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CONCLUSION.
"Mrs. Slade is still in her room
air, but she's not alone; her mai 1
arrived from London last night,
answered the chambermaid et th
North Eeastern Hutel at .Hull
when on tiro following =mug,
made inquiry,
I had been accompanied from
King's Cross by Mabel and the po
lice -agent, Hickman, and we stood
whom I found were powerful far -
tors in Bulgarian polities, I was
0
n tin
c cldassistdispos-
ingp to them in ltspos-
ing of the body --which was placed
in the cellar beside the Thames,
and allowed to floe out with she
t t
t Thel 1
• t141 a ratio cont th ser-
g C
'.ants on holiday, I removed the
blood tains, and worked the cro-
chot cover for the couch,"
_Cf ""You told zun that those ataiva
Were of coffee that you had spillet',
there,"
Mabel gold,
"True," she answered. "But T
was compelled to deceive you I
lett you soon afterwards, `es by has be used for political purpo
h„ .ch's influence I became ap- es in !Bulgaria, with the result th
l Mated English governess to the the Ministry has been 'forced to r
l,co youngest children of Prince sign. The defy leations of the hes
its true nature, and during th
first six menthe- before the lino-a,nc
cry- as to his disappoaranee all wi
plain sailing. 'When, however, at
spicion arose that the heir had me
with foule
t play they feared to Con
tinuo using the deed, and hit opo
the expedient of the concession
which I induced you to negotiate,
"And those two men, Boesch an
C>eehkuloff, where are they?". i
quires! Hickman.
''They were inEn lin at
d e e
ty
g
day. The mystery surrounding th
o hereabouts of Prince Alexande
s-
at
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el
nt
til
forced to fly. they aro, I believe
on their way to Australia."
"We must arz eat tllent," sat
Rickman, briefly, "'Such a pair o
villains must not be allowed to g
the contrary, whoa he arrived on, 1'erdinand, and it was while at So• of the Treasury and his assista
the !Wednesday evening I was to en- he that I suggested to the Mini: tee being discovered, they were bo
retrain luta, make sante excuse for of I•'inance the s011131 13 for placing
ycnr Highness's absence, and after- tlu) 00nceas4MMS in the hands of Mr,
o wards introduce the Minister Heaton, wham I had heard was now
Boesch and lila friend. There was, suffering from an' unaccountable
•, rnthin^• risky about the procoedinm
most emphatically. The loss of memory, and recollected Itos
• pair merely wished to obtain the
paring Prince's, signature." mooted to Prince Ferdinand, who "And to you," exclaimed Mahe
tut did not this request strike an all good faith empowered me to turning to me with the bright lig'
together in the hotel corridor prim
1 he declared P thing of the past The snbject was scot free "
ta, entering the woman's ranln
Hickman, whom I had all along be-
lieved to be deeply implicated in
the plot, if not the actual murder -
el, was, I found, a clever detective
of English birth, who had for some
years been an officer of the Prefer
tore of. Police in Vienna, but who
had latterly been attached to the
Austro-Hungarian Embassy in Bel -
grave Square, and entrusted with
the personal safety of the Emper-
cr's daughter. The revelations I
had made utterly amazed him. By
the last post on the previous night
Mabel. had received the letter writ-
ten from Hull which merely asked
for an interview, and we had all
three set forth, determined to se-
cure the arrest of the writer.
With that object we entered her
sitting -room without a word of
warning.
She was sitting at the table writ-
ing, but in an instant sprang to he
feet, with a cry of profound alarm
'When her eyes wandered from Ma
bel to Hickman and myself, her
cheeks blanched. She apparently
guessed our purpose.
"You have expressed a desire to
meet me," Mabel said determined-
iy. "So I have conte to you,"
"And—and these gentlemen?"
Edna inquired, glancing at us, puz-
zled.
"They are present to hear what
you have to say to me."
She was taken aback.
"I—I have nothing to say to your
Highness," the woman faltered, ""I
merely weshed to know whether,
when in London, I might call,"
"Then listen," exclaimed Mabel,
"The tz'nth is known, and it is use-
less for you to further conceal it.
If you have nothing to say, Mr.
Hickman will at once call in the
police, and I shall charge you with
the murder of the Prince."
"`The murder of the Prince 1" she
gasped, white to the lips. "I—I did
not commit the crime. I can prove
that I didn't!"
Her hands were trembling, and
she stood beside the table, steady-
ing herself by it, There was a
haunted look in those cold grey
eyes. Our sudden descent upon her
had taken her utterly by surprise.
"Then let us hear your state-
ment," my love said in a hard voice
quite unusual to her. "Let it be the
truth, or I shall charge you now,
et once, with the capital offence.
The Prince was murdered in my
house, and with your knowledge.
_-11G you deny that?"
"No," she said hoarsely, "I do
not deny it.
A long silence ensued. The wo-
man Grainger—or Slade, as she
was known there—hung her head.
Hickman spoke authoritatively,
demanding full explanation, but she
maintained a clogged silence. A
sudden fire flashed in her eyes—the
fire of defence and hatred.
""Then, as you refuse to speak,"
said Mabel at length, "you will
have no further opportunity until
you stand in the criminal dock."
"No, no! cried the wretched wo-
man, quickly. "Hear Hie ! I will,
tell you all—everything. Listen,'
she implored. "Do not call the po- I
lice ere I have explained ley exact
position, and how the tragedy 00-
curred,"
"Proceed," Mabel said harshly.
"We are all attention,"
""You will remember that throe
days before the tragedy your High-
ness left London suddenly because
of the illness of tho Emperor, and
I remained in charge of the housc-
hc.ld. It was on te Sunday you left,
and you had invited the young
Prince to dine on the following
Wednesday evening. On the after -
neon following your departure a
visitor was announced, His name
was I'otrovitch (iecldculoff. a 13ul-
emrian gentleman whom 1 knew
slightly, he:having been a vleitnr et i
the. house in Vienna where 1 had
previously ben in service as En: s
lish governess.' H0 asked me whe-
ther I wished to earn a thousand
pounds, and then, under promise
of •trictest secrecy, unfolded to ate 1
ingenious and'extraordinary c
:ghetto. He was acting, he said, to-
gether with Datzilo Beseech, the Bel- 1
garian Minister bf Finrnee, whom r
lir would latter introclimo to mc, in I
' the interests of the People's Party )
in the Sobrauje,. and they deeiired 1
the young Prince Alexander to sign 1
a
certain deed. He told roe nothing.
c�f'the contents of the decrement, butt'
asked 111e to assist them, 1 was to t
send no notice of your 'Iiilchness's
departure to the I'rineo, but, on t
treat Mr. Heaton, and before long of unshed tears in her fin- eyes, ""
r can as extraordivareer asked Ala- several formidable concessions were your patience and careful watehfu
bel. "You ]cnew the Prince quite I
• well. floated in the City. The most re- Hess is due the unravelling of th
inevitable thing was Mr. Heaton's•extraordinary mystery, which mfg_
It was tiro money which tempt- absolute ignorance of all the past. otherwise have remained an ens m
ed me, the wretched woman cried. He was as wax in the hands of the g
,r a]tL•ays,,,
[ hesitated fur some time, and at two men who had become my mac- She took my hand, I saw in he
Last I yielded, The Prince arrived. tors. Only at the last coup, when beautiful counteStaueo that lov
and although greatly surprised and they desired to raise a loan of half look as of old, But I bunt over ho
disappointed to find your Highness a million sterling, intending to ap- bejewelled fin ors as a cmuitie
absent, retuained and dined with jire riato it to their own uses, diel ll those of a princess myself and the man Uochkuloff, of I,0 refuse to render us further ee-
l', wend over p s
hom h, of course, know nothin an ImpOt•ia1 House, my heart tc
g metanee. It was as though hes me- full for wards.
save that he was one of his father's tnory had suddenly returned to
subjects. Near the conclusion of pmt, and he suspeete.d.,, The madwoman railed at u
dinner ws witnessed a cab accident shrieking. and hurling Imprecation
opposite the window, a blind gen- s iv memory had then returned," interspersed with all aorta of iamb
tlenlan — IlIr. Heaton —being run 1 said briefly, marvelling at er ling sentences, while Edna held he
over, and I ordered the people to remarkable narrative. "But what tightly by the wrist and strove t
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With a fond and devoted love she
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come uo In wife, and Y
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110unced fur over that world in
10111(1) She was born -••-the world of
Purple and Fine Linen,
THE END.
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IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND
NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JO II
BULL AND ILLS PEO1'I,kl.
flecurrences in the Land The
Reigns Supreme in the Com-
mercial World.
There are signs of a revival i
the lead and slate iudustries o
Wales,
Manchester proposes borrowin
eta) to provide work to unenl
1 preyed people.
WVhi inr*ham
0 the only female stationmaster 01
tedloaseesesekusteeWeessfssaAWAselVtife
ON THE FARTVL
aseeo9bp4 a WoFtS
INCREASING THE PROFITS,.
Tho profits for a herd of dairy
cows may be increased in seecral
tray's. Better relents
au 1 better
ttnl
cutis Will '1 ti'
) tel u L c returns at one
end of the line, and iuiproveci qua-
lity and a !letter sellntg system for
the meditate will lncreane it at the
other. 13x' better rations 13 nu+nut
11(11 1110x0 expmtaire foodstuffs or
more food, for that matter, but a
better arrangement ill the ration of
feeding-stuffs available for use, 1n
n some casts this may result in a
f lowering of the eo,t cif the feed ; in
others it may rnereas0. 1:) Koine
g. cases the feed;; at hand tney uet be
.n8ici0nt for the purpose of cut]l-
pounding a balanced ration, -and
81 certain other' stuffs, must be pur-
r elta5e1 to supply the deficiency. But
lhatovor the cfrcunl•:tances arc, it
pays, generally, providing the cows
are worth feeding at all, to feed a
ration compounded so as to supply
n I the proper nu.tri0nt en about. f,ho
s !'roper proportions for uillc produo-
f tion,
It is easy figuring increased pro-
_ fits from keeping better cows, but
E more difficult, eontetimes, 11) rind the
e CCwn. The most profitable :lefty
herds on this eontileet have chiefly
been built up from foundation stock
f the founder happened to have.
about hint when c perations shat be-
gan, and by judicious selection of
the females and the use of sires
1 red in a milking line, the unlit
yield has been gradually ralinecl. It
is rather a hit-and-miss game, try-
ing to buy hector cows than :me has
in his own herd. The rational way
ta:, improve is to find out, first, what
one's own herd is doing, and chit -
ionto from it all cows giving less
than a minimum amount of milk.
Good dairy cows are not for sate,
as a rule, except 'in the dispersion
of a herd; and, anyway, a man can
build up a held of good producers
from his own atoelc about as quid•. -
le and certainly at less emit, than
by purchasing outright.
At the end of the line there is the
possibility of increasing returns by
producing a better article, and this
involves, generally, nothing More
than a little better care of the pro-
duct, in the handling of the milk
and the maitnfa0ture and sale of it,
in whatever form it is disposers -of.
The dairyman who will not improve
the quality of his product, if it is,
say, butter, until the. price of but-
ter gets higher, is unlikely ever to
improve at all, but will general*.
continue to sell his' goods for the
lowest price such commodity sells
for. Improvement in quality is the
one controllable means of raising
prices. Better feeding and caro of
the cows, more efficient help fn car-
ing for them, a better and cleaner
method of manufacturing the but-
ter, and, last of all, but essential-
ly important, a modern way of sel-
ling the products. These are some
of the things that will increase the
profits of dairy farming.
•
WOOD ASHES FOR CLOVER
pp Isle of Wight, he
1 be English railways.
is 84 per cent, of the national in
come conies from taxes, only 10 pe
cent, from other sources.
Grown from a pip planted i
1850, 111) apple tree at Newbury ha
just produced about 20 bushels o
fruit,
Each year about $50,000 is expen
creel in sprinkling the streets a
London with sand to prevent til
horses from slipping.
The Glasgow ship Bcnlee arrived
at Plymouth, after an absence 0
39 months from the United King-
dom. She sailed 70,000 miles,
Mr. Rttdyard Kipling has one of
the largest armories of pipes in
England, and everyone of them
shows evidence of long and hard
scl.Vlc0,
Nol fewer than five out of twelve
jurors at an inquest at the North-
East London Coroner's Court were
unable to write their names or even
spell them.
In several London printing estab-
lishments women are employed as
compositors, folders, numerical
printers, perforators, wire stitchers
and boolc sewers.
A woman passenger by a train
flour Bishops Stortford to London
pulled the communication cord be-
cause her spectacles had fallen out
et the carriage wtedow.
The recent amalgamation of the
Mi 'land and London and North-
western has put an end to all com-
petition between the two leading
railway companies of England.
During July and August 03,175
tons of meat were received at the
London Central Markets, as com-
pared with 00,200 tons in the corre-
sponding- months of last year.
A hundred years ago Cardiff had
cnly four hundred houses and a,
population of two thousand. It has
now nearly fifty thousand Houses
and the population is close on two
hundred thousand.
The ""fastest railway run" of a
booked train in the summer of 190e
has been on the North-Eastern, at
a speed of 01.7 miles per hour. The
next on the Caledonian at 00,0 miles
per hour,
William Meanley, aged 6, of
Scarborough, an Indian Mutiny and
Crimean veteran, has, through the
intervention of the Duke of Con-
naught, ben granted a pension of a
shilling a day from the Royal Hos-
pital at Chelsea.
Hull newsboys are subscribing for
the erection of a brass tablet to the
memory of one of their comrades,
lbert Spencer, a fatherless lad of
-3, who lost his life in an endeavor
to rescue another boy, who was
saved from drowning,
A former dog catcher of the Me-
tropolitan Police, while carrying
cut his duties in London, received
no fewer than thirteen bites. The
last bite was by a fox terrier, and
was so severe that he was sent for
treatment to the Pasteur Institute
at Paris.
Few are aware of the extent to
which London is bridged over. In
all, it seems, there are no fewer
than 75 bridges. Of those 19 are
railway bridges, three aro bridges
over roads (such as Holborn Via-
duct), and 53 are bridges which con-
nect private premises.
Patrick Reynolds, who resides
near Longford, has been a smoker
of tobacco Inc 00 years. Ho took to
the use of the weed at the agt of
f3, and is therefore now 109 years
of age. Reynolds, who has been
thrice married, has spent all his i.to
on a farni, and is in good health,
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carry hfnl intro the drawing -room. reason had the Wren in making calm her.
Dr. Slater was fetched, ancl' having those elaborate preparationsforthe
bandaged his head, told us to let assassination of the Prince .
slim remain quiet for an hour or "There were two reasons. Ono
so, then left. In the mean time the was that by the e':ecution of the
Bulgarian Minister, Hoesch, arriv- deed they were empowered to raise
ed, apparently in a great hurry,
was 'introduced and had a long in-
terview with the Prince in private.
The scene was a hideous one. Ne
ther of us could bear it longe
therefore we withdrew, leaven
Hickman with Edna and her charge
Tho chronicle of this strung
upon post -obits large sums, repay- chapter of my life's history is fin
able when the ,young Prince came fished,
r
10 the accession, and, secondly, they There is no more to tell, say
..Afterwards we adjourned into the lead found out that ]re had, by some perhaps to explain—as Sir Henr
means discovered the hue defal-
_! ' , g
library. Some champagne was Blundell, the specialist on menta
!drunk, and the three men smoked, cations which Baer been made in the diseases, explainer) to Inc in hi
•'speaking often in their own la eu- Ministry of Finance at Sofia, and consulting -teens in Harley Street
the cause of my sexiest years. Sue
an experience, it seemed, was no
neknown in medical science, and h
made it clear to me that the bio
I had accidentally dearth myself i
Hickman's rooms had so altered th
balance of my brain—already of
fected by the cab accident durin
my blindness—that toy intellec
stopped like a watch. I lost al
knowledge of the past, and from th
moment of my recovering conscious
ness commenced an entirely ne
life. This extended through th
long period, nearly six years, unti
had struck my head against th
marble statue in the drawing -roe
at Denbury, when my brain, re
stored again to its normal capacity
lost all impression of events whicl
bac! occurred during its abnorma
state. This, of course, accounted
for my extraordinary unconsciou
life, nay inverted tastes, and nl
parting with the woman I loved so
fondly,
And what of her, you ask?
She hacl, during that period o
my unconsciousness, heeeme sati
ated by the gaiety of the brilliant
Court at Vienna, and the tragi
death of her devoted mother, the
Empress, at the hand of Luccheni
the anarchist, caused her to prefer
a life quiet, free, and untrammel-
led. Knowing her royal birth, how-
ever, I dared not ask her hand in
marriage, and it was not until many
weeks later, after the woman Na-
talie Joliet had been confined as a
homicidal patient in Woking Asy-
lum, Edna Grainger had; owing to
Mabel's clemency, escaped to the
Continent, the ex -Minister Boesch
and his companion Gechkuloff had
been extradited from Bow Street
to Sofiia to take their trial for their
gigantic defalcations upon the State
Treasury, and I had sold Denbury
and made an end of the financial
business which stood in my name,
that she complained to me of her
loneliness.
'With eager, trembling heart I
tools her white hand in mine and
Put to her the question. I knew
it was presumptuous, almost un-
heard of. Bet, reader, you may
readily imagine what overwhelming
joy arose within me when she threw
Tier arms passionately, about
P Y, my
neck, and as answer raised her face
and gave me a waren fond kiss,
Our life to -day is very even, very
uneventful, idyllically happy. Un-
der her second title of Countess of
Klagenfurt we were soon afterwards
married. Wo spend part of our
time at Heaton, with which she is
charmed now that it is swept and
garnished, ancl the remainder at her
own mediaeval Castle of Mohaes,
one of the great ancestral estates
et' the Hapsbourg-L orraince in the
Tyrol, not far from Innsbruck,
which was presented to hot' as a
marriage gift by the Emperor,
Her Imperial Highness the Arch-
duchess Mario -Elizabeth -Mabel no
longer exists. At the outset I macre
it quite plain that I had not writ-
ten here my true name. I did so
at my wife's suggestion, for al-
though 1115 real name is probity*,
useful to the tw,1 men into whose! beetle but, by that strange rombin- known to most of those who. t•ead
•let�.11na I heel K0 suddr)11y a11(1 rlion of circumstances which so of- this record of my strange aclvan-
npe,lna:,,ly Wien. This proved seer- tr•n render truth stranger than fie- lures, yet the world is still in ig-
nc•.t, for ere long your 11 , 1:ea/me; (11,51, r,ot cull work was ecemn- norance of Mabel's actual social 1o•
13 )11 3' of greatest nae. On t1,u!1•li01(11 by another band," I re- Kitten. Him said that she had lno
desire to he pointed at as a Prin-
cess who married a commoner, and
1
have, of course, respected her
wish.
were, Having once embarked on 1 tired creceted by the young I r]nce, She sacrificed all fur my sake, and
he con',piracy with these two men,' who evidently had no knowledge of Nate and joy are ours at last,
age, so that _I might not understand feared that he might expose them."
all that was said. Subsequently '"But yon say that, although they
the Gleed was produced, and after a lead intention of assassinating flim,
considerable amount of hesitation tlioy clid not actually do so?" Hick -
and many promises on the part of man observed,
the Minister of Finance, his High- ""Nc, They were not the actual
Hess signed it. Then a witness was assassins."
required. Gechkuloff whispered to "Then who was?" demanded Ma -
me the suggestion that the signa- bel.
tune of Mr. Heaton, who was lying The woman stood in silence, her
1,1 the adjoining room half-consoi- laps hard -set, her face drawn.
mus, should be obtained, and have "The truth must be told," she
ing made him believe that he was said at last. "It is, I suppose, use -
signing abirthday book I got from less to try to conceal it now."
him the desired signature. Shortly "Enter I The guilty one is there!"
afterwards, while sitting at the iW a pressed forward, and there
piano playing I felt a heavy blow, saw a thin grey-haired woman who
which for a few moments stunned had guilt written plainly upon her
me. Then gazing through into the cuawn white face. She had over -
adjoining room I saw two figures beard all our conversation, and had
struggling=the Prince and a wo- been compelled to remain in that
man For a few seconds he held chamber, there being no outlet.
her tightly, but with a furious twist "Joliet 1" gasped Mabel, amazed.
she freed herself and struck him "My maid 1" Then, addressing the
full in the chest with the small dag- cowering, trembling woman, she
ger in her hand. He staggered and demanded the truth.
fell backward upon the couch dy- We stood there astonished. There
ing. The scene struck terror into was a silence, long and painful.
the hearts of all of us, the two men The contortions of the guilty wo-
stancling near axe rigid in amaze- man's features were horrible; in
ment. The woman closed and lock- her black eyes burned a fierce light,
ed the door communicating be- and she trembled in every limb.
tween the two rooms, and left the "Yes," she cried hoarsely, after
house, while a few minutes later we the question bad been repeated, "I
also followed." killed him! I killed hum because 1
"You saw the woman's face?" in• was jealous 1 I thought that instead
quired Hickman. of coming to visit your Highness he,
"Most certainly," she answered. in reality, came to visit Miss Grain -
Then, continuing, said, "`The tragic ger. Therefore without knowing
denouement was so unexpected and why I did it, I dashed into the room
startling that at first neither men where Miss Grainger was at the
appeared to know how to act. Piano and attacked her. The Prince
Quickly, however, they saw that rose quickly and stretched out his
suspicion of the murder must fall arm to save her. Then rushing up -
upon them, owing, 1 suppose, to the on him I stabbed him to the heart 1
part they had played in Bulgarian Since that day," she added, in her
polities, and they at once made )I low voice, scarcely audible, "since
imperative that I should join in and that day I have lived upon the
carry out their scheme. As together meagre charity of Boesch, and yes -
we hurried along Gilston Road, terclay Dame here to take up a po-
they confessed to me flow they had sition as Miss Grainger's maid, '
contemplated the assassination of '"Your interests were mutual in
the young Prince after he had sign- the preservation of your secret,
ed the document, in order to re- therefore you resolved to adjust
your differences and live together,
eh ?" remarked Hickman.
She gave vent to a shrill peal of
hideous laughter, as though there
were something lnunorons in that
grim and terrible tragedy. It jar-
red upon our nerves, but it also
o..plained to use the ghastly truth.
Tho woman Natalie Joliet was
hopelessly insane.
"Your Highness recognizes the
state of the wretched woman's
they pointed oat illrtt the witness mind," observed Edna Grainger,
n•.nve the heir to the throne, and
Haus strengthen the hands of the
People's Party, They explained
how they had discovered a cellar
beside the Thames, close to the Tur-
pentine Factory, rat Battersea
Bridge, and had intended that on
the Prince emerging from the house
at The Hiltons he should be accost-
ed by a man in police uniform, and
asked to walk to the pollee -stn tion,
pray to find himself entrapped. Now
),o the crime w 1q the blind gentle-
man who lied met with the accident,
and as his signai.uto was upon, the
with a pitying look. "She has bean
s ever since the homicidal frenzy
which seized her on that fatal night
rl,•C111aent executed. it was noecs- end 1 have now taken her beneath.
eery that; he should be silenced." my charge, for with me she is as
"'They intended to kill me 1" 1 docile as a child."
cried. The truth was a startling one,
"Most assuredly," she respondocl, We all three stood by in wondering
,outing towards mo. "When yon silenee. Tho crime had been coni-
emesged from the house yon wore mitred in a sadden a0oe88 of mad -
not by the than who acted the., part ees8 by that miserable ercatnre
ry poria coacctable, rt L"',' 11 !•nils oho could not be held responsible
uu, and being b]i,1d. at once fell in. for her actinns,
to the trap, 1 saved yell, fee I saw ""Boesch and Gcclikuloff, with
,het b5 reeuring your silence in ex- !:heir elaborate preparations for the
•h)Lug' for your life I : i,„uld also aeletesinatiun of the heir to the Bel -
secure yon + an agent wile might r;arian throne, were mnt'dol•0rs at
nr,rnim; when wo parted, a0Ce1n ;'marked,
pa)lierl by (li's•hkllloff, I visited your f "There seems no doubt," said Ed-
latu,hers, and made 0 search 41111)1' ea -that large Bums lucre. raised
1 ascc.i'tain who and what you if: London and in Paris upon the
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PAID IN ADVANCE,
A gentleman who was in the ha-
bit of dining daily at a certain res-
taurant, said to tho Irish waiter,
who attended him:
"Instead of tipping you every day
Pat, I'll give you your tip in a lump
sum at the end of the month."
"Would ye moind paying me in
advance, sort 1" asked the waste",
"'Well, that's rather a strange re-
quest," remarked the gentleman,
"`However, if yon ase in want of
some money now, here's half-a-
crown for you, But diel you dis-
trust nue that you asked for pay-
ment now
"Olt, no, sort," grinned Pat, poc-
keting the half-crown, "but Gi'm
1avin' here to -morrow!"
S1Yb—"This dress doesn't become
my complexion. 1 must change
it." lips ---"More expense 1 1 can't
stand it. ; you'.11 ruins me:" Glia --
"Von silly! I don't mean the dress
—1 mean the complexion,"
SEEDING.
As a rosnllt of applying two tons
of wood ashes per acre a year ago
last August to a field sown to fall
wheat, which was then seeded clown
last spring, a :Michigan correspon-
dent reports in the Ohio Farmer an
increase of ten bushels per acro In
the yield of wheat, while the effect
on the etovor seeding is still more
Marked, for on the part where the
ashes were applied he has a fine
uniform stand of clover, while on
the remaining portion the catch is
almost a failure, and la not expect-
ed to furnish one-fourth the hay the
other part will. On one strip bete
manure and ashes were applied, but
while this portion stands out plain-
ly front the part whore manure
alone was used, it seems little if any
ahead of the part where -only ashes
were applied. He estimates that
the ashes were worth four dollars
per ton for the wheat crop, and as
much more for the stand of clover,
The soil is a prairie loam, and was
much infested with sorrel, indicat-
ing that it was acid. The owner is
inclined to attribute the great be-
nefit of the treatment to its effect
is keeping down -the sorrel, and
whil0 the ashes doubtless had an
effect in rendering the conditions
less favorable to this weed, there
is no doubt that they, also had a
very positive effectin improving
conditions for the clover, by cor-
recting the acidity, as well its sup-
plying potash and a little phos-
phorus. Legumes revel in potash
and do not thrive in au aeid soil.
Lime and ashes. are specific ferliliz-
01.5 for clovei' and alfalfa. Phos-
phorus (contained in bone meal and
similar .fertilizers) is often of great
value as well,
SURE SIGN OF SILLINESS.
"I was Once aCel.usecl," says
Lieutenant -General. Baden-Powell,
"of mistrusting men tvitlu waxed
moustaches, 'Well, s0, 1:o a certain
extent, T do. It often means van-
ity, and sometimes drink, Certain -
1y, the `quiff.' or lock of hair which
seine lads wear on their foreheads
11 it -slue sign of silliness,"
The thorn a woman is set In her
W5ys and nl1ir1in11 the 173000 ,1I5 re-
sents being told of it,
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ELECTRICAL INJ UIII13S.
Most of the injiu'tos resulting
from electric shocks aro suffered by
linemen, non nn byt•1 l t -
S pit lA 1't )uw ,' -
1 41 11a118
1
es or by
brakemen on electric rail-
ways who happen to totuch the third
rail ; but with the multiplication of
trolley -lilies in city ani! 1'„untl'y,
and with the exteusioa of the sys-
tem of transmisaiolt of currents of
0norreoes voltage over long lines by
bare wires strung on poles, the dan-
ger to the general pub!Io es con-
stantly inrrcasillg,
Must of the accidents aro produc-
r.n by alternating currents. This
is not heritage such currents are
more dangcruuse than the direct
intermit, but because they aro usual-
ly of higher voltage. It is not
known how high the voltage must
le to 10,118e death. Much depends
j upon the mode of contact, whether
the current passes through only a
small part of the body, as when tiie
two points of contact are in the
51/1110 arm or leg, or whether it pass-
es from ono arm to the other or
from the. hand to the foot.
A partial degree of insulation
:way also precept serious Cense-
c;ueucea, as when min is standing on
perfectly dry ground or when the
contact is made through the clothes.
An English writer on medical elec-
tricity says that it has-been proved
that a 10E411 with dry clothing can
sit on the third rail, which carries
a direct current oe five hundred and
f'fty volts, and grasp the outer rail
with his hands without receiving
any shock whatever, but the experi-
ment is not recommended to the
0111.10115.
W11011 ono has received a severe
electric shock which has not been
immediately fatal, he presents signs
of greatly luwci eel vitality. He is
1111(10nsee011s 00 SCIn1Cenaetml7S, with
almost imperceptible pulse, irregu-
lar and feeble inspiration, cold,
clammy skin, relaxed muscles and
dilated pupils.
If ho is still in contact with the
live wire, the muscles will be
strongly contracted, and'it may be
difficult to release hint. Any one
who attempts eo drag him away
Omelet have laic hands protected by
rubber gloves or by a dry coat fold-
ed saceral times, and he must sea
that -the pla0c where he stands is
dry, and that his foot is not in con-
tact with a rail.
The treatment consists mainly in
stimulation of the heart and res-
piration. Aromatic spirit of am-
monia or some other stimulant
should be given if the elan can
swallow, and artificial respiration
should be practised. This may be
clone by placing the person flat en
the ground and compressing the
chest firmly but gently for a fete
seconds, and repeating sixteen or
eighteen tines a minute. Tho legs
should he raised, and the nrma and
legs rubbed in a direction toward
the body. At the same time, hot
bottles may be applied to the body.
—Youth's Companion,
• CRUET MEDICINE CHEST.
It is not realized as well as it
might be that a well-filled cruet is
a small medicine chest.
Salt is a cathartic, in the close of
half an ounce to an ounce. Its
liberal -use also prevents or euros
"worms" in children. Salt and
nater is a splendid tonin for weak
01• tired eyes, and a gargle of salt
and water will cure a relaxed throat
The medicinal. properties of mus-
tard are well known and a mustard
footpath is a favorite way of curing
a colts. A mustard plaster is, how-
ever, preferable to the old-time
mustard poultice, which can be used
in cases of emergency. 11Iustard
and water es alt emetic.
Vinegar comes next. xt. 'It is an as-
tringent, and is useful in allaying
a dwelling caused by a fall, and will
avhen greatly diluted with svat0e,
101111 a soothing lotion for eye -strain
and nervous headache, and is a me-
dicine close to )land should soda,
potash, or ammonia ever be -taken
in an overdose,
Olive oil reveals its usefulness.
daily. An overworked society wo-
man went to it celebrated physici-
an recently and asked hint :how she
eceild rid hersolfi. of her haggard
old loolc. "sly the use of olive oil,"
Kaid lie. "Just as touch outward and
inward application of it as you Dan
manage," It is a laxative, is said
10 strengthen the nervone system,
whilst it certainly norltrhhes the
hair and vitalizes the slchl, • las out -
yard application ,will strengthen it
weak chest and luings. Its value has
long been known, Lord Bacon writ,
ing that "rubbing this Ode with
olive oil is very conducive tri lunge-.
vita,"
Pepper is it stimulant, Sometimes
a little plaeod 'de 0 hollow tooth
will relieve tcetbaclio; pepper and
water euros a relived throat; used
judicioesly it aids a week dv;cs-
tion. Cayenne has the sante virtues
found in pepper, I,nt emphttsir.r,l,
`'Well, why c'. ,11'1; yon say yon
wish you wore ,t man V' asked Mr.
Potts, during, the little discussion
he was having with his spouse
'bout some 'matters of domestic
management, ''Because T don't
wish anything c,f the•scIrt, ,she re,
torted. "1only lvisliyen were
one., rl'