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I told this to the medical man, and,
with the cold passion of an anatomist,
he put his implements into play and
laid bare the base of the skull and
deity removed the necessary portions
of bone.
"Just as he had done this the outer
door of the room opened. and stepped
hastily toward it. Bertha stood there,
quiet, pale, beautiful.
"sWhere is hep she asked; he told
me to come to him, here, at this hour.
We are to fly, together
This was the woman who had killed
my friend. / grew hard and cold to-
ward her.
Your punishment be on your own
head said; you would have thrown
yourself away for man who had no
soul. Look
II flung book open upon the table
before her, and pointed to a passage
which the sawbones had just shown
me. These were the words:
1.-The seat Of the soul is in the
Corpus Callosum, q spongy little body
~ buc OdSc VI tuc OEalus ucus uO-
tioning her toward the form. threw
back the wrappings and exposed the
incision that had just been made.
look said again, this man
never had SOUL
But poor Bertha Voisdene saw only
the face of him whom she had learned
to love, and the eyes, now wide and
staring, that had charmed her heart
away. And with single bound she
fell fainting across the body of her
lover"
The Old Beau paused, while l hastily
swallowed glass of something warm
to still that creepy feeling. Then my
friend asked me, as usual:
do you want the end of the story?''
nodded, though half afraid to
hear it.
"Well." he said, quietly, ''all this
might have happened, suppose. but
it did not know no happier couple
than my dear friends, Eugene and
Bertha Wallace. We villa go around
and see them some night and tell them
this story. And remember. young
man, you need never look for snch
grim tragedies among the records q
! pgF club"
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.A Pretty Dinner down.

A pretty dinner gown is made in the
empire style of black silk, with cream
colored lace panels on either side, q
deep belt of cream lace across the bust
and q full front and sleeves of aecor-
iion-plaited chiffon. 1t is not the slight
est use protesting against accordion
plating. 1t is and it viii be-irrevoca-
BILE facts, which adverse op.aion cannot
alter. Other gowns which always look
well are tailor-made tweeds, when not
in too large check. The basques of
all,these are cut very full and rather
short this season. it would not be inn
possible by the aid of a clever maid to
make q last years dress, if fresh and
pretty, quite up to date by adding Q
very full, short, bias-cut basque Of
black MORE with full collar and per-
haps revers to match. This material
is SO universally used as . trimming
that it has become almost q livery Of
well-dreased women. Perhaps its reign
will soon be over, chiefly in consequence
of this egregious popularity. One sees
such dreadful sleeves made of the cheap
sorts and looking haggard, depressed,
crushed and beaten down. Why have
moire at all unless one can have 1t d
the best? 1t is not exactly q necessity
of existence. IN. Y. Post.
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steward to refill our Rlassess, Tor 1t
sent creepy feeling down my back.
II have been q member OF the club
for five and twenty years." said my
friend, land In that time have come
to know intimately the lives Of many
men. Some curious things have
happened within these rooms, but none
SO strange as this thing in the life Of a
man who was once the very soul of
our inner circle. There! l did not
mean to use that word, for before I
have finished you may think it was
misplaced. But no matter. Other and
wiser men than we have had their
doubts.
His name was Eugene Wallace. We
used to sit here and talk and drink b
and s. just as you aud / are doing
now. One night we fell to talking
about marriage.
If wanted to marry any woman
said Eugene, which, thank heaven, I
do not, nothing should stand in my
way
% Il can readily believe said, for
liked to urge Eugene on, that you
would permit no little matter of con-
science or sentiment to stand in your
way-or prevent you from accomplish
ing your desires. Yet do think, my
dear fellow, that it is possible there
may be obstacles in this life which
even you will find it difficult to sur
mount
g Don't be sarcastic he returned;
'time enough to twit me with lack of
conscience or sentiment when / have
set up claim to the possession Of
either
Truly, Eugene l said, If man
could only throw overheard some little
things that hamper him from within,
he might work to better advantage at
times
Nothing but the externals are
worth considering he replied. slowly.
In fact nothing is worth considering
much
Thinking he went on presently,
and in a manner calculated to give
force to his words. is heavy task,
and it does not make things go any
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better at the end. If wanted to mar
ry any woman, l should do it, and let
the future bring what it would
ut was not long after this that Eu-
gene met Bertha voisdene. l must
give you word about her. Orphaned
in childhood, she had been carefully
reared within clustered walls. and at
the dawning of womanhood had come
out upon the broader stage of the
world as unsophisticated as a child.
Her youth and innocence charmed him
as the attributes of no other woman
had ever done. Now add to this that
her fstheF hsd been nay boyh0eas
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TOLD AT THE CLUB.
BY JAMES KNAPP REEVE

Copyright, 1874. by the Author-l
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friend, and it will help you to under
stand what follows.
II soon saw how things were going
between them, and 1 knew what En-.
genes past had been. No worse than
yours or mine, perhaps, but he had
lived the life Of man of the world. I
am not meddlesome, but felt / must
spead word of caution to him-and {
did so. !,
"'Ah! you are about TO turn moral.
ist,' he said, lifting his eyebrows at
me. But do you think it worth while
to waste your maiden effort on SO un-
likely subject?
"'Miss Voisdene,' l answered, not
needing this, has known SO few men
that any passably decent fellow who
would make love to her violently
might interest her. There is no doubt
you can succeed. But you have been
through too many fires. If she should.
later, find there was such thing as
real passion in the world the result
might prove a little annoying for all
concerned
Eugene answered this lazily, as II
the matter after all did not much in
terest him.
81 told you once, he said, that con-
science should never stand in my way.
The reason was-I think l have no
conscience. Nor do think have that
other attribute which is supposed to
be coordinate with 1.-THE soul, you
know. That little place at the base OF
the brain where the soul is supposed
to reside verify believe is hollow. II
| a clever anatomist ever has me on his
table hope he will not neglect to in
vestigate this matter
"sWhat has all this rigmarole to do
with Miss Voisdene% l demanded,
growing impatient with his nonsense.
"'I am coming to that he answered
quickly. BY the way, it is curious,
putting his hand to the back of his
head, that the saw-bones say the very
easiest place to cut of life is just here,
right below where the soul-the incar-
nation of life--should be. Now, 1t is
true,' handling long, thin knife such
as surgeons use, 1T is true that such q
thing as this thrust right in at the
base of the skull, would cut off that
which we call life, on the very in
stant.'
"'Yes, yes, suppose it would
answered, annoyed at the way he kept
from the question, it would sever the
spinal cord. But let us stop this idle
talk. would like to know what
you intend in regard to Bertha Vols
dene?
"'Ah, yes he said, laughing little
4 had forgotten the important matter
in hand. l said would marry any
woman If / wanted to. But l dom
want to, thank heaven. love Bertha
voisdene, and l think she loves me
But you are right in what you have
said. am not At mate for that pure
child
"With the last word, so quickly tina
1 could not interpose, he had driven tn
knife with which he had been playing
directly to the vital spot-and what hat
once been Eugene Wallace, and m.
friend-was only lifeless thing upol
the floor.
IAN hour later / stood beside hi
body, alone with the surgeon whom
had summoned, and his words cam
back to me with startling distinctness
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= n II AIS you
will say that
this is not ex-
actly a club
story. But my
excuse for CIV
ing it to you is
that the Old
Beau told it to
me one night
while we sat in
the coy, cur
tanned alcove
Just behind the
buffet. A n d
long before he
had finished ]
calle d the
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was thirty years ago. Gen. Miles, who
was a slender young officer during the
war, is now, to his grief, one of the
heaviest men in the army. There are
ways and means by which man or a
woman may restrain the undue extern
sion of the physical frame, but few of
the people who have attained great
bulk feel disposed to make use of the
means of reducing it.
Mr.. Roberto. Walsh. in the Popular
Science Monthly, thus recalls the origin
of the present menhaden industry: 1t
was in 1850 when an old lady, Mrs. John
Bartlett, of Bluehill, Me-, boiling some
fish for her chickens, observed a thin
scum of oil upon the surface of the
water. Some of this she bottled, and
when on visit to Boston soon after
carried samples to leading oil Iner-
| chant, who encouraged her to bring
more. The following year the Bartlett
family industriously applied their gill
nets and sent to market thirteen bar
rels of oil, for which they were paid at
| the rate of eleven dollars per barrel.
| In the following year this family made
one hundred barrels. Then the value
of menhaden oil having become recog-
nized, many oil presses-of more or
less imperfect construction-were es-
| tablished along the coast, and the in-
dustry developed SO rapidly that within
twenty years the yield Of menhaden oil
exceeded that Of the whale from the
American fisheries
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5y fsxs able blood depurent, Hostesters
ism. withdraws beaten. In maturity u e
harder to conquer. Attack u at the stan
with Hostetterss Stomach Bitters, and eavs
yourself years Of agony and constant dan
ger. for this malady Is always liable 20 ~
tack the heart. Potent In malaria, dysPeP
sia. constipation, nervousness and kidney
complaint Is the Bitters.
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Grosaz-"Amelia, dear, do you believe
that love Il blindp' Amelia-"Yes, George,
darling" George-sThen, dear, I 40 nov
see any need Of keeping the gas burning "-
Harvard Lampoon.
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Enectually yet gently when costive or
bilious or w hen tho blood is impure or slug
6fion' to awaken the kidneys and liver TO
healthy activity, without Irritating or weak
,,rinQ them, to dispel headaches, colds or
fevers, use Syrup Of Figs.
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rsxs 70 sec man think good deal az
Ais home. y said old Mrs. Jason, 'but when
he stays out all night to brag about how
happy Q home he has, think IT is carrying
his affection . little too ar."-lndianapole
Journal
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Pretty Girl draduate-In less thai:
two months shall have graduated. y
Her Friend What preparation an
you making?
20, I'm having the .loveliest dress
made, with train and
Eyes; but what is the subject Of your
essay?' II
20, haven't given it q thought e
yet; but Nine. - says my dress VIII
Be the hancaomest one on the plat
form. Arl<ansaw Traveller,
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A PRIMITIVE PEOPLE.

The Knbeles of Algeria and Their Bars
harlan Habits.
Civilization has not yet made much
impression on these gentry. They still
live in wig vans of boughs, covered
over with a patchwork of rags, in
which you may perchancc behold a
Partisan pair of discarded trousers
rudely incorporated-andt they herd to-
gether in the smoky and fiea-infested
interior like cattle in stall, or rather
pigs in pen. The Koran's injunctions
for the repression of anger do not strike
them as worthy of acceptance. In fact,
they are as keen in vendetta as the
Corsican.
murder. The man who refuses to exact
blood for the blood of his relatives is
pointed at as a coward. Among GER
tain of them the procedure is as fol-
lows: AS soon as a murder is COM
mitted, the relatives Of the murderer
hasten to the relatives of the victim
and demand pardon, at the same time
Offering the price of blood-about 250f.,
or e10. This money is set aside in
cows horn, put in the corner of the
dwelling, and kept there until a mem
Der of the murdered mans family has
avenged him. It is then returned to
the relatives of the first murderer, and
the account is considered squared.
The saying, 'sSuch one has his HON
full implies that the family indicated
is on the lookout for chance of assasr
sinating member of q certain other
family.-All the Year Round.
Birds I'm Attack.
Birds display great skill and cum
ming in the chase, the attack and in
guarding themselves from injury dur
ing the struggle for supremacy. The
secretary bird is the inveterate enemy
and untiring pursuer of the snake. All
sorts, even the most venomous, he
hunts with zest that is at once inter
esting and amusing. The snake fees
from his foe, who follows, watching
every opportunity for q blow. When
the reptile turns, the bird uses one OF
its wings as a shield and strikes with his
foot. The snake buries his fangs in the
wing, but leaves the poison in the plum
age, and the bird escapes unhurt. Re.
pcated blows from the powerful claw
confuse and disable the snake, and at
last it falls. to be at once dispatched by
thrusts of the sharp beak into its head.
The bird then losses its victim into the
air, and, catching it as II falls, swal'
lows it--N. Y. Ledger,
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THE POOL AND THE RlLL.

The POOI ANU tnG MI.
The stagnant pool stands still,
And thus more stagnant grows;
The dancing sparkling rill
Runs purer as 1t flows
The pool may wear
pleasing smile,
But ladies' tho air
With poisons vile;
The brooklet sings
As on It tolls,
And gladness brings
To thirsting soils.
Y What though the pool,
Its bosom full,
No want may seem to know;
IT'S like the heart
That has no part
In any human woe.
What though the stream
May sometimes seem
With wasteful haste to flow;
It's like the heart
That seeks part
In every human woe.
The worthless pool stands dry,
No moisture In 1t found;
Tho gladstone brook runs by
Its waters still abound.
Tho pool shared naught
OF its supplies;
The sun has caught
Them to the skies.
The brook bestows
With lavish hand;
And still 1t flows
To bless the land
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AN EXPENSIVE L,onr.
A Hnveterate smoker Psid Thirty Thsa-
eand Dollars fer q Fuse.

A Hnveterate smoker Pssd Thirty Thea
sana Dollars fer . Fuss.
rnveterate smokers acknowledge
that the habit is most expensive one,
but IL IL seldom that light for cigar
costs smoker q fortune, as in the
story told by the author Of "Glances
Back Through Seventy Years." He
was an inveterate smoker, having con-
t-acted IN diseased habit OF putting
away at a cigar every moment he was
not eating or sleeping" He smoked
only the very best brands, and in
those careless days spent, he says, more
for cigars than II afterward cost him
10 live
Well, one afternoon day or two be-
tore "Palmer's Life" wns published,
hod been to prize-cattle chow ut
Chelmsford and then to o dinner with
the Royal Agricultural society, and on
arriving In town by the last train, as
was wallsing homewnrd my cigar un.
fortunately went out and, much to my
annoyance, I discovered had no fuses
about me. The streets. too, were de-
serted. so that there was nobody from
whom light could be obtained.
On descending Ludgate hill I noticed
TINT the gas of the gas lamp, perched
high against the wall just within
Belle Savage yard. was broken. There
being slanting ledge at the lower
part of this wall placed my foot on IL,
and, springing up, succeeded in light
ing o paper-spill which had impro-
vised. but in my rapid descent one of
my feet unluckily caught the edge Of
the curb and dislocated my ankle and
broke the small bone Of my leg.
Quick ue thought wrenched the IN
kle into iSs place again, but II was not
30 easy to unite two pieces OF fractured
bone, so hoped TO neighboring
post and there awaited the protecting
peeler's periodic round.
He came at last and charitably put
me into cab and accompanied me
home. was carried upstairs, sur.
geon was sent for and the broken limb
wns set. Then was put to bed and
told should have to remain there q
month or moro.
II wns while wac fretting under thit
involuntary confinement that my part
ner in "Pelmer's Life" paid mo sym.
pathetic visit and bought me out Of
the speculation for q mere song, with
out, of course, saying word to me Of
| the phenomenal success our joint ven.
ture had already met with.
Owing to this circumstance have
always reckoned that the going-out Of
my cigar cost me about fifteen hundred
pounds. which actuaries tell me would
with compound interest added. have
amounted to some six thousand pound.
at this date. sum sufficient, fancy
TO buy up all the ''partagas imperiales
superflnos" In the world.
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A CHEMISTS DREAM.
Rossass visions Of an Approaehins NH
leninl State.


Rosssee visionA Of an Approaehlng MIL
lsninl State.
NJ. Berthelot indulgcs In the rcsiest
visions concerning the bencflts which
chemistry will heap upon the human
race In the course Of another century
or two, says the New York Post. In
an address before the manufacturing
chemists Of France delivered recently
In Paris he said TINT no looked to chem
istry for delivernnce from present 40
cial evils and for the possibility Of rc-
nlizinR tho socialists dreams-that Ia,
II a spiritual chemistry could be dis
covered to change human nature as
deeply as chemical science could mod
ify the globe. This change, he de-
clared, will 30 greatly due to chemis-
try utilizing the heat Of the sun and
the central heat Of the globe. Tho
latter CON DO obtained by shafts Of
three thousand or four Thousand mo
ters in depth, which modern engineers
are equnl TO the task Of sinking.
Tho water down so deep will be hot
and eble TO keep oil possible machinery
going. BY natural distillation II will
furnish fluid FREQ from microbes end
be ON unlimited source Of chemical and
electrical energy. This could be ev.
erywhere developed, and thousands Of
years might pass without any notice.
able dininution. With such source
of heat all chemical Transformation
would be easy. Thcnproduction Of ali
mentary matter will he one conse-
quence This production Is resolved In
principle, and hos been for forty years,
by tho syptheses Of grease and oils.
That Of hydrntes Of carbon is going on,
and that Of heterogeneous substances Is
not far off.
When energy can be obtained thus
cheaply, food can be made from carbon
taken from carbonic acid, hydrogen
taken from water, and nitrogen from
the air. What work the vegetables
have so far done science will soon be
able to do better, with far greater pro
fusion and Independently OF seasons or
evil microbes or insects. There will
then be no passion to own land, beasts
need not be bred for slaughter, man
will be milder and more moral, and bar
rem regions may become preferable to
fertile ss habitable places, because
they will not be pestifcrous from ages
o. manuring The reign Of chemistry
will beautify tho planet. There will
then be no need TO disngurc It with the
geomctrical works Of the agricultural.
list. or with the CRIME Of factories and
chinncys. 1t will recover Its verdure
and fora. The earth will be vast
pleasure garden and the human ruoe
will live In peace and plenty. So We
must look to chemistry, It appears, 70,
the millennium.
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Rock House.

Hotel and Summer Resort prem
ises Of Col. Keinpel in Hooking Co.
which for general accommodations
beauty of scenry are equal To any
in the country, have received large
patronage from the early opening
of the season. Visitors who have
soj0urned ut the R0rk House and
inhaled the pure mountain air rt-
turned to their homes much i'm
proved in health and delighted
with the visit to the rocks and
kindly treatment of the hostess.
The surrounding impressions OF
the cnverns most rare, remind one
OF where fairies nay sport Or satan
himself hoid his !niainDas court
Don't faii to visit rne Rock Hoose.
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Land Excursions.
Baltimore & Ohio South
western Railway.

Will sell Land-seekers' EXcrr.
sion tickets at one fare for the
round trip, to points in Virginia,
Kentucky, Tennessee. Alabama,
FIoridn, Georgia, Mississippi, Feb
ruary sth, March sth, and April 8,
and to Arkansas, Louisiana and
Texas, February 18th, March, 18th,
April 10th and May 9th, 1894, good
returning thirty days from date Of
sale. Stop-over privileges will be
granted in the States named. For
information as to rates, etc, apply
to nearest ticket agent of Balti-
more g. Ohio Southwestern Rail
way.
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Buckeye Excursions For
June and July.

The CHI. V. ". n. Ry. will sell
excursion tickets on the following
dates in June and July:
dayton, Ohio, Meeting Of Union
ex-Prisoners of the war, June 20
2lst.
Buffalo, n. Y, Meeting of The
Roman Catholic Union knights OF
st John, June 23 to 20.
Akron, o., Fifth General District
Convention Epworth League, June
26 to 2S.
Youngstown, o., Young Peoples
Society of Christian EmdeavOr OF
Ohio, July . to II.
Fremont, Ohio, Encam,pmen,
Father Matthews of Ohio Annual
Convention Total Abstinence ol
Ohio and National Knights of
Father Matthew, July 10 to I2.
Cleveland, o., United Society OF
Oh isIi"n Endeavor, July IL to 10
For further information, time vi
tr"in-, ,sc. call on G. w. Schwenke
Agent, Logan, q.
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Relief In Six Hours,

Distressing kidney and Bladder
diseases relieved in six hours by
the "NcW Great South American
Kidney Cure" This new remedy
is II great surprise on account of
It's exceeding promptness in re-
licving pain in the bladder, kid
neys, back and every part of the
urinary passages in male Or female.
1t relieves retention of water and
pain In passing it almost itnmedi-
ately. If you want quick relief
and cure this IL your remedy.
Sold by Il. Harrington, Druggist,
Logan, Ohio.
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Randy 70 Accommod.tn.

An exchange tells story connected
with strike on the North British rail-
way, during which much difficulty was
experienced IN finding engineers to
keep the nece4Sary trains running. One
OF the substitutes, young fellow, ran
some distance past station, and then,
putting back, RON as much too far the
other way He was preparing to make
third attempt, when the station
agent shouted, to the great amusement
Of the passengers: "Never mind, Tam
mas; stay where you are! Well shift
the station"
Tbs Terrible tss-As.LAses.
Ono Of the desdliest serpents In the
tropics 10 the fer-de-lsnce, Of wbioh,
there are ct least eight varieties
Thees snakes ere Of precisely the
color which viii enable them 70 hide
among the foliage or roots Of trees.
Sometimes they ere . bright yell
low and can scarcely be distiu-
guisiaed from The bunch Of bananas
within which they lie coiled- Again
the reptile may Be black, or yellow
ish brown, or OF any hue resembling
tropical forest rnoid, old bark or de.
composing trees- The iiis OF the eye
10 orange. with red dashea, and At
night gloys like y burning coal