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A STUDY IN SCARLET
BY A. CONAN DOYLE.
- CHArTER VI Continued.
After a very brief pause the detec-
tic continued; j
"Of course, after that there was
nothing more to be done. I found out
where Lieutenant Charpcntier was
took two officers with me and arrested
i him. When I touched him on the
shoulder and warned him to come
quietly with us, tie answered us as
" fcold as brass: 'I suppose you are
arresting me for being concerned In
the death of that scoundrel Drebber,'
- k said. We had said nothing to htm
about It, so that his alluding to It had
: a most suspicious aspect.
"Very," said Holmes.
"He still carried the heavy stick
i which the mother described him as
"'Raving'- with him when he followed
Prebber. It was a stout oak cudgel.'"
"What Is your theory, then?"
. ."Wall, my theory Is that he followed
Prehber as far as the Brixton road.
, , Whoa there a fresh altercation arose
between them. In the course of which
Drebber received a blow from the
Btlck 1b the pit of the stomach, per
haps, which killed him without leav-
lug any mark. The night was so wet
that no one was about, so Charpentier
dragged, the body of his victim Into
- the empty house. As to the candle
and tho blood and the writing on the
. ? wall and tre, ring, they may all be so
" ' many tricks to throw the police on to
.the wrong scent.
. ; ." i ."Well done!" said Holmes In an en
, w tonrgging voice. "Really, Gregson,
yni are getting along. We shall make
v..- V something of you yet."
.'.- ..tew'I flatter-myself that I haTe man-
.v..-.. ..aired It rather neatly," the detective
-"uwt:red proudly. "The young man
volunteered a statement In which he
i.... . said that .after following Drebber
some time, the latter perceived him
, iv,ard took a cab In order to get away
from him. On his way home he met
, an, old shipmate and took a long walk
with him. On being asked where this
Llold.-shipiuate lived, he was unable to
give any satisfactory reply. I tnlntc
.. the whole case fits together uncom
monly well. What amuses me Is to
" think of Lestrade, who had started off
upon the wrong scent. I am afraid he
won't make much of It Why. by Jove!
here's the very man himself:
It 'was. Indeed, Lestrade, who had
ascended the stairs while we were
"talking, and who now entered the
..room. The assurance and jauntiness
which generally marked his demeanor
- and--dress were, however wanting.
His face was disturbed and trou
bled, while his clothes were disar
ranged and untidy.
He had evidently come with the In-
tention of consulting with Sherlock
Holmes, for on perceiving his col-
. league he appeared to be embarrassed
,.aad pat out
He stood In the center of the room,
fumbling nervously with his hat, ana
uncertain what to do.
' This Is a most extraordinary case,'
- he- said, at last "a most incompre
hensible affair."
" " "Ah, you find It so. Mr. Lestrade?"
cried Gregson, triumphantly.
' thought you would come to that con
clusion. Have you managed to find the
secretary, Mr. Joseph Stangerson?"
"The secretary, Mr. Joseph Stanger
son, said Lestrade, gravely, was
murdered at Halliday's Private Hotel
boat C o'clock this morning.
CHAPTER VIL
" " right in the Darkness.
- The Intelligence with which Lestrade
greeted ns was so momentous and so
unexpected that we were all three fair
ly dumfounded.
Greeson sprang out of his chair and
upset the remainder of his whisky and
water.
' I stared In silence at Sherlock
. Holmes, whose lips were compressed
and his brows drawn down over his
eyes. t
"Stangerson, too!" he muttered,
"The plot thickens"
"It was quite thick enough before,"
grumbled Lestrade, taking a chair. "I
seem to have dropped Into a sort of
council of war.
"Are you are you sure of this piece
of Intelligence?" stammered Gregson
"I have Just come from his room
said Lestrade. "I was the first to dis
cover what had occurred."
"We have been hearing Oregson's
lew of the matter " Holmes observed.
f. "Would you mind letting us know
what vou have seen and done?
"I have no objection," Lestrade an
swered, seating himself. "I freely con
'Yeas that I was of the opinion that
Stangerson was concerned in the death
of Drebber. This fresh development
has shown m that 1 was completely
mistaken. Full of the one Idea, I set
t .4. . myself to find out what had become
of the secretary. They had been seen
nast eieht on tne evening oi tne inira
i - At two In the morning Drebber had
, ,i ' -i -keen found In the Brixton Road. The
! " question which confronted me was to
, vv-. fmt not how stangerson naa oeen em
-"-pioy ed' between 8:30 and the time of
! the crime and wnat naa Decome or nun
afterward. I telegraphed to Liverpool,
. d vine a description of the man and
" warning them to keep a watch upon
i "" ' ' the American boats. I then set to work
'-, calling upon all the hotels and lodging
; .. : houses In the vicinity or Euston. too
! see, I argued that if Drebber and his
-' mmnanton had become separated the
' natural course of the latter would be
"".,.''' to put up somewhere In the vicinity for
i " the night and then hang about the
V r statlTO again next morning.
! , 'They would be likely to agree on
.... .'--some iwpetlng-place beforehand, re
t "i..: marked. Hplnies.
! " "So It proved. I spent the whole of
'6im,. yesteMay evening In making Inquiries
i entirely without avail. This morning
, J began very early, and at eight o'clock
17" I reached Halliday's Private Hotel, lr
i' 4 Little George street. On .my Inquiry
( as to whether a Mr. Stangerson was
rr y living there, they an once answered me
In the affirmative.
"No doubt you are the gentleman
, he was expecting, they said. 'He had
been wafting for a gentleman for two
f" - days.f
I -!t.' 'Where is he now? I asked.
L . , " He Is upstairs In bed. He wished
to' be' called at nine."
' ; -"It seemed to me that my sudden
V? '.' .-appearance might shake his nerves
and Tead him to say something un
guarded 'The Boots volunteered to
l .,i-:..al)o,w. -me, the room; It was on the seo
i; ond floor, and there was a small cor-
-i ridor leading up to It The Boots
, pointed out the door to me, and was
'.about to : go down stairs again, when I
" , ,. saw something that made me feel slck
tub, In spite of my twenty years' ex-
,. perlent: From nnder the door there
. curled t'llttl red ribbon of blood,
which had meandered across the pas
sage and formed a little pool along
Si
the skirting at the other side. I gave
cry which brought the Boots back.
He nearly fainted when he saw It.
The door was locked on the Inside, but
we put our shoulders to It and knocked
It in. The window of the room was
open, and beside the window, all hud
dled up, lay the body of a man In his
night-dress. He was quite dead, and
had been for some time, for his limbs
were rigid and cold. When- we turned
him over the Boots recognised him at
once as being the same gentleman
who had engaged the room under the
name of James Stangerson. The cause
of death. was a deep stab In the left
side, which must have penetrated the
heart And now comes the strangest
part of the affair. What do you sup
pose was above the murdered man?"
I felt a creeping of flesh and a pre
sentiment of coming horror, even be
fore Sherlock Holmes answered.
The word Hache written In let
ters of blood, he said.
That was It" said Lestrade, In an
awstrurk voice: and we were all
silent for a wh'le.
There was something so methodical
and so Incomprehensible about the
deeds of this unknown assassin, that
It Imparted a fresh ghastllness to his
crimes.
My nerves, which were steady
enough on the field of battle, tingled as
I thought of It
"The man was seen, continued Les
trade. "A mtlkboy, passing on his way
to the dairy, happened to walk down
the lane which leads from the mews
at the back of the hotel. He noticed
that a ladder, which usually lay there,
was raised against one of the windows
of the second floor, which was wide
open. After passing, he looked back
and saw a man descend the ladder. He
came down so quietly and openly that
the boy Imagined him to be some car
penter or Joiner at work In the hoteL
He took no particular notice of him.
beyond thinking tn his own mind that
it was early for him to be at work. He
has an Impression that the man was
tall, had a reddish face, and thought
il was eariy lor mm io m ni wuri, no
must have stayed in the room some
it was early for him to be at work. He
little time after the murder, for we
found blood-stained water in the basin,
where he had washed his hands, and
marks on the sheet where he had de
liberately wiped his knife."
I danced at Holmes on hearing the
description of the murderer which tal
lied so exactly with his own.
There was. however, no trace of exul
tation or satisfaction upon his face.
"Did you And nothing In the room
which could furnish a clew to the mur
derer?" he asked.
Nothing. Stangerson had Drebbers
nurse In his pocket, but It seems that
this was usual, as he did all the pay
ing. There was eighty-odd pounds In
it but nothing had been taken. What
ever the motives of these extraordinary
crimes, robbery Is certainly not one of
them. There were no papers or mem
oranda In the murdered man's pockets.
except a single telegram, dated from
Cleveland about a month ago, and con
taining the words. 'J. H. Is In Europe.'
There was no name appended to wis
message.
And there was nothing else?"
Holmes asked.
Nothlnir of any Importance. The
man's novel, with which he had read
himself to sleep, was lying upon the
bed, and his pipe was on a chair be
side him. There was a glass of water
on the table, and on the window sill a
small chip ointment box containing a
conole of pills."
Sherlock Ho!ms sprang from his
chair with an exclamation of delight
The last link." he cried, exultantly.
"Mr case Is complete."
The two detectives stared at him In
amazement
I have now In my hands," my com
panion said confidently, "all the threads
which have formed sucn a tangle.
There are, of course, details to be filled
In, but I am certain of all the main
facts, from the time that Drebber part
ed from Stangerson at the station, up
to the discovery of the body of the
latter, as if I bad seen them with my
own eyes. I will give you proof of my
knowledge. Could you lay your hands
upon those pills?"
"I have them," said Lestrade, pro
ducing a small white box: "I took them
and the purse and the telegram, in
tending to have them put In a place
of safety at the police station. It was
the merest chance my taking these
pills, for I am bound to say that 1 do
not attach any Importance to them."
"Give them here," said Holmes.
"Now, doctor," turning to me, "are
those ordinary pills?"
They certainly were not They were
of a pearly gray color, small, round,
and almost transparent against the
light.
"From their lightness and transpar
ency, I should imagine that they are
soluble In water," I remarked.
"Precisely so," answered Holmes.
"Now, would you mind going down and
fetching that poor little devil of a ter
rier which has been bad so long, and
which the landlady wanted you to put
out of Its pain yesterday?"
I went downstairs and carried the
dog upstairs in my arms. Its labored
breathing and glazing eye showed that
it was not far from Its end.
Indeed, Its snow white muzzle pro
claimed that It had already exceeded
the usual term of canine existence. I
placed It upon a cushion on the rug.
"I will now cut one of these pills In
two," said Holmes, and drawing his
penknife, he suited the action to the
word. "One half we return Into the
box for future purposes. The other half
I win place In this wine glass, In which
is a teaspoonful of water. You per
ceive that our friend, the doctor, Is
right, and that It readily dissolves."
'This may be very Interesting," said
Lestrade, In the Injured tone of one
who suspects that he Is being laughed
at. "I can not see, however, what It
has to do with the death of Mr. Joseph
Stangerson."
"Patience, my friend, patience. You
will find In time that Is has everything
to do with ft. I shall now add a little
milk to make the mixture palatable,
and on presenting It to the dog you will
find that he laps It up readily enough."
As he spoke he turned the contents
of the wine glass Into a saucer and
placed It In front of the terrlor, who
speedily licked It dry.
Sherlock Holmes earnest demeanor
had so far convinced us that we all sat
In silence, watching the animal Intent
ly and expecting some startling effect
None such appeared, however. The
dog continued to He stretched upon the
cushion, breathing in a labored way,
but apparently neither the better nor
the worse for Its draught.
Holmes had taken out his watch, and
as minute followed minute without re
sult, an expression of the utmost cha-
on his feature i.
He gnawed his Hp, drummed his fin
gers upon the table and showed every
other symptom of acute Impatience.
So great was his emotion that I felt
sincerely sorry for him. while the two
detectives smiled derisively, by no
means displeased at this check which
he had met
"It cant be coincidence." he cried
at last, springing from his chatr and
pacing wildly up and down the room:
"It Is Impossible that Is should be a
mere coincidence. The very pills
which 1 suspected In the case of Pruh
ber are actually found after the death
of Stangerson. And yet they are Inert
What can It mean? Surely my whole
chain or reasoning cannot have been
false. It Is Impossible!
And yet this
wretched dog Is none the worse. Ah.
I have It I have It!"
With a perfect shriek of delight
he rushed to the box, cut the other pill
tn two, dissolved It added milk, and
presented It to the terrier.
The unfortunate creature's tongue
hardly seemed to have been moistened
In It before It gave a convulsive shiver
In every limb, and lay as rigid and life
less as If It had been struck by light
ning. Sherlock Holmes drew a long breath
and wined the perspiration from his
forehead.
"I should have more faith." he sald:v
"1 ourht to know by this time that
when a fact appears to he opposed to
rnen a raci appears o "' " .
a
other Interpretation. Of the two plils
In that box one was tne most neauiy living, uo miming io lei any inuiaia iu
poison and the other was entirely . the house suppose they were under sus
harmleea. I ought to have known thai j.tclou or observation, ami that I would
before ever i saw the box at all " oonwal myself and watch the safe. For
- This last statement appeared to me , . ........... ..... .....
to be so startling that I could hardly
believe that he was In his sober senses.
There was the dead dog. however, to
prove that his conjecture had been cor
rect It seemed to me that the mists In
my own mind were gradually clearing
away, and I began to have a dim,
vague perception of the tmth.
tn Ma .um titranre to von " con
tinued Holmes, "because you failed at
the beginning of the inquiry to grasp j
the Importance of tne single real new (
which was nresented to you. I had
the good fortune to selie upon that . brary BIld prvwu,iy , form itoi ln,Q
and rthlng which j tue room, and going to the safe, swift-
since then has served to confirm my t . . . ,
.XT-,.! ..mnnsltlon. and. Indeed was''y unlocked It and abstracted a single
the loelral sequence of It Hence, i
things which have perplexed you and
made the case more onseure nave
i - - - - -
served to enlighten me ana to strength- j
en my conclusions. It Is a mistake to
confound strangeness with mystery.
The most commonplace crime Is often
the most mysterious, because It pre
sents no new or special features from
which deductions may be drawn. This
murder wonld have been Infinitely
more difficult to unravel had the body j
of the victim been simply found lying
nnt.r an aensatlonal accompaniments j
which have rendered It remarkable.
These strange details, far from mak-,
Ing the case more difficult, have reauy
had the effect of making It less so."
(To b Continued.)
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Over a million persons die yearly in
Europe of consumption.
Five hand reds nd eighty-seven dis
tinct languages are spoken In Europe.,
Forty-five hours constitute a week's
work for women and girls in New Zea
land.
Seventy-eight profit sharing schemes,
affecting 53,528 workpeople, were in
operation last year in this country.
Madame Isacescu, the Vienese lady
wimmera training for another at
tempt to swim the English channel.
Out of 2,699 murders of Christians
in Turkey last year there were only 61
cases in which the murderers were pun
ished.
The longest railway run in the world
without changing is on the Cauadian
Pacific, from Hslifax to Vancouver,
3,662 miles.
The biggest orchard in the world is
near 8anta Barbara, Cal. It covers
1,700 acres and contains 31,000 fruit
and not trees.
The amount of heat generated by a
man's body in a day's work is sufficient
to raise 63 pounds of water from freez
bing to oiling point.
Lord Kelvin, who is now 78 years of
sge, is entitled to place no less than 26
letters, Indicating various titles of hon
or, after his name.
Geraniums bloom most satisfactorily
when grown in comparatively snail
pots and soil which is termed rich, but
not rank with excessive manure.
In Portugal if the wife publishes
literary works without the husband's
consent, the law frees him at once from
all further matrimonial obligations.
During the past ten years immigra
tion to America from Germany, Ireland
and England has decreased, while that
from Italy, Asutria aud Russia has in
creased. Three are 6,000 monks on the prom
ontory of A thos. They pay to the sul
tatn 2,000 pounds a year for the privi
lege of being allowed to govern them
selves. The nnmber of ships in the Ameri-
can whaling fleet has fallen off in the
last twelve years from 97 fo to 40, and
much the same is the case with the
Scotch whaling industry.
One of Milton's biographers rays that
nearly twenty years elapsed between
the time he sketched out the plan of
"Paradise Lost" and the comDletion of
that work. The actual labor of enmno.
sition was condensed into two or three
years.
Farmer Jones I am a-going tew take
my son Hirsm to a phrenolyitiat tew
find out what he's best suited ler.
Farmer Honk An' s'posin' be tells
yew the boy ain't suited ler farmin' at
all?
Farmer Jones That's just what I
want tew find out, so'i I kin lick it out
nv him before he gits tew big.
Yonnghub There's nothing like mat
rimony for teaching a yonng man the
value of money.
Oldwed -That's right. A dollar a
man gives to his wile looks twice as big
a. tl. Ana . kl.a In k. A...t
QUEER MGHT THEFT.
WEALTHY BANKER WAS ROBBED
WHILE HE SLEPT.
Through the Knurl of a Detective
the Njaterr of n Low Wee
Polvtil la Manuir Moot linos
loetl All Around.
"Shortly after 1 was put on the 'fly
fore,' said the old detective, "the
chief sent for uie. Ou entering hi olttce
I found there a mau 1 recogulsed as a
banker of repute. Since then he has
become famous. The chief told me to
listen to the story, for It was tuy case.
The story was brief. The bauker kept
some persona! securities lu a safe at
his own home and some were luiaslug.
They had dlsapiwared one by one at Ir
regular intervals. The one singular
thing was that on one occasion he had
aet out to watch the safe all ulght, and
between $ and i bad dropped asleep
for half an hour. In that half hour
auother had disappeared. The lock was
a combination, the secret of which, so
far as he knew, was wholly his own,
"1 went up to his house and mads a
careful examination without hitting ou
any theory that would seetu to unravel
he must go right along lu his mode of
,.,.. .... , , ,
sou, who was a high roller.
"Ttils the banker agreed to, and
helped me rig up a place where I could
conceal myself. I began the watchtug
that night, but nothing came of It for
live nights. On the sixth the banker
went out to dinner party, but be was
back home shortly after mldulght and
tne nouse quietetti aown ty i ociock,
.n hour and a hair later I heard a
security, closing the safe again.
"The room was so dark that I could
distinguish only the outlines of the
" -
furm, but the darkness enabled me to
follow the thief as he turned from the
safe. I did so, and with a step ss
stealthy as his own. He led me through
the adjoining room, out into the hall.
down the basenisut steps and Into a
lumber-room, where there wss an old
for nrewoot. xo this box the thief
venU and ,ft,ng ,De m the
""ij iu .
"Then he turned, and so quickly that
he nearly struck me, and hurried up
. lne g,, t wai cloM hlnd him and
at his heels when he climbed up to the
second story, where there wss a night
lamp In the hall, giving sufficient light
for uie to recognize the features of the
man who bad taken the security. From
here he turned Into a room, closing the
Jw after hlui. 1 went down Into the
, ltjrary tmj foun(j tne easiest chair for
a nap.
"The next morning as the banker ap
peared for breakfast I took him down
stairs, saying to him: 'Exsmloe that
box and see what you find.'
"To his amazement he found every
one of the missing securities and some
papers besides which be had not
missed. He was dumfounded. After a
moment's hesitation be turned to nie
with a severe and most stern air and
asked:
"Who la the thief r
" 'You are,' I replied, complacently.
"He started violently, and for a mo
ment I thought be would strike me. But
he asked. Instead, ferociously:
" 'What do you mesn by thatf
" 'Only that you are a sleepwalker,'
I replied. That's alL I followed and
saw you take the paper and place it
here.'
"He stood still, as one paralyzed.
Then be said:
" 'Keep my counsel. Say nothing.'
"A week later he sent for me to bis
office to tell me that bis physician had
told him It was a esse of dyspepsia,
and that when be had come to look
back be found that It was only after a
Inte-course dinner that a paper had been
missed. Then be added:
"'You've been discreet so far. Con
tinue to be, and you will see that you
will not lose by It'
"I continued to be, and that's the rea
son why I have retired so esrly, can
drive down the road just as fast
stepping pair as anyone does, and can
have an automobile If I want one."
Brooklyn Eagle.
EFFORT OF MAPPING A BRAIN
Scientific Teste to Discover Control of
Limbs and Muscles.
Eminent surgeons have long endeav
ored to Bud out precisely what parts of
the brain control the various muscles
and limbs of the body, with a view to
ascertaining therefrom new ways of
treating diseases of the nervous sys
tem. Sufferers from such complaints,
especially such as cause Interruption
of the muscular action, may have rea
son to bless the memory of certain
great apes who have co-operated un
selfishly with and without being con
suited by some British scientists and
surgeons In a series of privately con
ducted experiments to demonstrate new
facts about the brain, ssys the London
Leader.
Though the scientific partnership
was fatal to the apes, they lived ad
mired and died universally respected,
n(1 tnelr Photographs will be banded
down In asedlcal history. Studies of
the brains of the higher apes have
shown that their composition was suf
ficiently like that of man to justify the
belief that Investigations made on these
brutes would furnish knowledge about
the human brnln. To understand the
experiments thoroughly It Is well to re
member that the brain may be roughly
divided Into two great portions the
frontal and the occipital which are
separated by the fissure of Rolando,
This fissure extends across the top of
the human head and down on each side
at about the region of the temples.
All that part of the brain which lies
. tn the front of It that Is, the brain
that is over the eyes and fills out the
frontal region of the bead Is known
.. . ,K
lUO iU" """""
This frontal lobe, It
".has been found, does almost all
the
wnrlr nrAarinv mnA Anntin1lliif th.
motion of the Uxly and the exercise ef
various physical functions. It Is
the great central telephone exchange,
to use another electric term, the
great power house where the subtle, in
tangible fluid of tUoUKht I converted
into a tangible working force and
theuce transmitted at varying pressures
along the feed wires of uerves to the
various eugluc of the heart, anus, legs,
eyes, mouth, nose and other organs.
GOOD
ii Short Cforle
On one occasion at a dinner at Balllol
the master's guests discussed the ca
reers of two Bnlllol men, one of whom
bad Just been made a Judge aud the
other a bishop. "Oh." said one, "t
think the bishop Is the greater uian.
A Judge, at the moat, can only say, 'You
be hanged,' but a bishop ran say, 'Yon
be damned.' " "Yea," tersely remarked
the master, "but If the judge says 'You
be hanged,' you are hanged."
Sir Henry Irving declares that ouce,
when he was playing "Othello" In a
small town lu the then Washington Ter
ritory, his audience was composed for
the moat part of miners. "When we
came to the handkerchief scene, where
Othello demands the handkerchief of
Deademona many times," he say. "I
noticed that the audience was becom
ingly exceedingly nervous. About the
third time the demand for the handker
chief waa repeated a large Irlshmau
lu the rear of the house shouted: 'Wipe
your nose on your slalve, you uayger,
and let the play go ou.' "
Frank Hcllly, a track-walker, was tho
victim of a peculiar accident at Port
Costa recently, lis was standing uear
switch to a siding on which freight
trains generally wait for the pasaeuger
trains to linns, lie saw a young lady
walking ou the sldlug, and, believing
her to be lu danger, gesticulated ve
hemently to causi her to step from be
tween the rails. She, In her turn, see
ing the oncoming freight train, mo
tioned back to hi in that he was In dan
ger. As the train mine nearer both
became the more earnest In their shout
ing and gesticulating, while neither
thought of stepping off the tracks.
Kellly proved to be In the wrong. The
freight lustead of taklug the sldlug,
went straight through. While he was
still trying to cause the young lady
to get out of the way of supposed dan
ger, the train struck him from behind,
hurling him from the track and break
ing his right arm In two places, badly
cutting his bead aud bruising bis side.
Ue will recover.
Apropos of the death of John W.
Mackay, the New York Herald remarks
that one of the notable episodes of the
residence of the Mackays in Paris was
thst which connected them with Meia-
aouler. The great French artist was
commissioned by Mr. Mackay to paint
portrait of bis wife for tht sum of
seventy-five thousaud franca. When It
was delivered the Mackaya decided that
It was entirely unworthy of the sub
ject and of the painter. "I wanted a
Meissonlcr," he said, "not Melssonlnr
painting a slovenly Imitation of Ca
band." This criticism wss indorsed by
some artists who hud seen the picture.
It was said that the French artist
deeming anything to be good enough
for Nevada, took no pains with the
work, that he bad produced it after an
Insufficient number of sittings, and bad
hastily painted In the bands from one
of bis models. Furthermore, the pur
trait showed a woman ten years older
than Its subject Many French artists,
however, Indorsed the work. Ills
friends gave Mclsaonler a dinner as a
vindication, and the French press and
public were for a time clamorously In
dignant The Indignation rose to a cli
max when It was reported that Mrs.
Mackay had thrown the picture Into the
fire. This was not true. It was bung
In a small room, with Its face to the
wall. To-day It has an abiding place In
Carlton House, Mrs. Mackay s London
mansion.
The Knocker.
Bhe hid a little hsmrner,
Sh used it with a will,
Bhe knocked at everybody
They couldn't keep ber still;
She knocked about ber neighbors
If they were friend or foes,
Sh knocked sbout the tsble,
And knocked about ber clothes.
'She knocked st hubby's smoking,
About his snoring, too;
She knocked sbout his whistling,
And so, perhaps, would you;
At last th Itesper claimed her,
Her course on earth was run;
Her husband then considered
Her knocking days wer done.
But hubby went one evening
To see a spirit show,
Where always In th gloaming,
Tb spirits com and go,
He heard s spirit knocking
"My wife," he said, "I'll betl
Now, Isn't sh a wonder T
By gosh! she' knocking yetl"
Yonkers Statesman.
Many Uses of a Banana.
Immense fortunes have been mads
out of the banana business. Revenues
do not accrue alone from the sale of i
the fruit for the leaves are used for,
nacklnv! the tulen. belnor atrnnir In
tanuln, makes an indelible Ink and shoe1
M.obin.r th. war tenni on th. nnriar
" - -
side of the leaves Is a valuable article
of commerce; nianlla hemp Is made
from the stems, and of tbls hemp are
made mats, plaited work and lace
handkerchiefs of the finest texture;
moreover, the banana Is ground Into
banana flour. The fruit Is to be sold
for dessert Is ripened by the dry
warmth of flaring gas Jots In the stor
age places In which It Is kept, and
care has to be taken to prevent soften
ing or overrlpenlng. The Island of
Jamaica yields great crops of this use
ful and moMy-maklng fruit.
Wh They Don't ftpcak.
fltella i'es, my age Is In the family
Bible.
Bella Tb, I presume, It must be
In Revelations.
A man likes to bear a woman say she
has never been kissed, even If be
doesn't believe It
i! PROGRESS OF MODERN DENTISTRY.
It Make Plump ThoM lean of fact and la Invaluable) to In
crease Power of Singer and Cornet lata.
The use of porcelain crow us for
teeth has enabled modern dentistry to
do a great deal for art. It has made
It possible to Improve the voices of cer
tain singers by giving their artificial
teeth crowns with au outer curve, their
natural teeth did not have. The re
sult Is to Inci-ens the account Ic effects
of the mouth's Umy structure. The
mouth of Trilby wss like the dome or
the Salt Laks tleriiafl. Home sing
ers have this mouth, but their front
teeth, Instead of being a continuation
of th curve of the roof of the mouth,
bend Inwardly. They break the flow
of the sound. Hy sawing off these nat
ural teeth snd mounting them with
porrelatu or crowus with an outward
curve, a great Improvement is mad In
tone.
Porcelain crowns sr used In making
great cornet players as well as tn mak
ing singer, and In th same way. Th
out-curving front teotu ar beat for the
cornet Ut, because the tongue ran be
used In trlple-tongulng th mouthpiece
In the fancy work.
On of th little devices of modern
dentistry Is th plumper. This ts a
roiublnattnn of gold and hard rubber
for making the face tak on a rounded
appenranc. Elderly ladle, whose skin
has begun to set loosely, sometimes
have plumpers put lu.' Iu rase Ilk
this they ire permanently fixed to th
sld teeth by gold crowns. Plumpers
ar also made for actresses and actor
for use In nuking up the face for the
character they wish to portray. They
I'LL'MPEKS ATTACHED TO FAl.SU
sr taken out whan tb greased paint
is washed off. When used a perms
nent beautltler plumpers sometimes
turn bark th clock twenty year.
A great (leal of car has to b taken
In making teeth for public speakers,
actor sud singers. It I necessary to
have them filled In so there can b no
escape of sir between them. Th clear
enunciation can only be had when
there I uo air space nor chance for
hissing.
Electricity has made dentistry ad
vance ss It bss sdvanced. There I an
electric oven fur baking porcelain that
la capable of beat of 4,ftOO degree.
Au electric lathe and an electric en
gine are used for sit the work in the
mouth. It works so much quicker (tint
one-third of the time Is employed that
was formerly required, and so two-
third of the pain and nervous strain Is
eliminated. Formerly It took Intlf a
day to mak a tilling. Now an expert,
working with electricity, may till a
tooth lu ten minutes. An electric rout
dryer beat up the cavity after It Is
denned and dries ii out almost In
stantly. That Is a modern Invention
aud time-saver. An English modeling
wax baa taken the ptnee of plaster of
piirla, which was a heat producer, be
sides being III tasting.
Very few first class dentists now ad
minister chloroform or ether, and
raerty I nltMiis-oxIdn gns given. Any-.
thlng that reduce to unconsciousness
tins a bad effect. Local anesthetics ar
down to a line point now. Probably
the most popular Is ethol dilorlrte. This
is sprayed on the part to be treated
for seusltlre dentlflcs and aching tectti,
Among the local anesthetics. Injected
hypodcrmlcally, Is cocaine, odontuuiler,
ilvalunder sud the many formula of
(under.
Th most common disease that the
dentist has to treat Is pyorrhea areo
laris, or gradual absorption of the pro
cess below the gums. The gums re
cede and the teeth become loose and
drop out. This disease is due to neg
lect of the teeth. It can be spested If
taken In time.
There are specialties In dentistry
Two St. Louis men get $100 for
straightening children's teeth.
L08T IN THE WOODS.
Practical Advice from a World Fa
mous Trvclr,
Every summer bring tragic tales t
campers, hunters aud summer tour
ists who are lost In the woods. A
considerable number are never found.
Others go Insane from terror, hunger
or cold. Even la the more fortunate
cases the persons wbo are lost undergo
Intense nervous strain. George Ken
nan, the great traveller, gives some
practical advice on this subject In a
recent number of the Otulook.
When you discover that you have lost
your way sit down Instuiitly. You have
probably sb'fiyed but a short distance
from the trail, because otherwise the
brandies of undergrowth would sooner
have attracted your attention. Then
with ail your strength of will remind
J"""" " luw r,",lf ,0
become panic-stricken and rush off
i ... i i .. .. ii.
I nlmtitsifcil v tri-iii will nrtlv twat AtMMa nml
uiuni-nnii j wu wis wsn 9- visjs -lll
diteper Into the woods. In the tlious-and-squnre-mlle
forest tracts of Mich
igan or the Adirondack or Maine you
might never be heard of again,
The first act Is to break the top of
a bush and bend It over. The under
side of the leaves shows such differ
ent tints from the tipper as to be
quickly noticeable. To tbls first bush
tie your handkerchief for a base. Walk
slowly away, breaking and bending
over bush tops every ten or twelve
feet for a trail, and never lose sight of
your handkerchief. After b while ro
turn to your base and try another direc
tion, always leaving a trail of bent
bushes behind yon. Shout whenever
'you return to your base
tn thla' mminai nna nnn iinnnll fl.wl
bis way to the beaten path In a few
minutes, or be found by search-parties.
Even children can and should he
taught this simple lesson tiefore they
v,..
are allowed near larg tract of forest.
Person going deliberately luto tli
wood to full or hunt should always
wear a small compass sunpoiulcil by a
chain abmit th neck. In a pocket It
I subject to too many chance of loss.
If to th compass t added a tiny
chamois bag containing a tightly cork
ed bottl of matches, twenty feet of
silk cord, a fish-hook and a few tablets
of compressed food, th tourist's life I
practically saf even though a I lost
for days,
TROPICS ARC AT OUR DOOR
American Are I-arg Connmr of
Prodnvto of Warniar UlasM.
Americans live better, perhaps, than
the people of any other (tart of th
world. They ar not content with th
products of their own country, but
draw largely upon th tropics for con
diments snd delicacies that add to th
pleasure of th tabl. Th lucre
In th contribution ef th tropic to
th daily llf of man has been general
throughout th countries where pros
perity or so activity In manufacturing
and com mere ts th rule, but It seem
to b especially marked in the United
States, which now Import more tbsn
ll.oui.oou worth of treplcal and sub-,
tropical foodstuffs and raw material
every day In th year, Til Increased
rellauc upon th tropics ts probably
greater, proportionately, In th United
State than In moat other countries,
slue a much larger slur of our sugsr
TKETU, AND TO THUS ONES.
Is drawn from the tropics than Is the
case with other, and especially th Eu
ropean countries, which In moat esse
uow produce tbelr own sugar from
beets.
Tb United State ha during recent
years consumed nearly one-half of the
cau sugsr of the world which enter
Into International commerce, sud mart
than one half of tb coffee of th world.
In the yenr 1UUI th Importation of
good usually considered as of tropical
or iib(it)p!cal prertui'tlnn amounted to
iWO.OOti.OtiO, or considerably mor
thai tl.oou.OOO for every day In the
year. Including Sunday and holidays,
whlla thirty year ago they amounted
to but lU.l.otm.ou), or less than f 100.
KJ0 per day.
Humor the Peacemaker.
If th old Hum duels were always dis
graceful and sometimes fatal, they bad
th merit Ilk alt other liumdu thing
full of human error, of being fruitful
lu good Juke. MlcJiavl MarUouaugb.
In bis book on "Irish Llf aud Charac
ter," gives sum case lu which humor,
from within or from without, cam to
the rescu of would be-duellst.
A witty Dubllu barrister was con.
lulled by a physician as to calling out
a man who had Insulted him.
'Take my advice," anld I tie lawyer,
"aud Instead of calling him out. get
him to call you In, and have your re-
veuge that way.
It will be mor e-
, cure and reitnln."
An upstart squire went to an old
squire for advice a to sending a chal
lenge. "Ilealy of Laughllustnwn," said tie,
"baa threatened to pull tne by the nose
whenever he meet me. What would
you advise me to dor'
"Una h really used that threatT"
asked the squire,
"He has." -
"Well." said the sqnlre, "I'll tell you
what to do. Boap your nose well, and
It will slip through his fingers."
Perhaps the most contemptuous de
dilution of a challenge was that of art
Irish gentleman of the old school,
"Fight with him!" he exclaimed. "I
would rather go to my grave without a
fight!"
lopped Air Once.
A citizen from th frontier, who nev
er had been In Washington before, was
visiting a friend In the nation's capi
tal, and was taken ou day to the gal
lery of the Senate while au Important
measure was under discussion.
A sHia tor was delivering a long,
prosy and apparently aimless speech,
and the visitor soon grew tired of It.
"Why doesn't be say somethln' worth
listening tor be whispered to his
friend. ,
"Oh, he's merely talking against
time." ..
"What's the good of that?" asked the
other, aghast. . "Time goes' on just the
same, doesn't Itt"
"I Hippos It does," replied his
friend, looking at his watch and yawn
ing; "but It doesn't seem to."
Home Exports to Germany,
A parcel post pqekoge . mailed In
Brooklyn to Hamburg. Uermuiiy, re
cently, Interested the postal clerks.
The customs declaration of Its con
tents written on the outside was as fol
lows:: ,i. . . ',-.'
One mustard plaster
One box corn salve
Mixed candy .....',.',
Potush tulilets i,.
B cents
0 cents
fl cents
0 cents
Total ....21 cents
A lllstorlo Tree.
There still flourishes at Dundee,
Scotland, a tree which was dedicated
as a "tree of liberty" more than a cen
tury ago during the ferment caused by
tin French revolution. '
A man can't be said to be thoroughly
domestic In hi tastes unless hu can
B; nn rt'c'9 0,lt ' tWmfrlgerator
without spilling something,
A dog fancier could give you pointers,
but he would rather soil them,