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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1905-4-20, Page 7'T!t!�G 1,1Fii11:!1?i,uTWnntli=7YVn rarrn ,nTinnGm'r-11 M17.21311-nmer-,urmrtl r The. rice fcrly OR; A MIDNIGHT CALL 4!1WJ1,717,7r7,1,ran[..,,,u1,!ATIM,,,,,,,,241y,e,lyd uT*rt1,,,,,,,,,,, ,r•vyrr !WLlLZ<L1TTiiriF. CHAPTER L.—(Continued,) "Certain. I heard of it from a mall who was with Van Smelt at the time, a man called Merritt," "James Merritt, Iteally, you have boon in choice company, Miss Lee. Your knowledge of the criminal classes is getting extensive and pecu- liar." "Merritt told mo this. And an answer came back to Merritt." "An answer from Mr, Steel?" "Purporting to bo an answer from Mr. Steel. A very clever forgery, as a matter of fact, 0( course that forget'y was Henson's work, because we know Chat Henson coolly ordered notepaper in Mr. Steel's name, Ho forgot to pay the bill, and that is how the thing camp out. Besides, the little toad of papers on which the forgery was }written is in Mr, Steel's hands, Now, what do you make of that?" Rawlins turned the matter over thoughtfully in his mined, "Did Hanson know that Mr, Steel would bo from home that nignt?" ho asked. "0f course, He probably also knew where our meeting with Mr. Steel was to take place,' "Then the matter is pretty ob- vious," said Rawlins. "Van Sneck, by solne means or other, gets an inkling of what is going on. He wanted money from Henson which he couldn't get, Benson being very short lately, and then they quarrell- ed. Van Sneck was fool enough to threaten Henson with what he was going to do. Van Sneck's note was dispatched by hand and intercepted by Benson with a reply. By the way, will you be good enough to give me the gist of the reply'?" "It was a short letter from Mr. Steel and signed with hie initials, and saying in effect that he was at home every night and would SCe Van Sneck about' twelve or some time like that. He was merely to knock quietly, as the household would bo in bed, and Mr. Steel would let him in." "And Mr. Steel never wrote that letter at all?" •* "NO; for the simple reason that he never had Van Sneck's note." "Which Benson intercepted,, of course. Now, the mere fact of the reply coshing on Mr. Steel's paper is evidence that Henson had plotted soltle other or alternative schema against Mr. Stool. flow long before the cigar -case episode had you decid- ed to consult the novelist?" "Wo began to talk about• it nine or ten clays before," "And Henson got to hear of it. Then a better idea occurred to Hen - sou, and the first idea which neces- sitated getting hold of Mt•. Steel's notepapor was abandoned. Subse- quently, as you have just told me, the notepaper came in useful after all. Benson knew that Steel would be out that night. And, therefore,. Van Sneck is deliberately. ]urea to Steel's house to be murdered there," "I see," Chris said, faintly. "This had never occurred to me before. Murdered by whom?" "By whom? Why, by Reginald Henson, of course." Just for a moment Chris felt as if all the world was slipping away un- der nder her feet. "But how could ho do it?" she asked. "Quite easily. 'And throw all the blame on: Mr. Steel. Look at the evidence ho had ready to his hand egainst the latter. Tho changed eigarcase would come near to hang a man. And Van Sneak was in the way. Steel, goes out to meet you or some o1 your friends, All his house- hold are in bed. As a novelist he comes and goes as he likesand. no - DOES Til BABY T If not, something must be wrong g with its food. If the mother's milk' down t r. nourish it, she needs Scozkr s EMULSION. It supplies l.� es the'. elements of fat required e aired for the baby. If babyis not Y nourished by its artificial food, then it:requires Scott's Emulsion, Half a teaspoonful three or four times a day in its c ' e 'bottle willbriias the desiredb. result. It seems to have a magical effectbabies � 1 upon and children, Aeon fie DOWNS:, Oinelita}Tonto, Ont, body takes any heed. Ile goes al d, leaves his door on the latch. Any money it is the common latch they put on thousands of doors. Henson lets himself into the house and cooly waits Van Sneok's coming. The rest you Can imagine," Chris had no reply for a moment or two. Rawlin's suggestion had burst upon her like a bomb. And it w'as all so dreadfully, horribly pro- bable. Henson could have done this thing with absolute impunity. It Was impossible to imagine for a mo- ment that David Steel was the crim- inal. Who else could it bo, then, but Reginald Henson? "I'm afraid this has come as a shock to you," Rawlins said, quietly. "It has, indeed," said Chris. "And your reasoning is so dreadfully logi- cal." "Wall, I may be wrong, after all," Rawlins suggested. Chris shook her head doubtfully, She telt absolutefy assured that Rawlins was right. But, then, Hen - eon would hardly have run so terri- ble a rish for a little thing like that. He could easily, have silenced Van Sneck by a specious promise or two. There must be another reason Cot— It calve to Chris in a moment. She saw the light quite plainly. "Mr. Smith," she said, eagerly, "where did you first meet Henson and Van Snook?" "We first came together some eight years ago in Amsterdam." "Would you mind telling ane what your business was?" "So far as I can recollect it was connected with some old silver—Wil- liam and Mary and Queen Anne cups and jardinieres. Wo had made a bit of a find that we could authenticate,, but we wanted a lot of the stuff, well—faked. You see, Van Sneck Was an authority on• that kind of thing, and we employed him to cue' marks off small genuine things and attach them to spirious large ones. On the whole we made a very suc- cessful business of it for a long time," "You found Van Sneck an excel- lent copyist. Did he ever copy, any- thing for you?" "No, But Benson employed him now and again. Van Sneck could construct a thing from a mere des- cription. There was a ring he did for Henson—" "Was that called Prince Rupert's ring, by any chance?" "That was the name of the ring,, Why?" "We will come to that presently. Diel you ever see Prince Rupert's ring?" "Well, I did. It was in Amsterdam again about a year later than the time I mentioned just now. Henson brought the real ripg for Van Sneck to copy, Van Sneck went into rap- tures over it. Be said he had never seen anything of the kind so beauti- ful. He made a copy of the ring, which he handed back with the ori- ginal to Henson," Chris nodded, This pretty faithful copy of the ring was the one that Henson had used as a magnet to draw Lady Littimer's money and the same one that had found its way into Steel's possession.. But Chris had another idea to follow up. "Yon hinted to hue just now that Henson was short of money," she said. "Do you mean to say ho is .in dire need of some large sunt?" "That's 11," Rawlins replied. "I rather fancy there has been some stir with the police over some bust- nese up at Huddersfield some years ago." "A so-called home both thele and at Brighton?" 'That's. it It was the idea that Hanson convoyed to me when I saw him at Moreton Wells. It appears that a certain Inspector Marley, of the Brighton Police, is the sante loan who used to have the warrants for the Huddersaeld affair in his hands,. Henson felt pretty sure that Marley had recognised hint. g He told me that if the worst came to the worst he had something bo could sell to Littimer for a large sum of money." "I know," Chris exclaimed. "Xt is the Prince Rupert's ring." "Well, I can't say anything about that. Is this ring a ,valuable pro- perty?" "Not in itself. But the loss of it has caused a dreadful lot of misery and. suffering. Mr, Smith, Reginald Henson had no business with that ring at all. He Stole it and rade it appear as if somebody else had done so by means of convoying the copy. to the very last person who shoftld have possessed it. That sad business btolto pp a happy home and has made Ove people miserable for many !which- ever And whichever way you turn,away you look, you find the cloven foot of Henson everywhere. Now, what you have told in o just now giVes me a hely idea. The sec- ret that HOt1Son was goingto Sell to Lord Littimer for a larg01111 was the story of the missing ring and the restitution of the came," "T(ht f br' toninn d o a it out, u 6o y mean?" "Yes. Lord Littimer .tvouldgfve throe tines ten thousand pounds to have that ring again, But at this point Henson has met Wfth a serious check in hie plates, Driven into ' a do1'nor, he has remitted to Make , a Clean breast of it to Lord Littimer He procured the ring front his Strong hoc ohd then he calces a discovery. "Which Is morn thnYt .1 Ineses. Pray eroded." • "Tia discovers that the has not got the real Pritteo Rupert's ring," Hemline lookedetipWith a slightly panted air.. "Will yon kindly toll ;me What you uhean2" he talkie "It was a forgery. Van Sneck made a copy frau a mere description, That copy served its purpose with a vengeance, and is now at the bottom of the North Soa, I need not go in- to details, because it is a family secret, and does not 50110/111 0111• con- versation at all. At that time the real ring ca1700 into tiensoe's posses- sion, and he wanted a dopy to. hold over the head of an unfortunate lady whom he would have ruined before long. You told Inc just now that Van Sneck had fallen in love with Prince Rupert's sing and could hard- ly boar to part with it He didn't." 61, ON TiE FARM. BurisDE E ON 7711', FARM. Wo have looked with a feeling of awe upon the giant churns holding a barrel of cream or more, the ma- chines for working butter, etc„ ate., "No? Rut how could he retain it?' s used in the large butter estalr "Quite nosily. The appy was genet let writes a correspondent. faithful, ()lit still it was a copy. Bat I1'lr�, admire the working of the cream secretly Vats .Sneck makes tti copy serarator, but these things are of little practical help to us twlto only want to make good butter for our 01111 tables, necessarily on a small scale. We keep only 0(113 or two COWS, and we keep these merely be- muse we have to in order to supply that would deceive everybody but an expert, and this he hands over to— "ib Henson as the real ring," Rawlins cried, excitedly. Chris smiled, a little pleased at her aceme11. "Precisely," she said. "I see that our families with milk and butter, you are inclined to be of my opin- ion," "Well, upon my word, I am," Rawlins confessed, "But I don't Waite see why—" "Please let me finish," Chris went alt,. excitedly. "Reginald Henson is driven back on his last trenches. He has to get the ring for Lord Littimer. He takes oat the ring af- ter all these years, never dreaming that Van Sneck would dare to Play such a trick upon him, and finds out the forgery. Did you over see that man when he is really angry?" "He is not pretty then," Rawlins said, "Pretty! He is murder personified. Kindly try to imagine this feelings when he discovers he has been de- ceived, Mind you, this is only a theory of ming, but Ifeel curtain that it will prove correct. Henson's last hope is snatched away from hien But he dons not go straight to Van Sneck and accuse. him of bis dupli- city. Fie knows that Van Sneck stole the ring for sheer love of the gem, and that he would not dare to part with it. He assumes that the ring is in Van Sneck's possession. And when Van Sneck threatened to ex- pose part of the business to Mr. Steel Henson makes no attempt to soothe him. Why? Because he sees a cunning way of getting back the ring. He himself lures Van Sneck to Mr. Steel's house, and there he al- most murders him for the sake of the ring. Of coarse, he meant to kill. Van Snack in such a way that the blame could not possibly fall upon him." "Can you prove that he knew any- thing about it?" "I can prove that he knew who Van Sneck was at a time when the hospital people were doing their hest to identify the man, And I know how fearfully uneasy he was when he . got to know that some of us wore aware who Van Sneck was, It has been a pretty tangle for a long time, but the skein is all coming out smoothly at last. .And it we could get the rung which Hen- son forced by violence from Van Sneck—", "dExcuse" me. • Hecdid nothing of the lcfn Chris looked up eagerly. "Oh," she cried, "have you more to tell mo, then?" "Nothing authentic." Rawlins said; "merely elu'niise. Van Snack is go- ing to recover. If he does' it will be hard for Henson, who ought to get away with his plunder at once. Why doesn't he go and blackmail Lord Littimer and sell him the ring and clear out of the country? He doesn't do so because the ring is not in his possession," "Then you Sneck—" "Still has the ring probably in his possession at the present mom- ent. If you only knew `Where Van Sneck happened to be." Chris rose to her feet with an ex- cited xcited cry, "I do know," she oxcletimod; "ho is in the house where he was half murdered, And Mr. Steel shall know all this before he sleeps to- night." (To be Continued.) imagine that Van RICH BY THE ERUPTION. St. ' Pierre's Debts Wiped Out But Not its Wealth, "Mt. Polon is still boiling and bubbling and smoking, or at least It was when I Passed it," says Ameri- can Consul Aymc, who wan the sole representative of the 'State, Depart- ment on the island of Martinique after the frightful eruption a few years ago, "The island of Martinique has prospered marvelously as a result of the great eruption," said the Con- sul, and then, In answer to a look of surprise on the face of his auditor, he explained: "Yes, I know it is re- lnarl. ble, but true, and resulted froin this'Tact, At the time of the erup- tion St. Pierre was tho metropolis of the island, and everything substau- tins—all of the wealth itt concrete form --centered there, Well, along came this eruption and wiped the town off the face of the earth al- most, but not quite, It did wipe off ovary single paper and admission or inlentcdness, mortgages, notes, I.O. TJ's, and the -like, so that there was no means for any creditor' to collect a debt. All of the,debtors on the island, and most of thopeople out- side o St. Pierre who 1 o v o were more or less in debtt the time, suddenly a ma, s ddez ly found themselves free, "But what the mutation slidnot da5troy was the large store' of epoch) and metallic wealth t St. i rro act a 17e , and all this ea1110 into the p05bes1ial h tu' in inhabitants of Les v1v f tlto go island, so that they .wot'e really much better off than bofol'e the etuption," POPE lit !1DTPCES EXPENSES, Pope Piga goes on 00 ho began, preaching and, practicing the simple life, Ho has'been reducing display on the one halal mut ealerio5 on the ether. Mlle, as may bo imagined, ie not quite eatiefactory to the hosts Of Persona employed EMotit the Vati. tett. "While finis discouraging ldxttry the pontiff remains as affable and as eessible as ever to Mende of former dayds. articles which we cannot obtain 111 good quality otherwise. Hundreds and hundreds are situated very much as 1 ant. They hale to depend upon old tried methods to 'make butter. Perhaps there aro ten or twenty to one who can use the newer an'd im- proved methods. I well know that creamery butter has a high reputation. It brings "the price," but the fanners' butter, if made right, also finds willing buy- ers often at an advance over the market. To make good butler is well worth the effort even of the farmer twho has only one cow, If I can benefit this man with what I want to say, my effort will not be in vain. 1t is entirely out of the question for the farmer who makes butter on a small scale to,, use cream separa- tors or other elaborate machinery. He is depending on the old method of "setting" milk in pans, and thus allowing the cream to rise. Some farmers hereabouts have of late years tested a different plan; that of diluting the milk with au EQUAL AMOUNT OF WATER, and setting in a large deep can. The cream rises in them much more quickly, the slim milk (and water) is drawn off below. Tliis methotr has only the one advantage to the Prosy housewife, that it lessens her labors slightly of washing utensils, but on the whole it is a losing game. Tho skint :milk is too much diluted for culinary use, as well as for stock, and the butter thus made lias no keeping quality and must be dispos- ed of at once. This latter would not be so great a disadvantage, for no butter improves with age. All butter is .best when first trade; but the shrewd business man will want to get as much money out of itis product as possible, and as long as people will pay more for June but- ter in October than in June, he would bo short-sighted to soil in June. '1;e would be glad to sell our butter as fast as made at the Oc- tober price, but under the circum- stances the producer .of butter who is depending on the regular market holds his butter till October to his advantage. Summer butter, that was made by the 'deep can plan di- luting' the milk with water, cannot be hold at all. It does not keep and would not be worth any more than soap grease by October. It has to go at the ruling price as most as male. hereabouts such butter, no matter how good it may be, brings from 12 to 14 cents; in October sum- mer butter which has fairly well leapt, brings 18 to 20 cents. These aro facts that cannot be disputed. A few of the small butter making farmers have private customers who pay diem winter prices the year round. They make a good article; but the majority are dependent on the rogtilar market, and must hold till fall or lose money. From the butter dealers' stand- point there is one great deawhnck about his butter business', viz.: a largo amount of butter made by farmers is poor, particularly THE WINTER PRODUCT. Its seems to me that this need not bo so. The most of farmers know low to feed their cows, but many miss it because they do not take any pains to keep them clean. 1'f cows aro neglected in this direction, filth will find its way into the milli pail more or less and from sucTn polluted milk oven the best creamery could not make good butter. Milk pails aro n w -a davs so con- structed as to keep the dirt out of the milk. Stsi'ainors, cotton and cheese cloth, are used to prevent for- eign substances dropping into the milk, A sinldlat: pail was offered for sale:many years ago. Wo did not like it. Still this one may be bet- ter and more practical, however, if in the fleet place no dirt is allowed to get into the pail or on the strainer, it will be vary -much bet- ter. This cab be accomplished by keeping the eons perfectly clean. Many cows have never made the ac- quaintance of brush, curry -comb 017 sponge and hot water; a liberal use of these things -night make quite a difference with the cows and the but- ter, Them is always some litter on a cow after she has been lying down, There are loose Hairs and dead skin in'the roma of scales, etc, Those things need removing fifteen or twenty minutes before milleing time. Wlien one attends to his cows th'ue regularly twice a day, Only a fete. minutes are resulted each time, It is essential that Wo wait some rift en Milittiee after this and before U We milk, so as to give the stit'red up dust stifileiont time to settle, or else some of This Weald impart undesir- able flavor to the chic, I always Want to Lake a pall Witit hot watch• With Inc when. I go to. the cow Stable to 4)1111E, With a cloth or, sponge the ttddoi•s should bo Wasth cl and rubbed. With a Shy cloth 1nu- tho job, 'Nothing will Venom dirt axt1-aales n v more effectively Cly er prepare the nekton ally better fou' the eperatian of tb'ntving the milk from it. IT WAD:ISIS ANTI SOFTENS I.T. Preelticing ' hater elt'so 01111211 a DeHHghtfuUUy Alw ,y Refr,�,sh8,., g re Black, Mixed or Green Tea. Sold only in lead packets. By all Grocers. Highest Award St. Luis 0904. scale, we have no separate milk room, but we set the milk during the cold season on shelves in the pantry, which is off from our sitting room, and 100 can ;ratty well regu- late the temperature in the pantry by partially opening the door when we deem it necessary. Crean can- not be expected to rise in a cold room where it freezes at night, and the cream in the pail does not ripen as it should: Many people who aro situated as we are have trouble in cream drying. It becomes hard, and no amount of ch'us•ning can convert it into button. It goes into the buttermilk, or may appear as white specks in the butter. We have shit on a simple device to prevent this; that is wife has. She has cut heavy wrapping paper in squares large enough: to cover a pan; then she has glued two little pine sticks to each one to give stiff- ness. About an hour after the warm milk lias.beon poured into the pans it Is covered up with these cheap, but effective, covers and left thus till the cream is ready to be remov- ed to the cream pail. Almost no drying occurs. We churn often, even when we have little cream, and make very palatable butter, notwithstand- ing that our two cows now are at the end of their lacteal period. Our butter at the present time is of a rattier pale color as compared with our summer butter, but it is none the worse for that. I have never found a single consumer who objected to our butter on account of lack of color. No one has ever asked us to color our make artifici- ally. I have taken especial pains to find out what their wishes were as to this, and I believe that artificial coloring would not be practised if it was not for the dealers. The con- sumers want no coloring matter put into their buttes; at all, and the practice should be severely condemn- ed. It should come under the same head as adulteration of other food products. -It should be forbidden. by law. At best it is a dirty, filthy practice, to say nothing about the dishonesty. LORD TREDII GAR, A Modest Survivor of the Noble Six Hundred. It is very seldom that a loan ob- jects to having a statue of himself eructed as a tribute of popular es- teem. By doing so Lord Tredegar has acquired a claim to distinc- tion istincttion that is almost unig1ie, and lias Shown a modesty that is moro rare than Inc courage he displayed when he redo 'into jDeath; into the mouth ofthe Heilaws of" tvitlt the Six Hundred as Balaklava. South Wales takes a great pride in the fine old peer and a little while ago proposed to present to him a national testi- monial on the occasion of the anni- versary, of the gallant charge which Tennyson has immortalized. But when it was suggested that it should take the force of iris Own effigy he protested. He didn't want anything that saverod of self -glorification. Like Bobs "'e don't advertise." When as Captain ochivy Morgan he returned to England from the Crimea—and brought his famous charger Sir 1(01555 home with hint as unsdathsd as ltilnsclf—he entered Par- liament and represented Brenock un- til the title descended to him in 1075 compelling hint to .join the ]louse of Lords. There be has since represent- ed Wales. A title sportsman, a scien- tific agriculturist, the kindliest of landlords—he owns 40,000 acres—and a generous contributor to wise phil- anthropy, he has greatly endeared himself to C Welshth clsWelshfolk. To the world at largo he is known as the breeziest of chal'ity bazaar openers, always sprightly and patriotic, but with perhaps an undue tendency, to regard welsh an the tongue of the angels. He is 74 years old and de- spite innumerable temptations has remained a bachelor. For the last five years he has been lord lieuten- ant of Monmouthshire and his Seat in that county is a fine old red brick mansion designed by lnigo Jones and approached by a ntagn. ificont avenue of chestnut trios. His broth- er and heir -presumptive is 70 and a benodict with sons and grandsons to perpetuate the, Morgan nine and cherish the Morgan pedigree. .this it may be said goes slack to the dawn of time when the Morgans were Welsh Iciegs and had 'more "ups" than.. vowele in their names, • lex P. �r AN NSIVETI,, IT I4 WAR. L According to a calculation every than of the German ;expeditionary force in South-West A Frieacasts the government 28 marks pc day, which ict equals about 32,1100 per email A German statistician says that the entire cost of the Hoer War for Eng- land worked out at $8.50 per than per •day. ' 11000 than 100,000 persons Were killed or lnjured .in a single year on the steam atul electric i+niiroacls in the "United States: Auntie—"Do you see the hair in this old br000h, Cyril? It was yetis great-gralldfatller's." Cyril—"t gay, Mantle, the didn't have much; r DEATH RECEIVES SHOCK NEW INVENTION FOR DISPELL- ING FOG. New Triumph of Sir Oliver Lodge —Nature of the Ap- paratus. Napoleon's dictum that nothing is impossible, may be claimed as the watchword of science. The most recent triumph of science is the discovery of a method of dis- pelling fogs. 11'het this means may be understood when it is mentioned that, under heaven, no greater dang- er exists, than fog, to travel either on sea or land. During last year alone, nearly 700 lives were lost on this continent in collisions that were caused by fog. According to the current Pear - son's Magazine experiments have been made in England to prove that fogs may be made to melt by elec- tricity being discharged into the air. • CREDIT 01' DISCOVERY. The credit of the discovery is due to Sir Oliver Lodge, principal of Birmingham University, who recent- ly suceeeded in dispersing a fog by electricity, for a space of from five hundred to eight hundred feet. The apparatus he employed, re- sembles in some respects the sending instrument' used in wireless tele- graphy, comprising a 'dynamo for generating the electric current, a, transformer for converting the elec- tricity thus obtained into a high pressure, and as interrupter for shooting the high-tension electrical energy into the air, which it' does, mucli after the manner of a hose pro- jecting water into a burning build- ing. BAOIC TO TYNDALL. The history of this apparatus goes back to Tyndall, the well-known physicist. In one of his experiments Tyndall heated a common poker red- hot, and then,. raising a cloud of dust by shaking a box full of it, he brought dust and poker into contact. The result was that the dust -laden air was cleared away around the hot iron for several inches. The dust was not burned up, but the heat seemed to repel the minute particles, driving thein from it in every direc- tion. INTERESTED IN DUST. Later Lord Rayleigh, another phy- sicist, became interested in dust, and as a result of several experiments, discovered that a piece of ice acted also as a repelling force. He also found that an electrically charged stick of sealing wax, if held near a fountain where the water fell as ; a Line mist, the little globules of water cohered anti made larger drops. Sir Oliver Lodge accepted the re- sults of these experiments, but went a step farther. He wanted to know the wiry and the wherefore of them. Silt OLIV)OR'S CONCLUSIONS, After much investigating, he con- cluded that the motive force that projected the dust, was electricity. A new experiment was now tried. A box was filled with smoke instead of dust. Inside the box was a metal plate which was connected by a copper wire with an electric ma- chine, The electricity was turned on, and the smoke was sent scurry- ing off, not a vestige remaining. A glass bell -jar Was next substi- tutedfor the bog. The boll -jar was egtlipped withtwo upright rods, one terminating 111 half a dozen sharp int other r l points, the t 'n a brass ball. Wires led to an electric machine, JAR WAS FILLED. Tho jar was filled successfully with lead and zinc fumes and aqueous re- pel', and iu each case electrification was followed by precipitation. From these experiments it was ac- cepted as certain that electricity would have a commercial value iu the dispoeging of fogs; and also that by discharging electricity into a cloud by 111,0a0s of a kite or balloon, rain could bo made to fall Ste Oliver proposes to erect on either side of the River Mersey a number of fog -dispelling stations but instead of supplying energy from hand -operated electric machines, 110 would ase the regulation clynai)to, which would be connected to a high- tension transforitrer—an apparatus that changes Incpressure cur- e love es S 1 into one ns high tent i e ofbuo" o .lv hl 1m g pressure, and at the same time pro- duces large quantities of electricity, for electricity is like water, in that there may bo a large or smallll o mom d high t• low amount under a pressure. Mho employments of barmaids in public houses was tho subject of a eonfer01100 in London on the 18t1i ult„ the outcome of which, Was the passing of a. resolution, (noved by Lady Frederick Clavenclisli, urging tipoll the Government and local. tate thol•ities. "the importance of Matt; lug that, no 1001111M Mid& 85 years ofago shall be employed in, the share Of pttblio-notice, tt year's 110tie0 t0 be given to tl'ioso aotttally ee ext' gaged tut the time of the $40,SIng of the Fashion flints. ■i• StrMafrli. COTTONS, A neer mercerized cotton lhling Which eou105 1n all colors is used for. foundations for thin frocks. The eoloi• 1s pe1Rnallent, 'i'ilere is a new broderie Anglaise all-evar lace Svhlah repe nts the rami' hair eyolcts, sprigs and wheels iu a filmy mesh. Clowns of heavy guipure lace are handsome and stabstautial. Marty, robe gowns aro to be had, and while quite exponslve, are not nearly as costly as when made at the dress- makers. Many dainty white Leash gowns aro being exhibited. Some of them are simple enough to please the jaded eye, while more come up to the gene oral standard of elaborateness. The little puff with bands of narrow lace is a very popular • decoration. lrislt d.inity is hero in spring pat- terns, Fewer of the eharactetistfe fine vertical lines are found in the new dimities and more cross -bar Checks and plaids formed of the Cords The fashionable low shoe is a very low tie with a high box heel and a flat ribbon bow. Black, blown and tan Russia, and patent leather are the usual leathers. The tie is also made in canvas, to wear with white linen goAwnnes. w square shopping bag is of black walrus. It has a pocket on one side, which is divided into three receptacles for memoranda, pencil Powder purl' and mirror. The inside of the bag is furnished with a purse., There is a slender strap handle. Childrens spring clothes are lovely,- They ovely,They will wear as many checks and plaids as their elders, black and white shepherd's plaid receiving spec- ial favor. For early spring nothing is prettier. A touch of bright red fa the trimming relieves the sombreness of the black and white, and makes the plaid more youthful. Mohafrs, because of their wearing qualities and dust shedding powers, are highly recommended for children's gowns. The fashionable shirtwaist is made of 'linen preferably; atter that ma- dras, dimity and lawn. Very few if any colored shirt waists will be wortu unless in wash silk or pongee. The best models are severe, with plaits all the way down, and are not al- lowed to blouse the least bit. The shirt waist which shows the lines of the figure too sharply is not recom- mended, and yet the fit is not as loose as of old. The sleeves of the tailored shirt waist are plaits log -of - mutton or bishop, with narrow starched cutbands. LONG AND SHORT COATS: Although the long coat is little short of ubiquitous, there are many smart models in shorter effects. A large number of these are made of white materials, such as cloth, Siei- lian, brilliantine, etc. These are stitched with braids and trimmed. much after the manner of other coats and are especially smart when worn with the prevailing plaited skirts and sheer linen blouses. Bats acquire more and more _ dash as the summer grows nearer. The t'oyant blues are much in vogue and frequently are all in one tone iu the matter of trimming. The object of the many twists and turns into which the horned -up brims are formed seems to be to give the hat the most youth- ful outhful and jaunty effect possible. So un, "versed is this effect that elderly wo- men and matrons with quiet tastes are baying bonnets instead of hats. This must not imply, however, that the bonnets are the archaic aSairS of years ago, with ohin strings and the like: they- are rather a charming form of the turban amenable to its ,. various forms of trimming. The collar hat is 510w11 among a number of novelties,, which also in- clude the box, the saucePau and other, designs of equally plebeian cognomen; The collar is merely a second brim attached to the crown, the space be- . tweeu the two 'brims giving an ex- cuse for more trimming, Sometimeb the collar is made of wired lack, then again It is seen in tulle and ribbon. Tho trimming; varies,, ac- cording to the material of the collar, flowers being used with lace, feathers wills with ribbon a td of and q t soft bows wiith tulle. For garden parties and evenings wear some very smart organdys aro made tvitlt pointed bodices draped with fischus of lace and fine hand embroidery, These are picturesque to a degree, and suggest pore forcibly, than anything else the lithe-i'orined heroines and conservatory SCetles of the popular romances. The bendy of this particular style is that it is becoming to stout figures as well,, and after all the victims of surplus avoirdupois are not limited t0 the aged or matronly. . During the .singing of a Hymn atl. 5t, Peter's clunrch, Bristol, the or gan suddenly ceased, The orgnnist, en investigation, found that Lite or- gan-blower, r- tla-lo r J 1•lW It b wa os h n had , eP , ha i lassoo sensel'os to the roup 5 tl d, 1l�1 died g 50011 afterwards, The old Georgian mansion at TOM - burst, Stan, Where James Brindley, the great engineer ainl schener, lived the last seven years of his life with his giel-Wife, end there died has just: been Converted itit0 a WOrkihottSe,' Great Britain Is easily first among the nations in the application of mechanical power to fire -engines, Al-; ready several or the important ' cit- ies possess motor lire -engines which She far In advance of any to be seen" on the continent. In Great Britain the yearly loss of Wages through ill -iters 1.11 is Shoo( . eleven Millions starling, "anti itit estimated that forty per cent, or those (0110 start in titlsinOSs faxiir' Muurcli is lcsirsidered the slackeeti ftetitif, for, ijtisiness•