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KERSHAM MANOR. CHAPTER XLVL MB* Either stood for a moment lilaat and ouless in the bright, pretty little room, which she recognized at onceaa&ehastian's old study, metamorphosed into a dressing- room 01 lioiicioir. It faced the southwest, and the brilliant evening light was dimmed by soft tinted sun-blinds, which admitted the Sower-scented air from the garden while keeping out the sun. Esther scarcely knew what to lay, or what to do, until a little, gasping cry from the sofa summoned her to Nina's iide, and two white, waste I arms, from which the daintily embroidered sleeves fell back when she moved, were thrwn around Esther's neck. Ami then sonis of the coldness which she had felt at her heart ever since she entered the house melted way, and the tears came to her eyes at the sight and touch of Nina's tears. The old nervous excitability, the feverish readiness) of tongue, had not deserted Mr*. Sebastian Malet. She began to talk in her old tone, almost before she had dried her tears. "It is good of you to come," she said. "I did not think at tirst that you would, but I wanted to see yon so much, and I lay awake night after night thinking about you, and when 1 fell asleep I dreamed of you and so, I made up my mind at last to ask you if yon would." Shu made Esther sit on a chair close be- tide her, and sank back between the great oft pillows that were propping her up. With both her thin, hot hands she held one I great waves, and the black sky, and the scowling face of the man in the boat beside me, and ths baby's little whits mouth oh, that is why I like plenty of light and sui- shine and oelor now, to keep those dreadful memories away '." She shuddered, and began to cough and cry at the same time. v Esther, aroused to the danger of letting her excite herself in this way, rose snd tried to soothti her by tender words and caresses. But a thrill of impatience pased through her while she did to. Wat this all that Nina had to say? had she sent for her merely to complain of her past troubles in her ol<i slight, petulant childish way ? When at last N'ina was calmer and lay bck on Esther's arm, panting and looking into her face with those large, Dean til' ul eyes of hers, which had now the singular trans- lucence which it one of the symptoms of her disease, she seemed to have passed into another mood. "I do notoften think of those sad times," she said, "bnt I suppose that seeing you, Esther, brought them back and true ; 1 believe every word you say," said Nina, smiling at her old friend with a strange, far-away look in her eyes. " He loves ms as hs did before? Perhaps so. But he has known something else between. Oh, it was not your fault. I don't know even whether it was mine. And he is very good to me." The slanting rays of the son were lying on the pretty silk coverlet, on the exqui- site laces that veiled her wasted hands, on her thin face, from which the color bad faded and the light gone out. The ravages of disease were more plainly to be seen when her eyes grsw languid and her lips turned white. Esther was struck with re- morse as she noted these signs, and rose to go. Nina did not press her to stay. ^ "Thank you so much tor coming," she said, lifting her face to be kissed as simply as a child. "I in ted to see yon while 1 was strong enough to talk. I felt that I had wronged you, and I wanted to *sk you to forgive me. Some day you will tell Sebastian what I have said." "Forgive me, Nina, forgive me too I" said Either, with an irrepressible sob. In Nina's presence she felt guilty ; actual wrong-doing would perhaps have aJected teeing you, i ner lmf thiuj thi> un.poke,, consciousness V\ hen 1 was ' ,u_,. _u- L.I *.._ ;.. _ n ti irr t.>kn that she had, how innocently getting better in the hospital I used to lie St , hft , tiM ,.. lov . , wmy , roB J and dream of my old friends ; and your [ awr - u [ wl ( e face came to ms oftener than any other, and it was always loving and kind. I thought of you more than any one except Sebastian and the children ; and when I was coming home, I used to fancy that yon would be so glad so glad to see me " " Nina ! Nina ' You might spare ms this I" cried Esther, covering her face. " But I must tell yon everything, or how taken true and said "You did nothing wrong." sud Nina. "I have nothing to forgive. It was only that I was stupid and frivolous, and could not keep his heart when once it was mine ; and then I was silly enough to say that it was your fault. He is vary kind to me. I have nothing to forgive ; it was not your fault." In the light of those smiling blue eyes of Esther's in s tight nervous clasp. | will you understand what 1 mean r ssia , whlch wef j t , iBelprett ,bly sad,E.thsr -Sebastian was angry with ms at first Mna, with tit less logic. "I want yon to ] fe , t for tha lime beina lf . oou)d nefer for suggesting such athmg: he thought that 1 was mail but men never understand a woman's ideas, "she went on in her thin, quick voice, broken now and then by a sharp cough ; "I believe he thought that I should say something unfriendly or unkind. But at last I explained to bim why I want- ed to see you at least I explained enough and so he consented to write to Mrs. Drummond and enclose a note from me. It is a very out-of-the-way proceeding, isn't, it? I shouldnt like everybody to know." She laughed a rather harsh little langh, and squeezed Esther's han-l more tightly. And then for the first time Ksther spoks, in somewhat unsteady tones : " I am only too glad that you will let me do anything for you." 1 he effort of speech brought tears. They fell heavily on Nina's hand, as Esther bent her head low to conceal them. " Don't cry," said the sick woman fret- fully. " I can't bear t-> see any one cry. I never could. I like peoo'.* to be cheerful and bright. Look around the room, do yon see how fresh and pretty it is ? I won't have anything ugly about me ; even my coverlet and my diessing-gowns have to be charming look at them and admire my little vanities, Esther, and don't cry '" As she teemed earnest in her request, Esther did lift her heavy eves and glanc- around. The room was indeed a marvel of prettineias, the silk hangings edged with lace, the embroidered coverlet of which she had spoken, the pure white matting, white furniture, the painted walls hung with mirron framed in silver or delicate ly tinted china, the silver-moouted toilet service, and the great vases full of summer flowers, spoke of lavish expenditure guided by a fine and delicate taste. Nina herseif ! jt look beautiful. was wrapped in a pietty garment of softest . Ksther. He see how it was thi.t when 1 heard what had happened while I was awaf , I hated you, I hated Sebastian ; I could not see as I see now that it was perhaps quite natural. After all, it is hard for a woman to come back from the grave, as it were, and find that she has been so soon forvotten." " You were not forgotten, indeed you were not, Nina." " No in a certain way. I was not for gotten, but my place was filled up. Filled up not only in the house, but in Sebastian's heart, Ksther. And yon know that jll though I was often angry wiUi him, and im- patient and disagreeable, I did love him all the time. Don't you think it was hard for me as well as for you, Esther ?" " Very hard, my dear, very hard." " You are a woman," Nina went on, h. r voice growing pathetically weaker and her eyes dilating as her excitement increased, " and you know what it means to be sup- planted by another. You understand the dreadful misery of it, Esther. And Sebas- to see Sebastian again. But when she bent to lane her farewell kiss, Nina's arm stole gently round her neck, Nina's pathetic voice whispered a last word in her sss>. 'Yon will not quite forget me ? Yon will love them all a lillle for my sake, as well as for their own ?" (TO BE coMTiiirto. ) ITEMS OF INTEREST. About two hundred different persons handle a pair ot kid glove* are they are completely made. Farmers in Texas, after experimenting four years, have at last succeeded in raiting very fair tobacco. Three-fihns of the pneumonia and pleur- isy oases, among males, are due to the wearing of low-cut waistcoats. The gree aunts of Australia make nests of leaves, which they b nd unite with a kind of natural tin doet not understand." " Not understand ?" Ksther repeated, in some m/.'. ' No. He thinks that I shall be satisfied with my old position as his wife, and that I ought to drop into the old ways without question, withou*. doubt. And I can't do it. I was tnch a vain, frivolous creature when 1 was young nd well. Either, that silky texture, garnished with countless frills of laoe, which wrved somewhat to d intuits the painful leannuss ol her arms he thinks fine clothes and pretty things are all 1 want now ; and now I want something more." "Something that he does not give?" " Yes, dear, his love." The eyes of ths two women met, gravely and steadily tins time ; but Esther's eves sank first. There was a new light in Nina's face.which ma le "He is very goosl to me, itself^ is tendernesn H ' denies me nothing ; be would search the world over for a thing that I wanted, if it , were not easily to be touniL Oh, he is so and throat. Her face was less changed I good, so kind. I laughed about the pretty than Esther had expected to find it. things in this room a little while ago, but , Thin,, indeed, it had grown, but it had grown, but it had the heutic beauty so conspicuous in a consumptive patient; the transparent white- ness of the complexion, savs where a bright Hush colored the wasted cheeks, gave a delusive loveliness to her appearance, and almost banished the memory of disease. "I chose the colon," said Nina, following Esther's glance round the room with her own eyes : " and Sebastian carried out my design. He spared nothing to mske it pretty, did he ? with a wist- ful smile " neither trouble nor expense. And I think that be has SBOcesded. This is exactly the sort of room that I ussd to plan for myself when we were first married, and I was to certain that the Manor would be ours. Esther was again silent. Nina'i light referenoes to her husband jarred on ner nerves, although she felt that she had no right to resent anything that Nina chose tossy. " Pace off yons bonnet," Nina said pres- ently, in an imperious tone. ''I want to sos how yon look." Esther did as she was desired, and having laid aside her headgear sat down again. " Yes, you are altered too,", said Nina, surveying her thoughtfully, **but I do not know how or why. It is not only that you are thinner and paler you are sadder- look- ing, yon look as if yon had a great deal of tumble, Esther." Ths wistfulnsss had crept into her tone again. Esther fancied that there only because it nearly makes me cry to look at them. He took such trouble about them and did hops that they would make me happy. And they don't." "Nina, dear, ilou't tell me that you are unhappy now. " "Well, I am not unhappy. Hs is very gentle and good ; and I have the children. But there is something gone, aud I miss it now that it is gone ; 1 tell you that it is his love." "1 do not belisvs it. I will not believe it. You never undsistood how mach hs loved you : and he iovss you still, and you are If Canada is Sharp Enough. The London correspondent of the Halifax Critic says : ! f Canada is sharp enough he can introduce into her provinces DU per osnt of the enormous accumulation of money in Great Britain to-day. For two years the nation has been hoarding its money from the company sharks who nock all over the country. As a spectator may easily see, nowever, the small and large capitalists are growing very partial to Canadian in- vestments. The trouble is that there ii no strong organization in England at this time to catch tne capitalist by ths buttonhole, so to speak, and entice him into Canada. |t is often complained here that outsids of ths Canadian ( iazett* no essentially Can- adian papers are obtainable. Of course there are ths newspapers, but that is not what the people of Europe want. They re- quire papers that devote themselves to an- alysing ths resources of the country, and which mark all tne chanirea silent or other- wise that take place, such as, for instance, the deflection of the trades routes of ths Continent into the Lake* and Rivsr -Si. Lawrence. Thsre are to-day 1.000 hip owners in (ireat Britain, who would cost their steamers whenever possible in Can- adian ports instead of American. When ap- proached upon thesuhject almost the invsri- ably reply is, "We don't know mach about theCanadian ports!" Toan English critic this seems aremarkable thing. Canada the posses- sor of ocean coalfields, is little knowuamong the people who can burn her coal in their steamer* ! Then there are thousands of ssa captains who are in ths sams state of emi ignorance or indiffsrence. The Cana- dian nation is not very numerous compared with others, but there is abundant go aheadnesa in the people. The trouble ap- t IT SJR A together and glue. St. Petersburg has the largest room in the world unbroken by pillars. It is a drill hall, and measures 620 by 150 feat. Some of the Herman cafes serve hot milk as a beverage. It is said that this drink is a remedy for various disorders of the atom- ach. Ths stem part of an orange is usually not so sweet and juicy as the other half, be- cause tns most of the juije gravitates to the part hioh isdbwnward. Young girls are frequently employed as porters in Switzerland, and amble nimbly as they carry travelers' baggage up and down the steep mountain paths. The " Poor Men's Party," is a new polit- ical organization at Sbelbyvilla. III. It will support no man for a local office whose possessions amount to more than $I.JOO. Swiss watchsi to the number of 22,000 have been smuggled into France during the past six months. They were ingeniously conveyed in cans supposed to contain con- densed milk. Marriage is not a failure in ths case of Alexander Johnson, a colored man, of Ozark, Ala. He has been married five times, and is the father of a numerous family. His ago is l.'l yean. The wine cellar attached to the House of Commons usually has a stock of stimul- ants valuedat 915.001). When the speech- es are dry the members become thirsty and ths vinous beverage freely flows. When a toper is arrested in Bangor, Me. he is usually conveyed to the station in a patrol wagon. Should te be punished with a fine, fifty cents is added to the fine, to pay for his rids in the patrol wagon. Thirteen of the Presidents of the United States were Masons. They were Wash- ington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jack- son, \\ in. H. Harrison, Tylsr, Polk, Tay- lor, Pierce, Buchanan, Johnston, and Gar field. A beggar, who for many years had sub- sisted ou charity, died a few days ago, in Auxerre, France. In a trunk he left bonds to the value of 1,000,000 franor, and in his cellar ere found 400 bottle* of wine of the vintage of I7W). A French physician has constructed an acting model of the human heart. It is of the asms uue, size and consistency of the natural organ, with every detail, and a red fluid courses through it, and throsgh artificial arteries. The discovery has been m*do by a Osr- man physiologist that the milk of inebriate mothen contains a imal! amount of alcohol, and it is his belief that sui.li mothers communicate to their offspring a 'ostre for stimulants. Over ">" ) min applied for relief at St. I'aul ; but when they were required t i saw wood for the assistance rendered, 443 of them suddenly recollected that the rheu- matism and kindred ailments prevented them from handling the saw. A ouge corn on one of the big toes of William Kunn, of Laporte, Itnl., caused bim great pain. Ho first tried the Christ- ian Science treatment, but prayer failed to remove it. Then he tried carbolic acid and that caused a fatal ai.Uck of blood poisoning. pears to be that fome of the opportunities which exist are too little noticed. There are scores oi opportunities at this time snd ws all hope over here that the Can vlian pr-ss will declare them to the nation. The introduction of more capital into Canada should havs an enormous influence upon the happiness and welfare of all class ss. Learning, arts, sciences, leisure and im- proved circumstances will all increase to such an extent that ths Dominion will "ar'le the new world by i's rapid expan- sion. The advice then of the Old World is still blind." " No, I am not ; I am very clear-sighted. But Ksther, desr, let me say, what 1 havs to say for I am growing tired. When 1 first heard the truth, I was very bitter, both against him and you : and 1 said a great j "Canada to the front, realize your oppor- * i tnnity more fully and bring into yonr cons- try the skill and wealth at present inactive in Europe." The Canadian Press will do well to organize in an effort to distribute facts and information through Europe. This should impress all classes with a fuller confidence in the future of the country, and procure greater and more sustained effort many harsh and hitter things, which I did not mean, and which I am sorry now for having said. And since I have been ill ami since I learned that I had loU his love I have not dared to speak of the matter to him again. It pains him so, and I don't like to give him pain. But I leave it to you, Esther, to tell him one day that I was sorry for my bitter speeches and thst I asked you to forgive me and to think of me kindly still when I am really dead, and you are as you will one day be hit wife," She flung her slender arms ther's neck, and lay there around Es- weeping, while new and softened expression in ths all too i- Esther, struggling with her own tears, tried vividly bright eyes. "1 have bad trouble, as you know," she answered gently. "As 1 know ! What do I know ?" ex- claimed Nina, after a moment's petulance, "i know this, that you have never suiTer- ed as I have done you have not been ship- wrecked snd lost, and separated from your husband and children ana home as I have 1 v':, not found that all you cared about .o tne world had been taken from you. " Had she not? Then shipwreck of life by Nina ami hope and love meant nothing? But! "No,' patiently with bowed head Esther answer- her eye* sd : silken > "No. perhaps not." "1 couli! "Nobody can tell what I went through I shal^n on that terrible night of the storm," cried livesomi Nina irritably, as if some one had contra- thsy tell dictea her. "When I iound myself alone doctors: in a small boat with only two men, and my I trial! n baby in siy arms poor little thing ! How shall go. it cried and clung tome with i's tiny hands! you? 1 I should never have been separated from up, to tl Sebastian but for the chiMren. He had the onl) Muriel and Rollo, aud I had baby to look got that after" otlu-r tl There wai almost a sound of resentment taught in her 'one resentment against the child- to you, ren. At her side a .1 -..'t-i woman was " Nil saying to herself, " If 1 i I had a child, I words ! uld have twrne my shipwreck better." Either' But she did not speak. trind U " When [ close my eyes I can see it all," belief t Nina wett OB, hsr lips biaucliiiijj, the color before, coming and geing in hsr uliesks ; "1 sse the J)o iooa telling m nt to talk so," for example, is published near Cape I u ,. 8 - - ' ** ' > on Bering Straits. There, to sooth and silence her. to be qri "It is she said not tha complai than he how tha never fe "Deai PMI.I Ell But she was not from each individual member of your oom m unit ie for the country's weal. The Press- in the Arctic Regions. There exist some journals which appear but once a year. Of course, they cannot be truly called "journals," but "annuals." These heeta are published on the borders of the Arctic Circle. Ths Eskimo Bulletin, Prince abited by Eskimos, ths Rnglish ies have established a school, and teanier only runt to this plaoe and ere bnt once a year. Tho new* brings is set forth on a little shset printed by hectograph. The sheet inches by eight : the paper is very 1 i nnted on ons side only. Like mpararies of large circulation, the are printed under different heads, nal says, in a sub-title, that it is yearly newspaper, but that is an iiolher annual newspaper is print- iut '.he same degree of latitude, at in Greenland, under ths titls ol a, in the (ireenlandish language, ue, which the Eskimos apeak, has common with tb Scandinavian Bomb Throwing. tramps were roosting in ths al- csji of beer and a lunch, and one u reading the paper in which the bean wr\ppd. Villie," he said, laying ths paper hat yer think of this bum throw S3?" 'in it,'' was the prompt response] cer at de saloon 'round de corner out las' night." 4ns) The LrJ Ths following passage from Mr. Glads stone's most famous essay is noteworthy in visw of the late short livedagitationagainst the Lords : "The English people are not believers in equality; they du not, with the famous Declaration of July 4, 1776, think it to be a self evident truth that all men are born equal. They hold rather the reverse of this proposition. At any rate, in practice they are what I may call determined un- equalitarians; nay, in some eases, , without knowing it. Thsir natural tendency, from the vsry bass of British society and through all its stiongly built gradations, is to look upward ; they are not apt to untune degree. The sovereign is the highest height of the sytem; is, in that system, like Jupiter among the Ro- man gods, without a second. . . . Ths step downward from the king to ths second person in the realm is not like that from the ss cud to ths third; it is more even than atride, for it traverses a gulf. It is the Wilom of the British constitution to lodge the personality of its chief so high that none shall under any circumstances be tempted to vie, or to dream of vying, with it. The office, however, is not confused, though it is associated with the person; and the elevation of official dignity in the mon- arch of thess realms has now for a testing period worked well in conjunction with the limitation of merely personal power." Mt Gladstone my have had a different language for the study from that which he used on the platform, bnt tie writer of^the forsgoing is not one "to untune degree." Tl BAT. Wsas't B*Bsrkaele Hererss 1st the Ualrr sjalaeas. There is a woman in Denmark who may reasonably claim the title of butter and cheese maker to the crowned beads of Europe. Every morning from her dairy a few pounds of butter are sent by express to the royal palace in Copenhagen. While viiitmg the King of Denmark the Emperor of Russia tasted her cheese, and now he is one of her regular customers. The products of her tiairy go to many other countries, everywhere commanding prices many times larger than those tor which the goods of other producers sell, and without doubt there are other crowned heads than those of Denmark and Russia that are customers of hen. A bulletin of ths United State* Depart- ment of Agriculture tells about this remark- ably successful dairywoman. She it Mme. Nielsen. She calls her farm Havanhigaard. It is an hour's rids by railway from Copen- hagen. The farm is cared for by her hus- band and son-in-law, but when they deliver the warm milk into her possession their responsibility cesses. She PKHSONALLY SITKHISTKNUS the making of the butter and the various kinds of cheeses, and she markets her pro- ducts. Not all of her butter and cheese is consumed by potentates, and the small surplus is sold in a littie shop in the exhi- bition building in Copenhagen, where Mme. Nielsen herself waits upon customers every afternoon. Mine. Nielsen has been a close student of dairying forjnearly thirty-five years. She has visited England, Holland, Switzerland, Norway and France, and has studied tha methods of dairying in those countries. She now has a sort of school of dairying, in which she instructs pupils, receiving from each about $27, whether they stay for a shorter or longer period. M st of them are young women. They give their ser- vices to her whils thsy are under her tuition, <i that most of her work is done by her pupils. Throughout Europe many of the chief dairy women are graduates of Mme. Nielsen's school. Ths (aim on which this famous dairy is carried on comprises only 1AU acres, Be- tweeii twecty-hve and tnirly cows are kept in the herd, and about twenty is ths aver- age number giving milk at one time. The dairy buildings are not elaborate. Nearly all the processes are old-lashioned. For instance, no separators and no sterilizing apparatus ia nssd in her creaoiery. The churning and butler-working are done by hand. The product is packed in small china crocks. Mme. Nielsen makes several kinds of cheeses, Csmsmbert, sweetmilk. Uorgonzola, Mysti, Edam, Chester, aud other varieties. Her process of making Camembert cheese is described as follows : "Ths fresh mi'k, warm from ths cow, was warmed to 100 K At this tempera- ture she added 1-luOth pound of rennet for each ten pounds of milk, after whiofl it was rtly stirred, and then allowed to stand four and one-half hours, when it had coagulated to the proper degree. TBI CBItai VAT used was s large earthen jar, which was kept wrapped up and placed near the stove so as to maintain the same tempera- ture of 100 F. nntil coagulation was com- pleted. The curd was then cut into small squares, but not worked or pressed in the least. When cut sufficiently fine, curd and whey together were dipped out and put in small tin rings or moulds with holes in the sides, but with neither bottom nor top. Karh form, or mould, consisted of two rings, one placed on top of the other, and when ' t.hi'a arranged they were about six inches high and measured five inches in diameter. They rested on a strainer placed on top of a vessel, and over ths strainer was laid a little mat made of clean, stiff, rye straw, single straws being tied parallel to sash other. This was to drain off toe whey, and the straw mats facilitated the turning of tke cheese. When the oups were full they were left undisturbed (or eight hours in a warm place near the stove. ly ths end of that lime the chsess hail settled so much that ths upper ring or half of tho mould wa* removed and the cheese was turned, but left in the cup overnight. Next morn- ing they were turned again and saltej on one side. Three or four hours later thsy were again turned and salted on the otjter si.itv. No pressure was applied at My time. During all this time the tompei-*- ture did not fall below 74 F. After th* second salting it had acquired sufficient solidity to be removed from the mould. It was then placed in a room with the tem- perature from 55 to 80 V. , where it re- mained for two or three weeks, when it was placed in the chsese room with a somewhat higher temperature. It was ready for sale when two months old," Mme. Nielsen is not educated except in subjects of her specialty. She has mads a snog fortune and an international repu- tation. Repartee on the Bench. Some of the keenest wit we hear about is flashed from the legal brain. The (ireen Ksg reports the following : Chief Justice Jeremiah Black, of Pennsylvania, in re- viewing a case which came up from the court (if bis old friend. Judge Moses Hamp ton, remarked that "surely Moses must r havs been wandering in the wilderness j \ GREAT TELEGRAPH LINE IN AFRICA. Mmj Nile* f 1st* Cape Twm ae.4 Calre rvoject Hr-mli III. A Cape Town despatch says : The actual work of constructing the Zomba- Salisbury section of Mr. Rhodes' great transcontinental line of telegraph, which the cape premier hopes may some day con- nect Ciaro and Cape Town, has been liegnn, and at the snd of last year some thirteen or fourteen miles had beenputupattheNyassa- land end of the section. An appeal for help made to the Makololo chiefs by the engineers in charge resulted in some two hundred men being set to work to make the " telegraph road, "ami shortly as many as six hundred men were employed in erect- ing the posts and carrying the material. Naturally, the chiefs expect some acknowl- edgment of their good will in this matter, and the agentsof the company begged them when he made this decis.on, and sent the ^ ^ form lnev W0 uld prefer that unae back to the lower court. Judge ' Hampton on its second trial took occasion to remark that, although he would have to submit to ths higher authority, yet he still thought he was right, "in spite of ths Lamentations of Jeremiah." Professor Har.'np i ibsentlyj I suppose. " The Reason. 'Why does the earth move ?" "Can't pay the rent Gordon Fethernton, the f'mr-year-oid son of V V. Kethuryton, organist, London, was drowned in a cistern last week their* presents rhould take. It was a mis* cellaneous list which the chiefs forwarded, including as it did tea, sugar, jam, butter and biscuits. But the demsnds were by no means confined to edibles. One request was for " clothes for women," another for a rifle for shooting hippopotamuses, and one request proba'uiy irom an ex-student oi the Blantyre mission schools was for " writing materials." It is said that of the younger men among ths Makololo chiefs three are able to read and write, having acquire 1 their education at the mission schools. Life-savers on t.h* French coast are here- after to be aided by trained dogs.