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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1897-11-26, Page 2TELE BRUSSELS POST, Ne:len H_her like smoke. I'i sentry, after rho passing of a furious gus, Cradtune TE PIS I� 0 Q tGA N G k5 1 °aught the captain's vola: "'IFald LUo " Yes, sir, I like to hear a piano -or- gan," said Detective Sergeant Jones, leaning back in his chair, and having a tar -off look in his eyes, as though he were gazing at a beautiful picture of the past. The sergeant was awell- set-up Tuan of about fifty years oC age, with a military look, and a pair oC cav- alry moustaches, "I may say a piano organ was the making of me," said the detective, pursuing the thread of his remarks, suggested probably by the strains of one of those melodious in- struments, wafted on the breeze through the open window. He took a sip from his glass, and after a few puffs at his cigar, said: "It's along story; but if yon tont,' rare to hear it, I'll give it to you " Receiving a ready response from me, the sergeant cleared his throat and began. Some few years ago I was sent to examine a burglary job over Hamp- stead way. The house, a small detach- ed one, stood a little distance back from the road and was surrounded with a Large garden, enclosed by a low wall with iron railings on top. It was inhabited by a Mr. and Miss Somers, quiet well -Lo -do people, who kept two women -servants. One of the windows an the ground floor, opening into the garden at the rear, had been forced, and an entrance had been effected by the robbers. Some money and plate had been carried off; but the great- est loss was a valuable diamond neck- lace, which, apart from it's worth, was a great grief to Miss Somers, as it had been her father's gift to her moth- er on their -wedding day, I had up the servants; but though I cross-ques- tioned them pretty severely, I could tell from their manner that they had nothing to do with the business. They had been in the family for years, and were implicitly trusted by their mis- tress. After they had left the room, and I had gathered all the information I could relative to the articles stolen, I was standing in the parlour look- ing out of the window, when I heard the sound of wheels outside, and im- mediately after a piano -organ struck up. Where I stood, 1 bad a good view of the road, but was hidden by a cur- tain from the notice oC any one out- side. The organ was being ground by a young Italian, with a great bushy head of black hair. Coming through the gate leading to the hones was a young woman with fine dark eyes and a bold, determined, handsome fare. She wore a white bodice, and a green vel- vet skirt, over which was a bright vio- let apron, trimmed with yellow ribbon, A showy silk handkerchief was twist- ed in her hair ; and in her ears were a pair 01 curious gold earrings of very large size, formed of hoops one within the other, and -terminating in an el- aborate drop. On seeing Bliss Somers, she smiled, showing a beautiful set of teeth; and holding out her hand, she waited in the garden, evidently expecting some mon- ey. Miss Somers shook her head; but as the woman didn't move off, she op- ened the window, and with more as- perity than I should bave thought her capable of, ordered the organ away. With a dark frown and a toss of her head, the Italian woman looked at the lady for a moment, then turning on her heel, strode out of the garden, banging the gate behind her. Taking bold of the strap, while the man caught up the handles, she moved away with the crgan without a word. Miss Somers threw herself in a chair, looking very shaken and upset, while her brother came to her side, seeming much concerned. After a little she broke out with: " I shall have nothing more to say to that woman; she shall never sit to me again. I never saw such impertinence." This particular pair of Italians, it turned out, were in the habit of com- ing• two or three tines a weak to play; and lately, Miss Somers, bad made some water-colour sketches of the woman in her picturesque costume. A few minutes after, t took my leave, promising to leave no stone, unturned in the search for the stolen property. But though a large reward was offer- ed for its recovery, no trace could he found, and so in course of time, the af- fair Came to be forgotten. This case bappened in October In April, next year, I was again, sent to the same neighbourhood, but more Bandon. way, this time, to the house of an old bachelor, a retired, civil -ser- vice clerk, living on a good pension, who resided in a lane near the green., The robbers in this instance were un -i successful, having been disturbed be- fore they had broken in. There were marks of a jemmy on one of Lhe doors; but beyond this, eio damage had been done. Tho gentleman was very testy, be- ing greatly excited by the attempt of the previous night. I tried to soothe him with the assurance that as rho thieves had been frighi.ened off, there was little fear of their trying his prem- ises again ; but not being able, to calm him, I was thinking of going, when I heard the music of a piano -organ sud- denly commence. The old gentleman was so highly strung, that the rattling noise wee just the last straw. He jumped about like one demented, ab- used all street musicians in good round terms, and at last, his temper boiling over, he rimmed out of the harm, and going tip to the player, shook his fist to hies fate, and, in a voice hoarse with passion, ordered him off. A policeman coming up at that instant made short work of the matter by giving an un- ceremonious shove to the instrument and sending it away in double quick time. After wishing the gentleman good -day, I walked briskly down the lane, and soon ammo up with the organ, which was being dragged by the iden- tical pair of Italians, 1 ball sten the autumn before at Hampstead, str r c me as being a strange coincidence that these people should crop up on both o!~ my profassianel. visits to that part of the suburbs. Making inquiries in London, I discovered that they were man andwife--by nameCarlo and Rosa 'Abdrealotti, living near Eyre Street Rill, Hatton Garden, They were reput- ed to be. very respectable, and were rather Looked up to in the hive of a house in whieh they lodged, as they WA not pig in with the ether people at supper in the kitchen, but kept themselves in select reserve in their own apartment ,a bask -parlour, Their organ was tbeir own, and was wheeled every night into their room for safety, As they were supposed to entertain clangerous republican notions, they were rather shunned by tbeir fellow - lodgers, Still, nothing of it criminal character could be ascertained about them, so they were left aloha by the pollee, Another robbery occurring soon at- ter in the same neighbourhood, I was sent on special duty to skulls about the distr'iot. You might not guess what disguise I adopted, sir. Well, I was dressed up like a chickweed and ggrooandsel man, in a smock -frock, with a shaggy red -wig on niy head, and a rough beard to matoh, lily clothes were appropriately ragged, and my face,lir- ty, and being furnished with a basket, I flatter myself I looked the part to perfection The next morning I started for Hen- don, and being acquainted with the place, 1 got into the fields between there and .Edgeware, u.ntl soon gathered. some bunches of primroses, with which 1 filled my basket, and getting back among the houses, commenced to prowl about and offer my flowers for sale. After a long day's tramp without lighting on anything of consequence, I turned my face homeward and began my weary trudge back to town. When I got into the deep cut North :End Road at Hampstead, I saw some people rest- ing ore the bank, but the shadow was so dark that I could not tell who they were tell close upon them, when I at ones recognized the Italians with the piano -organ, The young fellow was sit- ting in a dejected way, looking weak- ly at his wife, who seemed to be laying down the law, pretty strongly, though, of course, I could not understand what she said. On my approach, she stop- ped short; and the man, evidently glad of the interruption, wished me good- night in broken English. I tried to get into conversation wltb him; but the woman appeared very unwilling to bave anything to do with me, for she started up, and catching hold of the organ, with the help of her husband, who was quite under her thumb, com- menced pulling away towards London at a rapid pace, As it did not fit in with my assumed i:haraeter of an old flower -seller, to be spry in my motions, I was soon left behind. (To Be Continued.) �� Life A Cranton walked forward, balancing himself to the heave of the deok, and leaned against the rail. A blood -red light glowed beneath the awning cloths and flashed along the dripping bows, each time the tug swung aloft with the backwash streaming down ber sides. By and by two half -naked Kroomen crawled from beneath the gratings in the bows, dragging a rigid black ob- ject after them towards the gangway. Cranton shuddered as he gazed, for presently the vessel rolled wildly down- wards, and the corpse turned an awful face and sightless eyes towards him. Then the angle of the deck grew steep- er, and it slid softly out through the gangway. There was a loud splash in what seemed to be a sea of fire, and the hideous thing lifted a black arm above the surface bumped twice along the bends, and afterwards sank swiftly through the glancing wake astern, as though it had been drawn violently down, Cranton turned away with a cold feeling beneath his belt, and watched the darkness closing down. When the last glow had faded in the west, the foam wreaths under the bows and the black water along the bends blazed out into flames of green and gold fire, while streaks of blue flame fliokersl along the horizon. This is common enough on the West Coast but that night it was exceptionally brilliant, and the wreaths of vapor wbirling across the low -hung crescent moon told of wind overhead. "It looks as if we were in for a tor - nada ; I never saw the glass lower," said the captain, as a few drops of warm rain splashed along the deck. Then a little puff of cool air fanned their bot cheeks, and leis voice rang out: "Harden down the hatch -wedges, strip awnings, batten the scuttles. Ev- ery man fit to work stand by," A few minutes later a roll of thun- der echoed along the heavens, and the air was filled with the roar of falling water which hissed along the deck and gurgled inches deep through the scuppers, The telegraph tinkled twice standby, but the engineer, lying gasp- ing for breath in his narrow bunk, had already received a sterner summons. }Ie had heard the African thunder be- fore, and knew that sink or well, he must be at his post that night; so he dragged him into the engine -room where be leaned heavily against aeol- umn. le or ten minutes the deluge continued and then the thick curtain of rain was split up and blown away, and with a scream the tornado burst upon them, The sea grew crisp and white Ilke wool; sheets ofepinlrift burst over the ves- sel, while dazzling phosphorescence blazed from every curling surge until the tug appeared to be steaming through living flame, For a time Cranton clung to a funnel -guy, half choked and blinded With the mad rush of wind, though at intervals he could see the tall. figure of the captain grip' ping the weather spokes of the jarring wheel, while a seaman thrust upon to lee, Already the smooth swell was changing into steep foaming etas, and the Corona dived through there, with the luminous water flying aft in sheet and the powdered drift driving over wheel tilt I get at the telegraph;shes drowning herself now " Then as he peered into the yellow glow of the b;nnaclie, awl strained his wrists up- on the plunging wheel, the feta; clang of a gong is arum below and °sleek- ening of vibration told that the en• gime were turning more slowly, The llorrihlo turmoil of wind end rein lasted half an hour, then it settled down into asteady blow, and the pbos- phoroeeenee faded from the water. Ali night the ('onona staggered along, hall buried. in the seas which grew higher and eteoper, until near dawn a great black wall rolled Id over the bows. There was a crash' of splintering Lim- ber, and while tons of water poured out over the rail, the rest disappeared througb the deck in a swirling eddy, "Pore hatch gong,—stand by with the tarpaulins, for your lives!" roared the captain, and dropping from the bridge- deok Cranton staggered forward to- wards four dripping objects, knee-deep in water, struggling with the flapping tarpaulins. Twice the sheet was wrenebed from tbeir hands, and one seaman who loosed his hold in afrantic roll crawled hack out of the scuppers with the blool streaming down his face. But the men knew that they were fighting for their lives as well as for the safety of the deeply loaded vessel; and at last the painted canvas was drawn across the aperture and bat- tened down, while coils of hawsers and gear were piled upon the unsmasbed boards. When Cranton reached the bridge again, the captain said: "I wish you'd slip below and see if there's much wa- ter in her and bow the mill is going." Gripping the ladder hard to avoid be- ing hurled among the whirling mach- inery. Cranton found the engineer standing with an anxious face, ankle- deep in water which spouted throngh the cbequers of the floor -plates while oil -can in hand, a grimy subordinate leaned cautiously over the racing creaks. "The water's coming in faster than cors can throw it out, I'm afraid.; she's doing her best, listen," ha said and above the grinding clatter of rod and. shaft, Cranton recognized the sharp metallic clang of a forged pump, and could see the iron suction -pipe throbbing and pulsing, as though alive eaoei time the ram hurled a solid jet of water over the side, "If we do no better the fires will be drowned before long; it's gained an inch since you came," the man went on ; and Cranton shuddered as a roll sent the chilly fluid swishing round his ankles, while the buzzing cranks threw up a min- iature cascade. When he regained the bridge, the mate staggered up, saying briefly ; "The tarpaulin split again, the scut- tle's burst, and it's more than aman's life is worth to go forever& I'm afraid she'll go down lender us soon." As if in answer, a white -crested roller rose up ahead, and next moment the fore -deck disappeared into the sea. For a second or two the little vessel staggered and seemed to stop, then, as she slowly shook herself free andsw-ung aloft, the water retied aft. There was a crash of splintering glass, a cloud of steam rose through Lho broken skylights as it fell hissing on the hot cylinder - heads below, and the rush struck the bulkheads thundering blow, The three men looked at one another with ashen faces, until the captain spoke. "It is nearly dawn note, and we must be close in to the Ivory Coast," he said, "We'll run in and chance findinga lagoon;any- way it's better to risk the surf on a beach than to founder in deep water, Bard over, due north, helmsman,.' So for a while the three leaned over the bridge rails, gazing out through the driving spray, as the circle ot tumbling water grew wider and wider beneath the coming dawn. Then, with the sud- denness of the tropics, the sun swung out from behind a bank of hard -edged clouds, and the dusky sea -plater changed in a moment to flashing green and snowy white, until bo disappeared again veiled in flying soud. A few minutes later something like acluster ot feathers rose to view" upon Lhe far horizon and Cranton said hoarsely: "'That must be some of the tail palms beyond Lahu. I've been on the Ivory Coast before," Higher and higher grew the distant objects, until at last it appeared as if the trees sprang aloft from the midst of the sea. This is a shadowy baokground of low-lying forest rose to view, and one of the �lirooboys crawled aft, clinging for his life to the rail as a sea burst .:cross the vessel and shouted excitedly: "I know him, sah, know him bad; be L auu Lagoon, sah." "Take your chance and let him run her in; the lrooboys know every inch of the coast," said Cranton, and while the captain sodded his head, the helma- man whirling round the spokes, swung tbo Corona's bows towards the palms, "It's our only chance; go down and tell Jim to bold out, and drive her all he earl. It's a race now to get in before we founder,"' said the captain, one Cranton, dodging a sea, dived into the englneroom, and safely reached the submerged floor -plates, The engineer splashed about among the rising water, while the drowned cranks hammered and gurgled amid a seething mass of foam. She's going all she's worth; come and see," he said, and together they evaded into the stoekhold. A roaring blast swept down the yawning venti- lator shafts and rushed towards the trembling boiler. front, where, stripped to the waist, two haggard firemen streaming with perspiration balanced themselves epeeist the rolling as they forced the twinkling fires, Every now and then., as the tug lurched forward, a gurgling wave surged hissing among the red ashes below the tiro bars and the engineer shook his bead it's tempting Providence now," he mut- tered, "for the boiler's an inch thick with scale mad salt; she may' go at any moment. Drive her, my lade I" and then be added in a whisper . They've both got fever and have been at it eight hours; flesh and blood can do no mors," The most comforting thing, Cranton thought, was the ringing clang of the big pump and the hissing oC the injec- tion, and he knew that every throb- bing cylinder and pai itatleg alaeewas doing its utmost in that wild life. When ho reached the bridge agalo, the I'trooboy wee pointing excitedly ahead and shouting. "Keep them tall palm open, soh, ane 111hand, plenty too much surf, sah," The coast«Tina no wlay clear and bright in the watery sunshine, a strip of yellow beach, alter- nately visible and hidden by clouds of spray as the mile -long ridges of water burst upon it; beyond. was °fringe of feathery palms, and behind these, again what appeared to be a waste of man- grayssns ` 1 can 505 no entranec, ands 11 we go asbore the surf will smash every bone in our bodies. Steady helm!" said the captain. Cranton glanced aft with his heart in has mouth at the ocean walla that chased them astern or buretwith a roar over the counter, whirs the whole vessel trembled with the shaking of ber racing engines as she swung high on the crest. .Then a shout from the fSrooboy made him turn his eyes, and dragging out his glasses, he fancied be could see a smooth groan riband of water wind- ing through the chaos of foam ahead. Tbo Corona stormed through it towards the deadly sand, all hands clinging to the reel wherever they could find aloe, gazing in half breathless silentio abJ the yeasty contusiou before them. Ablest the beach lay close at band., and the air was filled with the roar ot the surf, as every now and then a dark line of wat- er rose up and blotted out forest and shore until le crumbled away into ease codes of white upon the sand. "larboard now, eat," said the Iiroo- boy, and the helmsman glanced at the captain with wonder in his face, for a starboard helm would cant them towards the worst of the surf. The cap- tain oleuedlod. his teeth and nodded his head, and the steamer's bows swung right inshore. Cranton telt his akin creep and bis nerves tingle, and strove to choke down a wild desire to wreath the wheel out of the seaman's boners, and turn the vessel's bows anywhere but towards the white death ahead; but the negro clung to the binnacle, silent and rigid, like an ebony statue. Then he shouted "Port now, port one tune," and the watchers held their breath as they sae a sharply marked strip of rolling -green water open between the mad smother on either side. The cap- tain threw himself upon the wheel, and aided by the helmsman spun the spokes round for dear life, and the bows pointed straight towsrds the narrow way where was salvation. Then a harsh voice shouted "Bold on all," and a vast roller rose up astern as high as the flame -tipped funnel ring. Every eye was turned aft, for if that sea curled and broke too soon all bands would be ground to pieces on the sand below. els they game., there wasp. roar and a rush,, the Corona was caught up and swept madly forward on the foam- ing crest. Captain and helmsmen clung to the spokes with a grip of steel, until the mass broke up, and melted away, then, sinking through the whirling backwash. the tug steamed safely into the smooth water across the bar. Ten minutes later the engines were stopped and the captain gasped out, "Thank God!" as the anchors plunged into the lagoon, and the little vessel swung smoothly up and downy on the swell which worked in across the bar. Now that the decks were no longer swept the pumps couldcope with the water, and in a few hours the bolds were free. There is little more to tell. The wind dropped and the sea went down, as sud- denly as it generally does on that coast and the Corona lay for a week Misure- ly a'epairing damages, in a fairly healthy, sand -girded lagoon. Then it chanced that a little top-heavy patrol gunboat came rolling by, and in answ- er to a signal sent in a boat. When they learned the state of affairs, her officers stripped themselves of whatev- ever comforts they had for the benefit of the fever -stricken crew, the surgeon of the fever -stricken crew. Then, atter her crew bac. thanked the kindly ° Tcers fervently, the tug steamed out across the rolling bar, coaled at Sierra Leone, made a good passage up the Trades, and in due time reached home in safety, the sick recovering on the wa . aures Cranton is now engaged in an attempt to float a stranded vessel off the Brazilian coast, while the Corona is employed in channel towage; but none of those concerned in it will ever for- get the unfortunate ethernet to salve the stranded Dutchman. The Enid. THEY WERE 1rARRIGD. "Yes," said the village gossip, "John was always a -pestering of Sue about rnarryin' of hien, an' she'd done told him 'No,' more times 'n I coned tell you." "You don't say I" "lilt's true as preachin'. Well, you know, John carries the mail 1" "Yes, I've beam tel he does.," "An' les' Wednesday wuz a week. Sole was a-traeollire 'long with him, goin' ter town, when John ups an' says, et she didn't make up ter marry him he'd melee the hoes ruin down hill Mil all three ell 'am overt drowned in the bottom er the river. "Do tell !" "'That's what I But what do you reckon Sue diall" "Goodness knows l" "Caught Jobe. by the collar, jerked him oaten the buggy, grabbed, up a Live rattlesnake what wile a-eleepm' by the roadside, an' le.rnbasted John with it held he couldn't sten'!" 'Lars 11: -massy 1" "Thou she tromped the snake ter death, an' Jobn—he took ter his bed, when he laid Ter two weeks; an' Sero got sorry Ter bin, an' missed him, an' killed a beef ter make stew ter him, an' now—what do you reckon 1" "I duan 1" "She's a-goin' ter marry him I" A LITTLE MIXED. A. tall man who had been sp caking with another man, and who wondered why the other man acted so queerly, saw a boy near his side trying to keep from laughing. What are you laughing at? asked the tall man of the boy. I'm laughing at what you said to that man who just shook hands with you, answered the boy. I don't remember that I said any. thing funny to him. Well, when he asked youif you didn't know him, you said, Your name is fam- iliar, but really I can't recall your facet---��— DRINbt .BOILED WATER. Many careful housekeepers are in - sidling that the ;rater used for drink- ing purposes should. be boiled during the autumn, when fever's ars prevalent. if the water is boiled daily and regu- larly it is very little trouble, There are few cases of typhoid fever and kin - tired disease among the Chinese al- though their water supply is very ]fad. The eomrnon drink in China is an in- [usiou of tea made with boiling water, Algernon Charles Swinburne, the poet, le one of the most eccentric indiv- iduals in England. He is a perfect meter of Greek and b'rencb, but it is hie delight to pretend to her entirely illiterate, and, though he left Oxford with a great relrutation, he never took his degree, ills. Swinburne lives near London, but ha is rarely emu in sa- etety, One ot the most pleasing traits in his character is his devotion to chil- dren. THAT coREIPI oN UiU PIE.. tlisau a year ago and visited. several' New York exparls. They all told bine that he ricin not more than Fie mouths of lire left, even if he speile his time n southern California; he returned to ifs, how in despair, but; bearing of Dr. Iirsel:feddav's. cure be glut himself emi- r the cloeior''s ttilra. \Villiams appear - 5 on Sunday and bore witness to the Crieaey of the new oure. 1115 declared he teas• thoroughly cur'sd. Those who know heln well say that he still shows eignF•01 ti}o enalady. One patient with laryngeal tubercul- osis opened his mouth, and the doctors were able' to nee sears of ulcers which lead healed. In another patient, who had been treated only a few weeks, the cavil tea in the lungs had. not healed out the sputum was examined and it betrayed no bacilli, showing that the serum. killed the tubereules. .Opposition to Dr. Ilirschfolder'sclaim comes' from Dr, S. L, O. Potter and his fellow members of the College of :Phy- sicians and Surgeons, Among L•hern era Dra, P. J, 1'smroll enc]' lPinslon^ An- derson. Dr. William McNutt, former- ly of Nova Scotia and recoguizod as leading gynecologist or San J''ranelseo is else skeptical. They say that the aura is of little more value than loch's famous cure, which was exploded by Prof. Virchow, and that it can be elm- easeful uo- easeful only when tried on incipient eases. They scout the idea of curing advanced cases with serum or of build- ing top redieally diseased tissue. In fact, 1)r. Potter says that Dr. Hirsch - folder's whole schema is to manufac- ture tuberculin in San Francisco and supply it to the Pacific coast, just as factories in New York, Chicago and St. Louis supply the East. So the discussion goes on among the physicians, but Dr. ilirschfelder is ahead in one way, for he is selling hun- dreds of bottles of his serum for $5 a Mottle Lo consumptives, who see in it a chance of ours. DR, IIIRSCIIEELIIl'ER'S NEW SERUM 1 ANDITS VALUA•AS A REMEDY. r� e hinisetaptivcs•Alleani to, Have wee Cured Mattern le 11001018 — Fran A'vaeeises vny n slalans Are 14tiiateit la pp/nlmo. I. The medical profession, of San 'Fran- cisco is divided over Dr. Joseph O. llie- sebfelder's discovery oC au alleged. euro for consumption, The discoverer le backed by Cooper Medical College, of whose faculty he. is a member, while those who, deny his claims belong to the b rival College of Physicians tend Surge - one. Dr, Q Iisscbfeldsr and his supporters claim that with the aid of Ioeh's tub- i erculin he has perfected oxytuberculin or serum, which has cured advanced eases of consumption in six months, ad be cores of patients who bear n h testimony to the remarkable healing' powers or this serum. 1115 opponents deolare that he has simply used per- oxide of hydrogen in treating tuber- culin, instead oC monoxide of bydrogen, which iloch employed, and that his me- thod isn't so good as loch's because free peroxide is left in the fluid after treat- ment, and must be expelled again by extreme heat l)efore the serum is ready for use. 'These critics also say that consumptive patients may be en- couraged to believe anything about their condition and that the new cure cannot be said to have any more value. than those brought out by loch and others, which proved dismal failures, until the patients treated show that their recovery is permanent. Mean- while they call attention to the .fact that Hirsahfeltler is selling his serum. for $5 a bottle and that many poor con- sumptives will flock to San I'rancisco which, with its raw avinds and cold fogs has about the worst climate in the world for persons suffering from tub- erculosis. ;llr. Hirscbfelder's'discovery was first heard of last April, when the announos- ment was made that he bad perfected a lymph which had been tried upon clogs and had proved successful, and which had also worked REMARKABLE CURES. on human beings. The lymph was in- jected hypodermically, and the pati- ents after a few clays ceased to cough. An exanieuation showed that the tub- eroules ;Fere healed by the action of the lymph or serum, and in cases of laryngeal Luberculosis this healing could bo seen plainly. Dr. 'II rschfeld- er sent announcements of his experi- ments to many medical journals andso- cleties, and from several sources receiv- ed encouragement. The majority,how- ever, appeared to consider his work chimerical. Last Sunday, at the Cooper Medical College, Dr. Hirscbfelder exhibited twenty consumptive patients who bad been cured by his remedy. Some were in advanced stages and deep tubercules in, their lungs had not entirely healed, but the sputum which they coughedl up showed no traces of bacilli. The show- ing was so remarkable that when an account of it was printed, with an ac- count of Dr. Hirscbfelder's method of producing the serum, le created a great sensation and being telegraphed all ov- er the world, caused much discussion. Dr. Hirseblsider worked on his cure for two years, and spent nearly $15,000 in perfecting it. The 'work required costly apparatus and demanded large expenditures for Iloch's tubercultu. From Berlin Dr. Ilirschfcldsr has im. ported $4,1100 worth or tuberculin, and llo has bought enough veal to feed an army, Elis method of perfecting oxytubsr- euli.n., put into simple English, Is as follows: Veal is soaked in water, and its juice is then expressed, boiled, mud tittered,. Glyicorine, peptone, and salt aro put into the liquid, which is made slightly alkaline with carbonate of soda. In thiol Liquid the germs of tubercul- osis are grown, 1Vhen they are fully developed„ the liquid with the germs is BOILED AND FILTERED. The resultant liquid is tuberculin. This tuberculin is the basis of Dr. Hirseh- felder's preparation. Peroxide or hyd- rogen is added., and the mixture is heated for 130 hours, at the end of which time ie is oxytuberculin'. This is clarified. svitir a caustic soda solution and 5 per cent. of borate acid is put in to keep it from decomposition. The greatest care is necessary on all the details of making.oxytuberculin. ,All bottles and utensls used are sterilized under. 100 degrees centigrade of heat. Dr. Hirschfelder claims that in his use of peroxide of hydrogen lies the whole virtue of his discovery. Ilio de- clares that it makes valuable his serum, whereas Koch, working with monoxide ot hydrogen, produced sermn that had no permanent effect on tuberculosis, Tor' five days he adds peroxide of hy- drogen to his tuberculin until he has put in the same amount of peroxide as oC tuberculin, The peroxide is con- verted into water but in this conver- sion it removes the poison from the lnberculin and fits it for curative pur- poses. Tho oxytuberculin was first tested on le clog. Dr. H;rscbtslder inoculated a healthy dog, and pr•oducrob all the sym- ptoms of consumption. The dog lead a cough., lost flesh, and would. not cat. Tben oxytuberculin was injected., and In a fern clays a marked improvement was shown, In two months the dog was as well as aver, and showed no traces of the experiment, Then the doctor 'was encouraged to racy oxytubsroulin on several patients who were willingto take the risk. Tube mettles in the tangs or larynx were healed rapidly, the cough stopped, and the patients soon began to increase in weight. Dr. Uir,scbfeldet airtime that in', no case where his orders have poen fol- lowed rigidly has there been' any fail- ure to cure, His most REMARKABLE CASE is that of Thomas Ii, Williams, :re a young sporting man who is as Well known in New York as In San Fran- elem. iIlo contracted nonsutnptiou more WRESTLING WITH THE CZAR. Tsang Dragoon Three' 'refer 1135 Great curd 03 111s wee,. One of the stories of Peter the Great which the breach president beard in St. Petersburg was of the great tsar's wrestling -match with a young dragoon. Once in the imperial palace—so the story goes—Peter was at table with a gzeab many princes and noblemen, and soldiers wore posted rcithin the hall. The tsar was in a joyous mood, and rising, called out to the company: "Listen, princes and boyars; is there among you one who will wrestle with me, bo puss the time and amuse the tsar 1" There was no reply, and the tsar re- peated bis challenge. No prince or nobleman dared wrestle with his sov- ereign. But all at once a young dra- goon stepped out from the ranks of the soldiers on guard. Listen, orthodox tsar," he said, "I will wrestle with thee I" "Nell, young dragoon," said Peter, "I will wrestle with thee, but an these conditions: If thou throwest nee, I will pardon thee; but if thou art: thrown. thou shalt be beheaded. Wilt Lhou wrestle on those conditions 1" I will, great tsar 1" said the soldier. They closed, and presently the sol- dier, with his lett; arm, threw the tsar, and with his right he prevented him from falling to the ground. The sov- ereign was clearly beaten. Somewhat in the spirit of Herod, the tsar offered the soldier whatever re- ward he should claim, and the soldier ignobly claimed the privilege of drink - free, us long as ho lived, in all the inns belonging to the crown. What became of him history does not say, but no doubt it would have been Netter for him if the tsar had thrown him and had carried out the grim con- ditions of the contest. PUMPKIN ITE. I love to see ripe pumpkins lying on the ground. 'Tnixt shocks of corn and melon vines meandering around; There's something so delectably sug- gestive in the sight— I1 takes me back to boyhood days; my heart swells with delight. Then memory goes rushing back to to happy childhood hours, And gets mixed up with inegrbread and pie and cake and flowers ; There's notching starts the moisture in the mouth, or in the aye, Like visions of the luscious—the de- licious—pumpkin pie. There's dumplings, doughnuts, pud- dings, popcorn and buckwheat cakes— With lasses on, and peach preserves, and cookies grandma Makes; There's raisin cake, with frosting on, in tints to catch the eye ; But 'mongst them all there's nothing quite comes up to pumpkin pie. BIG JEWELLERY ROBBERY, TI.iercq fs) Avvoy With 5}101,001! 'Malt of Goerls. A despatch from Madrid says; — A great stir has been caused in polies circles over the robbery, or a jeweller's aliop, which occurred at Seville on Sat- urday night. The jeweller's attend- ants, who were sleeping on the prem- ises, awoke on Sunday morning to Lind that the shop had been practically emptied of its stool; during the night; jewellery valued at over 01113 hundred thousand dollars Having been taken by thieves while they slept. They found n large hole out in the floor, lead- ing from widen was a tunnel, ooin- munieating with a house in another street. The burglars had been work- ing se this tunnel, for weeks. The earth taken from the underground Lining :was found hider in a third house. ARTIFICIAL EYELASHES, The Parisians aro credited with bay- ing found out how to make bees oye- lathes. They draw a tine needle threaded with deck hair through the skin of the eyelid, forming long loops, and after the process is over—it is said to be a painless one—a splendid dark fringe veils the wearer's eyes, A NICE TIME. Miss Tiptop—Did you enjoy yourself at the opera last evening'? Miss Westenel—Oh, avtully. Mr. Blatherskite ie the most delightful con- versationalist I ever attended te mus- mal performance with, Le buying medicines, food products, lti.tehen prepera.tiens, or anything else that concerns health, see that no strange, inferior goods are recommend- ed. d)y irresponsible persons. , , . , 1 le