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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1903-3-12, Page 6efese aid UNSOUGHT WEALTH; Or The Mystery of a Brother's Legacy. -4.A4+4414441+44444344.16141++++4444444++.14,71+14.1 CHAPTER XIL lifr, elookham dined in his cell. A Wel in .a well -ordered police station is not such an utterly comfortless apartment as some people —prim cipally those without experience, for experience is the great teacher --may perhaps imagine. True, it has one drawback, It is not,. to put it very mildly indeed, overstocked with fur- niture. But if one can content one- self with a board to sit down upon and a board for a bed -- and what avail all the teachings of philosophy if one cannot, just for once in• a, way?—one might go farther and fare worse. After Mr. Hookham had dined, he bad a. visitor, This visitor was a slightly -built gentleman, clothed in gorgeous attire. The door was flung open; the policeman's voice was heard a.nnounaing— "Some 'un to see your" Mr. Hookham, who was not ex- pecting a visitor, looked up at him, "Mr. Hookham? I have just had an interview with your friend, Mr. Schwabe. I am Frank Fairlight." Mr. Hookham knew who his visit- or was without this announcement of the name. some idea as to how it is that he As Mr. Hookham eyed this famous man, he told himself that, since Mr, was killed — or they will givt their Schwabe had sent him, he hoped idea, which may turn out unfortun- that Mr, Schwabe would pay him too. But he did not utter his thoughts aloud, which was, perhaps, as well lie stage, a man I never saw, or heard of, in zny life before—why?" "There have been mnctiveless crimes." "But not such a, motiveless .crime es that would be. No sensible man would listen to such trash."' "Not in the face of evidence?" "What evidence?'' "I understand that there are al- ready two men who have offered to swear that they saw you do it. 137 to -morrow, out of such an audience as filled the Sphinx's Cave —I hear that it was crowded --- there may be two hundred." As Mr. Fairlight said this, Mr. Hookham scowled at him and re- sumed his promenade. In spite of what Mr. Schwabe had told hint, the lawyer began to wonder if his client were not guilty. When men descend- ed to specious pleading he always had his doubts. "I tell you frankly, Mr. Hookham -frankness is rather a fault of mine —.that if you have said all there is to be said, you are naw standing within measurable distance of the gallows. Here is a pian lulled — I suppose there is no doubt that he is killed — and we shall have to give "You are in rather an awkward position, Mr. Hookham. I under- here's a man been murdered, foully stand that there are some curious murdered, and my client's diamond features in your case, which is per- murdered him.' I've dons same bold haps the reason why I am so things, but I hardly think that I promptly here. I like to handle could bring myself to manage that. curious cases. I knew Mr. Percy Where is this diamond of which I've Leicester very •.seld." heard? I suppose the police have DIr. Fairlight erot his gloved hands got it?" behind his back, and beamed down on Mr. Hookhats. It was said that there were even magistrates who lik- ed to have him beam on them. His was not a beaming manner as a rule. "You are charged with murder. I suppose they will word it so as to make it actual murder. I suppose we may take it for granted that you are not—you are not guilty?" Although Mr, Fairlight said that they might take it for granted, there was a certain amount of inquiry in. "Do you mean keep fte" ate for you." - "It was the diamond did it." "The diamond! Come, Mr. Hook ham, you don't expect sue to go in- to court and say, 'Your worship, "No, they haven't." As Mr. Hookham said this, some- thing like a sour smile darkened. — rather than lightened --- his blood - grimed features. "No? Who has?" "I have." Mr. Fairlight whistled, very soft- ly, and doubtless quite in a pro- fessional way, but still he whistled. "Did you hide it when they search- ed you?" "Not I." life eye. "I am not guilty." "Tell me all about it.'. Since Mr. Hookham occupied the only article of furniture which might be classified under the heading "chairs," Mr. Fairlight sat down on a board which was to serve as a bed, and which was raised some three feet from the ground. Mr. Bookham's plates and dishes were at one end, and Mr. Fairlight was at the other; yet he seemed as much at his ease as though he were seated in one of those glorious drawing - rooms with whose splendors his ap- pearance would have harmonized so well. "I understand that this afternoon you assisted at M. and Madame Nur- vetcl ky's entertainment — on whom, by the way, I am shortly about to pay a call. I am told that you and they are neighbors. 13y the way, Mr. Schwabe tells me something about a diamond of yours, a dia- mond which has — shall we say some little peculiarities?" "Well?" Although Mr. Fairlight had re- quested Zr. Hoakham to tell him all about it, it was evident that he himself would have to set the ball a - rolling. Mr. Hookham seemed to be in a taciturn frame of mind. "He tells me that Mr. Percy Lei- cester, whose craze for that sort of thing was notorious, came on to the stage to examine your diamond, and that in the course of his examina- tion he was killed? The question is, who killed him? Did you?" "`No." "I see you look as though you had received rough handling. Did you struggle with Mr. Leicester?" "I never touched him." "Did Mgr. Leicester struggle with you?" "Nor did he touch me." "Did you struggle with the po- lice?" "Not such a fool!" "I suppose there is nothing so foolish as to struggle with the po- lice. Then how do you account for the state that you are in? I sup- pose you are aware that your cloth- ing is all torn, and that your face is all covered with blood?" "I will tell you about it. — all that there is to tell -- in a minute or two." Der. Bookham got up from his stool and began to pace the cement- ed floor of his cell.. "You • say," said Mr. Hookham, speaking as hecontinued his prom- enade, "that Mr. Schwabe told you about the diamond?" "He did; that is, he told me' something about a diamond." "Did ho tell you how it came to xne, and about my brother Mat- thew's letter?" 'I believe he did say something about a lettere' "M. Nurvetchky has it. You nest get it from him." "I will make a nets of it." Ur. Fairlight did make a note of it, in a note -book whieh be took from the inner pocket of his coat. Mr. Hookham paused and looked at; him, • #'This charge is absurd upon the /ace of it, It needs, it can need, no argument •-•• you must be aware of that. 1 am a Mtn of property, of Wending, of reputation, of charac- ter, I can prove it by the testimorr; Of' a thousand mouths. Is it con- ed''si;rle that I shouldhill, on a pub - to say that they "I do. I think they rather thought that I was obliging them by doing so." Mr. Fairlight 'eyed his client very intently. "Lot me look at it." Mr. Hook - ham produced it from his waist- coat pocket. "Mr. Schwabe tells me that it would be cheap at twenty thousand pounds." "So Mr. Schwabe tells nae too." "I suppose it's all right? I may touch it? I daresay it is not so very dreadful after all," "What am I to say to you? I tell you it has killed a inan, and you ask me if it's so very dreadful after all." "Tell Hie quite frankly how it is you say it killed him." "Hasn't Mr. Schwabe told you?" "Never mind what Mr. Schwabe told me; you tell me too." Then Mr. Hookham told his -story, and on the whole he told it well. "This man Leicester, they say his name is Leicester, though I never saw or heard of him in my life be- fore - came on to the stage to se If this stone was not part and par- cel of a conjurer's trick. When first he carne on to the stage it shouted out, 'Take care!' " "What shouted out 'Take care'?" "The stone." Mr. Hookham glared at the lawyer as though he defied his contradic- tion. "Go on." "He thought it was a trick, and he went on to try if he could find it out. Then the stone burned his hand. Then it sprang on to the floor, and when he tried to pick it lap it eluded him." "Do you mean to tell mo that the stone did all this without the con- nivance of your friends, M. and Madame Nurvotch7.y?" "They aro not friends of mine. I never saw them before this morn- ing; Mr. Schwabe will tell you that I met the woman in his office. But let me tell my story first, and I will answer your questions afterwards. At last he picked it up, he wouldn't be warned. Then one circle of fire sprang up round him, then a second, then a third. Then the three unit- ed, and became a continuous flame. Then the ilanie began to revolve, and a dense smoke came from it, and so filled the whole place that you couldn't see your hand before your eyes. When those men who were in the bridy of the building tell you that they saw what was passing on the stage they tell a lie. I doubt if they could have seen what was pass- ing a foot in front of them. If that smoke had not gone as quickly as it came, not one of us would have coma out alive. Leicester was stand- ing where you are, I was standing here." Mr. Hookham took up his f from the u three sot position about lawyer. "When the 'smoke grew dense, a noise began like the yelp- ing of some wild beast. I saw sdmething appear in the front of Leicester. Something -- it felt like ii hand eovured with hair — scratch- ed my cheek, and caught ,me by the throat. I suppose I must have struggled, for when the smoke had gone, and I came to, I was as you see me now. But the nian was deaet, ` 'Vh.ero was silence when Mr. Hook - ham coaled, The lawyer had hoard -some remarkable stories in his trine, but scarcely one quite so re- znarlsable aet tMs. kre kept his keen eyes fixed cin the narrator, But htr, Eookliazn never flinched. "You are aware that you have told me a very curious story?" .have told you so curious a. stt>z'y that 1l ftnd it difficult to be- lieve in its truth. •myself: If it were not that the roan is dead, I should say then I had had a nightmare." "Have you ever boon subject to illusions?" "What do you mean`" "Would you. for example, bo wil- ling to undergo an examination by a specialist?" "A specialist? You think I ani Hirci? I thought you were a better judge of men than that. There is not a saner man in England than I am the proof of which is that all that I have gone through during the last four -and -twenty hours has fail- ed to drive me mad." "Mr. Bookham, it is my duty to tell you that if yoiu life depends upon my, or upon any man, being able to convince an English jury of the truth of the tale which you have just now told nie, you are doomed to die." "I don't believe it. Throw up the case, and I will convince the magis- trate to -morrow." "You will find it a difficult 'nat- ter. You failed to convince those people this .afternoon, else how comes it that you now stand charg- ed with murder?" "Mr. Fairlight, you have not been retained by Hie, though I am quite prepared to avail myself of your ser- vices if you choose to continuo them I know their value. But should you prefer to withdraw, I am quite pre- pared to act as, my own advocate." As Mr. Fairlight hesitated, glanc- ing from the stone to Mr. Book- ham and from Mr. Bookham back to the stone, a young man appear- ed, standing close to his side. The young man laid his hand lightly on the lawyer's shoulder — whieh was rather a familiarity, in the case of so famous an individual from so young a man—and spoke to him. "Carry the case through." He paused. "You will astonish them to -morrow. Ho paused again. Then he quoted, or rather misquot- ed, the "divine William," which, un- der the circumstances, was perhaps a singular thing to do. "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in man's phil- osophy." Then, while they continued to stare at him, possibly expecting him to speak again — which was a flattering attention upon their part, always remembering the youth of the strang- er—the young man vanished.. Then the lawyer asked a question. "Who was that?" "I don't know." "Where did he conte from?" "God knows." It was perhaps because the name of God sounded strangely from much lips as Mr. Uookham's, or perhaps because the accidental mention of that great Name at such a. moment —for it was doubtless accidental — led their thoughts into strange chan- nels, that both men shuddered. For they did shudder, as though a sud- den cold wind had gone right through them. Then Mr. Fairlight went to the door, and twisted a handle, which set a bell ringing. A constable ap- peared. "Did you just now to this cell?" "Let anybody into except you." "Did you see come out?" "Nobody did come out. Tho door has never been unlocked since I un- locked it for you; the key has never left my belt. Are you getting at me. sir?" "That will do." The constable went, doubtlessly wondering inwardly. But he was towise to ask unnecessary ques- ons of Mr. Fairlight, the great criminal lawyer. Perhaps that gen- tleman might have the handling of lulu one day. When the constable had gone, Mr. Fairlight sat down on the only stool the cell contained — subsided on it, would perhaps be the corrector term. He seemed so overwhelmed. "Well, I'm---, Then be gave utterance to the word which that inspector had checked in time. (To Be Continued). let anybody in - this cell? No— anybody just now FOIL EYES THAT ACHE. Eyes will bo greatly strengthened by putting the face down into a basin or the eye into an eyecup of water the first thing in the morning and opening them in the water. This is somewhat difficult to do at first, but if the water for two or three days be tepid, and gradually made colder by imperceptible de- grees, until it is no shock to put the face into very cold water, it will soon become quite easy, and is very invigorating and refreshing. If done regularly every day, this treatment alone will preserve the sight into quite old age. 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Chase Medlelna Co., Toronto and Buride, "Well, papa," she replied demure, ly, "if you wouldn't sit in the din- ing -room with the door open when I am entertaining Mr. Illinkley ht the drawing -room, you'd` 'stand a better chance of getting rid of the ex - SWEDE LIQUOR TRS IQ HISTORY or THE STOOI X"IODi4'i DISPENSING 0O1VII`.t41V'Y,, Results of Its Operations inc the Gothenburg System WAS Started. Twenty -live *years have now passed since the introduction at Stockholm of the Gothenburg system, also known as the Norwegian system, of regulating the liquor traffic. Since that time control of the liquor traf- fic at the Swedish capital has been in the hands of a corporation called. the Stockhohus Utskaulcningsbolag, or the Stockholm Dispensing Com- pany, It grants licenses for res- taurants and cafes of the bettor class and.. conducts the saloons proper as well as the retail liquor stores di- rectly through. salaried managers. In compensation for its privileges the company turns ,over to the city all its net earnings in excess of a, small percentage on the invested capital. To celebrate the completion of the first quarter century of its existence the company has published avolume giving not only the history of its own operations, but also the traffic in spirituous liquors in Sweden ever since the distilling of brannvin first Megan nearly five hundred years ago. The liquor known as brannvin, or "burnt wine," was originally dis- tilled from grain, but [s nowadays obtained almost exclusively from potatoes, It is white in color, strongly alcoholic and closely relat- ed in character to the American whiskey. • For centuries it was the national drink of Sweden, the poorer classes being almost ignorant of any other intoxicating beverage. AT THE PRESENT TIME it is used mostly as an app'e"tizer just before and during meals. Beer has largely taken its place as a stimulant between meals, but the longshoremen of Stockholm or Gothenburg, the factory hands and the artisans are still fond of going into the. bolagskrog (literally, "the company saloon") to refresh them- selves hemselves with a sup—which is pro- nounced "sewp," means "drink" and is used only in reference to brann- vin. Up till the' latter part of the eighteenth century the distilling of the national drink was left to any one who had the means of carrying it on and could pay a yearly tax of about $2. There were tens of thousands of private distilleries in the • country and each farmer manu- factured his own liquor. So much grain was used for this purpose that twice, while famines prevailed in the country, the King had to prohibit all distilling by royal decree. The decrees had to be revoked as soon as the next year's crop was far enough advanced to promise a good. harvest. • Gustavus III. made the first at- tempt to regulate the distilling of brannvin. He made a Crown mono- poly of it in order to raise money and establish a dispensary system much on the same lines as that tried in South Carolina. His action was regarded as a. tyrannical interference with the rights and freedom of the Swedish people. A revolution nearly ensued, and the Government distilleries all but led to NATIONAL BANKRUPTCY. The old system of domestic dis- tilling, as it was called officially, had to be restored and it was not interfered with again until 185.4, when the legislation was adopted which gradually led up to the intro- duction of the prevailing system. It was said in those days that the Swedes were a nation of drunkards, and there was some ground for the accusation, if figures given by the dispensing company are to be • be- lieved. In 1850,. with a population of lit- tle more than 8,000,000, the annual consumption of brannvin alone— leaving aside wines, imported bran- dies, malt liquors and the already popular cordial known. as Swedish punch—amounted to 20,671,200 gal- lons, or 6 gallons for each inhabit- ant. In 1890, after the Gothenburg system had become established in all the larger cities, the yearly output of brannvin had been reduced to '8; 712,000 gallons, or 1.8 gallons for each. inhabitant. Stockholm had in the days of Gus- tavus III. (1771,-1792) 75,000 in- habitants and 1,200 places where intoxicating liquors were sold by the glass. About 700 of those places were saloons where little, if . any- thing, but the national beverage was dispensed. Without any administrative inter- ferenco the number of liquor stores and saloons was reduced, until in 1877, when the Dispensing Company was about to ''take charge of the traffic, Stockholm had 84 retail stores and 800 saloons, Tho first thing the new company did was to reduce these numbers to 80 and 261, respectively, which was equal to a saloon for each 1,608 inhabitants, THE PROCESS OP ABDUCTION was continued so that in 1902 the city had only 45 saloons frequented by the poorer classes, or one to each 6,750 inhabitants. Most of these saloons aro now more like inns than anything else, occupying largo buildings equipped ,,with a number of neatly kept sitting rooms. and restaurants where food of good qual- ity is served at moderato prices. The theory on which the company acts. is that as it is irxi.posseele to reform the people out of the drinking habit tho only thing to do is to reform the drinking places. R BIO )OL1OJ METHODS STATITLINO, .CRIMIIVAIa TRW, AT CRONSTAI i GrossI'diseon,duet and Ool; upti.onr of Sehafrofir Chief of Politv� The sensation of the hour at Cron- stedt, Russia, is the criminal prose- cution of the, police master of that town and port, There • is . •not, of course, any particular sensation in the fact, per se, of the discovery of gross corruption and misconduct in a Russian, chief of police; the popular astonishment is - caused by his being found out by the administration and publicly proseeuted, the custom be- ing to hush all such scandals up. In this in`stanee, however, the flag- rancy of the multifarious offences with which M. Schafroff is charged left the authorities no alternative but to bring 1•titn before a criminal tribunal. The indictment, covering moro than, thirty folios, reads like a shady romance. A BRILLIANT BLACKGUARD. Briefly sketched, Schafrofl's record is as, follows; • In 1886 he was a" sub -inspector of police in Moscow on a salary of 45 roubles per mouth. He had no private means, but lived at the rate of 10,000 roubles per atmum. A couple of years later ho• was made inspector, at .75 roubles a meals, and increased his style of living to the rate of 20,000 roubles a year, and became indebted to tradesmen and shopkeepers to the amount of 26,000 roubles. Tho whole of this income, both as 'sub -inspector and inspector, was de- rived from • blackmail levied in a va- riety of ways on all sorts and condi- tions of people. I3is peculations be- coming too notorious in the old cap- ital, he was asked to resign, but was given some kind of recommehdation by his complaisant chief, who had no doubt a fellow feeling for his sub- ordinate's delinquencies, and with this document he obtained a sub - inspectorship in the St, Petersburg police, His natural abilities as an accom- plished rogue and a brilliant black- guard soon advanced him to a full inspectorship in the metropolis, and the revenue derived from his black- mailing system, and threatened false denunciations of political suspects, enabled him to purchase landed estate in the country. BLACKMAIL. Finally, his iniquitous conduct constrained the Metropolitan Grad- onatchalnik to asic for Schafroff's resignation, but no specific charge was brought against him. Appar- ently, through the collusion of his superiors, he was made,., in 1897, po- lice master of Cronstadt. There he appointed his, own creatures to in- spectorships and sub-inspectorships, taking from 1,000 to 2,000 roubles for each appointment. -Even from the ordinary policemen and firemen he collected tribute in the shape of caution -money, which was never refunded. If it were de- manded the applicant teas dismissed, mended the applicant was dismissed from the force, But these were tri- vial offences in Schafroff's record. The introduction of Me Witte's li- quor -regio gave him a new opportun- ity. Every disorderly house in Cronstadt was permitted to sell drink at all hours of the night un- der Schafroff's • control and tribute. Under his patronage a great number of the demimondaines and procur- esses were imported from the capi tal, and half the gilded blackguard - ism of St. Petersburg disgraced the neighboring Neva port. The conduct of some of the New York police in the old days with re- gard to private and public disorder- ly houses was quite trivial as com- pared with, -the state of things under Schafroff at Cronstadt. There were complaints, but without result. • POLICE CYNICISM. Only on one occasion was Schafroff called upon by the governorto ex- plain the • terrible social evil, and this he did by urging the immoral necessities of a great naval port. This plea sufficed. It would occupy too much space to go into the de- tails of all the charges now brought against this typical Russian police - master, and they are, too, of such a nauseous nature as to be, in Many respects, unprintable. There are 120 witnesses for the prosecution, and the trial. will prob- ably occupy a week or ten days. The police authorities will, of course, do 4 I am sorry to see, young man, that you wear an artificial leg." "Yes, sir, it'sthe result of the big fight at inkerman." "How old are yeti ?" "Twenty." "Why, you were not born when that battle Was fought." "Tree, but my father Wes there. I inherited •rho leg from him." a their utmost to save this blackguard and blankinafler from the due lens- ishmont of his crimes, The most sinister reflection raised ,by such cases as this, that the au- toeratio government in Russia has, to all, intents and purposes, been degraded into a police governainont, and it is the Schafrofis who are the administrators and executors. Tates r ',HATED TOBACCO. Famous Men Who Disliked Wood. Somehow or other we associate tobacco with literary men, but not ell writers are lovers of the weed. Goethe hated tobaoco intensely, and never lost a chance to attack it. Heinrich Heine had the same dislike; Balza°, who lived on black coffee, preached wisely to young men about the vice of smoking, and Victor Hu- go and Dumas wore equally opposed to the practice. ]3ut the list of French, smokers comprises many great names, such as Alfred de Mus- set, Eugene Sue, Paul de St. Victor, Prosper Merimoe, 13eranger, andBaudelaire, Madame Dudevent, better known as Georges Sand, often indulged in a cigar between the intervals of her literary labors. Charles Lamb at one time was a groat smoker, but afterwards just as great a hater of it. In the height of his smoking days he. once ' was. puffing the coarsest tobacco from a long clay pipe, in company with Dr. Parr, who was a connoisseur, and careful . in obtaining only the finer, ohoicor sorts. The doctor said, "Row did you acquire this prodig- ious power of suction ?" Lamb re- plied, o-plied, "By f oi]fng after it witlh in- tensity, as some Hien toil after vir- tue,". Sir Walter Scott carried the habit of chewing and smoking too far for his own health—both of mind and body. The poet Bloomfield wrote sweet pastoral rhymes with a cloud of tobacco smoke makieg a fog around his head. *Campbell; Moore, and Byron delighted in its temper- ate use, and Tennyson was a great smoker. One of the quaint scenes in the realm of letters is that of Carlyle and his old mother sitting together by the chimney -corner each smoking a "dark -brown pipe, and chatting earnestly the while." the TUENS BLACK FR011i MALARIA, Whether men were originally all of one color and subsequently assumed their present distinctive tints in the process of becoming acclimatized to their different surroundings is an op- en question which has given rise to much speculation. A case is re- ported from India which may prove very valuable in assisting to deter- mine the matter, A soldier in the Seaforth Highlanders, after being in India about four years, was at- tacked by malaria. Shortly after leaving the hospital he noticed that the exposed parts of his body were changing color. Tho discoloration gradually spread to other parts o his body; his eyes have changed from grey to blue, his light brown hair is now quite dark, and the skin of his bodyeappears darker in summer than in winter, some parts becoming quite coal black. . f THE HOME OF ENGLAND'S WEALTH. The Bank of England generally contains sufficient gold, in 16 lb. bars, to make 20,000,000 sovereigns. The ]3anlr, which stands in. three. parishes, covers three acres of ground, and, as the current price of land in the vicinity works out at $5,000,000 an acre, it is easy to feral an idea. of the money value of the home of England's wealth. The ratable value is about $5,000 a week... The Bank employs about 1,- 000 ,000 people, pays a million dollars a year in wages, and $175,000 a year in pensions. There are $125,000,- 000 worth of notes in circulation which have been handed over the Bank's counters. 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I continued the treat- ment until I fully recovered good health and vigor, my old trouble I being a thing of the past. am seventy -live years old, and if, at my advance age, I have received such grand results from the use of Dr. Chase's Kidney -Livor rills after years of unnecessary sut"lering, there can be no doubt of their efficacy in the treatment of younger persons. I recommend them to every one, I have tried to think of words to ex- press my gratitude, but it is beyond expression, for they have done more for mo than I could have believed. Dr. Chases Kidney -Livor Pills, ono 'pill a dose, 25 oents n lee At all dealers, or Kelmanson, Dates and Go,, Toronto.. This season of the year is especial- ly trying on the older people. 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S 1 � 1� 4� C N• Ql1 E I'l'~E'�T N E � E T A � � x4i, BROUGHT (MT. An Inge2iious Wallrlstg chair ,n !l Comfortabeo eheensfer: The appliances and furnishings for invalids that can be bought ready made to -day are bet- ter and more ingeniously con- trived than - ever before. An- other notable point about them is that nearly every one of the pat- ented conveniences for afflicted folks' comfort now available was devised to fit the need of some person so wealthy that he could give the In- ventor, ample scope for experiment, A walking chair is the latest addi- tion to the list of house appurten- ances for invalids. It can be adjust- ed so as to convey the occupant t p' or down, stairs and still preserve he level. This chair has little rubber :tired wheels. It is framed of oak, light yet strong, and has a cane seat. There are no detachable parts to get loose. There is no fussing. with set screws. And, though the chair is a combination. carrying, rolling and walking affair, it is so simple in appearance as to belie its many callings, In its present form•. it represents years of experiment and stuldy, The mounting of rolling chairs on springs instead of on the ordinary trucks permits the sensitive occupant to be trundled over door sills or along uneven pavements with very little jar compared with the old me- thod, People with acute rbeuma- tism or spinal trouble find their open air rides much more enjoyable with the dread of jolts and rough- ness removed. For a person able to use his hands, or for one whose hands' are helpless but who can use his feet, a tricycle is available by which he can propel himself about grounds or roadways. Machines are to bo had for persons able to use only one. .hand but both feet and also for those whose hands are available but who have ONLY ONE GOOD FOOT. The introduction of elastic cotton felt for the upholstering.of chairs for invalids is another boon, This fill- ing will neither heat the body un- comfortably, nor mat and become irksome. It is used as an alterna-• tive to hair -where expense must be counted. And no late patterned chair of this character is permanently uphole stered. The pillows and cushions m.ay be covered with silken tapestry or simple cotton stuff but they are all made separate so that they can be removed'" singly or all taken en- tirely away according to the whim of the occupant, the strong, pliant cane back affording an agreeable change to a person weary of one position. The divided leg rest is a feature of the new adjustable chair. With the leg rests separate the occupant may tilt one leg up at whatever restful angle he wishes, and put the other foot out on the floor if he is able to or else let the lower leg rest com- fortably at will. These adjustnients be can make himself by merely, touching the handles. • The new, adjustable chair has its pivots and' hinges so perfectly in unison with the rudimentary move- ments of the body that the chair may bo straightened out when want- ed,' the leg rest raised up or let down, or the chair brought to an upright posture without inconveni- ettce to the occupant "'or resort to outside aid. This is owing to the newly invented ratchet cam by which the weakest invalid who can use his hands at all can manipulate the ad- justments. Before this device was perfected all chairs of this class were locked or unlocked by means of. thumb -screws, or friction cams which took more strength to work than the average cripple or sick man pos- sessed Rolling chairs are brought out: now for the invalid overburdened with fat, weighing maybe 400 pounds, and also for the dwarf of childlike thinness and weight. A CHAIR 11ITH ARMS that can be lifted back out of the way when necessary and yet be easi- ly slipped into place when needed for rest or protection, is a late luno- vation. And even people drawn over into curious and abnormal shapes can secure appliances to fit their pe- culiar needs. A transfer lift thathas brought comfort to scores of helpless folks and their care -takers is now a'v'ail- able. It is a. framed structure made in two lengthwise sections to be laced together, and is attached to ahigh, curved polo fixed inset stand which- can be placed by bedside or chair. By means of pulleys and straps, the invalid is raised to the desired height, without the strain involved when lifted by a person, The adjustable tables, made for people who must have things , come to them. and cannot go to the things, are so many sided and cosi- ly manipulated that they are an its- ^ du.cement to invalids to take up oc- cupations and diversions. • Ingeniously affixed traysfor chair arms, book rests, bed racks and back rests are shown in all grades of modern ware and decoration. But the difference in the price of those articles, as with the difference in the cost of the rollitig or adjustable chairs is almost invariably amatter of ornamentation, or some detail ,apart from the running gear. Tho applied principles aro the same whe- ther developed in find wood or cheap. • A newly designed back rest` for an invalid whose time must be passed largely in bed in reclining posture has a side head rest for use at times when the patient is too svealc or weary to read or take interest itt anything. Some back rests have r" backs of cane instead of- duck, There is a ratchet for adjusting the angle 1, of inclination and there ere no crosx rails to pt„ess against the body, Many well 'maple use, then , for reed, ing' bi bed. •t