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rs A “ may-cure”’ cough medicine won'tdo. If it will ‘perhaps’ do its work, it’s worse than worthless. If it’s good, it’s worth ten times its pfice. Do you aed where to draw the line between ‘the good and the bad? This testimonial should help. “I had a bad cough for six weeks and could not find any re- lief whatever. My little girl read about Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral be- ing such a wonderful remedy for coughs, so I bought a bottle. It relieved me at once. Before had taken a quarter of a bottle ad cough was entirely cured, I thin! it is the most wonderful cough mixture ever known.”—L. HAWN, Newington, Ont., May 3, 1899. Your doctor or druggist will bear us out. Three sizes: $1.00 size, cheapest in the long run; 50c. size, just the thing fora cold that “hangs on”; 25¢. size, for an ordinary, mean, dis- f agreeable cold, Tom Stuck Up for Himself. eneral, in reviewing a suddenly stopped be- looking fellow and An English ¢ trots and gallops well; is unper; has no vice, no blemish; his head well; is in his prime.” 1 who is the best soldier in the at?” Ie walks, ise he is an honorable man, is obedient, tidy, takes good care of his equipment and his horse and does his duties well.” “And w best hor: om Jon who is is the best rider of the rom Jones all Mall Gazette. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. Lorenzo J. Cody, Duluth, Minn., lum- 3 John O. Ensberg, Peterson, feed m.li; Isidor J. B. Hanten, K and J. J. Kranz, Water- town, S. D., tube or flue cutter; An- drew G. Michie, Brainerd, Minn., rail joint; Jac Vannote, Lakota, N. William D. Worthen, S. D., measuring bot- John Andersen, Eveleth, leaf or member (design.) & Johnson, Patent Attor- s Bldgi, St. Paul Minn. Minn., hir Merwin, 911 d sgow lawyer was very fond of setting traps for workingmen who might happen to be working in or about his hor by leaving money or some other valuable cle about. A workman well aware of this fact, found a half-crown lying on the floor in one of the rooms. He smiled as he aid to himself : nat that’s for.” re and bit from his bag, he drilled a hole in the coin, and putting in a lyrge screw nail through it, he ened urely to the floor. The lawyer has not set any traps since.—Spare Moments. MAN’S MECHANISM Delicate Machinery That Needs Constant Care. Atsolnte Cleanliness and Regulation as Neces- sary as for Any Other Kind of Machinery. How to Keep it in Working Order. There’s a screw loose somewhere! One little screw in the big machine gets @ trifle loose and the whole apparatus clogs, balks and refuses to work properly. A skillful engineer can teii by the “feel” of his engine when there's a screw loose. Occasional constipaton—call it costive- ness or biliousness—needs prompt atten- tion. It clogs the whole delicate mechan- ism of man, and must be remoyed skill- fully without force or shock. Only a vegetable laxative should be used, and Cc rets Candy Cathartic, which you can eat like a piece of candy, are the most agreeable, natural and effective of all laxatives. Cascarets are the only'antiseptic cathar- tic, and not only make the liver lively, re- move obstructions in the bowels, strength- en the intestines, but kill all germs of dis- easé in the body. Therefore prevent as well as cure. Buy and try Cascarets to-day. You'll find that it’s what they do, not what we say they'll do, that will please vou. All druggists, 10c, and 50c, or will mail for price. Send for booklet and free sample. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago; Montreal, Can.; New York. ‘This is the CASCARET tab- let. Every tablet of the only genuine Cascarets bears the magic letters “C CC.” Look at the tablet before you buy, and beware of frauds, imita- ‘ tions and substitutes, The Arnewood Mystery BY MAURICE H. HERVEY. Author of ‘Dead Man’s Court,” ‘‘Somerville’s Crime,” ‘‘Dartmoor,”” ‘*Maravin’s Money,”’ etc., etc. CHAPTER XXI—(Continued.) “Oh! Information received, as a matter of course,” was the reply. “A tipsy newsvendor came here, gave us a — tip, and lanted a few hundreds by way of reward, right off. It seeds he fol- lowed you and that dwarf chap last night. By the way, this Dirk Vanston ; seers to keep a sort of private asylum. Who’s the lunatic you Just now bailed | out?” ‘ “The man we thought was murdered in Greek Street.” “What on earth do you mean?” 1 “Why, virk’s lunatic is none other than the real Luke Arnewood. The murdered man was an imposter, killed in error. Wait until you hear the evi- dence at the trial. It’s the most com- plicated case you ever heard of.” “I wish to Heaven I had heard of it!” was“ his half-angry retort. “L shall never hear the end of having my eye wiped by Hawkins & Co. The Chief has been at me already about 4g,” “Don't be absurd, and don't be so | jealous,” I rejoined. “You can very well spare me one case out of your dozens. If this business ends all right | —and I can’t see any possible break- down now—it will be the corner-stone of a bright career for me. To you it would simply have meant a little 0. .- cial praise and a slice of the reward which I'l ltake care you shall have as it is. So, just shake hands, and don’t be disagreeable.” “You're a good chap, Weston,” he | said, all his ill-humor vanishing, “and if you want a best man for your wed- ding, don’t forget Tom Traill!” CHAPTER XXII. Found Guilty. It wou be superfluous to recapitu- late the evidence given at Bow Street, and which resulted in the committal for trial upon the capital charge of Philip Blake and James Blogg. Tom Webb was ultimately remanded, sine die for a medical report as to his ment- al condition; while Sprtt ws commit- | ted as an accessory after the fact. | Moreover, tlie serious nature of Blogg’s injuries made it ne¢ ry to allow aj reasonable limit of time to elapse be- fore he could possibly be brought into the court of justice; and, in this de- lay, two months passed away. Had Blogg died during this interval without regaining consciousness, and had Spratt been possessed of su. .- cient common sense to keep his mouth shut, it is quite possible Philip Blake would have been acquitted, because the direct evidence against him was, after all, by no means conclusive. But, unfortunately for lim, Blogg eventual- | ly regained his reasoning faculties just su..ciently to realize that he ws dying. and made a full conf ion be- fore he actus died. Hearing this, Spratt, in a panic of terror, offered himself as “Queen’s evidence,” and s accepted by the Crown. These two events sealed Blake's fate. Blogg’s death-bed confession was in- deed alone su..cient—if believed—io have hanged him, especially as it ¥ confirmed by Spratt and Billy in many particulars. He stated how, acting on Sp t's suggestion, he had determined to “shadow” the passenger known as Mr. Arnewood, and how he had traced the brougham and dog-cart to the house in Rodney Avenue. Suspecting the short, stout man (whom he after- w ards knew as Walsh) of designs up- on he newly-landed passenber’s money, of which he was quite resolved to se- eure a good share himself. he Kept a careful watch upon the house. Late in the evening, a tall gentleman in even- ing dress, arrived, entered the house, and apparently dismissed the stout man, who wen taway. Feeling more convinced than ever that feul play had been or was going on, he contrived to gain admission through a scullery window and, following the sound of voices in angry altercation, found himself outside the parlor door. The unmistakable noise of a scuffle pres- ently followed, and he boldly entered the room. The Wairora passenger had pinned the gentleman in evenin gdress by the throat. and was apparently choking him. Blogg, himself a very powerful man, at once interfered by throttling Arnewood. The visitor (none other than Philip Blake) profieted by this diversion to regain his feet, and, in a frenzy of rage, offered Blogg £1,000 to strangle his late adevrsary. Whether the offer of this large bribe really swayed him, or whether he merely pressed too hard and too long, through inadvertence, even at the point of death he seemed unable to declare positively. But the certain thing was that, when he did relax his grasp, Arnewood had ceased to breathe. Murder duickly engenders friend- ship. Within five minutes Blake and Blogg were debating how they might best dispose of the body, as though they had known each other for years. Blake insisted upon removing it to as great a distance as possible, upon the very reasonable grounds that, if Blogg could trace the dead man to Rodney Avenue, other might do so, too, The idea of the hansom cab was Blogg’s. He went to a distant cab-rank, and, favored by the thick mist, drove bold- ly off in a hansom while its owner was in a shelter. Into this vehicle he earried the corpse, and, having ex- changed overcoats and hats with ; Blake, the latter took the reins .and ' drove westward, shortly after mid- night. The horse proved to be an un- usually good ‘one, and Blake avowed | his intention of putting at least ten miles between them and Rodney Ave | nue before getting rid of the body. | Putney seemed to be the spot he had ! decided upon. But the mist presently | thickened into a fog, which grew, denser every minute, and their prog- : ress became slower, until they could ; scarcely see their way even at walk- ing pace. Inst vast Long Acre, Blake had to; | shutting the doors to keep the body in, } watched him e¢ | Arnewood’s death was shifted to other , doned to ts fate. after his JS confess that he could not find his way, and they very nearly decided to aban- | don the cab and its ghastly freight in | the fog. However,,they struggled on, in the hope that he fog migh lif, and, after some further wandering, almost at random, Blake had to get down and lead the horse. Blogg, having no fancy for being found with a corpse, should any accident happen, got out, also, and went ahead to try and ascertain their whereabouts. It happened that he had formerly lived in Soho for some years, and soon récognized some old landmarks, notably, Greek Street. Then came some luck in the shape of a drunken man, who could searcely | stand, and could only just ask the way | | | to his room in Greek Street. This teo good a chance to be m ed, and Blake readily assented to his plan. He w the drunken man to his room, and | apse into a drunken to stun him by a He} heap. No nece blow; drink had done its work. simply carried the dead man into the | same room and left him stretched upon The fog had thus served them ably; and the responsibility for shoulders. The cab they soon aban- The rest of the confe: m was main- ly a record of intervie between Blogg and Blake’s agent, W h, there | being a Gifficulty about the paying of | the rewara.’ Billy’s evidence fully cor- | roborated this, and the evidence as to | the final quarrel between Blake and | Blogg was, of course, overwhelming. | A thorough examination of the house | in Rodney avenue resulted in the dis- | covery of a portmanteau marked IL, A., containing nothing, apparently, except some clothing. A sort of pocket, how- ever, had been made by means of a slit in the lining of the portmanteau, and in ths were found two letters from Me O’Bren & Grudgery and Philip Blake, respectively, addressed to Luke Arnewood, together with a well- thumbed copy of my advertisement in the “Queenslander.” ‘These documents not only threw light upon the tactics of the murdered man in personating Luke Arnewood, but Blake’s letter, clearly foreshadowing his intention of meeting him upon his arrival. The apparent absence of motive (up- on which Blake’s cqnnsel took such a desperat®@ stand) proved to be a rotten reed. The result of the post mortem, insisted .upon by Dr. Redwood, re- vealed the presence in Captain Arne- wood’s system of a little-known but ex- tremely deadly drug called cyanide of mercury, which has the property of causing paralysis of the heart; and a small quantity of this obscure poison had been found in Blake’s pocketbook arrest. He had certainly had frequent opportunities of administer- ing the drug to Captain Arnewood; and though direct proof of his having done so was wanting, the general belief was that he was guilty of Richard Arne- wood’s death as well as the fictitious Luke’s . Moreover, although it did not directly enter into the charge upon which he was tried, a very strong suspicion ex- isted that he had murdered’ the fat man, known to me as the stranger and to Blogg as Casey. What is certain is that Casey, who had been his valet. had disappeared as though the earth had swallowed bim . It somewhat of a disappointment to me to find that, although an imprint taken of Blogg’s thumb and a measure- ment of his span tallied with the marks on the murdered man’s collar, and my conjecture as to his trade had proved correct, it was all superfluous evidence, in the face of Blogg’s own confession. However, it elicited a remark of interested approval from the judge who tried the case, which was some consolation. The end was never in doubt from the first. In the face of such overwhelm- ing evidence the judge’s summing up was as brief as was the time required by the jury to decide upon a verdict. “We find him GUILTY!” Very impressive was the judge’s ad- dress to the prisoner before he passed sentence of death upon him. “Philip Blake, you have been convict- ed upon the clearest and most convinc- ing evidence of causing the perpetra- tion of a most brutal murder, for the sake of worldly gain. It is clear that you planned the decoying of your in- tended victim to a lonely house and, as no one can doubt, with the intention of removing him from your path. You did so, little dreaming that you were but sending to his long account an im poster, who had himself endeavored tc to murder the man you thought you had slain. Even this crime did not place you in possession of the estates vou coveted, but it left only one other life between, you and them. That life also passed away very soon afterward, anu, in the eyes of all men, you were the ‘master of Arnewood hall. You have not been tried for the murder of Richard Arnewood, and, therefore, the question of your guilt of that is one you need answer- before your Maker alone. But mark how, in the very hour of your apparent triumpn, the veng- eance of heaven overtook you! Your mercenary confederate, Kiogg, sougb' to share in your blood-stained spoils and you slew him; but, with his dying breath, he denounced you and made es- cape from the penalty due to your crime impossible for you. “Let me implore you to make your peace with the God you have so terri- ‘bly offended while yet it lies in your power to do so, for certain death awaits you.” Sentence in the usual form followed; and Philip Blake, pale but self-pos- sessed, followed his gaolers to his cell. He was not hanged. How it was ef- fected was never made known, despite the outcry raised in the Press, but a sufficient number of drops of prussic acid were somehow smuggled into his cell to enable him to cheat the hang- man, as the phrase goes. CHAPTER XXIn. Madge’s Postscript. My husband insists upon my writing the concluding iines to his account of the Arnewood mystery. 1 cannot quite make out why, but I fancy. he still thinks I treated him rather badly when my poor brother Tom was in thageaw- ful scrape, and wants me to admit tiat he was not to blame after all. ‘ I'm really, as things turned ou I was too hasty in saddli the responsibility for Tom’s disappear- ance. But how could I, a mere country girl down in Dorset, imagine that Tom would alter so greatly for the worse in | so short.a time? It just shows what a dreadful place London really is for a young man, without a honfe and a wife to look after him. Well, of course, we were all overjoyed at home when Ralph sent us (or rather me) the glad news that Tom was alive and well. though I must confess my joy all van- ished when, after hurrying up to Lon- don, I found that he was in prison and almost insane. He knew sie at once, though, poor, dear tellow, when they took me to his cell, and Ralph said it was a sure sign his intellect was re- turning . Ralph told me all about the great vase, which half-filled the newspapers. and that everyone was talking about, and I couldn’t help feeling very proud of the part he played in it. Indeed, af- | ter listening to his praises as sung by |M Hawkins and an inspector named Traill (such a vice man I thought him!) I began to wonder whether he would condescend to take any further notice of an ordinary little girl like me. But, to do him justice, Ralph was not the | least bit conceited about his work, and he told me he only valued the success because it brought him nearer to me. After that, what could I say? Then he pressed me and worried me until I had consented to marry him as soon as ever Tom should be set at lib- erty. That was on February order of the Home Secretary; were married upon St. Valentine’s Day. Papa being too infirm to travel, Tom gave me away, and seemed to under- stand quite well what he was doing. Inspector Traill was best man, and Mr. Hawkins insisted upon providing the wedding breakfast. He gave me quite a lot of wedding presents, but his gift to Ralph was best of all. It was a deed of partnership in the firm, which has ever since been known 4s Hawkins, Weston & Co. We had to curtail our honeymoon on account of the trial, which Ralph had, of course, to attend. He got me a seat in court on the last day, and I could not help crying when the judge passed sentence. Of course, he was a vi wicked man, Mr. Blake, but he look so handsome, with his pale, aristocra ie face and lovely white teeth, that it really seemed a pity to hang him. And, as everyone knows, he escaped the gal- lows after all, by poisoning himself. We often receive a visit from Mr. Dirk Vanston, who now owns a gym- nasium near Sloane Street. The claim of his protege to the Arnewood estates is in a fair way to be established, and the doctors seem hopeful of his recov- ery, in course of time, from the strange loss of memory that followed his fall down the shaft in Queensland. He is, in other respects, almost if not quite 2s sensible as most other people; and he simply worships his friend) Mr. Vanston. Tom is living at home, absolute quiet being the condition most urgently in- sisted on in his case. He is a rigid teetotaler, and has a harmless fad for writing stories in which Ralph always figures as the greatest detective of the age. Mr. O’Brien sent us two beautiful cy- cles, as wedding presents from himself and his partner, while Mr. O’F lynn se- riously compromised himself in my eyes by forwarding Ralph a six-gallon keg of Irish whisky. Weat can I add except that I am very, very happy in our villa in Abbey Road, and that I am conceited enough to believe that there is not a more con- tented husband in England than Ralph. The little woman is quite right. She always is.—R. W. The End. Predicted Better Than He Knew. ~ Knox—I em astonished to hear that during my absence abroad Mrs. Wig- gin has been married again; I confi- dently predicted that no man would ever have her. Fox—You hit it to a dot$ no desig- nation could better fit the individual that married her.—Boston Courier. of tuberculosis. He recommends as preceutiorary measures that the fonts and pillars be carefully washed and disinfected, that the font itself be daily disinfected, and the water be treated with some antiseptic. There are no doubt many other sources of far greater danger in spreading infectious diseases than holy water, but when it has been shown that such a danger exists, be it ever so slight, the wisest course is to take measures to avoid it. Prejudices in such matters of hygiene are no longer so strong as formerly, and the same enlightenment that has led to the in- trodcction of the individual commun- ion cup in many churches will no doubt lead to the removal of this source of infection as soon as it is recognized. — Philadelphia Medica) Journal. Owned It All. John I. Blair in his earlier days owned a western railroad along the route of which he established a series of lunchrooms at which employes of the road were to be charged 50 cents and all passengers 75 cents. Mr. Blair once dined at one of these places, and. concluding his meal, laid down a half- dollar. ‘Hold on!” cried the cashier, “you don’t belong to this road.” “I know that,” replied Mr. Blair, “the road belongs to me.” Appropriate. Philanthropist—What is your name, my good man? Tramp—B’ile@ Cider, sor. Philanthropist—My, my, how pecu- liar. How did you ever get such a name? Your parents didn’t give it to you, I hope. ‘Tramp—No, sor; the man I had my first job with, give it to me. He said I was that because I wouldn’t work.— Detroit Free Press. Somehow, the more you try to be funny the more people don’t laugh. A NOTED JUDGE SAVED BY PERUNA. Had Catarrh Nine Years——All Doctors Failed.’ HON. GEORGE KERSYEN, OF CHICAGO. Hon. Geo. Kersten, a well-known Justice of the Peace, of Chicago, says: ««] was afflicted with Catarrh for nine years. My catarrh was located chiefly in my head. I tried many remedies without avail. J applied to several dectors, but they were not able to cure me. I learned of the remedy, Peruna, through the daily.newspapers. Afier taking the remedy for 18 weeks I was entirely cured. 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