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CHAITEIC XXl-Cntiuucd.) A few clay later something ocrunvd of such serious importance that Mrs. Knox no hinder thought of anything so tr'vjul as whether her daughter wore ot.nge IiIiivmiiiih ir rii on h"r weddinu day. All ln-r faculties were -tmIy-l in planning how to avert the danger that threatened. It had been a great grief to .In ne that I. it projected iiiurriacp hud caused a dif ference ill her relation with her father. Pleased ami proud an lie hml been tit her ucei'KK. it aH-are1 to him an though in gaining his Colonel an a son-in-law he had lout hi daughter; and he avoided being with them whenever he could throw a reasonable light iiihiii hia absence. June reiitoiiHlruted with him In Tain he smiled, kissed her, antl promised compli ance w ith her wishes, even putting a pres-.j sore tiKin hia inclination for that day; but the neit he alipped liiMenaibly back into hia newly acquired habit if nearly living at the mess, One day the Colonel noticed how Hcldom he waa at home; ami then Mr. Knox, afraid leat lie should lake offense, determined to apeak to her husband. It happened that the Quartermaster had forgotten aome paper that morning, and coining back for them, found hia wife alone in the little room where he iiHually wrote, and to which ahe often, as he had done on thin occaaion, brought her work. She opened the attack at once. "Won't you come home to lunch to-dny, John?" ahe asked, in her mildeat voice. "The Colonel is staying, and I am sure be thinka it strange you should always avoid him ao." "I don't avoid him, wife; but I feel out of my element with him, and that'a the truth. Men are na nature made them; women are 'lifforcnt atid make, or, at any rate, improve tiKn themaelvea. Neither the Colonel nor I can ever forget the dif ference between us. 1 am aure he pre fers to meet mo an seldom as possible." "1 don't believe it," returned Ins wife, bluntly. "Women never do believe anything it loe not auit them to believe," he re joiicd, with a good natured laugh. "And it makes Jane miserable, 1 know," he persisted. "Jane will I ain li a great lady soon ahe will forget to mias her poor old fath er. In any cnae 1 cannot stay at home to-day. I am up to my eyes in busi ness." lie anw by her expression that ahe waa atill incredulous, and went on to explain. "An order hna Just rotne for the de tachment from llattiabad to rejoin ua at once. I shall have a lot of trouble to sqneer-e them all in." Thinking by her silence that ahe waa angry with hint, and consequently reao lute nut to be convinced by anything he might say, he thought It better to let the subject drop, and having found hia papers on the desk, he gathered them Into a bun dle and left the room, never noticing that hia wife was lying hack in her chair, white as a ghost, and with as little power of self-assertion. Colonel I'rinsep came into the room ten minute later, lie waa searching for a book of Jane'a. and asked -Mrs. Knox if she had aeen It. Then, as he looked for ber reply, he noted her deathly pallor, and asked her instantly if ahe were ill. She tmswered by another question. "Colonel I'rinsep, is it true that the llattiabad detachment ia coming here at on-e ?" "Yea, quite true; it waa rather an un expected order, but (iovernment general ly makes up ita mind In a hurry." "And Jacob Lynn will he come?" ahe gasped out. "Of course the Sergeant will accom pany hia troop," waa the impatient reply. He no longer feared the influence of her r'rst lover over Jane, In-ing so aure of her love, ao certain that nothing could sep arate thctn now. lie felt vexed that Mr. Knox should plaee such undue importance iiHn this man's comings and goings, as though he could control or even hamper hia movement. Vet the effect of her words tilled him with an uncomfortable surprise. She fell back in her chair, wringing her hands ami moaning out that "All wa over; there could be no wedding now!" The Colonel was very much annoyed, and did not try to conceal his displeasure. "You seem to forget, Mra. Knox, that 1 urn not wooing your daughter In the dark. All the regiment is aware of my Inten tions, and I am not afraid of what any single member of It may do or say. Ser geant Lynn of his own free will released Jane from her engagement, and she ia no longer bound to consider his caprices. I nm really at a loss to conjecture how hia return could Interfere with our actions." "He never gave her up," confessed .Mrs. Knox, now in tears. "It was uiy own wicked scheming, and now It will nil come out, and I shall have deceived you all to no piirM.se!" "Hood heavens, Mrs. Knox! Do you know what It is that you have said?" cried the Colonel, hoarsely. She went on with what ahe was saying, without any notice of his Interpolation. Now that she had begun to unburden her mind she felt it as a relief. "You remember the day when Jane wrote at your Instigation to ask the Her gennt to give her up. Well, any man with an atom of pride or even self-respect would have done so at once, for few would care to wed ao avowedly an un willing bride" Mrs. Knoi generally grew eloquent under excitement, and used the words she had thought appropriate to ber position at village school mistress "but Jacob Lynn was always selfishness Incar nate, and he refuted. Her letter waa re turned with on abort sentence written at tha end of it, declaring that b could not give ber up. And be bad left tha envel ope unclosed. Yon may blame me If you will. Colonel Prinsep; but I take it few mothers could have resisted the tempta tion of cutting away the words which chance had placed so iierilously close at the bolt. ,iu of the page, when by so doing they could have secured a daughter's happiness as well as prosperity. Hut does it matter what others would have done in such a case? Suffice it to say that, having carefully guarded against the sus picion that anything had been taken away from it, I tore the letter in half, and inclosed it in its own envelope, leav ing June to draw the natural inference. Another letter came from him the other day, and this I also suppressed." "You never thought i:i what a false position you were placing me." he ob served, ghsniiily. at length. "What am I to do? What will the regiment say w hen they hear that I have tricked my Ser geant out of hia sweetheart? Did yon ever think," he continued, sternly, "when you concocted such a senseless scheme, the added misery you were heaping up for your daughter? She hail never cared for Sergeant Lynn, and now more than ever will she feel bound to marry him to undone her mother's fault. I will not spenk of the cruelty to me, though I might well, fur it will lie ten thousand times harder to part with her now than before I ever called her mine; but Jenny poor little Jenny!" "When ia the detachment coining in?" she asked, abruptly, in a strained, high key, another Idea having come into her mind. "Why should it nof lie your wedding dfty that was to have been." "Why should it not be your weddding day still? Yon could well arrange that the marriage should be over before the men march in." Stephen I'rinsep paced the room impa tiently. "Jane would never consent!" he ejacu lated. "Why need she ever know? Since the mutter has gone so far, why not carry It out to the end '!" "You must do as you think best," be said, in a shame faced, undertone; "I shall remain silent." CHAI'TF.It XXII. The fourteenth Jane's wedding day had come. Mrs. Kimx had insisted upon the ceremony taking place at a very early hour, ostensibly to avoid the heat, but in reality to allow of the Colonel and his bride leaving the station before the detachment could arrive. Hut, early aa it was to be, June was dressed an hour too soon, and stood before the mirror in the drawing-room surveying herself with pardonable pride In her appearance. Jane gaz.il on wistfully In the glass. She was glad that ahe was so fair, that even if she hud no other dowry aha could at leaat bring her husband the gift of beauty. She prayed that in hia eyes nt least she might never seem less lovable ami lovely, that he might never repent having chosen her above all others to be hia wife. And as she gazed, some one came In through the open window, and beside her glowing, amiling face In the mirror was reflected the figure of Jacob Lynn. At first a thrill of Instinctive terror ran through her, as she met his fierce blue eyes, and ahe shrunk away from the pas sion expressed in his haggard luce, lint the next moment a truer feeling moved her, and she was only conscious c,f a great compassion for his sorrow. "Why did you come, Jacob?" she asked, her voice full of tender, womanly com ulceration, as she turned toward him. "Why did I come?" he returned with a bitter lungh. "Because I wanted to see with my own eyes whether Jane Knox was us false, as untrue as they tell me!" "False, untrue!" she echoed, paling. "Kven I. with my unhappily suspicious nature, never dreamed of this," he went on, ruthlessly. "I thought you might write and throw me over, perhaps; but bow could I believe" that you, w hom I thought purer and more perfect than any other in the world, either man or woman, would steal a march uikjii me so, and to avoid a disagreeable explanation with me, would get married in my absence. You need not have been afraid of me, Jenny!" he added, In a softer tone. "I afraid of you! Why should I be? You gave me ui you returned my letter torn in half wlthouj a word," she re turned. "I returned your letter, it is true?" he answered, more quietly. "But it whs not torn, and at the bottom of the page I wrote my answer that I could not give you up. 1 wrote again " "And I never had the letter!" "It was .your mother who did it! She was always dead against me," .Incidi Lynn replied. Jane remained speechless, listening lo the clatter of plates and glasses in the op posite room, w here her mother her moth er who had deceived her ho, and brought her to this degradation w its putting the finishing touches to the simple wedding breakfast. "And so you were to have married our Colonel, Jenny. Do you remember how long ago I thought you two were court ing? You denied it then, but after all it came to pass. It is difficult fo deceive a lover, ami you are so pretty, I could not expect to keep you all to myself w ith out a rival." Slowly her gaze wnndered over him, from his rnkishly good-looking face, with its bright blue eyes and amber mustache, to his tall figure towering a novo her. Acknowledging that he was handsomer and more soldierlike than any one she had ever known, Jane felt that she would rather die than become his wife, "I rode as hard as I could gallop nil the way," he explained. "It was only at the last camp wo heard the news that the Colonel was fo bo married to-day; and then, when I heard who It was he meant to marry, I understood why the marriage hud been kept to quiet. I got leave to come on at once, without telling anyone my reason for wishing to be here and here I am!" At tble Juncture Mn. Knox looked In at the door, which wat half ajar. The Sergeant, unconscious that tney had an ou looker, went on: "I am glad that I managed to arrive in time. Suppose I bad come just as t je marriage was over, what a dreadful blow it would have lieeu!" Still the girl did not answer. She wanted him to say straight out what be exected of her; then she could letter realize the extent of her misfortune. "Yet I am not fit to come in here, all hot and dusty; and you hsiking so dainty, like an angel, Jenny" timidly touching a fold of her white gown "will you wear such pretty things for me?" "(iive me time to think," she pleaded. "In any case there will be no wedding to-dny, and you can come again." And with this promise he was satis fied, and left her. It seemed hours to her; but in reality only twenty minutes elapsed from the time that she saw her father ride away to the time he came back with Colonel I'rinsep. Then she beard the latter tell her father not to follow, and a second later he strode in alone to where she was waiting for him. She went toward him with a little cry of relief, and laid her head Usn his breast. Kor awhile ln restcd there, content to be folded in his arms and comforted by his very prox imity, though the next moment she should be constrained to have his side forever. At last she poured out all her story how her uioth.'r had deceived them Is. th in making them believe that Jacob Lynn had given her up-how he had come back an hour before ami claim ed her still. When she ended her recital, Stephen I'rinsep made no comment; and looking up anxiously to discover what he thousrht. Jane saw in his face an all pervading sadness that was indicative of neither horror nor surprise. Could it be sissible that this was no new story to him? A terrible suspicion crossed her mind that he must have been cognizant of the plot to diH-eive her from the first. "You knew It before, Stephen before to-day?" she cried, in a tone of convic tion. And he did not attempt a self-defense. His only mode of justification was by shielding himself behind her mother, and that was a meannesa to which he could not descend. lUther than that she niuat believe the very worst. "Jenny, is your love for me all gone?" he asked her earnestly, and the audden Hush that crimsoned the fair young face was a sufficient answer to the question. Tor better, for worse, she had given him her heart, and had no power to repos sess herself of the willing gift. "Then won't you try to forgive me?" he went on, In the same low, impressive tones, advancing a little nearer to her side and bending his head so that he might hear her faintest whispered word. She gave a frightened upward glance, lie was very white, but his expression was impenetrable, his manner quite com Hsed. She had not thought that he could look like that, and grew alarmed at the serious look which her words had brought Into his eyes. She threw out her hands with an imploring gesture, which he either did not see, or would not becd. He had drawn out from his waistcoat-pocket a plain gold ring, and laid it on the table before her. lie did not wish to figure as a bride groom without a bride, a subject for divided sneers and pity. His sole idea now was to get away as far as possible from the scene of his discomfiture. Hut, in spite of wrath anil disappoint ment, his expression involuntarily grew softer as he went toward her, and took her small, cold fingers in his own. "Do not let us part in anger, Jenny. Say good by." Jane's wedding day ended in ruin tears. (To be continued.) -and Forestalled. A Loudon Jeweler says that Lord 0. came Into the shop one Afternoon, ac companied by n footman who bore a small ense of f;reeu Imlze. Ixirtl .('. an nounced tbut he wished to have H few words with the Jeweler In private, and was conducted tip stairs. lie carried with him the green case. "This case," mild his lordship, when the two men were together, "contains the Jewels worn by Lady C. on high days mill holidays. At present lier ladyship is In the country, w here nho la likely to remain for several months. Now what h.want you to do Is to make me an Imitation set precisely tiltullnr to the originals, only, of course, with false stones. Lady C. Is no Judge of such things, anil will never discover the dif ference. You can retain the originals, and dispose of them among your custo mers, allowing me the difference in value between the two sets. But I must ask you to let me have the larger part now, as 1 have a pressing neces sity for money." The peer took out a key. unlocked the box, and produced the Jewels. The jew eler looked at them, and replieil: "My lord, It is the simplest thing In the world to mutch these Jewcils In the way you suggest; but 1 must Inform your lordship that the difference In value between the two sets would not be n penny. The present Jewels are coiiiilerfeit. I purchased the originals from I.ail.v C. more than two years ago and niiuti' her these Imitations, which are such excellent ones that I am not at till sui-pHsc'l at their deceiving such an excellent Judge of Jewels as your lord ship." There was no mot e to be salil. ami hi? lordship withdrew. Origin of the Blouse. After the fall of the ltoinan L'mplre the sexes stai'ti'd about fair In the mat ter of clothes, (tur Teutonic ancestors adopted a costume which was almost the same for men and women, and con sisted of two main garments, the Rom an tunica and toga. The tunica was virtually a shirt w ith long aleeves, and wa buckled at the waist. The men wore It reaching to the knees nnd the women to the ankles. In colder north ern latitudes the men, an a great Inno vation, added trousers, but these were looked upon In the light of a distinct extra, and were not considered obliga tory In hot weather. There seems to be no doubt that the blouse of the mod ern peasant Is a direct descendant of the tunica. Llpplncott'a Magazine. Men with bunions or with overlying toei from the wearing of tight ho ore not admitted to the arm jr. THE FARM AND HOME. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARM ER AND HOUSEWIFE. There I Money in Farming Compared with Other Occupation How a Wis consin Farmer Handles Corn-Fodder-L'e Hay (sparingly. The I'roiita .from the Farm. The farmer with a. limited area, who has MKreedei in keeping out of debt and Kiipisirted his family during the year, iin-ludiug clothing and all neces sary supplies, may tind himself with a few dollars in money, but be will have accomplished more than thou hunds in the city, who have worked as hard, had few luxuries and are not a dollar richer than when the year began. Handling Corn Fodder. As soon as the earn are nt to crib I begin basking. When four or five loads of fixlder are ready I haul them at once to the barn, continuing uuUl the whole licld has been gone over. I do this to prevent the wind damaging the fodder, for a shock of cornstalks cannot be kept standing In a strong breeze. Then, if It rains, the fixlder is ruined, says the Wisconsin Fanner. The fodder in haul ed to the barn lot and a rick made of it, three bundles wide, keeping the center high and solid. One stack will hold about four good loads. I,et the bundled from the next stack extend over onto the next. Keep ou this way until the rick is as long as deMlred. Having been thus built up in sections, It can be easily fell, rncover the lirat section and feed out the four loads without disturbing the remainder of the rick. I find that It does not pay to have much fodder un covered at any one time. I have stacked my feed In this way for several years and have lost but little. F.conomizlnig with Hay. The bay crop In many places Is short this year and fanners will find it good economy to use It ajsarlngly. Thin can better be done because the groin crop Is large. Both corn and oats are likely to be cheap, and some of these with cut hay or straw will make a limited amount of hay go far lu feeding. It will also jiy if straw is to U used for the ait feed to purchase, some linseed or cottonseed meal to mix with It. Both of these nilgais have a larger proportion of nitrogenous or flesh-forming ele ments than has Indian corn. The straw of grain is largely carbonaceous, and It uihhIs something that has more al buminoids than corn ha to make a pro fitable feed. Many New Knglatid fann ers buy more or less Western con) to feed, and this year, wmm It is so cheap, they can certainly afford to do so. But a part of the money expended for feed should go to the purchase of wheivt bran and linseed or eottoiisis'd meal to be fed with the corn and make a better Imlanced ration. . Tlie Cheapest Food for Hosts. Most, writers for farm papers seem to be agreed that clover or grass is the cheapest food that bogs can have. Yet the yield of either clover or grass is not nearly so great as that from a field of corn, counting grain and fodder, says the American Cultivator. Kven the grain of a good com ylehl surpasses In weight most yields of pasture clover or grass. The corn has certainly more nutrition for fattening than has the grass. The hog's stomach Is much smaller than that of other domestic nnlmnls. It needs ita food In concen trated form. Yet, and here comes In the use of clover and grass, the hog which is fed corn needs also some bulky and not very nutritions food to prevent the too concentrated nutriment of corn from Injuring Its digestive organs. But even for this purpose clover and grass are not the cheapest foods. Beets ami mangel wuitzel can be grown In so much greater bulk per acre than can any kind of grass that where land Is at all valuable they will have the prefer ence. Besides, the roots are easily kept for winter use, anil are then much bet ter than clover, either dried or put up as ensilage. Hogs will eat very little ensilage of any kind, and then only as a change from more hearty feed. They will cat much larger quantities of beets, and the nsits are eveti better for their digestion. The Cranberry Worm. Complaints are numerous this setisim that cranberries turned red before they were ripe, are wormy, and shrivel up until none are left. This Is the Work of the ls-rry worm or fruit worm tAcro biisls vacelnll). The egg for the worm is deposltivl In the calyx on the young berry Just after forming. The worm eats into the berry, and wanders from that toother berries. When full grown It leaves the berry, drops to the ground and burrows Into the soil, where It re mains all winter, and hatches the fol lowing June or July, says the New York Tribune. On wet bogs It does not thrive. When full grown it Is about half an Inch lomr. The moth producing this worm expands wings about three fourths of an Inch when spread; It is of an ash-gray color, mottled with white, and when at rest on a cranberry vine, with wings folded, is not easily recog nized. The egg hatches in about five or six days after being laid. Blowing to destroy this pest is not feaslble,as the time the water should be held on the bog would destroy the crop. An appli cation of parls green -a biblespoonful to a bucket of water Applied with a spraying nullit at the time the berries begin to set Is effective. Milk vs. Kerf on Fertility. In reporting the Investigations nt Hirthaiiisteail. Sir Henry (illliert con structed a table that showed the amount of the elements of fertility carried off the farm when fixlder Is fed to cows and when It Is fed to steer. He As sumes that the cow give milk contain ing 12 per cent, of solids, containing 1.66 per cent, of protein, 8.50 per cent f fat, 4 ( per eeut of sugar, and .75 f per cent of minerals. The estimates of the Increase of the parts of steers It founded ou Investigations of fattening steers at ltoiha instead. A cow giving four quarts of milk daily takes from the fodder for a week 2.64 pounds of protein. 2.52 pounils of fat, 3.33 pounds of sugar and .54 pounds of minerals. The table rise-s by multiples of two, but only one quotation will be made. For twelve quarts, 7.J2 pounds of protein Is taken, 7.59 pounds of fat, 9.90 pounds of sugar, 1.02 pounds of minerals. For other amounts calculations are easily made. A steer making ten pounds of Increase weekly takes protein but .75 pounds, of fat 6.35 pounds, of sugar, starch, etc., nothing, and of minerals, .15 pounds. ' training While Milking. An important Improvement to secure cleanliness in milking is made by dairy men lu Holland. They milk in deep pails, over the top of which is drawn a coarse cloth, which fillers the milk, at the same time retaining any Impurities which without the strainer would have fallen Into the pail. It Is, of course, niH-esnary to wash these strainers ac often and as thoroughly as the milk pail Is washed. In most cases what particles of dirt get into the milk pall while milking fall from the sides and hair of the cows, and a thorough brush ing of the cow, especially In the uiom lng before she Is milked, will secure clerauliness of the milk and with less trouble than putting on and caring for a strainer over the milk pail. There Is Money in Land. Farmers claim that there Is "no money In farming.' Compared with other occu pations. Is is as certain as any of them. There is not a merchant in this coun try, or manufacturer, who does not meet difficulties in his business. The farmei makes more money In propor tion to capital invested than is derived from many other enterprises. All class es of business men must rely on the cost of raw materials and the future de mands of the markets, and, It may be ai)ileil, that, like the farmer, their prof its or losses depend largely on the weather also. To Kill the Hcule Insects. Of hydrocyanic gas Dr. Bailey says, In the 1'hiLadelphla Ledger: "The gas is made of one fluid ounce of sulphuric acid added to three ounces of water. To this is ailihd one ounce of (10 per cent, of cyanide of potassium. Effer vescence. Immediately takes place, and the gas Is freely given off. This quan tity is sufficient for 150 cubic fee.t; the plants to lie exposed one hour. This Is especially adapted to dormant trees and for scale Insects. On growing plants It has been found Impossible to kill the scale without injuring the plants. The gas cannot, therefore, be recommended for the green-house. Tlllaiie-Dentroylng Weeds. It Is a mistake to suppose that land devoted to tillage is for that reason more weedy than land left In pasture. It is true there will le more weeds visible lu the tilled land, for cultivation enables every seed near the surface, to germinate. But in the pasture what weeds do start are apt to be left to ma ture their seeds. The stock turned lu to crop the grass will generally avoid the weeds, and thus a few years of pas turing fills the soil with weed seeds vhiiJh will make hard work for the cultivator to get rid of. To Keep Potatoes Crisp, Mow to keep potatoes and prevent them from sprouting is an important matter, as It will largely Influence the supply next spring. A French experi menter keeps the potatoes for twenty four hours In a mixture of two quarts of sulphuric add in twelve gallons of water, then dries them. Another method I is to dust each layer of inrtatoes with lime when they are put in the bin. The cheais'st and best method Is to expose the potatisiM to the fumes of burning sulphur In a close chamber or box for half an hour. Such potatoes are nof quite suitable for seed, however. Hedd nif for Pius. Most people subtly pigs with more bedding than Is for their good. We have seen pigs in a yard where tbere was a straw stack burrow Into it and entirely cover themselves with the straw. Such pigs in cold weather suffer severely from cold, for they must leave their comfortable quarters to take their feed. A warm pen with a moderate amount of cut straw Is much better. When straw is cut the pigs cannot bunch It up and cover themselves with it.-Ex. Plums. liums were abundant this year, and it has thus lieon shown that with or ganized effort In making war on the cun-ulio success cam lie obtained. Some varieties Introduced from Japan apcar to escape the attacks of the cureulio more than our native kinds, due per haps to the greater difficulty In punc turing the skins of fhe Imported varie ties. No crop of f milt lays better ttmn plums, but they require careful atten tion after blossoming. Fertilizing the Orchard. By stocking the orchard heavily with sheep and feeding large quantities of linui, one olntains large values the feeding value and the manurial value, besides preventing the spread of Insects which live In the fallen fruit; but they must be kept out of the young orchards, for they are destroctive foragers upon the branches which they can reach. How to Milk Young Cows. The heifer ought to be milked ten or eleven months the first time she is In milk. It don't matter whether she gives no more than a pint a day the last month. The point Is to fix the habit of staying In milk, says Wallace's Dairy man. Too many of our cows loaf six months In the year. The farmer baa to work pretty near the year around. Why ghouldn't bis eowaT CONVICTS IN THE ARMY. Frenchmen Condemned for Crlsae) Have liar J Time of It. A very painful sensation baa bees created in Far is, and will no doubt ex tend throughout the country, by the re port of a court-waniift-just held at Tu nis. Before recounting the facta, It Is requisite to expkuu that there exists lu the Frencn isxisesslons In North Af rica a special body of troops, techni cally described as "compaguies de dis cipline," and dubbed lu military par lance by the quaint appellation of Bl rilii. This force is composed exclusive ly of bad and incorrigible character. Couscri'jrts who, when the time comes for their incorporation In the army, hajipeu to be serving a time of penal servitude are not sent to the regular Infantry, but to these disciplinary com panies; and noted offenders in the line regiments at home or In Algeria are al so drafted into the penal corps. The punishments are' of a peculiarly severe and inhuman description. Having said this much. I proceed to lay before you a statement of the case from the pen of a noted suporter of the Government, Senator ICanc. He says: "A soldier of the Third African bat talion, Cbedal by name, has met his death from ill treatment The minister of war ordered an inquiry, which led to a lieutenant, a sergeant and a corporal being brought before a court-martial They have Just been tried and unani mously acquitted. Chedel, who was in a bad state of health, was locked up In a cell where the temperature stood at 50 degrees centigrade, or 122 de grees Fehiviiheit. He was deprived of water. He was, moreover, subjected to la crapaudine -that Is to say, his feet and hands were tied together be hind his back. In addition a gag was placed in his mouth. First, a common tent peg was used for the purpose, and then a tent iwg with a handkerchief wrapped around it. Finally a stone was forced into his mouth. These hor rors were not denied. The judges ex amined the surgeon of the battalion and asked him what Chedel had died of. The question strikes one as a lugubri ous joke. The accttsen urged in their defense that the gag was a usual pun ishment in the battalion by direction of the commanding officer. The offense of the man thus barbarously torturec) to death was an attempt to desert. London Standard. He Forgot. For years the property owners In a certain section of Chicago had been clamoring for a street paved with as phalt. They organized themselves into an "improvement dub" and held sev eral meetings. Petitions were circulat ed every spring and mass meetings were held every winter. The most en thusiastic and persistent agitator own ed a corner lot, and he lived on the ad jacent lot. When the workmen actu ally began to pave the street with as phalt he was so pleased that he bought cigars for them. The sheet of asphalt In front of his corner lot was finished on Wednesday. Ou Friday a gang of men proceeded to dig out a large slice of the asphalt and then to excavate a deep trench which led to the center of the corner lot. The president of the Im provement society witnessed this piece of vandalism, and, rushing to the house of the enthusiast, loudly demanded the reason. "I forgot to put in a service pipe from the gas main," was the explanation giv en. "Why didn't you connect It with the main on the side street?" asked the president In Indignant tones. "Why, I didn't think of that," and aei hurried to stop the work. But the dam age was done. The Old-Fashioned Way. l'eople in Chicago have become so accustomed to the steel framework of a. modern office building that any excep-, tiou to Che general rule of construction attracts instant attention. An old build ing was recently torn down In Madi son street and a new one waa begun on the site. This new building la to be temporary, for the owner has plana for a modern office building, which he cannot carry out for several yean for good and sufficient reasons. The new building had not risen a story when It became the object of attention. Passers-by stopped, gazed up at it for a minute and said: "Look at-the wooden beams." The second story made the construction more conspicuous, and people declared that the building de partment In the' city hall should look into it, for It was not built to conform to the building ordinance. In fact, sev eral such complaints were made to the building commissioner. He Inspected it thoroughly and said that the con struction was not only within the ordi nance, but was safe, strong and well done. "Only," he added, "It's old-fash.' loned." Chicago Record. Karthqoake at Sea. A severe earthquake at sea. was expe-, rlonced by ttie schooner Mary Buhne,' which arrived at Tort Townsend, Wash., from Oouolaska a week ago. The captain says that on Oct 24 tha sea was smooth as glass, when sudden ly the vessel reeled and shook violently, the water was uplifted, and for almost two minutes the schooner was strange ly shaken by the odd disturbance of water. Next day the vessel passed tfhrough a large area of apparently muddy water. Fuseli's Opinion, rrobnbly no two artists ever criti cised each other more severely than did Fuscll and Northcote; yet they re mained faat friends. At one time Pu-I sell waa looking at Northcote's paint ing of the angel meeting Balaam and, hia ass. "Dow do you like ltr aaked Northcote, after a long silence. "North cote," replied Fuse!!, promptly, "you're an angel at an ass, but an ua ax w anxeir