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By SIR WALTER BESANT
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CHAFTER XXI11.—(Continued.)
lie took it out of his pocket—a thick
leather note book, stuffed full of the
notes which he had made during hia resi
dence In the place—and began to read:
" *1, David Leighan, farmer, of the
parish of Challacomb
"Halloo!" 1 cried, "I know that man.
There is only
only one Challacomb«."
"Has he kept bis promise and come
home?"
"Yes. He came home three months
ago."
"So. lie is doubtless hanged by this
David Leighan, and
time?"
"Why should he be hangedY"
"For the murder which he coufaased
as to give him*
In this document. He
•elf up to the police, and confess aud
take the consequence«."
"But he has not murdered any one;
at least, he hua uot confessed."
"He murdered hia uncle, one Daniel
Leighan, of the same parish,
uot confessed, I must put these paper«
in the ha-Vis of Justice."
"Why, his uncle I« still alive!
could he
"Then David must have been mad. In
which case it seems a pity that 1 took
so much trouble to save him from the
■tewpans. But hero 1« his confession,
and if it la a work of fiction, all I can
•ay is that David is master of that art."
"May I read the confession?"
He handed me the note book and I
read it through. You, gentle reader,
have already had that advantage.
When I had read the paper through
I understood everything. 1 understood
why ho came to the church yard in order
to sec the grave of hla victim; why he
was ao careless about liIs rags; why he
was seized with that queer hysterical fit;
why he was so moody and sullen;
It wùs that he took out of the hiding
place at Grimspound; what he was doing
with the old man. Everything beca
clear; and one thing clearer than any
other—that his uncle must be saved from
If he h
What
ii by confessing?"
hat
him.
"Herr Baron," I said, "I must take
you. if you please, all the way from
London to Ghallncombe. You must stand
before David with this document in your
hand, and prove that he I« n
intent and a robber in fact."
nrderer in
CHAPTER XXIV.
When the harvest
grain whs {»gathered, and the work of
the year completed, George began to
make his orrangements. lie had recoiv
ed the formal notice and a six months'
w.ace in which to find the money. There
Vs*as no longer any doubt possible that
lie must leave Sldcote. He had
Made it ail out in his own mind. There
A'ould be enough money from the harvest
io pay the half-years' Interest; the land
would be foreclosed. And the sale of his
farm Implements, furniture and every
thing would leave him with a few h
dred to begin the world again. He would
go to Tasmania, where a man might buy
• ud live upon the fruit of
over and the
a small fa
his own labor.
"Let us," said Mary, "make one lasl
appeal ta my uncle.
We will go togeth
er, George. Perhaps he may relent even
at the last."
They made frhat appeal at an uufor
tui, lie time.
morning, when David was still
uncle; and in the second place, it was
a morning when David hu4 keen abusing
hia position. The redemption value of
I he coupous. in fact, was at a preposter
ous figure, and the poor old man, torn by
the desire to get back his property and
by rage at the terrible ransom imposed
upon It, war rapidly arriving at the con
dition in which his nephew loved to see
him, when he lost his self-command, and
in turns groveled, wept, protested, lin
pi«.red, cursed and tried to bribe his
nephew.
When they opened the door they found
the old raun trembling and shaking with
the passions of impotence and rage. His
taco, livid and distorted, with haggard
eyes, was turned upward iu an agony of
entreaty, to meet David's. There was
no passion in that fact, nor any emotion
except a calm and sober satisfaction,
which might even have been holy grati
tude, for David'« heavy face was hard
to read. He stood over his uncle's chair.
To begin wit!.. It was In the
rith kin
dominating him. with n bundle of papers
In his hand, regardless alike of prayers
or imprecations.
"Walt a minute, George," he said.
"We have Just finished our business, and
• most pleasant half hour we hare spent,
to be sure. Now. uncle, steady, I say, or
you will have a fit—now, is it a deal, or
shall 1 put this little packet into the fire?
Quick! Take It or leave it. That's my
figure!"
Why do
that nobody will blame hlm. I don't ex
pect ever to get the value of my money
back. Bo we're all losers by tbs hard
"I'll take It—oh! I'll take it!"
David laid the paper on the table In
stantly and made a note in a pocketbood.
"Fity," he said, "that you would not
come to terms sooner. You'd have spared
tourseif a great deal of trouble and time.
But there, you always would have your
way, and you enjoy beating a man down.
d >n't you?" His uncle did not look ex
t»-tly as if be had enjoyed the last at
tempt. "Now, I've done, George."
Although he had finished his business.
David did not retire, but took s seat—
Mary's seat—In the window, prepared to
listen, and with the appearance of one
Interested in what was coming.
"What do you want, George?" Mr.
Leighan asked, impatiently,
you come here while I am busy, Mary?
I'm not so strong as 1 was. and David
made me angry. Wait a moment. Da
vid said something that angered me.
Wait a moment He doesn't mean to an
ger me—no—no—but he does, some
times."
He covered his face with his hands.
I'reseutiy the trembling left him aud he
recovered.
"Now," he said, with a show of brisk
ness, "1 am better again. What is it.
George? If it is business, have yon
come to propose anything? You have
got your legal notice, I believe? Yes.
Then you know' thg conditions of the
law, which I didn't make. It is the same
for me as for you. Pay me any other
way and keep your laud. If no other
way, I shall have your land. Is that
•fuse, or is it not?"
"Hard common sense," said George.
"So It is," said David. "It's always
hard common sense when be takes an
other man's land."
"I am sorry for you, George," the old
man went on; yet his face expressed a
certain satisfaction. "Nobody will blame
you. I'm sure; or me either, for that
matter; and when your poor father bor
rowed the money the" land was worth
three times as much as It is now, so
time«. I shall want a tenant. George,"
the old man went on, "and we will not
quarrel about the rent. Easy terme you
«hall have, and when you've got your
head well above water again, we wili
consider about you aud Mary. Don't
think I shall he hard upon you."
"No," «aid George; "I am going to
emigrate."
"To foreign land«, George? Ha« it
come to that? Dear—dear!"
"1 am going to Taamania."
"Tut, tut; this is very bad. To for
eign lands! David went to foreign land«,
and see how he came home. George,
you had better stay at Hldcote aud be my
tenant."
"No," George «aid, shortly. "Well, the
long and the short of it Is that we are
here to-day—Mary and I—to ask your
consent to our marriage."
"No. George; 1 shall not consent.
What! let Mary marry a man who has
lost his own land and Is going to foreign
lands? Certainly not! not ou any ac
count!"
"When your sister left Mary all her
fortuni
"It was mine by right«. 1 made it
for her."
"—Bhe put in the clause about you»
consent to protect her. You know,
well as 1, that she herself would never
object to me for Mary's husband."
"Bhe began with a thousand pounds.
By my advice she made it into «lx thou
sand pounds. Do you mean to tell mo
that 1 am to have no voice in the dis
posal of all this money?"
"This kind of talk will not help any
body. Well, 1 have had my answer, I
suppose. Mary, dear, it is for you to
choose between your uncle and me."
"I have chosen, George, you know
well. Uncle, you will have to give that
money to David or to me. Here I« Da
vid, and here am I. To which of ui
will you give It?"
"Suppose. Mary," David iuterpoaed—
"suppose there was a secret arrange
ment—1 don't say there is, but suppose
there was—betw
your uncle aud me.
Suppose that 1 was to sell my chance
for ao much dowu, and he was to keep
the rest."
"Uncle! you would not—you could not
—do such a tiling!" Mary cried.
"Suppose, I say"—David went
"that arrangement was to exiat. Then,
you see, George and Mary"—David put
the thing in his slow and elaborate
to bring out the full meaning
of the transaction—"you aee that if you
don't marry without his consent, he will
loge the money he's got to pay me; hut if
he does not pay me that money before
you get married, he will have to pay me
the whole afterward. Therefore ho nat
urally
consent. Y
for him."
man
ner, ao
■nuts you to marry without his
are going to play hla gnuis
At this unexpected blow Daniel was
covered with confusion. When two peo
ple make auch a treaty, secrecy is the
very essence of it; and for one of the par
ties concerned to blurt out the truth is.
in a sense, n breach of contract. The
old man actually turned red—at seventy
he had still the grace to blush—and hung
ills head, but be could not speak.
"Oh! you have speculated on our mar
rying wlthouty our consent! You have
actually bought David's chance, and now
you want us to marry, so that you may
keep the whole to yourself!"
"Not the whole,'' said David. "What
will he left after lie has bought me out!"
"Mary," her uncle replied, evading the
question, "why do you want to get
rled yet? Stay with me.
stay at Sidcote and bo my tenant. And
l will consider—I will consider. Besides,
think, Mary; 1 am an old man now, and
you will have all my money and all my
land when I die."
ir
Let George
"Have you bought up David so that
you may keep the money as long as you
please, by always refusing your consent?
Answer that," «aid George, hotly.
"I shall answer nothing," Daniel re
plied angrily—"nothing—nothing! You
have come here and asked for my
sent to your marriage. Very well; 1 re
fuse It. Now you cau go."
"Mary," said George, "it is no longer
possible to leave you in this house. Your
uncle has deliberately set himself to rob
you. Come with me, dear; my mother
will take care of you till we are mar
ried." Mary hesitated. "Go, Mary, put
on your hat aud come with me. As for
you, Daniel Leighan"—he waited till
Mary had left the room—"we leave you
alone. Nothing worse can happen to you.
When you have no longer Mary to pro
vide beforehand all your wants—when
you are alone all the day and all the
evening, you will remember what you
have thrown away. Oh, you are seventy
years of age, and you are rich already,
and you rob your sister's daughter in or
der for a year or two to call yourself
richer still!"
The old man crouched among his pil
lows and made no answer. Mary was
leaving him. But if she stayed he must
give his couseut, and then he would lose
the land. Ten minutes later Mary re
turned, carr>iug a small bag lu her baud.
"I have come to »ay good-by, uncle."
Her eyes \*ere full of tears. "1 knew
that I must choose between George aud
you. 1 kuew that you would refuse, be
cause George could save his land if he
had my money, sud 1 kuew that your
heart was set upon getting his laud. But
1 did not know—oh! I could not guess -
tbat you ha»i planned this wicked thing
to get my fortune as well as George's
land. Everything 1 have is yours, hut I
suppose you will let me have my clothes
as wages for six years' work. Come,
George."
"You will go—and leave me—all
alone, Mary?"
"1 am her estill, ancle,'' said David.
"1 will come and stay here—I will be
with you all day long and every even
ing. Not alone; you still have me. We
shall have a roaring time uow that Mary
Is gone. We will bargain all day long."
The old man looked up and saw hla
enemy before him with exulting eyes and
the room empty, save for these two, sud
he shrieked aloud with terror. David
with him always!
"Mary!" he cried, while yet her soft
footsteps, gone forever, echoed etUl about
the quiet house. "Mary!" But It was
too late. "Come back, Mary—don't
leave me—don't leave me—and you shall
marry whom you please! Mary! Mary!
1 give you my consent! Mary, come
back!"
She was gone; and there was
ewer Then he turned his face into the
pillows and moaned and wept Even
David had not the heart to mock him in
this first moment of his self-reproach and
dark foreboding of terror and of troubli
| to come,
con
(To ba continued.)
MOST LONESOME OF SPOTS.
Mgbtlidaa. on Lake Snp.rli
M11r. from Vpnre.l Port.
Ont of Right of hind, perched on a
pinnacle of rock far oat in Lake Su
perior and visible only to lake craft
which make Marquette and other porta
along the south shore east of Ke
weenaw point or those which ply from
one end of the lake to the other, Is
a coulncal gray stone tower rising 102
feet above the level of the water and
from which every night during the sea
son of navigation there flashes a white
light every thirty seconds, warning
navigators of the danger zone. This
Is Stannard rock lighthouse—the lone
liest spot on the big Inland sea—of
which Captain Chambers of Mackinac
Island Is keeper.
Hu Isolated Is the lighthouse that the
nearest port—Marquette—Is more than
fifty miles distant, while the nearest
laud of any description Is Manitou
Island. In clear weather the light la
visible for a distance of over eighteen
miles, and In thick weather there is a
ten-inch steam whistle to give warn
ing to passing craft.
During the season of navigation the
keeper and his assistants while at the
ruck look out on nothing but sky and
water except when they see a passing
ship In the distance or the lighthouse
tender visits them with supplies.
The rock Itself arises from two and
a half to three feet above the level of
the lake and Is but fifteen or twenty
feet In diameter. This pinnacle marks
the site of a dangerous shoal extend
ing north by west and south by east
of 290 feet, with a width of 1,1500
feet, ("lose around It, however. Is
some of the deepest water In Lake
Superior, soundings having been taken
for (KK) feet.
In the early days of the lighthouse
the keeper had only one or two as
sistants and there were periods of
months that he never got away from
his post. The government, however,
soon realised the undesirability of
such lonesome service and the dull
ruir
;
eulty of getting men who would stay
on the rock for so long a stretch. In
later years there have been four men.
Including the keeper, to care for the
light and the fog whistle, and by nil
arrangement between them two are on
duty all the time.
The lighthouse can be approached
only on one side, and then when the
water Is smooth, for there Is an abrupt
wall at the top of the platform, some
thirty feet high, and tbe boat and all
tho supplies are hauled up by a der
rick. There have been many occa
sions when the returning keepers
found
on running at the light
house, so that they could not approach,
and have had to take chanceH of lay
ing for hours In their little craft—
not tI k 3 safest thing to do on Lake
Superior—or of making for the near
est «heiter, miles away.—Milwaukee
»Sentinel.
heavy
NEED OF DISCRIMINATION.
Those who like that peculiarly rich,
pulpy Western fruit known us the
papaw, which has beeu defined us "a
natural custard," are likely to be Im
moderately foud of It; but those who
do uot like It nearly always have a
strong aversion to it. A man was on
trial in a Missouri court, charged with
having broken into a neighbor's prem
ises and stolen a bushel of this fruit.
The first man examined us to his
qualifications to sit ou the Jury was
asked this question, among others:
"Do you like papaws?"
"I cau eat a hatful of 'em at one
sitting," answered the man, with a
broad smile.
"Your honor," said the prosecuting
attorney, "we challenge this man."
'•On what ground?" asked the court.
"On the ground, your honor, that
any man who likes papaws would feel
like Justifying any other man for steal
ing them, ou account of the tempta
tion being Irresistible."
"You may stand aside, sir," said the
a
Judge.
The next man who was examined
did not like papaws—the very idea of
eating them "made him Kick."
"We'll take him, your honor," said
the prosecuting attorney.
"Hold on!" exclaimed tho attorney
for the defense. "We object to this
man, your honor."
"What is your objection ?" inquired
the Judge.
"The fact that he doesn't like
paws, your honor, would give him a
feeling of prejudice and contempt for
a man charged with stealing
and render him incapable of returning
a fair verdict."
"You may stand aside, sir," said the
court.
P*
them
A Jury
vas finally secured, consist
lug of men who hud never tasted
papaw.
sounded
.»latter uf frlde.
The Judge—You say you
your horu after you ran over the man.
Why did you do that?
The Chauffeur—I didn't want him
to think he had been run over by a
milk wagon, did I?—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Very Likely.
"But," protested the trust magnate.
"I am very fond of the poor people. I
like them."
"Ah!" exclaimed the wise observer,
'that may explain why you make so
many of them."—Philadelphia Press.
111« True («real ne««.
"During his boyhood eveggbodjr said
he would achieve greatness in some
line."
"He did," answered Miss Cayenne.
"He became a great nuisance."—Wash
ington jtar.
Found a Market.
"Did Peno have good success In get
ting rid of his last book?"
"Oh. yes; his children gave most of
them away as birthday presents."—
Denver Sews.
Give a hoy a compliment when his
sisters are around, aud they will de
corate his life with It In such a way
that he would rather be dead than
bare another one paid him.
Beware of him who finds It neces
sary to boast uf his honesty.
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AI though less than twenty years
nave passed since it was first proved
n Richmond, Va . that there were com
mercial possibilities In the overhead
trolley, the profession of electric rail
roading has already become so well es
tablished that all sorts of young men
are getting Into It. It Is again reported
this full from several districts of the
Middle West that male school-teachers
can hardly be secured because the
young fellows who formerly taught lu
the rural schools sr« now all tu service
ns conductors or motormen. From the
country towns in the East, too. there Is
all the time going on an exodus among
the most capable men to the offices of
the transportation companies In the
cities. Such are the opportunities
which the extension of urban and In
terurban lines have made that even
women in some eases, as recently In
Indianapolis, have attempted to quali
fy us conductors, and though lu this
Instance they proved unsuccessful, no
body dares to predict that five or Hf
tecu years hence the patrons of some
American road may not be handing
over their ulckels to uniformed con
ductors lu petticoats.
A large proportion, certainly, of
those who thus join the ranks do so
with the expectation of rising from
the car platform to the higher paid
positions of responsibility. Although
the wages paid employes by the elec
tric roads are good for the class of
work, the opportunities for advance
ment are what are especially attract
ing a superior class of men. Thou
sands. undoubtedly of the ambitious
have been Incited by the example of
street railway kings of to-day, who
only a few years ago occupied humble
positions at small wages.
A large percentage comes from the
country. It has Indeed been the expe
rience of the elevated management
that the lads from the smaller places
are apt to pass very creditable phys
ical examinations and to develop Into
high-grade employes.
Remarkable diversity ns to former
c up 'tlons exists among the men
v hum the visitor to Roston notes as
polite conductors or motormen in well
cut uniforms. Many, of course, report
simply that they have all their lives
been funning or helping their parents
on the farm, but among tbs hundreds
of new ones taken on each year are to
be found the names of men who must
have been through stirring adventures
before they undertook ttie useful task
sf collecting nickels. From the United
States army and navy there Is notice
able a regular drift to the service of
the Bostou company. Several score of
former soldiers or sailors pass their
examinations every year and enter the
Industrial ranks under the leadership
of that veteran of the Spanish war,
Major General William A. Bancroft,
president of (he elevated company.
Those, too, who have been good serv
ants of Uncle Sam are likely to con
tinue to be good soldiers. They find
In their new occupation opportunities
for advancement which are Impossible
In army and navy, for there exists In
It uo Impassable barrier between com
missioned and non-commissioned offi
cers. The most efficient men may go
right from the bottom to the top. as
Indeed every division superintendent
of tile road has.
If men from tbe government service
turn up often at the elevated com
pany's famous traiiiiug school In the
Hiilltvuu square terminal, hardly less
frequently do people from callings
which would not seem exactly to pre
pare for street railroading present pa
pers of application and recommenda
tion. School-teachers and superintend
ents. weary of the deadening grind of
tile schoolroom, have lately been ap
pearing in considerable numbers. They
know that In the chosen vocation the
same devotion that was shown lu
teaching will eventually reward them
much better. College students, too, en
ter the service, some for a few mouths
in the summer aud others—those of the
type that the company most approves
—for permanent work.
It would be hard to say Just how
many ex-clergymen are taking up nick
els Instead of presenting contribution
boxes on the Hues running in and out
sf the New England metropolis. There
Is, at any rate, a considerable num
ber of them. Horae are men who be
came discouraged In tbe disheartening
task of maintaining a congregation In
a town of diminishing population and
lessening regard for religious tradi
tions, aud they turn to the «inductor's
calling as one which gives outdoor life,
exercise of Intelligent and abundant
opportunity to practice the Christian
virtues. Occasionally a minister takes
the examinations because be bag some
throat trouble which prevents his go
ing on with his preaching.—Chicago
Chronicle.
A Tithe-Collector.
Whan any one, even ths minister.
Miss
attempted an argument with
Marie Higgins, he was pretty sure to
find himself worsted In the end.
The minister objected at times to
the firm manner In which Miss Hig
gins placed bis duty before him at
every opportunity, although he had a
great respect for her character.
"I can't see my way to preaching a
sermon on tithes Just yet," he said,
meekly, one day, when Miss Higgins
i;ad been muklu-r him a long
"Tbo people baveu't much money, you
know, Mis» Higgins, and they cau't
divide up other things very well. Even
you couldn't, always. Suppose, for In
stance, you should go home and find
your bens had laid fifteen eggs, how
would you manage to give a tenth of
them to the Lord?"
"I should come back aud take you
aud your w ife home to tea with me,"
suld Miss Higgins, with a grim sinilu,
"and I guess when I'd made a scram
ble of six of those eggs and set you
two down to It, the Lord would get
His tithe fast enough."
odorous, waterway, culled
Creek,
call.
Chicago has a noble, If somewhat
Bubbly
The stockyards discharge
Into It. It has beeu discovered that
the famous stream will burn. Says
a local paper; "That this historic sec
tion of the city's commercial water
way cân bubble and dues bubble, and
that It can exude smells compared to
which a rendering pluut Is us a fra
grant morn In buddiug June, aud dues
so exude, has long been a matter of
local history, If uot pride. But that
the famed old swimming pool cau be
converted luto kinetic heat energy by
the mere application of a match bus
remained tor the Weekly Health Bul
letin to disclose." It 1» now proposed
to set the river ou fire!
Tbe Japanese are making great
strides In the art of advertising. The
agents of the government tobacco
monopoly offering their wares in Man
churia declare that their cigarette
"admlulsters life," "supports the spir
its"; "this cigarette of government
manufacture is sweet and of good
quality, famous, once tried always to
liked"; "will cause the smoker to feel
as if In a dream like unto tbe Moun
tain Woo-Shan."
A case has been reported in Ger
many which suggests the curative
value of fear. The subject, au old
woman, had been bedridden ou ac
count of paralysis for ten years. Last
August a tempest burst iu the region
where she lived. Hull destroyed the
vineyards. A gale shook the houses,
Premature darkness settling dowu
caused general terror. The old para
lytic, Influenced by fear, leaped from
her bed. There has been no relapse,
aud she may be set down, perhaps, as
the only case of cure by tempest.
Ur. Daniel Morphy, the Roman
Catholtc archbishop of Tasmania, who
recently celebrated bis ninety-first
birthday and tho diamond Jubilee of
his episcopate, once made a Jest that
At the
amused the late Pope Leo.
close of a farewell audience In the
early '80s the Pope said: "Well,
brother, I suppose this is the last
time we shall meet In this world."
But In the early '90s Dr. Murphy
turned up again at the Vatican, re
minded Pope Leo of hla pessimistic
prophecy, aud added; "So you see
you are not Infallible after all."
now.
A handy word much misused in phe- [
uomenon. The London Globe once 1
heard a man, explaining its meaning
"Now f If*you s" 6 « c'ow'fn a* medder " I
»* «»m didactically "that'« not a •
'hino. 1m ' Ifl J nretta «nhuM anS
whut not but It ain't a phinomcenu
And If you see a thistle In u meUder,
., j
that ain't a phluomeena. Nor If you
see a lark In the medder, that ain't a '
phlnomeenn. It's a pretty bird and
what not, but It ain't a phluomeena.
But If you were to see that cow sit
ting ou that thistle and singing like
that lark, that would be a phlno
Hls friend said, yea, he saw
meenu."
He Uul Kru
A ready tongue la a "faker's" best
stock In trade. It Is capable of turn
ing an untoward occurrence Into such
Ingenious and plausible use that It
wins the good will, and, what is of
more purpu.se. the pence of the crowd.
The Buffalo Enquirer prints an ex
ample of this resource of an Itinerant
merchant :
A faker was selling cement. He
stood on a village street corner, with
a group of women about him, recount
ing eloquently the virtues of the
cement aud demonstrating with actual
experiment. He took up a plate, broke
it In halves, cemented the two pieces,
I uder.
aud then suspended from the mended
plate a teu-pouud weight.
"Look here," he said. "There Is no
cement like this. It Is always ready,
it needs no heating, aud It Is as strong
a* steel. To this plate, for Instance, I
have Just bung a ten-pouud weight. I
will now substitute a
twenty-five-1
pound one. The cement, you see. holds
firm. I now Increase the weight to
thirty pounds, and—''
Craahl The plate broke. The audi
ence smiled.
But the faker, not at all disturbed,
went right on:
"And you will observe, ladles, that
tbe plate uow breaks with ease, thus
giving us an opportunity to cement the
edges more firmly together whenever
It la desirable to do so."
ELECTRICITY CURES PMTHI8 8.
One Million Volte Has Healed Thirty
Two Outre of Cunaumptlon.
Dr. Alfred Goss of Adams, N. Y., '
bas apparently cured thirty-two cases
tuberculosis. He has twelve cases
under treatment and day by day the
»putum of these patients shows a less
He begins with the theory advanced
by Dr. Sir Oliver Lodge and Prof. J.
Thompson, says a correspondent of
the New York World, that matter Is
electricity, that electricity has Its own
unit of quantity, and that In the pas
sage of electricity through a liquid me
dlum the electrons of electricity and
the atoms of the medium unite and at
the same speed pass on together
through the medium or whatever lies
beyond. By accident he discovered a
germicide that kills tubercular bacilli,
yet does not affect the albumen of the
blood. The huge static electrical ma
chine he uses develops 83,000 volts,
that after being passed through a Vac
Houten or Ten Broeck's high frequen
cy apparatus. Increases to supposedly
1,000,000 volts; with such low ampher
age that when abut Into the
through a Snow's vacuum surface elec
trode the patient feels no unpleasant
He smears his germicide on the pa
tleut s breast, back or sides and ap
plies the electrode. A gas arises from
the decomposition of the germicide and
Its atoms uniting with the electrical
electrons pass on luto the lung tissue,
benumbing the bacilli and leaving to
the white blood corpuscles only the
task of carrying oft the bacilli. Thus
the white corpuscles do not have to ms
to produce the toxin themselves and
thereby become congested In the blood
vessels encrystlng the bacilli and p.e
venting the swarms of corpuscles from
gaining access to them.
Some time ago Df. Goss experiment
ed with a cadaver and upon dissecting
It found traces of the gas at a depth of
eight Inches below the surface. Pa
tients detect the taste of the gas Im
mediately after treatment Dr. Goss
also finds traces of the gas In the
sputum of patients, proving conclusive
ly that the electricity does carry the
germicide atoms Into the 'ung tissues.
The badin in the sputuu, of patlfTi
treated by Dr. (foss canno, be devj^
el In cultures so as to reproduce. All
of the thirty- wo patients thought by
Dr. Loss to be cured are free from
cough and have gained many pounds
of flesh. The most rigid examination
show, no traces of tubercular bacilli lu
* r um * , ,
Dr. Goss has received many letters
from Physicians, all of whom are eu
couraglng him to carry out 1.1« Investi
gâtions. He declares that he has not
and will not patent hla discovery and
that It is free to the world. He runs
no sanitarium and accepts only pa
tients whose family physician has as
sured them that the treatment seems
to him practicable.
Dr. Goss Is a man of about 53 years,
bhint, bluff and hearty, and intensely
Interested In electricity and his pro
number of tubercular bacilli.
flesh
sensations.
l
fession. He enjoys a high standing In
northern New York and has the confl
dence of his brother practitioners.
phone la a great institution, says the
Utica Press. It has long been an abso
lute essential In every place of busl
ness. Just now there Is a great In
crease In the number of pnones In prl
vale bouses. It Is possible to talk
with pretty much everybody at his or
ber home. The companies are evident
ly endeavoring to boom that branch of
thelr business, because they are ad
ver t'slng It extensively,
a J«* UouU paper hud a big ills
IP 1 «* a<1 ' at the tu P of which was a
P letur * of au at,ra '- tlve *»»"* '«dj
lephonlng aud represented as saying:
•Ts that you, Harry?" The text be
neath It Includes this statement: "It
Is a well-known fact that the girl who
has a telephone Is the girl who has
the most friends, and consequently has
tbe best time."
This appeal to the young people is
adroit, and doubtless will nerve
PHONE AID TO MATRIMONY.
Girl with One ln Iler II
Popular with Young Men.
e Alwajs
It Is needless to say that tbe tele
The other
to
make the St. Louis exchange bigger
and busier.
Tire parents who have
marriageable daughters will do well to
consider this Ingenious contrivance and
moderu aid to matrimony. It is some
I th ! Dg ° f 8 bo,her for n y*»mg mail to
ca 1 or ® ven to wr,te n note tt «klng the
r ° UDg lutij ' *° s ° t0 th * tll08ter ' for
■* Wnlk ° r drU ° ° r * rlde t0 the park '
te teT"*" 1 ' the meaaa 8eb y
j telephone It Is an easy way of making
appointment
' 1 '
Many a delicious
message is telephoned these days, and
there Is reason to believe the statement
made by the St. Louis company. It
applies, of course, with equal force In
•very American city. The young la
dles for whom a life of single bles
sedness has uo charms are not exactly
buying a lottery ticket when they hire
a phone. They can get much pleasure
and comfort out of It as they go along,
for It Is a constant contributor to con
It Is worth the price, with
venlence.
ths enhanced matrimonial possibility
thrown In as an extra Inducement.
There Is a curioua plant that grows
In Arabia and Is known by the nain»
of "Laughing plant." This name comes
from the fact that any one who eats
Its seeds cannot control bis laughter,
The natives of the district where this
funny plant grows dry the seeds and
reduce them to powder. A small doss
of this powder makes those who eat
It act much like those who drink more
Arabia's Laughing Plant,
liquor than Is good for them. The so
berest person will dance, shout and
laugh like a raadmae and rush about
cutting up the most ridiculous capers
for an hour. At the end of this time
the - reaction comes. The dancer Is ex
hausted and a deep sleep comes upon
him. After a nap of several hours he
awakens with no recollection of Lbs
antics he has performed,
"All I want In a man is a little com
mon sense." Well, that la expecting
A man was talking to-day and salit
The truth is that If a womab weut
Into the barnlot attired as the milk
maid Is attired on the stage, the cow
would be sc scared that she would re
fuse to give milk.
s good deaL'commou sense.
A CURIOUS EXPERIMENT.
T
attempt of an English clergyman
named Clarence Godfrey to "project
himself*' Into the presence of a friend
at a distance. The attempt was mads
on the night of Nor. IS. 188«. and Is
thus described by Mr. Bruce, says Pub
11c Opinion:
"The result of his attempt as de
scribed In the account written out at
his request by the 'percipient,* who, It
should perhaps be added, had had no
Intimation of Uie experiment was as
follows;
" 'Yesterday—viz,, the morning of
Nov. 18, 1886—about 8:30 o'clock, 1
woke up with a start and an Idea that
some one had come Into the room. I
hoard a curious sound, but fancied It
might be the birds In the Ivy outside,
Next I experienced a strange, restless
longing to leave the room aud go down
stairs.
powering that at last I arose and lit
a candle and went down, Blinking that
if i could get some soda water It
turning to my room I saw Mr. God
frey standing under the large window
on tns staircase. He was dressed In
bis usual style and with an expression
on his face that I have noticed when
he has been looking very earnestly at
anything.
up the candle and gazed at him for
three or four seconds In utter amaze
ment, and, then, as I passed up the
staircase, he disappeared. The Impres
g ] on j e ft on my mind was so vivid that
j f u )] y Intended waking a friend who
occupied the same room ns myself, but
remembering that I should only be
i a(1Bbed at ns romantic and Imaginary
reply ^ the apparitions were by no
meaug uniformly coincident with the
moment of (leath , an d not Infrequent
, y occurred only after a lapse of sev
eral hour9 , It was deemed sufficient to
polut to suoh cases as that of the Kev.
Mr Godf Rs lllu8tra t lve of a i m i lar
daferment of experimental halluclna
Uong In the Godfrey case the . wl|1 .
, . b at 10:45 p m on the night
of Nov 15 and , aHted 0 „, . el(?ht mln .
ute8 after whlch Mr Godfrey fe „
asleep, whereas It was not until 3:30
„ m o{ the followluB „ 10rnluK that
th# hallucinatory vision appeared to
th , . perelplent ,. ••
youth from whom he had been sepa
rated was the singular fate of Janies
Hurlbutt. a western mining expert.
Ruth Emery, an orphan governess,
hen James Hurlbutt first met
and married lier In Quebec. After a
brief honeymoon he set out alone to
seek his fortune in the western
States, leaving his wife with her
t Mad« by Man Who Dealrod to
"Projoot Hinutir* I'pon Friead.
H. Addington Bruce describes the
This feeling became so over
might have a quieting effect. On re
He stood there and I held
T refrained from doing bo.'
"Arguing from analogy, It was bold
by those advancing the telepathic hy
pothesis that the mind of a dying per
son In reverting to a distant friend
conveyed to the friend's mind a dis
tinct Impression which took the form
of a vivid visual hallucination. To the
WINS FORMER CHILD WIFE.
l'inTlttlnglr
Marrie«
Weitern Man
I) ride
•f HI« Youth.
Wedded a second time without rec
l
ognlzlng his bride as the wife of his
whs 18
derstanding arose. Correspondence
ceased. Two mouths later she wrote
as klng him to forgUe her. But this
letter never reached him.
P 11<k1 for a divorce, which was grant
°d on thB «round of desertion. Subso
qnently she married. Iwo years later
Butte she saw a man whose face
■*»?*■** fan l " llftr - ' , wa9
that of a middle-aged man with Iron
gray ha 'r a "d beard. She learned
that he was James Hurlbutt, her first
husband. They met dally In the hotel,
but he did not recognize her and she
could uot bring herself to make a
former employer, on tbe understand
ln * that 8,16 remained there until be
was able to send for her. A mlnuu
A few years later Mrs. Hurlbutt ap
this husband died In New Mexico.
^be wan left a fortune, which Includ
ed mines In Montana. At a hotel In
disclosure.
Finally she wished to get an ex
pert's report on her mining property,
She was referred to Mr. Hurlbutt ns
n competent man for the work. They
were introduced,
amine the property and seemed per
gonally attracted to her.
, he g rew to hope that she might make
him love her for her sake rather than
for the sake of the girl wife he had
left behlnd bllu J ea ™ before. They
auon beca ,ue fast friends. He asked
her no Questions about her nasi life*
questions auout ue. past lire,
He agreed to ex
Grudually
abe told him only
many as sha
thought It well for him to know,
-■
He never once suspected who she
was. At length he proposed and was
They went together and
were married by a justice of the
peace. Only themselves kuow what
was said when, Immediately after
their second marriage, she revealed to
him the s-crct which he had never
suspected.
a ccepi.cd.
iNioita We M I it ht Learn.
In Switzerland two people may not
marry till they have been examined
by a magistrate and he has certified to
their physical and mental fitness.
* n France, and fl per cent a year—
against 72 per cent In America—Is all
that Is ever paid on pledges.
All trolley cars in England are don
ble-deckers. The roof seats, In all but
had weather, are by far the more pop
nlaf
The government runs the pawnshop
Germany's best schools, the famous
gymnasia, charge only $1 a week tul
tlon. Here prince and peasant alike
are enrolled,
In Holland dentists and oculists, vis
Ring the public schools regularly, look
after the chlldreu'a eyes and teeth,
Beggars In Wnrtemburg must carry
a state license certifying to their In
ability to work,
|
( EvHrn 1 «
Nelle—Why did Evelyn marry that
old man Gotdough?
Belle—Because he says he loves her
so well be is willing to die for her, and
she doesn't think It will be long be
fore he does It.—Dallas News.
8-nr.
I
When a man Is loaded you always
kuow It; but It's different «'lib a gun.