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Don Pedro Perez, more commonly spoken of in the Parisian world as le vieux Perez, or Perez Peru, was one of the best-known men ni Paris; and yet he but rarely appear- ed in those places where the world of Paris moat lovesto congregate. In the haunts of pleasure he was alrnost a stranger. But there was one place where Senor Perez reigned suPie e, where his name was a word of fear, hie countenance an augury of gain or loss to thousands. That plane was the Bourse. There Pedro Perez was as a king alnoug. his fellow -men. He was a Spaniard by birth,though he had lived nearly hall; a century in Paris, or rather had oscillated between Paris and Madrid during that period. He dealt only in Spanish-American securities. That line was hie specialty. There was not the most msignifioant railway between the southern- most point of Patagonia and the mouth of the Amazon, between Buenos Ayres and Quito; there was not a silver, diamoud, or Dopper mine within all that vast and varied expanse of territory; there was not a water company or an irrigation company or a company for snaking patent guano out of surplus paving -stones, the history and vicissitudes, the exact value or non -value. of which Pedro Perez did not know by heart. He had been given the sobriquet of Perez Peru because he was considered as deep and as rich as the deepest mine in that vast republic, and perhaps partly because his complexion had a tinge of that copper ore in which he had dealt so largely. As Perez Peru he was talked about respectfully even by the Tritons of the Bourse, and watched closely by the eager -eyed Minnows of that great mill, in which money and honor are ground into dust and ashes, and ust and ashes are ground back again into gold and good name. The first ten years of Perez Peru's finan- cial career had been years of struggle and petty fraud. Petty fraud had failed to make him rich, and timid speculation had only served to keep him like Mohammed's coffin, in a middle distance between the heaven of wealth and the hell of poverty. Then came his heroic period, which was short and sharp, bolder speculation and more uncompromising chicanery. Five years of this hazardous adventure,in which he escaped the galleys only by the akin of his teeth,made him a capitalist; And fifteen years as a ooulissier had educated him in the deepest secrets of finance. There was not a trick of the Stock Exchange which Perez Peru had not t his fingers' ends. He could stand idle, with his back against a stone pillar, and with his crafty southern eyes looking further into futurity than any other eyes in that crowded building. All that he touched after this period seemed to turn to gold. It turned to dross afterward, perhaps; but not till Senor Perez had passed it on to somebody else. He was never known to buy too soon or to hold too long. In a word,he was financial wisdom personi- fied. For five -and -thirty years of his Parisian career Pedro Perez had never been found guilty of acaprice. Hewes closely observed, as the representative of great wealth always is observed in an age which has Mammon for its master -devil; but he had never been surprised in any of those follies which some- times diversify the lives of the wisest men. He had come to be looked upon as a money. 'making machine, inexorable as steel and adamant, working always in the same grooves, relentless, unvarying : when all at once the report was circulated that Perez Peru had come back from Madrid with a "harem" and fonmore than nine days Perez Peru's harem was the standing joke in the cafes where the Bourse is paramount. The harem, upon closer inquiry, was found to consist of three women whom Perez had established in a second floor in the Rue Saint Guillaume. A mother and daughter, both handsome, the daughter eminently so; a cousin,plain and dowdy,or, if not absolutely plain, faded and elderly. The three women were seen one night in a box at the opera, the young beauty re- splendent iu amber satin and diamonds. Every lorgnette was turned to that, lox, and for the next three days all Paris talked of the dark beauty with the diamonds. "She was wearing the wealth of Peru upon her neck and arms," said the boursi- eotiers and their following. After this Dolores was rarely visible to the eye of all Paris. If she went to a theater, or an opera, and she was but seI- dom allowed thatrivile a, she was made P g to sit deep in shadow, as closely curtained from the public gaze as if she had been the Pearl of Ietamboul, chief light of some jealous peahens harem. Her story had but few elements of mys- tery, albeit her secluded life gave a flavor of the mysterious to her personality. She had been bargainedfor by Pedro Perez as sordidly as any Eastern slave that was ever - sold in a public market -place. The girl and her mother had been living in poverty, in one of the obscurest quarters of Madrid,. a region where the cholera fiend and fever fiend find their choicest pasturage, where the reaper Death gathers his richest har- vest. They had arrived in Madrid some years before with an appearance of ample means, and for a year or two Mme. Quijada had occupied an apartment in a fashionable quarter, and had shown herself daily on the Prado, well dressed, oboerved,and admired. She was taken to be an adventuress and a free lance ; but no one troubled himself abotit her antecedents. The police had an u on, her for the first few months, eye pbut could find nothing suspicions in her manner of life. Dolores was at a convent during five a six years in which she grew from therf m cbildbood to girlhood, It was the best educe- tional establishment in the neighborhood of and as the mother's undo got 1 Madrid nfow , she pinched herself in order to provide for her daughter's board and education, Mine. Quijada was not alone during these years of her daughter's education. bhortly after her arrival in the Spaniels capital she was joined by a niece, who frona that time shared her fortunes, good or bad. The nieee was introduced to Mme, Quijade'e acquain- tances( as Lonnie 1liarcet, and she was said. THE to have but recently recovered Froin a brain fever, which had seriously affected her mind and memory. Her aunt told her friends in confidence) that this orphan niece of hers had been disappointed in love, and that her illness had been the outcome of her disap- pointment. However true this may have been, it was beyond queatiou that a more miserable•lookingwoman that Louise Is areet at this period could hardly be fouud on this planet, where if people sometimes take their pleasures sadly they very often take their griefs gayly. Thei1 t ne came when the widow's cruse would, hold out no longer, and when it became necessary to withdraw Dolores. from the fashionable convent. Dolores was now eighteen, beautiful, care- fully educated, fairly accomplished. She went from the pure atmosphere and perfect comfort of a well -organized educational establishment to a shabby lodging in a sordid quarter. She went from ail the re- finements of life to all that is ugliest in the domain of poverty, The change was a shook which youthful selfishness felt keen- ly. Perhaps Mine. Quijada was not sorry that her daughter suffered from the misery of her surroundings. It might prepare her mind for the oriels to which her mother looked forward. Pedro Perea was almost as well known in Madrid as he was in Paris ; and he was perhaps even more profoundly reverenood in the less wealthy capital. Mme. Quijada had contrived to force herself upon his notice, but she had approached him with a modesty whieh flattered Ms self-esteem. She had besought his counsel and assistance in certain little investments, so small in amount that the great financier was pro- voked to smile—he who so rarely smiled— at her simplicity. The widow's tongue was soft and insinu- ating, and for almost the first time in his life Perez was moved to a benevolent action. He lent this simple lady fifty Louis to invest in an Argentine railway—lent fifty louis without security and without interest—but on second thoughts he insisted upon holding the scrip. " Women are so short -Bighted," he said, after making this condition, " you would be selling at the first rise. These shares are worth holding." Mine. Quijada was in sore need of fifty louis, but it aided a certain plan of hers that Senor Perez should hold the stook. It gave her a right to approach him. His image had dwelt in hor mind ever since she came to Spain, as the image of wealth incarnate. She had dreamed her dream about this rich lonely old man ; and the hour for the realization of that dream was at hand. She wrote him a piteous letter about a fortnight after Dolores left the convent. telling him she was too ill to leave her wretched home and she was in want of money, She believed that the dividends upon her Argentines was nearly due. It would only amount, she supposed, to a couple of louis, but forty francs would save her and hers from starvation. She had now three mouths to fill. Her daughter had been withdrawn from the convent where she had grown up, and was altering the discom- forts of her wretched lodging. Pedro Perez was not given to acts of charity, and was not in the habit of caring' whether his fellow -creatures dined or starved, but Mme. Quijada had contrived to impress him with the idea that she was a remarkably clever woman, and that the world would be the poorer for her less. She had flattered him with such subtle comprehension of his character that he,who had been the mark of abject flattery for a quarter of a centary, found himself listen- ing with a pleased air to this gifted woman's enthusiastic laudation of his talents as a financier, and of that latent genius which would have made him greater as a politician or a diplomatist than he had ever been on the Stock Exchange. Had the flatterer been old and ugly, even feminine subtlety might have failed to win his ear; but Mme. Quijada was still hand- some and still young enough to seem at- tractive in the eyes of a man who had passed his sixtieth birthday. He was not in love with her; but he thought her a remarkably attractive woman, and instead of sending her fifty francs by his servant, be went, himself to see 1n what kind of a ( den so much ability had found' shelter. He went, saw Dolores in all the splendor of her fresh young beauty, and was con- quered. He had never known what it was to feel his heart beat quicker at the sight of a woman's face till he saw Mme. Qui- jada'e daughter. He was subjugated at once and forever. Ms instinct urged him to make as hard a bargain as he could with the girl's mother; but the settlement to which he finally consented was more than princely. Princes are seldom so generous. Had Mme. Quijada insisted upon his sacri- ficing his last penny he would have done it sooner than loose the woman he loved. Had she inaisbed upon his, marrying her daughter he would have done it. Indeed the chief consideration that prevented his offering to make Dolores his wife was his keen dread of ridicule, and the cuneider- ation that he could keep a mistress under closer surveilanco than be could a Rife. He selected the Rue St. Guillaume as a neighborhood remote from the gay and popular Paris of the Boulevards and the Rue de Rivolf in which the casual English or American visitor delights ; far also from the Champs Elysees and the Parc Mon- ceaux, with their residential population of faehoinable artists and Bohemians of all kinds. He furnished the rooms with a somber luxuriousness, and he offered the cage to the snared bird with an air of de- voted submission which might have beguil- ed her into forgetfulness of the bars which shut her in from all the outer world. Upon Mme. Quijada he imposed the duty of keeping guard over his sultana. The girl's lightest whim was to be studied and in- dulged, so long as that whim did not Iead to the gay outer world and its frivolous associations. Dolores was to be a queen ; but her kingdom was to be within stone walla, These restrictions were hard upon a girl of eighteen, newly emancipated from the monotonous rules and regulations of a convent school and panting for liberty. "El Santo Corazon wan a prison," she complained, "but at least I had fellow. prisoners of my own age. This is.solitary confinement," She chafed bitterly against the dreari- life,and she detested the me nese of hern made himself her master; who had but , her mother's stronger character had ao. quired complete dominion over her, and strength will nor cour- age had neither renth o f a g age to rebel against her chains. She submitted to her fate. She wore the jewels laver which wore herbedbadge o f slavery; she gratified her girlish fancy in surrounding herself with the loveliest flowers that the south sent to Paris ; and she might, per- haps have grown reconciled to horpoaition, and itith but the slighest persuasion might TEM ma s have iuduced Pedro Peres to give her the natno and status of wife, if she had nob been so unhappy es to fall in love with he cousin, Leon. Durverdier. During the first year of her residence in Paris, Duvordier was a frequent visitor in Lie aunt's salon. He was about forty years of ago, haudsome, audacious, plausible, more seductive in his, riper years than a younger lover would have been, because more experienced in the artifices that fas- cinate a romantic girl. He had newly re- turned from Spanish America, where he had been living a roving and adventurous life, now in one state, now in another,mak. ing money no one kneiv exactly how, but a familiar figure at the gaming -tables of every city in which he had his abode, In her utter ignorance of life, Dolores turned to her representativee a cousin s the u of all that is most fascinating and most interesting in the outer world. Hie flashy and superficial cleverness passed as the versatility of a born genius : she believed all that he told her of his aoientifio day. dreams, and accepted bis inchoate experi- ments es the first stages in the career of greatness. He was just young enough, and just handsome enough to win the heart of a girl who had no opportunity of compar- ing him with more disbinguished men, It was the policy of his life to make love to every pretty woman who would listen to him, and he had even condesoended to fascinate ugly women who were likely to be of use to him. He had gone through life, from his eighteenth year upwards basking in the smiles of beauty, and re- lying upon the favor of the gentler set to carry hint safely over the obstacles in the adventurer's road through life. Was it likely, then, that he would neglect his opportunities with Dolores, a lovely and inexperienced girl who had the command of one of the deepest purses in Paris ? Duverdier's visits to the Rue St. Guil- Iaume had not been altogether disinterest- ed. He had gone there in times of financial difficulty, and he had extorted more than one so-called loan from Mme. Quijada, and had obtained several smaller sums of money, freely and gladly given, from Dolores, who had never been intrusted with the command of large means, and who dared not 'part with a single jewel from among Perez Peru's splendid gifts, as he had a troublesome way of passing her diamonds in review every now and then.. He would write to her in the course of the day to tell her that he was going to dine with her in the evening, and that he would like to see her in black velvet and diamonds ; and Dolores shrewdly suspect- ed that this was only his manner of assur- ing himself that she had made away with none, of his gifts. These magnificent gems had often passed under Duverdier's hands. He had sat in eager contemplation of their pure white brightness as they lay in their open cases on the table before him. "They are worth a fortune, Dolores," he said, "but they are of very little use to you -of less use than toys to a child. The child can amuse itself with the toys, but you can do nothing with the diamonds. It is not worth the trouble of wearing them when there is nobody to admire von." "Oh, but they are very pretty, ' the girl answered, childishly, "and I like to have them. Perez told me that there are only about half adozen women in Paris who have such diamonds, and they are all great. ladies." "Perez told you a lie," her cousin answered, harshly. "What of the rich American's the men whose money has been made in pork or petroleum, and who give their wives diamonds six times the value of yours? Perez is an impostor." He shut the case with a sharp snap. Those diamonds always made him angry. The thought of all that money looked up in velvet and morocco, or shining upon the neck and arms of a girl, aggravated him to madness. He was always in want of money. He had had a run of luck on occasion, and had rioted for a brief space in the possession of wealth—but it was the wealth of to -day not of to -morrow, and the next turn of luck had left him penniless. He looked at 'those diamonds on his cousin's neck with hungering eyes, and the thought of them haunted himin his dreams. The image of that waxen neck haunted him too ; and he saw it sometimes with one cruel hand upon it, holding it as in an iron vise, while another hand tore off that dazzling necklace. Once in a distempered dream he saw the same fair neck streaming with blood. He hurried to the Rue St. Guillaume early next morning, almost expecting to hear of a calamity; but nothing evil had happened. Dolores met him with a smile, surprised at his early visit. " I had a horrid dream about you," he said, and she saw that he was ghastly pale "Where do you keep your jewels la' he asked, later, when they had been talking of indifferent subjects. " Oh, that is mother's business. She has all sorts of contrivances for taking care of them." " I am afraid, hi spite of all her con• trivances, you'll be robbed some day," Leon answered, moodily. Yes, she would be robbed, ha told him- self. Some vulgar thief would get to know of the wealth that was stowed away in those dull rooms—wealth in its most con- centrated and portable form—and he, her cousin, who had such need of a share in the old financier's spoil, would be told that those jewels had vanished as swiftly and silently as if some wicked fairy had changed them into w ithered leaves. Mme. Quijada did all she could to dis- courage her nephew's visits,bufi some reason, known only to herself, restrained her from actually shutting her door against him ; and Dolores always welcomed him gladly, appear how and when he might. If he was moody, she sympathized with him, pitying griefs he did not take the trouble to explain. If he was rude, she bore with hie rudeness, For her he was just that one man upon earth who could do no wrong. Fate and fortune were to blame for using him badly. It was now nearly four months since elle had seen him. A brief note had told her that he was leaving Paris; that he was likely to be a wanderer upon the earth, t mightbebefore they and that i ears y y met again. She was in despair at this cruel farewell ; and sent her mother to his lodg- ings to find out what had become of him, On her first visit Mme. Quijada heard only the same statement that had been made to the officer of the police, but on going a she found the nest despoiled, month laterpp , The law had made a clearance of all Duver- dier's effects, at the suit of his chief creditor. Thea art out was to let, and nobody, knew or cared what hal become of its late tenant. The change in Dolores after her cousin's disappearance ara co w as too obvious toescape theof Perez, a had always keen eye H known that she;did not Bare for hien ; that to heraver y as a fate which she submitted sl y w i she wee too weak to resist ; that she loved ease and bunny, jewels and flowers too well to run away from her gilded nest into the bleak world of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the hard world which to her ignoranee must have seemed as ter» tibia as the wilderness to the dwellers in °hies, He knew that he held her by bice 111051aordid tionwthelove ofwealbh and the fear of penury, He had seen her listless weary, indifferent but he had never until lately seen her absolutely unhappy; and jealous doubts were soon aroused by that inexplicable change. He suspected an in. trigue of some kind, and set a private de teetive to watch the house iu the Rue St. Guillaume ; but the man discovered noth- ing. No suspicious person was seen to approach the house, nor did Mlle. Quijada ever go out alone. He questioned her closely. He bold her that he was sure she had some secret grief, and he urged her to confide in him. She protested that there was nothing the matter.Shee was tired of Paris. That was all. Her life was mon- otonous enough to make any one unhappy. He had no need to look further for the canoe of her low spirits. "I am going to .Madrid next week. Will you go with me?" asked Perez, " Yes, yes. I shall be delighted." Her face lighted up with pleasure. She gave her master one of those rare smiles which repaid him for the richest gift he could offer her.. She was thinking that Leon had most likely gone to Madrid, and that slie would find him there. She thought she could not be in the same city with him, and yet not contrive to bring him to her side, She would make her mother hunt him out for her, even if she herself were allowed only to change one prison for another. Her whole manner altered. She became gay and talkative,and discussed thejourney. How exon would they start? She was dying to go. " You want to see your old school -mates, 1 suppose," said Perez, "to make them envious of your jewels and your beauty ?" " Yes, yes, I want to see them all again," she answered, carelessly. "Ah, I forgot. You want to astonish your old friends. Well, keep the sapphires I gave you a little time ago, and a few of your smaller trinkets. The diamonds must be made secure before we start. It would be dangerous to travel with jewels of such value." "Duchesses carry their diamonds every- where," said Dolores. " And duchesses are often robbed—some- times by their husbands, sometimes by their servants, and occasionally by profes- sional thieves. You bad better take my advice in this matter." Dolores submitted with an air of indiff- erence, and Perez departed, promising to fetoh the jewel -case on the following day. He came, and was told that Dolores was too ill to see him. She had changed her mind. She did not care about going to Madrid. The possibility of meeting people who had known her in her innocent girl- hood was hateful to her. This was the gist of what Mme. Quijada told him, with much circumlocution, and with some tears wrung from a mother's wounded heart. Seeing that he listened to her reproaches with patience, and that there was :an expression of real distress in his withered old face, Mme. Quijadapursued the subject still further. He was breaking her daugh- ter's heart, she told him. He had but to open his eyes and he would see that she was drooping and dying by inches in that dismal prison house. The sense of a false position,to a girl brought up in the convent of El Santo Corazon, was unendurable. Diamonds were as dross, material comforts were of no account, The blighted breath of dishonor had passed over the fair young life, and it was slowly withering away. Perez heard and pondered. He idolized Dolores, and there was positively no obstacle to his marrying her, except his keen dread of ridicule, the idea of being laughed at by all Paris as the wealthy dotard with a girl-wife—the fear that if she were once his wife she would insist upon flaunting her beauty in the full glare of the wickedest city in the world, or that city which seemed so to him, " If I were to marry her she would lead me a wretched life," he said, after some meditative paeings about the spacious salon ; " she would take advantage of her secure position ; she would plunge into the vortex of frivolous pleasure ; she would drag my name in the mad, perhaps." " You have known her long enough to know how simple her ideas are, how easily she is contented." "That is all very well, now that she is under restraint. How can I tell what she would be if she had the authority of a wife ?" "Keep her as a slave, then, and let her fade and die. Do not reproach me when the end comes," There was much more to the same pur- pose—and the result was the total surrender upon the part of Pedro Perez. He would marry Dolores at the Mairie as soon as the law allowed. All he stipulated was that she should continue to lead a life remote from the crowds and amusements of fashionable Paris. (To BE CONTINHED, ) BLIND CYCLERS. 11 Strange Sight to be Seen on the Bonnie varus or Pnris, " In one of the most aristocratic quarters of the city, where the gilded dome of Na- poleon's tomb and the twin towers of St. Francois Xavier are sentinels over historic associations lies the beautiful Boulevard des Invalides, a long, tree -shaded avenue, where sound march in list slippers and the perfume of flowering shrubs envelopes the senses. One plump shoulder of this charm- ing drive is made interesting by a little grouped commotion every Thursday after- noon. Through an imposing iron gateway, into the centre of the street, is rolled a ourious looking machine of the velocipede order. It consists of nine largest sized bicycles joined together ina chain by means of nickel bars, the guide, the second, in front. In its wake follow eight young men, of about 18, dressed in a uniform of dark blue, with gilt b'ittons, flat caps and heels, the pantaloons neatly caught around thr, ankle by clamps, Neat cults and colla'8 trimmed and well hair,show Dare-u/i I attention to the person, The expression of the faces is cheerful, almost gay, the car- riage straight,and manly, hub gentle and unforceful. This, with a certain timidity of bearing, makes oneglance again to gee that, the party is entirely blind 1 They have walked throughthegateway, c crossed >' the sward, and reached the ah t e queer machine without guide or direction, and eominence et once that masonic trick of adjustment of wheel and handlet n k low to the bity la 0 fraternity, Chatting and smiling, each of the eight finds his special steed and stand beside it." .mow Shoes with soles covered with a paste of linseed oil, varnish and iron filings is being triad in the Carman Army. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorift for Alli ChHi ' * •. Ctirtorl '1v r aigsa ellsda tedtoohtldrentluat 1 recommend it as superior to any prescription known to me," H. A, Artouzn, M. D., 111 So. Oaford St, Brooklyn, N. Y. "The use of'Castoria' ig so universal and its merits so well known that it seenle a work 01 supererogation to endorse it. Few are the intelligent fanliliea who do not keep Castoria within easy reach." Ceusoa Msaysx D. D, New 'li'ork City, Late Pastor Bloomingdale Reformed Church. OEJaUrStoria cures Collo, Con �ti aatI r Sour Stomach, Diarrheas, rtotatio A , nrms,givea sleep, and pronl ote8 an ge Without injurious medication "For several years I heve,reeommendeA your Castoria,' and shall always continue to do re as it has invariably produced benel'iclal results," EDWIN It'. PARDEE, N. /Li " The Winthrop,"iltth Street and nth Ave.` NS* i`ori> ait3., 7 Tan Oailvava C•o]SPANY, 77 Mtrulux STUSMT, Naw Tonic a yc LAME B CK N EU RALGiA,PIEU RI$Y,SCIATI CA CURED EVERY TIME Alp RHEOMATISM REN D•& L': MENTHOL PLASTER dip. stan IF" TxtMAN IN THE MOO1'L TOOK SIC WHAT WOULD HE DO? JUST SPEND HIS FOUR QUARTERS FOR A BOTTL BURDOCK BLOOD BITTERS AS ALL SENSIBLE PEOPLE LE DO ; BECAUSE IT CURES DYSPEPSIA, GONSTIPATION, B1181OUSNESS,6BAD BLOOD, AND Mao DISEASES OF THE STOMACH, LIVER, KIDNEYS AND BOWELS. OU Have a' Very Bad Cough. Are Suffering; from Lung Troubles. Have Lost Flesh through Illness. Vii• AreThreaatteenned with Consumption. ,_ ',„ Remember that then ,�• :1five. 0:tea ,'t 1S WHAT YOU . E UIRE. 16&,_ i r,. r✓or. /�. Q -01iR;wJ� OUR EGG EXPORTS. _ The Closer our Egg Market Is the 11[ore Profitable it is, We seem to be getting back our egg market across the border. Last week ten oar loads were shipped from Montreal to New York,and realized a net profit to the shipper 3c above what he could get at home. Tbo demand there is still far from ethane ted and further supplies from Canadian points will probably find a rising market. This reminds us of old times. Before the passage of the McKinley Act our egg exports across the border ran into quite large figures, amounting in 1889 to 14,011,017 dozen, of the value of $2,156,725. The 50. duty of that tariff cut down these exports to the value of $324,355 in the final year ended 30th June, 1893. The present duty is 3a. a dozen, a rate which should not make it mpossible to do an egg trade of the former magnitude with our neighbors. Undoubted- ly the closer our egg market is the more profitable it is. Eggs are of SO PERISHABLE A NATURE that a difference of a few days in the time required for delivery is an important factor in their value. Even if we had found in Great Britain as large a market as we used to have in the United States, the former would not have been an equivalent for the latter, es we should have had to take lower prices, owing to the fact that the eggs must he older by several days at the time of de- livery in the one market than at the time of delivery in the other. Also another item against the more distant market is the higher freight. But our experiments on the British market did not encourage us to expect that a demand there for as many eggs as the United States used to take from us would soon develop. Eggs from Denmark, France, Russia, and other countries were on a pretty secure footing there, and arrived fresher and in better condition than ours did. Some of our ship- ments met with gratifying success, but the majority did not. If we had had to depend en THE BRITISH DEMAND' for an export trade in eggs, it is probable oit production of eggs wouldhave fallen off. There are some thin gs that need to g be marketed at home or near home, and eggs seem to belong to that olasa They may Y possiblybe take out of that class by some nm iecovey for preserving them in a codition of original freshness for a considerable period. So far that discovery bee not been made. Itis true Australian egg shippers have the confidence that they can send eggs to i ain in condition fit for the market, t n but it fa not probable that they`ean sell them at anything like the prices commanded there by first-olass eggs. There is no denying the faot,the United States is a good market for eggs. Farmers ought to give their attention to raising eggs in winter. If they did, they could easily increase their proceeds from this source by 50 per cent. Affairs in Italy. The deplorable condition of affairs i Italy has given rise to the fear that the next attack on the peace of Ear ope wil come from that quarter in the form of a anarchistic outbreak. But the diasatisfac-o tion of the Italian people is largely caused by the insupportable military burdens, forced upon them by the Government be cause of its membership in the Triple Alliance and its useless schemes in Africa. Concerning this aspect of the European_, situation Frederic Harrison says : "A -- study of the deep undercurrents of European politics of the past year reveals a manifest' desire of the great military Powers to find' some relief from the ever-growing burdensr of armaments, a burden which largely; causes the friction and irritation that existf between classes. Whatever risk of wain" there may be, is caused by the rage foie tranamarine poasesaions far from Z,nropef i itself. Let European nations let Africa alone, and they would gain imm ely, real power and dignity: Th nbable,. scramble for Africa is a race land ofe which only a ve small frau habit -a able by Europeans, the present 'European population of .Africa not being equal to that+ of a single petty town in Europe. Thee military occupation of Egypt, too, is 5Y permanent danger, fatally depriving Eog-t land of all freedom and al peace in her,; foreign relations," There is a rumor in New York that fully $25,000 worth of diamonds have recently been stolen from Maiden Lane dealers by. means of fraudulent memorandum orders. (r, l 0 J sift wtLa;'axhita wilIrnevatl, P'EBIXTER 0 rinwrouN +6.4"0.