3 nid we SS i reer ee eA sks The --= Red Witch Constantia, ~ , CHAPTER XXXII. A sob burst from her. And at this instant the door was opened soitivy, and Constantia entered. "In t ark, dear? To sit in the |least without help from_hi. dark like this--ob, very wrong |if ma was receiving her friend of you !"* said, with 'tender |to-night ! "The friend was always at acolding. allymore now, he had been told, in She had just parted with Stronge, who hec brought her to the _ hall- door, and she was fecling singularly nervous ; but the sight of Lady Var- ley standing in the moonlight, in her Straight, clinging we gown, had urage. How her aaserenis tale-- how warn her of this Inst crowning act of treachery on he. husband's part, if that pale, patient face was Plain to her ? tter in darkness, where its agony, its cruel indigna- tion might be hidden. Alus ! what a terrible task was hers, to make even sadder this alreatly too sad woman > Then somehow she told her, getting through the hateful story without let or hindrance from Lady Varley, who 'never opened her lips from the be- ginning of it to the e re a es you as I heard it. It may e true,"' sai Con- stantia at the close, in a very agony nervous drea Lady Varley. stantia hotly. "Why should you so tamely give in ? Oh, rouse yourself, Yolande, and try to stop this scan- dal ! If one were to go to her--to TOAROI: with her--to threaten expo- sure ! ' "What would such as' she care about exposure ?" said Lady Var- ley with cold contempt. "Well, let him be reasoned with,"' advised Constantia, "Tle would, in would you teoaae to Eheak to him?" Yo one. I shall go myself to- night," said Lady Varley, with de- termination: She rose from her chair. ' "So late ! 'Re advised, dear, do not,"' said Constantia, entreatingly. - "Or at least take me With you ; or-- Mr. Stronge. ' "Mr. Stronge ! Wliers-te he 2?"" "In the avénue, waiting for me," pero: Constantia, shyly Lady Varley regarced her keenly. "Are you going to marry him ?" she asked. "Yos.? bs "4 of that. Neartily glad. For y at least there is a sure chance a happiness. Well, you and he -- arrange this matter for mne--com he_old tewn clock struck ten as the train steamed station. Fo onetime. It was a dark night, murky and rather chill ; the wind had risen and there was a suspicion of rain in the air. As he stepped a the fuller dark- ness outside ran up against Fi eatherston. h ! You, Dundas !"' said he as if astounded. "And no other, returned sme laughing. "Il might be ghost, so satisfactorily have I = prised every one I have met by this udden return ; but the fact is that fellow Hawkins has been you a thousand © times, I dare say-- h have s'vorn to put down these poaching affrays, no matter _ time or ouble it costs me ; an ja telegram ole Jefireys telling me of a serious at- tack made Jast hight on the young pheasants."" "T heard t ; but I really think flreyvs cc Geeratlad the affair. i be allowed, but point de zele, you know, is excellent advice in 108t matters. I fear the honest Jeliréys time, and given yoy your journey for no- Dundas -- thank Jef- freys, no doubt She did not come to meet you "No ; in fact, I--er--I didn't tell her I was coming. I thought I'd take her by surprise,"" said John Dundas, a little shyly,"but with such a ring of expectant happiness in his voice as convinced Featherston that his belief in his wife was perfect, and that, as yet, no suspicion had crept That he had done a vilely cruel thing in giving a chance for the en- trance of this suspicion did not dis- turb him. "Mrs. Dundas does not know you are coming, then ?'* He asked = the er to make himself entirely ure o the fact that the comedy | pecteiand would not prove a fail- ure. | "No ; I really bad hardly a mo- ment to send her word," said Dun- das, who s beginning to be rather Pp e sentir his sutton Homecoming se eret from his darlin 'All this was it to agp a though the sending of the soon upon the scene spoil Donna's plans, for the present. at all events... The future might see He owed ne him victorious, too ! Bile Poisons--Liver Disorders. ' it hrough an opening in the trees the was | ry lsomething, and in this wise sought to pay it. But now, he told himself, the plot was thickening of its own iacegehe hats () How if ° ason and out of it. ee too welcome vengeance laid hand, without cost of | slow ; his hand stroked down his blonde : ala with a view to concealing He shook han in the Tlenititest ds way, and the night was too dark to permit Mr. Dundas' sceing. the smile of crucl amusement that curv- laughing still. They. draw n cl round each o entwined within hae "him, watching, there seemed Soke some- thing extraordinary in that on ber ety that jested on the grave etry Was there no grave mig ing, no hidden sense of fear, to war them thet the end of all things wae at har He poet aride the curtains with a bold movement, and stood reveal- e The gay laugh dicd on Donna's lips, as she looked over her lover's shoulder, and saw vengeance there before her, ready to strike. Her face seemed to all was right, he concealed it in{ the large breast-pocket of his travel- ling : He Isively . WAV AN AY DP FLT v3 in, in view of what is bettie: do: wards the develop- ment of a chition fattening industry in Canada, to know W los is being one 'claaw here: firm in a ind is fattening 4 10,- 000-c! a tue fates departure oft e big Laryeraeeirireste: which iar lina the world ful-look darkened her eyes. Varley, startled by the change in her, looked backward, and, with a terrible: im- precation, sprang to his feet,~ to find himself face to face with the wman he had dishonored ! Was it only a minute, or was it in the windy night, and mig steadily onwards towards his The soft, misty rain that now was falling and ae -- his face only seem fresh him. He walked Poociy: ae an elastic step, | feeling that brought him nearer full of delight He felt indeed almost absurdly happy, and an inclination to laugh aloud overtook and then, as he thought of how her beautiful face would light up with a glad surprise as he stepped into ber presence, and w her clear, swect | laugh would ring out when he con- d to her his foolish fancy to sur- prise her, had hrought him to~ the level of the most youthful love-sick swain Iie reached the entrance gate at lust, and entered the long avenue, now dark as Erebus, because of the overhanging branches. Tie struck match, and saw by his watch it was five minutes past cleven. ate ! He hoped she had not gone bed. Hf so, his sweet Ss Seat ould be in' a measiire spotted: that she sat up ay ei ~ now tl @ was away she would, | no doubt, feel lonely, and woulc pr ee retire earlier than usual. { rn in the avenue, however, itold et hat this was not the case. Whole of the southern side or the house Was laid bare to him, and he could sce that lights shone in two of |[¥ the central windows. ey were the 'windows of the room she most af- fected--her favorite room, lie hurried forward until he to the foot of the steps that led to the balcony, off which the opencd. He paused -- there -- smile, and began to ascend the steps with extreme caution rot sound betrayed his approach. The |blinds were down in both the -- win- came dows, and before the glass door, which was open, hung a heavy vel- vet curtain. Mr. Dundas, putting out aside, very. in. Heyond the velvet hun, curtain of through it he peered. All his senses were riveted upon the spot. scl ~ couch, her dainty "head Sthing seeuvtteats amongst the cushions lay--his wife ! She was dressed in a loose. white tena-gown, an ennainhe mass of soft laces, a little open at the throat, and with wide sleeves that, falling backwards as she- lifted her arms left all their snowy loveliness naked to the shoulder. One of these arms rown «around Lord Varicy's his hand, neck. He was kneeling beside her on the ground, leaning over her so that his face wes close to hers, Both his urms were clasped around her supple waist. Donna was talking gayly, but in a low whisper. A soft, happy smile, a sinile na little languid parted t tesneirae night !'" excla nswer a tip "Wher shall we +b sep es night "Par oy hd et all events," re turned she tightly. "Far from the stifling propriety of this intolerable hole. And, oh, blessed thought ! far from the immaculate Dundas "A fool so blind is hardly deserv- ing even of.one's pity," said Varley contemptuously. "Blind to what ?. My faults 7 What an unlover-like speech !'* As she spoke. she ran her white, slender fingers slowly, lingeringly nee his hair, as though to touch hi Was sweet to her. "Have you a fault ? "One. Just one little one. You now it.' aned even nearer to him, and smiled into, his eyes. "Tis jloving thee we arms er - too tightened their clas A low, long sigh escaped sil- of | minute there was m, and into a | laugh icious of heartfelt Dundas' stepped back into the darkness noiselessly as he had come, | and walked down the banxony to its end where his own den lay. He tried the window and found it unfastened. | Throwing up the' sash softly, but with ites he stepped _ Ligttly into! the ro f Me ole about "carefully for a) moment or two im the darkness, and cime at last to the drawer of eabinet wanted, and drawing , nega from it, examine by uch. Having satisfied himself that him now! cautiously, and looked | lace |} the most fragile kind, and w her a aim- | das had, only one has served a full t The greatest distance that a shot | tr the -yea truth an eternity that elapsed whilst they three stood there, gazing silent- ly upon each other ? Dundas broke the spell. "Stand back !" he said, in a clear 'tone, addressing Veriey. "Over there with your back against that wall ! {4 don't want toe shoot you both !" He put his hand into his pocket, and drew out a revolver. fiti- gered it, slowly, cruelly, "So !"' said V Any dismay he might have felt was ' 'now gone, and a smile, that was un- 'deniably insolent, grew on his face. "You won't even give me my chance then 2?' bo said | "No distinetIv, and without haste or. excitement of any kind. i"You have done with chances,' J shall shoot you as I would a dog !" "T find no fault. I really think I should do the same in your A gee said Varley politely. 'I ha eo one request to make, that Leg wil permit Kirs. Dundas to leave the "Stand aside, woman, His hour , es come !"" TAME out Pandas sharp- j an wild ery rt from her. She} threw herself on if to protect his ae with her own, fand, encircling him . with her arms, td, | ' {looked back over ber shoulder at her ie -- a mad detlance "The ill not save him,'* "he said. nen. -t im staying there, I shall shoot arlev's. Breast, as him through Pag brain | try. tah een fed for generations nie the same manner, The French, he Gerinas, aud the English take a chicken and a cramming machine one stull food into its craw. That isn't the way the 'thing is done by this packing firm, but the principice is sume. 'The fed chickens are et- ough better than those which are fattened in the usual manver to inake them sell fre three cents more a a. When a chicken has fainey taste. Put stull his craw with food, as the English Go, or put him 'in a crowded coop, as the packing jhouse 'dees, and the epicure will be delighted with the result "Unless I am 9 badiy mistaken," said the manager of the poultry and egg department, 'we will be killin, 200,000 ¢ Nekens au day inside jtwo yeurs.' THE ONL Y SECRET about ek chickens age the man- ager wouldn't reveal hanner in which the food is nixed lie has been experimenting jor months until a preparation has been found which | pu uts a trifle ean than a pound a ;week on cach chic The fitst ane ws to stall-fed chickens came through the Itnglish iB { ° lagent of the firm. rote {rom 'London wanting to know why all ithe Linciged shipped from this coun~- 4s So dilicrent from that ruised England. The idea was that Eng ish had us es fu morning takes firnvgrained butter thet the use of i r It is a. atcbe fact, and yet true, that some of the most profitable mo- ments anyone engaged in dairying = a aro in repeated washing of ani It is a parody cleanliness to try to strain filth ont of milk, whee it might have been obviated by the i boca pnes! of the most ordinary pre- ons Despite all the Inws to the en. While it pays to raise -hogs in con- junction with the dairy, it never has or never will. pay the manufactory to keep the swine g quartered near the cheese facto reame n the writers 8 F expetisnee, the aver- ge man cannot milk more than ten cows with profit at one sitting... 7 reason_is that tired muscics cannot extrac® the milk from the udder with proper facility. Moral : Do nant hig the delusion that you are economiz- ing when you throw a large amount of work on especially about the ficlds. stroy with their hoofs at least half the fodder so fed. will always pay to'cut the canes up and feed them from a manger. The woman who can make butter once a week is to be com- mended, but the one who can make it uniformly good every day in the weck need look' no further for'a pro- fitable vocation. WHO PAYS FOR THE WAR ? BRITON'S SHARE OF- THE EM- PIRE'S StRUaGEE. be el Cost pHs the piers Peo- i the South Airi w The war is being paid for {ly out of the proceeds of loans. course, the taxpayer will have to li- quidate the loans, or go on fgrever paying interest on them, sg atmounts to the same thing so fa his pocket is concerned, says aauiond Answers. er The taxpayers being the smokers, the in- ople who consider milking | Journa' sichortie will never make good dairy- | da: w good partly | out-of the revenue of the year, par Vaan 'SERVED IN BOER ARMT, REWARD OF $1,0 $1,000 "OFFERED FOR THREE SCANDINAVIANS Story of Their Escape From the British.--A See Which The New York Journal says Karl process Hjalmar P, Janck are our Were the heroes, " said he, modestly. "We were serving in the Scandina- vian corps with Cronies. army, an captured at Magersfontein 901. still p were ca) on Dee. 1 IS TAKEN PRISONER. ' corps occupied one o most exposed positions that day, having nine ae and twenty-six wounded out of fifty-two engaged. Jdnck et & wound in the neat which Heese ae but did no ous may ullet cipued i eaonee his 'scalp, junving a jagged scar the etaialdle Manila, and the night that vessel lay Bay---I should mention that I was overboard. but T wasn't hit. crew d. "Then I tramped miles eine vere vine kind ment all the way from oko i and finally reached my commando "'Janck Andersen, fellows named Warner and Sternb erg, all Scandinavians, were y boyhood sports | proved my saving, {oF T swam hee | ched pie f atundoned ' the chase and gave me up as drown- | for weeks--GO0 |). treat- FORTUNES THAT WERE SACRE TICED, Boe Love: Cornelius Vz Jr., anderbilt, For feited fpr ata 000° For the 1 He Loved. financial sacrifice ever of nde bulk of his father's vast fortune, but zs (choice. ofa bride changed al} While a student at Yale he appears to have met Miss ughter of another of New York's millionaires. The young lady © \eight years 8 senior, but, wh insisted that. she was not a suitable oi ta for him. old inan even went the length of anoouneine in the e ,his consent. 'disinheritance, |plied, "Father, I am goi ithis girl, and the fact that I Idse $100,000,000 or all the money 'in the world, will not make the slightest difference to me.' The ral duly took place ; and when Mr. Van oh pte . was jtial fortes was. forfelted by a Chie 'ago young lady 'Having "made his facturer, a8 a man fier father was peeovells t she -- make a go j|matrimonial inate entertained m0 euch ambitious jideas, und had, in fact, bestowed her ection on one the smart young jinen employed in her father's office. As long as they could the couple nnsen, wi Nedge-Fagershjold, | ing who the other was her father and |mother were almost frantic with rage water' s edge. mn masked battery, on one si British camp and on all sides a barbed ire fence, with sentinels every few feet. THEY TUNNELLED OUT "Escape seemedto them Impossible last resort the young lady aut they got together one night and decided to dig a tunnel that carry them under the fence and would the hope that her rebellious en- might be thereby quelled. and (" They 'implored and threatened, \Uhreatened and implored, unti i ©' daughter' s life me quite a 'den to her. Witho no jsement's no- tice her lover ee dismiaved ; his employment and warned to cease all communication with ip ning a s kept prisoner in her hadrons, in spirit a close instead of through the That , best restaurants e Pre agagenmmes beer-drinkers, income- "ble them to emerge in the bus ares | But this only n&de her all the fwill be the only aiixearen ithe American birds. The manager tax payers &e., it is easy to see OUtside. They began inside a -- cer-'yore obstinate, and with the com I Donna moved -- her bead hurriedly |rend the poultry journals 3 what each "will contribute 'towards -- tent and dug straight down for /nivance of a servant she managed to from side to side as though looking |}came familiar with the wathasd of | the cost of the war even feet, then started off horizon- jeseape from the room, With her vainly for some mean of dectne. | ramming food down the chicken's | os te lover she then proceecec None came. The room was far from |craw with a. machine, It wasn't at! mia moe is Me ar > a Junck being the smallest, went tor'g Boue. where the tee wore the servants' quarters, and to hope /all fegsible for a packing-house, he €950,600,000, then the man ne ahead, using a long = that had 'made one. Her father never forgave to rouse them even by the loudest | thought. The head of the Kansas pays the largest sum is the beer and | been smuggled in by frien her, and when he died left all hia 'screams would be mere folly. She | Ci ity Cary mah brought an ¢X-| spirit drinker. Beer and s rit arink-| He began to a hole about property to a nephew. His Caneiter had weighed all that long ago, and | periment ady | ee will contribute £76.2 and -- feet in diameter and there was thus forfeited a fortune of $1,50 found it wanting. And yet -- The experiment was first tried} py o difliculty at first. When one got G00, but her husbavd is to-day .* time--that was the principal thing with 40 'chickens. Not until satis- , eat also the winortnipiat | tired another took his place, two very wealthy man, 'hanks to his |to be gained | Varley was as strong | \factory results were obtained was ie Nb contsibuticn to the aad cost keeping watch' al) the time. To pre- own industry. !a man, perhaps, as Dundas, but the the proprietor. asked to make the | therore £3,000,000. Drinkers will, |vent detection the men above would | A whimatent old lady in the Bde he was unarmed, and she knew if he |timezestablishe! test for puddings | (acr1ore: Pay nearly ---- = = |pull a string attached 'to the arm 'of England left nearly $350,000 to made one step towards his adver-|ing fowl--the eating of them. He | SOS* Of the war, or, jof the man below and by fixed sig- her nephew on condition that nity, Dundas would fire. They were |pad some personal friends, and he iseion wan eee sirinkers 1 in the | nals would conununicate all danger. married a girl whom she had adopt- we rats 7 ; : ; "Pp " little nerey monte bo ehortae oh m | had = them puss jucgment. The epi-| Next to the drinkers come rhe cand wee yaunee | Went ed as.a daughter. On her part tho one short moment he held against his breast, with a aa pres- sure, his heart hen he partially he whispered softly ; and as her lips met his, all at once, as it were, a strange animation grew upon him. He raised her Oo ® more upright position. "'See,"' ae whispered eagerly, pointing to the open window on t right hand, well pean Dundas ; ** +0 e Db s she did so, he signalled to Dun- "Now !"' he called loudly, and be- fore the echo of his voice dic og away the loud report of a revolve hat had sent a bullet through his heart, rang through the room He fell forward on his face dead ! Ay, even before she turn again to clasp him, stretched lifeless at her feet. most simultaneously with discharge of the revolver there was a rusk of feet upon the balcony with- out, the velvet curtain was thrust violently aside ! (To Be Contirued). a BITS OF INFORMATION. stone A Few Items Which Will Be Found orth Reading. penny on the British income-tax P /represents $31,560,000. { the seven D'residents gp ape has } jhas been fired is a few yards over; fifteen miles. | In Norway the average length = of | life is greater than in eny other country on the globe The number of men who died ee ge is 140 per Ry 000, only o per 1,000 wom To keep the world's ioatibd in work- | ing condition calls for the constant. employment of forty cable ships. r he tray vonaap Ab aaatrinoe of Italian } | M.F are by Government. These" wcieea "32 000 a head Jast In Munich the penaity for not fill | ing uw beer-glass to the limit is $125 t de, if w : : ees " ' > ek and mak -- duly recorded at this cried John Dundas pein "Are ibis t ii lot js pepar: y, ine you_afraid, that--you_ seek to shelter | ex xed. He" clrickens "arrived. yourself behind her ?" 'how Samer They weighed before feed= "Afraid 1" & sight, scorntu} |ing. the amount consumed, and t! laugh broke from Varley. For yet post re shown in the neomnay S Fr ges times a day the chickens s lthat cures were enthusiastic. Every THE BEST RESULTS were obtained from Brahmas, Ply- mouth -- Rocks, lull kins, and Wyandottes. Viymouth Rocks have ;put on more ounces of fat for the same period and the same cost than any of the others. The chickens have been fed for periods of ten days, two weeks, three wicks and a month. The best practical results from a financial istaundpoint have been obtained from the lots which were fed two weeks. Any poultry raiser can do it on a snall scale. Long rows of continu- ous coops are piled one on top of the other in a huge room. The chickens are kept in a durk room, .Just fore feeding tin.c huge shutters which obscure the light are opened. | These shutters are high on the sides of the building. The chickens with the light turned on them, became active. are fed and aré permitted to eat for half an hour only. Long troughs run the entire length of cach row of coops. The spaces between the laths are ust larce enough -to let the chicken thrust his head out of them into the trough. Six chickens are con- fined in each coop, and there is an opening for It has n discovered that a chicken will eat eus much if fed regularly three times a day as if permitted to feed all day long. Continual nib- has the same effect on chickens the cook who samples leverything. Just as soon a the half-hour's stuffing is concluded the room is once more darkened and the oughs taken down. The chickens, thoroughly satisfied become ormant. For fifteen minutes before feeding they keep up a CONTINUOUS CROWING Two minutes after the feeding not a sound can be heard in the chicken departnient If fatted flesh is better than unfat- ted there is, course, a scientific treason for it. To kill a Jean animal, | would be very wasteful ; the propor- tion of flesh" to that of bone offal would be distinctly inferior to of a fed animal. The reason why fatted flesh is better than un- fatted is that lobules of fat are listri t the st fine and two weeks' imprisonment. 6 Ja Lent | 'th apcccinaeiiie: Billousness and Constipation are Thoroughly Cured by Dr, hase's Kidney-Liver Pilis. 'Tere is no 6 ies organ in the humah-bo4) which exerts such a wide influence over the other ° of ny keys, but they will not be cooped ch conscience-money, "Chane 8 Ricnaig Lions Pills have a direct action on the liver, and bring prompt relief and a ben- le of Engl 'payments, the Na- "i Nearly everybody Is familiar with the extraordinary virtues of this famous troatment. ere is a sam- It is claimed for the craraming | ya} rizo, Fund/ and the contelbe ple of the letters received from cured ones:-- machine that it will put on two) tions from India and Cape Mr. John Skelton, the en cst bridge builder of 101 Sherwood street, Ottawa, states: pounds the first two weeks Son --_--_4------_--_ "TI have used Dr. Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills for kidney and liver derangements, brought on by exposure, chicksne weighing three pounds te "It is sad," murmured the Musing and find them Hine bape any pill or medicine I have ever used. average for three wecks Theorizer, "to think that every man ey cleaned my. sy: made me feel healthy and Me cal and better in every way. I can re | two and a half pounds. 'as his price." 'Yes,' admitted the |¢ commend them as the ess liver and kidney medicine that I know Intensely Practical Worker, "and it Mr. ---- Baird, postmaster, Consecon, Ont., states: '. is a sad fact that half the time he It gived'me and my wife much, pleasure recommend Dr. Chase's 'shies Pills as a family med- DAIRY GLEANINGS. can't get it.' : icine of taper Fiaye use them in prefefence <--. or other pills in our family, and I might here, state It is not always the man with the commen ~ ly that mie wae while inullering from biligusness, - ed my wife of sick headache, from which biggest Herd'of cows who clcurs the| To plant an acre 14 bushels wot 'oe Wins 6, most money from his dairy. _ beans are "necessary. rice Cassa yste " 5 become eonstipated, the digestive system aioold aie renioved spon the body, are thrown back into the blood stream to. fi is oes out Srck sevacets irc 1 Ridrey-Liver Pills, one pill a dose, 25 cents a box, at all dealers, of order, an find their.way to the weak spots Bates & he reason that some tract the latent gold in dairy cows bemtare ond Geral. Not cay, therefore, is the bulk increased, jteut also when the flesh is cooked the t does not evaporate to the same 'extent as water, but, melting, soft- lens the tissue} making it more di- gestible and finer in flavo Turkeys, it pcen ninpeiomel, not by ern fitted for the u- tur- farmers c item in the fattening of a ax payers. 'They twill contri- £52,500,000. But although they can afford it, the burden scems | n each individual. are about two and a half mil- c stock: lon income-tax payers in the United? outsic om, so each of tuem will -give £21 toward the COST OF THE WAR. As they use the liberty granted to all free Britens of pie Fy me drinking tea, eating currants an raisins, and so on, this £21 is only a fraction of their payment Dead men are the next best contri- | ae legacy duty, the sum of 2,- 3u0 000 nid. tion of shows that die year 8 the share of the people and leave estates will be -- property will pay considerably The tobacco-smokcr and snufier fol- ow, with a contribution of £25,- be page They pay exactly one-tenth { the expenditure of the country. It is estimated that the kingdom con- tains eleven million smokers, there- After the tobacco smokers come the miscellaneous crowd of people who pay stamp duty Those who give bonds oe receipts, write cheques gnd- banker; notes, insure their lives, their Ships or their cargoes, play cards, take patent medicines, or be- come partners in companies, will pay among them £5 _ 000 towards the expenses of the . TEA-DRINKERS contri drink tea, the pay- | ment of each person will not be more | than six or seven shillings. Sugar-caters will have to pay £9,- 775, ees consumers of coffee, co- coa 4 chocolate will contribute | £750, oto Thus the breakfast and tea table | books and parcels through the post | wHPpay £7,250,000 towards the war ues or beg 6d. i the nibs oe aie Post-O for thie | war. Even the caters of plum and other | puddings will help by paying the Customs duty on currants and rais- on Suez Canal shares, the proiits of the Mint, the uins, chicory and must be used, pete of oat bushels toes eight bushels. v £203 each; while those leaving per- 'liberty fore each of these will pay £2 8s. for |to e@ war, will contribute £22,525,000 to the cost of the War, or about 11s. for every man, woman and child in the country. The people bu writo letters, send Postal and money orders, despatch | twlegrams, and sen newspapers, | takes account only of fice Then' there is the payer 'of land- | tax and cee enty. The whole group - these payers will give| nm sum o £4 "Bu '000 towards paying jeraythur--about yer own size, honor,' well. on the surface would dump the dirt the tent. At night the rend ckets Be tro erie out frequently, did | not excite the suspicion of the Fng- die! lish so | "Once phe 'day they had s take fmartiage of which a the di was coconibe { down all tents and that wa fT chief danger e hole iby a blanket covered with' sand, and frequently: the oflicer on wutch most stepped in. on box o the fellows ORDERED TO SHOOT THEM. "This work continued for five weeks, and the boys were almost at when some traitor in the me told the commandant of their Often he sat down over it and chatted with n Pla Lie "The British wailed for three days, and a dozen men were stationed at the point whcre the prisoners were | to emerge, with orders to shoot them down ey came out. But my friends were also warned and ceased op pea > underground. @ next day the commandant went fin "ct to their tent and kicked the bitasileut away. "General Forrestier-Walker and large party officers-from the Powerful inspe ted the job, but no one was anxious topo into the hole. An engineer finally volunteered, and afterward declared the tunnel to be a perfect pic sce of It mensured }xo feet in length and was slightly in- jclinec a and Johannsen were separ- One | me orning, when the prisoners were all taken to bathe, Jan¢ék. dropped into jst 1 hole and pulled the sand over him, | 80 only his nose was exposed He mained there for t hours, then jeineracedt unscen and made his way to | the Lil station. He walked "shraush the station and on to the , bonrding an East Coust ship. "To hannsen escaped two days later - first gettin Ns out of the inclesure, then See o « Norwegian j barque by me "We all " 'at Delagou Bay, 'did not mee rnize each other until we reached Pretoria, it fear of be- 'ing detected. We were ail playing the role of srindineicelinte: in sympathy with the British. 'I suppose the signs are still up at 'Delagoa Bay and Simonstown, offer- jing £200 each for our capture, dead or alive." but ECONOMY IN EVERYTHING. The truly gifted. engineer always makes one part of his work fit into sanother, and no energy is ever wast- ins. a share of the expense will ied. A wealthy engincer who had set be £500 1 very fine place in the country, The tal 'of these contributions iwhere he had carried out many pet amounts to £230,550,000, Icaving a 'constructive projects, was visited deficit of ten agd a half milltons. jthere by an old friend, The _ visitor ! ra will y the rent of had o much difliculty in pushing open his front gate that he oke about it to the proprietor. ° "You, ought to fix that gate," he id. man 'just so' coe that is hard 'Ha !"* aidathoe the engineer, don't understand my economy; m quite'certuin. That gate com- municates with the water-worka 'of be ouse, and every person who mes through we pumps up _ four gallons of water who has everything not have a gate Judge--"What sort of a man, now, as it whom you saw commit the anon ult ?'" Constable--!'Shure, yer honor, he was a small, oho oe er al- |} another girl a andsome legacy" would induce him nd to. jthe m Not 'long: since it was reported that | Wolverhampton lady had forfcited a fortune of $250,000, 'should marry and whom she should not When he found his wishes disre- garded he entirely cloths his niece in his will. The $250,000 he intend- on condition that within twelve pres after at- \ta taining the age of twenty-one she married an individual naohel in his il. In case ia: condition was not if:lflled the m om |evidently bent on controlling "he areas of somebody.--London Tit- ts --_4+--___ LONDON'S IMMENSITY. immensity of London can only be understood when we come to deal with the many sides of the people's lives. Every year about 130,000 ba- i: boys born ates grr Says the Lon- don Expre More than. 400 out of every 1, 000 ever live to be two y ra old, over pay ttle coffins ducts used every year t ry their remains. More bur than 20,000 people die every year in 0 put ae spite wa the fact that about Londoners FO to their last old pest 50,000 more per- aliv London sio Giddines" each twelve- . 80,000 of which are celebrat- in the churches of the establish- ment. Strange as it may seem, ing that we have had couinvinony ed, ucation now for o rity years, there are e or. sare than 2,- 000 persons ae ed in London who r write . mistake to sup pose that everybody .who can comes to London, and that the population is anercanty almost entirely hy this proces S a matter of fact, close upon 40, 000 Londoners leave the me tropolis every year or for places abroad. NOT CHANGED MUCH. ad," he said; operated aha you eh taken up;this 'New Woueix "Really Po "ghe "Tl was afraid you but it does scem a rt i. Wo 1 seb , important ce rae star waanle t like it t "With our enlarged sphere of useful- ess we naturally take a brouder view of things and become more self- reliant. Trifles cease to annoy us--"' "Exactly," he returned. "Now, if you were not a 'New Woman' would be dreadfully mortified think that your bak. was not on straight, but 'being a "John 1° she cried, * "IT mest look like a fright.' ae DOLLARS VERSUS LOVERS: r the country ar | the ne and he therefore forfeited ~