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. ^ ]t(e A NO fiv 50rs* Slixali (ISABELLA C ic?niiiti.iaau4iM.to CHAPTER XXH. oomronrro. ' Now, what does the mean, or what ioee she want?" exclaimed Stanley. "There is a menaoe in this which I pan partly guess at, remembering that ihe it, by this time, deep in Celeatine's sonfldenoe. But what ia this particular information in regard to my family? Well, I suppose the easiest way to answer that in not to keep her waiting; fori may need all the information I can pick up in regard to my English haSj.*' ' He read the letter carefully a second time, in order to impress it upon his memory, and then, having torn it Into fragments, he waa presently on his way to call on Olive Oaye. "So good of yon to come at once," aid Miss Oaye. "I felt sore it would , shook you less to hear of your bereave neat from an old friend of the family , then to here it come on jon , with the ebraptnese of mere tele* graphic news from England, particu- , larly ae you did not even know of their } tllnoss. Poor Lord Appleby! There hae long been no* hope, nor for the J deal' child, either; bnt the boy died | first, and within an honr the father. , My oews eomee in the form of a cable j dispatch, and, therefore, I hare no particulars; bnt, without doubt, Lord Appleby's death was accelerated by the death of his heir and only child." A slight exclamation escaped the UJM OX U? non. uureooo ouuiiej, uui he instantly repressed el! signe of amotion end, slowly sinking into the ebeir indiceted by his hostess when he first entered the room, he said: "Do yon mean, Mies Gaye, thst my brother end hie little son ere both deed?" "Lord Appleby end bis son ere deed," returned Olive, with speeial ?liberie "Indeed!" exeleimed Clarence. "1 em shocked, truly, but I shall not pretend to eny greet grief. We have been long parted, you know, Miss Geye." "Oh, yes, indeed!" assented Olive. "And, since you know the affairs of mj umuj so wen, 01 course jon snow that I vm never in sympathy with them, nor they with me." "I quite understand that/' said Olive. "May I inquire from whom you hare , reoeived your infdrmatkn, Miss , Gaye?" "The dispateh is from dear old Todllekins, Mr. Stanley/' replied Olive, with a wicked smile. "Dear old Toddlekins, whoa you have so entirely lot gotten. It would quite break her , Mart to know this, for she simply ftdoted Clarence Stanley. It was she who showed me the picture I told you yt, you know, and the old darling has aotaally lent it to me." She turned to an album on the table nd took from it a photograph which < was lying loose within the leaves. j "I find it is not nearly so good a likeness of you ss I thought; indeed, j if you will pardon the compliment, it doesn't do you justioe. You are very , Such handsomer; but I'm afraid yoa ire a ead deceiver, Mr. Stanley. See, aow, here ia written by the beloved ' s> ? J AV?i ni .w* 2SBU Ol IBM ViiWIIOT VUU1U NIB ftdored: To his dearly loved friend, Milieent Fairfax,' and yon erneily de- , stared that yon didn't remember her ?indeed your manner implied that yon were unconscious of her exist nee." She held the pieture close to her bee for a moment, then her keen, bright, penetrating eyes looked over the top of it at the faoe of her companion that was now very pale, but set and defiant, and she only liked him the better for that look, as ehe thought: 'lea, he will fight, ana with me to beek him we shall win, for ire shall both fight" "It ia a long time ago, Hiss Gaye," be said, seeing that she waited for an answer, "and I have a poor memory, vUlUvMiUvO. "Yes, so I hare observed," said Olive, "and jet?poor Celestine! Sbe remembers jon so well; it was too cruel." Her listener started violentlj; bnt ha wouldn't jield jet. ' 'Confound the woman!" h e thought. "How much does she know? And is it knowledge or suspieion? What is bar game? I must know before I commit mjself." "Celestine?" he repeated. "Reallj, Miss Qaje, jou'bave the advantage of me." "Yes, indeed," laughed Olive, "I think 1 have, Mr. Carlos Mendoza." The man before her cowercd?insiinctirelj his gianoe wavered, and he looked about as if for some means of escape; bnt ihe next moment he *'pulled himself together"?Olive saw and admired the mental effort?and then he said, in cum looiiitc iuhub; "Perhaps it would be better if we understood each other, without any further fencing, Mies Gaye; and if we are going to row in the same boat let us pull in the same direction." Olive gave a laugh, full of delighted appreciation. "You are a man alter my own heart, Csrlos," she said, "and like enough to get it too." "Ah, thanks, if it is sa good ss your head, Mips Olive, It will be a prize for any man; but let me suggest, my dear girl, that acquiring bad habits is easier than getting rid of them. It night be a very bad babit to begin by calling me Carlos.'N "Yon are right, dear Clarence?I hall not forget again." For a few momenta they looked each other squarely in the eyes, smiling; then Olive replaced the photograph in the album. "I shall not need it any more," she aid, "I shall return it to Toddlekins ?dear old sonl! Sbe values it more than her life; bnt I shall prefer a new on*. Next time yon call on me, Clar4*09, trogBt I ml1! tndnad ?ti*ft. 1 ' ' ;fl . '[Feasdre. VEL. eth ? ftDioUr.' A8TKLAX.) RHUTlomi'alwO factory photograph of yourself, won't yon, dear?" "The beet I can get, and now, dear Olive, tell me, how mnch do yoa know?" "Everything," laughed OliYe, "absolutely everything?according to what the scientists call inductive reasoning. A* to fact, plain, cold, hard fact?well, enough?quite enough to hang yon, but not quite enough to are yon. Now I fancy there may be eide lights that you can turn on, which will change the more lurid colors into paler lines. According to Celestine, the man who was brought home to her, pierced through as she supposed, with bis own dacaer. had been ifoullv mur dered." "There was no murder about it, nothing bi t a hand-to-hand fight, at ? time an</ under circumstances when fighta ending fatally were of daily ocenrrence. It was a fair fight, self-defense on ihe part of both. Had I not killed him, he wonld have killed me; ftnd your friend's Clarence was a brave man and fooght well; and it was after he was dead that the idea of personft ting him came to me. The resemblance between ns was extraordinary, so mnch so that I suspected some relationship and that we both belonged to the Mendoza family, even before I tL. a. V.. k.A. ? IVUUU U1C VU IUUMU rn VU UiO VAVWt "Which vu ? bright red, however, while ob you it is black," interrupted Olive. "You are correct and also sharp," said Stanley (or Mendoza if the reader prefers, though he continued to be known only as Clarence Stanley). "Had Celestine been half as clever as you are, she would never have been deceived about the dead man. But I counted on her agitation and excitement, and the plan worked. With the assistance of Van Tassel, tho man whom she called her brother, I changed clothes vith the dead man, and took possession of his papers, letters, journals, etc., by means of which I have been able ever since to personate him. But among his papers I never found anything about this old maid whom you call Toddlekins " "And several other things which I ?hdl thin to tall von." nid Olive. "Among others, there is en heir-atlaw, certain Lord Harold Moray, who is now in this country, in search of the Honorable Glarence Stanley, and who, in the event of his decease, is the next heir to the earldom and estates of Windermere." "The denoe!" exclaimed Stanley. "I never heard of him!" "So I supposed; nor of his sister Cons tan oe, to whom Glarence Stanley was engaged when be left England." "There was nothing about either of then in any of the letters and papers I foand," said her listener aghast at these revelations. "I guessed as muoh from my dear Toddlekins's letters. But it would bave been rather awkward bad Lord Harold suddenly confronted you sither here or in England." "And it will be so still?deueedly awkward." "Not so bad as might have been had you neglected to have this conversation with me. As it is, forewarned is forearmed, and you are quite too clever to be overcome by so small a dilBeulty as thai" "I am not so sure. A few more such shocks and tumbles as I have had nf ItU will nhakft m* n?n?a." "Not? bit of it, with me to steady you," said Olive. "Yon tee, I intend to be the Countess of Windermere; and, although the old earl is madly in lore with me and plaguing me to death to marry him, I have taken a [fancy to have a young husband. If your nerve fails you now, you lose Polly Hamilton; for Celestine will yet iearn the truth. Tou lose all ehance of the Mendoza treasure" (again her listener winced and asked himself: "Is there anything this girl doesn't know?") "and you lose the estates snd title of Earl of Windermere. The alternative is simpjf " She paused and smiled bewitchingly. "To marry you and gain all that is worth having," said her companion, filling that panse. "Truly a pleasing alternative, and I think I will accept it. Bat now to arrange a plan of action and prepare for all possible contingencies. What do jon know of the Mendoza treasure?" "Only what I have heard incidental^ from remarks dropped by Polly Hamilton, and later from Celestine, that your first knowledge of her was made through the hope of finding out something about its hidingplace." "In which I was confoundedly taken in; but no matterJ I know all about it now, and together jon ana I will go to California and search for it. Yon are the oleTerest woman I ever met in my life, and I shall end by being as madly in love with yon as? ahem?the old earl, my father." Olive smiled serenely, and began to think the partner of her ambitions plans a most bharming person. "With the Meudoza fortune and the Windermere estates and title." continued the Honorable Clarence, "we can rival the state of any prince and princess." "Precisely what I have been thinking, my dear Clarence, ever since I received old Toddlekins's message. Bat there are several lions in the way. First you have to break with Polly Hamilton " "That is over and done with," was the prompt reply. "And then tnere is the recognition, or lack of recognition, on the part of Lord Moray and his sister. That, I think, you can deal with on the score of long absence; and if the lady is troublesome, it can be set down to jealousy and revenge, because yon have brokeu your engagement and married a brighter and cleverer girl. I don't fear the Morays at all?I can deal with them?also the old earl, as be always hated yon and will aow add the rage of jealously to hi* original hate, when yoa reappear in the character of my hnaband. There wil), however, be one pair of eye* that cannot be blinded; there will be no deceiving Toddlekino. Bnt the adores me, and I shall tell her, with my arms about her neek, that you and I are one; that she cannot injure you without injuring me doubly, and that will settle it. Toddlekins will give us no trouble. But, last of all, there is Celestine. That woman adores yen, Carlos?I mean Clarence?and- the extraordinary resemblance between these two men io working in her mind like yeast in flour. If a living Clarenoe can so resemble her dead Carlos, why might not a dead Clarence resemble her living Carlos! Already (hat is to her the one vital question of her life, and the truth will dawn on her before long." A ferocious look overspread the smiling face of the man who had been listening with admiration to the unfolding of a mind keener and deeper than his own to soheme and plan. Olive had a momentary spasm of alarm at this glimpse into a dark and cruel nature. But she had now no thought of drawing back. Ambition wi* her rnline mission, as the love of gold vu his; and she only trembled for a moment when be said, fiercely: "Celestine! She will never stand in my way! I will take care of Celestine!" "Ah! Then there is cothing more, I think." And Olive rose and held out ber hand. "I have kept yon a long time, bat it will save all future mistakes. Come again in the evening; I want to introduce you to my uncle. It may be useful." Stanley gallantly raised her hand to his lips, and felt tbr.t he was now, nt ?- ?- BAA <1 Aa an AAAia iUl, vu tua UJ|JU tuau IV SUVI'VUO. When the door nad closed behind him, Olive ran lightly to her room, seated herself at her writing-desk and scrawled, with her left hand, a brief, anoaymons message. "I don't know what his plan in regard to Celestine may be," *he thought. "My good Clarencc! He is immensely gifted, bnt he has a tray of jast missing success. Now, with my assistance, we will change all that, so that he will hit the bull's-eye every time." She hastily scrawled an address on the back of her letter: : Tat Baron Yos Hrurnoi/rz, ; : No. od Street. West. : New York City. : For this letter she summoned no AAinn Mn4 Mr m vtllr VOI VM1C, WUK, 5W??B ?v. - - ??f the presently dropped it, with her own small steady hand, into a pillarbox, and drew a quick breath of relief. CHAPTER XXXIII. A girl's first lots. When Dolor** entered Mary Hamilton's room, she fonnd the latter, still tremnlons and weak, seated in her favorite chair?a deep, wide, bamboo ehair, almost as large as a lounge and filled with bright-colored, silk-covered cushions. Dolores had come quiokly, feeling that if she paused to think sho would never have the courage to seek her at all; and now, with the impetus of that thonght still on her, she entered and went swiftly toward her friend, only to stop suddenly and quite overcome at the sight of the white and stricken faoe before her; for Polly had risen to to her feet and had come forward a I step or two to meet her. For quite a half-minute, the two I - -! A S J 1 L..1 Kawaihae's one remaining point o, interesl is the rains, back on the hillf of a temple of refngc built by Karnebameha the Great. It is the very last of tbe Heiaus, where in the old days, during strife, tbe peacefnl sought and obtained immunity from harm?for into these temples a man might not pursue an enemy. This ruin indicates a very substantial structure, in parallelogram form, about 220 feet Jong by 100 feet wide. Entrance is gained through a narrow passage between two bigh walls, and the interior is laid off in terraces and paved with smooth flat stones. The wall nphill is eight feet high, and on the downhill side twenty feet high, and both are twelve feet thick at base. ?Harper's Weekly. A Golf Tub From England. In a golf competition at Windermere one of tbo players, after a drive, fonnd his ball immediately behind a bird's nest, in which were three eggs. To play the stroke meant destruction to the nest and its contents, so with tender confederation he played bis ball to the side. Tbe nest and eggs ultimately cost bint five. By an ex4-?ilm ua m A ITUUI UlUUIJ tutuwiuvuvu ?mv player, in * Hubscqnent ntage of tbe competition, ngain fonnd bin ball lying clone to a bird's nest, which con % ? iL tained three eggs, and 10 savo mai nest and its contents cost him two.? Surrey (England) Times. Some Egyptian boats made of cedar, probably in nse 4500 years ago, bare been found buried near tbe banks of tbe Nile, and furnish an interesting proof of tbe power of tbut wood to withstand the ravages of time. France contains moro people over sixty years of age than are found in any other European country. The next greatest percentage of old peoplt is fouod in Ireland, . v--y,-v. ? . V ? ; > wopouootioooumiuooq \ Pretoria and \ Her Seven Forts D 3 i ^ Hoi* the Capital of th>e Boers Has } Been Fortified. Pretoria, capital of the Transrs is a country town, asleep back mountain walls and the frowni guns of seren modern forts. Hei unless all present indications fail a the war ends earlier than men expe the Boers will make their last sta gainst the English and endure a p libljj lengthy and bloody siege bef( capitulation. A_ it. .:J.. .1 j V/u vuron nuns UI i icwua i mountain ranges rise to elevations 1000 and 2000 feet above the streets the city, which itself is 4500 feet atx ~BIRD'S-EYE VIEV tea level, but 1100 feet lower than 1 site of Johannesburg to the son! On the fourth side?the south a girls Biuuu tiiu iuuicu uccp tuw CMU other's eyes, Polly pleading, pathetic, submissive, and Dolores suddenly strong and helpful, for she had expected tears and passionate reproaches, such as she knew not how to meet or answer. But what she found was so entirely different, that it helped her in what she had already decided that she must do. Instinctively she opened her arms as a mother might have approached a grieved child, and Mary flung herself into that protecting, loving embrace. "Oh, Lorita!" she said, her arms clinging about the other girl's neck and her head resting on her shoulder. "He loves yon! He loves yon! How am I to bear it?" "No, Maraja, he does not love me," returned Dolores, with an accent of calm conviction, that bad an immediate effect on ber listener. to be cownmntD. A Hawaiian Tempi* of Rafugr. facing the approach from Johanm burg?the range flattens away to vast and level plateau, treeless, dei late, exposed st every point to 1 sweep of any guns that may comma it. The town is 1080 miles fri Capetown, fifty from) Johannesbtu On the map it teems as easy of i oroach as a prairie village in 2 >raska. But the map topograpl ails to present the lofty, barren hi hat face the south plateau, 1 THE BAAD HOUSE, PRETORIA. jrecipitous banks of Aapies Riv he narrow gorges?so few in numl ?the innumerable "spion" or look< topjes that seem literally to leap fri .he bosom of the plain and sudden lilently oppose access to the capi ity. You look up to the mountain froi is your train struggles to find its w nto Pretoria and wherever the e ests tbere sppears to be the lines i fort, a redoubt, the front of mask >atteriea or the domes of bomp-prc ifie and cannon pits. To the ncrl j ?sst, west and south these engirt >he city. They command the few rerj few?narrow entrances to Pi j oria. They watch liko great do I he dusty, sun-rotted-veldt overwhi ! iny English troops coming from t ; louth must pass. They blink at t ' me railroad to Jobnncesbnrp?and t ! Dne to Lorenzo Marques. They f be north at Winderboom And gus .be way* to Beersbeba. Hebron a Polonia. Tbcir locatiou has be ?ith purpose. Captain Scbiel, n< is English prisoner, conntructed t >ne at Daapoort from plans obtain j n Berlin. He brought special assi j mts from Berlin to aid bim in t I rork. Amsterdam engineers bu >thers of tbe defenses. After tb< > m? Proneh emrinder*. and tb 'hose of Italy, ao that tbe complet structures represent the genius .'our nations. No one just knows?or will ado mowing?the inward mechanisms iiese forts, tbe mysterious battery ; nations. When tbe forts were bui! ng workmen employed on one part * ;he structures were not allowed ; ?ork on another part. Sentries w< v 0 . .V > , .S v - PRESIDENT KBUa * I posted at all tlie entrances. Kno' i edge of tbe details of the work ? ! kept from all but tbe president a tbe commanding officer.'. In external Appearance tbe sev j forts are alike. They have tuasm | faces, witb earthwork which cot< 8 their fronts to great depth. Pile ? upon pile of usdbegs ere stacked up c ?? -- pres. kbuger's church at prktokia. JO... (Hera be holds aerricM, exhorting the Borsbora who drive in from miles around in tfieir ox-carts,) he of wherever shells from the enemy might of strike. There are many hidden re>ve cesses, secret passages, oomplete telev 3&& f??3 y\ m JfGTZll S3fe'i>?2- (IJI ^((ssn 7 OF THE NATURAL A5D ARTIFICIAL DEFE! he phone connections?not onl j with each ;h. other, bat with government buildings nd in Pretoria. Searchlights are mounted es- in each strnctnre so as to command a the surrounding country at night. The ?o- magazines are underground and are he reported to be mined. Report has it nd also that the near approaches are mined sm and that the electrical construction is rg. such that considerable portions of an ip- enemy's army might be blown into Je- eternity before surrender came. For ler food, in the event of siege, enormous lis quantities of maize have been accube mnlated?enough, it is said, to feed ?i the army and the population of Pretoria for five years. The supply of ammunition is calculated to be sufficient for two years. The center of the system of forts lies about 3600 feet to the westward - of the northern end of Pretoria, and !has a radius of something more than 7000 yards. The center of the city is only about 11,000 feet, nearly dne onth, on the fort on Signal Hill, which is about 400 feet above the plain on the west side of the railway to Johannesburg, and about 13,000 feet from the fort on the hill to the ? east of the railway and the Aapies er, River running to the north. Between >cr this fort and the river are the foun* >ut tains that fnrni^h the water supply of am Pretoria. The distance between the ly, forts on either side of the railway is tal 7100 feet. The railway station, where its . H ii ".SsteBt OOM PACL'8 DriLDINO AT TEE PABIS he EXPOSITION. ;ilt im the lines from Johannesburg on tbe en south, Uelagoa Bay on tbe east and ed Pietersburg on tbe north form their of junction, is immediately outaido tbe city on the south side. The railway ait to Pietersburg, after winding some of distance to tbe westward, passes oat lo- of tbe plain on which Pretoria is Id- eitnated, through the Daspoort or deof file in the rauge of bills behind tbe to city. Throagh this also runs tbe ?re Aapies Eiver, tbe railway ana river 5 N 'u ER'S lluU.SE. rr.ETORIA. t\I- mnning together across tbe piain ras through tbe Wimlerboom Poort. u(1 Both river ami railway pas* nn?ler the cnn? of a larne fort 21,000 feet | en from the center of Pretoria. Tbe irj fcnternmpflt fort m on the range of err bills behind Pretoria, and lies at a distance of 81,000 feet from the city'f center. There is a powerful redoubt to the southwest on the range of hill* through which the transport road to Johannesburg paases. This completes, with various earth batteries, the circle of the larger works defending the Boer capital. Behind the great redoubt are the principal magazines, one excavated out of the solid rook, with a bombproof roof, and the other built into the kloop, also bombproof. Communication between the redoubt and the last-mentioned magazine is bj means of a covered way. Roads connect all these forts with the capital, and they have pipes laid for water, as well as electric lights for the search lights. The Boers call the ranges abont Pretoria Magalies. Tbe town waa laid out after 1836 by them and named after Pretorius, one of their first and strongest leaders. He was the first President of the Republic and Commandant General of their army. The - --I ?. I S'SES OP PRETORIA. | real growth of the town did not commence until after tbe victory at Majnba Hill in 1881. Johannesburg is tbe center and home of the Uitlanders? tbe nervons, adventurous element of i tbe Transvaal. But Pretoria is essentially tbe center of tbe pastoral Boers. Tropical flowers ond plants cover the valley in which it lies, and willows grow in every direction. ? * ?1 ? !1 Lii nearly an ox me dquuiu^o are ?uim in color. On tbe dome of tbe capitol is a golden statue of Liberty. Tbe Witwatersrand mines, which yield 8100,000,000 annually, are bnt a sbort distance from tbe eapitol. Howard C. Hillegas, in Harper's, mentions the universal prevalence of the bicycle in Pretoria, of the telephone and 'be electric car. The Boer congress?tbe olksraad?meets at Pretoria, and President Kruger has lived there for fifteen years. American goods are largely in evidenoe in the shops of the town, and the American sbopmsn is already there in large numbers. Pretoria does not and has not encouraged the presence of Englishmen, but Germans and Frenchmen are welcomed. Tbe streets are broad and clean, tbe water sapply fine and ample. Jn spite of its bloody war with Grest Britain the South African Republic had time to plan and complete a building at the Paris Exposition and to make it ready for tbe Transvsal exhibit. Every visitor to tbe great exposition will be specially interested in this display. The chief feature of the exhibit is a collection of native minerals, including the gold ores of tbe Rand and uncut diamonds. The ex- ; bibit also contains specimens of tbe agricultural industry of the Transvaal, such as fruits and cereals. A collection of bunting trophies, inoluding the skins ol Hods, leoparas ana oiuer ; wild animals, shows what the Boers j have bad to encounter in their marches north through the wilderness. The | building has two stories, with a central tower and cnpolas oc the corners Conan Dojtt't Xaniie* Maxima. Conan Doyle is not < r a skilled ! physician and a writer o: uiost fascia ating detective stories, but has also some very sonnd and sensible ideas on matrimony. The following are a few "Marriage Maxims" credited to \ him: Never both be cross at the same j time. Wait your turn. You were gentleman and lady be- , fore you were husband and wife, j Don't forget it. A blind love is a foolish love. En- ; courage the best. If you take liberties be prepared to give them. There is only one thing worse than ! quarrels in public. That is caresses. , The man who respects his wife does not tare her into a mendicant. Give ; her a parse of her own. If yoa can't then yon bad better do without a wife. Kurop??n Woillh By Coinlrln. The total wealth of Earope, per- ; sonal and real estate, is estimated at $235,1)00,000,000. From the point of > view of the absolute riches of the i world the principal European conn- ; tries range in the following order by billions: England, 59; Franre, 50; Germany, 40; Russia, 32; Anstria, 22; Italy, 15; I Eelgiuiu, 5; Holland, 4. In point of view of circnlating capital the classification is as follows: England, 21; France, 13; Germany, 7; RuHsiii II; Auntriu, 2: Italy, 11-5 Belgium, 1 1*5; Holland, 1 1-3. The Englishman possesses on an j average :<14K0; the Dutchman, 37*20; ! the Belgian uml the German, S78U; the Aontrian and Italian, $500; the j Knsrinu, $300. The Frenchman posaeaea $1300. I _____ lfrinmor wmrr rnr rn^inrfri. To provide drinking water on loco* c'tiveH a Southern man has designed a tank to tit in ouo side of the large water tank on tbe tender, the bodj of tbe small tank being surrounded by tbe water in tbe large tank to keep tbe drinking water cool. FILIPINO POLICE. jH CMtor Astricu VaprnMe* S?Ui? K^Hgj Order la M&aUa. HM Native police were ail ezpe-im^H once ia Manila. Now tbey arc a ?^B tore. Tbey carry their revolvers afl awing their clnbe in an independe^H manner, bold their heads high aiHS wear yellow ahoea with all the digni^B of one to the manner born. CoIoe^H Williston, the Provoat Marshal, he^H tated a long time before he woald p^Rj mit the natives to carry arms. B^B at last Major Tiernan, who belongs me r irsi Arunery dj ngnis, auu w^m it Chief of Police by virtue of hi* a^Hj pointment and ability, persuaded t^H Colonel to select a smell number ^H| tbe natives to petrol tbe streets tb^H were not as prominent as tbe Escoi^B or as public as tbe Lnneta. H Eabki, in a different shade frc^B that wora by the soldier, was chox^H as the uniform. At first there was HB question as to bow they should canflH something to enforce the laws of tl^M highway and tbe city. So they wei^H given clubs. Now, a club is effectiiH| so long u it is wimin reacn ox evil-doer, bat as there km more leas robbery going on among the n^B tivea it became a necessity to arm t? police with something that woaflS shoot. That if how it came abofll that the native police were armed wit^H revolvers as large aa those carried bJHj the American soldiers. BH Each policeman wears a cap, anjHj that gives bim a military air. HflH uniform ia tailor made and flta hiflj perfectly. The tronaera are lonHB enough to reach below the tops <fl yellow shoes and sometimes aiH| stuffed inside the lacings. On tbHE breast is a silver badge showing l9 number and precinct. The officeiH^ are designated much a* they are iH[ the army, either by stripes on th^B sleevee or straps on the shoulderfl| They travel out of their stations iH^ twos, one walking along each aide <^H the street 99 One thing these uniformed men dH is to keep the streets clean of all diiHj and refuse. A garbage wagon dailflj comes along every street, the nativ driver rings a bell and the bonsebolde is supposed to send a servant on with tbe day's accumulation from th kitchen and the stable. It is one o the duties of the police to see tha tbe caraboa cart is not kept waiting too long at the door. The men composing the force ar brave. They have been compelled t ruirh into bouses where robbers wer <>;. *+ . HATIV* POLICE ? Vimi. at work. More than one baa been carried away to the hoepital badly wounded in the fights which have followed. Besides this they have the confidence of the natives and have been able to inform the officials of dan* gerous plots or the presence of insurgent agents. All this has resulted in the appoint' ment of more native policemen and the establishment of more stations. Colonel Williston is satisfied that ttu> experiment has proved a success. Among other thing* it shows that the work of reconstruction will be made easy, for there is growing confidence in the ability of the native to administer his own affairs. Cannibal Captain Dead. The recently announced death ol Thomas Dudley from bubonic plague at Sydney recalls the terrible story in connection with the loss of the yacht Mignonette, of which he wa? the master, in 1894, when she fonn* dered. Dudley, with two other men and a boy, wan adrift fcr many days in an open boat. Daring this time the men killed the boy and tried to eat his body, for which, after their rescue, tbey were sentenced to death in England. This sentence, however, was subsequently commuted to sir months' iuiDrisonment. Wlifw Tommy Atkins Got* Bll X?B?. Every British reader xboald know tbe crigiu of the sobriquet "Tommy Atkins." Tommy Atkins vu the name of a sentry who, when the Euro* peans in Lucknow were flying for the Residency, from tbe mutineera, refuted to leave bis post, and io perished. After tbat it became the faahion to speak of a conspicuously heroic Koldier in tbe figbts with the rebel* an "a regular Tommy Atkina."?Lao don Daily News. Qdmr Victoria'* Famou* 8tr?r. Altbongb many people are aware o) tbe fact tbat tbe Queen of England if very fond of ail kinds of live fctock, if is not generally known tbat she goes in for utock raising at a very aeriotu bn?iness, and add* very materially to tbe royal income by so doing. Such, however, is a fact, for tbe Queen &u long been kuown to be tbe bappy poa fte9?or of Home of the bent and most profitable lire *tock in the kingdom. ?. :tl ? * ? *; ? .1 me aCCOHJJ?*IJ^ UiK nuinu?iiuu puuwo her famous Hereford steer, which htb won prize after prize at different cattle shows and has just been success ful in carrying off the blue ribbou at* the Birmingham cattle show. Queen Vieto. ia is said to *alte a great persona I pride in the handsome auiuial, which has brought her in mauj hundred ?ouud? of rrize money A