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n n n n n n :by: FRANCIS Copyright. 106. n CHAPTER XXV. Hoping always for the best, after the manner prescribed for optimistic gentlemen who successfully exploit their fellows. Mr. Duxbury Farley did not deem it necessary tu confide fully in his son when the representative of American Aqueduct broke off negotiations abruptly and went back to New York. When the comfortable arrangement with the pipe trust threatened to miscarry, all he did was to urge Vincent to hasten the day when Mlsa Dabney'a stock could be utilized as a Farley asBet. Pressed gor particular reasons, he turned It off lightly. A young man !n the fever of ante-nuptial expectancy was a mere pawn In the business game; let It be over and done with, so that the nominal treasurer of Chlawassee Limited could once more become the treasurer In fact Whereupon Vincent, who rode badly at best, bought a new saddle-horse and took his place at Miss Dabney'a whiphand in the early morning rides, the place formerly filled by Tom Gordon which was not the part of wisdom, one would say. Contrasts are pitiless things; and the wary woman-hunter will break new paths rather than traverse those already broken by bi rival. Tom, meanwhile, had apparently relapsed Into his former condition of disinterest, and was once more spending hi days on the mountain, seemingly bent on effacing himself socially, as he had been effaced business-wise by the Farley overturn. A week or more after the relapse, as he was crossing the road leading over the mountain's shoulder, he came on the morning riders walking their horses toward Paxadlsu, and saw trouble in Miss Dabney's eyes, and on Farley's Impassive face a mask of sullen anger. With the negotiations for thr sale to the trust so abruptly terminated, the promoter-president set instant and anxious inquiry afoot to determine the cause. It was soon revealed; and when Mr. Farley found that the pipe-pit patents had not been transferred with the Gordon plant, and that Major Dabney had given Caleb Gordon a power of attorney over Ardea's stock in the company, there were hard words siild in the town offices of Messrs. Trew'altt & Slocumb, Chlawassee attorneys, and a torrent of persuasive ones poured Into the Major's ear the latter pointing to the crying necessity for the revocation of the power of attorney, summarily and at ence. The Major proved singularly obstinate and non-committaL "Mlstah Caleb Gordon is my friend, suh, and I was mighty prcud to do him this small faveh. What his object Is makes no mannen of dlffence to me, suh; no mannen of dlffe'ence, whateveh.' was all an anxious promoter could get out of the old autocrat of Deer Trace. But Mr. Farley did not desist; neither d'd he fall to keep the telegraph wires to New York heated to Incandescence with his appeals fcr a renewal of the negotiations for surrender. When the- wired appeals brought forth nothing but evasive replies. Mr. Farley began to look for trouble, and It came: first in a mysterious closing of the market against Chlawassee pipe, and next -in an alarming advance of freight rats front Gordonla on tire Great Southwestern. Colonel Duxbury doubled his field force and gave his. travelers a frse hand on the price list. Persuasion and diplomacy having failed, a frenzy like that of one who finds himself slipping Into the sharp-staked pitfall prepared for others seized on him. It was the madness of those who have seen the clock hands stop and begin to turn steadily backward on the dial of success. Ten days later the freight rates went up another notch, and there began to "be a painful dearth of cars In which to hip the few orders the salesmen were till able to place. Mr. Farley shut his eyes to the portents, put himself recklessly Into Mr. Vancourt Ilenniker's hands as a borrower, and posted a notice of a slashing cut In wages at tha works. As a matter of course, the cut bred immediate and tumultuous trouble with the miners, and in the midst of It tho president made a. flying trip to New York; to the metropolis and to the offices of American Aqueduct to make a final appeal lu person. Eut the door was shut. Mr. Dracott was not to be seen, though his assistant was very affable. No; American Aqueduct was not trying to assimilate the smaller plants, )T to crush out afl competition, as the public seemed to believe. With fifty million dollars Invested It could easily control a market for Its own product, which was all the shareholders demanded. Was Mr. Farley in the city for some little time? and would he not dlae with the assistant at the Waldorf-Astoria? Mr. Farley took s. fast train, southbound, instead, and on reaching South Tredegar, wired his New York broker to test the market with a small block of Chiawassee Limited. There were no takers at the upset price; and the highest lId was less thin half of the asking. Colonel Duxbury was writing letters' at the Cupola when the broker's telegram was handed him. and he broke A rule which had held good for the better part of a cautious, self-conta!nd lifetime. The following morning the miners and all the white men employed In the furnace and foundries ani coke yards at Gordonla went on strike. Duxley Farley had resources, a comfortable fortune as country fortunes go, amassed by far-seeing shrewdness, a calm contempt for the well-being of his business associates, and most of'a'l by a crowning gift In the ability to recognize the psychological moment at which to let go. But under pressure or tne combined disasters he lost hl3 head, quarreled with his colder-blooded son. and In spite of Vincent's angry protests, began the suicidal process of turning his available assets into ammunition fo the fighting of a battle which could have but one possible outcome. Strike-t reakers were imported at fabulous expense. Armed guards under pay swarmed at the valley foot, and around the company's property elsewhere. By hook or crook the foundries were kept going, turning out waterpipe for which there was no market, and which, owing to the disturbances which were promptly made an excuse by the railway company, could not be tnoved out of the Chlawassee yard. Later, when the striking workmen began to grow hungry, riot, arson and bloodshed were nightly occurrences. A charging of coal, mined under the greatest difficulties, was conveyed to the coke yards, only to be destroyed and half of the ovens with It by dynamite cunningly blackened and dropped Into the charging. For want of fuel, the furnace went out of blast, but with the small store of coke remaining In the foundry yards, the pipe pits were kept at work, Dy this time the promoter-president was little better than a madman, fighting like a berserker, and breeding a certain awed reepect in the comment of those who had hitherto held him only as a shrewd chemer. And Thomas Jefferson: how did this return to primordial chaos, brought

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LYNDE by Francis Lyr.d n about in no uncertain sense by his own premeditated act, affect him? Only a man quite lost to all promptings of the grace that saves and softens could look unmoved on the burnings and rlotlngrs. the cruel wasting and the bloodlettings, one would say. When he was not galloping Saladln afar in the country roads to the landward side of Paradise, Tom Gordon was idling purposefully in the Leban m forests, with tha fowling-piece under his arm and Japhets Pettlgras' dog trotting soberly at heel, as carefree, to all appearances, as a schootboy home for a holiday. It was on an evening a fortnight after the furnace had gone out of blast for lack of fuel that Caleb followed his son out on the veranda. The Indian summer was still at Its best, and since the early frssts there had been a return of dry weather and mild temperatures, with warm, soft nights when the blue haze seemed to hold all objects in suspension. Tom had pushed out a chair for his father, when he suddenly became aware that the still air was once more thrumming and murmuring to the familiar orb and sigh of the great furnace blowing-engines. He started up quickly. "What's that?" he demanded. "Surely they haven't blown in again?" I reckon so. Colonel Duxbury allowed to me this mornin that he was about out o' the woods in spite of you, he said; as if you'd been the one that was doin' him up." "But he can't be!" exclaimed Tom. so earnestly and deflnlxely that the mask fell away and the father was no longer deceived. "I'm only tellln you what he allowed to me, son. I reckoned he was about all In. quite a spell ago; but you can't tell nothing by what you see when it's Colonel Duxbury. He got two carloads o new men to-day, and he's shippln' Pocahontas coke, and gettla it here, too." "You feaxed me a little at first; but I think I know now what has happened." Caleb took time to let the remark sink in. It carried inferences. "Buddy. I been suspectin for a good while back that you know more about this sudden smash-up than you've let on. Do you?" "I know all about it." was the quiei rejoinder. "You dot Tom held up his hand for silence. A man liad let himself in at the roadway gate and was walking rapidly up the path to the house. It was Norman; and after a few hurried words in private with Tom. he went as he had come, declining Caleb's Invitation to stay. When the gate latch clicked at Norman's outgoing, Tom had risen and was knocking the ash from his pipo and buttoning his coat. "I was admitting that I knew," ue said. "I can tell you more now that I could a moment ago, because the time for which I have been waiting has come. You remarked that you thought the Farleys were at the end of their rope. They were not until to-day, but to-day they are. Every piece of property they have. Including Warwick Lodge, is mortgaged to the hilt, and this afernoon Colonel Duxbury put his Chiawassee stock Into Ilenniker's hands as security for a final loan so Norman tells me. Perhaps it would interest you a trifle to know something about the figure at which Hennlker accepted it" "It would, for a fact. Buddy." "Well, he took it for less than the annual dividend that It earned the year we ran the plant; and between us two. he's scared to death, at that." "Why, Buddy, son! we're plum ruined and so's old Major Dabney!" "Don't you worry, pappy. Our part, since Colonel Duxbury saw fit to freeze us out. is to say nothing and saw wood. If the Major comes to you, you can tell him that my word to him holds good: he can have par for Ardea's stock any time he wants it, and he could have it Just tne same If Chlawassee were wiped off the map as It's going to be." "But Tom; tell me " "Not yet, pappy; be patient Just a little while longer and you shall know all there Is to tell. I'm leaving you with a clean conscience to say to any one who asks that you don't know." Caleb had struggled up out of his chair, and now he laid a hand on his son's shoulder. "I ain't askin', Buddy," he said, with a tremulous quaver In his voice; "I ain't askin' a livln thing. I'm Just ahopln' hopln' I'll wake up bime-by and find it's on'y a bad dream." Then, with sudden and agonizing emphasis: "They been butcherin' one 'nother down yonder for four leng weeks!" "I can't help that!" was the savage response. "It's a battle to the death, and the smoke of It has got Into my blood. If I believed in God, as I used to once, I'd be down on my knees to Him this minute, asking Him to let me live long enough to see these two hypocritical thieves thugs sandbaggers hit the bottom!" He turned away, walked to the north nd of the veranda, where the flare of lie rekindled furnace was redly vislbl? f r the knolls, and presently came back. "I said you should know after a little: you may as well know not. I planned this thing; I set out to breax: them; and, as it happened, I wasn't a moment too soon. In another week you and Major Dabney would have had a chance to sell out for little or nothing, or lose It all. Farley had it fixed to be swallowed by the trust, and this is how it was to be done. Farley stipulated that the stock transaction should figure as a forced sale at next to nothing, in which all the stockholders should participate, and that the remainder of the purchase price, which would have been a fair figure for all the stock, should be paid to him and his son Individually as a bonus!" The old Iron-master groaned. In spite of the hard teaching of all the years, he would have clung to some poor shadow of belief In Duxbury Farley if he could have done so. "That's all," Tom went on, stridently; "all but the turning of the trick that put them In the hole they were digging for you and the Major. Vint Farley had no notion of letting Ardea bring her money Into the family of her own free will: he planned to rob her first and marry her afterward. Now I'm going down to tell them both what they're up against! Don't sit up for He had taken a dozen strides down the graveled path when he saw some one coming hurriedly across the lawns from Deer Trace, and heard a voice the voice of the woman he loved calling to him softly in the stillness: "Tom! O Tom!" is said, "please wait Just one minute!" But there are emotions mightier, momentarily, than love, and vengeance Is one. He made as If he did not see or hear; and lest she should overtake him, left the path to lose himself among the trees and to vault the low boundary wall Into the pike at a point safely out of sight from the gate. (To be continued.)

E London Suburb Soon to Witness Unique Attempt. Combine Privacy and Exclusiveness, So Dear to Heart of Every Englishman, With All Other Advantages. London. A garden village, situated on a tableland some 300 feet above sea level as high as St. Paul's cathedral In one of London's prettiest and healthiest northern raburbs, and not more than seven miles d stant from Charing Cross, is on tbe point of making its successful debut as a pioneer housing scheme. The plan win combine the privacy and exclusiveness of home, so dear to the heart of the average Englishman, with all the advantages, economical and otherwise, of co-operative housekeeping. On the beautifully wooded estate of Brent Lodge, consisting of 24 acres. It Is proposed to build houses, allowing six only to the acre, which will permit of a fairly large garden for each house, at rentals of from 33 ($175) to 60 ($300) a year, together with three quadrangles of flats. In addition, largo spaces will be reserved for the tenants, who must also be shareholders in the enterprise, as recreation grounds. Every house will bo fitted with an appliance for constant hot-water service, electric wiring and power for vacuum cleaning, ind many other advantages and economies jwlll result to thr tenants. , The old mansion of Brent Lodge, standing in a spacious center of lawns stretching under wide-spreading cedars, will be preserved .as a clubhouse, dining hall and "center of general reunion." Here meals will be served in the three big reception rooms, opening one into the other, from which a charming view of the surrounding gardens and trees can be obtained. By this means domestic labor will be reduced to a minimum and the servant problem satisfactorily solved. In addition to a co-operative kitchen, there will be a co-operative WOMEN IN Mrs. Murphy-Mulügan, Real Estate Operator, Against It. Physical Limitations Are Too Great and They Are Almost Certain to Lose Ideals Necessary for Home Life. New York. Mrs. Agnes MurphyMulligan, the only woman member of the Real Estate exchange, has announced her retirement from business after 30 years of money making. She doesn't believe that women should go into business. Their physical limitations are too great and they are almost certain, she says, to lose the Ideals that are necessary for home life and the upbringing of children. Mrs Murphy-Mulligan began to sell real estate up In the Bronx when the borough was little built up. Her father was William Jay Murphy, one of the pioneers in developing the Bronx and an active real estate man. His daughter studied law at the New York law school and was graduated when bhe wns sixteen years old. Her father died, end the care of an invalid mother fell to Agnes. She took up her father's business where he dropped it and became one of the best known real estate dealers in New York city. She was among the first women who ever took up a business career In this city, and in 30 years she subdivided and developed large sections of the Bronx. Her husband Is William G. Mulligan. "ThirJ'y years of business," she said, "has convinced me that woman's sphere ii home and motherhood, not business. I have five girls, the oldest seventeen years, the youngest two months, and I should consider it the greatest calamity If one of them went into business. I did it because I had to. It was necessary to take up my father's work. Perhaps I have been more fortunate than most women in finding chivalry among men. "As things are today I do not think that women should be in business. They are not satisfied with ordinary success. They insist on going on and making fools of themselves by wanting to vote and compete with men Instead of helping men. They have a place in the business world, but they should not go away from home to find it. They can remain at home and be partners with their husbands. The most successful business women are married women. Women defeat their own ends by becoming competitors. "In 30 years I have seen many business women, and one thing has impressed Itself on me. As soon as women get wrapped up in business they forget their homes. They have no longing for home or motherhood. Most women in business lose their ideals. A girl who maps out a business career maps out a career of unjhappiness. "The most powerful argument 'against women in business is their physical limitations. Their chances of success are remote, because they are not physically fit to compete with men. That cannot be gainsaid any more than the theory I have formed that a woman, to be In business, must be untrue either to herself or to

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NEW YORK CAR TRAVEL BIG

More Than Billion Passengers Car ried Yearly by City' Trans portatlon Lines. New York. That New York's elevated, surface and underground car lines are now handling traffic equivalent to ten rides a year for every man, woman and child in the country is disclosed by experts In the subway report Just issued for the last year. More than 1,000,000,000 passengers. It Is stated, have been carried during the last twelve months, of which, the .Subway accounts for more than half, with 663,000,000. For the population of this corner tf the state this means that each one of the 5,000,000 took about 200 rides last year. Figuring that the average length of each ride is two miles a low estimate when the long hauls to the northern part of the city and to Brooklyn are taken into consideration the enormous total of 2,000,000.000 passenger miles were traveled last year.

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THE khedive of Egypt recently visited the Sultan of Turkey, his nominal suzerain, and was a spectator at the naval review. The sultan went to meet the khedive in his yacht Ertogrul and treated his guest with every consideration, but the efforts of the Egyptian ruler to gain the sultan's consent to the setting aside of his eldest son in favor of the son of his Hungarian wife were futile. France and England opposed the plan, seeing in it a scheme of Germany.

nursery and laundry and a co-operative staff of servants. Those tenants who prefer to do their own catering, instead of "dining out, and to keep their own servants, will, of course, be at liberty to do so, as entire freedom of action Is one of the results aimed at. It will be seen that the scheme is not in any sense a land speculation or a philantbroplc enterprise, but a practical effort on the part of its initiator and actual working secretaryMrs. Alice Melvin to cope with some of the difficulties that beset the lives of people with strictly limited means. It Is estimated that a capital of from 70,000 to 80,000 ($350,000 to $400,000) will be required for the Brent, Garden Village estate, but onethird of that amount wilf suffice for the initial outlay. As mentioned above, all tenants must be bhareholders and copartners In the scheme. "In this way," said Mrs. Melvin, who told the correspondent, "that she used to think and think and BUSINESS . her employer to her employer if she thinks about a future with a home in it; to herself if she does net. "Natural aptitude and lc ve for the work may bring success, but the fact that there are bo few women in the real estate field seems to prove that women have neither for this kind of work." Mrs. Murphy-Mulligan has one more sale of lots to handle before she takes down her 6ign. CURE FOR FRUITLESS TREE After Stiff Dose of Calomel Hitherto Sterile Plant Yields Prolifically Big Results. Lincoln, Del. That a dose of calomel is as good for a sick tree as for a sick man Is the curious doctrine worked out by William Morrison, nation agent here, who claims practical results to prove his assertion. Morrison has a large plum tree In front of his house. For years the tree has borne but few plums, never over one or two quarts. A faithful believer in calomel for the ills of men, Morrison determined to try his favorite remedy on the tree, and last fall bored a hole in the tree and into this hole inserted a spoonful of the medicine and then plugged the hole up tight. The result has been wonderful, for the tree that hardly bore enough plums to give It a name bore several hundred quarts of fruit.

MIXING ART AND VEGETABLES

Room in Swell London Restaurant Set Apart for Serving Vegetarians Wines on Bill. London. The modest vegetarlant or the niodester still fruitarian, or anybody else who wants art as well as food at dinner time, will rejoice to know that at last a restaurant Is to be opened "where every prospect pleases, and only man is vile." The name of the Criterion has hitherto been associated in the minds of most people with choice grills, dainty hors d'oeuvres, and tender joints. But a sanctuary is being prepared in the. west room of the restaurant, and there nothing so coarse as meat will be allowed to penetrate. It is to be a temple of fruit and vegetables. The man who lives on nuts and cabbage will be able to order a lunch at tho Criterion in future without encountering the pitying smile of a gentleman with a large steak ir front of him. There will be no Juicy chops to make the fruitarian shudder. Instead the visitor will revel in cucumbers stuffed with mushrooms, hoptips seethed in cream, artichokes powdered with rich grated cheese and all the other dainties dear to the vegetarian Lucullus. There will be wines. It remains to be seen whether anything so vulgar as beer will be admitted into the temple of artistic dining. But the idea is to be carried further than thl3. Not only will every entree be a poem, every savory a symmetrical wonder ;"every waitress will be a priestess of art. clad in a princess Thus, were one person to do all the riding represented by this figure, he would be able to make 80,000 trips around the earth, 4,000 round trips to the moon or eleven complete trips to the sun and return. Moving at the rate of a mile a minute without ever stopping, it would, however, take him 3,800 years to use up this mileage, so that if such a trip Lad been started at the beginning of the Christian era it would still be only half completed. Wise Old Pig. New Castle. Del. John Camether a farmer who serves bis products in this city, has a pig that performs etunts that would put the average circus pig to shame. To obtain apples the animal walks some distance from the tree it selects and then starts on a run jumps into the air, and, catching a limb in Its mouth, hangs on and shakes down the fruit. If he is watched he will perform the Eame trick several times before he is satisfied.

think," until her thoughts finally crystallized and resolved themselves into the present scheme; "it is hoped that much of the drudgery inseparable from tbe life of the average woman with small means will be done away with and that she will have more leisure to devote to the training of her children, or, if intellectually inclined, to lead her own life and develop it along those lines which most peculiarly appeal to her. A civilized home khould not need all the hours between waking and sleeping to keep it going." Proof that the scheme is filling" a long-felt want is seen in the fact that between thirty and forty houses were booked before the purchase of the estate was settled. Brent Lodge, it Is Interesting to note, was originally only a cottage on Finchley Common, and it grew and grew and was added to until it finally became the home for a time o! the late Baroness Burdett-Coutts, during whose tenancy the duke of Well ington stayed there. WOMEN STILL FAVOR HANSOM Americans Shopping in London Do Not Like Way Taxis Count up Spoils Pleasure. London. American women shopping in London this season have brought grist to the mill of the needy drivers of hansoms who have been badly hit by the popularity of the taxicabs. American women have discovered that the hansom cab Is the cheapest vehicle in which to go shopping. "It's the women who want the hansoms for an hour or two's shopping." said a Strand hotel porter "They know where they are with a hansom; half a crown an hour ia the rate they pay. But a taxi goes flickering on twopences all the time and it makes up at least four shillings an hour, even while it's standing still. The women feel the 'pleasure of shopping is spoilt when there is a machine outside making them pay for every second of It." ' Snake Poison for Epilepsy. New York. Rattlesnake venom as a cure for epilepsy is being tested by New York and Philadelphia surgeons. Preliminary reports show that the venom has resulted In marked benefit to all the patients treated. Tho venom treatment was discovered accidentally, as a result of a snake bite suffered by an epileptic in Texas. "The venom, when given hypodermically," says Dr. Ralph Spangler, "makes a profound impresion on the nervous system." robe of the most delicate shade ol mauve. The black dress and white cuffs, which are seen at places where men go merely to feed, will never mar the artistic harmonies of the new home ol lunches de luxe. Opera All Night. Mexico City. "Cavalerla Rustlcana" and "II PagllaccI," starting at 11 o'clock at night and finishing neai dawn, is an unusual feature of grand opera to obtain during the first Mex lean grand opera season, inauguratec" the other night with the production ol "Alda." The house for the performance hai been bought outright by the Mexlcar Federal authorities, and will be throwr open for the entertainment of repre sentatlves of the 39 foreign govern ments present in the capital in ronse quenco of the independence celebra tion. Beer Keg Fish story. Wilkesbarre, Pa. Friends of Clerh of Courts R. M. Keiser, who has re turned from Lake WInola, where he was fishing, declare that he made a phenomenal catch. Getting a bite, he pulled hard, but could not budge his line for some time. Then he slowly hauled to the surface a beer keg. A small bass had taken his bait and had dashed through the bunghole ol the keg in an effort to escape. Anx lous to get the fish, Keiser broke open the keg and was surprised to find iu it a 15 inch pike. Dumb Man Protests at Hat London. At the Theater Roral Dublin, during a performance of "Tho Dollar Princess." a young man seated In the circle behind a woman wearing an enormous hat attracted some attention immediately after the curtain rose by vigorously gesticulating with his hands. Finding that his dumb motions were of no avail the man took a card from hla pocketbook. After hastily scribbling on it he handed it tn h I young woman, who read the words. m tauuvi oywan word please remove your hat" The young woman immediately removed her hat. Canada Wheat Yield. Washington. The western' fields of Canada, in Manitoba. Saskatchewan and Alberta, yielded in tie last season 102,000,000 busheU of wheat according to a report to this fovernment by Consul General John B. Jon 0f Winnipeg, and la considered a good ctod IaW Of the Ucht mlnf.11. .. " S,u 7, aa outer .condition, mo rop lrM yyQ j bushels Iwfl thaa th cr cf 3

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j What to Do 1 Before the 1 Doctor Comes In general, poisons may be divided into two classes, (1) corrosive or irritant poisons, those which Injure a perjson or cause death by their local action of destroying the tissues; (2) 'nervoufe or systemic poisons, those Iwhich produce their ill effects by their action on the nervous system at large. Some of the more common irritant poisons are: 1. Arsenic, in its various forms as white arsenic, Paris green, rat-poisons, poison fly paper, and various vermin exterminators; 2. Carbolic acid (phenol) which, although probably among the most irritating of poisons and producing death after the "most agonizing suffering, is, strange ;to say, very frequently selected for the purpose of committing suicide; 3. Phosphorus, which is found in various rat-poisons and in match heads ; 4. Strong acids such as sulphuric, muriatic, and nitric acids; and 5. Strong alkalies as caustic soda, caustic potash, lime, lye and strong ammonia. Among the systemic poisons are: 1. Opium, in its various forms as morphine, codeine, laudanum, paregoric, and black drop; 2. strychnine; 3. belladonna; 4. alcohol, which although so commonly used, is nothing more nor tfess than a poison, and in the quantities usually taken, produces Its effects by really poisoning the system; 5. ptomains, which are formed in spoiled or partially decayed foodstuffs. The poisons produce their Injurious and sometimes fatal results In various ways. The Irritant poisons all have a destructive action on the tissues wfth which they come in contact. If left In the stomach or intestines for any length of time, they are very liable to perforate their walls and so set up a peritonitis, which is very frequently fatal. If perforation does not occur, the scar tissue which forms where the normal tissue has been destroyed, always contracts in time, and may do so to such an extent that an obstruction to the digestive tracv may be the result. Some of the systemic poisons kill by over stimulation, others by depressing the vital functions and others by paralyzing them. There are a few poisons which are at the same time both irritant and systemic In their actions. The diagnosis of poisoning is sometimes very difficult, but at other times it la quite evident If after taking something either as medicine or food the person suddenly begins to feel very much different from what he did a few minutes before, poisoning should be thought of. Sometimes there are pains in the abdomen, sometimes convulsions or spasms, sometimes an lrresistahle drowsiness or unconscious

Antidotes for Soma Poisons

Arsenic, when taken in poisonous (loses, produces. In half an hour, pains n the abdomen, often vomiting thirst, pften purgation and sometimes nervpus shock and unconsciousness. The antidotes are milk, eggs, or best of nil freshly prepared ferric hydrate, a chemical that is made by mixing tincture of ferric chloride with ammonia (spirits of hartshorn) or calcinated magnesia. The resulting substance should be washed two or three times by placing in a cloth and running water through it. These two substances go under the official name of "forri oxidium hydratum cum magnesia, and can be procured at most drug stores. Carbolic acid, if taken in too large doses or in concentrated form, causes white burned places on the Hps and Inside the mouth, or any place that It touches the skin. It causes intense pain in the mouth, throat and abdomen. The odor Is very characteristic and may lead one to a diagnosis. It is a heart depressant and if enough has been taken, the person soon goes Into a stage of collapse and unconsciouspess. , The antidotes are alcohol in pome form (whisky or wine or diluted alcohol) given in large quantities and then promptly vomited. In other words, wash out the stomach with alcohol. Lime water, magnesia and eggs are of some benefit and should be given if no alcohol is obtainable. Of course the general treatment of poisoning, as to stimulants, etc., must be carried out. Phosphorus Is a local irritant, causing burning of the throat and pains in the abdomen and sometimes vomiting. None of these symptoms may show until three or four hours after the poison has been taken. The odor of wet niatchheads may be detected and the vomited material will sometimes give off a pale light (fluoresce) In the dark. The antidotes are crude turpentine and magnesia in milk, and hydrogen peroxide. Do not give oil of any kind as It forms a compound with the phosphorus that is more quickly absorbed. The strong acids cause death by destroying tho tissues, giving severe inflammation and swelling of the throat and perforating the stomach or Intestines. The antidotes are dilute alkalies of sc ne kind as weak ammonia, soapsuds, magnesia, chalk, lime water.. Raw eggs may also be given, the burning of the mouth and throat Is slightly relieved by oily liquids, as small doses of sweet oil, olive oil, or castor oil. These can be taken Jn any case of poisoning where there Is burning of the throat, except In phosphorus poisoning. With Bernard Six miles south of Dinard (Illet-et-Vilalne), on passing through the village of Pleurtult, and descending into the deep valley of Fremur, the visitor finds Crochais ponds, a widening of the river in a romantic spot, between wooded slopes whose dark verdure is reflected In the somber waters. The whole valley being private property, dependent upon the neighboring castle of Crochais, which dominates the hills, would-be visitors are directed to apply at the mill, whose great wheel is turned by the waters of tbe first pond. Tho miller pockets bis gratuity, points out the intricate path that must be followed, then calls "Bernard," and, indicating the visitors, tells Bernard to go with them. Bernard Is the dog that acts as guide In order to save the miller the journey and explanations. The dog trots quietly along in front of those intrusted to his care, and, if they take a by-path, he stops and waits till they rejoin him. The walk is f.bout a mile as far as the second Dond. where it terminates. Bernard

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By DR. W. H. BAILEY of the Kansas Unhersity Medical School at Rosedale z9 ness. Irritant poisons often leave stains and burned places upon the lips and inside the mouth. Often the label upon the bottle or box, in the case of medicine' will show one what has been taken. The odor of the breath, or of vomited matter will sometimes help to make a diagnosis. Often the patient himself Is able to inform you as to what he has taken. Although poisons are usually taken into the body by way of the digestive tract, it must not be forgotten that they can be breathed Into the lungS in the form of poisonous gases. It W also possible to be poisoned, in some cases, by absorbing the substance through the skin in large enough quantities to produce the Injurious effects. William H. Bailey, A. B., M. D.. Kansas University School of Medicine, RosedaJe. Cuff Müllers. The most curious article In th tramp's outfit bears an appropriately odd name the "cuff muzrler." It consists of the leg of an old stocking cu1 up Into short lengths and worn ovei the wrist like a thick mitten, and iti object Is to increase the clrcumfer ence of the wrist to such an extent that a constable cannot easily slip a handcuff over It. Indeed a pair of "cuff murzlers" which are worn by none save veteran roadsters make It very difficult foi a constable alone and unaided to hand cuff their wearer. Tramps' tools beal puzzling names. Particularly cryptic ii "fiddle," the term for a big nail carried by the "spike ranger" or itinerant whe goes from one casual ward to the next Should he fall Into the hands of th police it is used in "oakum worrying,' that is, separating the strands of - hard rope. Swimming by Machinery. A ten-pound swimming machine thai may be packed in a suit case is thi invention of a Frenchman. It is fl safe and rapid semi-craft for the mai who swims or the man who doesn't At the front of the apparatus is a cy llndrical metal float, with conical point and a depending rudder. At the real Is another, metal float, with stlrrupä acting upon a propeller, the two endl connected by a wooden bar on which the swimmer lies as if on the water, Kicking with his feet and alternate ly pushing and pulling with a crosl handle bar just back of the forward float, the swimmer on the swimmlnj machine gets a maximum of exercis while making a speed impossible it the ordinary swimmer on the oper water. Strong alkalies have very slmilai effects to 6trong acids. The antldotel are weak acids, as vinegar, lemot juice, etc. The giving of oil often re lieves the pain considerably. Opium, in any of Its forms, if taker In sufficient doses, causes stupor, con tracted pupils of the eyes and slow respiration, followed by a deep heavj sleep and unconsciousness. The antl dotes are large quantities of potassium permanganate in weak solution used to wash out the stomach, 01 strong tea used in a similar manner The patient must not be allowed to gc to sleep. Giving strong black coffee at frequent intervals, slapping with wet towels and frequent shocking with an electric battery will assist iC keeping him awake. Artificial respira tion may sometimes be necessary. Strychnine, the active principle in nux vomica, causes pains in th stomach, spasms or convulsions ana death by over stimulation of the mu cles of respiration. It has a bittei taste even in very small quantities. The antidotes are a weak solution ol potassium permangate, or large amounts of tea, used to wash out the stomach. The patient must be kept absolutely quiet In a darkened room Chloral and ppstassium bromide injection often aid in the treatment. Belladonna and its derivative, atropine, cause flushed face, dryness ol throat, dilated pupils of eyes, deliriunj and unconsciousness. The antldotel are strong tea or some other solution containing tannic acid, and potassium permanganate solutions to wash oui the stomach. ' Ptomaines give pains In the abdomen with vomiting and purging. There are no special antidotes, but the stom' ach should be emptied and a purgative given. Stimulation is sometimes nee essary.- b Defect in American Law. In a letter published in the Syracuse Post-Standard, former Ambassador Andrew D. White speaks vigorously on the subject of "the chicanery, pettifoggery and folly in the defense of criminals." He says that "homicides have increased within fifteen years from two thousand a year to nearly ten thousand, placing us by far in the lead of all civilized nations In thU respect," and that there were capital convictions In only about seventy cases last year. "The immediate cause of the whole of this state of things, with constaotly Increased disrespect of law, Is, in' my opinion," adds Mr. WTiite, "a hind of sickly sentiment pervading the whole country on this subject." for a Guide goes no further. If one tries to continue, it is at his own risk and peril. Bernard will not budge from the spot, but squats down or carries on a flirtation at the second mill until one returns. As soon as he sees the visitor returning, Bernard runs along the path back to the first pond, and, without repassing the mill where the visitor was committed to his charge, he conducts him directly to the road for Pleurtuit. Then, when he sees the visitor set off on foot or in a carriage, ho turns his back and trots off home, and no amount of persuasion will induce him to accompany anyone farther on the road. Tho American Boy. Scotch Bank Note Issue. The Scotch note Issue is at present based on a filed amouut of 2.700.000 beyond which all issues shall be pro tected by specie. Production of Salt. Great Britain pi educes i.öüö.OOÖ tons of salt a yvw, all Europe less than llvo raiUIuo.

BANKERS KNEW THEIR MAN ti His Customary Condition, and Ne Further Identification Was Necessary. One day a big city bank received ,he following message from one of iti Country correspondents: "Pay $25 to John Smith, who will call today.- The cashier's curiosity became suspicion when a cabman assisted Into the bank a drunken "fare" who shouted that he was John Smith and wanted some money. Two clerks pushed, pulled and piloted the boisterous individual into a private room away from the sight and hearing of regular depositors. The cashier Hvired the country bank: "Man claiming to be John Smith Is here. Highly intoxicated. Shall we await identification!" The answer read: "Identification complete. Pay the money." Succesa Magazine.

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