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When he is fairly at rare inter- vals goaded into speech, he utters paradoxes, and suggests views so startling that the wife of the Lord- Lieutenant is scandalized, and thinks the lunacy laws are defective if they cannot include and incarâ€" cerate him. She feels sure that the .. ‘ :v_-M_'I..e.hi-u...1-..’â€"‘Qflwfi- ,r-msects-wrfifla‘fiflim’. 53149.. ' 1.2." '_» ~ ' .2: 5'11. .'(""J-‘:ITE'=.." Earns the tongue. 50 cents n. bottle; 96.00 the dozen. Sold by all drug U ":22! . DISTEMPER CATARRBAL mm AND ALI. NOS; ' AND THROAT flQ‘ASES EY Cures the sick and acts as a preventative for others. Liquid given on Safe for brood mares and all others. Best kidney remedy ;. [fists and harness most absent-minded and unpleasant houses. Distributorsâ€"ELL"WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS. , person she has ever kmywn. and ‘ermimnmcru. co Circuit .60 h ' d u s A. I. wonders how he has got his reputa- " u u' s “M. n ' ' iron as a wit. He is so seated that I “."â€"'â€"“‘ . e cannot even see Xenia Sabaroff, An'vm“ “‘w’f “"“l “WW-“m ' ‘ * 01'; A and he chafes and frets throughout , ‘ -, .Etfdmaplgf "a; . _, 4' the dinner, from the bisque soup to _ .- 'ii'mbdfia‘?“ L “ - v the caviare biscuit, and thinks what “‘11” 53°!“ 333993!“ €£.?Mo.&na Gillian BY EtEPHANTS m if he could locate where the ele- phants were, and particularly where, the longest tusker was, when suddenly in the dead silence, ADVENTURE IN THE JUNGLES we heard right in front of us some 01“ WEST INDIA. distance ahead A TERRIFIC NOISEâ€"â€" the head that is at fault, alwflys the :figlnigfingemhfliffll',0 Say Slamâ€" rumor about the Hindoo women at A Hunter’s First Experience in trees coming. down, and the CWSh nnderstrapprI‘S. May I 1nqu1re g - W . u “ay‘ St. Hubert’s Lea is entirely true. I). . ' - i Of th'em'commg closer'aind Closer. since when it has become the fasliâ€" She does not immediately reply; After dinner he is free to ap- ‘mgemus Blg (“mm My fnend 0' dlvgd Into 3’ bam' km to Bet sunflowers with their [She looks on the ground, and ab- preach the, lady of his thoughts, but Shooting. boo clump 130.1113, fight from? I b934ng down‘zla'r‘: 2” .f t, t igtgeotgfiaccihgaggig‘:($153k; he endeavors in vain to tell from 'lsiifiublighy «grill: great): iiilhldlsd i: “ v r00 8 ' ' ' - , ‘r‘ , ' ) - - ‘ s . “ante 0 see 1 18 been the delaisse of Lord Gervase? her face what answer h-e Wlll reâ€" Wmle the “rlter 5 Shlp was (19' diameter, where I tried to make would turn after the sun,” says the Babe, and regards his explanation its triumphant. - “And they only die! How per- verse of them! Ion would become a, second Newton, if your destiny were not already cast, to dazzle the world by a blending of Beau Brum- They do not phrase'it so roughly, but that is what they say.” Blanford’s very lips are white, but his voice does not falter for one moment as he answers, “They will not say it in my hearing.” I “And, knowing that they say it, ceive, what time and meditation may have done or undone for him. She avoids the interrogation of his eyes, and is surrounded by other men asusual. The evening seems to him intoler- ably long and intolerably tedious. It is, however, for others very gay. tained for duty off the west coast of India he and his friend, indifferâ€" ently armed, set out for the Nilgiri Hills, where they were told sambur were plentiful, wr-tes a Corresponâ€" dent of the London Spectator. They spent a night at the foot of: the hills and at daylight next morn- ing were aroused by the owner of myself as small as possible, when I saw the head and shoulders of a huge elephant making straight for me and directly over. the bamboo-s where C. was lying. I threw up my rifle and fired as near as I could Judge low down at the centre of his aforehead by the. juncture of his . mel and Sir Joseph Paxton.” 1d till ff on T1 .6 - - '9, _ ' _ The Babe'looks a little cross; haggling 3:011 s 1 0 er me y r inlgelm iii, the house, who was very eXcitedltrunk‘ My domg.s° brought the does not hke to be laughed at be‘ “I do 50.” following on an act of comic Opera. and said that during the night one 1 beam-“p 3"” Stimdlfly Its ears went lout like a bat s w1n'gs and I shot fore his princess. He has got his .- opportunity, but it vexes him; he has an impression that his companâ€" ions will seen drift into forgetting beth him and his garden. Since the approach of Blanford, the latter has said nothing. The children’s gardens are in a rather wild and distant part of thel grounds of Surrenden. It is noon; most people staying in the house are still in their own rooms; it is solitary, sunny, still; a thrush is singing in a jessamine thicket, there is no other sound except that of a gardener’s brciom sweeping on the other side of the laurel hedge. The Babe feels that it is now or never forhis coup de maitre. He .plucks a rose, the best one he has, and offers it to Madame Sa- baroff, who accepts it gratefully, though it is considerably earwig- eaten, and puts it in her corsage. The eyestof Blanford follow it wistfully. The Babe‘r‘glances at them alter-- ,,5nately from under his hair, then 'his small features assume an ex- pression of;:cherubic innocence and unconsciousness. The most ruse , little rogue; in the whole kingdom, Fhe k; vs‘hbw to make himself look like? perfect reproduction of Sir Joshua, Reynolds’ Artlessness or In- ‘ He gazes up in Xenia Saâ€" baroff’s face with angelic simplicity admirably assumed. ,"‘When you marry him,” says the , pointing to Blanford, with i'admira-bly affected naivete, “You will let me hold your train, won’tl you? I always hold up my friends’ 0 ai'nsc when they marry. I have a ’ge’vs dress, Louis something _ er, and a sword, and a velvet I .with a badge and a feather; I. 7 ays look very well.” - “Oh, what an odious petit-maitre you will Be when you are a man, my : dear Babe l” says Xenia Sabaroff. : She does not take any notice of his opening words, but a flush .ofl color comes over her face and passes as quickly as it came.- i me, won’tyou’.l 7 him till the autumn, or even' the winter, because the velvet makes me so hot when the day is hot, and the dress wouldn’t look nice made in thin things.” - ': 2 “Could I only add my prayer to ' his,” murmurs Bla‘nford, “and hope that in‘ the a11t11mnâ€"â€"-” , ‘ Xenia. Sabaroff looks at him with astrange gaze; it is penetrating, dreamy, wistful, inquiring. ‘ “We jest as the" child jests.” she says, abrupt-1v, and walks onward} “I do not jest,” says Blanford. | Thediabe glances at thern-under his thick eyelashes, and, being a fine mouche, only innocentin appearâ€" ance, he runhs off after a butterfly. . He has“ not been brought up 'in a feminine atmosphere of poudre de‘l V riz and lait d’iris without learning- discretion. . ‘ CHAPThR XIII. . “The” Babe is a better courtier than-1 gardener,” says Xenia .Sabar- ' in it. . p _. '~B1antord looks at her With ini- passioncd eyes: he has grown very “And you would ask me nothing save what I choose to tell you '2” The sunny air seems to turn round with him for an instant: his brain grows dizzy; his heart contracts with a sickening pain; but in the next moment a great wave of strong and perfect faith in the woman he cares for lifts his soul up on it, as a sea-wave lifts a drowning man to land. , . “Do you know,” she says, at last, after a silence which seemed to him endless, “do you know that there with the end of her long walking- stick. “You shall tell me nothing save what you choose,” he says, clearly and very tenderly. “I have perfect faith in you. Had I less than that, I would not ask you to be my wife.” She looks at him with astonishâ€" ment and with wondering admira- tion. “Yet you know so little of me l” she murmurs, in amaze. he kisses her hand with great rev/- erence. ' The tears which she had thought less than he does, he would be more driven from her eyes forever, rise confident. in them now. “You are very noble,’ she re- plies, and leaves her hand for an instant within his. The Babe, who has been watching from behind a tuft of laurel, can control his impatience no longer, but comes out of the ambush and runs towards them, regardless of how undesired he may be. “Dodo says that women never marry anybody they love,” he says, breathlessly; “but that is not true, ) r is it and you will let me carry your train 2” “Hush, my dear,” says Xenia Saâ€" baroff, laying her hand on the child’s shoulder, while there is a sound in her voice which subdues to Silence even the audacious spirit of the Babe. “Give me time to think,” she says, in a low tone to Blanford; ward thc~house.1 - . » The child walks silently and shyly beside, her, his happy vanity trou- bled for once by the sense that he has made"'s‘oi’ne mistake. and.’that there are some few things still in the universe which. he does not quite entirely understand. “You are not angry l” he asks her, at last, with a vague terror in his gay impudent little soul. “Angry with you Q” says Xenia Sabaroff. “My dear child, no. I am perhaps angry with myself,â€" myself of many years ago.” . The Babe is silent; he does not venture to ask anytmore, andhe has a humiliating feeling that he is not fi-rst'in. the thoughts of Madame S:ibaroff,"â€"â€"nay, that. though his rose is in her gown and her hand upon his shoulder, she has almost, very nearly almost, forgotten him. Blanford does not attempt to fol- low her. Her great charm for him consists-in the power she possess~ es ofcompelling him to contr‘ol‘his : that he has done a. rash,"perhaps an utterly unwise, thing in putting his futurcinto the hands of a woman dread, he realizes that it is possible, ‘ lher intelligence; he possesser her “I love you,” says Blanford; then friendship; but whether he has the 'bed he sees the white dawn over the given with admirable spirit by Lady, Dawlisli, Mrs. Curzon, and some of the younger men. Every one is amused, but the hours seem very slow to him: Gervase scarcely leaves her side at all, and Blanford with all his chivalrous refusal and unchanging resolution to allow no shadow of doubt to steal over him, feels the odious whispers he has heard and the outspoken words of Litroff recur to his memory and weigh on him like the incubus of a nightmare. With a sensation of do what he may, that they may haunt him so all his life. A man may be always master. of his acts, but scarcely always of his thoughts. “But I will never ask her one syl- lable,” he thinks, “and I will mar- ry her to-morrow, if she chooses.” But will she choosel. ‘ He is far from sure. He pleases slightest power' to touch her heart he does not know. If he loved her As the interminable hours wear away, and the noise and absurdiâ€" ties of the cotillion are at their height, she, who never dances any- where, drops her fan, and he is be- fore the others in restoring it to her. As she takes it, she says, in a low voice: “Be in the small lib- rary at eleven teâ€"inorrow.” ' Soon after she leaves the ball- room altogether, and goes to her bedâ€"chamber. Blandford goes to his before the cotillion is over, but he sleeps very little. He longs for the morrow, and yet he dreads it. “Quand meme,” he murmurs, as from his dark mass-es of the Surrenden woods. Tell him what she may, he thinks, he will give her his life, if she will take it. He is madly in love, no doubt; but there is some- alty to her. Before anything , cherishes the honor of his name race, and he is willing, blindfold», to trust her with it. ' ‘1’" That morning it seems to him as if.» the hours would never pass, though they are few until the clocks strike eleven. The house is still. almost eyery one is asleep, for the cotil: lion, successful as only unpremedi- tated things ever are, had lasted till the sun was high and the dew on the grass of the garden was dry. With a thickly-beating heart, nervous and eager as though he were a boy of sixteen seeking his first loveâ€"tryst, he enters the small library far __before the hour, and waits for her there, pacing to and fro the floor. “The room is full of memories of her; here they have talked on rainy days, and have strolled out on to the lawns on fine ones; there is the chair which she likes best, and there the volume she had taken down yesterday; could it be- only .‘-ten *‘days”"-since,'r standing (To be-"c'ontinucdj of the villagers had been killed byl a wild elephant. for the purpose of hauling timber in the surrounding jungle, awoke hearing a noise in his compound, I and presumably thinking that one of his elephants was eating his plantain trees went out to drive the beast into its proper quarters, on- ly to realize his mistake too late to save his life, as the elephant was a wild one, and turned on him and killed him. My informant, who was an old; al shikari, told me that there was herd of elephants in the vicinity and that they had done a ' damage to the crops, and asked me if I would care to have A SHOT AT THEM, Previous to this I had had no re- ally dangerous big game shooting, It appears that the man who was same 'Spot' a keeper of tame elephants usedl again with my left barrel at the . I threw out the empty cartridges, put in two more, tried to close the breech of my rifle and lcould not. I looked round for my second gunâ€"my shikari had disap- peared and there was no one in sight’. , As I turned my head back I was aware of a large cow elephant with 3a young one about four feet high standing right underneath herâ€"â€" both with their heads turned to- war-d me and looking straight at meâ€"some five and a half yards dis- tant. She trumpeted and came to- ward me. I could .not close the lbreech and quite realized I was IN A TIGHT PLACE. I turned and bolted, falling on my- face a few feet array over some wild tapioca across my path and expect- ing that any second might be - my last. During my flight and fall I was and my Companion very little CX' still wondering why I could not perience of any sort of» shooting at all, and moreover I did not feel overconfident with regard to my weapons and ammunition, but I close the breech of the rifle, and only after I ivas down did I realize that my rifle had not got reboundâ€" ing locks, to which I was accustom- realized that it was The chance of 2.. ed, and that before I could close lifetime and concluded that the opportunity was too good to miss. Accordingly I arranged for the best shikari in the village to accomâ€" pany me and for three of the jungâ€" le people to track the animals, and by 8 o’clock we started off. About a mile outside the village, the breech I must recock the ham- mer-s. In less time than it takes to relate I did so and stood up, only to find that all was silence around. My friend C. came out of the bamboos and stated that he had had the narrowest shave of his life, While gOing throng,” Sum“ padCl-H as he was actually waiting to roll fields toward the hills, we came up-I over on one Side or the other when on the tracks of elephants in the the animal came over him, as he soft mud, and for some distance afterward until well into the jungâ€" le we had, no difficulty in following their footmarks, which steadily went up hill; the track was some four feet broad and the walking easy, although very hot, so thatwe made good progress'for some ' miles or so. We began to think that the herd had probably travelled some‘milcs five ' expected it must. The natives came up and stat-ed 1 that they had seen eight elephants, which appeared to have charged right through us. We went forâ€" ward and found a pool of blood twelve and a half yards from my tree, where tne first elephant had been sighted, not two yards from the bambo-os. The second elephant had evidently missed sight of me Since morning and that it was ex- I when I fen, henoe my escape from fis“'that there was , . .3: A HERD OF ELEPHAN‘I‘S feeding in some bamboos about half a mile off. All was * now ex- citement. .We jumped up at once and “looked to our rifles; _I gave my shotgun to my shikari, one bar- rel being loadled with -'ball, the other being choke, with orders to him to keep close behind me and hand it to me if I required it. We went slowry and cautiously for- ward, our luncheon carrier‘s stayâ€" ing behind up a tree for safety. The jungle now became denser and the track difficult to follow, and all up hill. There was dead silence all around-us and we knew not at what moment we“ should come on the herdl. We slowly came to‘the spot where our trackers had seen the elephants but there was no sign of them. They had evidently moved ofi. ,Wc crossed a depres- sion in the ground where there was nothing- but" bamboos, ’ some .""u'p.- ground became steeper again and we took advantage of every open- ing between bamboo clumps, wild . . - . I then with her hand still on the thin nobler and urer than the . 1‘ 1 1'1: 1 th } 1d‘ - ~ “Petitâ€"maitre â€"what is that?” aim _’ .g ' p. ~ cee‘ mg 5’. “n 1 e y at we 5 1°“ . her. The one I shot was icked u - says the Babe” “But vou wi11,1et little' boy’s. shoulder, she turns madnessof love, than theimere v10- see anything of them. when suddenâ€"i three miles Off with two Bullets "fr" And aonat marry awayfrom him and walks slowly to- lent instincts of passion, 1n his loy- 0m. trackers came back to tell 1 its head, and so ended .a, most ex citing day’s. shooting. pz¢___... .â€" PIRACY IN CHINA. River Pirates of Manchuria are Numerous and Bloodthirsty. ' Piracy still flourishes in Man- churia, according to advices from Vladivostok. The Sungari River appears to be infested by desperate bands of “Chunchuses,” whose raids on passing steamers are be- coming a terror to Russian travel- ers. Recently a bloodthirsty horde boarded a Russian steamer, overâ€" powered all resistance from the nav tive Lerew, which was somewhat feeble, and murdered two .Russian male passengers. They were about to put a Russian woman and two children to death, but the Chinese passengers interefered, and the pirâ€" ates contented themselves withi'ob bing them of everything they post sesSed,‘ 'e'fvcn their clothing. "After"- _ ' off, as she Shakes a green aphis out impulses. He walks away by himâ€" here, he had seen her first in the r; } . . ,' . . . . -} , - , - _ » - . . . g It Othels 13mg M31938 0111 PM 1 tlirowm the bodies of the two mur- dhcr lose} her mm“? careless’ but Self through llhefireen Shadows“ dlsmncc With the Chll‘lrc'nl -On1y making our Progress very slow. ‘, dercd nQicn overboard, the Pirates b her voice is not quite under her the boughs, Wishing for no compan- ten days! It sems to him ten years, Gradually we emerged from it, made Off, and it is quite impossiblo command: and has it little trémor ionship save hers. He is fully aware ten centuries. each step taken with caution. , The to hope for any punitive action fronithe Chineseoflicials who are either terrorized by, or in league with, these maurauders. ' ' Wig-w: alarms! "‘.>‘-:-.n , pale. . . ' n of whom he knows no little, and has, â€" __‘ tapioca and trees to proceed. We â€"â€"â€"â€"â€".x.â€"â€"-â€"â€"- , “It 15. “0 JPSt “lath me: 1.10 535’s POMhDS, the right to suspect 30‘ . 9' again came to a slight clearing ' , 2‘ under his breath. I would g’i’vc you much. Yet he does not repent. I 0 6 some few yards in 9X90“, and my my life lf’yuu gellildvtak}? it? I ;He does not‘see her again before "may “a” “an.” on” “M. be“: Bhikari was whispering to one of I H ‘ “I. "m “M. haul g The last wor 3 mac e accent of,d1nner. She does not come-into the than-on Indlulda. . . . 20's.»... the trackers to go ahead and see flrfihflazififl'h. ' . . . ze'cuux. ? ;: l . l, ”' “aftâ€"W'fwfa ,1; A "f“f1“;‘3 Mgr»â€" :3" I