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__\ I ' A CLOSE RELATION. CHAPTKR I. It wa> not altogether what followed it that stafaped th it afternooo and the drive to the railwty-atalion up-iu my memory in color* that will never fa-la. The forenoon had b.-eu ihowvry, loft, heavy ra/V that soaked herbage and weak- ened the Msme ef feliage). A steady wind came down the northern gor^-e at mid-day, blowing trait:ht and steadily, bat not hard, lor soms hours. At half-put lour, whn 1 drove oat of cue gate, the air was still, al most balmy. The long str*tch of th* vil- lage it rest lay before me down to th* turn that woulu take m* to th* station. The booses lining this, our belt thoroughfare, siooJ back modestly from th* wayside, and between them and a possibly prying public a double row of raaplee made a deep-green shade in summer. Now that the autumnal glow was at the height, they gave to the interspace the dim richness of a cathedral aiile. Th* highway ran due east and west ; th* wind, as I have said, hvi blown oat of th* north. Right across th* track, the in- tervals of wet, black road showing between, the burning leaves had drifted in straight swathe. The half-mile dire wa< barred with tinted flame. Tlie wet leaves had fall- en prone aod lain still whereth-y '.- ! < : . *> ped. In the level sun ravi they glowed and throbbed into a pianon of color My ponies shied sharply at the first of these apparent bain era. I had coaxed them to step gingerly, with much pointing of ears aud graceful (idling, upon the gorgeous rug, wsen a carriage, coming from tbe op- posite direction, was drawn up to mine, and a lovely face, framed ia silver hair, looked out of the window. " I was on my way to se* you. Sydney dear. Don cam* out early to-day, but he than her brother of the same objectionable hue, is one of the countless and uuaocouiil able thing* loo common to be classed with phenomena. The Blown of the woman wha sat in the shabby Daggr would have been deaeribed as sorrel, had her mare worn ik It was a mixed eilk aad woollen stuff, and fitted her so badly as te be, strictly speaking, no fit Her blskck gloves were stretched Uy fid- gety Sugars into two iIwM iuu large for her, and were whitish at the finger-tips. That on the right hand was ripped on the ball of the thiiM.I., and while talking she pulled at the two sidee of the rip, folding them over one, another and throwing the rest of the thumb out of perspective. Her black straw bonnet was small for her head ; her abundant hair was dark and ill dressed ; her bright eyes were darker ; her noee was long, with thin, arched nostrils ; the mouth was small and soar. Mrs. Tommy Robb was the literary star of Ma pie ton. Of the first magnitude in her own estimation, she ranged from the third to the sixth in her neighbors' eyes, and, as we gathered from metropolitan talk, was of no magnitude at all in New York. Perception of the latter fact how protector was* one IB which her fancy had never yWnted her legal lord. I was not afraid of Mrs. Robb, as many people were, and the thought struck me that a deserVed, if not a salutary, reprisal might be to emulate her f rar knees. " She did not seem -rushed, or even agi- ated." I said. "On the contrary, she laughed and said, ' Oh, dear ' that car is off the track again :'" I, too, laughed in requiting rudeness in kind, a novel experiment on my part. She granted me a sidelong glance, lowering her lids in a sinister wayi " So o ! Another hurt pigeon I I had not credited you with so much affection for your step-parent. " Leaning back in the shabby buggy, she went on folding the edges of the rip in her thumb oxer upon one another, the short upper lip, that was always conscious of an evil odor, more expressive than usual. The encounter was sufficiently disagrae- able, bat I had not comprehended tbt sacri> lice of true gentlehood I bad made by my retort until I saw Don Upton making his way torward me between the waiting cam- * 8 We had loved one another from childhood. and been openly betrothed for a year, and never until that instant had I had ths dis- position to escape the scuiiay of his honest eyes. I tried to persuade myself tbataversion to Mrs. Robb's proximity and espial prompt- omt.itier her. Ambition that outruns abil ity begU hunger that fiete soul and heart, as acid bitej into steel. Mrs. Robb pro- claimed herself an agnostio, and, like a ma- jority of the professors of unfaith, con- founded the word with atheist. She WM as vain of knowing and believing nothing of her soul and its destiny as of the pessim- ism the unlearned mistook for ill humor and a natural taste for detraction. Her ever ihe might feign to ignore it helped to ed the desire to slip away and cool my un- easy blushes before ne could note them. At the bottom of my heart I knew that I lied to my conscience. The longing, which was aspiration, to be always at my cleanest best in Don's presence was another feeling, that went down to the core of my being. Had he been within hearing, nothing could have provoked me to deal blow for blow, ia what I called, to my shamed self, " fishwife- fashion." I had seen him eye Mrs. K >bb on ae his anui/-rottrrtir. He will by and by. You will not be gone long, 1 hope?' Warm color that WM not embarrassment DoweU over my face. I felt my eyes bright- en. " I am only going to th* station to meet Doctor and Elsie, who went to the city this morning. Thre will be a vacant seat for Don on tho way back." " Ah 1" with a smile of friendly satis- faction. "Then I will sit with your mother while you are awty. Have you noticed that th* road is barred with tbe latest thing in October tartans ? From the lower end it looks like a series of Turner's sontets. Don't let me detain you. Good- bye." I tautened therein* until mv pome? arch - sJ their necks and stepped high. The turnout was my especial property, a pretty surrey, ilh polished panels and dark-brown cushions, said a good deal of silver-plating ahoat th* harness. The ponies were a singularly perfect match, iron-gray, with white manei and tails, and so many signs of blood tht everybody looked at them as I drnvs along. There would not be a bitter-appointed equipage at the station, a bettr-dr***ed woman, or a more elsvrr "whip. " My blue cloth jfown wat tailor-made; my gauntlets fitted smoothly : my jaunty toqu* w*s fashion- able and becoming. There are times when a woman reckons her personil advantagwa at full value, and when she is right In doing it. Ths weak- ness and folly that compose vanity enter m when she begins to depend and presume upon extrins'o circumstances that may slough way from her very self and leave it intact, if she ha* but arrayed herself in them, not pressed then; Into the substance of her soul. l>on Upton had sent m* yesterday two big apples that had grown, cheek by cheek, to fulness of ripening. One side of each was red as blood, fresh, young, healthy blood, " which is tho life." The nverae on one bore the initials of " H. S." in crim- son upon a pe>le-gr*en field. Upon the other apple, " D. U."was similarly dyed and set. Kefors they had begun to blush, he had in- geniously hound up a aection of each In oil- ed si'k, with ths letters out out in ths cov ering. The sun had don* the rest. In i discursive, superficial way, a* I drove aljng, I fell to philowphizing, and likened the initials upon the cuticle of the fruit this last remaining unaltered io grain, for all ite brilliant lettering to the gratification I had in looking my Iwst to-day. The glow was but skin-deep. The thought that 1 was to see D-m In five minute*, that I belonged to him and he to me, soaked like unshtne and dew to ihe heart of me ; ooureed ihr..uk!n every thought ami sensation as ann-warmed sap had filled and rounded and sweetened the beautiful globes I had laid away in cot- ton-wool in a c'.hinet to mellow. My mother had a story of my infancy that recurred to my mind and made me mile, as I sat upright in driving-school form upon my box-cushion, chin lev*l, and hand* firm yet light upon the lines. The pome* had delicate mouth* and sensibili- ties. Who hoped to control thom must con- sider then, contult and respect them. My old negro " mammy " who had nureed my mother in her infancy, had naidonrtlay of my mad dance and shout, when there was no apparent cause for exuberance of glee, " Let her 'lone, Mis' Charlotte! Hit* JIB to I/tail o' />' "'//"she clonno what ter do. 1 was never so glad of myself before as on this October afternoon, as m> dear little nags went spinning down the cross-barred street, shivering and scattering tht "sun- Set series ;" around the corner ; past the quiet church and the graveyard, yellowed by fallen elm-leave* ; with a lively " click- clack" of hoofs and hollow thunder of wheels, serous the bridge spanning Maple- ton Creek, thin up a r*nll* ascent, and, with a flash of iltver plates and jingle of chains vrd liui-kles, brought up as still M a pair of granite steeile at the station plat form. 1 wan youthful and happy, ana the young love to "dash," as colta to curvet. A do/en other vehicle* were waiting for the train, for tho New Jersey village WM life had been a continual disappointment, sometimes in grave compassion when she A dashing, vivacious girl, ihe had come to struck out viciously at friend or foe ; grav. ith the wealthy [ ity tinctured with wonder at tbe coarse dis- courtesy of it all ; pity for the suffering that, he insisted, must have driven a wom- an of birth and breeding to take up inch weapons. He had told me that these ex- hibitions gave color to the stories of her daughter she was, snd oaptivated Tummy Robb, the eldest scion of a good old ftmily. Kverybody liked Tommy, and nobody recollected that his name was Thomas. His handsom* face and good heart made him a favorite partner with the girls, and his sound principle* commended him to tbe confidence of the mother*. One and all of bis old friends were in doubt whether to be more sorry or surprised at hi* marriage with the keen- tongued city-girl In reviewing tbe trans- action fifteen years later, she must have been most surprised of all. For Tommy, albeit not quite tbe fool she now esteemed him, was commonplace to a degree that was amazing in a nun who went by rail to New York every day, and he bad succeed- ed but moderately well in a busiuesw that had promised large things when Caroline Van Moat rand exchanged her dissyllable for his monosyllable. As is often the case with a man wedded to a woman mentally superior to him, what intellect Tommy ha.i to begin with had Iwmdled pathetically. Men of the liest in- tentions cannot stand on tiptoe forever.aod toon or late discover that it is not in them to take oa though', sufficient to add ons cubit to their mental s'.ature. The spirit il willing, but mind-muscle* are weak. The ill-mated pair had four son* as handsome j^' aud as commonplace as their father, and, because of this, each boy was a separate and special prox osation to the clever moth- er. For clever she was in a way. As a de- tective she would lave been famous. This mean parentage current among te "wound- ed pigoons." What would he say to my lemon ol the descent to her level J (TO BB COHTINCID.) MOI> Jl \.l I 4 A Brill. k Amir tarsjeen TelU ef Ml* Kx writ art- With a PaMlker. Dr. Bryan O'Kearney, a retired surgeon of th* Krmsh army, m telling some of his experiences while hunting in India related the following itory : " W* fellow* on half pay, you know, like a bit of hunting now and then, so when on* ol my men came ta ay house near Dsccan, one nioruiiiu with the new* that a big pan- t her hid broken cover wulostno tims in get- ting up a party of beaters aud starting ont- The beast tnrned oat to be a pantheress. She had hidden her cubs somewhere and had taken possession of a nulla or ravine only about a mil* from th* house. Tbe beat.-rs did not care to go op the ravine after they bad located the panther, t>o 1 took a dog boy and a man to carry my sec- ond gun and we started. There was not s to be heard ev* our own movement*. We had gone about ten rods up the nnlla when there was a half growl, half spit, like career being oiosed to one in her walk of life, she became a newspaper correspondent. Her field of labor was circumscribed l-y tbe tether of Tommy and the boys, intertwist- ed with the social prejudice that condemns a matron and mother to look after her own boose before (allying out to pry into th* manner in whioh other people * home* are ordered, but (he worked her one acre hard. My Mcpfv.her had read aloud at the break- list-table that morn 114 a letter in a city paper over the signature "C. A. K. ," pur- porting to be a record of the impressions our hill-girt village had mad* upon a New England touiiaU Hardly a family of any Dote whatsoever ha.l escaped a lash, and, although no name* were given, we recog- nized oursslves and our neighbors. In re.: ollection of the article, I should not have selected hsrs as th* vicinity in which to spend th* few minute* of waiting that must precede tbe appearance of the train. Without suspewting what the vacant spa.-* conveniently close to the platform was other than accidental, I had guided the ponies into it. Mr*. Kobb milled a meaning response to my bow, as I perceived her. You are a courageous girl!" said her clear, high soprano. "I have been amusing myself for five minute* by w*mg what a wide area the fluttering of wounded pigeons has left m*. And you wouldn't have come a* cloee had you looked before you leaped. Don't trouble yourself toretute the charge. I shouldn't believe any polite falsehood you felt yourself c tiled upon to utter. Or maybe you did notes* my article in to-day's Clarion?" She had none of the disinclination to dia- ls* her writings in and out of season that charactsrixes great authors. I rarely met her without hearing of some "article" in prow or verse with which she hswl honored humanity. 1 replied with polite promptness : " Oh, ye* I You were th* Aa'/ocrat of our breakfast- table this morning. l>"-tor rea.l the letter aloud." She looked gratified, but agalnat her will. The draught that had not a drop of gall or quassia would Lave beeu insipid to isr palate. hat did yonr mother say of il? I almost in sight of New York. The foam of the billowing life of th* metropolis daah ed gayly over us all summer, and ran up, more ftslily, but (leroenliuly, in tho that of an angry cat, and the big beast jump- ed out of the bushes within a yard of my fs>ee. One of lh* men was on his knee* hall under m* pulling away the brush : the other was at my left hand with the extra gun. The panther ignored me, but she pulled the do* boy out from between my legs as a cat would a mouse. She took this poor follow io her mouth, seized the other with her paw, and then male for the thick brush again. 1 confess I was too frightened to stir, but as she pawed me she gave me a blow with her great, long tail, as much as to say, ' My mouth i* full an 1 my paws are busy, but I'll give you one whack just for luck.' That blow tent me (pinning down th* hill, and that fact sealed the big beast ' death warrant. I kept hold of my gun, and when I got to my feet she turned her broad- side toward me. The dog boy was still in her mouth and one paw was on the breast of the other beater, but I pulled a bead on her and dtopped her in her track*. Ily that time th* rest of ths beaters had come up, howling over the fate of their comrades. Wt- measured that panther and found her eight feet long. It was one of the biggest ever killed in that district. The beaters skiii'ied the beast, and I'vs got the pelt at my home in India now." er pa " W don't inquire into the opinions of your *tep- father, for he never has an orignal one npon matter* that do not immediately concern him, and 1 shouldn't value it if he had. Hut your mother has drain*, and generally puts them to good use, if she dil mislay them about ten years ago ! You needn t redden no furiously. I'd say the came to her if she were here. There are few woinnn Woman 1 . vti.:<-nlni nhrre, In the Kritish colonies i*y* the Pall Mall Gazette,) large numbers of women are em- i ployed in postal, telegraph, and railway 'set vices. In Newfoundland positions in postal and telegraph office* are open to all Hrilish tuliject* with-ml distinction oteex. Latin- Americt has latrly manifested a de- sire to follow the example of Kurnpean countries in re'peet to the employment of women, and Colombia ha* established a school of telegraphy divided into two sec- tions one for men and the other for women. The new republic of Kra/il ha* admitted women not only into the service of tele- graph* and telephone*, but into all the Government department* indiscriminately. In Chili, a large number of places are filled by women In the postal and telegraph de- partments, and also in their Government offices. In addition, the position of con- ductor on the tramway is, by a de?ition of thr inn-eminent always to be filled l-y wom- en. The United State* of America gives employment in its various public administra- tions to U, ('>!>..' women, of whom 0,650 are engaged in post ollioea. Too Many Button*. A clergyman's wife was mending clothes (or her boys, when one of her lady neigh- bours called in to have a friendly chat. It was not long before the visitor's eye was attracted by a large basket more than half-filled with Imtto-.i*. The lady could n it help remarking that there seemed a BRITISH NAVAL DISASTERS. A Lone Lilt in Which 8ailn and Ship* Wen Lost- Carelesssiees *! Is BesBesulMe rev AIL The record of war vessels lost by wreck- age, and in time) of peace, is doubtless long- er and more disastrous than that of- the battle ships which have been soak in action. Septum- has destroyed more warships than liars. Fer the loss of many * now ship and its brave crsw human carelessness, as seems to be the case with the Victoria, alone is responsible. From the records ol tbe Itntiih n*vy can be compiled a long list of vessels which have fallen victims to the elements, or to bad seamanship, or both combined. Looking down the centur- ies, some wrecks stand oat conspicuously from having been made famous in song or story. The list of these is not a short one, even if confined to large vessels. Going back lets than two hundred years, one meets with slmost the worst wreck, or rather wrecks, of all in tbe lose of four ves- sels of Sir Clondesley Shovel's squadron ot the Scilly Islands. la the Admiral's ship, the Association, seventy guns, more than 800 men were lost, including many persons of quality, as people of ran* and birth wore called iu those days. There were but few survivors from the other three hips. This dreadful disaster occurred on Oct. _-', 1707. Sir Cloudesley's monument in Westminster Abbey has served to keep it in remembrance. All on board perished when the Victory, 100 guns, sank near the Isle of Alderney on Oct. 5, 1714. Tbe Thunder. 74 guns ; Stir- ling Castle, 04; Defiance 64, and twelve mailer ships were lost in the same storm in the West Indies in 1780. More than 6UO persons went down with " Krave Kempenfeldt " in the Royal George, man-of-war, 108 guns, off Spithead on Aag. J 1 ), 17SJ. While the veeesl was keeled over to repair a pipe, a sudden gust of wind wash- ed the sea into her ports and she sank. Cowper has perhaps immortalized the disas- ter. Three hundred and sixty lives were lost when the Minotaur, 74 guns, wrecked on the Haak bank. Dec. 'JJ, 18 10. The most dire disaster of all, since the ships of the Spanish Armada were lost on the shores of the tight hula islands they had come to subdue was when the St. George. 9s guns. Defence, 74, and the Hero, stranded on the coast of Jutland on Dec. 24, 1811, Admiral Reynolds and the c -ews, numbering 12,000 in *ll, perished, with the exception of 18 seamen. The Birkenhead, although a troop ship, and not a mac -of -war, deserves mention here from the memorable scene that was witness- ed when she was lost on Simon's Bey, South Africa, on Jan. 7, 1S.V2. The troops with whom ihe was laden were drawn up on deck while the women and children were harried to the boats. They presented arms to death when she want down, not a man leaving the ranks to indulge in a fruit- sss straggle for existence. Of the 638 persons on board, but 194 were saved, and they were only saved by the self-sacrifice of the rest. The first of the modern English ironclads to come to grief through wreck was the Captain, which sank in a squall off Finis- tsrre shortly after midnight on Sept. 7, 1870. Only eighteen of the 490 persons on board were saved. Among those who per- ished were the Captain, Hugh B:irgoj/ue, CapU Cowper Coles, the designer of the ironslad, anu not < lew notable naval offi- cers. The veeel capsized aad went down in three minutes. Her sinking was at- tributed to too low freeboard, heavy top weight, masts, and hurricane deck. She cost 440,000. M. M. S. Vanguard, a double-screw iron- clad of 3,774 tons, was struck by the ram of the Iron Duke in fog and sunk off the coast of Wicklow on Sapt. 1, 1875. The crew, 4UO in number, were saved. Capt. IHwkins of the Vanguard was dismissed from the ser-ii-e, and Lieut. Evans of the Iron Duke Tas removed from bis command. The frigate Kurydice, a training ship, tank in a squall off the Isle of Wight en March '-M, 1 *73, and .100 men perished. A disaster similar in many respects to that of the other occurred in the Ko^lmh Channel off Dover on May 31, 1878. Ger- man vessel*, however, not British, were its M.-t.ms. In a smooth sea, on a clear day, the Kaiser Wiihelm ran into the Grosser Kurfurs', i<nk ing her so speedily that .100 of her crew were lost. The Grosser Kur- tarst had slowed up and the Kaiser Wil- helm struck in trying to pass her. He "On land the dudes make me tired." She" And at sea the swells make ine sick." As a rule, thoroughness is desirable. But many i grocer has succeeded through his hall -weigh methods." Whatever possessed Miss Sharpley to marry that old Holdfast?" "He was her guardian, and she was bound to get part of tbe handsome fortune left her." Nell" Do you think absence makes the heart grow fonder." Halle " Yes, when Jack cills I never once think of Tom, and when Tom's here I forget Jack entirely." The Kulubvr (haughtily)- " Madam, my reputation rests upon my meat." Doubting Customer "Well, if its as to-tgh as that last steak you sent me I fettl sorry for you." Mrs. Cumso "I wouldn't criticise the THf SILYEB QUESTin. India i Action OMUM a Commotion- r!iteraa(UB ef the fulled tale* fie- ' A despatch from Washington, D.C.says; Th* President, Secretary Carlisle aod ihe Anaacial officers of the Government gener- illy received their first ulhiitic uewi of the atartling action of the Government of India in scssMnding lilvar coinage, through the press despat.-hee. There hd been ramori on the subject earlier in UM day, bat they were passed upon M rrnnon ooly, although tbei- inbnaatial accuracy wa not doubted. A'ben the report of Mr. Gladstone'! announcement in the HOOM of Common* and lrd Kimberly's statement in the House of Lord* **re received the gravity of the situation at once became ap- parent. Mr. Carlisle immediately weal over to the White House, anil lot oear'tjr two hours discussed the bearings of thM ction with the* President, without reaching any positive condition as to a line of tcUea to be adopted. The conference WM r*> newed at Woodly, the President's suburban retreat, later in the evening, and was pro- tracted until far in the night. The ciream- tances are regarded as too serious to per- mit of any authentic eipression of opinion as to the future policy of the United States. until all the facts are fully digested. Tins much, however, can be stated with absolute confidence, that tho action of the Indian Government in closing the India rr.inta to the fret coinage of silver is regarded by the United States as doing away with the necessity for re- convening the international monetary con- ference, wbieh was to nave met again hi Brussels this fall. Il is not believed that this action was taken without express or- ders from the English Government, wbieh has general supervmon and control ove Indian affairs. con*. TUB WAT or TM Brrr A ut. whom I trouble myself to teipect, or with whoa* views upon any subject I corn-era ' very goo-l supply <>f buttons. myself. As a sex they are character!***, TbeJeupea !.<> began to turn them over, , .,, like sheep, or sly, like cats. She didn't and suddenly oxcUitned : " Here are two ol winter. ' We villagers kus'w one another, ' r.-liah the cut I dealt pats of the petticoats j buttons exactly the same as those ray hun- and each new arrival at the railway remlex I who liad got above compounding thuif own band had on hii Ust winter suit. I should von* awoke a little utir of no<U and iimlos, prescriptions, but not above trading upon knw them anywhere." and from the carriages nair! o the latest the monetary and mental capital of other oomari, friendly or marry wi.i.U. Without people?" meaning to do it, I Ud halted close 1 It was never worth while to get angry at to a somewhat shabby buggy ilr*wn her arrant impertinence. She. would have by a meek sorrwl mare. Why a betn onraged had nho divine I how much ol sorrel Vires, 0411 look more abjectly toleration and oitilily she owed to her lius- l t'nan ny ifier, *iu' a sorrel mars band and the family c ninection she despised *. \oial and humdrum TSc role of earn ' ,. k< "i '< *' r leiigtln Indeed," said the clergyman's wife, quietly, " I am surprised to near it, ae all these buttons were found in the collection- bitg. I thought I might as well put them to norne use. ' Heforn she had finished speaking the visitor hastily sj-ose, and said she must be Doing, singer so severely if I were you. He is doing his best.'' Mr. Cumso " Oh, in that case it's all right. I was afraid he was doing his worst." " Do isn't your mother like me?" asked young Mr. Gilley, in an clTort to asoertain why Mi Kcodick had refused him. " Oh, yes, she likes you," was the reply of the mauled ; "but she is already married to papa." Hmband "Do you know that every time a woman gets angry she adds a new wrinkle to the face?" Wife " No, I did not ; but if it is so, I presume il is a wise provision of nature to let ths world know what sort of a husband the woman has." yon ask your ef RlephaaU lo *appiy the eosa*)* fer Ivory. Among the arrivals at San Francisco the other day from the Orient was a qniet, blonde man in middle life, whose achievements in barbaric lands have been talked of around the globe. Few knew him, yet he has been received by kings, and for jame yean his deeds have been heralded everywhere by lightning. The distinguished man wae Lieut. Otto K. Khlers, the famous German explorer, who first climbed the lofty moon- tain of Kilimanjaro, and who saved all that part of Kant Africa to the German em- pire. He is just returning alter some yean in the strange, wiUI countries beyond the Pacific, .H.-1 what he had to say is of ex- traordinary interest. He went to In ha after hit arrival in Germany from Africa primarily to get a number of lama elephants with which to subjugate the wild ones of the Dark Continent, but this led him into many other eip'.orations. It was in 1S8A, it will be remembered, that he went out to Atria*. It wai the time that fierce wars were raging. He ex- plored Kilimanjaro, 19,900 feet high, being the Srit white man to set foot upon its crest. Ha also accompanied Major Win- man, the German Commiaviuner in Africa, against the Aiabs, and wts with him on several other expeditions, la these exploits Lient. Khler* hid many narrow escapes, and to-day his (ace is scared by oo-vdicu on battlefields and in juoglee. Lieut Killers spent some time in the liar- row hills in Assam with M. S.ivi hunting elephants. In this he took great interest, because it involves a great ivory hunting acd carrying project which be has in view in East Africa. His object is to form ked- dahs, or great corrals made of tree* and roatst, in the German territory in Eastern Africa, where the difficulties in connection with transport animals are very great. Mules, ponies, and camels die off quickly in the Atrioui j'loglea, but there are thou- sands of wild elephants waiting to be ought in the forests. On the slope of Kilimanjaro many herds are to be met with. Trained Indian elephants, mahouts, and a few na- tive Indiau elephant catchers are to be in- trouced there, and large catches will be made every year. It will cost about 2,OUO rupees a head to transport elephants from India to Zanzibar, but the dertnan* can easily utaud the cost of what is needed. In a few years, therefore, the African elephaut will bucome something more than a mere ivory-b*arin animal, to be slaughtered wholesale. This plan, it is conceded, will benetit Englishmen and Germans alike la East Africa. The Lieutenant said he would have glad- ly seen thu English and German Govern- ments joining hand in such * project, and he itwelt upon the fact that some 60,000 elephants are killed yearly in Africa for their ivory. "In Zanzibar alone," said be, "some 5<X),000 pounds of ivory are brought trery eason to the market. There a > among them weighing from 190 to 160 pounds, and even more, but, of course, the rusks are mostly small, for it is much easier to trap or kill a young elephant than an old one. Let u say that on an average every tusk is from twenty to twenty -five pounds. The links of 10,1)00 elephants are brought annually to Zanzibar. " Elephants in Africa are mostly killed with poisoned arrows. Perhaps 50 per cent, break away to die in the jungle, where their tusks are never found. So, perhaps, iM.OOJ elephants have been sacri- ficed to get thu ivory for the Xiuzibar market alone. Reside* thia a lot of ivory is used in the interior for all kinds of do- mestic piirp-Me*. The tusks aie used as grain poun.lers, A.J., while ornaments are commonly fashioned of ivory. There re even chiefs in the interior who have a fence around their houses made of elephaut tu.ks." Withtrby " Did uld have two pieces of cake, -" '" Mrs. mother if yon cou ll..lil.ie!" Bobby Bisco-" Yes'm." Mrs. Witherby "And what did she say?' Bobby" she said I oould If you offered them to me, and then she laughed." .Tones and his wife were wandering among the cages in a tnenngerie. " I say, Jones, dear, whv on earth has that rattlesnake tied himself up into inch an involved knot for?" "Can't say. darling, unless there's something on his mind that ae wants to re* member. : First Fairy "Aud is that rich young Noodle a good husband to you f' S* -ond Fairy " Splendid. I haven't even \uight si.n'it of him for a couple of week* ' He's just lovely." First Tramp" Who wouldn't be a pretty little 11 >wer. It stays in bed all Summer." Second Tramp " Yes ; bat think of the water you would hat a to during th\t time. Ugh !" W rainy Owner" Say, you feller ! ,1 ..n't you see that sign tkar ?" City Fish-rroan " Oh yes, I re-vl it. It rays. TWl fish hi'*r.' 1 know they hear well, o Ive be** very quiet ; it's you who are making all j noise." lake