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I PART L
WISH I had the
courage to begin
thin tale by turning
to my professional
visiting books and,
taking at random
any month out of
the last twenty
years, give Its rec
ord as a fair sam
ple of my ordinary
work. The dismal
extract would tell you what a doctor's
—I supose I may say a successful doc
tor'*—lot Is, when his practice lies in a
poor and densely populated district of
London. Dreary as such a beginning
might be, It would perhaps allay some
of the Incredulity which this tale may
probably provoke, as It would plainly
•how how little room there Is for
things Imaginative or romantic In
work so hard as mine, or among such
grim realities of poverty, pain, and
grief, as those by which I have been
surrounded. It would certainly make
It appear extremely unlikely that I
abould have found time to imagine,
much less to write, a romance or mel
odrama.
The truth Is, that when a man has
tolled from 9 o’clock In the morning
until 9 o'clock at night, such leisure
as be can enjoy Is precious to him,
especially when even that short respite
is liable to be broken in upon at any
moment.
Still, In spite of the doleful picture I
have drawn of what may be called
“the dally grind," I begin this tale with
the account of a holiday.
Id the autumn of 1864 I turned my
back with light good-will upon London
streets, hospitals and patients, and
IUU* my Ben*, In lH« North K*pr j«»
The A rut rounl it# Inn e\t tha whPflfl ftPTl t
a thrill of delight through my Jaded
frame. A Joyful sensation of freedom
came over me. I had really got away
at last! Moreover, I had left no ad
dress behind me, so for three blessed
.weeks might roam an undisputed lord
of myself. Three weeks were not very
many to take out of the llfty-two, but
they were all 1 could venture to give
myself; for even at that time my
practice, If not so lucrative as I could
wish, was a large an Increasing one.
Having done a twelvemonth’s hard
work, I felt no one In the kingdom
could take bis holiday with a con
science clearer than mine, so I lay back
mind, and discounted the coming pleas
ure of my brief respite from labor.
There are many ways of passing a
holiday—many places at which It may
fee spent; but, after all, If you wish to
(enjoy It thoroughly, there is but one
.royal rule to be followed. That is,
simply to please yourself—go where
you like, and mount the Innocent holl
i day bobby which Is dearest to youi
heart, let its name be botany, geology
Wymology, conchology, venery, pisca
tlon, or what not. Then you will be
happy, and return well braced up foi
the battle of life. I knew a city clerk
with literary tastes, who Invariable
spent bis annual fortnight among the
mustiest tomes of the British Museum
and averred that hi:? health was more
.benefited by so doing than If he bac
passed the time inhaling the freshes:
sea-breezes 1 dare say he was right it
hlj assertion.
Sketching has always been my favor
ite holiday pursuit. Poor as my draw
ings njit> be, nevertheless as I turn
them over in my portfolio, they bring
“to me at least, vivid remembrancet
/i f m u no cu'bot ntt/1 nlnlurisaniiA snivla
happy days, and congenial companion*
It la not for me to say anytnfng oi
their actual merit*, but they are dew
to qje for their associations.
This particular year I went to Nortt
Wales, and made Uettws-y-Coed m>
headquarter*. 1 stayed at the Hoya
Oak. that well-known little Inn deal
to many an artist s heart, and teem
ing with reminiscences of famous mei
who have sojourned there times with
out number. It mm here 1 made thi
acquaintance of tht man with »h >*•
life the curious event* here told ur<
connected.
On the ft rat day after my arrival al
Uettws my appreciation of my liberty
was so thorough, my appetite for tb*
enjoyment of the beautlee of nature m
keen and Insatiable, that | wrnt so fvi
sad saw ao muyh. that when I return*!
to tk* Hoy a I Oak night had fallea ant
the hour of dinner had long passed by
I was, when my own meet «u pi*,^
on (be table, the only occgpant of tb«
cogee-room Just then a youag mat
entered and ordered something to cat
The waiter haowlag ao doubt. msi»
■thing of the frank camaraderie whict
estate. or should estot. between Hu
followers of the painter s srafl, laid hit
cwver at my tahlo. Th* aewcwmet
seated himself gave me a pteaaaai
am tie and a aod. aad la Ive miaul*
we were la full swing of t-oairrsatloa
Th# moment my eyeo f«U ugga th«
youag mao I had aoitred how singular
)y haadowm* ho wsa Charles Car rictus
• (•» this I found afterword ta ho ku
name waa about twenty tw* tear* id
age. Mo waa Util, hut slightly hutlt
his whale hearing aad hgure being re
ma/hahiy etegaai aad graceful Ht
Jwwhwd ivm mere ihaa gentle maah
ha leeched distinguished Ills face was
gal*. Ha fowturew well eut. straight aad
regular Mis fWtWhoad spoke of htgk
intellect usi quallltaw aad there war
a>m*what at that develwpmeat over th«
oyahrows which phreaslog <*u I he
||g*W ewastdei ao svtdegew tf the pus
session of imagination. The general
expression of his face was one of sad
ness, and Its refined beauty was
heightened by a pair of soft, dark,
dreamy-Iooking eyes.
It only remains to add that, from his
attire, I Judged him to be an artist—
a professional artist—to the backbone.
In the course of conversation I told him
how I had classified him. He smiled.
“I am only an amateur,” he said; "an
idle man, nothing more—and you?”
"Alas! I am a doctor.”
"Then we shall not have to answer to
each other for our sins In painting.”
We talked on pleasantly until our
bodily wants were satisfied. Then
came that pleasant craving for tobacco
which, after a good meal, Is natural to
a well-regulated digestion.
"Shall we go and smoke outside?.”
said Carrlston. "The night Is delic
ious.”
We went out and sat on one of the
wooden benches. As my new friend
said, the night was delicious. There
was scarcely a breath of air moving.
The stars and the moon shone brightly,
and the rush of the not far distant
stream came to us with a soothing mur
mur. Near us were three or four Jovial
young artists. They were In merry
mood; one of them had that day sold
a picture to a tourist. We listened to
their banter until, most likely growing
thirsty, they re-entered the Inn.
Carrlston had said little since we had
been out of doors. He smoked his cigar
placidly and gazed up at the skies.
With the white moonlight falling on
hie strikingly beautiful face—the grace
ful pose Into which be fell—he seemed
to be the embodiment of poetry. He
paid no heed to the merry talk of the
artists, which so much amused me—
Indeed, I dfubted if he heard their
voices.
) Yet he mv^t have done so, for an
| noon aa they had left us he came out of
his reverie.
"It must be very nice.1* he said, "to
have to make one's living by art."
"Nice for those who can make liv
ings by It,” 1 answered.
"AM can do that who are worth It.
The day of neglected genius has ."jone
by. Muller was the last sufferer, I
think—and he died young."
"If you are so sanguine, why not
try your own luck at It?”
"I would; but unfortunately I am a
rich man.”
I laughed at this misplaced regret.
Then Carrlston, In the most simple
way. told me u rnnA Heol a limit aimueif
ne Was an orphan, an only child. He
had already ample means; but Fortune
had still favors In store for him. At
the death of his uncle, now an aged
man, he must succeed to a large estate
and a baronetcy. The natural, unaf
fected way In which he made these
confidences, moreover made them not,
I knew, from any wish to Increase his
importance In my eyes, greatly Im
pressed me. By the time we parted
for the night I had grown much inter
eated In my new acquaintance—an In
terest not untlnged by envy. Young,
handsome, rich, free to come or goi
work or play as he listed! Happy Car
rlston !
II.
AM DISPOSED TO
think that never
before did a sincere
friends hip, one
which was fated to
last unbroken for
years, ripen so
quickly as that be
tween Carrlston and
myself. A» 1 now
look back I find it
hard to associate
’ nim with any, even a brief, period of
time subsequent to our meeting, dur
ing which he was not my bosom friend.
I forget whether our meeting at the
same picturesque spot on the morning
which followed our self-introduction
was the result of accident or arrange
ment. Anyway, we spent the day to
gether. and that day was the precursor
of many passed In each other's society,
Morning after morning ws sallltd forth
to do our beet to transfer the same
bits of scenery to our sketching blocks.
Evening after evening we returned to
| dine side by side, and afterward to talk
1 and smoke together, Indoors or out
doors as the temperature advised or
I our wishes Inclined,
Ureal friends are soon became in*
I separable as long as my short holiday
• l*«t*d. It was. perhaps, pleasant tor
) each Iii eerk In n,mlik mm
tour Ilk* klanwif. Back could uk th*
otk*r'« »pmum of iko morlta of tk«
work 'l"n* »n<i fool happy mi ik« ap
proyal dull glsoa An krttai a aiaudard
«>f NNlkM la toa klak fur • »m pro
trwionai VS k*n Ha praiao# >«ur work
ka pralaaa |i kul aa Iko work ul an out
tidot, Yno* lo#| iOat •«nk maun *a da
'»«• rondomna It nnd diakanriana you
bad Carnal on rand lu do
*• I Ikmk k# Ktiakt hart foarUaalr
•obmiilod k>- prod oiiot>* in an> run
atlanllou# rrllt* Hi* drawinga a»r«
Uonmaaurakly aturo amain and powrr
fkl ikaa win* lla kad uaduuktodly
aront UluMt and I *M awk aurptlau I
In knd Ikal a«*d a* ka waa at land
***** ka »aa fcallar at Ik* Mpum
Ha mold. WHfc a krm bold Hand draw
i rapidly lb* aiai mar «• too* luoaaaaaa
| It apinud and trua narw war af th*
■ aiudlaa b* akonod m* ikal | mold
wllfcoui Mallory adrlao him prondtd
, ka tnwld tniak aa b* ko*aa In k*ap
onilrnly in tbo blabor bran, b nf ik* art
I ka»* no* b*f«,« ii * a MUM nf aui
' lino fa«*a drown by kirn maki «f
[ ikaa Irani memory and aa I '.»*« at
them the original of each cornea at
once before my eye a
From the very first I had been much
Interested in the young man. and as
day by day went by. and the peculiari
ties of his character were revealed to
me, my Interest grew deeper and deep
er. I flatter myself that 1 am a keen
observer and skillful analyst of per
sonal character, and until now fancied
that to write a description of its com
ponent ports was an easy matter. Yet
when I am put to the proof I And It no
simple task to convey In words a
proper Idea of Charles Carrlston's men
tal organization.
I soon discovered that he was, I may
say, afflicted by a peculiarly sensitive
nature. Although strong, and appar
ently In good health, the very changes
of the weather seemed to affect him al
most to the same extent as they affect
a flower. Bweet as his disposition al
ways was, the tone of his mind, his
spirits, his conversation, varied, as It
were, with the atmosphere. Ho was
full of Imagination, and that imagina
tion. always rich, was at times weird,
even grotesquely weird. Not for one
moment did he seem to doubt the sta
bility of the wild theories he started,
or the possibility of the poetical dreams
he dreamed being realized. He bad his
faults of course; he wbb hasty and Im
pulsive; indeed to me one of the great
est charms about the boy was that,
right or wrong, each word he spoke
came straight from his heart.
Bo far as I could Judge, the whole
organization of bis mind was too high
ly strung, too finely wrought for every
day use. A note of Joy, of sorrow,
even of pity, vibrated through It too
strongly for his comfort or well-being.
As yet it had not been called upon to
bear the test of love, and fortunately—
1 use the word advisedly—fortunately
he was not, according to the usual sig
nificance of the word, a religious man,
or I should have thought It not unlikely
that some day he would fall a victim to
that religious mania so well known to
my professional brethren, and have de
veloped hysteria or melancholia. He
might even have fancied himself a mes
senger sent from heaven for the re
generation of mankind. From natures
like Carrlston’s are prophets made.
In short. I may say that my exhaust
ive study of my new friend's character
resulted In a certain amount of un
easiness as to his future—an uneasi
ness not entirely free from professional
curiosity.
Although the smile came readily
and frequently to his lips, the general
bent of his disposition was sad, even
despondent and morbid. And yet few
young men's lives promised to be so
pleasant as Charles Carrlston’s.
I was rallying him one day on hit
future rank and Its responsibilities.
"You will, of course, be disgustingly
rich," I said.
c-arriaion stgheq. "Ves, if I live long
enough; but I don't suppose I shall.’’
"Why In the world shouldn’t you’
You look pale and thin, but are In cap
ital health. Twelve long miles we have
walked to-day—you never turned a
hair.”
Carrlston made no reply. He seemed
In deep thought.
"Your friends ought to look after you
and get you a wife,” I said.
“I have no friends,” he said, sadly.
"No nearer relation than a cousin a
good deal older than I am, who looks
upon me as one who was born to rob
him of what should be his."
"But by the law of primogeniture,
so sacred to the upper ten thousand,
he must know you are entitled to It."
"Yes; but for yeare and years I was
always going to die. My life was not
thought worth six months' purchase.
All of a suddsn I got well. Ever since
then I have seemed, even to myself,
a kind of interloper.”
"It must be unpleasant to have a man
longing for one's death. All the more
reason you should marry, and put othei
lives between him and the title.”
(TO HI COSTISUKO 1
A Novel I’Ihd of llullillng.
A German inventor has built a house
of hollow tubes, whose advantages are,
he suys. a constant temperature, and In
cidentally strength, comfort and baau
ty. He first put up a frame of water
tubing, allowing continuous circula
tion to a stream of water. Around
this frame he put his huuss In tbs
ordinary way. The peculiarity Is that
all floors and ceilings are crossed and
rwrousd by the water pipes. Ths
water, having passed through hortson
tsl tubes under the floor* and ceilings
posses through the vsrtlcal tubes un
til sll have been gone through In tbs
summer fresh, coo! wstsr circulates un
der pressure through the net work ol
tubes, cools off ths walls, sad sftsi
having rua Its course Hows consider
ably warmer than when It snisrvd la
Its course It has absorbed much bent,
which It carries sway. During ths long
sad severe wlater the water entering
through the basement Is Brat heeled t«
asarly luo degrees sad then forced
through the celling Of course Stuck
of the heat la left all over ths house
sad at the outlet the temperature el
the water Is sb>ul It degrees Thl
speed of the stfruisiloa of water cap
he regulated so as to allow Being I
terieia temperature, egual throughout
I thv huti.nag
—. ...
t*ss»W uses tin t«u tesis
While taihiag to some friends at
Wtthesharve. hi t’wirtsh tlesday eg
itrtvbea deaf and dumb He wro'e ug
• pie*# ef paper Iki hi he ntarmevh
this e»t| pass »B la three days, I base
what II ta I bei* bed It het>-re II
seems that Hester when la IrsUud
tea rente ago «se threwn Hum «
, herse As a result wf injuries revolved,
he was deal and dumb far three darn
Meaty twer years mas* he has had I
similar altar h lasting In each lust sues
three data Nee Verb has
IS SPAIN’S ARNOLD.
DR. ZERTUCHA ALLEGED BE
TRAYER OF MACEO.
A Mali of Many Hlilea—He Will Hove a
llaril Time Convincing the World
That He la Not a Traitor to Mao
kind. _
K. MAXIMO ZKH
TL’CHA, the sup
posed Benedict Ar
nold of the Cuban
revolution, who Is
alleged to have
betrayed the gal
lant, fearless Maceo
and bis stuff to
death, Is a man of
many political
sides. He has been
oy turns friendly to all parties In Cuba,
and has participated In the political
agitation of the Island for many years.
After Muceo's death he ‘’surrendered"
himself to the Spaniards and was pro
tected by them. It was on the Infor
mation given them by Zertucha that
the story sent out by the authorities at
.Havana was made up. The doctor. In
telling how Maceo met his death, said
that the general had a force of 2,000
Cubans who were attacked by <500 Span
iards. Maceo and bis staff were In the
center of the forcea. In the battle that
followed, Maceo and his entire staff
were killed. The Cubans fled. This
story Is laughed at by the Cuban agents
In this country. They say that officers
like Maceo and bis staff do not expose
themselves to Are. I)r. Zertucha, say
the Cubans, has been variable In bis
sympathies for years, at one time hold
ing to Spain, at another allying him
self with the Islanders. The doctor was
DR. MAXIMO ZERTUCHA.
formerly surgeon in the army of Spain.
Many years ago he went to Cuba, and
by political intrigue was made the
mayor of the town of Melena In the
province of Havana. He baa been more
or less Intimately associated with every
political party In Cuba. He was at one
time prominent as a leader in the party
of the autonomists. Next he became
identified with the reformist party,
and then he became a conservative.
When the present revolution was
sprung, Zertucha changed Into an out
right rebel and offered his services to
Maceo. He was an able and scientific
surgeon, and was of great service to
the cause of Cuba libre. He is a fin
ished botanist, and bis knowledge of
materia medlca is extensive. This,
coupled with the fact that he is famil
iar with the medicinal qualities of
every herb on the island, made him an
Invaluable man In the service of the
revolutionary army. He freely gave his
services for the cause of liberty, but bis
alleged treason has made his very
name odious throughout the world, and
It Is thought vengeful Cubans will
never be satisfied until his body fills a
iltohnnrtpnhld OTU UP
The Manitoba Question Mettled.
The long-vexed question of denom
inational schools in Manitoba, which
hts occasioned much controversy in
the courts and in the legislatures of
the province and the Dominion of
Canada, has been settled, so far at
least as the governments are con
cerned, by an agreement which pro
vides for religious teaching in the pub
lic schools at the dost* of each day's
session. Attendance upon this re
ligious teaching is not to be compul
sory, and in schools where there are
both Catholic and non-Catholic pupils,
the time allotted for religious teaching
is to be equally divided. There is to
be no separation of pupils by religious
denominations during secular work.
Where the average attendance of Cath
olic children reaebea a certain number,
at least one Catholic teacher is to he
employed; and a corresponding pro
vision is mnde regarding non Catholic
children. **rovt»lon ia also made for
teaching In both French and Kngltsh,
under certain conditions. The Homan
Catholic hierarchy dues not accept the
eattlemeat. and will endeavor to pre
vent its going into effect.
tlM IIIMM Mas I Mil la UlltUlS
Whenever grsuae gets into a boiler
the evil effect# are common to every
type, in the oid data grease used to
be purposely let reduced la ordar to pre
veat scale, aad most ef oa have beard
of the maa »h« »n» seat to clean a
boiler, aad eke made himself ee com
fortable that be fell asleep lastde He
• a* for get tea aad tbe butler closed up
aad set is cork After tbe uec-at
l_p*e *f time, boiler cteaaiag day
agata came round aad la tbe aMoaleh
mewl of every use ibe belter eaa tuned
le be free from stale Tim mystery
•as, fence ever sap'aiaed efeea the
buses ml tbe act salsa maa eaa fousl at
tie helium It la however mere than
doubtful tf a ay etber bind d animat
ar cage labia fat Would bale prudu ed
ppy surprising results aad builsr
gtaMrra are aot availafeln every day
Hr such a purpose Ceeeter • Mags
life-.
AFTER THE JAMESON RAID.
It Wm * “Bit Different” from the Uat
Ride.
"I must keep to what happened to
day,” says a writer In 8crlbner’s. "We
struck York road at the back of the
Great Western terminus, and I half
hoped we might see some chap we
knew coming or going away; 1 would
liked to have waved my hand to him.
It would have been fun to have seen
his surprise the next morning when
he read in the paper that he had been
bowing to Jail birds, and then I would
like to have cheated the tipstaves out
of Just one more friendly good-by. I
wanted to say good-by to somebody,
but I really couldn’t feel sorry to sec
the last of any one of those we passed
In the streets—they were such a dirty,
unhappy looking lot—and the railroad
wall ran on forever, apparently, and
we might have been In a foreign coun
try for all we knew of It. There was
Just sooty gray brick tenements and
gasworks on one side and the railroad
cutting on the other and semaphores
and telegraph wires overhead anil
smoke and grime everywhere; It looked
exactly like the sort of street that
should lead to a prison and It seemed a
pity to take a smart hansom and a
good cob Into It. It was Just a bit dif
ferent from our last ride together—
rather, when we rode through the night
from Krugersdorp with hundreds of
horses' hoofs pounding on the soft
veldt behind us and the carbines
clanking against the stirrups as they
swung on the sling belts. We were
being bunted then, harassed on either
side, scurrying for our lives like the
Derby dog In a race track, when every
one boots him and no man steps out to
help—we were sick for sleep, sick for
food, lashed by the rain, and we knew
that we were beaten; but we were free
still and under open skies, with the
derricks of the Rand rising like gal
lows on our left and Johannesberg only
Miicru mjiten uwuy.
AN ARIZONA MUMMY.
Was (luce a Very Klcb Person of ths
Anrient Artec Nation.
An Indian mummy has been found
In Arizona, near Prescott, that Is be
lieved to have once been one of the
great men of the Aztecs, says the New
York Journal. It was found by John
P. Blundy, who communicated the facte
to George P. Kunz, the New York
diamond expert. Beside the mummy
was a basket Oiled with a half-peck ol
turquoises. With the Aztecs green wat
a sacred stone, and wealth was gauged
generally by the number of green
stones the person owned. Every man’e
treasure In those days was buried with
his bones and neglect to do this wai
regarded as highly sacrilegious. Foi
the nourishment of the departed soul a
few ears of corn were added. The
turquoises Mr. Blundy found were in the
form of beads. These the Aztecs Arm
ly believed saved the wearer from
fevers, serpents’ bites and diseases
The mummy is a singular specimen, al
together unlike the Egyptian variety,
The skin Is dried flrmly over the bones,
giving it a withered appearance. Tbli
Is due to the rare air in Arizona, which
dries, but seldom has the decomposing
effect of our atmosphere.
A BIG VENTURE.
Prof. Gayley of California Undertake* a
Wonderfully DUBcult Tn*k.
Professor Charles Mills Gayley ol
the University of California will soon
go east and to Europe to select twen
ty of the best English scholars in the
world to collate a book, to be pub
lished by the university. Jt is to be
a grand edition of representative Eng
lish comedies until and Including the
time of Oliver Goldsmith. Such a col
lection has never before been pub
lished. and the University of Califor
nia will get the credit of the work, foi
I
pRor. oAYuev.
IU Impress will be on the title page
Profeeeor (lay ley U now In com wont
ration with Professors Klttredge at
Harvard, lluniero of Haverford, and
Klurgel of Stanford ae to the beel
corps of aaaieuau on thle word. II
la prupoeed to got up a eumptuoue edl
lion of old Keg Usd cowed lee eoneiet
lag of playa dy Heywood. Udall. Tyly,
Peels. Uretne, Judnaon. Shakespeare
Iteauaiont and Pteteher. Chapman
Massinger, t’owtey, Congreve, Steele
(lay, Colemaa. Sheridan aad Quid
•with Thirty two playa will ha ee
levied, aad will he au treated ae l«
•how the ev slut lea of Kagtieh cowed*
j a* a literary type Profeaaor Uayle*
will visit all the lead lag universities,
but a ill epea I wuel of the year he w|t|
ha ahrtwd at Oatord Tde pubtlvatioe
a til he ilaeslv ae ewoa ae it will bt
Issued I row the preaa, aad wilt, dy ea
leadlag tde fawo of tho uaivereitv,
wore tdaa repay Ida iaatttutlaa Pat
j tde •«pease
Meet eyeteote el •>iiilu*4
pel sees Id# eyslews e» Vt tills Id l«a|
) and Pltwsh Wt. there were lit eye
tr we of shorthand published, and sleet
i that date there have been It I wahihi
' a total of «•«.
%
IN GERMAN UNIVERSITIES.
Women H«t« Been Recently Aitulttc^
with Eocouni|to| Beaultn.
A new stage In the development of
the question of the admission of women
to German universities, and one that
has been looked forward to with Inter
est and curiosity, has Just been reached,
says an exchange. In the last few
years American and English women
and. In smaller numbers, Russians have
been storming the doors of German
universities, and, where they have been
successful In gaining entrance, they
have done so by virtue of the certifi
cates and training they have received
In their own countries. In all but a
few exceptional cases German women
wore debarred—by their lack of prep
aration and of the means of obtaining
It from such privileges as were grant
ed to foreigners. A German woman ap
plying for permission to enter a uni
versity where an American or English
woman wag studying was told that she
must either go abroad and return with
the degree or diploma presented by her
foreign sister or that she must attend
a gymnasium of the fatherland and
pass Its final or ablturlenten examina
tion. The latter course was Impossible
—for all gymnasia were absolutely, and
perhaps wisely, closed to women; the
former course was In general Imprac
ticable. To put an end to this state of
[things two or three gymnasia for girls
were founded on exactly the same lines
as those for boys, and girls were pre
pared for the same final examination
twhlch admitted thalr brothers to the
.university. From the girls’ gymnasium
’In Berlin six girls have now passed
inis ex«£-lnatlon, and, armed with the
same certificates and training as men
students, have p,“«ented themselves
for admission—three t? the Unlveralty
of Berlin and three to the University V
of Hallo. Halle bos acted with thorough
consistency In the matter and admitted
II1CIU UWU iLH HifrU H al HUIU6UU) <&UU UNO
as a student of natural science), with
out restrictions, to all Its lectures and
laboratories. Berlin has, however, been
less liberal; the two students who
wished to study medicine have been re
fused admission to all the anatomical
lectures and laboratories, and the pro
fessors have availed themselves freely
of their liberty to refuse to admit wom
en to their courses—even in philology,
the subject taken by the third student.
Before pronouncing Berlin grudging In
the matter we must, however, remem
ber that with Its 8,000 students and Its
situation In a gay capital, it stands on
a different footing with Halle and Got
tingen, and It behooves It to be careful
iwhat it undertakes. The result, on the
whole, seems to be sufficiently encour
aging, however, for the number of stu
dents attending the gymnasia is stead
ily increasing.
"PARSON JIM.”
In the l.lttle Daguut IJe Told ttie Boys
Why He Came Out West.
Prom the New York World: It was
the season of the year In Texas when
the cattle are rounding up to be driven
north for better grazing. The cow
boys had just finished supper, and sat
around their little dugout swapping
lies. Gradually the conversation turn
ed on the motives which prompted the
different members of the group to go
west. They all told of the more or
less discreditable causes for their mi
gration, with the exception of a rather
taciturn but generally popular fellow
who was known as "Parson Bill," be
cause of the clerical cut of the attire
which he universally affected.
"Why did you como we3t, Parson?”
queried Swamp-angel Sam.
"Well,” drawled out the individual
addressed. “I left the east because I
didn’t build a church.”
Everybody smiled at what, was con
sidered the drollery of the Parson,
who, not noticing the merriment which
he had created, continued:
"It was this way. We used to hold
meetings in the district schoolhouse In
Massachusetts and I did the preaching.
The little flock grew, and It was de
cided to build a small church. The
funds, as they were collected, were put
Into my hands for safekeeping." He
paused. “That's why I came west.”
BIG SPRINGS FOR UNCLE SAM.
lonir to H« Buffer* on Big (iuna nod
Other* I’lirfil Behluil Arumr flute*.
Soft rush Ions to take up the recoil
of I'ncle Sam', great gunn are being
made In Pittsburg, Pa. Experiments 'I
are ulao under way to apply the
cushions to the breastworks of forti
fications and battle ships ho as to les
sen the force of the shock caused by
a heavy projectile coming In cunlat.l
with armor plate. The principle ol
buffers on tbe ends of tbe platforms «l
railroad passenger coaches Is to be ap
piled to guns and armor plate, and th«
experiments will k« watched with con
stdernble internet by everybody. If *
aucceee they will mark an ere In th«
building of battleship* and forte. Tht
cuebione for the gune are huge spiral
springs made of the very beet eteel.
Home ere aquare. while others art
round. They are being manufactured
la considerable quanttttee.
lo.aa.it«g note PmUtea.
A new faekton ha. arteen la Hrotefc
country bouse# during >k> last few
y.are. All sporting men like porttdgt
fur brwakfa.t New. ft i. not a pretty
spcttacle in see muatecked and bearded
men .at porridge and cream so guw J
that delectable muapouad is pla<«d up
on a aide table bob tad a wreea «r in
n little sale raum end when tb. lard*
«» ci.alien .troll down on • tiunday m
rush lets on a week day te breakfast
according te up lodete etlqu.il* ug
eat Ikeir drat breakfast etaad
lag Tkle feeM u mmlada an utoup
of Ute UdMlan habit el eating eabouab*
ttr bora deeuere at a aid. table i*
tke drawlag-raom ksfw.p demanding It
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