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CHAP
The expression on Henson's usually,
benign countenance would have:
startled such of his friends and ed.!
miters as regarded 11101 as 0 alibiing •
1(ght and great example. The $11(U
antlsfaction, the Unetl:Ulis S11 11>',s.
of the expansive blue eyes wane „one;
a murderous gleam shone there in-
stead. His lips were set nod rigid.
the strong hand seemed to be strang-
ling the bocleloths. It wanted no ef-
fort of ilutiginatio0 to picttu'o Hen-
son as the murderer stooping over
his prey, Tho man had discarded his
mask altogether.
"011," be Said, between his teeth,
"y011 are a clever fellow, You
would have made an exaeile:',t detec-
tive. And so you have found out
where Van Snack is?"
"I have alrenriy told you so,"
Litlituet• said, doggedly.
"How many day's have you been
hanging about Brighton?"
Two or three. I came when I I
heard that Chris • Was ail. I didn't
dare to come near the house, at
least not too near, for four of being
seen, But I pumped the doctor, •
Then he told ole that Chris was
dead, and I risked It all to see the
last of her,"
"Yes, yes," Henson said, testily;
"`but what has this to do with Van •
Sneak?"
"I Was looking for Van Sncek. I
found that he had been hare. 11
discovered that ho had left his rooms '
and had not returned to thele. Then
it occurred to nto to try the poli[-'
tan. I pretended that.I was in search
of some missing relative, and they . s
showed me three cases of bad acci-
dents, the victims of which had not
been identified. And the third was'
Van Sneck."
Littimer told his eters- with just
the suggestion of triumph in his
voice. Henson was watching him :1�
with the keenest possible i.teeest.
"Do you know how Van Sneck 1
got there?" he asked.
Littimer nodded, l:videutly he s
had heard most of the story. ITen-1
son was silent for some little time.
130 was working nut something in a
his mind. His smile was not a r
pleasant one; it was nothing like his
bland platform senile, for instance.
"Give me that black book,"he
said. "Do you know how to work
a telephone?"
'"I daresay I could learn. It docs
not look hard."
"Well, that is nn extension tele- L
phone on the table yonder worked in f
connection with the plain instru- s
!hent in the Mary. I like to have T
my own telephone, as it is of the t
greatest assistance to 1110. '1'111.11 h
that handle two or three times and ti
put that receiver to soar ear. When
1'Iat i IIh
It's absolutely imperative that
rh0nlei send nn iutportnnt telephone
m :lee to London at onto, and here
the machine has broken down and nn
shams, of its being repaired for a ,
day nr two. Curse Uu' telephone
Pocket, A certain weekly journal ex -
1)00(01 you. and you had to leave
suddenly o1• you would have found
yutu•self in the hands of the police.
You skipped so suddenly that you
had 00 time, !vol to think of your
personal Mints, which you enders I
stood were sold to defray expenses.
But they were not sold, no nobody,
1 eared to throw good money after
liar!. Van Snoe.k got in with the
agent under pretence of viewing the
house, and he saw the picture
therc."
"Why didn't he take it with him?"
I Trens0 1 asked, with amused scorn,
IT(' was waster of himself again and
had his nerves well under control,
"Bell, that was hardly like Van
Sneck, Our friend is nothing if not
diplomatic. But when ho did man-
aL(a to get into the house again the
picture ,' as gone.,'
"Excellent!" 1Tonsn1) cried, "1Toty
dramatic! There is only ono thing
ex- required to wake the story complete.
1(e The picture was taken away by
tis fatherly hell, If you don't, bring
In that in as the denouement. I shall bo f
Ito utterly disappointed,"
at 1 "You needn't be," Latimer said, �t
on coolly. "That is erectly what d1(1
1g- happen"
no! Henson chuckled again, quite a t
111 Paroe'y of a chuckle this tinge. He t
leoul(1 detect the quint suggestion of
1(e i triumph in I.ittimer's voice, le
e
rp "Did Van Slink tell you all this?" It
to. 110 asked,
cl-j "Not the latter part of it," Lit- o
an timer replied, "seeing that ho was t
11 -inn the hospital when it happened.
vs But I know it is true because 1 sate h
rs l Bell and David Steel, the novelist,
et come away from the house, and 13e11
ok hncl the picture under his arm, Anc! °
,hat's why Van t%noelc's agent e
1(l_ 1 couldn't find it the second time ho °
went. Check to you, my friend, at.l
as any rate. 13011 will go to my father,(
Io with Rembrandt number two and i t
ce compare It with num,.e• one. And t
n then the fat will be in the fire," is
1- ITenson yawned affectedly, All the. n
Ie sante he was terribly disturbed encs 0
ds shaken. All he wanted now was to t
,_Ile alone and to think. So far as n
1-1 ho could toll nobody besides Littl- t
as neer knew anything of the matter.
s_ And n., starved, cowed, broken- :n
slhear'ted puppy was over closer under b
y u heel of bis master than Llttinlc'r. fn
1)t Be still held all the cards; he still a
Controlled the fortunes t ea f two to ill-
sf
w i starred houses,
"You can leave me now," ho said. oa
"I'm tired. I have had a trying c
day, and I need sleep; and the soon- sl
or you are out of the house the het- th
ter, For vour own s
1.
ale lay hack on hos bed utterly
huuateri by his tit of passion, 0
of the white bandages about 1
throat had started, and a little th
tn•am of blood trickled clown 1
Janata Latimer waited for the 1(e
move. Ire watched the (trims
eh(fd trickle .over Benson's sieeph
jacket. He cora(' have watched t
bit, scoundrel bleeding to death 01
the greatest possible pleasure,
"Ithat was Vaa Sneek doing het
The voice came clear and she
from the bed. l.,ittimer responder(
it as a cowed h mud does 1.0 a s1)
clew yet not quite unexpected la
from a huntamaa's whip, His ala
1111085 was of small account who
Henson was concerned. For yea
ha had come to been like this. Y
the question startled hint and to
flint entirely by surprise.
"Ile was looking fur the lost R0
branch."
Slut Littimer's surprise was
nothing to 110110 n's amazement. 1
lay flat. on his hark so that his fa
could be 0)11,1, r1•011l the cxpress10
of ie. he had obtained a totally 01
expeete.1 reply to his question. I
was s1( 111nazeel that he had no (ver
for the moment. But his (11(11)11 f
telligence and amazing cul
ping grasped the possibilities of t
situation. Littimer was in posse.
ion of information to which he we
a stranger. Except in a vague wa
had i0 a of the remotest idea n'li
ittimet was talking snout. Bu
lie younger Ivan must not lcnu
'1
amor,pagnvzot96,
ON THE FARC
'q[JAY' �►b''�au �.l�>,li'9.F•� fat
TIM: MEDICINAL P1101>h:Il'
Ong' 11U'L"i'1i.1,
Butter is so common a contra°
that po0l:lo use it and scarcely
think what wonderful value lius.
their hands fn the parts of dal
yellow, cream fat. Of course,
know that it in useful In n
brunches of cookery, 0111 that 1
out its old the table would be
of its Ui,inly-rolled broad -and -b)(
Its delicate cakelets and Its o
001(1)1 accessories, Beyond those
the value of butter is a thins
vaguely thought of. But nils
cute fat, says Science Siftings, i.
vablable a5 rho dearer cod Jiver
or weakly, thin people, anal the (1
tors 'have lrneasenily reeo11nle
1>o eating of many thin slices
bread, thickly spread with button
a means of pleasantly taking i
he bodily tissues one of the p1
or,ns of fat it is possible to got.
Butter is a Hydro -carbon and
xcesses of it are stored up as fa
ate holy. 131 gives energy and p
r to world to those who eat heat'
f it. So it is not economy at to
o spare the butter, even to
eelth,)' folk. For any one aliflc
w'1th colbuniption, butter cookery
of fat can he digested, is
f the best ways of curing the
use, should it he in its early stag
1' of koo)fng 11 at bey 1t nclvanc
11 all 0111' consunyl)rive Sanatoria,
tents are urged to eat as much b
er I1S possible, and iL is no r
ring for a patient to consume 11
pound of butter tinily'. Butter
0t a simple fat, composed merely
1(e sort, It is a mixture of 110 1
11011 seven different sorts of fats,
o more complex oil can 1.m ink
;ban this._
There is nothing 11010 in these sta
eras regarding the great value
utter in consumptive cases. Ov
fty y it
1'Tl;y
dlty
eve'
at
My,
they
In icy
11111 -
baro
,tong
Law
USl'S
ck or
Leen
both equally Pure, Unoolorod, Undoetered, Unadulterated
and Unmatchable.
CEYLON TEA is "Supreme." Sealed lead packets only.
sold in bulk, 250 and 40c per ib. By all grocers.
Never
only
benefit, yet. warming trio milk or
deli- water in cold weather to about 'blood
0 ns .heat Is highly (30111001)10, tit is (heav-
es
00 for the farmer to remove the clidal
_ from food Or mule by artificial means
°6 than to inquire the animal to do it.
,Tod by means of its body beat,
asWhore the practice of warming ilio
nto food in winter for hogs is 0318(1111,
rest he suggests the advisability of mix-
ing n11'al and water in the proportion
of one part grain and two parts
water. •
DESIGNS OF KI'NG'S STAMPS.
Prince of Wales Tells Mow They
Were Made,
Tito great interest taken in stamp -
collecting by tato Prince of Wales,
who possesses a collection valued at
something like n20,000, is well
known. Concrete testimony to his
Royal Ilighnoss' enthusiasr0 for the
hobby in to bo found in a little book
all
t in
0w-
tily
bis
the
ted
, if
o110
dic-
es,
ed.
pa-
et -
are
elf entitled "Tho Postage Stamps of
is Great Britain."
of In this book a paper by Lho Prince
ess of Wales, "Notes on the Postal Ad-
ry1id 11osf ve Issues of the 'United King -
en dom during the Present linig11," is
printed as an appendix. ilis Royal
oHighness commences I!y explaining,
f that as the changes in the postal is -
01, sues of the mother country made 011- 1
cessary by the accession of Icing Ed
gat.
"So Van Sncck told you so?" 11
seed. "What at foul he must hav
um! And why should he 000)0 seek
ng for the lte)Ubrandt in 11•ighton?'
"Because he knows it was here,
uppo0e."
'It isn't lore, Cerins° it cloesn'
exist. The tiling was destroyed 11
ccident by the: 1201100 when th
aided Van Sneck's lodgings year
ago."
"Van Snuck told me that he ha
actually seen the picture in Bright-
011
righ
011,"
Henson chuckled. The noise wa
ntencled to convey amused contempt
lien it had that ('finer, so lar a
ittimer NV 0.5 concerned. It was wen
er Belson that the latter could no
ee the strained anxiety of his face
he maul was alert and quivering
with excitement in every limb, Stil
c chuckled again as if the who!
lll:g merely amused hits.
" 'The Crimson Blind' is Van
neck's weak spot," he said, "It is
King Charios's lead to 111101. By good
or bad luck—it is in your hands to
say which—you know all about the
CZAR OF ALL THE 1IUSSIA$
SAID TO BE AN INDIFFERENT
IIIONAROB.
Opinion of Andrew White, Late
*United States Minister to
Russia.
I was presented to t11c heir to the
throne, now the 17mpe•or Nicholas.
Hu 50on1011 a kindly young teal, but
ons of MS remarks amazed and ddsl-
appointed rue.. During the previous
year tlic famine, 0111011 had became
chronic in largo parts of Russia, hail
taken an n.eute form, and in its
train had come iyplius and cholera,
It was, in fact, the. sante widespread
and deadly co11111itlattiotl of starve -
'Mon and disease whirls similar
'causes produced so often In ivesta r1(
!Europe during tiro middle age's.
1 r 2 therefore spoke 10 ltim 011 the
(,,1)11011(1 subject, referring to 311)1
fact that no was president of titin Iln-
!perial Relief Conun.ission. lie answer-
ed that since the crops of last yetu•
there was no longer any 51111'0111
that there was no famine worehy
mention, and that he was no long '
giving attention to the subject. TI
))'a,S said 111 an oIUucnd, easy -gel
way which appalled me, '111e Simi
fact was that the famine, though u
so widespread, was more trying Lh
ig,
of
long
cat D
s a was n .rcconun g al
g t11
nd used by English and Scotch ph
clams. Consu111ptive patients 00
sent to farms anal were euto]ned 1
ec1
e
e
wart] have now been completed, the
9- present would seem a convenient
ro time to compile the history of the
stamps issued by the home authori-
ties during the present reign,
Trials were ,Wade wltlt tlu•ee-quar-
ter face and quarter face portraits
of the Bing from photographs, he
says; but his Majesty chose a por-
trait executed in 1900 by Herr Emil
Fuchs. Mr. Fuchs prepared a special
ch•awing of the portrait, for which'
the King was pleased to grant 0 sit -1
ting•. The frame and border designs
were prepared by Messrs. De la ltuo
eC Co., under the artist's sketch
furnished by him.
Tho original sketch and the border
worn thou photographed and the two
prints placed together, a fresh pho- 1
tograpbic impression being taken of
Lho whole. This was submitted to ,
the King mud was approved by him,
The origfual, with the King's appro-
val, is 1100' in the Prince's stump
collection.
Temporary copper plates were f
ado to show the ellect, and at,this 1
stage the Queen sdggested at im-
provement, which (vas effected by re- (
ducing the width of the wreath de- 1
sign.
The Prince explains why the little
book of stamps recently issued aro
frequently found with inverted water-
marks. It seems that to facilitate 0
the binding of the stamps into books w'
half the stamps on a sheet; were h
printed upside down.
"1 do not, of course, claim for
these notes the importance of a phil-
atelic paper," says the Prince in
0010100101. "but as all the informa-
tion and dates givon may be retied a
upon as authentic, I (tope that w
they may b0 of use in saving a futuro is
historian of the stamps oil this coun-
try, a not inconsiderable amount of
research and trouble,"
t all the butter and mem they
co • stand with other Moths con -
Tho stipulation was added
a• t, both must he fresh, and no
r i111tter over throe days old should be
° eaten. Wheel the palatability of
°'butter is considered, why should pa-
tients be nskod to use the nauseous
e !cod-liver oil that is generally pre -
,scribed i11 each cases. .By all 111ea1111
_physicians should prescribe good,
e , fresh butter and let cod-liver oil fall
the sake of those about you, yo
need not say one word of this t
t 74111 Henson."
Y Littimer promised meekly enough
Cy With those eyes blazing 111,011 him h
would have promised anything. 9
s111111 see presently what a stupor
doua terror Henson bad over th
the Exchange answers tell them to
put you on to 0,017 Gerrard."
Littimer obeyed mechanically, but
though he rang 1,1111 tan, again no
answer came. With a sllar•ling curse w'
Henson dragged himself out of bed go
and crossed the room, with limbs th
that, shook under• him. 01
He twirled the haldlo ('0011(1 pas-
sionately. L
"You always were a fool," he
growled, "aid you always will he." e11
Still no reply canto. 'Henson whirl- ed
ori angrily, but he could elicit no re-
sponse. He kicked the instrument wi
over and danced round it impotently.
Tdttimcr bad never seen him in such to
a raging fury before. The language a.
of the man was an outrage, filthy, g1'
revolting, profane. N' yelling, to
drunken Hooligan could have been 00
more fluent, more luridly di1Tuse, Li
"Go on," Littimer said, bitterly. 81.
"I tike to hear you. I like to hear so
the smug, plausible Pharisee, the, tr
friend of tbo good and pious, going
on like this, I'd give live years of
my life to have just a handful of
your future constituents hero for a
moment,"
ITenson paused suddenly and re-
quested that Littimer should help
him into bed.
"I can afford to speak freely be-
fore you," he said. "Say a word
against me and I'll crush you. Put
out a hand to injure the and 1'11
wipe you off the face of the earth,
ay in which it licensee necessary to
t Jlatherly Bell on our side. A11
e saute, the Rembrandt—the other
deslroyrd,"
"Vale 1(110010 has seen the picture,"
Milner said, doggedly,
"Oh, play the farce out, to the
d," Henson laughed, good-hutn0r-
ly. "Where diel he see it?"
"He says be saw it at 218, .Bruns-
ek Square."
ITenson's knees suddenly canto up
Ills nose, then he lay quite flat
gain for a long time. His face had
Own white once more, his lips ut-
rly bloodless. Fear' was written all
0r hint; A more astute man than
(tinier would have seen the beads
ending out on his forehead. It was
me little time before ho dared
est himself to Speak again.
I know (he house you mean," ho
said. It is next 11001' L1"thc tem-
porary residerce of my 081110med
friend, Gilead Gates. At the present
moment the place is vote!—"
"And has been ever since your
bogus '110010' broke up, Years ago,
before you used yel:r power to rob
and oppress us 110 you do now, you
had n ITome there. Yon collected
snbsca'iptIons right and left in t110
name of the Reverend Felix Crosbie,
and you put the money into your
tr
ronchitis
is Undoubtedly Possessed y That Weil.
Known Family F Med c rte
Or. Oh se's dS llll? Linseed a Turpentine
tine
Turpentine is considered a specific
for bronchitis.
'rho difficulty has been in the a] -
ministration at turpentine so as to
reach the .1rl'itatocl and inflamed!
parts and not bo disagreeable to the
patient.
Not only has the trouble been
overcome by D1•. Chase in his Syrup
of Linseed and Turpentine, but he
Pas also combined with turpentine
two or three ingrw hints of almost
equal power in soothing and healing
the . rdisoasecT parts and overcoming
bronchitis and other dangerous ail-
Ments of the bronchial tubes and
fringe.
By a' Secret prneess these elements
of uoki'ueetloned niedieinal power have
been cotnbined In Dr, Chase's Syrup
of ,Linnett! and Turpentine 00 ns to
be pleasant to the taste and sultab]o
for children and adults alllce,
The rereanlctble 81100055 of Dr,
011108015 ly1lp of Linseed and Tal•-
pcntine tts a Mire for bronchitis,
asthma, 0001111) and Whooping neigh
is smiticieut. Ccidel,ea that 11 is effec-
tive in ordinary coughs and colds,
MRS. 1..TC'IT.1MON11 WI'NIIIOW,,�lhu-
11enact:di0, Ifonts Co,, N.S., writes: --
"I have used lir, Chase's Syrup of
Linseed ar1(1 Turpentine with good
success. My second daughter was
trembled with broticl>iti14 from the
ago of three weeks. Oftentimes T
thought she would choke to death,
The several remedies we got diad not
500111 to be of much use, Ont the neat
dose of 111•, C'hase's Syrup of Linseed
and Turponbino brought relief and
further treatment made a thorough
onto. This trouble uncut to conte
back front time to time, but the erre
Is now permanent, Dr. Chase's
syrup of Lins0ed and 7'tu'pcntfno has.
saved us many doctor's bills, and I
would not bo without It in the honer,
for many tines its cost,"
Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and
Turpentine, 95 cents a bottle, at all
dealers 01 1%dmanson, Dates Rc Go„
Toronto. . To protect you against
imitations the portrait and signa-
ture of D1, A. W. Chase, the fain e%
receipt book author, are on every
bottle.
younger man, and in what way all
the sweetness and savor of life was
being crushed out of hie).
Ho closed the door behind him an
11nediately Henson sat up in bed
c reached for his handkerchief an
pod the big Beads from his tote -
ad.
So the clanger has come at last,'
muttered. "I am face to Inc
th it, and I knew :1 should be
alherly 13e11 is not the man t
quietly Ile down under a cloud 111c
'hat:. The man lois brains, an
Hence, and indoluita.hle courage
w, does 110 susp0ct that I have
y hand in rho business? I mus
see hint when my nerves are stronger as
_ and try and got at the truth. If tit
he goes to Lord Littimer with that 'it.
picture he shakes my. power and my
position perilously. A'11at a fool I wl
was not to get it away lint, then,
I only escaped from the Brighton
police in those days by the skin of
1113 teeth, And they had followed ate
from Huddersfield lila those cursed
bloodhounds here. I wonder—"
Ile parsed, as the brilliant outline
of some cunning scheme occurred to
hint. A thin, cruel smile crept over
his lips. Never had ho bat', in a
tight place yet without discovering
Et loophole of escspo almost before he
lead seen the trap.
A 11t of noiseless laughter shook
111m,
"Splendid," he whispered. "Wortley
of Machiavelli himself! Provided
always that I can got there first; If
T could only see T1ell's far.( after-
wards, hear Littimer ordering him
oft the premises, The only question
!s, am 1 up to seeing the thing
tlu•ough?'
('lb be Continued,)
Hence,
into "innocuous desuetude."
German physicians, many years ago
prescribed fresh tallow, cut up small
d and boiled in milk till the fat was
extracted', and the milk then poured
d off and drunk learnt, in consumptive
cases. It produced a sort of oleo,
was much more palatable than cod-
' liver oil and said to have a higher
e mrclirinnl value. But fresh butter
is still hotter, and it will bo found,
o as a rule, that those requiring it in
e conalderablo amounts cavo a longing
1 for, a sign that nature recognizes its
• virtues. Young children who ore in -
'cline(' to be weak and puny should
t be encouraged to oat as 11hr1 hurter
posSitle. It will be found that
cy generally 11av0 a craving for
But use only good, fresh butter
th fine flavor,
IP0
an
b
TIER POWER NOT EF11'P)GTIVE,
In a most in1o•mi11g review of the
war ht Manchuria, 'Phomas F, :8111
lard speaks of the Siberlan-Maachur- P
ion Railway ars "a vital factor in Ota
the situation," .for it is the only tha
rootlet oe the ljussian army as long visa
as .Japan rota] 8 control of talo sea, ,len
After an observation of three months feed
he finds that 1.ho daily aysrege cap- the
achy of this nue-track railway for exp.
tho transportation of troops is only jest
a little 11101'0 than four hundred mon, to
WATER CONTENT OF BUTTER.
A low water content may be ob-
tained losvoring the churnirtg tem-
perature, washing the butter well
with cold water and allowing the
washings to drain thoroughly, salt-
ing the butter, working partially, and
postponine the second working until
the butter lias Weenie hardened ia
the refrigerator room, preferably un-
til the next morning.
CALVES AFTER WEANING.
Good growth will be coetinued
the calf when taken from its mother
is feel oats and corn, with a little
oatmeal, supplying at all Mines an
abundance of dry hay or well -cured
corn fodder. Nothing is bettor than
posture grass for gnOWing beef
calves. It the weaning time oc-
curs in the winter, it is most essen-
tial that the Ot0clatatn have a good
supply of roots _or silage.
SLOPS FOR SIVNI(3.
rot. C. S. plumb, of tlie Ohio
te UniversitY, says In an exchange
tors to tho hog lot at tlie expert-
(' station, that pertaining to tiln
ing et slop to hogs, is possibly
most freepient. As there is no
, he emdeetook some experiment:4
ascertain the effect When the liog
d was mixed with varying (man-
es of water.
ie meal used consisted of 011110
ts of corn meal and shorte, the
ertment being conducted in the
winter and spring, One lot of liege
was fed on dry grain alone, these
having atm:5s to Water; another lot
was fed on glasin mixed with water
eglual to the weight of grant, an-
other lot had tavice the weight of
Water in the grain, and fourth lot
was fed on three times mudh
or as the weight of grain, these
g mixed together.
ofessor Plumb gives it as his
ion t it is not desirable to
0 a pig drink a lot of water that
evilly does not clealre, eausea
-activity of the kidneye and it
heel:sal:re kept in Mose quentere,
pens era mach more clink:oh Lb
me sad/0 Or buttermilk is
1, the case might be different,
1,11'000 water only is need there is
advantage, but a slight disad-
age, In mixing it in too large
Mice with the food. The only
Wage ot feeding hogs alops
the rood may bo warmed.
cooking food for hogs 18 at 00
with their equipments and supplies.
mate, the capacity of this railway
tinder its Russian administration
would be only 146,000 soldiers, with
their equipments and simplies, in
to the fighting strength of the n11S-
slam army in Manchuria, the size of
which at the opening of the war was
vastly exaggarotoct in the public re-
ports, would not be sufficient to en-
able the llessitme to make an ag-
gressive campaign against tho Jap -
NOT INVENTED YET,
boots, ma'am; but they aro not for
boots for a hoy?"
MOtilor—"Hit00 y011 ally waterproof
don't you have
some for boys?"
Salesman—"Wheri somebody lies in-
vented a boot gull, has no opening
for the foot 1,0 get into if., Wo may
A girl sometimes encourages; 0110
Man 111 order to test her loVe for
seal
boin
Pr
opin
Mak
110 4'
140011
11
Valet
the
that
110
ng
110
of
111
(Turing the year before, for it found
the peasant population in Finland
and in the central districts of the
empire, even less prepared to moot
it, During the previous winter thgv
had very generally eaten their
draught neinutis anti burned every-
thing not absolutely limessa a Inc
their own shelter; from Finland speci-
mens of bread, made largely of ferns,
liad been brought to tee, which it
would seem a shame to give to horses
or cattle; and yet his 1uiperial
Highness, the heir to the throne, evi-
dently !anew nothing of all t11is1
ABSOLUTE; INDIFFERENCE.
NCT).
In explanation, I was afterwards
told by a person who had known hint
utimately from his childhood that,
though courteous, lits 11111111 abase
teristie (0018 an absolute indifference
to all persons and things about !line,
and that lie never showed any a.ppli-
cutton to business or a spark of 1011 -
AL 1011 of any sort. 91110 was cell-
lrmed by what I afterwards saw of
1)111 at court. He seemed to stand
chola listlessly, Speaking in a good -
trammel way to this or that person
when it tuns easier than not to do so,
but on the whole indifferent to all
that went 011 about !tion.
After his accession to the throne,
ne of the best judges in Europe
ho lied every cpPortunity,to ohse've
im closely, said to tee: "He knows
nothing of his empire or of his pen-
ple; he never goes out of his house if
he can lielp it," and this explains in
some degree the issnficietc;,. of his
programme for (fie Peace Conference
t Tlic Hague and for the Japanese
ar, which, as I revise these lines,
going on with fearful disaster and
1)TSGRACIi/ TO TITISS1'A,
'rake also the dealings with Ffn-
land. Thu whole tiring is monstrous,
Tt is both comedy and tragedy. Pin-
19locles is a 11tnc1 fs by fa• th0 best devolopod
11 great virtue, but a part of tlfa 0)0(]001;;11
; ft stands on a
man seldom gets his salary raised on !nigher plane than do the other pra-
ttle str•enttli of it. (
vincos as• regards eves element 1(t 1
TMERE ARE NO CANALS
Explanation of the Phenomenon
Given by 1111 'English
0110 0110 our cherished illusions
depart from It Was gni te
the moon (0118 Ma Made of green
cheese, that the eganli was not Ilat,
illat 1,110 stats were not angela'
eyes watchlog while we slept,
And now tinge comes nnother pains
on Mars! There are, 01111501111011tiy,
110 great ireigution works un that
planet, and that inravelous net-
work that we see through bOescopo
(Mosn't really exist at all,
Thi$ is the opinion of Prof. Maun-
der, ot the Royal Ointervatory,
• NO STRAIGHT lj NES.
The idea or the ennals, sopa
WaS Vel'y taking one, anti seminal!
to knit together in one t•oherent
facts. Tblly 0000 Very V10112 10 10110115
ily which 1.110 11001110 of Mars led the
waters from the melting polar snows
in all (Reactions acmes their 'dessert
The professor has been peening'
over them for years, He thought it
ditlicul•t to explain that many of the
canals nom perfectly straight, How
could it be Possible for long 1111,5 on
a rotating ball to look steraght
from avers' point of onservatli»,?
Again, descriptions given of tit!
same canal by difforPnt observers at,
tW scone time sometimes ailTeted
widely. Them lutist be optical illu-
sion samewheret
MYSTERY EXPLAINED.
"It was let mail 18131 that the
mystery wail really cleared co 1,10."
says Prof, Maunder, "1n that year,
tryiug to fled how often. thare %tame
spots on the sun winch could be de
tected without telescope help, IL 'was
noted that a group of small smatter-
ed spots would eften be perceived as
a short straight streak, when a sin-
gle compact spot of greater total
alze was quite invisible,
"Examine a 'hall tone' illustra-
tion under a stamina magnifying' glass
and the pictaun dinappears, and is
seen to be made up of an immense
number of small clots which, viewed
tvithout magnification and at the or-
divary distance from the eye are
massed together, and give the effect
or the lines and shades of the coin-
plete picture.
Little details, too small to be sem
separately, may produce in the gros.„
upon the eyo the stone affect its
network of actual straight lines.
BEFORE A JURY.
"But, as a. matter of fact,
they? To decide this question it,
necessai'y to call in obstgvers so
tirely free from any pi•edisposit
with respect to the eont
versy that they could not possil
he accused of bias. Such obsetv
I found in the boys of the Ro,
Hospital •Sehool, Greenwich,
"The boys wore placed at desks
clifferent distances from tho end
a room; and when all were seraed
their places, from whiall they wet'
not allowed to stir, a diagram,
produced from some nualishod draw-
ing of Mors, was hung up for them
In eli•awing the canals 11,000 left
out, and only clots, and "twiddles,"
and markings mit on.
Strang.e enough, all the boys sit-
ting at a certain distance from the
copy put in the canals—nthich wore
not there! The clot theoi.y proved
successful, and just the mine hoax
as the professor workeil upon the
boys the planet Mars has been work-
ing off upon his portrayers for the
last. quarter of a century!
AlYIONG CANNIBALS.
Expedition to Investigate a Cen-
tral African Tribe.
ng of a force of from 1,500 to 2,000
men to march through the country
of the Nino', 11111.111 SaVap,OS, a tribe of
Central Africau cannibals, wheat)
deeds figured so prominently in tra-
velers' books cit a generation ngo.
The country, which Is situated
some SOO miles south-east of Khar-
toum, is within the sphere of British
influence, all -though the eatives 1110111- ,
solves at mescal, render no allegiance:.
tY4AelepttoseititlietithemevAitSmulttncie of 'lie •
/1
country, which Is very Hell in i‘ ,,,r,
is in tho hands of Belgian tea aaes,
who give tlie natives firearms i p 0.,...
ed that only one leinglishrann, a ,Ilea
Stewart, ever penetrated the land,
and that he 0M1 murdered,
3t they Etre so disposed the Nicene
Moms can take the lield with O0,000
men armed with Belgian tines and
with native bows Ewe !mown. Al-
thongli they ate heathens and canni-
bals they are of 11 distinctly higher
order of intellect than tho tribes of
the Tipper Nile Vniley.
Food is not all t iat thin
people need. Maybe they're
sick. You can't make them
eat by bringing them food.
But Scott's Emulsion can
make them cat. That Emul-
sion gives a man appetite
and feeds him both. It brings
back lost flesh.
No trouble about (lige&
tion. The weakest stomach
can digest
Scoffs Em
Isin
It tastes good, too. Scott's
Emulsion paves the way for
other food, When wasted
and weakened by long illness
it gives strength and appe-
tite that ordinary food can-
not give. Not only food --
medicine too—Scott's Emul-
sion of pure cod-liver oil.
sotulyou Iftdo to try If you Ilko,
SCOTT& 130W14 t, Toronto, OM,
most loyal of all the realma or the
Czar, nihilism and anarchism never
having gained the slightest foothold.
Yet to -day there is nobody tho
whole enmire strong enotigh to pre-
vent sundry bigots, military and oc-
violate his corcmation oath, to make
the simple presentation of a petition
to him treasonnble, to trample Fin-
land under his feet, 1.0 grievously
wrong and grossly insult its whole
peonle, to hanieli its best men , and
confiscate their proserty, to muzzle
its press, to Innitaliee if s peasantry,
and thus; to lower the whole country
to the level ot the reinnioder of Bus -
REDUCTION OF FINLAND.
'A 1. F111111141 lic114111gtorn,
15 0110 at the moot important, indoor-
raties of Europe, with a noble public
lilwary, beautiful beildings, and
tifi•ougaioui, the whole town an atmo-
sphere ot elcanlinese and civilization
fat seperior 1.0 that whieh one finds
in any Russian city. While in Rus-
sia, there had been from time im-
memorial a debased currency, the cur-
rency of Finland was as good tts
gold! white In Kuszda all piddle met-
ters bore tlio Marks of arbitrary re-
pression, in Finland ono cotild see
the results of enlightened diseusaion;
while in Unsafe, the newton; Is but
little, if any, above Asiatic beirbar-
18111, the Fineish peasant, simple,
genuine, Is clearly far better develop-
ed both morally and religiounly.
is 0. grief to nie ht these latter clays
to see that the meneures whieh 'were
then feared haVe Wee been staken,
Finland /8 to be ground down to a
loVel With Russia in general, The
little grand chiefly has done Whet it
eould to save itself, but it recognizos
the fact that its two millione of peo-
ple aro utterly powerless against the
brute force of the 1;30,000,000 of the
Russian hIrmire.
It is easier to keep a good4or-
nothing dog in thn house than it 10
to keep the wolf bolo the 11001a
impr,:tolgs OF MINERS,
kilning and quarrying thrtaighout
the world eornmand the personal ate
tentIon of more than. four aral a halt
million nien. 01 the grand total of
6,788,898, no fewer then 1,599,05n
belong to 1,110 Britielt :Empire, the
remaining 8,1a6,848 being foreign -
ors, (31,00) Britain aml her eolonles
and possessions have been specially
favored by the forces of Nature in
so fat as there is an abundance of
Valuable Mineral which mny be min-
od, and thus add to the wealth of
the Empire. Moro than halt the
millers of the world are employed in
getting' coal alone. Great latnain
employe over three-quarters or c,
minion, the United States and Ger-
many over half ct, million each,
Franco, 165,000, Belgient 837,000,
Austria 1 96/000; 0111181, Bulia COMM
along with close upon 1.00,000,
career in the 'Navy,