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CHAPTER VII.
Number 24 Brkenhed hiuiw
trIe and imposing mansiini in appear
HK, but very dull. There w as something
f heroic fortitude In the feeling wh
rhich Evelyn Km; approached the door.
Her uncle was a stranger to her. He had
evr even taken the trouble to ask to see
fc.T since the day when she had iajd hini a
flait, clinging to her mother's gown. She
Haunted the dingy net" that M t0
relaacholy-lookmg inanition, and rang
the had bell. A man servant m l!aio
liothes answered it. He was an elderly
nan, and not at all smart, but he looked
eminently respectable He seemed very
much surprised to Evelyn standing
there, and he asked her rather sharply
shat he required.
,. "1 want to see Mr. Caryll. please.
"You can t see hum to-aay , u
Sun-
At thin moment, however, a snarp,
gruff voice called out from the dmuig
room;
' "What's that, Barnes?"
And a sudden courage, born of despair,
made Evelyn Rayne aiart forward to the
open, door, exclaiming:
"it'a 1, Unck? Roger-Evelyn, your
niece. Oh, do let me speak to you!"
Sir. Caryll waa seated at his breakfast
table, looking very rough and unkempt.
He waa unahorn; hia white hair wan toss
ed about in tome diaorder; and he wore
a dark-grey flannel dressing gown. But
u h caught light of Evelyn Kayue. he
leapt from hia chair and graapmg ner oj
, . rrdki her fixedly in the face
the while.
"You you " he gaiiped "you are Eve
lyn Rayne poor Mary'i child?"
"Yea," replied Evelyn, frightened at
his manner; "but don't be angry with me,
uncle. I have only come to speak to you
for I moment."
Mr. Caryl relaxed hia grasp, and tot
tered back to hi chair.
"I'm not angry, child," he answered,
and then b covered hia face with his
hand, sad muttered. "So like ao very
like!"
Eve did not know whom she waa like,
unless it waa her dead mother; but ahe
no longer felt afraid of her uncle. By
and by ahe ventured to speak again.
"Yoo will think it very strange my com
ing here, I am afraid, when you have nev
er asked me, ancle; but we are in great
.diatreaa at borne, and I came to you for
Information."
"AJI right, ait down. What ia It yoo
hate to say 7"
Evelyn took a chair, but Mr. Caryll did
not look at her again, but listened with
his head leaning on hit hand.
"Will has not been home aince yester
day morning, uncle. Auntie and I sat up
til! twelve o'clock last night to let him in.
bnt be never came, and we are frightened.
C:l you tell ua where he iaT'
"Vk he'a not b-en home, ham't he?"
remarked Mr. Caryll, from behind the
heiter of his hand "He's afraid to show
ha face there, as well he may be! Likely
enough he'll neTer be heard of again, aud
lucky for him if he isn't."
; "But, air, wha-t haa he done?" inquired
Eicijn, with a troubled face. "Is any
th:t.jr wrong, that you should speak of
Wij! like that?"
. '"".Yroug' Everything's wrong. The
dot's an ungrateful scamp, that 1 fee)
mh.'imed to have befriended. I took him
from serving behind the counter of a but
ton shop in St l'asil's Churchyard, and
put him in a position in my office, where
he might have riwn to anything any
thing; and he haa reojiited my goodlier
by fir robbing the tirm, and then bolt
ing from the confequencea of his crime."
"Oh. uncle, he didn't rob you, aurely?"
er.f-fi Evelyn.
"He did worse. Evelyn. He stole my
checks and forged my name. He ba-n t
even cleverness -nough to be a good thief.
He d:d the job so clumsily that a child
might have detected the fraud. But he
will meet with his !eens yet."
"Will they stid the detectiTea after
him?" asked the girl, in a low voice of
honvr.
"Most certainly they will. The forged
check was iu U.e hani'.s of the police last
n ;!'., and if to-day were not Sunday,
Muster William Cary'.l would be in their
hand by this time. As it is, they must
wait tiil to-morrow. But they'll have
him locked up by to-morrow night you
may depend upon that."
"Bat, oh, uncle, will yon not spare
him?" cried Evelyn, leaving her seat and
approaching Mr. Caryil's chair. "He ia
very young, you know, and this ia hia first
ffense."
"No, my dear, it is not hia first offense.
He has stolen postage stamp and looae
change over an'" over again, but I hoped
he would take warning by what waa said
tnhim. But this i far more serious. He
ha committed a felony."
"I can't tb rli hv he cnti have done it,"
liUfc . i.. Will ;hi .' a iu her eje.
"11' i nd I am ,ire
lie i.- f ; r 1; ii" Oh, sir! Ob,
Sbcle, i ou i oft ibis time,
a.id givi i. one nw n- .muce? Think
hurt- hit. .iLw future v.ii.1 be blasted if j
jroa vrvsecv te huu for thU terrible of-1
fin."
ilr. Caryl! ahoved hia spectacles down
upon hia nose, and -eered at her curious
ly through them.
"What's your interest In thia young
man?" he asked.
Kvelyn blushed like a rose.
"He ia my cousin," ahe answered, look
in? down, "and be baa lived with ua now
for two yean. It would be terrible for
both Aunt Mari and me if Will were to
be put in prison or transported. It w&uld
affect our name, aa well as yonra, uncle."
"I know that; but I can't cheat the law
for my own convenience. Besides, the
nutter la out of my handa. It concerns
'.he firm, and Meawra. Tytxial and Masters
are raioived to prosecute him on their
own account. Such a young miacreant
mat be made an example of, or we aball
have all the elerka ia the offlca embea
tiing and forglaf-"
Evetrm did aot anrwer alaa tkla Uaae.
Baa waa waapiac ailMtl.
"Well. 4f7 7 oar eyaa aod to ha, and
aoo't waata aay aaort taara over your
Cooaaa WUllaaL Ptraapa I may see your
autrt aaal fm, after few aaya, but 1
ar aa ajan ttas t talk ta f ou aow."
kmt VCSma kia kaaaay papera, Mr.
Cur teCl kia faea tiwa view in then.
Tety vX aada, Oao4 morning,"
aai ttra, aaaakly, aa aka taraed iwar.
J
All day long Kvelyn thought of noth
ing else, but now to nave W ill, and by
uight time ahe had matured her plana.
When all the house was asleep, and ahe
ventured to let Will enter her room again
by the trap door, she whispered to him
what hud oirurred during her interview
with ber uncle. The lad's look of bope-Irg.-.
despair was a picture.
"It's all over.' he gasped; "they will
trap me, as sure an a gun. and 1 shall be
transported for lire. Oh, Kve, what aball
I do-; What (-hall I do?"
"Hush: hui! dear Will. Ioift cry, or
you will upset my fortitude aa well. Lis
ten to mi. dear. I am going to save you!
Von must put on a set of my clothes."
"Nonsense: they will never fat me."
"I will make them fit you. 1 have a
dark w ::ii r suit in my lox, and I am
going ' "it P all uight and alter it. And
then j.U mum change the color of your
hair."
"How can I do that?"
"You have often laughed at poor auntie
for dyeing her gray hair brown. It is
lucky for you now that ihe doea ao. I
have got the bottle out of her room, and
I am going to put it all over your head at
once."
Will put hia handa up to shield hia gold
en locks.
"Oh, bother. I can't have that; you 11
spoil my hair!" he exclaimed, in hia con
ceit." Eve looked at him with pitiful surprise.
"And can you think of your hair at a
moment like this? Why. Will, if they
take you they 11 -have it a
11 off."
Xlia ia-r jruKiiiriiru
"All rieht. then: n ahead, and get it
over. But wtut am J to ao nexir
"My proposal is this," she whispered,
ii she h.-ran to damn hia hair with the
krnin Hve- "there kre emigrant ships ly
log in tte docks. Will, aud two of tbem
said to-morrow. I hate some money for
you fifteen pounds-which 1 got by sell
lng my mother's jewelrr, and I think your
beat plan will te to wafk out of the bouse
boldly aa soon aa it ia light, and make
vnnr wav down to the docks, and take
your passage, aa a girl, to America."
Aa she had planned ao it was executed,
and the early dawn saw her couain, dia
ruised as a girl, aafe out of the house, on
hia way to take ship for New York.
CHAPTER VIII.
Mouday and Tuesday and Wednesday
passed without any newa being gained of
Will. Evelyn's heart waa singing a hymn
of gratitude the while, of which the re
frain waa "He ia safe." The excitement
and the dread of diacovery kept her up
for the first few day, bat aa the week
wore to ita close, and ahe realized that
Will was gone, and there waa no more Im
mediate cauae for fear, the fact of their
separation, and the uncertainty of Iti
duration, bore in upon ber sclnd, and
weighed her aDirita to the very around.
She moi.nied the loss of ber young lover
as though he had been dead, and the bur
den was all the heavier to bear, because
sbe was ashamed to confesa iu weigbt to
any one.
One afternoon, about three weeka after
Will's departure, as sbo returned home
from one of her melancholy visita to the
cemetery, she was met at tbe doorstep by
her Aunt Maria, in a great atate of flurry
and excitement.
"Here you are at last, Evelyn. What
a time you've been! I've been watching
for vou for the last half hour."
"No, my dear, it's not your fault. It'a
onite early yet; but I've a surprise for
you. Who do you think is in the parlor?"
Evelvn became aa white aa a sheet.
Could Will have been caught, or return
ed?
"1 cannot gueas. Pleae tell me quick
ly."
"Your Uncle Roger, and he wanta to
see you."
"Good evening, nncle," aaid Evelyn def
erentially, as she entered the room.
She was looking her very worst, poor
child, with a pale face and dark rims
under hr-r eyes, and clad in a stuff dres
of the ugliest shade of brown.
"Holloa! what's the matter. Have you
leen ill?" exclaimed Mr. Oaryll, peering
at her through hia spectacles.
"Evelyn baa not been well thia laat
week or two far from It," replied Mi
Payne; "ahe wanta change cf air, I think,
and many things that I can't give her,
Mr. Caryll, aa you must well know, how
ever good my will may be."
She thought that since Mr. Caryll waa
there, she might aa well put him in re
membrance that he had a niece aa well aa
a nephew.
"Of course of course naturally," he
said, in answer to her remark, and then
he turned to Evelyn. "Well, and ao
you're poor Mary's childT'
"Indeed she is; and we've slwnys con
sidered her very like ber poor dear moth
er," interposed Miss Ttayne. "She's a
regular Caryll, isn't she, sir?''
The oil man's brow con'recfd with
pain, but be forced hi:i;' lf to to k at the
girl.
"Yes," he id, after a pause, "you are
right. 8Le ia a rcgu.ar Caryll. There
waa a time when I was very fond of my
sister, Miss Rayne. I am growing an old
man now. Miss Payne, and thete late
events have somewhat shaken me. I
have been talking to my partnera about
quitting the firm. There ia no necessity
for my remaining in business. I have
more money than I shall ever need, and I
begin to feel my infirmities. So I have
decided to live for the future at my coun
try house. Perhaps you hare heard that
I have a place in Hampahlre called Mount
Eden "
"Heard, Mr. Caryll," exclaimed Mis
Itayne enthusiastically, "who baa not
heard of Mount Eden?"
"I am going back there very ihortly;
but It's too big a house for a lonely old
man. I shall be lost there by myself, and
so I want to take thia girl with me, If you
make no objection."
Miss Itayne clasped her handa and rais
ed her eyei in gratitude.
"Oh, Mr. Caryll, it's what I hare pray
ed for! I've Dearly broken my heart see
ing you lavish ill yonr favora upon that
worthless Will Caryll, while yoo didn't
seem to have a thought for yonr own aie
ter'i child. And she's a good girl, too,
though I tay It; she'll never requite you
with Ingratitude. I've brought ber up
since ahe waa eight years old, and know
every bit of ber. And I feel proud, air,
that run ahould bare tkaagkc ac bar aama.
Evelyn, my dear, why don't yon thank
your good uncle for his geueruu offer""
But Evelyn waa standing before them.
dared and bewildered. Hue bad hardly
understood Mr. Caryli'a meaning, until
ber aunt replied to it. Sbe fell weeping
on her aunt's neck.
"Auntie, I dou't want to leava you. Let
me stay here. Ion't send me away from
home."
Misa Rayne waa horrified in her turn.
She saw Mr. Caryli'a good intention!
melting into thin air beneath thia ungrate
ful rejoinder, and Evelyn left on her
hands forever.
Evelvn, I'm ashamed of yon! AVhat
nill your uncle think of such rudenesl?
Home, indeed! What home could you
find like Mount Eden? And every com
fort and luxury into the bargain. Well, j
I never! I believe you're going to turn
out aa badly as your couain, and ingrati- .
tude ojiim run in tbe blood." i
'( lb. aunt, I am not ungrateful! Please.
air. turning to her uncle, don t tbink
but I have lived with auntie aince I
was a little i-uild. Pbe baa teen like a
ertmd mother to me, and if I leave her
now, who will help her with the house
keeping and tbe lodgers, and look after
ber when she grows old and feeble.'
At this apal Miss Uayne broke down
herself, aud even Mr. Caryl! Hpinared
moved.
Oh, my dear, my dear." cried the for
mer, throwing here!t into a ciiair ana
rocking backwards and forwards, "you've
been a comfort and a help to me, there's
no denying it, aud I shall miis you terri
bly. But it's for your good, Evelyn it'a
for your good! I uii-M go any day, and
I've nothing to leave behind uie except
these few old sticks, aud you're too young,
by a score of years, to keep a house like
thia by yourself. So, though I shall feel
tbe separation, especially at first, 1 ahull
be glad and hi...y to tbink you're pro
vided for, and l'v no one but myself to
think of."
Evelyn looked up, mystified, through
her tears.
"Do you mean you w ill really I hap
pier without me, auntie?" she said, In a
voice of pain.
"Well, no, my dear not exactly that
perhaps but more comfortable aud easy
with regard to the future. And you
needg't fret about the extra work, Eve
lyn, because if you go to live with your
uncle, 1 shall be able to keep a second
servant yon know, and save myself from
everything but tiie housekeeping. And
then, when yon come to aee me, once in
l way, you will find I have all the more
time to attend to you, and hear what you
have to aay."
Evelyn stood by tbe table, silent and
thoughtful. Sbe saw plainly now that
her pla?e would be preferable to her com
pany. "Well, what do you aay?' Inquired her
uncle presently. "Is it to be or not to be7
1 don't want to take you to Mount Eden
against your will, but I tbink you will
find it ia to your advantage. You don't
look strong, and the country air will do
you good. ro you love tbe country 7"
"Ob, dearly," exclaimed the girl, bright
ening up; "but I bare never seen it lince
my mother died. I love the fiowera, and
the treea, and the birds and everything.
I only wanted to atay in Liverpool be
cause It is my home."
Mr. Caryll rose with some difficulty
from hia chair, and prepared to leave
them.
I'm getting very stiff and old," he aaid. J
and I ihink it is about time I left off T
work. Well. Evelyn, my dear, will you
give me a kiss, and tell me you are not
afraid of me?"
"Ob, no, nncle, I am not afraid of you
not a bit aud I hoie that I may be of
use to you."
"Be a comfort to me, my dear that's
what I want most of all a little com
fort," said Mr. Caryll, aighing. "Well,
good evening. Miss Payne, and let ber be
ready by the appointed' time. 1 will w rite
you particulars concerning the time of
starting."
And with these words he hobbled away.
CHAPTER IX.
Miss Rayne had not exaggerated when
she called Mount Eden a little paradise.
Evelyn's first view of it made her hold
ber bre-itb with surprise.
"Uncle! uncle"' cried Evelyn, forget
ting her shyness in the delightful scene
around her, "look at the little rabbits
three four of them jumping out of that
yellow gore---ai)d oh! what a beautiful
"bird! Whatever ia it?" she continued, aa
a cock pheasant rose with a loud "whirr,"
and displayed bia glistening plumage of
gold and red and brown.
She turned toward Mr. Caryll aa ahe
spoke, laying ber hand upon bis arm: but
his head bad sunk upon bis breast, and bia
face was almost hidden from view. Rec
ollection was too much for him. The
sight of Mount Eden, with the familiar
paths, through which he bad wandered
with bis dead wife and bis poor drowned
boy, waa cutting hia seared heart like a
knife. At that moment he doubted the
wisdom of ever having returned to the
place. Evelyn waa alarmed. She feared
be must be ill.
"Are you not well, uncle?" she asked;
"dues your head ache?"
"Not my bead, child my heart. But
there, I must shake it off. I have no
rifht t'j brii g you here to share my niel
n.cS olv. Yes. ii is a lovely place, Evelyn,
ai d you will I cbie to rove through it a
ou rh'iexe. Nothing can harm you Here.
You will have plenty of room to play in,
and companions, too. I inuatn t cloud
your young life because mine is gloomy.
But here is the big bonae, aa they call u.
How do you like the look of your new
home, Evelyn?"
"Oh. uncle, it ia beautiful magnihcentl
I never saw any house like It In my life
before. And did you build it all your
self r
Yes; I built It myself," replied Mr.
Csryll, with a heavy sigh.
How well he remembered whst Ms wire
the love of his life hsd said when she
first ssw tbe completed msnsion, and
what plana for future bappineaa within Ita
walls they had laid together. And now
hia Marian was sleeping In the cnurcb
ysrd of St, Mary Ottery, and his son
the pride of his old sge was food for
the fishes In the Braxilian seaa. Oh, It
was hard bitterly hsrd 4o have been
made tbe sport of fate In such a remorse
less manner. As he stepped from bia car
riage to enter the hall, where tbe ser
vants, beaded by Mrs. Wedderburn, tbe
bonseseevef, waiting to receive him,
Evelyn thought be looked much older and
nor decrepit than he bad dona In Liver
pool, but that might bare been only tbe
effecte of the long journey.
"lira. Wedderburn," be aaid, aa tbe
housekeeper advanced to a as tat him, "this
la m niece. Miss Evelyn Rayne my poor
atster'a daughter, you may remember
wk wlU live with ma for the ratstft
Mount Eden. 1 seem to have forgottaB
the names and situation of the rooma
here-oi; mind is a little haiv en that
point; but you'll see that Misa Kayne haa
a nice one, and every attention, Ull I can
arrange matters."
Certainly, Mr. Caryll; and for your
self, you would prefer, perhaps, not to
occupy the old suite?"
"Yes. vex, yes. Where ele should I
go? Where e'lw should I go?" he reiter
ated, in a daxed and uiH-ertain manner.
After which. Evelyn was scarcely sur
prised to hear that her uncle did not feel
well enough to come down stairs again
that evening, but would take auaae re
freshment in bis own room.
From that day, though Evelyn's lift
was full of ease and luxury, it was very
dull. At firm she thought me couio
never be tired of roaming over the teauti
ful Hariiphire hill, and through the rich
pasture lands and water meadows, or sit
ting. lot in the recesses of the park, lis
tening to the sounds, and inhaling the
cents t-v which he was surrounded. But
after a while she became so accustomed
I,, the monotony of her new- life that she
began to miss the ariety of the old one.
Cooking dinner and running un-siagi-,
and mending clothes may not I interest
ing, but it is more suitable employment
for a gregarious animal than solitary
brooding. And .Mr. Cnrylt shut himself
tip almost entirely in his own room. The
return to the .ene of all his joys and dis
appointments bad brought memory back
in such a tbtod upon his mind as almost to
overwhelm him. and he found himself
quite unequal t" the tnsk which be had
set himself to do. He did not, however,
forget his duty to Evelyn Kayne. He en
gaged nil admirable resident governess to
finish her education, and gave ber every
other advantage which m uey could pro
cure. But the girl betau to sicken iu ao
atmosphere so artificial to her.
(To be continued. i
Tbe Penalty of Krrrilom.
A negro Investigator, 1 r. H. II. John
ion of Brunswick, Ga., bus added bis
testimony tut to tbe physical degener
acy of the negro In the South. He Iihkii
his coii(iusionn on fact and figures
fathered from 2K Southern cities and
towns. The tigiiren. lie nays, show that
the death rate of tbe race' "U twice as
large us that of the whites" dwelling
la the name communities; and "pot
only Is be (the negroi dying faster, but
be is being Ixwn Id lens nuinlxrs, pro
uortioUHtely." Thee conditions, Dr.
johrjion does not bet-lute to say, are
tbe results of three decades of freeJpm;
with tbe Iguorauoe, dissipation and
carelessness of a race freed from re
straint, and. what la more Important,
freed from the supervision of their
former master, to whose interest It
wan that the slaves were well fed, com
fortably housed and made to keep reg
ular hours by the force of Uie patrol.
"In auile-bellum dayi," says Dr. John
son, "tbe negro seemed to be an Im
mune to consumption, and many great
medical writers and teachers boast of
never having aeen such among the ne
gro. Enforced temperate living and
sanitary precautions made the black
man a physical giant, but the g' ta
are disappearing, and 1n tbelr p.acea
are coming on a race of smaller stature
and decreased vitality." New York
Post
Tbe Indian Haby.
In the Indian household, as In our
own, children bear an important part
The baby Is the constant companion of
its mother; not that other members of
the family do not share In the care of It,
but the little one Is kept closely under
tbe maternal eye. Soon after birth It
Is laid In Its own bed. which Is often
profusely ornamented, and Is always
portable. A board about a foot wlda
and three feet long Is covered with a
feather pillow or with layers of soft
skJns. Upon these tbe child's arms are
bound under cover, but they are releas
ed wheD It awakes. A great portion
of the Infant's time is si.-nt lying upon
a soft robe or blanket where It can
kick and crow to its heart's contest. If,
however, the mother should be so en
gaged as to lie frequently called out
of the tent, the baby Is laced upon Ita
board, and hung ud uuder a tree, or
placed where there Is no danger of fall
lng. Should the mother have to go any
distance from borne, she will slip tha
strap of Uie board over her head, and
tbe baby goes along, winking at the
great world from Its mother's back.
Long Journeys on horses are made by
babies snugly packed and bung from
tbe horn of the mother's saddle. Cen
tury. An Old Hong.
The tune to which "For He's a Jolly
Good Fellow" or "We Won't Go Home
Till Morning" Is sung was once a na
tional air In France. In "Marlbrouck"
the death aud burial of Queon Anne's
gTent captain are burlesqued. Tha
sou I Mipied to have come down
from lite Walloon coup.'ry, and It was
unknown Iu the French capital until
fifty years after Marlborough's death,
when a Plcardy peasant woman, com
ing up to Versailles to nurse the baby
dauphin, brought It with her, and sang
her little baby charge to sleep with tha
old jingling rhyme. From this "Marl
brouck" became popular In Paris, and
ultimately It spread abroad.
With a ciuin lc
The bicycle stopped suddenly.
Tba old man wer.t over the liMt'lebar
and turned a complete somersault Id
tbe air.
Then be sat down on tbe pavement
bard. "Now yoo know bow It feels to ba
whacked there," said tbe boy.
And with a merry laugh he disap
peared around tbe corner. Chicago
Post
Unaacceaafal Author,
"Brainerd doesn't an to ba uracil of
a auocaaa aa an author."
"Not a uortaat Why, hia book la Ua
literary sensation of tba day!"
"Ob, hia book la all right, but ba can't
lactnra a llttia bit" Clrreland Leader.
Tba Cnltad Htataa Army.
Tba actual atrenftb of tba United
Stataa army to-day la 27,662 offlcara aaa
r- met n rvkit3ci ran
-1
The lake of Crania. In Persia, con
tains more suit than the Iiead Sea.
which holds tvent.v-.x per cent, or
ei'lit times as much as the ocean.
A celebrated family of lion tamers
are roHrtol to use electricity. A live
wire Is stretched across the cage, and
serves as ail Impassable yet Invisible
barrier which protects the performer.
It is said that one touch of the wire
tlves a lasting lesson to the fiercest
lion.
Singer, actors :itnl public siwakers,
since the Introduction of the electric
I i ar tat. have less trouble with their
voices, anil are less likely to catch odd.
their throats ale not so parched, and
Ihey feel better, i'lii Is iltle (0 the air
not being vitiated and the teinMTuture
more even.
The largest bog In Ireland Is the bog
of Allen, which stretches across the
center of the Island, east of the Shan
non, ami covers nearly !!."ii,(sSi acres.
Altogether there are nearly .H.inki.iski
acres of Isig in Ireland-that Is to say,
about one-seventh of the total area of
the country Is bog.
Tbe method proponed by Ilerr E.
Moyat for producing large artificial
diamonds! consists essentially in sealing
pulverized coal. Iron chips and liquid
carbonic add In a strong steel tulie. and
submitting to the action Of Ihe electric
are. Vnlike other methods, this process
penerates euoruious pressure during
the operation of the elm-lrlc current,
n nd It Is tailored larger diamonds will
crystallize out as the mixture cisils.
Incandescent burners, having man
tles similar to those used for a ronl gas
llnnie. arc now- mude for oil and spirit
lamps. The kerosene Is drawn up Into
a small chiuiitwr by a number of wicks,
viirtirlzed there by a small external
tin uie. and after two minutes and a half
supplie surhVlcnt vapor to keti the
inautle at n white heat. The disadvan
tage of llils burner Is the delay of two
minutes aud a half before It Is ready
for use.
A project Is ou foot In St. Ixuls to re
move to Forest Park, that city, from
Camden County, Mo., what Is describ
ed as a magnificent xtalaginlte of solid
white onyx, six to ten feet In diameter,
and lietween twenty and thirty feet In
height from lis base to Us tapering
summit. It Is said to contain atsout
l.tssi feet of pure while onyx, "more
beautiful In design than could be mude
by a skillful sculptor." A hundred
thousand years nre given as the proba
ble time passed In its formation. New-
York Times.
A new style of pleasure boat Is de.
scribed in the Kleetrielau. The lniat
lu which the passengers and driver ride i
has rigidly connect ed illi It, at the
Isiw end, a swan shaped tug coiitiiitiiiig
an electric motor driving u projniler.
The craft is steered by means of nins
attached to the head of the swan,
which turn a rudder of ordinary pat
tern. The driver has also close at hand
a regulator, which gives hiiu control
over the machinery In the swan. The
vibration of the boat Is said to ls much
less than In one which carries Its own
motor.
An Idea of the kind of weather that
the trolil hunters of the Klondike must
face lu winter may be gat lu-red from
meteorological records made: ou the
Upper Yukon In the season of JKHO-81,
and recently published lu the National
Geographic Magu.int'. From the end
of (ictolsT a.steady fall of temperature
set in. and in lieoemlicr the thermome
ter touched t;7 degrees Fahrenheit lie
low zero! This was the lowest, the
record for January being 41 degrees,
for February ."V ! r.'es and '.: !;."c!i
4." decrees lnlo Zero. I'uriug the last
named month the long cold w as broken,
but the Ice did not start lu the Yukon
until the middle of May, and for several
weeks thereafter floating Ice prevent
ed the navigation of the river.
C are of ( blldren'a Teeth.
Because the uillk-tewih must. In the
course of nature, fall out in a few
years, to give place to the permanent
set, parent are apt to assume that It Is
useless to pay special attention to them;
they think It will be time euougli to In
struct the child lu the care of the teeth
w hen he has his rmaiient set. This
Is a mistake.
lu the lirst place, it Is never too early
to Inculcate tro,nl habits In I he child,
and hi pi i hi'iih-M teeth will nlways
be tx-Uer taken care of If he has been
taught to brush the temporary se from
the time when he could use a tooth
brush. .
It is also In the Interest of the child's
and man's good looks, comfort and
health that the milk-teeth should Is
preserved as long as possible, one of
their most Important functions Is to
keep a, place In the Jaws for ttie sec
ond set, and If they fail out too soon
the iiwond teeth may also come too
soon aud out of their reguiar place;
then the later teeth will not have reumi
enough, and will be twisted sldewise or
pushed. In front of. or behind, the others
In the row.
The first teeth, like the second, are
required for the proier manticatlou of
tbe food, which Is all the mora neces
sary In tbe growing child, who noedn
mora nourishment than in older per
aon of twice bia adze.
Finally, tbe appearance of a child
with three or four open spaces among
hia teexh la far from being attractive,
and parenta ahould b ashamed to see
Cham aa a couseiteiice of their own
neglect ba not watching properly over
tbe preservation of (he milMeetn.
Aa soon as rue tetli appear they
ahould be cleaned with a soft doth,
and when the rblld Is old enough a I.
tl iM-usb should be put into hia baiitt.
and he should Is? taught fhe use of K.
After Ibis the mother or nurse ahouM
ee that It Is used regularly.
The mouth of every child should bo
examined two or three times a year by
the dentist, aud any little cavldea
should be stopped Hb temporary
nlliug Indeed, as much care should
1m taken of the first as of Uie second
set of teeth, for rhey are, in their tern
iMsrary wav. Just as uw-essary to bealrh,
beamy and comfort-Youth's CompiUr
Ion.
A Midnight Alarm.
K tragedv with what may be callea
uical attachments U re wr ted by the
Ii.dianalHilis Journal, which professea
to have the story from me uio.nu i m
principal sufferer. It waa one of those
burrowing occurrences for which no
body is to blame, and at which tba
w or Id fi-els itself ftt lll-rty to laugh.
".My wife has the nightmare once la
awhile," said a man in s nelghlxirhood
coterie the other evening. "Perhapl
you think nightmares an- a trltllnaj
matter, but Just wait until you heal
how she served me. I haven't forglvea
her yet, a 1 1. 1 s-rliups I never shall.
"We were travding abroad, and had
come to Trieste. When we retired al
our inn my wife had a lniidaclie, and
suggested that she would occupy a bed
In her sister's room, next to our own, as
she was likely to lie wakeful and (114
not wish to disturb me.
"In the night I was aroused by fright
fill moans and cries in that room. Pre
eutly my sister called me III alurmesj
torn, and I rushed In to find my wlf
lu a dreadful nightmare, groaning and
screaming alternately. While we were,
trying to arouse her tliere came a vto
lent banging and loud talking at tha.
door of m.v iMilroom.
-of course, I had to leave my wif
and see what was wanted. W1k-o I
opened the door there stood the land
lord, his wife and half a dozen sr
vniiis, all In ino-t ludicrous and scanty
attire, each with a candlestick lu band
- the most groti'ie torchlight proce
sion I ever Is-hcld. 'j
"The landlord demanded to know
whst was going on In my apartments
who was belug killed. My ttcanty Oor
mau deserted me, but I finally stam
mered out, In an embarrassed manner,
that my wife had the 'slumber alck
ness.' This explanation hardly seemed
to satisfy the landlord, but as tba
screaming had ceased, the torchlight
procession withdrew.
"In the morning, to my aumzement, I
was scowled at by every man, womaa
un.l child In the establishment; at tba
table, In tbe halls, ou the piazias, black
looks greeted me. At laxt we overheard
some one, pointing me out, aay,
There's the big brute who beat bis wlf
hint night.'
"Actually the Impression had so pec
vail.'d the Inn and the town that w
tsik our departure; I couldn't stand It
My wife and her slwter, of course, neavr
ly laughed themselves to death ore!
the joke, but to me It wasn't funny
then, and It Isn't funny now. The only
really funny thing iiiKiut It was tnai
torchlight procession, which the wom
en didn't we."
Kdison, the Inventor.
The great electrical inventor of th
century. Thomas A. Kdison, began hia
sclent itic career In a frelght-i-ar, la
w hich he, a tsy of 1'J, conducted cbenii
leal experiments. Says the New York
Tr! bune:
When one recalls tbe more ImtKirtaal
of Mr. Kdlson'a inventions the print
lng telegraph for slock quotations, tha)
duplex and quadruples systems ol
telegraphy, the Incjunlwerit lamp, tha
subdivision of currents (within a yosu
of the oracular prediction, by BrUinl)
scientists that It could not be done), hia
cails-ii uiitiMiilttcr for telephones, the
megaphone, the phonograph, the mag
netic separator and kliiotoscope It It
hard to realize that he s only .'si yean
oid.
That magnificent laboratory in which
he spends so many happy hours, with
tils coat off, out at West Orange, la a
very different workshop from tha
freight-car In which he once conduct
ed chemical exM-rtmenta. But lie works
with the same enthusiasm and unremit
ting assiduity now as then.
He retains his youthful love of fun,
too, and enjoys a Joke more than a
square meal. In fact, the u ostenta
tious nay In which he eats a work
man's dinner on a busy day, without
leaving his lalsiratury, Is but a single,
llhiKtratlon of the simplicity of last
which is so common a trait of geuitis.
Mont na liloquenee.
The Hozemnli l .Mont. i Chronicle Rills
of u Montana leiilator who, wbeii
some cui lection lu spelling and gram
mar lt his bill were called to his atten
tion by tne committee, said: "Why you
fellows have mutilated It!" It waa tha
mine statesman who said, In address
ing a committee of which he was a
meiiilsr: "Tbe muddy slough of poli
tics was the lsjwlder upon which, the
law wa split in twain and fell In a
thousand pieces from the pedro of Ju
tiee. Ict us, then, gear up our loins
i hat we tun go forth vUu a clear
Siead,"
In a new bicycle brake h friction disk
Is fastened to the front sprocket wheel,
itu the brake shoe attached to a Joint,
i d rod mounted on the bottom brace of
the bicycle frame, a spring holding tha
two rods In a bent position, so that
pressure ou the footplate at the Joint
will cause them lo straighten out and
press the shoe against the disk.
When a womau laughs at her bua
baud'i Jokes, It as often Indicate thai
she realises the Importance of heaping
him good humored a that she lovea
him.
The only time a man enjoya having a
woman with him on a trip la whaa ba
takea his wedding trip.