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. ISSUED TWICE A WEEK?WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. h. m. grist & sons, Publishers. 1 Ji ^mitilii gtrcspjicr: jjfor (he jSrontofion of the political, Social, Agricultural, and Commercial Jtileresls of (he ?outh. { li'ioi"topY?rivJcJm^E' VOL. 43. YORKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 32, 1897! NO. 102. A CONFLICT < BY RODRIGUEZ Author of "An t Copyright, 1897, by G. P. Putnam's Sons CHAPTER XVIIlr DETECTIVE BARNES SURPRISES DETECTIVE BURROWS. "A noble man destroyed by a cruel chain of circumstances,'1 thought Mr. Barnes, as he concluded the perusal or the tale. He then leaned his elbow on the table and, with his mouth partly open, beat a tattoo upon his teeth with his finger ends, a habit of his when lost in thought and intent upon some knotty problem. He sat thus for more than a quarter of an hour, and then muttered: "I have it. That man's secret shall be preserved." Carefully placing the document in his pocket, he then gathered up all the writing materials that lay on the table, his idea being to prevent any one from entertaining the suspicion that the dead man had left any telltale writing behind him. Satisfied that this was accomplished, he descended to the room below and awaited the arrival of the squire, who, in due time, came with Virginia, accompanied also by Burrows and Dr. Snow. "Ah! Mr. Barnes," said the squire, "Virgie tells me that you have solved ?? fcUfc) <J1 luta U1U1UU. "Yes, sir. Chance has favored me, and I am glad that I have succeeded in saving the accused without the necessity of a trial." "Areyou sure you can do that?" asked Burrows. "Ob, yes. I could demand Marvel's discharge, even though I had not discovered the real murderer, for I have the disguise which he threw into the river, and in the pocket of the vest I found the locket which ho said would be there." Burrows was astounded, but was unwilling to give up bis pot theory without a struggle. "How do you account for the initials of the accused being on the locket found in the dead man's hands?" "They also appear on the one which I found in the vest and which I have here. You may examine it, and you will observe that it is the facsimile of the other. Thus it is plain that there were originally two, and I presume that by a coincidence these are the initials also of Miss Lewis' mother. She is not certain, as she only knows one of the immm. ' Matilda.' Tha other must have begun with ' W.' " Mr. Barnes knew better than this, but he had decided to suppress the truth, and therefore he accounted for tins poiut as cesr ne couia. ne men related the means by which he had recovered the handle, and Burrows, at the conclasion of his tale, exclaimed: "Well, Mr. Barnes, you have entirely overturned my theory, and the only satisfaction left to me is that the innocent will not be made to suffer through me." "Mr. Barnes," said the squire, "you have not told us yet who the murderer is and how you discovered him." "It is very simple. By an unaccountable prejudice 1 suspected that this man was not whut he claimed to be. You recall his story of having been at school in New York. I repaired thither and learned that no such boy had ever been there. Mr. Lewis, it seems, made a present to the academy years ago, and this man must have found some of the letters which Mr. Lewis received while stopping there, and, using the envelopes to get the dates right, forged the inclosed letters which he showed to you." "Then you came back here, I suppose, to arrest him?" "Exactly, and I find him dead. That would seem to prove that he feared discovery and took his life to evade arrest. However, that is not sufficient for ma I must find out the exact object of this crime and will do so. I promise you that if you will delay the inquest till Tuesday, 60 as to give me a chance to follow up a clew which I have, I will endeavor to clear up the whole matter." The squire willingly acquiesced. Mr. Barues hastened to New York as speedily as possible and learned from the spy that the woman hud made no effort to change her place of residence, perhaps realizing the uselessuess of so doing aft er what had taken place in her apartment. He went at once to the hotel, and, Bending his name up, was shown into her presence. As soon us he entered she began: "I do not know why I have allowed you to come up to see me!" "I do!" replied Mr. Barnes tersely. "Then tell me." 'tCuriosity." "You are clever. Now, satisfy my curiosity." " I came here to tell you all that J have discovered." "Well?" "I was engaged to find your husband. " "Yes. Goon." "I have found him." "Where?" "Where I told you that I would. He left this city with a murderous intent, onrl F lnnlrorl ffir him in thn vir-init.v nf the crime." "He has not killed any one. I will not believe it." "No; his guilty plans reacted on himself." "What do you mean?" "He is dead." "Merciful God!" "Yes; the Almighty has been merciful to him if we consider the wrong that he had done and still meditated. His victims have suffered far more than he. Now, madam, let us come to business at once. You must go with me." "Go with you? Where?" "To New Hampshire. Listen! Yom husband, as you call him, went up there to commit a crime which he had threatened many yeurs ago?namely, to kill ttis man Lewis._ He reached the house IF EVIDENCE. $ OTTOLENGUI. Irtist In Crime." and met Lewis, but tbe latter bad long awaited his comiug and was prepared for bis arrival. Before your busbanc. conld carry oat bis design a ballet end' ed his career." "This is terrible. Why did he go? I warned him that the man would not allow himself to be harmed." "Ah! Then, as I supposed, you knew his intentions before he went However, as he did not succeed you cannot be held on that charge. To continue, Lewis, as I have said, killed Marvel. He then succeeded in making every one believe *hat it was his own body which was found, while he passed off for his son, ju^t returned from sea. This might have teen a successful ruse had not a strange chain of circumstances implicated his niece in the affair, and despairing of proving her innocence in any other way he committed suicide, leaving a full confession." "I don't see what I have to do with all this." " You will in a moment. If the truth is exposed, the knowledge must come to this girl of who and what her fathe* was, besides the fact that her uncle killed him. This I have determined shall not be. Justice makes no such demand, and I choose to give this girl a future 1 unclouded by such a past" "How will you hide the truth?" "I iatfst invent a tale which will fi. tne circumstances, ana you must t>uuntantiate the story." "I will do nothing of the kind." "Oh! Yes, you shall. You will have no choice in the matter. " "I tell you I will not. Who is this girl? The daughter of the woman wbc orosseu the sea to take my husband away from me." "You and that man, by your heartless treatment of that woman, hastened, I may say caused, her death." "What do I care for that? If you think I will help you to spare the delicate feelings of this girl, you do not know me.'' "It is just because I imagine that ) do know you that I am so confident that you will aid me." "What do you mean?" r " You must choose between obeying 1 me and absolute poverty." t "How so?" c "I will explain. Marvel married this c -jgirl's-motherrond she is his ohild. -His i wife was alive when you married him, t and, according to your confession to her, f when she met you in Paris, you knew i of this first marriage, but chose to ig 1 nore it If you had been united in this e state, I could easily have you imprison, f ?A for that bigamous marriage, but for y tunately for you, you were marriea y abroud. However, I will not let you slip i through my fingers for all that. I think i you did what you attributed to the real f wife. Yon were anxious to share Marvel's position und his fortune, and there 1 fore I believe you will do anything foi , money. So I intend to manage you < through your cupidity. If you persist in ] your obstinacy, I will reveal all that I Viavfi .parnerl and will rpa that Rtfios ara 1 taken to gain possession of Marvel'a property for his rightful heir, bis daughter. Moreover, you shall be made to give up whatever moneys yon now have of bfe, as they become a part of his estate. This will be simple, for, as you can easily be shown by the records of the Parisian court to be the bigamous wife only, of course you would be entitled ti no share in his property." "How is it that you are so well in formed?" "It is my profession to be well informed. I have no time to spare. Choose!" ( "You are a devil!" Then, after a few 1 minutes' hesitation, "What is it that ] yon wish me to do?" I "So! You decide that my way is 1 best, do you? You are wise! Well, then, ] you will return with me, and on the i way I will explain what I require of i you. Obey me and no harm shall come 1 to you." t * ? * ] The inquest over the dead body which bad been found in the 6ecret room at tracted even more interest and a greater . crowd than had the first. All looked eagerly forward to the explanation ' promised by Mr. Barnes, and loud were ' the praises which ho received on every side. At length the moment arrived, and the woman whom the detective had . brought with him against her will was made to take the stand. Prompted by Mr. Barnes, Mr. Tupper conducted tbe 3 examination of tins witness: "Will you give your name if you ' please, madam?" "Mrs. Horace Paul." 4 4You have seen the body of the deceased?" i "I have." J 44l)o you recognize it?" 1 441 do. It is the body of my hus- i band.44 This caused a sensation. t 44Can you give any reason why he 1 should have wished toharm Mr. Lewis?44 1 44He knew Mr. Lewis long ago and i did some work for him. My husband * was an architect and a practical car- < penter. Mr. Lewis engaged him when I he lirst came to this town to build a i secret apartment in his houso. Mr. t Lewis was very anxious that no one < should know of this hiding place, and i that is why he brought a man from a 1 distant city to do this work. His anxie- t ty to keep his secret, coupled with the | fact that he paid my husband an im- 1 meusesumof money and stipulated that ] he should never return to Lee, made \ my husband suspect that it must have s been as a storehoust for money that he wished to use it. He spoke so often of this that, fearing he might be tempted to investigate it. at leuirth I persuaded him to go with me to Europe. Lately, I! however, he iusisted on returning, as |: !ve had used up most of our inean9. ] lid not believe, after so many years hat be would agaiu think of this 'hid ien treasure,' as he was wont to call it Bat now I see it must have been that vhich brought him here." After this testimony she was allowed ? retire, and Mr. Barnes took the stand io make a statement. "Before we give this case to the jury [ should like to say that I think this nan remained after tbe crime was comnitted with the intention of searching lor the treasure. Mr. Burrows will testify that he heard him in the secret jhamber during the first night after the nurder. I think he assumed the porionality of the dead man's son as the jest meaus of enjoying the fortune vhich he expected to obtain as well as ;o avoid suspicion most effectually. Failing to find uuy treasure or to iuhert under the will, it was still his only neans of safety to remain. Fear or renorse at last impelled Buioide, a notunlsual thing with criminals of an intelectual order." The verdict of the jury placed the reipousibility for the murder on the dead nan, and indeed, though it little underitood the true facts of the case, that vas where it justly belonged. There still remained one or two )oints about which Mr. Barnes felt a mriosity, and at the first opportunity ifter Marvel's release ho questioned )im. "Mr. Marvel," said be, -'how is it ;hat you thought that Mr. Lewis was lead, as we supposed him to be when spoke to you on tho vessel at Portsnouth?" "I guessed it. I had received a letter xom Miss Lewis, in which she used the . JUL m "Ihavenotimeto spare. Choose!" vords 'after the eveuts of last night.' ! did not qnite understand this at first, hough I placed no special importance in it until you told me that a murler had been committed. It flashed over y mind in u moment that .it was to his that Virgie had alluded, and 1 eared that she and her uncle had quar eled on her return to the house after eaving me and that in a fit of passion iho had killed him. That is why I reused to go back with you. I did not vish to be a witness against her. Aftervard it dawned upon me that I mysell nust have been suspected, or you would rever have come after me. Then I was inxious to return." "That explains the point in question, but there is one other matter. Why svas it that Mr. Everly sent you a letter ;hat night and that you went to Ep ping instead of going to Portsmouth?" "I formed the idea of going to Portsnoutb after I reached the farm thai light. Previously I had sent word to Everly, asking him to get some money tor me and explaining how he could forward it without betraying my whereibouts. If he had brought it himself; bis presence in Epping might have exited suspicion, as he was well known :o be my friend. I knew that we could ;mst the matter to Harrison, and I suggested him as the bearer of the letter ind money. To receive these I was jompelled to go to Epping." ******* Some months later Mr. Barnes revived cards to the nuptials of Virignia Lewis and Walter Marvel and was pleased to attend the ceremony. The iride and groom went abroad on their aoneymoon. A few days after their departure Squire Olney sent to the detective a certified check for $5,000, with the information that it must be accepted from the newly married couple, as Virginia happily expressed it, "in part payment for our happiness, which we ;njoy through you." They had delayed making this presentation until they should be out of the country, lest Mr. Barnes might endeavor to return the gift. Appreciating the intentions whioh prompted its bestowal, Mr. Barnes aclepted the money. He is now his own master, being chief of a private bureai which he has established in New York, t may as well mention, also, that Burrows manfully apologized to Mr. Barnes for his actions in this case and was ance more received into the good graces af the more experienced detective. THE END. Berries In Alaska.?Nowhere elst n my travels, north or south, says rohn Muir, the California naturalist lave I seen so many berries. Tht voods and meadows and open places ilong the shores are full of them? mckleberries of many species, salmon lerries, raspberries, blackberries, cur ants and gooseberries, with fragranl strawberries and service-berries on th< Irier grounds, and cranberries in th? jogs, sufficient for every worm, birc md human being in the territory, auc housands of tons to spare. The In lians at certain seasons, roving it nerry bands, gather large quantities jeat them iuto paste and then press he paste into square cakes and drj :hem for winter use, to be eaten as i <ind of bread with their oily salmon lierries aloue, with the lavish bloon hat belongs to them, are enough t< ihow how fine and rich this northeri wilderness must be.?Colman's lturu World. l)o not wait for the rising of th< sun of prosperity, but get up earb and strike a light. ' ^liocflliinrouG grading. WINTHROP'S HEALTH. Mr. Mayfleld Disagrees With the Commission of Experts. Columbia Register, Saturday. Superintendent of Education Mayfield does not agree with the commisi siou of physicians in reference to the condition at Rock Hill. > In speaking of the matter yesterday, he said: ; "I think the report of the commisi sion is unfortunate in that it does not utata all nf the facts connected with i the conditions at?Winthrop. I have i never seen a spribg on the top of a i hill; all the springs I ever saw were on a slope, and Ij:have never seen a spring on a slope that did not have the storm water jof that slope. A spring is usually Regarded as furnishing the purest of Water, notwithstanding the storm water of the slope, but in this case, the four wells from which Winthrop gets it water, are 26, 28, 36 i and 49 feet in depth, and are overflowing wells with an overflow three ! feet in height. The overflow goes through an iron pipe, which is based 1 on a rock foundation. This system of > piping is used fot* each of the four wells. The pipe passes through the ' gravel strata through which the water flows. The bottom of the iron piping ' is perforated for a distance of six feet 1 in the gravel strata, and through these perforations the water supply of the wells is derived. \ This water could not be affected by the storm water. "Another reason for saying this sup1 ply is not affected by the storm water, is that the flow is not increased or diminished by the rainfall. It is the same in wet as in dry weather. From these wells and ayerage of 50,000 gallons a day is pumped. The few droppings around the well, which are mentioned, are the result of an accidental stray cow, which chanced to get into the yard to graze before frost came. "The droppings are few in number, have been there so long that they have dried upon the surface, and it is a mat ter of utter impossibility for 50,000 gallons of water each day to be contaminated from this source. The cow lot, spoken of by the commission, is a thing of recent occurrence. It covers 63 acres of ground aud adjoins Winthrop's line, and is, as the commission states, 75 feet from the well; but it is dowu the hill on the branch below the well. It is utterly impossible for the water to be contaminated from this source, because the contamination cani not run up bill but would run down bill. There are only three small heaps ' of droppings Jn the pasture, which 1 appeared to be. fresh, and it is impos1 sible for the pasture to have occasion ed any contamination. For anything ' to work through from the pasture to i the wells, it would have to climb perhaps a rise of two feet in a distance of 75 feet. "It is unfortunate that the commis sion did not give the history of the 1 cases of sickness that have occurred 1 at the college during the year. Had they done so, the public would have been better able to have judged for themselves. I will send for the report of the matron to indicate what sickness there has been at the institution and the history of each case.' Members of the commission, ou the 1 other hand, say Mr. Mayfield is mis 1 taken. ABOUT SMALLPOX. Interesting Information, Historical and , Scientific. Chester Lantern It is uot kuown where smallpox originated ; but it is said to have existed , iu China many centuries before Christ, i It prevailed in the sixth century and was wide-spread at the time of the Crusades. It was brought to America by the Spaniards early in the sixteenth century. Inoculation was in1 troduced in Europe by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in 1718, and vacci, nation was discovered by Jenner iu 1798. Smallpox is one of the most contat gious diseases. Persons exposed are I almost invariably attacked, though a few persons seem to be insusceptible ! to the disease. All ages are subject , to it; but it is particularly fatal to children. Amoug aboriginal races . smallpox is terribly fatal. When the disease was first introduced into Ainer, ica the Mexicans died by thousands, and the North American Indians have frequently been decimated by the ( plague. The Negro is especially susceptible, and the mortality is greater? about 42 per cent, in the black, against 29 per cent, in the white race, i The disease is not believed to be i contagious uutil the eruptiou develi lops. The poison clings tenaciously to everything it touches. One of the worst epidemics in modern times was in Montreal iu 188f>. It , was carried there from Chicago by a j Pullman-car conductor, and in nine months 3,164 persons died of the dis! ease in the city. The people were . largely unprotected, as many of the French Canadians were opposed to vaccination, Virus from an eruptive disease of ^ the cow and inoculated into man pro? duces a local pock with constitutional [ disturbance, which affords protecliou, j more or less permanent, against the I small pox. This is what is culled vaccination. The vaccine is taken eit her , directly from the calf, or from persous vaccinated. The duration of the imj raunity is extremely variable. In some f instances it is permanent; but a mai jority of the persons become again susceptible to the disease within ten or j twelve years, though the disease is } usually milder and the mortality much , less. This milder form is called varioj loid. The mortality in persons who have been vaccinated is from 6 to 8 percent., e whereas in the uuvaccinated it is at f least 35 percent. Statistics of 5,00C cases give, with good marks, 8 per cent: with fair marks, 14 per cent; with poor marks, 27 per cent; postvaccinal cases, 16 per cent; unvaccinated cases, 58 per cent. We get this information, and quote the language to some extent, from The Principles and Practice of Medicine, by William Osier, M. D., professor of medicine in the Johns Hopkins University. NEW CllKES FOR OLD DISEASES. ! BY CYRUS EDSON, M. D. , Prior to the development of bac- < teriology or the study of germs, phy- i sicians did not know the cause of dis- j ease. All they knew were the symp- ( toms, aud the symptoms of a particu- ( lar disease?such as typhoid fever, for < 1- i--. IL_ ..U? example?are uui tue viaiuie icamta produced by the causes at work. Physicians were in the condition of a man who might be asked to improve a rail- ] way train while he was without any understanding of the force of expansion developed when water is turned into steam by beat. Such a man could see the train move, and if he saw this often enough, he could recognize it was a train?a line of cars which would move and carry people from place to place. But think for a moment how impossible it would be for this man to improve that train by inventions, so long as he knew nothing of the expansive power of steam, the cause of the movement! It is easy to understand why physicians without the knowledge of the f cause of disease, were conservative; that is, unwilling to try new remedies ' or methods. It took 250 years to induce physi- ' ciaus generally to use quinine, which is, perhaps, the most valuable remedy 1 known. Physicians had found out, af- j ter numberless experiments and many ' failures, that certain medicines were 1 valuable in certain diseases?they 1 learned, for example, that quinine was ( most useful in cases of malaria. But as they did not know the cause of 1 malaria,?for no man had ever heard ' of the "plasmadia." the germs of ma- ( InriR?so thev were ignorant of whv 1 quinine did good. However, the fact that it would help the patient to recover was absolutely 1 known to them, and a dose of quinine 1 was just as valuable then as it is now, when, as we know several things about j the germs that cause the disease called : malaria, we can reason on the action ( of the drug. 1 The conservatism of physicians was ' forced on them. Knowing nothing of 1 the cause of disease and, therefore, ' nothing of the real action of the drugs 1 administered, they clung to those which experience had taught them would do good. Of these they were certain?the new remedies proposed might be good or might not be. What1 was the use of giving up a thing known to be good for another which no one knew anything of? This they rea- 1 soned, and naturally. True, remedies really good made their way in time, 1 but it took many long years. 1 With the discovery of the cause of germ diseases, all this changed. It 1 was found possible to cause these ' germs to grow and increase outside 1 the body. On these "cultivated colo- 1 nies," as they are called, experiments 1 could be made, new remedies tried and 1 their results noted. FROM THE THEORY TO THE CURE. 1 Moreover, with the discovery of the cause of disease and the investigations , into the laws or influences affecting , these germs, it became possible to part* j ly work out the laws governing disease. and this made possible also the , reasoning out of theories which could ( be afterward demonstrated by experiments. Medicine is in a very different posilion today from that which it occupied a century ago. Then it was little i more than a collection of experiences, < now it may be called a science. < In bacteriology, then, is to be found j the real startling-point of the new I cures for old diseases of which we hear < so much. Some of these cures are < very good, others are for the most part j of theorettical value only and have i yet to be proved. But in the general ] disposition of physicians to test the ( new theories aud cures, a great ad- i vance has been made. Doctors ure no longer shackled by their ignorance of the cause of disease. They are free to move ahead. i Perhaps one of the best known of these new cures is what is called antitoxin for diphtheria. The germ of the disease is the Klebs-Loefier bacillus, called after the two men who discovered it and made physicians understand the part it played in the disease. The Klebs-Loefler bacilly, developed iu countless inyriuds in the throat and air-passages, produced a poison, a toxin, which when absorbed into the blood might killed the patient. It was discovered that if an animal ?a horse is usually chosen?were given a little less than a poisonous dose of diphtheria toxin and allowed to recover. theu another lurger dose of the poison followed by recovery, and then another and another, a time would come when an enormous dose of toxin would have no effect on that animal. Nature had developed in it some substance which was an antidote for the toxin, the poisou produced by the diphtheria germs. This substance is the antitoxin. It is contained in the serum, that is, the watery part of the animal's blood. When a patient has diphtheria this serum, carrying the antidote to the poison of the disease, is injected and the poison is neutralized. Hence the patieut has a very much better chance of recovery. > One of the most curious classes of remedies now used is to be found in the animal extracts, as they are called. i For example, from the gray nerve j matter found in the spinal cord, chemi ists can make a serum or fluid which shall contain this gray matter practi> cally unchanged. The theory of its I use rests on the fact that the body is a laboratory which from the food makei muscle, hair, bone, uerve tissue am all other substances to be found ii that body. If a patient's nerves are run dowi and weak?so it was reasoned?the) need to be nourished. If we injeei the gray matter of the nerves, th< nerves will assimilate it at once anc thus be fed and strengthened. Nov as this gray matter can be made intc a serum, and administered, there is nc necessity that the body should be asked to create it. It can be given in an) quantity. Although the theory of th< use and value of the animal extracts is not universally accepted by physicians, it has many warm advocates and as a theory, it must be said to be very attractive. A TREATMENT THAT REDUCES FLE8H One of the animal extracts unques tionably possesses great power. This is the extract of the thyroid gland and it will reduce the amount of fat ic % living body. It has a history common to man) remedies. It was noticed that in the ilass of "cretins"?children undevel aped mentally and physically?the Lhyroid gland was either undeveloped :>r almost absent. An extract of the gland from sheep was made and givet Lo these cretins with really wonderfu results. Then the extract was tried on other abnormal conditions, and finally on a case of corpulence witl the result that the amount of fat was greatly reduced. This treatment is like that of phy iicians a century ago, because, while we know the effect will be produced we do not yet know why. Reasoning from effect to cause, some physicians have advanced the theory that the function of the thyroid gland is to regulate the proportions in wbict different tissues, the flesh, fat and erve or brain tissues shall be produced by the laborator of the body Ibus, they contend, when these proportions are abnormal, as in the case of excessive corpulence, the extracl of the gland has the power to correct [he abuormal condition. This theory has not yet been estab nsnea, dui 11 is we must pmusiuie ui those advanced to account for the facl of the acton of the extract. I do not quite understand why there is such a great interest in the experiments which have been made in using one disease to cure another?for example, inoculating cancer with erysip elas with the belief, or perhaps hope is a better word, that the latter will cure the former and will in turn be cured by appropriate remedies. Yel there are no experiments in treatment which interest me more, nor any ol which I am more anxious to read. Taking cancer and erysipelas as ai example of this class of treatment there are several theories behind it Erysipelas is known to be a germ dis ease, and cancer is believed to be one It is contended that the germ of the erysipelas is destructive to that o cancer?that the former will conquei the latter, just as a strong man mighl conquer one that was weak. Again there is a theory that the products o the germs of erysipelas are poisonous to the germs of cancer and will, there fore, destroy them, and with them th< disease. As we saw when speaking of th< germs of diphtheria, germs either it the body or in cultivated colonies create products. These products ar< the effete matter of the germs them selves, for, like all organisms having life, they produce waste or rejectee mutter in several ways, and thes< waste products form the toxin or poisor of the germs.?Youth's Companion. PASSPORT REGULATIONS. There are few countries in whicl Lravelers now require passports in or Jer to promote their convenience anc security. In Brazil and Venezuela i passport must be shown to the officials before one is allowed to leave thi country for a foreign port. This is i vexatious measure enforced apparent ly lor toe sake 01 enaonng a iew um uials to collect small fees. In Cubs passports are produced whenever trav elers arrive or depart. This precau lion is considered necessary in view o the political condition of unrest pre vailing in the island. In Russia passport regulations art enforced with great stringency. N< traveler is allowed to enter the em pire until be has obtained a passpor and convinced the Russian consula officers at the port from which he sail: that he is neither a Roman Catholii priest nor a Hebrew. The questioi ordiuarily asked is, "What is your re ligiou ?" But it is designed to provide against the entry of either of thes' two classes. When the traveler arrives at a Rus sian port with a passport which ha been properly viseed and countersign ed at a consular office, it is critically examined by a police officer, and dul; registered. At the entrance of the hotel anothe police officer takes possession of tb document, and in the course of 2 hours returns it with a permit for i limited residence in the country. When the traveler departs for an other city in the empire he must hav the passport countersigned by th police. This process continues unti he reaches the frontier, which he can not cross unless the passport has beei viseed and stamped by the police. No infrequently tourists are stopped at th frontier, and subjected to serious in conveniences because they have ueg lected to comply with the police regu lations respecting passports. All this /red tape causes anuoyanc an irritation among tourists, who ar apt to overlook the fact that Russian as well as foreigners are compelled t< observe these police regulations. It i the business of the police to kno\ where everybody lodges. A permit i required if a native removes from on quarter of a town to another. Every body is registered by the police whe i he arrives or departs, and foreigners, i when they are in Russia, are dealt ) with on equal terms with permanent residents. i The same system prevails in Turkey, r where it is not practicable for a forl eigner to travel without a passport. 5 Elsewhere in Europe passports are not 1 required. They are relics of a bygone t period when communications between > countries were slow and infrequent. > Now that all nations are drawn to1 gether by the ties of constant inter> course a passport is out of date except v in A/MintwiAa lilrn DnnaSn 'I'n ? )? /*?? nn/J J iu wuuwicn imc xvucwm, i ui&cj auu i Cuba, where it fits into the police sys tem of registration.?Youth's Compan, ion. ONE SENSIBLE WOMAN. A crowd, a supposed wad dog and a "tall, well-dressed woman"?these " were the parties to a lively scene in 5 Broadway, New York, one afternoon > last summer. The dog, a small one, 1 suddenly began running about in a circle and crying piteously. Some' body cried, "Mad dog 1" Somebody ' else repeated the cry, and some men " and women were scurrying in all dir rections, frightened out of their wits. ' How the affair terminated is thus J reported by The Tribune: When the excitement was at its height, the dog rushed around under the elevated tracks at the corner of Thirty-third street and Broadway. At 1 this moment a tall, well-dressed worn3 an, who was coming down Broadway, stopped and looked at the scurrying ' pedestrians and then at the dog. 5 It darted across the street toward > the place where the woman was standing, and as it reached the sidewalk ' she stooped quickly and seized it by J the back of the neck, and carried the 1 now whining animal to the up-town ' elevated railroad station stairs. ' Those who had fled from the dog ' stared at the woman in amazement. All unconcerned, however, she began ' to pat the head of the terrier and speak ! to it, affectionately. The SDectacle of a woman fondling a mad dog was so ' extraordinary that several hundred persons quickly gathered. ' "Everybody seems to think that this dog is mad," she said with a laugh, ' to a policeman whe came up to investigate the matter; "but I know all : about dogs. I know from his cries that he has lost his master. No mad > dog ever races around in one spot, the way I saw him do." " By this time the terrier had quieted ' down, and was nestling close to its oew-found friend. The policeman 5 found the woman's theory of the cause " of the dog's antics correct. The dog ' and his master had heen separated when the owner boarded a car. 1 Sugar and Muscular Exertion. ' Those who are fond of food which ' contains sugar will be pleased at the results of experiments recently made ' at the instigation of the Prussian War ^ Office. It is a fact well-known to Alr pine tourists that on difficult climbing > excursions an increased desire is felt for sweets and sweetened food, and j- many who never touch such things at home devour large quantities of them on these tours. " It is also frequently remarked that the guides eagerly appropriate any sugar that may be left over, and consume it on the journey. Whether the sugar afforded real benefit to the , mountain-climber was the subject of the investigation?that is, did the consumption of sugar render the tired I muscles capable of renewed exertion ? > To answer the question conclusively, | the subject of the experiment was not allowed to know that a test was being made. On one day a sweet liquid, containing 30 grammes of sugar, was administered ; on the next a similar j liquid, sweetened by saccharin to ren der it indistinguishable from the other, i so far as taste was concerned, took the i place of the sugar, j The result was a complete triumph i for the sugar. It was found that a i greater amount of work could be a? complished on the days when the . sugar was given than on- those when i saccharin took its place. This serves, - as far as it goes, to prove that sugar is food in a true sense, and that it is in f particular food for the muscles. Dumas to Young Men.?Dumas' i advice to young men reads as follows : j "Walk two hours every day; sleep seven hours every night; go to bed t alone when you wish to sleep; work r as soon as you rise; never eat unless s you are hungry ; never drink unless e you are thirsty, and always slowly. j Never speak unless it is necesssary, and then say only half you think, e Write only what you can sign. Do e only what you can tell of. Never forget others who count on you, but you i- must never count on them. Esteem s money for neither more nor less than - it is worth ; it is a good servant, but y a bad master. Keep away from woy men until you are 20 years old. Give them up when you are 40. Don't r create without recognizing the respone sibility, and destroy as little as possi4 ble. Forgive everybody in advance; a it is more sure. Neither hate nor despise men, and do not laugh at them ; - pity them. Think of death every ?L-*- linrHf. unH e morning wucu juu ms w6^v, e every evening when you go into the I shadow. When you suffer very much - look your grief in the face ; it alone a can console you and it will teach you t much. Learn simplicity, and how to e be useful, and how to remain free, and - wait to deny God until He has proven to the world He does not exist. Glory for glory is a shameful speculation. Men proud of their celebrity are ignoe rant. Men vain of their genius are e fools." s ' 1 ^ IfiT Punishment is rarely necessary s for a horse unless he is vicious. In that v case you may have a long fight before s you, against odds of superior strength e and endurance. Kindness and patience will accomplish much more than n contrary treatment.