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1
LOVE
Three travelers met at the Brandon pass,
By the bubbling Brandon spring;
They shared their cake and venison.
And talked of many a thing;
Of books and songs and foreign lands,
Of strange and wandering lives ;
And by and by. in softer tones.
They spoke of their homes and wives.
"I married the lady of Logan Brae,"
(Said one, with a lofty air;
"And there isn't in all the north 6ountry
A house with a better share
Of gold and gear and hill and loch,
Of houses and farms to rent:
There's many a man has envied me,
And I'm more than well content."
1 The Privilege
V HELEN FORREST ORAVES.
a perfectly ridiculous, saiu
Miss Daffodil, "for you girls to be
thinking of getting married all the
time; I never do. , Now just look how
this bias fold is puckered! If you
young women weren't cackling and
chattering all' the time, these things
wouldn't happen. Valentine's day,
indeed! Who was that talking about
St. Valentine's day? And what is St.
Valentine's day to yon working girls,
I'd like to know? It's only ladies that
have time to think of such things."
Miss Deborah Daffodil, a somewhat
faded maiden of five-and-thirty frost
bitten autumns, was the Buvnville
dressmaker, and the four girls in her
dingy back parlor were her assistants,
whom she paid as little ' and scolded
ns much as possible.
"But, Miss Daffodil," reasoned Ama
bel Archer, a rosy, dark-browed bru
nette, with limpid brown eyes and a
f ich crimson flush on her cheek, "why
shouldn't we talk about St. Valentine's
day? It's always a lucky day in our
family. Uncle Job sent mamma a
cheque for $20 a year ago St Valen
tine's day, and two years ago, on that
very anniversary, my sister Effie met
the man that she afterward married.
And who knows what dawn of good
fortune it may bring for me?"
"Married!" shrilly repeated Miss
Daffodil, tapping her thimble-finger
on the table. "There it is, again! I
believe you girls think of nothing
else."
"Well," said Amabel, thoughtfully,
"it does mean a good deal in a girl's
life. If I supposed that I had got to
sit here and sew always H
"I only hope no worse lot will ever
befall you," said Miss Daffodil, sourly.
"But I never knew a eirl who
was always curling her hair and
thinking of her complexion who came
, to any good end. "
Amabel crimsoned.
"Do you mean me, Miss Daffodil?"
said she.
The spinster tossed her head.
"Them as the cap fits, let 'em wear
it," said she. "And I'll trouble you
all, young women, to leave off chatter
, ing silly, superstitious nonsense about
heathenish old saints that never ex
isted at all- "
At this there was a general outcry.
Not even from tho lips of their vine-gar-tongued
employer would the girls
listen to any derogation from the dar
ling patron saint of girlhood the good
saint to whom all maidens render lov
ing homage St. Valentine!
"Well, if he did exist, it was a long
time ago," said Miss Daffodil; "and
you've none of you nothing to uo with
him now. And Miss Chickering's
bridal outfit is to be packed on Mon
. day, and here it isn't half finished.
VlWhot's that, Amabel Archer? You
want to get away early this evening?
You're going for a moonlight sleigh
ride with" Captain Juniper? Let me
tell you. miss, that you will do noth
ing of the kind," said Miss Daffodil,
speaking with added rancor. "It
isn't decent nor proper for a young
girl like you to go cutter riding
Jojj'nd the country with every gentle
man in town."
"You went riding with Captain Ju
niper yourself, last week, Mies Daf
fodil," said Amabel, all else forgotten
in her rising indignation.
"That's quite a different thing,"
said the dressmaker.simpering. "Cap
tain Juniper and I are very particular
.. friends."
"Oh, Miss Daffodil!" cried out Bar
bara Dayton. "You're not engaged
to him? Oh, do tell us!"
"Barbara, will you attend to your
work?", said Miss Daffodil. "Though,
all the same,' if such reports do get
" abroad, I consider it my duty neither
to deny nor confirm them."
But Miss Daffodil did not consider
jt her dnty to tell the girls that she
had rurU;i dozen yards through the
.1eT! S v Crptaiu Juniper's
' -rf he would just
" -s far as the
' 4 lazuli but-
v that
'fibrous
IS BEST.
"Dream of a woman as bright as day,"
The second traveler said;
"Dream of a form of perfect grace,
Of a noble face and head;
Of eyes that are of heaven's own blue.
Of flowing golden hair. ,
That is my wife, and although not rich,
"Oh, she is wondrous fair!"
"I have a wife," the third mfy said,
"But she's neither rich nor fair; ,
81m has not gold or gear or land,
No wealth of golden hair.
But, ah! she loves me, and her love
lias stood through every test;
Beauty is good, and gold is good,
But, my friends, love is best."
Airs. James Nicoll. in Buffalo News.
of the Day.
V"
any man could have said more than
that!"
So that, when she heard of Amabel
Archer's invitation, a very natural jeal
ousy stirred her heart.
"That minx," said she, "shall stay
home and mind her business, or I'll
know the reason why! Sleigh riding,
indeed! By moonlight! Not if I
know it!"
"No, Miss Archer," she said, firmly;
"I have promised Miss- Waterson that
she shall have her plum-colored silk
tomorrow morning. "
"Can't Barbara Dayton finish it?"
Amabel asked with wistful eyes. "I'll
do as much for her some time."
"I'll do it," said cheerful Barbara.
Td as soon stay after hours as not."
"Excuse me," said the dressmaker,
with awful stiffness of demeanor, "but
I prefer to manage my business for
myself. Amabel Archer must finish
the dress as she has begun it. .Two
or three different hands on a job are
sure to ruiu it, and I don't desire to
lose Miss Waterson's custom."
"But," cried Amabel, piteously, "I
promised Captain Juniper I must
go!"
"If yon go," said Miss Daffodil,'
"you don't come back into my employ
ment again.
And poor Amabel thought of her in
valid mother and the three apple
cheeked little sisters who were clothed
and kept at school by her toil, and she
dared not remonstrate further.
"But I shall hear the sleigh bells,"
she comforted herself; "and I can just
run out a moment and beg him to be
lieve that it was not my fault."
And she sat down by the window,
after the other hands were gone she
was the only one who boarded with
Miss Daffodil to sew and sigh and
listen.
But she heard no silver-chiming
sleigh bells. How should she, when.
Miss Daffodil had quietly crept down
the lane and intercepted the cap
tain's gay little equipage just where
the old finger-post raised its skeleton
form in the air?
"Oh," said the captain, a frank,
handsome young fellow,with laughing
blue eyes and a golden beard, "is it
you, Miss Daffodil? I thought per
haps "
"Yes, it's me," said Miss Daffodil,
sweetly. "I just came to tell you
that Miss Archer is very sorry, but
she can't go cutter riding with you
this eyening. She's got a bad sore
throat; besides. she's dreadful hurried
with her work."
Captain Juniper's countenance fell.
He played with the handle of his whip,
while the horse pawed the ground and
flecked his jetty breast with specks of
foam, all impatience to be gone.
"I am so sorry!" he said, with such
genuine disappointment that Miss Daf
fodil could have boxed his ears. "But,
Miss Daffodil, may I confide in you?"
"Oh, certainly!" said the dress
maker, graciously.
"Do you believe in St. Valentine!"
he aeked?
"Dear me!" giggled Miss Daffodil
"what a very strange question! He's
supposed to be the patron saint of
lovers, isn't he?"
"That's the reason I asked you,"
said Captain Juniper, leaning his
head still closer toward the spinster's
worsted hood. "Do you believe in
him?"'
"Of course I do," smiled the lady,
with a curious flutter in the region of
her heart.
"Then I am sure I may trust yon,"
said he, fervently. "I shall be under
the casement at daybreak on St.Val
entine's day to claim Miss Archer as
my valentine for the year. Tell her
so, from me. Beg her not to' disap
point me again."
"Yes," said Miss Daffodil, turning
a dull yellow with rage and vexation
"yes, captain, I will."
"I shall be so much obliged to you!"
said the unsuspecting lover.
"Oh.not at all!" said Miss Daffodil.
"You're quite sure she didn't send
me auy message?" said Captain Juni
per, wistfully.
"No message," said Miss Daffodil,
smoothly.
Poor Amabel could hardly see to
finish Miss Waterson's dress, through
hr tears, and it was midnight when
he had laid it aside and went to bed,
''ylng herself to sleep.
YHe has forgotten all about me,"
v bought.
r Valentine's eve was full of still,
v; "4. leader, with a golden line
est and great stars legin
i ,'.5Q in the bky above, when
Miss Daffodil put a preposterous splint
basket into Amabel Archer's hands.
"I try to be a Dorcas in all good
works," said she, "and I've put these
jams and jellies up for the Widow
Bethiah Hull. She's dreadful poorly,
they say, and needs watchers every
night; so I told her daughter-in-law
you'd come there and stay tonight."
Amabel looked up, with a sudden
flush dying her cheek. She had not
forgotten that it was St. Valentine's
eve.
"Won't tomorrow night do as w ell?"
said she, pleadingly.
"No, it won't!" said Miss Daffodil,
tartly.
Amabel said no more. After all,
what did it matter? If David Juniper
had ceased to think about her, what
meaning could the soft glow of St.
Valentine's morn have for her?
So she took the basket and spiritless
ly departed, almost wishing that she,
too, were passing out of life's cheer
less confines like poor Bethiah Hull.
"Because," she thought, "it don't
seem as if life was worth living, after
all."
And when the rosy dawn began to
kindle its soft fires along the edge of
the gray east, Miss Daffodil dressed
herself in her prettiest and most
youthful dress, curled her stiff, gray
sprinkled head with a hot-iron, washed
her face in cream of roses and posted
herself behind the lattice of Amabel
Archer's window. For she had been
"reading up" on the subject and knew
all th8 observances of the day.
"If he sees me first, "said she, "he's
bound to be my valentine and no mis
take! And I can easily make him
believe that I forget to give the mes
sage to that Archer girl."
So Miss Archer waited, her artificially-blooming
face looking almost
ghastly in the fresh irradiation of the
dawning day, her eyes peering rest
lessly, hither and yon, over the soli
tary snow.
And Amabel? It had begun to be
just a little light, as she sat there by
the fire in the Widow Bethiah's
room, and Mrs. Hull, the daughter-in-
law of the invalid, had risen and was
making preparations for breakfast,
when there came the merry jingling
of sleigh bells, the sudden cessation
of sound, the reverberation of knock
ing at the door.
"Miss Amabel, won't you go and
see who's there?" called out Mrs. Hull,
Jr., "I ain't got my hair out of the
crimps yet!"
So Amabel drew the ponderous
bolts, unlocked the front door and
saw, standing on the doorsteps Cap
tain Juniper.
"Amabel!" he cried; "my valen
tine!" ,
And he caught her in his arms with
a kiss.
"Remember the privileges of the
day," he exclaimed, laughing. "Re
member that you are my valentine for
a whole year to come perhaps for
ever." "But," cried Amabel, breathless
with amazement, "how came you
here?"
"By the merest luck in the world,"
said Captain Juniper. "My shaft has
got itself broken. I was going to ask
Mr. Hull for a bit of wire to fasten it
together until I could get to Miss
Daffodil's. I was going there to see
you, Amabel. Didn't you expect me?"
"No," said Amabel, opening her
eyes wide.
"Did not Miss Daffodil tell you that
I was coming?" he asked.
"Not a word," said Amabel. "She
sent me here to stay with Bethiah
Hull."
"The cantankerous old vixen!" said
Captain Juniper. "So she has been
playing me false all along. But St.
Valentine's sweet influences have been
too stroug for her at last. Look here,
Amabel, darling. I will drive you
home in the cutter. We'll show her
that we are valentines after all."
And, half an hour or so afterwards,
the little cutter dashed up the snowy
road under the very casement where
sat Miss Danodil, blue with cold and
already experiencing sundry twinges
of rheumatism.
She flung the sash open with a
smile, but the expression on her face
changed when she perceived that
Captain Juniper was not alone.
"Look, Miss Daffodil!" he cried, au
daciously exultant. "Look at the
sweet gift which St. Valentine has be
stowed on me my valentine my
promised wife!"
Miss Daffodil closed the shutter
with a bang.
"The folly of them young people!"
she muttered. "I don't care if I
never hear the word valentine again.
But I declare," she added, after a few
minutes' melancholy reflection, "it
does seem as if there was some super
natural agency at work!"
No I'rison for Women.
Austria is the only country in the
world which never places a woman in
prison, no matter what crime she com
mits. Instead of being locked up, the
female malefactor is sent to one of a
number of convents, devoted to the
purpose, and is kept there during the
time for which she is sentenced. The
courtyard stands opeii ail day long,
the only bar to egresp being a nun,
who acts as doorkeeper, just the same
as in the ordinary convent.
Laplanders think hiothing of cover
ing 150 miles a daj(m their skakes.
WORK OF SEA SOLDIERS.
NEVER ENDING ROUND OFTHE DUTIES
OF A SHIP'S MARINES.
They Are Busy Afloat or Ahore-Littl
Monotony in Their Life What They Io
and How They Do It "Marinee" on
Ship anil in ISarracks.
Uncle Sam has two kinds of sea
warriors, the web-footed ones, who,
wearing a blue shirt with broad, roll
ing collar, are called bluejackets, and
the amphibious, who, dressed in
soldier clothes, with stripes on their
trousers and she vrons on their sleeves,
are called marines. Ashore, says the
New York Sun, the habitat of the
marine is in barracks at every navy
yard, and you'll find a sentry at the
gate and one at every turn in the
y.;rd. Afloat you find sentries at
but come along with the corporal of
the guard as he makes his rounds of
the ship. At the door of the captain's
cabin stands the orderly, a natty, in
telligent looking soldier. He must
needs be intelligent, for he has to carry
many important verbal messages. In
spite of yourself he makes you a little
nervous semetimes when he salutes
and says, "The captain wishes to see
Mr. Smith. " No one enters the cap
tain's presence until the orderly has
first taken in the name. Click comes
the heels together, and the hand rises
in salute to you as you enter the
cabin door, no matter if you are going
in to get a commendation or the
toughest old reprimand there is, with
a few days suspension from duty at
tached. 1
Down below there is a little narrow
space between two bulkheads, where
it's dark and hot and stuffy. There,
is a sentry down there, and his duty
is to guard the storerooms. From
the nature of his surroundings he
can't w alk, he can't whistle, he can't
sing, and if he goes to sleep on post
he has a court-martial before him.
Along the berth deck one comes
across some long bright objects, look
ing much like porpoises, and evidently
intended for swimming under water.
Going closer to investigate, you are
tapped dn the shoulder and the "sen
try over the torpedoes" courteously
informs you that unauthorized per
sons are not allowed to handle those
delicately adjusted but deadly instru
ments of warfare.
A little further along on this deck
is the "sentry over the brig," for the
brig is the ship's prison, where, in
complete solitude, and on a bread and
water diet, an offender can meditate
and seethe error of his ways.
In the forecastle the sentry keeps
order among the crew, and an occasion
al eye on that fishing boat uniting
down with the tide. Jack sometimes
goes fishing and makes queer hauls.
With a coin as a bait, he drops over
his line, gets a nibble, hauls in a little
brown bottle and doesn't show his
catch to the sentry.
And so the marine does the sentry
duty of the ship and this explains.
the ill-feeling that has existed from
time immemorial between bluejacket
and marine.
However, there are other things to
be done besides the sentry-go. The
marines are a company of infantry and
form the advanced guard in operations
ashore; they fight a battery of guns as
artillerists aboard ship, they clean
ship, they coal ship, they paint ship
and their work is never through.
Then there are troublous times in
one of our South American neighbors.
The country is in a state of revolution,
in the cities law and order are sus
pended, save the law of the machete.
One does not venture out on the street
unless heavily armed and with a guard.
The American women and children are
gathered under the flag of the United
States consulate or legation. There
is a soldier in a blue uniform on guard
at the entrance; there are many of
them within, sometimes bivouacking
on the patio, shaded from a broiling
sun, at other times shivering beside a
fire in the compound. These soldiers
are the same marines and their ship is
in the harbor not far away.
Preventing looting, suppressing
fires, burying the dead, such was their
duty after the bombardment of Alex
andria. 'For the manner in which they
did their duty look for the letter of
Lord Charles Beresford in the files of
the British Admiralty offices.
It is quite an interesting and pretty
sight to watch the ceremonies which
take place on board ship on the ar
rival of a high official, such as an
ambassador, an admiral, a general, or
a consul. As the cutter dashes up to
the side, with spray flying from the
oars, the ship's bugle sounds "Atten
tion." The side boys offer the man
ropes as the official steps on the gang
way, and the captain receives him as
he steps on the quarter deck. As the
two walk aft the marine officer, in
quick sharp tones, commands, "pre
sent arms," and the whole marine
guard, drawn up in line on the port
side of the quarter deck, bring their
rifles up in salute, while the bugle
sounds a flourish and the drum a roll,
one for a commodore, two for an ad
miral, three for an ambassador, and
four for the president. , The marines
on a ship are, collectively, called the
guard, and the ceremony is tailed
parading the guard. It takes place
on the arrival and departure of any
official of rank. If the official does
not visit the ship, it iakes place when
the boat flying his flag passes by,
and it also takes place when two ships
of war pass each other.
Ashore the marine is an infantry
man pure and simple. He does most
of hie sentry luty in the navy yard,
and when not on guard he is being
drilled out on the parade ground of
the barracks or in the. target gallery.
There is no regimental or company
organization such as there is in the
army. In a battalion on parade, Pri
vate Smith of the New York barracks
will be touching elbows with Private
Slater, just around from the Pacific,
while the swagger cf the right guide
is the result of hi3 recent cruise on
the European station.
There is but little monotony in the
life of this soldier, and it is this 'con
tinual chance, this variety which 'at-
tracts and holds the men guarding
the exhibits of the United States at
the Paris Exposition, in the labor
riots jn Pennsylvania, the World's
Fair at Chicago, the expedition to the
Isthmus of Panama, at naval stations
from Sitka to Pensacola, aboard ship
in everv rmrt of the world, with De
catur at Tripoli, w ith Scott in Mexico,
with Barney at Bladensburg, with
Farragut in Mobile bay afloat and
ashore, ashore and afloat, this sea
soldier of Uncle Sam has made his
record. It is a proud one, and in
keeping with the motto of the corps,
"Semper Fidelis."
A Hospital Car.
This country is used to forging
ahead in the way of improvements, but
in one respect Belgium has distanced
us.
In that laud, according to a corre
spondent of the Chicago News, they
have what is known as the hospital
car, and when a serious railway acci
dent occurs the car may be run to the
spot, where the wounded may be
picked up and carried to the nearest
large city for treatment, iustead of
waiting hours for the arrival of sur
geons. Again, the car can be used to trans
port large companies of invalids from
place to place at certain seasons of the
year. The interior of the car is di
vided into a main compartment, a
corridor on one side and two small
rooms at the end.
The hospital proper is in the larger
compartment; it contains twenty-four
isolated beds on steel tubes hung from
powerful springs. Each patient lies
in front of two little windows which
.may be opened or closed at will. Each
bed is provided with a .little movable
table to hold all objects re paired.
On the outside of the hospital
chamber the con idor leads ns to the
the linen closet and the doctors de
partment, in which there is a huge
cupboard used for drugs, surgical in
struments and a folding bed. Various
trap doors in the floor open into re
ceptacles for ice, a provision cellar,
etc. Arrangements are made for an
operating chamber and there is even a
small chapel for religious worship.
The car will be used principally to
carry invalids from Belgium to the
miraculous cure at Lourdes, France.
How liulers Travel.
The elaborate precautions w hich are
taken to protect European sovereigns
in traveling contrast curiously with
the simplicity with which the presi
dent of the United States moves
about. The kaiser of Germany has
patrols along all the roads he uses,
both highways and railroads. He is
always preceded on ordinary roads by
guards who go ahead of him and beat
the bushes and look out for any anar
chist who may lie in wait for him.
When 'the czar travels along any
railway line the road is patrolled for
days before by armed guards. They
are stationed regularly throughout the
entire distance at intervals of 200
yards. Up to the day the train is
scheduled to pass they are allowed to
take it easy, carrying their rifles
meanwhile slung over their shoulders.
Six hours before the passage of the
imperial train they shoulder their
rifles and march briskly up and down
the track.
An Lour before the imperial train
passes the guards are recjuired to
stand with their backs toward the
train and to allow no one to pass with
in less than one hundred yards of the
track rmtil ten minutes after the royal
train has passed. Should any one at
tempt to approach, the guards are
directed to challenge them, and if they
continue to approach they have ordei s
to fire with intent to kill. New York
World.
Marriage and Long Ufe.
Dr. Schwartz of Berlin, has come
to the conclusion that marriage is the
most important factor in human life con
ducive to longevity, as of 20(1 persons
w ho attained the age of forty 125 were
married and seventy-five single. At
sixty the proportions were forty-eight
to twenty-two; at seventy, twenty
seven to eleven, and at ninety, nine to
three. Among fifty centenarians not
one bachelor or spinster could be
found, nor for the matter of that on
married couple all these vencrablt
individuals being widows or widowers.
London Telegraph.
The German reichstag is said to b
the cheapest of ail the pai Iiau:e:,ts oi
Europe. Its U'tal expenses 1'or the
current year have been onlv &br-.i
$170,000
AN AUDIENCE OF THflEE.
Bow Art emus Ward Escaped From na
Awkward Situation.
Before Art emus Ward went to Lon
don, where the English fell in love
with him only to mourn his prema
ture death among them, he had con
quered the respect and affection of his
own countrymen by his quaint and
kindly humor. The itinerary of one
of his tours led him to a town in cen
tral Pennsylvania. It was about the
middle of January. The day of the
lecture came, and with it early cam e
4rtemus. Before noon a tremendous
inowstorm broke over that part of
Pennsylvania and raged furiously all
3ay and night. There are some per
sons yet living who remember that
storm, and how regretfully, in view of
its savage ferocity, they gave up the
idea of hearing Artemus Ward. All
special trains were abandoned. When
;he lecturer appeared on the stage
that night and looked about him, in
ill the large theatre he saw only three
men, each in the seathis coupon c alled
lor; all three, as it happened, being
tar to the rear.
The three meu looked lonely and un
jomfortable. As one of them said af
terward, they did not think there were
enough of them to do justice to the
occasion, and they felt the awkward
ness of the situation and wondered
what the outcome would be. Keep
ing that solemn face of his at its sol
fminest, Artemns advanced to the foot
lights and beckoning to the three men,
said: "Come up, closer, gentlemen. I
iv ant to speak to you." He had to
repeat this invitation before his audi
tors understood that he meant what
he said, and mustered courage to go
forward. When they had taken seats
together in the front row, Artemus
laid: "There, now, that's' more socia
ble." He paused aud went on:
"Gentlemen, you are entitled to see
my show and hear my lecture, if you
are so disposed. BntI understand that
anderneath this hall there i an excel
lent cafe, and I suggest that we spend
the evening there, you as my guests.".
Though reluctant to forego the show
nd lecture, as they saw Artemus had
ho mind for them, the three agreed to
his proposition, the lights were turned
out, and the little party descended to
the cafe, where for hours they made
merry, and whence one of them at
least was most reluctant to start for
borne. He says he never had a more
Enjoyable time in his life, aud that if
Artemus Ward was not at his best
then his best must have been "past all
whooping." For the stories he told,
and the way he told them made them
forget time and circumstance, and com
pletely banished any lingering regret
for what they had not received up
stairs. New York Times.
Twelfth Massachusetts at Antietam.
At the reunion of the survivors of
the Twelfth Massachusetts in this city
Wednesday, Secretary Kimball made
the following statement:
"I am aware that it is a startling
statement to make that the loss of the
Twelfth Massachusetts at Antietam
was the highest in percentage of any
organization, Union or Confederate,
in any one battle of the civil Avar, and
even the highest of any organisation
in th" entire world, in modern times,
in civilized warfare, under normal
conditions, but is there not good
reason to believe it to be tiue?
"The fighting was ten iae, as every
one knows. Let me simply say that
a letter which I wrote to a friend on
the 30th of September, 1862, says my
company (A) had twenty-two men
killed and wounded out of thirty, and
of the eight who escaped unhurt five
had missiles strike either their cloth
ing or equipments. Only thirty-two
marched off the field under the flag of
the regiment when relieved by the
Twelfth Corps. One of the Confed
erate regiments, the First Texas,
Hood's division, which we encoun
tered in our advance through the
cornfield, and which afterward occu
pied a position a little to our right,
had 186 killed and wounded out of
22G taken into action a percentage
of loss of 82.3." Boston Globe.
Victoria's Crown.
The crown used at the coronation of
Queen Victoria in 1838, which is said
to be the heaviest aid most uncom
fortable diadem in Europe, contains
1273 rose diamonds, 13l3 brilliants,
273 round pearls, 4 la ge pendant
shaped pearls, 1 immense ruby, 4
small rubies, 1 large sapphire, 26
smaller sapphires and 11 emeralds.
The large rufty is set iu tha centre of
a diamond Maltese cross at the front
of the crown. This stone was given
to Edward I by Dom Pe lrw the Cruel,
and was worn by Henry V at the bat
tle of Agineonrt, when it w as set in
his steel casque.
It is peculiarly cut and its centre is
hollowed cut to form a setting for a
smaller ruby. Many of the stones
were taken from old crow .is, now un
used, and others were furnished by
the queen herself. They are placed
in settings of both gold aud eilver.and
incase a crimson velvet cap with an
ermine Voider. Four imperial arches
spring from the Tour sides and sup
port the ni.mnt, which is composed of
438 diamonds, and tha whole is sur
mounted by diamond cross whose
eeufie is a single rose cut sapphire.
The United Spates of Australia is a
nrgbabilifv of xhe near future.
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