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! ! TÄe Doctor’s i ¡■Story... ;; ; ; b , • • H ELEN A* COUSINS • ■ * ' • • Copyright, tuai, by Helen A. Cousins. • • < 1 boldly up tl-« ,‘rcnt steps and was ring Ing the b 'i win ii a man at work in tin next yurd looked over the low fence. "There Is no one at home, sir," he •aid. "Where .■ e the people who be-long here?" I asked. "They ar.- spending the winter iu koutbern t’a’ii -.’nla aud have been away since lust September.” was hie reply. On returning to my office 1 found a telegram from my sister, who lived in an adjoining state. In response to It I started at once, and on arriving at brought liouie unconscious, with a cruel wound iu his head, ltobbery was ev! deutly tlie motive of tlie assailant, for tlie diamonds were gone; also tlie mon ey and watch of the victim. The ; ■ r man did not regain eon wiousm-ss, but died in a few hours. Comparison of the dates showed that tills occurred at the very time I had been called to Mill ville. Inquiry proved also that the grand mother laid been In her own home, ill in lied with au attack of rheumatism, on that night. Before going back to my practice I went with Marguerite to her old home. On arriving there I told her of my mys terious visit and of the key which had been held out to me. I produced the one 1 had had made and asked If she lmd seen one like it, but she never bad. When we entered tlie dining room, it was a bright sunny day. I looked around the room, nml as my glance rested on the massive oak sideboard tlmt was built Into one corner of the room I saw that along the top were carved grape leaves aud bunches of grapes. Suddenly there flashed into my mind the words, "The second bunch of grapes," and, mounting a chair, I managed to reach it. After a few at tempts I found I could move It a little, and finally I succeeded In pushing to one side the entire cluster, leaving ex posed a keyhole iu a little door of Iron four or five Inches square. Producing tuy mysterious key, I at once unlocked tlie door and found that the aperture contained a small iron box, In which we found the missing diamonds. We soon weut to the house of Mar guerite's grandmother, where we have lived for the past eight years, during which time I have only once met with another ghostly visitor. “But that is another story.” UNCLE SA U S MONEY. THE SAFEGUARDS THAT HEDGE ABOUT ITS MANUFACTURE. Car« With Which Firn (hr ShnvlBff« of (hr I'rciiliHr Paper I «rd Are Haudlrd—Couiitlna aud Hrroandng the Trratnrrd Sheet«. T«*mp(t*d l>> IliirtMrd Hook Plate«, t>«.c.or Tururd Tliief. How lie. <--i -er Hoy« In- t l.llaed «• it••(•:.• -* In Xrw tori.. At I o'cl-- ■ I tie other morning a well dressed mail si rolled into one of the uptown in- - senger offices. He find been dlmng out and < vidently. from the rak ish tilt to ids opera bat. the dinner had been a success. "1 want a messenger boy to come and waken me in the morning.” "What hour?” The clerk was all business, for the request was not un usual. "Seven o'clock. I've got to catch a train," he explained. “All right, sir; 7 o'clock,” assured the clerk. The man turned as he was going out of the door. "Have the boy hammer the door hard.” lie cautioned. "I'm a ‘dead one' when I get to sleep, mid I've got to catch tliat train.” Theu he went home and went to sleep with absolute confidence. The whistles were blowing 7 o'clock. A small boy in uniform hammered with n cluli, his "wakener,” on the door of tlie man wlio had dined the night before. "Get up in there!” he cried. “Get up, you old sleepyhead!” "You go away from my door,” comes In sleepy tones from the room. “It's a mistake. I don't want to get up.” "Oh, yes, you do, my dodo bird,” Is the fresh reply. And the tattoo on tlie door goes on with redoubled strength. "All right, boy; I'm awake now!” howls tlie man who lias been sleeping. “You can go away now.” "Not till you’ve signed this receipt,” tlie boy insists. Tlie man lias to craw) out of bed and come to tin- door. Tlie boy has a paper ready, and as he is a careful man he reads before signing. It certifies that he has been thoroughly wakened by Messenger No. 432 and that be is not going back to bed again that day. “Is tills a Joke?" lie asks the boy. "Naw. 'taln't no Joke,” replied ths messenger through his teeth. "If we'se didn’t make you'se do this, you'd be down to de office nliout noon n-howlin’ dat we didn't wake you'se. Now, it you'se goes back to your bag of feath ers, we'se got you'll in black an’ white, an' no mistake."—New York Tribune. Uncle Sam's paper money has its birth in the bureau of engraving and printing in Washington. Here a corps WAS a young man of 27 and had of engravers cut Its lines into plates Just lmng out my sign in a little of steel. Five hundred men and wom manufacturing village of about en are in one room. It is the largest 2,000 inhabitants. There were at pt inting office In the world. Here are this time three other physicians struck from these plates the notes in the town, and during my four weeks’ which we give the butcher and the stay I had been favored with but few baker. Each steel plate when not in patients. I boarded with an elderly actual use Is stored away in a great lady whose grandson cared for the gar den aud stable. My boarding mistress burglar proof vault to which only the was precise and methodical in every highest officials know the combination. thing and was a model of punctuality, At the side of encli printing preSB is a so I one day Ret my watch and the little indicator like a bicycle cyclome clock In my little otflce ten minutes ter, whicli keeps tally of every piece of fast In order to be prompt at meals paper money printed. Thus Is Uncle when at home. On the evening of that Sam kept informed as to the exact day. Just before the clock struck 10, my number of paper notea of all denomi telephone bell rang, i had only the day nations whicli leave his presses daily. previous liad tlie Instrument put in and if there is any secret which Uncle hastened to answer my first call. “Come Sam Jealously guards, it is the process immediately to Millville, No. 20 High of manufacturing tlie fiber paper upon street. Take the 10 o’clock train.” which wl’s money notes are printed, “It is too late for me to catch that lie pays ii Massachusetts firm a big train, but I will drive over with my price for it. and this firm does its work team, if that will do. What is the under the surveillance of a govern case?” I asked. • ment agent. The paper is manufac No reply. "Hello!” I called again, tured of the finest rags, cleaned, boiled but all was still. Then I rang up the and mashed into pulp. As it is rolled central office. Into thin sheets silk threads are Intro her borne tlie following morning I “Please connect again with the par learned that an elderly physician, a duced Into it by a secret process. ties who called for I)r. Wildes,” I said. friend ol These are tlie distinguishing marks r husband, was about to “No one lias called for Dr. Wildes,” give up active practice. Arrangements making imitation of the paper well answered the voice of the operator In were speedily made, and 1 moved to nigh impossible. the central office. The sheets of paper, already counted my new location. Fa«« For All Time«. “You must be mistaken, for I have twice and priced in uniform packages During the spring and summer 1 was Ladles of every clime and complex Just been miking with some one kept busy and lmd but little time to at the papeffTuill, are stored in a treas through tlie telephone wlio wants me.” myself, yet often I pondered over my ion from remote ages have possessed ury vault and Issued to tlie bureau of these mischief making weapons of co was my reply. engraving and printing as wanted. Be midnight visit to Millville, trying to “The wires must be crossed some- persuade myself that it might be only quetry. Fans were part of the bridal fore leaving tlie treasury they are outfit of tlie maidens of ancient Rome. where. 1 will see if I can find out a delusion of uiy brain while in some counted three times more, and the re The proml stepping dames of Spain where the trouble is, sir,” came in a stage of somnambulism. ceiving official at the bureau must re have rejoiced In tlie havoc wrought by sleepy voice from the central. One night at about half past 12 1 had these airy trifles. Copper colored In ceipt for them. Then the bundles are I put on my hat and started toward returned from a professional call aud unwrapped, and tin1 sheets are counted the stable, meeting Jimmie, witli lan was about to retire when 1 picked up dians waved funs of turkey plumes. twenty-eiglit times by n corps of wo Tlie clever Japanese turned tlie instru tern in hand. tlie evening paper, which my thought ment to uses undreamed of by I ohs in men. This is to insure that each print er gets the recorded number—no more, “I was just coming after you, doc ful sister always left on my table. The genious nations. It was In Japan that no less. Before any employee of tlie tor.” he said. “Your liorse seems to be first item 1 read was a notice in the so the folding fan had its origin and was division in which tills paper is kept can COOKING FISH IN ENGLAND. dreadfully lame, and I can’t find out ciety column. "Miss Marguerite Law imported thence to China. It is a com wlmt ails her foot.” ton of Millville is visiting her grand- pliment In China to invite a friend or leave for home each night he must ex The Method I «rd There Render« the hibit to a watchman at the door a pass 1 scut the boy to a livery stable near mother, Mrs. Stephen Powers Lawton, Flenh Flaky nnd Jnley. distinguished guest to write some sen certifying tliat every fragment of every by to procure a team for me aud was on College avenue." John Bull certainly knows how to timent on your fan as a memento of sheet passing through bls lingers lias battling and bandaging my own liorse cook fish, to prove which fact one has Tiie name of tlie town brought to my any special occasion. been n counted for. when 1 lieaid tlie whistle of tlie 10 mind the mysterious call I had once only to notice tlie Juiciness and good The fans used in France and England If one sheet of this precious paper be o’clock train. Then, remembering that answered. 1 placed the paper on the before the French revolution were of lost, tlie entire force of men and wo flavor of the first bit of fish, served my watch had been too fast. 1 mutter table at m.v elbow. As I did so 1 be the most extraordinary richness. These men having access to the room where perhaps at a little out of the way inn, ed a very unorthodox expression as 1 came aware of a feeling ns it some one expensive personal luxuries were set tl.e misplacement lias occurred are tliat one tastes in England. We Amer thought of the It! mile drive I must was in the room, dancing hastily icans have at command many tine va with precious stones and made of laces take in the cold March night. around. 1 saw that 1 was alone, but as of fabulous beauty. Artists devoted kept in, like so many school children, rieties ol' fish, but too often find it sent to find It. Each sheet Is issued from I hat! hastened indoors aud put on a m.v gaze again fell on the table I saw tlieuiselves to the painting of fans, the vault for tlie printing of a definite to table in a "woolly,” tasteless condi bea’vy ulster when 1 heard tlie boy moving toward me the figure of a Watteau faitly fanning himself to amount of money upon it. If tlie lost tion. drive up to my door with the team. mini's hand, holding in its grasp tlie An American cousin visiting iu au fame. »heet were intended to ultimately rep English family made bold to ask wliat Again I went to the telephone, and, same peculiarly shaped key. The hand Ladies of rank rivaled each other in resent $I. ihio worth of notes, tlie group ringing up aentral, I inquired if lie lmd moved over the table until it rested on method of cooking “sea food” was ascertained wlio bad called for Dr. th? paragraph 1 lmd just read, and the the costliness of their toys. Some car of employees to whom tlie responsibil prevalent In England and found that ried fans with the portraits of impor ity of Its misplacement has been traced Wildes. there tin* importance of the thorough key tapped otwe or twice on the name tant personages and political scenes of must make good that amount if they cooking of fish as a safeguard against “I cannot find tliat any one lias called "Ma rguerlte.” significance painted upon their sur cannot locate it within a reasonable for you tills evening,” came the reply ptomaines Is as much regarded as with The band began to fade. Already I face. Some cynic has said that women time. us. Our old country friends, however, over the wi.e. could see to read the letters that were endured the fatigue of churehgoing by Twenty-four times more are tlie assure us that there is not the slight Suspeetii. that somebody might lie under it, and as the shape of tlie key making it an occasion to display tine sheets containing the printed money trying to p' ty a joke on me, I stepped liegan to grow Indistinct 1 seized n est occasion to render fish dry and fans, white hands and brilliant Jewelry. counted after leaving the presses. Then to the door and had tlie team returned pencil and made a sketch of it on tlie tasteless in order to Insure thorough they are sealed in packages of 1,060, cooking if proper attention is given to to the livery stable. margin of the paper opposite til,' para Speaking German. placed on racks In a drying room of I seated myself in an easy chair by graph. After u woman hud devoted several 180 degrees temperature, unpacked, basting One cannot well imagine any thing hotter thau boiling fat, and lav the fire, aud after reading a short time Tlie key had barely faded from my years and some money to the task of I fell asleep. I awoke just ns my clock view when m.v bell rang. A man stood learning the German language thor thoroughly examined, smoothed in ing plentifully with this is to make use powerful hydraulic presses aud packed of the surest ammunition possible for was striking 12, and as the last stroke in the door. "Come at once to Mrs. oughly she felt herself more accom in wooden cases. These cases are haul ceased my telephone again rang. tlie routing of deadly bacteria. Lawton's, College avenue.” plished than some of her friends und ed to tlie treasury in an ironclad wag Instead of warning amateurs against I hastened to reply and received the in response to my inquiries he re took pleasure in the pride tliat this on. Six guards, heavily armed, accom underdone fish, let copious basting with call, “Come to Millville on the midnight plied: "She is unconscious. It Is prob knowledge gave her. One day she was pany this wagon whenever it makes a train to No. 20 High street. sweet boiling fat be insisted on, and in ably a stroke of paralysis.” in a street car wbeu a man entered trip. “Wlio wants me?” I asked, as I knew place of a woolly, flavorless result In a few minutes we entered the and vainly tried to tell the conductor No attempt to steal Uncle Saiu's mon not a soul in Millville. there will be the opposite-flakiness room where a slight girlish figure, clad where he wanted to go. He spoke only ey wlille undergoing any of these stages and juiciness. Overboiling will pro I received no reply, although 1 rang nil in black, was kneeling by the side German, the conductor understood not of manufacture has yet beeu detected. several times, and, putting on my over of a bed whereon lay au old lady. She duce woolliness as surely as overfrylug a word, and the passenger In despair As a matter of fact, tlie money would coat aud cap, 1 seized my medicine case was quite dead, ami but one glance or baking. To insure tender, solid turned to the others In the cur. be practically useless, for Its printing flakes in, tor Instance, boiled cod or and hurried to the railroad station, a was needed to show me that she was "Does uuybody here speak Gel is not completed until after It makes few rods away, where tlie night train the mysterious one who .lmd opened halibut and to avoid dissipating the man?” he asked. this guarded Journey to the treasury. flavor make sure the water bolls when stopped on being signaled. Before 1 the door for uieat tlie Millville house. This, thought the learned young There tlie finishing touch Is added In o’clock I had reached Millville and "Here is the doctor. Miss Margue woman, wus uu opportunity for her to the printing of the colored seal upon tlie tisli is put in; keep at a gentle found tlie place to which I had been rite," said the man. boil; allow only ten minutes to the make practical use of her really thor the Ittu- of each note. With the six summoned. Tlie young girl rose and with a sti ough knowledge of the language. She sealing presses the same precautions pound and tie carefully In cheesecloth tlmt has been washed and boiled be It was au old fashioned house, wlileli lled sob held out her band to me. “My was preparing to volunteer her serv had been modernized by tlie addition dearest friend, my only friend on ices as interpreter when the others nre taken as with tlie two hundred and fore using. Cod well basted wittr hot fifty big money presses In tlie other olive oil or any good fat will be almost .of bay windows iu tlie front, from one earth, is gone!” she cried. who bad beard the request also offer building. Eacli sheet coming from the of which slmne«a faint light. I has A few days later m.v sister ami 1 ed their ahi. In all there were among former has a row of notes printed upon gamy in flavor, as will cod stenks cooked in deep fat.—Washington Star. tened up the steps, but before my hand called to see Miss Lawton. who I ad the passengers on the car eleven men It. The sheets are put through small could touch the door It was opened decided to close her grandmother's and two women wlio spoke German. machines, operated by girls, who cut from the inside, and 1 passed in. A bouse and go away. I'npoetlcal While she still prizes her accomplish out the individual notes. Even the very old lady, witli pale face ami snowy I’oets are not always poetical. A tale "Tlie only relative 1 have now Is my ment, this studious young woman does small strips, falling like shavings from hair, silently pointed to tlie next ro< m. mother's half brother in California. lit is told in a contemporary of Aubrey de uot think her knowledge so unusual as their machines, must be carefully col 1 entered and found I was in a good 1ms telegraphed for me to come to him Vere growing ecstatic before Newman she once did.—New York Suu. lected, sent to the bureau of engraving over the "sweet pealing of the Oxford sized apartment that seemed to be half Poor papa and I were so happy there and prluting and there boiled into pulp. chimes” and asked why they rang with parlor and half library. A leather cov until ids sudden death last spring.” An employee found with even one of so inviting an Insistence. “Only young Mixing ills Metaphor«. ered lounge wr.i drawn up before an Then she added. “I will show you his To Lord Rosebery’s famous "spade these ribbons of waste paper Is liable men keeping themselves warm,” re open fire, and upon it lay a man of picture,” and. taking a photograph perhaps 60 years. An ugly gash was from a case on the table, she handed and wind" metaphor may be added two to Imprisonment for fifteen years and plied Newman. in the right side of his head, which, me tlie exact likeness of the man whom or three lapses, not all of which are a fine of $5.« *00. Tennyson gave sev.eral unexpected Between these different processes the answers of tlie same character. He witli the partially dried blood upon Ids I lmd found upon the lounge with tin mixed metaphors, perpetuated by Lord paper money has been counted and re face, formed a picture nt which I shud ugly gasli on his head. I did not q«es Londonderry. asked a young indy who bad shown In 18'. h ; Lord Londonderry threw the counted six additional times. Finally dered. tioti her al that time, although m.v curl bouse of lords into roars of laughter the single notes are placed in Btacks of herself more enthusiastic than Intelli gent over the beauties of "Maud” wliat I bent over him and felt for his pulse osity was difficult to control, as 1 saw 100, with all of the blue numbers print birds she supposed they were which His hand was cold, but in his grasf that she was deeply agitated, aud I during tlie debate on the second read ed on their faces in sequence. They called "Maud, Maud, Maud!” "Night he held a peculiar shaped key, which I felt that she must be kept as calm as ing of the Irish land bill by gravely de claring that "this Is the reason why are then wrapped in paper, labeled, ingales,” said the enthusiast. “No; saw plainly In the light of tlie fire. His possible. you have failed to settle the Irish land sealed with red wax and stored in the rooks you ---- .” But the exact vocative lips moved, and without opening 1 is Destiny, fate or what compelled mt great treasury vaults. Thus each piece is still a matter of discussion.—London eyes he said. "The second bunch of to follow Marguerite to California? 1 question in tlie future ns you have done of paper mi icy now In circulation has Globe. In the past.” grapes, the second bunch of grapes.” was not wholly impelled by the desire In the course of the same speech he been officially counted sixty-tbree “The man is delirious," 1 thought, as to obtain a solution of my mystery, of How They Differed. concluded a period with, “This is the times. I stepped into the hallway. During tlie last term of the late Zeb which I felt that somehow I held the keystone of the bill, are you golDg to In our mints the system of account “Madam,” I called ns I peered around key. having been to a locksmith and ing for the blank metal out of which Vance in tlie United States senate his In the darkness, "please bring me n bad a key made from the drawing on kill it?’ Better still was a sentence which he the finished coins are stamped, of keep brother, Robert Vance, wns elected to basin of warm water at once.” I heard tlie newspaper margin. In the lattei ing tally on tlie coining machines’ work, represent the Asheville (N. C.) district no sound except my own voice. I con d part of January I placed my practice uttered in 1897 when speaking once of counting tlie finished product, of in the lower branch of congress. One more on the Irish land question, “ That faintly sec by the light of the fire that in the hands of one of my medical packing It. of sealing it in cloth bags, Sunday morning soon after Robert shone from the library that there were friends who was not quite ready to set your lordship will see,” referring to a quotation he had just made, “indorses of transporting It under guard, of made his appearance in Washington n three or four other doors leading from tie down and started out for a str up to tlie hilt what I have said.”—Tat counting it tunny times again and final friend disked tlie senator If he and Rob the hall. One after another 1 tried to weeks’ vacation. ly of storing It away is practically tlie ert agreed on the subject of religion as tler. • open them, but they were all locked well as they did on politics. Marguerite and my sister had kept same. fast. I ran back into the room from "No,” replied the senator; "Bob is a There is not a day in the year when Courtship In China. which I bad Just come. Tlie leather up a correspondence, so I bad npj^lffl A curious custom prevails nt Huay- any one of the seven great treasury Methodist ami believes in falling from covered lounge was still drawn up in culty In finding the object of my soarab vaults does not contain in coin, bullion, grace, but never falls, while I am a front of the fire, but the man was gone. and in less than five weeks was op my nlng-hslen. in Kwangs). On the fif notes, certificates or bonds sufficient to Presbyterian und don’t believe in fall teenth day of the first month in each I looked wildly around tlie room, but way east witli my bride. make you or me one of the richest of ing from grace, but am all tlie time no sign of n.m could be seen. I drew Before leaving California I bad learn year all tlie young ladles and gentle the world’s multimillionaires. The most falling!”—New York Times. my hand over the louuge and found my ed the particulars of Mrs. Lawton’s men take a walk to the Yenyen moun capacious of these strong boxes are In Obliterating Smallpox Plttin*«. Marguerite’s grand tain. Each damsel carries a little box, finger allowed plainly on the dusty cov sudden death. the basement of tlie treasury. A large Scientific treatment and much skill are ering. The fire was burning low, and I mother, who had been a lender in socl which she deposits nt the foot of the guard of men—mostly old soldiers, required to remove smallpox pittings seized my medicine case from the chair ety until tier husband's death, was the hill. Any young gentleman desirous of commanded by a captain and lieutenant successfully. Tills treatment Is given where I had placed it, stepped Into the possessor of some valuable diamonds, entering the bonds of matrimony may —watches them day and night. These by a masseuse, but massage is not ball and lit stily opened the front door. which a few years previous she bad select one of the boxes and take it guardians nre heavily armed, nnd they used, as it would never remove the away with him, whereupon the fair Once outsl. e the house my courage re plneed iu her son's linnds for safe keep patrol their beats every quarter hour pittings. The process requires a care owner of the box makes lierself known, turned, and. looking bnck, I shouted. ing until Marguerite should be of an throughout the night.—Saturday Even ful removing, little by little, of old cu “Where ate you. sir?” but no answer nge to wear them. He very seldom and an acquaintanceship Is thus form ing Post. ticle. The new, which tnkes tlie place, came. Then I grasped the doorbell and mentioned tlie Jewels to Ills daughter, ed. Ill assorted matches are not likely to occur, us tills custom is observed Is smoother than Its predecessor and rang peal after peal, but all I heart and It was supposed flint he carried Method« of Genina. requires about ten dnys for treatment. wore the echoes dying away in flu them around on his person. One dny In only among tlie well to do classes of “Dr. Johnson could remember every Thus, after n couple or more treat empty house. I may as well confess early March he was returning from a society. thing he wrote." said the literary man. ments nnd In a comparatively short drive wheu lie saw a man skulking that I ran to the railroad station. When Slow Pro*r?««. “That Is the difference between Dr. time, the deepest scars are replaced by I asked the night watchman who lived around tlie street corner who looked “We don't nppenr to be making much Johnson nnd myself.” answered the a perfectly smooth skin. at No. 20 High street, he replied. “1 strangely familiar to him. He finally progress,” said one member of tlie composer of music. “I write every cannot tell you, sir. as I am but little snid to Marguerite: "It has Just occur Re«lKn«tlon. north pole exploring expedition to an thing I can remember.”—Washington red to me that tlie stranger is Davison, acquainted in the place." Still puzzling other. Poet No. 1 —Wliat did the publisher Star. wlio used to lit 1 employed by your nty brain over the mystery, I remain "No,” replied the other; “our lender offer for your poem? ed witli him until 5 the next morning grandmother. She wrote me some lit laeonalatency In Clock«. No. 2—Three dollars. tle time ago tliat she had discharged la an awful slow writer and thinks he when the first train took me home. must stop tlie whole expedition eneb No. 1—Tliat was an Insult! What Wlgg — It's queer how time flies. him because she found him one day The next afternoon, my courage linv morning while he commits to m-mory did you do? Wagg Yes; you would think that trying to unlock her desk where her Ing returm <1. I drove over to Millville the parts of his lecture that b<t wrote clocks ought to have wings Instead of No. 2—Put It In tny pocket—New and went strslght to the house which 1 private papers were kept." ■ York Times hands nnd feet.—Philadelphia Record. The following dav Mr. Lawton was the day before " ha<l visited the previous night. 1 went I FAD BECAME A MANIA. HUMAN ALARM CLOCKS. m BLAKE, MOFFITT & TOWNE lotporiers sud De;ilrr«|la Book, Now«, Writing and Wrapping... OARD «TOOK STRAW ANU BINDERS’ BOARD ;t woul-l seem from the experience of tlie Harvard college library that sa-at-aa-or Ft mt st. bool, plate collecting may sometimes t « l . Maia 1««. is SAN FRANCISCO. develop into u dangerous and expen sive manin A few years ago the Har vard library found that the engraved labels which it pastes on the Inside of the covers of Its books as marks of its ownership were disappearing from some of tlie less used volumes. The older book plates. It appears, are high Bright's Discaac and Diabete« ly prized by collectors, and some of Are Positively Curable. them nre particularly valuable fortheir artistic merit as well as for interesting associations with early book collect ing in this country. These were uatu- Judge Henry S. Foote, a former member oi rally the special prey of the tliief. our State Supreme Court Commission, »mt on« Detectives took the matter in hand, of the best known Jurist« on tho Coast, mwkei and the offender was discovered with the following certificate: full evidence of Ills guilt uism him. ** i am u.ks.l io uertlfy the following facta. A He confessed to stealing tlie library’s well-known pnyah-tau In a, the pi-actlo« put twe property nnd to having It in Ills pos case» of Bright'•> lllaes»e aud one of plnls-tea on the Fulton Compound». lie la a lllliig the results should session By the time the matter reach M known, hut for professional reu-ous without tile ed tlie courts the greater part of tlie name. As the res tits are so squan-ly opposed by at book plates had been restored, the thief medical works. I was asked to Investigate and re having settled satisfactorily with the port the facia, which 1 did. aud 1 And and certify ai persons to whom lie had sold or given follows : *'An old school phyColan f un.,‘>e»tfoned stand them. and. ns the prisoner had repaid Ing und ability hue J,,-t u-i.-d the Fulton Com III three eases a Uh these results the expense to which tlie library had pounds < Kso Xo 1 Mi- I'.. clironin Bright s plsease: usua been put, tlie college consented to leave wlbuiiieuurla dropsy etc.; Iliiilw swolleu almost tr bursting. I so a treatment without result. Undei the matter of sentence with tin1 court, the i oinpound the drop-y dl.app. -• i .-■| In thirty days last of the albumen In 9o I nred which Imposed n tine of $150 on one and ruse So.'.’ Mr II chronic Bright’s I »sense of t count and put tlie other count on tile, years’ standing: albumen large, dropsy, etc. In I n-'.-ks allnimen reduced a hair, aud a few week! to be brought up again later if it should later albumen down to a trace and dropsy entirely gone Patient Insisted ,e we. aril and left tor an be desirable, meanwhile placing the extended trip. (Too early. It la lelleved. for per offender under $1.000 bonds for Ills fu mam-iioi. 1 < as,. So. S—.Mrs 1 . « hronlc dlals-tes; physician ture appearance If he should be want stales - typical ease, worst I t-or saw ' First lea days pain diaapie-are.l and sugar decreasing. Sec ed. oud report: ’ --ugar reduced half: Improiemeut A striking point in the ease is that wonderful; sugar g ttlng less every test.” Asked wliat is-t-eentage are euralde by these the guilty man is in no way a common Com ounds. the plll-'eiau replied 1 don l know but It must Is, lar.e nearly a hundred. If my owe criminal. Ills education (he has a de cum - h are any cnlterlou ’ ■ Attest: II i s tty H I- ooTg gree of doetoi l ami Ills taste seem only ■ t’JH Mon’goniery st.. San Franclaoo.’’ to have made his thefts more intelli Asked a hat lie Individ ally 1 bought of It, Judgs Foote replied: ”1 am satlalied the cure bus tayen gent and discriminating, however, lie found." knew tlie value of his peculiar booty, Medical works agree that Bright'» Disease and he knew how to dispose of it. ills and blalmtea are incurable, but H7 per cent tyre very personality being a protection to pnsltlvelv reoiiverlng umler tin- Fulton Com pounds. (Common forms or kidney complalot him in tlmt part of his misdemeanor. and rheumatism offe but short re-lstnnee ) Apparently tlie fail developed to a ma l'rlc” ft for tin- He-ght’a Dls.-use nml f I .'SI for tile l>lalw*tle i omimutid John J Full di Co, ilia nnd that to kleptomania in his !9t Montg. tm-.y st .San l*'ram-iHco. sole coni pounders. Fn-e '< -- s mtuli f r pullout» Do mind. ■crlptlvo pumpldet m.cled free A number of tlie stolen plates have not yet been traced at all, nnd collect ors have been warned against accept fin I ,«<-’■ Way, ing Harvard plates of the older en J ii I ch Naiiileuti relntPH tliat one time graved varieties unless there is unmis while living in Paris Balzac locked takable evidence tliat they came hon himself up in Ills room for twenty-two estly into tjic possession of the person days and twenty-two nights, refusing who offers I hem. to see any one and keeping the cur A Physician's Tests. LAW POINTS. A druggist may lie convicted of main taining a liquor nuisance, though hav ing a permit to sell liquor, holds the supreme court of Kansas. The giving of a new note for an ex isting indebtedness will not of itself release collateral security held for pay ment of such indebtedness, holds the supreme court of Nebraska. A child ot divorced parents Is a ward of the court and must not lie removed from the state by the parent to whom the court Ims awarded tlie custody, holds tlie appellate court of Illinois. A reservation of title In a condition- al sah- of goods Is valid as lietween the parties and those succeeding to their rights, witli knowledge of such reser vation, either personally or from the records. A decree or order for alimony in a divorce proceeding Is not a debt within tlie meaning of tliat term as used In the constitution prohibit Ing imprison ment for debt, holds tlie supreme court of Washington. A lieiiuest in a will for tin- purchase of books on spiritualism, to be free to nil, is liehl by the court of chancery of New Jersey in tlie ease of Jones versus Watford (50 Atl. Rep., ISO) to be i charitable gift which a court of e-tu > will enforce. Anlnxsa lut«lllKe«<-e. Elephants .-ire among the most se verely drill -d of animals. Tlielr intcll! gence dm not have tree play In con setpiem e. But all English train-1 - agree that pore is a great difference t: cap.oily lietween I hem mid tlmt some will learn and remember a lesson fur more quickly than others. Cats have very "level" brains nnd an- too self centered nnd self contaitu-d ns n rule to show tlie distinctions whicli exist iii’twcen them. Their strongest itwllnct is toward a kind of domestic comfort not exactly shared with human lieings, but enjoyed In tla-ir company, to which tlie cat per feclly adapts itself, let there are mis mitlnoplc cats w hicli make no secret of their dislike and contempt for mankind In general, only conn- Into tlie house umler protest and would prefer to sleep In a eonl cellar to taking their nap in gt o.l society. These are the exceptions in tin- ent worltl, but «-very one lias met witli them. Birds are usually regarded as pos- si ssing I,rains In "«-lasses,” not ns indi viduals, tin- origin of tlie belief being probably tin- fact Hint birds of one species usually build exactly the same kind of nest. Th«- generalization is not correct. Tlie same species may havt brains of nil eap.icitics London Spec- tutor. Lnrii'e I'ninlly. l’atsy Doolev was n very poor arith metician ami was puzzled by a great many questions of numbers which did not enter other people's heads. tine day a new ncquulntanc«* remark ed in Ills presence: "1 have eight brothers.” “Ye have eight brothers?” said Pat sy. “Then I suppose ivery wan o' thim lias eight brothers too?" "Certainly.” "Arrtili, thin,” said Patsy, “how many mothers laid tlie sixty-foor o’ ye?” tains closed ami tlie lights continually burning even In broad daylight. The only human being he saw during this time was his servant, whom he rang for when In- felt the need of food und which he washed down with numerous «■tips of coffee. He would throw him self on Ids bed only when entirely ex liiiusted from lack of sleep, and he re tmtined In complete Ignorance of w liat wns transpiring outside, tlie state of tlie weather ami even of the time and day of tin- week. Hi- only fre«-d him self from tliis voluntary captivity when in- had written tlie word "Eml” on the last page of tin- manuserlpt he began when In’ entered ills prison. Prive ni Blackwell*« Inland. The priii- of Blackwell's Island when It was purchased by New York city was not seven pieces of wampum, 120 pounds of tobacco or two stacks of fire arms. tlie price of Manhattan Island, but $50.000. paid to Robert Blackwell, the owner, wlio had maiTl«*d the daugh ter of tlie English captain Manning, who In Hi73 surrendered New York city to the Dutch. W hen the English resumed control. Manning retireil to Blackwell's Island, then known as Ilog island, and after his death It became tlie propel ty of his danglitis’ and son- in-law. 11 wo s Id in 1838 to New York cltj nml -.me« bs» been in use for various corn--1 onul ami charitable In stitutions Storing Oxygen In the Hlvod. Professional divers, w itq remain un der water from two to five minutes nt a time, are ueeustoi-.nu before sub merging themselves to take deep inspi rations for tel minutes Tin- object is said to in- to store up oxygen, not In the lung cells, but in th«* blood corpuscles. This renders u temporary suspension of the breathing possible by supplying the corpuscles with au extra quantity of oxygen, to be ex changed chemically with the carbonic acid, produced by vital processes, in the blood. The Fnnllah I.anxDX«e. I like to be beholden to the groat metrop«ditan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under lieaven. I should as soon tlilnk of swimming across the Charles river when I wish to go to Boston as of reading ail my books in originals when 1 have them rendered for me in m.v English tongue.—Ralph Waldo Emerson. -■■■■......... ■■ . — I The (nlncky Thirteen. “I hate to have to pack up again," protested the wife. "This will be the thirteenth time we have moved since we came to town, and that's bad luck.” "But we’re owin’ $13 rent on this house. Marg.” he said, "and it'll be a heap worse luck to stay here and have to pay it.”—Chicago Tribune. In Stripe«. “Will you kindly show me what you have here?” asked the visitor to the penitentiary. "With pleasure,” replied the warden, who had once worked in a dry goods store. "We have a few tilings in stripes that I think will interest you.”—Ohio State Journal. • — — .X1 Art. "Are you fond of pictures?" asked the man who Is interested in art. "I should say so!" answered Broncho The Rennon. Bob. "Give me jncks, queens or kings “There Is a very Intimate nervous every time. I always did hate to fool conm-etion between tin* brain and the with tenspots or less.”—Washington stomach." snid tin- scientific man. Star._________________ "That explains It," answered tlie Mrs. Innocent—What did you enjoy humble person wlio is willing to learn most about your fishing trip, dear? “Wliat?” Mr. Innocent—I got most excited “Tlie reason why nearly every polltl cat alliance or financial deal lias to be when I was reeling in, my love. Mrs. Innocent (bursting into tears»— discussed nt n banquet."—Washington And to—to—think you promised me Star. you wouldn't drink a drop!—Harlem Life. __________________ She Knew It. He—Do you know, dearest, that I The Apaches have three different think you nre tit«- sweetest girl In nil kinds of violins, each having but one the world. string and played with a small bow. She Why not? All the other gentle men wlio have lmd tin* opportunity All fortunes have their foundation« have told me so. Boston Transcript. lakl in economy -J. G. Holland.
