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i 4o4<>><>4<>4^>*<>^<>f<>4<>4o>o4-cvfo4<>4<Hf<>4<>»^<^^ DARE HE? OR, A SAD LIFE STORY l*<>>0><>40-f<>4<>>0-*<>>K>><>><><>4-CI-fO>0>0><>4<^^ CHAtTEn XXVn.-<ConUnuc<l). After sho is gone, ho iMg<Â¥; about the garden, nn<l posses boyonU il to wtiorcâ€" Still sunlighl-smittonâ€" tiie IMiie MfHiilcr- rniioan i.s breuUing in joyous foam. lie sits down on Iho shelly .strand, *ind, in futile anger, huLs back the wet pebbk\s into the seu's azure lap. Away io the left, tlio throe-c<)rnereil town Bwarms rande.scenl iij: tin) hill, and the wliite light-house stands out against the lapis-coloied air. Mow sharp-cut and intense it all is? â€" none of our doar undecided grays. Here, it you are not piercing IjUk", you uro dazzling white or profound green. There is, Indeed, something less sharp-cut and uiKXimproinLsingâ€" a something more of «iiy.st<?ry In that glory Ihat^bright, too, but not inaUuig iis full revelationâ€" en- velops the long hill range that, ending in C.ipo Mtttifou, stretches away to the far right. Hound the corner, to tlie right too, a party of Arabs, sitting sideways on litlln donliPlys, white draped, witli their haik-swalhed heads, are <lisappcar- Ing on their small beasts in the clear 0.1V. It is like a page out of the Bible â€" a flight into ligypl â€" and they are going towards Kgypt loo. Jim's eyo follows the placid K.i.^leras, but without catching the infection of lljCir tranr|uilily. "Whenever I see her, I stick a knif-e into hor ! II is iin|x)S- Bible ! There, is no uso trying ! 1 will give up the attempt. It is out of the question to have any happy relations with a woman who has a past!'' • • • • • • • After all, Mr. I^e Maichanl does not like. Hammani nhiru. lie thinks tlie tio- l<-'l cold and tho roads bad. .lim over- hears him telling someone this, and hi."; own heart leajjs. It is true that ho takes II to task for doing .50. Perhaps, after all, Klizabeth's removal would have hwn the best .-iolution of his problem. Iliid bIio left .MgivM's, ho could .scaively liavo followed her, and .she would have been freod from tlie clianco of his clumsy stab.s. But all the .same, his heart leaps. It leai|)s yet higtier a day or two later when tie discovers that, though Ilam- niani Hhira has not met willi Mr. I.o Marclianl's nppiobation, yet Jhat, by his trip to il, he has been bitten with a. taste for travel, the oulconio of which is his solitary departure on an expedition to Coiustantin, Tunis, etc., which iiiiisl occupy him at least n week. His wife accompanies him to tho slatioji, but his daughter is not allowed to go beyond the hotel steps. Jim surreplitlously watches her hover- ing with diftldent affection round her father, unobtrusively and unthanked, fetching and carrying for hini. He sees the cold kiss that just briishe.s hc;r cheek and hears the chill parting admonition to look well after her mother and see that she does not overtiro her.self. U i,s ttcceptt<d with ready meekness, but leaves tho recipient so crestfallen, as slio stands looking after the dciiurl- ing vehicle, ttiat Burgoyne cannot fore- bear joining her, with .some vaguo, and. as ho know.s, senseleas vallolt.y of cham- pinonship and con.'iolalion. "IIo Is gone for u week, Is not he?" Is the form that his sympathy lakes, in a tone in which he is at but small pains r.ol to ivnder congratulatory. "Yes, (|uilo a week." "Are you"â€" he i.$ perfoetly conscious Aihlle iLsking It that he has not the Bliglitest right to put tho question â€" "uro yoii glad or sorry ?" tjhc starts perceptibly. "Why sluiuld I 1)0 "glad? IV) you mean"â€" with an unconquerMble siri'ak of eatisfactioji in her own voice- 'iiecimse I shall have mammy all to myselt? You must not think"â€" with an olnicius ru.<h of quickly-following compunction â€" "that I am not fond ot him, bccnnsc he some- (Imes speaks a little roughly to me." After a pause, in a Iowerc<l voice : "You see, when you have broken a person's heart, you can .scarcely hiame him for rot having a very high opinion of you." .So saying, she suddenly leaves him as Bho had left him in Iho Jardiii d'Essai. He does not again aptroach her tliiil day, but at dinner-time he has I lie answer to his question as to her being glad or sorry at her fathers departure. She is aj)p«ronlly in the best <if s[>irils, Biltuig nestled clo.se up to her mother for the belter convenience of tiring a series of little jokes and coinnu'nls into that parent's appreciative ear. "They make fun of the whole lintel,'' olxserves Miss .Slrull with <'xas|ieratl<in. "I do not believe that one of us es^'upes! When he is not here to check lliem. there is no hokling tlieni !" No h()lding Klizalx^h I The ptwase re- curs to him several times during llie next few <iays, as not witliout its justness. When he .see^ its object Hitting al\iut the hou.se. gay as a linnet; when he m<!ols her singing suhdinxlly to lieiself u|X)n ttie stairs : when he watches her ro?np- Ing with the French children, and mis- chievously collecting llowers of t'.lapham eloquence from their govei'iiess, wtiich 6h'" Ls giKxl enough to I'etall for his own «nd her mother's benefit when evening unites the Ihriv; in tlie retiremenl of Ihcir little salon. I-'or, slrauije and im- probably blissful as it seems, he has .somehow, ere throe days are over, efiecled an entrance into that small and f rni/rnnt sa nctuary. ..u-s. I,e Marchant's first fears that the nieeling with hini again would re-opon Sorrow have disappeared in the light ot her (laughter's childish gaiety, and are even exchanged for a compuncliiius gralitude to him for having _been in part the cause of her new liglit-heartodness. Tho weather has again broken, a fact which he alone of the whole hotel does not deplore, since it was his own osten- tatinusly displayed wet-day dreurine.ss that was ttie cau.sc of his first adini.ssion within the doors that arc closed upon all others. Moreover, had it not Ummi wot weather, could he have held an unibrel- la over Elizabeth's head when he met her in the eucalyptus wood, and they walked hmong the iiake<l trunks, while the long, (oose, pale foliage waved like dis- shevelled hair, in the rain, and the pun- gent asphodels grew thick about their teet ia the red earth? .\nd when, by- and-bye, the clouds dispense again, and 4her9 conie.s a fair day, bra'jkete<i be- tween three or four foul onesâ€" tho usual Algerian proportionâ€" il has grown quite natural to aJl three that he should sit opposite to them in tlu'ir drives; that he should liagglo with .\rubs for theni, and remonstrale with tho landlord, and generally transfer all the smaller rough- iiesns of life from their slioiilders to his Own. Brought into more intimate com- munion with them than he has ever Ix-en tieforo, Burgoyne realizes tuiw miich they belong to tho kneeling, leaning, s|.i)iling typ(! of woinunkind. Klizabelhe w<(Uld be th<! easiest woman in tho world to man- age. How is it that in her ten yi.'ars of womanhood no man lias Inwn found to undertake the lovely facile task.' lb; himself knows perfectly the treaUiKMil (tiat would belli her; the hinted wishes 'â€"her tact is too line and her spirit loo tneek U) need anything so coarso as commands â€" the iiillnilesiinal rebukes and the unliniiledâ€" uh I limitless â€" car- es.ses : "Praise, blame, love, kis.ses, tears and smiles." Kvery day he finds himself repeatng Wordsworth's line, and every day, in his fancied guidance of her, he tells liiiii- solf that the blame should bo less and tlie kisses more. Mr. Le Marchant has been gone more than a week, and Kebruary has come welly in, witli rain wildly wti-ping against the CH-semenls, and angi-y-hanct- cd rain bo.\ing the unlucky orange-trees' ears. It has rained tor foHy-»!iglit lioiys without a break. The Grand Hotel is at the end of its re.sources. Uncle Tohy, his struggle ended, lies vanqiiishe<l in the \vidow's net ; and there is murder in th.; lurid eye which Miss .Strutl turn.s on tlie votary of Whileley. Jim alone, outdoor man as lu' li.abit- *ially Is, looking upon a house merely in 111'; light of a necessary slicUer, has no ipiarrel either with the alxsent sun or the Vre.seul deluge; for "are nol they the •;uiisH of his having spent two whole aflonioons in the company of ICli/.abeth and lii'r mother? To-dny has not I'.liza- tietli been .singing to him, and cutting him orange-IKiwer brend-and-biitler, when Krilz brought in the ufternoun lea, and sot the real English kettle fizzing oyer ils s|)irit-lamp? And, in return, has nol he now, after dinner, been help- ing her to weed out her own and her mother's photugraph-lKjoks ? As he does So the idea sir'ikes liim of luiw very meagre her own collection of acipi.iin- lanees swms to be. I'rom that weeding 1uive they not, by an easy (I'ansitkm, at ler suggeslion, pas.scd to the more play- fiil anil ingenious occupali^in of anijiii- laling the heads of .some of the reje<-led friends and applying them to the bodies o'' others? Koch armed with a pair of rsi issors, and with Mrs. l.e .Marchant for Umpire, tliey have l)een vying with each oilier as to who can produ.'e llie most startling results by this clover process. The palm has just b(«en awanlcd to lOlizabelh for a oomhinalioii which pre- sents the head of an elderly lady, in a \\ idow's cap, mounted U|wii the ciiiioss and Icing Imots of a l,ifo GuaiUsnian. Jim's application of the cornet's discard- e.l head to the boiiy of a baby in l<in^ ck.tlies, altliougli iillowed Io be a pretty conceit, comiiiands but litlle real adiiiir- iilion- an instance ot iicpolisni which ho does not allow to pa.ss without protest. l'".lizalx,'lh, elated by lior triumph, lias Iktwii out of the room to exainini' her private stoivs for fresh inalerial. and Jim and her m<itherâ€" f<ir the lirsL time as it happens, sinco that early meeting, whi.'n her anxious eye. had .so plainly imploiod him to le<i\e .Mgii-rsâ€" are tele- «-telc. Her changed a-spccl t<i\\ards him us .she sits, with a lingering laugh sUll on her face, beside the wood (Iroâ€" which, after having twice gone out, as i; almosl always does, the soucll(^s lieing 'oivariahly wet, hurn.s hnghlly Hn<l bracklyâ€" strikes him with such a f<'eling <if warm plen.siire that he. .says in a voice 01 iindistiuised triumph : "W hat spinis she is in, is nol she?" "Yes; is nol she?" os.senls the mo- ther, eagerly. "Oh, I cannot .say how grateful I am to you for having cheered her up Jis you have done ! "Oli," with a low sigh that seems to bear away on its slow wings the last echoes of her late mirth, "if it could only last !" "Why should not it last?" "If nothing fresh would hanpen I" "Why should anything fresh happen?" .She answers only indirectly : "'Fear at my heart, as at a cup, Tho life-blood seemed to sip.' .Sometimes I lliink thai Dileridgo wrote tho.so lines expressly for nie." .'Xfler a pau.se, in a voice of anxious asking : ".She has nol mentioned him to you lately, has she?" ".\o." "That is a good sign. Do not you lliink that that is a g<Tod sign? 1 think ihat sho is getting betUsr ; do not you ? " For a moment he cannot answer, Ixith Ijecauso he Is deeply touched by tlie con- lldcnce in him and his .sympathy cvi- denco*! by her appeal, and for a yet Inorc fMitent reason. Litlle she guesses how often, and willi what heart-search- ings and spirit-sinkings, he has put thai que.stion to liim.self. "I <io nol know," ho replie.s at last, with dilliculty ; "il is liard to judge." "You liave nol told Inn that we are here'?" in a quick, panic-struck lone, as of one smitten with a new and sharp ipnrehension. "Oh, no !" "You do not think ...at he is at all likely Io join you here?" "Nol in the least I" witli an almost an- gry energy, which reveals Io himself how deeply distasteful the mere sugges- tior. of Byiig's reappearance on tlie scene is to him. Mrs. f.e Marchant heaves a second iiigh. T'liis time it is one of relief. "Thtin I do nol see," with a sudden bound upward into sanguinene.ss wliicli reminds him of her daughter, "why wc should nol all be \ery comfortable." Jim is pondering in his mind upon tlie significance of this "all," whether it is meant to include only Mr. Lo .Vlanchant, o;- whether, under its shelt/T, he hini- si'lf may creep into thai jiromised com- fort, when she of whom they have been sjMyikmg iv-entcrs. She has -i packet of photographs, presumably suitable for amputation, in her hand, in which is al.so held a telegram, wliicli sho extends to Burgoyne. "1 mel .\|. Cipriani bringing you this. Il .seimis liiat you ought to have had il Iwo day.s ago. but by some mistake, it Was put into another genllemans mom â€"a gentleman who has never arriv(Nlâ€" and Ihero it has iemaine«i. He was full o: aixilogicw, bui I told him what culpa- biii carele.ssne.ss it showed. 1 do Inisl,' Willi a sweetly .solicitous look, "tliul il Is not anylliiiig that matters. " "It cannot be of much con.sequence, ' replies Jim indifferently, while a .sort of pang darts through luni at tlie thought er how strangely de.stjlule he is of people t< be unoonifort.ably anxious about, and S3 tears il open. An English telegram lran.smitle<l by I^'rench clerks often weai\s a very differ- ent uir from that meant to he imparled to il liy the soniler, which is, perhaps, tlio reason why Jim remains staring so l<-ng at hisâ€" .so I<iiig thai tlie two wo- luen's g<iod mamu'rs prompt tlieni to remove tlniir syinpiillietif evfts from him. and U) alleinpt a litllo talk with each oilier. "1 hope you have no bad news?" The eldtM- ono permits hers<»lf this in- quiry after a more than decent interval has elap.sed, during which he has made no sign. H<! gives a start, as one loo suddenlv awakem.Ml out of deep sliHjp. "Mad news?" he repeats in an odd Voiceâ€" "wlittl is bad news? That <le- iwiids uiMui people's lasles. It is for you to judge of thai : il concerns you ai much or more than il does me." .So saying, lie places the [laiK'r in her hand and, walking away to (ho little â- si|iiare windowâ€" open, despite the wild liiiss of the woalherâ€" looks out uijon the indlgo-c<ilored night. Althoiigli his back is turned towards thnn, he knows thai Ellzal>etli is reading over her molher's shoulderâ€" reading this : ^ "Bourgouin, "(hand Hotel, ""Algiers. "Have heard of Le Mairhanls. if j-ou do not wire to the contr-ary. .shall cr*«.s. to-morrow.â€" m'NCi, Marselilo." He is nol left long in <lonbt as to their having niaslered the meaning of the missive. "He is coming!" says Mrs. l.e Mnr- ehaiil with a species of gas|) ; "and y<iu "old nu'--not five niinules iijrn you iold Tlie"â€" wllh an accent of reproarhâ€" "Ihat there was not llie remole-st chaiice of II. Oh, sUi]) him ! slop him ! Telegraph at once! The olljce will lie oiH'ii for two t)r three liouns yel I There is plenty, plenty of lime I Oh, tolegrapli at onceâ€" a I once !" "II is too late," replies Jim, retracing his sh'))S to Iho table; "you f<jrgel that il is Iwo days old. You .sei>. they have spelt my name wrong; that acoounls for till) mislake. Bourgouin ! It looks odil .sjell Boiirgiiuiii, diies not it'.'" He hears himself giving a small, dry laugh, wliieh nobody e;hoes. "He iniist have saileil yesterday.'' con- tinues the young man, wishing lie coiild persuade his voice to soun<l more natural ; "he may be here al any mo- ment. If Hie weather had iH^m doi-ent, he would have arrived ere now." "Then there is noUiing Io be done !" rejoins Mr.s. l.e Marchant in a lone of fie.: desperation, silling down again <ui Ih! chair out <if which she bad iiisllno- li\ely risen at the lillle stir of the tele- gram's arrival. I'llizabeth is dead silent. Tliough Iheiv is no direclion liy the pyo tu show that Jim's next remark Is ainuHl at her, there can be no <loulil Ihal il Is awkwardly thrown in her direction. "It this had nol. been delayed â€" If il had not been loo late, would you have wished, would you have decided to stop him ?" "What Is the use of asking mo such a question n<iw that il is too lute?" replies she, with more of impatience, almost wrath in her voice than he has ever be- fore beard Ihal most gentle organ ex- press. Bui besides Ihe ii-c and irritation, there is another quality in il which goads him to snatch a reluctant glance at her. .She is extremely agitated, but underlying Ihe dislre.s.s and disturbance ol her face there is an undoubt<'d light shining like a lamp through a pule pink shade â€" a light that, with all lip^r laugh- ter and her jokes, was n<il Ihero Imlf an hour ago. He had often reproac'hed him- sell lliat, by his cluinsine.ss, he had stuck a knife into her tender heart. She is even with him lo-night. To-iiighl the tables are turned. 11 Ls she that has stuck a knife into him. It Is clear as day that sho is glad il is too late. fl'o be C()Btinuo<i). « â-  â-  ' ^ THE EMPIRE'S OUTER RIM HOW BniTisii ri:lk is enforckd liN lAU-OFF LA.NDS. Emir of Iladeiju Slnirk British Messcii- grr and What Happened Shortly .VHerward. Interesting details of liie canipnigiis near .Sjkolo and at Hadeija, in .Norllieni Nigeria, in the spring of I'.liHj. are given in a reijort from .Sir h'rederick l.ugiml. Brilish High (!iiiiniii.ssi<jner, just made public ill London. A Madlil arc<if ut ."^alirii, a \illage f-iurteen miles .south of ."^ik.jlo, in F<'b- ruary, and a fanatical outhixvik. direeled agam.>t Ihe Emir as wt'll as agiiinsl Brl- li^li rule, followKl. The ounriHiiy of mounled infantry at .SokoUi, under Lif'ul. I'', IC. Blackwood. imiinHliately ad- vanci'd on .Satiru aii<l formed a scpiare. The rebe.Ls charged and broke the .square, routing llie company with a loss of twenty-live killed, liirludmg Lieu- tenant Blackwood, Mr. H. U. Preslon- Hillary. tho Acliiig Besident, and his as- .sislant, Mr. A. (i. M. .Scoll. Within twenty-four days of llie disas- ter a force of Iwenly-one ollicers and 'tii'i men AD\'ANCED ON .S.Vl'lBU, which, as .Sir F. Lugard observes, "under Ihe circuiiwlances is a ]ierform- anco of which the N'jrlhern .Nigeria regiment may juslly be proud." 'ihe enemy charged the .square repeat ediy, and tho villatje was llnally taken a", Ihe ixiiiit of Iho bayonet. On llie coii- clusion of this exiHMlition the ICiiiir of Hadeija riMiuInd all<'iilion. His leaders aisuuied a txiaslliil and hidepeiuii'iit at- titude, and a band of fanalical loiulers preached a Jehad with disa.stroiis re- sults. W'li.'ii the Enilr was calleil on to surrender the rrincipal agitators, he struck Ihe Brilisli imissengers, and con- temptuously invited the commanding olli'vrs l«j come and take Iho persons himself. He did .so. .V force ot over 700 men and two guns at once move<l on Hadeija. \ mo.senger was sent three times Io warn the people in Ihe capital thai if lliey laid down Ihi'ir arms and canu! out they had iiolhing to [eiir. and C/okinel Colo, who commanded the expedition, was prepnr- ing to .seii<i a foiirlh meseiigi'r wIk-h iho column wii.s suddenlv churgiM bv ix bxly OF NATIVE MOl NTl-.D SI-'EAa.\li:N. They were dispersed, but despite the ht'avy lire they reformed and charged again. Then Iho British Irooiw forced their way into llie town, wliiM-e tho streols were guanle<l by Ihe enemy. 11 reqiiinxl alxiiit <ine and a" half hours' lighting to reacli the Emir's en- closure. Hero the reslslance wii.s very slublxirn, but the enlrMiice was at length forcwl, and the di'feinlers killed or cap- lured. The fighting men were armed with suords, spears, bow.s and arrows, and ,f few llrimrms. Many wore shirts of mail. The ICniir and his son were .shol when ctiarging Injldly at a few yarils' dLslaiice. The heat was inlensi! â€" II.') de- grees in tlkj shade. ALWAYS BIS.VPPOINTINC. "T<impkins is one of the most interesl- ing liars 1 ever met.'' ".s.:i ?" "Yes. Mis stories are always so in- 'terestlng thai I am iiniiriahly disap- pointed when I liud Iliey aren't true. ' FLOWER OF THE FAMILY. "Uncle 'Ba.slus, how old arc you?" "Po.s' 70, boss. I'll soon bo a o<;lo- geranium." HAD NO KfCK COMING. "I hate work," said Languid Lewis. "I don't see why." rejoined Humble Marry. "H's a safe Ix^l dal work neyer done yousu no harm." Mrs. Slarluppe: "\h. pror)'ss<ir ! And ?i<;w is my daughter gelling <iii with her musi.- ? Bo you lliink she will ever, become a great singer?" Brofe.s.-or â-  â- "Madam, it is very hard to .say." Mrs. .Stintu| pe : "But surely .she pos,sesi's some of tin; qualilicatitnis ?" I'rofe-csor : "Ach ! Yes, madam; she has a mouth. ' H'lherls (of v^ry donblful commercial sliindiiig): ".Vs .SliakesjHMire says. 'What's ill a. iKime'f" Jeuklns : "Well, if you want to know, why don't you .ask your wife?' Boberls : "My wife? What lias she got to do with it'.'" JenJiins : "Why. cverylhing vou have is in your wife's name, isn't iV!" A GREAT PEACE PICNIC MKETING TO BE HELD ON 'FDE SUM- MIT OF 'niE A.NDES. Arflonlina and Cliiil Will Celcbrat« Their Seven Yeapg ol Peace. The Argentine Bepublic and Chili are planning a big picnic. Io be held l.i,UOO feet aliovc the .s<^a. .Some lime Ix-fore Iha summer wanes â€" the duU» has nol yet been llxi^l â€" the people of these two re- publics will wend llieir way to the great Peace ,\lonunienl at Puente del Inca, on 111'- Andean Unindary lietwaen Chili and Argentina, and there, at the feet of lh« huge statue of Christ, will hold a briel religious service, cfiinmemoralive of tin ces.satioii of liostilltics. Again, before tile statue of Christ of the Andes these two nations will renew their pledge ot !->i>ilherho<«l. After Ihe service and olTicial forniali- lios lunch boxes will l>o unpacked and games started on the ground which seven years ago wiis disputed lerritory. < ;hiliuns and .Yrgentiniaiis who wer« building war vessels and drilling their soldiers lor a hoi light for a sllco of lund will join hands in a I'olli'.'kiiig SOUTH-AMERICAN DANCE, and when night falls kneel for blessing at Die feet of the statue i;ast from can- non given over for Ihe purpuse by ouch rejiublic when peace was <leclaretl. .â- >even years iiy.n the.se Iwo prosperous and hlgh-sphited republics of .South America wero on the verge of war. Tlicy were incroiisiiig their arnianienls to U>a utmost of llii'ir ability nn<l were spend- ing incredibU) .sums of money u|>m pre- ])ara lions for war. amounting, as was reixirUvi ul the tune, to .$5 amnmlly pei" iai)ila <if their poiiiiluUon. But war did not brenk out. Thwugh Ihe iii.-^trunien- lalily of Iho leading .•hurchmen of totli countries, the disputJ'â€" over .some 80,000 sfiuare miles of U'rritory along thi; bor- der-was submill«d l<j arbilratioii by King ICdward of Croat Brilain, and his decision wius acceplcd by Ixith sides. Ihal was in \'M>. MirMi gralilh^l with the oiilcome of III:; urbilration. and urged forward by a powerful ixjpular movemeni, the two CovermiwMils then vvi-nl riirther, and in June. 190:!, concluded n treaty by the terms of which tiK-y pledj^ed lliemselves for a period <if live yours to subiiiil all ('< iilroversies arising lietwe<^n them Io arbitration, the llrst general arbilratioii liMMity over concluded. In a further treaty they agreed Io REUUCK THEIR AB.MIES l<- fho proixirlions of ijolice forces, (o slop Ilk' building of lim great battlo- .ships Ihi'ii under <'onslruction, and to diminish Ihe naval armaments wh.cll they ulrtMdy |>.'iss(;.ssed. The provisions of theso treaties, which have now hiv;ii in force nearly four year.s, were carried out us fust as prsjff- .^ lieu hie, Iho land forces ha\o l;o(»n ve- du'..'ed, Ihe heavy ordnujice taken off Iha war visj.sels. and .several of Ili4> vtissols of the marine tiirncHl over to the â- â€¢0111 nier- cial Heels. W<irk on Iho f<iur grejil war- ships was imiiieilialely arresteil, and some of tliein have boen sold. The ro- sults of this di.surmamenl â€" for il is a real disarmament â€" have bc<'n most ro- iiiarkahle. Willi the money saved by Ihe les.S)»uing of military and naval ex- penses, internal and const improv<'iiieiil,s have been iiia le. (Vxid rtiaiLs hav.' been I'onslniclrtl. Chili has luriie<l an arsenal into a .sclKHil for manual Irainmg. .Sho is luiildlng a much-iuHidiNl breakwater in Ihe harbor of Xalparaiso, and has coni- ineiiced systematically Ihe lm|rovi>meiit of her oimmercial tacililies along Iho coast. ^ . (hvaler London's jiopulation is now iapi<ily approaching Ihe seven milUoii mark. The Cynic : "What are yon thinking of, Miny!" Mary: "1 am dreaiiiing ol 'my youth." 'ihe Cynic : "I IJi<nighl you had a far-away look in your eyes." There are many tilings thai rtK saci-ej Io a .Scotsman. l')<jnald and .Sandy wera, ^|x^nding a merry evening over a dram. ''Seeing that a bumble-beo has mora ?lKm twa legs," .says Donald, "uouhl y« say it was a bir-ixl or a quadru|H'd ?" "Man, IXiiiald," said .-^andy, reproach, fully, "why will yo begin a theological UijciLssion over a dram ?" Clara : "Father, Ceorge say.s ho i.sn'l half good enough to Ix; my husband." V'alher : "H'm ! Ho talked to me as if ha Was qiiile guild 1 iiougli to huvo ine for a fulher-in-law." Mrs. l'"lynn : ".\n' phwal's yn- son, Moikc, doln' mivv, Mrs. Casey?" .Mrs. Casey : "Shine. .Moike ain't <loiir any- thing, Mrs. Fljiin. He's gid u Coveril- '/iieiii job." He was <ine of the smart ni.m who Ilka III show their cloverne.ss. "Watch mo lake a rise out of him, "'he said, as tha tramp apiirnaclusl. Then he llsh-ned .solemnly to Ihe liile of hard luck, •"riiafs (he same old story \ou told nio III' lasl time you a 'ciLsted me,' he said, wlieii the vagrant hud linislied. "Is if?" '.vas Hie uii.sweiMiig (H!e.stkin. "When \\'-d I tell it you'?" "Last wcel'<." ".May- b> I did. maybe I did;' adniilted tho h'amp. "I'd forgoHeu imellng \<,u. I wu.s in pri.siin all last week." B<iman : "Can you tell what- ails my wife?" Doctor: ".She does nol lakw t'liough oul-d.Kir exercise. " ".She says she does not feel isjual to it." "True, She needs toiling up. " "WIval h.ive ^OKI pi escribed â- ?" "A new bolineU" â- **