THE SCRANTOtf TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY MCVRXlNf, .TANTTATtY 17, 1894. 35.C. 35c. FOR LADIES' MUFF. How can we sell Muffs at this price? We must have the room and all Furs must go regardless of what they cost. We still have a good assortment' of Fine Furs. FOR LADIES' JACKET. Black Cheviot Umbrella back, a very good gar ment and well worth double the money. We have some very good styles left in Fine Garments. $1.98 $1.98 ffi CHILDREN'S UN- UH DERWEAR. WUi Our stock of Chil- 9dren's Umderwear is P much larger than we want to carry, so have cut the price deep to close. White, qc. upward. Scarlet and Gray at cost. HP LADIES' AND hfi MEN '3 UNDER S.VU. WEAR. 2m Greatest Bargain 8"P in this department WUi eVer offered. All grades of White, Gray and Scarlet; price astonishes. $16.75 no3 $16.75 Demorest Sewing Machine. AT WALTER'S, 128 Wyoming; Ave. TWOFOLD USE FOR A LAMP. tt May Not Ouly Light :i ICoom. but Hcut Kettle. For those people who tiro living in j-ooius and taking their board ouuide the house, not having tho privilege of the kitchen range, the arrangement of utiliz ing the heat and at the same time th light from a parlor lamp as suggested by the. accompanying sketch will readily Commend itself. The franseis easily made. Procure two Upright standards with four supports or feet scrowed to the four sides, and a PAST I. Bftng a rtprint from VU NMMMNMN of Jons 1L Watson, M. D., late of tht Army Midual Dtpurtmtat. C'HAPTKH L mr in late ci rouIm .v V V- sJSS i V i,)ok ".v d?srree medicine oi tne u ji i versity of tiondon , und proceeded to N e 1 1 e y to go through the c o iirsc p r 0 BOrlbed for sur geons in tho tirmy. Having Completed my studies there I N was duly tttaohed to the Fifth North umberland fusiliers as ussistant sur geon. The regiment was stutioned in India at the time, and before I could join it the second Afghun war had broken out. On landing at Bombay I learned that my corps had advanced through the passes und was already deep In the enemy's country. 1 fol lowed, however, n ith many other o facer-; who were in the same situation as myself, and succeeded in reaching Candahar in safety, where I found my regiment, and at once entered upon my new duties. The campaign brought honors and promotion to many, but for me it had nothing but misfortune and disaster. I was removed from my brigade and attached to the Berkshire, with whom i lerred at the fatal battle of Malwand. There 1 was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery. I should have fallen into the hands of the murderoulhazis had it not been for the devotion and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who threw me across a paek-horse and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines. Worn with pain, und weak from the prolonged hardships which I bad un dergone, 1 was removed, with a great train of wounded sutlVivrs, to the base hospital at l'eshawur. Here I rallied, and had already improved so far as to be able to walk about the wards, and even to bask a little upon the veranda, when I was struck down b entsrio fever, that curse of our Indian posses sions. For months my life was de- mi' ft'"1 ' R '.Ala ! l I P VTIL1ZINU THK HEAT Kl:iM A I..V.MP. Tvooden bar ucross the top having a hook for suspending either a tin pail or tea kettle in which hot water maybe boiled, eggs cooked or a cup of coffee or cooou made. To many girls who are in an office or More all day this simple arrangement will often eke out a scanty meal without the added expense of an oil stove, which is something of an item when the week ly falary is small. The standard may be set on the table with tho lamp where one is at work, or the lamp may be placed on the floor, and two chairs, With a broom handle placed across the top of them. Will answer the name purpose. The heat, from the Roch ester and other round burners is so great that it will boil water placed over it in a very few minutes. Care must be exer cised that tho kettle dues not hang low enough to touch the top of the chimney. Two iaches at least ought to intervene between the lxttom of tho kettle and the top of the ehinmev. Ukeljr to Get Kiou. Old Friend Wlu.t becctne of that beau tiful full length portrait of yourself and your first husbundf Mrs. Twotimes It is hidden away up in the garret. My second husband baa never seen it yet. I in keeping it for B surprise. "Asurprise!" "Yes. If he ever again gives me a 10 cent bottle of perfumery for n Christmas present, I'll give him that painting lor a KtW Year's present." New York Weekly. t Repetition. "What a disgusting, cowardly thing an anonymous letter is! I tell you. If lever get one I don't intend to keep it longi" , "You'll bum it at oacsV "Ko. I'll send it oil Immediately tosome fjieud that I hatc."--llarn'r's ffsefcjj smart us inn Patient. Old Doctor You look quite well toduy. Did you take the pills I left for you? Young Knowital utrnimphamly) Not one of 'em. Old Doctor Well, it docsn'; matter. They wete made of bread, Oood Xews. Is you bare made up your mind to buy Hood's Sareapnrilla, do not be permaded to take any other. Be auru to get Hood'it hnmparilla, which possesses peculiar curative power. Hood's Pills cure all liver Ills, bilious ness, jaundice, iudlgestioi), tick headache. Foil MONTHS MY LIVI WAS D8 . HFAIHED OF. paired of, and when at last I came to myself and became convalescent I was BO weak and emaciated that a medical board determined that not a day should be lost in sending me back to England. 1 ya dispatched, aooowU djngly, in the troop-ship Orontes, and landed a month later on Portsmouth jetty, with my health irretrievably ruined, but with permission from a pa terual government to spend the next nine months in . attempting to im prove it. I had neither kith nor kin in Kug land, and was therefore us free as air or as free as nn income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will per mit a man to be. Under such circum stances 1 naturally gravitated to Lon don, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the em pire are irresistibly drained. There 1 stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading u com fortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I hnd con siderably more freely than I ought. So alarming did the state of my finances become thut I soon realized that I most either leave the metropolis aud rusti cate somewhere in the country, or that I must make a complete alteration in my style of living. Choosing the lat ter alternative, I began by making up my mind to leave tho hotel, and to take up my quarters in some less pre tentions and less expensive domicile. On the very day that I, had como to this conclusion, 1 was standing at the Criterion bar, when some onu tapped me on the shoulder, and turning round I recognized, young Stamford, w Do bad been a dresser under me at Hart's. The sight, of a friendly face in the great wildf rneos of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man. In old days Stamford had never been r particular crony of mine, but now 1 hailed him with enthusiasm, nnd be, in turn, appeared to be delighted to see me. In the exuberance of my joy I asked hi:n to lunch with me at the Qolborn, and we started off together in a hansom. "Whatever have sou been doing with yourself, Watson?" ho asked, in undisguised wonder, as we rattled through the crowded London streats. "You aro as thin as a lath and as brown as a nut." 1 gave hirn a short sketch of my ad ventures, and had hardly concluded it, by the time thut wo reuehed our des tination. "PoordeViir1 he said, commlserating ly, after s, hud listened to my misfor tunes. "What are you up to now'.'" "Looking for lodgings," 1 answered. "Trying to solvo the problem as to whether It Is possible to get comforta ble rooms at. a reasonable price." "That's a strange thing," remarked my companion; "you are the scctond man to-duy that has used that expres sion to me." "Aud who was the first?" I asked. "A fellow who is working at tho chemical laboratory up at the hospital, lie was bemoaning himself this morn ing because he could not get some one to go halves with him in some nice rooms which he had found, and which were too much for his purse." "By Jove!" I cried; "if he really wants some one to share the rooms aud tho expense, 1 am the very man for him. I should prefer having a partner to be ing alone." Young Stanford looked rather strangely at me over his wineglass. "You don't know Sherlock Holmes yet," he said; "perhaps you would not care for him us a constant companion." "Why, what is there against him'.'" "Oh, I didn't say there was any thing against him. lie is a little queer in his ideas an enthusiast in some branches of science. As far as I know, he Is a decent fellow enough." "A medical student, I suppose?" said L "Xo 1 have no idea what he intends to go in for. 1 believe he is well up in anatomy, and he is a lirst-class chemist; but, as far as I know, he has never taken out any systematic medi cal classes, His studies are very desultory and eccentric, but he has amassed a lot of out-of-the-way knowledge which would astonish his professors." "Did you never e.sU him what he was going in for?" I asked. "Js'o; he Is not is man that it is easy to draw put, though he can be com municative enough when the fancy seines him." "I should like to meet him," I said. "If I am to lodge with anyone, I should prefer a man with studious and quiet habits. I am Tic t strong enough yet to stand much noUe or excitement. I had enough of both in Afghanistan to last me for the remainder of my natural existcAco. How could I meet this friend of yourV.'"' "He is sure to be at the laboratory. He either avoids the fflaee for weeks, or else he works there from morning tonight. If you like, we shall drive I ronnd together after luncheon." "Certainly," 1 answered, and the : conversation drifted away into other channels. As we made our way to the hospital ! after leaving tho Holborn, Stamford I gave me n, few more particulars about the gentleman whom I proposed to take as a fellow lodger. "Yon mustn't blame me if you don't get on with him," he said; "I know nothing more of him than I have I learned irom meeting mm occasions I ly iu the laboratory. You proposed this arrangement, so yon must not hold me responsible." "If we don't get on it will be easy to part company," I answered. "It seems to me, Stamford," 1 added, looking hard at my companion, "that you havo Rome reason for washing your hands of the matter. Is this fellow's temper so formidable, or what is it? Dou't be mealy-mouthed about it." "It is not easy to express the inex pressible," he answered, with a laugh. "Holmes isa little too scientific for my tastes it approaches to cold-bloodedness. I could imagine his giving a friend n little pinch of the latest vege table alkaloid not out of malevolence, you understand, but simply out of a spirit of inquiry iu order to hao an accurate idea of the effects, To do him justice. 1 think that he would take it himself with the same readiness. Ho appears to have a passion for definite and exact knowledge." "Very right, too." "Yes; but it may be pushed to ex cess. When it comes to beating the subjects in the dissei ting-rooms with a stick it is certainly taking rather a bizarre shape." "Heating the subjects!" "Yes, to verify how far bruises inuy be produced after death. I saw bin at it with my own eyes." "And yet you say he is not a medical student?" "No. Heaven knows what tho ob iectsdf his studies are! liut here wo are, and you must form your own im pressions about him." As he sjxike we j turned down a narrow lane and passed j through a small sido door which opened into a wing of the great hos ' pitah It was familiar ground to me and I needed no guiding as we as I oended the bleak stone, staircase nnd made our way down tho long corridor with its vista of whitewashed wall and dun-COlored doors. Near the further end a low, arched passage branched away from it and led to the chemical laboratory. This was a lofty chamber, lined and littered with countless bottles. Broad, low tables were scattered about, which bristled with retorts, test-tubes and little llunsen lamps, with their blue flickering flames. There was only one student in the room, who was bending over a distant table absorbed in his work. At the sound of our steps he TUT.RE WAS OSI.Y ONE 8TCDEXT IS TUB ItpOM. glanced round and cprang to his feet with s cry of pleasure. "I've found it! I've, found itl" he shouted to my com panion, running toward us with a tost t'the in his hand. "I have found a r"agent which Is precipitated by haemoglobin, and by nothing else." Had he discovered a gold mine, great er delight eould not have shone upon his features. "Dr. Watson Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said Stamford, introducing us. "How are you?" he said, cordially, griping my hand with a strength for which I should hardly havo given him credit. "You have been in Afghanis tan, I perceive." "How ou earth did you know that?" I asked, in astonishment. "Never mind," said he. chuckling to himself. "The question now is about hcemoglobin. Ko doubt you see the significance of this discovery of mine?" "It is interesting, chemically, no doubt," I answered; "but practically i, "Why, man, it is the most practical medico-legal discovery for years. Don't you see that it gives us an in fallible test for blood-stains? Come over here, now!" Ho seized me by tho coat-sleeve in his eagerness, and drew me over to the table at which he hud been working. "Let-us have some fresh blood," he said, digging a long bodkin into his finger, and drawing off the resulting drop of blood in a chem ical pipette. "Now, 1 add this smtj.ll quantity of blood to a litre of water. You perceive that the resulting mix ture has the appearance of true water. Tho proportion of blood cannot be more than one in a milliiyi. I have no doubt, however, that we shall be able to obtain the characteristic reaction." As he spoke, ho threw into the vessel a few white crystals, and then added some drops of a transparent fluid. In an instant the contents assumed a dull mahogany color, and a brownish dust was precipitated to the bottom of the glass jar. "Ha! ha!" ha cried, clapping his hands, and looking as delighted as a child witli a new toy. "What do you think of that?" "It seems to be a very delicate test," I remarked. "Beantlfull beautifull The old guaiacum iet was very clumsy aud un certain. So is the microscopic exami nation for blood-corpuscles. The lat ter is valueless if tho stUius arc a few hours old. Now, this appears to act a.s well whether the blood is old or new. Had this test been invented, there are hundreds of men now walk ing the earth who would long ago have paid the penalty of their crimes." "Indeed!" I murmured. "Criminal eases aro continually hinging upon that one point. A man is suspected of a crime months per haps after it has been committed. His linen or clothes aro examined, and brownish stains discovered upon them. Aro they blood-stains, or mud-stains, or rust-stains, or fruit-stains, or what are they? Thut is a question which has puzzled innny an expert, and why? Because thero was no reliable test. Now we have the Sherlock' Holmes tost, nnd there will no longer be any difficulty." His eves fairlv glittered as he spoke, and he put is hand over his heart aud bow ed as it to some applauding crowd conjured up by his imagination. "You are to be congratulated," I re marked, considerably surprised at his enthusiasm. "There was the ease of Von BiSChoff at Frankfort last year. He would cest tainly have been hung had this test been iu existence. Then there was Mason, of Hradl'ord, und the notorious Midler and Lefevre, of Montpelier, nnd Samson, of New Orleans. 1 could name a SCON of eases in which it would have been decisive." "You seem to be a walking calendar of crime," said Stamford, with a laugh. "Y'on mht start a paper on those lines. Call it the Police News of the Past." "Wry interesting reading it might be made, too," remarked Sherlock Holmes, sticking a small piece of plas ter over the prick on his finger. "1 have to be careful," heconliuned, turn ing to me With a smile, "for I dabble With poiSOSS a good deal." He held out his hand ns he spoke, and 1 noticed that it was all mottled over with simi lar pieces of plaster aud discolored with strong acids. "Wo came here on business," said Stamford, sitting down on a three legged stool and pushing another one in my direction with his foot. "My friend here wants to take diggings, and as you were complaining thut you could get no one to go halves with you, I thought that I hud better bring you together." Sherlock Holmes seemed delighted at the idea of sharing his rooms with me. "I have my eye on a suite in llakcr street," be said, "which would suit us down to the ground. Y'ou don't mind the smell of strong tobacco, I hope?" "I always snioko 'ship's' myself," I answered. "That's good enough. I generally have chemicals about, and occasional ly do experiments. Would that auuoy you?" "Dy no means." "Let me see what are my other shortcomings? I get In the dumps at times and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone and I'll soon be all right. What have you to confess, now? It's just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they be gin to live together." 1 laughed at this cross-examination. "I keep a bull-pup," I said, "and ob ject to rows, because my nerves aro shaken, and I get up at all sorts of un godly hours, and I am extremely lazy. 1 have another set of vices when I'm well, but those are the principal ones at present." "Do you Include vlolin-playlng in your category of rows?" he asked, anxiously. "It depends on the player," I an swered. "A well-played violin is a treat for the gods; a badly played one '' "(Hi, that's all right," he cried, with a merry laugli. "I think wo may con sider the thing as settled that is, if the rooms are agreeable to you." "When shall we see them?" "Call for me here at noon to-morrow, and we'll go together aud settle every thing," he answered. "All right noon exactly," said I, shaking his hand. Wo left him working among his chemicals, and we walked together to ward my hoteL "By the way," I asked suddenly, stopping and turning upon Stamford, "how the deuce did he know that I hud come from Afghanistan?" My companion smiled an enigmatical smile. "That's just his little pecul iarity," ho haid. "A good many peo ple have wanted to know how he finds things out." "Oh! a mystery, Is it?" I cried, rub bing my hands. "This is very piquant. 1 urn much obliged to you for bringing us together. 'The proper study of mankind is man,' you know." "Y'ou must study him, then," Stam ford said, as he bade me good-by. "You'll find him a knotty prob'em, though. I'll wager he learns more about you than you about him. Good by." "Good-by," I answered, and strolled on to my hotel, considerably inter ested iu my new acquaintance, TO BK CONTINUED. Dress For Little Boya. A charming dress for little boys is of fine blue and white striped woolen stuff. The blouse parts are arwnged on a body made of white longcloth buttoned in front. They are gathered above and be low, sewed on at the neck opening, the armliole, down the seam under this and at the waist. Small but tons sewed on to tho left side and bultouhoies made in u t JACKET DREKS FOB LITTLE BOY, stay set on at the front edge fasten tho fronts invisibly. The jacket parts, lined with white cheviot and left loose at the lower edge, are turned back on each side as revcrs Ity inches wide. The stuff is put plain over the lining. A skirt IS inches long and 1 yards wide, lined with longcloth, is sewed to the bodice, thick white cord being put over and tied in a bow ut the waist. Tho sailor collar and sleeve cuffs -H inches long, which complete the striped puff, must bemadeof double stuff. Blue embroidered anchor! on revers and sleeves. ilniianepo (tlrli. It must be a wretchedly poor Japanese girl who has not a silk obi a long sash nearly a foot wide, of heavy silk, and so voluminous that it is made into a fold behind which covers half of the back. Nearly all have silk crape dresses, but they are carefully preserved, aud many last a lifetime. A young bride in ordi nary circumstances takes to her new home clothes enough to last her as long as she lives- a provision more merciful to the husbands than many of them de serve. Washing Bad TsMa Ltaea. To wash red table linen use tepid wa ter with a little powdered borax (borax sets the color); hang to dry iu a shady place. The washing must bo done sepa rately nnd done Quickly, with very little toap. The rinsing water diould have a very little starch iu it. Iron when nearly dry. Home ly ItlnU. Put a little soap on that creaking gate or door hinge and permanently stop that intolerable nuisance of a noise. When frying eggs, keep the edges turned up with a teaspoon as fast as tht y whiten, This will beep them from le iug tough and indigestible and make it easier to lift or turn the egg without breaking the yolk. Black woolen and cotton hose should be washed by themselves (so as not to get lint on them), pulled in shape, hung on the line from the toes, as then the drip will go down instead of remaining in the toes and shrinking them. When anything is spilled on the stovo or milk boils over, making a suffocating smoke, sprinkle the spot with salt aud the fumes disappear, Photographic Panorama Linoleum la the Kitchen. An authority on such matters recom mends a thin quality of linoleum to bo used as a dado for the walls in a kitchen. It should be glued close to the wail, and may be finished at the top with a plain molding. It may thru be oilqjl or var nished, or left in its natural condition, as one chooses. It is in every way to be preferred to a dado of wood, which is liable to crack and leave interstices in which insects may lodge. The dado of linoleum is as easily washed as a dado of tiling, and is even morn durable, while it is a good deal cheajier. In the natural wood color in which this material comes, it would make a very pretty dado for a wall painted pale blue. As linoleum is nothing more than the blown pulp of wood, combined with Oxidized linseed oil, it can bo readily seen that it can bo treated in any wuy that wood can be treated, while it is exactly' suited to this purpose and the purpose of covering kitchen floors. A dado is almost a necessity in a kitchen, because a plastered wall gets chipped with continual wear. Linoleum offers just the right material necessary for such protection. Conking Eggs In Gravy. Set ns many small custard cups as you have guests in a pan of boiling water and put a spoonful of highly seasoned gravy in each cup. When the gravy heate, drop in u fresh egg. Set back the pan and eov.r it closely. When the eggs are nioeljt nnd tenderly cooked, drop iu a bit of butler and a slight sea soning of salt and pepper and serve nt once. of the: WORLD'S FAIR Mow Ready Something new. It is a Great Education lor any Man, Woman and Child who reads The Tribune and takes ad- vantage of its Grand Offer. " It consists of Over Two Hundred Photo graphic Views of the Sights and Scenes of the World's Fair and Midway Plaisancc. It Is Issued in Four Parts, or Portfolios. Each Portfolio Contains Fify or More Difsrent and Distinct Pictures. Over TWO HUNDRED Views Shown, No Two Alike. All of the pictures are of euual interest and importance to complete this beautiful and exhaustive pictorial history of the World's Columbian Exposition. Part One Contains Over Fifty Photographic Viewa. Part Two Contains Over Fifty Photographic Views. Part Three Contains Over Fifty Photographic Views. Part Four Contains Over Fifty Photographic Views. All Separate and Distinct Pictures. No Two Alike. m1k T CHICAGO, Illinois, on the Bhore of Lake Micbigau, from ii May I to October 30, 1893, istood the Majjlc City- tin- livuut City-.-tbat caused the whole world to hall and gaze in won tier and amazement. Thla was the crowning achievemenl in America's history of 400 years. livery nation from "Greenland's fey Mountains to India's Coral Strand," from darkest Africa to tin- islaink or tin- gea poured forth their riches as tribute ( tin- World's Columbian Exposi tion, that it should be the most marvelous display of ancient and mod ern times. 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