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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1901-1-10, Page 7TME MY'ERIOUS CRIME ON ` J1L S.S. NEPTUNE Yaasalla entered the dock, in iteelra, Cool mariner and glanced quioklY 'round the^!aa•t of eonr5e everyone thinking be wee a hardened acvundret for net exhibiting mere emotion. He land engaged a famous lawyer to (le - fend 'him and this gontleman wee ensiling quietly to himself andby no means looking es if he thought the ease a grave ane, Foster wee in the equal together with Ronald and Sir Mark Trevor ail listening eagerly to the Introduotoey address of the pro- eventing counsel. He stated the whole story wbieh had already appeared iu the papers but with some alight variations; That Leopold Verschoyle had been Married to Iiliata 13ia0oa Cotoner seven years • before with whom the priponar was also very muob to love. When she ][Harried the dammed, the prisoner had sworn be would kill him; The prisoner, however, did toot carry his resolution into effort at that, time, but went travelling about Europe,and Miss Catoner married the deceased, They did not live happily 'together, and separated, which separation was afterward followed' by a divorce, ow - Ing to the deceased's infidelity with another woman called Elsie Macgre- gor, The deceased then travelled all over the world, and was coming to Eng- land on board the P. and O. steamer Neptune, which stopped at Malta. While there the deceased went on there, and was recognized by his wife, who went an bdard to speak to hint'. The prisoner was also on board with tbe stater of the deceased, called. Miss Carmela Catouer, and then -ac- cording to Mrs. Verschoyle, who was the principal witness -recognized the deceased, and heard him tell Mr. Mon- teith, another witness, the number of Ills cabin. The prisoner then disappeared from Mrs. Versohoyle's side, and when she went to speak to her husband, she met the priso,nor coming out of the cabin, and though he tried to prevent her, she looked in and saw' her hus- band -or rather her husband that had been, lying dead with a stiletto in his breast. The stiletto, as will appear from the evidence of Miss Carmelo, Cotoner, was given by that lady to the prisoner, and was used In the commission of this crime. With a few concluding remarks, the counsel for the prosecution sat down, and the witnesses were called, During all the discourse the Marchese never moved a muscle, but sat in the dock as still es death, The first witness called was Ronald, wbo repeated the Story the dead man had told him, and, during his examin- ation, the paper written by Carmela was put in evidence. He was followed by Carman, who deposed that she had given the stiletto in question to the prisoner, and also said that the letter produced was written by her, and not by the wife of the deoeesed, Mrs. Versoboyle. Q. You were on board when Mrs. Verschoyle came. A. Yes. Q. Was she alone? A. At first, yes. Afterward she was escorted by the Marchese VassalIa. Q. Did you see her again A. No, Q. When the Marchese saw you again, what time was it? A. About a quarter -past nine; just after the boat started. Q. Did he make any remark? A. None, except that my sister could not fund me in the crowd, and had to go ashore without saying good -by. Q. Was he agitated? A. No; he was in his usual spirits. This closed Carmela's examination: and the next to go into the witness - box was 11 Ire, Versohoyle, pale and haggard, but who gleneed angrily at the prisoner as she Wetted the beak, &he repeated the etary she bled teld Ate Ronald and Baxter, '.Chat sbe was with Vaesella, and wanted to see her husband. Seth berself and her eon - gin heard hint tell the number of bis Gable; and though spte trial to get near 'her husband, ehe was prevent- ed, by the orowd, Afterward the pies- ed Vassaila, and on going along to see her husband In the cabin, she found Vassalla coming out. He tried to prevent her goleg in, but she W- aisted, and found, her husband lyieg dead wall a stiletto in hie breast. Q. Wu know to whore the stiletto belonged? A, Yea, to the prisoner ; it was elv- en to him by my sister. I - Q. What did the prisoner say when you met, him? A, He implored me not to tell, and for the sake of the honor of our fam- ily I complied, Q. Do you know by doing so you run the risk of being taken' as an ac- complice ? . A. (Mrs. Versahoyle getting angry.) I knots nothing of English customs. 1 am a Maltese lady. 4, Did yen ever beer the prisoner threaten the deceased? A. Yes, very many times; be want- ed to marry me, and when I married the deceased he swore he would re- venge bimself. Q. That was seven years ago ; did he do so lately ?. A. Many times. Here Vassalla shrugged his shoulders. This was the clots of Mrs. Vers- eboyle'e examination. and was suppos- ed by the people present to be con- clusive evidence of the prisoner's guilt, There was no evidence for the prose- cution, and so the counsel for the de - tenni arose to make hie speech, a speech which considerably startled everyone. In tbe first place, be said Mrs. Ver- sohoyle was guilty of perjury--sensa- tion-gross perjury; it was true the prisoner was once in love with her, but that was seven years ago, and he had long since forgotten his passion. The prisoner was on board the Nep- tune en the night in question, going to England, and Mrs. Verschoyle also name on board ; she wanted to see her husband, and the prisoner, hearing the. number of the cabin, volunteered to look for him; he wan considerably delayed in the crowd, and did not reach the cabin for some time, partic- ularly as be met one of the stewards, who asked him about his luggage, and engaged his attention for nearly ten minutes. • When he reached the cabin, he knocked, and getting no reply, enter- ed. He found the deceased dead, having committed suicide, and on the washstand by the berth, was a letter directed lo Mr. R. Monteith, a. friend of the deceased, stating that he had committed suicide. This paper thepri annex took charge of, and was (ow- ing out with it, when he met Mrs. Versahoyle. He told her what had oc- eurred, and she was so shooked witb the news that she went straight on ebnre. "he prisoner was blameable in not i)roducing the paper at the inquest, but bad anyone been accused of the crime he would have produced it. With regard to the stiletto, it was once the property of the prisoner, but he had given it to the deceased as a part- ing gift before he left for Australia, for both the,decanaed and prisoner were good friends then. The wife of the deceased, M.'re.Ver- aohoyle, knew that the deceased bad i.be dagger in his possession, as the It's Not Like Dr. Chase To Disappoint People. Hid Great I ec®ipt ieooic Old Chase's kidney -I -Peer Physicians and People ful Curers_ Derangements of the kidneys cause the, most painful and the most dread- tul fatal diseases to which man is sub- ject, The symptoms are unmistakable and the evidence goes to prove that no treatment' hue ever been so successful es a ewe for diseases of the kidneys as Pr. Ohaee's Kidney -Liver Pills. Pains, Relies or weakness of the back, depos- its like brick duat, in the urine, scanty painful or scalding urination, puffi- ness under the oyes and emaciation are the indications of kidney disease. Mrs. Parsley, 130 Lippincott street, Toronto, Nays: -"I may say that Dr. Ch'ase's Receipt Book has been the con- milting physician in our house for yeers, as I have always been able to control any sfoknoee amongst our chile eren U(y' using 'the receipts gives In Its pages. row the past few years I have snffered muob with my kidneys, 'accompanied with *even pales in the back, almost unbeatable et tiines. At- te using Do. Chase's Kidney -Liver ('ills yes 'a limo 1: am entirely reet e- ed to bo(((th, the pales in my back have Lefts and I feel Netter to every reepeote et d6 ei pleasure for me to Not Mea.p1 o olt, and Dr. Pilis Have Astwniehtaca Alike by their Wonder - add' one more testimony to the grand reputation of Dr, Chase's remedies." Mr. James Clark, Comeau, Prince Edward Co., Ont., etotes;-"Eleven years ago I was talent with pains in my batik, setelantg in my lil,ipa and ex- tending tip my spine, The pain was very 'severe, and at tissues aimoet tee endurable, eh0 many days Iwas not alblo bc, do stn hour's work, Though 1 bald rlaneiuited mniny first -elan( physi- oiamts and tried several advertised medicines, I riateld get no relief. "At thtiee time my, father -Weave told me to try Dr. GYhueeet K idrtoy-Liver Palle and avid he teethe :Limy welted core me. Iaeoured one box amid great was my surprise wheel I berm( to teal better aster using only one box. I conatiauedtheir use until I had taken about four boxes, wdstirah reads me sound noon." Dr, Chase's Kidney—Liver Pilin will mot disappoint yea They eat direct- ly and apeciffeally en the .liver, kid- nees, and bewail, regulo)10 g them, and Lnvigora,ttng einem to perfebt action, One pill a teem 26 clamps a. box, et all dealers,, or Z410 4014 Bates & Co„ Tomei a prisoner showed e, letter to her .tram deceased, aaknowiedging the gilt of etiietto, (letter produced.) SIM was in love with the prleonea' who refueed to Merry her, being An love with Mee Carmeia Cotoner, to whole he was an. gaged to be married. Mee. Verseboylo, hearing oR thio, same here :from Va- letta, and had a private interview with prisoner, During his abecnoe from his room at the Lang'hem Hotel ahs stole the confession made by thede- ceased, and it is now in' her poaeession ',Chat's a lie 1" cried litre. Ver- eehoyle, mad with fury, rising from hew seat. "Silence in the court 1" cried the usher, " I. will not be silent. It is an in- famous Ile, That man is guilty of inure der. Die killed my husband, and by God 1 -by God 1—" All at once, she stopped speaking, g her face turned to a ghastly pallor, and appeared convulsively drawn to one aide ss if by a stroke of paraly- sis. livery eye in the court was fas- tened bin that solitary figure. and theme was an awful pause of expect - Limey. Another momentand abe fell prone on the floor, with a heavy thud. The Coerrt was in an uproar at the strange occurrence, and at first et, was thought see had merely fainted through excitement. A doctor, how- ever, being present, came forward and knelt down by Mrs, Verschoyle, wbo wan now breathing stertorously. He glanced at her pain -drawn face, felt her pulse, and while he was do- ing so the heavy breathing stopped. " What is the matter ?" asked the judge, bending forward, "is it a faint 1?' The doctor raised his head. "No, my Lord -it is death!" "Death 1" echoed several voices,and the Court arose in confusion. " Yes --she has burst a blood -vessel in the brain." Dead i' Dead Yes, Mae. Verschoyle was dead -in the very moment of her triumph. CHAPTER XXVIII. ' .The sudden death of Mrs. Ver- eoboyle so appalled everyone that the trial was adjourned. A great sensa- tion same out in the papers, and num- erring were the theories as to how the trial would end, now the principal witness was dead. As a matter of fact, according to public opinion, the only thing that could .prove the W- noeence of Veesalla was the produc- tion of the letter written by the dead man and alleged to have been stolen by Mrs. Versoboyle, and after the body bad been removed, Ronald, in com- pany with Footer and Vassaila's law- yer, went to look for it. " What shall we do If she has de- stroyed it?" said Ronald, as they walked along. " Oh, she hasn't destroyed it," re- plied Vassalla's lawyer, whose name wale Winks; "she wo Jd have produc- ed it at the eleventh 110110." "Them you think such a paper Is in existenee 1" said Foster. "I'm certain of it, and Mrs. Ver- schoyle knew the Marchese was in- nocent. She only accused him out•of jealousy." " Bat why 414 he not deny the charge at once, instead of letting himself be plaoed in such a perilous poai'tion 1" "I don't know," said Winks; "ho never gave me any explanation, But he knew he was safe, fox even should the paper not be foetheoming, the evi- dence vedense of the deceased, that Vassalla had given him the dagger, would save bim. if be hadn't the stiletto, he cauldeet have killed him with it, that's flat." "' But Verschoyle distinctly denied to me that he bad any intention of committing suicide," said Ronald. Winks shrugged his shoulders. " Changed hie mind, I suppose. He evidently did it on the spur of the moment. But here we are, at last." They went into the hotel and were shown into the late Mrs. Versohoyle's room by the landlady, who had heard of her lodger's death, and was much seared thereat. "I knew shad break a blood -vessel," she said, smoothing her black silk dress; "the rages she got into wore awful. They won't bring the corpse here, I bopo 1" "No, replied Ronald, "it has been taken to Sir Mark Trevor's house" Didn't know be had one, • said Foster ; "he stops at the Langhain." " 01, yes ; he dislikes his town house immensely, and being a student of hu- man nature, like.% the lite of an hotel. I don't think he's tar wrong, myself." To be Contiuuod. •' M.ISAx'PLIED CENSURE. Pastor severely •- You brought nothing into this world and eau take 'lathing .out oe it. 14liswr-Wel 1, don't blame me; it isn't ley fault, I'm etre. Mrs. Etcoorte -But, Mandy, .4 don't see why you don't' want to marry Silas Beanblossoan. Bo's prosperous ,hough. Ilb's just put a new Lou his boueo. Mandy --I don't keine waw. He kin putt the echoic alphabet on his Goose,if 11e wants to, but, this here literary lift) haver, did appeal to me,. TEJ8 Wild OF ME, UNSUSPECTED MICROSCOPIC CAV- ERNS IN WHICH TREY LURIt 'e3wApplag" venoms Among (•leleelrrn Paeserees Nraetlee .- comes,Ornate'. And 'rowels fixed.)'1lplleiy At neneeal. Serious'I'rouble. Eveet so simple a matter ae bor. rowing a lead Pencil mete lead to the d eemninattuoe of dise+aeo in a family. Among obildren especleliy> "e}rap: ping" pease is is one Method of show- ing good fellowship, and the obild who swape its somctimee the innocent cause of trauamittleg sore throat, ekiri dise050 or diphtheria to hie best Meade The use of publio pencils is also, n0 doubt, responailble for the tratemission of disease from one to another, the clanger being far great, er when 0 person moistens the lead itn the mouth. Aside from being a filthy babit, this is e dangerous one ma any case, foe thelead is compara- tively rough and has cavities which are to the germs as vast naves en wbah,they Lock' and from which they ;nay be ;transferred to the muoaous membranes through which disease enters most readily into the systema Ae for penholders, they are much more commonly used by many per- Sons, and the danger' of transmis- sion of disease germs by them i5 therefore greater. At the hotel counter and the bank desk penholders are bandied by thowsands in the course of a few days; and of this num- ber some may and do Neve skin dis- eases, at least, which may be meta - glom and are thus transferable to others. It would not be a great tax upon the larger establishments at least to have cheap penholders in such quantity that mach person could have a new one, but the remedy is much simpler. Fountain pone are cheap enough, nowadays, to allow every business Wren and woman to own one, but if that is not possible a pocket penholder Is certainly within the means of all. Blotting paper, too, on public desks, bears its own evidence of soiling many hands and from its absorbent nature it is especially congenial to GERM ELEMENTS. As for public combs and brushes, the. danger la too evident and disgust- ing to need advice against their use, and the same applies' to public towels; a public convenience, perhaps, but a common source, even to -day, of the itch or worse diseases. To wipe the hands upon them is bad enough, but to wipe the face and eyes 15 exerting serious trouble. Common drinking cups may be a source o,f infection as well as of a cooling or exhilarating draught, as the case may be, and this applies just as muob, if not more 50, to commun- ion cups, %sed, it is true, in a holy cense, but none the lees likely to serve a mast winked purpose. In fact, any article touched by the lips or hands that passes from one person to an- othee may convey contagious virus or infectious germs. Nor Is It neces- sary to oven fauoh each articles. Library books are no doubt often conveyers of disease, and, although librarians have been frequently urged by sanitarians to adopt some method of disinfecting books, few, if any, have seen fit to do so, although there is a cheap, harmless and efficacious method of so doing by formaldehyde. Even articles that are, in a sense, private property are possible factors in disease: causation. Postage stamps for example, and other gummed arta ales, mutably the flap or an envelope, are fertile fields for the growtb of germs that may be blown or other- wise implanted upon the gummed sur- face, the danger being increased from the liability that the tongao may be cut by the paper edge in moistening them. The person who uses his tongue to moisten ;stamps and the like may be infected or inoculated as effectu- ally as R thio poison was injected. The time will come when the indi- vidual will have hie individual objects of daily use. EVEN IN THE HOUSEHOLD it is wise to have one's own towel, eoap, sponge and the like for the toilet. Surely every one, nowadays, has his or her own toothbrush and comb and brush. At the table the fad of having individual cups and sau- cers and other ware is a sensible one, though not a necessary one in most eases, but if those is any person in the family affected with disease, es- pecially consumption and the like, it is abeoautely necessary that that per- son have his or her own dishes 0f Much a destinotive pattern that they cannot be mistaken. Kissing ;ties been a much discussed gonadic:tire cud, while sentiment defends the practice, bygieno le in favor of aboilehtng it et least as a mark of public affection. Many an infant who hesbeen even it kiss of affection Tuts in ,reality been given the Iles of dealt., and in adult life serious dis- eases, be utot fatal ones, have been transmbtted by the kiss of one sup- posed to be pare, yet saturated with disease. Doubtless the orueade against kissing has boon carried to an .abeur•- dity, but promiscuous kissing, aside from. its im,delicaey, is dangerous. The food that we eat may be a cele. of infection.' Avoid a filthy provision as you would the Plague! h7aat that is iorauled .over a (Arty 9aloek, )candled with dirty hands and .out with te soiled and rusty knife may he harnileas, butt the poreeatage. of (auger In it to far greater than in diet acid lender more inviting ele- cwmateneee, So with bread, cake, ane. the like; ditty eurronedinge mean germ danger, CURIOUS INPOOMATION. 066 and interregna Bile catlitred Prom !Many ke,seee, Taking the Ahs,tralian colonies in the aggregate, there are only seventy- five unmarried females for every 100 tenmarrled melee. In New South Wales alone, aoots.ding to the last census, there are nearly 100,000 mows 1100300- vied males than unmarried females. to Victoria the excess is upwards of 75,000; in Queenelana it is almost 57,- 000; in Southern Anstralua, over 17,- 000; in Western Australia, 0,000; in Tasmania, about the salve; and 1n New Zealand, a little less than 44,000. Cyrus W, Field worked for ten years against all sorts of discouragements to perfect the laying of the Atlautio cable. Ile begin Ln 1856, and the first message passed over the cable in Augast, 1868, Queen Victoria send- ing it to. President Bwohanan. In the midst of rejoicing, however, the cable (broke, and the finally aunceeeful ef- fort was not completed until July 29, 1800. It was not only difficulty about money and !with the laying of the cable, but public diseruct that Mr. Field had to combat during that weary time. In the show cases devoted to ex- hibits of early printing from Japan and Chan the Waist, Museum au- thorities have just placed an interest- ing addition - a Chinese blank note is - Swed deulnig the reign of Emperor Hung Wu, A.D., 1368-1899. Thio is the earliest specimen of a bank note inenwn to exist in any country, and is 830 yearns earlier than the estab- lashment at Stockholm of the first European bank which issued nates. Abolut 18 iiiolres in length and half that ba width, it is a curious looking deeument. Pliny speaks in bis natural bistory, 50 A.D., of the good effect of "pouring oil upon troubled waters." More than levan eentux• Bede tells of a priest sent into Kent , to fetch King Edwin's daughter, who war to marry King Oswarra. He vi it. edthe Bishop to gethis blessing, and was told that the journey would be . stormy, Millet that a pot of oil which was given him would still the tem- pest. When the storm came the priest used the pot of oil, the Bishop bad givetn, and lo, the temp- est was stilled. Prof. Horsford and Commodore Wilkes are men of modern times who bays seen the same calm- ing effect produced in violently stormy weather. Experiments are being made in Rue`•. aim with a new fuel, " petrodige•d peat." Ordinary peat le impregnated by spe- eial methods with crude petroleum or with petroleum residue. The product. is said to be impermeable to moisture and does not absorb it even aster being left in water ; it does 'rot dry to a powder like common peat, and its heat -giving value 10 utmost equal tot that tot coal. This process, says L' - Echo des Mines, Paris, whish reports it, may give new value to French peat deposits. Berlin baa gone back to pent for fuel, rend nowadays, we must ne- glect nothing. " The trouble in" it goes on to say, " that although we have such great quantities of peat in oar counttry, we have not, as Russia has an abundance of petroleum. It is to be feared thet in France petrolized peat will be a luxury." Here is a sug- gestion for our own country, where ' t there is both peat and petroleum. BATHE YOUR EYEGLASSES. an Optician Says Warm Water and Soap 1e Necessary. a "You don't need new glasses, but your glasses do need a bath," said a 0 Broadway optician to a customer,who a seemed greatly surprised at the re- mark. "I know you wipe them frequent- ly." continued the optician, "but that doesn't answer the purpose. Tbey need a bath ea often as you do, and they f don't get it. I can see that from an examination. They have been wiped and wiped, and the slinging dirt has a been partly removed, while some of it has aimply been moved about and piled en older deposits. Give them a gentle bath name in a while with warm water and a little soap, scrub- bing them with a brush, and after- ward rinsing and drying them. Then a ROI BUTS BEEN ISLE. WHAT IS GOING QN IN THA LAND QP TI•I! SHAMROCK, nuay reuple er the emerald Tela -Accor• reeve, That 10115 laterextt Mrlab-f%ana' 61,11,0, 'I!.wo women *tiro beau ktllcd by a bogsltde, to county Clare, It le quite inoorreot to nay that Cavil lt,hodes over gave,the I4ationel- ist party either 210,000 of 10d. to carry oat floraeRule for Ireland, ]lir, Wingteen of Dublin, tile iight- ing expert, has invented a paraffin lamp for the. purpose of lighting buoys, It is designed to butte). three months without attention. IA arca in Ireland under Ilax this year le 47,&47 eeree, on increase of 12,- 31113 acres on 1890. tinder favorable oo0ditione flex yields in Ireland about £0 eir £7 per stettete acre, At Dublin Constable Henry Fowler was returned for triol to .the Win- ter Commission on he charge 01 hay ing murdered Bridget Gannon by drowning her in the river Dodder, People are asking what would be the legal oansequeneee were the Cor- poration of Dublin to give the free - doom of the city to Paul Kruger, and how could this proceeding affect the Corporation obarter9 Ca•1. Saunderson, whilst driving with some friesnda through the Na- tlonne- edledist quarter at Lurgen was ne- edled by a mob who' threw brickbats at the vehicle, from which the Union Zack wee displayed. Of three huge liners being built at Belfast for the 'White Star Line by Harland &'Wolff one will, it is under., stood, have a tonnage of 20,000, or 8,000 tons more than the Oceanic. Her coat is calculated at £1,500,000. On the nnniversazy of the death o8 Stewart Parnell, a number of lea - tionalasts marched in procession, with bands, from Rutland Square, Dublin, to Glasnevin Monetary, but the de- monstration was of email dimensions. Belfast has in recent years become one of the strongest centres of Christian Endeavour work in the United Kingdom. Ten years' ago there was but one scoiety in Belfast, and, indeed, in all Ireland. To -day Belfast has more then 70. An Irish lawyer addressed the court as ",gentlemen," instead of "your honours." After he bad concluded a brother of the bar reminded him of bis error. He immediately rose to apologise thee- "May it please the court -in the heat of debate I called your honours gentlemen. It was a mistake, your honours." A aontmittee was formed to erect a men onumt over the grave of a popu- lar Doublin physician, who was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery. A witty citizen who was asked to suggest an inscription for the memorize recom- mended the adoption of the famous al- lusion to Sir Christopher Wren, the architect, in St. Paul's Cathedral, Lon- don -"If you seek his monument, look around you; if you doubt his merit, behold his works." A good deal of exci:cement was creat- ed'n Killarney recently by the sud- den death of an American tourist named Michael Glennan, who was staying at the Greet Southern and Western Railway Hotel. The de- oensed was a native of New Jerseys and was about fifty years of age. He had only been at the botel a few days, and was going about apparently all right, but was taken suddenly ill and died in about half an hour. Heart disease is said to have been the cause of ltia death. Some idea of the drink tralfio in Ireland may be gathered from the following; -At the licensing session held en Nenugh, County Tipperary, re- cently amongst many other applioa- lone was one from Mrs. Bridget Kenna fox a confirmation of a new license in Fair Green, Borrisokane. The Methodist minister opposed the license being granted on the grounds 03 a large number of public houses (ready in the town, and also that a vvanlan was: not a fit person to be in lxtrge of such anestablishment. Tbo ergeant of the .Royal Irish Constabu Lary stationed there said that in a town, with a population of only 640 parsons, there were already 20 public houses, In a Connaught Banger's letter rem the front the following occurs; - 'You spoke about the hospitals out here, and I have read some terrible (counts in the Irish papers. But were you to vlsit the Irish hospital at Preterit, yotc would not believe the e'ieteents, They may be true, but 1 m only speaking from what I saw, This is my own country hospital, re equipped byn Lord Iveagh,, enda pleasant m 17ablidirect hereIt is - sure to visit it .111 the staff of nurses nd orderlies, are from the Dublin Hospital, and I can toll yon the pa- tients aro well looked after. It is the you won't think you are losing your sight quite so rapidly. " Your glasses show a fine film of dirt two or three layers thick that no amount of simple rubbing will re- move. ;Nothing will take this off so well as clear warm water. Don't be satisfied because you think they're clean, but put them through a bath and make sure of it. "Few persons realize the importance rid keeping their apeetaoles and eye- glasses perfectly clean. and in thetr a ignorance think there is something the f Metter with the glasses Or with their vision." I talk et all the"tromors out here. Lord Iveagh provides mediolne, food, eta., for them out of his own pocket, se the Government has nothing to lose, WELT, ENOUGH, Didn't I tell yea to let wall enough alonesaid the dootor to the convaie- cent who had dieobe0ed and was suf- ering a relapse. Yes, doctor whined the patient, but wasn't well enough. BRAIN 'WORKED Br Ma SDIALL IVORY PLATER INitJtilrl;A t0 A Doe'S SICU1,'Kx NANA (curate Nnw Meier ('entree for Memel Belicht--11116 5' ,'rests or .rleet@),111 eremite e11 the MMosalas el' Mia ItielW nt o9,eretol''s 1t'llt, !A brown setter dog is the nether queer metes by which a surgeon in the Good Shepherd Hospital, London, le trying to biring to light matters 003100oted with the brain that hither,. to has eluded the investigations oe an- atomises, and pltysiologiete,. There is yet a vast extent of brain territory to conquer, territory, that for the mosit Pert has never been explored, The brain of a dog resembles that of man, and the deg le question iIp' at willing Leiper in his waster'% splen- tiIlo xesearohes. The entire top of the animal's hexad is filled with little ivory plates. from whish project small silver knobs. Theele ivory plehea are ; now Part of the dog's skull and give the animal no more trouble than did the bone they dlsplace. The animal suffers no pain. Prior to recent experiments a small part of the skull was removed, the brain thus exposed was ettmulated with a very weak current of electri- city. It was Loured that when'the wire wan placed on a °attain small spot a the brann it roused the animal to move its( hind leg. If plaood a little higher• up it caused the movement of the front leg. Still another spot wan found to be. the oeneer of movement fox then eyes; and so on. BRAIN MAPPED OUT, Thus the whole brain was mapper% out into what surgeons call "slater centerel.' These demonstrations were made with great exaetneese and what wan tine of the brain ot one animal, wets always tree of another of the same species. When abs enrgcon;l found that a touch of the electric, wire upon a pertain spot in the brain, of a monkey roused it to mare Ito tongue they also found that stimulas, ti,og of the same spot on the brain of any other animal of the aimless tribe eaused the tongue to move also. Thema experiments aided aurgeone to locate certain spate an the human blain, ase for imta.nee, the motor coater for the right leg, and others for other mem- bers of the body, hones when asur, gena is called into diagnose total para- Iyais, say of the right lag, he knows now where to find the cause of the disablement. He simply divides the skull in the re. glen of the exact spot on the brain where is located the right leg motor center, and tbere finds, probably, a small abscess pressing upon the brain, When this is removed the patient eau again walk. UNEXPLORED TERRITORY. The centers governing the mov0-' rents of all limbs, apeeeh, sight, hear- ing, smell and taste are already fully known and their data established, but there are other and more important areas present in the brain, and these more on the right side, callose use is. practically unknown and undetermin- ed, although certain theories and hy- potheses are set up in relation to them. It will interest the layman 10 know that the right side or .sphere of the brain governs the movements of the left side ot the body and vice versa. and es the right side of the body is mere often used by man than the left, it is a fact, therefore, that the left sphere of the brain is mare developed than the right. What has puzzled professors In op- erative surgery is the dearth of pro- fessional knowledge respeoting the underlying aubstanoe of the brain,and because of this fact no little general interest has been taken in its u805. WORKED HIM BY WIRES. The operation of the dog's bead over sled the platen inserted in the skull, in lien of the pieces of natural bone that were removed, wires wore then attached to the silver knobs fixed to the series of plates. These wires in turn were each con - nested with an elsotrio key like these which telegrapb operators ws"e. Pres- sure upon any key would send a weak current of electricity along the wire with which it was connected. When all the connections had boon duly made, the deg's roaster pressed down 000 of the keys, and the animal with a decidedly puzzled look on hi9 face mechanically stretched out bis right paw. Another key was pressed down and the dog sneezed. That was discovery , No. 1, for the aneeeing center bad eon - ter before been found till then. Another key when it was pressed down made the dog cough, while atilt another made his °yea etream water, It was a very successful first expor. iment, nee the surgeons who were present admitted that it had revealed anter motor cantors in addition to those already known, a discovery that would tend to revolutionise braln ser- gery, sines deeper "mutate had brie reached than atm' previe laly known. The wires were ultimately remove4• from the dcg's heat(, and the animal was presently running about as cheer- . ;fully as ever. No sword baler ea tiesetwle n$ an wall tongue,