THE GIRL WITH
A MILLION
By D.C
C 1 1 A PT E U VIII. t Con t in ued. )
"Well." said Mr. Frost. "What Is up
now, sir?"
"I lump over with lVibrosfcl from Bel
gium this morning." said O'Rourke.
"With IVdroki?" returned the visitor.
"iMhroskl has an introduction from mo
to you. I'nless ho ha to know U that
In to nay, unless he finds it out by com
ing here while you anil I are together
lie need not know that we havo mot to
day. He has a plan which will serve our
purpose perfectly. With hi name iichind
!t. I think it certain that our people
ill accept it."
lie sketched IVmroski's nightmare rap
idly, and Mr. Frost listemil.
"There Is ability In It. of a sort." he
aid. "As a fool-trap, it has merits:
bnt It won't act."
"There are groat advantages to you and
to me in this plan, wild as it looks." re
plied O'Rourke; "but lVhroski must be
handled with extreme care. I send hitn
to you in the first place Ixvause I can
trust your acutenesa and your self-inter-esl.
I want him to be treated with per
fect deference. I want him to be greet
ed with enthusiasm. I want at first an
air of consideration for his plan, and
then a fiery acceptance of it. I am going
back to Belgium. 1 have important busi
ness there, and I shall be compelled to
leave the matter iu your hands. Per
haps if you ninnage it to my satisfaction
I may b of service to you. I am not
altogether without influence, and I nny
have something to do with the nomination
of the auditors."
"I am at your service. Mr. O'Rourke,"
be said, "and I will do my best. To tell
the plain truth, there has been a good
deal less in the business than I looked for,
and it carries a good deal "of danger
with it."
"I think we have said almost all we
have to say," O'Rourke said, rising. Frost
hooked him forward with a beckoning fin
ger. "Not all on my side. Listen to this
and don't flare out. now. There's an
empty house in the Old Kent road. Now,
don't flare out. I'm going to give you
nothing but the number. You'll do your
self a very considerable service with the
British government, and you'll provide
something for the Times to get up and
howl about, and you'll be of the greatest
nse to me on the other side of the water.
Come now, Mr. O'Uourke. It's a capital
thing all round good for you. good for
the newspapers, creditable to the police,
and good for me. You stand secur in
the confidence of the government, and
they'll catch nobody. The stuffs there
to be seized, and for no other earthly
purpose. I ought to know, I reckon. And
we do want a splash of some sort real
bad."
Is everybody absolutely safe?"
"Absolutely safe. I guarantee it."
"Very well. Good afternoon. Frost."
"Good afternoon. Shall I see you
again before you go?"
"I think not. I shall probably start
to-morrow. Remember. The utmost def
erence and enthusiasm for Dobroski." Mr.
Frost nodded and took his way. "A very
finished rascal is Frost," said the patriot
to himself when the visitor had been
shown out of the front door. "I5ut capa
ble. It took me a year to find him out,
though I was guided by that shifty eye
of bis. It is surprising to notice how
very few of these fellows think it worth
while to study manner."
CHAPTER IX.
There was only one thing just now that
troubled O'Rourke. He wanted to get
back to his heiress hunt, and he did not
want to leave Dobroski in his lodgings to
bring there any mad theorists and blood
thirsty dynamiters who might choose to
gather about him. But Dobroski himself
saved him from this dilemma.
"You will not think, sir," he said on
the second morning of his stay, "that
I do not value your hospitality. But
I shall be more free to move if I am
away from you, and shall still, after the
publicity of our joint arrival here, be
able to communicate with you with per
fect freedom."
O'Rourke was more than politely re
gretful at parting from Dobroski, but
he recognized the wisdom of the pro
jKtsal, and the old man took lodgings
at a quiet hotel much frequented by
Continental people who were not of the
conspiring class. This left O'Rourke free
to go back and pursue his suit, and he
had written a hasty looking note to Dob
roski to say that he was unexpectedly
, called to the Continent, when a serving
maid brought up the card of no less a
person than his friend Maskelyne.
He hardly knew what to make of the
visit, and could only conjecture that
IMaskelyne was here to make some sort
of appeal or protest, with respect to
Angela. But he stood with a look of
friendly expectancy on his face, and held
the door of his room back with one hand
while he reached out the other in welcome
to his friend.
"Why, Maskelyne, old follow, what
brings yon in London. Come in, old
chap, cotre in."
Maskelyne shook hands cordially
erough, but with extreme gravity, a grav
ity unusual even for him.
"Dobroskl's staying with you, I be
lieve?" he said, questioningly. "I have
a a important message for him. I follow
ed him to Brussels, but could learn noth
ing there until I found out last night
that you and he had come over together,
end that be was actually staying with
ou."
"He was, until this morning," said
O'Uourke. "I wanted to show these peo
ple here that an Irishman isn't afraid
of sympathizing with him. They were
talking about our getting Into holes and
corners at Janenne, and seemed to think
hat I dare not own the grand old fellow
n London."
"Where la he staying now?" Maske
lyne asked. "I want especially to find
"What?" cried O'Rourke, gayly, alttlng
kVwu at bis desk td writs the address,
C
Murray"
"Is Maskelyne also among the anarch
ists?" "No." said Maskelyne, "I'm an out
ider there as elsewhere." If this speech
expressed any inward bitterness, nelthe?
oioo nor manner declared It.
"You're going back to Honfoy, I sup
pose?" said O'Uourke, In a casual friend
ly tone as he wrote.
"Well, no," said Maskelyne. "I fancy
not. Or not at all events for a time."
"Oho!" cried the other to himself,
energetically applying a blotting paper to
the address, and looking round smilingly
at his friend. "Beaten out of the field
alivady."
"I you go back to Janenne?" asked
Maskelyne.
"1 start tonight." returned O'Rourke.
"I promised Farley to go back again."
Of course Maskelyne saw through that
little subterfuge, and of course O'Rourke
knew he would.
"To-night?" said Maskelyne. "You'll
do me a service, won't you?"
"Try me." returned his friend, with
smiling seriousness.
"I'm staying at the I-nnghnm," Mas
kelyne said. "There's a lady there nn
American whom I knew at home. She's
going to visit Brussels, anil except for
her maid she's alone. Neither she nor
her maid speaks a word of French, and I
shall be obliged if you'll put yourself nt
her service in case she wants anything.
"Certainly, certainly," cried O'Rourke.
"IK I know her?"
"I think not." answered Maskelyne.
"She's a youngish widow, rather pretty.
and sinfully rich. A Mrs. Spry.
"And what state of riches might a poor
man like yourself care to call sinful?"
"Well," said Maskelyne. with n smile,
I think two millions may deserve it."
"Two millions!" O'Uourke whistled
and then laughed. "Dollars?"
"No. Sterling."
"Two millions sterling? Maskelyne, I
ask you seriously, as a man of money,
do vou think there is such a sum? To
an Irishman and a journalist it sounds
fabulous."
"Yes. It's large, isn't it? But people
seem to go for all or nothing in our part
of the world. They're not afraid of risk
ing what thev have. They are not afraid
of risking what other people have, either.
The poor girl's husband only died six
months ago." ,
In du time O'Uourke sent out (for a
cab and drove to the Ijingham. carrying
his simple baggage with him. Maskelyne
received him, and wore his customary
manner with perhaps an extra shade of
gravity.
"And now for the lady," said Maske
lyne, when the repast was over. I must
Introduce you. He rang the bell, and on
the servant's entry, made him convey his
compliments to Mrs. Spry, and to ask if
it would be agreeable to her to receive
him. "Y'ou may say," he added, "that
Mr. O'Uourke is with me."
The man came back in a very little
while to say that the lady would be pleas
ed to receive Mr. Maskelyne and his
friend, and led the way to a handsomely
appointed sitting room. The lady before
whom O'Uourke stood bowing a moment
later was small and plump, and carried
her head on one side with a pensive co
quetry. She had large eyes, and a rnther
coquettish little nose, turning up nt the
tip. When she smiled she showed white.
small and regular teeth. Her hands were
small, delicately white, and very helpless
looking.
"Prettyish !" said O'Rourke to himself.
"She's worth a score of Miss Butler."
But perhaps he saw her through an at
mosphere of dollars.
"Of course you know of Mr. O Rourke
already?" said Maskelyne. "He is one
of the notabilities on this side of the
water, and is preMy often beard of on
our own.
"I have the pleasure to know. Mr.
O'Uourke already," said the lady, in her
purring voice soft, ' languid, American.
"I heard him speak at New Y'ork. I was
very much impressed by your address,
Mr. O'Uourke."
They set out for the railway station,
where they were joined by the young
widow, who wre a traveling dress of
tweed, cut in such a manner as to dis
play her pretty figure to the best advan
tage, and a wondrously enticing little cap
of tweed to Biatch the costume.
The bustle of departure began to grow
rapid and urgent about them. Maskelyne
shook hands ami went his way, and
O'Uourke and the charming widow found
a carriage. It was empty, and the young
man made no demur about accompanying
the lady, ami the lady gave no signs of
displeasure at being ac-ompanied.
There was still a soft twilight In the
streets, in which all objects could be
plainly seen, but the gas was already
alight within the station, and a lamp
burned in the carriage roof.
"I don't think," said Mrs. Spry, "that
women ought to be so helpless as they
are. It's the fashion to be helpless. We
can't get outside the fashion can we
now? But it's the tyranny of mankind
that makes it."
"Don't you think," returned O'Rourke,
with his bright face beaming and his
manner at the same time full of gentlest
deference the sweetest good-humored po
liteness and gayety In combination
"don't you think that ladies tyrannize
over us much more than we over them?"
"You don't think that," she returned,
setting her little head rather more than
ever on one side, and looking at him out
of her big, expressive eyes. "You Klon't
really think it, Mr. O'Rourke."
"I think it," declared Mr. (O'Rourke,
and at that instant the train began to
glide out of the station. "But for my
own part I don't object to the tyranny."
CHAPTER X.
It was night in London, and a sum
mer rain falling. Mr. George Frost sat
in a dingy apartment Illuminated by a
single candle, by the light of which be
was scribbling unmeaning phrases on a
dirty sheet of letter paper,
"No grub, no funds. Thirty-seven
pounds dropped last night. I'll nevr
'.-mil a eaxJ n'r,. f wUi-r Ww Va.
I in mora 1 Ai.ll 'int Ve.: ke!$
isinst rh.inte iwa.e t'ire. It its'! pv wtl
forever like this.
A ktviK-k at M rfrert Wift.r i'i
".timid1 of lis itw11.i. bul fc,'t
.i jwing will, a.id thd no ti -if t th"f
which came blii.id.vlng up tY nirr
.ind hill tod OMli.l, liU .V-.r
"Come In!" he cried, in stsrlled an
swer to a lapping on the pnnel. and a
slatternly aermnt girl pushed her head
round the edge of the dor.
"Here's somebody for you, Mr. Frcwt.
Gentleman with a portmanteau. II
didn't give no name," ,
"I'll come down and have a look at
him," returned Mr. Frost, taking up his
candle. Four separate flights of dirty
wooden stairs, unenrpeted, brought him to
the hall.' Frost, holding his candle high,
viva need toward the shadowy figure of his
guest. "It's yon !" he ssld, with an odd
tough. "Come upstairs."
The guest, selling the portmanteau,
mounted after him. and the dingy apart
ment at the top of the house was reached.
"Is this the palace you continually
live In?" asked the guest, with the faint
est possible trace of some foreign accent
in his voice. "I had expected from your
Inst letter to hare found you In marble
balls, with vassals and serfs at your side.
Oho! you have been at It again. I sup
pose," said the visitor, making a move
ment In Imitation of the dealing of a pack
of cards. "Isn't It time you dropped
that? Haven't you lost enough by this
time? What should you have done If I
had not turned up?"
"1 don't know," Frost answered, care
lessly enough. "But 1 was thinking at
the very minute when I heard you knock
nt the door, nnd saying to myself, I'll
drop it.' I'll tell you the truth. Zeno "
"Tell me as much of the solid truth as
your constitution will allow, but do not
call me by that name. WroblewskofT will
answer. It's a jawbreaker, but It's very
easy when you come to know It. Well,"
said Mr. Zeno, smiling still, "this Is the
advantage of talking over things. I have
lived in New York a year or two. You
knew me there. You meet me hero; You
know me to be a safe man- a man to be
depended upon. You introduce mo to
Dobroski Well, at what ar you
staling?"
"I'will see you boiled in oil," returned
Mr. Frost, with extreme slowness; "I
will see you roasted on a gridiron, I will
see you cut up so extremely fine that a
microscope won't find you nnd then I
won't introduce you to Dobroski."
Zeno got up from his seat, and kneel
ing on the Hoor unstrapped his portman
teau and took therefrom .1 razor case, a
small metal soap bowl ami a brand new
shaving brush. Frost watched him In si
lence. Zeno took off his coat and threw It
across the back of a chair, tnen produced
a pair of scissors, and taking a great
handful of his beard, sliced it o.T before
the glass; then another, ami another, and
another, until he was close cropped all
over the cheeks and throat and chin. Next
be attacked the mustache, and cropped
that also so close as the scissors would
go to the skin. Then pouring a little
hot water into the nietnl bowl, he began
to lather himself with great energy, and
then to shave. liven to himself the
metamorphosis be produced must have
seemed more than a little droll. I'nder
the razor he came out no longer Greek
anil austere in contour, but chubby, with
fat round cheeks, ami a chin very curi
ously thrust forward and pointed, and
beneath the lower lip and the base of the
chin th"re was a good half inch in length
less than one would have expected to find.
The change was amazing, and when Mr.
Zeno drew a spectacle case from a waist
coat pocket, set the glasses on his nose,
and, removing a wig, appeared with half
an inch of sandy natural bifir below It,
and a forehead an inch higher than it had
been, tlie disuise looked impenetrable.
He took a handkerchief from his coat
pocket, rubbed a corner of it im the soap
in his shaving !hw1, nnd applied it vigor
ously to his lips. The corner Of the
handkerchief went crimson, and Mr.
Zeno's cherry lips grew pallid nnd dry.
He soaped nnd moistened another corner
of-the handkerchief, ami scrublwd nt bis
eyebrows. The handkerchief became
black, and the eyebrows sandy, like the
hair. Then he resumed his coat, set the
two candles upon the table, drew a chair
between them, and sat down.
(To be continued.)
Could Swullotv the Kerlh.
A queer little iiiiinnil Is the one call
ed the "hIIpist nnlinulcult'," but which
mefi of Bcieiico cull "Puruiiiocclum."
Tm most wonderful thins nbout tliH
liti.'e creature is the rapidity with
which It multiplies. By a beneficent
provision of nature they seem to lo
coine exhausted mid die after the 170th
generation. A naturalist points out
that If a Parainoecluui family should
have n run of link and nil members
live for aW) generations they would
crowd every other living thing off the
earth nnd be themselves In bulk bigger
than the whole planet, while If they
were to have enough link to survive to
tlie IXKith generation the sun, moon nnd
stars would be flouting lu a universe of
them. These little creatures are plen
tiful In stagnant wuter. Chicago Tri
bune. lieu I ii n I ii if the t-'trmt Tiff.
Mr. Youiighuslmnd (reading from pa
per) Married Blunche-De Smytbe to
Walter Wellington Beere. Whut old
memories that name n wakens!
Mrs. Y. (blushing) I never Imag
ined you knew of my engagement to
Walter.
Mr. Y. (chillingly) I wus alluding
to Blanche. Tttth r.
Very Likely,
jenk(, Id this a monkey trick, to
turn out the lights nnd leaves us la
the dark like this?
Mrs. Cotneup Indeed, I feel real ner
vous In this simian darkness. Balti
more American,
Not H Uood Dodder.
"I'm afraid this motoring crnze will
be the death of me."
"I didn't know you had an auto?"
"I haven't; but I've got a game leg."
Houston Post.
Rapid growth of the finger nails Is
0 "Igu of good health.
i - v. r
v
The .cwr I'urmer.
The President's address last month
at the Michigan State Agricultural Col-
J lege U so clear uti expression of tlie
Conditions of modern luriii life that
'a future historian may turn to It to
, read our times. All national leaders
I have told us that the tanner Is the
I backbone of the nation. Washington
land Jellcrsoii were farmers, ami gHid
ones. The Illinois thai bred Lincoln
'was one Mist farm -Chicago was then
'only u small town. The President of
to-day, not bred in farm lite, nlllioiuli
j he has been a practical rani liuian, Is
.the lirst to express the unity between
I farm labor and all other kinds. The
''winner to him is an expert mechanic
'aud business man, whoso problems are
precisely those of the workuiau In the
town, w ho depends for siiivcss uii In
dustrial and social co-opcratlon. He
, must bo nu educated, aggressive lar
lleipant lu the work of life, competing
i Willi the farmer of L'uiope, Inviting
to his workshop of many ucrea the
most skilful young men, learning from
technical student ami the practical ex
'iH'tieiuv of his nclghlKira the best that
Is known nbout his business. City
' workers, meeting lu the friction of
'crowded life, have always learned tlielr
I craft front one another. The fann
er has until recently been lu social
1 and business Isolation. Now he Is a
'citizen of the world, often closer lu
'lolut of time, to the nearest city than
his grandfather was to the farmers of
the adjacent town. The difference be
tween the towiisinan and the country
(man In educational and Intellectual
opiKirtunltles and In Industrial respon
sibility Is rapidly diminishing. That
'means tlie diminishing of the old real
or fancied disadvantage of farm life
which drove ambition and Initiative to
the city Tor opport unity to show tl i-
selves. The advantage remains and
.Increases, for no matter how near to
gether modern Instruments of unity,
'the trolley and telephone, bring city
land country, broad acres still remain
broad, and produce the conditions of
free nnil Independent life. Youth's
Companion.
To Ilcmrojr lneol.
The grayish black s'luasli bug Is
dllllcult to manage. Gathering the cg'
and the old hug early In the spring
Is Inlstrloua but sure. If thoroughly
done. The bugs will crawl uin tt
piece of hoard laid among the vines,
nnd may be gathered and caught. The
use of poisons will do no gd In the
wise of the bugs, as they do not eat
the leaves, but pass their beaks
through the outside of the leaf to
suck the Juices, and will not consume
any of the poison. In a series of ex
periments lu the method of prevent
ing the attacks of the squash vine bor
er the preventatives employed were
purls green at the rate of half n tea
spoonful to two gallons of water, corn
cobs dlned In coal tar, and the kero
sene emulsion; the application of the
parls green and the kerosene was re
jM'ated after every hard rain until
September; the cobs were dipped III
coal tar again once in three weeks.
All three of the applications seemed to
he beneficial, with perhaps a little
something In favor of the corncobs
ns being cheapest ami most convenient.
The odor, of the tar has no effect on
the Insects, but sometimes repel the
moth, causing her to lay her eggs else
where. Wrrd Culler nnd Halherer,
Weed uro u coiistafft source of
trouble to the gardener, cropping up
quicker than he can cut them down.
and Kslllng the
npiM-nranco of the
lawn. A Massa
chusetts man has
Invented on Imple
ment Intended to
help him solve tin
problem nnd light
en the lalsir of
stopping and dig-
gin? up the roots.
. .. i.i ,ui
KKW WKKU t UTTER H cviouiii.-..
weed cutter und gatherer, as shown In
the accompanying Illustration. The
cutter Is adjustable, and Is ois-rated by
a lever which terminates close to the
handle of the Implement. The gatherer
Is placed In the rear of the cutter. In
front of the cutter are a pair of small,
light wheels. It will be Been that after
bringing the Implement close to the
weed a pull on the lever Ih all that In
required to operate the cutter. As the
Implement U pushed ou to the next
pot, the weed Is gathered up by the
rako and carried on. ,
Care of the Iledye.
When the hedge planta begin to die
out the cause may sometime bo traced
to lack of plant food, lhere la con
I slderable wood removed from hedge
' plants every year when the hedges are
trimmed, and this annual loss cannot
I be sustained by the plant unless they
are assisted. Apply wood ashes freely
very fall.
Iteslrmliiv lluriloeU.
Like nil Id ilaK the burdock Is eas
ily destroyed lu cultivate! Held. It I
In by places, such ns fence sides, lane,
corners around the buildings, pastures,
aud the borders of woodland, that bur
dock give trouble. Put even In these
(hey are not dllllcult to destroy. Fann
ers who go over their Held twice H
year will soon have no burdocks. In
cutting them care should be taken to
strike below the crown. Every plant
cut In Jhl way must die. The cutting
may be done at any time of the year
when the ground 1 not froen, and It
I, of course, much more easily done
when the plant uro young. While It
I not dllllcult to cut off a small tap
root with the knife, It I much inoio
dllllcult to accomplish the same when
the root ha attained h diameter of
nu Inch or more. Two or three year
of insistent cutting will remove near
ly all burdocks from the by places of
farm.
To ilie Plus a llnth.
The unfortunate pig has nlway had
the reputation of being the most un
cleanly uulmal In existence. This I
not entirely the
fault of the pig.
us his environ
ment I generally
accountable for
li I a cleanliness.
Pig raisers sel
dom attempt to
give the lg u
bath, as It I nl
iii o n t Impossible
to catch and hold
them, even for a
no 1IATII.
minute. Nevertheless a Missouri
stockman tncklcd the problem and suc
ceeded In planning an apparatus by
which the pig are given n gsn! wash
ing Itcfore they are slaughtered. It
should also prove equally a useful nt
other time. The const ru1 Ion and o;
eratlon of the dipping tank, a It l
called, will be plainly evident by n
glance at the iicocmpaiiylng Illustra
tion. Resting on the ground I the wa
ter tank, which Is connected to nn In
clined Inlet and outlet. On the In
cline of the outlet are tiny stairs to
assist tlh' pig In ascending. In prep
aration for hi "nntiual" the pig Is
forced down the Incline Into the water,
and If his common sense doe not di
rect him on the Incline, he Is ppslded
.'rem behind with n bar. In fact. In
time this device may bc"oim very
fashionable with pigs, and It would
not be surprising to hear of them tak
ing their dally "dip" hereafter.
Vermont's fl.OOO.ooil Suvar Crop.
Various report Indicate that this
has been the best maple seuon for
years. The average sugar per tree tap
ped range from 'Jt to 4 pound. Last
year ri,iNN),(sN) tree were tapped, nnd
as large a number this year. Five
thousand tons of sugar worth $1,(khi,
KHi I a crop of Importance to the
Gr'ii Mount a I ii State, remark. the
Country Gentlemen, especially as the
national pure food law (which ranks
si ml only to the oleo bill u bring
ing about an Immense reform In the
direction of common honesty lu mer
cantile transactions) absolutely forbids
the wiling a Vermont maple sugar
syrup and product that which Is not
actually uud entirely what It professes
to be.
Highway of I be Fulore.
The "futuro American highway," ac
cording to an Inventor whose pamph
let Is reviewed In Engineering News,
will be n Hived roadway l-D feet In
total width, divided by longitudinal
curbs Into eight separate roadways,
four for passage lu each direction. He
provides two Hi-foot roadways for ani
mal traction vehicle and a 4-foot
walk at ench side for the stray hj
deKtrlnns who may still Indulge lu the
antiquated method of locomotion that
nature furnished. The rest of the
width la devoted to automobile road.
As the cost of this remarkable high
way would amount up to between
$10),(KK) and fL'fHMKM) per mile, the In
ventor does well to cull It a "highway
of the future,"
C'abliaire Hot.
Black rot has been very destructive
on cabbage and cauliflower for several
seasons, and nieuim of relief, even
slight, will be welcomed by growers.
Recent Investigation by the New York
station nt Geness bIiow that the germ
of disease mny lie curried over winter
on the dry seed, a fact previously
doubted by scientists, nnd that these
germs may produce the disease when
Inoculated Into the healthy plunts. It
Is, therefore, a wise precaution to dis
infect the cabbage seeds, as removing
one possible source of Infection. This
can be done very cheaply, euslly and
safely by soaking tho seeds for flftocn
minutes In corrosive sublimate solu
tion of 1 to 1000-strenath.
"Wild Silk."
Among the peculiar products of Man
churia, which are becoming better
known to tho outside world since the
opening of that country, Is "wild silk,"
produced by an Insect named Antheroea
pernyl, which lives upon the Mongoli
an oak leaves lu southeastern Manchu
ria. The annual production for a few
years past 1b estimated at 15,000,000 co
coons. In Shantung this silk Is manu
factured Into pongee.
BLIND MAM WILL 1H! BENATOn.
The Democrat of Oklahoma have He
lerlcd ns one of the l ulled Mute Ken
atois to represent Oklahoma, Thomas
p, Gore, of Law ton. who I totally
blind. Ills nomination I equal to an
ehstlon. Thl I Hie Mist time In Km
history of the Fulled Hlntes that
blind mini ha ever I n neiit to th
Senate, n Mr. Gore will be when state
hood Is accomplished under the present
proposed constitution.
Mr. Goto has Im-cii In politic nil Ids
life, beginning a a page In
slsslppl Senate when b" wa but 11
THOMAS r. ;c:.
year old. It was during that time that
he lost hi eyesight by nu accident
with an arrow gun. Three year priv
Ivously he had lost his Icrt eye, a play
mate, In a moment of passion, striking
li I nt with a stone.
Mr. Gore Is but M year of nge. 1 !
Ilvis nt Bnwton. ha n wife and four
children, and is a lawyer by profes
sion. His memory Is n wonder. When
his father prepared to send him to a
blind school, he refused to go, saying
that sch'sd for the blind did not fur
nish him the Ixsik and oportuii!!y ho
desired. So he went to the public
Hch.sil nnd college, getting through by
reason of his acute memory.
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tlLS 1 1
Watery Eyes. Relief may beibtaln
cl by bathing the eyes several times A
day with u wash consisting of ten
grains of pure tmrax and two ounces
of camphor water.
Rheumatic K hoe. Try salicylate of
sisla, live drams; tincture of mix vom
ica, three drams, uud essence of pepsin
enough to make four oiuiei-s. The ilosn
for an adult Is one tcaspooiiful every
two or three hours. '
Superfluous Hair. A growth of hair
Is annoying to a girl who wears short
sleeves. Depilatories are dangerous und
electrolysis, the only sure cure, Is an
expensive treatment. To minimize the
trouble dark hairs may be bleached.
Wash the anus with u weak solution of
ammonia mid water. Then i"ur a lit
tle peroxide of hydrogen lu the water
and apply with a piece of linen. The
bleaching process will have to bo ro
pcated from time to time, but peroxide
is harmless to the skin.
Nasal Catarrh. lu the treatment of
thl lerslsteui uud often intractable dis
order, good results have been obtained
by the Internal administration live or
six times each day of one-half tciisjon
f ul doses lu one-half ounce of water of
a mixture of one ounce of sis-clllc echin
acea and two ounces of sttlliugla. Thu
hitter Intensities the uctlon of echina
cea in its inlluence uwn the mucous
surfaces. Tincture of gelsemluiii, two
drops every hour dining thu day, push
ed to a physiological point, will ntmrt a
catarrhal cold. Three grains of salicy
late of strontium, added to each dose,
reinforces It If rheumatism Is suspected.
Neuralgia. If the neuralgia Is In tho
right side of thu fare the left hand
should be placed in u haslii of water an
hot as can be born; or If neuralgia Is
In the left side of tho face, then tho
right hand should be placed in the hot
water. It Is usserted that In this wuy
relief may bo obtained In less than live
minutes. The two nerves which hnvo
tho greatest number of tad lie endings
are the fifth nnd the medium nerve.
As the fibers of these two nerves cross
any Impulse conveyed to the left hand
will affect the right sldo of thu face,
or If applied to tho right hand will
affect the left side of the face. This
Is on account of the crossing of the
cords.
No War of Judtflnv,
"What are the running expenses of
your army?" asked one South Ameri
can ruler of another.
"Oh, I don't know," replied the ono
addressed. "Tho army hasn't had a
chance to run for a long tlmo now."
Yonkera Rtatesmnn.
If a man prefers chewing tobacco
to smoking, ho always says chewing
Isn't bo Injurious to the health.
i ,.
If any one gives you more thun ha
gets In return, rest assured It Is counterfeit
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