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Eyes, know i'll tell you 1 know
1T"
"And you love herr" +.
eyes" He dropped his haggard face
on his arms a moment, then sat bolt
upright. Truth is better than life"
he said, slowly. 81 wanted to end IT,
+. l am tired.
kelly" I said, there remains an
other way to risk your neck, and.
think, a nobler way. There is in this
house a woman who is running ter
rible risk-a German spy whose opera
tions have been discovered This
woman believes that she has in her
pay the communist leader Of the re-
volt, a man called Buckhurst. She is
in error. within the next twenty-four
hours. l expect to see Buckhurst
prisoner. And when that happens 1t
will go hard with Mademoiselle ElVen'
for he will turn on her to save himself.
/. And you know what that
means; a blank wall, Kelly,
and a firing-squad. There is but one
sex for spies. She must leave tonight,
Kelly. She must try to cross into
Spain. Will you help herr"
He nodded, striving to say yes.
"You know your own risk3"
~Yes."
"Her company is death for you both
Il you are taken"
He stood up very straight. In what
strange forms comes happiness to
man!
mo BE CoNTINUED)
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bridge by a native of Fifeshire. In
the words Of the narrative, "he (the
worker) lodged with an employe of
the Pitt Press, but one day. to my
surprise, he changed his lodgings.
Il asked him what was the reason
for the change. There's a kind O.
cauldness sprung up between me and
the man. said he. 'How's that.
James? Weel,' he said. they use
very curious words here. What kind
Of words?' said /. 'Weel, said he,
they ca ribs of a CRATE bars. But
what had that to do with it,? said 1.
oh, said be, 1t just came aboot this
way. / was sittin' wi a bit chisel in
my hands afore the fire, and wanted
to soften it, and said to the wife.
'WiI ye just let me slap this in your
ribs?" and with that she gao a skirl.
and in comes the man, and there's
been a cauldness between him and me
sim syne."
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SECURED A LEGAL OPINION
Farmer Desired to Know Just Exactly
Where He "Was At" and Prob
ably He Does.

you are a lawyer, aren't your
asked the young farmer.
eyes," replied the young lawyer
genially to his first client, offering a
chair and assuming a fine nonchal-
ance.
well, want to know why it is un'
lawful to kill rabbits"
WELL" said the lawyer, ut is
against the law in this state to kill
rabbits in the closed season, which
includes the summer months, and you
can't shoot them at any time without
a license"
"WeIl, s'posin' they get into my can
taloupes. Can't I shoot 'em for tres
passin'?"
mo, you can't shoot a rabbit for
trespassing. The only thing you can
do is to have him arrested"
IF he comes into my house l can
shoot him, can't II"
mot unless he breaks in. If you
leave the door open and he walks in
you must not shoot him. But If he &C
cidentally falls into a pot Of boiling
water you can make soup Of him, |
suppose"
'It seems to me the rabbit has a
great advantage over me. oaH eate
my cantaloupes and cabbages, but l
can't do anything with him"
"You can scare him If you wish.
You can shoot at him. but you must
not hit him. The rabbit has this ad-
vantage over the cantaloupe, too-if
you shoot at the rabbit and hit can
taloupe it is all right. No harm done.
But If you shoot at cantaloupe and
hit rabbit it Is a fine and imprison-
ment
However, in the open season all
you have to do is get a license and
you can go and shoot rabbits or can.
taloupes either.
"As you see, you viii then have all
the advantage. You can get license
and the rabbit cannot, and you can
shoot, privilege denied to canta-
loupes. You really have quite an ad-
vantage.
"My fee is S5. Thank you, very
much. Chicago News.
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SYNOPSIS.

Scarlet. an American soldier Of tor-
tune in the employ Of the trencn III In
perial Police at the outbreak OF the Fsat Lallt
co-Prussian war, is ordered 70 aaes1 roS
John Buckhurst, a leader OF the COM
Tnunists and suspected OF having stOlSh
the French crown Jewels. While seaIch-
ing for Buckhurst, Scarlet is oroeIeu -
arrest Countess de Vassart @no heL st09uIp
Of socialists and escort them TO the bel-
gian border Scarlett finds sylvia ElVe5 ven
Of the Odeon disguised as peasant aiIo 4iIo
carries her to La Trappe WheEe ~
countess and her friends are asseniDIIu a0T,ss
ScRrlett from a fatal fall from the roOt
OF the house. He denounces BucknuIs1
as the leader Of the Reds and the couI a.
tess conducts him to where BuchIiu5 Buca..5 o1 N
secreted German Uhlans descena Oh
the place and Buckhurst escapes 9urins
the melee. Scarlet is wounded ne [e
covers consciousness IN the CouneeoSs
house at Morsbronn. where ne ,o.tia y fsai is
fought in the streets between French
and Prussian soldiers. Buckhurst pLo-
fessesi repentence and returns the crown
jewels to Scarlet He deeiaT,e;s ,e;as ne scsr- wit
lett doubts his sincerity. Bucknurst 1Isss
the countess to go to Paradise buch HIs.
hurst admits that he receives pay LlCLti y
the Prussians for information Whlch ne
doea NOT give He secures passports 70
the French lines for Scarlet. the couh 4.
tess and himself Scarlett reports 70
the secret service in Paris ana IlnuS MI
nae shadow Of the emperor, IN chaIse'
he deposits the crown jewels and lateI,
when making a detailed report, mas thaI
pebbles have been substituted for the real
stones Speed, a comrade In the service
warns Scarlett that Mornac Is dangerous
He also informs him that all the govern
Ynent treasure is being Transported 70 lhe
coast for shipment out OF the country
Scarlett and Speed escape to JOIN a CIT
GUS The circus arrives at Paradlse. An
order is received by the mayor eaIllng
the citizens to arms Jacdueline, oaugh-
ter Of the Lizard. offers, to join the circus
to give exhibitions in the character OF
mermaid. Scarlett makes friends WIN
the Lizard. Scarlet calls on the countess
at her home in Paradise. He finds sylvia
Flven also there. He learns the countess
has withdrawn from the socialists. They
swear eternal friendship. The Lizard
learns for Scarlet through one Trc-
Trac, that Mornac is head OF communls-
tic conspiracy. Scarlet learns somethlng
Of Sylvia Elven through fellow per
former named Kelly. Orders regarolns
the treasure trains are changed, owing TO
the discovery Of a plot at I,orient. orders
are received for the expulsion OF the CIR,
Gus Buckhurst appears in Paradise and
secures recruits for the red flag. Searlett
admits he Is in love with the countess;
Scarlett is injured by the circus lions and
taken to the home Of the countess.
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Tattoo" the word that, starting
from unconnected sources in Holland
and the South seas, has come to rep
resent two unconnected things by the
same sound and spelling, is an exam
pie Of a curious trick of our language.
Another is turtle" Nowadays what
it most commonly suggests is the
creature that gives the soup; 30 that
we have Mark Twain's young man in
Palestine disgusted because the mud
turtle win not sing, though the voice
of the turtle" should be heard In the
land. But the original English -tur-
tie" was the dove (Latis ''turtur," rep
resenting the sound Of its voice).
English sailors, coming across the
creature which the Spaniards called
"tortuga" (our tortoise" from Latin
'tortus," twisted. in aIlusion to It's
legs), made Of It the ''turtIe" into
which they ware ~ 50 fAmiIias.
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skirts, a tap Of small shoes on the
stone floor l leaned forward and
looked through the little partition win
dow; Sylvia Elven stood by the table.
quietly drawing on her gloves. Her
face was flushed and thoughtful.
When she had gone, closing the out
er door behind her, l sprang to the
key, switched on, and at venture get
the switch on the arsenal line, got a
quick reply, and succeeded in alarm
ing them sufficiently, think, for in a
few moments was telegraphing d.
rectly to the governor Of Lorient, and
the wires grew hot with an inter
change of observations, which resulted
in my running to the locker, tumbling
out all the signal bunting. cones, and
balls, sorting five flags, two red cones,
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CHAPTER Xxx.
The semanhore.


The telegraph station at the sema-
pheEe was a little, square, stone hut,
rooted with slate, perched high on the
cliffs. AS we drew nearer we could
see the sentry very distinctly, rife
slung muzzle down, slouching his beat
in tn. sunshine.
The soldier left his post as we start
ed toward him, and advanced, blinking
in the strong sunshine, meeting US
halfway.
Are you the soldier Rolland?"
asked.
He admitted that he was with
prompt profanity, adding that if we
didn't like his name we had only to
tell him so and he would arrange the
matter.
told him that we approved not
only of his name but his personal ap-
pearance; indeed, so great was our
admiration for him that we had come
clear. across the Saint-Yssel moor ex-
pressly to pay @ou' compliments to
him in the shape Of hundred franc
note. l drew it from the soiled roll
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the Lizard had intrusted to me, and
displayed it for the sentineFs inspec-
ton.
Under certain conditions" | said
these five louis are for you.%s
The soldier winked. 81 know what
you want; you want to go in yonder
and use the telegraph. What the
devil" he burst out, "do all you bour-
geois want with that telegraph IN
/ there?"
HAS anybody else asked to use itT
/ inquired, disturbed.
Anybody else?" he mimicked
"Well, l think so; there's somebody
in there nowhere, give your hundred
francs or tell you nothing, you un'
derstand!"
"Who is in that hut?"
"A lady-she comes often-she
gives ten francs each time. Zut!-
what is ten francs when gentleman
gives a hundred! She pays me for my
complaisance-bon! Place aux danes!
You pay me better-bon! Pm yours
gentlemen. War is war, but money
pulls the trigger!"
"Wait here" l said, disgusted, and
walked toward the stone station.
The side door was partly open;
stepped in noiseless1y and found my
self in a small, dusky closet, parti
toned from the telegraph Office. I'm.
mediately the rapid clicking Of the
Morse instrument came to my ears
and mechanically read the message
by the sound as it ratified on under the
fingers of an expert:
Must have already found out thai
the signals were not authorized by the
government, Before the Fer-de-Lance
returns to her station the German
| cruiser ought to intercept her OF
Groix. Did you arrange for this?"
There was a moments silence. then
back came rattling the reply in the
Morse code, but in German:
"Yes, all is arranged. The Augusta
+, took a French merchant vessel on
Pont Aven yesterday. The Augusta
ought to pass Groix this evening. You
are to burn three WnlCe HgnIS IroL
Point Paradise if landing-party ie
needed. 1t rests with you entirely"
Another silence, then the operator
in the next room began:
1.-THE insurgents here, under an indi
vidual in our pay, one John Buckhurst
are preparing to wreck the train al
the Lammerin trestle.
"If the Augusta can reach Point
Paradise tonight, landing-party coult
easily scatter these insurgents, seize
the treasures, and re-embark in safety
There is, you declare. nothing tc
fear from Lorient; the only thing
then, to be dreaded is the appearance
of the Fer-de-Lance off Groix. She /:
not now in sight; will notify you il
she appears. II she does not come
will burn three. white lights in triangle
on Paradise headland. This is all BC
careful. Good-by."
"Good-by," clicked the instrument II
the next room. There was rustic o
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shoulders and beats his head against
the pavement until he renders him un-
conscious-if he doesn't kill him.
l asked the poacher why Buckhurst
had come to Paradise, and why his
banditti had seized the railroad at
Rose-Sainte-Anne.
"Ah," cried the Lizard, with fero-
cious leer, that is the kernel under
the limpet's tent! And l have uncov
cred It'll, Robert Garenne, bon sang
de Jesu! Listen, messieursi We are
to wreck the train for Brest tonight,
Do you comprehend"
"Where?" 1 asked, quietly.
Just where the trestle at Lamme-
rim crosses the ravine below the house
Of Josephine Tanguy."
Speed looked around at me. ~It's
the treasure-train from Lorient.
They're probably sending the crown
diamonds back to Brest in view of the
Uhlans being seen near Quimper.'
ION a false order?"
THAT is the truth" said the Lizard; /;
"Tric-Trac told me. They have the
code book of Mornac."
thought quietly for a moment, then
asked the poacher whether there was
a guard at the semaphore of Saint
Yssel
Eyes, the soldier ROLAND, who says
he understands the telegraph-a sot
from Morlaix." He hesitated and
looked across the open moor toward
Paradise. Il must CO." he muttered;
81 am on guard yonder."
| offered him my hand again; he
took it, looking me sincerely in the
eyes.
Let your private wrongs wait lit
tie longer" r said. 81 think we can
catch Buckhurst and Mornac alive"
For your sake" said the poacherr
clutching my hand in a tightening
grip-"for your sake have let Nor
nae go-let him pass me at arms
length, and did not strike. But
swear to you that if you miss him this
time, l shall not miss-I, Robert the
Lizard!"
you mean to kill Mornac?' asked.
His eyes bIazed. His strong fingers
closed lighter on my hand. DO you
understand that ne wronged meme,
the soldier Garenne, in garrison at
vincennes; he, the officer, the aristo'
crat?"
He choked, crushing my hand in a
spasmodic grip. Ami, the little red
1 fa q
her-the doe-a silly maid Of Paradise
and I was in irons, m sieu. for three
years"
Your wife?'' l asked, quietly.
Yes, ami"
He dropped my numbed fingers and
rubbed his eyes with the back of his
big hand.
"Then Jacqueline is not your little
daughter?" asked, gravely.
"Hers-not mine That has been the
most terrible of all for me-since she
died-died so young, too, m'sleu-and
all alone-in Paris. If he had not done
that-if he had been kind to her. And
she was only a child. ami, yet he left
her"
All the ferocity in his eyes was
gone; he raised vacant, grief-linet
visage to meet mine, and stood stupid
ly, heavy hands hanging.
Then, shoulders sloping, he sham
bled off into the thicket. trailing his
battered rife.
When he was very far away mo
toned to Speed.
Il think" said I, that we had bet
ter try to do something at the sema
phore If we are going to stop tina
ltrain in time"
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a good game and then began the divi-
sion Of words like eggs, into right, part
ly right, and strictly right, and rating
rs per cent. children 55 per cent, as in
Leslie county, Kentucky, and some
places nearer home, where all these
new devices were practiced and re
ported faVorably on regardless of
facts,'' as one may see who reads
Page 251, Eleventh Report of Schools.
which condemns these practices.
To encourage pupils is laudable, but
to tell them they are right when they
are wrong, even though we may rec
ognize degrees of wrongness in words
as in eggs, is certainly lot commend
able. The action of educator Sweet
man in accepting ''bad" for ''bade''
should be no model for others to fol
low. nor for himself to continue.
There have been many like him; he's
but type.-New York Times.
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TEACHING PUPILS TO SPELL
New York Newspaper Thinks That
Possibly There Is an Error in
the Present Process.

So much has been said and printed
about the very independent way pupils
in school now spell-of course, there
we're always bad spellers-that the
reason for it should be known. A
dozen or more years ago a new
method Of teaching spelling was de-
vised and from one end of our educa-
forbidden country to the other was
practiced and favorably reported on. 1t
was called ''visualiziation," and meant
that a mental picture was certainly
impressed on "the child's' mind by
merely looking at the word. 1t never
occurred to the visualizers that the
child" had always looked at the word,
and that the drill they proposed to do
away with was all there was to the
spelling lesson.
Many a learned-sounding word has
been Of service to expert educators in
this way. Interallis, laboratory. eff
cient, to function. to sense, vital, prog
ress. apperceive. ard eorrelate; twas
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Public Health.

John Burns, member Of parliament,
in a recent address asserted that it
was to English speaking peoples that
the world is indebted for the great
codes that have been originated for
the care of the public health. He said
that these peoples are the colonizers
of the world. they are modern Romans,
whose strength lies in their limbs not
in their swords, and this is due to their
noble motherhood. Healthy parents, .
says Mr.. Burns, happy children. For
this the parents must be cleanly wed,
children nobly bred. wisely fed, and
firmly led" He advocated plain hv-
ing, gave statistics to show that high
wages did not lessen mortality among
children, and that in English farm Ia
borers the death rate was much small
er than in other pursuits though wages
were very low.
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difference Between BIB and b

Mr. James Stuart, a former lord
rector Of St Andrews university. has
in one of his books the following Illus.
trations of word values. On one occa.
sion MIR. Stuart ehanced to be assist.
ed in some engineering work at Cam
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= "a NothIno on Burns.

There Is a story of gentleman
when advocating the utility Of public
schools. who said; Byron was a
Harrow boy" I'Wnat Of that?" said
an opponent "BArns was plowboy. !"
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can be done is to hold him in check,
starve him by covering all garbage
and stable litter, catch and kill him
when possible-and resolve to make
a more effective campaign against this
murderer of babies next spring.
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tees compelled protestation against
conditions.
Rents were considered sacred, and
as Lord Salisbury said in the house
of lords: THAT to touch these rents
would be laying your axe at the root
of the fabric Of civilized society"
No one will deny that debt hon.
estly contracted should be honestly
met. but. John Bright declared: IF
q map were made of ireland, stripped
of everything the tenant had done,
and marking only what had been done
by the landlord, 1t would be like an
American prairie. bare of house and
barn, fence and civilization"
Landlord Gets All.
I give you this excerpt from the
memoirs of John Bright. who was
opposed to home rule, to show that
every vestige of improvement rem
dered by the tenant was rendered at
the tenants expense, and every i'm
provement that added to the produc-
ton Of the soil was the sacred prop
erty of the landlord, and rents were
based and fixed according to the pro-
ductive capacity of the land.
These rents were based upon the
productive volume of the soil and the
market value of the products, and
fixed for given number Of years, and
notwithstanding fall in the market
value OF the product, the rents re-
manned the same. In the fixing of
these rents no thought was given to
possible falling in prices of agricul-
tural products, which, when the fall
took place, it left the tenant with an
inadequate provision for his family's
needs, to say nothing of the arrear-
age Of rentals that accrued with sub
sequent eviction and confiscation of
all the improvements rendered with.
out compensation.
The land act of 1870 gave no com
pensation for improvements rendered
and the loss of tenant right, through
eviction. carried with it complete loss
of every shilling spent for improve
ments.
Government Inactive.
No allowance being made for hard
times or falling prices. the govern
ment preferring to take shelter be
hind the plea, ''to interfere with the
right Of eviction would make the pay.
ment of all rents arbitrary and ca
PRECIOUS"
1t mattered little to Balfour that
thousands of honest tenants and their
families were homeless and penniless
cast out to perish by the mountain
side, that PROPERTY rights should
be maintained irrespective of HUMAN
rights to a living honestly earned.
EvictiOnS were not an exception; or
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the contrary, 1t was general c0ndi-
ton as the following statistics will
show: For five years, ending in
1877, there was yearly average of
FIVE hundred families made homeless
In 1873 there were over seven hum
dred; in 1879 over one thousand, and
for the first half of 1880 exceeded the
whole year of 1879" Thus in seven
and one-half years $500 tenant farm
ers lost their homes.
Can it be wondered at that a condi-
ton of disaffection exists?
Ireland for the last one hundred
years has been asking for the right
to legislate for itself. Ulster pro-
tests against that right. As l said
above, religious bigotry is behind the
movement. They armed themselves
for the conflict in 1885. The Carson
Of that day was Lord Randolph Chur-
chill. Although home rule was de-
feated, they fought anyhow. as is at
tested by the Belfast riot Immediately
following the defeat of the bill.
one-haIf Satisfied.
The question as to whether Ulster
Is entitled to the recognition she de-
mands is debateable one. Out of
thirty-three representatives from ul-
ster sixteen are for home rule, which
shows at least that nearly one-half OF
the population of the province of u
ster will not be found in the fighting
ranks.
Therefore, listers right to recog-
milton is based on the fact that seven
teen out of 1O3 members of parlia-
ment are against home rule. What a
splendid example of majority rule!
April 8. 1886, Ireland found friend
in w. E. Gladstone, who, notwithstand-
ing his seventy-six years, plead in the
house of commons for three and one
half hours that a policy of humanity
be exercised in dealing with Ireland.
Here are some of the salient points
of the bill: To set up an Irish legis-
lature for dealing with Irish affairs.
| There was to be made under the bill
an Irish executive as well as an Irish
Legislature, responsible to the lord
lieutenant, who would hold his office
independent of English political par
ties. The legislature was to be d.
vided into two houses, one to consist
of Irish peers, who were almost all
opposed to home rule, and members
elected under a high pecuniary or
property qualification. The other
| would be made up of the present quta
of Irish representatives, 1O3 in num-
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Der, with an additional 101 chose by all
the Irish constituencies.

Der, with an additional 101 chose by all
the Irish constituencies.
Judges Under Control.
The Irish judges were to be subject
to the Irish legislature. and the Irish
executive would control the constabu-
larry or police forces.
The Irish legislature was forbidden
under the law to deal with matters
affecting the crown; with military or
naval forces, with trade, navigation
and coinage. and with projects for the
establishment or endowment of any
RELIGIOUS institution.
Let me ask, what is there about
such legislature to cause such
state of panic among the Obstetrics?
1t is for this privilege that Ireland
has 80 long fought: IL is that their
rights to a fair share of the fruits of
their labor be recognized: that their
representatives have suffered martyr
dom in Kilmainham and other jails:
and for the act in assembling in a
peaceable political gathering, such as
at Mitchelstown, to which I was an
eye witness, men were shot down like
dogs.
Well might it be said that the black
est page of England's history is in
her dealing with Ireland.
Very truly.
ALFRED BAV1S.