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DOUR! ABAIN8Y fOMUp. BY MRS. M. E. CB4PTEK XVII.- coatlaaad. Taw ks, there 'l those two young- -v fc ..lMimd. hrakini? off i hi conversation. "I maun just go and wake them, to be sure." The farmer nodded, and slouched away, all but one man, who was rub bing' down his pony with some hay. 'Hi, landlord:" he cried, stopping the inn-keeper. "1 want you?" "What is it?" aked the other gru.Ty. "Did you say two youne' women were here.'" demanded the man in a low voice. -I did." The stranger nodded. 'What like?" "Well, one's a poor, pale, weak thin., and the other s a bold, black- eyed wencb, good to look at." Count Jura's brow's met; he thought for one second. "The pale thin one is my wife,' he said, boldly, at last, "and the other is her maid; she has enticed her mis tress to run away." "Lawks, you don't say"' ejaculated the man in astonishment. "Where did they say they were going to, my good man?'' "LunDon by the tirst train." "Ah, I thought so. Now listen to me. Go up and wake them. Let them get to the station. See here is five pounds: it shall be yours if you do as I ask. I must et my wife back, but she is in the power of that other woman. When the train is just going to start, call the maid back about some mistake in the bills, and I shall get my wife safely away. You understand?" "Aye, sir. quite. I'll help you, and most willing. Lawks, to think I let aui-h a bold hussy into my house:" "Be quick. I shall be at the sta tion." Count Jura led his pony across the road to the station. It was empty. He beckoned to a porter. "Gei. me acarriage," he said, author itatively, carrying the diamonds in his hand, the cloak flung over his arm; "and look here, a pale, thin, yellow haired lady is coming; bring her to the same carriage. She is my wife." "All right, sir. " The porter touched his hat and pocketed the fee. Count Jura put the diamonds safely under the seat and sat down peering behind the curtain to see the two wo men enter. He saw Alice's slender iorm, the hood drawn over her golden hair, and behind her Myra's pale, revengeful face; the landlord following them, de taining them in arguing. Alice shrank back frightened. The engine whistled; Mvra motioned her to go; tne porter miea ner mw iuu carriage; Myra, white with anger, fol lowed; but an arm was thrust out against her, she heard Alice s scream o' terror; she saw Jura's triumphant face; there was a rush of shouting in her ears; then came the sound of a loud report, the sensation of sharp and awful pain, and Myra sank to the plat form insensible, as the train with her betrayer and his victim steamed away. CHAPTER XTIIL As the train moved away, Alice started to her feet and screamed wildly. All that had passed had been so swift, she scarcely realized what hap pened: but the sight of Count Jura's dark face, and the revolver in bis hand, roused her fear to its utmost. , "Let me go!" she cried wildly, strug gling against tis ho.d. "You have shot her! Coward! Let me gol I will " "Be silent!" hissed the man fiercely, pushing her down into a corner, and drawing her cloak across her mouth. "Another word, and I serve you as l served her!" Alice shrank back, cowed by his brutal words and grew faint, and her eves closed. "Good!" muttered Jura as he watched her. "Now let us understand one an other. You are in my power. I in tend to take you abroad, x ou cannot resist me. I shall proclaim you as my wife, no one can deny it. lou weara ring. If you attempt to escape I shall My you are mad. No one will gainsay that. You comprehend me? Alice made no sigh. He bent forward, and took her hand. It was limp and stilL Her fear was lost in a dead laint. "So much the better," he muttered. 'That was cleanly done. Myra will not trouble me much more, I think. Will they stop me at Uxton?" He bit his lip suddenly. "Great Heavens! I never thought of that. They will trap me like a dog! What shall I do what hall I do?" He gazed out of the window as they whirled alomr swiftly. He saw they were approaching a small village. In an instant his determination was taken. He touched the signal to stop the train - again: then again. In a few seconds the train came to a full stop just beyound the few scattered cottages, and in another instant the guard was at the door in alarm. "My wife is taken suddenly ill," ex plained Count Jura, abruptly. "We must lift her out." "What is it?" demanded the guard excitedly. "She suffers from heart disease. This is a sort of faint. The action of the train will kill her. Help me to lift her. There, that's right. We have no luggage. " The guard bore away Alice's motlon la form, and placed her on the in cline of ground beside the lines, while tha Count grasped the diamonds firmly, pot them down, carefully covered with the cloak, than knelt beside the girl, aad began to try and restore her. "Do not let me keep you," he said to tee guard. "She will be better di rectly. I will ret help from the vll- "One instant, sir. Your ohm and tr'as; iKMt take that," ras"! Lereeitn," rOd Own Jura, - Um llatle. I oadea V 4 ' ata - - ll,at 111 tf J,Uceiar Jtt mm writ- I t: Zstvrtt lHrl t.J I t j-tU-3 HOLMES. ( "Where do you stop next?" he asked numeoiy. "Not until we reach Uxton a good Sorry I can t hour s journey on. sir stay to help you. Hope your good lady will soon be ail rignt. uooa-uay, sir. The gdard blew the whistle, jumped into his compartment, and once more the train was in motion, and speedily j lost to si?ht. Count . i ura watched it eagerly. 1 "That was a bold move," he mut tered, ' but it was the only thing. Now. what to do next? Let her faint, on: it is the safest thing that could happen. She will scream, perhaps; if so. I must gag her." , An ugly loo passed over his face, j then, alter bending over Alice once a'ain he stood upright, and scanned , the road. The village seemed deserted, but while he wasdebating whether it would 1 be wise to leave the senseless girl i alone with the diamonds while bemads ; in juiries. his eye caught sight of a i cart coming leisurely along. j It was a millers dray, drawn by j three stout horses, going in the same I direction as the train had gons. Count Jura hailed it. and in a very few minutes the driver was beside him. By dint of much eloquence he per suaded the man to believe his tale, and to consent to the r traveling in the cart us ar as the nearest town, and then lift.ng Alice easily between them, they pia ed her on some sacking at the bjttum of the cart. Count Jura placed his pre ious dia monds beside her, jumped in himself, and very soon they were lumbering along heavily. He watched Alice like a lynx; the jolting motion soon began to rouse her, and he answered the driver's ques tions briny while he kept bis eye on her. At the first look of returned con sciousness, under pretense of making her comfortable, he bent over her. "Scream or utter one word," he muttered fiercely, "and I shoot you like a dog." Alice shrank away from his flashing eyes: all that she had undergone had undermined her strength: the fatigue and walking of the night before made ' every limb ache, she could not make : any resistance to ais cowardly threats: she had grown as weak a-i a child, but her brain worked wilrily. What was happening? Where was she going? Would no one come to her aid? She sent up a prayer for help and re lease - if need be. for death, rather than be longer in this man's power. Seeing her lie so quiet, Count Jura Eut it down to fright, and was well sat ined. This girl was no spitfire, like Myra: be should be able to manage her weil. He talked to the driver leisurely. and managed to extract the knowledge he required. The town they were approaching was some forty miles from Moretown. and branched off the line that led to Uxton. There he could get a train that would take him to one of the big manufacturing towns, lie hidden there for a day or two, then creep cautiously to lndon. and irom there abroad. He reckoned at the rate they were going it would be quite mid -day before they reached the town, but he was well content. If the stationmaster at Moretown had telegraphed at once to Uxton to stop him there it would be an hour and a ha.f or nearly two hours before the news that he had escaped would retch Moretown, and as, he thought con temptuously, there would be only one or two policemen handy, the chances were the waole thing would get into a good muddle, and he would get eom tortably away. Not one shred of pity was in his heart for the girl he was carrying away tie was lost to everything but love and desire. No woman had ever Inflamed his heart as this fair, lovely, siender creature did, and he swore she should be his. As for Myra, the woman he had ruined, a sense of gratification that she was, perchance, dead was all her memory brought. He had long wearied of her, and sought to be rid ol her. He sat smoking comfortably as the cart jogged along, making his -plans with calm minuteness, while Alice lay in an agony of fear, shame, and weak ness. Her mind was peopled with many visions. She seemed to go back to her childhood, and saw once again the face of that lovely woman she had spoken of when Hoy's mother had questioned her. Then all the cruelty, the harshness of Aunt Martha, then that dark night, the ghastly murder in the woods. th memory of Roy's pale, handsome face, and then her hurried marriage. Then her mind went over all the un happiness that followed, and yet strangely through it all ran the picture of her husbana s tender face as he looked at her the last night they were together. A faint thrill of happiness went through her heart as she recalled his gent e words: even Valerie's revenge ful form melted away, naught remained but him: and he was lost now - lost to her forever! she should never see him again. Though he might not have cared for her. though be had been cold and unjust, she loved him, and would love him on through all time. She was awakened from her dreams by Count Jura shaking her roughly. 'Get up." he muttered: "we are here. Now, remember what I have said. Give me your hand. One word a murmur, and you are dead!" Alice staggered to her feet, and he drew her cloak and bood carefully round her. She was In the maze of fear and weakness again; the driver, catchinir a glimpse of her white face, exclaimed sympathetically; "Laws, be sue so bad as that, poor laaa?" "Shell be better directly. Many thanks, ay rood man; this way to the s1tton, yon say?" The driver nodded, and the cart lie risr . stared n the strange e V tawtte Mrmm to the v f "" J ,M - i 1 1- i r"M -ml m. UrVTw ut- the diamond tightly. My "One just here, ir," the man an swered kindly. "Shall I give you a hand? It's only a step." The hotel proved to be up a quiet court, and Count Jura slipped a shilling into the man's band, put Alice into a chair while he ordered a room. "We are going to Uornchester," he said decisively: "shall only require It for au hour or so for my wife to rest. She is not strong." The landlady and two sympathetic maids helped Alice upstairs, and be followed closely in case she should speak to them. She made noeffort to do tnls -indeed, she had lost ail knowledge of what was passing. The landlady was loud in her pity. "You can't move her,- sir," she de clared; "she is just done she is very ill." "Pooh, nonsense! She is often like that: in fa:t he hesitated an instant, then said boldly, "in fact, she is not quite right in her head, so, of course, she looks strange." "Lor", sir! you do astonish me:" ex claimed the woman. "So sweet and pretty, too!" "Yes -yes. Bring me something to eat. and a 'Bradshaw.' We must get to Bornchester by to-night." "I'll rend you one at onoe. but the rext train, sir, I know doesn't start till nigh evening." Count . I urt suppressed the oath he was utteeing till she was gone. "That's devilish unlucky, but it strikes me she's just about right in one thing -my Lady Alice is going to be 11 L Have I frightened her too much? It will be a fix if she can't be moved. Anyway, we are safe here until to-morrow morning, and then, ill or well, she must go. Valerie paced her room like a caged tisrress. She could have torn her tongue out for the wild, foolish wor Is she had uttered before Geoffrey Armi- stead, and now all was lost. Her re venge had failed; shame, disgrace. dis coverv. lav before her. Paul, her brother, was below -a thief, a convict an eternal humilia tion. She came suddenly to a standstill. Two of the gang had been taken; who was the other? Had Jura been caught? If so. what had become of Alice? She must know all. She rang her bell, and her maid ap peared. "Brine me some coffee." she om manded. sinking in a languid attitude on to a chair as the woman came in; "my nerves are quite ujMsel." "I'll brintf it at once, miss." an swered the maid. "1 should think yoj was upset, mis. The castle seems turned tonsv-turvv. and it's just horrid to think of them awful tobbers being kept here!" . "Kept here, Janet'. What do you mean? Valerie started with well- feignfd surprise. "Why. thev are in the treasure rooms, mins, with two policemen guard ing them." Brim? me the coTee at once." Valerie stood upright as the girl withdrew. "In the treasure-rooms!" she repeat ed. "1 must eet down. I'aul must es cape. I cannot tear the degradation. Miserable wretch, he has dragged me deep enough into the mire! And Jura, I must see if he is there." She mused thoughtfully till the maid returned with the coffee. "Where is everybody, Janet?" she asked, Indifferently. "My lady Is in her room with stranie gentleman, and the Earl, with two others and a policeman, has just ridden away -to Moretown, 1 think heard sav." "Yoj may go, Janet. Don't come to me before dinner. My head aches, shall try and rest." She nut down the coffee when alone and with swift trembling hand changed her long gown for a black walking one She wound some black lace round her head and neck, then, unfastening her door, stole o Jt. The corridor was silent. She turned toward the wing in which poor Alice had lived in solitary grandeur. She con ectured that in all prolwbility the staircase and door down which Alice had been carried that night would be unlocked: she could creep down and in some way tret Paul to gpeak with ner She wai right. The door was ur. locked-the who.eof the wing was de serted. Sine Alice had gone no one had been near her apartments. She stole down the steim: the treasure-rooms were to the right. A door leading into them stood at the bottom of the steps, and here she paused. Outside in the grounds she could hear the two policemen chatting to gether, then the prisoners were alone in the. room. TO BE OO.VTI.VLED. lxns;evltr Among; Federal Kmplojres The longevity statistics of Govern ment employes gathered by the Dockery commission are interesting. It seems that there are 1.41H c erks t)0 years old and over, 741 between (0 and 15 years of age, 376 between 65 and 70, WZ between 70 and 75. 00 between 75 and 80, 33 between 80 and 8. , 6 between 85 and !o, and one who is past 0. There are 2,578 clerks between 25 and 30, the numre-ous-age class: 2, 34 between :i0 and 35, -',033 between 35 and 40. Of the 17,076 clerks In the departmental service Mol are under 40 jears of age. some 01 me oiuer peopie navw been many years In the Government service; 6,938 clerks have served for ten years, 1,380 from twenty-five to forty years and thirty for forty years or more, while one has worked at his desk sixty years. Good Government How Tommy Atkins" Got His Name I am much obllg d to tbe many correspondents who from time to time enlighten me aa to tba orgln of tbe name -Tommy Atklna" To save further trouble, however, I may as well meotlon once for all tbat 1 un lo poaaeasron of what I believe to be an tbe inrormation acceasiDie on this Important matter of history. bave always understood ; tbat "Tboms Atklna, private," was Un faaev tnMr kwmn Co a fpeci eta ttwsa a soldier's account fcasod rv fM wart "at many mra tro. sad a t-lLe a rer!a. eras ping tb wife is ill." QRffTCHEN AND KATCHEN. Onli Sin aa4 Xatnhaa, tha two ttt'la maiai. MMtr wbita cava ' tar tiahi Ium IraMa : Tbay'ra libs twin alatars iron karcluai to both haa blaa. round aya of forast-m not ' Bat OrMcban '1 in motion from norulng til want : Kb rant. an4 tba tklpa. and aba jump wltb aeiunt ; Whila ka eaan won't m' t, tvao whaoabala FaaaoM to dolly of eblna aud kid. Bald Orelebea to Kitchen, 'We're left all alnaa : Wa ll Jutt hT qulst food tun of our ova ; I ou 11 nil oa T tir vutoo to cii oo in cat, To laka bar aouu cuarriea. aud bava a ioug cbau In tba vtna-corrrad arbor tha labia va HI prea4. And load It with chrrl. all abinuig aid rail 11 L-ick out Iba nta.t trow toaa on tba bf II, for akpT ' uraeo-Eraa, ud 70a. and w- aa.L 111 do all tba talking tor you and for bar. btaca you, ojf pool baubeo, caiibot avaa purr. I naiar at eharriM. I thank too' un b. And torn tbare'U ha mora lor iut katcban ar.d 1 bey eallad on Fran Oran-kyea, tba sleapT old ualua, i grava little Katcban roda back aa aba cama Wf h immt a snot on hr kid fiDffar-tf PR ' But t(v lit' la (iratcbeu bad purpla-aiained Up ! cl. ftivaoiaa. OVERREACHED. Once in the course of a medical ca reer of nearly fifty years 1 saved a patient's II e. In other caes I have my doubts: but mat one 1 in certain of It You'll take another c garelter What no? Then black coilee! The patient was a lady young, and not unpleaslr.g. That gave me an Interest in the ca-e. Mie uvea at fcurblton. 1 had never seen her be fore I was called In for thh particular illness: but ouc day ber husband came to my house In llarley Mreet, and wanted nie logo down post haste witb him to look at her. Jle wo particularly anilous to get a first-rate London specialist's opinion. They had a general practitioner down at tbeirown place, he said, but that wasn't enough for hini, he distrusted G. K's. He insisted upon uettiog the very best advice for ber. A tall, dark man. the husband, 1th keen, deepsunKen eyes. He looked like a Spaniard, and might have been Grand Inquisitor. I ut bat struck m njot about him was the queer little fact th.it, though be ei pressed the g eaiest anxieiy.fand desire to shaw the deepest affection. 1 touldn't help feeling It wa my opinion that he wanted far more than my assistance He laid great stress upon the point of my being an undoubted authority. Whatever 1 thought of the case be would know It was r ght He didn't care abuut the diagnosis of these suburban doctors he d dn't trust their prognosis; but 1 If 1 told Dim bis wife would live, he could be sure she would recover; and If i told him welL the worst why, be knew be must accept it with resignation. (Cambric pocket-bandkerchle .) I went down with him and. saw ber. Abe was very ill Indeed. A mot pathetic woman. She aroused my keenest sympathy. But It was the queerest case I ever knew in my life. I could make nothing of it I told her husband she was seriously ill; I doubted her recovery, she had sank so low. but I didn't understand It Ills eyes bad an inscrutable gleam In them when I told blm that; but he answered very anxiously: "( an't you put a name to It? It would be satisfactory at least to know what it Is that's the matter wltb ber." "No. I can't," 1 replied. "In the whole course of my experience 1 neier yet saw anything like It" His face fell a little. Long medi cal pract oe has made me observe the qnick shades of emotion that pas over faces. "I was in hopes you would have understood it," be said, very slowly, with a bard look Into my eyes, point ing ea h word with emphasis. "It was for that I went to the best Lon don authority. I thought these suburban men might fail to make it out but that 1 was sure of an opin ion from a great London specialist They told me your forte was diag nosis. " Clever of him. I felt at the time, to try thus to work upon my profes sional pride, and my professional susceptibilities. He fancied be fculd force or cajole me Into giving it a name, mat was ueciueuiy saarp of blm, but it over shot the mark. It gave me the first real clue to the reil nature of ber illness. Next day, and next again, I went down to see my patient Money was no object the affectionate bus band said often. All he wanted was to be sure bis dear wife had the ben efit of the very tst ra dical advice and assistance. The third day I was piu led; I took my assistant down wltb me without telling him why. I sent blm in to see her. When be came out I said to blm: "Well, Harvey, what do you make of it " 1 don't answered, unique I make anything of It" be I can't It looks to me don't In the least under- stand It" "Neither do I," I replied, stroking my chin. 'That's why 1 brought you to see it" We sat and stared at each other in silence for a minute. Then slstant said very dubiously: my as- Tbe fact is, Sir, Everard, It ap pears to me " Well, goon man. Out w tn It" "Not a ca e of natural disease at all, but a case of poisoning." "Precisely myoplnion," 1 answered, giving a start "I brought you here to confirm it " 1 went Into tbe sick women's room again "I want to ask you a question," I said, In at soothing a voice as pos sible. "Yon mar tblok It in odd one. It there anybody who would bene tit In any way by ytmr deatby" CM gaaed at me eewy. 'Sot a tool " tbe answered. "All I have n the world I've leu oy wiu to dear Archie" Thai settled the ouestl o. I feu sure 1 knew a prescription thst would cure ber I went down again to the The husband was there. i sitting uneasily Dy the window. Ho ! lo ked at me with an auxlous face "Well, I've formed an opinion on ' the cm at lat" I wi'd, Dr. Harvey here, but pe haps it may distre-s vou or annoy you to bear it " He glanced nervously Jt my assist ant, then at me in return. 1 had placed myself on purpo-e so that both our eyes were uion hliu lfro every angle. He sbu.ed in bis chair. "Oh, I'-n prepared for the wort" he answ. red, wi'fc a sit kly smile. "I know she can't recover." Then do you desire me to give ; you the honest opinion I've formed." 1 asked, "at the risk of offending you?" "Yea, I want your opinion," he answered; but his lips t,uuered lalntly. "It's that I called you in fo . 1 stared straight in bis eyes I fl ed him witb mine. He couldn'v avoid them without catching Har vey's. 'Then my opinion is this," I said, slowly and distinctly, "that If your wife dies you'll be banged for it" He never moved a muscle of h s face, but bis color went wltb a rush. He was white as a ghost in a mo ment He rose with an effort "This is a mauvalse plalsanterle," he cried, "at such a time as tb s: , A mauvalse plaisanterie!" "No p.easanterie at all," I an swered, very grim, ' but a simple statement of my medical opinion. Look here. Mr. bo-and-so, we are two, you are one. Now, I give you fa r warning. This lady up stairs is being slowly poisoned. Unless she recovers, we will hold you answer able. You wanted tbe best advice. Well, now you hae got It 1 on't . sunpose you can deceive me by using a little po.son, 1 won't let you mur , der her. Your wife must recover. 1 i have my eye upon vou. If anything ever ha pens to her, now or hereaf ter. 1 shall take Bood care there is i lull inquiry; and so will Dr. Harvey, 1 say no more than tbat: and I wish you a very good morning. To-rnor row, whe 1 1 come, 1 shall expect to see a marked improvement" And so 1 did. She was dec dedly : better. In three weeks she was welL In a month she was at Harro- i gate 1 never undeceived ber. She loved the creature, and 1 allowed her to noon loving hi 111. But I con ess I was relieved when, four years later, he providentially broke his wretched neck on ,be J-ch reck bora it un burdened my mind of tbe responsi bility of watching blm i in other cases 1 have my doubts; . but in tbat one 1 am confident , really saved my patient's life and i should think you agree with me. i Boston True Flag. HUMORED OR HUMBUGGED. Ma Amount of Il-atlnr Will Mafca aa Ob atlnata Camel Builga an Iocb. Camels are not like horses, says tbe Asbton Lepoiter. If a horse does not want to do anything we make , blm. If a camel does not want to do anything be leaves it undone No i amount of coaxing, no amount of ' cruelty will make him budge. Ho jag the determination of a mule com bined with the strength of an ele phant A camel is one of those ag gravating brutes which will drive a ; hot-tempered man to distraction. Nothing will persuade blm to listen to reason. He will oppose your will with a passive resistance that is ab solutely unc n jiierabie. Tbe only , way to treat a camel is to humor if j you cannot humbug him. They will j often lie down if you load them with the proverbial last straw, and you 1 ui ght beat them to death or offer up ' all the pleasures of paradise before they wo ild get up They are p g , beaded I -easts. Sometimes when they i have quite a light load they turn nasty and throw themselves to tbe ground. I ut although they are ob stinate, they are not cute, and an Aral), by pretending to submit can generally get tbe better of tbe stub born beasts. Tbe drivers will os tentatiously remove thre; or four packtges from the load, and the ani mal with an Inward chuckle of satis faction, rises at once, without per ceiving that tbe parcels have mean while been returned to their former place. As he Hatters himself he has shirked some of bis duty be swings away witb a light heart, gratified be yond measure, like a spoiled child, at having Its own way. Tbe camel is an unsociable beast He Is also habitually dull, except when be is sniffing the salt air of tba desert. When he Is treading the sands, with the burning sun on bis back and the boundless waste before him, he feels himself at home. Tbe immense beat makes blm bubble over with pleasure- and tills his frame w tb sublime In toxication. It has been stated on toe nest autnority mat be can go nine days without water. And if you had ever seen a camel drink water when be does get a chance of quench ing bs thirst you would not be sur- i prisea ai tins, iney nave oeen Known , to put away seven gallons and a half at a time. Hard to Please Susy It a young lady of Ave years : and also of a verydltticultdispusltlon. , Tbe other day a visitor at ber father's ! house found Susy weeping bitterly In ! the corner. "Why, what are you crying about?" tbt was asxea t ' 'Cause all my b brothers and tit j ten have a v-v-vacatlon, and I doo't 1 nave any! Booboo!" I "And why don't you have an va- go to sob.i eatioor '"Cause I I don't yet!" CHLOROFORM IN EARLY DAY Uar' ta 11. Your ootl e of the discovery of chloroform Id 1841 recalls a curious experience in my Cambridge under graduate life, say a writer In the London New. One evening In Jan uary, 131. 1 went into a ihemisi's shop and ordered more photographic rbetuii alt tn b - sent to my rooms bard t'V I was lodging on the parade. Feeing an ounce bottle of chloroform on tbe counter, I tought it out of cur.oslty and took it away witb me, leaving the chemicals to follow. In my own rooms, seated in an armchair 1 put four drops on my handkerchief, aud. carefully placing the (Kittle on tne table at ome digtar)Ce from me, 1 sniffed the hand kerchief. A pleasant sensation and a singing in mv ears was the only re sult ro.shnrtly afterward. iinunud out eight drops and acted as tefore. The next thing I remember is bod ing myself on tbe floor on my back, my dress undone, my face, etc. drip ninir with cold water, and hearing a voice, "He's coming to. I do believe." Yes, It was so 1 came to after hav- log been unconscious for two nurs and a half. Next day my doctor, when out with tne foxnounas, was greeted wltb: "II ulloa, doctor so you raised a man irom me acau iav nlgbt" "You may well say that," was the reply. "lor 1 naa given up an hopes." I was very puwled on ac count of the effect of my careruny measured dose. All 1 could gainer from tbe fcr ant was that sne naa brought me up a parcel from the chemist, and see ng me asleep, t led to waice me; then, "Ending I was dead," ran down into the shop, call ng out "Mr. M. Is dead.'- Two Trinity men were in the shop One went on to tbe p-tn. chapel, telling everyone of my sudden death; the other, after a glance at me, kindly called in Dr. C Some time after the mystery was cleared up The "slavey" ga e warning, and th; day she left see made the following confess on- "Vou remember that night you were nearly dead, sir. Well, you know, Sir, I thouirhtyou hd fainted, and I see the bottle 00 the table ana thought It was salts, so I took out the stopper and held it to your nose; hot as it didn'tdo no good, I poured a lot of It out into my hand aud rubbed it all over your nose and mouth." I told the doctor the story. He repl ed: "Well my dear fellow, all I can say In this: If ever ynu have to undergo an operation, you can tell your family doctor that you can take chloroform " Thank Ood, that necessity has never arisen. How to Draw a Will. The wisdom or hav ng the will drawn while In health, when the nervous and morbid fears engendered by Illness are abeut, and the erson making It 1 able to order a clear and reasonable distribution of ber prop erty, should appeal to every one, writes Mrs. Hamilton Molt tn an article entitled "Making a Will" in the Ladles' Home Journal. The fear that the attorney's fee will be exorbitant or even that It will be large, should be neither ex cuse nor rea-on for delay. All pro fesslonal work is done on the basis described in the oia saw: "Wbao you Qnd a fat goota pluck It claan, Aud li t luu ! koom t J lb imn ' And legal charges are regulated not only by tbe amount of work done, but by the ability of the client to pay. Go to any reliable attorney and t 11 blm that you wlib to have your will drawn, and tbat you can only afford to pay a certain sum for a fee. 1( he has reason to lielleve tbat you have stated your pecuniary position truthfully he will become your ad viser no matter how small bis recom pense is to be lieteruilne in ad vance exactly what you w.sh done with your estate; make careful mem oranda of all the poi'its, tbe lull names of all who will appear in the document and of anything el-e which may seem to you as of Importance. Take this data with you to the law yer; tell blrn clearly what you wish done. Answer without questioning whatever be may ask you; avoid Ir relevant remarks, and then leave him t ) prepare the document after mak ing an appointment to return with your wltn sses for signatures, etc. Pretty Komancn ol aNoutbern Girl. Mra Thomas Smales died In Orange, N. J., Saturday, from the effects of a bullet which she carried In her skull since early lire. Her maiden name was Ml3 Frances Dayton, and she was a daughter or wealthy lrglnia parents. Her beauty won for ber many admirers, one o tbem, Thomas iSuiales. whom she loved above all others. Among the rejected suitors was a Southern lad, who, being re pulsed In bis advances, shot her in the beid All efforts to locate the ball pioved futile. Miss Dayton studied telegraphy and then took a course In medicine In order to treat herself. She finished her medical studies In Berlin and went t) L n don, England, to pra tlce. Her lover was still true to ber and although his family had removed to Australia be kept up fccrrespondcnce with her. He returned at length to the United States and established himself In the photographic business In Brunswick, Ua. He prospered greatly and sent for bis Intended. She crossed the water and they were married in 1HM& She devoted herself to charitable work and founded tbe first training t bool for nurses In all tbe South, also a hospital at Krunswlck. Tbe bullet In ber bead, however, still troubled ber and about a year ago she came north to visit a friend at orange, N. X, with tbe bone of grain, mg ber health. AU effort proved futile and tbe gradually watted away. u -..- s A ror all bit life la tbe ekjee f tame oosft ttupteloo. -AV' 1 1