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TO BE CONTINUED.

THE SOLDIERS IDLE TIME.-Military
life is necessarily made up largely OF
loafng. You cannot keep man con-
tinuously at drilling, marching or any
other branch of military training for
eight hours a day and five or six DAYS
a week. You have to invent a great
many other jobs for him, even to make
a pretence Of keeping him occupied.
But these jobs are nearly all 'loaf1ng
Jobs, and when it Is all done the soldier
has a great many more idle hours on
his hands per diem than any other man
in the same rank of life. do not know
whether it Is possible to arrive at any
remedy for this, but, II 1t Is, the direc-
tion in which should look for the rem
edy would be to make every soldier
work at some other trade for a certain
number of hours each day. The num-
Der Of hours might be shorter in the
summer, when there is more opportu-
nifty for training and military exercise,
and longer IN the winter. If this we're
practicable, no doubt it would make an
enormous difference to the value Of the
soldier as a citizen when he leaves the
ranks.-London Truth.
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fare, ana the watermen were quarrel
ing lot, you may be sure. One farthing
from Westminster to Greenwich! Eight
miles. No wonder they were angry!
The next day l went back to London
on an errand and over to Wolsey's house
to borrow 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. I could hardly
believe that so mild hammered and boy.
ish a person could have taken the lead
Ing part III such 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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CHAPTER I.
THE DUEL.

mY T sometimes happens, Sir Ed
@I win says. that when woman
k2es9 will she won't. and when she
VsAsg) won't she will. but usually in
the end the adage holds good. That
sentence may not be luminous with
meaning. but | will give you an Illus
tration.
think 1t was in the spring Of 1909
at any rate. soon after the death Of the
Modern Solomon. as Queen Catherine
called her old father-in-law. the late
King Henry VII.-that his august maj
esty Henry WILL. "the vndubitate flow
er and very Heire Of both the sayd Lin
ages" came to the throne Of England
and rendered me the honorable position
of master Of the dance at his Sumptu-
Gus court.
AS to worldly goods" as some Of
the new rcligionists 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
fortune | am sure cannot tell. He
was the only man OF my knowledge
who did it. for the old king had reach
as 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 a 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 aftiuence'
cared nothing for the fact that little
or 10 emolument went with the office.
It was the honor which delighted me.
BESIDES, l was thereby an inmate OF
the kings palace and brought into IN
innate relations with tue court, and,
above all, with the finest ladies OF the
land-the best company a man can
keep. since it ennobles his mind with
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pierce. Aware of this, Brandon

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.
After time Judson began to breathe
hard and his thrusts to lack force.
boy, l would spare you" he said.
81 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
dead man as soon as you grow little
weaker. If you try to run, l will
thrust you through the neck as l
would q cur. Listen how you snort.
shall soon have you. You are almost
gone. You would spare me, would your
l could preach q sermon or dance
hornpipe while | 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 rs
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 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 lifc-a revenge COM
pared to which death would have been
merciful.
The duel created sensation through
out the kingdom, for, although little
was known as to who Judson was, his
fame as a duelist was as broad as the
land. He had been ut 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
q 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 brav-
cry and related stories Of deeds at 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 1t good opportuni-
ty to put his nephew forward and let
him take his chance at winning royal
favor. The uncle broached 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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(GxkGGsJ 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 condt-
tions Of men. There was Master VOL
sey, butchers son, whom he had first
made almoner. then chief counselor and
bishop of Lincoln, soon to be 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
q 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 1. and. fatter myself. no mean
member.
To begin with, being in no way de-
pendent OH the king for money, I 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, l 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 fit to bequeath me so good a
competency in place Of giving it all to
the tirstborn and leaving me dependent
upon the tender mercies of an elder
brother. So I had no help from him
nor from any one else. l was quite
small Of stature and therefore unable
to compete with lance and mace with
bulkier men, but l would bet with any
man, of any size, on any game, at any
place and time, in any amount, and, If
I do say it, who perhaps should not. l
basked in the light Of many fair
smile which larger men had sighed for
in vain.
l did not know when Brandon first
came to London. We had all remained
at Greenwich while the king went up
to Westminster to waste his time with
matters of state and quarrel with the
parliament, then sitting, over the
amount of certain subsidies.
Mary, the kings sister, then some
eighteen or nineteen years Of age. a
perfect bud, jnst blossoming into per
feet flower, had gone over to Windsor
on a visit to her elder sister, Margaret
Of Scotland, and the palace was dull
enough. Brandon. 1t seems, had been
presented to Henry during this time at
Westminster and had, to some extent
at least. become favorite before !
met him. The first time saw him was
at q joust given bv the king at West
Minister in celebration Of the fact that
be had coaxed good round subsidy
out of parliament.
The queen and her ladies had been in
vited over, and it was known that Ma
~ would be down from Windsor and
come home with the king and the court
to Greenwich when we should return.
So we all went over to Westminster the
night before the jousts and were up
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HOLDS THE REcoRD.-In these days
Of much travelling it Is nothing unus-
ual to run across persons who have
crossed the Atlantic 40, so or even 100
times. But the record Of the most as
siduous Of these voyagers pales to in
significance beside that of Mr.. Thomas
Kinsey, who is purser of the Ameri-
can Steamship Line Of New York.
Mr.. Kinsey has just completed his
827th Atlantic passage, which is un-
doubtedly more by 100 or so than any
other man Of advanced age, and as he
Is regularly making two trips every
month. 1t Is likely that he will acom-
plish a total Of 1000 or more crossings
before he retires from the sea. The
veteran traveller first crossed the ocean
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IVAYlE Caskodens take great pride
~" in our ancestry. Some per-
sons. know. hold all that to
&sSsX3 be totally un-Solomonlike and
tile height Of vanity, but they usually
have no ancestors of whom to be
proud. The man who does not know
who his great-srandfather 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-seven 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 fair
Saxon bride, albeit an unwilling one.
as his reward. With this fair, unwiil-
ing Saxon bride and her long plait Of
yellow hair goes very pretty. pathetic
story, which I 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
baric banquets in the first great hall.
Still another was one Of the doughty
barons who wrested from John the
great charter, Englands declaration Of
independence; another was high In the
councils Of Henry V. / have omitted
one whom ! should not fail to men-
ton, Adjodika Caskoden, who was
member of the Ounce parliament Of
Henry w., so called because there
were no lawyers in it.
It is true that in the time Of Edward
". a Caskoden did stoop to trade, but
It was trade Of the most dignifed, 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 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, again. IN
verse and song, like Chaucer's and the
Water Poets, andsstill 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 d.
vulge family secrets or skeletons, and
which really rebound to family honor.
For this occasion I have selected
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 l fear
it's repetition will lack that zest which
attends the development Of an unfore-
seen denouement, but 1t 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 will neverthe-
less rewrite it from old Sir Edwin's
rnanoir
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LIQUID AIR.
Has Developed Into q Most important
Aid to Surgery.


In 1899 DR.. A. Campbell White, In
the Vanderbilt Clinic. made expert
ments with liquid air In the treatment
of cancers. ulcers, acxema, ETC., and
became so enthusiastic that surgeons
and physicians all over the world were
inclined to regard him -, hopeless
fanatic They have since changed
their opinion. DR.. White claims the
coined word, "radaerotherapy," indi-
eating combination Of the X-ray
and liquid air treatments. The din
Guilty Of obtaining a regular supply OF
liquid air retarded his experiments for
years; but today that difficulty Is re-
moved. He used to get days supply
at time and keep it in a tin can, and
IT, would all evaporate In a day,
whether used or not. Prof Dewar OF
London invented glass bulb in which
q gallon can be kept for three weeks.
The difficulties Of application have al
most entirely disappeared and rad
aerotherapy" promises soon to become
as common a practice as cauterization.
Liquid air will transform any liquid
OF ether to the solid state. It Will
freeze alcohol solid, when the alcohol
will explode violently II ignited. The
end Of a rabbits ear being frozen solid
1t was broken off without pain or
hemorrhage; in less than ten minutes
the circulation was perfectly restored
and the wound began to bleed. When
sprayed on your skin the latter at
once becomes dead and colorless. In
less than a minute the part is frozen
as hard as Ice, but the circulation re-
turns in a few minutes without the
slightest injury to the tissues. There
is no pain in the application. Sur
geons who anaesthetise with liquid
air can operate without the interfer-
ence of so much as drop Of blood.
DR.. White saved boys hand with
liquid air. A cartridge had exploded
in the palm, making a nasty wound.
At first the liquid was applied too
freely, for it froze the wound so solid
that the scalpel could not penetrate 1t.
After waiting about thirty seconds the
operation was satisfactorily perform
ed without hemorrhage or pain. When
the boy returned In a few days the
wound was In perfect condition, and
it continued to improve until well.-
New York Press.
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Note by the Editor.-sir Edwin Casko-
denis history differs in some minor details
from other authorities OF the time. Halls
chronicle says Sir William Brandon. ia
ther Of Charles. had the honor Of being
killed by the hand Of Richard III. him
self at Bosworth Field, and the points
wherein his account Of Charles Brandon's
life differs from that Of Sir Edwin may
be gathered from the index to the 1548
edition Of that work. which Is as follows:
Charles Brandon. Esquire, Is made
knight, created Viscount Lysle. made
duke Of Suffolke. goeth to Paris to the
Iustes. doeth valiantly there, returneth
into England. he Is sent into Fraunce to
fetch home the French quene into Eng
land. He maryeth her. and so on until he
dyeth and Is buryed at Wyndesore.
No mention 10 made in any Of the chron-
lcles Of the office Of master Of dance. In
all other essential respects Sir Edwin is
corroborated by his contemporaries.
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COST OF PANAMA CANAL.
To Complete Il Will Take Nearly Two
Hundred Million Dollars More.

To Complete Il Will Take Nearly Two
Hundred Million Dollars More.
1t Is estimated that it will cost the
United States $1s4,233,35S to acquire
and complete the Panama canal, be-
sides the amount to be, paid to the
government in control Of the isthmus
for the concessions, says the New York
Tribune.
Already there has been an immense
amount Of money and energy expended
on the canal. It is safe to say that
sum more than sufficient to dig Q
waterway from ocean to ocean at sea
level has been collected from investors
at different times in its history.
When De, Lesseps organized the nrst
company in 1880 for the construction
of the canal, 1t started work with
paid-up capital Of $50. 100000. For eight
years the company toiled, employing
at times as many as fifteen thousand
men. Then came necessity for
changing the plans and the company
failed, after having collected In round
figures from the sale Of stock and
bonds s2so,oo6,0oO. OF this It was
shown that the expenditures actually
made on the isthInus amounted to
$156, 100000, and that the cost Of ex-
cavation and embankment proper was
$S8.600,000. The ultimate cost was
then estimated at $174,600,000. For
several years an effort was made to
capitalize new company to complete
the work, and at last, in 1884, the pres.
ent Panama Canal company was or
ganized with paid-up capital Of 31S,-
100000. Since that time work has adj
vanced at the rate Of about 100000
cubic yards Of excavation each year.
The total amount Of excavation up
to the present time has been about
S1,O0O,OOO cubic yards. Unfortunately.
only about 100000 cubic yards OF
this is available for the waterway pro-
posed in 1ss9-1900 by the canal COM
mission, of which Rear Admiral Walk
er was president. The Walker COM
missions recommendation included
this available excavation in the 340.-
100000 to be paid the canal company
for its work, maps, records, drawings
and the property Of the Panama Rail-
road company. The commission esti-
mated that the total amount Of exca-
walton which would be required for the
canal to be built from its plans, ex-
elusive Of that for the Bohio dam and
the Giganti sp!llway, would EbSse ekSe1s
703 cubic yards. The work sfen1aIhing
to be done, therefore, represents the
difference between the amount Of
available excavation which 1t will ac-
quire by purchase from the Panama
Canal company, or nearly three-fif
Of the entire work. It ia estimated
that the cost Of this work will be
s144,233,35S. in addition to the sum to
be paid to the present owner OF the
property. BY the time 1t is completed
more than $450,000,000 will have been
obtained in one way or another for
use In building the canal, while nearly
$312,0O0,0QO will have actually been
spent in connection with its construc-
tion and administration.
It was the intention Of the Panama
Canal company to make the canal 2s.5
feet deep. The increased dimensions
of steamers now being built has made
1t necessary to plan for a much deeper
canal. and the Walker commissions
plans are for a waterway SO feet deep.
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as a lad Of 10 in the City Of Manches-
ter, one Of the earliest Of screw steam
ships. Since that time he has seen
steamships multiplied in size tenfold.
and the time Of the ocean Journey cut
down from twelve days to six. He has
made the ocean journey with many
of the prominent men Of both hemi-
spheres.-Leslie's Weekly.
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er, resulting III IrleNuSulp DStWeSu meh
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 Cavendish, who had fine libra
ry, to borrow some volumes to take
with him down to Greenwich.
Brandon informed me he was to 60
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.
wich, 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 a 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 q 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 a room opening
into q 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
ite 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 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 1t 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 q 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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CHAPTER III.
HOW BRANDON CANE TO COURT.

)HEN we learned that Brandon
was coming to court, every
one believed he would soon
gain the kings favor. How
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THE CASKODENS.

lVAY f Caskodens take great pride
I" in our ancestry. Some per-
lF sons. know. hold all that to
l&sts&3 be totally un-Solomonlike and
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' sometimes happens, Sir Ed
win says. that when a woman
will she won't. and when she
won't she will. but usually in
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