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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1903-4-30, Page 7i f'•_____ _ _ ______ „,.z.1 Ecc‹.ecccc44,4.1,QiE'ccc..„,,,cFcc,fecceccr:ccecF„ W W 4 s, t�A Tale ww erW CaFtand 'II, �, ofthe 2 W lack i Arrof 5J< Al wwW 11,5t•��. W A Ti Rolling Wave 2 ,2t, 411104 9aregr3/?3)erS-a1e93S4.0.>›11r1),S.>3atS,serter193Si>33s•stetSt>,,s, GIlAr'rLln XIII, When I carne hack to consciousness was lying on my back on a dirty bed in a stone cell some twelve het long by six across, and my re- turning senses took shape slowly in the process of counting the bars in an irongreted window high up in the opposite wall.How long I had lain there I had nu means of know- ing. A stray sunbeam flickering through the dusty glass of the win- dow told mo that it was daytime, end that was all. As recollection grew upon me, I moved my limbs to see if I was bound, and I rejoiced In a dint and misty sort of way to find that, within the narrow com- pass o1 my prison at least, I was free. Ilut that was the extent of my self -gratulation. When I remember- ed the scene at the Consulate, and the manner of my forcible capture, I gnashed my teeth. with impotent fury to think that Zavertal and Vizerd, about whose ..co-operation thorn could no"longer be any doubt, had bested me with such ease. Whatever their objects might be, they had evidently seen that I was hostile and suspicious, and they had got enc deposed from the command by some ruse by which the Consul had been made the unconscious abetter of their villainy. By this time the Queen of Night had prob- ably proceeded on her voyage in charge of another captain, and the thought maddened me that Aline waft on hoard, ignorant or misin- formed of what had befallen me, and with those two unscrupulous vil- lains at hand free to carry out what- ever devilry was in their minds. These considerations quite out- weighed the disgust I felt at the treatment to which I had been sub- jected ; but after a while I began to wonder what colorablen e r text my enemies could have oR r e ed toh t e Consul to induce hirer to sanction their conduct. Of course I never doubted that he had been duped, but a terribly strong case must have been presented to him, I thought, for him to permit violence to "be used against a British subject With- in the walls of the Consulate. With what crime was I charged ? Again, however heinous that crime might be, why that extraordinary method of arrest ? I had no previous ex- rorionce of Italian justice, but I .'ould not believe that it was usual o chloroform prisoners in order to make thorn "go quietly." Iffy inind having cleared sufficiently to reason thus, the impulse prompt- ed Inc to try and ascertain whether I teas really in prison or no. The place of my confinement certainly warranted no other supposition. The walls and floors were of stone, the door massive and nail -studded, and the window was placed so high that Its lattice of iron bars could only have been intended to prevent 'es- cape—not accident." Slaving no means of filing the bars, flight by that route was out of the question, but I thought that by standing on the bed and making an upward spring, it was just possible that I might roach the inner sill of the window, and hang long enough to obtain a view of the outside sur- rounding's. At the second attempt I was suc- cessful. My fingers got a grip on the stone sill, and by dint of pulling up my own weight, I managed to raise my head sufficiently high to look out. I saw an 'old and tangled -garden surrounded by stone walls, and With nothing more human -like in it than hero and"there a broken etatue peeping through the matted undergrowth. Thepaths and terraces Were ,moss -grown and sincerest for: Beyond .the far boundary wall the ground sloped upwards, and I could seethat it was quits country, and only sparsely studded with largo houses at considerable intervals. Having noted that my window was about twenty feet from the ground, I dropped back into my cell, the wiser only by the negative theory that my place of confinement was not a prison. The neglected condition of the garden precluded the idea that the place was a Govern- ment establishment of any kind, and the situation tended to prove that it was not the jail. I judged from the country''bcyond the walls that I was somewhere on the rising foot- hills at the back of the city, where- as the jail was. in the central and thickly built over district of the Via Garibaldi. Further reflection was cut short by the sound of approaching foot- steps, followed by the clanking of bolts and chains. A moment later the door opened, admitting three stalwart Italians whose appearance at once put an end to any lingering notion that I might bo in a legal prison. I1 I had been held captive by brigands in a mountain fastness, I could not have had guardians. who more thoroughly', looked the part than the greasy, ragged,' garlic smelling rascals who crowded into the. narrow cell. They all carried oak cudgels, which, judging from the. ferocious glance they ;host at me, they would use with -very little provocation, Separately, I could have easily tackled any one of them, but the number put all ideas of at- tacking them out of my head at once—especially as I did not know how many of the sarno sample might be within beck and call. One fellow carried a bowl of stew, and another a stone jar half-filled with country wine. These they de- posited on the floor, ono of them saying, with a gesture : "Deener— Signor eat deener." This denotes a modified knowledge of English, and I at once broke into a torrent of protest and int quiry—where was I ?' why had , I been so treated ? was I free to go away ? At the last question on the spokes- man okes- man tau h d and answered the first question as though it comprised a reply to the others. "This is the Convent—the Con- vent of Santa Lucia," he said. This conveyed nothing, and when I pressed him further ho refused to say why I had been brought there, and in whose keeping I was. The only piece of information he vouchsafed increased my anxiety and dismay, On my demanding to be taken instantly to the British Consul the man replied insolently,— "Consul come here see Signor in one week. No use making fuss be- fore." "Is there any one named Zavertai, or Vizard, in this cursed place 9" I asked. But he only shook his head va- cantly, and again pointing to the wretched food withdrew with his companions, barring the door be- hind them, I was too excited to be hungry, but recognizing the necessity of preserving my strength, I ate some of the mess and drank all the wine, after which I sat on the bed —not to despair, but to think out some way of escape, That my cap- ture was in some degree sanctioned by authority I concluded from. the man's statement that the Consul would visit me in a week. That was so far reassuring, as showing that I was not in tho hands of professed criminals, but it also spurred me to endeavor to free myself, seeing that the only person who could help me would not be accessible for seven long weary days, 'Ito remain shut up for Haat - time, in doubt 'ail to what those two scheming villains were up to, and with that ever - haunting fear about Aline hanging over nae, was not what I meant to etdure. I had. sat" there •brooding foe: an. hour or more, when. again .:I heard the tramp of approaching footsteps. On the door being' opened, two peo- ple—both strangers to me—came in, while outside were clustered the three men whom I had seen before. The two who entered were quite of a diffeierft stamp, and my heart bound- ed when I saw that the hindermost Was dressed in the garb of an Eng - As a S There Are Two Reasons Why There Is no Treatment so Thoroughly Satisfactory and Lastingly benew flclal as Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, The body of man can be influenced In health or disease only through two channels—the blood and the nerves. • During the :winker .tire blood be- comes thin and. watery because of the artificial life we are compelled lead endo •s— r to a o1 the artificial' the breathing of impure air, the lack of exercise, and this is why most ,people find it necessary to use a snood builder and nerve restorative fn the spring. 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There is none of this in connection with Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, and for this reason any bene- fit, you feel is lasting and you can bo certain that With each dose your. blood is getting richer and your system is being built up. Dr, Chase's Nerve Food; 50 cents a box, 6 boxes for $2,50; at all dealers or li".dmanson, Bates Sr Co„ Toronto, To protect you tWai55st imitations the portrait and Signa- tare Of Dr,'A. W. Chase, 'tlio fariloue receipt -book 'nether', arse one Or-eey'. box, Ileh clergyman, The first -comer was a big lank -hailed Italian, elderly, and of pompous manners ; but he had the air of being a portion of educatiori, and in authority, Ile seemed to search my face with a keen scrutiny, and then, falling hack a pace or two, he said a few words in Italian as ho motioned his Com I rinlnn to The clergyman was spare and ascetic -sleeking, and he proceeded to address 1120 in an irritating, unctuous voice, "1 am the new English chaplain bora," he said. "Need I say with what heartiness I shall place my ministrations and advice at your disposal. 1 have called to see you in the exercise of my duty at the special request of the Con- sul," "You are very kind," I replied— in, I foto', a thank -you -for -nothing tone, "but I should prefer to see the Consul himself. The only service any one can render me at present is to tell nto why I am detained in this hole, and to got mo out of it as quickly as possible." Tho clergyman sighed a profes- sional sigh. •','Those aro matters quite beyond my province, I am afraid," he whined, in the nauseous hypocritical twang that was fast making me hate him. "Any spiritual consolation now ? or the loan of a nice book to read 9 In either of those ways I shall be so privileged In the doorway the pompous au- thorative person, evidently ignorant of English, was having our conver- sation ' mutilated -s to him by Mlle greasy tatter-donialion who had a smattering. The man's whispering, therefore, overlapped the last ,sen- tence by twenty seconds, and under cover of this the Verson, catching my eye, added quickly, whispering himself with great earnestness,— "I am here to help you. Appear angry and drive me away, but take the book I shall olTer you." With difficulty controlling my de- light sufflcientlr to seize tire• cue, I cursed him so viggo.'ously for an un- sympathetic hunThug, unwilling to aid a fellow -countryman in distress, - that the translator threw up his hands - in despair. The effect upon the clergyman was even more mark- ed, Uttering feeble protests, he re- treated to the door, where he nearly fell into the arras of the Italians, who rallied to his assistance. But checking the onslaught they seemed about to make upon me, he ventured back a little way intoe the cell and laid upon the e bed a book which he had been carrying under his arm. This being safely accomplished, he beat a second retreat, pulling the door after him, and than I heard the bolts shot and the footsteps of my visitors departing. The moment the sounds died away I sprang up and clutched the book, which was rather a bulky volume, bound in cloth with red edges. Di- rectly my fingers closed upon it I knew that it was no book, but a dummy forming a box of which one of the covers was the lid. Wrench- ing it open I cduld hardly repress a cry of exultation, for neatly coiled in the interior was a silken cord, slight but strong enough to bear the weight of a man's body, a file, a small chisel, and a half sheet of notepaper, on which were scrawled the following welcome lines :— "Zavei'tal has been too clever for us, but I shall beat him yet. In case you do not know, you are in the Convent of Santa Lucia, which is used as a private madhouse. I bring you means of escape. Make the attempt to -night an hour after sunset, I shall wait for you at the right-hand angle of the far garden wall, outside. The ship has sailed, with McIntyre in command, but if you get away to -night we can pick her up at Naples. No time to write more, as I have to devise means o! getting to you somehow. Explana- tions when we meet, "KENNARD," (To Be Continued.) ABB To peeve to you that Dr.riles . OI e'a Ointment ie oortaln and abeol to u cure for a ec b and every form of itching, bs have and guaranteed t. Bootee. otee, the sf manufacturers da have gs end ask lk n eelgh bore what in the hank fit You ca your neigh• goterTour s they think ofk if it eurod.'heo a it and ober. M ale dealers or EaxessON.l35r5o 8c Co.,'1•orontO Dr. Chase's Ointment HEROES OF HUMBLE LIF THE TILE OF GREAT SINGLE- HANDED RESCUES. One Briton Against a Zulu Army —Saved 600 Souls From a Burning Ship. It was one morning in September Last that a fire broke out with ter- rible suddenness in the engine. house. of the Bodringallt Colliery near Rhondda, Wales, At the moment a cage with eleven men In it was slow- ly descending' the shaft, Tho flames sp1Oacl rapidly, and the heat became almost unbearable. But ldvan Lloytl, the engine man, never 'dreamt of quitting his post, Catching up a sheet of metal, he propped It in front of his face and grimly hold on to his winding lever until the indi- cator showed that the cage was safe at the bottom of the shaft. Then, and not till then, scorched and blackened, he staggered out into the open air, A few moments later the wire rods attached to the cage snap- poll: with the heat, but by that time tet of the anon wore in safety, Only ono cyan injured by tho falling metal, and he not mortally. An lfnglish railway man the other day saved an express train full of passengers bound Prem Liverpool to London with tree British pluck, A Glasgow goods train was shunt- ing on the L. 8c N. IV, Railway noar Tannvorth, to make way for the ex- press to pars. The signal fell for the express 'to pass, but the driver of 'the goons, sunder sone) misappre- hension, imagined that it wits for hint to leave the siding, The points being agltinst Situ, his train Was de- faile'1: •• Eight tit teecks left the sails an d about, utterly blocking theMain lino, Both driver and fireman -werol it": +'+1•'i•••: •: :e•*•O•sao.4s*•.y' *••�• badly hurt; but the latter, a Swan-,<. . '•toa mon, by name Frederick Davis,is FRINGED the danger to the onwru Ing express, picked-hlmeelf up, and •. thangir (.II NTIANS •1' IN TIRTtU1f.Il PAIN .a ' crawled slowly towards the nearest "•Po•..• .eSss 41.4,..• 9:.•:,e;.gneeeesS• sesS••«p 1 s nal box. As ho vonthe i g 5 Midi ., danger signalslin t r� doe on helino.When n for t 1 o r gto him as I would jay reached the box he heelus strength own, an' that's j t gth all anybody can left to toll what had happened. Them do."MI's. Silas Adams addicssed he fell unconscious, and was curried not' doj,arting guest and smoutj,od to hospital. down the sharp fold of recent iron In the two desperate battles of Ing from her stiffly starched apron. Rorke's Drift and Isandlwhana the She was a motherly looking woman, gallant Twenty -Fourth lost twenty- but a trace of anxiety shaded hor one ,officers and five hun'drod anti face eighty-seven men, and the survivors Ho was such a bright little Chap received no fewer than eight Victoria' when they used to send him here Crosses. Of those the most magna- summers," she continued, an' I fic:entiy won is that which Sergeant Heels, seen hie beat for taarin' round Uccle, now employed at the British' the pastures and mowin's. Many's Mnsoum, still wears. For four Ion the time he'd come to Inc with his hours Hook and two other peen held hands full of them bluebells an' say, the hospital at Ilorko's Drift against I "IIer•o, auntie, I picked 'ern for a host of huge Zulus, At last his you. Mrs. Adams's voice shook two companions fell, and the sale -I and she paused, vivor ran short of ammunition. Un- Maybe he'll come out on't yet, dismayed, he fixed his bayonet anti Alice," her neighbor comforted, still hold offthe rushes of his toes. From upstairs came the faint h As ono after another of them fell, he tele, click, of a typewriter. 11 seem- piled their bodies upuntil a barr•i- ed out of keeping with the low -cell - code was formed five feet high.Tlten inged, hugechinmeyed house with its the Zulus gave up the attonpt to yellow painted floors and ol-d-fash- rush and sot the place on fire. The toned furniture, sole defender seized a pick and broke ' FTarki" Mrs. Mame exclaimed, through three successive walls of "He's writing again. Funny how he can nm that.thing-without-seeing, ain't it?" Five — ten minutes passed, and still the' low -toned conversation con- tinued. ontined. Then tho visitor gave a startled exclamation, "I've left bread in the oven," she explained, "alt' T must go this minute." Mrs. Adams closed the -door and pushed a reluctant cat to the floor, then sat down in the red -cushioned rocker, thus made vacant. She gave a 'deep sigh of unrest. sun-dried clay to get at the hos- pital behind. - There lay eight men, too badly hurt to move. And ...al- ready the flames were bursting in up- on them. Hook picked -up the near- est and staggered away with him to the other building behind, • Then Lance -Corporal Williams came to.tho rescue, anti with his help all the suf- ferers were carried into safety. Be- fore rescue came Hook had been fighting eighteen hours on and, There was a moment of furious ex- Three weeks before, in the spare citement on Ludgate Hill on August room upstairs, a great surgeon had Bank Holiday last. Two horses porformed a critical operation u drawing an omnibus with twenty ex -Pon dursionists bolted down the hill. The the eyes of a man - she had lcnown driver lost the reins. Traffic was since babyhood. Now, with bandag- thiek in the Circus, and DISASTER IMMINENT. Police Constable Chidley sprang forward and grasped the trailing reins. He threw his weight upon them. They broke, and he was thrown to the ground. Picking himself up, he madd another dash, and catching the broken ends, suc- ceeded ed in pulling the horses up.Un- happily, happily, just as the horses were stopping Ghidley fell Again, and the wheels passed over his legs, inflicting dreadful injuries. For months he was a patient at St. Bar'tholomew's and other hospitals, and now. be is still a cripple. But he can show with pride the Order of St. John of Jerusalem which the Prince of Wales gave him with his own hand, and he is to enjoy a well merited pension for the rest of his life. One of the heroes of the world is a Chinaman. His story� was recently, told by Mr. Granville Sharp rof Hong Kong, Mr. Sharp was on a Fropoli steamer on its way from Hong Kong to Touron on the Chi- nese coast. The steamer ran on a rock, and was beached to save her. Her captain hired two Chinese junks to take the' crew and passengers back to Hong Kong, and Mr. Sharp wont with the captain in the smaller one. A typhoon swept down upon them. Masts, bulwarks, 'end rudder were swept away in an instant. The Chinese captain, believing all was over, wont below and drugged him- self with opium. Three Chinese fish - omen, who had been firemen on the Steamer, were aboard, and these $new the coast. They managed to repair the rudder, but only one could Meer well enough to save it from BEING AGAIN BROKEN, ' ed eyes, he was waiting to know the result. Homeless, with no near rel- atives, he had begged to come to the farm home where he had been sent as a boy, and there have the operation performed, "I have a horror of hospitals," he hail writ- ten, "and some way, if the svorst comes, I shoulb like to be out there, h re world the a wo d is atP sate." And he childless t hrpair,it asswho had seen so little of the rown man, the man who had become famous, wel- comed back the wanderer with hearts full of pity. They hail stood with- out the 'door when the surgeon's knife had done it's work, and the woman had oven rebelled at the pre- sence of a nurse, longing to care for the poor, unconscious victim herself. "I'm glad I yielded to his whim and let him come out here," the surgeon hail said, as he paced up and down before the door waiting for the conveyance that was to take him to his train. "It is better than a hospital." Tho memory of that time of hor- ror, now three weeks past, haunted Mrs. Adams, She could not let that strong man go out from her roof blind, It must not be. She looked out to the autumn coloring of the trees and roadside growth, but the mist before her eyes dimmed Tier vision. In the quiet, darkened room up- stairs, the click, click, of the type- writer continued. The machine was placed on a littlo pine table, and the man with the bandaged head struck the keys rapidly. His sense of touch was not that of those born blind, but long familiarity with the position of the keys enabled hint to write without error. He had to watch every wave and"In a little time," l>o had written, be ready to ease off for each sea. „I shall know. If it means dark - With no one to relieve him, this ness continued all the 'lays I live, e man" stood at his post in torrents of am afraid I shall curse the Fate rain, in wind and darkness, and on- that has struck me. If it means dared the awful strain for thirty-six liist ]ife,tndana life, — andyou, ligEdione th, hours on end; He never oncslet go open then the gates of heaven will o) his hold. A boy stood by him' and put food between his lips at inter for me. I cannot, I will not live vats to give him strength for his all my allotted years blind—a blind but hopeless task. He saved the man with his uncertain steps al - junk and, all aboard hor. ways guided by some attendant, a 1Vhat• threatened to be one of tiro blind reran whom even little children worst disasters in the history of pity. 3 am og rong enough, not shipping was the burning of the great-seaenough enough to stand it, I Ocean Monarch, Fire was discover- will end it, it is better so and misl- ed in her fore -hold an hour or two ly done, Life without, you would be only after she had left the Mersa a blank, and to go to you with There was a strong breeze and she sightless eyes—God forbid, was headed for the Welsh coast. By Do you remember how the gentian some unlucky accident an anchor was flowers grew out here? The thought dropped, and the big ship was of their blue beauty haunts me to- brwrught up all standing, head to day, With my blind eyes I see you wind. The flames came roaring aft, with a cluster of them in your belt, whore 600 passengers and crow were They were not bluer than your eyes, crowded in panic. And now you are across the con- A Brazilian frigate, a yacht, and a tinent, and I am hero in the torture pilot boat were near, but they only of suspense. Before this can reach attompteii to pick up those who You I shall lcuow — know if ever I jumped anis swam. Suddenly en shall see your face again," came the American clipper New The click of the machine stopped, World, and rounded into the wind The man had buried his face In hisn barely two hundred yards away. Its hands in the bitterness of rebellion. first boat was Frederick Jerome, The faint glimmer of hope had fliok- only an able seaman, but ono,of the aced and almost gone out. The bravest mon that ever livedT, In a blalrkness of despair scented to en - flash his boat was alongside the ve1oP him, To -morrow, In a.. few bea ing'ship and he had climbed on hours; the bandage would be remov- lboclt amid the scorch and smother. . ed and the result known, He ran There he stayed until the last soul his alizecs up under the cloth with of all the six hundred was saved, unreal si s force, FIe sprang to his His clothes wore afire seven separ_ feet and with cloahands pace phy- ate threes, and he was scorched al the floor, 115s was a superb most he'on] recognition. Flus oral,Y'talt�strontt11n5verolbein3iaalieal aseclnd m5r41- rewar'd was the medal of an Ameri- g g i y can humane Society, — Pearson's this terrible thing that had fastened `irltjy, itself upon him, Two valuable scion 6 tilt° works already bore his MUM -- n the iiamo of a man not tet thtr • Y Y• Tho liaise• and Kaisor3n aro much The unfinished manuscript of a third inte•esteil ill a little musical pro- awaited the investigation necessary digy who has arrived in Berlin from for its completion. Madrid, This child, called Pepito, tip the narrow stairway baby foot- Arriola, is six years old, and is said steps came unheeded. A midget to be a complete master of the pi- with tangled curls end mischievous are0 and 'deeply versed in harmony eyes so5ight to explore, In the kit - and counterpoint. Ire has personal- Chet below was his mother, a visit ly presented the ICaisei' With a or from the neighboring hotneeteail, march of his oivn composition, 1lis, busy With Mrs, Attains over the par - Majesty having accepted the child's chase of eggs. For the moment his doctieatlon. The .Kaiser says the action was unheeded. The door of march is admirable, and has promis the chamber Was ajar; inside was ed Partite that his truittjieters shall, the strange pian with the cloth practice it. The Kaiserin has also, 911)0111 his taco, But the baby was been presented With a Spanish 'dance' not afraid, Grasping a bunch of &Se:rosed 1iy Pepito, Musical flet.; flowersin ono (Veiny hand, with the lin: is in raptures ovrx' the abiitl'd other 15e pu0b 1X Open the door and precocious gashse. 1 enteirdltt Y PEP IA the Wiluorloo of Thio Terrible, Disease Cured by Munyoe's Dyspepsia Cure. �.0 •"Dyspepsia is the parent of failure and the harvester of blasted hopes,"— Munyon. If I tried I do not believe I could over- estimate the value of my Dyspepsia Cure. Tt has brought peace and happiness into thousands of homes where all had been discord .on account of sick and ailing stomachs, it cures all tonne of dye - impala, and Indigestion, such as rialto Of food, distress after eating, bloating of the stomach, palpitation of the heart, shortness of breath, andall affections Of the heart caused by indigestion, wind on the stomach, belohing wind or sour food, bad Mete, offensive breath, loss of appetite, falntneue or weakness of the stomach Improper circulation, coated tongue, stomach, or waterbrash, inflam- ed or ulcerated ,temacha, shooting pain. of the stomach, conedDatlon, and costive bowels, diastases, faintness and, lack of energy. It makes good rich blood and vitalizes , the 'whole system-, Makes- old and worn-out stomachs almost as good as new. Permits you to eat what you want and all you want,—Munyon. MUNYON'S. REMEDIES. Munyon's Dyspepsia Cure relieves stomach distress instantly. Price She. Personal lettere addressed to Prot, Munyon, -Philadelphia, 11. 0. A„ contain- ing details of sickness, will bo answer-. ed promptly and free advice as to treat - meat will be given. 1373 t—i "Bello," he said. The hall was but faintly lighted, and the opened 'door admitted but little more light than before, The man started at the voice and the fastenings of the bandage, loosened by his frenzied clasp, fell away and left uncovered, eyes—that saw. From between the shutters there was visible a faint ray of sunlight. It was this he saw first. Then he sawi abtof a boy h w' it a dirtyface and little blue overalls au b nth of fringed gentians grasped tight in both hands. With a great cry he gathered the frightened child fn his arms in a crushing embrace. The cry startled the women below and brought them with excited words to the room. The man had released the boy and knelt with his face buried in the pillows of the beef. He was sobbing as a child might do. There was a quick step on the stair and the surgeon, who was to have removed the bandage pre the morrow, entered the room with a look of alarm on his face. I3'e had come unheralded, and now hastened to the prostrate man. In a moment he had grasped the situation. A quick examination srtd'- Sced, and he turned away, relief manifested in every feature. "Come," he said to the women, "leave him alone." Then he added, "Before you go out into the strong light, Congress, put back that band- age." "He will regain his sight," he said, as he went out into the kit- chen, "but,:' and his face grew grave, "it was the one .eba.nce in a hundred." I Flours after, Irving Congress rose to his feet, Iris face was trans- formed by the light of a great j.oy. The objects about hirer were plainly t discernible. The bright metal of his typewriter drew his eyes. He pull -fit ed from it the letter unfinished, and 1 tore it to pieces, His foot struck against something soft upon the i floor, and he saw Scattered there the f blue gentian flowers. He gathered them up and pressed them to his lips. Theii he hound the bandage about his eyes and went out into the j sunlight. THEY REPO LONELINESS CELEBRITIES WHO HATH 11111 SIGHT OF HIAA Budyard Kipling Hates Strangers —Marconi Objects to Being 'Inspected. Of all farno us people with an un- dying hatred of being looked at or having strangers round them, Bun- yard Kipling Is ono of the chief, He takes extraordinary pains to avoid the usual consequences of faire -- so much so that be bas recently given up the house be had lived in so long, arid was so attached to, and flea from the face of man, says London Answers. Ile settled year's ago in a secluded house in the little village of Rottingdean, near Brighton, hop- ing to escape the world at largo. But he was soon found out, and be- sieged by admirers, finally, ehar-a-banc owners took to running special Kipling excursions from Brighton, bringing wagon loads of people to see the house anis plot to got a view of its owner. This was so exactly' opposite to the tastes and wishes of the famous author that he recently stole -away inlanld— much as he loves the sea --to a spot among the Sussex hills, near Bur - wash, far from any road or railway station, where he bought a fine old farmstead, buried in the depths of the country. Every year he goes to South Africa for a spell, and avoids society as much as possible, He has the name for being rude and' curt, which., belief arises solely from his horror of being pestered, ANOTHER STRONG'OSJEOTO]t to fame and inspection anil fuss of any kind is Marconi, the electrical genius of the 'day, His pet method is to take a remote country cottage for a holiday or for study, and hide himself completely, so 'that no Inter- viewer or photographer can rout him out and torure him. If one abode becomes known he shifts to another, and 'dons nearly all his work either alone or with a single colleague. He is. so "followed up"— Sdpecially when in America—that he sometimes finds the papers publish his intentions of going away to some retreat for a day or two, upon which he quietly goes in a precisely opposite direction; and ba'fliolI re- porters have even declared that he drops s into of ti b s intentions P 1 ant ono of go- ing to a certain -lac d r g n e an then P u' q tetly chhioklos to himself and goes elsewhere, leaving the pursuers la- menting, The greatest lover of solitude in Britain, however, is Lord Salisbury, who inherits the peculiarity, in ad- dition to acquiring it. When he was not forced to be in the center of the wheels — even then he was far lone- lier than most politiciansl—ilttning his Premiership, he used to steal away in a little brougham—often a four -wheeled cab — to King's Cross, and bury himself in the recesses of Hatfield as long as possible. The place itself is sternly secluded; and even when political garden parties had to be given there, the ex -Pre- mier often contrived to escape and get away by himself. His father was an even stronger lover of soli- tude, and had all the windows and outlets by which it was possible to see any part of the house from out- side the ground bricked tip or cov- ered in, and no ono but members of the household staff was allowed in- side the gates. LORD SALISBURY gets a carriage reserved for him when traveling by rail on any ar- ranged journey, and when traveling a short distance in a public carriage busies himself in a book, and is of- ten not noticed at all by the other ravelers. But of all famous people who de - est being surrounded by their fel- ow-humans, the most marked is Rockefeller, the Oil Ring, and the r chest man in the world. He passes rem one house to another, often eeking solitude in little cottages built for" him in the Adirondacks nd other semi -wild districts, seek- ng always to keep away from the world at large. His chief exercise is igging, at which he never misses at east ono hour's work a 'day, and he nes into large cities as little as ossible. Having -a good many en- mios—on paper, at least — be - has ften been warned against the iran- er of isolating himself, for it is aid he gets—or used to get—an av- rage of two letters a week whose writers threatened to shoot him, o these and the warnings he pays not the slightest attention, but, if he finds himself worried by curious people in cue spot, simply moves to another, f.120M MANY QUARTERS, The orthodox Russian observes 1811 state holidays. Germans have long been in the remost rank as potato eaters. Among a large proportion of the boring classes potatoes and dark read aro the principal staples of aily subsistence, A North American rattlesnake taken to the museum of Paris re- fused all food for twenty-six months. The Jews as a people are the poor- est race of the earth. In the colony of. Japanese in New York City there are about 1,000 men and but thirty women. The London Times, in semrnariz- ing the opinion of the civilized world upon any important event, now gives first place to opihion in the United States. Years age Paris occupied the first place in such a summary. The order now is : New York, Paris, Berlin, etc, The Church of the Latter Day Saints (Mormon), now in the seventieth year, has some 400,000 adherents, It 1s said that Trine -tenths of the people of New York City live in tenements, Officer "What 0 o What is the uom 1 -int re r A a — rio 2 Orderly (offering basin) "'Taste that,81r." Officer (tasting` —"Well, 1 thinla•it s rxcellont soup. Orderly -W- Yea sir; that's the t'tretrble. They want,ttr perteadd,-51sl:. sat it's tea," r BOAST, AND TOUCH WOOD. d The following are some curious ='g superstitions still rife in the West of P England : e 11 you kill frogs your cows will 0 "go dry." g Tickling a baby will cause the a child to stutter, e To thank a - person for combing your hair will bring ball luck, To kill a ghost, it must be shot with a bullet made of a shilling, To dream of a live snake means enemies at large ; of a dead snake, enemies dead or powerless. To dream of unbroken eggs sig- nifies trouble to conte ; if the eggs aro broken, the trouble is past. If you boast of your good health, stripe wood immediately with your fist, or you will become ill. fo To allow a child to look into a is mirror before it is a month old, I b will cause it to have trouble in' d teething. A child will have a nature and dis- position similar to those of the per- son who first takes it out of doors, DROWN HAIR FOR BRIGHTNESS, "From the color of a man's hair may bo learned a good deal in regard to his intellectual ability," says a professor, who buts for months been closet stu'1 in the subject. c• e Y y b a t. S hoot- ;1; j boys with chestnut hair, he main- tains, are likely to bo rnere clever than any other, and will generally be found at the head of the class; and, in like manner, girls with fair Itryir are likely to be far more studi- ous anis bright than girls with hark hair. In mathematics and elocution those boys and girls, Ise claims, 'spa• daily excel. On the other hand, ho says that boys and girls with brown hair aro most likely to attain dis- tinctieh, through their individuality and style, and that those with lied or auburn heir do not often excel In any respect, A Wons8n is 318 Happy as she looks pretty a' roan., as happy as he t'•'"i+ t itil,PO 'IAIIt,