_cd thought OR, A BROTHER'S PROSISB CHAPTER XVI. Even ot that Into sencon of the year--it was December, though not x ena beyond a few days--th ge: at Caldera was rich in color and profuso in greenery. And the weather was'so fair and warm, there were sucn balmy byeaths from the sea and soft airs from the hills, such sweot mornings of sunshine aad such mellow afternoons, thatthe little the opom aftet the tedious years of mephitic Rivomsbury (where as 'oO says, '"'there is more 'bury' than 'bloom' "'); she loved to rugged outline of on tch the tides of tinted gor' to drink in the mere sense of reedom that lives in a wide pros- t, and to feel the cool, pure breath of her own land, Near the foot of the parden was an arbour of Glorie de Dijon roses, and thore Maddalena passed most) of her waking hours, the fairest r of her plensaunce. At a tiny t me she transacted much State busine with Don gustin; sengers wounded, or of City; ve n rendy ear to this arty petitioner who believed that e Queen could set all reste ad right; or waned documents ifying to Don A, that her Majesty "Beniee' to do such and such, to Senor DB. that her Majesty commanded him to do es he had been bid on pain of her displeasure, To every one that saw thus thron- among the roses the samc came--that the Queen was very beautiful; that she was young, siege of Palm ' Not that she did not smile on her people, for she wes happy in seeing them; but over the smile flitted a shadow of sorrow indefinable that made the smile strangely sweeter, ond in her voico was a subtle tone that found ond aunade the hearer wonder if i was,in such wike the angels sang wh Paradise , was lost 1" soid they, "'she will be no longer sad when the Hispaniolan is driven out of Palmetto--she will sing and dancé with the best of us then Onl y that whatever food hap came to the Isle of Palms this silver thread of sorrow would string Maddalena's jewels for ever. change in ber did not escape observant in, radiant with delight. To Bravo the return of Thomas Smith seemed an augury that the happy end was nenr. Maddalena rose with outstretched hands, "Mr. Smith! You have taken us by surprise !' oe tor I than Stampa, your Ma- ene he laughed. 'The fact is T monopoly is to hold go "Ah ! you put Iit.in ear way. Well --you shall seo, you sh . But come ; IT am punt going to breakfast un ler the ro You must join "yr havo alrendy breakfasted, ma- | ame,"" "AL eight o'clock 2" "OM bacon and eggs 7° "Yes." "What ao Eriton !' she laughed, | "Rut if you have come from Fspule- to--have you?" Is "From Espoleto, madame.'* "Then you are ready for luncheon, | Come, sit down, air, You will join us, Don Augustin, "You are cut off from the world here, madame, so I daresoy I om, the first to bring you a cortain piece of news--good news. The Frere State ! havo thrashed Hispaniola." "Phat is indeed good news, When? | ia henrt want you to allow mo to intercept him before he -- Palmetto."' "Yas. /ed Maddalena, impatience. "IT want you, madame, to entrust mo with a letter for him, in which vou explain your position. his co-operation, and ment romise pey- for his assistance--rather the ist of his g . Goo He will accept or he will reject. he rejects, he will win--tomporarily: for Europe will not allow the Free States of South America to depart from their adherence se -- doctrine, and if the the worst Palmetto te still Hispan. folu's, and the struggle goes on from where it now sterds. If you will have te pay o million, per- ie two. And jou can leave that o me." Meddalena rose to her feet, carried out of herself by the suggested apecdy end of the fight, her face flushed and her hands pressed to- ii "Ol it it might only be ! "It may well be, madame, write the letter I spoke @ paused and laughed--"'make it a aii only bol if it if ja of-- turned swiltly and looked at him, Bravo aghast and a little more than half online re pose mightily on dignity' good humor and good faith ab: 'ieaniy marked on the Orange King's face disarmed her an Tr foruet "the cool wuda- city of the propo "Sir,"' sho said, ny will do it. You aro a deus ex machina "My Latin is rusty, madame,"' he Inughed, "but--dea in flores seems to meot the case," "You aro a courticr as well as a deeper than o thousand repronaches. "Her Majesty desires Migs Judith Frere's ice.'* a presen Like a ghost in a dream sho fol- lows the tall servant. clouds her sight: she stumbles and falls. The servant sto her, but Maddalena along tho path, and has th deaggesi r s, and is lifting her ¥, before the m shy ante 'the Wane of his am u ohky go. "I will attend to aus tad if.' He reipate but lingers. "You om 0. or Her look 'i sufficient oe Judith Frere is set down a low * chair, and a gloss of wine as held | to her lips Sho is slow of recov- ery, but a opens eyes. es cast to the winds, all forgotten, from tho heart of her remorse wells up an unprémedita of confession, contrition, | hat is pow erless to stop, and that is ten times |> more eloquent because of its very incoherence, its utter abandonment. From a word here and a word ther Maddalena --s together the piti- ural habitat they are not accustomed ful whole, pig Rea fore tho combined forces of poverty | used to it. Aft and temptation. There is one emo~ | of tho atick w the tenacles docs = only stirring in her breast--not'njot make them withdraw and close nity, the ity that understands pow Weakness and gives strength an comfort. It shines from oyes and her face and her whole being, an teq Sttificially. od to 'tiem in 'this unusual way tho. es sho wdém- to dead objects; be- truly alarming. d reaches out eagerly toward it." it of clam or { er on the point of sti food is first offer- , for in their nat- | ol them 'this combi-! dead clam is 4 But they soon ge a little the touch means food and the anemone FEEDING OF FISHES. Ito t eld uniform in Eur- sheopekin . in te ' critica who say that this renders ly co resecd in carth color im- axines himself invisible, and behaves accordingly He ¢ shot; whereas the man knows he can 5 cover ond comes off with a whole akin. A writer in -the paper describes the soldiers of the czar as follows : ian earpealane ro somewhat heavily his kit- with iothing aiteag fo shoulder, his baversack with thing over sixty-six pounds. advantage which offsets the burden if that at a _pinch the Russian foot- soldier cally independent of a bagga, The Russian avalryman rides so laden = with ciemeaoies and Diankete and greateoats and wallete and sad- dle-bags and things thet he puts one in much-encumbered Knight in "Alice in Wonder- Altogether his impedimenta hundred and nincteen Fortunately what would oppress onother soldier is no burden the Russian. is sturdiness itself. Russinn soldiers have in known to march thirty miles with- cage rest, and then. go directly into geinent Y apwactee is 'accounted the prime factor of Russian military discipline. But something better than severity goes make soldiera of Russian peasants, and thot something is o genius, sir.' and saving nothing (for words are! «The movements and actions of the "If the' admiral agrees to your |Poor thinga after all) sho say8 lower cetera of life are mainly a|, When the commanding officer meets proposal, madamo, in four days|™ore to the tortured woman than o raattar of food. Animals take great his prsaps for tho first time in the there. won't be s, Hispanivlan sold- thousand speeches could. at the promptings of hunger. |7OT™InE calls out cordially, jer on the islan ut the silence must be broken. |So will men, for that matter, as I sae prac amaEis The a ae op Ono cunnot always hold fevered <setig in the civil fe 4 peculiar, long, rattling Frou aa oro are eight thousand pes hands snd. p&t then aud emoot ;xnow from my oxpe 1 the "Your good health, your oxcel- you propose to get rid of them? = pei ee fe be regard to their feeding, we ob- wivhon a manocuver is executed to mp them im the se 4 "0 ! madame. ©! your Mnjesty."" |perve many interesting things nbout t "Send them back to Hispaniola," "You very, weak after your) fishes = Take the salmon family, for ahouta congratulntions to the men, said Smith shortly long long journey example. They generally are fed with 'and they respand en together, "We "In balloons ? | There are ono} Rut you forgive me? Say that | live kilies, When some of those ore jaye gtid you liked ships." you forgive m es hrown into the tank the salmon at An "There will be ships hes they are! "Now, now. "theie nothing to/once dart after them. The first move RUSSIA AND THE WAR. Wanted,"' come the answer, still! forgive. And I-don't understand a the 1 killle makes for safety is uw #ewim jes more shortly, word you say. Long ago in Lon-,-up to the top of the tank, where ho|™--ye Is Popular Longing for r ers you have-your plan, Mr. |don I made you promise to visit me hugs the = Pherae close "* Lig Nae Defeat. mit said Maddalena, with alin Palmetto, You have come; you Presently Mr. Salmon spies him there ' - ve frown at Don Augustin. "You will|aro my very welcome guest. }and makes ready for a drive. But be pile eriter in te edeehals tell ste "O, I cannot stay--T cannot stay." \fore he reaches Beg Wall ho stops, and Gazette, and Exp nis ateoat i et waved a hand of resigna-| +0, but you shall stay. Remem- you can imagi saying to him | iversal Sengine:. pt defeat nt the tion to the inevitable. ber that I am the Queen here, and Self: 'I've run "into wall before hands of rome foreign foe, One of "A plan? Avery little one. Like the rica States, I also have a ect. "I'welve steamers of mine are davs north of Palmetto. y are ostensibly bound for the West Const of Africa for cargo. ey Were Snehaceoeiay at Liverpool. They put into Palm City for supplies. I'm no man of bysinece.t they. roach | - this - now ea ae n rubber, Hispaniola will pay-- and I'll see that I get moncy, too. And now, madame, you will want a little time to write your let- ter. Do you leave you? I sho if Don Augustin will direct me where o find him."' As he uttered Hector'a name, Thomas Smith gave one swift | als 'nce at Maddalena, and his suspicion should like to help you, j Smith. 1 do sny. _ eaten, ITecannot help you in ithi Write as your heart dictates. JJ should make jit too businesslike, Hand the admiral would scent--diplom- acy, Write as your heart dictates, imadaene + Rincerity and candor will win, No, no, 7 cannot help--I have Mr, side satisficd Mr. not know what to ©, Mr, Smith! ©, Mr. Thomas Smith ' Rank, flat, ineffective, osten- How 7"' atious i} ow ying. ) bows By owing on out of rel iM will try my best, sir," pald water But there ia better news to ae panes tae ean Ring. bem hams A merry twinkle lurked jn} Hé turned away, and then be turn- = corner of the Orange King's eve ea back pe 4 Moe ae and helped himself "What do you think, mad- the Free States' combined navies crossing the ocean to bom- bard the principal ports of Hispan- "Ts it possible 7° cried Martdotenn, while Don Augustin, startled afresh out of his precisian calm, stared at Mr. Smith with a hundred cyes and 8 gaping moult "Does it not innke your prospects rr, pamiiarie a t lower Hispanio- that, maduanic, And agrin Mr. paused with that twinkle. "Tell me, tell me,"" cried Maddal- more Smith cnn, "Well, as far aos their knowledge Free On their way hombard, pulverize Sorralona, Terez, Almeduna, Pam- Perivos, they will naturally call o Palm City and demand its surren- Don Augustin's face clouded. He saw the fair island slip from Mad- dalena's hands into those of task- masters os harsh as Hispaniola. Some such thought flashed Into the too, but her eyes were on the Orange King's face, and saw nothing there but uncon- and amusement. hel gunboats and tor "That if we could take it Hirst," "It would. bo at too grent. expense Triend,"" said Mr, Smith drily. is a that."" "And that is ?"" "I am here bya Rio sect Palmetto I cal- that the ships will bo off Palm City on the meacving, of the | been day after to-mo orrow, or perhaps in t | guc much cheaper way than|a cer Sion: ng to "May felt inn ill | ce ba] thing--confession "A moment, pee agpeorh iy must beg your pardon, mu. hers. Just before I left Liverpeet @ friend my o it--demanded a passage to Palmetto. She would not be deniod. She would you, She is waiting now in ome reception room. Po I, know no she. Who is tre Judith Frere-- Adios, dame.' "Don Augustin ! Accompany Smith. And sec ae Miss is sent to me eat o Judith Frero ! Poor Judith Frere! What madcap freak te this that has entered your ? at has ma- Mr. Frero driven you o alt in her tampa 8 Tecception-room twining such accusing iteration there sounds in your ears the cry you have heard nothing elsc beside these mnny days ry of "You sold her, you sold What hos driven you here-- nay, what has drawn you ? ou remember that day in Aber- deen when Hector Grant told you of the hapless young Quecn. r member that evening when hoe took you into her presence, and you feast- ed your starved cyes on her young benuty, and drank the new wine of h her the self TONE ---- of longfago had made of drave, a a eet to he t of her who in prc a little perhaps aut of unconscioualy growing love for Hector, received you and confided her dear hopes to you. tapotanee, her --o a single thought - rein atinnyy sng res, that | to in ftaelf ype be torgiveaes rey I} punishment ic: aaa "Ia nttie while my word is law. You a unless you prefer to be my »risoner, ly and-I am going to take care of you n.' ey until you are quite well agai It}; "On tho yo the hilliles show a will bo time enough then to apeak of good deal of se: They will Jump going. now, out of harm _ top of the the tank turned to her arbor, and gat with pen and paper to write ber let- ter A 'al ad the Free or more then to und gather her thoughts afresh, She' had promised Mr. Smith that sho; would try, and she was trying: but | somehow the words would not come | right. And 'although she knew the | importanco of getting it done, , she, could not bimd her thoughts down; in spite of hand a to tent lines iotars Palm City, as thought gave placo to corrow lifted fr her face, ond every featuro hor soul lived ond \g moved The fear and b dread of to-morrow and to-morrow swim and all the to-morrows was thrust away, and thy almost insupportable, thronging joys o-day remained to whisper the impossible, and make | t true for ono moment into which | eternitios were crushed. There ott something of mothor-love in m- | h n's purest passion. Rerhaine it | was this side that was uppermost in! pisineny Keep out of tho back alleys Maddalena os she saw Hoctor with 9 his arm in a sling, and that prompt-!), ed her, in her ecstasy of vision, stretch out her hand ond open Ups in inaudiblo speech, et She let her head fall on table, Tho vision was gone : it real-' for tho spirit that moved Maddalena | She seized her pen and wrote iously and with a full heart. n. something higher encase PP mere power, she signed he er nome--,in the evolution 1 'Maddalena, tho Queen." When and the missive was put into the Orange King returned, his and, he made no excise for reading | Without Ho did not smile as ho finished, croachments of tho carping, pessimis- it, but, with something of reverence in tic had found a teacher in are my guest and hurt my snout, re down |S°* |salt water fish in*the aquarium, says th the movements | After arriving here they pair of and 'estuaries, where they stay during the ing season. When the fall ap roaches they assemble and to Hector, as they camo vision usually fly high, coming lower when in it blows hard. to ling, and the hope' her | | Know tho pleanues 'ot nee: he gunshino of the jfrom tho past | velopment which must go Yon Augustin that tho Orange King; to uproot it; sped it cannot live in an i of s our life I'm not soit to the acutest life in modern Russia says that this ominous aspiration mnay be heard not only in or ge but 'in South- ern Russia, t makes no dilfer- ence whother the gelled are Rus- | al "for waare MIGRATORY» FISH." Mr. De, Nyse, who looks after the ere in astrifing analogy betwe of fish In the oceun | nd those of birds on land. | in ereeks and In calm-wenther mi- rating fish swim near the surface, ut when a is rough and stormy they ey aernee BE CHEERFUL. Keep to tho broad inka ope and cheerfulness. auccend. uk. SUCCEaS, oat ste will of {f gloom and pessimism. the rocession of the ee Be sanguin infest arenes "sieve "of life. y human ever lifted the gloom from any dis- the which, of life, Is igure the of de on with or ware of the en- , Fesisting the spi It fs a hardy plant. It es root castily in the mind, ond gains rful- But ho laughed when he spoke. " monopoly as sure, mad- | ame, "as that Palmetto is yours,' "Then--" "This'--he tapped oT 4 day. fix my trust in instinct." | Thal evening Mr. Thomas Smith| q intercept tho ¢ ral of the Free | 40 { tates. Elaborate caleulations had deer hair arc famous for their mois- been made to settle the ficet's | tureresisting property, as well o col Mr. Smith reckoned on | £0 their warmth. The hair, unlike hat of many a i day. But when night fell there om out of the southern wate the horizon, four more, until from the bridge of the overnor of Lagosthe Oran, King counted close maw tows eee with ono great red light about "tho middle Po the _ Sein For this red star, with all wn lampa range King To avold the vanguard he rat ro prraen light was judged to be distant but a.| "Don't thifik, oftor- all, Nas a8 or.so. Then it was speed | woman's Tonsinialty Ses mand ap- soe into_ darkness the rege to man?' * yes ! (To be Continued), " oar his pocket-- huaba All the rest is) {Zp has been Beer "thires times be- fore," into many we with air, which pe ge to be under com: ments are placed in water the hair, or and the wearer is buoped does not cctv lade tats aif over- board. Such- n com- mon use among tho wedes, 'Norwe. {28 Reser: giane. =nd "oT don't AE cof Wwheihor she -- has bain. ie * promised to marry 8" red buying sien 'Therefore, keep to the high- 'eep out of the back alleys. Priscilla--"Tell me ly, what unlification has your. fiance for a nd" Ifo Fixperience. . =e REINDEER WOOL. In Lapland garments made of rein- pression, fo that when the gar- wool, swells rane breaking, j up and "He | desig hear iraicaee 'Presents, for ¥ ce ra advanced jean point toe nothing else than per due om the east or the west. possi. a ive symptom ~ this of the decp despair that grips the national life of Russia, or of the hopeless gloom which prevails, Ris to the present condition of the coun- try. The only Sirota of \ibera- tion from the ering misery and depression wh ich presents itself is that which weute be furn by \the ruin and disorganization such 2S an unsuce 'ul war would bring upon the ruling system. "The ruth is," continues the writer, "'that Russian is as an house divided against herself. The growth of oa national, as well as an imper- in] policy, to which it is Inveterate- ntly Acaog "eg an y the co- operation of aay ig and agri- Sarah classes, which arc no longer capable of repression. it is the slow but of this national policy, demite all the efforts of imperialism, which afford the most useful measure of the sian political aggresion And it ie I of this national movement in resent slage which is haunting the bureaucrats of Russia with the spectro of they stand struggle against the well-trained le- gions of Japan. Its most impor- tant effect is already pecn the creation of a spirit of socialistic aympathy, morging quite recently 'in- , between the educat- hich the final ove on of oligarchic despo- tism in Rus enim ORIGIN OF SHORTHAND. Was Used Among the Greeks and the Romans. Tho existence of stenography among the Grecks and the Romans is certain The shorthand that they used was o form of writing in which each word was represented a special sign. The le' eri of with modifice" or execution, formed the ments of theso aracters. They date eat least from the Grst contury before Christ. n the second century A. D. is found the term semeiograph (steno- graphic character) in the Greck ora- tor, Flavius Philostratus, ed by the sume process, mtury B. C. a discourse of Canto ger = according to hg get was Eaxen down by shorthand rter The diovelopment of phorsnwns wes pecial to Ma Taltius Tire, Born fn Latium 6 103 B. C. Tiro, was was o slave, was brought up with Cleero, mee Was soInc years Ciee- im grea n 'trial of Catiline (63 B. C.) the sten- ogtaphic rapidity of Tiro was nt its height. es It's worth thinking about that a man's dream of an | state never nearcr to a women than a boat, 'a , ond o fishiine Fin' wite : "Why don' : you go to the doctor and find out just what ou ought to eat 'anal what you ps tte gp Bem "Oh, TF ought know I eat overythi me x "don t like Dali! aleige Mate ye for - [avoid ej ees To | To Jing by the Blesing Of ane open Khaki; |the foot of one's bed a mass of seen | ter-ol-fact, ain, He can tr rt his modest necessities upon bis own th © | and yet tho pranks of these big beasts } "aneume=} HW KIND OF BAILII Men. _.| TENANCIES "ARE_ ANTLY TERMINATED. House in Wales Inv Invaded by Snakes cs --Elephant Bampage, wakened in the carly morn- at e gling, serpentine coils, is the sort of exporience which might be expected in Central Africa; but hardly in. mat- ia Britain, says London Answ Yet such a 'thing did actually hap- Pen not long ago at a t Cafn 'aen, near~Llanelly, in Weloa. Not only were there snakes coiled on the S| bedstead, but several more were on the floor, while downstairs the terri- fled inhabitants found the rooms full one's .cyea and sec a the 'rail a day tlic ore an eve ater number. n the third the people ab- dicated in favor of the repti iles. It is believed that in this case the snakes camo into the house from the a. old coal-pit, whero ring, fr which they wars driven by a sudden Inrush of water, nh Binz esidents of «a pareo Greenlaw, in Scotland, got a eerie fright ged night three years ago re summer. They were aw by fearful crashing sound in the Cite premises. They jumped out of bed, threw open the windows, an SHOUTED FOR HELP. The crashing. grew louder, nnd the unhappy residents rushed out by the front door. Neighbors arrived, and found the intruder to be--not a burg- lar, but a large clephent. The mal Was one belonging to a travelling show, and had been picketed on the village green. He had broken loose, and, fecling hungry, had taken « stroll down the village strect. ¢ bad smelt. the dainties {n the larder of the rectory, but, finding the back door too small to enter, had tt his shoulder to the wall, remo rtion of it. Hence the Laoatiina noise which had roused the sleepers in the houge. Few people indeed would care to stop in a Seating of which an cle phant has taken forcible possessi6n are more often amusing than danger- ous. When Barnum and Baiiey's show reached Paris, in November, 1900, of the elephants found tho op- petizing odor of a cookshop at the side of the street too much for his suns tibihitlee. the line of march, front of the shop, and began to hur- riedly put away everything in sight. | The women at the counter bolted out of the back of the place, and the cle- phant remained in posscssio F very nearly cleared out the whole place before he could be persuaded to move on. Tho entry of the samo circus Paris was marked by another LUDICROUS INCIDENT, into the delights of travel. cord they scrambled into an outgoing passenger train which was just start- ing. The people in the compartment, horror-stricken at this invasion, bolt- ed out on the far side, and leit the monkeys In full possession. Pande- monium relgned until the tickotless passengers had been:recaptured and aes off to their cages, chattering ae eA a menagerie was being cnet ed at Plauen, in Saxony, one ¥ last summer, o bear escaped and Bind ed up the main strevt of the town. An electric tram frightened the ani- an, * made for the open-air bathing-loke in A India--a man woll!, Legend of Romulus and Remus. o Supported by Capture Made in India. real Mowgli has been captured fm th, collected to ea tablish the fact, so long deniod as unworth, that humay ever since th of the reptiles. They were grass |scofied at, the fact that snakes, and not poisonous; but their |it is generally belioved in sae to numbers filled tho people of the house | this day win terror. Twenty-two were Wiled| The "fungi folk ot India liva "in n the first day of the invasion, and |ferest villages in lower Bengal. They Dravidians, Kronhs, iM. tribes and castes acquire s 'imnowledge of wild animals which is « tound No wonder ; Sunt Kipling made Mowgli talk with the clephant, the tiger, and the wolf. cling BY SHE WOLF. man wolf of Indio is -- ateied to have been dr ehe wolf from his homo while a Sag by pity, would niture its helpless captive. When the child grew older it knew no other home than the fun gle. The boy learned to find his own food. He knew no that of the jungle. live with the animals ways of the tiger and the clapuiant, as well us of the fox and the serpent. manhood he was a fearing man g2 on * Officers of the Indian geographical survey have eee of the discov and capture man wolf, He was found in the fungta of loume Ben- gal and sent in to the military a at first wild and untamed, afterw becoming docile, but suspicious, ball of the foot, with the heel raise] and the knees bent. hands wero bent back at the wrist, showing that he was accustomed to walking and running about on hands and fect » ACUTE SENSES, This man wolf--so far as known the only ome ever captured--could see in the dark. His car could detect sounds unnoticed by white men. Often, while sitting in a group around oa campfire jthe man wolf would raise its head, its nostrils dilating and sniffing the_air. Then it would stealthily crecp into tho jungle. Officers ond soldiers follow- ing would always find a tiger or «a buffalo. And yet uP to the time tho man wolf had s @ intruder apd heard the rarilice in the grass of ite footsteps its presence was unsus 'The 'man wolf secmed to know the whether the tiger finished its meal or was still tearing at the car- 58. Again, the man wolf in walkin through the foresta with the British officers, seemed to be able to converse with the monkeys that swung and chatttered by hundreds in the trees. At one time a large baboon sw from a branch of a huge treo, and, os the an wolf appronched the baboon, fone no fear, grunted and chat- ered in a state of high excitement. Instantly the man wolf turned, an pointing toward the jungle, made the English tiger was following close upon them, ho park. um- ber of lodics were in the water, and wore frightencd almost out of 'their wite when the shaggy st came plunging in among them. With one | accord they all cleared out of the water and ran for their lives, Jleav- | ing Bruin in Even London does not ¢ cape i vasions of wild animals. 'The lowest vaults bolow the basement of a well- known hotel in the Strand are ren- dered unsafe ot night by wild cats! These creatures are black and white in color, arid of aane sizo.- Dogs fear them, and the management of tha hotel will not oar of polsoning them. 'i --_+------_ ELECTRIC WARFARE. The ae Uses tc to Which Electri- y is Now few yeara ago clectrie light' was" in- troduced to add to the comfort of the gorrisons und to provide better i} class of work for which they a Searchlights posts are connectca together by talaphone, so that the commandant is in touch at all times with the entire garrizon, ore controlled 'electrically; and even the guns may lbe fired by this means by an officer at some distant point. Hy imcans of wireless telegraphy a fortifiention can uch ith the seonting vesselg, and would be informed of tho approach of the enemy long _ bef®re he {s visible fromm the coast. Electri- etty lights tho rnnge-findor atations; and electric-cluck circuits furnish z fications. --_--_4-----_-- Ma-- "JT don't know, but I hopo it wasn't Clara breaking off her engagemont with young Gotrox." "IT must set up some sort of scarc- crows out of my don't you stick up a. crowbar?" wo the {ronical remark of the village im- Basile, * stay curate time to all parts of the forti- waiting for on opportunity to attack, Tho officers sprong into the jungle and found and shot a huge striped of the largest they had And the only warning' | they had had of its presence was that baboon had told the man wolf. mark in the grass. wriggled its way through.the jungle he could trace its path over-the gras# and ove tell by signs how long «a an was. If o tiger's paw had displaced a pebble in the pathway tha man wolf wouki! detect it instantly. -- REFUSES MAN'S FOOD,- ; first captured the man wolf would not "ag the food given hhn by the Engli When offerod food he would. smell of it, over and over in his hands, and re ject it. The English never knew how he got his moals for he sought them An mecuden Instance of tho ra apid in the forest alone, In time, however extension of the use of electricity is jpe learn eat the white man'a furnishod by its use in warfare. A |food, but eee then he would not cat at a table. Living in a corner of oa room given up to him, his bedding of "age and straw, for he would have lumination of the works. Electric | qo . he would carry bis food to ;|fans have been put in to make tho this: ila and hido it, sometinies for living quarters mote comfortable in days. Then he would drag it out hot weather, and electric motors ate and eat it, as dog or a wolf beon adopted for training the guns, 8 4 | might is ent. i -- Of course, this man wolf could not talk. He understood whatever was said to him, just as a dog be understand master He ver made friends with tho English officers, always leering pt them and looking upon them askant, and if they spoka_ harehly to him crawling away to his ; Origen of Alexandria (185-254 A. | and can ey transmit orders to} ynor, D,.) noted his sermo down in/any poin The fortifications along; pe always slept in his straw bed, shorthand, and Socrates, the eccles-| tho Paine are linked by telephone and | curled up as nearly like a dog or ao jastical ee korg of the fourth con- jtelegraph, so that, on the appearance |wolf as ible His tury. ag a hat par © RerMOns | of the enemy at any point, all the |wers drawn up to his chin and his pa St hn Chrysostom was preserv- ¢ortigcations would be informed of it. hea bent as be 'ele He wore clothes ---- gps them, but soon re- duced them Natives ot. tho vitinge told the Eng- lish officers that the parents of y said he always tived in the jungle with the animals, and thet he would come into village oc lcasionally, and then only for a short The natives persisted in thair t the man wolf: could talk ' his death, He lost the vigor of an Mo "Did you Rear hat crit! | outdoor life and soon fell a victim to t in the parlor just = 4~-- | consumption, his case artraetine wide attention in sefontific cireles in In a ee 'T hope they don't gtve. my 2 a rs a ul! er do they call pi that?" "Causa in 'our class, you know, I'm always at the foot.' ttle