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The Brussels Post, 1894-12-28, Page 2fP{ 1IItTLLING 'PALS QS liclKet.N. LIVE, CHAPTER, XVIII. Me 1 It was slim, gray -hefted, military look - tug man ook•fnvman wholletencd to these words with the light of the of tite hutment fish upon hie face, width contracted into o homy frown, " Youphellenged shout warned them well ?" " Again and gain, sir. It wae nob until they were right down here, after the 'tergaant bed been hurt, that We fired, The governor, for he it was, ehtwggod hie shoulders and gave his orders. Then Mgr of the most active of the warders began to descend, lanterns in hand, each Molting like a spark on the face of theblack rock The task was so peril:me that at the end of a few minutes the governor ordered the men to halt, while ropes were fetched, and in due time those were brought and secured to the climbers' waists, the ropes being paid oub by the warders on the shelf, the light of the lanternabeing now supplement- ed by the blue lights, held in the sberna of the feet approaching outtera.' " Ahoy, there, aehorel" was shouted by the officer in one of the boats; "men escap- ing?" " Yes; three," was shouted back. "Row to end fro, and see if you can make out a man swimming." " Right! Swimming, indeed! Where's he toawim to?" grumbled the officer; and at a word then the boats separated, and were rowed slowly along at a abort disha lee from the shore. Thea came a hail from below, and a man bearing one lantern began to climb sidewise to where another had become stationary. "Well?" from the shelf. "One of 'em, sir." "Mind. Wait, for help and look out for treachery." "He won't show no treachery." muttered thewarder,holding the lantern over aghat ly face contorted' by agony. " Well, mate, I'd give in now." "Yes," said the mac with a groan. "I'm siok as a dog. Hold me. I shall go into the Bea. Get me back. The doctor." He said no more. His grasp of the rock to which he clung relaxed, and he began to slide down sidewise till the warder thrust his leg beneath him and grasped one arm. Look sharp!" he said to his companion• "Set the lantern down, and mine too." "Can you hold him ?" " Yes ; all right. Now untie the rope rrom round me, and make it fast under his arms." Where's he hurt?" said the second warder. " Log, I think. His things aro all wet with blood. Look sharp." The knots were untied, and as the insen- sible, wounded mac was held up, the rope was made fast under his arms, and at the word, the unfortunate wretch was carefully hauled up. But before he was half -way to the shelf there was a second hail from close down the water side. Here's another of 'em sir." " Hurt ?" Yes, si-, or else shamming." " Watt till another man gets down to you," cried the governor, " Be careful 1" Tho man who had given up his rope was not far above the spot where the second convictlay, and he managed to lower himself down, holding his lantern the while in his teeth, and soon after adding its light to thet of the other warder's "Think he's shamming?" asked the man who had found him. The fresh comer stooped down without hesitation, in spite of the warning from above; and after looking fixedly in the oonviot's closely shaven face, passed his hand herejaod there :thou tthe prison clothes. "Don't feel nothteg," he said," but this isn't shamming. Here, hold up, my lad. Where are you hurt?" There woe no reply, and the oleanly cut, aristocratic features of the man looked very stoney and fixed. "I don't think he's shamming, mate," whispered the warder, "but cover him with your piece: 1 don't want to be hurt," It was an awkward place to use a rifle, but the warder, addressed altered his posi tion a little, and brought the muzzle of his piece to bear on the convict's breast. " Well, you two below there," shouted the governor. " What do you make out?" " One moment, sir. Ugh 1 No shamming here, mate. Feel his head," " Take your word for it," said said the other gruffly. " Let's have your rope, then, and send him' up." " Badly hurt?" cried the governor. " Very, air," shouted the warder who was manipulating the rope. " Watt a minute,", he continued, and, stripping off his tunic, he threw it over the injured man's head, and passed the sloevea under the rope 'about his chest, " Mind what you're doing, or he'll slip. away. " He'll slip away if I do mind," muttered the warder. " Here, steady, mate ; I only wanted to keep the rooks from chafing you." For the convict had suddenly torn at the tuoio; b,tt hie hands dropped again directly, words was given to haul gently, and holding on by either side of the loop about the prisoner's breast, the ,warders climbed as the rope was hauled, and kept the unfortunate man's Bead from the rook" Tins taet was a slower process than the sending up of the fleet prisoner, but the rest of the warders were searching al -out still, espeoially down close to the edge of the Rea, in the expectation of seeing the third man hiding amongthe moire half covered with the long strands of the slimy focus that frineed the•tide.washed chore. And all the while the two boate made the water glisten, and the bhto lights threw up the facto of the rook so 'clearly that, unless he had found some deep,: dark, oavernoue niche, there 'was but little el snae for art eaoaping convict to cling anywhere there wheat. • the shelf a fresh arra ,al wee upon the scone in the person of the jail surgoon,wlto, fresh from attending eergeant and warder, made a rapid examination of the firer prisoner, and thou began to open aease by the light of otto of the lanterns, ''Dangerous ?!" said the governor eharp, ly. "No. Bullet clean through one thigh and the other regularly plowed, Send for etre0ohero," Ho knelt d wn as he spoke, and with the convict groaning piteously he rapidly plugged one of his wounds, and bandaged "Now .18'1 er he eaid ; and ho turned to the second puttee who was lying, talk- ing quickly, a few verde away. Just then the governor hailed the men below. "You must find pini, my lads," he Dried. "Who heard him plunge in ?" "I did, air," came hack. "Well, then, he is ashore again' some- where, holding on by the rooks l no man would swim 000 to Rea with auoh a tide on. He would be carried right away. Keep a good lookout, and if he's wise he will ear - render. Well, doctor, this one much hurt?" Yea, horribly. Head crushed." " Not by a bullet?" No ; fell, How long are thosestretchers going to be 2" " Some distance for the men to go, doctor," said the governor quickly; " You. forget they were being used for the sergeant end the man." " Poor fellows 1 yes," said the doctor, rapidly continuing hie manipulations " there, that ie all I can do." He rose from his knee and stood looking out at the boats below turning the water into silvery blue as port fire after port fire: was burned, while others lit up the maw -of• war from which the boats had come, "I'm glad it was not a bullet," said the governor quietly,as his men below searched the rooks and snouted—now to their com- panions who paid out the rope,now answer- ed hails from the boats. "Yes ; one man's enough to shoot a night," 'said the surgeon grimly. 'Beg pardon, sir," said a warder,coming up, lantern in hand, and saluting. "Yee ;what is it ?" "I don't think you'll find the other poor chap, sir." "Blades, who was, one of the men here first, and fired Saye there was a shriek just before they heard the aplaeh in the water." "Tut—tut—tuti" ejaculated the gover- nor. "Poor wretch 1 Where is Bladon ?" "Here, air," said 'a mac who was holding one of the ropes. "Why didn't you say this before, man?" "Didn't like to,sir; and besides, I thought the others knew." "One does not seem to have been enough" whispered the surgeon. "Ayn- sley, I did not know your men could shoot so well. Hah I the. stretchers," For lanterns were seen approaching, and directly after ,e party game up with the ambulance apparatus. The two convicts were lifted on and borne off along the path traversed only a short time before by their victims—one of them groaning pit. eously ;- the other lying silent and calm, gazing straight up at the black darkness, while his lips moved slightly front tine to time. Most unfortunate 1 most unfortunate 1" muttered the governor assoonashe was lett alone with hie subordinates. "Poor, blind fools 1 how they rush upon their fate 1 Well," he shouted, "see him? " "No, air. Boats are coming back, air." This was plain enough, and a few min- utes later both rowed up in close with fresh blue lights illuminating the scene. "Ahoy ! Who's up yonder 2 " shouted a naval officer. "1 am," cried thegovernor. "Oh, you, Sir William I Well, sir, I'll keep my mea ou if you like, but no swim- mer could have got to shore front here - ab outs. If there ie a man living he must be somewhere on these rocks," " My men say they have searched tho• roughly," said the governor. "Every ledge and crack is well known. There eau be no one here." " Shall we patrol the place a little longer 4" The governor was silent for a few mo- menta, and then, feeling that all possible had been done, he gave the word for the search to be given up, but sent half a doz- en men to patrol the road leading to the mainland, feeling all the while that it was a hopeless task. By thio time the last man had climbed up from the dangerous cliff side, the ropes were coiled, and the party marched oft' to- ward the prison—the governor last—leav- ing the sentinel warder to his beat with the compsuy of another man. These two stood in silence till,the foot- etepe had died out on the rooky path and the last blue light had ceased to send gold. en drops into the hissing water as tho boat e made for the man-of-war. "Black night's work this, Jam," said the companion sentry. "Two of 'em gone and three wounded." "No no; rot so bad as that," "Yes, bad ae that. Yon chap on the stretcher won't see tomorrow morning, and that other poor chap who shrieked when we fired went into the water like a stone. It was your shot did that." "Ugh I I hope not," said the warder, with a shudder. "Seems to me time I tried another way of, getting my broad and cheese. Hark 1" "What at?" "That. Someoue haileo off the water. Quite low and faint, like a man going detail." The eloude were lifting slowly in the oast, and the misty, blurred face of the moon began to chow iu the east, over the brimming water's din. CHAPTER XIX. ALMOST BY ACCIDENT. Time had crept on sines the return of the ,errolds, slid by degrees the pain of meeting between Myra and Stratton grew lees, and the wound made that day began to heal. "l'm sorry for him," Guest would say en himself; "but 1 can't keep away booause he 10 unhappy." So he visited at the admiral's, where he always found a warm welcome, .but made little progress with Edits , who seemed to have grown cold. Then, ton, ho met the eoneine at bliss Jerrold's, and it tmturaily came about that one evening, after a good ,ieulof persuasion, Stratton, became his companion Myra was there that night,' and 0110e mote their hands were elasperi, while By the time the second man was taken 00 Stratton felt that it wee no longer the et Into whose We ile looked, hub the cin all m suffered n atr;ugglo of life, andtltabha must banfe1 hopPe of a nearer tis than that of friend, sh! , leer wherever Myra may have held don in Use secret heart she was the or, self•rgntingd friend to her want"a gu Rowdy to sit and talk with hiin of par '(pica and their 4ravels to play or sia asked hot Stratton always loft the h with the fooling that uugonaoionely M had gravely impreeaad upon him the that s le was James Barroir's wife, and she would never seek to rid herself of tie 4`And I must accept that postai Stratton would say despairingly, after el the meetioge which followed ; and t be would make a vow Hover to meet M again,tor the penance was too peinfu be borne. The result was that the very next after making one of those vow she reeel a letter from Bdie, asking him, at uncle's •wieh, to :limner iu Jou Square. For the admiral had said to ,Bio, hearing that they had met Stratton at annt'a: "Let bygones be bygonee. I don't why we' should not all be friends ag I always liked the boy, He eau talk about ecientific things without boring y Ask him to dinuer."' "Uncle wants him to come and w poor Myre from that terrible business. But Ediswas wrong, forafterapproach hie daughter several times on the quest of the possibility of obtaining a diver Myra hadatupped the admiral so decide that he had been ready to believe ahem have oared for Barron after all. First matt who ever told her he to her," the old man :mid to himself, "s course, she can't help feeling a kin liking for him. Bab suppose he co out outiokot•of•leave, don't they call And what if he comes here? Bah I shoot him before he shall Bayo her. T would bring Myra to book, too. That card 1 must play—possibility of hie coin back, She'll give in, then, I must h what a lawyer says." But, in his unbusinesslike way, Sir M did nothing. Home was calm and pleas again, and ho had his little dinners, his friends ; and to him the existence James Barron, alias Dale, at the Forela became less and less clear. He was buri as it were. in a living tomb, and there no need to think of; him for years. Stratton Dame again and again for dinn and now and then dropped in of an ev ing. Always against his will, he told h self; but the attraction was strong enough draw him there. :It was plain, too, t Myra's eyes brightened when he enter but he felt that It was only to see her fa er's friend. Then Dame one autumn night when, of o long and busy dey, Stratton made up mind to go to Bourne Square, undid made up his mind again, once more un it, and determined that he would no Ion play the moth round the bright candle, He had dressed, and, throwing oft light goat and crush hat, he went out his rooms and along the landing to Br tiaon's. "I'11 go and talk botany," he said. "L is too valuable to waste upon a heartl woman." Be knooked ; no answer. Again ; reply. "Gone out," he said. "What shall do?" Stratton hesitated for a few momen and then went and fetched Ills bat and co descended, took a oab, and ordered t man to drive to. Guest's, in Gray's Ina "Better have stopped at home," mutter Stratton; " he will talk about nothing el but Bourse Square." But he was wron Guest waa out, ao descending into t :maitre, and walking out into Holbor Stratton took another cab. "" Where to, sir 2" " Bourne Square." Stratton sank back in hie seat period 'convinced that he said Remitters' Inn, an he started cub of a reverie when the ea stopped at the admiral's door. Fate," he mut " muttered. 11 was n doing of mine. Andrews admitted him as a matter course, and led the way to the drawin room, where he announced his name. Myra started from acouch, where alt bad been sitting alone, dreaming; and a Stratton advanced his pulses began t beat heavily, for never had the woman h idolized looked so beautiful ae then. There was s faint flush In her sof creamy cheeks, the trace of emotion in he heaving bosom, as she greeted him con eeiouely; for she had been sitting alone thinking of him and his proposal to he father, and the next minute the door ha been opened, and he stood before her. "It is almost by accident that 1 am Note,' he said, in a law voice full of emotion which he vainly strove to control. ""Yon cousin ? The admiral?" "Did you not know?" said Myra in a voice as deep and tremulous as his own, 'Mr. Guest came with tioketsfor the opera. He knew my father liked the one played to-night—'Faust.' " "Indeed 1" said Stratton huskily. "He goes for the sake of the great scene of the return of the men from the war. I wink he would never tiro of hearing that grand march." She left the oouoh, conscious of a strange feelingofagitation, and, crossing to thepiauo seated herself, and began to play softly the second strain in the spirit -stirring. com- position, gradually gliding into the jewel song quite unconsciously, and with trent. bling &agora, Then she awoke to the fact that Stratton had followed her to the in. strument,, against which he leaned, with the tones thrilline his nerve:, tones set vibrating by thetouchof hands that he would have given worlds toolasp in his own, while he poured forth . the words struggling for exit, " ltie fate," he said to himself, as he stood tlteregazing down at the beautiful head with its glossy hair, the curve of the creamy neck, and the arms and hands whit. er than 0h0 ivory over which they strayed. So sudden— so 'wondrous The only thing In his thoughts had been that he might be near her for a time, and hear her words, while now they were alone in rho soft, dim light of the drawing room, and the touch of her fingers on those keys sent that dreamy, sensuous, glo• Nous music thrilling.., through every fiber• of his body. Friend 2 flow could he he friend ? He loved her passion- ately,and, cold ea Ishe might' over be, however she might trample upon his feel. ioge,the must always be the aante to ilio —his ideal—life love—the only woman in the waled who could aver stir hie pulses. Awl so silent now—so beautiful ? If she had' spoken in her euatmnary formal, friendly way. it would have broken the spell. 131lb she could not. The chain Was as feet round her at that moment, though elle longed to speak, She could not, for she know how. he loved r his touch stirred each pules that thfe matt was all in all to here -the ono thoughtful woo Whoheti ff 1 t the all hid. lm, est, rout Sing it Ouse yrit ftuot that that on:" one hen tyro Ito day vel her me OD her see Gin well 00. can ing ion ce, dly ust ved o, of d of mee It ? Pit hat 'e a ing ear ark ant and of nd ed, was er, en- im• to hat ed, th ter his it, did gar his of et. ife sae no I ts, at, he ed se g he. n, ly b 0 of 11 0 e c, r d r she loved, aid site could not burn end flee. At last, by a tremondgtee effort, she rais- ed her eyes to his to speak indifferently and break through this horrible feeling of dread and laesittide, but se their eyes met, her hands ulroppod from the keys, 00, with a passionate cry, he tools a stop fist. ward, caught her to hie breast, and she lay for the moment trembling there, and felt hie lips pressed 10 her in a wild, passionate kids, " Myra 1" he panted ; "all that meat be as a dream, Yon are not his, It is im- possible,. I love you—my own 1 m? own 1" His words thrilled her, but their import roused in her Rowell those terrible thoughts of the tie whiohbennd her; and, with a cry of auger and despair, elle thrust him away. "Go I" she cried ; '" 1Gis an insult. You must be mad." Then, with the palm majesty of an injur- ed Woinau proud pf her honor and her state she said coldly, as she po ntgd to the door ".kir, Stratton, you have taken a cruel advantage of my lonelineee here. I am Mr. Barron'e wile, Go, sir, Wo are friends Ito longer and can never meet again." TO BE CONTINUED.) CHRONIC CHILLINESS. The Renletly Suggested is Outdoor Rx. .ceche Even In whiter, How some ppopie euflorin winter! They are conet:ntly having 01111113; a feeling of cold water trickling down the back or some iooal stagnation of blood, with altered ner nous sensations, is experienced ; the hands, feet, nose or ears are espeoially likely to give inconvenience. Such individuals can- not got warm even in bed, and, as a cense. quenoe, 'often suffer from insomnia, for sleeplessnessis often caused by cold feet. Many such conditions arise from the fear of taking outdoor exercise, Lecauae the weather is Ino cold; Hence the oircnlation is not kept going,and the blood, vitiated by the close, impure air of the house, has no chance offered it of being allowed to purify itself. The foulest river or stream of water is rendered pure by exposure tothe air as it comes along, and atter a run of a few miles becomes fit for consumption. Why,. then, will delicate people deny the stream of life an opportunity to purify itself as comes through their veins? adore is the se. eretof how to keep warm in winter—out- door exercise in pure air. Many individuule mietake the feeling of cold for "catarrh." But feeling cold and " taking a cold" aredifferent brings. A shiver hem exposure to' cold—indeed, a half frozen condition—is-not in itself likely to end in so•called "cold" so long as the expoaure:hae been in the open air ; but we hold thea by breathing the impure air of badly ventilated rooms a chill may be very easily contracted that will end in a " cold. In cold weather we distinctly recommend the ordinary healthy pian or women to try the effect of outdoor exercise, especially when the feeling is strong that it is too cold to go out of doors. Exercise under such circumstances will usually act as a tonic to the whole frame and brace up the nervous eystem, the special function of which is to regulate the heat of the body, The akin should be freely exposed to the air before dressing in the morning, and after the morning washing or cold tepid bath rub the body into a glow with a coarse towel, and you will be very nearly cold and waterproof. Long -Lived People. Lieut. Gibbons found in a village of Peru 100 persons over the age of 100, and either he or another credible explorer there re- ports another man aged 140. He was a very temperate man, ate his food cold, and never ate meat except in the middle of the day. In the highlands of South America the habit of old age is a long established one. In Ecuador oentenariane are common. The census of 1864 found in the town of Pilaguin, 11,000 feet above sea -level, about 2,000 inhabitants, among whom were 100 over 70 years of ago, 30 about 80, 11 over 90, 5 over 100, and one who was 115. Not many years ago died in Ambato a woman named N. Cucalou, who was 114, and one Don Jose Soto, aged 120. In the year 1840, in the town of Banos, died old Morales, a vigorous carpenter to the end of his life, who was wolf on in years and the steward of the Jesuits when they were expelled from their property in 1767. In 1838 a witness in a judicial trial was proved to be 140 years old, having been born on the night of the great eitrthquake which de. stroyed the old town of Ambato in 1698. How much longer this man lived, who was cradled by an earthquake, is not yet re- ported. Mexico, notwithstanding its revo- lutions, is equally favorable to longevity. In the State of Vera Cruz there died a man in 1893 who was 137 years ,Old. That he was carried off prematurely we have reason to so pose, for atTeluca, where the register is ofhciallyand carefully kept, there died only a few years ego a titan aged 192. Antiquity of Lawyers. 'Che profession of law is as ancient an soctety, and the more enlightened the so May the more necessary and honourable the profesaion. When Dean Swift called the law a bottomless pit, a cormorant, a harpy that devours everything, he was more witty than wise. Societe, would be a bottomless pit and the harpy of anarchy would devour everything without it. 1Ve are in the habit of pointing back to the thirteenth century or to the time of Ed- ward 1. as the lege when the profession first appeared. The advocate was known in Roman jurisprudence. The eloquent Oioero won hie first renown as an orator in the defence of Resoles, the greattragedian,; against Sylla, the Dictator of Pomo. Here Ciaero met such famous ad'voaates as Cotta and Hortonsius. These men were pleaders at the her. Far back of this time, how - over, even 400 B. 0., Esohinee and Demos- thenes were adt•ocates and pleaders at the bar of Athena, Before this golden age of Attie eloquence mention m made in Daniel' of the Babylonish governors, judger:, alter- iffe, and counsellors, and 1,00011 O, the profession of counsellor woe known. Hard on Drunkards. To repress drunkenness the Governor of St. Petersburg has just ordered' that the names and addresses of .all persons found tntdititated in the streets, regardless of rank or sox, shall be posted in oertain pub- lle.pin000 in the e. ty and also printed in the Ofi3efai Gazette, Fifty yours ago they warn compelled ti ewesp the streets for a 'amber of hours under the eye of the Mice. POOR ARMENIA. V,u'lleot' Itetedin er the lIetwibip Rutelibt'y 01At'ntenians t,,r-Turas. • A copy of the',Ilelldahaok, an Armenian official published of tlo°Ibeudeh McLendon Rev l the tionary Society, has been received here, In Takat, a small village in .Sevas, according to the newspapers eerreeppondeot,'the public otter called upon all Mahometane to do ae their brethren at Saesoim, ' Fie said that the Prophet Mahomet desired the death of the unbolievere and that the alitheritiee Would uphold everybody who killed Christians. The result nof 'hie pro- 'y \• TAIIIR 110Y, enter BeRltAULI Minn 06M: MS olamation was that 200'pereonowere killed and 400 wounded before the religious freayp kindled by it was stetted. The Monastery of Sb. George, the Hand. shack correspondept says, which was the oldest and moat venerated religious inti. tutionin Armenia, was completely demo'. =LISSA BEY,. ICIIILDI010 OHM. ished and alt its inmates, numbering over one hundred, put to the sword.. He also mentions that the Rev. Paul, a Congrega- tional minister in Mooch, WAS oast into prison on the trumped-up charge of being in correspondence with revolutionists. A young Armenian of Ne,v York, who intendsreturoing to his native country, told a reporter that he 'applied to the representatives of the Turkish Government for a passport, but was,retused be ,t BASAN AGA, MBE' OATOKAN TRIG& 00 KURDS ha asserted, he declined to go abroad in the service of the Government as a spy. Be says he was offered $10 per week, twice as much as he is now earning in New York. Three men who left New York two months ago to visit their families in Char - pont, Armenia, returned here yesterday, They say they were given just fifteen minutes to greet their families and get out again. There were forty others who had. left Providence, R. L, for the same -place, RASOAGIIA, but they only .got as ft f se Alexandria, when they pub, back on remount of the terrible hardships they were made to 'en. counter. It was reported. in the Armenian colony in New York that a band of fifty students under Gagunian were arrested on the Russian' frontier on their way to Armenia, and were dont to the mines of Siberia. The charges of cruelty against the otfloiels of the Elmira, N.Y., reformatory have been dismissed. Plum Pudding.—One pint of (hopped such, ono and one-half putts of Weals and ourrents,one and one-half cups of molasses, one and otto.half (ups of intik, Dae tea- spoonful of soda, ono teaspoonful of tale, two nutmegs, three eggs, one.half pound of oltron and flour enough to make it seifr- er than cake, Tie up in a 010011 et put in a buttered mould and boil five hours, Servo with a hard sauce. THE DAWN IN RUSSIA, IIewIMMO Nilo'Governed UYAIoxnnge 00V,-..Stultulns. 00.1Y7torent011y 'Y'r,atls Ila Sublecte awl Ye Very Y"oPrilnr, The contrast between the marvelous pre cautions el the late Czar to feud his eub het:: Mr and the Fnglielt trustingness of the people by Nicholas 11. is most aetouibt- lug, bat tile, oltaoge ausurs well for the future of Rueeia, and indirectly of that other nations. All the acoointa that we get of tate manner in which Alexander 111. fanged hitneeIf in and guarded himself when travelling agree in proving that he led a hunted life; and that of lateyeere he never thought he was safe unless' 0107" thing poeeiblo was done to prefect him from those who day and night sought hie life, The numerous eo0spiracies againeb him—several of which all but suooeeded— forced him to be always ou his guard. Ciatohina Castle, his usual residence, and :leo the pa.k surrounding it, were most strictly guarded; no powder mag- azine could be more so. The parkis sur- rounded by a strong and high well, built during the last few years, and' outside of it there was always A clam 00 SENTINELS at only eighty feet distance from one an, other. No one was allowed to enter the park or castle without the presentation of a special earl, the color of which was changed every week. All the outsideroads leading to the park were patrolled day and night, and no one was allowed to pass with- out exhibiting his papers. No resident in the castle, whatever, his or her rani' or station might be, was permittedto book his or her door either by day or night, Th Chief of Police and other high officiate wer authorized to enter such apertments'tvhe ever they thought proper. One reason f Chia latter precaution was the mysteriou manner in which threatening. 0001008 ha in many instances Been placed on the Em perces desk. It believed that the culpri or culprits were never discovered, but i had the effect of making him believe that there were conspirators immediately about hie person: Subsequent to the wrecking of the train by the Nihilists in the South of Russia, when he andhie family -Minos miraculously escaped, ALL RAILw'AYS wERE GUARDED during his passage. In such cases a the entire length of railway soldiers w placed at regular intervals, and they w etriotly ordered to shoot anyone who preached the railway after having b challenged three times. We read of a t or district being placed in a state of sl but in this ogee he, so to speak, lived u a state of siege nearly alt his reign. was never cafe, and was painfully war the fact. Thie life of tension and anx gradually sapped hie strong oonatitut so that when attacked by disease he he sufficient vital power to repel it. His ruthless system of oppression wholesale deportations to Siberia, mail brought about by his listening to fanati advisers and Ministers, led to thia`terr state of things. The one great good he did was to keep the pease, althoug military preparations were so vast menacing that neighboring natione ha arm to the teeth. That he died a nab death must be looked upon as fortune Itis, hutnanlyepeaking,certain that, sol er or later, he must have been assassinate espeoially ae officials and even officers the army were implicated in several of conspiracies.' His murder would h strengthened reaction, whereas his ural death has left the way open fo milder system of rule.' TILE NEW CZAR has decided to live at his palace Petersburg, and to thoroughly tru subjects,' diapeneing with guards, occasionally going about unattended. has given great satisfaction, and mad immensely popular. He has also re the system of oppression and lea0ene pnnishmenb of great numbers now u sentence. He is therefore in no imine danger from the Nihilists. 11 they abstain from conspiracies we shall hon extensive reforms, but it will take so time to get things into working order. marriage with the granddaughter of Queen and his fraternizing with the Prin of Wales make for peace. The great poi for those Russians who desire reform is t exercise patience, and indireebly the inter eats of many other nations depend upo the iseue. They Think It Funny. When an American meets an acquaint- anoe after dark, no matter what the hour, he says : "Good evening," and when they separate he says: "Good night." But in Canada one often hears the latter phrase in salutation as well as in good•by. To an American it seems odd when, on seeing'a friend, the latter advances with : " Good night, sir. How are you ?" Too Particular. ,Employment Agent—" What wae the matter with your bast place ?" Domestic—""The mittens wae too par Lieu - ler." In what way ?" " Shewouldn't leb me lock th' baby in th' foldin' bed w'en I had company." Cruel. r Frank -Why does Mies iBorbon wear suuiren00 nous sleeves 2 Large sleeves are fashionable, 1 know, but iters are simply huge ? Mies Spite—Have you ever notioed her mouth ? Frank—Why of amino; but what has her month to do with it? Miss Spite—Olr, nothing; only they Say she has a habit of laughing in her sleeve. Frozen Air. Air can be frozen at a temperature of 206 degrees below zero, and the product, which oan be handled and felt, burns,so to speak, with ire excessive cold. Frozen air oan be produeed in any quantity, hitt iia oast, $500 a gallon, is likely to prevent a largo business" Mary lllieabeth Mott, died Tuesday at New Haolcensaok, N. Y., aged 10.4 years' and 10 months, She wee the last of e. re. markable trio of long-lived women who spent the meet of their days itt'Duolieae County. The first to die was Mee. Ann Hyde, of Flehkill, who expired in August, 1803, at the age of 104 years end 08100 Melilla In the same year Mrs. Freyden- burg, of Red 'took, died at the ago of 108 years.