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The king _^hone A NOVEL OF AMERICAN LIFE ^rrfi BY MAURICE: Corniest. *8P2 and 1803 t; CHAPTER YI. CONTINUED. Fairfax caught at once the meaning of this quiet work, and when Mr. Vernon came to the ladies and said: "You had better go below for a while, we ?hall need all the deck-room to work the sails," there was more in his manner than his wife and daughter noticed. Mrs. Vernon objected to beihg confined again in the stuffy little cabin just when she was beginning to enjoy the sweet fragrance of the open air; but Fairfax assisted her and Pauline to descend and then returned to the deck. "I wanted to avoid a scene," said Jlr. Vernon, "and I don't like the appearance of the fellow yonder," pointing at the sail. "It's no use for ns to try to run away; you see that at ? glance. Of course she many be all right; but I don't like her looks nor the place she is coming from. At any ~ 4"v AIIW nlian/to " rate, we ve got i<j iaao u?j. "Do you mean to say that you suspect her of being a pirate?" "It is safe to suspect everything that comes out of Pearl River of being in some way connected with wrongdoing; but still, this may be the exception." "We'd better get ready 'to fight then," said Fairfax. "Have you no arms on board?" At the same time his eyes sought the little swivel that stood nearly amidship. "Is that gun in condition?" Mr. Yernon could not help laughing in his beard at the young man's prompt combativeness and hi9 admirable coolness, and he felt a pang of regret when he had to say frankly that it would be sheer desperation to attempt resistance, should the schooner prove to be the Pearl-River pirates bent upon their capture. "They are carrying at least three guns," he added, "and I counted ten men of her crew; besides, they could sail right up to to us and board us." A cloud passed over the young man's face, and a sudden realization of what might be at hand went down like a leaden load upon his heart. * * * i 1.1 L The first tbougnt was wnax. voam uefall Pauline. He stood for a few moments like one who had received an almost stuuning blow. Mr. Vernon watched him narrowly and was inwardly delighted when presently he shook off his weakness and exclaimed:' "But what are we to do? Are we to let them take us, if they wish, without our making any resistance? For my part, sir, I do not consent to any such thing. We can but add a very little fury 'to their manner of dealing with us by lighting them like men. Earnestly, sir, I insist on meeting this matter bravely. "So do I," said Mr. Vernon, "but the question is: What course would, in reality, be true bravery? I have no shot on board for the swivel, and what could you and I do against a schooner's crew." "You have done very wrong," said Fairfax, almost hotly, "to bring your family into this situation. It was a great oversight not to prepare for such an emergency." Vamnn ovorl liia \7onn cr fripn/1 ~ ? J ~ 9 but made no direct reply to his hasty words. He saw that he could depend upon him in desperate need, and this was the most and the best that he could ask just then. "There will probably be a light fog at nightfall; if we can give them the slip till thea wo may be able to get away; it is our only chance, provided they are enemies. They have a long run to make yet before they get into the lake; meantime, if wo can pass the point yonder and find the mouth of the Rigolets and tho fog at the same time, we may escape." It was a well laid plan; but the wind was refactory, shifting and growing more unreliable every moment. Fairfax could not understand Mr. Vernon's apparent indifference; it wa.R an onoosed to what his own na ture prompted under such a stress that it exasperated him, while, at the eame time, he felt his own inability to suggest anything feasible. Meantime their little craft had been set as close to the wiod as she could ran, and was making fair speed in a northwesterly course toward a marsh point which, in those days, had a hummock clothed with low, spreading live oaks. The fog was already be* ginning to fill the atmosphere with a thin, gray twilight effect, and the distant schooner's sails were softening into dimness; but the breeze slackened until it eould be scarcely felt; moreover, as they kept behind the poiut, even this breath was shut off, and suddenly it waa a dead calm. Mr, Vernon ordered his men to cast anchor, and then lighting his pipe, he weut up to Fairfax, who waa tramping back aud forth, chafing helplessly. "They can't reach us till morning, at all events," he said; "it will be ail that they cau do to get out of the river." "And so all that we can hope for fs lo lie here and wait," Fairfax muttered, "and he done for iu the morning. It seems to me a tame way for men who pretend to have auy courage to choose. Surely, there is some " "Young man," Mr. Vernon's voice was very even and low, as he interrupted, but it had a certaiu savage timbre?"young man, you are on my vessel; it is your duty to obey my orders; yon are going to obey them. If you have any suggestions to make I will give them consideration; but understand that I command here, and that you do not occupy any official position whatever." Fairfax stood amazed; he looked at Mi. V ernon's ainiost giant bulk loomJag in the gray dusk; it appeared to dilute aiul take on the rugged outlines hat his imagination would have given to some old buccaneer. The remoto arrogance and the immediate authority with which the surprising words had beeu uttered seemed to yfc. : OF^ ; "\/ TOT A MH ' 11 lOLAi NU; 1 ] DURING THE WAR OF 1812. J THOMPSON. ' . ] y Robert Conner'a Sons. " ' < I come from a'man not in the least like i the Mr. Vernon of yesterday. "I beg your par'don, eir," he managed to Bay; "you are mistaken if you 1 think me ungrateful enough to offer ] any impertinent objections to your J method of conducting your own af- < fairs. I did not mean anything of ? the kind." i He hated himself the next moment : for having found no letter way of ex- : pressing what, after all, was not very clear in his own mind; but his embarrassment was not in the least re- ' lieved when Mr. Vernon, with a gruff chuckle, turned abruptly away and went below. Fairfax looked around; him, half dazed. Fairfax was not in a mood to doubt and accuse. His recent experiences ho/i nnancii Lis ftvsB to the darkest possibilities of the life into which he had been suddenly drawn so deeply. The feeling that he had not managed himself in the least adroitly, and that probably he had shown his weakest side to Mr. Vernon, helped to irritate him; moreover, the danger, if danger it was, hovering so near to Pauline affected him strangely. This young girl had taken possession of him; he realized in now. And was he about to see her fall into the hands of men like Pierre Rameau? Mr. Vernon did not come on deck for some hours; when he re-appeared a light breath of wind was beginning to blow, and he immediately ordered all hands to make ready to put the vessel under sail. The fog, though not dense as it had been, was still too heavy to permit any distinct view through it. When the little craft began to move, Mr. Vernon went forward. As he passed Fairfax, he said in a low voice: "Stand by to pass my orders to the man at the tiller; we mast not speak above our breath. If we can get through to the lake, we are safe." By the lake he meant Ponchartrain, and their way thither lay through the main channel of the Eigolets. So gently did the vessel move that the ladies sleeping below did not wake; the only sounds to be heard were an occasional creak of cord or npar and the light ripple of the water at the prow. Mr. Vernon was feeling his way toward the mouth of the channel with nothing to guide him save his sense of distances and directions. Tho wind was somewhat against him and there was not an object by which he could exactly fix his whereabouts. So weak was the breeze, moreover, that the vessel crept at but a snail's pace over the darKling water. j.i was near uaylight; indeed, the pale influence of the morning was diffusing itself through the fog when the breeze began to freshen a little, sending a ripple over Borgne and quickening the movement of the vessel. The soft, gray vail wavered and lifted perceptibly, and Mr. Vernon had just .made out the marsh-points at the mouth of the channel and was giving a low order, when suddenly a vessel, distant a stone's throw, showed itself through the fog directly ahead, and at the same instant "Ahoy, there!" came in a loud, clear voice from the stranger's deck. CHAPTER VII, LIEUTENANT BALLANCITE. There was little space for action on the part of Mr. Vernon, betweeu the moment wben his vessel was hailed and that when it was necessary for him to answer. In shorter time than ura to lr a writ A ifc thn two ftfftfts were almost touching. "Avast, or I'll blow you out of the water!" shouted a voice not in the least nautical, but full of determination; the voice of a landsman, who, if he could not readily fiud the phraseology of the sea, was evidently in no mood to be trifled with. At the same time a twelve-pounder gun was turned so as to rake the deck of the Water Bird. "Blow away. Lieutenant BalIanche!" roared Mr. Vernon. "It would be a glorious thing to fire on me and my family! Ha! Ha! Ha! Blow awuy! Blow away!" The little vessel was now passing astern of the schooner and not a half cable's length from it. "Hello! Is that you, Mr. Vernon?" shouted the slim yonng officer who stood out most prominently on the schooner's deck. He spoke in French. "Aye, that it is!" was the loud auswer in the same language. "I thought we should ram you amidship, but we missed, good luck to you and to us as well!" "jl wish to speak with you, sir," called out the youug officer. "It is very important." Tim tur/i vbbspIh wurfl ftlrpArlir frninfT apart rapidly, their courses being different; but every word was beard, so favorable was everything to the conveyance of sounds. Fairfax felt a load fall from his breast at this sudden turn in au adventure whicli but a moment before hud filled bim with such dismay as only youth aud love aud the thought of swift calamity to the oue most dear to him could engender. In the stress of the apparent crisis be bad thought only of the girl; and now that the strain was over, it seemed to him as if the same breath that had blown away his distress on Pauline's account bad also lifted the fog; for the next moment the grav vail was so removed that the young officer on board tbe schooner came into clear ' relief against the tall marsh grass on J the point beyond. His features could not bo made out; but his form was 1 tall, slender, graceful, and his atti- 1 tude striking iu the extreme. He ' wore the undress uniform of a lieu- 1 tenant of iufuutry iu the United States Army. A half hoar later, tho two vessels lay aloogside of each other, aaj Lieu- t tenant Ballauciie came aboard; i MH Water Bird. Fairfax watched him i :limb the rope from tho gig to the ! ieck; and at the request of Mr. Vor- : aon went forward to be introduced to ! iim. The two young men shook hand and their eyes met steadily and fraukly. \ny shrewd observer would have suiii j that they were mutually well impressed at first glance. Edouard Ballanche was a creole from head to foot; that is, he was a Frenchman modified by the influences 5f American birth and experience. In bis face burned the half-subdued fire >f a nftqRinnat.A ^.af. natuiallv erentle ? ^ w._ md tender nature, fortified and specialized by intirfiate acquaintance with almost every form of dangei*. Fou might have read in his eyes that tie had Been duels; that life, though precious to him, was worn aB a garment to be flung aside as lightly as a | soat or glove; that honor was a word j of unlimited significance to him. In speech ho showed that deliberate facility which always suggests the cut and thrust and parry of a master swordsman. The impression he made was one of efficiency, courage and readiness, singularly blended with lightness, grace and superficial good humor. He shook hands cordially with Mr. Vernon, and turned to acknowledge the introduction of Fairfax just as Pauline came from below. "I took you for a pirate," said Mr. Vernon, "and was running away from you as fast as I could, I thought; but here we are, boarded by you, and at ! your mercy." "The mistake was mutual, sir; I thought that you were on unlawful business of some sort, and have been all night afraid that you had got away from me. I am compelled to bo vigilant now; I hope, sir, that I have not troubled you too greatly." "Your vigilance is something that ? ?>> no American puiriut uuu ^iumu?o ai>, said Mr. Vernon. "Is there anything new from the seat of war? Anything about to turn jip?" "Nothing has been made public," replied the lieutenant, guardedly. "What may transpire.at any moment is hard to foresee; aoubtless we shall have our turn at the game of war down here in due time." "You may speak freoly in the presence of my friend here," remarked Mr. Vernon, with a smile at Ballanche's caution, concealed almost though it was; "he is one of us." "I should trust him with my life," promptly responded the lieutenant, giviug Fairfax again that straight frank look of perfect confidence. "What I wanted to say to you, Mr. Vernon, is that it is not safe to keep your family or your property any longer at Bay Saint Louis. Thelritish may Bail in upon .us any day; indeed, we are expecting them soon." T>. hrirrl for Lieutenant Bal lanche, -with all hie politeness, to keep bis gaze away from Pauline. Fairfax was not aware that she had come on deck, else he. would have noticed the suppressed enthusiasm of Ballanche's glances toward the hatchway. As soon as Mr. Vernon discovered the presence of his daughter; he took Lieutenant Ballanche by the arm and led him toward her. Fairfax turned in time to see the tall Creole bowing low over her hand. Mr. Vernon stood there like some grizzly giant of old, his shoulders and bead looming heavily, while his daughter seemed to reflect upon him a suggestion of youthfulness blending with his show of years. Fairfax saw that Mr. Vernon regarded the young officer with emphatic interest __ -i a A UUU coiiiiueiiuc,y c uiui consideration indeed, and tbftt.tLua. markcd attention seemed to be received quite as- a matter of course. There was but a short conversation, aud certainly nothing important was said; nevertheless, in some indirect way Fairfax caught from it a singularly vivid impression of being thrust far away aud or. passing out of consideration. After a little while, however, Ballanche bowed to Paulino, and taking Mr. Vornon's arm with a confidential touch, led him to a farther part of the dock where they could converse_without being overheard. (to be continued.) Horse SicUneSB. Horse sickness is a complain known only in certain parts of South Africa, but scieuce has, so far, been battled aa to its causes, although its eftectH are only too pateut. When the first frost comes it seems to disappeai as if by magic, but immediately the hot weather sets in then this ravaging complaint makes its reappearance But if the British authorities are ignorant as to the cause of the trouble experience is teaching them how tc guard against it. The corresponded of the Globe who signed himselJ "Transvnaler" may rest assured tha? the military authorities are taking every precaution against what he describes as "another enemy besides the Boer." And the precautions adopted are on the lines ho has suggested, although, as has been pointed out, it is impossible when an army is on the march to adopt the only Hale course, and stable animals ever.'* night.?London Globe. Curious Facta About Cnlcnrinr*. There are some curious facts abont our calendars. No century can begin ! on Wednesday, Friday or Sunday, j The same calendars can be used everj | twenty years. October always begins j on the same day of tho week as .Tanuoi*tt A-?ii?il av .Tnltr* Wontomlipr f?<4 I J > " ? J ) ceniber. February, March anil November begin on the same clays. 3Iay, June and August always begin on different, days from each other, aud j every oilier mouth in the year. The j first aud last days of the year are al- j ways the same. These rules do nol j apply to leap year, when comparison is made between days before and aftei February 20. He IIol.l On. An interesting account comes to in Df a Boston terrier dog which, running 3ut on the thin ice of Jamaica Pond, jroke through about a hundred feel rom the shore. A boy procured and brew the end of a rope to him, which he dog at once seized with bis teeth tnd held ou until drawn to the shore. ?Onr Animal Friends. Puerto Rico is purely an arrricub ural island?it.o manufactures being iractically conliuod to matches. * ! ^ i I '"HELEN MILL * ^ Mm9K te?5?32* SSI | ^ Helen Miller Gould is beloved and h j slinted measure, and the more that her i j well as so liberal. It Is not Miss Gould 'i j gifts are chronicled in the press and t; j claves all over the land. She does not c j She just goes on her sweet womanly v I cesB might throw flowers from her bo u i lowed her whenever she left her palac ifimpTlI || BOER Fpf| % Chief Feature of the Transvaal Ex-. ? I?? Viilnif of tVia Finnqilinn. Iffis; j One of the most Interesting features : of the Transvaal exhibit at the Paris Exposition, writes the correspondent j of the Philadelphia Record,'the Boer J farm, a modest structure copied with j scrupulous exactitude from the orig; lnal near Pretoria. The roof is of turf, the windows are , narrow and the doors low. There is | no flooring in the Interior, and Hie i threshing floor is of soft, earth,, into j which the foot of the vls'tbr sinks at j every step. There Is no ceiling. The ; slanting roof is supported by the extej rlor walls, and all the rooms have j bare rafters where the ceiling is usually found. j The entrance door opens into the sitting-room, or common ball, furnished j with a table covered in gray linen, I chairs, stools and a sofa covered with crossed strips of leather, a harmonium, n rnkno clock and a dresser. On the table is an old Bible, the Bible of the I I ;l SITTING BOOM OF THE BOEtt FA (It shows the Dutch Bible cu thotubio, n i ????????????????? ! States General brought from Europe? | at the time of the emigration, bound in j calf, with ornaments of brass. Near j to the Iloly Book is a loaf of black I bread. j Fastened to the wall, among some I cliromos, and with a bow of crepe at ( , the corner of the frame is n portrait, I cut from a French illustrated paper, of j Colonel Villebois-Mareull. who died In j a battle near Boshof while lighting for ( the Boers. Does his portrait adorn many Boer farmhouses? One may doubt it, but it was a touching and ] ! graceful act to put it Jn the sitting room , ! of the Boer farm at the Exposition, , j above the old harmonium. \ I Behind the sitting room is the , | kitchen, where a heap of cold ashes I ih<> putr.nnre to the doors of the ' furnace. We look for the Inhabitants, j j for the careful liqueekeeper, for the , The of Knglnnd. J (Prlnoe Edward of York la khaki uniform. * .i Bo baa just k?ct Ills Blstli birthday.) ?. V s CREATEST FLOATING DOCK. The Mammoth Affair to Be tJied by Our Navy. The iargest floating dry dock In the world is now beliig Duilt for the United States Government by the Maryland Steel Company, at its works, at Sparrow's Point, just below Baltimore, Md., says the New York Herald. This dock, when finished, will be towed down Chesapeake Bay to the ai .antic, una uiruu>;ii me uuu 01 Mexico to the Mississippi, where it will be stationed for use at the naval station, at Algiers, La. It must be delivered to Uncle Sam by November 1, and in the event of failure on the part of the .company to complete ^ by that time ?200 for every delay ot twenty-four hours will be deducted from the contract price of $810,Q00. The work of construction is now behig pushed to a finish. Part of the shipyard has been fenced off, the foreshort has been scooped to form a berth, and the dredged material arranged so as to form a coffer dam. A platform of timbers was laid in the large hole, and two trestles were erected to carry the tracks for the traveling crapes employ?f;ln placing the plates. ^Tracks ar^ laid around the berth and piping for the compressed air by "which the riveting machines are worked.,-,The complement to these. arrangements is a machine shop, built expressly for the work in question. ' ' When the work is completed the cof ER GOULD. jj^ ' i v. ' ^;1 & ?=> .4. ' 'Mr o % i rM*r/T _ onored by lior countrywomen In unilras-deeds are so unostentatious, as i fault that her royally magnificent ? alked of by the breakfast-table conourt praise nor pose for admiration, ray, scattering her bounty as a priniquet to the adoring crowds who fole. granuiatner who suoiua uu s^uieu m the corner of <:he hearth. The dwelling does not give us the impression of being deserted. Doubtless the farmers who live here are out for awhile, working in the fields, or they are huuting or at war. But no, they have simply gone into the fields for here are their rilles and the big pretoria farmer's bedchamber in the boer firm at the paris exposition. felt liats which they wear wlic- on expeditions at a distance. At the right are two little rooms wuere the young people sleep, among a mass of agricultural implements, harness and sacks of grain. ,At the left is a chamber somewhat better furnished, that of the head of the family. The bed, larger than that in the other KM AT THE PAItIS EXPOSITION, ,ud tbe old harmonium in the corner.) rooms, is adorned with cotton print curtains. Close to the door of the farm house is placcd, evidently by deliberate design; a lofty pyramid of gilded plaster, which represents the quantity of gold extracted from the mines of the Transvaal from 1SS4 until the outbreak of the present war with England. At the foot of this pyramid is a little gilded tube, representing the volume of 1,000.0 )0 francs in pure gold. Passing before the yellow and brilliant pyramid, whose apex is hidden in the 1)ranches of the trees, we come to nnother pavilion of the Transvaal exhibition?that of the gold mines. Here i great noisy wheel is turning all the while, and steam hammers rise and rail, nmid the trickling of water and the running of rough sand. In a room jent smoke arising from white-hot irriicibks. All the operations of gold mining and relining take place before it the side we see a rose-colored punwr eyes, and each stage of tlie process s explained to us by men experienced n the work. ! Drum* In rolcin. The policemen <>f IVkin are, or al cast wore, armc-il chiefly with small Irums, which they heat lordly, in orler, it is presumed, to let burglars mow that they are coming. All niglit ong the watchmen beat their way iround the streets, and as a natural onscqucnee, are said to make few ar ests. The pigeons of IVkin have each l liglit whistle tied to their tails.whick :ivo forth a loud sound as they fly. Hie blind also use drums to announce heir coming and warn other people o get out of their way. In Japan there is a Buddhist temple or every 540 of the population, and a iuddhist priest for every 4(H) Japanse. About $10,DUO,000 a year are ;>ent in this. The Indian name of the Charles liver at Boston was Mis-slia-um, rliiQl} great tjighway.' ? fer dam will be. cut through, and the waters of the Chegapeake* which will then rush In and floftfcitlie structure, will make any prepaflWODB for launching unnecessary The dock will, materially augment the importance of the naval station to which it has been, assigned, especially in view of the fact tha?; thei.piiue of j New Orleans as a base la steadily InI creasing. The dock' will De powerful enough to lift a 15,000-ton vessel two feet above the surface of the water, and with the floor awash, it will bo able to lift a vessel of 18,000 tons with the same ease. It will be a very superior affair, not only in point of strength but also in simplicity. Acid or basic open hearth steel is exclusively used, the timber walling of eighteen by twelve pine being employed merely as fenders. The enormous walls serve primarily to give stability and to regulate the descent when the pontoons are submerged. They enclose four water-tight compartments, which contain tbe'quartcrs for the crew and the pumping appara I tus. Eacii wan has lour pumps, wun a separate engine for each pump and a ! separate boiler for each engine. The piping, however, is so arranged that any of the engines can be supplied with steam from any of the boilers, an advantage by which, with only engine, hoiler and pump, the clock can still he bo lifted. The entire machinery will ! be managed by means of levers from a valve house on each wall. The peculiarity of the dock is that j the bottom of any of the walls can be reached by keeling. The middle pon-1 icon is large enough to raise the other two out of the water, and can be released and lifted out of the water itself. There are many manholes by which access to the inside of the wall and pontoons may be obtained. .THE DOGS OF WAR, (low the Animals Were Made Use of In the Mlrfrile Aces. "More docile than man," says Buffon, "more tractable than any of the other animals, not only does the dog become educated in a short time, but even adapts himself to all the habits of those who control him." According to circumstances, he may become a hunter, a fisher, and a guardian of liouses, merchandise or Hocks. Harnessed to the sledge of the Eskimo, he performs the duty of the horse or.reindeer, and in the streets of Constantinople or Cairo, that of ragpicker or sweeper, in freeing the streets of the garbage thrown out of the houses. In I circuses he becomes a clown, a jumper And a gymnast. And all this through the combined effort of his intelligence, sense of smell and vigorous and quick moving legs. ~~j|g fire-be arijjo dogs to scatter the enemy's cavalry. Probably one of the most curious purposes for which thfs sagacious animal was ever trained was in the Middle Ages, wlieu lie was employed for the conveyance of fire toward an enemy's cavalry, in order to strike terror among the horses and throw them Into COUfUSlMJ. / T ' ' These warrior dogs, one cf which Ift J^Rj represented herewith from an old egq graving, were accoutered In a cuirass! of leather In order to preVent them! from being burned by the flaming resin! ; which they carried upon the back to a metallic vessel.?Scientific AmerlcanJ AUTOMATIC EGC BOILER. The Cooking Done In a Manner Said t(i Be Sclontifio. i There is reason In the roasting olf polling j J I ?^g'i I^IL.. J /.^sSLI?---Ir Wv > AM /v', s. ' ^7ftc.tii,.;:. * - -^B THE ACTQMATIC I them?at least, as a role. $ cooks, for 1nstan<*, knowfpat an egjjT ^H| can be cooked so as to torn the yoM "hard" and the white "i jtt," or vl<S| versa, just at xne w^i ui w I operation witK: ft sand-glass or clock^ fs about the most unscientific opera* 'jfl N tion carried out in the kitchen.. Royle's automatic egg cooker is based on thoroughly scientific principles, and that is why we like it, says Londonj Invention. It consists of an uppeir and lower vessel, as illustrated, the '|MH| upper one having a small hole in the bottom. The eggs are placed in thej upper vessel, which must be filled witlt HHH boiling water. The principal upopl^JHSBfl which the cooker acts is briefly as lows: An egg requires about 1G0 de? ' fflMI greestol75 degrees Fahrenheit to coot tHBB it. The eggs are, say, CO degrees Fabrenheit when put in, and the water 212j degrees Fahrenheit, but together, the; HM water in contact with the eggs is re-: ' 'fflBj dueed in temperature, and would fall) 5* -fljH lower than 160 degrees Fahrenheit at the bottom of the vessel, were it noti for the small hole which lets it away ' :,HD| and gradually allows the hotter water to come down on the eggs, but so slowly that by the time the top layers ap- flHJ proach they have, by conduction and radiation, become cool enough uot to! overcook the eggs. By the time the water lias run through into the other Vessel the eggs will be cooked, and If not required immediately will keep hot for a considerable time withouf^^H^B spoiling. jHH Eyeglasses Need a Until. |m|^H "Half the people who wear glasses and complain that their sight is gradually diminishing owe the idea to dirty glasses," remarked an optician. "Spectacles and eyeglasses are as much benefited by a bath now and then as peopic are. It is strange how many peopic there are who think that by wiping their glasses now and then they keep jBflHj them clean. The fact is, they want a bath just as frequently as docs a human being. You see, it is this way. The face, and especially tne eyes, all the time gives off a fine vapor. Thte crings to tne glasses and rue uusc car ^hh loots on them. As soon as they become Hj^H clean?that Is, apparently clean?the wearer is satisfied. So the process. JBHH goes on. But while wiping the glasses mBH cleanses them and is necessary, a batb BmN is also required. Every time the glasses are wiped a fine him of dirt 1? left on them, and this gradually accumulates and no wiping will clean if off. In time this coating gets quite thick enough fo"blur the vision, even though at a glance the glasses may appear clcan. When this occurs the sight is diminished, and they come to me or IHHJ some other optician. What they ought to have done was to give the glasses a bath in warm water, scrubbing them with a small toothbrush and soap, and afterward wiping them. This should be done with chamois leather and then with tissue paper to polish them."? Chicago Tribune. |HB Ills ISoyal Sympathy. A storv about little Prince Edward VBHOH o: York appears in the British Week- HHH ly. Not Ion? apo lie was taken over ^H^^B a British man-of-war. and was much interested in a large. heavily l.uilt ^B^BB chest which was shown him. "What dues that hold?" lie asked the tall ^^^HB officer who accompanied him. 'Towdor." was the reply. The little boy; looked sympathetically at the stalwart ^DBH| figure and observed: "Then, do you IBH take powders, too?" 'B^^HM Dn-arflng the Dor*. Stunted dogs are very much admircd^BN^^B by Parisian Indies. The demand for^^B^B^E them is met by at least forty profes-^^^^^H sional "dog dwarfers" who bring ud^^^BBH the pups on an alcoholic diet, which^^^HBB lias the effect of stuntins them. jHHR