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7 /Fife 4a 1W O« ' ««^f Xvw/x M JR&O) W WtfM fl Wj 4 £ ' -T mMr* /r*i I J ^^l jg ^**SSSa2r'^ CHAPTER XVll—Continued. Ah they approached Marchbrook Mr. Wyatt began to talk about the Benedictines and their vanished monastery. He had found out all about it in the county history —its founder, the extent of its lands, the character of its architecture. “That arenne must be GO) years old,” he said, as he came in sight of the tall elms. “By Jove! that’s queer,” cried Sir Thomas, pulling out his ra :e glass. “A fellow jumt el out of that balcony, like Romeo in the play. “Except that Romeo never scaled the balcony,” said Mr. Wyatt. “That summer-house belongs to Davenant, doesn’t it, Gilbert? Our friend’s m de of exit suggests a flirtation between one of your guests and somebody at Marchbrook. ” “There’s nobody at Marchbrook but old Clanyarde and Sir Cyprian Davenant,”said Sir Thomas, “and I’ll lay any odds you like it wasn't Lord Clanyarde jumped off that balcony.” Gilbert took the glass from his J friend’s hand without a word. The man who had jumped off the balcony was still in sight, walking at a 'eisurely pace across the wide alley of turf between the two rows of trees. The glass brought him near enough for recognition, and Mr. Sinclair had no ; doubt as to his identity. “If you lay onto those leaders like that, you’ll have this blessed machine in the ditch,” cried Sir Thomas Houndslow. “ What is the matter with you? The horses are stepping like clock-work.” “Juno was breaking into a cantor, ” said Gilbert, coloring. “Steady, old lady; steady, steady.” “She's steady enough," sad Sir Thomas; “I think it s you that are wild. Memorandum, don't drink kirschen wasser after champagne when you’re going to drive a team of youug horses.” Mi - . Sinclair took the curve by the park gates in excellent style, despite this insinuation, and pulled up before the old Gothic porch with workmanlike precision. “There’s a pretty bit of feather-edg-ing, ” said Sir Thomas, approvingly. Gilbert did not wait to see his friencs alight, but flung the i eins to one of the grooms and walked off without a word to any one. He was at the summer-house ten minutes afterward, flushed and breathless. having iun all the way. A flight i of stone steps, moss-grown and broken, led up to the door of the temple. Gilbert Sinclair tried the door and found it locked. “Is there any cne in there?" ho asked, shaking the crazy old door savagely. “Who is that?” inquired Constance. “Your husband.” He heard her light footsteps coming toward the door. She opened it, and faced him on the threshold, with neither surprise nor fear in her calm, questioning face. “Is there anything the matter, Gilbert? Am I wanted?” “There is not much the matter, and I don t know that you are wanted in m. house,” answered her husband, savagely. “It seems to me that your vocation is elsewhere.” His flushed face, the angry light in his red drown eyes, tod her that there was meaning in his reply, incomprehensible a; it seemed. “I don’t understand you, Gilbert. What has happened to make you angry?” “Not much, perhaps. It’s bad form to make a fuss about it. But lam vulgar en ugh to think that when my wife plays Juliet to somebody else’s Romeo, it is time she should call herself by some other name than mine, which she * omtrc the m^e^f of that astonish A nV. TW *-w piece of finished acting is thrown away upon me. I saw your lover leave you. ” “Mr. Sinclair!” with a look of unspeakable indignation. “Yes your gentle Romeo forgot that th s summer-house is seen from the high-road. I saw him, I tell vou, wo ran—l saw him leap down from the balcony—identified him with my fieldglass—not that I had any doubt who your visitor was.” “I am sorry that you should he so angry at my seeing an old friend for a few minutes, Gilbert, and that you should make so very innocent an act an excuse for insulting me.” “An old friend—a friend whom you meet cladestinely—in an out-of-the-way corner of the park—with locked do >rs." “I have spent all my mornings here of late. I lock my door in order to be undisturbed, so that anybody happening t) come this way may believe the summer-house empty. “Anyone except Sir Cyprian Da venant. He would know better.” “Sir Cyprian's presence here to-day was the merest accident. He heard me singing, and climbed up to the balcony to say a few kind words about my bereavement, which he knows to be the one absorbing thought of my mind just now. No friend, no brother, could have come with kinder or purer meaning. He gave me good advice; he warned me that tl.e e was selfishness and folly in giving way to sorrow. Not one word was spoken which you might not have freely heard, Gilbert, which you would not have approved.” “Could any woman in your position pay less? You ail sing the same song.

Once having male up your mind to betray your husband, the rest is a matter of detail, and there is a miserable sameness in the details. Do y< u think anything you can say—oaths, tear —will ever convince me that you did not come here on purpose to meet that man, or that ha came here to preach you a sermon upon your duty to me?” “Gilbert, as I stand here before God, who sees and hears me, I have told you the truth. We have made a sad mi - take in marrying: there are few things in which we sympathize; even cur groat sorrow has i ot brought us nearer togethe ■; but if you will only bo patient, if you will be kind and true* to me, I will still try even more earnestly than I have done yet to make you a go d wife, to make your homo life happy. ” she came to him with a sad sweet smite, and laid her hand gently on his shoulder, looking up at him with earnest eyes, full of truth and purity, could he but have understood their meaning. Alas! to his dogged, brutal nature purity like this was incomprehensible. Facts were against his wife, and be had no belief in her t> sustain him against the facts. Th-© lion of fable might recognize Una’s> purity and lie down at her feet, but Gilbert Sinclair was a good deal more like the lion of reality, a by no moans magnanim us beast, who waits till he can [ ounce up n his enemy alone in a solitary corner, and has a prudent dread of numbers. As the little hand a ighted tremulously on his breast, Gilbert Sinclair raised his clenched fist. “Let me alone,” be cried. “You’ve made your ch ice. ” And then camo a word which had never before been spoken in Constance Sincla'r s he ring, but which some instinct of her woman’s heart told her meant deep st infamy. i She recoiled from him with a little cry, and t en fell like a log at h s feet. Lest that brutal word should too weakly express an cutrage 1 husband’s wrath, Mr. Sinclair had emphasized it with a blow. That muscular fi tof i is, trained in many an encounter with p o- ; fessors of the noble art of telf-defeuse, had been driven straight at his wife's forehead, and nothing but the man's blind ury prevented the blow being mo’ tai. In Intention, at least, ho had been for the moment a murderer. His breath came thick and fast as ho stood over that lifeless form. “Have 1 killed 1 er?" he asked himself. “She deserves no better fate. But I had rather kill him." CHAPTER XVIII. CYPRIAN S VISITOR. Sir Cyprian Davenant left Marchbrook an hour after his interview with Constance Sinclair. He sent his man j home with the portmanteai s and guncases, and went straight to his c üb, where he dine 1. It was between eight and nine when ho walked to his chambers through the snowy streets. The walk through the rough weather suited his present temper. He cou d have walked many a mile across Yorkshire moor that night in toe endeavor to walk down the anxious thoughts that crowded upon his mind. His interview with Constance -like all such meetings between those whom i Fate has irrevocably parted -had deepened the gloom of his soul, and aided to the bitterness of his regrets. It had brought the past near to him. and made the inevitable harder to bear than it had seemed yesterday. He had seen all the eld loveliness in the innocent face, changed though it was. Ho had heard a l the old music in the unforgotten voice. To what end? That brief greeting across the iron grate of Destiny's prison-house only made it more agonizing to think of the long future in which these two, who had so met and touched hands across the gulf, must live their separated lives in silent patience. The snow lay thick in the quiet turning out < f the Strand. Tie re was a hansom standing at the corner by Sir Cyprian’s chambers, the horse hanging his head with a dejected air under hiwhiten d rug, the man i tamping up and down the pavement, and flapping his arms acro.-s his chest. The cab m st have been waiting some time, Sir Cyprian thought idly. His chambers were on the first floor, large and lofty rooms facing the river. Since his inheritance of Colonel Gryffin's fortune he had indulged himself with that one luxury dear to men who love books, a well-arrang,.d library. This bachelor pied-a-terre suited him^. better than lodging m o faAffig* uu.o quarter. It was central, and out of tho way of his fashionable acquaintances— an ineligible feature which was to his mind an attraction. Sir Cyprian admitted himself with his Ist h key, and went up the dimly lighted staircase. He opened the outer door of his library, within which massive oak barrier there hung a heavy j crimson cloth curtain, shutting <ut : noise and draught. This curtain had l been dragged aside, and left hanging I in a heap at one end of the rod, in a | I very different style from the usual neat . arrangement of folds left by the midj dle-aged valet. The room was almost in darkness, for the fire had burned low upon the hearth. There was just light enough j to show Sir Cyprian a figure sitting by ■! the lire in a brooding attitude, alone j and in the dark. । Who s that?” asked Sir Cyprian. : i The man started up, a big’ man, tall I and br<ad-shouldered, whom for the ■ : first moment Sir Cyprian took for a > stranger. I “I should have thought vou would ■ j have known Constance Sinclair's husi band anywhere,” said the intrude-. ' I “You and I have reason to remember j L each other.” “I keg your pardon, Mr. Sinclair.” ' | Cyprian answered, quietly, without j i noticing the sneer; “but as I do not I I posse s the gift of seeing in the dark, I | you can hardly wonder at my being - slow to recognize you.” j He was not going to invite a quarrel i with this man—nay, he would rather ; avoid one at the loss of some personal t dignity, for Constance’s sake. He l went up to the hearth where Gilbert had resumed his seat, and put his hand i on the bell. “Don't ring for lights,” said. Sinclair.

“What I have to say can be said in the ' dark.” “Perhaps. But I prefer to ^eo a ’ man s face when I am talking to him. I May I,ask t^hat lam indebted for 1 this unexpected p easure? I thought you were at Davenant?” “I left by the train after that in which you traveled. ” The, wn camo in with a lighted lamp, which he placed on the table in front of the fire—a large carved oak table, loaded, with classic volumes and P nderous lexicons; for a wealthy student Is rarely content with a single lexicogi aphers definition. Having set down the lamp, the valet replenished the exhausted, fire with that deliberate care so peculiar to a servant who is slightly curious about his master's gue.-t, and finally retired, with soft footfall, shutting the door after him very slowly, as if he expected to-gathor something at the last moment, from the visitor’s impatience to break covert. P In this case, however, the valet retired without hearing a word. Gilbert Sinclair sat staring at the fire, and seemed in no hurry to state Ms busi- I ne-s. He could not fly at his enemy’s j threat like a tiger, and that w&s about the only thing to which hh spirit moved him at this moment. Looking at his visitor by the soft, clcar’iight of . the lamp, bir Cypii in was not reh^m-ed : by his cjuntenanco. GilbwA^tacla 11 '/’ face was of a livid hue, high check bone, where ... “ °f du-ky red made the perva^^l ll fel^^iß^ , mi re obviou . His thick "own hair was roueh and disormWM, hj^ large red-brown eyes, prdminehUv placed in iheir orbit , were bright and glassy, and the sen ua! under Kp worked convulsively, as in some inward argument of a stormy kind. |TO BE CONTINUED. ; A Duck Drowned by an Oyster. The meek and 1 >wly oyster can sometimes become a reven ;eful as well as a dangerous antagonist, as an unwary Baltimore due < found to his cost This careless duck, belonging to the tribe known as “i shern en,” was swimmin l ’- about in :earch of food off the shore near Chui orne when he espied au oyster a nice, fat. juicy oyster he was—with shill widely parted, feeding, d< übtless. on the simple and rather intangible diet upon which an oyster is suppose Ito feed. Th t duck, true to his greedy instincts, dived for that sup: os 'd nicy mor el and vas about to swallow him whole, without salt or pepper even, when the angry passions of ihe oyster arose, and napping his shells togeth r caught the un uspecting duck's bill in a vise-like embrace. The d ck rose t> the surface, shook his h ad, m imbled a ologies through his tight-shut mouth, but the bivalve's heart wa, hardened, and he held on. Soon that eon-taut load pulling down his head, and growing weightier and weightier, began to tire t .e duck und his neck arched lower and i wer until finally it umk into the water and ha I was dr wned. A deckhand on the ; teamSoat Tangier saw the duck floating with head submerged and picked him up. The oyster was still clinging to his victim with a relentless, dea My grasp, and th- tragedy that must have beenena t das describ rd Both too duok uud fh'y s! v ere taken to Baltimore, aniTWiijjM^.quite a curio ity. f Went to the Hoot of th<* Evil. Tnis is woman's age. and a businessman who knows says there is positively nothing that she will not undertake. He was lounging in his office the other day when the door opened and a welldressed, comely litt e woman appeared. She wore a resolute expression in addition to other apparel and in her hand sho carried a large tack-raiser. “Go d m irning,” she said, winningly. “Is this Mr. Cash's office? Will you pie se toll me what chair it is that has that na'l in it?" Tne business man was confused—the nice little woman was a t< til stranger to him. He answered wildly: "What chair? What nail?” “Why.” she exclaimed, "my husband has come h< me three times recently with dreadful holes in his coat ar.d trouscis an 1 ho said ho tore them on a chair in your office. I'm tired of darning tho e icntsand thought it would be more sensible and satisfactory to com > Sown here, pull the nail out, and be done with it. Don't yo i think so?" Stiil in a trance the merchant agreed with her, found the offending chair, extracto I the nail and with many thanks and smiles the enterprising little woman withdrew. —New York World. Saw His Barents Sixty ‘Miles Away. Harry Willetts, a young man who was nearly killed by striking an arc light with the s eel tip of his umbrella at Atlantic City. N. J., upon his recovery related a icmarkable vision which camo to him as he felt the electric fluid going through his body. His Some is in Camden, sixty miles from ^■ythmtic City. "I had. left home buTT.^ days oerore. ' ne said to a ’ eportr^ “and every detail of the homo :ih- t 1 e cd, and us I lull uacuiiscious again as plainly as 1 now seo you. My father sat by the table reading, while my mother was engaged in sewing buttons on his clothes. The picture was so realistic that my last words as I fell were: ‘My God, where am I?’ And they were heard by bystanders who did not know what ca sedthem.” The most marvelous part of young Willets’ vision is that his brother declaies that the hour the accident oc< urred his parents were seated and occupied just a-, he saw them. Unappreciated Con rt es y. Mr. Martha Moore Avery, the socialist leader from Boston, whose smooth and communistic speeches have been a feature in Philadelphia, prides herself < n her winsome and sympathetic ways with the commonest people. She was tiding the other day in a Girard avenue car, bound for Memorial Hall, when a ragged and red-headed newsboy boarded tho ear. Mrs. Avery put on an attractive smbe and the boy hurried to the end of the car and flashed his papers on her. “No, thank you, little boy," said that lady, “I don’t wi.h for a paper, but I am ever so much obliged to you f r coming in here.” The boy walked reproachfully away, and fs he left the car he iemarked to the c nductor, “Say, it's a wonder de woman didn t ask me if me wife was well.” Matrimonial Item. According to French divorce statistics the most unhappy period of marriage is from the fifth to the tenth year. After that the figures drop rapidly. If you would keep the devil in, keep the buttle corked. r

KILLS MAN AMD BEAST BLACK DEATH, THE MOST FATAL OF PESTILENCES. It Is Raping Furiously in China and Hundreds Are Dying Dally, While tho Whole World Is in Danger—Characteristics of the Disease. Cause i t ti e I lagna. Black death, the most frightful, the most fatal and the least understood of all epidemics, the awful plague which, arising in tne Orient, has several times spread over tho entire eastern hemisphere, destroying alike human beings and dumb u oit ires, is again raging, with awful fury, in China. Canton and Hong Kong are the afflicted di triots. Thousands of Chinamen have already su cumbe 1 to the disease and hundreds of others are dying daily. The wcole popul ice of tho two great । Chine e seaports are panic, stricken, and well may they be, for wherever this hideous enemy of man and beast j rears its head a; d emits ts vile breath, there suffering and death ensue. And । well may the whole world regard with ' apprehension the ravages of this dis- | ease in these Chinese cities. They are : the great ports of comme.-ce, from which vessels rail to a l parts of tho 111, kind thus the Llack du.ith may easily be spre d through the eivili e l world. Tne first outbreak of the plague oc- । curred in Canton in the first week of ! Ap’-ii and was confined to a poor quar- ■ the city, near the south gate. Ihe first indication of tho approac i of the plague was the finding of hundreds of dead rats in the cellars of thc^e hous« s, an I then the oec q anta showed s\ mpt ms. \\ ithln u week 80 pur cent of t'le person attacked died. c. nl s'ernatien immediately reigned. The Chine e doct its are mere ignoramus s, and treat t atients only with herbs and prayers. In cases of th black death, they are pe fect'.y helples . The number of deaths averages seven y-tive daily in t anton n one, and in Hong Kong, where the plague broke out in

5 KAVA< <>F IIIK BLACK DEATH IN (HINA, scone on tho strocV. i t tho city of Hon; Kong, from a description by a correspondent.

a similar manner, to Lb persons ari diiug every day. The whole num er O' deaths thu- far is over 101.000, In Hong Ki ng. the percentage of deaths for thice days was Ho, that is. e‘ery jxrson who was attacked died. In Hong Kong, as in Canton, e,ergetic metvures are i eing taken to txterminate the plagt e, but with no ^access. Detectivesate at work making a house t > Louse canvass of in ectoi districts and bringing the suffe ers to the bespit .Is, where seme care can l>e given ti ein. In many ca e they have found the su erer-ah ne and uucared for. A'- s on ns a ease up; ears the ( hinese desert tho afl 1c ed. 1- avirg him iu a room with a jug of water and peering in tie window nt intervals, and prodding th ■ vi tim with a long i pole to a <ertain if lite is extinct. The d; nger from infection from the i disease i- greater than is generally i imagined. Hong Kong is a great tea । shipping p- rt. and the i o-tilenoe might ! be ! roaght over to this country in the | tea ehe-t . Canton and Hong Kong, I however, have been declared infected । ports, and all vv •. els c ming fr m there will be placed in quarant ne on i a -rival in .-a i Francisco. As Europe- i ans and Ar Orleans in Yunnan. Can- i ton. anl I’akhoi have been • trieken with t .e disease, it is important that । all quarantine rrecauti ms should be taken against the introduction of the plague in American ports. The various consuls on the Southern China coast are urgi- g that the Rws pertain- । ing to the arrival of ship • and steamers in America from infeete 1 ports be rigidly enforced. I'. but Caused the I’la^ue. The plague is a mystery. Whence it comes has puzzled the worL I for seve- . rai centuries. Scientists now. how- , lean to tho belief that it is a severe form of malaria or typhus, and that it is caused I y bad sanitary cond tiuns, 1 y drouth and filth. This theory is sustained by the fact that, in tho case of the present epidemic, it broke out in a sect! n where the drainage is imperfect and filth abounds, and ihat the whole aii icted section Lai not been visited by rain in many monthe. | The original birthplace of the plague | was in Yunnan, a Chinese pio ince, i and its first visits were the most dreadi ful scourges to which humanity has ever been subjected. In the fourteenth i century it killed 13, 0),OJO people in ’ China. 24.' 00,0d0 in other Or.ental countries, and n t loss than 25,' 0 ’,OOO iin Europe. Germany alone had 1,-44.-i 434 recorded deaths from this cause. Italy had quite one-half of ite entire j population swept away, and in London, ■ then a comparatively mall citv, there , were no less than 100,0 >0 victims. 'lhe last outbreak of plague in Europe was in 18D-9, on the banks of j the Volga. It was very virulent, and at V etlianka, out of a populuti n of 1,700, there were 417 attacked «nd 302 died. The epidemic probably tock its * rise in Astrakhan, in 1877, and. was not brought from Tu key by Cossacks ! after the war, as was popularly supposed. । Plague has been observed in China since 1871, in Yunnan and at i’akhoi, a l p rt in Tonquin Gulf, since 1882, where lit is said to have prevailed for a least | fifteen years. In Yunnan it isondemic i and at I’akhoi it < ccurs nearlv every year. The disease is directly infectious, i spreading rapidly from every place of I its appearance. It is attended by fearful suffering, and is so nearly always

fatal that where it has r>een epidemic great numbers of the affiicted have committed suicide rather than endure a suffering so sure to end in death within a week or two. It usually commences with a sensation of fnten-e weariness and fatigue. Then there comes a slight shivering, nausea and confusion of ideas, followed by giddi- ! ness and pain in the loins. Increa ed mental disturbance is next notice- | able, and then come delirium, j alternate pallor and flushing of । the face, suffusion of the °eyes and a ftelln? of constriction in tho region of the heart. Darting pains are felt in the groins, armpits, and other parts of the body, which are soon followed by enlargement of the lymphatic glands an 1 by the formation of carbuncles on various parts of the Lody. i As the disease advances the to igue be- ; comes dry and brown, the gums, teeth ar.d lips are covered with a dark fur ; and the power of the will over the muscles is much impaired. The patient acts like an intoxicated man. The Bufferings are intense and death usual- i Iv occurs within five or six days, though sometimes it comes sooner. ' CONDITION OF THE FRUIT CROP. Correspondents of tho Farmers’ Review Give the Outlook as Generally Poor. A special report ba i been prepared ' by the Farmers’ Review on the condition and prospects o: fruit in most of the States usua ly covered by its reports. The reports are largely by well-known h' . ticulturisti and nurserymen. Apples.—ln Illinois few apples will be sent to market, not more than one county in nine repi rthig a uood crop A large number report a complete failure, while in some tho crop will be from 30 to 5 per cent, of an average. Indiana has the same story t> telL The crop is nearly a failure In most of the counties. In some sheltered localities a fair crop * ill be obtained, but such localities aee not numerous. Michigan Is among the fortunate States. Iler apple crop will be large, and tho partial failure in other States Insure, good prices. Meat of the correspondent report prospects good tor a large yield. The Missouri apple crop will be far below an average, very few counties reporting even 70 or 83 per cent Onefourth to one-half crop Is a common rei port. In lowa the crop will be fair, as a

general thing, although soma of tho counties report disaster from var y spring conditions. Wisconsin’s apple crop will be fair. Minnesota apple pro,pacts are poor, und the yield for tne State will bs light Peaches—The poach crop in Illinois ratty be regarded us a complete failure, so far us comme-co Is concerned. Indiana’s prospects are identical with those of Illinois. In -lichigan tho prospects are good and the crop will be fair. Failure of the peach crop 1, general throughout Missouri and low a. Pears—Few pears will be raised in Illinois. Most of the counties report no crop. In Indiana the outlook is much better, the yield being estimated at from 10 to 73 per cent, of a crop. The Michigan pear crop will bs almost an average with other years. A very light crop will be harvested in Missouri and lowa. Plums—Plums in Illinois are a poor crop, I taking the State as a whole, India ia plums I are also scarce, and much less than half a | crop will be harvested. The ilum crop of : Michigan is only fair. Plums In Missouri I will run from one-half to three-fourths ; crop In some counties, but are a total failj urj in other counties. Plums in lowa are j in fair condition, compared with other I States, but are far below a fall cropi This i crop is reported generally fair in Wisconj sin and poor in Minnesota. < berries. — A light crop is common i throughout Illinois, the yield in some i counties being almost nothing. The averi age yield in Indiana is very small, some l sections re orting not more ihau 10 per ! cent, of a crop. Michigan has a good crop, ! few counties reporting a partial failure I lieports from Missouri vary greatly, but the yield for the State will probably be less than halt the usual crop lowa will probably reach SO per cent, of her usual average. The crop in Wisconsin Is fair. Gr ines. —lllinois’ grape crop will In some m a-ur' make up for the light yields in other fruits. lieports from a large number of counties show that the prospect Is very good for a heavy crop. Indiana will also have a large crop Michigan’s crop will boa fair one. but not relatively large. The crop will be a good one, as a whole. In lowa the prospects a:e not good. The yield in Wisconsin will bo generally smalb In Minnesota a small crop is predicted. t urrants and Gooseberries—Currants and gooseberries are a fair crop in Illinois, though not up to former years. Not over halt a crop of these two berries is reported from Indiana. These crops in Michigan are fair. Light crops are reported in Missouri and fair to good in lowa. The yield in Wisconsin is quite good and generally fair in Minnesota. Strawberries—Strawberries have proved a light cropcn account of the dry weather just previous to harvest. Sparks from the Wires. Thkeeprisoners escaped, from jail at Indianapolis. George Sheppard has left Omaha in a steam yacht in which he preposes journeying by water to his old home in Scotian 1. Gen. William F. AVheelf.r. who located the first line of telegraph in Minnesota and was a pioneer railroad builder, died at Helena, Mont. Philadelpaia police lieutenants, charged with extortion, were summoned before a court of in x uiry. They entered pleas of not guilty. After simple services in the Little Church Around the Corner in New Y’ork the remains of A. P. Burbank, the elocutionist, were taken to AA’oodland for interment. Edward H. Seeley, whose stories of Texas life recently have attracted some attention, committed suicide at New York by cutting his throat He was 38 years old. Jacob L. Quick, cashier of the Londonville Banking Com’ any, accused of embezz ing $75,040, and who fled tc Canada, returned to Loudonville, 0., j and was arrested.

A GREAT DRAWBACK. Herr D owe - 8 Wonderful Coat Not Only Bullet Proof but Airtight. After a series of thorough tests in Germany and London it has been demI that Herr ^’We’s Coat cannot be penetrated by bullets. The impenetrable quality of the stuff is seen in the fa t that the German rifle or imJ C 3” senfl a bullet at a distance ni.J 00 f*? S throu « h a thick steel plate stukes harmlessly against the new coat of mail, which is described as “a wire netting incased in a ce-ment-like mass.” So, in snite of much misgiving and consfderable ridicule of his invent oh, “the little tailor of Mannheim” is on his way to .ame and fortune. There is, however, says the Philade.phia Record, one very great drawu kthe success of the invention, which puts its use by soldiers in the field practically out ot the question. The coat, which weighs not less than six pounds, is as impervious to air as it is to bullets, and in a great battle more n en would be sti ed to death or rendered unfit for action by the wearing of such an apparatus over , their breasts than could be saved by iL ( n going into action the first impulse of the soldier would be to st. ip off Powe's coat and take the chance of a bullet through the breast in preference to suffocation. Highly desirable as it is that the terrible casualties of the battlefield should be lessened as much as possible, the practical utility of this novel armor is extremely doubtful. This too, seems tn be the conclusion of the German military authorities. On the other hand, it is conceded that Herr Dow’s invention will be of great value for the construction of light barracks, batteries, army tents, and boats, and for many other uses in defensive warfare. If it shall possess all the qualities that are claime I for it the material may largely supplant steel armor for men-of-war. But there are physical laws which make Herr Dowe’s invention of no value to man or horse on the field of battle. It is not improbable, however, that improvements may remove or greatly lessen the difficulty of using the stuff as defensive armor for the individual soldier. At any rate, Herr Dowe has invented a material which ! is impenetrable by bullets, and this cannot be said of steel plates, nor of any other known material of defen. sue armor. Which Is the Ring? In discussing the question, “Which is the king of beasts?” an old African hunter says: “Come with me to a desert pool sore clear, moonlight night when the shadows are deep and sharply cut and the moon herself in the dry, cloudless air looks like a ball. All is nearly as br ghtasday. only the light is silver, not gold, bit down on that rock and watch the thirsty animals as they drink—buffalo, rhinoceros, antelope, quagga, and occasionally, if the water is large, lions too. But what has frightened the antelope and quagga that they throw the:r heads up for a second and fade away into the shadows'? The other beasts, too, are listening, and now leave the sides ot the pond. Nothing but the inevitable, irrepressible jackal that gamins among wild tbinus remains ; in vi w. As yet your dull, human ears have caught no sound, but very soon the heavy tread and low, rumb- ■ ling note of an oncoming herd of elephants reaches you. They are at , the water. The jackals have sat . dewn with their tails straight out be- ’ hind them, but not another creature ! is to be seen. The king drinks. Not a sound is heard. He s ; uirts the 1 water over his back, makes the whole ’ pool muddy, and retires solemnly, . leaving his ?ub ects, who now gather round, to make the best of what he i lias fouled. This is the king in the ’ opinion of beasts." Home Making. There is a nameless touch required t from home making. It is something j entirely apart from mere housekeep- : ing, and has but little to do with finances. To not everyone, woman 3 or man. .» it given to be successful in i this line. With some, it amounts tc r a positive genius. Ingenuity and the ’ ability to make the I e-t of available i materials, combined with taste, a light hand, and a true sense of color, are what is required. The woman who sunk inverted jam pots in her garden to uo duty for tiles, hao^^^ 1 true instinct though she lacked j material and money. i Many who occ ipy a rented house i in the countri’ for the summer, are j entirely content to take it as they . find it. Th s fact impresses itself upon the mind of the visitor at once. ‘ Others will not have been in their r summer home for three days, before they will have given a touch of individuality to their surroundings. It is well, always, to select some few portable things that our family are 1 accustomed to see.ng around them s daily, and carry them with us in our 1 summer flitting One case will bold enough curtains, cushions, rugs, etc., 0 to give to the unfa niliar surroundj ings quite a home like air. A few pictures may likew se be added, wh.ch need be neither large nor heavy. Noted Equestrian. James Robinson, who for a long ? time held the title ofchampion barev back rider of the world, is spending > his declining years on his fa m in ‘ Missouri, lie is by no means an old man, but ha- retired from the circus 3 arena. He st.ll has many of the J valuable gifts that he received in 5 many parts of the world, including 5 those from Queen A ictorla and the old Emperor William of Germany, j Mr. Robinson is the same little wiry < man that he always was and, except for his hair, has not the appearance ' 1 of being more than 4Q years old.