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The Wingham Advance, 1905-08-10, Page 3I 444+4++++44++++++++++4+++++++4+44++++++++++++++++++. TIIE MYSTERIOUSIIANIJ..: from the french of Guy AP Maunaxsont _ 4 4++++++44++i +++++++++++++++4+++++++++++444+++++++++++4 +44+ They forme..1 a circle about M. Wr- ite' metier, examining magistrate, who was emir .os opinion of the Iny.terious St. Cloud Affair, rig a .month that incs- plieettle erimo told eegrooseel Paris•, hies one understood it I►f. Ber'inutier, standing, his back to the fire place, was talking, Assembling proofs, disputing the verities opinions, het proving agathin(;. Several women had arisen to draw waxer to the speaker and romans -eel standing, with their eyes rivetted on the eloee-shaven mouth of the magistrate from which ttroceeded grave words, They elludderod, trembled, agitated by their inquisitive &mel -:-by the greedy and in- satii.blo desire for the terrible, welch haunted their .souls, which tortured them like hunger. One of these, paler than the others, during a ellenee, exclaimed: "It is frightful. That touch of the 'supernatura!!' We guilt never know anything about it .' The Magistrate turned toward her, "Yee-, nsadam, it is probable we shall never know anything wbeut this affair, As to the •word 'supernatural,' which you )cave just used, nothing of that sort enters into this case. We are confronted by a very skillfully conceived and very skillfu'ily executed crime, which is so enveloped in mystery that we cannot disentangle it from the inexplicable cir- cumstances which surround it. But I did at one time have aceasion to inves- tigate an guide which seemed in- termingled with the fanciful. It was necessary to abandon it, besides, for want of power to explain it." "Oh, tell us about that!" exclaimed several women in unison. Itf. Betrmutier smiled gravely, as be- cames an examining magistrate, and he replied: "Do not think for an instant that 1 suppose there was anything supenituman about that affair. 1 believe only in natural canes. Bat if, instead of em- ploying the weird 'supernatural' to ex- press what we cio not comprehend, we use simply the word 'inexplicable,' that Wali be better. In any one, in the affair about which 1 sun going to tell you, there are, above all, attendant circumstances, preparatory circumstances which have baffled are. The facts are as follows: "I was at that time examining; nnagis• trate at Ajaccio, a small city, situated on an admirable gulf which is encom- pased on all sides !by high mountains. What I used to give special attention to there were vendetta affairs. Spine of them were superb, some as dramatic as possible, some ferocious, some heroic. We find there tate most excellent exam- - pees of vengeance imaginable; feuds of a hundred years' duration, which may smoulder for a time, but are never ex- - tinguished; most abominable deceit, as- sassinations which end in massacres, For two years I heard nothing talked of but the price of blood, of that terrible Corgi - can prejudice which decrees that every enjury shall be avenged on the person who has perpetrated it—on his descend- ants and near relatives. 1 have. -seen old men., children, friends, assassinated; my head is full of such stories! "Now, I Iearned one day that an Eng- lishmaar had just rented a small villa on i+he gulf. He had brought with him e French domestic, picked up in passing through Marseilles. "Soon everybody was oeoupied with this singular person who dwelt alone, and who never went out except to hunt and fish. Ile never spoke to anyone and never went into' the town, And each morning he spent an hour or two at pistol practice. "Tales were circulated about him, some asserting that he was a noble per- sonage who had fled his native land for political reasons, while others affirmed that he was in hiding after the commis- sion of same terrible crime. "As examining magistrate, I wished to gain some information concerning this man, but it was impossible to ]earn anything about his previous history. He was known as Sir John Rowell, I, therefore, contented myself by studying him at close range, but there was noth- ing about him to excite. suspicion, Meanwhile, as the rumors concerning him continued to multiply, I resolved to make an attempt to interview this stranger, and.I began hunting regularly in the neighborhood of his property. I waited a long time for an occasion, :which finally presented itself in the form of a partridge which I shot and killed almost under the nose of the English- man. My dog brought it to one, but, taking the game, I went to excuse my impropriety, and to beg Sir John Rowell to accept the dead bird. He was a large Haan, with red hair and beard, very tall, broad -shouldered, ! a sort of placid and polite Hercules. There was none of the so-called British Stiffness about him, and he thanked me for my offering in French, of beyond . the Channel accent. At the end of a month we had chatted together five or six times. "Finally,. one evening, as I was pass- ing his door, I saw him sitting in his ' garden smoking his pipe. I greeted him, and he invited me to enter and drink a glass of beer. I did not give him an opportunity to repeat his invi- , tationa He received me with customary English courtesy, praised France and Coesica, and declared that his love for 1 the latter was intense. "Then, cautiously, I adddressed to him tome questions concerning his Iife and his plans. Hsi replied without embar- rassment that he had travelled a great deal•—in Africa, India and America -- and added, laughingly, "1 have had many adventures; oh! yes!' "Then I spoke about hunting, and he gave me some most carious details con- cerning hippopotamus, tiger and ele- phant hunting, and even about hunting the gorilla. "I remarked: 'All of those animals are forinidable,' "Xie smiled. 'Oh, no; man Is more formidable.' "He suddenly buts( in to laugh— a great, Contented, English laugh —and added: "'I have thee hunted span a great deal. "'lien we talked about weapons and he led zee into the Ileum to inspect hi collection of firearms. "Elis salon was hung with black silk embroidered with gold. Large yellow flowers, as brilliant as flaring, riote over the sombre fabric. "'This used to bo a Japanese pall, he explained. 'But a strange object i the middle of a large panel attraete my attention. On a square of red velve was a black object. 1 went nearer, I was a hand- -a main's Band. Not th hand of a akeletou, white and °lean, bu a black, dried hand, with yellow nails withered muscles, and traces of anelen blood on the hone, clean cut, as by hatchet blow, near the middle of th wrist. "Above the abbreviated wrist of thl unclean member was riveted a heav iron chain, which was attached to th wall by a ring strong enough to hold an elephant in check. "'What is that?' I demanded. "The Englishman replied: "' That was my worst enemy. I came from .America. It was severe by a sabre blow, stripped of its skin with a sharp stone and dried in the sun for eight hours, Ab, very good for me— that l' "I touched bed that human fragment which must have belonged to a giant The long fingers were attached to heavy tendons, which here and there still re tained patches of skin. It was frightfu to behold, and, naturally, made one think of some savage vengeance. "'That weir must have been very strong,' I ventured. "Y -e -s, but I was stronger than he I put that chairs on to hold him,' he re plied softly. "I thought he was joking, and said; " "!'bat chain is useless now. The hand will not escape.' • "Sir John ]towel answered, gravely: "'It tries constantly to get away. That chain is necessary.' "Seacr+hing his face with a rapid glance, I asked myself: '"Is he a fool or a bad jester?' "tenet leis face remained impenetrable, calm and benevolent. I talked of other things and admired his guns, and re- ntarked that three loaded revolvers day on the taibles, as if that elan lived in constant fear of an attack. I went to see Biro several times. Then I ceased my visits. We ;had become aoeustoaned to his presence; he had become indif- ferent to all. "A whole year passed, when one morning,, near the end of November, my domestic awakened Inc to announce that during the night air John Rowel laid been assassinated. "a shelf -hour later I entered the Eng- lishman's house, with a Couunissioner and the Chief of Police. The valet, in despair, was weeping in front of the door. I suspected that man at first, but he was innocent. "'the guilty person was never appre- hended. "As we entered the salon I .perceived nt the first glance Sir John's body stretched at full length on hisback in the middle of the room. His vest was torn, a sleeve was torn off—everything indicated that a terrible struggle had taken place. "The Englishman had been choked to death 1 His black and swollen face seem- ed to express horrified terror; lie held something between his teeth, and his neck, pierced by five holes which you would have said had been made by points of iron, was covered with blood. "A physician joined ns. He examined the finger marks on the fleet' for a long time, and pronounced- these strange words: 'One would say that he was strangled by a skeleton: "A cold chill ran down my back and I cast a glance at the place on the wall where I had formerly seen the horriblle, flayed hand. It was no -longer there, The broken chain dangled. then I bent over the dead man, and in his drawn mouth found one of the fingers of that vanished hand --cut, or, rather, sawed, off by the teeth at the second phalange. "Then we proceeded with the inves- tigation. We discovered nothing. No door had been forced, no window, no fur- niture moved. The two watch dogs had not been awakened. "Here, in a few words, is the testi: rnonv trI the dosnestie, "For a month his master had seemed agitated. Ile had received many letters, which bre had burned. "Often, seizing a whip, he would beat in insane rape that withered hand rivet- ed e to the wall,and taken clown, we do not know how, at the lour of the crime. "Ne wets accustomed to retire very late, and always carefully locked himself in his ehamber. He always hon loaded firearms at hand. Often, at night, he talked loudly, as if he were quarreling with soaneone. "That night, however, he lead made no noise, and it was only when the servant came to open the windows that he found Sir John assassinated. He suspected no- body. "I communicated what I knew of the death to the magistrates and -public of- facials, and a careful inquiry was ?Wade throughout the island, but they discov- ered iscovered nothing. "Now, three months after the crime I had a frightful nightmare. It seethed to me 1 saw the hand, the horrible hand, run like a scorpion or like a spider, the length of my curtains; and on the walls,' Tutee times I awoke, three times 1 fell asleep, three times I saw that, hideous human fragment gallop about my cham- ber, Moving its fingers like lege. "The following day, it was brought to zee. It was found in the cemetery on the toinb of Sir John Rowel, for we hod not been able to find his family, The indect finger was missing, "That, mesdames, is my story, I know - noticing more." What's the Use of using commonplace tea when it costs no more to drink !t Ceylon tea which is the purest and most deli* cious tea in the world. Sold only in lead packets, 40e, 5"c, 600. By all Grocers, Black, Nixed or Green. IN xoTimrs PLACE, him off with a term in the Ulnited, Pin These Questions Up and Read Thein Often. • If yon were your mother -- Would you like to have your atten tion called to your double chin, always a sensitive topic with the woman who takes on flesh with years? Would you feel merry at heart when your daughter bade you stand up straight? Perhaps the slight stoop of the shoulders has come from carrying many domestic burdens in the days be- fore "father" was as prosperous as he is toWou-day, ld you like to wash dishes three times a day so that "daughter" might keep up her piano practice, and then have rao. time and PoPalar songscome floating out to the kitchen instead o scales and exercises? Would you like the daughter who for- gets to send her collars to the laundry her gloves to be cleaner or her ribbons to be pressed, borrow these little ac- cessories from your own stock of care- fully hoard edand neatly kept raiment? Would you like to be held responsible for sending Mary's suit to the tailor's, Bess' gloves to the dyer and father's boots to the shoemaker's, when each and every one of these individuals pass the aforementioned shops on their way to etore or office? Would you like to hear nt regular in- tervals how beautifully Mrs. Jones sets her table and serves her meals—always with an air of invidious comparison? Perhaps you know that Mrs. Jones has a servant while you have none, or the Jones girls make pretty centrepieces and look after the fern dish for their mother. Would you like to act as alarm clock for the whole family o= grown and half- grown children, and to receive groans and grunts instead of a cheerful "Yes, mother," or "Thank you, dear," in re- turn for performing this office? Per- haps you would sometimes feel that your own day would start better if you might lie in bed until breakfast was ready, or that if only Minnie would get up ten or fifteen minutes sooner she could flit about the kitchen with you. You see so little of her since she works down town. Would you like to have the photo- graphs of your old -tine friends packed away in the secretary drawer to make room for the latest stage favorites on the parlor mantel, and the few old- fashioned paintings and watercolors you prize tucked into the attic? Would you not feel more than ever that you wanted to keep green the memory of friends who were not captious, whose photoeraphs and handiwork bring back the happy days of your own girlhood? Would you like to be told, when young folks are coming, that you need not bother to dress and put in an ap- pearance? Would you not detect the truth behind this excuse —that your daughters were perhaps a bit ashamed of you, or feared that their friends might be bored by the presence of a chaperon? Would it not make you very happy if some day the daughter who wonders why your hands look so ill would bring in her manicuring set and gently manipu- late your work -worn fingers? Would . it not make you look—and feel—younger if the pretty daughter whose daintily waved hair you secretly envy should spend half an hour dressing your hair in which the white is beginning to show? And would you not feel younger and happier and stronger if your daughters and sons introduced you to their friends as a comrade rather than as a household drudge? Look into your dear old mother's face some day, when she is leaning beelr in her favorite chair, and read the answer to these questions in her lined face and drooping shoulders! TRIALS OF A MILLIONAIRE. Sentenced to Life Imprisonment for Try- ing to Give Away His Money, til thenotorious o n Pocl.e fi Ler J In D , multi -millionaire, was in Magistrate Mc - Shamrock's court yesterday on the charge of trying to give away money on the street corners. It appears that Mr. Pick- etfiiler, disguised with a chestnut wig, stood on the sidewalk of a busy down - 1 town corner, carrying a large sack filled with bank bills done up in bunches of $100 each. He would hold one of these bunches in his hand and offer it to pas- sers-by in an offensive way, mutter- ing: `Please help me, kind people; I am very rich; take this little gift and make are happy." That Mr. Poeketfiller was a nuisance of the most irritating description could not be denied. Ladies gathered up their skirts and swept disdainfully past; busy merchants elbowed the millionaire con- temptuously aside, street urchins thumb- ed their noses at him, and one fat -neck- ed politician into whose hand Mr. Pocket - filler attempted to thrust a package of bills was thrown into such a rage that he not only hurled the money back in the mlllionairc's face but followed it with a fistful of silver coins which he pulled from his own pocket. The coins scattered over the sidcwnik, where it was noticed that people kicked them into the gutter like scraps of orange peel. The very idea of money bad been rendered distasteful to the populace by Mr. Pock- , etfiller's presence and his insolent be- havior. * * ° The women, horrified, were pale, trem- blieg. One of them cried: "But that is not a denouement, nor an explanation. We are not going to sleep if yon do not tell us what you think hap- penal." The Magistrate smiled blandly. "Oh! I, inesdaaues; I am, indeed, going to epoll your terrible dreams. I think simply that the legitimate owner of the hand was not (lend, aiud that he came to seek it with that which remained to hint, ilut I do not know how he ac- eomuplished his purpose. It was, doubt- less, wort of a vendetta." Ono of the women murmured: "No, that may not be sol" And the magistrate, stili smiling, ecn- claded : "I—well, I said that my explanation would not satisfy you." Small "And do you think, dearest," queried the young lean it: the ease, "that your father will consent to our marriage?" "Sure thing," replied the fair maid, slightest wish is law with him.' The tnitlionaire was finally taken into custody, much to everybody's relief, at the instance of a well known clergyman, Rev. Saintly Longfaue of Brooklyn, who deposed that Mr. Poeketfiller had rude- ly offered him $100,000 for the foreinit mission fund. After listening to the tes- timony, Magistrate McShannreek prompt- ly sentenced the prisoner to hard labor.' for life at 20 Broadway, with the in- 1 junction that he must cease to let his wealth atecumulate, "t have no patiotlee with these un- American notions, remarked the magis- trate. "What would this country come to if our capitalists persisted in giving away even a.sniall fraction of their for - times without expecting something in re- turn? It will be a gloomy outlook for the future of our magnificent trusts if enett brings are suffered to continue, Public sentiment demands that this do- nation business be stopped here and now, lC utidextand that thio is not Mr. Pocket - filler's first offence, or I should have Iet States senate." A brief interview was subsequently granted with Mr. Poeketfiller at fell No. 20, The prisoner looked cheerful, - despite the onerous conditions of his sentence, " I can not account for my re- • markable lapse," be said. "I am told I - have been occasionally taken with sim- ilar fits, before, though this is the first time I was dragged into court for it. The public seems to be getting unusually fastidious nowadays. I am sincerely sor- ry for what I have done and trust that the wholesome austerity of Iife in, this institution and close application to bus- iness will make me a better man."— New York Life. DocforBrigflaIll Saijs MANY PHYSiCIANS PAESCMBE Lydia E. PInkhann>l's Vageiabie Compound The wonderful power of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound over the diseases of womankind is not be- cause it is a stimulant, not because it isa palliative, but simply because it is the most wonderful tonic and recon- structor ever discovered to act directly upon the generative organs, positively curing disease and restoring health and vigor. Marvelous cures are reported from all parts of the country by women who have been cured, trained nurses who have witnessed cures and physicians who have recognized the virtue of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound, and are fair enough to give credit where it is due. 11 physicians dared to be frank and open, hundreds of themwould acknowl- edge that they constantly prescribe Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound in severe cases of female ills, as they know by experience it can be re- - upon to effect a cure. The follow- ing letter proves it. Dr. S. C. Brigham, of 4 Brigham Park, Fitchburg, Mass., writes : "It gives me great pleasure to say that I have found Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound very efficacious and often pre- scribe it in my practice for female difficulties, "My oldest daughter found it very benefi- cial for uterine troublesome time ago, unduly youngest daughter is now taking it for a fe- male weakness, andis surely gaining in health and strength. "I freely advocate it as a most reliable spe- cific in all diseases to which women are sub- ject, and give it honest endorsement." Women who are troubled with pain- ful or irregular menstruation, bloating (or flatulence), leucorrht a, falling, in- -fiammation or ulceration of the uterus, ovarian troubles, that bearing -down feeling, dizziness, faintness, indiges- tion, nervous prostration or the blues, should take immediate action to ward off the serious consequences, and be restored to perfect health and strength by taking Lydia E, Pinkham's Vegeta- ble Compound, and then write to Mrs. Pinlrham, at Lynn, Mass., for further free advice. No living person has had the benefit of a wider experience in treating female ills. She has guided thousands to health. Every suffering woman should ask for and follow her advice if she wants to be strong and wel 1. PROFITS OF THE SUEZ CANAL. Rates to be Lowered Again to Keep Divi- dends Below as Per Cent. "'Pis forty years since," and what a difference between then and nowt- At that time men were saying the Suez Canal never would or could pay operating expenses. At the present time its profits are so enormous that the company is compelled again and again to reduce the tolls in order to keep the dividends with- in legalbounds. Ofatr truth,Mr. Green- wood was prescient, when, 30 years ago, lie persuaded the British Government to buy the Khedive's shares. Lord Derby, the Foreign Minister, did not like the scheme, Sir Stafford Northeote, Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, distinctly dis- approved - it. Disraeli himself, Prime Minister, was doubtful. It did not seem a tempting thing to pay $20,000,000 for shares, the interest on which had been mortgaged for nine- teen years. But Mr. Greenwood was per- sistent, He pointed out that most of the shares, apart from the Khedive's, were held in France, while 86 per cent. of the traffic through the ennui was British. So British commerce must pay tolls into French pockets. The tolls were high and when England asked that they be reduced, France answered that if Eng- land did not like the canal she might send her eominerce by the old route around the Cape. Inthe end Mr. Greenwood's plans prevailed, and the British Govern - went paid $20,090,000 for. share* that I are now worth $140,00(1,000. A curious error wet made in it deepateie the other day, which steal Me year's divi- dend was only 14.1 per cent. Not for a long time Ilas it been so low. 'elle des- patch should have said it was 141 'vanes a share, a far different thing. A$ the shares are of 500 francs each, the divi- dend at the rate of 28.8 per cent., or aunt twice what was at first stated, Last year's dividend was 130 francs a share, or 20 per cent. Now the London Agreement bifida the company not to ap- propriate profits of more than 25 per cent, but to reduce the tells as much and as often as may be necessary to keep there down to that figure. That is why the company proposes another reduction. It did reduce tolls two years ago from 9 to 8i francs a ton, but still the pro- fits kept on increasing and pushing the dividend above the 25 per cent. limit. There are those who reckon that if the toils were now reduced to 6 franca the 1 company would still be able to declare a yearly dividend of 25 per cent., and that a few years hence a still further reduc- tion can be made without impairment of the Legal divident.---New York Tri- bune. I THE CURE OF TEETH The Importance of Following gestiona. It Woke as if somebody ateod to. lose a good. round sum in that Winnipeg wheat corner, And it is to be hoped that the right crowd will get hit. The town of Escanaba, Michigan, has load to borow 800,000 to keep it.) lig)tting, Flout running and pay off a 510,000 defi- cit, A private company would not have had the taxes to fall buck on, Russia is gradually getting down. Size doesn't shy at talk of an indemnity now. A few days ago she wouldn't reooggnlze the word. New York has 4,997 .acres of parks valued at $297,080,000, or $77,50 per capita of the population. It is a large These $ug- ! vestment, but far from being las& enough. market, however, rein:doe sa tight itte ever, indicating that :there ]las heat lie great increase in the supply. The other day Sir William Ramsay told a repro**. tative of the London Telegraph U'4 are touch es 8106 a millgrantanc was being demanded for rt4 urn owing to the dila- eultty of obtaining further supply. ,An SAP thorny en the question says that 44 euuoh radium as could be got for ea 'last winter would wow cast £100, and file price is steadily advancing. lie adds that strong radium is being rnnnufaoturcd by only one man that be knaves of, a Ger- man named Giesel, and the quantity available is exceedingly small. Ile dee* not believe that there has beeu more ine that half an ounce of radium aenanufeele e tared since Mme. Curie diseovered the new element. It is known that two mina* in Ceral,wa11 were believed to have redio. active pitch-bleede, and a British coin• pany was formed to exploit them, but the venture was abandoned. Now, here is an opening for the pros- pector and hentis ° t. With P l nth r i ado ma,t 8100 a nliligraninie, or over $3,318,000 a Troy ounce, and a brisk demand, the stake is a large one. The nlau who finds a mine of radio -active mineral in his baek yard will be able to afford porter- house steak and this years' spring lamb chops, to laugh at the exactions of the sugar combine, and to receive a plumber's dn- bill four repairs: without that shaky feel- ing about the knees that no man of ex- - perience needs to have minutely de- scribed, Don't bestow less care upon the teeth I It turns out 412,61 -Pere is no truth in than upon complexion and hair, l the story that the survey of the inter - Don't brush across the teeth, but up national line les Canada some villages down, the upper teeth from the gives gums dawnward, and the lower teeth supposed to be in Vermont, The eagle from the gums upward. 1 may doze away. Ao t oto n d i Ile w thout r b ushin t]ie g r-= teeth, g forit is ati night workf t the a aid, gBoraxin Canadian butter is the co - ! dtan t m 01 f the saliva gets in its on the plaint now made by British critics, The teeth, Don't Let tartar accumulate on the Canadian who drugs butter for export teeth, for it brings a whole train of evile does a great injury to our trade, Ile in its wake. Have it removed by a den- 'should be brought up short and made to tist at least once a year, t suffer for his offence. Dont use a tooth powder which con- 1 tains gritty, acid or irritating substance The cropscare fellows are at work. Don't fail to rinse the teeth thorough- i ly with an alkiline wash after taking acids, such as lemon juice, vinegar or strong medicines. Don't swallow food without mastica- tion. Modern cookery, by making mas- tication almost unnecessary, is respon- sible for much decay of the teeth. Don't use one side of the mouth only when eating, for then the teeth have not all the same amount of exercise, and de- cay sets in more rapidly on one side than the other. Don't crack nuts or bite thread 'with the teeth Don't be fooled by them. .Present indi cations are for more than an average crap in most of the wlleat•growing coon tries. Those stories of rust and blight are intended for the wheat pit. If it be true that the International 1 Boundary survey puts Richford, East Richford and Stevens Mills villages on the Canadian side wihat a bowl we may look for from the screamers south of the MOT WMATHER AILMENTS. The best medieine in the world to ward off summer complaints is Baby's Own Tablets, and it is ,the best medicine to euro them if they attack Tittle ones un- expectedly. At the first sign of illness dtrrano the hot weather give the elgla line! - Baby's Own Tablets Don't fail to ponder occasionally on = -.0- --- the tnowble maybe b 'and cure, '!'Ii or in a few bowel eas these facts; that The Suez Canal shares are now paying Tablets euro ll stomach trouble., Without good teeth there cannot be a -dividend of 28 per coat., and the pro- thorough mastication. P diarrhoea and cholera infanGim, and if Without thorough mastication there portion of British shipping passing occasionally given to the well child will cannot be perfect digestion. through the canal has risen from 60.2 prevent them. Mrs, Edward- Clark, Me - Without perfect digestion there cannot Gregor, Ont., says: "I used Baby's Own be proper assimilation. Without proper assimilation there can- not be nutrition. Without nutrition there eannot be health. Without health what is life worth? Hence, the paramount importance of good teeth.—New York Globe. A jilted Man's Triumph. Mrs. Williams Freeman, the novelist, nodded toward an angular woman of forbidding aspect at a tea. "You would hardly believe," she said, "that she was once a very beautiful girl. .And she was as vain and selfish as she was beautiful. She jilted three desirable young men in two years. "She had, I suppose, a good time while her beauty lasted. Now her beauty is gone and she is alone in the world --a hard, cruel old woman, with a bitter ,tongue. 1 "And if she once triumphed over nien, now, if they are vindictive and cruel enough, may triumph over her. 'One of the men she jilted was suffi- x ciently cruel and vindictive for such a triumph. She met him a few years ago and said: "'Let me see; was it you or your bro- ther who proposed to me when I was a • girl?" "'I don't know, madam,' the man an- swered. 'Probably it was my father." Then She Knew. A Kansas City girl, according to the Times of that city, has the usual curi- osity of her sex, especialIy about men whom she has just met. She ascertains the facts about them, too, by a simple method, without subleties. If she wishes to know a man's business, whether he has mentioned it or not, she'll ask: "Where did you say you live?" But she found a man recently upon whom her method would not work. His reply has had her curious ever since. It was at a small dance on the South Side. Some of the girls were wonder- ing what the business of a "new" young n anwaa. The girl with the meth- od beard them talking and volunteered to find out. When the young man drew near she asked: "What did you say your business, is, Mr. So -and -So?" ° He had not mentioned his business and be knew it. With a perfect solemn face be replied: "I am a gig catche, for a geewobble- pede down in Walnut street, Miss Blank." Mice and Cancer. Dr. Clowes in the Bulletin of Jobns Hopkins Hospital gives an important communication of the immunization of miee against cancer. In certain mice which had been inoculated with mouse cancer the disease underwent an unex- pected and spontaneoue retrogression, and it was found that the serum of these animals produced a marked curative ef- fect on the cancerous tumors in other mice suffering from the disease. When you are et a loss to know what to terve for luncheon, dinner or supper- - when }tort Crave so:netl,ine both appetizing end satisfying --try Libby0s Pt= Food Products Oheb tried. you will always have a snooty on hand Tongues Chili Con Carlile Veal Loaf Brisket Beef Ram Loaf Soups hoar «fr,oece he., them Libby, MacNeill & Libby. t hicager per cent. in 1900, to 05.9 per cent. in 1904. .And the rates have been greatly reduced Now begin to watch for Meteors when you are out late with Mary Helen. The earth is now passing through the zone of the Perseids, and from now till the mid- dle of August the meteoric visitants witi .probably be numerous. The maximum dis- play will be about August 10, the met- eors radiating from the constellation of Perseus Russia appears to be making up her mind that having had her little dance she must pay the piper. And the bill will not be small, If Jarpan is modest she may ask $1,500,000,000. And if she insists upon it Russia must pay it. It is a lot of money. In Canadian silver coins it would weigh about 107,150,000 Troy pounds. A good counter working ten hours daily and counting sixty dollars a minute could, if he took no periods of rest, count it in a little less than 133 years. It is a big sum to thank of; a crushing, penalty to have to pay. English physicians have rung the doom of the strawberry. It is said to cause gout of a most excruciating kind. A London physicians says strawberries are positively poison to some constitutions. The ankle and knee become tender and show slight swelling. Before the swell- ing the patient invariably experiences sharp shooting pains in the knee and ankle joints. Other victims are effect- ed in the small of the back. Non-drink- ers do not escape the complaint, and many temperance people who bave con- sulted their local doctors have been bluntly told to knock off drink for a week or two. Of course a qualified apology follows when the disease has been afterwards diagnosed as strawberry gout. Now must we give up the straw- berry ? It seems that all of the Hubbard's side with Mr. Dillon Wallace in the dif- ficulty between him and the widow of the Labrador explorer. Daisy Hubbard Williams, a sister of the dead man, writes to the New York Sun to say that "the estrangement between Mrs. Hub- bard and Mr, Wallace is not shared by other members of Mr. Hubbard's family. She continues: His father, mother, brother and sister, who would be the first to take up arms were lei'. Hubbard's life to be avenged, unite in giving Mr. Wallace their heart- felt thanks, not only for putting forth all possible effort to save Mr. Hubbard, even at the risk of his own life, but for bringing his body back from an un- marked grave in an unknown country to a quiet resting place in IIaverstraw. Mr, Wallace might have gone to the trappers' lodge with Bison but he chose to remain by his friend, making a long and painful journey to a cache where lay the few precious bits of flour tvitlr which he hoped to save his friend's life. During the trip back to eamp where Irubbard lay Wallace was lost and his feet frozen. He suffered not only mental agony but physical as well, for friend- ship's sake; while, had lie gone with El - sen he would have been warm and well. Mr. Ilabbard's family has no blame, whatever to lay on Mr. Wallace. - r- -- - There is a disappointing stiffness in the radium market That bodes ill for its free uses in medicine, where niuelt was expected of it. When Dr. Roswell Pawl:, the eminent Buffalo surgeon, delivered his hits -reeding leeture to the Medical :1s- eoeiation in this city, the priee was some- thing ander $1,000.000 an ounce, and none of the members present appeared to run much danger front earreint large quantities of the eommintdity in their elothes or emergency eases. 1)r. fart: thought he sow a chance for inereasinh the available supply from eertain ores found in tate United States, and which mere then being exploited. 'late radium Tablets for my little girl, who suffered from colic and bowel troubles, and I found them the anost satisfactory medi- cine I ever tried." This is the experience of all anthers who have band this medi- cine. Keep the Tablets in the home dur- ing the hot weather months and you can feel that your children are safe. Sold by all druggists or sent by mail at 2.5 cents a box by writing the Dr, Williams' Medi- cine Co,, Brockville, Ont. _t CHANGE NEEDED. Sanitarium Life Not One for Permanent Benefie, (Chicago Chronicle.) The ooneumptive, brown And rcbia t, had, just returned to town from a mouth in a sanatorium on a mountain *sp. He had lived altogether out of doors, walking and reading in the wool and smishiue, Lie had eaten three hearty meals a day along with two quarts of rich milk and a half-dozen raw ega by way of extra. Now, twenty pounds heavier, his eyes clear, his walk springy, his face sun, - browned like a sailor's, he booked a healthier man than his ,physician, Yet his physician, as he watched hien depart, silted, "He looks cured, doesn't he?" he said. "Well, he is cured, but tem cure Is not permaueut. "Take anybody, sick or well, and pat them in that mountain sanatorium, feed them freali air, sunshine, raw eggs, rich milk, rare beef, and so on, and they wilt gain in weight and vigor, just as tills con- sumptive has done. You'd gain, ]'d in. "l3ut when we return to town and re- sume our ordinary life, what we had gained we'd lose. We'd fall back to nor- mal, to our normal, again. And that con- sumptive is going to fall back to ,his nor- "You or- "You see, he won't have the stimulus of a new air and of a new scene here, and without that stimulus his big appe- tite v him. He'll tryto stuff wilt leave still on eggs and milk, but •he won't be able to do it. His stomach will go back on him. The rich, fat -making food will make him sick." "1 know. I've seen hundreds of such cases. The thirty pounds gained in a mantic will be lost again in three weeks. "Why doesn't he stay at the senator ium? Well, even supposing he could stay there, do you know what would happen? The strangeness, the novelty, would pose off there, too; the abnormal appetite would fail, and up on the wind-swept ntaountains, the same as here in the stuffy city, the man's stomach would go back on hen—the rich mills: and the raw eggs would begin to sicken him he would re- turn, as we must all return, to normal, to the hopeless normal of the phthisical." Simple if Effective. These are the days of ivy poisoning, and as the summer grows older the strength of the poison in the pretty, thin -leaved vine inereases. Here is a euro offered in a letter from Conneeti- eut to the New York Tribune: "I am very sensitive to ivy poisoning myself, but I can cure it so promptly that I care very little about it. It is simply fresh catnip bruised and rubbed on the eruption. In very bad eases use a strong decoction applied hot for at least 20 minutes, several times daily. This is so simple that many people re- fuse to believe it, but I have never known it to fait when used. In Iight rases I have chewed it and Iaid it ma tate blisters." This will not kill and it may cure as stated. 1t is easy to try it. TEMPTING THE JUDGE. Judge Whitman is the only bachelor on the board of eit,34 magistrates ea New York. Ile was called upon one fore- noon to marry a couple from Philadel- phia. 'the bride handed him a handsome rose from her bouquet and said: "I want you to take it home to your. wife," "I shall be delighted to accept it," said Itis Ironer, "but 'can't I wear it myself? I have no wife." The bride looked at him with eomlasston, "That's too bad," she said,"tend you So good-looking." Then she turned you hila suddenly and said: "Won't youtome over to Phiiadelpliia and let me introduce you to my sister?" "If she looks like ;vou," responded the Judge with a bow, "I shall be tarnpted to take the next train."