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HOW IT IENDER
]takes all ears glad tbat bear."
rI1.tPr1 S IV. Miss Mclhermot. thus ►beedoesd.
U Mietre'w mice. where are feu "'me stands for • full mimes mote:m nfa
ingl Doubtless her first feeling to (4 be•atoabh-
O stay had beer! Your true love past in that this heretofore abject love
somtmug ns has now proved so inasterful
That oat sing bu1ki high and low; But tthe tsazt is rage --tura anti aim -
Trip no further pretty sweeting.'
To treat her like that? Bel Ralph
wen had been so humbly glad when
she had fallen in with her father's
views about him, and permitted him to
be engaged to her. The world must
be coning to an end.
She is staring through the window
that has seen him depart. Her bands
are hanging by her sides. Her tall.
slight figure hes grown rigid.
The world must be strong to an sod,
but whose world f H. or horst Who
is to fail in this en.ounterf
hich
of them will be counted among the
slain►
Not she. at all events. Despite the
wild throbbing in her throat. she com-
mands herself so far as to
osn forbid the
hears that are struggling for
ing. He may still be there -out there
iv the,chiIl of tte exquisite early night
had los might res.
Bel Tyrant l And to this auto Pax
ietber has given her I A man, who on
:.ire smallest provocation bas shower -
el insult upon insult on her bead. Well
be 'hall see! Father or no father. she
will fever marry him! Oh, he shall
else 1
She greets her little lovely white
teeth together. had with a last defiant
glance
m.
In the thaU the wineow leaves the Foo
she cbecka herself. An
idea -a thought of vengeance has oo-
curred to her. This other - this
atraager; lie loves her, at all events. In
him lies a chance of rescue! Rescue
from marriage with this detestable
men. who has told her so many horrible
things all about herself. and all, natur- "Dom itf " says she, with a sigh.
ally. untrue. "Well." sinking into a After. and
Eche opens the door of the old school- °leaping her knees with her alim fing-
room, and enters it with a vehemence era. "you won't suooeed ; father will
that can hardly be misunderstood. never give in."
"Bomethieg has happened," says "It certainly couldn't if 1 were An -
Eyre, getting onto his feet with some ketell's inferior," says the young man.
difficulty. "What is it, Dulcie t" : judicially; "but my prospects aro as
"Oh, be hes •behaved a oient.tgsbl s"
says she. bar eyes flashing. e
the most cruel theses.'
"Never mind him, darling. Come
and sit down by me, and let us try
to tied a way out of our difficulties."
"But I must *sited him!" cries .b.
indignantly. "Why, I can't tell you
seThai -._rte _: -
"I'm so glad-e:•-0Mr'--•
th
_►--pu s-
sootbiagty.
"But I meet tell you all that." with
ebermiog Iaooneistescy. "I remem-
ber every word.. They seem burned
inter my brain. Ole be was so rude!
Fancy his telling nee that I ruined his
life I"
"It seems to are that be is trying to
ruin yours!"
"Miner Sire gazes at him a mom-
ent as if nut quite understanding this.
and thein: "You don't understand."
says she. "Now could he rein mine?
But never mind that -that's folly I J est
bear the other dreadful things he said:
He began by telling me—'
Dulciel"-he checks her by a wav-
ing hand. "After all, you know. be
caret bare wanted me to bear him. We
needn't go into detail, need wet It
is enough for me to know that be has
treed -well. beastly to you."
"Beastly I he h•ao't been that." says
she with quite unexpected fervor.
"Beastly is a vulgar word. Hs eta
been horrid. I." with • decision that
carries a frown with it, "don't deny
that; but he bas 'never been beastly!"
"You ars a generous foe," says Eyre,
smiling. Her generosity. indeed.
strikes him as being something out of
the way. soinethi.at bayou' words -
charming. It would have been so easy
to her to abuse this troublesome -this
so evidently uncleared lover. And yet
ahs cannot bring b.rself in ber In-
tegrity to deny any small virtues be
may possess. "Well, thee, we will let
him slide If you like; oo ore talking
about a low sort of hound like that."
"What abominable language you
use!" says she. "Even If Bir Ralph has
behaved unkindly to me, I don't bee
why you. a atranger. should call him
s-a-a-er-bad names."
You are quite right, sod 1 am
wrong," says Eyre, giving in delight-
fully. "But surely -now, after all you
have told me, you don't still feel bound
in duty's chains to marry that disagree-
able person."
"Certainly not." says Ma with a
firm compression of her mouth. "If
there is one tbing on earth about which
1 have quite made up my mIad. It is
thst I shall never marry Sir Ralph."
"Anel • good thing. too." says be.
"You mem at t"
"Can't you see that I !Wean it t"
turning to him in extuemety pale and
unhappy face.
"I can't," says be, gazing at her re-
grstiully. "i can nee only one thing.
sod that is that you ere uabappy."
"' Of reserve- Pmt timesaver,
v, t, for
scolding i have just undergone. Why,
father never scolded me •s he did 1".
"Can't rev forget hunt' says Byre.
it
ngi y.
I mat. It is wary hard to for. t
the. le ons hetes. However. wbe
tear I forget of remember him. my
mind is made up; Leese never marry
1t is la a dletln•tly aggressive mood
that she goes to tbe drawing -room an
hour later. to keel* her appointment
with Sir Ralph. She finds him there,
lounging in a Lig chair, wltb his hands
clasped behind his bead, gazing moodily
into the fire. There is a frump upon
his brow that be does not attempt to
get rid of. as be gets slowly on his fest
to receive her. •-.._._
"You did not trouble yourself to
hurry," says he. unpleasantly.
"You gays me the impression that
any time would do," retorts she, with
• little shrug of her pretty shoulders.
"No time would have spited you,
.., ."ileal," *syr a.. a1ts..44 •
"Much better, if you are going ti
--fie is a bad temper." with a toucb o'
teller on her den part.
_ AaketeU lookant--hacistiently On -a
moment. :here is a carious light in
his eyes --a quick -fire.- He even moves
bis. lips as if hs wodN have spoken
but by a strung effort controls
se lf.
"Is my- temper the only thing against
met" he salts preoently. with a smile
Oust.. 1f still resentful, is also very
end.
"I have made nu complaint," returns
she telly.
"Thea I wish you would I" cries he.
fiercely. bis late ,control flung to the
winds. ani a very storm of passion
shaking bins. "Whet! do you think I
ane a stone oe a foo that I can't see
how you treat irieet-rind your fault
State it! Let me see where I fain"
"If," nays Miss McDer'mot. laying ber
Mad on the back of the chair nearest
jar-"ir ft -baa to -to roar at me you
•sited me to meet you hero. I think
Was batter=
year invlt*ties." _
She is very pale as the thus defies
Nm. but her lovely beadle well throws
np, and battle declares Itself in every
feature.
"Well -I Pass you pardon." says An-
ket.ell, with the air of a men who. find -
Ing the matter bopelens, gives in. "Inst
ns --grimly- "presumes I have no
fault."
"By all means." acquiem.es she de-
murely.
"There are some papers to be signed
with regard to our marriage." says be;
"that was why I asked you to come
' tiers, but you delayed so long that-"
"Well --what t'
"I fancied that you were bappy where
you were, and so I would not have1ou
iiaturbed. I told your father I coed
come strain to -morrow, and so could
the soli•-itor. You see." satirically. "I
have always your Latereata at heart."
"You ere too good I" returns she
,vltb a satins of her own -so fine that
eel shake into insignificance. Then,
quite suddenly. she turns to him and
-rosat s the room. reaches the bee rthrug
es which be is mending. eWbet is It
,ill aboutt' asks she. with • change
from finesse to utter straightforward -
nese. '•13ornetting has vexed you.
What t"
"Ah, so much you have troubled
- wourselt to discover." says be. with a
harehaysa that she is *lever enough to
know in born of grief. "SomrthingI
How mane things, I wonder. My life
for the pant mc:sth has been a bell. De-
mon I deet say maul* you think I
cannot feel at all. Whet des you think
i felt on that first dur`abd evening
when that fellow cams beseatb your
roof -when Jou told old Bridget that
Rans were tired of bearing of Bir
lphf r
She Is standing opposite to him, with
the fire -light illuminating her face. A
little quid shiver seems to pass over
her. but beyond that she maks so
sign.
[ suppose you mese-that you wish
-to break -our engagement." she says,
Per volae owning from her la little
;eroken pieces
"That No. That is the lea! thief
should mean
Ind yet If you believe me tired of
you morel you would wish to--"
stl^ *sldty.
• "Not even then? Tired of yes t Tse
heard me say that end still—"
I shall never tweak off my engage-
ment with you." says be tamely. Nevem
I shall leave the breaktng oi our es-
lr�es.sA 41," ,
• "To,u mean.' sa s leis, In a little
rbokleg voice, •'that you will leave all
the odium of it open met'
i meso that I shall sever break
with you until you break with ms."
"You are a tyrant 1" cries she 'red -
Maly. "Yon don't cars for me, yet
you will bold me In spite of met"
"i& that your reeding of itt '
"TM. that Is west T think -what 1
•
all this. Throw up your eapevvmeat,
and marry tea."
"OR l" fatally, "I couldn't.'
" W bat 1 Wtil you stay here, thea. and
merry that man t"
"Never I Never 1"
"Why sot let hint see at ones. then,
that he has 'so power over you -that
his impertincntlec•turine can be direct-
ed at eeen*body else. not at your
"I should like to let bisn know that.
certainly." says she, her eyes flashlag
vindktively.
"Let res speak to yopr father. then."
"I would be se angry." saga she.
hesitatingly. "And" -quickly - -it
would be of no tree, either."
You look as if you were glad of
that."
"Why should I look glad f I'm not
glad about anything," says she. sadly
-no sadly that be forgets his auspice
ion of her aid goes back to his first
thought.
Let ine try your father, at all
events. Let me tell him how miser-
able
iserable you are; that full cant bear to
marry A nketell, and—"
"You may certeialy tell him that I"
-vehemently. "1 &hall never marry
Bir Ralph, not if be lived to be a thous-
and years old."
'I may try your father, thee/ You
authorise and r •
"Yes" -slowly -"you can try."
"Dutole!" says be quickly "do you
know what that permiasioe must Do
you darling!"
He has caught her hand and would
have drawn bar to him,but aorethieg
is her face, something thoughtful,
troubled prevents him.
"Let sue tell you aosaethlrrg." says:
she; "that though we are engaged. Sir
Ralph never owe called me that."
"Called you what!"
"Darling."
"Oh, hg's a foul!" says Mr. Eyre, with
conviction. "But do you understand.
darling' If I speak to your father
with your permission. it amass that. it
I succeed with bin, you will marry
gnarl as ,Die any .du;
I don't oars -about prospects." says'
Masa McDsrmot; "what I want la to
feel free. I can't bear being ordered
to do things. You said you could im-
agine a girl being told to marry a man,
but Wit you could not imagine a girl
doing it. You remember
-I'Ageislist her drill,"
_ _"Oh 1 that's the mss.tb4g
'It she wetted to marry the she
vrouldn't want to be ordered to do
it.'
"Tri" says bs.
"To 1 ordered is do a tb i eg to at
once to want do it. That la
true also, isn't it?" says she.
"Nothing truer."
"Well, you thought me weak and de-
testable when I told you I had promis-
ed to marry att. Ralph "
"I thought then"-distiictly-"ju.t
what I thlet now, that no woman
should merry any man unless ohs loved
him. It is rep injustice both to hiss
and to herself, and you -you don't ca
for Anbetell."
el have told you that I hate him,"
says she, ttmakieg no dirsot answer:
"but if I were to break with him! You"
-lift! her eyes to his -"you don't
know father; ha-- 1 don't really
know what would happen it be heard
1 cid amt want to marry Bir Ralph."
"Why, your marriage with me. that
is the fitse thins that would bappes"
-with a setae. Se takes her hands
and carries Mem to his lips. "I love
you. You know that Duioie. don't
mut You do know RP'
Oh. yea. I ksmww it." says she. with
a gale'''. Looe sigh. and a droop of her
pretty head.
This calm aelenowledgment of his pas-
sion for her strikes Eyre with a sort
of &heck. Involuntarily he glandes at
her, sod exarinatiun of that lovely
face disarms unkind criticism. Tbs
poor child is so unhappy that she hes
forgotten to dimmable. Girls of the
sort he has been accustomed to meat
in town and fashionable country hous-
•
aINHS THAT DO "URDU,
PARIS SUBURBS 1NTR>;TLD BY AN
ARMY OF THUGS.
Isere flan tarty Sado. N ffsltr Weems
aeeevesed nem tae Igsa. 1* Par"
rest\s - tespersae Flint of Um Pets"
s. creak ep tM eswaslaaUes - Weaw*
l■ the wwwa.
ID the mouths of May. June and
July, of Inst summer, fifty -tires bodies
of persona apparently drowned were
regovered from the Beide In the single
stretch between the towns of Buresoei
and ,Asnieres, botb suburbs of Paris,
writes a oorrespoodent. Many of these
bodies bore traces of injuries suffici-
ent to have caused death, such as dap
cuts sod fractured skulls; but these
wounds. it wee thought, might equally
have been the result of impact against
abutments sod laceration by the bla'ies
of propellers; 1* any event. now of
the bodies was oublette i to an autopsy
to determine the *hoot casae of death.
It was easatnrsill that the person* were
suicides -by drowaing or by jumping
from a bridge after the infliction of
a Visor' al w owed. Color wan of course
lent to this sesumptlon from the toot
that many yeraptr are led to destroy
themselves in tate mantis named, and
that more often than not they choses
the river as the means. But • muneoioas
fact was overlooked by the authorities
either from carelessness or to Neve
trouble -the foot that the rate of mor-
tality from suicide has jumped some-
thing like 500 per cent. for tbe speci-
fied months and for that particular
part of the Seine over the ascertained
ratio for a long eerial of years. The
police, however, contented themselves
with' saylse that the fact was extra-
ordinary ; they guoesol that mors per-
sona than ever were
"Marry me, metes&!" nays Byre,
boldly.
You r
it world be Lsnpcsstihle to demerits,
the awountt of astoaidocent she has
thrown Into this word,
"Yes. W'h'y nnttt You knew -1 have
t, ' • - betleretly thint. Tio you know," 101t.' toll yosi-thoe i lore you. Give your -
Ing' streigbt sup at hire bet nhssbnng eel( to me. Let toe realms You from
angry fans brilliant with emotion; "i this tyranny that is oppressing and de -
believe that 1n your heart you bate atrr*n�yying your life."
me and that tlws punishment you have "'Tyranny I"' repeats she as if struck
Inid cost for ntn is to marry met" by the word. "Yen, he in • tyrati,
"Is that what you think. Duieineat" isn't her'
A atop takes him to her. and a moment "Oh, never mind him. By all so -
vert him time to oatob her firmly by *bunts hr's not worth a thought."
Wee srma. and so hold her that. he ran mays Mr. Eyre, with sovereign con-
atespel her to most bis Base. "Yon tempt.
think that of most And whyt Link "Whoseassaoet.t'
Isere!' with sudden pareioe. "haw dare "Yours."
you so think of met You l whose eon "Minter
delight weans to bn to ruin an honest, "Well, haven't you 'shelled him to met
nen'. happiness. bow date yen en mite Hevme 1you had casae to do sat"
judge ase t There I•' releasing her. "Oh, save* 1" says *ba.
riot 1 on a fool to mutter as 1 dn." Site grows silent„ and stands near Wm
He thrusts her from him and walk- with gets hest sono the ground, and
toward the win -taw fling, it np brows drawn together. $sddealy she
Mees lath the growing night. rook* np at him and be civ sea that
her ores are tall of tears.
.'Dekko," ethos be. impaleteely, "you
are ushappy. Why
Weld
Id neheopyf We havioatere aline
to' R3eenhal It- ti Telly -,lilt to glebe
the hest et every hoar of it i'Oaltlet
es, would have pretended to doubt his
love with a view to stronger expres-
sion of 1t, but this poor little girl is
too hardly preened by circumstances,
and is too altogether a child of na-
ture to lathe bar honest beliefs. Bo
much the better. And what a charm-
ing little bead it is„ bent like tbat, with
the soft, sonny nut -brown curls wan-
dering over the broad forehead. and
tis dsiecateoontour of cheek and chin
laid hare! Whet one amr.ng all those
polished womenof the world of whom
he has just now thought, could com-
pare in grace and breeding with this
sweet flower of cotretry growt4t
"1 may speak to your hitter, then!"
says he.
Eh r' says she. as if rousing out of
a reverie; and thea. "Yesyes!"-fev-
erishly-"do. The sooner I can feel
that be and I are separated forever -
CHAPTER V.
'ellt.wrolidet delight Hies war;
Alit Iittll prat*; ihy' coin*
Mabee Whir hearts rejoice
TIRED OF PAYING TAKES.
last summer, and that tirs- -Wain Welt -
leg a quiet placc down the river in
Which to get rid of tbemselves because
the Paris waters were already too
crowded.
Cootemporaneoueiy with the }jading
4f them ..Iodies consoleia ..11.1111"1 to
come to the Prefect of the Baine rela-
tive to depredations by a band of high-
way robbers. who roamed the streets
of Neuilly, Sureness, Puteaux, Asol-
ers and other suburbs of the city.,
robbing end maiming by day as well
ae by night. After nearly a hundred
of Lheee complaints had been filed the
police started an investigation. Within
a week they were able to find sixty
persons who had been robbed by this
bead within an ares of one square mile
nortb of the Bois de Boulogne. Fifty
of these persons bad been injured so
badly by ballets. knife wounds, tad
blows from assdbags sod brass knuck-
les that they were confined to bed 1*
hospitals or at their homes A num-
ber had fractured skulls. and of these
several subsequently died.
Ito the reels part of August a bat-
talion of polios, despattridg of catch-
ing the malefactors by any other meth-
od, tnade a concerted round -up of the
infested district, arresting halt a hun-
dred @s spicious characters. Thirty of
those. all youths between the ages a
10 and 55. were armed with revolvers,
knives and other iut{eiementa o[ toot.-
pads.
oot.pada. Young es they were, they Meted -
ed a number of notorious criminals.
the leader of the gang, knows as "Coco"
having spent more than half of his
twenty years in duress. They were
promptly tried and " put away " for
short terms, had the {.dice congratu-
lated tbemeelvs on teeing rid the
commueity of a dangerous band, for
sit Mee at least. -
A SIGNIFICANT FACT.
This outburst. ineohareat as it b, hes
evidenty something to do with tbe re-
verie into which ahs had fallen.
"Yat mean Anketell t" says Eyre,
watching her.
"Yes,' no.ddirg her head with de-
termipetion; "I have Ism thinking,
and it seems to me be watts me quite
as little as I want him. Let him en
then."
"By all means."
"You think" -anxiously -"as I do.
don't you t -that be dowel care for
are eitherr
I have never thought stout him. If
you thought of bins es little es I do, it
would be better for
A h. yid. But 1 love Meth you hew
hard It is not to let the naiad dwell on
the people who t.rrmeat one most." She
!tont, and Locke seatebiagl at hiss.
Ike yen knew." stays alae. slowly, 1
lave nom to the comistion that he
hates me."
He'a brute enougb for anything. In
tley °pinion "
And that be would he glad to keow
oarat an end.
teak {"Why " says hs. joyously, "our
seoctmplished. Why sot
let nes speak to Mm in a thanl sort of
wba�igyou know, not neestiosing &ay -
N
t . exactly. but—"
"
foetid
she, almost fiercely.
to h
"Speake /t
ys
to
er it you edit, bit not to Paige." fath-
er
Tc4 Me OUStinuet
T.$ PR&LFZRRED CREDITOR.
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:ferret
iwerditer is cut *Se eV"-
o he rfinny
DISGUISED P01.10a
soured the oattl71ong dbtriote, and
hardly a sight pawed without a fight
between thins and the outthruats. Ones
tis polio* were worsted, but several
times the bagged • sufficient anm-
ber of the enema to *moulage them
to renewed efforts and ths campaign
was kept up. An important capture
was ehortls wads when over twenty
member. of • band operating in Clich
were surprised reed taken. This ban
Wee oMatelt wish by $ young women. a
virago. whether it took six policeman to
subdue; eves thea they were bad)
mauled. This girl, but 112 yeah
wets Isot orale the leader of the gang.
but held aft important place, in the
oouacth of this confederation of beads.
She boasted of baying planned many
crimes and of being the investor et
various murderous implements with
which the footpads were supplied. One
of these was a Y-shaped tool used to
ga4a out the eyes of the victims of
a robbery it tbsy modsa dangerous
reeistaaow It had been used a saeeher
of tunes. se the 1ajuries of persons *A-
tomised by the Wad showed: Several
of the bodies found in the river were
also eyeless ; but the police had thought
that the tact indicated nothing, as the
eyes might have been setae out by Lisp-
s. 'At otbsr invention of the girl ma -
slated 1 a depriving a victim of his shots
and stookings atter robbing him. and.
of alsshilog the soles of his feet with
• tette, so that he would be enable to
purse* the robbers -even tf he were
otherwtoiee able, which was not often.
The meters et this band was the be-
ginning of the end. The pollee drew
the litres cheer and closer around tbe
remaining bands and gradually the
weaker o[ them began to give np, dis-
heartened. Finalty a few dsye ago the
last grew of any importance, that of
"Little Peter " of Nenilly, wee calx
Lured, with scarcely any resistance.
Thia consisted of twenty-eight young
mea aid four girls, the oldest of the
lot only 25. They have to their account
about forty highway robberies, not to
speak of several murders. With this hat
contingent safely behind the bars. the
suburban residents are beginning to
breathe freer and are duos more ven-
turing into the streets atter dark. But
unfortunately the feeling of security
will endure ally for a little space.
Nothing very serious will be done to
the captives. hash after gm ave getable
interval of seclusion they will he ogee
new seep organised as good or bet-
ter than the old. It u the history of
the suburbs of Paris for a Dentary and
•
WILHELM'S DREAM!.
Vie Tann roe .1 Cersaa.y shah* M ti
ging id' Ragland.
It is rather curious to outsiders
writes a London correspondent. - and
wholly ulnplesanat - to the queen to
know that the Garman emperor re-
ger& himself as the rightful successor
to England's throne. This is a mat-
ter rarely spokes ce thou per-
fectly well realized at court, and it
is • strenuous reason. against her Ma-
jesty's ever abdieatirg In favor of the
Prince of Wales. So when next you
!sear that ahs meditates ouch a step,
do *sot believe it. She is ante to do
n othing of the kind. though she lives
to • hundred years. The erratic
German emperor balms his dal= on the
not unnatural a+ese tion that Lia
mother. born primates -royal and eld-
est child of Queer Victoria, in heir to
that mother's emouel• esti he her im-
mediate eucosrorl
It is said that the Kaiser hs wildly
indignant because his mother will not
press her claim and take her rightful
place rep the future sovereign of Eae-
lend. Tact the Prince of Wales is not
the Prince of Wale+, but that -the Mats -
or 4 (.bat as mall as Ent erier of Get -
many, be has fully decided in his own
Mod. When the time Domes for big
contention it is scarcely probable that
be will bad his peace. Ot course it
Ls not for a meanie- to he Dowd
that England would endure WM)IM
for its king. Bot the case is a i ti
one upon width even the connate
lawyers wheat ogre,,
While the Queen mels gs sovereign
this family usple .santnss. is not like-
ly to arias, bat whoa she abdicates or
dies there is prettysure to he as un-
comfortable time or all parties oar
earned. Still, the English are certain
to reject the leakier, even though Eng-
land has to resolve itself into a reptab.
and than choose Albert Edward to
be its ruler. Quite as atriums things
es this have happened in the history of
the world. and may chance again In
spite of rumors sod raillery of the
pram to M times, the prince of
Wales is well liked In the United King-
dam--_ .
Moreover, the English temp
er would
nee bear tbs German Emperor's ideas
of nese tn•j.Mes.' Hare and may die-
t -suss the Prune's debts or the Queen%
pens, iooseee. and nobody irsterfers or
minds la the least. In Ger'masy one
may nott conatttoe tits Kaiser's game
disrespectfully. bemuse, eves tbe walls
have spying eyes had listening ears
std "lees ttaajesties" is sore,/ poets/t-
able. German students, I am told, are
driven to alludfag to his mightlblss as
Harr Johatnaa Schmitt" or Squire
Nemo." in order to enve thlstpsaplves
from puttiahitlent to anything that
may be ernsst.r'ned an mslest.e."
In short throb is an such thing as &a-
dobe et eilletteh 114 taethitinseensp[r'e
and mch rep' dctive inquisitive, cortin
thaw is William that, it is said, he keels*
cavatully panted on everythleg that
gets et is oar country as well w his
own
and one which seemed to surprise the
police exceedingly, was etttortly remark-
ed. The suicides, which bad been main-
t.aieed at the high average of the early
summer until the very day of tbe •r-
ent of the bandits, imene.tistely went
back to the normal rate and remained
there. This tact. together with some
diseloeures. wrestel from the less hard-
ened members of the gang set the Pre-
fect of Police to thinking. The result
ort his thinking was this: He reached
lite ceaclusioa tbat of the fifty-three
bodies found between 8nreeses and As-
oieres at least forty were those of per-
sona. who had been robbed killed, and
t brow* into the river, afterward by
the ,ungious .ioln[_deSils forming the
beadbp het brokers up. I1'ortp murdirs
eoeenallied in the puboe bigbw•ys at
the gems tet Parts, without Madre**
or deteetion,by the police! This Ohtelli-
team """11141- eoeveyed lo the patello
through the press. There was not a
single sweeper commentary : apt •t-
eat�y the news was taken as the most
ordinary imaginable.
Although tie murder. Stopped or at
lest diminished, the robberies sod as-
saults were an numerous an ever wills-
is
ttbis a few weeks. The police were active.
but as thsi'r efforts were more or lees
sporadic. the effect was hardly notice -
• hie. The new Prefect. M. Blanc, cams
into office abqut this time. He made
• fhorough,.ave.tig•tion of the mat-
ter. sending staresor
, of disguised dete
terse tato all the districts from which
complaints came. With .sob new re-
port from his detectives. the situation
grew more alarming.Filial be awak-
ened to the feat tbe had not to
deal with a single Mimi, til 0eepnsdoe.
but with as aunty of them parteetly
cowman-
eset
(Imagined.
twenty air thiRy oath smenstend-
ed by es ex eriaMoetl srtmiaal. Thie
army et toughs torsed • complete
chola Mout Paris. Weida *•wpe and
*rim ILII the less* of the for -
r the swished pante at the
dr I:llgwssse •ad eves i■ the
t1�iRtibs 1111 teid they Numbered ant
LN lone* Wu Weighed. youths sad
waslg. most elf thus dhotis...el
k ld.,gore wstehebere eogvleted of
'teal, bet free wader es/ aaskensealellesei
of
'I'tt ThN,M prompt Mf"!o 41141r
to rent tils srretr, two weeks
lane florets et
•
NOTRS O1 ORUKRAL INTEREST.
A Paw earessepbs AMM Maas la Al
Pare of leo world.
Faldl tie Mine not more than $10
s
year her the root of rooms is Paris
Pay too taxes and have the fres tai
ort gem -*esters.
Lightming can be was sad lt: ilium
iaatioe of clouds r cogniled at a di
teem et 20 mine, but thuader is rarell
audible 10 miles.
The Rest important oommerelal'
city ids Venezuela is Maracaibo. but
meow its 50,000 inhabitants there are
barely W0 fordgsnens.
Cyjoredo is to have the longest tun
a the world -twenty stiles long
-Evian under Pihe'. Peak from Col-
orado City to tour -Utile Creek.
"A bit of Lebdrm lung" le some-
times shown In the object -glass of a
medical bo,�of tot abaws this
blackadag
Prot. Fdward Hull, F. R. 8., esti-
mates that "boat 68,575,700,000 tons of
coal will rearms within a depth of 4.-
000
:000 feet by the end of the century.
The 'University of haeme. Italy, has
this semester 917 law students, 854 ns-
diw1,
11116 le pbysks and msthematioa,
iliterature and philosophy ; L557
bo
The covrmous sum of !{$00.000.000 is
be the German Et wire invested in the
latch hotel business. gives- emplcii-
med, to about 1.000.000, le a population
of 51000,000.
India's area of wheat farms is now
about two-thirds ea large ae that of
the United'Btates. The wheat is still
threshed by beteg trodden out by bul-
locks and buffaloes.
At the grape -ours establishments !a.
Switzerland. Francs, and Austria, pa-
t -hoots are usually turned loose in the
vi*eyards and allowed to gorge them-
selves at pleasure.
The large braves one and two cent
Dodos now current in Fran* are to be
displaced by nickel coins. Oa Janu-
ary 1 the go/eminent evoked 70.000.000
frame' worth of sickri.
Smile steel tires put down by the
Cincinnati Street 13•jtvt*v C°1�
tWO
Years tube now show snob
epgood
ase-
ap
urs 'them exterrelvely he the futures.
Oat December 61. 1898, the 1l1sgl4nb
Postal earths. Bent bad 6.885.086 open
s000vvRa and deposits to the ve.1os of
&108,400,000. Orgy 0.4 per W. et the
depositors have sere tial 47188.
A nese in Boothe ls still takieg dr
guerr.otypn std declares that the
modern developments of photography
have not revealed a process that will
take .. correct • likeness as the De-
gc.erreasa
Oen Christmas charity in Buffalo was
the gift to the Newsboys' and Boot-
blschs' Homo of t it proceeds of one
dsyy nate of the city newspapers, this
publishers, dealer., and newsboys co-
operation is the ober-Ky.
The Oxford Aeocfstlon for the Pro -
!notice of Edncatfon of Woman reports
that as first celesta wen obtained.
thee two of its sttrdeds have for the
first time wan the highest honors in
mathematical rooderatkigs, had that
two ethers appear en the first class
in the &boot of English Language mad
Literature.
A Geranium phtyeicies shined Landers -
bads reports having reaseetlili the great-
er poeticise of s dog's spleen, and at
the earl of ix worths than was a coin -
piste ragseeratdos of the filature organ.
t'he r.esv►al caused gesihmed dieturb-
mire of digestion and impaired nutri-
tion, but aotwtUmt this fact the
entire organ wee
There are at present. aceording to
Dr. Schermer d Vienna. 279 18sropeas
sari about the rams number of native
11#11 STOVN WENT OUT.
MIstr+ose--Get dinner to -day on the
gemolies stove, Bridget.
Bridget --Plasm, mum, /did tbry, but
kW stove welt not
atintcns--YYy again. then.
I t -Yin mum. but it's not oom.
beak y t. It what oat trough tk'roof.
SPOILING A HUSBAND.
Caller -Sew perfectly devoted you
are to your hussitand!
wife -Yea, I� jun hying .to
pet ► spoil iter, on !Teat if f iDe see
hos marries apps, iso other womsa
east live with him
Catholic teleasess ries la China, besides
wheat 100 Prebtoteget Nnieskinariss.'
Nevertheless. sod although easaiooary
labors began 200 years ago. there are
at geseet only 460.000 Catholics and
6.000 Prwtastaats among the 400.000.-
000 letabitasta d CbIaa.
Ise the most unexpected ways Is the
utility of Roentgen rays revealed. The
periodical Prometheus. sn'nonnces a dis-
covery of great vtalee to silk -growers.
It is hews that Neale eilkwrorms are
=decent =r�odecent thea the females, but
the ode -wry to 856 out
ebb MR was the observation that fe-
males are more difficult to bring up.
it has mow bole found that on account
of deposits et stgp, tee females are
lesst to X-rays thea males;
which s rtleg eery•
JIL FOR APPENDICITIS,
seem
RRIFEDY WITHOUT THL AID 01
THE SURGEON'S KNIFE.
Y asses Mu Nal Voided N e•ee treataas.e
- ter, stemma Onalo.s,a stse asatets.st
and says ?rtes* *ere ed“ de Recoveries.
Whether agpusdieltis can be effeo•
Lively treated by medial imam al4ui5
or whether the use of the keg, war
tadnincy is Haat case*, b tin helbjeot
of • disoumioa In wbicb the medical
and surgical experts' are at preaat
deeply interested. says the New loris
Sus. No organ of the foody has ease
ed more disoatissioo or puasle eat
among m dk••l mea than the versa.
term appendix, and every new mug.
gestian as to treatment for appsudi-
citis is eagerly disouwd. Caassquent- `
ly whose Dr. 3410. Derry, of Utica. bur-
geeor-General of the National Huard,
New York State, published a pamphlet
• abort time eau advooatiog lbs ftp
of cathartics and sweet oil In the tea(..
ment of tits disease, had declaring
that of 51 eases ander his personal se-
perviaian. 49 were soccwtully baud -
led. without operations, comments', fa-
vourable and otherwise. flew freely.
-ECU: Wawsmbar. 1207. &weber ul
the Medical num Dr. Tarry, defended
his practice. The treatment as he de -
rcrihed lt, is
SUBSTANTIALLY AS FOLLOWS.
At fust cathartics of castor oil sed
sweet oil. followed by hot water er`
given. until the bowls are tbvroughle
dossed out. This treatment is know -
ed by ateswes d glycerine and sweet
dL Flaxseed multi spo•bed ea sweet
oil are kept on the abdomen. Tbs
diet la restricted to very Bebt, easily
digested foods. The o11 treatment. Dr.
Terry says. removes the friedea,ot the
In hosed tissues and relaxes them deit-
ies
eris resolution. In this way be says be
isteeetrsd one.. a[ cbtueic, reearrest ep.-.,
peedieitis. Tb prevent • return of the
trouble, after lobs original treatment,
be prescribes a tablespoonful of sweat
dL followed by a glass of bot water,
before each meal for Novara/ weeks.
Rig statewide toss beer -raker pI7
dhalleAoged by Dr. /Osbert P. Morrie
of New York, ala eminent wlhorlty ad.
ea appendicitis and a warm advocate
of lbs me of the knife. In the Janu-
ary weber of the Medical Times Dr.
Morris' challenge had Dr. Terry's re-
ply ars printed.
After stating that the medical trate
most advocated by Dr. Terry is the
"roost ezoelleat 1 have ever seen de-
scribed." Dr. Morris odptinues: "lint
very bus mea sometimes fled it diffi-
cult to busy
track of all their caws
Wires a physician of Dr. Terry's pro
mono* states that forty-nine out of
fifty-one cases of •ppeedkcitis
HAUS RESIN CUR=D
by mtedicai treaties*, I aroma that
w ens tet Use moo upon whom be b -
depeaded for atadtnssquent histories
the eases have deceived bias and I ell
put my idea to this form. If Dr. Tarry
will parsosally Main • report fro
snob one el the forty -eine cured pati -
sofa, I wilt give 41.000 m the Ant
day of Just, 1819, to any hospital that
Dr. 'terry will moss. if be Bads the
tone of threes patients have dies of,
appendicitis or its oomplieatio6a. or
have nnbjeoted themselves to epsrs-
ttcvte for seventieths. Dr. Terry, o*
heoth•r hand, tov-e $L0110 to the
library of tib New -York Aasdeay of
Magician on Jess 1. 1085, if he fink
that angels of thew forty -Via. p,tirnta
dies of appeodkitis or It' eompli-
eatfeiillb or have subjected themselves
to operations for amen ileitis. . .
"I have es itkowledge whatever of
age oils of the forty -eine eases, bot
I have ms' a careful study of the
subject of aytpeadtcitli, end from the,
fleeing. in the analyeie of 100 eouencu-
tive operations of my own. reported
In tee seoode.edition of my lecture oo
appeodiritis, titers is *videsee that
more than is per cost, of a t l appendi-
citis patisrtts eventually die ander
medical treatment. i do not daunt
that under the excellent medical treat•
w eed advocated by Dr. Terry it is'
able to canoe nobs/donee of the ante
symptom; le forty-nine consecuti•e
Mingle attacks of appendicitis, but that
Is a very different matter from
CtJRING FORTY-NINE CA&
Under the best sort at reediest
treatment appendicitis patients spend
more taste la bed saner iore,aad,dis
oftizer dab tberintet=er the
Ire bis reply Dr. Terry deelipse to ate
espt the challenge d the surgsoa.
As my eases are the acetrmeiattoa
of five ears' obmerva.1in ," he writes
"it would be a tenet difficult matter
to trace out each one, °aiu; to the
Omegas et residence of some, to the
fact that others hale hoes drawlers
to me. sod to the eonsultatIos element
eetcr'ing into the proposition with
phye&-Isnpp whose pottiest* ars located
Duet • widely ersttered terrlte :'
Nevertb►ese, Dr. Terry ntrutll ad-
heres to his medical treatment, tar-
ing that the appeattfz ehoeld be aegis
ed to emptying Itself. 'Tis much atm
ed and appareetly useless orgse ge
Ude hetero* trent him:
1Jdlatioo M all' right, bet
hOret bolted no greet thermos In
%patella for ages 1a aha :
we believe that the Creator le
there 'sot for the knife of the as
goon, but for mem parpoee
Other anthori11N have tat" n ews t
Um merits of medical or aural 11 tree
M11 sppsndl:Itia and the .1i
ly to be prolonged ant
acct material of inrtorevt
fame varum prantttlorienO.
A HINT TO MEDICAL MEN.
1)oideca.lrhe are Inthehlthit of Pk_
hits Wig words When visiting patients -
ow] tike s hint from the Lod lowing
Au old woman whose husband was
not very well sant for • doctor.
The doctor came and saw the old man.
Wenn be was d.partieg be said to
the old woofs*.
I will seedlike soma aMicine, which
wast be tabs ho a recumbent position.
-Atter be bed gone the old wemae
sat dowsereatly paszled,
A 'recum�t psltson.-a reesrmbent.
position I she kept repeating. i haven't
got one.
At lest abs thought. i w111 go and
see it Nurse Town has gott one to lend
see.
Accordingly' she went and said to the
cid sorest
Save you. got a mainsheet position
len chs lead me to talo some medicine
lel
The nurse. who ons •equally as 1ghor-
ant as this old woman. replied:
i had oma but, to tel you the truth.
i have last it.
HOW THE WORLD WAGS.
Average Hat, -Wheat has become of
that cid fed, Wllkhertt Used to call
himself a delowl, er sanething
Citi a bappnoed to own a piece
*Mead on which nil wen found. and is
sow rapt Lives in a palace on the
Avetnge Has, mew heir. later-Hel-
lot That look* 11ke General Wilkin*.
Another C'itisaa-Yoe, that's the gee-
sral. Do yeti •knew leiRf
Average Citts•n--1 aa, indeed. The,
general and i are cid friesde,
CRiTRHiNG A YOUNG NIIRCO
Doctor, said the sn es.
fes he rushee, up to they Iiyst-
rias, I once you sty Ws! e
ries. i was taken audit,
days age g,rte rise w i to
I e d you metre ant is.
Ito