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an CHAPTER XII. Mr. Nestorius made the walk to the castle lut as long as tie possibly could. He snssMsed himself enchanted with that phsioMSi landscape, with its calm Middle- shire mMlly, aeen in tbe rich coloring and uuder 'It somber skies of autumn. He was hsfssted in tbe river, aud made SteBa ser bim the late Lord Lashmar's VttthL, and the little creek that be lad been so foad of, tbe rushy retreats here he and his adopted daughter had pent many a summer day. It was balf pairt ten wheu they arrived at the castle, aud Stella ran off to her room to w ash her hands and rearrange her hair before she went to her ladyship. The statesman was keenly interested in this poor dependent, and took occasion to talk about her at the afternoon tea in the library, where the shooters were al lowed to enjoy themselves in their muddy boots and Ttere refreshed with strong tea and cheered with pleasant talk before they went off to dress for dinner. After noon tea was much the pleasnntes) jx'al of the day at this particular season, w hen It was just light enough to dispense with lamps and just cold enough to enjoy a wood fire. Lady Caroainow, secure in the consciousness of sound daylight beauty, lounged gracefully iu an Oriental tea f"wn, while Lady Sophia, who knew that a habit was the one costume which really suited her, balanced herself on the toes aud heels of her neat little boots before the fteplace and honored the company with one of those graphic descriptions of a run which are so intensely interesting to tbe narrator and such an intolerable bore to the audience. Mrs. Va uisour, who never sat on a chair when she could find an excuse for graceful sprawling, was reclining on the hearthms, caressing her poodle, while the bishop's daughters, who disapproved of the lady but admired tbe poodle, showed their experience of society by their polite attentions to the dog and their cool avoid ance of tbo owner. Mrs. Mulciber, look ing like the goddess of plenty in a tailor gown, presided at a tea tabic richly fur nished with every variety of muffin and bun. It was one of Lady Lashmar's bad days, and she was cot to appear until dinner time. I have had a long talk with your poor brother's protege," said Mr. Nestorius. luxuriously seated at Lady Carminow'a elbow and enjoying bis second cup of tea. "She is tbe most extraordinary girl I ever met." A how?" asked Lashmar, coldly. ''She is not twenty, and she has read . U . .. , C l. - U1.A IUUIC IU lit UIWI wwmrii ni ULIJ. i - i . knows half a dozen languages, and has an Intense appreciation of classic literature; and yet she bas all a girl's humility and a perfect unconsciousness that she is gift ed ubove the rest of her sex." "But do you call it gifted to be able to talk in half a dozen grammars and dic tionaries';" abked Lady Carrninow, con temptuously. "The wretched girl has been tutored by old Mr. Vomer, an eccentric of the purest water " "A remarkably fine scholar," interrupt ed Nest'krism. Ie wesd, she is a blue-stocking of the (rat water. Yon don't ne:n to say. Mr. 'featorius, il-at you, who are so manly a Van, ran admire the unwomanly in wo.u- "TTere to nothing unwomanly in Miss its by the by, I did not hear her sur UM this) morning. She was only intro laced to me aa Stella." Her father's name was Bold wood," Answered Lsshmar, "but she has been Ild hate by do other name than Stella. Her fa titer was a blatant Radical, who preached socialistic and atheistic opinions to the operatives of Brumro. No influence to baleful for the uneducated classes as that of an educated man who bas gone wrong." "Boldwood, a Freethinker and a Radi cal!" exclaimed Nestorius. "I'pon my word. I believe the man must have been a feQow I knew at Oxford, a Balliol man. "Jonathan was his name. Toor old Lash had an ides that he had seen bim in the Oxford eight" "Nothing more likely, Boldwood was a great athlete, and a very clever fellow into the bargain. It was thought that he would take high honors at Balliol. But - there was) a screw loose somewhere. He turned Radical and wasted his time at the Union, where he was famous as a grand speaker. He read Kant and Hegel when he ought to have been reading for his de gree: and the end was failure. He pub lished a pamphlet which sneered at the university as an institution, and libeled the dons. The rest is silence. He was not sbsolntely sent down; but be was one of the moat unpopular men in tbe college, and one fine morning he disappeared alto gether, leering his books and baggage and S abeaf of tradesmen's bills on his table. He was heard of three years afterward, traveling in Spain, a student of Romany and the companion of gypsies." . Mrs. Mulciber pounced upon Stella in the corridor on the following afternoon, Introduced herself with affectionate fa miliar ity and wanted t" tuke the girl to the library. "We all want you to come te ten," ah said. Mafr. Ncstorins bas been teiiiaf 0 hew clever and how nice you are." Te hat anrpviee Stella flatly refused. "I neat almost to live in that room when I was -fciM," she said. "It Is there I Mat elrTtty remember Iord Lashmar CT inf Lassunsr. His. ghost haunts the rm. I cenld net bear to hear talk and hewnier and to ase strange faces there." Ten are a vary foolish girl," said Mrs. CasHhir, with her kindly common-sense fan "Yew mast he hideously dull. gsartifw slavery, the hard work wltaovf C- mmZZ m an neper tC3x;;Mfyii ns position and getting your sueriority rec ognized by the very best people.' "I don't care for the best people," th girl answered bluntly. "They are nothing to me. I would rather be with Mr. Ver ner than with the finest of Lady Lash mar's friends." "You forget that Mr. Nestorius is among those very people. To know such a man is a libcial education." "Mr. Net-torius is very clever and very kind, but I would rather see him at Mr. Verner' a cottage than among the fine pete ple downstairs." "You are incorrigible'" exclaimed Mrs. Mulciber. "Your only chance of getting ou in the world is knowing smart people." "Then I shall never get on, for I hate smart people." In the evening the Vavasours started games; dumb crambo, charades, clumps, the usual kind of thing. Lash mar de tested thu kind of fooling, o he went off to the library and plunged into tbe thrill ing pages of Hansard. He was interested in a factory bill that was to come on next session. Jle had begun to read after ten o'clock, and he read on till after twelve, by which time the house party had finish ed their games and retired for the night. Mr. Nestorius yawning tremendously di rectly he escaped from that appreciative circle of which he had been the life. Deep in the report of a case of trade-union tyranny, which had gone almost aa far as murder and quite as far as arson, Lasbmar was unconscious of the opening of a door near bim, and only looked up from his book when be felt a sudden brightening of the light in front of him. It was his mother's slave, standing there in her black gown witb a candle in her baud. "I came to Ion., for a book for her lady ship. I did not know you were here, my lord." she faltered, startled to find any one in a room sbe bad expected to find empty. "f'an I help yon? What book is it?" "Sir Thomas Malory. Tbe Morte d'Ar thnr." "Why, that is the very book " began Lnshmar, and then stopped abruptly with a smile, looking at the pale, grave face in front of him, which gave no answering smile. It was the very book she had been reading seven years ago, perched on th ladder yonder at the other end of the room. Involuntarily he glanced toward the spot, shrouded in deejiest shadow. "There is another copy," she said; "I know v. here to find it." She went to a shelf a little way off and selected a small octavo. He had b(-en looking at her deliberately while she found her ixiok and moved quietly toward the door, looking at ber with tb thought of what Mr. Nestorius had said about her in bis mind. One thing was certain. The ugly child if ugly she had ever been had grown into a very interesting woman. He did not know whether to call her beautiful. The small features were delicately mold ed. but they had not the statnenrjne beau ty of Lady Cartninow's outline. The lit tle r.ose i;idii,el to the retrouse, the lipt. were too thin for loveliness lips of Mi nerva lather than of ve.iu lips of Sibyl or mystic rather than of lovable woman. I be complexion in I pale olive, ihni tint which suggest bioii7e rather than marble. Tl.r hair was blue -Mark, lus trous, hisvy. The eyes were tin- most glorious otbs that Lashrnar ever remem bered to heve looked upon; eyes full of thought aud full of pride; eyes of a queen, and of a queen who would rule her king dom. He looked at her gown, the black mer ino gown, witb its plain, straight skirt and demi-train; just such a gown as ev ery housemaid at Lashmar wore of an afternoon. His mother had not been over-indulgent to ber dead step-son's pro tege. He opened the door for her. "I)o yon know that it is jtist past twelve o'clock?" he said. "I suppose your duties are over for to night?" "No; I shall be reading for some hours, perhaps. Her ladyship Is such a bad sleejier." "Rather hard upon you" "Not at nil. I sm fond of reading, snd I am nU-aya interested in the books her ladyship (booses." She was gone, and he stood riveted where she bad left him. "So this is tbe tawny-visaged brat with the goblin eyes that my poor brother brought into the castle in his grms that midsummer night nearly fifteen years ago," he nid to himself. "Poor old Lash! How proud he would have been of his bantling if he had lived to see her as she is to-night. A girl who warms an ex prime minister to enthusiasm; a girl who for distinguished looks and pride of mien could hold her own in any coterie in Lon don, Pari or Vienna. And she has grown up to this under my mother's stringent rule." And then going back to Hansard, and finding it impossible to revive his interest in trade unionism and Mary Ann, he said to himself. "She look as if he bad a temper just the same kind of temper that made her flor? f'tnrice seven year ago in this very ro:.m. She looks as if she had nerves. V hy doesn't my mother let ber go out into the world? It is like chaining an eagle to keep her here." CHAPTER XIII. Lasbmnr heard voices a musical bari tonea subdued contralto on the ter race, under his window, at eight o'clock next morning, and looking otit saw Mr. Nestorius nnd Hull walking up and down m apparently earnest conversation. "She l as much at ease with him as if he had Wen reared among sabiaet min isters," he said to himself. "I hope be won't Wi k-e hesd." Jie-rns mt" talking to Stella ef her father, a theme tni ihrillcd her. No one until this l.'-tir bud ever s-.keii that name since H iU r' L-h mar's death, and Lord Lssl.ni.'ii' i. k., heeu reticent upon this one subject, shrinking from all ques tioning. "And you really knew him! she ex claimed wiih delight. "You were at the university 'titb liim!" "Yes. ( k-'r'V him well, and admired bis gi'ts. hi. h . re great. He w as an orig inal genius, and iu a world where all things arc growing old and- Mule that ouht to count fur much. 1 it many years since- since you lost hiniV" Mr. Nestorius had a dim recollection of some tngical story connected with Lashtucr's adoption of an orphan child, and he touched the subject apprehensive- ly. "He not ccad," the girl answered eag--ily, iiiig at the qucstiou. "At least, I have ne.-er heard of his death; and I al ways thin1; of bim, and pray for bim, and dream of hini as living. I see his face in toy drenii often, though I was such a child when he went away." "He vent away!" repeated Mr. Nesto rius. wonileringly. "Yes, very, very far away. I think he must have gone to Australia, but Iord Lashm:ir v.ould never tell me much. Per haps he thought that I should think my father cruel for leaving me; but I knew him too well to think that. He must have boon in trouble of some kind great troubli or h( would not have gone with out me. And then came the tire, and Iird La .huiar saved my life and adopted me as his oh n little girl." "And s" yon think your father went to A ust ralia V" "Only because Lord Lashmar said he had gone ery. very far away." "But surely if your father were living, he would have communicated with you he would have sent some one in search of you would have made some inquiries about .von, in all these years." "Oh! please don't try to make me be lieve that be is dead," the girl pleaded witb an agonized look. "In all these years my orly comfort has been to thjnk of him as living; winnmg hi way to for tune iu a new country; waiting until In had made his fortune to conic home to me. That has ix'en my only day-dream. It is the only hope I have in this lift Don't spoil it for me." iter taiius were claspisj, tier eyes streaming with tears. Never since Hu bert's death had she sjKiken of her father. She forgot that Mr. Nestorius was a great man and almost a stranger to her. She bared her girlish heart to bim." "Not lor worlds would I dispel a sweet delusion, dear child, even if it is but a delusion!" be answered gently. "But you must not talk of life being empty of hope for you. At your age the fcture is full of glorious possibilities. Ah, if I were only as Joimg as you and as gifted! Come now, be frank with me. You must have ambition. Y'ou do not mean always to Ik- her ladyship's reader; lo fossili in that position?" "No, no, indeed." exclaimed Stella, and then freely as she would have talked to (jabriel crner, she told Mr. Nestorius her dream of the future, a cottage beside the Aviai. with faithful Ketsy for tier housekeeper, friend, companion; and abundance of book, and her pen as the source of he; income; all she wanted uas comjilni'iit publisher who would buy her lv'iks. "Y'ou have an idea that you could write if you tried," said Nestorius. knowing that the dreams of youth are for the most part only dreams. "I have been writing ever sim-c I was thirteen years old," she answered grave ly. "Y'ou began with the first jear of your teens. That was early. What bae you written?" "Verses first, stories in rhyme, like Scott's I don't mean like his. for mine are not to be named beside 'Marmion' or the 'Minstrer only on that plan. I blush to remember all the nonsense I have writ ten." "It me see one of yonr stories immedi ately," said Nestorius eagerly. "What a wonderful girl yon are: and you have written for years, alone in your room, da) after day." "Will you really be so go'-d as to look at a few page and to tell me frankly if the story is not quite intolerable rub bish ?" "I will tell yon the truth in all honor; and if your story is as good as I think it must be. It shall W published, even if I have to turn publisher and produce It my self. Anl that will be the first step to ward independence and your cottage by the Avon," added Mr. Nestorius, smiling down at her. Her checks glowed and her eyes bright ened at tbe idea. Except from old (Ja briel Verner, she bad received no such kindness since her benefactor's untimely death. Fhe looked up at the statesman with ey'-s that overflowed with grateful tears, te,:rs of joyfulness this time. "How g'id you are," she faltered. "If you are as good to other people as you have been to me, no wonder " She stopped, blushing at her own bold ness, suddenly remembenr.g the gulf be tween them. i "No wonder what?" "No wonder that you sre the most p-v iilar man in England, in or out of office. At least," falteringly, "that Is what Lady Lashmar said of you tbe other day." Mr. Nestorius was not appalled by the bulk of the manuscript Stella later hand ed to hint. He was an enthusiast in all things, great and small, and took np every cause with a like earnestness. He had not read twenty pages before he started up from his chair and began to walk up nnd down the room rapidly, aa he always did when t'eeply moved. He felt like a discoverer, almost as Columbus must have felt when he discovered America. "The pirl is a genius," he told himself, delightedly. "There is a power in this, there Is a freshness that means genini. She inherit Boldwood' originality. His andscity, too. This is a story that people will read." CHAPTKK XIV. Lord Lnshmar. having a keen and curi ous mind, bad watched that Interview be tween tbe statesman and ber ladyship's reader, and had marveled much what they had been talking about. There had been dramatic action, too. that had pnssled him. Stella's clasped hand, and face up lifted, appealing to Nestorlu. What could it all mean? He thought sbont It dtfring the morning's battue, and shot other peo ple's birds with a recklessness that drew down reproof from bl guests. Mr. Nestorius came in late to afternoon tes. to And tbe shooters established round the Sre, Lady Sophia among them, in a cordorey shooting gown with pictur- wqne nottona, while ike ether MssralftasM la tan to themselves tbst they were net aa thai publican. "Pray where bave you been hiding your self all daj, Mr. Nestorius?" asked Clar- be, with mi offended air; "except for brief appearance at luncheon, we have seen nothing of you." "Life is pot ail pleasure, Ludy Carrni now," he hionere.l. w ith an air of mean ing much more than be said. "I had let ter to write aud pais-rs to read all the morning, end I spent the afternoon with my old friend Verner." "An oh) book worm docs not generally exercise that kind of magnetism unaided," said Lashmar with a faint sneer; "but I think bwli.y there was a feminine ele ment. Merlin's cave was enlivened by the presenie of Vivien. Mr. Nestorius has taken it into his bead to be interested in my brother a protege, and I believe she spends all Lei leisure w ith old Verner." "She was with bim this afternoon," said Nestorius. "Yes, I am deeply Interested in her. The girl is altogether remarka ble a creature of exceptional bringing up and of -exceptional talent. Y'our broth er's iiiiliienee upon so young a child is a leinark-ilile fact in psychology. I must have a long tulk with you about this and her destiny, LashmHr. She tells me that her lather is not dead or llmt she has never had tidings of his death." 'Ilcr father is as dead as Queen Anne. He lost hit- life in trying to save hers, NMir beggar. She was not five years old at the time, and her passionate grief for her father made such an impression upon my bnoher that he had not the heart to tell her the truth. He paltered with her, told her that her father had gone away to a distant country; they would meet again yes, in jear to come she would see him again. Ik meant in the land of shadows; she accepted the promise as gospel truth and IjiIi never had the courage to unde ceive her- there w as so much of the wom an about li'in, is-M.r fellow! He warned all the servants against letting out the true story of the lire, threatened me with his lasting displeasure, if I ever blurted out the truth; implored my mother to be silent, enu as neither her ladyship nor I could endure the sight of his protege, there was ma much fear that either of u would be talking to her alxuit her fath er. (To be continued.) The hummer Man. It would be graUfyiusr to say thet the summer man is a beautiful spectacle, but lie lxn't. The golf stocking and small cap era has brought n comfort, but Its aesthetic attractions are not em IlvcuLug. The average niusnillne legs are not fine; their disposition to bow or shrink or buUe apienrs only too can didly Mlotig; the contours of hosiery. There Is a stunted appearance, too, la the ensemble. A drese ault tones up the jjlaiiicst form. A Prince Albert frock lends d!ynl;j-. A high hat Is a towering crown of rewjje-tali!llty. AJ1 tlxte wlventitious aUls are lacking In the summer rig, says 1-tslle'a Weekly. The togs flap like lowe sail in a calm. The pedal coverinj.'n nhow up In all the solemn big-new of the American foot. The little cap Is so limignHii-ant aiid so hard to get off tli.it It la actually dis couraging many men from lifting It as a ttulutat'on to a lady. Of oursx all criticism Is hoixdes, for the mimmer man, although a little later than the summer girl, i setting ripe, la bhsuu lntf and lilohsoirilnj; cm every nhore. Go w Iw.re you may, you will find him, and It looks very much as If lie Intended to make hisi hygienic crusade a universal movement. He ran in v-r look an at tractive as the short-watet girl, but ho cjui be as comfortable, and that evi. (lently 1 his intcution. The. Duke s Hival Arthur Helps, the author of tbe well known book, "Friends In Council," of ten paid Prof. Max Mtiller a visit on his way to or from Blenheim, where he used to wtay with the then Duke of Marllxirough. Once when Helps enme to stay with us on his return from Blenheim, writes Professor M tiller In Cnsmopolis, he told me bow the Duke had left tbe day be fore for I-omlon, and that on thci very day Hie emu had laid an egg. Tbe Duke had taken the greatest In UtcrI In bis eram, and had long looked forward to this event A telegram was aent to the Duke, which, when shown to Mr. Helps, ran as follows: The emu bas laid an egg, and In the absence of your (irace we hare taken the largest goose we could And to hatch It" Sew Use for Hikes. The rates for carrying cycle In Eu rope are now so low that a great nutn ber of cyclists take their machines over to tbe Contlne-nt with them, and on tbe return Journey flU the pneumatic tire with tobacco, small bottles of perfume, law, cigars and even flasks of spirits specially made. W bt-n the Mteaiuei ar rive from the Continent, and there are a number of bicycles on board ,the of ficers adopt a very simple plan of In spection, but one which require some practice and experience before it can be relied on. They do not unscrew the air-tube, nor, of course, cut the tire. They simply cauee tbe wheel to re volve sharply and then listen attentive 1. New Diving Hell Exhibited. An Improved dlviaaj beil of great ca pacity, moving along the sea bottom by raeajMi of screws moved by electricity, la on exhibition In Paris. It Is the in Teatkn of an Italian named Plattl del Posxo. He states that It can be worked at very great depths and holds air enough to supply the crew for forty eight bonra without renewal. It Is lighted by electrWty, which aiso fur ndehes motive power for any tools that may be used. In tippling over the cases of ballast the bell rises to the surface Itself. A Burtlina- lllnetratloa. "A New York widow U suing a man for bugging ber a hand tjbsvt be broke two of ber rlba." "Hope U wasn't a aewapaper man u- htatnttlnf the power of the CkveMDd Plain Dealer. The average gtrTa beatrry doean't teat aaar lotus tfcaa frostis am a m tmr vt.-.j -y . -.-r i w At a recent meeting of the Institu tion of Civil Kngineers in Iitidon. tlm opinion ws expressitl that the com- lujr material for slilp-lmihlliig Is nickel steel, but thnt before it c:ui be cxten sively used, further deposits of nickel must lie discovered. Diving operations tit a great depth have iii'ovcd successful off Cane l-'fliis- erre. nil the silver bar from the ste.uiK r r'l.yro, which unk In thirty f.itlioius in 1 v. 1 . having lcen brought to the surface. The working depth for the divers was ncwr less than 17- feet tun! was often more. Dynamite was used to blow n way the deck. The value of the silver WHS ?5,fHKJ. KxperimentH have recently U-en tnole Icy l-.iisteni railways In sprinkling oil tilling the ground, lx-side their tracks for the purpose of preventing lie dust from being swept tip by the motion of the cars. A Ktretch of road u New Jersey was sprinkled witb crude oil for a distance of six feet on each side of the track. This was found to lay tbe dust successfully, and 11 Ik ald that the entire Pennsylvania system will be thus treated. People who like "plain fishing" with angleworms for bait will 1m; Interested In the best methods of procedure wlieu the weather Is dry and the bait bides deep In tbe ground. One way to cau.se the angleworms to come out Is to sprin kle strong salt water, or an infusion of tannin or of walnut husks, ou the ground. Another way recommended Is to drive sticks, or spades, deep Into tbe soli, and I lieu shake tlietu violently. This operation, It Is said, will frequent ly call the worms from their retreats. One would hardly look for new forms of animal life In a vast, dark cavern like tbe Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. Vet as a matter of fact, uo less than heven such forms Inhabiting that par ticular cave, and hitherto unknown to science, have receutly been deacrilM.nl. Tbe fact that these creatures are very minute doe not detract from their sci entific Interest, while, on the other baud. It must Increase our admiration for tbe eklll and Industry of the uatur- flllHtis who do not allow even mlcro- scoplc life to escape their ken, although blddeu In places where no ray of sun light ever ienetrate8. Perhaps the most marvelous ceme tery known to science Is the sheet of chnlk which seems at one time to have covered the country from Southern Ku gland to Central Asia beyond the Sea of Aral, having an area about "J,) miles long by l.iss) miles broad. This enormous ts-d was formed entirely of i the mlcrosi-oplc remains of minute sea animals. Isolated patches of the great sheet now remain, that of England be ing more than 1,0W feet thick, and eov ering the Island southeast of a line ex tending diagonally from tbe North Sea at KlamlKirotigh Head to the const of the English Channel In Dorset. A Russian Journal calls attention to the fact that for home twenty years past the Inhabitants of a malarial local Ity In the government of Kharkov have used powdered cralm with great suc cess In the case of fevers. The lewder la prepared In the following way: Live crabs are toured over with the ordl nary whisky until they get asleep; they are then put In a bread-pan lu a hot oven, thoroughly dried and pulverized, and the powder passed through a fine sieve. One dose, a teaspoouful, Is gen erally sufficient to cure tbe Intermit tent fever; In very obstinate cases a second dose Is required. Each dose Is Invariably preceded by a glass of aloe brandy. The powder Is used in that locality in preference to quinine. Prof. Jules Amann, of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, was recent ly called upon to apply scientific pho tography to a rather novel purpose. A Swiss sasant woman who had saved by hard labor aud economy a sum equivalent to $110, having temporari ly to leave her cottage untenanted, placed ber money, iu tbe form of bank bills, in a tin box, which she hid away In the oven of her stove. During ber absence her son came home aud, not knowing what his mother bad done, started a Are In the stove. When the poor woman returned, tbe bank bills had l"en reduced to black cinders. She was advised to apply for aid at tbe lalsiratory of the university, arid Prof. Amann succeeded In so photographing the carlKinl;d bills aa to make their denominations, signatures, etc., de cipherable. Armed with these photo graphs the woman recovered (be value of h II the bills from tbe banks which bad Issued them. (Juecr Kffeols of a Kali. Never was there a ens to which more peculiar circumstances attached than that of Elmer Doolittle, of Sher man, Texas. First be plunged head first from the cupola of the Diamond mill elevator to the ground, a distance of sixty-seven feet, and escaped with n few bruise about the face and rup ture of the nose and a slight fracture of the bone to on foot. Within a few day be began to mend rapidly and he was soon out. He was able to remem ber distinctly scenes and even Import nnt utterance and Incidents Immedi ately preceding the accident, but from hit mind waa blotted oat all remem- Ii. slice ot lue uci lilcul lit- could not remeinls-r having on thnt day met Wsl tt r Morris, w ho fell w ith bim and died In the evening of the same day. H beard of the accident and the fatal re sults attending it as one would heal of something that bad befallen a friend off siiioc-,, here. He was taken to tb4 seen.- c' 'lie accident In the hope tht' th! would clear away the hiatus thai Deemed to exist, but tbe effort was use less. Lately he has n-covered bis physical strength rapidly, and Is now able to go nlHiut easily, even the wound in the fisit giving little trouble and pain. Once or twice bis friends bave U-come very apprehensive of ultimate results of the accident. At tim his mind would wander and he went off Into state ments foreign to the subject under dis cussion and In a strain not natural with him. A word dire-tly addressed to lilm brought bim back to tbe orig inal subject again and he picked tip tb thread of conversation, even In th middle of an Interrupted or broken sen tenre.-- la I vest on News, NOT WILD AND WOOLY. An Instance When the Lone Slur Stat Ih.-iI the Style. The dcnl.ens of the older Mates of the East love to rejoice In their own self-constituted superiority and con ceit. These soft-shell creatures lay back In their satisfaction and it affords them supreme gratification to bear Texas pictured as the wild and woolly oat sklrt of civilization-a land dominated by the roaming cowlKiy with the six shooter and rattlesnake hatband, and who prowls over the expansive prairie seeking some helpless human victim to slaughter. It diws not occur to them thnt the great Ixne Star State is a land of limitless possibilities and that a large percentage of tbe brains and en ergy of the world has camped wlthld ber borders seeking fame and fortune and that we have an up-to-date dvilJ zntlon here that knocks out the Euro peanlzed and congested article they1 glorify. Such is the case, however, and the Ijivacnen further begs to Inform the inhabitants of tbe corrosive East who so love to flatter their own supe riority and snatch beams oat of the eyes of the West that Texas leads tbe fashions In this country. The Texas dude (and suffice It to say that we bave begun to breed thla Ta rlety of tbe human species within ouf midst In great numbers) puts on the latest spring touches long before bli brother In tbe East has crawled out oi winter quarters and Is ready for an other Immutable edict from tbe decay- lng monarchies of the old world. M. E. Fowler, one of tbe most fashionably decker out men who rambles over these parts, went to New York at the begin ning of summer and had an exoerienc . which shows bow we stand on tb dress question. He went to mix with,-' friends nnd datives and tas In the giddy sights. In addition to the latest style suit, be tapered himself off with a gray bat with a black band. He found that the Gotham natives had not yel caught on, but moved around In old fogy raiment and thought he bad just suffered from a death In his family. It Is so always, and the Texas lady who gss East arrayed In tbe latest for the season often suffers from the gaping liiqulsltiveriess of the local folks who must still wear out-of-date styles. When It comes to keeping np with the fashions It is a settled fact that the East is tiot In It with Texas. Post Ijivacucn. Hunts KKg with X-Kaya. There seems to be no limit to the us to which the X-rays can be put In re vealing the true Inwardness of tilings. It Is now being used by poultry farm ers anxious to discover the laying ca pacity of beus. one enterprising man, says the Pittsburg Dispatch, finding tbe 's-rcentage of eggs waa not what II should be, considering the size of his poultry yard, hit ujn the Idea ".ex amination by the Roentgen rays', and was thus able to weed out the nonpro ducers. Tbe birds were examined at the rate of 30 per hour, and the non efficients" were soon plucked and sent to market The Roentgen rays are said to have an extremely Injurious Influence on the action of the heart, causing that organ to palpitate violently, and stwn of the leading doctors In Paris hav Issued a warning to medical students and others to exercise great caution In examination of the action of the heart by tbe rays. Ill effects have followed tbe use of the rays after many surgical ofs-ratlone where It waa desirable to observe tag process of the healing of tbe tissues tbe knitting of the bones, and tbe re creation of various parts. These effects! have usually partaken of tbe nature of bums, and In nearly every Instance were caused by placing the eicltrnsj tube too near the part under Inspection or making tbe exposure loo long. Tbe tills? should never be less than 14 Inches from the object, but the time of i xposure will vary according to the itrength of tbe apparatus. A Washington -photographer Is said i . .ave discovered a means whereby ! 111 effect of the X-ray can be t iilnatml Independently of tbe quee : ,. or strength of the rays ami dls . e and length of exposure. The i .. h are passed through prepared gold ! I. though how tbe foil Is treated I. ,'i i close secret. Making Islands Into Parks. 1 he Canadian government baa set a :irt a number of Islands from Kings to . Ontario, to Alexandria bay for p.ii purpose. This lias been done on the undeTstatidlng that the State of New York wmld art aside tract of 1. n I of equal extent on the American si . -. Tbe land put aside for common ti -e hi Canada are for fishermen eamn. and pleasure seekers geoermJly. A man's credit la getting vary lew when be can't area borrow trouble