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 A HAST, JCffiL ffORT n\^ ilii 'mm m' Bt Christian Bsid, cr " LnppufcoTT's Maoaztsx.' CHAPTER XV. And without fail he did leave. It was like wrenching apart the very fibres of his being but he knew that there must be no delay. In the first place, it was well that the wrench should be made quickly, and, secondly, he was aware that his mother was quite capable of coming in search of him, as she had de- clared her intention of doing. He was sure that the hospitality of Miraflores would be equal to such a strain, but he had no desire to add to a burden of obligation which al- ready he could hardly hope to repay, and he knew, moreover, that the journey would be very trying to Mrs. Der^ent. The thing to do, therefore, was to go, and to go quickly. So the next morning he announced his in- tention of departure, giving the reason there- of. Don Maurizio expressed his regret so cordially that it was impossible not to oe- lieve in ;the sincerity of every word. "I hoped that we should keep you a little long- er, Mr. Derwent," he said, "and, now that this annoying matter of the investigation into your shooting is over, that we might have had a little conversation on business. But your mother's arrival, of course, makes it imperative that you should go. However, if you remain for any length of time in Mexi- co, I may see you there. I had not intended to go down for some weeks yet, but I think it wUl be well to take my daughter as soon as possible away from here. Yesterday's tragedy had been a great shock to her nerves, ana the sooner she is away from its associ- ations the better." "I am sure oiit,".said Derwent, who felt like a repreived criminal. The sentence of death â€" of separation to which he could see no end â€" that had been hanging over him was lifted life seemed to flash back into his heart and veins he was almost afraid that the irrepressible gladness of his voice would betray him. "I am delighted to hear of your resolution," he went on, "for Dona Zarifa's sake, because I am sure the tragedy has been a terrible shock to her, and for my own, because I shall have the great pleasure of seeing you again, and my mother will be able to thank you for your wonderful kind- ness to me." "What we have been able to do has been was certainly accountable for the crime." " To fasten it on Barrera was his chief object," said Derwent. " By the bye, do'" you know how he obtained the bond to that mine 1" Morell had the grace to blush. "I do not exactly," he replied, "but I suspect it was in a very unscrupulous manner. He told me that he could bring political pres- sure to bear. I suppose you think that I ought not to have sanctioned anything of the kind. But our bargain was that he was to get the mines and I was to sell them. I had no business to interfere with his manner of getting them." " The receiver of stolen goods might say as much," observed Derwent with scorn. " A man of honor does not wish to profit by dishonesty in any form. I tell you frankly that there is not silver enough in all Mexico to tempt me to touch a mine with a title ac- quired as that of the Buena Esperanza was." "I hope you do not think that I shall touch it further," said jdorell. "Hence- forth I shall wash my hands of Senor Fern- andez. I might endure cheating, but at- tempted assassination is a little too much. Here is a carriage. You can drop me at San Francisco Street, and you will find your people at the Hotel del Jardin. "At least the shooting did you one good turn," he added, as they rolled out of the station gates "it domesticated you in the hacienda of the Ormonds. I said to myself, 'What luck some fellows have ' as soon as I heard of it. And how did you like Dona Zarifa on accquaintance Odd, wasn't it, our discussing her that day in the Alameda?" "Did we discuss her " said Derwent, who had a feeling as if the other took an un- warrantable liberty in even mentioning her name. "I never received greater kindness in my life than from every one at Miraflores. Don Maurizio picked me up in the road, you know. He is a magnificent type, â€" grand seifftieur, yet simple, cordial, kind beyond belief " Ifoaarelooking^ery w#lL" s, "'Oh, iriuik " saiif j«te. Pet^srant, Ti|b*chftdQ!, " I, do ndt fhip^ " " So here you are i»» ^rent. " It is a satisfaction to see you still living and upon my word, young man, 3 hitjfp. to ptf thi% thing r%as been 0%oa;^ .80. "Oh, no doubt," said Morell. "Butl how about Dona Zarifa Is she as unap- • proachable as she looks Or could a man venture to fall in love with her " " That would depend entirely upon the re- |p;e is iliyandstlin." ' y t •* "|l a^^ht lookiiig^wiU," sAd Der- went, '*uthe best of ae^ could makeme so. I have been doing notung bat enjoying an ideal life and recovering my strenth. My wound, however, is not yet healed, and gives me some trouble." " You must have the best medical advice at once," said Mrs. Derwent, while Halbert looked at Sibyl and laughed. "This is pl^Bwant, is it not " he said. "Think of our affixiety to reach the sufferer, our hurried jotirney without pause, our eager desire to relieve him from the discomforts he #as supposed to be enduring, â€" while all the time he was 'enjoying an ideal life' and recovering his strength in the most satis- factory manner I don't know -whttt you may think of our journey to the land of the Montezumas, Miss Lenox, but I feel rather ridiculous. " "I do not," replied Miss Lenox, loftily. "We came to relieve cousin Marjgaret's anx- iety and to help her in any need that she might have for us. Of course, incidentally, we should have been glad to have relieved Geoffrey also " •'But, since Geoffi-ey has behaved so shame- fully as not to need relief, you are ready to put him aside severelj^, " said that gentle- man, smiling. "Come, now, is that quite fair I am extremely sorry that you have taken such a long journey for such an insuf- ficient reason, but I feel your kindness to my mother more than I can possibly express. And, now that you are here, don't you think you may find something to enjoy' "I am sure of it," replied Sibylj frankly. "Since our anxiety about you was relieved by Mr. Morell's visit yesterday, I have en- joyed every sight and sound. Yes, on the whole, we will magnanimously forgive you for getting well before we came. And now tell us all about your ideal hacienda." "I have only one improvement to suggest," said Halbert. "The hacienda is chapter second. Let us have chapter first, â€" the I whole authentic accoimt of the shooting. OrTHBGABDEH OF £ VOL AND, fully repaid by the pleasure of your society," ^^^" fepUed Derwent. " You have heard, said Don Maurizio. "Frankly, it has been long since I have met so companionable a man. You can be no stranger to Miraflores after this, Mr. Derwent. If you like us as well as we have learned to like you, there is no question but that you will come back. " "I would cross the world to come back " cried the .young man, earnestly. no doubt, that fools sometimes rush in where angels fear to tread. I hope that I am at least not quite a fooL But tell me about my mother. How has she borne the jour- ney'" He was soon able to answer this question himself. He had hardly entered within the gilded iron gates of the Hotel del Jarllin and After this, the farewell to Dona Zarifa ^fj'^f' ^^^ steps along the^wide gallery dreaded became easy. It that runs around two sides of the immense which he had dreaded became easy wrung his heart to see on her face the pallor and purple transparent shadows of yesterday still visible, but even this had not power to damp the happiness with which he said, "I hope to have the great pleasure of seeing you in Mexico, senorita. Don Maurizio tells me that he will be there, with you, in a few days. " "In a few days, papa " she" said with surprise. "I thought we should not leave Miraflores for some time." " I find that it will be necessary for me to go down to Mexico as soon as possible," he answered, " and in that case it will not be worth while to return here before going to the Bajio. A few weeks in the city will do us both good. I will write to-day and order the house put in order for our coming." Was it Derwent's fancy, or was there a light of pleasure in the dark eyes 'sis they met his own? "In that case, senor," she said, with gentle gracioisness, "we need not bid you a long adieu. It is enough to wish you a pleasant journey, and to hope that you may soon be able to relieve the anxiety of the senora your mother. " So, with a much lighter heart than he had fancied possible, Derwent rode out of the great gates of Miraflores, and looked back many times at the long arcaded dwelling on its lovely plateau, its soft cream-color thrown into relief by the green hills behind it, and the cross above its chapel pointing heaven- ward. At a turn of the road where he knew that the last glimpse was to be had, he paus- ed and took off his bat, in final salutation to all that had been revealed to him there, â€" the boundless hospitality and charity, the kind and useful lives, the widely-defused circle of good, the simplicity, the gentleness, and the happiness, which formed a golden at- mosphere about the spot. The third day after this found him enter- ing the city of Mexico again, and hardly able to believe the evidence of the calendar that it had been little more than a month since he had left it to seek the Buena Esper- anza. Although by no means sure how far Morell had been engaged in the butiness schemes of the redoubtable Femtuidra, he had telegraphed him from Guadalajara re- questing him to look at the hotels for Mrs. derwent, and, if slie had arrived, to keep her in the city. He was not very much sur- prised, therefore, to find Morell awaiting him at the station. "Has my mother come?" was his first question. "Yes she arrived yesterday," Morell answered, "and had only been here an hour or two when I received your despatch and looked her up. She was very anxious about you, and much relieved to hear that you were on the way to meet her. ' But, my dear fellow, what can I say for myself? I hardly know how to express my regret that such an accident should have befallen you, â€" something no one could possibly have fore- seen." "Unless it was your friend Senor Fer- nandez," said Derwent, dryly. "He not only foresaw, but planned, the whole thing, and had it executed." "Derwent " Morell exclaimed. He stopped â€" for they were walking together down the long platform â€" and looked at the other as if doubtful whether he had heard him aright. "What do yon mean " he asked. " That ia a very grave accusation." "It is a plain statement of a fact," re- plied Derwent. ' 'The assassin caxae to finish his work, but was, fortunately, shot before he could do so. He lived long enough to tell the whole story, however." And then he related it briefly. There could be no doubt that Morell was deeply and terribly shocked. " I knew that he was slippery, â€" ^very slippery. â€" and I sus- pected that he was a scoundrel," he said, alluding to Fianondez, " bat I never coold have imagined him capable of such dastardly villany as this. He wrote me that Barren quadrangle which encloses the beautiful old garden of the monastery of San Francisco, when he was met by a tall young lady, with frank hazel eyes and red-brown hair, who uttered a cry and held out both hands in welcome. " My dear Geoffrey how delighted I am so see you " she exclaimed. " And you are really alive and well? What an awful fright you gave us Are you not ashamed of yourself?" " My dear Sibyl," Derwent i-etorted, "are not you ashamed to have let my mothei; come on such a journey If you had only believed the explicit statement of my let- tcr " But we didn't believe them," she inter- posed. "At least your mother did not; she thought you were trying to spare her and, seeing her misery, I thought the best thing for her to do was to come and satisfy herself. I am certain you would have thought so too, if you had been there." "No doubt I should," he answered. "At least I should be a wretch to find fault with so much goodness, especially on "your part. I am deeply grateful to you for undertaking the journey to accompany my mother." "I am more than rewirded," she answer- ed. " This is the most enchanting place I have ever wandered into. But come Cousin Margaret is expecting you, and afraid, even yet, that you may be brought in on a litter. " He laughed as he followed her toward the door of one of the charming apartments surrounding the gallery, and paused in the sitting-room while she op^ed the door of the spacious chamber beyond, and said, gayly, "Dear cousin, here is your truant. Come and scold him." The next instant Derwent saw the slender, black-clad form and pale, lovely face of his mother, with a wistful look in the deep-blue eyes, as she said, "My boy is it realhr you at last " â-  J After the first eager questions had been answered, and Mrs. Derwent's anxiety some- what reassured, Derwent found another in store for him. "You had no trouble in the journey, I hope " he said. "It was too .bad your hav- ing had to take it without a masculine attendant for that is something you, at least, are not accustomed to, mamma. Sibyl, now, belongs to the new order of in- dependent young ladies,â€" she would start out, with a maid, to go around the world, but you are of the ajicient regime, and I fear that it was very disagreeable to you." " Oh, has Sibyl not told you?" said Mrs. Derwent. "We did not come alone. I confess I should have disliked that very much thoush of course, my dearest boy, I would have done that, or anything else, to reach you. But Frank Halbert came with us. It was very kind of him." "Frank Halbert " repeated Derwent, in surprise. Then he threw back his head and laughed uncontrollable. ' ' Why, you organ- ized a regular relief expedition " he said. " What a picture you would have made coming to storm Miraflores " "You are very ungrateful, Geoffrey," said Miss Lenox. "It may be a laughing- matter to you now, but it was not a laughing matter when we thought we might find you dying or dead. What could two women, in a strange country, have done in that case One had to think of these things. So it iccu exceedingly kind of Mr. Halbert to accom- pani-WJ. -j^ •'^rtaiidy was, .uncotiiMmly find," said Derwent, recovering his gravity, " I beg your pardoif for laughins. :^bei with the cause thereof. Derwent hesitated for a moment. Should he tell the whole, or only part, of that story Nothing would have induced him to mention Dona Zarifa's name in connection with the final tragedy when speaking of it to Morell^ but these were his nearest friends and rela- tives was it not right that he should let them know the full greatness of his obliga- tion So he told the whole story and never was narrative listened to with more rapt at- tention. Three pairs of widening eyes were fastened oil his face as he spoke, and when he finished Mrs. Derwent fairly broke into sobs. "Oh, my dear," she cried, " what can we ever do to show our gratitude to those kind people? They have saved your life twice over. And that heroic girl How I long to see and thank her " "I too, have a great desire to see the girl " observed Halbert. "I would go across Mexico to see her'" cried Sibyl. 'Happy creature !â€" to be able to do heroic things, not dream of them Geof- frey, my respect for you has increased. There inust be something more in you than I ever imagined, for fate to have selected you as the central figure of such a story. " „."^,Pj*y??avery subordinate part in it bibyl, said Derwent. "My role was sub- jective altogether. All the honors belone to Dona Zarifa." ° (TO BECOXTINUED.) Experiencing a Cloud Burst. A young man living on Champlain street has Utely been preparing himself phvsicallv for a trip to the Far West. Among h^ preparations was that of sleeping under a tree in the garden every night. Saturday night he was there as usual, a horse blanket spread over him to keep off the chill, and he was pursuing the wild Apache in his dreams when some joker threw a pail of water over him from the alley. In his sudden awaken- me the young man ran against an apple tree and broke his nose, and was at PoliceHead- quarters yesterday to say "I want at least four detectives to be out on this case and I want the villain run down regardless of cost. Here's $1.50 start with, and don t lose any time or try to economiz^ on money. A fellow who will hit a sleeping man with a cloud-burst must be given a short rope. "-{Detroit Free Press. ** A Caustic Query. "Come come, don't be a fool, my dear " said the husband during a dom^sti/ h^. sheSSd. ""'^S* '°*^« y" a°d me one." "Of course it did." •'How can I help being a fool, then " He Couldn't Tdfthe Difference. J^1,"'T^"**""' " somewhat general forwfc^"r"*!:,?^^8 « opportunity for what he deemed innocent railli^, g^id^ "Monsieur, can you teU us the dbfer^c^ between a bishop and an « ""rence evidently a learned man and can inform us, " T^akridm.WeUs m^ Its K^, BeM|,N«8h A short, quiet run frona hcmdon, manr tunnels, a utrk, black, dreary station sunk betwQen high stone-cMc|d banks made hideous by smoke and the disfiguring ad- vertisements that add vulgarity and do not impart light or colour an indistinct an- nonncenient from the guards who so con- scientiously live up to tne azi6m, " Words are given us to disguise our thoughts." and Tonbridge Wells is reached with a feeling ot absolute disappointment at having been inveigled to it under the pretence that it is the fairest ftower in Kent, the " garden of England." But as soon as the long flight of steps ^diich lead from the boweu of the earth to the surface is ascended, a reaction begins. The upper street is broad, sunny, bright, lined on one side with wide flag- stones and what seem elegant shops on the other, sweeping beyond the railway trenches, now lost to sight, an undulating distance spreads afar, with blue hills half veiled in haze, trees such as are only found in Eng- land, grass like green enamel, and an at- mosphere so clear, fresh, and pure that it seems that of the sea which the horizon re- sembles. The name of that first street ascending toward other equally charming tree-planted thoroughfares is Mount Pleasant, and ia lit- tle familiarity with the pretty town reveals the existence of other appellations of Puritan origin, such as Mount Sion, Mount Ephraim, c., contrasting quaintly with the modem aspect of Tunbridge Wells, and still more with its traditions. In its length, which is great from the valley to the extreme summit of its northern hill in its breadth, which is not large, and bounded on either-^ide by the BEAtTTIPCI. PICTCRE3QUE PL.ilNS, the city offers the same blending of new and old. The hotels are excellent, the cooking good, shops and books are as abundant as in London the private houses are placed in lovely matured gardens the reacts, paths, and sidewalks smooth as billiard tables, whether they plunge into picturesque little valleys and ravines, skirt the rocks, dip into the woods, or inters 3ct the common â€" the glorious, breezy common of many hundred acres, the pride of the place yet, every now and then some Old World reminiscence â€"a name, a building, a paved court, or avenue of beeches â€" carries you back to the time when the chalybeate springs of the Wella brought all the celebrity and fashion to Tun- bridge. The water still bubbles up at the same place where wits and beaux drank it. The walk is still called " Ye Pantiles " it has its raised promenade, its seats, its quaint-walled houses, market place, curious clock, and original conformation, exactly as it stood in 1748, when its popularity was at its height with a dead and bygone genera- tion. It was visited then by|Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, «« who could talk Greek faster than any woman in England " by Richardson, the novelist CoUey Gibber the beautiful Miss Chudleigh, afterwards Duchess of Kingston by Garrick and Chatham, Mrs. Thrale, and Chesterfield, " who never changed the shape of his hat in twenty years," says Thackeray by Johnson, " the dictionary maker " by George the Fourth, when he was Prince of Wales, and, last not least, by Beau Nash. The Duchess of Kent and Princess Vic- toria passed tvo seasons at the Wells, one in the old Lushington House, now the Cal- verley Hotel, and oneâ€" in 1835â€" at Boyne House. The â- â- ^ FUTUBE QUEEN OF ENGLAND was very fond of the pretty town, not near- ly so large and important as it is now, and after her coronation more than once regret- ted the happy days she spent there. In 1871 Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lome visited it. Charles 11, once occupied Eph- mm House, and the infamous Judge Jeftrey Uved at Chancellor House. After the French Keyolution many refugees settled there, which, perhaps, accounts for a certain half un-EngUsh flavor pervading the place. Nor was that the only time the victims of adverse politics them as " pittruui^' took the far as half for the ctifferent**yi.«olici waters at a ^««. Ti^J times a day, paying «„ »ell ' for eah glass-la Ztn,^"*^"""" »«, ' "dipper," *ks she U ca «f^ in ^^ money, bemg a woman '^hit cfuntionsby th*lord f^P°"««lkI this "welcome penny" an^. J UsiJ that just before I met yon. He went in to some inquiries. Ah, here he is " A handsmne min of about thirty, well set w, with keen ey«s lookingj oat of a refihed nee, ^ipeated a^the partly-open dow as an ass? You are certaioly After a moment's thought the prelate an swjed, with perfect ca/dor and^ J^ S-" " WeU, it doesn't seem such a difficult e^^lt.^'^*^^' """ ^^' reaUyTS " No Then I will enlighten vou " n«v. drawn the attention of the crowd. «« lUs ^T t? ,f» '^^ » cross upon hU back and the bishop on his breast" This sally was received with roara «* laughter nobody as yet susp^tig^^ of hgions character of its obie^T ^^ ' And now,' re- with perfect ifete;.^i-"""^?P. »tiU can yoa tell me the commercial traveler diflferenoe between and an ass " l^e drummer scratched â„¢*% ^lied he coalun't, graZ «^ I." mUdly commented l"a head, and his The traveler got out at the next station. «d p^„^*y»t«y Cleared Up. averygoodfeUo. al^^^e^^^e^^ S^" f^^^-S^^^^S^ire^ln^^^ "fp^rted with him nearthepoet offici^ ^Is^^-' Yes. „kâ„¢. t J" ITi^? 1^^ *« drink ?» ,.S?'*^y. my child." the SSiS^IZi:**^- *« -ingiHg in hiffiffic^',^,"*^ b;?nrto availed themselves of the hospitaUty of Tun- bridge Wells, for after his la»t and sudden exile the Comte de Paris, family, and suite st^ed three months at the Calverley Hotel. Jjlot Its least charm is its faciUty of access. Jfortyto fifty trains pass through durine the day. London is reached in an hour by the egress trains, and a four-horse coach, revived with more than the old elegance, comfort, and speed, leaves the White Horse Cellars m Piccadilly every day at 10 o'clock, and performs the journey in four hours. ntVl^ P w'n"*8 S®""' *^*» *Jie founder vJh *^*"5' ' Keau Nash-Richard Wash, the adventurerâ€" who for more than Mty years governed the pleasures of the Ifl wJ?iVi?'***°'u, He spent his early acquir- -LT^f^*** wckkssly, his equipagM were ?J^?i? w'i' *?** hehabitaaUy traVSaed down to the Wells m a poet chariot drawn by six fShT ""^riders, gorgeous footmen, French horns, and much ostentation*' disi FtT â-  "'^^I'ng was the chief attraction, as rt has been since at Monaco and the Geraian watenng pbces; the favorite games were /a«cteâ„¢e Pharaoh or faro, and the ac?of h^T' ®""'?. exorbitant sums changed hMds over the green doth that pu^c gambhng was put down by statute but prSJ! fl^^- ^second and more string- evasion, and the games of loUy-poUy, Mart- borough, battles, but especiillV oIe O were instituted and encou^ged by?he Venr' noblemen who had given their vofces to tS^ S-J ^V^*^® was the "king"ofTun- bndge Wells, the hero of Ye P^tilS. He made decrees and they were obeyed O^ of the principal was that irVBET VISITOR nouid live in pubUc, lodgiM-houses beinir 'nly used for eatine akd sQ^^^fuI i-*^^ the compulsory erpenZZS^ ^^' W crown a head had to be pi*" '^W to the Assembly Room -^al^ "" tion of a crown K„ °""i«f Coffee Room:Tnti?L^X n-e of writing material. ?» booksellers or circulati ' ^^' N guinea to the musicians ani^"*^- W to the clergyman, and Cy ^^^f « The morals were veryiZ.T'!^^ we judge from the old S" »H where they are often ref^Z^^' «f 1 find the foflowing line tSb-^"^^ character " Don't nl^^- ".^ le»-fi Tunbridge Welb it ^^7^' as honesty in the city n " H^s general address, all nlLJ. ' PWa J and when we ha'ppei SiT^^^iWrtJ dangle together like a knS a^"'^.'»»p3 are a jest to the whole wall" t J"""" what IS said to-day of th» i. ^^ Boulogne, that "everymani "'" ^^ body else's wife." "'"""'^^'^^thsoaj At present, under the brislit weather of 1890, within IfLj" '^^ these faded but vet teZ^i "" '^^"f Q visitor can look ^;irr:s\wr'i ous and strange as that otiier' W tf* "4 old prints of the past eentu v ' tH three weeks a clash of drumi' i,""\^ the prancing of four fieryTteed^V*'â„¢'^^ with bells a^nd plumes, the roll of "'â„¢' A GILDED CHARIOT bearing a band, a man who is their \..r and two subordinates, ann u^ea " "Sequah" 13 repairing to the coml! a j to carry on his ^marvellous cuSj SI for two hours. Who is this modem iL? mara, whose reputation is made in?^j counties of England, and whoautu aS him an ever-increasing crowd of sZ3 and partisans? He calls himself anS and ^n Indian; he and his followers buckskm jackets, high boots, gaudy large flapping Mexican hats; his handi sparkle with rings; his hair is curled anj oily his face clean shaven, sunburnt, J handsome he might be American, biit hi drops his h s hke a cockney and uses J Enfflish coUoquialism. His attendants i m mihtary uniform he is reported to malj as much as forty pounds a day, hasastudj six horses, and heals gratuitously. CrippW maimed, and helpless men are lifted iiitoh chariot, a barrier of rugs is upheld betwef him, his patient, his assistant, and tiij I audience, and the manipulation of tlieiufcj limbs begins, the spectators only se?ii Sequah's head and shoulders in motioj .Twenty minutes later the man opera-^ upon, whose crutches have been broken as J preliminary operation, walks doira ladder of the chariot, and, without support is trotted round the circle at a brisii pace, t| the enthusiastic cheers of the bystanders Immediately afterward, Sequah proceeds t sell his bottles of "Prairie flower" and o! a at two shillings each, and he cannot supplJ his clients fast enough he also gives ami his nostrums to the poorer patients providl ed with hospital or dispensary certificateJ He has puzzled the doctors he is to all J tents and purposes an ordinary quack, bal a quack who has made some real cursi whether lasting or not, remains tobeproveo who captivates t'le crowd, whose ' at least innocaous, who gives away many i £5 note, who refuses to have anything to i with women, young or old, who has euojj impudence or self-confidence to remain o the same stage for a month at a time, in spite of enlightenment, science, the edil cation of the masses, the advance of knwj ledge the uprooting of superstition, within thirty miles of the biggest capital a Europe, in the nineteenth century, make a many converts to his healing -craft, or t many dupes of his impudence as the tal bastic mock heroic doctor of the 'â- Elixirir Love." eating and sleeping the inter? should live Jdfo m^te time wm spent on theValk in the FW?^ **u /^^ *^« or at chapeL 5l^a^»^^ itsaUotted occupation, ri- SSsm^^°'V°*- Nari,, pi^ly irom sarcasm, partly from common sense but tos^TaSm^-S^®^ •?* a»witionali. we« he MWWMed ndin^. boots and .words, :_i._^_^*'*^' 'Wimjatt Jna insolehce A Pigeon Service From Sable Island The Dominion Government is about to f tablish a pigeon service between Halifax* Sable Island, the " Graveyard of the AtJ. tic." This is a move that mariners wholavj occasion to sail this way will wekome. island is looked upon as one of the most gerous points ou the Atlantic, and many otu worst shipwrecks in history have occurn there. Seamen wrecked on the island have » way of communicating with the m»mland,s frequently it has been the case that has been stranded there for weeks mM^ being able to spread the news of its cmI'"" The Government has taken steps to rem«j this state of affairs. It has purchased cur pigeons in Belgium for the senice ma bifdsare exp^ted to arrive there shortlJ| Houses for their reception are being oij^^. Marine and Fisheries Wharf. IM purchased are very rapid fliers and areej ed to be able to cover the ^^^^ Halifax and Sable Island in a short sp»« time. _â€" • â€" " Wheat Growine in England- Mr. Chaplin, the minister of »?'" in replyin/recently to two questions i" Imperial House of Commoii8,said t"*^ « cultural returns showed that m* ^^ wheat under cultivation m trresv ^^ had largely diminished m r^;°u/naii There had also been a falhng off m j^^ â-  ' ber of sheep, but otherwise "'«/ be«ia increased. There did not .^PP^' «' corresponding falling off m "'^use* wheat on the Continent. Aaw ^^ the diminution, it was a matter ^^^^ There were some who ^^p^^'^^Q^j^t^ excessiveforeign competition-^ ^^. cheers)â€" and to the increa nppn imifoppidtMSK. mm ooevddnallr eauble of »iipiec[ or'itage 6c- ^^we^"tSyl,^ xonnwn pooMls of luggage; t4ten met forded for the transport otj^ ^i H not aware that his Iepa,';^Sn off"?! I anything to restore the ^fl'^^^%rm in England. With regard to M ^, jol supplUs of wheat, the Government ^^^^^eil provision for a reserve in view from abroad being stopped. A Canadian Killed in Dkn^'kb, July 4.-L A. Me ^^ ,^M dian. was fataUy shot %^^nej.^\ partner, a man named ^^ZgoD ^1 carried on a carrii^^e "^^^ Jgl and did a hirge trade, g^^lheir i^\ that Melbum defrauded bun ^.j^l ness. He confronted him on tje fi^| business street (SixteeaW ^t,A buUets into Melbum '^^^^1'^;^^ ensuing two days later. '^^jV' wife, formerly Miss Jew"" Felterille, Ont. "See here," said a: [thonght you left m Brday." The ice I'tfoolme," said t jhed and there w "Well," was the crui jthe tongs weigh any A woman went rec 's shop to purchasi jliMid. She hovered [the nsual indecision, it in charge, to hel] ilty, suggested a s€ »onld-be purchaser Jner, with the pro [read that when it fir Her Bootless Conq The girl whose sty Will sport her br Hie new cravats, h And even bet his Bnt one thing thei Which she will I •fms creature swe* Will Rtick to wo: *.5'