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 as much as s5 a week pocket money
 each. The magistrate was so impressed 1 by this evidence of wealth, to say nothing of the enormity of our of 1 fense that he inflicted on each of us l the. to the Darmstadter mind, pfodig- | tous and prohibitive fine of five marks l tabout s1.25). All the whole court 1 gasped with astonishment when, tc all outword appearance quite calm We 1 paid the money, instead of, as they hoped, going to prison for three | months"
 However. he successfully passed into 1 the army and joined the fashionable | coldstream guards. only to awake, one morning, to the rather Staggering fact l that, owing to the defalcations of l trusted rascal, he was to all intents 1 and purposes, pennilessl Existence l promptly became problem which he solved by Joining the Egyptian army ir l 1890 and speedily had experiences l enough to satisfy anybody. Today he | will show you the cartridge from which | was fired the bullet which gave him l his baptism of fire" The shot was fired by willy Dervish sniping from | behind rock. Considering the range l 1t ought to have been a hit" but Lord Athlumney explains that he was tremD- | ling too much to make a good target | However, he spotted the rock and went l back to it a.fterward and picked up | the empty cartridge case which one may | see in the little museum of curiosities | which he has collected during his wall
 dering.
 | Then came the Dongola expedition, | which, he says. was 'great fun,' and, | later, the South African war in which ma fuI f11a | chine gun battery. It was in the latter l that he was KItchener's A. D. C., but he declares that. in spite of his long as- sociaton with TX of K.' he can throw | no new light on his character. Indeed" | he confesses, 'I knew as little about his inner character at the end of the two | years as I did when I first Joined his | staff A hard taskmaster, undoubtedly, but withal most kind and considerate.'
 Among the other souvenirs in Lord Il Athlumneys little museum is President Kruger's inkstand and pen. Since the | South African war. by the bye, Lord Ath- lumney has been much at Dublin castle, not as page, however. but as A. D. C., to two lord lieutenants, Lord Barogan and Lord Dudley, the latter of whom, particularly, intrusted much of the man. agement of the viceregal hospitallties to him. Certainly the best bridge player in Dublin, he probably is the best In
 London too, but he has one peculiarity, this devi-may-case noble swashbuckler- he absolutely refuses to play for money! 4-~What Will Be Kitchener's Reward?
 What will be Lord Kitcheners reward should he come out of the present war
 successful? He will undoubtedly be made a duke and be given an enormous money
 grant by Parliament. But will his reward stop there?
 There are many people In England who
 are extremely worried at the manner in
 which the liberties Of the people have dis
 appeared since the war started. Up to
 the present time no abuse Of the auto
 cratic powers voted to itself by the pres
 ent government and especially to Kitch-
 erei has been discovered. but the recent
 action of Parliament in insisting upon a
 limitation of the sweeping order in coun-
 cil whereby anyone could be tried by
 couitms. rtial and by which the highest
 courts in the land could be ignored, is
 significant of the general public uneasi-
 ness.
 There are even those who, despite their
 aoinisa ton for Kitchener, see a menace In his popularity and unlimited power. It
 has long been known that through his
 friendship with the King the famous sol
 dier has been one of the real rulers of the country Is he now to become some
 thing more than soldier? It is signifi-
 cant that the King recently insisted upon
 him taking over as his private residence
 York house, St. James palace, long the
 homo of royalty.
 King George himself. when he was Duke of York, lived there. Also the Duke of Cumberland, son of the notorious George III, who became King of Hanover. and the late Duchess of Cambridge called it home Recently it has been at the
 disposal. of the Prince or Wales, but he
 must now give way to papa's pal. No One Wanted Aberdeen's Job :, It would not be correct to say that Lord Aberdeen, who is about to be succeeded by tho Earl of Winborne, has been an un- popular viceroy of Ireland. There are SO many factions in the Emerald Isle that 1t would be impossible to find vice. roy who would be acceptable to all. But Lord Aberdeen, and especially Lady Aber- deen, have been very popular with a large section of the official and social
 classes. and have also won the affection of many of the merchant and working classes. It is known that Lord Aber- deen wanted to retire sometime ago, es- pecally before the Ulster question became acute, but the government found 1t impos- i sibl to find anyone to take on the unwel- come job.
 There is always to be found a great sympathy for the little man, and ire spective of the merits of the present war, the spectacle of little Servia battling against it's great neighbor, Austria, has been watched with interest throughout the world.
 | Although an old man and not in the best of health. King Peter of Servia has followed his soldiers on every possible occasion. His second son, however. has been the royal representative at head quarters, and 1t was not until the Servian troops were being hard pressed by the Aratrians that King Peter came among them and put a new life and determina- ton into their ranks
 |l The Servian monarch has aged percep- tibly since the opening of the first Bal kan war. Ills hair and mustache are now quite white. and his strong face is
 brokens by many lines of care.