AM*i
Eugene Weekly Guard
CAM I'BXI.l. liltos., Fruprietore.
EUGENE
OREGON.
■5
After all. can Cub« be blamed for
wanting $35,100,000? Who doesn't?
States and three territories lie wholly
or in |iart within Its limits, and private
enterprise ha* irrigated considerable
ari-MS which once seemed Incapable of
cultivation. What private enterprise
could not do may now lie done by gov
eminent aid. The reclamation fund
which tbe new law creates out of the
sale of public lands In tbe arid and
semi-arid Htates and territories will
provide means for storing and dlstrlb
utlng water for Irrigation. Ultimately
It I* estimated that an area equal to
that of tbe Stales of Illinois and Iowa
may be redeemed for tbe plow. Tbe
best feature of the law Is that Its ben
efits are restricted to actual settlers,
an I the area which may be sold to a
single owner Is limited. The measure
may fairly be described as a bill to
promote the making of homes
Ol’Fh'lt NIGHT THEFT I motion of the Ixsly and the exercise of
its various physical functions. It Is
Y’' *
x
the great central telephone exchange,
'
or, to use another electric term, tbe
WEALTHY BANKER WA8 ROBBED great power houiw where the subtle. In-
WHILE HE SLEPT.
taugible fluid of thought Is converted
into a tangible working force and
Through the Effort« of a Detective thence transmitted at varying pressures
along the feed wires of nerves to the
the
Mjreterjr of the L omh Wae
various engines of the heart, arms, legs,
Solved in a Manner Moat lull*
eye«, mouth, nose and other organ«.
pected All Around.
I
I
I
BY A. CONAN DOYLE
flrrtn and dtuu* nnfn*»«
on hfa feature,
meet
He gnawed qjg I( .
gers upon
the tab,.
other
symptom
of scutl J** kb w£
So great was hl*
sincerely «orry for
¿k‘'H-
detectives smiled
h ** *** tv.
means displeased «t Lj,5'?1? by j?
be had net.
1 thl* rh*<k »;*
at last, springing fron/'hff ¡?* w-*1
pacing wildly ,lp anrJ
chsir
It 1« Impossible that fs
■mere coincidence Thl 8hos^ b..
which I suspected ln the
'
ber are actually fo,lnd sfw*,5^
of Stangerson. And vet the, “*
V,hat can it mean* s ™. Tar«‘n-
chain or reasoning cannot
false, ft is impossible'
<
wretched doe fs none the M
I have ft. I have It!"
Wors* Ab
With a perfect shriek
.
he rushed to the box. cut th.
In two. dissolved it. added
presented ft to the terrier
The unfortunate creature-. .
hardly seemed to have be.7' to,p*
In ft before it gave a convulfl^^
in every limb and lav as r!rM M.’"
Sv " "
the skirting at the other side. I gave
a cry which brought the Boots back.
:+¿-+++++-T++++++• ;
He nearly fainted when he saw It.
"Shortly after I was put on the ‘fly
The door was locked on thè Inside, but
force,’ ” said tbe old detective, "tbe
C O O D
we put our shoulders to it and knocked
thief sent for me. Ou euteriug bis office
Nothing ever was quite aa hopeful as
It in. The window of the room was
I found there u mau I recognized a* a
a detective searching for a clew to a
open, and beside the window, all hud
banker of repute. Since then be ba*
dled up. lay the body of a man In his
train robber.
become famous. The chief told me to
night dress. He was quite dead, and
had been for some time, for his limbs
listen to tbe story, for it was my case.
When a man acquires the title of
were rigid and cold. - When we turned
The story was brief. Tbe banker kept
grandfather he sighs to think how old
him over the Boots recognized him at
**>me [Krsonal securities In a safe at
hie wife is.
once as being the same gentleman
On one occasion at a dinner at Balliol
Arrested for beating his wife, a weil- til* own boiue and some were missing.
who had engaged the room under tbe
Browning may a tonic, as Martha to-do New Yorker addressed tbe court They had disappeared oue by one at ir the master's guests discussed the ca
name of James Stangerson. The cause
reers
of
two
Balliol
men.
one
of
whom
regular
intervals.
The
oue
singular
Raker I«unn contends, but for real blt- as follows: “I am a gentleman, sir. and
of death was a deep stab in the left
had Just been made a Judge and tbe
ters try Carlyle.
side, which must have penetrated the
I have an Income of 93,01X1 a year, I thing was that on one occasion he bad
' other a bishop. "Oh." said one, “I
heart. And now comes the strangest
don't think 1 ought to be held. Thia set out to watch tbe safe all night, and
The lies Moines Capital observes Is only a family trouble and I don't between 3 and -1 bad dropped asleep ' think the bishop Is the greater matt
part of the affair. What do you sup
pose was above the murdered man?*’
that "The Star Spangled Banner” 1» think it Is necessary to hold me/’ for half an hour. In that half hour 1 A judge, at the most, can only say, 'You
I felt a creeping of flesh and a pre
Sherlock Holme* drew ,
still a mighty fetching tuue.
Whereupon the magistrate said: “You’ll another had disappeared. Tbe lock was be hanged,’ but a bishop can say. 'You
senti ment of coming horror, even be and wiped the Perspiration
1 l>e damned.’ " "Yes," tersely remarked
a
combination,
the
secret
of
which,
so
get the same treatment here as any
forehead.
n>m ba
fore Sherlock Holmes answered.
the master, "but If tbe Judge says 'You
It Is claimed that Harry Tracy was other gentleman who beats his wife,” far as he knew, was wholly his own.
"The word ‘Rache.” written in let
“
I
should
have
more
faith
"
v.
be
hanged,
’
you
are
hanged.
”
the «on of a preacher. But, then, he nnd the ball was fixed at $MJO. O Just
"I went up to bls bouse and made a
m.rtl t. k„„ b,
ters of blood,” he said.
was not the first preacher's son to go Judge! It matters not whether his In careful examination without bitting on
Sir Henry Irving declares that once,
“That was It.” said Lestrade. In an when a fact appear« to be op^"
wrong.
awstruck voice: and we were all a long train of deductions it
come Is $5< m > or $5.ooo or $30,000. the auy theory tluit would seem to unruvel when he was playing "Othello” in a
proves to be capable of bearlnr .
i the mystery. So 1 said to the banker that small tow n lu the then Washington Ter-
silent for a wh'le.
Hero Wainwright Is writing maga man who strikes his wife la a brute. he must go right along In his mode of I ritory, hla audience was eouqiosed for
There was something so methodical other interpretation. Of th."» won ’’
zine articles concerning the Hampson- The definition of a gentleman has
and so incomprehensible about the In that box one was the most <w
living, do nothing to let any inmate lu the most part of miners. “When we
Schley affair. Has he no friends to changed with the centuries. In Plato's
deeds of this unknown assassin, that poison and the other was -.7”7
time a gentleman was a landholder who ' tbe house suppose they were under sus came to the handkerchief aceue, where
ft imparted a fresh ghastliness to his harmless. I ought to have known'«
advise him?
lived on the labor of slaves. When picion or observation, uud that 1 would Othello demands the handkerchief of
before ever 1 saw the box at all"
crimes.
Desdemona
many
times,
”
he
say«.
"I
'
coiK-eal
myself
and
watch
the
safe.
For
This last stste.ment appeared u-
My nerves, which were steady
We Americans do manage to smuggle Blackstone lived a gentleman wus one
noticed that the audience was becom
enough on the field of battle, tingled as to be so startling that I could h.-j,'*
a good deal of flunkeyism into our glveu gentility because be bore court 1 was satisfied that tbe thief was one
of tbe family, and I fancied it was the ingly exceedingly nervous. Als»ut the
believe that he was tn his sober sa -, c .
I thought of It.
national character, under the name of armor. Then the common people as
third time the demaud for the handker
There was the dead dog. however'«
pired to be gentlemen, and the defini son, who was a high roller.
"The man was seen,” continued Leg-
reejMH-t for the office.
"This the banker agreed to, and chief was repeated a large Irishman
trade. "A milkboy, passing on his way prove that hla conjecture had b»en rq.
tion again changed. A gentleman in
to the dairy, happened to walk down root.
in the rear of the house shouted: 'Wipe
New York pa;>era say Galea made our time Is an honorable man, a mau helped me rig u, h place where I could
It seemed to me that the mT,t, u
the lane which leads from the mews
your no*« on your slalve. you nayger,
of
high
principles
who
shows
bls
qual
i
conceal
myself.
1
begun
the
watching
only $6,0i>0,000 in lila L. Ac N. ileal.
my own mind were gradually ei»arf,,
at
the
back
of
the
hotel.
He
noticed
and
let
the
play
go
on.
’
”
Thia la ridiculous. The deal occupied ities by gentle behavior. In our day a that night, but nothing came of It for
that a ladder, which usually lay there, away, and I began to hare a d<
man may have all the appearance of a five night«. On the sixth tbe banker
Frank Reilly, a track-walker, was the
Ills attention for more than a week.
was raised against one of the windows vague perception of tho truth.
gentleman ami all the qualities of a >-ur. went out to a dinner party, but he was victim of a peculiar accident at Port
“All this seems strange to yon "
of the second floor, which was wide
open. After passing, he looked back tinned Holmes, “because you failed tt
"The gratitude of the Chinese people” The creature who lifts his hand against back home shortly after midnight, and Costa recently. He was standing near
and saw a man descend the ladder. He the beginning of the Inquiry t0 gram
for the friendly policy of Uncle Sam a woman Is of the latter kind. O, Just the house quieletd down by 1 o'clock. a switch to a siding on which freight
came down so quietly anil openly that the Importance of the single real tie,
may or may not be a figure of speech. Judge! Your decision Is herald of that An hour and a half later 1 beard a trains generally wait for the passeuger
the boy imagined him to be some car which was presented to yon. I
But perhaps It Is aa substantial aa the day of which poets have dreamed nnd soft step In the room adjoining the li trains to pass. He saw a young lady
penter or joiner at work in the hotel. the good fortune to seize Upon
gratitude of any other people. By the singers sung, of that day 'gainst whose brary and presently a form stole into walking on the siding, and, believing
He took no particular notice of him, and everything which has occurred
way, where is Admiral liewey these coming martyrs have poured out their the room, ami going to the safe, swift her to be in danger, gesticulated ve
beyond thinking in his own mind that since then has served to confirm ar
blood
the
day
when
the
real
Cadi
shall
ly
unlocked
It
and
abstracted
a
single
hemently to cause her to step from be
days?
it was early for him to be at work. He original supposition, and. indeed »j,
decide In equity, when the poor n an security, closing the safe again.
tween the rails. She, in her turn, see
has an Impression that the man was the logical sequence of it. Hew»
“The room was so dark that 1 could ing the oncoming freight train, mo-
Brigandage In eastern Europe seems shall have bls day In court and tbe
tail, had a reddish face, and thought things which have perplexed you «M
to have fallen on a new era of prosper rich brute and genteel rascal shall not distinguish only the outline« of tbe ' tioned back to him that be was In dan
it was early for him to be at work. He made the case more obscure him
must have stayed in the room some served to enlighten me and to strwttb.
ity. or the lio|ie of it. Besides the eases be permitted to Interpose bls money as form, but the darkness enabled me to ger. As the train came nearer both
little time after the murder, for we en my conclusions. It is a mistaken
of kidnaping In Albania we read of a shield against a righteous punish follow the thief ns he turned from the became tbe more earnest in tlielr shout
found blood stained water in the basin, confound strangeness with my»to-y
four sons of wi-ulthy Rumanian fami ment.
safe. I did so, and with a step as ing and gesticulating, while neither
where he had washed his hands, and The most commonplace crime is oft 5
lies being seized Hud held for ransom.
stealthy aa Ills own. He led me through tlmugbt of stepping off tbe tracks.
Americans poke fun at European
marks on the sheet, where he had de tbe most mysterious heeguse It
In Greece also tbe reports speak of a
the adjoining room, out Into the ball, Reilly proved to l»e lu the wrong. The
gents no now or special features fw-,
liberately wiped his knife.”
newspapers because of their inade
distinct revival of this kind of crime.
down the basement steps and Into a freight. Instead of taking the siding,
I glanced at Holmes on hearing the which deductions may he drawn M
quate knowledge of current events and
lumber room, where there was an old went straight through. While he was
We fear ttiut there la too much truth
description of the murderer which tal murder would have been Infinite!«
of prominent men In this country. Eu
more difficult to unravel had th“ bk’v
in the explanation n*Hlgue<l by more
box for tirewood. To tbl« box tbe thief still trying to cause the young lady
lied so exactly with his own.
ropeans might retort that we are woe
There was. however, no trace of exul of the victim been slmnlv found ly1«
went, and, lifting tbe cover, put the se to get out of the way of sup|s>sed dan
than one Intelligent observer—namely,
fully Ignorant of European matters and
fn the roadway without any of tbore
tation or satisfaction upon hip face.
that the predatory ¡nstlneta of whole men. llow many persons In this coun curity In it.
ger, the train struck him from behind,
outer and sensational accompanlmw!
"Did
you
find
nothing
in
the
room
classes of marauders lji those countries
"Then lie turned, and so quickly that hurling him from the track and break
try have ever heard of Ras Makonuen?
which could furnish a clew to the mur which have rendered ft remarhN.
have la'cti Inflamed by the payment of
Those strange details far from m*k-
Yet tills Abyssinian soldier and diplo lie nearly struck me, and hurried up ing bis right arm in two places, badly
derer?
” he asked.
tbe ransom for Miss Ntone. The great
“Nothing. Staneerson had Drehbor’s fnp the case more difficult, have resl'.y
mat Is the man of the hour In the Eu tlie stairs. 1 was close behind him and cutting Ills head and bruising Ills side.
coup which her kidnapers effected was ropean press. He is about forty years nt Ills heels when he climbed up to the He will recover.
nurse In his pocket, but it seems that had the effect of making It less io."
like the drawing of the grand prize in of age. a nephew of Meneiek, and won second story, where there was a night
this was usual, as he did all the pay
Apropos of the death of John W.
(To be Continued.)
tlie lottery. It set all tlielr ueighbora
ing. There was elghtv-odd pounds in
the battle of Adowa, which battle gave lump In the hall, giving sufficient light Mackay, the New York Herald remark*
wild to rival tlielr good fortune.
it.
but
nothing
had
been
taken.
What
Abyssinia Its autonomy,as a country for me to recognize tlie featur.n of the that one of the notable episodes of the
ever the motives of these extraordinary
Ras .Mankonueu is visiting Paris and man w ho bad taken tlie security. From residence of the Mackays in Paris was
crimes, robbery is certainly not one of $ Things That May
Tlie cure of rheumatism by bee stings,
here
lie
turned
Into
a
room,
closing
the that which connected them with Mels-
Is all the rage. "His shoulders uro cov
them. There were no papers or mem ¡£j
Interest You. «
an old, and, us It was supposed, ex
ered with a gold fringe bertha and he door after him. I went down into tin- sonier. The great French artist was
oranda In the murdered man’s pockets,
ploded, remedy, Is being exploited again
wears a green liat with a broad brlui. library and found the easiest chair fur commissioned by Mr. Mackay to paiut
except a single telegram, dated from
in some parts of the east. It should be
Cleveland about a month aro and con ' *' Over a million persons die yeulyn
a portrait of his wife for the sum of
Ills stockings are green and his shoes a nap.
used with great care and discrimina
taining the words. '.I H is In Europe.' * Europe of consumption.
“The next morning as the bnnker ap- seventy-five thousand francs. When it
are yellow. He wears white silk pan
tion. The Philadelphia Ledger relates taloons.” Also fine black eyes and a peared for breakfast I took him down w as delivered the Mackays decided that
There was no name appended to this
I
that One William Hnlvely, an old farmer
message.”
Five hundreds nd eighty-seven dis
curly beard. Imagine the figure this stairs, saying to him: 'Examine that It was entirely unworthy of tlie sub
of Shady Grove, Pa., who had lost the handsome semi savage cuts on the box and see what you find.'
" Ynd there was nothing else?” tinct languages are spoken in Europe.
ject and of the painter. "1 wanted a
Holmes asked.
use of his arms by rheumatism, was
"To Ills amazement lie found every Melssonler,” he said, "not Melssonler
boulevards of Paris! Ths government
Forty-five hours constitute a week'«
“Nothing of any Importance. The
stung by bees mid ran from them so tendered him a military review of all one of the missing securities and Rome
painting a slovenly imitation of Ca-
work
for women and girls in New is
man's
novel,
with
which
he
had
road
fast that he discovered he hud left Ills the armies of France and "the Temps” papers besides which he had not
banel.” Tills criticism was Indorsed by
himself to sleep, was lying upon the land.
rheumatism behind.
Tliereuiam he spoke of him ns "the Hannibal of the missed. He was dumfounded. After a
bed. and his pipe was on a chair be I
some artists w bo had seen the picture.
CHAPTER VII.
made much boast of the bee cure, hear Abyssinian«, who are the Japanese of moment's hesitation he turned to me
Seventy-eight profit sharing scheme,
side him. There was a glass of water
It was said that the French artist,
Light
in
the
Darkness.
ing w hich one Carl Aprogle, also a rheu Africa.” The fact 1s we are so busy with a severe and most stern air and
on the table, and on the window sill a affecting 53,526 workpeople, were
deeming anything to be good enough
The
intelligence
with
which
Lestrade
matic victim, decided to try It. No con building up empires in the new world asked:
for Nevada, took no pains with the greeted us was so momentous and so small chip ointment box containing a operation last year in this coantry.
connle of n|Us
vinced whs lie of Its efficacy that he In we full to note the rise of new empires
I
’’ 'Who Is the thief?’
work, that he bad produced It after an unexpected that we were all three fair
Madame Igacescu, the VieneseWy
Sherlock Holmen sprang from his
vited hla neighbors to witness the cure. and new men lu the old. Save wlieu
ly
dumfounded.
” *You are,' 1 replied, complacently,
Insufficient number of sittings, and had
swimmer, is training for another it-
chair with «*> exclamation of delight.
He made the experiment clad only In there Is a war like that In the Trans
Gregson
sprang
out
of
hfs
chair
and
"lie stnrted violently, and for a uio- hastily painted In tbe hands from one
“The last link.” he “ried. exultantly. tempt to swim the English channel
ii long, thin robe, hobbled up to the vaal which lifts the curtain on scenes
ment I thought he would strike me. But of bis models. Furthermore, the por upset the remainder of his whisky anil “Jtv case is complete "
hives on his crutches mid upset two and people little known we are us Ig he asked. Instead, ferociously;
renter.
Out of 2.599 murders of Chriitiwi
The two detectives stared at him In
trait showed a womau ten years older
I stared in silence at Sherlock
of them, instmitly the bees began to norant of Eastern movements as the
in Turkey last v°ar there were only il
" 'What do you mean by that?'
than its subject. Many French artists, Holmes, whose lips were compressed amazement.
apply the remedy w ith all the Industry East Is of ours. Until there Is world
“I have now in my hands,” my com casus in which the murderers were poo-
’’ ‘Only that you are a sleepwalker,' however, Indorsed the work.
Ills and his brows drawn down over his
characteristic of the Insect, mid proli- knowledge universally diffused the doc I replied. ‘That's all. 1 followed and
panion
said confidently, "all the threads ieiiod.
'
eyes.
friends gave Melssonler a dinner as a
sblj would have Improved n whole shin trine of the brotherhood of man must sa w you take the paper and place It
which have formed such a tangle.
The longest railway run in the world
vindication, and the French press and
"Stangerson, too!” he muttered. There are. of course, details to be filled
tug hour had It not been that Aprogle watt. The world Inhabitants must here.'
the Csosdiu
Csari“
public were for n time clamorously In "The plot thickens”
in, hut I am certain of all the main without changing ie on
yelled most lustily for help. Aa he was know each other better before they <au
"He stood still. ns one paralysed. dignant. The Indignation rose to a cli , "It was quite thick enough before." facts, from the time that Drebber part Pacific, from Halifax to Vsncewer.
unable to ruu a way, some of his neigh esteem and love ench other more. Sci Then he said:
max when It was reported that Mrs. grumbled Lestrade. taking a chair. “I ed from Stangerson at the station, up 3.662 miles.
bors came to his relief by lassoing him ence. discovery. Invention, facilities—
seem to have dropped into a sort of to the discovery of the body of the
“ 'Keep my counsel. Say nothing '
Mackay had thrown the picture Into the council
of war.”
and dragging him away from the in these are the heralds of the wider, bet
The biggest orchard in the sorbi it
“A week later he sent for ine to his tire. This was not true. It was hung
“Are you—are you sure of this piece latter, as if I had seen them with my
It corer*
furiated bees. The unfortunate man ter day.
office to tell me that his physician had In-a small room, with Its face to the of Intelligence?" stammered Gregson. own eyes. I will give you proof of my near Santa Barbara, Csl. 1- --
bus such a beautiful ease of liee stings
1,700
acres
and
contains
31,000
fruii
knowledge.
Could
you
lay
your
hands
told hint It was a case of dyspepsia. wall. To-day It has an abiding place In
“I have just come from his room.”
that It may be some time liefnre lie
+4-++•!•%•• J*
and nut trees.
nnd that when he had Come to look Carlton House. Mis. Mackay's Loudon said I.estrade. "I was the first to dis- upon those pills?”
“I have them." said I.estrade. pro
knows whether lie lias been cured of
cover what had occurred.”
back he found that it was only after a mansion.
EXCURSION INIO BIRD I AND
The amount of heat generated byi
ducing a small white box: “I took them
rheumatism. It may turn out timt what
"We
have
been
hearing
Greisnn
’
s
late course dinner that a paper had been
and the purse and the telegram, in man’s body in a day’s work i««itli'*'-
la one mail's cure la another rnau'a pol
▼lew
of
the
matter.
”
Holmes
observed.
missed. Then he ndded:
The Knocker.
"Would you mind letting us know tending to have them put in a place to raise 63 pounds of water from Ir*5'
■on.
“ 'You've been discreet so far. Con
of safety at the police station. It was bing to oiling point.
She had a little hammer.
what you have seen and done?”
There Is more than one way to "name
She used it with a will,
It has remained for a rich Gerniau to the birds without n gun;” for example. tinue to be. and you will see that you
“I have no objection." Lestrade an the merest chance my taking these
Lord Kelvin, who is now 7» ye«’»'11
She knocked at everybody—
swered. seating himself. “I freely con pills for I am bound to say that I do
discover one of the grandest uses to Mrs. Jenks Smith's w ay. as It is record w ill not lose by It.'
not attach any importance to them."
age, is entitled to place no 1 ms th«n •
They
couldn't
keep
her
still;
"I
continued
to
be.
and
that's
the
rea-,
fess
that
I
was
of
the
opinion
that
which money can lie put. ilavlug ap ed In "The Garden of a Commuter's
''Give them here,” said Holmes. letters, indicating various titles of t*
She knocked about her neighbors
ftfangerson was concerned In the death
parently decided that Messrs Rockefel Wife.” "And ns for birds," liegnn Mrs son why 1 have retired so early, can
"Now, doctor,” turning to me, "are or, after his name.
If
they
were
friends
or
foes.
of
Drebber.
This
fresh
development
ler and Carnegie possess the sole rights Jenks Smith, "bit'll study I* all the drive down the road Just as fast a
She knocked about the table.
has shown m« that I was completely those ordinary pills?”
stepping pair ns anyone doe«, nnd can
to the building of universities and li rage.
They certainly were not. They were
Geraniums bloom mo«t sati«f«
’
And knocked about her clothes.
mistaken. Full of the one Idea. I set
have nil automobile If 1 wnnt one.”—
__ color.
--, small, round, when grown in comparatively
braries. this German, a rich 11 laueler
myself to find ont what had become of a 7 pearly _ gray
"I've stopped wearing feathers, any
almost transparent against the pots and soil which is termed rich t11-'
She knocked at hubby's smokiug,
lu the little town of liaschmatin, has way, till tlie excitement dies down. Brooklyn Engle.
of the secretary. They had been seen and
light.
About his snoring, too;
established a fund for the providing And we's stop|ied driving birds out of
together at Euston Station ahont half
"From their lightness and transpar not rank with excessive manure.
She knocked about bis whistling.
past eight on the evening of the third.
of prise* for men who will marry the the fruit trees and we've put up boxes EFFORT OF MAPPING A BRAIN
ency, I should imagine that they are
In Portugal if the wife pobhrt«
And
SO,
perhap**.
would
you;
At
two
In
the
morning
Drebber
had
most homely girls or women over ths to draw them. They won't come Into ’ Scientific Teats to Discover Control of
At laat the Reaper claimed her.
literary works without the buebsa^
been found In tho Brixton Road. The soluble in water,” I remarked,
age of 40 who have been Jilted at least them, though, because, the doctor says,
"Precisely so.” answered
________
Unit* amt Muscles,
Holme«. consent, tbe law frees him at once f
Her course on earth was run;
cnestfon whleh confronted me was to
twice. In addition to the prises It Is tbe rooms aren't separate and tlie open
Her husband then considered
find ont how Stangerson had been em "Now. would you mind going down and all further matrimonial obligktio®*-
Eminent surgeons have long endeav
provided that the homeliest girl In the ings draw a draft through. I call that
Her knocking days were done.
ployed between S 3A and the time of fetching that poor little devil of a ter-
ortai to find out precisely w hat parts of
town of Haschmann shall have a year going a little too far. As If birds that
the erfme and what had become of him tier which has been bail so long, and
During the past ten years i»»«"'
the brain control the various muscles
ly pension of $*•• Tbe nobleties* of fiy all day In the air can't stand a draft
But hubby went one evening
afterward. I telegraphed to Liverpool, which the landlady wanted you to put tion to America from Germany, !*1 .,
and limbs of the ls>tly, with a view to
out
of
its
pain
yesterday?
”
To see a spirit allow.
giving a description of the man and
this charity. If It may lie so called, will
at night!
ascertaining therefrom new ways of
I went downstair« and carried the «nd England has decrease', ’i"1*
Where always in the gloaming,
warning them to keep a watch upon
1>e at once apparent. It might well be
"In the spring, when we return here, treating diseases of the nervous sys
dog
upstairs In my arms. Its labored from Italy, Asutria aud Kue®*
7'he spirits come and go.
the American boats. I then set to work
taken up by rich men In thia country I'm going to have a bird class anil a pro
He heard a spirit knocking—
calline upon all the hotels and lodging breathing and elnilne eye showed that creased.
who do not care to build Colleges or fessor to take us out and point out tbe tem. Sufferers from such complaint«,
“My wife." he «aid, "I'll bet!
houses in the vlcfnltv of Euston. Yon it was not far from its end.
especially such as cause Interruption
Three are 6,000 monk» on th*
libraries. Tlie man who marries the
Indeed, its snow white muzzle pro
Now, isn't she a wonder?
see I argued that if Drebber and hi*
bird*.
of
tbe
muscular
action,
may
have
rea
ontory
of Atboe. They P*? to t _r,
homeliest girl lu any town Is surely
claimed
that
ft
had
already
exceeded
B.< gosh! she • knocking yet!”
companion had become separated the
"It's awfully nice, my dear." contin son to bless the memory of certain
entitle,! to some reward. We can think
natural course of the latter would be the usual term of canine existence. I tatn 2,000 pounds a year for tbe r
ued Mrs. Jenks Smith; "much easier great apt*« who have co-operated un —Yon Lors Statesman.
lege of being allow«» to govern
of only one drawback In couneetlou than giving a garden party; no trouble,
tn put np somewhere fn the vicinity for placed it upon a cushion on the rng.
selfishly with and without being cen I
"I will now cut one of these pills fn •elves.
with this fine met boil of distributing
the night and then hang about the
Many Uses of ■ Ranana.
no fuss, managed like a Cook's tour in suited by some British scientists ami
two. ’ said Holmes, and drawing his
money, and that Is the difficulty there
Immense fortunes have been mad« stat'on again next morning"
Europe. He tells you everything you surgeon* lu a series of privately din
The number of ships in tlie
penknife he suited the action to the
"They
would
be
likely
tn
agree
on
would be In finding the bomellest girl.
out of the banana business, Revenues
ought
to
sv>e.
so
you
dou't
have
to
word.
"One
half
we
return
IntQ
the
ducted
experiments
to
demonstrate
can
whaling fleet has fa/en o
snm«
meeting-place
beforehand."
re
ne
w
But that might be arranged by leavlug
box for fnture purposes The other hs'f last twelve year» from
1° *n
( (
facta alsiut the brain, says the l-ondon do not accrue alone from the sale of marked Holmes.
It to a vote of the girls themselves. The think, you know
the
fruit
for
the
leaves
are
used
for
So it proved. I spent the whole of I will ptace in this wine glass. In which mnch the same is the
"I went oik ' s this year across the Leader.
•’
one chosen as tbe homeliest could al
packing; Hie Juice, being strung In yeste- lay evening In making inquiries Is a teasppqnf'ii of water. You per
Though the scientific partnership tanuln, makes an indelible Ink and shoe entirety without avail. This morning cetve that our friend, the doctor is Scotch whaling ifld«etry.
ways console herself with the thought river whree I was visiting There were
tweuty
ladles.
In
such
beeomteg
out-
was fatal to the a|H-a. they lived nd blacking; the wax found on tbe under I began very early, and at eight o'clocl right and that ft readily dissolTo«."
that the others had voted against her
One of Milton's biogrtpher*
"This may be very interesting.” said nearly twenty years elap'"1
because they Were Jealous. Who will Ing costumes, «nt! such a delicious mired and died universally respected. side of the leaves 1« a valuable article i reached Halliday's Private Hotel, fr
quite
In
the
wood«,
my
and their photographs will lai handed of commerce: manila hemp Is made I ItUe George street. On my Inquiry Lestrade In the injured tone of one the time he «ketchd
tie tbe first rich American to win fame lunch, served
. ,
I
by putting this splendid scheme Into dear' When we were eating we saw down In medical history. Studies of from the stems, and of thia hemp ar* as to whether a Mr. Stangerson was who suspects that he is being laughed “Paradise Lost” and tbe ,n0’p, .
a
quail!
Yes.
with
Its
feathers
on
and
at.
"I
can
not
see.
however,
what
ft
living
there
they
an
once
answered
me
operation?
the brains of the higher apes have
has to do with the death of Mr. Joseph that work. The actu.u I. "■ ’ '
all! I'hl you ever know anything so shown that their composition was suf made uiata. plaited work and lace in th» affirmative.
ritinn was condensed ¡Dto tw0 0
handkerchiefs
of
the
finest
texture,
Stangerson.
”
"No doubt you are the gentleman
CoBgr*«« lias taken an Important step appropriate?
ficiently like that of man to Justify the
"Patience, my friend, patience. Yon years.
"We learned two other birds beside« belief that investigations made on these moreover, the banana Is ground into he was expecting, they said. He had
In the blsturjr of the national develop
waiting for a gentleman for two will And In time that is has everything
ment In the passage of the Irrigation —« blue Jane, and the other was a red brut**« would furnish knowledge about banana flour The fruit Is to t>* sold been
days.’
to do with ft. I shall now add a Httle
for
de«
«ert
Is
ripened
by
the
dry
a-r :.te«t»«
act. The settlement of tbe United eyed virago. 1 remembered the name the human brain. To understand tbe
Farmer Jones—I
milk to make the mixture palatable,
“ Where |g he now’’ I asked.
In* **
warmth
i
of
flaring
gas
Jets
in
the
stor
States followed, naturally, the lln*a «»f as so appropriate, because tbe bird sang experiments thoroughly It Is w ell to re
and on presenting It to the dog you will my son Hiram to a I
" He Is upstairs in bed. He
d 1er
least resistance. First the land near or scolded. I don't know which yon member that the brain may be roughly age plav es in which it Is kept, and to he called at nine.’
find thflt H p laps it nn readily enoneb.** find ont what be'« hr«J ■. «• • t»e »'*
tbe Atlantic scalMiard was taken up; would call It. all the time we were divide*! Into two great portions—the care has to be taken to prevent soften
As he spoke he turned the contents
Farmer Honk—An (■ I
farmi/*
"it seemed to me that my sudden
Ing or i iverripening. The Island of
fer
then the settlers cut their way west lunching.”
frontal an<! the occipital— which are Jam sics yield« great crops of tbl« use appearance might shake ‘ his nerves of the wine glass into a saucer and yew th« boy ain’t suite
an.l lead him to say something un placed ft fn front of the terrior who all?
ward through the forest, crossing ths
Separated by the fissure of Rolando. ful and tuosrt) tusking fruit
«h* 1
Penny X-Ray Instruments.
Farmer Jones— That s •t .ito®
guarded The Boots volunteered to speedily licked It dry.
All eg h antes Into the Ohio valley, and
Thia
fissure
extends
across
the
top
of
Sherlock Holmes' earnest demeanor want tew find ont. «' ‘ 1 k
Penny X ray Instrumenta, by the
snow
me
the
room
:
It
was
on
the
sec
later spreading over the prairies and
ths human head ami down on each side
of which the curious may se« the r <
ond floor, and there was a small cor bad so far convinced us that we all sat nv him before he gits te«
alluvial bottoms of the Mississippi val-
at about the region of tbe temples
9t
ridor leading up to it. The Boots •n silence, watching the animal Intent
finger l«ue«, ar* being told tn
But
the
home
seeking
movement
»•/
All that part of the brain which Una B.bl
pointed out the door to me, and was ly and expecting some gtl-tllng effccL
streets of ixmdon.
WHS halt.-d at the oue hundredth meri-
None «nch appeared, however. The
Yonnghul—There's r t
about to go down stair* again, when I
In the front of It—that la, tbe brain
If you see a coupl« walking along th« that Is over tbe eye« and fills out the
dlan by Insufficient ninfali, W nt of
saw something that made me f“e| «irfc. dog continue,! to if« stretched upon the rimony for teaeh’fi • •' Of
Ish. in spite of my twenty rears' ex- cushion, breathing in a labored v«v «aloe of money.
that stretched the region which uae.1 street aiwl th« man goea on while th* frontal region of the bead—la known as
r<‘r’.!5C* ,Fr?m ’,nder thp <’<*”' there I”'1* apparently neither the better nor
to figure on tb« map as "Th* Great woman |>ause« to look In at the shop the frontal lobe. This frontal lobe it
Oidwed —That's rigl-t A
* r0<1 r,hb°n of blood I the worse for its draught.
American Desert.” This region la no window« it'« • sure *lgn they ar* uar- baa been found, does almost all the
man
gives to hi» wit« K*’“' he- i*”1
wn n tad meandered across the pse- 1 Holmes had taken ont hl« watch, an 1 as tb« dollar he blew in
Jouger altogether a desert Thlrtesn rtnC
work of ordering and cuutrolllug tbe
»««minute followed minute without re-
I
wit, an expression of th« utmost chn- eourtaiup.
One way to avoid punishment is to
seek something other people don't
want
Short 5^torie$
CHAPTER VI—Continued.
After a very brief pause the detec
tice continued:
"Of course, after that there was
nothing more to be done. I found out
where Lieutenant Charpentier was,
took two officers with me and arrested
him. When I touched him on the
shoulder and warned him to come
quietly with us. he answered ua a«
t.old as brass: ‘I suppose you are
arresting me for being concerned in
the death of that scoundrel Drebber.
he said. We had said nothing to him
about it, so that his alluding to it had
a most suspicious aspect."
"Very,” said Holmes.
"He still carried the heavy stick
which the mother described _hln! h-
liavlng with _ ____
him when he followed
Drebber. It was a stout oak cudgel.”
your
"What is ,
— theory,
--------- then?”
“Well, my theory is that he followed
Drebber as far as the Brixton road,
fresh altercation arose
When there a ----------
between them, in the course of wh'ch
Drebber received a blow from the
stick in the pit of the stomach, per
haps. which killed him without leav
ing any mark. The night was so wet
thet no one was about, so Charpentier
dragged the body of his victim into
the empty house. As to the candle
and th* blood and the writing on tho
wall and tbe ring, they may all be so
many tricks to throw the police on to
lhe wrong scent.”
"Well done!” said Holmes in an en
couraging voice. “Really, Gregson,
you are getting along. We shall make
something of vou yet.”
"I flatter myself that I have man
arid it rather neatly," the detective
atisw* red proudly. “The young man
volunteered a statement in which he
said that after following Drebber
some time, the latter perceived him
ar.d took a cab in order to get away
from him. On hts way home he met
an old shipmate and took a long walk
with him. On being asked where this
old shipmate lived, he was unable to
give any satisfactory reply. I think
the whole case fits together uncom
monly well. What amuses me is to
think of Lestrade, who had started off
upon the wrong scent. I am afraid ho
won’t make much of it. Why. by Jpve!
here's the very man himself!”
It was. indeed, Lestrade, who ha 1
ascended the stairs while we were
talkin,;, and who now entered the
room. The assurance and jauntlness
which generally marked his demeanor
and dress were, however wanting.
His face was disturbed and trou
bled. while his clothes were disar
ranged and untidy.
He had evidently come with the in
tention of consulting with Sherlock
Holmes, for on perceiving hts col
league he appeared to be em ba missed
an I put out.
He stood In the center of the room,
fumbling nervously with his hat, an-
uncertain what to do.
“This is a most extraordinary case,"
he said, at last—"a most incompre
hensible affair”
"Ah. you find It so. Mr. Lestrade?"
cried
Gregson,
triumphantly.
"I
thought you would come to that con
clusion. Have you managed to find the
secretary, Mr. Joseph Stangerson?”
"The secretary. Mr. Joseph Stanger
son.” said I.estrade, gravely, "wns
murdered at Halliday's Private Hotel
about 6 o’clock this morning.”
I
I