THK NORFOLK NEWS. FRIDAY , OCTOBER 10 1002 , 15 a A DOCTOR'S STORY [ Original. ] r On my list of trained nurses was Mercedes Marcel , a young woman ot the Spanish type. Miss Marcel had ravishing black eyes , a wealth of hair of the same hue and a supple flgure. She had great Influence over the pa tients she nursed , often lifting them over their low points solely by her magnetic Influence. For this reason I recommended her whenever she was disengaged. I sent for her to attend n Mrs. Brier- ly , nnd as usual she gave great satis faction. The patient , however , did not seem to gain after having reached a certain point. Indeed she seemed to retrograde. Several times It occurred to me to ask , as is my custom with my patients , how she liked her nurse , but as Ml.ss Marcel was always In- the room with her when I called nnd ns I had heard the nurse's praises so of ten sounded by others U did not occur V to me to send her out In order to innko the Inquiry. One day while visiting Mrs. Ilrlerly I noticed that she was following the nurse about the room with her eyes , nnd when Miss Marcel's back was turned she quickly drew me down nnd u V with her lips close to my enr wills- jk pered : i " "If you don't take that woman ' * away , I shall die. " "Miss Marcel , " 1 said , "go and get me some hot water. " The nurse stepped to the electric but ton nnd wns about to puph It when I said , "Go yourself. " "I have signals for some of the or dinary wants of a sickroom , " she Bald. "I press the button twice , and I get hot water quicker than I can gofer for It. " "Very nice. You needn't press the button. I wish to be left alone with my patient. Go out nnd don't return nntll 1 call for you. " She obeyed me. I turned my back to her as she went out nnd saw her face In a mirror. She gave the sick woman one of the most pectdinr glances I ever eaw , such a glance as a hypnotist would give one he was endeavoring to master. " Now , " I said to my patient when the door was closed , "why did you not tell me this before ? " 1 1 "Because she always remained In the * room when you were here , and I have ' ' * no charge to make against her. " "What , then. Is the trouble ? " j "There Is something In her that Is wearing the life out of me. Don't ask me what It Is , for I don't understand it myself. " "Never mind. Don't talk about It. Bhe shall not enter your room again. " "But" "But what ? " "She will ruin me. " "Ruin you ? How ? You arc nothing to her , and I will see that she doesn't got at you. " I did what I could to make the poor woman feel easy and left her. Her husband was coming In as I was going out. I told him that I was about to change his wife's nurse. "You Kurprls-o me. I have never met n more agreeable woman , " he said. "You mean seductiveV" n faint suspi cion coming over me at Ills warmth. lie turned pale. "Brlerly , " I said , "I shall at once commence inquiries as to Miss Mar cel's antecedents. If you nre especially predisposed toward her , suspend Judg ment till I make my report. " KL Within an hour I had hired a detco /f tlve to learn nil that he could about Miss Marcel. It was six weeks before ho made his report. When I received It , Mrs. Brlerly had become convales cent and wn no longer under my care , BO I went to her husband's olilce. I "Mr. Bricrly , " said his confidential | clerk , "is out of the city. " 1 "His address ? " "I will forward any communica tion" " address " said "Thero "His ? I sharply. la something wrong. Tell me nt once or I will report to the police that he has absconded. " The man made excuses and all that , but , seeing that I was not to be trifled IWlth , told me that I could flnd Brier- ly at a certain hotel. I wont there and sent up my card. Brierly came down with a scared look on his face. Without commenting on how or where I had found him I drew the detective's report on Miss Marcel. Father , Jaques Marcel , banker , Paris ; embezzled funda and served ten years In the galleys. Mother , previous to her hus band's arrest , had eloped with n Spanish gentleman , taking with her the little girl Mercedes ; afterward cameto America. The child was brought up In the circus ring ; subsequently worked In a hospital and became a trained nurse ; nothing defi nite as to her character , I watched Brlerly closely as he read the report and saw him shudder. Then nil his reserve broke away , and he gave mo his confidence. "Doctor , " he said , "how can I ever repay you ? You saved my wife from this woman , and now you have saved me. I came hero preparatory to elop ing with her that Is , she brought me , for I have been under her strange In fluence since the day you sent her to my house to nurse my dear wife. The spoil Is broken , and I shall do all-in my ; power to avoid meeting this witch that she may never control mo again. " "You owe me nothing , " I said. "I have been nt fault In placing the life of n patient In Jeopardy by not Inves tigating the antecedents and character of the nurse. Hereafter I shall bo more careful. " Brlerly went homo , and his wife never know of his Intended flight. Mrs. Brlerly was the last Invalid Miss Mar cel over nursed. I reported the case nt the training school at which the nurse ' * L had been educated nnd found thnt she Iv , had been admitted through the Influ- , { cncc of ono of the managers. ; WALTEK V TU JKER. Ctirton * Old Cimtont. In ono of the suburbH of Paris n wealthy merchant died the other day , und on th evening of the funeral his neighbors witnessed a curious cere mony , An hour before the body was to betaken taken to the cemetery the relatives of the dead man , tlve or nix In number , went out Into the garden adjoining the house and walked solemnly and silent ly around It. Each carried a lantern and kept his eyes llxed on the ground , as though ho were looking for some thing. Finally they all halted in front of a large pile of stones and , laying aside their lanterns , proceeded to throw down the pile. After every stone had been removed they examined minutely the spot on which the pile had rested and then slowly and with bowed hcadu returned to the house. This is an old Norman custom , and il Is observed in this instance because the dead man was a native of Olson. There Is a tradition In Normandy that before burying a body all the ground around his dwelling should be searched In or der to make sure that the soul has not hidden Itself somewhere. At ono tlmo every family In Normandy faithfully observed this tradition , but now only u few pay heed to It. The IlitlnliiMv. When a ray of sunlight falls on u raindrop , It Is refracted ; then part of the light Is reflected from the internal surface and again refracted on leaving the drop. The white sunlight is not only refracted when it enters and leaves the drop , but dispersion also takes place. The eye sees bright cir cles of light for each kind of light , and since sunlight Is made up of different kinds of homogeneous light we get a series of circular arcs , showing the spectrum colors , the red being outside and the other colors following In the order of descending wave length. The whole cons.ltutes a primary rainbow. A secondary bow is sometimes seen outside the first. This Is formed by the light being twice reflected Inside the raindrops. The less refrangible rays are on the Inner side. Rainbows duo to still more Internal reflections are too feeble to bo observed. It Is possible to get a white rainbow If the sun is clouded or if there Is a mixture of raindrops of very different sizes. Pnt'a Trouble. Pat had come over to America with the expectation of finding money lying around loose , only waiting for someone ono to pick It up. Of course this was long ago. Pat had soon become disil lusionized and was always glad to get hold of odd Jobs which would net him a little something to help him keep body and soul together. Finally , becoming - coming tired of the struggle , ho de cided to end it all and was very indus triously tying a rope around his waist when his landlord happened In on him. After watching him curiously for a few minutes ho asked : "What's up , Pat ? What are you tryIng - Ing to do ? " "Troyln * to choke moself , av coorsc , " wad Pat's answer. "Choke yourself ? You can't do It that way. You'll have to put the rope around your neck. " "Sure an' I thrlcd thot , but I couldn't breathe. " New York Times. .A State Dinner In Venice. In 1552 the patriarch of AquIIela feted Ranucclo Farncsc , the pope's nephew , In the palace on the Gludoc- ca. The rooms were decked with ex traordinary sumptuousness , cloth of gold , paintings and Illuminations add ing to the effect produced by the patri arch's cooks. Among the guests were twelve gentlemen In fancy marine cos tumes of green satin with red lining , \vcarlng caps of the same colors and each accompanied by a lady dressed In white. This repast lasted four hours , varied by music and the professional entertainers of the day. It ended with the cutting up of certain largo pies from which live birds flew out Into the room. The guests strove with each other to catch these birds. Dlaconrteonn Courtier. Once upon a time the prime minister wont to the king and complained that n certain courtier , who was very hard of hearing , had been making very un complimentary remarks about his sov ereign. "Your majesty should speak to him about It , " said the minister , "that It may ccaso , but you must needs speak loud. " "I will speak so loud , " answered the king , "that I guarantee the offense will never bo repeated. " / Ho then sent the offending courtier to the guillotine. Moral. Ax speaks louder than words. Now York Herald. Tlurc Con ldcrnUon. Nnggsby If you don't like your Job , why on earth do you cling to It with such tenacity ? Waggsby Well , you see , I have friends in the same line of work , nnd if I lot go some of them might stumble Into my place and regret it ever after- wnrd. Los Angeles Herald. A FnMtldloiiB Freuk. Manager What Is the matter with the glass cater ? Assistant Ho Is getting too tony. Manager How so ? Assistant Ho refuses to cat any thing but cut glass. Philadelphia Rec ord. "The Morning : After. " Alice ( finding a roll of bills under her plate ) You were out awfully late , Ar thur. Is this conscience money ? Arthur ( timidly from behind his newspaper ) No , my dear ; hush money. -Puck. Men sometimes become wiser as { hey grow older , but they- seldom become less foolish. Chicago News. THE PARADISE FISH , One of tin * Wonderful I'l Iliirltlcn Kotiifl In China , The oddest of all piscatorial rarities Is the paradise fish of China. I.Ike the German canary and onu or two other species of bird and llsh , this little tinny beauty Is the product of cultivation only , there being no place In the world where It Is found In a wild state. In the land of the dragon they nro kept and cultivated in ornamental aquari ums , each succeeding generation of the little oddities exhibiting more diver- Billed colors. The male IB the larger of the two sexes , measuring when full grown three and a half Inches. The body Is shaped very much like that of a common pumpkin seed sunllsh , Its color surpassing In brilliancy any ( ish heretofore cultivated for the aquarium. The head of maeropodus ( Unit's his generic name ) is ashy gray , mottled with Irregular dark spots. The gills nro nznrlno blue , bordered with bril liant crimson. The eyes are yellow and red , with a black pupil. The sides of the body and the crescent shaped caudal fin are deep crimson , the former having from ten to twelve vertical blue stripes , whllo the latter IH bordered with blue. The upper surface of the body is continual ly changing color sometimes it is white , at others gray , black or blue. The dorsal and anal fins are remarka bly large , hence Its generic name macro , large ; podus , fin or foot. Both flns are shaped alike nnd arc striped with brown and bordered with n bright blue. The dull colored ventral fins are protected by a brilliant scarlet colored spine , extending three-fourths of an Inch behind the body of the fin. The pectoral fins nro well shaped , but trans parent and colorless. METAPHOR OF THE SEA , fcrnin Annnclntc < l With the Water Thnt Arc Very I2xirennlve. "Lot mo put in my oar , " said a gen tleman as ho Joined three of his ac quaintances in the hotel cafe the other nlelit and took a seat at a table with thorn. "That is about the twentieth meta phor of that sort that I have heard to night , " answered one of the others , "and It scorns so strange that wo clionld borrow so many of our figures from the son. I never thought of it before - fore , but It Is curious. I have never been closely associated with the water , nnd I don't believe nny of us hnve , nnd yet we are using sea terms all of the time. They arc wonderfully expreso- Ive , too , and I don't know what wo would do without them. "You want to put In 'your oar , ' a mo ment ago ( Koine one talked about being all adrift , ' and I admitted that I was 'at sen. ' Wo talk about our 'weather eye , ' being 'spliced , ' our 'mainstay * and nil that sort of stuff. We know what It Is to 'cast an anchor to windward , ' to 'back and fill , ' to 'steer * through , to bo 'taken aback'and to have 'tho wind taken out of our sails. ' "Wo 'spin a yarn,1 try 'tho other tack , ' 'launch' enterprises , get them 'under full sail' and often 'wreck' them. We cry for 'any port In a storm , ' iai\u HI a reei , get 10 our rope s onu , 'run before the wind' and sometimes 'keel over. ' So It gees on until I be lieve we can talk about almost every thing in the language of thu boa , " St Louis Republic. M a K mi n I in If } ' It became necessary for an Emsworth papa to chastise mildly his small son the other evening. Some time later , wishing to negotiate for a favor , the chastised ono stated his wishes and as an inducement added : "Papa ! " "Well , James ? " "If you'll do this , papa , I'll excuse you for that whipping you gave me. " Plttsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Kntlnpc ftlnnnrooma. In the light of modern Inquiry there Booms to be no reason for believing that mushrooms possess any greater food value than other ordinary fresh vegetable foods , and In many respects they compare unfavorably with thorn , says the London Lancet Still , the fresh , tender mushroom is undoubted ly easily digestible , as It contains car bohydrates , In addition to some dietet ic value. This value Is not comparable with that possessed by essential foods such as meat , milk and eggs. The mushroom , however , contains nn un usual proportion of potassium salts. Few will deny that the mushroom IH nn excellent adjunct to many dishes. It has an appetizing flavor , and this quality alone makes it dlctctlcally val uable. Sonic Nonnenie , "Tho bow of a ship , " says a humor ous handbook of nautical terms , "is not evidence of politeness. It reminds us of a line In 'Flotsam From the Isis : ' " Anil the handb went up to the nose of the boat , displaying a lack of good tasto. And flrst began to pull at her stays and then to scrub at her waist. This , It may bo remembered , occur red off the Isle of Rudeness , where A spit ran down to the bay , And D tongue of land projected In a most unmannerly way. Calamity. Clmpplo I knelt bofoah her and asked her to bo my wife. Chollle And she wcjected you ? Chappie Ya-as. Cholllo That was wough. Chappie Ya-as. I got my twousahs bagged at the knocs for nothing , bah Jove ! Then She Klued Him. "You have not kissed me , " BUO pout ed , "for fifteen minutes. " "I know It , " ho said. "I Imvo n very sensitive tooth , which IB liable to ache If I do. " "What do you moan , sir ? " "Why , you arc BO sweet , you knowl" Moiinliilitii , All th uiiiuntiilim of Japan aru of umincHlloncd volcanic origin , and Fuji Mauds where lloiulo , the main Island , In broadest. About twenty craters ate Htlll active throughout the Islands , but FuJI-san belongs to the much greater number which are now Inactive. Its hiHt eruption occurred In 1707 , contin uing more than a month. As far away as Tokyo , sixty inlles northeast , the ashes fell to a depth of seven or eight Inches , while on the Tokaldo , twelve or flftcen miles southeast , the accu mulation was six feet. At this tlmo was formed Ho-yel-san , a secondary , or parasitic , cone on thu southeast filope. No other mountains in Japan reach within U.OOO feet of the elevation of Fuji , and It Is therefore In prominent view fr n an Immense area , Including thirteen provinces of the empire. Cer tain avenues In Tokyo are called Fuji , ml , or Fuji viewing streets , and from all of them the famous peak Is a glori ous spectacle. All winter long the sum mit of FnJI-san Is unapproachaljh' , and from November to July miovt&Mgn supreme. In the latter month , how ever , when the trails up the mountain sloues are laid bare , the ascent bo- rirnt niiRllnh Hook on Hport. The first book on sport over printed In the English language was a rhymed treatise called the "lloke of St. Al- linns , " Its author being a woman , Dame Juliana Renters. Itn second edition wan printed by Wynkyn de Worde In MIW. A descendant of her family , Lord Ber- tiers , was the translator of FrolHwtrt'H "Chronicles. " It Is true that old iiianu- scripts existed , such as the "Venerlo de Twecy" of the time of Edward II. , but It was Dame Juliana who was the real ancoHtrcNH of sporting literature in England , for she also composed an essay on hawking and another on "Fishing With an Angle , " the last be ing of such excellence that Izaak Wal ton himself did not disdain to take u hint from Its pages. Don't Ho n Second UlnNM Alnn. You can hardly Imagine a boy flny- Ing : "I am going to bo a second class man. I don't want to bo flrst class and get the good Jobs , the high pay. Second class Jobs arc good enough for me. " Such n boy would be regarded ns lacking In good sense if not in san ity. You can get to be a second class man , however , by not trying to bo u flrst class one. Thousands do that all the tlmo , BO that second class mdn are a drug on the market , remarks Suc cess. Second class things are only wanted when flrst class can't be had. You wear first class clothes If you can pay for them , eat first class butter , first class meat and first class bread , or , If you don't , you wish you could. Second class men are no more wanted than nny other second class commodity. They are taken nnd used 'when the better article is scarce or is too high priced for the occasion. For work that really amounts to anything first class mon are wanted. An Explanation. "I suppose you will be glad to get nwny from congress and get a little rest. " "My friend , " answered the states man , "you misinterpret the situation. When a man goes to his own state , ho has got to look after elections night nnd day. lie goes home to hustle. If he's lucky , ho gets to congress , where Is n chance to rest. " Washington Star. Vnrnlnh From A kind of seaweed which is plentiful on the coast of China furnishes an ad mirable glue and varnish. When dried , It Is waterproof , and it is employed to fill up the interstices in bamboo net work , of which windows nre frequent ly constructed In that country. It Is also utilized to strengthen and varnish paper lanterns. A Chcerfnl Proposal. A Scottish beadle one day led the manse housemaid to the churchyard and , pointing with his finger , stam mered : "My folk lie there , Jonny. Wad ye like to Ho there too ? " It was his way of popping the ques tion. „ * „ A Conipoier. Hoax I thought you said that man was a musician ? Joax Nonsense ! "You certainly told me ho wrote mel odies. " "I told you he was n composer of heirs. Ho sells soothing A Mnrrylnn : Jinn. "Arc you a marrying man ? " was nskcd of n somber looking gcntlemnn nt n recent reception. "Yes , sir , " was the prompt reply ; "I'm a clergyman. " not iiurnlne. "Marriages may bo made In heaven , " ho said thoughtfully , "but If so , they're dealing in a cltaper grade of goods up there every year. They don't last any thing like the way they used to. " Chicago Post. A Fnlr Supposition. "Who Is Uiat man who keeps saying It Is always the unexpected that hap pens ? " "I'm not sure probably an attacho bf the weather bureau. " Washington Star. Xot So Blobbs Ho says ho would rather fight than eat. Slobs Pugnacious , oh ? ° Blobbs No ; dyspeptic. Philadelphia Record. A bachelor says that love Is a combi nation of diseases an affection of the heart nnd nn Inflammation of the brain. Chicago News. Houses In London nro sold with or without tLelr "furnishings and fit ments. 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