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The Brussels Post, 1904-9-15, Page 2it -Trod. The rr!cc f L!bcrty OR, A MIDNIGHT CALL' eLlneetnaceaMeneina n, rum,uuveuuauu API u 1100 11111 „ n CHAPTER V111, -(Continued).. "It does, indeed," David said, grimly. "It is W1licio Collins gone mad, Gnboriau in extremis, Du Bois- goboy, suffering from delirium trem- ens. X go to Gates's house here, and am solomnly told in the midst back sitting -room. Would you mind at the surroundings that I can swear placing them against tho fanlight for to that I have never been there be- Inc?" fore; the whole mad expedition is David compiled readily enough. launched by the turning of the handle tie was growing credulous and inter - of a telephone in the house of a ails- ested in spite of himself, At Dell's tinguished, trusted, if prosaic, eel- instigation he placed the steps before which we shall arrive at with in- tienec." "Can tee arrive at the number over the door with patience?" "Exactly what I wan coming to. I noticed an old pair of steps in the zee. Somebody gets hold of the synopsis of a story of mine, Heavens knows how—" "That is fairly easy. The synopsis was Short, I suppose? "Only a few lines, say 1,000 words a sheet of paper. My writing is very small. It was tucked into a halfpenny open envelop -a magazine office envelope, marked 'Prof, urgent.' There were the proofs of a short story in tho buff envelope." "Which reached its destination in duo course'?" "So I hear this morning. Ilut how on esu•tb---" "Easily enough. The whole thing gets slipped into a larger open en- velope, the kind of big -mouth affair that enterprising flews send out cir- culars and patterns witli. This falls into the hands of too woman who Is at the bottom oI this and every other case, and she reads the syno- psis from sheer curiosity, The ease tlts her care, and there yon are. Mind you, I don't say that this is how the the fanlight," Bell directed, thing actually happened, but how it David complied eagerly. A sharp might have done so. When did you cry of surprise escaped him as he post the letter?" looked up. The change was appar- "I can't give you the date. Say ent. Instead of the ngures 818 110 tan rays." could read now the change to 219 - "And there would be no hurry for a fairly indifferent 9, but one that a reply," Bell said, thoughtfully, would have passed muster without "And you had no cauee for worry on criticism by ninety-nine people out of that head. Nor need the woman a hundred. With a strong light be - who found it have kept the envelope beyond the delay of a single post, which is only a matter of an hour or so in London. If you go a little farther we find that money is no ob- ject, hence the £1,000 offer and the careful, and doubtless expensive, in- quiry into your position. Steel, I am going to enjoy this case." "You're welcome to all the fun you can get out of it„" David said, grimly. "So far as I run concern- ed, I fail to see the humor. Isn't this the office you are after?" Bell nodded and disnppea.recl, pre- sently to return with two exceedingly rusty, keys tied together with a drab piece of tape. Ile jingled them on his long, slender forefinger with an air of positive enjoyment. "Now come along," he said. "I feel like a boy who has marked down something rare in the way of a hird's nest. We will go back to Brunswick Square exactly the same way as you approached it on the night of the great adventure." the fanlight and mounted them, Over his heed were the figures 21S 311 elon- gated shape and formed in white por- celain. "'pow then," Bell said, slowly. "Take this pocket-knife, apply the blade to the right-hand lower half cd the bottom of the 8 -to half the zniall 0, in fact -and I shall be ex- tremely surprised if the quarter 000 - tion doesn't 001130 away from the glass of the fanlight, leaving the rest of the figure intact. Very gen- tly, please. 1 want you to convince yourself that the piece comes away because it is Molten, and not be- cause the pressure has cracked it. Now then." The point of the knife was hardly under the edge of the porcelain be- fore the segment of the lower circle chopped into Steel's hand, Ile could feel the edges of the cement sticking to his fingers. As yet the full force of the discovery was not apparent to ham. "Go Out into the road and look at CHAPTER IN. "Any particular object in that course?" David asked. "There ought to bo an object in everything that even an irrational man says or does," Bell replied. "I have achieved some marvellous re- sults by following up a single sen- tence uttered by a patient. Besides, on the evening 3n question you were particularly told to approach the house from the sea front." "Somebody might have been on the look -out near the Western Road entrance," Steel suggested. "Possibly. I have another theory. Hero wo are. The figures over the fanlights run from 187 upwards, get- ting gradually to 219 as you breast tho slope. At one o'clock in the morning every house would bo 301 darkness. Did you find that to bo 001 "I didn't notice a light anywhere till 7 reached 219." "Good again. And you could only find 219 by the light over the door. Naturally you wore not interested in and would not have noticed any other number. We11, ]tele 3s 218, where I propose to enter, and for which purpose I have _ tho keys, Como along." David followed wonderingly. The houses in Brunswick Square ere somewhat irregular 1n point of arch- itecture, and Nos. 218 and 119 were the only matched pair therm abouts. Signs wore not wanting, as Bell pointed out, that at one time the houses had been occupied as one residence. Tho two entrance -halls one person. Also ascertain why, onshlr e et.iayri V`Y Olen earth the owners aro willing Lo lot a r•ly house this sizm and 3n this situation for a sum like 4:80 per annum. Let us go and take the keys back to the agents," Steel ias nothing loth to and him - sell in the fresh air again. Some progress had been made thio the opening of a chess -match between masters, and yet the more Steel thought of it the more muddled and bewildered did he become. No com- plicated tangle in ilio way of a plot had ever been anything like the skein this was, "l'ln like a child In your hands," ho paid. "I'm a blind man 011 the end of a string; a man timed with wine h1 a labyrinth. And if over I help a Woman again-" I7e paused as he caught sight of Ruth Gates's lovely face through the window of No. 219. Iter features were tinged with melancholy; there wase. look of deepest sympathy and feeling and compassion in her glor- ious eyes, She slipped back es Steel bowed, and the rest of his speech was lost in a sigh. hind the figures the clumsy 9 would never have been noticed at all. The very simplicity and ingenioesness of the scheme was its safeguard. "I should like to have the address of the man 10110 thought that out," David said, drily. "Yes, I fancy that you are dealing with quite clever people," Bell re- plied. "And now I have shown you how utterly you have been deceived over the number we will go a little farther. For the present, the way in which the furniture trick was worked must remain a mystery. But there has been furniture here, or this room and the hall would not have been so carefully swept and garnish- ed whilst the rest of the house re- mains in so dirty a condition. If my eyes don't deceive me I can see two fresh nails driven into 111e archway lending to the back hall. On those nails hung the curtain that prevent- ed you seeing more than was neces- sary. Are you still incredulous as to the house where you had your re- markable adventure?" "I confess that my faith has been seriously shaken," David admitted. "But about the furniture ? And about my telephone call from 111i•. Gates's town house? And about my adventure taking place in the very next house to the one taken by him at Brighton? And about Mies Gates' agitation when sh0 learnt my identi- ty 2 Do you call then coinci- dences?" "No, I don't," Bell said, promptly, "They aro merely evidences of clever folks taking advantage of an excel- lent Strategic position. I said just now that it was an important point that Mr, Gates had merely taken the next door furnished. But we shall come to that side of the theory in due course. I•iave you any other objection to urge'?" "Ono more, and I have finished for the present. When I came here the other night -provided of course that I did come here -immediately upon my entering the dining -room the. place was brilliantly, illuminated. Now, directly the place was void the supply of electric current would be out off at the meter. So far as X can judge, soma two or three units must have been consumed during the visit. There could not bo many less than ten lights burning for an hour, Now, those unites must show on the mete. Can you road all electric meter?" "My dear fellow, there is nothing easier. '• "Then let us go down into the basement and settle the matter. There is pretty sure to bo a card on were back to back, so to speak, and tho meter mode up to the day when what bad 0hviously been a doorway the last tenant went out. See, the leading from one to the other had been plastered up within compara- tively recent memory. The grins and clusty desolation of Down in the basement by the area en empty house seemed to be ,slip- door stood the meter. Botli switch- plomenLcd here by a deeper desola- tion, Not inset there was any dust on the ground floor, which seemed a singular thing seeing that elsewhere the boards were powdered with it, and festoons of brawn cobwebs hong everywhere. 1.3011 smiled. approving- ly. as David Steel pointed the .fact out to him. "Do you note another singular point? the farmer °.eked. "No," David said, thoughtfully; "X --steel The tun side -shutters in the bay-wixidons aro closed, and there le the saane vivid 001111501 iniad in the sonire window. And the color of the walls is exactly the same. The faint discoloration by Lilo fireplace is a perfect facsimile." 7n fact, this is t•hcaoom you were in the other night," lien said, quietly. "Impossible I " Steel cried. "The blind may be an accident, so might the fading of- the distemper, 1.381 the f111•nittil'a, the engravings, the fit- ,.ings generdi;y--" Are all capable of eel expltnatlriii,, supply is cut off now." As Steel spoke he snapped down the hall switch and no result came, CI7,A1'TER N. A bell tolled mournfully with a slow, swinging cadence like a passing bell, On winter nights folks, pass- ing the house of the Silent Sorrow, compared the doleful clanging to the boom that carries the criminal from the cell to the scaffold. Every night ail the year round. the little valley of Longdean echoed to that mournful clang. Perhaps it was for this reason that a wandering poet christened the place as tho )louse of the Silent Sorrow. For seven years this had been go- ing on now, until nobody but stran- gers noticed It. From half -past sev- en till eight o'clock that hideous bell rang its swinging, melancholy note. Why it was nobody could possibly tell. Nobody in the village had over been beyond the great rusty gates leading to a dark drive of Scatch firs though one small boy bolder than the rest had once climbed the lichen strewn stone wall and penetrated the thick under -growth beyond. Hence he had returned, with white face and staring eyes, with the information tbat great wild dogs dwelt in the thickets. Subsequently the villgge poacher confirmed this information. He was not exactlyiloquacious on tho subject, but merely hinted that the grounds of Longdean Grange were not salubrious for naturalists with a predatory disposition. Indeed. on moonlight nights thoso apocryphal hounds were heard to bay and whimper. A shepherd up late one spring night averred that he had seen two of them fighting. But no- body could say anything about them for certain; also it was equally cer- tain that nobody knew anything about the people at Lougdean Grange The place had bean shut up for thir- ty years, being uniterstood to be in Chancery, when the announcement went forth that a distant relative of the family bad arranged to live there in ful,ut•e. What the lady of the Crango was liko nobody could say. She had ar- rived late one night accompanied by a niece, and from that moment she had never been beyond the house. None of the largo staff of servants ever left the grounds unless it was to quit altogether, and then they were understood to leave at night with a large bonus in money as a re- compense for their promise to evacu- ate Sussex without delay. Every- thing was ordered by telephone from I1righton and left at the porter's lodge. The porter wee a stranger, also he was deab and exceedingly ill- tempered, so that long since the vil- lage had abandoned the hope of get- ting nnything out of him. One ra- tional human being they saw from tho Grange occasionally, a big man with an exceedingly benevolent face and mild, large, blue eyes -0 man full of Cliristinn kindness and given to Iargesse to the village boys. The big gentleman went by the name of "Mr, Charles," and was understood to have a lot of pigeons at which lie wan exceedingly fond. But who ")Mir. Charles" was, or how he had got that name, it would have puzzled the wisest heed of the village to toll. And yet, but for the mighty clamor of that hidcoue bell and that belt of wilderness that surrounded it, Long - dean Grange was a cheerful -looking house. Any visitor emerging from the drive would have been delighted with it. For the lawns were trint and truly kept, the beds were blaz- ing masses of flowers, the rreePers over the Grange were not allowed to riot too extravagantly. And yet the stl•arlgo haunting 0001£0 of fear was there. Now and again a huge black head would uplift from the cop- pice growth, and a long, rumbling 1 business in the summer and had to deft down in the winter, 110 long'or depends on the raw material from a limited prescribed section of country. The territory fur three oe four hem - dyed miles eurroanding it is theirs, 011(1 when 11111k or cretin ie scarce in one locality, they can draw more largely on Baine other, They can keep up the staking of butter during es were turned ofT, but on Bell press- ing them down Steel was enabled to light the Passage. "There's the card," 13011 exeiailnod. "Made}gyp to 25th -June, since when the house has been void. Just a minute whilst I read the meter. Yes, that's right, ;According to this the card in your hand, provided that the light hos not been used since the in- dex was taken, ehouid read at 1521, What do (you mance of the card'?" "1532,` David cried, "Which means eleven units since the meter was last taken. Or, if you litre to put it from your point of view, elev- en units used the night that I came hero. You aro quite right, Dell, You have practically convinced me that I have been inside the real 219 for the /fret time to -day, And yet the mare one prohcs the myotey the more astounding does it become, What do .you propose to clo next?" "Find out the name of tho last tenant or owner•," Bell Suggested. "Discover what the two houses wore. used for when they, Were occupied by ,% ON Tit FARM cbr.9�.,t9vi,al";lA'ai 6f✓+aT`'dia'TA9 THE FA1;111 SEPARATOR.. W. W. Wimple, superintendent of the dairy department at the St. Louis 1Cspotlltion, thus sums up the arguments In favor of the use of the sepna'atoe art the furan whore either the milk or the cream goes to the cr'eamer'y, and he mattes a eery strong showing in its favor. 11e says r An compared with the old-fashioned way, It eliminates a good (Intl of work and oxponso. The man who used to haul lits milk to a cr0vunery to be separated, started early in the morning in order to get there on Lime and after travelling over rough roads for several hour's, wait- ed for another )four or two for 1115 turn to come, when his milk was Un- loaded and be was .given back the skim milk, taken from the receptacle in which had been mixed the milk from a hundred different farms and a thousand different caws, some of this clean and some dirty, sono SOUL' and 001110 sweet, in 0111 conditions turd handled by all kinds of pe0P1e. Then ho succeeded in reaching his liomo after travelling through the hot een in rho summer, and late 1 the after- noon, having spent the whole day almost in delivering probably a small amount of milk, and arrived et house tired out and with his team jaded, having 20111h Win a lot of clabbered, dirty milk to feed a lot oe hungry, scrub calves. This process was discouraging to ifim and resulted eventually, in his quitting the business. It was not only tedious and (110001130, but exponr- S10e and DEVOID OF PROFIT. Tho expense connected with handling the milk after it was received at the skimming station macho it necessary for the (reaMCry ratan to pay a low price for the butter fat. Tho Octet of this poor 111010 on the calves that were fed had a tendency to impress( the man with the idea that it was impossible to raise a calf on skim milk, and it certainly was on that kind. In a community where a skimming station or a whole milk creamery was started, the success of it depended entirely upon the number of patrons it had. When a few of the best patrons chopped out, it was necessary to lower the prico on those 10110 were loft in order to increase the margin of profit out of which the ad- ditional expense per pound could be realized. The new system, the individual shipper's plan that has been adopted contemplates au entirely different state of affairs. The man who has purchased a hand separator and placed it on his farm has made him- self absolute.y independent in every respect. Ile separates his milk im- mediately after it is taken from the cow, and puts his cream in the recep- tacle he may have for shipping it in, and immediately takes the waren, sweet skim milk that is clean and pure, and gives it to the calves at the proper time and in the proper condition. They like it, thrive on it, and in every instance where used intelligently are living proofs of the feasibility ,al raising a calf on skim - In this way the value of this skier milts has been enhanced materially. This cream that has been taken from the milk can be set to one side and, with proper care, need only be taken to the market every other day in hot weather, and twice a week in cold weather, It can bo taken In the morning or in the evening, es suits the convenience of the fanner. It amounts in bulk and weight to about one-tenth of the milk that was hauled in the old vvay, there- fore it reduces the expense, of getting it to town. The man is 11ot com- pelled to patronize one market. If all the markets aro such that lie is not justinixt in shipping at all, he can churn 3t into butter himself, and put it on the market as A FINISHED PRODUCT, He saves the expense of Hauling and the time necessary for making in tho milk; he 00041011110es time by go- ing fewer Wines and selecting his own Lino for making the trip. The ad- vantage of centralization which collies in line with this way of do- ing business arises from the oppor- tunity presented of doing a largo busieess and thereby roduccs the cost of Manufacturing a pound of butter. Tho creamery that used to do a good Prot W, A. Henry, that oats torn the ideal grain food for the horse, The kernel proper eonta1101 a large tlnleuat of nutriment. '1110 hells sum rounding the grata give the material bulk, tending ldrr0hY t0 preventt over feeding, and at the same time - ten- dering the food light and easy of dl- geatiolr by the fluids of the stomach, Where horses are bard worked ono should depot from the oat 1•1tlan with caution, and learn by experience what can be nccomplishote P120 far- mer alight well try hran and gluten feed as partial substitutes for outs. Remember, (hat bran is light and Partially inert, so that it may taico the place of a small portion of the hay, formerly cousumed. On the other hand, it furnishes to the horse probably thrcodlftivs 01 tliroe•fotu'tlts as much nutriment as the same weight of oats. In uslhlg glutin, feed, remember tlut.t it is considerably higher in protein than oats and al- most or quite as rieh as the carbo- hydrates. In the trial reduce the oat allowance one-third and substi- tute a mixtuee of bran and gluten food, equal ports by weight. Remember, too, that corn can al- ways be fed to horses with satisfac- tion, There is a limit, however, to its use, and in such, cases as these the supply should not bo itu'g°. For ono feed each day allow a couple of pounds of corn in Substitution for the same of oats. The corn will fur- nish more energy than the sante weight of oats. Remember that corn causes horses to sweat easily if fed in largo quantities. It io 1t bettor winter than summer food, through some may be fed in the sum- mer. Corn is a strong, healthy food, and is - much appreciated by hard -worked horses, because it does furnish so much energy, In the southern part of the corn belt horses live almost wholly upon corn. Farther north, where oats aro the main crop, they subsist almost en- tirely on the latter green. 'A com- bination of the two will usually prove more economical and better than to feed either so exclusively as is customary. growl condo from between a double row of White teeth. For the clogs were no fiction, they lived and bred in the fifteen or twenty acres of cop- pice round the house, where they were fed regularly and regularly thrashed without mercy if they show- ed in the garden. Perhaps they look- ed more fierce and truculent than they really were, being Cuban blood- the entire year to almost a univc'sal hounds, but they gave a weird color thing, In this way they are able to the place and lent it new terror to pay a good price for butter fat, to the simple folk around. and the man in tba locality that is The bell was swinging dolefully entirely isolated, will got just as over the stable -turret; it rang .Out lis Passing note till the clock struck eight and then mercifully ceased. At the seine moment precisely as she had done any time the Last seven year's the lady of the /teem descend- ed the broad, black oak staircaso to better quality of Metier out of it, in the hall. A butler of the old-feshi-I view of the feet that it has been fonod typo bowed to her and annoucr taken from the neink immedlately af- ter the milking is done. Tifese are some of (h0 advantages that aro to ba gained be, this sys- tem of dairying. These advantages much o ut o 1 f his product as if all o his neighbors -wore engaged in the same thing. In addition to this, whore, the cream is properly bandied it is con- ceded that it is possible to make a od that dinner was ready. He might have been the butler of nn archbishop from his mien and deportment, yet his evening dens was -seedy and shiny TO SAVE APPLE TREES, A farmer writes in an exchange as follows :-As apple trees should nev- er be permitted to grow. up in two main branches from a fork for it is almost sure to split and break down with its first heavy load of fruit. Or it will sometimes split down with the wind before it bears much fruit. I lost several valuable trees in this way before I lecurned how to save them. First I tried tying the two branches together by passing heavy wire around them twisting se- curely, o-curely, But this was a failure, for the )vire cut the tree, causing it to rot and soon break off at the wire. I finally succeeded perfectly in the following Manner. About five feet above the fork bore a half-inch (role through each branch, straight through the two branches. Now take a piece of No. 9 galvanized wire a little more than twice as long as the distance from outside of one 11010 to outside of the other. Double wire and pass through one hole snug up to loop, put a bolt 1-2x3 inches into the loop and pass the double wire through the other hole, lay another bolt between the wires and twist them securely with pliers. In a lave years the holes will grow completely shut so that no air or water cell got in to decay the tree, and it will stand under the heaviest load of fruit that can crowd onto it, If you have a tree that is going this way, try this plan before the weight of leaves and fruit pulle the branches apart. It is a good plan to put a stick between the wires and twist it up tight. 4 NEST OF BANE -NOTES. The Bretons are a cautious people, and prefer to hide their money ra- ther than keep it in a bank• Ono of them the other day, Having diad a small fortune left him, could think of no better hiding -place than a drawer in an old cupboard in an at- tic which lie serenely thought no 0110 would suspect, Going one day to pay a visit to his hoard, lie found his bank -notes all transformer] into a beautiful soft nest, Harboring a Tempe/ of youeg mice. Not a note was intact, not a number visible; the whole was reduced to a state of wool. LETTER FRE OVER THE SEA. Tolls of Good News Received From ]3• Calgary, Atlas W Brought ght Joy Into Ile Life. More is a (encore and unsolicited letter from an Englishman who was inmost led to dike his own We on account of what he suffered from itching plies, lie had doctors' ad- vice and remedies to no end and, af- ter sixteen years' of &mitering was without hope of -recovery. Ile tells in his letter how be accidentally heard of De'. Chases Ointment. 114, /11311301 Road, Margate, England. I9dmanson, Bates & Co., Toronto, Gan., Dear Shrs,-I fuel it my duty to write to acknowledge the great good Dr. Chase's Ointment ]ins done for me. X had 51lf5ored from itching piles for over sixteen years, and suticred badly at that, There Bove been times when I could and would ]lave put an end to it all if it had not been for the thought of mooting God. Some people may think I am stretch- ing it a point, but those who bavo suffered as X have win know. At other (Imes I have felt I could take a knife and cut away the parts until I ce.110 to the bottom of the evil, but Hanle Cod it is all past. It was quite by accident that I came to know of Dr. Chase's Oint- ment. X have nail doctors' advice and remedies to nu enc) next could not say. )tow much I spent in that sixteen years. I had a tlaigary pa- per sent to me end t'iere 'I saw your Ointment advertised. It just met my case, es it mid for itching piles and saved painful operations. As I could not get Dr. Chase's Ointment from my chemist, I wrote to my brother, 11.1'1'. H. Shelley of Calgary, Alta., and lie scut m0 one box. Before I had used one-third of the box X was perfectly cured by this ointment. I am 01100 you will be surprised to get this letter from this corner of the world, but I bolt it my dety, to acknowledge the great good Dr, Chase's Ointment has done for me, You are at liberty to make use of this letter as you see lit. All 1 should like to say to anyone who suffers from this dreadful complaint is X know it cures. With many thanks, I remain, Yours respectfully, T. Shelley. If you enclose a stamp for repay, err, Shelley would no doubt gladly answer any question about his case. But there are similar eases among your own friends and neighbors with whom you can Have a personal in- terview. If you aro not acquainted with the merits of Dr. Chase's Oint- ment you will be surprised at the cures which are being brought about in your own neighborhood. No pre- paration has ever been more heartily endorsed by people who have used it and none has ever been so successful in curing piles. Dr, Chase's Ointment, GO cents a box, at all dealers, or ledmlunsatl, Bates & Co., Toronto. HOW TO 1}IIOEATHE. In tlicso health' articles attention hes often been directed to the r^!:.a= sity of proper breathing in order to increase tho physical well-being and to place the body in the best pos- sible condition for resisting the on- slaughts of disease. But it is not enough to tell people to breathe; many, with the best will in the world, do not know hove to breathe. It is not enough to sit iu a chair and tette a deep breath from time to time; nor con any one always be taking full inspirations, for that re- quires thought and special effort. We must breathe in the ordinary way most of the time, and supplement this by certain special exercises at given periods. Any form of exercise properly tak- en calls for increased respiratory ef- fort., and so may be called a breath- ing exercise; and this applies par- ticularly to rapid walking, which is the best 1111 -round exercise that it is given to nran to indulge in. But we can augment the utility of rapid walking (by which is meant a gait of from three to four miles nn hour) by combining with it a special breathing exercise. I.Inny parsons, walking in the city, make it a rule to 1111 the' lungs as full as they will 11018 of air each time they 001110 to a street -crossing, holding the breath until the farther side ci the street is reached. This is an excellent habit to fotgn, but it is not always possible to observe the rule W1111e dodging oars, cabs and ail omobiles, The best time for special 'breathing exercises is at night before retiring r nr before and in alis morning be o e the bath. Standing upright, with 111e head thrown hack, the mouth e1osod and the arms at the tide, rise gradually to the tiptoes, raise the arms slow- ly to the horizontal position, and keeping there well back of the body, breathe in as deeply 0s possible; then slowly lower the arms to the side, and come down flat-foot while ex- pelling the breath as fully 0s pos- sible. Repeat those movements about four tunes a minuto. Begin as be- fol'o, At do not stop when the arms are horrizontal. Centime to' raise them until they are stretched as high as possible, the hands not being al- lowed to 001110 together, but )sept apart the width of 111e shoulder's or a little more. Continuo to inhale until the bends aro high as possible, thold tho breath for two seconds, there exhale slowly and fully as the arms are lowered to the ride. Ph C80 exercises and many eerie- -lions of then grow easy with prat- tiro, and if performed night and meriting In a 8011 -aired room will Increase Wonderfully the vital ca- pitol Iy. Youth's Companion, `l'10A11'S. DA1JGITTlrl3., "Well, tilos, 14fulitganr diel you go to church on Monday 10 see my Sis- ter mat'ried?" litre. Alulltgml "No, hiss' I tan'( take c no interest ht t'reddib's. I`ve been to 0110," Ieehiete'y, GOVEI1.NNJ9.NT LOTTERIES, State lotteries add to the income of foreign Governments. In Italy they bring the Cove•mnent in a sum of nearly 512,500,000 a year. In Prussia, the profits of the public lot- tery amount to no 1050 than 591,- 250,000, The Dutcli Government gets the nine little sum of 5250,000 profit out of its lottery. Portugal makes about 8350,000 in this way. Denmark rakes in a profit of 5290,- 000. And in Brazil, where the Cov- ornment docs not itself run the lot- tery, but collects a tax on the re- ceipts of private lotteries, the amount realized is 585,000, GRUMBLERS, .BEWAR1E! Most unliappy people have become so by gradually Sonning 0 habit of unliappinesd-complaining about the weather, duditg fault with their food, with crowded cars, and with disagreeable companions or work. A habit of complaining, of Criticising of fault-finding, or grumbling over trifles, a habit- of looking for the - clews, Is a most unfortunate Habit to contract, especially in early life, foe after a while the victim becomes to the last degree, his patent leather nee for doth' Sides, \v1tiCver is a a slave, hoots 1001 long lost. their lustre, 1135 linen (vas terribly hayed and yellow, benefit to one side, benefits the Soma society woolen have bettor other. The business becomes co - Two footmen in livery stood n the operative and each dopartmont is in- clothes than manners, co - hall. They might have been superso tc estecl in the success oe all the rest. According to a physician drunken. playing on the boards of a travelling le theme had been any question (3 n080 18 volu11tasy i11110ss, theatre, their once smart) cut and the feasibility of this system, the Y trimmed coats Hung raggedly upon experience le the last 'three years theme. - wattle have removed every doubt on (P0 bo Cantinuocl.j tliie gees1]On. It is a wonderful sac - i? 0000 and 1lrtiverSally preese1 by those Wheat an old bachelor Ilan heart who have tlaldarteken the bttaine10 on trouble it's of tbo platonic ligand, flits basis. " ,'lust when the undettalcer gots 1 rs, FEED is LOCO TJ:)JIJ 3'GP, ready ars give a irr0n tint rxtrth 110 do' 't want it. Wo should alwaysremember, say: DR. A. W. CHASE'S, E eso . fi°r RR ��Y� � CURE is wet throat to the deemed els by tib lrnerevad blower, nate the hirers, dears the sir su s Irssn •cs . ( dt t P opOd'Iy In the throat and pormansa, y borer tnn91 and Ito Govor, glower Trot;, 7I dcelers, or 9.>r, A, W, Ghaeo ?rF` b Co 'Taxon to to nr,d buffalo, lath, DREAD SDORET SOCIETY =WAX T'R't1 SON 0.111A BI1,00 LYN CONTRACTOII ' Make Throats at Terllbio Torture 'Unities Ransom is Paid. Janos Martino, a well -to -to con- tractor of 02 Amity street, Brook- lyn, .N, Ye has received a letter frond his 9 -year-old son, Antonio, who disappeared Monday, suyiug that he hail boon kidnapped -anti hold for a ransom. Another letter received by tho father indicates that a criminal band of Sicilians, known 0s the "Black timid," has the helpless child orad it threatens a more revolting) outrage than has over before been comnntted in New York in its name if a ransom oI 550,000 1s not forth- coming. It sends warning that the boy's fingers and toes will be cut off and the father and mother killed if the huge blacklnell is not paid. LETTER CONTAINS TII113f A'1'S. This threat Is convoyed in a let- ter from the son, presumably written under coercion of the bandits. 1G reads as follows: -- "Dear leather and lllother,-I am in a cave in the country, and X am afraid the men aro going to kill me. I went to a house in New York with a boy. X was taken when it got night to the relined. They took m0 far into the country, and I had to walk. a long way after wo got out of the train, They took me to a cavo, They did not give me only a 111(11 to eat. There are six men. Thee slap me when I cry. 'They have all got big knives and pistols, They are going to- cut off my fingers and toes 11 you do not. Pay (hetn'the money to get me away front the cave. You must pay 850,- 000 now or 1 will bo killed and you and mamma will be killed. "You must Lako the money to some mem that you ]snow and they know, and you must stop talking to police- men, or I wi11, bo killed right away. You must send the money to -night, or I will have 1ny fingers cut off. "Your boy, "TONY."• ,ARRESTS lOADE, Since the receipt of the threatening letters the father has made of his house a fortress. All doors aro bar- ricaded, and the place is crowded with friends, who keep close watch upon ovely0110 who approaches. Tho Mannino supporters are all armed and a detachment of there is con- ducting a Bunt for the boy, inde- pendent of the police. Angelo Cuoozza, 18 years old, of 86 Amity street, Broolclyn, after two days' ceaseless questioning by the po- lice, confessed that lie had been hired for 52 to Lure the child from his home to 817 East Thirty-ninth street, Manhattan. Ile identified Francesco Coreglio, of that address, as being the man who hired him, and Coneglio and his wife have been ar- rested. A LONG TRAIL Ole CRIME. That the threats el Lae " -'Black I7'and" are, eel:- Idle is shown by a. long, hiss""of u1.3mes that has kept the Italian colony in a state of terror. Blackmailing letters signed by tho society first appeared in the city eight years ngo. Among the crimps of which the organization is suspect- ed are t110 followbng:- 1S97• -Ten Ratifies who had re- fused o-fused to pay tribute to the society, were murdered. The murderers were not apprehended, 1901 -Longi, Castelano, a banker, who bad refused to pay 51,000 to - the "Black Hand," disappeared. No trace of hira has been discovered. 1902-Cuiscppe Catania, a Brootc� )yn grocer, defied a blackmailing de- mand of the "Black hand," and his mutilated botly was found in a sack: in the bay u.t Bay Ridge. 1908 -Angelo - Pecararo, an Eliza- beth street uterchant, disappeared in August after receiving "Black Hand" - letters demanding money. 1903 -Nicola Oappiolo, a Brooklyn dock builder, paid 51,000 to the "Black hand" in September, and Chas boon threatened with death about once a month since that time, 1903-Nloola Parente a Brooklyn jeweler, reported to the police in December that ho had been threaten- ed by the "Black Hand." Ho disap- peared the ext day and has been missing since,n 1908-Can1lnio • Fano and Guiseppe Crosohino wore murdered on the street in Brooklyn in December. Tbey had been threateeed by the "Black Hanil." The murderers were not ar- rested. 1004 -An attempt was made to destroy the store of Antonio Barka - lotto, 677-679 Fourth avenue, Brock- lyn, with dynamite on May 9. Ile had refused to pay money to the "Black Hand," 1001 -Tho trout of (,lie store of Poggrior'alo Ciro, 232 ltlizabetlr St., was blown out with dynamite on the night of July 27, He had refused to deliver 52,000 to tho "Dlacic Hand." Hundreds of well-to-do Italians have paid tribute to the "Black Bend" and kept quiet about it. GIPSY W0.1IAle WAS I3.IGIIT. Lady Bloomfield relates a cln•ioue instance of gypsy prophecy. The• third Fate of Maimaebury, as Lord Fit/Harris, was geeing 1,0 a Yeo- manry review near Christchti)'c1i,. when his orderly, sumo distance in (rout, ordered a gypsy woman to open 0 gate, :Clio gypsy 00men quiet'y waited till Lord Fitztiarrls- and his staff recto 0131., when she ad- dressed them, Baying, "011, you 1hittk. you are a lot of fine fellows nosv; but I can toll you that one day your hermit will Whiten in dant field.' Lord 101farlari'is laughed, end asked her Whether she thought they were going' to have a battle, adding it vvas not. likely in that ease they Would choose such a spot, More theft fol'.1y years: Inter 1115 field was leveed into at 0' al SC: Pe 111 hi. 1)11 cu c se 1 101 we go 70 me yo Sp, fee n.n SO 1 t.hi in ne wt b0 do w3 to ell cit 1111 7111 Ca' sty 3 s1 tai