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The Brussels Post, 1899-2-24, Page 66 THE BRUSSEL$S POST. FEB, 24, 18U9 kneeeneernaereeedaefeeeneeeeeeedeeeneardieeeeeeekseerealeserad'ad Diamond Cut Diamond_. OR, THE ROUT OF THE ENEMY. XV.—Continued. ] Parried a large basket upon her arm; "Look at Mee' he said—and the lifted; the taller wore a large brown silk haetiraid frightened eyes reluctantly • bonnet, she clung on to her oonepanion, to L1& "Now listen. You, ere to try ; and trembled violently in every limb and reake hiln talk and open out Inc; as they stood before the high painted heart to you. relit to him about this wooden door in the wall. woman ; you might mak him if he hoe"Ring again, Martine," the said witb ebal• And Martine rang again, and the small melancholy tinkle of a loosely - strung bell echoed in a gbostly fash- ion behind the closed door. "For the love of all tbe Saints, Ma- dame," murmured Martine, pressing ever been in love—make. him confess it to you—oven oiler to arrange a meet - 'Matthew 1"—veith a cry of horror— "But it is wrong, wicked I—and if, es you think she is a married woman--" "Pooh 1' how squeamish you are. There'll be no harm done; it's only till br imams arm closer to bor sule, find out,, then she will be dropped at "be not, so much afraid 1 Ana I not once. It's only an nmusenaent to him"t with yuu, as I was last time? Can any ho added soothingly—"the sort of thing harm tome to you ? Is it not an ere every man goes through before he rand of love, and of eharity, that we marries and settles down. Besides, be have come upon e" is gone on the girl now. Why, he al- e "Alas, Martine," answered Rose, "if most made love to her this evening, his ; it were, indeed, love that brought me attentions ware most marked / conside ; to this house, how numb easier would er, too much so, to draw back, and so , it not bel But the loathing and the I should tell him if he were to turn I abhorrence which etas nee every time restive, 'Why you roust have noticed grows greater and more Intense, so it surely—he was quite lover -like--; chat it amounts to a crime so deep eh?" ] that God himself can never pardon my "1 noticed that he took a great deal ' wickedness." A stifled sob cut short of champagne," she answered with a , her words, and then the dour was slow - frightened look, ly unbarred from within, and a man Matthew Dane sorowled at ber, and admitted them into a small stone -flag - seized her roughly by tbe wrist, so that gad yard. the uttered a little cry of terror. ; "Courage, my beautiful one," mur- "Don't let me hear you say that I neared the old servant. "Ana I not again e' ho cried angrily. 'I know with thee r ,wbac you mean. 1 saw you look at ate Jt long, 10w, shivering sigh was the with your miserable begging face at, only answer. And. then Madame de simper. Don't you think you are go-. I Brefour drew herself up, and threw ing to stand in my light—you poor, back her head with a resolute action, useless creature I What do I keep which told old Martine that the mom - you hero for, do you imagine, except ; eutary weakness was subdued, to da as you are tedd ? That's all you 1 'the man who admitted them seemed ean ido. If y•ou had got a son of your to expect their visit. Ho led the way own, Madam, you might have a right in silence) into a small dingy house, to speak—but as it te—bah 1" and whose windows were closely barred up hen he flung hr hand away with with thick iron bars. A lunatic had coarse contempt, and strode newly out once been confined in this melancholy of her room with a hot rage in his house—a raving madman, who had been dark Moe, leaving her there, cowering kept here for years. There was a pris- oner here now, but he was not mad. The two women were ushered into a small room on Lbe ground floor, where and weeping, huddled up upon her sofa like a beaten dog. And she was helpless. She had no strength either of mind or of body to an elderly woman rose civilly at their resist his will. She would have to entrance, and set chairs for themn by obey him. Always the scenes between the table. This was the wife of the theta ended alike. He jeered at her, man Who had admitted them ; and Lhey or swore at her, as the cam might be, were Madame de Brefour's servants, for her one great sin against him— paid by her twice a year for the work that sin, which, as long as they both they did for her; paid to look after ehould live, he would never forgive her the poor gentleman, who was not mad, for—the sin of being childless. In but who was weak in mind, who, had time, she too had grown to believe It delusious—to whom absolute seclusion to be almost a crime that she bad so was necessary. That was how it had bitterly disappointed him, and to feel been explained to them, a theme of berself for having so !Malin Every six months Madame de Bra- ndied. It seemed to her, in her mor- four came to see her brotber—that WaS bid misery, that she ate his bread, and lived under his roof, and was clothed by bis money, all under false pretence, eince she had not done that one thing Cr him for which he had made her his wife. When he reproached her with it, she always gave in to him. She what they believed him to be ; and she paid the couple who took care of him for her. Paid them for the house - rent and the taxes, for the meals and the fixing, for the food and for the medicines, down to the very clothes that they had got for hien to wear. 11 had done nothing for him. Perhaps,, was a long business; for, though the tbaP, lie was right, and that blind paid liberally, she went scrupulously obedience was her sole and only me-, into every item, and examined every tiled of reparation for all she owed, bill. 'the man went through all Lhe hien. accounts with her, whilst his wife took How many such tragedies are there from Marline's basket the delicacies not in the world, hidden away under a they had brought. for the reoluse. These veil of conventional life, of seeming , people had looked after the madman uourtesy, of mock kindliness and af-1 who lead died in a raving fit in the fection, so that the prying eyes of , house. They had been trained to that sort rrLinds and acquaintances are not able of thing; and it was an easy, restfal to discern them, but which, all the humilities for them, no.v that they wire time, smoulder and burn in the inner- growing old, to have this quiet, inose private lives of those who bear harmless foreign gentleman to look themselves so irreproachably in pub, after; nbo was only "a bit soft," as lie? Of all Mr. and Mrs. Dane's ace they put it, and whose worst mania quainiences and relatives, not one had WaS Ulu he would never go out of the remotest idea that they were not a the Ileum, even lute the little mobile - Perfectly orderly and well -assimilated choly yard, with its fringe of laurel middle-aged couple, tiling together in shrubs, until alter it was dark. respectable harruouy—save only (levee When the lewdness was over, Madame fray Dime, who had seen bebind the do llrefour asked a question or two, :atones, and whose heart ached for the to which the woman replied. poor weak -natured woman who clung "How is my brsaiset to him, end whom doom had gone forth eMuch Lhe same, Madam," that she was to deceive and betray "Is leis appetite good?" "Excellent. He has not had a day's elceefrey had gone home that night illness since you were here laet, and with n strange whirl of complex feel- he steeps pareectey,.. lige in his mind. The long day upon "He still Woe Inc little airing in th • manner river, the near proximity the evening?" of n girl who wee benntiful and ten- -Regularly. Generally in I h‘i, yard, tiT r as a poet's dream, the belief that but occasionally he will go a little way had but to put forth his hand to along tee lane, if we, are loth weal lake her for his own—all this had had hin and 1 nightis ." Its full effete: upon him. Added to "You are ettreful, ot course, te hum - wheel, the fumes of the wine were in ] our elm in his strange fancies?" him head, that wine with which his "Oh, most; °melte Madam. Poor uncle had piled him so persistently. gentleman, it would be oriel lo thwart Was that the reason that he had been him, he is so harmless and 1)0quiet." carried navay a little beyond his own "That is well. Now I will gd and see nal ural self 1 Why he had mur- And she rose, with a certain teured a word or two in Angel's ear, determination, from the table. t hat bed better, perhaps, have been weyone who knew her face well 'eft uneald?Why he had pressed Inc wuuld not have failed to melee the Itend at parting with a fervour that e eteetatid linem of her mouth,hqI • • eteled up the tell-tale blushes on t set, ,eeee tlmm n"st fon% „nd o her face and neck As Geoffrey , dark rings round her eyes, OW I old reached it, wend ng hoer through the ,,r S011ate itiWard terror at h't' eord night air to his rooms, he felt a -Kneeler, eethoted ewire balm_ event e, eertnin shame at himself lent Bo tem! Tht• [attend weitettes heart neht.d for these signs of suppressed agoey, of wittith elle knew h nv 10 read every weed.. 1301 the eerie:akar and Ins wife51W no I h ng. 13. etindle Wiol lighted and they went tip the narrow stairs. In an upper room, n small, shrunken tiguref set, crouched up in ea em- ail:lir by the Labia, 1 -Te 1 urnod his head quickly as tbe deer opened. Mmintne de Brefour, with te fixed, white time I hat, might have been Lind of a martyr led to the stake, advanced to the middle of the room. Martine stood by the door, in the shadow. The. man and. his wife with- drew, An evil -looking man, A low, fled head, with a greal, gash across the forehead, from %MIMI th o rough, blank hair was foamed bank; narrow eyes, oe a reddish hue, set close to- gether; a sensuous mouth, wit h it pendulutut underelip, in which weakness and vim were strangely blended; a Shrunken form, shapeless and devoid of symmetry, grief, mem-looking hands, and a narrow, inourving chemt. Such WWI the man to whom once, long ago, in the absolute ignorance of her midi girlhood, DAM had given away her glOrious maiden beauty, She had beau loved by hien! That was the erownihg ehtleneteatid horror of iL( 110 had beved,, he, this Peer, shrivelled vereteli•—hed I kissed bee on the pith:need hisl 'head epee her bosom— drawn 'her white arneee in. Milder levet,' about hie neck That was the abysm Of disgust and disgrace into Winch she had fallen!' That wail Why, every end 1,1a a renson should have led him •0 mike love to such e one es Angel 11,111,1,1y. ' eth 3 is as good as she is beautiful !" h • slid to himself with contrition, as he ',eine to his own door,"and 1, et Jetts', am utterly unworthy of her." .end es he made his way up bis narrow et lit rise he thought: "Yet, perhaps s113 elves me 1 Perhaps this girl, so go et. 50 vure, SO perfccit, ie destined to it • my very own, whilst Rose de Bore four—the first madness of my man - Moire love—has drifted awn,* fyora me Coe ever, and, by now, has fiergetten Inc 1" Ile opened his door, add there, upon the round table in the middle of his own, right under the radiance of the lamp, lay a square parcel, in brown wpm. It was a beautifully bound edition of lite works of the poet °engrave. Rom de Brefour, then, thought of urn CHATTER XVI, '11 the deepening twilight of a Still, grey evening, two women stood out - Mae a high brick wall that feeeed in a small, dottageellke looking resideime, about tee Miles to the north of Lon- don. There was no village, no other bowie eveh, within them or four tui1e, lave the railway citation, a smell and unite- pottaht one, from whieli the women bad walked, end even that was deer two mileaway, doe% a narrow wind- ing lane, along which they bed not met et alngle ttTmng soul as they mine. Beth Were Wectimed 1111 itt long cloak% and were thickly veiieth c'ne wonhan Was ihorter 5104 tenter then the Othereand time she looked upon the escaped felon, the male who had been a swindler aed a thlef—wbose base nature had been revealed to her In all his atroolty—that was why the hideous pita arose out of Its Lomb, end glared and gibed at her, like a demon out of a living hell. For this muse it was that she shuddered at the sight of him, wit h te loathing that was stronger than duty, more lain- ite than all her Christian congas- , "I allowed that thing to love m oncel" That was what she said i herself now, a she went across th rrom to him, and the very shame of it mule bor humble and gentle 1 hien "How are you, Leon?" "I am stilt alive," he answered with an evil grin. "That, grieves you no doubt?" "My friend, it is God's will," she an swered gently, too truthful to den what his words implied. Ho answered nothing, She glanced at the open took at /el elbow, It was a low Lypo of Frena novel. She turned from it in disgust "Why do you not read the books brought yol? They, at least, woul elevate, and not lower, your nature. "I have not your passion for im proving my mind," he said, with a sneer. Then, suddenly, his whole facie changed; and ha hatf-raised himself in his chair, so that she revolted from him, whilst Martine made a swift step forward, and stood- by her lady's side. "Link here," ha cried, angrily, "have you done as you said, have you been to old Dane?" "I have seen bim, and it is hopeless. I went against my own judgment, mn defianos oC my strong misgivings. I ward, not for your sake, but for your father's. But it was unitise. No- thing that I can say or do will wipe out the past, and he bolds in his hands, as we knew, the proofs of your Crime--" "Which he would give up to you, if you were to persevere." "Never. You do not know him. have made a supreme effort, and it has failed. By your death, he con- siders himself eo have been cheated of his just vengeance, If I pleaded again, he would suspect the trulb; and it would be 0. positive joy to him Lo know that you were alive, and to hunt you down--" Then the wretched men laid bis head on the table, and burst into weak, miserable tears. "Well, better so — better far, than this life of a dog. I will give myself up Lo justice, and end it—" "Not whilst I live to prevent itl" she cried, a terror worse than death blanching her face to a livid pallor, "What I have sufiered for all these long years hall not be thrown away by an action which would be a fresh crime. You sinned, and it is just that you should suffer, but your falher's name shall not be dragged in the mud; he at least, shall go down to his grave, not happy—that can never be—but, at least, he shall not die diehonoured. / have sworn it. It is for that I live— for that alone I have striven. As Inng as he livee the secret of your existence shall be kept, and you shall not, by a selfish impatience crush the old man, who has endured such anguish on your account, and whose sole remain- ing hope is that he may carry to his grave the unsullied name which he has inherited frotu a long line of honour- able men. After the is dead youl may do as you like." Ile was coweml by her energy, and whimpered miserably behind his hand: "And so you condemn: me to this living death just to gratify an old. dotard's empty pride? How could any prison be worse than this? A. aim wife you arel And yet you used to say you loved me, Rose." . a o factor—the United States. Japan es- pecially is anxious to Bemire America's co-operation wben the booty is to be ID THE SITUATION IN VIE EAST. mime 1Vill Sean he nirlded 1111 Among the Great. POW01141* Nearly all persons who have studied the subject agree that the partition- ing of China into colonial possessions is only a question of Lime, Already the European powers bare mapped out " spheres of influence," but they have left out; of their oonsideretion a new divided. The only question which un- til recently seemed unanswered was, Can China melee? The reply is now ' Pratte' generally, No. The Celestial Enepire, Shanghai, declares most empha- y tically that the giant will not be arous- ed, because he refuses to see the dan- s ger. The paper says: "The so-called ' Christian &Mame' which would eradicate evil and pain by denying their existence and heal the sick man by telling him he is mistak- en, that he is perfectly well, seems to have been anticipated in China where the gravest disorders of the state are "I did love you, Leon," she answered quietly, though a hot blush' leapt 00 10 i flameinto her face, "but love can be worn away and destroyed. Lovel is no more everlasting than any other hu- man passion, or thaie any other earthly thing. My love is absolutely dead, as my esteem, which your sin destroyed. I do not pretend either to mire for you or to respect you. As a husband you were untrue to me, as a man you have covered um with the shame of your orime. 1 do not even pity you. 11 11 ware not for your father I would not have sheltered you from justice for all these years, Leon de Brelour, I owe you neither love not duty, and you know te all that, I have done, all that I am prepared to do, is not because you are my husband, for you have broken every link between us, and in the sight of Heaven you ard, nothing to me; but for your father, who is as my father, and whose failing years I desire to prol.eot with all a daughter'e love and a daughter's devotion." "And yet you awore, before the altar oC God--" he began. And then a great paesion brokefrom Hitherto she had spoken coldly and y, inreeve measured words, that were Gillet o ',nee they Were as ice, but now agony of her life burst from li ..r .. the wild leap of indignation and anti a 'Ahl do not Lake God's tante upon your lips—you, the vilest of mon, unfit for truth either towards GO or main Are such actions as yours, infidelity and theft, not enough to onncel holiest bond that the Church ever tie0 I In all my life I own to but one sin-- one irreparable theme—the sin of hav- ing belonged to you, the shame of hav- ing borne your namel To man upon earth I may kill be your wife, but if there be a Higher Tribunal than that oe man, to that Tribunel I will appeal. Tbepe aro sins which cancel the holiest vows—blows which leave sears that can never be bealed; for these things Leon I will never forgive you — not because you have destroyed my happi- ness, but becatite you have ruined my nature, ehettered iny belied in good- ness and in purity, tarnished even me faith in a God; these are offencee Edr which there la no; pardon, ()ghee in this world or in the next." Ta be Continued. DONE FOR 11XM. gargle, whose father is a groat read- er, to Edna—Does your father like to read, tobt Jildna, innocently,—I dess he don't leave to, for he eays when he domes home lata Marataa always speaks vol- umes to hint Colonel San Martin, who surrender- ed Porto Rico to the Amerleting, has been eetttenced to Imprisonment for life, disguat of that smitten of the British press which is at present predominant, "4,1 ono time," says the Saturday Bo- yle*, London, " it was hoped that the proposed extension of the French acne Cement tit Sbangalli would prove u, second Emboda question, and that England would eland eirm, But there IS a painful probability that the anal- ogy may still hold good, with the dif- ference that the situation of the two powers will be reversed." Russian soldiers are said to be in pose session of many parte of Mongelia. Germany and le'ngland, it is reported, are coming to terms regarding their interests in Shantung. Japan alone has not been able to obtain further ma- terial advantages. The Japanese are, theretere, anxious to form a combina- tion in whioh the strength of their country can be profitably invested. Marquis Ito thinks that in view ot the attitude of the pewees, Japan must have her armaments ready, In the course of a speech before the members of the Liberal Party he said: • "Unless Japan is ready to meet the case nothing oan be done in time of need even though all her people be roused to anxiety after the event has arisen. This point, I believe, must al- ways be borne in mind by all who love their country. There are many titots which prove that the condition of China is dangerous, but it is sufficient to say RUSSIA're ATTITUDE JUSTLY EN RAGES UNSELFISH JOHN •ente., BUT HE FINDS A WAY TO RES TORE THE BALANCE OF POWER. Sladdsraclatsch, Berlin, removed by the simple plan of 'willing Lo believe that they are non-existent." Pierre Leroy -Beaulieu in an article in the Revue des Deux Mondes, Paris, fears that China is neither able nor willing to adopt Weslern civilization in preference to her own. Similar opin- ions are held by 111, von Brandt, German ex -Minister to China, who says in the Deutsche Rundschau, Berlin: "It is often said that the present dynasty is very unpopular. It is worth while Lo point to Governor Chang-Chile- Tung's book, in which he proves clearly that no dynasty oppressed the people less or did more for them. His re- marks about Western nations are not so flattering; during the past fifty yeare, he thinks, tbeir governments have done little to deserve credit. Western slates have become rich and powerful but their inhabitants are un- happy and watch Lor every chance to murder their tutors. Were the West - ere people as kindly treated as Lhe Chinese by the emperor, we would not Mier so often of the assassination of high -placed persons in Europe and Am- erica. Nerve it is just AS well to see our- selves as others see us. Another pas- sage in Chang's book deserves atten- tion. He believes the Chinese are not yet ripe for Parliareentariem; were they to have a, legisleture, they would use it to obtain the destruotion of the hated Christian churches, and this would lead to tbe conquest ot China by the powers 1" That conquest is steadily progress - mg, thong', not without squabbles am- ong the conquerors. England has se- cured valuable concessions in the Yang - tee valley. Frame has exLended her settlement at Shanghai, much to the that she is so generally and that she has no power to subdue her rebels or I resist the armed forces of other pow- ers. . I consider it Important for naval and military officers to keep a vigilant watch over the turn of events ; in the far East at all Crates. Mind you, , unless sufficient preparations are made to meet the emergence'', we will lose eve ery opportunity of maintaining the prestige of the country." Mr. Shimoda Saburo, editor of the Mahaichi Shunbun, advocates a closer • union between England, the United States and Japan, as the countries must interested in the spread of den- t ization from a purely humanitarian point of view. He says in the Hansel Zateehi, Tokyo: " In dealing with foreign powers, we rely upon the workl's consoioutiness of humanity. Self-respect invokes the re - spool; of others. Actuated by this prin- ciple in all our doings, we can count on the help of Another factor whioh have thus far left out of considera- tion, This is America, which occupies an important place in Eastern affairs. That she ta not a fighter but the friend of peace and commerce, is admitted on all hands; nevertheless she is n t coward: She makes a firm stand w en her interests are at stake. If called upon by a righteous mum, ehe does not shrink from risking her peaceful exist ewe, as is evidenced by her pre- sent war with Spain. " England comes to China, with friendly feelings; so do Amerioctand Jtpan. It la a great mistake, I think, for Japan to form alliances with other powers simply from warlike consider- ation& Our ambition is to base our volley on the principles of justice and peare. Our attitude toward China shall be to lead her in the way of pro- gress and civilization. Any nation, whether it be England, Russia, or Am- erica, which comes to the far East with the same object in view, will be our natural. ally." TO SEE A CONVICT WIFE. Pc. Wirlicenedela. ern. Petersburg, ClItIng tl'OOJOI the World de Do 'rills. There ere times, indeed when stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bare a cage. The journey across the world of Dr. Vladimir WolkensLein proves that, for he is now on his my to greet, for the first time in years, the wife that has long waited and watched through the grates of a Rile - Sian dungeon for the coming of her husband. The Mind of Romauoff reaches afar. Wolkonstein is now itt Now York, but so great hie Leer of rho sinister inner forms at. St. Petereburg he will not oven admit the object of hie journey. 'rho story of this woman is One of many ihulesands perhaps. Against her arum the simpleton that she plot- ted meatus!. the Government. One day seventeen emirs ago, the police desatinded swiftly upon the eVo,ken- steins; the wide was arrested and lodged in the Schlusselburg foreress. "You are a Nihiliet," they told her, She protested her innocenee, The child at Lor breast watt taken from her, and she jbitted the hundred others waiting for g trial that meant only a sicp to- ward Siberia, or waist). The Intel/end was dazed at the snot*. After pain- I fal effort he get his child front the peliette mad them Maght to save hie ] wife. But all he did wns futile. For two years the mother awaited trial. Then one day, brokenein bealth, but with mind and Mother -love still Strong end keen, she was brought into enure The testimony was produced; her only defense was denial, and at the end of the usual faro. she was eentene- ed to death. For some reason the authovities ohanged their decree. The woman should live and be held for life in soli: - Lary coefineenent al the Schlumelburg forLress. That was fourteen years ago. eVolkenstein lived on, hoping' feebly. Although a prosperous and prominent physioian, he could do melting to help her, A year ago there was a sudden clearing out of the Sclilusitrlburg pri- son. The woman was hurried from the tot ress with her companions and Micah under strong gee rd Lo Odesett There Illy a Russian warithip, upon welch they were to Hail for eaghlieel Leland, off the come, of eapam At the pier stood Dr. Wolkenstein. Re look-, ed over the ranks of the dreary, wan end evretohed creatures led by, and could not see his wite. Then it guard minted her out. The next iestant the gray-hottPd, trembling creature watt beetled aboard the ship, and he saw ilr loentl°0411110hrc6i husband is on the Witty to ole ids wife andel, Ftom New York he will go to Seek berancieco; from thence:, le Japan, A min gee% the last word in milt arfOrneMi With a Nwunati, bee it's hoe mute she glees it, to HEALTH. PURE AIR] 11011 SLEEPERS. The resale of fresh air In the elop- ing room will be felt in variows, subtle ways—emieter nerves, greater brighter eyes and clearer mina and eonepleeion. And though the subject is often diecuesed it is worthy of at ten - tion when we realize beneath. There are several points to consider witen ventilating Weeping apartment. First, it is important that the air should bo pure, and the value of froth air recognized, Then the physical oondition of Lbe sleeper should be thought of. The same amount of Que- enly, tile and tbo same temperature cannot be endured alike by evelyone. It sometimes happens that the °Mine, Mon of £,,'8n air during the night rendere the eleopere 11 Oroinfortilli ky cold. When this is the case, the Ola, jocl of the open window or tresh-air current is elefeaLed. A window raised a very little aL lop and bottom is bet ter than a wide spare. mt transom opening upon a ventilated mom is excellent for delicate peoplee who cannot bear a direct ourrene in th room. Study coniforL. It is a well-known truth 1 hat animals must be warmly housed at night in order to thrive in cold weather. Tho tact is none the less true ()Elliman beings. Thought— that is intelligent thought—should be exercised. No fixed rule for ventilating at nigh 01111 be followed on all °masons, bate no outside ventilation than exoessiv cold where misery attends, Wermi and fresh Mr combined is the en scitight. It pays to study this problem when we remember that fully oneehird our life is spent in the sleeping room. As one lady says: "Sleep is so mach deeper and more perfect when there is plenty of fresh 010 10 the room at night.' The clothing worn during the day may always be placed at night there freshair will find it, and the Sante with that worn et night. During I he day, fresh air will thoroughly per- meate it. 11 the rule of fresh air for the clothing as well as for the room is followed, there will be even greater gain in the important matters of quiet- er nerves and brighter faces. DEATH BY ELECTROCUTION, new !illiellerera are Pad Pottle in tiler witch. The eleetrie ohaireeweuste fatal image Is over beCore the murderer's ones fronl the moment of his mime until he en' tars the door of the death chamber and beholds the reality—is not electric in any memo. It le a massive (hair re only, with strong back and arms, but all the electric apparatus is entirely independent of the chair itself. . . . The death -chamber is a well -lighted room. It Mee three cloors—a doer la- te the prison yard, by telltale the wit- nessee enter; and a third, aL the side and book of the chair, opening into the autopsy room. The chair stands feet or 7 feel; from the end wall, and directly in front of a little square wooden booth Lo which there ia no view or entrance from the chamber. It is entered by a door from the autopsy room ,so that its occupant manse in and goes out without bis identity be- coming known to those present at the electrocution. It is he who actually re- leases the current of electricity to speed on its errand of death, As one enters this booth from the autopsy room, one sees nothing but carefully insulated wires putting through its walls, and directly in front of the door, fastened to the front wall, A MASSIVE 13114.55 SWITCH O with an ebony handle. Through a tiny h hole ia the right side of the booth d passes a wire, on mesh end of width PNEUMONIA, Pnetuxtonia, or inflammation of the lungs, is one of the scourges of 000'climate, a disease far more fatal to dwellers in the North than yellow fever is to the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro or Havana. It claims its vie - dins at all seasons, but prevails espeai. ally in winter and spring. Theraare several forms of inflame:we lion of the lungs. Ono, called catarrhal pneumonia, attacks chiefly the very young and the very old, although people of middle age are by no means exempt from it. It often occurs in the cooree 01 10 severe bronchial meld and is simply aa extension of the catarrhal inflcunma Lion from the bronchial tubes into their terminations within the substance of the lungs. It is this form which is meant when it is said that one is "threatened with pneumonia." One is never threatened with the other form, called croupous pneumonia or simply pneumonia — it strikes like a hammer, without warning. It is a common belief that the ro- bust and healthy are espeoially liable to be httecked by this form of pneu- monia. But Celli in only apparently true; pneumonia is one of the very few diseases from which one hitherto in perfect health can die m quickly, and so its attacks aro the more notice- able; but the fact is that: it iseenuch mom liable to attack those who are below par physically; and. the pre- viously bealthy man has a much bet- tor chance of recovery. It begins suddenly with a hard chill followed. by fever, rapid breathing, a sharp pain in the chest. flushed face, and the expectoration of thick mucus usually tinged with blood. In favor-. able' Cases tb0 fever tails suddenly from•Lhe third to the ninth day —by "crisis," as it is called. The' symptoms of an title& of pnett- monin are ordinarily so severe that there is na question of selnerealment, but the, physician is called in ell haste. Formerly it, wee the praoleoe to bleed repeatedly and to eorbicl the patient any foode At the present day the treatment is just the opposite, but unfortunately it is not much more successful. This form of pneumonia, like typ- hoid fever, scarlatina, and the Jike, is what is milled a selfelimited disease; that is to eay, it is a disease for which most physicians believe there is no specific remedy. Acting on that belief, they de not attempt to cure the disease, but try to keep the pet - lent as comfortable as possible and sus. Min hie strength; until the disease has spent its foroe. ' elleFleCTIVID COUGH REMEDIES. A meet excellent cough medicine is made by putting a heaping Ltablemoon- ful 11 flaxseed in a pint and a half tt of mid wider. Heel: slowly and boil for fifteen minutes. SI rata, acid the Jule° of one large or two small lemons and sweeten to taste, A. tablespoonful eve caw hour or so will soon relieve even a severe cough: If the lungs are sore anal the breathing difficult it is well to epply the following ointment into a tablespoouted of fresh, soft lord Work R. LeaspootiCul of turpentine. Limead on a eloth,.sprinkle i1 with salt and apply di reotly to the lungs, covering with an- ot er cloth to 'preotent the clothing, This eels as quickly, and is fully, aii effeetivo any of the high-priced cent - mettle sold in the drug store for such purpose& Another good ointment; Soften a quantity of fresh lard and add ae. equal Immune of spirits of caxnpbor. Stir Mon- alantli. cooling the lard quickly So thht as it hardens the camphor will be thoroughly inoorporated. Keep in loweopen-mouthed bottle or in e tin Wive box. When needed for cola in 1110 heed, Imarseitecie, Moe rub the temples, hostrils, throat, palm of the hands and Seim of the feet thoroughly, heating it lu. If neeeSSitrYF apply ' cloth to timed oe lunge, This is especially reeninteended for infants, as it le ninni- es' than the Nest One (them, one in the booth and one in the death chamber. is a brass finger ring. At the time of the execution the myster- loam noun in the booth puts One ring on 1118 ringer and the prison electrician standing beside the booth on the out- side, puts the other on his. 1313 the signal from the warden the eleetri- elan pulls the wire taut. The man in- side on feeling the pressure on bis own finger pulls down the lever with his other hand permits the current to pass. When the pressure is relieve. ed the current le Instantly shut off, and this. is replatied ono.) or twice, un- til there is no doubt that the alma tricity has done its werk. There ie no doubt that the first shock and the subsequent ones are admin.. istered only to remove any possible question. • The death toilet, however, must be described to make clear the action of the electrieity. Just before the exe- cution one of the keepers shaves on the back and Lop of the prisoner's bead, a spot about two inches in diameter. Then his right trouser Leg is ripped from tbe knee down. There must be nothing except the moistened sponges on the ends of the electrodes to come belwoon them and the' actual flesh, as even the slightest obstacle might in- terfere with the direct and instantan- eotte Passage of the current into and out of the body of its victim. The detail -chamber, excepting the chair it- self and a semicircle of stools Inc the witnesses is absolutely unfurnished. It is high-oeiled, and except for the grue- some object aL one end, might pass. for a country athoolrocun, In the front of the booth are attached rows of •ELECTRIC LIGHT BULBS used for testing the strength of thu current, and to make sure that it is passing without obstruction. From the front of the booth come tbs insulated wires which go to the cap which is pineal over the condemned man's bead, and into the cuff whioh is attached to his right leg. The interior of these leather applianoes is also insulated, and the flat ends of the electrodes come into immediate contact with the wet sponges. The current passes in at the head and out from the side of the leg. What its aotion is science has not yet discovered, but thn autopsies show that it entirely changes the character of all the blood in the system. After death ensues the law provides that an autopsy must be performed at once be the official physicians, and' a certifi- cate ot dean) with its cause filed in the prison records. Thou, if the relatives desire, the body is delivered to thank for quiet burial tinder the control of prison officials. If there are no rela- tives, or if tbee here deserted the nitre 'deem', the hob is directed to he cove erect With quicklime in a grave in the prison cemetery, TE10 GERMAN EMPRESS. Augusta Victoria, who is some months older than her imperial hus- band was born on Oct. 22, 1808, at the Chateau Or Augestenburg, as the eld- est daughter of the Duke of Sehleeveig- Holstein-Attgustenburg, a Somewhat eceentric and obstinate Prinoo of the good, old-fashioned kind who, we Na- tty, would have been scandalleed to hear that his daughter was num to marry the ruler oE that rapacious eouiltry that ,winams is,oroinneetsos gabrrwe buplaisa datItycelolyt: sensible girl, a model ot all tee Teu- tonic female virtues, wide') she has re- mained to the present time. Not the least of these virtues Is bar robust heelth, whittle has enabled her to bring seven children into the world anti still look fair and fresh at the ego of two - score. Ono thing is certain, and that is that her popularity in, Prussia end throughout the wawa empire is uni- versal. She bas kept out of all 1,011 ties I questions, and, possesses those two supreme virtues 01 a Queen—gracious- ems and tact. She leas opinioee of her own, but never p1118 1,1)01.3) i'Orl,h ill. a, colhoffranslite!.i9,14'ulyi ulniarayriLbplyretiior ss'linxing10715)115- 1 - Lou,' Or, "l you wilt allow nee to siege, Masao, is a very tong one, and arePiY gag." The catalogue et her kind tufts' and !Wee attentions to people of ell' explains Lite universal popularity al- ready referred to. In mie way she is an ideal oonaort Cor the present. Emperor, No physical effort is leo tauoh ler her, She isiroady at any Moment, be it early 111 110 attend any fltheti011, Or 10 Meet on Metetheg, 01' late at night:, to one oC the innumerable. journeys of hor sneogetio husbaml. In a Ward, she Is net dilly a good 'Wife sod mother, but extellont.holposate to the Xfoperor as far as the speetecular elide of honor. halm is ooneerned, upon vidoh Wit. Item le. ba e always told so iftoh stmts.