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* ^ ISSUED SEMI-WEEKLY?^ ^ ^ ^ l. I. grists sons, Publishers, j * ?t?rs?a|>er: Jor (he (Promotion of the political. social. Agricultural and (Eommmia! laterals of (he people. {1 ESTABLISHED IS55. YORKVILLT^, S-C- FRIDAY. JirLY 15, 1!)1Q, NO. 5(>. I When a M; < I By MARY ~T ROBERTS Af ^ rt ? at rr lj a D T f j. i\ I in c* n t\ m S Copyright 1909? r~ * n*+ ***** ***** ***** ^ CHAPTER XII. t The Roof Garden. a I was <iuite ill the next morning? from excitement, I suppose. Anyhow. I did not get up. and there wasn't any c breakfast. Jim said he roused Flannigan at eight o'clock, to go down y and get the fire started, and then went hack to bed. But Flannigan did not get up. He appeared, sheepishly, at half-past ten, and by that time Bella was down, in a towerinfe rage, and had burned her hand and got the fire startw ed. and had taken up a tray for Aunt Selina and herself. As the others straggled down they * boiled themselves eggs or ate fruit. ^ and nobody put anything away. Lollie * Mercer made tne some tea and scorch- a ed toast, and brought it, about eleven o'clock. p "I never saw such a house," she de- s clared. "A dozen housemaids couldn't 11 out it in onicr why should every man p that smokes drop ashes wherever he " happens to he?" "That's the question of the apes," * I replied languidly. "What was Max ^ talking so horribly about a little while ago?" Lollie looked up aggrieved. n "About nothing at all," she declared e "Anne told me to clean the bath tubs s with oil, and I did it, that's all. Now h Max says he couldn't get it off, and his o clothes stick to him, and if he should t forget and strike a match in the?in o the usual way, he would explode. He o can clean his own tub tomorrow," she L finished vindictively. li At noon Jim came in to see me, d ^ bringing Anne as a concession to Bella, c He was in a rage, and he carried the morning paper like a club in his hand, n "What sort of a newspaper lie would n you call this?" he demanded irritably, v ^ "It makes me crazy: everybody with ii a mental image of me leaning over the ii parapet of the roof, waving a board, t with the rest of you sitting on my legs s to keep me from overbalancing!" t "Maybe there's a picture!" Anne said Ii hopefully. q Jim looked. v "No picture," he announced. "I won- t der why they restrained themselves! I s wish Bella would keep off the roof," he h added, with fresh access of rage, "or n wear a mask or veil. One of those fel- v ? lows is going to recognize her, and v there'll be the deuce to pay." li "When you are all through discuss- r ing this thing, perhaps you will tell h me what is the matter," I remarked. ^ from my couch. "Why did you lean over the parapet. Jim. and who sat on your logs?" "I didn't; nobody did," he retorted, waving the newspaper. "It's a lie out of the whole cloth, that's what it is. I asked you girls to be decent to those reporters; it never pays to offend a newspaper man. Listen to this. Kit." He read the article rapidly, furious ly, pausing every now and then to make an exasperated comment. Attempt at Escape Frustrated?Members of the Four Hundred Defy the Law. "'Special Officer McCloud, on duty ' at the quarantined house of James Wilson, artist and clubman, on Ninety- d fifth Street, reported this morning a a Walter Wellman D( Cross the Atlar - ?^a WMmM ^ |<'opM ght. I!>!'>. hv .V)>. Walter Welltnan, explorer and join around the region of the north polo in a cross the Atlantic ocean from New Yor America. Mr. W'clluuin is about ready 0 Atlantic City. Ho will take Ids lag halh by the last of August hopes to he well in Wellman will carry a wireless outfit will sails along. London, Now York and C| man for his efforts, lie is to ho acconi engineer and a fourth companion, yet to ***** a ***** a ***** a *** \n Marries | Author of * 2 i "The Circular Staircase" M and J "The Man In Lower Ten" ^ The Bobbs-Merrill Co. a Si ***** T ***** ***** T +** laring attempt at escape, made at 3 i. in. It is in this house that some eight >r nine members of the smart set were mprisoned during the course of a dinter party, when the Japanese butler leveloped smallpox. The party shut n the house includes Miss Katherine ik'Nair, the daughter of Theodore McCair, of the Inter-Ocean system; Mr. nd Mrs. Dallas Brown, the Misses dercer. Maxwell Reed, the well known lubman and whip, and a Mr. Thomas larhison, guest of the Dallas Browns md a South American. "'Officer McCloud's story, told to a 'hronide reporter this morning, is as ollows: The occupants of the house tad been uneasy all day. Front the ir of subdued hustle, and from a caretil inspection of the roof, made by the ntire party during the afternoon, his uspicion had been aroused. Nothing inusual, however, occurred during the arly part of the night. From eight 'clock to twelve McCloud was relieved rom duty, his place being taken by dichael Shane, of the Eighty-sixth Jtreet Station. "'When McCloud came on duty at nidnight, Shane reported that about leven o'clock the searchlight of a teamer on the river. Hashing over the louse, had shown a man crouching n the parapet, evidently surveying he roof across, which at this point is nly twelve feet distant, with a view f making his escape. On seeing Shane ielow, however, he hat! beat a retreat, ait not before the officer had seen him tistinctly. He was dressed in evening lothes and wore a light tan overcoat. " 'Officer McCloud relieved Shane at nidnight, and sent for a plain-clothes nan from the stationhouse. This man ras stationed oil the roof of the Bevngton residence next door, with strict njunctions to prevent an escape from he quarantined mansion. Nothing uspiciotis having occurred, the man on he roof left about 3 a. 111., reporting to IcCloud below that everything was uiet. At that moment, glancing skyiard, one of the officers was astound* d n see a long narrow board project itelf from the coping of the Wilson louse, wave uncertainly for a monent, and then advance stealthily toward the parapet across. When it was rithin a foot or two of a resting place, ^ IcCloud called sharply to the invisible efugee above, at the same time firing lis revolver in the ground. " 'The result was surprising. The oard stopped, trembled, swayed a litle, and dropped, missing the vigilant fficer bv a hair's breadth, and crashng to the cement with a terrific force, in inspection of the roof from the levington house, later, revealed nothng unusual. It is evident, however, hat the quarantine is proving irksome o the inhabitants of the sequestered esidence, most of whom are typical f ociet.v folk, without resources in hemsclves. Their condition, without j alets and maids, is certainly pitiable, t has been rumored that the ladies are loing their own hair, and that the gen- J letnen have been reduced to putting heir own buttons in their shirts. This f leploralde situation, however, is un- * l\ UIUCIUIV. c f ;clares He Will . l itic In an Airship. ; SsPy AIL. y it 4 ^:JH ;(; >, ,:?v' * t |&2g, 1 Rvi fljj i I 3 mL Hra y-& y?JMHghS M nalisl, unsalislieil with beiu;; Itluwu balloon, has doolared lu> will try to i 'k to London in tin* motor balloon to try a number of lam) trips arotiml I on to New York rity next month ami i i.lor way for the Ion;; oeean trip. Mr. i li him ami report his progress as he j liieayo papers are to pay Mr. Well- i pauieil by Melvin Yaniman and an < lie selector! Glenn H. Curtiss Aeroplane Rj f' " .nlk HH ?K? ;4s .' ' Tg , Jjfl H^fflBgn |3 . js3 * ^SL : , ^;Jb --ti&fij r^^P ? v *1 ' vy' " '* ' ' .r >._.' - ". ?:;. ' ' > ' :+: 'v*. ?* ' ? v " .*. * .* -v : ' ( p^ijy:..: >>"' ' ..<%>: . 7 i . L _ <oc * * * '"'' *. <'^V I ^ ^ -v' ^ >< " < , V "'The vigilance of the hoard of lealth has been most commendable in his ease. Resinning with a wager >ver the telephone that they would >reak quarantine in twenty-four hours, iiid ending with the attempt to span a welve-foot gulf with a hoard, over vhich to cross to freedom, these shutit society folk have shown eharacterstie disregard of the laws of the state, t is quite time to extend to the miiionaire the same strictness that keeps he commuter at home for three weeks vith the measles; that makes him Ret he milk hottles anil groceries from the fate-post and smell like dog-soap for i month afterward, as a result of disnfectlon.'" We sat in dead silence for a minute, Then: "Perhaps it is true," I said. "Not >f you, Jim?h it some one may have ried to get out that way. In fact, think it extremely likely." "Who? Flannigan? You couldn't Irive him out. He's having the time f his life. Do you suspect me?" "Come away and don't fight." Anne >roke in pacifically. "You will have tc lave luncheon sent in, Jimmy; nobody las ordered anything from the shops, tnd I feel like old Mother Hubbard." "I wish you would all go out." I said vearily. "If every man in the house lays he didn't try to get over to the lext roof last night, well and good tut you might look and see if the toard is still lying where it fell." There was an instantaneous rush for he window, and a second's pause, fhec Jimmy's voice, incredulous i wed: "Well, I'll la?blessed! There's th< mart]!" I stayed in my room all that day. My lead really ached and then, too, I did lot care to meet Mr. Harbison. 11 .votild have to come; I realized that i meeti ig was inevitable, but I wanted inn- to think how I would ne-et liini t would lie impossible- to rut him vilhout rousing tie- curiosity of th< ethers to fever pitch: and it was equaly iniposihle to ignore the disgrace-fti pisode of the stairs. As it happened lowever, I need not have worried. 1 went down to dinner, languidly, whet very one was seated, and found Mas it my right, and Mr. Harbison mover ever beside Kella. Kvery one was tailing at once, for Klaunigun, ambling iroimd the table as airily as he walksi his beat, had presented Kella. witl ier bracelet on a salad plate, garnishee with romaine. lie had found it in tie rurnaee-room le- said, wle-re sle- musl fiave dropped it. And he looked at lie healthily, to approve his mendacity! Kvery one was famished, and us the) ite tle-y discussed the board iii tie m-a-way, and pretended to deride ii is a clever bit of press work, to revive i dying se-nsatiem. No one was dece-ivi-d: Anne's p?-arls and tie- attempi it ese-ape, coining just after, pointe-e (Illy tee eelie tiling. I leiokeel at'olltlil the table, da zed. I'lauiiigan, a hie est tie oily uiikiieiwn quantity, might have Iricel to escape lie- night before, but he would not have been in elress edothe's I tesieles, he must be ediniiliatcel as fa I is the pearls were* eoiicenied, havin; l?*eti leickeil in the- furnace-reieim the night they were stolen. There- was lie ii.e among the- girls to suspeet. Tie Merce-r girls had stuiining pe arls, am ronld seetire all they wanteit tej;ni malt'ly; ami I Sella disliked tliem. idt there was n<> i|iiestion ahoitt it. I derided: Dallas and Anne had takei i wolf tn their h<isihii or is it a viper' -?and the Harbison man was tin creature. Although I must say that looking over the talde, at ,liinm.v'< hreadth and not very imposing personality. at Max's lean length. sallow skin and hold dark eyes, at Dallas, hlotid growing ha Id and llorid, and then a the Harhisuii hoy, tall, miisetilar. elear eyed and sunburned. one would hav? taken Max at first ehoiee jis the \ iI Enters New Yorkice After Daring F1 ? 4* f. ? r r . : >v< tS ' ? -y'iv if. >." ' *. vip* >. . ' ^x< > <, . :';!a '' ? k \ - h M!w- - *w " * X:j.?Spifc|\5; -:- ' x..-;v' -vaij J <1 . i^>w? J""*" * *': ' x, ' " " ' * > K" y:;-/X:. " j& 'y' Y '. i. :* < : a*:^ B lain, with Dal next, Jim third, and the Harbison boy not in the running. It was just after dinner that the surprise was sprung on me. Mr. Harbison came around to me g avely, and asked me if I felt able to go up on the roof. On the roof, after last night! I had to gather myself together; luckily, the others were pushing back their chairs, showing Flannigan the liqueur glasses to take up, and lighting cigars. "I do not care to go," I said icily. "The others are coming," he persisted, "and I?I could give you an arm up the stairs." "I believe you are good at that," I said, looking at him steadily. "Max, will you help me to the roof?" Mr. Harbison really turned rather white. Then he bowed ceremoniously and left me. Max got me a wrap, and every one except Mr. Harbison and Bella, who was taking a mass of indigestibles to Aunt Selina, went to the roof. "Where is Tom?" Anne asked, as we reached the foot of the stairs. "Gone ahead to fix things." was the answer. But he was not there. At the top of the last tlight I stooped, dumb with amazement; the roof had been transformed, enchanted. It was a fairyland of lights and foliage and colors. I had to stop and rub my eyes. From the bleakness of a tin roof in February to the brightness and greenery of a July roof garden! "You were the immediate inspiration. Kit," Dallas said. "Harbison thought your headache might come from lack of exercise and fresh air. and he* has worked us like nailers all ' day. I've a blister <>n my right palm, and Harbison got shocked while he was wiring the place, and nearly fell I over the parapet. We bought out two full-sisccd florists by telephone." It was the most amazing tratisfnrI niation. At each corner a pole had . been erected, and wires crossed the , roof diagonally, hung with red and * amber bulbs. Around the chimneys had I massed evergreen trees in I tubs, hiding their briek-and-mortar . ugliness, and among the trees tiny [ lights were strung. Along the parapet i were rows of geometrical boxwood ; plants in bright red crocks, and the I Haps of a crimson and white tent had been thrown open, showing lights : within, and rugs, wicker chairs, and cushions. i Max raised a glass of benedictinc I and posed for a moment, melodramatically. "To the Wilson roof garden!" he said. "To Kit, who inspired; to the creators, who perspired; and to Takahiro may he not have expired." Kvery one was very gay; I think the knowledge that tomorrow Aunt Selina might be with them urged them to make the most of this last night of 1 freedom. 1 tried to be jolly, and suc' reeded in being feverish. Mr. Harld' son did not come up to enjoy what he ' 1....1 t,-r..11<r||| .1 illl 1 il*( ill irli | no bis guitar ami sang low souks in a heautifnl tenor, looking at Bella all the time. And lie la sat in a steamer chair, with .a rug over her ami it spangled ' veil on her head, looking at the boats on the river ?about as soft and as ' chastened as an acetylene headlight. And after Max had told the most hn' probable tale, which l^eila advised him " to sprinkle salt on. and Dallas had done a clog dance, Bella said it was time for h-T complexion sleep and went 1 down-stairs, and broke tip the party. "If she only gave half as much care to her immortal sotil," Anne said when she had none, "as she does to her skin, she would let that nice Harbison boy " alone. She must have been brutal tn him tonight, for he went to bed at nine o'clock. At least. I suppose ho 1 went to bed. for lie shut himself in the " studio, and when I knocked lie advised me not to come in." I had pleaded my headache as an ex Chicago ights Over Ocean. w W J H 111 4 ' th 4'- - n f th || th ; . . in - t li ?* re pi ' : > .'> V: ' - . .11 ai hi . , \ V ' 1,1 v v:" . i0 ' ? ' ' Si J | - m ' l?e 1 m< m 1 . w. ' ' *"* pr otpg by American Press AwsoctatlonT"^ tu rij cuse for avoiding Aunt Selina all day, sil and she had not sent for me. Bella ar was really quite extraordinary. She pe was never In the habit of putting her- he self out for any one, and she always af' declared that the very odor of a sickroom drove her to Scotch and soda. T1 But here she was, rubbing Aunt Se- th Una's back with chloroform liniment? st and you know how that srfiells?get- th ting her up in a chair, dressed in one si! of Bella's wadded silk robes, with pil- Pr lows under her feet, and then doing her hair in elaborate puffs?braiding m her gray switch and bringing it, cor- th onet fashion, around the top of her K' head. She even put rice powder on to Aunt Selina's nose, and dabbed violet a" vater behind her ears, and said she a\ couldn't understand why she (Aunt nx Selina) had never married, but, of g<> course, she probably would some day! wl The result was, naturally, that the ce old lady wouldn't let Bella out of sight, in except to go to the kitchen for some- pa thing to eat for her. That very day a>i Bella got the doctor to order ale for ta Aunt Selina (oh. yes; the doctor could ? come in; Dal said "it was all a-comlng rIn, and nothing going out") and she I had three pints of Bass, and learned to I eui aiu niii ICS auu lanan uu > > unv day. "Bella's conduct to Jim was disgraceful. She snubbed him, ignored him, tramped on him, and Jim was growing positively llahhy. He spent most of his time writing letters to the hoard of health and playing solitaire. He was a pathetic figure. Well, we went to bed fairly early. Bella had massaged Aunt Selina's face and rubbed in cobl cream, Anne and Dallas had compromised on which window shoidd be open in their bedroom, and the men had matched to see who should look at the furnace. I did not expect to sleep, but the cold night air had done its work, and I was asleep almost immediately. Some time during the early part of the night I wakened, and, after turning 'and twisting uneasily, I realized that I was cold. The couch in Bella's dressing-room was comfortable enough, but narrow and low. I remember distinctly (that was what was so maddening: I everybody thought 1 dreamed it)?I remember getting an eiderdown comfort that was folded at my feet, and pulling it up around me. In the luxury of its warmth I snuggled down and went to sleep almost instantly. It seemed to me I had slept for hours, but it was probably an hour or less, when something roused me. The room was perfectly dark, and there was not a sound save the faint ticking of the clock, but I was wide awake. And then came the incident that in its ghastly, horrible absurdity made the rest of the people shout with laughter the next day. It was not funny then. ? Kor suddenly the eiderdown comfort tj, began to slip. I heard no footsteps, not the slightest sound approaching me, (|| but the comfort moved; from my chin, j-(> Inch l?y inch, it slipped to my shoul- tj, iters: awfully, inevitably, hair-raising ly it moved. I could feci my blood gather around my heart, leaving me |<( i cold and nerveless. As it passed my j haiuls 1 gave an involuntary clutch for m it, to feel it slip away from my fin- lt, gers. Then the full horror of the sit- jt, nation took hold of me; as the comfort (j(' slid past my feet I sat up and scream- j ; ed at the top of my voice. I)r Of course, people came running in in ^ all sorts of things. I was still sitting up, declaring I had seen a ghost and a>, that the house was haunted. Dallas was struggling for the second armholc , of his dressing-gown, and Itella had already turned on the lights. They ?? 1 said I had had a nightmare, and not v:i to sleep on my back, and perhaps I ,v was taking grippe. ' And just then we heard Jimmy run r down the stairs, and fall over some- ta thing, almost breaking his wrist. It was the eiderdown comfort, half-way up the studio staircase! To be Continued. 111 iWiscrllancous grading. MEDICINE MYSTERY. 'hat Secret Remedies Cost and Cor tain. An incredibly large number of other ise intelligent human beings have th ost profound and unshakable faith i e power of medicine to effect a cur id, usually, the less they know of th impound they swallow the create leir confidence in its efficacy. ] le particular medicine fails, they at ad.v to try another, believing, wit ie most solemn, childlike, even touch g reliance upon the unknown, th? iere is, there must he, a sovereig medy for every human ill, to he ex essed in pill, capsule or dose, if 011 mid only discover what it is. These good people are willing to tr id to keep on trying while life last id to devote their entire physici achiner.v to the sacred cause of med inal experimentation, confident, des te repeated disappointments, th? >me day in the course of their faith I daily sacrifice to the god of chanc iey will hit upon the elixir of lit hieh will at once remove them froi e peril of the particular distempc ey fancy they have been burdene ith. There are those who find deligh the discovery of a new author, oth s whose joy is intense upon hcarin fresh musical composition of gres erit, but the satisfaction of him wh is found a new and untried medicim tent for good, surpasses that of a hers. At last his patient prospectin the inexhaustible mine of drugs I tout to be rewarded, and until he ha ied the new remedy and discarded r something still newer, he Is in ate of feverish happiness. For such trustful souls, the drug st's shop with its rows of bottle aring cabalistic labels, its drawei II of pills and plasters, its showcase ocked with readymade cures and it ingent odor compounded of exhala ins from roots, herbs, oils and es nces, has a lure unsurpassed by an her establishment. It is potent i ist possibilities. Here, to the min the voary of medicine, may surel i found relief from every ache an iln, and certain specifics which ma relied upon to check instantly th sidious attack of disease. Without uggist's glittering sanctuary to fie life would be a desert of lurkin inger to a very large proportion c e human family which now finds it ay and comfort in physic. Physicians themselves .are well awar the comparatively limited curativ iwer of medicines. They know hoi tie reliance may be placed upon th eseription alone and how much na re, the slow, recuperative force c ?ht living and the observance of th mple rules of diet, with fresh ai id exercise, contribute toward curin ople and keeping them in goo lalth. The best doctors are slow t Iminister medicine of any grea rength, except in serious emergency tiey earn their fees, and well ear em, not by dosing their patients wit rong drugs, but rather by advisin em as to their habits of living, in sting upon pure air, good wate: oper diet and reasonable exercise. Most of them would give even lea edicine if they dared, and many r e more successful practitioners woul ailly throw a large part of the physl the dogs, relying more upon nature jencies for cure, were it not that th erage patient would rebel. He de amis something more tangible tha iod advice?something to take tha 111 make him well; a specific, a pana a, and the physician would be bol deed who had the courage to tell hi itient to quit dosing himself entire! id seek recovery by observing cer in rules of living. The prescriptio Monorail Now 1 N< > :*A ; -Mvvf.Y. .v. iViivfirfftrrr-niiYni^TiT-nw |')ii.tj<0 !.> i ttir t 11 ,n< I',1:0a A ??' < 111 It iili MlMMMItoVM-.*- M-WVW^^^W^WY.V.tWW<W [H. I While (Jermany has liad a short States has Just been completed in poiutment of August Belmont and house. Students of transportation in all parts of the United States fo erefore ordinarily accompanies th oil advici> I> 111 doubtless it is fro lently innocuous, and the cure, if of eted, is duo far ntoro to ohserviu e advioe than taking the tnodioino. ** 'u "f Ihn II IS llll' III} .1U I.I .... ipeals to the believer in it. The nn lown has a charm which the ramilia cks. The great |ui|>ularity of paten ediciticH lies in the secrecy which at mis their maiuifaeture. The giilliliil r nf the public in this regard is un uihtedly a survival ancient bar iric faith in the potency of the witch' civ for evil and the power of the lov lilter of bringing happiness. Civili tioii and enlightenment spread l'mr ;e to age, but always there is a larg oportion of the world's populatioi itward.v, perhaps, above the influeiic superstition, yet nevertheless in irialdy clinging with stubborn tenaei to fragmentary instincts inherite urn ancestors, ages liack, who at ched great importance to medicine ucoctions brewed ill remote caves u dden glens by mysterious wizard id witches reputed wiser than thei fellmv beings in the secrets of root and is herb. "Double, double, toil and trou- rr Ide; fire burn and caldron bubble," chanted Maebeth's witches, the patent b medicine manufacturers of their time, i. and then, as now, there were not lack- ti ing those willing to accept their nox- ai .. ious compounds. F ie One Ingredient has been added by ei n modern progress to the mixtures of the 01 ancients which has greatly stimulated r< ie this interesting survival of prehistoric fi I* in moatooLiiia ??"* O/l Sol noQ Print _ ... .r mini ... m, . ............ o. ? [f ers' ink, not in itself of any known a e curative value, has brought the wlz- ir h arcls and witches from their hiding |r places and has enabled them to acquire Ci it world-wide fame and enormous for- jj n tunes by the practice of their art of -r > medicine brewing. The mystery' of c< ie manufacture remains, but printers' ink ij has made a vast number of people willy ing subscribers to the income of the m s, compounders. Were it not for the p il mysterious nature of these widely ad- le I- vertised remedies they would not be so ai i- popular, and therefore those who en- i? it lighten the public as to their real char- pi i- acter are dealing a severe blow to the e very ancient profession of quackery, 'e Such an attack has been made by r> the Rritish Medical association, which r not long ago published a book entitled ij d "Secret Remedies: What They Cost it and What They Contain." It contains i- analyses of a large number of the pag tent medicines so extensively adver- nr it tised in the daily papers of Oreat Rri- ^ o tain. Although many of these are also 0< p, sold in America, the vast number of ^ 11 patent nostrums advertised in this a g country escape exposure in this book, is If a service similar to this could be " is rendered the people of the United ? it States bv some equally reliable agency, a> T2 a it would go far in persuading the public that when it purchases mysterious ei medicines advertised to cure diseases e s it is being unmercifully humbugged. ? s uenerany s|i?uhiiik. mr <111,11., on s this hoi?k show that those who con- n ;s sunie patent medicines are not exposed .- to any serious danger; they are left a i- where they were before they read the y advertisement, except that the price w n paid for these remedies is out of all d proportion to the cost of the drugs y from which they are made. This dlf- 81 d ference, or a large part of it, is doubt- a y less spent for advertising; and theree fore if the buyer is willing to Include a a printers' ink in the ingredients of his 81 e favorite remedy he is not very greatly b g swindled, although, even allowing for sl this, the net profits must still be enor- b a mous. ai The love of mystery, the lingering 'r e superstition that anything which ap- n e pears in print must, somehow, be true, w >v and the force of repetition account for 1,1 e the great sale of patent medicines. No - uneducated person is able successfully to refute a statement which he finds B e day after day and year after year adr vertised prominently in the newspapers Cl g or upon the billboards. Sooner or later y d he becomes convinced that it must be o true and he huys. - Lt Some of the analyses given in "Se>' cret Remedies" are enlightening, even n amusing. A certain "One Night Cold b Cure," sold for 25 cents a box, adver- a g tised to break up any cold overnight K or money refunded," and to cure influr. enza in three days, was alleged to be composed chiefly of "quinine, cascara, 18 camphor and other ingredients adopted ^ by the leading medical authorities for A d colds in the head, throat and lungs." b |C The analysis showed that the tablets w d contained in the box were coated with h e sugar colored with ferric oxide (so- b " called chocolate coating), contained no b n bromide, no quinine, no camphor and 3! d no cascara. The estimated cost of the - ingredients used was one-half a cent. ol d A very famous pill, advertised the k V 3 world around and sold at 30 cents a ? y liox, was found to contain ingredients ?i " the prime cost of which was a quarter 01 n of a cent. Analysis showed these pills S Being Used In ;w York City For Pa I. Tunis, style of car and track of monorail syst ; monorail system in use for some time, th New York city. The first public trial resul other millionaire backers. But the failure problems declare thut within the next five y r both passenger and freight service. e to be composed of aloes, powdered pin- d< - per and powdered soap. A "curative \\ - syrup," sold at 60 cents a bottle, cost p for ingredients less than one cent. Its tl label advertised it to be "a highly con- tl t centrated, purely vegetable compound," r< - but analysis showed the presence of tl r free hydrochloric acid, not usually f< it classified as a vegetable compound; - tincture of capsicum and sugar "in ei - the for mnf treacle." si I'erhaps it is permissible or excusable I - to smile over the ordinary patcnt-medi- ol s cine victim who is so foolish as to al- w < low himself to be swindled into buying iN - harmless trash and paying an exorldn tant price for it. He may he dismisse ed with a contemptuous thought that Sl i, it served him rignt for lieing so gullie hie, hut when the worthless patent n - medicine depends for its success upon o - encouraging the hopes of the really d desperate person suffering from an in- tj - curable disease, the matter is quite rj il different and far more serious. The r cowardly cruelty of trading upon such J s sufferers cannot be denounced with li r sufficient emphasis and should he pun- la ihed by some means more severe than i?*re exposure. A "cancer remedy" analyzed In this ook is thus described: "It is a colorless liquid, containing a ace of sediment: the odor is that of Icohol, though very slightly vinous. Actional distillation showed the presnce of about 40 per cent of alcohol; n complete evaporation, a trace of dry ?sidue was left. This residue was free om any alkaloid, and Its behavior ItU Konrynoto I ,1 ( I > .. 1111 I l-CLK?rill? IMF iimit'ill 1?MI III ny other active principle; it agreed i character with the 'extractive* found i spirit that has been kept in a wine lsk. After removing the alcohol, the quid was perfectly tasteless. This emedy' is thus very simple in nature, msfstlng merely of diluted and slight impure alcohol." In issuing this volume the British tedical association has rendered a uhlic service in a perfectly proper and gitimate manner. If an American uthorfty of equal standing would fol>w its example, it would be a most raisworthy action.?Bellman. HIS BELOVED WIVES. seful Tombstones In the Front Yard of a North Carolina Home. "Every hear of Bucklesberry ?" said a lan from North Carolina the other ay. "Well, It is a district In Lenoir :>unty about twenty miles from Goldsoro. Twenty years ago It used to bound in curious characters. "Almost everybody in the neighborood was named Sutton. At the time f which I speak about the most representative citizen of the community was !en Sutton. Ben had one of the nlcst, neatest little one story houses you ver saw and when one day I met him n the road and was invited to parike of his hospitality at midday diner I accepted with alacrity. "We entered the house from the rear nd almost Immediately sat down at a ible that literally groaned under the reight of ham and sweet potatoes, coltrds, corn pone, turnips and huckleerry pie. Ben's hospitality made him ee that I got away with the whole of n enormous second helping. "T mil ntinn tho frnnt nnrph fter the meal and to my horror there tood in the yard, just in front of the nuse, a row of four handsome tombtones, each with a grave attached. My ost had lingered inside, so I went out nd inspected the stones. One bore the iscriptlon, 'To my beloved wife, Ante.' The second was, 'To my beloved ife, Kate.' The third read, 'To my eloved wife, Maggie,' and the fourth, 'o my beloved wife, Jennie.' " 'Good heavens, have I struck a luebeard?' I exclaimed. "Then I looked at the dates of desase. They were from two to five ears apart. I turned around, and lere was the present Mrs. Sutton >okfng at me with a smile on her face. "'Look pretty, don't they?' she said, fou see, Ben likes to sit out here on le porch and look at the tombstones nd tell me what a good wife Annie or :ate or Maggie or Jennie was to him. : doesn't hurt me, and he gets lots of in out of It. " 'But you can bet your sweet life iere is no place there for me. In the rst place I made him promise me efore we were married that he ouldn't put me there if I died before im. In the second, I mean to outlive 1m. You see, Ben looks pretty husky, ut he is nearly 60, and I am not yet }. " 'Oh, no, I don't mind the tombstones r the graves. For one thing, they eep negroes away from our place, ou see there is the chicken coop on ne side of the yard and the watermeln patch on the other, and you couldn't et a darky to go into either after sun ssenger Service. em.] e first practical road In the United ted In a failure, much to the dlsap was due to a break in the power ears monorail roads will be started own for any number of chickens or atermelons. "'The only thing I mind about it is lat people try to tease me and tell me tat Ben's already got my tombstone iady, lettered and all, except as to te date of my death, but I guess I'll ?ol them all." "She did too,. Poor Ben was gathred away to her numerous predeces>rs within a year or two after that, have never been down in that part of f the state since then, so I don't know hat she did with the tombstones."? ew York Sun. The Dolphin.?The teacher was de ribing the dolphin and its habits. "And, children," she said impresslve', "a single dolphin will have two lousand offspring." "Goodness!" gasped a little girl in le back row. "And how about mared ones?"?Everybody's. t England imported over twentyve million dollars' worth of tobacco ist year.