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_, _ tree-some little distance away. She A strained her eyes in the endeavor to 0 I|see what he could possibly be about. and CHAPTER XV. Gould Brooke having relieved his "mate" Limes at the signabbox, and having satisfied himself that his lamps were properly trimmed and set for the night, sat down in his box to read. The night duties at (finder Pit Junction were not of a. very onerous nature. The last passenger train from Cum- merliays, which also carried the mail, passed at eight-tinny; and the last train to that place till the arrival of the morning mail, at a few minutes past ten o‘clock. In the Course of the night two or three trains of mixed mer- chandise and minerals passed through without stopping, and these, together with a, train from the colleries bound for the South, comprised the whole of the nocturnal traffic. Thus it fell out that Gerald had plenty of spare time on his hands, and always brought a. volume with him to help to while the long dark hours away. The signal-box, the entrance to which was reached by a flight of eight. or nine steps, stood on a small space of cleared ground by the side of thâ€" line. A little way back was a low embank- ment crowned by a hedge, overshadow- ed here and there by an umbrageous beech or elm, beyond which the open fields stretched far and wide. Few places could be more sclitary and de- serted; not a. house, not a habita- tion of any kind was within ken; but by day a. haze of smoke in the distance told of life and 121er not far? away. .larmies dari le voix then suddenly her heart bound. The trunk of the tree was de- fined like a faint silhouette against! a. .back-ground' of stair-lit April sky, but it. was a. silhouette which in one por- tion of its outline bore a startl'i re. semblametoa humanfigure As ya gave a great pull up as soon as he found hhnself'. on the wrong line of rolls. The other three men. with the sham person as their . _ h A chief, had been detailed for the cap- flash of divination, Clara knew that ture of the Signalman. the result of, it was her husband she was gazing which we have seen. After a. little talk upon. . Her breath fluttered on her together. one of the three now start-. lips like a bird trying to escape, pnd ed off down the branch to carry theshe set her teeth hard A in the news to Crofton and the others. :flesh of her arm, to _ stifle the blink ev at once took pessesson of the cry that rose involuntarily from her box' and 1” ed w wt tbs wng f d Lh men “e t '-' "i ' Versinorer a' .- e. ewsecuns e -n me at [m “I om: Ie the book; and after saying a. few. words to there mirht’be no hitch when ~ v critical ufotniecnt should arrive. Hewas his confederate, he apparently {001; 'leave of him, and Starting down an x-railivay servant and thorough- ~ 1y u‘iiderstood what he was now about. branchl,m wasn quwmy ‘0“ tot hum son was known fami- ‘ then i. ot er vat once wen, :mmgpafhe “profession” which into‘the box. how was Claras oppor- his eminent talents adorned under the. tunity. the view; back ~. = in the .. gagging. limbfi his fondness for‘gn, his arm'uhe said in a. low vowe: 5mg“ dome‘s’ um jewelry, and-scent- herald, it is lâ€"Llara.’ some smoth- ed Wketmdkuobiefs. He was one ered sounds came balm to her, 'und of {be most urge;- and unscrupulous p then she discovered, what the darkness rogues of which the great Babylon had hitherto hidden, that her husbands could boast; but it pleasant to beuble head and lore were closely muffled. to record that despite. his cleverness, ller trembling but skiliul fingers quick~ a considerable portion of his kntivish iy untied the. knots and removed the existence had already been passed in covering. herald gave a great gasp an enforced seclusion where board and oi reliet, as he drew- a. deep' inspiraâ€" lodging had been provided him free tion ot the oool nighttiir. 'lhen he of chtirgc. His appearance “as emu-,wnisperett ‘1ou will tinu a knile in em“. in his favour, . me outside pocket.” In a minute irom built. ruddy-cheeked man. With _ a , that. time he was a free man. ' hail-fe1l0“'-\ve.ll-met air. He had the; blinkey, waiting alone in the Signal suggestion of a mean who could tell a , box, had tried the leveling-am and again good story and appreciate a good gin-SS, by oi Which the pomts were of wine. He looked equally at home i opened that would turn the train on to when made up as a clergyman. a. gen- l the branch, and had satisfied himself tleman farmer. is. staid City magnate. E that everything;r was in working order. or a poor trzulesman who had lailenllfioth the distance andthe home signal- upon evil days. He had always les. lamps showed the wmte light, so that at command When ' the train would speed on unsuspecting- the occasion needed them. and he (>0111d i ly with unsiuckencd pane. :li'inkey at choke a sob in his throat as Cleve-r137th best 01. times was a nervous timid as any 10W WWII 0n the Stage- gcreatui'eâ€"a man who walked ever in As scon as the two men were left - trembling dread oi tile hand which he He was a Well-t :alone, with their prisoner in the badk-iknew would some day be laid sudden- lground. Lerdy Bill lighted a Cigarette, ly on his shoulder-«but now that he The last train from C-uirinierhM'B had â€"he liked. to follow the fashion in ev- i was left alone, now that he had no long- passed more than an hour ago. next one would be the train going the reverse way. with his our on the alert for the ting. of the telegrtwh bell which should tell him when the coming train had. passed Mollingficld, the nearest station south; five miles away. startled by the sound of someone cough- prising in that lonely spot and. at thaiti’tl'ai-fl had but Passed Me‘mugfit‘ld' . _ '4' .‘ late." ing, evidently just outSide his box. It,“ Lys the erythingâ€"and began to stroll up a‘ndler Lard): buys audwlob buudog Coup 'down the narrow clearing on “’hlcbluge w Help L0 ammww ms own“ - . E the box was built. . Gem‘ld 53'" reading» but; vous to follow his companions example. we would have given a year oi his life his Sliukey was COO 1161- icraven heart sans lower and lowu‘, and "As I calkilate/f ’he said. “We Ollgh§ t0 to be well out oi the adventure into hilVB hfld..t~hut Slg'nal from LIE/Illngflt‘ld l “'ul‘cn he had inn)“ (/6 [,0 be 56.. three minutes afore now. Can any- duwd, ‘ . , - .. -‘ . a Line ‘ ’ Llalf a. minute later she was by her l’s‘udomx“ 01 1 1rd) b“ first in-Ehusband's Side. ,Laying a. hand softly thing have happened?" . v , ine low dCL‘J hum of the oncoming "Pooh. munâ€"What 1'5 hde to halal traingi‘ew palpabiy on the ear. instinc- All at once he washflppefle‘l g" Said the Other C001.“ ‘Tbese ? Lively, D'linsey .5 hand closed on lever} beggar” branch trains are “"8'l‘11" al'ilVo. 3, While. his llkfiill'l: began to beat a sort on devi‘ils tattoo after it fashion' i Half a mute la‘t’e‘r they Wald t'heithat was iar from comfortable. sludâ€" was a sound so unexpected and SUI-,weleome ting-ting announcinis [hilt theideniy, he gave a, great; smut, , , . , land for a. moment or two the. “Shell be twelve minutes or mole; LuLwO came w a (mud 5w“ 116 hour of the night that he sprang toI yet afore she's here,” remarked Slinke)‘ g had, heard a Sound that. he rememâ€" his feet, While his nerves begun to flut'i as he again (150911de the Steps and en‘} tiered full well; It; was tnc noise caused :er strangely. Next moment came a loud rapping at the door, as it might be with the handle of a. walk- there: tered the box. 1 . {b' the ex'los'ioru of a. foâ€"signal. At. Present.” Lfll'dy Bl” toss“ aim-V theltlle) 1 some lineal-Ill; the cng‘fflh wagon to end of; his Cigarette: and. crossmg toéwnhtle its shrillcst. 'i‘htn- calm the 1113 Ind-“$011013 examine‘l hls bonds and ’esplosion Olf a. second signal. and then lug-stick. Gerald opened the door atxsatisfied himself that they were stillivhfi “hunk; 083.5“ M. suddenly as it once, and then he saw a portly mid-lintoct. dle-t red man, dressed in black, with a white cravat and spectaclesâ€"to all apâ€"l his ear on the mil. _ at: can hear her quite plain," he said after pearance a. clergymanâ€"standing the foot of the steps and gazing blandâ€" ly up at him. "My good main," said the stranger, in unctuous but well-bred accents, “I am a. stranger in these parts, and amlm‘ma’ge here by yourseh . .0“ 30mg .bm’k to’hthe b9}; heibegan. And now he could laintly hear “'35 reJOmed by bh‘nkey’ “ ° “(Nd '1’“); the colt rhythmical pulsing oi the en- “aided to go down onuosfile .ifnfae {in .resf gin-e. as it might be tult u. some; anteâ€" leb Lommg’ iiulltlt‘lgtll monster which has been rac- :‘idia till it was :c'ddll. 0L ur-catii ; and blinâ€" gkcy know that the train had slack-med ispeeii and “the Lcu.li‘l¢§ its way tori-.ard .. , slowly ann’cautiously. ‘\Vhat could be h- dléhdupegmlfigd I the matter; \V out could h..ve halpenâ€" When the S m 3 comet o “gilt” 'ed? 13y whom and with what. intent a 1ew moments. “Another five minutes and she ought to be here." "Then l’ll hurry off to the others, said Lardy. ’9 sorry to say that I have lost; my way. "As soon as ever the tx-ain’s past, 1 want to get to a friend's house at Ové‘rlmrro'w; no doubt you can .put me in the right road for doing so?” Gerald. "My good man," interrupted stranger, "‘I am somewhat deaf, cannot hear what you say. I you and steps of yours." Gerald stepped down without hesitaâ€"‘cupant of. . v. . “You must cross the line," he while as if her heart must die “ltllln tion. began again in a somewliablouder key ‘ 11613 , . . - - "and about. twenty yards farther ori dusky figures smmlmg“ l‘ttle (“Stance you Vwill find a gap in the hedge." "Hes, yes-a gap in the hedge, unlderetand,” responded the other eag- er y. "'And after that you will find a foot- mOSt path which will bring you to the high- road. 'l‘henâ€"-â€"" Not a. word more spoke Gerald. soft heavy cloth of some kind was sud- dfinly thrown over his head, while atiwhere the signal-box stood, on .tlio‘op- the same instant his arms were pin-‘postte Side oi. the line, and, if tic-“ere ioned fit‘mly from behind, and a. cord5possible, approach near enough to the With 1‘ l‘u'nui noose was drawn ti ht-lmen . ng The attack wag by that means discover what had be- ly round his legs. sudden that he was powerless to make the least resistance, and in less than'the thought formulated in her mind, linlf-a-dozen seconds he found himself (is helpless as a. blbe. Then aoorne‘r of_the oloth that enveloped his head was raised, and the sham piirson said. in his most oily tones: “My friend. if you have any regard for life you will neither cry out nor attempt to make. the least disturbanoe. Be obedient and good, and no harm shall befall you." .As if to add emphasis to this warning, Gerald was lightly rapped on the knuckle with what he could feel to be. the chilly barrel of a. pistol. Then with a man on with sidd of. him bold- ing bun by an arm, he was conducted totlw ind-.kground: and having been phuited with his bank to a tree. be was bound firmly to it with several folds of thin cord. The cloth which still enveloped his head was fastened loosely round his throat, so as not really to impede his breathing: but is voice would haVo been smothered in it had he even been in it position to call for help. He had no means of determining the number of his arsnilauts, but as for Is he could judge there must have been three or four of them. llc was lost in ii maze of the wildest conjectures as to what the ob- ju‘i of the attack could possibly be. Iran :one of the gang had re- cognized him as Gerald Brooke. the man for whose capture so large a reward was still unclaimed. Yet why. then. had they made. him :i prisoner! What object was to be gained by his esp- ture! Never in his life hrtd he felt so utterly perplexed. He could hear an new conversation goin on it little distance away; but sl sounds now come dull and muffled to his cars. As already stated. the gang had pre- viously rated into two parties. Three of . men. at the head of whom we Gretta-i. had made their way down an branch to a point clue to whire, u marl u- they could Judge. the drive: thb We would be this to ‘ . . Q l "You must cross the lineâ€"â€"-” began, started at a the i wish' more all their actions had been watch- _ would the good enough to come ed by n. likttleIn-earer. \V’ith my defective eye-y the case. 5 l. ‘ dare not Hut in 'self itliesei in ense lg a 3 “a ibusband, but a. stranger, was the 00- I" be the other members of the gang; but i l I Alhim from that distance. I gwas too dark to admit of her seeing and then make it Such were a few of the queries that at flirted through dlinkey's puzzled brain. , And now not. even the taintest pulsing .Lardy Bill of the engine could be heard. Could the it be possible that treachery was at shell out the wires, bolt of 0t, and wait for you. fellows the cottage." _ more was said. Nothing , quick pace down branch, while Slinkey re-entered thelwork. and that the. drtvei‘ had been box. warned and the train brought to a Neither of them had the slightest susâ€" stand? Slinkey ran tightly uown the steps and, kneeling, laid an car once more. to the rails. Not a sound came to him; the train and those in charge. of it might have vanished into space, so unbroken was the silence. lie got on his feet again, his tongue and throat. as dry and constricted as those of ii than who had been athu‘st for days. instinctively his eyes turned to the tree to which the captured signtilman had been bound; but he was too fur to be able to discern whether the With a heait that mieg‘aw him. he hurried up to the tree, Onlb'rd wind that the prisoner had es- but the pioion that for the last ten minutes or an unseen witness; but such .was When Clara Brooke, to ‘ lier dismay, discovered that not her the box, she felt for a. little Then she became aware of two away, whom she rightly concluded to away still her husband was nowhere to be'man was still [pal-a seen. She had arrived on the s 01". al- immediately after Gerad had but the night l‘he oords were there, than was gone. Evidently, treachery “as at. work somewhere. Would not the wisestt hing he could do be tode- the wisest thing he. could do be. to de- canip While he had a chance of doing so? He was asking himself this ques- tion but had not answered it, when up come Crotton, Lardy Bill, and one of the other men at double-quick time, I ’lliey. too. had heriird the. log-signals, than she began to iut it into- practice. and had been as much. at a loss ho ac- Still keeping in t e shelter of the count for them as Slinkcy had been. hedge lhilt Tim Parallel With the line. But when the latter told them that by she sped as fast as her feet could carry some mysterious means ltllL'll‘ prisoner her to a. point some forty or been bound to the tree; “med. She felt at once that she must. get around to to overhear their conversationfind come of her husband. No sooner was _ fill.“ DALI contrived to escape. it was evident yards farther down the line, {1le both to L‘l‘ofton and Lardy that their enough, as she judged, to be out of carefully phi-lined coin-nit: but: met with] the range of vision of any one who come dire. mishap. '.lhcy had been bi:- niighr be on the lockout at the box. miyed. but by whom? A traitor had Here. after drawing licr shawl over licr‘becn at work. but who was he! lizich .. - , _ n . ihad log-signals been placed on the Luci Rilgb-t you are, responded the otheliion a “IEUL w dead, and beaumul? headâ€"she had discarded her boniiet‘ of them stared suspiciously at his tel- some time beforeâ€" she broke through lows, - the hedge, was acroas the line in three "Ii I only knew «who it was thathml seconds; and then. after pushing'sold us." said Iizlnl'd)‘ Bill with a fierce through the hedge on the opposite bide. improaiion, “l'd scatter his trains with she turned back in the direction of the a bullctt hough I had to swing lut‘ signal-box, she and it. being both’ now it aft/31- In on the same side of the. line. Creeping "That's an very well," said cm“- forward foot by foot and yard by .Viu‘d. on; “but the (mention is, what are we she. presently found herself a little way [,0 do new?" behind the box, and within a dozen "D01" exclaimed Lax-(1y, whom dun- yards of her husband, had she only been ger always made reckless. ‘_‘Wny, do aware of it. what We. intended from the ftrst. The While this was happening. one oftheitmin's waiting there. ain't it. not five men had gone off ‘0 J03", “16 0th¢‘r35huriiired yards away? Instead of its down the line. Clam. llfit‘l‘mg lhl‘oullhitoming to us. we must. go to ltâ€"thnt's the inli‘l‘h'ii'.‘63‘0‘f lb? hedge. 990m 588 all. Is there any one tit-re." be de- tho two remaining men walking “ltd mended. fiercely, "who .would rather talking togetiier,_ but was too far no: go 1" "WU-3' ‘0 dlb‘liullul‘iil “int We! SEXKV Slinkey would fain have answered Not long had she watched and waited [lint he for one. would very much preâ€" \vi.en she heard the mug-tong of Ille‘fcr to keep in the back ground. only tell-graph bell. She knew that it was that Laxdy gm “as a man of “1m”, it signal of some kindnbut not :wlzat h.) stood in worm] fear, its prec'me meaning “ll‘llt be. lhcii "Now, mates, come along," added Bill. one of the men distzitnjal'ed into the “We are only fooling away our time box. while the other-it was the one. standing here. One bold stroke and she could now make out, who was dress- the prize is ours," ed like a clerci'muuâ€" turned. _and Scarce-13' had the last words passed seemed as if be We" marching direc“ his lips, when some half-dozen dark- 1.\' towards her. Terror str}<‘ken. Fhe coated figures burst suddenly through «ironed completely eukof sight behind the hedge and mode a dash into the the hedge bank, expecting every mo- midst of the gang. merit to feel a. hand laid “000 b9! "\Veare sold!" sci-earnedCrofton with Shoulde" But mun“? comingv “he an oath. "Every man for himselfr'nnd brewâ€"ted train: then be! head “feat “I’lwith rim in fired his revolver attlie til‘. tier eyes were on a level with theinenrest at his: menilants and then turn- ing: of the bank: U893. I0 I!“ er’rifipv‘cd to flee. But he was. too late. I‘ll‘ she saw that the lull Deemed '0 be was “"1de up seia'id and handcuffed carefully examining the trunk of a all in a. breath as '1. seemed. A like fate betel! Slinkey. and the other man; but nerdy Bill. slippery as an feel. after felling two of his assailants. vanished in the darknes. The remaining two men. who had been left behind when Cmfton end the others hurried to the signal-box. also contrived to escape. Crofton's shot had taken effect. The man he fired at staggered forward a. pace or two and then fell on one knee. Now that the scrimmage was ovenhie companions had time to attend to him They helped him to his feet; he “‘JS evidently suffering greet pain. but was perfectly cool and collected. As the light. of the. bull's eye which one of the men produced fell u n face. Crofton. who was chm a hand. staggered look with a cry of amazement. Next mom- ent he had recovered himself. "I de- nounce this man as Gerald 'Bmolt'e." he exclaimed. “the murderer of Baron von Rosenberg. for whose capture a re~ word of three hunde pounds is off- ered." (To be Continued.) _______...â€"_â€"â€"â€" CURING THE DEAF. An Ingenious (‘ontrtvauice on the. Lines of :1 Telephone. Tlhe "Microiiilionograph" is the name given to a machine. recently made in France and which applies in s new way the. principle of the as now in common usage. 'l‘he. idea of the. French device. is, within cer- tain limits, to minke the deaf hear. In this respect. it certainly .OOIIDBS nearer to fulfilling its mission t‘hnn does Edi- son's much-talked-of application of the Roentgen rays to making the blind see. As a matter of fact, the microphone- grapih does make the deaf hearâ€"that is all 8110111 persons generally classified as deaf, yet in whom the hearing mechanism “is not wholly dostroyed or in whom nature. has supplied even ru- dimentary hearing apparatus. The mi- eropfimincgraph does for sounds which under ordinary conditions would be indistinguishable to a deaf person exâ€" actly what the microscope does to obâ€" would be photograph jects which without its aid invisible. It magnifies them. Mr. F. Dussaud is hhie inventor of this new aid to the afflicted. He was moved to it by his pity for a particu- lar deaf and dumb person in “whom he. was interested. and the result of his la bors promises to wank agreat ohange in the method of treating those who cannot hear or speak. As is well known Ulie inability be speak on the part. 01 those deal from infancy arises from Uhoir havin‘r no knowledge of SUUlIldS. Their vom. or- gans may be perfect, yet they are to- tally ignorant. of how to use them. At present till-9y are taught by an elabor- ate study of Ulliel lip movement until they fit lest peach very fairly i-n- telligiblo' speech. The mic-i‘opllionograpih by enabling tilt-em to lhenr the sounds directly. will enable them to take a Short cut to a point W-h-lfih heretofore has been reachâ€" ed by a. long and tedious road and will at the some time render their speech much clearer and natural in tone. Two instantaneous photographs re» cently taken) in Paris illustrate. the use of the mic-.t‘oplhono'grnp-h. Dine them represents Mr. Dussaud and a. deaf and dumb boy Who is ‘lioltling to his car like telephonic receiver, which is conâ€" nected with the. machine. The microâ€" p-lionogrnpb is not in. operation. al- t.l;ou‘gh_ the. den («mute does not. It now it and is straining "his ear in vain to catch the. sounds. other instantanerms photogrn h was taken at the instant when lVr. Dussziud started up iihie machine, which played Uhve "Marseillnise," the deaf mute. [hearing it distinctly and beating time to the stirring measure THE MODERN STEAMSHIP. The Immune l'argo Which ('an be Slowed Aunt)- in One of TIN-9m Loviaumnd. The famous steamship, Great Eastern. historically associated wit'h the first efforts to lay Atlantic telegraph c.1- bles, has hitherto been regarded asthe largest vesSL-l ever launched. Its iatir~ els as a sea leviathan. however, are of' late endangered. The new ocean freighter. Pennsylvania, although staircely attziiniiiig the external Incas:- ureinonts of the former celebrated ship will carry farmore cargo. 'llll" capacity indeed, of these new freight ships is a matter for astonishment to a lands- man. The. Pennsylvania, for example is rated at twenty thousand tons burden and will carry loads such as may briefly itemized thus: 160,000 burnt-ls of wheat in built, equal to three hundred and hwntycar- lands, or sixteen trains of twenty cats} cot-la. 1.000 tons of flour, eighty cnr-lomhl iri- 4 000 boxes of bacon. revenly-five c:.r~i_ "30.05. | 1300;! tierces of lard, forty-eight carâ€" loads. 1.300 loads. 1 z ':: loads. 3000 quarters of (Iro‘nsul beef. In addition there will 1'.i‘i.'r.-:il.ly be 2i. thoumnil ti-n.~ of miscellaneous iner- clinmliy. .sziy eighty car-loads more; in all not less tlizin seven Liinirml and cishty car-loads. or thirty-nine long trains of twenty cars each. .\'or is the above by any means the entire. load of this modern ark. The Penmylvnnin will have accurnmulii'inns for from eight hundred to one thou- sand steerage passengers. as a‘sofor a new of one hundred and fifty men and fifty cattlemen. with fowl and fodder for all. In the fuel bins. too. there will be mrried a burden of 1,300 tons of coal or more than one hundred (XJI‘-l()hd!. If we were to any that the est." agricultural product of twenty couri- ties cotild all be stimvcd SLAVE} in this mammoth ship, we should not exoeed the facts. biles of cotton. forty curâ€" iiezid of live wattle. eighty car-I SOME SILVER. union: HOW IT EFFECTS THE CREDIT OF A NATION. Countries Where the But: of the 0|:an In Sliver and They Have Some flight lN-bls to Pay. Mexico is a silver standard country. She has a large national debt. The in- terest of £20,687.660 is payable in Im- don. It is not even payable in Mexico. The London indebtedness is greater than the Mexican indebtednea. Guatemala is a silver standard coun- try. Of her debt. £887,700 is owed abroad. Honduras is a silver standard coun- try. Pmotimlly the whole of her debt is owed abroad, and not a cent of in- terest has Honduras been able to pay since 1872. Nicaragua is a silver country. She owes £285,000 in London. on which she has been obliged to default payment of the interest. Salvador is a silver country. owes £254,000 in London. Paraguay is a silver country. She de- clared herself bankrupt to her foreign creditors in 1885 and issued new bonds in exchange for old ones at just. about 50 cents on the. dollar. Paraguay has just defaulted the interest on the half of her debt. which she had not. pre- viously repudiated. She owes now in Europe £836,550. with defaulted inter- est amounting to over £76,500. PER U- BOLIVI A-CHI N A . Peru is a silver country. She had a foreign debt of £31,579,080, with ar- rears of interest amounting to £22,998.- 651. Being utterly unable to pay. the European bondholders had deeded to them in exchange all the states' rail- wnys, guano deposits. mines and lands for it period of sixtyâ€"six years. Bolivia is a silver country. Her "ex- ternal" debt. to foreign corporations is 8,000,000 bolivianos. The debt owed at home is 4,428,705 bolivinnos. Forty per cent of the customs dues at Aricri. are She by law seized by the foreign bond- holder. China is a silver country. It is a matter in the memory of every citizen that the. money to pziy China's war in~ (lemnity was raised by it loan in Eu- rope. The Japanese commission has lust gone to London to collect it. How February loan of 1805. was £3,000,000 payable in gold. and her customs rev- enue is toâ€"dny mortgaged in terms to foreign syndicates. The United States pays in gold and borrows at 3 per cent. China's foreign loan of Decem- ber. 1894. of $8,000,000, payable in sil- ver, cost 7 per cent. in interest. JAPAN-lNDIAâ€"R.ITSSIA. Japan. the most pros ierous of the silver countries. is paying :11 the rate of 71ser cent for a foreign indebted- ness of 2,110,112 yen. The bulk of her debt loaned her in silver by her own Citizens cost her 51-2 per cont. per annum. Japan's financiers favour the adoption of a gold basis. Tndia is on a silver basis. Of :1 Iain] debt funded and unfunded, of 227,354,â€" 398 rupees. 108,113,792 is foreign debt owed to England. Sixteen million pound sterling a year must be paid in England. This is paid in gold, while the taxes raised in India are silver. Is it extraordinary that India has slop- pert the coinage of silver in order 10 gel. upon a gold basis zian tTIicvc her- off of a heavy yoke that was yearly growing heavier. ‘ Russia is on a silvm' basis, but she has been forced into an indeblmlmws of gold rubles of 1.998.307.400. Russia was forml to ask permission of foreign bankers before she went to war. Russia is about to adopt the gold basin, W WOULDN'T TRUST JONAHS. 9-... A Wrecked [Soul's Crew who Iii-lined to IM‘ Itcst'llml. A remarkable story of coincidence and sailotr superstition was told by the survivors of the John Carey on their arrival the other day at Auckland. New Zealand. The John Carey, a trailing brig, ran into dirty weather and sprung a IC'lk. which at last forced the captain and five others to take to the only boat left uninjuiied. 'l‘liey \vere pit-lied up by the Indybird, another trader, which next day went ashore :1 total wreck. Two days later, a third trader. the llriglitwell. bove in sight, .‘lIIlI iii-- ini; signalled. by the. t?£lSi:l\‘\'lt_\'.‘-.. m-ni a IHNLI» to take them off. The. John Clirey‘s men were the first to vmlmxk, and going through llie surf. llll' .llr.glii\\'i:.ll's boot vms l)4‘ll,..‘llll$ were drawn on board half (llil'.'.lll'il. At this tliflisici'. the Lady-- bird's crew set up a. cry of ".llmull.” Upsc t and the liw J.(‘.’s people. they said, had been twice, “rocked, and to embark with lllt‘lll again was certain (It-nth. And so f:riii \vn.‘ their faith in tlw will Hum-J- s:.iion that when the Brightin sent a six (IIHl limit, they :ir~lu:i||y refused to in; in» iii-:l, pin-luring to stay when Hwy vrvi'e and iJlkl‘ their chance of an- (Hher ship (inning! that, way, to sailing in rainy-ally with :i crew of .Iouulief Accordingly ill" “rightisle Silllv'l mwziy with the six survivors, who must have experien-wi lively and varied exertions when the very next «lay, :i Iii-:ivy men broke. on board, MOVIE “rm of lhl: boats, and tziri‘iml away a portion of the bul‘ works! However. the “‘o‘fllllf‘r cleaned. and the iiiu‘diâ€"linnissed :ind luck-lor- iiientml John Cnreyites were eventu- ally landed in safety at Auckland. MUU RNI NI} OVER I-‘l DO. Faithful Damiesitoâ€" Plow. mum. you'll have to get nnoth~r «log. or I won‘t stay. Mistressâ€"J mourn the. Int-Lb is! poor Fido as much as you do but Idon't think of leaving the house on ilmt neruint. . Faithful limit-stirâ€"Ilut. mum, you don't have to 1v:th the. platen. . .. ...., new. -azzdnl i l l .l l i l E g '