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DALAI LAMA LUCKY. ________________..__._._â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€". i As Steel spoke he snapped downiriot- too~ extravagantly. And yet 'the hall switch and no result came. I the strange haunting sense of fear [Down in the basement by the area i was there. Now and again a huge idoor stood the meter. Both switch-l black head would uplift. from the cop- Les were turned off, but on Bell prcSSâ€" I pice growth, and a long, rumbling ing them down Steel has enabled to igrowl .come from .between a double flight the passage. lr‘ow of white teeth. For the dogs “There’s the card," Bell exclaimed. , were no fiction, the' lived and bred . _ ., . ‘ . “Made up to 2‘5th' June, since when i in the fifteen 01' tweiity acres of copâ€" lcy at Lhasa “p in F1.” pips?” “31311 the house has been void. Just alpice round the house, where they ito, a“s“ss“3a.te e‘ em 0:112“ Ldma' In iminutc whilst I read the meter. 35%, l were fed regularly and regularly 11‘49’ thfg fibetuns ,huwng nmsislsicred that’s right. According tothis the thrashed without mercy if they show- The Chmes‘e at I‘m-fist" the thin?“ lcard in your hand, provided that the fed in the garden. Perhaps they look“â€" 11"111901‘01‘ . Chauhmg sent. pulmt’we ;light has not been used Since the ill-313d more home and truculent than lm‘my and removed the Chmcse- as“ idex was taken. should read at 1521. ‘ they really Were, being Cuban blood-Welldahcyi and the immense 01‘ i the |What do you make of the card?” ihounzls, but they gave a weird c0101 vt‘hinese Ambons was enotmously in- l “1532,” David cried. “Which: to the place and lent it new terror creased. They kept the appointment :means eleven units since the meter l to the simple «folk around, lof.a Regent -in their own hands and i ‘ _ . _ |,was last taken. 01', if you like to5 The bell was swinging dolcfully were the real driving power of state. lmstopi jhe two Sideâ€"Shuttels m_ tlfellhlt it “0111 3'0111‘ Point of View, elevâ€"l over the stable-turret; it rang out its Col. Wa-d‘dell continues: lbay‘wmdows are Closed’ and them 15811 “hits 11501 the night that l Cnmeiimssing note till the clock struck “Henceforth the Dalai Chinese Killed All Previous Ones .at the Age of 18. x Col. Waddell, a well known ex- pert in Tibetan matters, describes how since 1749 it has been the polâ€" l CH AFTER V111.â€"-â€"( Continued) . Lama _ al- "It does indeed David said, . . grimly. "It is Wilkie Collins gone‘iéftfém‘fjnggig cufijgntggngollgr of hele- 3011 MC_ (111118 llght. ABellgeight and then mercnully ceased. At ways died young. He never attained mad, Gaboriau in extremis, Du Roisâ€"@110 Walls is eéacuv the san'w The You have practically convinced methe same moment. pl-emSCW as She Ehis, majority. No sooner had a Dalai gobey suffering from delirium tremâ€"' 1“ ‘ ‘ ‘~ ‘ " that I h‘ntVO been 1118140 the real 219 , had done any time the last seven I'L‘eacihed ,the age ‘of 18 than he died faint discoloration, by the fireplace is ' ' H for the first time t""‘]"‘."- And bletivears the lady of the housedescend- a. perfect facsmnlc. . _ . . :in a. mysterious manner, thus neces- th-e more one probes the mystery the ed the broad, black o-ak staircase to ens. I go to Gates’s house here, isitating the accession of a newborn and am solemnly told in the midst/- ‘; A . ‘ ‘ . . . v , ~ v.1 ; _ ‘ . ‘ ' . _ - . of the surroundings that I. can swear halide“ a“: is {ibis 9.01;;0‘31011 52:19 “17013 astounding does 1‘2 hecor’he- : the ball. A butler 0f the Old‘fiwh‘ Iinfant ‘ and prolonging the l‘legent's ~‘ to that l have never been there beâ€"I dude“: 0 w n g ’ ' ’ l“ (:10 31:” {31013059 to dIO (11103“; t, ioned type bowed to her and annoucâ€" Item-n of Office_ '80 a Regent was £11- l fore; the whole mad expedition is , “I - ‘ . -_. ., I. ' . . ; “11 0” ‘10 113th 0‘ 'v 10 as ed that dinner was ready. He might‘ . -. - . f v, p v n i 1 ‘lmpossrble! ’ Steel Clled- ' rlhe ltenant or owner." 3011 suggesmi ', have been the butler of an archbishop ’“ ayb m Change 0 L m 10 erme t '.‘ and he has worked in collusion with gthe. Chinese Ambans to limit the life of the l‘valai Lamas. Of the last la'lncmd ) ' h> ‘uriinv' f ti‘ 1' ndloj . . . ~L ] .19 t (1L .1 a 0 lenl‘l .. lblmd may be m acoldent, so might or a telephone 1n the house of a (115â€". . - -. ., B t n - . - - - -. Ithe fading of the distemper. u tingurshed, trusted, if prosaic, citi-{th‘l furniture the enmfivinrg the fit_ zen. Somebody gets hold of the ‘ ’ ' u 0 ‘ 3 ’ synopsis of a story of mine, Ileavens knows l10wâ€"«â€"” “Discover “hat the “"0 houses were; from his mien and doportmcnt, yet used 101‘ "Vllen‘they were occupied by; his evening dress was seedy and shiny one person. Also ascertain why em to the 1.1% degree hig patent leather v. . . . . . . . .- - ‘ ‘ ". ' ’ v ‘. ' "L t. 1» " n _earth the onners are willing to let of boots had. long lost their lustre, his liglilolafiéfilthiififf'$110 dled at 11 a d [house this size and in this situation: "1 v. - [-19 ] flu v . W l L . ' v ' ‘ ‘1' 1“ en “as w 11) y '15 0d ‘md yello “ “ff-he present Dalai has been ltings generally E “Are all capable of an explanation, , . . . . . ‘ v ' -'v . with aâ€"‘ . . -. . l . . .- er- ‘That Is fairly. easv. ’l‘he sxr‘iiopSLSt‘T‘iuch ,lve Shall arm 8 at - p “01 a sum “he L30 D91 mmum- L9H Two footmen 1n livery stood 1n thel , _ , .. p was short I suppose?“ ~ 9 Llence' . “S g0 and take the keys baCk‘ ‘50 the i hall. They mirrht have been supers ignited to become an. exceptmn to ’ ‘ ‘ ' “Can we arrive at the number over agents.” ‘ ‘5 .iliis rule. As this was a blow ‘playing on the boards of airavelling "Only a few lines, say 1,000 words} theatre, their once smartly cut .a Sheet of paper My writind is, iagainst the intolerable tyranny of . . D Steel was nothing lo-th to find himâ€" __ _ ' {Ch-inn, the National party which has self in the. fresh air again. Some‘ the door with patience?” “Exactly what/I. was coming to. and :«mnm.mâ€"«s'.â€":¢z~;.a.arm:u:x.~..vnee. '.-. w - . «1" ilil‘Epeslllllllgllbpmllt evzsilotgggdlg:;gzmzI none-Edam old pair rof steps in we [progress had been made like thel’tt;]::;nied coats hung iazfledly upon imisen in Tibet, and to Whom Chink office em. e101) 6’ mm,de .131,ny u1,gent_,_li-acl(. Slttlng-I‘OOIII: ll ould you mind opening of a chessâ€"inatch between ' ' ' (To be Continued ) gesc interference has become too oner- There were the proofs Of a Sliortlplacwg then-1 ,agalnSt the fan‘hght for masters, and yet, the 1110113 Steel ' ious and distasteful, is credited Wlt‘hfl Story in'the buff envelope.” 'me? . . _ , .thought of it the ,more muddled and lhaving saved the present Dalai from . I David complied readlly enough. bewildered did he become. No comâ€" ”â€"+‘-‘““ - ithe fate of his predecessors. Certain- “Which reached its destination in due course?” ' ‘ “So I hear this. morning. But how= on earthâ€"â€"” “Easily enough. _The whole thing‘ gets slipped into a larger 'open enâ€" velope, the kind of big-mouth affair that enterprising firms send out ei1'-' culars and patterns 'with‘. This falls into the hands of tne woman who is at the bottom of this and everyl other case, and she reads the synoâ€".‘ psis from sheer curiosity. The case- fits her case, and there you are. Mind you, I don’t say that this is how the‘ thing actually happened, but how it might have done so. When did you post the letter?” 1 “I. can’t give you the date. Sayl ten days.” “And there would be no hurry for! a reply,” Bell said, thoughtfully, “And you had no cause for worry on that head. Nor need the woman; who found it. have kept. the envelope! beyond the dclaylof a single post“ which is only a matter of an hour orl so in London. If you go a little. farther we find that money is no obv; ' ject, hence the £1000 offer and thei careful, and doubtless expensive, inâ€"t quiry into your position. , Steel, I: am going to enjoy this case”, 1 “You’re. welcome to all the fun; you can get out of it,” David said,{ ' grimly. “So far as I am concernâ€"l .ed, I fail to see the'humor. Isn’t this the office you are after?” Bell nodded and disappeared, pre- sently to return with two exceedingly rusty keys tied together with a. :lrab piece of tape. He. jin-gled them on his long, slender forefinger with an air of positive enjoyment. ' =tion doesn’t come He was growing credulous and inter- ested in spite of himself. instigation he placed the steps before the fanligh't and mounted them. Over his head were the figures 218 in elonâ€" gated shapc and formed in white por-' celain. . “Now then,” Bell said, slowly. “Take this pocket-knife, .apply the blade to the right-hand lower half of the bottom of the 8â€"to half the small 0, in factâ€"and I shall be ext tremer surprised if the quarter sec- away from the glass of the fanlight, leaving rest of the figure intact. Very genâ€" tly, please. I want you to convince yourself that the piece comes away, because it is broken, and not beâ€"‘ lcause the pressure has cracked it. Now then.” The point of the knife was hardly under the edge of the porcelain be- fore the segment of the lower circle dropped into Steel’s hand. He could feel the edges of the cement sticking to his fingers. ‘ As yet the full force of the discovery was not apparent to him. ‘ ' l“Go out into the road and. look at the fanlight,” Bell directed. David complied eagerly. 'A sharp cry of surprise escaped him as he looked up. The change was apparâ€" ent. Instead ofthe ligures 818 he Could read ,now the change to 219â€" a. fairly indifferent 9, but one that would have passed muster without criticism by ninety-nine people out of a hundred. With a strong light beâ€" hind the figures the clumsy 9 would never have been noticed at all. The very simplicity and ingeniousness of At Bell’s I the ' plicated tangle in the way of a plot end of a string; a man dazed with wine in a labyrinth. 'And if ever I :help a woman againâ€"” l He paused as he caught sight of *window of No. 219. _we1‘e tinged with melancholy; {was a look of deepest sympathy Her features l 1 ions eyes. ; bowed, and the rest of his speech Was 3lost in a sigh. CHAPTER X. ‘ A bell tolled mournfully with a slow, swinging cadence like a, passing. 3 bell. ‘compared the doleful to 3fthe boom that from the cell to the scaffold. Enight all the year ivallcy of J..ongdcan echoed to that imournful clung. Perhaps it. was for Lthis reason that a Echristcned the place as the *the Silent Sorrow. ‘ ‘- For seven years this had been goâ€" !ing on no“, until nobody but. stran- }gers noticed it. Ton till eight o’clock that hideous bell 'rang its ‘gWhy it was nobody could possibly itcll. Nobody in the village had ever lbeen beyond the great rusty gates ileading to a dark drive of Scotch firs thiou-gh one small boy bolder than the frost had once climbed the lichenâ€" clan ging House of had ever been anything like the skein: Items this was. “I’m like a child in your hands,” he said. '.‘I’m a, blind man on the. Mann-dry lmakes it compulsory for all 1 . girls ‘ ' Y '{. Ruth Gates’s lovely face through theiWhlle at “011 therc' . .ment for beatinrr a postman who was and = h -* ' [feeling and compassion in her glo-râ€"i'five mmutog Slic' slipped backns Steel : ‘ On winter nights folks, passâ€"' 1ing the House of the Silent Sorrow,. carries the criminal Every": round the little wandering poet , From halfâ€"imst sevâ€"' swinging, melancholy note.- ODDS AND ENDS. ‘ Interest From Many Countries. the proposed regulations is of new Paris one which auntdry gloves, Among to wear indiaru'bber of Innsbruck, was months’ imprisonâ€" Oscar Schlitz, sentenced to six late in delivering letter from his fiance. One of the most curious of all the t1. 1preventin medicines in Chinaois that :.soup made from a black cat. which 11's drunk ‘to prevent. burns from hot metals. by lt-lacksmiths in Canton The village council of I-Iirsingen ‘(Alsatial has the following advertisement:-â€"”Wantcrl. a good man for winding-«m the steeple clock. No salary at, the beginning: later on double.” I _ Accordinrr to ‘a decision given by the C'ountv Court. judge at Newark, a boy's life is twice as valuable as a. .rrirl's from the legal standpoint. and the drama-res in the action were. asâ€" set-sod startlingly. -/\.n Italian orrran grinder named Antonio ~‘flora. char:de at. Birmingâ€" ham. T’nq]:mkl. with using obscene: ,lzmn-uan‘e. Tu‘oved that the supposed “obscene language” he uttered was innlv his own name. and lie was disâ€"x 'lhartrcd. A schooner, laden with sugar. grou'n'lr‘d off the coast. of New Jer- “f‘fv‘. 9W1 the carn‘o was thrown overâ€" tly he and his Government have now 'escaped from the Chinese, leading gstrings. . 3 “When the present Dalai, who was lborn in 1876, reached thetragic age iof 18, which is regarded as the limit ,of a Dalai’s life, the young National ip‘arty by stratagem obtained the 7'soals of office from the Regent, whom 1'they imprison-ed «in a mo-dastidry, iwhere shortly afterward he died. The anlai' Lama assumed sovereign pow- Eer and deprived the Chinese Ann-bans lof any say in the government. The :lailte'r p‘fllcfials procured am indigâ€" .nant Chinese edict from Pekin, or- V;deririg that. the Regent be reinstated land the seals returned. Meanwhile {the Regent died, or was murdered, 3and a new senior Amban came to :Lhasa and was bribed heavily to let imat‘ters remain as they were. {1e suppressed the edict, while at the some time leading the Pekin Govern- ,ment to believe that it has been coma gplicd with. . i “Afterward the opportunist young lLama, profiting by China’s loss of iprestige through her defeats by Ja- ipan, and afterward 'by the allied Earmies in 1000, openly refused to be guided by the Chinese, and these have now to confess how powerless they fare in Tibet and how contemptuousâ€" ély the Tibetans regm'd their au- thority, which is now an empty :farce. As recently as 1902, the Chiâ€" nese Viceroy of the western province of Szechuan, which adjoins Tibet. had to ask Pe‘kin to send an army to Lhasa to make Chinese power re- .. ...â€"_.- .. ~.:.wu-M'â€".o-. .â€"....a.... the scheme was its safeguard. lspec-ted.” u T N H ' u . . E . .'- ' . .‘ » . . . to â€"â€"~~-â€"â€"vâ€"â€"â€"- ' something rare in the wav of a bird’s i of the man who “101mm that out’ ' ltmc‘ _u.nd,mâ€"gm“ t,.1.boÂ¥0im' 379"” he - nrroc: Immusn sun‘ur. dons rot ‘19}; ' PROJECTS FOR EGYPT' nest. “:0 will‘go back {0 Bl‘tlnswiclegynrcl said, drily. ' :had .ietuincd, ultn u bite. {are and H1- fifty . . t . . . h . ' __ ' ' yes, I fancy that you are dcahng staring eyes, \\ 1th the 1nlormat10n~W l 0" NS- zTo spend $107,000,000 and Re. Square exactly the same way as you! thei 45.....- ‘ .. ._ . . , l with quite clever people,” Bell reâ€"ithal great Wild dotâ€"135 dwelt in arm's"? Jand't‘ 3 19a"}‘“‘.' 0f Walhnfl‘ l deem 2 650 000 Acres. appléathc‘h 1L. 9,11 the lllght 01 the g plied. “And. no“. I have shown youzthickets; Subsequently the Village 3 stn'rlt. Germany. who Was sentenced . . ’ ‘ ’. ‘ _ great whentuw' lhow utterly you have been deceivedipoacher confirmed this information.il‘erenily to two voars’ imprisonment i The British Forelgn Office has 15" t Esued a. blue book containing an ex- :over the number we will go a little nHe was not exactly.loquacious on the ‘ for ill-t"eatin(m~t. of school‘boys. used I I .haustive report by Sir William Gar- CH'AI’TER IX. ' Harmer. F01. the present, the waylsubject, but merely hinted that the to burn their hands by means- of a . . . “Au-3' particular object in that ; in which the furniture trick was {grounds 0" Longdeflh Grunge were}luu‘h'lh'T-‘Vlufis thn hP Wflhl‘cd l'hcm sun upon Ithe basm 0f the upper Nil“: 0L :in which a. gigantic programme I {public work in Egypt is recommendâ€" led. It is now well known how for I .worked must remanl a mystery. But -110t SfllllhllUllS'fol natuldllsts With a: to confess n misvdomo. initherc has been furniture here. or this ! Dl‘C‘EdfltOl'Y (llsllc'sit‘ifm‘ : A parakeet in the 700logical Garâ€" Indeed. on moonlight nights thosemmg. T'mm'mL HRS and mow, ecurse?” David asked. “There ought to be an object everything that even an irrationallroom and the hall would not have _ _ than man says or does,” Bell replied. “Illicen so carefully swept and garnishâ€"' allomffllhfllwhounds were heard to bay; (am-y Vim“ wiluhmpf ldgrlinlqinn rm,“ lscores of miles sud'd, 01‘ r1ver Wood. have achieved some marvellous reâ€"ged whilst the rest of the house reâ€" ,ahd \VlllmDOl'. A Shepherd up latezmmm pmmmwhm namaq “W, fm. .marshes block the Upper Nile. Sir William Garstin estimates that the sults by following up a single senâ€" ! mains in so‘dirty a condition. If my 0110. Spring night averred that he liadlvom.S without mph-m, water mm q tence uttered by a patient. BesideS, Eeyes don't deceive me I can see two seen two of them lighting. But 1'10-:‘,,m.mm].,r 01.,“ 'Of cbwq nm‘r cost of cutting a proper channel on the evening in 'question you were'fresh nails driven into the archan hOdV COUld say anything; about them: » . j ‘ - ' ' H . . V“ 'would be £33 500 000 ' _ I _ . ‘~_ . . . , . , 1709810. in France. and noted for ‘ ' ’ ' partlcularly told to approach the leading to the back hall. On those f0! Celtam- “150 11' “'85 equallv 661-. . . - . . . In.- worl' 'is lil’el to have to be V ,,, . . - _ ' . . the l‘lf‘hn‘f‘S-S of their milk. take it. 1“ ‘ ‘ y house from the sea front. nails hung the curtain that preventâ€" tam that nobody khOW {mythlhgl ‘xt, 1r _ H] _ , repeated every few years, therefore} “Somebody might have been on ed you seeing more than was necesâ€" nbout the DCODIQ at Longdeah Granger 1:61:19} mi; ,1 , , ,h . ' lhe suggests cutting a, new wide course the look-out near the Western Road sary. Are you still incredulous asiThe Place had been Shut UP for th'lr- ‘mnels “m m] mm 5 Ops m "’ n' for tie White Nile from Boz to Tan; 'nila are by stringent: law constrained to display scrupulously white coats, clean hands, the best soap, and ster- ilized instruments. From time to time the police make a round of the to the house where you had your re. l ty years, being understood to be in markablc adventure?” Chancery, when the announcement “I confess that my faith has been went forth that a distant relative ofseriously Shaken,“ David admitted, the family had arranged to live there! “But about the furniture ‘3 And in future. ' about my telephone call from Mr.| What the lady of the Grange was town, and arrest. all ramorâ€"weilders Gates's town house? And about my like nobody could say. She. had arâ€"l who are not. complying with the bye- adventure taking place in the I ' next house to the one taken by him very rived late one night accompanied by law. at Brighton ‘3 And about. Miss Gates' h‘dd neVel‘ been entrance," Steel suggested. "Possibly. I have another theory. I I l i iiikia, a distance of over 200 miles, Here we are. The figures over thell l i l l l l l i the probable cost of which would be £5,500,000. By this means the 80 per cent. of water from Lakes Vic-' toria and Albert, now lost in the swamps betWeen Lado and Fashoeda,’ would be preserved. The scheme in- cludes dams for the regulation of the overflow from Victoria and Albert. I Sir William also sketches great: projects for the regulation of the Blue Nile at a point several hundred ‘ miles above Khartoum. He proposes to dam the river Gash, which is janlights run from 187 upwards, getâ€" ting gradually to 219 as you breast the slope. At one o’clock in the morning every house would be in darkness. Did you find that to SO73! “Ididn't notice a light anywhere till I reached 219.” “Good again. And you could onlyi find 219 by the light ‘over the door.‘ Naturally you were not interested in be a. niece, and from that. moment she Another attempt. has been made . beyond th‘? house- by the inhabitants of Zug, Switzer- =agitation_ when she learnt. my Montiâ€"[None 0f the 1211'8'9 Sta” 0f Sewahts land, 'to indum: ty ‘2 Do you call them coinci-ICVC‘I' 10“ the grounds “"1053 it was permit Sunday dancing at the counâ€" dences?" to ‘ . and the“ ‘Ehey try tea-gardens and village inns. The ‘NO. I don’t.” 13011 511m. Dl'OmlnLY- we“) under-“00d 10‘1"" all night (lraiid Council. to whom the matter the authorities to quit altogetl'zcr. to the. houses had been occupied as onelI did come here~innnediately upon residench The two entrance-halls my entering the dining-room the were back to back, so to speak, and place' was brilliantly illuminated. with an exceedingly benevolent face and mild, large, blue eyesâ€"a man full! to The. of Christian kindness and given in the food or drink they buy take it to the municipal laboratory and The estimated at. $321,400,000“ the, ' way, is Fifteen years is suggested as time .for completion. and would not have noticed any :‘They are merely evidences of clever with a large bonus in money as a rcâ€" was I.(,fe,.-,.ed‘. has. however, Stc'mly ‘ . . other number. Well, here IS 218, folks taking advantage of an excel- compense for their promise to evacuâ€" rm.”er to alter 11w .aw ' ~ now dry half the year, and in this where I propose to enter, and for lent strategic position. I said just‘atc Sussex without delay. Every '07,” 0, {he Wonders of thP Bank of way irrigate the plains around 1(aS-1 which purpose I have the keys. lnow that it was an impel-taut point thing was ordered by telephone l'roullT.-n,.l,m,d' is a' “Leighinfl. ’ln,lcmnc n - v _ ‘ ' ( . ' I .l. , Come along. . that Mr. lates had merely taken the Brighton ’dhd 10’” ill the I’OYLOF'SI . - - . . - '- . . . . . n l , . . . . . ,, . . , which 1s m delicately aduxsted that _ , \ Davul followed wonderingly. lhe next door furnished. But we shall lodgfi “10 [)01‘101' WUS *1 Stl'a-llg‘»‘l-lit ("m rivl thfi. r1(-cu;.mf,'“.oi,m f entire Sou'dan and secure to Egypt houses in Brunswick Square are come to that side of the theory in also he \vasrdcaf and exceedingly ill- I' f "15 {Li ‘_ 1 ' l-i‘ '_ .03., constant and sufficient water supply somewhat irregular in point of arch- -due course. Have you any other tempered. SO Lh'dl‘h’llh’ Since the Vil’ “ silo“ 0 (:15 'f am :81“ “sot was” for the whole area between the cat: itecturc. and Nos. 218 and 119 gobjection to urge?" lage had abandoned the hope of getâ€" “ll-V ,amoun' 0 “19 a up 0 ~ “acts and the Meritermneam The were the only matched pair there-i (“One more, and Ihave finished for ting anything out of "him. One ra- Pound-S. A postageâ€"stamp on the total cost of the scheme, including abouts. Signs were not wanting, as .th’e present. When I came, here the tional human being they saw from Scale ‘f’lll Swmfl.‘ an m'dlcaloh 011 LEE raising of the Assouan dam and Bell pointed out, that at. one timelothcr nightâ€"provided of course that tthrang‘e occasionally. a big man a 59ml'('“‘(‘le a Space 0f 5L“ mahos- .Om 19th... the Su-ud1nâ€"Bei-bei- Rail- ! Parisinns who suspect. adult‘eration L p g L ' ' what had obviously been a doorway llow, directly the place was Void the leading from one to the other hadisupply of electric current. would he been plastered up within compara-icut off at. the meter. So far as I ;can judge, some two or must; have been consumed during the tively recent memory. The grim and dusty desolation of largesse to the village boys. big gentleman went by the name of “Mr. Charles,” and was understood three units to have a lot of pigeons of which he I Walt; c:~*cccdingly fond. BUl’ “'ho to fine. and ill‘lIYl'lSOlllllOlli). but have. it analyxed free of cost. (-itv undertakes the prosecution '(if need be) of the offender, who, if thn case. bc'provcn, is liable not. only Irrigation works would then bring 2,650,000 more acres into cultivation' in Egypt and the Soudan, giving the sala. The whole scheme will reclaim the l former an additional revenue of £1,- a" an empty house seemed to be plenicnted here by a deeper desola’ tion. Not that there was any dust Now, those unites must show on the the \“lFCSl head "’7 the “Mag? t0 ten-i on the ground -floor. which seemed a, meter. 'Can you read an electric: And yet. but for the mighty clamor; singular thing seeing that‘elscwhcrc meter?” 'iof that hideout; 1,011 and that belt of supâ€" : . . , . I .~ . . , risxt. rlhere could not be many less. “Mr. Charles ’ was 01‘ ho“ he 'than ten lightsburning for an hour. I l - _ . 11 1 V V Ill-Milth'o exossure in his shop window .got that name. 11 “on ( iavc [31151.0( {a notice VOf “vonvimjon of mmflmrm I 1igleorhooo and the latter £500,000 0 iycar. . â€"â€"â€"â€"+ â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" on. - a .4â€" i n-E’s so CLEVER. ‘ ID “My dear easier." “Then basement the boards were powdered with it,, and festoons of brown cobwebs hung everywhere. liell smiled approvingâ€" 15'. as David Steel pointed the fact; out to him. "Do you nort- point?" the former asked. “No,” David said, thoughtfully; let us and nett lo the 7 fellow, there is nothing; go down into thei matter. Ithe drive would have been There is pretty sure to be a. card on .With it: unotlior singular the meter made up to the clayuwhenl the last tenant went out. “I‘.511pply is cut 00' now.’ See, the ting masses of . {over the. Grange were not allowed to wilderness that (lean Grangc was house. Any visitor emerging For the lawns were and truly kept, flowers, l surrounded it, Long- a cheerfulâ€"looking! , All the fromiTlerlin are regularly supplied delighted 2 fresh flowers from trim l'dons. while twice a week each of the the beds were bla7.â€"' the creepers hospitals and nlmsbouses‘ in with the public na'tion-al schools receives from 100 1'0 150 specimens of four different kinds of plants for use at. botany lessons. gar-i -“Yes," answered young Mrs. HOSPH‘AL FLOWERSu , "Does your husband take as, much linterest in horse racing as he used : to?" Tor- “Charley can always tell the a race which horse ought after why he i kins. gday bez‘Ore to win and the day didn’t.”