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THE AMERICAN III: H- KEEPER. 



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"My ciu has found me out!" sh^ 

 moaEetl. "?Iy siu baa fduiid me out !" 

 Aud tl;ei], her eves wandering to the 

 little pcul of bicxKl which v as crinis-on- 

 ing the cold f]^-;.', she cried out; "I can 

 bear it no longer! Father, father, the 

 forgery Vv'us my work!" 



Castirg one look of concentrated hate 

 aud anguish on the wretched girl at his 

 feet, he brushed her tremblingly a^de 

 and knelt down, moaning softly to him- 

 self, beside tlio body of his apparently 

 lifeless sou. 



Mr. Geoffrey did not die. His father 

 had shot somewhat high, aud the ball 

 had glanced along the collar bone, mak- 

 ing a long, jagged wound. But still he 

 was seriously ill, brain fever setting in 

 afterv.-ard, and for some time ho lay 

 hoveling between life aud death.. 



I explained fully to the baronet the 

 scheme his sen had formed for thwart- 

 ing the burgl-.trs, who, by the way, were 

 captured some weeks after the attempt- 

 ed burglary, and Sir Mortimer's feel- 

 ings of remorse aud sorrow at the way 

 in which he had wronged Mr. Geoffrey 

 •were terribly poignant. 



As for Miss Linda, her story can be 

 briefly summed up in the followijig: 

 Years ago she had a worthless lover, 

 with whom she was completely infatuat- 

 ed. Gambling and other forms of excess 

 had left him in low water, and his 

 sweetheart had forged the check to give 

 him the mouey he had needed so sorely, 

 laying the blame on and weaving her 

 subtle net of accusation around her in- 

 nocent brother. What ultimately became 

 of her I uever knew. 



If I had only kept my presence of 

 mind and carried out my instructions, 

 the baronet's hand might have been 

 Btaid aud Mr. Geoffrey would not have 

 been sliot. But then perhaps Miss Linda 

 would not have confessed. Thank heaven, 

 there are not many women like her in the 

 ■world. — Cliicago News. 



Asked by an Insurance Company. 



Here are some of the questions which 

 a new insurance company requires to be 

 answered ^ati.sfactori]y, and the public 

 will agree that there is more reason for 

 them than many of the old queries: 



"Do you ride a bicycle? Single or 

 tandem? 



"Do you eat (a) hot cakes, (b) ta- 



raale?, (c) iir-jr.^ p-o, (d> vclsh laLi'Liil, 



(e) ra'.v ouioirs? 



"Do you f wallow grape seed&r 

 "D-> you c^i'iuk any mixrd di-iuke?' 

 "Do yoa over sleep ia a folding bed? 

 "Dt you Bmoko (a) cigarot'es, (b) 



uickf 1 cigars? 



"H-avo yon a mother-in-law? 



"Did yon ever attempt suicide?"— 



San Francisco Post. 



Deaths Due to Chloroform. 



It is slated that 01 deaths have occur- 

 red within the past year in the United 

 Kingdom, cf which 53 were from the 

 admiuistration of chloroform. This 

 would be a fc:i:'ful indictment against 

 the use of that auKssthetio if we only 

 knevs? what Vviis the relative proportion 

 of patients submitted to its influence ^juA. 

 to the influence of other ausesthetics. In 

 other words, if the uumber of chloro- 

 form cases were 52 times the number of 

 nitrons oxide cases, chloroform would 

 be no more dangerous, although it might 

 have caused 52 deaths for one death 

 caused by the latter ansesthetic. — Medic- 

 al Press. 



All the Comforts of a Home. 



"By the way, your advertisement 

 mentioned 'home comforts,' " said the 

 young man in quest of lodgings to a 

 Glasgow landlady. 



"Yes, "was the reply. "Ye see ye 

 could get a seat wi's in the kirk. (My 

 last lodger used to pay for the hale pew. ) 

 Then, t' keep yo frae wearyin in the 

 eveuiu's ye cud gie the bairus a hau wi' 

 their lessons, for their ain faither's uae 

 scholar. 



"Aboot yer meals, ye cud just come 

 down an get them in the kitchen — it 

 wid be hamelike, ye ken. There's little 

 Johnny, ye "vid get him to sleep wi' ye. 

 He's au awful kicker, but wid keep ye 

 fine au hate thae winter evenin's. " 



Then, seeing her auditor making his 

 way to the door, she hastened to add : 



"I widna chairge ye onything extra 

 for a' thae preevileges. " — New York 

 Herald. 



Since the war of 1812 the United 

 States army has by no means enjoyed, 

 the life of luxurious ease sometimes at- 

 tributed to it, for, in the intervening 

 years, it has fought 640 battles or ac- 

 tions with the ludiaus. 



