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 ppp 11IH4 "J^-liI j^f IVI^ -*««â- â-  r-"-*'-s) 'â- ^z »^ TTTF--^ ilf^i"*-" 1?' ei HEALTH. CAITB^ OF 8T7DDEN DEATH. It Is Vsvally V«e t* IHsesM of the Heart, Cre«t Tcuek mr Brala. Why the ^dden oconrrence of death â- honld be deemed an evil of great mai^tude u a myatery. The oi^uteâ€" the long-con- tinned sicknesa, ending in complete exhaus- tion and gradual wearing away of every energy â€" seems mach rather to be deplored and the favor of the Diety implored in the way of protection. The tiifferent methods by which life may be suddenly brought to a close may occupy onr attention for a few moments, perhaps with profit â€" for if it be no great disadvan- tage for one to die suddenly it may ^be decidedly of advantage to regulate to some d^;ree the age at wiuch this may be per- mitted to take place. Life begins in the heart and its last signs are to be observed in that 'organ. That .is to say, the visible, the tangible signs of life to the eye or to the senses generally are evinced by some movements or appeBurances about the heart. In order that the heart shall continue its action many conditions must be fulfilled. The nervous supply must be in good order, its blood must be furnUhed in a regular and systematic manner, its valves must open and shut with a fair degree of completion and certainty, while its muscular wells must preserve their healthy condition. Con- sidering the many circumstances that may interfere with the proper working of this great force-pump it is really surprising that there should be so little disease affecting it and bringing life to a sudden close. Space Is lacking to give a complete sketch of the consequences of valvular disease of the heart, but one result must be pointed out. The heart having more work to do than normally grows â€" hypertrophies â€" in order to keep up with It. So long as the growth increases in proportion to the work there is to do it is all right, but when the work be- comes too great and the blood accumulates until the heart muscle stretches and becomes thinner, then dilatation has taken place and a condition of great danger threatens, A little unusual exertion sends an extra amount of blood to the thinned and weak- ened heart, which becomes suddenly para- lyzed and sudden death results. DISEASE OF THE GREAT VESSELS. But sudden deaths in diseases of.the heart are usually due to something different from the valvular diseases just noticed. In mid- dle and advanced life the heart and arteries are subjected to a condition of degeneration in which the valves shrink and the blood tubes become rigid, while there is a deposit of chalky material which makes them very brittle. The valves between the left ventri- cle of the heart and the entrance of the aorta â€" the first and greatest artery â€" are especially apt to become Ehrunken and un- able to keep the blood in the artery after it had been sent there by the contraction of the heart. Hence, more or less of it drops back into the heart as soon as the latter re- laxes after its contraction. The blood in- stead of going to the head to nourish the brain, falls backward and leaves the brain bloodless â€" anaemic â€" in the condition of an individual who faints. When this happens to an old parson who is unable to help himself and place himself in a proper position to avail himself of the force of (p:avity to restore the blood to the head, the results may he extremely grave. Large numbers of cases of sudden death are thus brought about and referred to hesurt diseases without any clear understanding as to how they were produced or may have been prevented. It is for the reason here indicated â€" the suddenly applied force of gravity â€" that it is extremely dangerous for this class of patients suddenly to assume the erectposture from the reclining position, and that such patients should not be left entire- ly alone at any time. It is in this same class that are to be seen those cases of so-called augina-cectoris, which suddenly removes its victims in the midst of great agony There is undoubtedly more than one variety of this formidable affliction. One seems to be due to the sud- den shutting off of blood from the muscular walls of the heart, due to closure of the en- trances of the two coronary arteries which supply it. The sudden starvation seems to cause the intense neuralgic pain. AXEURISMAL DANGERS. But the heart is not the only organ that sufiers from the degeneration just referred to. The large and medium sized arteries also become softened first, then hardened and brittle. In the softened condition (fatty degeneration or atheroma), the great vessles are prone to dilate and form tumors containing blood, which go on enlarging as long as there is room for them to increase in size, finally bursting and causing death by hemorrht^e. Should the blood-tumor or aneurism burst into one of the great cavities of the body, as that which contains the heart, one of the lungs, or into the surface of the abdomen, or upon the surface, the amount of blood that can be discharged almost at once is enormous, and death re- sults almost instantaneously. This is the way many cases of remarkable sudden death are brought about. These are all called " deaths from heart disease," of course. It is true that the aneurism may be located so as to involve the heart itself, but this is un- usual. The great artery, the aorta is the most frequent seat of the trouble, and it is not a very uncommon one. When aneurisms oscur in the chest or abdomen they frequently attain a large size, because of the density of the structures involved and the siza of the arteries which give them origin. In the smaller vessels, ' as in those at the base of the brain, they never attain a large siza, but this does not prevent them from being of the very greatest importance. Not only miy they cause hopeless disablement when they do not kill, but they may lead to death, which may come on as suddenly as if it were brought about by the lighning's stroke. Under the influence of fatty, or calcareous, degeneration, the coats of tne arteries grad- ually give way in places, permitting them to form small, pouch-like dilatations upon them, varying in siz3 from that of a pea to a millet sMd, or smaller â€" many of them not being viaUile to the unaided eye. These are points of very little resistance, and when the circulation is excited by strong exertion or powerful emotion, these little aaca are likely ta give way. If a nnmber of them borat they nrodace a hemorriiage whoae prvaenoe prochoaa praa- aim qon tiie brain, ani when inanfBoiant on tbe other *aii amount ia capable of brineinsall mental operationa to a atandatiU. Xhia ia the usual mechuiiam of apoplexy or oerebral hemmorrhage. Of courae, apoplexy of thia variety does not alwaya kilL But if the bleeding takea place into the important Btructnrea at the baae of the brain, where the centres that control the movsmenta of the heart and Innga are located, the e£Feci must be fatal almost without exception, and not delayed long at that. If the bleeding Is into the large masses of the hemispheres of the brain, life may be prolonged for yeara, but the effects upon the powers of voluntary movement and upon the intellect are very sure to be decidedly deleterious. Sadden death may not result, but the condition of paralysis, and perhaps of impaired mind that is apt to be left behind, is often some- thing more to be deplored than would have been the most sudden of fatal re- sults. SUDDENLY FATAL PNEUMONLA. Pneumonia may prove suddenly fatal, but this is in a roundabout way. In this disease the blood undergoes a curious change, be- coming much more disposed to coagulate (clot) than in health. It sometimes happens that from debility the heart is unable to drive the vital fluid through the lungs with its usual force and velocity. The easily coagulated blood, moving lazily through the great cavities of the heart, finds time and opportunity to form a clot, whinh fills the great artery going to the lungs. The conse- quence of this is, no blood goes to the lungs to be submitted to the action of the air â€" breathing is useless â€" and the sufferer per- ishes as ,if shut up in an apartment from which the air has been exhausted. Acci- dents of this kind are very rare but are not always fatal when they occur. The " heart clog " may be but small and fill but one of the arteries going to the lungs. The other lung being free to perform its duty, the clot deposited is taken up by absorption after a time, and all is again well. But if the great artery should become^ clogged completely at some point before it divides into one each for the right and left lung, then death must necessarily be sudden and very painful. There is another way in which pneumonia may prove suddenly fatal. This is by para lysis of the heart. When a large propor- tion of a lung is filled with the products of inflammation it Is about the consistence of liver substance. The blood finds difficulty in finding its way through thisconsolidated- structure, which is so different from the spongy, normal lung substance. Under these circumstances, S the blood is present fn the body In large amount, and is sent around the circulation with considerable force, there is, occasionally, a condiion of danger developed from an accumulation of an overplus in the right side of the heart, which cannot be sent through the \iuiefi to the left side fast enough, because of the in- tense congestion of the lungs. This danger of paralyais from overdistension is one that must be continually guarded against in the treatment of this most formidable dis- ease. It is here that the use of alcohol be- comes of such surpassing value. A CONSUMPTIVE SUDDEN DEAFH. Consumption of the lungs sometimes comes to~ a very sudden and unexpected ter- mination in the following manner. Ri^ther late in the disease the upper portions of b'th lungs are occupied by a dense deposit of tubercle, together with inflammatory pro- ducts that render the organs useless for breathing purposes for one-third or one-half their extent. The extent of lung that is still available for breathing beccmes more and more limited with each day's deposit of tubercle. If now the cavity of the pleura (pleura sac), in which the lung lies, and ex- pands, and contracts in the movements of breathing, should become connected with a cavity in the diseased lung, so that air can penetrate and fill the pleural sac, then, of course, all movements of expansion or cop- traction of that lung must cease, for there is no room left for the movements of breath- ing. The opposite lung being already half useless, or even more disabled, the sufferer suddenly finds himself deprived of most of his breathing space, and must perish within a very short time, dying actually and liter- ally of suffocation. There are one or two rare and unusual modes by which valvular disease of the heart may prove suddenly fatal. One of these is the formation of the clot or concre- tion from the blood upon one of the valves this being washed away into the circulation, travels along in the blood current, until it reaches a place too narrow for it to pass, where it lodges. This plugâ€" called 'an embolus â€" shuts off all blood from the parts beyond, and, if there is no other way for the circulation to reach that region it becomes st-irved and decomposes â€" in the brain it softens. Softening is the common result of embolism of an artery in the brain but, if it should be a large vessel that has become plugged and the parts thus cut off from nourishment of great importance, death may result almost Instantly. Such cases are rare still, they have been known to occur. HEART RUPTURE. In fatty degeneration of the heart, or as a ' result of chronic inflammation of the muscu lar substance of the organ, the heart may rupture â€" actually •' breaking," not from any sentimental affection of the emotions, but from some sudden and violent excitement of the feelings or a violent exertion of the mus- cular system. There are authentic instances of sudden death occurring in consequence of powerful mental emotions. The mechanism of these seems to be a rapid dilatation of the bood vessels, especially those of the abdominal cavity, and a flow of blood away from the brain, producing a bloodless condition of the brain like that which is present during fainting. It is the same condition present in surgical " shock" when the latter is not due to hemorrhage. In conclusion Sadden death is due usually to some dis- ease of the heart, great vessels or brain. It is not so common as is generally suppos- ed. It is not to be feared so much as long and lingering illness. It is not generally preventsible. • An Impoitaat Distinction' " Willie," said his mother, with stem re proof in her tone, " I shall certainly have to punish you thia time. You promised me faithfully you would never play again with Uiat bad boy, Sammy Shackleford, and hereyoj've been playing ball with him for an hoar." "No, I hain't, mamma T protested WdUe, red fMsed. breatUeaa and Twhement. " I've been pUpa' againat him. Qe STTHlCEft SMILES. A foot-noteâ€"" Pleaae aae the mat" The modem skeleton in the cloaetâ€" The bnatle at night. When a ahip "laya to' ia it becanae she Is eggs-hansted. A new proceasliaa been patented by whicn aeala can be made to grow plush. A young lady In Toronto la aaid to have had five lovera all named SamueL Her photograph album ia a book of Sams. Some men become bald quite early in life, while others die and have their will, offered for probate before their heira fall out. ,i Teacherâ€" " What advantage had the old Greeks over us, Hans ' Hans (drawing a long breath)â€"" They did not have to learn Greek," The minister vainly doth squander his time while seekinff earth's evils to check, when he lectures in language, however sub- lime, to a man with a boil on his neck. Put aside your veil, my darling. Veils are useless now, my Hannah If you must conceal your features, Do it with a cheap bandana " Is there any difference in the meaning of the words 'naucical' and 'marine?'" asked Mrs. McCorkle of Mrs. Fangle. " No," was the reply, " one is a cinnamon of the other." The man who's on the ocean. And seasick in his berth, Amidst the storm's commotion, Is the man that wants the earth. Byron thought the greatest trial of a wo- man's beauty was in eating a soft-boiled egg from the shell with a knife. He never saw a Hamilton girl hanging by the teeta to a boiling hot ear of corn. " Talk of mothers-in-law and sons-in-law not agreeing," remarked Titmarsh. "My She says I ought daughter, and I mother-in-law and I agree, not to have married her coincide with her." Mabel (a stranger in town)â€"" Is Maude Hifly a girl who cares very much for style?" Mamieâ€"" Style I should think so. Why, they say the affected thing eata her very meals off a fashion plate " " This butter Is really offensive to the smell," observed the two-doUar-and-a-half- boarder. " Well, what's that got to with it " remarked the landlady. " Sensible folks eat butter and don't smell It." Said the little one " Mother only or- dered one babe, but when the doctor came he brought two, and they wr re so much alike and so pretty that mother didn't know which to choose, and so she kept them both." There Is ho period in the career of the bustle that appeals so strongly to the sym- pathetic side of man's nature as when It just reaches far enoagh abaft the weather board of the umbrella to catch the sopging rain drops as they sog. There was a tramp, a graceless scamp, of cheek he had a lot^ he stole each meal, and once did squeal " A cucumber I've got " But in the night he woke In fright .and anguish sad to see he roared in pain, then did exclaim "That cucumber's got me 'â-  Father â€" " Tommy, you should try and be a better boy. You are our only child, and we expect you to be good." Tommy â€" "It ain't my fault that I am your only child. It is tough on me to be good for a lot of brothers and sisters I haven't got." She knows her no3e. I know she knows her nose. She knows I know she knows her nosoj because she said, " 1 know he knows I know my nose." And if she said, " I know he knows I know my nose," why then of courae she knows I know she knows her nose. The first day out "Go into the stateroom, Maude, With a weary sigh and groan. For the sea is a cruel fraud. And you're better far alone. Oh, run like the mischief, Maude, For your cheeks have piler grown " There is a hotel in Philadelphia that only charges half price for lovers, and the pro- prietor says he makes more money out of this class of boarders than any other people about the house. " Let a youth," he says " sit up with a yellow spancer and blue eyes on Sunday night, and he will feel so heaven- ly that he won't get down to pork and beans again till the latter part of the week." aym' A Question of Double Personality. The fact of sleep may of itself have al- ready suggested the Idea of two distinct persons, for we certainly are not the same sleeping and waking. Yet, in sleep, we have recollections from the waking state, and we can remember from sleep when awake. There ia, therefore, an essential connection between the two states. There are in natural somnambulism at the same time more and less of analogy with the wakeful condition. In one respect it more resembles wakefulness for while. In natur- al sleep, the dream Is absolutely incoherent, the somnambulist plays out his dreams; that is, he executes a system of coordinated movements having a begiiming, a middle, and an end, or a certain coherence. On the other hand, somnambalism is further separ- ated from wakefuhiess in the fact that the man awake wholly loses the recollection of what the sleeping man has done, while the somnambulist can remember what he has done in a previous sleep. There are, then, in some fashion, two lives, and the hypothesis dreamed of by Pascal is very near to being realized: "If we dreamed every night the same things, It would affect us as much aa objects that we see every day and if tai artisan were sure to dream during the twelve hours of every night that he was a king, I believe that he would be almost aa happy aa a king who ahould dream for twelve hours that he was an artisan." Pascal speaks here only of dreaming, but It must not be forgotten that somnambulism ia composed both of dream and reality. The somnambulist performs actions that take place In the real world; he walks, he writes he does nearly everything that he does while awake, and is even able to apeak and reply. Hence we have only to represent to ourselves somnambulism gaining more and more upon the waking condition, encroach- ing upon It, and at last becoming a second waking alternating with the other, and re- taming only one feature of aomnambnllamâ€" the loaa of recollection on waking. A Dosen f aots in Sdenoe. TJgtitniiig can be aeen by reflection a dia- tance of 200 milea. Aooording to Paateor and Chamberland typhoid badllna ia in ninety-nine caaes out of a hundred commnnioated through drink- ing water. It haa been atated that railway traina in England are now driven at an average apeed 14 per cent higher than Itwaa twenty yeara ago, with acarcely more than half the quan- tity of coal. A workman in the Caraon Mint has dia- covered that drill pointa heated to a cherry red and tempered by being driven Into a bar of lead will bore through the hardest steel or plate glass without perceptible blunting. According to a Chicago philosopher fliea are revivified souls of blossoms which fall to the ground, decay, and come forth flies. There is no such poetry about the origin of the flea, for his mother is sawdust, mainly fine sawdust. Dr. W, A. McCom, of the New York City Asylum for the Insane, has found hyoscymine, bub-ctttaneously administered, a very useful remedy in quieting mania, and attended with less unpleasant symp- toms than are chloral or the bromides. Electricity is to be enlisted In the investi- gation of the purity of water. The vol- tameter fails to show any current pa^ssing through chemically pure water. As saline or acid contamination increases the con- ductivity of the medium grows greater. Sulfonal is the name of a new hypnotic used to produce sleep. The average dose in the beginning is fifteen grains, which may be pradually increased to sixty grains. It promises to be especially useful in the treatment of mental disorders. The smallest electric plant In the world Is what ia claimed for the one at the Morton House, New York. It consists of a Corliss engine, Edison dynamo, shafting, pulleys, incandescent lights, etc. It is inclosed in a glass case 3 feet long, 1^ feet wide and 2 feet high. To detect the leakage of gas. Dr. Bunte, in the Caruxdian Magaztne of Science, sug- gests the use of paper dipped in palladium chloride solution. Such paper changes its color in the presence of gaa coming from leaks Imperceptible by the odor, and which piodnce no effect upon the earth covering the pipes. ' Making a Nose to Order. A feat quite unprecedented In what has been called " decorative surgery" was ex- ecuted recently by a surgeon in one of Boston's city hospitals. The operation in question involved the construction of a new noseâ€" no novelty itself In medical science for a woman who had been afflicted from birth by the want of one. The remark- able part of the achievement lay in the building up of a bridge for the organ, none whatever having been supplied by nature. Hitherto it had been customary, for such purposes, to take pieces of flesh from the forehead or arm of the subject a°i graft them about the noEtrils in as good shape as might be â€" thus producing, in the case of a person whose nasal bone and cartilage are lacking a putty-like excrescence far frcm beautiful. The case in point, how- ever, was proceeded with in a very different manner. First the woman's nose â€" what there was of it â€" was sliced in two and the flaps turned back on the cheeks. Then a young chicken was killed, and a piece of the breast bone, of proper shape united to the root of the nasal member on the skull by silver wires. Then the flesh of the old nose ivas carefully stretched over it by ligatures. Plugs of cotton were introduced temporarily, to give the nostrils their cor- rect shape, and the physician's tack was complete. The new bone promptly became united with its attachment^ the wound heal- ed, and the operation has now been declar- ed a perfect success. The patient at preeent â€" a handsome woman she is, too â€" has a fine Roman proboscis, and the only scar 4s a scarcely preceptible line down the middle of the freshly made feature. Formerlv the deformity was so dbfiguring that the poor creature did not stir out of the house for years, save when the night's friendly dark- ness hid her misfortune from view. Food of The Stone Age. What food the pre-hutoric people of the Stone Age in Europe ate in their day, sev- eral thousand years ago, has been ascertain- ed In a novel way. An Englishman took the teeth of a human beineof tnat age, which had been found In recent years, and exam- ined what he found imprisoned In -the den- tal tartar. After using dilute hydrochloric acid, he examined the sediment, and found portions of the husks of com, hairs from the outside of the husks, spiral; vessels from vegetables, husks and starch, 'the point of a fish's tooth, a conglomeration of oval cells, probably of fruit, barblets of feathers, por- tions of wool, epithelial scales, fragments of cartilage and other organic remains. That these particles of food of a remote age should be preserved for several thousand yeare and at last recognized, comes near the marvelous. very nythiiw in the world tiut wSi uiwitha " If there ia an' in^re a^wB(iaii wm a dHenninad dadc^ to hmaiiortiiuHl, n !â-  to iadaawtolMr w forethouglit. " Darrlnger, I have come to ask you to do me a great favor." " What is it, young man "' " You've been married a good many years, haven't you " "Yes." " And three times, if I mistake not »" " Yes." " Well, I am on the point of marryine. and I want you to dissuade me fronii purpose." my Gross Hattery. De Sappy Don't iEterrnpt, Featherlng- ton-You have the biggest head on your cane I've seen this season. A Little Thing Like That. u^f^}^l i?'** ?* hnmor). « Well, I never h?;llK*^*^**"^J'«"°«»*Hke tide one- are aU^gone. and it taatoa like-tiie dickena t^jj^, you'd take bettn oai» of II nj [). m A yatem of tactkTl..., Ferrier Is to bet't^W.« army. -ord WolseleyhasDK-ij to consider military c\!k •*»»«»«--. So far PutMr' t«v,|„ **. The latest wrinkle b inan„.„ I show great politeness, adyS"" *^^ J bow to show the reversed* ?»««»pw back a step and bow. '"*»«««, dJJ Walter Cooner n » ' ' gypsy, died re^mly, Sr drawn tn ^h^ r.i.'il'^^'os sjifoy, uieu recently, anil k- ""Sa drawn to the churyStHn, mare. The mare was then ^l^K PaulFechter.asouofFei!^ ' was fencmg with his brort,.. â- ' r »««l to be forced into hU eve h, " brain, killing him. ""'Sh to^l A doctor in Algeria stood befo,..^.,, I tine and caught the head of acl'f'"^! fell from the axe and spoketoTt n'" that movements of the eves ani '*l showed that he was understood. ^\ The last French rifle, as deacr;K.j i I ballsosm^Uthataa^ldier^HU rounds, shoots with a new smoke J..^l and its bullet pierces a brick3*"5l inches thick at 500 yards. **! Two dogs have been decorated fnr 1,- I and fidelity by the Soeie^^rt tte tionof Craeltyto AnimJs in PariT^I saved its aiistress from a bnrsUr ma!?! other Its master's child from dSiJ An observer on Hyde Park oon. I ports that between 12 and 1 in the .ftellll nine- tenths of the giih that pass h.ve tt!l faces painted, their eyebrows and eyelll darkened, and their Ups reddened. I Dr. Flemming the prmcipal veterinml surgeon m the British army, has di«om2| that "roarmg" comes from an impedimSI m the larynx that can be removriTuI operation. He has eured several honea J ready. I Mr, Henry Villard says in the Betlal NatioTial Zeitung that the man who pb the proposed voyage to the south pole i| Herr Neumayer, the director of the Eu| burg Marine Observatory, a man of and a practical seaman. Much interest is felt in Manchester u J what the' Rev. Mr. Spnrfi;eon will da. |l is not expected to return to the Bsptil Union, but he may form a confederstiou J Baptist churches which share his views, d in other words, a new denomination. The BeU That " Tolls the IneU of Partial Day," The curfew is aaid to have been intwdu ed into Ea£;land by William the Conquentl By that' monarch it was ordained, nnaeta vere penalties, when the cnrfew bell rag j 8 o'clock in the evening all lights andsj should be extinguished. There are this who hold that this was merely theecfcrciif of an existing and very common police re;! ulation to that affect. The absolote ^:A\ bition of lights after the ripping of the coil few bell was abolished by Henry I,iiiilie| year 1100 but the practice of tolling a bdl at a fixed hour in the evening was con:miel| and this, which is still extant ibeomepkctiil is a survival of the curfew of medi*vill times. At first the commoa hour Tall o'clock, then it was gradually advansed kI 8, and in some placed to 9 o'clock inded,! in Scotland, 10 o'clock was not an unndj hour. The curfew was a regulation nioi| useful In those early days, whenitwasthij custom to place the fire in a hole ip middle ot the floor, under an opening iatln roof, to allow the escape of smoke. Wbal the family retired for the night, thefol was extinguished by covering it np heMil the t)rm couvrefeu, or curfew. Thenm lation was also serviceable in obliging tMl women to keep in their houses, ana W| preventing night brawls in the sjeet. lt»l believed there is no historical authority Wl the popular tradition that the severity «l hibited by the Conqueror, in enforcing o»l dience to the curfew, was most particu^II designed to prevent the English fron?*^| bling in secret to plan schemes of i«MiJ»| against their Norman lords. She Gets Even Again. They were fond of each other, «iy!,; 1 had l^en engaged. But they qn»r«W and were too proud to make it up. ^e u^l ed a few days ago at her fathers ho^ see the old gentleman on business, of co" I She answered his ring »* "'« fj^'ll Said he-" Ah. Miss-â€". I l^^f 1 A your father within?" "No, «r, J^ plied. "Pa is not « »jrte.,S wish to see him personally J J^heM was hU blufi- response, fw^l^g^S bus- yielding, "on very Particular p««'°»' ness." ^And he proudly tnrnedto g'f^ "I beg your pardon," she '^.,'^^\ as he struck the lower step, J" -• I shall I siy' called?" He never again. To be Obtained Cheap. Friend (to convalescent). ' ^mfl pneumonia cost you a good «•»». j^ Convalescent, "Oh no; I got' open streetcar for five cents. LighTSse. " Mr. Blank, do you know » 1 '^^^.Y^i.IknowBlifil.-sf.tftS? I " Whkt's his Bpecialty-ligj; «"„, ^y " I fancy It is. Indeed, I »« u^ht. of Blifil's verss that wasn t aim's. One Way to TelL " Ef a gentleman say ' Co J^ /„â-  do W " black scamp, en' black merb^^«J^„ ao^J quick, too,' I knows dat m"'» „pen, «« Sonf, en' hegwinel»g«'°«"' moa' likely a quartah. Jfia'**^ Thua a darkey ^^f °llos!i^' ateamboat was expIaim^^'J'Jro" aectionalprocUvlties, °^.^iH^'Z to aay " Ef anuther gf^^ f^Z • My dear yonug cuUud J^ y j,* «g wfine ea to black my WJi, arijffj from Greenlan'i Ict riffi* «* i mdat dilution. J'TSlgi «fj%- aJolmdeBaptB^^ ^^ moa' lifarty h» g*" rWoir FiBBt i?0BtI8HBD,] By M. Author of "Ladt Audley's CHAPrER XXV.â€" Past Cure T oAv Belficld was content to cheris I ^much of her daughter-m-law w •tfiL any awkward questions. The '"irtBrof remonstrance from \al •.Sore it might be supposed that h •'r^^on toTiis wife's absence s IgOi Itiietefo^J l*5i'i*S"^ll. Early hours, free *^!^t society, wouldno doubt sooi ..jJVaooA influence upon Helen s heal I ••*r Brightness would return to 1 l?£fIS'face. and reviving health woulc l^V^ifiT frame of mind. KK oSormed very amiably to I fw-in-law'a arrangements. She\ \Z\Sm Boon after ten o'clock every I'^nt when there were visitors h fjSrwod ample latitude as to her l^i.« morning, and rarely appeared b£b«akfwt. She walked and dro^ l?Sv Belfield. and took afternoon t« I lAiv Belfield's friends. She did not Irideor to play tennis, ^d those amus fl not pressed upon her either by ,w his mother. It might be that Santed was rest. Adrian watehed 1 Utively, witiiout seemmg to watch, I w He know now but too well hov llw tills was upon which he hw I warded the happiness of his own lif I Mr Rockatone and the Freemantk 1 the most frequent visitors in the lonj mer days, dropping in at aU hours, Kbout the lawn with Lady Belheld a (OB, bringing aU tiie news of the paru l^nsnng the more stirrmg though I Itsresting news of the outer world. Sometimes the Miss Treduceys ca I in hour before afternoon tea, just i Ifor a double set at tennU, with Adn I Lucy Freemantie, who was less shee] I tad a good deal prettier at twenty tt |h»d been at eighteen. I Shs was a tall, fair girl, with light Ihur and clear blue eyesâ€" eyea In whi Ivery spttit oiE candid and innacent gi lieemed to smile and sparkle. She Ihappy-tempered, bright, industriou Ihelwng her father and mother in al Ihobbies and all their plans, and ruli Ivery inferior brother with affeci Ityranny. There could have been no j l^ntrast than that between Lucy Free lis the vigour and freshness of her gii |ud Helen Belfield In her broken heal Idepressed spirits. I •* What a very sad change in your Idauehter-in-law," said Mrs. Freema I Lady Belfield. " She looks as if sh Igoing into a decline." I " Oh, we won't tdlow her to do tha' lis here to bs cured," Constance r raeerfully. I She did not want to have Helen pit liespiured about by half the county. I " People told me she was quite tli Ifa London when I waa there in June. {Matilda Tredncey. " I met her at liliree parties, but she waa always [rounded that I couldn't get a wor Iher and I hope, dear Lady Belfiel I won't feel offended if I own that I do llln, Baddeley, and that I rather a I any encounter with her." I Lady Belfleld was nlent. She, tc llur donbta about Mra. Baddeley, ai last inclined to take np the cadoels i Ihdy'a behalf, albeit ahe inwardly r iHin IradUiey'a impertinence. I miedavawentbypeaceftdlyandplei laoagh, but there waa no revival of 1 I obits. Country air amd country houi laoing her somegood, perhaps. She w( Ids MSB wan and pale than she had t Iher arrival, but Adtian'a calm wateh I Perodved no improvement in her moral lu the smiled, the amile was evidei Itffort When ahetalked there was th I tir of constraint. If he came upon hi linij m the drawing-room or the gar I*** generally to find her sitting in iJdeMM, with the air of one for wh( lliidntitiier pleasure nor interest. I This atate of thinga wint on for moi I » month. I« waa the middle of Augui |ne weathw waa aoltrier than it had 1 I July, Mra. Baddeley was aatonishi Hoieter viaitora at a Scarborough hob Iddk^ting her train of attendanta, wi liuned to that point from various shi Boxes on the Yorkahire moora. Va I^Soln^ to and fro over the earth ii " ^O ae, in hia journeying from on |^*^g to another. He oocaaionally i «o to wife with a few hurried Unes ptnincial hotel, telling her hia wheret \i~* appeared thoroughly to appr |J*j^Menoe at the Abbey, and pr her there before the first of Oc I ,^ J •o far aa it went, seemed w 7'"t it so seemed to Lady B 401^ *aa not altogether aattefied. Lrf ??" i*e Valentine'a patsion »mI • "" "" '*y ^ben he and 2f "^I^ " *be lawn after lun ' Z? "*««»g beUeve to work, he with 2*^ ^bert Spencer on his kne IS^' ta very far from the pages r. •• I hope, Helen, there t^* 'Binor I heard at my club SiP London the other day." ^wiaa mmor " »A^"!*""«uriBd me that Valenti S««ttLordSt. Austell's i-acing I g°vcrinaoned at that audden utter ^- -^ Wtott'e name, and could » ttfal »~:**^« never heard of s Tr,. *• "aid. I ,jj~* m know that St Auste I ff^^band are close friends,' al tZl^ "Mta Utde while befor ff52S^*beB St AuateU waa at Mo ii1^£ V^ ^oth in the report, Va ;Q|^^9^^ way to ignominious '.•Cafe.- *• haa only your aettiemc «e my mother maket ^we would be available f caeticaUyhe is a man of t|^t to apecnlate in a ^brilare ha doea apecnlat ^P to noaa, and he beta a aaidM given me money ^•tnt I know that til »^-«â€" Mr. Beeohin batldont think El»4»withltbeyon »w and then." Tl