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z ‘ “5‘ vv‘ fAnvd while we are telling of .4 {.040e-Avocvo~o-ot '0 M mwum.w .. \‘60‘0000-‘aoaaoeooe a el’s Exam 2- W4M+9MM"W~F%’M~E "All !” said the connoilor to the lawyer,” you have just shown a striking example of those powers of deduction in which resides the genâ€" ills, of a magistrate. If this infin- itesimal detail, which had surely gone unnoticed by a 'dluller compre hension, ha'd escaped your attention, there is .no doubt that the criminal would never? have been-foruml out. . "On what fine threads does the threads of justice hung suspended! such things, I can tell you a story, even stranger than yours, in which I played a. part similar to your own. "I also discovered a. criminal unâ€" der sUch extraordinary conditions that the whole thing savored of a miracle. I do not say this to ex- alt my own powers, for I should never have discovered anything bad it. not been for the evident collaborâ€" ation of fate or Providence, whichâ€" ever you choose to call it.” "What you say awakens my lively Curiosity,” said the lawyer, lighting a fresh cigar._ "Pray, begin immed- lately." ""Willingly; ’but first I must-take you into my library. I know that you are a lover of rare books, and before I begin I wan‘ to show you mine. I am not postponing my story, I assure you; I am only lead- ing the way 'to it, as you shall see." The'two men arose from the table Where tlhey lingered over the nuts and made their way 'into him libâ€" rary, a large room, its walls lined with books. ' Every collector has his especial fad. Herr Councilor Otto Grotius delighted in Bibles. It was his greatest boast that he owned several editions that were lacking in the richest library in Germany, that belonging to the anâ€" cient'University’ of G;ottingen. With infinite pride ‘he-tOok his rare volâ€" umes from their shelves, saying the last two books of a modern and very shabby appearance. ‘ 'As he lranldcfid there to his guest he said :â€" "This edition is one of my treasâ€" ures. ” ,_. ' ‘ j "\l-‘hal.! this common reprint of the century before last ‘2” “Exactly, my dear Sir, for two reasons. First, the twobooks were given '10 one of my ancestors by .li‘re'derick the Great him-self, who annotated one of them. upon the nuu'gin‘ more witt‘ily than res-pectâ€" fully, as llliglht have been expected from a friend of Voltaire. “Secondly, and here I hope you will give me your closest attention, the first volume in place of a bookâ€" mark, has this little scrap of yelâ€" lowed paper, very insignificant in it- self, but nothing in the world would induce me to move it from its place for it was this little slip of paper that furnished me with a clue to the mysterious event of which I am about. to tel. you. "When I was nmrried my ever reâ€" gretted. wife brought me, as part of 'her doing-y, this little estate, which we gladly made our home. You have been good as to admire our old garden, with its box. bordered plots and bright flowers, but I did not dare take you further and deâ€" scend from. the beautiful to the useâ€" ful, , to. go from the park to the vegetable gandon. . “I out Slurry I did not, now, for it is‘probable that you have never seen a haunted house. and I might have shown you one. or one that is supposed to be haunted. "Its appearance. has nothing sinisâ€" ter about. it. this; little house. in which, my valet swears that he has seen wamlering White robed forms. it is a small, one. storey affair, cm‘m ad with honeysuckle, and clamâ€" ‘bcl‘lnq rcsrs. As you draw nearer, however, you see that the windows are broken, the alumnae": stopped up. and the walls inside decorated with a wild growth of fungus. "When lily wife. and I‘ first came here this cottage was inhabited by the gartlmxcr on: his wzfe. The man's name- was JL‘S'i.‘,1.‘~'., and he had fm'mm‘ly worked for my fatherâ€" irzâ€"inw, I kept him to work for me. ll‘ I live to be a lllmdrr-d years old I s-mll never forget this man’s face. "no nuk‘t have been about 50 when we came here, a, tall, vigorous looking fellow, all muscle, with a head 1 can only describe as square. Hlis eyebrows met in a straight .line across his face. He had thick red hair, and no beard. ‘ I'l-I‘is face Showed ambition, obâ€" stinacy, and oallouaness. llie had it seemed, tried several times tci free himself from the state of depenâ€" dence In whidh he was born, but his enterprises had all been failures, and he bewaile'd his lot bitterlv. "I will be rich some day, thbugh, he would always conclude. ‘I don’t know when or how, but it will come.’ ‘_‘l-I~e was stern with other men and harsh towards animals. He would strike the dog, for example not angrily, but coldly, as if for his own satisfaction. _ _ “The servants dctested him, and film peasants feared him as one en:- lflowed with powers of witchcraft, pp'eto'nlding that he had the evil eye, and could force any one to do his will. '- ‘ "Josius: married, :very late in life, a young girl who, innocent herself. did much to further the reports of his power, for she was everywhere believed to be a victim of witchâ€" 8!. W {05* W. .403”??? . ‘-"'¢~-:‘?N~W' ‘ ' "-“- famous»). _._.___. craft. How else, they demanded, wxoufld he ever have pers'ualded her to marry him ? “Always deathly white, with yel- low ‘hair and blue eyes, gshe- trembled before her husband 'like a bind fasâ€" cinated by a. snake. Furthermore, she was subject to strange periolds of lethargy. She would. remain Several days in a Sleep so like death that the first time it occurred she was nearly buried alive. "Such were the husband and wife. I had, however, no faUJt to find with J osias personally, so I kept him in my service, treating the rumors that I heard as false, and of no importance. _ “In addition to his garlan work, J onias had certain things to do about the hozuse. One Saturday, the day he was accustomed to wax the floor of my library, I entered flhe room unexpectedly and surprised him standing near the shelf with this same Bible in his hand. “At my entrance he .cl03ed the. book hm‘riedly,'but, am interesting point, not before he had marked the page with the slip of pauper that I Showed you, an account of the exâ€" penses for the first week of July. "I said nothing to him about the incident, seeing from his nervousâ€" ness that he felt as if caught in a fault. He put the volume back in its place, and as it Was not the 01110 marked by the. Great Frederick there wasno occasion to remove the book mark. "Just here, my dear sir, is where the mystery hegi'ns. _ "The next day, which was Sunday â€"-â€"pray, observe the dateâ€"the cook appeared anxious about Frau J osias whom she said she had not seen the Willole day. She finally went down to the gar-dener’s cottage and found the unhappy woman lying anon her bed, white and rigid. " ‘An‘othcr of her attacks,’ said Josias without any apparent emo- tion, in answer to her enquiries. "Someone suggested sending for the doctor, but Jos'ias forbade it, saying vehemently : “ ‘No 1 no! I haven’t any money to waste on doctors. She will Come around all right, just as she always docsf “And it was not until three days later, when symptoms of deâ€" composition began to show themâ€" Iselves, that they sent for a doctor. He could only confirm the death of the poor woman, a fact that as- tonished no one. “A month before, a point to be noted, Frau Josias had inherited a large sum of money, and had imâ€" mediately made her will in favor of her husband. "You are dzoubtles‘s wondering what connection there can possibly be between these events and the bookmark in the Bible. But patience l” l The Councilor paused for a. momâ€" ent to enjoy his guest’s interest and then went on. “After his have wife’s death,~ Josias, who was now worth several thou- sand thclers, left us and went away ’to set up for himself in the district I of F We learned later that forâ€" t‘ume, so long sought by him, conâ€" tinued to smile upon him, arid he became buu'gomastor of his village. But he was never seen here in, Sr-â€"â€"-. and he never come back to the cem- etery in which lay Frau J osias. "It. was not long, moreover, be- fore this cemetery disappeared. It lwas slo damp there that dangerous imiasmas developed, threatening the inhabitants of the _ neighboring llroluses. At first, the authorities merely nrdered it 'to be closed, but ten years later they decided upon its total suppression and planned to run. a new road directly through the cemetery. I "In the month of July the Work began anld the laborers digging in the soft carlh brought the first -bo:nes to the surface. One morning I jus.‘ as the men were about to begin, luliey saw an old beggar who had made her way into the cemetery by a hole in the wall, and “’ih‘O was picking up the wooden crosses for If re “"0 0d . . "Suddenly they saw her start back, as if overwhelmed with fright, meanwhile uttering a terrified cry. They ran to question her, and by gestures and broken words she made lthem unvderstoaiyzl that in the ground before her she hind seen the head of a dead person move. “ ‘Look, look now !’ she cried. “Every one drew back instinctiveâ€" ly. In very fact a head was mov- ing, stirred by no one knew what supernatural powers. One. workman declared that the minister ought to be fetched. Another with more brains ran in search of the doctor. ,’llliey came to tell me of it also, and 1 reached the cemetery just as the doctor arrived. “The latter made the superstitions of the laborers, and, bending down, discovered a toad which had somehow made its way inside the cerebral cavity' and could not get out again. " 'Do you see ? he said lamghinn'. "But his laughter died away. Alnother discovery made him silent This was a. long nail, fine as an emâ€" broider needle, which, inserted at the base of the brain, traversed the entire heald. ” ‘Iâ€"I'm l’ he said, was a cleVer man I stantaneous, there and, thanks to the hair. no apparâ€" ent trace. My Worthy predecessor probably thought death due to a rupture brain.’ 3 "‘How are we going to know the name of the victim and the otherâ€" the murderer ? I thought anxiously As if in answer to my question, just then one of the workmen overturned merry jests at ‘The murderer Death was inâ€" was no blooid, of a blood vessel in the sax-var. nun-1'. ~ the crosses of the four graves that were in the corner of the graveyard. On one was the inscription :â€"'He're lies Cornelia Josias.’ . "Suddenly , a thought ruslhed through my mind; lighting up- 1my perplexity as the lightning illumines the dark clouds of the tempest. I believed 1 knew "the name of the murderer, but I needed proofs. be- fore I could make my knowledge known. . "I rushed home to the library, where we are sitting now. I opened a book. It was this Bible. The p‘r00f was there. I no longer doubt cd I was sure. “The next morning, the police onâ€" tered the house "of the Josias. Tlhey fournd him. seated at the table. The chief of police approached him, plac- ed his finger at the base of Josias’ brai‘n, anid Said :â€" “ ‘J osias, l‘. accuse you of murderâ€" ing your wife !’ "The ' miserable wretclh trembled violently, and his teeth chatterod as he stainmered : “ 'Yes, yes ! God is‘ avenged. The book! oh ! I stifle !’ "He fell (lead, stricken with plexy. "And now, open the Bible at the page where I opened it upon rebulrnâ€" ing flrom the cemetery, at the page which 'Josias himself marked, the day before the crime. Chapter IV. of the Book of Judges, and the Blst verse. Read it alounl.” ’ The lawyer took the volume and read :â€" ‘ “Them Jacl, Heber’s wife, took a nail of the tent and took a hamâ€" mer in her hand and went softly unto Sisera and smote the nail inlto his temples and fastened it into the ground. and Sisera having been kill. ed in this mmrner, passed from sleep umto death.” .....__+.__’.__.. ~ HORSES WITHOUT SHOESa .â€" Australian Trainer Says They Are Lengths Faster. apoâ€" The shoeing or rat-her plating of race-horses is a qucsltlion wiidelv d-ilsfcu'ssed in England just now, esr pecially since J. 'Brcwer, the Austraâ€" lian trainer and cxâ€"jockey. has aired his views. He is of the opinion that 1.00 much attention cannot be paid to the matter, and that in the. '.shoeing alone centres the great sua- .coss of the racer. In years gone by. shoeing used to be studied in s. perfunctory manner, the system adopted being rather of the nap-pvâ€" goâ€"lu-cky order. When the l‘OS-U'H's ,‘zame out all right they wore taken ,for granted, and no great effort was inside to shape them beforehand. Al- ‘JI'JJOSIL all trainers then worked on the same plans, and they won in humus. Sometimes one was found to \be more clever than the other In a recent interview in Sporting Sketches, Brewer unbutrdens himself thus ‘2 “Light plates are, of . course put on racehorses before they are sent. out to' gallopior money, their ordinary working shoes being tome norarily discarded. One cannot be too careful in this respect, or no cash will be won. '1‘. small advan~ tage makes a lot of difference at the winning end. Lightness is trumps and nothing beats the alu- minum plating. Every ounce you take off a. horse’s feet is pounds off his- back. A man does not run for Money in heavy boots, that is if it is his own money HE IS STRUGGLING F012. lfIn Australia I have often run houses without shoes when the soâ€" ing was good, not greasy after rain. They are lengths better when thev run barefooted and the difference is not likely to be fullv appreciated except by Sportsmen who test, it practically on their own account And, mind, you this is no more theorizing»; with nothing at stake. For instance, such horses as The Gmafiter. Battalionâ€"one of the bosi horses that ever came to England from Australiaâ€"and Tornado. which I trained at Falcon. ran with- out shoes when theywon, Why, I might beat Sceptre with a «good plater if that famous more had heavy shoes on. There was such an illustration in the Duke of York Stakes. It was a narrow squeal: and it might have been a piercing shriek if those working shoes had been a trifle heavier. “Of course, the oLd selling steeplw chaser-s wear big, heatvy shoes. That is, when they are not trying. Such risks are certainly not taken when the money is on, because if the pot boils over, a waste of steam may cause a blowâ€"up. Generally speak- ing, I‘L'LCBhOIlS'CS are not taken to the blackslnlith’s, as are ordinary horses, to be shed, since the blacksmith goes to them, and the work is done in their box. Needless to say, it is very Skillfully and carefully performv- ed a rule. Horses are not often pricked in shoeing; that may be an excuse for something else in excep- tional casesâ€"for we 'do not always hear the tnutlh about flyers in the paddock, when we are itching to 'bet, even if we go about with our ears open instead of our mouthsâ€"a charâ€" acteristic attitude. Why we do not frequently experience a disagreeable taste is another of those great sporting problems which continue to Worry us -llll moments of despondcn-cy after backing several horses as if to the manner born. Oh, yes, we do know our luck. "I use very 13th plates, and when I pins my faith immerse-ck do- not run him without them‘.‘ I do not want a. slip-up rounlrl the last turn when ’ my champion is taking his place and when I Stand to win more in a minute than I can afford to lose in six months."- i cold. |is worth Pints TDGlll‘DllillElLTlll CAN’T. ‘CATCH COLD WITHIN THE ARCTIC CIRCLE. â€"__ If You Want to Escape Cancer ' "You Must Go to New Guinea. ‘Explorers in search of the North Pole may die of cold, but never of a The fact. is that nasal catarrh is practically unknown within the Arctic Circle. This seems to prove what. many physicianshave long urgedâ€"that. an ordinary cold in the head is an infectious illness caused by a specific microbe. The cold of the Far North either kills the m1â€" crobe outright, or so acts upon the mucus membrane of the nose that it renders it. proof against the infecâ€" tion. ., Speaking of the Arctic regions, it mentioning that a year spent in the extreme north is worth all the hair tonics in existence to the bald. Arctic Whalers and ex- plorers have. almost without excepâ€" tion, testified to the amazing growth of the hair on their leads during exâ€" posure to below zero temperatures. Indeed, it. is said that if the roots of the hair are not absolutely ' dcâ€" stroyed, even persons completely bald can regain their hair by spending twelve months among the eternal ice. N0 disease has made more terribly rapid strides within the past few years than cancer, and none has more greatly exercised the energies of physicians and men of science to fight it. Dr. Alfred Wolfl‘ has. colâ€" lected an immense mass of statistics concerning the disease, which go to prove that it is far more frequent in cider and beer drinking countries than in those where wine is THE USUAL BEVERAGE. Thus, the South of France is far freer than the North. Secondly, he has shown that thickly-wooded dis- tricts suffer worse than those which are naturally bare or from which the trees have been cut. Sussex, Warwickshire, and Devonshireâ€"all Well-wooded countriesâ€"suffer alarmâ€" ineg from cancer, and matters .are even worse in the provinces of Northâ€"Eastern ,France, Bavaria (in Germany), and in the .Austrian Tyrâ€" 01. It is therefore advisable for those who fear cancer to move into open country where trees are scarce. The safest part of England is the Black Country, where the deathâ€"rate from cancer is but a third of that in the three counties above mentioned. In Borneo and New Guinea this terrible disease is quite unknown. Dr. .Page], who has been practising for postmaster, a man, was more than ten years in the former isâ€" land, has not only never seen a case of cancer there, but has never even heard of one, nor of its allied disâ€" ease, lupus. New Guinea, so far as can be ascertained, seems equally free. The latest idea is that countries subject to severe forms of malaria are immune from cancer. Certainly cancer is very rare on the West Coast of Africa. It is almost unknown in the swampy regions of Central Amâ€" erica and of THE AMAZON VALLEY. The Sundcrbunds also, those great swamps on the Hooghly, east of Cal- cutta, in whose depths lie many naâ€" tive villages, are also free from can- cer. Everyone knows that high grounds are the best refuge for patients af- flicted with any form of consumption. The higher Alps will in almost all cases give a new lease of life to the consumptive patient. But neither the Alps not any other mountainous reâ€" sort can compare for a. moment with the desert lands of Southern Califorâ€" nia. Here, if the patient arrives be- fore the disease has absolutely deâ€" voured his lungs, he can live in'wthe dry, clear atmosphere for years. In almost every case the tubercular symptdms at last disappear, though if the patient leaves the refuge, it is more than probable that they will recur, and a relapse will rapidly put an end to his life. Another safe refuge for those threatened with consumption is the high veld on the west side of Northâ€" ern Cape Colony. ' There is a large patch of mountainous country in- land from Port Nolloth where tub- erculosis is said to be absolutely non-existent. For sufferers from bronchitis there is probably no place like the inland part of Florida. There is a. small town of that State to which the strong and active twenty-two years ago brought on a couch so ill with bronâ€" as the Boyne River. living in chitis that no doctor gave him more than A FEW MONTHS TO LIVE. In the northern part of the State of Michigan is_a small stream known The population its neighborhood are re- No special virtues were attributed to the stream itself until one day, about five years ago, George Keyes, an old man, named fishing in the river, hooked a large bass, and, in his ef- forts to land it, slipped into the wa- old, and so severely afflicted ter. Keyes was nearly eighty years with rheumatism, that he was forced “,to Walk with two sticks. Horrified at his unexpectedducking, which he expected to bring‘on a severe attack bled away amazement, nara for extraordinary longevity. lof pain, he struggled out, and hob- hls utter I becoming home. To instead of . xi Worse, by the time he reached his house he felt better than he had 501' J Ascribing his. improvement - months. to~ his involuntary bath, he went back next day and took another. After a week’s "treatment he was cured. Since Keyes’ wonderful recovers _ the Boyne River district has beer. found to be impregnated with lithia,_ iron, and other substances. Residence there is said to be an absolute speci- fic against rheumatism of all kinds. â€"Pearson’s Weekly. ' nuns urwrsannu ABOUT THE ‘NEALTI-I HE IS ' POSSESSED OF, Kor-ko-ya Has a. Window in. Hi1 Hut. and is Contemplatâ€" ‘ ing a Table. Upon Frobli‘sher Bay, on. the eas- tern shore of Baffin Land, frequent- ed only by mhalers and walrus hunt- ers, lives Korâ€"koâ€"ya, the richest Esr quimaux in the world. Afllucnce is . a relative term, largely modified by environment. and the New York plutoclrat srpite all his means, dropped in Frobisher Bay, as would Korâ€"koâ€"ya, if transplanted to Fifth-avenue says a letter ill'Oln Seattle. Of late years the Esquimaux "mil" lio'naire” has been acquiring the lu.- xuries of civilization. Two summers ago 'he placed a window -in his house. What an advance that means on ordinary Esquimaux ureth- od‘s may be understood by recollect ing that the average “.Innuit”â€"â€"theh own nameâ€"lives in a snow housw in winter and in a tent of skills dur- ing the summer. Konâ€"l-:oâ€"ya’s housk is built out of wooden planks, tlu wreckage of ships cast away in than perilous quarter, and in civilized clinics a man unculd not lodge cattle in it. But it is as a metropolitan mansion to the habitants of hi:- ne‘ighbors. A year or so ago he added an oil lamp to his possessions. and rthe last season a whaler brought him up a stove. {is pro- gressrive tendencies are now the subject of discussion among season- ed whalemen in half a dozen ports, and it is said he is to have a table next year. HEAD OF HIS SET. {like Esiquimaux are'any'thrng but th’riilty. Saving is an unknown art with them. They will gorge thcnr selves with food toâ€"day if they kill a seal, though they may starve to- morrow. It Is a tribual custom also 'to divide the spoils of the chase with the unlucky, just as it is to exchange wives], and therefor-a they take what the fates provide in the matter of food andclothing, and no man worries himself. I Korâ€"ko~ya, however, is a mar. apart; the exception that proves the rule. The is 61 years old, having first seen the light in a little native village north of the present Danish townle of J ulianshaab, in West Gireenlland. He was a. keen trader as well as an export hunter, and he brought from his neighbors and sold to the whalemen. By the time he was 20 he was a- leader in the tribe and his “iglas” its hub and five years later he was the undisputed heard of the little community, which he has since maid-e the largest and most influenv _tial in all the Baffin region. HIS GREAT RICHES. I-Ili's wealth has now grown to great proportions, the region and materials considered. He has pro- bably not a dollar bill in his posi- session, for money would be of no use to him. But he has enough ankl to spare of everything essential to existence in that desolate land. lie ovns no fewer than ten kyaks (canoes for men) and sixty boneâ€" fippod doubleâ€"bladed paddles. He also owns four oomeaks (women’s boalls), with thirty single paddles .for their propulsion. I‘Iis; Stock of harpoons, lanccs and walrus hike ropes is both large and perfect, and he is ’the admiral of his own fleet. Ile and his allies killed the past season over sixty \‘alrus-es, and his stock of blubber for the winter conâ€" sisted of seventyâ€"two links or black logs, weighing about 100 pounds each. Besides, he barteer as much more to the whalenien with hides and tUISlliS', and in part payment m. ceivod the stove above mentioned. ' HAS TEN WIVES. It is, however, in wives that he is considered richest. do has no less than ten of them, all of whom can be discurdctl without the formality of divorce and transferred to other inelnlbers of the tribe in exchange for desirable members of their fem.- inine property. The I‘lsquirnuuz woman must be strong of jaw and persistently industrious, for the archaic method of keeping skin gar- ments soft and pliable is for the women to chew the skins all own- from time to time. This constant practice gives the women jaws and teeth strong enough to bite piece: out of tin pails, which they will often do on board the wlhalcrs, be- ing given an empty preserve can if they will bite a fragment out of the lid. ___.~__+.____.._ “Mr- Brown, I owe you a grudge remember that.” “I shall not bo frightened, then, for I never knew you to pay any-thing that you ow. ed.” Clerk .' ."I’veâ€"mrâ€"had an willlitioi to my family, sin”. lamp-foyer (ab son‘l'rmind {'1'} : "A d (billet-1 ? Well if it’s correct, cnter it. m U» ledger." would be as helpless, deâ€". .. mquAg.N.- .w-wu-n ._ .cv' ,M-Mwmzss e, 1.. ,. LWuâ€"x -.â€"- _.. 3:84 ._j ' ‘ erases” ’fi . 1- 743a,. . ‘ ‘““‘~f' '