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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-10-18, Page 6Now First' Istiblitheas-All Rights Reserved The light a a ane evening in April was fading as the Dover boat rushed into Charing Cross station, and an army of porters hoarded the luggage vans and opened the carriage doors. , From a fist -class compartment stepped a young man of perhaps tweuty-eight or thirty, above middle height and well seb up. Ile wore a brewn tweed suit and brown boots. He had also a bronzed corn- plexion, handsome, good-humored, bold, brown eyes; brown, wavy hair and long maustaches, a shade or two lighter; in short, he was brow u all over, He turned to the carriage and assisted a lady to alight, a small, slight girl, who looked little more than seventeen when she smiled or spoke. Her cheeks were pale, but her lips were ripe and rosy, while her dark, delicate eye- brows and lashes contrasted with her fair, reddish hair mid deep blue, nearly black, eyes, big and lustrous. She was dressed in black—very well dressed in the seuse of freshness and. be- oomingness—but not richly. "Are your friends here to meet you!" asked the gentleman, taking a neat leather bag from the carria,te and holding it for ben while he directal the porter to carry his valise and. heavy overcoat. "I expect a lady to meet me, but I have never seen her," returned the girl with a smile. "So I fel a little puzzled;" her ac- cent was foreign but her English was fluent "Oh, I can get you a cab, when you.have cleared your baggage—ouly you'll feel rather blue, being all alone in this wilder- ness on your first visit, tool I can see you to your destination if you like. I am quite disengaged!" "You are very, very good, but I am not at all timid—" Here a tall woman, in a fur -lined cloak and black velvet bonnet adorned with red feathers and a veil drawu tightly over an exceedingly aquiline nose came up at a quick pace. "Oht are you kiss Cavallo?" she exclaimed breathlessly. "I am!" was the quick reply. "Thank God. I was so afraid I should be late! The buses are so full just about of the joysof home life is to see o Are all the year round." They drew their claairS nearer, and Dixon with a kindly expression filled his glass and said; "Your health, Forrester, and success! No one is happier Wm lam that your luck has turned at last—ouly don't throw away your mouey—when you get it." , "Why, Dixon, I have it! There can be no doubt I'm old Selwyn's heir." -Ohl we'll go intia business Matters pre- seutlYl I never Was more surprise:I in my life than to find that your grand -uncle died intestate. He was such a method. teal, money loving man. Certainly we never drew.up any will for him, though we managed all his other business, and he was most, confidential with my poet! fa - that " They continued to talk ou this subject, their conversation showing that Forrester WAS captain itt a reginieut of. Bengal lanc- ers, and not troubled with too much of this world's goods; tbaa, his grand -uncle, broth- ev of his maternal grandmother, was a miserly persdnage who had amassed a large fortune. He had few relatives, and Cecil Forrester was his nearest of kin. Dixon, his guest, and. man of business, was one of his earliest friends. They had been to school together. Dixon's father had been trustee and coufideetial adviser to Forrester's mother, and the manage- ment of the family affairs seemed to be- long of riglat to the firm of Dixon & Phelps, Lincoln's in n. could hardly believe my eyes," said Forrester, pushing the bottle towards his guest. "When Treacly's letter came giv- ing me the news of old Selwyn's death without a will, I did not know whether I was ou my head or my heels. By Jove! I didn't lose mu& time in getting leave and telling the other fellows there would be a move in the regiment, for, of course, I'll send in my papers. Then I explained mat- ters to the money -lenders that had their claws in me." "I earnestly hope you are not heavily in - cumbered," said Dixon. "A mere featherweight now, my dear fellow, but a crushing load. that was forc- ing me down to ruin three mouths ago. I've been an awful fool, Dixon, but I shall be a rock of sense in future. Lordt how easy it is to be wise and prudent and high- minded when your pocket is well -lined. By the way, you must let me have some money, Dick, and settle with my credit- ors, as soon as possible!" Dixon paused before replying. "Yon shall have some, of course!" he said, "but I mast warn you to be prudent, for a claimant has sprung up to dispute your inheritance. I fancy it is a mere at- tempt to exhort money, but, it will cost you something to defend yourself, so you had better hold year hand till all the pre- liminaries are settlea." "NO! AIT tiEvoia," RE RETURNED. this time of day—people going to theatres and concerts and what not! And I kept worrying about you—poor dear! to be left by yourself all alone in this great stony station! come along—and see to your lug- " • I" hyl who can dispute my claim cried Forrester, impatiently. "It was a great surprise to me, I assure you, to receive a letter faun Welford & Son—they are solicitors in Parliament street—stating that they weie instructed to enforce the claim of their client, the aauenter of the late George Selwymyoung- er brother of our client deceased, who was his nearest of kin." "But George Selwyn never married:" m:ed Forrester. allae one knew if he did! and I do not aelieve it," returned Dixon. "He was a Bohemian, and rather a bad lot. He was years younger than your granduncle, who used to send him money from time to time. He died some years ago." "Then you do not think there is much to fear from this claim." "No; but it inay give us trouble! How- ever, it is a warning not to be too secure, nor too lavish in your expenditure." "Why? What the devil do you mean, Dixon? At the worst, this strange claim - gage—you'll be glad. to get to the end of ant would only divide the spoils with me, your journey and to rest." 1 and the plum old Selwyn has left behind The lady spoke with great volubility— I him will stand two bites, eh!" and with she true London twang. "Well, no! If George Selwyn's daughter "This is your bag? I'll take charge at i is legitimate sbe would take the whole, she it, sir," she continued, with a suspicious 's the niece, you are only the grand - glance at her young friend's traveling ne hew " companion. "Good evening," said Miss Cavallo,hold- ing out her hand, with some slight hesita- tion. "I shall always remember your courtesy with pleasure." There was a quiet, natural dignity in her voice and manner. "I hope to see you again!" exclaimed the brown gentleman, eagerly. "You are very good, but for the present it is adieu." "No! Au revoir!" he returned, lifting his hat, with an air of great deference. H followed thetn into the room where the custom house ofacers examin- ed he baggage, and there exchanged a few more words with his fellow -traveler, whose box was looked at before his. Again they said good -by and she walked away. "Anyhow 1 know her address," he said to himself, ash e unlocked his portmanteau for inspection—this was soon accom- plished. As he turned to leave, he trod on something soft, and, looking down, saw a black lace scarf which he recognized as one which bis fellow -traveler had unfast- ened front her neck and hung on her arm while in the train. He picked. it up. "She's off by this time. I roust send it,— or take it to her"—he thought with a smile as he folded it up and thrust it into his pocket, then he jumped into a eab and drove to his hotel. Here. he was evidently expected. He asked if dinner had been ordered, and if Mr. Dixon WaS waiting for him. Hearing he bad. not come yet, he retired to his room, from which he issued half an hour later, spick and span, freshened and brushed up, a soldierly, good-looking fel- low, though not what could be called a handsome man. Dinner was laid in a private room, where before the fire stood a gentleman—a short, slight, light-colored man, clean-shaven, with sharp gray eyes and an interrogative mouth. As the t •aveler entered be exclaimed: For - re tier, I am heartily glad to se you!" and they shook hands with great cordiality. "How long is it Ulnae we met?" asked Forrester. "Nearly seven years, I thinkl and you have been roasting—for most of them—in some of the worst parts of Indial Yet you scarcely look a day older, while Soudan has written itself iu wrinkles and crows - feet on nty prematurely aged countenance and dimmed the Are of my eyes!" "They look devilish good still, my dear fellow, and you seem in excellent ease, while I &appose you have been heaping tip "Ditt cannot tell who shall gather them," intevrupted Dixon, with a laugh. "Vor I begin to leer I am &confirmed bachelor." "Oh, pooh I you are too young to talk like that. You are notsomueh older than I am." "Five yeara itt time, ten in nature." Ikre the waiter brought in dinner,. and driving, their repast the two friends only spoke of mutual acquaintances and gen- eral topics. At length it was over. The waiter put a 'bottle of special claret ofttklie table, and by Vorrester's orders a. log of wood on the permanent unschief. And DixonI there fire. "We don't want It," he, said; but One was somethiag devilishly attractiVe in that Orli" "Take my advice, don't g,o and see your fair fieentl; send the laee by parcel post with your eomplimentawhy troithie yourself tertian. about a ehanee aequaint, mice who may be a mere advett avess for all you know; remember you are a big catch DOW." Vorreater laughed heartily. "Do you tlitiV cannot take care of myseif, opl m "Yes, I do; you are just Shesort of follow to get into a serape, and. pay dear for ex- trication." , "Many thanks for your flattering opin- ion! I'll see how I feel toanorrow. I may not be inclined to take a jouruey due north —my charming companion lives at Kil- burn, But, Dixon, your news has takert the bloom off my glorious atitieipationst What do you, think of the outlook?" "Oh, the other side will have to prove a lot, the marriage, the birth, identity and no end of points. I have no great fear, but we had better be careful." "I shall try to enjoy the next few weeks, whatever happens! There's nothing so foolish as not to improve the shining hour." The following day was fully and pleas- antly occupied. With repleeisbeapockets, Forrester vialted high elevtailoring and "What an infernal shame I How dis- gracefully unjust the law is," cried For- rester, with an angry light in his eyes. "It generally seems so, to those it does not favor," lammed Dixon dryly. "But I think it may puzzle Wilford & Son to make out a case. We'll see." CHAPTER II. "I confess, you have made me feel areepy," said Forrester. "By Jove! I'd ,eel inclined to blow my brains out if my expectations were wrenched from met However, there is no use in going half way to meet trouble! Don't suppose I mean to throw away my money. I intend to keep a firm hold on it. My scheme is to buy a place in the country—not a grand place, you know—a superior sort of shootiug lodge, and make it my headquarters; at any rate till I marry, as I suppose I shall 1 By the way, I saw an advertisement of the very thing I want in the paper I got at Dover." He rose as he spoke and crossed She room to where his ulster lay over a cbair and pulled. a newspaper from the outside pocket. With it came tbe lace scarf, which he threw on the table as be reseated lihnself to read the tempting de- scription of ideal shooting quarters on the border, to be sold at a great sacrifice. "Ab! well, it is time enough to think Of purchasing property just yet," said Dixon. "I say, where did that cotne from?" nod- ding toward the scarf. "Have you turned a diptoman lac?" "No!" said Forrester, smiling. "This is a treasure trove which I must return to its rightful owner. A. young lady who travel- ed over with me from Paris—a deuced nice girl, too, Dixon! I was almost late for my train and jumped in without noticing that there was another passenger already seated till We were moving off—when I saw a young thing in black at the other side of the carriage stand up and wave a • kiss to a stout, elderly, gray -bearded man on the plattorm. By and by I put up the window for her, and we got into converse - tion; it seems that she had never been in England since she was an infant. Her English was perfect, and a slight foreign • accent gave it distinction. I never met any girl who talked like her. She is not what you would call pretty, but she has a pair of eyes, by Joel you can read vol- umes in them, and they look you --she was so composed and at her ease, I might have been another woman for all of coqu- etry in her manner. I had a deuced plea- sant journey, J. can tell you. But for all our ttilk I could not get the smallest eleW to who she was or wbere she Was going, txcept that the gray -bearded buffer at the station was her papa. I'd like to sea her again, Dixon. I picked up that scarf which she dropped at the station as she was go- ing oft I saw her address on her wraps, and Till take the scarf to her to -morrow," "Don't be a fool, Cis!" said Dixon, gravely, "She may he an adventuress, and yott are given to getting into"sera.pea about women. Yon remember -11 I don't," interrupted Vorreater. "Why should I worry myself about the follies of my boyhood1. never got into 15 50 me on my seeenteenth birthday. 1 value it greatly, Pray sit down." . She unfolded and examined the lace, saying softly! "a ant so glad to have It again!" Then she lifted her smiling eyes to his and added: "it is very good of you to take this tronble. Kold—how did you: ' find me oat?" anatwas easy enough. 1 am not SO unobservant as to miss inakiug, a mental note of the address 'on your wraps! After enjoying a talk with you I was auxiona not (mite to lose sight of so agreeable a companion!" "T Mit is very flatfeet ng," she returned., laugh Mg a pleasant refined laugh, Forks - ter thought1 did not think that words of wisdom came naturally to me." "Ohl I do not mean, to insult you by saying that your conversation WAS improv- ing. That would not hove created a wish to hear it again. Are yon going to make any stay in town?" "I may be her a Month; I natty be longer." • "Why do you banish yourself to these wilds? You are too far from everything." "Because there is uo other place for me. I am alone and know no one in London except Mrs. Bartlett, end she is a friend of my father and mother. Mrs, Bartlett is my hostess, the lady who came to meet Inc." "0111 you'll be deucedly bored here. What are you going to do with your- self?" "Oa, no, I have plenty to do. No one Is bored wbo is not idle. I am going out with Mrs. Bartlett this afternoon to pre sent some of my letters of introduction. That will take most of the afternoon. In the morning I have my practising and let- ters to write." "Indeed—but all that is not amusing," said Forrester, much puzzled. Why should she present letters of introduction. What was her business? Why did she want business? "Perhaps it is interesting, wlaich is bet- ter than amusing. I came over to try and find engagements as a concert singer, though I fear it will be very difficult." "Ah!"—a long -drawn ah! "lam rather anxious about it. You see my father has spent a great deal of money upon me, both in Paris and Milan, and I want to make some now. Are you fond of music, Capt. Forrester, and do you know any musical people?" "I am deucedly fond of music, but must acknowledge that I only ignorantly wor- ship! The only musical personage I know. Is a Dr. Delaney. He was in my regiment. He has retired now and lives somewhere in the north. He used to sing Irish melo- dies and Jacobite ditties very well in- deed." "He was not professional." aNaa, "Ah—" she evidently dismissed De- 4DOE'T BE A FOOL," SAID DIXON, enavErar. outfitting establishments, also his club, where he was recognized by several ac- quaintances and. cordially greeted. Be was always popular, and vague rumors of his succession to untold wealth threw his popularity into high relief. "It is all deucedly pleasant," he thought, as he sat at breakfast the second morning after his arrival in Londou. "Gadl every- thing wears a new aspect, but--" There was a break in the current of bis tbought, he became vaguely aware that something was wanting, and at the same moment his his eyes fell upon the black lace scarf which hung neglected over the back of a laney. cbmr. "Though I am no judge, may 1 ven- "By Jove, I will go and. see her!" he ex- ture to ask for a song?" asked Forrester. claimed, half aloud. "I am not such a "You would really like to hear me fool as Dixon thinks. Why should I avoid a bit of harmless amusement," he reflec- l'Beyond everythingl" ted. "Her eyes have haunted me ever "Then you must tell me truly.if you. since we said good-by—and she'll miss her think my singiug would please English scarf. Yes, I'll be off to Kilburn as soon people." as it is late euough to call. I suppose I "I shall be brutally frank," said Fer- nley- call before laucheon?—there is noth- ing very prim or stuck up about her! Then resrer' "Yes, pray do!" She rose and went to I can get back in time to look at that mare an open piano on which lay a quantity of Blign was recommending. I'll be off, and music. "I shall sing you a little Neapo- frighten old Dixonwith an account of my lien Barcarolle," she said, • "quite one of yisit after it has become an accomplished the people's songs." . fact!" The accompaniment imitated a guitar. Refinished his breakfast very deliber- Her voice was contralto, wonderfully rich. ately—walked to his club, where he read and full, to come from so slight a form. She sang with spirit ancl expression, put- ting a graceful espiegleric into her render- ing of the verses. "If the pnblic don't like that they will be hard to please!" exclaimed Forrester fervently. "You like it? Yes, I see you -dol and I suppose you represent the ordinary culti- vated public!" and she turned to look at him. Forrester was greatly fascinated, she was so frank, so unafrected, so in earn- est about her work' and transparently simple into the bargain. Their talk flowed easily, until interrupt- ed by the entrance of Mrs. Bartlett, who sailed in attired in a trailing black silk afternoon dress, a cap of black and gold laee with streamers of red ribbon and a `pincenes' with a long handle hung by a ribbon from her neck. Her nose looked even more prominent without the back- ground of a bonnet. Smiles wreathed her lips and satisfaction beamed in her eyes which were something th.e color of a boiled gooseberry. "Now this is nice and. friendly of the professor," she began, when she interrupt- ed herself, "why, it is the gentleman you traveled over with, Angela." • and replied to several letters, looked in at his bootmaker's and tailor's, and at length hailed a hansom and set forth on his voy- age of discovery. "Thieteen Alma terrace, Kilburn," he said authoritatively to the driver. "Beg pardon, sir, but is it before or after we come to the station?" "Oh! I haven't the faintest notion! Ask the policeman or anyone whea we get near it." "Kilburn is a biggish place, sir," re- turned the John, and they drove off at a good pace. It took many inquiries and divers turn- ings to and fro, back and forward, before Alma terrace was discovered, and. proved to be a melancholy road borderedby semi. detached villas, with very biglasteep steps to their front doors. No. 13 had very fresh lace curtains and brightly polished brass handles, and a neatly -kept garden. "Wait," said Forrester, descending and ringing the bell. The garden gate was PA,STEUR is DEAR, SKETCH OF A LONG LIFE ine VOTED TO STUDY. One of the World's riiost illustrious Nen of &deuce rasses Away in Paris—Aged Say - ;1=7 Years --lie Conquered Ydydro- • M. Louis Pasteur, the oolebratea chem- ist and biologist, is dead, The neves of M Pasteur's death Will be received througbout the civilized world. with a shook el real regret, ew men have excited So much interest in them- selves or their work as this distinguished chemist, whose labors and researches have related directly to the vital welfare of mankind. Apart from his scientific labors, the life of Lonis Pasteur was a very, simple one.His father, a tanner, had served as a soldier land r elapoleon, married and settled at Dole, whore Louis was born, December 27, 1822. Two years later his, parents moved to Arbois, having purchased a tennery in Shat town, Louis was seat to the local school, and then to Besancon College pre- paratory to euteriug the Boole Normale at • Paris. At the Boole -and also at the Sorbonne, he devoted himself passion- ately to the study of chemistry, until he perfected banself in a knowledge that he has since exercised for the benefit of the entire human race So deep indeed was his devotion to the stud, of chemistry that upon the morning of his marriage—he was then assistant professor of chemistry at the Strasburg University—he had to be fetched from the laboratory, an incident that Mme.Pasteur has frequently smiled over when speaking of the happiness which has always attend., ed their married life. The only break in that happiness was the anxiety surround- ing an attack of paralysis, which scaled him in 1868, and the events of the war of 1870. Pasteur's scientific rebord is a long and honorable one. But of all his acihieve- manta in the domain of chemistry and bi- "PLEASE WILE IN, SIR." unlatched by somp machinery from with- in, and by the time he had ascended tty3 high steps the door was opened by a rosy- facedagirl of perhaps twelve, with a huge cap and long white apron, "Please walk in, sir," was her reply to his inquiry for Miss Cavallo, anti Forrester was ushered into a front room which opened. into another at, the back originally by folding doors, which were now removed and replaced by portieres of many colors. Cheap Japanese screens, brackets uphold- ing specimens of indefinite china, painted tambourines, photographs, oleographs. and many other "objects d' art" decorated the walls. Some gay colored rugs here and there partially hid a threadbare car- pet. A. widely varied collection of ehairs offered rest to the weary, and a sofa, draped by a huge rug of kangaroo skins filled a good deal of space in the back room, • Forrester stood in the window gazing at the door, which soon opened to aclinit his traveling companion who came in with a half -amused snails playing on her lips and gletuniag.in her eyes. She held his card in one hand. • "It is you, then?" putting out the other to him. "I was so puzzled who Capt. Forrester could be." "T have taken the liberty of calling with- out permission," began Forrester. 'Bat I was anxious to restore yenr property which T found. oft -the floor directly after yon left the station. 1 tried to overtake you in vain. No W, here i t is," an dile wok CHAPTER 111, "Let sne introduce Capt; Forrester to you," said Miss Cavallo. "He has been good enough to bring me tny lace scarf which I thought I had lost. I am so glad to get it again." "Well, that is nice," exclaimed Mrs. Bartlett, "and to come all this way with it. I'm sure you ought to be flattered, Angy, my dear," and she nodded, know- ingly: "Pray, sir, are you residing in Lon - ,don?" she added, too cuaious to heed the logical sequence of her speech, "No; I am rather a bird of passage, but I shall make some stay in town just now." "Indeed!" returnedMrs. Bartlett, bland- ly. "Then perhaps you would give me pleasure of your company to a small and early gathering, on the 10th, it oonver. sazione in short, mixed with music. We Parc some literary and artistic friends coming, and I hope to have a genial and intellectual evening." "Thank youl I shall be very pleased to wine," returned Forrester, joyously. "Music has enormous charms for my sav- age breast." "Very glad you can join us! My young friend here is good enough to promise her valuable assistance, and one of my inmates plays the violoncello admirably. I endea- vor to make my modest mansion a social center of an improving description." She smiled and nodded to Forrester as if taking him into her confidence while For- rester caught a surprised look in Miss Ca,vallo's speaking eyes. , "She did nothing. I should accept," he said to himself. "I dare say the company will be it queer orew. It's a shame that such a, dainty creature should be plunged into fast of 13oliernians, as I suspect she is, By Jovel the carriage of her head is a • sad of patent of nobility." Here his re- fiettions were broker' by the tinkling of a rather cracked bell. "Pray out OS at oar frugal immix," Capt. Forrester, said Mrs. Bartlett in an ultra- elegant ton a Tor:titer fan cied Miss Cavallo's eyea said. "don't," and therefore replied: "Thanks! I seldom: indulge in luneheon and I have an engagement in townso I intist say good mornmes; by the way, 'do you ever go to the theatre' ' "Obl we delight in the dramal" said a life on the gnaw° of the 'globe, Sint* they are the reductive agents of organic; redatuteeto ritplIthoh;sarlelvecianoaesnsdanstir reboyontsatits. tubing the Watenair, and oil in which new forms 01 life can find the food for thetr nutrition. In talthiton to this M, Pasteur proved that there is no saoh thing as spontaneous generation, as was generally , admitted at that time, but that every form of life, however small, proceeds from • ole. ments similar to itselr, and scattered ia every direotion arouud us, By his researches on silkworms M. Pas- teur arrived at the only true principles upon which the seourge could be combat- ed and Ids method of procedure is now rigorolletla followed wherever the silkworm is cultivated. Of higher practical import - anise were the results of his famous in- vestigation into the nature of anthrax. He took up the question with his accuse towed decision and vigor, and establish- ed the fact that the small fillform (air- pusoles found in the blood of animals kill- ed by anthrax were a terrible parasite, capable, in spite of their infinitely small dimensions, of killing sheep, cattle • or men. Finally he took the closing step in the matter by examining the question why anthrax is perpetuated in certain countries. The germs of anthrax buried: at a depth of 'fifty centimetres, or a -metre, with the body of their victim become mix • ed with the earth and live for years in the state ofspores. But how do they come beak to the face of the soil and speead the disease? It is the earthworms that are the vehicles of the disease, which they bring from the depths to the surface mixed with the soil that they have swallowed, and these germs are nattered over the fields and are a constant source of contagion for the sheep or cattle that are grazing-- ad:once the deduction that it is necessary to set aside for the burial of animals kill- ed by anthrax a space enclosed with care into which healthy animals shall never penetrate, and to choose so far as possible dry and calcareous ground in which earth- worms will have difficulty in living. , Snob were some of the principal labors of the groat savant who has just passed away. His life was a quiet one "in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries" and the chief landmarks in it aro soon tad. He was successively assistant in physical sciences and preparator in ohem- istry at the Boole Normale and doctor of sciences. A few years later he became professor in Strasburg, then dean of the scientific faculty of Lille. From this city he was in 1857, recalled to Paris to be- come director of scientific studies at the • Boole Normale, then professor of geology, physics and chemistry at the Beaux Arts; finally professor of chemistry at the Sar - bonne. The Academy of 4Seiences the • Academy of Medicine and, finally, the acin. rench Academy, opened their doors to li ln 1874 he was voted a life annuity of 112,0001., which the following 'year was in- creased by 0,0001. He was made Grand Meer of the Legion of Honor in 1878. • From the entire world be bas received the most flattering ana envinble honors and distinctions. On December 27, 1892, on the motion of the medical and surgical section of the Academy of Sciences, the seventieth annivorsary of his birth was oelebeated in. the old Sorbonne. The Presi- dent of the Republic, the Ministers, the members of parlianient, the diplomatic body, the scientific societies of Femme and. delegates from the universities and col- leges of the whole world came and. pre- sented to Pasteur the tribute of their en- thusiastic admiration Only once did Pasteur issue from • his working. retreat. This was in 1871, dur- ing the bombardment of Paris by the Ger- mans. Pasteurwrote to the dean of the University of Bonn to request bim to erase bis name from the list of honorary doctors of the univcrsity "as a mark of the indignation felt by a French savant Inc the barbarism and. hypocrisy which to satisfy criminal pride persist in the mas- sacre of two great nations." LOUIS PASTEUR. ()logy none has brought him suoh wide- spread Mane as bus discovery of an inOell. kitten for the prevention of hydrophobias The operation of inoculating for hydro- phobia is founded on the theory that if au "attenuated" microbe—that is, a microbe so treated that his power of doing harm has been reduced to a low degree—is intro- duced into a body he will produce an in- disposition, which is not itself serious, but which is sufficient to render the body proof against attacks of the original microbe. Now M. Pasteur discovered that it is possible to so treat a microbe that his power of evil is of any degree—that is, to "exalt" as well as to "attenuate" him. Having these microbes of varying strengths he invented a method of gradu- ated vaccination—that is, by begimning with a virus of low defame and increasing each day the strength of the virus, an operator arrives at a point where he can vaccinate a body with • a virus stronger than there is any danger of its ever being exposed to in nature. He thus secures lasting immunity. Thus, in vaccinating against rabies, the patient is treated first with a weak virus; this is followed by one more powerful and so on, until at the end a highly exalted one is injected safely. Such is the treat- ment practised in the now celebrated Pas- teur Institute, in the Rue Dutot, Paris, which is supported by the State, and has been visited for treatment by persons from all parts of the world. It was in 1880 that M. Pasteur began with his collaborator, M. Roux, the study of rabies. He first found that the virus of rabies only exists in it pure -state lie the nervous system. He then found that by placing directly the virus on tno surface of the brain of a clog under experiment the uncertainty of the period of incubatim. was done away with, Soon, after a seties of moonlations from rabbit to rabbit these animals when innoculated in the brain died from rabies after a fixed period of incubation of seven days. M. Pasteur had therefore in his possession a pure virus, with a regular and constant action, and was in a position to take the last step in the subject. As he could not act direct- ly on the microbe of rabies. he undertook to attentuate it in its abode of predilection, the nervous tissues. He therefore took the spine of a dead rabbit and set it to dry in a bottle with two tubes containing dry air. Bach day the tissue and virus lost a little of its strength, which was reduced to a Minimum on the fifteenth day. Once in possession of a scale of virulence going from the deadly nervous tissue in a fresh condition to the attenuated tissue two weeks old, he began, his ,vaccinating experiments with dogs before and after infection by inoculating fragments of tissue mixed with a sterilized water and or increasing virulonee. It was found that dogs treated in this way, even after being initen, and even after being trephined and inoculated, usually recovered, or, rather, did not develop rabies—in other words, were vaccinated. • M. Pasteur was at this point of his ex- periments when an occasion presented it- self to apply them In it practical way, • which was done with (template sueeess in auly,1885, when a youth, tamed Meister, who had been badly bitten by a mad dog, • was inoculated. Since that time inoeula- tion against rabies has been steadily car- ried out at the Pasteur Institute, and there are but feet who now question its • harmlessness and ollicacy. The study of rabies absorbed, the last stage of M. Pasteur's scientific life, But Inc many yeses before devoting _himself to this department of research, he had been engageti in work which, had it stood alone, wouid have entitled Mut to a high place in the temple ot fame. His investb• gations into the phenomena of ferments,* Sion enabled him to prove that fernsonta- tion, the everlaslting movement oS matter is governed by mieroscopical plants, by microbes, anti that eatth fermentation Or each form of change in organikoci matter hae its apecial microbe, SO that those in- • finitely sinall elomente are the regulators tlie state from hiapocket.•"Indeedl Then I shall send yob. it box "05, thank you very mucht i was so at' Attalla a the Criterion next week, I d • when I missed it! My mother gay, MONe. settle iaterest there," returned For vexe ('rt) '1311 CO13TINI13111).) REVIVAL OF ANTOINETTE STYLES. Bound Waists, Full Sleeves and Flaring Skirts Still Held Sway. The popular round waists, full sleeves and flaelug skirts will continue with us this autumn save for little differences that make styles now vary slightly from those worn last spring. The revival in Paris of Marie Aatoinetto styles in mid- summer, writes Emma X. Hooper in the October Lathes' Home Journal, has effected the latest designs in silken goods ; the milinery and the gowns as well. One thing is settled, and that is that we are not going to carry around skirts of immense weight, as we have been doing. The most fashionable skirts are now only interlined to the knees, and in. consequenee are Much less of rs' burden to the wearer. Iii Width they to- niain from five to sis yards. Taal sleeves are also softer in effect, though qiiite as large and pronounced in appearance ae aver. It is in the little things, instead, tbat the styles have changed. Belts, col- lars and- cuffs have alt proved themselves capable of an infinite variety of form and. arrangement, and by their effects change the old gown into the new, and make the ram ones so attractive, New Ideas in neuse Lightinsa A new and delightful principle in light- ing houses bas been largely adopted in the most elegant and aritstic homes. This is diffusion instead of concesstra- don. The imposing central chandelier has given way to gas jets and electric bulbs, which represent conventionalized flowers set in the frieze and forming part of its decoration. Switaging lights hung inside of opalescent glass lanterns in each corner of the room are substituted for the overvvhohning central chandelier. Brass sconces with gas jets made to imi- tate candles are liked as side lights. The lamp still holds its °tan, but the millin- ery shade, the slightly modified tulle and lace petticoats of a ballet dancer, bare happily dropped somewhat into the back- ground, and ground glass shades, either plain or with a dragon or two delicately etched upon them, or pale -tinted fluted porcelain shades are now en rogle. The diffused method of lighting hes two great advantage; it is snore agreeable to the eyes and infinitely more becoming to the complexion, and these are considerations not to be held Habit- • make Companions of Four Chiklren. DO not terrify them and quench the love in their hearts by playing the tyrant. The pain will recoil On your head some day, if you do, anti. besides you aro missing a fore- taste of 'leaven in thus forfeiting your ohildron'a eonfidence, boa no earthly hap- piness can surpass that of a good ffither and mother,surrounded by a loving, trusE- ful fatitily, No character bat has' a key to it, • Draw out your children's ider.s thetneelval, their longings and ant hitions, their sorrows and their joys, and re/nern- ber that these all bear as weighty a value in their esteemaind depress or elate them: as Irmo !Mature thoughts do yourself.