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Exeter Advocate, 1901-5-30, Page 311, fi A WICKED GIRL. BY MAier °lee (CoNTI1WED,) took ,too much champagne last night' --he was away all .day-7t.'and When I came, home I couldn't; 'sleep, but a swimWill put 'me all ' right again.' " ' "Where does Mr,r, Basset 'generally bathe?" interposed captahd , Glen- Mtly y, think, sir, Amos would ex- plain the' Spot better than. I can, though, if you'll go straight .doWn to t,he.' beach thrdugh ‘Ratchell's farm, you can't niis,s the piaci+, and se,e Amos. It isn't on the flat, but quite a mile further, where the bank's high, and—' "Can .the ,Man you call Amos collie with Me?". queried the officer, tily 'I'M very sorry, sir, but I sent him after Mr. Basset nail an hoer' ago. ReallY , was so nervous and his breakfast spoiled, 1 never knew him, to order 'a meal for a :certain, time andnot be in fwo 'hours''afterand more now, And, as I said, it is not bathing weather, :lest • any ;one Might be Seeking 'their '' death through, cramp." • "Through Katchell"S farm, you Say? 1 swiposo : I can not. miss. Thanks,"" cried Glennuirray,and tUrri:- Cl abruptly, away. ; The, gentleman whose profession was criminal investigation reached, Ziarrack's just as Captain Glenreur- ray left it, but before ' he followed down to the shore, primed with the same instructions • ahout going .through Katchell's, and looking for 'A,mos, his plan was to leave behind him at Iiarraek's the maa who had been with him in the tali -cart. . . "May I have your, little carriage, grs. Frayd?" he: asked, suavely. "I 'will put the pony in myself if you will hire it to me—quite on your . own term,s. My . horse has 'fallen lame, 'and I must leave it here, if you please. But don't you be ner- s'ous,..lor I will leave the nani with "Mrs. Frayd," broke in a young voice behind, while a girl who had been corning down the staircase, as the man spoke, paused at. the 'foot, "do not forget that I want the cart €o -day. • You said your lodgers had always the first claim." "Indeed, yes, Miss 'Ope," cried the ,woman, visiblyrelieved to have this point settled for her, as she hat- ed to send out her pony in Amos' absence. "It is engaged" (addressing the detective), "for . the young lady . who has my apartments. •She's only waiting my man's return as she enjoys his ,driving and, my pony, ,doesn't care for ,a strange hand,. and always knows, even if you don't let him hear your voice." The detective • turned away with 'a few vaguely polite remarks, yet an- gry :with the woman for having lost aim those few minutes. "I had seen from my window • that his horse was not lame at all," • explained Derry, when Mrs. Frayd came to unburden her mind, "and it wile the falsehood that aroused my suspicion. If he could not give a truthful reason Why he wanted the pony, why should, he have it?" , "And,. Miss- 'Ope," gasped her landlady, ."there he goes driving off, and his, horse is no more lame than —you are. And he's left his Man prowling here, and us only wo- men!' "When Amos comes in, of course I must have a drive, so you will let ute know," said Derry, and began at once to write a letter. so that Mrs. Fray(' had no o.peping for further discourse. Yet. the 'letter must have beer'. -very unimportant, for not three lines had been written then, at two a clock, she had grown so unaccount- ably nervous, though yet unwillimg to acknowledge it even herself,. that she slipped out of the house and event te the mill -gate.' .Ierom there she could see Mrs„Frayd talking ex- citedly up to Captain Geefiraurray 111 his clog -cart, and feeling still more uneasy . she •-re-entered her. room, and waited until acrossothe mill -yard she caught:sight of Amos on his way to the 'stable. She ran out to him, grateful for the opportunity. ''I will have the carriage after dinner, . Amos. Never mind' it now," she said, relieved even to hear her own 1,0 lee. " You have been away all morning, , so you must Want your 'dinner. Did that man find Mr. Bas- setr' • "No. Miss. Nobody won't ever find Mas'er Basset agin." "What—do you mean?" - "He weir took with cramp in the water. ILliSS, en!'" drownded." - ,‘`You are—who told -you that?" "I a in:t . no 'eced to depend on what,any felk tell me,", complained Amos,' gloomily.' know. There was his do's laid in that holler on the shingle, and leltz was a-sittin! on 'Cue gardin' 'cin, and waitin' for his' Mas'er as'll never come back no "Arelos, are you mad?" cried the girl, her Vends 'rising with such ag- ony that the dense old man mistook it for 'crossness, and turned sulkily "Th,on you may ask 'Mrs. Fraytl. • She ain't Mad." 'No! no! I won't ask Mrs. Frayd. You tell 'me. 1 am sorry I vexed you, Arnos, very Sorry," the girl said, with ' generous compunction. 'Who was there?" ' 'Cap'n Glenmurray Wnr there, and the gent what had that old black cob of Ileves's, and Mas'er Katchell cora° down from his farm, but there waent no oneartin 'bout it, with 'hiS tow'l there, and Fitz tin' on his clo's, the very clo's he had on when he went down this monde', when 1 teievld 'int it 'tid, be his cicath and it wind That theer strange gent. he made out as if Maser Basset ha,d canned other do's 'when he Went to bathe, and I said, '`No,i, and shouted 'No' at him, but he didn't .telce no, lie,ed nor seem' to keer, till • Katehell .' said as 'ow ne'd mot B'as'er Basset in hie lane, a-swingio' along to bathe, with his dog and his tow'', and hddn'd carried .nothine „dhatid.dIeJni' else. So then he didn't ask no more." "And—tell me more. What did they say then?" "Cap'n .Gioninurray he said as 'ow twur cramp, and no wonder, Des he. ; on S1101 a mornin', and that he mon ha\'o Sunk. Yee—yes—yes, sure." I The old man's wizen face wrinkled sospicieuely as he looked sharplY in- !. to the girl's beautiful eyes., '1 know'd you'd ker. 1 'towld Mrsli`rayd so, as you wur lodgers here together.'' "Lodgers here 1. ogether!'' That was all, though the girl's heart was throldbing with a pain almost un- bearable. In positive dread of encountering Frayd 'she took her cloak, and hastened out upon the downs, only when tho darkness gathered, return- ing to her room, exhausted by fa- tigue and hunger. And no oad, throngh all her life, ever knew' what thee° hours had been to her, in ehe sorrow which had so much of per - •plexity in it, and the fear which had 0 vague in tangible hope, Mrs. Frayd, with red and swollen eyelid, was yet equal to detail and ,• veiteraeion over relating the stery, winch had now climbed to Harrack's Deacon, but even then, Derry, sitting dry-eyed to listen,, felt She could not gresp the full horror of it. • Steven Basset had, while intdxicet- ed in the billiard -room at the Athe- ling Arms, .confessed to haying been hi s cousin's murderer; had in the ,darkness stolen away from the hotel befere the police began to watch it; had returned to Harrack's in the dark, and left it early in the morn- ing to bathe; .had been seized with cramp in the water, and must have been. instantly drowned. No -doubt wae cast on any portion oi the story Mrs. Frayd. related, Init in the truth of what Steven had confessed, Derry never for one moment had he veryfaintest belief. • AIrs. Frayd had watched Mr. Base see go at eight o'clock, she resum- edand had warned him of the dan- ger of bathing on such a morning. Mr., Katchell had met and spoken to him as he went down to the beaoh through his farm at a quarter past eight, and at two o'clock, Fitz was still sitting on his master's tire garments in that little nook, while his master had met his death in the sea. So the story went on, until Derry could not even hear. . in the evening Mrs. Frayd came in with further tidings. The detec- tives had persisted in it that Mr. Basset • had never been in the sea at all, and had escaped in other clothes, but a fisherman—Leppard by name —had been up to Harrack's with soles' to sell, and had, mentioned having rowed past just as Mr. Bas- set was swimming out, and spoken to him and asked him if he would have the boat, and LepPard was goe ing into Tha,wton then, to make this known. At nightfall she brought further news. The account of Sew: - en's random confeesion of having himself stabbed his cousin Miles had been told to old Mrs. Basset early' in the day, and had given her a shock from which she had not strength to rally. Before they had ventured to, tell her of hi S death, sbe died,, hading uttered only four words times I think It is because 1 tried too rr.uch when I came here first, Sonietiines I think this shock 11)15 taken it away, But," with eudden bravery kissing Ella's mournfuUy drawn lips, "I did not 'mean to vox you. I am so apgry with myself, while ---while I only ought, to he sorry for you. Ole, Sarah)°, my dar- ling, l in us t, be sorry for you, for I understand. When you lost Miles, was it not--awfhl?" "Don't speak. Of if," sigliN1 TVA, "DO OU wonder that my life is evreclgid?'' ' "Is it'i I mean, Leela," (Derry's breath came quickly as she stood loohmg With puzzled wistfulness down into her sister's face, "no one eau help believing or disbeliev- ing things, for people can't make themselves believe or disbelieve thniese can they? I want to feel how different it, is. If you really be- lieve what eere have heard, you are very noble not to utter a word aguins't him, especially here, for this "And he a Basset!'t PART VI, CHAPTER I, „.. Day after day went by, and though O strange unrest possessed Decry, she never went anywhere out of sigiit of Hayrack's. Mrs. Frayd certainly spared no words in iirging her young lodger to take a. -drive, or to call at. the Tower or at the Pines, but even many words could not stimu- late, the girl to her former habits. She was not to be persuaded even to go into the village, following her old habit of dropping in to listen to wherever she could make the oppor- tunity; and by the end of the eveelc there had grown a pained, puzzled look on the beautiful, frank face. Deo, steely it when at last she drove up to 'visit her sister, and it made her try' even more persuasive argue. merits that she had yet used to rre- vail upon Derry to return to town. "Ihn al! right," said Derry, and never guessed that the smile with which she said it was as unlike her old 'smile as moonshine is to sun- shine. "It, ifs doing you harni to be hero so much alone," persisted Ella, with real entreaty in the sweet cold voice. "Do go back to father." "Clive him time to finish his Sara," returned Derry, lightly. "Come, Sambo, tell me about yourself. It is Si) long since I have seen you." -1 could not help it, dear. You know I always have • a difficul- ty with Aunt Crystal about coming here, and she i$ even worse tban ever since that dreadful;confession of Steven's. • It has been a great trial to "You believe it, then'?" 'Believe it, dear? What do you meart?'' • -I don't know,'' said Derry, push- ing tbe beautiful hair from her fore- head a 11 its weight oppressed her. ''What is the neatter?'' Ella !pose tic,ned, gazing at her sister. "Is there any reason for your not believ- ing Steven's own words?" "Sninbo, you muse forgive me, teemed.. 1. can not forgive myself. I Eon initcl with myself because T --can hot believe it." • • 'Not believe what lie said Mut "Nol No! • Not a word of "Put, perry deareet, are you "Yes --I think so." "Would you say of the dead that be hail lied?". "Yes, I would say that he had lied a thousand tiines, rather than that he had done that." "Then why should lie say he had?" !revered Ella, platrftively, ° I don't know. Don't ask me. I can not think noev. I believe I have lost the power of thinking. 1 am trying to get it back; I sit here all clay, end t,ry and try and try all 11' ...Olt. by -it WiI1 not come, Soma- was. in .a way, his home. May I thank "You mean Steven? I was very, very sorry, Derry. I should have clone all in my power to prevent his being imprisoned, if he had not met eo sad a fate—for we need not sure- ly credit that he put an end to his OWD exiStence. I could have done eoinethine surely, for if I did not wish te avenge my lover's death, no one else need." •ef-d-I am senseless, and miserable', ani ill-tempered," cried Derry, sui.1-. denly turning away and pacing the room. "1 can scarcely follow you. It ie like a horrible mist even in this room. Oh, • Sambo, 1 am a wretch to let your kind words chafe me. :ery to be patient with me for a little while." "I will come again," said Ella. with a gentle sigh. PI see it will be better for the to go now, dear." "What has come to me," cried Derry, startinerback a moment , to look dazedly into her eister's sad face. "Am I growing—cruel, Sam - bo? Dave I let you think it is not delightto me to have you with me? Oh! forgive rae, my dear!". "There's nothinga to forgive," said the younger sister. "We all must be a little out of temper occasionally, and you are never cruel—never were, ex- cept when you used to talk to rae of Miles. Derry" (after a thoughtful pause, "you little thought how near you were to the discovery you sought, did you? Even I never guessed, though I thought ---you see" (forbearing other words), "I knew how Steven hated Miles," "Everybody hated Miles," cried Derry, in a burst of uncontrollable passion. "I'm sure ho was selfish, violent, heartless—Oh, Ella, Ella" (with again the passionate contrition and prompt self-reproach), “don't forgive me this time. Let me suffer. I don't deserve your sweet forbear- ance. Go away, I am not fit to be with you. But when Ella, thinking it wisest, turned to • leave the room, Derry stood before her, and seizing both her hands in a tight long clasp, bent and kissed her On the lips, without a word. • Mrs. Frayd had so long listened for any sound from her young lodger's parlor, that when two hours had passed since she watched Miss Hope drive away, she got so uneasy that she would have invented an er- rand into the room, had not a wel- come one just then presented itself. In the dusk of the Febraaryevening, she caught sight" of Miss Basset, at- tended by the old butler from the Tower, walking across the slope of the downe, taking the short way from the Tower to the Beacon. With genuine delight Das. Frayd hastened to meet her, and to take her straight into Derry's room. Then, while she entertained the old butler i01 her own premises with much speaking and plenty of home -brewed ale, she busily prepared a festive tea for the two young ladies, her copious discourse flowing glibly on while she inwardly rejoiced that Miss Basset's visit would enliven Miss Hope. But, to the good' woman's surprise, she found, when she took in the tray, that .it was Miss Hope whoewas en- . , . , . . "Weir, it'll do," she muttered to herself, as she closed the door again upon the friends. "You can't pick a person tip and stay down yourself at the same "Come, for a ramble with me to- rnorrow, will you, Primrose?" Derry was saying just then, "I believe we should find celandine now in the woods, as well as your namesakes. Why, even here the birds this morn- ing distinctly sung to me that spring was come. You will go with me, Prinirose? YOU have had such a sad, sad time" "Derry—" Primrose Basset had scarcely seemed to hear the bravely gladdening words ----"what does this • mean that Steven said?" "You do not believe it?" Derry's eyes were flashing with a strange de- light, yet she could not acknowledge her own disbelief, for fear of throw- ing Primrose back into an old sor- "No. It is impoesible. Steven was different from most men; a stern soli- tary man with odd opinions; but not the man who could ever — even in a passion — have done that. Some men could in a passion, you know, Peery; they could, indeed, a,ad not with the same sin. Though he is dead, arid it may never be explained, nothing in tho world could makeme believe Steven did the deed." A curious aching sympathy fell upon Derry's hdait, in spite of these words being the utterance of her own thoughts; for she. knew that Prim- rose, thinking thus, must feel the shadow under which she had lately lived to be heavier instead of lifted. "We will think of this, later," die said, bravely, as she put Primrose to Sit beside the little tea,table on the hearth, and set herself a chair close to her friend. And so they sat and talked Of other things until Derry could not make the meal laet any longer, when, seeing Peimrose fall into a long thought, she went to the piano, and began to play,' just to make het friend feel herself unobserved and at perfect liberty to be silent. (To 110 deXrneuere) HE IS A WEALTH! FARMER HE CONTROLS THE OPIUM TRADE OF HONG KONG.. lubournattlere:15T111171364":111171:°1111"-All El" 0115 'Yearly Income Amounts to Three In the eoldny c2 Ilene Kong there ie a Chinaman who, white his brief reign lasts, asi spoken Of y the, quarter Of 61 1.1iS fellow countrymen OD the island with bated breath. To thea celestial, subjects of King Edward, the Emperor of China is not nearly SO great a man as the opium farmer, and the King hinaself, com- pared with his mightiness of the, drug is in their eyes only a. far -away sov- ereign, but half so imposing. In order to regulate to somei extent the importation of opium into Hong Kong and to einiplify the collectionf Of duties the British Government sever- al years ago deckled to place the SVhclbC business in the hands of one man. Realizing, however, the tre- mendous and arbitrary power that could he wielded by a single indivi- dual in such a pcisition, it W aS alSO decided that the office should only( be held one year, and that )16 person should be allowed to keep its for more than a single term. So It was an- nounced that the Governmerit was prepared to accept bids for the pH- vilege. • Since that time the selection of an opium farmer, as he is called, has became an annual event. The high- est bid generally ranges from 600,- 000 'to 800,000 taels, according to the prospects of the poppy crop for the year and the condition of the. market. The success'al applicant is duly gaz- etted in his position, and he ie given the assistance of a fleet of a dozen swift government customs vessels to protect his interest. Ile himself em- ploys several junkl 10 GUARD HIS BUSINESS ' against smugglers, but he must only. use these boats far the_ purpose of ob- taining information. If he secures knowledge of smuggling operations he turns it over to tho authorities, who run the malefactors down. Nearly every week im the year there is a smart skirmish between the sampans of the smugglers from the mainland of Chinaand the revenue cutters. Pretty little battles soime of them are, too, and very useful in giving young`British middies and junior nav- al officers their first taste of sea fighting. The opium farmer has the sele con- trol of every pound of the drug brought intaHongliong, and he gen- erally tcaakes from 5250,000 to 5300,- 000 clear profit in his year of office. The Government gets much more frara him than it oould secure if it aetempted to control the duties it - &1f, and, mareaver, gets it in a lump sum without tile anarmous amount of trouble and the large force of, officers that mould otherwise be necessary. The opium farmer's salaried men watch all incoming boats, and as it is a case of Chinaman against Chinaman very little of the raw material gets past him. At the end of his teri or office he GIVES A GREAT DINNER to government. officials, newspaper raen and the leading Chinese mer- chants of the colony. This dinner is one cif the three great events of the Hong Kong year. The other two are the polo championship games and the sham battle between the troops in the garrison. As a matter of fact, though national pride keeps them from open- ly 'acknowledging it, the white people of Hong Kong look on this unique din- ner as by far the meesit intereeting affair in the soda' ealenda,r. When a. Chinaman makes up his mind to do a thing handsomely he generally goes to the limit. The opium farmer always makes his dinner, which is a sort of farewell to his brief reign of czar of the opium smok- ers, something to be remembered by his white friends. Indeed, he lays aside a large sum of money, from $20,000 to $25,000, for the banquet, and al- ways reckons it ae a legitimate item DI expense when he figures ure his bid to the Governm.ent at the beginning of the year. A Week 'before the close oft his term of office the farmer sends out his invitations. These are always verbal, delivered to the lucky recipient by • shroff, a polite native clerk, who comas to your door with a smile and a bow, clad in a long blue gown reaching to his heells, a.nd tells you that his master desires the honor of your ,prosence at the Wang Tai Lo restaurant, "to modestly sup with him from a little dish or two, in . token ef your good. will." • The invitation needs no response. The shraff teens it for granted that you would postpone A TRIP TO EUROPE to get to that dinner, and he is right, There are no vacant seats when the ceremonies begin. The Wong Tal Lo restaurant, where all these affairs are given, ie the Chi- nese Delmoniao's of Hong Kong. It stands in the heart of the native quarter, a give story frame building, elaborately carved, with broad bal- conies laden with flowering plants and creepers, and the usual huge feast lanterns Swaying in the wind. You are met at the ground floor entrance el the re,staurant by ant of the.iairmer's representatives clad in gorgeous silks, who gives your chair or eickslaaw coolies directions, about the time for their return,and shows you upstairs to the great dining room on the third floor. The tables,' which run in three parallel lines dawn the length of the apartment, are bare of everything except the usual silver- ware, with ivory chopstieles added. The big expellee of white cloth has 'a peculiarly hospitable and restaurant- lilee appearance, which, however, doee not last very long. The walls are covered with Chinese flags and Union Jacks together, and hanging by the hundreds from the ceilings are gay lanterns of all designs and coders, inclosing electric lights. About three hundred guests find seats • at places where their riaraes are written on pieces of Pasteboard. Round the head of the. centre table are the ebony elmire of elle host thek governor Of the colony, the chief jus- tice, and the senior nivel eer of the port. Here an1 there ameng the other diner e aro wealthy Chlneeee merchants, their eosturnee in start- ling contrast to the colourlese white Eton me,ss jacket, l of the rest of the ecemPaueY. When all are seated the opium far- mer 02)L()L'S, He nornes in through an alcove door, in a rather stagey 610.1)- 11,e r, and smiles at the applause that greets him as he takes' his piaci°. A minute later he rises to thank hie white friends for lhctir presence at hiel lewly boardaad apologizes for "the humble character of the fare," he is about to set before them.. There he turns to the back Of his chair and strikes a gong. Dozens of swift -foot- ed waiters at once appear laden with silver ice buckets filled with cham- pagne; port, sherry, Frontinac and a variet3r df native wines. A hundred young women follow with trays of wine glasseS and tumblers and in a few minutes every guest ie supplied. Immediately the affair DEVELOPS INTO A FEAST magnificent enough for an old Roman banquet hall. The women, imported from beorthern China for the oeces- ion, etation themselves behind the chairs of the guests and play string instruments, singing an almost con - tin u etre accomphoimen t. Flower g iris, bearing sweet blossoms of.the hellos, enter and twine garlands across the tableamong chair backs, about the flags and ,in the doing lines of Tlhaell:teerbals. es. are rapidly spread with fooll. and a strange mixture of orien- tal and occidental dishes it is! In addition to roast beef, ham, chicken, turkey and mutton, are dozens of Chinese delioacies, curriee of every kind, sharks' fins, jellied eggs, pick- led fish, baked hedge -boar, spitted rice birds, drawn pelican meat, pin- se,rves oe all sorts, mongoose, man- gostines, and Chinese puddings. There is no. menu card. You just pick out what you like and tackle it, irrespective of what your neighbor is eating and regardless of whether you begin with desert or end with soup. The dishes in which these foods are served axe the 1110St magnificent and costly samplee 01 china ware and are intended as gifts for the guests. When the dinner is over youean select what you please from among them. If you go away early enough you are gener- ally Neese enough to do this. If yen stay till things begin to get warm., you are apt to forget all about such a prosaic thing as dishes. ' When midnight comes and the host, the governor and the chief justice have discreetly retired, the singing, jalailating and toasting begin in earn- est. As daybreak approaches the faithful rickshaw, men who have been kicking their bare heels an the brick roads for several hours' begin to think deep bailing oil thoughts about the foreign devils inside who are yelling "Annie Rooney," "We Wont Go Horne Till lVforning," "Auld Long Syne" and other incaaatatiotts to their gods. , ANTITOXIN AND DIPHTHERIA. Elaborate Report Demonstrates Vabse of AnAltoxist Sarum. Otto Jelinek, of the State Institute for the Preparation of Diphtheria Antitoxin, Vienna, has prepared a re- port co'nc'erning the treatment of diphtheria by antitoxin serum, which combines the published reports of all other olase,rvers in all pares of the world to the close of 1898. In all there are reports of 52,785 cases, with 8,525 deaths, a mortality rate of 16.15 per cent. Of theae, there 'were treated en hoespitaLe, 35,095, with 6,398 +deaths, a miartality rate of 18.23 per cent.; and in private practice and partially also in hospitals, 19,647, with 2.129 deaths, a moretality rate of 12.16 per oent. -To these Jelinek has added a number of collerctiee reports from Austria, Hungary,' Bosnia, Germany, Belgium, Russiaglad the United StateS of America -127,359, cases, with 18,- 088 deaths -t' mcirtality rate, of 14.2 per cent. An extremely interesting table is tihat which shales the in- fluence of the early treatria.ent with antitoxin upon the mortality rate. Thu.s, of a total of 52,521 cases, with 8,026 deaths -a mortality rate of 15.28 per cent.--thiere were treated on the first day 5,970 with 304 deaths, a mortality rtate of 5.07 per cent.; on the second day, 17.088, with 1,451 deathe-a naostalety rate of 8.49 per cent.; otti the third day, 13,203, with 2,055 deatthe-n mortaLity rate of 15. 56 per oente on, the fourth day, 6,744, with 1,576 deaths -a mortality rate of 23.36 per cent.; On the fifth day, 4,- 238, with 1,286 deaths -a mortality rate of '30.02 par cent.; after the fifth day, 3,313, with 924 deaths -a mortal- ity rate of 27.80 per cent., and on some day not specified, 1,965, with 430 deaths -a mortality rate of 15.28 per cent. With regard to the, ages of the patients, it is noteworthy that under 2 years iet 0,ga there were 4,261 cases, with, 1,442 deaths -33.81 per cent, under 1 year, of age, 773 oases, with 305 deaths -39.45 per cent.; from 2 to 5 years of age, 11,353 cases, with 2,- 165 deaths -19.06 per cent., front 5 to 10 years of age, 9,628 cases, with 1,- 120 deaths -11.63 per cent.; over 10 years of age, 5,929 cases, with 350 deat1hs-5.9 per cont. This exhaus- tive study demoastra.tes aneW What has bean already conclusively shown -that there results from, the use of the diphtheria, entitoxne a coneidc,r- able redu,ction in, the relative mc>rial- ity Arorn. thc disease. .An increnno in the mortality rate of 5,07 per cent. when treatment is instituted on the first day of the disease to a rate, of 23.36 per cent. when the antitoxin is given on the fourth day, 1nd 30.09 per cant. wheM given on tha fifth day should certainly he sufficient to con- vince the most skeptical, Uncle Bob, who has just treated his nephew in 0 Parisian restaurant-. Not a bad dinner for three franes eh? Nephew, Who Li still growing -111'4e rate Lei'th • AN HOUR WITH -HOLE SAX PERSONAL AND POLITICAL NEW".1 ABOUT THE BUSY YANKEE. Interest in Rip Doing4 Platters of Aloment and Mirth Gather Od FrODU His Records. Th a Board of Estimate and Appor. Lion/neat has J.J.iseil the salaries of se Vel al teaelher,s in Albany, N.Y., saliGUks. Prof. Haila, instructor ia dr a ed ng, lea de the list with ao in. erease from. 64E500 to $1,900. Andf.,ew 13r.rrden, a fanner living it Alton, Wayne County, N.Y., was feel e dose of knockout drops in Hoch. ester, robbed of about $15 and left insensible in ail alley, wherre he was later discovereel by the poliee. The R oc h es t e r Chaenbe.r of Com- neare.e has published a pamphlet set. ting ferth the advantages of Ruch- este[r, e,speeially its water and electrie power. it 15 in:Leaded especially Lor distribution at the Pan-Ainerican xpasetion. Robert W. Leatton, a rePort...i: wi the staff of a Washington evening will mean daily balances of the salary fume, whie,h will. add from $6,000 tg $8,000 , annually to the xetirement fund for the ne,xt ten years.. Gen. Rush, C. Hawkins 'of N e4 YOfrk, 113,5 Sant to the University of Vermont, a Lot of • rame. doeumente eencerning the war of the rebellion te be added to the valuable collection el O like nature, \eleich he gave the Ifni, viersity eoune ii.111.0 ago. In. the lat. ter lot is a oupy of the Daily Citizen, of Vicksburg, for ,Tuly 2, 1803, printed on 'wallpaper. An expearilment in criminology is be. fug tried under the new parole 1011', Byron Day, a notorious burglar, was, taketo f,roina the Rorehester jail. b3 antler of Judge Sut,heeland and after O talk \vital the judge, released otr, parole..Work WaS 1 mad for hem. in a sho ro:paitpoeofir6ftauc.tttiatyry tao.npdrohier,le lais be protivizeeis 0.01, The di'reeteers of the recent MUSID Festival at Syracuse rep 6rt that the total attendanee was 8,000. The total cost oi t'he fe,steral, in,cluding every, expenditure known, was about e9,100. The total receipts were practically $6,500. This leaves a deficiency of about $2,600. Tale guarantors will have to rniake this up by a tax, of 50 cents on e dollar. The press of NC 'W Orleans has sufe fered another irreparable loss in the death of 0. II. Steen, of the Times - Dernicerat. Mr. Stein was a writer whose charm wns appreciated -Iv the readers of his paper no more thaw by lids brother new,spaper writers 10 all parts of thee °wintry. His "By the Bye" eoltenen en. the TimeseDcianocrat was cLippe,d raore liberally than 'the feature work of any contemporary, ev,riter. It was well worth copyiag. Walter N. Heldman, president of tett Louisville 0011Tiel-3ournal Company, celebrated his eightieth birthday re- cently. He was presented, with af testemonial by eighty of the oldest: employes of the company, the aver- age service 01 WiLiGh WaS naarly, SS V ontean yeaes. One of the eighty, had been with the company fur; t,herty-five years, and another, 0, 0.: Steady, the Courier -Journal's Wash- ington correspondent, had served the paper for thirty-four years. A Rech,ester coroner ceneure,d Con- ductor &elide Saniele, of the. West Shore, on account of tha death of Patrick Quigley end john Kinsella, of Auburn, WhO WSTL) killed last week. The men weee three times ejected from the train between Canandaigua and Fisher's Sbation for trying to ride without paying fares. Then they bought ticket, but Cand uc tor Sault la refused to 1,ot tne,m, get on the1 train unless they paid for the free ride they already had. They took the next freight train end evare kill- ed while leaving it in the R,oebester yards. The coroner thinks Conductor Smith contributed to their death by not letting them ride alter they finally ha4 bought tickets. "WE ALL TURNS." It was in the west of Ireland. The cabin was of the usual pattern with cattle stalls to the left ag you' enter- ed, an open chimney, a round table, one chair, alaig boo, and one bed to the right. The legs of the bedstead, an old four-poster, had sunk into the earthen floor. How many of you sleep theree little girlf said the tourist. Feyther and mother, myself and me foive brothers and sisters, answered Biddy, who was abut twelve years old. Ola,,bute`there is not roone for eight Of you? But, there is, seri-. Four sleeps at the top and four at the bottom , chimed in the child. „ Still, even static abreast could never ,manage. There would be no room( LO L Urn. , •"We don't , turn, yer lamer. Who feytlier'1r \cants to turn, be see, "Turtle And we all turn." .. CURIOUS DRAUGHT ANTIVIALS, Recently the Viceroy of )nd.ia. \\retell , i to visit a native prince, and was' sur• 1 prised to see in the gorgeous pro- ". ces,icn whicli met him tivo rhisiocnros es ridden by postilions. '11.1.,„se. huge crea1;ure,9 caused a good deal of tere,st, but in England there havd been eeen some equally eurious sub - 5 Litutes far horses. A wither eceen+ tide eld gentleman used to drive a team of foxhounds in rdeni, a year ago, and the dogs leould covet , long dietainceo at a tremendous pace. But CVC11, ha .s,va.s outtlonc4, by a 1• wealthy German who 11.15 a carriagt drawn by two bear. He (Ire \-.... it) this curious turn -out in his privati' groutici..%; but on ono occasion he, van, lured into the public Streets, and. -mai promptly fined for frighteninghorSe Agit obstrticling traffio, •, '