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words once more and I will stamp the life
out of tou where you are. You say that
God promised her to you promised that
woman to a hound like you. Ah, be care
fall" Owen Davies made no answer. Crouched
there upon the ground he rocked himself to
and fro and moaned in the madness of his
balked desire.
"This man." said Geoffrey, turning to
ward and pointing to Elizabeth, who was
glaring at him ljke a wildcat from the cor
ner of the room, "said that there is no God.
I say that there is a God, and that one day,
soon or late, vengeance will find you out
you murderess, you writer of anonymous,
letters; you who, to advance your own
wicked ends, whatever they may be. were
not ashamed to try and drag your innocent
sister's name into the dirt I never believed
in a hell till now, but there must be a hell
for such as von, Elizabeth Granger. Go
vour ways; live out your time; but live every
Lour ol it in terror of the vengeance that
shall come so surelv as you shall die.
"Wmr fnrrnn sir." h went on. address
ing the trembling father. "I do not blame
you so much, because I believe that this
viper poisoned jour mind. Yon might have
thought that the tale was true. It is not
true; it was a lie. Beatrice, who is now
dead, came into my room in her sleep, and
was carried from i as she came. And you,
her father, allowed this villain and your
daughter to use her distress against her; you
allowed him to make a lever of it, with
which to force her into a marriage that she
loathed. Yes, cover up yonr face you may
well do so. Do your worst, one and all of
you, but remember that this time you have
to deal with a man who can and will strike
back, not with a poor friendless girl."
"Before heaven it was not my fault, Hr.
Bin.-ham," gasped the old man. "I am in
nocent of it. That Judas-woman Elizabeth
betrayed her sister because she wanted to
marry him herself," and he pointed to the
heap upon the floor. "She thought that it
would prejudice him against Beatrice, and
he he believed that she was attached to
you, and tried to work upon her attach
ment" , . n
"So," said Geoffrey, "now we have it all.
And von, sir, stood bv and saw this done.
Yon "stood by thinking that you would
make a profit of her agony. Now I will
tell you what I meant to hide from you. I
did love her. I do loye her as she
loved me. I believe that between yon, you
drove her to her grave. Her blood be on
your heads forever and forever!"
"Oh, take me home," groaned the Heap
upon the floor "take me home. Elizabeth!
I daren't go alone. Beatrice will haunt me.
My brain goes round and round. Take me
awav. Elizabeth, and stop with me. You
are "not afraid of her, you are afraid ot
nothing."
Elizabeth sidled up to him, keeping her
fierce eyes on Geoffrey all the time. She
was utterly cowed and terrified, bnt she
could still look fierce. She took the Heap
by the hand and drew him thence still
moaning and quite crazed. She led him
awav to his castle and his wealth. Six
months alterward she came forth with him
to marry him, half-witted as he was. A year
and eight months afterward she came out
again to bury him, and found herself the
richest widow in Wales.
But mark the 6equel! In her breast was
the seed of a fatal and shocking malady.
"Within three months of her deliverance,
Elizabeth too was dead, and the wealth
passed elsewhere.
They went forth, leaving Geoffrey and Mr.
Grang'er alone. The old man rested his head
upon the table and wept bitterly.
"Be mercilul," he said, "do not say snch
words to me. I loved her, indeed I did, bnt
Elizabeth was too much for me, and I am so
poor. Ob, if you loved her also, be merci
full 1 do not reproach you because you
loved her, although you had no right to love
her. If you had not loved her, and made
her love you. all this would never have
happened. Why do you say such dreadiul
things to me, Mr. Bingham?"
"I loved her, sir." answered Geoffrey,
humbly enongh now that his fury had
passed "because being what she was, all
who looked on her must love her. There is
no woman left like her in the world. But
who am I that I should blame you? God
forgive us alll I only live henceforth in the
hope that I may one day rejoin her where
she has gone."
There was a pause.
"Mr. Granger," said Geoffrey, pleasantly,
"never trouble yourself about money. You
were her father; anything you want and
that I have is yours. Let ns shake hands
and say good-bye, and let us never meet
again. As I said, God forgive us all!"
"Thank you thank you," said the old
man, looking up through the white hair
that fell about his eyes. '"It is a strange
world and we are all miserable sinners. I
hope there is a better somewhere. I'm well
sigh tired ot this, especially now that Bea
trice is gone. Poor girl, she was a good
daughter and a fine woman. Good-bye.
Good-bye.
Then'Geoflrey went.
CHAPTER XXXL
THE DUCHESS' BALL.
Geoffrey reached town a little before 11
o'clock that night a haunted man
haunted for life by a vision of that face
still lovely in death, floating alone upon
the mighty deep, and companioned only by
the screaming mews or perchance now
sinking or sunk to an unfathomable grave.
"Well might snch a vision haunt a man, the
man whom alone of all men those cold lips
had kissed, and for whose sake this dread
ful thing was done.
He took a cab, directing the driver to go
to Bolton street and to stop at his club as he
passed. There might be letters for him
there, he thought something which would
distract his mind a little. As it chanced
there was a letter, marked "private," and
a telegram; both had been delivered that
evening, the porter said, the lormer about
an hour ago by hand.
Idly he opened the telegram it was from
his lawyers: "Your cousin, the child
George Bingham, is, we have just heard,
dead. Please call on us early to-morrow
morning."
He started a little, for this meant a good
deal to Geoffrey. It meant a baronetcy and
eight t ousand a year more or less! How
delighted Honoria would be.he thought with
a sad smile: the loss of that large income
bad always been a bitter pill to her, ana
one which she had made him swallow again
and again. Well, there it was. Poor boy,
he had always been ailing an old man's
child!
He put the telegram in his pocket ana
got into the hansom again. There was a
lamp in it, and by its light he read the let
ter. It was from the Prime Minister, and
ran thus:
"Ml Dear Bingham I have not seen
you since Monday to thank you for the mag
nificent speech you made on that night.
Allow me to add my congratulations
to those of everybody else. As you
know, the Under ' Secretaryship of
the Home Office is vacant.
On behalf of my colleagues and myself I
write to ask if you will consent to fill it for
a time. I say for a time, for we do not in
any way consider that the post is one com
mensurate with your abilities. It will, how
ever, serve to give you practical experience
of administration, and us the advantage of
your great talents to an even larger extent
than we now enjoy. For the future, it must
of course take care of itself; but, as you
know, Sir 's health is not all that could
be desired, and the other day he told me that
it was doubtful if he would be able to carry
on the duties of the Attorney Generalship
for very much longer. In view of this con
tingency, I venture to sugeest that you
would do well to apply for silk as soon as
possible. I have spoken to the "Gord Chan
cellor abont it, and he says that there will
be no difficnlty, as although you have only
been inactive practice for so short a time,
Vou have a good many years' standing as a
barrister. Or it this prospect does not please,
doubtless some other opening to the Cabinet
can be found in time. The tact is, ehat we
cannot in onr own interest overlook you for
long."
Geoffrey smiled again ai be finished this
letter. Who could have believed a year ago
that he would have been to-day in a position
to receive such as epistle from the Prime
Minister of England? Ah! here was the
luck of the Drowned One's shoe with a
vengeance. And what was it all worth to
him now?
He put the letter in his pocket with the
telegram and looked out. They were turn
ing into Bolton street. How was little Effie?
he wandered. The child seemed all that
was left him to care for now. If anything
happened to her bah, he would not think
ofit'
He was there now. "How is Miss Effie?"
he asked of the servant who opened the door.
At that moment his attention was attracted
by the dim forms of two people, a man and
a woman, who were standing not far from
the area gate, the man with his arm round
the woman's waist. Suddenly the woman
seemed to catch sight of the cab and retired
Bwittiy down the area. It crossed his mind
that her figure was very like that of Anne,
the French nurse.
"Miss Effie is doing nicely, sir, I'm told,"
answered the man."
Geoffrey breathed more freely. "Where
is her ladvship?" he asked. "In Miss
Effie's room?"
"No, sir," answered the" man, "her lady
ship has gone to a ball. She left this note
for you in case you should come in."
He toot tne note irom the nail table ana
opened it.
"Dear Geoffrey," it ran, "Effie is so
much better that 1 have made up my mind
to go to the Duchess'.ball after all. She
would be so disappointed it I did not come,
and my dress is quite lovely. Had your
mysterions business anything to do with
Bryngelly? Yours, Honoria.
"She would go on to a ball from her
mother's funeral," said Geoffrey to himself,
as he walked up to Effie's room; "well, it is
her nature and there's an end ofit"
He knocked at the door o' Effie's room.
There was no answer, so he walked in. The
room was lit, but empty no, not quite! On
the floor, slothed only in her white night
shirt, lay his little daughter, to all appear
ance dead.
With something like an oath he sprang to
her and lilted her. The face was pale and
the small hands were cold, but the breast
was still hot and fevered, and the heart .beat.
A glance showed him what had happened.
The child, being left alone and feeling
thirsty, had got out of bed and gone to the
water bottle there was. the tumbler on the
floor. Then weakness had overcome herand
she had fainted fainted upon the cold floor
with the inflammation still on her.
At that moment Anne entered the room
sweetly murmuring, "Ca va bien, cheri?"
"Help me to put the child into bed," said
Geoffrey sternjy. "Now ring the bell ring
it again.
"And now, woman go. Leave this house
at once, this very night Do you hear me?
No, don't stop to argue. Look herel If that
child dies I will prosecute you for man
slaughter; yes, I saw you in the street." and
he took a step toward her. Then Anue fled,
and her face was seen no more in Bolton
street, or indeed in this country.
"James." said Geoffrev to the servant.
"send the cook up here she is a sensible
woman; and do you take a hansom and drive
to the doctor, and tell him to come here at
once, and if you cannot find him go for an
other doctor. Thsn go to the Nurses' Home,
near St James' station, and get a trained
nurse tell them one must be had from some
where instantly."
"Yes, sir; and shall I call for her ladyship
at the Duchess', sir?"
"No," he answered, frowning heavily; "do
not disturb her ladyship. Go now." "
"That settles it," said Geoffrey, as the
man went "Whatever happens, Honoria
and I must part I have done with her."
He had indeed, tbongh not in the way he
meant It would have been well for Honoria
if her husband's contempt had not pre
vented him from summoning her from her
pleasure.
The cook came np, and between them
they brought the child back to life.
She opened ber eyes and smiled. "Is that
you, daddy," sh'e whispered, "or do I
dreams?"
"Yes, dear, it is L"
"Where has you been, daddy to see
Auntie Beatrice?"
"Yes, love,V he said with a gasp.
"Oh, daddy, my head do feel funny; but
I don't mind now you is come back. You
won't go away no more, will yon, daddy?"
"No, dear, no more."
After that she began to wander a little,
and finally dropped into a troubled sleep.
Within half an hour both the doctor and
the nurse arrived. The former listened to
Gocffrey's tale and examined the child.
"She may pull through it," he said, "she
has got a capital constitution; but I'll tell
you what it is if she had lain another min
ute in that draught there would have been
an end of her. You came in the nick of time.
And now if I were you I should go to bed.
Yon can do no good here, and you look
dread ully ill yourself."
But Geoffrey shook his head. He said he
would go downstairs and smoke a pipe. He
did not want to go to bed at present; be was
too urea.
Meanwhile the ball went merrily on. Lady
Honoria-never enjoyed herself more in her
life. She revelled in the luxurious gayety
around her like a butterfly, in the sunshine.
How good it all was the flash of diamonds,
the odor of costly flowers, the homage of the
well-bred men, the envy of the other women.
Oh! it was a dclighttul world after all that
is, when one did not have to exist in a flat
near the Edgeware road. But heaven be
praised! thanks to Geoffrey's talents, there
was an end of flats and misery. Alter all, be
was not a bad sort of husband, though in
many ways a perfect mystery to her. As for
h;s little weakness for the Welsh girl, real
ly, provided that there was no scandal, she
did not care twopence about it
"Yes, I am so glad you admire it I
think it is rather a nice dress, but then I al
ways say that nobody in London can make
a dress like Madame Jules. Oh, no, Geoffrey
did not cboose it; he thinks of other things."
"Well, I'm sure you ought to be proud of
bim. Lady Honoria," said, the handsome
guardsman to whom she was talking; "they
say at mess that he is one of the cleverest
men in England. I only wish I had a
fiftieth part ot his brains."
"Oh, please do not become clever, Lord
Atleigb; please don't, or I shall really give
you up. Cleverness is all very well, but it
isn't everything, you know. Yes, I will
dance if you like, but you must go slowly;
to be quite honest, I am afraid of tearing
my lace in this crush. Why, I declare there
is Garsington, my brother, you know," and
she pointed to a small, red-haired man who
was elbowing his way toward them. "I
wonder what he wants; it is not at all in his
line to come to balls. You know him, don't
you? he is always racing horses, like you."
But the guardsman had vanished." For
reasons of his own he did not wish to meet
Garsington. Perhaps he, too, had been a
member of a certain club.
"Oh, there you are, Honoria," said her
brother. "I thought that I shonld be sure
to find you somewhere in this beastly
squash. Look here, I have something to
tell you."
"Good news or bad?" said Lady Honoria,
playing with her fan. "I it is bad, keep
it, tor I am enjoying myself very much, and
I don't want my evening spoiled."
"Trust you lor that, Honoria; but look
here, it's jolly good, about as good as can be
for that prig ot a husband of yours. What
do you think? that brat ot a boy, the son of
old Sir Kobert Bingham, and the cook or
some one, you kuow, is"
"Not dead, not dead?" said Honoria in
deep agitation.
"Dead as ditch-water," replied his Lord
ship. "I heard it at the club. There was a
lawyer fellow dining with somebody there,
and they got talking about Bingham, when
the lawyer said, 'Oh, he's Sir Geoffrey Bing
ham now. Old Sir Robert's heir is dead. I
saw the telegram myself." "
"Oh, that is almost too good to be true,"
said Honoria. "Whv it means 8,000 a year
to ns."
"I told you it was pretty good," said her
brother. Yon ought to stand me a com
mission out of the swag. At any rate, let's
go and drink to the news. Come on, it is
time ior supper and I am awfully done. I
must screw myself up."
Lady Honofia took his arm. As they
walked down the wide flower-hung stair
they met a very great person, indeed, com
ing up.
"Ah, Lady Honoria," said the great
person, "I hare something to say that will
please you, I think," and he bent toward
THE
her and spoke very low, then, with a little
bow, passed on.
"What is the old boy talking about?"
asked her brother
"Why. what' do you think? We are in
lnck's way to-night He says that they are
offering Geoffrey the Tinder-Secretaryship
of the Home Office."
"He'll be a bigger prig than ever now,"
growled Lord Garsington. "Yes, it is luck
though; let us hope it won't turn."
They sat down to supper, and Lord Gar
sington, who had already been dining,
helped himself pretty freely to champagne.
Belore them was a silver candelabra apd on
each of the candles was fixed a little painted
piper shade. One of them got wrong, and a
footman tried to reach over Lord Garsing
ton's head and put it straight
"I'll do it," said he.
"No, ne; let the man," said Lady Hono
ria. "Look! it is going to catch fire!"
'Nonsense," he answered, rising solemnly
and reaching his arm toward the shade.
As he touched it, it caught fire; indeed, by
touching it he caused it to catch fire. He
seized hold of it and made an effort to put
it out but it burnt his fingers.
Curse the thin?," he said aloud, and
threw it from him. It fell flaming in his
sister's dress among the thickest of the
filmy laces; they caught, and instantly two
wreathing snakes of fire shot up her. She
sprang from her seat and rushed screaming
down the room, an awful mass of flame!
In ten minutes more Lady Honoria had
left this world and all its pleasures to those
who still lived to taste them.
An hour passed. Geoffrey still sat brood
ing heavily over his pipe in the studv in
Bolton street and waiting for Honoria, when
a knock came to his door. The servants had
gone to bed, all except the sick nurse. He
rose and opened it himself. A little red
haired, pale-faced man staggered in.
"What, Garsington. is it you? What do
you want at this hour?"
"Screw yoursel" up, Bingham; I've some
thing to tell you'" he answered in a thick
voice.
"What is it? another disaster, I suppose.
Is somebody else dead?"
"Yes; somebody is. Honoria's dead.
Burnt to death at the ball."
"Great Godl Honoria burnt to death. I
had better go"
"I advise you not, Bingham. I wouldn't
go to the hospital il I were you. Screw
yourself np, and if you cau give me some
thing to drink I'm about done I must
screw myself up."
And here we may leave this most fortu
nate and gifted man. Farewell to Geoffrey
Bingham.
ENVOI.
Thus, then, did these human atoms work out
their destinies, these little grains of ani
mated dust blown hither and thither by a
breath that came they knew not whence.
If there be any malicious principle among
the powers around us that deigns to find
amusement in the futile vagaries of man,
well might it laugh, and laugh again, at
the great results of all this scheming, ot all
these desires, loves and hates; and it there
be any pitiful principle, well might it sigh
over the infinite pathos of human helpless
ness. Owen Davies lost in bis own passion;
Geoffrey crowned with prosperity and
haunted bv undving sorrow; Honoria
perishing wretchedly iu her hour ot satisfied
ambition; Elizabeth gaining her end to lose
it in the grave; Beatrice sacrificing herself
in her love and blindness, and thereby cast
ing out her joy.
Oli, if she had been content to humbly
trust in the Providence above her; if she
had but left that deed undared for one short
week!
But Geoffrey remained, and the child,
after hanging for a while between life and
death, recovered, and was left to comlort
him. May she survive to be a happy wie
and mother, living nnder conditions more
favorable to her well being than those which
trampled out the life of that mistaken wo
man, the ill-starred, great-souled Beatrice,
and broke her father's heart.
Say what are we? V'e are but arrows
winged with fears and shot from darkness
into darkness; we are blind leaders of the
blind, aimless beaters of this bitter air; lost
travelers by manystonv paths ending in one
end. Tell ns, yon, who have outworn the
common tragedy and passed the narrow way,
what lies beyond its gate? You are dumb,
or we cannot hear you speak.
But Beatrice'knows to-day!
Tbr End.
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rwarrrBK von, thx wsri.TCH.il
Love Anions the
Clover.
Over and over the
pnrple clover.
Under the green
wood tree.
Sweet Bessie came
straying, for wild
flowers Maying,
And sang in her
maiden glee:
"O hey, O hoi
There'saladdyl
know
Who joys my face
to see.
Fair blossoms,I pray,
now what shall 1
say
"When Robin comes wooing o' me,
Dear heart
When Robin comes wooing o met"
Over and under the boughs asnnder.
Through the wood came Kobm ere lone;
In the olden fashion he carolled his passion.
And the hawthorn swayed to bis song;
"O hey, O hoi
The way I know
She dropped me this flower to tell;
But what sho will say this ulossomy day
Would that 1 knew it as well,
Dear heart.
Would that I knew it as well."
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The bees went humming till late,
And where is the laddy, and what luck had he
A-wooing his blithesome mateT
O hey, O hoi
They walk so slow.
Brown Robin and blushing Bess:
But what aid ho say in the wood to-dayt
I think I will leave you to guoss,
Dear heart,
I think I will leave you to guess.
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"Ah me!" sighed the transcendental
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upon the far horizon, "Ah, mel have all my
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Polk S-waips.
A Mother Gooaelet.
THRIFT, HORATIO. THBITT.
'Pussy Cat Pussy Cat, where have you been!"
"I've been to London to visit the Queen."
"Pussy Cat Pnssy Cat, why do you groan?"
"1 nearly starved to death under the throne."
John Kendiuck bangs.
Hamor of the Iloar.
"It seems to me that clockmakers have
the best right to strike."
"Why do you think so?"
"Because they are always working over
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Baking Day.
Ever eome in fora the pasture
Cross an snappy as the post,
Wonderin' whut's the uso o' plantln',
Hoein'. reapin' and the rest
All to git a ornery livin'
Clothes an' feod an' house room Jestf
Then 'bout as you crossed the gyarden,
Hev you ever ketched a whefl
Sort-ub slow, an' sweet an' sofnin,
Sort-uh mild an' kind, as et
Angels was a-hovenn' o'er yen.
An' you smelled thar clover breaf T
Car in case yon hev, you know how
Frets an' troubles slips away
When your nosterls gits to sniffln.
WJ'AUzrW),;
Ha,,
'Mong the signs o' new-cnt hay,
Bomethin' sweeter nen the grass is
Crusty smells o' bakin dayl
'Pears as ef the Bad Place closes
'Count o' business bein' slack.
An' old Hoof an' Horns eoes slinkln'
Off, his tail behint his back,
Bort-uh limp, an' mostly drasxin'
'Long his cloven hools's track;
An' the gates of heaven opens
Till you 'low yon ketch a sight
Of the golden streets wbar bands of
Music nlays by day an' night;
Marchin up an' down perpetial.
Flutes an' trombones shinln' bright
All these visions comes a-waf tin'
From the open kitchen door.
Mixed with gentle hints of pie crust
Onill life looks up onct more.
Cheered with thoughts of rolls an light-bread.
An' of crullers sugared o'er.
Tell yehl ain't no Sunday sarmon
P'ints me out the narrerway.
Shows me how to live contented,
L'arns me better bow to prav.
Than the means o' grace I gether
Out o' weekly baicin' dayl
Eva Wilder McGlassow.
About Walters.
It is true that the proverb says all things
come to him who waits, but unless the
waiter is tipped the things are very long in
coming.
There are various types of objectionable
waiters, but the one who carries the toiled
towel with -which he administers a dry sham
poo to everything within reach, including
his own face, is the worst He is the. one
who stabs the soap with his thumb, and says:
is 1111 '
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' B(ashclamchowderbeefroastcornbeeflamb
pork." As soon as a customer enters the waiter
takes his measure from tip to tip, soto speak.
He waits for revenue only, but believes in a
high tariff.
The dusky citizens from the Sunny South
make the best waiters. The skill with which
a colored waiter can run at you with a chair
and make you sit down by striking you on
the inside hinge of the knee is never
acquired by the white waiter.
The most imposing personages in New
York to-day are the head waiters. The head
waiter was evidently intended originally to
fill a throne, and is now only acting as
waiter until a throne is vacant.
After all the customer obtains consider
able equivalent for the lee. There is 10 cents
worth ot servility in the way the waiter bows
as you take your seat' The beaming smile
with which he asks if everything has passed
off to your satisfaction is cheap at another
dime. For a quarter you purchase the en
tire man which is much cheaper than buy
ing a Congressman or a boodle Alderman.
"Waiter tips cost something, of course, but
thev are not to be mentioned in the same
breath with ostrich tips, to avoid the pay
ment ot which is more difficult than dodging
a waiter. Alex. E. Sweet.
A Crime of Spring.
My crime was murder In the first degree
Sly victim was no robber, rake nor rough:
The man I killed last week came up to me
And thus began: "Well, Is it hot enongh"
He never spoke again. I slew him there.
And now am free once more, no fugitive.
The jnrv's terdict was that none shonld dare
Wotk'off that summer gag in soring and live.
CARLTXE SMTH.
He Was Weak, Too.
Aunt Amy Looky-'ere, Bastus, you
better go an' milk dat cow vo'se'f to-day, I
bin washin' yo' clo'es all de ebenin', an I
jest weak as a kitten.
Uncle Bastus Well, listen to me, 'ooman;
you go an' milk dat cow vo'se'f. I bin cut
tin' wood all day, an' I jes weak as half a
dozen kittens. J. A. MACON.
th-E TATR PHH0S0PHEB.
He looked in her eyes with a mute surprise.
For he'd stolen a kiss, and sne chided not
His maiden queen, with the face serene,
Illumed by the pallid hue ot thought
"I thongbt ," he said. She raised her head,
And looked him out of his thou lit an 1 dumb.
"Know, sir," said she, "my philosophy
'Tis this: to take things as they come."
Paul Pastbob.
PELLETS B0H VARIOUS PESTLES.
The late Robert Browning was obscure,
even when famous.
Thirty tramps slept in one barn in Pennsyl
vania the other night, and the owner has
been going over his hay with a fine toothed
comb ever since.
"Circumstances alter cases" and they say
A cabinet maker does the same each working
Lr dar'
Now that the editorial We is subsiding
into innocuous inlreqnency the editorial I
is more vigilant than ever.
"That transformation from Jekyll to Hyde
was wonderful."
"Oh, I don't know. I saw a man six feet
high make a spectacle of himself this morn
ing." Men are only women's sons.
Be they strangers, cousins, brothers
Yet each "dude" the tailor dnns
Thinks his worth excels his mother's.
An Old Soldier's Storr.
During three years of the late war, I was
a member of Company 1, 149th Bsgiment,
Pennsylvania Volunteers or Second Buck
tails. In the second year of service I con
tracted chronic diarrhoea which has clung
to me ever since, and in addition to this I
was shot through the body near the small of
my back (in the battle ol the Wilderness.
One ot the lasting effects of this wound is
such that during attacks of diarrhoea I have
no retaining powers over the movements of
my bowels. I have used many remedies, but
up to Augnst, 1839, I had supposed that
there was no remedy that would quite reach
my case, but since then myself and my
family have thoroughly tested Chamber
lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
and have found it to be by far the best rem
edy we have ever used for bowel complaint,
and without any hesitation whatever, I
cheerfully recommend it to my friends and
old army comrades. I value it more than
its weight in gold. J. E. McIntiee.
Cora, Huntington Co., Pa.
For sale by E. G. Stuckv, 1701 and 2101
Penn ave.; E. G. Stucky & Co., cor. Wylie
ave. and Fulton St.; Markell Bros., cor.
Penn and Faulkston aves.; Theo. E. Ibrig,
3610 Filth ave.; Carl Hartwig,"4016 Butler
st; John C. Smith, cor. Penn ave. and
Main st; Jas. L. McConnel & Co., 455
Fifth ave., Pittsburg; and in Allegheny by
E. E. Heck, 72 and 194 Federal st; Tiros.
R. Morris, cor. Hanover and Preble aves;
F. H. Eggers, 172 Ohio st, and F. H. Eg
gers & Son, 199 Ohio st. and 11 Smithfield
street wsn
A Well-Known Musician Receives an Kle--ant
Everett Piano on Clob Certificate
No. 303.
Mrs. C. C. McCord, nee Sadie Smythe, is
the fortunate member of the Everett Piano
Club this week and received a magnificent
"Upright Grand piano with privilege of pay
ments as low as $1 per week. Mrs. McCord
has been identified with musical matters in
these cities as a popular soprano, and in
selecting a piano sought for one with that
sustained singing quality of tone which is so
delightful to a singer when used to accom
pany the voice. Being perfectly familiar
with, the leading pianos sold in this vicinity,
she selected the Everett as the best, and not
being in a hurry lor her piano, concluded to
join the club and pay 51 per week for a
-while. She now has her piano and is not
obliged to pay any laster. The club plan is
a great snecess. Purchasers can pay (1 per
week and get their pianos in a short time,
or can take them at any time for cash, or on
payments as low as $25' cash and $10 month-
Uly in either case. They get the piano S75
P less than it can be sold bv retail dealers.
The club showrooms are packed with beau
tilul pianos in great variety of woods and
designs. Piano purchasers should call and
see thtm or send lor circular to the mana
ger. Alex. Ross,
" wsu 137 Federal st, Allegheny, Pa.
FOB a finely cut neat-fitring suit leave
your order with Walter Anderson, 700
Smithfield street, whose stock of English
suitings and Scotch tweeds is the finest m
the market; imported exclusively for his
trade. au
Decoration Dav.
Have your photographs taken by Hen
dricks & Co., No. 68 Federal st, Alle
gheny. Gallery open all day. Good cabi
nets $1 a dozen. Come early.
Trimmed Hata and Bonnets.
Largest and choicest stock ever shown.
All the novelties at Boienbaum & Oo.'s.
SuNP.
Hfashclann
1890.
MAKYELSJN SURGERY
Operations That Would Shock Prac
titioners a Century Ago.
WOUNDS OF THE BRAIN AND HEART
Soring of Life by Antiseptic Methods and
Future of Hypnotism.
WHERE THE KNIFE HAS2TT YENTURBD
rwarrrwr ros thi dispatch.
aHF
HE surgeon or physician
of to-day would have
been a necromancer to
the practitioner of 150
years since. The best
9'
0 medical skill of the last
S decade of the last half of
the nineteenth century
works miracles with flesh
and blood and bone and
tissue. That is to say,
its achievements could
not have been explained
or paralleled by the pro
fession or the public even
a generation ago. Al
ready hypnotism, the
mysterious science of
Aluminium Probes, subjugating the will and
mastering me sensauous uj auuiucr, uciug
put to daily use in Paris by eminent men
who find delicate or painful operations most
readily performed on patients in the condi
tion of the hypnotio trance. And that, too,
before hypnotism is itself understood or re
duced to a scientific baslsl
What surgery may not accomplish in the
future no man dares say, in the light of its
achievements in the recent past Dr. W.
W. Keen, an eminent surgeon and medical
authority, says this progress is due chiefly
to two things, "the introduction of anti
septic methods and to what we have learned
from laboratory work and experiments upon
animals."
"Antiseptic methods," says Dr. Keen,
"are those that prevent inflammation and
suppuration, the 'septic' or poisonous pro
cesses, which were the bugbears of the old
school operator."
THE TTONDEBFUI, MICEOBES.
For instance, 54 men or women out of
pvpttt 100 whn had thpir
arms or lera rut off f'r
would die under the old
regime. Not more than
4 out of 100 similar cases
would result fatally now
with 'the antiseptic
method. The prevention
of infection is the greatest
triumph the operator can
hope for. He sees in dirt
"surgical dirt" his
greatest foe and guards
his patient against the
slightest conUct with one
ot those marvelous little
microbes of which people
fear so much nowadays.
Prof. Graddle, by the
way. estimates that' 40,
000,000.000 of such mi
crobes would weigh mtubalorani
less than a grain. Scale.
Yet a Bingle one of them nnder
favorable conditions will increase so rapidly
if unmolested, that in three days the aggre
gation of microbes would form a mass
weighing 800 tonsl
Amputations in old times were nearly
always followed by "surgical fever;" now
adays a patient often "doesn't miss a meal
or a night's sleep and rarely has any fever at
all." "If the antiseptic method of amputa
tion had been in use.during the war of the re
bellion," says 'oneof the most eminent
authorities of this city, "the 'pension list
would be at least $50,000,000 greater a year
than it is now!"
What a frightful loss of life, now consid
ered unnecessary, that implierl But how
hard the doctors are working and have
worked to make things easy iu this way for
suffering humanity. Lister had to go to
France to vivisect animals, use the antiseptic
bandages on them and so discover the most
marvelous achievemnt o a century!
OPEEATIONS ON THE BEAIK.
The brain was long by the unsurgical
mind considered the last tesort and inner
sanctuary of life, and a fractured skull and
an exposed brain were accepted as
necessarily meaning death. But all
that is changed now. Suppose you fire a
ball into your brain, as Ernest Schil
ling did at San Antonio, Tex., in March,
188S, as plenty of people have done Bince
then, without fatal results, nearer home.
After nine days in bed he got up and went
about his business. William Bell, of New
Hampshire, by the premature explosion of a
blast, had a drill driven through hU head,
piercing his brain through and through.
William Bell got well, and went to quarry
ing again with considerably less brain and
probably more sense. Henry Gruber, a
Paterson saloonkeeper, not long ago fired
two balls into his brain. The next morning
the doctors found him sitting up, chatting
and drinking beer with his friends.
But come nearer to the doors
of the temples of surgery. TJp to
1885 laparotomy, or the operation
oi cutting open the intestines for the pur
pose of treating gunshot wounds in the ab
domen, bad never been performed in New
York. The first operation of the kind was
done by Dr. William T. Bull on a patient
22 years ol age 17 hours afterhe had received
Jive wounds of the small and one of the
large intestine. Since that timethe opera
tion has been performed 110 times, in 94
cases by American surgeons, with a mortal
ity of only 68 per cent
AIWAYS HEADY FOE HEW METHODS.
The number of surgeons who thus dared
to do what was considered fatal, until one
of them had succeeded and so blazed the
way for the others, was very great, showing
how eagerly the profession watches the prog
ress of its leaders. Yet here were nearly
40 lives absolutely saved alter the receipt of
wounds that scarcely more than five years
since were thought to defy the surgeon's
still.
"But," as one of the famous New York
surgeons said 'to the writer a night or two
since, "the human liver has never yet been
cut out That is one 'impossible operation'
as surgical science stands to-day. There
has never been a successful operation in
New York City for rupture of the intestines
caused bv blows on the abdomen, although
two snch" cases have been cured by a surgeon
in London. Tne pancreas and certain parts
oi the bladder have not yet been touched by
the surgeon's knife. . . ..
"Cancer of the stomach is a disease abso
lutely incurable by medicine. It makes
very" slow progress, however. It requires
two or three years to kill its victim. Now,"
and the eminent surgeon waxed eloquent,
"if the cancer could be properly attacked
by the kniie in the first year or 18 months
of its course, life might be saved by the re
moval of a portion of the stomach itself.
All eminent surgeons are looking forward
to this consummation.
CENTEAli STATION OP THE BBAIN.
"The human brain has not yet been re
moved, of course. We may cut away those
portions or areas of the brain which have to
do with eyesight and speech and the motion
of the extremities. But the medulla oblon
gata is not to be touched by the knife that
is the seat of lite, the central station, with
which all portions of the brain are in com
munication. Damage to it impairs the
action of the heart and lungs and so saps the
fountains ot life.
"A number of New York and Philadel
phia surgeons operated on Mary Anderson,
the young girl who was shot in the brain by
Barclay Peakat Monnt Holly, N. J. She
died after the bullet had been located by
Dr. J. H. Glrdner, of New York, with his
induction balance or eleetzio probe, Many
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not dissimilar cases have recovered. This,
electric probe was successfully used on Pat
rick McGannon, at Bellevne Hospital, in
this city, by the sanction of the New York
Academy of Medicine. It has been used
with success in other cases since, and is re
garded as a valuable addition to the tools
of their trade by many of the leading sur
geons of the city.
"In cases of convulsions limited to cer
tain groups of muscles and of paralysis of
certain members, the specialist may locate
the seat of the trouble in the brain, and re
move it But as recently as ten years ago
snch operations as this were unknown.
CtJEABLE -WOUNDS OP THE HEART.
"Men have carried bullets in their hearts
for years,, where the missile has lodged in
the walls and not gone all the way through.
A punctured wound of the' heart with a
dagger or knitting needle does not neces
sarily cause death. Half of the bayonet
wounds of the liver got well during the war.
And like success attended the treatment for
many bullet wounds of the liver where no
other organ was injured. But there is only
one case recorded where any portion of the
liver has been cut away. Nellie Steele,
whose case was treated at the Bellevuc Hos
pital in this city, lived for more than 30
years with a needle in her heart. Samantha
Johnson, of New Brunswick, N. J., was
found after death to have lived for some
time with a rupture in her heart which sev
ered it three-quarters of an inch. I know
of no antheuticated case of a man with two
hearts."
Dr. Bull, ot New York, and Dr. Whar
ton, of Philadelphia, have also declared that
they knew of no such case. But the Boston
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Jfasal and Laryngeal Scissors.
Olobe has reported the existence there of a
negro named King George, who seemed to
have a heart on each side of his body, and
who, when examined by Dr. J. J. Smith,
Drs. Bichardson, Warren and others, of the
Massachusetts General Hospital, seemed to
have the power of suspending animation and
to show "true pulsations" on both sides of
the chest
LIVING WITH A BROKEN NECK.
Suppose your neck is broken! That is the
worst the hangman can do to yout But the
doctors may get you out even of that scrape.
Old Ransom Floyd, who was shot by a
burglar in Westport, N. Y., in February of
this year, lived for five weeks with a broken
neck, as shown at the antopsy performed by
Drs. W. E. Pattison, T. E. Delano and P.
F. Labell. Joseph Somers, a telegraph
operator in Brooklyn, fell out of his board
ing house window, broke his neck and got
past the fatal stage ot his injury under the
care of the surgeons at the Homeopathic
Hospital.
Frank Spencer, of Elizabeth, N. J., lived
three years with a broken neck, as shown at
an autopsy performed by Dr. Morris, of
Uellevue .Hospital in this city. Xiizzie
Hammond, a servant in the Brooklyn Hotel
in San Francisco, was discovered in the
room of a guest, and in attempting to escape
through the window fell to the pavement
and dislocated her vertebra:. She was re
stored to health by Dr. F. F. Lord, who
subsequently, when she at length died of
smallpox, instituted legal proceedings to re
cover her sknll and upper vertebra which
she had promised bim "in the interests ot
science."
OTHER WONDERS OP THE KNIFE.
"Modern surgery," said another practi
tioner, "gives men new eyes, even robbing
rabbits for that purpose with success. It
gives them new blood, tapping to that end,
the veins of some fellowman;it takes out
his ribs and parts of his lungs and spine if
he does not like them; it gives him, on oc
casion, a new larynx to talk with, a new
skin to perspire through; it cuts out bis
tongue or his thigh bone, and even stretches
his nerves to get the kinks out of them; it
straightens his crooked legs and provides
him with good, live tendons from a dog
when his own have suffered misfortune, and
it makes bim a new nose, a new mouth, a
new kneecap or a new ear if he wishes. It
won't be long before it may make him a
Frankenstein, if the progress of science con
tinues." "The finest surgeons in the world," says
another eminent medical man of Philadel
phia, "are to be found right here in New
York, in Philadelphia, and in Boston. The
expulsion of American students from Ger
man Universities need bring no detriment
to the progress of surgical science in this
country. Neither Berlin, Paris, Vienna nor
London can claim superiority in surgery
over New York. In fact, I expect to live
to see the day when medical students from
abroad will come to New York to complete
their education."
THE FIEST AMERICAN SURGEONS.
But the most aggressive surgeon in New
York, when shown his opinion, differed with
him. "It will be a long while, I believe,"
said he, "before foreign students come to
America to learn their protession. Sick
people abroad areaggregated in hospitals
in close connection with medical schools;
while this is true to a limited extent in
New York it is to a limited extent only.
Who are the most eminent surgeons in the
United States? Don't quote me and I'll
tell you.
"There are Weir, McBurney, W. T. Bull,
Dennis, Say re, Stimson, Glrdner, Smith,
Stephens and 20 others, at least, here. In
Philadelphia there are Dr. Ashurst, Dr.
Agnew, Dr. W. H. Pancoast, Dr. J. Will
iam White and Dr. H. R. Wharton. In
Boston there are Drs. Porter, Bichardson,
Warren and Homans that I think of; -iu
Cincinnati, Dr. Conner and Dr. George B.
Orr; in Buffalo, Dr. Park; in Charleston,
Dr. Kinloch; in Chicago, Drs. Parkes and
Senn; in Bicbmond, Dr. McGuire."
SURGICAL INVENTORS.
Surgeons are constantly inventing new in
struments, some of which, like Dr. Gird
ner's electric probe, achieve wide note, Dr.
O'Dwyer's new instrument for operating in
cases of croup, to intubate the larynx, is in
teresting. The tube is gold plated and the
introductor is of steel with a hard rubber
handle. This operation obviates the neces
sity of cutting into the throat.
The aluminium bullet probe, invented by
Dr. Flnhrer, who, a couple of years ago was
consulting burgeon at Bellevne Hospital,
has been used with muchsuccess. He in
vented it for use in a special case. Dr. S.
Sherwell's nasal and laryngeal scissors are
considered of much value to the profession.
"Will women at any time soon rival men
as surgeons? Is there not a constitutional
aversion in the mind of a woman to blood
shed, even in the cause of science, and
wouldn't a woman surgeon be as apt as not
to faint in the midst ofaeritical operation?"
These are questions naturally oocurriug to
the mind of the observer. J. P. B.
Dangrrons Negligence.
It Is as unwise to neglects; case of constipa
tion it indigestion as a case ot fever or other
more serious disease,! or, if allowed to progress.
as great danger to life may result A few Ham
burg Figs will pot the bowels In a healthy con
dition, in which they mav be kept by occasional
use of this medicine. 25"cent. Cose, one Fig.
At all druggists. Macs Diujg Co., X. V.
TTSU
Gents' Gapso Cnder-wenr.
Fine goods 35c, 60c; balbriggans 35c, 50c,
63c, 76c, at Bosenbaum & Co.'s.
iJJUAU jour puou w uo wytv " -
trie Portrait Company, 10 and 13 Sixth st;
crayons, water colors, etc.; bet work;
ivsnt jfciees.
IB0N xm COAL
THE CHEAPEST POINT IS THE WORLD
FOR BOTU.
Hprinc City. Teno.
It has been trnTy said that, iu commercial
and manufacturing circles at least, iron is
king. The wealth of a nation is invested ia
the iron plants and iron lands of the United
States, and hundreds of thousands of labor
ers are congregated about the centers of iron
activity. So enormous is the capital in
vested and so sharp is the competition that
even a slight decline in the value of iron
causes widespread loss to capital and idle
ness to laborers. Wherever iron can ba
made at a cost materially lower than tha
general run of cost in the great iron dis
tricts there must be a rapid shifting of both
capital and population to that place. Spring
City. Tenn., a beautiful town situated at
the junction of the Cincinnati Southern and
the Central Tennessee Railways, and within
six miles of the junction of "the Tennessee
and Piney rivers, has remarkable advan
tages as an iron producing center.
THE IRON SITUATION.
The competition of Southern furnaces with
the great Eastern establishments is already
keenly felt by them, and as the market con
ditions become more generally known and
appreciated, this competition must become
more distressing to the East
The inevitable decrees of nature have
made the Tennessee Valley iron district
the ultimate region of iron production ia
this country.
The long haul by which ore must be car
ried to theEastern furnaces mostly front
Lake Superior makes the average cost of
ore at the furnace door $6 per ton, or $9 75
per ton of finished pig. The coke, hanled
from the Con'.fllsville district from 75 to
150 miles o met- the ore at the furnace,
costs $4 to .b m of pig iron; limestone
forfluxiugc Scents to the ton of pig;
and labor, ipenses at the furnace,
costs $1 25 to ,ue tou of pig; making a
total cost to the average Eastern furnace
ot 515 75 to produce a ton of finished pig
iron.
In the East Tennessee district the iron om
kis almost at the furnace stacks, perhaps not
au average oi j.u mues ior an toe lurnaces
in the district The coking coal is in al
most all instances in from 2 to 15 miles from
the furnace. Owing to these favorable con
ditions the cost of ore at the furnace neces
sary to make a ton of pig iron does not ex
ceed 54, the cost of the coke necessary to
make a ton of pig iron does not exceed &,
labor and furnace expenses SI 25. limestone
75 cents, making, on a liberal basis of calcu
lation, a total cost for the finished ton of pig
iron in the East Tennessee district of 511, a
difference in favor of this district over tha
Pennsylvania and Ohio districts in the cost
of producing a ton of iron of about $4 76. .
Fnrnaces at Spring City must have the I
advantage oi all otner fnrnaces in this
favored East Tennessee district by reason
of the fact that (1) the Shin Bone ridge ore
is but one-half mile from Soring City and
the Iron Hill ore but six miles; (2) Spring
City is nearer than any other locality to an
inexhaustible field of the best coking coal in
the world; (3) Spring City has cheaper trans
portation to market than any other located
lurnaces in the district without an excep
tion, so that pig iron can to-day be produced
in Spring City at a cost lower at least by 60
cents per ton than any other place in the
country.
In the Eastern States there are about 640
furnaces, 160 of which are now out of blast
by reason of the fact that the price of pig
iron on the market is at a lower figure than
they can produce it In the East Tennessee
district there are 31 furnaces. When tha
price of pig iron is as low as 518 per ton, 140
of the 610 Eastern furnaces must stop opera
tions; when the price reaches S17, 200 mora
most close, and at $14 the last one of them
must shut down, but in this district not a,
furnace would go out of blast at 512, while
Spring City can make a good profit at Jli
per ton.
AS TO COAX.
Beside her superlative iron advantages,
Spring City is the gateway to the most val
uable and extensive unopened field of coking
coal in the United Slp.tes. This wonderful
basin is identical with theConnellsviHeand
Pocahontas coal in Pennsylvania and Vir
ginia, yielding 91 per cent of fixed carbon,
and is 450 square miles in extent A rail
road has already been built from Spring
City to within a few miles of this field and
will reach it this year. The 'analyses of
four leading chemists in the United States
(Mr. John Proctor, the State Geologist of
Kentucky being one of them) place the
amount of fixed carbon in this coal at from
89.94 to 91.62 per cent. The field has been
thoroughly tested and its limits defined,
and its value to Spring City first, and to the
iron district of Tennessee second, is incalcu
lable. Just beyond this basin of coking
coal is a large deposit of the wonderful
"Block" coal, the only coal known that
will smelt iron without being first converted
into coke. This exists in large quantities
on the the line of the Tennessee Central ex
tension, and Spring City must be the dis
tributing point ior it
A body of capitalists of large means and
great business prestige have invested a
million dollars in Spring City and sur
rounding mineral lands, and have inaugur
ated a system of public improvements, man
ntacturing enterprises, etc., that must
speedily establish the flourishing little city
as a manufacturing and industrial center.
This company, known as the Anglo-American
Association, Limited, have a prelimin
ary sale of town lots on June 3, 4, 5, which
everybody should attend who wants to make
an investment in a place with greater iron,
and coal prospects than any other point in
the country. Excursion rates on all trains.
For prospectus and fuller information ad
dress the Anglo-American Association, at
Spring City, Tenn.
200 bedroom suits, 65 parlor suits, 100
dining room suits, l,000chairs and rockers,
together with all other kinds of furniture,
all of the latest patterns, must be sold within
the next 30 days.
Special discount of 10 per cent on all
sales. Convince yourself before buying
elsewhere.
Our Monarch folding sewing table, 90a.
Michigan Furniture Co.,
437 Smithfield st.
Dressmaking-.
Ladles leaving the city in haste can have
dresses made on very short notico'at tht
Louvre Dressmaking Parlor,
24 Sixth st.
Directly opposite Bijou Theater entrance.
No branoh store.
The Choicest Things la Wood Mantels.
By visiting our mantel room, so full of
suggestions, you will be enabled to select tha
most judicious things for yonr new house.
James C. Thompson,
640 Liberty avenue.
PEARSON is very successful in copying
and enlarging from small pictures, either
from photos, or tin types. If yon have a
picture you want copied take it to him; he
will surely please you. Galleries 96 Fifth
ave. and 43 Federal St., Allegheny.
Tbo Hirnnss Oloslclnns .-
Have always civen preference to beer as '
beverage previous to their visit to the
United States. Since their coming, how
ever, they have transferred their allegiance
to the famous "Prince Begent" Queen Vic
toria's wedding present whisky. Ior sale
onlv at the Halt" Century House, 623 Liber
ty, "foot of Fifth avenue.
Gems' Gasze Underwear.
Fine goods 35c, 50c; balbriggans 35c, 50c,
62c, 75c, at Bosenbaum & Co. 'a.
$300 Reward
For any trace of antipyrine, morphine,
.i1nrti nr AnT Athw Inlnrinni Mmnntrnfl In
Krause'f Headache Capsules. Thau
Electric Portrait Copying Company, 10
and 12 Sixth st, copy and enlarge photos
in crayon, water colon, etc; best work;
lowest prices. wsu .
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livery, crayons, etc. , at low prices.
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