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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1904-11-17, Page 2.„,....„,„,.....„ ..,,,,„...,.,. n, ;n�,r, .•r,r, nu- ,nT wris j trap Thc ?r!cc of Li Oil, A MIDNIGHT CALL rty grgr rel eM .,,,,,,,,,• ,, n„ rr uW,,,,,.,u, ai , n'R,;,,nrn'1Tdaa!W ' CHAPTER XXI,--(Coatinuod), "Was it not possibly changed there David?" "No, because of the Initials I had scratched inside it. And beyond all quostjun that case -the same case, entad you, that I picked up on my doorstep -was purchased by the man now lying in the hospital hero from \Valen's, in West Street, Now, how was the change made?" "If 1 could only see my way to help yowl" The change was made the day you bought the ease. By the way, what time was it?" "I can't tell you the exact time," Ruth replied, "It was on the morn- ing of the night of your adventure." "And you kept it by you all the time," "Yaw. It was in a little box seal- ed with ,yellow wax and tied with yellow string. I went to 219 after I had inade the purchase. Dry uncle was there and ho was using tho hack sitting -room as an office. Ile had brought a lot of papers with him to go through." "Ahk Did you put your package down?" "Just for a moment on the table. But surely niy uncle would not-" "Otte moment, please. Was any- body with your uncle at the time?" Ruth gave a sudden little cry, "How senseless of me to forgot," she cried. "My uncle was down • merely for the day and, as ho was very busy, he sent for h.Ir. Reginald Henson to help him. I did not im- agine that Mr. Henson would know anything, But even now I cannot see what-" "Again lot mo interrupt you. Did you leave the room at all?" "Yes. It Is all coming back to No now. My uncle's medicine was lock- ed up in my bag. He asked me to go for it and I west, leaving my purchase on the table. It. is all com- ing back to me now. When I re- turned Mr. Henson was quite alone, as somebody had called to see my uncle: Mr, Henson seemed surpris- ed to see me back so soon, and as I entered Ise crushed something up in his hand and dropped it into the waste -paper basket, But my parcel was quite intact," "Yellow wax and yellow string and all?" "Yes, so far as I remember. It was lilr Henson,who reminded my uncle about his edicine." "And when you were away the change. -was made. Strange that your uncle should bo so friendly Y with both Henson and'13 it Have they over met under your roof?" "No." Ruth replied. "Henson has always altuddod to Dr. Bell as a lost man. Ile professes to be deeply Sorry for him, but he has declined to sleet him. Where aro you go- ing'?" 1 ant going with you to see if we can flud anything in the waste -paper basket at No, 219. Bell tells me that your servants Have instructions to tomb no papers. and I know that the back sitting -room of your house is used as a kind of office. I want, if possible, to find the paper that Henson tried to hide on the day you bought the cigar -case." The basket proved to be a large one. and was partially filled. with letters that had never been. opened - begging -letters, Ruth said. For half an hour David was engaged in smoothing out crumpled sheets of paper, until at length hes search was rewarded. He held a packet of notepaper, tho usual six sheets, one inside the other, tbat generally. go to correspondence sheets of good qual- ity, It was crushed up, but Steel flattened it out and held it up for Ruth's inspection. "Now, here is a find!" ho cried. "Look at the address in green on tho top : '15, Downencl Terrace.' Five shoete of my own best note- paper, printed especially for myself, in this baslcotl Originally this was a block of six sheets, but the one has been written upon and the others crushed up like this. Beyond doubt the paper was stolen from my study. And -what's this?" Ile held up the thick paper to the light. At the foot of the ton shtot was plainly indented in outline 11e initials "D, S." "My own cipher," David went on, "Scrawled in so boldly as to mark on the under sheet of paper. almost invariably I use initials instead of my full name unless it is (lotto for- mal business." "And what Is to be done now?" Iiutta asked. "Find the letter forged over what looks like a genuine cipher," David said, grimly, CHAPTER XXII. Boll followed Dr, Cross into the hospitalwith a sense of familiar pleesure The cool, sweet smell of the place, the decorous silen0e, the order of .11 all appealed to hill strongly, It was as the old war- horse who sniffs the battle from afar. And the battle with death was over a joy to Bell, "This is all contrary to regula- tions, of' coots," he suggested. "Well, it is," Cross admitted. "But I ant an enthusiast, and one doesn't often get a chance of chat- ting with a brilliant, erratic star like yourself, Besides, our man -is not in the hospital proper. Be is in a kind of annexe by my 01011 quar- ters, and he scoffs the suggestiuu of being nursed." Bell nodded, understanding perfect- ly. I.le came at length to a brll- liantly-lighted room, where a dark man with an exceedingly high fore- head and wonderfully piercing eyes was sitting up in bed. The dark eyes lighted with pleasure as they felt upon Bell's queer, shambling fig- ure and white hair, "Tho labor we delight in physics pain," he greeted with a laugh and a groan, "It's worth a badly twisted shoulder to have the Pleas- ure of seeing Hatherly Bell again. My dear fellow, how are you?" Tho voice was low and pleasant, there was no trace of insanity about the speaker. Bell shook the proffered hand. For some little time the conversation proceeded smoothly enough. The stranger was a good talker: his remarks were keen and to the point. "I hope you will be comfortable here," Boll. suggested. A faint subtle change came over the other's face. "All but one thing," he whispered, "Don't make a fuse about it. be- cause Cross is very kind. But I can't stand the electric light. It re - minis me of thereat tragedy of 111 life. But for the electric light I shoul(l be a free man with a good practice to -day.'' "So you are harping on that string again,'' Bell said, coldly. "I fancied that I had argued you out 0f that. You kuow perfectly well that it is all imagination, Heri- tage." Heritage passed hts left hand across his eyes in a confused kind of way, "Who. you look at one like that I fancy so," he said. "When I was under your hands I was forgetting it. And now it bas all come back again, Did I tell you all about it, Cross?" Bell gave Cross a signi.flea ut glance, and tho latter shook his head, "Well, it was this way," heritage' began, eagerly, His eyes were gleam- ing now, his whole aspect was chang- ed. '1 was poor and struggling, but I had a grand (»tur'a before me., There was a patient of mine, a rich man, who hacl a deadly throat trou- ble. And he was going to leave me alt his looney. if I cured him. Be told me he had made a will to :that effect, and he had done so, Attd I was Lt direst straits for some ready cash. When I 01110e to operate I used an electric light, a Powerful light -you know what I mean, The! oparnties. failed and my patient' Hied, Tho operation failed because the electric light went out at a crit- ical tinea, "Yeoplc. said it was a groat mis- fortune for me, because I was on the threshold of a new discovery which ▪ q T;� • s Are r dub Easiiy Affected by Changes of the Temperature. Dr, Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills Not even are the lungs more sus- ceptible to the effect of cold drafts, of overheating, of dampness or cold than the kidneys. This accounts for workingmen so (roqumilly becoming victims of 11nin- ftd and dead!y kidney diseases. , Trains in the bade are usually the first note of wlu•ning, Then there 18 frequent and painful or smarting ur- ination, headache and derangements of the digestive system and bowels. IF YOU WOULD PREVENT BRIGHT'S DISEASE AND OTHER DEADLY FORMS OF KIDNEY DISEASE FOLI MUST ACT QUICKLY. To be certain of immediately ar- resting disease and bringing about thorough cute, you most use Dr, Ohaze's Kidney -Liver Pills, which so many times luwo proven their superi01ity as a treatment for the 1)10tit 810111115 dioaasee of the kidney$, •13v :acting' on the liver and bowols as well as on the kidneys, Ie', Ciipso`s Hid1lCy-Llvoi' Pills effect a thorough. eh:armlet; of tile Whole 51 - toting. and oxc'latorysy's'toles fled cot- tirely rid the body of all poisonous Waste matter, Mn. IGLUS CIA f.f,ANT, Paquet- Ville, N. 13., writes:-"Abotit four months ago I found my condition so 80010118 that I had to leave work. I could not sloop nights, 1ny Appetite was Very poor and my kidneys were so affected tinct I could hardly walk on 00001101 of backaclie, "1 erselved to try Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills and Baokaehe Plaster, After three weeks' time, 1 an glad to say, T was able to re- gime wot'k and now feel as well as I over did, I therefore say that, lir, Chase's remedies nee excellent family medfeinos." Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pitis ran SO 'th0r0ugh end far -relishing in their influence on the kidneys as in thoroughly eradicate the most seri- ous , disenes. Ono pill a dose, 25 cent9 a hos, at all dealbre, or .1.1c1- 1naneon, Butes as Co„ Toronto, The portrait and signature of 'Dr, A. W, L!liase, tile lemons receipt book aue. time, are an MST Tsolcr would have mend° my name. Nothing �"r't ,,(�f tti of the hind. I deliberately out the,tO ai714A `4 �� ��t �t positive wire of the electric light so oN IIIE c>➢that 1 shoal fail, and so that my e Fathat I alight die and I ndght got , all his mons at once, Aacl ho did l>a ale aril nobody suspected me -nobody 'VV could poseibit have found me out,z ph,g,pteerystaess nskek1 cell Then I went mach and they put me �a V! a lr'iazim-P 446,ter made hull's caret. I should have BOW NITROGEN 1S IYASTI' l), got well, only he gave up his prac- tice and drifted into rho world Again lily good, kind friend Regin- aill Menton heard of my case; he in- terested some people in me and plac- ed me where I ant at present," So Reginald Henson knows all about. 11?" hell asked drily, "lfy dear fellow, he is the best frlend I have in tho world, He was most interested in my case, T. have gone over ft with trim tt hundred times. I showed him exactly how it was tloue. And now you know why I loathe the electric light. When it shines in 1uy eyes it maddens ta5 it brings back to me the recollection of that dt•ettditll time, it Causes me t0--„ "heritage," Boll said, sternly, "Close your ewes at once, and be silent ,c The patient obeyed instantly Ile had not forgotten the old habit of obedience. 1Vhon he opened his ! able to obtain some of the 'l'ttplel' eyes again 11e looked round him in a foolish, shame -faced manner. "I -I tux" afraid I have been ram - The London Sllturday Review re- cently printed an elaborate article on nitrogen, its 1100e59ity to • plant growth fold how muo11 of it is al- lowed to go to Waste through care- less arolass methods in the cultivation of the soil. It also points out how the scientist has come to the ald of the fanner anal pointed out methods by which this less can bo prevented, or, at least, 1e011000 to a minimum. The greater part of the atmosphere, saes this writer, consists of the gas called nitrogen, unci Cmtkwlurds of this semi' substance nitrogen enter into the most intimate constitution of all living tissue, animal or vege- table. Free nitrogen, tho gas which ex- ists in such enormous masses 111 the air, is of no service to the 9111111 or the animal, yet the plant is abso- lutely dependent for its life oil being conlound5, nitrates or ammo ni:t, of this same element. Thies plucidecl, and it only requires Mona ono frve- bung," he muttered. "Pray don't,huudredth of its weight, it is able noti(o lee, Ben; if eau are as 5001 Ito fend and grow, building up those a follow as you used to bo, 00)00 and see me again. I'm tired 11010." elaborate compounds which animals Bell gave the desired assurance, In tlieur rn feed upon, 111111 he and Cross left the room to- Thus thetworld's stock of•eitrogen Bethel compounds goers round in endless es,- "Any, sort of truth in what 110 has ole, the plant taking the )4togllest been saying?" asked the latter. forms fuel elaborating then, the "Very little," little," Be11 replied. •"Hort- mal flinging these emml'lexes .h0e1) tage is an exceedingly clever fellow to the starting- paint. All the,time, who has •not yet recovered from . a however, the greet' stock of nitro- bad breakdown some years ago, I gen gas in the atmosphere' stands had nearly cured- him at one' time, but 1u seems to have lapsed into bad ways again. Some day, when I have time, I shall take up his case once more." "Did he operate, or try some now throat cute?" "Exactly. Ile was on the verge of discovering some way of operating for throat eases with complete suc- cess, You can imagine how excited be was over his discovery, Unfor- tunately the patient he experimented on cited under the operation, not be- muse the light went out or any nonsense: of that kind, but "from failure of the heart's action owing to excitement, Heritage had had no sleep for a fortnight, and he broke down altogether. I'`or months he Iva; really mad, and when his seises came baek to him he had that outside the cycle. On the whole Ethel the world's stock is diminishing. When we burn coal or wood the small proportion appro- priate to all plant tissue is set free from its combination and goes to swell Uhc uluombinecl MASS of nitro- gen in tile air; all our explosives again owe their energy to the sudden transition from certain combined forms to free nitrogen gas. There are sundry ACCUMULATED f5TOI1T1,5, which we are working very hard, such as tho beds of nitrate of socia in Chili and of gueno on various tro- pical islets, and the nitrogen which is recovered as sulphate of ammonia when coal is turned Into gee or coke. Even in the use of a fertilizer, some hallucination, Some day It will go, inevitable waste goes on; if a certain and some stay Heritage will take amount of nitrogen as nitrate of sock) up the (trooped threads of his discov- ers.' ane tho world will be all the consumption by stock bo reconverted better for it. And now, will you Into manure there is a loss, and the do me a favor?" farm as it whole is not onriehtel by "I, will do anything that lies in my quite the quantity of nitrogen intro - power." duced. For these reasons many peo- "Thc., bo good enough to- lot mo Ple lave conceived that the world have n peep at the man who was must gradually become loss and loss found half -murdered 10 my friend able to support its population. Sir David Steel's conservatory. I'm In,. William Crookes,. in his British assn torsstett in that case," elation address in 1898, prophesied Cross hesitated f r'A mof eOnt tacit t ihC world's wheat area was +11 All right, ho 'said, "Ther' can 'r , e tlnQ ort its ]units and that there o 6 nearing nd c n be any berm in that Come this longer remained that indefinite area way." of virgin soil which the win:at-grower Bell strolled along with the air of could break tip year by year, lienee a man who is moved by no more than ordinary curiosity. But from the 'first he had made up his mind not to lose this opportunity, He had pulaLIOri by increasing the productionnot the remotest, felon what he ex- of wheat per acre through the use of mete.' to find, but he hada pretty'ferlilizer nitrogen. goo0 idea that he was on the verge 7f then the combined nitrogen in of an important discovery He calve the world h both combined ll and siuf(c11 at length to the bedside 1 of the mys-in waste, the ultimate outlook is 011 his stranger, '1`ha man comwasa, lying starvation. unless there are some on his back in a state of coma, his breath came heavily between his C01114- pc/mating influence}, at work wbicli parted lips. will render available the great mass 13o11 bent low partly to examine of free nitrogen gas in the atmos - the patient, partly' to hide his face phero. from Cross. If Bell had made any Of course some of those compensat- discovery he kept the fact rigidly to lr1g, influences aro Well renown; the himself, beneficial effects accruing to the land "Looks very young," he mutter- from the growth of such crops as ed, "But then he Is one of those clover is a piece of farming expe'I- men who never grow any hair on once old enough to he enshrined in their faces. Young us he aeoks, • I ' the .Geoegics. Certain bacteria dwell on thtlsroot of the clover plant, and are tilde to scam upon free nitrogen and bring it into combination. Two processes for utilizing, the free nitrogen of the air at present seem to be on the brink of success. By one method the substance calcium car- bide, with 101)1011 we are remitter to our biey-c10 lamps. forms a kind of intermediary. This tu!bstanee is made by directing a GI1EAT ELECTRIC CURRENT upon A mixture of chalk Itnd coal, and if alt the moment of 1111 forma- tion file nitrogen gas of tiro atmos- phere is also allowed to play upon the nrixtul'Q, it is swami, iuto,the 00u1- dtl'L Reuel it." bination. And cross proceeded to take a Tho rasudting body, calcium Qytnle- let tor from his pocket, le was 011 nide, gives ole atnlnnnia in contact thick paper; the stamped address with water, and can ha 50 applied to g•ivv!) was. ''1i1, 1)olvneut 'Pomace," the land Eta a manure. Its nmmlft0- 1'hCra time no heading, newly the titre, has already passed the expori- words "Certainly, with pleasure I oriental stage, and the first /fold trials shall be 110010; fn fact, I am hotne every night till 12,30, and you may call any time tip till then, If you ktrocl: quietly on the door I shall hear you. -11. S, "What do 3011 make of it?" Creel esker!. It looks as if your patient had caller) as Steel's house by appoint- ment,' I1e11 admitted. "Hero is the invitation undoubtedly i Steel's l c n s V handweating, SnISegaiontly the poor fellow in found itt Steel's house 1)0110- ly murdered, and yet Steel declares solearoily that the man is a perfect stranger to 11 ICI. it is a bond busi- ness, but I assure you that Steel is the soul of 1102101'. Cross, would you be so gond as (0 let die have that, letter rot' two or three days?" "Very well," ('rocs said, after a little hesitation. "(lend -night." Bell went on his way hornewurd with plenty of food for thought, lie slopped 111.11 for a moment to light a cigar, ((atting teemrd5 the dight," he 'fluttered, "getting along. Tho light is not 5ning to fail after Ail I wonder what Reginald ITenson would say if he only know that I had been to Lilo hospital and seeognised our hated fr(end "Van 111ae11 t11e'oi" • ('.Po be Continued.) he foresaw the near approach of a time when 1t would only be possible to continua to feed the world's po- should judge hint to be at least -fort- ty-five, and ft' I tun not mistaken, ho Is a plan who had hoard the chines at midnight or Inter. I'm quite sat- isfied," "it's more than 1. ant. Cross said, when at length he and his visitor were standing outside together-. "Look here, Bell, you're a great frietrd of Steel's, whom 1 believe to bo a very good fellow, I don't want to get, trial into any harm, but a day of two ago I found this letter in a pocket -book in a belt worn by cur query patient. Steel says the fellow is a perfect stranger to him, and .1 believe that statement. But what about this letter? I ought to have Sent it to the police but I di of its vauo 1111 a manner in this con 11,8 are being made at 1109hanr sted on the. 11n•t•eltt crops. The second process is one indicated by Sir William Crookes six years ago, and consists merely in using the electric current to make the nitrogen and oxygen of the atmosphere burn together until they reach the state of nitric acid. r, h u .ess al sidethe ' retic 0 11 the theoretical I is simple enougli, the working diffi- culties now appear to have been over- come, and one of the great conipan- tes which draw their power from gen- erating electricity from Niagara is preparing to put on the ma131111 a crude nitrate of soda thus manufac- tured front the nitrogen of the at- lno5phose. Not only nee we time able to repair the wastage of combined nitrogen flint was going on, but we me promised 11 far rnnro cheaply than it HMI, been obtainable from other 50111')05, At the present time . come bincd nitrogen costs the termer (threat seven pence a Pound in whatever form he buys 11, 'Advocates of both place tical monor%s declare they' can pro- duce at half that ilwice with profit, I.f so, we do not hesitate to say it 10111 mean a (tensible cheat/ening of Med of all kinds the world over, Which Will You Take artificially colored and adulterated ,japan tea, or CEYLON NATURAL GREEN tea which is abso utely "Pure" and delicious, It is sold in the sante form as ('SALADA" Bleck tea in sealed lead packets. 25c and 40cpor lb, By all grocers. RAISING 110UI.TIWY, BERI-SERI IN :TAP RANKS. The following eight reasons why farmers should rtltso poultry are giv- en by an English poultry writer: Because the farmer ought to con- ' ,f anything were needed to add vert a great deal of the waste of to (91a horror of tear," writes "a his farm Into money in the mhnpo of n1Quical expert," in one of the leading eggs awl chickens for market, Be- English journals, "it alight certainly cause with itlt0 igent management, be found in the proxollrri of disease they ought to he all -year revenue among the combatants. While the producers, with the execution of per- Russian army has not been free from haps two months during the. moult- 1:lness, it would appear at least - to fug season. Because poultry will have escaped attack from e very eu- •yield a 1111101(01' ref tlI'll for the capital • rdous tropical disease, hest known in .Invested than any of the other de- this country tinder the mune of 'berl- partnttnls of the farm. Because ilio beri,' and in Japan as. 'dcnlcl(0,' War manure frees 111n poultry -Mouse will en. respondents lust week raportod notice a vegetable compest for nee in that the losses from beri-beri in the !either vegetable 5111ilen or orchard. Japanese army exceed the total case - The lairds themselves, if allowed to elites sustain(d in battle, .11 was ad- ' Ise))15111 (117111.1030 n ]argar proper- ded that every transport returning to tion of injurious insect lila, !Japan brings hundreds of mels starer - 1 While cereals and fruit can rinly,''fn5 from this disease. ,be succemsfelty grown 111 certain seer' As to tho nature of beri-beri, we •tions, poultry can be raised for find one to, its prominont features to ;table us0' or layers of eggs 111 all exist in a 101111 of neuritis affecting !parts 01 the country, 'Poultry -rats- the nerve -endings in the skin, and ling 10 an employment in which the more este ma those nerves which, -farmer's wife and daughter call en- carrying ru1111•essions (1010 nerve-con- gago, and lenvc the faint free to at- trc's to the body, aro called motor tend to other clepartnelts, and it nerves. Certain very lrnportnnt in - :will bring hitt the best results in tame' nerve -trunks aro also involved, t.he sliapa of a new -laid egg during In addition there is to be found gen- ;the winter 510500, when Ire has the ern! distut•bance of the bodily fano- most tinge Olt his hands. adroitly, tions at large. 'to start poultry -raising on the farm i "Loss of power of the muscles and requires little or no capital. 33y loss of sensation are 0011unon symp- good management poultry can be tones, while dropsy is usually present. made w•IL1t little cost a valuable ad -Fever as indicative of ben -bort is not jnnct to rite floral a marked sign, and death supervenes probably 05 often as not from failure GROOMING IiORSES. of the heart's action. 'rho death rate The skin of a lio•se, like that of is very high in this ailment. It was Other aninulls, f9 amass of ca era- one in 90 in the Japanese navy in tory organs, sullpliecd with innutncr- 38775-8i; d ono in tn'o at Bnlita. in able pores, width, if kept open, a 18(17 Sir anP. Dtanson, DI.D., was constant flow of watery fluid dis- told by iso medical officer of a to - charges, carrying 01) Lha atleto wast(1 bncco plantation In the Malay Archl- matcrinl which has pc/formed its pelago that the planters considered proper emotion 1n the lnatntetanee themselves lucky if, at the end of a 1 of the body. Tiro epidermis also is year, three or four survived out of composed of an infinite number of every one hundred Chinese coolies im- gltuwls which OOnsLantly pour an oily pf ported i] o year the regard to all the laborerscircum- at the beginning secretion to the surface, which is essential to kuoping the skin flexibly 'stances under which beri-beri appears its well as furnishing thenecessary.'to the nature of the symptoms, midnourishment f1i>ti the hair to ]teen it to the fact that hygenic conditions of soft a121 glossy. tiro tend to ,Plcvent attack, the La- st will not dp, therefore, 111 these"Terence that the efficient is due to ores t.o at I red f r ' tha 1 g g6 0 1n t .s e s rific poison produced h a n re c 0 a Y f _ r 1 so the 5'(111` 1 slid -110 Ila 1' ' ., vo on be(; d ys microbe, this.. last in all probability tliore ford and diseased: except nor is beingderived from infected food,t. theca much dal'd of or . Th whop seems to be warranted. Such food she Noone is Bard r work, Then ler has been generally field to be repea- 1 of watery fluid is heavier ;