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THE BUSINESS WORLB.
Toronto milledealers favor accepting
the American spade do's offer for their
milk routes, and API doted a committee
to deal witla the question.
seOLITICS--CaNADIAN.
On Saturtlay, at Whitby, Mr. Charles
Calder was again nominated by the
Liberal -Conservatives to contest South
Ontario with the Hon. John Dryden,
soloing&
James Marshall of Toronto on Sature
day Itttemptel1 to tuke Ws life by cutting
his throat lie had leasu ill with stomach
troubles for nine years. lie cut bie throat
with a razor, but, although 64 years of
age, will likely recover.
TRIO DEA%
Robert Croekeet, execaptain of the lath
Battalion, died in "Hamilton on Friday
night,
Death came to little Ida May Farman,
doughter of Home Falemou of Hamil-
ton, on Soturdoy, as a metals of the bairns
ahe received on Friday eveniug.
RAILROAD Band111.41.NOS...,
Mr. William Mackenzie had an Inter
Vim with several menehera of the Mani-
toba Government ma Fridoy, and arrolige-
remote were proctieally made to extend
the Dauphin lino into GEhere Plaine this
summer. The line 14 to be Mt mon than
25 miles In length, It wfil top a One
country oral one that hue been held lank
by iter. distanee. from the market.
CRIME ANre CR.URINALS.
loseemeoy osauaors of Hamilton 14 out
•on $100 bail, until Tuesday, when he le
to be tried on a charge of criminally
asseulting Mrs. Georgina Anderson,
whom he was escorting home from a
porty.
A man was errested at Itraelsville on
Saturday afternoon in the act of carrying
off eeveral artielee hero the offiee +if W.,
.11. Cometoek. M.P. lie govo hie Ilallle Al
'Zieltonalti. and aoys he hails from Cal -
mato, India.
i TUE LAMM Nirceittite.
•A. reaee meeting in eointeetion 'with
the trstetaleen*s strike was held on Satur-
day afternoon in Toronto. There was A
large attendance, and sympathy Was exe
tended to the men by 41 the ape titers.
Clergymen and Mr. Crawford. M. P.
;Were the chief orators,
! In the Toronto Methodist Confereace at
• ,Owen Sound on Saturday R. E. S.
IRowe moved a resolution of synapathy
owith the striking trackmen, hut an
amendment wile moved to refer the
matter to a committee. Another motion
"postponed a vote on the amendment.
a Tif E. alit E ittec 0 It D.
I Fire in the extensive leach houses of
the Lang Tanning Company at Berlin an
Sunday iind many thousands of dollars'
worth of dannsge.
TIM third aim fourth stories in the
resideuee portion of ,Itilin Fox's banking
ostabtisinuent of Leman were slightly
damaged by fire on Saturday afternoon.
t TXe masonic Hall, Roeiland, WAS
destroyed by tire on Friday night. Elea:-
- trietwiree are said to have caused the
blazes. Most of the contents WON saved.
Insut .nce
FOR MEN OP WAR.
' Majoialeeneral Hutton hies arrived at
the Niagara Camp. Before leaving Lon-
don he officially inspected the troops
there. The London camp disbanded on
Saturday.
, Great preparations are being made for
the big review of troops at Aldershot,
June 25, by the Queen. The ceremony
,avill take place on Laffan's Plane, and
.about 14,0o0 troops will participate lii it.
A despatch from Victoria, Island of
Labuan, says the inhabitants of Brune
and the intermediate coast of Borneo
have hoisted the Sarawak flag. Brune
and Sarawak aro sultanates on the north-
west coast of Borneo, and are both under
1Br1tish protection.
THE RELIGTous WORLD.
Total receipts In the Toronto lelethodiet
•1 Conference during the year were $424,672,
:an increase of 87,832 over the previous
year. The membership is 44,e59, an
increase of 145.
At the Toronto Methodist Conference
in Owen Sound on Friday a report en-
dorsing the twentieth. century fund was
presented. Great satisfaction was ex-
pressed that Sb. James' Church, Mont-
real, was saved to the denomination.
The clerical Il Cittadino of Genoa says
, the Pope has decided to establish a per-
manent apostolic delegation in Canada.
The statement of Il Cittadino is prema-
ture. Arrangements to that end, how-
ever, are in progress, and if carried out.
(
it is understood Mgr. Zalewski, the
apostolic delegate to India, who is now in
!Rome, will be appointed apostolio doles
gate to Canada.
CASUALTIES.
Mrs. Norquay, widow of the late Hon.
John Norquay, Winnipeg, fell from a low
latool on which she was standing, and
broke her arm near the wrist.
• David McWhinney, a Kingston boy,
:looked an unexhausted Roman candle in
the mouth and was burned and cut about
.ithe face and mouth very badly.
l. Seventeen native miners were killed
•and 30 injured on Sunday in a mine at
Kimberley, in Griqualand West, by the
explosion, it is supposed, of a dynamite
zaageazine.
Frank P. Jell of London, Ont., man -
':Igor of the Surprise mine, Texada Island,
was killed by a premature dynamite ex -
;plosion on Monday. The body was
horribly mangled.
Archibald Sheriock of Toronto was
thrown out of a wagon and received a
:fracture of the left leg below the knee
•,and several broken ribs, which caused
i perforation of the lungs. He died on
:Sunday morning.
, A tornado on Friday swept over San
'Pedro and Alarse, in the Province of
'Valladolid, Spain. About 150 houses
.were destroyed, and there was great loss
of life. Ten bodies have already been re-
covered from the ruins.
Michael Hayes, proprietor of the Union
Hotel, Toronto, had his skull fractured
by a wagon under evhioh he was thrown
from his bicycle, while he was attempt -
sing to avoid a collision. He died on Sat -
'Bailey afternoon from his injuries.
Saturday afternoon William, A. Lillie°.
ef Toronto, formerly of Lehnvale, was
walking east of the 'Union „Station, on
the C.P.R. tracks. He was hard of hear-
ing, and a pursuing paseenger train was
unnoticed. It struck him. He was picked
up dead, His arms and legs were mangled
and his back was broken. The deceased
was 63 years of age and. a painter by
trade.
PURELY PERSONAL.
Dr. hicKay of Peuabroke has been ap-
pointed registrar for the County ef Ren-
frew.
Kielys the hammer -thrower
champion of England and Ireland, at
Limerick threw a hammer lee feet, beat-
ing the world's record,
Tbe Italian Crown Prince Victor
Entroanuel, accompanied by dee Crown
Prhacess, arrived at Christiania on Fri-
day to join the expedition of the Duke of
Arbruezi, in wart* of the North Pole.
They will acoompany the Duke as far
as the borders of the ice field and Spitz-
bergen.
Miss Mary Morton, principal of the
West avenue school, Hamilton, a PUblia
soli001 teacher for over 40 years. has re-
signed. She is to be married next month
to a former Hamiltonian, who is now in
Lockport, .N.Y., and A widower. The
couple were lovers many years ago, but
drifted apart and the luau married. His
wife dled some time ago and he renewed
his nit, with favor.
tutor.assirmu,
,:ommission will be appeinted by the
Postmaster -General to investigate into
the troubles in the Ringston postonlee,
Sixteen
ease e of smallpox have been
discovered in the 8,248 Doulthotors who
are at present quarantined at Grosse Isle..
The American Lino steamer Paris is
deemed. Her boilers have shifted, her
fate° bottoms; are gone, and the divers
re unable to work.
The Vollesrand of the Orouge Free
State, in sessiou, has etedoreed all that
President Kruger did, at the eouferenoe
with Sir Alfred hillner.
The Bank of England has bought See.
600,000 In Amerlean eagles to strengthen
its reserves, to which end meet of the
gold on its way will be devoted.
A society has been formed in Great
Britain to light CAUCer. In the past ten
years the ratio of deaths from this cause
has risen from 885 to 787 per million In-
habitants.
Wililam Armstrong, oilicer la oharge
of the Dominion Fish Hotehery at New-
castle, arrived in Kington with 10%000
SaIDA011 trout for that district on Friday.
Mr. Armstroug deposited tome of them
in the clueunel and in the harbor, mad
there near Kuapp's Point.
The seismograph at Toronto Observe.
tory monied two earthquake shooks dur-
iug the past week. nee first shook
occurred on Sunday night, 4th inst.. at
11.28 p.m. It lasted until 7.8a Monday
morning. For ten minutee the shock was
great, but after that it was slight. The
second shock was recorded at 10.07 on
Mouday morning, and lusted until 13.18
o'clock. It was at it$ height at 10.10
o'clock.
Friday the judicial committee of the
Privy Council at London gave judgment
In favor of Mrs. Pattorson for $18,500 and
Mrs. Lang for $e0,000 against the City
of Victoria, B.C., damages for the lives
of their husbands who were killed in tbe
Point Ellis bridge alsoster four ,years ago
Queen's Birthday. These two eases cost
the oity •$40,000 in damages and tests,
and now there are the other claimants to
settle with.
itoT PlouTING is ON AGAIN.
Oen. LiVII,t011 SW011 pit COUIS try' Between
Manila and Day Loco south.
.Tune 12,—At daybreak on Sat-
urday a force of 4500 manometer Generals
Lawton, Wheaton and Ovenshine, ad-
vanced from San Pedro Macati, sweep
ing the century between the Bay of
Manila and Bay Lake, south a Artiiiiie.
By noon the country hail been °leered
almost to Paranaque. The Americans
lost two officers killed need 21 soldiers
wounded.
cam:dues of the War.
Washington, .Tune 12.—Among the re-
ports submitted by General Otis concern-
ing -the operations of the army in Manila
is ono from Col. Henry Lippincott, ohiof
surgeon of the army. for the month of
March. Col. Lippincott says: "The long
list of engagements between our troops
and the Filipinos continuing through the
month resulted in the following casual-
ties to our command:
"Killed—Oilleers. 6; enlisted men, 71.
Died from wounds—Officers, 2; enlisted
men, 14.
"Wounded—Officers, 18; enlisted men,
485. Total casualties for the month, 596.
Total casualties since outbreak. 1,029."
r.a.anNE HORRORS IN RUSSIA.
The Peasants Have Now Exhausted Their
Last Resources.
St. Petersburg, ,Tune 12.—The corre-
spondents of the different newspapers
speak more and more strongly of the
ever-increasing need of help for the peas-
ants. One of the most prominent workers
in the interest reads as follows: "We
may say that the distress in these regions
has now reached its climax. The peasants
have exhausted their last resources.
"In so3ne places the number of scurvy
cases has of late doubled, trebled and
even quadrupled. In the single diitriot of
Stavropol, in the Governnient of Sam-
ara, 5,000 people are now receiving medi-
cal attention, and we may reckon the
total number of sufferers in the district
at not less than 10,000. A large majority
of them are women and children. Apart
from the want of food, these people stand
now in the utmost need of grain for sows
ing."
Gould and the Killarneys,
London, June 12.—The report that
Howard Gould intends to purchase the
Lakes of Killarney has brought F. W.
Crossley of Dublin to London to interview
the Irish Commoners. He is anxious to
start a shilling fund to inake the lakes
and the island public property. He has
sent a thousand shillings to the Lord
Mayor of Dublin, who will act as trustee
of the fund. The present owner, the
Standard InsuranceCompany, refused
£85,000 for the property.
Little Girl Fatally pureed.
Hamilton, June 10.—Early last even-
ing Sadie Fairrnan, a 8 -year-old daughter
of Horace Fairman, 299 York street, was
fatally burned while playing with
matches. Her sister saw her in flames
from an upstairs window and ran into
the yard and tore the burning clothes
from her. The physioian said she was
beyond human aid, death being a matter
of a few hours only. The little one's
body was horribly burned.
WILDCATS BAT MT.
A Pennsylvania Diana Who Pre-
fers Them to Dogs.
GREAT POINTERS AND SETTERS.
Savage Catamounts and. Their MM.+
tress Are as Loving as Nary' and
Her Little Lamb—A. widovv Who Is
Well Proteeted.
Mrs. Helen Link, who lives about two
miles south of Reading, Va., is known as
"The Huntress of the Neversink." She
acquired this sobriquet through her ex-
ceptional record AS a nimrod, and, al-
though little or nothing has been written
about her, there is enough of the unusual
in her life to fill a volanne tbat would
make decidedly interesting reading.
Airs. Link has had numerous experi.
ences while hunting that men would talk
about in a spirit of boasting, but there
are few of the incidents she deems worthy
of mention, and, silo never talks at all
about her hunting excursions melees gales
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doped
The most extraordinary feature a all
her hunting trips is that she is invariably
accompanied by two largo wild cats in lieu
Of dogs, and as "pointers" or "setters"
these two Mines are superior to meat
hunting siege in this section.
About four years ego, while On OW/ of
her trips, tire. Liuk leaned her gun
against a tree in the weeds of Joanna
}eights, about ten miles below Reading,
and stopped to rest after a loog tramp
over A rough couptry, Her Att011ti011 WAS
attreeted to a hole in the trunk of the
tree, which was dead, and silo thrust her
hand into the opening. For her paies her
fingers were nipped, She quickly drew
out her hand, but a little thing like that
OK not deter her from continuing her Ins
vastigation of the hollow tree trunk-, and
she endoe by drawing out two tiny wild
cats, or cataniounte.
Without giving much thought to the
possible appearance of the parents of the
cats a any moment, the huntress cerried
the youngsters nearly ten miles to her
mountain home and has had them since.
At first the creatures were inclinea ta
be rather VICIOUS kittens, but Mrs. Link
fed and eared for them well, and in
short time they ceased to show their teeth
or turn tip their haves upon her appear -
!Mee. Tiley became, to a certain extent,
domesticated, and their mistress soon dis-
covered they were apt at learning and
ready to receive instruction.
The huntress and her pets became in-
eeparable companions, excepting when
Mrs. Link went to Reading. She took
them with her on all her gunning trips,
and they soon learned to "point" a bird
or scent a rabbit, fox or woodchuck better
than a dog. They learned. to love their
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MRS. LIN F AND TIER CATAMOUNTS.
mistress, and she in turn would not like
to part with them for any consideration.
They have, however, little use for the
rest of mankind and are not at all in-
clined to be friendly with et angers. The
fact is, they are rather dangerous looking,
and few care to attempt to be familiar
with them.
Mrs. Link had the oats out recently for
their first long tramp this spring. It was
merely a "linabering up" excursion, and
they were not in quest of any quarry. The
names of the felines are Josie, a male, and
Nancy, a female.
Mrs. Link is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Long. She is a widow, 84
years of age, and lives with her parents.
On one of the bleakest, dreariest por-
tions of the Neversink mountain the
Longs have cleared and cultivated a tract
which today produces large quantities of
truck and vegetables. They attend the
farmers' market in Reading, and daughter
and parents are well known to many peo-
ple, who buy what they raise.
On her gunning trips Mrs. Link wears
a corduroy jockey cap, with large shield,
short cloth skirt and high top boots and,
with her gun in hand and wildoats by
her side, is certainly a picture unusual,
Salt For the Fishes.
To make the water in their tanks at the
aquarium of a saltness approximating that
of the waters which their occupants would
inhabit in nature salt is put the year
round into the tanks of the Bermuda fishes
at the aquarium, Turk's island salt being
used for the purpose. More or less salt ie
used also the year round in the tanks of
various other of the salt water fishes, more
salt being put into the water in the spring
than at any other season, for the reason
that at that time, when the greatest body
of fresh water conies down the Hudson
river with the spring freshets, the water
of the bay is at its freshest. The salt is
poured in, to fall to the bottom, there to
dissolve and be taken into the water, mak-
ing it of a saltiness more nearly liko that
of the outside ocean water. The added
salt serves also as a disinfectant and pre-
ventive of fungus on the fishes. The
fishes like it. They svvim through the
saltier water over the salt and sometimes
rub their sides upon the salt, itself.—New
York Sun.
KIPLING'S EARLY STYLE.
An Almost Forgotten Description of the
City of Anther, written, Early
ie sus Life.
While Rudyard Kipltrig was a journal-
ist in India he wrote many artioles which
have nos been reprinted and probably
never will be. His publishers, while he
was on his travels, once issued two collec-
tions of his short sketches, but both, he
and his friends considered, them, too
immature, and they were suppressed.
One of these collections had consider-
able elle:illation before it was suppressed,
but the other, entitled "Letters of
Marque," was but little known outside
of India. From that volume the fellow-
ing is taken;
"And what shall be saki of Amber,
Qtteen of the PASS—the city that Tey
Singh bade his people slough as snakes
oast their skins, The globe-trotter will
assure you that it roust be done before
anything else, and the Globe-trotter is,
for once, perfectly correot, Aniber lies
between Silt and seven miles from ;ley -
pore, among the 'tumbled fragments of
the hills,' and is reachable by so proseio
a conveyance as a ticeaghan, and so un-
comfortable a one as an elephant He hi
provided by the Maharaja, and the peo-
pie who make Tuella their prey are apt to
omelet bis services as a matter of course.
"Hese very early be the morning, before
the stars have gone out, and driv e through
the sleeping city till the pavement gives
place to cactus and sand, and edneational.
and enlighted iostitutione to mileamon
mila of seral-decayed Rludn towhee—
brown and Weather-beaten — running
down to the shores of the Great Man
Seger Lake, wherein are more rulned
temples, palaces awl fragments ot mese-
ways. The woter birds have their homes
in the half-eulenterged arcades and the
mugger puzzles the shafts of the ?Mars.
12 ie a fitting prelude to the desolation of
Amber, In the half light of dawn, a great
eity sunk,' between hille and, built round
three sides of a lake is dimly visible, and
one wait* to assMia the hone that aboold
hise from it as the day breaks,
"'rho air in the valley is bitterly
With the growing light Amber stands
revealed and, the traveller sees that it is a
city that will never wake. A few paeeutte
Jive in huts at the end ef the valley, bur
the temples, the doilies, the palaces and
the tiers on tiers of houses are desolate.
Trees grow in and. *lit open the walls,
the windows are filled with brushevood,
and the moths oliekes the street. The
Engliihnian made his way up the side
of the hill to the great palace that mer -
looks everyiblug exe,ept the red fort of
jeighur, guardian of Anther. As the elee
pliant swung up the steep roads, paved,
with stone and built out on the sides of
the hill, the Englishman looked into
empty houses where the Rode gray squir-
rel sat and scratehed sts ears. The neaeock
walkva upon the housetops and the blue
pigeon roosted within. He passed under
iron.atudded gates, whereof the hinges
were eaten out with rust, and by walls
plumed and erowned with grass, and.
under more gateways, till at last he
reached the palace and came suddenly
into a great quadrangle, where two
blinded, arrogant stallions, covered with
red and gold trappings, sereesued and
neighed at eaeli other from opposite ends
cf the vast space.
"Frani the top of tbe palace you may
read, if you please, the Book of Ezekiel
written in stone upon the hillside. Com-
ing up the Englishman had seen the city
from helow ou a level. He now lOoked
into its very heart—the heart that had
ceased to beat. There was no sound of
anon or cattle, or grindstones in those
pitiful streets—nothing but the cooing of
the pigeons. At first le seemed that the
palace was not ruined at all—that pres-
ently the women would come up on the
housetops and the bells would ring in the
temples, But as he attempted to follow
with bis eye the turns of the streets the
Englishman saw that they died out in
wood tangle and blocks of fallen stone,
and that some of the houses were rent
with great cracks, and plereed from roof
to road with bolos that let in the morn-
ing sun, The drip -stones of the eaves
were gap-toothed, and the treeing of the
swoons had fallen out, so that =ens
roams lay shamelessly open to the day.
"On the outskirts of the city the
strong -walled houses dwindled and souk
down to mere stone heaps and faint indi-
cations of plinth and wall, hard to trace
against the background of stony soil. The
shadow of the palace lay over two-thirds
of the city. and the trees deepened the
shadow. 'He who has bent o'er the dead'
after the hour of which Byron sings,
knows that the features of the man be-
came blunted as it were—the face begins
to fade. The same hideous look lies on
the face of the Queen of the Pass, and
when once this is realized the eye won-
ders that it could have ever believed in
the life of her. She is the city 'whose
graves are set in the side of the pit and
her company is round about her graves,'
sister of Pathros, Zoan and No.
"Moved by a thoroughly insular in-
stinct, the Englishman took up a piece
of plaster and heaved it from the palace
wall into the dark streets below. It
bounded from a housetop to a window -
ledge, and thence into a little square,
and the sound of its fall was hollow and
echoing, as the sound of a stone in a
well. Then the silence closed up upon the
sound till in the faraway courtyard below
the roped stallions began screaming
afresh. There may be desolation in the
great Indian Desert to the westward, and
there is desolation upon the open seas,
but the desolation of Amber is beyond
the loneliness either of land or sea."
Pointed Paragraphs.
When in doubt, the best thing to do is
keep quiet.
Poets paint witb words and painters
speak with pencils.
The village minister's study is how to
make both ends meet.
The snob always overrates himself and
underrates other men.
A man invariably feels put out when
he finds he has been taken in.
Science tunnels mountains while faith
is figuring on moving them.
Nine times out of ten when a man
talks grammatically he is tiresome.
Men admire women not because they
are women, but because they are not
men.
Many a brave man leads a woman to
the altar and then resigns his leadership.
Sometimes the wages of sin look sus-
piciously like fat dividends on watered
stock.
When some people talk we are reminded
of a diotionary With the definitions left
out.
It is easier to turn gold Into anything
else than it le to turn anything else into
gold.
Salvation's free, but it's probably be-
cause the attention of the tunist promoters
barn not boon called tetV
ROUND THE WALLS ("F HAMAOAN.
Orchards stretch theit 'moray span
Round the walls of Ha 0, 4an.
Purples deepen on the
Lyric brooks make blita -scope,
Yet are all the glories gone
That the lord of Macedon
Saw ere drew the revel on,
And the Baeollic orgy ran
nound the walls of Ramadan.
Gone the great sun temple where .
Golden stair rose over stair,
clone the gilded galleries,
Porticoes and palaces,
And the plaintive night winds plead
For tee memory of the Made,
Sob for alien ears to heed,
Pilgrim train and caravan,
Found the walla of Ramadan,
Naught of all the radiaat past,
Naught of all the varied, vast
Life that throbbed. and thrilled ?mates,
With its pleasures and its pains,
Save a Wu -Chant lion
tote memorial in stone
Of three empires overthrown—
Persian, Median, learthian—
Round the walla of Ilamadam
All the splendor vanished, still
Wheels the world for good or
'Where% the wisdorsa hoary sage
Sbail unriddie us this page?
Temples toppled from their base
Victor race teerrennitig race,
Yet, within the aneleut pine
Mirth and love of maid and man
Round the smilax of Hamadan!
acumen Scollard in Frank Leslie's Popnlar
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The advertisement io the newspaper
an as follows: "Suicides commencing
—These should write for appointment
to Rex Blake. 72 Dppingdon eardene
South 'Kensington"
Herbert Streuth, artist, received an
appointment for 2:80 on 'Wednesday
afternoon, He called at the South Ken-
sington address and was shown into a
solidly foruiehed library, where a podgy
little old gentleman with white hair
shook him warmly by the hand and
bade him to he seated.
"1 son very pleased to see you, Mr
Streuth„ and I trust that I may be of
come service to you—in fact, that we
may be of service to each other. But I
Genet begin by asking you a plain ques-
tion. which you will answer truthfully
and in one word Is your intended sui-
cide connected in any way with severe
pow.: ty or, overwhelming financial
losses 2'
"No," said Streuth, "I am consider-
ed. I believe, to be fairly well off."
"Delighted to hear it," said Mr
Blake, rubbing his chubby hands to-
gether, "now we will proceed. I tell
you frankly that with zne this thing is
a business and nothing but a business.
If yon decide that I can serve you I
Glean expect a moderatefee. Now, what
are the principal objections to suicide 1'
"The law does not pernait it, said
Btrenth.
"Precisely, but in the case of the
snceessful suicide the law is not asked.
It soya that you may not take your life
away, but if you do it cannot compel
you to take it back again or punish you
in any way. We can leave the law out.'
"There is also the religious objeo-
ton, " said Streuth,
"Many very religious people, " replied
Mr Blake, "have not found it. cogent.
Take the case, by no means an uncom-
mon one, where the death of one man
may be an inestimable benefit to many
to whom he is really eincerely attached.
Is an act of self sacrifice to be regarded
as a crime? No; it seems to me that
each suicide must be judged on its own
merits, taking into consideration the
motives and beliefs of the person suicide
ing. Any other opinions?"
"I know none," Streuth answered.
"In fact, I have not been thinking
ranch about it. I want to get out of
things. I don't ask myself if there are
any objections or not. I don't care if
there are any objections."
"You surprise me," said Mr. Blake,
"You are an artist, and yet it has not
occurred to you that the manner of the
suicide is of essential importance. The
throat cutting is very dirty, and the
same objection applies to the use of
firearms, Have a little foresight. Imag-
ine what you look like afterward, and
the state of the bedclothes, and all the
test of it."
"I was intending," said Streuth, "to
drown myself."
"I have here," said Mr. Blake, "a
little work on forensic medicine. There
are some interesting chapters on the
miens by which you can tell the length
otime the body has been in the water.
Did you ever hear of adipocere? There
20 an elegant little description of it in
this passage. Just read it."
Streuth took it and read a few lines.
"I can't stand this," he said; "it is too
nauseous."
"I thought you would see it in that
light, Mr. Blake replied. "People
mostly do when I put it to them. You
really can't tell what a river's going to
do to you. It may give you back at
once, or it may keep you for a bit.
Even if it gives you back at once yott
don't look pretty. Here's a description
of the face of a roan taken out of the
Thanzes on"—
"You needn't go on with that. I
have given up the idea of drowning
myself. There is still poison. A little
prussic acid and the bother is till over.'
"Excellent," said Mr. Blake. "If you
know the right dose, you die almost
immediately. But you've got an awful
n3oment. If you don't know the right
dee, you have a very bad time. You
will be found with your hands violently
clinched, your eyes glistening and your
pupils dilated, and you will shriek just
before your death. Unpleasant, isn't
it?"
"Well,'' said Streuth, "there are
other poisons."
"All are open to objections. Chloral
may kill you comfortably or make you
sick Other sasisthetice may lead be
your being discovered while in a state
of unconsciousness, but not dead, arid
the treatment they give you then is not
pretty. Many quick poisons are pain-
ful, very painful, and in any ease you.
leave your body about after. So untidy
—such a want of neatnessi Every sui-
cide ia anxious to wipe himself right
out, to get away from public attention.
If he leaves that body about after, Peo-
ple sit on it and say that he was tem-
porarily insane, and one of the jury is
rude to the coroner, and the coroner iet
severe to one of the jury, and the whole
thing gets into the papers and the fam-
ily is disnaced, and everybody feels
that the death was grossly inartistic."
"I don't know," said Streuth, "if
you imagine that by telling me these
things you can deter me from the end.
which. I have ha view. If so. prey do
not waste Tow time and mine any fur-
ther.'"
"I had no such idea." said lift
Blake. “All I wish to do is to give you
a chance of cozmnitting suicide in this
best possible way. No pain, no scandal,
no -untidy body lying about afterward,
A simple. raysterions disappearance,
your own self respect saved, and the
feelings of your family spared."
"Welt" said Streuth, "what la it?'
"Fire. plain fire, that is all. Near
Weybridge there is a certain furnace
which is kept goiug day aild'night. Its
beat is enormous. There are no half
measures about that furnace. The very
moment you go into it you are dead.
Ralf an hour afterward, nothing a you
ie left that is recognizable as ever hav-
ing been human. I will give you direce
time aud admiesion card in exchange
for Tont' cheek for 4"4 so soon ae that
check has been cleared."
Streuth pulled five sovereigns from
his pocket and put them on the table.
"I will take the directime and eard
of admiesion now."
"Certaioly." said Blalte. "This lite
tle plan makes your way clear from
Weybridge station. It is six or seven
Miles, and you will bare to walk it
Cabs can be tracked."
"I quite see that," said Streuth.
"For similar reasons yon =it not
bequire your way You caonot miss it;
the plau is on a large scale and every
possible landmark is indicated. When
you remit the furnace (which la sup-
posed to be used isa tormection with
onie brick works), you will Riad a deaf
mute as night porter in charge. Hand.
hint the tieket, cud he will show you
by signe what to do."
Streuth teok the ticket and plan.
shook hands and went out.
He was a paseenger in the last train
to Weybridge that night.
Three days afterward Streuth, with
smile on his face, called once more on
Mr. Blake. Mr. Blake did not seem at
all surprised to see him.
"Let us speak plainly." said Mr.
Blake. "You were afraid of the firer
"I was," said Streuth,
"Everybody is. It is the most awful
element, having in it something of the
aepernatural. I have sent 170 suicidea
to that place and only three banded
their tickets to the night porter."
"And did the three COMMit suicide?'
"Not They came out again. Not one
of them has committed euicide or ever
will. You won't, for instance."
"No," said Streuth; "comnion sense
has dawned. After all," be muttered,
"she is not the only girl in the world.'
"Many of my clients," said Blake
smilingly, "give me some little present
tome trifling souvenir on their return.'
Strauth put his hand into his waist-
coat pocket. As he fumbled with the
coins be said. "Suppose that one of
those three who did give up his ticket
to the porter bad committed suicide,
you would have stood a fair chance of
getting yourself into a mess."
"Not at all," said Blake genially,
"not at all To prevent the possibility
of accidents there isn't any furnace."
He swept the sovereigns from the
table into the pain of his hand.
"Most liberal of yon, I'm sure."—
Barry Pain.
The Hotel Porter's 'Neat Joke.
In the barber shop connected with a,
big down town hotel works a colored
porter who chatters incessantly. The
hostelry has had tbe raisfortune to be
the scene of an unusually large number
of violent deaths recently, and the por-
ter has plenty material fax conversation.
He loves to dwell upon a suicide or a
murder and is looked upon as an au-
thority on the death record of the hotel.
The other day he was brushing a cus-
tomer's coat and commenced the follove-
ing conversation:
"Say, boss, hear 'tont de horrible
murder on floor Y dis niornin ?"
"No I" exclaimed the man. "Is it
possible there has been another?"
"Sure 'nough, " said the negro, de-
voting renewed energy te the brushing
opera ti on.
"Who was killed?" asked the man.
"Oh, a wall paper man done went up
dere and hung up a border."
The customer paid his bill and left.
The colored porter went into the check-
room, where he could laugh as hard as
be wanted.—Chicago Journal
A Mule Chews Tobacco.
Balattm's donkey is doubtless the only
one that ever spoke to man, but it
seems that there are some trying to im-
itate man's ways. A Fayette county
farmer has one of this sort. Old Silas
fax years had his stall in a tobacco barn,
where it often chanced that scraps of
the soothing weed got into his rations.
Perhaps he regarded it as a kind of
sauce; anyhow, he finally became at-
tached to it, like his master, and now
he can't do without it. If he fails to
get his morning's chew, it is useless tc
harness hirn to anything. He will not
budge a peg—his no means no. His
master knows what the trouble is. He
goes down in his pocket, fishes up his
own twist and makes a peace offering.
The old mule almost laughs as ho rolls
the quid into his cheek and proceeds to
his work as meekly as a lambkin. His
master claims that Silas is as good a
judge of a "chew" as of oata—Wiiir
*Ikeda (Kam.) Democrat