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armed constabulary of the ct i by intermarriage many oftl are adopting 1h: mid: of 18131 ny was a: one time. commt 'ihe natiVos, but the influence! In teaching is making it. lesss irtainzv um; uracticc‘d by t] E Africa, therefore, 1 r1 upon the African now, I am glad to 33 '; part in that work, ! annnpggfllllv DIOSQC .râ€"Now, : . in you. I “'3‘“ to be. I that you won't dunu' underswofigthga‘n yo 3:; to aV'O‘ . 1 1 You. :01! ”93‘ RL uom Coast colony proper three hundred and fifty mi its greatest breadth being sc mdred and fifty miles, but land, recently annexed, is m xterm-me. and, with it, the 0011 as, it is estimated, not less U 0 people. These are, for art, poor, for while their con auril‘eruus. their knowledsra ;h it is often difficu .ilmated a lorrigni r, 1 ican, can, “iLh care, 4 nd do good w art; on 1' Africa; but his 11: necessarily limited 1 rould not be in his m Africa; but his usefulne. necessarily limited m 3 W1! ’ould not be in his own can! natural environment. the work of evangelizing a r Africa. therefore, £31.15" a; 3, how 'eturns, only 5 per cent are Be at the government 3i1 About 1,300 children attel re known as non-assist: in mew OI 1 atxve duties successfully prosec of educating patife :ov of L “nth Dware C APIT 338 been In ‘ SMELLIX G "b..- ‘Vrsg na LIVES u. 18 esnmated, not less th people. These are, for l 1:, poor, for while their con triferous, their knowledge out the gold is Very limit: haVe 11 me of the modernm‘ mm; c 113 qa nt 3' galdmi IL generally witn Lamps 3. Some Americans are a] firing gold concessions the] owe of the Gold Coast con comely physiques, solnel mg exceedingy attracting Tiny are pnmicive in the zllLel‘ Stimated s CERTAIN. and Lnduszry W611 as for 1.1 3 About L111] microbes are easu) Sc \ Venteen to be 111° heart of gold vein. the na LiVeg en _â€"'J" hat Prince Henry of E to the coast, in 1593“ i ireturnmg from the Way to Kumasi, '03 st ismed the 00881 by mOdEérn I of {his fact bf e nati in the colony. e rland, according e town of 1311 Settlement Christians was created a] 3, although as senth century it ; {finish “H.181!“ 110th of it lies! ’ its wanike tril 13'» 1' Y of its inha 501‘ the wealth: ‘1‘ Rings. The em if worship Were iOOJY character. “it“ Sabjuzac I s. docile, and a on. Mohamm reduced by ti udan and 0th .rlncipal egemel SHAN TEE. goods, was nfl‘h. vas called 98 the first from that .Bnce that with populat. “.1110 han ungaL ad {re ently giiflwi \II‘. nous gesture pistol in his atched it f: that WEIh it crime: how h! as idle raving he: come up rjure herse F-eggcfl him. 1 her before he husband had H..~: asslstant Slept out. and it had pen {mitively proved that he did ieep at his lodgings that night, as .e. .‘Jr. Skewtoon, had made it his usiness to find out. He had gone {right there after work, gone to bed ails. ‘nstd breakfasted there next morning and only got the news of the nuz‘ciez‘ when he returned to work. His lame \\ :15 Janin Pierrot. With regard to the tumbler, which imitautacdly contained a sediment of 521M111. he had removed it without be- 118 terfectly sure of what it had con- tained. but it smelt odd, and at that :im he had his own theory about the "1 might not have done without tile :Offirmatory evidence of the pm- 0 .’ .‘iYou say you saw he was hiding ‘t “.1 his breast, May he mot have puck- 9111: up from where it had been flung {some other person 3” It is possible. But his demeanor ":5 that of a guilty person.” . Which you took care to intenslfy. 063.“ nor strike you that you went °°stierahly beyond your duty in try- ing to get him to incriminate him- once all save the mou‘ rompted it. further related hc ., partly disorder: of undressing he done stairs, he ,h :e 311 the toilet- lat gentleman: hc wn to the prisone ‘*-'J W ut‘glir entering the house on that v.1. True, there was the sknght. the cobbler who iived in the house :move suspicion, or rather, phy si- s“ incapacitated from attempting 31413: and he wasgthe only person had slept in the place that night- \V he: do you think 9” . ‘39.: Mrs. St. George obtained pos- sn of it, and destroyed it her- .mi your impression was that Amid had doctored the draught 3” .t firstâ€"yes.” a order to put her mistress into 1nd sleep while the sapphires were Skewton’s evidence produced u suspects 5 did not believar. St.George be accused himself of the mur- ‘l\. '7 EV..." Vvâ€"â€"____ 1 impression. However much erred in his zeal. and officious- (ed Jack along his road to the . thereby earning for himself Layering " of the judge, he had to facts, and proved them, too; 5 yet Mr. Lemaire had noth- sumtial with which to support :Iy. Nevertheless, he was in his rm when he jumped up, and susnectcd the French maid kewton was silent. . beginning?” ught she had ahand in the on of the missing letter.” think so still?" ressing he had suddenly Ltirs, he had found an en- the toilet- table addressed 191:: III how he had taken :he prisoner, who recogni z- s wifes handwriting; of rible effect was produced 3y the 52 ght of it, and of .19 a lining8 in the chain of considered that scrap ‘Dlied. fight to book‘for this 1f1§t .U Skew-ton imperturably relate how he went up to enquiries had not B Mb‘zish the identity beâ€" .‘Lw nchman with whom 5116 am? and the man who :1 described how he had light to the room where been shot, the body hav- een removed to his own at the new turn things 5 now growing apace, on's appearance on the a volte face that speed- readjustment ofa good rquired_ i_de§§, and blew : the prisoner’s exces- o the pistol which he in 1118 breast-pocket, {r k'ew ton, took from lun: ary confession of w it happened, and in a motive that evident- broken. savage as a .ws itself trapped, and zxings, Rose left the for a. while disap- nd for‘a moment she were about to fall. 12:1 Pierrot,” she said nded by Mr. Lemaire 1 treacherous mem- n'ure, smiling- 33 eleased her and re- J anin Pierrot as’him?” . to: “i don’t encourage no peLLicoats 11, about the place. - gh rm :1 bacheluore, 1am, thank! the as? Loni.” 11-: ‘ :he did call?” ed: ”Une calied yesterday.” “\V'as that. her iilSL visit?” . “"nomen be such iiggers nowada3s, ed ani (118.58 so union :1 hieâ€"how can 1 on tell” 9â€".-- “Even after this convincing evi- dence of the prisoner’s guilt, you held to your theory that a burglar had something to do with the business?” “Yes. But after working continuous- ly at the case I was reluctantly oblig. ed to dismiss the idea, there was abso- luteiy no evidence to surrport.’ it.” ‘ wYou aid not even ascertain that the cobbler’s assistant vs as Rose Dupont’s lover ”’ “)0.” “Then I congratulate Scotland Yard on you,” said Mr. Lemaire, con- temptuously. as he sat down.” But jurymen are usuaaly [Slain xpen, Who do not cultivate their imagma-a tions, and who are apt to sift even facts to their extremest xfinnowmg- point, so that Mr. Lemaire’s cross-ex- amination appeared to them in the light of fireworks, that did no harm, if but little good. _( t \ . _-- l Job Trubshoes, the cobbler, was next calied, not so much as a witness against the yrisoner. as to offer re. butting testimony to the possibility of any person having got from his house into No. 13 that night. Pushed into the witness-box against his will, and presenting as crabbeck an appearance as a human being well could. he answered the questions 'put to him slowly and grudgingly at first, but. presently got angry, and: gave out his snarls quicker. . _ s u ‘ ‘_r his snarls QUICKGI. . - What he had to say had been largely discounted by Mr. Skewton, but he was made to relate in detail what hours his aiéprentice kept, and many Otheq de- tells, that made that young man apâ€" pear an industrious and harmless creature who would not hurt a fly, and who, by no manner of means could have obtained entrance to the cob- Hat’s house, unknown by the cobbler. that night. But Just as the cross old man was congrawlating himself on his ordeal being over. Mr. chmaire rose, and pounced upon him, like a. spider on a fly. _ - Ir 0 h. - L L--_ AOJ. “How long has Janin Pierrot been with you T’ “1 don’t. rightly remember. It might be a. monthâ€"or w, oâ€"or six.” _-‘L_ 111ke care, 511-. How many months has he been. with you?” “Tame.” “You wanted an assistant, and he came LO you to ozfer himself?” ‘A\, he aid.” “how came be to know you wanted an assia‘tauw" “how do 1 know? P’r’aps you told mematébns?” “Pir’aps 1 did. “Eon Look him Lions{” “since you’re so pressing, Idid.” “He was agood workman 2” “Good enougn [or me.” "Did a b‘renchwoman call to SOIIOVV. “i Leli ’ee,” said Job, getting angry, “I never saw the wunmnâ€"nor uiu Pierrot for the matter of that â€"- till abouL a. fortnight ago, when she same in in a hurry to» geL a shoe. eased tor A" little chili: .she ‘had with her. And she never said a. word. ta he, nor he 10 she)’ Mr. Lemaire swallowed his chagrin bravely. -r “You knew aim was maid to Mrs. St. George?” "No.” “You knew her name?” ”No. Neighbors told me afterward she came Lrom No. 13, but her money was as good as any one else’s so I wasn’t going to turn it away.” “At what. Lime did Pierrot leave off work?” “Six o’clock.” “He left at that time the night of the murder?” evemng‘: “You never once left the house?” Job Trubshoes hesitated, scowling and mumbling _his gxizzly jaws. “P’r’aps I hid. I‘m 'a - matter of five minutes. To buy my supper beerfl’ "You left your door unlocked?” “Yes.” “Any one might have got in during your absence?” “Who wanted to get; in?” snarled the 01-1 man. “I’d gOL nothing to steal.” “It was dark when you went out?” “Cat’s twilight.” “Did you visit the attic that night?” “No; it’s a lumberâ€"room. What should 1 want there at night?” Mr. Lemaire nodded his head several times. “What time did Janin come next morning?” “Eight o’clock.” “Did he look as usual?” \ “A man don’t change his face with his coat. I took no particular notice on him.” “Some inquiries were made an your house that day?” “Y$, a passel of {0013 who turned the place upside down, and me and Janin inside out. But; they. didn’t get much change out ofi either on us.” Mr. Lemaire pressed the pointâ€"to his since?” ‘Never missed a day.” “Seems cheerful ” ‘ “Shoemaking don’t want cheerful- ness, it wants‘ skjll.“ Janin stuck to ”WU, -v - his work-“aid didn’t trouble about women, and murders, and such-like stuff. Lox, sir!” added the old match .“He did.” “You remained in the honâ€",6 all the you took him without recom- Q” and p'r'aps ldidnt.” wiLhou: recommenda- 588 with a grin, “you’ve found a. man’s nest, and. muctgrgoqg. may it (19 ’gef’. So departed Job Trubshoes; but Mr. Lemaire had made his point.- Viz” that J anin could easily have returned to the house, unknown to J ob. have hidden in the disused attic and made his way comfortably enough into No. 13; Could â€"might haveâ€"but did he? The alibi was very clear. And then the court adjourned for luncheon. staff . But him that risks to get a fa. Mr. Lemaire was in no worse plfght than many a clever advocate had been before him, viz; having to make bricks without straw, and good, hard, con- vincing bricks, too, that would stand any amount of scanning and throw- reply, he bore so confident a bearing and had so easy an air of assurance, that Rose, sitting in a remote corner of the court, trembled with fear as she looked at him. ‘ ‘ Du LVV5‘Vu -Dv “a”. His very first words gave her good cause for terror. for he roundly stat- ed, in a very fine and impressive man- ner. that the prisoner in the dock had no business there at all; for, that if the detectives had not blundered and misled justice, another man, and that the really guilty one. would be stand- ing there in his place. “ The name of that man,”-â€"â€"and here! Mr. Lemaire paused, and his scathing eyes found out the French woman where she sat, “was Janin Pierrot, Rose Dupont’s lover, and Rose Du- pont’s confederate, the man whom she had assisted to get into the house, Whom she had helped to depart, and who had shot Mr. Ross when discover- ed on the premises by that gentleman When he returned to the house after Mr. St. George had gone up to bed." At this daring indictment, unexpect- ed,. startling, a bolt out of the blue, all eyes were turned on Jack, then on Rose, who, cowering as under a ornqhina’ thsical blow. had CI‘OUChed “ The coast was now clear, all was prepared for the thief, Janin Pierrot, and at the given time he stole safely and secretly into the house. Into the house, yes, but meanwhile, some one. who had not been taken into the woâ€" man’s reckoning came in with his latchkey, and in the act of undressing, hearing movements below, for which he could not account, probably the noise made by the man‘s getting through the window, descended quickâ€" ly, and found himself face to face with an intruder, who, having come for plunder, was betrayed by person- al jeopardy and fear of consequences into murder. Mr. Ross always carried firearms; in this instance he carried a pistol belonging to Mr. St. George and it was natural enough that he E should present the weapon he had with him at the man *he found there under such desperate circumstances at such an hour of the night. “ That man," went on Mr. Lemaire, still with his eyes fixed on Rose‘s bow- ed figure, “Janin Pierrot, Rose Du- pont’s lover, alias the cobbler’s assist- ant, snatched the pistol from Mr. Boss‘s hand, shot him dead with it, laid him an; the very feet of the drugged and innocent woman, who had been betrayed by the maid, she had bene- fitted and trusted, and too terrified to pause and secure the booty for which he had come, made his escape. “ If the woman up stairs stole down in the night and saw the hideous workl her greed had wrought, she has prov- ed herself of sufficient resource and E resolution to go up again, and, remain quietly there till the morning, when the discovery of the night’s events would come about naturally and no suspicion attach to herself. “ So, indeed, things fell out, and we may be sure that when her poor mis- itress woke out of the drugged sleep, to find a murdered may only a yard .or two away, the maid shrieked loudâ€" er than the mistress and manifested ten times as much surprise and ter- TOT. “ And here,” Mr. Lemaire turned and looked at Jack, “ came in, apart from that poor young man’s death, the most tragic, the most unfortunate feature of the whole case, and the one that so completely played into Rose Dupont’s hands as left her mistress of the game. In the first-shock of the dis- covery husband and wife mutually susâ€" pected each other of the crime, the husband thinking the wiEeLhad kill- 1.-..-â€" D -â€"â€"â€"__ “LL VIA-u“ _ 1â€"! ed his friend in defence of her honor,7 the wife believing that Mr. Ross had stolen into her room while she was asleep, been discovered there by her husband, and that in'a fit of fury the latter had killed his friend, believing in her guilt, and left the dead man there to tell his own tale.” ~ Mr. Lemaire removed his eyes from Rose, to glance at Jack, and thrilled with satisfaction at the success of his bold guess, while the eyes of all pre- sent, following his, found in Jack’s face a living corroboration of his coun- sel’s words. ‘ A. .o A_, C HAPTER X11. for be Continued. THE MULE IN TIME OF WAR NEARLY A MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF HIM IN ACTION. American and Spanish llnles “'orkllx Side by Side In South Afrlénâ€"‘l‘helr Great Inner-lance In Warâ€"Stands the Climate Better Than the Horse, and .‘lneh Easier l-‘ed. ? The Marquis of Lansdowne, Secre- tary of State for W'ar; says that the government has bought 15,000 mules, to carry troops and supplies from the coast to the scene of war. . Of these 8000 or 9000 were bought in the United States, and several thousand of them are already in active service. The rest are on the way from New Orleans and Charleswn. The remainder came gfrom Italy and from Spain, and thus l we see the Spanish and American mule laboring side by side against a com- mon foe, writes a correspondent. 011 general principles we may sup- pose that it was the Spanish variety of mule which was directly responsible‘ for the great calamity at Nikolson’s Nek, causing the capture of 1500 Bri- tish troops and the death of several gallant officers. . The thing never would have happened if the mules had nor. stampeded and run away with the ammunition. In a private letter an infantry officer wrote from Ladysmith some days previous to this disaster that a lot of unbroken mules had just been received, and he predicted that they would stampede the first time they got inn-to action. The mule was responsible not only directly for the one great reverse of the war, but it vwas the lack of him that delayed the embarkation of the lst Army Corps and enabled the Boers to have a brief hour of triumph. The humble animal figures a bit in di- plomacy, for the fact that: he had not been bought when hostilities became certain was held to be adequate refu- tation of the charge that Mr. Cham- berlain deliberately brought on war. Oddly enough, some of the same critics who had scored the government for preparing for war too previously af- terward turned around and found ,fault because the government was not lready when the fighting really began â€"especially because that. all-import- the “Far Office has bought and paid for mules worth about $1,500,000. The latest mule quotation is $100 a beast, and I am informed that the market is firm and that no difficulty whatever has been found by the government in getting all the mule help they want. In fact, the “far Office’s representa- tives in Cape Colony have been gath- ering in all the miles in that neigh- borhood for the last six months, and got about am there alone. More re- cently, however, no further back. than three months ago, officers were sent to EurOpe and America mule hunting. The mules of course, .don’t know where they are going, and neither do the men who are taking them. Orders have been given them “Proceed to the Cape for instructions.” but whether after they get there and drop anohor, they ’ will he landed in that neighborhood or sent around to Durban or Port Eliza- ' beth is an open question. 1n buying these mules the officers have been careful as far as possible to get those that have been trained. This word "trained” suggests a pos- sible mule curriculum, but it means merely those who have been in har- ness and done a bit of knocking about alreadyâ€"although, as my informant, an army officer, who knows mules from A to Z, remarked, “You get even a raw mule in front of a stout wagon with a couple of tons in it, and he can’t do much harm.” These new mules are to be used only for transportation purposesâ€"that is, for hauling the long “Cape wagons.” ten or twelve mules to eachâ€" and none of them is destined to carry packs, the former function of the mule. in war. None of. the new recruits wi-Ll be press- ed into service as members of mounted batteriues, either, for there are two mule companies that have been accus- tomed for years to act as flesh-and- blood gun carriages at the Cape. These last animals served their ap- prenticeship at the government bar- racks at Newport and have become used to the, smell of powder, and are entirely blase about having small CANNONS ON THEIR BACKS. In fact, the mule is playing a big- ger part in this campaign than any re- presentative of his species ever did be- fore, for, as my informant put it, “this is the biggeSL eXpedition sent out. from England since the Crimea, and the use of mules in the Franco-Prussian war was only a fraction of what it is in this one. You see, it would be next to impossible to carry on; our war in; ;th-e Transvaal without othe mule. \Ve ’ohose him for this expedition espec- ially, because he will stand the climate of South Africa better than the horse. In fact, you get more'i out of the mule than you do out of the horse. Of course, ‘he’s slower, but than-film’s stronger, too, and he stands the work bEaCCkfl'.‘ .1 fancy I know an tboult! mulesâ€"I’ve handled ’em in India and in South America and at the Cape, too. We usually get twenty years’ work out of a mule, and that puts the horse’s record nowhere. Mules don’t contract disease as easily ashorses, but, on. the other hand, when a mule does get some trouble he plays out faster than the horse does. Wlhy, as far as we know, out of the 6000 mules now. un- der observation, we haven’t lost more than three. \Vhat do they eat? 0h, “tactically the same as the horseâ€" onjy‘ a dgal less than he?_requi_rgs_.’_‘ It is said that the trouble at Nikol- son’s N ek was due not so much to luck of soldierly qualities on the put of the mule as to mistaken or treacher- ous management on the part of the Cape boys, who were in charge of him. and that if some of. the negro mule tenders from the South had arrived in time to accompany the expedition those 1500 men never would have been taken prisoners. Now, a friend of mine, A GERMAN SCIENTIST, who has jusc come back from J ohan- nesburg, make an unpalatable state- ment about these Cape boys, and I re- port it for whatever truth there may be in it, “There ,are two kinds of Cape boys,” he said, “those who have studied with the missionaries and those who have not, It is a fact that in Johan- nesburg, and in the mines Cape 1’93! who have not come under reli gious in- fluence are greatly preferred. This is not saying anything against religion, but that the boys who have gone to missionary schools have learned just enough, as a rule, to become deceitful and untrustworthy, Get a Cape boy when he isin his natural state of ig- norance, and you can usually depend 111300 him.” At any rate, it is to be observed that most of the muleteers at Nikolson’s Nek had been in the servia of_l30er farmers in the neighborhood The mule used for the mountain at tiller) ordinarily holds a much highel rank than the common, or garden, mule, and usually has special training and a carefully considered reputation for stability. It is his duty to help carry to high and difficult places the 7-pounder screw guns which are often used with deadly effect by the British. This screw gun is so called because if. is in two parts, each weighing 75 or 100 pounds. Each half is intrusted to a mule and the two parts are jo: ned together at the mountain top in a jiffy; the carriage is brought on. the back of another mule, and others bring along the ammun tion. It is evaect- ed that these mountain batteries will soon be more effective than ever, {or much improvement n‘as oeen made lately in the pattern of . \ THE MOUNTAIN GUN. The mule has many advantages over the horse in the present campaign, especially because he has the reputa- tion of being able to hang on to a pre- cipitous pathway by his ears where a horse could not be made to venture with any amount of urging. , Except in mountain climbing, he carries ordi- narily about 160 pounds, although, it well fed, he sometimes can take 300 pounds. He not only is much freer from disease than the horse, but his skin is so much thicker that the pesti- ferous tropical bug can not. make life so much of a burden for him. Besides, he isn’t half so fussy asahorse about what he eats or drinks. His usual tau tions in South Africa are 10 pounds of .grain or 20 pounds of oat hay, with ‘ half an ounce of rock. salt; that, how- ever, is when times are good, and if he has to work along on short rations he is as cheerful and contented about it aspossible. So it is that the humble mule is tak- ing away nearly all the laurels in this war from his haughtier equine cousin. Gen. Truman, in charge of the re- mounts department, which is attend- ing to all the purchases of mules and horses for the war, has been receiving more offers of horses for service in South Africa than he can accept. 'Nc horse under 5 or over 9 years is taken. Of the 2000 horses bought outside 01 those already reserved by the govern- ment, many have seen service in Lon- don on the street {car and bus lines. One who doesn’t know the London bua horse might draw a mental picture 01 a worn-out bag of bones, and that would be a gross libel, for the London bus horse is big, strong and sleek. PATRIOTIC TRADESMEN. In view of the war in the Transvaal a London photographer announces his willingness to photograph sailors and soldiers in- uniform free of charge, and to present a cabinet portrait to every one accepting the offer, while an in- staklmc acumen furnishing tompany gives notice that it will suspend pay- ments for goods to all reserve men called out, and that in the‘event o! any of its customers being; killed dur- ing the war the company will forega the balance. of the account and make a tptresent of the whole of the goods to the widow or children. , CLEANING PARIS. Paris is said to be the cleanest city in the world. Every morning 2,00! male and 600 female scavengers, die vided into 149 brigades, turn out ta perform the toilet of the capital. Th1 men. work from 4 in the morning til} 4 in the afternoon, less two hours oil for meals, or 10 hours a day. The women are engaged in the morning only. “Ellieâ€"Johnny Smith's mother is awful good to him. Jimmyâ€"“That did she do? Let him have the measles the day school opened. Hoaxâ€"There goes a woman whose husband has had one foot. in the grave for many years. Joannâ€"Why, I thought he was dead. Hoaxâ€"So be is, but he was a one- legged man. Hasn’t that poet a far-away look! Yes. I presume he is trying to see a square meal somewhere in the in- ture. Nop, 'th” dog won't sleep no else but on th' back-door mat. Kind 0’ dogmatic, ain't ho} COULDN’T BE DISPUTED. POETICAL DREAMS. A DOTIN G PARENT. PRESUMABW won't sleep nowhereo by