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Cidaely to 111.E breast, rail \yid:meted,
that; but do riot blame Ine fel wbsatwas
done without nay sanction fJr my know-
ledge.'
"You gave it into My halide."
"But I supposed it to be my rtition.
This thing was. substitutes. by-'
"By whom?"
She made no replyi A. low whirring
° sound within the canister had caught
her ear. She snatched the acoursed
thing out of his hands, and fiuug it from
happy privilege of loving one rvl'o hail
been tried tend net found wanting.
Ae they were leaving the court Dor-
othy was. accosted by a police -sergeant,
who required her at once to accompany
him to a police -station at the East End
of London, there to formally identify
Dennis .Donovan as the man she had
seen murder Ralph Kestrel; the iunporb-
ance of the case being suoh that the
police were anxious to sae the suspected
her with x111 her strength. It struck; murderer colnntitted for trial without
against the side of the open French
blasted, delay,
window, and fell just outside the room, Lord. Wil More and Learn, volunteered
J s'the infernal machine reached the to accompany her, the latter fooling
ground it exploded with a frightfttl pail that so savage a boast Bailed tact be
us
csted, The house seemed to reel and
shudder as Muriel O'Connor flung her caged too soo.
arms about the Man whose life she had In the gloomy room devoted to the
purposes of justice in the East End
as
police -station they were kept waiting
t•iis rise I:n" 1thestood in bis holiest bine eyes: O1 i?Pi R XKYI. fora few minutes, while the magistrate
tears 5 0: disposed of some reniaiuing charges of
al W0111411 leave the place. It was ; •" .You're a brava lase, and I trust you,
fallen i ., ie. `arra, hove comtortoth like sunshine after= rain, "drunk and disorderly" against certain
,owed that the woman had alle my own o clear, raa et tittle I?oz• r (. s ICni.l ai r.hiti . frowsy looking women and equally dig.
1p on a bench, a and, waking. Only this thing through, save Laura, and•
a the lights had been turned out, I we'll be bound up, you nail I, faster Dennis Donovan was duly brought
his 7e ie tabloz aiel ;tel hen Dennisthe Donovan cl o lab•
ane wildly excited. Efforts were than ever for all our lives to come." London and incarcerate w 1
ti to track this woman, and a man examination. He maintained a jaunty .t�veen two constables.
tolvwatch at CHAPTER N;,y, - air of indifference, and with the utmost These spoke to the arrest of the ac-
ceu of to e crane,
a sit being CII i P la assurance asserted that he had evidence cused on the disposition of one Dorothy
sables of t, crime, it thought THE INFERNAL M ACHIITE. ' which must efifeotiS sly vindicate him Dundas. Dundas
ialtldj that, to criminals
the is of to spersist- "Are you mad ? Will you not hear 1 g`
s peculiar to criminals of this class,Y from the capital charge. Foix, azide who may Dorothy Dl
would la erbo drawn back me? 'Will you not lot me explain ?' Leaving him securely cared for, Dor. , be?" inquired the prisoner good„hnm-
he e osooner or t Muriel O'Connor—or Mary Murdoch, othysought her sister with all Baste, ourodly.
lies tat. eight theory kra proved carred, the (laughter of Thomas Murdoch as she 1 "Have you, an witnesses who can
rtly atter o'clock last night, a "' � , _ A visitor had been with Laura reread -v. y
ug woman, alleged to be the same hal avowed herself -stood before Cecil
Lord Willmore, horrified, by the morn- identify at As this yman?"
as about to *tea sstrot the
a in feature and dress as the one Chester, wringing her hands ing's news, had neverthelessgone
ited,alighted from a westward -bound as she strove nivain to stem the torrent once to the support of his betrothed, bo.:, Laura put her sister aside and faced
:u and,after pausing to examine the of his reproaches. �Ihe mortification of using the influence of his position, a the magistrate. In Who few
was,words Lama
nd tera
p the rebuke he had received) from his thing repugnant to him, to obtain an in- told the co
t whereebathe murder walked i place, pass- g ' P r.
She barrier and in haste to a chief, the grave eausequences to his terview with the woman lie loved, He story of her arrest for the murder of
e in the vicinity of Regent's party which•nright ensue that night,had steadfastly refused to believe that so Ralph Kestrel, and of her unexpected
we *wheat excited. hitn beyond all control; and the :;
it. wlnero she was found in the very 3 ' gentle a creature coulee commit an act. of discharge, the constable who had fetclr-
ma knife or thought that he had been cozened by one violence, unless in a self-defence which •ec1Dorothy testifyingto its truth, In
• ofrestoringa its place against whom his instincts had warned
;r;er oi. Oriental workmanship, and of g called for his approval and admiration, reply to the formal amend whether he
ettern to him froze the very first, but whom be , Laura had been locked'up all night, a wished to ask any questions, Donovan
sinflic ioicl to be precisely adapted
izefiiction of suck a wound as that hndnevertheld:sstrnsted with his honour ' pray to the most disnzalterrors, Before ' slzool: his head.
tiered man. -to whom he had actually offered his ,her rose in sombre view the crowded ` Then came Dorothy's turn, •
chprov apes al to the 01 suspicion, ' mine -filled him with a fury of anger. , court, the harsh questioning, the tortur • ' "Begone!" muttered the prisoner as
wll beatonce ahted d o P Forcing his wayto the drawing -room,
Win brought upat Marylebone g-: ing delays, the great trial, the summing she stepped into the box; "it's, two of
g for preliminary ex- where Muriel was distractedly pacing to up of the•judge, the damning verdict of 'em she is, entirely ;" and the Magistrate's
ie court to -day p
iiiatio:r. The railway official's pre• and fro, he upbraided her 'in lurmeasnr• the jury, the awful judgment, the girl- peen eye detected his changing color and
is. ilenceis accounted for by thefact ed terms, accused her of basely tricking lows, and the shameful end. But all confused manner ;luring Dorothy's e+.ir-
° him, ofprofaning the solemnity and
t zvliile he was locking tip on the , this faded into a yearned for prospect ctzmstautial account of the events of the
itof the murclerhe left the station -purity of affection, of having brought when confronted with the alternative of night of the murder.
about his ruin and his disgrace. ' suspicion falling upon her sister -her Then Donovan. was asked if • he lied.
r for a few moments, r, whiled speakhwent He would not listen to anydefence; _ anything objectpolice'srequest.
a the middle of the read to to clear little Dorris.' Would it ware all to to the
father, who is night-watchman of she had been making a mock of him -
over, and the frightful expiation made, for a remand.
ie repairs which are going on there, would have made him the tool of the if that Would secure safety and peace to "Faith, no," said he; "I reserve my
fearing that if this were known he vile machinations of blackguardly con= the one whose 'honour she• preferred to• defence. It's a beautiful alabi I can
ht be discharged, he for some time spirators. He cursed the hoe r when he her own life 1 • - prove, be jabers 1 Constable, will ye
titainod silence, It only remains to had been inveigled into her den of mis- . The visit of Lord Willmore was a send to Miss Muriel O'Connor?" and he
that the suspected person is a young d ' i he has de- t her. His gave bei address.
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nen of prepossessing appearance and
e cultivation. She has been living
ompanionto a le,dy� named O'Connor.
hose house she was taken prisoner.
rune is Laura Kingdon."
orethy gave a great cry, and sprang
Laura arrested! Mistaken for
othy's self I Yielding herself up
Ont a murmur to be tried, judged,
-icted, hanged for Dorothy's sake,
use she, Laura, believed her sister
ty of shedding blood! It was too
'ible 1 That she believed Dorothy to
'Ity was clear from yesterday's
g
of love and friendship, *fie was nuraied
back to life. leer sow'ow at the injustice
she lead dobe to Laura was very keen.;
but the latter told her to allow her poni-
tenee by getting well as quickly as pos-
sible: advice which Muriel followed to.
Buell good effect that on a brilliant morn-
ing in October the bells of St. Slllpice
rang out a wedding peal whioh served.
for both Muriel and Latta, Chester: had
quickly recovered from his injuries, and,
he and Willmore bad stipulated with the
girls to snake a "double event" of it.
When the officiating clergyman, an
old college chum of the two Hien, asked
concerning Laura, "Who givoth this
woman?" a bluff and hearty weep de-
clared :
"I do, and no son of the sea ever gave
a better ;" and the broad and genial face
of Captain Dundas beamed like a new.
risen sun on all around.
For some time Muriel's new-found
happiness was disturbed by the dread
lest the society of which she had form-
erly been a member shoula seek to wreak
their vengeance on her much -loved hus-
band, Donovan had "died game," re-
fusing to speak a work,
But Cecil Chester laughed at Muriel's
fears, knowing that for their own
safety's sake "the brotherhood" would
be chary of interfering with people who
knew so much about them as 'did
'•Muriel O'Connor" and the late private
secretary to the Chief Secretary for Ire-
land. .
chief; he curse each momentrrievous embarrassment to
voted to contemplating her false fair manly sympathy and yearning love "It's not much good that will do you,"
face. She should never see him again- wrenched enter heart. How could she returned the constable as he made an
never! never! He took back his vows reply to his questions upon the charge entry of the address hi his notebook,
of love, cancelled for ever his offer of against, her? . Unable to profess limo- . "What d'ye mane?' asked the prison -
marriage. Let her give him back bis Bence -not daring to tell him of • the er quickly. .
papers -all of them -all !-and he would martyrdom to which she was determined , The officer turned to the magistrate.
fly from her as ho would from a pestil- to submit. lest the object of her sacra: "This Miss Muriel O'Connor, your
ence. fice should•be defeated by his interfor• worship," he said, "is either dead or
She flung herself at his feet and burst ence-she was compelled to remain deaf dying."
into tears. At any other trine her na- to his olltreaties, silent under his adjur- A ghastly change came over the face
tural .pride would have dictated a ations to toll him the whole truth and of Donovan.
very different reception of his re- claim the white Handed innocence "Dead or dying?" repeated the magis-
preaches; but the parting with Laura which he would stake his soul upon. trate. `"Feom what cause?"
Kingdon had unnerved her, and she felt Willmore's reaction from his first sus. "Ay, , from what cause?' , .repeated
e, cold parting -the eagerness altogether wretched and heart -broken. picion and jealousywascomplete, and he Donovan, whose features twitched and
which she sent her sister from her, To learn, too, how serious must be the sought to atone for the guiltiness of worked with the high excitement under
sands•of miles away. And, had not result of her impulsive robbery of the doubting her by a confidence that had which: he was labouring.
newspaper fallen into Dorothy's despatch -box seemed the crown of many no basis in reason or judgment,' but "There was an •explosion," said the
Latina would. have borne shame, au unworthy betrayal of Chesters con- which sprang directly from the heart constable slowly,' `at the house rained by
ring, even death, for love of her, fidence. She bowed herself and wept and was an instinct of his love. the prisoner, last evening, supposed to
hield her, while the true culprit bitterly. feel- In vain did she attempt to make him bo of an infernal machine containing
ht revulsion of it `r could not aver dynamite. Thelady,MissMurielO'Corl-
there, actually there on board that Her tears brought a reyu s believe her guilty. She
co
a refugee from justice! iug to Cecil Chester. All his manhood positively that she had committed this nor, was picked up insensible 'andntaken
1 d to the hospital
I that :i i ea . 1 de art an n o "
s, Dorothy saw it all plainly now. and compassion answered to1 p crime, she only bade him p
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man with the wild beast's eyes, What brutal things had he said? Would longer concern himself with the fate of "What!" shrieked Donovan. "He,
n she had watched all through the he not in truth give all the world an unworthy girl.." lies! he lies! I gave the machine to him,
, was the ferocious assailant whose 1 "Unworthy?" he cried. "1 will swear,
e she had witnessed, and whom a „ // you are not unworthy. of the best devo•'
iad confronted over the corpse of � � < ' , !/ tion that the best man in the world could
h Kestrel, �' `� i� as. t; /�f "j give. .Not a thousandnaysteries, thoughi
must be seizedat once. She would a* l �'„as-aathey were infinitely ;moire inscrutable;
jetsiff-
`" r fy nota thousand .villainous . accilsations;
him back to London, and herself '��� .,, , r
fy to Laura's innocence. o/ + , a a. / no! not. even s diur own confession, shall
e scarcely a thought to the con- O (; Y ; ,•', ��� convince me that you are unworthy of
gavec; v � : � ,' J' l s�truest love the most absolute faith, .
ou she would have to make of that. _ �..�n,,.�� the ��
s folly. To her husband, to the �ti 5��/ " ''' ,1'} �sit of 'such a one as myself.
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e, to Lha whole world she would t,. ,� � ?��� d'' ;✓a' n So strong a proof of his devoted affec-
11. Her sister's life was at stake: t`,� eft 1% ° '.=fi'�a',. tion did more to reduce the sorrow-
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sister who had been willing to sac- �� ? — �' r ' �a"; • stricken girl to weakness than all the
�� f � gathering clouds of czzcnmstance. • Sl
r
s
ss
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life itself for her. Dorothy could f�,� : t 1e
as well as Laura, and act as bravely 'a? k' i I
loved him tenderly, truly, with the all -
life itself
occasion came.. '° ) `� �i` sufiicin4*zress of a maiden love, and to
e sent the steward for Captain Dun= ? lose him, to stand under a shadow, and
:line when he came, gave him the ;, 1, eases /� r�i f � Ne i3 such a ;;liadow, before his eyes, was
Nor did she seek to extenuate herto read, incl told him• all. Yes, t agony to her Trulythe Bcaffold had
' 3Z ,.� �a it �* '" no terrors for her' to equal that. He
, or to find any excuse for her un- .`„ r% 0 mnS left her sobbing by steiicat�ly, And went,
fn]uesa. She released him from all h .'�.'�N �' - ,� - . • fi although he knew it was a forlorn hope•
%�'? •• r '..v° to offer bail for her temporary release.
1 ties to her, and bade him she a �. 2' ��`\� This 'was of course -refused. In a state •
remains in some far-off land. She r • bordering on distraction he set off to find
remain :n England to vindicate her THE EXPLOSION. -AS THE INFERNAL Cecil Chester, and learnt, after pro- .
e r:ailor listened very gravely to her MACHINE REACHED .THE GROUND IT Ex- trached inquiry, that Chester had not
, and at first seemed too muchPLODED WITH A FRIC3HTFUi CO\tUSSION. been home during the past night, had .
not been seen at his clubs, and, by inys-
s
d -we might almost say appalled- are her one tear? He felt it in his teriously disappearing on the previous
omment upon it. At length he heart, and began at once to assure her evening from thesHouse with the notes
waned her about her intimacy with of his undying devotion, his perfect and papers essential to the promotion of
el, and received her solemn assur- trust, and to beseech her forgiveness. the Irish measure introduced by the Chief
that the evil which had been con- It was a lovers' quarrel, a thunderstorm Secretary, • had left the Government in
.ted leadmot passed the limits of in the blue sky, and before long the sun a very awkward. quandary.
tion. In that faith he found some burst through and their confidence was Concern for his friend was therefore
rt, and his benumbed energies renewed. But time pressed -ah, how added to Willmore+* distress on account
e to action. sadly it pressed upon Cecil Chester 1- of Laura, and ho returned to the latter
fain Dundas issued orders that no and he must use winged speed to return in a most disordered condition.
with his papers to the House.There
stood the box. He graspedr likehis
honour, and approached herto give one
last ss offorgiveness beforehe e -
e e i
as to be allowed to leave the ship But with Laura things had taken a
g his absence. Then the boat was 't 11 turn for the better during his absence.
'ed, and he took Dorothy ashore to h 1 An unexpected witness had been present
earest magistrate, which resulted b f d at her examination -no other than Dor-
, return with them of three con- parted. othy Dundas, whose singular resem-
furnished with handcuffs and a
s,
nt for the arrest, upon the deposi-
f Dorothy Dundas, of one Dennis
van.
e gentleman "wanted" was aroused
a. heavy slumber by the strong arm
law, and, though at first mania
disconcerted, soon became amiably
able, and prepared himself to tee-
ny his captors.
a moighty mistake you're mak-
s
can tell yez," said he in his jaunt- him. ger; the ticket -collector, too, when con-
ne. "Shure, its the very best an- "Give it to me!" she screamed, as he fronted with the sisters, flatly declined
a the charge I've got, anyhow. It's bent down his ear to listen to a slight to swear that Laura 11ingdon was the
ful alabi I can prove, and yeti Il ticking sound within the packet, woman he had seen at the station,
out of key bed on thatnight Ilis answer was to take out his knife Before this, however, Dorothy had
d'' and rip the cover open. Ile came upon availed herself of Laura's powerlessness
hie ship and back an ironcanister • ,; to oppose her, and made a full and free
the i : ,. n, and Dorothy "And you gave this to trier' he ex- confession to Whitton(?), which dispelled
gent with t to the rescue of claimat. • "you made me a messenger of the mystery that had !lung like an Ws -
death, sister. Her ai't was full f '
death, and would have suffered meta wholesome fag between the lovers.
d chastened joy. Confessionhad , bringdestruction upon others if only I Reluctant as she was to accept: rescue
way the lingering shadows which
g .g could be spared myself! I thank you at at the coat of her sister's shame; the re -
dark and chill, flet ben her „ lease was to Laura .like the salvation of
., least for your concern for me.
tssband. "Thank me fo that forgive Hie for a lost soul, in;plyifl;;. ars ft dlid basil e
d lief' ober the side; of the Th nk for,that, front dire peril, unci restoration to the
dit* :folded his, err. -it wife
But with a shriek sh h Id h s arm, blance to her sister
bade him set down the box, open it '•laim to be identified as the midnight
instantly, and restore to her the petition fugitive in Laura l ingdon's stead.
in favor of the release of Thomas Mur- Dorothy's circumstantial account of
doch, Fenian. Struck by the sudden the events of that night on the railway -
terror in her face, he unlocked the box platform, together with the arrest of
and produced the racket. Dennis Donovan. was sufficient to justi-
"What is thisr he cried; "it is too fythoinagistratoindismissingthecharge
heavy for a roll of paper." against Laura, who, now relieved from
He looked at her ghastly pallor, and a anxiety on behalf of her sister, was able
suspieion camp like a thunderbolt upon to account for her possession of the dag-
TIII i(131.
Soperetittatl of the Vuluelty Thlrteees
Wen King Arthur founded the famoue
round table, he requested Merlin, the em
cheater, to arrange the spats. Merlin eV
ranged elle sob of seats to represent the
apostles; 12 were for the f uthftal adherents
of Jesus Christ and the thirteenth for the
traitor Judas. The first were never ecce•
pled save by knights distinguished for
their achievements, and when a death oc,
curved among them the seat remained war
cant until a kniglet'surpassing him in he,
role and warlike attainments should be
considered worthy to all the place, If an
unworthy knight sought the chair, he was
repelled by some magic power.
The thirteenth seat was never occupied
but once. The story goes that a haughty
and insolent Saracen knight sat down upon
it and was immediately swallowed up by
the earth. Ever after it was known as the
"perilous seat," and, brave as the eolebrat
ed knights of the round table are said to
have been, not one ever had the courage to
sit on the thirteenth chair, and the super-
stition against it still survives, --Pittsburg
Dispatch..
WL�v Not "Steam Whales?,
We land creatures are very proud of our-
selves. Wo think we are so superior in
every way to the creatures that dwell In
the seas, and when we discover that we
can make a steamship, which under favoree
blo conditions can travel from New York
to Queenstown in a trifle under six days,
wo call that vessel an ocean greyhound.
Why we should give a greyhound the credit
' for x11 the speed in creation -among living
things -is not quite clear to those who
know something about whales. The whale
MONEY FOR A COCOANUT. is not only a creature of great strength, but
he is one of the mostrapid of moving
Philip's Request Reminds )ter. Gratebar of things. He can go faster than a locomo-
ins own Youthful Days.
"My son Philip," said Mr. Gratebar,
"asked me this morning for 10 cents to buy
a cocortnut with, and that reminded me of
the fact that some years ago I asked my fa-
ther for 10 cents to buy a cocoanut with.
"Indeed 1 don't believe there has been a •
time since cocoanuts were ihvented that
boys have not asked their fathers for mon-
ey to bay them with. Up to a certain age
n hey may look upon the cocoa:
ant with in-
difference, but there comes a time in every
bur's life when the cocoanut becomes air
object of interest to him, and then he goes
T, line and asks for money to buy one.
"lie goes back to the grocer's and looks
over the cocoanuts and selects, of course, a
big one. ile holds it up to his ear and
shakes it carefully. To be good a cocoanut
mu •t have plenty of milk in it. Then he
take, it home and borrows a hammer from
his mother. Ho goes into the kitchen and
sits sown near the hearth. Be takes out
his jackknife, and with the blade that has
been 'Nora'Noradown nearly to 11 point he bores
out one of the cocoanut's eyes. He tries
the milk in itwith evident enjoyment, and,
when 4111 the other children have tested it,
if any remains it is poured into a teacup,
which is set.upon the kitchen table to he
drunk at leisure, but I suspect, as a matter
of fact, that this is finally thrown away:
Then, in the natural order of things, the
boy takes the hammer and lays the cocoa-
nut on the hearth and• mucks it, and when
the cocoanut is cracked ho breaks it into
ttill smaller pieces. Then with a knife he
proceeds to pick it out, sampling it mean-
while and putting the pieces in a dish filled
with cold water. Pieces as nearly alike as
possible in size, so that there shall be no
unfair advantage, are distributed among
the other children, and the rest is saved.
"For me, the cocoanut ago had passed.
I had Seen cocoanuts, of course, year after
year in baskets in front of the stores, but
they were to me no longer a living issue.
But when Philip brought back the cocoa-
nut this mornings and went into the
kitchen to crack it I thought I would go
and look on. He dug out one of the eyes
quite in the usual way and sampled it, as
children have always done, and then ho
handed itover to nye. `Try it,' he said,
and l did. Then Philip gave a taste to the
other children, and then he poured the rest
of the milk into a teacup just as I' had
seen children ,lo -1 won't say exactly how
many years before -and he sot this cup on
the kitchen table just as I had done myself
and just Itii I have no doubt children have
done since cocoanuts were discovered and
bit=cu kitchen tables swore first made. Then
Philip proceeded to crack the cocoanut, and
to
when he had broken it inpieces he picked
it out just as I had done, just as many,
many children have done these many,,
many years, and it all seemed as fresh and
THE COIF ESSION.-"RELIES! HE LIES!" familiar to Me as though it was only yes -
not to her! I saw him taking it to the terday that I had bought a cocoanut my -
Parliament House before I left." self, and so I know now that my cocoanut
"You gave it?" queried the magis- age has not passed, and I hope that it
trete• never will.
"Yes, I gave it ! I gave it 1 D'ye hear? "And as for those who come after us?
And I don't care who knows, or what Why, 1 believe that the taste for cocoanuts
comes of it, if I've killed her l" is implanted by nature in the human race
A terrible apprehension flitted across and that children will go on eatingthom as
Lord Willmore's mind as he listened, long as cocoanuts grow, and I have no
for, although 'warned that all he said dot(tbt that the old formula will be pro -
would
.
be taken as evidence against him, served; that in duo course of time a son
Donovan broke out into maledictions whom Philip will love as dearly as we love
upon Cecil Chester, who had been his Philip will comp to him some day and say,
rival in the love of the woman whom he aS Philip said to me this morning:
now. accused himself of having killed- Pop, give me 10 cents to get a cocoa -
Cecil Chester, whom he would have de- nut with.' -New York Sun.
tive when he gets his muscular steam up,
as you will see for yourselves when you
realize the fact that the whale moves
through the water with a velocity which,
if continued) at the same rate, would enable
him to encircle the whole earth in less 1.i an
14 days. Considering this, one might prop-
erly ask: Why ocean ' greyhounds? C: by
not "steam whales?" -Philadelphia 1`•e:;:i,
Superstitious People.
Wbatever else we have become, whc- .sr
better or worse, ono thing is certain -we
have become superstitious. The supersti-
tions of the cultured class are now many,
and they are all of recent introduction. I
should like to show how and why thisnew
superstitious spirit has grown up among
us. It is a passing fad -played at rather
than believed in, yet with something of the
old terror in it,
N. B. -I have just read the above saga-
cious remarks to a lady, and she replied:
"Yes, you aro very j.ilcely quite right; it is
all very silly. At the same time, I should
not like to be married in May." So -you
see. -Walter Besant in London Queen.
Preparing For Contingencies.
Two well known members of the racing
set were discussing Donnelly's fall and its
consequences when Roulette went to grass
in the hurdle race at Clyde. park. Said one,
"I have noticed that if a fellow is half shot
he getterally comes off light."
"So have I," returned his friend. "A
man who's half shot never hurts himself"
Then, as a happy thought seemed to strike
him, be added, "And as accidents are al-
ways liable to happen, even to the most
careful, let's go and take a peg."
And the two men jogged contentedly off
to the clubhouse. -Boston Herald.
Paying Him in His Own Coin.
"'My dear," he said, with that nasty, nag-
ging sarcasm some ;nen resort to, "please
don't surprise 1110 any more with a box of
cigars of your own selection."
"I won't, love," she replied, with the
sweet, .simple frankness of a woman, "if
poi promise not to surprise me again with
a spring bonnet of your own selection."-
Detroit Free Press.
• Burdened.
The County -Your rich American mea
work so hard!
Miss A. -Yes, you see, they have to sup-
port titled suns -in -law. -Truth, •
stroyed as piti"
lessly as he struck down
Ralph Kestrel. Yes, he admitted all.
His wild grief at the supposed destruc-
tion of the woman he had vainly adored
spent itself in fury at the miscarriage of
his diabolical vengeance, and he boasted
exultantly of the pccasion on which his
hate had borne its bloody fruit.
Willmore bean an eager question to
the constable, but was cut short by the
usher calling for silence in the c
u t
the magistrate, remarking curtly
he remanded the prisoner for a week,
intimated that he was waiting to hear
the next case.
Outside the court Wilhnore and Laura
,
learned that a gentleman was with
Muriel at the time of the explosion. "He
was injured, but not nearly so seriously
as the lady," explained the constable.
"She seemed to have tried to protect
hire, and got worse hurt herself In con-
sequence. He gave no name, and they
were then taken to thesame hospital."
But the constable was wrong. Muriel
• O'Connor was neither dead nor dying;
for some time she layin a very critical
i
condition, and scarcely anyhope was en-
p
tortained of her recovery. At length her
splendid , constitution triumhed, and,
l
surrounded by all; th�i h,31pfu__ influ 'ace
$. e
The Use Of Perfume.
Despite all preaching and exhortation
against it, the use of perfumery holds its
ground. Some philosopher has observed
that the use of perfumes is a sign of bar-
barism, acid the use of soap a sign of civi-
lization. How, then, about perfumed soaps?
And most soaps nowadays are perfumed.
Moreover, why are the other senses to be
pleased with sweet sounds and beautiful
colors and well flavored dishes and the
nose denied the gratification of delicious
odors? So argues the lover of perfumery,
and fashion seldom says him nay.
Most of our perfumes Como from flowers
or are made in imitation of the scents of
sowers. And as the rose is the legendary
queen of flowers, so attar of roses, by a
coronion consent, ranks at the head of the
list of perfumes. Other preparations from
roses, too, hold' a high place and have long
been esteemed. Rosewater is historic.
When Sandia entered Jerusalem In the
twelfth century, he had the walls of the
Mosque of Omar washed with it. But at-
tar' or oil of roses Is by fat the most pre -
clots and most prized of all. An eastern
prime will present than honored guest rich
jewels, rubles and diamonds, azul then add
as the rarest of all a crystal bottle filled with
this prikalets essenc6. ''Now York Tribune.
Mrs. H. D. West
of Cornwallis, Nova•Scotia.
$200 Worth
Of Other Modiici'nee Failed
But 4 Bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla
Cured.
"It is with pleasure that I tell of the great
Fore (1 yearderived
I 1 averben badly afflicted with
Erysipelas
. breaking out with running sores during hot
summer months. 1 have sometimes not bear.
able to use my limbs for two months at time.
,Being induced to try Hood's Sarsapaii11a, I got
ono bottle last spring, commenced using rt; left
theta n duringtthe simmer, waslCable to do ntf
bouseworld,gand
Walk Two Mites
Which I had not done for siS years. Think!
, am cured of erysipelas, and reeomnlend airy
persist so enacted to use •
Hood's Sarsaparilla
1 pour bottles has diose mote for fno ilten ai:oo
worth of other medicine. I think it the best
blood purifier ktiewe." bins. 11, 1t. W1:s12,
Church street. Cornwallis, N. S. •
HOOD'e PILLS Cure lives: ills, eonstlga•
Use, bllioiissioss, jaaiidtee. "rick -headache. Be.