cauce never by any chance exhFû.t »■»4444 ; .. . _ i. — upon »hi.tr* It* agitation thetr fjtuhirua features. “Having sniffed the dead man’s lips, A Trained Oculist Aloue Should Be I detected a slightly sour smell, and ---------- >--------- Asked to Fit Glasses. I came to the conclusion that he had CAMPBELL BROM., Proprietors. Reference has been made more than had poison forced upon him. Again ---------- ♦--------- ' once, says the Youth's Companion, to I argued that it had been forced upon OREGON. EUGENE him from the hatred and fear ex- him, the headaches resulting from eye-strain i pressed upon his face. —either overwork with practically nor­ BY A. CONAN DOYLE “By the method of exclusion I ar- mal eyes, or any work with Imperfect * »111, *++*HH*++++^ Perhaps the »alt trust wii salted. rived at this result, for no other hy- eyes; but so much suffering reHults Do pothesis would meet the facts, from the neglect or ignorance of this If procrastination Is the thief of time. 1111111X1X11 T IV 1 irill 11 1 ITllirTm---------- Old Folks at Home. not imagine that it was a very un- fact that no apology is needed for tre- What does be do with the stolen goods? a murderer, but I hold that I am just heard-of idea. The forcible adminis­ W ay down upon de »«wane, rib!«., PART II—Chapter VI—Continued. quent return to the subject. I r ar, far away— u“er. aa much an officer of Justice as you tration of poison is by no means a The causes of beadache are legion— “He gazed at me with bleared, are." If our returning Arctic explorers will ! new thing in criminal annals. The D D^rCh^Td foK^ bad stomach, nasal disease, “uric-acid drunken eyes for a moment, and then kindly cut out the lecture sequel all will So thrilling had the man's narra­ cases of Dolsky, in Odessa, and of Uoa diathesis,** and other things; but it is 1 saw a horror spring up in them and tive been, and his manner was so im­ I.eturier, in Montpelier, will occur at AsXani‘,ro7m.,le be forgiven. not an exaggeration to say that eye­ convulse his whole features, which pressive, that we had sat ifletit and once to any toxicologist. Still longing for de old plantation absorbed. strain is more frequently the fault than showed me that he knew me. "Would You for Five Million” is the "And now came the great question And for de old folks at boms.’ “I had always known that ven- Even the professional detectives, as to the reason why. Robbery tfd all the other causes combined, yet It Is geance would be sweet, but had never name of one of the new plays. Is it blase as they were in every detail of not been the object of the murder, for J.ierLjHpa the most frequently overlook* hoped for the contentment of soul necessary to ask? crime, appeared, to be keenly Inter­ j nothing was taken. Was it politics, Ail de world am sad and dreary rd? not onlv by the sufferers themselves, which now possessed me. Eb rywhere I roam; ested In the man’s story. i then, or was it a woman? but also by their medical advisers. "’You dog!’ 1 said, ’I have hunted Oh. darkies, how my heart n.. The Isthmus of Panama is the vermi­ When he had finished we sat foj "That was the question which con- Far from de old folks at home* Many and many a person who had been you from Salt Lake City to St. Pet­ some minutes in a stillness which was form apiiendix of North America. An a martyr for years to periodical sick ersburg, and you have always escaped only broken by the scratching of Les- | fronted me. I was inclined from the operation for appendicitis might help first to the latter supposition, Politl- headaches, had consulted physician af­ me. Now at last your wanderings trade's pencil as he gave the finish cal assassins are only too glad to do A'l -ronnd de little farm I wander’d matters. vv hen I wag young; a have come to an end, for either you ing touches to his shorthand account. ter physician, and bad dieted, taken their work and to fly. Den many happy dayi I squander’d or I shall never see tomorrow's sun “ There ls only one point on which Thoiie ministers w ho are using mov­ “headache cures,” and done everything rise.’ Many i^e song I gtln){ 0 “It must have been a private wrone, I should like a little more informa­ ing pictures, professional whistlers and but the right thing, has dually had Ills “He shiknk still further away as tion,” Sherlock Holmes said at last. and not a political one, which call**d When I was playing wid my brudder other devices to attruet congregations eyi-s tested and fitted with proper I spoke, and I could see on his face "Who was your accomplice who came for such a methodical revenge. When Happy was I; “«aer, should try the gospel occasionally. glasses and then found the headaches that he thought 1 was mad. So I was for the ring which I advertised?” the inscription was discovered upon Oh. take me to my kind old mudder' for the time. The pulses In my tern- Dere let me live and die! disappear as If by a miracle. The prisojter winked at my friend the wall I was more inclined than Word comes from South America that ever to my opinion. Usually these sufferers are people pies beat like sledgehammers, and I jocosely. a new volcano has been discovered in "The thing was too evidently a All de world am sad and dreary “I can tell my own secrets,” h° who use their eyes a good deal—‘¿icy believe I would have had a fit of some sort if the blood had not gushed from said. "Xit I don’t get other people in­ blind. When the ring was 1 found, Eb’rywhere I roam; Peru. It really was not needed. There are students, seamstresses, watchmak­ i Oh. darkies, how my ¿eart . my nose and relieved me. question, to trouble. 1 saw your advertisement, however, it ^settled the were craters enough and to spare al­ ers, bookkeepers, literary workers, or “He staggered back with a livid face, and I thought it might be a plant, or Clearly the murderer has used it .0 Fur from de old folks at home! ready. merely great readers or women given to and I saw the perspiration break out it might be the ring I wanted. My remind his victim of some dead or ab- fine embroidery or lace work. upon his brow, while his teeth chat­ friend volunteered to go and see. I sent woman. One little hut among de busftn— Who can blame King Alphonse for The eye-Htraln headache Is of no spe­ tered. At the sight, I leaned my back think you’ll own he did it smartly.” One dat I love— "I had already come to the conchi- getting mad when his mother goes and cial type, and perhaps this Is why it Is against the door and laughed loud and “Not a doubt of that," said Holmes, sion. since there were no signs of a Still sadly to my tnem'ry ruahea gets married to her Master of Horse— struggle, that the blood which covered No matter where I rove. heartily. so often unrecognized. It may be only long. a sort of livery stable fellow, as we un­ " 'What do yoir think of Lucy Fer­ "Now, gentlemen.” the inspector re­ the floor had burst from the murder’s M hen will I see de bees a-hiimmin' an occasional dull pain In the forehead rier now?’ I cried, locking the door marked, gravely, “the forms of the nose In his excitement. derstand it? All around de comb? The staid London Chronicle is sol­ or temples, ft may be a general sore­ and shaking the key in his face. ’Pux- ”1 could perceive that the track of When will I hear de banjo tumrnia* law must be complied with On A Chicago advertiser wants “young emnly discussing the question, "Should ness. or It may be a throbbing, racking Ishment has been slow in coming, but Thursday the prisoner will be brought blood coincided with the track of his Down in my good old home? I before the magistrates, and your at­ feet. It is seldom that any man, un­ man with rising qualities for mercantile Women Work?" Just as If women had headache which the slightest noise or it has overtaken you at last.’ "J saw his coward lips tremble as I a bright light makes unbearable. It not been doing the world's work since less he Is very full-blooded, breaks tendance will be required. Until then All de world am sad and dreary establishment.’’ Probably u euphemis­ spoke. He would have begged for his out in this way through emotion, so 1 Eb’rywhere I roam; tic wuy of saying tbut the youth will creation. The tlrst suggestion of labor may be constant. It may be Irregular, life, but he knew well that it was use­ I will be responsible for him.” He rang the bell as he spoke, and hazarded the opinion that the crimin il Oh. darkies, how my heart grow. In all history is in the securing of the or It may recur with the regularity of grows wear» be required to run the elevator. less. Jefferson Hope was led off by a couple was probably a robust and ruddy­ Far from de old folks st home' Kllnu' apple eaten by Adam and Eve. und it a malarial attack. Hometlines the pain “ ’Would you murder me?’ he stam­ of warders, while my fc’iend and I faced man. Event* proved that I —Stepheu C. Foster. "Books do not make men,” declares was Eve who picked that. Tlie ex­ Is worse nt night; sometimes the pa­ mered. made our way out of the station and judged correctly. Antony und Cleopatra. President Hadley of Yale, and that is ample then set bus been pretty well tient wakes with a headache, which dis­ “ 'There is no murder,’ I answered. took a cab back to Baker street. “Having left the house, I p-^ceeded appears after n cup of coffee. The only followed ever since. The Eves ure the ’ Who talks of mu/dering a mad dog? true. Most men are making books, to do what Gregson had neglected. 1 I am dying, Egypt, dying! Ebbs tiie crimson life-tide fast telegraphed to the head of the police however, if we may Judge from the apple pickers yet. It is true a few characteristic of eye-strain headache Is What mercy had you upon my poor CHAPTER VII. at Cleveland, limiting my inqu>y to And th« dark Plutonian shadows publishers' advertisements of liew nov­ women ¡liny the role* of idle butterflies that It Is persistent, and does not yield, darling when you dragged her from to appear We had all been warned CKther on the evening blast. —but what of it? These are the ex­ at least permanently, to any course of her slaughtered father and bore her before the magistrates upon the the circumstances connected with tbe els. ceptions that mark the rule, The great dieting, medication, or hygienic living. away to your accursed and shameless Thursday; but when the Thursday marriage of Enoch Drebber. The an- Let thine arms. () queen, enfold n e harem?’ * * Hush thy sobs nnd bow thine ear' swer was conclusive. One of Mr. Carnegie’s employes Is majority of women toil unceasingly I The only effective treatment is removal “ ‘It was not I who killed her fathe**,’ came there was no occasion for our "It told me that Drebber had ap- Listen to the great heart secrets charged with the theft of about flOO,- and with little direct reward, Man of the strain by correction of any Im­ he cried. testimony. Thou, aud tbou alone, must hear. plied for •’.he protection of the law IM»» from his employer. It speaks well at the end of tils day’s work can count perfection In the eyes, and by a reform “’But it was you who broke her li*| A higher judge had taken the mat­ against an old rival in love, named for Mr. Carnegie’s Scotch thrift that he up the money he has made and mens- of bad eye habits, such as reading very nocent heart,' I shrieked, thrusting ter in hand, and Jefferson Hope had Jefferson Hope, and that this same Though my scarred and veteran leg:0* missed so Insignificant an amount from ure the result. Woman's day's work fine print or reading In a poor light or the box before him. ‘Let the high God been summoned before a tribunal Hope was at present in Europe. Bear tlieir eagles high no more, I Judge between us. Choose and eat where strict justice would be meted knew now that I held the clew to tlie Aud my wrecked and scattered galleys the cash drawer. lias no eml and no tangible profits. Her on a railroad train. out to him. Strew dark Actium’s fatal shore- mystery in my hand, and all that ___ . re- _ only payment ns she goes weary-hand­ But a word of caution is most necess- ' There ls death in one and life in the On the very night after his capture Though n<> glittering guards surround m* The official figures of Ciimidlan Im­ ed and empty handed to rest Is In tlie snry here. The glasses must l!i* fitted other. I shall take what you leave. main? ! was to sec ure the murderer. the aneurism burst, anil he was found “I had already det&mined in my Prompt to do tlieir master's will migration for tlie fiscal year ended heart satisfaction of having done well by a skilled oculist after a careful ex­ Let us see if there ls Ju^fice upon the in the morning stretched upon the etf-th, or if we are ruled ny chance.' own mind that the man who had I must perish l*fie a Roman- June JU lust show a total of about n little more of her unending labor of amination of the eyes, for bad^r fitted j "He cowered away with wild cries floor of the cell, with a placid smile walked into the house with Drebber Die the great Triumvir still! 7<>,oou ininilgranis for tlie year, of love. There Is nothing more pathetic, glasses will only make matters worS*. and prayers for mercy, but I drew my upon his face, as though he had been whom 22,000 were from the Uni­ were It not so common, than the sight and by leading the patient to think that knife and held it to his tnroat until he able in his dying moments to look was none other than the man who had* Let not Caesar's servile minions. back upon a useful life, and on work driven the cab. ted States. It Is noteworthy that so often seen—of the hard-working, the eyes are not In fault, cut off all hope had obeyed me. Mock the liou thus laid low; "The marks in the road showed me “Then I Bwauowed the other, and well done. this movement of our people into Can­ conscientious mother who literally of a cure by a competent oculist. that the horse had wandered on In a 'Twas no foemau’s arm that felled bin* “ »■regson and Lestrade will be wild we stood facing each other in silence I ada Is increasing rather than dimln wears out her life In unheralded toil, struck _______ the blow-' way which would have beefl» impossi­ I ’Tv. as bis own that ______ _ for a minute or more, waiting to see about his death.” HfiJmes remarked, ble had there been any one in charge His who. pillowed on thy bosom. islilng. thankless and not expecting thanks. as we chatted It over next morning. which was to live and which was to •5* Turned aside from glory's ray_ ♦ She has no “eight-hour day.” Even a “Where will their grand advertise­ of It. die. DINED iN THE KITCHEN A few years ago we were nil wearing twelve-hour day would be a boon to "Where, then, could the driver be, His who, drunk with thy caresses, : ment be now?” "Shall I ever forget the look which Madly threw a world away. stiff, flat-brimmed wtraw hats. Then most wives who in the care of the “I don’t see that they had very unlessjhe were inside the house? came over his face when the first • • ♦ » » • » Again, it Is absurd to suppose that came an era of flexible ones, later nar­ house and children are always “doing warning pangs told him that the pois­ much to do with his capture,” I an- any sane man would carry out a de­ I As for thee, star-eyed Egyptian! row brimmed, thick and rough ones ap­ overtime,” without thought of extra I “When General Grant stopped at the on was in his system? I laughed as swered. Glorious sorceress of the Nile! peared. Last spring there was a sud­ pay. Among the savages the women Palmer House in Chicago on his re­ I saw it. and held© Lucy's marriage “What you do in this world la a liberate crime under the v<^;y eyes, as e matter-^f no consequence," returned it were,®af a third person, who was ' Light the path to Stygian horrors den appearance of imitation Panama do all the work, their lords employing turn from his tour of the world.” said ring in front of his eyes. sure to betray him. ’i'ith the splendors of thy smile. my companion, bitterly. “ The ques ­ “It was but for a moment, for the hats as sudden ami unaccountable as themselves only In the chase and in a man who was there ut the time, “the "Lastly, supposing one mail wished . Give to Caesar crowns and arches, A tion is, what caii you make people to dog another through London, what the coming of seventeen year-old lo- war. The progress of civilization hns steward was all but stuplfied one noon action of the alkaloid is rapid. Let his brow tlie laurel twine; believe that you have done? (jiever custs. Whence did these hats come? consisted largely In getting man to do at seeing the ex-president slide in at spasm of pain contorted his features; mind," hi? continued, more brightly, better means could be adopted than 1 can scorn the senate’s triumphs. he threw his hands out in front of Triumphing in love like thine. What was tlie ultimate cause of tlieir something for n living, and tills prog­ the kitchen door as though escaping turn cab driver? All these considera­ him, staggered and then, with) a after a pause, “I would not have —Gen. William H. Lytle. being and why did so many people buy ress tins come through mothers’ train­ from some one. hoarse cry, fell heavily upon the missed the investigation for anything. tions led me »a the irresistible conclu­ them? These are questions which no ing of the sons to share n part of their There has been no better case with- sion that Jefferson Hope w*as to oe “*l'm sorry to trouble you,’ he said, floor. found among the Jarveys of the me­ INCREASING OF SWEETNES8. social philosophy can fathom. They burdens. Mau has devoted much In­ as though askingoa great favor, •but "I turned him over with my foot in my recollection. Simple as it was, tropolis. constitute part of tlie deep mystery of ventive genius to labor saving devices may 1 have a little corned beef and and placed my hand up jin his heart. there were several mos* Instructive Keiuarkabte Increuse in thj Con»unip- “If he had been one there was no There was no ^movement. He was points about, it.” life. tiun ot'Sugar. that render more easy the various de­ cabbage?’ reason to believe that he had ceased "Simple?” I ejaculated. dead! " ’Why, certainly,’ the steward <5e' Medical men, if not psychologist^ “Well, really, it can hardly be de­ to be. On the contrary, from his "The blood had been i streaming An English wit made an epigram to partments of production that have be­ plied; ‘ but shan't 1 send It out to yot¿> from my nose, but I had taken t no no­ scribed as otherwise," said Sherlock point of view, any sudden change might find an interesting subject of describe tlie climate of London: “In a come tlxed upon man. But wornan’s would be likely to draw attention to study in the largely increased cufsuuip- tice of it. I don’t know what it was Holmes, smiling at my surprise. “The himself. fine day, looking up a chimney; In a foul work stili remalo» and must ever re- in the diningroom?’ proof of its intrinsic simplicity is that rnueh thè same endless round of " ’ No,' he answered; ’ I ’ ll eat It right main that put it into my head to write up- tion of sugar in the last 1U0 years, lu day, looking down one.” Quite ils clever “He would probably, for a time at without rfiny help, save a few very or­ on the wall with it. the first quarters of the last century was the remark of a London “cabby,” labor by band and braln. No macbine here If you'll let me sit down.’ least, continue to perform his duties. “Perhaps it was some mlschfevou!? dinary deductions. # wall able to lay can do her work no; uo; her work ro­ "Bo a place on a rough board table, There was no reason to suppose that the average per capita in the Lulled when Informed by a brother driver Unit my hand upon the criminal within Idea of putting the police upon a he was going under an assumed name. States was eight pounds, and in the last he bad as a passenger "a pal of the quires n heart In .t. ller Work Is to where the cook had been fixing the wrong track, for I felt light hearted three days.” make the home n haven of rest for all meat uas cleared, aud Grant drew up “Why should he change his name in decade it ranged from sixty to sixty- Shah's—what they call a sun-worship­ "That is true,” said I. and cheerful, I remembered a Ger­ but herself, who knows no rest this a stool and set to, and the way he man being found in New York with "I have already explained to you a country where no one knew his eight pounds. lu Great Britain It rose er.” "1 suppose he's come over for u side of henven. Her work is to Ini- got away with that corn^w ple. Coma-lent lolls physicians are be­ purchase fair In that city, and It Is Louis called him ’Captain’ when they dropped it when I stooped over Dreb- i the result would be. They can put merits should beflsubllcly recognized. contented with it. coming tired of warning business nieu urged the council of St. Louis or even You should publish an account of the ber's body. I drove back, and leaving those events together in thetr minds, spoke to him and bought the v ood he The growing plenty caused cbeapm** that they are exhausting their vital en­ the Legislature of Missouri should my cab in a side street. I went boldly and argue from them that something case. If you wont. I wjll for you.” carted Into town to sell."—Ex. “You may do what you like, doctor.” and consumption kept steady pace with ergies tn the question. It Is pointed up to the house—for I was ready to will come to pass. There are few peo­ ly pocketing the fees which are given out that an Immemorial dispute over dare anything rather than lose the ple, however, who. if you told them a he answered. “See here!” he . which Americana or other foreigners might settle the point whether the bunch of matches on the dog's tall. It next morning I took advantage of not a private carriage by the narrow Lake City. If the case had had no has anything to do with the sw>*et»e*i In China may settle their disputes be name of the thriving city of Joliet was done accordingly, thus making a some ladders which were lying In the gauge of the wheels. The ordinary other effect, it at least brings out in and light” of humanity.—-New York Ï»« shall be pronounced aa the French ex ­ fore their own consular courts. sort of pillar of tire by night, The lane behind the hotel, and9so made London growler is considerably less the most striking manner the effic­ Mail and Express. plorer after whom It was named did iency of our detective force, and will sei enie worked ts*autlfully. The dog my way Into his room In the gray of wide than a gentleman's brougham. 11« A»«» ok Note Forgery. e« • “That wag the first point gained. I serve as a lesson to all foreigners A memorial bell Ls to hang tn the Zhole-ya or whether it shall be called found no difficult;: In following the th« dawn. "1 woke him up and told him that then walked slowly down the garden that they will do wisely to settle their An extraordinary method of f.iM' belfry of the Congregational1*Church Jolly yet All this is exceedingly stlm trail; the men totrowed the phosphor- the hour had come when he was to path, which happened to be composed feuds at home, and not to carry them eating bogus bank notes lias ju*1 ''***D tn Harpswell, Me„ where the late Rev. ulatlng to the mind which keeps reach lied narrative of their canine guide am! answer for the life he «ad taken lug out for wider Hehl«, like the mini? of a clay soil, peculiarly suitable for on to British soil. detected in Brussels. The The operatori operator» Elijah Kellogg ministered for half a reached Prescott In time for an early long before. I described Drebber’s taking Impressions. No doubt it ap­ “It Is an open secret that the credit cut small pieces from real notes, an century. The young peop'7;, who read of a man atlllet<«l with the habit of In breakfast. death to him. and I gave him the peared to you to be a mere trampled of this smart capture belongs entirely put them together with Infinite dexteB- his stories or declaim bls Spartaeua” discriminate punning. There are plen­ same choice of the poisoned bills. line of slush, but ta. my trained eyes to the well known Scotland Yard of­ Would lltd London of Mmoke. ty of other towns which need atten Instead of grasping at the chance every mark upon na surface had a ficials. Messrs. Lestrade and Gregson. ty on a tissue paper so fine that have their own way of rem ember! 4 A leading English c^mlst. I»r. Rcd- of safety which that offered him. ne meaning. The man was apprehended. It appears. fraud could only be with difficulty ' him. Those who hen nt his striking tlon. The name of the city of Beau­ W<«1. says that If oil ^>*n* generally sprang from his bed ami flew at my “There Is no branch of detective ________ In the rooms of a certain Mr. Sher tected when the bogus note was •' sermons or profited by bls helpful pas fort In France. Is pronounced Bow for us < h 1 for fuel In Ismdon the great Insti­ throat. In self-defense I stabbed him science which Is so Important and so lock Holmes, who has himself, as an up against a strong light. 1r' torate will welcome the sound of the i tow n In North Carolina, named after It, Is known as Bow-fort, while one tn tution known as the London fog would to the heart. It would have be<$ the much neglected as the art of tracing amateur, shown some talent In the good notes tin eleventh of h gher ■ bell a call to prayer and praise- absolutely disappear. The doctor «ays same In any case, for Providence footsteps. Happily. I have always laid detective line, and who. with such in nomination was manufactured n wbether tlie tones reach the natural South Carolina Is called Bu fert. A that tLQifogs are caused by uncon- would never have allowed his guilty great stress upon it. and mnch prac­ structors. may hope in time to attain noted French se»is>rt5> Calais. Is pro ­ ear. or only charm the inner sense way. sutned carbon suspended In the air and hand to pick out anything but uie tice has made it second nature to me. some degree of their skill. nounced Kai lay. w hile Its namesake born of the imagination. The sea ami poison. “It 1» expected that a testimonial of “I saw the heavy footmarks of the Ancient Manuscript originating from the thousands of fac ­ up In Maine Is called Kai Ila. ”1 have little more to say, and It’s constables, but I saw also the tracks some sort will be presented to th« shore lines of his parish, the oldest piece of writing 1» tory chimneys Iwleblng out am >ke. as well, for I am about done up. I The environment of a typical pastorate, did of the two men who had first passed two officers aa a fitting recognition of Where Women A* .* Favor.