning stables, which meant a little dinner somewhere, a theatre after it, and a wild scramble and rush to , catch a train leaving Liverpool street atj some unearthly hour in the morning. At other times, however, Dick managed to squeeze it two-day’s leave out of his colonel, and then Dorothy feltâ€"3y, and said, poor childâ€"that life was worth living, and that she would not change her lot for that of any other woman in all the wide world. __ So, poor child, her life slipped by in a continual change from grave to gay, with ' bright spots of love set in a large surface of tinntterablo dulness and wearying1 dcprtslion." “l wonder,” she said one day to Dick,‘ "whether, when we are able to be. always 5 shall bore you 3" "No," said Dick, prompzly, "You really think not ‘3” eagerly. “i don't think at all," he said. tenderly, I “because I am sure of it. \Vnat makesf you ask me that dearest! II .ve I ever looked bored or as ifI was tired of you 3"5 - . ~ I “Uh, no, Dick, nol' etze burst out:. exchange for mine,and that Miss Dimsdale’s wishes had never been to part us. Don’t hurt me again by asking me doubting ques- tions, my darling. Don’t, Dorothy, don"t, my dear.” “Dick, Dick 1" Dorothy cried, “I never- will. I love you, love you, love you l” “And you will always love me ‘2" teasing- ly. “Oh, Dick 1” reproachfully. “Even whe ”--â€" Dorothy blushed, but she put her arm round his neck and drew his mouth down to hers. “I shall always love you best of all, Dick,” she said ; "and however much I may love the child, I shall love it most because of you.” (To Be CONTINUED.) â€"â€"â€"..______ SPEED 01“ WILD DUCKS AND GEESE. The Ducks Made Sixty-Six and Two-Thirds Miles an Hour. and ()ullly tlic Geese. Of all the migratory birds the American wild pigeon and black duck are well up towards the front as regards long and rapid flight. The speed of the pigeons can only be estimated, while that of the ducks can be established by observation. Some years ago the writer and a scientific friend meas- ured off on‘the shore of a large western river ti; line exactly three three iniles long, and each took a station at opposite ends of the line. The object was to note, by 3 means of preconcerted signals, the time a‘ flock of wild ducks took in passing up or down the river, near the stations. During three hours on the morning of a bright October day, observations were noted of the times of passing the stations l of nine different flocks. Upon comparingl watches it was found that the average time was two minutes and forty-two seconds, thus showing the speed per hour to be ' sixty-six and two-thirds miles, or one mile iii fifty-four seconds. As showing howl uniform was their flight a difl‘ereuce was found of only five seconds between the greatest and the least intervals of time. As numerous flocks of Wild geese were! daily flying in the same neighborhood . observations were also taken to test their [ hourly speed. Two points twenty-nine and ' one-third miles apart were selected, both of which were connected by telegraph. “'e succeeded in identifying four out of seven flocks which passed over both places during l the four days we were on the watch. The mean hourly speed was found to be a frac- tion over fifty-four miles. The wild goose has been long suppossed to be the swiftest of all water fowl, but this experiment shows I that he is far behind the Wild duck. â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€".â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€" Brains and Longevity. When Bismarck and Gladstone, both be- yond fourscore, are able to see the truth and to tell it better than ever before in est student of Great Britain, lives to 85, the question of whether hard thinking shortens life is presented in a striking way. It can be answered in one way at any rate from the tables of vital statistics, which show that those who think least are apt to die soonest. It would be easy, too, to fill a column with the names of great intellectual workers who have outlived two generations of ordinary men. It against these are off~ set the brilliant geniuses who have died young, it Will be easy enough to answer that they need not have died at all as a result of genius. It was not genius that killed Byron or Pope or Burns or Chatterton. They died of lack of self-control, which is not a neces- sary concomitant of great intellect. But even if it were admitted that genius is a condition of high nervous tension, apt to result in fatal reaction, it is still true that the men who do the thinking for the rest of the world nearly always outlive those who have to have their thinking done for them. The thinker who is a man of slender physi- que and nervous organization, so sensitive that he is almost an invalid, may still out- last two generations of stalwart beefeaters, and survxve into the third, as a living illustration of the fact that the use of brains which gives so many other things, gives long life also. A Medical Discovery. From Germany comes the first official most dreaded of diseases, consumption and cancer. 'lhe discovery, which was ROUND THE WHOLE WURL WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE GLOBE. Old and New World Events of Interest ' chronicled» Brieflyâ€"Interesting "up- I petting: of Recent Date. Berlin has no slums. Krupp is worth $2,000,000. Aluminumyaehte multiply. Japan has 200 trained nurses. China has no telegraph poles. Zante has a petroleum spring. Brussels will become a seaport. Japan has a 300-year-old bank. In parts of Peru taxes are paid in cocoa leaves and Peruvian bark. During the last 35 years more than 1,000 varieties of postal cards have been issued. _The clothing of the women of the Sultan of Turkey costs 37.! 00,000 a year, so it is said. A physician at Copenhagen has a collec- tition of Australian stamps for which he has refused $25,000. A Paris newspaper is organizing a com- petion of self-moving waggons,to take place on June 1. Lady Napier, whilst- skating on the orna- mental water at Hampton Court Palace, fell down and broke her wristiti two places. A fashionable dress designer in the west end of Lontzou is comptited to make-on an average between $25,000 and $30,000 a year. ’2 The Princess of \Vales has in the hall at Sandriugham a pet parrot which salutes visitors by crying out, “ God save the Queen 1” M. Purvis de Chavannes,the distinguished French artist. is to receive $50,000 for decorating one room in the Boston public library. ‘ The House of Commons has voted to expend $175,000 for the relief of the distress in Ireland by the purchase of seed po- tatoes, etc. A London firm, which has manufactured eight of the eleven cables linking the United States with England, makes 55 miles of cable each ‘24 hours. Etc-Queen Isabella, of Spain, receives $150,000 per annuui, which is very far from covering her expenses, and she is invariably head over ears in debt. Chili proposes to try the experiment of state management of railways. The govern- ment. has announced its intention of buying up all the existing roads. The late Duchess of Montrose has left £181,325, all of which is willed to her son, the Duke of Montrose, with the exception of £2,000 to London poor. Over £1’1‘,000,000 has been paid in com- pensation to. the Irish clergy. Most of them committed their allowances, and now the annual sum paid is only about £5,000. Archdeacon Farrar writes to a corres- pondent : “I am perfectly tired of denying the absolute falseness that I have changed my views about ‘Eternal Hope.’ " M. Kite, the new Japanese Minister to England, has been presented at court. He wears English clothes and his tailor has carte blanche as to style, materials and fit. Cannon, the English jockey, has a boat- house on the Thames, and when not in training keeps himself well by rowing, swimming and hunting. He has an income that might satisfy a duke. President Faure is still reaching out for popularity in France. He has just paid a bill of $20,000 for a quarter of a bottle of wine supplied to every soldier in the army, with which to drink his health. Mr. Balfour, leader of the English i Conservatives, is u. brilliant talker in their lives ; when Prof. Blackie, the great- l private life. His conversation bristles with anecdotes and amusing stories, which are told with an air of (irollery and genuine , humor. ‘ Westminster Abbey is to have an “ Echo’ , organ. This will be erected in the Trifor- ‘ ium, under the superintendence of Prof. lBridge, and it will be played from a fifth l manual, connected with the large organ by l electricity. » 5 Sir Benjamin Richardson, a noted English iphysician, thinks that the normal period jof human life is about 110 years, and that iseven out of ten average people ought to llive that long if they took proper care of I themselves. The Shah of Persia contemplates paying l another visit to Europe. He will start in 'May, and go by way of St. Petersburg, lwhere he will take the opportunity of icalling on the Emperor Nicholas II., after- wards proceeding to Berlin and Paris. Pierre Gnecco, an Italian by birth, who ,had lived in France for 40 years because 1 of his intense hatred of his native country, i left a fortune of $150,000 at his death the iother day. Fearing that it would go to lItaly he distributed all his money among v his servants. The new Czar of Russia is a great worker and shows remarkable capacity for taking in and digesting details. He is very methodical about his work and takes up public business at an early hour in the morning, often working steadily until late atnight. The Prince of Wales, as grand master of , news of a great discovery said to cure tbei English Fmemasomv h“ mnfilibuwd the Transvaal a separate Masonic district, and has appointed George Richards, of Johan- .nesburg, who, for thirty years past, has . announced late in March in the most serious ' held a leading position in that quarter, its . . _ l and trustworthy medical school in Gerifir" Rmn‘i “1””?- . . ' ‘ l ' - ' l 3 together, ycu Will get tired of tiie and if I. mau-h ‘8 hke'y t°_ recel‘e- °°n51demb‘_ 'aticntion at the coming Medical congress: in Munich. The discovery was made by Dr, Louis “'aldstein, of New York, a brother of the famous archaeologist, Dr. Charles Waidstein. The new treatment, which has been perfected by studies abroad, consists of injecting minute doses of pilocarpine until the lymphatic system In 16 months the great drainage canal of the City of Mexico will be opened. The canal is over 30 miles long, and the tunnel throtigh the mountain six miles. The total lcost will have $20,000,000, and they have :been fooling with the thing 06' and on for § 300 years. l Vice Admiral Ito of the Ja incee navy, i :and Admiral Ting, of the C inese naval “only you “.6 so good and kind ,0 me. .nd 1 is stimulated and the white corpuecles of {Omar ‘7‘" intlm“ friend'. Ind it 15 “id ‘ it seems so wonderful that you, who have: “he “00d overcome the Whom)“ p‘nicl” Dr. Waldstein’s researches have gone to the fountain gthata few days before the surrender of lthe latter at Wei-Hai-Wei the former advised him by a personal letter, to take me__lmu,, ,ba, 1 know naming. huwfivhence these healthful white corpuseles;refugeinJapan until the troubles wereovor. 9,0,,“ I. “napping a“ my me M Gnu. ; spring, _and by eiilitening its action and] 'A new lighthouse will be built on Pen- man i" , roducm'enera restoresthe condition of thejmarch Point, of? the coast of Brittany, Dick laughed aloud at the earnestness of her face and tone. iiood, destroying potsonous germs. The ; importance of the di=covery is thought. to hone. and will be known as the Ecumuhl light- lt will contain an electric light of “My darling.” he said. holding her close‘ be i" beY°nd um“ 0’ P“le‘"i K065 5nd 10900-000 “mile Pow" 'm‘lng ‘ be‘"‘ little of family ties. In any case. supposing to his heu‘t, "I hava been no more kind . 0:???"- iwhich can be seena distance, in clear west her, of 83 miles, and in foggy weather a distance oi ‘21 miles. Une of the deepest spots yet discover“! to the Pacific Ocean is near the Friendly Islands in latitude 24 deg. 37 min. south longitude 175 deg. 8 min, west. The depth thete found was equal to about the English miles. and is said to be something like 5,000 feet greater depth than had yet been found in that vicinity. A watch has bran invented which mea- sures distance by sound. The inventor, a French officer named Tnouveniu, has called theinstrumenta phouotelemeter. Tooperate it a little button is pressed at the instant of the flash and again at the sound. In the meantime a needle traverses a dial registering time to the one-tenth part of a second. The rest is a mere matter of calculation. .__.._.__.._....â€".â€"â€" THE DITTY BOY MUTINY. What Threatened to he a Serious .Vlullny Overcome by the [Undue-is and Tact of the Two Mules. A curious instance of "how small a mat- ter kindletli strife" was many years back fiorded in connection .with the boxes in which English seamen keep their needles and such-like things. These same “ditty boxes" were in former days very nearly the cause ofa seiious mutiny in one of the ilagships, in which the not overwise com- mandcr, upon newly joining, began the practice of throwing overboard any such boxes he caught sight of on going his morn- ing rounds of inspection, considering that they spoiled the etlect of the sets of china with which all the men’s mess tables were adorned. It happened that nntnerous visitors, gen- erally escorted by this commander, came to see the fiagshipaud, of course, admired the neatness of the crew's mess places, and especially the show of china, which was pointed out with pride by him. One after- noon, however, after there had been during the morning an especial search for and large capture of boxes, which were then thrown overboard, the seamen, justly enraged at this destruction of their little necessaries, rose en masse, and smashed the whole of the much-admired crockery. The marines, however, would not follow snit, and effect. ually resisted the efforts to smash their china made by the sailors, who desired to thus complete their works of destruction. These seamen then rushed tip on the fore. castle. During the destruction of crockery the overexcited mate of the lower deck kept frantically brandishing his sword, but) at the rear of the marines, and quite clear of the flying fragments of crockery. The noise made roused the commander, who, rushing up to the quarter-deck,called for the marines, and ordered them to load their muskets. At this potnt the mate of the upper deck and the mate of the main deck, who knew the seamen well frotn lotig and close (experience, stepped tip to the commander and begged him, instead of causing the marines to loud, to pipe the crew down, which he did; and then these two mates went forward, and, speaking kindly, induced the seamen to go below and leave the forecastle guns, which they were casting loose, while some of their comrades were cudeavoring to break open the powder magazine. Thus what threat- ened to be a serious mutiny was happily put an end to, leaving the seamen the unplea- sant task of sweeping up their broken crockery. As might have been anticipated. not-hing further occurred ; for all good officers, who have an intimate knowledge of the seamen of the royal navy, can bear witness to their attachment to judicious officers, as well as to their great loyalty to duty. HERE'S A GORGEOUS PALANQUIN [hint (or aWest African Chief to Itldo III. A Birmingham firm has just completed a palanquiu which a firm trading in Central Africa intends as a present for a native chief. The body of the vehicle consists of a spring mattress supported on a frame which is carried by a pair of lancewood shafts sixteen feet long. The mattress is jointed, and there is a well in the centre of the vehicle, so that the occupant of the palanquin may adopt a sitting, reclining or a recumbent attitute, the couch beingJ cushioned with thick horsehair cushions, upholstered in-silk tabouret. The canopy, consisting of fine blue cloth curtains With a gold and silk border and festoous of terra cotta silk, has a pyramidal roof, surmount- ed by a crown, while the brasswork of the frame has finials designed from the barbed spearheads in use in the chief's district. The structure would be handsome in its way but for the fact that the woodwork of the body has painted upon it, in large letters, on either side. the name and title of the chiefâ€"namely, “Coffee Adamâ€"Iron Bar Duke.” This feature, for which the manufacturer is not responsible, is expected to particularly please the dusky potentate, but it is fatal to the artistic pretensions of the design. The Queen and Precedence. A London paper tells a story illustrating Queen Victoria‘s Well-known strictness in the matter of precedence. As she was about to take a train with the Empress Frederick at Paddington station recently, she reached the door of her saloon carriage first ; she drew back at once, howover, and motioned the Empress to go in before her The Empress protested, and for a few seconds there was a little argument between mother and daughter as to which should have precedence, and the Queen laughingly insisting, the Empress finally entered be. ‘ fore her mother. This was a striking example of the Queen’s punetilliousness in observingothe rank of her daughter and guest. ‘ ncernlng this matter of preced- ence it seems a little odd that the Duchess of York, who is the mother of the probable future ruler of England, is yet quite low in the ranks at conrt. The Queen's daughters and daug’htere-in-law all have precedence of her; er place at a drawing-room is between the Duchess of Albany and the Duchess of Teck. One won.derz,-if her too shall reach the throne, whether he! rank will be "ind. kw...â€" W_.'.... _.... a-.. . “M‘WM .' 4"...â€" . on... :r