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pen and ink, that writing paper and W a girl who said that father for some, t1 " ”lolly. V'â€" O'â€" '77.. the now halt opened door: “It's 1, Mr. Snipe. the lodger. Don't strike a men-h. There’s an escape or gas. The [muse is full of It. Are you there“! Do you hear? There’s an escape of gas"â€" No answer. but again the dog howl- ed. and again I felt a nervousness come over me as I entered the room to feel for the bed and found itâ€"empty. In and out of the walled blackness. to another room and anotherâ€"empty. Then up the stairs, to right and left and back againâ€"nobody. Down aha. down threugh the dark- ness, the ghost of light in a hall glass, with here a stumble and there a stum- bleâ€"to the basement. warm and odor‘ Iferous with kitchen odors tainted with gas. Verily 1. and only I. was in the house. Suddenly the dog ceased to bowl. and I heard the dripping of a water tapâ€"drip. drip. drip. And with the fall of the water came to me a measure of time. and I thought again: "What does it mean. this empty. black house? Why is this stifling gas seeth- ing around me. and only me? Ah. thure is a foul evil in the night. Away. and out. out of the house!” With a rush I fought my way up step by step to the hall above and groped toward the dim light shining pallidly through a narrow glass win- dow above the door. “Will it be lock- ed '1" I thought fearfully to myself. “18 thele not something following on m txae‘ '3 ’ I turned the handle and pull- ed it fiercely toward me. The. door yielded. and I rushed into the open. ‘ “Anything wrong sir?” And with the WOEGS came a broad flash of light which. settling momentarily on my face, dropped as quickly to my bare feet and back again. “Anything wrong. sir?” And the voice drew clos- er. the light flashing past me into the dark hall behind. Then the outline of a. helmet and cloak loomed darkly upon. me. and I found my voice in the pres- ence of a constable of the law. “Yes; the house is full of gas. andâ€"- they’ve gone. I might have been suf- focated. Perhaps they wanted to suf- focate me. I don't knowâ€"I"â€" “Who’ve gone? What’s their name?" the constable interrunted abruptly, "L‘ne wayâ€"{he [autumnâ€"w; daughter. I don't know their names, but look berg. constable,” and 1 pro- ceededto give my late “experience" to him in a woof of words. The man evidently did not know _~....+ {nfnrnmmtifln to place upon e1- Am If it had not been that every other bed in the hotel was occupied. 1 cer- tainly would not have consented to share a double bedded room with a stranger. As it was. I found when we rem-had a cityâ€"a considerable city in intiiana. if the reader’s curiosity prompts him to ask about lt-«that a big.- political convention was going on there. and that was how I found my- self with Mr. John Spears for a room- mate. Not that there was anything in John to which I felt inclined to take excep- tion: on the contrary. he struck me as a very amt. prosperous looking and presentable specimen of the American (-omnwl'rial traveler. so much so that I (-onr.:'ratulated myself that chance and politics had not thrown me with any one less pleasant. ‘ ' 'I A-.. By the time we both felt ready for hmi John and I had become pretty good friends. and 1 really thought he must have told me all the stories, good. [rod and indifferent. that he had to tell. but there 1 was mistaken. He was making a somewhat elabo- rate toilet before retiring. that being. as he told me. indispensable to his getâ€" ting a good night’s rest. and in the course of his abiutions his arms were left. entirely bare. Then it was that I noticed his singular decoration. 1 Half way between the elbow and the shoulder John wore a superb specimen of goldsmitb’s work. It was a brace- let. in tact. exquisitely chiseled in Per- sian characters. very massive and con- étory, aid 519811 landlordâ€"‘ way 11.110 an men and :1 half the other. He noticed my astonishment and laughed. . “You never saw a drummer wearing a gold bracelet before?” he said. “No: it was not given to me by a lady. If it were not so late. I'd tell you all about it.” There was no denying that the hour was rather late to 'begin another of his stories. so we went to sleep soon after this. John sleeping with the tur- quoise and massive gold still on his i arm. But next day heetold me the story of it. “The person who gave me that bracelet." he said. "was not a mav, but very far from it. it was given 1139 by a poor. broken down devil who had sold or pawned everything else to buy my surprise wucu his manner. though cell] the fact. thllt 1% ed with the turquoise “Well." he said. 1211 1 that the stone shc been a, fine deep 1; j came into my posses " "Still more odd," 1 iican business man such curious Asiatic 3 John and 1 never drink. but would not part with this 'other-after that. an , I... ne‘txnlxl‘ 1"th while he lived. "1 needn’t tell you his name. We met out west. and I had several easy opportunities of giving him :1 helping hand. But he was one of those cases where :1 helping hand can't help. The man was utterly broken down by drink. . - ' “Whendeath cameâ€"after a magnifi- cent spree. ending in a light in which a bullet intended for some one else clipped short the little span of life that drink had left himâ€"he insisted on hav- ing me with him. because. he said. 1 ’was the only human being left who cared whether he lived or died. Then he said that 1 must take the bracelet and wear it. just as'he had done ever since he got possession of it in Afghan- istan in 1878. “He had been an officer of an Indian cavalry regiment then and might have risen high in the army if he could on- ly have let the brandy bottles alone. 7 I4 AI-A “One of his native troopers took the turquoise bracelet from the arm of an Afghan warrior whom he had killed in a hand to hand fight. You know. a bracelet on the arm is a common orna- ment for an Asiatic swell to wear. And then there is a superstition in the cast that a turquoise with a text of the Iioran cut into it. as this has. is a charm against all sorts of evil. “But the eastern legend also says that when you wear a turquoise on your left arm you can always trust the stone to warn you of any evil that may 1 be threatening you. -A ”\â€" yuovâ€"vvv, “It was only when he was dying that this poor fellow told me how he believ- ed the turquoise had served him well. and i think that his taking that view of it showed there must be some good still left in his nature. “When he went to England on leave ‘ of absence after the Afghan war. he said. he had made a strong resolution ‘ never again to touch intoxicating spir- , its. He found himself among a num- 1 her of old friends whom he'had known at diflerent times. and they were all a very convivial crowd. so he allowed himself to join in their carousings to a certain extentâ€"just to he sociable. But one day as he was dressing he noticed that the turqnmse looked very pale. That. he knew. was the sign of danger coming to him. He thought the matter over and concluded that the danger i which threatened him was neither i more nor less than the temptation of i drink. which had always been his bug- Ii hear. and so. without a word or warn- I in: of farewell to his jolly friends. he . took the train and went ofi’ to another part of the country. where he could . live among associations that would not e-xpnso him to anything like the same danger. Then. he told me. the color of the turquoise deepened again. and he felt himself quite safe. “But it was after that that he said the turquoise saved him from someâ€" thing that would have been the great- est calamity of his life. - “He was very much in love with a cousin of his. a beautiful girl. he said, who lived in the north of England. She cared very little for him. as 1 un- derstood. except as a cousin. though her parents would have been glad to see them marry. Well. he pressed his advantagesâ€"his military reputation and all thatâ€"as much as he could for a long time. but there was another suitor whom the girl seemed to prefer. and beâ€"as tbls poor fellow told meâ€" ‘was at least a decent man'â€"â€"had held the field all to himself before my man appeared. AA “However. be was beginning to think that, with the help of the girl’s parents and one thing and another. he would end by winning her. Then the turquoise warned him again. It was turning pale once more. “You see. he couldn‘t interpret it that he was going to lose this girl whom he loved. because he hadn't won her yet. So he came to the conclusion that the paleness of the turquoise must mean so great a calamity that he, could not guess at. And that led him to give up the girl and leave her to his rival. He could not bear the thought. he said. of taking her with him into trouble. Don't you think It was a splendidly unselfish thing to do? Wan u. C'leuun‘U-J ----V__-_V_ “\Vell. his cousin married the other man soon after. and my poor fellow actually congratulated himself that his cousin would be happy. no manor what became.“ him. But I bblivve that the evil that tln'vamuud him was siuufiy his old enemyâ€"drink. PW- lmps. in the bottom of Ills heart. he dreaded making her the wife of 8 drunkurd. “After that he went back to lmiia. and. being. I Simpose. heartbroken really and despmnicm. he was turnvd out of the army in spite of all his good service in the past Then he drifted to Singapore and from there to [long- kong. where he go: :1 mercantile posi- tion. When the «Ivmon of drink still pursued him reinmivssly in the east. he came to this'vmwzzry, “But the remm'. .,hiv thing about it to meâ€"Olltsidr m in- poor chnp‘s cou- gmtuiating Dink-i i: that. he had been 'saved from mummy; his cousin's life wretchedâ€"the rmim'kuhle thing was that the turquoim- nh‘vays kept pale- never got back «.«wr after he ran away to avoid marrying his cousin and then I: {CHMAN-W " W got into U‘Ouuu: u: .8-.." that *hv paIeness of that cottfounded stone was what hounded him to ruin.” When my chance acquaintance told me this. 1 could not help asking him whether the turquoise bad regained its color since he got it. I asked the question in mere jest. but What was . 4.-.. I an“) nIninlv by my surprise when 1 saw plamxy u: ‘ . though he tried to con- ‘ cunl the fact. that he. too. was muchâ€" ed with the turquoise snperstition. ‘ “Well." he said, laughing. “it is odd that the stone should have always been a, fine deep blue ever since it came into my possession, isn’t it?” "Still more odd," 1 said, “if an Amer- L.-A.:.mm man should believe in John and 1 other- after ti thing happene him as an argument 1‘ his fantastic belief. We had met. partly Baltimore and war“ 0 [LID LMCJWN’h-v "-7 We had met. partly by chance. at Baltimore and wow once more occu- pying the same room in a hotel. John was to have when a train that morn- ing for Pittsburg. but -while he was dressing I remarked to him as 1 still lay in bed: “Somethings going to hap- pen to you. Your turquoise is getting pale.” ‘7 V“I tell you What,” he go to Pittsburg today.” I--- He put off the ileum evening the papers told slide which had caused the train John had int: Several lives had been 5U Lu J» Ay~~~__c _ He put off the 1| urney. and that evening the papers told us of a land- slide whiCh had caused the Wreck ot the train John had intended to take. Several lives had been lost. and more than a score of passengers had been seriously hurt. “If I had been on the train,” said John. “I should have been killed. You may say what you like, but the self sacrifice of that poor fellow has left a. blessing on this turquoise."--Pittsburg Press. Three years ago I came into pos- session of practically an abandoned farm, 150 acres in chestnut and pine and 100 m tillage, with many hill- sides and places which could not be cultivated. I wished to get trees growing on these places; how to make them grow from the seed I did not know, nor could I find anyone who did! so I went to work plant- ing chestnuts in different ways, to see which would succeed, writes a contributor to Country Gentleman. I first took a. sixâ€"titled fork, forced it into the turf two inches deep and say four inches forward, threw a chestnut under and drew out my fork. I saw that one man Was work- ‘ ing at a disadvantage, so calling a," man, I did the liftimg of the turf and he threw the chestnuts. The reâ€" sult was that every chestnut grew, and they MO now two feet high. I then‘ plowed a half-acre, dropped a chestnut eVery two steps and stepped upon it. Not one of the chestnuts ‘grew. I 1)10\\'cd a furrow on anâ€" iother piece, every four feet, dropped .u chestnut every four feet on the ‘edge of furrow. and backâ€"furrowed against this. Not20 trees started {on the whole piece; those which did start were where they were covered lightly and nature’s conditions were complied with. It is so simple and quick to plant a. seed with man and fork. that 1 shall do more of it in the future. into” trouble In 1mm. ‘ Raising the Dairy Call. To make a, good cow from a good calf two things must be guarded against, and they are. a lack of food to make a proper growth, and the use of such food as will fatten in- stead of building up the frame and muscular system. The skim milk fed calf will usually make a better dairy cow than one that is allovxed to suckle the old cow, ii sufllcicnt pains is taken to give the skim milk at the right time and of proper tempera- ture, for two reasons; it does not put on so much fat while younggmd it does not. feel the change so much when the milk is taken away. and it is made to live upon grass or hay. ,The latter is, however. in part due to the fact that, as the skim milk is thought of little value. for other purposes. its use is generally contin- ued until the calf is three or four months old, when it. is well able to eat and digest other food, \‘thllfll those who let the calf continue suck- ing its mother. feel that it is costâ€" ing too much. and Want to Ween it at six Weeks old, or sooner. If the calf lays on fat while young, it seeizis to acquire in some way the peculiarity of the digestive organs changing all the food to fat, and when it becomes a cow it cannot be fed liberally for the purpose of in- creasing): the milk \xithout fattening up at once and'giving‘ less milk than before. In this respect at least the overfed calf is likely not. to make as good a cow for milk as the. one that has been underfed. But the latter is likely to be undersized, and with di- gestive powers weakened by the course of starvation, and it is only by along course of judicious and careful feeding that it can be brought to the form it should have had. Eastern Horticulturllt's Succou After a Number of Fuiiures. Mr. John (1;. ’1‘1101‘115'1'1'01‘1. 1111 Eng-1 lish 1111111111113” 1111 steam 1-11921110- ““1 (with maintained belulc the 111i11<1l J\SS()(11‘11U11 11"11, lUud 511' 1111 CI1“111\‘- V, ‘m 11 41134111 alumtion 111 11c 1mm, ('1111 be so confirm 11 L1 as to 1111 of th 0 highest 1111111: to trade. lie .111‘11'111ed they could be made to earn loads of 12 tons at four miles an hour, and that with tires of 18 11111105 width they \\ ould not injure the roads more than horses (10, as they would act as steam rollers. Mr. Thornycroft “Xpressed no doubt of the practica- bility of his plan and claimed that it would work a revolution in agri- culture, as it. would allow of the free transmission of lime, manure and heavy timber to points where they might, be needed.‘1‘ho only unsettled Ppint in the problem is the substitu- tion of some other material for rub- ber 111 the tires, as rubber costs too much. It is believed, however. that this can be done by some «fluent trunnion of wood. PLANTING CHESTNUTS. Av,an ; Asiatic fables.” 1 never lost sigh hit. and cage at least a ed that might have served ranment fOJ' the truth of l'uwvrlul K 5e bad regained It. I asked the t, but What was saw piainly by he tried to con- he said. “1 W03" mui 12‘" :i urn. ‘ 31 . believe confounded (Concluded from last. week ) m‘dch in her life. But now the strug- gle is over. and I can give her about AL__I- 1"“! 1 'AII uvâ€" 7 gle is over. and I can give her about ! what she wants. thank God. I tell} you. Ned. it’s a pity you let one disap. ? pointment spoil your life. There’s ‘ nothing so sweetens' existence as the companionship of a good woman” “And nothing poisons it like a' bad one." said Frink bitterly. “But surely the good ones outnum- ber the bad. Forgive me. Ned. but isn’t it rather narrow to Let one wo- man prejudice you against the whole 'scx? Of 'course I don’t know your 8w ry9 ’_ _ DWI-J “It’s not pleasant,” said the other man, knocking the ashes from his cigar with nervous fingers. “it an Va”..- happened the year 1 left college. i met a girl in Denver. She was beau- tiful and clever, and you’re right about my being sentimental, Teller. 1 fan- cied because her eyes were pure and bright as the stars in heaven that she must be an angel. She was poor too. Her father was a drunken, good for nothing fellow, and she was very un- happy. and I pitied her. Ah. I was very far gone indeed. We were going to be married when 1 had made mon- ey enough, and meantime l was happy asâ€"well.‘ as happy as a tool. “And then one day as we were walk- ing down the street together we met a man, a low fellow. with a dyed mus- tache. I knew him. He was a shoe- string gambler who came down some-l times from the mining camps and as vile a cur as ever breathed. To my amazement he stopped and spoke to me. ‘What are you-doing with my wife?’ he asked angrily. i supposed he’d been drinking and was about to brush him aside when I happened to look at her. and what i saw told me all. She was cowering before that beast, with every vestige of color gone from her face and her eyes fastened on his with such a look that in a flash I knew that her fear of him was no new thing with her. LIFE’S POSSIBILITIES __â€"C, “ ‘Great God. Lucy.’ I cried. ‘tell me this isn’t true!’ But she only gave a little moan. and so 1 turned away and left them there. I never saw her again.” ,____A m»... “a“.-. There was a moment’s pause. The orchestra. from its perch on the land- ing of the marble stairway was play- Ing an air from “La. Boheme." re- peating the refrain over and over again with pgssionate insistence. #A- -Am- â€"°‘:fsn't it stsible there was some mistake?” asked Teller at last. a. little awkwardly. - 0,- u ___v, “No," said Frink in a hard voice. “Her father came to see me after ward. She was getting a divorce quietly, be told me. and they had agreed to keep me in ignorance of the whole affair. Of course the black- guard threatened to shoot me if I didn't marry his daughter. but when he saw I was not afraid of him be let me alone. They came east after that. I believe.” wwâ€".. . _ "Perhaps she wasn't as much to blame as be." observed Teller thought- fully. n--- gun-v- “Perhapsâ€"she was very young. But such training in deceit doesn't turn out the women who make good wives, and divorced women are hardly in my line. No. there was no excuse for her. and it was only my luck. You fell in love with the right woman. and I fell in love with the wrong oneâ€"that's all." .â€"â€"-v A woman came down the corridor as he spoke the last words. a tall. ele- gant woman. in a modish gown. Whose gleaming folds clung closely to her slender figure. A boy of 8 or 9 years held her by the hand. and both looked out on thé world with the 5: great. beautiful. gray eyes. proud and sad. ‘ 'nwvâ€" w As the woman's eyes met Frink's they dilated suddenly. and he started with a. sharp pain at his heart that caught his breath. A AL-â€" How had she come there just thenâ€" the very woman of whom he had been talking? As he started up Teller glanced around and then rose also with a happy smile. - ..- n -A “Ah. Lucille," he cried. “I have met an old friend. Ned Frink! He must be your' friend also. Ned. this is my wife." The joyous pride in his friend’s voice made Frink wince inwardly as he bowed ceremoniously. “I’m very glad to me she and calmly. How her voice. "53:65“ dine with us. I hope. Nod?" called Teller over his shoulder as he started on with the boy. “Thank you. no 1 leave for Don- \er in half an hour.” replied Frink. Then a sudden surge in the crowd brought some one between them fox a moment. and the woman turned to him abruptly. The pitiful appval in her ey9s mmt straight to Friuks heart. and he tun his own eyes gm“ dim with tears “He doés not know," she said sim- ply. -- . . ,.. AWakenlnx or Connclcnce. First Trampâ€"Look, Tom, this is the minister’s house. The window’s open and all the folks are at church. and they don’t keep no dorg. so that we couldn‘t have a easier job. ri‘v‘He never shall." cried Winkâ€"Chi- cago Herald. ~ Second Tramp (with suppressed emo- tion)â€"The minister's house. do you say? Ah. Bill. 1 have been a bold. bad man. but I have never yet robbed the clergy. They are a hard workin lot, Clcléln Luv; any ‘- â€"--_ ,_ an thelr pay is small; besides. some of the tenderest recollections of an inner- ceut boyhood ls coupled with my Sun- day school (wipes away a tear). But. Bill. you haven‘t got the same feeling in the matter 1 has. an It yer‘ve made up yer mind to enter the place. why. I’ll stay outalde an keep watch. an I’ll give a whistle 1r 1 see any one comm! 1d to meet Mr. rink." v. How well he knew same eyes, 5. at once \ CONSULTED FOUR D ,_ 0 tons 0N LY RELIEF THEY G AVE, :U 'HROUGH 11 conversation lately with a, Mr. Wright said 2â€"" that the trouble which bothered i man? Fears is gone, and I am Q'iite to give you the particulars for pub- It is a. good many years since mv first began, slight at first, but later sely severe pains in the back. Us pains attacked me when workingo, but often when not at work at 811. every attack the pains seemed worse, until finally I was con . house, and there for five 10Lg mun bed-ridden, and much of th'm t not move without help. My wife to stay with me constantly, nearly exhausted. ‘mm the News, Tmro, N Mr. Robert Wright 1 :4», NS, is now one During the time I was sufferin2 was attended by four different Some of them pronounced my lumbago, others sciatica, 1mm.“ cure me, nor did they give meg} save by the injection of “1°79 ~ years I suffered thus, sometime. to bed, at other times able to go ‘ work, but always suffering from until about three years ago when; l a. new lease of life, and a freedom 1 pains that had so long tortured at this time that Dr. Williams” for Pale People were brought to tion an!1 Igor two boxes. 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