oe & 7 ' =» Smisht lay.a wager you were think- cs ded : damsel's. ry > "tutsec. : 1 his office. ; Pee menadine the room in APTER VIl.--(Coat'd, igretted having said sa'tiunck té the I have the proo t, y & confes-' sion: that will astonish you, C) theft of the colonel's casket and the | Gfty thousand franca was preceded by another, jwhich Vignory and [ ascertained. 'and you did not tell me-" '"'Vignory wished 'te do so: I opposed it, One Wednesday even- ing we had dined together, and came to pass the evening at your deg We _ light in the of- fier, went i You will be amcked to learn' what Ifound there --the hand of a woman caught in mechanisin which defends the safe.' "A hand hat. absurdity are yon. telling me?' inquiries, and was 4old that the woman when she oo- ) evpied it was never alone: Her _ Servants wore : livery, and had the ap nee of foreigners.' ENahilists doubtless. They have returned to Russia until they are Needed here. These sinister. birds JAravebs 'incessantly from. east to west and west to east. "A propos of servants,"' asked Mcxime, suddenly, ~"is adame Yalta aure*of the fidelity of hers?"7 "Absolutely sure. AH have és, a hand which the accom- made part of her household fot| plice of the thief had cut off. I[ yc ars, and they worship the coun- teok into my head to discover alone --_ the owner of the hand."' cig Bren those who are not domes-t:."Thst is just like you; but how s--the professors, for instance?) eculd Vignory countenance this I know only the fencing-master, "whom I saw on one occasion fenc- ing with Madame Yalta. Hes a 8 T believe ?"' The, gepatext Pole in the world --s political refugee. But Poland does not consort with Nihilism." "Then you do not admit that he krows the brunctte of the Rink?" '"'How, diable! could he know folly? His "duty was to give me warning, and his silence was inex- &) cusable. "Tt was that I almost forced him it;** "A beautiful reason. He was my employe, and has proved false tu me. I shall never forgive him."' At this moment office-boy ap- peared,~who announced that Col. Berisoff wished to speak with M. Dorgeres on very urgent business. "J have.not time,"- replied the (banker impatiently: "Still less. May I ask, my dear De 'rRétes, the meaning of all these questions ?' rd le."' said M < . g pardon, uncle," said Max- Oh, nething. I fancied 1 had, jime, '*Will.you do me the favor seen him, a long time ago, dressed! to. fecefve Col. Borisoff, and to<al- = * gentleman, and escorting 'Ma-lie me to be present? I shall not; "ap hg ! Vee Fhe de trop, for I am sure he comes | _Assuredly," said Villages, who to-speak of your former secretary. hac slistened with close attention "The edlonel has an important: _while affecting indifference. It is 'more _pro- able he comes on business. -account with mé. ing of this reiter when you allu Leet the possibility of a battle at the' "The business that occupies him You thought he had fol- just now i an affair "of Towed ther to her present abode."'|™vney,"' said Maxime, with confi- "T confess I had some stich idea,/dence, "and I answer for it the but I have it no longer,"' said Max-|¢° nyersation will turn solely to M. ime, quickly. de Carnoel. If you will permit me A sudden flash passed through) t* "emain you will learn much tue eyés of the doctor. and from: more quickly what IL. have yet to ths change in-his countenanee' a: 'tell, and I, perhaps, shall find out phy siognomisy wou have'divined some -- of which I:am still ig- hat he shag just come~in posses-! B¢rant sion of a proof jo aaTand skilfully ; "Very well, if Lam ae ght. | whidh had for him, ask you to go out, Pade wait mié in my: inna wes aS phen ae sae He fe} ute "Our *linquish the thee: vigil mis pili ! Borisoff gl walk in," " he said' to 'the self to the teeth for our expedition office -bo to-night ?"' In ameiicbe moment the door op- " ania _eved and the colonel entered. ! "Pardon me, sir," he said, "if |] have insisted upon being receiv- ter, "and shall go unarmed, evened I leave this evening for Rus- should this Kardiki ee Ma-'sin, and must speak with you be- dunie Sergent's body-g \fere my departure." "I do not cast any doubt on your! "At yolr service, believe me, 'Oh, am not. afraid, Maxime, who had caught the some what satirical meaning of the doc- "Mon- colonel. courage, but when oné gieur is my aephew, but if you de- carries a revolver he is. always' girs to be alone with me- tempte! to make use of it, and [| I have head the honor to meet do fot wish to create a disturb-) y7 Maxime Dorgeres," said the ance. It is agreed, then. I will) colonel, slowly, "and congratulate meet you at midnight at the rund) ).) self upon finding him here. If: ~int of the Champs-Elysees. Per|] had not 1 should have begged you mit ine now to take leave of You) to send for him. You guess, per Ihave ten patients to see this' haps,' he went on, 'the cause morning. i which obliges me suddenly to leave faxime extended his hand to the Pe risit™ dector, and mide nv effort to de "1 confess I do not,' replied the tain him. . banker '4 propos of patients," resumed "You have not, then, read the 2 a Villagos, 'the countess has gone y.orning papers?" into the country to«day. It is cold Sot yet. | have been busy this and raining, but it matters a j me rning. ing to + i have ~~ my a "Then you do not know that ras- to deter her, but without success. | eals at St. Petersburg have at- "Tt is strange,' murmured Ma imine, "she said nothing of her in-, fenton yesterday. "' tempted the life of the emperor, niy master {' "What, again?" "Bocause this beautiful idea riemiee, a ge: - came in her steep, and this morn=s ag x Agia Mag --_ 2 ing she wrote to announce to me ceremed asitacniously. bail teave . 3 should start at Ne soldiers have perished. . This unfurseen absence of Ma 'It is abominable, said the 'dame Yalta deranged Maxime's: banker. earnestly. "1 ayarone 'this | plans. He had. however, enough: crime was the work of those ban-| "Yo. occupy the day three persons' diis whom you call} Nihilists.' his cousin, his friend, "There is no doubt of it. The and > his uncle. { He inade straight for Rue de Suf-!erument and on society. e@enes, and was not a little surprised right and duty, of the government to be informed Wy the concierge to defend its sacred interest, and Deulevant that ., Dorgeres had it calls upon. all its servants upon Flee at for him, and was awaiting him whose de pron s ey count. I am He found the baer riof these, and I evitient! "My best wishes: accotapary you, colonal. | execrate the enemies oe _T have heard "tute ily and property," said M. Dor |geres, with visions of the red re-| done, my dear. public before his eyes. 'You wish, asked Maxime, but_slight-| doubtless, to withdraw na (entrusted to me. I will make ar-! "Very wrong, I can tell you. You; Tangements for you to do so this; * @pitat ion. ~ "Ab "here you are. ve assured my daughter that the very day."' scoundrel she dotes upon has been' "Thank you, ssir. But I vol -- * uw piusty accused. Do yon.-know something" mire interesting to! a . Batohas been the result of this Jati f , : ' '4 ek talk She has declared that sparta! than Ze. Peenlatng o sr ain rem B Ame: mnniet account." "Rpeck; "entonel its nature, but-- ythate you ever womlered why a not marry Vighory, apd, & that she will not fnarry aS she persists_in this resu=y T cannot xuess| 5 you.may boast of having" Fe have resided in Paris for two er existence and mine pat vee Boeri ah spe ig yest friend, ' 'abr uptly. Opes you have dashed with; «; ppose - ame blow. Bnt I ask why 'onal ae rr it was for Fiscy 'ee have with. reckless levity, destroy- Fon seen ae * Lowas ed the future of your cousin 8 here me a disk over | _ fag fret gratitude to me for hav- ing" reated you like « son?' of sang steps I meant to take to re- ¢ things where they were when and itis She will be compelled to "yield : ( ) MRS, EA §0c a box, 6 for $2.50 or trial box, 25c. at cen -- from Fivit tives Limited, lomatists. for the task.*-I-am not-attached to the Russian embassy. I represent the political police of the empire. police !"' repeated M. Dor geres, somewhat nonplussed. "Yes. I have no further reagon te hide it, since [ leave France never to return. The casket which I deposited with you contained papers of the highest importance,-- the list of those associated with Ni- hiists, reports of the proceedings of certain persons who emigrated after the last insurrection in Po- land. You have not, I suppose, forgotten that it was stolen, and the singular circumstances that ac- eompanied the theft; and you lieve me that the accomplice of the thieves was your secretary." "T think 50 still. My nephew has the proof. "Ah!" said the volonel, looking fixedly at Maxime, who remain es. "T, too,' he resumed, 'have the ' pruof that M. de Carnoel was in 'league with the thieves. I have searched for, have found him, ar 'rested and retained shim for a ine time at my house.' "Without letting me know!' claimed the banker. "It was useless. You had given tac carte blanche, and I was free *o act in my own Way. I endeavor- to extort a confession from him, but your ci-devant socretary knew. that his friends would not abandon aie tar presetved'" an 'Statinate ra " ex- iad te your intention is: p to the Fre that he an €scaped."' 'Ma foi!" exthiimed the banker. J{T shall not be sorry for him to go "elsewhere to get hung." "He will not be hung anywhere, for they do not hang in France, and he has, | believe, no intention of quitting it. He is in Paris, and perhaps not far from the Rue de Suresnes. It was to make this known, that I called upon you,"' am very much obliged to you, colonel," stammered the banker. l shal] take my precautions." "You would do well to do so, for I am satisfied he will attempt to intreduce himselfinto your house. {I received yesterday the visit of a Russian who represented himself as sent by the chief of the politica) welice, and who succeeded by a §ress stratagem in effecting the lib- eration of M. de Carnuvel. This morning a letter from St. Peters- burg enlightened me = as the ao events of the night. The man was a Nihilist in disguise." was sure of it!' (To be continued.) + ay, BILLIONS OF CIGARETTES. Produced Annually by the Civilized Countries of the Werld. | Production of sale of cigarettes : Russia . bee ee 4,351,746,040 . 13,355,938 ,000 exice | Us ited States ty ote | Germany s+ ose ee eee. 5,283,001 000) . Austria ate @a, A GOES 4,308,974 ,000 | France 2,793,957 000 Hangery 2. c« as ses 1,876,096,000 taly 3 1 522,533,000 | Reumania . 76,941,998 ' In this table the little cigars Pro- duced in the United States are in- Tes bs as cigarettes. No attempt hus been made by the compiler - these figures to present complete stutistics for all the countries of th: world; so far as ther go, how- ever, they are official. The inland revenue report for the scal year to March 31, 1909. gives th: output of cigarettes in Canada P ---- o pen for chafed4 ¢, 'places, sore feet, or inflamed patch- | ch, caused: by friction. For ewan inal procedures watched by its dip- pak "The diplomatists do not suffice | pec 6, 411,688,409 |/¢bards, which would die if not care- | Digest. fou ng abandoned, ° in-.Ciel et. ne} ighboring. rep WOMEN ENGINEERS. heii Hunted Seaadin Girls to zx Eater Profession. Mile' M. D. Bandnrinas 4 first that peop yeu?' "T often have it; T use the telephone: a great deal." Russian lady eagineer, td. "Savages marry - savages: in & recently ofher_ eget! ath . jouth aud other savages are uite "her ' profession. * young girl. She looks a s hittle over- hip but she bes seat "hopes = fii nning was' cottals: aly Very Ths bag said, "but Ichave lready been employed by the chief @ngifieers who are constructing the ta bridge over the Neva, and I have obtained some work on the 4 Nicolas Railway. Thave to pass @ few more examinations and then I se Spree sce three of the atest generals. N&pole- rn when his father was A sensih tomperature 1 precipitatio > @ diminution of in oF snow--should| Edward Ill. when England's war- shall be recognized as a fully. re- Tior king was only 17. Alexander le sponsible engineer,"' u- rina's "specialty is the drawing of bring. about s marked d continu- "the. glac Now 4 md "more than pied a much smaller area than dur- ing the second haif of the' nine- aang | century, 'during which they. have been retrea It has long beén- S bertede the writer goes on to say, that the west coast of Greenland, has not always been uninhabitable, owing to .& for- ner more favorabl¢ 'a whence the name given try. But the historical tions of Rink and Von Mt established the fact that the disap- pearance of the ments found- ed by the Norsemen' ndue wholly te the introduction - : 'investiga- faurer havo tility and the attacks e LE mos. Suilaeh, "tae fem g iceland. x | Philippics of Demosthenes was * Henry II., and was born when his ES: NO 'SUCH: BYPorste Be § Helm has prowseubint the Mid- dle Ages the Alpine glaciers dccu-| Great was born to Philip 'of Did you ever have the feeling, ple didn't understand: plans and mathematical work." She is not quite sure jf a*°woman's phy- sical. strength will suffice for such details of practical engineering as | dealing with workmen. But hither- to men have, she says, always been very considerate to her. "There are branches in the engineering profes- facedon when the subject of the . father was 24. 'Frederick the Great was the son ofa man of 24; King Edward VilI., maa very good Wekat rae 6 England's present ruler, was the reputation." son of a man of 22, and the father of the German emperor was 28 when the present kaiser was born. FINANCIERS ALSO. Mile. Bandurina chose: the work because of her special gift'for ma- thematics. "And I have never. yet regretted my choice,' " she says. particularly proud that, She is J. Pierpont Morgan and John} about 700 young Russian girls are D. Rockefeller must also be placed shortly to follow her example, hav- i1 ; this class, according to Dr. ing been trained at Professor Bele- Snitzka. Morgan was born when ljubsky's Polytechnic Academy for his father was 24, and when Rocke} Women. There are four divisions feller first saw the light of day his father was 29. Theodore Roosevelt bears out the aggressive anc military theory of young fathers. He was the son of @ man o Charles Darwin was born when his father was 43. He is a shining example of the theory. AMONG MORA ALISTS. of the academy--one for engineer- og. another for clectro-technica wk. a third for architeciure, and a fourth for chemistry. Mlle. Bandurina owes her professional skill entirely to Professor Belsjub- ky. _AN UP-TO-DATE STOVE. The advertisement which appear- ut what are you. going to do} ish Isles than faut inac sg has: r than the evidence: tie in Belgium and Geer. coun- tries, where the crops have -- entirely under the influence ECONOMIC LAWS, of better management of the soil, or of a more iotelligns selvetion of products' to be culti 5 'In the Middle Ages, "eal up to the*fifteehth century, the vine was cultivated in Bavaria and a the other regions of rmany, in Belgium; it has almost etihieely "dis. appeared in our own day. Climate has nothing whatever to do with the cLange. The wine produced was generally of mediocre quality, and taste having improved consumers preferred imported wines or the gcod beer that brewers had learned eas te make. 'In' Belgium there are still vine-: yards... Many' persons doubtless do not kdow: that the vine is still cul- tivated'-. . at the Abbeys of Auer- bede and 'Tongerloo where the wine as obtained al a in the celebra- tion of the ma "The Er satigniiane of Dufour have also established that, contrary to the general belief, the olive has been raised in Switzerland. al- theugh they grow only in gardens an@ there are still only a few-or- fully cultivated, - In regard to all 'other cnltivated plants, the situa-| ticr. has not varied.--The Literary San a A MUSICAL PRODIGY. ' "Richstd Strauss has disobvered R redigy composer in a l3-year-o Vienne boy named Reich Rorneald, whe is already hailed as 0- aa tbe lad-is the me ore a cele- nese m ree' of the bey's s combeatiiotia --s wins for the gerne @ panto- 7" i, two pictures, whith $s said to ell, adapted for pat sok, pat of six tee die mo. a bmitted to Dr, bel --were fu "the 'al -| children offarge families and their '| generations Vieuss ag Has 1s Astonished Rieh- | ~ard Strauss. ~~, ive caver an - youngest | fathers had reached at, least middle age: when the genius of the family was born. Franklin's ancestors in the male line om the Franklin side were the youngest children for-five this paper. --_--_--_--_ SENTENCE SERMONS. A man's faith is her real fortune. back. Abraham Lincoln was the product ot a grandmother and grandfather each the baby of their respective families. FAMOUS EXCEPTIONS. The father of Audbon was 51 at the latter's birth and himself was lose. 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