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Feadl to a free . lunch reatautant. l and chase said . Mr. has come anagement restavurant > months," a restaurâ€" iink I car that . by ole tavernp gotiations that â€"end. ieces, tear ment, and Rendered v to bis itidal t . time. the terâ€" h house ed by a striking ke. .Her ernment igiand.. In oys are inâ€" LSt Me ind it is ir . long Wilirid e graimn : heads m. The t was Wives astern Parkâ€" izary ve at minster, ie ttunk, 1°r _ was ©Lgifgeerâ€" ney . orâ€" sek the $1.â€" shown in the place narv soda dic!" of Inspect Intry s, But RN, er ard red for con and of to eut m nises art v 1i€ & V AN« PAFTY w U ry 1 Wt Ya to in le It of @21 W l the badly cooked vegetables) ; "my memâ€" * Thanks," she said, lightly. "It is because I have not buried myself in desert solitudes _ for the last twelvre months? We poor woâ€" men have onty our books and our, wits, Vaâ€"Lord Fernmdale, and they stand us in poor stead sometimes. What is that galantine? Do you .remember it? You used to be an egum'm.n.‘.{,u teâ€" member flying into ‘a ‘passion ‘ the hotel in Engadine, b:uso the cauliâ€" wers weren‘t ’e?k * | uses ° Lady Lucelie shrugs â€" her â€" shoulders. They are so white and soft, and exq itely molded as one of Boucher‘s Venâ€" At first he isâ€"well, sulky! meets her little, witty, potntéd, ftfiarir, with dry and caustic monosyllables; but she is not daunted. ~â€" Fromy: m ‘oa’ flits easily, gracefully, "ado Awith â€" her bright, delicate wit all she toue unâ€" til at last Vane‘s lipg :fi'z f amnipt smile "ights up his grave face. | "You still retain your wonderful spirâ€" its, Lady Lucelle," he says, as if it were wrong for him. sn .. No; at. the slightest word on any of these subjects, Vane, she RHOWws, would turn to stone or become like a hedgeâ€" hog, all points.â€" She amises him, and when Lady Lucelle lays herself out to amuse, no man, scarcely a woman, can resist her. n t Tonk rmmiwsa _4 4‘ £ 4 NCRts ies doo ne dlyd, conbog ses. and remembers many other thi She does better than make love to him â€"she amuses him. _ Not a word of his marriage, not a word of that bitter, eruel, scornful letter, not a word conâ€" terning Jeanne or herseli does those.goft, Ted, MODIN® NS "OBRA@P: > smm mmne And what are thef nyini? Do you think my Lady Lucelle is ma inf love to Vane? _ Nothing of the sort; she is not so foolishiy inexperienced as to commit such a blunder. _ She knows Vane betâ€" ter, alas, tham Jeanne does. ;4 , ; kance at the fair face opposite,, which is so close to Vane‘s hamrmwfnfi that no one can ‘hear what the soft,; red liys are saying. t fali ind | But is there no other reason than that of natuu?l amiability for the gentle amile withâ€" which: she enraptures poor Clarence? _ I wonder why sheâ€"looks asâ€" Jeanne has beemJiving a life of soliâ€" tude for the last three months, with new friends, andâ€"a busbard only in name ; here is an old friend, and I"u%" if}? not to be wondered at that she should: unâ€" bend and be agreeable. > 9. You cannot feel unamiable with (a goodâ€"looking young fellow who waits on you with hand andâ€"eyc, discusses your taste in the matter of the menu as anxâ€" iopsly as if life"and death depended on it, nearly breaks his neck in getting a flower from . the‘e , because you happen to say aabm a pretty bud, and evidently is doing, in=all and every possible way, his beat to be agreegble.. the quantity and quality of his brains, and she is not gorry to see him.. _ Wel,~ Jeanzre hbad â€"grown more chariâ€" table~ and less ~eritical. ~. Clarence.. has improved in appearance, in manners, in CTeas "Yes," says Jeanne, and at the coldâ€" ness of the assent Clarence‘s face clears again. _ He glances around at her with greater courage; yes, ahe is asbeautiful, she is mhore beautifur :tham éver; and, what is more surprising, she is just as f;irlish: just, in fact, the Jeanne who sat us heart beating nine months ago, and whose refusal of his love has only inâ€" "Lord Ferndale must be a wonderfully clever fellow!" he says, with sudde‘n moodiness. It is a welcome, a delicious thought! If tue great Marquis of Ferndale had not been his rival, he might have won her. After all, she may have cared for himâ€" Clarence! _ Such things bave been. t It makes his heart beat madly: ht drains a glaoss of cbhablis, sends his enâ€" treeâ€"for which se Aas been waiting ton minutesâ€"â€"away untouched, and is only brought to composure by meeting \ ane‘s dark eves fixed on him. $ all a mystery to ‘jn‘:." ";]-ov;me;:;:’e.g ! ix?r%;eulfn‘i.d t‘; ’yz?fitm’ifi?: km ‘ he come.into. f‘fitiam“"‘t. kl;o“; | he was connccted w the Ferndales veven!" «1 says nothing, t jher lon lashes aroop o‘v'fr her eyels‘.!’ 3 "Who wias "to knowâ€"except;â€"of course, ourself. Lady, Ferndile®~ By. Jove, you iept it well! (g,,, j .' Then he stops short, as a sudden thought takes possession of him, body and soul, and makes. his heart beat. ~ She knew it, and that was 'th_evâ€"r;uo’ why she refused him. & a fellow goes in for that sort of thing} he must take the consequencesâ€"that 194 I mean," of "tovutse; whowas toâ€"know * â€" «"Heâ€"he always was the Marquis . of Ferndale," says Jeanue.: . . "*Good heavens!" exclaims Clarence, looking back, mem.lly,b_“he-wnn!d,‘Ani we all patted him on the vack and patâ€" ‘iifzalfim?“‘mâ€"mgâ€" ... Jeanne hangs her head and TUPHS cofor. In his eagerness, Clarchce has BeMt down to heur the explaration, and it is at this moment that Vané looks arownd "the â€", on , 60 stoine yopt b4 sty£ 1 « old * I had, act, it‘ n he bj in this roomâ€"excepting some of the ver old onesâ€"that doean‘t dislike me, .fi ‘Never?" ‘Never!" what yvow n what mgan, my dear Jeanne, but you are wfifle% wenr&: one‘s best friefnds, btit q with"thém! Life is too short for anygg'_;;â€"fâ€"éofig Why, my dear, there‘s & y a woman in lu roomâ€"excepting some of the very would quarrel with tfne,wi?i'w;-: :n; â€" 1 T 4 G t c dn 0 tB a contrast. Fair women and dark never do quarrel. Let us be friends." Jeamnme smiles. ty "Do you think my friendship so desirâ€" Able, then. Lady Lucelie® *=IL "Desirable! 1 couldn‘t get on without it!" says Lady Lucele; with the â€"most frank and charming smilo. "My dear Jeanne, we shall meet nine months out of every twelvre; we move‘ in‘ the same set, know the same people. _1 detestâ€"I cannot endure situations in which the awkward and embarrassing predominate; I never had a quarrel or a coolness in my 4 1560 39 life." "Dreadfully bo‘!d and awfully deceitâ€" ful; now, confess."" Jeanne smiled rather coldly. * "Confess, you meant to cut me whenâ€" ever you saw meâ€"that you would have done it toâ€"day if you could. My ‘dear, I saw it in your face when you beard my voice. Jeanneâ€"may L. call you Jeanne â€"don‘t say no, or look goki. We two can‘t possibly quarrel. we‘re too great 44 "Wicked?" says Jeanne, as if she wouldn‘t deny the bold. ; Lady.. Lucelle looks at ‘.hgrh witk‘mo? gofthness in her sbha @Â¥as than moni?n would deom.‘&i‘s:n‘)le of...;“gl she thinks, "then he hasn‘t told her about the letter?" â€" t® "Yes," says Lady Lucelle, fanning herâ€" self slowly, and smiling into Jeanne‘s steadfast eyes, "you‘ve been thinking ever since we were introduced," and she laughs softlyâ€""what a bold, wicked creaâ€" ture I am." _ Jeanne raises her o;eur(v)wts but does not speak. "Lady Ferndale," drawing a chair close to Jeanne‘s, and leaning forward with the most graceful easeâ€"just as she did, Jeanne remembers, on that afternoon in the little drawing room at the Gate House, "I wouldn‘t give a peany â€" for your thoughts, for I know them alreadyv.‘ She even laughs softly as . Jeanne‘s expressionable face "Well, Lady Jeanne," and looking up, Jeanne sees.. the blue eyes bent. . on herâ€"with smiling audacity. Jeanne looks up with a sudden flash of color, but there is nothing more than the usually delicate tint on Lady Lucelle‘s~fair skin, not a trace of confusion or: emâ€" barrassment; Ruthers one would say an air of deli¢ate enjoyment, as it the situâ€" ation amused her. ~ *~ * With an inward mortification, Jeanne reflected upon the consummate presâ€" ence of mind with which the fashionable beauty had set aside the fact of their havingâ€" seenâ€"eaclr othey previously, orthe exquisite Well bred air of composed pleaâ€" sure with" which she‘ H#d smiled; and, as Jeanne. reflected, she sighed. Three months ago she expressed_ a wish to enter the great world. How could she have guessed that is was so false and treacherous? /Séartely~ have these thoughts flifted through "her mind than a soft voice savs in her ear: ‘ This meting with Lady Lucelle and Lord Lane is so unexpected " that she scarcely yet realizes it. Lady Lucelie‘s propheey had come true; they had met again, and with every appearance of good will. â€"~Jeanne, â€"Jeanae. like, â€"makes ~straight for this, and seats herself in a low chair beside a marble faun, that leers down at her as he throws a spray of water from his scooped hands. While dinner has been in progress, the servants have thrown wide the doors of the consetyatory . adjoining, _the great drawing=room, and the mimic forest of ferns and flowers isâ€" lit up with daintâ€" ily shaped grotesque lanterns. Slowly but surely the _ elfbofatély planned dinner works.â€"through its courses fantastic fabrics.of sweetstuifs take the place, of more â€"solidfood ;. pomegranates and melons liedemurely on fig leaves from Alexandria, two scent fountains throw up miniature jets of perfuméd water, conversation grows general, â€" and the countess rises as Sparks, the: butler,. comes toward Charlie bearing a bottle of yellow seal. Jeanne gathers® up ‘her. cromelâ€"worked robe. Clarence is attention to the Jlast; gives her her fan, and, with a humble look, holds out the flower he his~ raÂ¥yâ€" ished from the epergne. P "Won‘t you take this?" he says. is Jeanne takes it with a smile, â€" and Clarence goes back to the table and drains a goodly glass of the yellow seal, with a hbeart fluttering likeâ€"like a man in‘ love. Vane‘ seeks safety in silence! t'o'g envied is to be happy. Vane ought to be in the highest staite of ‘felicity, tor men are envying him thelovely~girt=who sits opposite him with the Ferndale «liaâ€" monds in her hair. EHy 5 Slowly but surely the elabotatély And she logked ggat, him with a,sweep of the dark lids that fiva depth . . and meaning to the dark ‘bhie eyes.‘ *"~.* "And having lost your memory you are the happy man,""shevedys % 0%!g right,"" says Vane, laughing thmkw:m"tl.m‘mw' i an who â€"a ' andâ€"thirty has lost his memory and sayâ€" *EPT T .. shon Ts Mad: t in ; . r;ghz} nnvfl'nm‘ lynnnh npf; & Vfi saysJcanpe. says Lady Lucelle C@lie, "I1 see eanne, but you she wateches 1 uh itc B ic hi lR en ts it inss antaic it n c Li L as if she }are being made: for the: mmorrow. Thero lis some. talk . of ~meeting . the . shootin,; with. morg { party at lurcheon; would La(i{ Fer:â€" n mxgg‘ dale like that .and how would Lady _of.."Oh,"‘ L Ferndale like to go? Would she like to her about | go in the saddle, ‘or drive. M3% And so it is artanged, by tucit© ‘conâ€" sent that Jeanne is to r‘iZe Clarence‘s owr horee. Meanwhile Lady Lucelle finishes her > _ Sie can ride anything," says Charke. "Take him at “"i,s_."fm‘!’f' Efii â€"Jeanne.? ter:â€"glancing in the â€"direction of the .eonâ€" servatory, goes across to_an.old friend, and takes his cup of tea sfanding by his >"Luncheon is ‘the word," says Charlic. "Right; Go ‘as: you Jlike. Just: so. «Illâ€"ask Vane to run through the stables:and find, a shorseâ€"for you, If he can‘tâ€" we‘can send for your own." .. t sige 6 , Clarence .is. stavrdingâ€"ncar. wl | lk’?f:smpha .‘use(}l to.carry a l_a‘dy,"Ché::- re," he says, Wi fsupprbsae&‘ _ea, s "PN t‘nswve)r fOl"t‘h't'r ietness. Vgiel:nioh try her, Lady ‘I-‘er’fldfl:!‘ My aister used to rikd'e her. You will be quite safe.at Charlie and Clarence made straigcht for the little:group, others spread:@bout in searehâ€"of: comfortable ‘seats;Vane, atâ€" One and all consult ‘"her‘choice" on avâ€" ery point,â€" each hanging <on herdecision as if she<wore an @mpross.:Jeanne sutilâ€" inglyâ€"réafers it to tjlc,;majeti,by-,â€"anythinfi. will please.her and the.matter, is stil under discussjon . when . the. gentlemen, looking as Lady Lucelle prognosticated, very grave and sedate, come, clustering‘ in. > 28 13 fepacn n "Oh, yes, I‘ll sing if you want nee," she says; "that is, until Lord Ferndale comes into the room. He onte told ~ me that 1 sang without any heart, and I avowed‘ never to ‘openâ€"my lips in his hearing again." * & T1A Avsmall cirele encloses Jeanne; plans} Jeanne smiles, As a fact, Vane has done little celse but paint; but she ‘is spared a reply for the countess, who has made ~several <attempts : to "get to ~her, reaches her at last,â€"and Lady Lucelle is induced to go. to the piano. . Â¥ "Oh, yes, J‘ll sing if you want me." "Really!" says Lady Lucelle, glancing through her halfâ€"closed eyclids at Jeanâ€" ne‘s averted face.. ‘That strikes me as a â€" dreadful waste . of ° finc "tunâ€" terials T have ~often ‘thought °® it was <a greéat shame a marqwis ‘should bave such a vorce and such & talent for painting; it= is rathcr«unfair to other men . who have neither title nor . anyâ€" thing else. I‘m afraid he doesn‘s. paint much, does he?" , The question is not an abrupt oneâ€" for Lady_Lucelle never asked an abrupt question in her lifeâ€"but it is so unet: peected that Jeanre winces. Vane has not sung since the wedding day. "I think not," she says, trying to speak careloesssy. > £ a â€"man . Did you_cver notice how: grave and sedate they. come in, just: as if they had been learning the shorter catechism, instead of chueckling ‘over doubtfiul bonâ€" nfots and sceandal. ‘All the life goes out of them as they enter the drawingâ€"room, where we‘sit like tame cats in a cage, lapping our tea or lounging at the piano,. By the way, does Lord»Fermlile sing now ?" . ‘ \him. © Poorâ€"Augustat*"* ~ # Jeanne cannot help smiling in spite of herself, C l "Poor Lord Nugent!" aho ‘save. "Just so," assents Lady TLmcelle, with a little shrug of the shoulders. "But he is used to it ,and can take care of himself â€"some of them can‘t, and fall easy vieâ€" tims. .Tea!" she breaks off, as a footâ€" man approaches, ; "Thanks. What a farce it is! This is a remnant of the old, patâ€" riarchal days, when. women were kept, in servitude. I wonder when the men will learn hom much we NHate the society of each other,and;Jet us shareâ€"the.â€".pont and rare wines and best stories which they reserve till we‘verteft the diningâ€"room! i My dear. there is nothingâ€"so deceitful as *Not ont!" she continties. ~*l10dk dver your fan at thatâ€"&gallâ€"girl in the «blue. satin, She is one of the «Peerland,gitlsâ€" there are five of them, and unmarried. This is "Augusta. . Poor Augusta!* She tracked Lord Ferndale for two seagons, from . London"® to . Paris, from Paris to Scotland, up hill down dale. She must love you! so must her mother; the old lady in the turban, lwit.h the mustache. Augusta is now. stalking: poor, Nu ent. Gets uK in the, morpings al:gl.i:oldsg his" gun, which she can‘t bear ‘the sight of, and pats hts horse, of whichâ€"she is morâ€" ally afraid. . You will see when he comes in how she.will draw up the blue satin from that chair beside her and smile at eb Focile i l 1 WWe ie iaipitnint in e css 0i i ahs 102 is + id all profess to ilove you, but they don’t’.. They all envy you, and most of them hate you.~ Thereisn‘t â€"one of them." and: she: looked :gtoward .the reom. , full: . of women with a placid smile, "but would. _have gone on their knees to get what‘ . you‘ got " without the ‘asking: / My+dear; Jeanne, it must be mice to be.a .marchion., ess, only to feel that every unmarried â€"â€"and most of the marriedâ€"women oné meets «would‘ be glad to! stab}one in‘ the ‘back if stabbingwere the fashion,": . ... Jeanne listens with an uncasy smile. From any other lips such plain truths woulds soÂ¥md .-coarlgs and ‘startlin>/but spoken«in" Lady. Lucelle‘s. soft, lingeting tones, they do not strike home with loss poignaney. * N* % "That‘s all right," â€"she says, with a little fluttering sigh of satisfaction, "and I am qnite happy. Candidly, my dear, I couldn‘t have afforded "t8 quarret with so:great aâ€"persofn as the Marchioness. of Ferndale!uWh_y. a cut direct from you would have socially ruined me! | See now how wholy Ltrust you! is thegaranyone! of‘ thm}who would baâ€"soâ€"honest?. They ‘The <‘Ad. and the Collector, : _ Some timc agoa man who contem> ‘plates Wwriting a compFrehensive History of Advertizsements began‘to colleét ‘speciâ€" mens from ‘all partsof theâ€" world.â€". 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These tablets cure constipation, teething trowbles, diatrhoga, simple fevers, deâ€" stroy worms, break up colds »and: proâ€" mote natural, healthy sleep. . And. you have a guarantee that there is not a particle of ‘opiate or poisonous soothing ndsR it io bre uo 25e dn m a ul as Li ® f‘A murl‘r;ur runs around the mm.ll;h: meâ€"0f +V ane‘s voice is widespread. sticktheir hands in their. pockets, : and throw back their heads as is their wont when they want to listen; women cease chattering, ‘and plide nearerthe «piano. ‘There. is aâ€"profound. silence, broken only by the distant murmur of the two perâ€". #ons at the end of the conservatory, who were not‘Méteningâ€"Jeannue and Cirrence. 41 pesominruntin ie dineriiatizitrbiimere tss L her gingers touch the keys pensively. for a moment. * nao heard. at. the Gate House . som months + “Shallnfz;lny for you? I remember ev ery note," ‘she sdds, in a low worce. an« «1 embroidered dress, and a; tall: figure remarkably like Clarence‘s. "Rather "than ‘you should think that trouble necessary," gays Vane,.and he comes. to the piano as he speaks, but Teluctaritly, *C <= « â€"=; glic 2 "What will you sing;" asks TLady Ianâ€" cslh, . with, downcast ,eyg, and a thrill of triumph in her heart. He has not sung {x:r three months and he is singing for Rer. C« ; % ¢ ~£* _"Anything there is," says Vane,. not conceit-edl;,g but indifferenytly. * 1 *She turns over the music, and comes l:pgn * the_)Nupol;ihnA song which Jecnne' CURRENT GUARDS THE GOLD SAFETY ~«FORâ€"LITTLE ONES. (Ta‘be continued. * TORONTO ce ege » y 7 dave e ; The great railway companies are among the greatest factors that"tend to temperance.on this continent: > At a banâ€" quet in Buffalo:the other evening Mr.â€"C. J. Phillips, Superintendent of the Buffalo division of the\La@k@wania, said the itime wasâ€"whenâ€"a railroad. company paid Jlittle attention toâ€"the lives of. its employâ€" ees, éepecially when they were off duty. "But time and expericnee," hesaid, "has demonstrated the necessity of corporaâ€" tions taking cognizance of employees, not ‘Only when they are on duty, bit K.duty, as well.< The kabits of » man when ; he is off duty. deterthine Jargely his effiâ€" tiency when he is on duty. : The engineet, "the flagman, the telegraph operator, the ‘vne flagman, the telegraph operator, the 'lmym evv m.k-tmishkointhdhdnrgoofhh duty." mâ€"mum,u. United Kingdom ... Norway and~Sweden Spain % & Rpu.!siane.e. 50‘?‘} + &. Austriaâ€"Hungary .. ®rance .. .. 4* aAr. Holland and Belgium German Empire .. . United States .. ... The proportion which "the public d=bt: bears; to the e#ftimatedâ€"nationg1 a knowledge #"h’uhil avm;?qplh understanding of whatâ€"theâ€"figures indiâ€" cate, is said to be: Spai "Â¥#y.‘\~aif "" ti Seain sad Rortopal u004 2 perome ‘‘According to computations made by Mr. Arthur Harris in an inquiry into national finances the annualâ€"expendiâ€" ture of the principal powers‘is, in round numbers, as Pollows: Russia :y:>~;~y~~~~£2201000,000 United Kipg@om n ++ ++ , 179,750,000 France .\ ... ..*.. .. «D VÂ¥$82,609,00 United States" * .5 .\/_,." 199500000 Cormany Empinerzepeeny. /s +915.132 Aupbety i( ; 110000000 Italy 3" _2 4. .B t 2 \ef@ere Japan has a large reserve for her loans ready for use, if necfim.py, to proiong the war. She has a patriotic and united people ready to pay and,té|fight, for their country. And & hation that acts as one man is a nation not. easily beaten. Japan is not winded yet. <gumb . > h Acmre mvaininbaPradh astriet dianiszilicicirind Trsicuadbsikcl how resolutelyâ€"andâ€"feerlesaly . theâ€"policy has beenâ€"pursued ofâ€"raising war finds by taxation .instead . ot . .rs,lfl?x,e!c_lya@xgx upon loans. Such a policy is worth many times the funds which it actually brings to the Treasury, because of the proof it affords of the energy and .good . faith ‘of the Governments=*â€".* .*~" The returns of commerce, banking operations amd clearings in Japan indicate that industry has been very little deranged by the war, and that the country is more than able for many months to come.to maintain in the fiekf of finance the wonderful presâ€" tige which she has won upon the field of battle and upon the sea, :/ "t * i% p..y-ms , but in prompt resort to taxa® tion, anese statesmen have shown themgelves more enlightened than those of America fortyâ€"five years ago. The figâ€" ureg prg‘::nted above, showing an annual publi¢ revenue in Japan equal to twice that of,the United States in 1860, shows this W e public® sgtat v f erat for rac about‘, #alf id and hind‘s Wap her res and ctemtin the* fess made by the little is es “m A sta M m day 3 at..the .olose "o 9 ie\ .t . *a 1/ + * No only in regard W% zold yménts, but in prompt r. taxa® pilex .t yarg fi fl K xc i isy dipernh T s ki s oi s -l? Eu’l' ven 6 per cent. © per cent. 23 p.cent. 2 percent. tiAue e sible under â€" any. cktunuunc;iwiwfl s"u'-'fj to approach "aâ€" m'br:ldn. without coming first #o. a ,w"‘&?-fl' Ahis not mereiy the vahttich ‘or the cakinenm t oi & simply crimfnal imrp;mérjf{ini;fil mit a railroad to be so run ‘that it is (Indiapapolis News.) _ _ _ A train colm;s p]un';;lnz‘]alont and flads that g; &r a n; ‘‘the air brakes reâ€" fuse Cuel'g" ul a alsughter follows; It fuse to" ore @04 o alpusmier fonoes, B »Al this mears, in bricf, and in plain language, thot South Africa is surely destined at.not distant day to come unâ€" der native rule, to ‘be #overned bi neâ€" groes for negroes. Attempts at = ?’unchisemfnfmd limitations of the sufâ€" rage will only hasten the day of negro supremacy.â€"â€"Norman Notwood, in Lesâ€" MTP 0 ME GNN EiA ie paitne eomsane ns mcluce ut o. . 3 io. Aots . sts A by native teachers who have passed one or other of the Cape University qualifyâ€" ing examinations, ard who display no lack of intelligence in their work. To all other influences now te to the development of the negro to%~ er socin‘ and political rani; must be = ed the force of education. For in South Africa, as in this country, the negroes "take". to education ~with remarkable readiness and success, According to the Cape â€" government ~eduvcational report published three > â€"months=‘ ago, â€" the actualâ€"number ofâ€"children receiving eduâ€" cation in the public schools of the eolâ€" ony at the end of last year was 91,318 colored and 60.849 white. The natives are awakening â€" from the slumber of cenâ€" "lriu and there is mo more remarkable mture of"this awakening â€"than their al= stâ€" insatiable thirst . for klowld‘.. ‘ape Colony and the:territories. are litâ€". §17Ily eovered with. native schools, the t8rritories alone having several hundreds. . These schools are manned very largely | uces n CE F . & 1 000, and the white population $77,000. Day by day the power of the native | grows. The gate of the political arenag | stands wide open to him, and he is not, slow to enter. The negroes every where , are a remarkably fecund race, and thgy,‘ are increasing relatively, much faster| than the whites. Africa is first of all | the black man‘s country, and all that| climatiec conditions anrd the congenial | environment of a native hbabitat can | do to help him in his struggle upward ; are there present. | raised the question of a sufflig;"m tation to save them:elves from political annihilation. But it is clear enough that this expedient will"®ot save them. The populition 6# CHipe Colony, including the territories is, in rowfd numbers, 1,200,« â€"graph.business wore, £74,.. , are pressing their numeral tflmgiy,“tgtt-*fim whites are preuinE their n‘lJn_n.(jral advantage so; A Great African Republic Coming 2 ‘* Already the ‘colored mar is a formid=, able Jiqrcefi in the game; of party politics| in‘ oneâ€"and the ‘oldést â€"South African; cp‘onm?l!e native yote in this colony,; has beconte so Jargé, and the natives Good crops in the Northwest and good crops in Ontario. The farmer is in luck. aod «â€"»J«abouchere..says . we. cat too muchs . fasting, he believes to be the remedy for ‘ most human ills But we are not all Tanners.or Sacchos, and starvation and / h¢edvy~"manual labor do not agree well, ; Wireless telegraphy has already b6é« come a commercial enterprise. Accordâ€"‘ ing to a Parliamentary report reprinted 1@ Tel Age, 111 pressages were: ‘ yed by ~British Post Office in, y, Febru and Hn] of this: year for transmission by wireless tele= graphy to ships at sea. In the same months~the post ~office received from: ships 1,655 messages. The total receipts: from this branch of the empire‘s teleâ€" <ias it F9 isr evenings Reopip ie hoch & sds ter evenings m corners or playing pool or in some other ‘ uselessway,; would fird itâ€"much to his advantage were he to cultivate a taste ‘ for such pleasures as art to be derive§ : from"reading books. A man can bave no better companion than a good book. : among»«those vexations and M life brought to theém all. The taste and habit of reading books was one of the purest pleasuresâ€"it was | one of the most enduring pleasures, it | was a pleasure which lasted through | life, aâ€"pleasure which nong@ of the vicis=‘ situdes of life could destroy and a pleao-} ure which afforded a solace and a refuge _ Mr. Bryce, in opening the Manor Park | Free Library,; which is part of Mr. Carâ€" | negie‘s gift to East Ham, England, said¢ / There was no better way of providing | for pleasure in this life than by cultivatâ€" | ing the taste and habit of reading books, | mss clp cce J Cam i Wike 7 &s & & * Wecklesoncss on Rafirosds; run ‘that it is posâ€" es nave already" a suffrage limiâ€" ad he is not, s every where , ce, and M‘ much faster; first of all‘ and all that, C eonm[; bhabitat cam : uâ€".â€": “ ! ! tisfaction at nvention of | ' n the atten« ; horities the : 5 ish â€" history, . 0 ools, and de=! f st Seottish : gard to thg 8 Bcotland. . , a ve | already b.o! 2 M se. Accordâ€"‘ £ i rt reprinted! . | | ssages were. & '. st _ Office in, P } rch of this: 5 I ireless tele= # g n the same : eived from: | P tal MP“- k apire‘s teleâ€" & % ,_' 603 30000 eR migie l.?l-&é TX â€"â€".‘ Reggg e s va Anl poth Aot +4