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CHAPTER II.
THE STATEMENT OF THE CASE

THE STATEMENT OF THE CASE.
Miss Morstan entered the room with
q firm step and an outward composure
of manner. She was blonde young
lady, small, dainty, well gloved, and
dressed in the most perfect taste.
There was, however, a plainess and
simplicity about her costume which
bore with it suggestion of limited
means. The dress was somber gray
ssh beige, untrimmed and unbraided,
and she wore a small turban of the
same dull hue, relieved only by sus-
picion of white feather in the side. Her
face had neither regularity of feature
nor beauty of complexion, but her ex-
preston was sweet and amiable, and
her large blue eyes were singularly
spiritual and sympathetic. In an ex-
perience of women which extends over
many nations and three separate con-
tinents, have never looked upon a
face which gave a clearer promise of a
refined and sensitive nature. l could
not but observe that as she took the
seat which Sherlock Holmes placed for
her, her lip trembled, her hand quiv-
cred, and she showed every sign of in
tense inward agitation.
81 have come to you, Mr.. Holmes" :"
she said,' because you once enabled
my employer, Mrs. Cecil Forester, to
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ever penned. 1t is Winwood Reade's
'Martyrdom of Man l shall be back
in an hour"
sat in the window with the volume
in my hand, but my thoughts were far
from the daring speculations of the
writer. My mind ran upon our late
visitor-her smiles, the deep rich tones
of her voice, the strange mystery which
overhung her life. If she were seven
teen at the time of her fathers disap-
pearance she must be seven-and-twenty
nova sweet age, when youth has
lost its self-consciousness and become
little sobered by experience. So I sat
and unused, until such dangerous
thoughts came into my head that 1
hurried away to my desk and plunged
furiously into the latest treatise upon
pathology. What was /, an army sur
geon with a weak leg and a weaker
banking account, that l should dare to
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USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Gold and Silver Cake The whits
Of eight eggs beaten to q stiff froth
two cups of white sugar, one-half cuR
Of butter. three-fourths cup of swees
milk, three cups of -four and two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder. Flavor
with lemon.-Farm, Field and FireSide.
-Tapioca Jel1y.-Soak one cupful of
tapioca in three cupfuls of water four
hours. Then set in a pan of boiling
water and heat, stirring frequently.
If too thick after it begins TO clear,
add very little boiling water. When
quite clear put in sugar to taste and
the juice of one lemon, pour into
molds. Eat when cold with little
sweetened crea m favored with vanilla.
Farm and Home.
The best and easiest way to cover
jellies is to place piece of letter pa
per, of the exact size of the mouth of
the Jar, on tine fruit, and then pour
melred parafine over them when they
are quite cold. This hardens at once.
The cake of paratfine may be easily
lifted off when the jelly is to be used,
and if washed and put away it can be
purpose another year.
Date pudding is as delicious as it is
easily made. and, although quite sim
pie, will be generally pronounced
very rich" Take two cupfuls of gra-
ham -four, one cupful of milk, one cup
full of molasses, one teaspoonful of salt
and one-half teaspoonful of soda. Mix,
and add last of all one large cupful of
dates, stoned and cut in pieces. Boil
three hours and finish off with fifteen
minutes in a hot oven.-Good House
keeping.
Mustard Piclxles.-Prepare one gal
lon of mixed pickles, as caulifower,
small cucum bers, beans (which must be
boiled until tender first and small on
ions, and let stand over night in salt
water. Drain, cover with vinegar and
boil until tender. Then stir in a thick
ening made of one-half box of prepared
mustard, four tablespoOnfuls of flour,
one teacupful of brown sugar and two
teaspoonfuls of tumeric powder; wet
with cold vinegar and beat smooth,
then let it boil up till thickened like
gravy.
Orange Pie.-Four eggs, one cupful
of sugar. two tablespoons of butter,
the juice of one and half oranges and
the grated rind of one, juice of one
lemon and a little nutmeg. Cream the
butter and sugar, beating in the orange
and lemon juice until very light; add
the beaten yolks and nutmeg. Roll
out thin a rich paste, line pie plate
with it, pour in the orange mixture
and bake. Beat the whites stiff with
two tablespoonfuls of sugar and one of
orange juice. Spread over the pies
when baked and return to the oven to
brown.-Boston Budget.
Stuffed Eggs.-Remove the shells
from hard boiled eggs. Cut the eggs
in half and remove the yolk. Rub the
yolks smooth with a seasoning of but
ter, pepper, salt and mustard. Fill the
eggs with the mixture. Brush the
halves with raw white of egg and place
them together again and heat well in
a moderately hot oven. Serve either
hot or cold An equal quantity of
finely minced ham may be added to
the yolks if desired. The remainder
of the mixture, after the eggs are
filed, may be used for sandwiches
HOuSeLSeeDer
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LoNeFELLows FIRST POETRY.
He Was More Than Thirty When His First
Volume Was Published.

Toward the end of 1886 he took up
his abode in Cambridge, where he was
to reside for the rest of his life-for
forty-five years. He was made to feel
at home in the society of the scholars
who clustered about Harvard, then al
most the sole center of culture in the
country. His work for the college was
not so exacting that he had not time
for literature. The impulse to write
poetry returned; yet the next book he
published was the prose Hyperion,
which appeared in 1899, and which,
though it has little plot or action, may
be called romance. The youthful
and poetic hero, a passionate pilgrim
in Europe, was more or less refiec-
ton of Longfellow himself.
A few months later, in the same
year, he published his first volume of
poems-''Voices of the Night''-in
which he reprinted certain of his earli-
er verses, most of them written while
he was at Bowdoin. Some of these
boyish verses show the influence of
Bryant, and others reveal to US that
the young poet had not yet looked at
life for himself, but still saw it through
the stained glass windows of tradition.
The same volume contained also some
more recent poems: THE Beleaguered
City," and the Psalm of Life'-per-
haps the first of his poems to win
swift and abiding popularity These
lyrics, testified that Longfellow was be-
ginning to have a style of his own AS
Hawthorne wrote to him Nothing
equal to them was ever written in this
world-this western world 1 mean"
Certainly no American author had
yet written any poem of the kind SO
good as the best of those in Longfellow's
volume of Ballads" printed two
years later. Better than any other
American poet Longfellow had mas
tered the difficulties of the story in
song; and he knew how to combine the
swiftness and the picturesqueness the
ballad requires His ballads have
more of the old-time magic. more of
the early simplicity than those of any
other modern English author. Of its
kind, there is nothing better in the
language than THE Skeleton in Ar
NOR" with its splendid lyric swing;
and THE Village Blacksmith" and
''The Wreck of the Hesperus' are al
most as good in their humber sphere.
Excelsior" in the same volume, voices
the nobler aspirations of youth, and
has been taken to heart by thousands
of boys and girls--Prof. Brander Mat
thews, in St. Nicholas.
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WITH OUR CHILDREN.

TEETmSG children may be relieved
of convulsions by being immersed in a
warm bath with cold cloths on their
heads.
The education of delicate, nervous
children may be neglected until the age
of six or seven without danger of Ounce
hood.
BEAE in mind that you are largely re-
sponsible for your child's inherited
character, and have patience with faults
and failings.
THE practice of frightening little
children in oEder to make them quiet,
has, in some cases, resulted in convul-
sions and death.
THOSE who teach young children
should speak to them properly, not lisp
ing or using silly words, for they can
understand sense better than nonsense
Good Housekeeping.
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Pen and Ink Unfashionable.

A new fashion that is just beginning
to grow in vogue is that Of writing
letters in pencil rather than with pen
and ink. and when once it is fairly es-
tablished il is doubtful whether any
thing but legal documents and busi-
ness papers that must be preserved
will ever be prepared in the old style.
Letters are generally shorter nova
days than they formerly were; are
more hastily written, more frequent
and seldom worth keeping for any
length of time. They are not the
elaborate efforts of bygone days, that
were often cherished for their intrinsic
worth. The pencil, which is far more
convenient than the pen, is. therefore,
taking the place in the great mass OF
casual correspo ndence. Philadelphia.
Times.
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NEAT SEWING SCREEN.
A BIT of Portable Furniture That Is Use-
full and Pretty.

A Bit of Portable Furniture That Is Use-
full and Pretty.
For n sewing room, or. in fact, any
apartment where the weekly mending
is done, darning screen is wonder
fully commodious. Its conveniences
consist of two capacious pockets, to
hold stockings or any garment fresh
from the laundry and needing atten-
ton; handy shelf whereon to place
ones sewing, tidy little cushion with
scissors and loosely swung by ribbons
to one side.
1t is delightful bit of property to
serve one, while seated at open window
ir summer time or upon an upper We
rauda with ones work, looking out
over the sea with the perfume of fresh
flowers in the air.
Trim the skeleton screen to harmo-
nize with the fittings of the room
The model, freshly imported, from
which we had the idea, was a grand
affair for a town house and cost fifteen
dollars.
1t was gotten up In tapestry and
richly finished; but have made one
for the same useful purpose, and even
tresher and daintier, for only two dol
lars outlay. A carpenter constructed
the framework for the two panels,
with the bar across the top, and the
little shelf for twenty-five cents The
pine used was an old packing box
found in the cellar. The panels must
be. three and one-hah feet high and
eighteen inches wide, made Of strips
three inches broad. The shelf should
be eight inches wide and twelve inches
long to fit the panel and close up.
Four yards and one-half of chintz 1
purchased, in cream-tinted ground,
sprinkled with Dresden nosegays gayly
dashed with pink and delicate green
color, for eight cents a yard. Four
grades of delicate pink silesia and two
and one-half yards of unbleached
muslin for interlining, made an item OF
Bttv-cents. Hinges and corners and
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.GST0N Of III,
lNS ~sISsfssN
NFOUR.
E\N 9x @NSN QeYLE
CHAPTER I-Coxr1xUED

: "It is very customary for pawn
brokers in England, when they take a
watch, to scratch the number of the
ticket with pin point upon the inside
of the case. It is more handy than the
label, as there is DO risk of the number
being lost or transposed. There are no
less than four such numbers visible to
nv lens on the inside of this case. In
ference-that your brother was often
Rt low water. Secondary inference
that he had occasional bursts of pros
cerity, or he could not have redeemed
the pledge. Finally, ask you to look
at the inner plate, which contains the
key-hole. Look at the thousands of
scratches all round the hole-marks
where the key has slipped. What sober
mans key could have scored those
grooves? But you will never see a
drunkard's watch without them. He
winds it at night, and he leaves these
traces of his unsteady hand. Where is
the mystery in all this?"
cit is clear as daylight" 1 answered.
'rI regrr, the injustice which did you.
should have had more faith in your
marvellous faculty. MayI ask whether
you have any professional inquiry on
foot at present."
"None. Hence the cocaine. l cam
not live without brain work. What
else is there to live for? Stand at the
window here. Was there ever such
6reary. dismal, Improbable world? See
how the yellow fog swirls down the
street and drifts across dun-colored
houses. What could be more hopeless
ly prosaic and material? What is the
use of having powers, doctor, when one
has no field upon which to exert them?
Crime is commonplace and existence is
commonplace and no qualities save
those which are commonp place have any
function upon earth"
1 had opened my mouth To reply to
this TRADE, when, with crisp knock,
our landlady entered, bearing card
upon the brass salver.
"a young lady for you, SIR" she said,
addressing my companion.
Miss Mary Morstan," he read.
"Huml I have no recollection of the
name. Ask the young lady to step up,
Mrs. Hudson. Don't 60, doctor. shall
prefer that you remain"
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hnravel little domestic complication.
She was much impressed by your kind
mess and skill"
"Mrs. Cecil Forester" he repeated,
fhoughtfully. 81 believe that was of
some slight service to her. The case,
however, as remember 1t, was very
simple one"
''She did not think so. But at least
you cannot say the same of mine. l
can hardly imagine anything more
Arrange, more utterly inexplicable,
than the situation in which l find my
self"
Holmes rubbed his hands, and his
eyes glistened. he leaned forward in
bis chair with an expression of extraor-
dinary concentration upon his clear
cut, hawk-like features. Estate your
Ease said he, in brisk, business tones.
felt that my position was an en-
barrassing one. you will, am sure,
excuse me-" I said, rising from my
chair.
To my surprise the young lady held
mp her gloved hand to detain me. ''If
your friend, she said, would be good
enough to stop, he might be of inestim-
able service to me-"
Irelapsed into my chair.
Briefly" she continued, ''the facts
are these: My father was an officer in
an Indian regiment who sent me home
when was quite child. My mother
was dead, and 1 had no relative in Eng
land. was placed, however, in a
Comfortable boarding establishment at
Edinburgh, and there remained until
4 was seventeen years of age. In the
year 1878 my father, who was senior
captain of his regiment, obtained
twelve months Leave and came home.
BE telegraphed to me from London
that he had arrived all safe, and di-
Fected me to come down at once, giving
The Langham hotel as his address. his
message, as I remember was full Of
kindness and love. On reaching Lon
fon drove to the Langham, and was
informed that Capt Morstan was stay
ing there, but that he had gone out the
hight before and had not returned. !
waited all day without news of him.
That night, on the advice Of the man
Ager Of the hotel, communicated with
the police, and next morning we adyer-
4issd in all tho papers. Our inquiries
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A Small Youths Retreat.

The pompous schoolmaster sometimes
finds himself in position which is not
entirely to his taste. A great English
wit, Mark Lemon, once wrote book in
which he told of a chubby-faced little
urchin who passed his conceited in
structor upon the street without bow
ing. The schoolmaster stopped and
frowned.
"What has become of your manners,
sir?" he roared. ut seems to me shat
you are better fed than taught"
Eyes, SIR" replied the little boy.
That's because you teaches me; but !
feeds myself, sir"
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WILL THE COMING MAN sLEEPq
A Process of Evolution May Develop Men
Who Can Work Twenty-four Hours .

A Process of Evolution May Develop Men
Who Can Work Twenty-four Hours .
Day.
An assertion by a prominent medical
authority that the early rising theory
is a mistake and that the vital forces
do not come fully into play until mid
day is refuted by another writer, who
SAYS that he would like to acquiesce,
but can not conseientiously do so in
the light of scientific evidence to the
contrary.
Little can be deduced from the hab-
its of the lower animals, he thinks, as
these are to be judged wholly accord
ing to circumstances The question Of
sleep should be considered in view of
the necessities of civilized life. All
animals, human and otherwise, having
sight, sleep primarily because of the
alternate recurrence of light and dark
ness.
Primitive man. having no artificial
light, slept from nightfall to day break,
for the simple reason that there was
nothing else for him to do. With each
advance in the quality of lights, how
ever, the human race has exhibited
tendency to stay awake longer and TO
do more work at night. Future devel-
opments, among which is the possibil-
ity of light without heat, may conceiv-
ably make man independent of the
light of day for the carrying on bus
mess
In that case the fittest man will be
he who can keep awake the longest
and get through the most work in the
twenty-four hours. Even now, all the
hours of the night and day being avail
able for work, the man who prefers
long sleep is at disadvantage.
If the Darwinian theory be correct
he will die out and be replaced by
more active type with an organization
adapted to the new conditions The
writer considers the amount of time
spent in sleep by the average man.
nothing short of dreadful.
Twenty-Five years of life are often.
thus wasted, he says, all because of the
alienation of night and day. He con,
cludes that though it will take many
genera tions for this change to be eff
fected, the races of men will tend to
lose their faculty for sleep, and that,
with night turned into day, there is no
physiological reason why they should
not.
1t is only a small portion of the nerv-
Gus system that sleeps. The bodily
functions 90 on continually. Why not
the intellectual functions as Eell2 he
asks N. Y. Sun.
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nail heads of brass, satin ribbon and
tacks, by considerable calculation, and
much shopping, 1 pressed into the
amount of seventy-five cents.
A Saturday morning industriously
spent in the upholstery of the little
screen presented it in completeness
Ones nicely of tact is admirably dem
onstrated in such job.
Drectness and decision in handling
the :-,aterials means success.
Avoid a loose, shabby sense of un-
certainty that is too apt to pervade
homemade articles.
Take a pride in the definite skin
which is the result of exceeding try"
and painstaking patience, to take
apart and do over if first attempt
fails.
The shops are so gay with bright
cheap stuffs that woman with In
genuity and industry can make her
summer cottage blossom as gayly in
side as her flower garden does outside,
blessed by the sunshine, the dew, the
shower and the shadow.-Florence
Ellis, in Detroit Free Press.
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PiScine Lore.

1t is to be noted that Shakespeare
thrice alludss to the leviathan, and ten
times directly to the whale, twice 70
the shrimp and some eight times TO
the herring-('' Here comes Romeo
without his roe, like dried herring"
and, therefore, lacking the better
part), twice to minnows, once to mack
erel, once to the sole-with pun
and TO fish generieally many times
Once we hear of mussels-differently
spelled-to wit, when Prospero says:
THY food shall be the fresh brook
muscles" In the same play Caliban
exclaims: ''PlI fish for thee. I'll get
thee young scamels Qimpets) from the
rock. k.n-Gentleman's Magazine.
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WOMAN AND HOME.
DAUGHTERS LEARNED TO COOK


We used to nave old-fashioned things, like
hominy and greens.
We used to have just common soup, made out
Of pork and beans:
But now it's bouillon. consomme, and things
mGdo fross q book.
And pot au feu and Julienne, since my daugh-
ter's learned TO cook
We used to have a p.sce of beef-iust ordinary
meat.
And picked pigs feet. spareribs. too, and other
things to eat:
While now it's fillet and ragout, and leg OF
mutton braised
And macaroni au gratin, and sleeps head Hol-
landaised;
Escallops 10 versailles-a la this and G la
that,
And sweetbroad Ia Dieppoise-it's enough to
kill q cat,
But while suffer deeply. invariably look
As II were delighted cause my daughters
learned to COOK
we have o lot OF salad things, WITH dressing
mGyonnaise.
In place OF oysters, blue points fricasseed a
dozen ways.
And orange rOley policy. float, and peach me-
ringue, alas,
Enough to wreck O stomach that IS made Of
plated brass!
The good old things have passed away, In
silent, sad retreat;
We've lots Of highfalutin things, but nothing
much to eat.
And while never say word, and always
pleasant look.
You bet I've had dyspepsia since my daugh-
ter's learned to cook.
Good Housekeeping.
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desired color. Any pretty figured silk
or cretonne will do to make it, only
have it correspond in color with the
rest of the room.
The above cut is a representation of
a tasteful sceen for bedroom. For
blue room use blue-fgured silk to make
it, and for any other color of room use
the same shade for screen as is used In
room.-Prairie Farmer.
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HOMEMADE SCREENS.
II Correctly and Tastefuny Made Thsy
Are Decidedly Ornamental.

II Correctly and Tastefufy Made They
Ars Decidedly Ornamental.
There is no article of furniture pref
tier than q screen, nor one that can be
put to more varied uses 1t can be
made of many different materials, and
either elaborate or simple To place
before a too bright fire, in front of a
window, to shut off cozy corner; or,
for more practical purposes, to hide a
sewing machine or big workbasket
and table, or TO stand in front of bed
or washstand, there is nothing to take
its place.
The frames of screens may be pur-
chased ready-made at any furniture
store, but a simple, inexpensive one
may be made at home. Use pine wood,
and stain, varnish, or even paint it any
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tn Re Accurate.

Smithers-Brown, you are we'll
read man. What do you think is the
greatest thing about this world?
Brown-Wel, to be accurate, Smith
ers, I think it's the circumference
Adams Freeman.
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At last.

Gillfower-I used to be IN favor Of
the single tax, but I've changed my
mind about it.
Miss Armsby-Oh, but this is so sud-
dem. Y. World.
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Had the RulRe.

WOOL couldn't stop his talkingi b
pulled my nose, and held razor at N,
throat.
Van Pelt-Who was the villain?
Wool-My barber.-N. z. World.
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Protecting tn. Hands in Housework.

For sweeping, and otherrough house
work, it is advisable as far as possible
to guard the hands from harm. A pair
of thumbless mittens, knitted of wash.
cotton, are admirable for the purpose
of protection.
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Applying His Instruction.

81 notice that the insurgentlemen,
of Cuba, have"
THE what, Johnny"
'sThe iusurgentlemen."
'You mean the insurgents, don't
you?'
''Yes; but you have often told me not
to say gents,"7Judge,
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Evidentty a Momen. of DistractIon.

ESlueHtIy Noment OF DIstf3cIIUh'
Jane-Miss Elderly must be getting
horribly absent-minded.
Marguerite-Why?
Jane-Twon nights ago Charlie Thomp-
son proposed to her and she refused
Chicago Record.
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SAT IN THE WINDOW, VOLUME l. HAND.
think of such things? She was unit,
a factor, nothing more. If my future
were black, it was better surely to face
it like man than to attempt to bright
en- it by mere will-o,the-wisps of the
imagination.