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PROSECUTION RESTS.

Evidence Against Scott Jackson All In.

MORE DAMAGING TESTIMONY.

Or. Edwin Freeman Is Positive That Decapitation Took Place During Life. I Chief Deitsch Details the Confession

Made by Jackson—The Defense Has No I Statement to Make to the Jury. CINCINNATI,

April 30.—The trial of

Scott Jackson was reopched^at 9:35 a. m. Wednesday. The prisoner-was led in, looking neat blit rather anxious. He is evidently ageing very fast. The prosecution sprang a surprise in the testimony of Mrs. Sarah Seither, who lives on the Licking pike. She stated that on the Thursday morning before the murder, while on her way to Newport, she met Jackson aud Walling going south on the same road and that they insulted her.

Mrs. Alice Stclfel, who lives on a road leading to the Alexandria pike, testified that some time after midnight on the morning of Feb. 1 she hoard a vehicle being rapidly driven past her home toward the Alexandria, pike.

Dr. Edwin Freeman, the professor of gurgery in the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, was tfie next witness. His testimony was most damaging to the defense. When a hypothetical question in which the condition in •which the dead body was described was put, he answered positively and without hesitation that decapitat-iou must have taken place during life.

Dr. Freeman testified that had chloroform and cocaine been administered the victim would have roused when decapitation was attempted. "Dot" Legner identified the valise left by Jackson in his father's saloon and also identified the prisoner. Legner said that the valise the first time Jackson left it weighed three or four pounds and the second time was apparently empty.

Electrician George W. Davis of Cincinnati described the electrical arrangements of the sensitive cell and what he heard over the wire when Jackson and Walling were in the fly cells.

Colonel De. .sell of the police department of Cincinnati was put on the stand. He proceeded to detail the conversation of Feb. 5, just, after Jackson's arrest.

Attorney Crawford objected, but was overruled. The eolonel said he met Jackson that night under Detective Buhner's care. The colonel said to Jackson: "We want you at the mayor's office." They went over to the office. No one was present in the conversation that followed but Jackson, the mayor and tho colonel. Jackson said he had not seen Pearl Bryan since Jan. 2, 1896, at Greencastle.

The colonel handed Jackson a telegram for his arrest. Jackson read it carefully, and then exclaimed: "Oh, my God, wfeat will my mother say." He said he did not know where Pearl Bryan was. Jackson asked "Must I tril about this?" The mayor answered 'ujtafc be did not have to unless he want- «£$ fo Shortly after reporters were admitted. This was the last of that interview the colonel had with Jackson. Tie had another on the morning of Feb./ 7. Lieutenant Renkert told him Jackson wptfi^ed an interview with him. Jaek•dnwtte brought to him. "Colonel, :I want to talk to you." said JjgjfcksQn, andhe said he did it voluntarily. No one had spoken to him about having this interview. Jackson then commenced to talk rather rapidly, and the colonel made him talk more slowly. Jackson said he was with Pearl Bryan frequently during the last holidays. He" said he was intimately acquainted with her. He said he had gone walking with her. He said a man named Will Wood had written to him about Pearl Bryan after Jadkson came back to Cincinnati, asking for advice abdiit Pearl Bryan, who was in a delicate condition. Wood wapted to know whait to'give for .a criminal operation. Jackson admitted his intimacy with the girl. He wrote Wood, telling him what to do on Waiting's advice. Wood answered that it had no effect. Then he talked with Walling again, and Walling said: "Send her up here and we'll attend to .it." Jackson then sent for Pearl Bryan, he said. At this point in the interview a red 6atchel was brought into the colonel's office.

The bloody satchel was handed the colonel on the stand and he identified it. Jackson said the satchel was Pearl Bryan's. Jackson said he got it from Pearl Bryan on Tuesday, Jan. 28, at the Indiana House. Jackson said he had taken a walk with the girl. Jackson went on. Ho talked with Pearl about the city, etc. Pearl Bryan asked .him to take care of the satchel, as she wanted to leave the hotel. He took it to his room, at 222 West Ninth street. The colonel asked Jackson to look into the satchel. Jackson's attention was called to the blood spots in it. He said he didn't notice that before. He had opened the satchel when he took out some of Pearl Bryan's clothes and threw them into "the river. Walling was with him. He said the only reason for throwing the clothes into the river was to get rid of them. He threw out on his first trip underwear shirt, stockings and part of a dress. He made another trip and threw smaller articles— needles, thread and shears—into the river.

The colonel suggested that the spots on the valise were blood. Jackson said it looked like it: lie didn't known. He also said ho thought Pearl Bryan's head liad been in the satchel. He said after he brought the satchel to the saloon of John Legner a student named Hackelman wanted to borrow it. He intended to tell Hackelinan, but he did not. He afterward took the satchel to the saloon coiner i\ mth street and Central avenue, with instructions to give it to no one. The colonel asked him why. he thought Pearl Bryan's head had been in the Satchel, anu he said he didn't know.

That ended the conversation. The sxt interview with Jackson was in falling's and the mayor's presence, 'lonef Deftsch started to says Walling Jd.to, Jackson "Yonknow you killed

Ifryan. Tell it all." Attorney Crawford objected aid Judge Helm instructed Colonel Deit&ch not to say anything that Walling said whioh Jackson did not admit to be true.

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Walling's remarks, and therefore he 3onld not tell anything Walling said. The colonel then said that on this occasion Jackson said: "You know very well I did not do it. You known very well you intended to commit an operation on the girl. You know you told me to tell Wood to give her ergot of of rye. You.know very well, Walling you"killed the girl."

The bloody and muddy trousers found in Walling's locker at the dental college were then identified by-Chief Deitsch. He said that Jackson said the were Jhis pantaloons. Jackson said they were in Locker 122, Walling's locker.

The colonel then identified they coat found in the sewer, corner Richmond and John streets, as Jackson's. Jackson said about the coat that he had deposited a coat in the sewer above named on the evening of Monday, the colonel t]iought. The superintendent asked Jackson why he did it, He answered because it was an old one he had no use for. That was the only reason he gave at any time in the superintendent's presence. The sewer is two and onehalf squares from Jackson's boardinghouse.

The attorneys for the prosecution then announced that they rested the case.- The announcement came as a surprise, although it had been expected that the state would close its case some time during the day. Seven days had been consumed in the examination of the Commonwealth's witnesses, more than 70 of whom had been examined to prove the circumstances which connect Scott Jackson with the death of Pearl Bryan.

Attorney Crawford opened for the defense at 4:22 by asking for peremptory instructions to the jury which would be to acquit the prisoner. His motion was ovrrulcd.

Then Crawford moved that all that Judge Caldwell, Colonel Deitsch, Crim, McDermott aud any and all others who testified as to what Jackson said be excluded from the jury. This motion was overruled.

Theu Crawford asked for a recess. He said he had several depositions from persons he expected to be present, but lie did not want to read them unless he was sure they would be absent, and he asked for an adjournment. "Well, the first thing is a statement to the jury," suggested Judge Helm. "I desire to make no statement," said Crawford.

This was a surprise. "Well, if there is no objection, we will adjourn," said the judge. "Not the slightest," said Colonel Nelson, speaking for the commonwealth, "we desire to give the defense all the time it needs.''

The court then ordered court adjourned, audit was done. The juiy filed out at 4:25.

The prisoner followed.

INDIANA MINERS STRIKE.

Hundred** Out and They Wilt Soon B« Joined by Thousands. INDIANAPOLIS,

April

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The miners are confident that by tomorrow all of the miners in the state, fully 4,000, will quit work, and that all of the mines will close down.

It is learned from the operators that they have expected a strike, and have prepared for it. One of the operators said his company had stocked its large customers 60 days in advance. Most of the companies, he says, have done this.

The operators all say they can stand a strike without any great sacrifice. The miners, they say, are not in condition to strike the last two years have not been prosperous years with them, and they have little money ahead.

The prevailing opinion among'the operators who attended the conference is that there will be a strike throughoat the Indiana field Friday.

TELESCOPED AND DITCHED.

None of th« Fourteen Passengers Were Seriously Injured. CEDAR RAPIDS,

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coming Illinois Central train with visitors to the state G. A. R. encampment was ditched yesterday by a washout just east of Raymond. The train was running at a high speed. Several cars were telescoped. Fourteen people were injured, none seriously.

The list of injured is as follows: Mrs. Charles Baldwin, Waterloo, la. F. G. Vail, Waterloo. Mrs. D. Wagner, Dubuque, la. Miss Minnie Wagner, Dubuque. Mrs. E. Barney, Sheffield, la. Mrs. Mary Hamming, Darlington, Wisconsin.

Mrs. R. B. Rutledge, Williams. Ia. Mattie Nailer, Williams.

Pocahontas Miners Will Go Out. PETERSBURG,

Va., April 30.—The

miners at the Pocahontas coal mines will strike on May 1 for the restoration of the 60 cents which was taken off their wages some time ago. The miners also want scales to load 60,000 capacity hoppers, as they claim that the cars are overloaded. In anticipation of the strike the authorities of the Norfolk and Western railroad are having coal stored away on sidings. Between 800 and ,000 miners will be thrown out of employment.

Drivers Cause a Suspension of Work. PITTSBURG,

April 30.—A strike of

drivers has caused a suspension of five large mines in tho Toms Run district near Carnegie. Not more than 40 men quit work because their demand for an increase in wages was refused, but they have thrown about 700 diggers idle. The strike is not sanctioned by the miners' district officers, and every effort is being made by them to effect a settlement.

Shot His Wife and Himself. SEATTLE,

Wash., April 30.—Grazed

with jealousy, Albert Keroy, a negro, 85 years old, employed as a waiter at the Ranier Grand hotel, yesterday shot qnd killed his Jwife, Julia, and then killed himself. Both were in bed at the time, and the presumption is that the woman was killed asleep.

No Hope For Holines.

HARRIRBURG, Pa., April 80.—Governor Hastings has refused the application of Murderer Holmes for a respite.

IN CONGRESS.

Two Notable'Speeches in the Senate on the Financial Question. WASHINGTON, April 80.—Two notable

speeches by Senator Teller and Senator Sherman—representing opposing elements on the financial qnestion—were heard in the senate yesterday. Mr. Teller addressed himself particularly to the Ohio senator, controverting the views held by him and maintaining tli^t no honest effort had been made in the present congress to pass a tariff bill. The senator referred in passing to the McKinley candidacy, saying that the motto of "advance.agent of prosperity" was delusive as no prosperity could?, come, until financial conditions reformed. ..The climax of Mr. Teller's speech was.reached when he announced that he would vote as he spoke and that lie would not hesitate to separate himself from the grdd^j jjarty with which he had been allied for 40 years if it pronounced for the gold standard. •Mr: Sherman- alfswered Mr. Teller, arguing against a 50-cent silver dollar and announcing that the time had come for a decisive opinion from the people. He appealed the case, he said, to the tribunal of the American people at the coming election

The early part of the day was given to speeches by Senators Yilas and Mitchell of Wisconsin, Palmer and Kyle eulogizing Pere Marquette, after which the resolution was adopted accepting the statue, of Marquette presented by Wisconsin.

The naval appropriation bill is nominally before the senate, but is being thrust aside for the incidental tariff and financial debate. Mr. Hale, in charge of tlie bill, protested vigorously against the distracting debates, declaring that if it continued congress would remain in session until next fall.

In the House.

WASHINGTON*,

April 30.—The house

spent the day in further discussion of the bankruptcy bill. Mr. Connolly (Rep., Ills.) spoke in favor of the measure, and Mr. Stone (Rep., Pa.), Mr. Newlands (Silverite, Nev.) and Mr. Broderick (Rep., Kan.) in opposition to it. The house adopted the report of elections committee No. 2, in favor of Bell, in the contested election case of Peace vs. Bell from the second Colorado district. MISSING A. A. KNOPFEL FOUND. His Body Taken From the Ohio Kiver

Near Addyston, Ohio.

CINCINNATI,

action

of the Indiana bituminous coal operators in reducing the wage schedule from 60 to

cents, bore fruit yesterday

in a strike of the miners at various points in the coal belt. The officers of the Islalid Coal' company, which has headquarters in this city, have received word* by telegram that all their miners, 400 in number, have struck.

April 30.—The mystery

of the disappearance of A. A. Knopfel, the Bay City merchant, is solved. W. H. Jackson, a laborer, while working on the shore of the Ohio river near Addyston, O., 14 miles below Cincinnati, found the body of a man floating in the water. He drew it ashore and notified Coroner Haerr.

The body was badly decomposed and the flesh was off the bones. The clothwas searched and papers were found identifying, the body as that of A. A. Knopfel, the. missing Bay City (Mich.) merchant, who disappeared from the Burnet House on Christmas Eve, 1895.

A big reward has been. offered by several secret societies of which Knopfel, was a member. Knopfel was repeatedly said to have been seen in various p^rts of the comitry. He was suffering from mental aberration when h6 left the hotel. The body was evidently in the river since ,t£« time! Knopfel's disappearance. The inquest was held at Coal City and the body taken to the morgue.

WlH PVUnm iHtrriwt

CHICAGO,

April 80.—The marriage of

Miss Florence Pulkhaii, daughter of Mr. and Mrs George lit. PMhfian, to Mr. Frank Orren Lowden, oply son of Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Louden of Hubbard, la., was solemnized. yesterday eveningat 8 o'clock atthe residence of the bride's parents in Prairie avenue in the presence of about 200 relatives and intimate friends.

Sultana Survivors.

KNOXVILLE,

April 80.—The survivors

of the steamer Sultana, which exploded near Memphis in April, 1893, killing 2,000 federal soldiers, held their general reunion here yesterday. A few Ohio and Kentucky survivors were in attendance.

Victim of the Cigarette.

WILLIAMSPORT,

Ind., April 80.—James

Wason, son of the Rev. R. B. Wason, died yesterday of the effects of excessive cigarette smoking.

Indications.

Partly cloudy weather, possibly light local rains fresh and brisk southeasterly winds.

Base Ball.

AT PHILADELPHIA— E Philadelphia ....3 0060120 x—12 16 1 N 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 1 3

Batteries—Taylor, McGrill and Boyle Doheny, Clarke and I'arrell. Umpire— Henderson.

AT PITTSBURG— E Pittsburg 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 5 x— 9 14 1 Cleveland 3 0000000 0— 2 5 3

Batteries—Killen and Sugden Chamberlain and O'Connor. Umpire—Weidman.

AT BROOKLYN— li II E Brooklyn 0 0101200 0— 4 9 7 Washington 2021 1000 0— 6 8 1

Batteries—Daub, Harper, Gumber and Grimm Mercer and McCauley. Umpire—Lynch.

THE MARKETS.

Keview of the Grain and Livestock Markets l-'or April 30.

Pittsburg.

Cattle—Prime, $4 26@4 85 good butchers, $3 80@4 10 bulls, stags and cows, $1 75@3 70 rough fat, $3 U0(cij3 70 fresh cows and springers, $15(dl!45. Hogs—Prima light,

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00 heavy, fii t0@3 70

common to fair, $2 50(^3 ~'5. Sheep—Extra, $3 85@4 00 good, $3 30@3 5U common, $3 00@3 20 spring lambs, $3 75@ 4 30 veal calves, $4 50@4 75.

Cincinnati.

Wheat—72@73c. Corn—31^@34c. Cattle—Selected butchers, $3 66@3 85 fair to medium^ 93 10@3 00 common, fg 60® 8 00. Hogs—Selected and prime butchers, $8 45@3 50 packing, 93 40@3 45 common to royghi $3 00QS 25. Sheep-—$2 25(03 75. Lambs—13 60(84 75.

Chicago.

Hors—Selected butchers, S3 15@3 60 mixed, |3 40@8 60. Cattle Poor to choice steers, 13 25®4 10 others, $3 500 4s 00 cows and bulls, $1 76Q8 66. Sheep— (8 25@3 85 lambs. $3 60Q4 70.

New York.

Cattle—93 0004 7a Sheep—13 7504 00 laxnbt, 94 75QS

FOE LITTLE FOLKS.

A YOUNG SWIMMER.

Chabblns Healy HM Jolly Times on the Bobbins Horse at Coronado.

Coronado Beach people all say that Chubbins Healy is the youngest swimmer in the world. If she isn't, she certainly comes pretty close to carrying off the banner as a baby swimmer. Chubbins is 4 years old, fat, rosy and jolly. She came to California with her mother about a year ago for the health of an older sister. Wheii they first located at Coronada, Chubbins was entranced by the charms of the big swimming tank of the great hotel, and it wasn't long before she took an experimental dip. The swimming.,teacher took great pride in his baby pupil, and Chubbins could soon swim with the

deftness of a rock cod. People now come long distances to see Chubbins display herself as water queen or ride the big bobbing horse that floats about the tank.

Only a short time ago Chubbins distinguished herself by swimming twice across the tank, a distance of 40 feet or more altogether. She swims with the greatest ease and apparent delight, and only smiles with pleasure when the salt water spatters her or finds its way into her mouth. She swims frequently out to the bobbing horse and can climb up to its back without assistance, which is something of a feat.—San Francisco Examiner.

A Game For the Evening.

Games, though no longer fashionable at gatherings of young people, are still delighted in for homelike entertainments and for the pastime of rainy days at home or abroad. One which will tax the ingenuity of boys and girls is called "Telegrams. It can be played by any number, and a pencil and paper for each guest is the only preparation required.

Each one in turn gives a letter of the alphabet until the list includes ten. Then each player must write a possible telegram of ten words, using each of the letters in the order given as the initial of a word. When the results are read a vote is taken as to the best telegram, and the prizes are awarded accordingly. To illustrate this, suppose the list of letters is w, 1, b, t, e, m, t, t, o, t. Farm these a telegram can be made: "Will leave Boston this evening. Meet the ten Q'clock train." The oftener tho same letter occurs the more difficult the task is made.—Philadelphia Ledger.

Two Maiden*.

know a winsome little maM, Bo fair to see. Her fafca is like a dainty flower. 6o lovingly &be locfcs upon tftis world of oura ind all w^b pass That tweet content makes beautful

My little lass.

I know another maiden well. She might be fair. Her cheek is like a rose leaf soft.

Like gold her hair. But, ahl her face ia marred by frowns, Her eyes by tears, For nono can please. I dread to think

Of coming years.

Would you, dear, grow to.beauty rare In thought and deed? Then learn the lesson these two teach

To those who heed, And in your heart, as life begins, Give this truth place— 'Tis orly lovely thoughts can make

A lovely face.

—Gertrude Morton Cannon in St. Nicholas-

Shadow Buff.

To play shadow buff you should fasten a sheet up at one end of tho room so that it will hang quite smooth. "Buff" (not blinded) seats himself on a low stool, with his face to the sheet, and a table, on which is a lighted candle, placed about five feet behind him. The rest of the lights in the room should be extinguished. "Buff's" playfellows next pass in succession between the candle and him, distorting their features in as grotesque a manner as possible—hopping, limping and doing everything to make their shadows as unlike their natural looks as possible. "Buff" must try to guess to whom the shadows belong, and if he is correct the player whoso shadow he recognizes takes his place. 'Buff" is allowed but one guess for each person.

The AVIiite House Kindergarten.

The little Wallace children, the grandchildren Chief Justice Fuller, the little daughter of General and Mrs. Draper and the children of Private Secretary and Mrs. Thurber are among the pupils of the kindcrrrarten that is situated in the nursery at the White House. The children are put behind the bars of the little cribs when there is laziness or disobedience, and a final humiliation for extreme cases is a stool and dunce cap in the corner. The little outsiders who are so favored get all these advantages for $6 or $8 a month. So the whole burden of expense does not fall upon the family in the White House.

A Mighty Hunter.

Our MMto Robbie, just three yeprs old, Went hunting for "lions' teetn." Wasn't he bold? And though he is erer and ever so small Be rwlly wasn't afraid at all. He had no powder, he had no gun: Sat, hontst fend trae, when the hunt was dona, He brought horn* all that his hands could hold, jinA every one was as bright as gold, Fbr In field and garden and all about The d*n-d®*lions hare blossomed out. —Youth's Companion.

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THE LAST APPEARANCE OF MOLIERE.

[It is recorded of Moliere that on tbe night of his death he insisted on going to the theater, as usual, despite the entreaties of his friends,to play the''

Mixed fate and laughter in a breath, Behold the actor as he bowed, Crown'd with the cypress wreath of death?

Across the footlights of the years That latest snem shines fresh and bright. Only tho lamps are blurred with tears,

Only the laughter fails tonight— And, lo! before our startled eyes "•Two centuries dwindle to a spah, And other silent plaudits rise

Not for the genius, but the man.

Actor, there gleams above thy tomb No censer which the church can swing No incense, with its dim perfume,

Haunts thy dark rest" 'with dreams of spring. But surely blessings more divine ..

Upon that last apjfearance fell And, with tho latest.br^vos thine, Mingled the angels' "It is well.'" ...

And, all unwitting, we today .... Tread in thy footsteps, Moliere. We laugh and wonder at tho play.

Or strut behind tho footlights' glare.. The shouts of laughter grow more sparse, Tho lamps burn dim, the players flee, And Death takes up our petty farce

And sobers it to tragedy. —Nellie K. Blissett in Temple Bar.

WANTED.

ugly case, remarked Jim to me

confidentially "a very ugly case indeed The unconscious patient, borne into our surgery upon a stretcher, was frightfully injured. That was evident at a glance.

He was 'a passenger by a ship just arrived from the Cape, and while preparing to come ashore a heavy box, swung aloft by the vessel's crane, had slipped and fallen on him.

Jim Clifford and I were partners in an east end practice, close to the docks. His blood soaked clothing bore no marks which could lead to his identification.

No limbs were broken, but the neck and shoulder were fearfully lacerated, and one side of the face was dreadfully mangled. It was not until late the following evening that he seemed to recover his senses, and then of course he was too weak to converse.

Jim was strongly in favor of his removal, as soon as practicable, to the nearest hospital. The sick man must have overheard our conversation, for he signed feebly to my colleague to stoop down. "Not to the hospital, for heaven's sake!" whispered the poor fellow. "Anywhere but there. Stay here—no friends—soon be better!" he gasped painfully.

Neither of us had the heart to remove our patient against his will, though his stay involved one of us being constantly in the house and the services of a male attendant as welL

Days and weeks slipped by, and, though our patient hovered between life and death more than once, he continued to stay with us and to engross more or less of our attention.

The singular thing was that apparently the patient was without relatives or friends in thia country—did not know a soul in London. So he told us, bit by bit, adding that his name was Octave Henry, and that he had been in South Africa for many years A couple of rude sea chests, sent up from the ship, contained all his belongings. "I'll tell you what it is, "said Jim in his own emphatic way as we sat together in our snuggery one night, "I'll tell you what it is, Fraser, our friend up stairs will slip through our fingers after all if we don't look out. There's brain mischief setting in from some splintered bone, and unless we can do something to remove the brain pressure —well, goodby to his chance of life!"

Our patient willingly gave his consent to the operation, and the whole affair was arranged and carried out within a week.

Recovery from the operation of trepanning is always tardy. In the case of the man Henry, with his already shattered physique, it was more than usually protracted.

One morning I remember well. Clifford and I were by tho bedside. The patient, for the time being, had revived sufficiently to show himself conscious of our presence and feebly to sign his wants.

But there was something about the appearance of his eyes that morning which struck me as being unusual, a curious, preoccupied look. When Jim and I had left him to the care of his attendant, I remarked upon this symptom. "You noticed it, then?" answered Jim moodily. "I thought you would. Ah, but that is only one aspect of the case, not the most serious either!"

Here he broke off abruptly. I waited, without speaking, till he began once more: "Did you ever study the subject of sense transference?"

I confessed that I had not done so to any great extent. It begins to occur to me,'' continued Jim, "that that is what we have to tleal with in the case—nothing more or less. However it has happened, one tSing is very plain to me—that the sense of hearing in this case is not absolutely destroyed, but, as I may put it, diverted into the optic region—grafted, as it were, into the sense of sight." "But is such a thing possible?" I exclaimed anxiously. "Yes, theoretically it is," returned my partner gravely, "but practically no example of it has yet occurred in the caae—that is, of a human being. I can only, guess that in the present instanoe purely accidental causes have led up to it But the f»ct remains that, as I have just said, the man now sees—-actually sees, remember—that which, in ordinary circumstances, he would have heard."

My colleague's diagnosis proved to be true, as we soon found. Little hy little, as consciousness returned, it beoame

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der that the workmen might not lose their wages.] Did you who sat that night to see

The wizard's hand complete its task Guess at the face of Tragedy Which lurked behind the comic mask? Did you, whose plaudits wild and loud

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painfully evident that thd patient's senses had become what I may call, for want of a better word, entangled.

With what starting vividness such sensations thus took bodily shape before him we could only surmise from his excited manner. Sensitive to an extraordinary degree to every breath, every whisper around him, his staring eyeballs too plainly showed how the faculty of vision was exalted, in his case, to a preternatural extent. "Please, sir," said a maidservant at the door "please, sir, Dr. Clifford wants you up stairs at once."

Clifford and the attendant were holding down the patient by main force upon the bed. He was struggling to rise, anii the expression of his face was one of -terror. His eyes seemed as if starting from their,sopkets. "Something has- induced a violent paroxism Whispered Jim. 'He can't lasrt long if it:pontii}ues.

The s}ck man sank back on his pillows. His lips moved. By stooping over him I could catch some of his words! "They are coming—coming now," he gasped, 'ever sO far away, but I can see them! Something moves before them, —something dark! I can't make it out Something about to break! Will it save poor Octave? Will it"— "Visibly worse," feaid Clifford aside to me, "and the pulse abnormally high. If this goes on, he will be in a high fever before long."

It was a breathless summer evening, but the sky was overcast with murky clouds, foreboding a tempest. The room already grew dark with the shadow of its coming.

Suddenly there was a loud knocking at the front door. Presently I heard voices in conversation, then heavy footsteps began to ascend the stairs.

At that instant a rose colored flash gleamed through the darkness of the room, a terrific peal of thunder followed, its echoes crashing and rolling as if the building were about to fall upon our heads. The sick man sprang convulsively to an almost upright position in his bed, then fell backward—dead!

The door opened. There was a pause, and two plainly dressed men slipped quietly into the room. "Dr. Clifford, I presume?" inquired the foremost politely.

Jim nodded assent wonderingly. I have a very painful duty to perform in respect of your patient here," continued the speaker fumbling a paper as he spoke "a very painful duty indeed. But the fact is, I hold a warrant for his apprehension under the name of Henry—Octave Henry on a charge of'— "My patient," interposed Jim very quietly, "has just obeyed another summons. The man died while you were coming up stairs.''

From the explanations which ensued it seemed that our late patient had long been "wanted" by the police on no less a charge than that of murder. Doubtless his unwillingness to be removed to a hospital arose from his persuasion that he was safer from detection in a private dwelling.

Guilty or not guilty of the crime he was accused of, it was long before Jim and I oeased to speak of him. Nor, in turn, had he forgotten us. We were handsomely remembered in the will he had executed before the operation. But we will never again undertake the care of a resident patient. —-Answers

Old £n|ll»h Inns.

A feature essentially English is the cheery inn that overlooks the common. From that upper latticed window the jolly innkeeper of yore would watch the solitaxy horseman of romance crossing the heath' and perhaps Jbint his opinion of the traveler to the "gentlemen of the road"—the Claude Duvals—who found it convenient to keep on good terms with mine host. But those days are gone, and now we can take our ease at our inn, with its deep bay windows on either side of the entrance, its swinging signpost, its horse trough, pump and outdoor settle. Enter and you will find that the bay window forms a delightful sunny recess with a seat all round. In one instance a branch of a vine from the adjoining greenhouse had been trained into this recess, and round the window bunches of grapes were hanging, some beginning to purple in the warm August sun. The fireplace is often a great, old fashioned one, with seats on either side of the "ingleneuk," right under the chimney, while framed over one of these fireplaces I found the following verse from Sir Matthew Hale:

A Sabbath well .spent Brings a week of content And health for the toils of the morrow,

But a Sabbath profaned, Whate'cr may be gained, Is a certain forerunner of sorrow.

—Temple Bar.

Dr. Nansen's Pedjgree.

Dr. Fridtjof Nansen's name being now mentioned all over the world, his pedigree has been the subject of recent research. The result is that the earliest/ of the forbears of the Norwegian nav-/ igator of whom there is authentic knowl( edge-was Ewert Nansen, a merchant al Flensburg, in Sleswick-Holstein, who died in 1013. So it is stated in the "Genealogia N.inseniana," which is contained in an important collective work by Christopher Giessing (Copenhagen, 1781). Ewert Nansen's son Hans went with his uncle on a merchant ship to Russia, became afterward interpreter of the Russian language at the court of the king of Denmark and later on a special Danish envoy to the czar. Subsequently, as chairman of the Icelandic Trade society, he made many voyages to Iceland and Russia and wrote in Danish a "Compendium Cosmoraphicum Danicum," which had many editions (1688-46). All the other Nansens are traced from these ancestors, one of the first of whom thus showed already a bent for traveling and for writing on his travels. A dear case of hereditary character, going back to two centnriM and a half I Only it is to be hoped that Ibsen will leave the suh^ect alone mnd not write a drama called "The Man From the Sea. "—Pall Mall Gazette.

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