Kept CCCOCSOD Or, The Girl With the Nut Brown Hair and Dreamy Eyes. ve Bh te Tis Faith ~ CHAPTER X1.—(Cont’d). “Seating himself on the sede, of chest, Strang drew the other nen to a place by his tide, and ee lowering his voice so that its Pass: is rin, his cheeks lost all their color save as oe of the sea, he trembled smitten with the palsy ©Biricken’ dumb, too, he played the | 7 Ms 2: ee eed until at last the enor- ity of the thing suggested spur- ‘ed him to speech and action, and bounding to his is back Da the cellar door and co asped— old devil, so this is ran ve filled that cursed chest. how You af his ames the length of his in- ~ dictm Being a weak man, @ ee NS “ly contemptuous, a shrug of the shoulders, a steely stare, just. yet,” Strang coldly advised. ' _that-money to a chest of your own ae bef Tong, so you'd better re- cveN your pleasantries lanced in the sailor’s Stack stiffened defiantly, ing its syreén son 9. glance wandered fo the ‘< mass ‘another ho our jowl, Mo ing with sin, Half an ho intae he rose and stood belcr eter se pees, ome 0 it,” ‘Thi'y of 4% ris a I run.’ Pup. faa a vik know there is none. Tm ing you to do is eapuins new} oe trick’s as common as dirt; it hap- e year. its all over; it’s ‘a plan that’s pat- ronized by the aE anil engin arch ‘pi iiiars who regard Highly ted, as straight- it, an uite legiti- forward business, maie commercia alism, “Risk! fash! think of the bead t I tell you it’s a job that have tackled pee a yet for you & shipowners knew what P was offer- ing you, they’d think I'd taken S t whe- ‘or it whe: m Gone, ne it you serve me in this— no telling what may ha) Tinion eyed the Need: eee y. Then he went off on a new tack— + what about David Graham? : raham,”’ Strang 6: Gries ae lot more in ver dropped You’ve pub the seas hips storm shine, so that he might thumbs: by his fireside ;! niche stretch on a feather bed; ’ve dipped the harness cask an gined on duff that he might feast * t 6 he ot pore: 'y One after another the pee. ions were cai brushed away, and when at last Strang turned t! /Wreathed in a smile of unholy jo But a the face eo Thoraas Tin CHAPTuR X11. ky Wiags high lifted aid toured that not a wisp» of the humming wind might be Tot, Be good ship Habakkuk forged fully impetuous on her home- me- ashed jags and the spu ‘Se! reached clits at Oiledonia’s 8 router “fs med and ever a lively feet, he planted |4°8 "| was Jack’ colored every shint in his, ward-|p be. a pubeives me you | Pena aay thels: praysts: when! and while ie rode low in the water fell wi rail, pausin; ‘0 glance aloft at the tugging sails aie straining spars, and n to watch the aoe from his vine torn to shri uter cur- piste reflecte: f his i bn ines oily he rew. er ‘ flere aught of shadowy gloom; Tom Tinion’s brow loomed dark as yes- ternight. The hour was that of the second -watch, and the deck presented a picture of unfettered freedom, to|™ be seen on shipbyar no other Bar of the day’s ro Jurrie, Peat tod for his weit outlook no less than for his 0 e matter | shirt of gorgeous grecn. Green 's weakness; it's pigment “Why i is it I wear green sarks?” he would say when tackled on the ubject; ‘why, bairnt’ thing is that ivvery, man- jack afloat to say nowt of o’t lub- ra on ae should i ede wear owt else. Green; why hasn’t t’ mais- ter hirsol’ clothed the bonny fields n’ hills i’ green, an’ isn’t sea warisiceteen es an’ 1 & ‘on its hint to ‘three parts o at is it but a warld should be reet for t’ bairns Rats thersel’s oot in nasty b' an’ women to cover ther- Hert wid their red an’ blue an’ oe es do-lals. ger, eager ia defence of ectabliahed for city. the of the rose, the yellow of the buttercup, an ebe! ie, as examples amet worthy |} of imitation; but Jack, reliant on the universatlity of his favored hue, was not to erushed. “Red,’’ he would retort, with a fine assumption of scorn, ‘‘ay, a tf og: wear aie inarked the end Once upon a time one of the critics, hardier than seg rest, ventured on a refere' “ithe brown-black earth as Pre alternative, but he gained no ad- vantage therefrom, “Black !’? Jack hellowed—‘‘t? soil black, ay, an’ He lost neah {time in lay ’ it over wid His bonny green grass. Neah, it'll nut dui. If a green sark’s the reet thing for Say ee ees for me.’ In fact, Jack made no secret of his leaning towards an entire ward- ‘ es of his peculiar hu: green escent a ‘teen coat an’ a green hat if I ,"" he was accustomed to mun hev her say, i’ some things, an’ this i is yan she inststs on. She’s a bit wantin’ in pers iy if vars sara , I'se une forward hatches, the drumming of his lips re- the s t th endeavoring to commit some part ot the Book to memory, Fer m, years than he {was able to name, this had been the chief coraon of his leisure ;moments, and upon all the far ex- “|tending waters thate was probably not another seafa; man with open much .at Teese h ts selection Ca : ed the libera i All the pro- { phets in“tu had eeved atten- tion, and this voyage he was p ing penis ous suit to Job, h ‘thorn sh. suis s ay wWarst 0” t? lot to. git he would explain, seah much he said an’ d about him that unless 1 eye Lies d till t? chart I t some of Idad’s rae ad maa him which is whicb Ull"L git’ Epatan oot again.’ Among his mates there was a strong suspicion, that Bill's devo: tion ie the ophets was a source firs to:him, bub he himsel ter of duty and himself as the dis. ciple of a deeply altruistic ag “T dui it mair for their 4 than my own. You see, when Ty |} done cruising doon here an’ ee my anchor on’tt’other side o’ Jor. ee Pse expecting to git, a seet t lot of “em, Noah an’ Moses an’ Mata an’ Jeremiah an’ vn’ aw of ’em, an’ T’ese be gey _ hah the iene made light of the bul ulging burden of her holds | euepponited if we diyvent have a rents; or on ‘his siteraal” Fencing ‘ ces What's rest’ fort” Maister’s|# be thus lightly |!" a his cogitations. thumb- nee imed | ¥ es called cranks alsaje let N} bit crack in t’ dog-watch noo an’ wa again, An’ to is this, that as far as possible we ought to give ’em a laal bit of encouragement. eT avid, noo, for example. Suppose he comes alang some day ses, “Guid evenin’, Maister reply, ‘It’ sa aon neet, Maister David,’ an’ then drops his ground tackle, an’ erin a cracking on music peste think hoo disappointe und that t 1 ke: nned nowt. ae brast oot wid. fa sail as leetsome as a lass wid se he’d e » it'll be same wid him, neal doot. Lucifer if I can reel off yan o} crack wid him, bit ke oalus srikes a fearsome sort, Tih eet easels bak ot, ey I an’ Jonah’li show ther’sel’s sociable, for their conversation should be most enter- Oust. ‘Paul? Ls have nowt to say to any o’ t’ ints. I can niv- eegeen obe tock” Hat they're they’re e got at, while wv’ prophets have a lot mair o’ t’ ordini ay come-day and go-day style aboot the And then B out his old bent would end his dis- course thus— ‘Ay, its true U'd like a crack noo d bi ‘0 be sate ie a aw —if—I—could—oanly have himsel’. ink it’s possible | ® may eats ee not be able fa talk ‘an Him, I’ luik—an’ it me presumptious, Td like to garg doon on my kne —an’—kiss ae is —that walked up Calvary—! As a rule, Bill's, attention wa: concentrated upon his Bible to the exclusion of all other attractions, nfluence was lfurtive glances cast at the mate, jleaning over the taffrail and star- in across tl t Tinion was ilayiber Hus meomaadeeal ler att oth By-and-by he rose, passed a beckoning nod to Jac Noticed owt pantcler aboot he mate” Bill asked “Seems Jack responded, “that he fe alee for summat.”? Bill shook his head portentiously. f c’ll mend. An’ you glower at him in that feshion He canna bide being stare: 2y. tried it, an’ it seems to ture ie feelings.” (To be continued.) SENTENCE SERMONS. Hearts of gold do not take gold to heart. Barone man is a seeking G: Enyy is ‘the pays to indus! Only the ates hearted se fit to work with the little o: t prayers os the ones oe take longest to lea never fight good way of i ibute that sloth @ man’s fen unless you are his Tf you would shine the stars ;| begin with a little sunshine now. Sin has no power over the life when it has no partners in thd Ree ng faith with fy way of cultiv Bearing hatred is a good deal like carrying vitrol in a mighty thin Nothing indicates the wise ma better than the smart: things te loesn’t say. Flowers of happiness never bloom jong She we plant them in our own gar You pant tell much about man’s musical ability by the way be ff lows his own horn. People who are afraid of being some one wind shee w I | take more than arguing ie dul out of existence to elim- nate evil from the world: It is possible to be orthodox on the raltares and still be ignorant of the Master’s lisaling to of the “earth you will not be rotate self on the laces in oth : wing power of t os does not abend on the drag it has oe the big pocket-books of the com- e are. churches where the poorest way to make beaven attrac- ‘tive would be to call it the home of the eternal choirs, i. pigmy mouse of Russi Tn after years a man has a migh- ty poor opinion of a young man who likes to dance. Our idea of a real genius.is one who invents a way to make a good living for his eal Some ten iene toe work with bout as much enthusiasm as they n|authors discuss the mil crushers that he flummoxed that iad crew wi a aan Ay—weel, T'd like ill would sciaiglion x! an’ again up yon, bit I’d be quite) | : He another person. ‘The fro Neineddick A < = Pass The smallest quadruped is the fi sia, AHdedertettrtreteterts Ht ; + : About the Farm 3 t ; BEFEF+HL EHO SEE EEE EES THE MILKER. nm @ recent bulletin issued by Agricultural Experi m of Connecticut, the er as a teria in milk and base Sie ee on practical ob- experiments conduc- ted at the vation. sal rr that come from soiled clothes and dirty 1)hands which get into the milk are large. The hands of a milker work- ing around the farm during the afternoon were tested, just before milking time, for the numbers o! Bechara that could be washed off the bacteria, but ib di se that would have dropped off auitg the “a ilking. Ai periment ribd vied: oe detapeens ow many bacteria were left on the hands after thorough washing with coap and water. The number Ee pers water was found to be 000,- = ‘0 experiments show thee 98 per cent. of haste can be washed from the hand: The clothes of the pie lairyman carry. immense numbers of organisms with dust from all sorts of contamination: i wider range for the collection of a larger number an oa variety of organisms than The only proper attire er is a white suit am cap to te worn only at milking i i suite ths dirt ie of a lace time n be sterilized almost inde- finely The milker aus not only be Ae 'y large number of favules ae but the wei source of disease germs that cai immediate disease transmit them to disease germs that get into aoe 8 are largely from human origin. ‘iow souree of rms or may been made in the Gue by allowing er- sors ill with contagious disea) high grade milk handling concern requires that if a cas) of contagi- ous disease arises in the ary Ke one of its patrons, tha supply be vthheld till the pateee langer limit of de ying the bases sate produced, Lovee s ii for during the quarantine Tt_is very difficult to make id, or even b. lieve, that our worst diseases are used by special kinds of bac. “ia ci e transmitted to a healthy indi. vidual, {who is likely to contract tho same MAKE CHICKENS SCRATCH. Busy hens are layers, prov: ngiNg of coe that they are well f eee bi all day long, except as necessary vigor of a hen as of a horse or man, — Chickens are intended to toh for their living, and a ee loes__not_have to do health aad & oe |like |the dice: with only such exarcise s he obtains in sitting the table, eating, and getting 2 again. “Who would ex neh a rson to be peel thy, aah or 3 5 ws derive eufiic fom the camer of Freie food is absurd. he poultry scratch for theit age not amid filth and m re a wack When throwing ine n into the pen, scatter it well, and isis or o aa chaff, or dust over it, as t taeda use their ee: pie a waste of energy, b ercise and eggs are two words that pegin with the same let- ter, and the relation between the. facts is not less velar than that be- tween the words. i Bi AGE FOR WORK. A professor has just gone deep- ly into the records of aehivements of d's nd fix age age for the tl master work is fifty. For the work- Hee the average is forty-seven. x the thinkers fifty-two. Chemists ‘onm: forty-eight; artists and clergymen, fifty ; payee and -folormess, et - one; physicians and statesmen, Df- ‘y-two; philosophers, fifty-four ‘ pathematicians humorists, fifty-six; historians, “fifty-sev eee and jurists, fifty- ap rofessor ,concludes that if ealthcoptimiei- romain’ che man y can command Success ag ! would look for a case of smallpox. readily as the js of, thirt irty.”* get into milk. The nilker may te l when a little feed is thrown in to} Sta an who lounges abdue s exercise | ous e | Hooghly pilot, steering el bash aabnned: ine ngland by and ARS + lIN MERRY OLD ENGLAND NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. Occurrences in the Land That Reigns Supreme in the Com- mereial World, Blackburn Parish Church Men’s Bible Class has now 1,002 enrolled members. The King has honored the Offi- cers’ Training Corps by becoming its _colonel-in-c! ahs w side-arm adopted by the War Office as eee issued to the = Coldstream Guard Alderman Becher’ Tidd eta who died at Newark, aged 78, was sev- eral times Mayor of Newar! Thomas waa of St. Stephen’s, Cornwall, 0 has claimed an old-age aos is over 00. There aré over 60,090 motor cy- cles at present in use in ee: one the number is inczea: rap- el, Grimsby, was entered, and the who eof the communion plate sto- tia rooms in Parliament are util- ized for all purposes by the Peers, 204 by the Commons, and 25. by.the = "O88. Birmingham Tram Committee has decided to reduce vi men's weekly hours from sixty to fifty eee says Mr. Asquith is t have a peerage and leave the ce ership of the House of Commo: Mr. David Lloyd-eorge. The clock at St. Chad’ 8, Shrews- cing weight of the ball 200 pounds. Hampstead town clery has re- ceived $1.20 conscience-moncy from a man who stole a shovel from the corporation five y to the wife as much as to the hus- nd. Cardiff ranks as the largest port |» in the United Kingdom for the ex- port of coal. Its output last year exceeded thab of ue Tyne ports by Fahad milliyn ton RR. sla? ane of the oldest solitons in Eng » died rene He was born in » and ae menced practice in 1831. To the Strangers’ Home for Asi- a‘ies, Limehouse, the Sores of Japan has givén $500 in recog- care accor free to Ji rd Avebury contends that the |} st S| greater number of men out as oy k ave either thrown out by » by N' strikes, are engaged i season orers. Among the lots of forgotten rail- luggage disposed of in London by ction were two family Bibles, an iron pump, a ee De, a skull, an elephant’s foot, a sword, and two artificial legs. ne Earl of Shaftesbury, who tes been n for tar chek chien UR Goose ee earances in excellent tenor voice. Oia Street Wesleyan Chap- | ber ons to on tae Coutts Ware ‘decided |° America. He has an] ness and curiousn DEADLY GOGAINE HABIT! cc WILL RESULT IN DEAT OR INSANITY IN FEW YEARS. A Physician Tells of How He Be- came One of Its Victims — Horrible Details. Of all ate seaetious Ae the whole i 2 power for good and evil than ¢ co: “Medical Victim’? in Pall Mall Magazine. In its pro- per sphere—as a local anaesthetic, enabling nearly all operations upon the eye to be pain- . |lessly performed, it has sayed the ain and anxi- rare exceptions, chloro- especially in n race unto! remem- idastbacios only less than the op- eration itse’ Pr this dread cocaine has relieved them. Pro- perly applied, as sur; jays use it, cocaine is quite ae aS even the least discomfort 01 anger, while ne pain leave nothing to be de- sired. DEADLY HABIT. T On the other hand, when taken internally, whether by the- m man, in unfitting of social intercourse, is in ex- perience infinitel: seit: tha those of either Gai or opium, r any drug known to Of course cases differ, and mine was as no doubt oe oe the worst; never- theless, I hay. ‘0 hesitation in say- ing that ARS Coealne habit, if per- sisted in uninterruptedly, must in y few years, or even ease in Sone cases, i insanity. The cocaine and the morphine habit are generally as- sociated; the reason for this I shall endeavor to show presently. CRAVING GROWS. In my own ease I commenced the se of cocaine experimentally many yeard ane cyte te naga ear 1884. T injected small doses gaa ia he sembnaried of vari- ous nerves, in order to ascertain definitely the duration and extent of its action in producing local anaesthesia. I soon found that, besides its local effect, it produce: a brief and transient ‘mental ex- citem: a curious rather than pleasurable character, “In fact, as time went on, I was unable t cide hatiar ie: Wan amcleae dial Fleasurableness in the short and slight (in small doses) intoxication it produced, or merely the strange- ess 0 tion, which produeed i FISH WITH A SAIL. Hoists or Lowers It at Will and Navigates Shallow Waters. marine animals seem at first glance to Les less et eats than the jelly-fish Up w the tide and aon with the ier car- ried along by this or that current, moving with the eddy of a back- water eae and thither, the jelly- fish most a synonym for helplessness, says the London Few rd. Bacrtiasils Gh cone ae pular idea of the jellyfish is selolly mistaken; but it is perhaps only in tropical waters that.he is found provided with a sail which he can an rac hoist or lower at will. like the rest of this curi- animal, is almost, transparen but unlike the body “of the fish, which is of the usual gelatinous construction, the sail is a mem- brane almost a: i Roundabout the Ellice Group the navigating fish is often found with w sail Rees ae inches across, and he navigates aad rarsee Eh ae skill of a in and out and avoiding ob- structions both above and below the surface with unerring skill. Like i cousins in hone waters this navigating jellyfish has the power of stinging its natural enemies, and its sting is fatal to fish and dangercus to man. pie cere eet NICOTINE KILLS. Renewed interest in the tobacco smoking effect. of on-the health has a jury’: verdict at an - inquest that deat! was due to heart failure following If e could cause heart writes a correspon- London Daily Mail, “such cases would be common, in- stead of extremely rare. »|is that only an almost infinitesimal amount of nicotine is absorbed in m sontain enough of this virulent pol- son to kill two n son all smokers are not kil once is that the nicotine is destr OY: 2d inthe combustion of the leaf.’ Some candidates tell the trutl and shame thi litician: {and shame the politicians, aeCe desire to sebest the experiment eat and again. action, the pai are esi ‘ ae indicated, five to fifteen sabuted are about the limits of its. duration, “WRETCHED REACTION. Then comes what may be termed|men and hase which, if not wilt last or many the reaction, a counteracted, rs—say, from hours. The condition of the victim during ras time is an extremely miserable one. He is restless, ex- citable, aie _to stay more ‘than a few sec place. state of tension; mentally, the ona dition is one o} xiety and suspi- imagines that every one is looking at him his Sees ant desire at this aie is for imes the st ees bs however, only imagines ime goes on, and the doses in- crease in frequency ‘and smount, his pyad sok becomes wretched in the e: that many patients dread the eons now-a- le its effects in Bosca ect in aecbrelisiee a him for any sort f rwoRlri rand pinged tee ae oon eens return to twelve | P: Papdaie Drug. Go., Columbus Ohio. Gentlemen :—I can c eon phos na re authorized to use my photo with testamonial in any pub- lication. Mrs. Joseph Hall Chase. 804 Tenth ‘St., Washington, D.C. Cou! ae aah Smell Nor Hear. vr L. Wetzel, 1023 Ohio St.. When I onan: your treatment my head was terrible. I had buz- chirping noises in my o go and visit my mo- ther nina ee the doctor who said T was not long for this world. him it was Peruna that cured me.”” eruna is ir ay oar by The Peruna Drug Mfg. Gohabla: Ask your Druggist. for a Free Peruna Almanac for 190). of course, he does attract atten- ing him: through holes pierced in the ceiling. Yet, directly he has ar recovered, the overpowering desire to repeat his does of cocaine overtakes him, and almost instant- ly after takirg it all these delu- in fuil foree, and no m. tally: unable to help myself. course, this could not go on inde- finitely, as I have indicated. Iwas eventually rescued and cured, a AE, NO MORE PICKETS. Soldiers at Aldershot Placed on Their Honor, Trusting in the honor of tho troops, General Smith-Dorrien, the General Officer Commanding-in- Chief at Aldershot, England, has issued an order abolishing the pick- ets told off to patrol the streets at a to keep soldiers ii 0 the present each regiment fie hee to goonies Mthere enon suotiniesiveneneeae for this purpose. In the recent manoeuvres the artmanié was. aucccantne eee LCE relaxing the order placing public- houses out of bounds and trusting the men not to abuse the privi- lee There is not a single man in the pee onmend who does not feel that the new order places him upon his honor to behave well. “There is no doubt that other commands will follow the lea Aldershot in the ma‘ company tapi, WheneEeedA UKE men ke anils dren, is bad, and should be gener- ally done away.with,’”’ said another ficer. Mr. Reavell, the Chairman of te District Council, said that the’ be- havior of the troops during the last The | tolitude he desires becomes | few pod fully warranted the or. unattainable, for such i i tis mental |der, for it was a most exceptional state of suspicion that even whey thi o see a soldier misbe- locked in Lis own room he e imagines watchers outside, with eyes glued (6 imaginary peep holes. o de- SOS of the unliketihood or impos: ity of this being really the Ai will expel from his mind the persuation that nevertheless it is so. His SORE, in facts is ae tinetly one si top: Si insanity 0! ante ion, Tf he ibe tur e eens he thinks he ig wetched-and followed, and: that the passers-by make remarks about fa him. AND MORPHIA. Morphia i dote to cocaine. after taking my waine, I would also take a mic does of morph acts much more norphia, so that a most powerful anti- vickly if the two drugs taken hats the brief excite- nent for which the “abate was not ern with, while’ the nisery of the after hours was we e4 Tt is curi- s that di e effect of the peenin: 198 with the assistance of the morphia, passed away, all the Ramainigus’ ane delisioneVanike completely NEARING THE END. now see the absurdity and_ impossibility of thinking: that v whole town is talking about on dees and unknown ines) » until he begin: valle control to walk in the street: jand behave like anyone else} later, he | Physician Picks having in the streets. The soldi- vere eS educated now a ted to behave in ar aneatable tee Ser ee LONG OR SHORT LIFE. Out What Thinks are Signs. “Metehi nikoft | io will perhaps in- may that. The signs of r}short life, eae a still hold long life and océl, and the delicate-skinned man will be pansies cut off at 120 or 180, An} the man with the coarse, ro} ch hide will roufid out a gener ae 960 to The © speaker; ie oousbibe and himeelf eee hided, resumed thoughtfu “The signs of a short life—and frail teoth, stelily separated very. soft and hositita skin, early cone m cane a pats mouth and fine. in, ke coarse pl} iurrowed brow, wide nostrils and, 2 large mouth.’” poe ee orsehair ae the tail is joa : strongest animal thread ee