Pittston Gazette

              1 • . ;; . 5 t V \ BUT4 HLIMHKD IM«.(V COL. XLI. Ho. I. * Oldest f'ewsDauer m the Wyoming Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1889. A Weekly Local and Familv Journal. gallery, but to go straight to tne  over the stairs ahe had ascended, open the window in the bay, which would then be on her left hand, and make her way to the oriel facing her. That, according to his calculation, would bring her to your window." "Certainly," "But he did not take account of the fact that the door by which the girl enters the house is at the back of the right block, and that the stairs by which she would ascend to the first floor bring her to the landing between Sir Edmund's room and Miss Lascelles'. Thus, though carrying out her father's instructions to the letter, she must inevitably make her attempt upon Miss Lascelles' room and not upon yours. Look at your plan." "I follow you perfectly well, I said, astonished by the ingenuity of his explanation, which had made a perfectly incredible supposition possible—nay, for the moment, probable. Bpects, yt'i— potD.snDiy because my juugment w as biased by sentiment—I could not believe she had come there with any sinister intention. I was rather disposed to think that she had found solitude no longer liearable, and had sought this resting,jDlace to be near the only friend she knew. Jack Frost. From over the hills, with a breath of flame, L From over the hills old Jack Frost came. neyt" ne asxeu, tanmug. •'I could not sleep," she answered, but so gravely that I saw it was not from the cause the baronet implied—the love that had kept me awake; and then she added, »'I have been terribly frightened." We looked at her in astonishment and anxiety. Tlie Unattainable. It's never the things closo by, dear, , a cotton nooist, twsu oreatc colts or do light housework. I have only spneo for the description of a partial list of titled subscribers who have already sent in their photographs and abstract of title with crest of the owners. Every mail, however, is bringing letters in answer to our circular *ent abroad, and by the holidays busi- TOLD OF THE FAMOUS. all power of action. Although opposed lo proprietary medicines, I tried Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, of Rondout, N. T. To make a long story short it saved my life. It is the beat medicine in the wot Id for diffi- fef, the kidneye, liver and bowels. —A. J. GiffoM. Lowell, Mass , That we wish a:Dd lorrr for so; It is ever above and beyoud us— That our longing wishes go. Lord Sakisbuby has such an ex« treme aversion to tobacco that even his own sons do not venture to smokrt in his presence. Came so softly teat nobody knew, Till the land a beautiful picture grew. j "The oriel on the left," I continued, "project* from Sir Edmund's room, that on the right from Miss Lascelles'. There are stone muHions at the angles of the oriel and lattice windows between, hung inside 'with Venetian blinds. I have marked a cross where Misa Lascelles saw the eyes looking through. The oriels are supported by corbels. They are perfectly inaccessible from the ground except by a ladder " "But from the story above?" "There are no windows over the oriel. The only means of descent would be by a rope from the roof." $ ' 'Are there any other means of getting at the window?" "None whatever that any human being could use." • "What is this projection between the oriels?" he asked, feeling the paper. "A two-aided bay carried up from the ground to the gable, pierced with latticed windows from top to bottom- It gives light to the stairs inside." "Do the windows open?" The elm leaves turued'to a golden brown, Each willow was docked with a golden crown. It's never the thing we have, child, But the thing W5 do without; The good that has passad us by, dear, That causes the paiu and doubt. Olives Wendell Holmes has re-, fused to write a poem for a prominent magazine. He said that he felt that it was time for him to stop. "I will tell you all about it," she continued, ."because you may be able to explain what perplexes me, and that will be a great relief." She paused, as if to collect her thoughts and then said: As I pondered, my eyes grew accustomed to the gloom, and I could see dimly the girl's face, her arms scarcelv distinguishable against her dusky camisole, and the darker mass of her red petticoat. She diii not move. If she had evaded her father, it is possible that she had fatigued herself as well as him. My heart was stirred with pity, and I resolved that when she awoke I would try, if she would listen to me, to reason her out of her savage isolation, and induce her to accept the kindness that Edith longed to bestow upon her. I would not purposely awake her, for in sleep there was the relative happiness of forgetfulness.The thistle-down broke from its prison cell, And the nnts from their clinging burs as well; There is ever a something lacking, A feeling of paiu and loss, Will we find it n.?ain hereafter. When the gold is refined from dross? t The maples flamtd on the green hill-side. And color ran wild o'er the oountry wide, Gbeatness has its annoyances, too. Mr. Edison is called "Old Macaroni" by the Menlo Park boys, who have heard that he has been made a count. ODD BREVITIES. As over the hills with a breath of flame, Old Jack Frost, the ioe-klng, came. —Emma 8. Thomas, in Frank Leslie's Weekly. Santa Ckuz, Cal., reports a' thirteenmonths-old baby that can swim like a "I was nearly asleep when I noticed a sound coming from tne window. It was as. if someone was rapping upon the glass —not loudly or quickly, but softly, as though with the tip of the finger, and at intervals. I might have counted twenty or thirty between one tap and the next. I took little notice of it at first, thinking that as I had left the window partly open it might be the wind moving the Venetian blind; but after awhile, the persistent tap—tap—tap irritated me. I roee and lit the candle, then I went to the window. The lattice was just as I had left it. The blind hung perfectly motionless. I drew it up and looked out. There was a gray mist everywhere. Not a breath of air stirred; the flame of the candle burned as steadily as though the window had been closed. I let down the blind, and listened; there was not the ■Ughttx* sound." When the lessons of life are ended. And we are wiser grown, Will we know the songs were sweetest After the birds were flown? — K.'OuiitD»s. lit Albanv Eventoz duck. Pbince Bismarck received over 1,000 telegrams of congratulation on the occasion of the twenty-seventh anniversary of his appointment as President of the Prussian Cabinet. "Honeymoon bow" is the name given a row of houses at West Chester, Pa., occupied by newly-married couples exclusively.Her First Fie. Wifie tired of reading books. Swinging hammocks, shady nooks, In the Uttle kitchen looks- Watches Dinah while she cook?— (There's goin' to be trouble in that household.) NYE'S TITLE TRDST. Mme. Modjeska is said to entertain more than any other woman on the stage. Her favorite form of entertainment is to give a quiet dinner to a halfdozen particular friends. Somebody who believes in old-fashioned methods of discipline recently sent a young lady teacher in Maine a bundle of shingles. Little wide thinks she'll try All alone to make a pie; First attempt, and proud, oh my! Bakes it brown and sets It by. (There's goto.' to be trouble in that household) Decayed Noblemen Can Now Mar- "Are you convinced?" he asked, triumphantly"You- "You have yet to explain how Brace thought to obtain the diamond by the means he employed. He would scarcely expect that 1 should faint with terror."" " Who said he would? Brace calculated upon dealing with a heavy sleeper, not a nervous girl. The tapping is described as soft and regular; it was intended to test whether you were asleep or not. The moment a light appeared the sound ceased—the girl had gone back to the bay. From the landing she could see when the light-was put out, and it was safe to recommence the attack. The candle was lit with some difficulty the second time—Miss Lascelles possibly stood with her back to the window as she held the vesta. Lola may have detected the first glimmer, and uncertain or not whether it was safe to continue, turned the blind and looked through. At that moment the wick burned up, and Miss Lascelles, turning, saw the girl's eyes between the laths. The knocking was not repeated, for a simple reason—Lola had discovered her mistake, and retreated: Do you doubt now the purpose with which Brace has gone to seek the girl to-dav?" I was forced to admit that this explanation was feasible, yet I could not believe that Lola, who seemed sincerely attached to me, would consent to aid in my ruin merely at the instigation of her father, whose authority she habitually disregarded. I said this to Van Hoeck. "It is because she is attached to .you— because she loves you," he replied, with emphasis, "that she would readily enter into her father's project to rob you of the diamond. The diamond is her enemy— it has separated you from her, and placed you side by side with Miss Lascelles, for whom she has manifested a jealous hatred from the very first. What conld be more gratifying to her savage disposition than to take away the diamond that has created this difference . between you and her, and to reduce you once more to her level. It is the only hope she can have of getting you away from Miss Lascelles. and restoring the former condition of equality upon which your oompanionship with her rested." Again I was compelled to admit the force of Van Hoeck s argument. "But why," I asked, "should Brace trust such a perilous undertaking to his daughter?" "For an obvious reason," he replied. "If you caught her in the act of robbing, vou would not raise vour hand against Uer; it' you caught hint, you would biovr his brains out. For her you would find excuse; for him none." It was past one when I again began to read. From time to time I looked away from the page and assured myself that she was still sleeping. And so I sat watching and reading until past four o'clock, when the light began to fail, my eves grew heavy, and unconsciously I fell asleep. I was awoke by my book falling from my hands to the floor. The lamp was yet alight, but bti'ning so dimly that, looking toward tne door, I could see nothing. I carried the ~fcptnp that way. Lola was gonel , * • ♦ * * * • ket Their Crests for Ooln. "The area of arable acres in the United States is twenty per cent, larger than that of China, which supports a population of nearly 400,000,000." The house in which Oliver Wendell Holmes was born is still standing on the common at Cambridge, Mass., and is now one of the college buildings. Sealed Proposals from American Girls Invited—"Marrying Clothes" Furnished by the Trust to the Iligh-Born Paupers ot Europe—Options on Twenty Titles Already Secnred—A Matrimonial Scheme That Dazzles Two Continents. In a recent interview Lord Tennyson is reported as saying that Keats and Horace were his masters, and that to the early study of their works he attributes his success as a poet. Hbonson Howabd recently remarked: "I suppose that I write a whole play about three times from beginning to end, but in doing so I oopy many whole scenes unchanged. Certain parts of the play I may write six times before it 'suits me." Hubbie hurries home from town- Gone his care and business frown- Kisses wifie; both sit down; Dinah brings the pie so brown. (There's goto1 to be trouble in that household.) Twelve o'clock and all is still, Mousle roams about at will; Suddenly two shrieks, so shrill That they're echoed from the hllL (There is lots of trouble to that household.) "Yea." "And what distance is there between the windows in the bay and Miss Lascelles' window?"' "Seven or eight feet at least." "And the wall between is perfectly flat?" [Copyright, 1889, by Edgar W. Nye.] Money will buy almost every thing but contentment and history. When we Beek to purchase these articles there Is bound to be more or less dissatisfaction. We may buy the armor of dead crusaders and bring to Milwaukee the windmills and memorial windows of the deceased past, but the glory that accumulates about an old and honored name, and the content which follows a duty well done, can not be bought at any price. "A moth on the ceiling," said Sir Edmund; "they have worried me in. the same manner. Then you get a light, and the thing stops." "Hold on, we ain't heered the last on it, I kin see," said the Judge, looking at Miss Lascelles intently, his shaggy browp bent over his quick eyes. "I explained it as jou do, papa. I put out the light, and tried to sleep. I heard no sound for quite ten minutes, I think, and then again that soft, slow tap—taptap came from the window—the same sound, with the same lon£ interval between them. It was not hke the beat of a moth's wing. It was like nothing but the touch of a human finder. But I tried to think it was an insect in the wall—the insect that is called the 'death-watch.' And I did my best to take no notice of it, but I could not help hearing it; and after a time I grew frightened, and the sound grew dreadful in my ears. It becafne unendurable. I could not lie there listening passively. I got up again, and struck a match. The wick of the candle wai slow to light, and during those moment* I noticed that the sound had ceased. As I say. I was frightened—very frightened. And the unbroken silence seemed more terrible than the sound. There was something ghostly and supernatural about it, that brought back the old - terror I used to feel as a child in passing the room that is said to l»e haunted at night. And iust then the clock in the belfry struck. I dared not go to the window. Mv hand trembled so that I could not take up the candle, but I looked toward the window. The first thing that struck me was that the laths of the hlind, instead of lying flat, as they generally do, when down, and as I had left them, were opened and turned edgeway—do you know how I mean?" She held her hands, that trembled with the recollection of her terror, one above the other horizontally. "But the next thing," she continued, and then stopped, with a little shudder, while we who listened held our breath— "the next thing I saw was two great black eyes that caught the light from my candle in between the lower laths of the blind." You can buy a big velvet sponge now, about which, badgs a most delicions and "There is a stone moulding runs along parallel with the floor of the first story and the base of the oriel." "Why didn't you tell me that?" he asked sharply. "Because it is perfectly impossible for anyone to walk along it." "What width has it?" durable perfume, that will hold a bucket of water. One squeeze is a bath. When we met at breakfast, Edith was in her customary bright and cheerful mood. Reassured by her appearance, Sir Edmund said, smiling: BABOX DE RTJMSEY. Mustard plasters all to vain; Only serve to make more pain. Dinah rashes through the rain, Hunts a doctor for the twain. (There is lots of trouble to that household) ness will be humming, I think. Flotitious namr s of course are given, because we can not betray the business entrusted to us, in my opinion, an opinion I may say in which I am joined by the president of our board, Mr. 0. P. Huntington., Mkissonier recently said to » lady, who remarked, upon visiting hi* new house, that she missed piotures of his own from among the beautiful things with which he had adorned the rooms: "Ah, madame, they are too dear to allow me to keep them." The average salary of the 54,874 fourth-class postmasters is only #153. There are less than 6,000 who have $500 "Well, niv dear, has there been anyrecurrence of strange sounds and spectral sights during the night?i» "Yes," she aiia\veied;"'*DtDut they did not frighten me, for I knew it was only poor Lola." "Lola!" I exclaimed. Same oM story—netting new; r Doctor did what he oould do. Up the golden stairs they Sew, Hapless husband, wifie too. (There Is no more trouble to that household^ or more a year, and the average salary of the remaining 48,800 is only $90. "A few inches. It seems to be merely a stone gutter to cah-yoff the water from the oriel." "Is there no ivy on the house—nothing to catch hold of f' "There is no ivy, but there is a pipe midway between the bay" and the oriel; it descends from the gable to the gutter." "What! and you tell me it is impossible to get from the bay to the window!" "I still mean what I said. The gutter is so narrow that no one, even facing the wall closely, could stand on it and maintain a centre of gravity." "But with the aid of the pipe?" "The pipe is four feet from the bay, and four feet from the oriel. Now, suppose Lola, for I know whom you suspect, got from the window in the bay she would have to advance holding to the mullioEL of the window for support, and with one hand only, until the other could touch the pipe, a span of four feet." "Four feet, that is not impossible, unless the girl is short limbed. "It is impossible, if in holding to the mullion or the pipe the girl had to support part of her own weight." "Let as go up and measure the width of the ledge," said Van Hoeck; "it may appear from below less than it is." We went up to my bedroom in the right block, which, as I have said, corresponded in every external respect to the block on the left; and from the oriel I measured the width of the stone ledge outside. Tan Hoeck's supposition was just; it was wider than I expected, measuring a trifle less than my span, which is nine inches. Van Hoeck placed himself flat against a wall, and turning ont his toes until he obtained the limit of width upon which he could sustain hi» equilibrium, bade me meaare the distance between his heel and The wall. I found it was fully three inches within my spaa, and was astonished to perceive upon how narrow a space one may stand with safety. This settled the point. Lola mieht well have passed alone the leage wuu saxeiy. "Now," said Van Hoeck; "draw me a plan of the rooms, roughly and broadly, shewing their relative position to the stairs, the bay, and the picture-gallery." I complied with his request, marking IBs several parts with figures, which I explained to him in the order marked Lord Recompense Von Sniflen is a stout-built man of middle age who has been robbed of his wife four times. His title extends back nearly as far as the mortgage on his house and lot. He is of a sandy complexion with a bright red beard. This he wears full, in order to have it harmonize with his habits. He was wounded by a double-barrel shotgun at one time, but it gives him no inconvenience at all, especially while standing up. He dresses plainly and eats opium between meals. A Louisville inventor is to the fore with a mysterious vacuum bed which Lately, however, an attempt has been occasionally made to swap the American dollar for the foreign title, and with more or less success. The great trouble seems to be that the disagreeable details and preliminaries cost more than the title. Acting on this suggestion, I have decided to establish a title trust and intelligence office with branches in New York, London and Paris. Promoters will aid the trust in the heretofore disagreeable task of swapping currency for titles, so that tho long, tedious job of rooting about among the ruins of old families all over Europe for highbred paupers may be almost entirely avoided. will cure all pain, and a triple motor to travel with equal celerity, ease and MORAL. "I had left a light burning," she said; "the blinds were turned downward, and the light shone upon them; the tapping woke me. It was just the same sound that I heard before. While I was looking at the blind before the open window the tapping stopped, and I saw a finger come down between the third and fourth lath from the bottom, and turn the third; after that the finger slid in between the next two, and turned the second. Then I saw her two lustrous black eyes looking through. Almost immediately afterward thev dissDneared. 'Don't be afraid, Lola,' 1 said, in a low voice, for 1 feared if she were frightened she might Blip from that terribly narrow ledge. I waited a few minutes, to .give her time to get back to the bay, if she intended to, and then I drew up the blind and looked out. There was no one there, and the window in the bay was as we left it last night—closed." The Countess Magri, better known as Mrs. Tom Thumb, is said to have fine business ability, and she plans the rdutes and makes arrangements for her traveling company. She is the possessor of $5,000 worth of Jewelry, which she wears at her performances. 'moving wlfies, stick to books, twinging hammocks, shady nooks. Mf the cooking keep your hooks, •eave pie-making to the cooks, and you'll have no trouble to your household.) —Hubsmith, to Washington Post. economy on land or water or in the air. Hundreds of men were seen at the Van Wert (O.) fair sucking lemons bought on the ground, and they enjoyed the fruit so muqh that an investigation was made. When a tip was removed from the end good old rye ooxed out. Three lemons would lay a man out stiff as a mummy. A woman in Meriden, Conn., has a pet snake. The reptile is very tame and spends whole hours in playing with the THE GREAT HESPEB. The late Sunset Cox attacked Benjamin Butler while he was making a speech in the House. "Shoo-fly, don't bother me," exclaimed the irate Massachusetts statesman, with an irritated gesture of oontempt. . This was the origin of the onoe popular phrase. ■Y FRANK BARRETT. The Baron do Rumsey has a title in soak, which he can regain by putting up 885,000 and interest. He will consider proposals from a bright young American girl with that amount of ready money, provided she does not care for inordinate affection. The Baron is fifty-three years of age, but well preserved—in alcohol. He has traveled a good deal, mostly on foot late years, and can wait on table or take care of a furnace. .He has spent two years in Switzerland both as porter and head waiter and can talk well on hotel life on the continent. He speaks two languages and also understands the barber business. On tbe IVtti, we went again into tne woods, but on foot, Miss Lascelles and I, straying thither without purpose from the garden, where we met We came to a' stream bridged bv a single plank supported in the middle. There had been a hand-rail, but it had fallen away in decav. I gave her my hand, the fear of falling made her clasp my fingers tightly. She seemed to enjoy the little danger; it animated her face and eyes with the prettiest, most bewitching expression imaginable. Her hand seemed to communicate the quickened pulsation of her heart. But it was not fear—it was intoxication that agitated me; and when she put her foot in safety on the bank, and looked up into my face with bright laughter, I lost my head completely. I kept her hand in mine, and when she tried to withdraw it, I forced it to my lips, and pressed a kiss upon it. The color left her cheek, and in a tone of reproach sheexclaimed: "Oh, Mr. Thorne!" and I was ashamed. We walked home, and were very silent on the way. I sought Sir Edmund at once, and, finding him alone, told him that I wished to make his daughter my wife. He was thunderstruck Dy this Budden and unexpected announcement. "I love your daughter," I said, "and I cannot stay in this house keeping my passion a secret" "Well," said he, with rather rueful pleasantry, "you have lost no time. Mr. Thorne, but it would have been a poor compliment to my daughter had you failed to perceive her charms." "I should be dull indeed had she failed to impress me," I replied. We talked for some time, and finally he said, with emotion: "I must give up my dear child, sooner or later. Her happiness is dearer to me than anything; ana I can wish her no greater blessing than to find a good and worthy husband." At that moment Edith opened the door but, seeing us, she stopped in the entrance.Napoleon Bonaparte was one of thirteen ohildren, Benjamin Franklin one of seventeen, General Sherman one of eleven, Charles Diokens one of eight, Gladstone one of seven or more, Dr. William Makepeace Thackeray, grandsire of the latter namesake, one of sixteen. cat, with which it is on the best of terms. Thoy say it is immensely ifcnny to-watch the two animals, especially the kitten, Which is still a little shy of her * strange acquaintance and very careful not to step on him or otherwise arouse Again, as it is now, titled young men abroad do not market themselves with the same skill or to the same advantage that they might if they would establish and maintain rates. Titled people, like literary people, do not know how to get the"best prices for-their wares and so lose good bargains. his anger. "Are you sure it was Lola?" I asked. "Yes, they were her eyes." "Do you know what time it was when you saw her?" I asked. "I can be sure of that, for in taking my watch from the stand, it fell, breaking the glass and stopping the hands, and very soon after that I heard the clock strike." The idea of the Eiffel tower is acknowledged by M. Eiffel to have originated in this country at the time of the Philadelphia Centennial, in 1876. The circular tower then proposed was to have been 1,000 feet high, 150 feet in diameter at the base and 30 feet at the top. It was designed by Clark, Reeves & Co., of F. E. Spinner, who was the United States Treasurer during the war and for many years after, is now eightyeight years old. A cancer of the face is slowly eating away his life, and his sight is seriously impaired, yet he keeps up a correspondence with some of his Sid associates in the Treasury Department and shows the greatest interest in financial affairs. Now, my idea is to buy up all tho broken-down bachelors who aro titled, with the understanding that each is to furnish an abstract of title to the trust and bind himself to stand ready to respond to a cable or night message and marry such person or persons as tho board of diroctors shall have decided upon. Lord Peascod is young, scarcely nineteen, but desires to realize on his title at an early date. He does not pine so much for affection, but writes us that he has had hardly any thing to eat for nearly a year. He would like to receive overtures and a sack of flour from a wealthy American family aa soon as possible. It must be early, as the offer will not be held open long. The daughter of a provision and grocery dealer or ham and bacon fancier would be desirable. Lord Peascod has a kind heart, is simple in his tastes and drawls a little when he talks. His photograph shows a young man who may know something later on, but has not given his attention to it yet. His title is clear, but his brain is not. He may be often discovered by himself, wondering where he has left his thinker. A good, strongminded girl, say eigthty-five years of age, with a butcher-shop and a watermelon patch, has a glorious opportunity here to win a young heart, such as it la, and become at the same time Lady Peascod. He is tired of living on a crest, with fried mush three times a day. His crest consists of a tapeworm rambunctious on a field, devastated, over a sausage recusant. His brains were once said to be in good working order, but they have worked so long now while the weather was warm that he lately has to sprinkle chlorides on them while thinking. Count Aleck Cheeseman, surnamed Aleck the Smart, will consider sealed proposals from American girls or widow* Phoenixville, Pa., and was expected to oost $1,000,000. She showed me the watch, the minutehand was so bent that it could not pass the hour-hand; when I lifted it, the movement commenced, proving that the spring had not run down. A Cincinnati man went fishing, first promising his friends a supply of his catch. ■ He fished all day, but didn't get a bite. Surprised at this, he examined his tackle and found that there were no hooks on his line. When he returned he bought several dollars' worth of fish and sent them around to his friends. That night at the club he began boasting about his success and was laughed at. The same men who received the fist had cut the hooks from his lines. John Bright's comparison of his oratory with Mr. Gladstone's is said to have been expressed to the late Allen Thorndike Rice; "Joseph Chamberlain was flattering John Bright on his style, and the latter deprecated the praise. T have no style,' said Mr. Bright, *but Mr. Gladstone has. I sail along from headland to headland; but Mr. Gladstone carefully follows the coast line, and wherever he finds a navigable inlet he invariably follows it to its source, returning again to re* Bume his exploration of the coast and to strike the headlands that I have raced for.'" The hour marked by the hands was five minutes to one. Marrying clothes will be furnished by the treasurer on an order from the board, countersigned by the president. A circular now being prepared for circulation this winter through the seminaries and next summer at the watering places, will more fully set forth the plan of the association. In this there was truth also. "At fit* minutes to one Lola teas sleeping at my door!" I said. She paused, and then continued with more firmness— "Talking of that," he continued, "what arms do you keep about you for defense?"' "None," I replied. CHAPTER VIII. "I think I fainted—I must have done so, for I was conscious of nothing aftqr that, until I found myself upon the floor. The light was still burning upon the^ta1 ble. As recollection returned to me, I looked toward the window. The laths were no longer open, but turned flat Then it occurred to me that all I had seen was merely imaginative—that it was. merely a realistic dream—that I had gone through these experiences in my sleep. My great terror was gone. I went without rear to the window to ascertain if the night was as I had seen it There was the gray mist; the flame of the candle did not flicker. Nevertheless, when I looked down and saw how impossible it was for anyone to have stood outside the window, I felt convinced that at least the vision of the two eyes was imaginary —an outcome of the fear I felt when I looked toward the window. I lay down again, and though I could not sleep for sometime, I heard no further sound whatever, save the chiming of the clock." "Is it not very probable, my dear," said the baronet, "mat the sound you speak of was also the outcome of fear?" "I thought so. Trfke this," he said, drawing a long clasp-knife from his breast pocket. He snowed the spring with which the narrow blade opened, and the catch which locked it at the back of the horn handle, and made me promise to use it for my defense, no matter who attacked me. I also promised to close my window, which I habitually kept open at night, and to secure. the fastening of that, as well as the door, before going to bed. Finally, he exacted that I should once more enclose the Hesper in the leather case, and strap it to my wrist the last thing at night. The Judge did not return until dusk. He was fatigued,* and his general appearance indicated a pursuit through rough and thorny ways. "I hev seen the Kid," he said; "but she would not listen to reason; and not bein' afeered of spiling her clothes, she nat'rally got the best of the argument, and played it low down on her father." He advocated starving her into better behavior, and would have had the door closed to cut off her communication with the dairy, and Miss Lascelles would not listen to this; she would not yield to fear, and declined to change her room or alter her ordinary habitudes. We separated a little before eleven. The night was close and stuffy. I had no inclination to go to bed, especially as I had given Van Hoeck my word to close the window beforehand. Edith could not say whether the laths she had seen turned were open when she went to the window, and there were no means of confirming the fact afterward, because in pulling up the blind they would, if open, be returned to their former position. In face of my evidence, she was firmly convinced that what she had seen and heard was an extraordinary illusion of the senses parallel to that which furnishes the sole excuse for a tolerably widespread belief in su]Dernatural appearances* She was ashamed of the feebleness of mind which her experiences seemed to imply, and resolving to overcome the weakness, she resisted all her father's persuasions to change those conditions under which she had passed the last two nights. We already have options on nearly twenty titles which will give us a good ■tart and place the scheme on its feet. All business will be done on a percentage, viz.: a percentage from the bride and also a percentage on the dowry at the timo of its payment to the groom. We also have the names and descriptions, together with certified checks, from three or four American young women who are now examining our goods and who hope to deal with us. When Captain John Ericsson, the inventor of the monitor, died, his remains were laid in the receiving vault in New York, and his countrymen planned to carry his bones back to Sweden and give them honored burial in the land of his birth. But they are likely to be interred permanently by the side of the bones of Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat, which lie in a vault connected with the old Trinity Church in New York City. A considerable sum of money isnowin the hands of trustees for a monument to Ericcson. t rnmmmmmm OF RECENT OCCURRENCE. X : The Gabilsn ranch of 7,055 acres in Monterey County was sold the other day for 9330,000. a* I am not permitted to use names and so have substituted fictitious ones in the The oourta of Berks County, Pa., have decided that a type-written will is illegal.Beulwabb County, Pa., let her one hundredth anniversary go by recently without taking note of it. Thx Chicago public library has been awarded a gold medal by the jury on instruction and education at the Paris exposition.Van Hoeck alone refused to believe in Edith's hallucination. Fishing in Alaska is good if a Canadian gentleman recently visiting there tells the truth. He says that at Tongass Narrows he saw a creek so crowded with salmon that the surface was actually blackened with their backs and dorsal fin*. In some places they were crowded so closely that they Could hardly move, and oould be picked out of the water by hand. At a canning establishment he saw 8,000 just taken, waiting treatment, and in one case one draught of a seine brought to shore 2,500 salmon. "Come here, Edith," said Sir Edmund; and, taking her hand, he continued, "Mr. Thome wishes you to be his wife; is that your wish also?" She buried her burning face in her father's shoulder; she could neither say yes or no. "It is a question that should not be decided hastily," the baronet continued; "take time, my dear. Meanwhile, I see no reason for your leaving the house," be added, addressing me. "Unless—" I faltered. "Unless Edith wishes it," the baronet ■aid, helping me out. "True. Shall you feel more at ease, dear, if Mr. Thorne goes away—for a certain time, say? Shall he go?" Still screening her face, Edith shook her head, and then I knew that I had won a treasure greater than the Has per diamond. In the afternoon at the 20th, Sir Edmund said: "I hare been looking at your engagement, Bernard, frOln a practical point of view, and a fact occurs to me that, at such a time as this, would probably escape you.. That agreement of yours miut be altered. You will see that, for Edith's sake, what I call the tontine clause—a clause conferring upon the survivor a deceased partner's share in the Great Hesper—should be abrogated. It entails a risk which she must not be exposed to—you understand me?" I understood what he said perfectly, and agreed with him that the clause must be altered. "One has only to hear Miss Lascelles speak to discredit a notion of that kind," he said; "she has every sign of mental vigor and physical strength, and to accuse such a girl of that kind of morbid insanity called hallucination is just as creditable to your understanding as to believe in the simplicity and honesty of a vagabond Californian card-sharper and the half-breed wench he chooses to caU his daughter." L Sir Bdnund's room. 2. Miss Lascelles' &. Mine. 4. Lola's I Brace's. «. Van Hoeok's. 7. Picture Gallery, x. Stairs to landing of first floor. B. Stairs to upper r'ms "I had no fear when I went first to the window. The sound was a reality. It is that I wish explained." "Do you know what time it was when the tapping first began, Miss Lascelles?" Van Hoeck asked. CHAPTRK VII. A lion In the Philadelphia Zoo, suffering from the toothache, his keeper Bat I was still incredulous. How was the girl hiding in the woods all day to know of the existence of the ledge? It was true she had access to the house at night, but I doubted if it were possible for her to see the ledge in the dark even from the bay window. But admitting the possibility, would she risk her life for no purpose but to alarm Miss Lascelles? There was too much strength in Lola's character for such a senseless and feeble device to be acceptable to her. It was not the act of a rational being, but of a mischievous or malevolent idiot. administered laughing gas, pat the beast to sleep and safely extracted the offending molar. When night came, he said to me, after we had separated from the rest: ▲ Washington lady recently purchased in Winchester a mahogany sideboard over one hundred years old and shipped it to the wife of ex-President Cleveland as a present At Memphis, Tenn., Mrs. Annie Evans (colored) lately brought an aotion •gainst Patrolman Conway (white) for calling her "Aunty" on the street. She lays her damages at 95,000. "It was a quarter to one by my watch when I recovered from the fit." "Thia is no time for sleep, Thome; we must watch through the night, whether you like it or not, if it is only for Miss Lascelles' sake." A FLAVOR OF FUN. "May I ask, Miss, without offense, if a thing of this kind hes ever happened to you afore?" asked the Judge. "As a child I was timid, but I cannot remember ever being so frightened." "You don't look as if 9 trifle would skeer you, I will allow;" and, rising from his chair, the Judge added, "if you'll excuse me, HI go and prospect the place straight off, for I'm forth to say it looks to me like as if the Kid had been taking a hand in the game." "By all means," said the baronet, "the sooner the truth is discovered the better." We ail went out onto the lawn which faced that part of the building in which Edith's room was situated. When a m&n engages a typewriter he beoomes a pen-shunner. There .was a reading-lamp in my room. I lit it, put out the candle, and seated myself m a comfortable chair with a book. Not a sound was to be heard after the clock struck eleven. I read on without moving from. my chair until past twelve. From time to time I had taken my eyes from the book and listened intently—not in anticipation of hearing the mysterious tapping at my own window, but in apprehension of its being repeated upon Edith's—and as the last stroke of midnight reverberated through the still night I closed my book and listened again. The silence without was bo complete that the burning of the oil in the lamp at my side was distinctly audible. At that moment I heard a board break. It was so slight a sound that, had mv attention been fixed upon the book, I should not haye noticed it. I could not tell where it came from; I was not sure that it was not from the floor under my foot as I changed my position. Instinctively I looked tow&ra the window. I coula see nothing beyond the circle of light reflected by the lamp-shade. It was too absurd ttD take the lamp to the window—there was no board there to creak. I waited some minutes, and there being no repetition of the sound, I reopened my oook, but I paused with my finger on the page to listen once more. A shuddering sigh, like tliat of a chdd who is crying itself to sleep, reached piy ear. I readily agreed'to this, and for an hour we walked on a part of the lawn from which I could see Edith's window. Then the rain, which had been drizzling for some time, fell heavily, and forced us to go in. We changed our boots for slippers, and sat together in my room. I with a book, he «vith his chin in his hands, his face hideous with the light of the lamp on his protruding eyes. "What prompted you to rob this man's till?" asked the judge of the prisoner. "My family physician," said the prisoner, "told me I require change." LORD RECOMPENSE VON SNIFFEN. description here given, but I will print briefly a few words regarding our list, both of names in stock and probable purchasers. I was inclined to believe that the explanation Miss Lasoelles had offered was a just one, and that what she had seen was purely imaginative and the result of fear, inspired by those mysterious sounds which might yet be explained. . This was not Van Hoeck's opinion, nor was it Brace's. Anxious father of nine blooming daughters (attired in his night-olothos and examining the bed-posts): "Maria, are the children all in? I can find only eight lumps of gum." Miss Cynthia Swatthammer, the only daughter of Colonel Jasper Swatthammer, a wealthy manufacturer and upholsterer of Swatthammer's Maroon Colored Sausage, for internal use, will offer in certified check or approved paper two.hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a new or second-hand Duke in good repair. Sho is JNe feet nine inches high, with' sorm nair and perfectly sound. She can not cook or sing much, but is a good roadster and has a dog with which to begin housekeeping. She is very fond of pets, but her teeth are still good. Thx tallest smoke-shaft In America was oompleted recently on the grounds of. the Fall River iron works. The Shimney is* 840 feet high above the granite base, and is thirty feet square at the bottom. Heaven knows, I was not wanting in love for Edith, or solicitude for her welfare, and yet I could not keep awake. It must be rememlDered that I had no sleep the preceding night, and that I did believe in Edith's hallucination, and therefore saw no actual danger menacing her. I tried to interest myself in the book, but my thoughts grew confused, the type swam before my eyes, and helped to bemuse my senses. At length I put down the book, and shaking my wits together, I said to Van Hoeck: A Scotchman's definition of metaphysics—"When the party that listens dinna ken what the party who speaks means, and the party who speaks dinna ken what he means—that is metaphysics." "I will not say the Kid has done it," he said; "there's no say in' what greaser Mood will not do. For the sake of argyment, we will say she did, but I ondertake she shall not play the same bower twice, if her father's persuasion counts for anything and he went off at once to search for Lola in the wood. Mrs. McAdow, one of the owners of the Spoiled Horse Mine of Montana, recently drove into Helena in a buckboard, unattended, carrying a gold brick worth 940,000. It took two porters and a truck to get the heavy mass of gold from the wagon into the bank. On the way, Van Hoeck, who had taken my arm for guidance, gripped it tightly and whispered: "What did I tell you? This is the beginning of the end.'* SHE SOMETIMES SINGS. "How far is it to Manayunk?" asked a weary Irishman, who was going there afoot. "Seven miles," was the reply. "Whom do you wish to see there?" 'Taith it's meself I'd loike to see there," up to twelve o'clock on the 31at ot December, A. D. 1889. He sets no price on his title, but will close with the best offer, our bureau to receive its percentage both from the Count and on his receipt of a dowry and from the bride on receipt of the title. This is cheaper than watering-place joikeying, and avoids newspaper gossip during the preliminaries. Count Alock the Smart is a divorced gentleman of culture without meats. He has published a hand-book of modern vices which shows his wide range of experience. It is now in its ninth edition and may be prooured of any doubtful dealer. He is a medium-sized man, with the low, retreating forehead of the catfish, and the heavy-set mouth of the hippopotamus. He dances weU and drinks other people's whisky almost exclusively. Yet his title runs back as far as the eye can reach and his prioe is fair enough under the oircumstanoes. The ladies he has heretofore married have agreed not to molest him in the futuro provided he will abstain from marrying them any more. "Consult with your partners," he said, "as to what change is advisable. I expect my lawyer here on the 24th, and he can then draw up a legal agreement in accordance with our general wish." I took the Judge into Van Hoeck's room that night, and there told him of my engagement to Miss Lascelles. Van Hoeck was visibly alarmed when he heard this; and when I went" on to sav that Sir Edmund wished the clause altered by* his lawyer on the 24th, he said quickly, in a low voice: "The crafty old foxl What does he mean by that?' "His meaning is obvious enough," I replied; "if I mairy Miss Lascellen, and die, she will be dispossessed of my share in the diamond. I can leave her only a legacy of debt." "Yea, end that ain't all on it," said the Judge, dragging his wiry chin-tuft t through his hand and bending his brow. "That ain't all by a lump. We're playing with a marked card in the pack—a card as might tempt e'er a one on us to What on earth do you mean? Speak plainly if you can," said Van Hoeck, in angry impatience. "Well,! mean this 'ere," answered the Judge, with alow impressiveness, "that it one of my pardners wasn't a gentleman, and t other wasn't helpless blind, I'm durned if I'd go to bed without a six-shooter under nty piiler, and my finger on the trigger. I don't allude to one any more'n another, but we'll just take Israel's word for gospel, thai everyone is a thief if you give him a chance of thievin'; end, at that rate, I'm jiist as likely as not to murder my two pardners, and git the whole of that diamond to myself. Consequently, you will allow that the squire has a double reason for wantin' that agreement altered; for it ain't only the money he's got to secure on to his daughter, rat her husbin's life likewise. Time enough for the young lady to be a widder in the nat'ral order of things in general." CHAPTER T. CHAPTER VI. When we were alone, Van Hocek said; "Ask Sir Edmund; he will tell you, as he told me, that Brace Vas in the woods yesterday while you were philandering with Miss Lascelles. What was he there for but to find his daughter aud employ her in working out this plot?' "Good Heavens!" I exclaimed, losing my temper; ''what notion have you got hold of now? Last night you suspected Sir Edmund " A woman of St. Paul while walking on the railroad track was struck by a rapidly-moving train, hurled into the air and over a barbed-wire fence into a vacant lot. She was not seriously hurt, and after giving the engineer a piece of her mind she started off at a rapid gait. It is necessary for the reader to know what kind of building Monken Abbey was, and something of the disposition of its rooms, in order to follow clearly the action of the drama that took place within its walls. I can do no better than to give the description by which I brought the facts home to the comprehension of my blind partner. "Tell me what you see, Thorne," he »«aid, as we stood on the lawn. was the retort. "Let us talk." Miss Perlie Briggs, an only child, aged forty-seven years, will trade a good cattle ranch and a tough old heart for a bright little Duke who does not know very much. She is "dark complected," she says, and loves her home. She has eleven hundred head of range cattle and has just received an invoice of choice Texas trail cattle. She gets along well without affection and sits jauntily in the saddle with one heel , under each flank of her horse. For five years she rode unarmed over the plains, hoping to be captured by some lawless man, but as soon as the lawless men saw her they went to another Territory. She can hold a Texas cow with one hand and milk her with the other, and she sometimes sings a little, accompanying herself on the aocordeon. When a girl has finally made up her mind that she is eternally homely and decides not to feel bad about it any more it unsettles her dreadfully to hava a man fall in love with her and begin to pay her compliments. "Talk!" he.muttered, scornfully; "why not ask me to sing you a comic song! If the Kid were here I suppose you wouldn't want me to amuse you. You could keep awake until .three or four in the morning watching her, but as it's only your future wife who is concerned, you are logheaded before midnigfit." The sheriff of Warren County, Pa., is U humane man. The other day he started for Allegheny with a prisoner whom he was to land in the Western penitentiary. They had to stop over night in Oil City, and sheriff and prisoner, the latter manacled, attended the entertainment at the opera-house. Dbuo Clerk (briskly)—"Insect powder? Yes, ma'am. Here's some Swed* ish insect powder that's highly recommended." Customer—D"I don't know whether that will answer. Mine are plain American insects." "An old Gothic building, flanked by two later additions in the Tudor style, that project beyond it." "I don't understand," he said, impatient] v:' 'can't von make it clearer to me?" 1 naa a note-noon m my pocxet; pressing the metallic pencil hard upon the paper, I drew this rough diagram: "I would suspect anyone who has the opportunity to possess himself of such a treasure as you hold. Do you blame the man who protects himself when his life is in danger! That diamond i* life to me. What could I do if it were lost? Yon hold that diamond—my lite—in your keeping. You are bound to take every precaution for its safety. You have no right to despise my warning because it does not agree with your reckless trust in humanity." "Take the diamond into your keeping, if you think it is not safe in mine," I said. "You make that offer because you know I am powerless to aocept it in my blind and helpless condition. How can I keep it against a man like Brace?" "If you have more faith in my power to keep the diamond, why do you accuse me of neglecting its safety?" "Because you blind yourself to the danger that exists. God!" he exclaimed, protruding his sightless eyes to the light, and clinching his hands in frenzy, "to think that those who can see will not This sarcasm did not prevent me dozing again a few minutes later. I was ashamed of mv drowsiness, and after a minute's doze I would wake with a guilty start, only to drop off in a few moments. I know not how long this had been going on, when Van Hoeck shook me by the arm, and woke me thoroughly. I went to the window, drew up the blind softly, and looked out; for the sound had seemed to come from a distance, and I thought it might be the flutter of leaves in a breeze. But the night was unchanged—heavy and still, the moon obscured, and a thin gray veil of mist hanging over the lawn, as Edith had seen it the night before. I opened the door noiselessly. All was dark. I could see only the mullion of the bay standing out vaguely against 'the graynees. I listened. At night heavy curtuns were drawn across the head of the corridor, shutting it off from the passage upon which it abutted at right angles; nevertheless, I could hear the stertorous breathing of the Judge or Van Hoeck from the rooms beyond. I was sure that the sound I had heard was not imaginary, and determined, if possible, to discover the cause. I went back to the table and fetched the lamp. I had returned to where I stood by the door, when my eyes fell upon something lying at the threshold. Another step, and I should have put my foot upon it. In steadying the shade, my left hand screened the light; as I withdrew it I saw that the object at my feet was Lola! She had curled herself upon the mat within the embrasure of the door. Her face was toward me and pillowed upon her folded hands. She was asleep, yet her long black lashes were wet, and clung to her cheek with an undried tear. "Even Van Hoeck, if he could see you now; poor child," I said to myself, "could not think ill of you." I would not awake her; I withdrew the light until she was in shadow, placed it on the table, fetched my book, and seated myself where 1 could read and yet watch the sleeper. As I did this the clock in the belfry chimed the half-hour; I looked at my watch, and saw that it was half-past twelve. I could not fix my attention upon the book for some time, my mind being occupied with conjectures to account for Lola's presence. It fitted in with Van Hoeck's theory and warniuir in some re- Colored Parson—"An' da text says: 'An' he shall separate de sheep from do goats.' Now, bredrun, I cast no reflection on dis yere congregation; but knowin* it as I do, in my 'pinion On de day o' jedgment de goat market will hab a boom." As old musket which had done service during the late war, now among the relics in the Libby prison at Chicago, suddenly "went off" with a terriflo report, though it was reclining against a pillar, and no one was within two yards. How it was exploded is a mystery, for the charge must have been in Jja gun for twentysix years. "It is courting destruction to sit here with the door open," he said, "one of ua blind, and the other dead asleep. I cannot stand it anv longer; it is intolerable. Tell me if it rains." "Some boarders," j said Mrs. Levergood, in an offended tone, "are hard tp please. I heard young Ridley complaining of a lack of variety of food at the table this morning, and I have hash five times a week. That ought to be variety enough for any man." I.went to the window, and found that the rain had ceased. I told him this. •'I will go out; take me down to the door," he said. Miss Violet Beard would bawilling to trade a cranberry marsh inTJurnett County, Wis., for a Count who loves his home and knows how to pick cranberries for market or run errands. The marsh would be delivered at the altar, if desired. It is well fitted up with cabin for pickers and nicely arranged for flooding the vines during the summer. Miss Beard is four feet niue inches in height and wears a corset that would fit a horse or a beehive very well indeed. She has had little schooling, but is self-made with the exception of her Sunday toupee, which was made for her in St. Paul. Count Aleck the Smart has tasted every pleasure in life with the exception of being a gentleman for fifteen minutes by the watch. He readily eats any thing he can overtake and says eyether and nvether in society. The Chinese pupils of the New York Sunday-schools have opened a clubhouse for their mutual entertainment. All the Chinese newspapers will be found there and the servioea of a lawyer have been retained to give free legal advice to the members. Chess, checkers and backgammon will be admitted in the club, but the insidious fan-tan will be strictly tabooed. It„ is a club for "good" Chinamen only. He passed his sensitive fingers over the impression. "The two end blocks are the additions you (peak of, the space between them, the old part. I understand. Go en," he said. I led him down stairs, and gave him his umbrella and hat. .Then I took mine and opened the door quietly, fearing to awake Edith. I would have accompanied him, but he refused, saying night and day were alike to him, anil he knew his way along the paths and about the lawn. "WiTitKSS," said a lawytDr in the polio* court the other day, "you speak of Mr. Smith being well off. ' Is he worth five thousand dollars?" "No, sah." "Two thousand?' "No, sah; he han't wort twenty-five cents." "Then how is he well off?" "Got a wife who s'ports de hull family, sah." j X would be glad to receive any and all correspondence relating to this new trust with which I may be favored, and trust that the trust may work incalculable benefit to both our own oountry and the tottering dynastiesof the Old World. All letters should be addressed to me personally, and will be regarded with the strictest confidence, as I shall not allow any one to see them except my wife. "The great door is in the centre of the old part, the dining-room is on one ride, the library on the other. The floor above is occupied by the picture-gallery. It has a gable roof, and the belfiy rises from the middle. The block on the right and that on the left are alike. The ground floor is divided in drawing-rooms, sitting-rooms, kitchens, etc." "Where is the dairy, and the door that is left open at night for the Kid?" "At the back of the house; it cannot be seen from here." fee!" "D "What possible connection can there be," I asked, "between the safety of our diamond and the event of last night?" "A palpable connection. The event of last night was an abortive attempt to obtain the diamond." "Go back to your room and fasten yourself in," he said, "it is our only security. Tap at the window to let me know that all is fast. I beg you to dc this," he added, earnestly; "you cannot understand the feelings of a man in my position—the torture of conscious impotency. as you feel the approaching fate that you are powerless to avert." His voice rattled in his throat, and indistinctly I heard him mutter, as he grojDed his way along the wall of tlic terrace: MISTAKES MEN MAKE. NOTIONS ABOUT FINGER NAILS. . Miss Precious Johnson, a two-headed colored girl who has been for some years in the museum and freak industries, will swap a plantation in Mississippi and an accordeon for 1 good Duke who "A great many people are dying this year who never died before." "I am writing with a sword in on* hand and a pistol in the other." A white mark on the nail bespeaks misfortune. Am I heard this, and looked at Van Hoeck, I almost doubted if he were in his right mind. "The plot failed," he oontinued, "b» cause the girl mistook the room!" Am incndnloua exclamation escaped me. Pale or lead-oolored nails indicate melancholy people. N. B.—We will not offer any thing on a title which is backed by nothing but * half-pound seal ring and a rubber stamp crest for marking linen. We must have abstract of title or there will be no trade. In a year from now we propose to control the Duke business absolutely. "Mr. Speaker, I would give half ot the constitution—nay, the whole of it— to save the remainder." Broad nails indicate a gentle, timid and bashful nature. "Is that in the right block or the left?" "In the right; the kitchen is in the left. On the first floor are the principal bed-rooms; the servants' are above. Our rooms are in the right block. Sir Edmund's and Mies Lascelles' are in the left." is accustomed to the caro of horses. Permanent job for a Duke who knows his business and is not afraid of work. Miss Johnson would be away winters and would want a trusty husband who is used to the care of children. She is a little below (.lie medium height, with dark, glossy nair, rainor lucnuea wD curl. She has traveled a good deal, and sings easily with both voices. She has gung for several crowned heads and wears a decollette dress for evening, cut V shape and filled in with Borne dark material. Miss Johnson values her plantation at SI.50,000, and woul4 want a DuUo that ocuJd take the lead as Peopl# with narrow nails are ambitious and quarrelsome. "Ton shall hear me," he muttered, •(retching hia arm to the right and left •ntil he encountered mine with his hand, and then clutching it tightly; "you shall my eyes, if not with ytmrown. Tou have urged that the girl could know nothing of the disposition of the rooms; but she might receive instructions from heriathar. He went into the wood to jive her those instructions yesterday. Look at yaw plan"—he handed me the diagram I had drawn at his request— "Brace, having his room at the bade of the right block, would naturally tell her that when she got to the top of the stairs she was not to DSSS through the picture- "Cramped in a coffin, and the clodi falling, falling " I closed the door, and returned to mj room with a shudder. "Single misfortunes never oome alone, and the greatest of all misfortunes is usually followed by a greater." "To investigate the question," says an English newspaper, "would lead us too deeply into the dry and troubled waters of moral philosophy." When I met Sir Edmti nd in the morning, I told him that my partners bad agreed with me to alter the clause in the agreement, though we had not yet decided in what manner. "I am glad to hear it," he said; "anything will be better than that agreement as it stands." Edith came down late to breakfast. She looked nale and said she had over; ."For the first time in your life, I believe," said Sir Edmund. "You did not fall aaleep quite so readily as usual— Lovers of knowledge and liberal sentiment have round nails. Will you attend to this matter now or wait till prices have advanced? Please do not send certified checks to Mr. Huntington. They will receive muoh more prompt attention if sent direct to me, and if no deal is made I will retVD the money after awhile. When I had fastened mvself in* I tap ped at the window, and Van Hoec* replied by tapping on the wall below. The fresh sir had revived rao; I haCJ no longer to struggle with an irresistible drowsiness—the inclination to sleep was Small nails indicate littleness of mind, obstinacy and conceit. , t»,12!!?ia&nieana °* communication are wD«tance, how could Sir Edmund get to your room?" tu PM8fa8 thTOU«h the Pic" ' "I understand; go on." "There are two oriel windows and a bay in the end of the left block facing utf as we stand here." 6 Choleric, martial men, delighting in war, have red and spotted nails. . Professor (lecturing to medical students)—For this illness, gentlemen, there are but two remedies, and neither of them will do any good." "• Nails growing into the flesh at the points or sides indicate luxurious cone. (TO BE CONTINUED ) People with very pale nails are subject to much infirmity of the flesh and persecution by neighbors and friends, . I drew another diagram to explain the windows to Van Hoeck. Here it is PEERLESS OTCS S.ILD B *DBUWtna One day I was taken with Paralysis of the Bowels. The Stomach and other organs lost