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no tal skin like a. tuniip’s it pricks its may through. 'lajor Don l-‘eJro Santiago di llorja. y Mon-tamarâ€" (lestcno‘ant of the noble house that gave to the Church of Home its most infaunons Pope, to tyrant and libe tineâ€"ridan Italy its most flag- rant Caesar, to a. gaspii-g world its most beautiful and devilish Lucrev'ia -â€"was (leneial Stampa’s chief lntelli« gcnce Officer, and he was worthv of his (lass. But when. Don Pedro awoke from dreams of zingtâ€"etâ€"un and oleaginous liqtems, to find Palm City. more than half deserted, and the flag of Lllis‘paniola limp under threat of imâ€" mediate furling, even he was moved .to do sormthing: facts make acro- bats of the most drowsy. 1t weir. all a confounded nuisance since it meant the postponement of that picnic with Hons in palmetto before and .‘ . .u I Senorita Lola ll‘lontuo, seond queen Sides, was not Stamp“ the“, ? of Palm City demiâ€"mondaines. in her villa at l'sleta the highâ€"priestess (fthat doubtful hierarchy was conâ€" soling the General in his martyrdom of requestraiion from Senora Stamâ€" pa and her aherubs in the Sierxas. A pigeon takes but ten minutes to wing from Palm City to Isleta: as the tartanero zigâ€"zags by the read, two hours an a half is not reusid- ered exorbitant. Yet, although di Borja starter? at eleven, and tic taatanero rivalle the saints for miracles, it was a quarter past one when Stampa was roused from his pro-siesta collce and cigarillo to heal‘ the news. He laughed at (1i Borja’s panic, and offered him sweet cess of mental endosmosis, the tion that Hispaniola was in danger soaked into his brain. The slumber- lng tiger awoke, contemptuous and cruel. ‘ "Sword and fire I” he snarled, “fire and swm'd ! Aruba knows me; Palmetto shall. A week of my Sysâ€" tem, and they shall have as much freedom as they likeâ€"freedom to diet freedom to be buried, freedom to kill me if \Voy are able. As for that English jackanapes, he shall hang higher than l'lamanâ€"hang his Engliwh tourist clathes! Pepita, mia qucrida, you shall see how your l in l linoment engaged him. He was Ilearnlng the intricacies of bridge. When news trickled through that the Hispaniolan fleet had forsaken touch with civilizationâ€"had, indeed, signalled brave boasts from the horâ€" izon to Stampa in Palm Cityâ€"the ambassador bethought him (cs:‘e;ia]â€" ly as he found bridge-building exâ€" ipensive) that a little relaxation might not be amiss. In one day he ,saw three visitors. The last of ithem stayed for an hour and a half. eWhen she departed she was the Ericher by a piece of blue paper, bearâ€" ling a "promise to pay” two hundred and fifty pounds on certain ditions; and the Marquis di Guadaâ€" mara set the wires to Madura thrillâ€" ing with disquieting nevvs. Madura laughed; it had heard talk of revolu- be- The 3 Chancellor icingle word, which may not be set i down here, and .Juditli Frere’s bit of :blue paper looked valueless. 0011- , sent di-Guadamara a Moleâ€"it will save us digging graves. Now go; and don’t worry me again toâ€"night. And remember. your own life or that Englishman’s. Him I must have. Don’t let me see you unâ€" less you catch him.” Di Borja. knew his master well, and he understood that unless he could lay hands on or remove 'Hector Grant, his military career was at an end, for Stampa was a power at Maâ€" dura, and from Madura came all proâ€" ferment. As a matter of fact, Stam- pa did not see di Borja again for several weeks, but that was be- cause the lntelligence Officer was a prisoner: and when Stampa did see himâ€"alas ! and alas ! The first encounter was but a mere skirmish. in which matters were fairly evenly balanced: indeed, it was more of a rcconnaissanre in force them anything else. But the Palmettos took some seventy prison- ers, among whom was di Dorja, and the l-lispaniolans made captive fifteen Wounded I’ulmettos, who were carâ€" ln imagination Judit-h Frere spent lied before Stampa with every cir- her prospective fortune three ’over. Her little room in a Sloane FStrect hive of womenâ€"worksrs-the 3 Home for Irreconcilables, a wag call- ;ed itâ€"saw her build afresh youthful dreams of comfort, small luxuries, ‘pretty frocks, decent food and drink, {dreams that stein reality had transâ€" .formed into the grim facts of sordid Eexistence. liler hungry heart ,nvas lempty of warm blood, the cheerful l lbluo of youth was smudng over chamâ€" I with chill grey. pa-gne: yet, byâ€"aan-by, by some pro-l Years of struggle and rough elâ€" no- i bowing had brought Judith ll‘rere to the desperate pass where choice has to be made between right with povâ€" erty and wrong with comparative comfort. The moral support of a shapeless tailorâ€"made, heelless shoes and close-cropped hair is not always re iableâ€"as Judith found. The temptation came subtly. Out of tie goodness of her heartâ€"when the great events was accomplished Judith would have columns of valu- able copyâ€"111631. tor took her to the house in Bloomsbury: Maddalena, all trust and tenderness, received her graciously, and after l'lector had de- ‘will be shot. gentle generaliss-imo deals with those parted, continued to receive her and times cumstant‘e of triumph. The courtâ€"martial at which they were tried for their lives was a. wild mockery of military justice, and the president, our gentle generalissimo, outâ€"J effreyse‘d Jeffreys for trucuâ€" lence. l-lis passing of the sentence of death was unique. “The Blessed Virgin,” l'e said, "has again honored the arms of Hispaniola. The cause of light and justice has won, and you, dogs of rebels, who_dare'd to set yourselves up against the majesty of Hispanio- lame. OaCh 0110 an hour later alive into 1the one to the east of it. lsystem is not universal and, except lin those countries where the railway .systems make 1a, have been deliverd our hands. The courtesies of civil- ized wai fare would be lost upon such swine as you, rebels and traitors. S-s-soâ€"at one O’clock to-‘day you 1t will be a brief cerâ€" Take them away.” . the unfortunates more emony. At one o’clock were ranged on the Mole, the grievously wounded leanirg for sup- port on their abler brethren, their backs to the sea, their unbandaged eyes looking 'down the black barrels of Hispaniolan Mausers, fearless and unconquei‘ed. A hoarse order, a scorching crackle, and the wall of wounded broke, toppled and fell into SATURDAY P. M. mile one goes east or west. The conâ€" fusion that would necessarily ensue is minimized on the continent by a sys- tem called standard time, which was adopted by the railroads in 1883 and since adopted by nearly all of the large cities. This system divides the continent into four sections, each fif- teen degrees of longitude in width. The time taken for one district is the solar time at the middle point of the section. Consequently we have eastâ€" “'2: SUNDAY A.M., 7 HRS. 53 MINS. AHEAD. ern, central and mountain and Pacific than But our such a method neces- sary, solar time is in use. At a conference which met in Washâ€" ington in 1882 to adopt a common prime meridian to be used in reckon- ing longitude and delegates represent- ing 26 countries decided in favor of taking the meridian of Greenwich. A. resolution was adopted to the effect that the universal day be a mean soâ€" istead of the day before, as the lar day, beginning at the hour of midnight of the initial meridian. When it is noon at London one ,clocks registered 3.4-0 p.111. on Inesday. !ed in a morning paper on Friday, so: {plainly than Words the relation C \ >1- ; I. 5‘5 i ‘ “‘-;:‘â€" ___________.__ g? l â€" â€"â€"â€"-:â€".~ . _ l ' ' ‘ ' __. » A. . / l '\ I looked upon him and 'her brave 11MB IN THE FAR EAST. oration when noon leaves 1,035.03} 5 < g m ' C ' ' ‘ Q " ' ' ‘ ‘1 19"“ that -- there is a “to-day ” a “yester {Ly .- a . 6-1: ‘ (é .&§<6€€€€€£é<€1£6(<<<< , thousands and as s 10 1 c . , ‘ V] E §k<§< éééééékfi g ' :74 fierce cry ’of dedication over the roll ‘ Interesting to Know on Accountland utoflnormwn on the earth. Sup. ,1 f1} 9 - w of the drums, stood still in cxaltaâ€" of the War. lposc noon had arrived at Toronto I ‘ ‘, V i A g “on Of pride: tears filled 1101' 0395- Since the talk of hostilities be- (roughly speaking 79 degrees west ‘ "U ‘ 7 V But She .was it queen, and the dullâ€"5h“ 'tween Japan and Russia there has longitude), Toronto's antipodal meriâ€" , . ‘5 ‘ . a lel‘ of lungs: and 1101‘ 11D was firm Ibeen some discussion as to the exâ€" than is the one which passes through‘ i V a When to the rog’menml C‘znfmandcrs :act relation between our time and Bangkok, Siam. Thus when it 13; :2; m She gave her lést You“ 60% mesh; lthe 'time in Tokio and the other citâ€" noon here it is midnight at Calcutta. w A you ail't my 'Rlou‘ms’ and Go gem ies brought into prominence by the and all of that portion of the 0:11:11: u " ’1‘ you me my ' )rcsent w 13‘ ~' - ‘ -1" last of Calcutta is therefore in o- " ~ ’ “ ‘ , - . - l . I ar. Jvely per son lea mes c . é’ OR’ A S ‘ ’i‘ “£1313 muggglléofinfinuegagf that high noon varies with every morrow and there people could say} “4 g y c c _ 1. _ geese-sessmssmsssssrrsawasassessesssssslyssebaseseaegm during the night. Scouts had ‘4 1-: 1" poor man lacked leisure, even for brought_ in. such alarming intelliâ€" . r1 . .bH-ép? “.111 X'._ . . theatreâ€"goingâ€"he was a patron of gence‘that d1 Borja was_dri\'en ~ to Aime we “1.11% V‘ w". n ls unmisâ€" the lighter dramaâ€"and he almost for stir Stamps. again. His excellency ‘ Sible for illLLJthliCe OfllCCiS to main- got that he rented a box at. the refused to forsake the} table, but he I {ulna thelr_ Migdrmy’. all,“ “13332.8 Alhambra. Each day there were so far relaxed as to ISSUC orders for i filljfll'lly 231?- Olf‘ew‘f‘lgum 31‘}! 1;“ 1‘: hundreds of calle s at the Embassy, a. ‘nnd'mght march. ] .("Lfn C ,,“"'“!.‘t _e"?3]‘.s an, K” “m but the First Secretary exercised at ‘Brlug your prisoners to the Gov- ing‘s' In“) ‘lg‘m'w- ls “lush Upo‘l masterly discrimination: the amâ€" ernor_’s lla-lace at ten to-morrow 1. than" and unless they "0850’ S a bassador could see no oneâ€"affais of morning. 1 shall shoot them on the SATURDAY P.M., 53 HRS. AHEAD. is yesterday, and every one has a “toâ€"day.” Japan has its midnight 14L heursi and 20 minutes before we do, small when we turn vinto Sunday, Japan} has already reached the hour 2.20 p. m. St. Petersburg has reached 2 minutes after 7 o’clock a. m. and; the London time is 5 a. m. Thus: when the Torontonian is preparing to go to church on Sunday evening'the l of that. part west of Calcutta that i 3 l l l . i i Q l l i Q I l l l i i i l SUNDAY A.M., 14. HRS. 20 M1328”? AHEAD. ; Cockney, if he be of temperate ha- bits, is preparing to retire, the Rusâ€" sian is already asleep and the Jap is well started on his Monday morn: ing work. i When‘ a despatch dated Tokiod Thursday, 6 a.m., is published in the: daily papers, we must remember thatl the telegram was sent when our; Wedâ€"g Such a despatch is publishâ€"f ‘. 1 I it must be seen that the event ocâ€"j curred more than two days before, inâ€"l date? Would seem to show. i The above diagrams will Show more; beâ€": u: ‘. ‘ . . E t '3 i! ‘3. '1 4 J x »W,.mws new "~”v‘~A'W‘./v .z cl’v“ «' \."v -.-“../~ "3 ‘5‘. ‘ .~("~.' vh‘v' »_ n... 3... ‘. g _ ¢~/\./‘y-V\’V ‘ v ‘-,‘ _‘\.«“V"v'... ‘ At : ‘M M . “ ‘:.’.~-.-”,qv- :v x r. s A__,A§«-(‘--’-.'~- ‘ l ‘. . date and day prevail all over ' the ;twecn the time shown by our clocks; r“ earth. If noon is either cast or west and those of London, St. Petersburg: of London there are two days in 011- and Tokio. ; I. ‘ l . ..- ..-nm;w..~n.~um ~..â€" ~.WMWMM_W -, he does not like! Sword and fire, speak freely before her of this and fire and sword I am hungry for l of that. The tempter used the 3‘ work. I have been idle too long. I pinch of poverty unmeicifully. “You rush to the fray. Di Borja !” know so much,” said he, “that His- (To be Continued.) â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"+ WAR AND WOMAN’S DRESS. the blue waters. l l “I a\vait your Orders! (ienel'aâ€"l'“ palliolfl. “'i“ pay for. don’t _ . q i nil of rent Valueâ€"Illa 0 bought: f" “Get back to Palm Clty at 9"“.0' ~39“ 5°.“ i”. 1‘ “'0‘” matte-1' to Fashion Following the EasterniJap‘lncse ‘tuiance 'fihgncmed the k‘m'lgt reasogablc prices agribdeuo-uiiui‘ 1% Have the troops under arms Within lilfld‘ditlcllfl: it meal 3 a great deal Cloud 10110 1“ "11110118 forms. and 9V0“. to it (afoot ,u. obt ired ’1) th j~ u: [or ll the hour, prepared to march to the to you. She is young and iich : you I icertain extent, the quaint obi; and U‘ S Ede} a ‘ yb, ,- “0’ 1. ,3: hills. Fifty rounds of ammunition are growing old and you have been AS “(We is Said to fOUO‘V the flag, Enow, with war probable in the F‘ai',c)?sc O ‘ ap-qliese. em IOEOCUCS “e ’2; per man will be suilicientâ€"fortyâ€"ninc poor all these years. Why Shoul] ifashion seems to adapt herself to the {gast’ there is a boom in all things so 1‘. and beautiful in coloring. W of the fifty will be uselessâ€"but lei the young have all the good things-g conditions of lands and scenes to {Japanese_ ‘ MOPED.“ dun blue 5111‘.clcpon', fifty be taken. They will be useful This‘ is ’so easy, and who ‘would WVhiCh 1-"Ublic attention is dimCtEd-I The most practical blouses have tummou With Japan?“.“mbrf”de"y of ' for the prisoners. I can trust you know 7” This is particularly so in the case .their Japanese effect in quaint tone” d'ull old blues on bull Silks, a para. 5 to see to this ?” She met the tempter with hollow iof war. ies of embroidery. ' ticumrly gOOd example 0f thlSfity-le'; “Absolutely.” scruplcs. it would be So despicabch The dramatic Siege of th,, lickingl Small pieces of this embroidm_v__ 'lhe green and orange embrmdcrics, "1 shall, com. is; myself to-mor- it would be so mean; honor, she likâ€" 'LQO'a‘Lions made pmular the comm”; hum", COMM of work; mnturim 6m harmonize Wonderfully With several': row.” ed to think, was more than a men n ,, , ‘ ‘ ‘ I. U u ’ Of 0111‘ mOdel‘n dark ShadCS- 3 “’l‘o-morrow l” Di Borja, could not name to her, But (11] the bin-rims " ‘ ' u ' ‘ ‘ ”‘“"'”‘""“”"‘""""”‘W” """"~""”"”"“"' MOTC Pretentious, bill? Still With Oldi- suppress the ejaculation. ‘she threw up were swept away ‘00- ' "I M I ,J-u13811050 embroidery as their charâ€"f “I said to-morrow,” snapped fore the remorseless streamâ€"tide of A S A- QCtCi'iStiC feature. are the Houses: Stampai "and I meant toâ€"morrow. ci:cumstances. She sought the Hisâ€" made from mandal‘ins’ jackets. 5 Haw “you any objection to the paniolgn Embmsy, pi Guadanmra * ' These are almost solidly coverch .} word? ‘ was allable and crndulous, and Juâ€" with the old embroidery, and fro-i r “No, .no, General; no l” with much diih was breathless to handle gold. fluently have gom interwoven With it‘ll emphams. 7 . All that. she knew was toldâ€"nothing but even with a gold dragon on the}, \vexgzhgnpr'i‘31'dlt9t Tedclginl;1 ema 'sselll’ 3ft: ElgfittialLil?i\i-?j'1igt§ .‘irti‘ffl‘flfi {or 1711.1: Home front the “5:001? is llot SO n Tr .. . .1 . l] _ ‘ .d3 ‘1 y o ,th - .' [as “a. .;I¢tt‘u1a“ ‘weic or spectacular as it sounds, for the; 1 o ow» w zen a is 10.? y. onxâ€"I more nan orcniarily class. Stamâ€" dull soft tones of the old embroidery.- Wk” my Slcstfl- 9410‘“ ’ llav ’ Emil they. “18 at Palm City: iare uiet in q ite of tie 1r "’4‘; “Adios I” his frown will terrify them." But Stal.3in,,.’1 .-,‘p I 1 SO Am‘mw; The hour" of revolt was well chos- they had forgotten what a power A d ” $05151”: , .. q , l . ‘ . ,, ull led satin embi Olo'thcd all‘ en. Tlispaniola was grappling With 0811 be a People l‘O‘dSOd by years of s a w} ’ I- 1' 'l “ the Free States of South America. the Q'Oad, and stin'iulated bv the mm ‘fl.F1.du'll blu-o Shaded mitwtli‘ws and the Combat promised to he mor- truest goddess of revolution, a beauâ€" or Vm‘yilig Size-8' IS mic-or we dillyi : tal. Her credit was depreciated, her tiful and forlorn young woman. “nose _m°as m llmtcr‘als' A (“Elli treasury was have. “mile the Freeln‘hnt of Joan of A,.c?‘“..ha_t of Mary green pcngee boldly cmbrmdered inl States, rejoicing in plethoric ex- (Queen of Scots? Could they have ecru comm} IS anemia" i '. Chequers, bongltt battleships and Seen the thousands that filled the At one or the orlimtal Shops are a cruisers, torpedoâ€"destroyels and cup of the hills, ready to be poured to be £91m“ (iccorfltwe buttons GOV“ THURâ€"“Ting [511113, by the million out in a bitter draught of death for cred “'lth 01d Japanese 0111bl“’idel'yi pounds a day. For them Arm- l-lispaniola, Ministers might not have and set in metal rims. i strong's and Cammell’s hammered'l'CliCd SO mUCh on Stampu- â€"+'-""“ g and clanged the roan} of the clock; Yes, Caldera was alive with men. ~ : ml the Datilic British shareholkfer, Maddalena had been seen of every THE ‘ EADLY STREETS- ioxezsccing swelled dividends, drople E11133), and not. a heart but had gone According to Official figures furnishj, n snpenny instead of a thrcepenny'out to her. Hector and Don Augusâ€" ed] P011 0 . 1w - . (Mn . 'tl DjCCU in the oil'ertory o’ Sundays. ltin were ever with her, one on this )y 1 c9. omnisswnfl .IM'Lm’v-I- l Hispaniola tried to raise money, and :hau'd, one on that. The older man, cosfsq 1",“) any 3f .50“, 3011‘ one “ml was refused on every Bourse in Eurâ€" i with rare sell-ssacrilicc, gave way to Del 08“" 01.,36‘) In,” pm. mmum’ 1’0; 3pc; she pleaded, sir: grovelledâ€"she‘the younger, and not only gave keep the flame .Of “he Street? mOV-l was spurned. At the moment when l way, but insisted on thrusting him mg' on? or “us total sacrmco 0“ her ships should have been describing forward on every needi‘ul occasion. human llfe’ Street cars were respon'i marchâ€"circles in the Atlantic, herlNow that the hour of fighting came, sible for 172 deaths, waggons and lock-yard. coal-yard and arsenal laâ€" Hector was the man of action: trucks killed 146’ sundry “cements oorers were amusing themselves on. dreaming was a thing of the night, caused twenty-nine fatilltics, runâ€" strike pay: tinkering ' leaky boilâ€" the day was come l.is soul had long away JIOI'SCS killed SOVCH DOTSOUS, bi; ars, bunkering of rubé'y anul’actureicraved. There was no man in Mad» cycles killed two, while nine deaths 91' uon~explosive Shel“; .sed. The dalena’s army whose heart rose were charged to the automobile. sole Sign of activity ,n Hispaniola loudlier in him than did Hector’s -â€"â€"+~ was on the part of “fine weeping Minâ€" ; when i the drums sounded at tho WHAT GOLDâ€"BEATERS DO. lsters, who wrung han‘dS, shruggedldawn: at the sombre summons, re- . shoulders and called on their great verberating from side to side of the Gom'beatel'sy by haln‘mcl‘mg. 1'0“ god Mariana. But at last, by ple’dg- i cauldron of Caldera, his fingers itchâ€" duce gom leave? so an” that 282" ing Import Duties for ten years.ie(l for steel, a warm tingle ran- 00011111515 be lfind 11.13011 0-3011 other 10 J money was raised, and the lilispan-Ithrougli his veins, a. certain savage DTOdUCG 13110 1911101511055 01' Cm inCh. yet, ' iolan equivalent ofwork was resumâ€" coldness (not the chill of fear) housâ€" each leaf is so perfect and free from i ‘1 ed. The flcct Cleared to sea, tOHCh- ed in his heart, his eye glowed with 110193 that one Of them laid “1’0” any l ed at Palmetto on its westward expectancy, and to his step came surface, as in gil-ding, gives the .ap- '. course. and was gone to its fate the snring of eighteen, He was a pem‘ance of solid gold. They are so four days belt-re Maddalena. 0:11:10 gijodly sight to see as he lifted his thin that if formed into a book 1,500 .l' hmne_ lp umes to call for a last shout of would only occupy the Space or al The turmoil of :nnest that troubl-ldevotion to Maddalena, ere tho rc~ single leaf of common paper, and an ' J.) Ministozs at Nylon, had spread lgiments should file through the oct.aVO volume of an inch thick would i j} .% u}lisl’)I-:‘t1::olan trogll-csgltatél‘ci gel-gles to achieve Victory or meet . _, h'avc as many pages as UN, books of A ma - mVO)’, 0 10 our 0 eat 1. ' . . . ' i 1 a wellâ€"stocle librarv of 1500 volâ€"‘ ‘ ' Bt,‘ James’s ‘uad his hands full: tha- Maddalena's own heart, as she tunes with 200 pug-cgl'in we'll. ' l g