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le. and "Did he say? Interrupted Sunbeam he [her eager eyes compelling his atten- il finarket square, 'and was te: resort oft all visitors, While 'a capital view of the tawn, on days, its oceu- from' the gaze of the | lealy branches of 4 mag and the graceful foli-| mingling ) lo" root. of the old: HS | fush bullding, = = oR es 'There Stmbeam sat with Lady Cruse | the ping: after -Durcan's: meetng. with Hetly. Sat waiting for her lover's return, het 'heart full of anxiety. For | Duncan had: not come back {te night 8. I betore, afterall. They had received a J fra him feiling that he was und by what, he did. a creeper, interming trembled slightly over broidery as she listened uses cheerful anticipations: You may be sure he will bring good | 1 exclaimed Lady Cruse for ghout twentieth time that Neivs that will save you from: icity 'of to-morrow. I feel sure of se could have 'kept him ick, #0 soon" after Aa her lips. For what would mean pe: + | lease for her mus! also mean punish- >t iment for her father. So how could she rejoice over that. "It was far befter for thing were. She fHion. "I mean 1 to her?" j did he--? No, it must be mpossiblel" : She leaned back-egainst him with a lithe sob. 1' nll Seemed So. stra. ge and so inexyl'eable, that her fa'her wis safe. though the pearls were found. Had she been convicted -her sacrifice. might have been useless. Her cheeks glowed at the thought, Dan niust have been waiting for' her father 'that dreadful day and have 'laken charge of the pro reals of the robbery, aly "You are'safe, al any rate, my dar: Ang," ejaculated Lady Cruse. "Why need you worry about anything else?" | sia "Because, oli, because, well you know 'who and what I am--th's burglar m'g it have beem my father----* Er "And it" I tell you that he was au- spécled you must be brave, dear," said Duncan. "For whatever haprened be: tween the two men, he Is safe. cne knows where he Sias gone to. No one remembers anything. about him S$nce yes'erday morning; and Dan was only caught last night. He walked in: to the pit unwillingly. A de'ective wis 'watching Bill Green's © house -- and caught' Dan coming out of it. Inside there was no ane, and---" } "Aunt Helty? Oh, what has happened "She has goné also, She and Bill, 'Dan. of 'course, denied everyth'ng. He was taken up on the bank aobbery charge. Bul when they found the pears ol course {he police were mad with de- light, 'and the more he denied all know: | ledge of. them,. and of Brackley, the ; {more certain they-felt they had the man. art. | Some one. is coming ' } you all about it. Only I galned on him 10 'soe you to tell whilst he went to the police station. for we iravelled down together and | culled my inf-rmati'cx from him." "Bid what kept you in town then?' 'asked Lady Cruse, 'Durican's face darkened. "I thought 1 should discover some- thing mysel, and waited for that.' But 1 was mistaken, although I. do not lose 1 Dope of doing so." / TesHated glanced "at- Sun- 'But the same question filled the nd she. turned anxiously to No| ari {roung Rayptian, rly 1) A < French Ed 'make 'War between Japan. and the' United I" 'What a sensation there would he if our daily pipers flared with such a roa line as Rm ie Ea caled in the Press usually in small para- | graphs, but the real moves, the forced y | marches, and the clever manoeuvres of y info her startled, puzzled . "And in bis anger he let Sul hat {the missing noles had also been bid- able generals seldom become public at the time. As most people are aware, the Slates, when they excluded the Chinese, did not Include the other yellow race, the Japan- ese. Japanese labor is swamping white on the Pacific Coast, and California ob- {ects strenuously. On the other hand, Japan refuses to agree to any treaty shutting out Japenese emigrants from 40 United States, Lasi summer a new {reaty was put in hand for settling mal- ters, but meanwhile President Roose- Vell gave orders for the Atlantic fleet to fake a cruise in the Pacific, By the time these lines are in print Admiral Evans will have nineteen baltleships and nine cruisers at or off San Francisco. Nomi- nally only:out there for a cruise, no one Foegies they wu be withdrawn until { panese tion prob] absolutely settled. de ° on. In 1902 Germany contrived to obtain an irade to build a raflway through Asia Minor to Bagdad. Bagdad fs not in Per- » 80 we could not make any objection, 'although ev. ood quite plainly that the objective of the railway was the Persian Gulf, . GERMAN WAY OF D@ING THINGS. Incidentally, Germany sent mission- es lo convert the poor Persians. As too often happens, one of these holy men was murdered, and Germany at once applied to the Shah for $25,000 compen- salion. The Persian treasury was, and I# at present, empty. No one knew that better than Germany * convenient for you to pay," she civilly remarked ; - "still, we can't see the family of our missionary starve, To acodmmo- date you, we will buy a few hundred acres of land in North Persia for $25,000 and call things square." As a matter of fact this land is under- laid by some of the best coal seams in Persia, and will be enormously. valuable to the Kaiser when he obtains permis- sion to complete the Bagdad railway. The Sultan ng fleet and a half-slarved, unpaid army, is the finest international chess player in Furope. Up to a few years ago France had an' exclusive right to protest her Catholic subjects in the East. Fearing that France was getting too powerful, the Sultan, in 1900, suddenly issupd an irade recognizing the righls of Germany and Italy to the same privilege. A SECOND SOLOMON. In the same year the desperate feud between the Greek Church and Francis can monks at Jerusalem culminated in a fierce fight, The nominal question in dispute was the right to sweep the pave- ment in the court-yard of the Holy Sepul- chre, The Russian and French Embassa- ders brought the matter to the notice of the Sultan, "Certainly I will settle it," replied his Majesty urbanely. And presently he is- sued his decree that for the future both parties should have the right to sweep tl.e pavément, one on one day, the other cn next. How he must have chuck- led in his sleeve at the rage of the re- 'spective ambassadors | Britain' has. had till very recently a diplomat in the East who could give even the Sultan points, This' was Lord party; which was strong- control, had deter- hostila demonstration make a. Silla | against him' at the opera. What was he i540 Go and tho he music, or stay at let it be said that he was "I see it is not}, u Turkey, though he has | gu Cro- | | Gothe , had - | reputation of h and by hidin - name and flying the. 'Russian fog, had kept his nationality . DRINK | PLENTY WATER . | TELLS OW TO CURE RHEUMATISM AND THE KIDNEYS, Gives Readers Advice--Also Tells of a Simple Prescription to Make a Home- Made Mixture. Now Is {he time when the doctor gals busy, and the patent medicine manu- facturers reap the harvest, unjess great care is taken lo dress warmly and keep tho feet dry, This is the advice of an old eminent authority, who says that Rheumatism and Kidney trouble wea- ther i8 here, and also lells what to do in case of an atlack. Get from any good prescription phar- macy one-half ounce Fluid Extract Dandelion, one ounce Compound Kar- gon, three ounces Compound Syrup Sursaparilla. Mix by shaking in a bol. tld and take a teaspoonful alter meals end at bedtime. Also drink plenty of water. You can't drink too much of Il. , Just try this simple home made mix- ture, and don't forget the water, at the flest sign of Rheumatism, or if your back aches or you feel-that the kidneys are not acling just right. This is sald to be a splendid kidney regulator, and almost certain remedy fcr all forms of Rheumatism, which is caused by uric acid in the blood, which the kidneys fail fo filter out. Any one can easily prepare this at home and at small cost. Almost any druggist in the smaller towns can supply the ingredients named, as they are commonly used in {he preséription department. RY SILENT MAXIM GUN. Indi The Clever ol an 1 mv Official. A remarkable apparalus has been in- vented by an Indian official, which scems likely to revolutionize machine gun fire. .The object of the invention iz -to silence the tell-tale noise of the machine gun, thus increasing its value in the fleld, ) The inventor is Mr. Alfred Thompson, who is serving on the Indian eslablish- ment_as chief examiner of machine ns. The insistent crack of the Maxim is reduced by the invention to a slight de- tonation, which is indistinguishable be- yond a range of 500 yards. At present machine gun fire can be heard thou- sands of yards off, and, no matler how good or rapid it may be, the field bal- teries discover the guns and rout them before they can become a danger. The role of the machine gun is, thera | fore, one of secret opportunity to strike a body of troops by surprise with 600 shots per minute, as with the Maxim, and then lie low. But if the gun can cperale in silence. its possibilities are sensibly widened, not only by reason of {ts demoralizing effect, but because a-steady, non-overheating discharge of 100 a minute can be maintained from time fo time throughout an action. Mr. Thompson's apparatus can be at- tached to a Maxim in a couple of min- utes. It weighs 16 pounds, and is less than a foot in length. The Maxim au- thorilies have submitted it to the home Government. JOEL Se THE~ AMENITIES. Him--My dear, this pumpkin pié is not hall done." Her--Well, finish it then, darling. NO CAUSE FOR COMPLAINT. Landlady--"My, Slopay, you'll either Have to pay what you Owe or leave." Slopay--"Thanks. The last place 1 was al they made me do both." I PROMPTLY PARDONED. "Though 'I may not have the power |) draw an angel {rom the skies, I have pinned 'one to the earth," said a quick- witled man undismayed by the discov- ery that he was slanding on a lady's IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND NEWS_DY MAIL ADOUT JOUN BULY AND WIS PEOPLE, [Decurrences In tho Land That flgnt' "Supreme In the Cownwrclal World. Subscriptions fo the Veterans' Relief Fund now: amount to £11,000. Lambeth Guardians = decided lo eml- grate thirty pauper children (0 Canada. A Londan firm proposes (0 run motor« cabs in Newcastle at an early dale. Aged 78, Thomas Bentham, a Crim ean veteran, has died in Preston work. house. ; \ Robert. Scotrick, an Indian mutiny veteran, died at Boston, Lincolnshire, aged 75. A Spalding boy, while working in @ brewery, fell into a vat of hot beer and was drowned. Fatal accidents to the number of 1, 15¢ occurred last year In coal mines in the United Kingdom. Mr. Dickens, K. C., Recorder of Maid-, slone, and son of Charles Dickens, cele- brated his 59th birthday. Over 84,000 men have been helped by the Soldiers' and Sailors' Aid Society in the past four years. The Islington Borough Council has decided to expend $116,520 in exlend- ing the electric lighting plant. Great Yurmouth's town council cons ducts the annual races at that town, and made a profit of £1,818 from them last year. In Shoreditch the Borough Council has, by a majority of votes, decided to provide free breakfasts for necessilious school children. A block of bath stone containing a number of bees was found al Exeter recently. The bees were enclosed in the solid stone. ~ The Lord Mayor of Landon has un- veiled a bronze lablet to 125 men ol the Royal Fusaliers who lost their lives in South Africa. During last year 15.319 cats were re- ceived into the London Inslitution for Lost Cats, Camden Town, as compared with 13,314 in 1906. During December the weight of maat delivered at the London Central mar- kels was 37,214 tons. At Rillingsgate 11,593 tons of fish arrived. John Williamson, a Sou'h Wales min- er, known far and wide for his hemic behavior at the great mine disaster at Ferndale years ago, is dead. The Hensey Borough Council has abandoned the plan for erecling model dwellings af Highgate at a cost of $98,- 000. The site will be sold. "Drunkenness among married women in the town," says the Grimsby slipen- diary, "Is greatly on the increase, Even women with g:od homes were regular- ly before me." Before a man was senlenced for fraud @* the Middlesex Sessions it was stated that the indictment comprised fifteen counts and was 20 fect long. A Chatham mother discovered a cal asleep on the face of her infant daugh- ter. On pulling (he animal aff the child was discovered to be dead from sulfo- cation. St. Andrew's Church, Ilford, has been broken into by thieves and completely ransacked, the offertory boxes being emptied and the valuable altar cross stolen. A meeting of the Cast Ham Eouncil was broken up recently, all those pre-- sent being laken with violent attacks of; sneezing. Some one had sprinkled snuff on tho floor. z In three ycars the Sheffield licensing justices have refused 58 licenses and paid $220,330 in compensation. Last year alone they refused 23 licenses and paid out $67,375. Returning from work early in the, morning, Wm. Ward, a Durham miner,' found that his house had been burned down and that his youngest son had been lost In the fire, By a majority of 1,000 the ratepayers of Leeds have decided to proceed with projecls In regard to sewerage and tramways, involving $6,385,000 and $450,000 respectively. --ie TRUSTWORTHY. Jack--"Do you girls really trust each other?" Dollie--"0f course we do. FEthel just told me she was in love with you. She confided in me, because she knew wouldn't tell." ; Be The man who compliments nine wo- men on their locks and the tenth on her 'cleverness makes but one mistake,