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She looked at him for a second; then low
ered her eyes. '
"Vincent," she said slowly, "you don't
know what vou ask. And I have wished
that you would understand, without my
having to speak. I have wished that you
would understand and go away and make
oar friendship a memory, something to
think over in after years. For how can I
tell you cleariy without seeming cruel and
ungrateful to one who has through my
whole lite been kindness and goodness to
me? no! no!"
She withdrew her hand; she turned away
from him altogether.
".Maisrie," said he, "I don't want you to
sav auytning, except that you love me and
will be uiv wile."
"Your vi'e, Vincent your witel" she
exclaimed, in a piteous sort of way. "How
can ynu ask anyone to be your wile who has
led Hie li"e that I have led? Can you not
j.UCEs Vincent without my having to
speak?"
He was astounded but not alarmed;
never had his faith in her flinched for a
single instant.
"The lie you have led?" said he, rather
breathlessly; "Way a a beautiful life
an idvllic fife constant travel and always
treated with sneh kindness and care and
affection an ideal Hie why, who would
not envy you?"
She was sobbing with her head averted.
"Don't, Vincent, don't! I cannot I will
not tell von," she said, in a kind of despair.
"What is the use? But it is you who have
made me think it is vou who have shown
me clearly what I have been. 1 I was
young I was only a child; my graud'athcr
was everything to me; whatever lie did was
right. And now 1 have become a woman
since I knew you I can see myself and 1
know that never, never can I be your wile."
'"Maisrie!"'
But she paid no heed. She was strangely
excited. She rose to her feet; and for a
moment he thought he saw a look of her
grandlatber in her face.
"And yet even in my degradation my
degradation," she said, repealing the words
with cruel emphasis, "I have some pride. I
know what your friends think of me, or I
can guess. Perhaps they are right. Per
haps the stories you spoke ot were all to be
believed. That is neither here nor there,
now. But, at least, they need not be atraid
that I am coming to them as a suppliant. 1
will not bring shame upon them; they have
nothing to fear from me."
He regarded her with astonishment, and
with something of reproach also; these
proud tones did not sound like Maisrie's
voice. And all of a sudden she changed.
"Why, Vincent, why," she said, "should
vou put vnurself in opposition to yonr
friends? Why give up all the splendid
future that is before you? Why disappoint
ail the hopes that have been formed of
you ?"
"If need were, for the sake of your love,
3Iahrie," he said.
'My love".'" she said. "But you have
that, "Vincent and and you shall have
that always!"
And here she burst into a passionate fit of
weeping; and in vain he tried to soothe her.
JCav, she would not have him speak.
"Let this be the last," she said, through
her bitter sobs. ""Only only, Vincent,
don't go away with any doubt i.bout that in
your minu. 1 love you! l shall love you
always! I will give my li e to thinking ol
yon when you are iar ton occupied ever
to think of liie. Will you believe me, Vin
cent! Will you believe, always, that I
loved you that I loved you too v.ell to do
what you ask to become a drag on yon
and a shame."
The tears were running down her cheeks,
but she kept her eyes filed bravely and
niteously on him. as she uttered her wild,
incoherent sentences. "My dearest my
flearet in all the world will ynu remember
will you believe that always? AVill you
say to yourself. 'Wherever Maisrie is at this
moment, she lows me she is thinking oi
Toe. Promise me, Vincent, thai you will
never doubt that! IC you need not put it
into word'; your heart tells me that it is
true. And now, Vincent, kiss me! kiss
me, Vincent! and theu goodby!"
She held up her face. He kissed her lips,
that were salt with the sea foam. The tan
S Ses of her wind-blown hair touched his
eaek 1 d thrilled him.
He did nnt speak for a moment. He was
overawed. This pure confession of a maiden
soul had something sacred about it; how
could he reply with commonplace phrases
alout his friends and the luture? And yet,
here was Mairie on the point of departure;
she only waited for a word of goodby; and
her eyes, that were now filled with a strange
sadness and hopelessness, no longer re
garded him. The farewell had been spoken
oa her side.
"And you think I will let ynu go, after
what you have just coniessed?" he said to
her and his calm and restrained demeanor
was a sort of answer to her trembling vehe
mence and her despair. "You give me the
proudest possession a man may have on this
earth; and I am to stand idly by, and let it
be taken awav from me. Is that a likely
thing?"
He took her hand, and put her back into
the sheltered corner.
"Sit down there, Maisrie, out of the wind.
I want to talk to jou. I was a fool when I
mentioned ihose stories the other day; I
could have cut my tongue out the next "mo
ment. Aud, indeed. I thought you took no
notice. Why should you take any notice?
Insensate trash! And who escapes such
things? and who is so childish as to heed
them? Then, again, I remember your say
ing that I knew nothing about your grand
father or yoursel.'. Do you think that is so?
Do jou think I have been all this time con
stantly in your society watching you,
studying you yes, and studying you with
the anxiety that goes with love; for, ot
course, you want the one you love to be per
fect. Do you imagine, after all this, that I
do not know you and understand you?
Degradation! very well, accept that degra
dation; I welcome all the degradation ihat
is likely to be associated with you. If I
were to wash my hands in thatsort or degra
dation I think they would come out a little
winter. I know you to be as pure and noble
as the purest aud noblest woman alive; and
what do I care about vour vour circum
stances?" "Don't, Vincent! don't be kiud to me,
Vincent," she said, piteously. "It will be
all the harder to think of when when we
are separated and lar awav from each
other."
"Yes, but we are not going to separate,"
said he. "Your grandfather has Jclt you to
decide for yourself, and surely after what
you have said to me this morning, surely I
have tne right to decide for you. We are
not going to separate, Maisrie except for a
few days. Wuen 1 am up in London I
mean to look round and sec what disposi
tions cau be made with regard to the future.
Yesterday 1 explained to your grandfather
how I was situatea; I need not bother you
with these things at present. Of course, I
could get plenty of money if I wished on
my expectations, as the saying is, but I
don't like that kind of periormauce. Oh, I
assure you, I am going to be very prudent
and circumspect, and I am ready to turn
my hand to anything. Then, in another
direction, Maisrie, you might give me a
hint, he weut on with much cheerfulness,
but watching her to see how she would take
it. "What pjrt of London do you think
you would like best to live in? It we could
get a small house with a garden up some
wheie about Campden Hill that would be
pleasant, and, of course, there must be a
library lor your grandfather, for we should
want the privacy of the morning room for
ourselves."
She shook her head.
"Dreams, Vincent, dreams!" she mur
mured. "But sometimes dreams come true." said
be, for he was not to be daunted. "And
you will see how much dream-work there
will be about it when I get things put into
trim in Loudon. iCow I'm not going to
keep your here any longer, Maisrie: or I
fancy there is some rain coming across; and
vou u.ssu't be caught. I will go iu and
say goodby to your grandfather, if I may;
and the next you will hear of me will be
when I send you some news from town. In
the meantime, hearts up, Maisriel surely
the granddaughter of your grandfather
should show courage!"
When, that afternoon, Vin Harris arrived
in Loudon, he did not go to his temporary
lodgings (what charm had thesluminy little
street iu Mayfair for him now?) but to
Grosvenor Place, where he shut himself up
in his own room, and manaired to get on
somehow with that detested lecture. And
next day he went down to Meudover; and
next evening he made his appearance before
the Meudover Liberal Association; and
there were the customary votes of thanks to
wiud up the proceedings. There was
nothing in all this worthy of note: what
was oi importance happened after,
when the President o." the associa
tion, whn had occupied the chair iu
the absence of Lord Musselburgh, accom
panied Vincent home to the Ited Liou.
This Mr. Simnfons was a solicitor, and a
great political power in Mendover; so, when
lie hinted that the Bed Lion had a certain
l.;.. nf tn-f Iknt ,40 fnmniie nil .iv0l-ttlf
country and, indeed, was powerful enoughj
to draw manv a hunt dinner to this hostelry
by its own -influence alone be sure that
Master Vin was not long in havinga de
canter o the wine placed in the private par
lor he had engaged. Mr. Simmons, who
was a sharp, shrewd-looking little man,
with a pale lace and intensely-black hair
and short-cropped whiskers, suggested a
cigar, and took the largest he could find in
his host's case. Then he proceeded toniake
hinielf important and happT with his toes
on the fender and his shoulders softly cush
ioned in an easy chair.
"Yes," said "he, complacently, when the
cigar was going well, "I think I cau pre
dict sntne good fortune for you, and that
without having my hand crossed with a
shilling. Ihope'I am breaking no confi
dence; we lawyers are supposed to be as
mum as a priest arter conlessional; but of
course what is said between gentlemen will
go no further lhau the four walls of this
room "
"I think you may trust me for that," Vin
cent said.
"Verv well, then," continued Mr. Sim
mons, with an air of bland importance, ''I
will say this at least that in January you
may fa'rly expect to be offered a very pretty
Sew Year's present."
"Pli, really," said Vinceut,without being
much impressed; he fancied the Liberal As
scciatioa were perhaps going to pass a vote
o thanks possibly inscribed on vellum
with the names of all the officials writ large.
"A very pretty present; the representation
of Mendover."
But at tfiis he pricked up his ears; and
Mr. Simmons smiled.
"Mr. .Richard Gosford is my client, as I
think you know," the black-a-viced little
lawyer went on, "but what I am telling you
docs not come direct from him to me. I need
notiparticularize my source of information.
But from what I can gather I am almost
certain that he means to resigu at the end
ot the year he did talk of waiting for the
next geuera! election, as Lord Musselburgh
must have told yon, hut his imaginary
troubles have grown on him; and as far as I
can see there will be nothing for you but to
slip easily and quietly into his shoes next
Jauuarv. A very pretty Hew Year's
present!"
"But of course there will be a contest!"
Vincent exclaimed.
"Not a bit," Mr. Simmons made answer,
regarding the blue curls of smoke from the
cigar. "The snuggest little seat in En
gland. Everybody knows you are Lord
Musselburgh's nominee; and Lord Mussel
burgh iias Dromised to do everything for our
public park that Mr. Gosford ought to have
done when he presented the cround. See?
Xo bribery ou yonr part. Simple as day
light We'll run y.m in as if you were an
infant on a wheelbarrow."
"It's very kind of yon, I'm sure," said
Vincent. "Is there anything you would
recommend me to do ?"
"Yes; I would recommend you to go and
call on old Gosford to-morrow, belore you
leave lor town."
"Wouldn't that look rather ike undue
haste in seizing a dead's niau's effects?"
Vincent ventured to ask.
"A dead man?" said Mr. Simmons, help
ing himself to another glass of port "He
is neither dead nor djing, any more than
you or I. And that's what you've got to
remember to-morrow, when you go to see
hiiu. .For goodness' sake, don't tell him
he's looking well as you've got to sav to
most iuvalids. Tell him he's looking
very poorly. Be setiously coucerned.
Then he'il be off to bed again aud de
lighted. For what he suffers troni is simply
incurable laziness aud nervous timid
ity; and so long as he can hide himself un
der the blankets, and read books, he's
hapny."
"But what excuse am I to make for call
ing on him?" Vincent asked again.
"Oh," said Mr. Simmons, carelessly,
"one public character visiting another.
You were here delivering a lecture; and of
course you called on the sitting member
You won't want any exense if you will tell
him he should take extraordinary care of
himself in this changeable weather."
"And should 1 say anything about the
seal?" Vincent asked lurther.
"1 must leave that toyour own discretion,
llather ticklish. Perhaps better say noth
ing unless he introduces the subject; then
you can talk about the overcrowdlug o the
House, and the late hours, and the nervous
wear and tear ot London. But you needn't
suggest to him, in set terms, that as be is re
tiring iron) business he might as well leave
you the good will; perhaps that would be a
little too outspoken."
And yet it was with no undue elation that
Vincent contemplated this possibility of his
being allowed to slip so quietly and easily
into Parliament; his first thought was how
would it aflect hi relations with Maisrie
Bethune? For indeed, at this time, turn
where he might, it was Maisrie, and always
Maisrie, that he encountered.
As luck would have it, a day or two after
Yin's return to town, Mr. Ogdeu came to
dine at Grosvenor Place. It was a man's
dinner a dinner or political extremists and
faddists; but so far from Master Vincent re
tiring to his own room and his books, as he
sometimes did, he joined the party, and even
stipulated for a place near the great elec
tioneerer and wire-pulier of the North, Fur
ther than that, he made himself most agree
able to Mr. Ogdeu; was most meek and hum
ble aud good humored (lor to what depths
of hypocrisy will not a young man descend
when he is madly in love?), and seemed to
swallow whoiesale the long-rcsomiding list
ofrelornis re orms administrative, reforms
electoral, reforms fiscal, re onus social and
political. For all the while he was saying
within himself: "My -dear sir, perhaps
what you say is quite true; and we're all go
ing headlong to the devil with the caucus
for drag. And I could wish you to have a
few more h's; still many excellent men have
lived and died without them. The main
point is this it one might dare to ask is
your private secretaryship stilT open; and,
II so, what salnry would ynu propose to
give?" But, of course, he could not quite
ask those questions at his own father's din
ner table; besides, he was in no hurry; he
wanted a few more days to look round.
The guests of the evening did not go up
to the drawing room; they remained in the
dining room, smoking, until it was time for
them to leave; then Harland Harris and his.
son found themselves alone together. Now
the relations between father and son bad
been very considerably strained since the
morning on which the former had brought
his allegations against old George Bethune
and his granddaughter; but on this occa
sion Vincent was iu a particularly amiable
and generous mood. He was pleased with
himself for having paid court to Mr. Ogden;
he looked forward with some natural grati
fication to this early chance of getting into
Parliament; and. again, what was the use
of attaching any importance to these pre
posterous charges? So he lit another
cigarette, stretched out his legs before the
fire andtold his father but with certain
reservations, for on one or two points he was
pledged to silence what had happened down
at Mendover.
"I am heartily glad to hear it," said the
communist capitalist, with a certain cold
severity! tone. "I am glad to hear that
you begin to realize what are the serious in
terests of Hie. You are a very fortunate
young man. It you are returned for
Mendover, it will be by a concurience of
circumstances such as could not easily have
been anticipated. At the same time I think
it might be judicious if you went down
again and hinted to Mr. what did you
say? Simmons? Mr. Simmons that in the
event of everything turning out well, there
would be no need to wait for Lord Mussel
burgh's contribution toward the completion
o! the public park. Whit .Lord Mussel
burgh is going to gain by that passe ray
comprehension excpt, perhaps, -some
further local popularity; and why should-a
Scotch peer desire to be thought well of by
n lot.of English chawbacoos. and small shop
keepers? I cau hardly suppose that he
made such a promise in order to secure your
election; that, indeed, would be a wild freak of
e'enerosity so wild as to be incredible.
However," continued Mr. Harris, in his
pendantic and sententious" manner, "it is
unnecessary to seek for motives. We do
not need to be indebted to him. I consider
that it is of the greatest importance that you
should eutei Parliament at an early age;
and I am wllliug to pay. "Meudover ought
to be a secure seat, if it is kept warm.
Promise them what you like I will see to
the rest. There are other things besides a
park, if they lire er to keep Lord Mussel
burgh to his promise; a free library for ex
ample if they have one already, another
one; a clubhouse for the football club a
pavilion tor the cricketers a refreshment
tent for the tennis ground a baud to play
on the summer evenings a number of
thing of that kind that you could discover
from your lrieud the solicitor."
Vincent could have laughed had he
dared. Here he was invited to play the
Dart of a great local magnate, plutocrat and
benefactor; and it was less than half an
hour ago that he had been anxiously won
dering whether 200 a year or 250 a year
would be the probable salary of Mr. pgdeu's
private secretary. Harland Harris went
on:
"It is so rarely that such an opportunity
occurs in England at least that one must
not be niggardly iu welcoming it. Simmons
did vou say Simmons? is clearly of im
portance; if you make him your agent in
these negotiations, that will be enough for
him he will look after himself. And he
will keep you sate; the elected member may
cheat a horse, whereas as a 'Candidate he
daren't look over the hedge. And once you
are embarked on a career of public useful
ness "
"Bribery, do you mean?" said Vincent,
meekly.
"I refer to the House of Commons; once
j-ou have your career open to you, you will
be able to" show whether the training you
have undergone has been the right one, or
whether the ordinary scholastic methods
mixed up with monkish traditions .vou Id
have been preferable. At all events you
have seen the world. You have seen men,
and their interests, and occupations, not a
parcel of grown-up schoolboys playing
games."
"I suppose." said Vincent, in a musing
kind ol" way, "if all this were to happen it
would be rather a nice thing to become a
member of Parliament. Though I don't
understand why that should be considered
the only serious interest of life. It seems
to me there are other interests of far greater
importance to any humau being affecting
him lar more nearly, and with far more re
moter consequences "
Harland Harris glauced at his sou quickly
and even nervously.
"Yes, j es," said he, with a certain hurried
impatience, "that may be; we wiil not dis
cuss abstract propositions. What is of
practical and immediate concern is that now
yon have got the opening into public life
for which every ambitious man must pine,
it is for yoursel i' to show what you will do
with the opportunity."
And therewithal he bade Vincent good
night. Nor did the young mati notice how
instantly aud apprehensively his father had
deprecated the introduction and discussion
of a certain subject. Not that Vincent
would have advanced fiom the region of
theory. He had no wish to bring forward
Maisrie once more to have her character
and antecedents animadverted upon, either
bv his lather or by any one else.
A day or two passed; he was still making
discreet inquiries as to how a young man,
witn some little knowledge ot the world,
and a trifle of capital at his back, but with
no specific pro'esaioual training, could best
set to work to earn a moderate income lor
himsel'; and also he was sounding one or
two editors lor whom he had done some
casual work as to whether employment of a
more permanent kind might be procurable.
Moreover, he had ordered the .little brooch
for Maisrie a tiny white dove this was, in
mother-of-pearl, on a transverc narrow band
of rabies; and besides that he had picked
up a few things with which to make her
room a little prettier, when she would re
turn to town. Some of the latter, indeed,
which wcie'fit for immediate installation, he
had already sent home; and one afternoon
he'thought he might as well go up and see
what Mrs. Hobson had done with them.
It was the landlady's husband who
opened the door; and even as he ushered
the man up to the parlor, he had begun his
story, which was so breathless and discon
nected and inclined to tears that Vincent in
stantly suspected gin.
"Lor bless ye, sir, weev bin in such a sad
quandary, to be sure, and right glad I am
to see you, sir, with them things a coniin
'ome, and you was so particular about not a
word to be said, and there was the missis, a
augin of 'em up, and the beautilul counter
pane, all spread out so neat and tidy, 'why,'
says she, 'the Queen on the throne she aiut
got uothin more splendid, which he is the
most generous young gcnclmau, and jest as
good as he's ansome' beggin' your pardon,
sir, for women will talk, and then in the
middle of it hall, here comes the old genel
man as we were not expecting of im, sir
ah, sir, a great man, a wouder'ul man, sir,
in sorrowful sikkumstancc. and the young
lady, too, and hall to he settled up reglar
oh, heverythink, sir like a genelman "
"What the mischief are you talking
abont," said Vincent, in his bewilderment.
"Do you mean to say that Mr. Bethune and
Mi Bethune have been in London?"
"Yesterday, sir, yesterday, more's the
nity. sir. to give up their rooms lor good
and hall, for never again shall we 'ev sich
lodgers in this poor otise."
"Look hers," sain Vincent, impatiently
for this rigmarole threatened at any moment
,to dissinate itself in luaudlfug weeping,
"will you answer me one question: am I
to understand that Mr. Bctiumn and his
granddaughter are not coining back here?"
"Indeed, no, sir, more's the pity, sir, it
was a honor to this poor ouse, and hevery
think paid up like a genelman, though
many'a the time I was say-in to the missis
as she needn't be so ard "
"'iire have they gone, then?" the
youuger man demanded peremptorily."
"Lir bless ye, sir, it took me all ot a sud
den they didn't say nothin about that, sir
and I was upset, sir "
Vincent glanced at his watch; 4:05 was
the time.
"Oh, I see," he said, with a fine careless
ness (for there were wild and alarming sus
picious darting through his brain?)
"They'ie going to remain in Brighton, 1
dare say. Well, good-by, Hobsori! About
those bits of things I sent up you keep
them for yourself tell Mrs. Hobson I make
her a present of them you needn't say any
thing about them to anybody."
He left the house. He quickly crossed
the street, and went up to his own roo'ni; the
table there was a blank he had almost ex
pected as much. Then he went out again,
hailed a hansom, drove down "to Victoria
station
and
caught the 4:30 tram
to Brighton. When he reached the
lodging house in German Place,
he hardly dared knock; he sqemed to know
already "what was meant by this hurried and
stealthy departure. His worst foars were
immediately confirmed. Mr. Bethune Miss
Bethune had left the previous morning.
And did no one know whrtner they had
gone? No one. And there was no message
no letter for any one who. might call?
There was no message no letter.
The young man turned away. It was rain
ing; he did not seem to care, " Out there in
the dark was the solitary light at-the end of
the pier; why, how many days bad gone by
since she had said to him. with tears run
ning down her cheeks "Vincent, I love
youl I love you! you are my dearest in
all the world! remember that always!" And
what was this that she had done? for that
it was of her doing he had no manner of
doubt. Enough: his heart, that had many
a time been moved to pitv by her solitari
ness, her-friendlessness, had no more pity
now. 3?ride rose in its place pride, and
reproach and scorn. There was but tne one
indignant cry ringing in his ears "JTalse
love false love and traitress!"
To It Continued Next Sunday.
ART OF THE BORGIAS.
Poisons That Destroy Life
, -Quickly and Painlessly.
Most
TOE DEADLY CIIAKCOAL FUMES
On Which tho Dread Messenger RId.es
X
ftiftly and Unheralded.
THE ACTION 0P HYUROCIAXIC ACID
rwniTTES Tps ins dispatch. 3
The art of poisoning 18 one of the most
fascinating subjects to which the pen has
ever been applied. Itecognizing this I have
prevailed upon a medical friend, now pre
paring a work upon this subject, to allow
me to publish the appended symposium of
letters which he has itceived from some of
the most eminent chemists in this couutry
in answer to the following questions, which
he had propounded to them:
First What poison do you consider the most
painless?
Second What one do you deem the most
rapid iu lis action? ,
Third What one is the most difficult of de
tection afjer death?
Fourth Do' ou think that poisoning is a lost
art? That if. had tho ancients, or the Borgias,
or any other persons in other ages, poisons of
-which wc have no knowledge and which were
superior to any of ours in painlessness, rapidity
of action or difficulty of detection?
The answer of Dr. Francis W. Blake, A.
M., M. D., Professor or Chemistry and
Toxicology in the Columbus Medical Col
lege, Columbus, O., w;ho is one of the best
known aud most eminent authorities in the
West on all that pertains to poisons, is a
fitting introduction to the series of opinions.
His. letter is as lollows:
Frank Feen.
Romance and Reality.
33 S. Fourth Street, Columbus,
0.,i
October 2, 1890. J
Dear Doctor There is nothing in the
L whole field of romance and reality that
affords wider scope to the imagination of the
play or story weaver, as he sits at his loom,
than the old yet ever new incident of
murder by poison, for there is no other
which can be presented in so many ways or
so readily portrayed in impossible lights
with so strong a semblance of probability.
We are all familiar with the heroine who
places a small vial to her lips and iustantly
drops back dead, aud the jealous lover who
presents his mistress with a lovely bouquet,,
one inhalation of whose fragrance stretches
her a corpse at his feet. And yet these
hackneyed incidents of fiction are not so im
possible as may at first appear to skeptical
minds. Prussic acid of mil strength
known to chemists asthe officinal or 100 per
cent hydrocyanic acid will act with
almost lightning-like rapidity, and
the great ehemist, Shiel, the discoverer
of that beautilul shade of color known
as Shiel's gree.i, is said to have dropped
dead instantly irom inhaling the fumes of a
few drops of such acid.
Bnt it is not only the sudden, rapidly-acting
poisons that have received the attention
o. the novelist and playwright. Slow poi
soning is a theme that has o ten stood them
in good stead. Who that has read it can
ever forget Dickens' clever short story of the
Kev. Julius Slinkton, of the victims he de
stroyed by slow poison, and how he was fin
ally unmasked?
Answering your questions: a irst i tnink
the oxides oi carbon the most uniformly
painless, though the dioxide cannot be
strictly classed with poisons.
Sfcuud Hydrocyanic acid acts more
rapidly than any poison with which I am
acquainted.
Third The poisons most difficult of de
tection are lonnd among the vegetable and
animal alkaloids.
Fourth Poisoning as an art is less per
fect now than formerly, but the scientific
acumen of the present would clear up much
that in the days ot the Borgias seemed mys
terious and marvelous.
Very sincerely yours,
Fkajjcis W. Blake.
Etery l'olson Can lie Detected.
Dr. William H. Greene, demonstrator of
chemistry of the University of Pennsylvania
aud one of the most scholarly chemists of
our time, sends the following interesting
letter: .
Dear Doctor In reply to your ques-
tions, I would, say: Ifirst, the most painless
poison is probably morphia or some simi
lar narcotic. Second, hydrocyanic or prussic
acid is the most rapidly fatal of all poisons
in its action. Third, chemical and physio
logical tests may now be applied with such
certainty to detect poison in, food and drink
and in the human body after death that if
scientific examination and judicial inquest
be possible the administration of almost
any poison is attended with the risk of pos
sible detection.
The poisons which would beSmost likely
to escape detection would be those most
closely resembling the ptomaines of
poisonous lungi. 1 do not believe, however,
that there exists a poison or that one can
exist that could not he positively
identified after death either by the lesions
produced in the organs affected, or by the
extraction from the corpse of the victim of
the poison itself, aud by the study oi its
properties.
I do not think that the peopleof auy
otlier use could have taught us anything in
this matter. The crimes of the Borgias were
well known at the time of their perpetra
tion, aud the Borgias were well-known to he
poisoners, but their power protected them.
Except under conditions that would now be
only of very rare almost impossible oc
currence, such murders by poison could not
be perpetrated. A Borjia would must in
evitably be detected, exposed and punished
at the present day.
Very sincerely yours,
William'H. Greene,
201 North Thirty-Sixth Street, Phil
adelphia. Pittsburg's Borgia a Monomaniac
Dr. William Simon, M. D., Ph. D. ably
fills the chair of Professor of Chemistry
and Toxicology in the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, Baltimore. Md., and has con
tributed largely to the literature of those
important studies. He differs slightly from
Dr. Greene with regard to the most painless
poison as will be seen below.
Dear Doctor It hasolten transpired in
the annais of crime that poisoning has been
found to have become a positive monomania
and that the successful poisons of one, hav
ing escaped detection, at once becomes eager
to make his victims mauy, even though he
have npother motive tor destroying them.
A notable instance was one Mrs. Grinder, a
respectable woman of the middle-class, who
was hanged iu Pittsburg, Pa., aquirlerofn
century ago, after she hail success ully
poisoned many of her neighbors who had
been her best and most intimate friends.
This was a cause celebre, and attracted
general atteution throughout this country
and Europe at the time.
Answering your question submitted
to me I beg to say: First Carbon monox
ide is in my oniniou the mos1
painless ot all poisons, as lo.tlie best of my
knowledge there are no cases on record
showing any suffering whatever on the part
of the,dying from the effects of this gas and
Hiad nuder my observation one case in
which a man had been rendered senseless
lrom the effects of this gas lor hours, and on
being restored told me that he had not felt
anything but what he felt cverv niirht in .
jug to sleep. Morphia might rank nexttol
carbon monoxide in painlessness, though
this would depend largely upon the indi
vidual and the dose administered.
Second Hydrocyanic acid in a pure state
is generally looked upon as the most rapid
in Jts action, and I know of no poison that
will act more quickly. Nicotine in a pure
state also has caused death in a few seconds.
Third I would say that coniine isproba
bly the most difficult poison to detec't after
death. It is an alkaloid ol conium or hem
lock, of which it is the active principle.
Conium maculatum is the botanical name
of hemlock, which is'an umbelliferous plant,
that is a native of Europe and has been
naturalized in the United States. Hemlock,
or conium is believed to be the narcotic used
by the Athenians to destroy the lite of con
demned individuals, and by which Socrates
and Phocion died. There are a number of
other alkaloids that arc, perhaps, as diffi
cult to detect.
Fourth I do not think that the .ncients
knew of auy poisons or had'any with which
we are not acquainted now. The cases
sometimes mentioned in which a poison was
tn be given at a certain time, with a view to
its producing death a day, or several days,
later, have never been substantiated wbeu
looked into by scientists. In times gone by
it was very much easier to mystify people
than it is to-day, and tn this fact alone is to
be attributed the belief of many that the art
of poisoning is, to some extent, 'a lost one.
Yours very truly,
William "Simon.
Baltimore, Md.
Poisoners of tho Past.
Dr. John J. Beese is generally recognized
as one of the highest living authorities on
all that pertains to medical jurisprudence
and toxicology. For many years past he
has been professor of those sciences in the
University of Pennsylvania located in
Philadelphia. He agrees with the authori
ties above quoted on the first questions.
Eliminating answers to them his letter is as
follows:
Dear Doctor "Is poisoning a lost
art?" Well, I do certainly think that the
art and facility of administering poisons
with secrecy, subtlety and without pain,
was formerly practiced to a greater extent
than at present. In the time of the Borgias
and the de Brenvilliers. as we read, there
were "professed poisoners;" but in our time
the knowledge of poisons is much more
widely diffused, and has consequently lost
much of its mystery. As regards the natnre
of these secret poisons, I think the general
opinion at present is, that arsenic, morpljine
conium and a few others were probably the
articles employed in small and repeated
doses. I cannot believe that they produced
their fatal effects '"without pain," or with
out any overt symptoms; but no doubt
these were generally mistaken (as at pres-
bul; lor disease.
Very respectfully yours,
John J. Keese.
University of Pennsylvania.
Amyl Nitrite Tavored.
Dr. Henry Leffmann, the well-known
analytical chemist and expert, who so ably
fills the post of pathological chemist to the
hospital of the Jefferson Medical College,
Philadelphia, presents the claims of amyl
nitrite as a painless, rapidly-acting poison,
as will be seen below:
Dear DciCTpn Amyl nitrite would rank
verv bighas a painles), rapid poison. From
its highly volatile nature it .would also be
difficult to detect. Hydrocyanic acid and
chloroform are also rapid and painless.
Some of the rarer vegetable poisons are very
difficult to detect. I do not think the
ancients had any high development of
the art of poisoning. There may be some
lost arts. Those of coloring glass and tem
pering copper are sometimes mentioned, but
I am not inclined to think thatiii toxicology
there was much headway until modern
times. Truly yours,
Henry Leffmann,
T15 Walnut street, Philadelphia.
Cyaniile of Potassium.
Dr. P. B..Wilson, professor of chemistry,
toxicology and microscopy in the Baltimore
University, of Baltimore, Md., thus pre
sents the claims of potassium cyanide as the
most rapid and painless poison:
Dear Doctor Observation has con
vinced me that potassium cyanide is the
most painless poison on account of its in
stantaneous action. It is quicker than the
ordinary hydrocyanic acid of medicine,
though the latter, in its most concentrated
lorm, would be as quick.
Hydrocyanic acid would be the most diffi
cult to detect, because it decomposes so
rapidly. Conium and some of the other
rarer alkaloids would also be difficult to
detect, but fortunately lew of these are
available for criminal use. Yours truly,
P. B. Wilson.
Baltimore, Md.
Poisoning Not a Lost Art.
Dr. John H. Long, S. C. D., is widely
known as the Professor of Chemistry in the
Chicago Medicil College aud the Medical
Department of the Northwestern University
of that city. He sends the following letter:
De'ar Doctor I suppose the prepara
tions of opium must be looked upon as the
most painless poisons, while the soluble
cyanides and hydrocyanic acid are as
speedy as any.
I can not say which is the most difficult
poison to detect. There are certainly sev
eral which, in most cases, would escape
detection by chemical means.
Poisoning is probably not a "lost art,"
although increasing knowledge makes it
less olten success ul.
Yours respectfully,
J." H. LONG.
Chicago Medical College.
Poisoning Hypodennically.
Dr. John M, Maisch, Professor of Materia
Medica in the Philadelphia College of
Pharmacy, writes as follows:
Dear Doctor Poisons administered
hypodermically are, as a mle, difficult to
detect organic more so thau mineral. So
far as I know the poison lived by the Bor
gias has never been ascertained.
Very truiy yours.
. " John M. Maisch.
Philadelphia College of Phar
macy. Tlio Atchison lVomaii's Bread.
Kansas City Times. J
An Atchison woman is getting a good
deal of advertising because she succeeded in
making a two-pound loaf of biead out of a
pound of Hour. If all the Atchison women
make their bread as heavy as that it is
no wonder that the men are so dyspeptic
that they are always quarreling about some
thing. A Chance for Promotion.
Jewelers' Weekly.
Office Manager Johnny, if you don't get
a move on you I'll kick you through the
skylight.
Office Boy Kick away. This is the first
chance to rise I've seen since I came here.
Backwoods Farmer (who has just finished
the sign) I kinder like the idee, some
how'r other. It has'r religiousfeeling' rnn
uin' through it, an' at the same time means
business t Life. .
PANTING FOE BREATH
At an Altitude of Fifteen Thousand
Feet Above Sea Level. -
HIGHEST PiAlLKOAD IN THE WORLD
Stalking for .Gnanacos Among the Snowy
Peaks of the Andes.
CROSSING THE DESEUT OP 1SLAI
rCORJlESrOSDKNCE Or TUE DISPATCII.1
Mollendo, Peru, September 21. From
LakeTiticaca to the sea is3railway journey
of 325 miles, all in Pern, over the Andes
aud across a desert. Starting at au elevation
of 12,000 feet, the road rises by gradual
ascent to the extraordinary altitndeof 14,065
feef, the highest that wheels tnrned by
steam have ever attained.
This Puno and Mollendo Bailway was
built for the Peruvian Government about 14
years ago by Mr. Henry Meiggs; and it cost
more than 15,000,000 for the 325 miles, or
the enormous average of .5135,000 per milel
Though it has few tunnels no railway in the
world can show so much excavating or such
massive embankments. Thee is another
Peruvian railroad, called the Oroya, also
built by Meiggs, leading from Lima up to
the mines of Cerrodel Pasco and thence pro
jected to the head waters ol the Amazon,
designed to connect with that great fluvial
highway and thus make transit to the At
lantic shorter and cheaper than by the old
routes which, at some points, will be even
higher thau this one.
management of the road.
While Mr. John Thotndyke, late of Bos
ton, was manager of the Puno and Mollendo
road, its affairs were conducted strictly on
the American plan; but since this railway,
in common with all others in Peru, now
comes under the celebrated "Grace-Don-oughmore
contract," the leaders being the
well-known banker and ex-Mayor of New
York City and Lord Donoughmore, of Lon
don, backed by plenty of English and
United States capita, its business is man
aged by an odd but politic mixture of meth
ods, notably North American, South Amer
ican. Peruvian and English.
Its present Superintendent, Mr. Victor
Hugo MacCord, formerly from San Fran
cisco, is a typical Westerner, combining
the most cordial courtesy with great busi
ness energy. He has experienced some
strange ' 'ups and downs" in his connection
with this railroad, which serve as a sample
of what most foreigners may expect who
have the boldness to engage in business in
many portions of this revolution-ridden con
tinent. Coming here first as a telegraph
operator, Mr. MacCord soon worked his way
up to the superintendence of the road.
A DOSE OF PRISON LIFE.
Then came on the war between Peru and
Chili, and it happened one day, by some ac
cident wholly unforeseen, that anengineon
its way to Mollendo was seized and "run
in" by the Chilians, wbo'seem to have made
it a point during that short but sanguinary
struggle to steal everything they could lay
hands on, even to locomotives under lull
steam! Though in no way to blame lor the
occurrence, Mr. MacCord was held directiy
responsible oy tne local authorities ot Are
quipa, that city, which has always been the
headquarters of, the railway management,
being then under military rule.
He was at once arrested and without a
hearing oi any sort imprisoned in a Erloomv
dungeon of the quirte! which had not so
much as a chair or bed, nothing but the
bare, damp walls. Neither food nor water
was supplied to him and his repeated de
mands for a trial or at least the chance to
make a statement in his own behalf were
answered by counter-demands for a large
amount of 'money. The latter not being
forthcoming, he was lefl out one night with
out a moment's warning, ostensibly to be
shot, aud told to prepare for instant death.
ALL FOR A RANSOM.
Probably it was not intended to kill him,
merely to terrify him into enriching the im
pecunious local Jefe Politico. Failing in
this, after he had been placed in position
and the soldiers had raised their nlles to file,
knowing that nothing could be gained by
his death and possibly something might be
wrung out of him if he were allowed to live,
the bal -drunken officer remanded him back
to prison. Friends brought him food and
finally raised the sum of S10.000 for his le
leasc, which they paid over to the Jerte, who
certainly had no right to it beyond that of
temporary military power, and the illegally
imprisoned gentleman was set at liberty. A
few monthsagoMr. MacCord was again made
superintendent of this same road to the sat
isfaction of all concerned; and affairs are
now going as smoothly as anything' can be
expected to in Peru.
A few miles from Crucero Alto is Vin
cocaya, the very loltiest village in all the
world, unless 'it may be some of those in
Central Asia, 14.3G0 feet above the sea..
This Andean village is purely a creation of
the railroad and boasts of the adjuncts of a
relay aud repairing station.
THE BREATH COMES HARD.
Long before we arrive at Vincocaya, com
ing from either end of the line, nearly every
body is sufferingfrom sirroche, in greater dr
ies degree. Strange to say, frequent pass
ing over the same heights does not exempt
one from the distressing complaint, and the
strongest aud healthiest seem N to be mure
prostrated by it than the sickly.AVlth the
exception of one of our immediate party, a
consumptive yiuug Chilian, traveling to
prolong bis span of life, whose sunken chest
heaves piinlully in the effort of respiration,
and whose pale face has taUefl onji ghastly
grayish blue. A jolly Englishman from
Arequipa, who weighs nearly 300 pounds,
aud says he was never ill iu his life except
when passing over this road, has turned the
color of a boiled lobster, and, gasping with
suffocation, holds his head with both liaiuij,
declaring that it is about to burst.
The remedies commonly made use of are
braudv and bromide of potassi, asaited by
various smelling salts and the odor of raw
onions. The natives believe so implicitly
in the latter preventive that not one of them
will travel in the higher altitudes without a
generous supply, which he cuts aud sniffs at
leisure, though it be strong enough to draw
tears irom tho eyes of a graven image.
When mules and horses are prostrated with
sirroche, the usual cure is to stuff slices of
raw onions up the creature's nostrils.
TROM WINTER TO 'SUMMER.
The traveler ou this railway is constantly
reminded of that celebrated paiuting called
"The Heart of the Andes," and realizes
that he has found the very spot. It is al
ways bitterly cold ou the mount lin tops,
..,? ...liun t Vinnoeav.i. wn iiiek our wav
from the car toj the Hotel Enipresa for
luncheon, iu a driving storm of sleet and
snow we console ourselves rith the knowl
edge' that a lew hours more will bring us
down into a region of perpetual summer
time to the ever-bloonijng roses and so t,
warm sunshine of old Arequipa, the Inca
"Place of Best."
In some parts of Peru, Bolivia and Chili,
guanacos are as common as goats in Switz
erland. The animal's body is somewhat
of the greyhound build, being very narrow
in the? loins but deep in the chest It is
covered with long hair, exceedingly solt and
fine, pale yellow, shading to white under
neath. Combined with the strength and
enduranca of the llama, it has all the char
acteristics of the North American deer,
being as graceful and as fleet- ooted, and its
fl.ch ; mneh like that of the antelope.
Their skmslikc that of the vacuna, com
mand a high price in Europe, where they
are iu "rcat demand lor carriage robes,
cloak liclng, etc. In their wild state, the
animals roam in flocks, and one of the herd
always stauds on guard. If danger threat
ens be gives the alarm by stamping hu feet,
and stvift indeed must the pursuer bo who
can overtake them.
IT'S EXCITING SPORT.
Every hunter who can afford It-keep -a
pack of dogs trained especially for this
chase. The men "stalk" the game with
greatest care, and sometimes grtjnearenougli
for a shot with their rifles; but it nltener
happens that the timid creatures decline so
close an acquaintance with their natural
enemy, man. If a gu.maco is found grazing
singly ou the plain, the chince of getting
him is very small; but when the herd is pur-
sued, each animal tries to crowd himself
into the center for greater safety, thus con
siderably retarding their speed by the con
fusion that ensues. It is amusing to note
bow well the dogs understand this trick, and
while crazy to pursue a flock, they look with
indifference upon the solitary guanaco or
vicuna. What is known as a "bezoar stone"
is occasionally fouud in the stomach of one
of these animals, and to possess it is consid
ered the greatest kind of good fortune, its
magical virtues exempting the lucky indi
vidual whn utrries it in his pocket from
must of the ills to which flesh is heir.
Alpaca and vicuna wool closely resemble
one another, both being very fine and valu
able. Large quantities ol it are exported to
England, and a little goes to the United
States. The coarser wool of the llama is
from six to eight inches lung, and a single
fleece often weigh as much as 12 pounds;
but it is seldom sheared, the animal being
most valuable as a beast of burden in alti
tudes where horses and mules are useless.
THE LONGEST AQUEDUCT.
Along the side of the track, for a distance
of more than 35 miles, runs an 8-mch iron
pipe, for the purpose ol" supplying water to
Mnllendo and the intervening stations, there
being none near the coast. " Coming from
springs in the mountains near Arequipa,
7,000 feet above the sea and extending to
the Pacific, it is the longest aqueduct in
the world, and is capable of discharging
430,000 gallons of water during every 21
hours.
From Arequipa to the ocean is 107 miles,
and most of the route lies across the hot and
lifeless desert of Islay. After descending
the shoreward range of the Andes, the train
zig-zags raoidly down the barren foothills
to the great desert, which it crosses with a
directness in marked contrast to its tortuous
course among the heights. In its narrowest
place the desert is about 60 miles across, aud
before the day of the railroad the journey
had to be made on donkey back. Theu it
was customary to cross it in the night to
avoid the heat and glare of the san.
RIDING inE DESERT.
I can never forget the aspect of the conn
try with the glare of the sun upon it one
vast waste of sands and stones, hills bare of
all but cactus, measureless stretches of sand
that look like the shore of the sea from
which the waves have receded. There are
no trees, nor even bushes, except in those
infrequent spots where fertility has been
produced by irrigation; and wherever the
tanks that are placed at regular intervals to
supply the locomotives with water, led from
the iong aqueduct, have leaked or dripped
into the ankle-deep dust, grass grows lux
uriantly, indicating what the result might
be, even in this desert, under a judicious
system of irrigation.
There are mauy peculiar mounds of sand,
white as snow, all blown into semi-circular
shapes like huge crescent moons, showing
the direction and force of ihe prevailing
winds. But for most oi the distance not a
living thing is to be seen, except at the lew
stations, where bedraggled women, dusty as
their surroundings, come on board irith
peaches to sell tolerably lair-looking fruit,
but hard as the rocky hills and tasteless as
the sand3 in which they grew.
Fannie B. Ward.
GOT THE WE0HG COWS.
A Big Shepherd Doc; Ont for a Frolic Gets
a Good Tronnclng.
Hetr York San. 3
Passengers who were waiting for a New
Jersey Central Kailroad train at the Perth
Amboy depot on Thursday saw two cows in
a field opposite the deput get the belter of a
large shepherd dog iu a fight that the dog
started. Ot the dozen cows in the field one
strayed away from the. herd and stood near
the fence along the railroad track. The dog
ran up the bank and barked in heriace
until she turned and ran.
The dog tallowed, snapping at her heels,
and she stopped suddenly, and. turning on
the dog, tried to hook hiiu. The dog dodged,
and then jumped and caught her by the ear.
Tne cow shook him loose, and again tried
to book him, hut the dog got another grip
on her ear. The fight was continued lor
five minutes, and the rest of the herd
watched it, switching their tails aud mov
ing their ears hack and forth.
Finally, one of them started toward the
combatants. She walked unconcernedly
enough until within a few feet of them, and
then, suddenly lowering her head, she
rushed at the dog, caught him on her horos,
and tossed bim over the fence on the track.
He gave one or two ki-yi's, and scudded
down the- track with his tail between his
legs. The two cows looked after him a mo
ment and then joined the herd.
How lie Was Heard.
I'hiladelphfa Timcs.l
"Why wasn't I heard more in Congress?"
rejoined the member contemptuously: "Do
you read the papers?"
"Certainly I do."
"Well, then, did you never notice in the
reports of speeches 'Laughter,' 'Applause
on the Republican side,' and such things?
I took a leading part in them every time."
HO LOVER OF CHESTNUTS.
Ltre.l
We heard a mechanic say lhat he would
not be without Salvation Oil.' Kills pain.
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ROCKS ONJHRTBACK.
Conservatism is a Train-Wrecker of
l!ic Very Worst Type.
PROGRESS IS THE COMMUNITY,
In the School and JJven In the Church Often
Ditched by It.
ETIL 0P ETLKSAIj RETROSPECTION
iWRnrmr ros the DisrATCii.3
It is strange, but no more strange than
true, that wherever aud whenever energetic
and progressive men seek: to advance public
interests there can always be found others
who are just as induitrionsly employed in
trying to block the wheels and wreck the
train. Iu the history of most cities and
communities there has been an epoch when
things appeared 10 reach a climax. Against
the desire of a few men who tried to go
ahead there were those who rolled the rocks
of opposition on the track and whistled
"down brakes."
Why notrun over the obstrnctionistand go
ahead anyhow? That is a very natural
question. I read recently of a train heing
brought to a standstill by a large colony of
caterpillars getting on the track. They
were so numerous and produced such an eC
fect that the tngins whecl3 could not grip
the rails so as to make any headway. Be
fore the train could move the track bad to
be cleared, and in the clearing thousands of
caterpillars were slain. Now, there is, for
a wonder, no society for the preventiou of
cruelty to caterpillars, so they could be
killed with impunity with the shovels and
brooms of the grave'l train. Rut this system
oinnotbo brought iut play in dealing with
human impediiicnta. You have to wait till
tuuv uiu a natural death, and somehow or other
this species of humanity exhibits amoststn
penduuus pertinacity in. clinging to life. Yonr
energetic business man entering npon hu
career is sometimes handicapped and held in
check by influences indicated, and the friction
kills him. :Not so the kicker." He lives on
and on. A wrinkle here and there as the year3
come and go. hut he still lives, growling and
grumbling; anil wouilcrni; what the world is
coining to. He has graveled and saved a few
dollars, and finally he does pass in nis checks.
Then, as a rule, unless he 1'as sown too much
of the seed of imposition in the minds of the
rising generatinu there is growth in the direc
tion of progress.
Ono Town's Experience.
Many years ago, possibly 59, a machinist
arrived in this country from England, and
settled in the city of Trenton. X. J. As he
approached that town, which was then an
old-fashioned place.with the flavor of Kevo
lutionary days still upon it, he got into
conversation with a native. Asked what
his mission was, he said he had engaged as
a machinist in a new concern just formed or
forming. The citizen was terriblyalarmed.
He considcrid that such a dirty business
would just rum the city, with its smoke and
its noise. People who" owned land tried to
keep back the" tide of enterprise that was
seeking its level on the banks of the dear
old Delaware. This class of obstructionist
was very numerous. The idea of the pure
sunlight of heaven being soiled, with smoke,
and the air filled with sulphurous lames!
They wauted none of it.
For a few ye irs this spirit had its effect,
and there were numerous long funeral pro
cessions and many grand rhetorical eulogies
pronounced before it was killed. Within tho
writer's memory, however, the city of Trenton
has grown from a large village to a city whuso
manufacturing industries are pu-sibly more
diversified than any other oa ihis continent. It
was a hard thing to kill the opposition. When
street cars were first spoken of a great many
people rose up in arms and denounced thuse
"to urged the'inatter. Now thev toneh almost
every important strret. All this was maua
possible by a few small manufacturing inter
ests being alluwcd. under protest, to locate
within the sacred limits of thocld Itevolulion
ary burg.
This is one illustration of many that might
be instanced. Happvthe place where losylsm
li notable by its rarity. I don't know whether
rittsbnrg ever was afflicted in this way or
not. If she was she seems to have cotton over
it, and is now m the full light of better days.
Jr
Fog ism in the School Hoards.
Row, this same principle of opposition to
the onward march of endeavor is not con
fined to communities as a whole, but is felt
everywhere. At one time I served on the
Board oi Education in a town in New York
State. Oue member of ihe board, which
'with two or three exceptions wa3 a wooden
affair anyhow, thought the boys and girls
were "gittin' too much eddikation." When
he was a lad that didn't "lam em retterick
and fissiology, nor any o' that kind a
trnck. They lurnt spcllin' and readin' and
rethniatik." Hu didn't believe in spending tho
people's money in "gografy. and all that kind
a nonsense."
Visiting this same schuol one day thi3 samo
man watched a pupil doing an example In
algebra.
"What aro ynu doing: my lad?" he inquired.
"Algebra." was the reply.
Wbv them's not alphabet., them's figgers."
The I'riucipal tried to keep the school from
laughing, but it was n use. Then thu member
of tne briard'thnuglit the discipline was not up
to the mark. In order to make the schools
anything like efticicne this man, with two or
three others had t be squelched. A propo
sition to ventilate the buildings in accordance
with modern scientific methods met with a
howl of opposition from tucie men, and they
had to be circumvented by strategy.
-- Old 1'a.shions lit Church.
I once served a church in New Jersey
that had been run iu a rut for many-years.
At the services all the men would sit on one
side and all the women on the other. Such
was the hold the foolish custom had npon
the people that it took a year to break it up.
Von liloltke or Grant never had a tougher
job in the line of strategic or diplomatic
ork than J had in this matter. It was old
foeywn iu the concrete.
In another church w.is a deacon who had. for
a quarter of a century, always offered the first
prajer at the weekly meeting. He would
watch till the pastor was through his lecture,
and down upon his marrow hones he would go,
and would hold on for from 21) to 30 minute'.
Finally the hut feather fell on the camel's
back, and I nkcu someone elw to open tho
meeting. It wa a hold stroke, and came near
bursting up the whole orgamzition.
Nov.. I don't object to ancient things, so long
as they are of somo utility, but I do abominate
that kind of conservatism which dwells In the
catacombs of eternal re'ropectlon. Mid never
look-, into the bright and plowing fuiure, full
of possibilities that the imagination of man is
utterly incapable to comprehend or conceive.
Onward is ihe watenword of ihe age. The
human race cannot progress too rapidly. There
is a divinity shapes oar end-. Let us cling to
one round of the ladder of progress until wa
can reach another, but when wo do reach it.
leave hold of the lower one. Bur. luv spaco is
exhausted. . Tiik Coustey Paksos.
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