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A NC Sv Sliza (ISABELLA (Copyright, 1852 1893, bj CHAPTER XXV. CONTINUED. "I works?it works!" he thought. I couldn't believe it if I hadn't heard it ftnd seen it for myself; but I must get out of this; I daro not be seen about here." He hastened rapidly along the street and did not pause for breath till he had turned the corner into the adjoining avenue. There he slowed his steps and walked loiteringly aloDg for more thas a block, and then turning 'about he walked slowly back again toward the house into which he had seen Van Tassel vanish. He now saw him come trembling and tottering down the steps again, confronted by a figure that Beemed hastening toward him. Stanley was several hundred yards away, but he was' sure that figure was a woman's and in the tall, slender shape a something, strangely, subtly fami * ' ' -1 ? ? x liar, struck on ail nis senses auu beui ?n electric thrill through and through him, till the very tips of his fingers throbbed in response to it. He could not move, but he stood there, watching, and he saw Van Tassel seize the girl's hands. , "I may now touch you?" said Yan -iassel, m a voice hoarse and tremulous with excitement, but yet vibrant with joy and triumph and unutterable thankfulness. "My hands are clean. Look! Lookl There is no blood on them. One ray of light came to me, and I prayed to God for help. Yes, I 'cried upon Him to send some angel to 'aid me, and He has sent you. Let me go with you. Let me follow you to the end of the earth. I will be your servant, your slave; do not send me away from you. Save me! Save me!" Dolores answered gently: "Come with me, then. You shall be my brother." She would have drawn him forward, but Yan Tassel whispered hurriedly: "Not that way. He is there. Oh, let me never see him again! Protect me always!" "This way, then," answered Dolores; and they walked away together in the direction whence she had come. But at the sight of them disappear ing together. Stanley recovered irom the panic wliicli had overtaken him. He darted forward, and as ho plunged ahead like some wild animal after its prey, ho found himself face to. faoe with a man who had also rushed down the same steps by which Van Tassel descended, and who was now, white and furious, glaring about him from side to side. "The husband!" thought Stanley. "That fool has done the deed, then, and there will presently be a hue-andcry after the murderer. I cannot pursue him now. And why should I? If he escapes so much the better." He wheeled about and rushed in the other direction, while Baron von Helmholtz, glaring after him, took a few steps in pursuit, then turned and looked back at the vanishing figures of Van T?ssel and Dolores. "Which of these men?" muttered the jealous and infuriated husband. k "Where have I seen that handsome villain, with the beauty of Lucifer 1 u;? rr? ttuu uiuxu tnuu mo ua? ft it must be he! A former husband! She wouldn't waste a look on the other! Fool that I am, I have lost them both!" He returned to his house, and having locked the street-door he sat down heavily on the carved seat that stood against the wall. With a groan he glanced at a crumpled paper which he \ held in one hand, and then his gaze / wandered to a slender, sharp-pointed ? dagger which he held in the other. A j spasm as of pain coctracted his heavy \ features, 'a lurid light burned in hie | eyes, and he set his thick lips tight I and hard together; then with the \ blade of a dagger he emoothed out the \creases of tbe paper, aud read once fmoro words that were already seared \into his brain: I "Bo on your guard. Tour wife is Receiving you. Her former husband iij not dead. He lives in this city, t. J il 1 -i. iL.. ?... ?tiu tuey nave met liiure iuau uuuo ai|id -will meet again. Be warned. A friend sends this message." ; " 'Her former husband!'" said Yon H\eImholtz, grinding the words between his teeth. "He seeks my lif , the^j Ah, we shall eee! And the dagger, no doubt, was for me." Hie lield it up and, turning it about curiously, looked at it carefully from the rkandle to the point; and presently on thio gleaming steel he saw the letters <&i a name. He started up and held/it close under the light of the brilliant hall-gas, and there he read these I two words: "Carlos Mendoza." J CHAPTER XXVI. A iMrSTERIOrS TRAGEDY?AL5%"ST. When Stanley returned to his selfapclointed quarters at the wretched ho*ne of Vau Tassel, he confidently exipected?notwithstanding the Buddcn and inexplicable appearance of jL?/uiui Co iu iLiu iaio oucuo ui lllti (irauia, tlVat hail been taking place?that the professor would presently come back. Bint as hour after hour passed, and Wan Tassel did not return, he flung Mimself down on the lounge, dressed Jus ho was; and, notwithstanding the / noises of the street and the unsavory \ surroundings generally, he was soon < in a profoucd slumber, and when he ffvwoke it was late in the morning. A glmuce showed him that he was still undisputed possessor of the professor's Department. J "Where has the old boy fled to?" Me thought. "As we say in Eugland, Me has 'funked it'?[ must remember (to be very English now! But that /pretty little fiend, Olive Gave, will JLelp me out with that sort of thing? /Jove! What a girl! And by thun\ der! I havo forgotten that she exJ pected me back again last evening to | dinner?confound it! But it was imJ .possible any way. I will get some / breakfast and call on her at once. I S I***'. 1- - J'\- ' x&t'i -:-TregsOre. D-d . ? & )VEL. bc{^ ?. Winter; CASTELAR.) ? r Roiui Bonnm's 8?k?.) mistrust she'll make me walk a chalk ?lmt. I'll ho nfttienfc | lliiC 1UI (inuuw VUV a mm ? W | till she's my -wife, and if she doesn't find me a match for her then?for, as clever as she is, I am quite unacquainted with the future Earl of Windermere or the present Lord Clarence Stanley." While these reflections, partly in silent thought and partly in broken snatches of remark, were passing through Stanley's mind, ho was performing a hasty morning toilet?a matter which the professor's limited conveniences rendered difficult. He hurriedly completed his preparations for the street, glanced at his luggage, not even unstrapped yet, and at once decided to get new quarters, whether Van Tassel had returned or not, when he should have come back again after breakfast A strange and very unusual feeling of depression took possession of Stanley when he found himself (in the street, and he glanced about in a furtive manner, but without knowing he did so. He quickened his steps, turning into a street that, after a little winding, brought him at once into a better neighborhood', and then he directed v:_ .An.oS tVin ront.ftnrftnt where he HID UUUiog vv vmv ? ... ? had dined with Van Tassel; but he gave much less time than usual to his breakfast. The morning paper, which he glanced over while waiting for coffee and rolls, did not give him the satisfaction that he had anticipated, and it was a distinct disappointment when he saw that an unknown man had rung the bell at the house of Baron Helmholtz, with the evident intention of committing some act of violence against some member of the family?doubtless the beautiful Baroness Helmholtz, whom he had asked for as "Celestine." "The man is evidently a crank, or, it may be an escaped lunatic," the article continued, "for when the terrified servant refused to carry his message, he drew a dogger from his , breast-pocket and, flourishing it wildly, declared that he must, and would, see the baroness; because he had come from Carlos, Carlos, whom she adored! He then turned away, and mattering what sounded like a prayer for help, exclaimed: 'God, God, pity me! Send some angel to free me from the devil who pursueB me!' At this, the servant, who felt instinctively that she had a madman to deal with, fled upstairs, shrieking to her mistress to be on her guard and to lock her door before the lunatic could get to her. At the same moment, Bavon von Helmholtz, who had just entered the house unknown to the servant, came hastily from the back drawing-room into the hall; but was only in time to see the would-be assassin rushing from the house. Baron Helmholtz pursued the man into the street, but, on arriving there, he saw a man and woman disappearing in one direction and another man standing irresolutely near the corner of the street, in the other direction. Uncertain what to do, he returned to the House ana sent a telephone alarm to the nearest policestation. ' But no trace of the lunatic has been found, and no clew to what may have been his intentions in regard to the beautiful baroness, who remains, happily, unharmed, and not even alarmed at what looks very like an attempt'on her life." Stanley waB not prepared for the feeling of bitter disappointment that took possession of him as he read the above paragraph, at first hastily, and then with slow and careful precision, weighing the value of each sentence as he read it. Until then, he had not known how much he had depended on the hypnotio suggestion which he had imposed on the unhappy professor; but, notwithstanding the fact that be had ndiouled the idea from the first, and had been well disDOsed to curse every species of occult knowledge after his experience with Dolores, his own mysterious power over Vap Tassel interested him more than he knew, and he had confidently expected to get rid of the beautiful Celestine forever through the agency of her half-crazy "brother." . i 'Ho hurriedly swallowed his coffee, hastened to Van Tassel's rooms, to which their original owner had not yet returned, and an hour later he was settled in an obscure, but comfortable hotel, and registered under un assumed name; for he determined to remain But a few days longer in New York, and to leave no clew by which Mary Hamilton's father could trace him. So rapidly had events chased each other in his life for the past forty hours, that Clarence Stanley felt himself to be an older man when at last he set out to call on hiB brilliant fiancee, but, happily, he did not look so, and he was glad to think that Olive would I be satisfied with hie appearance. "I shall waste nc time in making excuses for yesterday," he said to himself, as he neared her house; and, glancing up at it, saw a dark, laughing face looking toward him from the drawing-room window. "By Jove! There she is, and not a bit offended." And when he reached the door it was instantly opened, before he had time to touch the bell. "Come in!" said Olive, merrily. "I ought to scold you, but I can imagine that you were very busy last evening and probably forgot all about me. I have just parted from cur dear Oelestine. Such an adventure last night! She has told me all she knows and all she suspects, and she is almost frightened to death, the newspapers to the contrary notwithstanding. I gave her g?.<od advice, end I think she will take it. You are dying to know what the advice was. I will tell you.-' CHAPTER XXVII. FATE THROWS THE DICE FOR OLIVE GAVE. At these words of his fiancee, a slight shiver passed over Stanley, and t *? mi* f instinctively ho braced his nerves for la possible encounter with Celestine. "You know 1 hadn't much confidence in your plan, Clarence," she ' said, indicating a seat close beside her on a tete-a-tete sofa; "and, though . you have told me but little about your power over this hynotized slave of yours, I think I am right in guessing that you hoped to rid yourself of her by means of your power over him." "Yes, I did; and the attempt has been a failure," he answered, moodily. "My only hope now is in you, Olive. I will not disguise from you that I am in a bad plight. Two people live who are very dangerous to me; Celestine, who suspects a great deal and may yet learn the truth?" "Don't be troubled about Celestine," interrupted Olive, in a manner of encouraging confidence. "As you don't yet know, i sent a little note to the baron after we parted yesterday, and the contents, combined with the attempt of la6t night, have driven him quite mad with jealousy. Of course, I called on the fair baroness, when I read this morning's news, and, in the character of her most intimate friend, I was at once admitted to her presence; and notwithstanding the vigilance of the jealous and furious husband, I contrived to have a few minutes of private conversation with her. It appears that the baron suspects the crazy Van Tassel to have been either her first husband or an emissary from him who had intended to murder him, and not Celestine; and so great has his rage and jealousy against his wife become that she is half insane/with terror. She is a shallow creature, and if you were now to appear before her &b Carlos Mendoza and claim her as your wife, she would flee from you instead of casting herself into your arms, madly as she loved you and still loves you. I was amazed to see how abject mere physical fear could make anyone. Of course, my advice to her was to leave New York forever?even to leave this country, and to do it at once and with such a show of repugnance for the possible re-appearance of her first husband that the baron's jealousy would be at once appeased." "But what reason has he to suppose that I am?that is, that Carlos Mendoza is not dead? She has not been mad enough to tell him of her mistake in regard to my fancied resemblance to her first husband1?" "No, my dear Clarence; I don't think that she has been silly enough to tell him about that; but the anonymous letter received by the baron rrck on f O/"*> ! ft7 ftP 31UIOU) VJjL IUO j^VOiU&i w uuvuvxoj w? the writer's knowledge, that you were ?that is to say, that Carlos Mendoza was alive, and that the baroness was in the habit of giving him private interviews. But don't be alarmed, my dear. She is wholly under the influence of terror, and she will leave this country forever within a few days." Her listener, who had been rather .paler than usual, slowly recovered his customary healthy coloring, and drew a sigh of relief when the girl ceased speaking. ' "You arq an amazing girl, Olive Gaye," said Stanley, "and I place myself in your hands without reserve. I am ready?or shall be presently?to follow you blindly. But another and moro serious danger threatens us now, and I am willing and anxious to take your advice in regard to it." And in the briefest words he related the unexpected appearance of Dolores and the fact that Van Tassel had disappeared in her company. Olive looked gravo for some moments, and was at a loss for any suggestion or advice to offer on this matter. TO BE CONTINUED. Savings Banks of Itomnn Children. The children of the Romans nsed to put their pennies into savings banks just as the children of the Yankees do to-day. In 1886, when Professor Thomas Wilson, of the Smithsonian Institution, was wandering about Ostia, the seaport of ancient Rome, he found a group of peasants excavating. They, had dug out of the sand a number of pots and jars that had been buried for ages, and one of them had fonnd a ohild's saving bank which contained 175 silver ccins issued by the emperors of Eome between the years 200 and 10 B. C. As none of the later date were found, it is to be assumed that Bome child lost this bank shortly before our era, and it was covered for nineteen centuries by the encroaching Band. The little savings bank was almost perfect when it was uncovered, but the peasant who found it broke it open to get the coins within. Professor Wilson found moat of the pieces, however, and has been able to put it together. It consists of a single piece of pottery about three inches wide, with a slit in the top through which the money was dropped.?Chicagc Record. Stone Tells Ancient Storie*. The wonder of ages has been set* tied by a fragment of bas-relief discovered in Egypt which shows how the obelisks and other large monoliths were transported from the quarry to their site. The stone is depicted upright on a great galley, or vessel, which is being towed by a number of email boats alongside. The method of detaching a monolith from the mother rock is also explained by a semi-detached block in one of the quarries at Syene. After having been hewn clear on three sides, a deep grove was cut into the side still attached to the rock, and holes were pierced, into which dry wooden pegs were driven. The pegs a. ,1 nciw mcu wcucu, ttuu me wuuu in swelling broke of tlie monolitli from the quarry.?Philadelphia Record. The Temperatnre of Diamonds. A good diamond is a good deal cold* er than an imitation, and the lapidaries say that the best way to detect this difference, in temperature is to tonolV the. e^ones to the tongne. Sapjfcires, ..emeralds, rubies, garnets and othen precious stones may be tested in the same way?thereal stone is invariably colder than the imitation. The lapidaries do not give a reason for the difference, but it may be found, perhaps, in the greater density of the real stones, which makes them better conductors of heat. There are sixty-five steamers on the Swiss lakes. The largest can transport 1200 passengers. - ? gOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Ieampaibnihb in I | THE PHItlPPIKES.I Q Ambuscade* Rave Cost Americans O 2 More Relatively Titan Kegn- g O la' Warfare. Q OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGCO John T. McCntcheon, the Manila correspondent of the Chicago Record, writes as follows in regard to the progress of the war in the Philip (Troop f !y 1 r i t fln^some insurgent sbarpsbootera concealed in tbe grass along the road from Indan lo Naic.) pineB: The organized insurrection is practically at an end, and, therefore, the troops have to deal only with guerilla bands and outlaws. Yet in the last forty days the American forces here have lost more men, more arms and more supplies in the socalled pacified districts than during anv rorevious neriod of like length Bince the insurrection began. ' < If this is -what guerilla warfare means, then we will need more troopB some day, for the new method- of fighting is proving more effective than any style that the insurgents have employed previously. Almost every day brings a report of some fresh ambuscade wherein small forces of our troops are attacked by a hundred or more Filipinos. Usually one or more of oar men are killed, and the rest are driven away by sheer force of overwhelming numbers. Then follows a punitive expedition, but these sorties seldom find a trace of the enemy.s^ Invariably the insurgente know the exact strength of the force they are ambushing, for they usually lie in wait for small groups of ten or fifteen men, which they permit to approach so close that their first volley kills or wounds most of them, and leaves the rest utterly demoralized. Insurgents who live within our lines, wbo are amigos in the daytime an 1 nemies at night, have been partk j]y pernicious. It is now unsafe, more than ever before, to move in smal} numbers, even in the districts which are presumably pacified, by the presence of strong ganrisons. The rank and file of the people in the towns are in full sympathy with these marauding raids, for they never render help by word or deed which ^'7/ BRINGING IN A WOUNDED TILIPIXO. will aid our troops in locating and whipping the guerilla bands, although it is certain that they are always aware of the plana and prospective movements of these bands. Even to-day there is not a native in Manila, friendly though he may pro* *? ? i - ?V _ ?Ml 1 H. . Jess nimsen to oe, wuo win urease u word as to Aguinaldo's whereabouts, yet there are doubtless thousands who know exactly where he is, and many who doubtless are in constant communication with him. The list of our losses by boio men and ambusheB in the occupied districts since January 1 is rather startling. A list which I have selected from the files of a daily paper, and doubtless far from complete, shows that aboot forty men have been captured by the iusurgents in the last forty days, as many more have been killed and wounded, almost a hundred rifles and a great deal of ammunition has been Inst and a big quantity of rations has fallen into the enemy's hands. Most of these depredations have occurred in the territory which we now are supposed to hold, and all the engagements would come under the head of ambushes and assassinations. There is certainly a new condition UNITED STATER CAVALRY .IN PLAZA J CENTRE AND AN INSURGENT ' I of warfare confronting tbe troojfr. The time is evidently gone for big, imposing columns to march sedately through the country, columns so big that the insurgents deem'it imprudent to offer - U,:: j opposition. When the ??lnmn has I passed, they come out of the woods and fall upon the little bands of stragglers and outposts and signal corps men. From now on the guerilla methods must be met by smaller and more mobile forces. General Lawton, with his great experience in this method of ) waging war, would hat e been quick to | adjust himself to the new conditions. | General Bell is pre-eminently qualified for the kind of work that will now havtf to be done, while General Funston, whose Cuban experience has fitted him well to meet the new conditions, will undoubtedly adjust his tactics to meet those of the insurgents. Down in Negros General Smith has i for some montns been engaged in the' guerilla kind of fighting, and he has ; been able to crush it out. When a drepredation was committed near or in a town on the island he promptly imposed a heavy fine on the place. After doing this several times the citizens resolved themselves into a sort of vigilance committee as a matter of financial preservation, and the depredations ceased with startling suddenness. The Tagalos, however, are more tenacious and vindictive in their fightiDg than the Visayana of Negros, Y ; ? V" 'm OUR MACABEBE SCOUT8 ! and it will require the most stringent 1 measures and vigorous pursuit to put i them down. With Aguinaldo loose i in the islands the work will be harder i and more dangerous and much more lasting. A column of cavalry moving through the Luzon country is an extremely picturesque sight. Five or six hundred big American horses strung out in columns of twos make a very long and imposing line, and when the troopers wear their rough-service uniforms, as they do uut here, the effect is such NATIVE WOMEN AND CHILDREN EXHAUSTED BY FLEEING BEFORE THE UNITED STATES CAVALRYMEN. as -would be produced by a regiment of mounted cowboys. Just behind the headquarters staff come the squadron officers?the major . and his staff. Behi&d them ride the troop commanders, and then the first troop. Eaol|;.'cavalry regiment consists of twelve troops of 100 men each, the regiment being divided equally , y* ' v halter, a eaddle, saddlebags, blanket roll, poDcbo, carbine, carbi20 boot, lariat, picket pin, nosebag, currycomb and brash, saber, two horseshoes (fitted to his horse), some horseshoe nails, 140 rounds of carbine ammunition, a Colt revolver and twenty-five rounds of pistol ammunition and a canteen. In addition to these things he has his saddlebag more or less filled with rations. When a cavalryman is mounted, with jingling spurs and blue flannel shirt, thrown open at the neck, with hie felt campaign hat tipped rakishly over one eye, girt up with all his paraphernalia for the fray, he makes a very interesting total and is likely to inspire respect in those who see him. Several hundred of him, mounted on big aizteen-hand American horses, distinctively multiply the impressiveness of the picture. The Growth or Oar Cities. America's growth, proportionate and absolute, in urban population, has been one of the marvels of the century. Of the 4,000,000 population of the United States in round figures in 1790 only 132,000 resided in the cities of 8000 inhabitants or over. In 1830 of the 63,000,000 inhabitants of the country as a whole 18,000,000 lived in cities of 8000 ot more inhabitants. The city population of the United States, which was in the neighborhood of 3.?5 per cent, of the aggregate inhabitants of the country in 1790, was 29.20 per cent, in 1890. : As the growth of urban population, proportionate as well as absolute, has been continuous for the past hundred yearb, and has shown a tendency to increase in the past three or four decades, the chances are that the returns of 1900 -friU show that more than thirty-three per cent. of -4he aggregate population o^the oontiguous portion of the United States reside in cities. _ Ab the general tendency in nearly all growing; countries u for the cities to increase faster, than the rural dis population is necos? About 3ixty-twpj>tar<><!nt. of thje /population of ales reside in towns of 10,000 inhabitants or over.?St. ''ffflF'1^^roTinegB^ome. ThWwttefior arills of a compara tively'new baildiag on Washington street, Boston, Mas*., have an interesting hiettoflk Thej were originally the walls bf <^;Province House, a noted mansio^QCTMifinial times, which was built in l6T,9.^Sr^as three stories high, built oi lib rick, with stone steps, and a beauteftH lawn ornamented the approach. Jar3*715 the Province bought it'as a~'Mf?idence for the governors, who jjjjSpfofot to address the citizens itdmsffiisi&l portico. It became privata.;tmtoerrr early in the present century sifcrwaa soon compar atively i8olatedj'- V>block of brick stores being^ exectfed in front of it. For some time taeji Province House was used as a negro;concert hall. Fire in 18G4 destroyed all but the walls which, as before stated, were used for a new building. ?Detroit Free Press. . A Gcimlne "Horee Marine," When war breaks out, bringing with it a hurry call for cavalrymen and monnted infantry, the efforts of recruits to master horsemanship in so short a time are ludicrous. To ivert this a dummy horse has been invented on which unaccustomed soldiers may practice mounting, dis i LT 1NDAN?THE CHURCH IS IN THE c ' HOSPITAL. ON THE RIGHT. M c into three squadrons under the com- cl mand'of majors. o Every trooper carries his entire ii outfit on bis horse's back. The cav- c alrvroan'a full kit consists of a briil^. o counting and other equestrian feats ivhich require long practice. Such lummieB are carried on transports and l (earning to ride horseback on board snir. s be recruits go through daily drill c nth them, thus learning, by the time v bey reaob tbeir destination, the rudi- g aentsof horsemanship and rendering t heir subsequent lessons on real j lorses less awkward and slow.* Tbe i 'silent steeds" are of the average 1 ~ ? Al. ~ ? liAKaa r?v\ A 1 iei?Ub ui tuw uiwjr uuv^ uuioc, <iuu j ho saddle and other accoutrements l re of the regulation cavalry type. c Chameleon Foetal Curds. Italy is essentially the land of postards. The latest postcard is shot 'ith various colors, so that the hues c bacge if the card is regarded from o ifferent angles. The colors,, more- o vcr, arc made of sensitive chemical t jgredients which are effected by I buuges iu the weather to the extent b f altering tLeir colors. t .v . .. / , J. \ * V,-*?A'*'*- ' . '' THE KIND-HEARTED CZARINA. KacBla's Empress Greatly Beloved by Her People. The young Empress of Russia, whose newest photograph is here reproduced, has, according to report,, achieved an immense amount of good, not only in St. Petersburg, but io. far-away Siberia. She is actively promoting the establishment of nursiag I TO EWKESS ?FKUSSJA* 7 k- - - ? (From her latest photograph.) '} homes and of hospitals for members - -j. of her own sex, and slowly bat sarely the Empress's influence is making for good in the higher and more frivo- -1 lous stratum of Bnssian society. The Czarina holds h^r own among ?, y the splendidly dressdd women of Europe. She has exquisite taste, andjKM never looks to greater advantage thatf^^ when in fall dress. On the otoer^B^ hand, the imperial nurseries are/aliraHFiM pie and unostentatious in all their, ap-^ ' pointmente, and, greatly to the sorrow of their Bussian attendants, the three little grdfadi duchesses are not allowed towear any jewelry, though every pi n used in , the imperial nurs- > ery is of pure gold, and, were it jot that tne Empress will not allow it, J everything else would be arranged for on the same s;ale of lnxury. ?. jj The great Bussian world is cuikraflly constituted. In Bussia extrjbes meet, and boundless luxury is to be seen almost side by side with a depth of poverty which is not common in jj any other civilized country in the I "When a great Bussian nobleman entertains his Emperor or Empress to quite an informal function, he thinks _ . A . m 3; a- - "d u DOllling 01 EeilUlIJg IU LUe iViiCin 11/1 several thousand dollars worth of fresh flowers with which to decorate the . apartments through which the sovereigns must pass; and before the 1 splendors of a Russan court ball every ;V* great function held in other capitals 2 pales into insignificance. Weighing Wagon. A new idea in vagon construction, ^ ipplicable to those used for deliver- J ing articles sold by weight, as, for instance, coal, ice, sand, etc., is to provide scales on the wagon, iso that its contents can be weighed and ^hown /O the purchaser before unloading. [l carrying out this scheme every efort has been made to induce to a. minimum errors in indications, the contact surfaces being so%s not to become easily-jiiflturbed or misplaced by the shaking jarring of the wagon in use. ^Ibe balancing levers are " ? . . j . * ? i liSaa^-? . ? .1 WAGON WEIGHS. CONTENTS. placod on the wagon frame atd so de signed that tbe wagon bed, with its contents, may be removed from them to the wagon frame, as soon as the scale readings are taken, thereby removing the continual strain and wear na the balancing levers while the wagon is in use. .. ?m? Sentiment ?nd Ba*inets. The,junior partner, on the other hand,, believed in mingling sentiment with ' business, and suggested this form of advertisement: "Let Us Eat, Drink and Bo Merry?" Table Supply Department, Ground Floor. "For To-Morrow we Die!" Collin and Tombstone Departm;nt in Basement. j.anc LUG jjievaiui* Etc., etc.?Pack. A Norsery Measure. The yard measure is a new auct lemi-useful nursery accessory. Of , . :onrse, the baby could be measured vil.h a common, every-day footrule or y> i tape measure, but the fastidious ''j\* Damina thinks growth is too imlortant a subject to be treated in a natter of fact way, and she measures ' '' Neddie's or Marjorie's inches with a ong, broad, ti&t piece of wood which las inches and feet plainly marked on IUC 3IUO UJJU j'ictljr to uun erses painted on the other side. TVrfegrapli Lin*s in Khorieaia. Rhodesia's telegraph system, inludiug transcontinental line, consists f 2(135 miles of lines, with 31G3 miles f wires. The police telephone sysem consists of 251 miles of telephone. Exchanges have been opened at Salisury and Buluwayo. There aie sixtywo teleeraDh offices in Rhodesia. J A