hind the black wall of obliv ed again to where Colonel Wickham Sat beside Lue He Won't they, Harry?" he whi ed straight out for an invitation I couldn't, under the circumstances, re- fuse him; friend's checrfulnes: to view the house and grounds. its noble owner, * dissipated a huge fortune in the low- the congenial company of horse jock- STRONGER THAN DEATH =~ 2: 2: 2 2: OR fF = & 2 @ : ¢ excitement of thi A RANSOMED LIFE [farsi poe oe w it all nt. with slaughtered birds, flutterin - dead. Then came a brief lull so the tu- mult, while tae beaters stepp tones a broad, ; hallow niy- W orotatais Trevor had been d rm n drunk i Lan that went gurgling through the | ther e Tg CARNEGIE ANECDOTES sin Road to Fortune. are some anecdotes of Andrew and horses. : x : i Gad: the county of Ken ogian Mr, Carnegie was enchanted with CE THAT MADE |tho broad, A. G. PEACOCK RICH. inns, He | determined to purchase a cgach, and trips in no other w coach through tke | esieoriggd county It was taken through INGURABLE DRUG Tun, - INTERVIEW Wi Wire D 'Dz. FORBES Tease: the quaint ermed t Results of cuales as as to Ee Sic taken his pleasure . gress ee the ee Public ateinon has rocen drawn to the drug habit oy 7 As in ce then he has negic has beon twice on his Here : Harry Garnegic which are pronounced new |of Devonshire. aa pha h ey d woman were placed, in the dock CHAPTER XV. - sly were Tennnentt' 8 foclings to-|} vor murmured to himself; "what a and are vouched for ees several of|that he is abroad he Se co eeine together. Their condition of nerv- Six months have 5 wards her middle-aged adorer, with |TUte I am! The wild beasts wo call his old business associa to travel with him on : . ott distress was pitiable, and they vedic, yar net gone by slowly, whom she was 'corms of casy fa-|°2¥2s8e arc gentle in comparison with Mr. Carnegio once eka: "a million-| tri these partics mplored the magistrate to allow the oe Br pon solace for miliarity, or towards her young play- us.' shi aire of a man, who, all unconscious up of six or elght Ls ae ai hee to have morphia, Their suffer- sorrow. 'The le t day first great | nate, Harry Trevor, of whom she| 4 2..°, done my murdering for the of the fact that his visitor was born| The cost of getting about in this ieee were #0 acute that the request Septembe '© jest days of golden! aos in her secret soul, slight! day," Trevor said, and he handed in the same town, happened to say, |way, he has figured out, is no great: | is eventually and the wor Lue: oni plea poe Totes "Ste raid. » SHEDUY | the keeper the gun, tuck my "TY am from Dunfermline." r than that of the usual first-class i jate result was marvellous. in Ace " A ne ap heel "} think I like Dr. Arde! best with |. "You are not going to knock off |*® let him Tho story: goes back to the time travelling. For ber person it aver- Gini miaery and dcljection disappear: of Silverlake, in Woldshi y place my cyes shut, and Harry best with like that, sir,' he romonstrated mistook the c: when Mr. Carnegie's fiancee was Ppur- | ages a out $10 ay ical order |ed, and, for time at le they arry Trevor was tho A rede mn my cyes open; the one * so charin-|'"and you done so well, One miss *" |chasing her troussoa) ter sbe| Music of the highly o_ oak Mr. | Seemed" per fectly res ore rive at tho rendezvous, t ar ling and the other so handsome," she [Shouldn't put you out 'of heart--a brilliant |had been shopping for several days |is likewise a Keon pase On wo, recently a man charged with dishon- the summer in North laving spent | once innocently confessed to Lucy. |!09€ shot too, and you gavo him |7 re was a|the clerk who had aiting on|Carnegic. He hardly ever gout ail |ost dealing told tho magistrate that yee mirutend an Se nan tin a But in Harry Trevor's heart the | his shate of it, what's more. Hei where the|her told her in a sudden burst of grand opera, but -he is almost - we he was a victim to cocaine, and ham at breakiast ne Nebel seein of conflicting pas wags |never get up again, I'll swear. Why, |ch@rge was torn|confidence that she, too, was soonjingly t : h j miele under the influence ve the drug rised, not a. ting; sur- fiercest of all, though his strong will | ¥° Were bound to have the best ine to plocea. by. ait hot be marricd. concorts of ~ bar ig per gratin did not know what happened. In- "T thought th ners them under, showing n of the party, if you kept on "Lucky ny not at home| "But I'll not ing such nice | Society in New ae lic | quiries show that the vice is much strangers, Vivian? we ont a be* no October Hoot an|began, except the master pe for that visit Ardel, a8 | things," she added, she fingered | of the Philharmonic ----: the |more common that is gunerally im- "But Wickhans is oe id. an eventtal date at Silverlak, proved arg never misses a shot, good or jif it were q y-day occur-/|tho Bice "tabrics "Taid out before ce ee ee ee bind 'he agined, Naturally, it is intended to ou at one of th ad renc h ome! = are . but the victim of the zou know. He is one. of cursive, [gmt of thawe rar and lovely autumn SY cvevor was proot against zv-|Srentthe" I Rene cee CI Ar 7 ot rival. Tho| Wickham, on fhe "contrary, looked 4 ejmpattnle _ in yarnegic silent ar physically 'dmoraticet to an oxtent "Do you?" For threo days before Ardel, who | keeper looked after hian Garesslate pale and_terror. fen, and Lucy's | fiancee. turn win who was| I J igen "? a hacen erie | which renders the services of ia: ee "Oh, yes; in a kind of a w {had of late grown restless and excit-|!¥ 89 he tramped off rapidly through |4¢eP sympathy § Font out to him. to te ny "rasbacid and when, and fino music niger og be used in a| tor imperative think no fellow could 'hel "hii jed, longer found a quict, |th® woods. Even the sovercign that | ~""Don't call > itchance,"' she said} then asked: largest organ that ¢ : eras On this subject Dr. Portes perigee : is so bright and , nt, | Whole-hearted oe in his |C@mo to him with the could not |TeProachfully, "rhen Ardé] ended the} 'And will you tell_me whom you, [egg Sel "iat to pauper by |Speaks with the autho of on The only fault I have to fin with jsports, was wild at the approaching oe cc tke sudden break- tory with a Ta hg triumph in ~~ are 2 ngage = eT the reply. | pulling out stops and by an electri- who has made a close otudy of the ® spo luck, . chance; k,"' was disease for many yea ro re im is that he is so infer | prospect 'of the Peonenne Seti: ful, He fancies I anved nie titer you | Even John Trevor, » = Ardel know. That is, of course, befor He stopped confused, with the sha- jor the party, felt a f dow of pain and- perplexity on his | Youthful eagerness in the still, keen Colonel Wickham vain- ie | life that lay hiddon far be- | th iv pata gs : It passed in a moment as os lanc- F Ardel, his eagerness knew ea the Pheasnnte, but ispered. and, left, at every wild thing of the cod as settled, I believe, | 7° eods that caine in sight Stepping out, at last, They"lt make a handsome couple, When he ask- und them, on all sides, wooded slope and val- island, isthmus, Trevor was stavéted) as thou had, with difficulty, reared to be | Warm thoughts had found an Sande, liest walks mesne, he came suddenly f, him, |With Lucy Ra Sotety pene aa rs walking quietly towards him. t wait for |and lips and eyes smiled a o placid kindliness. on a high, ; YOU Were with the shooting Party.' "I sickened of the Slaughter, Lucy, and came "I do y, not twenty paces t sight of him she started, but @ moment she put her -- of, eeting eldue-sintatig' t in its "You startled me, Harry. I thought away.' on't wonder. I never could + now could 1?" ley; estion was asked in that | YOu After écatefaee am carried him off Conscious pride of superior knowledge 'for the man knew that none of tho party had shot the covers before. "oe a per- It t ace. One of those spacious, But Harry Trevor, who alone had} The stately English mansion-houses, | been wholly ae in the beauty |i" his voleé which which make the pleasantest homes of tho wered hastily, |hi8 @gs for a mo made in ~ world. 'The Butcher's Shop' for me, Len. | Vas-ffight Ardel, a quarter of a century |NOX, if you don't mind." for sympathy and 6a before, had purchased the place from The gamekeeper turned on him a] "Indeed you emnust hak who had already quick look of surprise. cher's Shop"' | bloody battue 'years ago, to a certain specially hot ja > for Silverlake in corner; and the naniec a stuck But | eys, boxers, and curtesans, and shot or did this bea % boy, fresh !Luey. re me a ast Tam a a rng, 7 himself When the money ran out. rom Eton, come to know of it? |you if Than, ' help |b During what may be called Ardel's rdel himself was Reh The co eating earnestness j recond minority, the place had been | The eigaebe Shep,' ied; I votes cohuered, a his carefully looked after for him by | "hat t co do yo y | "Tt ts tolonsi Wickham," m, Judge Trevor, and about a year ar ago | The. "utcher s Shop,' tered oug almost before Bhe fal-} he had chosen/it for hi a Br , "No, ie e Not but I can put na better on aside to Ardel, least, Harry."' "Let mo "The But-/'y." was the name given by |i8 no one T can est form 'of dissipation, and who in| Ardel, in grim jesf, after a big and | could not bear to # more than twenty; , with my Laie aioe he whispered | |deed you must not" m men. Call killing amuse- "You would not understand in tho ee try." hesitating] ' talk: toa aby, yo ou Pe W at least LO, added has » re alae :. m, He is ; prading! 1} to be his wife--that is all. ac nasi to aie the best stand to the |*hould not speak of this at all, put le a) . wee ae eek 'best F must finish now that I have begun. SS went. 0 ' t Dickens, who hed mt aa Prose nal, the four sportsmen were | He asked me "--e years ago, and I Ce eee tg' ener om Favela (Ck TAt2 _ Mimndle, (eects 'with | theety Coe ee at aut be aecla cal tions ' - Senet, (o81 cee lhammerless: breech-loaders ready for rg roti! -- But he would take 8. ; 'use and an under-keepor to load and |" denial; he will take no denial. It But, if the plain truth be told, A-- P pains me to hurt him, and I can esce hand them as required. del'a favorite rooin wes the = great | Then the "sport" began, and the | it dees hurt him to he refused. He | ey ---- lege eat and ecranes stillness of the morning woods was i has never Slackened in his suit, mak- | under his own directions, where he ; ; : , . hi dete ven , ; ideaccrated with discorde . in is etermination plain even loved to tempt his [fricnds to speedy . iant clainour. discomiiture. In some curious, Harry 'Trevor n curious house and grounds, while they had tho delightful novelty of undefinnble wav betrayed ever and | familiarity with to Ardel ready and finger on 'pwuard, cars strained, jing to the nee and left. lof tha wasde, young proprietorship. ie still softened by i have kept this for the last, distance. Then his quick car caught, | Harry,"' Ardel said, as he threw op- clos: at hand, a faint rustle in en the door of the great BY mnasium, bia ferns, edge in front of him. bi creeping that stretched from the wo + = 3 D 3 o ] ic button, and swinging trapezes camo down great crossheams in the ceil- reached the limit of the shelter. ing, automatically coiling themselves fs ; J tte > is InY riv e aeat . \ h of the| The ready gun was at the sports- ainx sennnatte. © is tiny rival--tan, bax again aut a second touch o : ; he? Le n look to himself then vory knob man's shoulder, his keen eye glanced a io a . ki l bacteee: . 1 will let no man living stand -- be- "Ingenious is it?' he asked, | ¥etWeen the barrels, the harsh re- Pig 3 \ : ; ween you and my love.' Then = , b fel tl ontriv- | Port burst loud upon the still air with a boy's delight in the con he 4 saw how frightened I was, and enna | Stantly, and the beautiful, gorge- one moment I led a t nie ous, live creature stru earth, with ad ne Seo: Woe ee Harry Trevor professed himself de- | lighted with all ho b sniilingly an iartag invita tion to hate just one turn with the foils or the gloves before tunch. . For an uneventful week life went smoothly by in this beautiful place, esh and rumpled feath "Mar to the right!" a beat- er's voice sa out, and Trevor saw a pheasant gliding high over and its placid surface gave no sigt ing wings and long tail pendant. of the troubled passions that were en ali at once, the full flight be- stirring in its depths, for in all © frightened pheasants flut- hearts but one there ached at times feted and flew right and left, Tae Vague hopes and unsatisfied longing. | the woods, thickly as o flig of|*you know h mrt That Ardel was frankly in love |startlings, crossing an ing | said. 's me a orth ane benef he with bright-eyed, frolicsome Jcan-/in bewildered and iawtiderivig con- rible of all deaths. 1 wo nette was plain to everyone, not ex- fusion . cepting the gay little beauty herself; Bang! bang! bang! The guns rang though he flattered himsclf he hid his out incessantly, as quick as keeper feelings with consummate diplomacy. could load or sportsman fire, till all It were hard to say what precise- the ground was cumbered with Any Sore That Will Not Heal. Any Ulceration, Eruption or Irritation of the Skin is Curable by Means of Dr. Chase's Ointment. There {fs © guesswork about the|for eczema, salt rheum, old sores or results dtknieaeie from Dr. Chase's| piles. There is scarcely a_town, vil- Oint is lage or side line in this whole land but can point to some case in which ly there is more or less uncertainty | Dr. Chase's a has made remarkable c While this 'ointments is best known the symptoms, but if you have a sore | on unt of its extrao wound and apply ase's|cess in curing the most torturing t heal it you can see |skin diseases da most with your own ey re- | ing-forme of piles, it is also useful the eld sores, chafing, skin irritation, sore pimples, ro which an catleeptic, ee treatment is needed. - thor 'are every box of . on his" Treme- Trevor stood where the wood ran, to a sharp angle, with his gun poised the trigger- and eyes glanc- he heard the a pemiaal in he} | hardly thick tongue of half-withered od's ! A frightened silently and swiftly | fromthe clamour of the woods, had |' eclined }@ dull thud--a tumbled ee of torn the lustrous Woodland, with quick-beat- when he refrained from speaking. He more and more pressing as years go by. Yesterday he al- most frightened me,"' "Frightened you, Lucy?" "He urged me so hard that I drop- {ped some word about Dr, Ardel, ] know what, but he took it up at once, all wrong. He blazed out jwith sudden anger. I had never seen r 'So you love Ardel!' 'I thosght as much; fool who has come to his fa mon calf on thut little black-eye « " 'Forgive m losing you, tho thought of yielding you up to another, drives mo mad.' You see I tell you his folly as_ he spoke it, Harry. But h so kind about Dr. Ardel afterwards. uld be bruto beast if I were not grateful. Tt indeed there f IT could wish success." gently and so sadly that I could nét help pitying him for this folly that has spoiled his liie." "What did you say to him about Ardel that sct him finming?'" young Trevor asked with eager irrelevancy. tell you I hardly know--that the only touch of love I had ever known was for Dr. Ardel; nearly twenty years ago I meant----"' But Trevor would a let her ish, He scemed curiously elated hear his rival thus -- ais si Was the old Dr. Ardel tn loved?" he broke in "unpationtly., it wero -- that rang sharp out, A sho ag vant ry 1 them, fo each ery of surpri at you "it " Turning a ena sae tne saw Dr. Ardel and Colonel Wickheam-- their guns in their han+s--break from. the w y cried out, le."' "Ballot where did you two drop answered. "'Oh!i now Ww eelf, all courtesy and gentle}: Ray," he i, ppears to have ry Trevor made no answer to Of dark green, ca with po ment! Surely there is enough of bubonic p and which was scem thie appe ei om hes had any opinion i purple, shone glorious in the mae in the world--death and trou- tl : infected intce." After © subject he kept it to him-;Tsen sun, . self, ; But there was little thought of| 'Of trouble, Lucy? It is not like le Ardel's attention was turned away Nature's beauty in the gamekeeper's | YOU to talk go or look so," for her Sy. tho disees _ by some saucy question of dean che ike question, "Now, gentle-|¢Ye9 Were misty with tears and her pf. irr Europe, and a nette's, and' he did not notice jmen, where do you please to plant |/iPs quivering. "Tell me what peclieved by many sudden chill that had fallen on bis | vouenevoe the trouble is. Perhaps I can help Bewns for centuries Vilized world | time the discase has {re- to invade t °| » and America; but} : e been localized | of "guiltient severity to) whension, as on the west pexico some months ago | s never really gained! mong civilized pea: | disense was first studied | entific methods, - was other thie oe and timals living in contact are equally susceptible to! This fact complicates the problem of restricting on land; but it remains true that! rats are practically the only -- car- riers of infection on shipboard. f Plague attacks chiefly the natives in those cities where it prevails. This to is not due in the white protective water. So long as plague prevai's in the East it will doubtless be brought) from time to time to the seap d America; but a w clean population, living |§ under the sanitary conditions -- pre- valent in North America and = ern and western Europe, would ha little fear, even should it gain a ae porary foothold in the crowded for- eign settlements of our large citics. ------ © to any Innate immunity | races, but rather to the influences -- of soap SENTENCE . Lies never walk alo Toil is a foil agaiuet 'ten: ptation. Service is the secret of sovercign- SERMONS, ga draws more than hell can "sin is like seed, to cover it is to Y seperate sin's bait from its hoo The cross of Christ does not make the cross Christian. A mans work is the only thing" that makes him of worth. The pighoaded man is most likely to run with the herd The devil is not losing any siecp over watch charm piety. The love of all can bo learned only from the Lord of alk t is hard to fight the tempter if -- 4 --, at his table. It i keep the Sabbath euees "the to keep it rusty. Businoss depends more on keeping faith sae on kee ho was -without nantes of sin Is thee end of sympathy. The saint has the bit bible in his heart; the humbug woers it in his little hat. The points of a sermon are po good iene they prick the conscience. You cannot preserve your picty by ss it in a vinegar disposi- on. "you cannot ercape the dutics of character by talking about the diffi- culties of When @ man makes friends only to use them, he makes them only to them 7? _ You cannot tell anything about the a man is doing by the way he groans ove it. _----_+---_---- RAPID JUSTICE IN ENGLAND, At Epson police court some time a drunken man struck his bro- tal epidemic of «a after my wedding?" en | "Yeas Peaco ck becamo * shortly after our | wedding and of the middle ages. | tion again and will keep it till he is soe great plague in | able to get back to work.' Mrs. Carnegie 'it /story of the cle nd | ing gice mate tho call, they found Pve- {cock in bed, and dies the spread of plague | t He's the floor manager here; an d jca was tho reply, 'but I've taken iny old pesi- That evening, when she went home, told hor husband the} rk and ended by ask- a to call with her at the Poa- chatted together in an adjoining room Mr. Carnegie seated himself by the e. He had been there short time deed he aske acock, from your pron 'elation, I'd ~-- you are from Scot- | \land. Are you?" | "Yes," was the reply, "LT was born lin Dunferinline."' "You don't say so!" exclaimed Mr. | Carnegic. "Why, that wes my, birthplace, also." | That settled it. Defore he left aoe e Mr. Carnegie mado it _that | sf are. A a. ae ading ett Bhatt , ELECTRIC. CRA} When electricity 'was fipst being put 'to commercial uses, the Carnegie Steel Company invested in electric travelling cranos to the extent of a! quarter of a million dollars. Aiter! the cranes had been delivered and paid for the discovery was made that , hey wouldn't work. As a result the men who had talk- ed Mr. Carnegie into giving his ap- | roval to the purchase of the cranes laat Ba nights trying to find a way ake them travel, d incident. | ally ionteriag what would happen to | them if they did not discover the way. | hile these lieutenants were a chemist works who had recently | from Germany spent his | spare time in making a set of plans rt of mechanical con- Ww thus * | occupier act bostbeyniog When he hud finished jrolled up his work, is arm, went to Mr, Pittsburg office and sion. In the course of time he got to his employer. "Mr. rnegiec,'" he said, "I on after he had introduced himself, n make the electric cranes go." Mr. Carnegie looked at hid visitor n astonishment. "'You make them go!" he said, in- credulously. "Do you know that the best. electrical experts in America can "t --_ them go?"' i? was the reply, "but I can make ees go, just the sam me."* "Then toll me how," said Mr. Carnegie, impressed by his employ- |ee's earnestness. | With that tho chemist, who hadn't "9 eredit for knowing anything out- of his own departinent, unrolled a oer plans and started to lexplain his scheme. | got fairly well started it was evident . Carnegie that the German bad hit upon = one idea that weuld make the cranes go. He turned to ope dosk, and while = man at his elbow kept up his le with ton English language "on wrote out this ord Mr. to have om material and any men that he deems proper a his ore until further notice, "Take at," ho said, as he ha ed the broke off the interview, make the cranes go gegen A month later the chemist again obtained audience with Mr. Carnegio. 'Trey aro all working," he sald. To-day the man is living in Ger- many, where he is running a vine- yard. Hoe bought it with part of the quarter of a million dollars--the cost of the cranes--that Mr. Carne- e allotted him of the souk of the Svanee Steel Company. COACHING AND MUSIC. Mr. Carnogie -- with much en- thusiasm two er hobbies besides that of donating hearin, hese a coaching trips and music. "Mr. Carnegie is surprised that the former of these hobbies has so few spent Why should men of means, e with porters over I shall bo much ho luggage "aad submit to railway time as it is omen his readily be ren ted." Mr. | lutionized the manufacture |has perhaps Pie of a man of ordinary helgh four steel masters were walking to- gether bootblack called out to his business | rival farther -- the block, as the | millionaires pass "| Exciting meet Which Takes Place |c omes | Clouds. | i slope, with the crushed snow break- san and | needie-1iko pinnacle, in the Pdgar | | = ag in the dense m ta al attachment' and is des igned to full orchestra. e ¢ ~ . r rried, r m not going | give the mus 'ic of a : Ligon mite fi who had listen co bak prt ony te ore.' Its mechanical working is simple, oo an -, ee ae "ees as, "Yes it wa veoks later Mr. and Mrs. and Mr. Carnegie amuses himself by | length, n vial ae agierbod , na nee pine d on their wed- hour playing the themes and | quoted from pale in nt bgt a , ce oat a "were gone omnes jcompositions of his favorite comp os- | ho cag gor ptt 7 an ane Y . built e@x- | op ' § ' 5 rs 'ors. 'This coieengaige Was ; ; pati months. bitragd yo Leora la she | Presaly for him cost of $17,000. |chiet sense :! of degeneration ae Carncate Pg i p Mlaasateirn to do sor e | ] a peculiar font that the four os n ne Sie = a oe hare , bed bought "J " nexpeetedly pod | mon who have taken the leading part lor the orug eee a scrtiteas of saat ee oie . wae ha d helped | lin tho latter day development of the | are upward ve three m dually her oo nagar orig woddiag finery. steel airy of America are, small | enous and i are ew! te sion a ned a Foothola] her to select ner ne ue tt in jtatiir nereasi ng. : y i ed Peoples. th -- pind still" here? ? thos ght| Mr. Carnegie igs only a few inches onium bsg rll er ryiem England ' at you @ re . : a . eS ee wore not quing to By -- oe ee ola partner 'cue ae bet One curious thing in reference to = y lle penile old of the in- The Old as your marriage. ean dg Dn taller,. and John Walker, nn drug is that it takes -- ee count of at least one) you were to be marrica & te ahr asp Fat in ade rovg- | Givid ual absolutely; t deg him, and makes him quite unfit for of steel, The first of |the ordinary duties of life. » better ool are feelings of content and a little both Carnegie and Phipps. symptoms es k, his head slight anti followed by laug ae for Henry C. Fric is he oT an Se ane » shoul- ould just about reach to the . first Bch the smoker has feel- ings - delight, while the teimpera- incrvased. r beanyenet all It is said that one day when sto. | ture long ago present hel their ,originality, on the streets of Pittsburg a "Eh, Jiminy, ait onto der runts! ia ----+ HUNTING THE CHAMOIS. bps in ee supervenes. these conditions _ also to ™ |those who are addicted to cocaine?" "Yes, entirely: When i -- in New 'York, sothe time ago, Is a good \ee of time in the chinese auerter, it was a most ordinary thing to ' see » Rarepeb women there, who had This is how a writer describes chamois hunt : The ascent up the excessive 'ly steep | ling under one 's steps, was hard work 'and the fresh signs of game as [| reac ee higher clevations and a whis- e two out of the dense -- fog, | become fascinated eae sora emitted by -- at no great dis- aeee ou x ; to much nd tance, made the more tant aliz~ had become its o § ing that one's 4 me 3,000 ge, sO of a black rocky. | Valley, consisted "Does the drug habit assume seri- ons here in England?" a vory common, thing. Ye eee sCrhmhlj it is hand | "Yes, it is stirprise that it fuse Topp ig vend sniafly among ladics. of white mist Without ignins.. We soon had glissaded a a j Jaudanum is consumed by the 'feet down to about the place whe classes in conjunction with alcohol. had heard the chamois whistle "antae s a hard and fast rule that a 'my way up. We were ae quite | dipsomaniac is also addicted to the y when suddenly, without -- the morphia habit, but not vice versa. | slightest warning, I found mpacit in | "y mean that a dipsomaniac tho middle of a band of chamois) who is deprived of drink would try jsome thirty or forty in number. to get drugs, but that a victim of I had been sliding down at a great the drug habit does not care about jpace I actually passed a beast or cohol?' \two within reach of my Bergstocke, | "Exactl 'and one kid, in its frantic haste to. z : pte its mother, nearly ran ome} ae bed halét increasing In {itis vn. Throwing myseif backwardy °°.' ok 'Very much. As long ago as 1872 no less than 356,211 pounds of opium were imported into England, and if the indulgence was measured by this : nto the snow and "wrenching off the pedo of bolt and muzzle, the. 10is, whose surprise seemed to be i= Seven greater than ours, actually gave time to get in a quick shot att standard the decline and fall of the pare looked like buck before they ete system might be confidently ywredic " ABOUT THE EFFECTS?" they arc many. As I have already' stated, in the carly stages j the drug ry beautiful feelings The fee st. t have hit him sue enough."' j "WHAT Pe sok the keeper, but Was ne so very certain about it, for it was a case of pulling the trigger before the rifle was well up to my shoulder, When we reached the spot where the | er are nh, animal had been overteken by my |experiences great delight and brilll- soft-nosed Mannlicher bullet, a 'ew j ant fraciés which transcend all real spurts of blood put a rosier hue on) and healthy the outlook. As the snow wasj doubt many pain scored up by countless tracks and | work under the iufinets of opium. the trail cf blood soon stopped, we) t first only a small quantity is separated in order a --_ quickly ied but as the fascination takes find the wounded be T had not hold of the victim the size of the gone far before I rome my quarry--|dose is increased, end among tho it was a barren doe, unfortunately--| most frequent offecta are hallucinat- lying dead, with my bullet through) jons of hearing. The idea of being her shoulders. in communication with Satan Is a en most common in these cases. -- . jeventually the victim becomes SHIPS OF THE WORLD. graded in mind, physically exhorts The shipping of the world is said ed Pe montally disoased. to consist of 20,943 -- ips and asylums in America 33 va ng a ton- the patients were opium eat There sary 29,048 are ,}8 NO doubt alsg that it stimulates made up 761 steamers and /to crime. Froquently it happens that 2,182 sailing vessels, with tounages )the victims of drugs will stoal things of 2 27,183,365 and 6,459,766 respect- | When -- is no inducement to do vely. Great Britain owns 16,006,- aC Si ingapore 80 per cent. of ard tons, tho United States conring | those feuteied in the House of Cor- second with 3,611,953 tons. There | rec are 326 British vessels of over 5,000 {offences of which they tons, 119 of over 7,000 tons, and were nearly all against proper ty.' " re? fe o forty-eight vessels of ever 10,000 nd the cu tons. . "Tie usual method taken by doc- ------ tors is to reduce the amount of the dose by a sliding scale. The = RAILWAY PASSENGERS. deprived acl the drug is often The total Lama of passengers car-|State of mania, and withugt "roliet a on railways the United King- |} would ey lore his reason. It s 1,186,219,269. is a woll-recognized fact by all the 2 13) as | leading authorities that ins -- as one in 466,700 injured. | inebriety can be dealt with "by sug- From causes other than cat Pg to > gestion, so the same applics to trains 128 passengers were ki and | drug habit. That is the only effec- 1,814 injured. In the twelve moathe tive pareccuent my what is really 443 railwey servants were killed and incurable dise we 3,713 injured. "How do theese people manage to : get hold of the drugs?' "They make all sorts. of okcuses: +- MAYOR'S JUBILER, Of course, they have to get a doc- Mowins-sur-Orne has the distine-! tors -- order but they 1 very tion cf having had one mayor for | gr eat cunning and ros oureofulness' in hali g century in the persen of - M.j securing their ends. Germain-Lacour,. par tgp Soc sin the arrondissement of / Te and the people have just colenented Dolly--"'So Simpkins, the cashier of this unique event by holding a fete|}the bank, proposed to you in honor of their mayor, Argentan | night?' Polly--Yes; and I promised has been represented in Parliameyt|to marry him.' 'Did he ask r by the same Deputy for forty years. | father's permission?" he would ask papa to indorse promissory note." Piles 3 sei Bit dalece or Boxaec vatican coW IN A CHAPEL The Plymouth Brethren Chapel at West Coker, near Yeovil, England, is | built under a slope of hillside. One day a@ cow grazing on the slope 'tee ed its footing, fell 20ft. pitched on cha gore Se and Cyrrig ae ugh: and first coaching trip that with a rented coach When hy pl se oly the k pened @ quietly. walked o apo ee DriChi