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The Brussels Post, 1889-7-19, Page 22 THE BRUSSELS POST. JULY 10, 1889. TILE ONLY GIRL AT OVERLOOK, BY FRANKLIN FIFE, IN N, Y. HERALD. The midnight incident seemed to bare game to a conclusion. Ib was a proper tim for Gerold to say good night and go away Ho atill stood on the opposite side of the bal open each, around the edge of which appear ed a email set of finger tips, which pulls the screen a little closer, :bowing that th girl was minded to shut herself in. But hand twice as big opposed here, gently ye strongly, and in doing eo 18 touched her upon which she let go and the window flew open. "Oh, you muen't see me," Mary exclaim ed, as Gerald got a vanishing glimpse of th white draped figure. " Good night." ""You will bo afraid if left alone," Geral protested ; "you can't go to sleep, nervou as you must be." ' I eurely can't go to sleep talking,' wa leer rejoinder, with the firob touch of coquetry elle had indulged in at Overlook. "I won't talk then ; 1'11 only keep guard oub here until daylight. Eph may return.' "Bub there's the watokman. It is hie duty." It would be my delight." That silenced the invisible inmate of the cabin. The moon shone into the square opening, bub Mary was eneconsed some. where in the darkness thab bordered the in- come of light. "" Should I apologize ?" Gerald ab length began again. Ib is like this, Mtee Warrin- er-1 used to know how to behave politely to a lady ; but for six years I've lived in wilderneaees—in railroad oampe—from Can- ada to Mexico. We've had no ladies in these rough planes, no women, except once in a while some mannish washerwoman or cook. That's what makes you so rare, so nnexpeoed ; that is why it would be a de- light to be a patrolman outside your quer- tars ; that is why I don'b wish to go away." "Oh, ohl I am interesting because 1 am the only specimen of my sex ab Overlook, Teat isn't a doubtful oompliment; it is no compliment ab all. Good nicht." "You misconstrue me altogether. I mean "I am sure you do not meati," and now the tone was pleadingly serious, '"to remain here at my window after I rcqueat you to go away. 1 am, rte you have eaid, the only girl at Overlook," ""If there were a thousand girls at O rerinok—" "Not one of them, I truth, would prolong a dialogue with a young gentleman at night through the open window of her bedroom." Half in respectful deference to Mary's unassailable statement of the rule of propriety applicable to the situation, and half in inconsiderate petulance at being dia- enieeed, Gerald let go of the sash with an impulse that almost closed it. This time two miniature hands came ono under the swinging frame. Would more than one hand have been naturally used ? Was ib not an awkward method of shutting a window? And Mary Warriner was not a clumsy area-" tura. But there were the bands and Gerald lreaped them, They fluttered for freedom ike birds held oaptive in broad palms by completely caging fingers, Then be uncoverea them, but for an instant kept them prisoners by enoiroling the wrists long enough to impetuously kiss them. Another second and they were gone, the window was closed and the offender was alone. He walked slowly away, accusing himaeif f folly and ungentlemaniinees, and he felt atter .upon getting out of the clear, search, ing moonshine into the dim, obocuringehade of rook and trees, among whioh the path wound orookedly. Therm rapid footsteps startled him, as though he were a skulkin•e evildoer, and the swift approach of a man Mang an intersecting pathway made him feel like taking to cowardly flight. But he recognized the monomaniac Eph, who was in a breathless tremor, "Mr. Heath, could a man walk to Dlm- mereville before the telegraph station there -,,,._opens in the morning?" Eph asked, with eevetat catchse ci emelt; anti 5letting movement of physical weaknees. ''You go to bed, Eph," was the reply, meant to be soothing "and I'll see that your telegram goes from here the earliest thing in the morning. That won't be more than eft or seven hours from now." ""Six br seven hours " the poor fellow deploringly moaned; "I'll be a good many years older by that time, Oh, its awful to, have your life go whizzing away like mine does," and he clutched at Gerald with hie fidgety hands, with a vague idea of Blowing himself by holding to anormal human being. Then he darted away, swaying from aide to side with faintnese, and dieappeared in the foliage which lined the path he Was following. Gerald watched him oub of eight, and was about to resume hie own different way when the voice of Tonio Ravelli was heard, with its Italian extra "a" to the ehorb words and a heavy emphaeis on the final syllable of the long ones. "Mie'air Heath," he Baid, "1 88W -a your affeotionote parting weee Mees Warriner." Gerald had just then the mind of a out• prit, and he began to explain apologetically: —"It was cowardly in me to insult a de- fenceless girl. She didn't invite it. I'm ashamed of myself," Be hardly realized to whom he was speak• fog. The two men were walking rapidly, Revell' taking two strides to one of the bigger Gerald, in order to keep alongside. You should be ashamed—you—a eooun- drel." As much of jealous fury and venomous malice as could be vocalized in six words was in Ravelli's sudden outbreak. Gerald was astounded. He turned upon his com- panion, caught him by both lapels of the ccat and ehook him so violently that his boot toles pounded the ground. Ravelli staggered back upon being looeed,and threw one atm around a tree to steady himself, "I didn't mean to barb you," said Gerald, "but you sbouldh'b ba reokleee with your language. Perhaps you don'b know what scoundrel means in Dngileb." "1 SAW you -a kiss her band." "Did you? Well, do you know what I'd do to you, Ravelli, if I saw you kits her hands—as I did—without her oonsent? I'd wring your miserable neck, Now, whab are you going to do to me ?' " 1 am agoing to keel you," The blade cf a knife flashed in Revelli's right band as he made a furioue onslaught, But the stronger and quicker men gripped both 01 his asea1'ant's wriste, threw him violently to the ground and tortured him With wretches and doubiings until he had to drop the weapon, In the encounter the clothes of both mon were torn, and when Revell' regained bie feet blood was dripping from hie band, The blade bed one it, "You meant to kill me,"Gerald exclaim. ed, eaid-a sea" was the sullen menacing r , g retponee, ''And with my own knife,~' and Gerald, picking up the knife, rec:gmzed it, Ycura own knife—ze One zat yeti 0arve• 0. Marys handlw'th 00 lovingly," Ravelli had retained it since the previous e afternoon, when he had picked it up from Mary Wareiner'e desk, Its blade wne now 1 red with blood, ae Gerald that and pocket. • 0d 1t. d "You cowardly murderer 1" e "Murderer ? Note yet. But I mean to a be." b Itevellt turned off by the °rose path and , Gerald passed on. CHAPTER III, --A STROKE OF :.t"r1Txl:ru, e The first man to go to work at Overlook in the morning wee Jim Wilson, because he Gerald had to route the fire wader a boiler early e enough to provide steam for a score of rook drlila The nighb watchman awakened him e ab daybreak, according to custom, and then got into a bunk as the other got oub of One, "Everything all right?'' Jim asked. "I guess eo," the other replied. "Bub I bain't seen your boiler since afore midnight. Eph was dieturbin' Mary Mite, and to I bund 'round her cabin pretty much the last half of the night." Jim went to his poet ab the boiler, and at an unaccustomed pace, from the point where he firth saw and heard steam hissing up. ward from the safety valve. On quitting the night preview: he had banked the fire ae usual and this morning he should have found ib burning eo slowly that an hour of raking, replenishing and open draughts would no more than ebarb the machinery at seven o'clook. Going nearer he found that open dampers and a fresh supply of coal had set the furnaoe raging. What was that which protruded from the open dcor and so nearly filled the aperture that the draught) was not impaired. A glance gave the answer. Ib was the lege and half the body of a men, whose head and shoulders were thoroughly charred, as Jim wan horrified to see when ho pulled the remains out 'upon the ground. Jim ran to tell the superintendent, and within a few minutes a knot of excited men surrounded the body. The gathering grew in numbers rapidly. By means of the cloth. ing the dead and partially burned man wro indentified at once as Tonto Ravelli, That he had been murdered was an equally easy conclusion. The murderer had apparently eonghb to cremate the corpse. Whether he had found it physically impossible or had been frightened away could only be con- jectured. "Who can have done it?" was thegam:lion asked by Superintendent Brainerd, the auto- crat of Overlook, There was a minute of silence, with all staring intently at the body, as though half expecting it to somehow disclose the truth, 1 The night watchman was first to •speak. "Eph might have done it," Then he told of the monomaniac's visit to the telegraphic station, and of the acute stage whioh his malady had reaohed. No- body else present had Been him since the previous evening. Superintendent Brainerd ordered a search of the lodgings. Tan minutes were eufiioienb for a round of the different quarters. Eph was in none of them. The searchers returned to the furnace, and with them came Gerald Heath, "I met Eph yonder where the pathe oroes, not a hundred yards from here, a little past midnight," Gerald eaid. '"He was terribly excited. That was after he had tried in vaintotelegraph aorazy message. Evidently his delusion, that his whole life was condens- ed into a brief apace, had driven him to a frenzy. He spoke of walking to Dimmere• villa, bub I tried to quiet him, and he disappeared." Dimmersville was a town aboub ten miles distant, in a direction opposite to that from whioh the railroad had worked its way through the mountains. No wire oouneoted it with Overlook, and there was no public road for the nearest third of the way, al - r though a faint trail showed the course that a few peroone jipd jgken on foot or home-- 4139k, orse•bank, "Very likely Eph baa gone toward Dim- mereviile," Brainerd fogged, "Friel w0 must try to oaioil !'i P." Before the order could be opeoifloallygiven in a horee and rider arose over the edge of the ° level ground and came into the midst of the assemblage, The man in the ttddie had a I 0 professional oeprab, Imparted chiefly by his smoothly shaven face. In this era of mua- taohes a hairless visage is apt to be ashen - ed to a clergyman, who shaves thus from a motive if propriety, an actor who does it from necessity, or somebody who aims at faoial distinction without the features suit- able to that purpose. A countenance of which it oan only be eaid that it: has one nose, one mouth and two eyes, all placed in inexpressive nonentity, and whioh is demi. nated utterly by Bair on and around it, may be lees lost to individuality If entirely shaven. Of ouch seemed the visage of the dark man who calmly rode into the excite- ment at Overlook. "Whiofi way have you acme ?" Brainerd asker', "From D;mmereville," wag the reply, "Dld you see anybody on the wag?" "I started very early. Folks were not out of their beds in the houses—as long as there were any kousee—and that is only for five or six miles, you know. After that.— yes, I did see one man, A curiously excit- ed ohap, He looked tired oub,He asked the distance to Dlmmersvine and whether the telegraph office would be open by the time he got,there. Then he Bkurtied on before I'd half answered him," All that was known of the murder, was told to the stranger by half a dozen glib tongues, and it was explained to him that he had en°euntered the maniacal fugitive. "I knew there was something wrong about him," said the'etrenger,• "'Ib le my business to be observant," He diemounted and hitohed hie horse to a tree. The dead body was shown to him, He examined it very thoroughly, All the particulars were related to him over and over, Then he drew Superintendent Brain• erd aside. peotautly, and nobody showed a keener in. tweet then Gerald Heath. The detective first examined the body. The pookota of Revellre olotheo contained a wallet, with its money untouched, beeldes a gold watch. "So robbery wee nob the objeot," said O'Reogen to Brainard, "The motive is the first thing to look for in a oaoe cf murder,'• Next Ile found blood on the waistcoat, a dont of it, bub dried by the fire tient had burned the ahouldere and head, and in the baked cloth were three cuts, under which he exposed three stab wounds. Strokeo of a knife had, it seemed, killed the viotim before he was thrust partially into the furnace, A storm was ooming to 0 verlook unearoeiv ed, far the man were too much engrossed in what lay there on the ground, ghastly and horrible, to pay any attention to the clouding sky. Gloom was so At for the Doane, too, that nobody gave a thouohb whence ib Dame. To Gerald Heath the going out of sunlight and the settling down of dusky shadows seemed a mental experience of his own. He stood bewildered, transfixed, vaguely :tenaci- ous of peril, and yob too numb to speak or stir. Detective 0 Reagan, straightening up from over bhe body, looked piercingly at Gerald and then glanced around at bhe rest, "Is there anybody here who saw Tonic Ravelli lash night?" he asked, "I did," Gerald replied, "Where and when?" " At the Dame place where I met Eph, and immediately afterward." "Ah 1 now we are locating Eph and Ravello together, That looks like the tuna• tic being undoubtedly the stabber," ".And we mueb catch him," Brainerd in- terposed, "I'll send riders toward Dimmereville mmediately," "No great hurry about that," the detec- tive remarked ; " he is too orazy to have any dear motive or any idea of escape. Ib will be easy enough to capture him," Then he turned to Gerald and questioned with the air of a order -examiner. "Did the two men have any words together?" "No," woe the ready answer, "I don't know that they even saw eaoh other at that time, Egh wenb`away an inatant before Ravelli Dame." "Did you trek with Revell'?" " Yea.' "About what?' " Nob about Eph at ally " About whab, then ?' Now the reply Dame reluctantly, " A personal matter—something that had occur- red between us—an incident at the telegraph station." "The station where Eph awakened the girl operator? Was it a quarrel aboub her?" " That is no ooneern of yours. You aro impertinent." ' Well, sir, the question is pertinent—aa the lawyers say—and the answer concerns you, whether it does me or nob. Yon and Ravelli quarrelled about the girl 7' "The young lady ohall not be dragged nto this. She wasn't responsible for what happened between Ravelli and me,' ""What did happen between you and Ravelli?" The two men stood close to and facing each other, The °b ea of the detective glared gloatingly at an upward angle into the pale, but still firm face of the taller Gerald, and then dropped slowly, until they became fixed an a red stain on the sleeve of the other's coat. Did he possess the animaleoent of a bloodhound ? What is that?" he sharply asked. He seized the arm and smeltof the spotted fabric. "It is blood l Let me zee your knife." Q aite mechanically Gerald thrust one hand into hie trousers pocket and brought out the knife which he had taken•baokfrom Ravelli, whose blood was on it yet. The storm was overhead. A first peal of thunder broke loudly. Ib oame at the in. etant of the assemblage's tensest interest— at -the instant when Gerald Heath was aghast with 'the revelation of hie awful jeo- pardy—at the instant of his exposure as a murderer. It impressed them and him with a shook of something oupernatural. The everberation rumbled into silence, whioh was broken by O'Reagan. "There'll be no need to catch Eph," he aid, in a tone of professional glee, " This man is the murderer." Again thunder rolled and rumbled angrily above Overlook, and the party stood aghast the pre;.eeee of the map dead and the man ondemned. - "My name is Terrence 0 Reagan," ho said, and la hie yoke was faintly distin- gguiohable the brogue of the land whence the O'Reagano oame. "I am a government de. teative. I have been sent to work up evi- denoe in the oath of soma Italian counter- feiters. We had a clow pointing to a sub. oontraotor here, the very man who lies there dead. Our information was thab he used some of the beeue bine in paying off kio gang, Now it isn't) going outoide my mio- aion to investigate hie death, if you don't object." "I would be glad to have you take hold or 00," Brainerd replied, '" Wo can't bring the authotitleo hero before noon, ab the earliest, and in the meantime .yoa•atm per. has clear it all up." Mho eagerly Melons men had crowded Moue to this brief dialogue, and had heard the latter part of l0, 0 Reagan booamo in. I a scantly an important personage, upon When, smallest word or movement they hong ex. 'v ""Brine, w:01 to the telegraph eta hoe," Rtegan commanded, Nobody disputed the deteetivois methods now—not even Gerald ; and a prisoner as completely as though manacled, although not touched by any one, he went with the rest. Mary Warriner had taken down the tar. paulin front of her shed when the men ap- proached. In the ordinary oouree of her early morning doings she would wait an hour to despatch and receive the first tele- grams of the•day, and then go to breakfast alone at the table where the englneere and overseers would by that time have had their meal, She was aeboniehed to see nearly the whole population of Overlook orowd around her quarters, while a few entered, But she went quickly behind the desk and took her place on the stool, The soborne:s of the hoes impreosedtier, but nothing•iietlicated thee Gerald was in custody, and her quick thought was that come disaster made it necessary to use the wire importantly, "I with to send a message," said O'Reog• an, stepping forward, • The eyes of the, girl reatedon him inquir- ingly;"hnd he palpably.flinohed, but as ob- viously nerved himself to proceed, and when he spoke Nein the Irish aoaenb became more pronounced to hear, although not auf• fiaiently to ,be shown in the printed words : —"I will'dlotate it slowly, so that you can transmit lb as 1 [peak.. Are you ready 1" Mary's fingers were on the •key'nnd her bright), alert Noe was • len answer, to the query, ' "To Henry Deokerman, president," the detective slowly said, welting for the clicks ;of the instrument to pub his language on the Wire, "Tonto Ravelli, a sub•oonbra0tor here, was murdered lata night." Mary's hand olid away from. the key after sending that and the always faint tint in her cheeks faded oub and her ogee fliokered up in a soared way to the stern fame in front of it. The ohook of the news that a man had been slain, and that he was a man who only the previous day bad proffered hie love to her waft for a moment disabling, But the habit of her employment oontrolled hor and she awaited the further diotation. "His body was found tale morning in the furnace of the steam boiler," O'Reagan re- sumed deliberately, "wbero ib had evident• ly been placed in a vain attempt to deotroy A shedder went through Mary, and she convulsively wrung her ainali hands together, as though bo limber them from cramp, Bub her fingore wont book to the key, "The murderer has been discovered," the deteotive slowly continued, and the operator kept along with hit utterance, word by Word, "He killed Bayern for revenge, It was a love affair." Here the girl grew whiter till, and the olioke became very alow, but they did not 00ath. O'Reagan's 0100 WAS told and ruth'eos, 'The • Motive of the murderor wee revenge, His Hanle Woe Gerald Hoath." All but the name) flashed off on the [vire, Mary Warriner': power to atir the key etoppod at thab, She did nob faint, She did not make any outory. For a moment oho looked as though the soul had gone out) of her body, leaving a corpse oitting there, A grievous wall of wind came through the trees, and a etroaie of lightening z'gzagged clown the blue °lauded sky, "Go on," eaid 0 Reagan. "I will, not," was the determined re. sponse, "Why not?" "Beoaueo ib ie not eo, Gerald Heath never murdered Ravelli." Gerald had stood motionleto and silenb. Now he gave away to au Impulse as remark• able as his previcne oompooure had been singular. If there had been stagnation in hie mind it was now displacedbyturbulence. He grasped henry's hands in a fervid grip, than dropped them, and Mood the ot ere, "1 did not kill the Italian," he said, "Ile attacked mo with my knife which he had stolen. In the struggle his hand was cub, buo I took the weapon away from him, He quitted me alive and unhurt. I never saw him again. You don't believe it l Mary does, end bbab to more than all else." "The circumstances don't favor you," bhe detective retorted, " they convict you. You killed Ravelli because you and he were both in lovo with this young lady." "Isn't it the rejected suitor oho kills the other one for spite?' This was in Mary Warriner's voice, weak but still steady. "Ravelli loved me, I knew, and 'drove him away. Mr. Hoath loved me, I believed, and I had not repulsed him. if I were the oause tf a murder between them, it should be Roe velli who killed Gerald." " You detested Revell'?" O'Reagan coked withlra strange bitterness, IfYesj' "And you love Heath ?" Tne answer was no more hesitant than be. fore, "les." "Send the rest of my message," and the detective wan boisterous. '"Send the name: Gerald Heath is the murderer." He roughly seized her hand and clapped ie on the key. She drew it away, leaving his there. A blinding flesh of lightning il• lumined the pleoe, and what) looked like a missile of fire flew down the wire to the in• otrumenb where it exploded. 0 Reagan fell inoensible from the powerful eleotrioal chock, The rest did not altogether escape and for a minute all were dazed. The 'fret thing that they fully comprehended was that 0•Reagan was getting unsteadily to his feet. He was bewildered. Staggering and reeling, he began to talk. Ilary was first to perceive the imporb of his utterance, He wao'merely going on with what he bad been saying, but the manner, not the matter, was aetoundiog, He spoke with an Italian :totem and made Italian gestures, " You a send za mee•sage," ", Heath the ze murder -aro, Sand a ea mes•eage, I say.' Tonio Ravelli had unwittingly resumed hie Italian style of English, His plenitude of hair and whiskers was gone, and in the face thereby uncovered no- body oould have recognized him in Deteotive 0 Reagan bub for hie lapse into the foreign accent, and he said so much before discover- ing his blunder that hie identification as in. deed Ravelli was complete. Who, then, was the dead man ? Why, he was Eph, Nothing but the fear of being himself con• damned as a murderer of the maniao, Al a part of the scheme of eevonge a ainob Gerald induced Ravelli to explain. He had found Eph lying dead in the Cath of ter both had parted from Gerald. The plot to exchange clothes with the corpse, drag it to bhe fur- naoo, burn away all possibility of recogni- tion, and thus make It seem to be hie mum dered self, was carried out with all the hot haste of a jealous vengeance, Revell' was not an Italian, although very familiar with the language of Italy, and able by a natural gift of mimicry to bide himself from pursuit for a previous crime. Overlook had been a refuge until hie pension for Mary Warriner led him to abandon his disguise. Thereupon he had turned himoelf into Terrenoe 0 Rea. gen, a detective, whose malioions work wrought happiness' for Gerald Heath and Mary Warriner. (Tris Herm) . The RulinglPassion of a Deadhead. A lobbyist from New York city, who had been a railroaddeadheadfor many pee:ewes called to hie home during the late session of the last Legislature by a telegram announc- ing the serious illness of his wife..As hewas waiting for the train for. New York to be made up he noticed the conductor wase new man, whom he did not know, and then for the fret time he called to mind the faobtheb he had left his anrual pave over that road up at his beatdinghouso. Approaohing the con. ductor, he introduced himself and told the oirouinetan0es, said thab all the conductors kne'w'h m,'and he neverhad to ahowhis pass to them; 0o He hadbeen oarelessaboutib. "I have no doubt it is all right," said the conductor, "butI'can't carry you." "But," eaid bhe gentleman, pleading, "iny wife•'@ yery lll.,1 must go. to New York on [hie train,. "I'im.sorry," replied the oonduotor, "but I aennoboorry you.' "Io there anybody around here authorized to issue a pees ? Anybody who can give me one?" . The conductor knew of nobodyaround the depot who had that. authority,. bub ab Met touched by the lobbyist's predicament, he said : . . "1 cant carry you for nothing, but Lwill advance the money to you if—" . "Thunder and lightning P" exolaimed the. lobbyist, smiling all over ; "I've gota hunt[ red dollars right hero in mypooket,' and he ran off to buy te ticket, When hecame book he said : "Conductor, if you hadn't mentioned. money I should never :Ahem) thoughtofpay. Ing my faro, I had forgobten that I could Menet on anything but a peon."—[Albany Argot, The Hottest Spot on Earth. One of the hottest region of the earth ie along the Persian gulf, whore little or no rain falls. At Bahrin the and shore has no fresh water, yet a comparatively numerone population oontriveo to live there, thanko to oopius springs whioh burst forth from the bottom of the sea, The fresh water is gob by diving. The diver, :fleeing hie boot, winch;a great goatskin baground hislefb arm, the hand graoping its mouth l then he takes in hie right hand a heavy stone, to whioh is attached a strong line, and time equipped he plunges In and quickly reaokeo bottom, L- am* opening the bag over the strong job of froth water, he springs up the emending ourrenb, at the oamo time Mooing the bag, and is helped aboard, Tho stone is then hauled up, and the diver, after taking breath, plunges in again. Tho 0ehrco of therm 00 • loco submarine Moringa is thought to be in the green little of Osman, some five or six hundred mileo distant, THAT DEATH -DEALING WAVE, 110 Yelorlly, rig :l ppror,ter, and the ieghty Gust. 0011 wind ma l'reeedel 10. Tho velooity of the wave is an toterea:log subject of inquiry, The luformatiar upon this point le in some reopeots, pt zz'ing, Young Pork, the engineer of the South Fork Lake, :Mood by the dam and oaw the water go over the crest uud met out the lower side of it, Ito says the water commenced TIM Hing over et 1 o'cicek in the afternoon, and that the dant gave awny at 3 O'oolok, having austatned this wearing awey proms for two hours. The clocks in Johnstown show that the water reaohed there at 4 :07. Tho wave then was an hour in traversing the twelve or fourteen miles of narrow valley to the plum where It did its greatest destruc- tion, The fall is that distenoe is about 500 foot. The velocity varied, Ib was not so rapid in the upper part of the valley. T he people ab South Fork, the first settlement In the way, eecapod without exception, Tho oases of life were comparatively small at MiaorelPainban atConemau h bob when n g r rho wave reached the latter place ice velem • ity was tremendous. From there to Johns- town the ware bad a straight course, and moved with a speed which eau only be - estimated by omnparioon. Tho whistles of the engines gave the alarm. People looked up tho valley, saw a black masa coming straight toward them, and tried to run up- stairo. The water entered the houses and mounted the stairs almost as feet as the poo pie did. At leash that is what many claim as their experiences. The railroad mon who saw the wave from the tope of oars and from the hills at various points quite generally agree In a description, which gives the movement the character of a succession of checks and rushee. They say that the vast load cf trees, houses earth, and other wreckage whioh Oho wave' carried with it caused a temporary dam to form a de eau times on the way down. Coming to a place where the valley sudden ly narrowed the mase of timbers and trees would be orowded and would slow up. Bo hind the dam the waters would back up until the pressure became too much, and then the masa would go oub with a great rues. Foreman Kelly of the Penneyl• vania road eaid one of these temporary checks occurred user Connemaugh. The water was thrown back and the spray dash- ed forty feet high. The whole eurfaoe boo. of the moving dam surged and boiledk But the check Was only for a few mom- enta Then the mass let go and moved straight down the valley, striking Johns• town squarely in the centre, orosaing through the heart of the city and plunging over Stony Creek and into the S3ubh Side before its impetus was again °hooked. Foreman Kelly thought the centre of the wave was at least fifteen feet higher than the outer edges, Thin carica of checks of the wave on the route down is the only thing which will am oounb for the length of time ocoapied in rho passage from the dam to Johnstown, The speed was much greater than fourteen miles an hour while the wave was moving, 11 their had been no holding up, the route would have been traversed in half the bimo it was, but the force could have been hardly more destructive, William Davie, the agent at Conemaugh, observed what othere noted, the rolling and boiling and grinding movement. The water was carrying a great load, but the logs and other objects were being continually toeeed above the surface as if the mase was full ot life. Another phenomenon whioh many saw was the wind jueh ahead of the wave.' That wind, Foreman Kelly eaid, aotually m oved housee from their fouadatione before the VIVO reached them. This explains in some degree the deolarations of one Mess of eye. witnesaee who saw the wave go by while at its greatest velooity. These insist that there did nob seem to be any water in the front of the wave. The front, according to their deeoription, was a rolling collection of trees, rooks, houses, timbers, care, earth, grass, and everything alae moving down the valley, with a great lake pushing behind it, 01 such appearance was the front cf the wave, they say, until the valley widened at Woodvale, and there the water came for• ward and mingled with the moving dam, and the whole mass, witiynt any regard to the river's channel, plunged through Johnstown— ab the same time a hurrioane, an avalanche, and a flood, with all the destruo- tive powers of eaoh, WHY WOMEN BECOME DOOTORS, Family Atillction. Or n Destro to do Good Work. It is said that many su000seful women phYsioiane have entered upon their medical oareerain direct: conecquenoe of one or the other of two reasons—a family affliction or a desire to benefit phyeioally their own sex. One easels that of a young married woman in Brooklyn, who lost a yonng daughter, and had a feeling of dissatisfaction regarding the course of treatment pursued by the different physician whom she had called in to attend the child. Thio feeling, added to grief, became so strong bleat an absorb• ing occupation seemed the only thing that would rbliove her mind, and she took up the study of medicine. She is now studying hard at college, Another thee is that of an unmarried wo- lnan, about twenty.(iveyears old who, feel.' ing the need of some more serious and ab. sorbing occupation that the quiet New Eng• land town in which she lived oould offer her, left her luxurious home to beoonto a pupil in a Western medical ooliege that has a high reputation, This young woman wan born in India and passed the first few years of hor life there, and intends returning to her native .land to praebtoo her prefer:mot among the native Tndian womerf, Duane of women are physicians, not 00 much tor the fame or money that they may coin as from love of the profession and a de- sire to have an objeot in life, and at the same time to do good to some one else, which Thaokeray says ie the life of most good women, ' The removal of tabtio•merke is a matter of no little difficulty, and many different, methods have been triad—blistering, cuotion, thermo•oautery, oounter•tattooing with white powder or milk, d;o, Criminals Dome. times pour vitriol on their arms or hands, and, iebting it nob for a few seconds, plunge the limb in water. The following method is reoommendod by M. Variot, in the "Revue Soientifig0e," [Che :kin is first covered with a concentrated solution of tannin, and re - tattooed with this in the parts to be cleared. Than an ordinary nitrate•of•oilver crayon io rubbed over those parte, whioh become blank by formation of tannate of silver in the ou- perfiolal layer of the dermic. 'Tannin pow• der ie sprinkled on the eurfaoe ooveral bimeo a day for come daye to dry it, A dark cruet forms, ,whioh iooee color in three or four days, and in a fortnight or 00 Domes away, leaving a roddioh eon, free of tattoo•marko, and in a few menthe little noticeable, It is well to do the work in patoheo about the size of a dosfrano Vote et a lime. Tho person can then go on with his usual 600. pation, FANO E'3 GROWTff IN A CENTURY 81,10411ni welch GidLeal° n 9plen<' id 00• Ilona! Development, The " Journal "of the Freuoh Stetiotloel Saelety has published, inanbioipation of the oentenery fetes at Verauille:, some inter• gating tables whioh aro intended to show the eoonomloal, commoroiel, iodnotrinl and fin• atoie' progress made by France in the last century. Beginning with the budget, these tablee chow that while the vatimeted reoeipte iu 1780 we: ° £27,004,520, they aro nosy £120,450,000, rhe direob taxes have not increased very much, for they are L177,- 000,000 this year, 0e compared to £T4.i,200,- 000 a century ago, whereas the indireot taxes, which produced only :100 000,000 in 1780, aro now cethnated at £720,200,000. The only Government monopoly in the bud. get of 1780 WOO the Post. Oflice, which pro. duped £610,000, whereao now the produce, tf the different monopolieo le £23,280,000. Ib is also AS orthy of note that while the coed of collection for a budget of about £27 000,. 000 wart 4:4.5':0,000. it is only 1:7,120,000 for a budget of over £120,000,000. A century ago the value of personal pro. perty in France was estimated et nob more than £12 000,000, whereas It is ,now pun ab about £320,000,000. These were no savings banks in 1789, but now the deposito in them exceed £100,000,000, while the total of the national revenues estimated a century ago as from £120 000,000 to £200,000,000, now exceeds £1,200,000,000, Then. again, the general trade of France in 17S0 was aboub £4b,850,000—of which £23,040,000 were im- ports, and £17,040,000 exports ; while in 18• 86 the general trade of France reached £374- 443,0 0, of which £204,640,000 were imports and £150,800.000 exports, the proportion between the imports and the exporeo,beiog much the same as it was at the end of last century, The value of land has also increas- od very much, for while the average price a century ago was £8 per aore, it is now £27, having touched £32 some few years ago. In 17S0 the acreage in whoa[ was 10,000- 000, and the yield 110,000,000 bushels, or 11 bushels an aoro ; now the acreage in wheat is about 17.000,000, and the yield 204,250,000 bushels, or 18 bushels an acre. The price of bread has not varied so much as might have been expected, the four -pound loaf, whioh stet 90 centimes in 1800, now selling for 35 °enemies, having gone to 0e much as a shilling in 1047, And having fallen as low as sixpence in 1803 Wages, both in industry and agriculture, have risen en- ormously, and while the agtioultural laborer did non receive more than sixpence a day in 1759, the average wage is now 2e. The Journal of the Statistical Society adds that, while the pay of subordinate cffioiala hoe been generally inoroased, the salaries given to creator dignitaries, both civil and ecole- etaatical, have been out down, Travelling was also mach more expensive as well me slower, fer a journey to Marseilles by diligenoe took thirteen days and coat £6, as against fifteen hours and £4 ; to Toulouse, eight days and £5 8s , as against fourteen, hours and £481. ; to Bordeaux, eix days and £5, as against nine hours and £3 ; to Lyons es five days and £3 103„ as against nine hours and £3 IDs. ; to Straehurg, four and a half days £4, as against eleven hours and 4:3 ; to Lille, two days and £2, as against six houro and about 30e. The postale of a letter from Paris to Versailles coat 25 centimes, from Paris to Lyons 65 oentimea, and ffom Paris to Maraeilloe 75 centimes. The population of France increased from 27,000,000 in 1501 to 38,000,000 in IMO, oho oitiee of Lyons and Maraeillee increasing from 139,000 and moo to 401,000 and 370,000. STATISTIOO, It ie roughly aaloulated that £150,000 per annum is opent on the feed and clothing of indoor pauper° in the British metropolis, The total area of land under green Drape in Great Britain last year was 3 471,800 iaore°,n1587. showing on increase ot 8,100 acres over 1887. In Ireland lb woo 1554000 aoree lath year, as compared with 1,228,746 Resole, is eaid annually to consume tea to the extent of $125,000,000 sterling. London supplies aboub $15,00400 of this value. Ib to noteworthy that the whole of the London supplies are of China tea, Indian tea is un- known in Russia. There are 647 boards of gaardiane in Eog- land and Wales. At present, of the 20,000 members of these boards, only 58 are women. all of whom have gained their Beate since 1875, when the eleobore of Jiensington were the first to recognise the faot that, according to the Poor LAW Amendment Ant passed 50 years ego, a board of guardians' need not be exclusively of the muoouline gender. Some idea of the exteub to whioh the milk-. producing capacity of oowe might be devel.. aped is given by Mr, Henry L. Grippe, who states, in the " Field," that a shorthorn cow belonging to him tae produced upwards of 1,650 gallons of milk during the past twelve months. At the ordinary retail price of 6o. a quart, the value of this produce would be 0396. Even at the low wholesale price on the farm of 10o, a gallon, the return would be $165 —a sum whioh would leave a very handsome profit over the oast of keeping the cow, and, in addition, there is the value of her calf to take into account. • The total yearly income of an ordinary. English agricultural day.labourer, iebluding both wages and per utoites of every kind,. ranges from about $250 a year in Northum- berland to a little over 150 in Wiltshire and other" eouth•weetern oountioo. This given an average off $200 a year. Ent it 10 only the exceptionally low Wages paid, in a few counties whioh pulls down the average oven , so low as this. In the eastere,'htidlond, northern, and southeastern counties it le commoner to find the sum -total tieing be 5215 and 5220 than ;lnkh to $1,80 or $100.. Shepherds, wageonere, and etoekmen ere paid at a hither roto, and their *ogee aver, age about $250 a year. Whore women aro employed they earn from $1.00 to $1.25. a week at ordinary times, and from 2.50 to $3.00 in harvest, Honeaty Towards Children. Tito hopelessness of obildren under a sense of injuatfoo is ono of rho most crushing fore - es that can work to maim and disborba child's mind, He is not able to the beyond the ob- viouo and instant featuresof the situation;and the feeling that oomearbitrary expresoion of predjudioe is working against him convinces him deeppaitingly that effort is uaelese,'and that ho is being argil wronged, The ohil- 'sh nature beoomee warped and embittered end there it perhape no other single factor whioh can come into a yonrg life with such disastrous effect as thio, Who teacher who allows himself to gratify personal likes and dislikes is doing an tejury to hie pupils whioh can only be called inoaloulable. It must be reoognio0d, moreover, that children aro like- ly to mieundoretand, so thab an appearance of favouritism's to he avoided. 'Title le one of the oonidorations that make the training of children a matter of to much delioaltand letrlcaoy, It in nooeeoary not only to Mroat children with scrupulous honest but make diem feel. that. they 010 Oo treetedd,