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pose 50. But don't bother

Yes, I suppose 50. But don't bother
me e -. -
VIII he be at the dance and BANQUET
tonight ~ -
mo! No! Now must 20. Don't
bother me, say!' And the king moved
away.
That night we had a grand banquet
and dance at Westminster, and the
next day we all, excepting Lady Mary.
went back to Greenwich by boat, pay
Ing a farthing head for our fare. This
1 was just after the law fixing the boat
fare, and the watermen were quarrel
Ing lot, you may be sure One farthinp
from Westminster to Greenwich! Eight
miles. No wonder they were angry!
: The next day went back to London
on an errand and over to Wolsey's house
to borrow a book. While there Master
Cavendish, Wolsey's secretary. present
ed me to the handsome stranger, and
he proved to be no other than Charles
Brandon, who had fought the terrible
duel down in Suffolk / could hardly
believe that SO mild hammered and boy
1sh person could have taken the lead
ing part in such a tragedy. But with
all his gentleness there was an underly-
Ing dash of cool daring which intimated
plainly enough that he was not all mild.
ness.
We became friends at once, drawn to-
gether by that subtle human quality
which makes one nature fit into anoth-
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like velvet, a rich, clear, rosy snow,
with the hot young blood glowing
through it like the faint red tinge we
sometimes see on the inner side of a
white rose leaf. Her hair was a very
light brown, almost golden, and fluffy,
soft and fine as skein Of Arras silk.
She was of medium height, with a fig
ure that Venus might have envied Her
feet and hands were small and ap-
parently made for the sole purpose Of
driving mankind distracted. In fact,
that seemed to be the paramount OBJ
ject in her creation, for she had the
world Of men at her feet Her great
est beauty was her glowing dark brown
eyes, which shone with an ever chang
ing luster from beneath the shade Of
the longest blacklist upcurying lashes
ever seen.
4 Her voice was soft and full and, ex-
cept when angry, which, alas, was not
infrequent, had low and coaxing lit
tie note that made it irresistible. She
was a most adroit coaxer and knew
her power full well, although she did
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WIT sometimes happens, Sir Ed
4 win says, that when a woman
Al will she won't, and when she
zSSs won't she will, but usually in
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er, resulting in friendship between men
and love between men and women. We
soon found that we had many tastes in
common, chief among which was the
strongest of all congenial bonds-the
love Of books In fact, we had come to
know each other through our common
love Of reading, for he also had gone to
Master Oavendish, who had fine libra
ry, to borrow some volumes to take
with him down to Greenwich.
Brandon informed me he was to go
to Greenwich that day; so we determin-
ed to see little Of London, which was
new to him, and then take boat in time
to be at the palace before dark.
That evening, upon arriving at Green
witch, we hunted up Brandon's uncle,
the master of horse, who invited his
nephew to stay with him for the night.
He refused, however, and accepted an
invitation to take bed in my room.
The next day Brandon was installed
as one Of the captains of the kings
guard, under his uncle, but with no
particular duties except such as should
be assigned him from time to time He
was offered good room on one of the
lower floors, but asked instead to be
lodged in the attic next to me. So we
arranged that each had room opening
into a third that served us alike for
drawing room and armory.
Here we sat and talked, and now and
then one would read aloud some favor
tie passage while the other kept his
own place with finger between the
leaves. Here we discussed everything
from court scandal to religion, and set
tied, to our own satisfaction at least,
many a great problem with which the
foolish world is still wrestling.
We told each other all our secrets, too,
for all the world like a pair of girls.
Brandon told me of his hopes and aspi-
rations chief among which was his de-
sire to earn and save enough money to
pay the debt against his fathers es-
tate, which he had turned over to his
younger brother and sisters. He, as
the eldest, could have taken it all, for
his father had died without will, but
he said there was not enough to divide,
so he had given it to them and hoped to
leave it clear of debt; then for new
Spain, glory and fortune, conquest and
yellow gold! He had read Of the voy-
ages of the great Columbus, the Cabots
| and host of others, and the future
was as rosy as Cornish girls cheek.
Fortune held up her lips to him, but
| there's often sting in kiss.
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(2G2) gain the kings favor. How
much that would amount to none could
tell, as the kings favorites were of
many sorts and taken from all condi-
tons of men. There was Master VOL
sey, a butchers son, whom he had first
made almoner, then chief counselor and
bishop Of Lincoln soon to he bishop Of
York and cardinal of the holy Roman
church.
From the other extreme Of life came
young Thomas, Lord Howard, heir to
the Earl of Surrey, and my Lord of
Buckingham, premier peer of the realm.
Then sometimes would the king take
yeoman of the guard and make him
his companion in jousts and tourna-
ments solely because of his Drawn and
bone. There were others whom he
kept close by him in the palace be-
cause Of their wit and the entertain
ment they furnished, Of which class
was l, and, tlatter myself, no mean
member. =
TO begin with, being in no way de-
pendent on the king for money, never
drew farthing from the royal treas
ury. This, you may be sure, did me no
harm, for, although the king sometimes
delighted to give, he always hated to
| pay. There were other good reasons,
! too, why I should be a favorite with
| the king. -
MY appointment as master of the
dance, / am sure, was owing entirely
to my manner. My brother, the baron,
who stood high with the king, was not
friendly toward me because my father
had seen tit to bequeath me SO good a
competency in place of giving it all to
the firstborn and leaving me dependent
upon the tender mercies of an elder
brother. So l had no help from him
nor from any one else. I was quite
small Of stature and therefore unable
to compete with lance and mace witt
bulkier men, but would bet with any
man, of any size, on any game, at any
place and time, in any amount, and, il
I do say it, who perhaps should not,
basked in the light Of many a fail
smile which larger men had sighed To-
In vain. ~s.
/ did not know when Brandon frs
came to London. We had all remained
at Greenwich while the king went VI
to Westminster to waste his time witt
matters of state and quarrel with tn
parliament, then sitting, over tn
amount of certain subsidies.
i Mary, the kings sister, then som
eighteen or nineteen years of age,
perfect bud, just blossoming into pei
feet flower, had gone over to Windso
on visit to her elder sister, Margare
of Scotland, and the palace was du
enough. Brandon, it seems, had bee
presented to Henry during this time q
Westminster and had, to some exten
at least, become fayorite before
met him. The first timeI saw him wa
at joust given by the king at Wes
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Again the thrust which should have
killed broke the sword, and the father
died as the son had died.
After this came young Charles, ex-
pecting, but so great was his strong
heart, not one whit fearing, to lie be-
side his dead father and brother. He
knew he was the superior Of both In
strength and skill, and his knowledge
OF men and the noble art told him they
had each been the superior Of Judson,
\put the fellows hand seemed to be the
hSnd Of death. An opening came
Through Judson's unskillful play which
gave young Brandon an opportunity
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E3kzz1I sons I know, hold all that tt
D he totally un-Solomonlike anG
4 the height of vanity, but they usually
r. have no ancestors of whom to be
proud. The man who does not know
who his great-grandfathe was natu
rally enough would not care what he
was. The Caskodens have pride of an.
cestry because they know both who
and what.
We have a right to be proud, for
there is an unbroken male line from
William the Conqueror down to the
present time. In this lineal list are
fourteen barons-the title lapsed when
Charles I. fell-twelve knights of the
Garter and forty-seyen knights Of the
Bath and other orders A Caskoden
distinguished himself by gallant serv-
Ice under the great Norman and was
given rich English lands and a fair
Saxon bride, albeit an unwilling one,
as his reward. With this fair, unwill-
ing Saxon bride and her long plat of
yellow hair goes a very pretty, pathetic
story, which may tell you at some fu-
ture time if you take kindly to this.
A Caskoden was seneschal to William
Rufus and sat at the rich, half bar
barrie banquets in the first great hall.
Still another was one of the doughty
barons who wrested from John the
great charter, England's declaration of
independence; another was high in the
councils of Henry V. / have omitted
one whom I should not fail to NEIL
ton, Adjodika Caskoden, who was a
member of the Ounce parliament of
Henry w., SO called because there
were no lawyers in it.
1t is true that in the time of Edward
~. a Caskoden did stoop to trade, but
it was trade of the most dignified, hon
orable sort-he was a goldsmith, and
his guild, as you know, were the bank
ers and international clearance house
for people, kings and mobiles.
/ Now, it has been the custom Of the
Caskodens for centuries to keep a rec
ord of events as they have happened,
both private and public. Some are in
the form of diaries and journals, like
those of Pepys and Evelyn; others in
letters, like the PASSIONS; others, a gain, in
verse and song, like Chaucers and the
Water Poets, and still others in the
more pretentious form Of memoir and
chronicle. These records we always
have kept jealousy within our family,
thinking it vulgar, like the PASSIONS, to
submit our private affairs to public
gaze.
There can, however, be no reason why
those parts treating solely Of outside
matters should be so carefully guard
ed, and have determined to choose for
publication such portions as do not di-
Yulge family secrets or skeletons, and
which really rebound to family honor.
from the memoir Of my worthy ances
tor and namesake, Sir Edwin Caskoden,
grandson Of the goldsmith and master
Of the dance to Henry WILL, the story
Of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor,
sister to the king.
This story Is SO we'll known to the
Student of English history that I fear
it's repetition will lack that zest which
attends the development of an unfore
seen denouement, but it is Of so great
interest and is so full in it's sweet, fierce
manifestation of the one thing insolu-
BILE by time-love--that l will neverthe-
less rewrite it from old Sir Edwin's
memoir.
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CHAPTER I.

(M WIT sometimes happens, Sir Ed
IMl & win says, that when woman
k66TW57 will she won't, and when she
lSsYszt won't she will, but usually in
the end the adage holds good. That
sentence may not be luminous with
meaning, but I will give you an illus.
tration.
think It was in the spring Of 1865
at any rate, soon after the death of the
Modern Solomon, as Queen Catherine
called her old fathcr-in-law, the late
King Henry .VII.-that his august mai
esty Henry Will, "the vndubitate flow
er and very Here of both the sayd Lin
ages came to the throne of England
and rendered me the honorable position
of master of the dance at bis sumptu-
GUS court.
! AS to "worldly goods" as some Of
the new religionists call wealth, was
very comfortably off, having inherited
from my father, one of the counselors
of Henry VII, very competent for
tune indeed. How my worthy father
contrived to save from the greedy
hand of that rich old miser so great a
fortune I am sure I cannot tell. He
was the only man Of my knowledge
who did it, for the old king had a reach
MS long as the kingdom, and, upon one
pretext or another, appropriated to
himself everything on which he could
lay his hands. My father however,
was himself pretty shrewd in money
matters, having inherited along with
his fortune rare knack at keeping it.
His father was goldsmith in the time
Of King Edward and enjoyed the mark
ed favor of that puissant prince.
Being thus in position of afauence,
I cared nothing for the fact that little
Or no emolument went with the Office.
It was the honor which delighted me.
Besides, was thereby an inmate of
The kings palace and brought into in
Innate relations with the court, and,
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Tor q thrust to Kill, but his blade like
his fathers and his brothers, bent
double without penetrating Unlike
the others, however, it did not break.
and the thrust revealed the fact that
Judson's skill as a duelist lay In a shirt
Of mail which it was useless Is try
to pierce. Aware Of this, Brandon
knew that victory was his and that
soon he would have avenged the muir
ders that had gone before. He saw
that his adversary was strong neither
in wind nor arm and had not the skill
to penetrate his guard in. a weeks try
Ing, so he determined to fight on the
defensive, until Judson's strength
should wane, and then kill him when
and how he chose. :55
After time Judson began to breathe
hard and his thrusts to lack force.
boy, | would spare you,' he said.
II have killed enough Of your tribe.
Put up your sword and call it quits
Young Brandon replied: Stand your
ground, you coward. You will be a
dead man as soon as you grow little
weaker. If you try to run, will
thrust you through the neck as i.
would cur. Listen how you snort. l
shall soon have you. You are almost
gone. You would spare me, would you?
I could preach a sermon or dance a
hornpipe while I am killing you. l
will not break my sword against your
coat of mail, but will wait until you
fall from weakness, and then Fight,
you bloodhound!''
Judson was pale from exhaustion,
and his breath was coming in gasps as
he tried to keep the merciless sword
from his throat. At last, by dexterous
twist of his blade, Brandon sent Jud,
sons sword flying thirty feet away.
The fellow started to run, but turned
and fell upon his knees to beg for life.
Brandon's reply was a flashing circle
Of steel, and his sword point cut length
wise through Judson's eyes and the
bridge Of his nose, leaving him sightless
and hideous for lfe-a revenge com.
pared to which death would have been
merciful
The duel created a sensation through
out the kingdom, for, although little
was known as to who Judson was, his
fame as duelist was as broad as the
land. He had been at court upon sew
eral occasions, and at one time, upon
the kings birthday, had fought in the
royal lists. So the matter came in for
it's share of consideration by king and
courtiers, and young Brandon became
person Of interest. He became still
more so when some gentlemen who had
served with him in the continental wars
told the court Of his daring and BRAY
cry and related stories of deeds ut arms
worthy Of the best knight in Christen-
dom. .-
He had an uncle at the court, Sir
Thomas Brandon, the kings master of
horse, who thought it a good opportuni-
ty to put his nephew forward and let
him take his chance at winning royal
favor. The uncle preached the subject
to the king, with favorable issue, and
Charles Brandon, led by the hand of
fate, came to London court, where that
same fate had in keeping for him events
such as seldom fall to the lot of man.
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CHAPTER III.
THE PRINCESS MARY.

OW, at that time, Mary, the
: kings sister, was just ripen-
ing into her greatest woman
" perfection. Her skin was
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THE CASKODENS:

VAItE Caskotlens take great pride
!" in our ancestry. Some per-
|E7Sz75| sons, know, hold all that to
3zSkEf2S5 he tOtallv rn-Solomonlile and
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CHAPTER IL,

HOW BRANDON CAME TO COURT.
IAYlHEN we learned that Brandon
. was coming to court, every
W5i one believed he would soon
!E2G22l gain the kings favor. How
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KING EDWARDS PULL.

W. c. Edwards Of ottawa, one of the
newly appointed Senators is a lumber
man who operated for up the Gatineau
river. and he tells this story Of a shanty-
man who had spent a couple of seasons
working for him IN the bush. and was
coming out again shortly after the death
of Queen Victoria.
At Maniwaki the shantyman made his
first stop on the way down. and in a
chat with the hotel keeper, asked what
was the news since he had gone to the
woods.
"Oh. there's nothing much new.
s'pose YOU heard up there that the Queen
was dead?'
no: you don't tole me de Queen was
dead, I'm sorry / hear dat; I'm sorry.
She was a good woman. de Queen an a
good queen. too. Wen. well all die some
tam. even de Queen"
After a short. respectful pause he
asked: An who's got de job now? Who's
de head now?''
oh Edwards the King now. It's King
Edward for the last three months"
Edwards de King, Wen. well; you
don't tole me Edwards de King. He's
a beeg man in de lumber heesness. but l
never expec' to hear of him be de King.
What a pull dat man Edwards mus have
Wit I.aurieri'-Toronto Globe.
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CLASSICS BY WIRE.

4 well-known literary woman went
over 10 Michigan last week 10 prepare
her summer cottage for occupancy dur
ing the summer. Before going she made
arrangements with her husband to have
a lot Of household goods packed and
forwarded by steamer.
For some reason the shipment was de-
layed. and she wrote inquiring the cause
OF the delay.
Please wire me when the goods have
been shipped. she said in conclusion.
The husband went hard to work and
personally cav the books hangings. and
other goods packed for the trip. Then
he went down TO the dock and saw them
safely on board the boat.
Coming back from the rver he stopped
at a telegraph office ard sent the mes
sage as requested.
"Iares and Penates or board boat.
he said. VIII arrive tomorrow morn
ing"
And this was the way the telegram read
when the boy brought il TO the waiting
woman in the little Michigan town:
Lard and peanuts on board boat VIII
arrive tomorrow morning ''-Chicago tn
bfgne
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ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT.
Eleventh Time His Birthday Celebrat-
ed in GaIena. Illinois.

Galena. H.. April 2S.-The eleventh sue
cessive celebration Of Grants birthday in
Galena proved TO BE- one Of the most sue
cessful- The historic city was decorated
in honor OF the great hero aad the beau
The noon train on the Illinois Central
from Chicago brought the special guests
cf the day from that city who joined in
COMMUNICATION The chief features q
the program was an address az Turner
han hy Hon. ". z. Gueriey OF Omaha.
whose delineation Of the character ard
achievements OF General Grant we've en-
Enthusiastically received From the sane
platform on previous anniversaries Pre<5-
dent Mckinley and Roosevelt ana Charles
Emory Smith hzd spoken The visitors
after the conclusion OF ;hE exercises
viewed Nsst's great painting burg II the
public library and the s;stue o. Grant
given "a tire city BY Il II Eohlsazt %
Chicago and dedicated BY Chsuncey II
Depew. The military hand and company
". Illinois National Gua-s. acted as es-
cort - The speaker 20 the han Rev
John Van Dsere. late % coe college. c.
dar Rapids Iowa. acted as chspIss1-
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UNION MADE CALENDAR YEAR.

The Office Boys Union had adjourned
from labor to luncheon. when the walk
ing delegate. after examining the union
label on doughnut. asked: Has youse
kids seen the new calendars?"
All wat er yer givin' us now? Wese
seen hundred NV en-.
Oats all right; but has yer read 'em?''
\ prolonged yell went up at the idea
Of reading calendar.
Il tell yer dis year nineteen-t'ree is the
buIliest year yet Nez see dem red fig
gers wot shows de sundays and der hol-
ledays-dis time dey comes in pairs.
Dere's Washingtous birthday-dat comes
on Sunday. and we got two cosy ones
a running. Den deys pun FIVE Sundays in
March this year. See? Decarashun Day
is Saturday. and we gifts two a-runnin':
der Fourt er July is put down for =
Saturday and We szips de ranch for two
days. Labor Day is Monday. maxim
two again. Next Christmas comes on
Friday. and sure dere's nurhin' doin' for
tree DAYS and de same wild New Years"
Who makes the calendar"
WHY. sic printer. yer mutt Don't yer
see de union labele Oats what organ
ized labor is doing for US poor workin'
men:'-Dry Goods Guide.
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sAWDUsT FOOD FOR STOCK.

Herman Schmidt. a Caroline county
farmer. read in q German technical pa
Per that wood properly prepared would
make good animal food As there are a
number OF sawmills in their neighborhood
he is putting the plan into practical oper-
alton. The theory is that animals have
n decided liking for young shoots. roots,
or shrubs. tree bark and other heavy
food OF the same nature. and experiments
have proved that the nutriment contained
in such growth remains in it even after
il has become wood. and that with lit
tie salt and water added to it the saw
dust VIII prove 70 be a highly nourishir Z
diet Fine birch. alder. beech. walnut.
and other woods have been aaslyzei
chemi-aliy, and The wood has vastly more
tibumen. nitrogen. and fatty substances
than straw. To the salt and water Mr..
Schmidt IS adding potato Feelings. corn
hgsks. canning house refuse or any other
Stop he can obiain--Bsitinlore American