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CHAPTEK XIX.
h. CRT FOR HELF AND THE ANSWER.
When she had retiied to lier room,
after parting with her lover, Polly
Hamilton suddenly realized what she
had never before so much as suspected,
and that was that she possessed great
latent capacity for suffering.
"I am Burely the most unhappy girl
in this great city to-night," she
thought. "I never supposed that I
could be so unhappy. And yet I
ought to have known it. Any one
capable of being so'happy as I have
been all my life and so transcendently
happy as I have been Bince Clarence
and,I have been engaged should be
prepared for anything. I ought to
have known that people can't live in
heaven in this world; and yet that is
just what I have been doing. Perhaps
T hixvA bflen selfisTi in my happiness,
though I have not meant to be.
Perhaps I ought not to have concealed
it from papa and mamma; but
that is nonsense. Because I haven't
concealed it?I haven't known how,
even to please Clarence, ,and they
have understood the whole thing just
as well as if I had repeated every word
that Clarence and I have Baid to each
other. All the same, I am going to
tell them now."
And though it was nearly midnight,
Mary Hamilton went swiftly to the
room of her parents at the farther end
of the hall, but not so far away but
that this dearly cherished child was at
all hours within the sound of her
mother's voice.
Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton had just
ceased from speaking of Mary and her
lover: and it was with difficulty that
the proud and happy mother refrained
from congratulating her daughter on
the probability that she would, after
all, become the countess of Windermere.
"Papa, mamma!" exclaimed Mary,
"I suppose I ought to have told you
before now, but you know I am ehi?A<VA/7
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Mr. Hamilton laughed and kissed
his daughter; and then, holding her
off at arm's length, he said gravely: .
"We have suspected it, both your
mother and myself, for some lime,
and I think that Clarence himself is in
the secret.1'
"Yes, dear; but you know, papa,
when I told you about the perfectly
crazy story of Mrs. Helmholtz, you
actually spoke to Clarence as if he was
in some way to blame."
"Don't you mind that, Polly, you
aTe not to be unhappy about anything
that I may say to Clarence; but one
thing you may just settle down and
build on, and that is that no man on
earth is going to deceive my little girl
or give her any cause to spoil her
pretty eyes with crying, without giving
a good account of the reason of it
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an to utsr uiu iaiuer. auu uuw, guvunight,
and go to bed, Polly."
Polly said good-night, and exchanged
embraces and hisses "with both
father and mother; and thongh her
papa's words sounded vaguely threatening,
they wore also reassurring, for
he had guarded her like a tender
flower from every breeze of heaven,
Bave such as were Impinging gladness
and happiness to her; and not yet
bad pretty Polly Hamilton 'learned
that griefs may come and will come,
against which even love itself may
be quite powerless to shield. But
she didn't go to bed, at least not yet;
instead, she ran swiftly toward the
room of Dolores, and, finding her atill
np and apparently not thinking of
sleep, she took her to task for having
kept herself secluded all the evening.
Dolores looked sad and disturbed
. and seemed unwilling to explain why
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, 9iio uau Lioi appeareu at uinner or aiterward
in the drawing-room.
"You know I am often gloomy ami
out of spirits," she said at last, "and
really not fit company for happy young
peoplq of my own age who have never
known sorrow."
"Yea, Bita, you have said such
things to me before, and I am filled
with self-reproach in hearing them,
for surely I must be to blame if I cannot
in some way make you forget
your sorrows and give you happiness
instead."
"You are never to blame in anything,
Maruja!" exclaimed Dolores.
"And always remember that I have
said so. Whatever happens, and
whatever I may do, remember that I
love you above everything in my life
except the memory of my mother.
Aud now ask me nothing more tonight;
for, indeed, I can hardly explain
to myself why I preferred to remain
alone in my room this evening
rather than to spend it as usual with
you aud your friends and your--I
mean with Mr. Stanley."
She ended abruptly, and Tolly felt
her heart contract with jealous doubt j
and alarm, for Dolores was going to
say "your lover" when she changed
the phrase to that of "Mr. Stanley."
"She knows that he is my lover,"
thought Polly, "and yet she caniiot
hear to call him so. Oh, what does
that mean? It was only a day or two
ago that Olivo Gaye said she would
not dare to have a friend so beautiful
as Dolores and a sweetheart so handsome
as Clarence constantly looking
at each other, even with a face that
both ought to lo?e between them.
Oh, what a shrewd and terribly deep
girl that is, and I am sure I shall always
hate her after to-night! But
ihe does say things that seem full of
au awful meaning." .
Her gaze was fixed full on Dolores
while these thoughts passed like
lightning through her mind, and she
saw the clear olive-cheek flush to the
hue of carmine, and the deep, luminous
eyes grew dark and full of trouble,
though they still gazed bravely back
into her own.
"Trust me, Maruja," said Dolores;
"trust me; for even when I give you
pain believe that I love you then, per- j
haps, most of all. And now good- j
night. I want to think a little while I
before I sleep, and I am so tired." I
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Mary Hamilton impulsively caught
the lovely Spanish girl in her arms and
kissed her.
"Good night, then, my sweet sister;
but go to sleep soon, and don't
think too hard. That is all I ask just
now."
She hurried away, as if fearing to
trust herself to say anything more; and
Dolores, her eyes shining through
grateful tears, went toward the open
window, from which she could catch a
glimpse of the far-off broad river mai
flowed to the sea, and overhead that
other illimitable and shoreless oceau
of ether within which forever 6wing
the countless millions of other worlds
that men call "stars."
For a few minutes she remained
gazing down on the streets below, but
quickly her eyes sought the upper air,
and her thoughts soon soared above
I the disquieting influences of the lower
world, while peace and tranquility
stole in upon her soul.
"What mere atoms we are, all of
us, in this endless universe," she
murmured, with a gentle tolerance
toward everybody, "and yet how allimportant,
each one of us,.to ourselves
or to some one else. But for th'at, j
how glad I should be to lose myself
forever in the great sea of space?<What
was that line that mamma used'
to say from the old Scotch song??
' 'Tis love, 'tis love that makes the
world go round'?thafrwas the sentiment
anyway! Dear Maruja! She
feaf8 that Clarence Stanley is falling
in Jove with .me, and from the depths
of her own passion, she thinks no
woman could fail to fall in love with
him! And why does the man's presence
disquiet me? I am so ignorant
of thif great passion of whioh poets
sing and Novelists write?this 'love
that makes the world go round'?tnat
I do not even know its signs. I am
disturbed, but not joyfully; 1 am excited,
but not with pleasure. No, no,
this cannot be love! But whatever it
is, it is making Maruja unhappy, and
that must never be. Bather than
bring unhappiness into her life I'will
vanish out of it forever, and he will
see me no move. But is that necesessary?
Does my prosenoe come between
Maruja and her lover? Am I
not vain and foolish to suppose it?
Must I sacrifice this new and happy
life for nothing! The only peacg, the
only happiness except my mother's
love that I have ever known? I wiUg
not be rash. I will know the worst
before I throw away substance for
shadow. O mother?dear and beak
love of my life?be near me now
ever to comfort and help me!"
With a bitter moan of grief DoloreM
drew baok from the window, and hen
gaze dropped from the clear aim glifl
tering expanse abovfr herdtfwntojcarqjj
| the street below, and in that one
swift glance she caught a glimpse of a..
white and supplicating face raised,
toward her own.
"Who ia that? Whet does it mean?
Surely I know that face?" she
thought; and in the next moment 6he
was bending out of the window and
bending eagerly downward.
The face upraised to her was white
and drawn with desparing misery; for
when he had left the presence of
Stanley, Yan Tassel was conscious of
some impending horror, all the more
terrible because it waB unknown and
intangible. He felt only too sure
that, while in the mesmeric trance, he
had been bound by the evil will
which now controlled him, to a promise,
the fulfillment of which might
lead him into crime, but which he was
now quite powerless to resist. In his
benighted mind he calle.d on every
cower in heaven or on earth to aid
him, and suddenly, like a flash of
light, the face of Dolores Mendoza
seemed to rise before him. He had
been listlessly "walking to and fro,
having stopped more than once or
twice to refresh himself with brandy,
and how he was being followed by a
conple of very rough-looking tramps
who had caught the glitter of gold
when he had paid for his last drink
of brandy. When he stopped'suddenly,
looking about him, thej
thought themselves detected; and
spying the blue uniform of the police
not far distant, they slouched into a
dark lane and watched silently, while
Van Tassel turned into a side street
and pursued his way till, as he glanced
upward, he suddenly saw the face of
Dolores, radiant in the starlight, and
looking to him like the face of his
good angel smiling from the heavens.
"Help! Help!" he cried, and his
lianas were imaeu m su^iictniuu
toward lier.
"It is Mr. Tan Tassel!" exclaimed
Dolores, and in an instant she remembered
all about him?the feeling
of pity -which had so touched her on
their tirst meeting, and desire to protect
which had then actuated her and
a sensation, so often experienced
since, but not understood, as if some
one was crying out to her for assistance.
""."What does he say?" thought
Dolores, on beholding, from her window,
the pal 3, drawn face of Van
Tassel. "He is surely in some great
trouble, and he is calling on me for
help! I cannot speaK to him from
I here; it is too far; and yet [ cannot let
[him think me deaf to his call or nnj
willing to respond to it! Ah?yes!"
She had drawn back into the room, |
and now, as she looked about as if for
some means of conveying a message,
she saw on the tlower-stand beside her
a simple wl^te rose, placed there hours
before by Mary Hamilton.
H"He will understand," she thought;
and seizing tbe flower she flungit into
j the outstretched hands of Henri Van
| Tassel. He caught it and pressed it
j to his lips, and with it there came to
i him the same sense of strength?of
being uplifted and invigorated?that
| had come.to hiiy when in her preeI
ence. He wavefim$Jignd toward her,
i and her face disappeared -ffQjnthe
I window, and he turned, to find hims^if"
in the grasp of the two tramps, who
had aDproached in the shadow of the
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house, and. catching him now off h!s
guard, seized him, gagged him with
one hand, and bore him to the ground
swiftly and without resistance. Van
Tassel, who was but a slight man, of
very little physical strength at any
time, was easily overpowered, au.t
would have been robbed instantly
and without a struggle had not helj)
come to him as suddenly and unexpectedly
as he had been attacked.
At the moment when Dolores had
appeared at the window, just after
recognizing Van Tassel, a gentleman |
who had been approaching from the
other direction,and who was a stranger
to the country as well as to the I
metropolis, paused and said to himself,
with a laugh:
"A custom of the country, I sup*
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pose, and mucn tne same as m ovuer
countries, too?an American Borneo
and Juliet."
And as be stood for amomenjt in the
shadow of a tree, his verf natural
suspicion seemed verified, and a white
rose was flung down through the soft
May air and was caught aud rapturously
kissed by the recipient.'
What happened next was all so rapid
that no one of the participants could
have clearly described it; but the
effect was to bestow blackened eyesvi
and bloody noses on a couple of J
ruffians, who received these marks of i
favor with howls aad execrations; and
when Dolores again?this time in.,
alarm as well as surpriee?looked out
of the window, she saw the attacking
party in full retreat and Henri VanJ
Tassel, much disheveled and visibly,]
excited, leaning against the shoulder i
of his rescuer. ' ?
Dolores, ,who hr.d seen too many
street fights not to understand and;j
whose $rst thought was for Van Tassel,
flew from the room, downstairs
and'out into the street, without pausing
to think, and only took breath
whfen she stood beside Van Tassel and
held his trembling hands in hers.
-0"I hope you are not hurt?" she
8aid til?n; OUI' It was mc sunu^er
"whoTeplied to her; for Van Tassel,
vsqddenly aware of the brandy he had
been drinking, shrank from her and
J'only wished that the earth would open
and swallow him.
"Your friend is not at all hurl," said
the stranger, whose voice was very
full and deep and musical; "he is not
even robbed. I was ju?t in time to
frighten off the thieves before they
had secured the plunder."
"Oh, thank you!" said Dolores. "I
?we, both of us, are very grateful.
Mr. Van Tassel, please go directly
home, will you not? And, sir, if you
would do so, it would be such a kindness,
will yon put him in a carriage
and tell the driver to take care of him;
but, indeed, I don't know where he
livetf."
Dolores remembered afterwards that
the stranger had raised his hat and
stood holding it in his hand, but banding
slightly toward her while she
spoke; and she was vaguely conscious
that she was being treated with as
I mnch resnect as if she had been a
princess; but her cheeks were burning
like fire, (and she had dropped Van
Tassel's band which she had held, and
which clung to her fingers like that of
a frightened child.
Jfl will find out where to take him,"
said the stranger, when she ceased"
speaking, "and I will see him safely
home; you may trust me."
"Oh, thank you, thank you!" said
"Dolores, and for a brief second or two
their gaze held each other, then he
bowed, and she turned and disappeared
into the house.
She could scarcely have counted
sixty seconds since she left it, and yet
she felt that something had tappened
that was to change her whole life. The
stranger also felt that he could never
forget those eyes, so full of child-like
confidence, so deep and dark with passionate
intensity,
"What a beautiful girl," he thought.
"Who can she be?" and turning toward
Van Tassel, "but what a choice
for a lover!"
TO BE CONTINUED.
* The Hota of the Amazon.
I have seen but few people on my
* T? -A. XT
way up tne Amazon. i-ara, at me
mouth, is the metropolis of the whole
region. It has 100,000 population
and is a big business center. Obydos
has about 500 people, although it
is put down in the books as much
larger. There are a lew other scattering
iowns, such as Santarein and Forte
Alegre, but none have many people.
Along the banks you see here and
there out out of the woods a clearing
just about big enough for a hut and a
garden. The hut is made of poles
and palm lieaves, and the garden consists
of a few banana trees, an orange
tree or so and some palm trees. The
huts are thatched with palm leaves.
They are*so rude that the wind whistles
through them and the roof merely
serves to keep out the rain and the
sun.
They are built close to the river.
Naked babies play on the shore in
front'of them, and bare-footed men
and women stand and look at the
steamer as it goes by. The most of
these people are rubber hunters, a
few own cacao orchards, but all seem
to be thriftless and poverty stricken.
?Prank G. Carpenter, in Washington !
Star.
A Vanlihed Dream,
Mrs. Bramble--"Don't youTemem>
ber, Will, how you used to rhapsodize
over the thought of just you and
I living together in a dear little cottage
somewhere, far from the madding
throng? You used to say that would,
be paradise, but you don't seem since
we are married to hold the same opinion."
'V^-.
Mr. Bramble?"No, I gave up the
idea the week you were without a
girl. You see, if we lived that way
you would have to do the cooking for <
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us ngut uiuu?. ?xixuca.
New Ufe For Elertrlcl^jii i'1.1
Dr. W. J. Herdmau, of th,e medicfci
faculty of Ann Arbor University, has
discovered a new ubo for electricity..
It is fattening pigs. There is no joke
about the experiment. He has- used
two cages of guinea pigs for the Experiment.
The pigs in each cage were
the same age. Around one cage he
hung electric wires,: which were
charged daily. The'pigs in this page
gained ten per cent, more in weight
in a given time than the pigs iu the
cage where ttare was. no electricity.
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The tax on conee'w Freaeee as fourt?eEK?fnts
a pound, In England it is
three cSSt?
m MiffiE'S IABT
During the recent sea test of the
sarge, the pnrely American device of
service- firing test with remarkable s
mendous shooting power of this magnif
inconceivable. The Kearsarge is noi
world. At a-single broadside the gui
steel from the rifles of her main bat
muzzle energy of 83,276 foot tons. At
double turrets 2700 pounds of projectil
2100 feet a second. The two twin tui
contain a pair of 8-inoh rifles sm erimp<
casemate protection between tuce t
rifles, of'which seven are in each broad
/
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;iNew York's Undergroundit
^
:E RapiS TFansit System 3:
*? Greatest of City Tunnels.
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Three years from now Jfew York's
great underground rapid transit trunk
line will stand completed. From the
11.-1- /r .. T> J .1 T> i
jrusioiJicB at oroauwsj aiiu jaaiuiuj'
street a New Yorker will go home to
dinner under Broadway, under Elm
street, under the Boulevard to Harlem
in fifteen minutes.
Thi9 will be the "main line" of the
new rapid system. Bat this is not all.
From tlie " main, line" another tunnow
THE OPERATION OP "TURNING THE
?RCH" WILL BF. CONDUCTED ON
BROADWAY.
nel road will branch .off at Ninetysixth
street and run across to the East
Side and under the Harlem River to
Bronx Park.
i Still another branch road will start
from the main line at the Postoffice,
run uuder the East "River and out into
the far suburbs of Brooklyn. The <
f main trunk line and the Bronx
division will cost ?35,000,000 and will
be built at once. The Brooklyn branch <
roads will follow in time. It is the \
greatest engineering feat of the be- <
ginning of the new century. j \
Tho method of building the new | <
line is interesting not only because of i (
These srations will be on either side j j
of the street, as in the case of the j <
present elevated stations, only passengers
will go downstairs instead of up
to take the trains. The passageways
leading down will be walled with white
enamel brick, and lighted by electricity
until it is almost as bright as day.
At the Chamber street station, where J
| the four-track system of express and
local tracks begins will be a commo- p
dious and well arranged station. To. %
board a local train uptown one will $
take a car on the outer track. To take
tbe distauce it traverses and the fact
that it runs beneath crowded city
streets, but because it will iuclude in
one part or another of its course almost
every form ol' underground
work. Although popularly known as
a tunnel, it will be constructed as a g
tunnel proper through only a small p
portion of its extent, and for another 'a
small distance it will be a viaduct or (
elevated structure. Throughout the ?
TRANS-SECTI ON OF TUNNEL CYI
greater part of its conrse, however*. g
the new road will be baitt in an opefi ti
trench,which afterward willb| cohered B
over and will form a subway.
tween City Hall Piuk and Kin^s-lii
?
LOUS DOUBLE TIBET
new United States battleship Keartwo-story
tnrrets was first put to the
ir>i?ps9 TIip ficnrps civen of the tre
?? ? O ? O"
icent engine of destruction are almost
v the most powerful warship" in the
is of the ship threw a mass of chilled
tery aggregating 5750 pounds, with a
each discharge of the four guns in the
es were thrown out with a velocity pf
rrets, one fore and the other aft, each
used upon a pair of 13-inch guns. In
urrets ^are fourteen 5-inch rapid-fire
side. .
bridge and Bronx Park?the three
termini of the line?almost every form
of soil will encountered. Sand
and silt, mu<ii# water,'coarse gravel
and solid roofc must be removed.
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JNDERS UNDER THE RIVER. ?
e
reat loop about the Postoffice, four i u
racks will be laid directly under j a
Roadway, thus following the great, j a
Ml j of business traffic north toward ii
ke West Side suburb at Kings bridge, J /
-y.-.-jsi ltd
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while a branch from Ninety-sixtl
fctreet will extend under the Harlen
Kiver to the Bronx Park region. Thes<
sections will thus be brought withir
twenty or twenty-five minutes' ride to
the City Hall by express train. The
two central tracks are to be devotee
to through express trains, the outei
ones to local traffic. Stations will
occur at about the same frequency at
those of the present elevated railroad.
The entrances will be at the level of
JOHN B. SI'DONAM).
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the street, consisting of-neat iron and
bronze framework, with glass roof*
covering the descending stairways,
an express train passengers will go
along an intermediate, gallery, which
passes over the outer local traok, deBflendilfe
tfflHte express tracks, whioh
Electricity ii? to he the motive forc
on the now proved and practice
"third-rail" pldiii.. At frequent intervals
ventiliting flmlriM to be constructed
with ootwrful electric fane
to preserve a oi^jfifttion of air'. Latei
on a branch tuna$- is to go under
East River aUSMHiw, through the
great Borough-MWgqjdyn. One ol
the mosfc: inM^^Hnnd pecafiaz
parts of the unOTNHHB eysfcenrwill.
be where the 'Ea^Bfde section wil1
go under -^ni|f^ver. The
trapke will d^^Ejffiuihd each , will'
go under the wattrm iseparate cast*,
iron cylinder1 fiftee1it<^pt in diameter.
The circular; pauirarays will look
like gigantic irater ^es and will keep
the water of the riw.out quite as ef
fectually as genuinjKjirater pipes keef
John B. McI)otiafowho has under
taken this moltM^Uion dollar con'
tract and will be Redirecting head a
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it, or nflj, But it's quite tue proper
bing vtorir for women, who kave dogs
0 take them calling upon other wornn
who have dogs, and, of coarse, you
ouldn't do that without leaving the
ard8. Wednesday is my at home
ay, and Fido receives all his little
og friends with me ou that (lay. Now
ou know all about it."?Philadelphia
tecord.
"a Card of Thank*.
Here is a genuine "Card of Thanks'"
rom a neavby exchange: "I wish to
xtend my most heartfelt thanks to
rinister, choir, neighbors, sisters
nd brothers of the various orders
ud all those who so kindly assisted
1 the sickness and loss of my wife."
-Franklin (Penn.) News.
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:ROWN PRINCESS STEPHANIE WEDS
5I?e Formally Kecoineo the Wife of Count
?)einer Lonyay.
Crown Princess Stephanie of Aus ria,
despite the persistent prohibition |
recently at Miramar \
^Castle, near Trieste, ^
MLonysy. By com- . ^1
rnand of Emperor
Francis Joseph the
ceremony was strict- &
]y private. It was jJ
performed by the fl
court chaplain, Bis- 1
hop Mayer, in pres- , Jj
cbowjj princess ence of six wit- j|
stephasje. nesses.
The Emperor, Stephanie's father- '5
n-law, was not i>resent, but his ma- I i
esty wired his congratulations. Im- w
nediately after the ceremony the im- v
perial flag of Austria-Hungary, which '-m
las waved over the chateau, was
aanled town in token that the Crown- jj
Princess had ceased to be a membez M
)f the house of Hapsburg.
The question of Stephanie's ret en- 9
ion of the title of royal highness, tc t.-am
vnicn sue was m
Dorc, is still unan- M
} w e r e d. Her ^mB ^. 'J?m
lather endeavored
:o stop the pay- flRL , -J
nent of his dau^h- b||U> jy 'vfli
;er's 'appanage of jff
50,000 francs )^P" 1 yjd
($10,000), "which rULirf^s^. '?
ivas settled on her jH
it the time of her (pf*
^ marriage with */7] M
Crown Prince Ru- l] f "
iolph of Austria, count lo^at. Zm
but in this his majesty was itdt' suc? 1
oessful, because the nuptial contract j
expressly provides that the annuity J
shall continue daring Stephanie's life*,
The tragio death of her first bus- J
band, who was slain by a disappointed' m
sweetheart of the beautiful Baroness- I
Vera, January 10, 1889, at an imperial |
bunting lodge, near Vienna, caused- J
the retirement of Crown Princess Ste<
phanie for a time, but not beyond the |
period of mourning prescribed by the ;:a
house rules. When she appeared in ;J
public again she evinced a great disposition
for amusement in and out ol
court circles. In this way she became ;
acquainted with' Counts Lonyay, a J
Hungarian''nobleman of considerable A
?rooHh TTirtm** ProfastMt. a circum* a
stance which ileased the dislike oi
the Emperor o? Austria of a unioc j
which meant thi^ withdrawal of the
Crown Princess f/om court functions,
at which Bhe has.been the undisputed
ruler sind?,}>tb$ death of Empress
Elizabeth of Austria in September,
1898, under the poniard of the anar^
chist Luchaw.at Geneva,Switzerland >
7
''England's Boy Choirs.
Julian Ralph, writing of "The Cboii
Boys of England,1' in the Ladies
Home Journal* says: "Small boys ar<
ranch preferred for the reason that
they develop into manhood later thar $
stalwart children, for it is at tn<
coming of manhood that their voicef
! break and they are obliged to stoc - 1
singing until theirvadult tones an: 1
reached?a matter of years. A boyisl ^ \l
treble is as delicate as the bloom on i /I
peach, and its possessor must lead at
orderly and innocent life, which if .IB
why so many choirs are made up oi
boys taken from their homes anc ' 3
boarded_and taught in church institu 9
tions. These, sometimes, are aoie ? mm
sing until they are seventeen or eigh 9
teen years of age, though betweer :1g
fourteen and fifteen is the usual perioc |
when tbeir voices break." v J
Comprehensive
On a "tombstone in an old >"ew Eog* 1
land churchyard there is an epitapb '9
which never fails to bring a smile to ,3
the face of the reader:
"To the memory of Ann Sophia and
Julia Hattie, his two wives, this stone J
is erected by the grateful widower,
James B. Rollins. They made home
pleasant."?Woman's Journal. 'M
Tua Tua: AVill It Cure Leprogy?
Two'tlozen specimens of the Vene*
zuelan plant known as tua tua havt ''j
been sent from Washington to Hawaii
for the purpose of making a test of itt
alleged wonderful power as a cure for
leprosy. Tho plant will be tested ai
the leprosy hospital there, where tht
Xp.73 lepers will alTord every facility
'lolMjfr thorough trial. Surgeon D. A.
Cirmiiohael, of the Marine Hospital,
has also sent half a dozen bottles ot
iljte liquid preparation to Molokai, and
Orio will.b? used for immediate tests,
trhlle the plants will be set out 11116 <
ctritirated, with the purpose of proylding
unlimited i'resh material fo?
?>?%onderful stories are current in 3
Veneii^ela about the marvelous cura- )
tive.'properties of tua tua wfcen applied
to leproty, and the Government phy
.1
THE TCA TUA PLANT OF VENEZUELA, SAII ^
TO POSSBSS WONDERFUL CUHAT1YI 3
PROPERTIES INCASES OF LEPROSY.
jk
i 3
oicians attach considerable importanc i
to tbe evidence given them. It h
proposed also to test it in the island |
of Guam, that tiny spec of Pacific land '<?
that came to us with our other Spaiv $
ish war acquisitions.
A >ee<l Well Met.
German scientists are advocating jjj
Iiiai puya*cioui> iab.t) prautinai iessOD6 .*
in cooking, in order that they shal, a
know the value of every kind of food
from a hygienic and medical stand ~ J
Charlestown was settled in 1G29 and.'*"\yjB
was annexed to Boston in 1873.