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BY T. W. MIGHT.
furnace in which the fire had begun
to burn low bad beets opened for a lit-
tle while. As before, it was visible
for a space of from two to three min-
utes, and then it disappeared as instan-
taneously as it had. come. Then and
there I made up my mind to solve the
mystery, if it were possible for human
ingenuity to do so.
The first step,towards doing so was
evidently to take up my watch in the
churchyard itseltf. This. however, I was
unable to do for some nights to .come.
in consequence of my father's illness
having taken a turn for the worse
which made it undesirable that I should
be out of call. The first night it seem-
ed safe for me to leave him, I let my-
self quietly out of the house about
half -past ten o'clock., I had my father's
key with nae, which admitted me into
the churchyard through one of the side
doors. I was warmly wrapped up m a
dark overcoat, and wore on my head a
close -fitting cap. I had provided my-
self with a stout cudgel, in view of
any possible encounter at close quar-
ters. Threading my way cautiously
among the graves, I presently took up
a position between two large family
tombs which I had previously fixed up-
on. The point to be borne hi mind
was that I should be able to see
while myselt remaining unseen. A lit-
tle way behind me was a tall head-
stone, but in front there was nothing
but a few lowly mounds between my -
she
elf this portiere Lady Deere's long gras , with d the abbey.
h my backusupportedin tby
aid presently appeared on the scene, one of the tombs, L began my watch
in as the rascal vas in the act of with such patience as I could summon
fling the jewel -case. For a moment to my aid. Now and than 1 raised 10Y -
he two stood confronting each other, seg: cauasusty and it windless,
around. pil-
e was starlit said windless, and
hen, with 'something between a snarl around me reigned silence the most air
at a cry, the man -ape took one stride sulutte. Eleven o'clock boomed forth in
dwards the woman, who thereupon tower, and themusket n throes from
what. seemed to
ave utterance to a loud scream and mea space as long as three or four
inted. The only description she ordinary hours, midnight. struck. 1
co • afterwards give of hila was that had raised my head and moulders above
e was exactlylike a huge monkey, the ler-el ot• the tombs tux about the
hundredth time, when suddenly my
xcept that he stood perfectly upright eyes were taken by a dark mokabta oU-
ke a human being. ject fauniy outlined by the starlight.
A detective came down from Scotland i hatever it might be, it was advancing
swiftly, and apparently in a direct line
ard, and after lingering about Deere towards me. My head went down again
Buse and its neighborhood for nearly in an instant; I drew closer to the
fortnight, was soca no noir, tomb, and grasping my cudgel more
Then Lady Dacre, in her turn, of- tightly,
kepi. my
ofyemfixed e. alf( it dozen
Bred a reward, this time of fifty seconds later a human. toren passed
ounds, for "such information as swiftly across my lute of vision, which,
ouid," &e.; but must people were of in mY crouching position, was bound -
f me.
inion that nothing would come of it. by the tomb on each sale o
p The figura had coma and gums almost
ren as nothing had come of Squirt) while 1 had time to draw a breath--
I}ailisou's offer. Meanwhile, the urea- come and gone, too, without a around,
ore was at its pranks again, as au- fur nog E11e faintest noise of footsteps
had reached my ears—but that might
dations as aver.. And yet, as people perhaps be accounted for by the tact
eked themselves in dismay, what was that it was walking on the grass. Hard-
s if
11 raised myself
had itpassed before i t )
1. possible to do nailer circtiuiat.aincea Y ee o
o unprecedented that not even the old- cautiously and peered the way it lead
el inhabitant could remember the like gone; but already •l had vanished—the
uarkness had swallowed it up as own -
them! It seemed as if the whole pletely as if it had never been. 1 wait-
ed an Lull half-hour longer, but saw no-
thing more.
My watch next night proved of no
avail; but the night following that I
was more fortunate. I had taken up
the same position as befure; midnight
had struck; a cold wind swept over the
churchyard and moaned drearily among
the tombs. I was chilled through and
through. At length 1 said to myself:
"I will wait another quarter of an hour,
but not a moment longer." Scarcely
had the words passed my lips when all
at once I saw again the same faint
disc of yellow light which I had Been
twice already from my bedroom win-
dow. Now that I was closer to it, it
shone out more clearly than before;
still, I was utterly puzzled to know
whence it emanated- It was not much
raised above the level of the ground,
and seemed as if it might proceed from
the interior of some tomb, and yet I re-
membered no tomb just there which
could have been made to serve such a
purpose. 1 found. that I had somewhat
miscalculated its position, that is, as-
suming it to be m the same position
I sawit first,which was a
as when
about,
point I could not be quite sure abo ,
and that from the place where I now
was I could only obtain a side -view
of it. If I wanted to find out more
about it, I must get nearer to it, be
the risk whatever it might.
CHAPTEit 71,
After this, nothing was scen or hoard
the man -ape for upwards of a week;
t then came a piece of startling news
dead. Lady Deere's mansion, which
as situated about a mile and a hall
ygxid the town boundary, had been
ken into, and jewelry of the esti-
ted ted value of three hundred pounds
Olen therefrom. From the evidence.
are seemed little or no doubt that the
an -ape was the thief. It appeared
that while the family were at dinner,
dy Deere's dressing -room, which was
the second floor, bad been entered
oma the window and the jewel -case
led. The window ill question over-
kedooa lawn at the back of the house.
Th • wall outside was thickly covered
th ivy, said to be nearly as old as
e house itself, by the aid of which
e thief had doubtless been enabled
reach the window. A shaded lamp
as burning in the room at the time.
Tb robber, in order, no doubt to secure
msele from interruptions, had lock -
the door which opened into the cor-
der, but had omitted to notice that
e dressing -room was only divided
om the bedroom by a portiere.
ooats, and wrapping my cloak about me.
I lay down upon them. Any passerby
who might have observed the by that
dim light would merely have taken me
for one mound more among the scores
that surrounded me.
Eleven o'clock—midnight. Ten min-
utes later the mysterious light shone
suddenly out, clear and steady ; but
this time I was not more than twenty
yards away and in a direct line with
at. My theory was verified. The Light
proceeded from a. small circular grated
opening in the outer wall of the abbey
about a couple of feet above the level
of the ground outside. The aperture in
question was an air -hole, or it might
even be called an unglazed window, to
the family vault of the Deromes of
Standish, one of our great county fam-
ilies. This vault, like three or four
others pertaining to families of das-
tinetion, had originally been formed by
enclosing a portion of the crypt, which
at one time had extended under nearly
the whcee of the abbey. Access could
be had from the churchyard to any of
these vaults by means of a low-browed
iron -studded door, bellow the level, and
reached by a descent of three or four
steps. But whenever a funeral. took
place, a portion of the flooring of the
abbey immediately over the required
vault vas removed, and the body lower-
ed to its last resting plaoe below.
I now found the value of my opera -
glass. By its aid, a certain section of
the interior of the vault was clearly
visible to me. On a ledge behind the
grating a lamp was burning Close by
stood a man with one of the most un -
Prepossessing and evil -looking faces it
has ever been my lot to behold. He
was elute -shaven, and his short blank
hair came down to a point in tl`ie mid-
dle of his forehead. When he lifted
his head for a moment as if to observe
the flame of the lamp, I was able to
see that he had a cast in his right eye,
and the healed scar of some old wound
or gash in. his upper lip. He wore a
sort of loose pea -jacket, which just now
was unbuttoned, exposing a portion of
his chest, whack was thickly matted
with long brown, coarse hair, as it
might be the chess: of some wild animal.
A thrill ran through me from head to
foot. I could no longer doubt that. I
was on the track of te mastery which
had baffled. all Westerfield for three
months past. What ought I to do?
What step ought I to take next. ? If
I could but be the means of bringing
this scoundrel to justice! If I could
but succeed in securing the reward!
• tee all, how soon and by what a
angular chain of events it. was des-
ired to be pec an end to.
My father's house, which was the end
ane of a, row of cottage tenements all
alike in size and appearance, might "be
•ard seeing
churchyard,
the �
said to abut on Y
hat it was only divided from the wall
which enelosed the latter by a gravell-
d footway. From the batik of our
house. and following the line of the
hurchyard, ran the high wall which
on that. side shut in the old grammar
sehoul and its playground. Along the
Masa of the churchyard flowed. the lit-
tle river lien. On the farther side,
shrouded by its elms and beeches, stood
the vicarage; while on the fourth side
was the main entrance, with its beau
tiful wrought -iron gates, 0L which the
u '
justly proud. d.
were us
P
p ole Y
t In the gable end. of my father's cot-
rage was a window whioh looked full
on to the churchyard; it was 'the win-
dow of my bedroom. One night when
my father had been more restless than
usual and unable to sleep, 1 sat up
with him for company's sane till be -
ween
the. h.. g
twelve and
one
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1 went without a light. It was too
Pate to think of reading, and I could
undress as well in the dark as not. I
o in
los
and
stood g
bind
drew up the• 1
out for a tittle while, not thinking
much of what 1 was doing, but rather
ondtwed
e beforeg1 howlongg be abletime
to get back
to Mr. Ayscough and my beloved flow-
ars. Then, all at once my eye was
caught by something which broke up
my waking dream in an instant, and.
Drought me back to the place and the
hour with a sort. of shoos;;. What I
saw was a faint yellow disc of light,
evidently emanating from somewhere
in the churchyard, and nearly an a line
with my window. All the stories I had
heard about the man -ape flashed at
once across my mind. Alotionless and
almost breathless, I stood and watch-
ed the light which shone with a faint
steady glow, and never varied its posi-
tion by as much as a hair's breadth.
For a space of about two minutes I
stood thus without taking• my eyes off
it; and then all at once it was gone,
and though I stayed watching for up-
wards of an hour longer, I saw it no
more.
1 said no word. to any one of what
I had seen; but next morning I made
a careful examination of that portion
of the churchyard which was visible
from the window of my room. Not the
slightest sign or token did I find of
any unhallowed midnight intruder. The
grass grew rank and green on the
quiet graves; tombstones of various
shapes and sizes were scattered about
as if they, had been dropped at random,
but nowhere was there anything which
told of any recent living presence.
There was an old right of way through
the churchyard; but as it led to no-
where. in particular but the river, it
was but little used- At sundown the
gates were locked, and remained so till
morning.
My curiosity bad been so much ex-
cited, that the next' night found me
on watch at my window again; but al-
though I at there in the dark and
cold far upwards of two hours, my pa-
tience went unrewarded. The same
thing happened next night Then I
. made up my mind that should the third
night prove as fruitless as the first and
trouble-
m
second
bed dtwae
I w
my
-
sett no further in the matter. Butthat
third night, and dose upon the game
hour, I beheld again the appearance
which had so pp'uzz1ed me: before; a sub-
dued, yellow Iigfi t, or radiance, almost
like aharvest •morn seen through a
haze, only not, perhaps, quite so targe.
It was as though the member 'door of a
ha mug ay all arrears or "tie publisher may
continue to send it until the payment is made,
mount Whether
ab. t
and then e he whale a
call
the paper is taken trom,fhe office or not.
3• --fn suits for subscriptions, the suit may be
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paper .laza where D
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lashed, ;although the Mubscriber may reside
hundreds of miles arose.
4—The courts have decided that refusing to
take newspapers or perlodieals from the post
office, or removing andleaving'them uncalled
for, is prima faote evidence of intentional
fraud.
In my excitement I had risen to MY
knees, and was still gazing with tbe
glass to my eyes, when a shrill cry rent
the six close behind me. 1 was on my
feet. in an instant. I had heard no one
approach. but not more thana yard or
two away stood. a woman; evidently the
long grass had deadened the sound of
her footsteps. I was nearly as much
startled as she was, but there was no
time for thinking or wondering. Scar-
cely had her cry shattered the silence,
before the light in the vault disappeared
and scarcely was I on my feet before the
woman had screamed. out: "Bill, we are
betrayed I" Then was I aware of a sec-
ond figure springing towards me over
the grass, which I knew could be none
other than the man I had seen in
the
vault. and I felt that I was on the point
of being attacked; but my cudgel was
on the ground and I was entangled in
the long cloak, and before I had time
to do more than fling up one arm in-
stinctively, there came a crashing blow
on my head which felled me like a
senseless log.
eW hen I came to myself 1 was in dark-
ness. My head ached as it bad never
ached before, and my dazed senses re-
fused for some time to tell me more
than that I was alive and in great pain.
Little by little, however. the evening's
incidents began to recall themselves
brokenly to my memory, so that, after
a time, I was able to piece them into
a consecutive whole up to the point of.
my having been struck on the head and
rendered unconscious. But what had
befallen ma after that ? Where was 1
now ? By-and-by I contrived to sit up
and stare around. Everywhere dark-
ness the most profound. I was chilled
to the marrow and ached in every limb.
The atmosphere I breathed was cold,
but not with the fresh frosty coldness
of the open air ; it was the coldness of
a place long shut up, which no sunlight
ever penetrated ; there was about it,
too, a damp earthy flavour which could
almost be tasted. Then all at once
it flashed across me that the place in
which I was could be none other than
the vault of the Deromes. Scarcely
had this conclusion forced itself on me
when the abbey clock struck three, the
sound reaching me with a sort of muffl-
ed clang from somewhere overhead. 1
had lain there unconscious since a lit-
tle after midnight.
Presently I contrived ed to getuP
upon
m
myhead felt strange-
ly
tr e-
an
ly dfeet,izzalthoughand I s meto have no proper
control over my limbs. Once before,
when a schoolboy, I had been be the
Dertmie vault with my father, and I
had a olear recollection of what it was
like; for it was a part of my father's
duties to visit each of the vaults, as
a matter of form. two or three times
a yeas. I knew that, ranged around me
on their black marble slabs, lay some
score or more of dead and gone Deromes
in their leaden coffins cased. with oak.
But it was ,a thought that had no ter�-
rors' for hie. All my life I had been
too familial with death and the grave
to feel myself thrilled by any touch of
the supernatural or any ghostly fears,
even now when I knew m what place
I was at that hour and alone.
With groping outstretched arms I
went forward slowly, step by step, till
presently my fingers encountered a
cold smooth substance, which I at once
guessed to be one of the slabs already
mentioned. All I had to do now in
order to find the door was to keep on
feeling my way forward, slab by slab,
till I should reach it. My only fear
was that I should find it locked, in
which case I should be a prisoner, at
the very least, for several hours to
come. Happily, I found it merely shut
to, and was able to open it without
difficulty. Never in my life had. I felt
more thankful than when I stumbled
out of the last home of the defunct De-
romes and found myself once more un-
der the free sweet air of heaven.
About six o'olock my story had been
told to the superintendent of police, who
was called out of his bad on purpose to
hear it. Thanks to the description I
was able to give of the fellow, both: he
and his wife were arrested about a week
later at Liverpool. The man proved to
be a very notorious character, who was
"wanted" for certain other 'offences
against the ilaw, perpetrated in the
south of England.. To him punishment
was meted out in due course ; but the
woman was acquitted, and it is chiefly
from her after -confession that I am en-
abled to supplement my own narrative
with the following particulars.
The woman in question was a native
of Westerfield, and had at one time
been employed as housemaid at Stan-
dish, the seat of the Derome family.
She had aftemwards gone to London,
and
had fallen m love
with
where she h
married a worthless scamp, who in days
circus,,
Ina
gone byhad been agymnast
but had latterly, taken to.more dubious
modes of learning a livelihood. . At
length the hue -and ory after him be-
came so hot that be determined to go
intoclose hiding for sono,; time to come.
I had seen nothing of the mysterious
beicome and gone
so
being
who bad strangely two nights before, but might
he not appear at. any moment? It was
needful to proceed with the utmost cau-
tion. Slowly and carefully I began
to creep forward Y
fo ard an m hands and knees
through the wet grass in the direction
of the light. About balf-way to-
wards the point for which I was make
ing was a tali headstone; behind
this I paused for a moment white I
took a careful look round. I was on the
point of setting out again when, cast-
ing my eyes in the direction where the
light had been but an instant before,
L found it gone. Not the faintest glim-
mer of it was to be seen. I waited
where I was for half an hour longer,
but nothing more came to pass.
I could not sleep till long after 1 got
to bed, but the next morning .1 had
worked out a certain theory m my
mind which I determined to put to the
test at the earliest possible moment.
Accordingly, in the course of the fore-
noon, taking my tape with me, I made
my way to that part of the churchyard
where I had kept watch the night be-
fore. Not knowing what unseen eye
might be taking note of my movements,
I proceeded to measure a space here and
there with my tape, as though I were
selecting a site for a grave ; in reality
I was deciding on a spot for my next
hiding -place. Just- thereabouts, as it
happened, there were no large family
tombs behind which might be found a
convenient shelter, nothing, in fact, but
a few scattered headstones and row
after row of nameless graves. Such as
the situation was, I must make the best
of it.
In the course of the day I went into
the town, and from the tradesman who
had tha care of the abbey clock I borrow-
ed a powerful opera -glass, and from an
undertaker a mourner's cloak long
enough to shroud me from head to foot.
I was now ready for my enterprise.
The evening, however, brought wind
and rain, which before midnight in-
creased to a storm, and the next night
proved nearly as bad; it would have
been madness to take up•my .watch un-
der such circ„metances. The third
night was fair and clear, and at half -
past ten I let myself out of the house,
carrying with me not only my "inky
cloak," but a couple of old overcoats
to spread on the ground. I made my
wt)stealthilyto the a,r
tioulax
head-
stone
Y
p
It
out beforehand.
stone T had marked
was a very . old stone which had settled
down a little on one suds
so that it now
stood somewhat aslant,t while the
mound whose inmate it was intended
to commemoratelead. by this time sunk
nearly to the original level of the
churchyard. Here I spread my over -
In this emergency his wife bethought
herself of 'the vault of the Deromes in
her native town as it likely spot where
her husband oould lie by till the heat of
pursuit should have somewhat slack-
ened. Her residence at Standish had
made her acquainted with the existence
of the vault, and she was aware that
the big old-fashioned key always hung
on a certain nail in the armoury. Hav-
ing been somewhat of a favorite with
the housekeeper at Standish, it seemed
only natural, when she returned to
Westerfield—wbee she gave herself out
as a widow—that she should go up to
the Hall to The
her respects to that
personage. rhe opportunity was uti-
lised by her for purloining the key,
which a second visit, made on some pre-
text or other a day or two later, en-
abled her to replace on. its nail before
it had been missed.
By this time she had engaged hum-
ble lodgings in the town, and her hus-
band had taken up his quarters in the
vault. where he had a sufficiency of
blankets and warm clothing, not to
speak of a frequently replenished
brandy flask, to keep him from suffer-
ing from the chills and damps of his
strange domicile. His food, which was
bought in small quantities at different
shops in the town, so as to avoid sus-
picion, was conveyed to him by his
wife at night; and as he knew exactly
when to expect her, he placed his lamp
m front of the grating, as a guide to
her through the intricacies of the
churehyard, the light being shut in at
other times by auextemporised curtain.
Both the man and his wife were aware
that that side of the churchyard was
overlooked by one window only, but as
they never saw a light in it, they had
come to 'the conclusion that the room
to which it pertained was unoccupied.
But not every night did the lamp shine
through the grating. Sometimes the
man met his wife at the low wall by
the river, where there were no railings,
and where easy access could be -had to
the churchyard by day or night. It
was only when he was too lazy, or
otherwise disinclined for stirring out,
that the signal was shown ; whereby,
as eve have seen, came his own un -
It04
,would seem that in the course of
the man's professional career he had
more than once personated an apt, in
a pantomime, and that he still retained
the tight -fitting hairy dress and mask
used by ham for that purpose. Tired.
and no wonder, of his long days and
nights in the company of the dead and
gone Deromes, it had seemed no mare
than a pleasant relaxation to the fel-
low to scare and terrify the good people
of Westerfield as they had never been
terrified before and never have been
since. When funds began to run low,
an easy mode of replenishing them was
found in the contents of Leidy Dame's
jewel case. Doubtless means and op-
portunities were not wanting for dis-
posing of the diamonds
and other r ggems
which came into his possession an that
occasion; in any case, none of them
were found on hon at the time of his
arrest.
A few last wards and I shall have
done. Not only were the rewards offer-
ed by Squire Denison and Lady Deere
paid over to me, but the townspeople
subscribed among themselves a further
sum on my behalf, so that, altogether,
I was enabled to put away more than
a hundred pounds into the savings -
bank. Three montbs later I married.
My father lived for some years longer,
and although before his death he came
to understand that he was the last
member of the Holditch family who
was likely to fill the post of sexton to the
old abbey church, he was never quite
reconciled to the necessity, neither
could he be made to understand why
his only son should have so fax degen-
erated as not to feel a pride in follow-
ing in the footsteps of so many of his
progenitors.
As long as he lived, Mr. Ayscough
remained my true friend, and to him
I owe much of the prosperity with
which my later years have happily been
crowned
(The Dud).
ELECTRIC STROKE.
SOME PIES OF NOTE.
They Bold a Prowldeut Place at the Lord
slayer's ltangnet.
Whatever may be the skill with
which the nineteenth century pie is pre-
pared, it is surely a very humble af-
fair compared with those of early days.
This is true not only as to ingredients,
but as to size. When Charles I. and
his Queen visited. Burleigh -on -the -Hill,
the seat of the Duke of Buckingham,
the latter served a unique pie. At the
proper time during the great state feast
a. pie the size of a trunk was brought
in by fowr bearers and placed on the
table. When the crust was pierced what
was the surprise of every ens to find
Jeffrey Hudson, the dwarf, squatting
complacently beneath it. It is needless
to say the pie was not of the hot or-
der. Hudson was the dwarf who chal-
lenged a gentleman of the court to a
duel, and the gentleman appeared on the
field of honor armed with a huge
syringe. .
The " human pie" has not been en-
tirely unknown in our own times, as
there are numerous tales of such dain-
ties being served in. the Latin quarter
of Paris. On several occasions favorite
models have been served up in gigantic
pies.
At the banquets of the Lord Mayors
of London pies have always had a prom-
inent place on the menu. That these
have been at tunes of Brobdignaggian
propoetions is well attested by the fol-
lowing recipe handed down front the
sixteenth; century:
' Take eight marrow bones, eighteen
sparrows, one pound potatoes, quarter
pound erin oes (sea holly), two ounces
lettuce stalks, forty chestnuts, half
pound dates, one peck oysters, quarter
pound preserved citron, three artichokes,
twelve eggs, two sliced lemons, a ba.nd-
ful of pickled bayberries, quarter ounce
whole pepper, half ounce sliced nutmeg,
half ounce whole cinnamon, quarter
ounce whole cloves, half ounce mace,
and quarter pound currants. Liquor,
when it is baked with white wine, but-
ter and sugar."
It would seem quite impossible to
imagine the taste of such a bekieg,but,
it sounds very tootbsome. From the
number of ingredients. one may infer
that the author of the recipe put into
the pie all the dainties he could call
to mind at the time. Or it might be
that the recipes for several pies became
jumbled together by an madvertent
The foregoing pie was rich, to say the
least, but at is relatedthat an eccentric
old English gentleman outdid it. He
tenants
ants
e in habit fgivinghis en
ansannual luncheon, ad t one of these
feasts he bad served a simple bran pee.
But the pie contained more golden gum -
am than it did bran, and each tenant
received a heaping spoonful. If not
edible the lice was surely wholesome.
In 'the latter part of the last cen-
tury Sir Henry (Grey had concocted a
pie that is well worth mentioning. It
was shipped from Hawick, thence to
Berwick, and from there on to London.
It was made of the following ingredi-
ents:
ngredients: Two bushels of flour, twenty
pounds of butter, four geese, two tur-
keys, two rabbits, four wild ducks, two
woodcock, six snipe, four partridges,two
neat's tongues, two curlews, seven black-
birds, anu six pigeons. The weight of
this gastronome marvel was about 1(18
pounds and its circumference was nine
feet. In order that the guests at Sir
Henry's board might the more easily
partake of the pie, it was placed upon
a four -wheeled truck, which was wheel-
ed about the banauet hall by two
t
soxngmen.
1n honor of the ,jubilee of Queen Vic-
toria. in 1887 tbe inhabitants of Denby
Dale, in Yorkshire, manufactured a
great pie, ten feet long, six feet wide,
and a foot thick.
Tales of tbe doings of Eastern mon-
archs are nearly always taken cum
gran salts, but it is related that upon
the occasion of his son's marriage a cer-
tain Oriental potentate offered his
guests a pee of rare make. It was serv-
ed in a. bronze dish and the crust con-
sisted of pure gold foil. The "meat"
of the pie must have cost a fortune. as
it was composed of nothing but precious
stones.
It Affects Workmen as Doers Fierce Sun
Meat.
One of the most extraordinary mod-
ern diseases is a peculiar affection,most
aptly termed electric stroke, which not
infrequently befalls workmen employed
in melting metals by means of electri-
city. It appears from observations made
at the great steel and iron works at
Cruezot, that the intense voltage aro
between the carbon and the metal to
be melted emits rays which, even at the
distance of ten meters, produce a pain-
ful,t like -that
hot
prickingsensation,
of burn, n sucuncovered portions of
more
thethroat,face and
the
as,
body
especially the forehea.
The skin of the parts affected becomes
either copper colored: or assumes a
bronze hue; the eyes, m spite of black
glasses, are so intensely dazzled as to
be useless for some minutes after which
xanthopsia (yellow vision) sets in,every-
thing appearing, saffron colored, the
conjunctive are inflamed, and there is
a gritty feeling, as of sand under the
eyelids. There is frequently great pain,
accompanied often by sleeplessness, and
in some 'instances, fever.
After a few days these symptoms sub-
side, and the skin of the effected parts
peels and the . patient is restored to
health.
Nov, the remarkable thing about all
this is that very little hetet is radiated
from the electric arc used; all the trou-
ble arises from the light rays, and al-
though it bas not yet been experiment-
ally proved, there can be little doubt
that the blue and violet, that is. the
chemical, rays are to blame.
POINTED TOES.
Pointed toes, says an English author-
ity, are to disappear from boots and
shoes before very long. It has been dis-
covered that the shoe has to be very
Fifty Years Ago.
No theorybf germs to chill
Affection's budding biasses;
When ardent lovers took their 8i1.
No microbes on their kisses.
How happy they were not to know
The germ -fad -50 years ago.
rw.r.•n.v.,,,.
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
is the standard family remedy
of the world for colds, coughs
and lung diseases. It is not a
palliative, and is not therefore
put up in. small cheap bottles.
It is put up in large bottles
for the household. They cost
more but cure more.
Fads come and go but no
theory or fad can overthrow
the fact, that the greatest cure
for all colds, coughs and throat
and lung diseases, is Lyer'd
Cherry Pectoral.
50 Years of Cures.
A SIMPLE FILTER.
It Wtil Relieve Drinking Water of Its
Microbes.
Prof. TyndaIl's idea, expressed many
through a
years ago, that
filtration
plug of cotton wool was a most effici-
ent
fficient method of freeing air from microbe
germs led to ata being attempts is
made to
p
sterilize water in the same way. Lit-
tle success has hitherto been attained,
but quite recently M. Henri Potevin
claims that he has evolved a method
of so constructing such filters
that he
can completely sterilize water in large
quantities. The fibres of the cotton are
finely powdered and sifted, and then
suspended in water and allowed to set-
tle. This they do in a compact mass
forming a paste, which, allowed to dry
slowly gives filter plates quite imper-
vious to germs, &c. The best results
are gained by placing the plates be-
tween two plates of sandstone or per-
forated metal, and if they are arranged
in a battery, like the filter presses so
commonly used in Europe for sewage,
sludge, &c., very large quantities of wa-
ter can be rapidly sterilized. Periodio-
al cleanings are necessary, as no mat-
ter wheat care is taken;. the rule which
holds good in all other filters serving
the same end, that the microbes are
able to get through tbe filtering materi-
al eventually by a process of growth,
obtains. There is, bowever, no great
difficulty in this, as the cells of the ma-
terial are easily purified by a fresh
pulping in boiling water.
much longer than it need be if it is
made with a pointed toe, and if the
wearer has to walk in it without suf-
fering Chinese tortures. And this ex-
tra length makes the foot look very
much larger than it need be. So much
has this influenced the size of the fash
ionable shoe, thatit is whispered, the
knowing bootmaker :has altered the
name and number of the sizes by which
they are known.
, A WORTHY SUGGESTION.
A. scientist recommends that every
life -boat carried by ships should be pro-
vided with' a bottom of citric acid,
which precipitates chloride of sodium,
and converts sea water into a pallet-
able drink..
WHIEIT DID HE MEAN?
ba
Do you think t t beautiful women
are apt to be spoiled, t she murmured
with up -turned eyes.
Your beauty will never spoil you, dar-
ling, was 'hie equivocal answer.
She—" You saw the Count of . Brasse,
did you? Now, tell me, don't you think
he is a striking personage?" He—"Yes,
I do. I bead been introduced to him
an hour when he struck me for a loan
of X10."
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