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without a pulsation; without n breath.
Yet I have never succeeded, though I
have made the artificial heart work
on a narcotized rabbit, and the rabbit died
instantly when I stopped the machine,
which Droves that it was the machine that
kept it alive- Perhaps if one apnlied it to tr
mail just before his death he might Jive on
indefinitely, grow fat and flourish so loug as
the glass heart worked. "Where would his
soul be then? In the glass heart, which
would have become the seat of life? Every
thing, sensible or absurd -which I can put
into words makes the soul seem an impossi
bility and yet there is something which I
cannot put into words, but which proves the
soul's existence beyond all doubt. I wish I
could buy somebody's soul and experiment
with it"
He ceased aud eat staring at Jiif speci
mens, going over in his memory "the fruit
less experiments of a liletime. A loud
knocking roused him from his reverie. He
hastened to open the door, and was con
fronted by Unorna. She was paler 'than
usual, and he saw trom her expression that
there was something wrong.
"What is the matter?" he asked, almost
roughly.
"Heis in a carriage downstairs," she an
swered quickly. "Something has happened
to him. I cannot wake him you must
take him in "
"To die on my hands? Not I!" laughed
Keyork iu his deepest voice. "Iy collection
is complete enough."
She seized him suddenly by both arms,
and brought her face near to his.
"If you dare to speak of death "
Shegrew intensely white, with a fear she
had not known before iu her lite. Keyork
laughed again, and tried to shake himself
free of her grip.
"Yon seem a little nervous," he observed,
calmly. "What do yon want ot" me?"
"Your help, man, and quickly. Call your
people, have "him carried upstairs revive
him do something to bring him bick."
Kevork's voice changed.
"Is" he in real danger?" he asked. "What
have you done to him?"
"Oh. I do uot know what I have done!"
cried Unorca desperately. "I do not know
what I fear "
She let him go and leaned against the
doorway, covering her face with her hands.
Ke ork stared at her. He had never seen
her show so much emotion before. Then he
made up his mind. He drew her into his
room and leit her standing and staring at
him iv hile he thrust a fi.iv objects into his
pockets and threw his fur coat over him.
"Stay here till I come back," he said,
authoritative! v, as he went out.
"But you will bring him here?" she cried,
suddenlv conscious of his going.
The door was already closed. She tried
to open it, in order to follow him, hut she
could not. The lock -was of an unusual
kind, and either intentionally or acci
centallv Keyork had shut her in. For a
few moments she tried to lorce the springs,
shaking tne heavy -woodwork :i very little
in the great effort she made Then seeing
that it was useless, she walked slowly to the
table and sat down in Kevork's chair.
She had been in the place be To re, and she
was as free trom any unpleasant fear of the
dead company as Keyork himself. To her,
as to him, they were but specimens, each
having a peculiar interest, as a thing, but
all destitute of that individuality, ot that
grim, latent malice, of that weird, soulless,
ph) Meal power to harm, with which timid
imaginations endow dead bodies.
She scarcely gave them a glance, and she
certain) gave them no thought. She sat
before the table, supporting her head in her
hands and trying to think connectedly of
what had just hanrened. Sue knew well
enough how the Wanderer had lain upon
the lrozen ground, his head supported on
her knee, while the watchman had gone to
rail a carriage. She remembered how she
had summoned all her strength and had
helped to lilt him in, as few women could
have done. How could Unorna tell that he
was not already gone, that hi spirit hud not
passed alre-idy, even when she was lifting
his weightlrom the ground? At the despair
ing thought she started and looked up. She
had almost expected to see that shadow
beside her again. But there was noth
ing. The lifeless bodies stood motion
less in their mimicry of 'hie under the
bright light. The swarthy negro frowned,
the face of the Malayan woman wore still its
nalni aud gentle expression. Far iu the
background the rows of gleaming skulls
grinned, as though at the memory of their
400 lives, the skeleton ot the orangoutang
stretched out its long bony arms before it,
the dead savages still squatted round the
remains oi their meal. The stillness was op
pressi e.
Unorna rose to her feet in sudden anxiety.
She did not know how long she had been
alone. She listened anxiously at the door
for the sound ot footsteps on the stairs, but
all was silent. Surely, Keyork had nottaken
him elsewhere, to his lodging", where he
would not be cared lor. That was impos
sible. She must have heard the sound of
the wheels as the carriage drove away.
Furiously she shook the door. It was use
less, bhc looked about for an instrument to
help her strength. She could see nothing
no yes there was the iron-wood club of the
black giant, She went and took it from his
hauu. The dead thing trembled all over
and rocked as though it would fall and
wagged its great head at her, but she was
not afraid. She raised the heavy club and
struck upou the door, upon the lock, upon
the panels with all her might. The terrible
blows scut echoes down the staircase, hut
the door did uot vield, nor the lock cither.
Was the door of iron and the lock of gian
ite? she asked herself. Then she heard a
strauge, sudden uoise behind her. She
turned aud looked. The dead negro had
fallen bodily irom his pedestal to the floor,
with a dull, heavy thud. She did not de
sist, but struck the caKcu plants again and
again with all her strength. Then her arms
grew numb snd she droppjd tne club. It
was all in vain. Keyork had locked her in
and had taken the Wanderer away.
She went back to her scat and fell into an
attitude of despair. The reaction from the
great physical efforts she hail made over
came her. It seemed to her that Kevork's
, ouly reason lor taking him away must be
that he was dead.
Driven to desperation she sprang at last
from her seat aud cried aloud: "I would
girt; my soul to know that he is safe!"
The words had not died away, when a
low groan passed, as it Were, round theroom.
The sound was distinctly that of j human
-voice, but it seemed to come from all sides
at once Unorna stood still aud listened.
"Who is in this room?" she asked in loud
clear tones.
Xol a breath stirred. She glanced from
one specimen to another, as though suspect
ing that among the dead some living being
had taken a disguise But she knew them
nil. There was i.othing new to hor there
She was not afraid. Her passion returned.
"My soul, yes!" she cried again, leaning
heavily on the table. "I would give it if I
could know, aud it would be little enough!"
Again that awml sound tilled the room,
and rose now almost toa wail and died away.
Unorua's brow flushed angrily. In the
direct line of her vision stood the head ofthe
Malayan woman, its soft, embalmed eyes
fixed on hers.
I "If there are people hidden here," cried
Unorna fiercely, "let them show themselves;
let them face me. I s-iy it again I would
give niv immortal soul!"
This time Unorna saw as well as heard.
Tne groan came, and the -wail followed it
and rose to a shriek that dealcned her. And
she saw how the face of the Malayan wotn iu
changed; she saw it tnoTe in the bright
lamplight, she saw the inoUth open. Horri
fied, she looked away. Her eyes fell upon
the squatting savages their heads wore all
turned toward her. sue was sure that shp. could
see their shrunken chests heave as they tooK
breaiu to utter that terrible cry again and
again even the fallen body of the African
stirred on the floor, uot file paces from her.
"Would their shrieks never stop? Allot them
every one eten to the white skulls high up
in the case uot one skeleton, not iue dead
bo ay that did nut mouth at her and scream and
lnnan and scream again.
Uuorna covered her ears Willi Tier hands to
shut nut the nideou,uneartbly noise. She closed
her ejes lest she should bee those dead things
move Then came another noise. Were they
de-ceudiug from their pedestals and cases and
inarching upon ber, a heavy-footed company
oi corpsesr
Fearless to the last, she dropped her hands
and opened her eyes.
"In spite of you all,'" she cried, defiantly, "I
will .give my soul to him safe!"'
Something was close to her. She turned and
saw Key ork Arabian at her elbow. There was
an odd smile on bis usually unexpresslve face.
Then give me that soul of yourvlf you
nl ease," he said. "He is quite safe and peace
fully asleep. You must have grown a little
nen ous while I w as an as ."
CHAPTER X.
Unorna let herself sink into a. chair. She
stared almost vacantly at Keyork, then
glanced uneasily at the motionless specimens,
then stared at him again.
"Yes," she said at last. "Perhaps I was a lit
tle nervous. Why did you lock me in? I
would have gone with you. I would have
helped you."
'An accident quite an accident," answered
Keyork, di vcstinghimself of his fur coa"t. "The
lock is a peculiar one, and In my hurry I forgot
to show j on the trick of it."
"I tried togetout," said Unornavwith a forced
Iau;h. "I tried to break the door down with a
club. I am afraid I have hurt one of your
specimens."
tehe looking about the room. Everything
was in its usual position, except the body of
African. She was quite sure that when she
had beard that unearthy cr, the dead faces
had all been tnrned toward her.
"It is no matter." replied Keyork in a tone of
indifference which was genuine "I wish some
body would tako my collection off my hands. 1
should have room to walkabout without el bow
ing a failure at every 6tep."
"I wish you would bury them all," suggested
Unorna, with a slight shudder.
Keyork looked at her keenly.
"Do you main to say that thoo dead things
frightened you," ho asked incredulously.
"No. I do not. I am not easllv frightened.
But something odd happened this evening. Is
there anyone concealed in this room?"
"Not a rat much less a human being. Rat s
dislike creosote and corrosive sublimate, and
as for human being "
He shrugged his shoulders and smiled.
"Then I have been dreaming." said Unorna
attempting to look relieved. "Tell me about
him. Where is he?"
"In bed at his hotel. He will be perfectly
well to-morrow."
"Did he waksT"' she asked anxiously.
"Yes. We talked together."
"And he was in his rrght mind?"
"Anparentlv. But be seems to have forgot
ten something."
"Forgotten? What? That I had. made him
sleei?"
"Yes. He l.as forgotten that, too."
"In heaven's name. Keyork, tell me what J ou
mean! Do not keep ine "
"How impatient women are!" exclaimed
She Clutched Bis Coat
Keork with ex isperaling cilm. "What is that
you mo-t want him to forget?"
You cannot mean "'
' I can and I do. He has forgotten Beatrire.
For a wiuh well, you are a very remarkable
me Unorna. Asa woman of business "
He shook his head.
"What do ou mean this time? What did
yousajr' Her questions came in a strained
tone aiid he seemed to have difficult in con
centrating her attention, or in controlling her
emotion, or both.
"You paid a large price for the information,"
observed KejorL.
"What price? What are you speaking Qf ? 1
do not m.dersrand."
'Your soul." he answered, with a laugh.
"That was what you offered to any one lm
would tell you that the Wanderer uas safe I
immediately closed with your offer. It was an
exeellet one fur me."
Unorna tapped the table impatiently.
"It is odd that a man of your learning sbauld
nei er be serious," she said.
"1 supposed that you wero serious," he an
snered "Besides a bargain is a bargain, ant
there were numerous witnosses to the transac
tion." he added, looking round the room at bis
deid specimens.
Unorna tried to laugh with bun.
"Do you know ? I was o nervous that I
fancied all those creature-, were groaning, and
shrieking and gibbering at me, when you came
in."
"Vory likely theyfwere." aid Kej ork Ara
bian, his small eyes twinkling.
"And I imagined that the Malavan woman
opened her mouth to scream, and that the Pe
iuiin savages turned their heads it was verv
strange it first the groaned aud then they
uaileu, and then tbey howled and shrieked at
me."'
"Under the circumstances, that is not cxtr a
ordinary."
Unorna stared at him rathe angrily. He war.
jesting, of course, and she hid been "dreaming,
tir had been so orerurought by excitement as
to have been made the victim of a vivid hal
lucination. Nevertheless, there wag something
disagreeable in the mattcr-of-tact gravity of
his jest.
"1 am tired of your kind or wit." she s-iid.
"The kind of wit which is culled wisdom is
said to be fatiguing," he retorted.
"I wi-h you would give me an opportunity of
b-ing weaned in that way."
"Begin by opening your ej-es to facts, then.
Iti-.iouwhoaro trying to jest It is I who am
in earnest. Did jou, or did you not. offer your
soul for a certain piece of information ? Did
jou. or did you riot, bear those dead thiugs
moan and cry? Did you, or did you not, tee
them move ?"
"How absurd !" cried Unorna. "You might
as well ask wlictln-r, when one is giddy, the
room is really going round. Is there an) prac-ue-il
difference, so far as sensation goes, be
tween a ninmmy and a block of wood ?"
"lhat, my dear lady, is prcciselv what we do
not knou.and what wo most wish to knou.
Death is nut the change which takes place at a
moment which is generally clearly defined,
w hen the lie.si t stops beating, and tbo eve turns
white and the face changes color. Death comes
some time after that, and we do not know ex
actly when. It lanes very much indifferent
individuals. You can only detinu itas the total
and final cessation ot pciceptiou and appercep
tion, both functions depending on tbo nerve?.
In ordinary ca-es nature begins of herself to
destroy the ner es b a sure process. But how
do jou know what happens when decay is not
only arrested, but prevented before it has be
gun? How can you foretell what uiav happen
wbeu a skillful hand has restored the tissues of
the bodv to their original flexibility, or pre
served them in the state in which tney were
last sensitive?"
"Nothing can ever make me believe that a
mummy can suddenly hear and understand."
said Unorna, "much less that item move and
produce a sound. I know that the idea has
possi ssed j ou for many years, but nothing will
make mo believe it possible."
"Notulng?"
"Nothing short of seeing and hearing."
"But you have seen and heard."
I was dreaming."
"When you offered your soul?"
"Not then, perhaps. I was only mad then."
"Aud on the ground of temporary insanity
you would rcpndiate thebargaiu?"
Unorna shrugged her shoulders impatiently
and did no; answer. Keyork relinquished his
fencing.
It if of no importance,"' he said, changing
his tone "Your dream or whatever if was
seems to bavo been the "second of your two ex
periences. You said there weie two, did you
not? What was the firM?"
Unorna sat silent for some minutes, as though
collecting her thoughts. Keyork. who never
could have enough light, busied himself with
another lamp. The room was now brighter
than it generally was iu the daj time
-he leaned one elbow ou the table and shaded
ber eyes fiom the brilliant light.
"I do not know why I should tell you," she
said at last. "You will only laugh at me, and
then I shall be angry, and we shall quarrel as
U'uak'"
"I may be of use," sugiested the little man
graijely. "Besides I have made up my mind
ncier xo quarrel with yon. again, Unorna."
"'You -re wise, my dear friend. It does no
good. As for your being iu n,o in this ease.
the most I can hope is that you may find ine
an explanation of something I cannot under
stand." "I am good at that. I am particularly good
at explanations and generally at all post facto
w.sdm."
"Keyork, do you believe that the souls of the i.
aeau can come uacs, tuu ue visiuie to usi
Kvyork Arabian was silent for a low
seconds.
I know nothing about it," he answered.
' But what do uu think? '
"No.hlng. Either it is possib'e or It is not,
and until the one proposition nr the other is
proved I suspect my judgment. Have you seen
a ghost?"
"I do not know. I have seen something.
" Hbe stopped, as though, the- recollec
tions were unpleasant.
"Then,"' said Keyork. '"he probability is that
you taw a living poison, hhalllsum up the
question of ghosts for you?"
"1 wish j on would, in some way that I can
understand."
'A e are. then, in precisely the samo position
with regard to the belief in gliosis, which" wo
o-cupy toward such questions as the abolilioox)
oi ueatn. o.ne argument, in uuiii cases, lsiu
dactive and all but conclusive. We do not
know of any case, in the 200 generations of
men, more or less, witli Whose 'Clstory we ira
in some degree arquMuted. bt any indicia aal
who has escaped death. We conclude vthat all
men m net din. 'Similarly we do not know cer
tainlynot from real, irrefutable evidence, at
least iliat the soul of any man or woman dead
lias ever returned visibly to 'earth. We Con
clude, therefore, that none ever will. There Is
a difference In the two cases, which throws a
(light balance of probability on the side of the
ghost. JJanv persons have, averted that they
nave seen ghosts, though npno have. ever as
serted that men do not die. For my own part,
I have had a very wide, practical and intimato
acquaintance with dead people sometimes in
very queer places but I havo never seen any
thing; even faintly suggestive of a ghost.
Therefore, my dear lady. I o.dvise you to tate
it for granted that you have seen a living
person." i
"I never shivered with-cold or felt mv hair
rise upon my head at the sight of any living
thing," said Uuorna dreamily, and still shading
her ejes with tier-hand.
But might you nut feel that, if yon chanced
to sea someone wTiom you particularly dis
liked:" asked Keyork, with a gentle laugh.
"Dislike?" repeated Unorua in a harsh voice.
She changed her position and looked a( him:
"Yes, perhaps that is possible. .1 had not
thought of that. And yet I would rather it
had been a ghost."
"More interesting, certainly, and more novel,"
observed Keyork, slowly polishing hi 'smooth
cranium with the palm of his hand. His head,
.tnd the perfect hemisphere of his nose re
flected the light like ivory balls of different
stzes. i
T was standing before fcim,'' said TJnoma,
"The place was lonelyand it uai already night
The stars shone on the snow, and I could see
distinctly. Then she that woman passed
softly between us. Ho cried out, calling her by
name, and then fell forward. After that the
woman was gone: What was it that I saw?"
"You are quite sure that it was not really a
woman 7"
"Would a woman, and of all women that one,
have come and gone without a word!"
"Not unless the is n, very singularly reticent
person," answered Keyork,' with a langh. "But
you need not go so far as thoghost (henry for
an explanation. You were.byptfotized. my dear
friend, and be madeynu sec hen That is as
simple as anything need be."
"But that is impossible because "Unorna
stopped and chauged-color.
' Because you bad hypnotized him already,"
suggested Keyork, gravely.
"The thing 1-not possible." Unorna repeated,
looking away from htm.
"I believe it to be the only natural explana
tion. You had made him sleep. You tried to
force his unnd to something contrary to its
firmest beliefs. I have seen you do it. He is
a strong subject. HiS'iniiid rebelled, lidded,
then made a final and desperate effort and
then collapsed. That effort was so terrible
that it momentarily, forced your will back
upon itself, and impressed his vision on jour
sight. There are no ghosts, my dear colleague.
There arconly souls and bodies. If the soul
can be defined as anything i c.in be defined as
Pure Being in the ilode of Individuality, but
quite removed from the Mode of Matter. As
lor the body well, there it i-!,lefore.jori' in a
variety of shape?, and in various states of pres
ervation, as incaptblenf producing a ghost as
a picture or a statu?. Yoj aro altogether in a
icry nervous condition to-day. 'It is really
qaito indifferent, whether that good la'dy be
alive or dead"
"Indifferent:" exclaimed Unorna, fiorcely,
Then she was silent. I
"Indifferent to the valldity.of the theory. If
she is dead, you did not see her ghost, and if
,she is alive yon did not see her body, becauso if
she bad been therein the flesh, she would have
entered into an explanation to say the least.
Hypnosis will explain anMhing and everything
without causing you a moment's anxiety for
the futnre."
"Then I did nothear shrieks and groans, nor
sco your specimens mown when I was Here
alone, just now."
"Certainly not ! Hypnosis again. Auto-hyp-nosis
this tunc, Yqu should really bo less ner
vous! You prnbalih stared at the lamp with
out realizing tlio lacr. You know that any
shining object altects yon in that way.if you are
not careful It is a ery bright lamp. too. In
stantaneous eflect bodies appear to move and
vou hear unearthly ycllr-yoir offer your soul
lor sale and I buy it, appearing inthi nick of
time ! If jour condition had lasted ten seconds
longer, you Mould have had me for his majes
ty, and lived. 'in imagination, through a dozen
years or so. of sulphurous purgatorial treat
ment under w personal supervision, to wake
up and find yourself unscorched anil unre
deemed, js ever."
"ion are i most comforting person, Ke
york," said Unorna, with a laint smile. "I
onlv wish I could bellete every thing you tell
me."
"You must either believe me or renounce all
claim tolutcHigence,"answered the little mau,
cluubirg from hi chair and sitting upon the
table at her elbow. His shorV sturdy legs
swung at a considerable height above the floor,
and he planted his hands firmly upon the
board on each s.dc of him The attitude was
that of an lulo boy, and wis so odd)' out ot
keening with his age and expression that
Unorna iliuost laughed as flic looked at him.
"At all events." lie continued, "you cinnot
doubt my absolute sincerity. You come to ine
for an explanation. I give you the onlvsensible
ono that exists, and tne only one which can
really havfe a sedative effect upon your excite
ment. Of course, if yon Have anv special
object in believing inghosts If it atfoidsyou
any great and lasting pleasure to associate, in
im igination, with specters, wraiths tand airily
malicious shadows, I will wm. cross your fancy.
To a person ot solid netveta bausheo may be
an entertaining companion, and an apparition
in a well-wnin winding-sheet uiav be a pretty
toy. For all I know, it may be a delight to you
to feel your hair standing on end at the unex
pected appearance of a dead woman in a black
clok between you and the person with whom
you aro engaged in animated conversation.
All very well, as a mere pastlrue, I say. But if
you find yon are reaching a point on which
your judgmentis clouded, you had better shut
np the magic lantern and take the rational
view of the case."
"Perhaps you are right."
"Will mu allow me to say something frank,
Unorna?" asked Keyork with unusual diffi
dence. "If you can manage to be frank without being
brutal."
"It Mill be short, at all events. It is this. 1
think you are becoming superstitious." He
watched her clo-ely to see what effect the
speech would produce She looked up quickly.
"Am 1? What is superstition?"
"Gratuitous belief in things tint proved."
"I expected a different definition from you."
"What did j on expect mc,tTsay7"
"That superstition Is belief."
"I am not a heathen," observed Keyork,
sanctimoniously.
"Far from It." laughed Unorna. "I have'
heard that devils believe and tremble,"
"And vou class me with those interesting
beings, my dear friend? '
"hoructitncs when I am angry with yon?"
"Two or three times a day. then? Not morn
than that?" inquired the agc, swinging his
heels and staring at the rows of skulls in the
background.
"Win
hencver we quarrel.
It is easy for you
to count tue occasions.
"Easy, but endless. Seriously, Unorna, I am
not the dell. I cau prove it to you conclusively
on theologieil grounds."
"Can jou? They .say that his majesty Is
a law j or, and a successful one. in goon prac
tice." "What caused Satan's fall? Pride. Then
pride is his chief characteristie Am I proud.
Unorna? The question is absurd. J have
nothing to be proud of a little old man with a
gray beard, of whom npbody ever heard any
thing remarkable. Noonecycr accused me of
pride. How could 1 be -jirqiid of anything.
Except of your acquaintance, my dear ladv."
he added, gallantly, laying his hand on his
heart, and leaning toward her as he sat.
2b Be Continued A'exl jrerfc
A Japanqso Doll.
The Pall Mall Budget gives this as a
specimen of the dolls to he seen in the stop
windows of Japanese Cities:
f " M
s
WHERE BYBOJT LIES.
.
A Neglected i'omb in an Obscure
District Amid Low Surroundings;
SCARCE AKYONE KNOWS THE SPOT.
lh. Treatment of His Jshes Is a Disjrrace
to the English People.
WAKGUIK'S HLGK1MAGE TO BIS'GEATE
rconEEsposnifcCE or the DtsrATCir.i
HUCKlfAI.Ii Tobkaed, ExG., Feb. 5.
In a railway carriage between Bayreuth and
Nuremburg, I once heard a little Bavarian
school girl ask a traTeled Fhiladclpiiian
where the great and good Benjamin Frank
lin was buried. Gracious and prompt as
wc Americans always are in supplying effete
Europeans with information, he promptly
answered that Franklin's ashes reposed in
"Westminster Abbey.
.This American man was undoubtedly born
within half a mile of Franklin's tomb in
his own city, and may have passed within a
few feet of the meanly-kept, unhonorcd
jrave nearly every day of his own home
life. Englishmen may cherish the heritage
to Britain of Byron's immortal genius; but
Byron's grave is no more a shrine to them
than was Franklin's to his townsman. This
may seem incredible to intelligent Ameri
cans. The gradually acquired recognition
of its truth was astounding to me.
Though I had come to know, in a geo
graphical sense, I found it was with similar
vagueness auy other body knew at all; and
so few kuew even this poor bit about where
Byron lay, that the repetition ot the ques
tion and replies came to possess a melan
choly sort of fascination. Oyer 1,000 an
swered, "At "Westminster;" half that num
ber, "At Kewstead Abbey." Many be
lieved his remains rested in Greece. An
astonishingly large number were sorely
puzzled at the query and confessed complete
ignorance.
liven Guide Books Unsatisfactory.
Of course, any Engiish guide book would
answer the questtou. But guide books are
for strangers, not residents. Aud to what
ever stranger may have accidentally seen the
two or three line statement that the tomb of
Byron might be found at the little church of
Huckuall, iu HucKnall Torkard. Nottine.
hamslure, there came a sense ot repellant
indctiniteatss; as though the guide book
maker were not quite certain of the matter
himself. Even if the statement were ac
cepted as a true one, where then might one
bu.it for the unknown hamlet with so mysti
fying a name as Hucknall Torkard?
"While wandering iu Kobin'Hood'sLand, I
unconsciously passed mauy times within a
few miles of the spot where repose the
ashes of Byron. But there is no one in the
region o call the stranger's attention to the
fact. He would hardly discover it at New-,
stead Abbey, three miles distant, once.ithe
poet's property aud home. Nobody at
Arnold, four miles away, even among the
owners ofthe looms and spindles, can tell
you how to find Hucknall Torkard, or why
anybody should wish to find it. The
colliery town itself is perhaps eight miles
north of Nottiriglnra. But one might ask a
thousand of that city's 100,000 people with
out ascertaining just where to find the
place; and inquire of a good many more
than that, before discovering that the town
possessed anything but colliers and coal.
A Long and "Weary Search.
After I had finailvlmade sure Hucknall
Torkard was near Nottingham, and that
perhaps some man "of quality was buried
there, as it was "famously unhealthy," I
was then twice sent over wrong railway
lines to find it. Then I tramped. A two
hours' walk through the dreariest of English
half-manufacturing villages, over the worst
highway in England, brought me, past
dreary, moor-like reaches and scraggy, un
lovelv fields to an utterly cheerless collection
of half cottages and shops. These were low,
cramped, inadequate, " unsightly. Tie
houses were pinched sidewise, endwise, up
and down. The windows and doors were
pinched. Passageways, wynd, closets, al
icys aud shops all were pinched and mean
and small.
Everything exposed for sale seemed sparse,
little and shriveled. The faces of the old
women, slatternly wives and hosts of dirty
children rolling in doorways and on pave
ments with pinched and lagged-haiml cur,
were pinched more sadly than ail else in the
poor, pinched place. It was one of thoie
many places in Europe, and, less cruditto
us, in our own country, where coal barons
huddle and herd la mi lies at profit, after first
profiting to the extent of human endurance
from the use ot vast .aggregate dependent
labor. It was Hucknall Torkard, where
3,000iiuersdig 1,000 yards "below grass"
lor coal, at 21 shillings a week tor half the
weeks in the year, and starve, with their
families, the other hair. Every structure
was of brick. Every object was besmeared
with the taint of coal. j
Ono lfbgo Norman Tower.
But one object within the horizon disk
gave relief to the hard miserable feature of
every visible thing in Huckuall Torkard.
Away down the loug, colorless street, nearly
a mile away, rose a huge Norman tower. It
was dark and grim, and frowned upon the
town and the mean little church beneath it
as if sensitive of lis sodden and insensate
surroundings. You will see a hundred
towers like it, ecclesiastic brothers oi hoary
age, from Pcnzince to Penrith, all over
England. They defy time like the Bound
Towers of-lreland and their origiu in essen
tial or decorative architecture is almost as
inscrutable. Bicturesque they are, against
the horizon of an Eugiish landscape as tl e
suggestive spire in the glorious gloaming uf
Mill-t's "Angelus;" but their age aud
strength are all else of merit they posses;
for, like this one o. St. Mary Magdalen'
Church at Hucknall Torkard, they aie all
of more consequence in space than the little
broken-backed, chapel-like churches they
quite overshadow.
If it was in that little church with ihe
big tower where Byron lay buried nobnuy
in HuckuaU-Tdrkard seemed able to disclose
it. I inquired here and thereof those I met,
aud was either laughed at, or in ormed that
while they wo"uii( not deny, it was vury wide
of their habit to assert what tbey did not
know, '
Everybody Was Ignorant.
"Ah CI) could na tell ee, inon. Vicar
Phillips mauu tell eel" came irom all who
would speak. At little shops as I pro
gressed along the street, I was t7lld to ask at
the next door; and groups gathered behind
me to tap their noses and shake their be ids
graely. To be padgered thus when search
ing lor the grave of one kuonn to nil the
world, yet unknown to the tliuusm.N within
riflesliot.of his nwnsepulture, was confusing
in indignation and regret. Hu way up
the street I took reluge from curious aud
suspicious eyes in a draper's on pretense ot
some slight purchase, and engaged the pro
prietor, a mau of apparently good intelli
gence, in conversation.
Explaining my dilemma, I apologetically
related how another upon a time'had come
. "n .
TheJlyron Tomb.
z . i
to Hucknall Torkard, hunting Byron's
grave, and was met by one'of the inhab
itants with the rejoinder, "Byron? Ah
niver 'eerd on 'im. Yer means Ben Caunt."
Ben Caunt was a noted pugilist. Anybody
In Nottinghamshire can tell you where bis
grave is in St. Mary's churchyard. A look
of kindling intelligence and sympathy
came into the draper's face as he handed me
my change, while he told, uie that very many
came to drop a tear on poor old Ben's grave.
But as the draper had only been in Huck
nall Torkard for the matter of 18 months,
he could uot tell me about "t'other unl"
At the Dreary Churchyard.
After this X made my way in silence to
the churchyard. A high iron fence sur
rounded it. The gate was locked, and the
grave-bordered walk leading to the church
entrance seemed suggestive of disuse ot the
place either for the solace of the living or
cure of the dead. Dreading further in
quiries of thrvillagers, I Walked around the
dark and drear old spot, hoping to find some
way of entrance alone. This was unavail
ing. Returning to the gate. I saw across the
open space Deiow tne square a crowd ot
bedraggled women and children watching
my movements attentively.
One witb a babe at her breast and three
little ones pulling at her ragged skirts, held'
aloft some huge, jangling keys. Then the
crowd laughed at the signaling and my
shamefaced nod of acqdiescence, and part of
its hungry members advanced to the gate.
They were scrawney, savage creatures all,
with bare, feet, breasts, heads and with a
troop of wolfish voung tagging after. I
bought tbcm all off save the one with tbe
keys on condition that the gate should be
locked alter us; and by the time my guide
and the brood had efiected this, every one
of her former companion's had disappeared
with shrill-voiced raillery into various
dram shops of the square below.
An Incredible IJcIlttlcmont-
That one could make such pilgrimage in
England to the shrine of anyone of her
mighty dead, and find it within such pitiably
mean and abject surroundings, is a degrad
ing reproach on the whole English-speaking
race. Only the ghouls who have ceaselessly
besmirched Byron's name and fame could
come here and not cry out with pain aud
outraged grief at the endless taunt and
shame of this incredible belittleuicnt.
The sodden woman, dawdling her keys
beside me and staring vacuously at the
meager light aboye the chancel, was fitting
type of the itucusate forgetfuluess and ob
livion to which these poor relics of one pos
sessing sublime genius, have been doomed.
I asked her falteringly if a great many
visitors did uot come to St. Mary's. She
" 'ad uot 'eerd it," ifit were so. But were
there uot in, say, a year's time 2,000 or
3,000? She laughed outright, and informed
me that not enough came to provide any
J decent family with "a pint a day." This
was a new view of it. Byron s grave, not
worth, lor income, a pint of beer a day!
Well, were there 1,000? She shook tier head
contemptuously. Did 500 come each year?
"Were there 230?
"Niver Tulty (fifty), mon, on'y w'en th'
restoration do be."
One Memorial Tablet.
This "restoration" occurred in 1888. It is
a sounding, significant word. The little old
church was then a ruin with the exception
of tbe tower. Apparently not 1,000 was
expended. The walls are up again. The
root is whole. A commonplace east window
is standing above tbe altar. A tiny chancel
was added, aud little boxes of transepts
were put in. At the right of the chancel,
above the choir, is this memorial tablet-' " .
In the Vault beneath
where many of his ancestorsand his mother are
buried
Lio the remains of
George Gordon Noel Byron,
Lord liyron. ot Rochdale,
In tbe county of Lancaster.
The Author of Childr Harold's Pilgrimage.
He was born in London on th 1
22d of January, 1788.
He died at Missolon gbl, in Western Greece,
on the
10th of April, 182L
Engaged in the glorious attempt to restore that
country to ber ancient freedom and renown.
His sister, the Honorable
Augusta Alary Leigh.
Placed this tablet to his memory.
There are also a small tablet in memory of
'tlt-.nn. Jnnnnla, A.v,, fn A. In i.t. I...
c'lmc the Countess of Lovelaoe, and died in
1852 at the age of 36, just her father's age at
death; mural monuments of the second Lord
Byron and his six sons; and the hatchments
of tbe poet's mother. These are the only
adornments of the bare'walls of St. Mary's.
But the most intense and solemn interest of
the dreary place is where you will kneel,
just within the chancel-rail, upon the raised
stone floor. Set in this cbancel-pave is a
square block of rare Kosso Antique marble,
a gilt of the King of Greece. It is about
two feet bquare.
Above the Leaden Collin.
Upon this marble, within a wreath of lau
rel wrought in brass, is the simple inscrip
tion: BYRON
Born
Januarv22. 17&8,
DiPd
April 10, 1S24.
Beneath this is the Byron vault, now
hermetically sealed. Besides the scattered
bones of his wild and reckless ancestors the
vault contains the remains of tbe poet, pre
served in a lead coffin, which rests directly
underneath the tablet, and the Cody of his
unhappy-tempered mother, to the right
hand, and of his daughter Ada "sole
daughter of mv house and heart" on the
le't.
All this can be learned from tbe parish
register, a quaint old parchment hook, dat
ing from the time of Henry III., "Defender
of the Faith." The fict and date recall
that on the dissolution, in 1340, a
certain Sir John Byron, Lieutenant ot
Sherwood Forest, tjab given the priory of
Newsteadiand all its tithes and possessions.
The old abbey being ruined by the
savage brutality of the Roundheads this
insignificant chapel of that time became the
place of worship, and, finally, as the owner
ship ot the seat ot the Byrous twice passed
into the hands of strangers, the burial place
of the fited line. Go back through all iu
history and there will he nothing tound bnt
irascibility, insanity, homicide and regi
cide. The wonder is not that the poet Byron
was a no more calm and steadfast soul. The
marvel is that from the heart and brain of
anyone ol the line could come so supreme a
battle aeiinst the accursed taint of hered
ity, enabling the enmeshed blood, brain
and soul, in so brief a struggle, .to add such
surpassing luster to the pages oi genius.
EDGAK L. "WAKE3IA1T.
One of the First Bicycles.
The bicycle here shown is on exhibition
now in London. It is the first machine
made using rubber tire. It. was made in
I860, and looks decidedly clumsy as com
pared with the perfect machines of the
present:
Measoee for measure when you spend
23o for , bottle of DrVBulI's Cough Syrup
THE BEAR'S WINTER.
People Jlisht Follow His Example
and Save Great Expense.
WHAT SUCCl'S FAST SUGGESTS.
Fat Accumulated in Fall is the Fuel of. the
'Cold Months.
THE FACTS AB0DT GKOUSD-BOG DAI
IWnlTTEI FOE TllZ DISPATCn.l
Souther, the famous poet laureate of Eng
land nearly a century ago, said: "Inclina
tion wonid lead me to hibernate daring half
the year in this "uncomfortable climate of
Great Britain."
"Well, 'why not?
Is there any good reason why man should
not pass the winter in a state of hibernation,
if be feels like it, as well as the bear or the
ground hog? To hibernate, be it remem
bered, simply means to pass the winter in a
state of seclusion "housed up," as we might
expressively put it. No mau could hiber
nate for six months, as Southey felt inclined
to do, but neither could a bear. Our
winters, say in tbe latitude of Pennsylvania,
are comparatively short. The season of
snow and frozen ground does tiot, in the
averagp, begin before the 20th of December,
and it doesn't often last later thau the 1st of
March. It may safely be said at least that
the hibernating period ofthe bear and other
mammals in our latitnde is not more than
ten weeks. Now there are well authenti
cated cases Of men fasting six weeks or
more while taking considerable exercise
every day. Every movement in the way of
exercise drains the surplus vitality to a
certain extent, just a; every revolution of a
locomotive wheel requires some consump
tion of fuel in tbe furnace.
, It a. Man Would Fatten.
If a healthy man were to fatten himself,
as the hibernating mammals do, and then
keep as quiet as the bear In his winter den,
possibly he might live through a ten-weeks'
fast, Succi, the Italian, lately fasted G4
weeks iu New York, in a badly ventilated
room, and while taking liberal exercise
every day- Three and a half weeks more,
under such conditions as the bear fasts,
might therefore be possible for man.
No donbt tiiere are many poor people in
the United States who could indorse
Southcy's sentiment, but tbe majority of us,
fortunately, get a great deal of enjoyment
out ot tbe winter season. If nature h.id not
lurnished us with the means of passing the
cold term comfortably possibly we might all
realize the wish ofthe famous Englishman for
nature always supplies enctly what is most
needfnl to hercreatures. Han is so consti
tuted that he can provide the food and cloth
ing and warmth necessary to carry him
through the period of excessive cold." This
is not so with many other animils, and so
nature has made provision for helping them
through the winter. Thus all reptiles, ser
pents, toads lizards and the like make nests
in the ground when cold weather ap
proaches then thev go to sleep and snooze
comfortably until the sunshine of spring
time again warms them into activity. Bits
and some fishes also pass the winter in a
state of torpidity.
The Difference in Blood.
It is commonly believed that such of our
well-known mammals as the bear and tbe
ground hog hibernate in winter in the si me
, sense that the reptiles do, but that is a mis-
taKi. JUany a hunter has veribed the truth
of this statement by his experience in stir
ring up a bear family in midwinter. The
difference between tbe hibernation of the
warm blooded animals and the cold blooded
reptiles is very great. The latter mdr re
main torpid for six months with very little
loss of weight. Thiols because their blood
temperature is really as low as that of the
air which surrounds them, and therefore but
little animal fat needs to be consumed iu
keeping them alive. But the temperature
of tbe warm blooded animals approaches
tbatof man, which is about 98, no matter
whether he is under the equator or within
the Arctic circle. In this respect there is
not much diSeience bet een man and the
bear, lor example.
. From the moment the bear houses up in
his winter quarters he begins to lose flesh,
which is the fuel that must constantly be
consumed by both'man and bear when fast
ing. This is necessary to keep np the high
temperature ofthe blood. Of course, if you
should go into a bear's den, "with kind
permission of Mr. Bear," as a theater mana
ger might say, yon would probably find the
place comfortably warm. But remember
that this warmth was generated by tbe con
sumption of bear flesh, just as the heat of
your comfortable room has been generated
by the consumption of cojI. Instinct tells
the hibernating mammal in the late autumn
that he must make preparation for the time
when snow and ice will prevent him from
gathering food.
Fuel the Bear Uses.
He responds to this warning by gorging
himself as a pig does in fattening time. In
the case of the bear he gets so stout at the
beginning of winter that his body is covered
with a layer of fat'sometimesau inch thick.
This is the fuel chiefly whose consumption is
to keep him alive until the warmth of early
spring will enable him to earn or steal his
Jiving again.
As an evidence that bears and the like are
not actually torpid iu winter, we know that
a "warm spell" will always cause them 'to
come out ot their dens and skirmish .nbout
for something to eat. After an exceedingly
cold winter a bear, in his spring debut, is so
lcau and weak that he can hardly walk. He
is like a man who is physically rnn down by
long illness. Buthe soon recovers from this
condition if he can find some nuts or succu
lent roots, or a convenient hen roost or pig
sty. ,
The hibernation of the ground hog is
similar to that of the bear. Of course you
know the tradition that the eronndbog
nlways emerges from his hole on Candlemas
Day the 2J of February. Then if he sees
his shadow he returns to winter quarters,
knowing that the shadow portends many
more days of winter. The trouble with this
tradition is that it was hnnded down to us
wioagend foremost. The groundhog pokes
his nose out ot his winter door just as the
bear does, as soon as he thinks there is a
possibility of finding something to stay his
empty stomach. If the conditions are favor
able he will go in search oi mod, as the bear
does, but if there is no encouragement he
goes back in disgust like a hungry and dis
appointed tramp. J. H. Webb.
HEW BLEACHING MIXTOBE.
A German Fr eparatlon That Is Cheap and
Considered Keliable.
A German technical journal describes a
new bleaching fluid called ozoniu, which
has recently been patented, and tbe compo
sition of which is as follows: In 200 parts
of turpentine 126 parts of rosin are dissolved.
To this are added 22.5 parts' ol caustic
potash iu 40 parts of water, and also 00 parts
of peroxide of hydrogen. v
This mixture lorms a jelly, which, after
two or three days' exposure to light, becomes
changed to a thin fluid to which the name
of czinin has been given. Oue gramme of
ozoniu in one litre of water lofms an effect
ive bleaching liquid for fibers, wood, straw
paper, etc., und,also for gum solutions and
soaps.
Cnrlous Ornamentation of Teeth.
Chamber's Journal.
The Malays Tind Siamese use a prepara
tion for the blacking of their "teeth which
consists of cocojnut kernel charred with
great care and worked luto a paste with oil.
This is carefully applied to the teeth again
ami again until a black varnish hides the
natural white. Some Malay tribes are not
content with this simple adornment, but
first file down their teeth until they resemble
those of a shark.
THEBELLEOFTHESEASON
The Strange bnt True Story of a
Beaulifal Woman.
MADE NEW THROUGHOUT.
A Beautiful American Lady Wno, Aflsr Reign
ing as a Belle fof Several Seasons, Found
Her Health Broken, and Her Loveliness
Gone, Tells How She Was Restored to Bet
ter Health and Greater Beauty Than Ever.
A beantlfnl American lady had crown pale
and thin. The hello or the season" was tired.
Each passing winter had found her in the rore
f ront of social gayety. and each recurring sum
mer had tossed her like a straw from city to
seaside, from seaside to mountains and Irom
mountains to country. It.wis very plea ant
while it lastecL Thero were balls and dinners
in the winter, with ho9ts of admiring friends to
bear witue to her social triumphs. A black
and dismal day came when she was forced to
admit, even to herself, that her influence was
gone and thitsho was merely a belle of the
past. She was no longer IicautifuL Flesh and
blond and nerves had stood thcstraln as long as
thev could, and then they went to the wall.
Realizing that the ynnthand beauty of ber
life had come to an end. and knowing how
hopeless it was to doctor shattered nerves and
a wornout constitution, she took up the
broken threads of her saddened existence
and sought in some neglected corner of
Europe the rest and quiet that nature so per
emptorily demanded. One October day. three
years later. Che lists of steamship, arrivals con
tained the name of the broken-hearted creatnre
who had osjee been tbe social favorite. In mem
orv of happier days some friends made haste to
call upon her. Among, them was her cousin,
who had a joung phvsiclan's belief that his
skill in medicine would cure her. Upon enter
ing the arawing room he was greeted by the
most be.iutiful woman that he bad seen for
years, lie gazed in dumb surprise. Could
th's be bi cousin tbis radiant creature, with
rounded form, elastic stop, sparkling eyes,
and above all. a complexion nioro charming
than sho ba'd err possessed before? It was
impossible: and yet she was laughing merrily.
"If it bo Indeed vou," lie said, "one sign
will not f.-it mr." Ho looked at her search
inglv. "Your sign has failed." she slid, "my
freckles are all gone."
Uennty spots of tbo past all gone Then
ton are indeed a stranger. Mv call is in vain.
1 came here to cure an invalid."
"I am truly a stranger, for lam new through
out, in mind and body. I bavo almost been
bo ii again."
' You must have discovered the spring of
et'rnal youth."
"I have. Listen well, and I will tell you the
secret. You may remember what a wan and
broken-down creature I was wbon I said
goodby ou the steamer three years ago. I was
on my Way to Europe in the hope ot benefiting
what little health I had left. I could not
hope to regain it. Old Or. Pillsbury dis
couraged that. At his last visit be
scowled at me. talked at me, pounded the
floor with his Cane, berated my relatives,
my bringing up. the state of society which per
mitted such thing to come to pass and b id
now left another victim at death's door. ?4o
mora late hours for me, no more dancing, no
more tight lacing, no more indigestible food,
no excitement no nothing. What a physical
wreck in appearance I was yon know. Young,
iu both years and disposition, fond of society
tho traditions ot my family. .13 well as my own
tastes, leading me tu bo the gayest of the gay
I bad found mself prematurely old and broken
down in health. Well, a change of scene and
air would do me some goncLand if I abstain
from all that makes life pleasant and interest
ing. I might hnpo to continue to live more
dead tban alive for agood many years. I did
not quite see tbe cam in that. lint, to go on
with the story: On tho steamer I fell in with
some acquaintances who were going to a place
called Carlbad. They al.ed mo to go with
them, and as one place was as good as another
to me, I went. We reached Uarlsbad at tho
beginning of the regular season, which is the
1st ol May, and I stayed through the entire
season, until tbe 1st of October. It seemed to
be the custom there to drink tho mineral
waters, and more because it wa3 tbo custom
tban from any ideas that tbe waters would do
me any good, I began taking the waters my
self. For lack of something better to do. I
equipped mvself each day with an earthenware
mug. and joined a long Una of men and women
from all parts of tbe world on tbe way to the
springs. The largest, the hottest and the best
known of tbe pnugs was the Sprudel. and,
naturally. I went there. To be in Carlsbad
and not drink tho waters of the Sprudcl is to
bs out of fashion; so, out of mere force of
habit, I drank.
"As I expected, tbe drinking did not make
me feel any better and I coiinltotl a phvsiciin.
Ho went over my case very carcfullv and finally
asked me if I wished to pi ice myself under his
care. I had to do so; I was ill. 'Very well.1"
said he, 'you will please continue drinking the
bprudel water, as j.ou have been doing.' Thero
was no help font, and I wentonasLcfore, tak
ing the water regularly, although I seemed to
lose weight. But the physician kept mo at it
mercilessly.
I was a long time"ht ir, it seemed to me, and
then, to my great snrpne, I began to gain in
strength. This was more than I had looked
for, but it was true. I felt better, men
tally and physically, and above all, I be
gan to gain in welgbt. I seemed to be an en
tirely new creation. Iy old flesh had in some
mysterious way entirely disappeared, and new
flesh was forming in its place. This was like a
miracle, but I hardlv dared to hope that it
could or would continue. Bat it did continue,
although slowly. I felt tbat I was passing
through a new stage of growth. 1 gained in
weight pretty steadily, au-i, after a time, I felt
much stronger. At the close ot the season I
might have imagined tbat I was a young girl
again."
"I think you have found thcTsdring of eternal
yonth," said the young phyrleian. "But do
you expect to retain) our present health and
freshness without living most ot tbe time in
Carlsbad?'
"As it would be inconvenient for me to go to
tho mountain. I make1 the mountain como to
me. In other words. I carry tbe famous Spru
dcl Spring around with me. The imported
Carlsbad borudel baits, in powder form, is a
moat excellent substitute for the waters them
selves. Although 1 am f nlly restored to health,
still I am so fond of the waters that I drink as
much, or nearly as much, as though I were an
invalid. In the morning, before breakfast. I
dissolve one-half to one teaspoonful of the
powder in a glassful of water, which is sold in
this country in bottles brought, direct from
Carlsbad. In Carlsbad I found any nninberof
people who habitually added the satin powder
form to the water from the spring. In order to
give it greater strength. All persons cannot
"o to Carlsbad, of course, but they can accom
plish as goo I results by using the imported.
Carlsbad baits in powder form here at home.
Ionldad7lseyon to try a few experiments
for your own information -on somo of your
patients. It will do them no harm. In any
event, and it Is pretty sure to surprise you
with Its good results."
"It is certainly worth consideration." said the
ennnffmilL ""
"Perhaps I shall find tbe opportunity to make
vi8 k iffs ". iHEEa
the trial that vou suggest. Meantime I must
again Congratulate you upon yottr recovf ry."
Some weeks later the vonng physician, much
impressed by the wonderful story lhat be had
heard, began a series of experiments with tba
Carlsbad Mineral Witers.the crrstallized Carls
bad Balr. and with the Carlsbad" S-iltin powder"
form. As his cousin hod predicted, he was
greatly surpried at the result. Experiments
withheCatsbsd Sprudal Salt in piuvder form
were remarkably successful. The diseases
trrared were mostly dvspepsfa, constipation,
gout, rheumatism, melancholia, obesity and
jiundicc Perons affliisted with melancholia
and ailments of a similar nature, began to grow
brighter mentally soon after beginning tbe
treatment, and. in a few weeks. they felt an ex
hilaration of spirits; that they haa not known
for years.' In cases of dysnepsia the patients
soon lost tbe heavy dysputic feeling,
and in the course of a few weeks they
were able to choose tneir bill of faro
to suit every vagary of their tastes.
Tho most remarkable reiulj.8, however. wero
shown in cases of obesitr. In all ot these
cases tbo action of the salts in powder form
upon the skin was strongly marked. Especially
was this the case with persons having dull or
mottled faces as the result of bad digestion.
Under tho 8'iniulatln action of the powder,
tbe skin would exfoliate frequently, thus caus
ing the complexion to become mcch clearer.
He found that the action or tho Carlsbad
Salt in powder form showed clearly the pecu
liar value of the water for mndicinal pur
poses. It is not a mere purgative, as might
be supposed, bnfMs an alterative and elirum.f
tive remedy. In its action on the human
system it dissolves tenacious bile, removes
all unhealthy growth allays irritation, neu
tralizes free acid, and places tbe vital organs
in a sound and hcalthycouduion. It does this
by aiding natnre. and not by sudden and ex
cessive stimulation. In its effect upon the
stomach thewatcrofthe Carlsbad Salt (powder
form) causes a soothing, alterative action on
the nerves of tbe atoraach. This causes, tlia
increased appetite thacis invariablv noticed
aftor a short course of treatment, and also the
feeling of comfortabln warmth 'that spreads
throughout the entire body. By its introduc
tion into tbe circulation of the system the
water corrects many morbid decompositions of
blood and lymph.
It will be seen from this casual glance at tba
action of Carlsbad Water an the Carlsbad
Sprudcl Salt in powder form that the curative
results are obtained in the simplest aud most
natural manner. The remedy first dissolves
and absorbs all tough andobnoxionssecrctions,
and Immediately thereafter begins to build np
the si stem with new health and strength. As
inbuildmgaiietrbonseon the foundations of
an old one. the builders first clear awav tbe old
rubbth. so tho Carlsbad Water and Carlsbad
bprudel Salt clear awav the rnbbuh 'and accu
mulated secretions ot ill health.
Tho superstructure or new Ufa and strength
is then built upon tbo renewed foundations.
Repeated experiments bysoaie-of the most
distinguished physicians and specialists of tbis
country and Europe siow that tbe effect of the
water and salt (which is evaporated from the
water at Carlsbad) Is tbe same whether taken
at the spring or at home. The temperature
can bo oven at will. The water is in no way
diminished in strength ar-curative properties
by exportation in bottles. The salt in powder
form is becoming so popular in this country
that dishonest persons have found it profitable
to place upon the market bogus Sprudel Salts,
bnt, to make surp that he is getting the gen
uine imported article, the purchaser should be
careful to buy onlv that which beirs the name
of Eisner & Mendelson Co., of No. 6 Barclay
street. New York City, on the wrapper and
label, who are the solo agents for tlir United
States for the products of the Carlsbad
Springs. The pimphlcts Issued 'by this house
give a great deil of Interesting information
concernirg Carlsbad, aud will be mailed free
upon application.
THE JAPAHESE PAHIIAJLEHT.
rortraits or the Presidents of tho Two
Houses of the New ISody.
The opening of the Japanese Parlia.
ment took place November 29, says
Pall Hall Budjetx in the presence of a
gathering rendered intensely spectac
ular by the pompous habiliment of
Count Ilo, President of the Home of Peer.
vernacular officialdom, and tbe assertive)
accoutrements of diplomacy. The Emperor
Mutsuhito delivered his message in person,
declaring "that the leading features of tha
various systems of domestic government wo
hare promoted during the 20 years since our
ascension to the throne are now almost com
pleted. We earnestly pray that wr, aided
by the virtue inherited from tbe imperial
founder of our house and from our other im
perial ancestors, and with your co-operation,
will unite the past, brighten tbe future,
garner the excellent Units to be yielded bf
tne onsinuiioTi,
and thereby con
tinue toangment
the glory of our
empire, and to
display the ad
mirable, loyal
and brave char
acter of onr sub
jects at borne and
abroad." T h e
ceremony was not iyvfo
less impressive 7 Jj
than brief.
"Within five min
utes from the time
ofthe Emperor's
ascension ot the
dais in gold and
red, from which
he delivered bhjfdewt Kakashima,
address, cannon the Uoiue of Kerne-
were, belching tentative.
forth to the outer world of Tokvo that th?
promise so solemnly uttered more than a'
score of years back had at last been fully
fulfilled.
Oak Pegs for Paving.
Chambers' Jonrnal.J
A system of wood-paving is being tried in
Bristol which, although not new,, is said to
possess several advantages which mora
modern methods cannot boast- It is called
tbe Elli system, and consists of planting
upon .1 bed of gravel 6 inches deep a layer
of oak pegs varying from 2 to 4 inches
in diameter and 4 inches in length. Tha
interstices are filled .with sand, watered, and
the whole well rammed, and in this way a
very compact and solid snrlaee is obtained.
A DELIGHT TO LADIESI
A clear. lovely complexion! How to obtain
lir Why! ne Madame A. Rnpperfs World- '
Renowned Face Bleach. It will potitivelyT tfsv
all tbat 1 claimed, will remove all blcmtsceA'a,
niotu ironies, mauusuraiions or any ajirtia
ease. It Is harmless for external use, is not ft
cosm'tic. but a skin Ionic, leave tlwsldnj
iskinsaftis;
fn lays
smontn ana wnite. cau or send -xs
tamps for sealed particulars. PrieeJS
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bottle, three bottles for So. tbe usual 4iaelP-
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