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Exeter Advocate, 1904-9-1, Page 7"119-TfrIP t VS ur)te fr teeeeier vstneifilettv-r—nWrnn,rirslitrottirM Thc Pricc of Libcrty OR, A MIDNIGHT CALL • CHAPTER VIII.-L(Continued). "It :does, indeed," David said, grimly: "It is Wilkie Collins gone mad, Gaboriau n extrernis, Da Bois- gobey suffering from delirium trera- ens. I go to 'GateR'S house end am solemnly told M the midst a the eueroundings that I can .swear to that I have never been there be- fore; the whole mad expedition. is launched by the turning of the handle ef a telephone in the -house of a dis- tinguished, trusted, if prosaic, citi- zen. •Somebody gets hold of the synopais of a story of mine, Heavens knows how—" A That is fairly easy. The synopsis .4•• was short, I suppose?" "Only a few lines, say 1,000 words •a sheet of paper. My writing is very enall. it, wes tucked into a • halfpenny open envelop—a magazine office envelope, marked 'Peof, uegeiat.' There were the proofs of a eliort story, in the buff, envelope." • "Which reached its destination in due course?" • "So -I hear this morning. But. how on earth—" "Easily erumgh. • The whole thing gots slipped into a larger open en- velope, the kind of big -mouth affair that enterprising firms send out cir- culars and patterns with. This falls into the hands of tne womau who is at the bottom of this and every other case, and she reads the syno- psis from sheer curiosity. The case fits her case; and there you are. Mind you, I don't say that this is how the thing actually happened, but how it • night have done so. When did you post the letter?" "I can't give you the date. • Say ten days." ' - 'And there would be no hurry Mr t reply,'' Bell said, thoughtfully, • "And YOU had no cause for worry on that head. Nor need the womari e•lio found it have kept the envelope beyond the delay of a, single poste which is only, a matter of an hour or so in London. If you go a little farther we lind that money is no ob- ject, hence the L1,000 offer and the careful, and doubtless expensive, in- quiry into your position.. Steel, I . am going to enjoy this case.". •"You're welcome to alle"the fun eheu can get out of it," David said, grinily. "So far as I am concern- ed, I fail to see the humor. Istn't this the office you are after?" Bell nodded and disappeared, pre- sently to return with two exceedingly rusty keys tied together with a drab piece of tape. He jingled them on, his long, slender forefinger with an • • air of positive enjoyment. 't . "Now come along, he said. "I feel like a boy who has marked down •Something rare in the way of a bird's nest. We will go back to Brunswick Square exactly the same way as you approached it on. the night of the • great adVenture." CHAPTER IX. "Any particular object in that couese?" David asked. "There ought to be an object in everything that even an irrational man says or does," Bell replied. "I haVe achieved some marvellous re- sultsby followleg up a single sen- tence uttered by a patient. Besides, mi the evening in question you were Particularly told to approach the house from the sea front." "Somebody might have been on the look -out near the Western Road entrance," Steel. suggested. . 'Possibly. I have another. theory, Frei% NVO are.. The • figures over the fanlights run from 187 upwards, get- ting gradually to 219 as you breast the elope. At one eo'clock in the morning every house Avoid& be in darkness. Did you find that to , be so?'l • "I didn't notice a .light anywhere till I reached 219." "Good again; 'And you could, only iind 219 by the light over the door. Naturally you were not interested in laid would not have noticed any other number. Well, here is 218, where I propose to • enter, and for 0021001•1•• which. purpose I have the keys, Coin° elong." David followed wondariogly. The houses in Brunswick Square are somewhat irregularin point, of arch- itecture, and. ',Nos. 218 and 119 wore the only matched pair there- abouts. Signs were riot wanting, as, Bell pointed out, that at one time the houses had 'been occupied as one residence... The two, •.entrance -halls were hack to back, so to speak, and what had obviouSly been a doorway leading from .ono to the other had • been plastered up within compara- tively recent memory. The grim and dusty desolation of an empty house seemed to be sup- plemented here by a deeper desola- tion. Not that there was any dust on the ground floor, which seemed a singular, thing seeing that elgeivhere the boards were powdered with it, and festoons of brown cobwebs hung eVerywhere. Belt smiled approving- ly. as DavidSteel Pointed 'the fact out te, him. • "Do you note another singular point'?" the former asked. "No," David said, thoughtfully; "I --stop! The two side -shutter e in the bay -windows are cloeed, and there is the same -Vivid crimson blind in the entre window. And the color of the walls is exactly the same. The faint discoloration by the Areplace is a perfect facsimile." "In feet, this is the roora you were In the other night," Bell said, .quietly. • "Impossible!" Steel cried. "The blind may be an aceideet, so might the fading of the distemper. • Mut the furniture, the engravings', the fit- tings generally—" "Are all capable of an explanation, which we shall arrive at with pa- tience." . "Can we arrive at the number over the door with patience?" "Exactly what I Was corning to. I noticed an old pair of steps iri the back sitting -room. Would you mind placing them against the fanlight for David complied readily enough.. He was growing credulous and inter- ested le •spite of himself. At Bell's instigation he placed the steps before the fanlight and mounted them. Over hie head were the figures 218 in. elon- gated shape and formed en white por- celain. "Now then," Bell said., slowly, mfreke this 'pocket-knife, apply the blade to the right-hand lower half of the 'bottom of the 8—to half the email o, in fact—and I shall be ex- tremely surprised if the quarter sec- tion doesn't come away from the glass of the fanlight, leaving the rest of the .figure intact. Very .gen- tly, please. I want you to convince yourself that the piece comes away because it is broken, and not be- cause the pressure has ,cracked it. Now then.' The point of the knife was hardly underthe edge of .the porcelain be- fore the segment of the lower circle dropped into Steel's hand. He could feel the edges of the cement sticking to his fingers. As yet the full force of the discovery was not apparent to hien. • "Go out into the road and look at the fanlight," Bell directed. • David complied eagerly. A sharp cry of surprise escaped him, as he looked. up. The change Was appar- ent. Instead of the figures 818 he could read now the change to 219— a fairly indifferent 9, but pne that would have passed muster without criticism by ninety-nine people out of a hundred. With a etieng light be- hind the figures the clumsy 9 would never have been noticed at all. Thie very siniplicity ane ingeniousness of the.Seberne wae'ets saferu, ard. "I should like to have the address of the man' who thought that out," David said, drily.' . "Yes, I fancy that you are dealing with quite clever people," Bell re- plied. "And now I have shown you how utterly you have 'been deceived over the number we will go a little farther. For the present, the way ouldn't ir On Account of Droadfnl Pains in the Kidneys and Back—A Complete Cure by Dr. Chase's Kidney -Lover Pills In • its tourse through the body the blood not only supplies nourish- ment to the various organs, but ale.° gathers up the poisonous waete mat- ter. When the liver and kidneys fail to Site these poisone from the blood there are pains' and aches and lis - of the most painful and fatal kind. Beams° • they restore the stretigth • and activity to the kidneye and liver ,PP. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pille over- come such troubles and purify the blood in a Wonderfully short time, Mr. L. W. Bemis, Welland, Ont., writee gives me pleasure to testify hi' behalf of Pr, Chdee's ICid- n,cy-Live Pills, , VOr Malty years Was seriously afflicted with kidney end liver troublere At times ney back would ache so bad 1 eould not rise from a chair, arid thee again I Would be confined to rey bed. I WaS treated by the medical peolession, bet they all failed to -understand my me°. "Abohe the time I Was most OS- couraged I heard of Dr. Chas's neyeLiver Pills, and they were so strongly vaeommended that I deiced - ed to try them. Before I had uSee all of five boxer., my old trouble had entholy left me, an'( 1 was again as healthy as in boyhood, 1 freely give this testimony for the benefit of these who euffer as I have." Dr; •Cieree's Kidney -Liver Pills, one pill a doer, ee' cents a 'box, at all dealers, Or Echeanson, Bdtes & Collie Toronto . To Protect You egainet imitations the portrait and sip:natl.:re of Di., .A. ter,' the Memel receipt book author, are on livery box. in which the furniture trick was worked must remain a Myetery. put there has been furniture here, or Vile room, and the hell would not have heel so Carefully swept and garnish- ed whilst the rest of the house re- mains in so dirty a condition. If My eyes don't deceive me 1 can see two fresh nails driven into the archway leading to the back ball. On those nails hung the curtain that prevent- ed you seeing more than was neces- sary, Are you till incredulous, ap to the house where you had your re- markable adventure?" cenfees that my faith has been seriously shaken," David ttchnitted. "But about the furniture ? And about my telephone call from Mr. Cat's town house? And about my adventure takieg place in the very next house to the one taken by him, at Brighton ? And about Mise Gates' agitation when she learnt my identi- tynnr? eeeDo you call them coinci- d"NO, I don't,” Bell said, promptly. "They are merely evidences of clever folks taking advantage of an excel- lent strategic position, I said just now that it was an important point that Mr. Gates had merely taken the next door furnished. But we shall come to that side of the theory hi due course. Have you any other objectioa to urge?" • "One more, and I have finished for the present. When I came here the other night—provided of course that I did come here—inunediately upon my entering the dining -room the place was brilliantly illerninated, Now, directly the place was voki the supply of electric current would be cut of! at the meter. So far as I eau judge, some two or three units must have beea consumed during the visit, There could not be many less than ten lights burning Mr an hour. Now, those unites must show on the meter. Can you read an electric rneter?'' "My dear fellow, there is nothing easier." "Then let us go down into the basement and settle the matter. There is pretty sure to be a card on the meter made up to the day when the last tenant went out. See, the supply le cut off now." As Steel spoke he snapped down the hall switch and no result came. Down in the basement by the area door stood the meter. Both switch- es were turned off, but on. Bell press- ing them down Steel was cuabled to light the passage. "There's the card," Bell exclaimed. "Made up t� 25th June, eince when the house has been void. • Just a minute whilst I read the meter. Yes, that's right. -According to this the card in year hand, provided that the light ha i not been used :since the in- dex was taken, should read at 1521. What do you make of the card?" "1532" David cried. means eleven units sieee tele "NniVileticehr , was last taken. Or, if you like to put it from your point of view, elev- en units used the night that I came here. . You are quite right, Bell, You have practically convinced nee that I have been inside the real 219 for the first time to -day. And yet the more one probes the myetery the more astounding does it become. What do you propose to do next?" _"Find out the name of tho last tenant or owner," Bell suggested. "Discover what the two houses were used„for when they were occupied by one person. Also ascertain why, on earth the owners are willing to let a house this Size and in this situation for a sum like £.8.0 per annum. Let us go and take the keys back to the agents." Steel was nothing loth to And him- self 'in the fresh air again. • Some progress had been made like the opening of a chess -match between masters, and yet the more Steel thought of it the more muddled and bewildered did he becoxne. No com- plicated tangle in. the way of a plot had ever been anything like the skein this was. "I'm like a child in your hands," he said. "I'm a blind man on the end of a string; a man dazed with wine:in a labyrinth. AO if ever I help a woman • again—" • He paused as he eaught sight of Ruth Gates's lovely face through the window of No. 219. Her features were tinged with melancholy; there Was a look of deepest, sympathy and feeling and compassion in her, glor- ious oyes. • She slipped back as Steel bowed, and the rest of his speech was lost in a sigh. CHAPTER X. A bell tolled mournfully with a slow, swinging cadence like a passieg bell. On winter nights folks, pass- ing the Haase of the Silent Sorrow, compared the dolefue clanging to the boom. that carries the crimilial from the cell to the scaffold. Every night all the year round the 'little valley of Longdean echoed to that mournful clang. Perhaps it was To0 this reason that a wandering poet christened the place as the House of the Silent Sorrow. For seven years this had beet go- ing on now, until nobody bet seran- gees noticed it, From half -past sev- en till eight o'clock that hideous bell rang its swinging, meleneholy eote. Why„ it was nobody could possibly tell. Nobody mn. inc village had ever been beyond the great rusty gates leading to a dark drive of Scotch firs -though one 'email boy bolder then the reef, had once climbed the lichee - strewn stone wall and poetrated the thick mederegrowth beyond. Mace he had returned, with white face and etering vas, With the information that great wile dogs dwelt in the thickets, Subsequently the village Porieher confirmed this in formation , Fie was not extictly,loquacious on the subjett, but ruerely hinted that the grounds of Longclean Grange were not ealebrious for natereliets with a, predatory ti isp teatime. , ou moonlight eighth . thoSe apocryphal hounds were heard to bay and Whimper. A shepherd up late one spring night averred that he had seen two of leiem fighthig. But en -- body could -spy anything almet them for certain; alee it wee equelly cot - talo that nobody knew enything about the pecipie at Longdean Grange The piece had been shut Op for thir- ty years, being understood to be in Chantey, When • the aneouneement Went forth that a distant relative of the Welly had arranged to live there in future, What the lady of the Grange was like nobody eould etty. She had ar- rived late outs nielit aceomPartieci by a niece, and from that Moment, she had never been beyond the hou,se. None of the large stall of servants erer left the grounds unless it was to wilt altogether, •and thea tbcy were understood • to leave at night with a large bonus la xneney es a re - mavens° for their promise to evacu- ate Sue= without delay. Every- thing was ordered by telephone from Brighton and bat at the porter's lodge. The porter was a stranger, also he was deaf and. exceedingly 111-' tempered, so that long since the vil- lage had abandoned the hope of get-. ting anything out of him. Oile ra- tional human being they saw from the Grange occasionally, a big man with an exceediegly benevolent fac,e and mild, large, 'blue eyes—a man full of Otiristiae kindness and given. to largesse to the Tillage boys. The big gentleman went by the name of "Mr, Charles," and was understood to have a lot of pigeons of whicli he was exceedingly fond. But who Charles" was, or how he had got that name, it would have puzzled the wisest head of the village to tell, And yet, but for the mighty clamor of that hideous bell and that belt of wilderness that surrounded it, Long - dean Grange was a cheerful -looking houee. Any visitor emerging from the drive would have been delighted with it. For the lawns were trim and truly kept, the beds were blaz- ing masses of flowers, the creepers over the Grange were not allowed to riot too extravagantly. And yet the straege haunting sense of fear was there. Now and again a huge black head would uplift from the cop- pice growth, and a long, rumbling growl come from between a double row of white teeth. Foe the dogs were no fiction, they lived and bred in the fifteen or twenty acres of cep - pine round the house, where they were fed regularly and regularly thrashed without mercy if they show- ed in the garden. Perhaps they look- ed more fere° and truculent than they really were, being -Cuban blood- hounds, but they gave a weird color to the place and lent it new terror to the simple folk. around. The bell was swinging • dolefully over the stable -turret; it rang out its passing note till the clock struck eight and then mercifully ceased. At the same moment precisely as she had done any time the last sevem years the lady of the house descend- ed the broad, black oak staircase to the hall. A. butler of the old-fasli- ioned type bowed to her and annoue- ed that dinner was ready. He might have been the butler of an archbishop from his mien and deportment, yet his evening dress was seedy and shiny to the last degree, his patent leather hoots had long lost their Metre, his linen was terribly frayed and yellow. Two footmen in livery, stood in the hall. They might have been supers playing on the boards of a travelling theatre, their once smartly cut and trimmed coats hung raggedly upon them. (To be Continued.) PAYS TO B_E_RITLER. Prince Is Taxed by People of Bis Principality. A people who tax their Prince. A country, almost unknown, in the very heart of central Europe. An inde- peneent and whimsical principality of sixty-eight square miles. It is in the eastern Alps, bordering the up- per Rhine. Hemmed in by Switzer- land and Austria, and but a. few miles from the German frontier, it has been independent for over two centuries, and was forgotten by Bis- marck, so runs the local peasantry, in the reorganization following the Prussian wars with Austria and riTtarirs'not tucked inaccessibly away. Thousands of travellers ontheir way to Innsbruck, have seen from the train the towering mountains Of the little State. Others, on their way to Davos -Platz, • have glanced at a, distant little town, at the foot of a caetldd rock, without suspectingthat they. were looking at one of the cap- itals of Europe. There is no Military service. There is no national debt. There is a nominal tax, only a tenth as large as that of Austria. The ruling Prince gives freely for the good of the people out of his huge private fortune. So far from deriving any revenue from his principality he pays heavily for the pleasure of holding Following the close of the war be- tween Austria and Prussia. in which Liechtenstein aliled itself with Aus- teia, there carrel another gravely pre- sented protest. The citizens • were weary of the expense of a standing army, an toixiy which, consisting of eighty nem, with a Cape:tin and a trumpeter, had bravely marched to- ward the scene of hostilities, but too late to arrive before the .war had come to its twin end. There is now • a written Constitu- tion. There is a little Parliament of fifteen members. Three members are named by the Prince. Twelve are elected by the people, every man in Lieehtenstein over 24 years of age havieg a vote. The little body meets once in every year end remains in session for several weeks, engaged in the very attermation of discussion of 11(sItttYisthLiirillgisp.ut ruled by its Gulliver. And although, on aecount of tlie As - eel arrangement, Austrian coins and stanme are generally used, the Prince's- personal pride in Ms pos- session has ledaleim to have his own stamps an coins as well, bearing his name and face and title. And theta is another touch: to add to the unreality of it all. Coming to Value only et infrequent intervals, and busied es he St at his private estates or at Vienna—for, besides be- ing Sovereign Prince_ of Liechten- stein, he bears an Austrian title by virtue of ivbich ha is a member of the Austrian House of Lords—he elm at any titne cell up his principality by long distanee telephone. 12-0 c, SELECTING DAIRY COWS, It is an old and tried saying that "No two peas are exactly alike," This applies with equal force in ref- erence to dairy sows, While tiler() are marked reeerable.nces as to gone fermity and to well established lines cif milk preduction, still indivichtal differences exist amoug dairy cows as to the quantity of food digested and the ettonondeal production of milk. To select a dairy cow that ha e the qualities that produce milk and putter most economically is no easy task, and one in which experts in the dairy business often fall wide 41 the mark. It is not difficult to select a young steer that will fettee quickly on the amount of food con- sented per pound of gain. The blcicky finish, short thiek neck, broad head, broad shoulders, well spring ribs, good depth and width of body, straight back, loins strong, thick, a deep chest, legs moderately short and well set apart is found in the combin- ation of that specimen of cattle that converts feed into economical beef production, The feed given to such stock goes to meat, that is placed on that part of the carcass where it brings the most money when it reaches the block, but with the dairy cow indications are not so sere or as apparent as in the selection of a steer for the feed lot. Function gov- erns largely the dairy cow and re- quires much experience and careful judgment to &terrain° the choice of a good dairy animal for the profit of the dairy depends upon the quality of the dairy herd. A good cow differs from a poor ono iii at least two respects; first, her ability to eat and digest a large amount of food; second, the convert- ing of this food. into a large amount of milk and better fat. To perform these two functions a good dairy cow should have a good capacity for disposing of a large amount of food. This capacity is indicated by a large abdomen, which gives abundance of room for the working of the diges- tive organs. We should not forget that the cow is a machine and her ability to inanufacture crude materi- al into milk requires plenty of room in her abdomen. The milk is elabor- ated from the food materials dia. solved in the blood of the udder. IN THE IDEAL DAIRY COWS, the udeer should be well developed, extending well forward, broad be- hiocl, teats well spread apart and of convenient size for grasping easily with the hands. They should be soft and sldnuny, rather than fleshy, wliIce eennieprtaly. . In g conformation, a good milker is quite the reverse of the beef steer. She is wedge-shaped when viewed -from the front, that is, skia has a slim, flat neck and is ra- ther slim throughout the shoulders. A dairy cow has no use for a broad back on whieli to store fat, neither has she use for thick • and beefy thigbs. The forelegs should be large above the lames and smaller to- wards the ankles; thighs thick and well spread apart, giving room for the udder. The dairy cow may be said to be "loose jointed" when com- pared with the beef animal. The value of the dairy cow is found in her ability to digest food and to elaborate it into milk; she should have a fine, soft, comparatively flex- ible skin. A good dairy cow has a persdnality, which is determined by her dispoition. An the expression of her face much may be learned. No matter how good a capacity GT how Wan balanced may be the general conformation of the cow, a good dis- position is necessary itt order that sfhe may utilize all of her qualities to the, best advantage. • Handle the, cow before purchasing, her. See that she milks ,easy. If she be a kicker, site will be likely to let you know it at once. It is well also' to .learn something of her form- er history. Pedigrees- count for much in selecting a dairy cow.. If the dairy animal comes from a line of breeding stock that has a reputa- tion for dairy excellence, the chances are that she has acquired some, if not all, of the good qualities of her parents. In a general way, we have cal/ed the attention of our readers to sonie points of excellence in se- lecting dairy cows from a herd. To determine merit in reference to rich- ness of milk, the Babcock test should bo frequently employed in order to keep the cows in the herd up to a high standard. rfirrEcTs OF FOOD ON MILK. After having looked carefully into the effects which food has on milk, the British Dairy Farmers' Associa- tion has come to the following con- clusions: That when a cow is in full milk and full flesh she will give her nor- mal quality af milk for at least a limited time, even though the qual- ity and quantity of food be very de- ficient. That when in good condition a cow will take ar her body whatever ie deficient in food in order to give her normal quality of milk. That an extra supply of nutritious food at all times increases the qual- ity of milk, but the percentage of fat ie not in any way improved by it; if anything, the tendency being i•st- ther the other way. That an extra supply of nutritiotie food almost invariably very slightly increases the solids, hot fat, of the That a ration poor in food Mgt edi- enial line a very slight, tendency • to reduce the solide, not fat, in the tnilk, hut line littla appreciab ef- fect on the fat. That with a poor ration a cow la full weight, Nvill loee carcass weight while on a rieh diet she 'will gain weight. That although the percentage of fat ia a colehi Milk MaY Vary daily,, we at present win unable to cOnet trol these variatioes or to atleount,1 for them. That fter hinmited periods up to" one Month or thereabout ell ordinel, ary quantities and qualities of faQdSk 6eall1 to have no material effece onl the quality of the milk. That the only food Which eeems. t� have had any material effect on the percentage of better' in tilos milk is an excese of brewers' graiesa That vete succuleet grass has had only a very trilling effect in &tering' the per eentege of fat. That most feode coaireY some flav- or to in butter, bet scarcely may of them will alter its percentage in the mnilk. ! • That same Mods exercise a else, terial effect in raising the melting, point of butter. That the aim of all producers ot mirk, better or cheese should be to feed what will give quantity in moderate amount and of a mixed me!. ture, and the produce will be the best that the cow can give. That the variations in the percent- age of fat in a cow's milk are taus-. ed by soniete•ng, but what that, something is we at present do not know, though if we did we mightbe able to influence the quelity. • ADVICE ON MILKING, Milking is a job that is disliked by the majority of farm hands, and a correspondent offers the following suggestions which, if adopted, may help to make the task Bleep agree- able. 'First, have the cows in , comfortable, well ventilated stable. Keep the cows and stables clean. In winter cows are kept in the stable nearly all the time, but with a lit- tle trouble they can be reasonably clean, by moving the manure back from the cows, or covering with straw, before she lies down, which she will usually do after eating. Use plenty of absorbents—horse manure is good—which will prevent cows from getting their tails dirty. Wipe each cow's udder with a cloth wrung out of warm water, before milking. Try using vaseline, or some other lubricant—lard is good—on the cow's teats and udder. It will pre- vent particles of dust from failing into the milk, besides makieg inging inuch easier. Ilave a damp cloth hanging handy by to wipe the hands when they get dirty. Have a clean suit that can be washed, to slip on for milking. Weigh: each cow's milk.- This will tend to keep! the milkers more interested in theirs work, besides showing the effects of; irregular milking and varying con-, talons under different care and at- tention. Milk at the same timi each day,. tuid have each milker milk the same cows as far as possible. Teach each cow to go in the same place in the stable. Put a little feed in the mangers, and they will come in more readily. Have the cows gentle, and they will coine lin by calling, which is better than driving. Have the mangers separate, so thee- will not be reaching after each other's feed. also have the mangers slant toward the cow at the bottom. In fly time, throw a light, blanket over the cow while milking her, and she will stand' quite still. If you try these sug- gestions, I think you can get the Milk without grabbing the cow and. taking it from her. THE BASHFUL MAN'S ORDEAL. It was diffident Mr. Doders one opportunity to hear a famous preach- er in an equally famous church, so, although he knew that he should be obliged to leave the place shOrtly fore twelve o'elock it order to catch his train, he decided%o hear as much as possible of the seraice. The usher ignored the el:rib:Ws whispered plea , for an inconspicuous seat, and pro- ceeded to escort him up the broad centre aisle—which timid Mr. Dodd .remenbered ever afterwards as being about four miles long—to a seat only three rows from the front. , Long before time for the sermon - poor Mr. Dodd began to nerve him.: self for the hong, trip down tbe .It was twelve o'clock and the ser- mon was well •undet way before *the troubled listener finally managed to sununon sufficient courage to make a start. Rising cautiously to his feet, he faced the congregation and began' to tip -toe down the aisle. Before he lia,d taken three steps he disco -ver - ed to his horror that his left shoe was creaking with an ominous creak that increased in volume with every step, to the visible amusement of the congregation. His countenance became suffusee with blushes, it was not a warm day, but by the time Mr. Dodd had reached the door perspirat ion stood in beads on his forehead tied his collar showed sios of wilting. As the door closed behind him he gave Et long sigh of relief and unburdened himself to a loiterer in the vestibule. "By thunder!" he exclaimed, as be mopped his Crilll601i brow', "I would- n't do that again for fire dollars!" But he bad to do it for less than that. The very next mompat the color receded from his, countenance.' and he turned pale green. "By, Jovel" he groaned, "I've got to go back after my hat!" Quails are becoming so scarce lime both France and Germany have ab- solutely prohibited their killing. Alcohol, with twice the beatina power of ,petroleten, can be made from wood at a coet of 15 cents e Of 100,000 children ten years, old, 89,032 will be Taira at 25 years old, and 34,213 will survive to the ago of 78. DR. 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