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. ,â- .:.,'.;â- >. ^U^^ wm II â- ! mm m LORD KILLEEN'S REVENGE, It WBA rather a bore, however, the sretted the many ahenrd things I said! " Nevertheless , send for him a«sis,* way in which the whole sceno clung to to joa, not knowingâ€"" ' said O'Grady, reroorselessly. rrrr.nn-r^-r. tt-tt ^ .• 1 tuHB, and le« cbanninff be':<tuse more CHAPTER Vn.-Continued. i profuse. "Were a Utile troubled of fbey were on the out<jcirt3 of aral'bit course. Ijecause we don't quite know »r»rren by thia time, an<i it was easy what to give Iver, or what bhe would to «« that No^hs r^ wa. run. George j ^ii^-.^o has^lived - U.n.^al.oacL" ^^^ made a plunge forward and caught ber j dreadful child Koing to make ? Con- by (he arm; in doing so, he got his foot , stanlia looka daggers al her, but fails into a burrow, and over ho and she to catch her eye. went. Con^tantia trippe.l, too and so ^ -â- C^^^T'^ i^^r^pted Constantia. did Stronge, in his ea^erneas to seize ^ho was now very rcJ. She did not the luckless quarry. The two small i mean to invite Mr. Stronge to meet boys in the rear followed suit, catching }^"".'*',""} '^\ seemed so dreadtully iii- ^. â-  t 7^- ,_ > 1-1 • 1 t_ hospitable to to discu.s.sing the little in- their feet m a hole likewise ; and In- significant affair with hiui when ho was de<vl over they all went. not to lie one of the party. Altogether, They wore aa their feet in an Instant, this afternoon in perspective has prov- th« .vii>tiim,l Nomh in th«ir midxt ^'l a souroe of much annoyanoe Donna tue iiiptured Noraii tn taeir miosi. j^ ^^ ^^j^^^ ^j inviUd herself, partly 'Ual ha I hal' roared Mr. btronge, | .^^.j^j, j^ niw-hievoua longing to do \vhat »till full of the glad excitenaent that | Miee MacUillicuddy would certainly ha-l held him aU through this memor- 1 never iiave permitted had she been at , , .. home, iiartly for other rea<>ons. To •.ble puTBiut. I enlertaui her properly was causing Con- "Hal hat hal" laughed Constantia in j ^i^mtia many troutileJ moments^ the concert, George joining in. The two , resources of The Cotl.a«e licing limit- I ed, and Mulcahy decidedly on the younger boys fairly chuckled in their joy ; and even the poor hare, dead beat as she was, gave way to wild merri- ment in tasps and sighs. "It was mean I" panted she at last, pointing the fin<;er of acorn at Mr. Stronge. The child was ao thin that ber finder wad like a claw, but there wan a world of metuiin^ in it ; and when one is physically exhausted, action coats leM than speech. "Horribly mean! TV prem a stranger into the hunt I OhI" AVords failed her. "A stranger. Miss Norah I Am I al- 'ways to be that t" demanded Strong reproachfully. Norah grinned, and slipped ber arm wHthiii his. "Never mind ; you are a real duck," aaid she. There was an aljiiience of mauvaise honte about Norah, very rcf resiling in an arcificial age. Mr. Stronge laughed again, and gave the friendly little paw a tuck that brought it closex to his aide. Constantia, who had liecn laughing all the time now drew her breath siharp- ly. and laid her hand upon her heart. "This rxtnning is a terrible thing," said she, "when one is growing <JId. Such a pain as 1 have hci-e I It Ls a lerison to me ; 1 shall run no more." They all gave way to mirth again at this, lieing still unsatisfied with laugh- ter; and (VinKtaiitia. still with her hand upon her beaxt, looked at Stronge. "Do you ever have a pain here? said &pree now that her mLslress»was away. Someljociy of course should be asked to meet Donna, and Constantia had thought of Garrett Barry, lecauae no- body could be made uncomfortable by Garrett, and he was never silent, or dull, or at a loas for anything to sav. And there was the doctor's young wife, Mrs. iilake; she was a chatty little thing too. and well bom. and nice in every way ; and neither she nor Gar- rett would think or look as if they thought it odd, if anything went astray with domestic anangemeuts. It .seemed quite a tremendous under- taking lor Constautia, this simple cup of tea, .so unaccustomed was she to re- ceive any guests within the walla of The Cottage. She ^vould have iiked to a«k a gcoJmany people, of course: Mr. Stronge, lor example, and â€" and Stand- Lsh Feath.>raton, liut her courage failed her. Ami, besides, Lt her aunt should bear of it t Here George broke into the conversa- tion with a genial air. "You'll come, won't you ?" ho said. "Thursday, mind. Mulcahy will, in all human probabilitv, to non compos; but that won't signify once you are up to lier in her little ways, and you can help to entertain Donna, whilst vire are strusgliiig with her and the tea-pot in the lower regions. Can't he. Con J" Con.stantia gi«w pale. Uut she smiled bra ely. "Ves, 1 hope you will come. Mr. Stronge," she said. "Four o'clork ; and â€" " She stopped because she didn't quite know what else it was she could sav. stronge looked at her. and read her correctly. Ue saw all the nervous shy- ness tliat was oon-Mimin,? her; he saw, too, the little thoruu^'h-lired air with which .she liail bidden him to her house â€" surely against her will I He was on tlie jioint of declining her invitation, when a revulsion of feeling set in. What ! was he always to lie regarded by her as a stranger â€" as one apart ? No, he would linmk down the barrier I "Thank you ; 1 shall be very glad in- deed," be said. CHAFIEU VIII. It was not until quiio on hour after O'Grady had parted with her. that to onlimly oiiiderstood the greatness of Uis face changed a little as a touch of his every-day experience came ha' k to him throui,'h the glamor of this one aweet hour of holiday -making. In his heart â€" a pain 1 "An eternal one," he said quickly, fiving hinwelf no time for thought. n<lecd, he spoke in a moment of im- pukseâ€" an impulse that fired his eyes and tnaiie him younger, so long as it lasted, than even the chance race had made him. Constantia must have seen some- , , ,-,â- ..,,. thing in his ^'lance, though it was very i t be shock l^dy Varleys aunoum-cment gentle, if extr«m«'ly carntnt, to <1U- • ba<.' given huu. The girl, so frank, ao ooniert her, UHau-*, she colored deeply â-  naive, with whom she had l)een so in- and let her eyes fall uinm the sward at cxpre.«ibly charine<l, had been taken 1)^ feet from bun m lliat moment, and a woman "I say," said Norah, presently .in a married, bis hcstess, given him in her healthy tone, "let us all come home. P'sce It^ was almost alaurb the I'm starving " I strength of the desolation that fell on "Ya*. iie«>u'lcd Jimmy, "let's try to him as ho rcjilizcd this. Of course, how- squeeze a cup of tea and som« hot laJjo ever, it explaincrl everything. He had out of Mulcahy " wonilercd at, whilst admiring, the calm They were terrible children I I aolf-iKwweAsion with which sheâ€" a young Norah grew a little red. and Mr. I ^irl as he had deemed her, a neophyte Stronge .saw it and hesitated alHMit lu-- : m the liattle of lifeâ€" had ac^«pted his companying llicm. .fimmy, who b:wl aowi-slaiurn at first, and afterwards scat- long yellow hair and blue eyes, and who fil hiirsclf, and invited him U) share her was l)y a freak of Nature, a regular , lounge with an open forgetfulneas or Norseman, though nothing but Irish disiegard of that law of society that blood ran in his veins, noticed the dwelLs on formal introductions between pouse he ina.de. and instantly grew thjwe hitherto unknown to ciu^h other. claniomiLs for his »o<iety. L,/'"*^ I^dy Varley l-he was her guest. "Oh. yes, please <lo come," said Cons- That sJie thought of only, and that it Uiitia then, with a little funile that ! ""a* her duty to 1» gracious to him, covered the Hocrot fear in her heurl and delicately friendly. She had dis- tlial Mulcahy iiii^bl not have the kot- niLssod him in a little bow tofore he tie lioi4ing, and that Minnie in all proli- hail quite recovered from hus surnrise, ability was off to the iMvxt bawn w here and be had preNcntly found hinutelf in her sweet heart lived. With a sinking fhecard-nwm looking for Feathorston, heart she rememlierod the coquettish i who. with Mrs. Bundaa and a few look of the morning's cap with its i otiiom, was deep in the delights of a loo cherry-<olorcil ribbons I Kven if Mul- < liat had very little limit to sj/eak of. cshv U in a gmnl l6mi)er, and ha.s the After awhile, that seemetl to hiui, how- kclile lK>iling and consents to make tea, ever, .short, so engrosse*! was he with andâ€" nervous reflectionâ€" has not par- hus own thoughts and recollections, he lakcn of lier "thimi)leful, " who is to . induced hUserious cousin (Ker.'torston bring the tea into the failed drawing- seldom looked so serious, or f^iod, or ir- i-coni if Minnie i.s away with her young neproaxdiablo, as when engogcil in some iiiai, } I lii;hl transact iim that fratenrizod tmt .She was loet in a laliyrinth of niiser- P' orly with his righteous protestations) al)l(! doubts, when a word or two fall- to quit the card-ro.>mâ€" or Mrs. Dundas. iiW from the lips of Norah broi ght her , Ho was liinsure .is to where the load- back with a jerk to I ho prewent. i stcmo lay, being new in the country, and "Aunt Uridget is g'.nc to Dublin. â-  unaware of Ito exUteiico of Conslan- IJidn't you hear I Didn't Minnie tell tia. Mu<!Gillicuddy, who indeed, had an yon? Minnie was so awfully glad, lie- ' atlrat^tion for Featherston that did not, <-«;i.'0 Aunt Hridc ' thinks sweet luuirls however, interfere with his amusing wickeil things, an.» »lie won't let Min- ' him-olt in other quarters as occasion ni« speak to hers. She woubbi't let ' arose. • one of us siMjak to you if you were a: o'Orady found the long drive home w\6i;theart. So mind you don I '« full of mystical toauty. His thoughts **"*â-  I hail, neriiaps, a good deal to do with "I shall reineml>er," said ftlr. dtronge, ! « he forming of it. It was a lovely with an attempt at a smile ; but his night, liordering on dawn, and their way heart sunk. ' ran through iixwU wooded on either "Well, Aunt Bridget Is gjue away for j side, and witJi a starrj^ ^***',I!? above, wc'kâ€" a whole week" him ; he could not shake it off, though " As for that," .said she ; she burst he would gladly have done so. It was out laughing, carefully, as should a only a question of time, of course; and married woman, yet merrily as a girl- in a day or two to promiae^l himself he " it was very strange, was it not ?" she would liave .so far forgotten the episode said. " But of course you could not that he would have to jog his memory know I M'hen I told Lord Varley of it, l»fore he could bring to mind whether , he said it was a pity I bad ever enlight- Ijidy Varley's hair was black, or brown, encd you. And perhaps, yes; but when or red ; or if her eyes wereâ€" , 1 lusard y . . â-  ^ Ttoy rotie Ixsfore him then. Great, .strange, sa<l. yearning eyes, that seem- ed to r6pr<ja(.-h him lor his determina- tion to obliiei'ate them from hlj mem- ory. Nay. they seemed to defy bim to do it. He saw her again, to oh=*'ieut al)ove the cactus, and raised those earn- est eyes up to his, and thanked him softly for his welcome help. 'i'hero was a dignity about her, that just then liad seemed to him not only pretty, but amusing, in one so young. Ue had misunderstood all through ! Even now, as he fought with himself for i«»2»Lstent recurrence to that vision of ler he liad conjured up, he did not un- <lerstand. He did not realize that bis first admission was tto true one ; that it >vas indeed "too late" for retrat^lion or forgetfulneas, liecause he loved her. AU the next day he scarcely thought of tor, but on tto second to grew rest- less. He told himself that the tran- quility of tto life in this .almost de- seried vUla^, with its four or five de- sirat)le families, was unsuited t« him after the rush and tto turmoil that had attended on bis wanderings hither and thither, and the excitements to l>e found in camp life, and tto ceaseless changes to to found in the gorgeous transformations of an Eastern exist- ence. It was all too tame tore, too pro- saic ; yet it did not suggest itself to bim as a thing to \>o desired that he should quit the dull -tage on which he found hiiiis3lf. On the fourth day be permitted an idea, that up to that to had kept scrup- ulously in check, to start into life and grow. It was to tto effect that cour- tesy compelled him to go to Ara^lln and onco a^ain ajjologize to Lady Var- ley for the mistake he had made. He had muttered something at the moment, of course, but something de<idedly In- sufficient. Ifâ€" his brow grew dark re<^ as this fear suggested itself â€" if, by any possibility, she had grown to \)0- lieve ho knew who she was a'l the time I Yes. he must go, be must see her at all risks. He di'l not wait to calcu- late about the risks, or to rememlier who was to bear them. Feattorston had ftarted off srme- where after breakfast, " to interview- one of the tenants," bo said; in real- ity to sun himself in Constantia's smiles for an hour or so, loitering with her through tto growing verdure, and letting his vanity lie flattered by her shy glance and the -soft blush that every now and then mantled in her cheeks. Featherston, therefore, was disposed of. and the day was hU own to deal with as to would. He determined on walking to Artglin. though it was six mileL, away ; but a tramp through the awakening woods could not to otherwise than pleasant and would prolKibly to a rich treat. He was accustoine<l to walking ; indeed, an idle day's dallying for him would hive lieen a severe day's march for those around him. and six miles was a mere flea-bite in the way of fatigue. He felt ho should enjoy even ao small a walk after toing cooped up for ao many days. And to did enjoy it, though his thoughts were in u measure too preoc- cupied to permit of his inhaling to the full tto charm of the opening buds, the thick richness of tto springing niosfies, and the beauty of tto dense warm m.isses of wila flowers that throngeil his path and died toneath his tread. The starry primrones smiled at him from ttoir green l»ds. the blue-tolls nodded their sivnted hearts, the rich an<l trailing iK^ueysuckle flung its flowery ropes wross the branches that swayed al>ovo liis head. lie reached Araglin at last, and en- tered it, not by the wide entrance-gate oiwn to all. but a side-gate that led c>n to tto lawn in a more direct way. This he kiiev, , by ccrtam questions and an- swers tliat had iMissed totween him and his cousin Featherston. He went tbroujh a little bit of dense underwood, and so into a side- walk. Before hun lay tto lawn, and on his right a graveled path, where, as he looked, ho could see a figure mov- (To Be Continued.) BURNING POWDERED COAL It I» Doae witb a Itlatl of Air and WlUaaat a i;ri;le. Interesting experiments in the use of you were to stay in our neigh- borhood 1 knew you would have found _,.,,,.,.,, out, iio matter whether I ^x>ke or | P<^*'dered fuel by tto W egener system were silent." | are now being conducted in London. 'â- Yes; it didn't matter at all," said i SmaU sacks of powdered coal, weighing O'Grady. He was looking mto her pure; .,^„, .„,, _ . ,__, . , . _„ „ . lieautiflil eyes, and al to looked, hei*^""^ ^^ » hundred weight, are put ieib that lUithii^f mattered, only that j mto a conical hopper. The powdered she was lost to hun. He struggled with ooal gradually falls out of the sacks, as "~ " ^ vft^^/'^ar'lfad^ you I "1"^- ^^ the hopper, and then on It was just paling then I The stars were in tlieir dcalh-throes, and all their wondrous gn-en and gold aiid criins<m tints flashed out now and again in lirighler ilashoa, as though with a ".Si> Minnie may kiss her B>veptheart," broke in Jimmy. "1 saw thum the other evening l)ehind the hay.stack, andâ€"" , - „ "Jimmy I" asul Constantla, In a tone' last effort, to defy the hastening dusso- tliat i-educed him to silencft though he lution. It was coming fast. Already never knew why. iConstantia might ^.liere was a touch of <lefeat in the III, I have l)een so severe. Imil her mind \ palo, opal line of light that stole ma- nol Iwen disturbed. Norah, however, jestically upward from tohmd the dis- whi) was only subdued by Aunt Brid- tanl bills, and slied a faint, vague radi- get, went on triuraphaiitlv : ance down ttoir sides. "Yes. swtMitliParts will lieallowod now (J'lirady was, for oiu'O in his lite, halt for a whole week. Sevou <ltt.vs, mind ; blind to Nature's grand effe<-.ts. He you. 8uch a lot I You may to a.s^vcet- Iicart too, if you like. Aunt Bridget Is gone away, and ^ve aro all happy. OhI anil there's something else," alie paused, breathlessly, and Squeezed his arm, and looked up at him out uf wild, gulln- lera l)luo eyes. "When the cat's away you know, the mice can play. We are going to playâ€" we ar^ going to give a part^." Hbe broke into gay laughter at Xto very extravagance of the thought. George laughed too. "Noiah's ino'.e hilLs," he said. "Donna Dundas is cxmiiixg to afternoon tea on Thursday, and that's ber parly." "Veri. it is Dorum," said Norah, hook- big hemeli on to Mr. Stronge's arm, and amilini; up at him. She had the must •odiianng Hmiie-- Constantia's In minia- looked on the (^ming da\vn with eyes as blind, or nearly so, as the res])ectable h'estbcrBton who sat lieside him, and who seldom troubled hiiitself with any- thing emotional. O'lJrady was angry with himself l>ec4iuso ho could not treat bis accidental meeting with Lady Var- ley as a iest, a thing to laugh over with bis c«iLsin. But he could not I Andâ€" was it a .jest 1 There was no element of amu.'-eineut in it after all, when one anulyzeil it. It was a more nothing. He bad met a woman whom he felt he could have loved, and had only discov- eiv.d when too late that â€" r.shaw I wliat he meant was that he had di<)covered that she was "wood, an' married, an a'." That was all. It was the merest trifle out of the tale of one's life, a iniitter of ten minutes or ao. ing slowly and with care. It was Lady Varley. He turned at once in tor direction, and as the laurels gave way to saw her more directly. She was clad in a straight, black gown, that reached to tto ground, without flounce or trill of any sort, and with something delicate in while ulxiut the long, iMuk-turncd cuffs and deep collar tliat caught the eye at (mce. lie could nut, of course, know that these delicacies were of the choic- est Mechlin. Something was in ber arms. A lit- tU- Ijundle, all white cambric and laoe, that showed clear against ber black gown. A baby I It was a very tiny bundle (though it had seen six mouths of our sad and troubled life), and she held it close- pressed against her heart, as though it was so much with tor that she could never let it go. She was liending over it, looking, no doubt, into tto woo face t bat was all tto world to her. and was, therefore, so unaware of O'Urady'a coming that he could study her with- out impertinence. At first, seeing tor with the child in tor arms, he felt a sudden shock. Ho had forgotten his ideal was mar- ried, but now circuuistances compelled bim to remember that misfortune. He watched her as ato came toward him. bit by bit tbo beauty he had at first acknowledged grew stronijer to him, and drew hiiu with a fatal force t^ tor. She was looking a^t tto little thing she told so tightly in tor arms, and her face was fair with tto sweet flush of motherhood. There was something of the (livine in her exjjression. Her whole soul seeiued wrapt in the fragile creii- t uro that she hela j an almost passionate love lit her dove-like eyes as she gazed on it ; sto appeared to nave no thought beyond the little mite that lay so quiescent, so terribly quiesi«rt, nptm her breast. O'Grady came forward into the full- er light. A staid nurse, who was walk- ing beside La.ly Varley, dropped now oltsequiously into the background, and O'Grady advanced quickly. Lady Varley seeing him. greeted him with a smile. It was the gejitlest smile in tto world, and full of graciousneas. O'Grady, encouraged by it, came up to ber and pressed the hand she gave him. Tto baby was lying upcm her left arm as calm as it, unfortunately, always himself, and comijosure. spoke," he said "So am 1," she returned graciously: " otherwise you would not have known who I was. a ad," with a gentle smile, " I should not to Indebted to you for this visit." Sto spoke without looking at him, so that she was ignorant of tto expression that had gro^\-n within his eyes. She herself had her gaze concentrated up- on tto baby lying against ber breast. It was a beautitul little creature of about six montto, but very white, and with wonderfully large eyes; tkey seemed to O'Grady to look thiroagh him. It occurred to him that it was an ex- tremely old child for its apparent age, but, at tto same time, an extremely small one. He would, of couriie, have thought nothing at all about it had to not beard from some one that Lady Varley's baby was six montto old. " This is my little daughter," said she now, in a tone quite different from any- thing he had ever heard tofore; there was a sulKlued but terrible passion of tenderness in it. Sto threw back the silken covering round it to let him more closely view ber treasure. " You tbink 1" she questioned, vaguely, yet with ber eyes upon bim as though wait- ing for something. " She's charmingly pretty," said O'Grady, with muiTi presence of mind, stooping as to spoke over tto little frail blossom. It was, perhaps, tto hap- piest thing he could have said â€" save one. " Andâ€" and healthy too, eh?" said sto. still with tor eyes on his. They wiiieued as sto gazed, and a suspici<n ol nervous terror grew within th<Bm. " Anil healthy too. of course," respond- ed he. laughing, though in truth laugh- ter was far from him. Tton something, perhaps the «nnate truthtulneaa with- in him, compelled him to add with a depreciatory stoke of tto head: "Not that 1 am a judge." " An excellent one," declared she, quickly. " Y'ou agi^te with our doctor here. He says toby is strong, very strong ; andâ€" and that sto will be stronger every day." It ucciuicd to O'Grady at this mo- ment ttot " our doctor here " must be eittor a most skillful practitioner or else a skilled hypocrite Perhaps he was a coward I \\ ell. such cowardice could tic understood I He was looking at Lady Varley as all this ran through his mind, and to noticed the quick flush that had grown upon ber face. " Surely she is too heavy for you," to said, iinpuLsively. His suggestion deligh'ed her, poor soul ! Shu looked with fond, devouring eyes upon the child, and hugged it clos- er. For a full minute she did not s|)eak, her eyes l>elng riveted upon the marvelously quiet baby in her arms. " It is true," sto said then, turniq^ upon hun a glance full of eager grati- tude. " She is heavy, though it did not occur to inc l«fore. Yes, she tires me. really dreadfully at times." Sto smiled at O'Grady ; sto seemed suddenly to grow full of an unspeak- able gladness. Poor mottor I With a wild longing she clung to %acb frail Ihnvid oi hope held out to her. Her child, her all. must to strong and rich in life ; must thrive, and flourish, and bloom by and by into gracious girlhood. All this she -set her heart upon, whilst the tiny object of her soul's desire lay pale and languishing upon her heart. May God have pity upon all such mot hers I "Just now," went cm Lady Varley. taking courage to express a fear, be- caiLsn qf the encouragement he had unwittingly given her, "she is not looking ber l<vst. We think," smiling u^ at O'Grady, who was a tall man, with an expression full of the heaven- li" t confidence, " she is teething ; ttot is what makes her so pale. You think ber pale?" anxiously. Tto child was ghastly. " That would explain it, of course." said O'Grady. who began to believe him- .solt a very fiend of dl4simulati(m. But with that wistful face upturned to his I " You hear, nurse ?" cried Lady Var- ley, whoso breath was coining a little iprnker; "Mr. O'Grady sees nothing .strange in baby's pallor. It ia only what we think." " Yes, my lady," said tto nurse, in a low tone. Sto was a comely, kindly, homely woman ; and O'Grady thought that as she spoke tto re was a certain reserve in her manner. It may to ttot tto child heard her voice ) at all events she made a feeble movement in her mother's arms, strug- gled violently for a second or two, and then fell back as if exhausted. Lady Varley grew very white. " It ia uuthing, my lady â€" nothing," exrlaiiiied tbo nurse, who seemed to O'Grady to be extremely attached to her mistress and very anxious. Sto took tto now motionless baby from ber arms, and held it against tor own breast, rocking it softly to and fro. Two tears welled from tor eyes, and fell slowly down tor cheeks. Lady Varley saw them. "Why do you cryt" she dieiaanded, almost savagely. " Ha>v can I say, my lady ? For my own child, perhaps â€" who is dead." " Dead I How d ire you talk of death?" cried Lady Varley, growing livid. Tton bor piission died from her. " Poor soul, poor soul 1" sto murmured, faintly, ' what an awful grief is yourB I How terrible is tto vainness of your tears I To lose- to lose all! Sto lifted one hand to tor heu>i„<:ad sighed heavily. Sto looked on if ihi was going to faint ; but anxiaty tor the child, from whom her gaze neTer wandei^, kept her alive. " I dare sajr, aa you tove told me, it is only her teeth," said O'Grady, hur- riedly. " This village doctor of whom you speak, to may not be very effi- cient. Is there no other f" " Yes ; there is Doctor Griffin." She mentioned a Dublin physiciaa whose skill with children's dissases was not to to questioned. " He has lieen here liefore to se<! toby. Last w«ek he WM to asievealiout 51-2 inches in diameter, with .smaU openings in it. The powder- ed coal would not go through this sieve with certainty without continual tap- ping, and this is done in the following way: Immediately toneath the hopper, and level with the toiler-house floor, ia an air pipe about 20 inches in diameter, through ^vbicb nearly aU the air for ocanhustion enters. Xa it enters it is ma<l6 to pstB through tto blades of an air wheel cr turbine, and this passage of tto air caunes the latter to revolve like a smoke-jack. On the axis of this air wheel there is a little knocker which taps the sieve about 150 or 250 times per minute, causing the powdered coal to descend vertically through the sieve, meeting the air tar oombustion as it ascends vertically. The powdered coal and air for prapeir combustion in this way get mixed thorouyjhly togeth- er and pass on into the toiler flue, ea<,h particle of coal being surrounded by air. • There is no grate and there are no fire doors, and the stoking simply con- sists of putting a sack of powdered coal from time to time into the top of the hopper i^nd seeing that tto right amount of air IS goiug in for combustion. If there is not sufficient air for proper cambustion entering through tto main opening, as seen by a little smoke, ttore are two other smaller pipes where additional air can to admitted, each kind of real requiring a somew^hat different amount of air. The only object of tto air wheel revolv- ing, from fifty to eighty revolutions per minute, is to shake the sieve and cause the powdered fuel to go into the fur- nace in the quantity fiesired. When more steam and coal are requir'sd a greater knock is given to the sieve and more powtlered coal is burnt ; when lese Is required a leas shake is necessary. A screw adjustment for knocking !.: pre vided to nvrulste tto amount of coal entering', which is done by turning writb two fingeiv a half-inch thuml>flcrew. The only duty of th<e attendant is to put the .sacks of ooal into tto ht^per. and to ascends a short ladder to do this. He also has to regulate tto amount of air for oomlHistion and theai there is no smoke. He can ttorefore attend sev- eral loilers. An analj'sis of gases of combustion proves that tto combustion is excellent, and tto amount of carbon dioxide Is much higher than witb ordV nary furnaces. WITHOUT PROOF. A •lever Bal Wl«kc<l Wmbsb Boldly riau a <'rlm«. A well-known detective telU a good story, the truth of which be voucbea tor. "One day," he said, "a lady come into my ottioe, evidently in deep trouble. "'Tou are a detective?' "Tes. madame.' " ' Weil, I want jroux aervioee in a very delicate matter," she said, her voio* sinking to a whisper, as sto glanced nervously about to see that no one «ru present that oould bear the oonveraa- tkui. " 'My husland,' she continued wton •attkfied no other visitors were in the rov has a deoiqp^ •ouidal mania. He ajipears to to id oeHMt neaith, eat* well, sleeps well, hvs an uu-es or trou- bles that I know oC ao4 .-.vc 1 have to vs-atoh him oarefully in order to keep him from conuuittuig suicide. Hia mania, for, of course. I know that it is that with him, is so subtle that no ohm would susi)eot it for an instant. But he has laudanum secreted about the house. I have found several vials of it, and fear that ttors is more that I tove not lieen able to discover.' "The oase was a must iaterestiivg on«, wad. I agreed to visit tto house in the guise of on invited relative of tto wife uud study the affair. I was gr«et4jd moat cordially by the husba>nd and with- in twenty-foujr tours admired him greatly. A lighter-hearted, merrier, happier man I never saw. Three nighta later I was awakenexl by tto screams of the wife aoul hastily arising and dressing, run down stairs, meeting her ui tto hallway, holding an empty tot- tie latoled 'laudanum.' I rushed to the man's be<laide. but too late. He was not yet dead, but never recovered con- sciousness. The seeming grief of the widow was heart-rending, but I caught a gleam in her eyes that oonvinoed me sl^ had poisoned tor husbacd, and ber rose in Mving me In the house had been as bold aa it was siuxessful, for not a word of evidenoe oould 1 tove produced ttot sto tod plotted the mur- der of her huaboud. Two mouths later sihe was married a^ain and weut to Europe." " i thought," said O'Grady, " that I j here. But it is only teething, I assure would come up to-day and tell you (I i you ; only that," cried she, with a sharp- had no time then, had I?) how I re- neas full of despiiir. Polsonlnsr By Stale Eggs. Dr. Cameron has r««ported the oocur< renoe of vomiting and purging in sev- enty-four nuna and girl pupils in th» boarding school attached to a convent in Limerick, following a dinner at which mutton and custard oompoeed of eggs, milk, com flour, and sugar were eaten. The corn flour was sus- pected to contain araeuio, but analysia showed it to be free from poison of any kind, and to be of gxx>d quality. The sugar also proved to be pure. No other constituents of tto meal could to obtained. The vomit was intensely green from the presence of biliary mat- ter, but careful analysis faileil to dis- close the presence of ordinary poison. The viscera of two patients who had no poison was found. Ptomaines wer» sucx-umbed wer; also examined, bat found present, but in smaU quamtity. The milk used had been boUed, and tM meat was alx>ve suspicion. The egga, however, were not fresh, and one ptt" sented a reddiah-bro>vn color and vm thought to to bad.