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"I've chane it. I've donne it. T said glanced down, blotting out the
dane it, would sight , T ve done it, I've done it." ; Ju .pie with the cowardly craving
The tramping fet to esape
time to the world �I hal already d beatmed to from we man existence ve eel of sw1i ih has b ought
ttngalebed those cries when I started a oens.ation too deadly to be
forward agaitl, and dashing round borne. Every mead impulse
the angle of the road evl tit a vague of the pass'.aon with which
fear' at my heart, I came close I had lately been struggling, every
upon the wild, weird figure of the vague wish, every feeling of jeal-
unlhappy madman, who, with his ons resentment seemed to spring to
hat off, and leis long, lank hair toss- life; a,gailr in my heart, and turn
ed and dishevelled, was dancing un- to bitter, gnawing remorse. I
catutltly iii the deep shadow of the think I must have staggered as 1
trees and eallanting to liluieelf the stood, for I felt my foot touch some -
words eve had heard. On the ground thing, and at the shock my sight
at one side of frim lay the stole came, to me wain, and I knelt
I and I've kept my word. I've from before my eyes and fill -
gun, and at tite other. close to the
bank which bordered the road on
the left, was some larger object,
which ea the profound darkness I
could not •at first define. With a
sudden spring; I easily seized the
lunatic, and held him fast, while
Jock lifted the lantern high so ae
to see chis face. As the rays of
r
own In the snow.
"Fabian, Fabian, old fellow'." I
mailed in a husky voice.
He was lying on his face. I put
my arm under him, and turned himover and wiped the snow from' his
lips and forehead. His eyes were
wide open, but they did not see mer;
they had looked their last on the
egllt fell upon rho, however, Mr. world and on Hien. The blood was
Filmer, who lefd been too utterly stili flowing from a bullet• wound
bewildered by the sudden attack to just under the left ribs, and his
make sign or scums, gave forth a body was not yet cold.
loud airy, and staring at me with Mad Mr. Elimer, in the snow- and
starting eyeballs and distorted the darkness, had mistaken Fabian
shaking lips, stammered out: for me. He had sworn he would
"It's lie, the himself ; Come back! kill the niaan who should destroy his
011, my God, I am cursed, eurse,l!" daughter's happiness, and fate or
en flue surprise and fear these words fortune, or the providence which
in.splretl mt' with 1 released my held, has strange freaks of justice, lead
we that ire might with a very sl' *ht blinded his poor crazy eyes and en-
efforthave shekein himself free of abled Itilu most tragically to keep
my grasp. But lee stood quite still, nus word.
as if overmastered by some pewee CHAPTER XXVI.
that he did not dare to dispute, and 1 stayed beside the body of my dead
allowed h?.m:•eif to be transferred friend while Jook, by my direction,
from my keepiing to Jock's without returned to the Hall with the un -
any show of resistance. As soon as happy EIlmer, who had already fallen
my lnra•nd1 were thus free the young into a state of maudlin apathy, and
Hig1Uandee Fllently passed me the teats crying, not from remorse, but
lantern, wlun.'lt I took in a frenzy of from the effects of cold, hunger and
excitement which precluded the exposure on his now wasted frame.
reception of any defined dread. I fell He allowed himself to be led away
bank ax few stops until tine faint rays like a child, and seemed cheered and
of the light 1 carried showed zee, soothed by tato promise of food and
blurred by that falling; snow, the' fire. I wondered, as I watched him
onztline of the dark object I had stagger along by the side of the stale
already see:l on the white ground. wart Highlander,, that tate spirit of a
It was the body of a man. I lead not ignoble revenge should have kept
known that before; I knew no more its vitality so long in his breast in
now; but ail overpowering el:'kness spite of enfeebled reason, poverty
and theztxa o, came upon me as I and degradation.
It was a terrible vigil elicit 1 was
keeping. I knew by my own feelings
that the shock elf this tragic return
to Iter :would be a hundred times
more severe to Babiole than if jeer
bosom had 'been eaalpitating with
sweet expectancy fig the clasp of a
loving husband's arms. Instead off the
passionate, yearning sorrow of a
woman truly widowed, she would feel
the far •crueller stings of remorse
none the less bitter that her conduct
towards him had been blameless.
As for me, I remember nothing but
his brilliancy, his vivacity, the -twink-
ling humor in his piercing eyes as
he would stride up and down the
room, Pouring out upon any inoffen-
sive person or thing that failed in
the slightest respect to meet with
his approval such vials elf wrath as
the less excitable part of mankind
would reserve for abandoned scoun-
drels and nameless iniquities. With
all his faults, til -'re was a charm; an
exuberant warmth ab -;u1 leabian that
left a bare place in the hearts' of leis
friends when he was gone. As 1 leant
over his dead body and gazed atr the
still white face by the light of the
lantern, I wished from the depths of
my Ite;art that Ellmer had shot down
the. man be hated, and had left( this
poor lad to enjoy a few yearal, Jonger
the beautiful world he loved with
suolt passionate ardor.
The snowfall began to slacken as I
waited beside him, and when Jock re-
turned from the stable with Tim and
and almost bloodless; had no cep- another man, the, mane; 11•,011 was
petite, ,lost flesh and suffered from cep -struggling out fr:. i behind the
severe heaelacltes. 1 took her l0 0 l clouds, and givingbbitter
for a fair
doctor, and although his treat- danight after thc� bd ead anci stormy
meat wets followed for some time, hue �V t laid my dead friend on e
it dict not bonef.tt her. I then tried hurdle had carried himhome to the
Hell, while old Ta-ta, tt*lt.l had come
some other remedies, but these also with the men, sallied curiously at
failed, and • she had wasted away our heels, and, deeigning s::motliing
to a mere shadow of her former strange and woeful in our dark and
dell. At this stage, I was advi•.,ed silent: burden, followed with her sleek
head bent to the glistening snow, and
only offered one wistful wag of her
tail to assure me, that if I were sad,
well, 1 knew elle was ea too.
I learnt from Jock that Mrs. Elhner
had met her Inuebanl, and that, after
the manner of women, she had led
lith in and ministered te> hip bodily
wants while taking advantage of iris
weak and abject state to inflict .upon
him such chastisement with her
voluble tongae as might well recon-
cile him to another long absence
front her. But Jock thought that the
poor wretch's wanderings were near-
ly over.
" T doot if a's een will see the
mot -tate nicht again," said the guide
gravely. " A speaks 1.' whispers; an'
elite -ere, and cries like a bairn. A'
Must be verra bad, for a' dosena'
rumen the lady's talk."
" And Mrs. Scott, dots she know'?"
Jock looked solemn and nodded.
' Meoster T'erguson told leer, and he
says the poor 'eddy's crazed like, an'
winna speak nor mover",
I asked no mare, and I remember
no further detail of that ghastly pro-
cession. i saw nothing but Bablole's
face, her eyes looking straight into
teethe, full of Involuntary repxoach to
elle for having unwittingly brought
get another disaster epee her.
CAUSE FOR ALARM
When You Grow Weak and You
Cheeks Lose Their Color
This Means Anaemia, and itNe leoted
Consumption May Follow—Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills the
Only Certain Cure.
Anaemia, or poor or watery
blood, le a trouble from which
most. growing girls, and malty
yauxg boys suffer. It comes at a
•critical period of the young per-
son's ,itfe, and, unles,- prompt steps
are taken to enrich the blood and
thus --strengthen the system, de-
cline, and most likely 0011sutnpton,
will follow,. Dr, Wilianas' rink Pills
is the only medicine that acts di-
rectiy upon the blood and the
nerves, promptly restoring the ail-
ing one to complete health and
strength. Tile following statement
from lifrs. Lena M. Ryan, of Wel-
lane, whose daughter was a victim
Of anaemia, gives the strongest
proof of the value of these pills.
Mrs. Ryan says : "About three years
ago the health of my daagh•ter,
Birdie, became so bad that 1 was
serioxsly alarmed. She was pale
to give her Dr. Williams Pink Pills
and she began thio treatment. Al-
most from the outset these pills
helped her, and as she continued
their .use, the color cane back to
her cheeks, leer appetite improved,
th'e headaches ceased to trouble
her, and by the titne she had taken
eight bores she telt stronger and
better than she had ever done in
her life before. I think lar. Wile
Bemis' fink Pills are unsurpassed
far all ailments of this kind, and
strongly recommend tbemr to other
mothers."
Dr. Williams' Picnic Pills not only
euro all cases like the above, but
also cure all other troubles arils-
fag Froin poor bloodor weak nerves,
such as rheumatism, partial par-
alysis, Set, Vitas' dance, indiges-
tion, kidney and livor troubles,
scrofula and eruptions of the skin,
eto. These pills are ansa a direct
cure for the ailments from which
ea many women suffer in silence.
Give the pills a fear trial and they
Vial not disappoint you, The gen-
uine are sold only in boxes that
have the full name, "Dr. Williams'
Pink fills for Pale I'eople" on ;the
wrapper around every box. If your
dealer does not have them, send
xdirect to Dr. FV llliatns' Medicine
Brockville, Ont., and the pills Tennison met us as the door of the
be sent post paid at 5Ocents a Vaal, and told me, in a voice whlaIi
box, or six boxes for $2.50, distress made only more harsh and
guttural, that Mrs. Ellrnuer had 1
the cottage uulut ked, anti had ecru
dales to be lio�'hcod there for the
ctpatert of her hueba.n,t, tie: poor la
believing that he wo eel give 1
trouble there.
"I -Low is Mrs. Scott ?" f asked a
ously.
Ferguson answered in a tgratl
broken whisper.
"Slue went away—by Herself, sir
when I told her—let her guess 1
—thee thing tliat lead happened."
They were taking b'abian's body
the little room wherry it used to sle
during our yearly meetiri�gs.
the slow tramp, tramp up the eta
began I opened the door of my st
and entered with the snlbdued tre
wo insliectively affect in the neiq
boyhood of those. whom no so
will ever disturb again. The le,
was on the table, but had not y
been turned up. The weak rays.
the moon came through the SOU
window; for the curtaino were
ways left undrawn until I chose •
self to close out the night la
swipe. The flee was red and wit
out flame. I advanced as far
the hearth rag and stopp
with a -great' shock. On the :grow
at niy* feet, her head resting f
downward on the worn seat of 1
old leather chair, her hands press
tightly to her ears, abd her bo
drawn up as if in great pain,
Babiole; even as I watched )ler
saw that a shudder convulsed lh
from Ileacs to foot, and left her
still as the dead. Every curve
her. slight frame, the rigidity- of 11
arms, the evident discomfort
her cramped attitude, told me th
my poor child was a prey to gr
so keen that the dread oil her tur
ling her face to meet mine made
coward o.f me, and T took a has
step backwards, intending to r
treat. But the sight of her had u
manned me; my eyes were dim a
I lost command of my steps.
toweled the screen in my clum
attempt to escape; and To -to, d
turbed from sleep, sprang up ra
Cling his chain and chatterin
loudly.
Babiole, with a low, startling cr
that was scarcely more than
long -drawn breath, changed her a
titude, and her eyes fell upon m
I stood still, not knowing for t
first moment whether it won
frighten her least for m
to disappear unseen or let iter s
that it was only L But no soon
had she caught sight of me than
site turned and started up upon h
knees with a look upon her face s
wild, so unearthly in its exaltatio
that my heart seemed to stand sti
and my very bland to freeze wit
the fear that the nx!inxi of the litt
lady had been unable to stand th
shock of her lits batnd's death.
"Babiole, Babies '," I eaid hoarsel
and moved out of myself by my ter
able fear, I came back to Her a
stooped ,ancl would have raised he
in my arms with tate tenderness on
feels fox a helpless child alone i
the world, to try to soothe and cos
fort her. But before my heads coul
touch her a. great change had passe
over her, a change so great,
marked, that there was no m.iataki
its meaning; and, breaking into
t]pod of passionatto tears, while h
face melted from its stony rigidit
to infinite love and tenderness, 511
clasped her hands and whisper
feverishly, but with the ardor
an almost delirious joy—
"Thank God! Thank God ! Then i
was not you! Tilley told me it wa
you !"
I stepped back, startled, speech.
less, overwhelmed by a rush 0
feelings that in my highly-wrough
mood threw use into a kind of frenzy.
Drunk with the transformation of
my despair into full-fledged hone
fad . t,
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nee TAO following is a S
ynopsis of an nests I often also use a sawdust
�- address by Mrs. Ida E. Theon„ of West filling.
ike Salem. 'Pis., who has been, conducting Mites Ride ixx Perches,
11 Series of poultry institute meetingswalls and nest boxes 'by day, cos-
to in Nava, iootza :. j ing forth' to feast On blood at night,
�� " We nag' bur: l a dry, sunny, warm hence our measures for destroying
leen house, feed well-balanced rations, iths . Theseboere ten esi a etjus•t vis
ire
uea and be ;dnct,, faithful mast :as, yet de- ibie to the naked eye. They are
ad feat ouriseaves in poultry culture by more ruddy when they have had a
0.11- aitawieg everything to pour through good meal,. and paler after fasting.
used the fowls into nasty paras,teas A daytime examination frequently
mp alroundi and on therm. discloses them on sick or sirttin,
et "Besides same minor pests, there fowls, the pests seeming to realize
of arertwo great cheeses o, poultry that the latter are not going Lo
th p xasites, lice and mites. The latter shake them off. Mites, when very
al- have no tug ax, only a peat:mois, thick, will be found between nests
my. head anti abdomen. They belong to and walls..
Ian the araeitaid'ae, or spider kind, and There is an important difference
b. are nearly all blood suckers. Some of between lice and mites. I have done
as the lice, notably the large, grey bead- considerable work with the mieros-
ed louse, axe blood suckers, but most of cope, and am convinced that lhen-
nd them flee filth feeders. T;lne blood lice do not breed on horses and
fa sucking lice, when killed by oil, usu- cattle. The latter have their own
ny wily dye slowly and roll up theca kinds independently. Hen -lice will
ed selves anti proboscis. Killed more run over horses and cattle, eauxiag
dy Vickie" in alcohol, the proboscis may great annoyance, but do not lay
eras sometimes be seen. There are about nits on them, while mites are mese I nine kinds of lice, and fourkindsof mopolitan. They will bitte all alike,
er mites, infesting poultry. 7 done pests even unto thy* man -servant and thy
MI vary in size„ co.or and shape, but pre- maid -servant, and the canary or
of defer eand
rrYmedial measures do not baby within the doors. They do
er eat mite
the skin,
of "While soma lice breed in filth, call -
They erns tray nits or eggs upon the birds. But Puncture or Blood.
ref If possible the manure should daily T11e9 xizuitiply;safagsti, I have ae� ually�
n_ be removed, a.nd the perches scraped. known two tion iron es to be burned
a This not only takes away breeding when cleaning was thought hopeless.
ty places for certain parasi.tes', but gives But from two sie;;es with them, 1
e_ fowls a better air;, and gets the fer- know they can be conquered. ]lot,
n- tilizer on the land or in a compose be -
slacked
whitewash (the lime newly
nd fore its valuable ammonia has escape
slacked with hot water), kerosene
1 ed, in the last particular fully realiz_ emulsion, turpentine (singly or In
s ing; what Lord Palmerston said of cambin,ati0n), brine, hot tar paints
in dart as only matter in the velong and even hot water, have all, to my
t- place. knowledge, been successfully used.
t'rovide Dust. The main thing is to repeat the ape g plication every day for about a
If a mellow: dust box. is provided, week, in order to catch every hatch,
y or a fresh spot • of earth often because the eggs are less susceptible
a spaded, fowls will clean 'and exercise to applications than are the adult
t- tile:Twelves rather than exercise their I creatures. On our farm we found it
e. owner. Wood palms will discolor neceesary to clean some of the car-
ite plan:sage and legs, a matter of con- niers, or eats and dogs, with pheno-
Id s=cluenre only to exhibitors. With a chloro, etc.
e coarse sieve from the fanning mill I It will be seen (that a necessity'
ee sift any hind of ashes, throwing to thorough cleaning i,s Moveable
er charcoal or clieker.si one side for the , furniture in the poultry house, of
biddies to east; but pest assured nnoveable nests and perches. Soap
er their bath of dusit is more patron- 01:' cracker boxee hung to the wall
o ized when free from, clmnks, keep it by stout nails driven part in and
n in a sunny place, stir and renew tipped up like pit:rture nails, then
al often. A little ,sulphur of lime, not t passing through corresponding holes
Ir enough to cause sore, eyes, I free in those 'boxes, make 'nests easily
le quently acid. If fowls are very in- taken down for cleaning, and also
e festal, I have found I can clean 25 adjustable to any size or height of
• buena in 15 minutes, by a puff box fowls, since active breeds would bet
y; or little bellow,:,, of I'ereia.n Insect 11 (081 Move ne'ets oat of reach of their
powl:r. 1 do not get acquainnted I prying miecblef, and large breeds
and with each individual para „rte, but cannot, without injury, jump down
✓ apply my ),owder to top of head, un- from. or fly to thigh nests. Perches
e der beak, wings and vent. This is mus /t not be teeter=like, but wheth-
n done in the evening when fowls are er they pull out of grooves or from'
- drowsy, or wate'n I seat a, lien, and •eneeT leather ,straps, will answer if
d several times during her incubating. moveable. Wide porches prevent
d Sifted coal ashes will answer well. c.i•ookeel brea,stt bones and are gen- 1
s0 Tho Persian insect powder is vola- erally ,selected by modern heavy
n'g tile, and ,should be kept tightly cove fowls given a choice, .
a excel when not used, and Is of no AS a pioneer retraces his steps by 1
he use in nest -boles, unless mixed 'and blazed trees, so, would that I could
Y held with -oil. Tansy, wormlwood and mine by a lino of clean hen -houses
0 e0 elder leaves, cedar springs and on- with maveahle furniture. F. W. Hud -
ion skins are good discouragers in son,Li
ve Ste..^.k Commissioner.
of_
.magnified, it ware found .to be weepy,,
not of a brass, but of a si0E011.4
formed imn l.
of clever penmanitatios'ofhdp.one, a. marvel.
(in more than one case the camera,
leas unravelled a mystery whicll com-
pletely baffled the 'resources of oagr.
detectives. In the famous nauseam at
Scotland Yard may be seen a Targe
framed photograph of a chisel on
(which may clearly be seen the lettere
"rock." Tiffs was the chisel that was
proved, on the strength of this pho-
tograph, to have (bel'onged to Ori -
,rocks, the murderer of Oonstalble
Cole at Dalston a few years age
and which was fouled by the side o�
;the ;tnu•rdered than. It wasi:only when
this chisel came under the ca.n1era"s
eye that these convicting -letters Ibe-
caame visible and led to the a,rrest
and execution of a dasta,rdly ,znur-
dlerer. a
0ney a few month, ago the cameras
i ae the means of bringing a mur-
derer to justice in 'Germany. A man
had been found murdered in a field
by the side of the railway a few
miles from ;Breslau, and tee man
suspected of the crime .pleaded and
seemed to prove an alibi. To one of
the spectators of the trial, however,
his face and figure appeared famil-
iar, and it flashed on him that the
prisoner figured in one of his photo-
graphs. On ladking through them be
I discovered a snatp-shot witicb he had
Itaken from the train near the scene
of the murder, and with the very
date of the. grime marked on the
back.
In the ,picture two men were walk-
ing together on a fir l fool'enth which
ran by ,the side of the railway, and
one of them looked :remarkably fake
:the suspected man. Tbe photograph
was enlarged, and it evas then placed
beyond doubt that the two men were
happ
they suspectevictim.
d prisoner and his un-
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t v...,..iw..w....w.i.iv.tw�n..i4, ible even under the micrasco e. f
s ~��� ��' �� tCiris is one of the peculiaritpies of !
FOR a THE SAKE the camera, that it brings to light I
markt 'which are quite invisible even
t through a microscope, just as it has n
OF OLD LOV[, known to reveal the signs of measles
and smallpox several clays before
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and no longer master of myself,
stretched out a madman's arms t
her, I heard my own voice utterin
words wild, incoherent, withou
sense or meaning, that seemed t
be forced out of my breast in spit
of myself, under pressure of th
frantic passion that had burst it
bonds at the first unguarded mo
sent, and spoilt at one blow all my
hard-won record of self-control and
self-restraint. Site had sprung to
her feet and evaded my touch; but
as she stood at a little distance
from me, her face still shone will
the same radiance, and she looked,
to lay excited fancy, the very spirit
of tender, impassioned, exalted hu-
man love, too sweet not to allure,
too pure not to command respect.
There was no fear in her expres-
sion, only a shade of grave, gentle
reproach, As she fixed her
solemn eyes upon me, I stam-
mered and grew aehamed, and my
arms dropped to my sides as the re-
collection of the tragedy which had
brought us bare c;i.ino like a pall over
my exerted eep]rlts. 'Then she came
round the table on her way towards
the door, and would have gone out
without a word, I think, if the ahleet
shame anti self -disgust with wilioh I
hung nay ]lead and gunk out of her
way had not moved her to pity. I
lavas afraid slie would not like to
pales Ana savage beast as I had
shown myself to be, so I had turned:
my back to the door and moved to-
wards my old chair. But Babiole was
too noble -hearted to need any affec-
tatdons of prudery, and to see her old
friend humiliated wars too painful for
hes to bear.
"'lir. Maude," she called to me in a
low voice, and the very sound of her
voice brought healing to my wounded
self-esteen .
I turned slowly, without lifting my
far
eyes,inc tancio sltetakht.ed out her little head
ch
"I am a groat, rough brute• ," I
sand, hoarsely. "it is very good of
you to forgive. rue,"
"Your are our best friend, now and
always," sho said, holding her heard
steadily in mime. Slee coatinued with
an effort: "You aro not hurt; thea
--"
She looked at me with eyes full of
awe, but she was prepared .for my
answer,
"Fabian," I whispered huskily.
He Is. dead ?" I s'careely heard the
words as her White lips formed
them.
"God forgive me !" she said broke
enly, while her eyes grew dark anal
,soft with' sorrow and shame; then
drawing her hand front mine, she
crept with noiseless feet out of the
room.
(To be aovtinuetf.)
I ,,(London Tit -Bits.)
goy Proibably few. of the tens of thou-
sands of people who take a practi-
cal interest in photography have
o much of a,n klea of its value as a
e detector of crime, although this is
s perhaps the most interesting of all
_ its many phases of usefulness. In
fact, it is no exaggeration to say
that scores,of criminals are now en-
joying the hospitality of Ills iCaj-
esty's prisons who, but for the
camera, would certainly be at lib -
i erts to carry; on their illegal prac-
Toznzrry's View.
ricins.
".How Flo you like school, Tom-
my?"
"Pretty well, mother : but it's such
a Waste of my play -time."
JIn all cases of forgery photography
is simply invaluable; for there. is no
forger in the world clever enough
to baffle its detective skill. An in-
teresting proof of this was pro-
vided, a, few years ago in the case
of a disputed will. de wealthy male
chant in the Midlands had died, as
was supposed,. intestate, in which
naso his estate would have been
venally divided between his four sons
and two daughters.
One of the sons, however, produc-
ed a will made over twenty years
ago, leaving the deceased's estate
to himself, after the payment of cer-
tain small; Iegaeies to the brothers
and sisters. On the face of the will
the bequest to "nay son Ilicharcl,'a
1105.,arnmistalkt bly Oloar; but a mi-
croscopic exalntnation raised some
suspicion that the name of the le-
gatee had been tampered with. A
pinotbgraph of the name was taken
and enlarged enormously, 'with the
result that beneath the name
of another brother, Edward, who
was his father's partner and favor-
ite son, thus proving that a daring
forgery had been committed.
In another naso of a suspected fol'-
gory of a will an enlarged photo-
graph revea:lecl the pencilled lines
they become visible to the naked eye.
Where a forged signature is sus-
pected the method adopted is to
take photographs of the genuine
and supposed false signatures, mag-
nifying, each a hundredfold or more,
and compare the results. Under this
crucial test the slightest discrep-
ancy becomes exaggerated, out of ,all
comparison with the signature; and
every sign of hesitancy (for no forger
can write a counterfeit signature
with perfect ease and fluency)
stands revealed.
In a recent case, where it was
suspected that certain account books
heel been tampered with and false
figures substituted far the actual
ones, the original figures and entries
were distinctly visible, although they
lead been 'removed' by acid; and it
wn.s further proved that the altera-
tion had been made, not by the clerk,
who wu,s responsible for the books,
and who was suspected, but by a
follow -clerk who 11111 imitated his
writing.
A forged banknote, however min-
utely and faithfully the original may
havo been copied, cannot deceive the
eyes of the camera, which will not
only show ::leo slightest deviation
from the genuine note, but also any
difference in the texture of the pa-
per used. In a recent case, where
0, section of a, cheque had boon re-
moved and another piece in the form
of pulp substituted with infinite skill,
the camera revealed the fraud at
once, showing exactly„where the new
and old paper were joined.
Al recent Claimant of a large sum
or money in Chancery sought to es-
tablish his title by, among other
proofs, a photograph of 0 brass
which had many years earlier been
removed from a church and which
recorded certain dates and facts
over whielh the signature of the tes- necessary to prove his claim. The
tutor and witness had been written, photograph lead ail the appearance
although no. trace of them was vis- of bring genuine, but when it w,as
TI iE UNMARRIED J di1LL1ONS.
One-third More Bachelors Than
Spinsters in the 'United Sates.
The fate of the unsophisticated
man who declared in a public ad-
dress that there were "100,000 su-
perfluous women in Massachusetts"
has never been definitely ascer-
tained. It is known, however, that
this was his concluding public de-
claration on that subject.
Without the fear of his fate, an-
other computer came forward re-
eentiy to declare that the propor-
tion of unmarried girls and women
was increasing. As a matter of fact
it is steadily diminishing in the
• tinted States, and, as a veteran ad-
, vocato of the extension of the legal
l rights of women has pointed out,
there are now in the United States
2,500,000 more single men of mar-
riageable age than there are sin-
gle women, the official figures being
as fal.ows: Unmarried men, 10,418,-
153; unmarried girls and women,
7,573,819.
Tile male population of the United
States, through the esress of male
immigration and the higher male
Irirth rate, is more than a million
in excess of the female. The span of
life is, an the average, longer for a
woman than for n man, and the
marriageable age for women is sev-
eral years younger than the aver-
age for men.
As a consequence of this the MM..
ber of widows is very largely In ex-
cess of the number of widoevese, the
figures being 2,730,0J0 and 1,2.M 000
respectively. There are more di-
vorced women who have not remar-
ried than there are divorced men,
and for all these reasons the num-
ber of single men of marriageable
age is larger than the number of
single women.
In New York it is 24D-000, in Penn-
sylvania 180 000, in Ohio, 120,000,
in Illinois .200.000, in California 150-
000, in Texas 150,000 and in Kansas
75,000.
In Massachusetts the number of
unmarried men exceeds the number,
of unmarried women by only a few'
thousand. In Utah there are 35,000
unmarried men and 23.030 unmarried
women of marriageable age. In
Washington, the capital, the number
of single men is 4,000 and of single
women the same.
Why They Married.
An editor sent out circular letters
to a large number of married Hien
and asked them why they married.
Here are some of the answers:
I didn't Intend to.
Because I didn't have the experi-
ence
xperteno.e I einive; now.
I married to get even with bor.
mother, but never have.
That's what I've been trying fort
eleven' years to find ou.t.
I yearned for company. Now we
he„ve it all the time.
I thought it would be eaheapei
than a breach of promise suit. 1
1lc,eause Sarah told me five other
men had proposed to her.
That's tbo same fool question my
friend asked me. ,
I wanted a companion of the oppo-
site sex. N. B.—She is still opposite.
Tho old' man( was going to give me
his foot, so I took his daughter's
hand,
Deeaue,e I asked her to have me and
she said she, would ; I think she's got.
O.
mBecause I thought she. was one
ren ons�^ a thousand ; now I think shel
is a 'thousand among one.
I was Lonely and. melancholy and
wanted someone to make me lively,
She makes me very lively. --Exchange.
lysis
At
The Dreadful Results of Neglected Nervous Diseases -Dr. Chase's Nerve Food Prevents
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