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The Brussels Post, 1903-5-7, Page 2• ite4CCsecE@CIGe+ixHer<se<<dile<•aOEle•E,EKF {•EKW n�k•'fSa�sefC'Fri<*e-EE�lyt, i0 e N K t+r fbck M .. x ,zL tand CHAPTER XIV. So the clergyman was noue other ;hon our versatile American passim- ;er in a new disguise. 1 should cer- ';tinly never have penetrated it, and oven now 1 was not sure whether my late visitor, "the newly -appointed English chaplain," was Kennard himself or an emissary. Speculation on this head wan fu- tile, for the blessed fact remained hat I was possessed of the means of es'aapt, and my first act was to con- ceal the articles about my person, lest they should b.: unearthed by the wretches whom I could now truly describe as "keepers." In the course of bestowing the things about ate, I made the welcome discovery*, which in my excitement X had omitted to look for before, that my pocket -book, containing between seventy and eighty pounds in Eng- lish stoney, was still in my pos- sat::;h,:,. On the other hand, my lona had been taken away—two 'mot, hieh spoke at least of a bona ]d, u, lief in my madness on the ;tart of the proprietor of the asy- lam. MY watch, which had been left to mc, told that there were still four hours to wait before 1 could com- mence operations, and slowly the time dragged indeed. During the in- tervel I had two more visits from the unwashed trio who acted as warders—once to supply mo with supper, and lastly to see that all was secure for the night. It was; not till after they had left me some time on the second occasion that, the sun baying now set, 1 began the attack on the window. fly raising the narrow truckle bed on end, I improvised a, ladder which enabled Hie to work on the bars without having to hang on with one hand, and I then brought tho Ale into play. Every now and then some distant noise in the building would cause mo to stop and listen, en fear lest the steady rasping T data obliged to make had attracted at- tention, but no One came my way, and in an hour and a half from com- mencing I had an aperture big en- ough to squeeze through. To make fast the cord. and swing myself down was easy work to a sailor, and in a very few minutes I had crossed the tangled garden and reached the '-angle on the boundary wall without mt.•eting a soul or hearing a sound to denote that my flight was dis- covered. A hasty examination of the wall proved it to be so rugged with age that there was easy foot- hold. I was up and over in no time,. to find myself standing in a dark, tree -bordered lane, and 1 had hardly touched ground when a figure emerg- ed from the gloom. "Is that Forrester •'r' came in the welarome tones of Kennard's natural voice, but almost whispered. "Yes, thanks to you, her I am," I replied, scarcely breathing. "Not a word more till we are be- yond range of pursuit," he proceed- ed ; "follow me, and leading the xray along the lane, he turned into a 11r1d which wo crossed till we came to a disused barn. Having drawn me inside and shut the door, Kon - nerd lit a candle, and searching under a pile of straw produced a ipundle of clothes. "There," the said, tossing it to ate, "we can talk now without dan- of being overheard. In the eye of the Italian law you aro an escaped lunatic, and liable to recapture, but if you will got into that toggcry while I spin my yarn, I hope to be able t0 steer you out of Genoa without trouble. It is not the police we have to fear, but a treacherous hound whom I have a pretty shrewd suspicion is our friend the stowa- way„ "feu mean Vizard ? You have seen him ?" I exclaimed. "So 1 You have had an opportun- ity of recognizing the stowaway's voice, and it was as I expected ?" replied Kennard eagerly, "In that case," he continued, "you had bet- ter take tho floor first, and run through the heads of what has hap- A T ale te Al,, w A W of the A A V Rolling Wave pened to you since we met last. But get into those clothes while we talk. There is no time to spare. " It will be remembered that Ken- nard went ashore to look after Zavertal, and had therefore not been on board the Queen of Night when Vizard made his appearance. So it was at that point that I began, and while transforming myself into n fair semblance of an Italian fisher- man 1 recapitulated the incidents that preceded my visit to the Con- sulate. Sitting on a truss of straw in the flickering camile-Iight, Ken- nard hear:: me to the last without remark, Then he said : "Your experience fits in with urine thorouiahly, and clears up the only point that was puzzling me-. how tho Consul was fooled into playing into their hands. You acted a little too much on impulse, my friend, You have to thank your high-handed treatment of Vizard for the rough time you have been hav- ing. It would have been better ..o have played possum and not to have let on that you recognirtd him, when he so obviously showed that he wanted you to do so. Why, he went on board—T can see plainly—with the express purpose of provoking you into refusing him a passage." "flow so ?" 1' asked, quite believ- ing hits, but still mystified as to motives. "Simply because your assertion that a wealthy passenger, who pro- duced evidence that he was in Lon- don three days ago, was a stowa- way landed at Barcelona, convinced the Consul that the allegation of lunacy which Zavertal was bringing against you was correct. But lis- ten," proceeded Kennard, "while I detail my experience. Zavertal had the start of me for the shore by ten minutes, but by bribing my boat- men I got ihem to spurt and reduce the distance between us so ma- terially that I was landed soon en- ough to keep my man in view, "He turned into the Via Vittore Emanuele, then sharp to the right up the Via San Lorenzo, and along the Piazza Deferred to the Motel de Genes, thus proving that so far as his destination was concerned he had not lied. To speak the truth gra- tuitously was so unlike the man that I suspected a motive. and sure enough at the hotel entrance I found it. IIe passed into the hall, but in- stead of going on to the bureau to make his inquiries, he stationed him- self just insiclo the swing -doors and waited, his object evidently being to ascertain if he heel been followed by anyone from the ship: Ile must have expected such a person to give himself away by either coming on his heels into the hotel, or by look- ing through the doors after him, but he made a slight error, It is thirty years since I put in my apprentice- ship at the elementary art of shadowing, and Doctor Zavertal had no notion that tho seedy tout shambling by was hot upon his trail. 'I went on as far as the corner of the Via Carlo Felice. - and stood there for five minutes watching the doorway in case it was a dodge to slip away to some other rendezvous. But no sign of the quarry appearing, at the end of that time I walked back sharply past the hotel, and by a twist of any eye saw that he was no longer ambushed in the en- trance. Once more I turned, and boldly entered the hall, "You w111 probably give mm a good deal more credit than I de- serve for my next proceeding for, though it may look smart on _ the surface, ea was really only a °hence shot, based on reformation which you yourself gave me. I walked right up to the clerk at the bureau and asked him the number of Mr. Vizard's room," "Good heavens 1" I exclaimed "how did you arrive at that ?" "I argued it out that, from your showing, Zavertal had a previous ac- quaintance with Vizard which ho wished to conceal, that Vizard's re- ference to 'the cursed American' and isht s It is Lacking the Essential, Life-giving Principle which is Lest Obtained by the Use of Dir. Chas "s erve Feed. Tho tired, languid, and depressed feelings which come with spring are tho outward indication of the weak- ened condition of the blood and the low state of vitality. When the blood gots thin and Wat- bry the Wasto of the human body is more rapid than the process of re- conetruotian. Gradually the action of the heart grows wbaltor and weak- er, the lungs do not work to their lull °opacity, the stomach, and other Vigestire organs fail to perform their duties, Mad the result is all Aorta of bodily derangements. I AOhing head, ditty spells, indigos- itien, feelings of Weal eec and do- lsipondenoy, lade of energy 10 per- forin the duuties of the day, loss of appetite, falling nunnery and power ?of contoolitratieg the mind, irritwbil- ity, rieVV ittsitoss, and sleeplessness ante amodfg dile syrngtol 3 atiiois (Ilse tress you, and all can bo avoided by the use of Dr, Cihase's. Nerve Food. There is no preparation to be cent- pared ontpared to Dr, Chase's Nerve Food as a spring restorative. It does not stimulate and so whip the organs of the body to over-exertion, but by enriching the blood, instils new vigor into the nerves and builds up the Whole system, By noting your increase in weight while using this great food cure you oar prove that new, firm flesh and time is being added to the body. To awaken the liver, invigorate the kidneys and regulate the bowels, use Dr. Chase's Kidney -Livor Pills, All dealers, or iiidmanson, Bates Co., ToMete . To protect yen against linitatione the portrait aced. stgnaliwo of Dr, A. W, Chaos, the 'taking risks,' which you repented to nue the other day ns overheard by you, might have meant my contem- plated trip, that he intended to go In the slop In order to help his friend thwart Huy designs I might have, and that as he had myster- iously thrown up his passage at the last moment he might nevertheless have acted precisely as I did, and have carne on board in an u ssumcd ctaract r. From that v mind was naturally led to the stowaway, and to the manner in which he was set free front his hiding -place by Za- vertal putting young Darranmot•o up to concealing himself in the launch. I got fairly gripped with: the idea that, if I was right, Vizard would come on by rail and catch us up here. "i was therefore not surprised when the t•lerie gave away the situa- tion by asking, 'Who are you, and why do you want to know ?' I told hint, speaking of course in Italian, that I had been employed to procure some opera tickets by the Signor who bad just gone up to Mr. Viz- ard's room, and that I had been in- structed to deliver thein there. Luckily, further questioning was stopped by a guest coming to make inquiries of the clerk, and turning to attend tho new -confer he promptly got rid of me by naming the num- ber of tete roost -14, on the first floor. "I found the room on the main landing close to the head of the staircase, in ono of the best posi- tions in the house, but the door was shut, and there were too marry peo- ple about in the corridors for eaves- dropping in the open. I was so im- pressed with tho necessity of over- hearing their conversation if possible that I chanced it, and, ready with an excuse and an apology if wanted, entered the next room—to find it, al I had dared to hope, unoccupied. It was not long, I -can assure you, be- fore my ear was glued to the wall separating me from number 14. "To my diegust the partition was too thick to admit of hearing any sustained conversation, but certain names and disjointed sentences reach- ed ate, which by the light of what has happened since, and taken in conjunction with my previously form- ed suspicions, greatly tend to con- firm the latter. "l'he first words 1 made out were in tho voice that 1 know now to be Vizard's natural tone : 'Consul no- toriously obstinate. Once decided, never allow he was wrong.' "Then, after an interval, 7aver- tal's voice said : 'Alibi easily man- aged. A wire to Nathan would set- tle that' ; to which I caught the di- rect reply : 'Let it be so then ; I will get on board at once.' "After another break, in which their words were inaudible, Zaver- tal said : 'Pietro Tfascagni of the Saint Lucia Convent is our man. A couple of hundred will ensure a quietus for the meddlesome dolt ' "Then with further lengthy inter- vals of indistinct mutterings I caught the following words and phrases :— "Zavertal 'Darranmore after leaving Naples.' "Vizard : 'All goes well, could re- join you at Alexandria.' "Zavertal : 'No sign of Ken- nard,' 'Vizard (part of direct reply to the last) : '—not do to make too sure. Ile night Join tho ship at any port of call.' "And then, Forrester," Kennard proceeded, rising from the straw, and putting his hand kindly on my shoulder, "I caught n sentence—the last I overheard—which I would not repeat to you if I hadn't confidence in your nerve. Of course I hove not been so blind as aot to nolice what every one on the ship noticed—Your relations with the belle of tiro voy- age." "Cool God 1" I exclaimed, "then the devils aro scheming against Aline. Yes," I added, "you may safely tell me. I shall not hamper you with hysterics." "Well, thes," said Kennard, "the last broken sentence that reached me was in Zavertal's voice : 'Tho Chat - 'tenor affair in the run from Alex- andria to Malta.' " "And we are stranded here," I groaned. "Tell me, though—I won- der I have. not asked before -how long is it since I wes captured ?" "Only this morning," replied Ken- nard ; "and look here, Forrester," he went on, "the time is not come for despair yet. It might be a good deal worse. We know, at any rate, that whatever tricks they mean to play with Lord Dat'ranmoro aro postponed till after the ship leaves Naples. That must be thrd C A a ahead, at least ; and long before then, with any luck, we shall be within hail of the Queen of Night. And what they politely call 'the Ch llr or affair' is not to come n A a c0 0 off till after the ship has visited Alex- andria, which allows a wide margin in case of any miscarriage at Naples. "But let me iinlsh my story, After the last words that reached mo there was .a continuous buzz of talk for a quarter of an hour, then the sound of ntovernent, and a minute later I beardthe door of number 14 open and soma one go towards the staircase. I was at tho door of number 13 fn time to see that it was a tall man—just the build of 'Ert- rigttez,' by the way—and not for a moment to bo mistakan for Zavertal who had clearly remained behind to prevent being soon with his friend in ease they were being watched. "1 was in ntediatety confronted with the dilemma which of tho two to shadow, and as X knew a lot against the doctor, and had nothing but suspicion against the other, I decided to stay and keep an eyo on Zavertal. X think now that 1 Was wrong, and that I should have done bettor by following Vizard on board, for in that case you Would never have fallen into this trap, "Vizard disappeared down the stairs, and 1 withdrew into the va- cant roma: till Zavertal came out, of number 14, when I started'on the famous receipt book author, aro emir chaeo ttgain,+.Outside the Instal he beery box of his rertiodier, tailed a earroza and drove to the Convent of Santa Lucia, I follow- ing in another cab, lie retrained close on tut hour, and I was unable to find out what transpired, though I now Lwow that ho Hurst have been arranging for your detention, and very likely for your murder In -the event of the Consul being hood- winked into treating you as a luna- tic unlit to command the ship. "When ho left. the Conventnt Ile drove hack to the neighborhood of the hotel de Genes, and for the rest of the evening T was dodging him in various resta.urantts, where his solo object appears to have been to kill time till Vizard should rejoin hint after being turned out of the ship by you, This occurred about nitre o'clock, the meeting taking place outside the hotel, after which they walked off together to the telegraph office in the Palazzo Ducale—I guess for the purpose of cabling Nathan to wireoutthat Vizard was int London three clays ago. "Froin the telegraph omnc they re- turned to the hotel, and as I was able to ascertain that the doctor had engaged et bed, and that they had both retired to their rooms, I went to spend the night at a neigh- boring inn in order to bo ready for theta in the morning. After break- fast the pair carne out together, boldly this time, and went to the Consulate, where they remained till half an hour after X had witnessed your arrival from a shop opposite. Unfortunately there had been nothing in what I had overheard to indicate that you were to bo the victim of a plot, and I had no notion of what was going on till I saw you driven away insensible by the superintend- ent of the asylum and his assistants. After I had shadowed Vizard back to the hotel, Zavertal having parted with him on the quay'to return to the ship, I made some inquiries which showed that it would be hope- less to approach the Consul, so sat- isfied was he of your condition, and I at once set about, procuring your escape in my own way And now, when I have touched up your face a little, tae will get on to the station and catch the first train to the south." Drawing an actor's make-up box from his bag, he soon tittered niy complexion to suit the clothes I ltad put og, and after making my own clothes into a bundle we started to- wards the city. Kennard got over the difficulty of my not knowing a word of the language by arranging that I should feign to be dumb. Be- fore relapsing into silence, I asked hint what he thought of Vizard's re- maining in Genoa. "Ile is hero to look after you," was the reply, "and I should not be surprised if he has heard of your es- cape already. I surmize that wo have a dangerous organization of educated criminals to deal with, and that Nathan is in it But I shall know more to -morrow." This was lively hearing, when I had been relying on an appeal to my employers to reinstate ane in my command and turn the tables on Za- vertal ; but it was no use whining over the loss of a berth when I was about to pit myself against hien in a game where the issues loomed up so much more terrible, •I had no thought but to prevent and expose those conspiring scoundrels, and, if indeed lives were at stake, to save their intended victims. Wo reached the Staziono Drignole with a quarter of an hoar to sparo before the 11.40 night train to the. south was due, and after Kennard had taken tickets for Rome, being fatigued and hungry, we went into the buffet for tt snack. The place was full bf travellers fortifying themselves for the long run to Pisa, and wo had some difficulty in squeezing in to the counter, but we managed it at last, and Kennard did the ordering. A long mirror stretched the length of the buffet op- posite to us reflecting the people at the counter, and glancing along the line of faces while waiting to be served, I started so violently as to nearly capsize the soup of an old lady next ane. Half a dozen 'places from us stood Vizard, apparently absorbed in dissecting the wing of a fowl. (To Be Continued.) —,b PAPER AND TALLOW BULLETS. It is generally supposed that noth- ing save a. metal bullet could com- mend itsel for the purpose of man- killing in war. That such a missild is more powerful for long-range shooting may be true enough, but for destructive purposes at a short distarico a bullet of paper or tallow has greater effect. During some re- centdirection it i in this x ment9 c t experiments e beyond doubt that,. proved toyo whereas a metal bullet penetrated a deal plank an inch in thickness and left a neat hole, a paste -boatel bullet had a far greater destructive effect upon the target. A paper bullet passing through six pieces of tin placoil at a distance of a foot apart buckled them up so as to be of no further use, whereas a metal bullet nearly left, a small round holo and in no other way dtsdgured the tin, DD. A. W. CHASE'S 0nu CATARRH CURE ... a le sent direct to the diseased pparte by the Improved- Blower. Deals the ulcers, clears Meals passages, stops droppings In the throat and permanently cures Catarrhand liay Novas, Slower Gee. Alt dealers, or Dr. A. W. Chase Medicine Co, Toronto and Buffalo, Lady — "You look ill," Siiopgirl --"X have been, but tun better now. The 'dotter said it was nervous pros- tration, from trying so hard to smile and look pleasant tvlten X Slid not feel like it," Lady — "X tan sympathize with you. 1 icnoW all about it." Shopgirl -- "Have you ever worked in a shop?" Lady -- "Worse, I've tnovetl in society," Port Hope citizens are taking ac- tion to establish a hospital, "Her marriage Was a great disap- pointment to her friends," "Die deed?" "0h, yea, They all predict- ed It would turn taut unhappily, and et didn't." ON THE FARM WORK HORSES. i University 1n his lectures at rho Un vorstty of Illinois, Instructor Morehouse of tiro horse department says no ono should take a horse that has been running loose 011 winter and start him sud- denly at hard, steady work. That is entirely against nature's tvay of going. it is much better to start in at some comparatively light work. This will put his whole system in better shape. When heavy Acid work, sue% us plowing, begins, rest tree horses frequently. Raise tiro collars at every stop to let the air into tlo shoulders and, while doing this wipe the sweat from the shoul- W.ben fitting a harness to n horse, ray particular attention to the fit of the collar. A well -fitting collar will rarely cause sore shoulder and will usually make a sweat pad use- less. It. is best to clean a horse in tae evening, after he has conte in from work. Currying and rubbing do touch more good then then if put off until morning. Any farmer knows that a horse rolls as soon as ho is turned out in the evening. He needs the rubbing clown arid clean- ing after he conies in from work, not ten hours afterward, FEEDING AND WATERING. Eve:y horse shold be fed a warts bran smash at least once a week all through the year, Take four quarts of bran and a little salt. Pour scalding water over this and feed warm. 1V'hen horses come in at noon, on hot days, they should be given only a little water. They should then be put in the stable and fed hay. In course of ball an hour, say when the driver has had his dinners—the horses may be fed their grain. This will still allow face horse 20 or 30 min- utes in which to cat his grain, be- fore o-fore going to the field. This plan of feeling prevents the horse getting too much water. It al- so keeps him from swallowing his grain too hastily. Coming in from the field very tired and hungry he will gulp down anything that will fill up. When in such a condition good bay is tho best thing he can eat. After being fed in this way be will ho in good condition for the af- ternoon's work. COMPACT, SOLID IiORSES BEST. There can be no definite plan of feeding every horst, The amount of feed must be deckled by the charac- ter of the individual. A short, solid, compact horse is usually a nitreh better keeper than a soft, rangy, animal. It is the short, compact horse that does the most work in proportion to the amount of food. • At the same time, such an animal must have a capacious stom- ach — big enough to digest all the food needed by a horse at hard work. For Illinois forme a ration of throe parts oats, one part corn or four quarts oats to two or three ears of corn. Mixed clover and tim- othy hay is best. Brood mares, colts, and fattening horses should be fed on pure clover hay, Tho horse, of all animals, is rho most easily hurt by dust and filthy food. Yet too commonly roe a ho•so:s manger hall full full of dost and trash. Have the bottom of the manger made of slats to let this dirt fall out. I would prefer to feed hay on the floor rath- er than in a manger. When given the proper .• amount of hay in this manner tho horse will waste but little. Such an arrangement is near the natural way of feeding. It al- so ' costs less to build such horse Stalls. Tho grain box should bo placed 2a, or 3 feet above the floor. A small salt box should be fastened in each stall, and salt kept in it all the time When salt is supplied in this way a horse will eat just what his system requires. Remember your horse has a body constructed very much like the hu- man body and that .he has a good deal ofcommon sense. Treat him accordingly and you will be well re- palcI.—American Agriculturist. DAIRY WISDOM. Don't consider your cows clean if you only keep their udders clean. The dirt dries in the hair and shakos off like dust in the pail w.nilek milking and makes the milk unfit for food. It gives the , milk that "eowy odor" that can never be gotten out. Use a brush and sponge every day and don't luxe a bit of dirt or data on. them,. They will repay you by giving you more milk overt' day. You can not afford to keep poor cows, and givethem poor care,'er and make poor butter. If you are looking for the source Of off flavor in milk and you know it does not come from stable sur- roundings, look at the milk cans. A rusty ran, even if apparently clean, will give milk a decidedly off - taste and small. Galvanized pails or can .aro . not. proper to be user] in connection with milli,' Look to the strainer and strainer cloths, Every thread is - a biding plitcb for all sorts of bacteria, un less scalding Water and socia aro used every day'. Do not use soap for cleaning dairy utensils, Fat from very dubious sources is used in narking soap, anti soap will not dissolve the thinlayer of half -dried casein that is very of- ten found in cans and pails. Washing soda or a little potash is and will do the eleansiu cheaper t g match more satisfactorily, DO NOT TRY IT. 110 not try to raiso good crops from poor seed, No one ever has; no oho ever will, Nor 20 make a great bettor record froth poor cows. Get good cows anisthey will work out the problem for you, Tutor to bay it to the moon t you Clean Your Liver WITH Mllyon's Liver Remedy, "People should die only from old age or by accident,"—Munyon. I unhesitatingly pronounce my Cure for Liver troubles a discovery or the high- est importance. Sluggishness of that organ brings on biliousness, sick head- ache; indigestion, constipation and all tho 1115 which follow those conditions. My Livor remedy acts promptly—purities tho blood, clears the tongue and skin and snakes you feel lice a neve person, The Liver is qne of tho most Important or- gans of the human body. it Is clangorous to neglect 1t.—Munyon. MUNYON'S REMEDIES. Munyon's Liver Cure, 25c a viol. Munyon's Blood Cure eradicates all im- purities of the blood. Price 26c. Munyon's Cold Cure prevents pneu- monia, and breaks up a cold In a feW hours. Price 250. Itiurtyon•s Female Remedies area boon to all women, piunyon's Vitalizer restores lost power to weak men. Price El. Personal letter's addressed to Prot. MunyOn, Philadelphia, U. B. A., contain - Ing details of sickness, will be answer - promptly and free advice ea to treat- faeat will to given. 11Fb t—f fall to get a good surely of garden stuff this year. Do your part and let the moon 'do her part, Nor to do two Jays' work in one day. You may succeed, but you will lose more than you gain. Give every Clay Its proper amount of the farm work and bo satisfied with that. Nor to expect your• hands to bo inspired to greater effort by scolding or finding fault. You would not wanted to bo treated that way yourself; why, then, be so unkind to others? Nor to think of having three dol- lar lambs. to sell a few months hence, unless you feed the sheep well. Lambs grow through the food taken by the mother sheep. The starved rrt'acp grows a poor lamb. Nor to preach what you do not practice. if you- talk good farming, do good farming. Nor to live beyond your means. Thousands have tried that to their sorrow. There is more comfort liv- ing in the old house, if it is free from debt, than in a palace weighted' with a 110017 moi tgagc. Nor to keep your boys and girls grinding all day long without a bit of time to play and be boys and girls, Clive then a chance to love you and tho old farm. Yost never wi!l regret it. SE'i"PING OUT TURES. Straight lines in an orelin d will prove a lifelong satisfaction. An even start, cal ohs] measurements and the use of cross furrows will secure good alignment and also save work fn setting. The furrowing and cross -furrowing will save mucli of time shovelling, particularly if the furrows are deepened with a subsoil plow. Nalco the holes .large and fill about the tree with soft rich earth, but no manure close to the roots. Bruited roots should be trimmed and the tree branches rut back. In wet sea ons, a well -rooted tree will some- times thrive without cutting back, but ascii a method is or• the average not desirable. Late set trees, es- pecially, need severe cutting back. Trees in storage can-oftoa be bought very cheap ns late as the last of May, aact.if .wall cut back they in most seasons live and make a small growth for the year. LONDON'S TRAFFIC. Loss of Millions of Pounds Oc- casioned by Delays. Sir John Wolfe Barry has made some interesting oaloulations of the loss caused by the delays front the congestion of trine in the main thoroughfares of the great metro- polis, running must to west. Hav- ing arranged for an enumeration to be taken, he fount that en an hour the following number of vehicles and pode Jln1t ns passed a gleam spot— Vohcs. Ped • eats, Cheapside .,, •., ...002 o 0,358 Sthatnd .... 1,228 3 Gf50 Picuactrlly... ..... ,,,1,497 8,910 Tottenbam Court -rd 661 55,586 I't would be weari.sbmo, he added, if he went into all the details of the etaamination which ho had gleams to the subject, but it would appear that time traaiil in, these. streets in- volved £1,631 per hour, and taking in E+uaton road and Qtteon Vict4t'ia street, and including the north, and south ' traut(lic crowing the various ropes named, ho estimated the an- neal loss by delays to bo— Trade interests Z34800 Vohigitlai 1,189,900 65,000 Pedestrian trailto.., £2,:1.54,900 Another censIMerntioe is the many accidents,caused by the crowding of vehioular 'redia, involving the (tettlbtt of many perisoris in the course of the year, to say nothing of those receiving serious, brut not fatal, lee juiriea, Minnie "How can lyott say titan 'marriage is a failure,' when you Have Ethel and me, Pape?" Papal— "Ali, you sae, the trouble is that 1 don't know yet Whether ,you two Might to figure ltinoltg tiro assets el' file liabill'tieH,;'t PIERPONT 1 ORGAI }S MIR uTt LIVHS IN REGAL ST^T.E INL ONDON, Avoids Airplay, and Spends Daost of His Leisure Time With His Family, Evidently' Jack Morgan, heir' ap- parent to the financial throne of J. l'rerpont Morgan, is going to cut more of a figure ie. London society hereafter, says a recent 'otter. 1r has taken the stalely house No. i2 Grosvenor square, in which Bulwer .Lytton spent his last years, wed is going to desert Park Lane, although his costly house at the corner of South street and Park Lane is still on his hands, The flitting is significant of a dis- tinction that is beginning. to bo trade between Park Latae—the Fifth avenue of Londoa turd Grosvenor, sentare One eon judge of rho status of the latter locality from the fact that the steamer which carried so ninny duchesses, countesses and other portions of the very cream of London society to Delhi as the guests of Lord Curzonforthe dur- bar, was nicknamed, "The Gros- venor Square," You have to have ancestors and solid social standings if you are to be a part of G•ros- vonor Se,uul'e. On the other hand, Park Lane began to decline from ell4out the time poor 'Barney Bartnvto son of a peddler of old clothes, proved into the most imposing man- sion on the street. Now this gilded thoroughfare has come to be asso- ciated with the noulvoau . riche as typified by the South African mil- lionaire and the gentleman with A FORIDIGN ACCIDRT who has prospered exceedingly in the "city." It is true that noble- men. like IIis Grace the Duke of Westminster still abide in Park Lane—but they are not nearly so thick as they used to be, while the "other sort" aro increasing at such a rate that Charles T. Yerkes is said to have refused an offer of a house there on the ground that the street contained "too many new- mtude millionaires." The exodus of Jack Morgan from a nelghlilorthood which is losing a little of its tong—a matter that could not be expected to make the slightest difference to a more sober man of business—to the most elite stptar•e in London, where he is to have the Duke of Portland and Sir Ernest Cassell, Ming I9clwatd's in- timate friend, as neighbors, looks significant. A Married man—with an American wife, of course—and the proud fath- er of two boys and two girls. the heir to the Mogan throne has en- joyed best spending a good Otero of his leisure true with his family. And he has avoided display. No big dinners have been given by him—his entertaitting consisting of having a few intimate friends in occasionally in quite an informal way, And ho and Mrs. Morgan have gone out cor- respondingly little, Jack Morgan is, however, fond of sport in the open air. Every morning early, during the season, he is to be seen riding In Hyde Pat'lc. He golfs, too, and is ntucit attaohod to yaohting. He is a voracious reader—being fondest of history and the LXVES OP GREAT ALEN. . Like his father, he is a connoisseur of pictures and already has made the beginning of a private gallery which should be notable some day. There are these who insist that Jack Morgan works even harbor than his father does—or did. He is at his desk in Morgan & Co.'s un- imposing set of offices in old Broad street every morning at 9.30 o'clock, and works with hardly a pause un- til luncheon, which ho takes at the City Club, next door. 'then he is back at his desk again, and not away from it until ftvo o'clock Those who do business with him say that he has his tattler's faculty for getting through a lot of work in a comparatively short tune—also the old mean's brief, torso, but not die - agreeable way of finding out exactly what a caller wants, or what he has to supply. - • In appearance the younger Morgan also is like his sire—'being mighty in frame—six feet two inches in height with a chest which is, and a girth which promises to bo, ample. Phis eyes aro small and full of shrewdness, but the rest of his foa- ttiies aro Large, Both in business and out of it his reputation is that of a hearty, whole-souled Specimen of man. It is rather doubtful, how- ever, if 3, Pierpant Morgan, ea, could, even if ho wanted to, turn himself into what is known as a So- ciety man. Of course , his Jirestlgjr as his father's son, 'to say nothing of his own hearty personality and hisst wealth, will almost vmt alt 1 open any door to him, but the unobtru- siveness and privacy of the life which the heir to the house of Mor- gan has elected to live since ho canto to London, several years ago, have boon too complete not to have made the social game almost im- possible for 'him. "Gladys," he sighed, as he leaned toward the frivolous young thing, "Gladys, there 'is somothhig tvit7:Ili inn that tolls lee that you love me; something something that thrills through anti through me, healing the mored e —r "Henry," interrupted tiro maiden fair, "you haus evidently cross -circuited a wirci:ess message that 1 have nothing to do with." Employer (turtling over leaves of ledger, to Olork) •— "Jolla, ,you 010 very careless; aro hots this writing is blotted," John (nervously) '•- '"Pitot that WYas a fly, sit; it walked across the rage, atirll---" bmcipioyor (turning over to ,another page) •--• "But what 18 this spot — suroly a fly couldn't do that?" John --.'"P'h'et 10 the fly, sir; I killed lit" Of 90,,000 European etelgrattls to. Argentina ii4at years M3,000 8x0.4 Italielhs,