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... - CHAPTER X.-CoDtinned.) "I hve been thinking, nsy dear Mr. Rutnven," ald Marsdeu, a be pulled Id the ponies to make them walk quietly tip a long bill, "1 hare been thinking that Dorrington would not make a bad truite for 7ju. He la really an excellent fel low, and uut at all a bad man of buslne. though a bovine air hangs round hliu at 11." "He uiight not like the trouble, aod I am really In no hurry." "But It la quite Decennary that you ahould hare another truatee. I begin to feel the responsibility rather too much for me. I should prefer a colleague, be emnse Oh, for several reaaona." "Doc he wih thia matter to be aettled before he offera himself to mef thought Mra. Huthveo, looking Into the dark-blue eyea admlriugly fixed upon her; and entil ing responslvely, he aaid: "If you Ihluk well, pray sk Lord Dorrington." ''It would come better from yourself. Tou know my brother-in-law I one of your many deroted admirers. He will be flattered by the request." "As I ahall be If he aecepte." "Which of course he will. I often wish ed I were, a better man of busiuess, for your sake. I am, or buve beeu, too great lover of pleasure. I suppose I must turn to gravity and ambition some day." "Were I a man, I ahould certainly be ambitious. I should not like to be second to uny one." "What an awful vista of toll aud truu ble you conjure up; still, you make me ashamed of myself. If I liad some one near lo inspire me, I might do something. I oeifiu to turns 1 nave drifted about long enough." "Is it coming?" thought Mrs. Kuthveu for the twentieth time, as she twisted the tassel of her paraaol round Ita handle In painful anxiety. "Will you drive with me to-morrow?" resumed Maraden earnestly. "I want you to trust yourself to me for a longer expe dition than usual; lo a charming village about ten or twelve miles off. Let us atart early and have luncheon at a primi tive little hostelry called "the Three Pig eon.' We'll let the poniea rest, and be back In time for afternoon tea." To this arrangement Mrs. Huthven agreed, and. after a pause, said sudden ly, us if speaking out of her thoughts: "Do you remember that evening, six years ago, when we were all In the veran da of my father's bungalow, "and my hus band drought you in, and said, 'This will be a cousin of yours to-morrow?-" "Yes, I do well. What a lucky beggar I thought poor Charlie!" "And do you remember my father show ing my ruby and diamond necklace aud earrings, and saying it would pusile any jeweler in I-ondoo or Paris to show the like?" "I do. Indeed. They were superb." "He little thought," sh said, with a hysterical laugh, "that I should bring them to Christian, law-abiding, well-ordered Kngland, only to be robbed of them. Ah! Mr. Marsden, there is little to choose between the idolatrous East and the truth telling, spiritually minded West." "Too true! So I have always thought. But, dear Sirs. Ruthvpn, If you knew how painful the very mention of those unfor tunate jewels la to me. 1 am sure vou would avoid the subject. If you had not I put them on with the gracious intention ; of doing honor to my ball, they would be I now safely re prising In your jewel case "Perhaps so, though I am inclined to thing that so Ingenious and daring g thief would have got at them anywhere." "He might. Now try and adopt my phi losophy, 'let the dead past bury its dead," and enjoy the living present. I think we shall have a fine day to-morrow, and, for my part, I look forward to our little expe dition with the keenest pleasure." Mrs. Huthven smiled graciously, and t!. y tnlUed and laughed gayly for the re mainder of their drive. The morrow rose bright and clear, but the projected excursion never came off. A telegram from his lawyer arrived In the forenoon for Marsdeu, and when he ought to have been entertaining Mrs. Huthven at a tete-a-tete luncheon be was steaming away to London. Mnrsden's summons was peremptory. He could only send a message of fare well to Mrs. Ituthven, who usually break fasted in her own room, and assure his sister thflt he should return the firNt mo ment he could. With this glimmer of hope she was forced to lie content. "If be finds anything more interesting Vir amusing in or near London we shall n-e no more of him for many a day. 1 know what Clifford Is," said Lady Dor rington lo her husband, "I begin to sus pect he does not Intend to marry Mm. Huthven. or matters would not drag as they do," "Then he is a bit of a blackguurd, Ihough be is your brother; every one be lieves he Is paying his addresses to her; I do not see how they could think other wise; and he is bound to give her her op tion; indeed " "Nonsense, Lord Dorrington; my broth er is no worse than other men; tried by your standard, there are few who, at oue time or another, do not deserve the very iuirs appellation you are pleased to con fer on Clifford. Still, 1 wish he had more sense and taste: Mrs. Huthven is a very charming woman in my opinion." "And in mine, too; why, it is extraordi nary luck to find money and fascination joined together. The man who gels Mrs. Rutbven will be a lucky beggnr a deuced lucky beggnr." "Why, Dorrington! 1 believe you are capable of giving me a cup of 'cold poi son,' and trying your own tuck In that quarter," cried hl wife, laughing, "How ever, all I rare for is to see her aafely married to my brother." "Yes, It would b capital thing for him. 1 urn not so sure how it would an swer, for her. Marsdeu would never be constant to.any woman," "You Judge him severely,' at any rate, Mra. Huthven In woman of the world, and accustomed to men who are not saints; she has too much sense to be ferociously jealous," "Don't be too sure; I fancy she is about as far gone after your brother aa a woman can be. I saw that long ago, and I am a tolerably shrewd observer." "You dear old thing! you are not blinder man your neighbors, certainly; I ahall write every day to Clifford till I make nun return. "Well, you can trr." The evening of the dav on which Inrd and Lady Dorrington held this conversa tion Jjrs. LLstrange and Nora had aet tled themselves, one to her needlework the other to a new book. The day had oeen wet and stormy. In suite of which they had been obliged to go through a long afternoon of shopping, chiefly com- miaslona for friends at Oldbrldge, and both were glad to rest. Mrs. L'Estrange had recovered from the fit of depression which had exercised Nora's Imagination a week before, aud had, Indeed, been more quietly cheerful than was her wont, siuee she had bad a letter with a foreign stamo. which Nora shrewdly suspected was from Winton. She was a little dreamy that evening, and found It difficult to fix her mind on what she was reading. "I suppose we shall nave rain and fogs, now that the fine weather has broken up. I really think I should prefer couutry to town, in ruin aud storm," she said, laying down her book. I feel quite tired out. "Yes, returned Mrs. L'Kstrauge, when she had counted some stitches, "but then there are fewer resources than in town. Here one can turn Into a picture gallery, and find summer or autumnal sunsbiue for a shilling; besides " "Mr, Marsden," anuounced the ex-btit ler, In his best style. "1 thought you were at Chedwurth!' "hi 1 am so glad to see you!" were the exclamations which greeted him. "Obliged to come up to town ou busi- ess, was his vague explanation. "Ar rived yesterday. Have beeu torn to pieces by luwyera all day, and am come to lay my mangled remains at your feet." He drew a chair to the coxy fireside as he aiHike. "And do you go back to-morrow?" ask ed Nora, who was roused and pleased by his sudden appearance. lo uiorrow Nor to-morrow, nor to morrow!" cried Marsdeu. "It is dull at Chedworth, desperately dull. The hunt ing no great things, the shooting no bet ter; but the house is crammed with bucolic chums of that excellent fellow Dorring ton, aud, in short, here I am, and here I shall slay." "Lady Dorrington will be verv vexed. I had a letter from her yesterday, saying how much better everything went since yon nan joined tbpm. "I am glad she knew my valne." "And how is Mrs. Huthven?" returned Nora. "Oh! quite well aud blooming. Khe is fast recovering her misfortunes." "Captain Shirley was here on Sunday remarKeo. .Mrs. l., r.strange, "and was saying be had never seen her look so ill and depressed since he had known her." "Shirley? How ilid that fellow come to call upon you?" asked Marsdeu. "I don't know why it is, but I can't stand Shir ley," he added thoughtfully. "And Win ton, where is he?" "In Florence?" "Florence? He is not the sort of mnn I should imagine would like Florence." "I don't think he does," said Nora. "He went there to see some Indian friends so far on their way." "I did not think he would have been so r'fl'1Jr l,aT I"iIon just now," and be 811 "Passive glance to Mrs. t'Es- tru(fB wnicn sue did not see, but .Norn did. Then he asked for Bea. and talked of the child in terms that delighted the mother. Nora thought Marsden had never seem ed so nice aud sympathetic. He was Hiiieter and graver than usual, and she felt the relief bis presence brought to the monotony of her thoughts moat welcome. At length, with apologies for having kept them np so late, he bid them good night, and drove straight back to his hotel without even an attempt to find if there was any oue at his club to play a game of cards or billiards with him. His spirit's lord sat lightly on his throne. Marsdeu was little given to think, or trouble him self about, the future, but with all his airy carelessness the last year bad been one of Irritating anxiety, now he had contrived to clear himself. He could defy Mrs, Huthven, her lynx-eyed solicit ors, and her watchful led-capiain Shir ley. He owed her nothing. A little love making, more or lens, did uot count with so experienced a coquette. He was per fectly free to shake her off if he chime, and he did choose. Good heavens! Corn pare her with the fresh, natural, girlish elegance of Nora L'Estrange. The arch, delicate animation of the one, the studied graces, the veiled yet perceptible passion of the other. And Nora had beeu un doubtedly glad to tee him. How sweet the candid welcome of her eyes, how un conscious her frank, gracious pleasure. Yes, it would be his delightful lot to wak en her from the slumber of childhood to the fullness of womanhoodthe power of loving! let there was a certain strength and individuality about his young kins woman that warned him she was no mere waxen doll, to be bent as he chose accord ing to his will. She had idens of her own tolerably clear and defined. This would but give piquancy and variety to their Intercourse. Heavens! how lovely those eyes of hers would be with the light of love benmitig from their hazel depths. Then she wmild.be content to wait, with him, till the Kvcsleigh estates were free from ull Incumbrances before they launch ed Into the coidly, heavy style of exist ence suited to his position. And before the fever of anticipation let him sleep, Marsden made more good resolution than he bud ever formed In his life before. Only give him this fair, fresh, delicate darling, and he would be a new man, with hopes and aspirations higher and better than had ever before dawned upon his mind. "I have done my best to carry out your directions," wrote Shirley to his suzerain, Mrs. Huthven, "andTinve even arrived at the distinction of being admitted to the drawing room of XI Us L'Lstrange at af ternoon tea time. This enable me to as sure you that Maiaden almost live in I what yon term the 'shabby lodgings' of I bis rlstivr-s I have not met him there (certainly; but I can trai-e that be baa I always been there last night, and is ex pected this evening. Evesleigh, 1 find, too, is to be let for a terra of years five. I think. Old Shepherd, of Calcutta you remember the firm, desperately rich people is looking for a country place, and It lifts beeu offered to his solicitor. It seem to me that thi Indicates intention widely different from anvthina vou anti cipated. ami point more to a marriage for love than one for, let us say, money and love. I have met Marsden more thar. once lounging in Pall Mall and Hegent treet as if he had nothing on earth to do, which certainly does not look like the ur gent business he asserted called him to tnajn II. ............ ... J 1 4..,T-,f-r, uu, o uouoi, nave in- formation which mar throw a totallv dif- fereut light on these ambiguous proceed ings. I can only give you the result of my observations. Take it at what it is worth. Thi letter was the last pebble on the cairn of hopes and fears, desires, doubts and silent, stinging anger, which had been gradually accumulating over the bright anticipations of a few month ago, a con tinued state of agitation and disapiwint ment had strained endurance beyond the utmost, and the passionate, self-willed woman gave way under it. A cold, caught during a long drive with Iird Dorrington in the east wind, obliged Mrs. Huthven to keep her room. After a day or two of anxious attendance ou the part of the local doctor, high fever set in, and it was evident that Mrs. Huthven was danger ously HI. A great physician and a couple of trainee? nurses were summoned from Ixindon, all the pomp and circumstance of serious sickness were established in Lady Dorrington' pleasant house, and for the time sporting men and dancing women knew it no more. ('ILPTEH XL It was some little time before the evil tidings reached Mrs. L'EstrauEe and Nora, as their correspondence with Lady j Dorrington was uot too frequent, and she was too much taken up, and too angry with him, to continue her diurnal letters to her brollier. Meanwhile Nora and her step-mother went on the even tenor of their way. Mrs. L'K.-drftnge had gone to Norwood to luncheon with au old lady, a distant cousin of her mother, who had only re membered her existence after she had made what was considered a good mar riage, and hail more than once invited her. Mrs. L'E-stninge always found it hard to say no, and. somewhat to Nora's indigna- lion, had consented; but went alone, as her step-daughter refused to accompany her. It was dusk when she returned, for her hostess had indulged herself in endless in quiries and fault-huding respecting their mutual relations. Mrs. L'Kstrange was wearied, and longed to s-e Nora' kind, bright face, to describe the peculiarities of her testy kinswoman while enjoying a up of fresh, warm tea. Nora win sitting on a footstool by the firelight when uer step-mother came m, and the little tea table was drawn uearl the hearth, the teapot simmering under i its coxy, a plateful of thin bread and but ter, temptingly delicate, hi side it. "How late you are, Helen, " cried Nora, starting up and coming over to assist in taking off her cloak. "What has kept you so long?" Something in her tone struck Mrs. L'Kstrange; it was not im patience exactly, It was a sort of subdued excitement. "It wits not the charms of my hostess, nor the delights of my visit, I assure you," and she proceeded to describe the bitter ness of her entertainer with much quiet drollery, while Nora poured out the tea. "You don't want the lamp yet?" she asked, after laughing at her step-mother's account. "It is so nice to sit by the fire. "It 1 said Mrs. L'Estrange. and there was a pause; then Nora said suddenly: j the well water freely. The water is re "Helcn, Clifford Marsden called here j freshlngly cool lu summer, anil always to-day." I 'Yes. He said something about coming last night." "But, Helen! He he asked me to m,m him! I s mo a iiim v.ii !" "Well, Nora, I am surprised, too, though a l'""1- d "Colored by the (trainings of not so amazed as you are. I have seen ! manure heaps. This liquid, sinking that he was fond of you, but I did not through the soil, mingles with subter think he would marry without money. - ranesa Rtrpams, and the germs of ty- How did you answer him, dear?" 'I scarcely know, except that I certain ly did not say 'yes. " (lo be continued.) Myriad Quacks. Near Santa Moulcu, California, not long ago, In a little bay about six square miles In area, there were fully a quarter of a million of wild geese. The noise of t lie quacking and calling to one another was at times heard two miles away. At Situ Pedro aud at the little lake lu Kern County there are said to be even greater numlwrs of the game, because of the proximity of the wheat fields. Large numbers of the geese are sialn iiuuiiully during their migrations. It Is no trick fur a boy sporuuiau to get fifty or sivty of the birds iu a few hours, and hundreds of the older hunt ers lu this region have often got over two hundred geese lu a day. A party of four IiOM Angeles sportsmen who went out for a two days' hunt over in the Orange County murshen last week, came borne witu over nine unnuren ad geese for the city markets. Two ltakertleld nieu had a three days' hunt lately and ctiuie home with a farm i wagon loaded down with geese and j ducks. Iu all the little towns along the i Hue of the Santa Fe railroad In this, section there are a acore or two of j men and boys who regularly, spring j and fall, turn out for a day's shoot at wild geese and ducks, and the person who doe not show that he has tumbled over at least twenty-five birds Is ac counted Id poor luck, or a decided nov ice lu bunting. Many persons will ride to the outskirts of the town, and, stand ing In a buggy or wngon, will wuis.y themselves with a shot at the armies of flying birds at long range. Occa sionally they will bring down a goose with such random shooting. AU the markets and the country grocery stores now have wild geese and ducks exhibited for sale at nominal prices. The craving for Thespian distinctions appears to have taken hold on Peter Jackson, the colored fightlug man. He I very keen on playing Othelle, and hns not only learned the part perfect ly, but has memorised Uc whole of the play. OUB RURAL READERS. SOMETHING HERE THAT WILL INTEREST THEM, ! j The Improve! Ground Cberry Grow ing kupidlr a Fa vor - How to Secure May on Bwmi- Protecting Vines from the btrioed Keetle, The Ground Cherry. With many farmers the ground cherry I classed among tun weeds, as It grows wild In many parts of the cen tral and western State. Its value as r,i, i,.,., ,. i ,, frU 1 hd u,rt. I'lre- elated arid until the punt few years it wag seldom seen u cultivation. An im proved variety Is uow rinding Its way lit our seeduien'a catalogues, says the American Agriculturist, aud there is no doubt that it will grow rapidly In favor. The plant Is quite hardy, and will thrive on any soil where imtatoes will grow. The fruit when the bus has been removed Is a handsome yel low cherry of about three-fourths of au Inch in diameter. It has something of a strawberry flavor, and is excellent for sauce, plea, or preserves. For win ter use the fruit may be canned or IMPROVED OKOl'MI) CHKKHY. I dried. Or if kept in a cool place in Its j husk the cherry will keep plump and sound until Irfember. or lalcr. In growing ground cherries about the name method Is pursued as In growing tomatoes. Tho seeds are sown In hot beds, and the young plants are not taken to the garden .until danger of frost is past. The ground cherry Is j wonderfully prolific. The first ripe j ones tire withered about the first of August. After tills the fruit may be ! plek.-d everv two or three duvs until c( j, fr0Mt Deadly Well Water. fine of my neighbor farmers, a man In the prime of life, bale and healthy up to last week. Is prostrated by ty phoid fever. Three doctors are bat tliug to save him. Against the physi cians, says the New York Tribune, an iu visible, malignant host contend, and the Issue Is In doubt The sick man occupies a trim, white farmhouse, with neat surroundings. Only In one spot mny carelessness, and perhaps fatal neglect, be detected. The well is dan gerously near the barnyard. The water used in the house comes from another source. But a tin dipper alwavs hangs Invitingly from the curb, aud the farm- cr has been in the hub!t of drinking appears clear and snarkllnir. Nothing can be more deceptive than this appar- ( ent purity. Fully two rods from the well a hollow In the barnyard contains puold are carried into the well. It is wise to abandon any well the water of which can possibly become thus con taminated. As water Is more ronlined in a well than in a constantly flowing spring, the danger of using it. is greater. Securing; Hut On Swamps. Owners of swamps frequently find It Impossible to Rtorp hay during the sum mer season because of softness of soil and water ways preventing the use of horse and wagon. The hay is cut dur ing a dry period when the marsh will support a man, cured and cocked on a FOIt STACKING MA MSI t BAT, number of piles as shown In the cut. If the cock l Intended for a large one. boards are laid over a dozen or more piles; if small, the hay U laid on the pile heads. During winter when the ground Is frozen, the hay Is easily re- moved by horse and sled. Farm and Home. Soiling; Color of Horse. "What Is the best selling color?" Is a question often nskeil by horsemen. The opinion of the Western Horseninu Is that fat is I he best color In the world. One sees very little of this color at the average breeders' sale. Colls and mares are too often brought Into the sale ring spring poor. No one cares for such stock, and the result Is that the nnlJUiils sell for ridiculously low figures, and the late owner goes home cursing his luck and rowing that the bottom hns fallen out of the horse market. Cnrlnu Clover Hoy, After many years of unsatisfactory experience with clover hay, says n writ er In "Ohio Farmer," I dually learned how to cure It so that it will surely keep. The secret Ilea In curing twlc. 1 itSSfllfe! W cut usually quite late in the after noon what we can care for In a day. and If the following day proves a good hay day, cure it as rapidly as possible. ! and by 2 o'clock it will feel perfectly dry. I then put it into cocks, and al ways find it the next morning damp and clammy. About 10 o'clock we open the cocks aud dry out this gathered moisture, and then know that it will keep. If tho day after it 1 cut does not prove a good hay day, we leave it In the swath, aud I have made good hay that was cut Thursday, lay through a heavy rain on Friday and Saturday, and was not stirred until Monday. Killing Weed. Barren summer fallowing Is often practiced to clear land, but usually corn, potatoes, cabbage or beets may be better grown, giving a profitable re turn for the extra cultivation, says the Philadelphia ledger. As annual weeds thrive best In soil that has been broken, but is not occupied, it is evident that broken laud should uot be permitted to remain Idle. A little grass seed rak ed iu ou bare hill sides will often keep down annual weeds, and will at the same time prevent washing. Mowing the roadside two or three times during the summer will subdue the dog fennel uud ragweed. Mowing the stubble about two weeks after harvest and grain fields that have beeu seeded to grass or clover will check the annual weeds ami at the same time produce a mulch that is very beneficial to the seeding during the summer drouth. White Lumps in Butter. These are due to slots of curd. They are caused by improper handling of the cream. It has become too sour, and wheyed off, says the Agricultural Epitomist. In other words, is has lost Its homogeiieousness; it is partly de composed. The scum of the cream has partially separated and settled to the bottom, and the solids have gathered lu dots. These clots cohere so strongly Unit they are not broken up in the churning, and so they are found In the butter uuehuruod. They are unsightly. They spoil the price of butter if sold, and the pleasure of eating It if used at home. As a preventive stir the cream well when fresh cream is added to that already in the cream can, and also stir when ripening. 1'rotectinn Vinee. The worst enemy the cucumber, rfitiHsh., pumpkin and melon vines have Is the little striped beetle. It uot only eats the pulp from the underside of the leaves, but destroys the stalk, and if the soil is loose it eats the stalk below the ground; therefore It is a dimetilt mutter to fight It with Insecticides. For a garden where less than two dozen hills are planted, the safest and cheapest way to protect the vines is by a covering of mosouito netting or cheese cloth, cut Into pieces 18 or 20 inches square. These, to add to their durability, should be first dipped In oil and wrung as dry as possible. Now take a piece of No. 12 or 14 wire gal vanized If possible cut Into 2u-lnch lengths, bend five Inches of each end at right angles, and set them two Inches Into the ground at the comer of each OOOD VINK PHOTKCTOH. hill, as seen at a a The netting is now iu the engraving, spread over this frame, and the edges are covered with a little soil to keep it in place. This thin covering, while admitting plenty of light and rain as It falls, also keeps out the little striped beetles. Aerating; the Milk. Aeration of milk tends to drive out any bud odors that have been absorbed and to lessen the taste and smell re sulting from such improper food as onions, etc. But aeration iu Itself has little effect on the keeping quality of the milk or on the effect of creaming. However, as aeration is usually attend ed by a cooling of the milk, the effect is to retard creaming, if the cream is raised by setting iu pans or cans lu a creamer. Milk shipped to market Is benefited by being thoroughly aerated. Takins; Out Tall Stumps. To lake out stumps and stoues is eas ier during a very dry spell on some fields, while ou other soil the work Is made lighter If the ground Is moist, or even wet. Pick out the best time for doing these Jobs, so that the same labor will accomplish more aud be less ex pensive for the amount of improve ments made. Halt for Cattle. Salt is an essential constituent of the blood, and because many of the com mon foods of cattle are lucking iu this essoin ial It must be artificially supplied. The amount varies In different food and In food grown from different soils, and the quantity cnttle mtiy need must be left to themselves. Modernte-Sifc .-d Farms. A farm of moderate size is the oue that Is making the most money for Its owner. It must be large enough to nd mll tho use of labor-saving machinery, but not so large as to be beyond the personal oversight of tho fanner. Hso the Horse Mower. Thousands of acres are mowed witli a scytho where a horse mower mlg.it be used. Uocks and roughness cut n figure with the modern mower properly handled. The Asparagus Plot. When you quit cutting asparagus, give tho bed a good many dressings oi fertilizer. Manure will do, but it car rles weed seeds with it Wide Tires on the Farm. Wide tires protect the woodwork of the wheels. When you have got them, keep thetn by painting every year. TERRIBLE LATTER-DAY DISEASC! Paresis Hapidlx Increasing; Amoig Kasy lien In Cities. In conuectlon with the cock-anr statement of Mr. Howeils that the pres ent race as never so healthy anl strong as cow, It is interesting to real the following paragraph, written by. Dr. T. S. Clouston, superintendent at the Mornlngside Asylum, Scotland. He says: "One terrible form of brain disease, with mental symptoms, Is certainly in creasing. That malady may b described as a breakdown of the great center of mind and motion in the brainj It always goes on from bad to wors till it renders Its victim utterly help les in mind and body and kills him la a few years. No cure and scarcely any mitigation of this latter-day curse baa yet been devised. It is a disease of cities, of restless lives, of active brain in their prime; sometimes of dissipa tion and debauchery, of life at high pressure commonly." During the past year the asylums of Scotland received 150 new cases; those of England 1,4X1, and those of Ireland 52. The asylum statistics of this coun try show an even greater number. Ia a single asylum of this state, for ex ample, that at Ogdensburg, there were among the 659 admissions 31 cases of general paresis. This would make the proportion of general paresis over 4 per cent Among seven state asylums, to which 1,942 patients were admitted in 1890, there were 60 cases of general paresla, or a little over 3 per cent If 4 per cent be the general ratio for this disease In the State of New York, then the total number of paretics among the 16,000 Insane would be about 640. As a mat ter of fact the number is much greater because the proportion of this disease Is larger in New York and Kings Coun ty asylums than in those of the State at large. But even If there were but 4,000 cases of general paresis among the 100, 000 Insane In this country, it would be an extraordinary evidence of the de velopment of a disease which In the last century was certainly not known, even If It did exist Buffalo News. Power of the Human Jaw. Dr. G. V. Black, a dentist of Jack sonvllle, Fla., has made some Interest ing experiments upon the force exert ed by the human Jaws iu the ordinary mastication of food, and also the great est force which the Jaws are capable of exerting. By means of a spring In strument provided with a registering device he took records of about 150 'bites" of different persons. Of these, fifty have been preserved as character istic of the ordinary man, woman and child. The smallest pressure recorded was thirty pounds, by a little girl 7 years old. This was with the Incisors. Using her molars, the same child exert ed a force of sixty-five pounds. The highest record was made by a physi cian of 35. The Instrument used only registered 270 pounds, and he closed It together without apparent effort. There was no method of determining how far above 270 pounds he could have gone. This test was made with the molars. Several persons exceeded a force of 100 pounds with the Incisors and 200 with the molars. The physical condition of the persons experimented upon seemed to have little bearing upon the result Dr. Black Is of the opinion that the con dition of the peridental membranes Is the controlling factor, rather than mus cular strength. Dr. Black found that In the habitual chewing of food, much more force Is exerted than Is neces sary. Mind Over Matter. The following remarkable tale Is told In the New York Evening Sun: "When measles once ran riot lu a girls' board ing school, the physician In charge had great difficulty iu persuading his skit tish patients to remain In bed, and so Induce the perspiration absolutely nec essary to recovery. Every means was tried, but to no avail. The girls found it Impossible not to just hop out from the blankets In order to run In and tell their next door neighbors that it was decided to trim the new hat with hello trope, or that It was true that Cousin Fred was actually engaged. All of which seriously retarded recovery. It looked for a time, Indeed, as though funerals might become epidemic as well as measles. Finally the psycholo gy teacher hit upon a scheme that seemed likely to work. It consisted In the few well girls stationing them selves Iu turn at the bed of each Invalid aud criticising her most unmercifully. The success of the plan was simply phenomenal. After only a few brief moments of such treatment the patient broke out Into a profuse and violent perspiration. Recovery soon followed, the doctors were overwhelmed at this fresh proof of the Influence of mind over matter, and the psychology teach er was a proud and happy pedagogue." Britain's Influence on Our Census. A curious feature of New York city's latest census Is that It shows more males than females. Most of the great Kastern cities in the United States, like our own cities at home, show an excess In female over male population, and this Is conspicuously the case in Boston, where tho women outnumber the men by about 13,000. In New York, on the contrary, there appears to be . about a thousand more men than wom en. Have the matrimonial aggression from this side anything to do with the ' fact? Westminster Cazette. The Preference. She The superior man rises ou de feat; the ordinary man rises on success. lie All things considered, I believe I prefer to be an ordinary man. Detroit Free Press. , ' ' Uncle Kl5n'e Oood Advice. "Doan nebbnh mel, fun of Merlon t'lngs," said Uncle Ebon, "an", on 1e uddah han', doan' lie too serlou 'bout t'lng ilat ortcr be funny." Washing, ton Star,
