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Imp ( Cont inueil. ) "A soldier!" crfcd Mary. "Oh. Richard, you must try if we can't do something for him. I never hear of an old soldi, i without thinking of my poor brother, Jack, who, you know, ran away and enlisted while I was quite a little girl, and how miserably he died in Africa. Oh. what a pt I used to he of pool Jack's! If we had heard of any one who had been good to him at last, bow we should have bleaoed him! Do tell me JÜ about this poor fellow, aud let m m e if we eaa devise any way of helping hint." "I mm afraid he is pretty well past help." .-aid Riebard. "I left him unconscious, and I tihouhl not he in the least surprised Ü he should never come to hi ?n self again." "Bat surely he can't bp left to himself in an empty house. Richard! It. would he a .-in and a shanio to leave anybody o. He must be got to the infirmary." "He won t so. T have tried my best to make him. but he is obstinate." "Then we must bring him here. We have more than one empty room, for the hou,-e is far too big for us. Do let me get a bed put up in one of them." "Why. Mary, you know well enough we can t -ven keep ourselves! How are we to keep and feed a stranger as well?" "Oh, we must. Richard!" she cried impulsively, her tender eyes filling with team "Think how forsaken and wretched he is! Suppose it were your brother and he is your brother, even if he be what you call a stranger. We mustn't shut our door on him T tras a stranger, and ye took me not in' how could you hear to hear that?" She ran lightly out of the room to give her orders and spo them carried out. leaving Ric hard sitting conscienceßtricken in his chair, all hits subtle arguments scattered to the winds by a single word. "Took him not in!" he echoed with a Miter laugh. "Xo, Lord. I didn't take him in! I knew a trick worth two of that: so I robbed and murdered him instead, and then swore lies about it at the inquest. And the best of it was that I did it all from the mor-t exalted motives to promote the greatest happiness ot the greatest number, at no expense except of the life of a wretched miser of whom the world would be well rid, who was only a burden to himself and a nuisance to everybody else! How clear it all was! bot I dare BO say it to Mary, and should hate hev if she could listen to it for a second." He lay back in his ( hair for a moment with closed eyes, a thousand oldworld dreams and half-forgotten ideals and aspirations crowding b.?ck upon his memory and circling round the image of his wife as he had first rieen and loved her. There wrere unaccustomed tears in his eyes as he opened them to see her standing before bin la hat and cloak. "Come, Richard." tshe cried, "ou must iake me to the place at once. There was some wine left, and I have it in this basket. I have told Alice to make up a bed in the back room and to have ome hot soup ready in an hour. Now get your coat on and take ine to the house. We shall need a fly to bring him here; but w- i an order that on the way." Hr bright, quick eagerness tarried him along; in another minute they were passing through the stn eta and had hailed a crawling cab, Richard regard d his wife with a kind of dazed surprise. All the wan depression of her face, Which had weighed upon his epirits for weeks, was gone, and a bright and almost joyous energy seemed to poeseai her that reminded him of the Mary of brighter days. He seemed awakened from a nightmare a he looked after her, :md sprang lightly down to help her as the fly drew up in the wretched street before the empty bonne, Already th" early evening was lor-ins in. and it looked doubly desolate and forbidding la th twilight. "Why, surely there is no one living here!" she exc laimed: "he must Indeed be in wretched plight, poor fellow!" Richard tried the door, but found it locked. He had DO recollection of his departure from the house in the morning, but on putting his hand in his pocket he found the key, which lc must bare slipped into It on having. They entered the bare outer room, and he could hardly bear Iiis wife's exclamation of pity ami ditmay, his own heart vas thumping so loudly with terror and menenee, should they Ind him still alive? His hand shook as lie laid it on the handle of the inner door, the lock rnttled, and for a moment he recoiled as from a living thing. Nerving bin, self with an effort, he pushed oen the door and w nf in. The room was precisely an he had left it. in tic morning; the patient lay in a profound sleep, breathing heavily, and bathed in a profuse perspiration. Richard bent over hint and felt his pulse, then shoot him sharply by the shoulder and called loudly on him to awake, hut without rousing him in the least. Slapping his face with a wet handkerchief, raisii. ,r him off the ground, produced no better effect. Taking the little bottle of wine from Mary's ready hand, Richard forced a few drops into his mouth.

A SHORT STORY

They were swallowed with a convulsive gulp, but made no change la the profound unconsciousness in which the patient lay. "It's no use." he said at last. "He's too far gone to awake. Aud yet bis pnlec is very good, and if I had him at home there are one or two other things thai I might try. So just tell the driver to come in and help me carry bin, to the fly." He wrapped around him the rug he bad sent the evening before, which was the only thing about him not in rags, and with the driver's assistance carried him out and propped him up in the fly. Before quitting the place Richard turned the bed over with his font to be sure nothing of value was left behind. A heavy revolver, which proved to be loaded, rattled upon the floor, and as he stooped to pick it up a yellowgleam caught his eye among the rags. "What! more money!" he exclaimed, but on looking closer he found that it was only the gilt ease of an old-fash-ioned. faded daguerreotype portrait. Nothing else was to be found, and slipping it into his pocket with the revolver, he returned to the cab. locking the door behind him as he left. A few minutes' driving brought the party hack to Richard's house, aud with the assistance of the cabman, the still unconscious patient was arried up to one of the empty rooms, where a bed had been prepared to receive him. Mary was ready with hot oup and coffee, and felt a little disappointed when Richard turned her from the door. No. no, Mary, it's no use trying to give it to him that way. Make a little very strong beef-tea: I will find a way to administer that. Send mo up the bottle of Condy'o fluid, and a glase am" a jug of water." Left to himself, he proceeded with a fierce anxiety, very different from his usual professional coolnes, to take such measures as his knowledge dictated to awaken hie patient from his stupor, and these not proving immediately successful, to sustain life, if possible, until the effect of the drug should pass off. It was late when. after having exhausred nearly every means known to him. lie left him still lying unconscious, and went down-stairs. Mary had prepared a little supper for him. and was anxiously awaiting his appearance. "A good, strong cup of tea for me. Mary." "Why. Richard, you know tea at night always keeps you awake. You would not sleep a wink after it." "That's what I want. I am going to sit up with my patient tonight, and before Alice goes to bed you had better tell her to light a lire in hie room." "Oh. Richard, mayn't I sit up along with you? I am sure I shall not close my eyes the whole time for thinking of you. I never can sleep when you are away from me at nights.'' "All the more reason for you to be resting quietly in bed. then," said Richard, who had his own reasons for wishing to be alone with his patient in the event of his recovering consciousness. When the household had retired. Richard sat down in an easy-chair beside the fire, having first made a careful examination of his patient, who moaned and muttered in his sleep as he turned him over to sound his heart. Reassured of these signs of reviving consciousness, he opened the latest works on "Poisons," on which he had recently expended a guinea which he could very ill spare, turned to the section on "Morphia." and settled himself in his chair to study it attentively. About four hours later he was awakeaed from s deep sleep by a loud cry uttered near him. The book had fallen to the floor beside the chair; the fire had gone out. but the lamp was burn Ing brightly. The tick man was sitting up in bed. from which he had thrown off the covering, and was wildly groping among the bed-elothea in search of something. "Lost, lost!" he shrieked. "Help! thieves! Police!" Richard WM at his side in a moment and caught him by the shoulder. "Thank (Jod, you are better!" he exclaimed. "But what are you looking for?" "What, doctor, is it you? Where am 1? What has been the matter with me? I feel as if I had slept for a hundred years!" " Vou are in my house.-' s;id Richard, "and everything you have i safe. Now pull yourself together and let me I ave a look at you. Pupils normal, fa -art all right. Why. you are a miraC e! Just swallow this cup of cof fee: it's eoM, but your throat must be like ;i chimney. Down with it!" "More, more; I could drink up P.sil!" be eiied, holding out the empty cup to he refilled. "Yon must be a magician, doctor, to have brought BBS round so gulchly. I'm accustomed to these attacks, as 1 told you. and the worst in always over in three days. Hut there is alwaj sickness and prostration afterwards, ami this time I positively feel better than I have done for years. I have had such a sound sleep a I thought I should never enjoy again. How did you do it. doctor?" "Morphia!" said Richard gfrlmly. "A

! heroic dose; I saw you trere pretty bad and it had to be either kill or cure. ' Till within five minutes ago I was

greatly afraid it was going to he kill. You have slept about twenty hours." "I can never thank yov enough for i vour courage, for it has put new life into me. I must have been as sound as a church if you have removed nie without my knowing it. Rut are you quite ! sure you left nothing behind, for I missed something just now that must not be lost on any a count?" "I know." said Richard quietly, but keenly watching the other's face as he spoke. "You had a belt around you with several thousand pounds' worth of money and jewels in it. You had also a loaded revolver, for the purpose, I presume, of defending your wealth. Don't he uneasy about them; I have them both safely under lock and key." (To be Continued.) LIMITS OF MARRIAGEABLE ACE When Couple May lie I'nlteU Arcording to Laws of Various Natious. It makes considerable difference in the matrimonial advantaged of a person where he may have been born or is a citizen. This remark applies with peculiar force to the minimum age which renders a union !eg;al. It in a measure Implies the consent of parents or guardians in all the instances cited, although once united the law sustains the marriage maugre dissent of the parents, etc. In Austria 14 years is looked upon as sufficient to entitle a person of either sex to take on the burdens of matrimony. Germany requires the male to be 18 and the female 16. In Fiance and Belgium the man must be l(i and the woman 15. In Spain the intended husband must have passed the 14th year and the woman her 12th. The law in Hungary for Roman Catholics is that the man must be 14 years old and the woman 12; for Protestants the man must be 18 and the woman 15. In Greece the man. must, have seen at least 14 summers and the won an 12. In Russia and Saxj ony they are more sensible, and a youth must refrain from matrimony till he can count IS years and a women until she can count 16. In Switzerland men from the age of 14 and women from the age of 12 are allo wed to mar ry. The Turkish law provides fftat i any youth and maid who can walk I properly and can understand the neces sary religious service are allowed to he united for life. - Anaconda Standard. POINTS ON FOOD. Coffee is to be cheaper. This is to be one :f the results of the war. Nearly half of the world's coffee crop comes to the United States. We consume almost twelve pounds per annum for every one of our population, aud spend on an average nearly 190,000,000 a year for coffee. Two-thirds of the world's supply of coffee comes from Brazil, which places an export duty of 11 per cent upon the fragrant berry. The finest coffee in the world is grown in Porto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines, and under the stimulation of American enterprise these countries wl'l, within a few years, he able to supply the world with coffee. What this means to the coffee consumer he can clearly understand. After all that has been said about the large quantity of valuable food that is going to waste in the shape of edible mushrooms. recent Investigations made by Prof. L B. Mendel of Yale show that the nutrithe value of the mushroom is not so very high af'er all. Science describes Prof. Mendel's experiment as follows: "Chemical analyses were combined with experiments in artificial digestion and special attention was given to the amount or available (digestible) proteid present. The latter was found to be not over 2 or 3 per cent in fresh mushrooms, which shows that the prevailing idea of the great nutritive value of mushrooms is not yet justified. They may be valuable as dietetic accessories, but they do not deserve the term 'vegetable beefsteak.' Their nitrogen is largely in the form of nonproteid bodies. The amount of fat, Cholesterin, soluble carbohydrates, crude fiber and inorganic substances contained in them corresponds in general with that found in other vegetable foods, such as peas, corns and potatoes." Rice bread is the staple food of the Chinese, Japanese and a large portion of the inhabitants of India. In Persia the bread is made from rice Hour and milk; it is called "la wash." The Persian oven is built in the ground about the size of a barrel. The sides are smooth inaon work. The fire is built at the bottom and kept burning until the wall or sides of the oven are thoroughly heated. Enough dough to form a sheet about one foot wide aud about two feet long is thrown on the bench and rol.ed until about as thin as sole leather; then it is taken up and tossed and rolled from one arm to the other and Hung on a board and slapped on the side of the oven. It takes only a few moments to bake, and when baked it ia spread out to cool. This bread is cheap (1 cent a sheet); it is sweet and nourishing. I.argeHt Koom In MM World. The largest oom in the world under one roof and in broken by pillars is at St. Petersburg. It is ;u feet long by 161 in breadth. By daylight It is used tor military displays, and a whole battalion can completely maneuver in it. By night 20,000 wax tapers give it a beautiful appearance. The roof is a Isingle arch of iron. If it is true that the smartest man makes the most munny, then the men boo allow themselves to be skint are fools. Does it take a very smart man to skin a lot of fools?

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GYPSY QUEEN FREE. CETS A CHJCACO DIVORCE FROM HZR HUSBAND.

flolatM BoOMMjr Tradition lv Appealing to Law Twice she Was Sohl and Often Deafen Nw Free to I. Ivo wiiti No. Letter. HB first divorce ever granted t0 a gypsy in Chicago was issued by Judge Brentano In the superior court to Tode Uwanawitch. dethroned queen of the Romany camp at Forty-seventh street and Western avenue. Arrayed in bright finery, with beads and glittering brilliants encircling her neck end bosom and a tin ban on her shapely head, the ex-queen told of refined and varied cruelty practiced by her husband, Stanislaus I'wanawiich. Mrs. t'wauawitch, who s twenty-two years old and pretty, gave her testimony in lluent English. Her charges were corroborated by two of her swarthy subjects. The appearance of the gypsy x-queen in court in strange costume attracted considerable attention and Judge Brentano was compelled to order the doors closed before the taking of testimony. Toda said she was married to her husband in a camp In Mississippi two years ago. after having been purchased from her father by the bridegroom for $100. Last May Bhe ran away from her husband and the Chicago camp, and says his cruelty caused her Bight. The people of the camp captured her and took her back, but she refused to JDDDD THE GYPSY QUEEN IX COURT. live with her husband. She declares he then tied her to a post in a tent along with a huge cinnamon bear. A chain was fastened around her neck with an iron ring. He kept her thus for days. One of the young men in the camp loved and pitied the fair prisoner and appealed to the tyrant husband for release. Stanislaus, satisfied bis wife's affection was los; to him. finally agreed to sell her to his rival for $l"o. The cash was paid and the ex-queen released. ToIa was not grateful to her liberal admirer. She refused to marry him. Another less gallant suitor had captured the heart of the gypsy queen and she soon married him with gypsy rites. This aroused the anger of the $150 admirer and he joined with Stanislaus in persecuting her afresh. They tried to frighten her by declaring she was a bigamist, and this drove Toda to consult a lawyer. Then the divorce project was born and a bill was filed In the superior court. According to the complainant the action broke all gypsy traditions. Stanislaus made no defense. Like all his race, be has a horror of courts and the ways of modern civilisation. He paid no attention to the notice served on him and the exgypsy queen and her two witnesses told their stories without being contradicted. Toda grew angry when she described how she had been chained up and her baby taken from her to he sold at some future day. For deserting her husband she said she had been beaten and punished In various cruel ways. According to the Romany law, her husband was her absolute master and not un'il he had sold her did he lose control of her. The suggestion that if the courts should recognise a gypsy marriage by granting a divorce she would be liable to arrest for bigamy did not worry Toda. The gypsies, she explained to hei attorney, had loo great an aversion to law courts to take any action. .Tudge Brentano did not allude to the bigamy phase and it was not brought to his attention. The evidence was deemed by him sutlieien, to justify a decree being granted, and so he ordered. When the gypsy queen returned to the camp in th evening with the decree she repaired to the tent of her second husband, and no gyp. v in the settlement, dared dispute his rights and hers. The big red seal and the ribbons on the decree seemed potent to them. International Minerx' t'nngrenM. The international Miners' congress held at Vienna in August voted in favor of making the eight-hour workday compulsory by law. it wm demanded that laws be enacted in evencountry by which employers shall be made responsible for all accidents happening to miners. The demand that all mines be made the property of the government was voted uanimously by France, Belgium and Austria. The nrxt congress will as eel at Brussels. Anirrlean iMlmn- llir Ht'At. John McDougall of London after a visit to the insane asylums of the Duited States, declares they are as a whole the best in the world.

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Uownpours of K:iin That Brin Water in Cataracts. A sudden pattering in the trees, i sudden darkening in big spots of the white canvas, ami down came the tropical rain. How it rained.! Like waves breaking; great heavy blobs of water volleying at you like bullets from a machine gun. Men who were ten yards from their tents were wet through before tiny gained suelter. In live minutes the camp was under water; on the siopes were rushing torrents; on the levels were deep swirling pools. Down the trunks of the trees the water poured in cataract-. From the lower edge of every tent it flowed In a broad stream. The men, drawing up the corners of their rubber blankets so as to keep the flood away from themselves and their belongings, crouched under their tents and shivered. It rained for two hours without Btopplng. In the first halt hour every man in camp wa wet through, so that many of them took oft their wet clothes and stool naked in the rain for the remainder of ÜM time. The sun came out again soon after, hotter than ever, and the damp earth steamed till the camp was an open-air vapor bath. But blaze away as the sun might, the ground never got dry again that day. and at night WO turned in shivering with the damn earth striking cold through the rubber sheet and blanket. Pity the poor devils now who. when they were marching in the sunshine, threw away the rubber sheet and blanket. AN OASIS. Dr. Wright, a well-known missionary for forty j ears in the west, once said: "During my long service 1 remember no more helpful personal encouragement than was once given to me by a poor rancher's wile in Colorado. Drouths had prevailed for a long time; the fields were scorched: the whole surface of the country was a baie, desolate wilderness. "After traveling for several days through this arid desert. 1 tame one morning in sight of a little cabin surrounded by a green patch of grass. Beside the door grew a honeysuckle vine covered with blossoms. I confess that I choked, and the tears rushed to my eyes at the sight. It was as if all the dear folk.-; at home had suddenly risen in my path. I rode up to thp cabin door and dismounted. A cheerful, tidy woman came out smiling. 'How js this?' I cried. 'What has worked this miracle?' T did it,' she said. It is uo miracle; but I was so tired of the almost barren desert, dry and hot around me for days and weeks that I resolved to keep my own home free from it. 1 have carried water five times a day to this little bed of grass and to the vine. I tended and nursed them. My husband thinks my grass has warded oft" the fever, and some of the people who have passed by have said it gave them fresh Btrengtb aud courage to go on their journey.' "1 have not forgotten the lesson ot that cheery little home.'" said the missionary. "None of us can make the great wilderness bloom, but each one of us has his own little patch which he can keep green if -he will." Now, when the dread breath of war has chilled the face of the whole country, let each of us resolve not to waste his time deploring the calamity, but to keep ills own home and heart full of truth and cheerfulness and kindness. It will need some of the "water of life'' to do this, but that fountain is always open to us. FOE TO THE CAM BLERS. This man is the deadly too of the Chicago gambling fraternity. His house has been partially wrecked by dynamite and the other night he was made the target by a gang of men who threw esigs at him while he was makmm JOHN HILL, ing an address in church. Mr. Hill Is a natural born lighter and the struggle he is having w ith the gamblers is interesting if not edifying. The shrasi That the color of eyes should affeet their strength may seem strange, yet that stub is the case need not now be proved, and those whose eyes are brown or dark colored should be informed that they are weaker and more susceptible of injury from various causes than gray or blue eyes. Light blue eyes are generally the most powerful, and next to these are gray. The lighter the pupil the greater and longer continued is the degree of tension which the eyes can sustain. It Isn't always the fighting parson who puts his congregation to sleen

n HI InllilUKi. MASONIC. ! PLY MOUTH K 1 L W I NINO LODGE, Xo, 149, F. and A. M.J meets first ami third Friday eve1 nins of each month. Daniel McDonald, W.M. lohn Corberly, Sec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No 49, R. A. M.; meets second Friday evening of each month. L. Southworth H. P. j. C.JiUon, Sec. PLYMOUTH COMMAXD'RY, No 26 K. T.; mect second zi fourth Thursday of each month D McDonald E. C; L.TannerRec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No 26, O. E. S.; meets fust and third Tuesdays of each, month, Mrs. Mary L. Thayer V. ?l . Mrs. G. Aspinall. See ODD FELLOWS. AMERICUS LODGE, No. 91; meets every Thursday evening- at their Lodge rooms on Michigan st. Ed Campbell N. G. Chas. Shearer Sec KMGHT5 OF PYTHIAS. HYPERION LODGE, No. 117 meets every Monday night in Castle Hall. Lou Allman C. C. Chas. S. Price K. of R. and S. FORESTERS. PLYMOUTH COURT, No. 499; meets the second and fourth. Friday evenings f each month, in K. of P. hall. Elmer Wernti C. R. Daniel Cramer See. HYPERION TEMPLE RATHBONE SISTERS, meets first and third Friday of each month Mrs J. G. Davis, Mrs. Rens Armstrong K. O. T. ML PLYMOUTH TENT, No. 27; meets every Tuesday evening at K. O. T. M. hall. Dan. focoby, Com. Jame- Hoffman, Record Keeper. L. O. T. M. WIDE AWAKE HIVE, No. 67; meets every Monday night at K. O. T. M. hall on Michigan street. Mrs. Flora J. Elli, Commander. Bessie Wilkinson, Record Keeper. HIVE NO. z3j meets every Wednesday evening in K. O. T. M. hall. Mrs. Maggie Fogle, Com., Alma E. Lawrence, Record Keener. I ROYAL ARCANUM. Meets tust and third 'Wednesday evenings of each month in Simon's hall. Moses M. Lauer, Recent. Francis McCrory, Sec. WOODMEN OF THE WORL D Meets first and third Wednesday evenings of each month in K.of P. hall. C. M. Kasper, C. C. Joe Eich, Clerk O. A. R. MILES H. T1BBETS POST, G. A. R ; meets every first and third Monday evenings in Simons hall Dvvight L, Dickerson Com,. Charlie Wilcox, Adjt. SONS OF VETERANS. Meets every second and fourth Fri day evenings in G. A. R. hall J. A. Shnnk, Captain. Cora B. North, ist Lieut. CHURCHES. P B E s 1? Y T E ft I A N CHURCH Preaching at 10:Hu a. in. and 7 p. m. Sabbath school at noon. Junior Endeavor at 4 p. m. Senior Endeavor at p. in. Trayer meeting every Thursday evening. Teacher's meeting iuv mediately following. Hev. Thornberry, Pastor. METHODIST, t lass meeting every Sunday morning at :'M o'clock. Preaching at IÖJ0 a. m.. and 7 JO p. ra. Sunday school at 12 m. Epworth league ai :.'( p. m. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening at 7:00 p, m. L. S Smith, pastor. .F. W. Wiltfong, claae leader. 1. Frank Pedd. Sabbath school superintendent. PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL.- St Thomas' church. Kev. Win. Wirt Raymond, rector. Sunday services, 10:30 a. m., 7 'JO p. m. Sunday service, at noon. Services Wednesday evenings at 7:30. Communion on holy days at 10 a. m. CHURCH OF GOD (larro and Water st8. Regular cervices 1040 a. m., each Sunday. Third Sunday in each month preaching Ly .1. L ince; fourth Sunday by H. V. Heed. 10:30 Sunday morning and 7:30 Sunday evening. Sunday Bchotrl at 12 o'clock; Kva Railsback Supt. Prayer meeting at 7:30 each Thursday exening, INI T E I) BROTH EH N . Sunday 930 a. m., class mating. 10:30 a. m., and 1'JSO p, m., preaching by the pastor. 11 :30 a. m., Sunday School. KjOO p. m. Junior Y. P.C. V. meeting. C:ti0 p. m., Senior Y. P. C V. meeting. A cordial tnvitalion is extended to the public. CATHOLIC CHURCH Church is beld on Sundays as foltoars: Pirst mass at 7:30 a m . second mass at 10 a. m. Vespers at 3 p. m. Week day mass at 7:4ö. Pat her .Moench pastor. ARE YOU ALIVE To tbo fiii t that all NMtMftd btiRinos- men

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