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:vfiwf'i inally planned for the room. . and so had the 'l‘hackers. ‘ walnuts. of which‘ articles for the first dejeuner our Icar ‘ the Debt 'Iriaiion. THE DEAN ANI_J_l_lIS DAUGHTER. CHAPTER II. Two days later the great man himself arrived somewhat late in the afternoon, hi h. 'bis valet with a portmanfeau, a fur over- coat, rugs and other necessaries of travel, all charmingly strapped together in the most delightful order. Before the first fly had stopped the valet was waiting at our porch to let down the steps, open the d'bor, and assist his master out. It must have been many years since our village had witnessed so imposing an arrival. My father received the old gentleman in ity, but without eflusion. Sir Henry, after shaking hands, looked round and pleasantly remarked that it was a pretty place, but that it would be, he should imagine, rather doll in winter. My father answered with a I bit of Latin which I had heard him quote so often that I knew it by heart. It was 0 fortunati nimium, sua si bona norint, Agri- colie ! and he wagged his head as much as to say. “ A dean should always be a learn- ed man. Look how I have kept up my classics." Sir Henry’s answer was vague but was suring, and evidently meant to be kindly. He said : ” Exactly so. ' What I have al- ways felt myself. Poor Peel used to say that every man should know his Horace by heart; but I never really had the time.” And with this we all went indoors. We had dinner at seven, and it went off better than might have - been expected. There were freshly caught trout with melt- ed buttcr, a pair of broiled chickens With vegetables, an apple pie with clotted cream, and some cheese and salad. Sir Henry had with forethought brought dowua supply of wine and liqueurs, partly, no doubt, out of kindness, and partly With due regard for his own comfort. The valet. Mr. Watson, waited upon us with a solemn- ity that almost chilled my veins. He had an eye that seemed to be perpetually occupied with estimates and measurements. I am sure before the dinner was over he had thoroughly satisfied him- self that the carpet had been turned a second time, and that it had not been orig- Dinner over, Mr. \Vatson produced fresh wines and the liqueurs, and somehow I found myself drinking a glass of claret. It was the first time 1 had cver tasted claret in my life, and l frankly confess that I did not like it. He then with deliberation placed on the table a large box of cigars and a small silver spirit-lamp. I took this as a signal for my departure, and after exchang- ing glances with my father and returning Sir Henry’s bow, acted upon it. I was not sorry to get away, for Sir Henry, although he did not stare at me, eyed me, as it were, round the corner, and with such persistency as to make me extremely uncomfortable. Mr. Watson with many apologies begged me to permit him to make the coffee himself as he knew exactly how Sir Henry liked it. He performed that task to a. marvel, and returned from the dining room with the welcome intimation that my father desired me to be told thatI need not sit up. This was but too pleasant news for me, and I hurried oil to bed, Mr. W atson handing me mycandle with the most profound gravity, and asking me if a cigar in the servant’s hall would be against the rules of what he called " The Rectory.” I reassured him on this point, and in a very few minutes was sound asleep. Early next morning'I was up and about. ' The sitting-r00 n, where we had banqueted the night before. had to be arranged and decorated with fresh flowers. Of these I managed to get together a sufficient allow- ance. Mrs. Jugglns had been very liberal, I also scalded a bowl of milk, and made some fresh clotted cream in the most approved Devonshire fashion. The delicate sulpliur‘tinted primrose was thick on every hedge bank, and I adorned the table with its blossom, and with some violets which grew in a treasured nook of my own. This exhausted my own resources. From Mrs. Juggins and Mrs. ’I'hackor I procured a few more flowers, and, whafiwas far more important, a young duckling and some early potatoes not much larger than big to the preparation age had ever witnessed, I at once addressed myself, only 'too glad to have anything to keep my mind employed. My father was later than usual. He was dressed with scrupulous care and had'an in- describable air about him of one who was artistically accommodating himself to an amusing situation. on air which might almost have fitted the Grand Monarquc at He looked radiant, and positively many years younger than his actual age. Sir Henry, of courso, was about three- quarters of an hour late, but was also most carefully arrayed. The same age as my father, as nearly as might be, he looked about ffteen years younger. He was slightly bald,but rot a-gea hair was visible upon his head or in his aintily trimmed whiskers. His single‘breasted morning- coat fitted his well-preserved figur: to perfection, and his Parisian boots were as resplendent as if out out of solid jet. I could not help in a kind of way admir- ing him. He was beyond doubt a fine and handsome man, or at any rate had once been so, and he had that case and charm of manner which means nothing in itself. but can only be acquired at Courts. I understood this secret soon after, when I found out that he had been successively at Eton, a Queen's page, a comet in the Blues. and ultimately military attache, and after that. Secretary of Le tion‘ at Vienna â€"still the most exclusive Court in Europe, and the one where old traditions are the most jealously preserved. Bro: kfast over, Sir Henry declared him- self in favor of a walk. England, he observ- ed. was the only country in which a walk in the lanes was really possible, and even pleasant. Besides. our English villages were pictureng without being squalid or malarious. e was a bit of an antiquarian. he added, and there would almost certainly be some monuments. or possibly even bronusin our beautiful old church, which I I I I i I i ‘ would interes 9 him. Would I kindly act ’ as his guide 2 _ ' . Ididcredittohis dentist, “I visit a country "d While the “Wino”! V8“ “1" flying ' place, I always follow the exam le of our -greatest living lawyer, Lord Se borne. I e was the sole occupant of a pair horse. I looki t lb 1 1 t- 15 d ' fly, the front seat of which was littered :‘mlln': e on m ‘qm u' an trym my .Vi‘h I“3‘V'WP‘9” Ind Other 11:8“ “8989- l history. Tow, I came across a most curious 'A 8000!“! "1d hummer "hwle “We!” ’ inscription once in a parish church in Tor- , had died in the Spanish main, and it com- l ' his most courtly style with marked cordial- I [It was impossible to be angry with him. It I spoken of them carelessly. as if they were somewhere, in my father's cellar and store. room. Tbelynx-eyed Mr. Watsop, without the least bustle, had every arrangement, down to the fly at the door, ready to the exact moment, and before I could fully realize what was going on, Sir Henry had bowed his most courtly of bows, had wrap- ped himself in his cloak, and was being quickly hurried away. As the vehicle turned the corner and was lost to sight, my father, with his sweetest smile, gently laid his hand upon my should- er and said : “Miriam, my dear daughter, I very much want to speak to you.” I impatiently shook myself free, ran up to my own little room, threw myself down on the bed, and burst intospassionate flood of tears. ' lily father, after an intervai or some ten minutes, followed me up. and tapped at my door. Then he called out to me several times. Then I heard him go downstairs again, and I soon afterward became aware, from the mixed aroma which forced its way into my room, that he was smoking one of Sir Henry’s large cigars, and mo tening it With rum and water. ‘ Later on in the evening I heard the voice of Mr. Thacker, and soon afterwards there was an increase in the aroma of rum and tobacco smoke. M r. Thacker and my father parted in the road. Their vioces were thick. My father evidently intended to be patronizing and reassuring. Thacker was cordial and familiar, slapping his Vicar on the back. . “ I told you it would turn up trumps, parson," he said, “and I’m very seldom wrong, from a spring handicap down to a field of oats. I wish you joy with all my heart, and may we never smoke worse cigars than the ones old Cockolorum has left behind him. As for little missy, I wish her joy." ‘ By little “missy” Mr. Thacker evident- ly meant myself, and he was wishing me joy on in; marriage to the “ old Cockolo- rum. " After all, it is a mercy in this world that there should always be a grotesque side to your misery. Otherwise the burden of life would now and again become too great to bear. - “ When,” said he,with with a smile that to fit them in with the county bay. It was in memory of an Admiral who menced, “ Here lie the heart and brains of â€"â€"" well, whoever it may have been. It was strictly correct. The gallant old gen- tleman had died in action and they had brought home his brain and his heart in a small keg of rum. With you, Miss St. Aubyn, to guide me, I am sure we will un- earth something of interest. Your father must be too busied with his parochial work to sparemany moments of hishardly-earned eisure for archaeology." My father frankly admitted that this was the case, carefully adding, however, that archaeology in all its branches had always been his fsyorite pursuit, and concluding with some incoherent remarks about a racking stone in the nearest parish. So I picked up my hat anda light shawl, and away I went with the old gentleman. was exasperatin . He gave you no loop- hole whatever. Tie was the very pink of politeness. an Emperor of smalldalk. Be- sides, his small-talk was really very clever, and wholly unlike anything I had ever heard. He was far too satisfied with him- self and his own position to be in any way vain. How the time passed, I can hardly tell; I was excited, and to tell the truth, a trifle overwrought. But everything went smooth- ly enough, for Sir Henry,somehow or other, gave inelno trouble. Looking back at things now, I should say he was endeavoring to impress me with the idea that he would make a most admir- able and indulgent husband. “ Devonshire, Miss St. Aubyn," he said, almost reminds me of Nice and Mentone. The climate seems identical. Of course you have seen the Mediterranean.” I replied that I had not. “Ah, indeed ! I suppose your father has been too engrossed in his literary labors to take you there? It is the garden of Hes- perides, the land of the Phoenicians. Or- anges, and peaches, and lemons grow in the open air, and the tideless sea is perpetually calm and blue. You are too happy to think of’auything. or even to do anything. And up above you are the Alps ; pine forests at their base, then gorse and heather, then eternal snow. It seems strange to sit in the shade and to look upwards at untrodden snow. Travellers will tell you of the glories of Rio, and of Iamaica, and of San Francisco Harbor, but for my part. I prefer the bay of Villcfranshe and the Riviera generally to the rest of the world. To tell you the truth, I have an idea of building myself a villa there and never again return~ ing to this land of fog and mist.” I answered, wholly Without enthusiasm, that it was no doubt very beautiful, but that I myself had never been out of Devon- shire, and could so but half realize his de- scription. The discovery that I had never left my native country made him angry. I ought at least to have been to Paris, to London iii the season, to Cowes during the Regatta week, to Ascot, to the Highlands, and to a number of other places, with all of which he was eminently familiar. Feeling bound to somehow stop this flood of conversation, I quietly reminded him that my father’s stipend had put an annual Continental tour beyond his reach. In the most airy and graceful manner possible Sir Henry assured me that money was a. mere trifle. that my father’s position would soon be most materially improved, that some other clerical prefcrment was a certainty for him, and that with a wider field his talentscould not possibly but assert I in which, to prove herself worth I l HORRIBLE BARBARITY. Some of Ike Revoltlng Orgies l'rnetlsed by ludlnus in British Columbia. A despatch from Victoria B. C., says :-â€" The attention of the Department of Indian Affairs has been called to the barbarous practices of Indians along the west coast of northern British Columbia, who it appears, are still indulging in cannibalistic feasts, supposed to have been long ago git’en up. H.J. Simpson, trader, who has spent ‘25 years in the vicinity of Fort Rupert, has just arrived here and states that the Indians carry on their dances with all the old-time forocity, the only difi'erence being that now they are careful to have their wildest orgies only in the depth of winter, when the inclemeucy of the season has practically puta. stop to trading and hunting, and has driven all the White men, including missionaries, to more comfortable quarters. So soon as they have the field to themselves, preparations are started for the most disgusting orgies. Simpson, who, having married a full~bloodod “Klooteh- Iman.” is what is known as a “squaw- man,” has been specially favored or trust- ed, by being pcrmitted to witness some of .â€"â€"â€"___â€"___.__..___-_.__.â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"_. scriptions of what is known to the Indians as a “maneater dance,” which he witnessed a few months ago. In this dance the “manista,” or chief character, horrifies the spectators by appearing with a “ mummy” or the slirivelled remains of a back number native, taken from an eminence upon which it was exposed to dry after death, and tearing the shrivslled flesh from the bones as he dances about a huge log fire, all the time uttering the most frightful sounds in the Indian vocabulary of lamentation. Simpson also lately saw horrible tortures of y to be the bride of a brave chieftain,she allowed great barbed hooks to be driven through the flesh of her back, and danced almost naked, while the chief held the reins attached to the hooks,and, by a series of wrenches, eventually tore the flesh and released them. Missionaries have taken great credit throughout the civilized world for having converted these savages, and the Govern- ment have been led to believe that the dances now carried on are only imitations themselves. “Your father,” he went on to say, “has hidden himself too much, and has not done his own great abilitiesjustice. Buthe isstill in the prime of life and fully able to make his mark. And,” he went on to add, “ I am now speaking to you, dear Miss St. Aubyn, with your father’s permission, and indeed at his express wish. He is most anxious to resume his fitting position in the world, a position distinctly due to his birth, his connections,and his great natural of former barbarities, but Simpson, who is gifts. But his that and one thought is for a. reliable man, asserts that they are no yourself, and he wishes you to understand mockery at all, but a most revolting and that in every step he may take under my guidance, or with mly insistence or other- ! wise. the one and on y o ject nearest to his ‘ - heart is your own Welfare and happiness.” “mt Railway m Pep Sia' llere he stopped, and I had to reply as The Russian press are talking of a plan best I could, and without consideration. to construct a railway from the Casapiau Of course I had sense enough to know what Sea to the.Persian Gulf, It is said that the wl olc thing meant, but what was I to the Russian legation at Teheran is using all do ‘3 I was as helpless as the daughter of its efforts to obtain the consent of the Shah’s Julius 01' 88 Iphil-lcnia herself. Government for the construction of a rail- I rcmemLerfeL by saying that I loved my way, beginning at Rscht and ending at Te- father dearly, that Iwas aware his abilities heran, a Russian syndicate being already had never found a proper field, and were formed. This is only one section of the quite thrown away at Ossulston, and added future railway destined to connect the that I should be most delighted to see him Caspian Sea and the Indian Ocean, crossing in a position worthy of himself and of the the whole of Persias", It can be considered family traditions. as taking up the projects of an English com- “Then,” gallantly replied Sir Henry, any of twepty yea-r8 ago: In 1373 Baron "we may, 1 think. consider the matter set, ' enter received a concession from the Shah tled. The Deanery of Southwick is vacant for 8 railway gomg from Bender-Bosch“; at this moment, and my personal influence t? Tam” wall a bran". to T’fl” and Tre' with the Premier, to say nothing of His b‘zmlde' Th". 913“ faded 0“ “count of Grace the Archbishop, will make the mat~ Rufismn °PP°3m°9- some 5‘93“ afterwm‘d tor a foregone conclusion, as in fact it ought Pnnce DOISOIO‘lk‘ We“an M10511?" P1“: to be when we consider what will be the but the Shah would not consent ; it was a avcra e ‘alibre of the avers e cand'd t. s ‘lnesfion of “tendian the railway ending for thge phat." g I a e at Bskou toward Leukoran, Recht, Aster- By this time we had reached the Vicar- “’35: bleached, Sarachs, to Candahar in age.wheremy fatherstoodawaiting us under AfghanlS‘m- Th!“ “113 “WM?” “"0" h the porch with , “diam smug the northern provinces of Persia and we “I have been talking matters over, in 113,“? been , Flannel ‘0 the 1331133“me dear St. Aubyn, with Miss Miriam,” war~ , ""1qu "Alway- The new “llwfiy thmugh bled the diplomatist. “She is entirely in Pen‘a' profected by the Runlm’ feem‘ accord with myself that I ought in your in. t'1’ 1”, vet," ,‘mport’m ’0 “‘9'”: The N"’ are.“ to n onco proceed to London. “KL cie V remia declares that it is not to the if you will allow me, I will give orders to BMPMNE- b“ ‘0 the Plum“ 6"?“ “1d t° my tpian this moment. fIn a matter of this “‘30mm:"M‘r:;°ifi“$$;£$g:;gggd kin every uarter 0 an hour is of im- 9“ “V” , 0 c“. _‘ ‘ ortance. Itiun sanguine as to the result. The EPslllh will excitcd We!" “in P1“- Yn {Mm I feel u,“ my 5 "nice, entitle We Will see if their oiplomacy can annul me to command it, an I have never yet, if” 95°!“ °f we Rw‘“§' that I can remember, asked for anything. We will have, if you do not mind, a pint of champagne and a biscuit before I start, and I think that while I am away you may let your mind be perfectly at rest." The champagne and the biscuits were cruel mockery. â€"â€"â€"â€"â€".â€"â€"-â€". In the edition of the City of London Div rectory just issued it is noted as a marked evidence of the depressed state of trade that the number of buildings and offices labelled “Unoccupled” and “ To Let," is produced from Sir lienry’s stores. He had exceptionally large. £ , l . j those rites, and he gives some terrible de- . a maiden,in connection with another dance, ' MERRY MOMENTS ‘ The man who isscared at ghosts is afraid of nothing. Teacherâ€"" What is the the verb f‘ to work 3" leaf.” - “I “'hat will you give me for a coed spring poem 2" "Five minutes ! Skip f" It is odd but true that one (an best judlge of a woman’s carriage when she is we - mg. Doctorâ€"“ You cough more easily this morning 2" Patientâ€"“ I ought to ; l prac~ ticed all night.” W'hen the boss of Russia orders a thing to be done the slave says : “ Yes, czar,” and goes and doesit." I In the case of a telegraphsrs' strike it is Just a little doubtful who would hold the key to the situation. Can anybody give a good reason why clocks should not strike when they are re~ quired to work over time 2 Totâ€"“Mamma, what are sun dogs?" Small brother (interruptinglâ€"“I know, inamma; Skye terriers." Johnnyâ€"“ Pa, dill yoii know ma before you were married 2" Pa (with a sigh)-â€"" I thought I did, Johnny." “Is Jenks in the swim nowadays 2" “Guess he must be. His best girl has just thrown liim overboard.” - Visitorâ€"“ Do you regret the past ‘3" Convicted counterfeiterâ€"“ Oh, no : it’s what didn’t pass that I feel bad about." .. “You think my boy is bound to make his mark?” Teacherâ€"“I am afraid so. It seems impossible for him to learn to write.” “ Hardup is a pretty decent sort of chap, but he never sticks to anything.” “Did you ever lend him any money '2” Ethclâ€"“ Do you allow Charles to kiss you when you are not engaged to him 2" Maudâ€"“ It isn’t an allowance. He calls it a. perquisite.” It is not so much the iceman’s smile That makes us feel so blue : But the Weather is just the kind The coal man can laugh, too. ive mood of Johnnyâ€"“ To Mistressâ€"“I wish I knew how to have my photograph taken so as to please dear Charley.” Familiar maidâ€"“ Let me sit for you, Miss Emma.” Man wants but little here below And gets it if he can ; But woman asks for even less-- She only wants the man. There is no earthly excuse fora tailoor who turns out poor work ifâ€"” “ If what?” “â€"-he takes the right measures to have his garments fit.” Hotel proprietorâ€"“ We don’t allow any games of chance here." Gamblerâ€"“This isn’ta game of chance. My friend here has no chance." - “I consider your set much beneath me,” ssid;the:weathercock fowl to the one in the barnyard. “ Your a vane . thing l" was be quick retort. Momma (as she is serving the pic at table)â€"“What is an improper fraction, Johnny?” Johnnyâ€"“Anything less than a quarter, momma.” “Say, pa,” asked Freddy, “Why is it that when you or Uncle George tell a story you always get laughed at, and when I tell one I get u lickin’ '2" Mrs. Gofrequentâ€"“Your husband has insured'his life for $20,000? How good of him !” Mrs Offenroundâ€""Good of him? He did it just to tantalize me 1" Wife (angrilylâ€"“Yes ; before you marri- ed mc, you confessed you loved me.” Hus- bandâ€"“Yes ; and I had nothing taken off my sentence for doing so, either.” “Look here. old chappie,just introduce me to your pretty cousin.” “All right, 1’11 do so; but mark,if ever you marry her, don’t lay the blame on me.” She was a very little girl, Yet strong men fled in fright, Because, you see, that little girl, Was going to recite. Heâ€"“They met at the seaside. Then commenced an acquaintance that would soon have ripened into love. But-” She â€"â€"“But what '2” He--“They married.” ' A lawyer said to a witness: “You’re a nice fellow, ain’t you 1'” Witness replied: “I am, sir, and if 1 was not on my oath I’d say the same of you. Hard Upâ€"“ I get a bill from my tailor only twice a year.” Slow Payâ€"“ I’ll have to patronize him.” Hard Upâ€"“ But my bill is the money he borrows from me." “ When Mqu-Iigglns asked you to marry him did you tell him that he must ask you: mother 2" “I did, but he said she’d refused him long before he ever thought of asking me.” Mr. Hubsterâ€"“ I suppose you say, like the rest of the western girls : “ See Chicago and die ‘3" Miss Candlardâ€"“ Indeed, I don’t use such English as that! I say “(See Chicago and me." “ My husband has all the virtues but one,” remarked the wife of‘ a struggling young doctor. “ What is that ‘2” asked her sympathetic friend. “ Patients,” replied the youni.y wife. Doctor -“ Does your cough seem rather tight?” Patientâ€"“ Great Scott 1 No, no, no ; I’ve had nothing but hot lemonade for a week. How could a cough or anything else get tight on that 2" “ Mister,” said the small boy to the gro- cer, “ mother told me to ask you if they's any such thing as a sugar trust." “ Why, of course there is." “W-well, mother wants to get trusted for two pounds." Mr. Grumppsâ€"“W'hat earthly good Would it do if women should be allowed to take a hand in politics 2" MraGrumppsâ€" “Well, for one thing, we’d clean house a good deal oftener than you men voters do.’ “There's new rounds for a strike," said- the a itator. “ Vhere ?" asked a working man. u the clock factory. A youn fellow just told me that some of the has there worked twentyofour hours a day." Mrs. Doserâ€"“There, I begin to lose all confidence in patent medicines. I‘ve tried five bottles of the Inevitable Renewer, and I’m not one bit better than when I began.” Mr. Donorâ€"“Possibly the patent, my love, has run out." Hicksâ€"“What an awful amount of talk these legislators indulge in in comparison with the amount of work they perform.” Wickâ€"“They are mostly married men. and If!» n" i *_.d_ . 'riis ACTIVE MILI'HA. ‘ The Sumter or our-era and Manila the Canadian Volunteer Far:r--Au Im- perlai loan.‘ The report of Gen. Herbert, presented to Parliament the other night, in dealing with the active militia says that under the reorganization which has taken p‘ace the infantry is divided as follows: Officers, 2,564 : non-com. oflicel s, 3.728 ; bandsmcn and buglers, 2,562; privates, 19.856 : total, 28.710. Thus the number, which under the rural. favorable circumstances could be p‘aced in line, amounts to only 69 per cent. of the general total, or, in other words, the offi- cers and nou~commissioned officers absorb too great a proportion of the total number. He says that when the constitution of the infantry is carefully 'analyzed the number of privates falls below 10,000, which :0- presents the maximum total strength of infantry that will receive elementary in» structions in drill if the whole force were called out. This condition can only be remedied : First, to authorize the units ; second, by lishmeut of existing to a strength consistent with mili- tary requirements : third, by the dis- banding of inefficient units. By these means a consolidation of the force will be efi'ected. There will be fewer persons occupying commissioned and non-commissioned ap- pointments, but there will be a larger defensive force, and as there will be a greater number of men in the ranks there will be a more extensive field for the selec- tion of suitable and qualified men for the superior grades. It will moreover enable a check to be put upon the issue of those allowances for which at present the country receives no real value. He suggests, in connection with the training of the force that it would be well for the officers of the maritime province corps to be cent to Hall- fax as ofen as possible, in order that the] may obtain the great advantage of training with the imperial troops. AN. 'IMRIA L LOAN. refusal of new estab- efficienf. units by a firm formation raising the The Imperial Government has made a loan to the Dominion of two modern heavy guns, pending the completion of the works at Esquimalt, to which they are allotted. They will be mounted in Quebec for drill purposes only, as they are not provided with ammunition. The general is in com~ munication with the imperial authorities with a view to obtaining a further loan of the same kind. Though these arrange- ments are advantageous to the Dominion, by enabling us without heavy expenditure to instruct a certain number of men in the handling of modern ordnance, the absence of ammunition deprives the guns them- selvcs of any importance in relation to tho defence of this country. No sufficient re- serve of ammunition exists for the nuns be~ longing to the Dominion force, nor is any being formed, consequently these guns also possess only very limited importance for the purpose of defence. _.__._...â€"_â€"â€"â€"v NOT A PATH 0F ROSES. The Life of n Flngmau Is a llnril One.” No one knows better than a practical railroader that a flugmen’s life is not the rosiest, and the responsibility of his posi- tion only seems to dawn upon travelers when he has no; lected his duty and loss of life has result 3d. It is his duty to look after the rear end of the train, and if any mishap occurs the flagman is the man who has toanswer for it. It is not the most gratifying thing in the world to be stirred up from asnug corner in a warm caboose on a cold night and sent back for perhaps a mile in the storm to flag a train. Yet this is done nightly, and not unfrequeutly the flagman has to stand anywhere from thirty minutes to an hour and a half, un- protected, until the welcome blast from the engine calls him in. There is a peculiar code of signals, fa- miliar to all flagmen, but not understood by the mass of travellers. For instance a freight train leaves this city going east, and is followed by a second section. When the first train reaches Bâ€"â€", the freight conductor receives orders to hold his train. He doesn’t know why. It isn’t necessary. He has the order and carries it out. He then dispatches his flagman back to prevent the approach of the train following. If it is in daylight the flagman takes with him a small flag for the purpose, and by means of which warns the engineer of the approaching train. If at night he car- ries a lantern, and by a peculiar swing ac- complishes the same result. If the trains are running fast and close together, and the sto order to the first train is un- expecte , the flagman has to hustle to pre- vent the rear train from crashing into the train ahead. Very often the trains are running far apart, or again there may be den or of a passenger train overtaking the freig t. In such case the fiagman may have to wait for quite a while until it approaches. If the train ahead should receive further orders to proceed. and the flagman is out of sight and hearing, the engineer gives four long blasts on the whistle, which is a signal for him to return. if the train were going west, four long and one short blast would be given. If up to the time that the flagman is called in, the rear train has not approached. he then places on the track one or two torpedoes, according to the circumstances. These are exploded by the engine felling. Ono tropedo indicates a‘full stop while two sim- ply mean that caution is to be exercised. Starvation in Spain. The distress among the laboring 'popula- tion of Andalusia is rowing more acute- every day. At San ocar, near Cadiz, where riots occurred last week, bands of famishing work peo le yesterday pillaged the bakers' shops an their demeanor was so threatening that the few available police gave way before them. At the old town of Ecija, on the _Iliver Genil, in the province of Seville. there was riotin in the streets. and {the municipality h ‘to distribute 3,000 bread tickets in order to calm the mob. 'At Tarifs, near Gibraltar 2,000 workpeople went to the Town Hall to do mand work. At the Cabinet council it was decided that public works should be carried out in the rovisloes of Cadls and Granada with the o ject of providing for tho unem- ployed. Great precautions have been taken they don't have a fair opportunity for talk- to protect Parliament from Anarchist out- ing when at home." rages. \, n.‘ -H