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! ifwiHtm-nn I! Jbz Doctor's fjilemma I By Hesbo .1H.,H.-m i n 1 1 1 1 1 1 m n i CHAPTER XV. (Continued.) That brought to mx mind what I bad almost forgotten the woman whom my Imnmitsnt onrlooltr hml brought into pursuit of her. I felt ready to curse tay folly aloud, m I did In my neart, mr having gone to Messrs. Scott an 1 Brown. "Olivia," I said, "there Is a woman lu Guernsey who has some clue to you " But I could say no more, for I tnougni she would have fallen to the ground in her terror. I drew her hand through my arm and hastened to reassure her. "No harm can conic to you," I contin ued, "whilst Tanllf and I are here to pro tret you. Do not frighten yourself; we will defend you from every danger." "Martin," she whlspcrcd-ani the pleasant familiarity of my name spokin by her gave me a sharp pang, almost ot gladness "no cne can help me or de fend me. The law would compel me to go back to him. A woman's heart may be broken without the law being broken. I could prove nothing that would give me a rlcht to be free notning. co i took It Into my own bands. I tell yoa I would rather have been drowned this afternoon. Why did you save me?" I did not answer, except by pressing her hand against my side. I hurried her on silently towards the cottage. She was shivering in her cold, wet dress, and trembling with fear. It was plain to me that even her fine health should not be trifled with, and I loved her too tenderly, her poor, shivering, trembling frame, to let her suffer if I conld help it. lien wo reached the foldyard gate. I stopped her for a moment to speak only a few words. "Go in," I said, "and change every one of your wet clothes. I will see you again, once again, when we can .talk with one another calmly. God bless and take care of you, my darling!" She smiled faintly, and laid her hanl In mine. "Yon forgive me?" she said. "Forgive you!" I repeated, kissing the small brown hand linger!ngly; "1 hate nothing to forgive." She went on across the little fold. Then I made my way, blind and deaf, to the edge of the cliff, seeing nothing, hear ing nothing. I flung myself down on the turf, with my face to the ground, to hide my eyes from the staring light of the summer sun. Married? That was what she had slid. It shut out all hope for the future. She must have been a mere child four years ago; she looked very young and girlish till. And bcr husband treated her ill my Olivia, for whom I bad given up all I had to give. She said the law would compel her to return to blni, and I tould do nothing. I could not interfere even to save her from a life which was worse to her than death. My heart was caught In a vice, and there was no escape from the torture of Its relentless grip. Whichever way I looked there was sorrow and despair. I wished, with a faint-beartedness 1 bad never felt before, that Olivia and I had Indeed perished together down In the caves where the tide was now sweeping below me. "Martin!" said a clear, low, tcnler tone In my ear, which could never be deaf to that voice. I looked up at Olivia without moving. My head was at her feet, and I laid my hand upon the hem of her dress. "Martin, she said again, "see, I have brought you Tardlfs coat in place of your own. You must not lie here in this way. Captain Carey's yacht is waking for you below, I staggered giddily wherrT stood on my feet, and only Olivia's look of pain stead . led me. She had been weeping bitterly. I could not trust myself to look in her face again. Tardlt was standing behind her, regarding us both with great con cera. "Doctor," he said, "when I came In from my lobster-pots, the captain sent a message by me to say the aun would be gono down before you reach Guernsey. He has come round td the Havre Gosse- lln. I'll walk down the cliff with you." "Take care of inam'zelle," I said, when we bud reached the-top of the ladder, and the Httlo boat from the yacht was danc ing at thcfoot of It. "There Is some danger ahead, and you can protect her better than I." "Yes, yes," ho replied; "you may trust her with me. But God knows I should have been glad If it hud gone' well with you. Oil AFTER XVI My mother passed a restless and agi tated night, and I, who sat up with her. was compelled to listen to all her la mentations. But towards the morning she fell Into a heavy sleep, likely to last for some hours. I could leave her lu perfect security; and at an early hour I went down to Julia's bouse, strung up to bear the worst, and intending to bare It all out with her, and put her on her guard before sho paid her daily visit to our houso. She must hare some hours for her excitement and rejoicing to bub ble over, before she came to talk about It to my mother. "I wish to ice Miss Dobreo," I said to the girl who quickly answorod my noisy peal of the house bell. "Fiease, sir," was her reply, "she and Miss Daltrey are gone to Sark -with Cap tain Carey." "Gone to Sark!" I repeated In utter amazement. "Yes, Dr. Martin. They started quite early .because of the tide, and Captain Carey's man brought tho carriage to tako them to St. Sampson's. I don't look for them back before evening." "When did tbey make up their minds to go to Sark?" I Inquired anxiously, "Only Jate last night, sir," sho answer ed. Why were Julia and Kate Daltrey gono to Sark? What could they have to do with Olivia? It made me almost wild with nnger to think of them finding Olivia, and talking to her perhaps ot me and my love questioning bcr, arguing with her, ormentIng her! Tho bare thought of those two badgering my Olivia was enough to drive me frantic. In 'he cool twilight) Julia and Kate iiiMimiuiiiniimM Strctton i 1 1 1 1 i n i m n Daltrey were announced. I was about to withdraw from my mother's room, lu conformity with the etiquette established amongst us. when JulU retailed me In J a gentler voice than she had ued to- wants mo since tnc ilay or my ratal con I fenlon. "Stay, Martin," she said; "whit we ) have to tell concerns you more than any oae. I sat down again by my mather's sofa, and she took my hand between both her own. fondling It In the dusk. "It Is about Olivia," I said in as cool a tone as I could command. "Yes," answered Julia; "we have seen her, and we have found out why she has refused you. She Is married al ready." "She told me so yesterday," I replied. "Told you so yesterday!" repeated Ju lia lu an accent of chagrin. "If we had only known that we might hare saved ourselves the passage across to Sark." "Sir dear Julia." exclaimed mr mother. feverishly, "do tell us all about it, and begin at the beginning." There was nothing Julia liked so much, or could do so well, as to give a circum stantial account of anything she had done. She could relate minute details with so much accuracy that when one was lazy or unoccupied It was pleasant to listen. My mother cujoled, with all the delight of a woman, the small touches by which Julia embellished her sketches. I resigned myself to hearing a long his tory, when I was burning to ask one or two questions and hare done with the topic. "To begin at the beginning, then," said Julia, "dear Captain Carey came Into "PERHAPS YOU WILL FEEL town very late last night to talk to us about Martin, and how the girl In Sark had refused blm. I was Tory much ns- tonisned, very mun inaceai uapiaiu Carey said that he and dear Johanna bad come to the conclusion that the girl felt some delicacy, perhaps, becanse ot Martin a engagement to me. e talked It over as friends, and thought of you. dear aunt, and your grief and disappoint ment. till all at once I made up my mind in a moment. 'I will go over to Sark and see the girl myself,' I said. 'Will you T said Can tii In Carey. 'Oh, no, Julia, It will be too much for you.' 'It would bare been a few weeks ago,' I said; 'but now I could do anything to glre aunt Dobree a moment a happiness. "Heaven bless you, Julia," I interrupt ed, going across to her and kissing her cheek Impetuously. "There, don't stop me, Martin," she said earnestly. "So it was arranged off hand that Captain Carey should send for us to St. Sampson's this morn.'ns, and take us over to Sar. We had a splendid passage. Koto was In raptures with the landing place, and the lovely lano leading up Into the island. We turn ed down the nearest way to Tardif'g Well, you know that brown pool In the lane leading to the Harre Gosselin? Just there, where there are some low, weather-beaten trees meetlnz overhead anl making a long green aisle, we saw ail In a moment a slim, erect, very young-looking girl coming towards us. I knew In an Instant that It was Miss Ollivler." She paused for a minute. How plainly I could see the picture! The arching trees, and the sunbeams playing fondly with her shining golden hair! I held my breath to listen. "What completely startled me," said Julia, "wag that Kate suddenly darted forward and ran to meet her, crying, Olivia 1'" "How does she know hori" I exclaim ed. "Hush, Martin! Don't Interrupt me. The girl went so deadly pale, I thought sho was going to faint, but she did not. She stood for a minute looking at us, and then she burst into the most dread ful fit ot crying! I hare always thought her name was Ollivler, and so did Kato. 'For pity's sake,' said the girl, 'It you have any pity, leave me here In peace do not betray me' "But what does it all mean?" asked my mother, whilst I paced to and fro in the dim room, scarcely able to control my Impatience, yet afraid to question Julia too eagerly. "I can tell you," said Kate Daltrey In her cold, deliberate tones; "she Is the wife ot my balf-brotber, Richard Foster, who married her more than four years ago In Melbourne; and she ran away from him last October, and has not been heard of since." "Then you know her whole history," I said, approaching her aud pausing be fore her. "Are you at liberty to 'tell it to us?" "Certainly," she answered; "It Is no secret. Her father was a wealthy ced onttt, and he died when she waa fifteen, leaving her In the charge of her step mother, Richard Foster's aunt. The match was one of the stepmother's mak ing, tor Olivia was little better than a child. Richard was glad enough to get her income. One-third ot It waa settle! upon her absolutely. Richard was look ing forward eagerly to her being ono-and-twenty, for he bad mado ducks and drakes ot his own property, and tried to do tho same with miue. He would have done so with his wife's; but a few weeks before Olivia's twenty -first birthday she disappeared mysteriously. There her fortune lies, and Richard has no more power than I have to touch It. He can not oven claim the money lying lu the Bank ot Australia, which has been re mitted by her trustees; nor can Ollrla claim It without making herself known to him. It Is accumulating there, while both of them are on the verge of pot crty." "But he must have been very cruel to her before she would run away!" said my mother in a pitiful voice. "Cruel !" repeated ICnte Daltrey. "Well, there are many kinds of cruelty. I do not suppose Richard would ercr trans grvss the limits of the law. But Olivia was one of those girls who can suffer great torture mental torture I mean Krcn I could not lire In the same house with Richard, v and she was a dreamy. sensitive, romantic child, with as much knowledge of the world as a baby. I was astonished to hear she had had dar ing enough to leave him." "But there must be some protection fur her from the taw," I said, thinking of tho bold, coarse woman, no doubt his asso ciate, who was In pursuit of Ollrla. "She might sue for a judicial separation, at the least. If not a divorce." 'I am quite sure nothing could be brought against him In a court of law," she answered. "He Is very wary and cunning, and knows very well what he may do and what he may not do. few months before Olivia's flight, he in troduced a woman as her companion. He calls her his coustn. Since I saw lur this morning I have been thinking ot her position In every light, and I really do not see anything sho could bare dose, except running away as sho did, or mak- MELANCHOLY BY-AND-BY." ing up her mind to be deaf and blind and dumb." "But could he not bo Induced to leare her in peace If she gave up a portion of her property I asked. "Why should be?" she retorted. "If she was in bis hands the whole of the property would be bis. He will never release her never. No, her only chance Is to hide herself from blm. The law cannot deal with wrongs like hers, be cause, they are as light as air apparently, though they are as all-pervading as air Is, and as poisonous as air can be. They are like choke-damp, only not quite fa tal. He is as crafty and cunning as a serpent. He could prove himself the kindest, most considerate of husban Is, and Olivia next thing to an Idiot. Oh, It Is ridiculous to think of pitting a girl like her against him!" "But what con be done for her?" I ask ed vehemently and passionately. "My poor Olivia! what can I do to protect her?" "Nothing!" replied Kato Daltrey, cold ly, "Her only chance Is concealment, and what a poor chance that Is! I went over to Sark, niWer thinking that your Miss Ollivler whom I had heard so much of was Olivia Foster. It is an out-of-the-world place; but so much the moro read ily they will find her, If they onco get a clue. A hare Is soon caught when It can not double; and how could Olivia escape If they only traced her to Sark?" My dread of the woman into whose hands my Imbecile curiosity had put the clue was growing greater overy minute. It seemed as It Olivia could not be safo now, day or night; yet what protection could I or Tardlt glre to her? "You will not betray her?" I said to Kate Daltrey, though feeling all the time that I could not trust her In the smallest degree. "I have promised dear Julia that," she answered. It became my duty to keep a strict watch over the woman wh had como to Guernsey to find Olivia. It possible I must decoy her away from the lowly nest where my helpless bird was shel tered. She had not sent for me again, but I called upon her tho next morning professionally, and stayed some time talking with her. But nothing resulted from tho visit beyond the assurance that, she had not yet made any progress to wards the discovery of ray secret. Neither did I feel quite safe about Kate Daltrey. She gave me the impres sion of being as crafty and cunning as she described her half-brother. Did sho know this woman by sight? That was J question I could not answer. There was another question banging upou It. If she saw her, would she not In some way contrive tn giro her a sufficient hint, with out positively breaking her promise to Julia? Kate Daltrey's name did not appear In the nowspapers among the list ot visitors, as she was staying In a pri vate house; but she and this woman might raeot any day In the streets or on the pier. I had to cross orer to Sark the next week, atone and Independent ot Caputs Carey. Tho time passed heavily, and on tho following Monday I went on board tho ateauu-r. I had not been on dock two minutes wheu I saw my patient step on after me. Tho last duo was lu her fin gers now, that was orldent. She did not see me at first; hut her njr was exultant and satisfied. There was no face on board so elated aud flushed, I kept out of her way ns long as I could without consigning myself to the black hole of the cabin; but at last sho caught sight ot me, aud came down to the feio- castle to claim me as an acquaintance. "Ha. ha! Dr. Dobree!" sho exclaimed; '.'so you nro going to visit Sark, too?" "Yes," I nuswered more curtly wan courteously, (To be coutinued.) A Horrid Monti Thing. They snt In n swing, Imlf-liUliUui liy tho fragrant shrubbery of nu cast end lawn. Sho wns trying to make li t tit jealous, which ho hml penetration enough to descry mid experience enough with her pox to reiualu provok Ingly cnliu. All tho rapturous ndjcctlrcs of her high-school vocabulary wero pressed Into praise of a rival, says tho Mem phis Scimltnr. "He is Just tho most perfectly lovely man I over met," she fervently de claimed, clasping her hands nlwvo her heart nnd lifting her lustrous orbs luoonwnnl. "He must bo n blnl."ho suggested nonchnlnntly. "Such adornblo eyes; Mich a low, mu sical voice, ns full of soul as tho mur mur of a mendou brook. Ami, oh! ho sings divinely." "Sorry I never met your friend," ho paid In a tono Irrltntlngly practical, ac companied with a yawn, artistically audible. "Oh, I do so want you to meet him I know you will like him. Ho Is fond of poetry nnd music, nnd he drives tho loveliest horses " "Eh! Whom does he drlvo for?" And a few minutes Inter tho swing swung emptily. Much Abbreviated. A customer from otto of the suburbs dropped Into a pnlnt shop, took a slip of paper from his pocket, looked nt It, knitted his brows, shook his head, nut on Ills glasses. Inspected tho paper again, and gave It up as a had Jolt. 'I made a hasty memorandum." lie said to the proprietor of tho shop, "of something I was to call hero and buy. but I trusted too much to my memory. I seem to have Jotted down nothing but tho Initials, nnd I'vo forgotten what tbey mean." 'Let me see the memorandum," said the proprietor. "It may be that I can help you." 'It's nothing but three letters," re plied the customer, handing It over, Only 'C. F. A.' " "So I see. '0. F. A.' Why, that's sopla, a kind of. brown paint. Wasn't that It?" 'What a fool I am! Of courso It wns." He got his sepia, threw a big red ap ple on the counter In lieu of "hush money," and went away with a sheep ish look on his face. Tho Anthem Again. The "Messiah" was sung recently In Philadelphia, and one of tho anthems rendered by the chorus had as IU theme, "Wo haro turned every ono to bis own way." As anthems go, thli sounded somowhnt as follows: "We bave'turned. turned turned wo have turned, yes, we have we havo turned every one, every one to his own way, own way every one to bis own way." The anthem Involved several pages of music, nnd every time the chorus snng "wo lmvo turned, turned, turned," they proceeded to turn over to tho next page, nnd then burst out again with "wo have turned, turned!" A certain plain citizen, rather elderly, who sat well In the rear, not appreciating tho delicate sentiment, was beard to mut ter, disgustedly, "Well, when you get through turnln', turnln' them gol derned pages, suppose you shot up about It!" Harper's Magazine. Why Locomotives Aro Numbered. A prominent railroad man tells mo that the o'.d custom of naming engines Instead of numbering them was done awny with because tliero was such a press tire brought to bear In favor of this, that and tho other locality. The various Influences used becamo so an noying to the officials that thoy decided to adopt tho plan of numbering the loco motives, which was done. A similar nulsanco exists at Washington In the Navy Department. Probably during the lato war Secretary Long was pestered moro with people who wanted vessels named In honor of somebody or some thing than bo was with all the otbor questions which came beforo blm put together. Boston Record. Writer and Reader. A good and perhaps an old story comes from the Persian. A man went to a professional scribe, and asked blm to write a letter. "I cannot," said tho scribe, "I havo a pain In my foot." 'A pain In your foot? What has that to do with It? I don't wont to send you anywhere," "No, sir," said tho man, "but when ever I write a letter for any one, I am always sent for to read It, because uo ono else can make It out." Telephone Bpeod. Where tho telephone wires are over land the speed of transmission Is at the rate of 10,000 miles a second; wbero the wires aro through cables under the sea, the speed Is not moro than 0,020 miles a second. If tho cook. breaks only ono dish n week, It s on Sunday, when tho man ot the house Is homo to hear the crash, and grumble about It. OUTLAWS OF TUJIKEY INTO THEIR HANDS AN AMERI CAN WOMAN FELL. Previous 1'xpcrleiices mid A'lveiitnras of Mis Klloil M. Htonc-Tha Wildest Iteulnu of Alt linropo . Imrnctor of the Kavltiir I r I u ul. Tho abduction uf Miss Ellen M. .Stone, the American missionary, by Turkish brigands, directed thu atten tion of the world upon this unfortunate woinnii and her cruel nnd daring cap tors. Miss Stone Is a Boston woman, who for years has been In the employ of tho American Women's Board of Missionaries and whose devotion to her work In ns lntensu as was that of thu early Christians. Frequently she htta been halted by brigands and tested as to her capacity to furnish plunder. In one Instance she explained the nature of her work ami the fact that she bail but little available money, and wns al lowed to continue her Journey and work, lu another vase, while she was asleep In a small structure, she wns nruiised lu thu night and became con- I scions that lunula were pnssed over bcr features, but she was not otherwise tils. , turbetl, and In the morning sho found abundant evidence that brigands had been In the vicinity during the night. Her most serious ndventure occurred Sept. 3, when sho was halted between Bnnake and DJoumaula by forty bri gands. Hbo wns a ceo in pa tiled by eigh teen other missionaries, all of whom wero relieved of their valuables nnd afterward wero released, Miss Stone wns cnrrlcd Into the mountnlns and a rniiHom of $110,000 demanded by tho lender of tho brigands. A Wild Heulnn. The country lu which Miss Stone wns captured Is the same ns the Thessnly of the Scriptures, tho Thrace of Grecian history where Philip of Mncedon and Alexander the Great led their armies and where Socrates campaigned bare footed as n common soldier. It Is wild er now than then, Alt the rest of Eu rope contains nothing as barbnrotis. Bands of roving, pillaging Turks or Bulgarian outlaws Infest tho whole re gion. Woman's honor Is held lu light HISS KLl,r.N If. STO.f K. esteem. Up to within a very few years tho most deplorable outrages were com mitted openly nnd nro now even dono secretly. While tho corps of Janissaries existed every fifth malo child was forced Into the Turkish military service and young girls wero carried off by thousands to till the harems of their conquerors. Tho haughty bearing aud tyranny of tho troops which marched to nnd fro In the country so cowed tho Christian popula tion that they becamo timid Bcrfs. Many escaped death by embracing Is lam and.lt was not uncommon for par ents voluntarily to send their daughters Into tho harems of the Begs, or noble men, so that they themselves might gain protection. Cruel as tho bandits arc to foreigners they have a hold on the affections of tho natives and nro aided by tho peas ant population, who shelter und protect them. A curious state of affairs has resulted from this anarchy. When tho peasantry nro maltreated by tho Turk- TbIi Begs nnd other olllclals tbey nppenl to tho brigands, Halduts, Klrdjnlls, or by whatover name they aro known, for protection or revenge. In ono place a young Turkish noblo- rnan had been guilty of tho greatest cruelty and excesses, committing out rages on tho wives and daughters of the peasantry, even capturing nnd sell ing children. Ho entered n vlllago on one occasion on horseback, surrounded by bis rctinuo nil decked In silk aud gold. Ho hud not gono far when n band of Halduts, led by n well-known chief, sprang from hiding places, pulled tiie iscg irom ms uorse, uroko bis arms and legs and struck oft bis bead. This bloody trophy they put on tho end of n spear and carried It In triumph nt tho bead of tho band ns they marched through tho vlllago. tome Notorious Hrla-and. Many similar Instances nro still told ot brigand chiefs and their followers leading a kind of Robin Hood llfo In tho mountains. There nro oven hlstorlo cases of brigand chiefs becoming so formldablo that tho Sultnn bad been obliged to tnko them Into his servlco nnd recognlzo tholr authority. Tho most notable Instnnco Is that of Osman Pasvanogla, tho Independent pasha, of viuui. An n young mnn no saw his father murdered by a Turkish olllclnl. no tnon left ins homo nnd ndonted a brigand llfo In tho mountains of Al bania near Bulgaria. Tiring of that bo toolc uervlco with tho Porto nt tim head of a troop of volunteers. But his power grow so rapidly that ho oier. cised an almost Independent rulo, and tho formidable forces which ho bad at tils comrlttuil roamed about tho conn, try lighting and plundering, no that it wns unsafe for travelets, even mission, iirlos, tu move about. Many vain at tempts wiru i mi do by tho Porte to re. duett 111 lit to submission. Largo armies wero sent nfter him, but tbey wero driven back nnd defeated, nuit It was not till bo felt bis power began m Wiiuo that tho pasha again offered his services tu tho Hiiltau and was iu'eept ed lu the war with Hervln. This simply Illustrates the place that brlgiiuilngo holds lu the Turkish do. main. A now outbreak of this outlawry Is Indicated by tho recent capture of Miss Stone. MASSACRE OF UALANQIQA. Military Disaster In Philippines Take, li Plttce In World's HUtorr. As tho American campaign against tho Slmix of the Northwest had Its Lit tle Dig Horn massacre, that of the lira Ish against tho Zu lus Us lsiindnlii aud that of the British also ugnliist thu Mum beles Its llulu wnyo, so the con flict lu tho Philip pines lins Its mas sacre which will pass lllln history -that of llnlniigign. where nearly llfiy CAI'r. CII.N.fKM.. Americans were kiiichi. vyiicii the as surance of those lu authority that thu rebellion of the natives was over wero most confident, along cumo the report of n slaughter worse than nnythliig since Aguliinldo's proclamation of two years ago. Part of the subjugating force, grown contemptuous of Its foci ami consequently careless, was surpris ed and grief ennio to two score Ameri can homes. Thomas W. Council, tho captain of the company which wns almost annihi lated, was born In New York and wns a graduate of tho military academy, which he entered In 185. Mo wns lu Cuba during thu .Spanish war until August, 18U8. then In New York nnd ngnln, In 18TH. lu Cuba ns aid to Gin. Douglas. He went to China lu Mn.v. 1001, and tlieuco to tho Philippines. DOSSED DY YCUNQ AMERICAN. llniiitinru's Ha ti It it rr, Water, and Hew eruue HjrtetiM Aro Now of the Heat. Hamburg bonsU of tho best system of docks am! warehouses nutl the best sanitary arrangements, water supply nnd sewerngo of any city In tho world. The superiority of tho latter Is duo to tho energy nnd genius of n young Auierlean, Dr. Dunbar of St. Paul, who hns becomo n citizen of Germany nnd Is nt tho bend of the sanitary depart ment of Hamburg. During tho century just passed Hamburg sutTcrcd from fourteen fearful visitations or cholera. The last epidemic, which occurred lu 1812. threatened the health of nil Ger many and Prof. Gnffko of the Univer sity .of Glesacn wns called to tako charge of tho qiianintlno nnd sanitary arrangements. Ho brought with blm ns nn assistant ono of his students, n young American who had distinguished himself as a bacteriologist a Mr. Dun. bar who remained during tho torrlblo scourgo and after It was suppressed wns employed to carry out tho recom mendations made by Prof. Goffkc nnd Dr. Koch, who represented the Imperial government In aiding and advising thu local authorities In the struggle to sub duo the plague. Journalistic) Blunders. I do not nlludo to what nro obviously mere misprints, such ns when tho Morning Post announced at tho head of Its fashionable Intelligence that Iord Palmerstoii had gone down Into Hamp shire with a party of Heads to shoot peasants, but I refer to blunders duo to crnss Ignorance of n pretentious order. Perhaps tho best Instnnco wns when ono of tho "young lions" of tho Dally Telegraph In n leading nrtlclu enumer ated tho great masters of Greek sculp ture ns Pheldlas, Praxiteles and MIV Ignorant of the fact that MIlo Is not n sculptor, but nn Island. Tho Times wns oven worso when, mistaking Prus sia for Austria, It dovotexl u whole leader to discussing why Prussia had Joined tho Zollvcrcln. Tho Saturday Revlow onco explained nt great length that the population might bo nourish ed gratuitously on young lambs, If kill ed unweaned beforo they had begun to crop grass, having, therefore, cost noth ing to feed. Many other Instances will doubtless occur to your renders. Lou don Notes nnd Queries. Tho Vital Hpot of Empire. Thoro can bo no dispute for a mo. ment ns to tho Immenso gravity of tho Issue raised by any question of tho cill ciency of tho Mediterranean squadron. No mnttcr whero our chief lighting floot may ride, thnt point, nnd no other, Is tho vital spot of empire. It Is tho very center of our strategical system, nnd tho backbono of our wholo defen sive organism. If tho Mediterranean forco wero crushed In some swift nnd stupendous disaster, following Instant ly upon any unexpected outbreak of war, our entire nnvnl organization, for all ultlmnto purposes, would bo llko ft watch with a broken mnlnsprlng. Lou don Telegraph. Lombard? Poplars, Tho flrst Lombnrdy popular In America was planted In 1785. When a woman's volco asks for a man over tho telephone, bis wife thinks she "trusts" him by calling him to tho phono, and asking no question's when ho Is through talking. If jrou nro not happy when ot work. there Is llttio hope for you. 'iii'liiifciii