P r is o n e r s and C a p tiv e s
By H. S. MERRIMAN
C H A P T E R X I X .— (Continued.)
The effect o f the discovery that they
distinctly formed a group apart was bare
ly visible to the keenest glance. Helen’s
alow, gentle eyes were turned toward the
center of the house, bent vaguely on the
brightly dressed occupants of the stalls.
“ I suppose,” said Helen, closing her
fan, “ that all this is rather trivial for yon.
The interest you take in it must be super
ficial now that you are so busy.”
“ Oh, n o !” T y e ie hastened he begin ; he
was looking past her in that strangely
persistent tray into the theater, and some
thing be ssw there made him turn his bead
quickly toward the stage.
“ H a lloo!" be exclaimed. Then
he
caught her wrist in his grasp. “ Keep
•till," he whispered.
The painted curtain was bellying right
forward like the mainsail o f a bath, and
from the apace at either aide a sudden
volume o f smoke poured forth in huge,
uneven clouds.
In a second the whole audience was on
its feet, and for a moment a sickening si
lence reigned— the breathless alienee of
supreme fear.
Then a single form appeared on the
stage. It was that of the man referred to
by Olaud Tyara a moment before; he who
played the villain’s part so unconsciously.
H e was still in his dark wig and pallid
make-up. On his arm he carried the coat
he bad just taken off, and the other arm.
clad in white shirt sleeve, wss raised in
a gesture of command.
“ I mast ask you,” be cried, in a full,
dear voice, “ to leave your seats as----- ”
And his tonss were drowned, completely
overwhelmed by a strange, unearthly
roar; the roar o f a thousand human voices
raised in one surging wail of despair, like
the din o f aurf upon a shingle ahore.
The man shouted, and hia gestures were
almost ludicrous, even at that supreme
moment, for no sound could be heard
from his lips.
Then the gas was turned out, and in the
darkness a terrible struggle began. Some
who came out of it could liken it to noth
ing on earth. Women shrieked and men
forgot themselves.
As the gas flickered and Anally col
lapsed those in the stage box caught a
momentary vision of wild, distorted faces
coming toward them. The pH had over
flowed the stalls. Strong barriers crum
bled like matchwood.
Into a hundred
minds at once there had flashed the hope
• f escape through the stage boxes.
“ O ra ct! Easton !" It was T yar’s voice
raised, and yet not shouting. The crisis
had coma, the danger was at hand, and
Helen knew who it was that would take
the lead. She heard the two men an-
her face and hair and a whispered voice
in her e e r :
“ Agnes Winter— is this yon?"
She recognised the peculiar American
twang which was never unpleasant. A t
that moment, She almost laughed.
"T ee— yea," she answered.
“ Then crawl to your feet. Don’t try
to get up; crawl over this man. I don’t
know who ha la, but I surmise he la
deed.”
’
She obeyed, and found her way out of
the narrow door and up soma steps.
Close behind her followed some one, whom
she took to be Matthew Mark Easton,
but it ultimately turned out to be Oswin
Grace, who was in his turn followed by
the American, but not until later.
Helen Grace heard the word “ Come,“
and submitted obediently to the support
ing arm, which half dragged, half carried
‘ her up some steps. She remembered be
ing carried like a child through some dark
some place where the atmosphere was cold
and damp. Then she was conscious o f a
halt, followed closely by the sound of
breaking wood and the tearing o f some
material— probably canvas, for they were
among the scenery. A fter that she prob
ably fainted, and was only brought to
conaciousneaa. by the shock o f a violent
fall in which her companion was under
most. Then she heard a Voice calling o u t:
“ This way, a ir; this way.”
She recollected seeing a fireman stand
ing in a narrow passage waving a lan
tern. By the time that she reached the
open air she waa quite conscious.
“ Let me walk," she said, “ I am all
right. Where is Agnes?”
‘T h ey are behind,” answered Tyara.
“ She is all right. She has two men to
look after her. You have only me."
“ W alt for them,” said the girl. T will
not go home without them.“
**A-li righ t; wc th tll w tit outsidi» L it.
us get out first."
They were standing in a small room,
probably the office of the theater, and a
policeman stationed near the window, of
which the framework had been broken
away, called to them impatiently.
The window was shout four feet from
the ground, and Helen wondered momen
tarily why Claud Tyara accomplished tbs
drop so clumsily. In tbs narrow street he
turned to a police Inspector and pointed
to the window.
“ L ift tke lady down,” he said.
A cab was near at hand, and in it they
waited— seated side by side in silence—
for what seemed hours. The crowd dropped
away, asking some more interesting spot.
A t last there waa a movement at thq'-irln-
dow, and Tyara got out o f the cab and
went away, leaving Helen in an agony
o f mute suspense. In a few moments it
“ Keep the people back. I w ill break waa over and the girl breathed freely.
open the door on the stage. It is our
I t sesmsd strangely unreal and dream
like to hear Agnes W inter’s voice again;
The girl felt herself lifted from the to see her standing on the pavement be
and carristf to the back o f the neath the yellow gas lamp, drawing to
gether the gay little opera doak round
“ H elen !" whispered Tyara.
her shoulders.
Aa Mias W inter stepped into the cpb
“ A m you all right?”
she leaned forward and kissed Helen.
- jo o ."
That was a il; no word waa said. Bat
“ I thought you had fainted, you were
the two women set hand in hand daring
m q u iet! Hold on to my co a t! Never the drive home.
leave go o f th a t!"
Tyara and Oswin. spake together a few
I k turned away from her, and above words in a lowered tone quite overwhelm
tho'dH» and uproar cams the sound at ed by ths rattle o f, the cab, and then sat’
Ms'blows upon the woodwork o f the door. silently. The light of occasional lamps
I t seemed impossible that such strokes
flashed la through the unwashed window,
dealt by an unarmed ku- and ¿ o w ed that the men’s clothes were
covered wjth dirt and dust, which neither
■
P f tween the Mows came the sickening attempted to brush off.
’
so n p d of the struggle at the front of the
When the cab stopped la Brook atreot,
bok.; Imprecations and onpplicatftns, min
Oswin got out first, a n d . going up the
gled'with groans and the dull thud of mer- steps opened the front door noiselessly
cilkhs flats upon human faces. Shoulder with a* latch key. Tyara paid the cab
to'vphoulder the two men— the American man, and followed the ladies into the
and the Englishman— fought for the lives house.
of,the women placed by the hand of God
The gas In the hall and dining room
umlnr their protection. It was a terrible
had
been lowered, and they all stood for
tank) though few women reached the front
o f jjtht box. Each man struck down, each 'a moment In the gloom round the daintily
asaaiflhnt "beaten back was doomed, anJ dressed table. When Oswin Grace turned
tbs’ defenders knew it. Onee dowif, once np the gas they looked at each other curi
under foot, and it was a matter of mo ously.
Miss W inter kept her opera-cloak
menta.
Fresh assailants cams crowding on, closed, simply stating that her dress was
treading on the fallen and consequently torn. Her hair wna becomingly untidy,
obtaining an ever-increasing advantage as but she showed no sign o f scratch or hurt.
Helen was hardly ruffled beyond a few
they rose on a level with the defender*.
Neither aeemed to queation the wisdom little stray curia, almost golden In color,
She
of Tyara’ command. It was a matter of stealing down beside her ears.
her
Immunity
from
life or. death. Those already in the stage doubtless owed
box would only be crushed by the onrush harm, and in all human probability the
of the others were they allowed to enter. safety of her life to the enormous bodily
With a dased desperation the two moo strength of Claud Tyara. It was she who
faced the frightful odds, hammering wild spoke first.
“ Your arm !” she said, pointing to
ly with both flats. Their arms ached
from sheer hard work and they panted T yar’s right sleeve. “ Have you hurt It?”
lie looked down at the limb, which was
hoarsely. Their eyeballs throbbed with
the effort to pierce unfathomable dark- hanging in a peculiar way very close to
nem. It was quite certain that their de his body, with a vague and questioning
smile, as If it were not his property.
fense could not last long.
"Yes,” he said, “ It is broken.
“ Stick to I t !” yelled Tyara. He might
Miss W inter and Oswin went to his
have been on the deck of the Martial
during a white aquall, so great was the side at once. Helen alone remained stand
uproar all around him. A t last there ing at the table. She said no word, but
continued looking at him with very bright
was the sound of breaking wood.
eyes, her lips slightly parted, breathing
“ Grace !” shouted the voice of Tyara.
deeply.
“ Yea.”
He avoided meeting her glance In the
“ Look after Mias W inter when we
__ »»
same awkward, embarrassed way which
go.
she had not noticed before: answering the
“ Easton!" be cried again.
questions put to him with a reassuring
“ Yea, old man 1”
“ Gome last, and keep them back If you smile.
“ It happened,” he said, “ during the
can.” Then a minute later he shouted,
first rush. W e fell down somewhere
“ Com e!”
At the same Instant the roaring crowd through some scenery, and my arm same
of madmen poured In over the front of underneath."
"You pot It underneath,” corrected
the box, like soldiers storming a bastion.
The door which Tyars had succeeded in Helen, almost coldly, "to— save me, I
opening was so narrow as to admit of suppose.”
“ Instinct,” he exclaimed, tersely.
the passage of only one person at a time,
“ Shall I fetch a doctor, or will you
but at this instant (he larger door leading
Into a narrow passage, the veal exit from come with me?” asked the practical
the stage box, broke down before a pres Oswin, gently forcing his friend into a
sure from without, and from this point chair. “ W e are surrounded by them in
also a stream of half-demented beings Brook street.”
tried to force an entrance.
“ I will go with you,” answered Tyara.
The only advantage possessed by the
Refusing all offers of hospitality mads
original occupants of ths box was that by Oswin and bis slater, Cloud Tyars
they know the position of the email went off with his friend to the doctor’s;
leaving the ladies comfortably Installed
The subsequent recollection of euch in In arm chain by the fire.
They protested that they could not
dividuals aa survived were so fragmentary
sud vagus that so eonnectad story of the possibly sleep, and that, aa It was only
terrible tragedy in the stags bou of the twelve o'clock, they would await Oswln’s
Epic Theater was ever given to the pub return.
lic.
And the two ladies left there eat, each
Mina W inter renumbered finding herself In her deep a m chair, toasting bar neatly
np in a strong pair o f armo, whMi shod toes sn the fender, and said never
1 to bo thorn o f Oswte Oraos, a word. They both stand Into the Are
at f t
a marked perolotenoe -that one
have anapsatid them o f fear-
to
tng to moot each other'« glance
ly ju a t become aware o f a black marl
oq the soft mauve material of her dress.
With her gloved hand she attempted to
brush it off, and aa this had no effect ah«
began rubbing it with a tiny handker
chief. Then she raised her eyes. Miss
Winter was watching her with a curious
smile— a smile much more suggestive of
pain than o f pleasure.
Their eyes met, and for some moments
both seemed on the verge of saying some
thing which was never bald. Then sud
denly Helen leaned forward and covered
her face with her two hands.
Helen recovered herself as suddenly as
she had given way, and, rising from
her chair, stood with her shoulder turned
toward her friend, her two hands upon
the mantel-piece, looking down into the
fire. H er attitude, moral and physical,
was reflective,
" I wonder,” she said, “ if every on«
got out e f tke theater?”
“ Mr. Easton phomised ho ccsne and bell
us,” answered Miss Winter.
Helen raised her head and looked crit
ically at her own reflection in the old
faehioned mirror over the fireplace. The
trace of tears had almost vanished from
her young eye«— it is only older counte
nances that bear the marks for long.
Before she moved again the sound of
cab hr heels made Itself audible In the
street, and the vehicle was heard to atop
at the door. Miss Winter rose and went
to let In the newcomer.
It jras Matthew Mark Earton. H e fol
lowed Mias W inter ;lnto the dining room,
walking lightly— an unnecessary precau
tion, for his step was like that o f a
child.
“ I do not know,” he was saying, “ the
etiquette observed in England on these
points, but I could not resist coming
along to see if you hsd arrived safely.
No one hurt, I trust?” continued he.
“ Yes,” answered thé girl, gently ; “ Mr.
Tyara la hurt— his arm is broken.”
Easton’s mobile lips dosed together
with a snap, betraying Hie fact that be
had allowed himself the luxury of an ex
pletive in bis reprehensible American
way. Ha turned aside, and walked back
ward and forward for a few minutes, like
a man made restless by the receipt of
very bad news.
It was a matter of a second only. Lika
S serpent’s fang the man’s keen ayes
flashed toward her and away apaln. The
pacullarly nervous face instantly assumed
an expression as near stolidity as could
be expressed by features each and all
laden with an exceptional intelligence.
Then be turned away, and took up a
broken fan lying on the table, opening it
tenderly and critically.
Bat Miss W inter was as quick aa he.
She knew then that be had guessed.
Whatever he might have suspected before,
she had no doubt now that Matthew
Mark Easton knew that Hele
p
L
Claud Tyara.
“ The worst o f it,” be broke out, with
sudden airiness, “ is that there was no
fire at all. It was extinguished, on the
stage. The performance might have been
continued.”
“ It only makes It more horrible,” aaid
Mise W inter; “ for I suppose there— wore
some killed.”
“ That la «©,“ he answered. “ They took
forty-two corpses out o f oqr box alone.”
“ I did not know,” said Helen, after a
palnfnl panse, “ that it was so bad as
that.”
Oswin Grace came in, opening the frgnti
door with hie latch-key. He was greeted
with an interrogatory “ W ell?” from
Miss Winter.
“ H e la all right,” he answered. “ It
was a simple fracture. Old Barker set ft
very nicely, and I sent him off to his dub
in a cab.”
“ Then,” said Easton, holding oat hie
hand to eay good-by, “ I shall go and
help him into bed— tuck him In, and sing
soft lullaby over his pillow.
Good
night. Miss Winter. Good night. Miss
Grace.”
( T o be continued.)
, T h e H a lb e rd .
Th e distinctive weapon o f-th e gwlst
was the halberd, which was their prin
cipal weapon at Morgarten and Lau-
pen. It la curious to note bow the Teu
tonic nations, even to this day. prefer
the cut and the Latin nations the point
W e have been told by German officer*
that when the German "and French
cavalry met In the w ar o f 1870 the Ger
man sword blades alw ays flushed ver
tically, over their heads, w hile the
French darted In and out horizontally
tn a succession o f thrusts. Even the
German dead lay In whole ranks with
their swords at arm’s length. 8o the
English at Hastings worked
havoc
with their battleaxes. The Ntherhind
mercenaries carried a hewing wen pah
at Bouvlnes. Th e Flemings at Cour-
trnl used their godendags fitted alike
both fo r cut and thrust, and finally the
Swiss made play w ith their halberds,
an Improvement on the godendag.
Th e «halberds had a point fo r thrust
ing, s hook wherewith to pull men from
the saddle and above all a broad, heavy
blade, "most terrific weapons” (valde
te rrlb llla ). to use the words o f John of
W interthur, “ cleaving
men asunder
like a wedge and cutting them Into
small pieces.” One can imagine how
such a blade at the end o f an eight-
foot shaft must have surprised gs I lop
ing young gntlemen who thought them
selves Invulnerable In their armor.—
Macmillan’s Magazine.
.
A s I t I s I s Chleanro.
Jack Beacon— Yes, in Boston
we
have all cultured love making. When
a young man goes wooing In the Hub
be must embrace all foreign phrases
and poetical quotations. You don’t see
anything like that In prosaic Chicago.
Dick I>akeslde— I
should say not
H ere a follow Is satisfied to embrace
the g i r l . __ _____________________
•e at H e C s s U
Do.
“ You know,” sold the young man In
the case, “ that I am poor, bat don’t
yon think w e m ight be able to live on
bread and cheese and klaaea?T
“ Yea," replied the fa ir maid, bat—
“ Then,” ho Interrupted, “ see if too
can work your father fo r the bread and
chaste and I ’ll attend to the re s t”
M ove Im p o rta n t.
“ H ere’s an article In this paper en
titled ‘H ow to T a ll Good M ilk.’ ”
“ I ’d moch sooner read an article on
’H ow to T a ll a Good Milkman.'
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
THE WEEKLY I
■ B R IA N
T h e S h a tte re d
V a s e o f H o p e.
nice, the candles w ith the rose shades
did not look half so pretty, the fancy
costumes did not seem so wonderful,
and the numerous games that had been
devised for their amusement were not
nearly so entertaining. Th e little people
began to separate Into groups, which is
fatal to the success o f any affair.
I t was a welcome re lie f when the
door opened apd Johnnie came in, still
bugging his cat. Dorothy’s mother waa
with him.
“ I knew you’d all be glad to see me,"
he said, as the children gathered round
him, “ ao I Just came up myaelf. And,
Dorothy,
I thought you’d feel pretty
ann wenn we wennt passt raddye we kood
bad when yon knew you forgot me. I
sea
brought you my Jerry. H s’a the beat
him sitten there in turble mlisery
cat there la !’’
Dorothy’s mother looked at her little
daughter, but Dorothy understood. H er
eyes filled with tears when she realised
her mistake and saw that Johnnie’s
little bpart knew nothing about .pride
nor difference in ages. She put her
arms about him..
“ O f course I ’m glad yon cams,” aha
said, “ and your cat Is beautiful! I t ’s
present enough fo r /on to Just bring
him to the party. I couldn’t keep him
always, you love him so. And, Johnnie.
I think you are old enough to play with
us— so we’II never leave you out
a ga in !”
A fter this the party waa the merrleat
they ever knew.— Youth’a Companion.
Wuns wean wee re goea
flohen redd y
brown
was awl prepaired too go ann he kaim
down
too hennry beam us bowse ann wennt to
gett
sum wurms fora bate ann hennry aedd he
bett
the flah wood bite today ann wlla he
wennt
to gett a sinkur raddys muther aennt
fora him to kum ann mind the baby aoae
It woodunt get the coMck wile ahee gome
to vixset with the naburs ana ao redd
wennt aloly hoam us if his hart waa ledd.
“ s it t e r m
n
ir
-ru s a »
m iz z e b t .”
ann hennry sedd it onley goae to oho
u kannt tel wott an owr brings foarth
uno.
ann bennry sedd a wood not rackugnloe
him sitten tbare with big teera in his eyes
us the maim lad boo dug the wurms fora
bats ^
ann neavur noo the turble eavul fate
witch
wood cawl him hoam sose he
doent share
sood
the wurms he is so bixsy diggen thara.
ann me ann hennry wafebt him with a si
ann saw Mm waiv a sorrofle goodbi
at um us tbo thay shut the prissen dora
ann he is abtat np thara foresrurmoar.
ann hennry sedd it teecbes urn to ba
lite harted wile we kan fora mismry
may kum to urn sumtime the mim us redd
ann we may be her vicktums, ann Inetedd
uv goen Sahen we may hafftoo stay
ann sea owr komruds go thara joyyna
way.
s—Philadelphia Ledger.
The
V aM U sa
G am *.
F o r a long time Johnnie had waited
fo r an Invitation to D orothy'« party.
T w o whole weeks bad gone by since
the little pink, sweet-scented envelopes
had been proudly displayed by the fo r
tunate little boye and girls In Johnnie’s
class.
"G oing?” they all asked Johnnie.
Got. one?”
“ No,” be had answered bravely, each
time. “ I. guees I ’ll get mine to-morrow."
Th e to morrows came, but the Uttla
pink envelope did not. Still he was pa
tient and hopeful until the day o f the
party.
When he aaw his playmates running
by, w ith happy, eager faces, he could
bear It no longer. H is mother could
not com fort him. *
W hy had not Dorothy remembered
him? H e had seen her every day at
school. Perhaps she had thought him
too yo u n g; he waa so little. W ith w ist
ful eyes Johnnie looked at the big bouse
on the hill.
A fte r a long time his tears were dry.
and then he Jumped up and ran to bis
mother.
‘Mamma," he cried, " I ’m goin g! I ’m
goin g!” he repeated, not understanding
the look In his mother’s face. “ I ’ ve Just
thought when they get there and don’t
find me It won’t seem right, fo r I al
ways play w ith them, and Dorotby’ U
feel badly when she finds she has fo r
gotten me.
"Course,” he continued, “ I haven’t
time to go and buy a present, so I guess
I ’ ll take Jerry. Anyway, a cat’s ’bout
the only thing Dorothy hasn’t g o t I —
I'll miss J erry "— bis lip trembled—
but I ’ve got to carry something— and
I go by Dorothy’s every day, and when
I w hittle he w ill come running out to
see me. Please get me ready, m am m a!”
A great struggle was going on In bis
mother’s heart, but Johnnie did not
know.
H ow could she talk about Intentional
slights when no knowledge o f such a
thing had ever entered his honest little
head? He was only five and— o f course
there must be some reason fo r It— be
should go to that party and carry hi*
cat, too, and she would trust to Doro
thy’s good nature to understand. She
would surely reward Johnnie's faith In
her.
“ Yes, dear," «he said aloud, " I t ’s all
right. You shall go,” and she made
his hasty toilet w hile Jerry rubbed his
bead aginst Johnnie’s hands.
“ You’ ll be good, won’t yon, Jerry?”
Johnnie asked.
,
‘ M la o !” responded Jerry.
“ Good-by!” Johnnla called, and he
trudged off, bolding bit cat tightly In
bio arms.
M eanwhile Dorothy waa taking her
first taste o f tbo responsibilities o f a
bootees.
H er guests did miss little
Johnnie, and Ignored tbo la w « o f etU,
qoette to each an extant a s to aek why
ba had not boon Invited. H er explana
tion that bo waa a mare child waa not
satisfactory.
1644— Batle o f Marston.
1685— Archibald Campbell, Ear! o f As*
gyle, beheaded at Edinburgh.
1720— The “ Mississippi bubble” buret.
1745— Capture of Cape Breton by tho
•
English.
1776— Battle of Fort Moultrie, Charles
ton, 9- C. ...B a ttle of Long Island.
1777— Dr. William Todd executed at T y
burn.
1778— Battle of Monmouth..... Turkish
fleet defeated and destroyed.
1797— Richard Parker, head of the naval
mutiny at the Nore, hanged.
1800— Act passed for legislative union of*
. Great Britain and Ireland.
1815— U. 8. brig Peacock captured Brit
ish cruiser Nautilus in Straits of
Sunda.
1817— Piua V II . condemned Bible socie
J u n io r O o a a a d ra o a a .
ties by bull.
Which la the best tree for preserving
1831— United States treaty with Black
good order? The birch.
Hawk, chief of Sacs and Foxea.,
W hy Is s person who nevsr lays s
1832— Cholera appeared in New York.
wager as bad as a regular gambler?
1837— Act of British Parliament to dis
Because ho is no hotter.
continue use of pillory for punish
When ia a man like a horse? When
ment.
he holds a bit In bis teeth.
1838— Coronation of Queen Victoria.
When are men like time? When
1840— Blockade of Canton by the English.
taken by the forelock.
‘ When are men’s pockets like a com 1844— Joseph Smith, founder of Moftnon-
ism, killed by mob at Carthage, III.
pany o f soldiers? When rifled.
1846—
Repeal o f English corn laws.
#
When Is s piece o f linen like ths en
1848— Archbishop of Paris shot while
trance to a prison? When barred.
acting as mediator;
When are country lasses like bridges?
1857— Ship Montreal lost near Quebec;
When rustic.
250 persons perished.
T h e R e m a in d e r .
Teacher to Class— I f W illie should be 1861— Battle of Falling Waters, Va.
sent to the store fo r a dosen eggs and. 1862— Lee defeated McClellan at battle
of Gaines’ M ill.'V a.
w hile returning hoipe w ith them, fell
and broke tw elve eggs, what would bo 1863— Gen. Meade succeeded Gen. Hooker
in command of Army of the Potomac.
the remainder?
Johnnie (aged 7
y e a r s )— Please, 1864— Confederates victorious at battle
of Keneaaw mountain, G a ....P r e s i
teacher, I know.
dent Lincoln signed repeal of fugi
Teacher— W ell, Johnnie, you may tell
tive slave la w ... .Invasion of Den
the class.
mark by the Prussians.
Johnnie— The shells, teacher.
1873— First reception o f foreign minis
ters by Emperor of China at Pekin.
X -ftA Y 6 U R Q K R Y flA V ffl DOG
1874— Henry Ward Beecher requested
Plymouth church to appoint a com
R a t t e n P o u n d l a th e Btam aoh a f a
mlttee to investigate
the TUten
V a ln a h ia R la n h a im S- ——« - «
A ll o f T o t’s anxious Philadelphia
friends w ill bo rejoiced to learn that
she underwent a very difficult opera
tion in this city yesterday, and bqr
chances for recovery are good, says tnS
New York Herald.
It should be stated, perhaps, that T o t
is a thoroughbred* Blenheim spaniel,
r.ud moves In the very best circles o f
Philadelphia's how wow four hundred.
She Is the leader o f her set, the pos
sessor o f several blue ribbons and s
general favorite.
But T o t has been a great tufferer
and her case Is likely to become s cele
brated one In canine surgery. It Is now
nearly a year ago that she began to
complain. A t first she was treated for
Indigestion by several o f Philadelphia’s
test physicians. Brisk walks and plen
ty o f exercise w ere prescribed, but that
treatment did her little good.
Then she was taken to Hot Springs,
Ark., and received a regular course o f
sulphur water baths, with a special at
tendant to administer massage.
She
grew steadily worse and at last devel
oped convulsions. These attacks would
Inst from one to three minutes and
came at frequent In tervals T w o nurses
were with her constantly, and when her
condition became more alarming It was
decided to take her to a New York spe
cialist.
She arrived liere three weeks ago
and waa hurriedly taken to the office
o f Dr. D. S. Johnson and a consulta
tion wag held. W ith the greatest care
her case was studied fo r three weeks
and finally the X-ray was applied.
No doubt It was tbe searching eye
o f the X-ray and the memory o f one o f
the nurse.) that saved T o t’s life. Yes
terday morning when the patient’s con
dition seemed more critical than ever
the phyalclan called one o f the nnrsea
to the bedside and questioned her close
ly aa to T o t’s early life. Th e nurse re-
„membered that once, when T o t waa
very small, she swallowed
a large,
round, black bone button.
“ Ah,” said the phyalclan. "T h ere’«
lig h t " Ten minutes later T o t was In
the operating room and a nurse was
holding the chloroform mask to her lit
tle nose. When It was all over the
"large, round, black bone button” was
lying on the marble table beside tho
surgeon’^, knife. It was found In the
Intestines.
Th e X-ray discovered it.
T o t w ill live.
1875— Great flood at Bods peat.
1876— Democratic conventlcm nominated
Samuel J. TUden for President.
1879— Great'tornado in Iowa, Minnesota
and Wisconsin.
1881— Assassination o f President Gar
field.
1882— Charles Gulteau hanged at Wash
ington for murder of President Gar
field.
1885— James D. Fish, bank defaulter,
sentenced to prison fdr ten years in
New York.
1861— Pike’s Peak, Colo., reached by first
railroad passenger train. . . . Nineteen
victims of the Samoan disaster buried
at Mara Island.
1893— Gov. Altgeld of Illinois pardoned
the Chicago anarchists... .Peary's
vessel Falcon sailed from New York
for the Arctic regions.
1804— The Tower Bridge, London, fo r
mally opened by Prince of Wales.
1897— Coal miners in Ohio, Penaylvania
and Weat Virginia went on strike.
1898— No newspapers published in Chi
cago owing to strike of printers.
1900— Great Hoboken dock fire.
1902— Roosevelt signed Isthmian canal
bill.
1904— Prohibitionists nominated Dr. 81-
laa C. Swallow for President. . . .
Steamer Norge lost off Scottish coast
and 046 persons perished.
1905— Mutiny broke out on board Rus
sian battleship Knias Potemkine at
O d e s s a ..J o h n D. Rockefeller gnvs
31 , 000,000 to permanent endowment
fund of Yale U niversity... .W arsaw
besieged by revolutionists; 200 per
sons arrested.
C o b a lt t o r Storaore B a tte r y .
Thomas A. Edison, in an Asheville, N.
C „ interview, said he had found in that
section cobalt that would reduce tho
weight of storage batteries in automobiles
one-half and the cost of city traffic more
than half. He says the vein of cohalt
runs from a point east of Nashville,
Tenn., in North Carolina, and traverses
four counties. He thinks It means a rev
olution in the electrical world. Most o f
the cobalt hitherto known to the world
has been found In France and Australia.
Cobalt is a hard, white metal, with gran
ular structure, which is malleable, at rad
heat and capable of receiving weak mag
netic power when rubbed with a magnet.
It Is nowhere found native, except in
some meteorites, but usually exists aa an
oxide, and the ores are'known to have
been in uae in the sixteenth centyry for
Imparting a blue color to glass.
H ie Id e n t it y -
“ Does any one know this poor fe l
low?” asked the good Samaritan, ad
dressing the crowd which had qnlckly
gathered at the aceno o f the accident
“ H is mind seems to have become an
absolute blank, and------”
“ Trust official 1 Trust official I” shout
ed tho assemblage In on# v o ic e “ Out
o f hia bead, and thinks bo’s on the wit-
stand !” — W atson’s Magaslne.
R e lir io n s
ffa v tl
P r o h ib it ««.
” 11 Santo, or the Saint,” la the tltlo
of a mucb-dlacnased novel by Senator Fo-
gassoro of Italy, which has Just been
added to the list of prohibited books—
“ Index Llbormn Prohibí toruno’ — by the
Vatican authorities. Th t author is a
devout Catholic, but atenía for liberal re
forma. The theme of tbe hook Is the fata
o f a devout sad étalons Carbolic, modeled
after Bt. Francis o f Ass Iasi, who under
Your Independence might look Ilka takes reform within the church and •*-
After that nothing seemed quite ao Impudence In your neighbor.
ooaatara tbe opposition of tho hiera rah s.