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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1897-12-16, Page 6PII_ECIGUS PE.kRL. CHAPTER, VI.- Continued. who was always so kind and gentle to them. :And she tonehed it with revereut " -ow. they love you, Audrey 1" said thanes, her husband, as the traiu steamed met "I wou1d. k..ifIt thIlla anything, ray of the station. "I am almost jealous a them." "'eau might be jealous ot one, she replied, "but not of a. crowd' Ihie raised her hand to his lips. "My darling," he said, "I love you with such a pure and perfect love that jealousy is not possiblee to nee." They talked so happily and lovingly dreaming of tbe tragedy that would he played before they. saw Row- an Abbey again. lady," cried etesia. Grey. ' She saw a book-wamost the only one there -thickly covered with dust. It was turned. over at Adelaide Proeter's beau- tiful "Legemei, of Provenoe." "Lady Villi' it admired good poetry," she said., Inueitagly. She saw a pretty little satin slipper and a white late shawl. She could not tell why, but she did not like to touch them. As sits medthere she shudder- ed.' "I cannot tell what it is." she said, sioaly, to Mrs. Grey, "but there is something is the very atmosphere of thee rooms that saddens me. I wish I had not seen them -it is as though CHAPTER VIII. Feel:lama:Ile London opened its arms to receive Latly Villiers. She was not presented at court, but she never ask- ed the reason. It was sufficient for, her that Sir Roche hal not mentioned the matter. • . One lovely morning in May Lady - I tars sae alone in the drawingeroom some one lay dead here. Close the of her London house. Sir Rothe came rooms. I shall never want to see them lin with a please itga,in." . i "Audrey," he said, "I have met an told friend of yours who is anxious to Some weeks atter this she was in Idle 'renew leer aequaiutance with you." ilintry wit a Six Roche, looking overlookedup at him. some music when she came upon asoug I did not know that I bad any old that she anew wen.....witerneuthans I frienes in London.," she said; "they are 1 all new ones." 'Message," . , 1 "Ladell eookhaven claims to be an old "1 know that," she said, taking It U13. • I "Lady Rota:haven ?" she repeated. She saw written on it, in a flowing I "Thee that is Bertha Hamlyn's name 1 Is she in ton?" alien baud, the name "Elodie." She 1 "Yes and very desirous of seeing •epeated et, aimed. i you. 1 like Lady .Rockhaven herself .. whet es eeeatieui name 1 Have you I ve eey well; but she has a algae of owl, a sister or cousin caliect Modie ?" iIi,j1,•cilenzilennf7r eithom I do not care. I She wondered. why he saould take I of thera, here, lir wetyoninytnzdruedrannyy. be musk m abruptly from her hand. :They are most at them very fast, and "I did not know there was anything I talk loudly about horses and eo forth, in this house with that name on it 1" III thee' do no woise." . he eried. . . . 1 On that saute day Lady Roekhavea ; , !called, and professed great delight at a iehaiie I" she mid again., "It is a , seeing Audrey again, Lady RoekleaV- i eautiful name; it reminds me of the 1.7; did dd not quite a peosit;i,ons seox her.self, but loa of a river. eVliee You have dee ' • quit "lull her, She I wanted to climb higher, and it struck Al mane the song!" :her that in beautiful, wealthy Lady He hal torn it into pieces anti trample I yilliers she had found. the medium. ed them under his feet. I Shortly afterward a ball was given "I hate the song. the name!" he eried, i at iRqoak House and. t Lads Rockhaven "Do not speak Of them again." ,• Durisitg the• :.an e.tuiehdee. . attended it. • . She was very quiet anti subdued for smile time; the stane had puzzled and troubled her. Several other things lagan to puzzle bor. She was the idoi of half the coun- ty but there. was one family that had iiever called upon her. the Letsoins of ilurroweale. She noticed also that they ere never invited to meet them. and 1(15 woutiered why. She asked Sir itoehe attouL it more than once, but he al a as t e meted an evasive answer. Dna morning; she saoke ot it to Lady "She is Lady Glenarvon now. I sup -1 pose. She was Lady Tirwell soaae Lime Moleton., who was a great, friend. of saxes., hers. Why has she changed her name?" talking to tbe Countess a Northention e vben a lovely, golden -haired woman, most exquisitely dressed, crossed the ball -room on Lord Rockhaven's arm., "Who is that P' asked Lady Villiers. "Meat a beautiful fare! What a lovely w oman1 who is she ?" The Cauntese.of Northendon shrugged. her wh 1outiers. "That is the. fault I find with Lady Rockhaven. She will not keep her balls select. That woman has no busi- ness here. I am not a prude, but I do aot care to meet such people." "teelio is she?" persisted Audrey "Why have the Leteums never called., asked innocent Aucire,y. an me I" she asked. Again the countess shrugged. her :, "Have they not done sol" returned.shoulders. 1 "My dear Lady Villiers," she said. Lely Itioreton. 1" do yor never read the divorce cases?" "Nu," replied Audrey. "They avoid! "Never." answered Audrey, empha- me-they neaer go where 1 go. It tically. "Surely you must have heard of that • seems so strange." one-' Tirwell versus Gleriarvon ?' It Hee quiek instinct told her that Lady has been discussed at every breakfast elo: mou (waded the question and table and in eyery club in London. I never did nor could understand the woule not answer it. . •• ' right or wrong of the matter all that "Do telt me,' she said; "if there is .e haw is that Lady Tirwell chea :pear - really any reason, I should. like to ed under a cloud. Now Lady Glenare Irnow it. aron has suddenly appeared, and :the is an imagine no reason," was* the received everywhere: She has neater reply. "unless it be that they are very lien to ttourt. The line must he drawn somewhere; and Id° not thine. any di- reegions antt look at life in a very voreee would be unlearned there." 1 eel ;me light," Lady Villiers listening with great Lady t oilers opened leer beautiful rs w. eees very wide. " Divoreee r' she repeated, " You do "Thai is IA, bat I like," she cried. "Bee i (await undermand why the fact mean to ea'y that that beautiful lady as been divorced?" of their beiree eery religious should pre- What else can I mean ?Lord Tirwell vent them from (tailing upon me." is abroad somewhere, and she has mar- ine) Moreton looked tuworafortaele. ried Lord Glenarvon." "Some persons are so strange," she . 4.udrey looked up in such wonder said. in a half apologetic tone, "and that her companion was struek. have sueh old-fashioned ideas." " Do you really mean," she said, "that "1 eannot imagine any ideas. be they that lady has two husban Is living?" us old-lashioned as they may. which The muntess laughed. -tout(' prevent any one from calling up- "You are so delightfully simple, my on me." remarked Audrey, proudly. dear Lady Villiers. Of course she las- That same evening Lady Villimaput- n't two husbands, the law relieved her ling her arms caressingly around her 01 one and she took another." hue. an i's nettle, said: " The law maid not ; no law could- "Roehe. could you give a. reason why - • alvin.e law forbids it 1" cried Audrey. zogal ted religious people should- not " ft is mon,strous! I did not think sucb visit me ?" things were permitted in a Christian ' Sne never forgot the flame of anger attentzop.. in his fain. land." •'I cannot.. Teal me what you mwo eo her uoral,ean, said the countess, half sa ly. "I read. Aultrey." be said. and hear of divorce. cases eontinually. She repeated her t.onversation with I could tell you etories of divorce i hat latly Moreton. He cried out angrily would frighten you -of false swearing, thief. he would not allow the Leisoms of conspira,cie.s. of persecution -of wo- 10 come nem. them and that Lady More- ton was a woman without wieelneen m ruined bomes." men with broken hearts, of en with sense- Tele did not grow ealra again un- "Why do people receive such atom - he saw no suspicion there. tie looking into the eyes of his wife, en?" asked Audrey. "I would not. There are no words stronger or more sacred than these, " Those, whom God hath joined together let no man pat CHAPTER VII. asunder e i'nere can be no doubt as to Christmas tame, and in accordance what is the tight, course." with their promise Dr. Brooke and his 'We. cannot diseuss the question in tale spent 1 t at Rowan Abbey. It any a ball -room said the countess, doubt had lingered in the rector's mind As she. spolre Latly Roekhaven acme it was now dispelled; if any lingerirtg to them and the countees went $.1,V. ay. fee r, sun/Li:ion, or dread. had shadowed "Audrey," said her friend, "1 a ant ha thoughts aliont his I,eautiful (laugh- to introluce you to Laly Glenare on ; ter. it now ceased to exist.lt was she has ben inquiring about you, and elicin that nothing could be More pros- is very anxious to know you." pious or bright than her lot. There Never in her tire lead Lady Villiers was no skeleton in the Villiers cup- looked so prowl, as. when she reneed leard. After a pleasant visit, the lac- her head ane gazed 'with calni eyes tor went away quite satisfied as to his into the haedeoine fac,e of her hostess, ti aught er's happiness, "T must decline, Bertha; I do not Spring cantle, with its fair, delicate wish to make Lady Glenarvon's ac - loveliness. and Sir .Roche found that he quaint ante. rbeg you will tot moat ion would have to spend some time in town. her to me ; 1 decline eeritiedly to know "1 shall he sorry," he said, "to Rave her." - Rowan. Audeey. You hfiVe taught me Perhaps Lady Rock.havenes emptier ,o love tbe place. 1 feel now that it had been a iittle ruffled ; she looked is my home; irey sweet wife has bright- eery imeatienie ; , • ened it until it seems to me like an May I ask why 1" she Raid, . geethly aratiee: e 'wonder if you will " Yon know why, Bertha ; and allow like renieon, Audrey ' me to add that I wcinder you should. "1 .shall like any, place where you. melee such a nonan your friend. or in- ae e.," she answeited, "It is not the vita her to your house." platie-ee is yea that make home." " Will emu tell me why, Lady Vile 11 was a sigh,t never to be forgotten, liers t" elm; said, "I have a great de - when her ladyship the beautiful young sire to beer the reason." ' 111:,StIOSS ol Rawan. left the abbey for " You know the reason; 1 eave just' London. Sir Rothe was -Waal:led incere, heard it, That person 'whom you t all than lie like i to own. The poor and rade Gleaarvon her--oe, sliame Eer- the chile -en throegial around her lady- thee that you should make Inte say it 1 elle) 108a,v good -by to her, 'They her rightful husband living ebroal wanted. 11011e:ea frober-maly to Jook she is a divorcee!" once more an Lae beautiful age of her " This is anyeeing," laughed IA ly THE EXETER TIMES Roeitleaven--but for the moment she hated the wonan who, she felt was rigat. " You, nay dear Lady Villiers, de - olive to know Lady Glenarvon because she is a divorcee! This is one of the jest e of the season." "I do not me that it is it jest." "But I do. What a capital story to tell everywhere 1 People who live in glasshouses sbould not throw stones," "I do not live bi a glass house," said, Lady Villiers proudly. "I would rather have died a thousand timethan have gone into a divorce court." Lady Roekhaven, seemed suddenly to recollect herself. " 01 course I know, Audrey, that divorce courts were not made for such as you ; but, all the same, I would not, were I in your Place, say too much against divorce." "I shall never speak ot it without reason Alld I shall tell the truth," she said. "What exouse am I to make to Leder Glenarvon ?" asked Bertha. "Maks no excuse; I ane quite will- ing to abide by w.hat I bave mid. Why should you or I seek for false excuses? Wear frame a pretense that she must see through ? I think she has acted wrongly, and I decEne to know her." --- CRAPTER IX. Lady Villiers was standing in the cruehroom of the Royal Italian Opera. She had, been the observed of all ob- servers during the night. Once, on looeing aronnd, the house, she saw La:1y Cimarron watching her intently; she was on the opposite side, looking very lovely in a marvelous costume of black and •silver. Several gentlemen were in the box with her; and it was evi- dent that Lady Glenarvon was manes- ing theni greatly by some anecdote she was telling. More than once their eyes met, and Lady Villiers flushed with annoyance; she was merciful always in her judge znents, but to her puxe and innoeent mind there was something revolting in the idea that a woman over whom such a shadow hung should set herself up in high places to receive the homage and admiration of men. ; As she stool in the crushroom Sir Roche looked at the fair face of his young wife, He mistook the sadness for fatigue, "You are tired, nty darling," he said. "11 you do Mat mind my leaving you for a fees- moroents, 1 will try to get the carriage at once." She liked afterwart to remember that she had looked with a loving smile into his kindly eyes -that as he re- leased her band he had held it lovingly in his grasp -for aft.er tbat hour the world was never the same to her again. As she stood there a group of peoe ple passed her. She had a confuse,' no- tion of white silk, of black and silver, of pearl gray brocade brushing past her as a slip of foldel paper was thrust into her hand, she could not. tell by whogt. - "Von threes- down the. gauntlet 1" a silvery voice hissed. in her ear; but, when she turned awning no one was near her -the group of ladies had. pass- ed. She looked. at the paper. "Read this when you are quite alone," was writ- ten in large letters across it. In a moment it oecurred to her that it was some begging letter from one who wanted help -she had many such: she placed it in the pocket of her dress, and resolvel to read it when she reach- ed home. Sir Roche bad promised to spend an hour at, bis club with a famous trav- eler who bad just returned from a long exploring tour in Africa. When he saw the pale, tiredelook on his wife's sweet face, he said: "Audrey, I shall not go to the club; I will go borne with you." But she would not hear of it. '- el- heard you promise Mr. Miles," she said, "and you must gee' le drove with herr as far as the club. and sat with her hand in his, He kiss- ed her face, and said that he must take more care of her, that she must not go out so much. And. when the car- riage stopped at the club, he kissed her lips and said, laughingly, that he would a thousand times rather go home with her than bear of Miles' exploits. Some instinct made her bend forward and say: "Kiss me again, Roche." He kissed her again, little dreaming that it was for the last time. He ascended the broad flight of stens, thinking of the sweet fern, the tender lips, the dear voice, and almost wish- ing Miles still in Africa. while Lady Villiers drove home. She did not (wen the note until her maid left her and she was quite alone. Then she unfolded the paper and read the cruel words , that stabbed her gentle heart. "The writer of this advises Lady Vil- liers neat to say anything more on the subject of divorces, as she is making herself and her husband a jest at winch all London laughs. The writer ( an bardly imagine La ly Villiers to be quite in ignora,nee of the circumstances under which she was married, but if it should be so, Lady Villiers had bet- ter get a qopy of the Times, for Thurs- day, the Fieh of April, 18-, and among the reports of the divorce cases she will find one that will not only surprise her, but will close her lips for the future on all such' subjects." To be COntinu.ed. DIABOLICAL REVENGE. Mrs. Gilson -You know how uppish 1VIrs. Wilson has always been with me, and so conde,scenaing whenever she has had to speak to me? • Mr. Gilson, dryly -1 have heard. you speak of it. Mrs. Gilson --Well, I met her in town to -day, ant I had. the peeasure of tell- ing her that ber skirt was hanging an ineh below her dress. HCS PECULIAR ACTION. Farmer Hernbeak-I'm afraid Uncle Jason's mind is fallen'. Mrs. Horniceak-What makes ye think so, Ezre? • Farmer Hornbeak-Why, he stood around all thel tinee the ineetin' house was burnin' clown, an' never said a word about where he thought the fire wee, when he first Seen the blaze. wee_ REVISED. Teriene-Well, what is to be ethe setae Sect; of your graduation ,tesay-e" Be • weed [tie Ai PS Lies I.taly Itis Valedicaorein-No. ',F,eyonti 1 he tIaalleto. Pass Lies the .1:cleri1al-ea" 1 A TIGER'S CLUTCHES. AN INDIAN OFFICER'S ADVENTURE IN A JUNGLE. replaced tiptiveby a Tiger and 41trzled Off by the Benet, *et Living to Telt the Tale—A • chalice Meeting With a Niitive Hunter aka a Vette Service That SitVe His 11,11'41. is one thing to hunt the tiger and quite another thitig to have the tiger hunt you. When 'Stripes,' hunting on ilea own. account, pounces on a man the vietim has a. poor chance for his life. That there are few men wile, can tell of such an experience is needless to say," said Capt. E. A. Arbuthnot. After the cigars had been, lighted a guest who had knowit him twenty years be- fore in India, had pressed him totell tho story of his tiger advaature there andthe Captain had consented. "The thing occurred in the Dabrah Doolah• distriet in Aseam, where I had gone with the idea of becoming a tea planter," continued the Captain. "The beglnning of the adventure, to tell the story eompletely, was my meeting a shikari named Dassa likethua, on. the morning of the day when I fell in with the tiger. The word shikari, you will understand, means native hunter, a tigerehunter in particular, I was on ray Ivey that day to look over a tract of junwly land whit% I thought of buying and clearing for cultivation, When on passing Dame. Balhua's house I saw bin sitting in the doorway and he was in a peck oe trouble. "His old East Inclian Company's tawny musket, the gun with which he hunted, was lying across his lap, and he was FUMBLING AT THE LOCK. Ile wanted to go oat into the jungle that day, and here washes gun hammer out of gear, so that when he pulled it back it would not catch and stay at fall cock. I saw at once what was wrong with the lock, and chancing to have with me a watchmaker's file, I set. the thing right in five minutes. Balhua was very grateful, and I tode on, leav- ing him carefully loading the gun. I don't wish to get ahead of zny story, but will say hena that my stopping to help Balhua out of his trouble was the means of saving my own life that day. •"This meeting with the ebikari (gear - red about an. hour after daybreale went on my way, and by the middle of the afternoon I had seen all I cared to of the tract of land I came to view, and was ready to, return to EnY bunga- low. Of the two servants who accom- panied me 1 had left one with my horse a mile bark, where there was • some shade and grass, 'The other, who was with me, I sent to the man in , the rear direnting that they bring the horse round by the road to a point where I would meet them. The man started off 011 a run, and after watch- ing him out of sight, I took my way along a jungle path toward the point , an the road NI:bare I bad appointed to. meet them. "The jungle growth through which the path led was made up largely of bamboo grass taller than my head. In- terspersed with the grass were elumps of bushes, low -topped korinthe trees, •and here and. thereta taller tree. Now that I was -alone the thought came to me that F should feel more comfortable if 1. had kept my rifle by me, for, it bein,g rather heavy to carry, I had left it with the servant, who had charge of the horse. But I was not mueli. dis- turbed. by ANTICIPATIONS 01? DANGER 1 as I strolled along the path, taking my , time, for I expected to have to -wait , Lor my men at the roadside. • "The thing came suddenly, without' warning. There was a strange mov- ing of the grass and -bushes a few feet away to one aide of the pate, the tall grass parted to left ant right in a furrow that came straight toward roe, , there was a loud, deep -throated roar-. and the tiger had me. I was standing stock still staring at the moving grass, for there was no um in, running itee ay, as he came out on inc. . There was one glimpse of paws jaws, a 'ad white breast all plunging for me, and then I was flat an my back in the path, with set in my left eh:adder and right side. the tiger crousiletng upon me, his claws' The loin.g feelers at his nose brushed my fate as he set his teeth into my shoulder in one sharp, crawling bite, apparently to make sure that 3 would )ie still. "If the tiger had been alarmed, or wounded, if he had overtaken me run- ning away, or had 1 struggled -I should have been killed out -right. I certainly expe.itecl nothing else, but the tiger, not repeating the bite, lifted his head as if listening,. Some wind in the road may have made him fearful. of losing his prey for seizing me by the ehoulder he swung me clear of the ground and started away through the jun•gde in long, swift leaps. I weighed at the time 135' pounds, and the tiger carried me along as easily as a cat would carry a squirrel. "It will probably sound strange to you, although a similar experience has been related by others, when I say that frozn the raoment the tiger leaped on me I felt no pain from teeth or claws. Neither'did I, after once the brute had seized me, feel any keen sense of fear, although perfectly conscious of all that was going on and of what seemed the certainty that I should be imme- diately killed. Perbaps the best ex- pression of my condition While 3 was in the tiger's power would he to say that. I was in a laypnotic state, for can compare ray sensation with no- thing else. "The tiger ran perhaps fifty yards, then, stopped, laid me down and crouch- ed, watching me. Presently he pick- ed me up again and started on through the atingle, this time walking, bearing the menet with my legs dragging upon the ground. Coming to an open spate he laid me down, and, backing away Lor' e distance of two or three yards, lay c,rouehed, ,• WATCHING ME I.NitlieNTLY, after the etnalenei7 Of a at abet pJaye \vita it raouee. • "From tile 1)(zeit111nein li a 1 111) email took 'etritiet t Ina; 1t•ii;;• 1W !'",Y e , and could see the alerting in and 'out of the tip Of the supple tail. Then as with every second I expected the tiger to leap upon, rae and tear me there crashed in the jungle's the loud report of a gun, close at hand - 1 saw the tiger leap to his feet, whirl toward the sowed. and he roared once EI,A he reared hirneelf almost upright on side hnitadruglgeligsn:g..the.n fell over on his "It was from the old firelocle that I had set in order that morning -the East Indian Company musket of Dame, Helium that the shot had come which saved my life. The shikari lead found the path the tiger was acoustomed to take in going frena las den to the nearest watercourse to drink. In a thick -leaved, tree overlooking this path he had built a platform, and from this he bad 'watched daily for a chance to shoot at the brute. Waiting here this -aafrleirinhaen,eairnextphe•ectelderqueaDimdeer ldarteagVglienWg me along by the shoulder. ' When he saw the tiger drop me in the open space and lay himself down at a little dice. tame away, the i3hikari fired at him, aiming at the head, for be knew that if not killed outright the first act of the brute would be to kill me. The tiger, struek in the ear by the heavy bullet, died almost in his tracks. "After the shot was fired I lay still, not feeling sure that the tiger really was dorie for, until I saw Dassa Ballautts comae toward me from the tree, When. lifted my head the ellikari was start-, Jed for he had thought that 3 was dead. But he come to me seed lifted me by the shoulders so that by turning my edheaadnIheiouln sdideeee the tiger lying stretch- " can trouble you no more, sahib,' said the shikari. 'The tiger is dead.' "The shik.ari mantel my jacket and examined my wounds, and then went down to the road to intercept my ser- lvvainthts.themBy mtyhe wounds Painful. While one closhfeNthVeCeraenslegerevtbataninctkgs rode to the nearest bungalow for men and a litter T lay, watching the shikari skin the tiger. It was a young animal, full grown, with a glossy, beautifully marked skin, and terrible teeth and claws. With the skin and the Govern- ment hounty and the hundred rupees teat I gave him Dame. 13albutt bad no reason to complain of his day's fortune. I was taken out of the jungle that night, and to ray home the next day. I had a bad shoulder, with fever, that. kept rae laid up for three or four weeks, and I did not regain the full Iusetehisenfkmlygortigoefttamrnami.dor years. But CLIVTE OF THE YUKON. infortnntion ou the oulttleet for Intending Prospectors. The precise terciperature of the Yu- kon territory has hitherto been an un- known quantity, and a record for a Lull Year both in summer and winter will be of considerable interest as well as of great value to those who are going* there in a few months, record was taken byMreWillialla Ogil- ken front that. vie, and the following figures are ta- January, 1896 -Lowest temperature 68 1-2 deg. below zero; highest at Olie um., 3 deg. below. Mean temperature for the month, 40.71 deg, below zero; at one p.m., 32.09 below. The greatest e:11md 69 dt deg0! bPeinlow”. during this month, February- Lowest temperature 64 1-2 deg. below zero; highest., on Feb 20, 32 deg. above zero. Mean temperature for the month, 35.42 deg; below, and at below; highest, op Ielarch 15, 40 deg. above. one p.m., 28.74 deg. below. Maxeh-Lowest tettiperature, 38 deg. April -Lowest temperature, 26 deg. below; highest, 51 1-2 deg. above. The record In this month showed it differ- ence between April 7 and Aprir 16 of seventy-seven degrees in • the nine days, April 7 being the coldest and April 16 the mildest days of the mantle May -Lowest temperature 5 degrees above zero; highest 63,2 degrees. June -Lowest temperature in this month was 28.8 deg, or three below freezing. It: sank three times l'elow the freezing point in this month. The , highest temperature was 81 deg. w hi 11 occurred on June 30'. It rose ten en times above 70 deg., and twenty-two. times above 60 deg, during this month. July -The lowest temperature was 33 1 deg. above zero, and the highest 81 deg. ' It went below forty-eight times dur- ing the month and, above seventy thirteen times. The greatest heat, 81 deg., oecurred on July 1 and 2. Angust-The lowest temperature was I 27 deg., and the highest' 76 deg. It went -; below forty thb•teen times, and above , seventy seven times. September -The lowest in this month ; was 4.C8 degalmen zere awl the high- 1 est 63 deg. above. It went below forty 1 on twenty two different eays, and 1 ram above sixty on six different days. 1 Oetol-=-The iowest temeerature. t was 1 degbelow zero, on Oct. 5. The ' highest temperature recorded was 51 deg. During this month it only went once above forty. November -The lowest 'temperature ozeuered on Nov. 20, when it fell to 36. deg. below zero. It was below •• zero twenty-three 'days out of the thirty. The highest temperature recorded was 221-2 deg. above zero. • December -The loarest temperature recorded was 44 1-2 deg. below zero, and the highest, 10 deg. above.. In January, 1897 the lowest record- ed temperature -was 55.07 deg.• below zero, and it went under 50 deg. below zero six times, and 40 deg. below zero and under nine times. The highest re- corded temperature in this month was 10 d.eg. above zero. , The ebove record for twelve months willgive those whe intend- to 'go to the Klondike a fair idea of the weath- er they must expect. The :longest con- tinuedoold spell . experienced by Mr. Ogiiwie during the tWO WintetS he was in that territory was tor. eight days during ,vvhich it ilia met rite above 68 deg belove zero. A DEFINITION. Johnny -Papa, -What is a faction ? Papa --It is a term used to deseribe that section of the party to which you do not belong. JOYS OF PROSPERITY. As you never work, Slowboy, I Can't understand why you :take such an ten- terest in trade reports." Well, when other men are prosperous find it eaeier Lo borrow money from thele. AN ASTOUNDING CLAW D. POW.ELL'S EXPERIMENTS WITH DISEASE GERMS. de Says That They Ho the Uuutzux System Good — Swallows the Dead lest Bacilli 111 Pro f or ills Theory. Dr. Thomas Powell, a leading' phy- sician of Los Aeageles, Cal., claims to have actually taken into his system during the past 10 years the germs of the deadliest diseases for the specific, purpose of shattering the time-honor- ed theories regarding the transmis- sion of contagious eomplaints from one person to &nether. Dr. Powet1 has deekied that the time has come for giving to the world the result of his experiments, evbicla be claims have been a complete and unqual- ified success. Here is the doctor's statement of the result of his defiance of the power of germs: "Before going into the details of my experiments with the germs of viru- lent diseases, I went to preface my Statements with the explanation that do not declare the germs to be harm- less in ale cases, What I do say is that a person to whore the germs of a par- ticular disease are likely to prove dan- gerous must have a predisposition to- ward that partieular disease, suck pre- disposition being either hereditary or acquired. "3 claim that disease germs are ut- terly incapable of successfully assail- ing the tissues of the living body; that they are the results and. not the cause, of disease; th'at they are not in the Least inimical to the life or health of the body; that, on the contrary, it is their peculiar function to rescue the living organism, whether of man or beast, from impending injury or des- truction. They accomplish this by bringing about the decomposition of that obstructing matter whieh consti- tutes predisposition to disease and cause 11 to be passed out by the blood. SWALLOWED THE DEADLY GERMS. " For 10 years 1 have worked on this theory, and the results achieved I now give to the world, 1 determined, in the first plave, to experiraent by inoeulat- lag, not an animal whose hold upon life is exceedingly feeble, as' is (bat of the rabbit or guinea pig, but the hu - roan body. 1 matte the experiments up- on myself, iheu upon merabers of my own family, and lastly upon suth pat- ients as were within the range of safe experimentation. 1 ieneulated myself with the most virulent typhoid bacilli Obtainable, having first eradi- cated from my system any eredisposing cause ter this disease. The result was ; entirely satisfactory, no evil ensuing beyond the usual eoreness as in vac- cination. Then 1 took into my system the typhoid bacilli, and, no typhoid fev- er making its appearance, I repeated the experiment with diphtheria germs, without the least perceptible effect. " In order to make the exeeriments still more compiete I cultivaled. the germs of diphtheria and glanders until ; there could be no doubt of their val- idity, and took them into my system. in the presenne of two reputable phy- sicians. The outcome was precisely the same as' before. " Then I made the, greatest trial of all. In the presence of 25 physicians . took first, the bacilli of typhoid into the stomach, inclosed in gelatine cap - sales; and, second, the bacilli of diph- theria, by both the vaccination method ' and subcutaneous inoculation. "Examinations were afterward reale • by the physicians referred to of the pulse the temperature and of the re- ! seiration, and it was unanimously de- ; dared that these inoculaVons eroeue- ed no greater effeet neon me then I mighe have been expeeted from a like quantity of water. EXPERIMENTED UPON °TITERS. "In order that there should be no t possibility of doubting Thomases de -1 elaring that the experiments were sue- cessful only in my cam, and that 1 bad in some way been made contagion- , proof by nature, I singled out frona among my patients two who appeared to be fit subjeets for similar experi- mentation, end, with their t orteena-put them through the seinat course as I had undergone, with less virulent dis- eases. The outtome proved that my , calculations were well founded, no evil; resulting in their case any more than , in mine. , " I am progwessi ng I oward it climax ' in my opposition to the greatest dela- 1 sion of the world's history, which will consist of the most astouncliag and conclueive denionstration ever ine.de in the establishment of a scientific pro- position. So confident am I thaL the scientists of the world are at fault in their germ theories that I challenge any ,onc to bring me the bacilli of 'any disease known to the 'medical profes- sion, and I eromise to take into my sys- tem, in the presence of any jury of physicians that may he selected, germs that have been cultivated into deally activity by the usual processes. all. I ask is that, I may be given time to era- dicate froth my ystein any eredisposi- lion to the disease that the germ re- Pre`eeefflpshY Ihsicians in whose Presenee DT. Powell has matte the experiments are arranging to have a great and:con- vincing test made by Dr. Powell and any one wive is willing to submit to the ea,mii e noculaton as he has done, in, oder to settle tforever the great question of whether or not a supposed- ly contagious disease can be transmit- ted from one tersoa to the other by •the medium of germs. • SOMnBeet7n,OomNa Dee:: It The World's Of course every Brjoa one time or other of t toewnet. Nod radjoining thif: ihme ni a very Jaw structure a of feat, it is regarded a eimen in England; but t more wonderful clocks day, perhaps not in size, in their skilful mechani The most wonderful iwormIdagisuittreeeemay he hnibetemlinSt tsi the fact of this colossal ti ing no fewer than Wiest) It indicates simultaneously daa at thirty points on the ea face, besides the movement of around the sun, the phases of t the signs of the zodiac, th over the meridian of more t stars of the northern liemisit the date according to the Greek, Mussulman, and Rob dare. The 'works took two Put together after the cloolt sem in detached piece. land to Russia, A certain watchmaker constructed, a eloek whose mechanism represents,-ev- ery fmittiratulnlreraile inut"'va,ystation. all stthaean.ctiv lties telegraph operator sends te despatch', the doors of the station open, the sta- tion maseer and his assistant appear, on the steps, the clerics open the win- dows and distribute the tickets; sieve eral travellers rush toward the train that -comes in at full speed. In shore, until the train has gone the usual stik of such stations is ;exactly reproduce, ed. As the train leaves each automated' returns to its peace, and for a quarter oceixtopek' adacna: dimensions illmruepenortinei or nsr Sit.l h nnot known, is peaceful.hubThe it is said to have heel six years' labor ANOTHER REMARKABLE CLOCK. Is that made by Villingere the elook- maker of the Black Forest, Germany, It shows the seconds, rainutes, quar- ter hours, hours, days, weeks, months, seasons, years, and leap years, to the last second of the year 99ditt, besidea iteenhiosatndofhoitshieorriceenstikcoancotms.hal, geograph- There is a celebrated clock towel* at • Berne, in Switzerland, The approaeh of the hour is annovneed lay the crowldie of a coek. At the same time may be • seen at the very tint of the tewer I Ina)aet::sclinadakine coat of mail striking the • Ahades;tielize.owahlothurhslecir7:trriilk ?lin it large bath the towep, thei Log strings of carriages up every hour for the occupants • witness this interesting spectacle. 4s. was galhgoaanntleartlia4rte, in Paris, The hour figures are cope- ttie mealier wheels revolve by means of gpoesaerd eohfainbrsi,ghl jtulty ipulaia_teN,NI.acrsaonuki ys, fActllr -traction. The cloele kept excellent time. and struck hours, leaf and quarter hours, the real mechanism being coll..: coaled in the base, AL the time of the coronation ef the Empress of Russia at Moscow, in, 1724 she was presented with a watch as wonderful in every particuler as the famous Strasbourg do*. On the, op- , posite side of the tirne-keeping there was an exaet. counterpart of the. holy sepulchre, with a carved image of the Roman guard, the scene being view- ed through the glass in the case. Upcne opening the case the imitation stones would roll away from the mouth of the miniature sepulchre, the guard kneel, angels appear at opposite sides of the opening, and at this tirae the music would begin to play, in soft: strains, the Easter songs so well known to all Russians. The watch only weighed. seven ounces. The maker of this won- derful pieve of mechanism is said to have worked ueon it almost unintere ruptedly for a perio i of nine years . NEED OF SYSTEM. Washer W02/30,11.--PleaSe,1111110 armlet& your waste tee TRE MERRIEST DAY. Then do not select the merriest of the 865 days for your doleful reeollec- lions, but draw your chair nearer the blazing fire and if your room, be small- s. er than it was a dozen years ago put a good face on the matter and troll off the otei ditty you need to sing and thank God it's no worse. Look on the merry faces ef your chilaren, if you have any, as they alt around the fire. One little seat may be empty ; one :eight form that gladdened the Lather's and mother's pride to look up- on znay not be -there. Retleet upon your preeen.t blessings, not apon your peak misfortunes, of which all men have some. Your Christ ' • merry end your New Year a happy one. -Charles Dickens. 1101 AND COLD PENHOLDER An ingenious Frenehmaa bas atent- ed an article which he terms " a hot and cold penholder" 'The holder' consists of a cylinder pierced with three: small op- enings tit. its upper Fart, ail& Moaning for winter use a combustible carbon' cylinder, or for ennuner a we. 1 of sponge on cotton impeegnated -with it sol.ution of sal eunMoniace• To " start up the NVOl`g in wintee time the car- bon cylinder is lighted and placed in, the holder; the other cylineer with the nib is slift on the latter, ant I be etie per tube is then fixedi over loin hi SUI111110r, the chemieally saturatad wad produces eufficient cold to keep the hand cool bywisiag the •ben. ' AS lel TS SAF]) , IN rel JONI)] le Le uronnIra'araggles-lein yer gib el, poor critter somethin' ter 'eine 1 Mrs. Coldnoee-1- will if you'll go °War i•hert, to the claim an dig up a doze en gold nuggets PRACTiCAle Thane tile ine,trueter in co()Ite ryl?at. TO11- NV,', I I, ake it to 50111e WI(' else peace ea it we!, 1 g de,;.; ;;;11 e eu - ,Ah ehe PraC)tiCa] took? n tieve iou some, one e Ise's a as . d [eine i a it.. bona 12 tha et pee jeleroe 12 you ivill meet ag teat Way she kaawe, 2; dierioW paus for beetfie get more oi tienge. • au:alines t • '