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THE HITSBTJRG' DISPATCH, 'SUNDAY. JT7LT 10, 18921
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e eirl looted beautuui and stirred un
easily in her restlessxslumbcr. And pres-
tly Mrs. Clyde stole awav, ax she did not
h to disturb her Husband, but again and
In during the night she thought anxious-
of Miriam.
A (3 liAr ar Tif t li( nnl daimaia nn 4ii a
Ifbllowing day. Miriam was low and fever
bh and kept her bed and Mrs. Clyde was
srtill afraid to question her. She herself
ide no allusion to the storm of the night
fore and sbe avoided meeting her mother's
es and Tisiblr shrank every time Mrs.
yde entered the room. And something
nndenned suspicion, perhaps prevented
s. Clyde speaking to her daughter ot the
ravery of the soldier Dare. 'But Ford was
ot so reticent. She had heard from
!her admirer, Banks, that the soldier who
.d been shot on the sands Had saved a
poor sailors liie at great risk to his own,
land Eord could not resist telling this to
tHiriam. She was curious, .indeed, to see
rthe effect of her communication on her
ung mistress, and when she saw the
xtled look of iear first in Miriam's ercs
she listened, and then the gleam of pride
it lighted them, Ford came to the conclu
sion that "Miss Miriam" certainly had. a
fery strong regard for this young soldier.
But the day did not end without a greater
surprise still happening to Ford. "While
the Colonel and his wife were at dinner
STord hurried up to Miriam's room in attate
of much excitement, and, having closed the
door, went up to the side of Miriam's bed.
"Oh, Miss Miriam," she half whispered,
Such a thing has happened!"
"What?" asked Miriam, in sudden fear.
"I'm so put out I can scarcely tall you'
continued Ford. "But just about half an
tour ago I was standing at the back door
Woing nothing particular; indeed, 1 thought
onnson, or one ot tne orderlies might be
mine to the house, as it was about Jobn-
s time to bring the Colonel's letters.
d I wanted to know if he had heanl anv-
hing about the poor sailors who had been
ected, or if any more bodies were cast up.
elL I was standing looking out when a
Idler passed me, and he looked at me, but
course x didn t tmn anything 01 teat, x
,w it wasn't Johnson nor any of the men I
e w, and I wondered ho w this soldier could
e Hanging about there, lint in bait a
inute he was back again, and this time he
Japoke to me."
" 'Are you Miss Clyde's maid. Ford?' be
iked, in a low tone. I said 'res:' and then
e whispered to me to come out for a mo-
ent or two into tne garden, and 1 tnougnt
wonld go. though I was in an awful
fright that Banks or any of them should see
Ixne. However, I knew Banks was busy
lr?tli Til sliver in fill hnt1irc nflntFrr anil X
wanted to know what this young man had
to say, so I went out a few" steps into the
dark'and again he whispered To me.
, " "Yon are sure,' he saiii, 'that yon are
ord, Miss Clyde's maid?' I am quite
ire.' I answered. 'And tou sometimes get
etters for her?' he asked next. 'I have got
'them," I said. 'Then I wish you to give her
his packet, he went on; 'to give it to her
nen no one else is present, will you do
Is7'
"I said 'yes,' and he put it into my hand,
lis is the packet Mis Miriam," continued
ord, drawing out the large envelope which
.inam xiau piaccu me uigut ueiore in
ugh Ferrars' hand, and which had con-
recognized it she gave a little cry of despair.
"Oh! why did you take it?" the said.
"And yet and yet"
She tore open the scaled envelope as she
-spoke, and Ford's blue ayes instantly as
sumed an avaricious expression when" she
saw the roll of crisp new notes. But
fMiriam never thought of her, nor of the
tsotes. She was eagerly reading a 'letter
('which the envelope had also contained, and
ier eyes grew dim with tears as she did so.
' "Dear Miriam; always to me most dear
""Miriam," the read, "I am about to try to
and an opportunity to return the monev
Tou brought me last night, which
Impossible for me to take. Do not ask
to do so again; it pains me; it humiliates I
.toe lor you to do so. But X will teenthe
--locket you brought me, and when I ore it
rwill be fastened ronnd my neck as" it is
'ow, and if I am conscious X will ask those
ear me to lay it in my grave. I will try,
pad I think Dr. P.eed will helpline, in this,
no efiect an exchange into some regiment in
ijEndia, and so will pass aws"r out of your
Isdght and out of yeurJie Forgive me all
itue sorrow i have bronght you. Ours,
tlndeed, has been a miserable fate oh! most,
feost miserable, Miriam! but it has ndt cut
to your heart as it has cut into mine; and
tjio doubt happier days are before you. I
fiave nothing left to live lor, and will wel
teorne death; while you but I cannot write
ff it Shall I mar I see you once more?
fiFor the last time? H. F.
By the time Miriam bad finished reading
these desponding words her tears were fall
ing fast. The bank notes lay unheeded on
the bed except by Ford, who could not take
ker eyes ofl them. And as Miriam raised
her arm with a desponding attitude, and
covered ber face with her hand, they fel.
fapon the floor.
i "Oh, Miss Miriam, look at all this money
-Tolling abontl" cried Ford, stooping eagerly
down and picking up the roll of notes.
"It is of no use now," murmured Miriam,
ssrith a sort of moan.
"Oh, yes Miss Miriam, money's always
cf use," answered Ford, lovingly fingering
tue notes.
Then Miriam looked at the girl with her
lear-stained eyes.
"You can keep one of them," she said,
"lor for bringing tbem to me. And, Ford,
did he say anything else how did he look?"
"May L really have one A wnole live
3ound "note? Thank you, Miss Miriam, I
uun very much obliged. Did he say any
fining more''" continued Ford, pocketing
iter note and laying the others once more on
jtbe bed. "Yes, he did; he asked how yod
were, and I told him you were ill, and that
we had both got into great trouble with
foing to meet him last night,-as Mrs. Clyde
ad caught us."
"Oh, Ford! You should not have said
that."
"Well, Miss Miriam, all I can say is lam
sure Mrs.- Clyde means to give me notice by
the way she "looks at we. But I hope you
-won't forget me when you marry Sir James,
for I am sure you will remember I did not
wish you to go."
"Yes, 1 know," raid Miriam, sorrowfully.
"It was an awful risk, you know, Miss
Miriam, and your marriage so near."
"And did he say anything more?" asked
Hiss .Miriam, wistlully.
"I said as your marriage was so near; and
he never spoke. Then' in a little bit he
said, 'Give her the packet.' That was all,
and the next minute he had disappeared,
and when I ran back to the house, if there
-wasn't Banks that I thought I had sale
enough, on the look out, and was as impu
dent as ever he could be! But I told him
I wouldn't stand that kind of thing, and so
ran past him and came straight to you."
"Thank you," said Miriam, wearily.
"Beach me my little desk, Ford; and now
you can go."
Ford handed Miriam her desk, in which
she placed the notes,, but not the letter she
had reeeived irom Hugh Ferrars. This she
held still in her hand, and after Ford had
left the room, she pressed it against her
lips.
"Poor Hugh," she mumnred, "it was no
tue then no use!"
CHAPTER XTT. .
MHtIAMS BEQUEST.
"When Mrs. Clyde came upstairs to in
quire how Miriam was alter dinner, she
still said nothing on the subject which was
o sorely troubling her own mind. "B ut on
the lollowing morning she felt she could
not forbear doing this, and when she en
tered Miriam's bedroom, carrying in her
hand a letter which had arrived from Sir
James, her face was very grave.
"Here is a letter lor you, Miriam, from
Sir James," she began.
Miriam stretched out htr hand, and took
it in silence.
"Are tou better thii morning?" con
tinued Mrs. Clyde.
"Yes, a little, thank you, mother."
"Miriam," said Mrs. Clyde, still more
gravely; "will you tell me now tbea how
and why you u ere out in the storm tha.
night before last?"
Miriam did not speak.
"Yon must tell me, Miriam; I ess bear
the anxiety no longer. ""What induced you
to leavo your father's house at 'such an
hour?" ' '
Then Miriam lifted-, her -dark eyes, and
looked straight in her mother's lace.
"Mother, 1 cannot tell'you," she answer
ed, with a firmness that surprised Mrs.
Clyde. "My errand did no good was no
use but there is something lwish to speak
to vou about about my'marriage.'"
"About your marriage?" repeated Mrs.
Clvdc, with" a sinking heart. ,
"Yes, I wish now not to be married here;
I wish to go to London Sir James, I know,
will agree to this if I ask him and I hope
you and my lather will also."
Mrs. Clyde did not speak for a few
mnmpnk she stood looking sternlv at her
young daughter; the most painful thoughts
were passing through her mind.
"You have a strong reason for this, I pre
sume?" she said, at lemrth. ""
"Yes, a very strong reason. I ask you to
make no objections, "mother, for I 'cannot be
married here."
"And you wish to keep this motive a
secret from me?
"I have no choice'don't say anything
more, mother," continned Miriam, with sud
den and strange excitement ofmariner, put
ting out her bands though to prevent Mrs.
Clyde speaking. "It would do no good
none to any ot us I am willing to keep my
promise to Sir James; to marry him when Jt
said I would, but not here."
Again Mrs. Clyde was silent for a few mo
ments; again she fixed her eyes on her
daughter's face with strong disapproval
Then she said slowly:
"X must think this over; your conduct is
most strange: I little thought that a child of
mine would have cost me such great
anxiety I will come back to you in an
hour."
She left the room after she had said this,
and returned to the breaklast room where
her husband was preparing; as usual, to go
out on his military duties. But she said
nothing to him of Miri&m'a'strange -request.
And alter he had went'out she sat down in
great perplexity. Some secret, the idea
and fear of which made her. almost shudder,
had evidently induced Mariani to act in so
extraordinary a manner. She' thought once
of writing to her daughter,'" Joan, to make
certain inquiries, but on second thought she
was afraid to do this. It-was wiser to keep
everything quiet. Miriam had shown a
strange obstinacy in putting off her mar
riage lor a month, afid'ehe had persisted in
this, and would no doubt persist in refusing
to be married at Ncwborough'-op-tbe Sea.
Best let her have her own way at last de
cided Mrs. Clyde, and best leave Newbor
ough as soon as possible." The danger must
be here, and the quicker Miriam was away
from it the safer sbe would be.
But Mrs. Clyde felt'te'rribly shocked at
the whole affair. She was -a worldly wo
man, bnt honorable in her way, and her
husband was highly honorable. And she
felt that Sir. James .MacKennqn was being
deceived. Still, it would be madness to sav
anything- If once -Miriam were married,
this folly, whatever, it might be, would
surely end. Therefore Mrs. Clyde resolved
to be silent and to arrange that the marriage
snouio. De in town, as junam naa wisnea.
And presently she returned to her
daughter's room to tell her this. She found
Miriam up and dressed, and Sic James's
letter lying open en the table; bnt Miriam
hastily pushed it aside as her mother en
tered. She was ashamed, perhaps, that she
should see his loving, trustful words.
"I have decided that it shall be as you
wish," said Mrs. Clyde, as she watched this
sudden action of Miriam's. "Yon shall be
married in town at the time you' fixed you
will not I trust, deceive me again?"
"No, mother, I will not, 'answered Mir
iam, without looking up. r
"And you will not, I hope," continued
Mrs. Clyde, with some excitement, and her
fine complexion flushed, as she sp'oke, "you
will not deceive the honorable man vou are
it is !&out t0 marry, and whom, I am sure,
e me Jr'ratts ytt completely?"
intacl "I will not," said Miriam, slowly and
painfully; and her face. also flushed deenlv.
"Then I shall say no more. .Whatever
this secret is that yjra ,are peeping from
your best friend let me entreat you at least
to bring no discredit" to Sir James. You
risked your reputation the other night, you
must remember, surely you will do so no
more?" '
"Mother, I have promised: do sot be
afraid."
"Let us leave here at'once; is Sir James
coming to see you to-day?"
"Yes."
"I will propose the change to him; best
let it come from me let us leave here to
morrow; I will explain to Sir James that
your trousseau will require all 'the time
that is left to us to procure it."
"I will go when yoa like; I am glad to
go," said Miriam.
"That is settled then; -will you come down
to lunch, Miriam?"- .
"It you wish it, mother."
"I do wish it; I wish nlLtiat has passed
during the last two days to be spared your
father; it has been pain enough to me, so I
ask you not to let it-sjrorry him." . .
"Very well," answered Miriam, sadly;
and then her mother went away. And after
she was gone Miriam!" satidotm-'to write a
few farewell words to Hugh Ferrers.
"Good-bye, dear Hugh," sh'e Wrote; "it is
better I should see yon" no more; but please
remember that if everyou sh,ottrd--want that
money which yon returned last night, that
it is ready waiting for-you. 'I will 'keep it
loryou, and you can haye'ii at anr time.
If you require it write Jo .my. maid', .Ford,
enclosing a letter to me. And now, tare
well, farewell dear -Hugh, and ma v God
keep you and watchver you.-'-M.C,"
This brief note written, Miriam addressed
it to Private Dare, arid.'then rang Ibr Ford
and requested the ladys maid- to, post it.
But Ford held up her bands in'despalr.
"I dare not, Miss 'Miriam," she said, "I
really dare not! You mamma sent for me
this morning and lorbs.de. rne'po'sitively to
go out or leave the house on any ac
count until we leavefor London to-morrow.
She said, 'if you do, and I shall have von
watched, I shall discharge youat once and
refuse to give you any character, so do soon
jour peril."' ' - t
"I do not know what . to .do, then," an
swered Miriam. "Could' you trust it to
Banks?"
"Xo, miss; I'm snre I -couldn't If I
gave Banks a letter- to- any soldier he'd
think I'd written it, "and he'd thinknothing
of opening it or nutting it in the .fire; he'js
that jealous he's just Jikea madman, and no
more to oe trusted tnan a baby in arms."
"What can I do then, it must go?"
"Wait till weget to'London'.Miss Miriam,
and then I'll find plenty of opportunities of
slipping out of tne'hotel or getting one Jf
the strange waiters to.postjt.lorme; but as
for trusting Banks, it's not to be thought
Of." ,.. v
And upon second consideration Miriam
thought this would be the wisest plan. She
therefore locked thejetter "by tbnt she had
written with the money she had" obtained
from Sir James, and at luncheon tinre went
downstairs and tried,'"befora her lather's
eyes, to look as if.noihing.-had happened.
Mrs. Clyde had judiciously toldtbe Colonel
that he had better uiot say anything to
Miriam about the storm. .
"Her nerves have be'eh 'shaken "ever since
she was ill," she told "him, ''and it would
only upset her if youtolU: lierbout the
painful scenes on the rocks, and as, Sir
tames is coming inis oiernoo x-wani ner
tolook.welL." i....'. r
So the Colonel said-nothing- "to Miriam
about the victims of the cruel ,se&;, nothing
of the gallantry of "'the eoTdierDare.' "He
shook hands with' his daughte.rjan d . spoke
mduiy w ner, ana uinam a,nscreti mm
quietly, and Mrs. Clyde'.2&y.iadt"'did the
rest. Then about 3 o'clock Sir James ar
rived, and Mrs. CIyde" arirrtnr "drawing
room with her daughter when he-came, and
received him with great cordiality.
"We are going to give .-you a surprise,
Sir James," she said, smilingly, as sbe
shook hands with him.
"And what is that?" he answered smil
ing also. ,
"We are going, Miriam, and I, to start for
town to-morrow by the- mid-day train, to
see after all Miriam's smart frocks; and
then the Colonel and I have determined to
have the marriage in town, if you- do not
object?" "
"Certainly I do .aot,5 object." 'Jald Sir
James.
"Well. I shall tell yoa our wasoni for
this change. Ton see'' about htrs'thtr are'
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hosts of people who would expect to be in
vited ta the -wedding and this house is so
small Whereas, in town, we need have no
one but my daughter Joan and her husband,
and an old friend or two, perhaps, of my
husband's. And I don't like fussy wed
dings, and Miriam does not like them."
"And I am sure I don't," said Sir James,
delightedly and honestly. "All I want is
Miriam, not a whole lot of people to stare at
us."
"Then we are all of one mind," answered
Mrs. Clyde, pleasantly; "and we will keep
the day a secret until the great eventisover.
And now Ithink the Colonel will be wanting
me, and I know," she added, smiling, "that
you young people wish me away."
So she left them, and Sir James crossed
over and took Miriam's chill, little hand
tenoeny in nil.
"I'm so pleased about this, darling," he
said; "it's so much jollier to be quiet and
have it all to ourselves. Don't vou think
so, Miriam?"
"Yes, I am sure I do," she answered,
truthfully.
He stood looking at her still clasping her
hand, and turning her diamond engagement
ring gently rohnd her slender third finger.
All his heart was full of her, and Miriam's
dark eyes fell before his eager gaze.
"I'll try to get leave at once," he said,
presently, "and follow you up to town im
mediately. We'll go shopping together,
Miriam, or shall we leave Mrs. Clyde to
buy the frocks and wedding gown, while
we "
"And what shall we do?" asked Miriam,
with a taint smile, as he paused.
"Oh! I don't care a bit as long as we are
together; that's all I care for, Miriam: if
only I have yoa with me that's everything
I want."
"That is very foolish of you, Sir James."
"Don't call me Sir James in that formal
way, dear; call me Jim your own Jim."
"I wonder if I could," said Miriam, a lit
tle wistfully, and she glanced shyly at his
face.
"Of course you could; only you are such
a shy little girl. I know you don't care for
me as I care for you, Miriam; no one could
care so much, I think, but still, in time
will you love ma a little bit, dear?"
"You are very good," said Miriam, with
a strange choking feeling at her throat, and
she put her hand again into his, and Sir
James stooped down and tenderly kissed it.
"What a dear little hand," hesaid; "my
little haqd; the hand that is to rest in mine,
I hope, till we grow old and gray. Fancy
this pretty dark hair soft and white," and
he touched one of Miriam's little curls as
he spoke. "But there will be no change in
our hearts, Miriam uone at least in mine."
"How can you tell," said Miriam, and
again she looked at him.
"I know," 'he answered presently, "I
think of no one else, Miriam; whatever I
do your image' is- before me. That is not
the'sort of love that grows cold. Even if
vou were' to cease to care for me I should
love you still."
"I shall not change," said Miriam in a
low, almost a.solemn tone; and these words
made Sir James so happy and excited that
the world seemed only full of bliss to him.
He stayed, to dinner, and Mrs. Clyde's
shrewd eyes saw that as far as he was con
cerned that everything was going on as well
as she could wish. Miriam Was very quiet,
but she looked handsome, and her mother
tried to forget the hannting shadow that
had pursued her tor the last two days. At
all events, she. meant to fulfill her engage
ment, Mrs. Clyde felt sure, and this was the
great point She would be Lady MacKen
non, and Mrs. Clvde believed her incapable
of disgracing, her husband's name.
Thus the evening passed; the last evening
that Mrs. Clyde intended that Miriam
should spend at Newborough-on-the-Sea
until atter ner marriage, sir , J ames prom
ised to see them off the next morning at
Halstone, fromwhich place they were going
to start on their journey to town. Then
after he was gone all was bustle and pack
ing at the Colonel's . house. . Miriam had
little time" to think, and" when at last she
did retire to rest she was so tired that she
speedily fell asleep. Bnt when she awoke
the next morning all the past rose again
very vividly before her.
"Poor, poor Hugh," her heart whispered,
as she looked out on the misty sea. But it
could not be; it could never be, she also
told herself. She must forget him; and he
mnst forget her in a new ami. far-distant
life; and Miriam gave a weary sigh.
Most of the rest of the day was spent in
traveling. Colonel Clyde and his wiie and
daughter drove to the station in the early
morning, and the carriage passed the gates
of the barracks where the soldier Dare was
now quartered. Miriam just glanced at the
whitewashed walls, and then turned away
her head. She did not see the pale, set,
handsome face at one of the windows, eager
ly watching for the carriage. Dare had
heard, somehow or other, that the Colonel's
wife and daughter were leaving Newbor-ough-ou-the-Sea
that morning, and he easily
guessed why Mrs. Clyde was taking Miriam
so swiftly away. Ford had told him that
they had both got into trouble by me eting
him the night of the storm, and, of course,
this was the upshot ot it And the soldier
smiled bitterly and with quivering lips
as the carriage passed, and for a
moment he caught a glimpse of Miriam's
face. Then he sat down moodily, and
more than once his gray eyes fell on the
sentry's rifle, who was pacing below. He
was weary of his life; this shammed and
hidden life, the bitterness of which his
heart only knew. Presently Dr. Beed came
into the room, and as he approached Dare
he stopped and looked curiously at him.
There was something so dark so 'tragio in
in expression of the voung man's face that
the doctor felt half alarmed.
"Well, Dare, how are you this morning?"
he said.
Dare rose and saluted, and answered in
a forced and husky voice:
"All right, sir."
"You don't look all right, anyhow. Is
your leg paining you?"
"I think not," said Dare. He had for
gotten all about it; had forgotten everything
in the overpowering bitterness of this mo
ment And Dr. Beed at once understood
this. He, too, knew that Mrs. Clyde and
her daughter ha-1 just left Kewborongh-on-the-Sea;
he had heard a rumor also that
Miss Clyde was to be married while they
were away, acd he felt sorry for the pale
young soldier before him.
"We must all make the best of things,
you know," he said, by way of common
place consolation. "We all have our
troubles. Dare, and there are days when I
believe the most of us wish we had never
been born.".
GtORIES OE A GARDEN
Pittsburg People Just Realising What
to Dq With Their Yards.
GREAT OHANQB IH A PEW TEARS.
It'i a Mistake That a Whole Farm
Needed for Good Eesalts.
Is
NEW PLANTS TfllT PBOYE P0PUL4R
nrarrnx yon ihi nispATciti
SHORT time ago
the writer was
invited by one of
the most cul
tured landscape
. architects in this
part of the coun
try to take a look
at some of the
representative
gardens of t h e
new era in Pitts
burg, and during
a most delightful ride through the East End,
Oakland and other suburbs that encircle the
city with a belt of refreshing green upon its
eastern side, all the best of horticulture as an
art exemplified practically in this vicinity
was seen.
As we traveled from Penn avenue to
Highland Park, from that exquisite green
knob to Brushton, and then back with many
excursions from the direct road at length to
Schenley Park, the designer ot gardens amateur gardener in America was to be
Thomas Carnegie's, for example is a reve
lation. In place of the insignificant blos
soms half an Inch wide which the begonia
used to produce, there may now be lound
flowers seven and one-half inches across,
and byftybridization no less than 150 varie
ties have been developed. The begonia
grows like a weed in the snn. It has the air
, of a hot house plant and can be cultivated as
easily as the geranium. At present the
supply of begonias is limited and conse
quently they are expensive', but they will
soon be within the reach of the smallest
purse.
A Revolution by Hybridization.
"Another plant that is in one way pretty
well known here already is beginmng.to
fill a new and more important role. The
canna is no longer to be cultivated for its
rich, graceful , foliage alone, but also for its
flowers, which, through the magic'of hy-
uriuizauqn, nave been orougnt into rivalry
iiu us jeuveo. xne canna mat is wonting
this revolution comes from France, where a
floriculturist named Crozy has done for it
the canna what Griffin in this country has
done for the begonia. And, by the' way, it
is laughable now to think of the contempt
uous manner in which poor Griffin's pro
posal to make the begonia a bedding plant
was pooh-poohed. Crozy is an enthusiastio
gardener and an inventor of flowers, so to
speak, who is constantly experimenting
and searching for new things among his
flowers at Orleans.
"This is an age of specialists, and horti
culture has its share of them. Nobody who
intends to work on a big scale tackles flori
culture en masse; he selects a department
This man takes up gladioli, that begonias.
and so on. The nurseries of these special
ists ore wonderful sights. Acres given up
to a single flower; begonias, for instance,
planted closer than corn or cabbage in im
mense fields. Apropos of begonias it is a
feather in Pittsburg's cap that the first bed
of tuberous begonias grown by a private
SHUT IN BY DISEASE.
Great Society of Invalids
Lighten Each Other's Sorrows
to
EXTENDS TO BOTH CONTINENTS.
Systematic Effort to Provide Comforts for
the Unfortunates.
DETAILS OP THE ORGASIZ1TI0N
Mi'rrrHfffii'l)
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chatted about his art "Gardens about
Pittsburg when I was a boy, and till quite
lately, grew they were not made," was a
bit of his preface. "Plttsburgers long ago
were willing to spend lots of money on their
houses, but it is only ot late years that many
of them have cared to spend a tithe of what
a single room costs to furnish upon the
grounds. But now that a few men in every
neighborhood are showing how much beauty
a little artistic arrangement of lawn, flowers,
shrubberies and trees will lend to a home,
no matter how humble, the cultivation ot
landscape gardening is advancing here by
gigantic strides.
"The influence of the parks newly onened
is also powerful to the same end, and if, as
I believe they will be, Schenlev and High
land Parks are laid out and completed
under the direction oi artists, the efiect
they are likely to have upon amateur gar
dening around our homes can hardly be
measured."
"Doesn't the small area of the yards to
be found'about most Pittsburg houses, even
in the suburbs, put landscape gardening be
yond the majority's reah?" was asked.
.Extensive Tnrd Not Mroessnry.
ITot necessarily, although, of course, it
is easier to produce good effects with five
acres than a 20 by 50-foot lot That's a
common error. People think it's waste of
money to, embellish a yard, add often a
really artistic soul contents itself with a
plat of turf in the idea that more ambitious
gardening would be ridiculously out ot pro
portion. But a small place can be improved
as much proportionately as a larg.- one by
the gardener's art Look at that house, for
instance," and as he spoke he pointed to
a small but exquisitely designed house of
gray stone, standing upon a comparatively
small lot, of which we were just abreast
It is the home of a well-known architect
and undoubtedly a gem.
The gardener has made the most of every
inch of ground. Under the corner of the
stone porch there is a clump of hydrangeas,
azaleas and rhododendrons, from which
the lawn slopes away to the street sidewalk
from which it is divided by a privet hedge.
Another hedge marks the lateral boundary
of the lot Some ot 'the azaleas were in
bloom and made a warm patch ot color in
high relief against the cold gray stone. The
house and grounds were of this year's
creating, so that only the outline of
the scheme by which the one had
been made to supplement and set off the
other could be seen.
"Why were we born?" said Dare, darkly,
forgetting for the moment his assumed char
acter. "Born against our wills to suffer
temptations and miseries which we have no
strength, or at least not strength enough, to
control."
"But the chaplain would tell you we
ought to "find strength," answered the doc
tor, with a smile.
"But what does he know of the tempta
tions and passions of other men's hearts?"
continued Dare, with extraordinary bitter
ness. "Is, the. flicker or a candle like a
raging tire, or "a pond like the deep sea?
Yet he tells us all the same the weak and
the strong are alike to God."
"Ut course temperament makes a great
difference." v
"But we do not make our temperaments.
We are born as we are, and the heart only
knoweth its own bitterness:"
"You have strong feelings?"
Dare gave a harsh, 'strange laugh.
"Yes,"-he said, -"'I have that curse. Even
as a boy I was headstrong and passionate,
and when I grew to be a man "
"I understand," and the doctor nodded;
"of course- a woman was at the bottom ot
it"
"I went, at least, to the devil for one
but this Is folly I am forgetting myself."
"Never mind; you must learn to take
things easier, Dare; after all in a few years
what will it matter?" And the doctor
nodded and passed on.
"In a few years," muttered Dare, and
then he, too, turned away, but the black
cloud wasttill upon his brow.
2b be Ocntinucd Hat Sunday.
Totkabran.
Ask for lta any restaurant or saloon. It
Is pure laser beer, made from" hops and
malt. Bottled or in balk from tha raann.
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The Beauty of a Hedge.
The effect was excellent beyond a doubt,
and fully justified the horticulturist's
proud toue as he remarked: "That's what
can be done with 60 feet front anywhere!
Do yon notice what an improvement that
hedge is? The use of hedges, in preference
to inartistic fences, ia one ot the cardinal
points in my creed. At Newport, it I.,
the hedges are not the least lovely
feature of its famous gardens. They
are chiefly of California privet,
which by the way is one of the
cheapest hedge plants obtainable. A hedge
under any circumstances is more orna
mental than a wood fence, iron railings
which are abominable or even masonry,
though a store wall not too regular and un
broken in outline may be made tolerable."
At the mention of iron railings the mind
of the writer -went back to a little suburban
vilia nowhere near here, around the front
yard of which the eminently respectable
proprietor set up a heavy iron fence painted
sky blue in which were set gilt lozenges
every few feet and gilded posts. The gar
den within contained pessibly 23 square
feet of lawn, a circular flower bed as big as
a bicycle wheel stuffed full of geraniums in
bloom, and a gravel pathway wide enough
to accommodate oue medium-sized person.
The fence was the dearest object in that gar
den to the owner; he painted it every
spring, and the light blue railings with
gold knobs, the green grass, the gravel path
and scarlet geraniums gave one a shock
never to be forgotten. .
Thi Renewable riant Is Fosse.
"The setting out of geraniums in beds; in
fact, the whole system pf be.Iding with re
newable plants," remarked the architect
in flowers as this shocking reminis
cence called up the subject, "is destined
to be shelved altogether pretty soon, and
in the East has been abandoned by all the
enlightened gardeners. Permanent flowers,
hardy plants and shrubbery are taking the
Slace of old-time 'bedding.' Bhododen
rons, hydrangeas, azaleas and the like are
comparatively newcomers In Pittsburg gar
dens, but they are making friends here as
quickly as they have already made them, in
the East Then there is the begonia, un
known as a garden plant in the common ac
ceptance of the term till now, which prom
ises to be as popular and cheap -as the
geranium in a few summers. Of course the
begonia as a hot house plant is no new
thins;, but the plant, as it may be seen to
day in Highland Park, Homewood Ceme
tery, the Allegheny parka and in a few beds
martial Uurt ta rtJTftt sssrtnsv-a&n'
seen in Mrs. Bobert Pitcalm's grounds last
year."
Flttsbnrs's Most Beautiful Tree.
As we passed along Neeley avenue the
purple beech tree in Mr. Thomas Mellon's
grounds suggested another topic, "In that
tree you see an important rule in arboricul
ture emphasized," said he. "It is better to
have one perfect tree than a forest of im
perfect growth. I think that beech is one
of the most beautiful things to be seen for
miles around; no wonder Chief Bigeiow
offered Mr. Mellon a fabulons sum to let
him take it to Schenley Park. A tree like
that ennobles a garden. As to the use of
trees generally in gardens, it is becoming
recognized gradually that thev are most
effective when massed with shrubbery upon
the boundaries generally.
"You can eomparo two ways of using
trees in those adjoining gardens," and he
indicated the gronnds in which two of the
handsomest houses in the East End are set
In the one trees straggled all over the lawn;
none of them fine specimens, though had
they been gathered into a ljody they might
have passed muster. In the other n broad
stretch of velvety lawn, ilndulatingslightly,
lay iiKcau eujeraiu mirror oeioreme nouse:
a graceful avenue of trees shaded the drive
way, in the gentle curves of which were
more trees and shrubbery, chiefly rhodo
dendrons. One had no need to be told that
the latter was the correct arrangement ot
trees.
Popularity or the A rails.
"It is easy to make a mistake In massing
trees," continued the horticulturist, "to
plant too many of them, and too thickly.
The result is a thicket instead ot a grove,
and in many of the older gardens abont
Pittsburg this is a blemish that
time perhaps as much as any
design of the original gardener
has brought about As an auxiliary to the
heavier foliage and for the sake of their
brilliant blossoms the azalea, the rhododen
dron and the hydrangea are deservedly at
tracting attention here, and in spite of old
fogies' sneers and atnpid gardeners' mis
takes in planting them many Pittsburg
gardens have been beautified by their ad
dition." How gorgeous the azalea's coloring is
visitors to Highland Park about a month
ago had a good chance of seeing. At the
head of Highland avenue, near the park en
trance, in the heart of a grassy bank blazed
an orange azalea like a bush of burnished
brass. It was a superb specimen.
An Allen to Be Welcomed.
The best exhibit of azaleas in a private
garden was found a short distance from
fifth avenue, in a most picturesque little
glen, that is within sound of the clattering
cable cars almost, and yet as sylvan and as
still itself as if the creek that winds be
tween wooded walls were the Sinnamahon
ing, stream beloved of bears and speckled
trout The azaleas here were planted with
rhododendrons upon a steep bank, and their
blossoms lent warmth to the woodland be
hind them. In color they ranged from
crimson to claret mostly, but there were
orange flowers and others striped in two
tints of rose, or nnrnle and white. The
strangest thing about them was that three
rwiuTTiw yoa thx dispatch, i
The Shut-in Society; started in 1877; In
corporated in 1885; members in every State
in the Union, in Canada, Newfoundland,
England, Scotland, ' Germany, France,
Switzerland, Italy and China. This is the
name and record of a most unique organiza
tion. Fifteen years ago Miss Jennie M. Drink
water, now Mrs. Conklin, of Madison, N.
J., was shut in her room 'by disease. She
had, however, a heart full of sympathy for
others and began a correspondence with an
other Invalid, personally unknown to her,
for the purpose of cheering and comforting
her. This was the germ of an organization
of invalids which now embraces two hemi
spheres and has a membership reaching into
the thousands.
The pleasure and profit experienced from
this correspondence by these two persons,
bound together by the sympathy born of
similar afflictions led to an interchange of
letters with a third and fourth, and so on
until the Shut-in Sociery was fully organ
ized in 1881. The next year the society was
incorporated nnder the laws of New York,
and Mrs. Conklin was made its President
The constitution provides that "To be a
sufferer, shut in from the outside world,
constitutes one a proper candidate for mem
bership In this society."
Only a Desirable Membf rjhlp.
In order that unworthy persons may be
prevented from becoming members of the
organization the constitution further pro
vides that applicants shaH'"send with their
application, if possible, the name of their
pastor, or their physician, or ot some asso
ciate member of the society, as an intro
duction." The associate members, the con
stitution explains, "are not themselves in
valids, but, being in tender sympathy with
the suffering, volunteer in this ministry of
love. " Each associate member assumes the
duty of corresponding with the members of
the society living in certain states or a cer
tain district assigned to him or ber, and is
expected to subscribe at least SI a year.
The management of the affairs of the so
ciety is in the hands of an Advisory Board
composed of associate members! The pres
ent officers of this board are the following:
Honorary President, Mrs. J. M. D. Conk
lin, Madison, N. J.; President, Mrs. Helen
E. Brown, New York City; Secretary and
Treasurer, Mrs. H. K. Monroe, Millers
ville, Pa.; Vice Presidents, Miss A. E.
Lippincott, New York City; Miss Mary
Hitchcock, Hanover, N. H.; Miss H. J.
Wright, Philadelphia. Pa.; Mrs. George
Kcid, Summer ville, S. C; Mrs. J. F.
Church, Pasadena, CaL; Mrs. Fanny H.
Ferris, Wheaton, HI.; Miss A. Hopkins,
St Louis, Mo.; Miss L. Howard, Toronto,
Canada. Besides these officers there are an
editor and a librarian; the former is Mrs. H.
E. Brown, the President, and the latter
Miss A. E. Fuller, of Hanover, Conn.
Various Departments of Effort.
The work of the Advisory Board is dis
tributed among Committees on Finance,
Correspondence, Advertising, Helping
Hand Department, Wheel Chair Depart
ment, Children's Department, Missionary
Department and Prison Letter Department
The society is composed largely, though
not exclusively, ot women, xne Jtlen's
Department is under the direction of Mr.
Will a Mather, of the Chicago Y. M. C. A.
Miss G. L. Lewis, of Boston, and Miss
Josle A. Jones and Miss Abbie A. Miller,
of Dorchester, Mass., have charge ot the
Children's Department, 'the members of
which are called "sunshine makers."
The associate members of this department
have formed a band called the "Little Cup
Bearers to the King." This band is com
posed of boys and girls from 6 to 19 years,
who, in the flush of health, are carrying
cups of love and sympathy to some little
sufferer. Each little Cup Bearer corresponds
with a little "sunshine maker," and has a
badge of purple ribbon and a printed letter
of welcome. Experience shows that chil
dren, when once introduced to this kind of
work, take to it with enthusiasm. A novel
diversion adopted by some of the invalid
children is the practice ot dressing up their
medicine bottles as dolls and afterward
sending the dresses around rom one to
another. V
the editor elected by the board. The Opm
Windpw is furnished to invalids at SO cents
and to associate members at 91 a year.
Although the members assert emphatically
that the society is not a charitable organiza
tion, and they are not allowed to ask
pecuniary aid from one another or from
associates, the Open Window is sent free to
any members who are unable to pay even
CO cents a year. The title page ot'the little
magazine illustrates its name and object by
a picture of a window opened to the sun
and revealing a "bit of pretty landscape.
Underneath are flowers and the legend,
"The windows of my soul I throw wide
open to the sun." Over the window is the
text: "There shall be nofnore pain.".
It would hardly be expected that, among
a class of people needing so much to make
their own lives endurable, a missionary
SDirit would be largely develoned. It may
be, however, that on account of their ap
preciation of -sympathy the woes of others
appeal to them the mora strongly. Be that
as it may, certain' it is that the desire to
help others, which manifests itself so
plainly in all the work of the Shut-in Soci
ety, is not limited by territorial lines. Con
nected with the society is the "Invalids'
Auxiliary," which is supporting a native
nurse in the Margaret Williamson Hospital
at Shanghai, China, and is also raising a
fund to endow a bed in the same hospital,
to be known as the "Shut-in Society's bed."
Anonymoaa tetters to Prisoners.
Another sort of missionary work under
taken by the society is the writing of let
ters to prisoners. About 1,700 letters have
been sent by members to convicts in Sing
Sing prison. These letters are sent to the
chaplain without superscription and by
him addressed personally to the convicts.
The writer's name, and place of residence
are not allowed to come to the knowledge
of the recipient The chaplain at Sing
Sing testifies that the letters have been of
great benefit to the prisoners.
By means of interchange of letters be
tween members of the Shut-in Society many
invalids who have never seen each other's
faces have become not only intimate ac
quaintances but warm personal friends, and
the term "letter friend" has become a part
of the vernacular of the society. A signal
proof of the interest taken in 'this corre
spondence is found in the fact that many of
tne letters are written by persons who are
unable to assume a sitting position, but
write while lying upontheirbacks. Through
these letters has been developed the fact of
the existence of a surprising number ot in
valids who hare been confined to their
rooms for a long term of years. It is not
very unusual to learn of those who have
been thus "shut in" for 25 or 30 years.
Cases of Patient Suffering
Miss Elizabeth Parker, of Manlius, N. Y.,
has lived for 60 years without being able to
walk. This fearful affliction is the result of
her having been- given too much calomel
while ill with scarlet fever when six years
old. Mrs. Phoebe Youngs, of Fayette, N.
Y.,.who died a few months ago, had been an
invalid 01 continuous susenng tor 40 years.
She was a member of the "Midnight Prayer
Circle," a band formed among those who
are unable to sleep at night to pray for one
another, and for the suffering generally, at
the midnight hour. Mrs. M. A. Metcalf, of
Oberlin, O., who died in February last, had
been a cripple, suffering from inflamma
tory rheumatism, for over 30 years, much
of the time entirely helpless. Jacob
Bunyon, of Unionville, N. J., died last
January. He fell from a hay mow 26 years
ago, was paralyzed from his breast down and
never walked afterward. He, like many
others, hod but a limited education when
first confined to his bed, but was a great
reader and became well educated before be
died. He learned to do sewing and to make
paper flowers while lying in his bed, and
from the sale of his work derived a small
income. Miss Sarah P. Havens, of Shelter
Island, Suffolk county, N. Y., who Is now
82 years of age, was so severely injured by
an accident 44 years ago that she has never
been able to walk since, and for 33 years
past sbe has sat in a reclining chair day and
night One member of the society who died
early in 1891 had been confined to her Led
for bO yearat
Bright letters From Darkened Bonis.
The letters of the shut-In members are so
cheerful, - bright and diverting as to be
really pathetic' when one thinks of the cir
cumstances under which many of them are
written. The following letter from an in
valid living at Canton, 111., is certainly cal
culated to quiet the complaints of the ordi
nary mortal: -
Six years ago my Jaws became locked and
have never unlocked. I have not taken a
step, stood alone, or sat up since that time.
Icmnoteven whisper I have to do my
talking by writing. 1 suffer much all the
time, still I have much to be thankful for.
How much worse Is the condition of many
others!
HAIR ON FAIR FACES.
The Approyed Method of BemoYing
It by Means of Electricity.
KILLIKG GEESE WITH LIMPS.
Edison's Plan for Doing Away With tha
Trolley on Street Can.
ILLUMINATION 1JJD PIKE KSUEANCE
months Detore tney nod been growing upon
the Burry downs in England. They showed
no ill effects from the transplanting, and in
fact seemed more attached to American soil
than most of their human compatriots do
after a decade's stay here.
HEPBtrnN jomra.
Karroos Debility.
Every one who are in the least degree
subject to nervousness, sleeplessness, pros-,
tration, mental fatigue, or nervous debility
in any form, find 'the hot weather of June.
July and August very hard to bear, if not
dangerous. Nervous prostration is becoming
more and more common every year, the
symptoms of which arc: Brown specks be
fore the eyes, slight dizziness, roaring in
the ears, attacks ot nervous headache, pal
pitation of the heart, flashes of heat, fol
lowed by slight chilly sensations faintness,
depression, despondency, forebodings, fool
ish fears, and many other similar ones.
Any one subject to any or all of these
symptoms should take warning at once, as
they indicate the approach of a disease
very dangerous to the system and hard to
cure.
Pe-ru-na quickly cures nervous prostra
tion in all forms. The first dose gives
prompt relief to the most distressing symp
toms and a persistent use o it for a rea
sonable length of time will permanently
cure cases of long standing. A dose of
Pe-ru-na before each meal during the hot
season is a safeguard of priceless value,
especially to those who are in the least sub
ject to nesrous prostration. -
Complete direotiona lor use on each bottle-
For treatise on nervous prostration
and diseases ot the nervous system send for
a eopy of the Family Physician No. 1. Sent
free by tha Pe-ru-na Drug Mannfaoturlss;
CoMpMrjrj Oalmbm, ft
Fnrnlshlnc Chairs for Invalids.
The "Wheel Chair Committee, represented
in the person of ,Miss C. O. Boss, of New
ark, N. J., has for its object the alleviation
of the sufferings of the shut-in members by
furnishing them, as far as possible, with
wheel chairs. When an invalid is removed
from her chair by death friends fasten a
little silver plate to ,the back of the chair
with the inscription: "To the memory of
," and give it to the committee to be
used by a shut-in who cannot afford to buy
such a chair. When this member is through
with it, it is passed on to another who
needs it
This wheel chair work is materially aided
by circles of King'sDaughtersand bands of
children, who buy chairs and send them to
invalids designated by Miss Boss. It is an
interesting fact that a number of circles of
King's Daughters have been formed among
the invalid members of the society and that
a considerable amount of benevolent work
has been accomplished as a result of "their
efforts. Miss Hortense Patterson, of North
Anson, Somerset county. Me., who is a
great sufferer and has had to do work while
lying on her back, has recently made a
handsome "promise auilt." composed of 64
squares, each containing a Bible promise.
This quilt she proposes to' sell and to put
the money received for it into a wheel
chair. Another ohair will be contributed
to the society by the friends of Miss Susie
Hewitt, lately deceased, to be known and
marked as "The Susie Hewitt Memorial."
Uteratare for the Safferer.
Books, magazines and newspapers are an
unfailing source of relief for those who have
them and are able to read them. But many
members of the society are so located as to
be unable to avail themselves of any pnblic
library and cannot afford to nay for the lit
erature they would like to read, and thus
this means of diversion is denied them. To
meet such cases the Shut-in Society has
established a library and furnishes books
and papers to those desiring them. Liter
ature Is contributed freely and is sent to
Miss Fuller, the librarian. She sends it
where it seems to bo most needed. Much
reading matter which has helped to load the
ragman's sack because the despairing house
wile knew of no other way to bring order
out of chaos in hef over-crowded garrett
might have served to while away many
weary hours if the owner had sent it to Miss
Fuller.
However, she sends out over 1,003 papers
and about 309 books during the year, and,
not only every State in the Union but Can
ada. England and China share in the dis
tribution. In Fhlladelphiaa "Pass-it-along
Club" has been formed, the purpose of
which is to circulate periodicals among in
valids. A Shut-in who wishes to avail her
self ot the privileges of the club fa as only to
write to the secretary. Miss M. C Yarrow,
No. 29 North Seventh street, stating what
periodicals she wishes aid whether she Is
able to pay postage or not, aid promising to
send the books to others when read.
A Papor Devoted to the Sick.
A periodical devoted to the work and in-
ts or the society and entitled the Open
One of the most prominent members of
the Sbnt-in Society is Miss Jennie Casseday,
ot Louisville, Ky. Although sbe has been
confined to her room for more than 25 years
Miss Ca;sedav has acquired a national repu
tation through her connection with the
Flower Mission of which she is the founder
and national president Passionately fond
of flowers herself, she conceived the idea of
the mission. As the idea took shape Miss
Casseday developed rare talent as an or
ganizer, and women went out from her bed
side systematically distributing flowers in
the hospitals, jails and sickrooms of Louis
ville. The good work soon spread through
out Kentucky and then assumed national
proportions with Miss Casseday still at its
head. A nurses' training school is one of
this energetic and noble invalid's latest un
dertakings, and it as successful as the
others. Ailee Mack.
rwarrrxx iob the DisrATCB.l
Dr. Leviseur, who has made a special
study of the removal of superfluous hairs
by electricity, is of opinion that the best re
sults are obtained by allowing the patient
herself to close and interrupt the current by
pressure on the electrode attached to the
positive pole. If the needle be introduced
into the hair follicle and the current closed,
20 seconds will suffice to destroy the hair,
which will be found to be perfectly loose,
and which should be removed at once by
forceps.
The operation is not by any means a com
fortable one, but there are few patients who
object to a second treatment when it is nec
essary. A 20 per cent salve of cocaine in
lanolin, thoroughly rubbed into the skin,
enables even very sensitive patients to un
dergo the operation with comparatively lit
tle pain. As a rule, SO to 100 hairs are re
moved at one sitting, and the sittings are
renewed at intervals of a week or ten days.
The proportion of hairs that start a new
growth is greatly dependent on the skill of
the operator, but they should not be mora
than 5 or 10 per cent
Immediately after the operation the pa
tient's face is washed with hot water and
alcohol, and an antiseptic ointment is ap
plied. It is found advisable to extract only
the coarser and more deeply seated hairs
and to leave the lanugo hairs alone. Br.
Leviseur strongly indorses this system and
says that not only will it prove an absolute
remedy but that no perceptible scar will be
left after the healing process is completed.
The Electric Light on Forage Daty.
The public is familiar with descriptions
of the destruction of birds of pasa;e from
flying at the lamD chambers of lighthouses,
dazzled by the light, and of the immense
number of insects that tall victims to the
glare of the street arc lamps in the summer
months, but an entirely new phase of this
relation of the electric light to natural his
tory is reported from Kansas. It appears
that the silt marshes, which extend for sev
eral miles in each direction north of Hutch
inson, are a favorite resort every season for
wild geese. The birds flock to the marshes
in such numbers that they are pursued by a
wbole armv of hunters in the spring and
fall, and the district is beseiged by men
who make a business of supplying the mar
ket with wild fowl. Some time ago the city
concluded to ne the electric Ihiht for the
streets, and some or the lamps were placed
high above the buildings, so that they cast
their light a great distance. Largo numbers
of seeso have been picked up that hays
been dashed to death against the poles and
rods around tho lamps, so that a diligent
patrol of the streets after dark prove- profit
able to the man who is in search of a dinner
cither for himself or someone else. A
policeman on bis beat is said to have been
recently bit in the back witn such force as
to be Knocked flat on the irrnnna. Pick
ing himself up hastily, and drawing his
cinb to repel the unexpected invasion, he
looked around for his antagonist, but there
was none to bo seen. On the ground, how
ever, was a flue gander with a broken neelc
An Adaptable Trolrr'Connectlon.
A good deal of curiosity was' excited by
Mr. Edison's statement some time ago Jhat
he was about to bring out an electrio rkll
way trolley through which it was possible
to "pict up" the current from a conductor
on the ground through mud and dirt A
patent has been granted for this device,
which consists of a wheel from whose rim
steel spikes project outward. As the car
moves along and the wheel tarns the lower
most spikes ate In contact with the rail, and
nre pushed In through the wheel ttanzes.
They are restored to their normal position
by the pressure or springs which prolecs
them aninsc the conductor. The spikes
are placed so close together that there Is
always 11 sufficient number In contact nlth
the conductor to make a connection of the
necessary condnctivity. It will readily bo
seen that a wheel of this description can
stalk-along and with its pointed steel spikes
pierce its way to a connection, or rather to
connections, under conditions where a solid
rim w 1th but one flat point of contact would
be useless.
Fire and Artificial Illumination.
Some instructive figures have been given
In a recent comparison of the average per
centage of fires cansed by lamps and by
electricity in the United States and San
Francisco respectively. In the United
States lamp3 caused 64.21 per cent and
electricity 1 1 per cent of all the fires caused
by artificial Inminant", while in San Fran
cisco these fignres stand 63 09 per cent and
4.0 percent respectively. In the United
States gas causes 1111 annual average of over
23 per cent of the fires duo to artificial
lighting and cindles cau3c less than 8 per
cent, which indicates that gas ranks next to J
lampsasaflro producer. For some local"
reason yet to be explained the condition!
are changed in Snn Francisco, whore can
dles lead gas in baying 20 per cent to 12 per
cent for the last named Inminant.
terests
Window is issued monthly nnder the direc
tion of the Advisory Board. The manage
ment oi this magazine constitutes the dntv
lf Mrs. H, & BrWBi already ataatiomad aa
DrOalae Cocktail.
A witness in a case recently on trial in
one of the courts in Boston testified that
the defendant was not a drinking man "and
only took cocktails," says the Boston Tran
KrtpL Judge Blank, who presided, is a tee
totaler. He noticed among the spectators a
well-known p'aysician, wit and oonvivant,
and at the recess called him up to the
bench and and asked him to define a cock
tail. "A cocktail," responded the doctor,
"is a feather dipped in an emollient, which
is applied to a dry or irritated throat tor
tne removal 01 dryness or irritation.
A New Way To Die.
At a bowling alley at Ulm, Germany,
a player slipped, and in falling struck with
his chest one of the thick balls, which broke
one ot his ribs. The breaking mule a sharp
point in the bone, which was turned inside
by the ball in so unfortunate a direction as
to cut into the heart Death was almost in
stantaneous, caused by the broken heart
, Semper Idem.
New York Evening Sun.
We wonder deeply as we see
Pictures or women long ago,
On canvas and on Ivory,
To think that females dressing so,
60 strangely hooped, bewizged, begloved,
Were those that our ancestors loved.
The whirligigs of time begin
Revenues with the change of fashion
By letting out and taking In,
Your Nineteenth century girls put on
The look of those so long removed.
Dear women our grandfathers loved.
Are woman's fashions like her mind
As quirk to change for our tormenting?
And typical in every kind
Of good resot"es and quick repenting!
Yet she our whole existence blesses
lu all her moods and all ber dresses.
Wake rjp.
Yes, wake up to the danger which threat
ens you if your kidneys and bladder are in
active or weak. Don't yon know that If you
fall to impel them to action, B right's dlseae
or diabetes awaits you? Use rjostotter's
btomach Bitters wltiiout delay. It.has a
most beneficial effect upon the kidneys
when sliuxlsh, and upon the bowels, liver,
stomach and nervous system. ttsu
Incandescent Current for Doctors.
In medical work, where varying currents
have constantly to be used, the battery Is
often a sonrce of such trouble as to"serious
ly interfere with the success of electrical
treatment, if not to prejudice the medical
man against it. The profession will wel
come an incandescent lamp socket which
has been so modified with tapping sockets
and a "switch as to make it possible to ob
tain either a current with the lamp in series,
or one in which all resistance is .urown out
and wbich can be u-ed np to the amount al
lowable by the safety insp plugs. In other
words, the new socketwhlch can be instant
ly fitted to an ordinary Incandescent lamp
enables the practitioner to nso the street
current In quantities suitable for all kinds
of medical needs.
The SUcropbone as a DatectlTe
The old saying that "Walls have ear" Is
about to be Illustrated in a fin desleols
manner In Bussla. A German Soolalist
organ complains bitterly of the uncompro
mising methods adopted by the various gov
ernments lor securing evidence of the secret
proceedings of socialistic bodies, and Is es
pecially indignant that a large number of
microphone?, that have been ordered from
an electrical firm in Berlin" by the govern
ment authorities injSt 1'etersburg, are in
tended to be fixed in the wails and cells in
prisons, so that anything spoken by the
prisoner In any part of the room can be
either heard by the officers of the prison or
automatically recorded.
Good Telephone dangnages,
A telephone expert has been making a
critical analysis ot the adaptability of var
ious languages for transmission over the
telephone wire. Chinese is pronounced the
easiest tongue for telephone purposes. It la
principally monosyllabo, and is made np of
simply rising and falling Inflections. Tho
ruggedness o. German does not impair its
merits lor telepbpnimr purposes as much as
might be Imagined. The French tongue is
damned with faint pra.se, since it Is "almost
as sibilant as English," bnt the gutteral,
though musical, Welsh comes out of the test
with flying colors-
Mr.
says
It Saves the Children.
a H. Shawen. Wellsville. Kan..
"It is with pleasure that I speak of
the good Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and
Siarrhcea Bemedy has done my family dur
ing the lost 14 years. In the most obstinate
cases of summer complaint and diarrhoea
among my children, it acted as a charm,
making it never necessary to call in a
physician. I can truthfully say tntt in my
judgment, based on years of experience,
there is not a medicine in the market that
U iu equal, frxhsa
Economy of Electrical Car Shunting.
Some idea of the immense economy that
will be effected by the general Introduction
of the new system of electrical shunting
may be formed from the fact that daring
the year 1S93, on the Prussian railways
alone, an aggregate of upward of 10,X),00G
hours were spent by different locomotives
in this class of work, the cost of the fnel
amounting to such a formidable total, that
when the uages lor the drivers nnd stokers
were added, it was shown that 19 per cent
of the total cost of the train service was
spent on shunting.
Tm All fits stopped free by Dr. Kline's Orett
Nerve Kestorer. o fits after flnt day's dm. )Ur
tcIobs cares. ImtlM and sz CO trial bottle free to
lit cues. Dr. Kline. KU Arch ic. V hlhu. f. So
LAsrnsare greatly benefitted awtk jm
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