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•UB8CRIPTIOM1 On* Dollar Por Yoar In A4*ane*. Hotrid ai tb« pot offleo ot C*po May, R. J., u fc«oooi-olu*» natter, Maroh

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r_ It ta feared that the climatic change* caused by irrigation will bring about the disintegration of some of the celej; bra ted Egyptian monuments. HowI ever, irrigation is more important than

Lmthlnxas.

Sir Francis liking, physician to ; King Edward, is not a faddist, but take* a liberal view of the habits of ‘. We. He is credited with giving this r'geaefal advice "Do as you like, eat jSwrhat- you like, drink what yotN^llke l;. and smoke what you like, but do '*»• [' erythlng In mfxjcratlon." The se i . crets of long life he sums up as fpl lows •'Conservation of energy, mod

,^uttior:ot.»Jhc5wiictonW^Am-sk.” cteij

*1 thought It was Miss Theodora. She was always running in and out of the garden, feeding the chickens or

looking for eggs or fetebtn

iking for eggs e stack at tlx water from the

“So tha

and then about it?

•'Tea"

e side of t

well."

again?”

There was a pause.

pered: "Tes.' "TV he

Then Nell whls-

-a long while after. Just bok the tea Into the dining-

fore I took

room.”

Elr NeyfBo laid down the pen which be bad been bolding, clasped bis hands and looked over his writing-table at ber with an air of exaaperatioD. “Now, my dear girl, why on earth

» , x> ,„ dRln't you teD the coroner thatr 1 arstion and system. The greatest of ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

tbeli

the three is the conservation of energy.' And you must not worry. That i Ja alL" The rule is simple and sen-

! slMc.

f A man recently fell six stories [. through an elevator-shaft. In New K York City, and escaped with slight in- ! Juries. He fell just as an elevator had 1 gone down, and overtook it in hia fall, r,Evidently, as both man and elevator 'were descending with considerable j speed, he struck it with only so much I force as would correspond to the dlfi_ ference between their velodtloa. A 1 Writer in the American Machinist cali culates that the man fell 72 feet, and

my answers to their questions," replied Nell, earnestly. “Don't you remember that all they asked me was whether I bad been outside the bouse, oot whether I bad beard anybody else go la or

out?"

Sir Neville did remember. He asked

one more question.

“I have beard a report that a canvas bag containing the money collected for the shipwrecked sailors on the

it of

In your room. Is

BULLCT IN THE BRAIN. Its Prsssae* Tfisrs Not Always Attended

by ratal ItaeolU.

The idea that the human brain is ' an organ so extremely delicate in j | *tructure that it cannot bear the slight- j ost physical hurl sometimes appear | to receive a contradiction In the exj erience of people who have met with peculiar Injuries to the head. The history of brain surgery presents some icmarkable far*s in regard to the extent to which the thinking organ will sometimes resist the effects of external Injury. It has been shown that in some cases quantities of its subI stance may be 'removed without ap-

- J preciably diminishing the normal lnthe woman who robbed biro. So te |iigence of the patient; while some we brought Mm with us to-nlgbt to blTe bwl known ^ ^ uie most confront her. She wouldn't give ns ; aU beunces im-

for years.

the most singular kind

,ki„v w have been made in the interior snb-

lemmlng affected to think that ber , ^ ^ 1|t1bi bumAn braln . ^

TAKE A LOOK El

■ ssferr, 1

"Sbc dopan t soem to mean to give you a chance now,” observed Clifford. Hemming affected to think that ber capture was only a matter of minutes,

to hh

strangest things have been known t

men searched the premises at the back. But he hardly looked so confident as

' ' • n his

design.

In one ease It was the blade of a pen knife that was carried about in , the brain for half a lifetime without the patKnt being in the least aware of another it was a penholder that

the shipwrecked

night before your uncle went

hi* mind was found In

that truer’

“No, sir. Meg. my and I found It on the

And t

want, s foot

I CU.SICS WUl MIC UUU1 1CI1 I*

| that his speed,as he struck was 68.1

f 'feet J ' ‘ ~' -

l second. The elevator.

(Veil, th e, fortui

•tunately," said Sir Neville, as :

be rose to ring the bell. “And now l

same moment, was moving 34.1 feet a yfcn must come Into, the drawing-room

• w ^

|.»conJ. .epr-eents the velocity attain- pla& ym l^ T , certainly ed at the end of a fall of 17.9 feet. The not done much to facilitate the course mm- • .. — _ 4 _ — -* •—” *- ound up. with a dlg>

man was. therciore. injured only |i much as by a fall of about 18 feet on

A stationary surface.

1 to fad!

of Justice." he wound up. v nlfied shake of tha head.

But Nell refused t

3 be shown ‘fused even

to have a glass of wine or a cap of tea brought to ber Is the study before she went. She was white, trembling, miserable. But she felt that she wanted

been fore e which a

j Hard times are in slope for those boldest of seafarers, rats, for It Is beMktiered that, the problem of ridding ^ ships of these unwelcome stowaways i* to'' at last been solved. The local | government hoard of London his devised a method by which a ahipload j of them can be killed In a very short f time. The medium ia carbonic oxide, ! which is blown through all parts of the 1 ship before the cargo is broken, and

r In that way the rats are caught and . ___

bit Neruie s answer waa

. suring, and the look which ! ashore. The carbonic oxide Is genef- nied it was still less »o.

“That Is a matter for after considera-

tion.'’

KeO walked to the door with stag-

t killed before they have chance to | •shore. The carbonic oxide is gel \ *ted by blowing air, with or without ia admixture of steam, through a deep I- bed of Incandescent coke or anthracite j contained in a special furnace. The result is known as "producer gas.'

ever, she bad to pot

•he left the presence of the magistrate. “They will bring it in that she was mad, of course, will they not?” sbo asked, anxiously, but with an attempt fo appear quite sure of his answer.

rlifg feet. Miss 1 »! In danger of _

not of hanging I The thought was too

oxide and 70 percent nitrogen. The gas «jrf Ven bade to ber lodging at Courtfa purified, passing through flexible stairs In an almost fainting condition, with a much larger current of ‘ * *«v minutes before the police ser-

geant who had been ber escort to -Sir Neville's started for ShingleJ|pd with

might have been expected from

words.

— Indeed, he had cause for uneasiness.

It was he who had first conceived tus- - fm . uklni a warf.DL Tb* »l£bt of ab * rhlle oe1t * "-' k or ‘

old air oo o». ol ber IMl. bbbda oo ^ ‘

lb. occslob b! Ob. ol bl. Malta to '”! ■ '■ “ a Shingle End, had suggested to him I there ,of *« T "al years,

that .he might have been the woman . >» thwrfore. perbaps none the whose hand he had burned with the more surprising that many a bullet fuse at the Inn. I which has found Us billet In a human But It had been a long time before brain has proved no more than a tem- |

he could make out a caae-not, indeed, porary Inconvenience,

until be bad thought of using the now A French soldier who received a | half-witted George d/tde. vyboin he bullet in his bead during the Franco- ! had got out of the hands of simple German war of 1870 carried it there Nell under a promise, which bad been lor 27.years, and was said to have | faithfully kept, that he should be well felt ntf ill-effects till 1897. wheoit one j taken core of, and that he should re- ; day worked its way downward into the j turn to her very shortly. Even then mouth and so rid him of its pretence. ' the difficulties in the way of the police la the case of a German saldier who I bad been great- At first Claris was was shot In the head during the Sonsullen and taciturn. No question* derbund war, he lived to carry the would obtain from him a clear answer leaden souvenir In bis brain for 43

ns to the events of the night which bad yei

turned bis brain. It was not until that aft e r 5,1, death,

very afternoon that be had accused These two remarkable cases, bowMiss Bostal by name of the thefts, and ever peem to be beaten by another this furnished the police with enough , hat qui,,. recently been brought data for further proceedings. , 0 | lgbt t |,e case being that of an old Clifford listened in dumb bewilder- to ij| e r still living at -. who for ment.- I oyer naif a century has carried in his “What can she have done It for? Is | )ea d g, e bullet received during the

she mad?" asked be, presently. Ausfilan rebellion in 1848.

Hemming shrugged hia aboulders. Would-be suicides have occasionally 'Doesn't look much like madness to p Ut bullets Into tbeir brain to no pur-

ine of the most as-

ing cases of recent years was

“Good gracious! Then you think , hat deaU wUb >t the Richmond hosi* ” , pita! only a year or so ago. It was hardly conceivable » “f? 1 The patient had In vain tried to

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yet that the prim, rlgoroua little take bIa pfe by shooting himself In maid, who had been so much j the bea(J and a f ter thus placing two shocked at hi* walking along a country bnnetg , n hlB braln he immediate- j rood on Sunday In a light suit, could ; c(mT eyeJ in a cab to the hospital, have been guilty of the systematic , ^ he wag EO , lu i e affected at tl

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[ But he was so little affected 1 time by the presence of the bullett in lead that he actually alighted from

of tba two Stroan Pol!«n>«m <mme ap. ihe ~ walk ^ al0 ng the garden .

^ * tZ Paih and up the step, of the bcpltai.

voice. “We've hunted •D o’rer the ^ d ^ ^ able to an IntelU-

•J ““ ““ ! " i„ , C«. ol KlMnBlcti

Incredulously.

“How could she bare got tar with

hort start of you?" asl

.!»•. a™. It. I wouW-5e’eulcwVafl,r flrinK . rcol

Guy's hospital a few months later the ’ Id-lie suicide, after firing a revol-

> bis head, was diaeov-

„ «, MM Mo M l,»i

ered smoking his pipe as if nothin

tie dying embers of the 1 es he was able to walk part of the line man felt sorry for him and way to the hospital and there undrew a voice. ’ himself without assistance previous to

r, but I shall have to' undergoing examination.

The effects of remoVlng bullets from

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air into the .chip's hold. The apparatus whk-li has bees built In London and tried with success produces 100.000 | cubic feet of air per hour, so that k I hold of average size can be filled In .half that time.

: Syracuse has a common-sense girl of 11 It is Justly proud. She has~point8 the way by tibich the love-lorn and I swain may successfully be Ut with. It will no longer be necesfor reluctant young women to l Into the arms of Ineligible young 1 In order to save them from self-

>r In default of this, to

lifer the tllght of a.damp, unpleasant

during future years. The • young woman dismissed her I for good and sufficient cause.

“The young man went home, gathered s81 tie/otters and gifts which he bad

receive- fiom her. wrapped them in j vested to

papeF'fastened with blue- ribbon, and 1 fix91! with a seal and dispatched them P$ik> their source, together with s note k la which he announced that he was f shout to die. raertfoning the tne'hod by | ■ which he proposed tc accomplish his ■kfa^gff. Wnen she received this intelligence the strength of the Aun-mor.-scute girl eppeared. She did not Mm. or have hyrserics. or feint, nor yet did the fly to him. begging him .to relinquish bis dread intention on •ny terms. Not at all. She quietly handed the note,to the messenger who c brought it. with a request that he give It to the first policeman he awt The result was that the young man was ar-

i-Trssfad sad lodged in Jail, tc await trial J »*»«» ot

m*,, tb. •bU-owa. ««, -

CHAPTER MIH.

It was the police sergeant who had taken Nell Claris to Blr Neville Bax who had brought to Shingle End the warrant for Miss Betti's arrest This warrant be had not, ao far, had ah opportunity of (hawing to the ColoneL Now, however, that the lady had dis-

place, and more thoroughly, the sergeant respectfully turn dieted. Colonel Bostal, divining the man's

tut. tba

. .. ok at warrant retreated hastily lord, however, canght sight of the

paper in the officer's hands, and something of the truth was suddenly revealed to him. It.flaahed upon him so abruptly, this knowledge, that the.

shoe was In a

“Is that a warrant?”. ' -JsfSBm?“Mlas Bostal " — And the policeman continued his Search shoot the garden and.the house for th* lady who had so myaterioualy disappeared.

_ . now-sub-

sided into s stolid silence and tranquility, was watching tha front door of the bouse. It was Hemming who

answered:

“Yes, sir. He's notaanite himself

yet hut he’s not too far off it to have

~ use to ns. Wc’vfc bad him uneye these la*t few days, and :r be satt th* chance he makes

HHSSTkS bead bent over the dying embers of the

fin*, line man felt sorry

spoke In a subdued "Beg pardon, sir,

search the bouse again."

The old man acqulesc— ,

and the officer wUhdrew. From the able as any of the foregoing, and perground floor to the first floor, from the baps in this connection mention may first-floor to the attics, be hunted in , be made of-* cassjof a military cadet every corner. Hardly in rain. For operated on by a dodtor of Vienna Just

although he did not find Miss Bostal i recently.

he found evidence enough of her pro- On removing the-bullet a small quandatory habits to convince any Jury of tity of brain h*d also to be taken her guilt of the minor crime of theft away, the peculiar result being that, at least ! though unaltered in any other respect Under the boards of the attic*, sewn the patient Irretrievably lost all his ip in the mattress of the lady's own ! potid manners for which he was noted.

In holes In the die- j The eminent surgeon th<

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board as varied as' it was Interesting. Money, in notes anu silver and guld; j Jewelry, of little value for the most

part and apparently token new from shops; half a dozen men’* watches, pencil-cases, purses, pieces of stuff.

imlnent surgeon therefore sugthat the portion of the brain removed with the bullet corresponds 10 what he describes as the "bump of good manners."—London Til-Bits.

The old English rat-pit is the latest

what be found.

Covered with the dust of years most ! b lt- msstroquet,. but flourishes of them were; the gold and sliver tar- ' ltg jhide at the Chalet du nlshcd and discolored with age and \ o{ motn fashionable ret damp. On the whole a fine collection. ^ 3^ de Boulogne.. The results of 1 and amounting In -value to some bun ^ day’s sport are duly recorded, and J

Nothing less than a sheet was of any

use to hold the collection, when the sergeant mafic

, and even ; hia way ‘

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the house.”

“And what have

door.

"Am I under arrest too?" asked the ,

lb ^ ^

. „ wine shop the patron goes to tee eel-

tars and brings up the trap with its

i what have you got thtrer r ,cUms ta It Following the trad! S-iSrfdS-K •grum-szaz.-

the house and met Clifford on the lit- f h * ,re tie . path leading to the gate. He Jerked his bead back ta the direction

of the house.

"Sorry for the old

he. ta a low

omen

eupped late at Barrett's looking

on applauding.

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