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 m^^^f^"f^^v ii?.5 ^-4?i A-v' »l LIKE AND tTNLIKB. AUTKOB OF By M. B. BRADDON, •• Ladt Addlzy's Secret," " Wyllabd's Weikd," Etc., Etc CHAPTER XXIXâ€" (Contisped " Yon are nrgently wanted at home for Rasons to be exolained when we meet. Btart by firat train poasible from Chadford B'ad-" :â-  T J u 1 " fle must be ill," exclaimed Lady Bel- field. "He would hardly telegraph m argently for any other reaioa. What conld ahe be wanted at home for except her hus- band's illness â€"an accileni, perhaps â€" thrown ftom his horse, or something dreadfuli A^d Iw telegraphs ciutiously, to prevent our be- ing frightened. 1 shall go at once, Adrian. I won't wait till this silly girl is found. I'H go to my son as fast as the rail can carry white with a She rang the bell hastily, BW terror. •• Dear mother, don't agitate yourself so dreadfullyâ€" indeed there may be no cause to fearâ€" about Valentine's health. I can't Miderstand the telegram." He stood with the message in his hand, perplexed beyond measure. How should Valentine have been able to telegraph from Kensington at half-p*st seven that morning. He could not possibly have reached London by that hour, even if he were travelling in that direction. There had been no train that could convey him. Or even had it been MMsible, why should he have sent such a â- lessage What end would he hope to gam ty the hideous mockery of telegraphing to the dead There was some mystery under- lying the message. " Tell Sanderson to pack my dressing bag and portmanteau for the ten forty train " said L%dy Belfield, when Andrew appeared, •• and order the carriage at once. Adrian, J must leave yon to look after Helen. There aan be nothins really wrong with herâ€" some foolish freakâ€" an early rambleâ€" and she has lost herself on the moor, perhaps. I cannot atop to think about her. She can follow me hy a later train." The mother's heart and mind were full if her son, and of him alone. She thought him stricken by sudden illneasâ€" a con- tsming feverâ€" congestion of the lunga â€" aajralysisâ€" or a fatal accident, his back brok- n, life ebbing fast away, life measured by noDients, and she so far from him, with so many weary miles between them, seeming slow even when travelled by the fastest ex ^jresa that ever rushed along the iron road. " Dear mother, you must do whatever you ftink best," said Adrian, quietly " but I jun assured you are torturing yourself with- «Bt reason. Why should this telefifram mean ainess ' Thare are a hundred possibilities. It tells U3 nothing except that Valentine wants hJB wife at home. It may have been wnt in a fit of temper." The door opened, and Mrs. Marrable came », clean and fit and homely, in her fresh jink and white print gown and lace "cap, but much paler and less self possessed than was l»r wont. Her broad good-natured count- soance had a distressed look as she ap- proached her mistress with an open letter in ier hubd. ♦• If you please, my lady, this was found 'a Mrs. Belfield's room just now, lying on ihe floor, my lady, amooK a litter of bits of )ace and scraps of faper, and such like and i thought it was my duty to bring it to you with my own hands." It was Helen's letter that unfinished let- ter which so broadly confessed her own wicked purpose. "When you read this I shall be far away Jram this house â€" far away from Eogland, I %vpe â€" with the man who loves me well «aough to sicrifije social position for my jftke and for whose love I am willing to for }e»i my pood name." l^dy Bslfield sank into her chair, crushed hy this bitter stroke. Her son's wife â€" the giirl she had loved and trusted, and treated n all thing=i as a daughter â€" this girl wife, â- oyouag md fair and eeemingly innocent, ^»d declared her guilt in those deliberate lines. Tne mystery of Helen Bel field's dis- appearance was solved. She and her good dsame were gone for ever. ' What neiirs for me to take to my son," she exclaimed, thinking more of him than »i hia gui'.t/ wife. "Take my advije, mother. Do not go tD Mm. Tnere is something wrong about that telegram. It is a hoax, perhaps." " No, no, Adrian. Who should invent jHch a hoixâ€" to what end I must go, I toll you â€"there is no alternative. He tele- -- jpraphs for his wifeâ€" he has no longer a wife. But his ir.other can go to him in his trouble. That tie is not so easily broken." *• Lst me go with you then." "No. You will have plenty to do here. Ton must find out all about that miserable jirl how and when she went, and with -jrbom. Hive you any idea do yon suspect my one 'i ' Adrian was sUent. Hiw could he answer; h^ir malign the dead. She had been on the ^ink of sin, and yet perhaps had died spot- Ibse, save in the intention to abandon her tesband. .^nd had he held his hand, she might have repented and drawn back on t'oe Twry threshold of that awful guilt. The in- dention announced in that letter might never ^ve been carried out. She might have Bred a pure and dntlful wife to the end. ^d was he to bstray her now in her uncon jecrated grave and say, "Yes, I know all jibout her. Lird St. Austell was hei torer." " You don't know?" questioned his moth- tt. " Yon have no suspicion about anybody, â- Bkong her admirers 7 My God, this is what «mies of being talked about as the beautiful Mrs. Belfield. You must telegraph to her t)ier, Adrian. You need not telegraph to ^•r sister. I shall see her. And you will Snd out all you can about her flight. Poor, wretched, sinful creature. I was w fond of ker," with streaming eyes. Suiderson cam 3 in with her miatress's )Knnet and mantle travelling bag and ^rtmantean were in the carriage already. •• Am I to go with you, my lady V " es, mother, pray don't go alone," nrged Adrian. " Can you be ready this instant ' ' I've only to put on my bonnet, iny lady. We shall have plenty of time." It was within a few miantea of ten, and Ibe train waato leave Chadford-road Station at ten forty. Adrian helped hla mother wHh her mantle, tenderly oaring for her, while Ssuddenon ran off to set henelf ready Jor the joamey. He handed hla mother iito the carrUge, and itajed beddo her, •omfwting and ohtwlag har, tUi bar maid returned, and all was ready for depMtuM. " Where will yon stay, mother At the Alexandra. I supoose. And ifâ€" if you find Valentine is not ill, that the telegram means nothing, you will come back to morrow, wiU you not Or you wUl telegraph to me to go to you." " Yes, rn telegraph when I know what is wrong. I shall stay at Wilkie Mansions, perhaps. God grant I may find Helen there," a(5ded Lady Belfieli, m a lower voice. " Sie may h»ve wavered at the last moment and gone to her husband. That wretched letter may mean less than we think. It is not even finished, you see, Adrian. Sle may have written it in some mad, angry fit against Valentine. .God knows. Good-bye, dearest, good-bye. Mot tier and son clasped hands, and Adrian gave the coachmen the signal for departure. He stood watching the carriage drive away, motionless, as if turned to stone, paralysed by despair. Under no other circumstances would he have allowed his mother to go to London upon such an errand alone. Under no other circumstances would he have failed to see her ofiF at the station but to day he dared not do even as much as that. He dared not leave the house, that dear home of his childhood and youth, which to him was henoef orward.only the scene of murder, a place of horror and hideous memories. He went back to the breakfast room slowly, wondering what next he was to hear. Mrs. Marrable was hovering over the t^le pretending to arrange the roses and golden lilies in the geat chrysanthemum bowl which filled the center with bloom and perfume. " I do declare my lady has gone away without as mnoh as a cup of tea," she said. •• It's a sad, sad day for ns all. Sir Adrian." " It is, indeed, a aad day, Mrs. Marrable.'" " And to think that sweet young ladyâ€" oh, sir, I know it was very wrongâ€" but hu- man nature is human nature, and we were all so upset in my room, and Jane she came rushing in with that letter, half out of her wits, poor girl, and oh. Sir Adrian, she read the letter on the stairs, not knowing what she was doing, and she just g«.ve it in- to my hand, tried to speak, and couldn't caught her breath, and went oS into strong hysteiics, and I make no doubt she's in them at this very moment." ••Then you all know " he was going to say •• everything," but stopped himself and said, •' You all know that my sister-in- law began to write a very foolish letter which she never fiainhed, and which may mean nothing. She has some reason to com- plain of my brother's neglect, and she may hive written that letter as a kind of warn- ing' to him." •• Yes, Sir Adrian, she may. Onlyâ€" only " faltered Mrs, Marrable, who loved •• the family" with a reverential afiection, and would have cut her tongue out rather than speak disrespectfully of any Belfield, •' only, what can have become of Mrs. Bel- field if she h*3â€" notâ€" gone away with some one?" That question seemed unanswerable, for Sir Airi^n remained siUnt. •• I'll go up to Mrs. Belfield's room," be Slid, presently, after walking up and down for a few minutes, while Mrs. Marrable still lingered, and still found occupation in the arrangement of the breakfast table, where the silver kettle was boiling desperately over a spirit lamp, and the eggs were cook- ing themselves as hard as stone in a patent egg-boiler. •'I may find someâ€" some other letter," added Adrian. "lou can come with me if you like." Mrs. Marrable waited tor no second invi- tation. She followed Sir Adrian to the rooms over the library, by the private stair- case which Valentine had ascended in the dead of the night. The bedroom remained'exactly as Adrian had seen it last night, except that the win- dows were open and the sucshine streaming in and lighting np every corner. There was the spot where he had seen that prostrate form, with upturned face and blood-stained forehead there stood the table With its lit- ter of writing materials, scattered books. and low vases of summer flowers, candles burnt low in the sockets of the massive old silver candlesticks, an arm chair in front of the table, the chair in which she had b^en seated when she penned that fatal letter. Two arpe oil skin covered dress-basketa stood near the door, strapped and looked ready for departure. Doors of wardrobes were open, drawers and shelves were empty. Everything indicated preparations for de- parture. A travelling bag upon the dressing table was filled with ivory backed brushes and perfume battles, and all the trinketry of a woman's toilet, leaving the table itself almost bare. There conld be no doubt that she had pre- pared for her departure that she had de- liberately planned her flight. As he stood looking at these preparations the meaning of the telegram flctshed ution him. It was from S!:. Austell: a mea^^B invented to afl'ord Helen an excuse for leav- ing the Abbey. He looked around the r^om, moviLg slow- ly to and frn, while Mrs. Marrable'a clear, honest eyes inspected everything, and while Mrs. Marrable's shrewd mind made its own conclusions. That letter â€" unfinished as it wasâ€" taken in conjunction with the picked boxes and dressing bag, mast mean a ran- away wife but howwaa it that the fugitive had left without taking her luggage or mak- ing some arrangement for having It sent after her " I daresay she waa afraid at the last, and dared not go off to the station with her boxes, as some have done, bolder than braaa," thought Mrs. Marrable. Siell write to me, perhaps, asking me to aend her lui;gage 8ome«rhere. She'd never dare write to her ladyship." There were no lettnv upon the writing- table â€" not a scrap of Helen's writing any- where, except that one fata) letter in Sir Adrian's breast-pocket. There waa no atain of blood upon the oak fl or yonder where she had fallen, or on the delicate chintz cover of the chair near whioh she fell. "Grwdoas!' exclaimed Mrs. Marrabla, •nddenly, "what's gono with the white Persian mg?" Adrain tJSiBctad ignorance. "The baantifal white mg that naad to lie In front of the writiBg-taUe. It waa woa of my lady'a fayoorlta mga. 8h* bronght It down from Loadoa two jaara ago irlitn ahe had been furnishing Mr. Belfi«»d •J^""'" It waa in her own dreaaing room tQl- the other day, and then she says, Marrable, Mrs. Belfield is out of health, and commg to ns to get strong. We must make her rooms as pretty as ever we can. Mid thu rug waa brought here with a SooH^m^xxj other thin«8-that chair, and die Indian acreen, for instance, at Lady Belfield a or- der. And what can have become ot the rug* It waa here the day before yaaterday when I brought In the clean linen." ,, " The housemaid must have moved it, aald Adrian, looking out of the window. " You don't suppose Mrs. Belfield haa wett- ed it in one of her boxes, do yon, Mar- rable " "No, sir, of course not. But that rug must be somewhere," and the housekeeper bustled off to investigate the matter. Adrain turned away from the window, sick at heart. Waa life always to go on like this for evermore. In alternate horror and ahame waa he to feel always the murderer's terror of discovery, he who waa gnaUessof the murderer's crime. Where waa Valentine while the hours were going on, and the chances of inquiry becoming more haa urdons 7 Had he gone back to London, to resume bia old life, to brszsn out hla guilt by the care- less ease of his manner as he trod the beaten track, among his usual set T Would he try to prove an alibi were he ever called to question up n the business of last night? Had anybody seen him at the station or in the town Had anybody heard him moving about the house At the Abbey there waa no anapicion of anything worse than an elopement but up- on that question the Abbey aervanta had all made np their minds. Mra. Belfield had carried out the intention announced in that letter which Jane had read upon her way downstairs. And like a vonng and foolish thing as she waa, ahe had gone off withont her luggage, trusting to the chapter of acci- dents for getting her property aent after her. They were aU rather aorry for her, though they were alao all agreed that thia elope- ment had beeen inevitable from the very beginning â€" ay, even while the aonnd of her wedding bells was atiU In the air. " If aha had wanted to be happy in her married life, ihe onght to have had Sir Adrian," said Mra .Marrable, and everybody else agreed, as in duty bound. There was a good deal of diacutaion aa to how and when Mrs. Belfield left the Abbey, and by what train ahe had gone but thia waa finally settled to everybody's aatiafac- tion. She had slipped out of the house overnight, shortly atter she had retired to her room and she had walked quietly to the station and had taken her seat in the last train from Barnstaple, whioh would reach Exeter in time for the mail from Ply- mouth. She would be at Paddington early in the morning. Her lover would meet her somewhere on the road most likely. There was very little question aa to the name of the lover. Sanderson had been at the Alexandra with Lady Belfield, and had gone to and fro between the hotel and Wil- kie Mansions with messages, and had seen Lord St. Austell at Mra Belfield'a, and at Mrs. Baddeley's, and had heard things. Even the little page had hia opiniona, and had expressed himself freely as to Mr. Bel- field's short-sightedness. Sanderson was too good a servant to talk much upon such delicate subjects but she had talked a little to Mrs. Marrable in the confidential half-hour after supper, and now that the catastrophe had come she talked a great deal, and nobody in the housekeeper's room or the servant's halh doubted that Mrs. Belfield had gone off with Lord Ss. Austell. with Helen's father but he ahrank witn ab horrenoe from the task. What could he aay which would not be a black Mid bitter lie To aay that ahe had fled would be to malisfn the dead to aay anything elae would be to endanger bia brother. He had to shield the wrong doer at any costâ€" for hia mother a â- ftko When laat heard of Colonel Deverill had been yachting in the Hebridea with a wealthy ship builder of Glasgow. He had given hia addreaa at a dab in that city. " Wherever I am in Angoat and September, any lettera aent to the Imperial will find me," he had told hia daughters, " I am sure to get them sooner or later." As the Colonel rwely answered anybody a letters, it did not seem of much conaequence where they were aent In the first inatanoe. People who were bent on writing to him might aa well address him at a Glasgow Club aa anywhere else. Adrian told himself that to let the day paaa without making any attempt at com- municating with the Colonel, would be to creste evidence againat hia brother, a point upon which aome future investigator might put hia finger, aaying here ia one small fact which alone might establish guilt. He re- membered how In most of the great criminal trials he had read the balance of proof hung upon infiniteaimala. Trifling curcumatancea which at the moment of their occurrence aeemed to the criminal of hardly any conse- quence, and which yet were atroni enough to hang him. He aeated himself at his writing table and took up a packet of telegraph forms and slowly, after much irresolution, wrote hu message. „ From Adrian Belfield, Chadford, to Colonel DeveriU, Imperial Club, Glasgow. "Mrs. Belfield has left the Abbey sudden- ly, leavina; a letter which involves trouble for ua all. Her huaband Is in Lindon. Kindly communicate with him." There waa not much In thia. It commit- ted the aender to veiy little. It would In all probability be long in reaching the Colo- nel and in the meantime, Valentine might have got away from England, and beyond the reach of pnrauit, ahould auspicion be di- rected towards him. (to be continued.) Tflli GBEATEST Bcscrlptlon ef the Xew u«. The new Inman line ' York had a trial i "fifttaerc entrance of many in CHAPTER XXX.â€" The Silent Pool. Sir Adrian sat in the library, or aaunter- ed about the lawn and shrubberies near the house, all that long, heavy day. He dared not leave the premises just yet â€" so intense was his dread of some new catastrophe. He wanted to be there, to face the worst that conld happen to be at hand to answer ques- tions, or to meet calamity with a bold front. Once he went down to the river, and look- ed at that rushy pool where his brother's vic- tim was lying. The water scarcely rippled in the still summer air the lights and sha- dows played upon the surface of the pool the sunbeams glinted among the reeds, trem ulcus, uncertain, as the foliage moved softly overhead. It was a lovely afternoon. He had come there to fish upon many such after- noons in years that were gone. That little creek under the willoWs, and its sheltered bank, had been a favourite spot with him. To-day he lingered there, listening to the faint plashing of the water, and watchiner the bright-winged insecss as they dipped ana fluttered on the dark surface of the pool, an 1 then skimmed away, az ire, transparent, beautiful, like apots of living light. How calmly beautiful the place waa, and how hard it waa for Adrian's over wrrought brain to realiae the horror lying there. He stood staring blankly at the dark water, and almost wondering whether there were any reality in list night'a criineâ€" whether the whole tragedy from first to last were not an hallucination of hia own, the graphic inyen- tion of a madman. He went back to the Abbey, dreading to find that something h«l happened daring hia absence, brief aa it had been. A conatable from Chadford, or a detective from Sxttland Yard would be waiting for him perhapa or there would be aome frightful newa of his brother aauicide found m aomeaeqaeatered spot' upon the moor; a mutilated corpse, borne home upon a abutter. No ther* waa nothing changed on hia return. The bonae had an air of death like atillnesa. The vene tiana were closed outiide those windows above the library. He could picture hia brotber'a wife lying there on the white bed, with folded handa,' and limba decently oom- poaed, under the lavender-asented aheet. That would have been horribleâ€" early, untimely death In one ao fair and light- minded would have aeemed a reveraal of na- ture'a common law but, oh, how light a calamity compared with chat whioh had hap- pened. He went into the library. Hia open piano, bia booka npon the reading taUe, hia deak and papera, the grave old organ yonder in iOMdeepreoesaby the high oak obitamsy piece, the organ he had ao lovedâ€" all thoae thinga whioh made up the oocapatioB, inter- oat, plaasnre of hia daUy lifa-«U wee* ther* aa thay h»d been yeatorday. bnt they ooald yield Lim nnther delight noroomfiwt • no not on* minute'a rerptt* or dcatraetionl H* aat at hia book-taUa with foldad anna, and hia fordiead r«*ting upon them, ahnttibs I Hit mother bad told Mm to'£S!^!!!^ How to Disinfeot. Formerly it waa oniveraally believed to deodorize and to diainfect meant the aame thing â€" that whatever would deatroy or mask the bad amella generated by filth or disease would destroy the infection. Every one now knows this to be an error. The fumes of burning snlphar are, to a cer- tain extent, very effective, and it came to be generally reued on as a disinfectant but, according to Dr. Harrington, of the Harvard Meaical School, Koch, by a long series of experiments conducted by himself and other experts, under the most scientific conditions, has proved that sulphur fumes are wholly ineffectual against the tpoies, or seeds, of microbes, and also against the microbes themselves, except on the surface of infected articles. Many other agents, alao, hitherto relied on, are decbured to bo worthleaa. The only diainfeotanta now recommended are carbolic acid, chloride of lime and corrosive subli- mate. The employment of these articles re- quires good judgment, and they are not adapt^ed to such articles aa atuffed furniture, mattresses, outside clothing, etc. Steam, however, ia speedily effective against all microbes and their spores, and penetrates all bulky articles. Prof eaaor Harrington urgea that the public authority in every city and town should own the requisite apparatus and conduct the disinfection, since it is more a matter of public than of private interest, and its thoroughness can only in this way be guar- anteed. The State would greatly gain in the end. The following ia the substance of the reg- ulations for disinfection in hospitals, which MO equally adapted to private practice Bed and body linen are to be changed daily other articles about the bed at once whenever soiled. All changed linen, bath tow- els and rubber sheets are to be immediately wrapped in a sheet soaked in carbolic acid, one part of acid to forty of water removed to the rinse-house as soon as possible, and soaked six hours in carboiic acid of the «ame strength then the linen boiled for a half hour, and washed with soft soap. The rubber sheets to be rinsed in cold water, dried and aired for eight hours. The bedspreads and blankets to be aired eight houra daily Feeding utensils to be cleansed in boiling water immediately after being used. The discharges mO to be leceived in a bedpan containing half a pint of diluted carbolic acid, one part to twenty of water. The contents, before being thrown into the ••hop- per," are to be thoroughly mixed with two quarta of the same aolution. Both bedpan and hopper are then to be cleanaed with carbolic acid, and wiped dry. The p«tlent, when aoiled, la to be cleanaed with paper, and finally with oompreaa cloth wet in carbolic add, and the paper and doth burned at i noe. «»jr. QUO IB me largest t*" " **' aBoat, having accommodati!!!*?*^ »«ii j|ons She haa five decblTj?* ^uble bottoms. The topSJfJ«'|«t,t| the promenade, extends EH edSI to atom, and is unlike tW ir^^^wiSl steamers, aa It is open at ti?."^^AC greater part of its length ^^'t"' tk ahelter for those who ^h^ut^ A boisterous weather. The iI.i!"""«Ne j; the veaael ia the firsS"S?«'«««^ aituated forward on the m^JT^I "Ho, signer of the vessel has tEr^; M of two and a half decks to Zw ' H roof 20 feet high The fl'^o^S'^*^ u on the upper dack, andthewok â-  *^ feet above the top of the S,^^^^' above the promneade. Ain„T ",*«^ the saloon there are recessft ^^^ ties may dine sepwately in " P" aeclusion. The 300 people »L»'""'4 the saloon at the san^e time wHU ^i supplied by hydraulic "lifia'^, "' ' ley on the deck below. At f^.*' of the saloon is a spacious hall l£' ?^ :e to a grand stairway Jth^" library riomsftfimS?:ai;S« The library is shaped liJe'tC' being narrowest in the middle Uâ„¢.^* ship and widest at the sides Th7 amount of light is thus gotfMaK" The library contMns 800 volnme8,r«,V tiveof all departmrnts of lit«r»C including 250 works by Amerfe Aft of the funnels on the upper dechti is accommodation for a lar^e nnX dinners, the idea bebg that here cU,' and servants may dine. The fifttl smoking room is on the upper deck \U after end of the ship. lti»45fe,ti and 27 feet broad, and will afford vervo fortable accommodations for about 13!) Neariy 700 first-class passengershiveL provided for. The largest and be«tpnI apartments in the ship are fourteeit of rooms, tqually divided between thep nade and upper deck. The amuL, and furnishing are such that the occim may, if he chootes, remain in doon do the whole voyage and have his food « to him privately. He may also, if bd invite a few fellow voyagers to hit cabin and entertain them there, Iht cabins look like small drawing roomi. Tlx are twenty- five day sitting roonu for I class passengers. State rooms, large i and beautifully decorated and upholsti. have been provided on the main andloij decks in the centre of the ship for 479 fi class passengers. The second-class passengers are iccom dated on the main and lower deckg k i appointed state rooms. There are nii six staterooms for 390 second cUu sengers. These are almost ai ele{ and comfortably fitted asthe first-claur ordinary passenger steamen lu in rooms, both for first and secondclui sengers, are made as light, airr. comfortable as those against the side of ship, and the absence of any sound of sea will mike them more comfortable tl outside rooms to many voyages. TheT be lit by electric lights, and a unique met of ventilation has been adopted to ' fresh air in the inside as well as oil rooms. The emigrants have rooms provided them at the two extreme ends of the loi and main decks. The sleeping berthi in the middle line of the ship, and as is usual, built up on the inside of hull. The voyagers are therefore ewl to use during the day the part of the best lighted. The engine and boiler spaces take about 140 feet of the length of the il On the bridge is the captain's cabin i chart room, and a powerful search eleca light, to enable the operator to diico" small object a couple of mi'es away, I is used at night, among other thingi, J finding the buoys on entering channeli at the end of the voyage. The gross tonnage of the City of J York, 110,500 tons, makes herthel»ij passenger vessel aflat, and her power will very considerably of any other merchant steamer mtde w being 20,OO0hgr8e power. There areu nine boilers, Of* steel each weighing ,i exceed m â- jjlBOELLAHEOUS. „«, white robins have been *• Pj5t of an ordinary redbreas tnrisoo declares she has IS-* ^7 time" ^y earthquakes « |rt«i8^^rMackerzie is building Igrtf«T„ii and is said to have rS^t?tes* "P****" '"""'" '" r*^ from England of the futi B«P*H to revive interest in archery i"" -«hlv dead the noble pastii thoto"' ' " th a day are p; ' *Zt settles the question of it. '^^ thia country. Orleans has discovered that »«* S Se canning of bnmps, HlJ^aAe industry rapidly. It i, M»P?»K0O0O cans •'ffing the season, r „« found confined in a car of 1 [*Cn"«ee recently received at B \fiSi A*" „ v-en two or three weeks -«fowt--*«-^^"^*'ir^ »^'ltrecovered, and IS doing well. «-.t of alleged skill and reputi ""rPresidentof a State dental! tforn-erPresW ^^jy sued by a New Be fioa.w" i" wffi?, and the jury gave the /joOO damages. frlterpillars are doing great harm m Lww on the upper the wrong tcoth and a anc •In. such an ac which these nine boilers posses m conceived when it is said that were m To Stop the Orayices in the Bookies A gigantic scheme baa been propoaed by which the oanona of the Rocky Monntaina are to be dammed up from the Canadian line to Mexico, in order to form vaat roaervoira of water to be aat d In th* Irrigation cf arid lands, and to pr«v«nt flooda in ihe Miaaonri and lower MiaaisaippL Major Powell, Di- rector of the National Survey, eatimatea that at leaat 150,000 aqnar* mil*a of land might thoB be rediUmod^â€" a territory exoeeding in extant on* half of th* land now oaltivatwl in the United State* Th* plan ia to build dama acroaa th* oanona in th* mountaina, large enough and atrong onoagii to hold bitok floada from haavy ndna and mdting anowa, and then let th* water down aa it ta n**d*d upon th* land to be reclaimed. In view of th* vaat irrigating worka of andont Egypt, India and oth*r conntriei, ther* la no doubt tliat anoh a plan ia qnit* f*aaibl* to modom engine*ring akill. lnde*d it ia vary likely tliat aom* aoham* of th* kind will b* put in praotic* wh«n land b«oomea moreyaloMl* aa population b*oom*a danaer. Who ahall aay that th* grwkt Wflatmm d*a«rt" ahall not b* tranafwrnad Into rich aimble land* by thia mtana by th* aaoond oentonary of American Ind*p*na*no*T A SeMonaUe fieplj* H*(fromCindnnati)^*'Wh*f* ahall yon aammer, Miaa De P*yat*r?" Sh* (from Boatwi)â€" •• In Main*. Mr. Gooaaboy. W« alwaya jm tharw. Papa wanta oa to fall in New York, bat I'd a good deal rath«r â- priag thar*. A Mand of onra aatomnad B N«w York laat ywr and ska didat lik* itataU." tubes in the nine boilers to be one to the other, they would axii length 13 Scotch miles, â€" â- Â« A Bace of Dwarfs. One of the most strikbg thmg« » •* with in the earlier pages of "^^VT journal is a reference '» '"P^"S brought to him between L»do andPiJJ the Upper Nile, that a race » " mountain caves to thewestof »«»• are said to be only forty wchei^ brown colour, and of great »gJ'7^^, white ants and roots, and to .hootw" small arrows, which are F}*"*^'".,. The pignwei t» lainder population which ages aijo spread Penob.- cot "f to"be ai'ivc.lo thickly are they c *?,he wric^ling i^^^Y 'hmgs. Or t been Btr'ippef clean of leaves, an ' wcrras are taking to the woods a. Ihe forest trees of their fohege. F-thel Jones, of China, Me. an infan oSors to play by her mother an Jked by a large rooster. '^Jiet jSer rescued her, blood from three le by the spurs covered the child s very serious injuries woula probabl toflictcd bad the rescue been ,yed. In England there is just space e itween the coge of the railroad statio Sand the footboards of the paaa ' to let an unwary traveller fall be id be eronnd to pieces by the moving i.cddent or two has happened, a .station has begun in favor of ref c| le tootbo.ards or the platforms. ic»," t..e reformers urge, " »'"• idd not happen. " Mw.Gonyo, a woman over 70 ye e, waa left alone with her two little Wldren in their home or St. Albans t, the other evening. She put the n into afl*t-bottom boat and start*' ore, with nothing but a paddle with control the cranky craft. A gal lowing, the boat was driven out m ,y and capsiz'-d, and grandmothe andchildren were drowned. Persia is building a railroad froin no to the Caspian Sea. Instead of iwthe raibroad at the aea and bi aland, bringing forward the rails an [materials on the road as it progress Ftnians have had all the rails cari mules across the deaert to Teheri have begun the building there. Th portation expenses are the biggesi lilmost in the ooat of the road. Miss Pambrough of Ssuil Shoals, Fi TOung woman of nerve and presence o The other day her father's Je sey 1 tided him, and was in a fair way hiBL His wife saw him fall and ran him, but the daughter, more thorghtf got the axe, and running up hit the bi t tremendous whack that it stunned that the father had a chance *o get u the axe, and bury its head in the skul brnte. A pair of sparrows and a pair of set np housekeeping in the same ^hr front yard in Canton, Me. Th wsre first to put a brood abroad, an difScnlty with a crow resulted in th of the young ooes and their fathe mother robin, after mourning bitt » day or two, discovered the youi lows, and immediately adopted th« The enormous capacity for r^^"?^^^ wis found brooding them carefull " " '" the parent eparrows brought wor goarded the home. There is a woman in Belfast, Me. •brewd, if not particularly honest, bow she got possession of a punched pisce. She wanted to pass it for iu me, and she did. She calmly walk* (tore, pulled out the coin, showed astchant, and said that it was a 1 *ith wUch ahe waa loath to part, if the storekeeper would promise nc vith it for a week ahe would buy a i of goods, and redeem it in a few da â- Mfchant agreed, gave the woman 1 VRdehanee, and still has the punc though the weett has gone sever over. The German doctors may rant **fnDA about Sir Morell Macke |*Slih euatoms are making hei parUn. Fifteen young Englishme iV at the German capital, have ju "•first cricket club ever estab ^^•fmany. One of them has sent Mudng account of the interest "^^ted among the G^ermans. B •**et8, leg -guards and batting ai r*5^8 gloves (which, r.f course, 1 â- â€¢ported from England) were all *ith a good deal of curiosity. «*• wickets were pitched about 5 J^nned arotmd them, seeming ^y th e n«arer they got the gi "â- tance they were giving to th •â- J it waa not until one had rfc wU full in the atomach that the ** keeping at a respectable dii ""g. Ill* Eogliabmen have rei ^^on to play three evenings s '•• Templehof, and their modest '•y be the means of inducing th » take to this English game. Jb France the aurpriees of divoi f?*thatth* Btatistica have bee Pnbliahed. These only exte Four years later he I specimens ided into i SrK^ho'"Wanomadic^^,^, Central Africa, i- our ye«. "7; ^^^1 comes upon aome "]^^'^°^^1^ difficult to extract. Xlie P'S"'" \d* dined to regM-d as^tbe ^^-^^^^, Four speci ided a not buttu country. Oae o^l^rr^^i reddish but rather darkekinlPJ^ ^^ waa very prognathous, f^'^^jignt but excecidinifly nimble. H«««8^ feet 6 inches. His whole body «• by thick, stiflf hair, ahnost Wei j. was especiaUy thick " ^f/Sj j incM 14 yea!^ of age measured 3 «e j height. These people «« â- "^indicti" ex^rt hunters, but »1« 2,egU«J » thit the neighbouring "J"!5nt»»»'*l them have all t^^y '•^^1 'P't^'-jl return for skins and fe» J«* te ««* .T the chaae, which ^^%^^,ii and arrows alone.-^»»°" TakeHimO«tiiithfl^^,.i Bishop (on his 8emi-M««|^ do yon remember me, »" ' the '--,y_«'Oh,yeBdr,y"» do yon remember ^\"' .re twir, Bobby-" Oh, yee 'IZs^f^Z â„¢inm;aooldedp.^»*S,i«i»rf' ed in the cartuna.' Do not make wi"icu«««^t trl" othara whioh yo« »»' nada npon youraou. ,al4 »•* JJ^iâ€"thB firat three years of 2J*r-but the reaulta are a littl l^ nrat year 1, 8 00 divorces weri Hemline. What is il â- War^Uno is a combination ©•Jjol pain relieving substaD Sg**â„¢* ia not a nostrum, but 2* *bieb baa received from 2"*^o»l prof eaaion, clergyme ?*â-  «UMii« iBoat ' enthusiastic j from pidn of any ki giy* Nerviline a trial " orampa, neural