t- h 11 ' : at Jl'.! ; j -1 ; i DO i 4 'V An Adventure in China g (Copjrrttf ht, by Author BjmUc&I.) and testify ginit him. He shrinks and trie, to flee. The spy follow.. ROMAN'S HOSPITAL. They trarerse at deserts, and lone I j seas, and always there is no hope of separation. The man tur. s in ang-er and seizes the spy, tearing him to frn?ments. Kacli fragment boeosms a man. A wall climes around them all, the man nut! the thounn.l spies, lie A MAX stands outside the walls ol rushes madly nt his enemies and all the legution having just elosrd the jrrent hands grasp him. Hr n interview with the American min- drives to pive battle, and helmld the tU-r, afiiT standing there he experi- walls and floors and ceiling' are liuii- enees a sense of relief at the accouv gry mouths that would tear him. plishment of his mission, at the same j(e thinks to bury li. secret, and. time beiiifr unable to resist a feeling brnenth his feet, crushed as he steps of triumph, lie feels that it is not upon them, lie eves as the sands of pi ven to many to outwit eastern di plomacy and oriental craft. lie has been chosen for this deli cate and dangerous work chiefly on the sea. Only a little sleep, he cries, and then dreams again. Th? net is him? upon a star. It has account of his familiarity with the a rope as long as hate, as strong as topography of the country, having, in love. The net swings, pulled by mighty r.r:i It rushes through unfathomcd i,"p:!:, down, down, forever; it is a million years for every change, and i-V'-v change is thick with fear. Th"re is blackness everywhere, and he hears the sunlight go screaming past him. searching for worlds un- kii'iwn. The great visions have ceased. A room lies before the man, dark within its center. Along its edge he ves a woman's form. She bears a child that cries for food. The nun's eyes fix themselves upon her. He thinks he goes to meet her. Then he starts back with aery. All around the woman and the child are pits st thick with points of steel. The child cries In terror for its lips are red with blood. It slips from his mother's hands, for they are slippery and red. lie falls towards the steel swords, and the mother gives a grent cry and would fain hold her little one. The man springs to her side. Together they seize the child, who has become as lead and who, crying for aid, still slips towards the cruel pit. The man cries in agony: "Oh, Mary, wife ol my heart!" and behold she, too, has fallen upon the piercing points. The woman and child cry to him for help, and he stands groping wildly, for all the eyelids from all the eyes he trod upon have closed upon his own. II? thinks he is torn away from those he loves, and as he falls through space their cries fojjow li'm like black sunbeams, and stunt all the flowers of his soul. i Tie comes to strange lands and sud denly hangs suspended above the world. lie dreams that a giant power racks him sn that across the entire firmn-'i-. nt he lies stretched in agony. Amid i he nii-jhty sky masses of color who rule a rd govern the realms come to as s::v '.!-n. TV ugh his veins flow currents of ''ne iiis arteries pulsate with torrents t!ia. seem drawn from the wells of ll:' f' v. The golden summer noon arid h ire one, and through his skin Lie ':-'ps of molten sunlight drip. Th.'ti the color changes togreen. lit Ivcia the trees springing to life amid his tortured frame, the lank grassei are growing from his eyes; a tangle of rushes is around his heart, and the aL'ony of awakening leaves and flow ers is rising within his blood. Xow blackness creeps upon him. It edges its slow way seeking for en trance, and it slips beneath his nails; it Mounts and writhes within him. Oh the horror of it! The load be' carries within his veins would blot: cut a thousand suns. It lies soft and! hi avy upon his lips, and the angels w!m see him turn from this blackened soul of night. I He would cry aloud, but he is soaked in darkness, if his lips open he would die, the world is gone, he must lie there forever where the black rain buries j him ever deeper in the bottomless pit of rtiirlit. i Oh listen how the drops fall upon him. dreadful, desolate, unending. I The man's brain is darkened, and 1' c:i n tell no more. ; sPK.vi-KR novo his coileire vacations, accompanied a Iricm! who was engaged in civil en gineering in China, while devoting his own researches to ancient iiianu I l of eastern poetry. Walking slowly and thoughtfully through t!ie streets of the Imperial City, he recalls the anxious, wan s of the legytioners, who had waited with .-ueh patience for help in tlu ii- more than dangerous situation, and now. ;ust as they were beginning I i lose hope, and all seemed dark, he felt exultant over the fact that he hail been the means of casting a ray of livht on their gloom. Ilis exultation, however, is destined to lie shortlived. He suddenly feels himself caught from behind, a strong grip upon his throat, and, though he :riigglcs valiantly, he soon finds re sistance to lie useless, lie feels that death . tares him in the face, but it developed later that his nationality preserved him from such danger. It seemed that the authorities had beiMiine suspicious and desired to ex tort from him any knowledge that he might possess. They had no wish to kill him, as his disappearance might excite inquiry. They had not yet lost o'l sense of future danger. They were averse to adopting any ordinary means of torture, as it mirrht leave signs which would fortify iiis siibscqiii nt complaint and cry foi vciuri':ini'c. Tlier fore, with oriental subtlety, tin v apply the sleep torture. The sleep torture! Could mind of man fiuviir a more excruciating ng ouy? The victim is suspended in n strung silken net swung from the ceiling by a slender cord of silk. It effectually confines its tenant. He is excessively wretched, for he has inadequate room. Attendants are in evidence whose duty it Is to prevent sleep. They arc not to permit a moment's uncon-si'iuusiic.- s. Tor more than 4 hours the prison er h.v; not slept. Heginning at this t'uv.e. one of the attendants who pos sessed psychic powers, thus deserioes his sensations: T!n nvir. I In piiln. Ills limbs nehe. T" )s oppi-i s-i d Willi wearinets. Mov u t'.il? a i: r. :i f til il sh' ovrrcnmts hi" 't Is a lor :;!. for shi p. He rrirs oil' ms p ii's. but lh y i!o tint answer. He i -!' rs v i y this stiff' Tint has conn rrnr 1 in. lie cr.'!i' with It as will, .. i.'.aj unt il: .1. tli'-rr Is r.o relief. Now he pusses out of this condition for n little while, lie becomes aware of bodlly s uff rli tr nmre keen than all he has in iiirtri. i 1 eonii s first lust nfcnve the eyes. "What ? that viir "" j..- cr'- A knife of moltcr. t. t i! I? tl .is t lr.;. I N ,i-i.:i. The point 1. 1 , ahs .it.il is lninciiib ' tl.t !. It spn 'its like ijiiicksllwr. His nerves shout and ir' t s i,i: !y. The kr.lfe tries ton-gain Us I'oii.i. I' :! riisls its haft within the w.iur.l Tin- n .in fei 1.- such iiRony that his I.ir.nuai; 1 1 ; ; I i t a no words, lie o.iiir.ul live . i-dl. . l.e wonders If within his grasp l Hi t.d has se'.Z' d him. i ear. rut ' 11 more for the man has- no thoimhls. 'I'iie l.oisch s.s lips Willi which I.. I'l.iir. would, spiak are elosi d, ;u:d or. '.1 ti. curies a seal, coim d with I lood. or'ik. il with unknown slcns. Now tit, n. .in thinks anain. Killing upon l . . '.ii.s he s, e.s faint n ck. They are . rd 11. ok like those of snot. So soft U.i y :t: that pain Is not. Vet they ildei- anil cm. fuse. Th, y Increase to mil lions. 1-Toiii cm the i.i i-i r lid In trooping tioiv. s tiny pour, and falliiiK dow n eon- ceal the worV. lie thinks tin y come from turr. ioes within his t. tuples, whose tires V. ui ' , , :::.-'.- this nroei sslon nf f.t.m i Iiiii.kc. and iir.swerlni; his comes ipilckly. Kaeh speck i hrichier hue, and In a mo id lir. pervades Hum all. !!' Klowh.fr tl. noes and now .-i orclo d ar.d sianieel with Manila Institution for Wh cli Creat es: Need Existed. Offers Good Treatment an Tan fie Obtalard Autvii-re iu the World ad la Itoa Llutlkely lr Uouica, .'I prays for f -as i r chat-ft, I I.' - ltp..r. II v. :.t a urn Tl. y In::;. i vis arc t if-. ifl's '1 f.ts hi: nr. I- cliani'c so that ho for. visions. How he longs for I'- is tl ; tl : t'o n: -fc '.N ill IV. Now h He rciiic was unci s, . Tn burn up his blood. The twin's arnut,d him. No, it i'i i 1- and turns. J( thinks st.iu.i.s upon iinc fo,,t so i... the heel rests upon the The other foot is lo.st, and giant hand is twisting ,;, Hi fas T- tcr and faster. i child how this play. Vet, never iliil he as nnv . He rocks and staggers, walls ol the room disaDneor II.. ii " - - is iii space, rushing through the tii'i'iy - lie calls upon (lie i.a; :o v strange gods. Ho cries that the chain of the bear is wound around It'ii:; that Orion' club is torn away; thai worlds and conslcllntions are twi'i'i with li : iii. 'I he scenes before him are but as firings of gold and blue, Mowing from his eyes ns he turns. Iiis brain is more confused, for he frcan-s 1'i: t he is the plaything of a child; a giant tup. The sky-dwelling child has lost him, and through un knoun realms he has spun away, iu xiizy circles, newf to be found again. Now once more he feels the net about him, and he begs for sleep. A Jitfle sleeo for the love of Heaven, i.c iii'ii ns that he has shot the al batross and is desolate on a wide, ride; soa. lie forgets the wish for sleep. In yonder dark corner is a spy. He pen ctrntes the man's thoughts and catches them in his hands like The Woman's hospital at Manila, rh.i ,'ine islands, is now open and ready for the reception of patients. It is in char;e of the superintend ent, Miss Mary MacDonald, a grad uate of ISellevue hospital, New York, who had a wide experience iu mil itary hospitals during the Spanish American war, and since has seeu conspicuous service iu Manila. The opening of this new hospital murks an epoch in the Americanizing of the city. The necessity of such an institution iu Manila, where those not entitled to treatment iu military hospitals, especially women, had no refuge, has been great. In the past sick teamster or fever stricken clerk in the civil government had no place to go for medical treatment and care. The military hospitals can accept none but military cases nnd those of grave emergency, and when the small army of government civil hclji no small factor in Manila's population is considered, the urgen cy is evidciit. The founding of the hospital was made possible through the generos' ity of Mrs. Whitelaw Ueid, who ex' pressed her willingness to donate $5,000 to the founding of such an in stitution. A board of trustees was immediately named, consisting of prominent Manila oflicials and busi ness men, and the work put into im mediate operation. Should the military government de cide to vacate the building now in use as the second reserve hospital, il would be taken as a permanent abode by the new Woman's hospital, as it would meet every requirement. A most desirable place, however, has been selected for temporary needs a -0-room house in a delightful local ity, completely retired and yet easily -accessible. The buildings, which have Hi AN EYEWITNESS. the llliml VI nn 1'roirrl It lollie Si: i Israel loo of the l.tivt em. A tilling lawyer whose recently ac quired shingle hangs in (J street went down into Virginia within the month tn attend n trial in his native county, says the Washington Post. It was es sential to prove that bitter enmity had existed between defendant and plaintilT- if plaintiff is the proper ( term to apply to the gentleman who hud hail a generous handful of bird shot i i s ri Inn eil into his person. A vv it lo ss, vv ho was quite blind, test i lied in detail as to the quarrel bet ween t be two. "Then Lew grabbed up a chair and broke il oter. lim's ln-nd," he said. 'Mow do you know Mint V" asked the lawyer who was conducting tin eross-exa ininat ion. "I was an eye-witness to it," re marked the blind man. "An eyc-tv it nessV" repeated the law yer, doiibtingly. "Ves," said the blind man. "I was A piece of the leg hit me in the right eye. I certainly was an eyc-w it ncssi." A Perfect Trensure. Tom I have seen the girl 1 want to marry. I stood behind her at the win dow this morning and it took hi r seven minutes to buy u live-cent elevated rail road ticket. Kitty Did that make you want to marry her? "Yes; I figured she could never spend my income at that rate." Towvn and Country. The Thirteenth. "How many girls did you make love to before you met me?" demanded his better half , at the close of a long tira de. "Twelve," groaned her husband. "But I never counted them until it was The Wine HimI unit. "John, she said, "do you think you can afford a new gown for me?" He looked a-her sharply. "Have you ordered it?" he asked. "Ves." "Then," he said, with a sigh of res ignation, "I cau afford it." Chicago Post. The Eteraal "I know that justice is blind," mused the fair defendant, adding the finishing touches to her toilet, which consisted of a Paris gown, a picture hat and other beautifiers "I know that justice is blind, but, thank good ness, the judge is not." Dultimore American. The I nforiclrablr Sin. Batty Well, that young Spooner has done for himself this time. Ball Ah! he promised to marry some girl, didn't he, and then threw her orer? Bntty Oh! much worse than that; he was guilty of putting his promise in writing. Ally Sloper. Conjutcnl Krpartee. Mrs. Crimsonbenk You hare a sponge on your desk to moisten your postage stamps; 1 don't sec how you cau go to all that bother. Mr. Crimsonbeak I know, my dear, that you woultr1 rather use your tongue at every possible opportunity. Youkers Statesman. A Hero Indeed. She I shall marry no man who is not a hero. He Say that you'll be mine and I'll prove that I am one. She Oh, Adolphus, how? He I'll go right in and "ask papa." Philadelphia Bulletin. MISS MARY MACDONALD. (Superintendent of th Woman's Hospital ut Manila, P. I.) been reconstructed, repainted nnd completely rehabilitated, are located in beautiful ami extensive grounds, which run entirely through to the river I'asig. The present service is limited to 15 beds. Should emergency demand, increased accommodations could readily be obtained. The furnishing of the rooms and till the accessories tire of the latest, most approved pat tern. The operating room is modern in every respect, and was equipped through the generosity of Col. (ireen leaf, surgeon general to the Amer ican army in the Philippines. Kvery device known to the best and most skillful practice of modern days is there. The dining-room, kitchen, reception-room, dispensaries, olliee and attaches' quarters arc located on the lirst floor. Miss MacDonald, the superintend ent, who also conducts the training school for nurses, is assisted by the following staff of graduated assist ants: Miss Mary A. Welsh, from lirand Knpids training school for nurses; Miss Kibe H. Wolfe, Illinois training school; Miss Mary L. Me Cormick, Buffalo; Miss Louise M. Mount, Long Island college, Nnvv York, nnd Miss Mary (i. Barker, Koosevelt hospital. New York. j Miss MacDonald has spcii much military service in field hospitals. She received her lirst appoint mi nt through Surgeon (leneral Sternberg to superintend those of the Seventh army corps at Jacksonville, Fla., with a staff of 100 women nurses. About a year ago she received a call to go lo Manila nnd has since been pursu ing her profession as the head of a inrge staff of nurses at that point. The hospital opened tvilh all the pclat which attends such a function In the states. Twelve of the leading physicians of Manila have been named ns n consulting bonrd, and about 40 of the ladies of the army, na.vy and civil commission and from private life will be requested to lend their aid and advice as patronesses. Col. (irccnleaf, Gen. MacArthur, Col. Miller, chief quartermaster, Col. Woodruff, chief commissary, and oth ers connected with the military gov ernment have done everything in their power to further the Interest of the Woman's hospital of Manila, as it is technically called, by the of fering of temporary loans of supplies,-etc., nnd the use of an ambu lance' when needed. The building is now a completely equipped, modern, scientific hospital, where cases can receive medical or surgical treatment qg favorable circumstances as A Miraculous Feat. "It seemed that nothing shorty of a miracle could save my little daughter from an untimely death," says City Marshall A. H. Malcolm, of Cherokee.Kan. " When two years old she was taken with stomach and bowel trouble and despite the efforts of the best physicians we could procure, she grew gradually worse and was pronounced in curable. A friend advised Mi?es Nervine and after giving it a few days she began to improve and final ly fully recovered. She is now past five years of age and the very picture of health." Sold by ait Drug(lsta. Dr. Miles Medical Co.. Elkhart, Ind. If the Clip Kla. Grace Darlington When I find men becoming a bore and u nuisance, I tell them that my father is a coster aionger nnd keeps a fried lish bar row in the borough. Jim Jabbers 11 a-ha-ha! very good; but if it is not n rude question, what is your father! tiraee Darlington lie is a cosler- miyigcr and keeps a fried fish bar row in Jhe borough. Ally Slopcr. flfuSl CANDY CATHARTIC- Genuine i-'g-Tptd CCC Ntver sold In bulk. BMfm ci tka fester who !r!:s to sell "fcax&Jna isst u seed." He AVonldn't Do. Tor some time they had sat in c! lencc.but $ was n silence that means muoh, Kvery thing seemed to indi :ate that they thoroughly tinder stond each other, and he already was beginning to build air castles. "Do you fcnow," he said nt last, "you are Jhe only girl I ever loved?" "That settles it," she said, with sudden coldness. 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