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sx v a rp k xtn 1 t r v a i more benefit himself w ik a v 1 r h i hjiai y than the patient but mrs lamshed last kj x xvxjlx vjt jji 1 j 1 1 a word made mr dottleson turn red with anger help in hi tooabnlary was sy- in five chapters chapter l mb dottleson is puzzled mr montague dottleson east india merchant of calcutta and london was writ ing letters in the library of his private resi dence in blakewood square kensington it was sunday afternoon and the rain was coming down with steady persistency as though it had made up its mind to keep londoners indoors for toe rest of the day mr dottleson who was a methodical man in everything made a regular practice of folnfor a long walk every sunday after unch and when the weather presumed to getting very feeble montague though i dont look it i am not quite up to the mark and thought id like to see lakeworth they sent for him half an hour ago but dont you think now that a more experi enced man should be called in lakeworth will do nicely montague he understands my constitution when an old lady is convinced that one particular man understands her constitu tion no reasoning will move her mr dot tleson knew this and did not press the expediency of making a change what do yon think is wrong this time jtarfere with this arrangement the effect he said sitting down near her span his temper was infelicitous accord- 1 its the heart replied mrs lamshed ingly it is our misfortune to present him to i w a deep sijh which did not seem quite the nader at a moment when he is decided- genuine somehow ly snappish and surly very aggravating said he throwing down his pen and going to the window no ohance of its clearing up either how i detest a wet sunday 1 he picked up a book and made himself comfortable in an armohair but he had hardly read a page when the door opened and his daughter kate appeared she was a fair pretty girl of twenty whose gentle ness and taot saved her from coming in col lision with her irascible parent at times when other members of the household shrank from the consequents of intruding upon bis privacy well whats the matter asked mr dottleson curtly qnmdmamma isnt feeling very well this afternoon papa kate had not completed her errand but knew from her fathers manner that she had come in at a time when it was best to tay as little as possible when he was in this hutnour he was certain to jump at any op portunity for grumbling aul would finish her message for her mr dottleson tried to put on a look of grieved anxiety but only succeeded in appearing sulky and incredulous i trust not i hope youre mistaken he said i must speak to dr lakeworth when he comes his tons implied that he held the young man personally responsible for the condition of mrs lamsheds heart whatever it might be and intended to know what he meant by it ha rose as he spoke and went back to the library where he tried to interest him self onoe more in his book i dont think papa likes dr lakeworth said kite as soon as the door had closed be hind her parent i dont know why im sore but he doesnt seemed so pleased to see him as you do child kate laughed a little and said no more it was her heart and not her grandmothers which gave reason for charles lakewortha frequent visits and the eagerness with which she pounoed upon any exouse for call- in him in to see mrs lamshed had been a fruitful source of amusement to that lady t iruicxui source vi aiuuvumouu tu uiai uuv s isas k until she allowed kate to see that she uade snarled mr dottltson manoeuvre perhaps w had better send for him- 1 sssss u mr dottleson throw down his book and frowned savagely ibnt it ayery singular thing kate that your maternal grand- mother should i select this impecunious yountr prig lakeworth to be her medical attendant when there are halfadozen ex- perienoedpraotitionereliving wi thin a stones throw of the eqoare isnt it very ourious that mrs lamshed never know what illness was or asked to see a doctor until she met this dr lakeworth at scarborough last summer her confidence in him is positive ly touching and passes my comprehension altogether it was evidently a mystery to kate also for she shook her head elowly and looked out of the window it was a fad of her grandmothers to have dr lakeworth and when a patient has reaohed the eighties per- haps one physician oan do little more than i 1 1 another i jss i dont know why she likes him papa i suppose you must sand for him but i dont imagine he will thank mrs lamshed for bringing bim through a mile of back streets on a day like this just to tell her that her heart is much the same as it was the day before yesterday j kte left the room without making any reply andiher father walked over to the j hearthrug and proceeded to addreis tho fig ure ho j saw refleoted in the mirror above the mantalpieoe many people have a hab- it of talking to themselves and mr dottleson cultivated it to a remarkable i ex- j tent it was his peculiarity though that he could not take himself properly into confi dence unless he saw himself in the glass he stood with hisleft hand thrust into his waistcoat pocket emphasising the remarks he made half alond with his right forefinger now will you have the goodness to tell my what my mother inlaw wants with this young medloo hes got no praotioe to epeak of hes got nothing any one oan see to recommend htm and he lives most incon veniently far away ever since i she met him last year she has required medical advloe and no advice but his will do when she thinks shes seedy hes called in to earn a fee and when she a well hes called in to receive it hes never out of the house i wonder he doesnt take lodgings next door to be olose to the gold mine i tell yon candidly continued mr dottleson suddenly withdrawirg his hand from hlspoqket and tapping the palm im pressively with his finger- tips i tell you candidly that if i didnt know the old lady would alter her will without compunction id forbid dr charles lakeworth the house why bless my heart i if mrs lamshed lives ten years longer shell spmd every shilling ot her twenty thousand in physio and f ees this final prediction although made by himself so worked upon mr dottleson that he swung ronnd upon his heel and stamped on the floor mrs lamshed who was the mother of his departed wife was eightyone years of age and in spite of her frequent oalla for the doctor gave every promise of maintaining her interest in mundane affairs for ten or even twenty years longer im an old womau sho was wont to say but i was an old woman when i was forty and i havent grown a day older since not a day and indeed mrslimshed seemed almost as active and sprightly now as she had been half a century ago fourteen years before the middle aged dust dried lawyer who looked sf tor her concerns had come to urge the desirability of making her will make my will oriedshe 111 make it if youre afraid jouwontllvetodoitsmuggies bnt i hadnt begun to thing abont it yet i why should i however the solicitors arguments prevailed and the thing was done to oblige her old friend who had al ways taken good care of her affairs and was in a hurry to finish them and though the faot has no bearing upon this story we may mention that the engrossing of mrs lamsheds will was the lut bit of profes sional work the careworn smuggles ever did for his client he was twenty years her junior but he passed from lincolns inn to another place long before she began to use spectacles the spring of vitality was strong in mrs lamshed mr dottleson turned away from the mir ror to which he had been confiding his woes and went np stairs to see his mother- inlaw whom he found in the drawing- room with kate im sorry to hear youre not well be aid going to her side the old lady looked up and smiled im mr dottleson had never thought of his motherinlaws favourite in connection with his daughter he was essential ly ei grasping mercenary man and the fear always before his eyes was that mrsf lamshed might alter her will and bequeath her j property to this dootor he had heard of ladies who had cut off their rightful heirs in favour of their medical attendants and mrs lamshed was eccentric enough for anything if any one had told mm that kate was the attraction he would have laughed at the idea she had nothing and would have nothing but what he ohose to give her and it was not likely that a man who had to push his way in the world would encumber himself with a wife dr lakeworth was dancing attend anceon the old lady in the hope of getting her money and really she seemed so fond of him that the danger was making him very uneasy he got up and opened the door slightly that he might hear the doctors arrival and also ascertain whether kate stayed in the room during mrs lamsheds interview with the young man dr lakeworth went straight upataira when he came and 5 re malned withthetwo ladies for fully an hour and a quarter whilst mr dottleson sat fum ing and fidgeting in the library below much value the fellows time mubt be he sneered looking at hl8watohwhen the door upstairs opened vndmrs ltmsheds shrill crackod voice arose cautioning the doqtor not to forget that he hadpromised to come and see heron tuesday jjj vl waylayhlm as he goes out- and find out onco for all whether theres any actual necessity for these incessant visits jas good- afternoon mr lakeworth he said meeting the doctor in the hall just dome this way for a moment if youplease he led the wayint9tw library motioning jtkeyounginan to follow him with the pom pous air whloh had gained him the sobri quet bfmajestio monty among his city friends- i wished to ask you whetherthere is any cause for anxiety regarding mrs limsheds health he said when charles lakeworth was seated bill mrslamshed is under the impression that she is suffering from some internal ma lady but i am unable to detect anything amiss of course any organic complaint would be serious to one of her advanced age but i have no reason to suppose there is the least oauee for anxiety perhaps the confident tone of dr lake- worths reply irritated bis questioner for mr dottelson put on his most majestic air and fixing his pincettes on his somewhat rubicund nose he elevated that feature until he could bring his dull fishlike eyes to bear upon his companion is that your opinion he asked with light stress on the possessive pronoun thats my opinion responded the dootor quietly then theres no actual necessity for your rather frequent professional visits i can do nohlng lor mrs lamihed but allay fears abont herself they are ground less bnt a lady of her years is naturally prone to make muoh of any little foaling of indisposition mr dottleson lay back in his chair con sidering what he had better say next if he made any attempt to discourage dr lake- worths nails it would infallibly oome to his motherinlaws ears and her resentment might proluoe results very detrimental to himself it would not do to attack the posi tion from this side when he had only bis sus pioions to work upon it would be lees risky to go to the root of the matter with mrs- lamshed he rose and extended his hand ill say goodevening then mr lake- worth you have relieved my mind very muoh regarding your patient charles lakeworth left the honse and mr dottleson went in search of his mother- inlaw he meant to lose no time in put ting her on her guard against this insidious enemy but he knew that he wonld have to approach the subject very carefully i am very pleased to learn from dr lakeworth that your fears abont yourself are unfounded he said cheerfully oh yes he thinks im all right replied mrs lamshed ive great confidence in lakeworth im afraid he takes advantage of it to drain your purse pretty heavily in feet he wants em replied the old lady dry ly poor fellow 1 he finds it hard to make both ends moet but hell make nit way im going to help him it wat bad enough to bear that this kang- uonymoua with money and here wat bit motherinlaw coolly telling him her heir that the was going to give help to an utter stranger who had no claim upon her what ever it wat quite time that he did speak to her so he cleared his throat and began without more ado yon know that of late it hat often occurred to ma that dr lake- worths attention to you is not to disinter ested as it should be i may be wrong but i cannot get over the mea that he has tome ulterior design upon us mrs lamshed put on her spectacles and stared at her ton inlaw do yon suppose im a fool montague dottleson my dear madam yon misapprehend my meaning said mr dottleson with anxious suavity but really i have known such fre quent cases in which kindhearted ladies have been led away by their gratitude to wards scheming physicians i never for an instant imagined that dr lakeworth or any one else wonld bo able to bend your sturdy sense of what b right and just so as to serve his own interests but he comes so frequently he stays so long and he and yon think lakeworth expects my 1 money when ive done with it and comes here to keep my friendship for him alive 1 lam bound to confess that this had crossed my mind the old lady leaned over and tapped her soninlaw gently on the knuokles with her spectacle case as she replied you are the tool montagne dottleson youre as blind as a mole if you hadnt betrayed these unworthy snspioions about an honourable man i might have opened your eyes for you but since yon have such an undeservedly bad opinion of him i shall leave you to grope your own way to daylight ive made my will montague and you know what it says but there s plenty of time to add a codloll to it you know plenty of time mr dottleson saw that he had madea crave mistake in mentioning his distrust but he could not repair it now and bat a hasty retreat mrs lamshed had hinted broadly that there was something going on whioh he was too blind to see and whioh she was going to let him find out for himseli what ever it might be he would be very cautious in making his investigations that remark abont the possibility of making a codicil had gone home for he knewit had hot been spoken idly the will as it stood was in his own favour mrs lamshed had bluntly observed when she made it that kate was only six years old and there was ho knowing what she might grow like so her money should be left to one who wonld at least take care of it namely montague dottleson she had a higher opinion of her soninlaw at that time than she had now but he had always been kind and attentive since she went to live with him and she had seen no reason so far to alter her de signs what can the man be after if it isnt the money queried mr dottleson on the hearthrug of mr dottleson in the mirror he cant be so muoh attracted by kate shes a pretty girl and a gobd girl bnt shes got nothing then again her grandmother was always of a saving turn of mind and she wouldnt enoourage him to pay expensive visits if she had no objootin view its absurd to suppose that she pays him to come here for nothing if ho admired kate hed come without being sent for and her grandmother oant fail to know that his mental vision had been so dimmed by the atmosphere of money in whioh his life had been passed that he did not understand the possibility of manor woman being guided by any other motive love was a misty unreality outside the pale of his reasoning powers and therefore did not enter into his speculations at ali his affection for kate took the bharaoterlstio shape of finding a wealthy husband for her she might choose for herself as she had a right to bnt measur ing her heart by the size of his own it never struck him that her ohoioe might fall upon a man whom he wonld rejeot as ineligible to be continokd statistics the value of the three crops of wheat maize and oats in the united states in 1887 was sl155000000 the total quantity ofooal now annually handled within the limits of the metropolis is upwards of 12000000 tons per annum- within the last 30 years the ooalooneump tlon of london has more than doubled the sensns of bulgarian and eastern boumelia gives the population of the two principalities as being 3154 375 of whom 2328 250 are bulgarians 607000 turks 58000 creeks 50000 glspies who have no 6xed residence and 23400 jews boston is the headquarters of the boot and shoe industry of amerloa the centre from whioh the marketable produot ot the great mnuf aotnrlng towns theieabout b distribut ed the population of these towns is chiefly made np of workers in the large shops whioh turn out footgear at the rate of nearly 100000000 pairs every year tea is so little an article of neoesslty in france that the total consumption in 1888 for 38000001 of inhabitants was only a little over 1000000 lb the greater part ot whioh was probably consumed by english american and russian visitors and residents the average per head of the population was 13i grammes or less than half an onnoe the nse of tea instead of increasing is diminishing as the average per head was 14j grammes in 1886 and 1887 coffee on the other hand increases in favour and the oonsnuption has more than quadrupled since 1841 and nearly doubled since 1861 it reaohed its maximnm of 136000000 lb in 1886 and was 134000000 lb or more than 3i lb per head in 1888 beaton for sleeplessness yellowly why brownly how bad yon look this morning did yon sleep any last night beownly not a wink y anybody tiok b i am y rthats the matter b well yon tee my wife hat been in the habit of going through my pookets at night and i thought what wat good for the gander wat good for the goose to after the fell asleep last night i arose and sot out to go through her pocket y get anything t b no searched the dress over and over spent the whole night at it bnt couldnt find the pocket deaths f0m poisohisg some celebrated enttuh cues called sip by the may brick trial the judge who presided at the maybrlck trial sir james fitz james stephen of the queens bench division erjthe high court of justice is one of the moat distinguished lawyers in england twenty years ago as a member if the viceroys council in india ho began the preparation of a code of criminal procedure for that country wmch wat subsequently adopted this work gain ed him considerable distinction whioh hat been increased by bis other writings on legal and social topics and by his career asajude in recent yean among hit more notable works in addi tion to nil indian code of criminal proce dure are a digest of the criminal law of england a digest of the law of evidence and a history of the criminal law of eng land in three volumes in the lastnamed work which is by far the best treatise ever written on the subject mr justice stephen devotes a good deal of apace to the consid eration ot cases of murder by poisoning and nearly one hundred pages of the third vol ume of the history are occupied by the re ports of four celebrated cases of this nature it is evident therefore that the judge before whom mrs maybrlck has just been oonvioted has long taken a special interest in casks of homicids committed by means of poieon and so far as familiarity with the subject goes there was probably no other person in england so well qualified as he to preside over suoh a trial vo 77k- it is considered very funny when one of the oharaoters in gilbert and sullivans opera of the mikado proposes that some body else shall be punished by immersion in boiling oil but the law of england once prescribed as savage a punishment as this for murder by poisoning i by an aot passed in the reign of henry viii it was provided that poisoning should be deemed treason and that any person oonvioted of the crime should be boiled to death this enactment grew out of an occurrence in the household of the bishop of rochester a porridge was in course of preparation and a cook named rose threw poison into the odmpouud two persons who ate of it were killed and a large number of others were nearly killed according to pikes history of crime in england rose was publicly bollo1 to death at smithfield sir james stephen says that three or four persons in all were boiled under this law whioh however was ro- eealed in the time of eiward i the statute e says is remarkable as supplying the single instanoe in which death by torture has been authorized in england as a punish ment for any offence exoept treason and heresy the first of the poisoning oases of whioh an aooonnt is given by mr justfoe- stephen in his history is that of john d jnellan who was tried at the warwiok assizes in 1781 for the murder of his brotherinlaw sir theo- dosius bougbton a young man ot 20 who would have came into an estate of about 10- 000 ayear oh attaining his majority mrs donellan the wife of the prisoner would in herit the greater part of this fortune upon the death of sir theodosius bcughton unmarri ed the deoeased had been suffering tbom a smoht ailment for whioh he was in the habit of taking medl- olhe but he hadbeenontfisbinr an hour or two on the afternoon of the day preceding his death early the next morning he ask ed his mother to give him his medicine and she handed him a bottle from a shelf in an outer room to whioh other members of the household including the prisoner had free access he took the draught immediately complained j of nausea suffered from con vulsions for about ten minutes then became quieter and disposed to sleep and died shortly afterward tlhe mother immediate ly conjectured that she had made some mis take in regard to the medicine and said so to donellan he then asked for the physio bottle and rinsed it out with water the theory of the proseotlon was that laurel water was no more horrible vulianthan palmer rar stood in a dock the pfvjadice against him was to strong that it wat considered neces sary to past an aot of parliament to authorize hit trial in london if ho had not been oonvioted and hanged for the murder of c jok ne would have been put upon trial for the murder of hit wife and brother and it wat believed at the time 1856 that he had killed many other persons by poison the third caw in the collection of sir james stephen it that of william dove who wat tried at york in 1856 before baron bramwell for poisoning hit wife by strychnine the doves had lived unhappily together and there was proof that the prisoner had threatened to kill hit wife and among other things had said he would give her a pill that wonld do tor her the defence was insanity and one of the medical witnesses suggested that the prisoner had allowed his mind to dwell on his wifes death to long that at last he became a vioum to an uncontrollable propensity 85 kill her thsjury found him guilty but recommended him to meroy on the ground of his defective intellect not withstanding this j recommendation he was executed and mr justloi stephen thinks that an acquittal on the ground of insanity would have been wrong the last ot the cases which we have men tioned occurred in 1859 thomas smeth- burat was indlotod for the murder of isabella bankes with whom he had gone through a sham beremony of marriage 0 he lived with the deoeased a few months when she became ill and died and smethhurst was arrested upon a oharge of having caused her death by administering poison it appeared that the death of miss bankea wonld result in giving him a sum of money equal to several thou sand dollars but there was no evidence that he was in pressing want of money at the time one of the principal points against him was that he had not allowed any one but himself and the medloal attendants to see mies brakes during her illness he ad ministered food and medicine to her and himself acted as her phyaioian the experts who were called for the prosecution testified that some irritant poison had been adminis tered with the drugs whioh were prescribed and also that the postmortem 1 appearances of the body til the poison administered and lady bougbton testified that the smell of laurel water resembleftthat of the medicine whioh she had handed to her son the medical evidence against the prisoner was given by four physicians one of them a pro fessor at oxford and they all agreed that the death of sir tneodoslus boughton was oaused by poison to contradict their evidence the prisoner oalled 1 the celebrated surgeon and physiologist john hunter who tettified in substanoe that the symptoms were consistent with those of epilepsy or apoplexy the charge of the judge mr- justice bnller was extremely unfavorable to the defendant who was oonvioted almost immediately and was subsequently hanged sir james stephen says that the conduct of the judge and the verdior of the jury were warmly censured at the time and he ox e lessee a doubt whether the prisoner would ave been oonvioted at the present day because the medical evidence was not nearly so strong as it might have been he seems inclined to think however that the verdict was right the next case is that of william palmer who was a physioian practising at rageley and who was tried for murdering a sporting man mamed john persons cook with whom he was on intimate terms and with whom he had been involved in money trans actions whioh created a strong motive on his part for desiring the death of cook the poison need was supposed to have been anti mony and strychnine administered by palmer to cook at various times while they were in oompany the first occasion was during the shrewsbury raoes at the sitting room of the raven hotel where cook complained that some brandy and water whioh he had just been drinking burned hi9 throat dreadfully and told another friend that he thought palmer had dosed him the principal medi cal question in the oase was whether death was oaused by stryohnlne or traumatic tetanus lord campbell presided at the trial wmoh lasted twelve days and sir james stephen himself wat present during the greater part of the proceedings the trial be says made an impression on my mind whioh the experience of twentysit subsequent years during whioh i hare witnessed studied and taken part in many important oases hat rather strengthened than weakened it it impossible to give an adequate idea of the manner in whioi it exhibited in its very best and highest light the good side of english criminal procedure indicated that death had bean oaused by some poisonous irritant there was con siderable testimony for the defendant however to the effect that the symptoms were inconsistent with those whioh wonld be produced by poisoning and that death must have been due simply to disease the prisoner was oonvioted and sentenced to death but the home seoretary subsequently advised the queen to grant a pardon upon the opinion of sir benjamin brodie the distinguished physioian that although the facts were full of sosplolon against smith- hurst there was no absolute and complete evidence of his guilt the prisoner was pardoned but was subsequently oonvioted of bigamy and suffered a lyearso imprison ment for that crime m all of theaa casea are interesting especially in view of the faot that they are to promi nently noticed in the principal work of the distinguished judge before whom mr may briok has j net been tried it is sur prising to read that sir- james stephen was hooted by the crowd as he left the court at liverpool at the oonolusloh of the may- brlok trial for the first reports of his oharge to the jury conveyed the impression that it was extremely fair and gave the prisoner the benefit of evary doubt to whioh she was entitled by the evidenoe two miles a minute startling speed maintained for ten miles by an electric motor a baltimore despatoh says s on a two mile olrcular traok the startling speed of two miles a minute was this morning main tained for about ten miles by the three ton motor of the elebtroautomatio transit company of baltimore city at their grounds at laurel md this speed equals three miles per minute on a straight traok david g weems the inventor conducted the experiments the company will build at onoe a fivemile circular traok on long island to demonstrate the practicability of the eleotrio passenger system and also the automatio system whioh was tried today and is intended only for light express pack ages mall matter and newspapers edison has pronounced it the greatest conception sinoethe telegraph the road will be fehoed in by barbed wire to keep off oattle and being insulated the wires will be used for telephoning and signalling along the line in the new passenger system the rails will have an upper and a lower bearing the rail of the future so the steelton iron people oall iv on the wheel whioh runs on the upper bearing will be ithe weight the lower bearing will bet pressed from time to time by a lazy wheel to hold the oars to the traok on curves at a high rate of speed across the ocean ocean raolng is the natural outcome of the rivalry between the different steamship lines to secure the reputation of possessing the ship that has made the fastest trip on reoora across the atlantic but while it is the natural outcome it is also a most undesirable feature of modern travel last week two new boats one the city of new york owned by the inman co and the other the teutonic of the white star line raoed from port to port and got into new york within an hour of each other after crowding on steam to suoh an extent that on one vessel at least a species of panto prevailed among the passengart all the way across and not without cause for ateamplpet burst and the machinery becoming overheated had constantly to have water played on it one of these days something more serious than a pipe will give way and nine hundred or a thous and lives will be sacrificed in midocean with no possibility of the example being emulated ot our old friend jim bluoso and holding her noule to the bank 101 the ast galoots ashore for there will be no friendly bank handy just at that moment expedition it certain ly worth striving after but there is suoh a thing as paying too dearly for it and it ha now become a question whether this ocean raolng shall not be legally suppressed and t limit to her speed be placed on each boat r l r- j statistics just published show that the total number of paupers in england and walet it 762 853 whioh allows 26 6 for every 1000 of the population