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| - THRE RUSSELL ILEADIR Russel, Ontario, Thursday, November 2nd HE HAS CAUSE T0 WORRY CECIL RHODES MAY BE CAPTUREL BY KRUGER'S FORCES. International Law Will Not Avail Him Then--Rnodes Was Sent to Kimberley to Bie, But Lived to Become ®om Paul's Most Hated Enemy. Dom: Pam easy it would be for any one to come in and murder ber, walking over the leads of the great library built out at the back. He had proposed that he should come down, too, hut this she would not al- low. She knew it was all fancy disliking her room at the top of the house so much, but he should wot be allowed to suffer for it, and then she had gone gayly up stairs to undress, coming down presently in her dressing-gown, Coegg€sss CCE CCEEEE SE SLEELeLeGEn Mystery of Shaft No. 13. and in that moment he saw her not as the Elizabeth he knew, but-- Breathless they gazed, in one light- ning moment engraving on each soul the likeness of its fellow's guilt, then, The Salvation Army. THE LIFE OF THESE SELF-SACRI- FICING WORKERS OFTEN ONE OF HARDSHIP. Witile on Duty Capt. Ben. Bryan Wag Stricken With a Supposed Encurable Pisease and Forced to Eellnquish the CHAPTER i would rather have the i S ; ank . i ok Now Recovered His "0, long, long, is the winter nicht, Withomt 3 sound, the woman eho and with Rose in attendance, who | scalp of Cecil Rhodes for a Christmas Works Has Now And slowly dawns the day, | down, hiding fis £ life, | Placed on the table beside her bed the present, than the Kimberley diamond 3 : : y There is a slain knight in my bower, ing, away from him, and Form Right-cop Mrs. St. eorge. wsusily : oy ausmaond Brows the News. Alexandria, ORL: And I wish he were away." along, Bs it were, with herself an took the last thing at night. Jack al- | ines, though he is after both wit The Tife of a Salvation Army works : the dead. The light grew stronger, and crept beneath the lowered blinds that hid Up they came, those people, surg- ing up from without, who had set the ways laughed at her for taking it-- but take it she did, with the utmost all the fervor of an intense nature. A mau of Krjiger's strength can hate er is very far from being a sinecure. Their duties are not only arduous, i i ful . Sted # Tea~ |. ; 3 ; e alled upon by tho.=-- the gay flowers on the balcony, yeti pouse-door wide ? bearing the officers SSZulery hE bb id i rons 24 hours a day and have some. left {o Be per sa 4 ¢ i Dr those suffered their sweet smell to enter of the Jaw with them into the gainty water, with sugar, aad on that par- lap over on the next week, and he may on" meetings at all seasons : through the open windows, spread 1t- drawing-room, and through the ol ticular evening there was barely | allow it to warp his judgment ta 11 Binds of Weather Tnis be. Self softly over the carpet, and showsling.deors, that would har J :oben iary h for har nsusw'-~ca in the brs. |. w and in"Wee, it is little wonder tha ad a woman's gold thimble lying there enough to admit them, pausing in the OT > . srcall extent. ing the cM f these self-sacrificing --then stole toward the shut folding-| second room as in a Sa se to be Sure auY When Kruger can bring himself {o|the health doors from the other side of which | 100t a sound or movement had come; tor hours. Here it seemed to pause awhile, as if afrid, then stealthily rw > anderneath them, and travers- day. ed, Elizabeth had teps in her flow- ing robe bef long glass, had frolicked aro} generally, cut some a theatre, the last room of all ap- pearing a. stage, with its two in- mates posed in a silent and terrible tableau. girl had g speak of Rhodes at all he invariably done some calls him "that murderer" with a choke of passion and a slight twitch ed an oddly-shaped apartment that ended in a place not much bigger than a large recess, and partly hidden by soft, pink muslin drapery, now push- ed roughly on one side and held there by something that had fallen heavily between them. In pity seemed the light to touch it. There it laly, a strong figure lying face downward, with sunny cérown abased, and brows pressed to the cov- erlid of a wide couch, upon which a womah was lying in a deep sleep, her head pillowed on her outstretched arm, & picture of perfect innocence and rest. With the smooth coverlid drawn to | her chin, and her air of happy dreams as she securply slept, she looked as if she had not stirred since she laid her down--ag jf, indeed, she would not Btir now, did not some one come to wake her, though the light kept on ever widening, and growing, till the pink hung room was full of a soft, rosy atmosphere fit for such a prin-, cess as she, yet was strong enough surely to rouse the man who lay with irm doubled up beneath him in atti- tude unnatural and strange. Serenely the clock ticked away the moments and the minutes to hours, the Dresden china shepherds and shep- bherdesses on the mantel-piece had long 820 nodded each other good-morrow, the pictures on the wall exchanged glances, firpt of amaze, then of guiry, as to who was the new-comer xno distributed their privacy, and come, alas, in such woeful and uncourt- ly guise! THe white -mouse, looking perchance for his absent ijittle master, popped his pink nose out of the cage that was never very far from the prin- cess, and, aghast at what he saw, went In again. In the street without, jn the house within, L day life vegan, and swelléd each mo- ment louder, so thal when a footstep in the next room caused a vibration of the floor, she opened her eyes, and lay listening and broad awaie. The couch was so low that what lay at a foot did not come within her range ~ "of visi? as she fixed her glance on : hing for them | to open, and.her maid with the tea i come in; and as she looked, one swung | back, and through it came Rose, er-| - al the folding-doors, ect, pimpante, in her smart cap and apron, smiling too, as if she had some especial cauge for satisfaction that morning. But as she came forward, something--something between her mistress and her, arrested Rose's at- tention ; the cups on the tray in her hand rattled violently with the tre- mor. that shook her, and shuddering, gasping she backed away, with star- ing eyes fixed on thaf--backed till she came to the door, and escaping through it, shrieked--such a shriek as clove through walls and window, and made the passers-by stand still in the street, with that heart-quake which men know when tragedy stalks red- handed through their mist. Meanwhile her mistress, guided by the woman's eyes, had raised herself, amd by some dreadful instinct born of courpge, felt herself drawn toward in- stead of away from it--so that on hands and knees she crawled toward the still figure, which dumbly spoke its own eloquent message of eternal separation from her things. A hapd's-breadth away from it she paused, looking down at the tossed, silky, fair hair set blood--blood that had soaked and well- ed and ebbed for many an hour through the long summer night into the coverlid at her feet. One arm was doubled beneath his chest just as he had fallen, the oth- er lay strekched out to its fil length rale palm wuppermost--a land that would never sew or and all living reap any more, nevi help ar hurt any one any more, never be filled wi those gifts that! the prime of a man's life well-spent may 'reasonably be hoped to bring. Steps were coming, people were com- ing, with a thundering, rushing sound, | all hastening madly to that horror in the housdy, that smell of blood in the air that Weg c#ll " murder!" and tha? we stand alape to look on, even while our flesh 'fpcoils at it. The master of thie house came first / on that terrified ¥vave of struggling humanity--came Uh to see the mur- dered man lying there, and his wife on her knees besile him--across the body their eyes *,and oh! what a look was there |gld The glance of WR Or, wonder, and pity with which 3 had first gazed down at fthe murdersd man, had been swiftly followed by tae of dawning passionate loathing ant This, too, was gone, when hi, husband came, and their eyes leapeu togeth- i He thought me guilty, and h.. ed that hound--and he did well, thought, with a wild sense of ex ¢ation that brought a strange lig to her eyes, and a heave to in- | the cheerful noisgs of eveiy-| in a wide halo of comprehension, changine into one of, contempt, | Outside it, stood the husband, white. rigid, his arms folded on his breast, apparently as incapable of movement or of speech, as what was laying at his feet. - Rose, the majd, recovered herself first. Pushing her way through the throng, and casting a look of con- tempt on her masstar, she stepped over the dead body of the man with a shud- der, then snatched up a silk dressing- gown thak hung over the back of a chair, which, with a small table and the couch, completed the furniture of the recess, and threw it round the lonely figure that crouched on the bed. Her mistress did not move while be- ing wrapped in it, nor when she felt the slippers put on her naked feet; but! when Rose. tried to raise her, she got up with a quick, defiant move- ment, and sat down with the wide folds of silk, draping her loyally, look- ing past her husband at the rout be- yond, as Marie Antoinette may have done at the crowd that surrounded her tumbril. : Yet her lips quivered--not for that poor dead man--her heart was hard as a stone toward him, and she had no thought of the suddenly arrested life, or of the pity of it, but because he had let the sin of blood-guiltiness hold him back from clasping her in his arms--because he could see her there alone, nor move one step to take his rightful place beside her. " Let us bear it together!" was the anguished cry of her heart; then the pain passed and a cold feeling of an- ger grew in her breast. If she could forgive him, what quarrel had he then with her? In that moment she de- spised him--as a woman despises a man who does not rise to the ocea- sion, ag she herself has done, ay, and higher yet, for however magnificent ja woman's pluck may be, a man's 'should always be able to soar above $4 ¥ ii. | One of the policemen kneeled down and turned that quiet figure at the foot of the bed over, revealing a calm and handsome face, marrad only by a small hole in the forehead, through { which a bullet had passed, and out of { which the life-blood had ebhed quietly iaway during the night. Barry Rose had been a good-looking enough' fellow in life, but in death his face took on a sweetness and ma jes- ty that brought tears to the eyes of many who looked down on him that day, bitterly resenting the foul injus- tice that had robbed him of his birthright--life. Rose, who stood with her back to the walls, glanced swiftly from mistress to master, and back again. Their faces told nothing ; in fact, So unnatural to the onlookers seemed their stony acceptance of the situa- tion, without any of that display of amazement and horror which might have been naturally expected, that the conviction gained ground that both were "in the swim," and knew all about the night's work, and each oth- er's share in it. To Elizapeth St. George it seemed afterward that she sat for hours in that alcove, facing the mouthing, staring multitude; but she could not remember what any one had said, or what answer she had given to the question put to her, for at her heart's tribunal was standing {he man, once her lover, now her husband, who thus openly by his silence and his deser- | tion, accused her. ; All things have an end, and at last the moment came when Rose was free to take her mistress away. Gathering her robes around her, | . Elizabeth rose, and swerving a little to | one siju lest they should step on the i bcdy, and the crowd dividing for ' chem, the two women passed through | the rooms, and up the staircase, and out of sight. CHAPTER II. "Whaur shall I gae, run, Whanr shall I gae to lay me? For I hae killed a gallant squire, And his friends they seek to me." It was Rose who locked her mistress into her bedroom, who got the house ! cleared of its uninvited guests, the body of poor Barry laid upon the bed that had not been slept in that night, and who, then, leaving her master still | stupefied and alone in the he had stood throughout, returned to | her mistress, and shut herself in with her. 'Apparently he had not moved vet, | , when Mr. Skewton, who had been tele- | graphed for from Scotland Yard, rived, and found him there, aged whaur shall I slay | ar- | and | lined in the space of one hour to such | a likeness as his own mother would bave found it hard to recognize. 'Was it only last night that Eliza- | ; beth had said to him, "It is so close | {and hot up stairs, Jack, that Rose | Li aaks 1 had better sleep down stairs | do you mind #" and then she | paid, and Rose had! aueh on | | jokes, reviewed the events of the day, and finally, after kissing Jack, had drunk her nighteap and retired to bed. "I shall come down in the night and see how you are," he had said, as he tucked her up, and then she had asked him to leave the windows open in the second room, and the room beyond, and to close the folding-doors between. This he had done, returning to his books, but going in. again to look at her later, and by the glimmer of the light, under the snow-white silk shade, he saw her lying there, lovely in her sleep, framed in the delicate pink with with which the recess was hung, and he had kneeled down to kiss her pretty hair, and bless her withi'all his heart. and then--he still seemed to see her lying there, the house hushed in sil- ence, and presently the stealthy sound of a man's step on the stair. He saw the outer door open, seemed to feel the pause before the folding-doors yield- ed to the midnight intruder's touch-- saw Barry Ross standing there on the threshold, his sunny looks gone, his likeness changed from the man of hon- or to the renegade against. his friend, and the brute in inteniotn, he saw-- O God! what more did he see as he turned away his eyes, shuddering? Presently he came nearer to the bed, now tossed and disordered, that had been so smooth wkén Elizabeth awoke that morning. He stooped over it-- what business had he with it, and why did his hand steal ta his breast as he arose again, starting violently at sight of the man who at that moment came through the folding-door with swift, silent tread, and eyes that said, "You are mine--you have done murder, and 1 am here to prove it." Jack's calm had bgoken at last, and with a vengeance. "He sat down, or he must have fallen, from excessive agitation, and if JM man wore the livery of guilt ore it then. Tho --guict, HW var nantaalyy is hand on Jack's trembling one, hidden in the breast pocket of his coat, and drew it out, with what it held. "It" was a tay pistol of beautiful make and quality, and looked innocent as a child's plaything, lying in the de- tective's hand. The shiver in Jack's limbs had pass- ed, fie looked afraid of nothing as he said + "I don't deny it. I shot the man with that. Now do your duty." Mr. Skewton's eyes narrawed. He felt that he would have cheer- fully paid a good deal to have entered the room three seconds sooner than he had gone. "Is this pistol yours?" he asked. "See for yourself". said Jack, and Mr. Skewton looked, and found a name and date inscribed on the barrel of the pistol, and the name was Jack St. George and the date over a year old. "The sooner you take me away the better," said Jack curtly, and turned on his heel and went into the outer room. Mr. Skewton, left alone, shook his head. There was a good deal more in this business than met the eye. He had naturally only an imperfect know- ledge of the circumstances of the case, and the account of the enterprising constable who had sent for him, had pointed to a woman in the case, whose absence from the scene puzzled him. He followed Jack into the other room, where he stood looking out on | the balcony with the sweet breath of stocks and mignonette in his nostrils, so that ever after the sight of those homely flowers turned him faint and sick. "There is a lady in the case?' said Mr. Skewton. "My wife," said Jack, briefly. Mr. Skewton paused, and before the pause had grown wearying, Jack fill- ed it up. "My wife sometimes sleeps down stairs," he said, his face calm and resolute, 'the weather has been verly hot lately, and she was brought up in the country, and feels the poor accommodation upstairs very much." i looking round | the same," place where | | St. George did then, but then nobody "Why poor?' said Mr. Skewton, , "these rooms are a very | tare alive | that they at last culminated in fair size. I imagine those above are "The rooms above are not ours," | said Jack abruptly, "They belong to Mr. Barry Ross--who is dead." "He was your lodger 2' said Skew- | ton. "My lodger," said Jack, proudly, | why not 2" | Probably no man ever looked less, like a lodging-house keeper than Jack! surely wap ever so little like a trailor and -a hound as Barry Ross, and yet-- Te be Continued. fps ptm TYPEWRITER TACTICS. Miss Spellum wears all her best clothes down to the office. Is she in love with there ? Aut she sa 1 gd anybody scares her em- give her much ys il 330° { | restless energy resents any moment of his muscular fingers, as if he could not .repress a desire to shoke him then and there if he but had the dia- |. mond king within reach. Next to his religious fervor there is no sentiment so strong in the breast of the power- ful Dutch President as his hatred of the giant of England. These two are the cyclopean figures of the closing century, and the battle between Bri- ton and Boer is nothing more nor legs than a combat between these two self- confident giants. KIMBERLEY THE OBJECTIVE POINT. Rhodes has perhaps made the mis- take of his life im settling himself in Kimberley on the very eve of the con- flict, for by this act alone he has made Kimberley the objective center of the war. Already the Boers campaign is directed against this place, which has strong strategic inducements for its military ocoupation aside from the fact that it is the residence of the diamond king, the gold king, the rail- road king, che king of mwulti-million- workers frequently gives way. Capt. Ben. Bryan, whose home is at Max- ville, Ont., is well known through his former connection with the Army, having been stationed at such im- portant points as Montreal, Toronto, ° Kingston, Guelph and Brockville, in Canada, and at Schenectady, Troy, and other points in the United States. While on duty he was at- tacked by a so-called incurable dis- ease, but having been restored to health through the use of Dr. Wil- liams "Pink Pills, a representative of the Alexandria News thought it worth while to procure from his own lips a statement of his illness and re- covery. He found Mr. Bryan at work, a healthy, robust man, his appearance g:ving no indication of his recent sufferings. aires, the "old lion" whose escape Kruger bewailed when Jameson and ! his band were caught and characteriz- ed as "only the cubs." All these de- tested personages are bound up in one stalwart body, and the names of that body is Rhodes, who possibly does not realize how completely he incarnates' to the Boer mind everything that ex- cites its animosity towards England, ' and he may also put too strong a faith in the defensibleness of the place he | Is said to have pronounced as "safe as Piccadilly. WHAT RHODES WOULD GET. ] If the price set upon the head of tha Poul a »o. his gaps HOS there 45 no doubt what- ever about his ultimate fate, for he would have the "benefit" of an im- mediate military trial, and if he should be lucky enough to be shot instead of hanged that would be the best he would get. Twenty-eight years ago Rhodes was a lanky, thin-faced boy of 18, whom his doctor declared could not live six months, even in the ymilder climate of South Africa, making a footnote of this prediction in his memorandum book To-day for relentless force and sheer personal power he is counted a statesman second to none, since the death of Gladstone, in all the vast British dominions. He was a youth of big ideas, with a will power that dominated even his physical nature, and he needed a lim- itless fortune to carry out his dreams of power. That was his dominant idea from the very moment he set foot; on the Dark Continent. The round- ing of his physique into its present sturdy form was but an incident, a matter he attended to as being a ne- cessary detail of his career. His one dream was to found an enormous United States of Africa. In every act | of which he has been the manipula-| tor this has been the dominant idea, | and his continued cries of "No taxa- tion without representation!" "No, rule of am oligarchical ring!" were sa | insistent throughout South Arion] e throwing down of the gauntlet by that other mighty power, Oom Paul Kruger : 4 HIS WEALTH. One hundred million dollars proba- bly expresses the wealth Rhodes has | accumulated by the most brilliant manipulations - of modern finance, During the period when success first perched upon his coffers he was fond of money for the sake of possession, and used often, it is said, to fill a pail full of diamonds from the Kimberly mines, pouring out the glittering heap again and again with almost childish pleasure. To-day money to him iy but a too! with which ha expects to carve his way to higher ambitions, whose high-topping summit perhaps he him- self cannot clearly see. : His greatest reproach against him- self is that of all ambitious men whose snatched for rest or recreation. He calls himself lazy! Yet he has fought many fierce wars with natives, he has built railroads and telegraph lines, he has conducted vast and successful en- terprises, and has founded an empire. And he is but 46 years old. It is impossible to conceive that this heavy, muscular man, six feet one in his shoes, was ever a weakling sent abroad to die. His appetite is a won- der. Chief Lobengula called him "the man who eats a whole country for his dinner." EE allow > VOTING IN BAVARIA. Only 21 per cent. of the population of Bavaria are entitled and of these 21 per cent only 19 per cent thok the troub'e to vote at the last to vote, | unconscious spells ' mer strength and | when I was stationed at The story of his illness and subse- quent cure by the use of Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills reads like a miracle, and is given in his own words as fol- lows :--" While stationed at Dessron- to, in July, 1897, I was attacked i with what the doctors called "Chron- ic Spinal Meningitis." The symptoms were somewhat similar to those pre- ceding a pleuratic attack, but were accompanied by spasms, which, when the pain became too severe. rende me unconscious. The le - in disease advanced. four months in the H Hospital, and on th TSTonty, I sdigained ret work. The second att? N.Y., in October, 1898, an} severe than the first. The of the second attack were v lar to those which preceded t™® Yirst, the only apparent difference being that they were more severe and the after effects were of longer duration. Owing to the precarious state of my health, Iwas compelled to resign my position after the second at- tack and return to my home at Max- ville. While there a friend advised me to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, ni- i and I began using them in March, 1899. | I have used only a dozen boxes and amy once more enjoying perfect health, I feel that I am perfectly well, and can cheerfully say that I attribute my per- sent state of health to the effects produced, by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Mrs. Bryam has also used the pills and | has benefited very much thereby." aa EE. FOR BRIDES-TO-BE. Not long ago a young lady living. in a small town was about to be mar- ried. About two weeks before the time the wedding was to take place this young lady visited the various stores in the place. At each of the jewelry shops she called the proprietor aside and told him of her approaching mar- riage and then said: "Now, it is very probable that some of my friends may come in here and select me a present. It's horrid to get something you don't like, so I want you to look out for me, and if you can satisfy yourself that a present is about. to be purchased for me induce the purchaser to buy something I will now select." : The proprietor could see nothing wrong in granting such a request, and the young lady selected a number of pieces of jewelry which suited her taste. They were marked and the as- gistants notified. From all that can be learned the scheme worked well. eer ---- * LATEST IS THE "PATHOMETER." Of the inventing of long-felt cycling wants there seems to be no end. The latest of these an instrument by which it is easy to record automati- cally, not only the distance traveled by a bicycle, but also the various direc- tions followed during the journey and the hills ascended and descended, The record of directions is obtained by means of a compass. The needle is suspended at the top of the '"'patho- meter," as the apparatus is called, d.r- ectly above the tape on which the re- cords are taken. is a -- DELICIOUS ESKIMOAN DISH. A' favorite dish with the Eskimo 1s an ice cream made of seal oil, into which x is stirred until the desir- ed consistency has been obtained; then frozen berries of differen' kinds are added, with) a little of the fish egg for elections for the Landtag. flavoring.