of the OW § rotting wave black-bearded face of his mate make a one for freodom could o ture. and brought back afore you 'd got half the length of the ship." is But = ys It that "at all hazards I must | or me-- oe of the lady PaDvsuslbes uw d as only fades when I -was here said, overjoyed at the discovery Brinkworth had laid, and to assure me that nothing would pass Aline's y tests poison I shall go to ee say. picked. a", which looks very much as | to account }Mrs. Brinkworth's watchfulness and Ho!the detective's foresight--my mind of could not be but in a turmoil of ved ne = last threo ~~ ha' i chink, 0, 1 | impatience and drea moon appeared in the a lurid 'light gn the = showing me tho faces d glided across the cabin. to the/and Kennard. partition-wall nning hand | Zavertal ' seemed tly over tho ling, he stopped |shaking Kennard at a piece of carved fretwork over/jover tho precipi then pocket gently inserted t ur-}one of the holes, to which at the same time he applied his the dispensary shelf, with his~b to us, manipulating the bottles. Kennard only allowed me a peep, f;and then drawing me aside resumed his place at the hole--watching in yj |tently for fully five minutes. At the , an re- mained perfectly still. Listening breathlessly, we heard Zavertal move ng his usual precaution of locking the door behind him. His footsteps died 'away in the direction of the | companion-stairs "He has gone below with tho medi- ministering it. Shoul e try to do so, Mrs. Brinkworth has her in- 5 anne and structions and is quite equal to the asion.' "Aline--Miss Challenor--is not still I asked, for the idca of my sweet girl being! g, The man turned to whisper to his subjected to all this was horrible to me. Oh, dear, no,"' replied Kennard ; "'that would have been trying her privileged too high. She partially 'recovered' before Zavertal's first visit, but sho 8 cleverly managed to look quite ill! ¢He fact t enough for the purpose.' "Does she know that I am on Yes, news of your being picked up furnished an excellent excuse for the faint," sai en- "IT have no doubt 7.2= vertal, having an opportunity ready made for hin, will reverse his intend- ied programmo and devote his devil- hic most certainly nim ns shall follow. Tho villains will never rest un you are as dead am esupposed Ee ' a then, with am |the exceptio "tt would be shes oalevs the; eat to be free (fro all _Bo- d I, thinking of the diss elth> Miranda' Sis quite on tho plied Kebnard, "and kee sense. Thé delirium is already abat- ing, and as soon as possiblo I shall try and frighten him into roundin, 4 of|on his employers. Now that Zaver- d anywhere on the ship without in- ne curring suspicion. After what ed this morning, though, I must not ne s|mase don't be *afreid of your | They a havo two 'cases' Fria Pel hand at on Gripping me a the pand, which was more than I deserved after my mistrust, he slipped out of the cabin, jand I was left alone to my thoughts * | They were brighter far t jhad had for days for though anxioty After a mid-day meal, which was i brain enjoyed a respite of complete he 'oblivion, but after a while I began was about my height rand build. But !to dream, and a vision of strange h is Zaver-|scenery and fantastic shapes formed before my sightless oyes. Gradually, ont Pr the blackness, ey thi unlocked, opened, and relocked reach- | there grew the outline of ~.gigam ed us, and at the same moment Ken- precipice running posed dow n Wo" eye. m, to| After a long gaze, apparently into the thickness of the partitién, he t on hi aperture to the surgery, ! nc- beni being concealed fro y - my in by a gens of of a family, from him as friendly in I might have regarded as an apa nent suggestion "tieek : it. Is she worse across the surgery and go out, tak-/w z ing it's aat~ =H for see her, and s along-with me and I'll taka you to. sibility and in ieneeaes of the that -- that"Ahcre "was ri that vi gilance had been eluded (professional cunning was ever an ordeal. Kennard's At aft {nto the ¥ there was no from the. open k-.| state-room pression on his rugged Scotch face. "I roused you too roughly," --he' i said ina kindly tone, "I'm not povegaer vant you bear malice over this r, so I just ookée in do a " turn unbekno to any- him for hig man so that I could "Yes,"' I replied ; 'I have-heard. of "It's just that that brings me," id le! "Greatly agitated I rose to follé : him, though as ine good fellow 3 clearly acting o his own res was beiig played. I could 1 ea Still, tBp avyful Vv sent, and as I passed out cabin with my bye td * big -- case myself for what in That Mcl saw breast a but I was too quick |! fo: jee yale wall outsi w fin- & Bio his " eaeqenaling face, all the agony of knowing that he had pre- vailod broke' from me in the one hissed word--"Murderer." How the Foreign Po ulation Has|" d Tncvonsed. . he don County Council has compiled and published a, repurn f great interest t nitoners, wihic: or elaboration of, the census the London Exp sand porsons of marriageable age 867 males and 372 females are un- married. The inarriage of minors Pr becoming rarer in po agi ae of overy thousand ing of that tondee' « ane. But 100 ed the. Women in every thousand who marry are under twenty-one. tn London has increased enormous- 'It is usual for the doctor his verify a decease, but I can see that | from there is no room for doubt in asc,"' Za vertal replied. 'I leave you, madam, with my decpest sym- ath Then he turned to come away, and mo. His hand went to his strangle. As I To Be Continued.) _ oe LONDON'S MILLIONS. res sdupd seventecn -- ago, says It appears chat out of every thou- The number of foreigners resident DIZZY SPELLS AND BODY WEAKNESS Tell of a Run-down System aud Exhausted Nerves--Strength Jomes With the Use of Dr. Chase'se Nerve Food. To many poople peculiar spells and weakness caitain is as mall as the most thorpagh "I have used four boxes of Dr Chase's Nerve Food, and found them an excellent medicine. I was troubled more or less for nineteen years age -- headaches, which made me as far as accom- plishing a aon "-- concerned. "The Nerve Food 'seemed to build mo up generally, and so made thorough cure of my old trouble. I would not th of being witnene anyone suffering as I did i it @ trial. It succeeded in-my case after a great remedies had failed." 'Té tho thousands of women. who heddac:! this of inestim- heart'| able' Ne it "they will but follow they ceof Mrs. Clancy can of ome and rR ' fteven 5 rae fn Bet Green; now ' 7%. In Stepney, where there re ow 30,176 London there are 4,264 Poles, 1,711 Germans, and 834 noxt, Paddington amd re pes u drapery assistants, and in Woolwich by the arsen A guest '| counter. Hie had fust~ten minutes and 094, and in patecineter 'rom 5ib to 2,282. "The number trians in Stepney has oil from 430 to 3,156. Of foreign tailors in rap anti Au There are in London 1 eon females to every * 000 malos, | Hamipstcad| ¥' ranks first with 159 Yomhlen to ev- ery 100 males. Kensington comes the surplus, for whereag in Shore-| he intelli BROUGHT THE INFORMATION, hurried up to: the hotel in which to pay his bill, reach 'the h bs CHPEas 'ore im As' te every day and 'to find a soft, place festively puts it, he reaso body. You have, m a, _ heatd) that e young lady, Miss Challenor, man win one mighty jerk pitied her | man says they adapt themselves to ' own swept inboerd. Then the Puma 'pob- | u cheniante are more or less frolic- at some, big as they are, and pick out the|}a lot of fun with each other. The fin Night poe on, and then another ay: Still on, ag further and fur- acr | shi with the piceky Puma 5 2 : Z é e R " feedin time, but after tho ~ meal is over |i og tei "| : A wi evidence they mingle with good humor and -- seldom bear grudges. garded also as of less weight than-- doubling on his course, started mal deep, ship and whale fought it out Had it lasted much longer the Puma The cruel cannon was ready him again as he lay hslplesa-on the ed, this time with truer aim. oo? | big fellow, after all his gallant fight, died instantly, and the fight was at n A fixed to the mighty carcass and -tho to hideously belied their real paper re tion. Marria: sod A big rubber ball was given a any emai whee' Gee use. 2 of them recently!by a kindly ff them, and if parties are willing the a ry =| In the had hit but failed to take him in the days long since bygone Prin any one is accidentally pois- yo pv thie roperty. On" aeutted the Puma for the big way. ° was merr' the wor that had befallen his mate. Ni earer & i] smo kin, ng bow boy, and zipping down ato the ois ting = should "oo is - give emieti Parson poy author of "Tn Hijs wh ae ) pe ceremony with duo solemnity WHALE. Then Suddenly his dell little b oyee aight ho observed the groom Pog hing ne Puma. There, got tal money to pay you with " after mome: f an fix _, gas meter so that but clever handling saved' her, and the.poor thing, mad with pain and. madder are pastmasters in the art of Prins ing, an are as restless as the waves of the sea. If there is any | great good in physical culture, mon- "Om, oh oe rushed across a ooks good, sen' ents the f age is all right, but somehow the teration in her position. Until: the of death, if cranky, the wild crea- | mmarried,the place she occupies, in the family lite. is a place of ence upon the will of her parents: grow No doubt the 000 |wren 9 i c! atment they receive has muc the. authority of p og tee nese do with this. It must be somethi leon fied eethit hs to be sure of ample food band, thd 'Russian ie tae us- ' , . "ene person can- pe re 'Ona free ne tart 2. ant Jatsety two such ealinaited 5 lS ving a daily li's with little or no ry and and arent.' 'The exciting c rt) might think "unlimited power pf - okent? ovld become morose and UN- | therefore, is withdrawn and that a lovable, if not insane. Tho animal}ro, wisband substitu Sh not leave him even to visit a nigh boring ig without a "pass" from him time is to against his wifey*but a wife is not Permitted to appear against her hus- eve . "When t AN INTERESTING SIGHT. es do not agree,'"' the code runs, These animals are given a neck|'"'the testimony of an adult out- picce of beef that contains a bone, | Weighs that of a child, and the tes- in consequence there is not a case of a Church, th have finished with the bono it has le. "There is no such thing as the shine of a billiard ball, and to |Ccivil marriage, and divorce, oxcept seo & group of leopards or tigers |in one case, is practically unobtain- toss one of these bones from one to |&blo by a woman. Tho exception is e other in playful spirit is a most |the deprivation of civil rights th niece te! sight. They undoubtedly | banishment of the husband. If the ney ve ak = an amusing pas-| Wife chooses she can follow her hus- miss tho tossed | band into exile, and Russian Lterg- _ time, bone, whlch . quickly passed from | ture is full of pathetic stories of wo- mouth to mouth. other way that | ™men, tenderly nurtured, braving the cats have po caer 'thane is | terrors of t to play what the boys call leap LONG SIBERIAN MARCH. frog. Ono will stand rigidly up-/All children, however, born in exile right and all the others will jump jare regarded as belonging to tho over his back. Sometimes two |lowest class of society. If, on the stand side by side, and at Ringling | other hand, the wife seeks, on the' Brothers' menagerie winter quarters, |pioa of her husband's banishment. in a big oy barn us eas by nd divorce, the Church in this case re- lions and tigers, as as laxes her discipline and grants -- the Were scen to fine 'up sido t <A side for Plea. | Although the statuto -- rest to jump over. Sometimes |nizes adultery and desertion on the recog- ese beasts ave actual wrestling rt of the husband matches. The; Mn aw ih bene we 6 rted legs, and spar with their forépaws|to except by the Woalthy, who can for an opening. When they Clinch it |always make: the tardy wheels is in deadly earnest, apparently, and | move moro swiftly. the weaker animals never lets go un- While divorce is difficult to obtain til he is flattened on the broad of|there are other means resorted to his back, after the style of human/which reach the same destination, wrestlers. Even hyenas, which are |only by a different route. Laws-in about as unprepossessing looking | Russia are made not to be tome, animals as one, could find, run and [put to be evaded, and both the civil jump and dance in company with /and ecclesiastical authorities have each other as if their scrowling faces |Jearbed the art of evasion ate they took hold of it = is only & quosti urposes 'was interesting a parts, of the eit the ae - They had been con- ane e service is enacted with thiscon- amused themselyes by twisting "ana The certificate jumping and turning, but, until the rae contracting -- omitted. In big ruliber-ball came into their lives |gome parts of Little Russia a_rela-~ they never showed anything liko tho | tive, during the wrentay gives: the game spirit of happiness. Instcad of |pride a slap, to prove in case of tearing it to pieces. as one might |need that she has married under he ls su ed as if they instinctively knew its | obtaining a separation from their purpose, and at onco began to share | husbands on the ground of informal- its pleasure. It ovidently filled | {ty are received into society, are al- long-felt want in their monotonous | Jowod to marry and may-éven lives. : . be separated again without loss of PLEASURE FOR BEARS. position. Thefe is, however, a more ungainly creatures, but healthy public spirit. arising, which Bears jin their lumbering way they find strongly in favor ofan adjust- amusement that serves to lighten the of \burdens of captivity. Young bears ----_+-- are as playful as kittens. This is the instinct of all young. Tho big OUR INTIMATE ENEMIES. : mcnt of the present 1 se|Charging at each other, sometim A Sometnin: That Har nae the ---- of a football halt. wt peag ly mm nd stic somewhat center and Sonatas than a broom An intimate _-- is not the same andle wero put into a cage of four |as a "'dearest We often love r) handsome adult bears, and in a very | and respect a bold opponent for th little time age had learned to held | stimulus he gives to our own activi- and found keenest de- | ties, but an intimato enemy, whether hem light in elaahing each other like fenc- |a@ person or a habit, is close to us ticks generally clashed jin the form of an oppression--ay old ers and seldom aot to the head or body, | man of the sea; a nagging, annoy- which looked as if they had some/ing, unshakable burden; somethin specialty of believing in' the inher-} senso ee . . ent honesty of all mankind, tolls 4) events, they handled them smartly, |can hardly bo got rid of. Our inti- and seemed to enjoy the sport. mate enemy rouscs us by no contest; In a hippopotamus den there is a ~! wearics us by the sheer weight of Hi ' () tank of water, as wall as a d im. e knows us as w as platform, so that the big fellow. can | know ourselves, but we do not know wallow™to his heart's content in his ard a for that reason we aro favorit element and then sun himself,| help! Suppose him to be a on the beach. To see him turn his | ha bit "it is quite certain that wa t| heavy body over on his bagk and jdon't understand that habit, but it t slide down from his dry perch 'into |is ually certain that it under he water is a funny sight, and not |stands us. It insidiously assorts it- e feet first, and thc. vriggles |momont of our indecision; suggests ha' Want it. Hea heavily as if the difficult position, |to us that We ~ . ven few seconds. he lasts before "he |knows we do not want it, but it turns Over, was rare goom fu makes us think we do,- because it al- Ringling Brothers have a hippotpotas |' 'on the: psyclibldgical mus that has a habit of standing on | moment. on way to" riti its head in the water and kicking its | of it is to brush it aside for'R mo- heels above the surface, a good deal | mentand then ask ourselves what wo like tho boys in a swimming pool. really do want. When we realizo PASTIMES OF MONKEYS. that wo want something else moro han we want that habit, Mr. Habit Monkeys have a ropertoire of pas-| fades away like a ghost at dawn. times to while away their days in Or suppose our intimate enemy to be captivity - as changeable as a con- a person. He {is not the right com-. tinuous show. They aro wonders in panion for us; he does not bring out developing Bey and means for ent the best that is in us; but, well, *ho~ we keys, because of their tireless ©X~ | 2 44 and strength of'perfect anima Somchow or other this does not fol- low. Their arms do not get bigger nor do their legs, and the 7 va epunpend of exercise docsn't seem to make an} difference to their lungs. They an ost as sensitive as a flower, and wither in draughts.as easily. . But p they take « cheerful view of life, and cut up all kinds - of tricks from morning until night. Their lives they try to make onc 'round of pleasure, as if they appreciated its shortness, Birds from tropical countries seem over the animosities. of their birthplace and mix up in royal fash- ead of jen, Ins pining away because cannot at , they agree- ly spend time ping, jump- g and rapt 3 A stout string w | | |