a a : nd. My all possibility aba oe no'. owithout- etine 4 OR, A BROTH ER'S PROSISE a> : ig ie " CHAPTER XV: enough to satisfy me. But I had reckoned without the devils that Happy is the reer et a maT] achieve h Lettie folded hands on paunch; f comes the qu carly, fortifying him for the run to the big scene just before the curtain falls ! Thether such notions as these ever drifted lazily through the brain Hector Grant {* =satter of little mio- nent, They might well have cone s0; yet it is more than likely that they did not, for in lifo the times of greetest str ress begin without blare of trumpets or roll of drums and the chief actor, though he can not but take his cue, pice next to nothing of how his pa is tu expand, or with what sup: ome consummation it 'Thus, when Don Micuel asked - nan interview, Heeter did not foreide i] that what the eld) general had tea Hay was the first e of the last | auet in the drama--the drama that began so like a fragment from Frer- | iv in the Palace in Bloomsbury yon rainy night in August; did not fore sem that this last oct would set the whole world agog with a nine days' wonder, and bring sorrow to be sis- ter of Maddalena for ever, on Migucl stood henvy and bow- ed with the weight of his years, Tlis inild eyes were Inck-lustre, and Jow them were swort pofls of weari- ness. Wiis hands drvoped nerveless, and about his whole figure hung an air of depression that wos subtly rervading. 'The sight -of him = thus altered touched Tfector's heart: he rose, and with his free hand--the wounded limb was still in a sling-- the old man's with jmpul- sive sympathy. AES simple act recenciliation 'mn tears in the voice when Don Misuel spoke. "Senor Grant, you forgive me, then ?° uy yes. if my forgiveness is necded. . Mer Majesty forgave you. That cleared all accounts, and jve = of the Hispaniolan prisoners quar- tered at Frigancto, has ac Circumstances show that they went together. hove made all possible inquirics, for while she is at liberty 1 fear for your safety, senor--I fear for the Queen's. God ! That I should have e acknowledge such on flend as my daughter ! tI mesa senor--O ! how_T fear! how I chived his er had better report this to Don Augustin He will see to it that her Mafesty' 8, safcty is not on- dangered."" And innocently enough, the last act was. opened. | Whatever else he was, Major ments and opinions. ily, ancient lineage, and incorrigible arrogance, he held llispaniola to 'the only great country in the world curiously like the nBlish- is altitude towards the era- Einpire-mokers), 9 and her every decd, if not. perhaps worthy of pectic perpetintion, at leust inevit- able and justifiable. Her trentment f Aruba and her tigerish lust for blood as especialiy personified in Stampa, he applauded with both hands; and he added to her blazoned infamy deeds that paraileled the darkest of the pig d branch of his An Aruba had been served, so should Palmetto. On this point he seorned to keep silence, and even when by Palimetto"s clemency a fav-. ered prisoner, he tossed thea hend and curled = the Hip ut the newest seckers after libcriy White Maddalena' $ troops were in- vesting Pulm City clorely, and ng- gressive operations Were for the somewhat siackened, Don Miguel frequently visited his heme Frigancta on his mission of suasion, these occasions di ria, a prisoner but a guest lighted in sparing bis already tor- tured hort na whit of humiliation; he poured out streains of futile corrosive prophecy, foretelling ecria tongue failure direct and cala- ut J must efer vou all the apo- | und anake all the reparation | You inust let me, too, such justification for my con- ducth ous is possible. Was GF wae fo uttempt to tngke any excuse 1 her Majesty; bet you will satan | --you, who know comething af my als wghter, Ilector wos keen to avoid any dis- cussion of Asunta; but the old man! Sonics was all the more insistent because, while his dignity was in arms against disclesing the slur on his | honor, his justice stimulat- ed him to make cumplete avewal of al the rad business. The resolve | i nade, he could not be swarecd, "Senor Crant, onte T thought wos blessed in iny daughter, now wave been cursed in her, love must be grievously arounded ere he can suv such a hari thing ws that. When T remember all the tender care that surrotnded her, and tla watehiulness wit Which she wis pitarded from every oir al | heaven, T cxnnet convewe how. from | no woman of genth heart and Werk | soul, she should have changed into | an devil liut a devil she now is. 1] wan her father, and | - it. "Ss she pln ed | o disgracing | has come down sullied for three hundred years. that pates before the insult she oof- fered, amd made ome offer, to the sb mer "Pt know the despicable light Hdeaete Das ist have appeared ta the iy Meccsenpicrgiie : tut dou and all I I in regi Tfector made Z ccature of deprecia- dt is as sathing to the Joathing J} ofiaver bo MN Nar, tho Don Miguel, wou mitist ret ailew yourself to be so carried muds We see that sou were the sictiot ef clreumstances, You too the worl oof a daughter vou loved, and--witt: 'gue inatural precipita- Tien--Aprone o the conclusion that Hist pinus Hale ' were speahinggy As her Majesty cu osheuld have gone to her i cma that fault, bevond =a von hase net beer iat i stoke hands forget tat this enor It is iméb the old take the thorns, fiuct beckoning al yr them out, 'totic speak no more of Mivnel: let us nat keep the sore douth- Pon A ie 1 : As records the aspersions IT cast Iwill not oeother word ; to find them Leightened rful gei- --surely, --but 'have him to nitous retribution. Jt stands to | Don Miguel's honor that his courtesy stood the strain, and that when he" had a thousand opportunities for | Ppoinoneus retort, he forehore to {utter one word that might prick the Hispaniolan's susceptibilities. He listened to snee gibe, calumny and contempt. with unruffled polite- ness, although in his heart he cursed jthe ounwelvome guest deeply ond blockiv Asunta listened, too--anrl took heart. When she found herself to all . in- tents a prisoner ot: Friganetn, er drocpet, her infernal levil courage hope dimmed, Pye -thig mans ONLeMmptuausk: cFucl, so Yenomous- i vindictive, such a therough hater surely, she should ho able to make him her helper. If she could not succeed in fashioning him a weapon of destruction to Palmetto she luughed : she could do it, she wes not Asunta for nothing. and she do it. rue, she loved Hispaniola and the ipantatens lit- tle; but now she loved etto even less--and in revenge here & is no countrs, no rece; and reveuge, re- venge. vevenge, Was the only thing for which she lived, the oniy thing or which she desired to live. Once, and once only, o glint of | sanity pierced the thick clouds that | overshadowed her reason, and she saw that all her humiliation and all her shame were of her own creation --she sow that even if she took Tlec- htor from Maddalena she could ~ "Why not ? 'You go back on tr , guide 'her, make- erie the slave of will, Pas go amas by her of he ee ' pee persuade her- that the thine he de . rer The | co al done was for t Neraie tte the rH ae revenge, and' it was already' ipartiens try "You acknowledge that it was re- a pat ny a whi ramones S755 og Rube.** ai oe, praise. © The art "You would do it again 2" practised by all the 5 States eee hesitation. conduc with o skill "Ah! well-- you may core with |#h with an application -of scientific me. Have you brought the pis-|™ethods to practical tols " ar bound to securo complete success. "They are he - Governments of the « a food! ' Ah ee own--better and ter.' bet climate inore t the. presence of "Tn half ney hour, then----' large forested districts. F "The horse break the force of inclement winds, "I go to the 'atnbles now. and their infuence on the humidity "Nery weil. When you are ready, I shall be ready." Without no word she left him, glid- ing along the dark corrider and down the stair like o shadow, mak- ing a sound, scarcely breathing, She passed into the dining-room, On a couch lay 'stout man in the of the atmosphere and soil is too well fnown to oall for remark, In Ger- many the State docs not permit the private owner of woodlands to do as he likes with his own... While i mitting hin. « ctrtain amount of [fegetom ia planting and deforesting, iL cxerci#es a wWhoiceome control, Palmetto uniform, snoring stertor- |). | hi sre usly. lis face was purple and the © prevent him from doi any- veins of his temples were swollen thing whieh will injure the district. and obtrusive. llis glazed cyes He is Pprectieally an occupier, His bulged hulf-open, Woods are of ee ne not for him and his teeth ol Fs alone, morcly the present time. but for the watife community, and for all time. Owing to the com- Dieta deforesting of Inrge tracts ast in the line was the inhospitable by some 'swift prompting to make certain that he was really be- yond awnkening, Asunta kicked the inert hand with the point of her | winds, ond thie dune sands which were Parisian shoc. It swung in the air | kept back by the forests lave now at the impact, and os fell back |so far encronched that they cover the to the floor as if lene Asunta | sites of ones populous and flourishing niled, ond passed through the great open window into the grounds on her way to the stables. At the end of the prearranged hali- our Asuntn was riding through the villares, ard are threatening to choke |& up the estuurirs of numerous ciroams. ITS WHRALTH OF FOREST. ing the entire aren of Germany, night with di Borja. Almost at |it is probably the most densely wood- the moment of their setting out |ed country in Europe. Over 25 per cent. of the arca of the empire is covered with forest; the northern districts tear the sen are less densely wooded, but the central and southern from Frigancta, ®e of Mr. Thomas Smith's etuamers wes completing the discharge .of on and stores "1? Never 1' ly 53,- -vaptste Depsansine 000 to' 19038, first path, "You s; One is tempted to ask what is be- your vent gtaenae regret having Whatever jing done in the Bri . Com- remove r nae may be, | plaints are numerous ut remote The cool half-cynical tone of "di}' that | country districts becoming rapidly de- ei acted on her excited ne of ly é ig to the scarcity of n = -- gh iu apr ie _prosent.|remunerative work, But there are tion of quict and a 6 abroad | millions of acres of w showed that ho was her_master. ast Janis." in ° The|the United Kingdom that are cap- Wi jable of being afforested. rs Shes oste of ermany an employed in planting men would be them with troes, and in Eeoriing the country with a Magnificent asset for the future. OZAR'S BASTERN HIGHWAY * oonian wane s- ers. The British public"ljas had its fill of the Siberian Railway os seen travellers the piping times of peace. Yet this vast enterprise that drained the money-bags of Russia is to-day the chlef interest, not only of the people of tho Czar, but of all who follow the p ss of the ed atrugglo in the far cast, writes correspondent of the London Ex. It is tho artery of the war. Ifthe accident of nature or the schemes of the Japanese should fasten «a ligature i it, the Russian cauny jn the far h.. staness upon this line are almost, beyond comprehension. In Siberia it stretches for 3,500 miles; in churia for 1,444 more. In other words, a traveller from sh Arthur to the frontier of Europe Kussia passes over na distance creates than from Southampton to Rio Janciro, and almost four times longer from London to Gibraltar. In many parts . ed track has ange td Iaid. In one spot it is brok- by an inland ea. There ore dan- fers by foods, by raiding brigends, by snowdrifts, and last but not least, by the military advance of the Jap- anese, Will it hold, out against these risks? That is the guestion time alone can tell us. LINE GUANDED, February 5 I sighted Dalny ina Ruesian steamer, 1t had been stated that the harbor was already mined, fr. Themas Smith himself was help- Provinees contain forests equal to ing frem a luunch a nervous, shak- $5 per cent. of their area. The to-' ing, Very perturbed little wonmnjtal extent of the German forests with stranglely resolute cyes--Judith | works out to nearly 25,090,000 acres, Frere, * Say It would extend this ates to un- | (To be Continued.) were ae tempt anything like a servey work of the various German woods and forests departinents. Dut It us ts ake the kingdom of Prussia, Over | 25 per cent. of the entire surface of | the country is covered with wood, of The best war--to war against one's | *hich, rovrily speaking, the half is | weakness. in the possession of the The best theology pure und ben- municipal and communal bodies. cfvent Hfe. considerah le bers addition to The t_modicin heerful and re care and culture | The best -- laughter of an ccesitated' the "employment ai innocent child. eta of stilled fore The BESTS. The beet law--the golden rule, The best education--self knowledge. The best philosophy--a contented inind. of i Sa multitude of nakilled labored. In science--oxtracting sun- Preesia the principal posts in the) shine from a cloudy day. The best teleaverty sane a ray | Woods and sts Department vod of sunshine into ao omy heart. filled by thirty-four upper wee | The best blography---the life that | "masters," _ 94 clerks ond 757 | writes charity in the largest er tere: upper forest Every one of these | The best engincering--building a men fis a kita forester, a graduate | bridge of faith over the river of jof one of the forest eae at | death, yerswalde ant! at Mur These | The best gavigation--sterring civar | needamion are model eetirations of of the lacerating rocks of personal 'their kind, and are equipped with a who teach every | subject necessary for the complete | 8 \education of an Peegesrorquckahs wood- ninn, Not only do the students quire the arts of forestry, but ere inetreeted ox well in agr iculture and horticulture, in chemistry. imin- | eralogy, botany. zoology. and the ha bits of forest animals, in the vontention,. | stall of professors 'The best mathematics--that which | doubles the most joys and divid the most sorrows. PICK A PUG-NOSED PUSS. A good cat--the kind you want in the house. if any--will have a round, stubby ymig-nose, full, fat cheeks o berself, aud if she took Maddalena she hod still lesa chance of bringing Hector to her feet. il, she achieved revenge, the price would | he life. That wes too much, she thought : ond tho next second the clint was gone, secthing fogs of passion swept up and wrapped her round again, ber only Jainp in the darkness e red light of revenge. Hector or Aaddaleny or th--the death, the death ! None con a so blind or so casily blinded os a duenna. Our Dritish maidens, with 'half the wiliness ane half the wilful blood of the Sout erner, can foo) the skilfullest, British chuperon. "Asunta, mest of purposes for goud, sual difficulty in hoodwinking | Dona Concepcion, Thus it came to pass that Asunta and di Borja lack- ed no opportunity for meeting. He found no fault with the chonce that gave him a handsome young woman for companion : time hung heavy on his hands, and an Vispaniolan de- lights in the payment of subtle somewhat wholesule homage to mantilla. From trifling with come pliments and drawing-room oiriness- but little by little they reached a com mon plane of ugly confidence, that, had Don Miguel so much as suspect- ed it, would have meont a silk [aja about Asuntu's neck, or n navaja in stood in the dark before |. 'at which she had waited such oo litth while before--wnaited with tamoitdous hopes and passions blood. There Was in ber demeanor now; eresity, by her cnparaiteled dey, And then he added Aides that touch of charming exagger ich 86 common in the boatteener. 'What return can FT make to you My life--what is left of it-- is already the Queen's. If IF had it) prucl, onfidence and friendship until the werk here is done, and at dor that o memory of me not un- gracions, Now, let us talk of other | things." "Tut one thing mo senor. You bave not inquired what alispesjtions I have made regarding rp ote You ought to know. Le tell. you. 1 took her back to a oat laced pt under the charge off iny brother's widow, Dona Conee cion. Again gst aguin I strove with her, to mak bmission to ajesty, but I found her hard in and evil spirit,. I.was com- at last to signify a will to. "ect rte she l'alm ; sue ends shout ome o erged / was or her injuring the he agremt to this, | et or you. - 3S readily ! | her breast rose and fell with the re lrularity of calm breathing and her Hand. as she raised it to tap on the 'door, wos steady .as sicel. nly 'in' the flush of- Aner peal and the glitter of her cyes did the turmoil of {emotion make itself visible, and that answer to her -um- Borja swung wide the door ia with sac poinful caution. "Enter, senorita !" "Netter is for to-night. The guard is well plied with wine, and Captain Cassavellino----"' "Ah! T hear his here snore--in the dining-room, is it not ?* "Yes. He will not peat till day- brenk-- "In heaven,' "Tt was a ison you gave me 7"* "Dear Judy, we cannot allow trifles to interfere. One ho make sure aoe little sleeping-draught was made a prescription my reveren , Siva Alexander found useful in Tal #° 'ou have made me do murder ! "Tush ! one can see 7o8 axe lily- "Hiveret= _some- thing big--in which I am art of venery, in meterplogy. surveying, and in the rudiments of elvil and criminal law. A graduate of a Gerinan forest academy if on . and occupies o high social po The best [am- lag in the country send their sons o Eberswalde and Menden. und an upper Hp, und a well-develp- s top of the hend, be- good sh eepy rand deol is good-natured. Invans to he avoided is a cat thin, sharp nose and twitching ears. It must be remembered, also, that a good mouser is not necessarily a THOUSANDS EMPLOYED. 'ntle or desirable pet, Although ch nny good cat will cateh mice if she Tt is difficult to form an exa timate of the extent to which labor is met overted quick, full, expres- . mr Ve ene is employed in the state forests, iu ar. tT Se ee the latest budget of ie Prussian The greatest mistoke, and most common one, in | Forest Department allords In addition to.the higher officials al- domestic cuts is over- 'ularly with too much pony mentioned, provision is, made meat, In wild life the cat has ex-|for 119 assistunt foresters, who are ercises which cnable her to digest |candidates for higher posts, and for her food. In the lazy house-life the | 8,887 district foresters. These dis- trict foresters are not necersarily academy graduates, but they are all skilled men and are recruited from the ranks of the better re pegreniia non- saine full feeding leads to stomach troubles and to fits. ------ WITH MANY TARTANS and hae ee dott Dai 7 , Baikal I had come in contact but this T ean esearcely belivve, for We passengers were not sent below; no boat came out to geet or warn uf, and oa in or crew, = OROSSTNG LAKE BAIKAL RUSSIA'S GREAT INLAND SEA IN WAR TIME. P The Soldiers Suffered Intensely From the Cold While Mak- ing the Journey. Lake Baikal, the frozen that cuts the great Siberian line in two, is indeed o remarkable dy of water, says the - London Express. In length it would stretch from Iondon to yet its breadth only ros twenty to fifty-three miles. stood to the town of Raikal, on he other side, was a lit- tle over forty miles; but it in this distunce, over the frozen floor of which stores men have to be transported to the front, that will more ty than tho ontire Ural Mountains to k has not yet been pleted around the end of; the Jake, As an engincer explained to me sou ern which route for bedded in mountains. elifa rise from the surface of water to a, height of 1,500 Through these number of laboriously cut, but friend's opinion it will he long be- ore this strip of..rails will be open- During tho sumer two great steamers cross the lake with the trains on board but in the winter the ice is far too thick for the Ratkal or her consort, which 1 sow firmly ANCHORED IN THE ICE. There was a grent rush for sledges which awaited us, vith some difficulty I secured a place in one, and with all the wraps I poses- sed nbout me started on my Once out on the lake, came n blast that secmed to furs aa if they von so much per. ver so intensely froin 'colt in my 'ie before; indecd, for five minutes I was almost insen- siblo. was at my back, and the long lines of troops renee in their sledges met it face to face was a * curious spectacle, this endless advance of the Russian roy the And yet the crucl gale staked out by he graph posts placed about two un- dred vards apart. 8 we sWung along at a good cight miles an hour, our driver crooning to the horses an odd chant, the advancing slcighs seemed to mount into hundreds and even thousands. In those carrying troops, six men pus a man as Mr. G. J. Solo | dovnikof, who, a ene few A was the ric are sito.the aaa he.could have spent half a million a year in living like a ive and yct have odded to his rich "But Mr. Solodovnikoff had not made his money by spending it, and when he had it he meaot to keep it. 2 ap two-storey cottage quarter of Moscow, and conducted his gigantic concerns from the very heart of a slum, his greatest pleasure being to watch his stnall staff of girls ee ling his coupons, and to ast his riches while sitting on a staiee couch clothed in a tattered dressing- gown. The stories of his miserly ha- bits were for rears the talk ik Mos- cow, and yet when the old m at t to heave his money via he felt omcthhes like $45,000,000 for oxen and educational Pare Onne: a few months ago Mr. Geor T. Cline dicd in Chicago at_the aay of eighty-three leaving amore than $5,000,000 to 'be divided AMONG WIS RELATIVES. Although Mr. Cline had not least hall the income of the entire Diritish Ca- binct, he lived for years--in fact, to the dn of his dvath--in a single room devoid of all comfort. So pen urious was he that for days together he would go without food in order to economize the $3 a month he allowed himeelf for tbis purpose, and = when a got tne mastery hoe to a neighboring sieee cok grit and spend 10 cents ne his own tea with ad by no means on unhappy life, for he lived with and for his beloved vio- lins, cight of which, including an Amati worth $1,500, he Kept under his apology for a bed; and often all night long the strains of his fiddle could be heard. were crowded into a sleigh built, for three How they were ablw to on- dure thet terrible weather passed my | duee that terrible weather passed my understanding. They wore their Tho harbor is unfortilied save for _tha hypothetical mines. The own jis a melancholy place, newly -- built jin an arid, tireless desert, over which the bitter winds blew viciously be neath = erucl winter sky. red =the I new armored Gate and w away went Lite 15 iniles hour over the ad plains of Mpachurin; Sentries over ninety millions on her Manchurian system, There are plen- ty of rich officials, however, who gre to sudden wealth while superintending its construction. Before we came to Mukden the line pasex] through a oie ke ing hollow in the find. The place wes evidently conrilered dicnd threatened. for on iron bridge w i course of con- truction to our right, The spring thawn will give great trouble -- here woek be completed in time, un unless the (aati I new think is extromely a Tiere were some curious people on the train. Before we reached Lake with Poles, Lithunians, men irom th Baltic and Black Sea, Caticasians, Germans and Circassians. KNeor Harbin I heard of the = out- break of war, arl great was the dis- cussion that arose, The man who Bat next to me Was a Polish student, who had been exiled to Siberia for havi Socialistic books in his pos BeHSIO ad been summoncid o join a " giment at Irkutsk, and spoke very bitterly on the subject. They have broken up my family," he said, "for both my brothers are in prison, and now they have asked nie to fight for them. We Poles do not Sociolism fs springing up atnong us. We know what we have lost and what we have suffered. the first chance I wean to desert the Japanes MANCHURITAN FRONTIER After leaving Marbin we moved en through om vast and melancholy wil- grentcoats, it is true, but other Wraps were few among them. Sometimes I met an-empty sleigh with its soldier passengers tramping niong by its side striving to warm their frozen limhs. Blue with col and utterly miserable th and when a ane with whom I travolled assured m the bu eve : ON THE OUTSIDE TRA moved the provision and = store sleighs, the majority with five horses apicee, dragging slowly forward in long lines saw several sledges with rails 'sticking out bebind them, but at that time (Feb. 15) there was no sign of any railway track being Inid cerosa the ach n feat ice. has been accomplished, it must have been et a later date than was an- nounced in the Tussian press. The surface of the ice wos very ir- regular and Uneven. ap races 'thet were foot wide crevasses ond fissures while here and there the ice had ris- en into humtmocks, which nesrly jar- red me out fmy sleigh. Despite the wind, there was arownd us curious driving wist that hid the distances, After two and a half hours we sighted the rent rest-house, of wood and felt and brick, that is built vearly in the middle of | the to ake. <A very palace it seemed us barn travellers. two plates of soup and soine Steam- ing nts could J find my legs ond fewt ajyain, fet the poor soldiers passed it by, making no break their journey from shore to shore. It was with lingering regret that T hospitable ond about six hours af J-arrived atthe little town where my jeurney wis to recommence: More troop trains and ever met ue as we passed westward, derness--a treeless waste that stretch- MACS fficers nf the a n Many Seotch cluns have several Te ote Br bette | lab- tartans, such as o common tartan, constantly employed in the ao hunting tartan, and a full-dress ot fall far short tartan. Early in the dey a High- Se aot geass op woodmen lander of position dona a kilt of |O! % simple, drawn from -- the pluin tartan, and in the evening for * u rt rt he puts on his full-dress tar- relected for their honos f cine: gobriely 0 and sound health. If the agea a ark "Dar example. 2 tage) Baemeneee not very high, they nave dress tartan is black and white, ccatiae work, and ¢ the helplessness with a narrow red line, and the {of their old uge is mitigated by a hunting Mucpherson is a small blue | pension s and black and red check, 'he | The state forests also give cmploy- Stuarts have three tartans, and the}ment to a large number of person design of their hunting tartan in|in a variety of indirect ways. Among n davk blue und green is particulerly |the numerous interesting {tems fine. Fach clan has ites own badge. | last + year Budget, TI notice a suin The men wear holly, the Gor-| of £530,000 expended en the cutting dons an ivy-lcaf, the Stuarts an oak | and transport of wood, and paid to leaf, on ' persons not in the employment "S call | = state, each oF soon eer BACK TO THE DUTCH. yers, fellers of trees, carters, an the like. There is an sgh of $120,000 A lending citizen of the cily of jy. buildings and the repair of buikd- Toledo is exhibiting a most peculiar condition of things. He is an old man of ninety ond was born in Am- sterdam, but went to America when ke was a child, and through disuse' soon forgot his native tongue. Since ingt, another of $80,000 for the «m- provement of roads and bridges, and another of £250,000 for forest nur- In addition there are numer- gece oments to turf- gers, 'which he apw re as when he first left Holland. --_--_----_4----. HONEYMOON CATts. The Kursk-Zarkoff MWailroad; of Russia, advertises a special car for the newly married, and fur- dd nished with the latest comfort. The decorations are in the best Parisian style, and polite female attendants look after the comfort of the happy | Mr ou--and you boggle Pg sush n tiny thing aa. 2 he fat captain of mele. If asa couple ef roomy saloons, 8 Officers told tler--a range which may play NO cclve small part if the Jayaness succerd, | es ; | foe it is believed that, should they le AS VETERANS SITOULD. {preve victorious, they will hold she | For the first time T noticed ean- pasocs against the Russians, fnon, cach train having two trucks With the mountains Dehind us. YC containing one gun apiece fastened rolled: over high tabl@jands. As we jadvanced, the trogp trains grew more numerous, and before we erriv- ed at Lake Baikal there were two in} almest every siding that we passed, | me thit the nien who were hastening up were Siberian re- eruits in eurly stages of straining. |Meny of them were not in' uniform, some were noisy and abusive; others stered out of the windows with melancholy aspect of men who Inot fa ney the work before them One nag ree load were = reescnably cheerful, singing a chorus which harped eon sentence which, being translated, ran, "ON to Manchuria to-day DANGER FROM F LOons. In several 'parts near the ice-bound rivers the line might. in niy opinion, | be easily washed away by the spring freshets ufter the snow inelts.. Such 5 : Graig : inf vd, have hap : Scaler nore of English which he |@s componsation for cajuey done by scent eigiar n aye a a es =a habitually spo 8 noth- |game; even the lawyers Have tele pen again, 'The truth is that several : share. MILLIONS IN ANNUAL PROFITS. of Fag rivers vary their courses from year, unless enormously lenge bridges are built. there is al- ays of the river, or a por tion of it, tearing up the permanent way 100 yards from where- the bridge is Sanding: At resent, while the frost lasts, the chief danger to Russia's com- munication will lie in Psd enowdrifts, which twice 'blocked way until ~*~ were dug out by rellet parties. We had no lack of provisions, The couple. None but Bod ina on Sarnkioh are allowed to the|station bufiets were well eubpiied od F gnificent car. The partitions are the sants; ss Was not unti removable, -and~ -iowlety nace tastier Me t and a week had fol- as a serics of small compartments ar | lowed the a Baretion of war. that the s shortage began te be felt. y to the horizon. We met few | sa eer were no longer yotng troops until after we had risen -- the [ pertits,-hut--the-resers ettiunte to mountains on the Manchurian -- fron- | iaabonged iach, who behaved thkem- a 'hidden in snowdri ter my second duy the soldiers that chan, in ibehind it | In the whole course of my jour pain 'Y saw no horses being hurried j ward, though | ubderstood ide were several thousand exy chat wet- I War prices were beginning to felt at the buffets where we = fh 'for our incals, The peusants long ceased to licing: in fresh the cost necessaries Uread 'Gouuled, gar and cofiee trebled. At the same 'time T neticed in sidings the ordin- tary trains of age rec fying half over 1 Feaporatie on the train who leanie pal the east of Nuikal « were talking very gravely about the situ- ution. The native tribes grind their own corn, but the Teurepens in the owns send their grain to Maescow, \irew which if returns os four If th flour trains are stopped | prices will soun be rising famine high in eastern Siberia, Peculation oid the bribery of officials will give the civilinns supplies taken from the war sLores ut can well understand why Hussia has sent her convicte tn- to the army. She wants no mouths to --_+----_ As a rule, the more a man chips in the more he has to shell out. "James," said hi stern papa, who was himescl{ sulering from ficulitics, 'Loam extowns displeased with you. Do you know, sir. candidato for a whipping?" neighbors M. Blanc was thought to Not until ofter - One day last August a man named Kerki was found dead in his bed, clasping a slufied monkey closely in his arms. To his neighbors he had always been known os on Very poor man, and, in fact, for years he hod been in receipt of outdoor relief. When the » monkey, which had been the miser's only compunion und his bedfellow, tas examined it was found to be stuffed with bank-notes ond se curitics worth LOUS AMOUNT. » a beggar, for every morning he eallied forth from his attic, dressed literally in rags fwd looking a piti- return' onl nt nightfall. held no intertourcss with any of them, and himself attend: -- ed to his own wants, At last' for rome days he failed to make an-op- when the door of his he was found dead in bed. not a particle of food in the room, which contained only a few poor sticks of furniture, but in his pillow and mattrees were found sscuritic worth nearly 30,000,000 francs, anc hidden under the floor. were ha'f-a millionaire-recluse ; Milmen, who lived for many yeald iF a tiny, dilapidated cottage on the outskirts of Brooklyn, N. Y., with an old woman to look after his "VERY MODEST WANTS. Mr. Milman lee inherited a fortune of £6,000,000 from his father, but as, in his opinlod: tho money had net becn honestly gained, he refused a body and soul together, and this sum he fixed at $5 a9 week. He made it. the business of his life Lo. seek out cases of Da Ha need, of New Y Whenever he discovered deserv- je objects of his charity-- and they were plentiful--he would cither send a substantial sum of money onony- -mously,--or leave it at their homer and walk rapidly away as if he hac dons a disereditable act. In -- this way Mr. Milman gave awoy untole sums to others, while leading himsell a sordid existence on $5 a week. ' ----4- -- -- BUTTONS OUT OF FRUIT SEEDS. In Central America there is a fruit producing palin which has quite met: mnorphosed the button pyrene and forme: the nuclous the mort important imlustrics., The aced vol this fruit contains o milk that is sweet to the taste and is relished 7 the natives. The milk, when lowe! to remain callod tha ivory plant. buttons used merica, called ivory, pearl, bone, rubber come from this source. ivery rlant 4s one of the wonders of the age. aud is rewarding -- its growers with vast fortures. The nuts are exported by the shipload to big factories, from whieh they issue in every conceivable design, color, grede, and classifiention of hutton, A * --_--_+-_--_---- WHAT BIG GUNS cosrT. Frem a recently published British Blue' Boor we Icarn that the expen- diture invelved in t struc- tion of ao 12in, wire gun omountsa to £9,040, in the case of a 9. in wire » £5,200, and "i that of a 6 in, wire gun to £1,000, while a, uick-firing 4.7i9. gun costs £501, | and a Gin, sloge howitzer of DO cwt- £572. Tha costs of tho sutomatic- sights: gear a ou buy tho Pre? amed m> respectivéy £00, | I'll be defeated, cing im was the " stant reply. And he w car ans CYR.