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Markdale Standard (Markdale, Ont.1880), 13 Mar 1884, p. 6

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 FACTS FOB^FARMERS. Prepare for Early Tegetables. Plants sufficient for the family garden can be easily raised, osaally of better quality than in a hot-bed, as generally managed, and they will interest the young people who always like to see things grow. Boxes for the purpose are made of half-inch stuff well nailed together. Their length should be suited to the width of the window, a foot wide, and the depth of three or four inches. In modern houtea window sills are rarely wide enough to hold euch a box, and it is well to suspend it by means of a wire at each end. Drive in a screw ntar the upper edge of the end of the box, and near the side farthest from the window, and a correspond- ing screw in the window casing. A piece of copper wire twisted nround the screw in the box, and its other end made fast to tuat ia the casing, will hold the box securely. Those who regularly use such boxes provide the soil fcr them the autumn before. The lack of such provision need not deter any from trying to raise plants in this nranntr. Earth from the woods is a most excellent material fcr filling the boxes. This collects in the hollow places, and can usually be gathered in a mild time, even in winter. If woods-earth is not to be had, take advant- age of a thaw, and scraping up some garden soil, place it in a heap in the cellar until it is dry enough to use. If at all heavy, it may be made porous by adding sand, or what is better, fiue moss. I'tccure some spha£;num or peat moss, such as nurserymen use for packing dry it thoroughly, and rub it through a coarse wire sieve. One part of this fiae sifted moss to four or five of soil makes an excellent material for seed boxes, and it will not become packed by the needed waterings. As a rule the seed should be sown in them about six wefks before the plants can be safely set out in the open ground. When the seedlings are large enough to handle, usually when they have made two rough leaves â€" those are the seed leaves â€" they will need transplanting into another box of similar soil, setting them an inch apart each way. Plants in the boxes n.ust have water as they need it, and on warm days they may be set outside in a sun- ny, sheltered place, bringing them in before the air becomes chilly. The vegetables usu- ally started in window boxes are early cab- bages, cauliflowers, lettuce and tosratoes in April egg-plants and peppers may be thus sown. Agrricultural Value of Sewage. 1 here is no one who will deny that it is a ere at pity that so many millions of dollars' worth of fertilizing rraterials are annually allowed to go to waste through the sewers of our towns and cities, and yet very few are ready to believe that this waste could be economically saved and applied to the land for raising food either for man or beast. If reports are true, the new town of Pall- man, near the city of Chicago, has solved this question in a most eatisfaccory manner. Pullman is built upon level land, where it would be impossible to secure perfect drain- age by natural flow. To overcome this diffi- culty, the drains were all carried to an arti- ficial well sunk deeply enough to receive all the sewage of the town. From this well the drainage water is pumped by steam power, through a large pipe which delivers it upon farm lands three miles away, where it is utilized for the production of ordinary farm crops. It is claimed that the arrangemtnt; proves highly satisfactory in every respect, and that the investment pays a good anaual interest. If tDe market gardeners around Boston are finding it profitable to erect costly apparatus for watering their ground with pure well water, pumped from the bowels of the earth, why might not the city and country make a gain at both ends by joining in erecting pumping apparatus for delivering the richer waters of the sewera upon or under the cul- tivated fields in the suburbs 1 It is believed now, that the true way to water gardens and fields is through the porous pipes, laid enough below the surface to be entirely out of the way of cultivation. This question of modem civilization how to get ria of its own wastes, is but just be- ginning to at* ract public attention. With our present light, it appears like a great question, but the time is rapidly coming when it must be met, and we doubt not it will be met successfully. The most that country people can do at present is, individ- ually, to take the best care possible of their own house drains and cesspools. The pro- blem is much more easily solved in the country than in the city or large town, â€" N, E Farmer, FARM OTES. Ashes and gypsum have proved very bentticial to potatoes in many sections. No excess of animal matter should be given to poultry, either in the shape of meat scraps or pressed cake. "Z Rye will grow at a low temperature and continue to grow later and start earlier than most other grains. One acre of ground in lawn and garden ia sufficient to maintain the family cow in any village or rural locality. Professor Cook says light Brahmas have proved even better layers in winter than his brown Leghorns their eggs are finer in quality, larger and of richer color. The Country GenVeman recommend ever- grefn boughs as being the best protection to the strawberry bsd in winter, saying they never smother or other wis 3 injure the plants. The want of pure and fresh water ac- counts in many instances for the lick of eggs during the winter season. Fowls require a constant supply nf water, and without it will not lay. One of the best methods, says M, H, de- Gasparin, of preventing the ravages of the phylloxera is to keep the soil of the vine yard continually moist, and in the south- east of France this is efifected by kee^ ing the vineyard submerged during tl a winter. For the comfort and well-being of the sitting hens they have ahonll have space in which to turn and flap their wings, and scratch and take all needed exercise, provid- ed the weather is favorable. Bat if cold, do not tempt them to remain too long from the nests. Says the Amenccm Cuitivator: In the winter, while the ground is covered with snow and the soil is frozen deeply, it is some- times cnrioua to note the eflfect of openings leading down to deep nnder-drains. The snow will be melted away by the warm air coming up from the unfrczen earth. Even in an uncovered drain three feet deep, a lit- tle straw or loose earth will general- ly protect the bottom from severe freez- ing. If you are going to set a new orchard next spring remember that it is an excellent way to prepare a p'ai of the orchard, showing the position of each tree, its variety, etc. If a tree dies it can be replaced by one of the same sort. Some fruit raisers keep a book in which they register the age and var- iety of every tree in their orcharJ, together with any items in regard to its grafting, prof'uctivenefs, treatment, etc., which were ti ftht to be deairable. Married to a Lunatic. Judge Phelps, at Baltimore, passed a de- cree declaring void a marriage celebrated January 24, 1883, between Helen A. North and Francis W. North. Tfie bill alleges that the husband at the time of the mar- riage was a lunatic and not competent to contract a marriage. It appears from the bill of complaint and evidence before the court that the couple were married without the knowledge of their fnends and only after three weeks' acquaintanc. Mrs, North was boarding at a Hotel where young North, who was travelling South for his health, stayed. They took a bridal trip to Cincinnati, where the bridegrooih began to act queerly, and thinking him unwell, Mrs, North 8uggeEte(^hat they proceed to Cleve- land, where his uncle was living, which was done. North suddenly became possessed of the idea that he was being pursued by some im- maginary foe who wanted to separate him from his wife and threatened that he would kill her rather than part with her. Toe uncle telegraphed to Mr. North, sr., who lives in Utica, N. Y., and he came at once to Cleveland with several ofiicials of the Middleton insane asylum, where his son had been imprisoned before, and forcibly carried him off. Mrs. North, attributing the supposed abduction to another cause, attempted to follow on the same train, but, according to her own statement, was rough- ly ejected therefrjm by Mr. Ncrth, sr., having a narrow escaped from being run over. Realising his condition she was com- pelled to abandon har effjrts and then sought to have the marriage declared void. Her husband's family are said to be wealthy, but decline to recognize her, as they con- sidered their son's marriage as the freak of a madman, I.ivliigr, J el Dead. In Germany, every man, from the lowest to the highest, is oblicjed to serve in tha army nominally tor twelve years. He must be in the standing army for seven years, from the close of his twentieth yeft.r until he is twenty-eight. Of these seven years three must be spent in active service, and the re- maining four in the army of reserve. After leaving the army of reserve he must form a part of the Landwehr, â€" or practically the militia. After his active employment in the army he cai engage in civil life. But if war breaks out, he is again called upon to resume his place in the ranks. The theory on which this law rests is that every citizen ought to aid in defending his country, and that to do this efficiently, he requires the training of a soldier, A young Prussian doctor, having served his time in the ranks, was placed among the ••reserves." He went to Paris, and in a few years built up there a lucrative practice. In the height of his prosperity Prussia engaged in war, and the doctor was summoned to return home and fill out his term of ser- vice. After much trouble he hired, for a large sum, a man to serve in his place. The sub- stitute was killed on the battle field. A few years after this event, the physician received another summons from his Govern- ment to return and engage in military ser- vice. He protested that as he had, in the person of his substitute, died once, the Gov- ernment had no more claim upon him tor additional service than it had upon any other dead person. The case Wits referred to high authorities, and after long and learned discussion it was decided that in the eyes of the law the phy- sician was dead. Was It a Boy or a (iirl. Mrs. Mulcahy â€" "Good marnin'" Mrs. O'Hollihanâ€" "Good marnin' Mrs, Mulcahy." Mrs, Mulcahy â€" "An' how's theouldman, Mrs, O'Hollihan ' Mrs, O Hollihanâ€" "03h, pnrty well, thankee, Mrs, Mulcahy, but dbrank agin last night, though," Mrs. Mulcahy â€" "Och, dear, dear, the poor min " Mrs. Hollihan â€" "Did you hear the news about the incraise in Mrs, McCarthy's family, Mrs. Mulcahy 7 ' Mri. Mulcahy â€" "6i did not. Wuz it a bye or a gurrull " Mrs, O'Hollihanâ€" " 'Twaz nayther, Mrs, Mulcahyâ€" "Nayther?" Mrs, O'Hollihanâ€" "Nayther; twuz twins 1" Mr., Mulcahyâ€" "WuU, wuU, wuU "â€" San Francisco Wa^p, The business of detecting crime -in Lon- don is admitted to be badly done. The pre- cincts of the Sivoy and Thames Embank- ment are not safer now than Hounslow Heath in the days of Jonathan Wild. One hundred and twenty-four persons disap- peared in London last year, of whom no trace has ever been found, and each week numbers of dead bodies, known as "stiff- uns," are brought in by toilers, of the Thames with marks of violence on them. Since the ti one of the late Inspactor Field, no one of the detective order has won aa established fame but Druscowitch, and he ruined a great career by being inveigled into the De Gancourt betting funds. The lady who recently left $2,000,000 to the Pope had several near relatives living, and they remain in extremelv poor cirenm- stances. It is ssid Pins IX' when he had been left a large aom in similar cirenm- rtanceB, relinqoiahed $500,000 for the bene- fit of the poor relatives. Pope Leo, it is suggested might do the same. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Interesting Items about the Distinguish- ed People of the World. Rosa Bonbeur is now quite well again and las removed to her favorite Chateau de By, Fontainebleau, where she has already set work at her unfinished pictures. M. Mace the great French detective and the terror of the Paris evil doer, is just about five feet tall, it it be proper to use the term tall as applied to such a stature. He has been thirty years in the service. The Emir of Bokhara, in Toork'stan, re- ceives visitors in a robe of rose-colored vel- vet studded with precious stone?. He is gracious in his manners, but his reception rooms contains no furniture, and its floor ia covered with European carpsts. His fav- orite gifts to the most distinguished guests are beautiful horses. Queen Victoria has sent to the Sailors' Homo at Portsmouth a portrait of herself, with autograph, in a carved oak frame. The picture is from a drawing on stone by K \fl Staub, taken from the portrait by Angeli which was painted in 1877, and which bangs in the^private dining room at Windsor Castle. The Maharajah of Ciahmere has spared no coat in the effort to make fine wine and brandy, and it seems now that he has suc- ceeded, as the samples of both at the Cal- cutta Exhibition are highly praised, Ic is thought that this industry may compensate for the great falling off of late years in the demand for shawls. The Emperor of Germany, now in his eighty-eighth year, is not the only oldest inhabitant. On his hunting trips he fre- quently meets some hale old pensioner who tought in the war of liberation or marched against the French at Waterloo, The sev- ere military discipline of Prussia does not seem to shorten the lives of her subjects. " When I was at Constantinople," re- mark e I the Hon, G. J. Goshen, "I had a conversation with a Turkish pasha, who said that the female slaves were treated with ex- ceedingly great kindness in Turkish famil- ies, and that their morals were looked after much moie satisfactorily than those of fe- male servants in any European communities, I did not entirely agree with him. German papers record the discouragine fact for book collectors that the library of M. Korch, the former editor of the St, Petersburg Gazette, who recently died at Heidelberg, was sold by auction for the ridiculous sum of 2-5 roubles, although it consisted of about uOOO volumes. If most of the books were in K issian the melancholy fact might, in some degree at least, be ac- counted for. The late Abraham Hayward, the brilliant reviewer sui conversationalist, was, like Disraeli, of the Hebrew race, and brought up in a solicitor's office, He had the most bitter personal hatred of Disraeli, which was as intensely returned, and in the Morn- ing Chronicle, of which he was editor while it was the organ of the Peelite party, wrote articles against him of the moht virulent acerbity. *â-  For the last five or six yeari," observed a distinguished American architect, "I have been occupied almost exclusively with pub- lic buildings. I could count on the fingers of my right hand the private houses I have erected. My temper in consequence has been comparatively sweet, for nothing is so trying to an artist's soul as to be subjected to the aesthetic whims of charming women who desire his professional services," Julia Hatcher, of Mamhull, near Salis- bury, England, has received a medal for her bravery in rescuing a boy who was being tossed and gored by a bull. The presenta- tion was publicly made by the rector of the parish, the Rev. K, K. Kennard, described aa " the well-known breeder of abort- horns." Mr. Kennard, after praising the girl's cour- age and self-devotion, said that in risking her own life she had " established the most characteristic principle of Christianity, " Simeon Shorter, a Birmingham workman, who presented Mr. Gladstone, with an axej has receeived the following letter: "Mr. Gladstone desires me to express to you his best thanks for the detailed account of the making of the axe which ycu kindly pre- sented to him. Although Mr, Gladstone is loath to deface its polish in any degree, he feels bound to contemplate making a trial with it, in order to see the effect of an axe wholly of steel." The climate of tropical Africa is deadly to the white men. At four missions recently established in that country more than twenty white missionaries have died within the last five years, and almost every month news comes of severe illnesses but during the whole of that time the colored missionaries from this country have been able to live and work there. Lord Shaftesbury uses this fact to supoort the late Rev. Robart Mofl- at'a asaertion that "Africans must go to teach and save Africans." An Eaglish newspaper prints illustrations of Gen. Gordon's terse speeches, Waen he entered upon his duties as Governor General of the Soudan it was expected that he would make a long address, but he dismissed the assembly with tha single sentence • " I will try to hold the balance even." When his views on the Soudaa appeared in the col- umns of a newspaper he remarked, " A shot h».s been fired." When he was sent to the Soudan he, " I have received or Jera to cut the dog's tail off, and I will do it," The Earl of Abingdon, who has just died, was in his youth a wonderful mimic, and could personate Dr, Keate, the head master of Eton, in a marvellous maner. He did this on one occasion when at school, sum- monmg the boys at a tutor s house to pray- era, havmg first donned a master's gjwn and in the dusk ot a summer evening his identity was not discovered. Once, in the House -jf Commons, a member could not find some papers to which he wished to refer and kept on fumbling among a mass of them The House grew a little impatient, and sud- denly a voice in Keate's tonesâ€" well known at that date to half the Houseâ€" was heard to say, "Never mind, stay afterward." which was Keate's way of intimating to a dehnquent that he would be Aogaod for Ignorance or carelessness. Onoe, at None- ham. Lord Abingdon was dressed np as a girl, and made desperate love to an elderly gentleman, who genninely reciprocated and wanted to foUow np hi. sliit w.^"v,'^to matrimony. The thing was for some time kept going by lette r, and the would be suitor was tei ribly chagrined when he learned the truth, ODD HAPPENESGS. Amazith Jordan at Hartland, Me., in a fit ot insanity, cut. his toes off one at a time. Two weeks ago butterflies were numerous in England, peas were above £rjund, and rosea wera in leaf. A young dog was recently frightened to death near Lafayette, Oregon, by a child who dressed up as a bugaboo and chased the animal. A short-horn heifer named Lillie Dale, be- longing to J. W. Dawson of Rassellville, Ky., died four hours after eating a leaf of tobacco. A Dublin paper has the following: "Lost, a cameo brooch, representing Venus and Adonis while in Sandymount on Saturday last," Mrs, Nellie Keller of Hyde Park, Vt„ was severely burned on the face, hands, and arjis by the explosion of a doughnut which sue was frying, J, H. Smoot of Owen County, Kentucky, cut a tree recently in which a big hollow was filled with honey, upon which a colony of flying squirrels were living, Mrs. Louisa H. Albert of Cedar Rapids has entered into partnership with her hus- band in the practice of the law. Their sign reads, "Albert Albert, Attorneys at Law," The toll house at Sea Isle City, N. J, was entered by a thief, who took a pair of old boots and left a breech -loading gun worth $40. He also broke into the wa'^ch house of the railroad company and stole a pair of old shoes, A large lump of dry Nile mud, with ahole in one side showing that a mud fish was with- in it, has been in the possession of the Rev. .J. Wood for four years. He recently cut the lump open and found the fish in good condi- tion, doubled up, with ita tail over its head, just as when it went to sleep more than 20 years ago. GRIP'SSPBINTISeHOUsT A Splendidly Zqalpped BsUblUh rroot Sktreer. Torontoâ€"CoB. "H ovLi. Well l-lghtedandsu^^"" Wltn Kvery Paointy tit Printing and Bngrav- InR. The Grip printing and publishin, pany have settled down in their n " commodious premises at 26 ani 00' ' street west, Toronto, ana can no with pardonable pride of having the*! aid best equipped establishment of tb in the Djminioa of Canada. Tneb v is admirably adapted for the nam. S it was pat. It has five flM which basement, the digienaions of eachb' 120 ft, It is well ani substantiallyP and supplied with all the latest ia 1 ments m the way of ventilation, fireese hoists, conveniences, etc. Kntering off Front sliaet the vijit^f t.. himself in the business office, which iifij up in a new ani improved style, ThevJ and energetio manager, Mr, S. j, y^ has a private roim, nicely fmniBheii* supplied with electric bell and comtniii'i tion to every part of the building, ' clerks have separate compartments 1 what the same as in banks. A nicely ni!! ed placard informs you what departmtffl the business the cleiks are devoted t-T that there is no trouole in knowiiu The office IS roomy, and wel tne furtishinga are o' â-  One TbouHand Wiyes. Do what they may, no Mormon leader will ever equal the Sultan of Morocco, Sidi Muley Hassan, who has just added the thousandth wife to his harem, and has cele- brated this uniqufi millenary by a brilliant foast given to the other 909 or, rather to the other G30, for 400 are either dead or pensioned off. L'ke the Mormons, the Sultan does not kdcp all his better halves at one place, but distributes them among his winter and summer residences at Fez, Morocco, Tafilet, etc. Even then, unless he has more palaces than fall to the lot of most Emperors, there must be enough in each house to seriously interfere with har- mony now and then. We wonder if he felt as much pride and satisfaction when he added the thopsandth to the number as Baron Tauchnitz did when he published his thousandth volume of his convenient "Col- lection of British Authors." For we imagine that after a man has married his three or four hundredth consort â€" though on this point we must speak with the doubt arising from a total lack of experience â€" he cares" very little for a nsw wife, and regards each further addition much a: new Elzevir, or pottery, or anoj care to smoke hang upon his pleasure of th a pleasure whi only one man i ly, is allowe however, to obi be calUd the p bian Night's or the horse th in a day, the tal words at once while these an by the power of wonders, as th^ are beginning to very Sultan, the long ago married collector looks upon a w specimen of Japanese pi-, when h« does not er violin, which will ntoUched, It is the ho heaps up stores is line hoarding, idem worlitfortunatc- *have. Itjfis curious that while ^Vp,t might sical^onders of tne "Ara- â€" ""ments" â€" the carpet d a month's journey that conveyed one's the distant lover â€" that e like are coming true )dern science, the social seem to us Occidentals, e awav. A son of this Prince Muley Edris, not •ve an Italian governess, who did not give up her religion, and who stipu- lated that she should be the only wife and a brother of the Sjltan, the sheriff of Wezdan, has an English wife, â€" (Boston Ad- vertiser CATASTIIOPHY AT THREE RIVERS. Two ChUdren PerUh In the Flamesâ€" i Brave Fireman. Advices from Three Rivers, Que., convey the sad information of the death of two young children which occurred under the most distresainglcircumstances. Mrs, Chas, Carcn, living on the second and third fiats of a house situated on Notre Dame street, left her domicile for a few moments, recent- ly, locking in her two ycun^ chil.lren, Flora aged four and a half years, and Henri, aged two and a half. It is thought that immed- iately after their mother left, the children went to play with matches and set fire to the house, for she had been gone only a few moments when the cries of Fire fire were heard in the street. The poor mother rush- ed to her house, but she fainted going up stairr and had to be carried away. In the meantime, the fire was making rapid pro- gress inside and before the brigade arrived the poor little ones could be seen knocking on the window with their tiny fists. The firemen had arrived by this time and no time was lost in trying to effect an entrance into the burning building. After much difficulty, one of the men, Louis Hamel penetrated mto the house at the peril of his own Iffe and soon came out again carrying m hw a ms the dead body of the little boy who had alraady been suffocated and partly burned. All hopes as to the little giil had been giren up, when suddenly the crowd was terror stricken by the most appalling and piteous cries from the interior of the building, and Mr, Caron, the father of the children, appeared at one of the windows holding the luanimate body of his young daughter Flora, who also had been suffocat- ed and pardy burned. The poor exhausted father was helped down a ladder with his preoions burden, and the bodies of the un- fortunate httle victims were taken to the re^enoeof their grandmother, Mrs. Dauph- inais. No the Indian does not wear a feather head-dress in order to keep hia wigwam. Another press qutr;er Cl to go ranged, and best. The composing-room is en the seeonj; and occupies the full depth asd breadth the building. Large windows in the •- and rear supply it with abundance of Ir and the ceiling is high. A'l the ttp«.' ting is done in this immenue room. i,v it ia stated that there is over twenty toml type in the room, all of which ia niorf less handled every day, the public can i an idea of the amount of work cirriec there. Here, as in every other dtpartu there is no crowding fcr space, anj on struck with the order and cleanlineBs prevails, A compositor can put his on the style of type he wants in a mom and everything is so taady and oonve:i that work is expedited much more jw than it otherwise would be. A prai man would at once put it down as a im composing-room. The press roem oa the third flit claims attention. The idea of having pn any place but on the grjund floor or ment is something new, but it is fonc work well. Tne room is as clean as it sibly can be kept. Ther^ are no Ie=s' eighteen prssses on this flat, and t.hey kept running pretty much all the i: A. section of the room has been partitjc off and has been christened by Mau Moore the novelty museum as it c:c;i some machines of a most unique de-ci.p:. Among other specialties the compmy utacture the paragon blank !eat co check book for use in stores and other l nesss p'aoet. The book is worked en :: little press which prints, cutn, perfe:. numbers, folds and delivers .S OOOanr With this wonderful machine an order took a fcrbnight to fill can now be tilled day. The company operate two 01 ;t: presses, ^nd hold the patent lor Ciu onderful macbine ia the 1; h prints, cuts, and delive: million gummed labels a: is a press which prints in impression 2'), 000 sheets r^ ork of ten ordintry Gx lliese machines are all auton. Int at a terrific speed, at the tiooe turning out cleaner and better toai^ttLJ^w-goicg machines seen !n f^fiyhj^^wyjljiting cffiees. It willbes that'ra'^4«pBany's prses room ia nos Up anot^jS' flat you find a departii which has ^K another competitor in Cu da. It ia wiere ink etctiing is done, this process lithographing or printing: wooaen blocks, both very expensive i: pensed with, and brilliant and well execi::J work can be done at a leaaonatlc rate, ' artist's work is transferred to a plait polished a nc, which is then subjected t;| treatment with d fferent acids, the n^ being that in twelve hours the plate out a perfect counterpart of the orifl drawing. With this specialty, whicuf other house in the Dominion posse: Moore says they can compete in eolorr'.j bels, wrappers, every description of railH printing, etc, with the best establishmq en theotherside. This is scmethlug! able to boast of, and already the comfl are reaping the reward of their enterpnj obtaining orders which were formerly t^ in the United States, The above is enough to show the p:; that the Grip printing houee takes the:* io their business. Their facilities ' equipment are complete for doing e^' thing an I anything, promptly and in highest style of typographical art, Bs^'j doing the Ontario government printing, ' do the work of a number of legal and A mercial firms and large corporations, s--*^ as publish several periodicals for outs parties. Grip itself is also being advai at a rapid rate. The circulation has increased over 3,000 during the past ttj months and new subscribers are comitil at the rate of over 100 a week. An' largementto sixteen or twenty pagfs"' templated at an early date. Wit 1 a cip| of $100,000 and ably and energetically aged the company are bound to succeeil' â€" ^^ I â-  I mm ' I I â€" ' Figaro gives the following account o" arrest of five members of the f^»'"1 army The sidewalk of the "Ibulevsro j Italiens" was blocked yesterday aften for more than an hour by a /,. crowd that had gathered around two DyJ Catharine Bxjth's lady ••colonels" a""' men with badges fastened to their private in the aame force. They peddling copies of their newspapers, ta'^l Avant. As it is against the law to 'i" j without a license, the p)lice after Wging them for a long time to ' nu« lost patience, and at five o'clock '" afternoon the two "soldiers" were nu-^ to the station-house iu the Rue DrouolT detachment of "guardians of the P**! Ten minutes later three "guardians' back for the "Meeses Anglaises, offered no resistance and seemed pleased at the excitement they creaW" prisoners were taken before the police" trate of the arrondiasement, who, "D ' failure to show a license, scmmittto for trial his den. "Look here, Tom, cackle. Comeaiidh "I don't care if I c won't half like my lei "Quite a mistake; grossly- Beeides, yc when you're married weU with my aunt m jirikes me ytu weren Uantly. Now what s nesf- Scotch or Irish "Irish, please." "Ah, I thought FO, "Why?" asked Wi take Scotch." "Yes, I know," rej volunteering any fun la a few minutes jackets, mixed their and settled down in "Now," said Spei smoke?" "I've some rather kinson's reply " He put his hand in "Confound it!" he have left my cat e in "Never mind, old a beauty, pot it fron leg I helped cbt off tal. Wilkinson took it, time the recommen one. "What a jolly den he lit np. "Not so bad. Dor call it a den, though Wilkinson laughec "By Jove, though, and no mistake. I'm I can tell you. I'm j a new theory." "And how about y are perfecting your t "Oh my aunt v fast enongh. Yes, 1 revolutioniz? medici: ing up a man's bjJ take," "What are you go "Doctor up his uiii Wilkinson smiled what his friend was he had consideraule i still more in Jack S atked to be further i There was nothinj so much as an app launched out under 1 "It's a perfect my a few other men phenomeni as we 1 the domain of .electr obtain so little srien' "There's such a lo with it," suggested ' Of course there basis of fact. The as yet, but it must g: that one mind can it a distance, is it not' "I once saw a mcs seemed able to do ai he was only a cocjur "Empirical gener you," remarked Sp cases, though 1 migl look at those books, authenticated, scier periments." He took down "Zoonomia," Macl Sleep," and seveia' Siientifique." "Now," continue that the mesmerizet the actions, even the if he gives him a dri nnake him believe it i him an ink bottle, h it a lovely rose." "Have you seen t ed Wilkinson. "Seen them! Wh; Wilkinscn looked "Yes," said Spec such an interest in the power of meenic degree, and cultiva Have a little more w "Thanks, I will." "Of course you wi a satisfied smile. ' were talking. Itt another, you see." Wilkinson made i was rather averse i' in this way. "How is all this f toring?" he asked. 'Simply enough. give your patient so iwve it is the medii will have the same tiou is required y ^K the trance, as ' ptin." "But Irance?" "That's a weak p get over that, I c ^t of five, MissDu "**^erygoodEubj /Vilkinson sat sil minutes. Apparen f««»ehad turned! «»imel. He half wished 1 ^here she was utti 'eoent events, and can you

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