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A handling 'Commercial busivess | rates. "OF CANADA Port Perry. hgonoy. b- =2 Deposits reeceivad at the current Interest calculated an d. 3 1. mn credited to OG pe) rates of 'Interest. Careful and prompt, Mtoatioh is also given to the collecting of Notes, ete. SAVINGS SPANK DEPARTMENT. Special Attention is Directed to the Following Advantages offered by our Savings Bank: 3 Derived of Ono Dollar and upwards d at current Wet is added to the deposit TWICE in each year, at the end of May and November. Deposi is subject to no delay rs aro FE lt of the whole 'or any portion of the deposit. 0 is made on withdrawing or depositing money, Port Perry Branch Gh M. GIBBS, Manager. R. D. ARCHER, M.D.C.M. Victoria D' University ; M.B. Toronto University, Member or the "College of Ph 8 8, Ont.; Licentiate o sicians and he Royal ' HG HUTOHESON, Mavaokr, Port Perry, June 26, 1807. £100,000 STERLING (British Capital) To lend at 4 45 and b per cent on good Mortgage security. Apply to Banker and Broker, Port Perry, Ont. April 22, 1897, of Surgeons, of the Royal College of a Edin- burg ; Member of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow; te Resident Papil of the Rolanda Hospital, Dablin, for Women. Office --d Residence, second door west of Davis' Furniture Emporiam, Queen Street. Office hours=9 to 11a. ., and 2 to 5 p.m,, and evenings. TI have taken as partner, my brother, Dr R. Archer, M. D., C. M., Member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeens, Ont. Port Perry, June , 1897. DR. E. L. PROCTER _ (SUCCESSOR TO DR. CLEMENS) . of with on noe A low Tei Modis He te of nyc. of tao or " Office and residence' ou' Dr. Clemens' old site. Opposite Town Hall PORT PERRY. NOTICH. ------ R. J. H. SANGSTER, Phvsidan, ur geon and Aceoucheur, and Dr. W. Sangster, Dentist, may on and after 10- oy be found iu their new Surgical and Dental Offices over the Post Office, where they will be found as heretofore, prepared to attend to their respective professions in all their branches. 8, 1897. Part Perry Dec DR. 8. J. MELLOW, Paysiciax, SuraeoN, &c. Office and Residence, Queen St., Port Perry Office _hours--8 to 10 am; 1to3 p.m. and Brenlugs. Telephone in office and house, open night and day over the lines south, connected with the residence of Le Robson, V.8. Port Perry, Nov. 15, 1894. J. A. MURRAY, DENTIST, {Rooms over Allison's Drug Store] PORT PERRY. All branches of Dentistry, inclvding Crown and Bridge Work successfully practiced. Artifical Teeth on Gold, Silver, Alumi MONEY TO LOAN. HE Subscriber is prepared to LEN ANY AMOUNT FL Security ND AT 6 PER OENT. £3 Also on Village Property. 43 MORTGAGES BOUGHT, HUBERT L. EBBELS, Banist Office next $0 Ontario Bank, ster. Port Perry, May 10, 1885. AUCTIONEER. HE 'undersigned tuk takes this opportuni; T of returning thanks for the Fp liberal patrenage he has received as Auctioneer in the past. The increased experience and extensive practice which I have had will be turned to advantage of patrons, and parties favoring me with their sales may rely on their interests being fully protected. No effort will be spared to make it profitable for parties placing thejr sales in my hands. My Sale Register wih be found at the Leland House, Joely THOS. SWAIN. Ceesarea, Aug. 26, 1896. WM. GORDON, Licensed Auctioneer, Valuator &c. OR the Peraahips of Brock, Uxbridge, Scott, Thorah, Mara, Rama, Mariposa and Eldon Partiesoutrusting their Sales to me may rely on the atmsot attention being given to their intrests. 'WM. GORDON, Sunderland, N. F. PATERSON, Q.C,, Barrister Solicitor, Notary Cc, uy Nos. 310-311, Temple Building, Cor. Bay and Richmond Streets, Toronto. Toronto, Mifeh 81, 1888, E. FAREWELL, L. L. B., County Crown Attorney, Barrister, County Sol- itor,' &c., Notary Public and Conveyancer JMfica--South wing Court House, Whitby, nt. or Rubber Plates. Fillings of Gold, Silver or Cement. Painless extraction when required: © && Prices to suit the times®a OHN BILLINGS, Solicitor, Notary Public, Co &e. or the Ontario Bank. ar Office over the Ontario Bank, Port Perry. Jan, 29, 1887. DAVID J. ADAMS «IT I$ EASIER TO Crouching J In every cough there lurks, like a crouching gery the probabilities consumption. She throat and . Take | no chances \ with the dan- oY gerous foe. For 60 years there has been a per- fect cure. What a rec- ord! Sixty years of cures. Ars | otters soothes and heals the i wounded throat and lungs. You escape an at- tack of consumption with all its terrible suffering and uncertain results. There is nothing so bad for the throat and lungs as coughing. A 25¢. bottle will cure an ordinary cough; hard- er coughs will need a 50c. size; the dollar bottle is cheapest in the long run. "One of my sons was spitting load with a "high fever and was ry ill. We co hardly see any +4 of life in him. The doctors him no u LR one bottle of your Che: ral cured him and #aved his life." bi G. ANDERSON, | Nov. 10, 1898. Pukwana, 8S. Dak hits the Doctor. If have any mplaint whatever and desire the oat medical jAdvies, write the Doc- tor freely. Addres Dr. J. C, AYER, Lowell, Mass. WHATEVER 18 IS BEST. 1 know as my life grows older W | And mine eyes have clearer sight A That under, each renk hi There lies the root of right, ¥hat each sorrow has its purpose, TE By the sorrowing oft inn But as sure as the sun brings morning, | Whatever is is best. 2 1 know that each sinful action, As sure as the night brings shade, Is somewhere some time punished, Though the hour be long delayed. 1 know that the soul is aided Sometimes by the heart's unrest, And to grow means often to suffer, But whatever is is best. 1 know there are no errors In the great eternal plan, And all things work together For the final good of man; And 1 know when my soul speeds onward In its grand eternsl quest 1 shall say, as | look back eartbward, Whatever is is best. --Ella Wheeler Wilcox. "THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE" A Dainty Sketoh of a Country Girl 'Who Married a Divorced Man and Was Cut by Her Old Friends. BY JEAN EDGERTON HOVEY. The whole town of Little Britain was talking about Mrs. Clarence Ritchie on street corners, at literary society meetings, over the billiard ta- ble, In the long, dingy clubroom above the grocery store, until the alr was full of her name. The teacher of the school Elizabeth Ritchie bad attended in ber youth said that she had foreseen something like this when Elizabeth took that trip to ort Perry, Feb. 1897. J. . BURNHAM, Clerk of the: Division Court. = Office in Prot Block, Port Perry. + Thea A alps eproeeu Srbly ppd OPTICIAN ni e and will vit Bort once in Six month All orders entrus! to to him warrante gfaction SrmRancisCM ¥ Nott, Port «Du dams x. Jo WM. SPENCE, Towsihly Clerk, Commissioner, &e. mney id a ug executed with door ost of Town Hall, | it gave ber pain to see one of her girls pe with her aunt, but still, she must add, Blizabeth had gone further than she had supposed she could, and come back the wife of a divorced man. © Mrs. Burdette lifted ber fine, white crowned head: like me, Miss Percival, I t had too much char- acter to go against all the principles she was raised By. But this is what comes of living In a big city." 'In the low ceiled, carpetless club- room, where the youth of the town gathered, Mrs. Ritchie's name flashed to and fro like a billiard ball. James Ingrames, a man of the world, having just returned from his yearly cotton tour through the Georgia towns, observed: "That aunt of Liz's did a good trick I , trotting her over the world and shoving Ler on to the New York mar ket" When he bad chalked bis cue carefully, he added: "1 didn't suppose our little, everyday Liz had it in Ler to get to be a swell, for all she used to be such a sharp little plece. 1 sce ber name in the New York papers." A short, square youth who was seat: ed by the window leaned forward. "Did you know, Jimmy, that her id is a divorced man?" "Listen to Rufus!" jeered the other. "Why, yes, Rufus; Clarence Ritchie's a great gun; his life's common prop- | erty. Don't you read, man?' Pres- ently Jimmy, skirmishing the balls over the billiard table, added: "Pooh! That's nothivg, a woman a divorced man. What's the matter th that, eh? But this town's dead slow." The youth by the window shifted his they were propped | mired the alligator. | ting and the swishlng ceased. She | the flounce. [ With a slow laugh, "Yes," sald Jimmy, p allusion to himself, "she's 'woman, a very sensible mire people who get on Her husband's a famous married him after he got a divorce, .and now she's | swell. And yet I underst: | Jimmy patronlzingly, "the around here don't b han to observe Elizabeth: Ritchie col toward him on the opposite side ' he looked at the fence palings. Hi ing her feet patting on the hard clay and the swish of her skirts, be carried his cane consciously. It was a stout orange wood cane, with a small alll gator on the handle, which his uncle had brought him from Florida. She could see it from where she walked and remembered it. She had a love for odd little things and had always ad- Suddenly the pat- called his first name familiarly, step- | ping off the sidewalk and holding out | her hand. He went across slowly and took it. She looked him up amd down and smiled at his face. "Old friends are rare to meet," said | | the airily dressed woman. Rufus showed 4 tendency to move | on, but she held his hand until she | brought him to a standstill; | stood away from him, tilting her par then she asol about. Its lace ruffles rippled be- | hind her pink and white face; her dark blue eyes shone through her fine vell; the ribbons on her dress and the silk flounces of her skirt were lifted and rustled by the breeze; her French shoes and silk stockings showed themselves and were gone with the movement of The whole costume seeiti- ed to emit with every breath the faint . scent of cedar or sandalwood. "Well," he sald, looking her all over "so this is you? | You always were ambitious for such | things." She stood iting and smiling. "Now you've got them, I suppose | you're satisfied." She withdrew ber glance, which was | becoming a little musing, from his face | to her skirts, dnd it lighted up. "Yes," she said fervently; "planning dresses, wearing them, waking an du- pression io them." She broke ¢ h "She "When you look at ie like that," added, "what are you thinking?" "1 am thinking that 1 used to Kno | you." "I am beginning to think tbat I ne % | knew you or any of you until now: | Her eyes flashed and then roved AWAY. "Look, Rufus. I can see the tops of Mrs. Hall's sparkleberry trees. Don't you remember bow we used to climb them when we went to play with Ses rena Hall? Sometimes," she sald; "when | am sitting at my window look= ing out at the horses and people I can see in my mind's eye the Halls' wood yard and those sparkleberry trees. The leaves were 80 shining, and the berries | were such big ones.' "You had a lot of fancy notions then. | I used to call you Lady Elizabeth" | gald Rufus, more genially. "Why," she asked at once, "did you let me stay here three weeks without coming to see me?' 5 Rufus smiled as if the question pleas- | ed him, and his square figure settled. to see you?" "Why, Miss Percival came--and---a | one or two others," she said, glancing} away. "Miss Percival told my mother th she thought it was her duty. opinions of the world and the opinio of Little Britain don't agree ab you." Rufus leaned easily against h stick. "You took the worldly mn when you left here, and the world mires its own, but the people you wi born and raised with have to d you." She looked from Rusfus' firm eh ed face up at the sky, around at trees and op and down the em weed grown street with the glance of a restless bird. Then she nodded her head at Rufus. "It Is a very easy thing to be minded here in Little Britain. would suppose, to see the cows gn around, that--oh, 4 lot of things. my word, Rufus, the world is co cated. You may be right, or 1 right, or we may both be wrong. At any rate," she said earnestly, "credit me with trying to do right, and weet me ou that ground." Rufus did not move, though she part- ly beld out ber hand. "That's a loose way," he sald. "A thing's right or ! = wrong. There isn't any use talking between." "I took pleasure In the thought of coming home, but nobody wants to see me," said Mrs. Ritchie suddenly. "Please, Rufus, let me keep one friend. 1do care" Rufus leaned easily against his cane again. "It would have been better for you, Elizabeth," he sald consideringly, "if you bad staid at home." "Well, 1 don't think--maybe so. Just shake hands. 1 want to shake hands like old friends." "That's just like you, sald Rufus after a pause, "trying to wheedle peo- ple into what you want." Mrs. Ritchie looked at his settled fig- ure and Important face until ber look changed from wistful to musing and on to comical. "You've got to be an old man," she sald. "There's no moving yon. The world 1s big and liberal, Rufus. It's "Pattention to the rocks, "Have many of your old friends been ston, a 'western 'man, | nt No. 17.281 was granted | "12, 1857. No provision was the bed for storing of the mat- | is | 2 pillows and bedclothes, as on in the folding bed of today; unlike the modern contrivance, | when folded resembles a bureau, nler or other similar piece of fur the folding bed patented by on made no pretense of looking anything other than Just what it 'company manufactured the John- patent, and it had quite & vogue In 8 day. Little by little Improvements ire made on the bed, and within the score of years the plece of furnl- known today was evolved, and are several hundreds of varieties patented.--New York Sun. ¥ Spreading Happiness, have but one rule that | follow ab- 3 In this life, and that Is te make other people as happy as possi | ble. | er. " ghe replied, "you ought to be gratified, then, at what 1 heard a young lady say the other day." "What was that?" "She sald that whenever she saw youn dancing she had to laugh."--Chicage Times-Herald. AN ELUSIVE BONANZA | THE 8TORY OF THE LOST LODE OF | GORE RANGE. How a Tenderfoot Accidentally Dis- covered This Wonderful Bank of Gold and Why He Didn't Enjoy the Richness Thereof. They were telling mining stories in the courthouse, and Dee Reese, the | mwyer, asked: id you ever bear of the lost lode of the Gore rauge?"' he other lawyers sitting around 'hil said they bad never heard of it its or h OMT ese borrowed a fresh chew of tobac- and told this story: © "Hundreds of experienced and ines- 'perienced miners as well bave spent & great deal of time and money looking 'for the lost lode of the Gore range, apd they are searching for It yet (0his famous mine was found and lost in the fall of 1890. A party of men from lowa visited Routt county, Colo., 'In the fall of 1896 on a hunting and fishing trip. The party made Its Bheadquarters at Steamboat Springs. In the latter part of October the party moved up and went into camp on "Rock creck, In the Gore range of tountains, which runs through north ern Colorado. One of the party was druggist, who had gone on the trip r bis health. He knew pothing of ining. He had been warned by an ald miner before he left lowa not to be "fooled, as many a tenderfoot bad been. Pby what Is known as 'fool's gold,' or ron pyrites. Bo this druggist paid no but attended strictly to his bunting and fishing. f8 "One afternoon while hunting for er le started a fine buck and fired at m and wounded him. The buck fell, t got up and ran before the druggist ould get to him. Where be fell was a ool of blood. which showed that be as badly wounded. The hunter trailed m by the blood spots on the dead aves aud grass for a mile and there ound where the buck bad lain down Ind then rising had gone on again. In pndown, and then the hunter, was exbausted, sat down on ao out pping ledge of rocks to rest. %In the enthusiasm of the chase he ad not noted which way he traveled. he realized that he was lost in the yily timbered wountains, with ight coming on. He knew it would useless to try and find the camp at night, so be gathered a pile of d limbs and kiudled a fire agalost ledge of rocks and laid down swith the blaze and prepared to p. While lying there he noticed sparkled in the firelight. He nd examined it, supposing it 'fool's gold' he had been warn: But the rock looked so t he broke off several pieces , them in the pocket of his 3 coat, intending to carry thew lowa with him as curiosities, t day he wandered all the and then found the Gore over the range and followed camp. That very afternoon mountain snowstorm began, broke camp, returned to Springs and from there rglst, whose name 1 have stald in Denver for a few way to his home in lowa. of a hotel in Denver the d to mining, and the drug- ned the 1 of stone the routine 'n ctifldrens 1 L of the greatest value as an Indicator of health or disease, 18 unfortubately not 80 common as it should be in private families. Dr. Graham, discussing a pa- per by Dr. Griffith at the Philadelphia Pediatric soclety, says, "The rule that a child bas double its birth weight at the fifth month and triple at from the twaisth to the fourteenth month makes a very good and useful working ree- | ord." LAUGHING GAS. A Pair to Draw To. A western poet bursts forth in these | tumultuous lines: My soul fs terrible and strong As a giant's strength may beg My soul's a storm that raves along And sweeps the inland seal But he does not approach in storm and fury the Arkansas bard who sings: My soul is like a cyclone From highest heavens hurled; My soul is like an earthyuake That swallows up the world! That tot only fills the bill, but covers the ground.-- Atlanta Constitution. Sweet Solicitade. Husband--My dear, the dir damp tonight. furs. Wife--I have them ready. Husband--And tie your boa on closely. A little exposure often leads to sore throat, and sore throat leads to diph- theria, a most dangerous discase. your thick rubbers, too, and good, thick shoes 'and warm gloves, and, my love; I think you'd better wear a warm veil. is very One can't be too careful when one's life | insurance is in arrears, aud yours la-- | New York Weekly. Noblesse Oblige. Now that they had become suddenly | wealthy she positively declined to quar rel with her husband any more. "A family jar," "is 80 liable to crack the escutcheon." her many friends some appreciated the exquisite play upon the words jar and crack, while others iwerely thought her too sensitive.-- Detroit Journal, Pathetlo. We mourn her loss who talls before The ruler of a foreign clue, Nor can we stanch var Lars of recs Oneile to this abridge of time. When flush of youth was on our cheeks, She watched o'er us with tenderest care} In later years. when struggles ame, She raised us (rom intense despair, 'We plead in vain for ber reprieve, For Kaiser Willum, soldier bold, Condemns to death a century Which is but otnety nine years old. ~Chicago News A Man of His Werd. "Show wee a prizetighter," aaid the long our A resorts--the alin warm air, the Rbaneh too oftén strewn | with subbish and in any case littered | with broken shells and with bits of | wreckage from which nails protrude. It is strange that the most deadly work of the germ is done in late spring and early autumn. Fifty per cent of 'the | deaths from tetanus are due to wounds on feet or hands. After the bneillus has entered the | wound from 8 to 15 days may elapse. | The bacilli do not themselves pass into | | the system. They remain in the wound, but generate a poison which dues their | work. In most cases there are preliminary symptoms similar to those of an ap proaching cold--a dull ache, located be fore the ear, followed by stiffuess in the muscles of the lower jaw. There is a and attempts to swallow exaggerate the symptoms. The jaws then become lock: ed, and the disease passes downward to | growing difficulty in opening the mouth. | | | | the rest of the body. | active. You'd better wear your | Wear | she wittily protested, | | entertained and baired man as be leaned agaiust the bar, | "and I'll show you a loafer." "ls that so?" exclaimed a burly fellow behiud the stove, jumping to his feet. ell, I'm a prizetighter. See?" "Of course," said the other as be back & toward the door, "aud I'm a later." -- Chicago News. Unrivaled Activity. "1 don't suppose there is a city in the | country that compares with Bostou for | club activity." "No; I noticed in one of the & man who was clubbed by a Boston po- liceman refused to testify against him for fear he would Le clubbed ngnin."-- Cleveland Plain Dealer, All la the Family. He rises early aud is guoe Before she quits her bed; Bhe works at fancy things, while he Toils fot tbeir daily bread. Bhe wears a sealskin cloak for which Three hundred plunks were paid; He wears an overcoat that cost Nine dollurs ready wade. --Exchange. Small Supply. "She pays her butler $5.000 a year." "Yes; there are so few really competent and yet look less impor- tant than her husbaud."--Detroit Jour "nl, Boiled Down Facts Dr. Ward's Blood and Nerve Pills No remedy ever introduced in Canada has gained so many words of praisefrom sufferers all over the coun- try as these thoroughly effective pills. wHY ? Because they positively cureall dis- eases brought on by impoverished blood, such as heart trouble, nerv< rheumatism, dyspepsia, etc. nd and was taking bome. or never misses a chance to specimen aud In this group lobby was an old prospect- ed to be shown the speci- druggist went to his room. "old hunting coat from Lis trunk and took out stone. The ghiner exam- a pity you couldn't have goue round it some." p "1 don't want to go "round 1" said Rufus Ty 8 Sout want to g0 e caught her smile and quartz I have ever thought at first that with, but at last bim fo ke the ALSO Because they induce sound, healthy sleep, and restore VIM, VIGOUR, and VITALITY to the body, ALSO Because their use enablés the system to successfully resist attacks of colds and the inseparable re- sults, viz,, lung and kidney troubles, a fact of especial importance at this season 6f the year: £0 conti p © box. five boxes $20, AL imam or Bum Williaa & Cou, Turouto, Out (Soll by A. 5 Davis.) papers that | { | sutlers who are | | the younger u In the open air the bacillus remains in It is only when it enters more deeply and gets away from the air that it becomes dangerous. It may be rendered harmless by eleansing the wound with a mixture of 1 part carbolic acid in 20 parts of water. Afterward the wound should be filled with tincture of iodine. If tne wound should be a deep one, caused, for ilstance. by a nail. or ir it should be a lacerated wound, caused, for example, by gunpowder, or a crusied wound, as with a hammer, the operation | of cleansing may be a difficult matter, and a ph ian should be called in, who | may inject antitoxin, -- Ban Francisco Call, | READING ALOUD. One of the Lost Arts Which Might Profitably Be Renewed. leading aloud to the children and in the family ecircle--how fast it is becom- ing one of the lost arts! What malti- tudes of children of former days were entertained and instructed by this prac- tice, and how few there are who are so instructed nowadays. Children now, after being taught to read, join that great army which takes in the printed word, swiftly and silently, Most parents doubtless are too busy to spare tine to eduente their sons and daughters by reading to them, and as the children grow older they. find their hours too crowded to devote any of them simply to listening. "What is the use?' they would say, if asked. "Tastes differ, and we can read what we want in a fraction of the time that would be consumed if we had to sit still and hear it." This is all true enough, but is there not something lost in having the custom of reading aloud lapse so entirely? As | a sign of the times, the change is an- other proof of the rush and hurry ot | life, and, in the family, it is more or less to be cons! ed an evidence of the tend- ency to "ind on the art of e Common interest in a good book, read aloud by a father or mother, is a factor in the home that is Important enough to have some attentio n paid to it. The opposite of "skimming" a book, it develops certain mental facul- ties that it is well to have developed and as an exercise in elocution for he reader | it bas a distinct advantage. ks so read are remembered, and their uence om character far exceeds that of many a vol- ume whose pages are turned in a desper- ate effort to reach the last. Reading aloud is a salutary check on the babits of | reading too much and reading too fast. It would certainly be worth while to | take up the practice in families, where the conditions favor as an experiment. | The winter evenings are long, and as one looks back on them he can find at least a few hours that could have been devoted to reading or to listening. Reading aloud is a quiet enjoyment, to be sure, but it is an enjoyment.--Ilartford Courant. endence'" As He Turued Up His Coat Collar, "Italy favors the open door," remarked Mrs. Snaggs, who bad been reading | about the Awericun proposals regurdiug | China. | "It must be warmer in Italy than it | is. here," commented Mr. Suaggs.--Lilts | buig Chtonicle Telegraph, . One of the Sleek Sort, Browa--It's a good policy uever to de- stroy a peceipted bill. Dou't you thiok so? Green--My dear sir, dos't ask me, | can't remember when | have had a re- ceipted hill iu my possession.--Doston Transcript. Man's Gravitations, Man's a living contradiction Of the Taws of gravity; Look around you und consider, And you'll have to side with mel That the solid man is always At the top you can't deny, And be never is the lightweight Who succeeds in fying high. --Llicago Times Herald. Observant Little Willie. Willie--! guess papa has said some- thing that's wade mamma awfully angry. those callers go, he'll get itl a--How do you know? Willie--She's begun to call him "dar ik "-- Harlem Life. "Do you take any stock ia these goose bone theories ¥* "Well, the weather always seems to have moderated after we've eaten the gouse."--Chicago Record. The Formalities. The wat waters © i rhythmic fow {4 When pr these Hitgme words were uttered, Li war let er Ede The none Passion. Floorwalket=Hurry out, madam! The store's agrely x Poy i Mrs. PPurchase--Oh, Is it? en just wait for the five sale.~Philadelphia = ¥ than eat, or it er eat than | phrased brief oo | cell-like | imaginary | tempted to rise. | glass, and that was by | storm aud | ment, afer he grappled but finally desisted, saylog is be Impossible to mdke his brief morning, since the case presented some difficulties that he bad been uuable to master. He fell asleep from exhaustion alt most as soon as be went to bed, but in a few minutes rose, and, seating him- self at his desk, wrote furiously for nm hour or more. Then, carefully foldiug and ludorsing the sheets he had writs | ten upon, be put them away in a pls geonhole of his desk, after which, with- out speaking, be returned to bis bed and slept soundly till late in thé morn- ing. At breakfast he expressed some un- certainty as to his "finding a solution." His wife told him to look through his desk, which he did, discovering the paper he had written in the pigeon hole where he had hidden It. As he read it joy mingled with amazement showed plainly iu bis face, for the pa- per was a clearly reasoned, correctly the Intricate case, with all the obscure points smoothed out! [Ie had not the slightest recol- lection of having written the docu ment. Another extraordinary case is that of a youug man who. an bour or so be- tore starting on a railway journey, paid a visit to a steamer in which bis par ents were financially interested. In the course of the inspection he entered the little chamber in the bow of the vessel where the anchor chain is coiled and was Impressed by the chambers smallness and the cramped quarters It | would afford a man seut down there tg superintend the paying out of the chain. In due course the traveler went to the rallway station and engaged a soug geat in the corner of a first class torri- tor and sleeping carriage. He had the compartment to himself. Tbe train 1nd not been long ou its journey before the young man was souud asleep. But be imugined thut be was awake and, moreover, that be was imprisoned ix the little anchor chaln cluipaitivent of the steamer. The vessel was undef way, he thought, and moving more rap- idly than be had ever known a steamer | to move before. His first idea was to go on deck at once, but he could not get out of the chamber. He could not stand erect even, the compariuicut was so | little, as he found out at the cust of an wl head when he at- Then, to his surprise, bm | be found that the room had a wiudow, | evidently a dead light, but square and This be tried to rajre, to break it z¢ tue apchor ich the deck y to ximush the king It wif Knew that this probaly, for lie foit vessel wis iu a likely to go down any mo- in which case be drowned like a rat in at Having smashed the he fonnd that the window was double. and he distinpetly remembe ng the out- side pane. after w Ith profusely bleeding hands, he carefuily picked out the bits of glass remaining in the sashes. so that he could cliwab out. After removing the last remaining fragment of gl sash be uvuusunlly Inrge Lut, g. determined thinking that he could sei chain and by its sid r bere was ol one w bis clinched fist would sult ina cut by but he ed it all the same certain now that the te he wouid ap glass, ss from the | carefully thrust his head and arms out, and began to feel for the chain nowhere to be found himself half wag and r bed upw L To his great joy. he found he could reach over the edge of the k: but. to his dismay. it was curved and smooth, offering no projection whatever by which he might pull himself up. That being the case, and not wishifig to fail into the water and be drowned. he painfully drew back into the little chamber. However, he must cerininfy i escape or be drowned, and alter N ting his breath he wou ¢ oi atteropt to reach the d * As he lag panting and frightened ne ficeidentally reached in the direction away from the deadlight. To his sur prise, he touched a swaying window blind, and the next moment he found himself lying on the floor of the corri- dor of the onrushing train, with a yiu- dow dogn, through which be bad evi dently Leen trying to reach the deck of the lmaginary steamer. The wonder was he did not lose his grip and fall on © the line. drowned that prevented him from be- ng killed on the rallway. The young fellow had' a long and serious iness after bis experience, and, strange to say, when he recovered his Somidubu- listic habit left him. It was Then bé pulled out of the window rd. An 044 Coincidence. In oue of the historical volufiies of John F. Magginness Is recounfed A most remarkable cotncldedce. very day has the Declarittion of Liberty 1 oll git rin ¢ news io Philadelphia a be" and © taln place on the banks « about 14 miles above w! It was his fear of being = =