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â- & LORD KILLEEN'S REVENGE CHAPTKB XXIir-fContinuH ) "Vou Hxe silent," cried he. coming eloH«« to faer â€" so cloHct thai his very breath lifted the Hoft hiiir on ber fore- head. "Tou «re silent; you Jo not con- demn my presence ; you do not censure my iwiaistent determination to find •nd Ri>eak >vith you at all hazardsâ€" eveu ai tbe ohaace of rousing your dia- pleasure. Tou are still silent! la there DO bop* to be ffaxnered from that f Con-stantia had moved hat^kward. away from h!m, into the shadow of an Ivied wall, and from that safe shelter â- he Ajiok*. "Why ahoald you be without hope!" she asked, faintly. ""Why should hope be mine!' yon ehould rather eay," cried he. "Hitherto you have been so tantalizing, ao impas- sible to oompreheod. I have poured out my v«xy soul lie fore you, aod yet you have turned aside." He spoke fluentlyâ€" eageirly. That be should be reprotiohful filled her with amaze. When haid be poured out his . soul before her f I "Oh, do not think I turned aside," she â- aid, with a touch of gentle dignity. ( "But all this is strangeâ€" tmtbought of "By you, perhap*â€" yet that I can har.lly believeâ€" but not by me. Has all thi-t iwst time counted as naught ? Was I not at your feet night and day 1 Par- don me, if at mad momenta I fancied â€" " He hesitated. "Yes." he whispersd very gently, "you fancied t" "How kindly you speuk now!" he oried, impatiently. "Yet how cruel you can be I I fancied foolishlyâ€" without rea-son. If you willâ€" that sometimes thoHo beautiful eyes of yours gave m* encouragiement. Was that so ( Or am I now to be told that love like mine has come too late â€" that for the sake of mere conventionalism it mu^t be thrust asideâ€" that it ia fogrbidden !" ' Con-stantia made a step forward, and held out her hand to him. He was in .griefâ€" in trouble. What did it all moan? How had she hurt him { "Why -hould your love be forbid- den t" she murmured, softly. Was she not ready to accept and treasure It f Her heart beat violeully, her voice was almost inaudible, but he heard her. She wat hi'ily prepared for the change thai crime o»<T himâ€" for the sudden subtle Hcnse of liriiimnh thai liri(i)iien- ed biH eyr« and raisen his figure to its fullest heiRht. "I>i you know what 5uch wi-rJs mesn." he iTied, "from you to met Not forliiildeiiâ€" not! You pinrralt me. then. to love you? There w«.s mure than I ilarttd bnlieve ia lliil little nie-tsag? you .s«'nt iiie lo-nigUi " "A me.>i.>iiigi' !" re|)eated Conslantia, faintly. "I>> not deny it. I will have no ev.as- ion froui your liiw now That sweet mesMnjf.'. sen! it lies u|i>u my heir' " With a r.ilhT thealrial if:>slure that sat with in<les<rilKil)le al'siirdiiv uiwn his ilignified figure he half ilrew s rrush-^d note from the fojiU of liis do- mino. "It ha.s lain here ever since. That one little w ,rl ilwut the hliu'k rr.»».M ii|Kin your shmihlcr, Hint was to distinKui>.h you Iriiiii fmiilanl ia, that told me all. Il gave uie hope; it even â- aiggested lo me (forttive me. sweets thai you might lie jealous of your cousin." He .still belli the little .scented billet between his finger.s. and a wild long- ing to poNSeas, lo read It, seized on Coivstantia. It would l» so Miuiple, so easy ; whoever he lielieved ber to lie. it wius not ronnlantia and by putting forth a hand «he could gain il . Yet some hiineet iiiAtiniit fiirT)a,do her the act; with a heurl liruisejl, aii'l lileeiling. and insulted, she ntill rfinuinlM'reil "Nohlesfle oblige." "I .sent you no messnge," she said, controlling herself bravely. "Are you afralil of iiw. that you still persist ,'" CK'lainied he. engerly. "Can you not triisl me/ How you tremlile! (lave you not faith iu my honor* Vou think, perhniis, thai I bin nole will l>e- tri> you '. You do not know me." He did not. however, destroy the note in h"r presence an another man iniKli* have done. "Donna I my Vieautiful I my lielove.d one ! Iielieve in me." The girl stood molinnleAs. The lilnod forsook her face, all her heart died within her. She knew now surely, what Home instinct had Iriid her liefore, that her eoii.sin was the auilior of i hat not.<v .She knew loo I hat I'eal lier-^i on. whim nhe ba/l lielieved in, oh iu her faith, wo/i false. .She fargot I hat she ought to H[H<ak, to say aomelhing that hIiouIcI wither him. ns lie tttiHul i lii're, ho giiililly glad, so sinfully irinmphint, in i he eolil. un- aensiial moonlight She reniiiined deadly silent, liocause she had fi/rgot- teii ill!, Iiul the Ireiicherv pieneni <s> her. . "^'ou do not speak." cried he. veJ'em- enlly. "Ilnve you no word fo^. ».." I Donna I IJonna t I'biiik what iukiety is mine, whilst Iâ€"" "Oh. sir, go!" interrupieil she, lenl- ixing at this momunt ihrouKh all ber sorrow, the wrong ijone lo hlin in let- ting biin further sjinak. "(iu, I en- treat you I" In b'T iiKil.allon slie liail .s|)oken aloud, anil an her idear, girlisli voice, with its musical Irish lir<ia.lne.ss, reached Ids ear. so unlike the lriiinii.ule aei'enis ho had e)ipncte<l to heaj, he fell lia<'k a step or two, iighiiMl . anil all his nelf-pos- se.ssion deserted him, and he slareil at Ber blankly â€" liuiiib. His evirenie defeat touched Coiwtnn- tla and made her strong ,Sho laid her bund niMin the wiill neiir her in .sleadv herself, iiml slowly wilhilrmv the uiaMk from her fai^e llei pale, yining, luetly race, sad in its pallor, ami earnnslnes.H, and contempt, looked straight nt him. with a lieauty he bail Iwian a little dead to. I« the past. "A mistake like this," she said, "ia not to lie remedied Wiirds wduld lie wasted on It. f regret thil it was my wisfofftune to lenxl you so far iisiray. batâ€" I was Innooenl of intention!" .'~'lie MnlMd si Mm with a keen anxieiv. "Tow Itnst luaw that." she .said. She had ^iven him, unconsciously, time to recover. To find himself mis- taken in (be object of his devotion, to know thai ears' unmeant had listened to his scntinieiual ravings, this in it- self was enough to unsettle for the in- stant the reason of any ordinary man ; liut that it ahpuld be Consliuitia who had been the recipient of his love-con- fidences, poured forth for another, was a vile aggravation of the borior that such a situation was bound to hold. He writhexl beneath it. but during the pause that ensued upon recoveryâ€" and the time it took Constantia to form and give voice to her protestâ€" he pull- ed hiiivielf together in a measure, and now tried to throw a jaunty air into his Biiecch. "Not so much a mistake, as a good joke," he said, acting the hyporrite, it must be confes-sud, with but a poor count«nance. "What! Did you think I did not know? That I could not see t be difference between you and your cousin ? Could you not guess f You were always a little wanlmg in tha finer shades of humor, my dear Con- nie, liut yet 1 l^lieved you would have seen through my absurd protestations of affection for Mrs. Dundas. (Pray do not lielray iift to her. She would never forgive me !) A being with a soul .sprightly as yours should have read through any disguise, through any â€" " "Had you been able to read through mine," said Constantia, coldly, "this scene would not have been." "Do you not still catch it 1" began he. with a daring assumption of laugh- ing surprise. But she stayed bim with a glance. "Oh. cease this deception I" she said, quickly. "It Li unworthy ofâ€" what I once thought you I No! Not another word. If you would do me one last favor â€"go !" She spoke with vigor, though in a low Toiee. He recognized the jiower of it, and turned abruptly away. The sha- dows caught and hid him. and with a sigh of passionate relief, she sunk once again upon the stone seat of the para- pet. CHAPTER XXIV, So this was what a mask»d hall meant; Kxccpt that she fell ao cold so nuinlx>d. jthe could have laughed aloud at the ironical flavor of her thought. This Itall to which she had looked forward with such eager im- patience. Wrnild she ever care to go lo a ball again f She wonifered to herself why she did not feel some .sorrow, some regret. Why Ih.Trt were no tears in her eyest She felt, indeed, no inclination to cry. There was nothing, only a burning sense of angerâ€" a contemptuous anf{er that curled her lip. Truly her in- stincts had not deceived her almut that woman. Hhn wxs ju.st. however, in h"r resentment, as few women are. She did not exculpate the hero in the .sorry affair, anil blacken lieyond all recog- nition the siren who had led him from safe h.rliors into the maelstrom of a love that could only end in destruction If shi' condeiiined Donna, she scorned hiiii; anil there was no pltt<'e in all her mind that held s<i much a>s one of the old kindiv fe«lings he used to inspire. Rv depren-H her thoughts traveled bilk to her first entry to-night into this ill-omened house." She remem- bered how she had .seen Donna, and had noted th-s slight difference bet\vecn the two dominoes. .She renieinliered, too. with a little liiiiiT p.iiig. bow she had iippr li^i'l Ooiina in Irr mind as lielng gjner.Mi lieyond her fellows, in that she had made her gift in no whit less desirable than the covering she had ch>s,.n for herselfâ€" the domino, the gloics. the very fan (with which she hail Um-ii so foolishly pleased) the same. . She unhooked the fan from her waist in a slow methodical way. and, l>reak- ing it a(Tois.s lu-r knee, dropped il into til- rushing Hireamlet; it fell with a faint crashing .sound, having struck the stone-work of the parapet, and then dis- «ii|M'artvl. .She drew off her gloves th-n, and tore them geiiiiv and delib- eritely. and sent them af'ier the fan. â- She I'ould not. bowevor, so dis|io.se of ih- domino, nor of her own thoughts. I h 're was no iNUision in her actions, no veil •nieneeâ€" only a certain longing to gel ri'l of things detested. Her imisiogM cume iMick U|K)n ber pr.-suitly. She felt, in a degree, easier iM-ivnise of her bare hands, and the knotvleilge that the fan was no longer touching her; and after awhile sh ^ reealleil her meeting with Stronge. How was il he had not lioen deceived I She could not mislake his manner, at nil events. He had known her, and, lij-siiles, she had let him hear her voice, "hit instinct had forbidden tier to s|M'iik toâ€" lo that otherâ€" save in • whis|i(>r I .She was glad in her soul, however, that she olieved it. and that so the I ruth was laid l>ar« to her. \ es. It was strange that Mr. SI rongo bad known her; he had not recognized her, but III.- 4>ther had. .-V little glow ,' of griitiiule toward him. thai, had he I bill known it, would have raised him . into ihe Hevenlh heaven, nwoke with- I in he# heart lor Aiulrew SI ronge. He Ii'kI I'nown through her disgutse, I hough shi> hail not known him; he could not i Ik deceivnil. I .^inie Wordsâ€" a lineâ€" ran through her I brain: I "Oh! lovers' eyes are sharp to see." I \V(is he. tjieii, Ihe true lover- had I I'Vallierslon never loved her at all? His I eyas, in truth, hail nol ln<en "sharp to I s<'e ;" he had proved hiiusnlf utterly I Iwise and falseâ€" false to the heart's I <-ore I I She brought her fingers tosetber . wilh a force Inirn of passion, though ! her iKMly still, for the. most part, ri'iiiaineil olHxIient lo her will, resting calm, i|iiiescent, rigid, as though carved in marble. Tears, however, rase, and welled slowly to her eyas. "How was it f Has he gone t Was be making very violent lovo to you* One i-an imagine it." cried a gay voice at her ellKHv â€" a voii'.n consumeil with laughlcr. "Did he comport liiins«df prii|sTly, Did he do it nicely? I hope for once Lti his life the starch was out iW liiin." I'Mislantin started convulsively. .She tiini.d slowly round, and saw Donna's eves K'eaming at her mi.sidiievously thrmigl her iiui^k. She snomdd shaine- lesely unaba.shed. ( iinsvintla. wilh ber own turt> uncivered. regaraad her wilh a wonA*r '.hill .should have *'iiriheil her. bad ih* iieon p<iss«ased of feeling. The girl was aliunst too augry Ui s|iiMik. The heat of indirimlinn had drieil the t.fttrs on hnr cheeks, and she s'>i)oil er.'ci liel'ore her adversary, with h r hea I w ell up, though every limb uas irMiililiiig "No," she .said, slowly. "It was to rou, it secin3, thai he was making love." "By proxy! What a sell for him I" -said Donnu, with a grimace. -She broke into open laughter ihi^ time. "I would have given' a thousand crowns to .see hi.s face when he saw yours. Ob, why are the best comedies those Ibat are never seen in public?" "Your imajriaation ia so vivid that I should think you derive a consider- able amount of amusement from these hidden comedies, even at second-hand," said Constantia, coldly. Then sud- denly her anger broke forth, "How dare you speak to me ?" she cried, in a tone low but full of pa-ssion. "I won- der you are not ashamed to stand there before me, knowing what you know. To youâ€" a married womanâ€" be uttered vowTs of love, he a.ddres3eed words that could only be regarded aa insultingâ€" to you !" "My good Connie, ri^collect yourself." entrealod Mrs. Dundas airily. "The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth for me. It waa lo you thbsa flowery vows were proffered, to you those insulting words were said. Oh. tie ! Oh. Connie, who would have be- lieved it of you ! Oh, well, really now. you know, the line should tie drawn somewhere." "How can you make a jest of It? How try to â€" " "But you yourself confessed he was making love to you, ojid in anything but a seemly fashion." "In the letter, not in the spirit, as you well know. You laugh. Vou de- rive amusement from this. Is all shame dead within you ? To-day. Var- ley ; to-marrow. Keathersioa; the next day, who shall decide f" "I shall, naturally," returned Mrs. Dunilas. with unalxiled gayety. "Who should have a liettcr right t Surely, my dear girl, you will not deny me a chief voire in a matter of such vital imiKir lance t" "Youâ€" a married womanâ€" and with lovers!" continued Constantia, in a choked tone. "So many of them, and youx husband ignorant, triLslful. lov- ing." "There is safety iu a multitude, my pretiy lecturer. If it were only one, now â€" say Keatheriilou â€" how much worse ic would sound ! ' Constantia made a vehement gesture. "Say what you like," .she said ; it will be without grace of godliness." "You are angry," suggested Donna, mildly, and apparently wilh surprise. "Quelle betissl and with me, who have perhaps done you the liesl turn you will ever get. Ingraiilude dwells with silly girls like you. Uavs I nut, then, ojiened your eyes ?" "To what 1" coldly. "To the (sot that Mr. St ronge, if s trifle depressing, is worth a million of the moat fascinating hyiiocrites alive; and of such last, if 1 mislake not. is our smcolh friend l-'oaiherston. As for the trade-markâ€" every one is in trade nowadays. Stick to your wet-blanket man, say I, and in after years cast bless- inifs on the head of your despised cous- in." "It is nol ueco<Mary to waste so much elo|uence," said Constantia, with a con- temptuous glance. " Believe me, I shall in future interfere iu no wise with yoar and Mr. I'eatheraion's arrange- ments." "PoufI It is scari-ely worth while try- ing to uianage matters for you, " said Mrs, Dundas, "you are so remarkaldy dense. Why, you alisurd child, oan't you see that if I wanted your precious Kealh- erston I could hav« had hmi wiihoul Iba a«k<iig; tha' ii was by my will and pleas- ure he was betrayed into thinking the donuno wilh the Maltese cross mine. He gave me an unwelcome hint once, and such debts I always i-ei>«y fourfold," "Vou wish me t*> luiderstand you are revengeful. " said ConsUnlia. "That is a valuaiile knowledge! It shows me w-hat to ex|)ect from you in the future." ' I/flt Us prorogue I'arliameul," said Donnu, linlitlv. "To s|«'ak lo you in your preisenl mood would le to own my- self as foolish as you. Vou are lient on villlfying me in vour own mind, ao that argument wouldb* useless. Vet I per- sist saying I am without fault in the affair.'' "Does treachery, then, not count ? Treachery, not only to your guest, but to one of your own lilood; your kins- woman. W'as it nothing to clothe me like yourself tlial I might I* pained, humiliated? To press up<in me gifts thai should help to my undoing? !• your soul so dead within you that you can not comprehend the shame I feelT Have you no feeling? Nol Stand back from me. Do not touch me. " Her Irish blood was now aflame, and her 1*11. supple voung figure, drawn to its fullest heiKhi, shook with the intensity of her emutlon. "Truiti-oss I" »he said l*- tween her teeth. "1 would nol have tI•«^ated a dog as you have treated me.' She raised her right arm with an im- perioiiH gesture, as if to forbid Donna's approach, and still holding it uplifted, turned away and walked (luiekly toward the house. Donna looked after her. â- '•She ia a little savage now," she said, half aloud, "but she will be a suoerb woman. She eau have the world at her ft«el if she will, but she will spoil her chances, and all her good times, bj her aksiird morality I" She, loo, left the moonlit parapet ana stepiicd lightly toward the near shrulv liery. Again the amused smile ourvsd her lips, her eyes shone gayly; she saw «ome one who had evidently ueen wall- ing for her during her interview with Constantia, and she waved her hand to him. As she drew claser be c»vam to meet her. It was I-ord Varley. (To be Continued.) A DRVOTED QUEEN. The queen regent of Spain, \m de»- orilied by a Madrid oorresimndent aa be- ing very dinvoted tA her peupls, â-² few ilays ago, while driving out with the Aixthduke Kugene, abt met a priest oarrying the Vlatious to a dying petv son. She alightml with her brother, iiv- vit«d the priest to take her seat, and 'llowed the oarriage on foot to tbfl house where the moribund peraoit was lying. Her majeaty went up to the second floor, and found a young wot' muu of about thr«»-aind>-twonty await- ing to reoelva the unction. She simke in a motherly wajr tu the poor girl, noid nvade partiotilar inquiritss aa lo her purants' oonditlon. On bw nturn to Ihn palane she ga<ve her private dioot- tor instruotlona to pay the |iatit\nt several visits a da^; and tha ntH^easarr meilieiuixs, uud some ohoicn fooil, bosia- ea $M in moiioy. were sent to that sor- row-atri<'k«it houso. PRESIDENT PAUL KRU&ER. THE BOEft CHIEF AS PICTURED BY FaiENDS AND FOES. Honest, and Â¥rt Worth Brlweea Aae and Two .niillou Bollars, .Hade In Ihe LaH Ten l>ur«-.4. MlgUly Hunter and el I>- dispatnltle Conrase- A atritt Calvinlit. There liave been so many word-por- traits of Paul Kruger, so many contra- dictory accounts of his motives and ob- jects, says the London Saturday Re- view, that a man with a new impres- sion of him may well feel some diffi- dence in pulling it forward. But, after all, the character of a ruler ia discov- ered by invasions and rebellions, and it is easier now to see Kruger aa ho is than it was a year ago. Speaking roughly, one is able to divide the exist- ing descriptions of the President into two cUissesâ€" those nude by h'ls friends, and those made by his foes. His ad- mirers have presented him to ua as a sort of Boer Cromwellâ€" unlettered, it is true, and uuacquainied with ibe oen- diiions of modern life, but gifted with the faculties of a leader and ruler of his peopleâ€" courageous, honest, pious. The picture of him given by his de- tractors, on the other hand, is not so consisleni uor so clear in outline; the features are blurred by contradictions or dehumanized by exaggeration; but it hate cannot give us a recognizable or even a possible portrait of .the man, it can put forward facta and argu- ments which make one believe that this Village Cromwell is a more. com- plex, and therefore a more human and interesting, if a less ethically perfect, being than his worshippers imigine. "Vou call Kruger honest and disinter- ested." cry bis adversaries, wilh a fine scorn; "how, then, do you account for the fact ihal he'a worth £300,000 or £400,000- all made in the last li or 10 years?" And if one in defence ad- dui-ee the fact that President Kruger has always 6AVED SKVEN-EIGHTS. of his salary, and invested his savings in farms near Johannesberg and Pre- toria, whicb have increased 30-fold in value in the last deoadeâ€" if, iu faot, one shows thai Kruger's wealth has been accumulated honestly, aud that, had be been dishouest. be could easily have been worth as many millions as be is now worth hundreds of thousands, his adversaries, instead of admitting the argument, go on la point oui that Kra- ger bos winked at liribes lakeu by bis relatives and dlsiributed monopolies among bis friends, and that the admiu- islratiou of the Transvaal liovernmeut is dlhbonourabiy distinguished by in- competence and corruption. "This Itovernnieiit differs Irum all other tiavernmenta," said a financier to me the o! her day in Johannesberg. In thi.^ bt>i-« you have to buy nut only the masters but the men. if you waul a document from a Government depart luwnt, you have to di,)itribule 'fivers' lo the clerks in order to iisl it in any reasonable limo." All this ia prolaoly true.' It must be remem- bere I, however, in extenufct ion, that the lto>rs a few thousand ignorant farm- ers scattered over a great territory, have had in the last IU years to con- stitute a liovernmeui which should lie able to handle all the details of a com- plex m<Mleru civilUution, a ciyilizatiun, too. that has grown, aud ia growing with unexampled rapidity. Eight years ago there was open veldt dotted wilh half a dozen makeshift tents and iO or SO bullock waggons where to-day stands the town of Johanneslierg, with its hundred tbout>aud inbabitants.ils streets of brick and stone, its club, its news- paper offices, and its mining exchanges The 40 miles of veldt along lbs Rand, whicb could have Ikh'u tkiughi in 1885 for a few thousand poundu is now worth over three hundred millions. Men who 10 years ago were struggling clerks or needy adventurers ara to-day MILLIONAIRE MINE-0WNEH8, whose names are mentioned with re- spect iu every European capital. Temp- tations bo^et faults, aud society tb»t baa suddenly shot up from poverty to riches can scaroely hope to be dist InguUbed for. hoiuMty. Il is sufficient, surely, here, that, if Kruger has allowel' to be taken by bis relatives and ents, if he has given oon^iesski, friends thai trammel industry, thus enri bcdpar>Lsana atthu put peuse, his personal houesly has been acriously in>pugned. Undet temptation hs baa been what^.;! calls "indlfferant honcat"â€" honeal ia, after the fashion of uour human ture. For thera are those of ua who would have our children and relations Iminaoulately vlrtuoua, aa if to atone for our shortoomlnas, while Kruger seems content to let Ihoise near and dipar to him fill their pockets as they oai^< pi'ovldad his own bands are clean. And if his personal boneaty ta in- disputable, even more can bs said of his i<ourags; for courage. Indeed, Is of the essence of the man; bs baa sbo all sides of Itâ€" «ave perhaps one', mera physical courage and luaensUiil- Ity of nerviM are mxtraordinaryâ€" par- feot in old age aa In youth. Mora than 40 years ago be himself amputat- ed the toumb of hia left hand. Injured In a gun explosion; and a few years ago. when sufferlns from toothache, be gave proof of fliiuUar hardihood. Some of the enlightened members of bis fam- ily Iwgwed him to go to the dentist. But, after hearing what the charges of the tooth doctor would lie, Kruger angrily rejected the suggestion. A night or two later the pain increased ao that he could not ileep. whereupon be got up and PRIED THE TOOTH OUT with his own plaspknlfa, and went to sleep afterwards without more ada. A mighty hunter from his youth iii>â€" he has killed lions and buffalo with his •Id single-barrelled mumlr-loaderâ€" the I teiniier of his 70th Tear is that of bis early manhood. Whlln liMviug the other day with Chief Justice Kntie to \ntw the President, the Chief JuslU-a.told |m« thai when the news reached Pra- toria, late on Tuesday, Dec. 31, thai Jameson with hia force was nearing (vruijeradorp, he found that Kruger had ordered his horao to be saddled, and was getting out his rifle, in order to go and personally lead bis burgher* to Tattle. "Now that this Jameson'« on the veldt," cried the old man exul- tantly, "we'll soon see what he'a worth;" "and it took a great ("eal ol argument ta persuade the President," said the Chief Justice, "that bis brains hero in Pretoria were of more valua to the Stale than hia hand and ey* out yonder on the veldt." Kruger's moral courage ia so mark< ed that it might be mistaken for ob< stiuacy. Year by year as the Uitland- ers have increased in number, and ad Johannesberg h.'a grow n to wealth and influence, Kruger has diminished tha privileges of the foreign emigrants. Be- fore 1885 il vras possible for anyone la become a fully naturalized burgher of the Transvaal after a resi'lence of two years and a declaration of allegiance. To-day one may pass one's life in the 'Transvaal with the satisfaction ut knowing that one's I'hildren i;orn and bred in the Slate will he regarded aa foreigners. And Kruger is quite will- ing to take the respoiuibility for thia RETROORADE ACTION As a rule it is true, he cells vou that the Volksraad is responsible for these measure;>; but I'ushed into a corner he will not deny bis initiative. At tha back of hia mind there ii the Justifiuu lion aptly phrased by his chief Holland- er adviser, "As the flood rises we butld the dykes higher. " On the other hand, this moral courage makes noble deeds pociaible to him. When Jameson and his force were prisoners in Pretoria certain Boers demanded the immediate trial and punishment at least of the leador and the officers. But Kruger stood out against arg:umenl and anget with resolute imperturlatiility. One would have said, indeed, that he took a i-ertain pleasure in the assertion of his pergonal will. But fairneas of minA or worldly wisdom and a deap know- ledge of the character of his people waa shown In the way he went about among the malcontents, setting forth his reasons for exercising mercy, and Kradualiy persuading everyone that Oom Paul felt aa h« felt, though aa head of the state he was compelled to adopt a higher course of conduct â€" a course justifiable by Holy Writ, and not inconsistent with policy. Again and again in the last three or four months Kruger haa stood against pul>- lic opinion, and at length swayed it to his service. Yet even hia high moral courage suffers human Upses; hu enemies say that bis word is quite untriwt worthy. It would be nearer the truth to state that he ia impression- able, easily moved by those whom ha trusts, and that when moved be makea prorui««w which bis practical sense prft- venis him from fuUilling. His adver. sanes give cur oas Instances of the v»- culiar way In which be TWISTS SCRIPTURAL TEXTS for aelf-Justification. But all this teat, iflos to Ike necessity Kruger feels ol explaining and Justifying his backslid- ing«: in 'tact it almoat amounta to a proof that lbs man is In lbs main trutb- lovtng. I can say noUiing aa to Kruger'a P>«ty. He belongs to the strictest sect of Calvinisla. is proud even of toeing a "Dopper." It is worth while to explain this word, because it shows the extremely close relationship that exists between the Boers and ibe Eng- lish. "Dojiper " oomes from "dop." which is the Sarman "Topf. " a bowl, and IS suppooed tu apply to this sect of religionisis beoauac they wore their hair aa if the Itarbar bad put a i-iwl uron their heads, and cut around U. AccordlnK to this derivation, which seeais the most prol»bls. "Boundr head" would be an alnoat perfect trans lat ion of "Doppor." Paul Kruger is not only a sectary iiut alao a preacher of considerable eminence. Almost opposite his bouse thera standi a "Dopper" church, and fhejj President Kruger often holda fortb to the inteitsa edification of the faithful. In truth, there is a good deal of the orator in Oom Paul, and not a lit I la of tha actor aa well. Aa Cromwell is said to have been a* epi- leiilic, ao this Boer Cromwell is some- thing of a neuropath. Had be lieen educated he would hav« ahuwn a sulv tie and wide Intelligenoa. Even u{«w, according to Chief Justice Kotie. ba will dlsi-tiss such quetttioni as immor- tality and the beuefii-enoe of the Deity with a singularly fair appreciation of the arguments that make against hia own belief, which he nevertheless ra- curs to, aa If yielding to an overpoww ering instinct developed through gen- eral lona of pioua forbears. j,^ not tvigblened; excitemcnt'and.'tears for ,4,â€"' J»r pet gave hfcr ix>urag«Aliud When tb« uK w«lf again sslxed the lamVtlie valiant A BRAVa DEFENDER. The author of a book on early Cana- dian life says that a young girl waa one rnoOn oa her way to the springier pall af wM*^ when sbe heard her t ,Umb blaat. anTF all^h))). sW mxip- iwaed waa 'f larga' dog worrying it. Being a brave kirl-^ dropped tha Mil, aelzod a atcAMJilck which lay on ^k ipround ahd ^tuKw forvrwrd began ta beat tha brute wj^->a\^ ber might. The animal lek. go tbw latnV and turn- ed uiion the girlV showing bp^^aeth and snarling. She saw then ihanabe had to ileal wlt^ a wolf instead oP a dog. The sharp ears, bu«hy tail aud^ gaunt figure were tonviucing. -But she waa ' rblened; excitemcnt'and.'tears for gave hfcr ix>urag«Aliud When tha released vigoi'ous- wolf, ory- ta a dis- 's pursuita 1y attacked hiin aud again ^ his prey. She vtted the .^^ ' ly and rained ^iq>y« upon ing for help â€" " Her brother, ^ with bU gun towafd^fSie' wolf saw the reinfo4;bami fled inte the woods.' i^t ABOIfT HA Curioua as it seems, thi tinot^ relation lietween and the color of ittan'a lA|ir. An un- usual proportion of meit^witb dark, straight hair enter the ministry; red- wblakereil men are apt to lie giveu to sorting and bersefleeh: while the tall vigoroua blonde man, lineal descendant of Ibo Vlkluga. atlll iHmlrlbutwi a large contingent ta travelera and emlgruuta. It has been discovered, after numeroua experiments that dark hair la muoh stronger than fair. One dark hair oaa iwrry a weisht of 118 grarames. while a llghl-c^lored hair \n 111 break if a weigat «f T6 gramoMa la biui^ front itt