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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
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mistrust she'll make me walk a chalk
?lmt. I'll ho nfttienfc
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| 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. - ?
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| THE PHItlPPIKES.I
Q Ambuscade* Rave Cost Americans O
2 More Relatively Titan Kegn- g
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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
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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*
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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(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
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"When a great Bussian nobleman entertains
his Emperor or Empress to
quite an informal function, he thinks
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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
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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.
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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
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