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Show CHUUCTEK3 " rm able. Here is a lrt.-r- , tioa Mreasej or, more probably, with tlje address lost tr.d unsigned 'From its contents It Is obvtnnsly intended for a pdrticu'ar BrJghtJK rson How U It -to be bi ought to Lady that personVTrGTtc5- tnrc!. ynlj by FIASCO. SUCCESSFUL Julian (fortv-nre- ), Bright (thirty six), publbatton. ')p- Ledy Blight (uh a heavy sigh) Dora Colqihoun Julian. the read tter, I po lug ycj n two), (t Dura It he a breai b of confidence Ki hart Humphrey .Sir Julian Then I stand indicted, for (th.rty). I I have fear already done so Kcette The detk 1 4 Dona, iptepiuuug Jxl.w alk away). Juliaaa S'r of to it to wont listn stay yacut Maiq'ieterte, Sir Julian (pal. rnally) My dear at anthiir In Oban o'lch I fdiinot countenance any l)ora la sea Tii' Hay tois-this Jo. J have alt, proceed 4iKe gla a. Lady? Bright andvDor aw t'h open - part of the dec k on purpose to1 enjoy sealed in lounge chairs, intend jour society, and that hoc ly mild books ly.r.g Idly on their laps deIn return I have a to enjoy Lady Bright: My dear, Sir Julian to offer In the shape of this lectation , 1 call a it he what plaa-way say You may take my worl for torn. It as good as that novel. (Ha Dura: O, a hurricane. Lady Bright. It, forces her gently bac k Into the chair ) (Anxiously ) Dont you think It was a Lady Bright (wcarilv) Really, Jut bnrrl'-alian, my patieftce has limits Trlght (smiling): li that worse -- 1 f- j' e I 1 Iidy - NINETY ON THE DOLLAR. 'TlfKSKH,I,0FCOIf)AV ratrruius tleborata Uur Tfcs wf IDENTITY ts NOW IN DOUBT. VERY 1 w 1 well-know- n 1 i ( ( 1 My Sir JilTtun tgnod humoredly)I am not in a position to conra-dl.tvo- u are so misapplied. Dora Word (Raises i he paper ) The letPeople w.ll call any thing a storm, but ter Is headed Sept. It. somewhere off they only ay hurricane" a ben when tne West of Scotland You observe It la a hurricane. the date? "Dearest." It begins, "we ore see. I Lady Bright: The In the middle of a raging storm. Dora (earnestly): Anl you thought waves s e like mountains; the sun Is be to shipwere ire certainly going eclipsed, at every moment I think we wrecked, didnt you? , shall be at the bottom of the sea " Very Lady Bright: My dear, I hoped for prettily put. Ikies it strike you so. Conthe best stance a waa Duiw DJt you thought there loidy Bright lot us get to the end. least at you chance (Eagerly) Say Sir Julian' You must take this In conthought there waa a chance nection with the freshness on the 14th. Lady Bright: Of course, Dora; there Before I die I want t tell you that Is always a chance, when you asked me something at the Dnta (lr ntatlvely)' A probability? Caledonian ball a week ago 1 didn't reLaly Bright: O, come, you are get- ply as I fell Something had put me ting forl.sh. There was a chance out -- something trivial, something pettthere may have been a probability It seemed y- and for spite I lied. but we came through It cfe and sound then -- I didnt even knows .it nothing we trouble after all, so why should was a lie. But now that the end Is ary more about It? so near It comes before me like a jreat (Enter Sir Julian, with a newspaper sin. me, dear, I would have In his hand, which he Is perusing with loved Forgive I you had lived; and some day, evident amusement ) when you have found some one better, Kir Julian (to his wife, et 111 smiling)' sr.d J am under the sea, perhaps you that puff will think of me My dear, you after nil." kindly of wind we hsd a few day ago on Blight (quietly; Poor thing! 1 I It was? the lh, think How sad t h tk i pftv..i-ir.1 ,ta. tliQ rvpjxvBtg xxnH La ly Bright; Don't lie ridiculous, Kir Juliun Ill engage (hat the young c..n, the he ulsutan hlmsdf, who asked sa.j Jill.. in. U was a stuim. lady who wrote that Is wishing at this i h ul fell in'o the basket wth 'Now, sir, have you ever seen mo Sir Jui.an: The men call It a "cap- moment shed been born with a better that he and that If It was takes befme? uvuy o'V'i, ful " set of nerves Dont you think so, Lady Pr.ght, The men are as ab- Dora? surd as you are, and you encourage (Doras fate la hidden In her book, them A puff of wind! It is a mercy we and she makes no reply) are not all at th1 moment at the .Sir Julian (with his hunil over bis bottom of the sea eyes, looking landward)' Quiet yes. Sir Jui.an. Tut, tut thoro was noth? Furdon m. I fancy there Ib sometng to te nervous about. You weie not one hulling the (He hurries than a afirro? dear i - open-mouth- e n our-aelv- es v ) frightened. Dora? Dora O. Sir Juliun, 1 waa terrified, you kow I was. Sir Julian: Well, If I remember yoj kept your heads, at any rate. It seems there cr other out on the same clay who were not so successful Lady Bright (quickly): Kumeoti" on tlic yacht? . Kir Julian: 0, dear, no. I was nllud-Into an amuslug little paragraph In Ute filar gow at the title of the papf rd- - the ClnsgotV' Courier. Dora (starting up): Let me see It, Sir Julian. Kir JuBanr Not necessary Dora; 1 am going to read It. Dora Bjt let me see It first. Kir Julian (smiling): You want to rob me of my share of the fun; but 1 wont be robbed. Now, le quiet. No, no dont lease me. tile Buds the place on (be paper and begins reading aloud.) "Yesterday morning a cottager on the Island of Mull picked up an Eau-dg er-(lo- e- yacht. off.) Dooly Rrlght iros.scs to Dora and puts hor arm around her. After an interval Sir Julian icturns with Richard HumThe latter has a newspaper phrey protr'idlng fiom his pocket, and Sir lian Is hading him by the nrm.) Sir lullftn: I can't help thinking, you know. Humihiey, that youve treated me a bit scurvUy, You promise to Join us on this trip; two days before we start you come to me with a long face and a tele about America; and now Just as I am expecting to hear from you from New York, you hall my yacht. Humphrey (with an uneasy laugh); You see, I was anxious to escape the storm thHt you raiue in for. Sir Julian: Storm! Why, you're aa bad aa the ladle. It wa a trifle blustery on the ltth, but since then we've had It like a (To hla wife) My dear, here Is Humphrey, after all. I tell him he ought to be ashamed of himself. Ijvdy Bright (meaningly): I know at least one other person to whom a similar remark would not be misapplied. (She smBes. passes her, arm throdgh her husbands, and leads him off ) Dora (nervously): This ts an unexpected pleasure, Mr. Humphrey. Humphrey: I had hoped it might not be altogether so. Dora: We thought you had gone to Ju- Humphrey: Had I done so I should never have seen this (hla hand touches the newspaper In his pocket). Doca (blushing scarlet): Oh, burn It. burn It! Humphrey (darting to her side): 1 hen It was yours? AN AMUSING LITTLE RARAQRAP1I. Dora tsmlllng): I decline to reply. Cologne bottle, securely corked and But I Humphrey (bending closer): ealed, which had , apparently been Now. theres crlgl-nalit- y may stay hers? washed ashore. Dora: Oh. Dick! (Curtain.) AV. Big-go- tt to begin with. It was not a In Black and White. medicine bottle. It was not a whisky botbottle tt was an 'NlMOr- tle. Dr. Nansen, the arctic explorer, la Dots (who has changed color, only 3o years old. He was born on a hastily): Of conre it was a hoax, (arm a few miles from Christiania. Kir Jul an: That remains to be seen: After he made hts fabut for my part, I am rather Inclined mous leaving college across Greenland with Journey la Lelleve to the thing genuine. three or four picked men as companLady Bright (growing interested): Do ions. His book giving an account of an so are slow. It. with Julian; yo.t get Is otre of the most Interesting (hat trip i Sir Julian proceeding with the paraIt volume of Travel ever published. graph): "A small piece of string was made Nansen a lion In hla own country died --round the neck of the bottle, to Mra. Nansen la a skillwhich was attached the tom head of and In England. ful "snowshoer and hat accompanied an ordinary luggage label There you a risky ramble bave your woman, you see. She di- her husband on many of her native mountains the among rects a label, ties It round the neck of a bottle. and Tosses the bottle Into the country .Exchange. aea. . Lady Bright (seorafully): I suppose Fcypl's IsrrvutM Fciltlo. An official paper Just published states your man would have pm (he address insldd, where nobody could pee It? that the, number of native births In Kir Julian: Without a doubt. Egypt registered last year eras 335,54$, Lady Bright (cllncirtng UL f5o the while tbe deaths from all causes came bottle would have bee a opened, and th te 192,103 only ; the excess of births oveT deaths amounted consequently to no private communication read. Kir Julian (Imperturbably): My dear, fewer than 143.44$ which, with an esyou have followed the feminine reason- timated. population of 8,000,000 repreing precisely. Yet, what results from sents the enormous increased rate of its application? The private communi- 1 .79 per eenL cation is, not only read, but worse t (tapping the paper) It is published. Evils. Dora twtth sudden fierceness): It la - There are three organized Iniquities, scandalous! parasites on modern city life, which Kir Julian (raising hla eyebrows): threaten every municipality tn our What you as well? land. They are the saloon, the organ-lie- d Dora: It' la atrocious; It It ugh purveyor to drunkenness; the They should be punished they should brothel, the organized caterer to human be horsewhipped! (Stamps her foot ) lust, and tbe gambling hell, which is Sir Julian: My dear Dora, 1 cannot the business manager for the gambling bcip thinking your anger D unreason- - mania. Rev. J. F. Stout " I'oU-IInnt- MwaW-lpa- r- - IrriKHtli.ii. that vvhih- - vv are e seeking far lf or hijrh aivovi us f ,r some waj of doing u t long the ti ue is verv simple and riht undvr our dost s. This will piobahiy he the case with irrigation. Nearly all the regions tali, ! uiopth corsvd li.ixe an ahundaine of vvatn from rain turd MIOWS during the ear vvtre tfie vv ater hut prooi-- i iv d strilnited tui n,g the seasons win u tequired If we d'M-nentirely on surfaee irriga tlou we shall fail, liecunse of the waste of the luiutedTi ater atipplus. the most o1 w4hc1xwi11 he lost By evaporation it seems tome, will be our oply reliable method There are three waysof doing this -- h, ditelirs, as by the Cole system, as illustrated bv Mr Cole in his work, "The New Agriculture," by the use of porous and leaky tile and shards, brickbats anti like material down under ground, below reach of the plow, the same as the ditches of Mr Colo are placed. I!y these methods all theaunual water fall is caught and conserved and utilized when required. herever these methods have tried they have been a success, and one acre under the Cole system produces as. much as five or seven under, the common method of letting the waters waste and drain off. But there is another method, I believe, will be found superior to either. It is in imitation of the method by which nature makes great marshes, even in dry regions, where there is some water from the skies. herever deep excavations hove len made in the earth and hapjiens to have been filled up with varieties of surfaee matter, such as dead grass, straw, wood, poious rock and euith. and various materials - retentive of moisture, marshes are formed and the grounds adjacent remain damp by something like capillary attraction. Experiments have lieen made by digging holes a certain distance apart, falling them vvitli surface .natter ot any and all Kinds that retain moisture up to a depth so as to reiraiu below the plow and coveting them with oidmary porous eailh These absorb and hold all the water that ful's and the mter- ground n c i , s Uii sn rgi Us i in- stantly. Lust year at one place tnear Lincoln. Neb., where this l.dd eti done, all the trops weie perfect while all around had been ruined by hot winds. N verul farmes from the hot vv mil regions of Ivausus declared that whet ever the grounds were wet the fiom these arid crop had not suil winds. Of course, these methods aie applicable only on a small scale unless But large capital edn be employed every man can do something and add to it yeaily, so that he can lie sure of a few very productive acres T lie words "drouth stricken are not properly applied to all the unfortunate districts of last year, for ne'er was there a better supply of ram at .sevexal points, and nevet did crops promia-betteBut the waters soaked right away, deep down, and the arid vv mils came and destroyed wherever the roots were dry . It is astonishing how little rain will make great crops over all this region when lightly but regularly distributed e have seen some of the largest crops from incredibly small fains during seasons of cloudy skies and damp airs. There is nowhere such a quick, kindly soil The least tickling under favorable seasons cailses it to east up enormous vegetation. Correspondence in Rural World. v lu-e- n n prcc'plt ,t 1 u--d an 1 MIIkhi fur Irrigating On I anti The nu .tils v of tiiu t hat all t h-- sill Ml 1,1 IK .lug ill- - t III ll out afterward by the physicians and carried away fcith the body, it waa done so without his knowledge. Sanson. however, made this etutement long afterward, when he. ns wall as all others actively concerned in the doings of these bloody days, was tying his best to rid himself of the infamy which he had Incurred. A yet more grew some picture Is the hrxt link !n Ihe chain of this head's hNtory It is said that oa hot July 's evening, the day after Charlotte execution, a woman o( the people was noticed stealing along In the shadow of the building.-- , in .he Rue Knint Florentin. The ar w is hot and st III ng. and few pepl were abroad, though duiknes. bud not yet set In. Several persons sitting in their doornntlcud the woman as she pss-edway and sirk ned as they cauchi a whiff of a horrlWe odor, vv hi h me to come from a bundle she .vis c .Tying wrappel up In her ap-'- u C.tiosity was a dangerous th ng in thoc days of the Terror, si no one (ho ght of stopping and questioning her But befoto she had di appealed fiom Cor-day- , view, those who were her saw wat-ihin- her steps grow slower an tpebler. She stood still for a moment, am) then with a groan sank fainting to h" pnement. A score of people huiried up and used 1 a they wore to ghas, 1 . sight, were horrified to see. h lug in e dus. at the woman's feet, the ohje. t (hat she had carried wrapped In her ap-o- n It was a seveied female head, the long hair still matted with blood, the eyes wide open and staring, and the awful shms upon the swollen cheeks and lip betokening that deeomposit'on ha u'tii made much headway. IvespUe ul tuts, there was no mistaking the identity of (his ghastly bit Of human debris and the it at omr as harspectators rerogn-zeing belonged to the mtinleie o. Marat, whom they had seen dh tpi n 'he guillotine the day befote, The woman quickly reoveied her senses. ?nd It was then ha. ned that she had come from the Midctelne cemetery, where a grave digger had made her a present of the hosnhle relie with which she disappeared. 1 No, sir, was the answer. 'I have here a dollar, I continued. I am going to pass It Into your right-han- d trouser pocket. One two three go! "I made the proper magicians pass and smiled confidently upon my audience. " Now, I said to my assistant, put trouser your hand into your right-han- d pocket and give me the dollar.' "The boy looked a bit sheepish, hat he dived his fist down. Then, to my unutterable horror, he produced a handful of silver and said. " 'Ive only got 90 cents of it loft; sir. RmI Firs It Inrliibl No eye, says a scientific writer, has ever seen real fire. The flame is leaping in strange, fantastic form, fifteen or twenty inches upward from the coal and tvith it Is a good deal of black, sooty smoke. The sooty smoke and the flames are one and the same, with only a difference of temperature. The soot which forms the flame Is red hoL Every particle of the flame la red hot coal or a .article of the carbon. The real fire we do not wee. The Instant that the carbon atoms become really burned, eaten up by the oxygen of combustion, they are invisible. In burning three 4unds of carbon, the heated state of which gives ns flame, the fire work is done by eight pounds of oxygen. The oxygen we do not see. The carbon we only see Just before it is burned; and the result of the burning is eleven pounds of the compound of oxygen and carbon which la invisible. 1 .Ia RmI Life, have no heart," Pale but tearless, she stood befor him and looked him square in the eye. She was poor but proud. Adverse fortune had reduced her wardrobe to a calico basis, driven her and her only surviving mother to the top of a Wabash aYenue apartment house and hardened the lines about her still beautiful mouth, but it could not dim the k eye 'or tame luster of her thf unconquerable spirit that animated Th every fiber of the lissome form standing The dally papers are terrors to evil- erect with unconscious grace and doers. Vice and crime are kept in awaiting his answer. check through fear of their power to de- You have no heart. she repeated. tect and expose. Reputation is dear replied the butcher, "but "No, mis j even to the Tfccd- -I weve got some mighty nice liver. Will dore Clifton. that do Just a welir r.oston Journal i m. consrl-nceless.Ro- v. X Y:ou blue-blac- ci vv V . n affs pr.dwo.y nt ver Im ! tiiuoin sol of rules, a nd el't lrnslalu Is a hug will luveta gnvi-rto the snpplv of vta'i- - and the Jung In ,ck thing o i tiit'ti I ot 'he iriigtTor this top,, 'It Isd.it s of Artoiri slat.-- i that he con .itU r, vv a t cr rt eeivcd t i i v Tbirlv or (hHv days would If Miit.i nt- - tlid v to on). aid through tne dr. season pi, . tiled there was plentv of cultivation lie cited ail instance .vhcic a. young uiehard water' forllodiys yet few trees were los' It ts ust-- ss tn attempt to irrigate by running a small trickling sticattr but if the watet can te held and by combination with neighbors get a full head for a short time, much may - derived by a good wetting vv hen the vvu'er dis-- s coine. followed of course by practical cultivation. AAe arc of the opiniou that the lav of the land, its character, whether low. adobe or gravel, and things of this kind have much to do with the economical use of water. As a rule, the use of water for young trees is a different thing from irrigating large trees r authority on this subject sav that if he could have all tbe water be wanted during the w inter and fill the land a sandy loam full of water, he could make trees live through the dry season With very little additional water He considers cultivation the principal thing cultivation, cross AAcultivation and subsoiL cultivation. hen water is short he uses t lie following method "1 have my ditches laid out with check boxes and have everything ready before the water comes, then turn the water on the first row, when it arrives, then shut down tfie gates ami make it go to the next row, and so on. Do not spread the water over an areu that it will not wet well. 1 find we trv to here we try run the water too far. to run it across acres the first trees get enough and do well, while the last in find that iny the row are very poor. uprirots fruit the best vv here they get the most water right on the dit h There is water enough wasted to cure Beaches for most of the orehaids 1 need irntre water than anrieots made a mistake when setting out mi. on hard. I have pears, peaches, apn cots and almonds all growing together and have to irrigate them all in the same manlier. They do not all need the same amount of water, so some of them get water when they should not kit-pa- was-with- out 1m- An-ot- h AA 1 lidve it.'' Irrlgallon Smceasful. Irrigation has proven a great thing in Michigan and is making many fi iends in that state of great lakes and wat-- r expert ways The people at the state ment station at Lansing art- - more than pleased with their irrigation experiments. lth beans, the result varied greatly. By irrigating they had obtained seventy-sipounds of beans to a square rod. while without water the returns were only seventeen and a quarter pounds. The returns from the watered poition were mill'll earlier than on the oilier, and if they had been marketing them they would bave been able to get a better price for the first ones. Thcv pounds off the irri picked twenty-sevegated lot before any vv ere tit to be picki d on the unirrigated patch. They also tried the effect of irrigating a timothy field, and put on water at, the rate of I.oot barrels an acre, the app'icutmn being made but once. At harvest time the was very great. A field that difference As Kaln It Aid litigation. was irrigated three times gave stalks There comes seasons like the present of timothy three feet nine ini lies to one when earl in the summer much four feet three inches in height: the concern is expressed in regard to a yield was at the rate of 5, TOO pounds an 1') sufficient supply of irrigating water in acre The part w atered once gave while without water our great gravity canals incident upon pounds an acre, a light fall of snow in the mouutains the yield was KH) pounds to the acre. during the winter months. People who Waste of Irrigation Water. worry somewhat about these conditions the most common way in Perhaps thus early iu the season, do not credit which water is wasted iu Arizona is to iienefits the rainfalls possible any of small laterthe multiplicity through come from time to to time that may in tins custom usual The ditches. al aid in supplementing tjie water supply nor do they place much stress upon tne locality is for each individual to have his private lateral from the canal to added value of consistent cultivation. his land. In some places as many as AA e certainly have it well within our three or four of these ditches w ill be povv er to make better nse of our comroad. found on each side of a bined facilities, and Field and Farm As these are sometimes of public length, great believes this is being done more and generally carry but a small head of more each year. water, and are always used intermitIn the arid regions except iom-- sea- tently, their aggregate loss of water is enormous. Much could be saved by a sons will come when the precipitation is sufficient and the distribution even, number of neighbors forming an aswhich will make unnecessary th using sociation aud maintaining a single their common use. and of any stored water. A rain, 11 of lateral forwater the supply is low adopting inches per annum v con- whentime twenty-eigh- t savs the system of sidered snffeient for the sue'-ssfu- l Professor Boggs of the Arizona Exgrowth of any crop if evenly periment Station, Tucson. throughout the cropping season and Reclamation of Irrigable Land of loss bj evapthis allows oration. Jivena less amount is consid"Though the exeact extent of irriered ample by Mime authentic; some gable land within the arid region is not as low as twenty inches, if always ap- known. says Field and Farm, there plied. For any system of irngdtion is an abundance of it yet to reelaira the question of rainfall is of course of and cultivate. Its metes and, bounds first importance, and especially no with will extend with and canthe storm water storage system. It is not le located by development As irrigation survey. miniparticularly necessary that th mum annual precipitation, ascertained progresses its limits will extend, and from observations extending Wer a more and more of that land which number of years, be known. This w ill would now be classed as irreclaimable to the pioneers indicate the maximum amount of water will in time that will be required to be stored to energy and pluck, and the revivifyirrigate any given area. ing influences ot water. The reclamaEven in very humid regions the Talne tion. settlement and cultivation of the the millions of acres now available and of n supply of water reserved occasional drouths that occur i real- irrigable would accomplish wonders ized. many crops Jieing saved or their in the general development of the There will yield increased. This practice .if fol- whole western country. lowed with advantageous results in be no great advancement along the France and Spain, where the annuat line of of improvement until our finanrainfall is from forty to fifty Inches. cial policy becomes better established. In India irrigation is extensivey Arbitrary Power at Oxford. practiced where the total rainfall is From time immemorial the proctvrs greater than would seem necessary, r but the distribution is extreme!' irreg-nla- of the English universities of Oxford and cannot be relied upon The and Cambridge have had the extraorupper Ganges canal irrigates I 00.000 dinary power of arresting and sending acres tn an area having an inches. to jail any woman, whatever her annual rainfall of thirty-thr- e who might be seen walking canal The lower Ganges rigates character, w ith a student. Recently there have 1,197.000 acres with a rainfaU of 31.1 inches over the area enntrolle by this heen several flagrant examples ot system. On the lands watered by the abuse of this police privilege of uni- Agra canal the precipitation averages versity officer, and measures are As about to be taken to inehes per am, am. twenty-Mwe- n put a limit to the irrigation becomes more appre dated It proctors anomalous jurisdiction. will be practiced in what are considered the hnmjd regions, to lnc"base the The conntycpnwnlssioner of Spoyield and offset the conseqi ce of kane called for bids for the bttrjrln; of drouth. Thus we see that th rainfall the county poor.'and although one unmust go hand in hand W ith the artificial firm offered to do tbe work dertaking of wk and the of water application ht OEe ceat earh, no ar ard n aa maid. ; west must 190k more carefvdy after AA x AA THE DISPUTED SKULL OF CHARLOTTE CORDAY. a' I savs (irm r mill-pon- America. Wctru It often happen xnrul - more of it MitgldaaV rlrk. farl Brown, the illusionist, was talkH MU L ing of some of the accidents that ao:ne-u;spoil the art of the conjurer, says ( Marat (lie Mur'lere Iturlug ,h the Memphis ('ommercml Appeal. ' It was in Nashville, he said, that Kelgn of Ir.ror (he. sly ... II of vy ; ihe uu.nu I cxpvriemeJ a real knockdown blow Story of tie was perfoim'ng tbe tusk Heed. o' pacing a marled (om Into the rental of an uni ut orange, at least thats BTlIOraiL many people thought thdn a hund'' J vvda doing I used a silver dollar and Jems hive elap.-v-the empnasixed the tru k by 1010 the dulled com in(o the pocket of somepassing boy wuom Of trial the jyr h had enticed ou to the stage. 'rorrrts"- - guffio'ue I will Q , 7 orenly conf. ss that the boy v verU the V ' head o had to be a confederate and that the I ia. lotto (Jorday. marked dollar had Its fellow in one the 'uurdeicss of r v toiiolv prepared by me. One night pi Mar.it, no shadow ias wdn enteilng the theater I looked of doubt baa rests around for a likely youth to aid me in until now upon the nn double dealing I picked a boy autbcntii nv of tin skull which Brine oid ptomised to pass him in If he would Roland Donaparte poaees is, and whira .follow my insti notions 1 am a has been In 'uvid to be that of the eonjuier, I said. I want helium Recently, how- you to put this dollar In your pght- great ever, Dr Calune-- a Freui h savant, ha3 hand trousers pcs Wet.- I'll get you a been making a (.infill smitinv of seat In the front row. When I ask for the few nuisv rei ords which remote somebody to come on the stage you Then I will ask you to must come concerning thurlotte Corilay's exei and the, sul- quent uisposition of pioduce the dollar. er bodv, and now claims that the "The bov promised everything and, ckull asbout whi.h so much bos' been after making arrangements for him at When I was written !., uaniologlsts Is quite prob- (he door, I left him. ably th.i of some nameless and un- ready for the dollar .trick. I saw my coufedeiaie known woman, instead of once having vousk sitting I had prebeen the eov ei Ing of the fiery brain that in the front row. vailed upon another member of the directed the dagger to Marats heart Dr. (a banco argument that Ihe real audience to lend me a dollar marked head has long ago turned to dust re-exactly as was that I bad given to the largely upon a dot ument that be state bov ' I he found among the papers of Vatel. a passed that borrowed dollar into French biogiaphcr, of Charlotte Oor-da- the otauge, cut the fruit open and out whhh says that aflT the exeiu-tio- dropped the coin. Then I went on: " And now, ladies and gentlemen, I her bolv was delivered for dissection to h veral savants, and that her sill perform a still more difficult fat. head fell mo the hdnds of not of them I have passed that dollar into an named 1) non, who, af'er taking out orange. Now I will ak some member the bra n dined the skull to he of the audience to step on the stage d wi;h the ie-- t of the remain- ami, without going anywhere near him, Soni" s.) it was the ex "cuttouer no 1 ill pass the same dollar, maTked, as slid hei lu .id to a cjutoi s spetator in you have spen. Into his trousers pocket. ibout the s'iTtold, but this the cievv True to his bargain, the boy stepped ITS our IRRKiATION" MATTER n 1 pro-ratin- one-fourt- h fr vet-ag- 4 -- - - e |